Sect Grand Competition
Xu Ya's gaze didn't linger on the male lead for even half a second.
Now is the time for Xu Ya to make her stance clear.
Xu Ya doesn't cause trouble, but now that she has regained her memories, she is not afraid of trouble either.
Now, perhaps revealing her relationship with Shi Yuzhen through food cultivation will make her future feeding journey smoother.
After a moment's consideration, Xu Ya bowed to Master Wang and said, "Thank you, Master Wang, for seeking justice for your disciple. I am deeply grateful. My research on immortal ingredients was entirely due to Senior Brother Shi's life-saving grace. To express my gratitude, I have been going out late at night. Please punish me, Master Wang."
Xu Ya gave Wang Shi a way out, and Wang Shi's expression improved. He also listened to Xu Ya's words more carefully.
Shi Yuzhen stood behind the crowd with her hands behind her back, neither confirming nor denying Xu Ya's words. When she heard "life-saving grace," Shi Yuzhen raised an eyebrow without batting an eye. What a little liar.
Master Wang patted Xu Ya heavily with his broad hand, maintaining his composure as he laughed and said, "My little disciple is so thoughtful, it's really true. I heard that you've been busy lately before the competition and have been delayed. Your senior brother told me all this, so how could I punish you, haha."
The matter of Xu Ya being wrongly accused came to an end, and Zhang Xin, having seriously violated regulations, was punished and had been out of contact for more than half a year. The scandal still spread, but because one of the main figures was the relatively unknown Xu Ya, it wasn't discussed much.
With the grand competition approaching, the cultivators who had witnessed the entire event that night were now hesitant to call out to Xu Ya again.
Are you kidding me? What exactly is her relationship with the senior brother?
Nowadays, many female cultivators can't wait to ask her, openly or secretly, what her relationship with Shi Yuzhen really is.
Despite Xu Ya's repeated explanations that she was only repaying a life-saving debt, it seemed no one believed her.
This little incident didn't change Xu Ya's life as one might have imagined. She was still the novice who hadn't gone through the apprenticeship ceremony, and still the temporary worker quietly helping out at the food repair shop.
However, occasionally, Shi Yuzhen would personally visit the Food Cultivation Sect, accurately find Xu Ya among the cultivators, and extend her arm to signal her to ask for food.
Each time, Xu Ya would pull out a pre-prepared fried chicken food box from her treasure bag and hand it to him with a puzzled look on her face. Shi Yuzhen didn't think anything of it and would take it quickly without saying anything.
The senior female students, who were secretly peeping behind a pillar in the corner, suppressed their inner screams. After everyone left, they patiently asked Xu Ya, like a regular NPC, what exactly was her relationship with the senior brother.
To outsiders, the two appeared extremely close.
A rumor spread unnoticed throughout the Immortal Marsh.
The annual sect competition in Yunmeng Immortal Marsh has finally officially begun.
The venue, Yuxiantai, is located at the foot of Xianze Mountain, where the true intersection with the mortal world is situated. Its original purpose was to facilitate the search for talented cultivators in addition to competitions. Rogue cultivators from the mortal world or ordinary people with outstanding spiritual roots can join the Xianze sect by participating in the grand competition.
In other words, if Xu Ya is unhappy, she can take this opportunity to run away without anyone noticing.
In the past, when Xu Ya lost her memory, she only thought that Xianze had raised her for so many years and would never run away secretly because of a little grievance. No one knew about the subtle changes Xu Ya had undergone these days.
Xu Ya followed the main group of food cultivators to the preparation site at Yuxiantai.
The month-long busy work of the food cultivators has finally come to an end, and the atmosphere among them is filled with laughter.
Xu Ya was the only one who couldn't stand the system's annoyance.
The system still believed she would desert at the last minute, and kept muttering incoherently in her mind.
"Please stop reading."
Even the system's electronic voice betrayed its anxiety: "55, you have to promise me you really won't leave."
"I'm not leaving. If I wanted to leave, I would have left that day. I remember saying that five times already." Xu Ya coldly took out the ingredients she had prepared from her treasure bag.
Xu Ya has now been granted permission to set out her food at a table that is only wide enough for one person.
She carefully opened the lids of the golden-brown, crispy fried chickens in the bag and arranged them neatly.
The fried chicken, cooked to perfection, glistened in the sunlight. As soon as the lid was lifted, an indescribable aroma immediately wafted out, attracting the attention of the senior students.
However, the crowd just watched from a distance without approaching to chat, seemingly still disdainfully thinking that Xu Ya, that little good-for-nothing, could possibly make any kind of food with amazing effects.
Every year, the grand competition in Yunmeng Immortal Marsh attracts a large number of mortals. In order to survive, mortals get up early every day to farm. Now that the grand competition is coming, most mortals will choose to take a day off to watch the cultivators from Immortal Marsh compete.
One by one, cultivators from various sects arrived and descended from the sky, eliciting cheers from the crowd.
Especially the sword cultivators, who all flew in on their swords, landing gracefully with their robes billowing in the air, making for a spectacular sight.
Xu Ya used to be one of the cheering crowd, but now she was really tired of these righteous cultivators' tricks. Instead, she turned her back to Yuxiantai, sat on the ground, leaned against the table leg, and ate fried chicken.
The familiar crispy aroma awakened Xu Ya's taste buds. This specially made magical fried chicken wouldn't cause any heatiness, and with the magical energy bestowed by the golden finger, its addictiveness was no less than that of the mortal world.
The competition officially began, and the masters of each sect took their seats in the center of the Encountering Immortals Platform to organize the competition.
Anyone who knows Xu Ya's true nature would be astonished to see her like this now.
The timid dodder flower, which usually doesn't dare to say a word when it's outside, is now teasing the cats and dogs, occasionally breaking off a piece of fried chicken to share with them.
Meanwhile, in the distance, a dirty little beggar was swallowing hard and watching Xu Ya's actions with longing eyes.
Xu Ya noticed this keenly and waved to the child.
The child hesitated and hid in a corner, seemingly thinking that Xu Ya's gesture was to drive him away, and stayed hidden in the shadows for a long time.
Xu Ya walked towards the shadows. The child's murky eyes were the brightest thing in the darkness. The child was thin and bony, squatting in the corner, his skeletal little black hands wrapped around his knees, afraid to move.
Xu Ya spoke again: "Little one, are you hungry?"
The little beggar was about 7 or 8 years old, but he was probably older than he looked. He seemed surprised for a moment after understanding Xu Ya's words, but he obediently stayed where he was and didn't dare to say a word.
Xu Ya felt a pang of sympathy; she had once looked just like that when the director picked her up from the street and brought her to the orphanage.
She took a box of fried chicken from the small table, walked over to the little beggar, gently placed the food box at the child's feet not far away, and then walked away.
Seeing her actions, the child didn't move, but stared intently at the box of food like a little hungry wolf.
After a while, the child looked around, then crawled to the food box on all fours. His dark little paws grabbed the still warm fried whole chicken, and without any fear of the low temperature, he hid in a corner and seemed to wolf it down.
Seeing this, Xu Ya felt relieved, a faint smile appeared on her lips, and she sat back down.
The competition progressed in stages, with exciting twists and turns. More than halfway through, the food cultivation cultivators' stalls came in handy, offering a dazzling array of food for the cultivators to choose from.
Many low-level cultivators came and went, seemingly recognizing Xu Ya. They glanced disdainfully at the food she brought, smiled enigmatically, and then walked away from the stall to get food from their senior brothers' and sisters' stalls to replenish their nutrition.
Xu Ya didn't care at all. The food cultivators prepared immortal food for the many cultivators in Xianze, and the cultivators could enjoy it without paying spirit stones. In other words, Xu Ya had been busy at the food cultivator sect for a whole month, but she didn't get a single penny of benefit.
So Xu Yale's leisurely life: They don't want to eat, and I don't want to give them any.
Xu Ya sat in the corner, hugging her knees, and casually picked a foxtail grass from the ground to tease the ants on the ground.
A man in white suddenly appeared in front of the food stall, causing a stir among the crowd.
The man in white was completely unaware of the sensation his appearance had caused, and walked straight to a certain stall, his presence eliciting waves of amazement.
This person is none other than Shi Yuzhen, the most powerful disciple of Yunmeng Immortal Marsh. Even ordinary mortals who just want to join in the fun know his name.
Xu Ya was completely unaware as she teased the little ants.
The man chuckled, and Xu Ya finally came to her senses.
At that moment, the man in white stood in front, and the little girl sat on the ground hugging her knees. The man reached out again to help her up.
The noisy environment suddenly became quiet again.
"What exactly is the relationship between Senior Brother Shi and her? Could the rumors be true?"
"What rumor?"
"So... Senior Brother Shi is in love... with that good-for-nothing..."
"?? This can't be real!"
"No! Isn't she the good-for-nothing that Master Xu is trying so hard to protect? Why has she been in Ze Nei all these years? Shouldn't she have been let go according to Ze Nei's standards?"
"You didn't hear anything about the huge scene at the Food Cultivation Sect that day, did you? The two of them must have a close relationship."
"I don't know."
"I don't understand."
Shi Yuzhen shut out the doubts. After helping Xu Ya up, he seemed to deliberately act as if he knew her very well.
Xu Ya was suddenly lifted up by the immortal power, and when she stood up, she was almost touching Shi Yuzhen. She quickly took a step back to create some distance.
This action prompted Shi Yuzhen to raise an eyebrow and take another step forward.
Shi Yuzhen smiled gently, turned to the side and pointed to Xu Ya's small table, saying softly, "Junior Sister, could you please introduce the food you brought?"
Shi Yuzhen often found Xu Ya interesting. She would say she wanted to repay his kindness and that she liked him, but it always seemed like she was just saying it.
Shi Yuzhen certainly couldn't believe the little liar's words. Since he arrived at Yuxiantai early in the morning, he had been surrounded by cultivators who admired him, but Xu Ya, who claimed to like him, was not among them.
Shi Yuzhen easily spotted Xu Ya, who was teasing cats and dogs, in the crowd. This was not something she would normally do when she was in love with him.
Why doesn't she stick close to me?
This silly boy, why won't he go all the way with his act?
After pondering many times why Xu Ya did this, Shi Yuzhen still couldn't find a good reason to explain her behavior.
The fried chicken that Xu Ya gave him was indeed quite effective for his cultivation, and it was a type that greatly enhanced his abilities. Shi Yuzhen often felt that he was addicted to it.
If that's the case, why not keep her by your side and observe her?
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