Chapter 4899 — One of the Three Fairies
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What was more, her air was on the cute side—"kawaii," as they said in the secular world—the sort that easily stirred a man's urge to protect her. Even Wang Xinyan and Huang Xiaotao could not help feeling a pang of tender pity at the sight. It was truly beyond them how a creature like Chang Laiting could bear to seize such a woman—and by status, no less, his own dao companion!
"Oh no!" Ni Caiyue froze for a moment, then, realizing the trouble, hurriedly snatched the veil up from the ground and without a second thought tried to plaster it back onto her face. But under the gaze of so many people she grew flustered, and the more flustered she became, the less it would stick.
Wei Zhao and the others exchanged a speechless look. Weren't these veils simply fastened on with the clasps at the sides? Who on earth just mashed one straight onto their face? It wasn't a human-skin mask, after all...
While they stood there speechless, Ni Caiyue over there had already worked herself into a frantic spin, pacing in circles and muttering aloud all the while: "What do I do! What do I do! Master said that when traveling abroad I must never let other men see me—if they see me, I'm no longer pure! Oh no, I'm not pure anymore!"
Wei Zhao and the others could only press their palms to their foreheads in silence, exchanging glances and at a loss for what to say, the same question rising in every mind: Was this woman a child going out into the world for the first time?
Spinning about in her panic, Ni Caiyue happened to plant her foot right on Chang Laiting's face. In her confusion she did not register it in time, and even gave it an instinctive kick. "What's this soft stone doing here?"
At such a sight, Wei Zhao and Wang Xinyan truly could not utter a single word. Setting her looks aside, this woman was an absolute oddity of the cultivation world. What kind of academy could be so outlandish as to produce a child whose mental age did not exceed seven?
"Master Lin, do you think there's something wrong with this woman's head?" Lu Xiaozhong asked in a low voice, waggling his eyebrows.
"Uh... her head should be fine, I'd say. She's probably just shut herself away in cultivation since childhood and rarely gone out..." Wei Zhao offered a fairly fair assessment.
In terms of strength, this woman was already at the early Profound Ascension stage; for an ordinary cultivator, that would mean she was at least several hundred years old. Yet from her behavior she was nothing but a clumsy child. One would probably find such a person only here in the Eastern Continent.
After all, only the Eastern Continent's academies had the means to cultivate a girl utterly ignorant of the world into a Profound Ascension expert—and one could be certain this woman's background was no small matter. Otherwise, forget advancing to Profound Ascension; she would have been hard pressed even to survive, long since trampled to death by disciples of other academies.
"Ni Caiyue..." Wang Xinyan frowned at this point and turned to ask the others in a low voice, "Didn't Chang Laiting call her Fairy Ni just now?"
"You mean she's one of the Three Fairies too?" Wei Zhao caught on at once. Whatever else might be said, this woman's beauty was indeed enough to stand alongside Wang Xinyan and Huo Yudie—she was a worthy member of the Three Fairies.
"That can't be right. Apart from Miss Wang and Miss Huo, isn't the other one of the Three Fairies Tong Caiyun of the Donghua Academy?" Lu Xiaozhong said in puzzlement. He was a true native of the Eastern Continent, and any man there could rattle off the Three Fairies of the Gaolin Sea Region like family treasures. Even if he was not as lovesick as some, he was hardly so ignorant as to not know their names.