Sheng Zui heard Mu Mengbai out, then immediately sent Yu Sui a voice message. No one answered.
He furrowed his brows. Behind him, Mu Mengbai was still rubbing his hands together as he analyzed when Mei Chengyu had fallen for Yu Sui. Listening to him gave Sheng Zui a headache.
"Enough. Keep talking and I'll turn on you," Sheng Zui growled.
Mu Mengbai immediately fell silent and raised a hand to his mouth in a zipping gesture.
Sheng Zui decided he needed to talk to Yu Sui. Since she wasn't answering his voice message, he would take the Dragon Ladder up to find her. But Yu Sui wasn't at the dormitory either. He asked around on the Listening Wind Ruler and learned that his hardworking, studious little sister had gone to the School of Names' External Cultivation Hall for class early that morning.
Yu Sui had been pretty busy lately.
While waiting for Old Man Yan to get back to her, she was sounding out Sage Chang Gen, keeping an eye on the Five Elements Light Core's changes, and making time to think about that disobedient sword spirit. Every now and then, she also watched her Senior Martial Brother and Yan Xiaochuan fight with knives at the Military School Martial Field.
Even matters like the strange fire and the Tianzi Text had been pushed to the back burner for now.
Xue Mushi was trying to find a way to investigate the Tianzi Text. He went to the Daoist School every day to ask around, then practiced Thunder Techniques in the Thunder Field, returning to the dormitory exhausted each night.
Wei Ren was trying to find a way to deal with the xi soil. He tried all sorts of ways to sound out Instructor Gong Lesheng for information, but Gong Lesheng