Stop Scolding Me, Stop Scolding Me!

Atop Kamar-Taj's high platform.

"Master, we're back!"

The moment Natasha and Clea emerged from the portal, they hurried over without pause to report in.

"Ta-da~ The trial was completed perfectly!"

"Not only did we defeat the aliens and save Earth this time, we even brought back an Infinity Stone!"

Snatching the glass bottle from Clea's hands, Natasha beamed as she placed it on the tea table before Feng Xu, her face practically begging for praise.

Feng Xu remained expressionless and kept his gaze straight ahead. He calmly lifted his teacup, took a sip, and said nothing.

Seeing this, Natasha frantically shot meaningful looks at Clea beside her.

Receiving the signal, Clea reluctantly chimed in.

"Yeah, yeah. It was fortunate that Natasha helped this time. Otherwise, the entire Earth—and even the world—would have been destroyed!"

"Most importantly, after everything was over, she rushed back without even seeing her family. Honestly, if I had a disciple like that, I'd be moved to tears!"

Clea delivered those words with great emotion, as though the world could not function properly without Natasha!

Faced with their antics, Feng Xu set down his teacup and shook his head helplessly.

"Enough. Since you went out to help this time, I will not punish you too severely. From now on, cultivate diligently until you reach the Qi Refining Realm. Do not bring shame upon your master."

"Master, I understand!"

Seeing that there would be no punishment, Natasha immediately smiled so hard that her eyes narrowed into crescents.

After speaking to Natasha, Feng Xu turned to Clea. "And Clea, since you have passed the trial, I will naturally honor my promise and accept you as my disciple."

Clea was instantly overjoyed. She hurriedly performed the formal disciple ceremony of three kneelings and nine kowtows.

Then she trotted over to the tea table, refilled the teacup, and respectfully lifted it before handing it to him.

"Thank you, Master. Please have some tea!"

She had specifically looked into Eastern disciple-initiation etiquette, all so she could use it at a moment like this!

Clea's series of actions left Natasha dumbfounded. She had not expected Clea to be so good at this sort of thing!

A strange sense of crisis immediately spread through her heart, dampening even the joy of escaping punishment.

Natasha's sense of crisis quickly became reality.

"You certainly put thought into it."

Feng Xu smiled as he accepted the tea and took a sip. The more he looked at Clea, the more satisfied he became.

He then set down the teacup, raised a hand, and lightly tapped Clea between the brows.

In an instant, a violent vortex of spiritual energy formed, enveloping Clea completely.

In the blink of an eye, a scorching and powerful aura spread out from within the vortex.

The spiritual-energy vortex then dissipated, revealing Clea with a drastically altered appearance.

Her silvery-white hair stood upright like flames, while her blue eyes had turned a fiery crimson!

"Clea, flames?!"

Staring at Clea's new look, Natasha felt as if she were looking at a living flame and could not help rubbing her eyes.

Clea also raised her hands in disbelief, and a mass of blazing fire abruptly appeared in her palms.

"Falt Flame?!"

"I actually awakened the flame ability unique to Falt Energy Lifeforms!"

Because Clea's mother was a Falt Energy Lifeform and her father was a prince of the Dark Dimension.

As a mixed-blood, she had only inherited her mother's ability to open dimensional barriers, along with her father's telekinetic ability.

She had never expected that a mere light tap from Feng Xu would awaken Falt's most powerful flame ability!

"Thank you, Master, for helping me awaken it! Master is the best master in the world!"

Clea immediately sweet-talked him, thanking him again and again in a sugary voice.

"This was power hidden within your bloodline to begin with. I merely helped you awaken it. Consider it your gift for becoming my disciple."

As he spoke, Feng Xu tossed out another exquisitely crafted white jade bracelet, making it hover before Clea.

"This is called a Spatial Bracelet. It contains a hundred-square-meter storage space, within which are some Spirit Stones and this sect's basic cultivation manual. Use your mind to communicate with it, and you may store or retrieve items. Keep it safe."

"A hundred-square-meter storage space!"

Clea stared at the bracelet before her, her little mouth falling open in shock once more.

She then quickly came to her senses, took it, and put it on her right wrist.

As her mind connected with the bracelet, a space the size of an ordinary house appeared in her mind.

Seeing Clea not only awaken such a terrifying flame ability, but also receive a bracelet that could store things.

The resentment on Natasha's face seemed ready to overflow.

"Master~~~"

"You can't neglect your eldest disciple just because you've taken in a new little disciple~~~"

Hearing her aggrieved tone, Feng Xu glanced at Natasha and asked calmly.

"You want one too?"

"I do, I do!" Natasha nodded repeatedly, her eyes full of anticipation.

After all, a portable storage space like that was simply too cool.

However, instead of receiving a storage bracelet, she received a lecture from Feng Xu.

"If you want one, then hurry up and cultivate to the Qi Refining Stage instead of running around everywhere with Body Tempering cultivation!"

"If this were my original Cultivation World, your cultivation would make people laugh your master to death!"

Natasha pursed her lips and nodded pitifully. "Stop scolding me, stop scolding me, Master, I get it!"

"I'll go back and cultivate harder right away. I definitely won't bring you shame!"

"Just have that storage bracelet ready. Once I reach the Qi Refining Stage, I'll come claim it!"

"Don't worry, there will be one for you." Feng Xu shook his head with an amused smile.

"It isn't anything rare. Once you reach the Qi Refining Stage, take my verbal authorization to Artifact Refining Peak and claim one."

A few days ago, after Odin came to visit and was completely won over, he quickly brought over many Asgardian specialty materials as an advance payment for tuition.

Among them was a metal called Uru. It was extremely hard and could withstand the imprint of Spatial Law.

Thus, Feng Xu inscribed some Spatial Law into that batch of metal, then sent it to Artifact Refining Peak to be forged into storage equipment commonly used in the Cultivation World.

The storage bracelet he had given Clea was the first finished product crafted by Artifact Refining Peak.

"Hmm, so it was crafted by the senior brothers of Weapon Refining Peak!" Natasha was somewhat surprised, though it made sense when she thought about it.

"Enough. Go cultivate."

Seeing that everything had more or less been said, Feng Xu began ushering them out.

"Clea, remember to visit the Scripture Pavilion and choose a cultivation technique. If there is anything you do not understand during cultivation, come ask me."

Clea nodded obediently. "Yes, Master. This disciple understands."

Only after the two had left did Feng Xu pick up the glass bottle on the tea table and begin playing with it in his hand.

"This Reality Stone is rather interesting."

As he spoke, the semi-solid dark-red crystal within the glass bottle rapidly gathered together, returning to an irregular solid form.

At the same time, its color visibly dimmed at a rapid rate until, with a crack, it split open and revealed a murky yellow crystal within.

Feng Xu casually crushed the glass bottle, placed the Reality Stone in his palm, and carefully sensed it.

"A law unique to this world, unlike those of the Cultivation World. It possesses qualities of laws such as illusion, alteration, and creation. It can erode reality and change reality, allowing substance within the unreal and returning substance to the unreal..."

Feng Xu had long known that the two universes were different, but this was the first time he had encountered differing laws, and it gave him some ideas.

"It seems I still know far too little about this world. It is time to find an opportunity to go out and take a look."