Chapter 48 Hand over the Spirit Pearl
Lu Xuanzhen didn’t expect that his Taoist monk was actually in the next room. Did he hear any strange noise just now?
So, with an anxious mood, Lu Xuan looked at the door in front of him, took a deep breath, and slowly raised his hand.
Boom!
There was a dull knock on the door, and Lu Xuan didn't wait for Xia Ningyan's reply this time, but pushed the door open directly.
"Ning Yan, I'm coming in."
With a creaking sound, Lu Xuan closed the door and walked to Xia Ningyan, who was sitting on the futon and meditating.
"Why are you sweating so much?"
Slowly opening her eyes, Xia Ningyan stood up and looked at Lu Xuan, who was disheveled and breathing heavily in front of her, and frowned subconsciously.
"Well, just now, Senior Sister Ling Xiao brought me Yu Jian here. The speed was too fast. I was somewhat slowed down in front of the mountain gate and broke into a lot of cold sweat."
Being asked so suddenly, Lu Xuan was stunned for a moment before reacting, and quickly made up an excuse.
"Ling Xiao brought you here? When did you become so close to her?"
Xia Ningyan's tone was slightly unhappy, and her cold face showed a rare hint of obvious displeasure.
Ling Xiao has been her rival for many years, and the two of them compete in almost everything.
In the beginning, it wasn’t him who picked it, but the white-haired girl who took the initiative to do it.
At first she was too lazy to care and ignored all the provocations, but over time, she was still provoked by them.
Although she didn't know why Ling Xiao kept coming to find trouble with her, since the other party took the initiative to come to her door, she wasn't the one to be afraid of trouble.
The two have been tit-for-tat since then. Whether it is a competition between different peaks or the sequence of realm breakthroughs, they are all trying to compete with each other.
Gradually, Xia Ningyan also noticed something. Whenever Lu Xuan was around her, Ling Xiao's mood swings became extremely obvious.
Only then did he realize that the source of his anger was because of his Taoist companion.
After realizing this, Xia Ningyan hated her even more, and their relationship became even worse.
"Ning Yan, don't get me wrong. I know that Senior Sister Ling Xiao has a bad relationship with you, but when I had no other choice, I borrowed a lot of spiritual stones from others.
She gave it to me without saying a word. It was just a casual thing that she met me on the road and sent me back this time. "
Lu Xuan thought quickly and finally made up a suitable reason.
He couldn't let Xia Ningyan know that Ling Xiao was going to complete the mission with him this time and would stay alone with him in the next few days.
This is undoubtedly an insult to her. No matter how good-tempered she is, she will definitely get angry. This is no joke.
"Meet her on the way? Why don't you just leave her alone? Do you have to let her give you a ride?"
Xia Ningyan was uncharacteristically struggling with this issue. Her face, which had always been calm, rarely showed complicated emotions.
"Ning Yan. It's not that I had to ask her to give me a ride, but I accidentally ran into two female disciples on the way who intended to harass me.
It was Ling Xiao who helped me get out of the predicament. After I thanked her, I thought about coming back quickly with a sword.
But my senior sister didn’t worry about my safety and insisted on driving me through the second half of the journey, so I couldn’t refuse. "
Lu Xuan directly arranged and used the things he encountered at Piaomiao Peak twice here to deceive his Taoist companions.
"Who harassed you on the road?"
"They are disciples of Piaomiao Peak. They have already been taught a lesson by Senior Sister Lingxiao. Ningyan, don't worry about them."
"Yes, I can't do anything now anyway, so what can I do if I know."
Hearing this, Xia Ningyan had a bitter smile on her lips, and felt a sense of powerlessness in her heart. If it were before, someone would have dared to do such a thing to Lu Xuan. She had already found the other party's door and asked them to understand what 'etiquette' was.
But now, I can only stand here helplessly.
This feeling was a bit unbearable even for Xia Ningyan, whose heart was still calm. She only felt that there was a kind of stagnation in her heart that had nowhere to vent.
"Ning Yan, I didn't mean that, you misunderstood me!"
Lu Xuan realized that he had made a mistake and immediately tried to make up for it.
"I mean there is no need to waste time on them, they are just two clowns, you have more important things to do.
No matter what they do? "
As he spoke, Lu Xuan hugged Xia Ningyan in front of him and whispered in her ear.
"What's more important is staying here and waiting for you to feed me resources?"
Xia Ningyan's mood didn't improve at all. She tilted her head and said angrily.
"By the way, Ning Yan, take these things!"
Speaking of resources, Lu Xuan immediately thought of the spirit beads he had obtained from Mei Xishuang before, and took them out directly.
"Is this a spiritual bead?!"
Xia Ningyan was very surprised. She looked at Lu Xuan doubtfully, completely unable to understand where he got such a huge fortune.
"Do you still remember that boy Mei Xishuang?"
Lu Xuan handed several spirit beads into her hands, and then spoke slowly.
"Of course you remember, you are very good friends, and he is one of the few male disciples who is as high-profile as you in the sect."
Xia Ningyan nodded, but she still didn't understand what the other party had to do with these spirit beads.
Lu Xuan, his brother, didn't have much savings and was usually a playboy.
When his fellow Taoist asked him to borrow money before, he turned around and ran away. How could he suddenly come up with so many spiritual beads now?
"Alas, this boy has a lot of unseemly ideas. The reason why I encountered harassment from the female disciples in the sect is also because of him."
Lu Xuan sighed and successfully led the topic elsewhere.
"This guy first compiled a set of stories about me, and after it became popular among female cultivators, he openly sold my portraits.
A pair of hundreds of spiritual stones attracted looting and made a lot of money. I only found out about this after seeing the portrait and asking him about it.
This guy saw that he couldn't hide it anymore, so he distributed the money to me so that he could continue to sell paintings. "
Lu Xuan spread his hands, looking quite helpless.
"Is there anyone really willing to pay hundreds of spirit stones for just a painting?"
After Xia Ningyan heard it, she felt ridiculous, but looking at the real spirit bead in her hand, she had to believe it.
"The main reason is that I am naturally beautiful, and that boy is really good at painting. In addition, the people he usually comes in contact with are all rich female cultivators, and he has a lot of connections.
These spiritual beads were not obtained by selling paintings, but were given to us by two junior sisters whose families owned mines. "
Lu Xuan said quite proudly that this income was one of the few legal gains he could hand over to Xia Ningyan in a fair and honest manner.
As for the rest, it's basically impossible to say.
(End of chapter)