Chapter 401: Confession

"Lingyun, have you received the invitation Yang Yang sent you?" Chen Jing looked at Lingyun, who was reading, her brows slightly furrowed.

"Yes." Lingyun nodded and took the invitation out of his schoolbag.

"Do you know what his purpose is in sending out invitations this time?" Su Wanyue asked.

Lingyun placed the invitation on the table and shook his head slightly: "I don't know, and I have no interest in knowing. As long as he doesn't provoke me, that's fine. If he really does provoke me, I wouldn't mind teaching him a lesson."

Chen Jing and Su Wanyue exchanged a glance and couldn't help but sigh. Hopefully, Yang Yang wouldn't actually stir up any trouble when the time came; after all, Lingyun was a powerhouse who had reached the Golden Core Stage, and the saying that a powerhouse should not be trifled with was no joke.

"By the way, how is your cultivation going lately?" Lingyun asked.

Chen Jing and Su Wanyue looked at each other, and a formidable aura radiated from their bodies, forming a gust of wind around the three of them. Lingyun felt the aura on the two of them, and a trace of surprise couldn't help but appear in his eyes. In just one week, their strength had actually increased crazily to the Innate Realm; this was simply incredible.

However, thinking of the forces behind them, Lingyun understood in his heart. With such a behemoth providing them with resources, it was not difficult to advance to the Post-Heaven stage in such a short time without any sequelae.

"It seems that both of your strengths have improved very quickly during this period!" Lingyun said with a smile.

"That's right, our strength has improved very quickly." Su Wanyue leaned her pretty face close to Lingyun and said.

"So, what are you trying to express by this?" Lingyun moved his body slightly backward.

"What we mean is, Lingyun, you don't have to push yourself so hard!" Chen Jing sat down beside Lingyun and said to him softly.

"Don't have to push myself so hard?" Lingyun felt countless question marks appear in his mind. "Why do you say that? When have I ever pushed myself that hard?"

"You still say you haven't? We haven't seen each other for just one week, and your strength has increased by who knows how many times. If you still had to struggle for a while when facing that Vampire Naishi before, now Naishi definitely wouldn't last a few rounds in your hands!" Chen Jing rolled her eyes at Lingyun. "You don't need to tell me this is because of your unique natural talent and the massive supply of resources; the two of us have also been using this method these past few days, but our strength could only improve to this extent. Your strength increasing so fast must have come at a price we can't imagine!"

"This..." Lingyun was momentarily at a loss for words; he couldn't exactly say that he had gone to another world during this time and stayed there for a very long time.

Hearing Lingyun's hesitant tone, Chen Jing assumed that Lingyun was tacitly agreeing with her assessment, and she couldn't help but feel a pang of pain in her heart: "Lingyun, is there some reason forcing you to become stronger? Tell us, maybe Wanyue and I can help you."

Looking at Lingyun as he was now, she couldn't help but think of Lingyun during his third year of high school. That year, ordinary people only saw Lingyun start to work hard after a breakup, going from an average student to a "study god" who left everyone stunned, but who knew the effort Lingyun had put in after that?

At that time, Lingyun had studied to the point of nearly becoming obsessed. If it weren't for his physique being different from ordinary people, and having Chen Jing there to look after him from time to time, she could hardly imagine what Lingyun would have ended up like.

Now that Lingyun's strength was improving so abnormally, it couldn't help but remind her of his situation in his third year of high school. But cultivation improvement was not like studying; if something went wrong, it could cost someone their life.

"Rest assured, I know what you are worried about. I am not the type of person who doesn't take his own life to heart." Lingyun naturally saw the worry in the hearts of Chen Jing and the other, and he comforted them with a smile.

"But, your strength?" Chen Jing remembered that when she first met Lingyun, his strength was only at the Yellow Tier, but how much time had passed since then, and he had already reached Golden Core Stage strength. This kind of improvement was absolutely insane; who knew if there would be any side effects.

"As for that..." Lingyun suddenly changed the subject. "What do you two think of Ye Xi and Saeko and the others?"

"Eh?" Seeing Lingyun suddenly change the subject, the two were taken aback.

"Them? The feeling Ye Xi and the others give me is that they are all gifted daughters of heaven. To be honest, I have always held great suspicion regarding their origins. Geniuses like them could never be unknown. But no matter how my people investigate, we cannot find any flaws in their backgrounds. Whether it is their place of birth or their life experiences, they all give me a strange feeling, yet their records are seamless, leaving us unable to find anything wrong. That is what I am most puzzled about," Su Wanyue said.

"Of course you couldn't possibly find anything wrong with Ye Xi and the others' origins!" Just at this moment, another voice suddenly interjected.

"Who?" Hearing this voice, Chen Jing and Su Wanyue were both startled.

"It's me!" Ruoxi's figure suddenly appeared in Lingyun's arms.

"Who are you?" Ruoxi and Chen Jing stared at Ruoxi and asked.

"Ruoxi is Big Brother's little sister!" Ruoxi smiled at the two of them, then her gaze turned to Lingyun. "Big Brother, have you decided to confess to them?"

"Yes, after all, they are the two people I trust most in this world," Lingyun nodded and said.

"This world?"

Chen Jing and the other keenly caught a hint of something unclear in Lingyun's words. Previously, Liuli had also said the words "this world" in front of them; could it be that besides this world, there were other worlds?

"Then, let's go!"

Ruoxi smiled, and then a vast light spread out from her body, instantly enveloping the people present. After the light vanished, the four people present had already disappeared into the Void.

"This, what is this place?" Chen Jing and Su Wanyue only felt a blur before their eyes, and then they appeared in a Void.

"Welcome to the place where Lingyun Big Brother's biggest secret lies—the Cloud Realm!" Ruoxi detached herself from Lingyun's arms and floated in the Void, speaking to the two of them.

"Cloud Realm?" Chen Jing and Su Wanyue looked at the void world in front of them and the Ruoxi floating before them with astonishment, feeling as if they had touched upon something extraordinary.