Chapter 14: New Love and Old Love
When Ye Kemeng woke up, she felt like she was trapped inside her body, unable to move, speak, or even move her eyes.
Each one is composed of countless obscure and difficult-to-understand symbols, which seem incredibly complicated at first glance, but Ye Kemeng felt a sense of familiarity about them.
Thinking of this, she had a sudden thought, and the nearest circular halo immediately stopped rotating and drifted towards her.
Ye Kemeng reached out her conscious claws to touch the halo.
The moment they made contact, the bouncy, slightly cool sensation traveled deep into her consciousness, and Ye Kemeng couldn't help but poke it again.
"I love you so much, Master."
"Hehe, I like you guys too."
If she were in kitten form, Ye Kemeng would definitely be holding her tail high and meowing happily.
After playing with the symbols for a while, Ye Kemeng learned some of their meanings and uses without being taught.
It is merely divine consciousness.
Of course, this is not without its limitations. If the person who set up the space is much stronger than Ye Kemeng, then she will not be able to enter.
However, these were enough to satisfy Ye Kemeng.
"If I master more symbols, wouldn't I be able to predict future events and even build a space for my own hall like the Dean did?" Ye Kemeng suddenly felt that the future was promising.
When the Dean's Space was mentioned, Ye Kemeng subconsciously thought of the dream she had that night, and the little black snake in the dream.
At first, she genuinely thought it was all a dream, but when the phoenix poked her face and woke her up, she truly felt a dizzying sensation of spatial shift. It was exactly the same feeling she had when she met the academy's dean and entered and exited the main hall.
Unfortunately, before she could tell Phoenix after waking up, she fainted from the pain all over her body.
Phoenix... Right, what if that snake recovers and launches a sneak attack? Phoenix will have to take care of her and defend herself. How can she manage all that?
In a moment of urgency, Ye Kemeng actually managed to extricate herself from these spaces filled with mysterious symbols and regain her awareness of the outside world.
Everything was peaceful and serene.
Ye Kemeng suddenly opened her eyes. At this moment, she regained control of her body and subconsciously tried to sit up and snuggle into Phoenix's arms.
She had just turned around when she was suddenly confronted by a man with a handsome face, long phoenix eyes, a high nose and thin lips, exuding an aloof and unapproachable aura.
"?" Where is the little pigeon?!
If it weren't for the familiar scent emanating from him that the kitten would have already swatted at him with its paw.
Even so, the veins on her hands, which were supporting her at her sides, were bulging, indicating that she was enduring great hardship.
The moment Ye Kemeng opened her eyes, Cang Yao had already woken up from his light sleep. Seeing her half-supported and motionless, Cang Yao leaned forward slightly, intending to check on Ye Kemeng's condition.
But when he got closer, Ye Kemeng suddenly tilted her head back and made a low, menacing 'woo-woo' sound in her throat.
A kitten's intimidation comes in two forms: a 'meow' sound is directed at friends who have crossed its line, while a 'hiss' means 'Come on, let's fight!'
This means... he should stay away?
Before Cang Yao could react, Ye Kemeng seemed to realize that she had gone a bit too far, so she reluctantly raised her head and gently rubbed it against the lower part of Cang Yao's neck.
Very perfunctory.
After rubbing against him, she quickly got up and jumped away, as if she didn't want to have any contact with him for even a moment.
For the first time in his life, Emperor Cangyao experienced the feeling of being disliked.
666's only thoughts are "scumbag woman".
It said to the kitten: "[I, the mighty Phoenix, the Emperor Cangyao, have been taking care of you tirelessly for the past sixteen days, fetching you the clearest mountain spring water every day, and you... you wake up and this is how you show your disdain for me.]"
Ye Kemeng felt ashamed and subconsciously glanced at Phoenix. Seeing his unapproachable face, she couldn't help but back down and whispered in protest, "I didn't want to do this either. If he looked like a phoenix, or even a pigeon, I would be happy to hug and rub against him."
You just like the way people look without clothes.
Ye Kemeng: "..." That's so true, she couldn't refute it.
She retorted, "Okay, I do like him when he's naked. Maybe that's what a 'bad girl' is like. But we 'bad girls' are also very loyal. If we say we'll only marry one, we'll only marry one. I won't even glance at the other geese or snakes."
After saying that, Ye Kemeng quickly covered her mouth. She had accidentally revealed her conversation with 666.
Cang Yao remained seated on the chair by the bed, his black robe accentuating his long, beautiful fingers as he tapped on the armrest.
After Ye Kemeng finished speaking, Cang Yao suddenly stopped moving.
At the same time, his slightly fierce gaze peeked out from under his thin eyelids and landed on Ye Kemeng's face.
Ye Kemeng gave a polite but slightly awkward smile.
666 was very panicked: [Host, shouldn't you apologize and appease him? We still have a mission later...]
"A mission?" Looking at Phoenix's haughty face, Ye Kemeng couldn't bring herself to say anything except self-reproach. She asked the system, "What mission?"
It has been a month since she completed her first 'announcement of engagement' task.
[Follow Bai Lingyu, Gu Qingli, and other disciples into the 'Ancient Battlefield' to search for the Nine-Aperture Exquisite Flower Leaf.]
Ye Kemeng expressed her understanding: "I will try my best to pick this leaf back."
No, your task is not to gather leaves, but to provoke the companion beast that guards the exquisite flower's leaves, the Chi-head.
"???"
Just as Ye Kemeng was about to speak with the system, a voice suddenly came from outside the courtyard.
"Senior Sister Ye!"
"Senior Sister Kemeng!"
"Senior sister, are you inside?"
Ye Kemeng and Fenghuang both turned to look outside.
Several heads peeked out from outside the courtyard wall. Ye Kemeng recognized one of them; it was Bai Lingyu's.
She said, "Come in."
This is a mix of new and old love.
Cang Yao's gaze returned to Ye Kemeng.
666 muttered again: "What a scumbag woman."
Bai Lingyu led his two junior brothers and two junior sisters into the courtyard.
Wu Zhenyi, the talkative guy who went with him to the Void to find Ye Kemeng last time, was also among them.
As soon as he stepped inside, Wu Zhenyi whispered, "Although this is the inner sect territory, it is completely incomparable to the Earth Hall and Heaven Hall. The spiritual energy here is pitifully weak. It's better to go to the outer sect to cultivate here."
"Shh, keep your voice down, don't let Senior Sister Ye hear you," a disciple advised.
"What's there to be afraid of? She broke off her engagement with our Brother Bai just because she looked down on him for being an outer disciple. She has her own token, and although she is an inner disciple, she can only live in this place that is not even as good as an outer disciple because she is too weak. She brought this upon herself."
Bai Lingyu frowned and scolded.
At this moment, the five of them had already entered the courtyard. After passing the pomegranate tree that was blocking their view, they discovered that there was not only Ye Kemeng in the house, but also a man whose appearance was more handsome than anyone they had ever seen in their lives.
When facing outsiders, the phoenix's pupils turn into a pure black, as dark as ink, losing its divinity, but its aloof aura remains undiminished.
“This…this one…” one of the disciples said, speechless.
Ye Kemeng disliked the way they looked at Phoenix. She walked up to Phoenix, turned around, and blocked his way: "He is my husband. After the Void Land returns to peace, we will go home and get married."
Wu Zhenyi, who had initially criticized the courtyard, was furious and could no longer hold back: "You, you woman, you are truly shameless. You were engaged to our Brother Bai before, and not only did you come to break off the engagement for no reason, but you also pretended not to recognize him when you met him at the academy. If you hadn't become an inner disciple and had your name and credentials, who knows how long Brother Bai would have been kept in the dark!"
Ye Kemeng didn't quite understand: "What's wrong with becoming strangers after announcing the engagement?"
Wu Zhenyi was so angry at her matter-of-fact tone that he almost flew to the sky: "Yes, very much so! Seventeen days ago you came to the academy alone to study, but now you have a man in your house, and in just seventeen days you have fallen in love with someone else! Moreover, he is just a mortal without any cultivation. Apart from his appearance, how can he compare to my Brother Bai?"
"They fell in love at first sight when neither of them was married and they were both single, and they supported each other through thick and thin," Ye Kemeng used all the idioms she had been influenced by 666, "He doesn't mind that I'm poor, so how could I mind that he's poor? Besides, as for his appearance, I just like that he's not wearing any clothes..."
In the blink of an eye, Cang Yao reached out and put his arm around Ye Kemeng's waist, pulling her onto his lap, while covering her mouth with his other hand.
While the five people stared in disbelief, Cang Yao said in a low voice, "There are some things we can talk about between the two of us."
He then looked up at the five people opposite him and asked, "Is there anything else?"
The group exchanged glances, and finally a young woman took out a scroll: "Senior Sister Ye, the Trial Hall recently issued a new mission to find the 'Nine-Aperture Exquisite Flower Leaf' in the 'Ancient Battlefield.' The academy stipulates that any mission entering the Ancient Battlefield requires at least one inner disciple to accompany the person. After inquiring with Elder Chen of the Trial Hall, we learned that all the inner disciples are dealing with the calamity in the Void Land and are not in the academy. Therefore, we would like to trouble Senior Sister Ye to come out of seclusion."
If it were anyone else, they would definitely ask, "Is the ancient battlefield dangerous?" or "I have never cultivated, I only have the title of inner disciple, how should I deal with danger?" But Ye Kemeng didn't ask a single question. She simply pulled Cang Yao's hand away and readily agreed, "Okay."
Of everyone present, only Cang Yao and 666 could believe it.
The group walked out of the courtyard, sat on the shovels that Elder Chen had lent them, and flew back to the Trial Hall.
Only after the other three left, leaving only Bai Lingyu and Wu Zhenyi, did Wu Zhenyi scratch his head, his earlier sarcastic tone vanishing, and say, "Brother Bai, did I go too far by asking me to provoke Senior Sister Ye a little? Actually, what Senior Sister Ye said wasn't really true; once the engagement is annulled, they're strangers..."
Seeing Bai Lingyu's slightly sad expression, he quickly changed his words: "However, the fact that Senior Sister Ye agreed to go to the trial with us must mean that she has a little bit of affection for you."
Bai Lingyu closed his eyes, recalling the time when he gave Ye Kemeng the medicine bottle after she caught the demon snake with her bare hands, and how Ye Kemeng looked at him as if she wanted to speak.
If he had waited a little longer back then, would things have started differently?
On the very night Ye Kemeng became an inner disciple, the little beast in his dream transformed into Ye Kemeng herself.
He never had that dream again after that.
At the same time, Ye Kemeng sprang off Cang Yao on all fours, as if he were covered in thorns.
Cang Yao remained noncommittal about the kitten's aloof attitude, simply stating the facts: "On the third day of your coma, Bai Lingyu came to see you."
The kitten didn't seem to care much: "He meant well, but I have you, and that's enough for me."
Phoenix: "..."
Phoenix felt that there was no need to say the remaining sentence, "I let him go," so he said, "I'll go with you to the ancient battlefield."
A note from the author:
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