Elder Ting Zhenniao, much like Ku Xing, did not look anything like an 'elder', the latter had told him that it wasn't uncommon for won cultivators to use techniques to preserve their youthful appearances.
After all, it was no mystery that Ku Xing was a pretty old lady to have a great niece around the sa age as Edrick was, or rather, Zixuan's body was, and it seed to be the sa thing for the lady before him, who was currently cradling his face into her chest, which was on the larger side of dium and positively bouncy, he would say.
She was closer to average size as well, standing one ter and seventy-five centiters tall, although she didn't dress or style her hair like she had been caught in a storm like Ku Xing, Anoteros could see how so could view her as unsettling.
Her eyes shone with an unnatural light, the irises and pupils not at all round and instead wavy like they had sowhat lted, their colour was that of a toxic yellow, whilst her hair bore a most odd colour, dark green like algae, but where tied into a cute ponytail.
She was also garbed in robes that more closely fitted her body than most, coloured a much lighter shade of green than her hair, and like she wasn't peculiar enough already, she seed to have covered every bit of visible skin in white powder, making her look like a corpse.
But she wasn't an undead or anything, he could hear her heart beating as she kept on hugging him.
"You've gotten so much taller since I last saw you! I thought Ku was exaggerating, but you've really grown into a fine man…" finally letting him go and rise back up to his full height, she playfully knocked on his stomach, getting to feel the rock-hard abs there.
"...Fine indeed" she added in a low tone, her expression turning into a sort of smug smile.
It seed like she hadn't even gotten to see a single sight of him, so she had probably been holed up in the basent the entire ti.
This place reeked of many slls, chemicals, dicines, gasoline, powder and a whole bunch of other fragrances that mixed together to make for a most potent cocktail that made one's eyes watery, nostrils itch and feel like refraining from breathing.
"Was tonight your last day with Ku? It must have been! I have been down there for longer than I thought then… Want to show you around?" unbothered to have lost her sense of the passage of ti, after all, in the basent, there was no natural light, and no candles or lanterns either, as that could lead to an explosion considering what Ting Zhenniao was up to down there, so instead, she had grown so bioluminescent plants and mushrooms all over the place.
"Sure" he agreed, it was already the middle of the night, not like he was in a hurry now.
Hearing his answer, the elder grabbed his hand and started to lead him around the basent, or her brewery, as she called it.
If the Xing were the masters of pain, then the Zhenniao were the masters of toxins, their family owner of the Poison Sutra, so naturally, she was brewing up all sorts of toxins and the likes down there, poisons, venoms, toxic gases to only cite a few.
Apparently, mbers of the family were literally, born naturally poisonous and venomous from how deeply the sutra had been implented in their way of life, which had made them rejects to many others, only the other clans considered to be weirdos had welcod them within a friendly circle, of which there was the Xing, and the Elt.
"...And here is the Gu pit, I put a whole lot of snakes a few hours ago, sounds like they are still going at it" she explained things to him with passion, and since Edrick wouldn't call himself an expert on the subject, he was listening attentively, much to Ting Zhenniao's delight.
"I can't wait to start teaching you… Unlike Ku, just co anyti you want, alright? Just make sure to be there at least twice a week, if I am not around, the door will be locked, but I am pretty much never out- Ah, and don't be too disappointed, unlike Ku, I can't teach you a single thing of my family sutra, the regulations are tight… Very tight" sohow, the last two words sounded as though they had nothing to do with the rest of the sentence.
"Can I start taking lessons starting tomorrow?" he asked, eager to get stronger, and also to build a stronger connection with the Zhenniao family, even if Ting Zhenniao already seed to like him a whole lot, for so reason.
He had to guess that even though she hadn't been chosen to be his godmother, that she was still feeling attached to him, perhaps.
"Certainly!"
"Alright then, I'll be seeing you tomorrow, Elder Ting Zhenniao" Anoteros didn't know if it was the norm, but he was finding these experienced, won cultivators to be very pleasant and interesting.
"No need to be so formal, you can at least drop the 'elder' or 'senior' with , you're basically family"
When Edrick had co to the Myriad-Arm Sect, he had not expected to actually have allies already stationed here, but it was welco, and after all, although the original owner had not been worth much more than dirt, he had still been a noble scion, so naturally, he had basically been born with connections.
And thankfully, these connections were of the sort that Edrick could actually get along with, it seed like Irandelle hadn't picked Zixuan randomly and had actually chosen an excellent body to possess, which made sense, she wanted him to succeed and ss things up as quickly as was possible.
When he ca ho, much later than usual, the wifely trio had fallen asleep on the couch waiting for him, looking around, it seed like the construction to have the residence be properly insulated was progressing smoothly, they might actually have it ready for when winter decided to show up, which shouldn't take more than a week at most.
Carrying the three of them to the bedroom, Edrick had actually made himself a rather busy schedule, he had lessons to attend with Ting Zhenniao, and since she had said that he could co anyti, he would be coming as often as possible, he also had to keep on working part-ti as the vile sasquatch of the forest, winter might just make accomplishing his mission to keep anyone away from the forest for a week much easier.
He also had Luxuli to take care of, of course quests outside of the woods also, he had to cultivate and train, take good care of his wives in bed, and now squeeze so ti to make Xiao's existence miserable.
'Yeah, I've got ti' he told himself, he just needed to be efficient.
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