Chapter 103: Old Loli, old friend
When Li Feng was casually talking with Xiao Yunluo about his experience of facing demon cultivators with Danyue Shangxian, Feng Yudie kept looking at the closed eyes of Li Longling next to him.
For some reason, a trace of sympathy arose in her heart. She looked at Xiao Tian, sitting on her shoulder, and silently asked if there was any way to cure her.
Seeing her expression, Xiao Tian rolled his eyes at her, but since Feng Yudie was its master and knowing a bit wouldn’t hurt, he took out the Heavenly Dao Scroll and started reading.
“Hmm…”
Feng Yudie raised her eyebrows slightly. What was it?
“Not much. It can be cured, but there’s nothing you can do now. She was blind from birth.” Xiao Tian frowned slightly, feeling sympathetic, and said, “Her mother is a foundation-building cultivator. When giving birth to her, her heart meridians shattered. Li Feng originally wanted to save her mother, but at her mother’s insistence, he did his best to save her life.”
“…”
Xiao Tian glanced around, feeling a bit helpless, and sighed,
“Ah—Li Feng is quite tragic too. He was originally a Four Spiritual Roots cultivator. With the help of Immortal Danyue, he reluctantly formed his Nascent Soul. However, after forming the Nascent Soul, his cultivation hasn’t progressed. He has been stuck in the early stage of Nascent Soul for almost a thousand years. Now, calculating, his lifespan is almost over.”
“…”
Feng Yudie’s eyes wandered left and right. Xiao Tian sighed helplessly, “Hey— Li Feng is also quite tragic. He was originally a cultivator with four spiritual roots. With the help of the Immortal Danyue, he reluctantly formed the Nascent Soul. But after forming the Nascent Soul, his cultivation has never advanced. He has been stuck in the early stage of Nascent Soul for almost a thousand years. Now, after calculation, his lifespan is almost over.”
“Li Feng’s Daoist companion is also a Four Spiritual Roots cultivator like him. Although it is unclear in the book, I feel this may be why he formed a Daoist companion with the female cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage…”
Feng Yudie took a sip of tea and nodded.
At this moment, Li Feng looked at the sky and saw that it was almost sunset, so he said,
“Junior sister Xiao, you are here to participate in the Chilong Conference, right? There is still some time before the opening of the conference. How about living in the Chilong Mansion these days? Just treat it as if you are in the Xuanxing Sect. If anything happens, please contact the subordinates in the Mansion. Just let people say it.”
“Thank you, senior brother.”
Xiao Yunluo thanked him, then pointed with her sword finger, took out a cherry wood box from the storage bag about the length of her arms, and handed it to Li Feng.
“Senior Brother Li, this is the birthday gift that my mother prepared for you. Before I left the Xuanxing Sect, I was told this gift would be given to the Senior Brother privately. When the birthday banquet comes, I also prepared another birthday gift.”
“Give it to me privately.” Li Feng was a little confused, but hearing that it was from Si Xuanji, he took it with both hands, looked at the wooden box, and asked, “What’s inside?”
“Junior sister, I don’t know. My mother set a restriction on the box.”
“That’s it…” Li Feng nodded half-knowingly and sighed, “It’s been over three hundred years since I’ve seen the Immortal. When Junior Sister Xiao returns, she can convey her gratitude to the Immortal for me.”
“Will do.”
After they walked away, Li Feng took a long breath, then picked up the wooden box Xiao Yunluo gave and gently picked it up with his sword finger.
With a gust of spiritual windswept, the wooden box floated, and the lid slid open. An old sword hilt in the box was covered in scars and even had bright red blood and rust on it.
Li Feng narrowed his eyes slightly, raised his hand, let the sword hilt fly into his hand, and immediately gritted his teeth slightly.
He used This sword when he followed Si Xuanji to fight against the demon cultivators, but it broke during a confrontation with an elder from the Heavenly Demon Sect. Si Xuanji arrived and saved his life.
Li Feng initially thought that the sword was lost, but he didn’t expect that Si Xuanji had been keeping it for him. And if we said Si Xuanji sent this sword hilt over at this time. The meaning was probably worth more than a thousand words.
“Si Xuanji probably has already calculated that my lifespan is nearing its end. As a final gift, this broken sword seems to say, ‘Li Feng, I have never forgotten you, my good friend.’ However, thinking about what I must do next, I also feel that Si Xuanji is warning me—’Don’t do anything foolish.'”
Li Feng didn’t know which meaning Si Xuanji intended, nor did he know if Si Xuanji knew he had made a pact with the demon cultivator. However, when he saw this sword hilt, he was indeed shaken.
At this moment, the experiences of those years battling alongside Si Xuanji against the demon cultivators seemed to be unearthed from the river of his lifetime by this sword. Hundreds of years flashed before his eyes.
“Old woman… hehehe…”
Li Feng chuckled, pinched his nose, and sighed, “This old woman… hehehe…”
A light breeze passed through Li Feng’s pale hair and ears. In the blink of an eye, he snapped back from his reminiscence, glaring outside the stone pavilion with a fierce murderous intent in his eyes.
The visitor was a devilishly charming man in purple clothes. He stood five feet away, quickly bowed, and politely greeted, “Senior Li.”
Li Feng’s eyebrows twitched slightly, asking, “What’s the matter?”
“Senior, I want to remind you that staying alive is more important than anything else. The entire Chilong Mansion will rest on Qianjin’s shoulders if you fall. Even if you don’t care about yourself, you should consider Qianjin. Li Qianjin is only sixteen years old, and with her cultivation only at the Qi Refining Perfection, can she really bear the responsibility of the entire Chilong Mansion?”
“…”
“Senior, the Xian Family has tasked you with guarding the Jiyan spiritual veins, but they don’t care about your life or death. After you’re gone, Li Qianjin will probably be in a desperate situation. Without you, how can she survive in the Zhouxing Territory?”
Li Feng’s eyes narrowed, “Are you done? Get out if you’re done.”
The evil man was slightly startled but continued with a smile, “One more thing, the girl you just met is the young lady of the Xuanxing Sect, right? If you can’t bring yourself to harm her due to old feelings, I’m more than willing to take care of it…”
“Impudent!!”
Li Feng’s eyebrows furrowed, and his Nascent Soul’s spiritual energy became a storm, causing all the spiritual plants in the garden to rustle.
Swish—
A burst of spiritual energy swept past the evil man’s ear, leaving a bloodstain on his left face. However, in the next moment, Li Feng suddenly started coughing.
“Cough cough—cough cough…”
The evil man sighed in relief, continuing, “Senior Li, in half a month, you will become an elder of the Heavenly Demon Sect. Aren’t you ready to sever your ties with the Immortal Family?”
Li Feng spat out a mouthful of blood, gritted his teeth, and said, “That will be half a month later. I am still the mountain owner of Chilong Mountain! You can’t even think about causing trouble in Chilong Mansion!”
The evil man said these words and turned into a purple shadow, disappearing from the pavilion.
After watching him leave, Li Feng closed his eyes and sighed. He looked down at the sword hilt in his hand. After some contemplation, Li Feng gritted his teeth and squeezed the hilt with force, and the sword hilt turned into a faint light between his fingers, falling to the ground and dissolving away.
