Chapter 54 52, the first cup of tea in winter
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A bright winter, the sunlight lazily curled up, as peaceful and slumbering as a small animal resting in the green grass. Enjoy exclusive adventures from empire
When Xu Yuan pushed open the door, he immediately saw the two girls standing on the corridor, which exuded a faint scent of wood.
One was majestic as Ruoxue, her features cold and clear, her body straight as a sword's spine, showing hardly any curve, her gaze as misty as cloud smoke; the other had a temperament as light as clouds, yet her face bore a layer of frost-like snow.
And the morning mist, like white gauze, just happened to enshroud their flawless figures, one slender, the other plump, perfectly displaying the different aspects of young girls' beauty at that age.
Both stood at the door, not knowing how long they had been there, but had reached a tacit agreement not to speak.
"Good morning, senior sisters,"
Xu Yuan said with a smiling squint, then he pulled the door fully open and stepped aside, gesturing for them to come in.
"No need, whatever it is, we can talk about it at the door. After we're done, I'll leave."
Yun's gaze was incomparably cold, as though a Snow Blade might shoot from her eyes and strike at him the next moment, without him feeling the slightest surprise.
Xu Yuan didn't show much surprise, merely saying lightly, "Senior sister, why not come in first, have a cup of tea in peace, and then talk? How about it?"
Liu Ruoxue glanced at her and stepped into the room.
"Are you going to talk or not? If not, I'll leave."
That senior sister Yun said coldly.
Seeing her still unwilling to relax, Xu Yuan couldn't help but sigh inwardly, thinking it was a pity.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
He had been thinking of luring her in for a cup of tea, and if it worked, he could take the chance to make a request, equating to a free gain. But now, it seemed, that would not happen.
"Alright then, I'll say it. My request is simple; I want to reconcile with senior sister, and ask her to have a tea."
Xu Yuan said with a smile.
However, this time, his smile lost its usual sharpness, facing defeat upon the girl's frosty jade face.
"If you really had such a thought."
Yun looked at his face, which she considered to be unbearably charming, and said word by word, "You wouldn't have treated me like this back then."
Her voice was still stable and heavy but permeated with an unyielding hatred, like a seed beneath a boulder that will one day grow into a tree strong enough to overturn it; they don't need sunlight to grow, they merely seek it.
"But wasn't it senior sister who provoked me first?"
Xu Yuan started to laugh, feeling not anger from her blame-the-victim tactic, but rather pleasure.
The stronger Yun's hatred in her heart, the easier it would be to see the effect during the upcoming test.
"That was a sparring match, and I paid a price for it, too."
Yun kept her gaze firmly on him.
"Alright, alright."
Xu Yuan sighed, "Then please have a cup of tea before you leave, consider it an apology."
Yun was unmoved, her eyes narrowed, immediately guessing his intention, "You are so insistent on me drinking that tea; it seems there must be something wrong with it."
Without waiting for Xu Yuan to reply, she continued on her own, "But it's probably not poison. With your abilities, you wouldn't need to go through so much trouble to kill me. So it seems, you must be testing medicine?"
The smile on Xu Yuan's face hardly changed as he quietly listened to her finish, then noncommittally said, "Please."
Yun sighed and then, upon seeing the large bowl of tea with white foam floating on the table, she couldn't help but be stunned.
He calls this a cup?
She glanced again at Liu Ruoxue, who similarly had a bowl of tea on her table but it was a deep red like blood.
Yun didn't say much, just picked up the tea and gulped it down in one go.
"Senior sister surely wouldn't expel it using her cultivation afterward, right?"
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After she finished her tea and turned to leave, Xu Yuan suddenly said with a smile from the side, "This tea benefits cultivators, but I'm not quite sure about its effects, which is why I had no choice but to ask sister Yun to test it. After drinking it, there will be some related symptoms. I hope sister Yun can keep her promise."
"Hmph."
Sister Yun snorted coldly, but the icy expression on her face had mostly melted away: "I am not you... I will keep my promise."
With that, her brows slightly furrowed; she suddenly quickened her pace and left the place, her retreating figure faintly exuding a hint of embarrassment and a rush to escape.
"What did you add to the tea you gave her?"
Liu Ruoxue stared at the bowl of tea before her and asked in a deep voice.
She felt that what he added to the tea for the two of them might be different.
However, no matter how she used her Divine Sense to examine it, she couldn't discern what Spiritual Medicine had been added to it.
"Saliva."
Xu Yuan smiled slightly.
"Ha, do you think I'll believe that you went to all this trouble just to satisfy your own perverse tastes?"
"The fairy actually thinks so highly of me; what a pity. Perhaps that's just the kind of person I am," replied Xu Yuan, appearing quite indifferent.
He was telling the truth, but his purpose, as Liu Ruoxue had said, was not merely to satisfy his own perverse tastes.
After all, the baptism at the Sword Pool was no small matter. There might be powerful cultivators constantly monitoring it with their Divine Sense. If he wanted to tamper with it, it would be best to be cautious. He needed to see the effects of these body fluids and start with weak trials to avoid arousing suspicion.
"Enough with the nonsense."
Liu Ruoxue looked at him: "Did you call me here for this?"
"Something like that."
"Tell me another secret."
Liu Ruoxue stared at him intently.
Last time, when he said the secret was on her, she had searched for a long time afterward without finding any clues and was beginning to lose patience.
"Fairy..."
"I've done a lot for you. This time, I want a secret of sufficient importance," Liu Ruoxue stated unequivocally.
"Very well then."
Xu Yuan heaved a sigh, as if compelled by her insistence: "The person you're looking for can be found as long as you use your bloodline as a guide."
"Bloodline?!"
Liu Ruoxue was first startled, then her eyes filled with intense joy: "Could it be...?"
"Please, fairy, keep to your promise."
Xu Yuan pointed at the bowl in front of her.
"Alright."
Liu Ruoxue looked at the red tea in the bowl before her, yet her mind was hatching other plans.
Now, in his presence, she could only obediently drink it down, but once outside, she planned to use her cultivation to expel the tea from her body and ask her master to analyze its contents; then she would pretend to exhibit the corresponding symptoms to deceive him.
Once she uncovered the relevant secrets, she could then kill this Outer Domain Demon.
Watching her tilt her head back and drink down the Blood Tea from the large bowl to the last drop, a rich smile of amusement and anticipation surfaced in Xu Yuan's eyes.
Yang Charm Demon Body... let's see just how powerful your effects truly are.