Chapter 241: Dancing Solo at Night

They walked along the road, bypassed Baihuayuanfang, passed by high platforms and pavilions, sailed across the vast green lake, walked through a sea of ​​purple tear bamboo, and came to a pavilion built on a hill. The white-clothed guard said, "The young lady is waiting for Master Shi inside. Please go in by yourself. I will take my leave first."

"Well," Shi Yan nodded and said, "You go and do your work first, I can go in by myself." After that, he climbed the stairs and entered the attic.

Along the way, Shi Yan was getting more and more angry. Look at where they live. It's so big, with flowers, forests, lakes and mountains. It's totally incomparable to his own small villa. Forget it. Comparison is the thief of anger. It's better to be indifferent. Shi Yan shook his head and walked into the corridor carved with ebony. In front of him was a wooden hall with a century-old ebony floor, which exuded bursts of fragrance. In front of him, behind a white silk curtain, Shi Xin was sitting behind a coffee table, quietly brewing tea.

Finally, he met Shi Xin. Although they had only been separated for a few days, Shi Yan had experienced the separation of life and death. Seeing his sister again, his heart was full of longing. Unconsciously, a few tears overflowed from his eyes. Damn, if my sister saw me, I don't know how she would laugh at me. Shi Yan quickly wiped away his tears and walked forward quietly.

"Are you here?" Shi Xin didn't look up, but knew that Shi Yan had arrived, so she asked lightly.

"Here it comes." Shi Yan narrowed his eyes, sniffed the tea fragrance floating in the air, and praised: "Sister, you are really good at tea making. The tea fragrance is light, but it is endless aftertaste. Good tea."

Shi Xin smiled, poured a cup of tea, raised her head and looked at Shi Yan and said with a smile: "You are the only one who has a sweet mouth. Come, try the Sizhubiqing tea that my sister has just developed."

Shi Yan took the teacup, smelled its fragrance first, then took a sip, letting the tea stay in his mouth for a while, waiting for the tea fragrance to overflow, and then drank the tea in the cup, praising: "The faint bamboo fragrance, I'm afraid it's the bamboo in the bamboo forest at the foot of the mountain."

"Of course." Shi Xin smiled and said, "Every time I go to a place, I will develop a new tea with the materials available there. This pot of Silk Bamboo Green Tea uses the essence of the purple tear bamboo and the tears of the tear bamboo from the mountain. It took me three days to brew this pot."

"Hehe, then I'm in for a treat." Shi Yan drank it all in one gulp, dragged a cushion over and sat down in front of the tea table, poured himself another cup, and didn't care about anything, drank it all in one gulp, and poured another pot. Now Shi Xin couldn't sit still, and quickly snatched the teapot, saying angrily: "How can you drink like this? Don't waste the tea that I, your sister, worked so hard to make."

Shi Yan chuckled and said, "Isn't this rare? Don't I know that? Sister, you only brew each type of tea once. I won't have the chance to drink such good tea again after this time. Can I drink more?"

Shi Xin carefully poured a cup of tea into the teacup in front of Shi Yan and said, "Good tea should not be wasted like this. The taste is in your mouth and the tea is in your mind. You can taste the good tea by savoring it carefully when you miss it. What's the point of drinking too much? You're just wasting a pot of good tea. After you drink it, the tea remains in your mind. Even if I don't brew it, the taste will naturally come out when you want to drink it. This is not burying this pot of good tea."

"My sister is right." Shi Yan nodded, savored the last cup of Sizhubi Qingcha in his hand, and turned the cup upside down after finishing it.

"How's the thing I asked you to investigate going?" After Shi Xin saw Shi Yan turn the teacup over, she nodded with satisfaction and asked.

"I lived up to everyone's expectations." Shi Yan recounted everything she had learned in the Dragon Cave. Shi Xin listened to her story, sometimes frowning and thinking, sometimes asking some questions in a low voice, and sometimes pondering. When Shi Yan finished speaking, it was already an hour later. There was no need to worry about being eavesdropped here. Outside the house, Shi Xin had set up 336 prohibitions, which were connected together to form a large formation. Without Shi Xin's permission, anyone who entered privately would be directly attacked by the formation and turned into ashes.

Therefore, there was no one else in the whole house except Shi Xin's people, so there was no need to worry about being eavesdropped.

However, to be on the safe side, Shi Xin still set up a soundproofing array around to ensure safety.

After Shi Yan finished speaking, Shi Xin pondered for a moment before smiling faintly and said, "You did a great job. You are worthy of being my brother."

After saying that, he removed the sound-blocking formation, stood up, walked to the side, took out a wooden box, put it on a table nearby, and smiled at Shi Yan, "Come, sit over here."

Shi Yan was curious about what was in the wooden box. He sat down at the table and found that the wooden box was very ordinary, no, it should be said to be simple, without any pattern, and the wood was not particularly good, with some sawdust on the corners. Even ordinary cultivators would not want such a box, so how could his sister have it? Shi Xin smiled mysteriously, slid the gap of the wooden box, and a blue light came out, interweaving a complex pattern on the wooden box. Then the pattern disappeared, and the wooden box opened with a creak.

Shi Yan stretched his neck and found that there was only an ordinary black cloak inside, which made him feel a little disappointed.

Shi Xin saw Shi Yan's expression. She laughed, took out a cloak and handed it to Shi Yan, saying, "This cloak is for you."

Shi Yan curled his lips, took the cloak, and finally complained: "Sister, you are too stingy."

Shi Xin stretched out a slender finger and shook it, saying, "You, after being out there for so many years, don't you know that the truly good things are the ones that look ordinary but can't be ordinary, while those useless things are made to be fancy and eye-catching."

Shi Yan suddenly realized and slapped his head, "Yeah, how could my sister have useless things in her hands?" Thinking of this, he was very curious about the cloak in his hand.

Shi Xin looked at Shi Yan with a smile and said, "This cloak is called [Dancing Alone at Night], and it took me a lot of effort to get it."

"【Dancing Alone at Night】?" Shi Yan looked at the cloak in his hand over and over again. The cloak was as smooth as water. He didn't look at it carefully before, but now he found that there were some fluorescent spots on the black cloak, just like the bright stars and the vast night sky. This alone was enough to show that this cloak was extraordinary.

Shi Xin explained: "This [Dancing Alone at Night] cloak was made by Master Zhizi. I asked someone to send it to me over a distance of 800 miles. It just arrived this morning."

She walked around the table, lifted up the cloak and put it on Shi Yan, then pinched her fingers, a silver light flashed, and a silver-white water curtain appeared in front of Shi Yan, and Shi Xin could be seen in the water curtain. This is a mirror.

Wait! What about me? Where am I!

In the mirror, there is only my sister, and she is standing behind me. Where is I who was in front of her?

Could it be!

"This dance at night is made from the essence of the hair of thousands of mirage beasts and the silk spit out by sea silkworm babies. It can achieve the effect of invisibility!" Shi Xin's hand trembled, and Shi Yan felt the hat on his head loosen. In the mirror, he saw a head floating in the air, which looked extremely weird.

"The invisibility effect of this cloak is different from that of ordinary invisibility cloaks. This cloak can block all detection, and can block cold and heat, and spiritual power. Even some gifted people cannot detect your location before you take the initiative to remove the invisibility. Of course, if the other party's cultivation is too high, then there is nothing we can do." Shi Xin said: "I know you have a pair of flaming wings, and every time you use them, your clothes will be burned, but you don't have to worry about this cloak. Your flaming wings will pass through the cloak without being restrained, and the cloak will not be damaged."

Shi Yan's eyes sparkled. This cloak was truly tailor-made for me.

"The Twelve Sects' Grand Martial Arts Show will be held in three days. I know you are reluctant to participate, but I just hope you can fight with more masters so that you can gain some combat experience. Rankings don't matter. A ranking that is too high will not do any good." Shi Xin smiled and said, "Originally, I had the same idea as you and didn't intend to let you participate, but when I learned that there was a secret realm in the northern border, I changed my mind."

Shi Xin said mysteriously: "This competition is in this secret realm. As far as I know, there is a cold spring and a red spring in this secret realm, which may be helpful to you. I don't know how you break the extreme cold air, but I think the extreme cold air will not be broken so easily, so you should get some red springs to be prepared."

Shi Yan was touched. It turned out that everything his sister did was just for his own good.

Shi Yan nodded, "Don't worry, I understand."

"Your cultivation level is too far behind theirs, so be careful and don't fight hard. Sometimes taking a step back is better than taking a hundred steps forward." Shi Xin helped Shi Yan put his clothes in order, and looked at her brother lovingly, saying with concern, "Now that you have this Night Dance Cloak, you should make good use of it. There is nothing shameful about hiding it. It is only for the sake of making your future path wider."

Shi Yan nodded and said, "Sister, I am no longer the person I used to be. I used to be too stubborn and didn't know how to adapt. But I have changed a lot in these twelve years of wandering. I am no longer the person I used to be. I know some things clearly." Shi Yan said with some dissatisfaction, "You still regard me as the same as before. Do you really think I haven't made any progress in the past twelve years?"

"Humph, kid, how could I not know how much experience you have?" Shi Xin snorted, "I don't know who choked Wei Dong's dog to death."

Shi Yan sweatdropped, "So you already knew me, elder sister, and you let me be exposed to so many people."

Shi Xin snorted coldly, "There's nothing wrong in showing off occasionally. Can anyone bully the men of my Shi family?"

Without staying any longer, Shi Yan left. When he walked out of the house, he found that Wei Dong was still here. However, the white-clothed guard didn't even look at him. After bidding farewell to Shi Yan, he ignored Wei Dong's plea and closed the door.

Shi Yan felt that Wei Dong was quite pitiful. He had lost so much face. But what did this have to do with me?

Shi Yan smiled and left without paying attention to everyone's surprised looks.

With such a magic weapon, I have a better chance of winning in the Twelve Gates Martial Arts Show. Of course, I am not sure of winning, but...

A cold light flashed in Shi Yan's eyes, "It's time to settle some accounts!"