Yuzhou City.
Beside the Deep Pool he had not seen in a long time.
With a smile, Chu Xingchen praised the somewhat nervous Ning Qianqian:
"Sorry, the trip to Central Province took a little longer than expected. I've looked around inside and outside the sect. Thank you for all your hard work during this time."
Ning Qianqian hurriedly shook her head. "I was only doing my duty. I don't deserve your praise, Sect Leader."
Chu Xingchen shook his head with a smile. "Completing your own tasks without a single slipup is already quite impressive."
Ning Qianqian wanted to say something at that, but her gaze turned toward the stone table and chairs beside the pool, and she silently closed her mouth again.
Beside the Water Pool, candied fruit and books lay before Chen Baiqing, while on the other side of the table...
Green Snake was staring wide-eyed at every word in the book before it, as though trying to carve them all into its mind.
Unholy! This was utterly unholy!
How could someone so cute be so ruthless?!
This girl was a nightmare descended, fear incarnate!
Whenever it forgot a character, this girl would use incomprehensible methods to control its body, twisting it into the shape of that character as closely as possible.
That explanation pierced its ears like a demonic chant-if your brain can't remember it, let your body remember instead.
If it forgot what a word meant, an illusory realm would suddenly descend and, as though teaching through words and example, make Green Snake engrave that word's meaning firmly into its memory.
Naturally, these illusory realms were not a caring review session from some warmhearted teacher.
At the very least, Green Snake now had a profound recollection of words such as wind, water, fire, and thunder.
It also