The Yellow-Minded Angel, Applying to Sun Moon Disguised as a Swan, and a Residence with Underground Chambers (4K)

Ten thousand years passed; blue seas turned into mulberry fields.

The former number-one sect under heaven had dwindled to a scant handful, while the Rose Hotel had expanded from Suotuo City to the entire world, earning widespread acclaim for its breathtakingly beautiful surroundings and dreamlike atmosphere of ultimate luxury.

Like a rose blooming into the wind, the Rose Hotel held Ye Guyi's gaze fast. Its splendid lights reflected in her golden eyes, and she could not bear to look away for even a second. Eagerly, she asked:

"Shall we stay at the Rose Hotel tonight?"

"Sure. My treat."

"No need. We'll split it."

Looking at the angel who insisted on splitting even the room bill, Lin Qing suddenly felt like a scumbag, letting an innocent, stunningly beautiful girl stray down the wrong path.

Sensing guests approaching, the soul-powered doors slid open to either side. A refreshing rose fragrance washed over them, rich and passionate, its indescribably intimate undertones tugging at their heartstrings.

The receptionist displayed precisely eight teeth in a flawless welcoming smile, though she faltered slightly when her gaze swept over their faces.

The two guests were young enough to be described as buds waiting to bloom, but their looks were so extraordinary they were rarely found in this world. The boy was handsome and aloof, radiating a distance that kept others a thousand miles away; the girl was pure and flawless, like a white-winged angel slowly stepping out of a temple mural.

They were unmistakably a match made in heaven.

"Good evening. What kind of room would you like?" the receptionist asked softly.

"Two rooms." Ye Guyi held up two slender fingers.

At those words, the receptionist shuddered. Her eyes swept over Ye Guyi, radiant as an angel, then glanced at the calm-faced Lin Qing. A great door seemed to rumble open in her Sea of Consciousness, unleashing a frantic brainstorm.

As the star receptionist of the Mingdu branch, she had to deduce her guests' unspoken intentions from the tiniest clues.

What sort of establishment was the Rose Hotel? It was the lovers' hotel where the Evil-Eyed White Tiger had brought twins to tumble among the clouds and rain!

A handsome boy and a beautiful girl had come to the Rose Hotel together, only to request two rooms. They were practically insulting the hotel's character. That left only one possible truth...

Let me lend you two a helping hand!

"I'm terribly sorry, but we only have one room left tonight," the receptionist said apologetically.

"Hmm..."

Ye Guyi hesitated slightly. She genuinely loved the Rose Hotel's taste, but she was wary of crossing the line that kept men and women from becoming overly intimate.

After all, they were Four-Ring Soul Ancestors. Their bodies had matured ahead of their age, and both physically and mentally, they possessed all the prerequisites for romantic affection.

Caught between principle and desire, Ye Guyi looked regretful and was about to speak when the receptionist hurriedly added, "Tonight's remaining room is called Golden Branch and Jade Leaves. It has a yellow rose theme. In the language of flowers, yellow roses mean youth, new beginnings, and hope. They symbolize every positive emotion, as well as anticipation for a bright future.

"Golden Branch and Jade Leaves is one of our signature rooms. Many guests travel here specifically for it and still can't secure a booking."

"Yellow roses?"

Ye Guyi swallowed her refusal. Yellow roses were her favorite flowers, and their symbolism perfectly matched the situation she and Lin Qing were in: crossing the border to venture through a foreign land. Youth, beginnings, hope...

She turned her head slightly to look at Lin Qing. Over their days of traveling together, she had personally witnessed his ironclad resolve. The temptation of the Ordinary Alliance's seven-mother instruction needed no elaboration, yet even that had broken its weapons and sunk into the sand before him.

Unmoved with a beauty in his lap-a true gentleman!

Besides, they were both Soul Masters and meditated instead of sleeping at night. Sharing a room would hardly matter.

"We'll take it, then."

The receptionist immediately breathed a sigh of relief, feeling she had performed another good deed in service of human reproduction. She swiftly completed their check-in and watched the pair disappear up the spiral staircase.

Golden Branch and Jade Leaves was on the Rose Hotel's top floor. The long corridor was tastefully decorated, pure white, noble silver, and suggestive rose-red forming vivid contrasts as they intertwined into a magnificent picture.

Soft light filled the hotel. Every few steps, a crystal rose was embedded in the wall, refracting the brilliant light around it. The carpet was soft and comfortable beneath their feet, as though they were walking on clouds.

Lin Qing and Ye Guyi admired the hotel's ingenious design. Each door bore different engraved patterns, with roses of various colors serving as distinct themes. The exquisite surroundings and subtle rose fragrance could easily set one's heart surging.

The Rose Hotel had outlasted the Tang Sect, standing firm through ten thousand years of history. It truly held an inexhaustible wealth of clever ideas.

At the corridor's end, a golden door came into view. Rose patterns adorned it, their petals carved with lifelike detail. Along its edge, a small line had been written in artistic lettering.

Leave no regrets in your youth. Be bold and follow your heart.

They swiped the card and opened the door. The room's decorations gleamed dazzling gold, as though all the sunset afterglow above Mingdu had been gathered inside. A Flame Lion King carpet dyed gold radiated warmth; even an ordinary person standing on it would not feel the slightest chill.

In the center of the sitting room, carefully arranged yellow roses formed a giant heart. Their layered petals shimmered with a soft golden glow, and rose fragrance spread freely through the air, creating a romantic atmosphere that left one dazzled and entranced.

Ye Guyi adored the decor of Golden Branch and Jade Leaves. She walked lightly over to the heart, bent down to pick up a yellow rose, and brought its fragrance to her delicate nose. Light fell across her pure, sacred profile in a warm, gentle halo.

Lin Qing did not disturb the angel. He turned and entered the bedroom alone.

A heart-shaped bed occupied sixty percent of the bedroom. Golden gauze curtains hung from the ceiling, hazy and coyly inviting. The Rose Hotel's owner had never forgotten the original mission and certainly knew how to create a romantic mood.

"We've been sleeping in the open and eating on the road all this way, without a chance to bathe. Tonight, we can finally wash properly."

Ye Guyi's clear, lilting voice sounded behind him. The girl stepped around in front of Lin Qing and extended a fair, delicate hand. "Fair competition. Rock-paper-scissors. Whoever wins gets to shower first."

Lin Qing smiled without speaking, indulging the Holy Angel's lingering childlike spirit.

Both hands came down together. Rock against rock.

As Ye Guyi prepared for another round, Lin Qing rubbed his brow and blinked his silver-gray eyes. "Since it's a tie, there's nothing for it..."

Folding her arms across her chest, Ye Guyi calmly scrutinized her only trusted teammate from head to toe. She lifted her chin slightly and said flatly:

"Go on. Say that thought in your head out loud-the one that's the same color as Golden Branch and Jade Leaves, so indecent you can barely utter it, and so outrageous even you know it."

"I meant ladies first. I was being gracious and letting you go ahead. What were you thinking?"

"...You first. I take longer."

Ye Guyi turned her head away, whipping her golden hair around at the speed of light to hide her reddening profile as she spoke stiffly.

"Okay."

As everyone knew, angels were very, very yellow-minded.

A wise man knew when to bow to circumstances. To avoid being killed as an Evil Soul Master by a Holy Angel whose defenses had utterly crumbled, Lin Qing decisively quit while he was ahead.

Washing away the dust of their long journey, Lin Qing changed into fresh, comfortable clothes from his Storage Soul Tool and strolled leisurely out of the bathroom.

Pearly-white legs rose and fell over the carpet as the angel jogged past. The rose fragrance in the air was instantly displaced by the girl's natural, delicate scent. The door opened and closed, and moments later, rushing water sounded from the bathroom.

The mattress sank as Lin Qing sat on one side of the heart-shaped bed, quietly sorting through the next stage of his relocation plans. He did not know how much time had passed before the pattering water suddenly stopped.

Warm steam billowed out, its white mist slowly dispersing. Rose fragrance and the girl's scent mingled with the crisp smell of body wash, assaulting Lin Qing's sense of smell with overwhelming force.

Her wet golden hair hung loose, tiny droplets clinging to its ends. Ye Guyi wore a bright yellow silk nightdress that followed the curves of her body. Her skin looked so fine and supple that the lightest pinch seemed enough to squeeze water from it.

The nightdress's neckline was not low, revealing just enough of her exquisite collarbones. Its sash was loosely tied into a bow at her waist, outlining a slender figure that could be encircled with one hand. The angel stood barefoot on the Flame Lion King carpet, her toes rounded like jade, their tender pink alluring.

Lifting the golden gauze curtain with her fingertips, Ye Guyi moved closer. "Lin Qing, we've reached Mingdu now. What are you planning to do next?"

The Holy Angel, fresh as a lotus emerging from water, reflected in his eyes. Lin Qing nodded slightly. "I've decided to apply to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, advance my Soul Power, and refine my skills as a Soul Engineer."

If he brought his talents to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, his Ultimate Metal would surely earn him a generous allocation of resources.

There was no helping it. Lin Qing genuinely could no longer afford to support himself.

The Gold-Eating Beast inspired both love and hate. It allowed Lin Qing to ignore the slow-cultivation debuff of an Ultimate Attribute.

The price was that the ten Soul Power levels between Soul Elder and Soul Ancestor had drained Grandma Lin's retirement savings and Lin Lan's private stash. Pin Dao Dao had also been operating nonstop, year-round, taking every job it could get!

Only magic could defeat magic. Facing a colossus like Shrek Academy, Lin "Taotie" Qing-the non-supreme-elder version-urgently needed kindhearted people from Sun Moon to feed him rare metals. All donations welcome!

"The continent's number-one Soul Engineer academy really is a good place for you to develop."

Ye Guyi agreed, then added with a trace of melancholy, "But where should I go to punish evil and uphold good? That Evil Soul Master lackey only knew that a mysterious Evil Soul Master force was hiding in Mingdu. He didn't know its name or exact location...

"It seems I don't have anywhere to go. How about I apply to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy with you?

"I'm pursuing both Soul Master cultivation and Soul Engineering anyway, so the academy should give me special attention. I can focus on cultivating while searching Mingdu for Evil Soul Masters."

"The Holy Angel Martial Soul is too conspicuous. What if an Evil Soul Master organization has planted spies in the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy? You'd be out in the open while your enemies remained in the shadows, liable to be assassinated by those scoundrels at any moment." Lin Qing objected.

"This angel has a clever plan." Ye Guyi smiled brightly. "The Angel Clan and Evil Soul Masters are sworn enemies. Both sides see the other as their lifelong nemesis, and both are studying how to eradicate the other.

"Since Holy Angels are so few in number, once Evil Soul Masters discover an angel's whereabouts, they attack at any cost. Even trading ten of their lives for one of ours doesn't deter them.

"So our wise angel ancestors created a secret art that disguises the Holy Angel as a Swan.

"As long as we don't use Soul Skills, the Holy Angel's true form stays hidden. It greatly improves our descendants' survival rate, allowing us to grow stronger before traveling the continent and hunting Evil Soul Masters."

"Your angel ancestors really had foresight..."

Something about this disguising-as-a-Swan business felt inexplicably familiar to Lin Qing.

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"Exactly!" Ye Guyi said with a beaming smile. "Soul Engineers fight with Soul Tools. Normally, they barely need their soul ring skills.

"The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy is a good place for me to hide. Unless it's a matter of life and death, I won't expose my Holy Angel."

"Reasonable."

"Mm-hm. Don't underestimate an angel's world-shaking wisdom!"

Ye Guyi wore a sacred expression of pride in her ancestors.

"I asked around. There's still a week left in this year's admissions season at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy," Lin Qing said. "We need to obtain Sun Moon immigrant status and permanent residence permits first, then apply to the academy.

"I'd like to buy a residence in Mingdu over the next couple of days. Want to look with me?"

"Buy a house?" Ye Guyi asked in confusion. "The academy has dormitories. Why would we move out?"

"Better prepared than caught off guard," Lin Qing explained. "Some secrets might not be suitable for discussing at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. Buying a residence gives us a strategic base of our own and makes things easier.

"Besides, my grandma is in Star Luo City. Once I've gained the attention of the academy's higher-ups, I plan to enter the team selections for next year's Soul Master Tournament, when the Star Luo Empire hosts it. I'll travel there with the team and bring Grandma back to Mingdu for her retirement."

"Oh, okay! I'll go with you!"

Ye Guyi understood completely and supported the idea with both hands raised. Seriously, she said, "Let me tell you, there's a lot to consider when buying a residence. Especially since it'll be our shared home in the future, and the headquarters where Mingdu's righteous Soul Masters gather to plan great things. We must be careful, careful, and careful again.

"The residence must be spacious, with an absolutely enormous underground area to conceal our activities!

"We can divide it into underground chambers and turn them into simulated cultivation environments, metal storerooms, Soul Tool workshops... We'll gather like-minded people from across the world and fight the Evil Soul Masters together!

"Others will think we're just an ordinary household, never knowing we're the sacred glory of this age!"

The angel instantly blazed with enthusiasm, brimming with energy. Lin Qing, however, sank into thought. Ideals were full and plump, but given his stereotypical impression of the Angel Clan, would those underground chambers really turn out that way...

"The residence needs a garden filled with yellow roses. A pavilion and an artificial lake are essential too!"

Ye Guyi spoke without pause. Growing excited, she sat directly opposite Lin Qing, leaving less than twenty centimeters between them.

"...Blah, blah, blah. That's about it."

Having poured out all her thoughts, Ye Guyi drew a deep breath, took out a Storage Soul Tool bracelet, and handed it to Lin Qing.

"I'm the only one left in my family. My parents died fighting Evil Soul Masters. Before leaving for the Sun Moon Empire, I sold all our property. Take this and use it to buy the residence.

"Don't stand on ceremony. I believe you're a champion of justice, just like me!"

Patting Lin Qing firmly on the shoulder, Ye Guyi raised a clenched fist in encouragement, then sat cross-legged and entered meditation, a brilliant smile curling her lips.

"She really doesn't have a scheming bone in her body. How would she survive if she didn't meet good people...?"

Lin Qing weighed the heavy Soul Tool in his hand. It held all of Ye Guyi's passionate hopes.

Sitting on the other side of the heart-shaped bed, Lin Qing arranged his usual circle of rare metals, closed his eyes, and cultivated his Soul Power.

Good night, motherfu... Makka Pakka.