Chapter 380 381: Handsome Experts
"I've only been working for a month, and I'm still an intern. My salary is tiny, I have no savings, and I'm actually in debt! What's even more pathetic is that I don't even have a boyfriend… Waaaah…"
Hearing the girl cry gave Chen Dong a headache.
"Alright, alright! We'll pay for the medical bills ourselves!"
Seeing that it was already dinnertime, Chen Dong, who had been away for two years, now found himself back in the modern world and suddenly missed its cuisine. He hadn't reached the Golden Core realm yet, so he couldn't just subsist on morning dew and abstain from grains. He was utterly sick of the Fasting Pills he'd been eating.
"Xiaoli, let's go. I'll take you to get something good to eat!"
Hearing the words "something good to eat," Meng Xuejing's stomach immediately rumbled. She'd been busy all day and hadn't eaten a thing, not to mention she'd just had two crying spells. All that crying had made her hungry.
Chen Dong raised an eyebrow, only then remembering he didn't have any money. His old bank cards, phone, and everything else were long gone. Fortunately, there was a "wallet" right in front of him. He said, "Why don't you come with us? It must be fate that you were the one to find us. Let's have a meal together!"
Meng Xuejing swallowed and then nodded.
In Li Zhixuan's mind, "good food" definitely meant rare treasures that could increase one's cultivation. Now that he was a Fallen Daoist, any chance to eat such a treasure was a precious opportunity. Plus, since they were both injured, what Chen Dong called "good food" would surely speed up their recovery. He immediately scurried to Chen Dong's side, looking excited.
Chen Dong glanced at Li Zhixuan. "You're not planning to go out like that, are you?"
At the moment, Li Zhixuan looked like a mummy, with casts on his legs and arms. Perhaps because the Realm Passage hadn't been fully established, the two of them had been unconscious with multiple fractures all over their bodies when they arrived in the modern world.
Li Zhixuan paused, slightly stunned. "Is there a problem? I saw people outside dressed just like this."
Chen Dong was speechless. "You've probably been cooped up in an Immortal Sect since you were a kid, haven't you? This is obviously how injured people look."
Li Zhixuan said proudly, "How did you know? My master brought me to the sect when I was three months old. I basically never leave except for sect missions."
Chen Dong shook his head in resignation.
Li Zhixuan spread his Divine Sense and saw that the people on the street were not, in fact, dressed like him.
"Then what should I do? Change into a different Vestment Robe? I don't have any in their style."
Chen Dong sighed lightly. "Forget it. We'll just say it's cosplay. Just change into a simple Vestment Robe!"
Due to the resurgence of Spiritual Qi, sects had begun to appear in the public eye, so Meng Xuejing wasn't suspicious of their conversation.
But the next scene left Meng Xuejing dumbfounded. Like a magical girl transformation in an anime, there was a flash of bright light, and before she could see anything clearly, Li Zhixuan was standing before her like a handsome, elegant young master.
The same thing happened with Chen Dong. After a shimmer of rosy light, the bandaged patient transformed into an incomparably handsome man in an ancient style.
Meng Xuejing swallowed again and stammered, "A-are you sure your injuries are okay?"
Li Zhixuan laughed. "A few superficial physical injuries are no big deal. It's just some broken bones. My meridians aren't damaged, so it doesn't affect my strength!"
Chen Dong shook his head and was the first to walk out.
'It's strange,' he thought. 'Mu Qingzhu hasn't sent a single mental message this whole time. Normally, she would have been chattering nonstop by now.'
As he walked, he focused his mind inward and asked, "What's wrong?" He had checked when he first woke up; the Jade Embryo was fine.
He knew he was only alive this time because Mu Qingzhu had shared her lifespan with him.
He and Mu Qingzhu were now like a single entity. Only she could have done something like sharing her lifespan.
Mu Qingzhu's angry mental message came through: "Don't talk to me! You took half my lifespan when I was still just an embryo! I need to hibernate a lot to get it back!"
Mu Qingzhu wasn't exaggerating. She really had given half her lifespan to Chen Dong. Furthermore, in her Jade Embryo form, she could use hibernation to recover a little bit of her life force. It wasn't much, but it was better than nothing.
Hearing this, Chen Dong felt relieved. As long as Mu Qingzhu was okay, that was all that mattered.
The three of them stepped into the elevator.
Li Zhixuan asked curiously, "Why aren't we riding our qi over there? Why do we have to walk so slowly?"
Chen Dong explained, "This is how this world works. You have to get used to it. If you don't want to attract attention, you need to keep a low profile."
Li Zhixuan nodded. As a Daoist in the Wangyou Realm, he was the center of attention wherever he went. In truth, he didn't like that feeling at all, which was why he would enter secluded cultivation whenever he could.
Chen Dong pressed the button, and the elevator started to move.
But just as it started moving, the elevator stopped with a CLANG and plunged into darkness.
Inside the pitch-black elevator, Chen Dong's expression was just as dark. He cursed under his breath, 'This damn luck!' When he was around, even hospital elevators would break down.
"Let's go!"
Meng Xuejing was taken aback. "Go? How are we supposed to go? We should just wait for maintenance!"
She had just thought about taking out her phone for light when Chen Dong swept her into his arms.
Then, the elevator doors were pulled open, and with a WHOOSH, she was carried out. She didn't even get a clear look at how Li Zhixuan, who had been standing next to them, got out either.
Finally, she saw Chen Dong easily pull the elevator doors back into place.
At that moment, she finally understood with perfect clarity: the two handsome men she had run into were absolute masters—masters among masters.