Dual cultivation makes you stronger, everyone else is a prodigy, and I'm the only one slacking

On the morning of the third day, in the Relatives' Courtyard, Yu Luoning straightened his robes and prepared to go out for a stroll in the External Affairs Hall.

Lu Feishuang's request for the hand seal was kept very low-key; apart from a few people, no one else knew about it.

After all, even the sect elders couldn't completely erase the mark, so how could Yu Luoning, a mere outer disciple at the Great Perfection of Qi Refining, possibly handle it?

Yu Luoning naturally wouldn't be foolish enough to spread the news.

Everything returned to normal, and she resumed her daily cultivation.

Yu Luoning pushed open the courtyard gate, and there was a person sitting outside. It was Ye Yanshan, who was wearing a light red dress.

With a slender and delicate figure, she leaned against a stone pillar beside the courtyard gate, her long, narrow almond-shaped eyes scrutinizing Yu Luoning.

Yu Luoning paused, and the smile on her face faded slightly.

"What bad luck so early in the morning."

She muttered to herself.

Across from her, Ye Yanshan's beautiful face visibly froze for a moment. "...I heard you."

"Of course I said it, I did it on purpose for you to hear."

Yu Luoning rolled her eyes: "You wouldn't come here without a reason. What brings you here?"

Ye Yanshan stood up straight and said, "Miss Luo Ning, my young master would like to invite you over for a chat."

"Catch up? I have nothing to catch up on with your young master. If he wants to see me, he can come by himself. Surely he's not so incapable of walking that he can't move?"

Ye Yanshan's face turned cold. "I've only been kind to you a few times because we're both women. You won't get away with offending my young master like this. Can't you control your temper a bit?"

Yu Luoning stopped and looked at her: "Restrain yourself? That makes it sound like I provoked him first. That day on the Spirit Testing Platform, your young master thoroughly offended me."

Ye Yanshan took a deep breath, suppressing her displeasure: "That's true, but my young master still cares about you to some extent. Otherwise, an ordinary person with this kind of attitude would have been buried a foot high by now."

Yu Luoning looked at her and thought she was like an interesting little animal, so adorably silly.

"So, your young master has become a Buddhist? What do you mean he doesn't dare to touch me because he cares about me? How can you say such a thing? He doesn't dare to touch me, of course, because I have something on him."

Upon hearing this, Ye Yanshan paused abruptly, her gaze hardening and her expression changing.

If you look closely, you can see a hint of schadenfreude in her eyes.

Ye Yanshan thought to herself, no wonder Jiang Yuxing inexplicably gave her contribution points that day at the ferry crossing, and not only did he give them, he gave her ten times more.

So that's how it is; this girl has something on him.

Ye Yanshan's heart pounded.

Yu Luoning found her expression particularly amusing. What the other person was thinking was clearly written on her face, yet she herself thought she was hiding it very well.

She couldn't help but tease Ye Yanshan: "Miss Ye, do you want to know what that weakness is? I wouldn't mind telling you."

"That day in the secluded valley..."

Upon hearing this, Ye Yanshan took a step back and covered her ears with her hands. "Don't tell me! Do you think I'm stupid? If I knew, would you let me go, young master?"

I'm telling you, don't even think about dragging me into your feud. I know nothing, and I don't want to hear anything.

Ye Yanshan still felt a little flustered after saying that.

I almost, I almost fell for this guy's trap.

Seeing how she had scared herself, Yu Luoning couldn't help but laugh out loud. "I didn't expect you to react so quickly."

Ye Yanshan snorted coldly, her almond-shaped eyes widening. "You think you can fool me with such a little trick? Humph, I'm smart enough."

After saying that, she glanced at Yu Luoning as if she were a plague god, lifted her skirt, and quickly fled.

She was afraid that if she ran too slowly, she would hear something she shouldn't have.

Yu Luoning shook her head and continued walking towards the mission hall.

Today, her chosen task was relatively simple: to help deliver a letter.

After delivering the letter, they walked into a bamboo grove, where Jiang Yuxing blocked their way.

He was dressed in a black robe, and his face was even paler than when I last saw him at the ferry. His eyebrows and eyes were handsome, but his face was full of gloom.

Yu Luoning stopped and looked up at him, but did not say anything.

She had already guessed that the other party had come for the Shadow Stone.

She hid the Shadow Stone inside her spatial bracelet.

The spatial bracelet can conceal one's presence.

Xing Qi once said that ordinary cultivators cannot perceive the aura of a spatial bracelet, let alone find out what's inside.

Jiang Yuxing stared intently at her, his divine sense glancing intentionally or unintentionally at the Qiankun bag at Yu Luoning's waist.

His cultivation level was higher than Yu Luoning's, and his divine sense could penetrate ordinary Qiankun bags to detect the contents inside.

Yu Luoning naturally sensed this divine sense and couldn't help but smile, "How is it? Did you find what you were looking for?"

Jiang Yuxing stared at him, snorted coldly, and after a long while spoke: "You know why I'm here. What do you want from me to give me that Shadow Stone?"

Yu Luoning blinked; she had actually been waiting for this sentence for a long time.

Originally, it was thought that Jiang Yuxing might be able to hold out for another half month, but unexpectedly, on only the third day, this prodigy came to negotiate terms himself.

Yu Luoning: "Does Young Master Jiang mean you want to buy back this shadow stone?"

"Why ask when you already know the answer? Just name your price."

Yu Luoning didn't mince words, stating directly: "First, 100,000 contribution points. Second, all the magic treasures you possess. Third, you must teach me a bit of your Jiang family's inherited techniques."

Jiang Yuxing's expression grew increasingly grim, eventually turning ashen.

"Luoning, you're really delusional and asking for the moon."

Yu Luoning had not intended to actually threaten Jiang Yuxing by taking action against Ying Shi.

Once the Shadow Stone is no longer a handle, Jiang Yuxing's next step will definitely be to make himself disappear without a trace.

She made these demands simply to discourage the other party.

As long as the Shadow Stone is there, Yu Luoning is safe.

She said, "The conditions I've set might be difficult for others, but Young Master Jiang, don't you have extensive connections in the Dongbao Sect? How come you can't even meet this simple request?"

"The third one is impossible," Jiang Yuxing said coldly.

Yu Luoning raised an eyebrow, not expecting Jiang Yuxing to care so much about the Shadow Stone.

One hundred thousand contribution points, plus all the magical treasures he possesses.

It has to be said, Yu Luoning was smitten.

She took a deep breath and managed to hold back.

"No. Not one can be missing."

Jiang Yuxing narrowed his eyes, his tone carrying a hint of murderous intent: "I advise you, young lady, not to push people too far. When people are pushed to the limit, they are capable of anything."

Yu Luoning looked up, her eyes bright and clear, and smiled, "Young Master Jiang, how have you been using the restroom lately?"

Jiang Yuxing: "...?"

"We did such a vigorous thing that day, so naturally I have to be concerned about your health."

Jiang Yuxing froze on the spot, his handsome face first turning red, then ashen.

A murderous intent almost materialized in his eyes, and his right hand even touched the hilt of the sword at his waist.

"You're asking for it!"

Yu Luoning remained completely calm.

"If you dare to make a move, that shadow stone will appear before the sect leader and all the elders tomorrow morning."

Jiang Yuxing was startled and sneered, "Do you really think the sect leader and the others would concern themselves with such private matters of love and romance? It's just a little fling among inner disciples. Do you think spreading this around will hurt me in the slightest?"

Yu Luoning narrowed her eyes and smiled at him.