16 Unease (1/2)

A little before noon, Lin Tao and Ji Yun entered the Obsidian Forest. However, they did not head towards the Floral Lake. They traveled in the general direction of the burrow, carefully observing their surroundings.

By the time they located the burrow, they each held a spirit beast corpse. They had killed the two spirit beasts, each possessing the strength of a rank 6 spirit warrior, with ease. Only based on their slightly hurried breathing would one be able to tell the children had just been engaged in a battle. The two children had spent much more time locating the burrow than hunting the two spirit beasts.

”This should be the burrow master was referring to, right?” Ji Yun stared at the hole with uncertainty. The children would not have taken so much time to find the burrow if their master had given good instructions.

”It should be. Besides, it shouldn't be too much of an issue if we found the wrong one. We can just blame it on master's terrible instructions. 'Just look for a burrow under a thorned hucklebush that's around 50 meters from the Floral Lake,' he said. Clearly, its master's fault for being so vague,” replied Lin Tao, not attempting at all to hide his annoyance.

After tossing the spirit beast corpses into the hole, the young pair made their way towards the Floral Lake.

Just before the Floral Lake had come into sight, a gentle voice greeted the young pair, ”This guardian spirit offers her greetings.”

”Granny, your recuperation must be going well! The range your voice can reach must have expanded. When you first spoke to me, we were about 5 meters closer to the lake,” Ji Yun cheerfully waved her hand at the air in greeting.

”You're quite observant, little one.”

”I don't possess talent as an array master for nothing! Naturally, I should be observant, especially in regards to distances and ranges of things.” Ji Yun's voice was tinged with pride.

”Speaking of which, who's teaching you about arrays?”

Ji Yun let out a sheepish laugh, ”At the moment, no one is. Master isn't an array master, so I need to wait until I enter the intermediate section of Royal Sun Academy before I can advance my studies on arrays. For now, I'm just training the basic foundations of array masters. Also, I only recently became a spirit master, so I still have much to learn as a spirit master too.”

”I see… Little Tao, how's you alchemy studies progressing?”

”I do not have a master that teaches me alchemy. I have been learning from books. Currently, I can only make rank 1 pills.”

”You say only rank 1 pills, but isn't that already amazing! Who else your age can refine rank 1 pills with your success rate!” Ji Yun reprimanded Lin Tao for not appreciating his own talents.

Bai Lian sighed to herself, 'Note to self, avoidance is not a good strategy for dealing with things you don't like.' She had no clue what was considered talented.

If she had not been so adamant about avoiding matters regarding cultivation in her past life, she would not be so lacking in information in her current life. She only knew the most basic of information regarding spirit masters.

”Your talent is not bad. I guess you can be considered worthy of being considered my disciple.”

”What about me?” Ji Yun pouted.

”I couldn't be any happier. It is my great fortune to be able to have such a cute disciple. Otherwise, I would be stuck teaching that uncute brat alone without anything to ease my poor mind.”

Ji Yun beamed upon hearing the guardian spirit's response. Lin Tao ignored the guardian spirit's verbal jab at him and stared worryingly at Ji Yun, 'She already has a tendency to start kissing up to you whenever she wants something. Her bad habits won't worsen after spending more time with that granny, right?'