687: Chapter 463 687: Chapter 463 During this period, the base was being constructed, so they were helping with the construction of the base and had not been in closed-door cultivation for that long.
Yan Weiwei called for Cai Xiangxiang to enter her room, and through a Sound Transmission Artifact, no matter whether the other party was cultivating or not, she would surely hear the message when she was free.
Cai Xiangxiang had not been in meditative concentration during her cultivation and felt particularly troubled these past few days.
When she went out with a group of people and saw Jiang Tang being affectionate with so many beautiful women, their ambiguous expressions and gazes, it made her feel a pang of heartache.
Since moving into the Yan Family residence one or two days ago, Ye Qiu always used a burning gaze and spoken words to ask her out.
What Cai Xiangxiang found annoying was that the person she had a crush on didn’t even give her a glance, while the person she didn’t like kept pestering her.
“Miss, did you need me for something?”
Yan Weiwei nodded and patted the cushion next to her, signaling Cai Xiangxiang to sit by her side.
Cai Xiangxiang gently sat down, curling her head to look at Yan Weiwei with a tender and well-behaved appearance.
Yan Weiwei observed Cai Xiangxiang, realizing they were beauties of different temperaments; Cai Xiangxiang had that particularly eye-catching qi.
She felt that if Cai Xiangxiang hadn’t covered up her qi with a Jade Token, she would have attracted even more attention; perhaps some people noticed her now because of her beauty.
There was also her current expression of cleverness and docility, no wonder Ye Qiu liked Cai Xiangxiang so much.
If she were not a woman, she would also like such a gentle one.
One could say she was both suitable for the hall and the kitchen, not only beautiful but also with considerable cultivation.
The watchful gaze from Yan Weiwei made Cai Xiangxiang feel a little shy.
“Cai Xiangxiang, what do you think of Ye Qiu?”
Cai Xiangxiang did not expect Yan Weiwei to call her over to ask this question and was momentarily stunned before responding:
“Ye Qiu, he’s very good!”
Cai Xiangxiang’s reply was so succinct that Yan Weiwei couldn’t help but laugh.
“Haha, you have seen Ye Qiu’s good side, are you too shy to go out with him for a walk?
As cultivators, we can interact more with other Cultivators to enhance our abilities.
Besides, this place is not the outside; we can go out for a walk!”
Before Yan Weiwei’s suggestion, Cai Xiangxiang silently lowered her head, actually feeling somewhat reluctant.
“Miss, do you think Ye Qiu is someone you can entrust your life to?”
Yan Weiwei embraced Cai Xiangxiang, offering her gentle support.
“It’s not that every suitor you go out with will become a future partner.
We should follow our own hearts, but also give others a chance.
It is possible to be friends, to chat and cultivate together.”
Since her senior brothers had been so cruel, and her master had his own motives, Cai Xiangxiang, under Yan Weiwei’s wing, felt very apprehensive about the gazes of men outside.
Yan Weiwei’s words now unraveled a bit of her inner knot, realizing that she didn’t need to reject others so strongly.
Inside the base, there were no other bad people; everyone was a subordinate of Jiang Tang.
If there was any disturbance, Jiang Tang would know, and they would not be spared his wrath.
Having followed Jiang Tang on his Flying Treasure, surrounded by many men, she could feel those malicious gazes.
Cai Xiangxiang understood more of their thoughts; many were elites from large families with good moral character.
The Jiang, Luo, and Lai families produced gentlemen.
When these men saw her shy demeanor, they did not take the initiative to strike up a conversation.
There were also some guests invited by others who, seeing that she did not socialize, refrained from intruding.
As for the newcomers from a Foreign Country, although they lived in the same base, their quarters were dozens of miles apart; as mortals, they wouldn’t make the effort to walk over.
The place where the Yan Family lived was far removed from where the others stayed.
This was also because, across the hundreds of miles of mountains and plains, a base could only accommodate a little over a thousand or up to two thousand people.
Many areas were empty, left for them to build residences, gardens, and fields for crops.
In the base, they had decided to become self-sufficient, starting to cultivate the land to add more joy to their lives.
After Jiang Tang had finished setting up the base’s Formation, he began to open up the resources of the place.
Breaking new ground for farming was to be like the other Immortal Sects; these lands and fields could grow medicinal herbs, food, and even large trees and flowers.
The barren mountains and forests had been transformed, with more beautiful fruit trees and plants now dotting the landscape.
In the end, Cai Xiangxiang agreed, just as Yan Weiwei had said—it was nice to have a friend to cultivate with.
Facing the fact that the young lady had Ye Tian by her side, she felt lonely cultivating alone.
Cultivation required sparring with others, gaining more experience through exchange and achieving different kinds of progress.
Yan Weiwei was the lady she had lived with, her mistress and master.
Yan Weiwei had her own life to live; she couldn’t cling to her forever.
Hearing that the young lady was going to the imperial city and that she would not be taken along might have been the root of her recent unhappiness.
From her own courtyard, Cai Xiangxiang pushed off with her flying artifact, a magical sword, and soared into the skies.
Looking down during her flight, she noticed that the several hundred miles of mountains and fields had undergone great changes during her few days inside.
Foreigners had completed their buildings and cleared new fields.
She didn’t know where they had found peach trees to plant, covering entire mountains with them, the peach trees heavy with their fruit.
These past two days, the Marquis had people plant medicinal herbs and peach trees.
They utilized individuals with the Wood Spirit Root to propel spells, enabling peach pits left over from eating the fruit to sprout immediately upon touching the ground, quickly growing into trees.
They could even instantly bloom and bear fruit; it was a pity they only brought peaches.
Planting so many peaches in this resource-rich area improved the quality of the peach trees, making the peaches even tastier.
While Cai Xiangxiang was flying and observing, Ye Qiu seemed to sense her presence from his courtyard and immediately took to the sky, following her flight until they flew alongside each other.
Circling around a base, at their current speed, it would take an hour to complete a single circuit of a few hundred miles.
“Xiangxiang beauty, it’s so great you could come out!” Ye Qiu said, trying to make conversation.
“My coming out has nothing to do with you; I’m just trying to clear my mind,” she replied.
Cai Xiangxiang rolled her eyes at Ye Qiu in a way that was rather fetching.
“Hmm, I’ll just keep you company then!” Ye Qiu said, heart soothed and tingling from the allure in her glance.
Cai Xiangxiang smiled slightly, deciding to test Ye Qiu: with their similar abilities, who could fly faster?
“Whoosh whoosh”
Cai Xiangxiang’s flying artifact, her magical sword, made a loud noise as she doubled her speed.
Ye Qiu, realizing he was already a bit behind, couldn’t let a woman get ahead of him as a man, let alone let her get too far ahead.
If his abilities couldn’t match up to a beautiful woman, then wasn’t he just worthless?
How could he talk about protecting a beauty, being her Beauty Protector?
Perhaps it was because Ye Qiu’s physical strength was slightly greater, his experience a bit richer, or his Cultivation Method more powerful, but he quickly caught up with Cai Xiangxiang.
And even as she accelerated, he didn’t fall behind and maintained a leisurely, effortless ease.
Cai Xiangxiang’s experience in flying wasn’t as extensive, mainly because she hadn’t dared to go out much recently, let alone her earlier period training under her previous master’s method.
She later followed Yan Weiwei to learn the Minute Step, but without more experience in flight, that too needed to be honed.
With the same level of cultivation, she fell behind because her Qi was not as abundant as his.
What seemed effortless for the man felt somewhat strenuous to her.
A glint appeared in Cai Xiangxiang’s eyes—if she couldn’t match this man’s brute force, perhaps she could compete in their Cultivation Techniques and Spells.
Maybe she would win there.
All at once, Cai Xiangxiang grabbed her Flying Artifact, a Magical Sword, in her hand.
Sword light darted forth, with clusters of sword blossoms shooting towards Ye Qiu.
Ye Qiu, who had been observing the beauty by his side, was slightly caught off guard by Cai Xiangxiang’s sudden attack, but he quickly surrounded himself in a defensive barrier, also taking his Magical Sword in hand.
As her attack came, he blocked with his sword, and a clang of their swords colliding filled the air, scattering the sword blossoms.
While attacking, Cai Xiangxiang had also erected a defensive barrier around herself.
As their weapons collided, bursts of sword blossoms struck from the man’s weapon.
Her protective barrier shattered in an instant.
With her left hand, she rapidly switched sword techniques while her right hand continuously cast barriers and walls of light to block the force of the incoming attacks.