Chapter 446: Old Loli, a scheme within a scheme
In February, the early spring breeze swept away the winter cold, and the white snow on the twelve peaks of the Xuanxing Sect gradually melted away.
Young buds broke through the soil, grass grew and orioles were flying.
In the cave on the mountainside of Danquan Peak, Si Xuanji sat cross-legged on a couch and suddenly opened her tightly closed eyes to different colors.
The parrot, who was nibbling rice on the window sill, tilted his head when he saw this and told her the day in a puzzled voice:
“It’s spring! It’s spring!”
The yin and yang eyes stared at it, showing a bit of anger, which made Ah Ying quickly point to the early spring green buds in the courtyard outside the window with its beak, and add:
“It means the season! It means the season!”
The little tiger had been digesting it for almost a month, and his stomach was already empty. But Si Xuanji also understood the truth – once the officials collect grain too frequently, the people will only have nothing to eat, and then they will be weak and weak. When the people are weak, the country is weak.
Ye Anping still had a girl to support at home, so she thought that she should endure it for a while longer.
Si Xuanji let out a breath and looked at the spring scenery outside the window, hoping in her heart that Ye Anping could successfully form a Nascent Soul and come to her as she said before.
But at the same time, she also felt a little confused about this. She didn’t quite understand how Ye Anping was going to survive the Nascent Soul catastrophe.
But right now, there was nothing she could do.
Pills, spiritual lands, formations… she could provide these things to Ye Anping with the best in the world.
But the path to immortality was to go against the current. The last time Ye Anping formed a core, she only helped Ye Anping recover after each thunderstorm.
You can’t rely on others for disaster, you can only rely on yourself.
“Ye Anping, I’m waiting for you…”
Si Xuanji lowered her eyes slightly, showing a little gentleness.
However, the next moment——
Whizzing–
The breeze blew in from the window and swept over the silvery black hair hanging behind her.
Si Xuanji seemed to have seen something she was disgusted with. The gentleness in her eyes suddenly disappeared, replaced by a coldness like a glacier.
She raised her little hand slightly, and a double gauze curtain embroidered with the Xuanxing Sect’s totem was unfolded in front of her and suspended in the center of the room. Then the beds, tables, and chairs in the room disappeared in an instant, transforming into an endless void.
Then, one gauze curtain after another appeared around her, and each gauze curtain was embroidered with the totems of a sect of the Immortal family.
Curling Sect, Yu Beast Sect, Hundred Lotus Sect, Moon Shadow Sword Sect, Taibai Sect, Han Tian Kingdom…
Just one stick of incense later, this boundless dark space was already filled with thousands of gauze curtains of different colors and sizes, and a figure was reflected on each gauze curtain.
Si Xuanji glanced around with her yin and yang eyes, and frowned slightly:
“…”
The void now came from the spiritual treasure “Summoning Immortal Token”.
Each sect leader of the Immortal Family had a piece of it, which could force the spiritual consciousness of each sect leader of the Immortal Family into a virtual realm outside the four realms.
There was no concept of time there, and there was no difference between life and death.
Nowadays, in the Four Realms, only Void Realm cultivators like Si Xuanji are qualified to use the “Summoning Immortal Order”.
In other words, unless there was something particularly important and urgent that needed to be communicated to the sect leaders, this thing would generally not be used, not to mention the spiritual energy consumed by the “Summoning Immortal Order” could not be underestimated.
Si Xuanji was silent, thinking about who used the summoning order.
And at the next moment, from behind the gauze curtain embroidered with the Han Tian Kingdom totem, Sun Juehu’s sinister tone came out:
“Oh~~ The Summoning Immortal Order, what a grand display. I guess it wasn’t Sister Danyue who did it. The bald donkey of Wu Nian Sect shouldn’t be so free either. Then… old man Zu, call the heads of the various sects of the Immortal Family. What are you doing here?”
“Cough-cough…”
Zu Yuan’s coughing sound came from behind the gauze curtain of Taibai Sect, but when Si Xuanji heard it, her brows furrowed deeper.
– It wasn’t like the kind of cough that interrupts someone else’s speech, but like the weak cough of a sick old man.
Si Xuanji could hear it, and so could Sun Juehu and Wu Sun, the supreme leader of the Wu Nian Sect.
Sun Juehu was a little surprised: “Oh…”
Wu Sun seemed to be reciting the scriptures silently:
“It’s so good, alas…”
All three of them suddenly understood why Zu Yuan used the “Summoning Immortal Order”.
——Zu Yuan is the oldest among them, and he is even approaching the end of the void cultivator’s lifespan which is endless in the eyes of ordinary cultivators.
Those two coughs meant only one thing.
——If Zu Yuan is unable to break through the void and ascend within the next few hundred years, then he will have to die and return to dust.
On the gauze curtain of Taibai Sect, Zu Yuan’s figure trembled slightly.
He raised his hand, gently stroked his long beard, and sighed:
“The purpose of convening all the sect leaders today is for the great justice of the Immortal Family. You must have heard that the Ghost Spirit Sect also crossed the Donghuang Immortal City years ago and invaded the sand sea in the southeast of the Central Region. Since the Nangong Cheng of the Emperor sect was destroyed by the Monster Clan, the cultivators in the Western Domain, Southern Domain, and Northern Domain are uneasy, so…”
Zu Yuan paused for a moment, then moved his eyes to the veil curtain of the Emperor Sect not far away, where he saw the figure of Immortal Fu Xuan, and said:
“While I still have the strength, I will summon the immortals to attack the Eastern Domain in half a year. I will wipe out all the demonic cultivators who were not completely eradicated in the past, in exchange for making the four regions pure.”
Sun Juehu chuckled upon hearing this:
“Hey, ~ Old man Zu, your words are quite rhyming. But didn’t we discuss this matter last time? After talking for so many months, Sister Danyue knocked out thirty kilograms of melon seeds, and there was no conclusion. What do you mean? Isn’t that right? Sister Danyue.”
Si Xuanji glanced sideways at the curtain of the Han Tian Kingdom, the corners of her eyes twitched slightly, and said:
“It’s just the sand sea in the east of the Central Domain. Why bother to mobilize so many troops? If a war breaks out, it will only cause chaos. Thousands of years ago, the Central Domain had beautiful mountains and forests, and the birds and beasts were equally famous. But after the last war between immortals and demons, the Central Domain became like this. What’s going on? Old man Zu, you have lived longer than me, so you can’t miss me, right?”
“Then let the demon cultivators take over the Central Domain?!” Zu Yuan retorted sharply, but choked himself, “Cough cough… Cough cough cough…”
“Haha… The central domain is now the territory of the monster clan. No matter how lawless the monster cultivators are, they will never dare to invade the three regions of south, west, north, and south. Isn’t it good to leave the yellow sand to them to take care of?”
“Danyue, where is your Immortal Family’s righteousness?! Don’t think I don’t know. You are just afraid of fighting against the masters of the Demon Sect and the Ghost Spirit Sect. That Ghost Tomb Seven and Yu Yan hate you to the core.”
“Ah…”
Si Xuanji interrupted with a sneer and responded with a smile:
“Yes, as you said, I am indeed afraid of death. But old man Zu, aren’t you afraid of death? You have practiced cultivation for nearly ten thousand years and returned to dust. I am much younger than you. If you die in prison and hell, in the hands of Ghost Tomb Seven, I’m sure he will be even more reluctant than I am.”
“…”
“It rhymes, right? I’ll give it to you too. You talk about the righteousness of the Immortal Family, and you are dedicated to immortality, fame, and wealth. You teach Taibai Sect disciples to live in peace and return to their lives every day. As a result, you are sure that you can go against the will of heaven. Don’t think that I can’t see it. This bad old man is very bad. You just want to take advantage of the immortal cultivators who have fallen in front of the demon cultivators to find opportunities to break the illusion and rebel against fate. I will leave my words here today. I want you to lead the Xuanxing Sect into Eastern Domain, don’t you?! Answer! Yes!”
“…cough cough-cough cough…”
Zu Yuan was so angry that he kept coughing, and behind the curtain of Wu Nian Sect, Wu Sun also hurriedly said:
“Immortal Danyue, we are all cultivators of the Immortal family, and we should value harmony.”Then you, a bald donkey, are willing to take your Wu Nian Sect to the Eastern Domain to destroy demon cultivators?”
Wu Sun nodded slowly:
“Good, good, good…”
The smile on Si Xuanji’s face disappeared instantly and she said coldly:
“It is good to stop fighting and revive benevolence.”
After this sound fell, there was no more sound in the void.
Although there were thousands of sect leaders, they all had their ideas, but no matter where they stood in their hearts, in front of Si Xuanji or Zu Yuan, none of them dared to speak out.
After all, taking one side meant making the other side unhappy.
No one wanted to be kept in small notebooks by Si Xuanji or any of them.
After waiting for two breaths, Si Xuanji saw that Zu Yuan had stopped talking. Si Xuanji waved her hand slightly, then gave Zu Yuan a step back and said:
“Since you, Immortal Tianyun, have nothing else to do, let’s leave.”
However, just when Si Xuanji was about to withdraw from this virtual realm…
Sun Juehu, who was behind the gauze curtain of Han Tian Kingdom, suddenly interrupted:
“Hey~ Sister Danyue, don’t worry. Old Man Zu must have spent a lot of spirit stones using the Immortal Summoning Order. What a waste of effort in these two or three sentences. Why don’t we just talk about what happened in Donghuang before.”
Hearing this, Si Xuanji’s eyes instantly showed some vigilance. She felt that Sun Juehu was about to set a trap for her, so she quickly said:
“What is there to say? Hasn’t Pavilion Master Qu compiled the whole story into a volume and submitted it to the elders of each sect’s bookstore?”
“But, there are some things that are not mentioned in the files.” Sun Juehu said with a slight sneer in his tone, “Are you right, Pavilion Master Qu? I wonder how your life is in the Hundred Lotus Sect? Does Sect Master Ye from the Hundred Lotus Sect have anything to say?”
As soon as these words came out, behind the pink gauze curtain embroidered with the emblem of the Hundred Lotus Sect, Ye Ao, who was closing his eyes to rest, was suddenly shocked.
This was the first time that he was personally called by a void cultivator. Now his heart was beating wildly and he was quite nervous. Fortunately, Ye Anping seemed to have expected this and especially passed the jade slip to him and told him not to speak at all.
Thinking of his ambitious son, Ye Ao relaxed a little and used spiritual magic to seal his mouth to prevent him from accidentally making any noise.
Ye Anping had sent him a letter before, saying that if he was called to the “Summoning Immortal Order”, he should not speak under any circumstances, and Immortal Fu Xuan would speak on his behalf.
Behind the gauze curtain embroidered with the emperor’s emblem, Qu Ruyun shrugged slightly, obviously used to this kind of scene, and replied coldly:
“Really? This junior doesn’t know.”
“For example…” Sun Juehu paused deliberately and said jokingly, “Why doesn’t Pavilion Master Qu describe the handsome face of the young master of the Hundred Lotus Sect in the file so that all the factions of the immortal family know that the Hundred Lotus Sect has a handsome face? Where is the dashing, handsome young man? I like him.”
Qu Ruyun looked calm and replied:
“Senior Sun, there are so many sect leaders here. You’d better not tell such a joke.”
“That’s so boring. Everyone, the young master of the Hundred Lotus Sect is handsome…”
The sect leaders of all the factions present were a little confused when they heard this.
Although they could understand each word, they couldn’t understand them all together.
They knew that Sun Juehu liked handsome men, but would it be too inappropriate to say it on this occasion?
But Si Xuanji knew clearly that Sun Juehu was testing her.
——The second half of what Sun Juehu didn’t say when he just praised Ye Anping was:… He was so “handsome” that Immortal Danyue valued him so much.
Si Xuanji naturally did not respond:
“…”
Seeing her like this, Sun Juehu chuckled and continued:
“Just kidding, I heard from hearsay that the young master of the Hundred Lotus Sect seems to have the ‘spring of life’. Sister Danyue, you are very close to the Hundred Lotus Sect. Does sister know?”
Si Xuanji replied calmly:
“I heard that that chicken can reach three thousand feet in the sky.”
However, although her tone was calm, she already had the idea in her heart that she wanted to stuff Sun Juehu’s head into the dragon’s ass.
Sun Juehu said it casually, but after all, she was a void cultivator of the Immortal Family and the empress of the Han Tian Kingdom.
Even if you say it casually, some people will believe it.
And this person who believes is…
Whizzing–
Zu Yuan’s figure on the Taibai Sect’s veil trembled slightly.
Seeing this scene, Si Xuanji also understood that Ye Anping was being targeted by Zu Yuan.
Thousands of years ago, Zu Yuan was searching for the “spring of life” recorded in books. He wanted to use the “spring of life” to break through his cultivation bottleneck and become an immortal in one fell swoop, but so far he had failed.
Sun Juehu mentioned this just right when Zu Yuan’s lamp oil was about to run out. No matter whether it was true or false, Zu Yuan would not sit still and wait for death and would find a way to arrest Ye Anping to verify the truth or falsehood.
After all, Zu Yuan was also a void cultivator. Unless she stayed by Ye Anping’s side every step of the way, Zu Yuan would capture Ye Anping whenever there was a chance and would not leave any evidence or clues to her.
If she protected Ye Anping now, she would also announce to all the current heads of the Xian family that the relationship between her and Ye Anping was unusual, and it would also cause Ye Anping a lot of trouble.
This was Sun Juehu’s conspiracy, but it also included Zu Yuan’s conspiracy.
Now the two coid cultivators were joining forces to deal with her.
Even if she was 100% sure that she could save herself, she was not 100% sure that she could save Ye Anping.
Si Xuanji gritted her teeth slightly, calculating almost all the possibilities in the future in her mind.
Maybe one day in the future, Ye Anping will disappear from the world. Even if she knew that it was Zu Yuan who did it, if she rushed to Taibai Sect, Zu Yuan could kill him and deny it, and she couldn’t fight Zu Yuan in Taibai Sect.
This is troublesome…
How can she protect Ye Anping in this situation?
Si Xuanji lowered her eyes and began to think.
However, the next moment——
Qu Ruyun, who was behind the veil embroidered with the emperor’s totem, suddenly spoke:
“Although Qu has never seen the spring of life with her own eyes, according to some Heavenly Execution Sect disciples, Young Master Ye of the Hundred Lotus Sect once broke off an arm, and then it grew back in just a few days. But Qu believes that the incident of “Spring of Life” has nothing to do with Donghuang, and naturally it is not recorded in the files submitted to various sects.”
!
Hearing this, Si Xuanji suddenly couldn’t believe it and narrowed her eyes in the direction of Immortal Fu Xuan.
At first glance, she thought Qu Ruyun had betrayed Ye Anping and wanted to hand Ye Anping over to Zu Yuan.
But after thinking about it, Qu Ruyun probably didn’t have the guts to betray Ye Anping in front of her.
In other words, Ye Anping asked Qu Ruyun to say this.
Si Xuanji’s yin and yang eyes narrowed slightly, biting her lips and lowering her eyes in thought.
Ye Anping might have already expected the “Summoning Immortal Order”, and also expected that Sun Juehu would say “Spring of Life” on this occasion, and even expected that Zu Yuan would soon run out of oil…
The reason why he asked Qu Ruyun to say this now was to take the initiative to go to Zu Yuan’s Hongmen Banquet.
–Fool!! Idiot!!
——Such a dangerous thing!!
——Ye Anping, where is your stability? What are you going to do!?
Si Xuanji clenched her fists. The incident in Donghuang made her very worried last time, but this time he took the initiative to let the old man Zu Yuan keep an eye on him…
Why does a little core formation cultivator make her miss him so much?
Si Xuanji took a deep breath, then gradually calmed down, and asked:
“Oh? Is this happening? The Hundred Lotus Sect is right next to you. How come I didn’t hear about this Spring of Life incident?”
Just after Si Xuanji’s voice fell, a little girl’s worried voice suddenly came out from among the curtains:
——”The same goes for this junior! I have never heard my husband mention it before.”
Hearing this, everyone quickly turned around to look, only to see that the voice came from behind the gauze curtain embroidered with the Chilong Mansion totem. Li Longling noticed that things seemed to be unfavorable to Ye Anping, and she mustered up the courage to say:
“This junior is engaged to Young Master Ye, and we have known each other for many years, but I have never heard my husband talk about the ‘Spring of Life’. Moreover, if Young Master Ye has the spirit of life, he should have cured my eyes long ago. That’s right. Doesn’t the Spring of Life written in the book heal all things?”
Qu Ruyun raised his eyebrows slightly and immediately understood that the master of Chilong Mansion did not want Ye Anping to be in danger, so she mustered up the courage to speak.
Ye Anping must have forgotten to tell Li Longling his plan…
Thinking this, Qu Ruyun shook her head slightly:
“But it does happen. Young Master Ye protected the lives of countless Heavenly Execution Sect disciples with a strange spiritual energy. This is a fact.”
“Can…”
Li Longling was speechless and finally stopped speaking, but she couldn’t help but feel worried for Ye Anping in her heart.
But she became quiet, and from behind the veil of the Moon Shadow Sword Sect, Yun Tianchong’s murmur came out:
“Ahem…”
Sun Juehu quickly looked over and asked:
“What do you want to say, Master Yun?”
“No, no… I just feel uncomfortable in my throat. Please continue… Everyone, please continue…”
Yun Tianchong was just a little surprised, why did Ye Anping still have an engagement with the master of Chilong Mansion?
What about his Yiyi?
…
