The Great High Priest’s tone was very gentle, but Gu Shengyin felt a bad premonition rising in her heart.
"Linyin, you’re drunk." He repeated the sentence once again.
Gu Shengyin felt she had completely let herself go: "Teacher, you actually know whether I’m telling the truth or just drunken words, don’t you?"
The Great High Priest was silent for a moment, then waved his sleeve.
Gu Shengyin only felt darkness before her eyes as she fell into a familiar embrace.
The Great High Priest looked at the little disciple lying in the crook of his arm and sighed silently.
He extended a finger and lightly tapped the center of Gu Shengyin’s brow.
Some things are better forgotten.
In her sleep, Gu Shengyin frowned slightly in discomfort, instinctively snuggling deeper into the familiar warm embrace.
The Great High Priest carried her back to the room, carefully covered her with the quilt, then returned to the Observatory Platform. Thɪs chapter is updated by N0veI.Fiɾe.net
He slowly, one bite at a time, finished everything on the table, facing that full moon.
The next day, when Gu Shengyin woke up, she felt refreshed. One of the evident benefits of Drunken Immortal Dew, a superior grade wine, was that it left no side effects after you got drunk.
However... she touched her forehead, clearly remembering that she was celebrating the teacher’s birthday last night, so why couldn’t she remember anything?
Indeed, one should not indulge in drinking.
She asked the maid to prepare hot water, had a good bath, and then went to the main hall.
The Great High Priest was still sitting on that White Jade Platform. He had his own room, yet every time Gu Shengyin saw him, it was always in this main hall.
"Teacher." Gu Shengyin saluted.
The Great High Priest asked, "You’re awake, any discomfort?"
Gu Shengyin shook her head and then asked, "Did I do anything inappropriate last night while I drank too much...?"
The Great High Priest’s expression remained unchanged: "You were very obedient when you were drunk, just fell asleep lying down."
Obedient? The teacher still thinks of me as a child?
Feeling relieved, Gu Shengyin thought it’s fine as long as she didn’t embarrass herself.
Moreover, the system didn’t alert her, so it seemed there really wasn’t anything wrong.
Gu Shengyin left the matter behind.
Now she had to prepare for something else.
At the end of the year would be her eighteenth birthday, and after the New Year, the once-every-five-years Young King Tournament of the Tianxuan Continent would begin.
As Cheng Linyin, the top prodigy of the Tianxuan Continent, how could she not participate in such a grand event?
If it weren’t for Cheng Lingyu’s interference, Cheng Linyin’s legendary path would start here.
The Young King Tournament is held every five years, with each major empire taking turns to host it.
This time, it happened to be the Vermilion Bird Empire’s turn.
The Vermilion Bird Empire is located in the southernmost part of the continent, and the empire worships the Vermilion Bird Divine Beast that governs the fire of the South, thus it’s called the Vermilion Bird Empire.
The journey between the Vermilion Bird Empire and the Tianxuan Empire is long, separated by a vast desert.
This means that when Gu Shengyin goes to participate in the Young King Tournament, she won’t see the Great High Priest for at least a year.
And by the time she returns, Cheng Lingyu will have already awakened her talent.
She specifically went to see the Great High Priest, hoping that during her absence from the Tianxuan Empire, he would keep an eye on Cheng Lingyu.
The Great High Priest frowned: "So troublesome, why not let me directly eliminate this future problem for you?"
Gu Shengyin paused and asked, "Can teacher erase the soul occupying my fifth sister without harming her?"
The Great High Priest nodded: "It can be tried."
Gu Shengyin thought for a moment: "No need for now, in the near future, I would trouble teacher to help drive that person out of my fifth sister’s body."
The Great High Priest was somewhat puzzled why Linyin didn’t want him to take action now, but he never paid much mind to these things, so he didn’t ask further.