Vol 1 Chapter 25 (1/2)

GDC: V1C25. The Precious Cauldron’s Thief, Du Family’s Junior Enters the School

In these two months, while Zhang Yan was closed up and practicing, there had been some changes on Cangwu Mountain.

Zheng Xun, who was summoned back to his Zheng Family, had successfully opened his meridians. And his meridian’s type had also been appraised from top to bottom. He undoubtedly had a great future as he began to tread on the path to immortality henceforth. Soon, he would go to the Upper Court and then practice more superior cultivation laws, and hence, he would neither spare a glance nor had any attachment with the Lower Court.

At this time, there was a stream of people flocking toward the Lower Court. Since Zheng Xun had left, the outer disciple’s position had one vacant seat. Therefore some novice disciples who came from prominent families were flocking here for this reason. As many had expected, Lin Yuan took the head disciple’s position in the Lower Court. And now, the front door of his cave mansion was almost trod broken by someone.

It was Lin Yuan’s brother; to be precise it was his younger cousin, Lin Tong, who also desperately exhorted all of his efforts to take over the outer disciple’s vacant seat. But Lin Yuan actually didn’t pay any attention to him.

Although Lin Yuan was now in the role as the head disciple. But after all, it was not officially decreed. Moreover, s.h.i.+ Shoujing had long taken a liking to Ai Zhongwen, and the latter also had a vast personal network in the school. If there were no unexpected occurrences, Ai Zhongwen had the biggest chance to be promoted into an outer disciple.

Lin Yuan and Ai Zhongwen’s relations.h.i.+p had gotten worse because of the issue with Zhang Yan’s incident. However, Ai Zhongwen was originally from the Anfeng Ai Family after all [1], which made it inconvenient for Lin Yuan to suppress him.

After Lin Tong realized that he couldn’t change Lin Yuan’s mind, he then went to find Chen Lan, who he also had a good relations.h.i.+p with. But he didn’t know why Chen Lan was also giving him an ambiguous att.i.tude and refused to stand up and speak for him. He instead intentionally mentioned about the lacking of concocting pills’ equipment in an ambiguous manner.

Lin Tong was confused, what and where can he obtain that alchemy equipment?

After asking around, he then understood. Originally, Chen Lan seemed to hint that the Grandmaster s.h.i.+ Shoujing had given Zhang Yan the Impurity Purification Cauldron.

Lin Tong immediately thought of some plan, “I heard that Zhang Yan and Ai Zhongwen are on good terms. I could as well ask him to persuade Zhang Yan to hand over that precious cauldron…”

Who would have thought that when he just opened his mouth in front of Ai Zhongwen, he was scolded by him at once.

Tasting such bitter rebuff here, Lin Tong couldn’t help but secretly curse in his heart, “I will put you in the spotlight after I become an outer disciple!”

As he was leaving the place, he felt that he would be unable to convince Zhang Yan to hand over that precious cauldron. He then finally steeled his resolution, “If there’s no other way, then the only way left is to steal that precious cauldron!”

Ling Tong was well aware that Zhang Yan was a martial arts expert and didn’t dare to rush recklessly. He also inquired that Zhang Yan lived alone in his cave mansion and didn’t have any servant. He then decided to steal the precious cauldron when Zhang Yan was not in his cave, hide the cauldron in the ravine and take it out at night, and then send it to Chen Lan.

“After Senior Brother Chen receive this cauldron, he would surely stand up for me!”

Lin Tong secretly steeled his heart, he waited for days and nights around the Star Peak vicinity, carefully observing from a distant. However, Zhang Yan didn’t seem to have a plan to leave and just continuously practiced. He painstakingly waited for more than two months and was almost falling into despair. But he suddenly found that Zhang Yan was taken away by a white-robed cultivator, which instantly made him overjoyed. Unwilling to miss this golden opportunity, he hurriedly rushed forward. As he probed and looked into Zhang Yan’s cave mansion, he found no other person’s trace inside. So he rushed toward the big cauldron.

But he suddenly heard a cold voice sounded from his side, “Who are you?”

Lin Tong was startled. He quickly turned his head and saw an enchanting peerless beauty standing there.

This beauty’s eyebrows were skillfully painted, with bewitching and mesmerizing eyes, voluptuous and exquisite curves. Her exposed neck revealed a glittering white jade-like delicate skin, making the blood of the people who looked at her flow faster.

Lin Tong fell into a daze before he finally said, “Are you Zhang Yan’s maid? Tsk… tsk… such a young and beautiful woman, you’d better follow me…”

When the woman listened to these words, her eyebrows twitched as murderous intent flashed in her eyes, snapping, “You court death!”

Zhang Yan was walking down along the mountain pa.s.sageway from the mountain foot while pondering Ning Chongxuan’s intention along the way.

The last sentence Ning Chongxuan had said explained that he was a direct disciple who took the path of apprentices.h.i.+p. He said that if they recognized his true worth, they would summon him earlier to take him as a disciple. For him, this was not good news, because this meant that the struggle in the Upper Court was very fierce and more intense than he had imagined.

However, thinking about these matters now was rather too early. He should wait until he opened his meridians first, then he could think about it.

After returning to his cave mansion, just as he was stepping a foot into the front, he was very surprised to see an enchantingly beautiful woman looking at him with a tender and loving expression. When she saw Zhang Yan, she immediately stepped forward and gently pulled Zhang Yan’s sleeves, sobbing, “I have been painstakingly searching for Young Master for many years, I finally found Young Master today…”

Zhang Yang glanced at her, but there was no intention on his complexion that he would go inside. The woman’s eyes turned. She then hugged him from the back. While a pair of soft and full mounds quickly pressed against Zhang Yan’s back, she spoke in a desolate and sorrowful tone, “Young Master Zhang, have you forgotten your slave?”

Zhang Yan’s complexion didn’t change even a bit, “Fellow Daoist Luo, why so? You and I always see each other every day and lived together in one room. How could I not know about you?”

The woman was startled. Instantly, a great embarra.s.sment and shame covered her complexion. She quickly loosened her hands and jumped to the side. As she bit her lower lip, she stomped her foot and angrily snapped, “d.a.m.n! I forgot that you, this little b.a.s.t.a.r.d, can sense and recognize my aura.” Her complexion turned into a discontented expression, “Hey, you little b.a.s.t.a.r.d, who would live together with you in the same room? Don’t you ever dare to recklessly stain an innocent girl’s pureness!”

Zhang Yan helplessly shook his head, cupping his hands he said, “Fellow Daoist Luo has pa.s.sed the disaster safely, I’m very grateful.”

These words are obviously congratulation words. However, listening to the flat tone, it sounded completely lacking in sincerity. Luo Xiao couldn’t help but sharply stare at Zhang Yan bitterly, “I can stay in this form just for the time being, but I still need some practice time to slowly recover my cultivation.”

Zhang Yan strode into the cave, but he immediately became surprised. Because the interior of his cave mansion had changed greatly. It had become neat, clean and bright like a mirror. The floor was spotlessly clean, even large piles of firewood and charcoal had been moved out. Every object here had been neatly sorted out and well placed. The cave’s interior was completely changed from the previously disorderly and chaotic appearance.

Luo Xiao proudly said, “You are a human, but you don’t know how to clean your own cave mansion.”

Zhang Yan didn’t dislike cleanliness, it was just that his cave was large, and he was completely immersing himself in practice and didn’t have enough time. So where would he have spare time to clean? Moreover, in his previous apocalypse world, he had been in constant life-threatening situations everytime and everywhere. In such precarious circ.u.mstances, having safe shelter was an extravagant luxury. Thus, he usually didn’t care about the surrounding environment. He only cleaned up several things he frequently used in daily life.

However, he quickly shook his head, “But as I see it, it’s not completely clean.”