Three days passed.
Dugu Bo was in the outer valley, his mood a mix of emotions. He really wanted to go back to the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well to see, but he had already left, wouldn't going back be like slapping himself in the face?
But if he didn't go back...
He was afraid that the child would already be born by the time he returned to Heaven Dou City! "I'm so muddleheaded!"
Dugu Bo beat his chest and stamped his feet, feeling extremely regretful.
When he left, he was only concerned with making a dashing exit, forgetting to drag that Lin Xiao kid away. Now, he had been sighing for three whole days. If something had really happened, it would have happened long ago!...
What happened inside the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well? A young girl's slender arms gently lifted her wet, sky-blue hair. Her delicate lotus feet stepped onto the shore, her fair toes, like two jade garlic cloves, intertwined, making those with obsessive-compulsive disorder itch to separate them.
Shui Binger finished drying herself, put on a sky-blue dress, her face slightly red, and looked at Lin Xiao with some shyness.
"Lin Xiao Gege, you can turn around now."
Lin Xiao looked at the neatly dressed Shui Binger.
She had just emerged "from the bath," possessing a pure and beautiful charm like a lotus flower rising from the water, especially with that half-shy, half-obedient expression, which could easily make a young man's heart flutter and his pulse race.
But Lin Xiao's first words were a reprimand.
"Why aren't you wearing shoes?"
As soon as the words left his mouth, he realized that this wasn't his previous life.
Not to mention not wearing shoes, even if a Soul Master went shirtless in winter, they wouldn't get sick.
But Shui Binger still stuck out her tongue obediently, "I forgot!"
She took out a pair of crystal sandals from her Storage Ring as if offering a treasure. The sky-blue crystal sandals were engraved with sapphire crystals, matching her fair and flawless lotus feet, making them worthy of a food-grade rating.
If they were in Japan, it would be a state banquet.
Lin Xiao stretched lazily, "Maple Leaf, let's go!"
"Goo!"
The Little Red Bird emerged from the pile of Thousand Year Herbs, looking at the Herb Garden of the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well with some reluctance.
Lin Xiao chuckled.
"One day you'll eat yourself into a fat bird."
The Little Red Bird was very dissatisfied.
"Goo! Goo goo!"
Shui Binger didn't understand, but for some reason, she felt like it was quite a dirty insult.
Lin Xiao rolled his eyes and said:
"I've already packed a lot of your favorite herbs in the Azure Water Jade, isn't that enough?"
Little Red Bird: "Goo! Goo goo!"
Listen to those human words?
How can dry food compare to a buffet! Lin Xiao was about to leave with Maple Leaf and Shui Binger, but Maple Leaf, seized by some unknown impulse, suddenly flew off his shoulder, came to the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd, pecked it fiercely a few times, and then leisurely flew back to Lin Xiao's shoulder.
Lin Xiao: "..."
He was too lazy to complain.
Maple Leaf didn't know what feud it had with the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd, but it never ruined other Immortal Herbs, only the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd and other herbs rumored to be related to the dragon race, which it would seize and gnaw at.
This rebellious daughter was used to acting crazy.
What could Lin Xiao do? Spoil her! ...
The two people and one bird came out of the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well.
When Dugu Bo saw Lin Xiao and Shui Binger, his suspicious eyes swept back and forth between them, making Lin Xiao feel uncomfortable all over.
"Senior Dugu, what are you doing?"
Dugu Bo: "..."
He pondered for a moment, then tentatively asked, "You two were at the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well, did you encounter any danger?"
Lin Xiao said, "No, Binger has the Ultimate Ice attribute. Being in the Ice Fire Pool is like soaking in a hot spring for her. Besides absorbing energy to temper her body, what danger could there be?"
"That's not what I'm talking about!"
"Then what is it?"
Dugu Bo hesitated.
"Oh well, forget it! As long as you didn't encounter any danger!"
"Even if you did, there's nothing I could do!"
Dugu Bo said a couple of confusing things to Shui Binger and Lin Xiao, then changed the subject, "Do you have anything else to do?"
"If not, go back early! After I send you back, I'll continue my secluded cultivation!"
None of them had anything else to do.
So they went straight to Heaven Dou City.
...
Back in Heaven Dou City.
The height of summer had passed, but the air still retained some lingering heat.
It was already the end of the school season, and classes would officially start in a few days.
Of course, the start dates for each academy were different.
And Heaven Dou Royal Academy was among the last to start.
At this time, the school's Mimetic Cultivation Environment was already open, and many students would come to the academy early to cultivate, as the effect was much better than cultivating at home.
Lin Xiao and Shui Binger returned to the Ye Residence in the afternoon. Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling were practicing boxing. Under Ye Qingxian's supervision, they had finally developed good habits over the years.
Or rather, they had finally realized the benefits of the Eight Section Brocade, so even without Ye Qingxian's supervision, they would persevere on their own.
Well, in the end, they were still cultivated through supervision.
Unlike Shui Binger, who took all of Lin Xiao's instructions to heart, and like Lin Xiao, persisted day and night, morning and evening, throughout the years.
"You two have finally returned!"
Ye Lingling complained:
"You left without forgetting to leave a task, asking Sister Lingling and me to find suitable Team members. It's pitiful that Sister Yanyan and I don't know many people, and we have to do this kind of detailed work."
"You and Ice Binger are so carefree!"
Since Shui Binger came.
Ye Lingling was increasingly developing in the direction of "Lin Daiyu". Coincidentally, she usually liked to wear a white dress, was unfamiliar with outsiders, and often bickered with Lin Xiao.
She really had some "resemblance"! Of course, she couldn't compare to Lin Daiyu's sharp-tonguedness.
Most importantly, she was easy to coax.
Lin Xiao asked strangely, "Sister Yanyan, how could you bear to let Sister Lingling go out for diplomacy? Don't you know that Sister Lingling doesn't talk to outsiders?"
"We still live in Sister Lingling's house, eating her food and using her things!"
"As the saying goes, 'He who eats another's food is short of mouth, and he who takes another's hand is soft.'"
"What you've done is really inappropriate!"
Ye Lingling blushed, actually, she hadn't done anything, just helped to look up the student files in Heaven Dou Royal Academy. The diplomatic tasks were all completed by Dugu Yan.
Lin Xiao's words made her very embarrassed.
Dugu Yan rolled her eyes.
These two were like enemies who were destined to meet.
They bickered the most on weekdays, but when it came to feelings, she, this Sister Yanyan, was probably on the sidelines. She was too lazy to pay attention to them...
Dugu Yan's voice was lazy, still her natural mature woman tone.
"Fine, you two are Miss Ling Ling and Young Master Lin Xiao, born into wealth and privilege, unlike me, who's just a rough servant girl, looking like I'm born to toil."
"You guys are carefree, so I'll do the work, alright?"
"Why is my Martial Soul the Silver Horn Azure Jade Flood Dragon? It should be an old ox!"
Hmph, might as well be half snake, half ox!
Lin Xiao's face turned bitter.
How did this ancestor also get a temper! He could only say in a low voice:
"Sister Yanyan, what work is left to do?"
"I'll do it, I'll do it..."
There's one more chapter, it'll probably take another half hour.
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