Chapter 1378: Awakening

Chapter 1378: Chapter 1378: Awakening

"Pei Yan, has your eye healed?" Sitting by the bedside, Zhao Yuanhu looks at Pei Yan, who is sitting idly on the soft couch. At this moment, his left eye is unsealed and opened unconsciously, the newly condensed mechanical eye now almost indistinguishable from a normal human eye, with the same white of the eye although the pupil still shows traces of the mechanical eye. However, it is different from the previous cold and spiritless state, now it shines with a blue glow like the flickering flame of a candle, appearing vibrant and magnificent while also making one feel a mysterious and intimidating reverence.

Coming to his senses, Pei Yan instinctively responds and then reaches out to touch his left eye socket, realizing that his vision is fully restored, once again falling into a daze.

"Pei Yan?" Seeing him in this state, Zhao Yuanhu calls out worriedly.

"Oh! It’s nothing!" Having just communicated with the Suzi who completed the fusion with the mechanical eye, Pei Yan, after checking his body thoroughly to confirm no issues, stretches and asks with a smile: "Besides the changes in the Infinite Thunder Sect the past few days, has anything else happened? Oh, where’s my sister?"

"Sister Pei visited you and knowing you weren’t having any major issues, she instructed me to take care of you while she went back to train the little junior disciple given to you by the Immortal Palace." Speaking about this now, Zhao Yuanhu doesn’t feel shy, pauses, and continues: "Gu Chu came back from headquarters yesterday to see you, and the Sect Leader of the Infinite Thunder Sect also wishes to meet you after you wake up. But you don’t need to rush with his matter. He said he can wait till you handle your own affairs first then meet you. Pei Yan, do you want to get up now?"

"Yes!" Pei Yan stretches his muscles, lifts the blanket, and gets off the bed. Upon seeing his clothes had been changed, he lowers his head to smell, noting the absence of heavy sweat odor, indicating someone had lightly cleaned him during his sleep. Thinking of this, he looks up at Zhao Yuanhu with a chuckle.

"Don’t overthink it, I helped change your clothes, but as for cleaning, while the disciples of the Infinite Thunder Sect were willing to do it, we didn’t agree, so later the disciples provided a Purification Talisman. It’s a really good thing, just attach it and activate the talisman, and it cleans the dirt on the body’s surface thoroughly." Zhao Yuanhu rolls his eyes at Pei Yan and explains.

"Oh! So that’s how it is." Pei Yan’s face momentarily shows disappointment and then he says: "I heard about such a talisman before, didn’t expect it’s really useful. I’ll have to get the method of making them from the Clear Wind Talisman Transformation Sect later. I reckon making a batch for personal use shouldn’t be difficult." While musing, Pei Yan puts on his clothes and says to Zhao Yuanhu: "After meditating for over a month and lying here for three days, I thought to bathe first, but now there’s no need. Let Gu Chu come first, I figure he must have urgent matters. Oh! By the way, get me something to eat. Don’t worry about making bland food for me because I haven’t eaten in a long time; I’ve already passed that stage! With the nourishment of the primal energy, I’m just a bit hungry now, give me something quick and satisfying."

"Alright!" Zhao Yuanhu doesn’t say much, turns and leaves, shortly after Gu Shenghui gets the message and pushes the door open, looks at Pei Yan and jokingly says: "My initial arrangement was a successful match-making, and now you two are singing in harmony as a couple."

"Alright, should I thank you for being a matchmaker?" Pei Yan stands at the mirror fastening the buttons on his jacket sleeves casually replying: "How’s the family matter? Has the other side noticed anything?"

"The time dragged a bit but still within the budget, initially agreed upon giving you a month to enhance your strength. Now it’s just a few days over, the arrangements have all been laid out, waiting only for you, the leading actor, to take the stage. As for whether the other side has noticed, that’s hard for us to determine." Gu Shenghui sits on a chair inside the room, takes out a bag of betel nuts, picks a few and starts chewing while talking.

After tidying his clothes, Pei Yan walks to Gu Shenghui, brazenly lifts his shirt, rummages around, and pulls out a pack of cigarettes, takes one, bites it in his mouth, and in the process of shoving the cigarette pack into his pocket, doesn’t stop, continues groping around.

"Hey! Don’t overdo it! Don’t you have the ability to light fires yourself?" Gu Shenghui quickly presses his pocket, but still couldn’t prevent Pei Yan from finding and taking his lighter, Pei Yan opens the lighter, lights the cigarette, discreetly pockets the lighter, and then nonchalantly blows smoke rings, smiling as he says: "Let’s proceed according to the plan then! Whether that guy will fall into the trap depends on fate, anything else I need to do?"

Gu Shenghui looks at Pei Yan’s smug appearance, laughs and cries, shakes his head helplessly, and says: "According to Old Mei, bring your little junior disciple to the family, conduct a handover ceremony before doing this and disseminate the news."

"Wouldn’t that be too obvious?" Pei Yan asks, eyebrows slightly furrowed.

"That’s His Majesty the Spirit Emperor’s disciple, one of the key figures showing our unbreakable alliance." Gu Shenghui leans against the back of the chair, chewing betel nuts languidly says: "If it wasn’t grand, it would be more suspicious! Now our assumption is that Delacuri believes you haven’t realized your actions would pose a threat to your family, only after confirming there are no issues in the family area will he fall into the trap. If you deliberately hide her existence instead, it will raise his suspicion, might as well take her openly and then after several rounds, bring her into the family area, everything is reasonable and then like you said, leave it to fate! If Delacuri also harbors the gambler’s mentality like us, wanting to use this opportunity for a comeback, regain the initiative in negotiations, then the likelihood of him falling into the trap is very high, to make this play more realistic, we decided that after you introduce the little junior disciple to your family, the security presence in the family area will increase from four Heavenly Dao to seven."

"Hmm!" Pei Yan ponders for a while, finding no issues, then nods his head in approval. At this time, Zhao Yuanhu enters carrying the food box, Pei Yan, having heard the footsteps earlier, extinguishes the cigarette in his hand and kicks the cigarette butt towards Gu Shenghui’s feet, greeting Zhao Yuanhu with a smile, takes the food box from him, opens a corner, smells and praises: "Smells good."

"I knew every time you wake up from long cultivation, the first thing you want is food! So I made sure the kitchen is ready anytime, just heat it briefly and it’s ready to eat. You can have a bite first, if it’s not enough I’ll let the kitchen prepare more." While saying this, Zhao Yuanhu puts the dishes in the food box one by one on the table, sets up two sets of bowls and chopsticks, and without looking at the cigarette butt on the floor once, nodding and smiling at Gu Shenghui, he walks out of the room carrying the food box.

"What a great girl! If she truly follows you, this bad kid, I feel it’s such a waste!" Watching Zhao Yuanhu leave with a smile, Gu Shenghui kicks away the cigarette butt by his foot, muttering indignantly.