Phoniex Requiem
Chapter 22: A Little Interesting

Chapter 22: A Little Interesting

"Start!" yun Ruoyan shouted suddenly, before she threw Pei Ziao's hand aside.

Pei Ziao was clearly shocked by his sudden anger. “Ruoyan, what got into you? Why are you acting so fiercely? Aren't we on good terms?”

Yun Ruoyan turned her head towards the handsome young man. In his mind, this innocent and young face turned into a cold and aloof adult Pei Ziao.

He suppressed his desire to slap his face and muttered, “Young Master Pei, you must be wrong. We never had good relations.”

He suddenly smiled and pointed towards his birthmark. “You are obviously fed up with my birthmark, yet you still pretend not to care. What use?"

Pei Ziao, his machinations revealed, was unable to react. Yun Ruoyan called for a servant to look after her as she went to look for Pei Yingxiong. Having lost the reason to delay any further, he could only hand over the furnace.

Once he had the furnace in his hands, Yun Ruoyan directly returned to the Lin family.

Lin Zainan, Lin Qingxue, and Lin Qingchen were all waiting for him in the living room. As soon as they saw him enter, they stepped forward to greet him.

“Sister, you're finally back! We were just planning to go to Pei's house to find you, ”seru Lin Qingxue.

"The Pei family didn't treat you too badly, did they?" Lin Qingchen asked affectionately.

"They don't dare!" Lin Zainan laughed out loud. "The Lin family can't be taken lightly."

Yun Ruoyan, quite touched by their affection, smiled. “No, only they don't dare bully me, they even give me a treasure, just like that.”

Yun Ruoyan placed the parcel she was carrying on her shoulder. Inside was a golden box, and inside the box was a furnace.

“This is a famous high-end furnace? It's so small!” Lin Qingxue exclaimed once more. “Even smaller than the pot we use to heat the soup in the kitchen.”

His analogy made everyone present laugh.

Yun Ruoyan took out a furnace the size of a blade from the box and placed it in front of Lin Zainan. It was made of a sparkling black material and looked glittering under the light of the lamp.

"Grandfather, look!"

Lin Zainan poked and pushed the furnace as she spoke. “The smaller the furnace, the more valuable. Such a small furnace could concentrate the power of spiritual fire better. Most materials would not be able to withstand such a concentrated fire, but a high-level furnace that could withstand such flames was able to magnify the effects of the pill by two or three times. Lin Zainan looked at the furnace in her hand, her eyes twinkling as she said, "This is truly a treasure!"

Yun Ruoyan thought that almost all pill experts would be as happy as her grandfather when looking at high-grade potions and furnaces.

“Then, Grandpa, I'm sure you will be able to make better and better pills with this furnace.” Yun Ruoyan smiled, as did Lin's sister.

But Lin Zainan handed the furnace over to Yun Ruoyan, and she tilted her head towards her grandfather.

“High-grade furnace can be bonded with its owner, and since you are the one who got it, Ruoyan, you are bound by circumstances. You should keep it for now"

Although Yun Ruoyan was unsure if she could become a pillmaster, she finally received the furnace at her grandfather's insistence.

The Lin sisters admired and were happy for their sisters, and the three girls chatted nonstop as they sat around the furnace.

Beside him, Lin Zainan gripped her beard and smiled, sighing inwardly. Wouldn't it be nice if this house was like this every day?

Under the intervention of matriarch Yun, the news of Pei Ziao falling into the lake did not reach the ears of Yun Ruoyan's father, and Yun Ruoyan did not reveal the fact that Yun Ruoyao planned to push her into the lake from the very beginning.

She had just gained her grandmother's trust, and she didn't want to cause any complications right away. However, because of this entire incident, the women from the Yun family began to treat Yun Ruoyan differently.

Grandma Yun Ruoyan obviously had a better opinion of him, and Madam An and the others would no longer be able to suppress him so easily.

These past few days, he had focused on practicing using Feilai Blade in his courtyard. Every time he did, he would instruct Peony and Xi Lan to stand guard outside the courtyard while he trained inside the closed door.

Peony and Xi Lan did not ask, they just thought that Yun Ruoyan, who was unwilling to give up on incompetence, was quietly honing her skills in earnest. After a long time of training, he seemed to have recovered his talent once again. In defeating the eldest and the second master in battle, he was able to regain his pride.

The two maids began to admire their master even further.

Yun Ruoyan stood in the middle of her room, controlling the Feilai Sword and forcing it to revolve around her. It only took two orbits before his forehead began to sweat in earnest, and it seemed like his third level spiritual energy was too weak to properly use Feilai Blade. All he could do was a simple attack.

Without hesitation, Yun Ruoyan summoned the Feilai Sword into his body once more.

"Who is this? If you continue to hide in the shadows, I will call my servant!” Yun Ruoyan looked around her room. The doors and windows were closed, and there was definitely no one inside.

He walked towards the window behind him and was just about to open it when it opened by itself.

"Why are you here again?" Standing outside the window was none other than the black-clothed youth he had already met twice. In his hand was a gold-tipped folding fan, which he pointed mischievously at Yun Ruoyan. "What's wrong, did I scare you?"

She smiles.

Exasperated, Yun Ruoyan muttered, “Why don't you leave me alone? If you appear before me all of a sudden again, I will really start calling people.”

"It doesn't matter if kamj does, because by the time they arrive, I've long since disappeared once again," the young man replied recklessly.

"Then, can you at least tell me why you keep appearing in front of me?" Yun Ruoyan asked patiently. After all, no one would get along with anyone else for no reason, let alone someone as boring as him.

"I did it under someone's orders." The young man tapped on the window sill with his fan rhythmically. “Pil last time was also entrusted to me by that someone. Have you consumed it?”

Without his reminder, Yun Ruoyan would have forgotten that the pill was still with him. He hurriedly said, "Wait, give me a minute."

He entered his room and threw the pill bottle at the young man.

"Hey you!" The young man's face was shocked. “Did you not know that this pill is priceless? you can't even buy it even if you want it!

“That's why I gave it back! The price is so expensive that I can't believe a stranger would just give it to me!”

The young man stuck out his neck and was just about to continue arguing with Yun Ruoyan when the voice of the Peony sounded from the courtyard. "Miss, your father called you."

"I'll be there soon," Yun Ruoyan replied, before turning to the young man. “No matter who told you to take care of me, I don't want to see you again. Good bye forever!"

And then he slammed the window shut.

The young man opened his mouth wide and left it open for quite a while.

"Third Prince, what are we going to tell the marquis now?" An all-black-clothed shadow appeared on the young man's side.

"The truth, of course." Li Qianhan looked at the pill in his hand, a smile dancing on his lips. “This Yun girl is quite interesting, isn't she? But a little ugly. I did not expect the taste of marquis so.

Yun Ruoyan followed her father's maid to her study, seeing Madam An, her two sisters, and Yi Qianying were also present. Beside his father was Envoy Ding.

"Now that everyone is present, let's begin the meeting in earnest." Envoy Ding put his teacup on the table and opened the register, reading aloud, “With the contest rights, the, Yun Ruoyan and Yun Ruoyu had obtained entry permits to the imperial territory for the next stage of the Kongming Academy's selection process. Each noble family also had one nomination, from Yun, this nomination fell into the hands of Yun Ruoyao, from Pei, to Yi Qianying. Thus, the four women present were eligible to enter this region.”

Yi Qianying's pale face quickly turned bright, and she couldn't hide her excitement. He quickly thanked Envoy Ding.

Yun Ruoyan felt somewhat doubtful. Why did Pei give their slots to Yi Qianying? Pei Ziao and Yi Qianying couldn't have been together, could they?

Surely not. In the past, the two had not conspired this early.

On the other hand, Yun Ruoyao, who was known to the public as Yun's neatest daughter, lost to Yun Ruoyan out of annoyance. Even though he had gotten a recommendation from his family, he was not too happy.

After reading out the information from his register, Envoy Ding opened the red wooden box and took out four tokens, one for each girl. “Token allows you to enter the imperial territory, and is a proof of identity when you enter Kongming Academy. Only those who came out of the region with this token would be eligible to enter Kongming Academy as students, and those who lost or lost the token would not be eligible"

After distributing the tokens and informing them of their use, he left.

Yun Lan looked at the four girls, pleased with the results of the selection. Not only were all of his daughters qualified, even his nephew managed to obtain a place for himself. It seemed like the doors of Kongming Academy had opened wide for the Yun Family.

But when his gaze swept over Yun Ruoyan, he paused for a moment. He stood there silently, his face neither angry nor excited, but calm and serene.

As for the three girls by his side, Yi Qianying's face became a crimson red. He suddenly gained an entrance into the imperial territory, and he still could not hide his excitement.

Yun Ruoyao gripped her token tightly. He had always been talented; although Yun Ruoyan seemed stronger at first, Yun Ruoyao quickly defeated him. But his unexpected defeat of Yun Ruoyan, and the fact that he had to rely on his family for this token, meant that he could not cover up his displeasure.