Chapter 61

Wei Shuang sits in a lotus position while waiting at the nervous girl opposite of her who is currently boiling water. She haven't seen the tea that will be used yet. Though she wants to volunteer her own cultivated Millenium Plum Blossom Tea, she wants to see her disciple's sincerity, so she decided against it. Her disciple personally boils the water in her own spiritual fire, making Wei Shuang nod in satisfaction

'So she has her own technique. Good! Very good!', though Wei Shuang never adhered to rules and the mindset of the society before, she still admire tea brewing techniques very much.

The water that Di Xueyan has been boiling using her own green spiritual flames is now hot enough to be served. The sound of the soft whistling of the kettle echoed across the bottom of the cliff, combining with the hums of the luminous flowers behind her.

Di Xueyan took the Lipton Matcha Green Tea from her storage ring and and tore the thin plastic wrapping of the box.

Wei Shuang eyes glint in confusion as this is the first time that she saw such thing. Di Xueyan hurriedly toss the plastic wrapper inside her storage ring in embarrasment and opened the box.

Wei Shuang observes how her disciple took a strange thing inside and tore it again, revealing a small paper like object with a green thing inside. She can smell the faint smell of strange leaves and quietly figures out that this must be the tea.

'But why is it inside a paper?'

Wei Shuang waited for her disciple to also tear the paper when she gasp in horror as Di Xueyan directly put the paper with a tea in her precious cup and directly pour the water inside the cup. Wei Shuang's indefferent face cracks as she watches her disciple butchers the tea ceremony.

Di Xueyan saw the water turns green but still unsatisfied with the color, she stirs the tea using the tea bag and move it up and down. She never let her eyes wonder with the other things in the table, lest her master will ask her why she did not used them. What a joke! She can only name the kettle and the tea cup, she doesn't even know the rest, how can she know how to use it?

So she made the tea using the most direct method used on Earth. Even she, herself, wants to laugh out loud.

She has read a lot of disciples doing tea ceremony when she was still reading novels but they never elaborated what was supposed to be done during tea ceremonies.

'Huhuhuhu so embarrasing!'

Di Xueyan calmed her mind and smiles at her gawking teacher whose eyes turned wide with an indignant expression.

" Teacher, this is one of the best tea from a place that I once has been to", Di Xueyan said awkwardly.

'The best my ass! It doesn't even cost a lot! It was just below ten dollars!', Di Xueyan prayed to whoever god there is in heavens that her teacher will be satisfied with her clear intention, not her tea.

Di Xueyan directly put the cup in front of her teacher and stares directly at her. We Shuang felt like fainting over and over again at the blasphemy in front of her.

Seeing her teacher's horrified expression, a suspicious blush married Di Xueyan's face. She is ashamed of her ignorance, but she can't do anything about it!

'Calm down, Wei Shuang, this brat is doing her best...so just accept it gracefully', Wei Shuang, who is maybe rebellious when she was alive but still loved making tea when she had spare time before, felt indignant and annoyed at how her student seems to not know how to do it properly. She stares at her student's embarrassed yet expectant face, and just sigh in resignation.

'I will reluctantly make it pass', those who knew Wei Shuang from the past will maybe faint at how helpless and indulgent this killing god is. They would maybe collectively think, 'had you not always directly killed the people who annoyed you without any ceremonies before?'.

" Since you look sincere, then this will do", Di Xueyan clearly understood her implication and blushed furiously. Wei Shuang watched her student's expressions amusedly and took the cup to take a sip. She raised her brows and savors the tea. It tastes strange but she strangely likes it as she took another sip but didn't want it to show in her face.

After the awkward ceremony, Wei Shuang made her stand in front of the void mirror in close distance, this time she can already see the designs up close.

'Wow! The designs are moving', it clearly looks like an ordinary fancy ancient mirror when you are far, but only you will see the grandiose moving designs up close, making Di Xueyan scrutinized it up close with curiousity.

She gasp a little and a touch of hatred flash her eyes when she realize that the design is a basketball sized grand gold phoenix who has been flying through the outline of the mirror with clouds, thunders and fires surrounding it. Once it reaches the middle, it will stop and soar with golden fire in its wings. She suddenly furrowed her brows when she realized that she haven't seen such big and conspicuous design when she saw it from afar earlier.

" What is happening? Why is it a phoenix?", Di Xueyan tried to hide the hatred in her voice but she can't. She instantly knew that this artifact is from the phoenix clan. She instantly diverted her attention from the mirror to her teacher and was shocked when she noticed the green dot surrounded with purple fire that is in the size of a centavo in her master's forehead. She was too muddle headed to not notice such shocking feature before!

'Shit! It looks like mother's!', Di Xueyan stood rooted on the spot as she stares at the 'thing' in her teacher's forehead in confusion.

" Master...you are...from the Phoenix Clan?", even though she already realized it, she can't still help but to blurt it out.

Wei Shuang savors her disciple's shocked face amusedly. The 'thing' in her forehead has always been with her the moment she first talked with Di Xueyan, but the latter is just too engaged in her emotions at first to even notice, and too caught up with her denial with everything that has something to do with the phoenix clan, that is why her brain failed to register the 'thing' in her master's forehead even if her eyes saw it multiple times.

" Master... What is happening?", Di Xueyan is confused more than ever. She tried to make some hypothesis in her brain, but nothing makes sense.

Wei Shuang smiles at her befuddled state. She touched the 'thing' in her forehead affectionately, feeling a gush of warmth at her little token of freedom.

" Do you know that the phoenix clan is slowly losing its strength at this very moment?", Wei Shuang is maybe trapped in the bottom of the cliff, but Sima Liuwen and his ancestors never failed to give her the general information of the phoenix clan, that is why she is considered up to date.

" No ", Di Xueyan plainly replied. She doesn't even know that she is one of them, how could she know the latest happenings of that damned clan. But still, she is curious as to how an ancient beast clan is slowly deteriorating.

'Serves them right', she can't help but mock them in her head.

Wei Shuang smirks, looking proud at whatever she did.

" Simple, I just stole the only artifact that was used to strengthen the leaders of the younger generation", she said smugly as she stared at the Void Mirror in front of them.

Di Xueyan is shocked as she also stares at the mirror. For a big clan, a cultivation artifact is very important to continue the clan's greatness for thousands of years. Looking at the Void Mirror, it looks simple, but since the phoenix clan is slowly deteriorating without it, it only means one thing....

" You're so cruel", Di Xueyan stares incredulously at her proud looking master. To take a clan's lifeline just like that.....being called as 'cruel' is an understatement.

But she doesn't have any objections though. What she is feeling right now is a perfect example of being happy in other people's misfortune.