"Fine, Bai Shengyi, don't regret this!"
"I must have been blind to have liked you. A woman like you is wicked, arrogant, selfish, and utterly uncultured. You're also a useless blind person. I want to see how long you can keep this up!"
Qin Zhao was furious, his face flushed red, completely devoid of his earlier gentlemanly demeanor. His nose flared like that of a rampaging beast.
Sun Mingyu snorted from the side, "Brother Zhao, I told you she's no good. It's only you who can't forget about her."
If it weren't for the fact that fighting was forbidden on the ship, she would have killed Bai Shengyi by now. This slut dared to seduce Brother Zhao right in front of her!
"You're right, Mingyu. Let's go. Arguing with a cripple like her lowers our status." Qin Zhao realized that besides scolding Bai Shengyi, he couldn't do anything else to her.
He felt annoyed and humiliated. With no face left, he pulled Princess Mingyu and walked away.
Bai Shengyi had intended to retort to Qin Zhao, but a scene suddenly flashed in her mind. However, it was like a fleeting fragment of inspiration, and before she could see it clearly, it quickly vanished.
Instinctively, she couldn't help but touch her eyes.
Bai Shengyi frowned, feeling as if she remembered something important but had forgotten it.
"Third Miss Bai, are you alright?"
Li Shiqing had been comforting Bai Murong, who was blaming herself and crying.
Only now did she have the energy to check on Bai Shengyi. She said indignantly, "Don't listen to their nonsense. You've already reached Qi Condensation Layer six at such a young age. You'll only get stronger!"
"Yes, Shengyi. But you should avoid provoking His Highness and Princess Mingyu from now on. They are indeed people we cannot afford to offend." Bai Murong followed Li Shiqing over when she saw her approach.
She gritted her teeth inwardly, never expecting Bai Shengyi to be so lucky. She had arranged everything, even following her own calculations regarding Princess Mingyu, yet Bai Shengyi had still boarded the ship.
And she was completely unharmed!
This was not what Bai Murong wanted to see.
What's more, Bai Murong noticed that Li Shiqing's concern for Bai Shengyi was too unusual. Bai Shengyi was just her "troublesome" sister!
At this point, Bai Murong didn't know that some people naturally possessed a charismatic attraction to others. Even though Bai Murong had subtly instilled a lot of negative information about Bai Shengyi into Li Shiqing, for someone as warm, forthright, and upright as Li Shiqing, she trusted her own eyes more.
For instance, right now, Li Shiqing felt that Bai Shengyi's way of handling things was very much to her liking, suspecting that Bai Murong might have had some misunderstandings about her sister before.
"I'm fine. I know. Thank you, Sister Li." Bai Shengyi replied with a smile. "Sister Li, you and my sister should not stay with me, lest you be affected and your assessment be delayed."
Bai Shengyi silently wailed in her heart: I wish they would take Bai Murong far away, so that the disgusting second one wouldn't come to punish me!
Of course, besides that, Bai Shengyi genuinely hoped that her presence wouldn't affect Li Shiqing's assessment. After all, she felt that Li Shiqing's character was truly good, given that she had resolutely refused to abandon her in such a situation.
"I didn't..."
"Sister Li!" Before Li Shiqing could finish speaking, Bai Murong interrupted her, holding her hand and saying worriedly, "Sister Li, Shengyi is right. Also, have you forgotten that you must pass the assessment this year..."
Bai Murong whispered persuasively.
It was unclear what she said next, but Li Shiqing glanced at Bai Shengyi with a troubled expression and reluctantly left with Bai Murong.
After they left, Bai Shengyi had the leisure to take out some pastries to eat and then observe the situation on the immortal ship.
When viewed from the ground, the ship didn't seem that large. Bai Shengyi had even doubted if it could really accommodate so many people. But now, Bai Shengyi realized she had worried unnecessarily.
The state of the ship's interior was unknown, but the deck area utilized spatial folding. Distances that appeared short actually required a considerable walk. In this short time, all the cultivators had dispersed across the deck.
Bai Shengyi noticed that the sharp female voice and the stern male voice from before were silent. There were no other movements on the ship, and the academy seemed to have just left them on the deck.
"What a unique technique." Bai Shengyi marveled inwardly, feeling the touch of the folded space walls, which felt as real as actual walls, finding it incredibly novel.
The Samsara Brush, which had been silent all along, suddenly spoke, "I see you're quite interested in artifact refining. You can learn some of that in the future."
"Artifact refining? Was this immortal ship refined?"
"Yes, my master. Did you think this immortal ship materialized out of thin air?" The Samsara Brush sighed in disappointment again. If it had a brush tip, it would surely be pointing at Bai Shengyi in that manner.
It discovered that Bai Shengyi's understanding of the cultivation world was terrifyingly lacking. It even suspected that Bai Shengyi might think the cultivation world was the same as the ordinary world!
Despite sighing, it still meticulously explained, "This kind of immortal ship also belongs to the category of spiritual artifacts. However, it should be a mid-grade Earth-tier spiritual artifact, and it can only be refined by at least a ninth-tier artifact refiner. The artifact refiners on the Divine启 Continent are divided into tiers one to nine, and only ninth-tier artifact refiners can refine spiritual artifacts above Earth-tier."
"Can Heaven-tier be refined too?" Bai Shengyi couldn't help but ask in her mind.
The Samsara Brush: "Of course not. No one has been able to refine a Heaven-tier spiritual artifact yet..."
"Wait, then who refined the mid-grade Heaven-tier spiritual artifact at the Divine启 Academy?" Bai Shengyi's senses immediately caught the contradiction.
To her surprise, the Samsara Brush started playing dumb again, "Ah, there's that? I don't know, master. I'm just a brush..."
After that, no matter how Bai Shengyi asked, the Samsara Brush remained silent and feigned ignorance, not uttering a single word.
"Bai Shengyi, are you crying?"
After Li Shiqing left, Chu Tianle ran to Bai Shengyi's vicinity. However, according to his observation, Bai Shengyi was leaning against the wall with her head down, unmoving, as if saddened by the words of the prince.
He wasn't good at comforting people, and after much deliberation, he finally asked directly.
"No." Bai Shengyi suddenly snapped back to attention, speaking with a wry smile, "Fellow Daoist Chu, do you need something?"
She somehow felt that Chu Tianle's attitude towards her was very strange, especially after learning her name. It was as if they should have known each other before.
But she had no memory of it at all.
Could it be that the original owner's memory was flawed?
"Bai Shengyi? Bai Shengyi... Are you listening to me?"
"Hey! I'm sorry, I just remembered something." Bai Shengyi dismissed the messy thoughts in her mind and looked at Chu Tianle, "Fellow Daoist Chu, could you please say that again?"
"Are you really alright?" Chu Tianle frowned and said, "Don't take what Qin Zhao and the others said to heart. He's just a pretty boy."
"You're right, haha. I'm fine. I was just thinking about something else." Bai Shengyi found Chu Tianle's description of Qin Zhao extremely apt and nodded repeatedly.