Chapter 54: New Roommate

  Transtor: Krukist

  Lin Yu had no idea that he was about to have a beautiful roommate. Even if he knew, he probably wouldn’t have cared.

  After all, there were plenty of rooms in Shuitian’s pce. Even if they lived uhe same roof, they likely wouldn’t cross paths much.

  …Or maybe not. Lin Yu had promised Nan Zhan that he would cook for Nan Ziyan.

  At this moment, Lin Yu was using the three bottles of spirit medie to repair his body. Though the process was excruciating, he still refused to take an easier path. For now, he had abahe assistance of the puter in his sea of sciousness.

  He eveo ask Shuitiaher his cultivation speed was too fast.

  Shuitian, as if already expeg this question, answered seriously, “Because of your physique, your cultivation speed is indeed extremely fast—so fast that your body is struggling to keep up.”

  “However, progressing quickly in the First Grade is normal. Even the Sed Grade isn’t much of a challenge. But once you reach the Third Grade, even if you devour spiritual essence, you won’t be able to advance as quickly as you do now.”

  Seeing Lin Yu’s , Shuitian patiently expined many things, including how, during cultivation, the body’s apertures absorb spiritual essence. He eveiohat experieng difficulty trolling one's body in battle was a natural occurrence.

  Because—

  “The Spirit-Dev Physique is ily stra absorb spiritual essence, but all it does is draw the energy into the body—just like how raw meat absorbs heat. If it absorbs too much, it ceases to be raw meat.”

  Lin Yu finally uood. His sudden enlightehe ht was indeed logical—if he always relied on the puter for cultivation, then one day, he would bee a piece of “cooked meat” that he couldn’t trol.

  No matter how powerful he became, if he couldn’t trol himself, all that strength would be meaningless.

  —

  The evening, Nan Ziyan arrived at the residence. Lin Yu was still cultivating in his room when she walked in and immediately asked, “Teacher, where is that chef named Lin Yu?”

  “I finally found food that I enjoy, and you took him away from me. Hurry and call him out to e something—how about that mushroom-braised chi dish?”

  Nan Ziyan pyfully stuck out her tongue. Over the past two days, she had returo relying on medial fluids to sustain her body, which she found incredibly miserable. She had long known that Lin Yu was now the Vice Pavilion Master of the Dining Pavilion at Heavenly Cloud Academy.

  She had been craving his cooking for a while, and now she finally spoke up about it.

  Uedly, Shuitian looked slightly surprised.

  “You already know?”

  Nan Ziyan assumed he was referring to Lin Yu’s promotion to Vice Pavilion Master. She casually replied, “Of course! I was there when it happened.”

  “You were?” Shuitian gave her a scrutinizing look but didn’t question it further. Instead, he calcuted something on his fingers and nodded. “It’s about time. You call Lin Yu out now—he’s mostly recovered. Staying in seclusion any longer would just waste the spirit medie.”

  Thinking of those three bottles of medie, Shuitian couldn’t help but feel a pang of pain—he had spent his entire sary on them.

  To provide Lin Yu with cultivation resources for a month, he had sacrificed several months’ worth of his own sary.

  But he had s—because, in the end, Lin Yu was the one he had chosen.

  —

  Just then, the door creaked open, and Lin Yu stepped out. Upon seeing Nan Ziyan, he was slightly surprised. But then he remembered that she was Shuitian’s final personal disciple and quickly regained his posure.

  Lin Yu bowed slightly. “Miss Nan.”

  Truthfully, he didn’t want to bow. But he had heard that, while Nan Ziyan had a good temperament, she could also be a bit spoiled. To avoid trouble, he chose to show respect.

  Nan Ziyan didn’t even notice his gesture. Her eyes lit up as she excimed, “Lin Yu, you’re cultivating with Teacher? Well, that makes sense. Sieacher made you Vice Pavilion Master, it’s only natural that he’d guide your cultivation.”

  She sed him up and down and immediately identified his cultivation level.

  “Tsk tsk, I didn’t realize you were a Body F cultivator! First-Grade, Sixth Step—though you started a bit te, go on, call me ‘Senior Sister’!”

  She was surprised to find Lin Yu living here, but she simply assumed that Shuitian was ment him.

  As for making Lin Yu call her “Senior Sister,” that urely for her amusement. Over the years, she had heard far too many people calling her “Little Junior Sister.” Naturally, she wao hear someone call her “Senior Sister” for a ge.

  She did realize that, as Shuitian’s st direct disciple, Lin Yu couldn’t actually be her junior brother. But since Shuitian had many ordinary disciples under him, she just assumed Lin Yu was one of them.

  His cultivation level didn’t surprise her at all.

  After all, he was almost een years old and still in the First Grade. That was far from impressive.

  She had no idea that Lin Yu had only retly begun cultivating.

  Shuitian coughed twid corrected her. “Ziyan, Lin Yu is not my disciple. You should call him ‘Vice Pavilion Master.’”

  Nan Ziyan was briefly stunned, but then she grinned. “Fine, fine. If he’s not my Junior Brother, then he’s not. Whatever.”

  She turned back to Lin Yu and asked eagerly, “So, how’s your time at the Dining Pavilion been? Have you created any new dishes?”

  Lin Yu was momentarily taken aback. He frowned slightly and g Shuitian—You old me I had to e up with new dishes!

  Shuitian hadn’t expected his you disciple to care so much about Lin Yu’s cooking. He coughed again before expining, “Although Lin Yu is the Vice Pavilion Master, I didn’t bring him here just to cook.”

  Nan Ziyan waved a hand dismissively. “I know, I know. Teacher, you have other pns for him. But he’s still a Spirit Chef, right? If he’s not cooking, what has he been doing these past few days—cultivating?”

  Lin Yu replied seriously, “To be ho, Miss Nan, I have indeed been cultivating all this time. I have a match against He Wu iy-seven days. The Vice Pavilion Master position is at stake.”

  Nan Ziyan froze.

  She had heard of He Wu before—he was the direct disciple of Situ g. When Situ Deng visited the Southwestern Marquis Manor, he had also mentioned He Wu.

  He Wu was already a First-Grade, Eighth Step cultivator, while Lin Yu was only at the Sixth Step.

  Yet at this moment, Nan Ziyan was focused on something else entirely.

  “Wait… You mean to say, you’ve been livihis whole time?”

  Shuitian nodded and smiled mischievously. “Not only that—you’ll be stayioo. Your room is right o his.”

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