Chapter 60 'Date'

  I'm exhausted, I've been staring at the computer for several hours and finally managed to write this chapter. Ugh!

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  More than an hour later, Zhao Yang stopped. The meridians inside the 'Thousand Year Wood Heart' had only been combed through by less than thirty percent, but his spirit already felt quite fatigued.

  As for the refining of 'Thousand Year Wood Heart', it's not urgent at this moment, thinking that he had an appointment with Mu Qinglan early in the morning, Zhao Yang also got up and stepped out of the Spirit Gathering Array. Afterwards, he placed the 'Thousand Year Wood Heart' on the cushion inside the Spirit Gathering Array, letting the array gather and nourish it with the heaven and earth spiritual energy.

  It was already past 2:30 in the morning, Zhao Yang stretched his waist and went to the bathroom outside to wash his face casually before going back to bed to sleep.

  Early in the morning, Zhao Yang sat cross-legged to practice his internal energy as usual, then went to the lakeside in the park to practice his fist techniques. After his cultivation broke through to the 'Condensing Energy Phase', when Zhao Yang practiced his fists, his momentum was much more restrained than before, without the loud and clear sounds of thunder and tiger roars, but rather a low and muffled sound, like the rumble of distant thunder, accompanying each punch he threw.

  This is the difference between true energy and internal strength. Internal strength is relatively more external, strong and powerful, with a stronger whistling sound when exerting force, while true energy has a few more rounded and soft parts. However, in terms of power, internal strength is naturally far from true energy.

  Today, by the lake, he didn't meet that ponytail girl, which made Zhao Yang slightly surprised. He had been practicing his fist by the lake for so many days and basically met her every day. However, Zhao Yang didn't pay much attention to it and continued to practice his own fist.

  After practicing for more than half an hour, Zhao Yang returned home.

  It was already after eight o'clock when he returned home, covered in sweat. He quickly took a bath and changed into casual clothes before heading out again.

  He had agreed with Mu Qinglan to meet at 9 o'clock in the morning at the entrance of H University, and now it was almost time.

  "Zhao Yang..."

  Zhao Yang had just arrived at the main gate of H University when he heard Mu Qinglan's shout. He looked up and saw Mu Qinglan standing under the tall stone slab with the university name engraved on it, waving at him.

  "Qing Lan, have you been waiting for a long time?" Zhao Yang hastily walked over quickly.

  Today, Mu Qinglan was dressed in a refreshing and beautiful outfit. Her face had a light makeup, making her skin look exceptionally white and delicate, with a hint of blush. Her long black hair was tied back with her bangs, and she wore a deep red beret on her head. She wore a pale pink short-sleeved T-shirt, with a small backpack slung over her shoulder, and a pair of sneakers on her feet. The overall look exuded a lively and youthful atmosphere, lacking the weakness that she usually gave off, making Zhao Yang feel like he was seeing her in a new light.

  "No, I just came out of the dormitory for a while." Mu Qinglan shook her head and smiled, blinking those bright big eyes: "Zhao Yang, do I look good today?"

  As she spoke, Mu Qinglan's slightly raised small face looked at Zhao Yang with a thread of expectation, just like a child expecting praise from an adult, very spoiled and lovely.

  Zhao Yang smiled slightly and nodded: "Great! I didn't expect Qing Lan to look so beautiful after putting on some light makeup, you see, many people are looking at you!"

  Zhao Yang slightly raised the corner of his lips, with a hint of playful smile, pointing to the left and right, the passing boys couldn't help but cast admiring glances at Mu Qinglan.

  When Zhao Yang praised her like that, Mu Qinglan's cheeks couldn't help but flush with a faint red glow, which was quite becoming. Although she felt a little shy, deep down she was mostly filled with sweet delight. She rarely wore makeup normally, but today she had made an exception and put on some light makeup just for the 'date' with Zhao Yang. As the saying goes, "a woman's beauty is for the one who delights her", it was probably something like that.

  "I don't care if others think it's good-looking or not, as long as you think it's good-looking, hehe!"

  Delighted by Zhao Yang's praise, Mu Qinglan couldn't help but express her inner thoughts. As soon as the words left her mouth, she suddenly realized that they were a bit too revealing, and she immediately felt a little embarrassed, lowering her head while secretly glancing at Zhao Yang with the corner of her eye to observe his expression.

  Zhao Yang is not a person with negative emotional intelligence, so he naturally understands Mu Qinglan's little thoughts. The reason why he hasn't shown any obvious signs of revealing anything to her is mainly due to his current state of mind. When it comes to emotions, he won't deliberately pursue them, and everything will happen naturally.

  At this moment, seeing Mu Qinglan's shy and awkward posture, I couldn't help but feel a little excited. With a slight smile, I naturally stretched out my hand and gently scratched her nose, saying: "Qinglan has always been lovely and beautiful!"

  Mu Qinglan didn't dodge Zhao Yang's intimate movements and didn't think there was anything wrong with it. On the contrary, she felt sweet and happy in her heart.

  After a moment, Mu Qinglan suddenly remembered that today was the day she had agreed to go out and play with Zhao Yang, so she asked: "Zhao Yang, where are we going to play today?"

  "Let's go to Qingyuan Temple instead, the scenery there is pretty good and they have delicious vegetarian dishes. Next to Qingyuan Temple, there's also an amusement park, we can play there after visiting the temple. The only thing is that we need to climb a mountain to get to Qingyuan Temple, I don't know if you can handle it."

  What Zhao Yang said is 'Qingquan Temple' is a very famous tourist attraction in H city, the temple has existed for several hundred years and can be considered an ancient temple. Located on the hundreds of meters high 'Qingniu Mountain', it was named after a clear spring in the backyard of the temple.

  "Hmph, don't underestimate me. I used to go on trips and climb mountains during summer vacation too. My body is fine!" Mu Qinglan said with a cute wrinkled nose.

  "Since you said it's no problem, then let's go to 'Qingquan Temple'!" Zhao Yang smiled and said.

  "Let's go!" Mu Qinglan said.

  "Good."

  Zhao Yang nodded and was about to go with Mu Qinglan to catch a ride when a shout came from behind.

  "Admiring Qinglan?"

  Upon hearing this, Mu Qinglan and Zhao Yang couldn't help but turn their heads in surprise. More than ten meters away, a boy was staring at Mu Qinglan with excitement. Behind him were two girls and another boy, who happened to be Qian Hao, someone who had a pretty good relationship with Zhao Yang.

  Qian Hao also found Zhao Yang and Mu Qinglan, and quickly walked over with a smile: "Zhao Yang, Mu Qinglan, what are you two doing here? You're not on a date, are you? Haha! I've caught you red-handed!"

  Qian Hao was well aware of the subtle relationship between Zhao Yang and Mu Qinglan, and would occasionally tease them about it.

  Zhao Yang glanced at the few people who were also catching up behind Qian Hao, avoiding his teasing words and said: "Are you guys going out to have fun?"

  "Hmm. We had an appointment yesterday, I wanted to invite you along, but I didn't have your phone number and didn't expect to run into you here." Qian Hao said with a smile.

  At this time, the boy who had just stopped Mu Qinglan also walked up to them. He too had heard what Qian Hao and Zhao Yang had said earlier, and couldn't help but give Zhao Yang a glance with a hint of hostility. Then he turned to Mu Qinglan with a smile: "Mu Qinglan, are you free today? Why don't you come play with us?"

  This boy is also a classmate of Zhao Yang and Mu Qinglan, named Zhang Dongcheng.

  After the military training ended two days ago, Zhao Yang and his entire 'Business Administration' major were divided into two classes. Zhao Yang, Mu Qinglan, and Qian Hao all happened to be assigned to the same class.

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