"What do you mean by 'we live'?" He could naturally guess what she meant but he wanted to hear the words come from her mouth instead of his mouth, and also get an explanation why he's staying with her instead of some other male disciple.
"Junior Disciples live with the Seniors that have chosen them. It's to make the sect's job on organizing where people live less hectic." She spoke more than usual to make him fully understand what she meant, which to Zu Dai was fine.
Zu Dai scratched the back of his head and thought back to Bo Jiang and her sect mates before asking "How many roommates are allowed in one house?" It wasn't an important question but it was a question that came to mind when he thought back to Bo Jiang and the other senior disciples that were in pairs.
"Four." she stated plainly.
"Does that mean we have other roommates?" He started to become relaxed once he heard that there were at least a lot of other people in one of these sect houses… but now that it comes to mind it might be a curse to live with four other people.
"No. Our house only holds two." She started again while lifting her finger to fix a strand of hair that was out of line in front of her face.
He didn't ask anymore questions and just shrugged at that while his cheeks turned a scarlet red, the girl in front of him was indeed hot and to know that he and her would be living alone together filled his mind with rapid fantasies as is right of his status as a virgin.
Zu Dai may be able to tease and prod at girls quite casually but the actual act of doing anything else would fill himself with nervousness and embarrassment. This in fact is the only reason why he hasn't done anything hyper sexual to Bo Jiang other than wordplay and teasing.
Zu Dai and Jia Li entered the house. Dai was faced with another door across the room he entered and a corridor which led to a dead end with another room at the right.
He instinctively looked toward Jia Li who had begun to walk down the corridor to the door. He followed her, his gaze constantly switching from her to his surroundings. He found nothing wrong with the corridor but he admired the decor of the corridor which was far better than the ones he had within the village.
She turned to her right and gripped the handle of the door and pushed it open. His gaze preceded her and took in the plain room that played with the orange sunlight in front of him with a bed to the left and a neatly placed pillow in the center of the room.
The room barley had furniture other than the bed and a wooden wardrobe. Jia Li entered the room and suddenly took out a pillow from out of nowhere and placed it next to the pillow on the ground before sitting down.
Her hand patted the pillow next to her clearly telling Dai to take a seat next to her. Her emotionless expression was gentle making her appear to be sleepy combined with the gentle orange sunlight that peered through the window above the bed made her look like a peerless beauty only found in great tales of adventure.
All of this made Dai's heart skip a beat. He sat down next to her attempting to not stare at her face.
Dai heard a weird sound that sounded like rushing winds. He turned his head in Jia Li's direction and found her holding the book. He saw the library guard holding 'How are they getting these items from nowhere?' His eyes found a peculiar silver blue ring on her hand.
Before he could observe the ring more, Jia Li pulled the book in front of Dai "This is the Sect's Cultivation Method. Follow the instructions." Her usual short statements pulled him back into reality and he took the book Jia Li presented him and placed it in his lap.
Dai read the title of the book 'Blade Aura Technique' .
After Dai read into the book for a minute or so he found Jia Li intently staring at him. He saw her stare as his time to start practicing what he saw in the book.
He assumed a lotus position and began to cultivate, he had already felt that his body was strong enough so he skimmed the martial arts section and went straight to cultivating.
He felt something cold and sharp go into his gut, opening his eyes he stopped and grasped his gut and looked toward Jia Li who was on all fours studying his face "What happened?"
"Qi, Just continue." She didn't tell him much.
He didn't feel as if Li had any ill will against him and he did just pass the exam so he shouldn't have enemies so he did what his senior told him and continued resuming with his lotus position. He felt a cold and sharp gas enter his gut once more and then swirled around before entering something in his body.
After a minute he felt something warm touch his gut, he was tempted to open his eyes but he kept them closed and continued to feed his gut the cold sharp gas entering. This process began to feel quite fulfilling to him.
He felt something warm pull against his body then he heard "Focus on your gut." The voice belonged to Jia Li who he assumed was now touching him.
He did as she asked and focused closely on his gut until a mental image appeared in front of his eyes, he saw gas beginning to fill empty land.
He focused and trapped the gas inside of the empty landfill, causing his gut to feel warm instead of cold. His body relaxed more as the entire process was comforting to him until the gas filled up and he felt a barrier hold it back from continuing.
He condensed the gas to gain more gas and the result of that was all of the light gas being absorbed into a darker and denser gas. He repeated the process of filling the landfill and condensing the gas over and over until the dense gas he was attempting to produce produced a drop of water that filled the landfill.
The warmth that touched his body left him and he could hear footsteps, the door never opened so he knew that Jia Li was still inside the room but he didn't care as this process was so filling that he continued it more and more.
The liquid turned solid only to drop and then he found it a bit harder to advance more so he stopped. He could've continued on for longer but he simply didn't want to continue anymore.
He opened his eyes and first saw the door which was closed. He turned his head and saw Jia Li on his bed, her entire body sprawled on to the bed. She looked so defenseless and cute that Dai couldn't help but smile at the sight, he looked above the bed and saw that outside was dark 'How much time has passed?'