After taking the second Qi Attracting Pill, Li Xuejiao no longer had any unnecessary thoughts in her mind. She went into serious cultivation mode almost immediately.
Chen Shaojie stole a glance at her upper body, which was straight and tense because she was sitting with her knees folded. He thought to himself that he must work harder and not let her break free from his grasp so easily.
He did a quick calculation. After this pill, they would be able to use one more pill at most before morning arrived.
They only had one day off before they had to rush back to the lower court...
In other words, they would only have enough time to use three Qi Attracting Pills this time. He would still have seven Qi Attracting Pills in his possession.
"The Qi Attracting Pills must be used up as quickly as possible!"
Chen Shaojie felt that it would not be wise to keep the Qi Attracting Pills in his possession for long. If news of it were to leak, it might very well bring him trouble.
Which means they had to arrange to meet up again...
And they must not let others know of it. They must do it in secret...
A man and a woman who kept meeting up in a cave in the wilderness in secret...
Even the mere thought of it was exciting.
Chen Shaojie felt that he should be more experienced than Li Xuejiao in the kind of thing. He decided that he should have a talk with Li Xuejiao later so that she would not accidentally tell others of what they were doing.
Having made up his mind, Chen Shaojie soon returned to his cultivation.
Ten more hours passed in the blink of an eye.
By now, the sky had turned dark outside the cave.
The moment the buff of the Qi Attracting Pill faded from the body of Li Xuejiao, Chen Shaojie immediately sensed it. He slowly opened his eyes.
Li Xuejiao did the same. She said to Chen Shaojie, "The effect of the pill has ended. Let's go back... If we don't go now, we won't make it in time."
The lower court dormitories had a rule of locking the gate at night, exactly like the college dormitories on Earth.
The reason stated was to ensure the safety of the servant disciples, but in truth, it was to stop the servant disciples from going out at night to do indecent things.
So every night, the restriction around the dormitories would be automatically activated so that no one could go in and out at will.
It was almost dark now. If they did not go back now, there was no way they could get back before the restriction activated.
Chen Shaojie unhurriedly rummaged around in his pants pocket again and took out yet another pill, "I actually have another Qi Attracting Pill here, Senior Sister. Why don't you take this one too and we go back to cultivating?"
Li Xuejiao's eyes brightened. She asked, "Didn't you say before that Grandmaster Qing Zhu only gave you two Qi Attracting Pills?"
Chen Shaojie answered without batting an eye, "That's because I didn't finish my story. In truth, after Grandmaster Qing Zhu gave me the second Qi Attracting Pill, I told the Grandmaster that in my hometown, 3 is a good number and many auspicious terms contain the number 3, such as the three gods, the three suns, three lives, three years... So I begged the Grandmaster to give me another one to make it 3, and Grandmaster Qing Zhu agreed."
"Really?"
Li Xuejiao looked at the Qi Attracting Pill, then at Chen Shaojie's pants pocket. She asked with suspicion, "So...the Grandmaster gave you a total of three Qi Attracting Pills?"
"Yup."
Chen Shaojie nodded his head very sincerely.
After a short pause, he urged, "Time is short, Senior Sister. We have to go back to the lower court tomorrow morning, so hurry up and take this Qi Attracting Pill so that we can continue cultivating. Don't waste time."
Li Xuejiao took the pill and was about to put it in her mouth.
However, after thinking for a moment, she felt bad for taking three Qi Attracting Pills from Chen Shaojie for free. She hesitated a little before she looked up at Chen Shaojie and said solemnly, "Brother Chen, thank you for giving me these Qi Attracting Pills. If I... If I can get promoted to the upper court in the future, I definitely won't forget what you've done for me today!"
Senior Sister, I'm the one who should be thanking you for hard carrying me...
Chen Shaojie understood what Li Xuejiao meant. He waved his hand and said, "Say no more, Senior Sister. Hurry up and get back to cultivating!"
Li Xuejiao nodded and finally swallowed the third Qi Attracting Pill. She went back to adjusting her breathing for cultivation.
Chen Shaojie did not dilly-dally either. He went back to cultivation immediately after she did, reconnecting to her WiFi.
Another ten hours passed...
Both of them opened their eyes at the same time yet again. They had worked out a tacit understanding. After they opened their eyes, they looked at each other and smiled.
Li Xuejiao climbed up from the ground and said to Chen Shaojie, "Let's go, Junior Brother. It's almost dawn."
"Wait!"
Chen Shaojie stood up and stopped Li Xuejiao.
Li Xuejiao did not know what Chen Shaojie wanted. She stopped to look and saw Chen Shaojie rummaging around in his pants pocket again.
"Brother Chen, you..."
"Look at this, Sister Li."
Chen Shaojie smiled. He pulled out his hand from his pants pocket and showed Li Xuejiao what he had grabbed.
"Ah? This..."
After taking a good look at what he had in his hand, Li Xuejiao looked astonished.
The way her small mouth was agape was so satisfying to see. Chen Shaojie could not get enough of the sight.
Chen Shaojie coughed lightly. Before Li Xuejiao could ask, he took the initiative to tell the story he had made up. "Back then, Grandmaster Qing Zhu indeed gave me only three Qi Attracting Pills, which were the three pills I gave you. Really, he only gave me three at first. Later, after staying the night in Grandmaster Qing Zhu's residence, the Grandmaster took a liking to my honest personality and did not want to see me lose out on so much, so he gave me another Qi Attracting Pill... Um, why are you checking out my crotch, Senior Sister? This really is the last one."
"I... I didn't..."
Li Xuejiao obviously had a hard time believing Chen Shaojie anymore. She could not help glancing at his pants pocket. When she was caught by Chen Shaojie doing that, she blushed and hastily removed her gaze, not daring to look again.
Chen Shaojie subconsciously pulled at his pants so that the small jade bottle could hide more snugly inside. He said, "Let's come back here another time, Sister Li. I'll let you have this pill too."
"You...really want to give it to me?"
"Of course! Who else would I give it to?"
"Give me a minute to think about it..."
After being fed the pill three times in a row by Chen Shaojie, Li Xuejiao no longer had that much reservation. Therefore, after a bit of thinking, she asked, "Then how about we come back here in three days' time?"
"Great!"
Chen Shaojie was addicted to this feeling.
He liked the feeling of the two of them just staying in the cave together for a day and a night without worrying about anything else and with no one to disturb them. It felt really good.
"Then let's hurry and go back!"
Li Xuejiao tidied up her clothes slightly and walked out of the cave first.
Chen Shaojie stuffed the Qi Attracting Pill back into his pants. He then patted his butt and followed her outside.
The sky was already starting to brighten up.
On the Qing Yu Mountains, the light from the sky did not actually come from the sun.
Rather, the lighting changed because of the changes in the spell array.
It was said that the spell array could automatically adjust the amount of light according to the time of day, causing the difference between day and night.
Outside the spell array, there was only a blanket of snow and cloud which completely obscured the sky, so the sun, the moon and the stars were not visible at all.