章 33: Master Is Going to Leave
編集者: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Moondevil heard Qingcheng tell it to go take a bath before coming back, and all that went through its mind was that it would do whatever its master told it to do…
So, it was not wrong to say that, in general, animals were a pretty simple-minded lot. Moondevil happily replied, "Sure! Master, wait here for a while. I'll be right back!" Then, it happily ran off.
It even wagged all six tails in a particularly flashy manner…
Yun Yangzi and Tealwood looked at Qingcheng. They were so grateful that they were about to cry. "My wonderful disciple is the best!" Yun Yangzi took a deep breath in and exhaled. "Ahhh… I can finally have some fresh air in here."
Half an hour later, a nice and clean Moondevil came back. It shook itself and went back to its adorable, palm-sized look.
It ran over to Qingcheng excitedly and looked up at her with its most adorable expression. "Master…," it called out in a small voice. It was clear that it just wanted to be cuddled.
Qingcheng bent down and picked it up right away. Tealwood saw that Moondevil was starting to act all cutesy again and really wanted to bash it, but he managed to hold himself back.
Yun Yangzi looked a little strangely at Moondevil. Wasn't this fellow already at Six Tails? Why didn't it take on human form? Was its development a little slow? But Yun Yangzi noticed that his disciple seemed to like Moondevil as an adorable little fellow, so he didn't harp on it too much.
But it was precisely because he didn't care about this issue that, sometime in the future, a particular man would find out that Moondevil was male and that he was actually a fox that could have morphed into an adult male long ago!
When he found out, he bashed Moondevil up badly and purposely struck him in the face, no less! Moondevil really regretted it when that happened. It wouldn't have pretended to be an adorable animal if it had known earlier that this would happen…
Late at night, they all returned to the cave.
Qingcheng left her Master a soft cushion before entering the inner part of the cave. She carried Moondevil and disappeared with it into the interspace. She put it down and instructed it to stay within the palace area and not to simply run about, then walked into the bedroom.
Actually, her divine sense was able to cover all parts of the interspace. So, even if Moondevil had run out of sight, she would still be able to find it.
Moondevil immediately became excited when it got into the interspace and thought to itself, "This place is amazing! I can't believe Master has such a space to herself! The Spirit Qi in this place is ten or twenty times more concentrated than outside! If I cultivate here, I'd definitely reach Nine Tails even more quickly!"
It ran over to the side of the Sacred Spirit Spring. "Yup, the Spirit Qi is strongest in this area," it thought. Then it closed its eyes and started cultivating.
Qingcheng had gone into the bedroom already, but she had used her divine sense to detect what Moondevil was doing. After she saw that it had automatically started cultivation, she didn't bother thinking about it anymore. Once she was done bathing, she went into the cultivation room and started cultivating as well.
After battling the Magical Beasts for several days in a row, her cultivation level had completely stabilized and was on the verge of leveling up again, but she had forcibly suppressed it. She was prepared to leave the next day, so she was going to spend her days inside the interspace to increase her cultivation level.
By the time it reached 8:00 AM the next morning in the outside world, Qingcheng had already spent forty days in the cultivation room. Her cultivation level had gone from Spiritual Mentor Seventh Tier up to Spirit Master First Tier.
She returned to the bedroom to wash up and changed into a long, bright red dress. She was beautiful beyond words, even without putting on any makeup. After walking out of the palace, she saw that Moondevil was still cultivating, so she didn't disturb it. She left the interspace and walked out of the cave to find her Master having a wonderful chat with Tealwood and the other Windblast Wolves.
But in reality, that wasn't the case at all. Yun Yangzi was simply too bored… so he had no choice but to chat with Tealwood. He kept asking about a million and one things as if nobody had talked to him in ages. Tealwood didn't want to talk anymore, so he called Xiaojiu and the rest over.
It was amazing that Yun Yangzi actually knew how to speak their language. After that, he went on with his extra-friendly conversation…
The moment he saw Qingcheng emerge from the cave, Yun Yangzi immediately abandoned the wolves and ran over swiftly to her as he smiled ingratiatingly. "My obedient disciple… your Master is very hungry… If you had stayed in the cave any longer, you wouldn't see me anymore… could you make some really yummy things for me to eat? Pleaaaaase…" The pleading look in his eyes was very apparent.
Qingcheng didn't know what to say. She knew that he was spouting nonsense and just wanted her to cook for him, but she didn't expose him. "Master, what would you like to eat?" she asked him in return.
She knew how to cook many things, but she also needed to have the necessary ingredients and equipment on hand.
Once Yun Yangzi saw that his disciple had agreed to cook for him, he immediately whipped out thirty azurite chickens that had already been washed and processed for cooking.
Besides Qingcheng, even Tealwood and the other wolves felt their lips twitch uncontrollably. An azurite chicken was at least twice as large as a normal chicken… could he possibly eat so many of them all by himself? Also, where on earth had he gotten so many from in the first place?
"Master, when did you prepare all this?" Qingcheng had no idea that her Master was so good at catching chickens… or had he just walked into a group of them and massacred them with one shot?
Yun Yangzi touched his chin a little smugly. "Haha. Your Master is amazing, right? Amazing, right? In the morning, I went into the mountains and came back with so many. I wanted to catch more, but then I realized that if I catch all of them now, then there'll be none left the next time I want to eat." He still seemed a little regretful that he hadn't caught more.
"Why didn't you just capture a wild boar? Tealwood and the wolves have a bigger appetite, so these chickens won't be enough for them to eat…" She felt that it was less troublesome just to capture one 220 to 330-pound wild boar than it was to catch thirty chickens.
"My lovely disciple, who said I was letting those wolves eat? I caught these chickens for myself. I have to leave first to attend to some important matters… I thought about how I won't be able to eat your delicious cooking for quite a long time, so I have to prepare some food in advance, teehee! Then I'll let those old fellows watch me eat with jealousy, envy, and hatred in their eyes…" Yun Yangzi started imagining that scene, and he was getting all dizzy with glee.
Qingcheng couldn't stand watching him like this and had no choice but to cut him off. "AHEM, AHEM… Master, are you leaving already? When will you come back?" He had just become her Master, and now he was leaving already. She had never felt love and concern from an elder before, so she couldn't really bear to see him go. Even though her Master could be a little ridiculous at times… she still didn't really want him to leave.
Yun Yangzi saw the depressed look in his disciple's eyes and became serious again. "I'm going to leave today, and I don't know when I'll come back. It might be as quickly as six months or as long as a year. But don't be sad. I will try to come back as soon as possible. Remember to deal with those people carefully and never neglect your cultivation. If you are not fully confident, so don't act rashly! Remember this well – nothing is more important than being alive. I will let someone protect you from the shadows. Don't worry. This person will not interfere with anything. It's just to guarantee your safety," he told her.
He couldn't bear to leave so soon, either. He just took in this disciple, and they hadn't spent a lot of time together. Even though he was confident that she was an intelligent girl, he wasn't sure what other trump cards her opponents might be hiding, so he was still worried and decided to instruct that fellow to keep her safe. He was more assured with that fellow's protection. Even though that idiot was annoying, he was reliable when carrying out instructions.
After hearing her Master speak to her so seriously and with so much concern, Qingcheng was deeply moved, and her liking for this Master of hers went up again.
She immediately accepted his kind intentions. "Thank you, Master! I will not disappoint you since you have showered me with so much care. I'll roast these chickens for you right now."
She took the two crates of azurite chickens and started getting busy.
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