Inside the room, Chen Qingyuan poured a cup of tea for Yu Chenran and asked in a low voice, "Master, is there anything you want to tell me?"
"People's hearts are unpredictable. Don't show your true self unless it's absolutely necessary," Yu Chenran gave a veiled warning without revealing the truth.
Hearing this, Chen Qingyuan's eyelids twitched slightly.
He wasn't stupid and could understand Yu Chenran's implication, feeling a bit uneasy. Surely his cheap master wouldn't harm him!
"Don't think nonsense, kid. If I wanted to harm you, would I wait until now?"
Guessing Chen Qingyuan's thoughts from his eyes, Yu Chenran gave him a light kick and scolded with a smile.
"Hehe, disciple wasn't thinking anything bad."
What Yu Chenran said made sense, and Chen Qingyuan felt much more at ease, grinning.
"Tsk!" Yu Chenran rolled his eyes at Chen Qingyuan and snorted, "I can see through your thoughts at a glance. But to be honest, when I saw... it at first glance, I was shocked and felt envious."
"If Master wants it, disciple will dig it out for you," Chen Qingyuan joked.
"Get lost. Don't disgust me," Yu Chenran said.
With Chen Qingyuan's joke, the bond between the master and disciple grew a little stronger, and the atmosphere relaxed.
"Please keep it secret for disciple, Master," Chen Qingyuan requested.
"Nonsense. Do you think I'm stupid?" Yu Chenran crossed his legs and took a sip of tea. "I'm here to protect you personally, fearing something might go wrong."
Yu Chenran wouldn't tell anyone, even his trusted people in the academy, about Chen Qingyuan's Three - Pill Saint - Grade. He planned to keep it to himself.
"Thank you, Master," Chen Qingyuan said, feeling a touch of warmth and bowing.
"Okay. If you really want to thank me, get some good tea leaves in the future. This tea is really bad," Yu Chenran complained and decided to leave.
With Chen Qingyuan's intelligence, he wouldn't do stupid things. So Yu Chenran just needed to come and give a reminder, without saying too much.
"Yes, Master," Chen Qingyuan said with a wry smile, seeing Yu Chenran off. "Farewell, Master."
After seeing Yu Chenran off, Chen Qingyuan sat in the room, feeling a bit scared after the event.
This time, it was a narrow escape. Fortunately, he made the breakthrough in the Dao - Yi School Palace. If it were outside, it would surely have caused huge trouble.
Sigh...
Chen Qingyuan let out a long breath, feeling a bit more relaxed.
Then, a wisp of Chen Qingyuan's consciousness entered the space of the jade bracelet. He hadn't forgotten the agreement with the girl in the red dress. Last time, she said he could know the third agreement only when he broke through to the Golden Elixir Realm.
Now it was time. With a mix of curiosity and unease, Chen Qingyuan's consciousness entered.
Buzz!
In the mysterious space of the jade bracelet, a line of words appeared: Suppress the Ten Outstanding of the Northern Wilderness except you.
"What?"
When seeing the third agreement, Chen Qingyuan's face changed, and he exclaimed.
Wasn't this agreement a bit too much?
The Ten Outstanding of the Northern Wilderness were the strongest among their peers. Asking Chen Qingyuan to suppress them all was equivalent to trampling all the contemporary cultivators of the Northern Wilderness underfoot.
"Can we discuss it and change the agreement?" Chen Qingyuan whispered.
"Yes. Then we'll cancel the agreement. Marry me, and everything can be discussed,"
As long as Chen Qingyuan touched the restriction of the jade bracelet, the girl in the red dress could have a brief conversation with him through it.
"I suddenly think this agreement is quite appropriate. No need to discuss,"
Hearing this, Chen Qingyuan immediately changed his mind, fearing he'd fall into a trap again.
What a joke! If he became a Taoist partner with this woman, he'd never have a peaceful life.
Chen Qingyuan's consciousness immediately left the space of the jade bracelet and sealed the restriction, afraid to hear the girl in the red dress's voice.
"Suppressing the Ten Outstanding of the Northern Wilderness is not an easy task," Chen Qingyuan sighed, feeling a headache about this. "Alas!"
Although Chen Qingyuan had formed the foundation of the Three - Pill Saint - Grade, his cultivation level was still relatively low. He definitely couldn't think about fighting those top - level prodigies in a short time.
Unless Chen Qingyuan exposed all his golden pills, he had no chance of winning.
However, once the matter of the golden pills was exposed, countless troubles would come.
"Anyway, she didn't set a deadline. I'll just delay it,"
Chen Qingyuan originally just wanted to live a low - key life and earn some spirit stones through proper means. He didn't care about worldly fame.
"The assessment of the Dao - Yi School Palace should be almost over!"
Calculating the time, there was only one year left.
If they knew Chen Qingyuan had entered the school palace without taking the assessment, they would surely feel it was unfair and wouldn't be friendly to Chen Qingyuan. After all, people in this world only respect the strong. If Chen Qingyuan didn't show some real skills, it would be hard to convince the public.
Moreover, the two vice - deans couldn't reveal that Chen Qingyuan was the inheritor of Qingzong. Chen Qingyuan had to face everything by himself.
If he couldn't solve these troubles, not to mention inheriting the will of Qingzong.
"Let's deal with problems as they come,"
Chen Qingyuan stopped thinking about these annoyances and continued to meditate and cultivate. While stabilizing his cultivation, he also tried to understand the wonderful uses of the Saint - Grade Golden Elixir.
Time passed quickly, and a year seemed to pass in the blink of an eye.
There were over a hundred people participating in the assessment, and only the top ten would become disciples of the school palace, while the rest would be sent back. Since the Dao - Yi School Palace was in an independent and mysterious space, even if those people wanted to find the location of the school palace, they wouldn't have any success.
Today, the assessment was over. Hundreds of people stood at the entrance of the Dao - Yi School Palace. Their injuries were recovering at a visible speed, and their disordered auras gradually stabilized.
Some people had smiles on their faces, while others were downhearted, clenching their fists with eyes full of unwillingness.
The most painful one was the person ranked eleventh. His points were only a dozen less than the tenth. If he had been a little more careful and made one less mistake, he could have taken the tenth place.
It was a pity that there was only one chance, and it couldn't be repeated.
"First place, Song Ningyan,"
Zhao Yichuan, dressed in white and being the examiner this time, announced the final results.
Zhao Yichuan stood in the void, looking down at the young woman standing in the front.
Song Ningyan, with a cultivation level at the mid - Yuanying stage, was wearing a dark - styled long dress. She had a good appearance, cold eyes, a solitary personality, and didn't like to talk to people.
"You have the right to choose your teacher independently,"
The first - place winner always had some privileges. Zhao Yichuan introduced some information about the lecturers and let Song Ningyan choose.
Unexpectedly, Song Ningyan looked up at Zhao Yichuan and said in a cold tone, "I choose you."