Looking at the system notification showing increased Favorability points, Zhang Xian knew he had already secured victory in this round.

Looking upon Li Fuxi’s furious expression, Zhang Xian merely found it somewhat amusing.

Hah! A woman saying one thing and meaning another. Her mouth refuses, yet her Favorability is quite honest indeed.

He showed absolutely no fear whatsoever, meeting her glare with a head-on confrontation. “Young master grew up scaring others since childhood… there is nothing I do not dare to do!”

Finally, after taking a deep breath herself, the violent spiritual energy surrounding Li Fuxi’s body gradually calmed down.

“This Master won’t fall for your provocation tactics,” she stated coolly, sitting back down, her voice regaining its usual aloofness. “This Master accepts your gifts… and will definitely repay you at a future date.”

“These are merely apprentice filial piety towards Master… Master needn’t repay anything… just treat Yinyin and myself better in the future, that is enough.”

Li Fuxi was not stupid; she knew she owed an immense debt of gratitude towards Zhang Xian. Her beautiful eyes fixed upon him. “Master naturally has her own considerations… regardless, this time I owe you greatly.”

【Ding! Gifting Heaven-Seizing Heart-Mending Lotus Seed successful. Return: Heaven-Seizing Heart-Mending Lotus Seed x100.】

【Heaven-Seizing Heart-Mending Lotus Seed: Earth-grade material, Epic-level rarity. Can serve as the primary medicinal ingredient for treating Spirit Root soul damage.】

【Ding! Gifting Immortal Ascension Grass successful. Return: Immortal Ascension Grass x100.】

【Immortal Ascension Grass: Earth-grade material, Epic-level rarity. Direct consumption has a probability of improving Spirit Root quality. Effect decreases with repeated consumption.】

【Ding! Gifting Immortal Ascension Pill successful. Triggered return. Return: Immortal Ascension Pill x100.】

【Immortal Ascension Pill: Earth-grade pill, Epic-level pill. After consumption, can greatly improve cultivator’s Spirit Root quality. Effect decreases with repeated consumption.】

【Ding! Gifting Marrow Cleansing Fruit successful. Return: Marrow Cleansing Fruit x100.】

【Marrow Cleansing Fruit: Earth-grade material, Epic-level rarity. Direct consumption can improve Spirit Root quality. Effect decreases with repeated consumption.】

【Ding! Current favorability: 41.】

Hearing the system’s consecutive prompt sounds, Zhang Xian smiled.

Li Fuxi, watching Zhang Xian’s smiling face, suddenly felt he carried a “sense of a conspiracy succeeding.”

This apprentice is too extravagant and lavish… even the Yunmiao Sect Leader couldn’t produce such items easily. She recalled rumors of her apprentice using resources heavily to bombard Green Wood Peak. Could it possibly…

Thinking here, her face instantly flushed red hot.

She lightly coughed a few times, suddenly speaking somewhat unnaturally. “I am, after all, your Master. Don’t… don’t have any improper thoughts.”

Words spoken, she immediately regretted them.

What is this? Trying to cover it up only makes it more obvious?

When did Li Fuxi ever need to use such a clumsy way to clarify a relationship?

It must be because Zhang Xian’s spending is too lavish, disturbing my Dao heart, which I had clearly already given up on…

Suddenly feeling somewhat nervous, she unconsciously tightened her fists.

“Relax,” Zhang Xian said leisurely, his gaze scanning over her body once. “I don’t like short ones.”

!?

Li Fuxi’s pupils contracted sharply.

“ZHANG! XIAN!”

BOOM!

With a loud explosion, a blast of sword qi sent him, along with the furniture, flying directly out the door. In mid-air, Zhang Xian traced a beautiful parabola before landing with a smack on the bluestone slab ten zhang away.

“F*ck!”

The three people waiting outside the evening lecture hall were startled and scrambled to help Zhang Xian up.

“Brother, what happened?” Lin Yinyin was a bit panicked. “What did you do to make Master so angry?”

“Oh my, Junior Brother, you were too impatient! Did you confess to Master because you were afraid you wouldn’t have a chance later?”

“Yes, ah, Junior Brother, this is too much! Master is about to enter life-or-death seclusion. At this critical juncture, you still…” Even Zhenhai was a bit anxious; if not for his deep friendship with Zhang Xian, he would have drawn his sword and cut him already.

“It’s fine, it’s fine. Master is just being tsundere; she’ll be fine in a few days.” Zhang Xian grimaced in pain as he climbed up, patted the dust off his robes, and even bowed towards the direction of the evening lecture hall before limping away.

Meanwhile, inside the evening lecture hall, Li Fuxi stared blankly at the heavenly treasures.

That bastard disciple runs his mouth without a filter, but he truly saved my life.

Even if he flaunts his wealth, these heavenly treasures aren’t something one just gives away casually. He probably just wants to reduce my psychological burden, right?

Hmph, and he deliberately provoked me.

Thinking of this, an indescribable emotion surged in Li Fuxi’s heart.

“Impossible,” she muttered to herself. “If he really had those kinds of thoughts, just now he wouldn’t have…”

Wouldn’t have said what again?

Doesn’t like short ones?

Li Fuxi’s just-calmed spiritual energy showed signs of running wild again.

She hated two things most in her life: one was being told her strength was insufficient, and the second was being called short!

【Ding! Li Fuxi’s Favorability towards you -10. Current Favorability: 31.】

The limping Zhang Xian sighed deeply. “I shouldn’t have been so cheap with my words; I poked that woman’s sore spot. Sigh.”

The next day, Li Fuxi didn’t mention the life-or-death seclusion again. Spirit Sword Peak’s morning and evening classes were still suspended; Li Fuxi merely said she would be in seclusion in the thatched hut for a month.

It seemed she was preparing to repair her Spirit Root and re-nurture her Golden Core.

Although Zhenhai and the others didn’t know what had happened, Master not entering life-or-death seclusion was ultimately a good thing. They judged it must be Zhang Xian’s doing; for this, both Zhenhai and Chen Tiexin expressed their gratitude separately.

Another month passed. Zhang Xian was still studying puppet techniques when a melodious immortal music suddenly drifted from the horizon.

Zhang Xian looked up out the window and saw a huge flying boat sailing toward Guest Reception Peak. The prow was carved with a spreading blue luan, and from afar, he could vaguely see a character “Cloud.” Zhang Xian recognized this veteran flying boat actor at a glance—people from the Cloud Raiment Pavilion had arrived!

Presumably, Pavilion Master Yun is personally delivering the goods. Zhang Xian was a bit excited; this feeling was even more thrilling than picking up his first car in his previous life.

Through a layer of clouds, Zhang Xian saw the Cloud Raiment Pavilion’s flying boat slowly docking. Next, the eastern clouds were suddenly dyed a golden red, a rainbow spanned the sky, and flowing lights danced, breaking through the clouds as the sound of immortal music grew even more soaring and distant.

Whoa! Zhang Xian exclaimed in amazement, thinking that Pavilion Master Yun Wanqing’s personal arrival carried such prestige; the guest-welcoming special effects were maxed out.

Clearly sitting on the same flying boat, but compared to when I arrived, it’s simply heaven and earth.

Such an anomaly attracted disciples from various peaks to watch.

“Did you hear? The Cloud Raiment Pavilion Master is arriving personally!”

“The former number one beauty of the Southern Region? This pomp is huge.”

“Of course. Did you see that red flowing light in the sky? That was my Senior Brother Song rehearsing for a month in advance.”

“The golden-red special effects in the sky seem to be the handiwork of the Green Wood Peak Chief Seat; it was specially requested by Grand Elder Wangya.”

“Hmm, this brings up gossip from hundreds of years ago.”

Yunmiao Sect’s Guest Reception Peak was decorated with lanterns and colored streamers.

As the flying boat docked, Yun Wanqing emerged wearing a gilded palace dress. A gilded kingfisher-feather phoenix hairpin in her hair accentuated her peerlessly clear and beautiful face.

She descended the steps from the void, her skirt spreading out freely, looking like a true immortal descending.

Before Guest Reception Peak, Real Person Wangya had been waiting for a long time. Dressed in plain white Daoist robes that moved without wind, he exuded an ethereal immortal aura. He looked up at the figure in mid-air, a glimmer of reminiscence in his eyes. “Pavilion Master Yun, we haven’t met for many years. The Fairy’s grace surpasses the past.”

Yun Wanqing lowered her eyes to look at this old friend, a faint smile hanging on the corner of her lips. “Yes, it has been two hundred years.”

The disciples standing in attendance around them quietly raised their eyes, their gazes shifting back and forth between the two, sighing secretly in their hearts.

“Truly a talented man and a beautiful woman.”

“Pity fate plays tricks on people, otherwise…”

Several younger female cultivators couldn’t help but clench their sleeves tightly, shouting silently in their hearts.

“Be together! Be together!”