Beyond the Syllabus...

"Why can't we live together?"

Xiaobai's words left every disciple present dumbfounded.

What did she mean?

Just what was their relationship?

A couple? They didn't look like one!

Several hours had just passed, and they hadn't done anything besides one feeding the other and the other eating!

Were they brother and sister, then?

That seemed even less reasonable!

Just look at their faces. They had absolutely nothing to do with the words "brother and sister"!

Sure, one was handsome and the other beautiful.

But their features were clearly different, okay?!

Lin Yu's features were refined yet handsome.

As for Xiaobai, while her features were soft and beautiful...

There always seemed to be an indescribable, wild beauty about her, too.

They couldn't quite say where that sense of wild beauty came from, though.

It might have sounded a little strange to put it that way, but that really was how it felt!

Neither a couple nor siblings.

Then why could they live together??

This question was beyond the syllabus!

All the disciples stared with wide eyes, shock covering their faces.

And Xiaobai was the one who had said it!

Could they really be a couple?

Had they simply hidden it so well that nobody had noticed?

The disciples kept discussing it, and the entire Qianyuan Sect instantly became a bubbling pot of chaos again.

Meanwhile.

"Uh... well..."

The trial elder was utterly frustrated!

He had spent so long preparing before finally managing to throw that question out.

Yet Xiaobai's counterquestion had instantly put the pressure right back on him!

Earlier, he had nearly wrenched his back. This time, he really had.

They couldn't play him like this!

The trial elder wanted to cry but had no tears.

"Ahem, of course you can..."

"It's just that I'm afraid living together might be inconvenient for you two..."

"After all, you're both young, and if something... ahem..."

The trial elder coughed as he spoke, his words becoming rather incoherent.

He looked as though he had already decided that since the pot was cracked, he might as well smash it.

The way Xiaobai spoke followed none of a normal person's logic!

The trial elder really couldn't handle it.

"But I've always lived with him."

Xiaobai frowned slightly. This old man was so strange.

She had clearly always lived with Lin Yu before.

They had both stayed inside that enormous immortal abode.

There had been so, so many delicious things inside, too.

At the thought of delicious food, joy welled up in Xiaobai's heart, and a sweet smile appeared on her face.

Once things here were finished, she could go home and keep eating those delicious immortal fruits.

How blissful.

Yet to those disciples, Xiaobai's foodie smile as she lost herself in thoughts of food meant something else entirely!

"I... did I hear that right...? What did Junior Sister Xiaobai just say?"

One disciple murmured, seemingly unable to believe his ears.

"I didn't catch it either..." another disciple said, scratching his head with an incredulous expression.

"I didn't catch it either..."

Many disciples shook their heads as they spoke.

But the expressions on their faces clearly showed that they refused to believe what they had heard!

"Junior Sister Xiaobai seemed... seemed to say that she and Junior Brother Lin Yu have always lived together?"

Finally, someone couldn't help asking.

"I heard it too! Junior Sister Xiaobai was already living with Junior Brother Lin Yu before!"

"I heard it too..."

A chorus of agreement immediately rose from the crowd.

Those disciples who truly hadn't heard, or had pretended not to hear, immediately began heaving sighs.

Had Lin Yu and Xiaobai really settled things between themselves long ago?

How were they supposed to go on living?!

"Alas, my dreams shattered in a day; who knows what year I'll escape the single life?"

One literary-minded disciple had already begun composing poetry.

"Oh, give it a rest with your dreams shattered in a day. More like you woke up one morning and realized, 'The clown was me all along!'"

"I'll murder you..."

The disciples who had been quietly eating melon were now a bubbling pot of utter chaos.

This melon wasn't guaranteed ripe!

How had they been living together all along?

"But they really don't look like a couple!"

One disciple said loudly, still seeming somewhat unable to believe it.

"Junior Sister Xiaobai said it herself. Why don't you go ask her?"

"Why don't you go...?"

"..."

Meanwhile.

"She's right. If there's only one red-grade residence, we can just live together."

Just as the trial elder was agonizing over how to respond, Lin Yu's voice suddenly reached his ears.

The trial elder froze.

Were young people nowadays all this blatant?

Earlier, they had only seemed to be feeding each other fruit.

Now they had fast-forwarded straight to living together?

Who would have guessed? This lad really was impressive.

He had actually won over such a beautiful and powerful young lady long ago!

As expected of the man who had conquered four Qianyuan Sacred Stairways!

The trial elder immediately gave Lin Yu an approving look that any man would understand.

He felt as though he had been granted a pardon. Since Xiaobai and Lin Yu had both said so, he would simply steer the boat with the current.

As for what the other disciples thought, that was beyond his concern.

Right now, he only wanted to hurry up and finish the task Yun Tianci had assigned him!

As long as Lin Yu and Xiaobai were happy, they could choose however they liked!

"No problem. Then this red-grade residence belongs to you both."

"The red-grade residence is located atop Stabilizing Mystery Peak!"

The trial elder said with a smile, solemnly handing the key in his hand to Lin Yu.

At this sight, the spectating disciples instantly erupted!

For a time, discussion and teasing cheers rang out without end!

"Haha, what's all this excitement about?"

"A male and female disciple sharing a residence? This is unprecedented in our Qianyuan Sect!"

"Sect Master, did you authorize this?"

"I happen to have a different opinion!"

Just then, an aged laugh suddenly rang out beside everyone's ears!

"Supreme Elder Yun Li? Why has he come out too?"

At the sound of that voice, Yun Tianci's expression instantly changed.

This elder had an eccentric temperament, yet his seniority was so high that even Yun Tianci had to show him considerable respect!

And judging by Yun Li's words, he seemed to disapprove of Lin Yu and Xiaobai living together!

"This is trouble..." Yun Tianci took a deep breath, a trace of a bitter smile appearing on his face.

Elder Yun Li was no easy character to deal with!

Yet Lin Yu had specifically forbidden him from revealing his true strength!

For now, he could only take things one step at a time...