Chapter 49: Le Tingyun, Haiyue Teacher

  Time flies day by day, and half a month passes in an instant.

  As the Spring Festival approaches, the festive atmosphere in Linwan City is becoming increasingly strong. Many families have already started posting New Year's paintings to celebrate the new year.

  For some people, this is a difficult year-end. For example, the Qi Gate Arena has now been sealed off with a notice of closure. They lost everything in the arena's gambling battles and were forced to close down. It is said that the master of the gate, Qi Liancheng, will take the young master Qi Hong to Donglai City to seek another way out.

  Xu Qinghe of the Xu family was also in a gloomy mood. His son, Xu Zhengfei, had not been able to find the spiritual elixir to heal his wounds and could only leave behind hidden ailments that would be difficult to overcome for the rest of his life. Xu Qinghe had sought help from the master of the house but ultimately retreated in disappointment.

  "Brother, brother! Come and take a look at me and Tinglan sister, are our new clothes nice?"

  A crisp and pleasant sound rose up, Xǔ Yáng smiled slightly, put the newly refined spiritual elixir into a jade bottle, and pushed open the door.

  Xu Yu wore a red-bottomed blue flower jacket, with thick velvet sewn on the collar and sleeves. A pair of small leather boots jumped up and down, making "dang dang dang" sounds. Song Tinglan, on the other hand, wore a yellow-bottomed red flower jacket, dressed similarly to Xu Yu. The two little girls chased each other happily, like two butterflies.

  "Looks good." Xǔ Yáng praised and closed the door, sat cross-legged, and began to absorb the mysterious energy of heaven and earth for cultivation.

  Contrary to Xu Yang's expectations, the frequent alchemy did not hinder his Xuan Qi cultivation progress. The dozens of times he had cultivated under the condition of Xuan Li exhaustion allowed his Xuan Qi cultivation to advance rapidly. All eight of his Xuan Wheels were now thicker than when they first condensed.

  Xu Yang has not yet broken through to a new realm, but he has already felt the threshold of the middle stage of Xuan Shi. The Xuan Tian Ba Jing Jing is indeed the Supreme Treasure Sutra, and under the circumstances of simultaneous cultivation in all eight extremes, it can still maintain such progress.

  With Xu Yu and Song Tinglan both having bought new clothes, Xu Yang couldn't resist Xu Yu's strong request and finally agreed to make two new sets of clothes, all sewn by Xu Yu's small hands.

  These two sets of clothes are all made of blue fabric, and the tailoring is quite decent. When Xu Yang put them on, he felt very comfortable, and when he thought about it, he couldn't help but smile - unexpectedly, Xu Yu, a little servant girl in her early teens, had a pair of skilled hands.

  "Hmm..." Xu Yang let out a long breath of turbid air and jumped up from his seat, feeling that his cultivation had made another breakthrough.

  "Brother, you shouldn't always stay at home to cultivate, you should go out and get some fresh air," Xǔ Yú said while rinsing the rice. "Although tomorrow is the day of the family's grand competition, with your current abilities, it's already enough for us to gain recognition from the family."

  Xu Yang smiled lightly, this kind of motivation that is always cultivating without a moment's pause, to a great extent comes from a sense of urgency. He came from an era in the future where spiritual energy was scarce, and in this golden age where spiritual energy is abundant to the point of being intoxicating, he always felt that not cultivating for even a moment was a sin.

  "Bang bang", the sound of knocking on the big door rang out.

  Xu Yang opened the door and walked out of the courtyard, but saw two familiar people turning from behind the screen wall.

  Xu Zhengtu was still tall and robust, while Xu Zhengfei's complexion remained pale, only to become more hunched over. His eyes flashed with a hint of resentment as he looked at Xu Yang.

  Xu Yang didn't care, Xu Zhengfei had already been abandoned by him, and he would make no progress in the future, not worth worrying about. And Xu Zhengtuo was dull and stupid, his brain wasn't good either.

  Moreover, Xu Yang's current strength has long surpassed what the two of them can imagine, differing by a whole realm. The paths they will take from now on won't have any intersections.

  "What are you doing here?" Xǔ Yáng asked calmly. "Didn't I warn you not to set foot in this place?"

  Xu Zhengfei took a step back with some trepidation and Xu Zheng'er forced himself to say: "The family sent us to inform you that tomorrow is..."

  "My family is none of your business," Xǔ Yáng bluntly cut off Xǔ Zhèng's words, "I will definitely go. Now, you can get out."

  Xu Zhengtu and Xu Zhengfei exchanged a glance, both daring to be angry but not daring to speak. They backed away and walked out of the gate, running far away in an instant. In the cold wind, a sentence was faintly heard from afar:

  "Xu Yang, don't be so smug, Zheng Ming's brother will teach you a good lesson!"

  Xu Zhengming? Xu Yang shook his head and smiled.

  North of the city, the Li family.

  In a spacious and luxurious warm pavilion, the fireplace was burning warmly, with fragrant smoke swirling around. Several people were seated in a host-guest arrangement, engaged in a drinking party.

  On the main seat, Lin Yuan, the master of Lin's City, raised his wine cup and said: "In the cold winter season, you can come to be a guest, I am honored. Come, I will drink first as a toast, please help yourselves." He drank it all in one gulp.

  Several people on the guest seats raised their cups and said: "The city master is polite."

  These few guests, three men and one woman, had an extraordinary aura about them in every gesture.

  A robust man with a bare right arm and a small, dark shield hanging from his left arm chuckled: "Lord Li is too kind, we are just low-ranking officials carrying out orders, how can we deserve the toast of a lord like you?"

  Li Bo humbly declined twice, and Li Wang stood up again to persuade him to drink.

  After three rounds of wine, Li Bo Yan said: "Haiyue teacher, I don't know how many places will be allocated to Haiyun Institute in this selection conference in my Linwan City? Now my Linwan City has a lot of talented people, and the young generation is indeed not lacking in outstanding talents."

  The left arm hanging small shield sea yue teacher hehe smiled: "This, of course, is the most outspoken Tingyun fairy who is stationed here."

  A stunningly beautiful woman with a fiery figure and a charming smile said, "Lord, please don't be too hard on us. As the ruler of the Sea Cloud Empire, which spans 43 countries and has a population of billions, we hold a recruitment drive every three years to select the most talented and beautiful individuals. If our standards are not strict, I'm afraid even if the Sea Cloud Institute were ten times larger, it would still be impossible to accommodate everyone." The woman wore a purple cheongsam with a high slit, sitting with her legs crossed, revealing more than half of her snow-white and slender leg, her soft smile was captivating.

  Tingyun Xianzi said, "Li Boyan hastily nodded, "The scale is strict, that's right."

  The beautiful woman's name was Leting Yun, she casually picked up a red fruit and put it into her cherry-red lips to chew on, only then did she say: "So, this time in Linshuang City... one quota."

  "Ah?" Li Bo Yan was somewhat embarrassed, and asked without his usual dignified demeanor, "Only one quota? Several teachers, I'm in Linshui City, although it's remote, but the population is large, with a total of 100,000 people. One quota, isn't that too few?"

  Haiyue teacher shook his head and said, "Bound by rules, I hope the city master Haihan will understand. What if the candidates we selected have a very low pass rate in the end? We won't be able to hold our heads up high in the institute either."

  Li Bo Yan was about to speak, but Li Wang had already stood up, raised his wine cup and smiled: "Master Hai Yue, Sister Ting Yun, teachers, let's not discuss official business for now. Let's first have some fruit and drink some fine wine."

  "City master, Lord Gongzi is a talented person, his words are extraordinary and not common. Looking at his cultivation, he's already at the peak of Xuan Shi at such a young age. It seems that this time in Hai Yun Yuan's selection, Lord Gongzi will surely win." Hai Yue praised with a robust tone like an ox.

  Lè Tíng Yún was called "sister" by Lí Wàng, and her face turned red with excitement. Her ample bosom heaved with emotion: "This little brother, his words are as sweet as can be, I have a good impression of him too."

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