Xu Yuan let out a sigh of relief and said softly,
"It seems you want to verify some things about me."
He used a declarative sentence.
Loli Tianyan stared at Xu Yuan for two seconds and smirked,
"Of course, if you want to ask me what exactly I’m trying to verify, I can’t tell you that. But, if you beg me, it’s not like it’s impossible."
She moved close to Xu Yuan’s face and blinked.
"Well, do you want to beg me to try?"
Xu Yuan looked at the charming golden-eyed girl in front of him and shook his head,
"Actually, more than that, I’m really more curious about you."
Loli Tianyan pointed at herself, a weird look in her eyes, "Me?"
Xu Yuan didn’t speak and with his hand outstretched, he compared her current height and then the height of Loli Tianyan.
Loli Tianyan was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter "huhuhuhu",
"This is due to the cultivation technique~"
Speaking, her beautiful eyes curved into two sparkling crescents as she smiled and gazed at Xu Yuan,
"Do you prefer the other me?"
Xu Yuan felt that the woman in front of him was slightly crazy in the head.
But he couldn’t beat her at all, so he was helpless.
He sighed, shook his head, and turned to walk away.
Loli Tianyan quickly followed behind Xu Yuan, her crystal clear bare feet stepping on the soft grass, leaning in with a smile and asked,
"Hey, did I guess right? That version of me is quite cute..."
"No, I think the current you is much cuter," Xu Yuan glanced at her.
Loli Tianyan blinked, "Why?"
Xu Yuan didn’t answer and continued walking ahead.
Loli Tianyan is even more aloof than Ran Qingmo, almost impossible to tell what she’s thinking.
So he really preferred this Loli Tianyan more.
Because she talks a lot.
Talking a lot means you can find out some things.
However, the world’s cultivation techniques do seem more complex than he thought.
He once believed that cultivation was merely the movement of Origin Qi between the meridians, but the Yantian Art turned out to shatter this fixed way of thinking.
There were even cultivation techniques that could control age and personality.
Thinking this, Xu Yuan looked again at the flat-chested girl who kept chattering by his side.
If this flat-chested girl represented the second stage of a boss, he wondered if there would be a third mature lady stage?
Loli Tianyan noticed Xu Yuan’s gaze, suddenly stopped talking, covered her chest, and stepped back, saying,
"I feel like you’re thinking some very impolite things."
"Indeed, they’re not very polite."
Xu Yuan frankly nodded and retorted, "Do you expect me, a profligate, to be as courteous as those refined gentlemen? Isn’t that slightly disrespectful to me?"
Loli Tianyan rolled her eyes at him.
The Secret Realm space was vast.
The Guanyin mountain range only spanned horizontally across four maps within Cang Yuan, and the actual distance is already a thousand miles; based on this scale, the area of this Secret Realm would be at least one million square kilometers. It’s a mystery how such immense space was created in the first place.
After traveling westward for five days, Ran Qingmo was still lost somewhere, and Loli Tianyan, at first, kept chattering incessantly by his ear, but as Xu Yuan responded less, so did she gradually speak less.
After five days of travel, the Cloud Top Immortal Palace, where they had entered the Secret Realm, had completely disappeared from view, yet the endless grasslands still lay before Xu Yuan.
In the noontime sunlight,
Xu Yuan squatted on the grass, methodically processing the corpse of a wolf Demonic Beast with his uncle’s gift, the Qingyu Sword—skinning, gutting, deboning, washing, and marinating with spices.
After finishing the process, Xu Yuan took out a grill from his Sumeru Ring, threaded the prepared wolf meat onto it, lit a fire, used Origin Qi as fuel, and joyfully started to roast the whole wolf.
Likewise, in Cang Yuan, this grassland was home to rodents and wolf Demonic Beasts.
Their strength was not very significant, so with Xu Yuan’s current Seventh Grade cultivation, he was more than capable of handling them, ensuring that the journey wasn’t miserable enough to resort to consuming military ration Fasting Pills.
As time passed, the aroma of the roasted wolf quickly spread.
Using his Qingyu Sword that could cut through iron like mud, Xu Yuan sliced off a wolf leg and began to feast on it with a crunch.
Loli Tianyan squatted next to him, stared at Xu Yuan for a long while, then suddenly spoke,
Tianyan extended a fair, jade-like finger, pointing in the direction of Cloud Top Immortal Palace,
"Where are you heading? Isn’t the entrance to the place over there? Walk a hundred meters further and you’ll reach the boundary of the Secret Realm."
Xu Yuan put down the wolf leg, thought for a moment, and said,
"Stop the nonsense, I know you’re called Xu Changtian," Loli Tianyan rolled her eyes, cutting him off.
Xu Yuan instinctively wanted to laugh but then he hesitated.
This world shouldn’t have that meme, right?
Narrowing his eyes, he then laughed softly and asked,
"If you can predict the future, why don’t you figure it out yourself?"
Without hesitation, Tianyan replied,
"It would be very troublesome."
Xu Yuan, neither affirming nor denying, stared into Tianyan’s eyes and smirked,
"Little Sister Tianyan, even if it’s troublesome, you’ll probably have to do it yourself, as we are now enemies. Do you expect an enemy to solve your mysteries?"
As they looked at each other, Tianyan’s golden eyes glinted and she sighed,
"Well, you have a point.
"But I’m older than you, so you should call me ’sister.’"