Sect Recruitment: I Can See Attribute Entries

Chapter 689: Chapter 690: Sect Master, It Does Seem a Bit...

Tianyan Sect.

A long wind fell, and a cup of tea remained warm.

”It’s winter again, isn’t it?”

Chu Xingchen reached out and gently caught a falling snowflake, asking softly.

Li Yingling was playing with spiritual fruits. Hearing this, she said in a teasing tone:

”Master, it doesn’t snow in summer.”

Chu Xingchen looked down at the little snowflake that had already turned to water in his hand and decisively said:

”For example, the pills Master refines don’t just appear in your cotton-padded mouth for no reason, right?”

Hearing this, Li Yingling decisively reached for Xie Lingyu beside her, her tone aggrieved:

”Master’s wife, look at Master. Who feeds their disciple pills?”

Xie Lingyu smiled, her tone calm:

”Your master is just teasing you.”

Li Yingling nodded with a smile, but her gaze challengingly turned toward her master—she had someone backing her up now. Don’t even think about threatening her with pills anymore!

Chu Xingchen also picked up his teacup and took a sip with some helplessness.

This eldest disciple of his still claimed to be his little cotton-padded jacket. Now it seemed she couldn’t even pass as a torn sock.

”Lord Qinghe is here~”

Outside the courtyard, Qinghe’s voice came from afar. Everyone looked over and waited a moment before seeing Qinghe trotting in.

Qinghe’s face was full of smiles, and very familiarly, without even greeting anyone, it quickly approached, then reached out and grabbed a spiritual fruit from the table to take a bite first.

While eating the spiritual fruit, it said somewhat indistinctly:

”You all live so well—eating whatever you want all day.”

Chu Xingchen raised an eyebrow and smiled:

”I’m a patient. I need to eat nourishing things, so naturally I can’t just eat whatever I want.”

Hearing this, Qinghe nodded in strong agreement, then its eyes lit up as it said:

”So Qinghe has a small proposal.”

Xie Lingyu didn’t even need to think—hearing this, she naturally understood that what Qinghe was about to say wouldn’t be anything sensible. She was about to raise her hand to interrupt Qinghe’s pre-stupidity windup.

But Chu Xingchen naturally took over the conversation:

”What proposal?”

Qinghe, facing the straight hook Chu Xingchen had thrown, bit onto it without hesitation:

”Qinghe is afraid of pain, and the food I get when injured certainly isn’t as good as yours. So let’s cooperate—you get injured, and Qinghe eats for you.”

”In your words, this is called a win-win!”

Chu Xingchen didn’t talk back, but nodded lightly with a smile on his lips, his gaze also teasingly watching Qinghe, as if preparing to watch Qinghe’s show.

But Qinghe’s expression remained relaxed—it had confirmed before coming to the Peak of One Big Happy Family that Grandma Bai couldn’t make it today.

As the flood dragon of Pearl Peak, looking across the entire Tianyan Sect inside and out, as long as Lingyu didn’t get serious, it truly didn’t know who else could discipline it.

Did Chu Xingchen really think it was still the Qinghe of the past?

Qinghe gnawed on the spiritual fruit, its gaze also meeting Chu Xingchen’s with satisfaction.

”That’s not called a win-win. That’s called wasting Tianyan Sect’s resources.”

Lu Xuan’s deep voice came from behind Qinghe.

Qinghe froze at these words, its gaze timidly turning to see Lu Xuan staring fixedly at it.

Yanyun stood beside Lu Xuan, and on her shoulder sat San Dong, tightly gripping the fabric of her shoulder. San Dong’s expression still looked somewhat angry.

Qinghe was somewhat dumbfounded. It was still somewhat afraid of the sect master.

After all, this old man’s prestige in the Tianyan Sect was enough. When Qinghe had first entered the Tianyan Sect and was truly acting out, it had also been disciplined by Lu Xuan—swimming back and forth in the Tianyan Divination Art for nearly a hundred years, suffering quite a bit.

Even now, it still had some lingering fear.

Only when Grandma Bai was around did Qinghe dare to act presumptuously in front of Lu Xuan.

Chu Xingchen saw San Dong’s somewhat angry expression, raised his hand lightly, and used spiritual energy to bring it from Yanyun’s shoulder. He picked up a new teacup nearby, first poured a cup of tea for San Dong, and gently rubbed its head.

Only then did he raise his own teacup and ask with a smile:

”Sect Master Lu rarely visits. What brings you here for tea today?”

Lu Xuan ignored Qinghe’s delusion. If Chu Xingchen was still injured, there would probably be some enormous disaster.

He shook his head with some helplessness: ”I didn’t plan to come originally. It’s just that on the way, I found San Dong outside another peak for some reason. I asked around and brought it here on the way.”

Hearing this, Chu Xingchen looked strangely at San Dong, who was drinking tea in big gulps:

”What happened?”

San Dong took a big gulp of tea, its expression somewhat aggrieved, but it also shook its head slightly, indicating that nothing was wrong.

Xie Lingyu’s gaze naturally turned to Qinghe beside her, her expression questioning.

”Wah! Why are you looking at Qinghe? You think Qinghe did it?” Qinghe practically jumped up. ”Is Qinghe the kind of flood dragon that bullies the weak?”

Seeing Qinghe’s huge reaction, Xie Lingyu knew that this matter probably had nothing to do with Qinghe.

Naturally, this had nothing to do with Qinghe saying it wouldn’t bully the weak—after all, Qinghe definitely liked bullying the weak.

It was just that when Qinghe was in the wrong, it would only sulk, not act this tough.

Chu Xingchen didn’t continue pressing the question. Instead, he added more tea for San Dong and then tossed a fruit to Qinghe.

With food, Qinghe stopped its dissatisfied expression and opened its mouth to gnaw on the fruit.

”Then thank you.” Chu Xingchen smiled. ”Nothing major happening lately, right?”

Lu Xuan shook his head lightly: ”Nothing major lately, but how’s your injury?”

Chu Xingchen replied: ”It’s improved somewhat, and the impact is far less than initially expected.”

Chu Xingchen’s cultivation had already climbed from Nascent Soul realm to Spirit Transformation realm.

The lost true origin had also been replenished considerably.

In a while longer, or when Li Yingling and Li Xingtian broke through to Nascent Soul realm and reached Spirit Transformation realm, the lost true origin would likely be fully compensated.

The improvement in cultivation was also faster than expected—after all, it was the feedback from many geniuses’ bitter cultivation. The loss was indeed far less than Chu Xingchen had anticipated.

”That’s good, but there is indeed news related to you that I need to share.” Lu Xuan nodded lightly, then said, ”I’ve also received word that Chen Baiqing and Cui Hao are already on their way back. The Yunmeng Marsh matter has also settled.”

”Zheng Zhaoling was probably coaxed by you into going.”

”There are unconfirmed reports, sealed by Yunmeng Pavilion, claiming there’s a Teng Snake in Yunmeng Marsh.”

”They say it’s unclear, but in this world, rumors always have some unexplainable reasons behind them.”

”You’d better prepare for Zheng Zhaoling coming to the Tianyan Sect to demand an explanation from you.”

Chu Xingchen nodded lightly at these words:

”Thank you for the reminder, Sect Master. But this matter is easy to handle. Later, I’ll have Xu Jin come over, kowtow, and apologize to Zheng Zhaoling. We’re all prodigies—if everyone kneels and apologizes, Zheng Zhaoling will probably have no choice but to forgive.”

Hearing this, Lu Xuan laughed in exasperation:

”You can’t take advantage of Xu Jin being honest and bully an honest person. You have to treat honest people like people too!”

”What kind of talk is that? Would I not treat my brother like a person?”

San Dong heard this, looked up at its sect master, its expression somewhat conflicted, but finally spoke:

”Sect Master, that does seem a bit... not treating him like a person.”

After these words fell.

Everyone except San Dong and Chu Xingchen burst out laughing.

Even Yanyun was nearly laughing to tears.

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