Zu Dai quickly caught the falling Jia Li, supporting her using his arm and shoulder. Her face was contorted into a grim expression but then seconds of the pressure turned into a minute then the pressure began to slowly alleviate.
Jia Li didn't ask how Zu Dai was able to resist the pressure but soon after her grim expression converted into that of amazement and happiness which greatly confused Zu Dai, He picked her up fearing that the pressure had affected her negatively.
She didn't resist Zu Dai's hold, in fact she not only did not resist she leaned into his embrace and took the first step into kissing him. Zu Dai may be lustful but he wasn't that horrible enough to take advantage of someone who he presumed as hurt or mentally ill.
He pulled back and Jia Li pulled him in once more, Hugging his neck as she spoke "He did it, The Sect Leader has done it!" She hugged Zu Dai deeply before kissing him once more.
He was still confused but it seems that there was a reason to her madness, He took her in his arms and swiftly moved her into his laps before interrupting their kiss and saying "What has he done?"
His arm rested on her pillowy thighs which she didn't mind much "Oh!" She didn't retract her embrace but rather hung off his neck loosely hugging to him "Our Sect Leader, Is a powerful and renowned refinement master his achievements mirror the sects achievements, the pressure we have just experienced must be one of his spirit weapons he made or in fact a new spiritual technique!"
The way she spoke of this made him think highly of his sect leader, " These kinds of events within the sect are rare and huge, it takes the sect leader years to make a single one of those B ranked Swords or techniques and each time he makes one the sect gets more powerful."
She continued "as are power grows Politically and Economically, Cultivators would naturally want to trade with us either for the newly created weapon which could sell in the millions more because our power has grown and we grow stronger than the other middle sized sects within the Feng Empire."
After her short rant Zu Dai nodded thoughtfully 'A refinement master must be highly valued, I don't know much about the cultivation world but they seem extremely important. The sect's layout seems to have our sect leader as one of its pillars. I guess that can only be expected from a leader of cultivators.'
"I see, so the sects power increases but what are the specific benefits to its disciples?" He still wasn't sure what the disciples of the sect might receive, It's not as if they're going to get any of the money that the sect receives.
"The sect will spend the spirit stones on resources, New books and more materials which would increase the power of the disciples of the sect."
Zu Dai could only nod his head in response, He now held a high respect for the sect leader even though he had personally never met him, but from listening to JIa Li he seemed like a very accomplished cultivator. Though, that did make him worry for himself a slight bit more… He wanted to lay low and it seems like there might be an auction for whatever the sect leader made some time soon meaning people from different sects would come over and they might see him.
Jia Li probably sensing his worry hugged him tighter "This is a great opportunity for the sect, which in turn makes it a major opportunity for you."
Zu Dai tilted his head slightly and asked "How?"
She pulled Zu Dai closed and kissed him, "You just need to find it yourself," She kissed up his cheek and whispered into his hair seductively which surprised Zu Dai but he glided his fingertips up her thigh invoking a slight moan from her.
"I think i found it." He pulled her in close and began kissing her,
The two had a second round from their, and then the morning continued like normal.
Some days later, it was time for Zu Dai to finally leave his residence and meet the many other disciples that have passed the exams over the 7 days and also to reveal his potential to the many noble families attending.
He was not at all sure of himself, In fact he believed that the only thing he had received from his time in 'closed door' cultivation was the greed orb centered around his dantain and his lust that currently resembled a thick fog that clouded around his nerves. Both things received he didn't know what they could exactly do or how to use them.
He did gain something else though, he gained Jia Li who he found more and more important to himself she was respected in the outer court disciples which usually meant in strength but she had another reason for being respected.
Before leaving Jia Li revealed to him that she was also a part of a noble family that was within the sect they were the fourth most powerful, The Li family because she was a part of this noble family that also meant that she knew Bing Ai for a long time. Which reminded him about Bing Ai.
She just gripped Zu Dai's arm one morning with a complicated look written over her face and she whispered into his ear "Don't trust Bing Ai, I've known her for years she'-.... Just don't trust her alright?"
Zu Dai was surprise for sure but he agreed to her wishes and promised to her and to himself to be wary of BIng Ai's next actions no matter how small they were, He had trust in Jia Li she had revealed to him that she was apart of a noble family and she had respected all of his wishes, instead of telling her family of his potential she helped hide his power. Jia Li knew how scary and dangerous this sect's political disputes were and wanted him to be unhindered in his progress to the top; she too believed that it would be best for him to be accepted into the sect leaders faction.
Before leaving, Jia Li told them to hide their relationship temporarily, she was scared that her family might use their relationship as an excuse to rope him in immediately.
Jia Li and Zu Dai left the house together, Zu Dai naturally only followed Jia Li like a junior following his senior. His eyes travelled around the sect that he only had two times to fully admire in beauty and practicality.
He could see that currently a lot of other disciple some he recognized from his initial entry battle were coming out of their homes, each of them were following their own senior but he could also tell that a lot more eyes were on him and Jia Li.
He felt cold air constantly sweep over him which surprised him, What further surprised him was that the cold air suddenly stopped after a short period of time. He instinctively looked toward Jia Li and he could see her hair slightly turn in a curve as she turned her head again.
She never once looked at Zu Dai but he could tell that she had done something to stop the cold air, He then immediately realized that the cold air was probably the spiritual qi of the seniors here probably attempting to sense Zu Dai's power.
He remembered a lesson that Jia Li had taught him in controlling his qi and maneuvered his qi around himself making a makeshift barrier to fend off again gazes, this technique would only work against people with a lower level than him but people with sly gazes would be caught in their act.
This prevented people from looking at his actual level for the time being as if people saw that he was resisting even just a small bit they would naturally just give up on attempting to see his dantain.
Some time later, Zu Dai could see a massive stage made out from the ground of the sect in the center of a very plain area within the sect. Looking around he could see that many people were already there and had formed a disorganized crowd of sorts. With the crowd growing this also caused the sounds the crowd made to grow.
He could hear many people greeting each other and he saw many people walk up to Jia Li and greet her. Each person that greeted her gave Zu Dai the stink eye regardless of gender.
'She's quite popular,' A group of female disciples walked over to Jia Li and did a small bow, Jia Li casually dismissed them with few words while the disciples did a lot of talking… Like a lot of talking.
The female disciples who were attempting to talk to Jia Li kept on shooting glances and stink eyes in Zu Dai's direction, Zu Dai had worked on his poker face since he was a child and because of this he gave the female disciples a nonchalant face with only a slight indiscriminate smile.
The Female Disciples soon shortly left, after they left Zu Dai could feel as if he had received a lot of space to move around in… Compared to everyone else in the crowd he felt as if there was some sort of distance between them and him.
He then realized he wasn't just imagining it, it was real there were literally empty space between him and the crowd of people he then took a short look around that no one was willing to approach Jia Li and him.
The people who approached Jia Li after that were people who were with dense crowds of people similar to the female disciples, He didn't care to listen to Jia Li's conversations with these people as he was currently looking for something more important in the crowd.