Chapter 15 Trial Mission
In order to look her best for the trial, Ye Kemeng took a special bath and changed into new clothes.
Then... he ran wildly through the yard with his hair all wet.
Cang Yao found it intriguing and leisurely watched her from the window.
Ye Kemeng ran tirelessly; she was utterly fed up with the human body. Her hair was so long—when would it ever dry?
666, feeling dizzy from her running around, offered a suggestion: "Cang Yao, you know the phoenix is called Cang Yao, right? He possesses the most powerful Nirvana Fire in the world; drying your hair would be a piece of cake for him."
Ye Kemeng was indeed tempted by 666's words. She slowed down a little, but when she met Cang Yao's gaze, she instantly changed her strategy and ran past the window in a flash, just like a woman who could move at lightning speed.
"No, I want to hide whenever I see his face."
You're clearly not this timid when you're dealing with other people.
[His name is 666, but you later agreed to take him away and even wanted him to marry you. You even said you would lock him up and keep him by your side.]
Ye Kemeng recalled the scene and sighed, "I pounced on him and kissed his neck, and then I was thinking, what if he wasn't wearing any clothes..."
Help! They're locked in a dark room and have no clothes!
The most fatal flaw is a person who is oblivious to their own flaws.
666 gasped: [Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! As an official system, I've decided to pay for these things from now on. So, you're both envious and hesitant about Phoenix.]
“He won’t be tempted if he’s wearing clothes,” Ye Kemeng corrected seriously.
All that's left is cowardice.
[...] This comes from 666, who is already dizzy and unable to respond.
She is truly the most pitiful kitten in the world.
Ye Kemeng thought to herself.
Fortunately, the sun gradually rose and the temperature increased. With Ye Kemeng's efforts, her hair was completely dry in less than half an hour.
She happily packed her small bag, put in a few of her favorite green dresses, and slung it over her shoulder, ready to go out.
Cang Yao followed beside Ye Kemeng, his face pale, occasionally coughing lightly, looking frail and weak.
Ye Kemeng wasn't used to Cang Yao being so close to her, but when she heard him cough, she couldn't bear to go far away, so she could only walk with him.
Why did you transform into a human form?
She'd wanted to ask this question ever since she woke up: Isn't being a pigeon happy?
“This is my true form,” Cang Yao explained mercifully, seeing her awkward hand gestures. “The pigeon is my disguise.”
“…Oh.” Ye Kemeng was speechless.
A faint sadness emanated from her.
Cang Yao continued, "My identity is special and cannot be easily revealed. The reason I transformed into a pigeon earlier was because my power was exhausted and I could not maintain my human form. After half a month of cultivation, I have temporarily recovered some strength, which can support my transformation. After all, human form is more convenient."
The best thing about kittens is that they never interfere with other people's decisions.
Since Phoenix says human form is convenient, then let's make it convenient. Perhaps, perhaps if she looks at Cang Yao's face for a while, she won't be so timid anymore.
The two walked from midday sun to a time of sparse moonlight and stars, finally emerging from the back mountain and arriving at the Trial Hall that Bai Lingyu and the others had mentioned.
Kyushu Academy truly lives up to its name as an "academy." Even though it's already past midnight, the sound of students reciting their lessons can still be heard from within the high walls.
Ye Kemeng pulled Cang Yao to sit on the steps of the trial hall, resting her elbows on her knees and her palms on her cheeks.
As the sound of reading kept filling her ears, she, who had been asleep for sixteen days, actually began to feel sleepy.
Ye Kemeng had just yawned and felt a little sleepy when the reading stopped and was replaced by the sound of her disciples chatting with their friends.
"Hey, have you heard? Bai Lingyu, that incredibly talented guy from Xuanzi Hall, has taken on a trial from an ancient battlefield."
"Huh?! The ancient battlefield! Doesn't that require an inner sect senior brother or sister to accompany you? But I heard that all the inner sect disciples went to the Void Land."
"That's right! So when this trial was first announced, none of us dared to take it on. Who would have thought that Bai Lingyu would actually find an inner disciple?"
Who is it?
"I haven't heard of any senior brothers or sisters returning recently?"
"Hey, that's the guy who came with a token a couple of days ago, entered our Kyushu Academy as a mortal, and became an inner disciple in one fell swoop!"
"I know, her name is Ye Kemeng!"
"It's her."
"The ancient battlefield was so dangerous. Ye Kemeng, despite having the title of inner disciple, was not even as strong as an ordinary mortal. Did they not want to live anymore?"
"Who knows what Bai Lingyu is thinking? I heard he also brought a fortune teller with him, who just joined the academy a few days ago, named... Gu Qingli!"
Ye Kemeng's drowsiness was instantly dispelled by the name 'Gu Qingli'.
Isn't this the 'female lead's name' that 666 keeps nagging in her ear?
She couldn't sleep any longer and decided to listen carefully. But after the disciples finished speaking, they all went to take a bath together, and no one said another word.
Ye Kemeng stared with her big, bright eyes: "???"
If she becomes the dean someday, she'll definitely make her students study all night.
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When Ye Kemeng was awakened by various noises in the early morning, she found herself leaning against Cang Yao's chest.
Her consciousness returned instantly, and her back straightened immediately like an iron sword that could automatically spring back, without lingering in Cang Yao's arms for even a breath.
Cang Yao lazily opened his eyes: "I discovered..."
As soon as the words were spoken, the kitten's tension shifted from its spine to the very strands of its hair.
"What...what did you find?"
“You kittens are in two different states when they are awake and when they are asleep,” Cang Yao said, releasing Ye Kemeng’s wrist as he did so.
And in Ye Kemeng's wrist, there was also a sash from Cang Yao's clothes wrapped around her wrist.
If Cang Yao hadn't held my wrist, what would have happened in front of everyone last night...?
Ye Kemeng covered her face: "..."
No, let me explain.
Fortunately, Cang Yao didn't continue speaking, so Ye Kemeng awkwardly got up and pretended that nothing had happened.
A creaking sound came from behind the door. Ye Kemeng turned her head and saw a disciple dressed in blue, stretching halfway through, with a rather alluring posture.
Ye Kemeng's almond-shaped eyes widened, and her mouth slightly open: "?"
The disciple never expected that there would be someone at the door so early in the morning. He held that position for a breath before he finally regained some consciousness.
He hurriedly and clumsily returned the hand gestures, trying his best to put on a serious face: "Are you here to accept a trial mission? Come in."
Ye Kemeng and Cang Yao entered together.
The trial hall was somewhat dim in the early morning. You could see that an entire wall of antique shelves was filled with various bamboo slips. Ye Kemeng first exclaimed "Ah!" in amazement, and then turned to leave.
There are too many words on the bamboo slips; they're not suitable for a kitten.
Cang Yao coughed lightly, and Ye Kemeng subconsciously turned around. Cang Yao said, "The seventy-fifth one from the top of the second column."
The disciple from the Trial Hall picked up the bamboo slip, glanced at it, and said, "Yesterday, a disciple from the Xuanzi Hall accepted this task and copied it onto a scroll. However, they are still missing an inner disciple to assist them."
Ye Kemeng: "I am that inner disciple."
After speaking, he took his keepsake out of his sleeve.
The disciple from the Trial Hall said, "...I'll get the bamboo slips for Senior Sister Ye right away."
You know me?
"Of course I know. In the past half month, Senior Sister Ye's name has been widely known in the academy. It can be said that no disciple does not know Senior Sister Ye." The disciple from the Trial Hall held up a disk containing the bamboo slip.
Seeing that Ye Kemeng didn't laugh at his graceful stretching earlier, the disciple was grateful and treated Ye Kemeng much more warmly than others.
Ye Kemeng picked up the bamboo slip and carefully read the information about the ancient battlefield, the Nine-Aperture Exquisite Flower and Leaves, and the companion beast.
After watching for a while, she suddenly felt nervous and quickly typed "666" in her mind: "The bamboo slip says that the higher a person's cultivation level is when they enter the ancient battlefield, the greater the erosion from the baleful aura they will suffer. Therefore, the cultivation level of inner disciples is just at a point where they can protect themselves on the battlefield without being eroded by too much baleful aura. I won't talk about my lack of cultivation for now, but what about Phoenix? I remember you told me that he is a celestial being, a very powerful one."
"...So he'd better not go in." 666 thought for a long time before giving Ye Kemeng this answer.
"But I promised to take him in."
"Little kitty, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have influenced your decisions in non-essential matters." 666 proceeded to explain the information not written on the bamboo slip in a straightforward manner. "The bamboo slip only states that the ancient battlefield was fraught with danger, but it doesn't explain how the battlefield was formed. In fact, this is the burial ground of countless ancient gods. Countless immortal lords and demon venerables died here. If they were alive, they might not have the strength to rival the Phoenix, but defeating Lord Daiyuan, who came to save you that day, would have been as easy as cutting melons and vegetables."
Ye Kemeng was extremely shocked.
666 continued: "Cang Yao was the first phoenix created at the beginning of time. In terms of seniority, he might be considerably higher than the gods and demon lords who died here. However, because of this, the spirits here might recognize the phoenix's aura, and if they harbor grudges, that could be quite dangerous."
"I understand," Ye Kemeng said softly.
She had to go, not because of the system's mission, but because she had a premonition that she would definitely enter the ancient battlefield.
It may be related to her awakened innate 'divination and precognition' abilities.
In the first instance, Ye Kemeng conceived the idea of cultivation.
If she had spiritual power, perhaps she could control more mysterious symbols, and then she could really divine something and create a vast space.
Thinking of this, Ye Kemeng calmed her mind and searched her sea of consciousness for a mysterious symbol that she had encountered before.
A note from the author:
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good evening
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