Chapter 96 - Fairy or Ghost (1/2)

Under the water, Lin Luoran’s hand grabs the phoenix sword tighter. Water drops run from her wet hair to her face and into her eyes, which is very uncomfortable. Still, Lin Luoran tries her best to keep her eyes open and stares at the floating shadow — in fact, this shadow over a cloud doesn’t look so much as a human.

This is a slim woman, in yellow palace costume, who wears her hair in a bun. Different from the Tang costume Li Xi’er always wears, her palace costume is graceful. A bright and colorful peony on her hair adds elegance to her — if Li Xi’er always looks like a woman in traditional Chinese realistic paintings, this woman is a beauty who just walks out of an ancient painting because a sense of fresh and lively dignity lingers around her.

“Who are you?” Not all good-looking people are nice, and it’s not true that people who ride on clouds are fairies. Lin Luoran is clever enough not to wors.h.i.+p this beauty because of the way she appears. Lin doesn’t bring down even a bit of her guard.

“How dare a junior cultivator in the level of Training Qi act so recklessly in front of me, a fairy! Didn’t your master teach you any etiquette?” The woman in palace costume says with anger in her eyes. She seems to be displeased by Lin Luoran’s contempt.

Lin Luoran ignores her. She has been in the bottom of the valley for a while, and this woman happens to come when she is taking a bath. If the fairy were male, Lin Luoran would be taken advantage of!

“Fairy?”

The woman smiles, “That’s right. Everybody in the previous world of cultivation knows me, the White Fairy. Which school do you come from? Why are you so bold to come into the secret land with such a low level of cultivation?”

The woman rides on a cloud in the air. What level of cultivation may she be in? Didn’t Wen Guanjing say that only cultivators in the level of Training Qi could enter the secret land? So what is going on with the woman in front of her? Lin Luoran finally realizes which part of Wen Guanjing’s description is wrong. He said that there are Foundation-laying boluses… However, if people who came here before were all in the level of Training Qi, how could they leave so many Foundation-laying boluses?

Nevertheless, Lin Luoran has no doubt that she has to get out of the land in a month. After all, this place is filled with pure and peaceful Reiki, and it may be the last paradise on earth for cultivation. Suppose cultivators could stay here, Grandpa Guo wouldn’t ask her for the refined jade. He may as well come here to heal and cultivate.

What is wrong with this place? Why this woman can live here?

Lin Luoran blinks, “The previous world of cultivation? Fairy, how long have you been here? Do you ever come out?” Actually, Lin Luoran wants to ask that dear fairy, if you want to have a conversation, can you let me get dressed first? However, she doesn’t dare to ask the question because of the huge disparity between their powers. Also, the “fairy” here seems to have a bad temper!

The fairy appears to have ignored Lin Luoran’s questions. She says indifferently, “Junior, just get dressed first.”

Dear fairy, you are so thoughtful! Lin Luoran wants to put the sword back into the s.p.a.ce, but she is not sure how deep the cultivation of the “White Fairy” is and whether or not she will see through the secret of the bead — Lin Luoran walks alone on the path of cultivation. The special department only takes her in because they want to take advantage of her, and Grandpa Mu and Guo are kind to her just for now. After all, the bead is Lin Luoran’s root of cultivation, and she must keep it a secret.

Though the White Fairy certainly won’t peep, Lin Luoran directs some Reiki and casts a spell to make a water curtain. No matter whether the curtain can block the view of the fairy or not, it is at least a comfort to Lin’s heart.

Lin Luoran puts on a long dress rapidly. She obviously can’t wear high heels here, and she is glad that she has already taken her flats out of the s.p.a.ce. Just over a minute, she is fully dressed, and she casts a “Water Absorption spell” to dry her hair and body. Cultivation is quite useful.

As for the phoenix sword, Lin Luoran returns it to the hairpin because conflict may be easily caused by a weapon in hand. She makes her hair into a bun and puts on the hairpin.