Chapter 43

Chapter 43: Sang Nian mourned for her lost conscience for three seconds

Xie Chenzhou was still waiting for her answer.

She did some mental preparation for a while, and finally spoke again, changing the subject:

“I tried to draw spiritual energy into my body today, but I couldn’t grasp the key points, I failed many times.”

“You’re so good, do you have any tips to teach me?”

Xie Chenzhou: “No.”

Sang Nian: “?”

Xie Chenzhou nodded, his tone was calm and light, but with a hint of arrogance and composure:

“I don’t need any tips to cultivate, I can do it just by thinking about it.”

Sang Nian pouted, she muttered softly:

“So being a genius is great, why are you showing off to me, why don’t you go and compete with Xiao Zhuochen.”

Xie Chenzhou raised his eyebrows: “What did you say?”

Sang Nian immediately changed her words:

“I said you are truly a phoenix among men, the best of us.”

Xie Chenzhou drawled:

“How about competing with Xiao Zhuochen?”

Sang Nian quickly said:

“You, you, you, you are the best, whether it’s Xiao Zhuochen or Wang Zhuochen or Li Zhuochen, they are all inferior to you.”

The corner of Xie Chenzhou’s mouth curled up, but he quickly suppressed it, he snorted coldly:

“Who wants to compete with Xiao Zhuochen? He’s not worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as me.”

This guy is really as fickle as ever.

Sang Nian could only mourn for her lost conscience for three seconds in her heart.

Suddenly, Xie Chenzhou stretched out two fingers and gently pressed them against her forehead.

Sang Nian: “?”

“Can’t find the ‘Qi’?” he said lazily, “Let me catch it, draw it.”

For the sake of convenience, he had unsealed his cultivation and returned to the Qi Refining Realm.

Helping Sang Nian draw spiritual energy into her body wasn’t difficult.

Sang Nian quickly chanted the incantation, she formed a seal as Gu Bai taught her.

The spiritual energy that had been running wild before was indeed much more obedient, she tried her best to pull it, she slowly drew it towards her body.

After an unknown amount of time, her breathing became slightly heavier.

That spiritual energy successfully entered her body, it slowly flowed along her meridians, it was painful.

After completing one full cycle, Sang Nian’s cold sweat had soaked through her clothes.

After thirty-two full cycles, the aura around her suddenly changed.

She took a deep breath and flipped her wrist.

Slowly, a star of light green spiritual energy condensed at her fingertips.

Qi Refining Stage One.

“I did it!” Sang Nian’s eyes were shining brightly.

Xie Chenzhou glanced at her, who was beaming:

“What a fuss, it took you a whole night to reach the Qi Refining Realm, this is just the beginning.”

“Do you think everyone is like you? One night is already very fast, okay? Some people take years.”

Sang Nian was full of confidence at the moment, she didn’t care about his sarcasm, she excitedly shook his shoulder:

“Anyway, I’m very good! Very good!”

Xie Chenzhou pushed her away with a finger, he said concisely:

“You stink.”

Sang Nian lowered her head and sniffed, she wrinkled her nose, she was even more disgusted than him:

“Where’s the water? I’m going to wash up.”

Xie Chenzhou led her to the back of the mountain.

There was a wild spring there, the water was crystal clear, the Second Elder and he usually washed here.

It would be dawn soon.

The birds in the forest were very noisy, almost covering the sound of the gurgling water.

Sang Nian and Xie Chenzhou walked one after the other, the air was slightly damp and cold, with a faint scent of flowers.

They stopped by the spring.

“Wash up.” Xie Chenzhou said.

There was a large patch of grass nearby, Sang Nian couldn’t help but worry:

“Are there snakes here?”

Xie Chenzhou: “I don’t know.”

Sang Nian had been afraid of snakes since she was a child, she hesitated for a moment, worried about being late for class, she still gritted her teeth and decided to go into the water.

Xie Chenzhou glanced at her, he turned around and walked into the grass, leaving only his tall and slender back to her.

“There are no snakes inside.”

Suddenly, he said faintly.

Sang Nian felt relieved, her lips curled up happily:

“Got it.”

She stopped dawdling, she quickly took off her clothes and went into the water.

The spring water was icy cold.

She shivered as she washed away the impurities and dirt that had been refined by the spiritual energy, she took out clean clothes from her storage bag and put them on.

“Done.” She said loudly.

Xie Chenzhou, who had been facing away from her, turned around.

Sang Nian planted a small fire tree seed, she squatted by the fire source and dried her wet hair.

Xie Chenzhou stood quietly beside her.

When her body warmed up and her hair dried, Sang Nian stood up, feeling refreshed:

“Let’s go, we have class.”

Xie Chenzhou said “Hmm,” he walked beside her.

The mountain breeze was cool, the morning light was faint.

The girl walked and combed her long hair, she chattered endlessly.

Her hair occasionally brushed against Xie Chenzhou’s face and neck.

It was slightly itchy.

He looked down for a while, he reached out and grabbed it.

Sang Nian glanced at it, she said awkwardly:

“I’ll tie it up soon.”

After saying that, she pulled her hair out of his hand.

Xie Chenzhou withdrew his hand and put it behind his back.

He gently rubbed his fingertips.

Without Chun’er, Sang Nian couldn’t create too fancy hairstyles, she could only braid two pigtails.

She tied the ends of her hair with white ribbons, she continued the previous topic:

“So I have no idea why Chu Yao is angry, I asked Xue Yin, but she wouldn’t tell me either.”

Xie Chenzhou said casually:

“Then let her be.”

Sang Nian: “How can that be, we are friends.”

Xie Chenzhou scoffed: “They may not necessarily consider you a friend.”

Sang Nian said:

“I know who my friends are.”

Xie Chenzhou: “You know?”

“Of course,” Sang Nian said, “I moved out just to avoid escalating the conflict, and also to give Chu Yao time to cool down.”

However, this cooling down lasted half a month.

Sang Nian successfully entered the Qi Refining Realm overnight, becoming the second fastest in this batch of new disciples.

The Sect Master, upon learning of this, specially sent her many strange and wonderful trinkets as encouragement.

Chu Yao became even colder towards Sang Nian, Su Xueyin and Wen Buyu tried to say something several times.

Sang Nian’s situation strangely overlapped with Sang Yunling in the original book.

Did the plot go back to its original track?

She couldn’t help but wonder.

The conflict broke out completely during the sword flying lesson.

Those who could enter the Xiaoyao sect were all geniuses among geniuses.

Within half a month, all the new disciples had successfully drawn spiritual energy into their bodies, they entered the Qi Refining Realm.

They began to learn sword flying.

As the main means of transportation in the cultivation world, the sword flying technique wasn’t difficult, the hard part was overcoming fear.

The martial arts field was very large, and it had a defensive formation, it was where the Xiaoyao sect sword disciples practiced their swords daily.

The sword flying lesson was also held there.

After a few rounds, almost everyone could fly two circles in a decent way.

Xie Chenzhou even found a tree to take a nap.

Only Sang Nian was still squatting down for the 122nd time, holding the hilt of the sword, trying to lower her center of gravity.

Gu Bai, who was standing on the ground, said sternly:

“Sang Nian, let go, stand up straight.”

Sang Nian said with a long face:

“I think this way of flying is pretty good, except that the posture isn’t very beautiful, there’s no problem at all.”

Hearing this, the disciples on the martial arts field burst into laughter.

At the edge of the martial arts field, Su Xueyin couldn’t help but laugh twice, she suddenly remembered Chu Yao beside her, she quickly stopped.

Chu Yao continued to practice her sword, she didn’t say anything.

Over there, Shen Mingchao was laughing his head off, he loudly mocked:

“Sang Nian, you should never say you’re a disciple of the Xiaoyao sect when you go out, we really can’t afford to lose face.”

Sang Nian immediately drove the flying sword down, she picked up her sword and went to chop at Shen Mingchao.

Shen Mingchao’s face changed, he quickly went behind Gu Bai.

She chased after him, he dodged again.

Gu Bai, who was standing in the middle: “…”