She held a tea cup, took small steps, and steadily walked up to Chen Ye, offering a cup of steaming tea.
Respectfully, she said:
"Master, please have some tea."
"But what if Master is too lazy to move, then what?" Chen Ye lazily leaned against the small girl behind him.
No choice, who made this chair just a stone bench, without a backrest?
Gotta say, Qing Jun as a backrest, really is soft and tender, fragrant and sweet!
"Uwu!"
The little girl whimpered, not daring to let out even a breath of defiance.
Like a little pushover, she let her master lean against her, while her small hands tiredly massaged his back.
"Too... too lazy to move..."
Zhiwei’s small hand trembled, seeing her master smirking at her.
Wasn’t this, making her personally feed her master tea?
She dared not look at him, kept her head down, and with slightly trembling hands, cautiously brought the cup of warm Spirit Tea to Chen Ye’s lips.
"Mas... Master, please... please have the tea."
Chen Ye chuckled inwardly, yet his face remained justifiably indifferent.
He lowered his head, sipping the spirit tea from his apprentice’s small hands, drinking it all in one go.
The warm tea slid down his throat.
Not bad, it was excellent tea, should be the Spirit Tea grown right in Lisong Valley.
"Mm, the tea is good."
Chen Ye nodded in satisfaction, then his opportunistic gaze fell on the untouched plate of osmanthus cake on the table.
He reached out and pulled his still-shy eldest disciple onto his lap.
"Master!"
Zhiwei panicked again, her small body stiffened abruptly in Chen Ye’s embrace.
Chen Ye was content.
In his arms, he had his eldest disciple, and behind his back, he had the younger disciple.
Finally, as their master, he could enjoy this rare double filial piety from his disciples.
"Just drinking tea doesn’t fill the stomach."
Chen Ye ignored her protests, pointing to the plate of osmanthus cake, and said, "Continue."
Feeding the master snacks?
And feeding him in his embrace...
Zhiwei pouted a little, not because she felt wronged to serve her master,
but because she felt wronged by the way of serving.
Why?
She always wanted to care for her master in every aspect, but... definitely not in her master’s lap!
Having Master in her lap would be more like it...
But now, how could she have any reasons to object?
After finally pacifying the two little jealous girls, Chen Ye enjoyed this rare imperial treatment, and the little fatigue due to busyness vanished completely.
Surrounded by his disciples, life’s utmost blessing could be none other than this.
He contentedly ate the last bite of osmanthus cake handed over by Zhiwei, then gave a peck on her shy little face before finally letting her down.
"Alright, alright, today’s affairs will end here. You two little ones are also tired from the day, go back and rest early."
The two little girls gratefully escaped from his side, hurried back to their rooms as if fleeing.
Watching their cute backs, the smile on Chen Ye’s lips became even more pronounced.
...
In the days that followed, Lisong Valley officially returned to normal track.
With thirty experienced Spirit Plant Cultivators, and Li Dageng and Lin Jinghua as diligent foremen, the restoration of the Medicinal Garden proceeded in an orderly fashion.
Chen Ye only needed to use his marvelous "Limit Break Rainmaking" at critical moments, and the withered Spirit Plants would rejuvenate at a visible speed.
And he himself, devoted more energy into his cultivation.
He first spent a few days, using the Second Tier Flying Light Sword to retrain the Cyan Wave Sword Control Technique, its power became unmatched with the past.
Then, he spent day and night studying the Sword Dao insights gifted by Li Yanfeng.
The proficiency of Cyan Wave Sword Control Technique rapidly increased!
Six days passed.
[Cyan Wave Sword Control Technique Great Success: 165/200]
"Great Success corresponds to the Fourth Layer Inverted Sea, Perfection will correspond to the Fifth Layer Thunder Strike."
"The remaining two layers of the Cyan Wave Sword Control Technique are an evolution of Sword Intent, already beyond the scope of First Tier Flying Sword Techniques. If cultivated to Perfection, one can start touching on the Sword Intent Dao... Thinking like this, doesn’t it mean only after Limit Break, one can practice the Sixth Layer Ningyuan?"
Chen Ye sighed.
No wonder Cyan Wave Sword Control Technique is said to be the most challenging Flying Sword Skill to cultivate in Yan Kingdom.
It turns out, this Flying Sword Technique practically has only four layers, and the remaining two layers, the cultivator must comprehend themselves!
For ordinary cultivators, this is as good as daydreaming.
Yet, for him, it isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
He has a proficiency panel, as long as he practiced diligently, this so-called Sword Intent, is merely water flowing naturally to form a channel.
Once his mind was settled, Chen Ye sheathed the Flying Light and Iron Sword.
Pushing open the wooden door of the Quiet Chamber, he prepared to check on the two quarreling little disciples.
However, upon sweeping it with his Divine Sense, his brows furrowed slightly.
Lisong Valley, Outer Valley.
Deep in the night, all was silent.
Yet, the Spirit Plant Cultivators’ residence area, just newly settled, was in complete chaos.
"Roar——!"
A savage beast roar shattered the tranquility of the valley!
Only to see a black Demon Beast, towering thirty feet high, resembling a fierce tiger but strangely having a pair of sharp bull horns, rampaging through the houses without restraint!
The cultivation of that Demon Beast had astonishingly reached Qi Cultivation Eighth Layer!
For these Loose Cultivator orchard workers, mostly at the Early Stage or Middle Period of Qi Cultivation, this was nothing short of a catastrophe!
"Run! It’s the Iron-Horned Demon Bull!"
"Help! Where’s the Mountain Protection Array? How could a Demon Beast break in!"
The valley resonated with fearful screams and the cries of children.