CBGC - ch147

Chapter 147: Noob

Su Tingyun rubs Xiao Budian's head, "As long as you have a clear conscience."

As a result, Xiao Budian, holding his head in his hands, accidentally disturbs his injured right hand, causing him to gasp in pain. His eyes turn slightly red, but he still forces himself to say, "Don't touch, don't touch. Who allowed you to rub my head..."

She used to rub his head every day...

Su Tingyun looks at her own palm and finds that it has shrunk a lot compared to before, which feels a bit strange. She looks around and asks, "Where's Bai Chengyu, and where are Du Xizhi and Yin Li?"

"Bai Chengyu is running to Jinxiu City every other day now, neglecting his cultivation," Third Uncle laughs, "The girl he likes is there..."

Wang Ningxi?

Very good. Su Tingyun also quite likes that lovely girl and nods in approval.

"Du Xizhi and Yin Li went to find their former fellow disciples. They plan to bring back those dozen or so people and establish a Sect together," says the Sect Leader Ling Xiao. After speaking, she adds, "Little Yun, congratulations. Tomorrow, I'll get some new fabric and sew a few new skirts for you."

Sect Leader Ling Xiao isn't skilled in alchemy. The skirts she sews don't have any fancy functions, but her craftsmanship is excellent. The embroidered flowers and birds are lifelike and exceptionally exquisite. Su Tingyun nods repeatedly in joy, resembling a little chick pecking at grains. This prompts Ling Xiao, who always has a gentle smile, to laugh and pat her head affectionately, then pinch her cheek.

"Little Yun, I didn't expect you'd be so cute."

Su Tingyun's face turns red. After a shy laugh, she greets everyone and heads back to her attic. Before leaving, she tosses a bottle of elixir to Xiao Budian, saying, "Memory should be stored in your brain, not in your arms. Obviously, you did the right thing, so why punish yourself? Stupid!"

Sitting on the blue stone, Wuyou sneers, "To do the right thing, will you still save the person next time? So you save them, won't you just get bitten back? You Haoran Zhenqi people are always so naive..."

Su Tingyun isn't annoyed. She simply extends her hand, clenches it into a fist, then opens her fingers, speaking with a fierce tone, "That's why you need to cultivate hard. Only when you're strong can you help others as you please, beat them up as you please." Just a moment ago, she seemed as if she had no cultivation, no pressure around her. However, as she clenches her fist and extends her hand, the atmosphere in the entire Obliteration Sword Tower seems to freeze. Wuyou's mouth hangs open, and it takes a while for him to close it.

He used to be taught by Yan Yuqing, and the daily training was extremely rigorous. Wuyou pursues strength and power, but suddenly changing masters, he finds everything unfamiliar. He feels that the current Obliteration Sword Tower is weak. Although the spiritual energy here is rich and it's a good place for cultivation, they can't go to the Cleansing Sword Lake anymore. There's no response when he goes down, and his master can't teach him properly. They're just idle all day long, and his own strength doesn't seem strong. If it weren't for his sister insisting on staying, he wouldn't want to stay at all.

"You're so awesome."

Wuyou says, dumbfounded.

"It's nothing, it's nothing. I'm just the best in the realm that's all," Su Tingyun begins humbly, but then boasts of being the strongest one in the realm. The way she looks makes the elders of the Obliteration Sword Tower laugh until their stomachs hurt. Wuyou looks somewhat annoyed, and he grumpily walks away while holding his sword.

She speaks the truth, but no one believes her.

Su Tingyun touches her nose and returns to her place. She lets Big Bai grow big and rubs her belly.

"What have you got in your belly? Let me see," Su Tingyun pokes Big Bai's stomach and presses her cheek against it, nuzzling for a while. "Didn't Bai Su say he prepared a few outfits? How about sharing one with me?" Being transformed into a beauty, she has become quite particular about clothes. It's not that she's in a hurry to wear them, she just wants to see how the clothes from the upper realm differ from those in the lower realm. They're probably even more beautiful, right?

Big Bai stares at Su Tingyun for a while, then hums and says, "Alright then, take your pick. Come in and choose one yourself."

So generous? Su Tingyun is momentarily shocked. Big Bai is usually so greedy over clothes, yet she's letting Su Tingyun pick casually...

"Granny, you're so cute." Hearing Big Bai's gentle voice, Su Tingyun's eyes widen in surprise. She is so successful in acting cute, that even Big Bai can't resist her now, hahaha!

After entering Big Bai's chaotic room, Su Tingyun finally sees her messy hoard.

There are piles of iron balls and several colorful glass balls. Her primordial spirit can now see the red spirit beast bones from before. They're just pieces of red stones, some as big as stools, others as small as pebbles, with some colorful patterns on them. Looking at them, they're quite beautiful indeed.

Next to it is a heap of grass-woven spirit beasts, all palm-sized, forming a small mountain. On the other side are stacked branches of the Kunlun Divine Tree-- she didn't know Big Bai has so many! Even the proud little sapling that is the Divine Tree's Heart is generous when it matters.

The clothes prepared by Bai Su are placed on top of the Kunlun Divine Tree branches. She counts them—there are many colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. All laid out, they’re like a rainbow.

Then she sees an umbrella placed next to the branch pile, which seems to be the one Bai Su used at the Boundary Lake. The umbrella is light green with a green bamboo painted on it. Apart from that, there are no other decorations. Su Tingyun picks up the umbrella and opens it. She sees tassels hanging from the handle, swaying gently. The tassels flicker like flames, then spread out like the tail feathers of a phoenix, looking extremely beautiful. The temperature around her also seems to warm up a bit.

She puts the umbrella back and finds some formation discs and neatly stacked talismans inside Big Bai's belly, as well as rows of bottles of pills. The feeling is like when Xiao Mei and the others went out on trials, and Su Tingyun also tried her best to prepare a large amount of things. Although what she prepared back then couldn't compare to these, the feeling of wanting to give her everything that could ensure her safety is probably the same.

Big Bai definitely wouldn't know how to use these formation discs or talismans. Are these things for her?

No wonder Bai Chengyu used to praise his Lord every day for being generous, throwing mystical devices around. Now, looking at it, it's true. It's simply throwing money around, being rich and willful...

Bai Su is indeed a good person.

Su Tingyun walks around in a circle before picking up the clothes. She used to envy the dresses Xiao Mei wore, and now her wish has finally come true. She tries on each dress and finds that they are all mystical treasures with spiritual energy, naturally fitting perfectly and extremely comfortable to wear. After some consideration, Su Tingyun finally chooses the long aquamarine dress.

→_→ Because it matches well with the Springwater Sword.

The dress is made of bluish-green gauze, tied around the waist with a white ribbon embedded with jade. A magnolia tree lies horizontally across the chest, with clusters of scattered flowers extending to the hem, complementing her ink-black hair and fair skin, and accentuating her slender figure. As she walks, on her skirt suddenly appears a pair of swan geese dancing in the clouds, as if they're alive. But when she stops, it turns back into a simple green skirt with no trace of embroidery.

She wants to match it with hairpins, jewelry, and necklaces, but unfortunately, she doesn't have any. So Su Tingyun has the urge to go shopping again. Once the hidden girlish heart bursts out, it turns into three words:

Buy, buy, buy!

The distance between Jinxiu City and the Obliteration Sword Tower is not far. With Su Tingyun's cultivation, she can step on her Springwater sword and reach it in an instant. She informs the people at home where she's going, and rushes towards Jinxiu City. In less than a quarter of an hour, she arrives outside the city walls.

Jinxiu City was almost destroyed back then, but now it still looks as splendid as a bouquet of flowers. That disaster has long passed, and the cultivator named Xuan Qi, who was in the Tribulation Transcendent stage, was hunted down and severely injured by Dan Zu. After that, his whereabouts were unknown. The so-called patrons from the Upper Realm have left following the destruction of the Immortal Palace, and why would they care about the fate of these lower realm cultivators?

Su Tingyun doesn't pay the low-grade spirit stones for entry into the city, she boldly sneaks in without a ticket. Upon entering the city, with a sweep of her divine sense, she immediately pinpoints Bai Chengyu's location, which happens to be inside the Wang family's shop in Rain Alley.

Not only Bai Chengyu and Wang Ningxi, but also Liu Feizhou is there.

Liu Feizhou's cultivation is at the middle of the Golden Core stage. Coupled with his status as a high-level alchemist, he is considered an outstanding talent in the White Cloud Realm. But compared to Su Tingyun who was struck by a celestial artifact, if she appears front of Liu Feizhou now, their positions have completely reversed. In the past, Liu Feizhou could easily crush her with just one finger. Now, it's just the opposite.

As Su Tingyun steps into the room, the wind chimes jingle on the door frame. Wang Ningxi immediately turns around and is stunned for a moment upon seeing Su Tingyun.

Bai Chengyu has been looking Wang Ningxi. Seeing her in a daze, he also turn towards the door to look, and is also a little stunned.

Inside the room, the pair of them aren't moving. Liu Feizhou has his head lowered, drinking tea while waiting for them to prepare herbs. Then he frowns and lifts his head to look towards the entrance. He sees the charming and vivid young woman standing by the door. His hand shakes, and he loses his hold of the teacup. It slips and falls, spilling tea on his clothes. However, due to the spiritual energy blocking it, there's no stains on his clothes. The teacup isn't an ordinary item either, as it doesn't shatter upon hitting the ground. Instead, it rolls several times, making a continuous rumbling sound, gradually slowing down but still echoing in the room, highlighting its silence.

Su Tingyun, initially smiling with pursed lips, could no longer hold back and she bursts into laughter. She points to her own nose, looking at Bai Chengyu and says, "Can't recognize me?"

Bai Chengyu shakes his head, and Wang Ningxi snaps out of it, stepping forward to greet her, "Esteemed guest, may I ask what you'd like to purchase?"

Liu Feizhou glances at her, snorting coldly: "Changed your body again?" He blinks his long eyelashes and casually asks, "Where did you dig up such a body this time?"

"This is me," Su Tingyun walks over cheerfully. "The real thing, genuine goods at fair prices, replacement guaranteed if fake!"

She wants to see how Liu Feizhou will criticize her this time.

She walks briskly, geese flying around with the fluttering of her skirt. As she approaches, she's half a head shorter than Wang Ningxi and a full head shorter than Bai Chengyu. With Liu Feizhou seated, his height advantage isn't apparent.

She stands before Liu Feizhou, "Master Liu, long time no see." As the first person to recognize her, Su Tingyun happily greets Liu Feizhou.

Liu Feizhou fights the blush threatening to take over his face, and after a while, he coldly remarks, "So this is you."

"Yeah, quite a contrast, isn't it?" Su Tingyun says with a smile. She used to like smiling too. When she used Wei Yun's body, her eyes were naturally small, squinting into thin slits that looked fierce. With Xi Guang's body, she was beautiful too, but her expressions didn't quite match the glamorous woman she appeared to be, disrupting Xi Guang's inherent cold charm.

Only now, she looks playful and adorable, her eyes curved like crescent moons, as sweet as honey.

Although her expressions and gestures are the same as before, they now feel like a squeeze in the heart when she does them.

Liu Feizhou stands up swifty, his stature tall and graceful like bamboo.

Su Tingyun steps back half a pace, noticing that Liu Feizhou is slightly shorter than Bai Su, with her just reaching his shoulder.

Then, Liu Feizhou sneers, glancing at her forehead before turning away and grunting, "You used such a tall body before. Is it because you're naturally short?"

She even bounces when she walks, her skirt floating...

After he finishes, he mutters, "Little flea."

Su Tingyun: "..."

Forget it, she's already the number one in the White Cloud Realm. She won't stoop to the level of this Golden Core stage guy! She glares at Liu Feizhou, adding viciously in her mind, "Humph, just a noob!"

Just then, Bai Chengyu finally reacts. He shouts, "Granny! Granny, it's you! Why do you look like this now? How can I still dare to call you Granny in the future?!"