Chapter 356: Senior Brother, Online Dating
After the winter rain, the mountain forest was filled with the fragrance of grass leaves. Amidst the chirping of kingfishers in the forest, Ye Anping woke up leisurely. He sat up and felt that his body, which had been scarred by lightning, had returned to its original state overnight, and he understood what happened last night.
Ye Anping showed a little helplessness, turned his head, and looked at a simple clothes hanger placed next to the bed, then opened his collar and looked at his body. Hanging on the hanger were the clothes he wore when he went through the tribulation yesterday. However, the clothes that should have been stained by mud and dust were as clean as new. The same went for his body, which was as white and clean as if he had just taken a shower.
It seemed that after Si Xuanji helped him repair his body which was riddled with wounds, she also didn’t forget to wipe his body clean, and also used spiritual magic to wash and dry his clothes.
“This is a huge favor.” Ye Anping sighed lightly, moved off the bed, and went to the table where he left the letter.
The tea leaves and elixirs he had placed there on the table, as well as Si Xuanji’s small piece of cloth, were also gone, replaced by a letter written in feminine calligraphy. He picked up the letter and scanned it line by line, smiling inadvertently on his face.
“Master Tianji…” If he remembered correctly, this Daoist name was one of the countless vests that Si Xuanji wore when she was young. It was also one of the few vests that had not fallen off its horse so far.
There were not many descriptions of Si Xuanji’s past in the game, and they were quite fragmented. Just like archeology, when players were doing side quests or completing collection achievements, they could discover Si Xuanji’s various vests from many monuments in the four regions. By piecing it together, they could get a rough glimpse of her life.
Si Xuanji was born into a wealthy mortal family. She grew up in a good environment and practiced martial arts since she was a child. However, when she was more than ten years old, she suddenly encountered war in the world, and martial arts spread everywhere, so she simply ran away from home with a green bamboo sword and went to a place called Jianghu and was determined to become a famous martial arts hero in the world.
A few years later, by chance, she obtained a cultivator’s technique from the cave of a deceased cultivator. She began to learn and explore on her own, exercise her body and Qi, and then relied on the cultivator’s technique to survive in the world of mortals. Set off waves of waves. But not long after, she was spotted by a cultivator. Because there was an unwritten rule among cultivators – Cultivators were not allowed to cause trouble in the mortal realm.
Seeing that Si Xuanji was a cultivator with perfect Qi refining, the man thought she was from a certain immortal sect, so he immediately took action and took her back to the immortal realm for interrogation.
After interrogation, it was discovered that Si Xuanji was one of the few cultivators in the world who could transform into an immortal from the mortal world by relying on her intelligence and luck.
Since then, Si Xuanji had stayed in the Immortal Realm, no longer as a mortal, but as a cultivator. She was sent to a now-defunct Immortal Sect to start practicing. Since she officially became a cultivator, the path to becoming a hero that she had dreamed about since she was a child had been completely cut off. Jianghu and Hero also became Si Xuanji’s current obsession.
Ye Anping recalled this point, thought to himself, then took out a pen and paper, and wrote:
“The world is constantly storming.
The younger generation boldly wants to invite the seniors to take a stroll in Hongmeng.
If the senior doesn’t mind, can you wait for the junior to wake up next time? The juniors will prepare tea and thank the seniors in person.
——Ye Shaoxia”
Then, he took out a can of tea leaves and pressed them on the paper.
Ye Anping changed his clothes and left the house, came to the yard, and took out his spiritual sword.
Swish——
In the small courtyard in the forest, a cold light flashed. Ye Anping held the Snow Spirit Sword horizontally and rubbed his fingers over the tiny scratches left on the Snow Spirit Sword after thousands of years of experience. Then, he pointed his sword diagonally at the ground, took a deep breath, and started practicing the sword…
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Silver-gray clouds were galloping in the sky, and the cold current was rolling. The winter sun set and rose, and heavy snow fell and then stopped. The vegetation withered and wild animals hibernated.
Twelve days later, golden thunder leaped down. Si Xuanji also appeared in the small forest courtyard on time. Looking at Ye Anping who was covered in wounds, she stepped forward and helped him to the bed in the house, changing clothes and bathing him.
After seeing the letter left by Ye Anping, a slight smile appeared in her yin and yang eyes, she pursed her lips and looked sideways at Ye Anping, who was unconscious on the bed, “It’s quite cute… And Ye Shaoxia.”
She wrote a reply and left:
“It’s a small favor, why do I need you, a junior, to repay this great hero? I will come every 12 days. Just remember to prepare snacks and tea.”
Then she took off her clothes and walked to the bed.
Jingle Bell…
At dawn the next day, Ye Anping also got up and came to the table. He smiled and put the letter into his storage bag. After thinking for a while, he wrote a new letter:
“I wonder why Senior Tianji doesn’t want to show up? Could it be that Senior suffers from some hidden disease? Please relax, Senior. You have been a life-saving grace to this junior. No matter how you look, this junior will never dislike you.”
Then, he went to prepare the medicinal powder for the fourth thunder tribulation and condensed his energy to prepare.
The sun and the moon passed by. Twelve days later, Si Xuanji came to the house and saw the letter left by Ye Anping. There was a little emotion in her eyes. She glanced back at the unconscious Ye Anping and wrote:
“Boy, don’t you want to live anymore? Believe it or not, I won’t come here anymore. I still have a hidden illness.
At dawn the next day, when Ye Anping got up and changed his clothes, he saw a “bastard” drawn on his forehead. He felt helpless and wanted to laugh at the same time, so he continued to write:
“Junior apologizes for what I said before. In my imagination, Hero Tianji should be peerless and independent. You look at Qingren City and then Qingren Country. You have long hair, you are petite and exquisite, you have feathery eyebrows and starry eyes, and you are as pretty as three. Spring peach…”
Twelve days later, Si Xuanji came to the house as usual. Seeing the boasts all night long, she curled her lips and wrote back:
“So this is what I looked like in your imagination? I am not small. I am as tall as a seedling and my chest is as full as the moon.”
Ye Anping, wearing a heavy winter coat, smiled toothily and replied:
“Senior Tianji, please forgive me for speaking bluntly. Generally, only small girls can boast like this.”
Si Xuanji curled her lips and stamped her feet, pinching Ye Anping’s face until it became swollen, and leaving a long row of teeth marks on his shoulder, “I’m angry, hum! I won’t come! Just wish yourself well!”
When Ye Anping saw it, he was slightly frightened, thinking that he had made the old loli angry because of his joke, so he quickly apologized, “Please forgive me for overstepping my bounds, junior. I have prepared some snacks baked by my own hands, hoping to gain forgiveness from my senior.”
Si Xuanji came here on time on the night of the thunder tribulation on the 12th, ate the biscuits he had laid out before the tribulation, and wrote:
“You want to send me away with a snack? I’m not that easy to coax. Every time I come, I don’t see your snack, so I turn around and leave. You can figure it out…”
“Thank you for your forgiveness, senior. I asked someone to go to Nantian in the Western Domain to buy some local spirit tea melon seeds. I sent them back to senior for tasting.”
“The tea and melon seeds from Tianzhu Mountain are the best in the four regions. Spring has passed, and I have brought you two sets of clothes for you to change into. I have placed them next to your pillow. Remember to change into them.”
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The conversation that happened every 12 days had never stopped since the first thunderstorm in early winter.
From time to time, when Liang Zhu and Ye Wan’er sent spirit stones and elixirs to Ye Anping, they would also bring Ahting and Tong Zilan to visit him, which also shared a little of Ye Anping’s loneliness of guarding the lonely mountain alone. The content of the letters with Si Xuanji gradually changed from greetings and thanks to something like a diary.
Ye Anping asked Liang Zhu to bring him some flower seeds, and when he was relaxing, he opened a small flower field in the courtyard.
From the beginning when it could not sprout, to Si Xuanji’s promotion, it grew the first flowering seedling. It took several months for the flower to bloom and fall.
Every time Si Xuanji came over, she would always bring him some gadgets, such as a small potted plant a change of clothes, or some small toys to relieve his boredom, and even give him some questions or couplets to test him. He saw his bangs grow to cover his eyes several times and even trimmed his hair while he was unconscious.
Although Ye Anping felt that his hair was cut weirdly, he had no choice but to trim it with scissors, but then Si Xuanji scolded him again: “I cut it so beautifully for you, why are you cutting it yourself?”
Sometimes, Si Xuanji would leave a pair of obscene pants or a hairpin there.
Ye Anping would also wash it for her and put it next to the letter to remind her to take it when she came.
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Worked at sunrise and rested at sunset. One year, time flew like an arrow. Ye Anping also gradually realized the expectations of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.
The conversation he had with Si Xuanji twelve days apart had become the thing he was most looking forward to during the days when he was alone in the lonely mountain. If he hadn’t known that the person who replied was Si Xuanji, he would have already captured the heart of the person who replied.
One year passed, and only the last eleven of the original seventy-two thunder tribulations were left.
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Black clouds covered the moon, and light snow arrived unexpectedly. Snowflakes were like flying willow catkins, sweeping over this mountain peak that was already filled with the aura of heaven. Ye Anping woke up from his bedside as usual on the second day after the thunderstorm.
Looking forward to Si Xuanji’s reply this time, he calmed down and quickly sat up from the bed. When he sat up, a little golden man poked his head through the wall, “Anping, are you here?”
Xiao Tian seemed unsure, looking at the room with a worried look on his face, and finally, his eyes fell on his face.
After confirming that it was Ye Anping, its eyes suddenly lit up, and with a whoosh, it flew over with a golden light and touched Ye Anping’s face, “Anping, I miss you so much!”
“…”
Ye Anping was speechless for a while, but when he saw Xiao Tian, he was quite emotional. He didn’t wave his hands to drive him away, but let it hug his face and rub it for a while.
“Xiao Tian, how are my junior sisters and others doing with their elixir formation?”
Upon hearing this, Xiao Tian excitedly circled Ye Anping a few times like a mosquito, then sat down on his shoulder and said, “Seven days ago, Pei girl formed a pill, and she was the last to come out of seclusion. After Yudie saw her coming out, she immediately asked me to run over and tell you the news.”
“So, what happened during the process of core formation?”
“No, Xuanxing Sect asked Elder Qin from Tianyun Peak and Danshu from Yue Quan Peak to accompany them, two elders in the late Nascent Soul stage. No accidents occurred. In the past two years, the three of them have lived in Elder Qin’s cave.”
“That’s good.” Ye Anping breathed a sigh of relief, then stood up, walked to the table in the room, and looked intently at Si Xuanji’s letter.
In the letter, Si Xuanji also hinted to him about the success of his junior sister and others’ core formation, “Young Master Ye, a few days ago the Xuanxing Sect’s Heavenly spirit was charged, and three cores appeared one after another. It seems that there are three more cultivators of the Heavenly Dao Golden Cores in the Western Domain. I will go and inquire about them in a few days.”
It seemed that Si Xuanji also wanted to make him feel at ease. However, he had never worried about it. Whether it was Xiao Yunluo or his junior sister, they had qualifications that he could not match, let alone Feng Yudie. Moreover, the qualifications were better than his, and all the resources were no less than his.
How could it be possible to fail to form the elixir in this way?
Ye Anping was silent for a while, then picked up a pen and paper from the side and wrote:
“Those three people from the Xuanxing Sect are all acquainted with the juniors. If the seniors don’t mind, could you help the juniors convey a message to the three of them—I formed the elixir very smoothly, but it just takes a little more time. I will go there as soon as the elixir is completed. See you all.”
After putting away the pen, Ye Anping breathed a sigh of relief.
Xiao Tian on the side looked confused, tilted his head, and asked, “Anping, who are you writing to?”
“Master Tianji.”
“Um! Tianji…” Xiao Tian twisted his eyebrows and continued to ask, “Who is it?”
“She is an expert who helped me form the core. Thanks to her help in the past two years, I have been able to live peacefully until now. Otherwise, I might have died in the thunder tribulation of heaven.”
“Heavenly Thunder Tribulation…”
Xiao Tian looked surprised when he heard this. Without saying a word, he flew up and plunged his head directly into Ye Anping’s stomach.
?
Ye Anping had a dark look on his face, always feeling a little curious. After a while, it poked its head out with a surprised look on its face, flew to Ye Anping, twisted its eyebrows, and scolded,
“Anping! …How can you go through the heavenly thunder tribulation? Anping, although… the Book of Heavenly Dao recognizes you as its master, you still have dual spiritual roots. Do you know how dangerous this is?”
“I know…”
“What do you know? “Xiao Tian cursed anxiously, “It is recorded in the Heavenly Dao Scroll that there are only two people in the past thousand years who wanted to use the dual spiritual root qualifications to form the Heavenly Dao Golden Pill. And even among these two people, one of them died because of the painful process of core formation that not long after the elixir was completed, he fell into the calamity of inner demons and died.”
“Don’t worry, I’m fine.”
“What a good thing!! You…”
Xiao Tian seemed to be about to burst into tears. He bit his lips lightly and suddenly realized that Ye Anping had been devastated by the thunder and calamity of heaven in the past two years, and he felt extremely distressed for a moment.
This Heavenly Thunder Tribulation was enough to make him feel the severe pain of thousands of needles piercing his bones, and it has been two years now…
Xiao Tian quickly went up and rubbed his head, comforting him,
“Anping, are you okay? If you have something to tell me… I’ll listen to it.”
“Look at my face now, does it look like something is wrong?” Ye Anping shook his head helplessly and said, “Two years have passed, and there are still eleven thunder tribulations left, which will be over soon.”
“Oh… I feel bad! Yudie will feel distressed when she hears this.”
Ye Anping raised his eyebrows and said, “She will feel bad that no one will buy her roast chicken anymore.”
“…Of course, not!” Anping, let me tell you, Yudie has been talking about you every day these past two years. “Xiao Tian imitated Feng Yudie’s tone and said, “How is Young Master Ye? I haven’t seen him for a long time. I miss him so much…! She says it every day.”
Ye Anping looked at Xiao Tian indifferently, he didn’t believe a word anyway. Xiao Tian originally wanted to bring him and Feng Yudie together, but now it was probably just a trick.
Ye Anping sighed slightly, then turned around and got dressed, picked up a small shovel in the corner of the house, and walked to the yard.
“Ah! Anping, don’t ignore me, what I said is true! You Die misses you…”
“…”
“Yu Die talks about you to me every day.”
Ye Anping knelt and took care of the lush garden in the yard that he had spent two years planting with his own hands. He felt that Xiao Tian was buzzing in his ears like a bee.
It’s so annoying!
“Xiao Tian.”
“Um! ~What’s wrong?
“Why don’t you go back? I don’t need you here.”
“…I’m not going back! I miss you so much! It just so happens that Yu Die has finished the core formation stage, so I will accompany you. You need someone to talk to you here alone.”
“Other people can’t see you. If Brother Liang and the others come over and see me talking to you, they will probably think I’m crazy.”
Xiao Tian glanced at his mouth, then slipped into Ye Anping’s collar and hung it on his chest, “Oops! Not going back! Anyway, I won’t go back! I’m relying on you! You can’t drive me away! Hum~~”
“Why–” Ye Anping shook his head, said nothing, and continued to take care of his garden.
However, after thinking about it, he added,
“Xiao Tian……”
“Um! What?”
“The ‘Master Tianji’ I mentioned before will sneak into my house to tease me the night after I pass through the thunder tribulation. You’d better be mentally prepared and don’t make a fuss when the time comes.”
?
Xiao Tian looked confused and tilted his head: “Huh!”
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