Chapter 77: You Can Only Like Me (3)
Jiang Zhiyan nodded solemnly, but inwardly, she was quite pleased. With Wei Jingqian’s words, no one would question Song Jin’yue staying with her, no matter how long.
“Then Senior Sister Song will continue to stay with me for the time being,” Jiang Zhiyan frowned. “Otherwise, she’ll follow you to those dangerous places again.”
“Mm,” Wei Jingqian nodded.
Both of them were very satisfied with this arrangement for Song Jin’yue.
“Then please inform the Song family that Senior Sister Song will be staying with me recently,” Jiang Zhiyan said.
“Okay,” Wei Jingqian replied. “Were you injured in the Demon Realm?”
“No, I just exhausted my spiritual energy, thankfully I escaped quickly. If you insist on calling it an injury, it was just a minor scratch, it’s already completely healed.” Jiang Zhiyan sighed. “Sorry for troubling you, brother, I was scared when I suddenly saw so many demonic beasts.”
“It’s nothing, so many demonic beasts would be troublesome if they entered the cultivation world,” Wei Jingqian nodded. “Master is looking for me, I’ll be going now.”
Jiang Zhiyan smiled: “Then be careful, brother.”
“Mm,” Wei Jingqian nodded and quickly left.
It was clear that talking to her for so long had already reached his limit.
Jiang Zhiyan was in a particularly good mood. Wei Jingqian had informed the Song family, so no one would question Song Jin’yue staying with her, even for ten or eight years. After all, it was normal for cultivators to be in seclusion for ten or even decades.
She picked out a book on body refining and a few other books on formations and took them back.
Song Jin’yue practiced her swordsmanship for a while, then worked on her assignment. She had almost used up all the paper Jiang Zhiyan left her, and still hadn’t written anything. Seeing Jiang Zhiyan return, her expression fell.
“I ran into my brother.”
Song Jin’yue’s expression changed, looking at her with anticipation.
“He strongly approves of you staying with me, and he’s already informed the Song family.”
Song Jin’yue felt her vision darken.
“He said it’s very unsafe outside now, there are many demons roaming around, so we should stay here and cultivate in peace.”
“It’s precisely because there are demons roaming around that we should go out…”
“They’re all demons with higher cultivation levels than us,” Jiang Zhiyan looked at Song Jin’yue. “If you go out now, you’ll just be cannon fodder. If something happens, someone will have to rescue you.”
Jiang Zhiyan paused, then continued: “If you want to save the world, then you should cultivate diligently.”
Song Jin’yue interrupted Jiang Zhiyan: “Eight hours is enough.”
She was afraid Jiang Zhiyan would make her cultivate for nine hours.
“He asked me to give you an apology gift.”
Song Jin’yue looked at her expectantly again.
“I kept it for myself,” Jiang Zhiyan said, watching Song Jin’yue’s expression fall again. “But I’ll give you another gift.”
Song Jin’yue looked at Jiang Zhiyan suspiciously.
“Aren’t you looking forward to it?” Jiang Zhiyan placed the books she found on the table.
“Don’t tell me it’s these…” Song Jin’yue looked at the books on the table; she thought it was very likely, Jiang Zhiyan might even list a hundred benefits of these books to persuade her.
“Of course not.”
Song Jin’yue breathed a sigh of relief: “Then I’m suddenly looking forward to it, what are these?”
“Things you need to read,” Jiang Zhiyan sat down at the stone table.
“What is ‘Golden Dragon Indestructible Body’? Why does it sound so…” Song Jin’yue looked at Jiang Zhiyan.
“To remove the ink on your face,” Jiang Zhiyan said. “You have two choices now, either you break through to Nascent Soul and use heavenly tribulation to cleanse your body, or you refine your body, choose.”
As she spoke, Jiang Zhiyan placed a mirror in front of Song Jin’yue.
It was very effective. Song Jin’yue glanced at the mirror and quickly looked away, then sighed softly: “Forget it, is body refining included in the eight hours?”
“Yes.”
“Then I’ll do it,” Song Jin’yue quickly made up her mind. “Are you joining me?”
“I’ll watch you, you can use your spiritual energy while cultivating.”
“Then what about these books on formations…” Song Jin’yue asked tentatively.
“You need to read them, to supplement the elder’s lecture today. Hand in your summary of today’s lesson within three days.”
Song Jin’yue breathed a sigh of relief: “Three days is good, three days is good.”
“From now on, hand in a summary every three days,” Jiang Zhiyan pointed at the books on the table.
Song Jin’yue felt her vision darken again.
“Five hundred words or less.”
“It would be better if you didn’t set a word limit.” Song Jin’yue held her head and looked up at Jiang Zhiyan. “Do you even understand all this? Don’t tell me you just don’t want to read them yourself and want me to read them, so you can just read the summaries.”
Jiang Zhiyan looked at Song Jin’yue: “Why don’t you shout for help and see if anyone comes to rescue you? If no one does, it means I’m pretty good at this.”
Song Jin’yue looked around the courtyard and sighed.
“And your summary…” Jiang Zhiyan looked at what Song Jin’yue had written. “This is a draft, right?”
Song Jin’yue: ???
“How can you be so hurtful?” Although it was indeed a draft.
“Let’s eat,” Jiang Zhiyan said.
Song Jin’yue’s anger instantly subsided, waiting for Jiang Zhiyan to take out the food box.
Eating was the highlight of her day, she took a deep breath, inhaling the aroma of the food, her body and mind relaxing.
“Do you eat this well every day at the Myriad Swords Sect?”
“What are you thinking about?” Jiang Zhiyan sat opposite Song Jin’yue. “I order all this from the restaurants down the mountain every day, ten thousand mid-grade spirit stones a month, and sometimes I have to pay extra for high-quality ingredients.”
Song Jin’yue’s eyes widened slightly: “Ten thousand mid-grade spirit stones.”
That was enough to support the entire Song family for more than a year with their current situation. Song Jin’yue felt like every bite was money, if it wasn’t considered impolite, she would have drunk the soup too.
“Practice hard, or I’ll lower the food budget.”
Song Jin’yue suddenly felt guilty.
“I have to go out in a couple of days.”
“Didn’t he say it’s best not to go out?” Song Jin’yue frowned, looking at Jiang Zhiyan. “If it’s safe outside, you should just stay here.”
“Are you concerned about me?” Jiang Zhiyan looked at Song Jin’yue.
Song Jin’yue pursed her lips: “No.”
She continued nonchalantly: “If something happens to you, I won’t be able to leave.”
“Oh, that won’t happen, if I die, the barrier will disappear, and the restriction on you will also disappear,” Jiang Zhiyan explained.
Song Jin’yue paused, looked up, Jiang Zhiyan was looking at her, her gaze calm, she quickly lowered her head again, not saying anything.
“She probably won’t attack you, right?” the System said.
“No,” Jiang Zhiyan picked up a strangely shaped piece of food. “The probability of her being able to kill me in her current state is less than 0.01 percent.”
“I thought you were confident that she wouldn’t attack you.”
“I’d rather she attacked me, she would definitely wake up then.”
System: ???
“You’re actually hoping for that?” The System looked at Song Jin’yue again, silently praying that she wouldn’t attack Jiang Zhiyan. Jiang Zhiyan was already crazy, although she said that now, if Song Jin’yue actually attacked… the System felt like it should prepare to escape this world.
Although Jiang Zhiyan left, she still assigned homework and even a supervisor, a small wooden puppet.
“Is this a puppet? Can it talk?” Song Jin’yue looked at it curiously, she had heard that some families kept such puppets, obedient and tight-lipped.
“It can’t talk, but it can spar with you. I was afraid you’d be bored, so I specifically found it in the storage room, I used it when I was young,” Jiang Zhiyan said.
“You didn’t have to add that last sentence,” Song Jin’yue looked up.
“I just wanted to tell you it’s very safe, don’t overthink it,” Jiang Zhiyan took out a few talismans. “These are Cleaning Talismans for you, just tear them to use them.”
“You’ve really gone to great lengths to avoid removing the restriction on me, even improving the talismans.” Song Jin’yue pretended to wipe away tears. “I’m so touched.”
“If there’s an emergency, just call me in your mind,” Jiang Zhiyan said. Song Jin’yue subconsciously looked at her palm. “What is that rune exactly?”
“It doesn’t have a name, I designed it specifically for you, you can name it.”
“I don’t even know what it does, and you want me to name it…” Song Jin’yue muttered, twitching the corner of her mouth. “You’ve really put in a lot of effort to trap me, creating all sorts of things.”
“You can sleep on the bed after I leave,” Jiang Zhiyan checked her storage pouch.
“Ha, I won’t,” Song Jin’yue snorted softly.
“You can take a look at my bed before you say that,” Jiang Zhiyan said seriously. “After all, you also said you wouldn’t eat at first.”
Song Jin’yue looked away uncomfortably. She had never been to the other side of the screen during her stay here.
“Don’t worry, I won’t know if you sleep on my bed,” Jiang Zhiyan smiled. “So whether you sleep or not, I’ll assume you did, so just sleep peacefully.”
Song Jin’yue: ?
What strange logic.
Jiang Zhiyan left. Song Jin’yue watched the barrier open and close in front of her, looked around the courtyard, and suddenly felt it was a bit empty, even though Jiang Zhiyan had left many times before, it hadn’t felt like this.
Song Jin’yue suspected she had developed some kind of problem from being oppressed by Jiang Zhiyan, otherwise, why would she feel this way?
She looked back at the door, thought for a few seconds, then walked inside, cautiously approaching the screen. She felt like Jiang Zhiyan might jump out at any moment, but fortunately, she didn’t.
The spiritual energy behind the screen seemed to be richer than elsewhere. Song Jin’yue’s gaze quickly fell on the bed, her jaw dropping slightly. It was a large bed made of spirit stones, high-grade spirit stones, and there was a formation nearby, gathering the spiritual energy emanating from the bed within this area. When she stepped into the formation, she instantly felt refreshed.
Cultivating in such a place would greatly increase her cultivation speed. It was too extravagant, Song Jin’yue clicked her tongue, such a large bed made of a single piece of high-grade spirit stone could be exchanged for a luxurious airship, yet it was being used as a bed here.
She often followed Wei Jingqian around, and his lifestyle wasn’t as extravagant as Jiang Zhiyan’s. Song Jin’yue sat on the bed, yawned, and couldn’t resist lying down.
After the time it took an incense stick to burn, she was startled awake by Jiang Zhiyan’s voice.
“You started sleeping not long after I left? Eight hours a day, if you don’t complete it, you’ll have to make it up double when I get back, Golden Core cultivators can go without sleep for a long time.”
Song Jin’yue sat up and angrily left the room.
She picked up her sword, went to the courtyard, practiced for half an hour, then suddenly realized she hadn’t asked Jiang Zhiyan when she would be back or where she was going.
She figured it probably wouldn’t be too long.
“Jiang Zhiyan, Jiang Zhiyan.”
“What is it?” Jiang Zhiyan asked.
“What am I eating for lunch?”
“Someone will send it to you through a small teleportation array.”
“Huh?” Song Jin’yue thought she had misheard, she suddenly felt like she didn’t have to eat this meal. “That’s too troublesome, just let me eat in the cafeteria, I really won’t run away.”
“I’ve already paid.”
“Fine.” Song Jin’yue was shocked, how much money did the Wei family and the Myriad Swords Sect give Jiang Zhiyan to be this extravagant?
Jiang Zhiyan didn’t say anything more, she stood on her sword and flew southeast, if there was a speed limit in the cultivation world, she would be fined into bankruptcy at this speed.
She was going to refine a sword for Song Jin’yue and do some business along the way, like setting up teleportation arrays, selling talismans, which could earn her quite a bit.
“Can’t you be a little more frugal?” The System said helplessly.
“I can’t,” Jiang Zhiyan looked at her storage pouch. “It’s fine, I’ll ask the male lead for more after I run out.”
The Wei family owned spirit stone mines, and Jiang Zhiyan and Wei Jingqian each had a fixed monthly quota. Wei Jingqian never used up his quota, so he had quite a bit saved up. The original owner also often asked him for money, so it wouldn’t be strange for her to do the same now, it would be strange if she suddenly stopped asking.
Hearing Jiang Zhiyan’s reasoning, the System was speechless. The original owner was a big spender, but she was still no match for Jiang Zhiyan.
The main material Jiang Zhiyan needed for refining the sword this time was a rare ore, and that ore could only be found in the Demon Realm. Just as a lotus flower emerges from mud unstained, Star River Iron emerged from the Demon Realm without demonic aura. It was not only difficult to find, but also difficult to refine from Star River Ore.
Because of the System and the script, finding rare ores wasn’t difficult for Jiang Zhiyan. The relationship between the Demon Realm and the cultivation world was indeed very tense recently, although the border had been under martial law before, it wasn’t this strict. But the border was so long, she could always find a way in.
“Host, what if you can’t come back?” the System was a little worried.
“How could I not be able to come back?” Jiang Zhiyan looked down at the land of the Demon Realm. It bordered the cultivation world, but the two sides were completely different. From the sky, she could see the clear dividing line and the sect disciples patrolling the border.
The Demonic Sword in her Sea of Consciousness started to get excited.
“I’m about to refine a sword for someone, you wouldn’t want to be the raw material,” Jiang Zhiyan warned.
“West.”
“I’m not looking for the Demon Lord, with the Demonic Sword’s appearance, there must be many people guarding him, and why would I go looking for him for no reason?”
Jiang Zhiyan flew towards the heart of the Demon Realm. According to the book, the Star River Ore was located in the deepest part of the Demon Realm. The Demon Realm was sparsely populated, with few demon cultivator settlements, most of the time, you could only see groups of demonic beasts running across the reddish-black land.
[Su Huo: Are you in the Demon Realm?]
Jiang Zhiyan looked at the message that suddenly popped up on her communication jade. This person was her friend.
[Su Huo: Save me, save me, save me! I’m also in the Demon Realm.]
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