Cultivating Immortality Begins with Acting as a Girl Chapter 180

The inky night, the moonlight like a wash.

Yue Yaoxie sat by the stream, holding a fishing rod in his hand, his gaze focused.

“Master said my temper is too impetuous, and if I continue like this, I might not even be able to break through to the late Qi Refining stage. He told me to try fishing to train my patience… And honestly, if it were normally, sitting still for several hours would be difficult, but fishing, I can actually persist and even find it interesting.”

Yue Yaoxie pondered in his heart, his eyes fixed on the float on the water.

Suddenly, two figures, a man and a woman, walking from the opposite bank in the distance, caught his attention.

“Huh, someone’s out for a walk so late? And they seem to be holding hands… Damn it, another couple! How can we cultivators indulge in such romantic affairs and waste time? Shameful, shameful!”

Yue Yaoxie said enviously and sourly, yet for some reason, the image of his junior sister appeared in his mind.

That day, under the sunlight, the junior sister with a brilliant smile and dazzlingly fair skin…

“Stop!”

Yue Yaoxie quickly shook his head, driving the thought out of his mind.

“Junior sister is only fifteen this year, what are you thinking, Yue Yaoxie! Bah, shameless!”

Yue Yaoxie took a deep breath, trying to bring his mind back to the fishing at hand. He told himself that the most important thing now was cultivation, training his patience, and thus improving his cultivation, rather than letting these distracting thoughts disturb his mind.

However, at this moment, Yue Yaoxie suddenly found the two figures on the opposite bank somewhat familiar.

“Is that… Second Senior Sister and Junior Brother Gao?!”

Yue Yaoxie felt a bolt of lightning flash through his mind, stunning him completely.

“How can this be? Isn’t Second Senior Sister a couple with First Senior Brother? How could she be holding hands with Junior Brother Gao walking by the stream in the middle of the night?! This, this, this…”

Yue Yaoxie’s mind was in a mess, various thoughts intertwined, like fallen leaves in a hurricane, not knowing where to go.

“Did I see wrong?”

Yue Yaoxie doubted himself, but then immediately denied the idea. Junior Brother Gao, he wasn’t familiar with him, only having met a few times, but he could never mistake Second Senior Sister Ji Yuxi’s familiar figure and face. Although the moonlight was dim, it wasn’t so dark that he couldn’t see his own hand!

Watching the two get closer and closer, soon to be directly opposite him, Yue Yaoxie suddenly felt flustered for some reason and dared not face them. He subconsciously hid in the nearby bushes, concealing himself.

“Strange, why am I hiding? Isn’t it Second Senior Sister who did something unspeakable?” Yue Yaoxie muttered to himself.

Although he thought so, he still didn’t have the courage to go out and expose them directly. He only dared to hide in the bushes, revealing a pair of eyes tightly fixed on the two people on the opposite bank.

Yue Yaoxie had not cultivated any techniques or spells to enhance his hearing. As the two walked further away, he could only vaguely hear Second Senior Sister seemingly whispering something, occasionally letting out a bell-like laugh, which sounded particularly clear and pleasant in the quiet night.

“Second Senior Sister can actually laugh so happily sometimes…”

Yue Yaoxie’s heart was filled with mixed emotions. Only after the two on the opposite bank had completely left did he emerge from the bushes. The moonlight shone on him, casting a long shadow.

“Sigh…”

With things as they were, Yue Yaoxie had no mind for fishing anymore and decided to just go back and rest.

Because they lived in the bamboo forest on the back mountain, to avoid an awkward encounter on the way, he deliberately slowed his pace, turning a half-hour journey into an hour and a half.

As he passed by his junior sister’s courtyard, he inadvertently glanced up and saw his junior sister sitting on the rooftop, hugging her knees and staring blankly at the moon.

“Junior Sister?” Yue Yaoxie exclaimed in surprise.

“Sixth Senior Brother? Why are you also coming back so late?” Song Ling seemed even more surprised than him, muttering, “Is today an all-nighter day? Everyone’s coming back so late…”

Yue Yaoxie’s expression changed, and he blurted out, “Junior Sister, did you just see Second Senior Sister?”

“Yeah.” Song Ling nodded as if it were obvious.

“Was she alone?” Yue Yaoxie asked again.

“Otherwise?” Song Ling’s expression was strange, “Doesn’t Second Senior Sister live alone? Who else could there be?”

“Ahem, never mind.”

Yue Yaoxie coughed feignedly. It seemed Second Senior Sister hadn’t brought Junior Brother Gao home yet.

“But, Second Senior Sister was laughing so happily when she came back, she must have encountered something good. I’ve never seen Second Senior Sister laugh like that before,” Song Ling said thoughtfully, poking her chin with a finger.

Yue Yaoxie quickly changed the subject, “By the way, Junior Sister, what are you doing on the rooftop in the middle of the night?”

“I’m a little worried.”

A hint of worry appeared on Song Ling’s face. He patted the empty space beside him and said, “Sixth Senior Brother, come over, and I’ll tell you in detail.”

“Okay.”

Yue Yaoxie walked to the bottom of the house, and with spiritual energy flowing, he exerted force with his feet, and his whole body lightly landed beside Song Ling.

“It’s like this…”

Song Ling laid bare everything about the Grand Elder’s friend’s cave mansion, finally saying, “Although First Senior Brother and Second Senior Sister will protect me, I don’t know why, but I still feel a bit uneasy, always feeling like there’s some danger waiting for me there.”

Yue Yaoxie listened, then smiled and said:

“Junior Sister, this is because you’ve never gone out on a mission since entering the cultivation world. People always fear the unknown. Once you go out a few more times, you’ll get used to it.”

“Sixth Senior Brother, do you often go out on missions?” Song Ling asked curiously.

Yue Yaoxie rubbed his nose, “Not often, but I’ve been out a few times and seen real cultivators fight.”

“I see, Sixth Senior Brother is amazing!” Song Ling smiled and blinked, giving Yue Yaoxie a thumbs up.

Looking at Song Ling’s charming and cute appearance, Yue Yaoxie’s heart skipped a beat. He quickly turned his head away, “It’s nothing. Once your cultivation reaches the second layer of Qi Refining, you can also try to take on external missions to earn spirit stones.”

“Mhm!” Song Ling nodded, then said, “By the way, Sixth Senior Brother, I’m leaving tomorrow to explore that Foundation Establishment grand cultivator’s cave mansion. I probably won’t be back for ten to fifteen days. Do you want to see me off?”

“Of course, it’s Junior Sister’s first long journey, how could I not see you off?” Yue Yaoxie composed himself and replied.

“That’s great!” Song Ling’s eyes curved into crescents.

…

The next day, sunlight streamed through the thin clouds, scattering across the plaza on the mountainside of Crane Ridge Peak, adding a touch of warmth to the morning chill.

When Song Ling and Yue Yaoxie arrived, they saw First Senior Brother Wen Xingwen and Second Senior Sister Ji Yuxi already waiting in the plaza. Although the two were quite indifferent to Song Ling, he politely went up and saluted them.

Afterward, Song Ling bid farewell to Yue Yaoxie. Just as Wen Xingwen conjured a flying boat, about to depart with Ji Yuxi and Song Ling, someone no one expected appeared.

“Yuxi!”

Gao Yuze rushed over from a distance, looking at Song Ling and the other two strangely, then asked Ji Yuxi, “Yuxi, you said you had something important to tell me here this morning. What is it?”