Chapter 646: Chapter 646: The Priestess’s Charms (22)

There weren’t many people in Qingfeng Hall, and Chuzheng didn’t see many on her way there either. The vast and empty hall would have felt like a ghost temple if it weren’t for the lingering aura of immortality.

Chuzheng pushed open the side door of the main hall and slipped in quietly.

Lingji was intently engraving a magic stone. Without Chuzheng making a sound, he stopped and softly called out, “Xiao Zheng?”

“How did you know I was here if you can’t see?” The Good Person Card isn’t fake, is it?

“Your body carries the scent of the Dark Element, which I can see,” Lingji paused, then added, “It’s very distinct.” Distinct enough to recognize at a glance.

“I clearly concealed it.” Chuzheng took a seat as she brushed off her clothes. “How can you see it?”

“Perhaps it’s because I also have the Dark Element in me, so I’m more sensitive.” Lingji’s fingers carefully navigated around the objects on the table until they found her hand and took hold. “You’re concealing it very well, no one but me could tell.”

“Oh.” Chuzheng looked at the table. “What are you engraving?”

“Magic stones,” said Lingji.

“What are they for?”

“To store Light Series Magic.”

Because there were too few Light Series Magicians.

Many matters requiring Light Series Magic could be resolved using magic stones instead.

Suddenly standing up, Chuzheng reached around him from behind, pulling out a gold amulet and placing it in his hand. “You’ll re-engrave a collar for Yi Cun. It keeps barking at me, and it’s really noisy.”

Feeling the amulet with his fingers, Lingji’s tone carried a hint of resignation. “Why did you snatch its collar in the first place?”

“…” In the wilderness, it’s the only living thing. If I don’t steal… no, if I don’t buy it something, who will I buy from?

Can I say that?

No!

Do I have no shame?!

Resting her chin on Lingji’s shoulder, Chuzheng spoke in a subdued voice, “It’s nothing.”

Lingji didn’t ask any further, already envisioning in his mind the appearance of the item and what needed to be carved.

“Xiao Zheng, can you not lean on me?” Lingji suddenly said. With Chuzheng leaning on him, it was hard to put strength into his hands.

“Oh.” Chuzheng lifted her hands from his shoulder and wrapped them around his waist instead.

Lingji: “…”

Setting aside his tools, Lingji pulled Chuzheng into a hug, “Don’t move, otherwise you’ll disturb me, okay?”

Chuzheng: “…”

But I really want to hold you!!

Is this a posture a girl should have?

Seeing that Lingji had taken up the carving knife, Chuzheng ultimately didn’t struggle.

Lingji could only rely on his senses to carve. Chuzheng looked up slightly and saw his smooth chin, mildly tense, and his profile so finely shaped it seemed like a work of exquisite art.

Watching Lingji carve, the Light Series Magic seeped into the stone following the design. When the figure was fashioned, a formation was also completed.

After finishing, Lingji asked, “What material is this made from?”

He hadn’t felt any element in it.

It was not like jade… but it had a good feel when carving, much better than magic stones.

“Gold,” she replied.

“…” Lingji fell silent.

She had also left a pile of Gold Coins for Yi Cun back then.

The temple was silent. Lingji quietly continued his work on the magic stones, and Chuzheng leaned against him.

Jiu Qu entered to bring tea and saw Chuzheng being held by Lingji. He was mildly surprised, but seeing that Lingji was not disturbed, the scene did not seem too hard to accept.

In the past, his master always stayed alone in the spacious and cold hall.

He wanted to keep his master company too, but the master always refused.

And indeed, he could not stay there all the time.

There were many tasks in The Temple. He needed to deal with those small matters that didn’t require the master’s decision.

Jiu Qu sighed softly in his heart, set down the items, and withdrew quietly.

But Lingji stopped him and handed over the engraved gold tag, “Find something to attach this to it, and put it on Yi Cun.”

Isn’t this the gold piece Miss Chuzheng had him find a way to obtain before?

Given to Yi Cun… carved?

–

Jiu Qu took the little gold token out, found something to tie it to, and then went to look for Yi Cun.

Yi Cun was merrily running along a long corridor when Jiu Qu appeared, Yi Cun sprinted over, his massive body pouncing towards Jiu Qu.

As expected, Jiu Qu was knocked to the ground by him.

“Woof!”

Jiu Qu pushed Yi Cun’s enthusiastic head away and put the little gold token on him.

“Woof woof!” This isn’t my collar!

“Yes, your master had it carved for you,” Jiu Qu said.

“Woof woof woof!” Awesome, the master is so nice.

Seeing a roguish smile on its dog face, Jiu Qu said with schadenfreude, “However, this tag was paid for by Miss Chuzheng, and it’s made of gold.”

Yi Cun’s dog face immediately drooped.

“Woof woof woof woof!” That thief must be up to no good.

“I think Miss Chuzheng was annoyed by all your noise,” Jiu Qu bluntly pointed out the truth.

Yi Cun felt cowardly as hell but kept obsessing over his collar.

So he could only run to Chuzheng’s door to bark every day.

When Chuzheng came out, he’d run away.

Jiu Qu saw Chuzheng looking for Yi Cun several times, seething with murderous intent.

“Alright, you should stop bothering Miss Chuzheng,” Jiu Qu warned Yi Cun.

“Woof woof woof!” She wants to deceive our master! And she’s bullying our master too!!

Jiu Qu suddenly became anxious, “How did Miss Chuzheng bully the master?”

“Woof woof woof woof!” She’s suppressing the master! Like this, like this…

Jiu Qu: “…” It looks like he will need to keep a closer eye on Yi Cun from now on and not let him run around unchecked.

Jiu Qu cleared his throat and very swiftly changed the subject.

–

The Qi Tian Ceremony.

This day will see a grand ceremony of heaven worship take place, and the ceremony in Penghua City will be hosted by The Temple.

By then, the Priest Lord will travel throughout Penghua City to complete the ceremony of worshipping heaven.

Chuzheng had no idea such an event existed; she only knew that Lingji had been very busy lately.

“Miss, your item.”

Chuzheng drew back her gossiping mind, handed the gold coin to the shopkeeper, took her item, and left.

Perhaps due to the ceremony, the people from The Temple were visible everywhere, busily setting up in the streets.

“Chuzheng.”

Fu Yu’s face emerged from behind the crowd, he ran straight to her, his face full of excitement and thrill, as if he had seen a long-lost relative.

“It really is you, I thought I was seeing things.”

“As it turns out, you were not seeing things,” she said.

“…” Fu Yu was momentarily lost for words, and even after such a long time, talking to Miss Chuzheng was still so baffling. Fu Yu’s eyes shifted: “I didn’t even get a chance to speak to you last time, Jiu Qu said you were a guest of the Priest Lord, are you still at Qingfeng Hall?”

“Hmm.”

“How on earth did you manage to get in there?” Fu Yu was curious.

How did she become a guest of the Priest Lord?

Fu Yu’s curiosity was burning bright.

However, Chuzheng, the bigshot who only wanted to listen to gossip and didn’t want to discuss it, ignored his question.

Fu Yu also understood that gossip about the Priest Lord definitely wasn’t that easy to dig up, so he wasn’t overly disappointed.

“You need to be careful of that Eldest Princess,” Fu Yu remembered this matter and warned Chuzheng: “I always feel like she won’t let things go so easily.”