"Sister Liuli, let's go out and have some fun. You've been cooped up in your room for over ten days..." Zi Yan flopped around on Liuli's bed and whined coquettishly.
For some reason, ever since Liuli had gone out for a stroll after waking up, she had shut herself away in the little attic. She went nowhere, cultivating and sleeping in her room every day, or setting out a small rattan chair in the courtyard and lying on it to bask in the sun.
The little courtyard where Liuli and Zi Yan lived was in a relatively secluded part of the dormitory area, so few people passed by normally. For a time, Zi Yan had wondered whether something was wrong with Liuli mentally, whether she had become afraid of dealing with people. After all, Liuli had often taken her out to have fun before, usually to Jia Nan City or somewhere near the Black Corner Region. The Inner Academy was only so big; there was simply nothing interesting there.
Mm, and she liked going to see Xiao Yan too!
"I..." Liuli had just wanted to say something, but her face reddened slightly as she stammered, "I-I'm just not in the mood..."
"Did something happen?" Zi Yan blinked her large eyes and asked with concern.
"No. Can't I just want to cultivate seriously? I need to stabilize the cultivation I just gained so rapidly."
Zi Yan's eyes were full of suspicion. After all, she knew just how unwilling Liuli usually was when it came to cultivation. Sometimes, even Zi Yan herself cultivated longer than Liuli did.
Seeing Zi Yan's dubious gaze, Liuli craned her neck and forced herself to sound confident. "Y-you don't believe me! I spent two years underground and went straight from a Four-star Dou Zong to a Nine-Star