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When Ji Qingzhuo reached the end, 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 panic in her chest, and her toes touched the ground, brushing away the snow that had accumulated on the ice.

It was over after all, Ji Qingzhuo sighed lightly.

Soon after, there was another person beside her, Meng Yaolan stood beside Ji Qingzhuo, she also completed the four assessments, and the speed was not slow.

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

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

"Yeah." Ji Qingzhuo answered her. When she answered, her voice was muffled, and she didn't sound very happy.

After Meng Yaolan was 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 the relationship between superiors and subordinates, and there was no more emotion, so when she left Just so simple.

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

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

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

"You can't bear it?" Meng Yaolan's tone contained a hint of doubt, as if it was an incredible thing that happened to her.

"Yeah." Ji Qingzhuo replied 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 helpless. Her emotions were light, but this little emotional fluctuation was so obvious on her face.

"Sorry." Meng Yaolan said to her.

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

The rest of the disciples who participated in the assessment all arrived at the finish line one after another. Because of Ji Qingzhuo's outstanding performance, she got a full score. Meng Yaolan, who was second only to her, only got 80 points because of the huge 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 scored 80 points in the beast-fighting class, she is still far ahead.

This was already the best result of the Beast Mastery class, but Ji Qingzhuo was not too excited. After everyone dispersed and left, she was still standing alone on the snowy lake.

"Qingzhuo, are you not going back?" Elder Qu Ting asked her.

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

Ji Qingzhuo didn't want to leave here immediately to meet those monks, so she waited for a long time in Xuehu, waiting for the crowd to disperse, her stomach growling with hunger.

"Okay, they 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 wait for her outside.

"You call him Xiaoyu? It's a strange name." Elder Qu Ting nodded, "I just saw him outside the Beast Spirit Valley."

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

Shen Rongyu really waited outside the cave. He was leaning against the tree outside the valley, and above his head were maple leaves dyed red by autumn colors. There was no wind during the day, and these dead leaves were hanging on top of his head.

Holding the sword, he looked at the autumn sunlight leaking from the forest, his eyes were as calm as a lake, and a layer of ice was condensed on the lake.

Hearing Ji Qingzhuo's footsteps, he turned his head to look at her. The short-lived jade pendant around his waist was still conspicuous, but his superior temperament gave him a different artistic sense.

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

As soon as she finished saying these words, her stomach groaned a little. When the monks onlookers left, she missed her meal. In the morning, her physical strength and mana were consumed too much, and she was too hungry.

Shen Rongyu held her wrist, the corners of his lips were raised, and his tone was smiling: "The clockwork is loose again."

A steady stream of spiritual energy was passed into her body through him, and the mana Ji Qingzhuo had just consumed in the beast-keeping class assessment was quickly replenished.

When the mana recovered, Ji Qingzhuo retracted her hand, and her fingers flexed and retracted into her sleeves.

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

Ji Qingzhuo lowered her head and felt depressed, and 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 memories of those spirit beasts are like the ice sculptures on the snowy lake, slowly melting under the sun.

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

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

"Mysterious Frost Beast." Shen Rongyu told her that he didn't know why Ji Qingzhuo had to hug Frost again in the end, which delayed her from breaking his previous record.

Shen Rongyu didn't do his best in the beast class assessment that year, so he didn't mind that his record was broken by Ji Qingzhuo.

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

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

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

She knew that on this topic, her and Shen Rongyu's thinking couldn't match, so she changed the topic.

"Senior Brother Xiaoyu, I'm hungry." She stood on tiptoe and said, looking 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, there was no other reason, he just didn't want to, just like last night his sword edge was just imagining 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 only recovered when the crowd left.

It was noon now, and Elder Qiao Shu only left some steamed buns in the kitchen, stuffed with vegetable vermicelli. He was busy with his own flowers and plants, so he let Ji Qingzhuo go and eat the steamed buns by himself.

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

"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 eat it, he just wanted to watch 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, and after breaking them apart, she prepared to put them in her mouth. She couldn't cook, and she couldn't make a fire, so she just ate the cold buns.

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

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

Shen Rongyu doesn't know how to cook either. He has never touched these things with a humanistic atmosphere, but he still brought a plate of steamed buns and said to Ji Qingzhuo, "I'll heat it for you."

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

Shen Rongyu performed a simple fire trick under the stove, which Ji Qingzhuo also learned in the spell class.

The flame was raging under the stove, and the water in the pot was gradually heating up. Shen Rongyu put the steamed buns into 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 make buns.

Wherever Shen Rongyu's hand stretched out, her eyes shifted. Shen Rongyu was free, turned her head to look at her, and Ji Qingzhuo looked away in a panic.

"Hungry?" Shen Rongyu asked.

"No." Ji Qingzhuo denied, she felt that her stomach didn't growl now, that means she wasn't hungry anymore.

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

Ji Qingzhuo quickly covered his stomach.

Shen Rongyu didn't speak, because he knew that if he made fun of Ji Qingzhuo again, the wood would have to run out of shame.

Ji Qingzhuo saw that Shen Rongyu didn't respond, and was still controlling the size of the flames in the stove normally. Fortunately, she felt that she hadn't heard the sound of her stomach growling just now.

Shen Rongyu had seen Elder Qiao Shu's hot dishes before, and he followed suit, but he did not fail. Soon, hot steam came out, and the cold buns in the pot became soft and delicious.

He took the steamed buns out of the pot. There was an invisible airflow between his hands and the plate. Working in the kitchen would inevitably get a little coal ash, but his body was not stained with dust, even the mundane things like hot buns. He can do it smoothly and easily.

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

Ji Qingzhuo couldn't help it anymore. She was so hungry that her head was dizzy, so she raised her hand and was about to grab one, but she forgot that the steamed buns were hot.

When her fingertips touched the soft bun skin, her hand was so hot that she shrank back.

Ji Qingzhuo put her hot fingers in her mouth to relieve herself, and turned around to get chopsticks. She did too many stupid things, and she didn't think there was any problem.

Of course, in Shen Rongyu's view, it would be too problematic.

He stared at Ji Qingzhuo, she was rubbing her fingertips that were a little red from the heat, looking a little embarrassed.

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

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

Although Ji Qingzhuo was 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 over.

So the two of them got together in the kitchen and started to eat buns. Elder Qiao Shu’s cooking was not top-notch, but it tasted right and the buns were soft. When they were put into the mouth, there was always steam coming out, which made his cheeks red. .

Elder Qiao Shu, who had finally finished serving flowers and plants outside the house, just wanted to come back to see if Ji Qingzhuo was full, but when he walked to the kitchen door, he saw two people eating 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, so can a person like an exiled immortal be pulled down from the world?

Ji Qingzhuo waited too long for this meal, she finally got full, and then she slowed down. When she returned to Baishui Island with Shen Rongyu, she touched in her small purse. Fortunately, it was on the open lake. Shen Rongyu didn't feel too strong the power of moonlight when she opened the 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?"

This green peach is naturally edible, and this is a spiritual fruit that Elder Qu Ting personally planted. There is abundant spiritual energy in it, which is very helpful for cultivation. This is the reward for the disciples who participated in the assessment.

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

Although Ji Qingzhuo knew that this green peach was a good thing, but she couldn't taste the rich spiritual energy inside, she chewed and assigned the whereabouts of the remaining green peach: "The rest, half give and go, half give Mao Mao."

When she spoke, the spiritual energy contained in the green peach couldn't be absorbed by her, so she all ran out.

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

"Zuo Zhuo." He called to her, "Don't move."

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

Shen Rongyu stretched out his hand, the airflow from the big cuff shocked the dead leaves of the treetops, and a maple leaf happened to fall on Ji Qingzhuo's head.

His hand pressed on her lips, and he didn't mean anything else, he was just helping Ji Qingzhuo to gather the spiritual energy in the green peach back.

Shen Rongyu's fingertips were against her lips, and the wind just blew on the Snow Burial Sword. Her lips were a little 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, and she read Shen Rongyu's explanation just now, "Don't move", so she didn't dare to move.

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

Ji Qingzhuo's eyelashes drooped slightly, she looked at Shen Rongyu's fingers, white as cold jade, perfect and delicate, and now...he just pressed her lips like this.

Only then did she feel embarrassed, and Hongxia covered her face.

Although Shen Rongyu had input Qing Tao's spiritual energy into Ji Qingzhuo's meridians through himself, he did not remove his hand.

The fingertips moved slightly, tracing the contours of her lips, and the soft lips sank slightly.

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

It seems to be tracing and rubbing countless times.

Naturally, he did so in the cultivation space, but he didn't know it.

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

He suddenly withdrew his hand, Ji Qingzhuo hurriedly lowered his head, the red maple leaf on the top of his head fell, and even the red leaf was shy for her.

Ji Qingzhuo understood what Shen Rongyu was doing. She felt embarrassed for her sudden embarrassment. Shen Rongyu was helping her practice, and it wasn't in the practice space. What was she blushing for?

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

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

Ji Qingzhuo wanted to let Shen Rongyu answer her question, but she raised her head, her eyes fell on Shen Rongyu's side face, and she felt that this sentence was a little off.

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