Chapter 427: Junior Sister, the Crane that Sends Children
The sky was thin with clouds and the moon was bright.
Dozens of large spaceships were parked in an open space in the desert. The lights on the sides of the ships were visible even from dozens of miles away.
On the deck of the flying boat at the front of the team, dozens of Sword Sect disciples lined up neatly. Seeing nearly a thousand cultivators flying towards them with swords in the sky, their heartstrings tensed into a straight line, and they quickly had people get on to both ends of the flying boat. On top of their heavy crossbow, they aimed at the cultivators.
“The enemy is attacking, the enemy is attacking!! Form a formation to meet the enemy!!”
Woo——!
The sound of the trumpet resounded for dozens of miles.
Fortunately, Yun Xi had been mentally prepared for a long time. Sitting in a wheelchair, she condensed her spiritual energy to her throat and roared:
——”The one who attacked your grandma! It’s your aunt!!”
The Sword Sect disciples on the flying boat breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this and quickly evacuated them.
Although it was just a small mistake, Ye Ao, who was following Pei Lianxue, could tell from this small detail that the people stationed there to rest had reached their limits, both physically and mentally.
Deserters will lead to chaos, not to mention the situation where there are still pursuers, right?
“Girl Pei, there aren’t any Nascent Soul cultivators following you? Just relying on you and Sword Sect, the dozens of foundation-building cultivators, can you control these tens of thousands of people?”
Pei Lianxue nodded, and while recalling Ye Anping’s words before setting off, she said:
“Well, Senior Brother said that as long as no one dies, there will be no disintegration. If we encounter a demon cultivator, let me and the Sword Sect disciples deal with it. Don’t let those Heavenly Execution Court Qi training disciples and Donghuang casual cultivators come up. Let’s deal with the demon cultivators beforehand.”
“Huh? So… You have traveled thousands of miles from Donghuang to here, and no one has died?”
“Yes!” Pei Lianxue nodded, “Senior brother asked Heavenly Execution Court to prepare a lot in advance. Every thirty people were assigned an old disciple of Heavenly Execution Court who specially comforted their mood. He said that as long as there is hope, there will be no chaos, and senior brother also said that he will use some means on the way to help us appease the morale of the army.”
When Liang Zhu on one side heard this, he let out an inexplicable and earnest breath, but he had seen Ye Anping’s calculations before, and he seemed to be used to it, but he was just a little admired.
However, Ye Ao was a little stunned. He could expect that his son would be powerful, but he did not expect that his son could think so much in advance.
Ye Ao was stunned for a while and asked:
“…So Ping’er asked Brother Liang and me to bring the Hundred Lotus Sect to meet us, is this a way for him to appease the morale of the army?”
“Well, there are other things…”
“We’ll talk about it later.” Ye Ao nodded and looked sideways at Liang Zhu, “Brother Liang, you first arrange for the disciples of the Hundred Lotus Sect to take over the disciples of the Sword Sect, let the disciples of the Sword Sect take a rest, and we’ll talk about the rest later…”
“Understood.”
Liang Zhu nodded in agreement, and immediately flew toward the Hundred Lotus Sect disciples behind him with his sword, arranging tasks such as inspection and exploration.
Ye Ao and others landed on the deck of the flying boat headed by them. Zhang Yihe pushed Yun Xi to give some miscellaneous instructions to the Sword Sect disciples and then led Ye Ao and others into the cabin.
A few people sat down at a slightly larger round table in the cabin. Yun Xi ordered Zhang Yihe to pour a cup of good tea for Ye Ao and Liang Zhu. Then she took a deep breath and acted like the third lady of the Sword Sect:
“Thank you Sect Master Ye for coming to help with the disciples of the Hundred Lotus Sect. This is the first time we meet, this junior Yun Xi is the third young lady of the Moon Shadow Sword Sect.”
Ye Ao looked at Yun Xi carefully. Although the wheelchair and the bandage around her neck were a little unsightly, she had blond hair and was quite beautiful. Then he showed a pleased smile and replied politely:
“Miss Yun third, there is no need to be polite. I came here because of my son’s words. Miss Third, if you want to thank me, just thank my boy.”
It was also the first time that Yun Xi and Ye Ao met, so they couldn’t spare these polite greetings.
However, although they were just chatting, Yun Xi vaguely felt that Ye Ao and Ye Anping had nothing in common.
Ye Ao seemed to her to be a very kind person. She had seen Ye Anping as a bit sinister in the past and thought that Ye Ao was a strict father who was not easy to talk to.
However, at the next moment, Ye Ao said something that made everyone present feel like they were struck by lightning:
“Besides, didn’t Miss Yun third send a post before, wanting that boy of mine to get married? This can be regarded as my father-in-law’s daughter-in-law coming to save my son, haha…”
“Ah?”
Yun Xi’s face froze for a moment, and her eyes slowly widened, thinking that she had heard wrongly.
WTF?!
But the next moment, she suddenly felt the cold murderous intent emanating from Pei Lianxue’s body on one side. She took a deep breath and stood up from the wheelchair:
“Sect Master Ye? Don’t talk nonsense, I didn’t…”
Ye Ao was also stunned, not knowing what was going on:
“Huh? No?”
Pei Lianxue on the side narrowed her eyes: “Sister Yun…”
Liang Zhu, who was sitting on one side, looked at this scene as if he saw the sixth brother who was trapped in the Shura Field due to the “Heaven Chong”. He couldn’t help but feel good, took the tea, and covered his smile with tea.
It was Zhang Yihe who reacted and quickly interjected:
“Master Ye must have remembered wrongly. The person who sent the marriage proposal to Young Master Ye was the eldest lady of the Sword Sect, not the third lady.”
“Oh~” Ye Ao was stunned for a moment, then waved his hand quickly, “Hey, look at my memory, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, my wife has been a little anxious recently…”
Zhang Yihe replaced Yun Xi and said it didn’t matter. He waved his hand and added casually:
“What’s more, even if Third Miss is interested, Young Master Ye doesn’t dare to agree. How tough is this person who dares to marry Third Miss as a Daoist companion?!”
Pei Lianxue was stunned for a moment and felt that it made sense. Yun Xi was safe, so she nodded in agreement:
“Yeah… Me too.”
“???”
Yun Xi’s lips and teeth were slightly open, and she couldn’t hold back a word for a long time. She slowly sat back in the wheelchair, her face expressionless as if she had accepted her fate…
Liang Zhu was a little disappointed because he didn’t see the girl fighting, so he simply brought the topic back, took out a map from his storage bag, and laid it on the table:
“According to Young Master Ye’s previous instructions, after I, Sect Master Ye, and the disciples of the Hundred Lotus Sect reunite with Miss Yun San, we will take over from Miss Yun and Miss Pei and continue to escort the tens of thousands of people on the road to Jianmen Pass. From now on, this road passes through Sword Sect, then passes through the northwest boundary of the Southern Domain, and returns to the Western Domain. Does Miss Yun San think there is a problem?”
Yun Xi nodded: “Uh… no problem. Young Master Ye said before that the Hundred Lotus Sect will meet us on the way.”
“Then it’s decided. Miss Yun and Miss Pei will go to rest first, and the rest will be left to me and Sect Leader Ye…”
“Um.”
The others had no objections and nodded in agreement.
And at this moment…
Roar–!!!
A distant roar of a dragon broke everyone’s calm mood. Except for Yun Xi, the five people in the room hurriedly went to the window on one side, opened the window, and looked toward the sky.
On the night starry sky about a hundred miles away, a black rain cloud quickly floated toward them, as if it was peeing while flying, moistening all the yellow sand along the way, and making them tired. The ceiling of the airship crackled.
Liang Zhu, Ye Ao, and others immediately held their breath and concentrated, worried that the dark cloud would stop above their heads and never move away. But fortunately, the dark cloud seemed to be just passing by, pissed on their heads, flew directly above their heads and headed northwest.
Ye Ao frowned and remembered what he had seen in the book before:
“I heard that in ancient times, Ying Long controlled the wind and rain. The dragon’s roar just now and these dark clouds…”
Halfway through the words, everyone was surprised to find that the wooden walls of the flying boats’s upper pavilion were growing vines and buds hanging on the walls.
They immediately understood that the rain just now was the rain dropped by Ying Long, but they were all surprised. This Ying Long’s rain, which contained the aura of spring, actually directly rejuvenated the spiritual trees on the flying boat with new vitality.
Liang Zhu twisted his eyebrows, immediately walked back to the table, glanced at the map, slid his finger back along the path of the dark clouds, and then landed on the words “Seven Dragons Valley”, squinted and said:
“I have read in some ancient books in the Emperor Sect’s secret library. It is said that there is a Ying Long underground in the Seven Dragons Valley, and the Seven Dragons Valley is on Sixth Brother’s route. It cannot be a coincidence.”
“Brother Liang, do you think this Ying Long and Ping’er are related?”
Because he couldn’t understand the causal relationship between Ye Anping and Ying Long, Liang Zhu was not sure, but he felt in his heart that it was most likely his sixth brother who was responsible.
“At least it can’t be completely unrelated to him.”
“…”
Ye Ao seemed to be a version behind, following Liang Zhu out once, and what his son did really shocked the heart of this ordinary little cultivator again and again.
What did he do in his previous life to give birth to such a son…
Pei Lianxue next to her felt inexplicably happy when she heard what the two said:
“Senior brother is so awesome, hee hee…”
Bang bang——
However, at this time, two rather heavy knocks on the door drew the attention of everyone in the house.
Yun Xi came back to her senses and shouted quickly:
“Come in!”
A foundation-building disciple wearing the uniform of the Sword Sect walked into the room, holding a jade slip in his hand, and said:
“The good news came from the eldest lady, saying that the young master of the Ghost Spirit Sect, Gui Qinghe, who was chasing them, had been killed, as well as the fifty cultivators of the core formation stage and among more than 3,000 disciples of the Sword Sect and the cultivators he had brought with him, there are only some minor injuries among the disciples of Heavenly Execution Court, and none of them died! Let the third lady inform everyone of this news to boost morale.”
Good news came one after another. Yun Xi couldn’t control her emotions for a while. She ignored the fracture of her right foot again, stood up from the wheelchair, and asked in surprise:
“Really?!”
The Sword Sect disciple who came in nodded and replied:
“True.”
“Then follow the instructions of eldest sister and pass on this matter.”
“Yes!”
The Sword Sect disciple bowed his hands in agreement, but it seemed that he had not finished speaking. He did not turn around and go out directly. Instead, he showed a little sadness, remained silent for a while, and then said:
“One more thing…”
Seeing his “Bad news” expression, Yun Xi paused, sat down again, and nodded:
“Explain.”
“On the side of the Second Miss, there has been no jade slip sent for six days, and the letter eagle and spirit beast we sent there have not come back.”
Hearing this, Zhang Yihe couldn’t help but frown, glanced at the map on the table, and asked:
“Have all the jade slips been intercepted by demonic cultivators? Or, the second lady and the others have…”
Yun Xi reacted quickly, stood up, and immediately hit Zhang Yihe with an uppercut, closing his mouth, glaring and shouting:
“Damn it, Zhang Yihe!! If you don’t speak, no one will think you are a dead person!!!”
“…”
Yun Xi yelled at Zhang Yihe, then turned to look at the Sword Sect disciple who came in to report and asked:
“We have lost contact for six days, why are you reporting it now?!”
The Sword Sect disciple was speechless and lowered his head:
“Um… Because…”
Seeing him like this, Yun Xi immediately limped, clenched her fists, and rushed over:
“What the hell!!”
Liang Zhu glanced at the Sword Sect disciple, stepped forward to stop Yun Xi, and persuaded:
“If Miss Yun wants to punish this person, let’s talk about it later.”
Because the plan Ye Anping gave him did not mention what to do in this situation, so he thought for a moment, looked at Pei Lianxue, and asked:
“Miss Pei, does the bag of tips that Young Master Ye gave you say anything about what to do in this situation?”
“…No.”
“So…”
Liang Zhu looked at the winding route marked by the second lady on the map and thought for a moment. The second lady of the Sword Sect Feng Yudie was leading a group of cultivators from the Heavenly Execution Court who were in the core formation stage.
Among the disciples of the Hundred Lotus Sect that he and Ye Ao brought, there were only a few cultivators in the core formation stage.
Now that Miss Yun Er had encountered a situation, even if they rushed over at this moment, they probably wouldn’t be able to change anything.
After a moment of silence, he said:
“Based on Sixth Brother’s temperament, he must have prepared corresponding means of compensation. Since he didn’t say anything to you, then we will take the team to Jianmen Pass according to the original plan…”
But she was interrupted by Pei Lianxue in a very small voice:
“I will go…”
“Um?”
“Second… Feng Yudie should also have senior brother’s tips. She obeys my words, so she also listens to Senior Brother’s words. If this kind of thing happens, it means that Feng Yudie has encountered something that Senior Brother did not expect. Or maybe they made a mistake…”
Liang Zhu looked at Pei Lianxue’s extremely serious expression at the moment and retorted:
“But Miss Pei, if you bring the disciples of the Hundred Lotus Sect there, there is probably nothing you can do to save it…”
“If I go alone, I can escape even if I encounter danger.” Pei Lianxue interrupted again, “When we were in the Northern Domain before, Palace Master Li said that if there was something that senior brother did not expect, he would let us help him make up for it so that we can be regarded as Daoist companions. Senior brother used to take care of us alone…”
Suddenly, Ye Ao, who had been silent the whole time, also spoke:
“Okay! Haha… Brother Liang, Ping’er didn’t ask me to follow you originally. You took these Qi Refining Stage cultivators to Jianmen Pass as planned. I’ll accompany Pei girl to take a look there. Feng Yudie is over there, right? She is also my boy’s Daoist companion…”
Snap–
Pei Lianxue suddenly slapped the table and said:
“She is not!!”
“Huh? No?”
Pei Lianxue nodded seriously:
“No!”
“Uh…” Ye Ao blinked and looked at Pei Lianxue’s bulging face, then smiled awkwardly and waved his hand, “Okay, okay, if it’s not, it’s not. Pei girl, I’ll go with you. .”
Seeing that Ye Ao had already spoken, Liang Zhu didn’t say much, but cupped his hands and said:
“Then please be careful. Young Master Ye said before that it seems that he also invited the Demon Emperor to help, but the Demon Emperor is not on the side of the immortal cultivator. If Sect Master Ye encounters him, please be cautious when approaching him.”
“Huh? Who?!”
“The Lord of Ten Thousand Demons, Hu Mu.”
“Hiss – how come the Demon Emperor is Ping’er… No, could it be that he has a daughter who is fascinated by Ping’er?”
“I don’t know, but anyway, in the plan that Sixth Brother asked Elder Tong to give me, it was mentioned that the Demon Emperor would take action.”
“Fine.”
Ye Ao nodded, then walked to Pei Lianxue and patted her shoulder:
“Pei girl, why don’t you sit on my crane? You’ve never sat on a crane before, have you? According to legend, the red-crowned crane is the auspicious animal that sends children. Maybe if you sit on my crane, I can hold my grandchildren.”
Pei Lianxue curled her lips blankly and whispered:
“Sect Leader Ye, senior brother said before that only children believe in red-crowned cranes sending babies. Red-crowned cranes don’t know how to send babies, they only poop…”
Ye Ao was stunned, raised his hand, and slapped her on the back of the head.
“Ouch…”
“Hey – you stupid girl! Aren’t I just side-tracking? I’m urging you to hurry up!”
“Oh…”
After all, after having a granddaughter or grandson, Kong Yulan would probably not think about adding younger siblings to Ye Anping, right?
——Ye Ao thought so, looked at Pei Lianxue’s dull and unfulfilled look, sighed softly, put his hands behind his back, walked out of the room, shook his head, and sighed:
“Hey… I am so fussy, my ambition is not there~”
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