My Master Is a Great Dragon, Clinging to Me Every Day! - Chapter 9

“You do not want something better?”

“You have really become more and more willful over the years.”

“Has Master spoiled you too much?”

There was also the misunderstanding from that day. An Chengxi stood up. Her elder robes were intricately designed, and the indigo-blue fabric looked especially beautiful on her.

A plain silver hairpin was inserted through her head of black hair, fixing her long hair in place.

She approached step by step, and the pressure she gave off made Xu Zhiyi feel as though goosebumps were about to rise all over her body. After all, this was a true Soul Formation cultivator.

“This disciple has overstepped. This disciple asks Master for forgiveness.”

Xu Zhiyi pursed her lips, bent slightly, and rested her head on the table, putting on an appearance of admitting her mistake.

Even like this, she still was not serious.

If she truly and seriously admitted her mistake, wouldn’t that expose her?

Before Xu Zhiyi could receive the answer she had imagined, a light laugh reached her ears. An Chengxi smiled faintly and crouched down.

She pointed at Xu Zhiyi’s forehead with her finger. There was a bit of ink on it. It turned out that earlier, Xu Zhiyi had casually placed the brush on the table.

Then her forehead had bumped into the brush.

There was a dark ink dot on her forehead, making her look especially comical.

An Chengxi casually picked up the brush and ordered softly, “Today, Master will give you a punishment.”

“Stand still. Do not move.”

Xu Zhiyi obeyed. This was entirely because, in the modern world, she had been a model student. If the teacher said east, she would not dare go west.

Her fingers clenched tightly. Xu Zhiyi felt a cold, ticklish sensation on her forehead. It was an indescribable feeling.

Looking at her proud masterpiece, An Chengxi set the brush down, very satisfied.

There was now a large character “王” on Xu Zhiyi’s fair forehead. The big “king” character completely covered the ink stain from before.

It looked somewhat ridiculous.

“Good. This is very good.”

“You are the great king of this mountain called Shuanghan Peak.”

Hm? What great king?

What exactly had Master drawn on her forehead? Xu Zhiyi thought about it carefully and vaguely felt that it seemed familiar.

Could it be the character “王”?

Then that was really embarrassing enough. If she walked out of this room, wouldn’t she immediately suffer social death?!

…

Xu Zhiyi walked out while holding her forehead. In her heart, she mentally kneaded her master over and over.

A naughty little dragon!

She looked so proper and serious.

No wonder dragons matured so late.

As she walked through the corridor, many nominal disciples also greeted her this time. However, everyone tacitly covered their mouths.

Did they really think she was deaf? Did they think she could not hear them laughing?

An Chengxi watched Xu Zhiyi’s slender back as she left. By now, the sky had already grown late. The setting sun fell, and orange light covered Shuanghan Peak.

It was indescribably beautiful.

But none of it compared to Xu Zhiyi’s back.

She really had grown up. In these past few years, she had become more and more beautiful, with a graceful figure.

If only Zhiyi’s relationship with her could become a little closer again.

If she did not punish her, she was afraid she would go astray.

But if she punished her, her heart could not bear it.

Xu Zhiyi, who was walking away, did not notice her master behind her. Instead, she was thinking about what she had learned during evening class today.

Should she try making a contract formation first?

If she summoned some wild mountain chicken, she could just take a kitchen knife, chop it down, and stew it into soup.

Mm, that sounded good. If any snakes, insects, ants, or beasts came, she would soak them all in wine!

She was not afraid at all.

After becoming familiar with the route, she soon arrived at her Tingyun Residence. Xu Zhiyi rummaged through boxes and cabinets and found several books related to forming contracts with spirit beasts.

They were indeed not as detailed as the book she had read at Master’s place. They looked more like general explanations. Still, they were better than nothing.

Xu Zhiyi also happened to find a whole chest of romantic storybooks. Reading them made her expression twist fiercely… Why were there even illustrations of that kind of indescribable thing?!

Before flipping through them, she had not known.

But once she did, she was truly startled.

The two little figures in the drawing had their clothes in disarray, doing this and that…

She hurriedly closed the book.

Xu Zhiyi felt hot from looking at it, her face flushed red. Although it was not as though she had never seen anything before, still… no one had told her that the cultivation world’s scale was this bold too.

She coughed twice.

Then Xu Zhiyi felt a little tempted to keep reading. There were truly so many kinds, dazzling and overwhelming.

No, no. She had to study.

How could she become absorbed in reading those? But throwing them away would be too much of a pity. There was such a big chest of them. Why not treat them as extracurricular reading?

After convincing herself, Xu Zhiyi strongly approved of her own wise and mighty decision.

Then it was decided.

So she calmed herself and sorted those things back into categories. Looking around the room, Xu Zhiyi felt it was not safe.

Maybe she should just throw them into her storage ring.

That would be safer!

“I keep feeling… this contract formation is strange?”

Looking at the simplified version she had drawn on the table, Xu Zhiyi frowned in thought. Maybe she should improve it a little.

She picked up the formation she had just drawn on the white rice paper. Xu Zhiyi looked at it from left to right but still could not figure out what was wrong.

Then she would try it first.

According to what was written in the book she had read earlier, Strange Explanations of the Sect: The Way of Beast Taming, if it failed, then the first possibility was that the formation would not respond. The second possibility was that various ferocious beasts would appear.

However, she was only at Foundation Establishment.

Making hand seals and chanting the spell, Xu Zhiyi silently recited it in her heart and mobilized the spiritual energy in her body. A white light appeared on the floor.

Light rippled and flowed.

The inscriptions and patterns on the formation gradually appeared. This was a contract formation passed down by a great expert of the Yunling Sword Sect. Xu Zhiyi had specifically found a version suitable for Foundation Establishment.

However, there was nothing.

“No way… there really is nothing?”

She made hand seals and chanted the spell again. Xu Zhiyi refused to believe it. Surely it was not possible that she could not even summon a chicken, right?

Then she would be too much of a failure!

After changing hand gestures three times in a row and forming the seals, Xu Zhiyi only felt a thin layer of sweat on her forehead. She sighed and gave up.

The light of the formation gradually faded, until finally there was nothing left.

“Forget it. Maybe I should just obediently listen to Master.”

Going personally to the Ten Thousand Beasts Pavilion to choose one was not bad either. At least it would be something carefully selected by the pavilion.

It was just that… she had the will but not the strength. Her wallet was flat.

Xu Zhiyi tidied up, took her clothes, and went to the bathing pool in the back.

Steam curled in the air. The surroundings were filled with screens painted with mountains, rivers, and birds, creating an especially atmospheric scene.

She loosened her robes and undid her belt.

Barefoot, Xu Zhiyi stepped into the water and lay down.

It was truly comfortable. In her tiny rented apartment back in the present, there had not even been enough space to fit a bathtub. This place was much more enjoyable.

Her head rested against the edge of the bath, and her long black hair spread out in the water like seaweed. There were even some flower petals floating on the surface. The entire pool smelled fragrant.

However, just after Xu Zhiyi left, the formation that had vanished reappeared.

And began to operate again.