"Your Highness, can we discuss this later..."
Granny Li felt like she wanted to crawl into a hole.
This princess was actually quite nice, without any bad habits, and not difficult to get along with.
The problem was her personality was a bit erratic, and she often acted foolishly...
Granny Li felt utterly exhausted...
"Little Princess, we want to go back to our rooms." At this moment, two old men walked over.
The flying ship was very good, but they didn't like it: it was so clean and tidy everywhere, not even an ant's nest could be seen.
They found the environment too boring and thought it would be better to return to their rooms and do their own things.
"Except for the rooms with my and Granny Li's names on them, you can choose any of the rest!" Liang Rujing replied very generously.
"Thank you, hehehe."
"Hehehe... hehehe...!"
The two old men left, leaving behind a familiar and eerie laughter.
Liang Rujing instinctively flinched.
Although she was no longer as scared of the two old men as before, their laughter still gave her goosebumps...
"Junior brother, we're going back to cultivate first." The two senior sisters called out to Ye Fan and then returned to their rooms.
The college entrance examination was approaching, and they had to work hard.
If it were some other people, with connections like the Ninth Princess, they might have used their brains.
But these two sisters didn't want to.
They were participating in the grand competition just to get a clearer understanding of their own strength and to broaden their horizons.
As for their rankings, they would just go with the flow...
Ye Fan leaned against the ship's railing, admiring the scenery outside.
The scenery in this cultivation world might not be much different from what he had seen before, but Ye Fan still enjoyed it immensely.
In the past, when he saw a certain landscape, his first reaction would be how to use the terrain to eliminate enemies, and he never truly looked at what the scenery actually looked like.
Now, when he discarded the thought of fighting and truly appreciated it, he discovered that this world was exceptionally beautiful.
The only thing that annoyed him was the dog system still inside him.
An evil existence that was constantly plotting to turn him into its slave!
After the previous failed suicide attempt at Ziyun Sect, Ye Fan had roughly understood.
Trying to get rid of this dog system by committing suicide was probably not going to work.
However, it wasn't entirely without gain.
At least it proved that his death was a significant threat to the dog system, otherwise, it wouldn't have stopped him.
Ye Fan wasn't in a hurry.
He had plenty of time, and opportunities would come eventually!
"Ye Fan, what are you looking at?" Liang Rujing walked over and glanced curiously outside. "There's nothing special."
"Nothing, just looking around," Ye Fan replied casually.
"Ye Fan, have you ever been to our Daliang Imperial Palace before?"
"No."
"How about I take you to the palace to play later?"
"We'll see."
"Let me tell you, the Imperial Palace is very fun, especially the kitchen."
...
Ten minutes later, Liang Rujing had to give up.
Every time she mentioned anything related to cooks, Ye Fan would decisively change the subject...
"Ye Fan, do you think meat from other bear-type demonic beasts would be as delicious as Little Cute?"
Liang Rujing, settling for second best, started a new topic:
"I plan to raise a bunch of bears when I get back. What do you think?"
"Didn't you say Little Cute is your best friend?" Ye Fan gave her a strange look. "Are you already eyeing its kind so soon?"
"That's right, Little Cute is indeed my best friend." Liang Rujing said righteously. "Now that I've eaten it, I can be with it forever!"
Ye Fan silently grumbled in his heart.
Good heavens, you're not even going to the toilet, are you?
Is she really a little fairy?
Granny Li stood not far away, watching the two chat and felt a wave of emotion.
Looking at them now, the Princess and Ye Fan seemed to be getting along quite well.
If she could truly become good friends with Ye Fan, it would be a great fortune for the Princess.
Although her status was only that of a bodyguard, she had watched Liang Rujing grow from an infant.
In fact, Liang Rujing spent more time with her than with the emperor, empress, or any other princes and princesses.
She had unconsciously taken on the role of a grandmother.
Although the Princess should no longer face the danger of power struggles after giving up her claim to the throne, befriending such a strong individual was still a good thing.
Nothing else particularly happened along the way.
A month later, everyone smoothly arrived at the Imperial City.
The flying ship slowly landed outside the Imperial City, and Ye Fan and the others disembarked one by one.
The Imperial City was vast, and its prosperity was incomparable to a remote place like Ziyun Sect.
Fortunately, Ye Fan had seen a lot of the world and didn't appear too impolite.
"Ye Fan, where are you planning to go next?" Liang Rujing asked quickly as they parted.
Now she had to go back and report, and her immediate priority was to find out Ye Fan's whereabouts.
"We'll find an inn to stay in first," Ye Fan replied casually.
In fact, Ye Fan would have preferred to buy a residence directly, but houses in the Imperial City were not easy to buy.
As for the cultivation identities of his two senior sisters?
Sorry, the Imperial City had plenty of cultivators, if nothing else...
To avoid being unable to find a place to eat for free in the future, Liang Rujing insisted on staying until Ye Fan found an inn before she would leave.
"Ye Fan, let's agree on this first, you can't just change inns without telling me," Liang Rujing said, still a little worried.
If it weren't against the rules, she would have dragged Ye Fan into the palace.
"I won't," Ye Fan replied with a smile. "We'll be staying here until the grand competition begins."
"And you can't just go to other places, or I won't be able to find you," Liang Rujing said pitifully.
"I won't," Ye Fan reached out and ruffled her little head. "You can come find us here anytime."
He reached out and ruffled Liang Rujing's head, a completely subconscious action.
It felt like a grandfather seeing his granddaughter unhappy and comforting her by ruffling her hair.
Granny Li's eyebrows twitched.
However, she ultimately said nothing.
Liang Rujing naturally wouldn't say anything either.
Her mind was entirely occupied with the worry of Ye Fan running away and where she would get free meals, so she had no time to pay attention to these things.
However, someone else reacted.
And the reaction was extremely intense!
"Take your dirty hands off!" a furious roar suddenly came from the side.
Along with the sound, a burly man appeared, followed by a group of guards.
"Swish—!"
The flash of a saber, accompanied by the sound of wind, fiercely slashed towards Ye Fan.
"Stop!" The two senior sisters were about to retaliate, but Liang Rujing spoke first.
"Ninth Sister, this villain is committing such treasonous acts in broad daylight, I must kill him!" the big man yelled, but he still stopped his saber.
"Second Brother, Ye Fan and the others are my good friends," Liang Rujing said with a dark expression. "Are you planning to hurt my good friends?"
"Friends?" The big man's imposing aura visibly weakened. "But no matter how good friends they are, you can't let him touch your head, can you?"
"Huh?" Liang Rujing looked at Ye Fan in confusion. "You just touched my head?"
Ye Fan: ...
Others: ...