Chapter 411
"Just a little?"
Qin Yuzhi thought to herself, they were already at the entrance.
Who could master their body on the first day of training? It was a miracle if one didn’t end up injuring themselves.
She looked at Ying Bing’s outfit, curious, and asked, "Why are you wearing a bathrobe?"
"After refining my body, soaking in a hot spring helps with recovery."
"And inside…?"
"It’s my training outfit; I didn’t have time to change."
Qin Yuzhi was taken aback. "Then why aren’t you going? What are you waiting for?"
"I’ll be going soon."
Ying Bing casually sipped her tea, indicating that her reason for soaking in the hot spring was quite simple.
Qin Yuzhi stretched and said, "I heard soaking in hot springs is quite refreshing. I’m exhausted today. That Li Mo kid doesn’t treat me like an employee; he treats me like a beast of burden!"
Her dream escape couldn’t be used dozens or hundreds of times in a single day!
Who knows what kind of method that kid was using to go wherever he wanted? It was a pity he couldn’t take anyone with him when he shifted.
"I’ll join you for a soak, little Bing. Shall we go together?"
"I prefer to be alone."
"??"
At that moment, Qin Yuzhi recalled that Li Mo had mentioned Ying Bing was waiting for him to bathe.
Now, the little Bing herself claimed she liked being alone.
Who was lying here?
Qin Yuzhi felt that the one lying was Li Mo; after all, that kid was quite the smooth talker.
"You go ahead and soak. I’ll head back to my room for a bit."
Ying Bing adjusted her bathrobe, her black silk-clad feet slipping into her shoes as she headed upstairs.
She opened the window and happened to see the misty hot spring’s rock formation, steam rising in the air.
...
Meanwhile, Li Mo was blissfully unaware that he had inadvertently created a flourishing situation.
He had finished running through the remaining towns, skipping the live cooking segment for the braised beef noodles.
He handed the ingredients over to the locals and let them handle it.
After a busy day, dusk was settling in.
"Another layer?"
At the entrance of Qiushui Pavilion, Li Mo took out the Kongming Wanse Tower and discovered an unexpected gain.
But then he thought about it.
The higher the realm of the person providing the power of sentient beings, the more they contributed.
So, this new layer in the Kongming Wanse Tower was likely due to the contributions of those from the Demon Summoning Sect.
He was now a step closer to the projection of the Dao’s divine form.
It was a pity that the Demon Summoning Sect couldn’t be seen in the light; otherwise, he would have wanted to recruit them as affiliates of the Wanxiang Xianzong.
Shaking his head, the mist before Li Mo dissipated, revealing the entrance to Qiushui Pavilion.
However, in the courtyard, he didn’t see Ying Bing’s figure.
At the table under the banyan tree, only Qin Yuzhi was there, carving bamboo slips; she hadn’t yet learned to use a pen.
"Hey, the big talker is back."
"???"
Li Mo cleared his throat and said seriously, "What do you mean by 'big talker'? A gentleman speaks sincerely, and the bamboo recognizes me as a person of integrity; every word I say is true."
"Who said that? You clearly tricked me today," Qin Yuzhi huffed in dissatisfaction.
"What did I trick you about?"
Qin Yuzhi retorted, "You said little Bing was waiting for you to bathe, but you rushed back to Qiushui Pavilion, using that as an excuse to make me hurry. You’re really taking advantage of your own people!"
"???"
Li Mo’s head was filled with question marks. "That’s true! I had an agreement with her to enjoy the moon at the Wuhua Bulao Spring."
"Then little Bing was lying to me."
"What did Ying Bing say?"
Qin Yuzhi looked at him knowingly. "She said she was soaking because she was refining her body and that she liked being alone."
Li Mo pondered, "What was Ying Bing like when you came back?"
"Wearing a bathrobe, and it seemed like she had something black underneath… what was it? Oh right, her training outfit."
Qin Yuzhi described it vividly.
To be fair, dreamers had an excellent ability to describe things, painting a picture with their words.
Li Mo leaned back slightly.
A training outfit…
What kind of training outfit includes socks?
"Based on my experience, the one you spoke to wasn’t Ying Bing."
"Then who was it?"
"It was the bad Ying Bing."
"????"
Qin Yuzhi recalled the scene she had seen in Ying Bing’s dream.
So who was really deceiving her? She couldn’t tell; she truly couldn’t tell!
At that moment, Li Mo went upstairs.
Sure enough, Ying Bing’s room was empty.
But… the window was open.
If Ying Bing had returned to Qiushui Pavilion, wasn’t in the courtyard, and wasn’t in her room, where else could she be?
"New Jizhi wa mo yi du zi!"
Li Mo smirked, pushing up his nonexistent sunglasses.
The bad Ying Bing had pulled the wool over everyone’s eyes and kept her promise!
In that case…
He should quietly enter the spring; no need for gunfire.
So, Li Mo stepped onto the windowsill and flew out.
His target was the peak of the misty rock formation!
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Chapter 455: Who’s Really Deceiving Whom? You’ve Encountered the Bad Ying Bing
On the way back to Senluo Valley, Yuwen Cuojin examined the instant noodle recipe.
When the immortal had handed over the recipe, he had only one requirement.
No matter how it was sold or given away, it had to bear the ‘Tianzun Brand’ label.
Yuwen Cuojin was starting to regain his composure.
"If we manage to make this, wouldn’t several portions of the power of sentient beings be credited to the Tianzun?"
"I heard Luo Yexian say that the immortal is usually elusive, but today he just happens to be in the southern border, right where he first started preaching in San Mountain Town."
"He’s waiting for me! And this recipe was prepared in advance?! Using my hands to expand his influence?"
As Yuwen Cuojin thought of this, he couldn’t help but take another deep breath of the instant noodle seasoning.
What a deep scheme!
It seemed like nothing had been done, everything was falling into place, but in reality, every step was under the other’s control!
What was even more terrifying was that what he saw was probably just the tip of the iceberg; the long-dormant Wanxiang Xianzong suddenly preaching across the nine heavens and ten lands must have grand ambitions!
No wonder even the ancestral god of Yunmeng was willing to give him the big scallion!
"Let’s send this recipe to the Blood Refining Hall first."
"Let’s see if they can make Tianzun sauce."
Time passed, and the three suns gradually sank into the Qingyuan Mountains.
The last reluctant glow of dusk illuminated the leaves of the great banyan tree in the courtyard, causing the final withered leaf to flutter down, landing on a pair of delicate, slender hands.
But it seemed as if there was an invisible veil separating them, and the withered leaf slipped away.
Ying Bing sat under the banyan tree, her skin not only fair but also glowing with a jade-like sheen.
She had changed into a white bathrobe, but the hazy figure beneath it was outlined in black. The bathrobe was clearly shorter than her moonlight skirt, revealing a portion of her calf, which was wrapped in dark clouds, a sight that was breathtaking.
Her expressionless face, too, was caught in the twilight, half illuminated and half shrouded in night.
She gazed vaguely at the courtyard entrance, seemingly waiting for someone.
Suddenly, footsteps approached.
"I’m exhausted."
But stepping in was Qin Yuzhi. She glanced at Ying Bing’s outfit, a bit surprised.
"Little Bing, did you practice body refinement martial arts?"
"Yeah, just tried a little."
"Just a little?"
Qin Yuzhi thought to herself, they were already at the entrance.
Who could master their body on the first day of training? It was a miracle if one didn’t end up injuring themselves.
She looked at Ying Bing’s outfit, curious, and asked, "Why are you wearing a bathrobe?"
"After refining my body, soaking in a hot spring helps with recovery."
"And inside…?"
"It’s my training outfit; I didn’t have time to change."
Qin Yuzhi was taken aback. "Then why aren’t you going? What are you waiting for?"
"I’ll be going soon."
Ying Bing casually sipped her tea, indicating that her reason for soaking in the hot spring was quite simple.
Qin Yuzhi stretched and said, "I heard soaking in hot springs is quite refreshing. I’m exhausted today. That Li Mo kid doesn’t treat me like an employee; he treats me like a beast of burden!"
Her dream escape couldn’t be used dozens or hundreds of times in a single day!
Who knows what kind of method that kid was using to go wherever he wanted? It was a pity he couldn’t take anyone with him when he shifted.
"I’ll join you for a soak, little Bing. Shall we go together?"
"I prefer to be alone."
"??"
At that moment, Qin Yuzhi recalled that Li Mo had mentioned Ying Bing was waiting for him to bathe.
Now, the little Bing herself claimed she liked being alone.
Who was lying here?
Qin Yuzhi felt that the one lying was Li Mo; after all, that kid was quite the smooth talker.
"You go ahead and soak. I’ll head back to my room for a bit."
Ying Bing adjusted her bathrobe, her black silk-clad feet slipping into her shoes as she headed upstairs.
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