“Actually, there’s nothing much to hide. It’s just some past affairs.”
Li Xueman smiled and said, “I don’t know if Xiaoyou has ever heard about it, but I once had many friends too.”
The long recollection began, and sure enough, upon hearing this opening, Ling Xiaoyou felt as if there was about to be a…
“Back then, I was young and full of vigor. Although I worked in the Support profession, I had a wide circle of friends. Everyone who worked with me would become my friend.”
Li Xueman’s eyes held a trace of nostalgia, as if she were seeing her past glorious years.
Ling Xiaoyou thought she was about to hear an epic tale, perhaps one of those adventures that led to Li Xueman choosing to present herself as elderly now.
But she hadn’t expected that Li Xueman’s words would take a turn as she suddenly said, “So, I had more and more friends, so many that nine of my closest friends couldn’t sit still anymore.”
Couldn’t… sit still?
What did having many friends have to do with this matter?
Ling Xiaoyou scratched her little head in confusion, not understanding what the connection was. Even if Senior Li had many friends, those close to her shouldn’t be unable to sit still.
Li Xueman was immersed in her own memories and didn’t notice Ling Xiaoyou’s confused expression. As if recalling some terrifying scene, a trace of lingering fear remained on her face as she said, “Luckily I was decisive enough to directly choose to cut off contact with them. Otherwise, I might still be imprisoned by them today.”
Ling Xiaoyou: Meow meow meow?
What on earth happened in between, and why did it suddenly jump to imprisonment play?
Ling Xiaoyou: “?”
Wait, could it be…
Ling Xiaoyou thought of a certain possibility and carefully asked Li Xueman, “Um, Senior, may I ask what gender your friends were…”
“Them? They were all very nice girls.”
Li Xueman smiled brightly, her gaze carrying recollection, and said.
Ling Xiaoyou: “…”
Case solved. So it turns out she had too many lovers and had to pretend to be old.
Ling Xiaoyou covered her forehead, wishing she hadn’t asked about these things. Now her head hurt, and she really wanted to drive these things out of her mind.
She felt that Li Xueman’s gentle and reliable senior image was collapsing, replaced by the image of a player with too many lovers.
Guwa, she didn’t want this!
Give her back the originally reliable senior!
Just as Ling Xiaoyou was holding her little head as if trying to grow a brain, she suddenly felt Li Xueman pat her little head and say, “Alright, the examination is complete.”
“Eh, it’s done already?”
Ling Xiaoyou was stunned and directly tossed aside the troubles from before.
Ling Xiaoyou was like this, carefree. As long as it was something she didn’t want to care about, she would quickly ignore it. She ate well, slept until dawn, and even doctors would be envious.
“Yes, otherwise what other examination did you want?”
Li Xueman looked at Ling Xiaoyou with some amusement and said, “We are Cultivators, not those ordinary doctors in the Human Realm. Checking body conditions only requires a Law Array, not as troublesome as those Hospitals.”
So that’s why she thought it would be like a Hospital examination. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been so resistant.
Hearing this, Ling Xiaoyou scratched her little head. She really had before…
Bai Shuanglian walked out of the Law Array, glanced at those Neng who had disappeared at some point, and then looked toward Bai Qiuyin and Hong Lingyan who were walking toward them.
She nodded at her Great-Aunt, who returned the smile. Although she still felt their adventurous behavior was reckless, the children had after all achieved something, so recognition should naturally be given.
“How’s the situation?”
The two elders came to Li Xueman’s side, glanced at the Law Array beside her, and asked in unison.
“Everything is normal. Aside from their bodies being somewhat overexerted and needing rest due to too many battles, there’s nothing serious.”
Li Xueman withdrew the Law Array and said to the two.
This answer made the two parents breathe a sigh of relief.
Seeing them like this, Li Xueman, whose doubts had yet to be answered, asked curiously, “So what exactly is the situation? Why are these two children still in the Imperial Capital?”
Bai Qiuyin and Hong Lingyan exchanged a glance. The latter went to explain the sequence of events to Li Xueman, while the former came to Bai Shuanglian and Ling Xiaoyou’s side, looked at the two of them, was silent for a moment, then smiled helplessly, rubbed their heads, and said,
“Don’t do this again next time. It’s too worrying. What if something really happened to you? You were lucky this time, but what about next time? Can you still be lucky?”
Listening to Bai Qiuyin’s words, the two didn’t argue back, only lowered their heads, putting on a look of having reflected. But in reality…
Ling Xiaoyou: I didn’t want this either, but who told the hateful System to set my Mission like this!
Bai Shuanglian: As long as it’s not issued, I’ll definitely run away! If Xiaoyou stays, I stay.
Bai Qiuyin was, after all, old and wise. Looking at the two children’s reflective appearance, she still understood that they definitely weren’t thinking that way inside.
She sighed helplessly and didn’t continue speaking of things they didn’t want to hear, instead saying, “Forget it, let’s not talk about this anymore.”
Bai Qiuyin crossed her arms and, glancing at the now-calm Imperial Capital, said to the two, “Although it was very dangerous and not something to be encouraged, you really did do something very significant this time.”
“Thanks to you two, the hateful Devil Grand Duke, the chief culprit, was killed.”
Having said that, Bai Qiuyin looked at the two and suddenly smiled, saying,
“So next comes the part where you get your rewards.”
“? There are actually rewards too?”
Ling Xiaoyou hadn’t even thought there would be rewards. After all, they had acted too much on their own this time and stepped into danger. Not being punished by the two parents was already good enough. How could she dare hope for rewards?
“Of course there are. One matter is one matter.”
Bai Qiuyin’s smile gradually took on a meaningful quality.
The implication was that rewards would be given, but punishment would certainly follow too. Otherwise, what if you dared to repeat this incident next time?
They needed to be taught a lesson!
Before the two children could say anything, Bai Qiuyin reached directly into her Spatial Artifact and took out an oval-shaped object, saying,
“This was originally supposed to be the highest prize of the Xuantian Martial Tournament, but now the Xuantian Martial Tournament definitely can’t be held, so I’ll reward it to you two who helped greatly.”
Ling Xiaoyou was immediately dumbfounded. She even rubbed her eyes to confirm she wasn’t seeing things, then pointed at the object in shock and said,
“The highest prize is actually this thing?”