Time passed in the secret chamber.
Several hours went by in a flash.
Lin Chuan also felt that his body had filled with power.
He had innate full Soul Power, and his Soul Power was stuck at level ten, but he could still continue accumulating it.
Qian Xunji noticed that the two of them had reached a stopping point in their cultivation. If they continued, their efficiency would only drop sharply.
Qian Xunji smiled. "Let's stop here for today!"
Hearing that, Bibi Dong huffed. "Junior brother, it looks like you're still a little behind me, your senior sister."
As Bibi Dong declared victory, Lin Chuan muttered inwardly, Yes, yes, yes! You win!
With his Wishing Angel Martial Soul affecting him, he naturally couldn't match Bibi Dong in conventional cultivation.
Qian Xunji couldn't help laughing in exasperation. As his senior sister, Bibi Dong was still competing with him at every turn.
"Chuan'er, I'll take you to see where you'll be staying!"
She took Lin Chuan by the hand and prepared to leave the secret chamber.
When Bibi Dong saw this, she stamped her little foot in a fluster:
"Teacher, wait for me!"
They left the secret chamber.
A glance at the sky outside showed that it was already evening.
Qian Xunji planned to get Lin Chuan settled first, then eat together later.
Before long, the group arrived at a luxurious and imposing residence.
Outside the residence, a squad of guards in silver armor was on patrol. When they saw the Pope, they all bowed.
As soon as they stepped inside,
Bibi Dong's little face fell.
She couldn't help pouting pitifully:
"Teacher, isn't this where I live?"
Could it be that just because of those few things she'd said, Teacher was going to give her residence to junior brother?
Seeing little Bibi Dong looking as though she was about to shed pearls,
Qian Xunji gently flicked Bibi Dong on the head and explained:
"What are you imagining?"
"From now on, you need to look after Chuan'er more. You'll live here with him, so it'll be easier to keep an eye on him."
Hearing that they were only living together and she wasn't being thrown out, Bibi Dong felt a little less aggrieved.
But only a little.
After all, she had to share half of the residence that had belonged to her alone with Lin Chuan.
Anyone would have been a little unhappy.
Lin Chuan was surprised too.
He had seen quite a few residences along the way.
With Qian Xunji's authority, she was more than capable of giving him a residence of his own.
Yet now she was having him live with Bibi Dong.
It seemed Qian Xunji had something else in mind.
Does she want me to spur Bibi Dong on and make her work harder?
Lin Chuan couldn't help wondering.
He had some guesses about what Qian Xunji was thinking.
But after following them into the residence, he drew a sharp breath.
How was this a residence?
It was far too extravagant!
Forget two people-even dozens could live here without a problem.
Not only were there spacious bedroom suites, but there were also all manner of other rooms, including a bathing pool, dining room, kitchen, cultivation room, and storeroom...
It had every facility one could want. It was extravagant to the extreme.
Lin Chuan marveled inwardly.
He really had chosen the right teacher!
At least he didn't have to be like God King Tang, a transmigrator of all things, squeezing onto a communal bed with dozens of people in some rundown academy dormitory.
After Lin Chuan put his things away,
Qian Xunji noticed that Bibi Dong was gone.
She couldn't help sighing and said helplessly:
"Chuan'er, go to your senior sister's room and ask her to come eat."
"I've already had the people downstairs prepare everything."
"Okay, Teacher!"
Lin Chuan answered.
Qian Xunji had just shown him around, so he had also memorized where Bibi Dong's room was.
He knocked on the door.
Bibi Dong was hiding in her room. When she heard the knock, she couldn't help feeling a burst of delight.
It must be Teacher coming to coax me!
But when she pricked up her ears and listened closely,
The knock sounded completely different from Teacher's usual knock, and she immediately felt disappointed again.
"Who is it? Come in!"
The door was pushed open.
When she saw that it was Lin Chuan, Bibi Dong put her hands on her hips, leaned against the bed, and looked at him irritably:
"Junior brother, what did you come looking for me for?"
Seeing her hackles raised, Lin Chuan wasn't angry. He smiled and said:
"Teacher sent me to call you to eat."
The mention of Teacher made Bibi Dong feel even more resentful.
It was bad enough that half of her personal residence had been taken away.
But Teacher hadn't even come to comfort her in person, instead sending Lin Chuan, the "culprit," to call her!
Bibi Dong turned her head away, her eyes slightly red, but she stubbornly said:
"I'm not hungry! I don't have an appetite. You go ahead and eat."
Hearing that classic line, Lin Chuan couldn't help exclaiming inwardly, Good grief!
This little girl's thoughts really were easy to read!
She had practically written "I'm jealous! I've been wronged! Come coax me!" all over her face.
He had plenty of ways to handle a tsundere senior sister who was starved for affection.
Those romance novels he'd read in his previous life hadn't been for nothing.
Before this, he had always spoken according to Bibi Dong's wishes.
But this time, Lin Chuan laid his cards on the table:
"Senior sister, don't tell me you think I stole your residence and took some of Teacher's attention away, so you've been hiding in your room all by yourself, secretly feeling sad??"
Lin Chuan had exposed her thoughts with a single sentence.
Bibi Dong was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.
She immediately felt like hissing!
Junior brother, you know perfectly well what I care about, yet you still came here to provoke me on purpose. How arrogant!
I have to teach you a proper lesson!
This is turning heaven and earth upside down!
She was about to scold Lin Chuan.
But to her surprise, Lin Chuan moved closer to her of his own accord.
Lin Chuan lowered his voice and smiled as if he were utterly innocent and harmless:
"Senior sister, you wouldn't want Teacher to get angry because you didn't come to eat, would you?"
"But if you insist on not coming with me, that's even better."
"Then I can eat with Teacher all by myself."
Before Bibi Dong could react, he tossed out one last remark:
"If you're not coming, I'll go on ahead."
With that, he seemed about to turn and leave.
"Stop right there!"
Hearing Lin Chuan's words,
Alarm bells immediately rang in Bibi Dong's head.
What do you mean, eating with Teacher all by yourself?
I won't allow it!
Bibi Dong immediately hurried past Lin Chuan, raised her head like a proud little chick, and gave a soft huff:
"Who said I was sad and didn't want to go?"
"I'm perfectly fine now."
Watching Bibi Dong take the bait at once and run toward the dining room with her little leather boots clattering,
Lin Chuan couldn't help the slight upward curl of his lips.
This was ridiculous!
This tsundere was far too easy to fool!
Still, better she be fooled by me than by someone else.
Lin Chuan grumbled inwardly and hurried after her.
By now, the dining room was brightly lit.
The maids had already arranged dish after dish of food, each full of color, aroma, and flavor, on the broad, long table.
They were just about to serve the final dish, the rice.
Qian Xunji sat at the head of the table, rubbing her temples.
Why aren't they here yet?
I suppose even Chuan'er can't persuade Dong'er.
She had already prepared herself to go coax the little girl Dong'er out.
But the next second,
She saw Bibi Dong and Lin Chuan enter the dining room one after the other.
Qian Xunji was also utterly shocked.
She had thought Chuan'er wouldn't be able to handle Dong'er while she was sulking.
To her surprise, Dong'er's expression was remarkably calm now, with no sign that she was throwing a tantrum.
How did Chuan'er manage that?
Qian Xunji looked at Lin Chuan's harmless little face in amazement.
Even she couldn't do that.
Every time Bibi Dong got angry, she had to put a great deal of effort into coaxing her!
Bibi Dong walked straight to the seat beside Qian Xunji.
She couldn't help feeling very proud.
"Hmph!"
"You want Teacher all to yourself? No way!"
"Let's see what tricks you have left now."
What she hadn't noticed, however, was that Lin Chuan hadn't sat down at all.
As he passed the serving cart,
Lin Chuan rose onto his little tiptoes, took the rice paddle straight from a maid's hand, and served two bowls of steaming hot rice.
He carried one of the bowls directly to the head of the table and handed it to Qian Xunji.
"Teacher, here's your rice~"