Threads Chapter 403-Standing 1
"Goodness, Ling Qi! You just cannot keep out of trouble, can you?"
"So I have been told again and again," Ling Qi said wryly.
The gangly silk wrapped skeleton serving their tea bowed with a flourish, dapper black servant’s robes rustling around its limbs. The empty eye sockets of the horse's skull that made its head glowed with a faint green light.
Ling Qi took a sip from her cup. The balance of the milk with the mellow flavor of the blend was perfect, at least to her unrefined palette. Cai Renxiang would probably have more to say.
"You've really improved your automatons."
LI Siyuin smiled at the praise. "Well, it’s only with my direct attention that they can have so much finesse."
"Still impressive. You'll be able to split off a dozen selves the moment you step into the fourth realm," Ling Qi replied playfully.
"Now, you are just making fun of me with praise. Who even knows if I will reach so high? But that aside, Ling Qi, I am glad you are looking so well. The things I’d heard… I expected worse honestly."
Ling Qi rubbed her bare fingers along the smooth porcelain side of her tea cup. It was still a fresh sensation to touch the world without a layer of medicine-soaked wrappings and qi cushioning. But her hands were bare now and showed no sign of burns.