Chapter 429: Protagonist, obsessed with ghosts
The floating clouds covered the moon, and it was already two o’clock in the evening.
The three Imperial Immortal Boats, which had covered their tracks with the Shading Technique, were arranged in a triangular formation, breaking through the yellow sand in the wind, and speeding at low altitude in a narrow canyon in the desert.
In the largest cabin of the immortal boat in the middle, Xue Tianqiao was lying on her side on the window edge, holding her head with her paws, staring blankly at the barren valley running behind the window like a rolling curtain, and suddenly her ears twitched and she turned to look at the table in the room.
Her sense of smell told her that there was something on the table, but in her eyes, apart from the plate with the teapot and cups, there was only a human-shaped wooden stake the size of her head on the table.
“Hey! Euler Euler Euler~~”
The room was quiet.
“Ah~ Uppercut! Hey……”
It’s really quiet…
(Click—! Click click—!)
“Hey!! Sneak attack!”
You could hear the drop of a needle, and there was complete silence…
“Hey…”
Xue Tianqiao tilted her head, her face full of suspicion.
She remembered that Sister White Hairs had cut it out with a knife and wood a few days ago. The stinky dwarf who smelled like alcohol asked her what she was doing with such a small human-shaped wooden stake. Sister White Hairs still giggled at that time that she was talking about it, just passing the time and having fun…
Xue Tianqiao also checked the human-shaped wooden stake several times, and there was nothing wrong with it…
But why does she always feel that something strange is driving that wooden pile now?
“Oh hit~~ah~~! ! Ouch~~~!”
“…Ah?”
…
On the bed in the room, Feng Yudie was staring at the ceiling. She turned her head and looked at Xue Tianqiao who was now on the window sill, and Xiao Tian who was waving his fists and feet at the small wooden stake she made, and sighed inexplicably. There was a sound, and then he turned over.
Yun Jiujiu was sleeping on the inside of the bed against the wall. Different from her usual waking state, the sleeping Yun Jiujiu looked like a shorter purdah girl.
She didn’t snore, and her sleeping posture was very regular. She didn’t kick her feet randomly. She looked like a person lying in a coffin, with her eyes closed, her hands on her belly, facing the ceiling.
“Hey! Hey! Hey!”
“…”
Feng Yudie stared at Yun Jiujiu’s sleeping face for a while, turned over again, and looked at Xiao Tian who had finished driving the stakes and started doing push-ups again. As if she had made up his mind, she took a deep breath, she closed her eyes forcefully, still thinking about Junior Sister Pei in her mind.
One junior sister Pei, two junior sisters Pei…
Choking—!!
The scream of swords sounded in her ears.
!!
Feng Yudie opened her eyes suddenly and instinctively took out a small dagger from under the pillow and placed it in front of her. However, when she opened her eyes, the room was the same as before, with only Xue Tianqiao, Xiao Tian, the four of them, Yun Jiujiu, and herself…
It was not the first time.
Nearly half a month had passed since she and Yun Jiujiu got on this immortal boat and took with them more than 500 disciples of the Heavenly Execution Court and the twelve disciples of the Sword Sect.
And in the past half month, Feng Yudie had never fallen asleep once. Every time she closed her eyes, for half an hour at most, there would always be the sound of swords ringing in her ears and a feeling as if someone was holding a sword in front of her neck…
Xiao Tian quickly stood up and floated over. Looking at Feng Yudie’s frightened expression, he felt a little worried:
“Yu Die, what’s wrong? Do you have any bad premonitions?”
Xue Tianqiao also jumped up from the window sill, walked lightly, jumped onto the bed, landed on her pillow, used her tail as a cushion, sat down, tilted her head, and said:
“Sister White Hairs is having a nightmare? Do you want my master’s felt? It will give you a sense of security.”
After saying this, Feng Yudie suddenly recalled the rainy night when she faced Hu Mu, and her heart suddenly palpitated. If Ye Anping hadn’t come over in time, she would have died from Hu Mu’s sword…
——Perhaps the sword sound she just imagined was the sound of Hu Mu’s sword tearing through the rain curtain…
Feng Yudie looked at Xiao Tian:
——Or maybe it was the sound of the sword swung by the bloody spiritual sword in Gu Mingxin’s hand in the Northern Domain…
Then, Feng Yudie turned around and looked at Yun Jiujiu, who was still sleeping:
——Or maybe it was the sound of Yun Kunwu’s sword when she was at the back of the Moon Shadow Sword Sect…
Feng Yudie couldn’t help but have a question in her mind:
——How many times has Master Ye saved her?
Whenever her life was at stake, Young Master Ye would always appear in front of her, stand in front of her, and help her avoid danger…
Feng Yudie suddenly felt: Young Master Ye… Seems… Quite handsome…
“Yudie, why are you blushing?”
?!
Xiao Tian’s voice suddenly pulled Feng Yudie back. She was slightly startled and quickly shook her head, completely denying what she just said.
She, Feng Yudie, was devoted to Pei Lianxue!
Xue Tianqiao tilted her head to the left and right:
“Huh? Sister White Hairs misses Brother Ye?”
“No, I’m thinking about Junior Sister Pei…”
At this time, Yun Jiujiu, who was sleeping soundly, seemed to be disturbed by their voices. She opened her eyes in a daze, glanced at the window, and asked:
“What’s wrong? You’ve been lying in bed tossing and turning over the past few days, thinking about all sorts of random things?”
Feng Yudie twisted her eyebrows and replied:
“I can’t sleep. You think I’m noisy. Why don’t you go find another room? Why are you crowded here with me?”
Veins popped up on Yun Jiujiu’s forehead, and she cursed with a crooked mouth:
“Nonsense! Do you think I’m willing to share a bed with you, a liar? There are more than 500 people on three immortal boats. How come there are so many rooms? Three or four people next door are sharing a room.”
But looking at Feng Yudie’s bloodshot eyes, she took a long breath, sat up, took out a wine gourd from the storage bag on the side, and handed it over.
“Here! Drink it!”
“What?”
“Donghuang’s wine is as strong as spring. If you take it once or twice, I’m sure you, little girl, will fall asleep until you wake up naturally.”
Feng Yudie looked at the wine gourd and shook her head in refusal:
“Before setting off, Young Master Ye told me to keep an eye on you and not allow you to drink too much, and he told me not to drink too much.”
“I’m watching, just rest for a while. Even if something happens, I’ll just slap you up when the time comes.”
Because the two of them were leading a group of core formation cultivators, Ye Anping specifically emphasized to her before setting off that she should be more careful about the betrayal of Heavenly Execution Court disciples than the attacks of demonic cultivators.
As the saying goes, deserters will lead to chaos.
Throughout the ages, many mortal generals and emperors were killed by their trusted subordinates who entered their accounts at night and were assassinated while escaping with their troops.
Although mortals and cultivators could not speak the same language, after all, she and Yun Jiujiu were only cultivators in the early stage of core formation, and the people they brought with them were also cultivators in the early stage of core formation.
It was also because of this that Ye Anping asked Xue Tianqiao and Xiao Tian to follow her.
Although Xue Tianqiao was usually silly, as a fox demon, she was born to be able to catch wind and shadows better than humans, while Xiao Tian did not need to rest and could help her and Yun Jiujiu all the time to be vigilant about whether there were people with malicious intentions approaching.
But even so. Young Master Ye also emphasized that she was not allowed to drink.
Since it was Young Master Ye who said it, he must have a reason.
With this thought in mind, Feng Yudie simply lay down and faced Yun Jiujiu with the back of her head.
“No.”
Yun Jiujiu was stunned for a moment and shook her head helplessly. After taking a sip, she also threw the wine gourd into the storage bag and lay down:
“Feng Yudie, tell me, why can’t you sleep?”
“Um…”
Feng Yudie hesitated for a while, turned over and faced Yun Jiujiu, and whispered:
“Jiujiu, what do you think of Young Master Ye?”
Yun Jiujiu immediately replied: “He has thin arms and legs, and his strength is not as strong as mine. He is just a little girl.”
Hearing this, Feng Yudie twisted her eyebrows inexplicably unhappy:
“What’s wrong with thin arms and thin legs? Do you have to be as strong as a cow? Besides, aren’t you born with supernatural powers? Who can compare to you?”
When Yun Jiujiu heard that Feng Yudie defended Ye Anping, he seemed to understand. She sighed and said:
“Yun Yiyi likes the guy named Ye. When I was in Sword Sect before, I felt that he was… quite sinister. Although he was quite handsome, many girls in Sword Wine Peak, my mother, were secretly obsessed with him, but I didn’t see how the way he looked while fighting… Anyway, I don’t like it!!”
Feng Yudie pursed her lips and rolled her eyes:
“Who do you like? I feel…”
“Feng Yu.”
?
Feng Yudie was slightly startled: “Huh?”
“I like Feng Yu!”
Yun Jiujiu looked disdainful, resting her head on the back of her head, glanced at her, and added:
“It’s a pity that he has no sparrow. I was tempted at first. I wanted to see if he was big, but when I touched it, it turned out that there was a crack…”
Feng Yudie was speechless and glanced at her, but then remembered that neither she nor Junior Sister Pei had a bird, so she immediately asked:
“…among Daoist couples, one of them must have a bird, right?”
“What if?”
Yun Jiujiu rolled her eyes at her, thought for a while, and then asked:
“By the way, is it because of the person named Ye that you can’t sleep these days?”
“…Um.”
“Then aren’t you just like my old sister?”
“Ah?”
“After the man named Ye left, my old sister suffered from insomnia for several months. Every time I went to see her, she was like a sunflower, looking to the northwest, fussy and bored to death. Oh… This damn thing is love…”
Feng Yudie looked dumbfounded, but Xiao Tian, who had not spoken since Yunjiu had sobered up, seemed to have reacted, covered his mouth, and snickered:
“Oh~ So that’s what happened, Yudie… You have to be honest…”
Feng Yudie: “Shut up!!”
?
Yun Jiujiu was startled by her and looked at her with twisted eyebrows:
“Why are you shouting so loudly in the middle of the night?”
“…”
“Isn’t it obvious that you have fallen in love with the man named Ye?”
“…”
Yun Jiujiu shrugged her shoulders, arrogantly shook her head with the face of a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl, and after thinking for a while, continued:
“Hey, you and the guy named Ye match well. You are pretty and can fight, and he is handsome and good at calculations. Isn’t that good? And I think he is also married. The golden heavenly core is very good.”
“…I have my whole heart for Junior Sister Pei.”
“Junior sister Pei… That girl who doesn’t like to talk? Putting aside the fact that you both have the same sex, I think you and her are not suitable for each other anyway.”
Yunjiu Jiujiu shook her head, patted Feng Yudie on the shoulder, and said:
“Young man, don’t be a dog wagging your tail!”
“You are not taller than me, and you still call me young…”
“I’m over sixty, so you’re older? Why can’t you say that?”
“…”
Feng Yudie was silent, her brows furrowed tightly. She always felt that something was wrong, but she couldn’t tell exactly what was wrong.
Does she like Young Master Ye?
But Master said…
Huhu——~
Although there were wind protection restrictions around the immortal boat, there was still a slight breeze blowing in from the windows of the house, and the house suddenly became quiet.
Feng Yudie recalled everything that had happened between her and Young Master Ye since their first meeting, and she couldn’t help but feel that her insecure heart seemed to have been gently smoothed away.
Sleep came quietly, and the golden eyes looking at the ceiling opened and closed several times and then stopped opening.
Yun Jiujiu on the side saw Feng Yudie’s slightly raised lips, shook her head, and sighed:
“Sigh…”
Then I heard Feng Yudie’s sleep:
“Hehe… Young Master Ye… Roast chicken… Sizzling…”
“?”
Yun Jiujiu also opened her eyes. This was the first time she saw someone having an erotic dream, dreaming about roasting chicken…
However, she didn’t bother Feng Yudie. After all, Feng Yudie didn’t have much rest these days. Who knows what kind of trouble they would encounter along the way?
After a while, Yun Jiujiu slowly closed her eyes and fell asleep again. When Xiao Tian saw that the two of them had fallen asleep, he also returned to the wooden pile, took out the scroll of Heavenly Dao, and used it as a dumbbell to practice bench press; Xue Tianqiao also formed a fox ball beside Feng Yudie’s pillow.
They didn’t know how much time had passed——
Tread——
The footsteps in the cabin corridor stirred the air in the room again.
Ta-ta-
The footsteps were getting closer…
Then, the sound of scraping wood spread into the house.
Squeak——
Xue Tianqiao, who was balled up into a fox ball, suddenly stood up with her ears, and then nodded her nose, feeling that a strange smell of pink powder suddenly appeared in the room.
She raised her head and looked toward the door.
The door that was originally closed now opened a gap for some unknown reason.
What appeared between the gaps was darkness as deep as an abyss, and…
A big eyeball covered with bloodshot eyes looked in through the crack in the door with a ferocious gaze.
“Ugh!!!”
The fox fur stood on end and the fox roared.
Xiao Tian, who was pressing the scroll of Heavenly Dao, opened his eyes wide when he saw the person outside the door. He quickly mobilized his spiritual power and prepared to call out “Lao Jiu” to protect Feng Yudie and Yun Jiujiu.
“Ouch… What happened again?!”
Yun Jiujiu woke up first, stood up in confusion, and looked at Xue Tianqiao.
The next moment, boom——
The entire wooden door was smashed directly from the door frame.
Also falling at the same time was a Sword Sect disciple with a ferocious face and a spiritual sword stuck on his back.
“Fuck!!”
“Feng Yudie!! Wake up!!”
Yun Jiujiu was stunned for a breath and immediately slapped Feng Yudie on the face. At the same time, she jumped off the bed, waved her storage bag and sucked it into her hand, and took out her spiritual sword that was bigger than her.
“Who the fuck is that asshole?!”
“Um… Jiujiu? What’s wrong…”
Feng Yudie also sat up at this moment and saw Yun Jiujiu standing beside the bed holding a spiritual sword, looking at the closed door of the room with horror on her face, completely unaware of what was happening.
“Feng Yudie, get up quickly…”
As Yun Jiujiu spoke, she slowly turned her head and glanced at her. Then the expression on her face instantly turned pale and her words stopped abruptly.
“Fuck!!! Feng Yudie!!!”
While roaring, Yun Jiujiu raised the sword in her hand and smashed it toward her face.
?
Feng Yudie was confused, but she reacted quickly. She immediately took out the dagger from under the pillow and prepared to parry. But before that, Xiao Tian also summoned the spiritual power of the Holy Emperor’s dragon body and set up a barrier around Feng Yudie.
When——!
Yun Jiujiu’s sword hit the golden spiritual jade and was deflected by her strength.
Xiao Tian made a sword and stood in front of his chest, saying:
“Yudie, give your spiritual energy to Girl Yun!” Yun girl was hit by the formation technique. Anping told me before that there are thirty-seven methods that the Ghost Spirit Sect may use, but there is only one method that the Heavenly Demon Sect can use, and this is the method of the Heavenly Demon Sect. The Seven-Phase Yama Formation is the method used by Prison Hall Elder Fu Yuanhua! Use your Spring Spirit to break it!!”
“Ah…”
Although Feng Yudie was stunned for a moment, she quickly put her finger on the forehead of the hairy Xue Tianqiao beside her and gave her some of her spiritual energy. Then she turned over and moved out of bed, heading straight toward Yun Jiujiu.
Seeing Feng Yudie rushing over, Yun Jiujiu’s eyes were full of surprise. She immediately turned the giant sword in her hand and struck her with another horizontal slash:
“F*ck!! You’re moving so fast?! Feng Yudie!! Where are you?! Come the fuck and help me…”
Seeing the giant sword swinging toward her, Feng Yudie narrowed her eyes slightly, and immediately turned her hand to hold the dagger, letting it stick to her arm, catching Yun Jiujiu’s sword edge, and then used her skill to deflect it.
At the same time, she leaned down, almost touching the ground, twisted around to hide, and then poked Yun Jiujiu between the eyebrows with her index and middle fingers, giving her some of her spiritual energy:
“Jiujiu!!”
Yun Jiujiu seemed to be stupid. She looked at the mess in the house and the sword in her hand for a moment and asked:
“Ah?! What happened…”
“Seven Phases of Yama Formation.”
Feng Yudie spoke concisely and quickly picked up her robe from the hanger on the side, draped it on her body, tied her hair that was scattered behind her into a ponytail, and took out Xiao Yunluo’s spiritual sword from her storage bag.
“Jiujiu! Follow me, don’t be too far away.”
“Oh!”
Yun Jiujiu nodded and casually put on the golden coat she usually wore. After putting on the storage bag, she hugged Xue Tianqiao and walked to the deck with Feng Yudie from the cabin.
Ding ding ding——
When——!
“Shout!! Demon cultivator! Die!!!”
“Ahhhh——!”
“How come there are so many demon cultivators?! Where did they come from?!”
On the wide deck, a raging fire was already burning because of the fallen spiritual stone lamp.
The sound of swords, roars, and calls for help were all mixed.
However, now, the only ones facing each other with swords and almost fighting for their lives were the immortal cultivators dressed in Heavenly Execution Court Daoist uniforms. They seemed to no longer recognize the senior brothers and sisters who were walking with them.
In the two breaths when Feng Yudie and Yun Jiujiu walked out of the cabin and were stunned, seven or eight Heavenly Execution Court disciples in the Core Formation stage died at the hands of their senior brothers.
“Feng Yudie!! Hurry up… Anping said it before.”
Feng Yudie looked a little dazed. After hearing Xiao Tian’s voice, she came back to consciousness from the sea of fire in front of her. She quickly drew her fingers across the blade of her spiritual sword, then sat cross-legged on the ground and closed her eyes:
“Jiujiu, protect me!”
“Good!!”
Yun Jiujiu took a deep breath, stuck the sword in her hand vertically on the ground, stood in front of Feng Yudie, and used her spiritual energy to form a spiritual wall, wrapping the two of them in it.
…
————
At the same time, among the blue clouds thousands of feet above.
Hundreds of Ghost Spirit Sect disciples, wearing ghost faces, black robes, and flying swords, lined up neatly and looked mercilessly at the three flying boats moving rapidly forward in the valley below.
Fu Yuanhua held a cauldron of incense in her right hand and was located at the front of the Ghost Spirit Sect disciples. Gu Mingxin and He Jiming were also following her side with ghost faces at the moment.
He Jiming cupped his hands and clasped his fists, and said with a smile:
“Elder Fu… That’s enough, right? We still have to let the juniors go in and make some achievements.”
“Why do you have to send a few people in to die if you can solve it by one person?”
“That’s the truth.” Jiming smiled, bent forward, looked at Gu Mingxin on the other side of Fu Yuanhua, and said, “But Junior Sister Gu will feel distressed.”
“…”
“Junior Sister Gu, do you want to help these immortal cultivators out of trouble? I understand, senior brother, after all, they are the financial sponsors.”
Gu Mingxin looked at him with disdain, glanced at him, then withdrew her gaze, and continued to look back at the three immortal boats below with squinted eyes.
She felt that the girl named Feng could not be solved so easily. Although she wanted to criticize He Ji Ming, she knew it after hearing what Elder Fu said before.
The main reason why Elder Fu wanted to resolve the matter alone at the expense of her true energy was because she was afraid that idiot He Ji Ming would rush in and die at the hands of some immortal disciple.
Once He Ji Ming dies and she returns to the Demon Sect, Elder He will have to make things difficult for her in every possible way.
To her, He Ji Ming was like a shackle.
She now really wanted to go down and fight Feng Yudie alone again, to prove to Ye Anping that she was more suitable to be with him than Feng Yudie, but…
“Sigh…”
“Ming Xin, it’s okay.”
“…”
And that’s the next moment.
Click——
A light green light of spiritual energy suddenly appeared on the incense burner that Fu Yuanhua was holding in her right hand. She squinted her eyes for a moment, suddenly felt a stinging pain in her palm, and immediately threw the incense burner away.
“Ah?! Elder Fu… What are you doing?”
“Disciples, listen to the order!! Protect your body!!”
Boom–!
Violent fire burst out from the incense burner.
Above this deserted wall, a small sun lit up the hundreds of miles of desert below.
…
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Ps: This paragraph is very important, so I wrote it slowly, so I won’t update it twice today.
Asking for a leave
From morning to now, I have written 12,000 words.
I was originally planning to publish it, but after reading it once, I felt it was unsatisfying, so I dismissed it as a scrap. Rewrote it and took a day off today.