Chapter 41: Cloud Star Gold

As the sky grew darker, the breath of the dark night slowly enveloped the earth; at this moment, Bu Gong also walked out of the small valley; a moment later, Bu Gong arrived at the door of his dormitory. Every time Bu Gong saw this mixed dormitory, he felt a little headache.
“It would be better not to come to Xianyangmen. The conditions have become worse since I came here.” Bu Gong felt a little resentful in his heart, but he still pushed the door open helplessly and walked in.
“Hey, Bu Gong? You’re back? Where have you been these days?” A voice that sounded a little childish but a little weak was heard in the dormitory.
“Hmm?” Bu Gong turned his head and found that the person who spoke was a young man who was sleeping in the bed next to him in the dormitory. The young man who was speaking was wearing a lace brocade robe, but he was rather thin and his face was a little pale.
He looked to be about fifteen or sixteen years old, but he was much thinner than his peers, and his aura seemed to be weak and lacking in internal energy; but judging from his rolling eyes, he was also a restless person.
Seeing this, Bu Gong chuckled: “What’s wrong? Is there something wrong?”, only to see a hint of anxiety on the young man’s face, and then a little helplessly said: “Bu Gong, we went to collect this month’s cultivation pills at noon today, but you were not here, and they didn’t let us collect them on your behalf, so you didn’t get any.”
“Oh” Bu Gong heard this, his eyes moved slightly, he pondered for a moment, and then chuckled and said: “It’s okay, I’ll go there again tomorrow, it should be fine”;
“Well, this is the only way. You’d better pray to God for protection, otherwise you won’t have any medicine for cultivation this month.” The young man curled his lips and spread his hands helplessly.
In response, Bu Gong just nodded slightly and didn’t say anything else!
In fact, when Bu Gong saw this young man on the first day of the new year, he had some guesses in his mind that he must be suffering from some kind of disease; however, the fact was just as Bu Gong expected, this young man was suffering from a symptom of congenital meridian atrophy.
This was something Bu Gong discovered after he came into contact with him. Moreover, through simple chats with him these days, Bu Gong also knew the young man’s name, Yun Xingjin; he seemed to be from a merchant family in a big city called Yuncheng.
In this dormitory, the only person who has been able to speak to Bu Gong in the past half month is the young man in front of him named Yun Xingjin. Of course, there is another person, but that person is also rather strange.
Because his personality is somewhat similar to Bu Gong’s; he is seventeen years old, dressed in a smart black suit, and has a stern face all day long, as if someone owes him money.
The young man’s name was Jian Mo. Like Tongdong Palace, he had reached the Body Shaping Stage before joining any sect.
He was only at the first level of body shaping, with fourth-level talent, and lived in the same dormitory with Bu Gong. It was after he and Bu Gong had a conflict that the two met. This was the case of no friendship without fighting.
After that, the two of them would chat from time to time. Although Jian Mo could chat with Bu Gong, he could only chat a few sentences a day; as for others, he basically didn’t bother to pay attention and would not even approach them.
This also made him develop a habit of being alone in this dormitory.
“Oh, by the way; it seems that Senior Sister Xiang Ling’er came to see you this morning.” Just as Bu Gong was lost in thought, Yun Xingjin on the side suddenly slapped his forehead and said in a sarcastic tone, and winked at Bu Gong with a wicked smile.
This made Bu Gong feel both amused and helpless; ever since the talent test ended that day, some rumors between Bu Gong and Xiang Ling’er had spread; just because Xiang Ling’er ran down from the test platform regardless of everyone’s gaze that day and comforted Bu Gong.
Bu Gong had not anticipated the outcome, which gave him a headache. Because these days, whenever he walked outside, he could feel all kinds of invisible murderous and jealous gazes gathering towards him.
Bu Gong was a little helpless about this. Who made Xiang Ling’er so dazzling in the sect?
Hearing Yun Xingjin’s words, Bu Gong frowned slightly and asked, “Do you know why she wants to see me?” At this time, Yun Xingjin came up to him with a playful smile and said, “Hey, are you still pretending not to know? What happened between you and that beautiful woman that you actually come to ask me?”
“Uh, go away.” Bu Gong was a little speechless because of this guy, and glanced at him with a slightly amused look; at this time Yun Xingjin restrained his expression slightly and continued: “I don’t know what she wants to see you about, but she said she will come again tomorrow.”
At this point, Yun Xingjin paused slightly, and then his expression became a little exaggerated: “By the way, don’t go out so early tomorrow morning, otherwise, even if Xiang Ling’er is not angry with you, I will beat you.”
Bu Gong was quite familiar with Yun Xingjin; however, he really admired this guy in his heart. He suffered from the terminal disease of congenital meridian atrophy, but he still lived such a carefree and comfortable life, as if he didn’t take the disease seriously at all.
“Okay, I understand.” Bu Gong nodded in response to Yun Xingjin’s words.
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There was no conversation that night. The next day, a ray of sunlight came in from the slightly shabby window, bringing a bit of light to this slightly dark dormitory.
At this time, Bu Gong seemed to have sensed something and opened his eyes slightly. He was seen sitting cross-legged on the bed. He exhaled lightly and then stretched.
Bu Gong turned his head to look at other beds, only to see that other children were still sleeping with their heads covered; it looked like they were probably still dealing with Zhou Gong.
In fact, Bu Gong sleeps very little every night. At his third stage of body shaping, he only needs a short rest at night, and the rest of the time he basically meditates and practices.
Then Bu Gong got out of bed alone, went out to wash up, and was about to go to the old place to practice, but then he seemed to think of something and stopped in his tracks.
“I don’t know why Xiang Ling’er came to see me yesterday, let’s wait and see.” So Bu Gong temporarily practiced his only martial art, the ‘Thunder Destruction Fist’, in a small forest not far from the dormitory door.
As for the Thunder Annihilation Fist, Bu Gong had practiced it for such a long time, but he never reached the so-called great success realm as originally described in the introduction; because according to the introduction of the ‘Thunder Annihilation Fist’, when this martial art is practiced to great success, it can trigger a divine thunder from the sky to destroy everything.
However, Bu Gong had been practicing for such a long time, but he didn’t feel anything about the so-called divine thunder from heaven, let alone destroying everything. Bu Gong was a little depressed about this, and finally, he attributed the reason to his own insufficient cultivation.
In fact, it is true. It is very good that the immortal energy in Bu Gong’s body during the body-shaping stage can support him to perform this martial art, let alone attract the divine thunder from the sky.
In order to unleash the maximum power of this martial arts, one must at least reach the Yuan realm and be able to store a little immortal energy in the body.
Just as he was carefully pondering his martial arts, a slight sound of footsteps came slowly from far away; at this time Bu Gong also noticed it, and then he looked up at the source of the footsteps.
I saw a person wearing an emerald green dress, with a delicate and graceful figure, moving lightly among the woods, like a natural elf, full of energy and vigor; and this person was Xiang Ling’er.
At this time, Xiang Ling’er’s pretty face was slightly moist, her breathing was a little rapid, and her cheeks were lightly flushed; it looked like this girl had obviously just finished washing up and ran over immediately; because she was worried that she would come here empty-handed again today.
Just looking at the movement of her eyes, she seemed to feel Bu Gong’s gaze, and then looked in the direction of Bu Gong; at this time, the pretty face that originally seemed a little cold also showed a rare charming smile, and then ran towards Bu Gong happily.