Chapter 147: A-Yan Is Me

After some time, Ji Huaili’s palm suddenly slammed down on the table once more.

“You damned wretch!”

The previously intact table instantly shattered into pieces.

“Disciple, who made these? I have never tasted pastries so delicious.” Bai Zhu praised them as he ate.

Bai Zhu was not especially indulgent when it came to food, but even he could not resist something this delicious.

He had traveled across the entire continent, yet had never tasted anything so exquisite.

Ji Tianxin stared at the pastries in the food box, hesitating over whether she should eat them.

A Yan had refused to let her eat anything yesterday, and today he had sent food again. Did he think she was so easy to placate?

Hmph.

She held grudges.

But while she was hesitating, Bai Zhu had already eaten quite a few.

She licked her powdered lips. Unable to withstand the cravings churning in her stomach, she finally reached out and picked one up.

“It was A Yan.” Ji Tianxin lifted a pink pastry stamped with a tiny rabbit and took a small bite.

The delicious flavor immediately spread her lips into a smile.

Purple sweet potato.

“Who is A Yan?” Bai Zhu rarely heard other people’s names from Ji Tianxin. He knew that his disciple did not remember people, nor did she remember much of anything else.

So for her to remember someone’s name and be able to answer at once when asked meant that person was already extraordinary to her.

“He is someone who is handsome and knows how to make delicious food,” Ji Tianxin replied after swallowing the bite of purple sweet potato.

Bai Zhu frowned. For some inexplicable reason, he had the feeling that his disciple had been lured away with food.

“The A Yan in Xin’er’s words is me. Senior, do you have any advice?”

A pleasant, youthful voice, carrying a hint of laughter, suddenly drifted over.

The moment the first word was spoken, Bai Zhu instinctively released an invisible pressure, which transformed into a force of intimacy and surged toward the speaker.

The dark figure standing on the roof vanished instantly and reappeared in the distance.

The spot where he had been standing exploded with a ring of airwaves. Even the air around it seemed to ripple visibly.

When the dark figure appeared again, he had already landed in the courtyard.

He wore a long black robe and stood tall and straight, his jade-like features handsome and elegant. A silver-white mask concealed the upper half of his face, revealing only lips as delicate as peach petals and a smooth, clean-cut chin.

A hint of wickedness stirred beneath his mysterious aura, yet somehow he possessed an unmistakable air of youthful purity and refinement.

“You actually managed to evade it,” Bai Zhu said coldly, his words carrying a trace of pressure.

He sounded entirely different from when he spoke to Ji Tianxin.

This was the true Bai Zhu—the overwhelming presence of a powerful figure who stood at the summit of the Tianwu Continent.

The youth frowned slightly, appearing somewhat uncomfortable, but there was not the slightest trace of fear in him.

He curved his lips into a faint smile and replied in an even, neither servile nor arrogant tone, “If Senior wishes to offer guidance, this junior will gladly oblige.”

His words were calm and refined, yet not a hint of retreat could be found between them. The sharpness hidden beneath them was unmistakable.

The meaning was perfectly clear: if Bai Zhu wanted to fight, he would be happy to comply.

This earned the youth a measure of admiration from Bai Zhu.

His bone structure was unmistakably young; he could not possibly be more than sixteen.

Yet his extraordinary bearing and the force radiating from him were frighteningly powerful, nothing like what someone his age ought to possess.

More shocking still was the fact that Bai Zhu could not discern the youth’s level of cultivation at all.

Standing to one side, Su Qing could not help wiping away a bead of cold sweat, though excitement also gleamed in her eyes.

Could this young master and Master Bai finally be about to fight?

Was her dream coming true?

Su Qing was secretly thrilled.