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"Whose energetic young man is this? Does he need a few tonic pills?" Jiang Chen leaned against the doorframe, gazing at him with a smile. Xu Mobai, holding his lunch box in one hand, raised the other to plead, "No, if I take your pills, who knows if I'll turn into a dog or a rabbit." The two of them bantered for a bit, and Bai Yuge pushed open the door. Judging from his spirit, he must have been training all night. A man with a goal in mind was, after all, different from his lazy nature. "Let's go." Xu Mobai pushed open the door to Feng Jingluo's residence, placed the lunch box on a stool in the inner courtyard, and the food inside was arranged on the table. He shouted a few more times, and Yun Ruchen pushed open the door and came out, dressed in a black suit that accentuated her slender figure, her hair half tied up. Feng Jingluo, sitting cross-legged on the bed, slowly exhaled. The white light emanating from her dantian gradually faded. She opened her eyes, her pupils darkening even deeper. After a few days, the power of the law had finally been mostly restored. If one could see through the flesh and blood to reveal the bones, one would find that her bones were as clear and lustrous as jade. Only a few ribs and hip bones near her skull and heart remained untouched. When she emerged, she seemed to become ethereal for a moment in everyone's eyes. Xu Mobai wanted to ask, but feared the answer would shock his young mind, so he simply extended his hand and beckoned them to come and eat. With Feng Jingluo's talent, he wouldn't be surprised if he one day dominated the cultivation world. "According to the mission agreement, you and I need to go to the mission hall later to pick up the caravan we're protecting." Flying boats are expensive to build, and require a constant supply of spirit stones for flight power or large-scale formations to draw spiritual energy. Generally, those who can operate flying boats are either major sects or large nations with their own guards. Only small caravans, unable to hire flying boats, use spirit beasts and hire cultivators for escort. "I've already given up all the rent," Xu Mobai said. "The Snowfield Kingdom is also a very remote small country in the north. Do you have any goods you need to send there?" Jiang Chen asked as he ate his meal. The northern region is vast and sparsely populated, and the colder it gets the further you go. The Snow Country is only covered in snow for two or three months of the year. While this region produces some valuable cold-natured medicinal herbs, they primarily sell them for profit. Few caravans travel specifically to the Snow Country. "I've heard that most women in the Snow Country have ice spirit roots, capable of ripening snow spirit herbs. This also aids in the breeding of snow spirit beasts. Perhaps the caravan is going there to purchase these," Xu Mobai speculated. Jiang Chen wasn't the type to delve into details; she was simply a little curious. While the Snow Country is rich in spiritual herbs and...
"Whose energetic young man is this? Does he need to take some nourishing pills?" Jiang Chen leaned against the door frame, staring at him with a smile.
Xu Mobai held the lunch box in one hand and raised the other hand to beg for mercy, "Please don't. If I eat your pill, who knows if I will turn into a dog or a rabbit."
The two of them joked for a while, and Bai Yuge pushed the door open. Judging from the other person's spirit, he must have been practicing all night.
People with goals are different from his lazy personality.
"Let's go."
Xu Mobai directly pushed open the door of Feng Jingluo's mansion, placed the lunch box on the stool in the inner courtyard, and placed the food inside on the table in order.
He shouted a few more times, and Yun Ruchen pushed the door open and came out. He was wearing a black suit that highlighted his slender waist, and his hair was half tied up.
Feng Jingluo, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed in the room, exhaled slowly. The white light emanating from her dantian gradually faded away. She opened her eyes, and her pupils became deeper and darker.
After a few days, the power of the law was finally restored.
If you could see through the flesh and blood to the bones, you would find that the bones in her body were as clear and lustrous as jade. Only a few ribs and hip bones near her skull and heart had not turned jade-colored.
When she came out, she seemed to become ethereal for a moment in everyone's eyes.
Xu Mobai wanted to ask, but was afraid that the answer would irritate his young mind, so he just stretched out his hand and invited a few people to come and eat.
With Feng Jingluo's talent, he wouldn't be surprised if he dominated the cultivation world one day.
"According to the mission agreement, you and I will need to go to the mission hall to pick up the people from the caravan."
Flying boats are expensive to build, and require a constant supply of spirit stones as energy for flight, or large magic arrays to absorb spiritual energy.
Generally, those who can use flying boats are either large sects or big countries, and they have their own guards.
Only some small caravans that cannot afford flying boats will use spirit beasts and hire monks to escort them.
"I have already given up all the houses." Xu Mobai said.
"The Snow Country is also a very remote small country in the north. Are there any goods that need to be sent there?" Jiang Chen said while eating.
The northern region is vast and sparsely populated, and the further you go in, the colder it gets. The Snow Country is only not covered by heavy snow for two or three months a year.
Although some good cold-natured spiritual medicines were grown as a result, they have always been selling them to make money.
Few caravans go specifically to the Snow Country for business.
"I heard that most women in the Snow Country have ice spiritual roots and have the ability to ripen snow spiritual medicines. It is also helpful for raising snow spiritual beasts. Maybe the caravan went there to buy these things." Xu Mobai guessed.
Jiang Chen wasn't the type to ask questions; she was just a little curious. While the Snow Country was rich in spiritual medicines and beasts, it wasn't enough to warrant a large merchant caravan rushing there.
Without any formalities, they left the Ascension Pavilion after dinner and headed for the Mission Hall. From a distance, they saw a man in a brown cloak waiting outside the hall, seemingly noticing them.
He walked over cautiously and asked in an old voice, "Are you the ones who will take on the mission?"
Xu Mobai smiled and said, "Exactly."
The old woman glanced at them. Although they were all young people, she did not look down on them. She said, "Please follow me out of the city. The caravan is waiting outside."
The old man had his face half-covered with his hood, so his features couldn't be seen clearly. After he finished speaking, he led the way.
A group of people walked out of the city.
When I walked out of the city gate, I saw a dozen people gathered there, wearing the same cloak, and three snow-white lion-like beasts pulling a three-horse carriage.
Feng Jingluo inadvertently glanced at the leading carriage. She stared at it for a moment, then looked away. The second carriage was exceptionally spacious, as if designed to accommodate them. Only the third carriage had three carts of goods attached to it.
The old man walked towards the first carriage and said respectfully to the people inside, "Miss, these are the monks who will take on the mission."
Feng Jingluo saw the overly white hand and gently lifted the curtain, but there was no one behind it.
The people inside hummed, and the old man walked up to them and said, "I'd like to ask for your protection and ensure that the goods are delivered safely to the Snow Country."
The old man summoned several spirit beasts from the hollow gold bracelet on his wrist for them to ride. Then she rode on the leading spirit beast and led the caravan along the road. Those people in cloaks also got into the second carriage.
It was quite strange. Xu Mobai clapped his hands, "It's called a caravan, but they are all so secretive, as if they can't show it to anyone."
Jiang Chen sniffed, "They smell like spiritual medicine." And they were all riding spiritual beasts from the snowfield.
"Since I have accepted the mission, why bother to find out the reason." Bai Yuge jumped up, sat on the spirit beast, stroked the circle of hair on its neck, exerted force with his legs, and the spirit beast caught up with the caravan.
Xu Mobai and Jiang Chen also jumped onto the spirit beasts. He teased, "Your nose is better than the spirit beast's."
Jiang Chen leaned over and placed his arms on the spirit beast's head. "Are you jealous? Come and try the medicine here. I guarantee you'll turn into a spirit beast."
She patted the spirit beast's butt and ran out, brushing past the spirit beast under Xu Mobai's seat. The latter tilted its body to dodge and chased after her with a smile.
The beauty of life is best enjoyed by those who travel with friends.
Everyone had gone far away, but Yun Ruchen was still standing there, half-turned away from Feng Jingluo, to avoid the other party seeing the embarrassed expression on his face.
He neglected his cultivation and rarely appeared in the sect, so apart from his favorite formations, he knew nothing else. Yun Ruchen didn't even know how to control his mount and make it obey his orders.
I placed my hand on the spirit beast's soft fur. It turned its head and exhaled, its tail swinging back and forth.
Yun Ruchen was about to take a deep breath and jump up when Feng Jingluo asked, "Doesn't Ruchen know how to tame beasts?"
He shook his head with a slightly distressed expression, his eyes smiling but helpless, "I have no intention of practicing, so naturally I have never contracted a spirit beast."
Feng Jingluo nodded in understanding, walked forward, grabbed Yun Ruchen's belt and lifted it up. He then sat directly astride the spirit beast's back and approached with an imposing figure.
Before Yun Ruchen could settle down, she squeezed the beast's belly, urging it to catch up with the person in front. He held onto the beast's neck fur tightly, not daring to reach back and touch Feng Jingluo's body.
They were too close, and although Yun Ruchen tried his best to shrink his body, he was still touched by Feng Jingluo's strong and powerful thighs on his side, and as the spirit beast bumped around, his lower back was hit by her abdomen.
Every contact forced him to tremble unconsciously. The strange feeling rising from his lower back made Yun Ruchen's fingers numb and itchy. He could not hold the animal's fur and leaned forward staggeringly, hoping to hide his panicked eyes and red cheeks.
Unable to control the strength of his hands, he pinched Yun Ruchen's waist, causing him to straighten his body sensitively in an instant.
"Relax." The voice rang in my ears, with its usual steady and reassuring tone.
"If you tense up too much, you'll fall."
Yun Ruchen understood that Feng Jingluo was only teaching him how to tame beasts, but being at such an intimate distance, he was completely enveloped by the other person. His body temperature, smell, and voice made him unsure of which to adapt to. He just felt that he was surrounded in Feng Jingluo's arms and could not escape.
"I...I can control it myself."
Feng Jingluo raised his eyebrows. Shaozong's voice was shaking and his body was particularly stiff. Was he... scared?
On second thought, it was normal. After all, the young master had never ridden a spirit beast before, so it was natural for him to panic and be frightened.
Pinching the hand on Yun Ruchen's waist, he embraced Yun Ruchen with one arm and whispered softly in his ear, "If you're scared, you can lean on me."
The auricle felt like it was being pricked by a needle, a slight pain followed by a numbing sensation that exploded like fireworks. The pain spread all the way to the back of her head, and Yun Ruchen froze completely in Feng Jingluo's arms, a blush spreading all the way to her neck. She lowered her head and remained silent.
His consciousness was almost burned out.
Feng Jingluo was skilled in controlling the spirit beast and caught up with them in a blink of an eye. Jiang Chen was fine, just looking at her with a teasing smile and mouthing "I have a beauty in my arms, enjoy it."
Xu Mobai glanced at Yun Ruchen's red earlobe, held back his laughter, and urged the spirit beast to run to Bai Yuge's side to observe the other party's reaction.
Bai Yuge stared at him coldly, snorted coldly, and moved away. He glanced at him out of the corner of his eye and used an expressionless face to hide the disappointment in his eyes.
Feng Jingluo didn't understand what Jiang Chen meant by enjoyment. She was still carefully teaching Yun Ruchen to relax his body and bend over slightly to clamp the beast's belly.
But the more her serious voice rang in his ears and penetrated into Yun Ruchen's mind, the more dizzy he became and he could not sit still. In the end, he could only grit his teeth and turn his head away with a red face.
The eyes so close to her were as moist as the rippling surface of a lake, and she looked as if she was about to cry.
"Too...too close."
At this moment, a blush appeared in her eyes. Feng Jingluo was stunned for a few seconds before she realized that it was her who hugged Shaozong in her arms, making him shy.
She was not shy. She leaned back slightly to make room, but her arms were still firmly around Yun Ruchen's waist to prevent him from falling.
"I'm sorry, I lost my composure."
She spoke too formally, without a trace of apology on her face, making it seem as if holding Yun Ruchen in her arms was a matter of course.
Because she really didn't have any hidden thoughts at all.
Yun Ruchen knew it very well, so he felt ashamed of the strange emotions in his heart. Feng Jingluo was just taking care of his feelings, so why should he be shy?
No matter how you think about it, being some distance away finally allowed Yun Ruchen to relax his body, calm his emotions, and be able to breathe properly.
But Feng Jingluo seemed to have just recovered and was about to laugh. Her chest shook, and her laughter carried a warm breeze. She said, "Young Master, you seem to be steaming?"
She joked to lighten the mood, but Yun Ruchen covered her face instead, and she was embarrassed and at a loss.
They traveled along the Qinzhou Mountains, and not only had to pass through several cities, but also cross many mountains before they could enter the north.
Half a day after the group left, a flying boat landed outside Tanzhou City. The woman who disembarked hurried into the city, searching for Feng Jingluo. Sorting out recent news from fragments of information, she learned that so much had happened since Feng Jingluo entered Tanzhou City.
The person who came was none other than her junior sister Xiong Guiyue. After finishing facing the wall, she learned that her senior sister had left the sect, and she had been intending to look for her. Coincidentally, the sect had something to ask her to do, so she came to look for Feng Jingluo.
She got the news from the sect that her senior sister was in Qinzhou City, so she hurried over. Only after entering the city did she have time to understand what happened during the period of facing the wall. Unfortunately, no matter how hard she tried to control the flying boat, she was still too late. When she found the Dengtian Pavilion, she learned that the group had already left.
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