The fairy always tries to corrupt my Dao heart.

Chapter 33 Her face, flushed red with panic, was like the gentlest cloud at sunset.
On the flying boat back to Luoxia City, Li Qingan and Shen Qingyu remained silent for most of the time.

Shen Qingyu would steal glances at Li Qingan every now and then, and several times she seemed about to say something but then stopped herself.

She wanted to ask Li Qingan what he thought.

But I didn't dare to ask.

What if it's just a misunderstanding on my part, where I'm only being delusional?
But his eyes, the warmth of his hands...

Shen Qingyu ate the apple in small bites, and a subtle atmosphere grew between them.

"So, the Kawaguchi County can be taken over by the Luoxia Sect first?"

Huang Yunzhao's voice rang out from within the sword, and Li Qing'an replied helplessly, "Your sudden outburst makes me feel like I'm pregnant with something."

“That’s right.” Li Qing’an then replied, “The Luoxia Sect is eager for someone to take the lead, and it has nothing to do with whether Su Lingyin is a saintess or not.”

"As for whether Kawaguchi will believe it again... such things are unstoppable in the first place. I just can't stand the sacrifice of young boys and girls."

"Things like this that you don't know about..."

“I saw it in Kawaguchi County,” Li Qingan interrupted her. “That’s all.”

Huang Yunzhao snorted, then changed the subject: "So you really are planning to go back to the Dao Sect and become the leader, just like this girl said?"

"Who knows?"

"Aren't you going to say anything either?"

"They'll tell you eventually."

Half past 5 PM, Li Qingan and Shen Qingyu returned to Luoxia City.

Are you getting ready to go home?

Stepping out of the flying boat plaza, Shen Qingyu couldn't help but ask, "Cultivation?"

"It's still early." Li Qingan looked up at the red glow on the horizon. "Let's take on another mission."

"Are you still answering?"

"How many spirit crystals did you get after raiding the Xue family's place?" Li Qingan shook his head: "Too few."

"That's it..."

"Well, I'll leave first."

Li Qingan swayed slowly.

Shen Qingyu bit her lower lip. She's leaving already?
What exactly did that look in his eyes mean at the edge of the cliff?

I still have so many questions I want to ask...

"Wait, wait a minute!"

Shen Qingyu chased after her, taking a deep breath as if she had mustered all her courage: "You... don't go on the mission, can you do me a favor?"

"Help you?" Li Qing'an, who had stopped, raised an eyebrow: "Find the Void Stone again?"

"No, no." Shen Qingyu quickly waved her hand: "You'll know when you come to Mingyue Tower with me."

"Cleaning?"

"No!" Shen Qingyu glared at him. "Do I look like the kind of person who bullies their friends?"

She paused, then added, "The Mission Hall rarely has jobs that cost 100,000 spirit crystals, right?"

"One hundred thousand?"

Li Qingan looked at her in surprise: "So many?"

Shen Qingyu put her hands on her hips: "Are you going to do it or not?"

"Walk."

"Hmph, that's more like it."

Shen Qingyu happily led the way, thinking to herself that this person was really a money-grubber; he agreed so readily when it came to spirit crystals.

……

The first time Li Qing'an entered Mingyue Tower, his eyes were drawn to the surrounding walls.

Because there were curtains hanging on the walls, as if they were covering something.

"Among the murals of the immortal artifacts, one is the Heavenly Yuan Mirror."

Huang Yunzhao's voice rang in his mind. Li Qing'an was surprised for a moment before replying, "There's no rush."

Huang Yunzhao said no more. Li Qingan looked at Shen Qingyu in front of him and thought to himself that he had made the right bet.

This girl probably knows something about the Heavenly Mirror.

"come here."

Shen Qingyu led Li Qingan to a large room on the top floor.

A mountain of empty shadow stones and a table made of a large communication compass in front of the window came into Li Qing'an's view.

He knew that the Void Shadow Stone was a rare treasure with a similar monitoring function, but it was also quite useless. The low-grade and mid-grade Void Shadow Stones circulating in the market could not detect the traces of cultivators, so they were often used to store some spells, documents and history.

The high-grade Void Shadow Stones are extremely rare and are controlled by powerful forces. Not to mention ordinary people, even some well-established forces have no way to buy them.

He also knew that the communication compass, with the upgrades made by some weapon refiners and array masters, no longer only had simple communication functions.

For example, real-time face-to-face chat, map search, local news, and sect disciples can directly search for spells in the library based on their permissions...

But what can these two things do together?
"Speaking of which, what do you need so many Void Stones for?" Li Qingan asked curiously.

"To earn pocket money." Shen Qingyu sighed softly, "My mother gives me a limited monthly allowance, which isn't even enough for me to eat..."

Doesn't she know how much you eat?

"I know, but they said it's for my own good, to prevent me from being kidnapped."

Li Qingan was silent for a moment, then asked, "You said you wanted to eat all the delicacies in the world, which stop is Chang Geng Realm?"

"First stop." Shen Qingyu stuck out her tongue: "My mother used to worry about me coming out alone... unlike you boys, who can venture out on your own when you grow up, and your parents support you..."

How often do you go home?

Li Qingan still said, "I'm not going home. My mother passed away not long after I was born, and as for my father... I've never even heard of him."

Sister... let's not talk about it.

"I'm sorry..." Shen Qingyu looked at Li Qingan apologetically, and seeing that Li Qingan didn't seem to mind, she changed the subject: "But you and I are pretty much the same, I don't have a father either, it's true..."

"Well, let's not talk about that now." Li Qingan looked at Shen Qingyu suspiciously. Was she also from a single-parent family?
However, he didn't ask any further questions. Instead, he saw Shen Qingyu sitting at the table, turning on the communication compass and saying, "I earn quite a bit of pocket money every day."

Li Qingan walked to her side, looking at her as he listened to her say, "Many cultivators want to record their good performances, so I use the Void Image Stone to preserve them."

"Preserve?" Li Qingan asked curiously, "Isn't the Void Shadow Stone supposed to be unable to detect the traces of cultivators?"

Shen Qingyu looked up at him and said mysteriously, "I have a way to synthesize high-grade Void Shadow Stones~"

Upon hearing this, Li Qing'an raised an eyebrow and walked towards the mountain of Void Shadow Stones. He took one out and examined it closely for a while, then asked in surprise, "Made using low-grade and mid-grade stones combined with certain rare and precious materials and formations? How did you do that? Aren't you afraid someone will arrest you and study this?"

"Catch me? Humph!"

Hearing the confidence in her tone, Li Qingan couldn't help but tease her, "You're contradicting yourself. You just said that your mother wouldn't dare give you too many spirit crystals for your safety."

"So now she, she... well, anyway, you can rest assured."

Shen Qingyu waved her hand: "Come help me first. Anyway, it's just about recording the good aspects of my performance into the Void Stone."

Now Li Qingan understood completely; this girl was an editor.

"Come and watch me do it. Once it's all done, that whole pile is yours." Shen Qingyu pointed to a stack of 'request forms' in the corner.

"so much?"

“Yes, those are all requirements for male cultivators, usually the maids’ tasks.” Shen Qingyu snorted: “I’m very professional, because they also have to track these people’s personalities in order to do their best.”

She paused, then added, "I can't possibly go and track it down myself, can I? You know what I mean."

"Indeed, what boss goes to the front lines?"

"So it's perfect that you're here. You men definitely understand men better than women, so you can help me out."

"Okay." Li Qingan nodded: "100,000 spirit crystals a day?"

"Hmm... that's fifty orders. I'll give you more if it exceeds that." Shen Qingyu glanced at Li Qingan: "Come here first, I'll teach you."

As Li Qing'an walked, he asked, "How much does a hollow stone like that cost?"

Two hundred thousand spirit crystals.

"You lost out, didn't you?"

"It can only be preserved for one year, which is the drawback of this kind of Void Stone."

"Oh, I see... There are so many rich people."

"Hey, isn't there a saying that being handsome is a lifelong thing?"

"Makes sense."

Li Qingan stood beside Shen Qingyu, bending down to look at the lit screen.

"Of course! Even I, a girl, am like this..."

Shen Qingyu turned her head and spoke, then suddenly paused, her bright eyes widening slightly. So close…

Yes, his eyelashes are indeed very long.

"Does everyone think so?" Li Qingan turned to look at Shen Qingyu, straightening his body slightly.

"Ahem... um."

Shen Qingyu quickly straightened her posture, her back straightening slightly, and her earlobes turning slightly red as she explained to Li Qingan.

Li Qingan quickly understood the process and went to another table to practice.

Shen Qingyu quickly got the hang of it, after all, several orders were about to expire.

But as I was doing it, I realized that I couldn't concentrate today... Even eating pastries didn't help me get into the zone.

Oh, come to think of it, this is the first time I've ever spent so much time alone with someone of the opposite sex.

We settled accounts together, collected debts together, went out together, and now we're even sharing a room together...

And they were all with Li Qing'an.

She couldn't help but recall Li Qing'an's gaze by the Chuanjiang River, and her cheeks flushed even more.

What exactly did his gaze mean at that moment?

Shen Qingyu bit her lower lip lightly and couldn't help but steal several glances at Li Qingan. Suddenly, she noticed that Li Qingan, who was busy at the moment, still had a touch of naivety that should be present in his eighteen-year-old eyes.

Moreover... he is indeed handsome, no wonder Lingyin took a liking to him at first sight, I was surprised for a whole day at the time.

She's the person my best friend likes, how could I be sneaking peeks at her like that!
Shen Qingyu quickly straightened his head, but then he thought again, Lingyin had been keeping him hanging on...

"Sister Shen, Sister Shen, Sister Shen..."

"Huh? Oh, oh." Coming to her senses, Shen Qingyu looked at the large hand waving in front of her and quickly asked, "W-what's wrong?"

"Can you check if this will work for me?"

"Hmm...okay, that's fine."

“However…” Li Qingan glanced at Shen Qingyu: “You’ve made a mistake in this step, haven’t you?”

Shen Qingyu quickly looked up and blushed upon seeing the sight. She hurriedly explained, "I was so busy eating that I didn't notice."

She paused, looked up at Li Qingan, and quickly changed the subject: "By the way, didn't I say I'd teach you how to pursue Lingyin? I happen to have a good idea now."

"Ok?"

"Like this, you show her a side of yourself she's never seen before. She'll definitely find it novel and intriguing, and then she'll feel your other charms. Maybe she'll agree."

Upon hearing this, Li Qingan looked at her with a half-smile: "You think I'm charming like this?"

"yes?!"

Shen Qingyu's cheeks flushed instantly as she belatedly realized what she had said. She frantically waved her hands and tried to back away, pulling the chair out with a sharp sound.

She stood up, her hands clasped tightly around the hem of her skirt.

"I, I, my meaning is..."

Ah, how come this dull guy who used to be so clueless is so smart now? And he even said it out loud. How embarrassing! How am I supposed to explain this?

Her face, flushed red in her panic, resembled the gentlest cloud at sunset.

Li Qingan stared at him, his gaze softening involuntarily.

Reason told him that he needed to inquire about the Heavenly Mirror, but emotions...

It has always been the decline of free will.

Why not do something convenient?
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(End of this chapter)