Before Zuo Qingya could react, she was about to pick up her pen to start writing when she suddenly realized and asked, "Can I speak now?"
Ling Ruo nodded, "That's fine. The strange things can't hear us here."
"Oh, I didn't realize that at all."
"There is an isolation formation here, so the sound cannot travel outside."
"Formation..."
Ling Ruo assumed Zuo Qingya was unfamiliar with formations and explained, "Um... have you ever read any cultivation novels?"
Zuo Qingya knew what Ling Ruo was going to say, and seeing how enthusiastically she was talking, Zuo Qingya didn't dare to interrupt and could only listen.
Only after Ling Ruo finished speaking did Zuo Qingya breathe a sigh of relief, finally finished.
"Now you know."
Zuo Qingya nodded, "I understand."
Just then, Zuo Qingya sensed the aura of a cultivator.
"K, why did you bring an outsider in?"
"Acheng, let me introduce you. This is Yu Xiaoxiao, whom I met outside."
Yang Chaofan looked Zuo Qingya up and down. "Yu Xiaoxiao, is that your real name?"
Zuo Qingya shook her head. "No."
"Wow, you're pretty smart."
"It was Sister K who told me I couldn't reveal my real name."
"Okay, let's go, I'll take you to see the base lord."
Zuo Qingya nodded obediently, "Okay."
Upon arriving in front of the base leader, Zuo Qingya felt that this person was somewhat familiar. Oh right, this person looked a bit like Yue Yangyun, but it was only a resemblance. This person looked very thin, while Yue Yangyun looked a bit chubby.
"Where did you come from?"
Zuo Qingya pointed to herself and said, "I came from the Zhongzhou base."
"Zhongzhou Base? Is it this hot there? Everyone's so tanned!"
? ? ?
Can she say that her dark complexion isn't due to sun exposure?
"It wasn't from sun exposure that I got tanned."
Yue Yangsheng asked in confusion, "Why is that?"
"It's because a black lacquer fruit was used by mistake that it turned out like this."
"Misuse of black lacquer fruit? What kind of fruit is that?"
Zuo Qingqing blocked everyone from thinking that she took the Black Lacquer Fruit out of her backpack, but in reality, Zuo Qingqing took the Black Lacquer Fruit out of her own consciousness space and handed it to Yue Yangsheng.
Yue Yangsheng took the black lacquer fruit and looked at it. He couldn't believe that just one fruit could make someone so black.
Zuo Qingya understood Yue Yangsheng's expression and reminded him, "Hey, don't disbelieve me. Those who didn't believe me last time are now just as skeptical as I am."
"Alright then." Yue Yangsheng returned the black lacquer fruit to Zuo Qingya.
"If this Black Lacquer Fruit is so powerful, why do you still carry it with you?"
Zuo Qingya sighed and said, "I don't want to either. People keep asking me why I'm so dark-skinned. I have to prove it, right?"
"So you always carry this with you?"
Zuo Qingya nodded, "That's right, what else can we do? If she doesn't believe me, I'll show her. Maybe by some accident, he'll end up like me."
"So, that's how the person who turned as dark as you before came to be?"
"That was purely an accident. I didn't expect him to actually bite me. I didn't even have time to stop him."
"Okay then, but you must put your things away carefully. What if they turn black again after you recover?"
? ? ?
That makes a lot of sense.
"Yes, I'll keep it safe, don't worry."
"Besides the Central Plains base, have you been to any other bases?"
"Other bases? May I ask why you ask that?"
"Because I have an older brother in the Chosen Land base. I don't know if you've met him. He seems to be the base lord of the Chosen Land base."
Upon hearing this, Zuo Qingya understood that this person was Yue Yangyun's younger brother; no wonder he looked so much like Yue Yangyun.
Zuo Qingya shook her head and said, "I've never seen it. I've never been there, so I don't know what it's like there."
Hearing Zuo Qingya say that, Yue Yangsheng nodded, "Alright then, it's okay if you don't know, it's fine. If there's nothing else, you can go now."
Zuo Qingya nodded, "Okay."
After Zuo Qingya left, the three of them started chatting.
"Acheng, do you think what she said is true?"
Yang Chaofan shook his head and said, "I don't know."
"If she really knew your brother, the base owner, she wouldn't be so calm, and she wouldn't have noticed any signs that she was lying."
At this moment, Ling Ruo also said, "I think what she said is true. It doesn't feel like she's lying. If she were lying, she wouldn't be so calm. When I saved her, she was so scared by the monster that she didn't dare to move. She just stood there blankly. Luckily, I held her back. Otherwise, she would probably be the monster's meal by now."
“K, tell me how you met Yu Xiaoxiao.”
"Yes, base lord."
Ling Ruo recounted the entire process of how she met Zuo Qingya, without omitting a single detail.
After Ling Ruo finished speaking, Yue Yangsheng waved his hand, signaling Ling Ruo to leave.
He pressed his temples. "I guess I'm just overthinking it."
"Master, would you like me to give you a massage?"
Yue Yangsheng nodded, "Hmm..."
Yue Yangsheng sighed comfortably and said, "Sigh, I don't even know where this place is. I just bought a villa here to live and cultivate, but now I can't get out. I don't know why."
"Some experts say it's the aurora borealis. It seems that we can only move around in areas covered by the aurora borealis, and we can't go out outside the aurora borealis."
"I wonder if these auroras will spread out, which would give us more places to go."
"It's been a long time since dawn broke here."
"Yes, it's been so long since dawn. If this continues, we'll run out of ammunition and food."
"Now that we have a stranger here, why don't we ask her to go out and find us something to eat? We'll pay her."
“That’s fine. If she’s willing, we can pay her more.”
"I wonder if she can use the crystal cores we have here?" Yue Yangsheng said, taking out a few crystal cores from his storage bag and playing with them thoughtfully.
Zuo Qingya left the base's main mansion and wandered around outside.
There seemed to be quite a few people selling things, but very few were selling food. Most of the items were swords and other things used by cultivators.
Zuo Qingya squatted in front of a stall, picked up a talisman and examined it carefully. Unexpectedly, it was an earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of talisman used for escaping into the ground). Although this earth-遁 is slightly different from the one her mother gave her, Zuo Qingya could tell that it was an earth-遁.
"Excuse me, how much is this talisman?"
Upon hearing the voice, the boss didn't even open his eyes before saying, "10 intermediate-level crystal cores."
Zuo Qingya didn't haggle. She simply took out 10 intermediate-level crystal cores and handed them to the shopkeeper, saying, "Boss."
As soon as Zuo Qingya finished speaking, the boss opened his eyes and looked at her. To his surprise, he saw a dark face, which startled him. He thought he was seeing things, so he rubbed his eyes and looked at Zuo Qingya again, but she was still just as dark.
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