Chapter 419: Brothers and sisters, the flames of war break through the sky
Under the silvery moon in the sky, most of the houses in the Donghuang Immortal City turned off their lights, and only stray wild cats and a group of five Heavenly Execution Court disciples patrolling the streets were left.
In the room on the third floor of the inn, dim candlelight was still lit. Pei Lianxue, dressed in white, was lying on the window sill, holding her chin with her hands, pouting her mouth, looking at the twinkling stars in the galaxy in a daze, and occasionally making a “Woo-woo” sound of unknown meaning.
“Um…”
On the bed in the room, Xiao Yunluo was sleeping soundly facing the ceiling. Probably because she was the young master of the Xuanxing Sect, she was sleeping in a very majestic posture, with her hands on her belly, like a mummy.
Xue Tianqiao built a nest on her belly and rolled herself into a fox dumpling. To prevent her from sneaking out for a walk in the middle of the night, the other end of the demon rope around her neck was connected to Xiao Yunluo’s neck. Probably because her eyes were dazzled by the candlelight lit by Pei Lianxue, Xue Tianqiao looked up in a daze, then simply twisted around, facing Pei Lianxue in front of the window, and cried out:
“Hey…”
Pei Lianxue looked back after hearing the sound, with a look of helplessness on her face. After hesitating for a while, she blew out the candle next to her, stood up from the window, gently pushed the door open, and quietly left the room.
Squeak——
Although Pei Lianxue was already very light, the slight sound from the old wooden door still woke up Xue Tianqiao. She looked up again and saw that Sister Pei was gone. She immediately hit Xiao Yunluo in the face with her tail, which frightened her so much that she immediately sat up with a dumbfounded look on her face:
“Why… Are you hungry again?”
Xue Tianqiao blinked, squinted, and smiled:
“Sister Xiao, sister Pei went to steal your brother Ye~.”
“Huh?” Xiao Yunluo looked around the room confusedly, “Why are you stealing my Brother Ye? Brother Ye… Anping is Lianxue…”
Xue Tianqiao tilted her head in suspicion:
“Did Sister Xiao steal Sister Pei’s Brother Ye before?”
“That’s not stealing… That’s…”
Xiao Yunluo didn’t seem to wake up. She always felt that she was being surrounded by the fox. She simply held her in her arms and turned over:
“You think that human cultivators are just like you fox monsters. They enjoy stealing other people’s Daoist companions all day long. Lianxue and I… can’t explain it to you, so go ahead and sleep with you.”
“I’m hungry. I want to eat roast chicken.”
“Who will cook roast chicken for you in the middle of the night?”
Xue Tianqiao frowned and complained, “Sister Fox will tell Master when she goes back…”
Xiao Yunluo pinched her mouth directly:
“I’m not afraid of your master. It’s already settled that I didn’t put you in a cage. Just bear with it…”
“Hey…”
…
Rustle–
Pei Lianxue came to the corridor, tiptoed gently, went around the corner, and went upstairs. When she came to the door of a wing room in the corner on the third floor, she gently pushed the door open a gap and looked around twice.
It could be seen that the lights were still on in the house, and the screen placed at the door reflected the reflection of a young man with disheveled hair soaking in the bathtub, and bursts of water vapor filled the ceiling.
Pei Lianxue smiled and squeezed in through the crack of the door. Like a little mouse stealing oil, she stepped around the screen step by step and came to the side of the tub. She bowed slightly and lowered her head to her eyes. In Ye Anping’s tightly closed ears:
“Senior brother~”
!!
Ye Anping was soaking in the hot water, with his eyes closed and concentrating on checking and filling in the gaps in his plan. This sudden sweet whisper startled him.
“Hiss–”
But when he turned around and saw the squinting and smiling face of his junior sister, Ye Anping was stunned for a moment, then he breathed a sigh of relief and raised his hand to knock her forehead:
“Junior sister, you didn’t rest in the middle of the night, why did you come here to scare senior brother?”
“I can’t sleep.” Pei Lianxue turned away and looked into the basin, with a slight blush on her cheeks. “Senior brother, I’ve seen you all…”
Ye Anping was stunned for a moment and followed his junior sister’s gaze. Suddenly, he felt his cheeks were a little hot, and he felt a little ashamed in his heart. He didn’t know what was going on. Pei Lianxue had looked at him many times, but he felt embarrassed when she said it so directly…
Ye Anping turned away his eyes and replied: “Didn’t you already see it all?”
Pei Lianxue covered her mouth and smiled, tilting her head to face him:
“Hehe – Senior brother, are you shy?”
“…”
Ye Anping was silent for a while, then grabbed her face and scolded, “You don’t talk much in the middle of the night without rest, and you learn to tease your senior brother? Your wings are getting stronger and stronger, girl.”
Pei Lianxue smiled and shook off his hand, sat on the edge of the tub, curled her lips, and said, “Senior brother, do you still remember the night you took me to sneak out from the Hundred Lotus Sect?”
Ye Anping recalled for a while and also remembered that that day he made a plan to kill Wu You. After packing his luggage and leaving a letter for Ye Ao, he went to Pei Lianxue’s house. It turned out that Pei Lianxue was taking a shower at that time…
“…Um.”
“My senior brother was a gangster at that time. He said I had no breasts and no butt, and he stared at me for a long time.”
“You hold a grudge…”
“That’s not true… Senior brother was just like a piece of wood at that time, but I was so anxious.”
Ye Anping smiled helplessly and said:
“I feel sorry.”
“Well~ I forgive you, senior brother!”
“Huh…” Ye Anping saw that Pei Lianxue seemed very happy today and asked, “What’s wrong? You wanted to practice dual cultivation with my senior brother, so you came here in the middle of the night…”
Pei Lianxue complained with her mouth open:
“Senior brother, you think I am Yunluo.”
“No…”
Pei Lianxue sighed faintly, put her hand into the hot water, and stirred it gently. She lowered her eyes with a hint of loneliness and said:
“There are more and more girls around senior brother.”
“Jealous…”
“It’s a lie that I’m not jealous, but… As long as senior brother likes me, that’s fine.”
Pei Lianxue moved down, walked behind Ye Anping, squatted down, and gently rubbed his shoulders with her hands:
“I’m just a little worried that senior brother won’t be able to bear it anymore. I read in Yun Luo’s books that if too much yang is released, the meridians will be empty, which will lead to a whole body of diseases.”
“Junior sister, do you think senior brother is not good enough?”
“Senior brother, if you can do it, don’t secretly cultivate it with Yun Luo behind my back…” Pei Lianxue cut off Ye Anping’s head, faced herself, and said fiercely, “When we were in Yu Guan before, the second idiot said that you Yun Luo, and you were practicing legs in the middle of the night, and you didn’t even call me…”
“?”
“Yunluo’s legs were weak for several days after that, and I had to support her.” Pei Lianxue was a little shy, and looked away, “If senior brother can do it, remember to ask me to come with him.”
Ye Anping wanted to laugh inexplicably. Maybe the junior sister had forgotten that when she was in the Sword Sect, she couldn’t get out of bed for several days. She shook her head:
“Junior sister, senior brother was worried that you wouldn’t be able to bear it like before.”
“Then try your best next time, senior brother.”
“Next time…”
Pei Lianxue narrowed her eyes and smiled, holding Ye Anping’s face, making him lean back a little, brought his lips closer, and kissed him:
“I feel like senior brother has changed a lot.”
“Yeah?”
“More calm than before.”
“Junior sister, you are becoming more and more like a mature girl. Senior brother remembers that when you were a child, you could only speak one or two words, and you also liked to act like a baby. I don’t know when you stopped acting like a baby to me.”
“In the future, I will fill in the role of Little Ah Ting for Senior Brother. Is it possible that Little Ah Ting and I will act coquettishly to Senior Brother in the future?”
Ye Anping looked at Pei Lianxue’s face. His clear orange eyes remained the same. It seemed that nothing had changed, but he felt some changes. He immediately closed his eyes let out a long breath, and stopped talking.
He calmed down for a while, then stood up from the bathtub and used magic to dry off the water droplets on his body. Pei Lianxue also quickly took clothes from the hanger next to him and walked behind him.
The senior brother and junior sister looked at each other without saying a word. It was quiet inside the house, except for the sound of the cold wind caressing the paper windows outside.
Ye Anping shook his head and spread his hands. Pei Lianxue narrowed her eyes and smiled. He squatted down slightly and put the clothes on him one by one. Then she walked up to him and helped him take care of his collar and tie his belt.
Wrapped in a black brocade robe, he looked solemn. Ye Anping opened the door to the balcony, took out a cold cloak from his storage bag, put it on Pei Lianxue’s shoulders, and sat down with her at a low tea table on the balcony. The balcony faced the Donghuang Great Wall that stretched for hundreds of miles, and a crescent moon was hanging high above the tower.
Ye Anping sat cross-legged, while Pei Lianxue crossed her legs and leaned on his shoulder. Without saying a word, the two of them looked at the Heavenly Execution City Guards holding torches and patrolling back and forth above the Great Wall.
After a while, he turned to look at the junior sister who was leaning on his shoulder and said, “Junior sister, when Heavenly Execution Court’s side is ready in a few days, you, Yun Xi, and dozens of Sword disciples will lead the young cultivators in the Qi-refining period of Heavenly Execution Court and the casual cultivators in the city who are willing to follow and close the sword gate.”
“Well, I know, I saw senior brother’s plan.”
“I gave Heavenly Execution Court a fake route map before, and I think it must have been leaked to the Ghost Spirit Sect. However, the fake route can only delay us for a while. The Demonic Cultivator will soon realize that they have fallen into the trap…”
Whizzing–
Halfway through his words, he stopped abruptly. Ye Anping’s ears moved slightly, and he immediately squinted his eyes away from Pei Lianxue’s face, turned his head, and looked toward the Great Wall again.
Just after the breeze, the air seemed to freeze.
The originally unstoppable sandstorm stopped, and the chirping of wild cats in the streets and alleys of Donghuang City stopped. The wind was calm the waves were calm, and everything was silent.
Pei Lianxue seemed to feel something, and there was a hint of vigilance in her eyes:
“Senior brother…”
“Phew… It’s coming faster than expected.”
When the last part of this sentence was just spoken…
Boom——!
Boom——!
Boom——!
The dull drum sound, which seemed to be able to shake the sand plains, came from the Black Rock Great Wall dozens of miles away, breaking the silence in the city just now once again.
Beacon fires spread from one of the watchtowers on the Black Rock Great Wall to both sides, breaking through the night on the horizon.
Ye Anping also stood up immediately and said, “Junior sister, wake up Yun Luo and Feng Yudie and go to the Heavenly Execution Court.”
Rumble——
The wild sand rolled into the sky, like an earth-yellow tsunami, accompanied by bursts of green lightning, coming from the east, overwhelming the sea, and hitting the outer shell of the protective jade outside the Black Rock Great Wall. The Suzaku Pavilion, which was nearly twenty miles away, even shook violently due to the impact.
“Hey!! Young Master Ye!!”
Feng Yudie, wearing a thin-white pajamas, climbed out of the window and climbed in from the balcony fence with a sword. When she saw that Pei Lianxue was there, she was stunned for a moment, touched the back of her head, and said with a smile:
“Junior Sister Pei and Young Master Ye are together…”
“…”
Ye Anping looked at her disheveled appearance as if she had jumped up after waking up from sleep. He sighed faintly, took out a piece of clothing from his storage bag, and threw it to her:
“Change on and go to Heavenly Execution Court…”
The next moment, there was a rush of footsteps behind him.
Xiao Yunluo hugged Xue Tianqiao and ran directly into the door of the house, saying:
“Anping, don’t talk to Lianxue first…”
Seeing that there was no one in the room, she hurriedly ran out from the window sill mid-sentence. Seeing that Ye Anping was already fully dressed, her first thought was that Ye Anping had finished his work so quickly…
“Anping, that…”
Xue Tianqiao, who was held by her, rolled her eyes and said, “Brother Ye, Sister Xiao thought… eh——”
As a result, Xiao Yunluo pinched her mouth and did not finish her words.
Ye Anping sighed, then took a deep breath, waved his sleeves vigorously, and solemnly ordered, “Go back home, put on your clothes, pack your luggage, and go to Heavenly Execution Court.”
“””Yes!!!”””
The three of them nodded in agreement and then fell off the railing almost at the same time.
Ye Anping looked at the door that Xiao Yunluo knocked open, sighed slightly, then looked toward the tower in Donghuang Western District, frowned slightly, and murmured:
“The demon cultivator’s action came a few days earlier than I expected. I hope Pavilion Master Qu and Lord Yue are ready.”
Then he turned back to the house, took out the Snow Spirit Sword from the storage bag, wrapped the sword with a bandage, hung it behind his back with a shoulder strap, put on his bamboo hat and veil, and went down the stairs to the lobby on the first floor to find it. He set up a chair and sat down to wait for them.
One after another, other tenants in the inn also ran out of the house in panic and ran downstairs from their rooms with large and small lighting instruments. The originally quiet inn seemed to have reopened, and panicked shouts could be heard all the time.
“What happened?”
“Why was there such a big movement just now…”
“I’m watching the beacon tower on the Great Wall being lit up. Are the demon cultivators attacking?”
“Quiet, quiet!! Don’t panic, with Heavenly Execution Court here, the demon cultivators can’t attack…”
…
However, everyone was stunned when they ran to the lobby on the first floor and saw a mysterious cultivator wearing a bamboo hat and a veil holding a sword tied with a bandage as a crutch beside him at the top of the stairs.
Ye Anping swept through it with his spiritual consciousness and found that the highest cultivation among them was only in the middle stage of foundation-building. He sighed slightly, lowered his voice, and spread the word with spiritual power and coercion:
“If you want to survive, leave Donghuang immediately. From now on, everyone will have to rely on their own abilities.”
“…”
At that time, Pei Lianxue and others also finished cleaning up and jumped down from upstairs.
The three of them did not wear their usual skirts, but wore riding boots with waistbands, dressed as rangers, with hats on their heads, and tied their hair into a ponytail. Xue Tianqiao was wearing a hat lying on Feng Yudie’s head.
“Senior brother.” “Anping.”
“Young Master Ye, hehe…”
(→_→) (´ ∀ `) (←_←)
Ye Anping was speechless, sighed again, and didn’t care:
“Well, let’s go.”
Ye Anping raised his hand and hung the Snow Spirit Sword back on his back. He glanced sideways at the dazed monks. Without saying anything more, he turned around and pushed open the door of the inn, taking Pei Lianxue and others with him, and headed toward the Western District.
…