The next day. Bai Yunfei didn’t go out and walk about. He spent the entire day inside the room, slowly healing the injuries in his body. Only at night did he then start to upgrade some of the remaining equipment, blowing up a large number of weapons and jewelry. Finally, his soulforce exhausted, he lay down on the bed.
The night passed quickly. Dawn. Bai Yunfei slowly sat up, stretching rather lazily. Cracking sounds could be heard coming from every part of his body. He shook his arm, stretched his body, took two deep breaths, then nodded with satisfaction.
“Using the upgrade technique is still the fast way to improve! It’s simple and efficacious…but unfortunately, the price I have to pay is I pass out at the end each time. Although I know that there’s no difference between passing out and sleeping, it’s still seven or eight hours of downtime. Although I can force myself awake after three or four hours, I’ll feel rather lethargic. The side-effects are huge. It’s much safer to wake up normally.”
“It’s about time. Today, I’ll bid them farewell. It’s best to leave this Cuiliu City early.” Bai Yunfei thought these things to himself as he pulled out a jade green fish-shaped necklace, cupping it in the palm of his hand and evaluating it carefully.
“Equipment quality – superior”
“Upgrade level – +10”
“Secondary effect – +35 agility”
“+10 secondary effect: increases movement speed by 3%”
“Upgrade requirements – 22 soulpoints”
After verifying the properties of this pendant, Bai Yunfei nodded slightly. “The type of movement techniques and fighting techniques the Green Willow school trains in are focused on agility. I’ll give this necklace to Yuhe; she should like it, I imagine…”
As he walked out of the room, the fresh morning air flooded towards him, stirring up his spirits. A short while later, that lass Yuhe would come to deliver breakfast.
He knocked on the door to Hong Yin’s nearby room, but there was no response. He thought that the reason was because Hong Yin had gotten up before he did, and so he left.
Bai Yunfei decided to go out for a walk and stroll about the nearby Willow Leaf House. Perhaps he might just so happened to run into Chu Yuhe.
As he walked out of his courtyard, he took a left turn, then walked forward across the slightly damp bluestones on the path. Bai Yunfei slowly strolled forward. There were gem-like drops of dew flowers and grass nearby, and they fluttered gently from the clear wind, then rolled downwards. Bai Yunfei could even hear the tiny dripping sounds. Everything around him seemed so peaceful, yet so filled with morning freshness.
After walking past a small courtyard, he saw a small pond in front of him. In front of the small pond was the Willow Leaf House, where Chu Yuhe and the others resided.
“Eh?” After walking close to the pond, Bai Yunfei suddenly let out a small sound of surprise as he came to a halt. This was because he had discovered that on the rightmost shores of the pond, Hong Yin was seated atop a stone bench, gently petting a gray wolf that lay in front of him. He even seemed to be speaking softly to the wolf.
The creature before him was the soul beast he had ‘stolen’ from Li Long of the Beast Taming School that day!
And by his side, there was a maiden who sat there quietly, her gaze flickering between Hongyin and the Thunderwolf with an extremely curious look in her eyes.
“Big brother Hong Yin, Luliu, what are the two of you doing?” Bai Yunfei waved his hands towards the two of them, who had noticed him as well, as he hurriedly moved to walk towards them.
Hong Yin nodded slightly towards him, then once more turned his head to stare at the Thunderwolf in front of him. His right hand continued to gently stroke the wolf at its neck, and he continued to murmur unintelligible words. At the head of the Thunderwolf stood that little white beast named Xiao Tang. It actually stretched out its two paws in a very human-like gesture as it continuously rubbed the Thunderwolf on its ears as it squeaked.
“This…” Bai Yunfei was rather baffled by what this man and his mouse were doing. He was about to say something, but the nearby Qiu Luliu gestured towards him not to interrupt.
Bai Yunfei carefully walked to her side, then asked softly, “What’s going on?”