Fengyang Sect is vast, encompassing over a thousand peaks. In the past, it would take Mo Xingjue half an hour to walk from the sect's main gate to his secluded mountain peak, even at a leisurely pace; if he was in a hurry, he could arrive in a quarter of an hour or half an hour.

Mo Xingjue had no interest in being stared at like a monkey. Seeing that more and more disciples were gathering on the road, he took Li Ze and disappeared. His speed was both fast and steady, and the disciples who came running only saw a blur.

"Did any of you see what the person in Senior Brother's arms looks like?"

"I couldn't see his face, but judging from his clothes, he seems to be a man."

“Those clothes belong to our Fengyang Sect, and they belong to our senior brother.”

"........"

"This is like dry wood meeting a raging fire! I never expected our senior brother to be so wild!"

"Be careful what you say. Perhaps it was just someone the senior brother saved."

"I should repay the life-saving grace with my own body."

"........"

Most of the high-level cultivators of Fengyang Sect prefer to live in cave dwellings. After being assigned to an independent mountain peak, they will open up their own cave dwellings. When they need to go into seclusion, the doors of their cave dwellings will be closed for several years, more than ten years, or even decades.

Mo Xingjue was different. He preferred ordinary people's houses to cave dwellings, and the house he built was on his own mountain peak.

If Li Ze were awake at this moment, he would find that this house is very similar to the house he built on Vermilion Bird Star.

The array isolated the outside world, and time inside seemed to have stopped, remaining exactly as it was when its owner left. Mo Xingjue carried Li Ze into the house and went straight to his bedroom.

This bedroom is rustic yet grand, with extremely simple furnishings, bordering on austere. The only special feature is the bed. This bed is very large, taking up almost half of the room's area, and could easily sleep seven or eight people at the same time.

If other cultivators were here, they would probably be tempted to curse, "What a waste!" The reason is simple: this large bed is made of level eight dragon fir wood.

Eighth-grade dragon fir wood, worth thousands of high-grade spirit stones per inch, was actually used by Mo Xingjue to make a bed, and such a big one at that!

What can you do with a bed?

A cultivator can count the number of times they sleep in bed throughout the year on one hand. It would be a huge waste to leave a bed made of dragon cedar wood lying idle.

However, no one in Fengyang Sect knew about this. No one would have thought that the senior brother, who was rarely seen all year round and was known for his abstinence, would build an abnormally large bed in his room!

Although the room had an array to isolate the dust, Mo Xingjue still cast a cleaning spell on the room before carrying Li Ze into the room.

Mo Xingjue looked at the large bed, his eyes darkening, and he couldn't help but feel secretly pleased with his foresight.

This bed has finally found its owner.

Mo Xingjue carefully placed Li Ze on the bed. The moment his body sank into the soft bed, Li Ze groggily opened his eyes.

"Sweetie, sleep a little longer," Mo Xingjue said softly.

Upon hearing this, Li Ze closed his eyes again and quickly fell asleep once more.

Mo Xingjue stared at Li Ze's sleeping face, his eyes already red, but he still couldn't bear to close them, couldn't bear to take his gaze off that face.

Is this what Aze really looks like?

It's so beautiful!

Mo Xingjue frowned as the jade slip on his body suddenly heated up. Who was so tactless as to bother him at this time?

Mo Xingjue looked displeased. He tapped the jade slip with his slender index finger, and the words inside the jade slip appeared out of thin air.

"The Ancestor summoned him?" Mo Xingjue frowned. What did the Ancestor want with him?

Although he was unhappy, Mo Xingjue had no choice but to go and see the person first, since this person was an ancestor. He was about to sit up in bed when he felt a slight tugging force on his clothes.

Mo Xingjue lowered his eyes and saw that someone who was sleeping had grabbed his clothes at some point. The slender white fingers tightly gripped a corner of the clothes, just like a small animal that had just arrived in a new environment looking for something that could make it feel safe.

Mo Xingjue had never seen the other party like this before, and for a moment, his heart melted.

So Aze trusts him that much!

Mo Xingjue gently took off his outer robe, crumpled it into a ball, and stuffed it into Li Ze's arms. Li Ze, still asleep, smelled the familiar scent and, instead of rejecting it, hugged the robe tighter, buried his face in the soft fabric, and drifted off to sleep peacefully.

Seeing this, Mo Xingjue almost couldn't resist transforming into a hungry wolf and pouncing on it—

A surge of evil fire rose from his lower abdomen to his cerebral cortex, and his entire body burst into flames.

The next moment, he suddenly turned his head and walked out of the room.

No rush, there's not enough time right now. He'll deal with him properly once he returns from the ancestral temple.

Fengyang Sect has two ancestors at the Nascent Soul stage. One is Bai Xue's great-grandfather, who is at the early Nascent Soul stage. The other is surnamed Chi, and everyone calls him Ancestor Chi. He is at the mid-Nascent Soul stage and is currently the person with the highest cultivation in Fengyang Sect.

It was Elder Chi who went to rescue Mo Xingjue this time, and it is also Elder Chi who is now summoning Mo Xingjue to speak.

Old Ancestor Chi's cave dwelling was not far from Mo Xingjue's cave dwelling. Mo Xingjue traveled smoothly and soon arrived at the outside of Old Ancestor Chi's cave dwelling.

"Come in." A deep, resonant voice, like a bell, echoed from inside the cave.

Upon hearing this, Mo Xingjue immediately strode inside.

The cave was very spacious with a high ceiling, and the light was bright, making it neither dark nor oppressive. Moreover, the spiritual energy here was so rich that it was almost liquid. The moment you entered, you felt refreshed, and every pore on your body opened wide to greedily absorb the rich spiritual energy.

"You wanted to see me?" Mo Xingjue bowed to Elder Chi with the courtesy due to a junior.

Old Ancestor Chi's sharp eyes scrutinized Mo Xingjue, his Nascent Soul stage aura emanating subtly. "The person you brought back is a demon?"

Although Mo Xingjue was prepared, his heart still skipped a beat when he heard Elder Chi's question, and he tensed up.

"Yes," Mo Xingjue replied. In front of a Nascent Soul cultivator, they had almost no secrets. If a Nascent Soul cultivator wanted to investigate, there was nothing they couldn't find.

Old Master Chi glared and bristled, "Knowing that you still brought him back!"

Mo Xingjue wasn't in a hurry at all. "He's different from other demons. He hasn't harmed any human cultivators. On the contrary, he's saved many cultivators' lives. Besides, he's only a minor Golden Core cultivator. Can't the Ancestor tolerate him?"

"Heh—" Old Ancestor Chi scoffed, "A mere Golden Core cultivator, a Golden Core cultivator with a bone age of less than twenty, at his growth rate, you may not be his match in the future."

“We are not rivals, he is my Daoist partner.” Mo Xingjue’s tone was more serious than ever before.

Old Ancestor Chi frowned. "He is a demon, and his demonic nature is hard to change. Right now, he is young and his cultivation is not high, so his demonic nature is not so deep yet. But as he grows older and his cultivation becomes higher, his demonic nature will become deeper. At that time, you are destined to be enemies. What will you do then?"

“That day will never come, I guarantee it,” Mo Xingjue said firmly.

"What if there is?" Old Master Chi countered.

"If there is one, then I will take him away from the cultivation continent."