Chapter 499

Chapter 499: So Cute! So Soft! I Want To Kiss Her!
The spring wind blew warm and gentle.

Ancestor Sui Bian lay on a bamboo chair with his eyes closed, pretending to nap.

Suddenly, a sharp pain hit his waist.

He cried out at once: “I wasn’t slacking off!”

He snapped his eyes open and, by habit, forced out a fawning smile, only to see Old Black Daoist’s old face grinning at him with a teasing look.

Ancestor Sui Bian gnashed his teeth: “Old Black Daoist!”

Old Black Daoist chuckled and pulled his hand back, pretending to be innocent as he said: “You were sleeping so soundly that I was afraid Ling Long would catch you slacking, so I woke you up. How is it? I treat you pretty well, right?”

Ancestor Sui Bian spat: “Bah, take a slap from your Ancestor!”

Angry, Ancestor Sui Bian raised his hand to smack him, but Old Black Daoist dodged at once. The two chased each other, and soon they were rolling on the ground in a scuffle.

By the time their clothes were wrinkled and their faces smeared, Ancestor Sui Bian finally stopped and threatened between breaths: “If you mess with me again, next time I’ll tell Ling Long you secretly… mmph!”

Old Black Daoist quickly covered his mouth and warned: “Old Man Sui Bian, don’t think I don’t have dirt on you too. If you drag me down, we’ll both go down together!”

The two looked at each other and decided to make peace.

Ancestor Sui Bian loosened the hand that was clutching his neck, got up, and straightened his messy Daoist robes.

Old Black Daoist stood up as well and finally asked about serious matters: “How is Yu Zhao? Has she still not come out?”

Ancestor Sui Bian snorted: “How could it be so fast? The avatar technique is already very complex, and the cultivation technique she practices is incomplete. The fact that she could grasp the key points of the avatar technique in five years is already amazing. To condense a complete clone technique, she will need at least seven or eight years. It would not be strange if it took even longer.”

Old Black Daoist very much agreed.

Back then, several of the old fellows had also learned that clone method from Sui Bian, but sadly none of them had even gotten started.

The fact that Yu Zhao could learn the clone method in just five years could only make people sigh at how gifted she was.

Old Black Daoist said sourly: “Yu Zhao is bright and talented, and her temperament is good too. Your Five Elements Dao Sect really got a bargain.”

Ancestor Sui Bian smiled proudly: “Of course. Do you not see whose junior she is?”

Old Black Daoist did not want to listen to his bragging, so he changed the topic and asked: “Will she succeed this time?”

The smile on Ancestor Sui Bian’s face faded a little.

He said: “Hard to say. I only managed to refine this clone technique back then by pure chance. Even though I have taught her all my experience, I still cannot promise she will succeed.”

Old Black Daoist nodded and said nothing more.

After the two of them had made such a fuss and were just about to sit down, two graceful figures walked over from a distance.

Before they could ask anything, Senior Ling Long threw out some big news with a grave expression: “The Daqian Alliance’s selection is going to be brought forward.”

“Why so suddenly?” Ancestor Sui Bian shot up from his chair, his face full of surprise.

Senior Ling Long said: “I heard that something changed in the Upper Thousand World. They urgently need fresh blood to fill their ranks, so they decided at the last moment to move the selection up.”

Old Black Daoist asked: “Did they say how much earlier?”

Senior Ling Long shook her head: “The news has not been announced yet, but I heard that it will be at most within the next two or three years.”

Ancestor Sui Bian’s heart instantly jumped into his throat. He instinctively looked at the tightly shut Forbidden Chamber behind him, his expression looking both conflicted and a little relieved.

He had not wanted Yu Zhao to take part in the Daqian Alliance’s selection at all. But Yu Zhao’s personality was just like his. Once she decided on something, she would definitely do it, and even nine bulls could not drag her back.

If, when Yu Zhao came out of seclusion, she found that she had missed the selection, he did not know how she would feel.

Just as he was torn, the door of the tightly closed Forbidden Chamber behind him slowly shook and gave a soft creak.

Everyone’s eyes turned over at once. A tiny figure squeezed out from the crack of the door.

It was a little girl who looked about six or seven years old, jade-like and adorable, with delicate brows and eyes. Most importantly, her features were exactly the same as Yu Zhao’s. She was like a small-sized Yu Zhao.

Ling Long and Xiu Yu froze, stunned. Old Black Daoist’s eyes went round. Ancestor Sui Bian was even more shocked.

The little girl walked over to them with her short legs in a serious, measured way and said solemnly: “Ancestor, Seniors, I succeeded.”

She tried her best to speak in a serious tone, but her childish voice completely ruined the effect.

Ancestor Sui Bian was so excited that he started to stutter: “Yu… Yu Yu Yu… Zhao?”

By now, Senior Xiu Yu had already reacted. She rushed forward, scooped Yu Zhao into her arms, and kept touching and pinching her, unable to let go.

She exclaimed: “Ah, so cute! So soft! I want to kiss you!”

Yu Zhao did not even have time to refuse before Senior Xiu Yu pressed her to her chest and showered her with a few loud kisses.

Yu Zhao wanted to cry but had no tears.

[The thing she had worried about the most had still happened.]

Old Black Daoist burst into laughter: “Pff, hahaha! Yu Zhao, what did you do? How did you pull out a childhood version of yourself?!”

Yu Zhao’s expression was usually calm with little emotion. It was rare to see her look so troubled.

She reached out toward Ancestor Sui Bian and called weakly: “Ancestor…”

Yu Zhao stretched out her hand, trying to ask Ancestor Sui Bian for help.

Ancestor Sui Bian had wanted to step forward to save her, but when he saw the bean-sprout-sized Yu Zhao being freely kneaded by Xiu Yu, his feet just would not move. He even had to hold back laughter, making snorting sounds in his throat.

Yu Zhao finally got angry and shouted: “Ancestor!”

He answered: “Ah! Pfft! Cough, cough, cough!”

Ancestor Sui Bian responded, then choked on his own saliva and started coughing non-stop.

Yu Zhao felt that life held no joy anymore and gave up struggling.

Only after Xiu Yu and Senior Ling Long had finished pinching to their hearts’ content did Yu Zhao finally get the chance to stand back on her own two feet.

Ancestor Sui Bian also finished laughing and started to carefully examine this newly made clone body of hers.

He said in surprise: “Not bad, it even has the cultivation level of the Foundation Establishment Stage.”

Old Black Daoist looked at him in surprise: “I remember that when you first made your clone, it did not have any spirit power at all.”

Ancestor Sui Bian nodded: “That’s right. Yu Zhao, did you add your own ideas when you were refining this clone?”

Yu Zhao nodded, her small face full of grievance.

She had followed Ancestor Sui Bian’s experience and felt that refining a clone without any cultivation level would waste too much time. So halfway through, she had poured her own spirit power into the clone and locked it firmly inside. In the end, she had actually succeeded.

But she had not expected that as soon as her soul attached itself to the clone, the clone would suddenly start to change. Its body kept shrinking and its facial features slowly blurred until it finally turned into how she looked as a child, and then it stopped.

When Yu Zhao regained her senses and saw her main body lying there with eyes closed and a peaceful face, then looked at her own little arms and legs, she felt like the sky was falling.

Yu Zhao finished telling the story amid the Seniors’ laughter, then looked up at Ancestor Sui Bian with hope on her face and asked: “Ancestor, when will I be able to return to my main body?”

Ancestor Sui Bian clicked his tongue and said: “Well, that is hard to say. I remember there were at least seven or eight years between when I first refined my clone and when I returned to my main body.”

Yu Zhao felt as if she had been struck by lightning.

Ancestor Sui Bian added: “But since this body of yours has spirit power, you should be faster than me. If it is short, maybe only two or three years.”