Chapter 81: What’s the Difference Anyway in Sleeping with Bai Feng?
“Keep it up—do your best!”
Under the blazing sun, Bai Feng gave Su Lan Qian a big thumbs-up.
Of course, he wasn’t drunkenly sitting alone on a chair watching her hustle; no, they were actually working together.
“So, uh, do you want some water?”
Su Lan Qian held a jade bottle, her face slightly flushed—probably from exhaustion.
“Oh, thanks.” Bai Feng took it, didn’t think much, and took a few sips.
Su Lan Qian quickly snatched back the empty bottle, secretly glanced at the mouth of the bottle, then hurriedly stuffed it into her storage bag.
This work is so awesome! She wished she could do it forever.
She clasped her hands over her chest, fingers interlaced, praying silently for good luck.
Bai Feng had no idea what Su Lan Qian was daydreaming about. Right now, he just wanted to finish setting up the array and go back to experiment with his mini-array.
Once he gets that mini-array perfected, his safety when venturing out will sh**t through the roof.
You see, although he had achieved great mastery of arrays, they couldn’t move. The simple array discs he could carry around couldn’t unleash his full array potential.
But with the “Thousand Array” technique, he saw hope! It not only solved the portability problem but also allowed him to fully unleash his array power—even when the Luck Child, Lin Yan, came knocking, he’d be able to make a clean escape.
Of course, all this came at a cost—he was broke. Even the money he got from Yu Yao wasn’t enough.
‘Turns out, array masters and alchemists are the kings of spending!’
Bai Feng sighed—seems like he earned a lot, but he also spent a ton.
Even Lin Yan, the so-called Luck Child, was now scraping together pills like crazy to make money.
After a busy day, Bai Feng exchanged his hard-earned money for a small pile of materials.
He sighed as he stashed the materials into his storage bag. Though the Bai Family supported him and gave him a large sum at the start of each month, it still wasn’t enough.
Because, honestly, he was more into researching new arrays than just copying patterns. It was all about trial and error.
“Maybe, after perfecting the mini-array, I could make some disabled versions and ask Master Sister Yu Yao to help sell them?”
He mulled it over. He felt these mini-arrays could fetch a high price—big families had lots of young disciples, and he was sure those rich kids would buy one for their kids.
Just when he was about to head home and keep working on his mini-arrays, he noticed Su Lan Qian still sticking with him.
“Oh right, almost forgot.” Bai Feng stopped and took out a rectangular jade disc from his storage bag. “This is what I’ve been engraving copied array patterns on. It’s a bit of a failure, but it still retains some spiritual energy.”
“Thank you.”
Su Lan Qian quickly reached out to take it. She could feel the residual spiritual energy within belonging to Bai Feng.
Hmm, once back, she’d smooth it out and make a protective amulet to wear around her neck!
Meanwhile, as they talked, a few disciples passing by saw them and quickly stepped back, moving with silent understanding to avoid bothering them:
“Have you noticed? Brother Bai and Sister Su seem closer than ever.”
“Yeah, I even saw them building arrays together today. Sister Su was handing Brother Bai water and all.”
“By the way, didn’t Sister Su ask Brother Bai for some personal item before?”
“Such a genius at array magic—her flirting game is totally different from ours.”
Thus, rumors about Bai Feng’s strange relationship with Su Lan Qian spread wildly.
Even faster, these rumors reached the Spirit Sealing Sect.
“Have you heard? Heavenly Sword Sect’s Bai Feng and Su Lan Qian are together! And she was feeding him water right in front of everyone!”
“Yeah, I also heard someone saw her clothes in Bai Feng’s pocket. Looks like she’s probably—”
“Shh, keep it down. Don’t want Master Brother to hear.”
“Yes, let’s go over there and chat.”
But these rumors eventually reached Yu Ping An’s ears.
He clenched his fists, eyes blazing red. He refused to believe Su Lan Qian was with someone like that. Bai Feng must have threatened her!
“Bai Feng, I refuse to coexist with you!”
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【Ding: Host triggered a minor scheme that caused Yu Ping An’s defenses to shatter, rewarded Luck Points +360, ‘Thousand Array’ fully restored.】
Bai Feng, busy drawing array runes, blinked in confusion: “?”
What did I do? When did I execute this plan? I don’t remember! System, explain!
Why did my Luck Points sh**t up again?
So annoyed! I want to punch Yu Ping An into next week!
“I need to ask Little Seven about this,” he muttered bitterly.
After a moment of anger, Bai Feng sighed with a look of frustration. He opened the system interface and looked at his rewards.
Then he froze.
“‘Thousand Array’ really does connect with the ancient sect teachings!”
He couldn’t help but murmur.
The system’s part of the restoration wasn’t much, but it was crucial.
While researching the ‘Thousand Array,’ he had the feeling that something was missing—after all, theoretically, stacking arrays should be possible, but in practice, the best he managed was a couple hundred arrays combined. The conflicts between arrays were huge, and the more arrays were added, the more conflicts arose, making it practically impossible to reach over a thousand.
The system’s upgrade included a method to resolve this conflict—a technique for drawing divine patterns.
A complete ‘Thousand Array’ relies on divine patterns as an aid.
The reason this knowledge was lost was simple: drawing divine array patterns demands either extraordinary talent to understand the divine patterns or special divine objects—like Bai Yu Mo’s Celestial Bone or the Yin-Yang Pattern he possessed.
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Bai Feng couldn’t resist looking at the divine pattern. After three seconds, he hurriedly shut his eyes.
“No wonder this knowledge was lost; it’s definitely not something ordinary people can observe.”
He rubbed his aching forehead. Those three seconds felt like a nonstop learning marathon spanning three days and nights.
After a brief rest, he activated the Yin-Yang Pattern again.
This time, he persisted for ten minutes.
Until his eyes blurred and he finally stopped.
“Phew, even with the Yin-Yang Pattern, it’s so hard!”
Bai Feng, eyes closed, felt that although the divine pattern was called “divine,” its lines and symbols pointed to an even more fundamental, abstract Dao.
He even thought that divine patterns might be the real core of the ‘Thousand Array’; the other arrays seemed like accessories.
“Time to rest a bit and then continue!”
He activated the Yin-Yang Pattern again, beginning the arduous struggle with the divine pattern.
As long as he mastered divine patterns, his mini formation would advance further, and his safety would be more assured!
While Bai Feng was deep in his studies, Su Lan Qian was resting on her bed.
“Hmm, it still feels a bit off,” she murmured, tightly wrapped in covers, only her head visible, wearing a worried look.
Being so wrapped up, it felt worse than burying her face in the quilt.
“Is it because of the clothes?”
She hesitated, lifting a corner of the blanket.
Thinking about sleeping without clothes, with her skin touching the quilt scented with Bai Feng’s aura, her face instantly turned tomato red:
What’s the difference anyway in sleeping with Bai Feng without clothes?!
But if she didn’t undress, her Heart Demon would keep whispering in her mind, making rest impossible.
“Just, just a little,” she thought, gently removing her clothes, leaving only a tiny undergarment.
Sure enough, her Heart Demon’s voice almost disappeared.
“Fine, that’s good enough!”
Su Lan Qian blushed, then reached out to pick up a square white jade. Unlike before, which she mainly placed on her forehead to suppress her Heart Demon, this time she held it carefully in front of her eyes.
She could see multiple array patterns carved inside the jade, but a small error caused conflicts among the arrays, resulting in the jade’s total failure.
Staring at the failed array inside the jade, she was stunned: “How… how did this happen?”
Since her Heart Demon was born, she hadn’t studied or thought about array techniques for a long time. Now, for the first time, she started to ponder deeply.
