In the small courtyard, Yuan Yuanyuan stood in the middle of the field, looking at Liu An opposite her, letting him perform any magic trick he wanted.
Liu An hesitated for a long time, and finally used a small magic trick. Yuan Yuanyuan saw that the snowflakes around her suddenly became a little more.
Although this magic didn't seem very powerful, Yuan Yuanyuan was very excited. She looked at Liu An and said, "That's amazing! How did you do that?"
The reason for her excitement was not because of the power of Liu An's illusion, but because of the process when the illusion was cast.
Most illusions have certain prerequisites. For example, if Yuan Yuanyuan wants to use a leaf to block her eyes, she has to find a leaf. Some illusions require reciting magic spells. However, Liu An on the opposite side seemed to have done nothing but successfully performed an illusion. This kind of operation is rare for Yuan Yuanyuan.
Of course, this doesn't mean that Yuan Yuanyuan can't do what Liu An did, but Yuan Yuanyuan has studied it professionally after all, while Liu An is obviously just a beginner. Now that he can be so awesome even though he has just started learning, it proves that he is quite talented in illusion.
Yuan Yuanyuan found a small stool nearby and sat down. She knew that some of the magic arts in the Blood Jade Magic Arts could be extracted and transformed into magic arts that could be used by people who had not practiced the Blood Jade Magic Arts, but she was not sure about the specific operation, so she planned to slowly explore it with Liu An.
She thought for a long time, and suddenly an idea came to her mind. She said to Liu An, "Try it... do this."
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"You have your final exams next week...how are your preparations going?" Yuan Yuanyuan asked Tang Shi and Qiu Ling who were sitting opposite her and doing their workbooks, while chewing half a steamed bun.
"That's it. I don't need to go to a good university anyway." Tang Shi said nonchalantly.
Qiu Ling smiled shyly and said to Yuan Yuanyuan, "It's almost ready."
Yuan Yuanyuan looked at Tang Shi. Compared with Qiu Ling next to her, she was indescribably relaxed and at ease. She was even reading a novel at the moment. As a monster, it seemed that she really didn't need to consider whether to go to college or not. After all, her future life trajectory would be different.
Having said that...
Yuan Yuanyuan looked at Tang Shi, who was still looking at Taiwanese Feng Xiaoyan, and gently kicked her calf from under the table, "Hey, did you learn the trick I taught you?"
"...Learn a little." Tang Shi was originally reading the novel with a silly smile on his face, but after hearing Yuan Yuanyuan's words, his ears stood up in an instant, like a Husky that sensed a crisis.
She put the book down hesitantly and glanced at Yuan Yuanyuan secretly.
Yuan Yuanyuan almost laughed out of anger when she saw her frightened look. It looked like Tang Shi hadn't learned anything. She really didn't expect Tang Shi to be so good at this.
"Look at you. You are so old, but you don't even think about your future." Yuan Yuanyuan, who was only a few years older than Tang Shi, suddenly started to lecture her in a condescending tone. She pointed at the figure outside and said, "Why don't you look at Liu An? I taught him for half an hour today, and look at what he has learned now!"
There was a vague figure under the tree outside. Liu An had been standing outside since morning, and he did not come back even when Yuan Yuanyuan called him.
On the ground where he was standing, he could already see a small patch of white snow, and all around the white snow were fresh green fallen leaves, which looked like a small white concentric circle suddenly appearing in the green.
Since the afternoon, Liu An never returned to the house. He just stood outside without even eating lunch. After cooking and bringing the food to the table, he rushed out without looking back. Yuan Yuanyuan glanced at the white snow under his feet. That was the result of Liu An's hard work for an afternoon.
After thinking for a while, Yuan Yuanyuan suddenly opened the window and shouted outside, "Hey, stop practicing! You will have to work the night shift soon. Come back and eat something before leaving."
The man under the tree outside suddenly paused, and the white concentric circles under his feet began to shrink gradually. Within just one minute, they were covered by a layer of green leaves again.
He walked back into the room, and the moment he pushed the door open, a gust of cold air blew in. Yuan Yuanyuan glanced at his face. Even though he was wrapped in a military coat, his face had already turned red from being frozen after being outside for such a long time.
"I was just watching you in the room, you practiced really well." Yuan Yuanyuan said.
She really thinks that Liu An is super awesome. He has been working for her for such a long time, but Yuan Yuanyuan just discovered today that he is actually a top student.
And he is definitely a top-notch academic master. I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but Yuan Yuanyuan even thinks that she sees the shadows of those academic masters in the science rocket class upstairs when she was in high school in him…
Liu An glanced at Yuan Yuanyuan and shook his head. He said to Yuan Yuanyuan, "You are more powerful. My illusion can't cover yours at all."
"...Ah?" Yuan Yuanyuan pondered the meaning of "cover" for a while. Before she could figure it out, she heard Liu An say, "My illusion was dissolved by yours in less than a minute... It's like the leaves around me were real."
Yuan Yuanyuan suddenly realized.
Oh...so this is what he meant by covering.
It seems to be quite vivid when put this way.
Yuan Yuanyuan also looked at the big tree outside. In fact, this tree had been there for a long time and Yuan Yuanyuan had never taken care of it. This was the only time Yuan Yuanyuan used the magic of "a leaf blinding the eye". However, after this time, she never dared to use this magic again.
The effect of the blinding tree is so amazing. Now a month has passed, and the illusion on the tree has not disappeared. Now Yuan Yuanyuan feels a little panicked when she sees it, wondering when the illusion on the tree will disappear completely.
A month? Or... a winter?
Yuan Yuanyuan shook her head and stopped thinking about it. Liu An finished the rest of her lunch, said goodbye and went out. She looked at the sky outside which was getting dark, and turned on the light.
Suddenly, a dim light came on from inside the small house.
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"Maybe... he doesn't care about it at all. You haven't seen that man. He is actually a very elegant man. I always feel that he doesn't take this matter to heart."
In a small room, a woman in white clothes sat beside a burning stove with small pieces of firewood burning in the stove. The whole room was filled with a faint fragrance.
"Why would I want to see him? He's just a traitor." said a woman in black clothes opposite him.
The black dress she was wearing was particularly simple in style, yet it was actually a modern outfit.
The black suit looks very simple and smooth, and looks particularly capable. When worn on the body, it shows off the curves of the figure.
However, if you look at the brand of the clothes she is wearing, you will understand that this "simple" outfit is actually not that simple.
This seemingly simple black dress is actually from a very famous luxury brand, and the woman in black is wearing the latest model.
"He wouldn't care. If he didn't care, he wouldn't be Yiqi." The woman in black took a sip of the tea on the table, and suddenly a playful smile appeared on her face. "Do you know that person as well as our family does?"
She is a very young woman.
The woman had bright red nails on her hands and very delicate makeup on her face. With the dress she was wearing, she looked like a very beautiful modern woman. However, the woman sitting opposite her was dressed in ancient costume, so the scene looked particularly strange.
"I don't know much about what's going on here." The woman in white didn't say much, but just picked up the teacup and stopped talking with one sentence.
She actually didn't really want to get involved in what was going on here, she was here on someone's behalf. Although she was somewhat interested in what happened back then, she didn't want to listen to any topics that were too deep.
The man in front of her has been talking without restraint. The woman in white needs to stop talking in time, otherwise she might lose her life.
The woman in black looked at the woman in white and smiled. Her expression seemed a little sarcastic. "Coward."
The woman in white heard it, but her expression was as if she didn't hear it, and she remained very calm.
"So... why did my dad call you over? Was it to convince me?" The woman in black threw the cup onto the table. "He called so many people but failed, and now he wants you to convince me?"
"Your father didn't mean that." The woman in white bowed slightly and said.
"That's good... Humph." The woman in black looked at the woman in white and sneered, "The door is over there."
The woman in white maintained her calm expression. After she finished her tea, she said goodbye.
As she turned and walked out of the mansion, she looked back at the brightly lit house. There was a plaque hanging on it with two large characters clearly written on it.
——Li’s house.
The woman in white walked slowly toward the street, and along the way, she seemed to be able to hear a lot of faint sounds.
"How's that young lady from the Li family doing? Has she been making trouble again recently?"
"That's right... I heard that she fell in love with a human recently and tried to kill him. She's the eldest daughter of a monster family, so what can she do even if she falls in love?"
"How many times has this happened? I remember that she was trying to kill herself before and said that she was going to elope with a Taoist priest. How come she changed her partner in just two months?"
"She's just quarreling with her father... She loved him so desperately before, I thought if that Taoist priest died, she would have to do it for a few more days, but who knew that she would be replaced by someone else now."
"After the Taoist priest was killed by the Li family, he was replaced by someone else within three days. Of course, she also had the capital to do it. I saw him walking on the street yesterday. There were a group of monsters following him, about a hundred of them... To be disrespectful, some of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons didn't look as lively as this one."
"She is the real rich and powerful...she can do anything she wants. It seems like she is the only girl in their family, so they just give her the power to do anything she wants."
"The Li family? If the Li family lets this young lady take power, I think the Li family will be finished... What do you think the young lady will do?"
"What about the Li family army? Such a good army... If it is destroyed by this young lady, the efforts of several generations will be wasted."
The woman in white listened to the noises around her and walked slowly forward, as if she didn't hear them.
Her face always maintained a calm expression, like an ancient well with sediments that had been there for a hundred years.
Just like every time she saw Yuan before.
Yuan Yuanyuan didn't open Penguin until she was about to go to bed at night. She glanced at the message from Jiujiujia and wondered what the two of them had talked about in the afternoon and why they were so talkative.
After she clicked it, she flipped through it casually and suddenly saw a photo. The photo was of a very old book.
Yuan Yuanyuan opened the picture and zoomed in to take a look. Some words written in classical Chinese came into her sight.
She looked at it for a long time, and suddenly her eyebrows wrinkled.
There seems to be something extremely sensitive written in it...