The floating sword stood meters above the ground it looked mostly decorative with a jagged yellow line going down the hilt of the sword and the black haired man on the floating sword was looking down with an emotionless gaze. The sword had yellow lights streak around it and combined with the presence of the man that stood upon it made it seem like a storm was hidden within pitch black darkness crackling with unpredictability.
And all this presence was suddenly directed toward a brown hair youth that sat down next to a peerless beauty, the two were currently just sitting down the brown hair youth catching air until he froze and looked toward the sky where the cultivator pulled back his presence and flew away.
'They're already watching me.' Zu Dai had already expected this, he believed himself as a genius and wasn't going to hold back his ingenious skills. A good place within the sect is what he wanted and it would be even better if he could get a master within the sect even faster. Zu Dai's thoughts lingered toward better ways he could get more of the sect's attention to him.
"Hey!" A woman's hand waved in front of his face, bringing back his attention while also interrupting his previous before thoughts. He turned to the side and looked at the girl who was leaning over to face him while sitting with her legs draped on the ground elegantly like a harp, her separate hand being situated on her hip, a pillow situated beneath her.
'Where the hell did she get the pillow?' His eyes first went to the pillow.
"Hey! You turned your head but you didn't even say anything!" Her cheeks puffed up and she leaned closer to get into his face more, she seems to really want attention right now but Zu Dai could care less he just fought her a few seconds ago but relentlessly she kept on getting closer while her eyes got bigger.
He shrugged defeated and said "Yes?"
"Finally!" She did a little fist pump and then continued "How did you know that the cultivator would save you?"
He showed a plain expression and said "I didn't. I couldn't do anything about the situation at all so i stood still and waited for death instead of struggling uselessly." He looked to the side.
"Oh, so you just gave up? I thought it was gonna be better than that like you knew it was gonna end before he even got up." Bingo. While Zu Dai was fighting he was counting how much time he would have before anything happened. In reality he wanted to keep the big oaf around so he could show complete suppression in the next competition but it seemed like he didn't meet the required body count to pass the exam.
Zu Dai smiled which made Bing Ai smile at him even more, making her resemble a cute little critter he wanted to pat her head but he thought against it and continued focusing on resting up for the next part of the competition again.
Zu Dai's eyes caught something when he was turning away from Bing Ai which made him smile even more, Bo Jiang talking with a group of other people and she wasn't uncomfortable or anything she looked as if she was just in place. The people talking to her were the girls that had accompanied Bing Ai through the portal.
He closed his eyes and simply began to meditate, it was a good way of clearing his mind while also relaxing his body temporarily until the next phase began. Which was the plan.
Until, he heard Bing Ai tap his shoulder while saying "Hey!" He attempted to keep his eyes shut gently but the poking continued until he felt something engulf the entire outside of his arm which made him open his eyes which was then accompanied by a cutesy "Hey, Don't ignore me!"
He turned his head and saw that Bing Ai was way too close, her arms were currently wrapped around his arm which pressed her chest up against it, she looked up at him cutely with her wide puppy like eyes and her cheeks puffed up clearly annoyed but it gave her the appearance of a mistreated puppy.
"W-What!" He pulled his arm away from her.
"You should really learn how to treat a lady…" Her voice trailed for a second before saying "I wanna talk to you!"
"No." Zu Dai gave a clear answer.
She paused momentarily before looking at him and saying "So quick! Wait, please I wanna know more about you! think about it."
Zu Dai stopped to ponder for a moment, she is nobility after all and making friends with her would give him at least a few more things not to worry about like nobility hounding him all the time because of his status as a peasant or she could be similar to the hounding nobility and try to ruin him…
Zu Dai took a glance at her chest because she was leaned forward and then quickly looked away, Bing Ai caught sight of this but didn't say anything at all about it.
"Okay…"