Chapter 113: You're in Trouble, You've Been Peeped At

Having earned quite a bit of money, Ruan Xing was satisfied and prepared to stop; she was already a Fifth-Tier alchemist, but with her current cultivation and Divine Sense, refining Fifth-Tier Pills was still somewhat beyond her capabilities, and if she wanted to reach the Sixth-Tier with her Foundation Establishment cultivation, the costs would likely be enormous.

In any case, the way of alchemy was merely a means for her to make money; she did not pursue achievements like being a master of the alchemical path, as long as she could make money and it was cost-effective, that was enough.

Her next direction would be to advance toward two goals: freeloading the art of artifact refining, and investigating exactly when the appropriate time would be to leave the sect to form her Golden Core.

Unfortunately, she still had to endure for a while longer; Ruan Xing touched her chest, warning herself that reality was not like a simulation, and in reality, she must be careful and cautious. Whether she could deceive Qinghong Zhenjun depended on her performance; although she wished she could form her Golden Core immediately, she could not be impatient.

After thinking for a moment, Ruan Xing lifted the curtain and jumped down from the tree house; calculating the current time, Qintai He had likely just started washing the wolf.

She decided to go over and join in the fun.

Beside the bluestone stream of Yaoguang Peak, the green grass was like a carpet, and in the dense shrubbery and pine forest not far away, a pebble path appeared and disappeared.

Ruan Xing strolled along the stream and saw the white wolf and Qintai He in the upper reaches; she immediately revealed a smile and shouted loudly, "Senior Brother Qintai!"

Qintai He's movements paused, and he looked up, "Why have you come here?"

"Isn't today my first day here? I was just familiarizing myself with the environment; I didn't expect Senior Brother Qintai to be so precious about your mount that you would wash it yourself?" Ruan Xing approached with a grin.

The white wolf, its fur soaked, sensed an unfamiliar person approaching and couldn't help but let out a low growl, its claws scraping the soft soil on the ground.

"Do not come any closer; Silver Wind does not like it," Qintai He said, frowning to stop her.

Ruan Xing stopped in her tracks, looking regretful, "Alright, though I actually quite like Silver Wind; I have grown up to this age, and this is the first time I have seen one like Silver Wind. It is different from all other Monster Beasts, truly peerless in grace."

"Of course it is different; Silver Wind is my friend," Qintai He hummed softly, and with his wet hand, he stroked the white wolf's head. The white wolf seemed to like it very much, squinting its golden eyes in enjoyment.

Qintai He seemed not to want Ruan Xing to stay and continue watching the white wolf's private affairs, so he said tactfully, "Are you not going to familiarize yourself with other places?"

"I am, but there is something I must ask Senior Brother Qintai for advice on," Ruan Xing said, taking out her own chipped Flying Sword, "My Flying Sword was accidentally damaged, and now it is often somewhat uncontrollable when I fly it; I want to repair it, but I do not know where to go to do so."

Qintai He glanced at it roughly, "It is merely a Low-grade Magical Sword; just throw it away and replace it with another, what is there to repair?"

"Senior Brother is right, but this Junior Sister is short on funds and has always been frugal; perhaps it can still be used if it is repaired," Ruan Xing said with a helpless shrug.

"Then go to the Artifact Refining Peak and ask; I do not understand these things."

Qintai He lowered his head impatiently.

It seemed Meng Hui was right; her relationship with Qintai He was truly poor. Even when things had reached this point, Qintai He did not mention that his Registered Disciple senior sister Meng Hui was an Artifact Refiner, or perhaps he simply did not care, and thus did not know Meng Hui could refine artifacts.

"Alright, since Senior Brother Qintai does not know either, then I will go to the Artifact Refining Peak to ask," Ruan Xing said regretfully. She threw the Flying Sword in her hand into mid-air and jumped onto it, "Then I will be going first; Senior Brother, take your time washing—oops!"

Qintai He looked toward the direction of the sound instinctively, feeling somewhat irritated. Why was this Junior Sister so troublesome? His master had even asked him to look after her; she couldn't possibly have an accident right under his nose, could she? "What are you doing!?" Xu Sirui scrambled out of the forest, looking exasperated.

Just now, Ruan Xing's Flying Sword had lost control and suddenly jerked, causing her and the sword to fall, just in time to catch Xu Sirui off guard and knock her over; her skirt and hair were messily covered in some mud and leaves.

Looking at her own disheveled state, Xu Sirui angrily cast a few Dust-Gathering Techniques on herself to restore a clean appearance, but she still couldn't help but glare fiercely at Ruan Xing. Her awkward appearance just now must have been seen by Qintai He; this girl was truly a jinx, whoever touched her had bad luck! "I am sorry, Senior Sister, I didn't hurt you, did I? It is all the fault of this disobedient Flying Sword of mine; Senior Sister, please don't be angry..." Ruan Xing scrambled up from the ground, apologizing in a flurry, and suddenly asked in confusion, "Senior Sister, are you also a disciple of the Peak Master? Why were you hiding in the bushes? I didn't see you just now, otherwise I definitely would have shouted to warn you to dodge."

Xu Sirui's original anger and blame suddenly fizzled out; she looked up at Qintai He by the stream.

Qintai He's expression was already as dark as the bottom of a pot, "Why are you at Yaoguang Peak?"

"I..." Xu Sirui froze, not knowing what to say, then suddenly turned her head and said viciously to Ruan Xing, "It is all your fault! Don't let me see you again!"

Then she hurriedly summoned her Flying Sword and fled.

Qintai He did not stop her, standing where he was, wondering what he was thinking.

Ruan Xing said blankly, "Senior Brother, isn't she a Registered Disciple of Yaoguang Peak? So, was she just peeping at you...?"

After such a disturbance, Qintai He lost the mood to continue washing the white wolf. With a wave of his hand, he dried the water off the white wolf and said coldly, "Treat today's matter as if you never saw it; swallow it into your stomach."

"I can cooperate on my end," Ruan Xing said with a bitter face, "But that Senior Sister is likely holding a grudge against me; she wouldn't come to cause me trouble, would she? Sigh."

"With me here, I will not let her cause you trouble," Qintai He said, "Today's matter counts as me implicating you, but I also thank you; because of you, I found out about this. What compensation do you want?"

He did not know when Xu Sirui had started coming here to peek at him. Sometimes when Silver Wind was being naughty and would splash water, getting him wet as well, he would take off his outer robe and play with Silver Wind.

Thinking that his rare moments of pleasure had been secretly watched by someone, Qintai He felt as disgusted as if he had eaten a fly, and even his previous memories were stained with filth.

"Compensation is unnecessary; it is someone else who harbored ill intentions toward Senior Brother, it is not Senior Brother's fault. If Senior Brother feels troubled, why not let me get close to Silver Wind later? I also want to be friends with Silver Wind," Ruan Xing looked up, blinking her bright eyes at the white wolf.

The white wolf had been with Qintai He for a long time and naturally understood human speech; it proudly raised its head and turned to the side.

Ruan Xing had just crashed into Xu Sirui in the bushes and rolled around in there herself; her round bun was tilted to one side, and a few black-gray marks were added to her fair, tender face.

She was still just a child, after all.

Thinking this, Qintai He said softly, "That depends on Silver Wind's own wishes."

Ruan Xing smiled happily, "Having Senior Brother's word is enough."

She had come specifically to expose this matter in order to establish a connection with Qintai He, whether good or bad; only in this way could there be a more reasonable source for Xu Sirui targeting her, without making people associate it with Elder Xu and his companion who had both died far away in Nanzhou.

More importantly, she had to perform for Qinghong Zhenjun to see what kind of person she was; the more normal she was, and the more she wanted to integrate among the disciples, the more at ease Qinghong Zhenjun would be with her.

Who knows, perhaps one day he would withdraw his surveillance of her.

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