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When Ji Qingzhuo reached the finish line, she lowered her head and looked at the ice and snow under her feet.

Even though she knew the final result from the beginning, she still felt a tightness in her chest. She tapped her toes on the ground and brushed away the accumulated snow on the ice.

It was finally over, Ji Qingzhuo sighed softly.

Soon after, there was another person beside her. Meng Yaolan stood next to Ji Qingzhuo. She also completed the four assessments at a not too slow pace.

However, under Ji Qingzhuo's stunning performance, her cooperation with the spiritual beasts seemed mediocre.

Meng Yaolan didn't feel too upset about this. She nodded to Ji Qingzhuo and praised: "Miss Ji, your performance is really good." "

Yeah." Ji Qingzhuo responded. When I spoke, my voice was muffled and I didn't sound very happy.

After Meng Yaolan separated from her Mysterious Frost Beast, she did not have much emotional fluctuations, because the way she got along with her Mysterious Frost Beast at the beginning was that of a superior and a subordinate, and there was no more emotion, so when she left That's why it's so straightforward.

But just because of this alienation, her cooperation with the Xuanshuang Beast could not be perfect, and she was surpassed by Ji Qingzhuo.

Of course, only Meng Yaolan knew that after being overtaken by Ji Qingzhuo in Taoyuan, her speed slowed down since she could not get first place. She could vaguely guess that Ji Qingzhuo's goal was to be in the top three in the internal assessment. She wanted to see why Ji Qingzhuo wanted to be in the top three.

After hearing Ji Qingzhuo's muffled answer, Meng Yaolan was a little surprised. She had also seen Ji Qingzhuo hugging the Xuanshuang Beast before leaving.

"You can't bear to part with it?" Meng Yaolan's tone was filled with doubts, as if it was an unbelievable thing that happened to her.

"Yes." Ji Qingzhuo responded again. She raised her head and looked into the distance.

There was a touch of melancholy in her eyes, her eyes widened slightly, and she looked a little at a loss. Her emotions were light, but this little bit of emotional fluctuations were so obvious on her face.

"Sorry." Meng Yaolan said to her.

"Nothing." Ji Qingzhuo waited for Elder Qu Ting to announce the results.

The other disciples who participated in the assessment arrived at the finish line one after another. Ji Qingzhuo got full marks due to her outstanding performance. Meng Yaolan, who was second only to her, only got 80 points due to the large time gap.

Ji Qingzhuo's annual test ranking has risen rapidly among the disciples, but it is still not as good as the monks in the front row, especially Meng Yaolan. Although she only got 80 points in the beast control class, she is still far ahead.

This was the best result of the beast control class, but Ji Qingzhuo was not very excited. After everyone had dispersed and left, she was still standing alone on the snow lake.

"Qingzhuo, aren't you going back?" Elder Qu Ting asked her.

The monks who came to watch were all talking about her. Ji Qingzhuo even noticed Qiu Mingxue staring at her in the crowd. She seemed unable to accept such a result.

Ji Qingzhuo didn't want to leave here immediately and meet the monks, so she waited in the snow lake for a long time, waiting for the crowd to disperse, until her stomach growled with hunger.

"Okay, they have all left." Elder Qu Ting said to her with a smile, "Your senior brother is still waiting for you outside." "

Senior brother Xiaoyu?" Ji Qingzhuo was a little surprised. She didn't expect Shen Rongyu to be waiting for her outside.

"You call him Xiaoyu? This is a strange title." Elder Qu Ting nodded, "I just saw him outside the Beast Spirit Valley."

Ji Qingzhuo said goodbye to Elder Qu Ting and ran out of the Beast Spirit Valley.

As expected, Shen Rongyu was waiting outside the cave. He was leaning against the tree outside the valley, with maple leaves dyed red by the autumn colors above his head. There was no wind in the day, and these dead leaves hung leisurely above his head.

He held the sword and looked at the autumn sunshine leaking through the forest. His eyes were as calm as a lake with a layer of ice on the surface.

Hearing Ji Qingzhuo's footsteps, he turned his head to look at her. The epiphyllum jade pendant around his waist was still conspicuous, but it gave it a different kind of artistic feel due to the superior temperament around him.

"Senior Brother Xiaoyu." Ji Qingzhuo stepped forward. She didn't know what Shen Rongyu was waiting for her to do. Didn't he wait for her to come with him today?

As soon as she finished saying this, her stomach growled. When the onlookers monks left, she had missed her meal. She had used up too much physical strength and mana in the morning, and she was too hungry.

Shen Rongyu held her wrist, raised the corners of his lips, and said with a smile: "The clockwork is loose again."

A steady stream of spiritual energy was introduced into her body through him, and Ji Qingzhuo had just been in the beast control class. The mana consumed during the assessment was quickly replenished.

When her mana was restored, Ji Qingzhuo took her hand back, curled her fingers and retracted them into her sleeves.

"Take you to dinner." Shen Rongyu led her up to the Snow Burial Sword.

Ji Qingzhuo lowered his head and felt depressed, but Shen Rongyu couldn't understand her current mood.

Since they are spirit beasts, they have their own masters, so there is no need for him to remember them. If they are separated, the memory of those spirit beasts will be like the ice sculptures on the snowy lake, slowly melting in the sun.

So Shen Rongyu asked her, "Do you like it very much?"

"What do you like?" Ji Qingzhuo answered him with a confused tone.

"Xuanshuang beast." Shen Rongyu said to her. He didn't know why Ji Qingzhuo wanted to hug Bingshuang again in the end, which delayed her from breaking his record that year.

Shen Rongyu didn't give his best in the beast control class assessment back then, so he didn't mind if his record was broken by Ji Qingzhuo.

"I like it." Ji Qingzhuo answered honestly, "But it's not mine."

"Since it's not yours, why not ask for it." Faced with this kind of thing, Shen Rongyu's thinking is simpler than Ji Qingzhuo's.

"It is Elder Qu's spiritual beast." Ji Qingzhuo remembered this from beginning to end.

She knew that she and Shen Rongyu couldn't agree on this topic, so she changed the topic.

"Senior Brother Xiaoyu, I'm hungry." She stood on tiptoes and looked at Mingxin Lake in the distance.

"I'll take you there." Shen Rongyu sighed softly.

He didn't want to wait for Ji Qingzhuo today, for no other reason than that, just like last night, his sword edge only vaguely traced her outline.

But Ji Qingzhuo stood alone in the middle of the snow lake, looking very lonely. She was afraid of the crowd, so she waited until the crowd left before she recovered.

It was already afternoon. Elder Qiao Shu only left some steamed buns stuffed with vegetable vermicelli in the kitchen. He wanted to be busy tending his flowers and plants, so he asked Ji Qingzhuo to heat up the steamed buns and eat them himself.

Ji Qingzhuo walked into the kitchen, and Shen Rongyu followed him.

"Senior Brother Xiaoyu, do you want to eat too?" Ji Qingzhuo asked him with his back on his back.

Of course Shen Rongyu didn't want to eat it. He just wanted to look at Ji Qingzhuo. She was much more interesting than Elder Qiao Shu's mimosa.

He shook his head.

So Ji Qingzhuo took two out of the plate, broke them open and prepared to put them in her mouth. She couldn't cook or make a fire, so she just ate the cold buns.

As a result, Shen Rongyu stopped her hand: "Do you want something cold?"

Ji Qingzhuo nodded: "I'm too hungry."

Shen Rongyu didn't know how to cook, and he had never come into contact with these things that smelled like human fireworks. , but he still brought a plate of steamed buns over and said to Ji Qingzhuo, "I'll heat them up for you." "

Okay." Ji Qingzhuo put the vegetable steamed buns he broke off back on the plate.

Shen Rongyu performed a simple fire ignition technique under the stove, which Ji Qingzhuo also learned in magic class.

The flame was blazing under the stove, and the water in the pot was gradually heating up. Shen Rongyu put the buns in the pot.

Ji Qingzhuo was curious about what Shen Rongyu could do, so she put her hands on her knees and sat obediently at the table waiting for him to heat up the buns.

Wherever Shen Rongyu stretched out his hand, her eyes shifted. Shen Rongyu had time to turn his head to look at her, and Ji Qingzhuo looked away in panic.

"Very hungry?" Shen Rongyu asked.

"No." Ji Qingzhuo denied. She felt that now that her stomach wasn't growling, that meant she wasn't hungry anymore.

But as soon as she finished speaking, her stomach growled.

Ji Qingzhuo quickly covered his stomach.

Shen Rongyu said nothing, because he knew that if he teased Ji Qingzhuo again, Ji Qingzhuo would be so embarrassed that he would run out.

Ji Qingzhuo saw that Shen Rongyu didn't respond and was still controlling the size of the flames on the stove. She was lucky that he didn't hear her stomach growling just now.

Shen Rongyu had seen Elder Qiao Shu hot dishes before, and he imitated everything without fail. Soon, hot steam came out, and the cold buns placed in the pot began to become soft and delicious.

He took the buns out of the pot, and there was an invisible airflow between his hands and the plate. It was inevitable to get some soot when working in the kitchen, but his whole body was not stained with dust. Even such mundane things as heating the buns, He does it fluently and effortlessly.

Shen Rongyu placed a plate of steamed buns in front of Ji Qingzhuo: "Zhuozhuo, eat it."

Ji Qingzhuo couldn't bear it any longer. She was so hungry that her head felt dizzy, so she raised her hand, ready to grab one, but she I forgot that the freshly heated buns were very hot.

When her fingertips touched the soft skin of the bun, her hand was so hot that she retracted it.

Ji Qingzhuo put the burned finger in her mouth to relieve it, then turned around to get the chopsticks. She had done this kind of stupid thing many times and didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

Of course, from Shen Rongyu's point of view, this is too problematic.

He stared at Ji Qingzhuo, who was rubbing her fingertips that were slightly red due to heat, looking a little embarrassed.

Ji Qingzhuo brought chopsticks, picked up a vegetable bag, puffed up his cheeks and blew on it.

Just as he was about to put it into his mouth, Shen Rongyu looked at her bulging cheeks and said, "Zhuozhuo, I want to eat too."

Although Ji Qingzhuo was already very hungry, she still brought the bun in her hand to him. .

Shen Rongyu took a bite from her hand and took the whole bun.

So the two of them got together in the kitchen and started eating steamed buns. Elder Qiao Shu's cooking was not top-notch delicious, but the taste was suitable and the skin of the steamed buns was soft. When it was put into the mouth, there was always steam coming out, which made the cheeks turn red. .

Elder Qiao Shu, who had finally finished tending the flowers and plants outside the house, was about to come back to see if Ji Qingzhuo was full. When he walked to the kitchen door, he saw two people eating steamed buns inside.

Elder Qiao Shu felt that there was something wrong with this scene, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. In short, he had never seen Shen Rongyu like this. Can a person who was relegated to an immortal be dragged down from the mortal world?

Ji Qingzhuo waited too long for this meal. She finally felt full and then she slowed down. When she and Shen Rongyu returned to Baishui Island, she touched in her small purse. Fortunately, she was on an empty lake. Shen Rongyu did not feel too strong the power of the moon when she opened her purse, otherwise he would be annoyed again. .

Ji Qingzhuo took out the three green peaches he picked in the peach garden, took out one and handed it to Shen Rongyu: "Brother Xiaoyu, do you want to eat it?"

These green peaches are naturally edible, and they are from Qu Ting. The spiritual fruit planted by the elder himself contains abundant spiritual energy, which is very helpful for cultivation. This is a reward for the disciples who participate in the assessment.

Shen Rongyu took one and found that Ji Qingzhuo really thought about him, even giving him half of the green peach he got in the assessment.

Although Ji Qingzhuo knew that the green peach was a good thing, she couldn't taste the rich spiritual energy inside. As she chewed it, she distributed the destination of the remaining green peach: "For the rest, half will be given to you again, and half will be given to you again." Maomao."

When she spoke, the spiritual energy contained in the green peach ran out without being absorbed by her.

Shen Rongyu looked at the spiritual energy that was about to dissipate, with calm eyes and a calm tone of voice.

"Zhuozhuo." He called her, "Don't move."

At this time, the two of them had arrived at Baishui Island and were walking in the forest. Ji Qingzhuo listened to his words and stood still. She didn't know what happened. What.

Shen Rongyu stretched out his hand, and the air flow brought by his big sleeves shocked the dead leaves from the treetops. A maple leaf happened to fall on Ji Qingzhuo's head.

His hand pressed her lips, and he didn't mean anything else. He was just helping Ji Qingzhuo collect the spiritual energy in Qingtao.

Shen Rongyu's fingertips were close to her lips. The wind had just blown on the Snow Burial Sword. Her lips were slightly cool, but Shen Rongyu's fingertips were hot.

Ji Qingzhuo's lips trembled slightly. Shen Rongyu's movements were very light, so it made her feel itchy. She remembered Shen Rongyu's instructions just now, "Don't move", so she didn't dare to move.

A little bit of spiritual energy passed in from his fingertips against her lips, with the slight sourness and sweetness of green peach, flowing through her meridians.

Ji Qingzhuo's eyelashes were slightly lowered. She looked at Shen Rongyu's fingers, which were as white as cold jade, perfect and delicate. Now...he was pressing her lips like this.

Only in hindsight did she feel ashamed, and the red glow spread over her face.

Although Shen Rongyu had already injected Qingtao's spiritual energy into Ji Qingzhuo's meridians through himself, he did not move his hand away.

The fingertips moved slightly, tracing the outline of her lips, and the soft lips sunk slightly.

Shen Rongyu's fingers suddenly froze, and he found that every line on Ji Qingzhuo's lips seemed familiar to him.

It seems like it has been traced and rubbed countless times.

Of course he had done this before, in the cultivation space, but he didn't know.

Shen Rongyu stared at Ji Qingzhuo, but Ji Qingzhuo was so embarrassed at this time that she didn't dare to move or look at him, so she could only look elsewhere.

He suddenly withdrew his hand, and Ji Qingzhuo quickly lowered his head. The red maple leaves on his head fell, and even the red leaves were shy for her.

Ji Qingzhuo understood what Shen Rongyu was doing. She felt embarrassed for her sudden shame. Shen Rongyu was helping her practice and was not in a practice space. Why was she blushing?

So she took a deep breath, suppressed her nervousness, and asked Shen Rongyu a question in a low voice.

"Senior Brother Xiaoyu, can we practice here?" she asked.

Ji Qingzhuo asked this question, originally wanting Shen Rongyu to answer her own question, but she raised her head, her eyes fell on Shen Rongyu's profile, and felt that there was something wrong with this sentence.

She discovered that the villain's cheeks also had a faint crimson color - it was daytime now, so she could see it more clearly than last night under the moon.