Chapter 468: Protagonist, growth
The demonic cultivators’ turmoil had ended. Now, the Taibai Sect’s disciples were busy coordinating the attics and spiritual fields damaged by the demonic cultivators. They would repair them if they could, and if they couldn’t, they would completely tear them down and rebuild them. The elders of the Taibai Sect were also discussing rearrangements of the sect formation.
After the elders searched the souls of several remaining demonic cultivators, they discovered that although there seemed to be no movement among the demonic cultivators in the Eastern Domain, in fact, their minions were spread all over the Southern Domain.
Before this surprise attack, the demonic cultivator had spent thousands of years secretly exploring the position of the Taibai Sect’s formation. Only in this way did those core-formation and several Nascent Soul stage cultivators attacked the Twelve Peaks so quickly.
There were many casualties among the Qi Refining Stage disciples in the sect, but no elders above the Nascent Soul Stage died.
Although their ancestor had turned into a mortal, the leaders of the Hehuan Sect and Gudu Sect had fallen. Those two sects would not be able to make any big waves for at least the next thousand years. Unless there were cultivators from the two sects who were in the late stage of spiritual transformation and stepped into the void realm, but the possibility was slim.
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The main peak of Taibai Sect was lively.
Ta-ta… Ta!
The sound of clashing wooden swords filled the court.
In the small pavilion on the side of the lotus pond, Xiao Yunluo was wearing a lavender fairy dress. She sat in front of a stone table filled with pastries and tea. She looked at Yun Tianchong and Pei Lianxue who were sparring with swords in the yard with breaks of cold sweat.
From a distance of thirty feet, she and the trees beside the pavilion could clearly feel the sword wind created by each swing of their swords.
What surprised her even more was that Pei Lianxue had been fighting Yun Tianchong for nearly a quarter of an hour without losing.
Although Yun Tianchong deliberately suppressed his cultivation and even let it go but regardless of his personality, he was still a cultivator who was personally taught by the Sword Ancestor at a young age, understood the magic power of the sword, and had reached the late stage of spiritual transformation.
Pei Lianxue had touched more swords than he had poked at many girls…
Lianxue is so scary…
Xiao Yunluo shrank her head and suddenly felt that she had made the right choice by switching from swords to martial arts. On the same track as Lianxue, she estimated that she would never be able to catch up with her.
“Xiao Third!! Xiao Third!!”
?
“Um?”
Ah Ying, who was pecking at the crumbs of pastries on the table, flicked his tongue inexplicably.
Xiao Yunluo was stunned for a moment, then twisted her eyebrows and shook Ah Ying’s hand away, holding it in front of her:
“Who said that? After all… She is also a second wife. My cultivation level is higher than that of Li Longling and Yun Yiyi…”
Ah Ying stared at her with contempt and said nothing.
Seeing its look, Xiao Yunluo suddenly felt like a fool. Why was she competing with a parrot?
Immediately, she picked up the cake and stuffed it into Ah Ying’s mouth:
“Go and eat yours!”
But when she thought about it again, she noticed that something was wrong.
Ah Ying came to Taibai Sect, so where did her mother go?
It was said before that she and Zu Yuan killed the masters of the Gu Poison Sect and the Hehuan Sect, but why didn’t she show up in front of her?
Thinking of this, Xiao Yunluo couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed. After she came back from Donghuang last time, her mother suddenly told her to cut off the relationship and that she would only be master and apprentice from now on. Aunt Qiu also told her that it might not be a bad thing…
She didn’t feel sad at all.
As long as she could remember, except for the last time in the Central Domain, she could count the number of times she had met Si Xuanji on two hands. When she was a child, she basically grew up under the joint care of Aunt Qiu, Qi Baishi, and other Xuanxing Sect elders.
Compared to her mother, Si Xuanji was indeed more like her master than her mother.
But!
Since there was no difference, why didn’t her master recognize her as her daughter?
The sword wind blew from thirty feet away, causing the lavender hair to sway.
Xiao Yunluo held up her cheeks, looked up at the dragon horns on her forehead, puffed up her cheeks, and blew her bangs.
Puzzling for a hundred times, she finally gave up thinking about it and raised her head again toward the rolling white clouds above.
I wonder where Ye Anping went…
Yesterday afternoon, she went to the Heavenly Pavilion to ask Zu Yuan.
As a result, Zu Yuan suddenly felt inexplicably happy when he heard that she was here to ask about “Ye Anping”. But the next moment he took a deep breath as if he thought of something, his expression suddenly became serious again, he stared at her for a long time and then said awkwardly:
“Ye kid is looking for a place to form a nascent soul.”
As for where exactly he went, Zu Yuan said that he didn’t know.
When asked which direction they were going, Zu Yuan said he didn’t know.
In the end, Xiao Yunluo had no choice but to bow and leave. But just before she turned around and flew out of the Heavenly Pavilion, she heard Zu Yuan say “Ouch~~” and then burst into laughter.
He laughed so hard that she felt scared.
Xiao Yunluo curled her lips slightly, and after thinking that the last time was in Nanke Immortal City, she was a little worried that Ye Anping would suddenly have a burst of yang energy or something…
“Really, he just left without saying hello.”
“Stealing fragrance and stealing jade!! Stealing fragrance and stealing jade!!”
?
Xiao Yunluo was stunned again, then frowned and stared at Ah Ying, and quickly pinched its mouth:
“What are you talking about? How could Anping go out to find a girl? Do you think Anping is…”
Xiao Yunluo’s eyes couldn’t help but fall on Yun Tianchong, who was concentrating on fighting Pei Lianxue, but after hesitating for a while, she quickly shook her head, thinking it was impossible, and poked Ah Ying’s belly and said:
“If you slander Anping again, Lingxue will hear you soon, and she will stew you and feed you to the Second Idiot.”
“I said her! I said her!”
Xiao Yunluo didn’t understand and tilted her head: “Huh?”
“The beauty and jade were stolen!! The beauty and jade were stolen!!”
“?” Xiao Yunluo raised her eyebrows and asked, “Anping is a man, how could he be Xiangyu…”
But the next moment, she thought for a while, pursed her lips and lowered her head with a red face:
“…Although, it does smell very good…”
The question mark moved to Ah Ying’s head. It seemed that Xiao Yunluo was hopeless. It shook its head like an old man and exhaled, then closed its mouth and continued to peck at its sweet-scented osmanthus cake.
After a while, a spiritual light flashed across the courtyard.
Zu Lingzhi was wearing a black and white young master’s Daoist robe. She carried the box and landed in front of the pavilion. She saw Pei Lianxue who was facing off against Yun Tianchong. She stared at the spot in wonder for a while, then she also walked back to the pavilion and put the sword in her hand and the box was delivered to Xiao Yunluo.
After all, Zu Yuan had lived for 20,000 years, and there were actually not many descendants in his clan. If the side branches were broken down and the distant relatives outside the four lines were added together, there were more than a thousand people in total, but none of them were exceptionally talented. Most of them only had double spiritual roots or a triple spiritual roots.
Finally, after he discussed with the elders of the sect for a while, the position of the young master temporarily fell on Zu Lingzhi’s shoulders.
Although Zu Lingzhi was young, she was still the only Heavenly Spiritual Root cultivator among the descendants of the Zu family.
As long as she could successfully transform into a god, she could take the position of the sect leader.
As for now, Elder Cao, Elder Liu and others who had followed Zu Yuan for thousands of years were jointly handling the affairs within the sect.
Zu Lingzhi walked up to Xiao Yunluo and put the box on the table:
“Young Master Xiao… I brought you some cakes and fragrant tea.”
“Junior Sister Zu, didn’t you just come to see Second… Feng Yudie this morning? Why are you here again before noon?”
“Ah… Fairy Feng is my savior after all.” Zu Lingzhi rubbed her fingers shyly, like a little girl in love, and asked in a low voice, “Is she awake?”
“Not yet.”
“Then I’ll go see her…”
“Um.”
Xiao Yunluo didn’t care and nodded to show that she could do it herself, but Zu Lingzhi had no intention of leaving. She stood in front of Xiao Yunluo and opened and closed her lips several times.
Xiao Yunluo was stunned for a moment, expressed that she didn’t mind, and asked:
“…Say.”
“Well, I wonder if Young Master Xiao can tell me what Senior Sister Feng likes?”
“Roast chicken… Let’s do it.”
“Anything else?”
“Besides…”
Ta-ta-!
The sound of beating wooden swords came from a distance. Xiao Yunluo couldn’t help but look over. After hesitating for a while, she felt that there was nothing unspeakable, so she pointed at Pei Lianxue with her chin and said:
“And Lianxue.”
Zu Lingzhi turned around and asked doubtfully:
“Does she like Fairy Pei?”
“Well, it’s probably because of her master. She has always liked girls.”
“Ah?!” Zu Lingzhi was stunned. After being stunned for a long time, she asked again, “But… She and Ye Anping…”
“She has nothing to do with Ye Anping! She has always wanted to marry Lianxue.”
“That’s it…”
And when Zu Lingzhi just walked out of the moon-shaped door not far away.
Despair–!
With a crisp sound, the spirit sword in Pei Lianxue’s hand suddenly broke into two halves, and the first half flew past the side of Xiao Yunluo’s cheek like an arrow, frightening her to hold her breath.
“Hiss–”
Yun Tianchong let out a long breath and threw the wooden sword full of holes in his hand to his side. He looked at Pei Lianxue who was pushed back a few steps by him. Although his figure was very comfortable and relaxed, his forehead was already covered with cloth. Full of cold sweat.
If he wasn’t afraid that Pei Lianxue’s “dad” in her storage bag would rush out and scold him for being worthless, he would really want to shout “Oh my god!! This girl is so unbelievable…””
“Hey, Pei girl, you are still a little tender!”
Pei Lianxue puffed up her cheeks, patted her skirt, took out another intact wooden sword from the storage bag, and said:
“Sect Master Yun, please enlighten me again!”
Immediately, she rushed forward with another step, causing Yun Tianchong to take a breath of air: Hiss – are you coming again? Forty wooden swords have been broken!! Oh my God~~! !
“Hiss–”
Ta-ta-ta…
The sound of the wooden sword knocking stopped for only three breaths before it started ringing again.
…
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The flower window was half open, and the sun shines on the window lattice, reflecting the shadow of the flowers and leaves of the pear tree outside the house on the couch by the window. Her eyes were closed, and she was only holding a lavender robe in her hand on the face of the lovely silver-haired girl.
On the round table in the house, Xiao Tian was full of energy and bright eyes. He was holding a branch he picked up from the window and danced like a tiger.
It didn’t know where Xue got the wooden sword, but since Xue had started practicing swordsmanship, how could it not do it?!
Waiting for Ye Anping to give form a nascent soul, it will ask Ye Anping to buy it a useful weapon!
The next time it sees Xue, it will knock Xue to her knees and make her call him, “Grandpa Tian! Stop hitting her! I was wrong!!”
“Snort!!”
It was all because of his incompetence.
If he hadn’t been defeated by Xue, how could it have been possible for Gu Mingxin to kiss his Anping?
If Gu Mingxin hadn’t kissed it safely, his Feng Yudie wouldn’t have slept for so long because of the inner demon.
The original sin of everything was that he was too weak!
“I want to become stronger!! Ahhh——!”
The branch suddenly hit the teapot on the table, and with a “Crash”, the teapot slipped from the edge of the table and shattered into pieces.
Feng Yudie, who was lying quietly on the bed, seemed to have heard the noise and opened her eyes in a daze. However, she was shaken by the sunlight coming through the crack in the window and raised her left hand to cover it.
“Hmm… Yu Die?”
Feng Yudie was stunned for a moment, suddenly sat up from the bed, looked around anxiously, and shouted:
“Young Master Ye!!”
Without seeing Ye Anping, she moved to get out of bed, but perhaps because she had no strength after sleeping for too long, it took a lot of effort to just move her legs out of bed.
Xiao Tian saw Feng Yudie’s anxious and pale face at the moment, feeling relieved and distressed at the same time. He quickly flew over and said comfortingly:
“Anping is fine. He went out to find a place to form a nascent soul.”
“Can…”
“He has the spiritual roots of the old man Zu Yuan, and now he is also a pseudo-heavenly spiritual root cultivator. Moreover, the most dangerous first thunder tribulation has been passed. The remaining thirty-five thunder tribulations will remain harmless unless he deliberately wants to be killed by the Thunder Tribulation, otherwise, it would never be able to threaten him.”
“…”
Feng Yudie listened and pondered for a long time. Suddenly she realized that her right hand was holding a lavender robe tightly. After hesitating for a while, she looked up at Xiao Tian with doubtful eyes and asked about the origin of the robe.
“Hehe… You fainted at that time. When Anping carried you back to the main peak, you refused to let go, so Anping simply took off the robe.”
Xiao Tian smiled like an aunt, sat on Feng Yudie’s shoulder, and poked her cheek:
“Girl Xiao came over several times in the past few days and wanted to take out the robe, but you just refused to let go, so she let you hold on to it.”
“Oh…”
Feng Yudie nodded weakly and looked at Ye Anping’s robe in her hand. After being stunned for a long time, she slowly lifted it up and put it to the tip of her nose for a sniff.
“Suck…”
Even though it had been several days and it was already filled with the smell of the current bed and her own body fragrance, for some reason just by smelling it, she felt warm in her heart, as if Ye Anping was beside her.
A faint blush gradually appeared on her face, which was pale from waking up.
Seeing her like this, Xiao Tian crossed his chest as if he was one month old, and said in an old-fashioned way:
“Hehe… You rely on Anping, right? Don’t you feel panicked when you can’t see him? Yudie… This is love, hum~”
Feng Yudie bit her lip gently and did not refute. She remembered what she blurted out in front of Gu Mingxin in a chaotic situation.
“…”
“Yudie, don’t be embarrassed~ Come on! speak out! I’ll tell Anping for you then! Come~~Ah… Read with me. Happiness, joyous.”
Feng Yudie curled her lips slightly, glanced at it indifferently, frowned and said:
“You useless guy, you’re so annoying, shut up! Let me think about it!!”
“Hmm~ That’s cool… Hee hee – just tell me if you want to say anything, I’ll be right next to you.”
“…”
Watching Xiao Tian return to the table to practice his sword, Feng Yudie sat on the edge of the bed, looking down at her pair of bare feet on the wooden floor, and then raised her hands to tighten her hair. She stroked it, then seemed to think of something, touched around, took the storage bag in her hand, and called out the portrait she bought in Nanke Immortal City at that time.
Wow——
The scroll was unfolded, and the solemn and dark-colored young man reflected in her golden eyes, causing his pupils to tremble slightly.
Before she knew it, she was entranced.
Xiao Tian, who was dancing his sword at the side, had even reached the hundredth stroke of his sword, but Feng Yudie was still sitting on the bedside holding the scroll, staring at the person in the painting, only blinking from time to time.
“Hey hey hey…”
It was also at this time that two knocks on the door rang.
Bang bang——
Feng Yudie was so frightened that she quickly closed the scroll in her hand and hid it under her buttocks. She looked up and saw that the Taibai Sect girl she had rescued from Gu Mingxin opened the door and poked her head in.
——Zu… What does Zu mean?
Zu Lingzhi was a little surprised when she saw Feng Yudie sitting by the bed. She quickly walked over, took out some pills from the storage bag, gave them to her, and sat aside:
“Fairy Feng, these are some high-grade spirit-gathering pills. You need to take them first to recuperate your health. You have been sleeping for so long. If it hadn’t been for you before, I would have died at the hands of that demonic cultivator pretending to be a Taibai Sect disciple. ”
Feng Yudie nodded dully, and simply accepted it, unscrewed the cork of the bottle, poured two pills into her mouth, chewed and swallowed, and then stuck out her tongue in pain:
“Slightly… Um, you’re welcome.”
However, when she looked at Zu Lingzhi, she found that Zu Lingzhi seemed to be preparing mentally, blushing and taking a few deep breaths:
“Fairy Feng, um… I heard from Young Master Xiao that you like girls… Right?”
?
Feng Yudie was stunned and didn’t respond. She didn’t understand why she asked this question: “…”
Seeing that Feng Yudie did not deny it, Zu Lingzhi smiled shyly and said:
“I don’t mind girls… Fairy Feng saved me. I also want to repay Fairy Feng, if possible! Would Fairy Feng like to consider it? I know Fairy Feng likes Fairy Pei… But it doesn’t mean that there can only be one Daoist companion.”
After hearing this, Xiao Tian, who was standing on the table, suddenly bared his teeth and took a deep breath:
“Hiss–”
His Feng Yudie finally managed to be straightened by Anping. Why did another Zu Lingzhi suddenly appear and want to take his Feng Yudie back?
As soon as he narrowed his eyes, Xiao Tian wanted to fly up and kick Zu Lingzhi in the face.
However, when it just jumped up, Feng Yudie twisted her eyebrows and asked:
“How can we be Daoist companions if we don’t even have a single sparrow?”
Xiao Tian: “?”
Xiao Tian was stunned. He felt as if he had heard these words from Yun Jiujiu’s mouth…
Zu Lingzhi was also stunned. She had obviously been mentally preparing outside for a while before entering the house. After all, in her original concept, the harmony of yin and yang was common sense.
But she didn’t care, she could accept both vaginas.
But now when she heard Feng Yudie’s rhetorical question, she was immediately dumbfounded…
“Ah… But Fairy Feng… Don’t you like girls?”
“But girls and girls can’t have children.” Feng Yudie twisted her eyebrows and asked, “Miss Zu, don’t you even know this?”
“I know… No… I don’t know… No… I…”
“The crane will not come with a child in its mouth.”
“…”
Zu Lingzhi watched Feng Yudie explain these things to her seriously. She didn’t know what to say for a moment. After opening and closing her lips and teeth several times, she simply closed them.
The room was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
After a while, Xiao Tian seemed to be transformed into an old mother who “Saw that her son had been stupid for more than twenty years and suddenly returned to normal one day.” Tears filled his eyes, and he pounced on Feng Yudie’s head and grabbed her:
“Waaaa!! Feng Yudie!!! My Feng Yudie!!! You have grown up! My Feng Yudie!!!”
Zu Lingzhi finally sorted out the mess at this moment and asked as if she breathed a sigh of relief:
“Then, after all, I have to repay Fairy Feng. Is there anything that Fairy Feng lacks? Spiritual stones, elixirs, heavenly materials and earthly treasures, pavilions, caves, even if Fairy Feng wants to be an elder of Taibai Sect, I will help you get it.”
Feng Yudie peeled off the little sky on her head, thought for a while, her eyes lit up, and she squinted and said:
“Spiritual stones, the more, the better.”
At least it was better than saying “You can give me anything”. It’s good to be straightforward… Zu Lingzhi nodded, thought for a while, and asked:
“Then can I make one more small request?”
“Um?”
“Fairy Feng can come to the Taibai Sect if you have nothing to do in the future, and I will take you to visit the market.” Zu Lingzhi stroked the hairs on her ears, lowered her eyes, and said, “Don’t think I am the great-nephew of Tianyun Daoist Immortal. Actually I… I don’t have many friends.”
“Okay.”
“By the way, I will be the young master of Taibai Sect from now on! Grandpa has lost all his cultivation. If you have anything to do in the future, just send me a letter. As long as it is not too much, I will agree!”
“Good.”
“Then… I won’t disturb your rest. I have to help the sect disciples plan the restoration of the spiritual field, so I’ll take my leave now. By the way, you can just call me Ling Zhi from now on.”
“Okay, Ling Zhi.”
Zu Lingzhi smiled, walked out of the house quietly, closed the door slowly, and then seemed to exhale heavily, pursed her lips and leaned in front of the door because she was rejected by the first person she liked. She secretly rejoiced for a while and then headed toward the mountainside with her sword.
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