Chapter 445: The heroine, seven days later
As the sun rose over the high mountain, a light rain suddenly came and fell on the eaves of the window.
Crack, crackle, crackle…
In the Champs Elysées with many bamboo curtains, Xiao Yunluo was wearing a purple Daoist robe, sitting upright in front of the desk, holding a gold quill in her hand, and writing the word “Read” on the slip in front of her.
In the brass incense burner beside her, the soothing smoke lingered in front of the pillar.
Qiu Shuirou sat next to her with a little embarrassment on her face. She watched Xiao Yunluo finish reviewing one volume of the Xuanxing Sect’s memorials, then quickly handed over the next volume and encouraged:
“Young Master Xiao, there are still some… Not much left.”
These documents were the internal affairs of the Xuanxing Sect, such as repairing the alchemy furnace and requiring the approval of spiritual stones from the spiritual stone warehouse, and suggestions for improving the food of the young cultivators during the Qi refining period…
Normally, it would be reviewed by the elders or the disciples in charge of the disciples’ pavilion.
Qiu Shuirou really couldn’t think of any other way to keep Xiao Yunluo there.
She never expected that the little master would go to find Ye Anping and not come back for seven days and seven nights.
Originally, she thought that three days was already a big deal.
And now, she also understood that she might have underestimated Ye Anping’s physical strength, or underestimated the young master’s anger…
It was simply unheard of that a cultivator in the Core Formation Stage could serve the Void Realm for seven days and seven nights!
After Xiao Yunluo finished writing the word “Read” on this slip of paper, she saw Qiu Shuirou handing her a new one. She couldn’t help it, and directly put the pen in her hand back on the pen holder, staring at Qiu Shuirou’s face, but did not speak.
“…”
Seeing her like this, Qiu Shuirou smiled awkwardly, and after thinking for a moment, she hurriedly asked:
“Young Master Xiao, are you tired? Then I will make you a cup of tea and get you some snacks.”
Xiao Yunluo let out a long breath and asked displeasedly:
“Aunt Qiu… the sun has risen seven times outside!! At first, you asked me to wait here for my mother to get up. I waited for a day and wanted to go back first, but you refused to let me go and used various methods to tie here. Do you think I’m stupid and easy to fool? I can see that you deliberately want me to stay here!”
——If you are not easy to fool, when the sun rises for the second time, you should have discovered that I deliberately kept you here…
Qiu Shuirou secretly complained in her heart and said with a smiling face:
“How could that be possible~ Aunt Qiu just thinks that the young master will be very pleased to see you deal with the sect’s affairs seriously when she gets up. Then maybe, she won’t blame you for sneaking away to the Central Domain…”
The displeasure on Xiao Yunluo’s cheeks increased, but she couldn’t say anything else. After thinking about it, she simply stood up from the seat, patted her skirt, and turned around and walked out:
“I’m going back! When my mother wakes up, come and call me again!”
Qiu Shuirou hurriedly caught up, looked at the drizzle of late winter outside the bamboo curtain, and blinked:
“Young Master Xiao, it’s still raining outside. Let’s wait until the rain stops before going back.”
“No! I’m going back now!”
“Why…”
Seeing that she couldn’t hold it anymore, Qiu Shuirou took a few glances at the back of Xiao Yunluo’s neck. She compared her right hand hidden in Yunluo’s sleeve to a knife. After hesitating for three breaths, she swung it out.
——Sorry, Master Xiao! If you go back now and disturb the little master, we both have to be sent to the back mountain in double rows to face the wall…
Whoosh…
However, just as the knife was about to fall on the back of Xiao Yunluo’s neck, who was unaware, a bell rang in the rain outside the pavilion, causing her to quickly retract her hand.
Jingle Bell–
It’s finally over…
Qiu Shuirou felt relieved and quickly turned away, smiling and saying:
“Little Master, are you awake?”
!
Xiao Yunluo, who was still angry just now, felt as if she was electrocuted when she heard the ringing of the bell. Her whole body suddenly collapsed and she slowly turned her head to look.
Si Xuanji, holding an oil-paper umbrella in hand, slowly walked up the stairs in front of the pavilion. The ground in the courtyard was covered with mud due to the light rain, but her white jade feet were filled with lotus flowers step by step, leaving no trace in the mud.
“Yunluo, are you back?”
“Ah… Gudu… Well, this daughter wishes to greet her mother.”
Xiao Yunluo pressed her chin down, swallowed, and quickly gave a big salute. She watched Si Xuanji walk into the pavilion, put the paper fan away, and put it in Qiu Shuirou’s hand. Then she came to her, slowly raised her hand, and poked her gently on the dragon horn on her forehead.
“It takes three years in the abyss until one day, the clouds will rise and become a dragon, and the dragon will roar for nine days. This dragon horn is quite beautiful…”
“Mom, Ye Anping told me that I am the daughter of the Black Dragon…”
“Yes, that’s right.” Si Xuanji nodded, “Yunluo, you are not my biological daughter. You were just born out of an egg in my hands by chance. It was probably due to the influence of my void spirit that you broke out of the shell with the body of a dragon and were born with an appearance similar to mine.”
“Um…”
Xiao Yunluo didn’t have much impression, she just nodded faintly, as if she was in class at the Xuanxing Sect Academy before, silently saying these words to remember.
Seeing her like this, Si Xuanji shook her head slightly and sighed:
“There are some things that have not been recorded in the Book Pavilion but are only passed down by word of mouth among the sect leaders.
“In ancient times, the human cultivators massacred the dragon clan and cultivated with their bones and blood. This also gave the human race the current glory of the four realms. The only Nine Heavenly Black Dragons left in the world accidentally encountered a young cultivator named ‘Xiao Yuan while avoiding the pursuit of the human cultivators. This man is the founder of the Xuanxing Sect, and he is also the origin of your surname.
“Xiao Yuan was originally a human cultivator with mediocre spiritual roots. He was bullied at a young age and hated the human race extremely. It was because of this that Nine Heavenly Black Dragon fell in love with him and made a blood contract with him.
“The content of the blood contract is that the Nine Heavens Black Dragon will help him reach the top of the human race, and he will help that black dragon destroy the current human race.”
Si Xuanji sighed slightly, looking at the rain curtain with yin and yang eyes, her eyes seemed to have spanned ten thousand years. There was a little helplessness in her eyes, and she continued:
“However, after Xiao Yuan borrowed the Black Dragon’s power and his luck and spent nearly a thousand years unifying the chaotic human cultivators of all races in Zhouxing Territory in one fell swoop, he did not fulfill the original blood contract with the Black Dragon. He returned to the Black Dragon and said something to it:
“——The past and present come and go, and new people replace the old. This is the way of heaven. I will live with you for thousands of years. If there is an afterlife, I will pay it back.
“Then because of that blood contract, his soul flew to pieces in front of the Nine Heavens Black Dragon and he fell away.
“Nine Heavenly Black Dragon looked at the prosperity of the human race created by Xiao Yuan with its spiritual energy. Although he was furious, he tried many methods and was no longer able to reverse the decline of the dragon race. After that, his life span came to an end and he returned to the dust, leaving only one dragon egg to continue the bloodline, this is your origin…”
Having said this, Si Xuanji looked at Xiao Yunluo’s lavender eyes, squinted slightly, and said:
“Your biological father has harbored hatred towards the human cultivators from beginning to end and finally pinned this hatred on you. This is the destiny you were born with. When Xuanlong appears in this world, he must slaughter the human cultivators for the Dragon Clan. What are you going to do?”(TL Note: Xuanlong is the name of the Black Dragon)
Xiao Yunluo looked a little dull and said:
“I haven’t met my father, and I don’t have any idea about these things… I’ll listen to my mother.”
“I’m just telling you this, you don’t need to answer now.”
Si Xuanji raised her head slightly and walked to the side:
“The Xuanxing Sect was originally born from your father’s golden cicada shell. I make you the young master, which means returning the origin of the Xuanxing Sect to Xuanlong. After I ascend to immortality, you will be the Xuanxing Sect’s Sect Master. If you choose to follow your father’s wishes and kill the murderous cultivators, then go find the fox in the Central Domain. He will be happy to help you. And if you are unwilling to inherit the hatred entrusted to you by your father, then you should find a way to break the destiny star.”
Xiao Yunluo murmured and nodded:
“…Well, I remember.”
After Si Xuanji walked a few steps, she considered it for a while, then paused and turned around:
“Then there’s one more thing…”
Xiao Yunluo quickly handed over her hands: “Mother, please tell me.”
“Don’t call me mother from now on. I’m not your mother, to begin with. I have no blood relationship with you, and I haven’t taken much care of you in these years. Let’s end this relationship between mother and daughter.”
Xiao Yunluo was stunned for a moment, then suddenly opened her eyes wide:
“Mother… You… What did you say?”
“From now on, you have to call me master, sister, or elder sister. Anyway, don’t call me a mother. I didn’t include you in my family tree. After all, you are a mysterious dragon and the Si family’s tree cannot bear a fate like yours…”
“But…”
Si Xuanji ignored her and waved slightly to Xiao Yunluo.
In an instant, Xiao Yunluo felt that everything in her field of vision was distorted. When she came back to her senses, the rain from the sky had already fallen on her face, and she had arrived outside the door of the cave.
A small umbrella slowly appeared above her head, and Qiu Shuirou hurriedly followed her out to help her hold an umbrella to protect her from the rain, saying:
“Young Master Xiao, do you want me to take you back?”
“Qiu… Aunt Qiu?” Xiao Yunluo turned her head blankly and asked, “What my mother just said… Aunt Qiu, did you hear it? She said… She… Doesn’t want me anymore…”
Qiu Shuirou thought for a while and roughly guessed what Si Xuanji was thinking. Looking at Xiao Yunluo’s panicked look, she comforted her:
“Young Master Xiao, my little master didn’t say she doesn’t want you anymore, she just said she is no longer your biological mother, and she also said you can call her master.”
“But… But… Why? Did I do something wrong?”
“Uh… You didn’t do anything wrong. Maybe you will understand what I mean in the future.”
Because Si Xuanji didn’t point it out, and Qiu Shuirou wasn’t very good at pointing it out, she had to support Si Xuanji no matter what, so she had no choice but to comfort her:
“Young Master Xiao, don’t think too much. This is a good thing, not a bad thing.”
“… Good… Good thing?”
“Yes, it’s a good thing. Aunt Qiu, I promise you it’s a good thing. What little master did to you in the past will be what she will do to you in the future. Maybe she will treat you even better.”
“…”
Xiao Yunluo was a little confused, looked at Qiu Shuirou’s face, pursed her lips slightly, and said nothing. Only then did she remember what Ye Anping had asked her to do before, and asked quickly:
“Aunt Qiu, um… Young Master Ye said he wanted to see my mother…”
“Meet the little master?”
Qiu Shuirou thought for a while; Since Si Xuanji didn’t point out Xiao Yunluo, then…
She shook her head slightly and said, “No, don’t tell Mr. Ye about the young master. If the young master is willing, she will tell it herself.”
“Oh… Okay.”
“Then I’ll take you back, let’s go…”
“Um…”
Xiao Yunluo nodded slightly, looked back at the door in front of the cave, nodded slightly in greeting, and then accompanied by Qiu Shuirou, Yu Feng Po Yu flew toward Heavenly Cloud Peak with her sword.
The curtain of rain was falling, and Heavenly Cloud Peak seemed to be covered with a layer of gauze, which looked a bit misty and uncertain from a distance.
The two of them lowered their swords to the triple courtyard complex on the mountainside. Qiu Shuirou gave her the umbrella, bowed slightly, and left alone.
After Xiao Yunluo watched Qiu Shuirou go back, she held an oil umbrella and walked slowly toward her triple courtyard.
She was in a state of confusion at the moment, thinking about what Si Xuanji had just said to her, but as she walked to the door of the triple courtyard, thinking that she would be able to play mahjong soon, the confusion of worries suddenly disappeared.
Although her mother disowns her, she still has Ye Anping…
Although she didn’t understand what her mother said, Ye Anping knew everything, just ask him…
Squeak——
Xiao Yunluo took a deep breath, pushed open the door of the triple courtyard, and stepped in.
“An… Hiss——”
Then, when she saw the open window of the main house, she was so frightened that she inhaled sharply and turned extremely pale.
A severed hand with a hint of black mist was hanging like a doll on a sunny day under the eaves, swaying in the breeze of the rain curtain, and pinching its fingers from time to time.
Ye Anping was cleaning the house at the moment when he heard the sound of the courtyard door being pushed open, he stuck his head out from the door of his house and saw Xiao Yunluo staying at the door, staring closely at Gu Mingxin’s hand, calling:
“Yunluo, are you back?”
“Ah?!” Xiao Yunluo was startled by his sudden voice. She quickly ran over with small steps, pointed at Gu Mingxin’s hand, and asked, “Anping, what is that hand?”
“The hand of a demon cultivator, the body of a blood evil. I accidentally soaked it in water for seven days, but it became hairy, so I hung it there to dry.”
“…”
Xiao Yunluo hesitated to speak. Seeing Ye Anping talking about this matter calmly and seriously, she simply forced herself to accept it, nodded slightly, and then said:
“Anping, it seems that my mother doesn’t allow you to see her.”
Ye Anping nodded and said he didn’t care:
“It’s okay, forget it.”
“Then… My mother also said that she no longer recognizes me as her daughter.”
?
Hearing this, Ye Anping was stunned for a moment. There was no such plot in the game, but he understood it after thinking about it.
It’s probably because of him…
He thought for a while, pretended to be puzzled, and asked:
“Immortal Danyue wants to drive you out of Xuanxing Sect?”
“No… She said I can call her master, but not mother.” Xiao Yunluo nodded weakly, “Anping, but I don’t understand.”
Ye Anping thought for a while and shook his head pretending to be puzzled
“Hmm… I don’t understand either.”
“This… This…”
“But Immortal Danyueis the master of the Xuanxing Sect after all, so she should have her plans.” Ye Anping raised his hand to help Xiao Yunluo peel off a drop of raindrops on her forehead, and asked, “You want to eat some? Shall I give you something to eat?”
“Down there… Which one down?”
Ye Anping was in normal sage mode and explained expressionlessly:
“Noodle.”
Seeing this, Xiao Yunluo’s face was stained with a hint of crimson, and she nodded shyly:
“Ah… Oh… Well, hee hee——”
She held Ye Anping’s hand slightly, then held an umbrella with her and walked toward the kitchen in the yard.
One person makes the fire, another person cooks the noodles…
After a while, the rain stopped and the sky cleared up.
The breeze was like silk, the blue sky was washed, and the hand hanging under the window eaves slowly stretched out because it felt the warmth of the sun…
…