Fox Clan Chief
Nan Yi, familiar with the place, stepped forward and simply knocked on the door a few times.
Chu Li gestured with her eyes, "That's it?"
He was just talking to her about needing to ask through layers of requests to see the clan leader, and then he knocked on the door.
Doesn't it always require knocking before entering someone's room?
Nan Yi gave him a somewhat innocent look. He wasn't wrong just now. Almost all foxes had to write a letter requesting an audience with the clan leader, stating their purpose, before the clan leader would agree to meet them.
However, there are always some exceptions in this world, such as the elders of the fox clan, and... and him.
He was just too aware of why he received such special treatment.
Perhaps sensing the presence outside early on, the somewhat dilapidated wooden door creaked open after only a few knocks.
There was a person standing inside the room. Chu Li glanced at him subconsciously and found that the other person also had very obvious fox-human characteristics. The most eye-catching feature was the bright color at the corner of his eyes, which looked like it had been specially painted on.
However, this clan leader was younger than Chu Li had imagined. Of course, "young" here does not refer to his actual age, but rather that he had a very youthful appearance.
While it's true that cultivators in the cultivation world can maintain their appearance, many people in power prefer to freeze their appearance at an older age, as this may make them appear more mature and make it easier to manage their subordinates.
But when her gaze met that of the clan chief, she immediately realized that he was much older than she had imagined. The maturity and experience in his eyes perfectly demonstrated this fact to her.
But she didn't notice that when the other person saw her face, a strange look flashed almost imperceptibly in their eyes, but it quickly disappeared.
"Nan Yi, who is this?"
“This is my senior sister—” He glanced at Chu Li’s expression before saying the next sentence, “and also my partner.”
Where no one could see, the clan leader's pupils contracted slightly, and then he asked, "You said you came back with questions to ask?"
Nan Yi coughed lightly, recalling the explanation he had given in his previous letter. At that time, he was only focused on pursuing his senior sister and was somewhat anxious, so he explained the matter in the letter in advance.
But he doesn't need it now, and his senior sister is with him, so let's at least save him some face.
Chu Li glanced at Nan Yi. So he came back earlier with questions to ask? Why did he suddenly stop asking them later?
Nan Yi hurriedly interrupted Chu Li's association. Her senior sister was too smart. If she had more time, she might actually be able to guess why she had come back.
"Clan leader, I've been away for a long time, so I thought I'd take my senior sister for a tour of the fox clan."
The clan chief nodded gently, then said, "Nan Yi, I have something to say to you. Could you please ask your senior sister to leave for a moment?"
Chu Li had anticipated this situation and promptly pushed open the door and left.
As the woman's figure disappeared and the door closed softly, the clan leader spoke again: "Your senior sister, her identity..."
The clan leader stopped there.
Nan Yi thought the clan leader wanted to know more specific information about Chu Li, so he said, "This time I went to the Myriad Elephants Sect to become the sect leader's disciple. She is the sect leader's eldest disciple, that is, the senior sister of the Myriad Elephants Sect."
Senior Sister?
But why did he feel that this senior sister looked so similar to the one from the Myriad Manifestations Sect?
He then casually asked a few more questions about the woman. Seeing that Nan Yi's expression was becoming suspicious, he silently changed the subject.
"By the way, how's your injury now? Is it the same as before?"
Speaking of this, Nan Yi couldn't help but feel a little troubled. He was now a man with a partner, and he was no longer as dejected as he had been when he was first injured. However, as time went on, he cheered himself up, but he also became somewhat anxious.
The longer it goes on, the less likely he is to recover. Does he have to stay with his senior sister with his Foundation Establishment cultivation level forever?
Even if his senior sister doesn't mind, he still feels bad.
"I haven't found the Grandmaster of the Myriad Manifestations Sect yet, so asking her to help me is just a pipe dream."
How can we talk about treatment if we can't even find the person?
"I see." The clan leader murmured. "Does your partner know why you went to the Myriad Manifestations Sect?"
“She probably doesn’t know. I haven’t told her,” Nan Yi took a light breath. “I’ll tell her later when the time is right.”
"Nan Yi, the most taboo thing between partners is to keep secrets, especially... Anyway, you should tell your partner everything as soon as possible, it might not be too late."
He had contact with Chu Li, the grandmaster of the Myriad Manifestations Sect, a long time ago. That person... was someone who couldn't tolerate any nonsense.
However, he couldn't openly say anything to Nan Yi right now, in case this was a test from that person... How it would turn out would probably depend on Nan Yi's fate.
Perhaps his chance to survive was hidden within that, but who can say for sure?
The opportunities and chances in this world, big and small, are always hard to predict.
However, if it could be guessed, then it wouldn't be considered a stroke of luck.
Nan Yi quickly pushed open the door and came out, only to see Chu Li half-crossing her arms and leaning against the railing waiting for him.
He was overjoyed and headed towards Chu Li with a delighted expression.
But Chu Li reached out a hand, pausing the other's embrace. Under Nan Yi's questioning gaze, she slowly said, "Let's go back first and talk about what happened before."
Nan Yi's mind raced, trying to recall what had made his senior sister so serious, but he couldn't find anything. He blinked, then stretched out his hands again, trying to bluff his way out of it.
Chu Li saw right through them and coldly refused, but she also felt it was inconvenient to talk while they were there, so she flicked her finger and the green lotus instantly appeared beneath their feet, carrying them swiftly to Nan Yi's residence.
"Senior sister, you should at least give me some direction, right?"
Nan Yi leaned against the door, looking somewhat helpless.
Chu Li poured herself a cup of tea, and only after hearing the words did she slowly raise her head. "What? You still haven't thought of it?"
"When we first came in, those foxes that stopped you—" Her hints ended there. Ever since that fox mentioned Nan Yi's stagnant cultivation, she had been waiting for a reasonable explanation from Nan Yi.
But now, he couldn't remember this at all. Even if she was just his senior sister, he should have told her about something so important. Otherwise, wouldn't her expectation that he could improve his cultivation level as soon as possible be a complete joke?
If he could just say so, she could pay more attention to whether there's a way to heal this injury.
However, she wasn't really angry that Nan Yi couldn't remember; she just wanted him to remember this and know that such an important matter couldn't be hidden.
Once given a hint, Nan Yi immediately remembered. He chuckled and said, "Senior Sister, didn't you already know? Why are you asking me?"
As he spoke, he observed his senior sister's expression, but her expression remained unchanged. His heart skipped a beat; it seemed his second guess had come true—his senior sister indeed knew that his cultivation had stagnated.
"I want to hear it from you yourself; after all, others don't know you as well as you do."
"So, senior sister, where would you like to start listening?"
Chu Li looked at Nan Yi's lowered eyelashes as he spoke, and suddenly smiled: "What happened back then is up to you, but I at least need to know your current situation, what exactly it is, and what kind of situation this stagnation is."
Chu Li didn't actually need to know what happened back then. She believed that both the Fox Clan and Nan Yi had definitely handled the matter properly.
But she needs to know the current state of Nan Yi's cultivation so that she can find the right solution for him.
Knowing that his senior sister didn't care about what happened back then, Nan Yi breathed a sigh of relief. But at the same time, a sense of loss also flashed through his heart. He was disappointed that his senior sister had no interest in his past experience.
"My only problem right now is that my tail can't grow back—our fox clan's cultivation level is closely related to our fox tail. If it can't grow back, then our cultivation level can't be improved. The fox clan has consulted many doctors for me, and some of them said that there's probably a strange substance attached to my tail that's preventing it from growing back..."
As for the remaining doctors, they couldn't even figure out the root of the problem.
"Is there no way to get rid of that substance?"
Nan Yi shook his head: "I don't know where those people found this stuff. The doctors all said they had never seen anything like it before. It's very likely that it's not from the mainland at all, so naturally they can't find anything that counteracts it."
Actually, healing his injury would be quite simple; all they need to do is remove the layer of substance. The problem is, there's nothing to remove it from. Otherwise, if they had something to remove it, they could at least search for it, instead of being stuck like this—
However, the doctors did give him a suggestion: since the ordinary method didn't work, could they try a different approach—for example, rewinding time around his tail to when he wasn't injured?
When he heard about this treatment method, he thought it was absurd, but the clan leader actually thought about it. Later, he had someone send him to the Myriad Manifestations Sect. It was said that the sect's grandmaster was researching the laws of time. However, he had not met the grandmaster even once, so he always felt that this method was very mysterious.
"I'll keep an eye out for you later."
After hearing Nan Yi's description, she felt that finding more doctors probably wouldn't be of much use, so she had to think of another way.
"So what level of cultivation did you reach before?"
"Nascent Soul stage," Nan Yi replied obediently.
Chu Li understood. No wonder he was able to retrieve the Time Amber in the secret realm before.
His cultivation level had previously reached the Nascent Soul stage, so naturally it was different from the ordinary Foundation Establishment stage.
She slowly stroked her chin with her fingertips. It seemed that she could teach Nan Yi more fields later. With his Nascent Soul stage cultivation as a foundation, he would probably comprehend some fields more easily than others of the same cultivation level.
Nan Yi was unaware of the devilish scheme Chu Li was plotting. He took a few steps forward, trying to get closer to Chu Li.
But when Chu Li looked up, he immediately froze in place. "Is there anything else you're hiding from me? I mean something big, something you should know."
Chu Li didn't mind Nan Yi hiding some trivial matters, but she still didn't want him to hide anything important, like cultivation.
Nan Yi's mind raced, and then he replied, "That's all, I promise!"
His biggest secret was this injury. Now that he had confessed about it to his senior sister, everything else was trivial.
But after answering, a vague unease suddenly rose in his heart, as if he had forgotten something important.
But he quickly lost interest in all that—because Chu Li reached out her hand to him.
His eyes lit up, and he stepped forward and hugged Chu Li tightly. Chu Li leaned back slightly with that force, but before she could do anything, her lips were bitten, and the words she wanted to say were drowned out between their lips and teeth.
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