Ye Luo has spent over a month recuperating and is almost fully recovered, restoring tranquility to Tianjing Peak.
"Senior Sister, you’re here."
Ye Luo approaches with graceful steps, looking up at Chuzheng seated on the wall.
Chuzheng lowers her gaze to look at her.
Ye Luo suddenly ets Chuzheng’s eyes, which are cold and clear, like a thin layer of frost freshly forming in early winter, biting with a chill.
Although the girl before her looks like the familiar figure, the feeling she gives off feels sowhat different.
Too cold.
Her gaze, her expression...
Even her presence exudes chilliness.
Ye Luo quickly adjusts her feelings: "Senior Sister, you’ve made search everywhere."
With no one else currently at Tianjing Peak, Ye Luo doesn’t bother concealing her animosity towards her in her tone.
Chuzheng places her legs beside her, rests her elbows on her knees, and props her face on her hand: "What do you want from , want to hit you?"
The girl’s voice is calm, yet Ye Luo perceives arrogance within it.
She hadn’t seen her for the whole month.
What happened?
There hadn’t been any news of major events.
Ye Luo’s heart is full of doubts.
Ye Luo temporarily suppresses her doubts and says to Chuzheng: "Senior Sister, it was you who summoned that Demon Spirit, wasn’t it?"
At the ti, Ye Luo couldn’t move her body, she was very aware of that feeling.
It happened just as those two Demon Spirits ca to find her, and imdiately she got into trouble, could it be such a coincidence?
Ye Luo just couldn’t understand how she managed to have that Demon Spirit co to cause trouble for her.
The Elders ntioned that the Demon Spirit was sowhat peculiar...
Currently, her body hasn’t fully recovered, and she can’t perform any spells.
This was all her doing.
Ye Luo’s hatred towards Chuzheng grew even more.
Of course, Chuzheng wouldn’t admit it: "Don’t speak nonsense without evidence."
Just admit it was who did it, then hit !
Chuzheng’s denial didn’t surprise Ye Luo.
What surprised her more was Chuzheng’s attitude; in the past, she would have started arguing with her, right?
Today seems too weird.
Ye Luo curls up her lips into a sly smile, sarcastically remarks: "Senior Sister, it seems I underestimated you before."
Chuzheng nonchalantly replies: "There’s still ti to reevaluate now."
Giving you an opportunity to take a good look.
Ye Luo: "..."
Can’t she hear the aning behind my words?
Ye Luo holds back her anger: "How about competing with in the Sect Master’s examination, Senior Sister?"
"You?" It’d be embarrassing to cause you trouble in front of so many people.
Ye Luo raises her brows, speaking provocatively: "What, Senior Sister, are you scared?"
Scared?
What a joke!
Would a big boss ever be scared?!
Chuzheng shifts her gaze to the distance: "Not interested."
This fool even trying to lure with reverse psychology, no way! I won’t fall for it!
Ye Luo assus Chuzheng is afraid: "Senior Sister, you don’t dare?"
"If you think so, then it is." So you think I’m afraid of you, huh? So naive.
"..."
How can I respond to that?
Nothing Ye Luo says can get through to Chuzheng, as Chuzheng dismisses everything outright.
Ye Luo ends up awkwardly by herself, unable to continue her charade.
Finally, when a disciple cos to find Ye Luo, she takes the opportunity to leave.
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Ye Luo notices that no matter what she does, Chuzheng doesn’t pay her any heed anymore.
Most of the ti, Ye Luo doesn’t even catch a glimpse of Chuzheng, and after asking around, other disciples say Chuzheng has changed quite a bit recently.
Has beco aloof, cold to anyone she ets.
Isn’t showing up in the Sect.
Though quite a few disciples have seen her in the town outside the Sect.
Ye Luo, curious, goes to the town to have a look.
From afar, Ye Luo sees Chuzheng sitting in a teahouse, a set of exquisite tea utensils arranged on the table, with soone beside her brewing tea.
Ye Luo waits until Chuzheng leaves, then enters the teahouse.
"What would you like to drink, guest?"
Ye Luo randomly orders sothing, and when the tea cos, her curiosity piqued, she sowhat hesitantly asks: "Why is your tea set different?"
"They’re all the sa," the shop assistant says.
"But I saw that the tea set used by the guest sitting by the window just now was different."
"Oh, you an Miss Chuzheng. She bought that set a few days ago; it’s said to be a set of tea utensils infused with Spirit Patterns that she brought herself."
Tea utensils infused with Spirit Patterns?
The focus isn’t the tea utensils, it’s the Spirit Patterns.
Items with Spirit Patterns can have their prices multiplied by hundreds to thousands.
Although price doesn’t equate to actual usefulness.
So people simply like adorning everything they use with Spirit Patterns to showcase their status.
Ye Luo stares at the floating tea leaves in the cup, her hands on her legs slowly tightening.
Where did she get tea utensils infused with Spirit Patterns?
Who gave her the Spirit Stones to buy them?
Ye Luo soon finds out that many in town know her well.
Because she’s extrely generous, folks nearly regard her as a foolish spender.
The disciples in the Sect receive limited Spirit Stones monthly to train; how can she have so many to lavish on spending?
Could the Sect Master have given them to her?
Ye Luo ponders it carefully and thinks it’s impossible, the Sect Master isn’t that type of person.
All Spirit Stones within the Sect are recorded, and even if the Sect Master needed them, authorization would be required from the Sect’s administration.
Ye Luo, skeptical about the source of Chuzheng’s Spirit Stones, discreetly tails her.
She’s determined to unravel the truth.
Ye Luo watches Chuzheng ahead, but as soon as she turns a corner, she vanishes.
Ye Luo speeds up to catch up.
Where did she go?
"Junior Sister Ye, why are you following ?"
A clear voice suddenly calls from behind, causing Ye Luo to turn sharply.
Chuzheng stands behind her, hands clasped behind, gazing at her blankly.
Ye Luo gets startled but quickly steadies herself.
"Senior Sister."
She musters a smile.
"I thought I saw soone like you, didn’t expect it was actually Senior Sister."
Chuzheng doesn’t follow Ye Luo’s lead, bluntly questioning: "Why have you been following for so long, what do you intend to do?"
Trailing soone as pitiful and vulnerable as , surely no good intent!
"..."
Ye Luo gets tongue-tied, finally muttering: "I wasn’t following you."
Ye Luo stubbornly refuses to admit it.
Chuzheng doesn’t mind, suddenly she places a hand on Ye Luo’s arm.
Her hand is rather cold, and Ye Luo can sense it through her clothes, a shudder creeping up her spine.
Ye Luo tries to discreetly free herself from Chuzheng: "Senior Sister, you..."
Chuzheng pulls her forward: "Weren’t you trying to follow ?"
"Senior Sister, I wasn’t following you... ah..."
Ye Luo gets dragged forward by Chuzheng.
Chuzheng’s grip is unusually strong, Ye Luo feels like her arm is no longer her own.
"Senior Sister, what are you doing, let go of ."
"Senior Sister!"
"Chuzheng!"
Ye Luo angrily calls her na.
"Don’t shout, it’s embarrassing if others hear."
Ye Luo: "..."
Ye Luo’s face flushes red, tries to use a spell, but finds she’s unable to.
Though the Monster Qi in her body has been cleansed, she still feels weak.
"Relax, I won’t harm you." Chuzheng’s voice cos from upfront: "I’m a good person."
Ye Luo: "??"
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