Dual Cultivation God Returns

Chapter 704  Teacher, Student and Disciple

"I must admit, your consistency does amaze me", Madam Liang mentioned as they were walking through the mansion.

"I have a gut feeling that is not a compliment, in that sense you are quite consistent as well, Teacher", Lian Zhiqiu shrugged her shoulders while Hua Ziyan slightly awkwardly hid her smile.

"How mean, I really do think it is amazing. Even while being surrounded by so many Dao Sisters whom you accepted as your family, who are all… well~ most of them at least… working really hard at training every day, you still manage to keep that nonchalant attitude and move at your own pace. Truly~... ama~zing consistency", Liang Yuhan chuckled while puffing a cloud of herbal smoke.

"Hah! Just as I thought, you just wanted to call me lazy~. Besides, call it experience! Experience!", Lian Zhiqiu nonchalantly waved her hand in a dismissive manner that somehow combined laziness and gracefulness, "Just putting in more hours into something doesn't necessarily mean all of your efforts are fruitful, some of them could be more beneficial if done at a more moderate pace… is something Teacher once taught me yourself"

"Haha, I did. It was one of the lessons… if not the only one, that you immediately took to heart, perhaps even too well", Madam Liang shook her head with a smile.

"Is that really a conversation you want to have as someone asking for a favor?", Lian Zhiqiu's eyebrow twitched while Hua Ziyan was holding in her laughter.

"Oh my~! How sensitive… are you really going to hold this favor over me?", Madam Liang covered her mouth with her hand as her eyes widened, making a theatrical expression that made Lian Zhiqiu sigh while visibly trying to calm herself down.

Hua Ziyan curiously looked at this slightly unfamiliar side of her Master when she was around Madam Liang. 'Hmm~, maybe this is how Master used to behave when she was young', she thought with an amused smile. After all, there were not many who could talk with the Great Seductress in this manner, or rather, make her produce such an animated reaction.

'Still… for a Teacher and Student they sure seem more like Master and Disciple…', Hua Ziyan tilted her head as she looked at the two.

The relationship of Master and Disciple was, after all, one of the deepest interpersonal relationships in the world of Cultivation. It held a very special place, while a Teacher and a Student only shared the bond of knowledge, and that too, a superficial one.

Hua Ziyan remembered the lesson Lian Zhiqiu and Madam Liang were talking about. It was one of the first things she herself learnt from her Master, and it was emphasized very strongly. Lian Zhiqiu also periodically reminded her about it, highlighting how important it was to move at one's own pace.

It was the biggest reason for even someone as diligent and hardworking as Hua Ziyan, to take regular breaks and take her mind off of training or worries from time to time. Even the routine of taking care of Lian Zhiqiu was something that came from this very notion.

'So it was something she learnt from Madam Liang…', Hua Ziyan's gaze turned from Lian Zhiqiu to the former Great Seductress. Remembering how important this teaching was in the eyes of Lian Zhiqiu at all times, she could not help but find it interesting that it originally came from the master of the Thousand Eyes.

 'Would this make her… my Great Master…?', she pondered. But as they turned around the corner, all of Hua Ziyan's attention shifted from these thoughts to a single man.

"Wu Long! There you are, we were just coming to see you", Lian Zhiqiu's expression also brightened up.

Seeing the change in both Master and Disciple, the eyes of both lighting up at the sight of this man, Madam Liang couldn't help but smile. n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

But her attention was soon diverted as well - she saw Fen Baihu's figure next to Wu Long.

Wu Long smiled as he saw the beauties, while Fen Baihu's expression didn't change much, she was indifferent to their appearance.

The same could not be said about the other side, as all three of them instinctively knew as soon as they saw her, that there was something different about her, and they all knew what that change was.

Hua Ziyan and Lian Zhiqiu only acknowledged that fact, proceeding to receive Wu Long's embrace that greeted them, without thinking much about it, while Madam Liang slightly froze on the spot, which did not escape the eyes of the Mythical Beast.

An amused smile appeared on Fen Baihu's lips as she watched the reactions of the three beauties to herself.

'Heh, to think the only one of the three who's not his woman, at least yet, would be also the only one shaken… while the other two are completely unaffected… how interesting…', she thought watching the sight. She did not really have any expectations - or indeed any thoughts - on what would happen when other people in this mansion learnt they spent the night together, but if she were to make a spontaneous guess, she expected the opposite results from what she was seeing.

Of course, the only reason she was interested enough to make an observation was because she has recently started to try and understand human nature, and this situation greatly shook her existing knowledge of it.

It also did not escape her keen eyes that Wu Long delayed greeting Madam Liang, giving her that brief moment in which her attitude became the same as usual, nothing in his demeanor giving away the fact he noticed anything out of the ordinary.

"So, you said you were looking for me?", after exchanging greetings Wu Long turned to Lian Zhiqiu who was held in his left arm, meeting her eyes that seemed to consume him with their gaze.

"Hmm, you tell me~", Lian Zhiqiu spoke in an affectionate voice, her expression also staying the same one, but there appeared a playful and amused light in them, "...after all, it seems someone 'generously' found a lo~t of work for me to do, they were so kind to do it without me even knowing~... must be true what they say a true good heart doesn't seek recognition for their generosity…"

"Ahaha~, what a kind thing to do indeed~", Wu Long smiled while Hua Ziyan giggled in his other arm.

"Mm, truly…", Lian Zhiqiu continued while Madam Liang sighed shaking her head, "...after all, I not only learned about it after the fact, but from my beloved Teacher"

"Haha, alright alright, Zhiqiu, my bad, don't pout", he chuckled, shaking his head as she made a satisfied smile.

'Pout?!?!', Madam Liang almost audibly gasped, losing her grip on the smoking pipe and thus fumbling to catch it, 'does Zhiqiu look like someone 'cutely pouting' in the eyes of this madman?!'

She was watching with widened eyes as Wu Long lightly kissed Lian Zhiqiu on the tip of her nose, the latter giggling and smiling happily. Fen Baihu completely slipped through Madam Liang's mind as she looked at the scene.

"U-unbelievable…", she muttered under her nose. She thought she lost all ability to be surprised when it came to Wu Long, but perhaps the greatest shock she received was just now witnessing him handling Lian Zhiqiu's 'pouting'.

She knew full well, and experienced it many times when Lian Zhiqiu was young, that her Student was very stubborn, especially when it came to being busy and not being to laze around. And that when she started acting sarcastically with an outwardly kind and polite attitude like she did just now it could last days, if not weeks until she got tired of sulking. And even then, only her demeanor would return to normal, she would still be holding a grudge for a long long time afterwards.

But right now, in front of her very eyes, it was all over in barely a minute, 'He didn't even need to shower her with praise to appease her…'

'What is with this unfairness?!?!', she inwardly grumbled as she looked at the scene, not sure if she should be amazed at Wu Long or resent Lian Zhiqiu for being so biased.

Fen Baihu continued to look at the scene for a bit, before shaking her head and heading off into one of the corridors, seemingly having seen all that she was interested in with the words "I'll be off, Wu Long", casually waving her hand in the air without turning.

Wu Long also simply nodded, knowing she had to now go and start healing her injury with his Yang Qi and the method he taught her.

He proceeded to discuss the disguise items with Lian Zhiqiu and Madam Liang, while Hua Ziyan went away as well, since it was time for her to resume training. Though he didn't let her go without a kiss on the lips, after which she ran off in delighted mood.

After discussing the necklaces, they then parted ways, as he went to cultivate in an isolated place as well, needing full concentration to absorb a Celestial Fox's bloodline, while Lian Zhiqiu and Madam Liang went to discuss their upcoming joint efforts.