《The Cutest Cultivator》


 Chapter 1 - Over the Mountains and Rivers

    The sun was setting west, and a layer of golden light coated the flowing stream. The cool evening breeze broke the golden light into brilliant glimmers.


    Bright red flames danced to the wind. The burning branches, still moist, crackled from time to time. The delicious smell of grilled fish poured into her nose, and Yao Beibei swallowed, staring at the fish in the cold-faced teenager¡¯s hands.


    On the first day she was teleported into this strange world, Yao Beibei was bought by Uncle Yun from a child trafficker. She was handed off to Baozhimen along with cold-face and others to become herb-pickers. However, Baozhimen was destroyed on the fifth night after she arrived. Fortunately, she did not die. That night she met the cold-faced young man, and she begged him to take her with him, and started a wandering life.


    After they left Baozhimen, the lonely teenager took Yao Beibei over the mountains and river, and the bloody and cruel memory of Baozhimen¡¯s destruction started to gradually fade. Her mood started to get better.


    It had been almost half a month since she met the cold-faced boy. Yao Beibei finally figured out that he was cold outside and warm inside, and he wouldn¡¯t abandon her companion ¡°through life and death¡±. She was okay and ready to unveil his mystery!


    ¡°What¡¯s your name?¡± Supporting her chin, Yao Beibei looked at the cold-faced teenager opposite of her. She was really serious and very sincere.


    Silence.


    ¡°What¡¯s your name?¡±


    Silence.


    ¡°What¡¯s your name?¡±


    Silence.


    ¡°What¡¯s your name?¡±


    ¡°Bai Ziming.¡±


    Yao Beibei smiled. Bai Ziming? She has been asking for his name for days, and finally got her answer today. If you gave her sunshine, she would bloom; and if you gave her an inch, she¡¯d take a foot: ¡°Bai Ziming, can you be my teacher?¡±


    Bai Ziming¡¯s grilled fish shook: ¡°No!¡±


    She expected that Bai Ziming would reject her for the first time, so Yao Beibei was not discouraged at all. She tried to open her eyes wider to make herself look smarter: ¡°Bai Ziming, can you be my teacher please?¡±


    Bai Ziming was silent this time. It seemed that it cannot be done today, so Yao Beibei stopped asking. She would not give up. She would keep pestering him until he said yes. She grinned to herself.


    If you¡¯re wondering why Yao Beibei wanted Bai Ziming to be her teacher for any reason other than his 14-, 15-year-old appearance, it was his skills. She couldn¡¯t help but envy his talents.


    Bai Ziming could avoid beasts. Since they had been walking in mountains, they could often hear beasts roar, sometimes not even far away. But as long as she followed his steps, they would avoid danger every time.


    Bai Ziming could cut trees. He had no weapon, but branches fell in front of him. She didn¡¯t have to pick up any firewood. Yao Beibei thought, ¡°Was he using a throwing knife? Is he a descendant of Throwing Knife Xiaoli?¡±


    Bai Ziming could catch fish. Ice and snow had just melted away in early February, but he just took a few branches and stuck them in the water randomly. The fishes just jumped onto his branches willingly. Yao Beibei thought he had seduced the fishes. The fishes realized what was happening but it was all too late, so they only started to struggle after they¡¯ve been caught.


    Bai Ziming could grill fish. She couldn¡¯t see when or how he gutted, unscaled and cleaned the fish. She couldn¡¯t see what spices he used, but the fish tasted great without any stink!


    Bai Ziming could¡­


    The more she thought about it, the more Yao Beibei felt like she had met an immortal. She did not know there were such young and beautiful immortals like Bai Ziming!


    His skin was soft and white. His eyebrows were like the black hills in traditional painting His eyes were deep and clear as if they bore great weight and saw through the mundane world. His nose was tall and proud. His lips like two pink, slender petals. A white jade needle held his shiny black hair. His shape was almost intentionally perfect. Yao Beibei couldn¡¯t find a better word to describe him than devilish.


    Was Bai Ziming an anthropomorphic transformer? Was he originally a sentient flower, bird, beast, fish and insect and had become a human being?


    Yao Beibei was a college student and an atheist in China in the 21st century, but after this teleportation, she could accept anything incredible. Her teleportation experience was so weird. On a sunny day a white light flew into her forehand, and voila! she came to this strange world.


    As a result, Yao Beibei stared straight at Bai Ziming, from top to bottom, and then from bottom to top, trying to see what did he transform from: a god or a devil, a monster or a beast? Ghost has been ruled out, because Bai Ziming could stay under the sun.


    Although Yao Beibei had been staring at him since the first day, Bai Ziming got used to it. But today her eyes were too weird and her stare was too long, and it made him feel like he was being spotted by a vicious wolf. He felt extremely uncomfortable and coughed.


    ¡°Bai Ziming, how old are you?¡± Yao Beibei, who couldn¡¯t see anything, wanted try a different way.


    ¡°Nineteen years old.¡± Bai Ziming was no longer concerned about Yao Beibei¡¯s questions. He only answered occasionally, and he never spoke to her.


    After Bai Ziming answered the age question, Yao Beibei¡¯s eyes widened and her jaw dropped so low you could put an egg in it!


    Nineteen? These people grew so slowly! Or maybe Bai Ziming is special? He looks like fourteen or fifteen! Still, Yao Beibei considered the possibilities. Nineteen is only one year younger than her real age. It would totally fine if she dated someone younger than him.


    Bai Ziming didn¡¯t know what Yao Beibei was thinking. As usual, he handed her two grilled fish. The two fishes were grilled golden, giving off a delicious smell. It made the hungry Yao Beibei swallowed again.


    ¡°Thank you!¡± Yao Beibei chuckled and took the fish from Bai Ziming. At first, she boasted that she would take care of him, but instead he had been taking care of her. His ability to survive in the wild was so amazing that she was embarrassed to have volunteered in the first place.


    Yao Beibei, whose stomach was already groaning, started devouring the fish without a second thought. Bai Ziming was getting better and better at grilling fish!


    After they ate, they could see the moon and the stars in the sky. These days they lived outside and ate healthy natural food. It was like they were on a vacation. In her past life, Yao Beibei could only dream of such things. It was not about money. If she had money but nobody was with her, she dared not sleep in the mountains at night.


    It must be what it¡¯s like in the kungfu novels? Yao Beibei realized that she embarked on a completely different road than before. Now she had nothing and did not know where to go. She just needed to follow Bai Ziming! The only thing that worried Yao Beibei was Uncle Yun¡¯s niece, Yun Xiaoxiao. She thought that they could take care of each other at Baozhimen, but everything was shattered after the disaster. She wondered if she could see Yun Xiaoxiao again in her lifetime.


    Time flowed like water. It was already mid-summer in the month of June. All kinds of mountain flowers were blooming on the hills, under the trees and between the roads. Beautiful shapes, colors and fragrances in the mountain wind; everything felts so harmonious. Between the mountains and waters, they felt the breeze and fragrance on their faces and forgot the summer heat.


    Yao Beibei still followed Bai Ziming tightly. She didn¡¯t think he was wandering aimlessly, but looking for somewhere, and it seemed that he was about to find it. Because he has always been expressionless, and recently he will also have a little joy on his face and a frown, so that she does not know whether he is happy or sad, or mixed?


    Although she knew Bai Ziming would always take care of her, Yao Beibei still felt unsatisfied. After four months, she still wasn¡¯t able to persuade him to accept her as an apprentice. He became more and more mysterious, like a flower in the water and the moon in a mirror. She couldn¡¯t see what he truly was. He was so close, yet so far at the same time.


    One night in July, there was no moon in the sky. The scattered stars were dim, as the night grew darker.


    There was no wind in the woods, nor the sound of birds, beasts or insects, no frogs could be heard beside the stream. The night was very quiet, almost eerie in the silence. Even with Bai Ziming beside him, Yao Beibei felt inexplicably afraid and disturbed. She had never felt that before.


    It felt as if somewhere horrible was hiding deep in the woods, and that thing could run out any time! It seemed that even the flames of the fire felt the horror, burning restlessly while trying to escape.


    Bai Ziming, who had always been calm, would not lie down and sleep, or look up at the starry sky. He sat straight, holding a sword that came from nowhere, his dark eyes glowing vigilantly.


    After they had been together for so long, Yao Beibei had never seen Bai Ziming so nervous. He didn¡¯t even blink at bloody and cruel scene when Baozhimen was destroyed.


    Yao Beibei realized that danger was approaching them, and it could not be avoided! Stay calm, stay calm, you need to help Bai Ziming, you can¡¯t always pull his leg! She picked up a sharp stone from the ground and held it in her hand. Then she slowly approached the fire, so she could quickly pull out a burning branch. Man or beast, stone and fire would always be effective!

 Chapter 2 - Escape from the Giant Python

    ¡°Hiss!¡± Before Yao Beibei could move to the fire, a cold voice came out of the darkness. Her scalp tingled and her stood on her head. A big bloody mouth, a pungent stench at a distance, two long fangs shining white light, a red, two-pronged tongue wiggling -it was a snake, a big snake!


    At this moment, Bai Ziming jumped up, the sword in his hand instantly unsheathed, cold and threatening as ice, flew towards the huge mouth that was about to strike. Like a reflex, Yao Beibei threw stones and a burning branches at the snake.


    ¡°Clank-¡± a sharp sound of metallic collision, Bai Ziming¡¯s sword stopped the giant snake, but did not cause any harm to it. Yao Beibei¡¯s stone and fire branch attack wasn¡¯t effective at all. What a terrible snake!


    Blocked, the snake got angry. It spat out a stream of red liquid as thick as a bucket towards Bai Ziming. The liquid reflected red blood light, and the smell of the air made her want to vomit.


    Bai Ziming¡¯s body floated in front of the snake, as if the snake could crush him with a little force. Yao Beibei was very worried about him. Terribly anxious.


    Bai Ziming was engulfed by a white light, which seems to be forming a wall in front of him. The wall flooded with crystal light, and Yao Beibei felt cold. It was actually an ice wall!


    Hiss, hiss, hiss¡­ The scarlet liquid was stopped by the ice wall, but the ice wall also unceasingly emitted a corroding sound. This scarlet liquid was highly toxic!


    Many ice arrows appeared in front of Bai Ziming and rained from the sky with piercing crystal light.


    At last the serpent started to rampage, spewing red venom like a fountain. Red light oozed from its scales, revealing its huge body. Its eyes were like two red light bulbs, its body was as thick as a large water vat. Its tail was even redder, some dark red scales glowed faintly in the dark, and it swept away the ice arrows like a huge red drill.


    Those unfortunate trees touched by the snake¡¯s tail withered in an instant, their ashes blown away by the breeze. Yao Beibei gasped. The big red snake could have achieved a high level, and it should be called the giant red python!


    Although Bai Ziming has not yet lost, the ice wall in front of him, which had been 30 centimeters thick, was now only five or six centimeters. His face looked heavy as he controlled several ice blades to hit the python¡¯s qicun (believed to be a snake¡¯s weakness where its heart rested) and stab its eyes.


    She needed to help Bai Ziming in order to not become the Great Red Python¡¯s dinner! Yao Beibei picked up stones on the ground, and throw the rocks at the Great Red Python. However,  the stones were turned into powder before they could reach the Great Red Python¡¯s body!


    Yao Beibei then seized two burning branches and threw them at the Great Red Python, who suddenly spat a mouthful of scarlet venom at the burning branches. The burning flames were extinguished in an instant, and the branches were reduced to ashes.


    It seemed that fire was more useful than stone! Realizing that this was poison, Yao Beibei hastily took out her towel, wrapped it on her face, tied it to the back of her head, and made a simple mask to prevent poisoning.


    Finally, the giant red python became more and more violent. Its body suddenly came down hard, swinging frantically. The scarlet venom in its mouth poured out like flood, and the smell was unbearable. The python lunged and bit the ice wall in front of Bai Ziming.


    With just one bite, the ice wall suddenly shattered, and he could no longer float. He started to fall.


    ¡°Vile beast, stop right now!¡± Seeing the big red python was about to swallow Bai Ziming, Yao Beibei bellowed. Disregarding the burning flames, she grabbed all the branches in the fire, rushed towards the giant red python, and started frantically throwing burning branches into its mouth.


    That moment, two young men in white clothes descended from the sky. After a flash of white light, a large white net formed in the air, and instantly captured the giant red python.


    The python knew that it was in danger. It struggled fiercely, trying to get rid of the white net. Its mouth was wide open but it could no longer spray the red venom. The more it struggled, the more tighter the net, and finally it was bound and it could no longer move!


    The young men chanted and the white net shrunk. It became the size of a hand and fell to the ground. The python has become a small red line in the white net. One of the young men picked it up.


    When Yao Beibei ran over, Bai Ziming had fallen to the ground, his whole body wet, his eyes unfocused. He seemed to have passed out. His face turned black and blue. Cold sweat ran down his forehead. His body trembled violently. He looked very painful and it was heart wrenching.


    ¡°Bai Ziming, how are you?¡± Yao Beibei squatted down and looked anxiously at Bai Ziming. He held her hand so tightly she felt pain.


    Bai Ziming¡¯s mouth was slightly open, as if he wanted to say something, but he could not make any sound. His lips had also turned blue and black, as if he was poisoning. If she found the snake-bite, maybe she could suck out blood and clean the wound. However, she could not find any wound on the outside. What to do? What is there to do?


    ¡°Bai Ziming, you do not want to die, you do not want to die!¡± Yao Beibei was so perplexed that she began to tear apart Bai Ziming¡¯s clothes to see if she could find the wound.


    ¡°Young lady, don¡¯t worry. He has caught python poison. Give him this elixir and let him rest for a night. He will be fine tomorrow morning. This python demon¡¯s poison is quite fierce, as long as you breathe will be poisoned, so you¡¯re also poisoned. Take an elixir!¡± A warm voice came close. It was the young man who had just caught the python. He smiled at Yao Beibei. In his palm was two black, round medicine pills.


    Just now, she was scared and could not think. After hearing the young man, Yao Beibei started to feel a little sick. She was indeed poisoned, just not badly.


    Yao Beibei snatched the pills, and fed one to Bai Ziming, the other to herself. It was bitter, but not hard to swallow, and melted in her mouth, leaving a cool and clear feeling.


    The medicine instantly relieved Bai Ziming. His trembling gradually stoped, but cold sweat continued. His face didn¡¯t changed between white and red, but became a scarlet color and the color was gradually fading.


    Seeing this change in Bai Ziming, Yao Beibei knew that the antidote given had worked, and when he thought that Bai Ziming and she had been saved, she breathed a sigh of relief.


    ¡°How is he?¡± The voice of young man was gentle, like warm wind that swept through the field. Listening to his voice was reassuring.


    Then Yao Beibei remembered that she had not thanked him for the pills she had just taken, and said, ¡°He is much better, thank you for your help! May I ask for your name, so one day we could repay your deeds!¡±


    The young man was startled. Yao Beibei was startled too. Don¡¯t ancient people talk like this to those who saved them?


    ¡°Seeing that you two are in danger, how can I, a cultivator, stand by and do nothing? What¡¯s more, if you two had not gotten this python¡¯s attention, my disciple brother and I would not have subdued it so easily. This python demon has been doing evil for a long time, and now it is subdued and will not be harmed anyone again. We are about to return to our master. There are many monster in this area, you must be more careful in the future!¡± The young man in white smiled, like winter sunshine.


    Many monsters? Just when Yao Beibei thought they were safe. This must be a joke. One python demon almost killed Bai Ziming, now even a wild beast could absolutely help them die young!


    Wait, what did he just say? Cultivators, that¡¯s not the point. He said monsters? Ugh, monsters?! Help!


    ¡°Please, immortal mister help us! Since you come here to eliminate evil spirits, you must certainly care about life and the suffering of the sentient beings! My companion¡¯s life is now on the verge, and I am also poisoned. If we meet any monster again, we certainly will die here! Please immortal mister, have mercy, and save us two!¡± Yao Beibei climbed toward the young man¡¯s foot to ask for help. She could not explain anything that¡¯s happening, but this lifesaving opportunity certainly could not be missed!


    The young man in white was in a dilemma, hesitating. Yao Beibei did not let go of the pity in his eyes, and immediately began to cry: ¡°Immortal mister, both of us are miserable orphans. We have been living together until we were caught by a trafficker, and it was not easy to escape. Then we almost died at the mouth of a giant python, and now my companion is hovering between life and death. To thinking that we have been miserable all our lives, just to be torn apart by beasts now¡­¡±


    While crying, Yao Beibei peeked at the face of young man, and saw that he was really moved, with sympathy and sorrow on his face. Thinking that a little more proof should be able to convince him, she lifted her sleeve, deliberately revealing the welts on her arm, which were  made by the traffickers of the former owner this body. The wounds were healed, but the scars were really shocking!

 Chapter 3 - A Lucky Occurance

    The boy in white was finally conquered by Yao Beibei¡¯s tears, and his tone was full of pity: ¡°I didn¡¯t know you were young and yet have such miserable experiences! My name is Duan Yifeng, not an immortal, but a cultivator. Since you are young, if you have a spirit root, you can also cultivate, and your companion has already cultivated. It¡¯s better that I take you back to my master, and let him decide. Is this okay?¡±


    ¡°Yes! Yes! Thank you, Mr. Duan for saving our lives!¡± Yao Beibei nodded again and again, smiling. Despite what Duan Yifeng said, she knew that she and Bai Ziming were saved!


    At this moment, another young boy in white, with a jade bottle in his hand, sprinkled some powdered medicine into the land, and walked in front of Duan Yifeng: ¡°Disciple brother Duan, I have neutralized the poison of the python demon here.¡±


    ¡°Well, we can go back to the mountain and return to the master. This girl and her companion have been poisoned by snake venom, and there is nowhere else to go. I will take them back to the master.¡±


    Duan Yifeng¡¯s companion looked at Yao Beibei and Bai Ziming lying motionless on the ground. He seemed to have something to say, but Duan Yifeng waved and stopped him.


    ¡°This is my disciple brother Su Huarong.¡± Duan Yifeng turned to Yao Beibei and introduced the other man with a smile.


    ¡°Hello Mr. Su, my name is Yao Beibei, and my companion is Bai Ziming. Thank you for saving our lives!¡± Yao Beibei said with a smile. Su Huarong didn¡¯t seem to get along well, it was better not to mess with him.


    Su Huarong looked displeased and waved at Yao Beibei, ¡°Don¡¯t mention it!¡±


    ¡°Please!¡± Along with Duan Yifeng¡¯s gesture, Yao Beibei saw a silver sword suddenly appeared a foot above the ground, and the color of water was rippling on it.


    Duan Yifeng pointed and the silver sword became half a meter wide. Then he jumped on the silver sword, beckoning Yao Beibei, who was staring.


    Sword flight?


    Yao Beibei swallowed and leaned forward to lift Bai Ziming from the ground. But as she tried to move him forwards, it got harder and harder.


    Duan Yifeng smiled again, then controlled the silver sword to fall to the ground, and flew to Yao Beibei¡¯s feet, allowing her to come up easily.


    Yao Beibei, who stepped onto the silver sword, found that although this sword looked very thin, it was very strong. Thinking Bai Ziming may fall off the flying sword, she took a piece of clothing from their baggage, twisted it into a rope, and tied him firmly on herself.


    Yao Beibei heard Bai Ziming¡¯s mutter, and could not understand what was said. Maybe it was too embarassing when she asked Duan Yifeng for help, or maybe she tied him too tightly, or was it because he thought men and women should keep their distances?


    Can¡¯t worry about this now, Yao Beibei no longer cared about Bai Ziming and stood behind Duan Yifeng with a drooling smile: ¡°Duan Gongzi, I¡¯m ready, please!¡±


    Sword flying! Today was the most thrilling day and the happiest day for Yao Beibei since she traveled to this world! This world was not in any dynasty of Chinese history, but more like an alien space-time parallel to ancient China, because the language and clothing here are somewhat similar to the ancient Chinese Song Dynasty.


    What Yao Beibei didn¡¯t expect was that she could cultivate in this world! Thinking of white clothes fluttering, swords flying, and traveling around the world in Xianxia TV shows, she was totally enchanted!


    ¡°Be careful. Now we are going back to the mountain gate!¡± As Yao Beibei thought to herself, Duan Yifeng¡¯s gentle voice came again.


    ¡°Sure!¡± Yao Beibei nodded hard.


    Duan Yifeng, standing at the front of sword, made some gestures, and the sword flew up.


    ¡°Ah!¡± Yao Beibei screamed, her legs were soft and trembling. I always thought that flying with the sword was a cool thing. I didn¡¯t expect it was so dangerous. It was more horrible than a plane taking off!


    The sword ascended, heading for the clouds. She could see the trees under her feet fading backwards quickly. The wind was howling, pouring directly into her clothes. It was cold, and even breathing started to become difficult. This was truly terrible!


    At the beginning Yao Beibei could still maintain her image in front of Duan Yifeng, keeping her composure and insisted on standing on the flying sword. After flying for a while, she finally lay on the Feijian, holding Duan Yifeng¡¯s legs tightly.


    Duan Yifeng, who was flying the sword, felt very awkward. But considering she was a mortal, had suffered a lot, had just encountered a python demon, and it was her first time on a flying sword, he said nothing and created a transparent bubble to protect her.


    Yao Beibei, lying on the flying sword, saw a big bubble around her, and knew it was Duan Yifeng, That big bubble should be the legendary protection field! With this protection, wind couldn¡¯t pour in, and it¡¯s no longer cold nor thin-aired, just as comfortable as staying in a small warm house.


    Yao Beibei calmed down. Her upper and lower eyelids began to make intimate contact ¡­


    The next day, a bright red light woke up Yao Beibei who opened her sleepy eyes.


    A bright red sun rose in the sky, and its magnificent red beams spilled. The sky was still light gray, and the color of the night had not completely faded away.


    The sun was like a child given candies. It quickly came out of the horizon, and its golden lights shone down. The red dawn reflected yellow light. They seemed to interweave the most magnificent colors in the sky into the softest and most beautiful brocade.


    Everything in the world became brighter, and Yao Beibei¡¯s vision became clearer. Indulging in the beauty of morning, she had been marveling at it for such a long time.


    In front of her was a huge mountain range, winding, looming among the vast sea of ??clouds. From a distance, there was a mist the mountains, like a dream, heaven on earth!


    Yao Beibei was so happy. She suddenly felt sore and wanted to stretch, but found that her back was heavy, especially her shoulder, which was also warm and wet?


    Finally, Yao Beibei remembered that she tied the unconscious Bai Ziming on her back last night. The warm and wet patch cannot be his saliva, right?


    At this moment, a waking voice came from the back. It seemed that Bai Ziming was awake. He might be safe from the poison! Yao Beibei sat up, preparing to untie the rope when she suddenly saw a pool of liquid on Duan Yifeng¡¯s silver sword, which should be her masterpiece. She panicked and wiped it off with her clothes.


    After untying the rope, Bai Ziming walked away from Yao Beibei, but she did not dare to move while sitting on the flying sword, not to mention looking back. She asked facing forward: ¡°Bai Ziming, how are you doing, are you ok? ¡±


    ¡°Much better!¡± Bai Ziming¡¯s voice was a little low, and he sounded a little angry.


    Even if Bai Ziming was angry, Yao Beibei would just ignore it. Last night¡¯s rush, of course, was life and death. How could she afford to consider this and that?


    ¡°It seems that you are all recovering well, and we just arrived!¡± Knowing that the two were awake, Duan Yifeng spoke, his voice was still warm.


    Duan Yifeng commanded the sword to fly into a cloud. Seeing that they were descending and about to land. Su Huarong followed him.


    ¡°This is the Qingfeng Sect?¡± Just after landing, Bai Ziming looked at everything around him and asked in amazement, somewhat joyous.


    Duan Yifeng¡¯s smile narrowed, and he asked casually: ¡°This is indeed the Qingfeng Sect, but I don¡¯t understand why you know about it.¡±


    Su Huarong even clenched his sword and looked at Bai Ziming vigilantly, as if he was admonishing him. If Bai dared to act against the Qingfeng Sect, he would immediately take care of Bai.


    Bai Ziming had recovered his cold face: ¡°My mother used to be a disciple of the Qiandu Taoist of the Qingfeng Sect, and I knew it by ear.¡±


    After hearing this, Yao Beibei finally figured it out. Bai Ziming was also a cultivator. No wonder he was so powerful, and what he was looking for was the Qingfeng Sect. He had found it!


    Duan Yifeng showed his surprise, shook his head slightly at Su Huarong, and his smile came back: ¡°If you are the successor of Master Qiandu, you are one of us. Brother Bai, Miss Yao, please!¡±


    Duan Yifeng put away his sword, and he held up his fingers. A wave of water shot out from his fingertips into the clouds in front of him. A light gate appeared in the heavy mist.


    With Duan Yifeng leading the way, Bai Ziming and Yao Beibei followed closely into the light gate. Su Huarong was at the end, but he stared at Bai Ziming and Yao Beibei like escorting thieves. Yao Beibei was extremely upset. She cursed him many times in her heart.


    When they stepped into the light door, there was another scene. They saw countless mountain peaks, and many peaks seemed to rise into the clouds and disappeared. The white mist lingered between the peaks, as if connecting them. From time to time, white cranes cut through the sky, singing, making them feel as if they were in an ethereal fairyland.


    Breeze passed them by from time to time and refreshed their mind Presumably the name of the sect came from this?


    Duan Yifeng was not surprised by the awe in the eyes of Bai Ziming and Yao Beibei, and smiled: ¡°Brother Bai, Master Qiandu has traveled for many years and hasn¡¯t returned yet. If you are only here for the cultivation, it would be better for me take you to the master with Miss Yao. He will arrange everything, is that all right? ¡±


    ¡°Thank you very much!¡± Bai Ziming didn¡¯t ask who Duan Yifeng¡¯s master was, so bowed with his fists before his chest.


    As for Yao Beibei, she was already fascinated by the scenery in front of her, and she had no response at all. Bai Ziming could not help frowning at her. So weak!

 Chapter 4 - Extraordinary Genius

    Duan Yifeng smiled, and then drew the silver sword again. The silver sword grew to half a meter wide and floated a foot above the ground.


    Bai Ziming took Yao Beibei on Duan Yifeng¡¯s flying sword, who took them to a mountain. Su Huarong¡¯s followed closely behind, but his eyes did not leave Bai Ziming and Yao Beibei.


    After standing on the sword and blown by the cold wind, Yao Beibei finally recovered, and her legs shivered again against her will.


    Bai Ziming was standing in front of her, with no fear of flying at high altitudes. He seemed to enjoy it very much. Yao Beibei dropped all of her dignity and hugged his waist.


    Bai Ziming, who was tightly hugged by Yao Beibei, turned visibly stiff. But it seemed that he was getting used to it, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised. For the past five months, he had been with her, eating and sleeping together, and experienced many things. To him, she was no longer a person who had nothing to do with him.


    Seeing Bai Ziming, who had been as cold as the iceberg, did not resist her ¡°embrace¡±, Yao Beibei couldn¡¯t help but feel overjoyed and relieved. suddenly. It seemed that it was not so terrible to fly so high on a sword!


    The white clouds beneath their feet were misty and mysterious, and countless green peaks flew backward, dazzling and dizzying.


    After flying for a while, Duan Yifeng controlled the flying sword to slowly descend. There was a mountain deep in clouds, tall and towering. Although it was just a mountain, it made people feel a sense of majesty.


    After they walked down from the flying sword, the scenery opened up. The sky was clean and blue like crystal. Peak pierced into the clouds and the sky, like pillar between a heaven and earth , standing tall in the sky, witnessing the passing of years.


    The boundless sky was as clear as the mirror, and the sea of ??clouds floated slightly below it. Looking at this scene, one¡¯s mind would suddenly wide, as if they were just a wandering immortal in the world. Even Yao Beibei, who was mortal at the moment, felt that she seemed to become an omnipotent goddess.


    With just a few more steps, a magnificent and ancient hall rose in front of them. The palace was magnificent, not as brilliant as an earthly hall, but there was an ethereal sense about it. Mist shrouded the hall as it outline became obscure. Cranes flew in the air, singing, circling above the hall. It was an immortal dwelling in the spiritual realm. They stared at it in awe.


    The three golden characters: ¡°Qing Feng Dian¡± (Qingfeng Hall) hang above the hall like three magnificent golden dragons, making the hall even more majestic. This hall is the Qingfeng Hall on the Qingfeng Peak, where Luo Zhi, the head of Qingfeng Sect, resided.


    ¡°Apprentices Duan Yifeng and Su Huarong have returned from defeating the evil python demon, here to greet the master!¡± Duan Yifeng and Su Huarong did not enter Qingfeng Hall, but knelt down outside.


    ¡°Come in!¡± A solemn male voice came out of Qingfeng Hall. The voice was not loud, but it rang like a brass bell, and lingered for a long time.


    Duan Yifeng and Su Huarong got up, and Duan Yifeng continued to report: ¡°Master, my disciple brother and I were helped by two people when we defeated the python demon, thus able to successfully kill it. One of them was an apprentice of Master Qiandao. They wish to enter the Qingfeng Sect. Please help them!¡±


    ¡°Oh? Bring them in first!¡±


    Duan Yifeng heard and rejoiced because his the master didn¡¯t rebuke him for bringing outsiders to the Qingfeng Sect. He turned to Yao Beibei and Bai Ziming and made and inviting gesture. Then he took them into Qingfeng Hall.


    They saw an old man with a white beard sitting in the middle of the main hall. He had a sense of immortality, but his facial expression was extremely serious, which was very different from his approachable appearance. He was Luo Zhi, Chief Master of the Qingfeng Sect.


    ¡°Master, this is the python demon.¡± Duan Yifeng presented a small white bag in his right hand. In it was a small red line, the big red python.


    ¡°Well, you can bring it to Master Mo You!¡± Luo Zhi nodded approvingly to Duan Yifeng, then turned to Bai Ziming: ¡°Child, what¡¯s your name?


    ¡°Bai Ziming!¡± Although Bai Ziming¡¯s expression was still cold, he completely put away his pride and replied to Luo Zhi respectfully.


    Luo Zhiwen nodded, and there was joy in his eyes. At this moment, more than a dozen people appeared in Qingfeng Hall. Those people, male and female, old and young, saluted Luo Zhi one after another, and sat down one by one on the seats placed at both ends of the Qingfeng Hall.


    The originally empty breeze was suddenly filled with people. Yao Beibei felt great pressure. It was just accepting an apprentice, just find someone to take them in and start teaching them. And do these cultivators like to appear suddenly? It¡¯s scary to say the least, and if it wasn¡¯t during the day, she would have thought that she had seen ghosts!


    ¡°Brothers and sisters, this child is named Bai Ziming. His path had crossed Master Qiandao. Unfortunately, Master Qiandao has been traveling for many years and has not returned yet. The child cannot be brought into his care. I wonder which master would like to take this boy in?¡± Luo Zhi smiled a little, but also felt some resentment. If he wasn¡¯t too old, and his time was nearing the end, how could he let such a good apprentice go anywhere else?


    For a moment, everyone was silent, as if they were thinking about something. All eyes tried to see Bai Ziming through. In their eyes, there were surprise and shock, but all of them showed greed, and wanted to take Bai Ziming as their own!


    This blatant greed surprised Yao Beibei, but she was even more perplexed, because the head of the Qingfeng Sect did not even ask her name! So many people came for Bai Ziming, and blatantly ignored her, even if she had nothing to do with it. Why is there such a big difference in treatment?


    The first person sitting on the left side of Luo Zhi looked like an academic. He was in his forties and sturdy. He looked at Bai Ziming up and down and smiled with kind eyes and asked Luo Zhi: ¡°Chief brother, does this child have an ice-type spiritual base? ¡±


    ¡°Disciple brother Moyou, you observed well. This child does possess the ice-type spirit base!¡± Luo Zhi tried to hide his joy, but some of it still came out.


    As soon as this remark was made, the quiet hall suddenly buzzed. Some people touched their chins, some squeezed their fists, some clapped their legs, some scratched their heads, and some clapped their hands. The place sizzled like a frying pan.


    But Yao Beibei didn¡¯t understand. These people are all seniors of the Qingfeng Sect. They had lived so many years. Why are they still babbling like kids?


    Duan Yifeng and Su Huarong, who were standing beside Bai Ziming, were shocked. Yao Beibei didn¡¯t know what the ice base was. They knew very clearly that Bai Ziming was a rare genius in the cultivator realm!


    To verify his speculation for the crowd, Luo Zhi turned his hands and a black stone half a man tall appeared in front of Bai Ziming.


    ¡°Child, you just need to press your hands on this spirit stone!¡± Mo You squinted and said to Bai Ziming with a smile. The kindness in his eyes was like Bai Ziming had already become apprentice. He also had a msug look. He probably wanted to show off such a qualified apprentice to the rest!


    Bai Ziming¡¯s expression was still indifferent. He knew that what this soul-searching stone does: to detect the type of his spirit base. He had seen it before, so he was not surprised.


    Bai Ziming stepped forward calmly, and pressed his hands on the spirit stone. At that instant, the spirit stone suddenly became clear like a beautiful jade, and the watery jade color quickly turned into ice and snow. Pure and white, the snowy light got brighter and brighter. People couldn¡¯t open their eyes. It seemed that the entire Qingfeng Hall was turned into a snow and ice world. The coldness made Yao Beibei shiver.


    ¡°Haha, let me take this child and I will make him my apprentice!¡± A clear male voice came from outside the hall. It was soft yet echoed in the hearts of everyone for a long time.


    At this moment, Yao Beibei was completely unable to stand still, started sweating for no reason, as if she was out of breath.


    The next second, a man in his early thirties appeared in the Qingfeng Hall. The man wore white clothes, with thick eyebrows and shiny eyes, and his face smooth and bright. He looked like a handsome man, this man had an evil grin on his face. He didn¡¯t look like a good person.


    ¡°Grand Elder!¡± As soon as the man appeared, the rest of the Qingling Hall, including Luo Zhi, got up and saluted the man. It seemed that the man was quite distinguished in the Qingfeng Sect, even above the Chief Master.


    This man is Hua Qianqiu, who was the highest elder of Qingfeng Sect. Hua Qianqiu, ignoring the crowd, looked at Bai Ziming lovingly: ¡°Child, what¡¯s your name? how old are you?¡±


    ¡°Bai Ziming, 19 years old!¡± Hua Qianqiu¡¯s pressure was heavy on Bai Ziming. Cold sweat started pouring down his forehead, but he kept standing straight.


    Seeing Bai Ziming¡¯s discomfort Hua Qianqiu realized that just now he only thought about taking in apprentices and never lowered on his own aura. The pressure on Bai Ziming was too great, so he quickly retracted his aura.


    Although he didn¡¯t believe anybody would be willing to let such a disciple defect to another master, Hua Qianqiu felt compelled to ask: ¡°At the age of nineteen, you have already reached the later stage of Jingmai stage. Who was your master?¡±


    ¡°I belong to no sect. Since I was small, I have been learning cultivation according to a tome left by my mother.¡±


    ¡°Haha! It is rare to be able to learn without a teacher at a young age. You will be the fifth disciple of my house!¡± Hua Qianqiu nodded with satisfaction. He was very proud.

 Chapter 5 - Beginner Days

    Upon hearing this, Bai Ziming stepped forward immediately, kneeling respectfully before Hua Qianqiu, and bowed three times: ¡°Apprentice Bai Ziming greets his master!¡±


    The rest of the people in the Qingfeng Hall looked very disappointed, especially Mo You, who had previously thought that Bai Ziming was his disciple. With a black and green face, he had to congratulate: ¡°Congratulations to the elder for another apprentice!¡±


    Hua Qianqiu did not mind the ugly faces, but enjoyed it, and his became even more smug. Such a pure ice-type spirit base was simply a cultivating genius. Anybody would be a fool if he or she did not take him in!


    Bai Ziming looked at Hua Qianqiu, and for the first time softness appeared on his face: ¡°Master, there is a companion I have known a young age, I implore the master to bring her in as well!¡±


    Yao Beibei¡¯s spirit lifted. A lie really needed countless lies to cover up. To win over the sympathy of Duan Yifeng, she lied that she had grown up with Bai Ziming. She didn¡¯t expect the unconscious Bai Ziming would hear her words, and helped her cover it up.


    ¡°Oh?¡± Hua Qianqiu looked quite happy because he acquired a talented apprentice. If she was his companion, her talents should be also good, right?


    But when he saw Yao Beibei next to Bai Ziming, Hua Qianqiu wrinkled his eyebrows. How did such a crude, dull girl knew his genius apprentice?


    Yao Beibei ignored Guan Qianqian and turned her attention towards the spirit testing stone. It looks very magical. He curiously learned the previous Bai Ziming¡¯s appearance and put his hands flat on the spirit stone.


    Five rays of yellow, green, blue, red, and black light shone on the spirit stone. It looked dazzling and bright. Yao Beibei¡¯s heart was filled with joy. She seemed to have some kind of spirit base, so beautiful. It should be better than Bai Ziming¡¯s?


    Seeing Hua Qianqiu¡¯s constipated face, Yao Beibei already knew she was wrong. Is she destined to not become a genius?


    Bai Ziming¡¯s face was also a bit disappointed. After being together for so many days, he felt that Yao Beibei was quite intelligent, and her base should be good. But he never thought that her base was so poor that it¡¯s almost a useless omni-type base!


    The rest of the Qingfeng Hall was also surprised because things changed too fast. These people opened their mouths and widened their eyes, looking very odd.


    Mo You was the only person red with excited, and but nobody knew what he was happy about: ¡°Grand elder, this girl¡¯s base is balanced, and none of the five elements is lacking! They all say that good things come in pairs. With this double fortitude, you still take this girl under your seat! ¡±


    Luo Zhi and the rest of the Qingfeng Hall only coughed a few times and did not express any opinions at all.


    Hua Qianqiu glared at Mo You, his mouth twitched, his eyes jumped. Today he took in a rare talented disciple, which is good, but this girl who came with him was really talentless for cultivation! If he took this girl, the old scoundrels would never stop making fun of him.


    But this girl grew up with his precious apprentice, and it looks like they went thousands of miles together before they reached the Qingfeng Sect. If he didn¡¯t accept this girl, maybe his genius apprentice would be displeased. What should he do? Accept her or not?


    After thinking about it for a while, Hua Qianqiu finally gritted his teeth and said, ¡°Girl, because fate has brought us together, from now on you are a nominal apprentice under my seat, but you have to pass the entry test. If you can reach the Foundation Condensation period, I will accept you as a disciple! ¡±


    Seeing Hua Qianqiu¡¯s mouth full of white teeth, Yao Beibei shivered. Is this master trying to eat her? A nominal apprentice is an apprentice after all For her, if there was a place to stay and learn something useful, she wouldn¡¯t mind that at all!


    ¡°Apprentice Yao Beibei greets the master!¡± Yao Beibei also bowed three times in front of Hua Qianqiu, just like Bai Ziming.


    Hua Qianqiu waved her off and turned to Bai Ziming: ¡°Ziming, I will return to Qianqiu Peak. Be sure to study the fundamentals in your basic training. After you have passed the entrance assessment, come to Qianqiu Peak as soon as possible!¡±


    ¡°Yes, Master!¡± after Bai Ziming responded, Hua Qianqiu didn¡¯t even look at Yao Beibei. He turned into a pale green light, disappeared from the Qingfeng hall, and turned into a small green spot on the horizon.


    After seeing him leave, Luo Zhi coughed a few times and turned to Duan Yifeng: ¡°Yifeng, please take care of Bai Ziming and Yao Beibei. Remember to send them as soon as possible After the entrance assessment, send them to Qianqiu peak!¡±


    ¡°Yes, master!¡± Duan Yifeng gave the small bag with the big red python to Su Huarong, and walked to Bai Ziming and Yao Beibei with a smile on his face.


    Bai Ziming and Yao Beibei bowed to Luo Zhi and others, and came out of Qingfeng Hall with Bai Ziming.


    Once they got out of the Qingfeng Temple, Duan Yifeng and Bai Ziming walked along the side of Qingfeng Peak. There were many neat and clean stone steps here, all the way down to the mountain. It was specially designed for apprentices who couldn¡¯t fly a sword yet.


    Because they already knew Duan Yifeng before, Yao Beibei had a great affection for him, she immediately started talking with a smile: ¡°Since we come from the same generation, can I just call you Brother Duan?¡±


    Duan Yifeng nodded: ¡°Well, your master is the highest in the Qingfeng Sect, and he is also the grand elder with the highest authority. Although the elder is high in rank, his seniority is the same level as my master, so you can call me an apprentice brother.¡±


    Knowing that she finally had a place to settle down, Yao Beibei¡¯s heart blossomed with glee and she could finally think about other things. With Bai Ziming her lucky star, she could finally live in peace!


    It was too dark last night, and today she was enjoying the beautiful scenery. Until now, Yao Beibei had never noticed Duan Yifeng¡¯s face. His face was as bright as jade, his eyebrows were deteremined, and his eyes and mouth were always smiling. Warm, with a sense of reliability in his handsomeness.


    Compared to Bai Ziming¡¯s appearance, Duan Yifeng wasn¡¯t as handsome. Even so, he was still a charming man. And there was a unique contagiousness to him. When people see him, they seem to be involuntarily attracted to him.


    ¡°Brother Duan, how old are you?¡±


    ¡°Huh?¡± Duan Yifeng seemed unable to grasp the sharp change in Yao Beibei¡¯s question.


    ¡°Let me pay my respects first, I¡¯m fourteen years old this year!¡± Yao Beibei had been looking for her most beautiful feature for the past few months, and finally she found that she actually had really white and beautiful teeth. So she smiled, revealing a bright landscape in her mouth.


    ¡°I¡¯m twenty-five years old this year, Sister Yao, you have started to practice at a very late time. You must train hard in the future to make up for the late start!¡± Duan Yifeng said, and combed Yao Beibei¡¯s messy hair.


    ¡°Well, Brother Duan, I will work hard!¡± Yao Beibei smiled sweetly. So all the cultivators looked so young, he looked like he was only 19 years old! Could she become an immortal after she became pretty?


    Seeing Yao Beibei, who had always been following him, now sticking to Duan Yifeng like honey, Bai Ziming dismissed his lips, kept a cold face, and followed them silently.


    Duan Yifeng took Yao Beibei and Bai Ziming to the registration office to register. They each received a set of Qingfeng Sect uniform, some jade slips for cultivation, an identity jade talisman, and a black storage bag, a small blue sword, a futon made of unknown materials, and a bottle of elixir. These were the welcoming gifts for every disciple of the Qingfeng Sect.


    ¡°Brother Duan, where do we usually go for dinner?¡± Yao Beibei hugged the pile of things and followed Duan Yifeng. She hadn¡¯t eaten anything since last night and she was hungry.


    ¡°The Qingfeng Sect has a special dining room. You can go to eat anytime with your identity talisman. You can find maps of the Qingfeng Sect in the books you¡¯re carrying. Some disciples would also make their own maps of the mountain peaks.¡± Duan Yifeng explained to Yao Beibei¡¯s question tirelessly. She felt very good.


    Yao Beibei took out a jade slip that looks like an album. The reason she was not sure was that the characters on the cover were neither simplified nor traditional characters. Perhaps this typeface has appeared in Chinese history. However, she had no way of knowing this as she was history illiterate.


    Turning over this album, she could clearly see the places, but Yao Beibei was completely incapable of telling the directions. Plus the words she couldn¡¯t read, she head got even bigger.


    Yao Beibei blushed and took the album to Duan Yifeng: ¡°Brother Duan, I don¡¯t know the words¡­¡±


    Although her appearance was not attractive, Yao Beibei knew that her voice was definitely sweet, soft and absolutely girlish!


    Duan Yifeng took the album and pointed it out to Yao Beibei with a gentle voice: ¡°Look, we are located outside the registration room. We are where blue light is. If you point the place you want to go, wait for the red light spot to appear, then a path will show. The place we first started was Qingfeng Peak, here is the dining room¡­ ¡±


    Duan Yifeng¡¯s finger touched the album, and a red dot appeared near the place marked as Qingfeng Peak, and a thick black line appeared between the dots, which is exactly the way they just came.


    The album astounded Yao Beibei, and lights came out of her eyes. She also realized that her common sense in cultivation was extremely lacking, so she decided to ask Duan Yifeng all the questions.

 Chapter 6 - Cultivation Quesetions

    ¡°Brother Duan, what is spirit base?¡±


    ¡°The spiritual base is a substance that exists in the human body. With a spiritual base, mortals can cultivate and become immortals. Some people¡¯s spiritual bases exist in the meridians, some people exist in the flesh and blood, and some people exist in the bone marrow. But after cultivating, Lingji will be transferred to Dantian, and its location will not change any more. ¡±


    ¡°Brother Duan, isn¡¯t the ice-based spirit base the best?¡± Yao Beibei didn¡¯t forget what happened in the Qingfeng Hall. Those Qingeng Sect seniors looked at Bai Ziming like a treasure.


    Duan Yifeng probably guessed what Yao Beibei wanted to know, and explained with a smile: ¡°The spirit base has five element types, the basic five types are: gold, wood, water, fire and earth, and ice, wind and thunder are three variant types. The fewer the spirit base types, the faster the cultivation speed, especially variant spirit base types. However, single-attribute spirit base can at most practice two kinds of types. For example, the ice spirit base of brother Bai, his cultivation speed is extremely fast, but he can only cultivate ice and water types, because the ice spirit base is a variation of the water spirit base. And sister Yao, with your five elements spirit base, you can practice eight types: gold, wood, water, fire, earth, ice, wind and thunder, which means you canuse eight spells! ¡±


    While Yao Beibei and Duan Yifeng were talking, Bai Ziming¡¯s mouth twitched in disdain as Duan flattered the useless five element base. This Duan Yifeng really was crafty! But Yao Beibei was really stupid and idiot too. This common sense was not only known to Duan Yifeng, yet she smiled at Duan Yifeng like a flower. How short-sighted!


    After hearing this, Yao Beibei finally sweetly smiled: ¡°Brother Duan, when will I be able to fly with a sword like you?¡±


    ¡°Cultivation is divided into five stages: Meridian Cleansing, Foundation Establishment, Gold Core, Nascent Soul, and Immortal Transformation. Each stage is divided into three periods: early, middle, and late, and each period is divided into 4 stages: early, middle, late and perfection. To fly a sword, you must reach the medium-level of the later period of Meridian Cleansing stage. Sister Yao, if you want to fly a sword, you must do well! ¡±


    ¡°Yeah!¡± Yao Beibei nodded hard, and already began to fantasize sword flying with Brother Duan, but she suddenly thought of an important question: ¡°Brother Duan, if I practice, will I become beautiful and live forever? ¡±


    This was really a very serious question. In her previous life, Yao Beibei had been a 20-year-old girl. She was not a peerless beauty, but her appearance was definitely better than average. Unfortunately, she was transported to another world and became an ugly girl. She¡¯s even guessing her age!


    Her current body was severely malnourished, with thin arms and legs, no chest, no butts, flat both front and back. Her skin was yellow and rough. Her eyebrows were sparse, and her eyelashes were so short they¡¯re almost invisible. Her eyes were large but dull. Only her nose looked okay. Her mouth was delicate, but its color was blue and black, like she was poisoned. Short yellow hair grew on her head like a living bird¡¯s nest, Yao Beibei seriously doubted that if she leaned quietly on a tree,  a bird might land on her head and settle down.


    Fortunately, this appearance had just passed on. In the last five months, through good diet and rest, all kinds of bad features on her body had been improved, but she only looked a little better than before! Is there any girl who didn¡¯t want to be beautiful? The difference between before and after the transportation was so big, it became her chronic headache!


    After hearing Yao Beibei¡¯s question about her looks, Duan Yifeng, who had been answering quickly, suddenly hesitated. After thinking about it for a long time, he replied: ¡°When you cultivate, you will be able to induce spirit power into your body, and you will gradually discharge the impurities from your body. Therefore, your skin and physique will be better. As for your lifespan, Meridian Cleansing is 100 years, Foundation Establishment is 200 years, Gold Core is 500 years, Nascent Soul is 2000 years, and Immortal Transformation grants you immortality. As for aging, cultivator are not prone to aging. If you take some elixir or cultivate some special exercises, you can keep your face from aging.


    Yao Beibei was very satisfied with Duan Yifeng¡¯s answer. She almost jumped forward and hugged him for a few kisses. She was so frightening that Duan Yifeng retreated a few steps, and his smile on his face became frozen.


    But Yao Beibei didn¡¯t care. She was really happy, because as long as she cultivated, she could become beautiful and she could live forever, hahaha!


    Bai Ziming kept his face cold and silent, glaring at Yao Beibei who was laughing at Duan Yifeng and smiling like a madwoman. He wished he could freeze her with his eyes, so that she could stop acting like an idiot.


    It turns out that Duan Yifeng¡¯s mind was very strong. He recovered in a few seconds. Then he took Yao Beibei and Bai Ziming, and went to common places such as the Library and the Pharmacy to help them know their way around. At Yao Beibei¡¯s request, they went to see the arena as well.


    Slowly, it turned dusk and it was just time for dinner, so Duan Yifeng took Yao Beibei and Bai Ziming to the dining room again.


    The dining room was very spacious and could accommodate 10,000 people at the same time. The roof was inlaid with many glittering beads, which illuminated the dining room brightly.


    Actually using a night pearl as a bulb, so extravagant! Yao Beibei could not help but tutted.


    There were many tables and chairs neatly arranged in the dining room, most of which were tables for four, and there were also round tables that can seat more than ten people at the same time. These tables and chairs were made of dark red wood and looked strong and durable.


    There are a lot of Qingfeng disciples who came to the dining room to eat. There were thousands of people. Each of these disciples held a dinner plate in their hands. It was made of jade, and there are several compartments for different food. Dinner plates were distributed at the door, which reminded Yao Beibei of her university cafeteria.


    Yao Beibei had learned the formulas and methods of using storage bags, but she was still a mortal now and could not use storage bags, so she could only put her things in Bai Ziming¡¯s storage bag first.


    Bai Ziming had taken out his and Yao Beibei¡¯s plate from the storage bag and handed it to her, and Duan Yifeng also took out his plate.


    The dishes were made of all the most common greens, cabbages, potatoes, eggplants, beans, etc. But compared to what she saw at Baozhimen, the color of the food was many times better, and also had a unique fragrance. They were no ordinary dishes.


    The rice was crystal clear, more than twice as large as the rice grains that Yao Beibei ever knew. She could smell the sweet rice scent from a distance. Yao Beibei sniffed and swallowed heavily .


    ¡°Today I turned my luck around in the Qingfeng sect. At noon, Brother Duan gave only one piece of Food Pill. I am starving to death! I have to have some good food to eat!¡± Yao Beibei thought to herself, After wandering around the dining room, she got a plate full of food and came to the table where Duan Yifeng and Bai Ziming were seated.


    When they saw Yao Beibei¡¯s dinner plate, which had doubled the amount of food they had, not only Duan Yifeng, but even Bai Ziming looked at her incredulously. If Yao Beibei was beautiful, maybe this was justifed. Did all the chefs in this catering room have such a deviant taste, like this yellow, ugly, dry, obviously malnourished girl?


    ¡°Huh, what do you guys know. This is a secret! I need to eat more, get better nutrition, and become beautiful!¡± Bai Ziming and Duan Yifeng looked at her like she was a monster, Yao Beibei was not happy. She picked up a large piece of meat with her chopsticks and stuffed it into her mouth. While chewing it fiercely, she stared at them both in an angry gaze.


    Duan Yifeng coughed, and ate the food on his plate in silence, while Bai Ziming¡¯s face was indifferent, as if he hadn¡¯t seen or heard anything.


    Yao Beibei knew her table manners and ate like a lady later on. Either she was hungry, or the food was so good because the Qingfeng Sect, as a cultivation school, had abundant spiritual power or because there were two beautiful boys sitting next to her, Yao Beibei had a great meal.


    After dinner, Duan Yifeng took Yao Beibei and Bai Ziming to their lodgings. Since the general admissions was already over, a total of only 23 people joined the introductory training for beginners. These rooms were only used for new disciples to take the introductory training, so there were many rooms. Each of the 23 people was given a single bedroom.


    In one day, Duan Yifeng had told almost everything that he could to Bai Ziming and Yao Beibei, and even answered many strange questions from Yao Beibei, such as what you like to eat, what color do you like, and so on.


    Duan Yifeng, who has been cultivating in the Qingfeng Sect since he was a child, had a simple mind and knew that Yao Beibei suffered a lot and felt sympathy for her. How could he know how many thoughts were in that girl¡¯s mind?


    After accomodating Bai Ziming and Yao Beibei, Duan Yifeng stood up and left, and in Yao Beibei¡¯s reluctant eyes, he flew away on a sword.


    The Qingfeng Sect had rules that new disciples must participate in a three-month introductory training and pass the assessment before they could return to the mountain and cultivated with their assigned master.


    The so-called introductory training was to learn the history of the immortal world, the history of the Qingfeng Sect, and some basic knowledge of cultivation and the five elements of magic.


    These contents were all in the books distributed by the sect. Anyone can read them at any time. If she didn¡¯t understand, there would be Brother Duan, Bai Ziming, and the teacher as well!


    Yao Beibei was very satisfied with the introductory training. These knowledge and skills would very useful for her, a cultivation beginner!


    Yao Beibei was determined. Within three months, she must study hard and train rigorously! She wanted to be beautiful, fly with her sword, and will live forever. She also wanted to follow the steps of Brother Duan!


    Yao Beibei suddenly realized that she had forgot to ask Brother Duan which cultivation stage he was at, Oh no!

 Chapter 7 - Close Call

    Forgetting the sadness of not asking Duan Yifeng¡¯s practice level, Yao Beibei sat at the table worried. Because she just realized that there was no bathhouse in Qingfeng Sect, and there was no place to bathe.


    Yao Beibei remembered that after eating in the dining room, Duan Yifeng and Bai Ziming both used cleaning spells to clean their dinner plates. Taking a bath could be done with only one cleaning spell? The spell was not a problem, Yao Beibei was a mortal and cleaning spell was no use at all!


    For the past five months in this strange world, they had been fleeing. Bai Ziming was always beside her. Yao Beibei had never taken a nice bath. It was summer, and if she couldn¡¯t take a bath for the next three months, she could imagine grass growing all over her body.


    If there was bathhouse, look for a lake, a river, or a stream! Yao Beibei opened the album that she found today, and found a lake called Blue Lake very close to her!


    So Yao Beibei grabbed the only small tub in the room, put her new uniform and the identity jade in it, and hummed her way to the Blue Lake.


    The Qingfeng Sect was sparsely populated, and Yao Beibei lived in a sparsely populated area. Only new disciples would live here when they were in introductory training. On the way, Yao Beibei did not meet anyone.


    The water of Blue Lake was extremely clear, but she couldn¡¯t tell how deep it was. Yao Beibei wondered if the kitchen used the water of Blue Lake when they cook.


    Yao Beibei did not jump into the blue lake with a splash, and it was not the best if she bathed in the open air for too long. If anyone saw her, it would be miserable. She decided to carry some water in the small tub and wash herself instead.


    The idea was good, but there were difficulties when she tried. Yao Beibei found that the tub was very weird. It looked like an ordinary tub, but she was unable to fill it. It seemed that only a little bit of water was in the tub, and the weight had already exceeded her ability to carry it.


    It was difficult to lift the tub out of the blue lake. It seemed that there was only water at the bottom of the tub, but it already took all of Yao Beibei¡¯s strength to carry it. Trembling, she took it to the big stone she was going to wash behind. .


    Bonk! As soon as she was about to place the tub on the big rock, Yao Beibei suddenly slipped on her feet, tub fell to the ground, and she hit the big rock.


    A stream of warmth flowed from her forehead to her eyebrow. Yao Beibei guessed that she broke her forehead and was just about to get up. She suddenly felt a strange sensation coming from the eyebrow. That moment, there seemed to be countless hot needles going through her. The crazy heat and the extremely inside her body, and she screamed in pain, terrified!


    Because of the strange white light from the previous life fell into her eyebrow, and after such pain, she was here! The pain became more intense, almost break hering head!


    For a moment, Yao Beibei had an unbearable headache, and was holding her head in pain on the grass. She thought that Brother Duan her a piece of jade for protection. The jade talisman could be used to ask for help. She remembered that she had just added Brother Duan and Bai Ziming as contacts. She grabbed her identity jade on her clothes: ¡°Disciple brother, save me¡­ Save me¡­¡±


    After saying this, Yao Beibei passed out in pain. The wound on her forehead was not serious, but the blood kept flowing into her eyebrow.


    Her eyebrow gradually turned into a bright blood red, bulging and rolling, as if it was sucking Yao Beibei¡¯s blood, like it was a life and breathing.


    At this moment, millions of miles away, people in several different places across this world opened their eyes instantly. Their eyes were full of anger, because they felt that somebody was actually offering sacrifice to that treasure!


    But when they were about to act, all traces of that treasure suddenly disappeared, and they could no longer be found!


    The fainted Yao Beibei became paler and paler as the blood flowed into her brows. When her face was almost bloodless, the thing between her brows stopped sucking, and the wound on her forehead suddenly disappeared. The surface gradually exuded a layer of black sticky substance, exuding a foul odor.


    When Duan Yifeng received Yao Beibei¡¯s distress message, he flew his sword to the Blue Lake immediately. Yao Beibei was completely covered by the dark substance, like a large black cocoon, lying unconscious by the lake. In the night, she was difficult to find.


    ¡°Sister Yao, sister Yao!¡± Duan Yifeng knew it was Yao Beibei by her identity jade, and helped her put away the messy uniform and the tub that was tumbling on the ground.


    After looking for a long time by the Blue Lake, Duan Yifeng finally found Yao Beibei.


    Yao Beibei who was tightly wrapped in the black sticky substance, Duan Yifeng frowned. What kind of cultivation did Yao Shimei practice? How could her body produce so many impurities? What danger did she encounter to ask for help?


    After performing a cleaning spell to clean up Yao Beibei, Duan Yifeng realized that she had no wounds on her body, but she was clearly unconscious due to blood loss. Her face was pale as paper, her body felt weak, her pulse felt weak, and she was seriously injured!


    ¡°I must save sister Yao first!¡± For a while Duan Yifeng couldn¡¯t figure out what was happening, so he picked up her, summoned his flying sword, and flew her to her residence.


    Bai Ziming hurried to the Blue Lake as well. He had just got to the mountain road leading to Blue Lake when he saw a shadow of a sword passing through the air. The person he held was Yao Beibei.


    Seeing that Duan Yifeng had rescued Yao Beibei, Bai Ziming was slightly relieved, and suddenly thought that she had always called him by name, never called him a disciple brother.  He laughed at himself for meddling and turned back.


    A room in the Qingfeng Sect.


    Putting Yao Beibei on the bed gently, Duan Yifeng took out a yellow elixir from a jade bottle, fed her, and pulled a blanket over her.


    After feeling the pulse of Yao Beibei, Duan Yifeng could not help but think ¡°She was badly injured. I have to wait for her to wake up! Sister Yao suffered a lot of hardships in her life. She almost lost her life many times and came to Qingfeng Sect. We shouldn¡¯t let her get into trouble! She slept without changing, and it was an emergency. Surely the master would not blame me! ¡±


    When Bai Ziming returned from the Blue Lake, he saw Yao Beibei¡¯s door half open, and wanted to see her, but the thought of Duan Yifeng in her room brought up an inexplicable anger in his heart, and he returned sulkily back to his own room.


    After a while, Yao Beibei woke up, and at a first glance she saw Duan Yifeng, who was beside her. He was a sweet heart, and made Yao Beibei forget the pain, ¡°Brother Duan.¡±


    Duan Yifeng, who was guarding Yao Beibei while meditating, was awakened by Yao Beibei. He got up and felt her pulse, and found that she was no longer in trouble. Then he asked, ¡°Sister Yao, why did you run out alone at night? Going to the Blue Lake? What dangers did you encounter at the Blue Lake? ¡±


    On hearing that, Yao Beibe flushed and whispered, ¡°I want to take a bath, but the tub was too heavy after being filled with water. I couldn¡¯t carry it, so I hit a stone and cut my corehead.¡±


    Duan Yifeng couldn¡¯t help but feel guilty. He forgot that Yao Beibei was just a mortal and could not use cleaning spells. He also forgot to tell her that the tub was a low-level space treature and could hold a lot of water.


    But when he thought about Yao Beibei¡¯s words, Duan Yifeng¡¯s face turned redder than her. He entered Qingfeng Sect from an early age. Although he did not experience the relationship between men and women, he still knew the taboo between men and women.


    In order to cover up the embarrassment, Duan Yifeng coughed a few times, and pass a handful of engraved papers and a jade bottle to Yao Beibei: ¡°Sister Yao, these are cleaning spells. If necessary, use one on your body. It¡¯s basic, so you could only use each once. I just gave you Mind-strengthening pill. As long as you get a good night¡¯s sleep, you would be fine. There is another one in this jade bottle. Eat it tomorrow. It¡¯s getting late. Have a good rest. Remember to bring a book to class tomorrow! ¡±


    Before Yao Beibei could say anything else, Duan Yifeng quickly opened the door and fled into the night on his sword.


    Yao Beibei held the cleaning spells and looked at Duan Yifeng¡¯s disappearing figure. She found it really funny. The ancient people were conservative, but Brother Duan was so considerate and cute!


    Thinking of this, Yao Beibei suddenly felt guilty. Why did she feel that she had become a lewd girl joking about a beautiful boy who was so ignorant of sex?


    Yao Beibei suddenly wanted to cultivate quickly. She could accompany Brother Duan flying on a sword, soaring between the heavens and the earth. But she didn¡¯t want to scare him, she decided to bury this ¡°lewd¡± thought in her heart first.


    After putting away that stack of cleansing spells and jade bottle, Yao Beibei still didn¡¯t walk out of the shadows of the headache. The feeling of death was really terrifying! Fortunately, she wouldn¡¯t be teleported to another world again. Brother Duan appeared in time to save her. Seeing her uniform and identity jade sitting neatly beside the bed, and she was clean and refreshed, she guessed that it was Duan Yifeng¡¯s who did it, and felt sweetness in her heart.


    At this moment Yao Beibei suddenly remembered that Bai Ziming didn¡¯t even try to save her! She was in a hurry at that time, and only had Bai Ziming and Brother Duan as contacts. To make sure that at least one person would save her, she called both of them, but she did not expect ¡­


    ¡°That abominable Bai Ziming, is that what he does after we have known each other for so long, and been through so much together? It was really cold! Ice cold! That mongrel!¡± Yao Beibei thought angrily. Bai Ziming suddenly sneezed in another room.


    At night, when people were sleeping and everything was quiet, the area between Yao Beibei¡¯s eyebrows was covered by a layer of brilliant white light. The light gradually covered her whole body, shining yellow, green, blue, red, and black colors appeared in the air. The lights went into in her body.

 Chapter 8 - The Gossip Spirit

    The next morning, Yao Beibei was awakened by crisp bells that suddenly rang in the room, but found that her body was dark, slimy, and stinking again. She frowned because she did not know how there were so many dirty things on her body. Brother Duan helped her cleanse her body, and the climate here was great. It was not hot at all in summer, and she even needed a blanket at night! Even if she sweated in the heat, it wouldn¡¯t make her so dirty!


    She wondered what happened to her body for a while, and remembered that the bell was just a wake-up call for the new disciples who needed to go to the introductory training. Yao Beibei found a cleaning charm and patted it on her body and was refreshed. Hey, cleaning charms were really easy to use!


    The first day of the training was history class. In order to survive in this world, Yao Beibei paid attention to history class for the first time in so many years. Instead, she listened with interest and felt that the white-bearded history teacher was very wise.


    What Yao Beibei didn¡¯t expect was that gossip spread everywhere. Even the cultivators was no exception! Yesterday she and Bai Ziming were accepted by Hua Qianqiu master, and it had spread throughout the Qingfeng Sect!


    Because during the class, there were a bunch of girls in the classroom talking about her, saying that such an ugly girl, how could she become an apprentice of a Qingfeng Sect elder, the dog will have its dog, etc.


    The bunch of girls surrounded a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl. The girl was as white as snow, with red lips and white teeth. Unlike the other girls whose hair were tied into a neat ponytail, her hair was done in a delicate bun with a jade hairpin. Five thumb-sized red beads were laid on it, shining brightly, covering her entire body like a burning flame. Although she was wearing a white uniform of the Qingfeng Sect, she looked extremely enchanting, gorgeous, and attractive. If she was a few more years older, she¡¯d become a stunning beauty that could take over the country and the people.


    The young girl was surrounded by five or six girls of the same age, like moon surrounded by stars. Her sleek eyebrows were raised, showing an arrogant attitude, and looked at Yao Beibei with animosity: ¡°How did you qualify? I thought somebody was so worthy that she had the honor to study under the elder. Turns out she is such a useless piece of trash, such an ugly girl! I don¡¯t know what you did. It must be really hard to imagine! ¡±


    After the girl finished speaking, the entire classroom exploded, and all eyes fell on Yao Beibei, talking about her, and some boys were even exaggerating, saying that they would cover their eyes in class in the future, which made everybody laugh.


    Yao Beibei knew that this girl should be coming from an aristocratic family, but she also knew that everyone who came to the Qingfeng School was equal regardless of their status in the world. If that girl wanted to bully with her identity, she was really mistaken. Yao Beibei was from another world!


    Yao Beibei looked down at her book, and pretended to speak to herself: ¡°The cultivation world is subtle. How can shallow people find it? How could ordinary people understand what the elder is thinking? Only those with dubious intentions will think that everyone in the world was the same! ¡±


    ¡°Presumptuous!¡± The young girl blurted, the blue tendons on her forehead suddenly burst out, and all the supporters around her were frightened. The lively classroom turned nstantly silent and turned her eyes to this girl.


    An 18 or 19 year-old boy spoke slowly at this moment: ¡°Princess Muxue, it is fate that we are gathered here. Just accept it!¡±


    A snow-white jade hairpin held his black hair on the top of his head, and a white jade folding fan was in his hand. The boy seemed elegant and charming. He had a noble air around him, just like Yuan Muxue. It seems that in the world where he came from, he was also an aristocrat. When he talked, although he looked like he was smiling, his eyes were cold unlike the boys his age, and sent chills down everyone¡¯s spines.


    ¡°Prince Longtian, it¡¯s not your turn to talk! But if I remember correctly, it seems that the elders haven¡¯t selected you. Maybe your Jinglong Kingdom was just so-so!¡± Yuan Muxue¡¯s anger was redirected to this boy, as if she could shoot fire from her eyes.


    Longtian¡¯s face was also green and held the white jade fan tightly. His eyes were dark without any respect for the opposite sex. He wanted to swallow the Yuan Muxue in one bite.


    Yao Beibei had it figured out. These two people, one was a princess and the other was a prince. They were from two fighting countries. They both wanted to learn from her master Hua Qianqiu. Unfortunately, he rejected them, so they treated her as a speck in the eye and wished to remove her.


    Everyone could see that they were venomous snakes who could not be trusted. This was the first time that Yao Beibei thought highly of the unscrupulous master Hua Qianqiu! But knowing that Ziming was his real apprentice, they went for me, a nominal apprentice. Yes, they were picking on somebody less in size.


    The Qingfeng Sect rules said that disciples must not fight without approval. Violators, regardless of their status, will be held responsible and the worst violators will be evicted. However, there were exceptions to everything, and these rules were always ignored by special people on some special occasions.


    However, in the classroom before the eyes of everyone, neither Yuan Muxue nor Long Tian would make a scene. Although their faces were very angry at the moment, no one moved. Their four eyes met, and it felt like electricity were crackling and sparks were burning.


    At this moment, the white beard who taught history, came into the class with a book. Yuan Yuanxue and Long Tian, ??who were upset, sat down indignantly, but looked at Yao Beibei coldly as they both sat down.


    Yao Beibei¡¯s heart was full of bitterness. It seems that she was ambushed by two snakes at the same time. Occasional quarrels aside, she didn¡¯t have time to deal with them. She had to practice hard! The master was unwilling to accept them as apprentices, so it must be their own problems. Instead, they were blaming others while making a scene. Hopefully these baddies could get what they deserve!


    The first day of history lesson was over. Yao Beibei finally learnt that this strange world was composed of four continents: Tianluo continent, Wuji continent, Jingyue continent, and Zhenwu continent.


    Tianluo continent was a relatively barren place compared to the other four continents. Few foreign cultivators came here. The Qingfeng Sect was located in the northwest of Tianluo continent, and its land were even more barren. There were fewer and fewer foreign immigrants. Therefore, the Qingfeng School had always been peaceful and undisturbed.


    In the northwest of the Tianluo continent, other than Qingfeng sect, there were four cultivation sects: the Shengxing Sect, the Xuanyun Sect, the Shuiyue Sect, and the Wuding sect. Among the five major sect, Shengxing Sect was the most powerful, Xuan Yun Sect was the second, and Qingfeng Sect and Shuiyue Sect were equal in strength. Wuding Sect was the weakest force.


    However, each of the five major sect had its own secret weapon, with Nascent Soul cultivators defending them, so they have always been safe and sound. On the surface, everything was peaceful, only small fights would break out every now and then.


    The Qingfeng Sect had been existing for more than 3,000 years, so it was still a cultivation sect with a long history.


    The first day of the morning class taught her a lot, which should be good, but Yao Beibei was quite depressed because Bai Ziming didn¡¯t wait for her at lunch! Although her dinner plate was placed in the drawer of the desk, she could not use the storage bag. She had to carry the dinner plate to the dining room, and her classmates followed her all the way to make fun of her!


    By the end of the afternoon class, Yao Beibei wanted to ask Bai Ziming to have dinner together, but she couldn¡¯t find him.


    Yao Beibei gritted her teeth angrily, and stomped her way out of the classroom. Yesterday she was injured and he didn¡¯t come rescue her. She was still angry, but now Bai Ziming actually ignored her. It was really abominable action and irritating!


    ¡°Sister Yao, I think you are so smart and work so hard, you could definitely pass the entrance exam after three months, right?¡± Yao Beibei outside the classroom, holding a dinner plate, cursing Bai Ziming in her heart. Someone slowly approached from behind her, and she shivered, it was that Long Tian!


    ¡°Brother Long, I am ungifted, so I just want to be able to make up for it with hard work.  As for the entry test, I will try my best!¡± He seemed to approach her with good intentions, and Yao Beibei did not want to keep him far away.


    ¡°Oh, you work so hard! I think you will be within the fifty percent!¡± playing with his white jade fan, Long Tian smiled and it felt like the spring breeze.


    ¡°Fifty percent?¡± Yao Beibei raised her eyebrows, obviously not understanding what Long Tian meant.


    ¡°So you didn¡¯t know. Since the founding of Qingfeng Sect, the pass rate of each new class was only 50%!¡± Long Tian blinked and laughed harmlessly.


    Yao Beibei was dumbfounded. There was only one day of history class and she remembered everything. However, the subsequent trainings were all about learning spell. She couldn¡¯t do it with just a good memory. Among the 23 people in the new class, Yao Beibei was the only one who was a true mortal. These people had been cultivating and reached the early stages of Jingmai realm and could cast a few spells to say the least. Much better than what she could do.


    In the last 20 years, Yao Beibei had not studied martial arts in her life. She had no physical foundation for cultivation, and her spiritual base was still the worst five elemental type. It should take considerable effort to cultivate and catch up with others. If the pass rate of the entrance examination was really only 50%, how can she be counted in the qualified half?

 Chapter 9 - Night after Day

    Yao Beibei still remembered what Hua Qianqiu said when he accepted her. He said that she would not be regarded as one of his nominal disciples until she passed the entrance test, and he would not accept her as an in-house disciple until the Foundation establishment period!


    At the time, Yao Beibei thought that the entrance examination was very simple, just to see the effect of the introductory training. Maybe if she just studied hard and practice, she would definitely pass, so she did not take this entrance test seriously.


    Yao Beibei suddenly remembered that although Long Tian and Yuan Muxue had been hostile to her, their expressions were actually smug and ridiculing. They must have expected her not to pass the entrance examination! And the reason Long Tian was so diligent in telling her the pass rate of the entrance examination was that he wanted to test her and personally determine whether his judgment was correct!


    ¡°Woohoo ¡­ how can you do this! Long Tian, you mean man ¡­¡± Cursing Long Tian countless times in her heart, , Yao Beibei fled like a ghost. She was going to find Bai Ziming to help her practice!


    As soon as Yao Beibei lifted her foot, she heard that Long Tian was laughing behind her, with utter presumptuousness and abomination.


    After Yao Beibei¡¯s figure disappeared, Long Tian¡¯s smile disappeared and put on a cold face. Even the air surrounding him seemed to have cooled down a lot.


    Qingfeng Cafeteria.


    Yao Beibei, holding a full dinner plate, wandered around the dining room, and finally she found Bai Ziming sitting in a corner, and she smiled subserviently: ¡°Brother Bai, let¡¯s practice together after calss, so that we can make progress together! The master would be very happy if he knew that we were so united and close with each other! ¡±


    Bai Ziming didn¡¯t even lift his head, only looking at the food on the plate in front of him, as if Yao Beibei sitting opposite him was just thin air.


    Although she was extremely upset, Yao Beibei still smiled sweetly. What methods can she use to impress Bai Ziming so that he can help her cultivate?


    Servitude? Bai Ziming could take care of himself much better than her, he didn¡¯t need a maid at all!


    Seduction? She wasn¡¯t looking great, and Bai Ziming didn¡¯t seem to care for women. He usually wouldn¡¯t even look at a beautiful woman when he saw one.


    Ordinary men love nothing more than money, women, and power, and cultivators must have resources to cultivate. Hey, that¡¯s it, she would test Bai Ziming with these first!


    Yao Beibei smiled and raised one hand to make an oath: ¡°Brother Bai, as long as you take me to practice, I will be your little follower from now on! If you let me go east, I will never go west. Your wish is my command! ¡±


    Indifferent.


    ¡°I will give you my monthly quota of elixir?¡± Yao Beibei continued to increase the price painfully. Those elixirs were magical, she couldn¡¯t bear to give them up. Boo hoo!


    Indifferent.


    ¡°In the future, no matter what was given to me, from the master or other people, I will let you choose first. You can take whatever you like, and the rest are mine, okay?¡± These were already Yao Beibei¡¯s everything. If Bai Ziming still disagreed, she would have to start a drama and gain his sympathy. So she blinked her big, lifeless eyes, pinched her thighs hard, and tried to squeeze out some tears that hung on her face.


    Bai Ziming still lowered his head, but the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and a low voice came out of his throat: ¡°Okay! All of the above!¡±


    ¡°Deal!¡± Yao Beibei slaps the table and promises, gritting her teeth. If she couldn¡¯t pass the entrance examination, the master who hated her would definitely not want her. She really wouldn¡¯t know where to go, so it was worth it regardless of the price. It was just that she didn¡¯t expect Bai Ziming to be so cunning. But since he promised to help her, he would never watch her fail the entrance examination. When he was with her, she could rest assured because he could be her lucky star. As long as he was with her, any difficulties can be resolved!


    The night was silent, cool and bright.


    The moon was bright, like a bright mirror that fell into the dark blue lake. It was summer, the flowers were gorgeous, the vegetation was green and the air was extremely fresh. There was a night wind blowing from time to time, bringing bursts of coolness and floral fragrance. Everything in the distance was slightly hazy in the night, looking somewhat mysterious.


    Under them was green grass. Yao Beibei put down a futon and sat down, keeping away the moisture from the ground. Yao Beibei sat cross-legged on the futon, upright, and sensing the aura of heaven and earth with the method taught by Bai Ziming.


    Because her foundation was too poor, Yao Beibei needed to practice day and night in the next three months to prepare for the entrance examination. After finishing class during the day, Bai Ziming instructed her to practice in the evening. Fortunately, Bai Ziming told her that practicing was more refreshing than sleeping one night, and she would be more energetic the next day. Otherwise she was really worried that she could not persist.


    This was the foot of a barren mountain where nobody in the Qingfeng Sect claimed. It was Bai Ziming¡¯s usual practice location. She didn¡¯t know how he found such a great place with good fengshui.


    The bleak moonlight was rippling like water, reflecting the patient face of Bai Ziming who was focused on cultivation under the moon. Yao Beibei remembered many things.


    Without Bai Ziming, when Baozhimen was destroyed, Yao Beibei might have become a victim under the sword.


    Without Bai Ziming, Yao Beibei may have been starved to death or eaten by beasts in the mountains in the past few months when they were in the mountains.


    Even when the big red python appeared last time, it was obvious that Bai Ziming had already discovered its existence, that¡¯s why he was so ready. With his cultivation, there was absolutely no problem if he escaped before the big red python attacked, but he chose to fight with that big red python just because he wanted to protect Yao Beibei?


    Without Bai Ziming, Yao Beibei, who had only the most useless spirit base, would not have become a nominal disciple of Qingfeng Sect elder who gave her a place to stay!


    Bai Ziming was wary of others, but never asked everything about Yao Beibei from the beginning. He didn¡¯t ask who she was or where she came from, but he always stayed with her, took care of her, protected her, and never abandoned her.


    Yao Beibei was so ashamed that she felt like a heartless asshole! For so long, she had been taken care of and protected by Bai Ziming. She was grumpy just because he didn¡¯t come when she was injured at the Blue Lake last time. She blamed him for not saving her! Maybe he was practicing, maybe his identity jade was not with him! If he knew she was injured, he would definitely rescue her!


    ¡°Bai Ziming, I have chosen you! From now on, you are Yao Beibei¡¯s best friend. I am willing to take a blow for you. If you need, Yao Beibei will definitely do whatever she could for you! Even if I couldn¡¯t do it, I will go through frying pans and fires to make it work!¡± Yao Beibei vowed in her heart that she would definitely treat Bai Ziming well!


    At this moment, Bai Ziming seemed to have sensed something, and turned his head: ¡°How about now? Can you sense the qi?¡±


    Yao Beibei, who was watching Bai Ziming intently, was taken aback by his sudden question: ¡°No, not yet!¡±


    ¡°You have a five-element spirit base. The spirit base was not pure, so you have a lesser sense of qi, but you have a higher chance to sense it. The Qingfeng Sect was full of qi, and it was very quiet here. Practice according to the method I taught you. You should be able to sense qi within one month.¡± Bai Ziming¡¯s voice was soft, with unusual clarity in his eyes, and extremely rare look of caring.


    ¡°Well, I will definitely practice hard! How long did it take you to sense the aura?¡±


    ¡°Seven days.¡±


    Yao Beibei couldn¡¯t help but feel amazed. No wonder everyone looked at Bai Ziming with envy. It turned out that he was really a genius!


    In fact, Yao Beibei didn¡¯t know it only took Bai Ziming a day to break through the boundaries of mortals and opened the door to cultivation when he sensed the spiritual power between heaven and earth.


    When Bai Ziming saw that Yao Beibei was serious, he stopped asking questions and closed his eyes to continue his practice. Yao Beibei looked at his grim profile and suddenly thought that if she could not break through the boundaries of mortals, she would only have less than 100 years to live. Then in his life, she will only become a quick glimpse, leaving no trace?


    Thinking of this question, somehow Yao Beibei was filled with sudden sadness.


    Can¡¯t worry about it now! Yao Beibei shook her head vigorously and threw out those mixed emotions. Now that the previous life was dead and this life had started, this was a great gift. Yao Beibei, you are given a chance to cultivate, you have to live this life fully without leaving any regrets!


    After thinking everything through, Yao Beibei closed her eyes, calmed down, opened her heart, and sensed the qi between heaven and earth.


    Gradually, Yao Beibei felt that she and the world had become one, as if she had become a blade of grass, a drop of water, a grain of soil, a piece of metal, and a ball of fire¡­


    Suddenly, five bright colors: green, blue, black, yellow, and red, suddenly appeared in the world out of nothing. Each color was made up of countless sprites.


    The green was lush, the blue was watery, the black was deep and thick, the yellow was sharp and heavy, and the red was bright and hot ¡­


    All sprites looked very friendly and enthusiastic. One after another they flew into Yao Beibei¡¯s body, and became a part of her.


    Bang! Yao Beibei felt as if something had just broken out of her body, and a very strange feeling spread inside her, making her feel extremely light-headed and comfortable, as if she had gained new strength. She opened her eyes in surprise.


    It was early morning, and golden sunlight poured down, with a touch of warmth. Yao Beibei couldn¡¯t believe that she sat still and cultivated for the whole night! And she was not sleepy at all now, really refreshed as Bai Ziming had said!

 Chapter 10 - His Smile

    After the end of Yao Beibei¡¯s practice, Bai Ziming turned to look at her, but his face was incredulous: ¡°You could already feel the qi of heaven and earth?¡±


    ¡°Huh?¡± Yao Beibei raised her eyebrows, not understanding why Bai Ziming asked her so. She didn¡¯t know if the five-colored sprites who went in her body last night was just the qi of heaven and earth? If the answer was yes, then she had sensed the qi.


    Bai Ziming did not speak, but pointed his finger at Yao Beibei¡¯s clothes.


    When Yao Beibei bowed her head, she realized that her body had secreted a layer of black and stinky liquid again, and her clothes were all dirty!


    Suddenly, Yao Beibei became upset. She didn¡¯t know what was happening to her recently. Why was there so many dirty things on her body? Yesterday, today, and the smell was even heavier today! Could it be that the heaven was jealous of her and gave her an incurable disease? Oh no!


    ¡°These are the impurities in your body. You sense the qi of heaven and earth. After the qi enters the meridian, it would run a cycle in the meridian and gradually force the impurities out of the body. That¡¯s why it¡¯s called Meridian Cleansing. After all the impurities in the body have been discharged, the body will reach a state where it could absorb the qi on its own and automatically circulate, and you have reached the Foundation Establishment stage.¡± Looking at her perplexed face, Bai Ziming guessed reason and explain to her, happy for her in his heart. Although she had a five-element spirit base, her cultivation speed was not slow, and he hoped that her future cultivation would be smooth as well.


    Yao Beibei nodded, suddenly remembering that she had a lot of impurities in her body yesterday morning. She wondered if she already felt the aura yesterday. Obviously she had not started practicing yesterday, how strange!


    ¡°It¡¯s almost time, and we should go to the magic practice area for lessons!¡± Bai Ziming said, looking at the sky and putting away the futon.


    ¡°Brother Bai, then, please hit me with a cleaning spell!¡± Yao Beibei¡¯s face was stained, and showed off her white teeth. Usually calm, Bai Ziming shuddered and casted a cleaning spell on her.


    Hey, if there is a cleaning spell, why waste her cleaning charms? Yao Beibei applied the spirit of frugality to a wide range of scenarios.


    ¡°Brother Bai, do you have a mirror? Could you give me one?¡± Yao Beibei remembered that so much impurities had been discharged from her body, she must have become a lot more beautiful, and she had to confirm it. In that case, she would cultivate with a lot more motivation.


    ¡°No!¡± Bai Ziming¡¯s answer was very simple.


    Yao Beibei was a little surprised. Bai Ziming, who was so beautiful, had no mirror. She could ask him if she was more beautiful, as his eyes were ready-made mirrors. But how could you ask this kind of question!


    By the time Bai Ziming and Yao Beibei arrived at the practice field, most of the people were there. It was not the white-bearded history teacher, but a man who seemed to be in his twenties sitting in the lounge.


    The man was medium-sized, with a slightly yellowed skin. His thick eyebrows were slightly apart, looking above average. His white cloak made him look handsome and sturdy, adding a lot of points. Several female disciples were already secretly blushing at him.


    Twenty-three people arrived at this introductory training. The man walked out of the lounge and came to the crowd: ¡°Hi young men and women, how are you! My name was Lan Rulie. During the introductory training, I¡¯m responsible for teaching you basic spells. Your spiritual base information had been given to me by the sect, and the spells you learned are based on the attributes of your spiritual base. For basic spells of each attribute, I would first teach you the words, gestures and techniques. Then I would show you. Because there are many spells, I would show each spell up to three times, and the rest you would have to learn by yourself. In addition, each spell has a different practice area, you must be in the corresponding area for your spells, but do not fight one another under the same sect, otherwise I would report it to the school! ¡±


    ¡°Hi teacher Lan, thank you for your teachings!¡± The twenty-three people looked different, but their voices were very consistent.


    After the day, Yao Beibei¡¯s mind was full of all kinds of chants, gestures and techniques. It was already mixed up, and not even a complete spell was remembered! At this moment she was chewing a green grass in her mouth, crossed her hands under her head as a pillow, and sighed while lying on the grass.


    ¡°Spells are perfected by practice. You haven¡¯t reached the early stage of Meridian cleansing. These spells can¡¯t be practiced, so the first thing to do was to absorb the Qi. Brother Lan had already cultivated in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, but his age was not yet.seventy years old. If I am not mistaken, he had reached this period in his forties. The most important thing was that Brother Lan had the five elementary spirit base just like you, and his five elementary spirit base is not as balanced as yours.¡± Bai Ziming sat cross-legged beside Yao Beibei, his eyes softened.


    ¡°Huh?¡± Yao Beibei looked his crossed legs and swayed. ¡°It seems that Brother Lan demonstrated all the spells to us today! I didn¡¯t expect anyone else would be the same as the my five elements, but was it good to reach that stage at the age of forty? ¡±


    ¡°Not great, but with his spiritual base, it was already a miracle! In his five elements spiritual base, the three types of gold, wood and earth are more balanced, but the water was slightly more than these three, and fire was less. Also water and fire are two attributes that are incompatible with each other. Missing by an inch is missing by a mile, and this imbalanced spiritual base is very dangerous to cultivate. If you are not careful, you would have to worry about your life! But your five-element spirit base was very balanced. Each attribute is the same as another, and there will be no danger in cultivation. And you could sense the qi of heaven and earth in just one day. This speed was even faster than my ice attribute spirit base. I know that your cultivation speed would not be slow. Besides, there was no such thing as an absolute in the world. Whoever can say for sure that the five-element was a completely useless? I believe you are different. I believe you could rewrite the fate of five-element spirit base!¡±


    Yao Beibei sat up instantly, her eyes sparkling, and she patted Bai Ziming¡¯s shoulder: ¡°Brother Bai, you really have a vision! Brother Lan had passed the entrance examination, I believe I would also pass. I would definitely be better than brother Lan! I always thought you were not good at words, I didn¡¯t expect you to be able to say so much!¡± After that, she gave a thumbs up to Bai Ziming.


    ¡°When Brother Lan talked about the spells of each attribute today, didn¡¯t I study them with you? Although I couldn¡¯t cast the spells of other attributes, I still figured out some ways and could give you guidance! And This was for you.¡± Bai Ziming raised his mouth, and handed a bronze mirror to Yao Beibei with his right hand.


    When Yao Beibei saw what Bai Ziming gave her, it was a mirror that she was thinking about, and her eyes suddenly lighted up: ¡°Thank you!¡±


    This bronze mirror had a rustic feel and was the size of her palm, but it could reflect her whole body. The mirror image was very clear, and it was also true to the color. Red was red, green was green, not like an ordinary bronze mirror that gave everything a yellow-toned tint.


    She saw the girl in the mirror, her skin tone was slightly yellow, her eyebrows were thicker, her eyelashes were longer, her eyes were brighter, her lips were not as dark as before, and her yellow hair was also shiny. She was really more beautiful than before!


    ¡°Wow! Wow! Wow! Hahahahahaha¡­¡± Yao Beibei, holding a bronze mirror, looked at herself for a long time, and then suddenly laughed wildly, and Bai Ziming was scared as he didn¡¯t know what happened.


    ¡°Hey, Brother Bai, I¡¯m okay, I¡¯m okay!¡± Yao Beibei waved her hands again and again, and then looked carefully at the bronze mirror.


    The shape of the bronze mirror was a blooming hydrangea flower, with some delicate cloud patterns carved around it. The pattern in the middle of the mirror was a bit fuzzy and indistinguishable, and the outline looks like a mountain range. The bronze mirror was dull in color and should be passed down for quite a long time, with an ancient feel to it.


    Yao Beibei¡¯s hand holding the bronze mirror suddenly softened. This bronze mirror must be very precious. Bai Ziming gave it to her like this. In the morning, he said that there was no mirror, and in the evening, he got one. She didn¡¯t know where it came from ¡­


    ¡°Brother Bai, this mirror ¡­¡±


    ¡°This was called the Icy Feather and Falling Petal Mirror, which I came by accidentally. It¡¯s useless with me. I don¡¯t know what to do with it besides looking at yourself with it. Since you need it, I will give it to you!¡±


    ¡°Thank Brother Bai!¡± Yao Beibei smiled even brighter and carefully put the mirror into her homemade satchel. This small satchel was modified with the clothes she had worn. Since she couldn¡¯t use storage bags, she couldn¡¯t possibly always hold things in her arms?


    ¡°Glad you like it. We wasted a lot of time today, hurry up and practice! After you absorb qi for some time, you should be in the early stage of Meridian Cleansing. Don¡¯t worry!¡±


    At the moment, Bai Ziming smiled. At that instant, the stars in the night sky seemed to sense a crisis, so they shone harder and brighter, but they were faint compared to his casual smile.


    At that moment, flowers seemed to bloom just because they wanted him to notice, but no matter how beautiful or fragrant, they couldn¡¯t catch his eye¡­


    At that moment, it seemed as if everything between the heavens and the earth had lost its color, just because he smiled.


    At that moment, it was like there was only one person in the world, that was Bai Ziming. Dark hair like a waterfall, bright teeth, bright eyes, a face of jade, bones of ice, snow white snow clothes fluttering in the breeze. She wanted to reach out and keep him, to keep his smile, want to make that moment an eternity.


    At that moment, Yao Beibei was petrified that she never saw his smile. She never thought that his smile was so beautiful.