My Taoist partner has turned evil, but I can continue to become stronger

Chapter 48 Hand over the Spirit Pearl
Lu Xuan really didn't expect that his partner was actually in the next room. Did he hear any strange noises just now?

So, with a nervous mood, Lu Xuan looked at the door in front of him, took a deep breath, and slowly raised his hand.

dong dong!

There was a dull knock on the door. This time, Lu Xuan didn't wait for Xia Ningyan's reply, but pushed the door open directly.

"Ningyan, I'm coming in."

With a creak, Lu Xuan closed the door and walked to Xia Ningyan who was sitting on the cushion in meditation.

"Why are you sweating so much?"

Slowly opening her eyes, Xia Ningyan stood up and looked at Lu Xuan in front of her, who was in dishevel and breathing heavily, and her brows subconsciously frowned.

"Uh, just now Senior Sister Ling Xiao brought me here on a flying sword. The speed was too fast. I took a while to slow down in front of the mountain gate and broke out in a cold sweat."

Being asked so suddenly, Lu Xuan was stunned for a moment before he reacted and quickly made up an excuse.

"Ling Xiao brought you here? When did you become so close to her?"

Xia Ningyan's tone was slightly unhappy, and her cold face showed a rare hint of obvious displeasure.

Ling Xiao has been her rival for many years, and the two of them compete in almost everything.

It wasn't me who started it at first, but the White-haired Girl who took the initiative to look for it.

At first she didn't bother to care and ignored all the provocations, but over time, she got irritated by them.

Although she didn't know why Ling Xiao kept picking on her, since the other party took the initiative to come to her, she was not someone who was afraid of trouble.

The two have been confronting each other ever since, no matter it was the competition between the peaks or the order of breakthrough in realm, they were all trying their best to compete with each other.

Gradually, Xia Ningyan also noticed something. Whenever Lu Xuan was around her, Ling Xiao's mood swings became extremely obvious.

Only then did he understand that the source of the anger was actually because of his own Taoist partner.

After realizing this, Xia Ningyan hated her even more, and their relationship became worse.

“Ningyan, don’t get me wrong, I know Senior Sister Lingxiao and you don’t have a good relationship, but when I really had no other choice, I borrowed a lot of spirit stones from her.

She gave it to me without saying anything, and she sent me back this time just because she met me on the road. "

Lu Xuan thought quickly and finally came up with a suitable reason.

He couldn't let Xia Ningyan know that Ling Xiao was going to go out with him to complete the mission this time, and that he would be alone with him for the next few days.

This was undoubtedly an insult to her. No matter how good-tempered she was, she would definitely get angry. This was no joke.

"You just happened to meet her on the road? Why don't you just ignore her? Why do you have to ask her to give you a ride?"

Xia Ningyan was uncharacteristically struggling with this issue, and a rare display of complex emotions appeared on her usually calm face.

"Ningyan, it's not that I had to ask her to give me a ride, but I accidentally ran into two female disciples who intended to harass me on the way.

It was Ling Xiao who helped me out of the predicament. After I thanked her, I thought about returning quickly on my sword.

But my sister was worried about my safety and insisted on carrying me for the rest of the journey, so I couldn’t refuse.”

Lu Xuan simply reorganized what happened before at Piaomiao Peak and used it here to deceive his Taoist partner.

“Who harassed you on the road?”

"They are disciples of Piaomiao Peak. They have already been taught a lesson by Senior Sister Lingxiao. Ningyan, don't worry about them."

".Yes, I can't do anything now anyway, so what good will it do even if I know."

Hearing this, Xia Ningyan smiled bitterly, and felt a sense of powerlessness in her heart. If it were in the past, someone would dare to do this to Lu Xuan. She would have found the other party's door long ago and let them understand what "etiquette" is.

And now, I can only stand here helplessly.

This feeling was difficult to bear even for Xia Ningyan, who was as calm as water. She just felt a kind of depressed emotion in her heart that she had nowhere to vent.

"Ningyan, that's not what I meant, you misunderstood me!"

Lu Xuan realized that he had said something wrong and immediately tried to make amends.

"I mean, there's no need to waste time on them. They're just two clowns. You have more important things to do.

What do they do? "

As he spoke, Lu Xuan hugged Xia Ningyan in front of him and whispered in her ear.

"More importantly, is it staying here and waiting for you to feed me the resources?"

Xia Ningyan's mood didn't improve at all. She turned her head and said angrily.

"By the way, Ningyan, take these things!"

Speaking of resources, Lu Xuan immediately thought of the spirit beads he had obtained from Mei Xishuang before, and took them out directly.

"This is a spiritual pearl?!"

Xia Ningyan was very surprised. She looked at Lu Xuan in confusion, totally unable to understand where he got such a huge fortune.

"Do you still remember that kid Mei Xishuang?"

Lu Xuan handed several spirit beads to her, and then spoke slowly.

"Of course I remember. You two are very good friends. He is also one of the few male disciples in the sect who is as highly regarded as you."

Xia Ningyan nodded, but she still didn't understand what the other party had to do with these spirit beads.

Lu Xuan's brother doesn't have much savings and usually looks like a playboy.

When his fellow Taoist asked him to borrow money before, he just turned around and ran away. How come he could suddenly come up with so many spirit beads now?
"Alas, this guy has a lot of improper ideas. The reason why I was harassed by the female disciples in the sect was because of him."

Lu Xuan sighed and successfully changed the topic.

"This guy first compiled a set of my stories, and after it became popular among the female cultivators, he openly sold my portraits.

A painting cost several hundred spirit stones and attracted a rush for it, and he made a fortune. I only found out about this after I saw the portrait and asked him about it.

When the boy realized he couldn't hide it anymore, he gave me some money so he could continue selling paintings."

Lu Xuan spread his hands, looking quite helpless.

"For just a painting, is there really someone willing to pay hundreds of spirit stones?"

After hearing this, Xia Ningyan felt it was ridiculous, but looking at the real spirit pearl in her hand, she had to believe it.

"It's mainly because I'm naturally beautiful, and that guy is really good at painting. In addition, he usually interacts with wealthy female cultivators, so he has a lot of connections.

These spiritual beads were not obtained from selling paintings, but were given to us as a reward by two junior sisters whose families own mines."

Lu Xuan said with great pride that this income was one of the few legal earnings he could give to Xia Ningyan openly.

As for the rest, it’s basically impossible to describe.

(End of this chapter)