DDT - Chapter 158

Chapter 158: Immortal Venerable × Meow Meow Cat (13)

Not long after, Chi Junluo came bouncing back to the small wooden house halfway up the mountain, which she hadn't seen for several days, from the training ground at the summit.

The moment she stepped into the small wooden house, her eyes fell upon a figure sitting in the center of the open-air structure, clad in a glaring white robe. As that dazzling white clothing materialized in the mind of Chi Junluo's current body, her entire being tensed up.

Immortal Venerable Qingyun had noticed her little disciple returning to the mountainside as soon as she arrived. Seeing her normally bouncing disciple suddenly stiffen and tense up the moment she entered the wooden house, she initially thought her disciple had accidentally triggered the illusion array at the entrance and fallen into a hallucination.

Immortal Venerable Qingyun quickly checked the few arrays on the small wooden house, only to suddenly remember that two of the interconnected illusion arrays had been replaced by herself days ago when she had settled her little disciple in the wooden house.

Looking at the child frozen at the doorway, Immortal Venerable Qingyun also noticed something amiss. It seemed this wasn't the first time such a scene had occurred.

Days ago, when a similar scene unfolded, Immortal Venerable Qingyun had assumed her little disciple was still in shock after narrowly escaping death, hence the symptoms. But so much time had passed now; her disciple should have fully recovered mentally and physically. Why were these symptoms still present?

Immortal Venerable Qingyun's expression remained unchanged, but inwardly, she began to blame herself for not being observant enough during their previous interactions, for failing to notice this sooner.

She put down her wine cup and stood up. Chi Junluo saw the white clothing in front of her move, transitioning from a seated stillness to standing. At that moment, the body she inhabited went on high alert. Chi Junluo felt her facial muscles twitch, her cat ears and the few cat tails on her behind itching to move. She used all her willpower to suppress the body from revealing its true form. Beyond that, she was powerless to control the other stress responses generated by this body.

The instant Immortal Venerable Qingyun took a step, Chi Junluo, through three days of practicing spiritual energy reflexes, unleashed a sharp sword qi from her fingertips, sending it flying towards Immortal Venerable Qingyun.

Given its weak offensive power, it posed no threat to Immortal Venerable Qingyun. Thus, upon seeing the sword qi flashing with a faint golden light, she didn't realize anything was wrong. She didn't even consider raising her hand to defend against an attack that couldn't even be considered a tickle. After all, based on her thousand years of cultivation experience, a mere Qi Refining disciple couldn't even touch the hem of her clothes. She was at the Nascent Soul stage, protected by an indestructible spiritual energy shield. It was utterly impossible for her clumsy disciple to harm her.

However, she hadn't expected that the faint golden sword qi, which seemed harmless and insignificant, barely qualifying as child's play in her eyes, would directly pierce her protective spiritual energy shield and tear a huge gash in the white robe of Immortal Venerable Qingyun, which was neither protected by any array nor reinforced by forging.

This minor change caused Immortal Venerable Qingyun to halt her step. She temporarily had no leisure to concern herself with what had happened to her clothes or how they were damaged. Nor did she have time to ponder how a mere Qi Refining disciple could breach her Nascent Soul stage protective spiritual energy. This was because she saw profound terror and bottomless hatred in her dear disciple's eyes. The gaze that usually appeared innocent and harmless now blazed as if poisoned, as if it wanted to tear apart everything it saw.

Her beloved disciple seemed to have lost her reason.

Perhaps at this moment, her disciple needed her dear master's comfort more, needed her master's hugs and to be lifted high. Thinking this, and unaware of the reason for Chi Junluo's outburst, Immortal Venerable Qingyun, worried about her adorable disciple, took another step.

Chi Junluo, who had been nervously watching the movements of the white clothing in front of her, instantly held her breath.

As Immortal Venerable Qingyun took a step, sharp sword qi flashing with a faint golden light once again whistled through the air. This time, several instantaneous sword qi attacks shredded Immortal Venerable Qingyun's outer robe into pieces.

The powerful sword qi struck Immortal Venerable Qingyun's protective spiritual energy shield one after another. The impact between the sword qi and the spiritual energy caused the shredded clothing fragments to explode outwards, scattering across the ground.

The ribbon holding Immortal Venerable Qingyun's long hair was severed by the sword qi, and her dark tresses scattered. Due to the collision of sword qi and spiritual energy, her hair billowed behind her. The wooden house had no roof, and the white clouds that had occasionally obscured the sun had drifted away. Golden sunlight cast down from behind and to the side. Immortal Venerable Qingyun was backlit, surrounded by a golden halo. Chi Junluo's eyes were stung by the sudden "light of justice." Her gaze was easily drawn to the exceptionally beautiful face of the heroine bathed in sunlight. The offending white clothing that stimulated her current body had already scattered across the floor. Beneath the white outer robe, the Immortal Venerable wore a set of green scale-patterned light armor that shimmered. This cool attire, combined with Immortal Venerable Qingyun's stunning beauty and the refined temperament cultivated over a thousand years, appeared incredibly heroic, peerless, and magnificent in Chi Junluo's eyes.

Merely looking at the scene before her, Chi Junluo, who was gradually regaining her composure, felt a vague sense of disappointment.

The air fell silent for a few seconds. Seeing her little disciple's expression turn dazed, her gaze unfocused, and the previous ferocity in her eyes completely dissipated, coupled with the child's frail and weak little body, Immortal Venerable Qingyun's heart was instantly filled with overwhelming affection. Without hesitation, she took two steps forward and embraced the stunned child.

What a heart-wrenching child.

The master and disciple embraced for a long while in the sunlit wooden house. Chi Junluo had long since returned to normal. She took the opportunity to nuzzle her little head against the heroine's chest after not seeing her for so long. Although the green scale-patterned light armor was a bit scratchy, the warmth of the heroine still transmitted through the armor to Chi Junluo. The heroine's gentle embrace was truly intoxicating to this cat. Chi Junluo tightened her little hands around Immortal Venerable Qingyun's waist.

Feeling her disciple's dependence, Immortal Venerable Qingyun reached out and ruffled the fluffy little head moving in her arms, suddenly feeling a surge of maternal radiance.

The Heavenly Dao, hidden in the sea of consciousness and witnessing all this: observing.

After the master and disciple finished their tender moment, Immortal Venerable Qingyun led her disciple to sit at the small round table inside the wooden house. She put away the wine cup she had been using to pass the time. In her opinion, her disciple was still young and shouldn't drink alcohol, as it was bad for her development. She rummaged through her storage bag with her divine sense and found a few spiritual fruits that were quite delicious and had spiritual energy concentrations suitable for Qi Refining disciples. If she were with her eldest disciple, Yun Qian, as usual, Immortal Venerable Qingyun would have simply thrown the fruits to him to consume directly. But seeing her adorable little disciple, Immortal Venerable Qingyun wasn't in a hurry to give the fruits to Chi Junluo. She found two small wine cups she had used for array practice in her leisure time, used her spiritual energy to extract juice from the fruits, and poured it into the small wine cups. Then, she took the small wine cups out of her storage bag and placed them on the round table.

At this moment, a layer of frost had formed on the transparent surfaces of the small wine cups.

Chi Junluo had been in this cultivation world for some time. All the utensils she had seen were made of various metals. These small wine cups, transparent as if made of glass, were something she had never seen before.

Seeing her little disciple staring intently at the small wine cups with admiration in her eyes, Immortal Venerable Qingyun took this opportunity to explain the details of these two small wine cups to Chi Junluo.

The raw material for the two small wine cups was top-grade Frost Spirit Stones. Frost Spirit Stones could only be produced in the cave cellars at the bottom of the Frost Cliff in the far north of the entire Nine Nether Profound Sky. The Frost Cliff was one of the nightmares for human cultivators. Their fragile bodies made it impossible for them to fly down intact; they would often lose control of their bodies halfway down due to the extreme cold, and even the thickest spiritual energy shield couldn't save them.

Immortal Venerable Qingyun herself only had the ability to venture down after advancing to the Nascent Soul stage.

A characteristic of Frost Spirit Stones is their extremely low temperature. Even after being removed from the cave cellar, returning to normal ground temperatures, or even in extremely hot regions, ordinary cultivators who touched them without any protection would have their hands frozen to death. Such potent spirit stones were only found in small quantities in the medicinal and spirit stone storage areas of major cultivation sects to maintain the spiritual energy concentration of the storage area and prevent the grade of spirit stones from decreasing. In simpler terms, they possessed very powerful preservation capabilities.

Immortal Venerable Qingyun had taken a large pile of these top-grade Frost Spirit Stones when she went down there last time. When it was hot, she would take them out, and the small wooden house would instantly become cool, saving her the trouble of using spiritual energy to create airflow for cooling.

Hearing about the function of the top-grade Frost Spirit Stones, Chi Junluo looked at the wine cups that had already formed a layer of frost. Fully trusting her heroine, she unhesitatingly reached out, picked up a wine cup, and took a sip of the spiritual fruit juice inside.

Magically, although the wine cup looked icy cold and felt cool to the touch, it didn't freeze her hand. The juice in the cup only had a thin layer of frost on the surface and hadn't frozen solid. The cool juice went down smoothly, not feeling rough.

Although the wine cup looked small, Chi Junluo drank several mouthfuls of the juice inside without finishing it, as if it were replenishing itself.

Seeing the child's trusting demeanor, Immortal Venerable Qingyun felt inexplicably happy. She then proceeded to explain the principles behind the operation of the small wine cups she had made.

Don't underestimate these small wine cups; they were inscribed with more than ten arrays. There were arrays to lock in the cold, protecting the user's hands from being frozen by the frost energy. There were small arrays to maintain the temperature, small arrays for anti-gravity that could suspend the wine cup anywhere without falling, and small arrays that opened up spatial pockets capable of storing large amounts of liquid...

Immortal Venerable Qingyun spent a full hour explaining the composition of each array in detail. With the fruit juice from the small wine cup as company and practical demonstration, Chi Junluo didn't find it boring and unconsciously absorbed most of the information.

Thus, at the end, Chi Junluo received her first "homework assignment" since arriving in this world: to memorize all the arrays, draw them, and finally complete a major assignment of creating her own creative work.

Immortal Venerable Qingyun left a few top-grade spirit stones with different properties on the round table, then formed a hand seal and disappeared from the wooden house.

Chi Junluo looked at the few top-grade spirit stones emitting sparks, flashing with lightning, and radiating biting coldness in various colors. She couldn't help but sigh, realizing that this seemingly ordinary and unremarkable round wooden table was also extraordinary, bearing such peculiar spirit stones without any damage.

She was just being overly surprised.

The heroine of this world was truly a remarkable woman. Chi Junluo suspected that even the bed, bedding, and pillows in this small wooden house were reinforced with arrays, likely more than one.

One lives and learns.

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