Feng Chen wasn’t too surprised by the sudden voice, “Grandpa1, you’re awake.”
“Yeah! I woke up two years ago, but I’ve just been in a subtle state and haven’t greeted you. I’ve just come out of that state now.”
The elderly man’s voice teased slightly, “But your grandpa knows everything about you and that girl.”
Feng Chen smiled faintly: “Grandpa won’t fall into a deep sleep again this time, will you?”
When he was a child, he took out a piece of jade left by his mother and played with it. Suddenly, he discovered the soul of an old man possessing it and eventually discovered that it was his biological maternal grandfather.
So he refined the piece of jade into a jade pendant and carried it with him all year round.
His maternal grandfather was only in the state of a soul. His soul was damaged before, so he fell into a deep sleep not long after waking up, but unexpectedly, he had already woken up.
“Won’t anymore, luckily you found the Soul Nourishing Stone, my soul’s been completely repaired. Unless I experience severe trauma gain, I’ll never fall into deep sleep again.” The elderly man’s voice was filled with gratification.
“That’s good then.” Feng Chen nodded.
“Weren’t you always worried about that girl’s safety on Shui Wu Island? Now that you saw the gift she brought, you can cultivate with a peace of mind right?” The elderly man teased.
He knew that Feng Chen had been uneasy in the past two months, and news about Shui Wu Island would come in practically every day.
Feng Chen would look at the Soul Ball everyday. If it weren’t that the soul aura of the girl inside was intact, he even suspected that his grandson1 would rush to Shui Wu Island regardless of the rules of the Holy academy.
“Mm, she’s out of trouble now, so I’m naturally relieved.” Feng Chen didn’t deny it.
Since arriving at the Holy Academy, he had been paying attention to news on Yu Qing Qian. This had been a habit developed for more than ten years.
When he learnt that she had lured a Spirit Marshal-level magical beast into the forbidden area in order to save others, although he was confident that she would survive, but he still couldn’t resist feeling a sense of worry and fear.
This was a feeling he had never experienced since he was a child.
Fortunately, he and Yu Qing Qian both had each other’s Soul Aura Balls on them. Unless the other party died, then the aura in the Soul Ball would always exist, otherwise he would’ve broken into Shui Wu Island long ago.
The elderly man smiled and said meaningfully: “Although that little girl’s young, but she’s very meticulous. Even when she’s in danger, she was still thinking about helping you get the crystal cores, she’s really so good to you! You must thank her properly.”
He had heard that the girl had also just entered Spirit General cultivation base, yet she actually obtained so many Spirit Marshal-level devouring-type magical beast crystal cores to be sent over. Even he couldn’t help but be touched.
“There’s no need for thanks between us.” Feng Chen’s cold brows were filled with a dense smile and expectation, “I believe that we’ll be able to meet each other soon.”
This time, Elder Gu suddenly returned to the Holy Academy. Feng Chen guessed that the other party had decided to admit Yu Qing Qian under a special exception, so he returned to report.
If this was the case, then a year later, when Yu Qing Qian turned sixteen, she could come to the Holy Academy to cultivate.
Feng Chen put the crystal cores and spiritual herbs sent by Yu Qing Qian into his own space, took out a bunch of things he had prepared long ago and put them into the bracelet, then went to Elder Gu to ask him to hand them over.
As soon as Feng Chen returned to the entrance of his courtyard, he saw two women slowly approaching, then greeted politely and distantly, “Senior Sisters.”
The eyes of one of the beautiful women in green lit up when she saw Feng Chen. There was love and a determination to obtain in her eyes that others couldn’t easily see through.
She said with a smile: “Junior Brother, how are your preparations coming along? Senior Brother Jiang and the others are preparing to leave early, I came to let you know.”
Feng Chen glanced at the two faintly, then replied: “I’ve finished preparing and can leave any time.��
“Alright, then meet at the gate of the Holy Academy in two hours.” The green-clothed woman said with a reserved smile, then left with the other woman.
1the address here actually translates to ‘maternal grandpa’. Grandson here is also said in a way that is only used to refer to one’s daughter’s son. Lol, I actually remember having a random conversation with my mum the other day where she asked what I’d call my cousins on the maternal and fraternal side, and I’m like ‘it’s just ‘cousin’’. And she asked niece and nephew and I’m like ‘niece is for female and nephew is for male and that’s that’, and she just realised that there’s no differentiation between the address for these terms on maternal side or fraternal side. Meanwhile in Chinese, there’s different ways of address which will pretty much immediately help someone understand, in more detail than in English, the relationship of said person to the speaker.