The Cold And Aloof Senior Sister Keeps Flirting With Me - Chapter 59

She didn’t know why, but the weather had been persistently bad all day.

Yan Jue held Qi Xianqing’s communication talisman, her heart filled with mixed emotions. She quickly returned to the mountain and headed straight to the Scripture Pavilion.

The Scripture Pavilion was as sparsely populated as ever.

Yan Jue went to the back row of bookshelves, looked up, and saw that the books on those shelves were covered in dust.

Standing on the long ladder, Yan Jue searched for a long time and finally found what she was looking for: a thick, yellowed old book.

A Book to Help You Understand Ice Type Divine Abilities.

Apart from the first two chapters, which focused on practical application, the later chapters were mostly theoretical, detailing things like the Ice Soul Mind Technique volumes one through six, the Yin Yang Five Elements Heart Chant and so on. Yan Jue only needed to memorize these and circulate the corresponding energy (Zhou Tian) in her body every night.

Yan Jue lacked a specialized book on Ice type divine abilities currently, the only one she mastered was the Ice Summoning Art. That was far too little.

Yan Jue carried the book down the long ladder. Just as she was about to leave, her peripheral vision caught sight of a person near the adjacent bookshelf.

Yan Jue’s steps halted abruptly.

It was Qi Xianqing.

Qi Xianqing, dressed in white robes and carrying a dark colored longsword on her back, was standing between another row of bookshelves, taking a book down from above.

Yan Jue inadvertently glanced at the small line of text on the book’s cover: A Book to Help You Understand Dual Cultivation.

Yan Jue: “?”

Qi Xianqing, holding the book, walked out expressionlessly. She looked up and unexpectedly saw Yan Jue.

Yan Jue: “…”

The two stood in silent confrontation.

Qi Xianqing’s gaze instantly turned cold. She flipped the book over and pressed it against her abdomen. “What are you looking at?”

Yan Jue gave an awkward laugh. “What a coincidence, Senior Sister. We just met down the mountain, and here we are again.”

She recovered quickly. She had just been like a lost puppy moments ago, but now her face was brimming with vitality, her smile clear and pure.

Qi Xianqing stared at her for a long time, uttered a simple “En,” and then walked past her with a cold face.

Yan Jue: “…”

She was used to it.

For some unknown reason, Yan Jue’s heart kept pounding as she walked back to her dormitory.

She kept feeling a pair of eyes staring at her from behind, giving her an uneasy feeling.

Perhaps she was a little over-sensitive after everything she had experienced today.

“…”

By the time Yan Jue returned to her dormitory, the breeze had escalated into a fierce gale. The rain in the sky had also turned into a torrential downpour.

Yan Jue sat at her desk, looking out the window, when she suddenly saw a flash of lightning in the sky.

The large tree outside her dormitory had been struck!

It was an old tree. After being hit by lightning, it burst into a raging fire.

Suddenly, a knocking sound came from the door.

Du Ming: “Yan Jue!!! Hurry out and help put out the fire! The tree by our door is on fire.”

Yan Jue snapped out of her daze and rushed out to help extinguish the flames.

As the disciples of the Water Cloud Sect primarily learned water-based divine abilities, coupled with the heavy storm, the fire on the tree was quickly put out.

Du Ming: “What’s going on? Why did the heavenly lightning strike here and not somewhere else?”

Yan Jue: “Did you do something shameful that warrants being struck by lightning?”

Du Ming: “No, I just saw a few very handsome junior brothers from the Wood Yin Sect yesterday and looked at them a few extra times.”

As the two chatted, another flash of lightning instantly illuminated the girls’ faces in a stark white.

Yan Jue stared at the lightning in the sky for a long time, and the words Heavenly Tribulation (Tian Jie) suddenly appeared in her mind.

Monsters (Yao) and humans were different.

Human cultivators only encountered the Heavenly Tribulation after reaching the Sixth Realm, the Golden Core Realm.

But for the demon race (Yaozu), the Heavenly Tribulation was a common occurrence because their cultivation was an act against the heavens. They could face the tribulation not only during their transformation but potentially with every advance in their cultivation.

Could it be…

This is bad.

Yan Jue’s pupils contracted.

Her cultivation had indeed progressed after descending the mountain this time.

She had been wondering why, now that she was at the peak of the Illumination Realm, the Heavenly Tribulation hadn’t descended.

No wonder she had felt an uneasy feeling on her way back to the dormitory.

Is this the monster’s intuition for danger? The lightning is coming for me!

Yan Jue stared blankly at the dark clouds on the horizon. Du Ming nudged her back. “Hurry up and get inside. This lightning is unusual. Maybe one of the powerful elders in our Five Dragons Gate is undergoing the tribulation. Be careful not to get caught up in it. In this kind of rainy weather, we should just hide under the covers and listen to the rain.”

Yan Jue: “Alright.”

Yan Jue returned to her room, immediately transformed into a small, red fox, and with a flick of her three large tails, leaped out the window.

Another flash of lightning struck the sky. Yan Jue’s scalp tingled, and the deafening thunder made all the fur on her body stand on end.

Yan Jue ran quickly into the forest, enduring the heavy rain.

Monster beasts (Yaoshou) undergoing tribulation were supposed to hide in the wilderness.

She couldn’t do it at home. If she did, the house would be destroyed by the heavenly lightning.

Yan Jue searched in the forest for a long time and finally found a decent open space.

At the same time, a terrifying bolt of lightning struck down, violently splitting the trees behind her and throwing Yan Jue several yards away.

Yan Jue was now completely certain that the lightning was aimed at her it followed wherever she went.

Yan Jue quickly jumped and ran to the open space, sat down directly, and rapidly searched her memories for information about monster beast tribulations.

There were ten bolts of heavenly lightning in total.

The monster beast had to form a seal in the open space for the tribulation to officially begin.

The higher the monster beast’s cultivation, the stronger the lightning’s power.

The Heavenly Tribulation for monster beasts was extremely difficult to withstand. Very few were able to endure all ten bolts.

While Yan Jue was thinking, the first bolt of lightning had already struck.

A violent surge of electricity spread from all directions. Yan Jue only felt a burning pain on her back and nearly stumbled.

The entire little fox pressed tightly against the ground, coughing up a mouthful of blood.

This heavenly lightning was more potent than she had imagined.

The second bolt followed immediately. Yan Jue’s amber eyes widened. She clearly saw a purplish-blue galloping steed appear in the cloud shrouded sky. It let out a long, powerful neigh and charged towards her with immense force.

In an instant, a two person high fireball erupted in the clearing. This time, Yan Jue was flipped over completely. The fiery red little fox lay on its back, mouth open, looking utterly miserable.

The third bolt of the tribulation.

The clouds gradually parted. Yan Jue clearly saw a monstrous beast with a huge mouth hidden within the clouds. Its majestic eyes glowed with faint golden light, and another bolt of lightning struck down.

The fourth… the fifth… the sixth…

This was purely the crushing power of the Heavenly Dao against an ant.

In the beginning, Yan Jue could barely resist, but by the seventh bolt of heavenly lightning, her fur was scorched black. She could no longer be considered a fox; she was a bald fox.

Yan Jue lay on the ground, biting her teeth fiercely, her whole body tense.

Suddenly, the dark clouds above her head slowly parted. Yan Jue, with all four paws pressed to the ground, looked up at the sky, her pupils shrinking dramatically.

In an instant, she saw a magnificent golden dragon with claws and teeth bared in the clouds. Its eyes were as bright as fire.

The tenth bolt of the Heavenly Tribulation!

The earth shook, and the thunder was deafening. A dazzling bolt of lightning illuminated the surrounding dark trees, and the golden dragon in the sky roared and tore through the wind, hurtling toward her.

Yan Jue used all her strength, raised her neck, and let out a soft, kitten-like yelp. Her three large tails swept suddenly. In an instant, an ice colored protective shield flashed in the air, and layer upon layer of chilling ice instantly encased her.

“Boom!!!”

The heavenly lightning struck the protective shield, instantly shattering the thick ice into powder.

However, this layer of protection managed to perfectly withstand the most difficult strike of the Heavenly Tribulation for Yan Jue.

The residual electricity landed on Yan Jue, causing her to cry out in pain.

The world’s greatest nemesis to demons and monsters was lightning. Even a trace of the righteous electricity made Yan Jue twitch and roll her eyes.

Yan Jue lost all strength in her body and lost consciousness.

When Yan Jue woke up, everything was over.

The surroundings were perfectly quiet. The cool breeze of the post rain night gently blew past her ears, and she could faintly hear the chirping of insects from the tree canopy above.

Yan Jue slowly managed to open her heavy eyelids just a slit.

The dark clouds had dispersed, revealing a profound and clear night sky. Stars were scattered across the firmament, beautiful and tranquil.

Yan Jue lay on the ground for a while, trying to stand up, but with every movement, she felt as if all her wounds were tearing open.

It hurts so much… it hurts so much…

Yan Jue felt extremely weak. Not only could she not move, but she couldn’t even gather enough energy to transform back into her human form.

So that’s why, in novels, many severely injured monster beasts remain in their original form it wasn’t that they wanted to stay that way, but that they simply couldn’t transform back into human form.

Right now, even a hedgehog could bully her…

She was too vulnerable.

If a large spirit beast were to pass by now, her life would probably be in danger.

Yan Jue lay weakly on the ground, closing her heavy eyelids. The first person to appear in her mind was Qi Xianqing.

She needed Qi Xianqing’s help.

Would Qi Xianqing be in the Ice Peach Garden right now?

Yan Jue was cold and hungry. She dragged half of her body and crawled to the outside of the Ice Peach Garden, which was next to the cold pond, and took a deep sniff.

She smelled the scent of the Immortal Spirit Body. Yan Jue wiggled her large ears in the air and heard the faint sound of turning pages.

Yan Jue’s eyes lit up slightly. Qi Xianqing was indeed in the Ice Peach Garden…

“Squeak, squeak, squeak…”

Everything became quiet after the heavy rain. Qi Xianqing loved the night after the rain. She could sit by the window and read, or deeply inhale the scent of water vapor carried on the evening breeze.

Qi Xianqing, dressed in her inner robe, was sitting at the table reading a manual on dual cultivation. The book was covered in her notes.

The more Qi Xianqing read, the deeper her frown became, and the more she realized her own shortcomings.

In the past, she was single-mindedly devoted to the Dao and only focused on cultivation, never bothering to learn anything about dual cultivation.

She realized that such a miraculous thing as dual cultivation existed in the world. Especially after reaching the Sixth Realm (Golden Core Realm), the combined effort of a dual cultivation couple was equivalent to two Golden Cores operating simultaneously, a power comparable to the Seventh Realm.

Moreover, dual cultivation was not restricted by gender. As long as the spiritual roots and Yin Yang energies were compatible, two women could also dual cultivate.

Qi Xianqing felt her long-held worldview had been violently shaken. She rested her weight on the table, frowning in thought.

Suddenly, she heard a familiar sound.

“Squeak, squeak, squeak…”

“Whimper, whimper…”

Qi Xianqing walked out of the room and unexpectedly saw the half-dead little fox.

Qi Xianqing was stunned.

The creature lying on the ground was no longer the little fox baby from before.

Instead, it was a severely injured little fox. Its entire fiery red coat was scorched black, half of the fur on its body was bald, revealing scarred and wounded skin, and its front paws were bleeding.

The little fox lay on the ground, its amber eyes open only in a slit.

Qi Xianqing’s heart skipped a beat.

It had taken all of Yan Jue’s strength to crawl to Qi Xianqing. The entire fox curled up on the ground.

She closed her eyes. Hearing Qi Xianqing’s footsteps gradually approaching, her hanging heart slowly settled.

Qi Xianqing quickly walked closer and picked Yan Jue up.

The blood stained her pure white inner robe and slowly dripped from it.

Qi Xianqing half-knelt on the ground and looked down to examine the little fox’s wounds. “How did you get like this?”

Yan Jue didn’t even have the strength to yelp.

She kept her eyes closed, her large black ears drooping and plastered against the back of her head, and let out a muffled, mournful cry.

Qi Xianqing suddenly noticed something and froze slightly.

The little fox, which originally had three large, bushy tails, now had four. A fourth, smaller tail had grown behind the three long ones.

A four-tailed spirit fox.

The thunder and rain earlier had been unusual. Qi Xianqing had already guessed that a spirit beast might be undergoing a tribulation on the mountain. Now, seeing the little fox’s condition, she frowned, vaguely forming a conjecture.

Qi Xianqing held the little fox in her arms. Fearing she might hurt it, she was uncharacteristically flustered. She said in a low voice, “It’s alright, it’s alright.”

Yan Jue closed her eyes, took a deep breath of the Immortal Spirit Body scent, and nestled against Qi Xianqing’s chest like a small infant.

She felt very safe in Qi Xianqing’s arms.

How unlucky…

She was just punished by the Heavenly Dao for recklessly attempting to leave the mountain, and now she had encountered a thunder tribulation.

The Heavenly Tribulation was truly terrifying.

That’s why I must work hard to become stronger, Yan Jue thought haphazardly.

Qi Xianqing held her and quickly walked back toward the house.

“…”

Yan Jue closed her eyes and snuggled into Qi Xianqing’s embrace.

She suddenly felt that perhaps she wasn’t so unlucky after all!