Xueqing Pavilion is only a few steps away from Fengzhu Pavilion. Before Su Jinyue and Zhan Yihan entered Xueqing Pavilion, they heard a melodious piano sound coming from inside.
Walking into the yard, I saw a beautiful woman with a cold face sitting under a huge peach tree, her slender white fingers playing the strings of the ancient zither like flowing water.
Sensing someone coming, the woman looked up at Su Jinyue and Zhan Yihan, stopped what she was doing, and glanced at the two of them with a cold gaze.
"Hello, Senior Sister Zhou! We are Master's new disciples, and we have come here specially to visit Senior Sister and Brother." Su Jinyue greeted.
Zhou Zishuang nodded lightly and stroked the strings again. It seemed that she didn't want to talk to Su Jinyue and Zhan Yihan.
Su Jinyue and Zhan Yihan felt a little embarrassed, but they didn't want to disturb him. It was also not a good idea to leave immediately, so they could only walk to the stone table nearby and sit down, waiting for the other party to finish playing the piano.
Luo Qianao walked out of the room and saw Su Jinyue and Zhan Yihan in the courtyard. He walked over to them and sat down. "Junior Sister Zishuang doesn't like to be disturbed when she's playing the piano."
Su Jinyue and Zhan Yihan nodded and greeted Luo Qianao softly.
"Will we disturb Senior Sister here?" Su Jinyue asked.
"No, I have already put up a soundproofing ban." Luo Qianao said with a smile.
Su Jinyue and Zhan Yihan were both shocked. When had Luo Qianao set up the soundproofing barrier? How hadn't they noticed? Their true formation level was currently at the peak of the late fourth stage. The other party had been able to set up the soundproofing barrier silently, so his formation skill must be at least above the sixth level. No wonder he was the senior brother at Formation Peak.
"What level of formation master is Senior Brother Luo?" Zhan Yihan asked.
"The peak of late Level Six," Luo Qianao said. He had been stuck at this level for decades, unable to find the opportunity to break through. His master told him not to worry, fearing it would affect his state of mind.
"What about senior sister?" Su Jinyue looked at Zhou Zishuang not far away.
Luo Qianao also turned his gaze to Zhou Zishuang, a bitter smile playing on his lips. "She's a seventh-level Immortal Formation Grandmaster." When he was first accepted as his master's personal disciple, his formation skills were nearly the same as Zishuang's. But in just a few hundred years, she had surpassed him. This made him even more anxious to break through, but the more anxious he was, the more difficult it became. As a result, his temper became increasingly irritable, and sometimes he couldn't control his temper.
Su Jinyue retracted her gaze and saw the bitterness on Luo Qianao's face. She immediately understood why he was like that, "Brother, is it impossible for you to break through the peak of the late sixth level?" Either there was something wrong with the formation technique he was practicing, or there was something wrong with his state of mind.
Luo Qianao's face immediately darkened, and he looked at Su Jinyue angrily, "What do you mean?"
"Brother, don't be angry. Jinyue just wanted to ask why you can't break through, to see if we can find the crux of the matter." Zhan Yihan reached out and held Su Jinyue's hand. He knew she was asking this out of kindness, but Luo Qianao didn't know that.
"No need, you guys go back." Luo Qianao stood up and turned to walk towards his room. Even if she was to be the master's direct disciple in the future, she couldn't mock him like that.
Su Jinyue retracted her gaze and looked at Zhan Yihan. "It seems I shouldn't ask that." She had just been thinking that since she was practicing the Supreme Technique, she should be able to help Luo Qianao find the reason for his inability to break through. He would be her senior brother in the future, so if she could help him, she would.
Zhan Yihan reached out and rubbed Su Jinyue's hair, then took her hand and walked outside. "It's okay, let's go back." Jinyue accidentally stepped on the other person's pain.
"Yeah." Su Jinyue nodded. She knew that she had asked too directly this time, which was why Luo Qianao was angry.
Zhou Zishuang raised her head, glanced at Su Jinyue and Zhan Yihan who were leaving, then lowered her eyes again to look at the guqin in front of her.
Luo Qianao returned to his room, and it took a long time for the anger in his heart to subside.
Thinking back to Su Jinyue's expression when she asked him just now, he knew that he had made a big deal out of nothing. Just now, Su Jinyue looked at him with clear eyes, without any mockery in her eyes. It was just that he had been unable to break through the knot in his heart.
Su Jinyue and Zhan Yihan returned to their room, set up a formation, and then entered the small world. They planned to use this time to gain a deeper understanding of the formation and strive for another breakthrough before heading to Phoenix Valley.
The two of them were constantly setting up and breaking the time formation, and two months passed by unknowingly.
When their formations reached the peak of level six, they stopped. The gap between level six and level seven was extremely difficult to cross. Even if they could break through now, they wouldn't do it now. They planned to wait until they reached Phoenix Valley and the ruins of the Phoenix Clan. Huo Feng and Huo Huang explained that Phoenix Valley contained many formations left behind by the Phoenix Clan's ancestors.
Luo Qianao stood at the door for a long moment before gently knocking. He wondered if it was because of that incident that Zhan Yihan and Su Jinyue never returned to Xueqing Pavilion. He had originally thought that if they came looking for him, he'd pretend nothing had happened. But he waited and waited, for over two months, and still no one showed up.
After a while, Zhan Yihan opened the door.
"Senior Brother Luo!" Zhan Yihan was a little surprised to see Luo Qianao.
"I saw you guys haven't come out yet, so I came to check on you. Have you been practicing?" Luo Qianao looked at Zhan Yihan awkwardly. In the past, when someone provoked him, they would always go and apologize to him. This was the first time he took the initiative to approach someone.
Zhan Yihan nodded, "Brother Luo, please come in and sit down."
Luo Qianao nodded and followed Zhan Yihan into the room.
"Senior Brother Luo, please have some tea." Su Jinyue had already brewed the tea when she heard Luo Qianao's voice.
Luo Qianao was relieved to see that Su Jinyue didn't ignore him because of that incident. "Junior Sister Su, that incident was my fault. Please don't take it to heart."
Su Jinyue smiled and shook her head. "Actually, what happened that day was my fault. I shouldn't have asked that." Although she meant well, asking that question was like rubbing salt into Luo Qianao's wounds.
"My temper was too explosive, and I scared Junior Sister Su." Luo Qianao picked up the teacup on the table. The fragrance of tea immediately hit him. He took a sip of the tea, and a hint of surprise appeared in his eyes. "This is Sala tea, but the taste seems to be more fragrant and pure than the Sala tea I'm used to drinking, and the immortal spirit contained in it is also stronger. Where did you buy it?"
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