Cultivation is just so scientific!

Yin Shilan maneuvered the Flying Boat, lost in thought as she reminisced about the encounter with Li Shiming in the morning, as well as the lost Array design draft.

As serene as she was by nature, she had little fondness for social interactions and typically devoted herself to studying Arrays.

Perhaps it was because of the embarrassment she felt in her heart, an uncharacteristic lapse she had never experienced before had been seen by a stranger, which led her to use her privileges to check Li Shiming's information and commit his name to memory.

Even after completing her tasks, when she passed by the area where they had met in the morning, she thought of Li Shiming once more.

At that moment, the Array on the Flying Boat detected Li Shiming, who was far away on a paper crane, and Yin Shilan, who was connected to the Array, sensed him as well.

"Is this a coincidence?" Yin Shilan saw Li Shiming through the Array and recalled the help he had offered her that morning, a hopeful glint in her eyes.

By this time, after spending most of the day meditating, her mind had already returned to its usual clarity.

She also thought about her own impropriety; Li Shiming had shielded her from heavy rain so her epiphany would remain undisturbed, yet she had left without saying goodbye, which made her feel uneasy.

If they had never met again, it would have been one thing, but fate had brought Li Shiming into her path once more, and she decided to express her apologies for her earlier rudeness.

When Yin Shilan was within visible distance of Li Shiming, he became aware of the approaching Flying Boat.

It wasn't Li Shiming's fault for not being more attentive with IBMz15; rather, Yin Shilan's Flying Boat possessed an Investigation Array with a much greater detection range than what IBMz15 could perceive through Li Shiming's senses.

Upon noticing the Flying Boat, Li Shiming was initially startled, yet recognizing the vessel from the magnified image provided by IBMz15.

He slowed down the paper crane and waited in place for the Flying Boat to approach.

"It seems the owner has come to retrieve the Array design draft!" he guessed the reason for Yin Shilan's visit. Experience more on My Virtual Library Empire

The Flying Boat stopped beside him and seeing Yin Shilan standing on the deck once again, her dazzling beauty still struck him with a strong sense of impact.

"I've had the honor of meeting Mr. Yin!" Li Shiming bowed deeply in greeting.

"Is Mr. Li heading back to Eagle Beak Island?" Yin Shilan replied with a bow of her own.

Upon asking this question, both were momentarily taken aback.

Li Shiming didn't understand how Yin Shilan could know his surname and where his cultivation dwelling was situated.

He remembered that in their morning encounter, he had not even had the chance to introduce himself before Yin Shilan took off in her Flying Boat.

Yin Shilan, on the other hand, blushed slightly, puzzled at how she, who was widely acknowledged by her elders as unparalleled in intelligence, could have misspoken the moment they met.

Fortunately, this time, she did not turn and flee but took the initiative to break the awkward silence.

"Mr. Li, why don't you sit on the Flying Boat? I'm on my way back to the sect, and it's right along the way!" she said, extending an invitation.

"If that's the case, I'll gladly accept!" Li Shiming was also looking for an opportunity to return the Array draft to Yin Shilan and agreed without hesitation.

Additionally, he was eager to see what differences there were between single-occupant and multi-occupant Flying Boats; he had been contemplating owning a single-occupant vessel himself.

The paper crane stopped on the deck, which he promptly stowed away.

After entering the cabin with Yin Shilan, he was astonished by the interior.

It wasn't the arrangement of the cabin that surprised him, though it was indeed more luxurious than anything he had seen before, with a white fur carpet on the floor—key to this was the carpet's pulsation with Spiritual Energy, which likely originated from the pelt of a spirit beast.

Stepping on it, he found it extremely soft and resilient.

Above them hung a Formation Lamp powered by Spirit Stones—an object he had long wished to study but unfortunately could only see in the halls of his sect, where a closer inspection was impossible.

Even at the Changming Island Market, he had never seen such Spirit Stone-powered Formation Lamps for sale.

The lamp served not only as a source of light but also to regulate the temperature, maintaining a constant climate within a space.

Cultivators who desired illumination could simply use a Night Pearl, an object of immense value to mortals, but in the Cultivation World, it wasn't even worth one Spirit Stone.

What truly astonished Li Shiming was the size of the space within the cabin.

From the outside, it seemed no more than around ten square meters, yet inside, the cabin expanded to a vast area of a hundred square meters.

"Mr. Li, please have a seat!" Yin Shilan gestured gracefully.

She took the opportunity to fetch something from a nearby cabinet, wondering to herself why she had invited Li Shiming into her boat in the first place; she did not understand what had prompted her to speak those words of invitation.

After all, no man had ever set foot in her Flying Boat before, and in the span of a single day, she had broken many of her own precedents.

If she hadn't been aware of Li Shiming's background and sensed that he was merely at the Qi Refining Third Level, she would have suspectedthat he might have cultivated some technique capable of influencing others' minds.

She took out a Jade Cup, brewed a pot of Spiritual Tea, poured it into the cup, and placed it on the low table in front of Li Shiming.

Li Shiming had planted his own spirit tea tree, but it was still in the process of recovering, so he had never harvested the tea himself.

The only time he had tasted Spiritual Tea was at Cultivator Gu Jia in Central Capital.

Although his experience with Spiritual Tea was limited, he could tell just from the fragrance that the tea before him was extraordinarily valuable.

The scent alone seemed to invigorate the Spiritual Energy Vortex within him, accelerating its rotation significantly.

He picked up the Jade Cup, which remained cool to the touch despite containing hot tea.

Within the Jade Cup, the Spiritual Tea, with most of its Spiritual Energy sealed within, swirled in a fascinating manner, with only a fraction of the energy escaping into the air.