Chapter 401: Waking the Manager.
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
"Hmph! Don't think I would let you go because you are getting out now. I will deal with you sooner or later!" Shen Jing gave him a stare. Compared to Lonemoon, she hated this bastard who brought her little sister away even more. She struggled to contain the urge to open the plane by force, took a look at the person beside him, and then said with a deep voice, "The condition of Little Ying right now is due to over-consumption. That's why she's in a dormant period. We can only wait for her body to recover by itself."
"When would it recover, then?" asked Lonemoon, anxiously.
"I don't know..." Shen Jing frowned. "Since she's already a Manager, everything in your plane would reflect on her." Which meant that the plane was her, and she was that plane. Fortunately, the plane was stable, proving that nothing serious would happen to her for the time being. It would only take time for her to recover. "There are huge differences between planes. I'm not there and can't monitor your data, so I can't calculate the exact time."
"You mean... Shen Ying might stay like this?"
"... Perhaps."
Yi Qing's hand clenched even tighter. His body trembled. After a long while he looked and asked, "What exactly is the energy that she consumed?"
"This is hard to say." said Shen Jing. "To begin with, energy exists in different forms in each plane. Her getting hungry when she returned last time was a manifestation of energy loss as well. But in the past the energy consumed could be recovered through food. This time, the consumption was obviously more serious that she couldn't recover in time. That was why she went into sleep."
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"What about God Power?" continued Yi Qing. "God Power, Immortal Qi, can't these work too? And... the assistant seal!"
"Chef!" Lonemoon was shocked. "Are you mad?" Shen Ying said that assistant seals could not be canceled. "Nobody knows what would happen after losing the assistant seal."
"It can work, theoretically..." Shen Jing's eyes narrowed, as she glanced at the two, then said ironically, "But did you think assistant seals are so easily returned? If it can be taken back so casually, why am I still keeping Kai Tian, this useless thing?"
Useless Kai Tian, "..."
"Besides, you two became assistants due to Little Ying in the first place. Even if you return this power, it would hardly have any effect!" Shen Ying looked at them from the corner of her eyes. "To put it bluntly, you yourselves relied on Little Ying's power to sustain you. So don't bother with unnecessary matters."
She thought about it, and her expression grew even more anxious. She walked to and fro a few times, before saying, "I'll think of a way to lift the seal on your plane and come over as soon as possible. You two look after Little Ying for me. Otherwise..."
She snorted and raised her hand to click something. The light screen flashed in front of them, and the call was ended directly.
Yi Qing's eyes darkened. He turned to walk back to Shen Ying's side and got her up with extreme care. He felt for the assistant seal in his body and drew on his God Power once more.
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"Chef!" Lonemoon was shocked, and he grabbed his hand immediately. "Didn't you hear Shen Jing just now? Even if you canceled the assistant seal, you still won't wake her up!"
"But, I've got to try!" Yi Qing looked back and his look was firm. "I'm here because of Master. If not for her, we might have disappeared together with this plane long ago. I can't look at her sleeping on like this and do nothing!"
"..."
"Father Niu, I'm not as thoroughly considerate as you are. I only know that should there be any bit of hope, I can't give up."
"..."
'No matter whether it works, even if it could only let Master wake up one second earlier, it's worth it!"
Lonemoon was stunned. But Yi Qing had already shook off his hand and started to make spells once more.
"Shit!" Lonemoon cursed quietly. He gritted his teeth and pressed his hand once more, "Wait!"
"You-"
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"If you try, we may as well try together!" Lonemoon interrupted him directly and sat down cross-legged beside him. He gave the unconscious person a stare. "Holy shit! Holy shit! I must have owed the two of you in my last life that I meet you two burdens!" He's never done any business with such bad prospects. "Death then, if it must be! Adding me, it'll be one more seal in any case."
"I say first!!" Lonemoon thought about it and told him once more. "It's okay to give it a try, but don't you be stubborn about it. Stop when I say so. Otherwise not only you yourself will get hurt, you may harm Shen Ying as well."
Yi Qing nodded. "Hmm."
"Let's begin!"
Only then did the two start conjuring seals together. They sensed for the assistant seal within their bodies, and in the next moment, an enormous power immediately filled their whole bodies. Lonemoon breathed in deeply and carefully directed that special power and sent it towards the person in front of him.
He had a vague feeling that something was drawn out of his body and was going to enter Shen Ying's body. Yet suddenly, a stinging pain was felt in his Divine Perception. That power couldn't get through at all. Instead, it directly rebounded back at him.
Lonemoon felt a blow in his heart and tasted blood in his mouth. He subconsciously looked at the person beside him, yet found that his complexion was even paler than himself. It seemed that Shen Jing was right. It couldn't be returned indeed. Just as he was about to withdraw his hand, he suddenly realized that he couldn't. The assistant power bounced back, but the immortal qi in his body started draining very rapidly, which rushed wildly in Shen Ying's direction.
What was going on?
"Chef, stop it, quickly!" Lonemoon reminded him, but it was already too late. The immortal qi in his body drained even faster, and in but a short while, he felt an emptiness in his Dantian and a blackness in front of his eyes. He fainted directly.
"Niu..." Yi Qing was anxious, yet in the next instant, he himself fell down with a blackness in front of him.
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Both of them sank into darkness.
In the instant that they closed their eyes, they seemed to see something...
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They didn't know how much time had passed before they woke again. But when they did, they sensed vaguely that something was so bright that it was difficult for them to open their eyes. Lonemoon subconsciously moved to cover his eyes, yet realized that he couldn't move at all. And a sharp pain went through his body. He opened his eyes directly, but a strong light went straight towards him, making him almost dizzy.
"You're awake?" An extremely cold but somewhat familiar voice was head. After that was several clanging sounds which seemed to be some clicking machines.
Lonemoon looked up, and only then saw the vague reflection not far in front of him. The figure was not tall, and it looked like someone young, sitting cross-legged on an armchair, staring coldly in their direction. He closed his eyes briefly to suppress that sense of dizziness which went over him. Only then did he see that face. Despite the coldness, it was pretty familiar. It seemed a few inches smaller than in his impression.
This was Shen... Jing?!
Before he could react, Chef beside already burst out in excitement. "Master! You're awake! That's so great!"
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What? This is Shen Ying?
Chef subconsciously tried to move over, yet once his body moved, a wave of pain went over both their bodies. There was also a vague burning scent. Lonemoon was stunned. He looked down.
Holy shit! Who tied both of them up? And they were tied together and hung upside down!
The person on the chair frowned, looking at the two even more coldly. "Who are you? Where is this? What purpose do you have?" As her voice fell, immediately, four or five balls shining with red lights appeared out of thin air all around them. Pitch back gun points on the balls pointed towards the two.
That voice was cold as ice...
"Speak!"
Yi Qing: "..."
Lonemoon, "..."
Huh?
What was happening?
Chapter 402: Sinister Fifteen
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
"Shen Ying, what are you doing tying us up?" Lonemoon subconsciously wanted to struggle out of the light rays around him, yet in the next moment the white light brightened, and another sharp pain came. That light ray actually tied even tighter. More importantly, he actually couldn't activate his immortal qi at all, as though it was sealed.
"Good prep work you've done." The expression of the person underneath grew even colder, and she said with some irony, "You even know my name. Tell me... how long have you invaded the plane?"
Yi Qing grew even more anxious, as he subconsciously wanted to move over. "Master, what on earth are you..."
"It hurts, it hurts..." Lonemoon explained, as the light rays tightened even more. "Chef, don't anyhow move, okay?"
"Master?" Shen Ying's eyes narrowed. "Is it a bit too late to claim kinship now?"
"Are you serious, Shen Ying?" Disbelief was written all over Lonemoon's face. "Could you really have lost your memory?"
Wait...
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He looked at the person sitting on the chair very carefully, and his eyes went wide open. "How is it that I feel you've gotten shorter?" He glanced at her once more. It wasn't an illusion. The person opposite them was really shorter. Even the dharma clothing on her body became too long.
"Shen Ying, you-"
"It seems that you don't intend to speak the truth without some suffering!" Before he could finish, Shen Ying seemed to have lost her patience. She lifted her hand to click at something, and in the next moment, the balls that surrounded the two suddenly opened up into flower petals. From the two sides two red light rays appeared, which connected together, forming a loop. It slowly descended and stopped about their heads.
"Never mind. I can scan your brains directly. It's the same.
In the next moment, the red loop became smaller and smaller. The red light was about to cut into their heads.
Lonemoon was so shocked that he started sweating. "Holy shit! Can't it be. Shen Ying you're being serious!"
"You have the courage to invade a plane, so you must be prepared to pay the cost."
"Invade?" Only then did Lonemoon understand that she misunderstood something and he hurried to say loudly, "Wait! We aren't intruders. You're not in Shen Jing's plane at all. This is your Divine Realm!"
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Shen Ying was stunned, and that red light loop paused as well. She sat up straight on the chair. "What did you say?"
Lonemoon was relieved. He just confirmed that she didn't really lose her memory, not completely, but only about them.
"You're not in your original plane any more. This is an immortal plane The starry sky behind you are the Three Realms of the plane." Lonemoon recollected briefly everything that happened since their transmigration in the fastest speed possible, including her going into dormancy.
The more Shen Ying listened, the deeper she frowned. Her whole body released an aura of defensiveness against strangers. She glanced at the two people to and fro several times. After a long while she said with a deep voice, "You mean, I am the Manager of this plane right now?"
"Exactly!" Lonemoon hurried to nod. "If you don't believe us, you can contact Shen Jing directly. Her words you've got to believe!"
Shen Ying's face stiffened. Something flashed across her eyes, but she didn't open up the communication. Instead, she walked over directly and reached out her hand. In the way one measures body temperature, she placed her hand on the foreheads each of the two and closed her eyes to sense for a while.
After a long time, she withdrew her hand and looked at the two with some surprise. Only then did she click at the light screen beside her. In the next moment, Lonemoon felt a relief all over his body. The light rays that tied them up suddenly disappeared. The two fell to the ground hard.
And that small light loop changed back to some balls, shrunk to the size of beads and flew back to Shen Ying's palm.
"Master..." Yi Qing stood up immediately and subconsciously wanted to take her hand for examination. Shen Ying frowned and stepped back directly. Her look towards him was completely cold and distant. His stretched hand stiffened, and a bit of pain flashed in his eyes. "Are you... fine?"
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Shen Ying frowned, and like she was not very used to it, she didn't answer his question. Instead, she turned to say to them in all seriousness, "There are indeed assistant seals on you, so I'll believe what you said for now. Besides, this place can indeed change according to my wishes."
"This is your divine realm to begin with, of course it does whatever you want." Lonemoon rubbed his waist, which was painful from being tied up, and then got up. "How many things have you forgotten after all?" How did he feel that not only her height was shorter, even her character changed completely. There was not a hint of the lazy look from before. And she didn't talk so much as this before, because she was too lazy to talk.
Shen Ying's expression darkened and she waved. In the next moment, the original pitch-black starry sky changed into a totally different scene, like a veil lifted. In an instant, the three were in a house several dozen meter squares large. In front of them was a tea table, and at the side was a familiar couch. This was the look of Shen Ying's home in the past.
She turned to sit down directly on the sofa, and then asked, "How old is the me that you knew?"
Lonemoon exchanged a look with Yi Qing, and then answered, "This is a bit hard. The time after transmigration... was a bit hard to calculate. But I remember that the first time I met you, you said you were twenty-eight.
The corner of her mouth twitched, as though with some disdain. After a while she turned towards the two. "I remember that this year I am... fifteen!"
"Fifteen!" Lonemoon glanced at her up and down. No wonder she was short. It appeared that not only her memory but also her body returned to fifteen years old.
"Was it because we arbitrarily used the assistant seal and failed?" Yi Qing's hands tightened beside his body and a bit of pain flashed in his heart. "That's why Master you'd..."
"Are you an idiot?!" Shen Ying suddenly interrupted him unmercifully, rolling her eyes at Chef for the first time. "If you didn't do that, I may not wake up forever."
The two were stunned. What did that mean?
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"You don't understand?" Seeing their blank face, Shen Ying explained. "Didn't you say that my sister told you I went dormant because of over-consumption and lack of energy? You guessed right. Assistant seal was indeed the most suitable energy for my recovery."
"Then why..." Would their assistant seals be still on them.
"I must have set up a protection mechanism on your seals beforehand." Shen Ying glanced at the two. "That's why you couldn't return it to me. Instead, you sent me another form of energy in the body."
"Immortal Qi?"
"God Power?"
The two asked together.
"I don't know what that's called as well." She flexed her hand. "But apparently, those two waves of energy wasn't enough to make up for my consumption, so though I woke up, I returned to fifteen years old, instead of turning back to the Manager as before."
"Then is Master going to continue being like this?" Yi Qing couldn't help but ask.
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Her look deepened, as she shook her head. "I don't know."
"How about... going to ask Shen Jing?" suggested Lonemoon. "She's also a Manager. Even if she can't resolve it, she must be able to help you. Besides, you've already woken up. You'd only have to lift the plane seal."
Yi Qing also nodded. "That's right. Right now Shen Jing is the only person who can possibly help Master."
Yet Shen Ying didn't move. Instead, she glanced at the two to and fro with a strange look. Her eyes opened wide, and she looked like the two like they were idiots.
After a long while, the corner of her mouth twitched, and she spit out several ice-cold words,
"Do you... want to die?"
Huh?
"How about, you shake your heads and check if you hear sea waves?"
Yi Qing: "..."
Lonemoon: "..."
They suddenly felt that Shen Ying at fifteen was... so sinister!
_( ́ཀ'」∠)_
Chapter 403: Overpowering IQ
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
"Why did you think I closed the plane passages?" Shen Ying looked at the two.
Lonemoon answered without thinking, "To prevent... intruders?"
The corner of Shen Ying's mouth twitched. "Was your Chinese taught by your Math teacher?" Her eyes were full of disdain at his IQ.
"Uh..." Lonemoon fell silent. He suddenly missed that lazy girl from before.
"Only passing through not with normal methods makes an intrusion. Plane passage is the official passway for plane interactions. Have you seen such blatant intruders?"
"Then... sealing the passage... could it be to prevent Managers from coming?" Lonemoon stopped short, After a second he thought of something. "Shen Jing?" She did that with the purpose of preventing Shen Jing from coming?!
"Duh." Shen Ying frowned. "I don't know about other Manager, but if I go into dormancy, my sister..." Her face changed like she thought of something, "is sure to look for you for vengeance first."
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Lonemoon suddenly thought about the murderous aura all over Shen Jing just now. If not because of the plane sealing, she would really come directly to kill them. From the beginning, she was the one who most opposed Shen Ying taking charge of this plane. It happened because Shen Ying insisted and she couldn't stop Shen Ying. Right now Shen Ying's powers hadn't recovered, which meant that nobody could stop her.
"You can't even see such a simple logic. Did you get to become assistants by making jokes?"
"..."
"And you actually wanted to lift the seal. How much confidence do you have for stopping a Manager? Or..." Her eyes narrowed, and her look pinched at the two like knives. "Did you feel so done with life that you're rushing to die?"
Yi Qing: "..."
Lonemoon: "..."
How painful were their hearts! Though you have the right of it, can you stop hitting us with knives?
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Shen Ying was back to fifteen years old, and her strength, memory and body were all reset. She turned back to an ordinary fifteen-year-old girl. Though her looks remained the same besides getting shorter, she was no longer a cheat.
Both Lonemoon and Yi Qing checked through and realized that her right now was only a bit stronger than an ordinary mortal. Her talent was not even as good as the cultivators of the lower realm. Her whole person was like... a cheat suddenly banned from cheating.
Which meant that she was... a mortal!
"Then how can Master recover?" Yi Qing looked right at Shen Ying and asked anxiously, "What should we do for it to work?"
Shen Ying turned back at the sight of his candid looks and leaned backward subconsciously. "I just checked the data of this plane. There is no possibility of letting me recover immediately right now."
"What do we do then?" Lonemoon's face paled. Isn't she gonna remain this way?
"Wait." Shen Ying replied in one word, while at the same time clicking open a light screen casually. A series of data went across it. She said while manipulating, "In the first place, the dormancy was for recovery, and with enough time I would naturally recover. Only that calculating with the speed now, it would probably... take hundreds or more than a thousand years."
"What!" Both were shocked. Hundreds or more than a thousand years!
"What about God Power and Immortal Qi?" Yi Qing continued asking. "Master woke up because of this. If there is enough Immortal Qi, won't you recover?"
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"Oh yeah!" Lonemoon got it as well. "We can return to the sky palace. There are still several immortal veins left. If we use that, maybe we can..."
"It won't work." Shen Ying shook her head directly. "I woke up more or less under the effect of the assistant seal, not because of what Immortal Qi or God Power." Those were energy forms that originally existed in this plane. How could it work on the Manager?
The two fell silent, and they couldn't think of another way for the time being.
"Never mind. Let's go back first." suggested Lonemoon. "It's good that you woke up. We will slowly think of a way."
Yi Qing gave Shen Ying another worried look and had to nod. They could only figure things out as they proceeded.
"Rest assured, Shen Ying." Shen Ying promised, patting his chest. "With the abilities of Chef and me, even without the assistant seal, we can definitely protect you properly. Besides, Invincible Sect is very safe. It's best that you go back first until you recover."
Shen Ying looked up at him and stood up from the couch. "Hmm. This is also what you should do as assistants."
"..." Can't you stop the viciousness and say something pleasant?
Lonemoon sighed. Habitually he moved to open the space transmission. Yet as he raised his hands to produce seals, he found out that his Dantian was completely empty. He stiffened immediately.
"What?" Seeing that he didn't move for a long time, Shen Ying turned to glance at him. Weren't they going?
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"I forgot... that my immortal qi hasn't recovered yet. I can't use space transmission." He turned to Yi Qing subconsciously.
"Me too." replied Yi Qing.
"Shen Ying..." Lonemoon's look was embarrassed. Just after he said he was going to protect her, he couldn't do it. "What about... you wait for us to adjust our breath for a while, and we leave after we recover some strength?"
The corner of Shen Ying's mouth twitched. She looked at the two who were so full of confidence a moment ago through narrowed eyes. After a long while she said coldly.
"I suddenly don't want to return to twenty-eight years old."
"Why not?"
"Because I'd be blind!" Such that I'd choose the two of you as assistants.
Yi Qing: "..."
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Lonemoon, "..."
It was like a knife in the heart!
"Which of you has objects connected to the destination on you?" asked Shen Ying, as she clicked open a light screen.
"Objects connected?"
Lonemoon thought about it and opened his storage bag immediately. "I do!" With that said, he directly produced a dandelion form Radish and handed it over. "What do you want this for?"
"Positioning coordinates!" She replied. She directly placed the dandelion on a table next to the light screen. In the next instant, a row of figures flashed through, the space in front of them distorted, and a black passage opened instantly.
"Let's go!" Shen Ying turned and walked right inside, without caring about the stunned two people.
The two of them: "..."
I thought she was changed back to a mortal, and a non-cheat?
They felt the overwhelming oppression of IQ once more.
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It took only the blink of an eye for the three to pass through that transmission channel and be back at Invincible Sect. Perhaps due to them coordinating using Radish, they weren't at the back palace, but at the back mountain.
The three looked up and saw the giant Radish who occupied half the land in a large piece of land growing immortal herbs. And the dandelion beside him which swayed with the wind.
"Little Missy!" Radish saw the three who appeared at once. He leaped out of the pit and started hopping towards them. Because of his huge size, with every hop, the earth underneath trembled, and many immortal herbs fell down.
"Careful with those immortal herb!" Lonemoon felt a pain in his ass. Those were all spirit stones! He didn't realize it because Radish frequently being in human shape. But seeing as it was now, this thing needed to lose weight.
"Little Missy! Are you here to water me so early? Radish is so happy!" He did a big jump and his whole body, looking like a huge mountain, flew over, and was just about to press onto Shen Ying.
Holy shit! Shen Ying is not as she was last time.
"Radish!" Lonemoon was shocked. Luckily, Yi Qing reacted fast and kicked towards his bottom straightaway. Immediately Radish lost his balance and tilted to a side proceeding to drop down on the immortal herb land at the side.
Many immortal herbs were smashed into the mud immediately.
w(゚Д゚)w
Lonemoon, "..."
"CHEF!!"
You wastrels!
o(≧口≦)o
Chapter 404: Perfect Disguise
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
"Little Big Sister, Little Big Sister..." Radish was obviously used to being kicked aside. He quickly shot back up rolled back over. Splitting apart the leaves on his head, he offered the dandelion within to Shen Ying, as he did daily. "For... you!"
Shen Ying hesitated uncharacteristically. Her eyes widened at the unexpected offering of a flower. "For... for me?"
"Yes, yes, yes." Radish waved his leaves back and forth, nodding. "My flowers are the most beautiful, and they are only meant for Little Big Sister."
Something flashed across Shen Ying's eyes. She clenched her fists and stared at the dandelion, not reacting for a long while.
"Alright, Radish." Lonemoon stepped forward. "Do you have to give one every day? Shen Ying will not-"
Before he could finish, the woman next to him reached out and took the flower. She held it close to her body and muttered, "Thank... thank you."
The two of them: "..."
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Huh?
Lonemoon paused. Even Radish was staring blankly at Shen Ying, not daring to believe that Shen Ying had received his gift. Radish glanced at his empty leaves, then at the flower in Shen Ying's arms. For a long while, he did not recover.
"She... she received it! Little Big Sister accepted my... flower? That's great!" Radish bounced around excitedly. Unable to get on his feet, he rolled back and forth around the floor shouting, "This is great! This is great! This is great!"
Radish rolled back into the pit from earlier, exclaiming in celebration even as he fell into it.
"I knew that Little Big Sister would accept my flower one day. No, I have to sprout another one for Little Big Sister." As he spoke, he reached out for a certain dandelion that had been sunbathing. "Son, let's sprout another flower!"
"Father, you're finally going to teach me to sprout flowers? That's great!"
Thus, the dandelion bounced up, transformed into a human and rolled around like his father.
The three of them: "..."
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She just took his flower, did he have to be so excited? Lonemoon pursed his lips. Then, his expression darkened. "Wait, where are you rolling?! My immortal herbs! Get back here!" Too bad – they were already far away from Lonemoon. Half of the immortal herbs on the rear mountain were squashed just like that!
"Radish!" You wastrel!
He heard the sound of immortal stones being crushed. How his heart hurt! Indeed, leaving Song Ren to Radish was a mistake.
"Master..." Yi Qing could not help but turn back and look at Shen Ying, who was still hugging the flower. In a strange tone, he said, "Master, why are you suddenly accepting his flower?" She never used to do so.
"Eh? Can't I?" Shen Ying's grip tightened around the dandelion. This was... the first time anyone gave her flowers. "It's not a Chrysanthemum."
Lonemoon instinctively rebutted, "What kind of Chrysanthemum are you referring to?"
Yi Qing: "..."
Shen Ying: "..."
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Lonemoon assessed Shen Ying's current situation worriedly. She seemed to have become an ordinary person. Naturally, he did not want word to get out. It was true that she had only been some sort of lucky symbol in the sect before. Now that she cannot do anything, he did not feel any palpable difference from before. The only thing was that her character seemed different as well. She was also significantly shorter. It was way too obvious. What's more, her cheat characteristics seemed to have been sealed up, along with her natural ability to hide herself. They were all stored up somewhere, ready to explode, Lonemoon was sure.
That was why Lonemoon had to be extremely cautious on the road back on the rear mountain. He had to think about how to sneak her back in. But immediately, he found out that... he was worried for no reason.
The first disciple.
"Sect... Sect Master! How fortunate I am to see you today! Greetings, Sect Master!"
Shen Ying paused and nodded slowly. "... Hello."
The second disciple.
"Sect... Sect Master, did you just water Radish? That was tough on you."
"... Yes."
The third disciple.
"Sect Master! My goodness, I'm actually meeting the sect master. Am I dreaming? Quick, punch me!"
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"..."
The fourth disciple.
"Sect Master! Have you... eaten?"
"..."
They met more than ten disciples along the way, and each of them looked more victorious than the previous one. Yet, nobody seemed to notice that something was amiss. It was like... Shen Ying had always looked this way. Even Yu Hong did not notice.
The key was Shen Ying's sharp-tongue seemed to have been switched off. All she did was stiffened up as she walked back. Her expression did not even change. She spoke no more than ten words each time. Even when she saw Yu Hong, all she did was nod.
"Shen Ying, why are you-" Lonemoon was just about to ask, when they bumped into yet another person.
"Good Heart..." Lan Hua suddenly rushed over. "Can you return me that Fire Subduer Fan that I handed to you the last time? It's not easy to manage the deviant fire used for refining pills without a fan. This concerns my reputation as the master of tenth-grade heavenly pill refinement. Can you just take it as you're lending it to me?" He could not let himself go down in history as the one who caused the cauldron to explode.
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Shen Ying paused. Then, she took one step back. A moment later, she turned to look at the two people beside her.
Who?
"This is Boss Lan. We will explain to you later," Lonemoon quickly blurted. He retrieved a red fan from his storage back and faced Lan Hua. "Is this the one?"
"Yes, this is it!" Lan Hua's eyes brightened. He reached out for it. "Quick, give it to me. I'm in the middle of refining my pills."
"Oh." Lonemoon narrowed his eyes. His eyes twinkled for a second, but he ended up handing the fan to the person behind him. "Shen Ying, you hand it to him!"
Huh?
Shen Ying, "..."
Yi Qing: "..."
"Holy shit!" Lan Hua was so angry that he was about to explode. "You..." You're doing this on purpose! You must be!
Shen Ying, on the other hand, glanced down at the fan in her hand, then back at the man in front of her. Why did she have to hand it to him? She reached out to pass it to Lan Hua.
Lan Hua's expression twisted. He suddenly looked like he was about to burst into tears. Trembling, he reached out and took it, then shot a death glare at the shrewd businessman. "You bastard, just you wait!"
As he spoke, he opened his bag, gritted his teeth, and started to take things out of tit. "Here, I just refined these pills. Here's a tenth-grade one, and a ninth-grade one, and an eighth-grade, and those below eighth-grade. There are also these weapons I produced, as well as a Waterproof Bell, Ice Silk, a Mixed Yuan Clock..."
He retrieved more and more items, until he could no longer stuff anymore in Shen Ying's hands. It was then that he finally stopped. He trembled with the empty storage bag in his hands.
Shen Ying, who was almost drowning in weapons, equipment and pills: "..."
"I only have these for now," Lan Hua said announced helplessly. "Is that alright?"
This darned good-heartedness!
Shen Ying paused. A moment later, the corner of her mouth twitched. "Well..."
Before she could finish speaking, Lan Hua tossed the storage back at her. "Here, take it, take it, take it all! Is that alright!" He tightened his grip on his fan and stalked out of the door. If he stayed any longer, he might even leave his own pants behind.
"Mm, not bad! You're quite good at improvising!" Lonemoon patted Shen Ying on the shoulder.
She had not completed her sentence: "... I don't need it."
Lonemoon, "..."
Yi Qing: "..."
Yi Qing stared at Shen Ying, whose expression remained cold. Why did he feel like Master was...
Chapter 405: Socially Anxious Teen
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
"It's getting late." Yi Qing looked up at the darkening sky and faced Shen Ying. "Master, dinner is ready."
Dinner?
Shen Ying paused. Yi Qing pointed to the table beside him and said, "Master, please wait here for a moment. I am going to prepare your dinner now. If you're hungry, you can eat some pastries first."
Shen Ying frowned and shook her head. "My body is different from ordinary people. I don't need..." Before she could finish speaking, Yi Qing retrieved plates and plates of different pastries from his storage bag. The unique fragrances filled Shen Ying's nose.
He placed more than ten different plates on the table before he rushed into the kitchen.
Shen Ying stopped mid-sentence, staring at the full table.
So.... So fragrant...
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(⊙_⊙)
As she stared at the plates of pastries on the table, Shen Ying clenched her fists by her side and reached out. She was just about to take hold of one pastry when a hand intercepted hers and took the pastry closest to her. The man stuffed that piece of pastry into his mouth.
"Mm, these pastries are not bad this time." Lonemoon looked as Shen Ying as he chewed. "Right, what were you saying earlier?"
"... Nothing." Shen Ying's expression hardened. She sat down, still unable to tear her eyes away from the mouth-watering pastries. After hesitating for a few seconds, and watching Lonemoon wipe out the pastries at rapid speed, she finally reached out to stuff one piece of pastry into her mouth.
(⊙v⊙)
So... So yummy...
She had one after another, as the pastries on the table disappeared quickly. The two of them seemed to be in a competition. They didn't even say a word – the only sounds came from their chewing. By the time Chef came back out with the dinner, the plates on the table were empty. The smell of explosives filled the air instead.
Yi Qing was obviously used to this. He kept the empty plates and replaced them with savory and fragrant dishes. Thus, the two of them began a new eating competition...
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It was a full two hours later before the two of them finally rubbed their full bellies and stopped eating.
"Master." Yi Qing poured a cup of spirit tea for Shen Ying out of habit. "Have a drink – you will feel better."
Shen Ying paused and looked up at Yi Qing before glancing at the cup of tea. She clenched her fists by her side once again before reaching out with both hands to receive the cup. "Mm." She lowered her head to sip her tea. In a low voice, Shen Ying muttered, "The food you cooked was edible... thank you."
Yi Qing, who unexpectedly received an expression of gratitude, stared at her strangely. Master was...
"Chey!" Lonemoon rolled his eyes at her. As he always did, he exposed her. "That was just considered 'edible'? Then why were you fighting for the food so fiercely with me? You didn't even want to let me have that last piece of meat!" Drop the act – all of the Three Realms know how much of a foodie you are.
Lonemoon rubbed his belly and got to his feet. "Alright, if we're all full, let's go back to the main hall. You don't remember what happened in the past. I'll get the disciples over so that you can recognize them again. Otherwise, it'll be difficult to explain yourself if you address them wrongly."
Shen Ying shrank back. "I'm not going."
"Why not?"
A strange expression crossed her face. "What kind of logic is that?" She threw him a cutting glare before recovering her hard expression. "Getting them out for me to re-recognize them would be akin to admitting that I've lost my memory."
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Lonemoon pursed his lips. She had a point. "Then get Yu Hong, Chengyu, Shortie and the rest over. It wouldn't matter if you don't recognize the other people, but these are the few who always come to the rear hall. You'll have to meet them sooner or later."
Shen Ying sat upright. "I'm not seeing them!"
"Don't worry," Lonemoon continued to explain. "The few of them know the truth, and they're reliable. Nothing will happen!"
"I'm not going!" Shen Ying continued to object.
"Why not?"
"..." She did not respond. Instead, her expression remained hard. She was determined not to go, and her fists were clenched tightly by her sides.
She looked a bit... nervous?
Yi Qing paused and subconsciously glanced at the bunch of dharmic equipment that Lan Hua had left behind and had no time to keep. Then, he glanced at the dandelion on a chair next to him. There was a ding in his mind as everything finally clicked. He tested his theory. "Master, is it that... you're afraid to meet them because you haven't interacted with people in a long time?"
"Eh?" Lonemoon hesitated and widened his eyes to shoot a strange look at Shen Ying. "You're not for real... you're afraid of social interactions?" You must be kidding!
Shen Ying shivered. Her entire body suddenly turned call, as if something had sucked all of the warmth out of her body. Huge amounts of cold Qi floated out of her body as she began to freeze up.
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Her mind was filled with just a few words: I'm... exposed... exposed... exposed!
(゚Д゚≡゚Д゚)
What should she do? What should she do?
How about... slaughter them!
(╰_╯)#
"Hey, hey, hey... why are you looking at us like you want to silence us?" A chill ran down Lonemoon's spine. Yi Qing had hit the nail on the head, hadn't he? This devious and sharp-tongued, fifteen-year-old Shen Ying was afraid of social interactions!
"Shen Ying, you-"
"Master..." Before Lonemoon could finish speaking, Yi Qing interrupted him and stepped forward. "it's getting late. You just woke up and your body is still recovering. Why don't you get some rest?" Yi Qing pointed at the bedroom beside them and said, "If there's anything you need, we can talk about it tomorrow."
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Shen Ying raised her head to look him in the eyes. Warmth filled her body once again. She responded with a soft "mm" and turned to enter the bedroom. She walked briskly, obviously happy to have an excuse to get away. THe next moment, they heard the door close softly.
The two of them: "..."
"Is she really..." Lonemoon still could not believe what he just heard. "She was talking to us rather smoothly back at the divine realm." She did not look in the least bit afraid of any social interaction.
"Thankfully, she was," Yi Qing muttered. "Don't you think Master reminds you of someone now?"
Lonemoon paused. "Shen Jing?"
"Mm." Yi Qing nodded. He glanced at the shut door sadly. "In the past, Master probably did not like to interact much with others. Now, she's... just confused about how to respond when people treat her kindly." That was why she received Radish's flower while adopting the cool demeanor that Shen Jing normally had.
"..."
At that time, Shen Ying who was in the house was thinking:
What am I to do? I'm exposed! Even my older sister couldn't tell – how did they know? Were the two of them demons?
Indeed, interacting with people was much scarier than the plane storm outside...
(ಥ_ಥ)
Teenage Ying, who was now fifteen and experiencing the same social anxieties she did before, was panicking.
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Ever since she decided to become her older sister's assistant when she was three, Shen Ying had not interacted with strangers. It had been a long time since then. She had been terribly busy – the plane data that Shen Jing had handed to her alone could take up all of her time.
Ever since she began her physical training at age five, she seldom even went to earth. Each day, she studied, worked, and then slept. Apart from when she returned to her school two times a year to take her examinations, Shen Ying hardly came into contact with any strangers. What's more, the duration in which she could afford to transport within different spaces was limited. Each time, after she finished taking her exams, she would have to rush out of the examination hall and back home. There was no time for her to even build relationships with her friends. The only person whom she interacted with was her own strict, older sister.