Chapter 139 Yin-Yang White Bones (Part 9)

The airship continued its relentless journey through the air. Jiang Gu stood on the deck, frowning as he looked down at the familiar city below. "Heguan City?"

“That’s right, we turned back halfway.” Xiao Qingyan walked up from behind him and explained, “A few days ago we encountered the Eight Pavilions traitors again, so we had to take a roundabout route. Also, I received news that Xiang Yun and the others have appeared in Heguan City. You’ve been cultivating in your room during this time, so I didn’t disturb you to tell you.”

Jiang Gu nodded. "Are there many traitors in the Eight Pavilions?"

"Five years ago, during the great rebellion, most of the cultivators from the Eight Pavilions fled, and quite a few survived." Perhaps wanting to get closer to Jiang Gu, or perhaps because Jiang Gu's cultivation level posed no real threat, Xiao Qingyan explained in detail, "But even those cultivators who successfully fled could not escape the control of the Misty Rain Platform after leaving the Boundary Village. So they formed the Burning Platform Hall and tried every means to cross the Boundary Village and return to the Eight Pavilions. This time, because of the manpower selection, the Misty Rain Platform issued many Misty Rain Tokens, which is why they have been attacking us."

The information in Xiao Qingyan's words was too much. Jiang Gu pondered for a moment, then heard Xiao Qingyan laugh and say, "Don't you have anything you want to ask? I thought you would be very curious."

"You'll find out when the time comes." Jiang Gu looked at him. "Are you telling me all this because you want me to come home with you?"

"There is some truth to it." Xiao Qingyan smiled at him, her sleeves tucked in, her eyes gentle and warm. "Although this may be very abrupt, Yaoyan, I really don't want you to be in danger."

He rolled up his sleeves, revealing a hideous scar on his arm that was exactly the same as the one on Jiang Gu's neck. "I was born with this scar. My father once had someone divine my destiny and got a divination for me. I knew from a young age that there would be such a person in the world. I have imagined countless times whether you are a man or a woman, what kind of temperament you have and what you look like. Many times when I was about to give up during the trials, I thought of you. When I thought that we would meet again someday, I knew that I had to survive no matter what."

The wind whistled as he rested his arm on the railing and smiled at Jiang Gu, saying, "You are far better than I imagined, so much so that I lost my composure as soon as I came up and did something that offended you. I should apologize to you."

He raised his hand to bow, and Jiang Gu reached out to help him, but another hand was faster and grabbed Xiao Qingyan's arm tightly.

Wei Feng grabbed Xiao Qingyan with one hand and casually put his arm around Jiang Gu's shoulder with the other, saying with a forced smile, "Young Master Xiao, you flatter me. My master is magnanimous and won't take such trivial matters to heart."

Xiao Qingyan and Jiang Gu were both taken aback; neither of them had noticed anyone approaching.

"Master, I'm injured and I can't heal myself." Wei Feng released Xiao Qingyan and looked pitifully at Jiang Gu.

"I've spoiled this spirit pet, please forgive me, Young Master Xiao." Jiang Gu nodded apologetically to Xiao Qingyan.

Xiao Qingyan laughed and said, "It's alright. This beast is almost indistinguishable from a human cultivator. You've taken good care of it."

"Farewell." Seeing this, Jiang Gu could only leave with Wei Feng first.

Xiao Qingyan watched their departing figures, then lowered her head, clutching her aching forearm, and squinted her eyes.

Jiang Gu, this spirit pet, can actually make his seal react. What is its origin?

——

Inside the room.

"Where are you injured?" Jiang Gu did not smell any blood.

Wei Feng remained silent for a moment, then said in a muffled voice, "I'm not injured. I was just kidding."

Jiang Gu asked, "You appeared before Xiao Qingyan in your original form, but he didn't recognize you. What is the relationship between Chu Guanshan and Xiao Qingyan?"

“We didn’t have much interaction.” Wei Feng paused, then looked up at him. “Aren’t you going to ask me why I lied to you?”

Jiang Gu knew perfectly well what was going on, but he was troubled by the awkward relationship between the two of them and didn't want to talk about it anymore. "If there's nothing else, let's continue our cultivation."

“Something’s wrong. The thought of you being alone with Xiao Qingyan makes me so uncomfortable that I want to kill him.” Wei Feng stared straight at him, his love in his eyes undisguised. “Besides, when I’m cultivating, you’re all I can think about.”

His words couldn't be more blunt. Jiang Gu's reaction was indifferent when he heard him say that he wanted to kill Xiao Qingyan, but his expression became serious when he heard that Wei Feng was unable to concentrate on his cultivation.

Wei Feng's expression was one of suppressed sorrow and restraint as he grabbed his sleeve. "Master, please teach me what I should do now?"

In the whole world, this scoundrel is probably the only one who would openly ask his master about such a thing.

If it were anyone else, he would probably have advised Wei Feng to kill the other party with a single sword stroke. But the person Wei Feng liked was Jiang Gu himself, and he was personally teaching his disciple how to restrain his feelings for him. This matter was extremely strange, both in sound and in practice.

After years of practicing the Path of Ruthlessness, Jiang Gu finally encountered an unprecedented problem when it came to matters of love and affection.

It was rare to see Jiang Gu remain silent for so long. Wei Feng looked at him expectantly and said in a low voice, "If Master dislikes me because of this, it is only natural. I will force myself to overcome it, think less about Master, and stay in the Spirit Realm to cultivate properly. But Master, could you please leave the Spirit Realm in the room? Listening to you talking and laughing with Xiao Qingyan is more painful than killing me..."

Hot tears fell one by one onto my sleeve.

Without waiting for Jiang Gu's reply, he released Jiang Gu's sleeve and entered the spiritual realm in a daze.

Jiang Gu never imagined that raising an apprentice would be so troublesome.

It wasn't enough to let his disciple recover from his injuries, eat and drink well, and teach him cultivation; he also had to help him resolve his emotional problems. What was most infuriating was that the person who had feelings for him was himself.

For a fleeting moment, Jiang Gu had the urge to kill.

As long as Wei Feng is killed, all the problems will be solved, and Xiao Qingyan will be able to handle the love tribulation... But this thought was quickly suppressed.

He wanted Wei Feng to live. Regardless of his initial purpose, he had poured his heart and soul into raising such a capable little apprentice, and he couldn't just kill him so carelessly over such a trivial matter.

There must be a solution.

"Enemy attack!!!"

Jiang Gu's flying boat began to shake violently. Seeing this, he grabbed the spiritual mirror on the table and activated a concealment array with one hand. Damp white mist instantly enveloped him. Wei Feng's voice rang in his ear, "Master, it's the people from the Burning Platform Hall."

Jiang Gu's cultivation level was currently too low to withstand the attack head-on, so he made a decisive decision: "Let's go first."

There were many Pingze cultivators that Xiao Qingyan had gathered on the flying boat, but not many people from Qiankun Tower. Jiang Gu didn't expect them to save him at a critical moment, so he took advantage of the chaos and transformed into a streak of light to leave the flying boat.

Almost the instant they left, the entire airship turned to dust.

They had arrived at Heguan City, but the city had already changed. Everywhere there were high-level cultivators wearing purple robes, and the flying boat had already entered the city's great formation. Even though Jiang Gu had escaped, he was still trapped in the formation.

"I'll give it a try." Wei Feng transformed into mist and tried to break through the city's protective formation, but was immediately bounced back.

Just as Jiang Gu was about to try again, a purple-robed cultivator arrived on a sword. Upon seeing this, Wei Feng immediately conjured ghost patterns to envelop Jiang Gu and quickly left along the edge of the formation.

The man in the purple robe spread out his divine sense and frowned. "Strange, there was clearly a cultivator from Pingze just now."

"Leave all Pingze cultivators alive!" A deep voice boomed through the air. "Qiankun Tower cultivators, kill them without mercy!"

The sounds of fighting almost filled the entire sky, while most of the ordinary cultivators in the city hid in the formations of their houses, fearing that they would be affected. After all, neither the Tenth Floor nor the Burning Platform Hall were entities they could afford to offend.

Jiang Gu and Wei Feng landed in a secluded alley. Jiang Gu put a concealment charm on both of them and whispered, "Let's find a place to hide first."

Wei Feng nodded, and Jiang Gu instinctively reached out to grab his hand, but it was subtly dodged.

Jiang Gu glanced at him indifferently, then reached out his hand without allowing any refusal, and said coldly, "Hand."

Wei Feng was silent for a moment, then offered his hand to him, which was then firmly grasped.

Jiang Gu led him to search for a safe place where a magic array could be set up.

The purple-robed cultivators on the street had omnipresent divine senses, and the two were almost discovered several times. Just as Jiang Gu was about to put Wei Feng back into the Spirit Realm, the window next to them was suddenly opened a crack.

"Brother Gu, come in quickly." A familiar female voice rang out from inside the house.

Jiang Gu and Wei Feng exchanged a glance, then transformed into streaks of light and silently entered the array within the room, just as the purple-robed cultivator's divine sense barely grazed past them.

The main hall of the White Bone Palace was packed with people, mostly independent cultivators who had suddenly been trapped in the city.

"Brother Gu, are you alright?" Bai Yi asked Jiang Gu with concern from behind the counter.

"It's nothing, thank you, Fellow Daoist Bai," Jiang Gu said.

Bai Yi smiled and said, "Brother Gu, you're too kind."

"Manager Bai is the kindest of all. In less than half a day, he has already saved many cultivators who had nowhere to hide." A cultivator next to him said, "Those people from the Burning Platform Hall are all lunatics. They don't care whether you are a cultivator from Pingze or Qiankun Tower. As long as you are caught by them, you will be thrown into the furnace to refine pills. I wonder what kind of madness they have suddenly gone crazy this time."

"Exactly, they suddenly made such a big fuss, suddenly sealing off the entire Heguan City with a magic array." Another person complained, "I was planning to hurry up and explore a few more secret realms, but now it's all ruined."

"I heard it's because of those Pingze cultivators who were specifically named to come to Wangyue Continent some time ago." Someone in the know whispered, "Those Pingze cultivators all have the Misty Rain Token, which allows them to enter the Boundary Village. In the eyes of those traitors from the Burning Platform Hall, that's a hot commodity."

"That's true. Cultivating inside the border town is completely different from cultivating outside," someone said.

"Not only that, but more importantly, it's the primordial spirit—" The man's voice abruptly stopped.

"What happened to the primordial spirit?"

Unfortunately, no matter how much others asked, they couldn't get a clear answer.

Jiang Gu and Wei Feng stood by the counter, while Bai Yi leaned against the counter and sighed. Then they heard someone say, "Manager Bai, quickly use your eyes to see if there are any cultivators from Pingze here, right? Don't let him implicate us all."

"That's right, if those purple-robed men find us, our whole group will be finished." Everyone chimed in with agreement.

Wei Feng tightened his grip on Jiang Gu's hand and turned to look at him.

Jiang Guwei shook his head almost imperceptibly at him and squeezed his palm reassuringly.

Bai Yi's gaze slowly swept over everyone. Among the messy group of primordial spirits, a few clean and clear ones stood out, especially Jiang Gu, who was closest to her. His primordial spirit was so pure that it was almost without any impurities. The only drawback was that because he was too close to the dirtiest primordial spirit next to him, he inevitably got a little bit tainted.

She smiled gently at everyone and said, "Don't worry, everyone, there are no cultivators from Hirazawa here."