Chapter 383: 212, can you tell that you're thinking about me? Hm?
The sunlight shone faintly, and the pear blossoms in the courtyard burst into bloom.
Tian Liuli woke amidst the warm hues, turned her gaze, and intently stared at the sleeping face beside her.
"Awake?"
Xu Yuan opened his eyes and looked at her.
Cultivators were always brimming with energy, and even if they went ten years without sleep, it would not be a problem.
Yet, last night, Tian Liuli had indeed slept, and slept very soundly.
"Yes."
She nodded slightly, her eyelashes fluttering lightly like feathers, dazzlingly dreamlike under the sky's light.
"Shall I cook?"
He asked tentatively.
Tian Liuli narrowed her eyes, stretched lazily, and then nodded her head.
"Go ahead."
Seeing that she wasn't clinging to him or asking why he hadn't touched her last night, Xu Yuan felt relieved, but he couldn't help feeling that something was a bit strange.
Although it was a good thing, for if she had truly asked, he would have had to explain why he had not touched her.
Still, he always felt that something wasn't quite right.
Forget it, no need to overthink it.
After all, this peace was indeed what he wanted.
He might as well enjoy it while he could.
"Knock knock~"
Just then, a knocking sound came from the door.
Xu Yuan was startled.
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Could it be Mo Xianxian?
Knock knock~
As he pondered, the knocking sound came again, leisurely and steadily.
Xu Yuan sent out his Divine Sense to scan outside.
He saw a middle-aged man dressed as a steward, standing outside, bending halfway, maintaining a posture of knocking softly on the door.
As Xu Yuan's Divine Sense touched him, he quickly bowed, revealing a smile: "Mr. Xu, I am the steward of the City Lord's Mansion. I've taken the liberty of visiting today to invite you to a banquet. The Lord of Xunyang City and Saint Son Yun from the Holy Sect wish to make your acquaintance."
"I'm not going."
Xu Yuan replied coldly.
The City Lord's Mansion and that Saint Son Yun, without much thought, he knew it must be related to Mo Xianxian.
However, it shouldn't be so rash from Mo Xianxian.
It was likely an independent act from those two.
They wanted to use him to connect with Mo Xianxian.
But, did Mo Xianxian really not know about what was happening here?
Not necessarily.
She might already know but chose to act ignorant.
Xu Yuan naturally wasn't going to create trouble for himself.
He came here to avoid trouble in the first place.
Outside, the steward's restrained and self-satisfied smile froze in place.
When he undertook this task, he thought it was a simple affair.
After all, in the Black Horn Domain, anyone's face could be ignored.
But the face of the Holy Sect could not be ignored.
Not to mention that besides their City Lord, there was also the Holy Sect's Saint Son present. Even if it were just their City Lord alone, he was a Primordial Spirit True Person named by three Return to Void elders to guard Xunyang City.
In terms of realm and status, he was far beyond what a mere Nascent Soul cultivator could compare to.
In his view, facing this invitation, the other party should be trembling with fear, rushing out of the door, afraid of slighting him.
And now, to be so arrogant as not to even open the door?
The steward fought to suppress his anger and said word by word: "Mr. Xu, don't blame me for not warning you, but if you do not attend, you will offend the Lord and Saint Son Yun. In Xunyang City, no one..."
"I'm not going."
Faced with his incessant blabber, Xu Yuan only had two indifferently spoken words.
Others might need to fret about causing trouble with them, but that didn't mean he feared them.
When there are many lice, one does not fear itching.
Not to mention just a City Lord of Xunyang and a Saint Heir from the Demon Sect, even if those three venerated Return to Void elders came together, Xu Yuan would not be afraid.
After all, he had already offended all the Return to Void Great Divine Communicators from the human and demon races, so what difference would three more make?
"You?!"
The steward trembled all over.
When had he, as the steward of the Xunyang City Lord's Mansion, backed by the Holy Sect, ever been subjected to such humiliation?
"Very well, sir, it seems you truly think that, under Mr. Mo's protection, you can disregard everyone in Xunyang City?"
Xu Yuan silently thought the man a fool, and just as he planned to dismiss the other, Tian Liuli inside the house huffed coldly and waved her sleeve lightly.
The next moment, the steward outside couldn't even scream before he was sent flying by an invisible immense force.
"My husband told you to leave, did you not hear him?"
Tian Liuli's voice, cold as early spring's thin ice, had barely fallen when a strong voice suddenly resounded from the heavens.
"Hehe, sir, you have quite the temper, injuring my holy disciple publicly in my Xunyang City. Surely you don't think my Holy Sect is so easily bullied?"
The moment the voice rang out, a figure approached, seemingly slow yet swift, from a high building in the distance.
He caught the steward who had been thrown out.
His originally calm expression dramatically changed the moment his hand supported the steward's back, and his steps stamped several times in midair before barely stopping.
"May I ask who the lady is...?"
Yun Ze looked toward the courtyard with an unsettled gaze.
He tried to invade with his Divine Sense to probe the reality, but no matter how he perceived, he felt as if peering into an unfathomable Extreme Abyss, hard to further investigate.
"Leave!"
Tian Liuli's response was even more straightforward than Xu Yuan's, typical of her usual style.
"..."
Yun Ze's expression darkened completely.
Truth be told, he had anticipated that this invitation might be declined, so he had instructed the steward, in case of a refusal, to deliberately lose his composure.
But unexpectedly, the other party, whether truly foolish or not, walked directly into such a simple trap.