It would not just be stick-stick beating him—he might get beaten by a lot of people.
Everyone had an unspoken understanding. Being generous and yielding depended on him not playing favorites. At the very least, they had to take turns, right? He had only just moved in and was already repeatedly sticking with Yao Guang. The others would explode.
If they were outside, Qin Yi could alter the flow of time himself and spend one night accompanying everyone in turn. Peak Time Management—no one would have any objections. But with the entire Heavenly Palace already transformed so that one night equaled ten years, Qin Yi could not pull that trick here. He had no way to alter the flow of time a second time within it.
But this matter really did require asking Yao Guang...
In theory, the things involving stellar trajectories were closer to science than cultivation—gravity, rotation, revolution, and the like. Qin Yi understood those better. But how to make them take effect in the painted realm—that was very much cultivation. And whether divination was involved was something Qin Yi, despite inheriting Liusu's legacy, had never touched.
He really had to seek out Yao Guang. In this matter, even Xi Yue and Minghe were merely disciples before Guangguang.
Like a thief, Qin Yi hunched his head down and slipped off to Yao Guang's bedchamber.
Yao Guang really was in her bedchamber. Rarely, she had neither gone to the Jade Pool nor entered seclusion.
She had thought there definitely would not be a part for her today, so she had invited Xi Yue and Minghe over for drinks. The old implication of "forming a faction and gathering a clique" was gone now. It was simply that Xi Yue and Minghe truly were her inheritors, and they genuinely had things