Chapter 17 Test (8) The imposing senior sister.
"Why are you fighting my master?" Guda circled Shen Wan once, then, as if remembering something, said meaningfully, "Oh, I know! You saw your senior brother being defeated by Qingxing, and you're very dissatisfied, so you've come to seek revenge, right?!"
Upon hearing this, Shen Wan scoffed dismissively, "Who wants to avenge that idiot senior brother? I came here specifically to challenge Senior Sister Qingxing because I saw how powerful she is!"
As if afraid Qingxing wouldn't agree, she added, "In my personal capacity only!"
Qingxing blinked twice and said, "No."
She was indeed looking forward to fighting the male and female protagonists, but the second round of testing is not over yet, and her master is going into seclusion again. Although she has broken through to the Golden Core stage, the strength of the remaining opponents is unknown. She also needs to get into the top ten in the martial arts competition and does not want to cause any trouble or get injured in a private match.
"Why?" Seemingly surprised by her decisive refusal, Shen Wan was quite shocked, and her voice rose considerably. "Do I look weak?! I'm much stronger than my senior brother. He can't beat you, so I don't believe I can't!"
"No, you're very good," Qingxing said calmly, "I just don't want to fight."
Shen Wan: "Why don't you want to?"
Guda interrupted, "Are you a walking encyclopedia of whys? If you don't want to know, just don't. Why all the questions?"
“Because…” Qingxing couldn’t think of a perfunctory reason. She looked up at the sky and saw the sun hanging high in the sky. Suddenly, she had a flash of inspiration and said, “I’m hungry and I don’t have the strength to fight.”
Shen Wan was even more shocked: "You haven't practiced fasting yet?!"
She watched the whole thing from the audience yesterday. Senior Sister Qingxing is so amazing, breaking through realms and using the Azure Spirit Array, yet she hasn't even started practicing abstaining from grains?!
"No."
After saying this, Qingxing led Guda past Shenwan, who was standing there dumbfounded, and onto the mountain path.
"Your reason is so lame."
Guda was speechless; it was the first time it had ever seen a cultivator use "not having eaten" as a reason for refusing to fight.
The sound of footsteps came from behind. It turned its head and glanced over, only to see bamboo leaves falling above the path, and a girl running among them with her sword in hand, her red hair ribbon fluttering in the wind—Chen Wan actually caught up with him, looking like she was determined not to give up.
Guda leaned close to Qingxing's ear and said expressionlessly, "It's over, you're stuck with them."
It's worth noting that in the original book, to make the interactions between the male and female leads more engaging, the author specifically chose the "clingy guy and the aloof guy" setting. Xie Yuzhou was gradually melted by this clingy little sun.
Qingxing asked, puzzled, "What do you mean?"
Guda chuckled and said, "Just experience it for yourself."
As soon as she finished speaking, a cool breeze blew by her side. Qingxing turned her head and met Shen Wan's star-like eyes.
"Senior Sister Qingxing, I'll go to the kitchen with you. Eat more, and then we can fight!"
A moment later, Qingxing stared at the mountain of pastries in front of her and fell into deep thought.
Did she cause Shen Wan to misunderstand something?
"It was more than I could eat."
Qingxing peeked out from beside the pastries and pointed to the mountain of food in front of her.
She has a poor appetite and usually only drinks one or two bowls of soup, rarely eating staple foods.
"It's alright, Senior Sister, no need to be so polite!" Shen Wan put away the brocade pouch, looking quite wealthy. "I have plenty of spirit stones, more than enough!"
"That's right, there's no need to be polite with her!"
Guda echoed as it weaved through the mountain of food. Although it didn't eat with its mouth, Qingxing watched from the side and thought it was eating with its mouth oozing oil.
"Junior sister may have misunderstood something." Qingxing grabbed it back, ignoring the book spirit's struggle, and said helplessly, "I have no interest in private competitions, not even if I'm full, and I don't want to waste your time."
So you should just give up on this idea.
"Why?!" Shen Wan exploded again, indignantly saying, "You're even comparing yourself to Senior Brother Su!"
“Uh…” Qingxing had a headache. “That was an accident.”
Shen Wan: "Then you'll have an unexpected match with me too!"
Seeing that Qingxing didn't react, she said anxiously, "It would be great to compete with me. You competed with your senior brother yesterday and broke through to the Golden Core stage in one go. I'm even better than your senior brother. If you compete with me, you might be able to break through to the Nascent Soul stage in one fell swoop!"
Upon hearing this, Qingxing sighed softly and reached out to press her forehead.
She only just realized what Gudako meant by "being entangled".
He's even started talking in his sleep in order to compete with her.
"Junior Sister Qingxing, I knew you were here."
Qingxing was troubled when she suddenly heard Wenren Xi's smiling voice. She glanced at the person walking over, waving a fan, and then remembered his performance of defeating the enemy with a single blow on the field. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck her. She turned around, pulled him over, and said to Shen Wan, "Want to have a match?"
Shen Wan opened her big eyes and nodded blankly, "Mm."
"Let's find Senior Brother Wenren, he's more capable than me."
Wenren Xi, who just arrived here: ?
He opened his mouth to ask a question, but Qingxing didn't give him a chance to speak. She finished speaking on her own and turned around, almost "escaping" the scene, leaving Wenren Xi and Shen Wan looking at each other in bewilderment.
Shen Wan looked Wenren Xi up and down a few times, then hesitated, her eyes narrowed, and asked, "Senior Brother Wenren?"
Wenren Xi had no choice but to turn her head and smile helplessly, "Yes."
Shen Wan: "More powerful than Senior Sister Qingxing?"
Wenren Xi: "Well... I'm not sure either. Maybe, perhaps?"
Shen Wan drew out an "Oh," then decisively said, "I don't believe it."
She picked up the red sword on the table, and without waiting for Wenren Xi's reaction, she got up and left, following Qingxing's retreating figure.
There aren't many opponents who have earned Shen Wan's approval and have been personally challenged by her. Qing Xing hasn't accepted the challenge yet, and she doesn't want to fight Wenren Xi!
This was the first time Wenren Xi had been abandoned like this. He looked at the mountain of food in front of him, touched his chin a couple of times, and then realized that something was wrong.
He remembered that he seemed to have come to find Qingxing, right?
Why was I inexplicably rejected by my junior sister?
He shook his head slightly, waved his hand to put the food into his brocade pouch, and walked in the direction the two had left.
There weren't many matches today, and Qingxing easily won two. She didn't plan to go back, thinking she'd wander around the training ground a few times to see how the other disciples performed, hoping to learn something from them.
But after walking around for a short while, she felt something was wrong—the footsteps behind her were intermittent; when she walked, "they" walked too, and when she stopped, "they" stopped too.
Qingxing simply stood still, turned her head expressionlessly, and saw three people walking side by side behind her: Wenren Xi, Shen Wan, and Xie Yuzhou.
"Why are you following me?" she asked, puzzled.
Wenren glanced at the two people beside him and said matter-of-factly, "I've been with my junior sister since the first test, and we've been following her for several days. Now that we have nothing to do, I can only follow my junior sister."
Qingxing:......
Okay, that's barely a valid reason. She turned to look at Shen Wan again.
Shen Wan shrugged: "Senior sister hasn't accepted my invitation yet!"
Okay, that's acceptable.
Qingxing finally turned her gaze to Xie Yuzhou—the first two were acceptable, but what are you doing here?
Isn't he supposed to be a cold and aloof nobleman? This seems to contradict his persona.
Xie Yuzhou stood with his sword in his arms, a chilling aura between his brows: "I've come to find my junior sister."
Shen Wan asked, "Looking for me?"
Xie Yuzhou: "My master told me to keep an eye on you."
Upon hearing this, Shen Wan became indignant and started chattering at Xie Yuzhou.
Several unrelated people gathered together, and the scene before them looked strange no matter how you looked at it. After a while, Qingxing calmly accepted it.
Since the test wasn't in progress, she didn't know where the male and female protagonists usually cultivated, so she didn't deliberately look for them. However, she didn't expect that the two of them would stick to her like this and follow her so closely, which saved her trouble.
"...Alright, I'll watch the game. You can do as you please."
She turned around expressionlessly, and Gudako on her shoulder made a face at them, complaining, "How childish! Three clingy little devils!"
"Did the three of them know each other in their previous lives?" Qingxing asked Guda in a low voice.
"I know them, but we're not very close." Gudako clicked her tongue lightly. "Speaking of which, three of them were among those who went to the imperial examinations in previous lives."
Apart from Shen Wan and Xie Yuzhou, the others didn't interact much along the way. The imperial examination was an individual competition, so they basically didn't communicate.
Qingxing thought for a moment: "Who else is going to take the imperial examination?"
"Let me count... Shen Wan, Xie Yuzhou, Wenren Xi, Chen Mo... and what's the name again?" Guda frowned, seemingly trying its best to search its memory. Its eyes darted around, and suddenly it caught sight of someone coming from the front. "Ah!" it exclaimed, its voice suddenly dropping, "Anyway, it's not that person."
"Um?"
Qingxing looked up and Su Lin's face suddenly appeared before her. His dark circles were unusually heavy, as if he hadn't slept well for several nights.
"Hello, senior brother." She greeted him very politely.
"Junior sister, do I look good?"
Su Lin had been depressed for several days because of what happened last time, and he was instantly enraged when he saw the "culprit".
He was about to lash out, his eyes wide, when he suddenly caught sight of two familiar figures behind Qingxing—Shen Wan and Xie Yuzhou.
The two were still bickering, completely unaware that their senior brother was in front of them. Su Lin rubbed his face, feeling as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over him, chilling him to the bone.
What are those two doing here?!
Although the three of them were all disciples of the sect leader, Shen Wan and Xie Yuzhou were more talented than him, a fact that Su Lin acknowledged. In addition, he had entered the sect earlier, but as the senior brother, his progress was slow. He couldn't bring himself to face reality, so he usually avoided them.
He paused for a moment, mumbled something as if he had something stuck in his throat, but in the end he just snorted out of his nostrils, then turned around and walked in the opposite direction.
If he can't afford to offend them, can't he at least avoid them?
This green apricot is incompatible with him, she has made him lose face every time, and now she has become ingratiated with that young couple. He should stay away from her from now on!
He had just let out a burst of anger, but he forced it back down, leaving it stuck in his chest, unable to go up or down. His mind went completely blank, and he didn't notice the person behind him at all. So, as soon as he turned around, his forehead bumped straight into a six-foot-tall figure.
"Who is it? What are you doing blocking the road?!"
Su Lin covered his forehead and took a few steps back, but the person opposite him was too tall, so he had to look up.
The burly figure turned around and looked down at him.
The newcomer was a female cultivator with a clean face, dark skin, and her hair simply tied up in a high ponytail.
"That's Chen Mo, a body cultivator." Guda sat leisurely on Qingxing's shoulder and said, "Isn't he handsome! If I were human, I would definitely be this tall!"
Looking at Su Lin, who resembled a quail in comparison, Qingxing agreed, "Handsome."
A note from the author:
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Actually, Qingxing is quite wealthy (because Jiuquchen often gives her all sorts of spirit stones and magical treasures); she's in the top ten of the wealth list in Taihua Mountain!
By the way, Su Lin isn't a team member!
(Later, Qingxing gradually leveled up and became invincible, while the child was still slowly building a foundation.)
The team now has five members!
Here's a little secret that's really interesting: Shen Wan's Water Spirit Life-Giving Sword is red, while Xie Yuzhou's Fire Spirit Life-Giving Sword is blue.
I checked, and the definition of "chi" (尺) varied across different dynasties; here it's 1.9 meters.
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