NOVEL NEXT chapter 17
Chapter 17: Time to Descend the Mountain
A girl dreaming of a man is not always due to infatuation; it could also be due to fear.
Youlan opened her eyes, her body covered in cold sweat. She reached out to touch her back and collar, feeling the dampness.
She originally thought that in Tianyan Sect, she could sleep more peacefully, but she still had nightmares.
In her dream, she relived the scene of being captured. If it weren’t for the pain in the dream being too real, she wouldn’t have woken up so early.
Youlan undressed and wiped her body with a towel.
While wiping, she leisurely admired her beautiful figure in the mirror.
It seemed that after starting cultivation, her already fair skin appeared even more delicate.
“Didn’t expect it could also enhance beauty.” Youlan smiled, finding the results of her cultivation quite interesting.
She had thought the first feeling after cultivation would be how much stronger she had become, but unexpectedly, it was the feeling of becoming more beautiful.
Youlan extended her tender pink tongue and licked her arm.
Then she lowered her eyelids and murmured, “I feel like I want to eat myself.”
The Heart Demon Technique mentioned this phenomenon, but Youlan didn’t expect it to appear so early.
Fortunately, this phenomenon wouldn’t really make her impulsive enough to swallow her own body, it would only make her involuntarily “taste” herself.
She calmed her emotions, opened the door, and planned to greet her current master after getting up early.
What should a disciple of a sect do? If it were a large sect, Youlan would have a general idea.
For example, doing sect tasks to earn contribution points, then exchanging them for more and better resources to make herself stronger.
But these things were impossible in Tianyan Sect. The most Youlan did every day here was practice cultivation techniques and meditate, over and over again.
Although there were options like growing vegetables and raising ducks, Youlan really didn’t want to touch these things.
However, because duck blood was an important food source for her, Youlan often had to lower herself to feed them.
So she lived a monotonous life during this period, which was completely different from the debauchery she experienced in the past.
But this didn’t mean she hated such days.
Living in Tianyan Sect, she gradually felt that it wasn’t bad to continue like this, and her thoughts of running away were weakening.
Her senior sister treated her very well, and so did her master.
Although her master occasionally fell seriously ill after reading some ancient secret books and made various outrageous suggestions.
Such as going to the river to find a girl whose supreme bone had been extracted, he would say it without hesitation.
But other than that, her master He Youzhou had no flaws.
“Right, I need to go to the main hall to see my master today.” Youlan muttered to herself, changing her clothes.
She now called this “master” more and more smoothly. At first, it was a bit awkward and unfamiliar, but now she habitually called him master.
Leisurely walking towards the main hall, she soon saw her master meditating on the futon, and Zhishi standing behind him as usual.
“Disciple greets master.” Youlan thought for a moment, then gracefully saluted He Youzhou.
Tianyan Sect didn’t seem to have a prescribed way of saluting, so Youlan saluted He Youzhou the same way she used to salute officials in the past.
He Youzhou didn’t care how Youlan saluted, she could do it however she liked.
“Youlan, your cultivation clothes have arrived.” He Youzhou looked down at Youlan and said.
He could see that Youlan had entered the Qi Refining stage during this period, becoming a proper cultivator.
Just in time, cultivation clothes for a cultivator.
“My cultivation clothes?” Youlan raised her head upon hearing this.
But no matter where she looked, she didn’t see anything that looked like her clothes.
Moreover, she knew that Tianyan Sect didn’t even have a spatial storage device, which made her even more puzzled.
It seemed that He Youzhou noticed his disciple’s confusion and stopped keeping her in suspense. He directly blew a loud whistle.
“Whoosh!” The sound of air being stirred echoed, and a white crane flew in from outside the hall as soon as the whistle sounded.
It circled a few times inside the hall before steadily landing beside He Youzhou, delivering the item it held in its beak.
The white crane was the messenger of the proprietress He Youzhou mentioned, responsible for delivering packages all over the world.
It was not an ordinary wild crane but a noble spirit bird, capable of traveling thousands of miles a day with ease.
As for the package it delivered, it naturally contained Youlan’s future cultivation clothes.
“Go back and thank the proprietress for me,” He Youzhou said, patting the white crane’s head.
The white crane moved its neck, seemingly indicating that it understood.
Then it flapped its wings and glided out of the hall of Tianyan Sect.
The white crane came and went quickly, and Youlan hadn’t even had time to react to what had happened.
“Master, what was that?” Youlan couldn’t help but ask.
“That was the messenger used by the proprietress who made your clothes,” He Youzhou casually explained, then tossed the package to Youlan.
Youlan reached out and caught the package in mid-air.
“Alright, go to your room and change into it quickly, then come back to the hall and let me have a look,” He Youzhou said expectantly.
“Yes, Master,” Youlan said softly after gazing at the package for a long time.
After a while, Youlan went back to her room and changed into the cultivation clothes, then returned to the hall.
Unlike Zhishi, Youlan’s outfit was not a tight-fitting suit but a light purple-black dress, embroidered with butterflies ready to take flight.
The dress hung off her shoulders, revealing her fair and jade-like shoulders.
The slit in the skirt exposed her long, fair left leg to everyone’s view.
Youlan’s dark hair was gently tied up, with a hairpin inserted at an angle. Although she wore no makeup, her every move exuded charm, as if she was constantly enticing people to come closer.
If you said she was a witch who could enchant people’s hearts, many would believe it.
This was also the first time He Youzhou remembered Youlan’s original identity—a courtesan’s most outstanding dancer, possessing beauty that made men flock to her.
“Thank you, Master. Youlan loves these cultivation clothes,” Youlan said, overjoyed as she wore the clothes, which seemed tailor-made for her.
From taste to comfort, she couldn’t find anything to criticize.
If she had to nitpick, she could only say that the cultivation clothes were a bit too revealing.
“As long as you like it,” He Youzhou said, very satisfied. “Since the cultivation clothes are ready, it’s time to take you down the mountain.”
“Wait, Master, down the mountain? You’re taking me down the mountain?” Youlan was startled by He Youzhou’s words, having not yet finished admiring herself in the cultivation clothes.
“Yes, it’s time to go down the mountain.”