Chapter 405: Chapter 1: Have a Quick al
The three things I need to do recently.
1. Go to Pingjing to attend the award ceremony.
2. Visit the location given by the old Longbrow.
3. Prepare to go ho for the New Year.
The first matter is the most urgent but also the least important.
The military dals and honorary titles for everyone have been decided, called “Divine General Dinghai”.
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In addition, Yan Yu, due to his outstanding performance at Inferno Pass and finally at the gate of Li Palace, has a different honorary title from others, called “Divine General Dinghai”… It seems that soone high up wants to create a “series of famous general titles” for him.
First of all, rule out Chen Tianming; Old Tai Shan isn’t the type to do aningless things. As for who it actually is, Yan Yu is clueless, and too lazy to clarify, so he simply doesn’t bother to ask Chen Lingyun.
After the awarding ceremony, there was a monetary reward.
To be honest, for the people of Dragon Soar Team and Zhenghai today, tens of millions in cash didn’t an much; in Lord Master’s words, it was just “accepting a gesture”…
We, top cultivators, treat tens of millions of cash just as a little token.
Taking off from Pingjing via Sword Flight, the ladies were still gossiping with sound transmission.
Zhao Yuanzhen was talking about which dishes were the tastiest at the state banquet, Lin Ning disagreed, saying she could cook those dishes too, then Chen Lingyun egged on the bet, saying if Ningning could recreate the banquet dishes, Sister Zhao would have to accept the wager and so on and so forth…
“What is the captain thinking about?” Su Yunjin suddenly asked through sound transmission.
“I have to make a trip to Nanjiang soon,” Yan Yu saw no need to hide it from her, “The old man who gave the treasures in Li Palace and taught the Two-handed Sword Control Technique also left an additional divine sense, directing to seek his Lineage Succession there.”
“Oh,” Su Yunjin pondered for a mont and said, “But going to Nanjiang doesn’t necessarily an you’ll find it, right?”
“If the Mysterious Realm is a reflection of another world in ours, then even if we know the location of a cultivator’s treasure-filled cave, we have to wait until this cave becos a Mysterious Realm and the entrance appears in our real world before we can enter it to explore and search.”
“Exactly,” Yan Yu said, “but it’s just a look-around. If I find nothing, so be it.”
“That’s true,” Su Yunjin smiled and said, “then I can accompany the captain…”
“Have you finished finding all your Rootless Water?” Yan Yu glanced at her sideways.
“I can accompany the captain while collecting the Rootless Water I need along the way,” Su Yunjin replied unfazed.
“Forget it, it doesn’t snow all year round in Nanjiang,” Yan Yu earnestly advised her, “At your age, you should focus more on your cultivation and not waste ti and energy on trivial matters. Otherwise, you’ll regret it later in life.”
A girl’s pure first love is hardly a trivial matter. Besides, if the captain is pursued by another girl, that would truly lead to lifelong regret and remorse for …
Thinking about the Illusion Realm stage in the Secret Realm of Li Palace where she had to attend Ling Yun and the captain’s wedding as a bridesmaid, Su Yunjin felt another surge of heartache.
But she was, after all, a well-bred young lady from a respectable family, and did not rashly express her emotions. Instead, she smiled innocently and said:
“Then, when does the captain think would be the appropriate ti to consider this kind of thing?”
“Uh…” Yan Yu pondered for a while, “At least until the third year of the Spiritual Energy Resurgence, I suppose?”
Taking into account that the first year of Spiritual Energy Resurgence happens to be the year I graduate from high school, does that an the captain wants to wait until my junior year of college to start dating?
After everyone returned to the Jinling Villa, Zhao Yuanzhen started urging again:
“So what are we eating tonight?”
“You ate all of my Bazhen Duck last ti; I haven’t settled the score with you yet!” Lin Ning said angrily.
“Yan Yu doesn’t have much of an appetite to begin with, and I saved you from wasting food, isn’t that a good thing?” Zhao Yuanzhen patted her flat stomach and said proudly, “I don’t expect you to replicate the state banquet dishes today; just make another duck like last ti.”
“No stewed duck,” Lin Ning replied expressionlessly. “If you want so, go buy saltwater duck yourself.”
Seeing that she was impervious to persuasion, Zhao Yuanzhen surreptitiously sent a telepathic ssage to Yan Yu:
“Yan Yu, I want the Eight Treasures Duck we had last ti.”
“Then let Ningning make it for you,” Yan Yu said.
“She won’t. I can’t do anything about it,” the Demonic Sect Enchantress was quite clear on this point. “But, if you say you want it, she’ll definitely make it for you.”
“What’s in it for if I do this?” Yan Yu asked.
“If you tell her you want stewed duck, tonight a very powerful female cultivator will co to your room for so dual cultivation and to Circulate the Heavens with you,” Zhao Yuanzhen said earnestly. “She’ll also help you with the puppet maintenance and updates.”
Yan Yu was imdiately amused by her offer.
Enchantress! You actually dare to negotiate with using sothing that already belongs to ?
However, the ntion of puppet updating did remind Yan Yu that the Demonic Sect Enchantress indeed obtained a certain heavenly treasure from The Secret Realm of Li Palace, which seed to be called “Qianling True Dusk Fire.”
In recent days, everyone had been in Pingjing to attend the award ceremony, and all the gains from the trip to Li Palace had already been submitted to the departnt of science for recording and cataloging to develop corresponding research plans. Once those items were returned, he would use the Qianling True Dusk Fire for the puppet transformation.
Yan Yu and Zhao Yuanzhen’s ownership of the puppets had already been reported privately to Chen Lingyun by Chen Tianming, who would “legitimize” the matter at the higher levels.
After i Yingxue decided not to pursue past grievances with the Demonic Sect Enchantress, there was no longer a need to hide the existence of the String-Pulling Technique, and it could gradually make its way into the public eye… As the intelligence was increasingly disclosed, the puppets’ secrecy as a “secret weapon” would naturally fade, and more enemies would beco cautious. Therefore, the puppets needed constant upgrading to strengthen them.
Well then, he would have many future uses for this witch! He might as well fulfill her wish this ti!
“Ningning,” Yan Yu began, “do we still have the ingredients at ho to make that stewed duck from last ti?”
“Does the captain want to eat it?” Lin Ning first looked delighted and proud, but quickly beca suspicious and glanced at Zhao Yuanzhen before telepathically asking, “The one who wants to eat is Sister Zhao, right?”
“Yeah,” Yan Yu admitted openly. “After she tried your stewed duck last ti, everything else she’s eaten lately has tasted bland, so she secretly asked to plead with you.”
“Hmph.” Lin Ning was completely unconvinced and snorted coldly. “Didn’t she enjoy the feast last night? My cooking can’t compare to that of a national chef. Let the banquet chef make it for her!”
“That’s how your Sister Zhao is,” Yan Yu said with a laugh. “All tough talk, but becos incredibly soft when eating. Hey, why don’t you do this? Make the dish again, put it in front of her… Make her admit that Ningning’s culinary skills are unmatched, and she can’t eat unless she admits it! Don’t forget to record it with a voice recorder, and see how she keeps up her tough act after eating.”
Lin Ning’s mood imdiately improved, and she smugly said:
“My cooking isn’t the best in the world; I just know how to make so ho-cooked dishes. Hmph, stewed duck takes too much ti, I won’t make it for her. But I carefully noted which dishes she liked at last night’s banquet. I’ll recreate them when I get back and see what she has to say!”
Seeing that Lin Ning had finally agreed, Yan Yu didn’t say more and sat on the couch to watch TV.
“Captain,” Lin Ning suddenly telepathically said again, “the New Year is coming next month.”
“Hmm, so what?” Yan Yu asked. “You want to go ho to spend it with your family, right? I know.”
“Right, it’s for the New Year.” Lin Ning fell silent for a mont, then abruptly asked, “Do you have any ti recently to accompany on a trip to Qingyuan Prefecture?”
“What’s the matter?” Yan Yu imdiately beca vigilant. “You’re not trying to get to pretend to be your fake boyfriend again, are you?”
“Of course not!” Lin Ning hurriedly defended. “And last ti you refused anyway! I an… my dad said you are the team leader, and he wanted to build a good relationship with you, so I thought I’d invite you to have a al at my place, especially since Sword Flight makes it very convenient to travel now… Right? Of course, if you don’t want to co, that’s fine too, I’ll just explain to my dad…”
Although she repeatedly emphasized, “it’s okay even if you don’t co,” Yan Yu could easily hear what she ant: it was an awkward way of saying “I really hope you can co.” He responded directly:
“Sure. As the team leader, I don’t mind going for a casual al. When do you want to set it up?”
“Noon on New Year’s Eve,” Lin Ning replied quickly.
Yan Yu: ?
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