Chapter 91 There are people even more unlucky than her

Wei Ren flipped through the previous messages and was so frightened by the long passage of time that he fell off the bed. The Ghost Armored Sky Spider, which had been swinging by the bed, also stopped, as if it did not understand why he was suddenly so agitated.

"You came out of the Dragon Slayer Cave?" Wei Ren asked.

Yu Sui: "No."

How did you send the message?

Can you crack the academy's communication array?

As soon as this thought flashed through Wei Ren's mind, he felt the message on the Wind Listening Ruler was even more subtle.

Wei Ren's expression was complicated. He raised his hand to wipe his face, once again regretting that he had almost caused Yu Sui's death after passing the message to Lu Haiye. If he had talked to Yu Sui properly, their relationship would not have turned out like this.

This is probably how I'll be for the rest of my life.

Wei Ren comforted himself and tried to think positively. She was so capable and kept her abilities hidden. She was not as weak and stupid as others saw her. So, whether she was facing the peasant organization or Madam Su, they had a great chance of winning.

Wei Ren, who was completely unaware that Yu Sui possessed a strange fire, only felt that cooperating with Yu Sui would lead to a bright future.

After realizing he still had enough time, Wei Ren got up from the ground and started packing. After washing up, he went to the window and looked at the sky.

The night was as dark as ink, not a good day to go out.

Wei Ren learned from Yu Sui that they were trying to steal something called the Floating Pagoda from Princess Shangyang of the Yin-Yang School.

He asked, "What use is this thing to you?"

Yu Sui: "It can break the oath of non-war between the six states."

Wei Ren calmly read through the message and then calmly typed in the crossword puzzle: "Which country are you planning to attack?"

Yu Sui replied casually, "I'll fight whichever country wants to kill me."

Wei Ren thought to himself, "As expected of Nangong Sui, he is indeed very ambitious. Perhaps this is the talent of the Nangong family; they all have a heart to unify the world."

He began to explain the differences between the six states to Yu Sui in detail, and the messages he sent were all his long treatises, with dense text filling the entire screen.

There were too many words, so Yu Sui didn't read them. He just stared at the constantly scrolling text on the Listening Wind Ruler and muttered to himself, "This is crazy." Then he closed the text transmission interface.

Wei Ren spent some time going to a farmer's house to get some insect Gu for later use. Then, he took his Ghost Armor Sky Spider and entered the Dragon Slaying Cave from the dragon's tail at dawn.

Wei Ren was quite curious about Yu Sui's ability to send messages in places where the Wind Listening Ruler was restricted. He entered the Dragon Slaying Cave, and after finding no one around, he hid before sending a message to Yu Sui to report his arrival.

“There’s no need to hide and play with the Wind Listening Ruler in secret,” Yu Sui replied. “Many disciples inside use it as a notebook.”

Wei Ren: "Can you see what I'm doing?"

Yu Sui: "I can't see it, but I can guess it."

Wei Ren: "..."

He looked around, then emerged from the shadows, holding a wind-listening ruler in his hand. He walked around openly, playing with it as he went, and for a moment he felt like that country bumpkin who had just come to the city from the countryside.

Wei Ren asked Yu Sui with great interest, "Besides the Dragon Slayer Cave, where else can you use the Wind Listening Ruler that you deciphered?"

Cracking the communication array of the Dragon Slayer Cave is not on the same level as cracking the communication array of the entire Taiyi Mountain.

Yu Sui: "The matter hasn't been resolved yet, but you want to know more?"

Although it was just cold, hard text, the murderous intent was quite obvious.

Wei Ren quickly switched to Yu Sui's communication interface and followed the route map she provided to find Princess Shangyang.

On the other side, Xue Mushi, who was following Yu Sui, was not having an easy time either.

He remained determined to draw the fragments of the pagoda for Yu Sui. Even without paper and pen, he would break off tree branches and draw on the damp ground, or pick up stones and sharpen them to draw on the stone walls of the cave.

After Xue Mushi finished painting, he showed it to Yu Sui.

Every time Xue Mushi confidently declared that he would definitely finish the painting this time, Yu Sui believed him and followed him to the damp ground to examine the painting. After carefully examining it for a moment, she asked, "What did you paint?"

Xue Mushi then knew that he had failed this time.

The time he painted on the stone wall, Yu Sui sat at the cave entrance, watching him complete his masterpiece stroke by stroke, but just smiled and said, "It's pretty good."

Xue Mushi was overjoyed, and then heard her say, "No need to wipe it off, anyway, passersby won't be able to tell what it is."

Most of the time, Yu Sui was very calm and docile. She would sit at the entrance of the teleportation array, leaning against the cold mountain wall, playing with the Wind Listening Ruler. Her lively eyebrows and eyes remained gentle, and occasionally her gaze would lightly sweep over your presence without uttering a word.

When the two talked about different kinds of fire or cultivation, the girl's voice was sweet and soft, and she spoke slowly and clearly.

Unless she thinks you're being outrageous or makes her unhappy, her words become sharp and pointed, like poisonous thorns, stabbing mercilessly into your heart.

Xue Mushi looked at the painting on the stone wall. In his eyes, the lines were clear, orderly, and well-composed. Then, looking back at Yu Suishi, he asked in a weak voice, "Was my painting ugly?"

Without even looking up, Yu Sui, who was playing with the wind-listening ruler, asked, "Are you drawing fragments of the Pagoda?"

Xue Mushi nodded: "Yes."

Yu Sui smiled knowingly: "That's because the Pagoda is ugly."

Xue Mushi: "..."

The pagoda is ugly; that's not an untenable argument.

He slowly approached the cave entrance, looked up at the clear sky for a moment in a daze, then looked back at Yu Sui: "If all else fails, shall we go and rob it first?"

"Are you sure?" Yu Sui asked.

Xue Mushi racked his brains and suggested, "Since it's inside the Dragon Slaying Cave, a true secret realm where dragon corpses roam and devour, even if we 'accidentally' enter the Upside-Down Moon Cave, we won't be punished or maliciously suspected."

“Indeed, I can’t, but I can’t get the Pagoda. Not to mention that I can’t use the Counting Mountains technique to change the terrain while I’m there, Gu Gan has to wait until the fifteenth day to go, most likely because that’s the only day he can find the Pagoda,” Yu Sui said. “He brought quite a few people with him, and if his strength allowed, he would prefer to go alone to get it.”

Xue Mushi scratched his head, then sat down against the cold mountain wall like her, puzzled, and asked, "Since you know you're here to help find the fragments of the Floating Pagoda, why didn't Gu Gan take you with him?"

Yu Sui looked up at him: "Why do you have to ask such an obvious question?"

Xue Mushi silently raised his hand after being met with her cold gaze: "I really don't understand, really."

“I’m only at the first level, what use is it for him to bring me along? Just to keep watch?” Yu Sui looked back at the Wind Listening Ruler in his hand, speaking in a tone that was neither too harsh nor too soft. “I wouldn’t bring him either. He’s too weak, completely useless, and would only cause discord among the other members of the team.”

Xue Mushi was still somewhat puzzled: "When you first came to the academy, you saved him, otherwise he would have been expelled from Taiyi. You two grew up together as childhood sweethearts. He didn't take you with him to the Upside-Down Moon Cave because it was risky. Now that he's gone to challenge Dragon Throat Mountain, obviously for the Heavenly Secrets Technique, why didn't he take you with him?"

Gu Gan and his group had already gone to Longhou Mountain. They were climbing at a fairly fast pace, and it seemed that they felt they had enough time, so they went to Yechi first and then to the Upside-Down Moon Cave.

Yu Sui paused in her crossword practice, looked up and leisurely examined Xue Mushi, her eyes bright as autumn water, her face smiling, but there was no real smile in her eyes: "Not all childhood sweethearts in this world are like you and the Holy Maiden."

"There are also childhood sweethearts like me and Gu Gan who use each other. Our relationship isn't that good. He would take me, who was at the first level, to challenge Yechi and obtain the Heavenly Secret Technique."

There are too many beautiful girls around Gu Gan who need his care.

Upon hearing this, Xue Mushi's eyes widened in disbelief: "But didn't your senior brother take you there?"

Yu Sui rested her cheek on her hand, seemed to think for a moment, and then smiled and said, "So he's a good senior brother."

For Yu Sui, Gu Gan was a bad childhood friend, and Mei Liangyu was a good senior brother, nothing more.

“I had heard before that your senior brother was a very cold and strange person, but after seeing him these past two days, I don’t think that’s the case,” Xue Mushi said.

Yu Sui nodded as if in agreement, and slowly said, "Because in my senior brother's eyes, I am very pitiful. I am beautiful and weak, and we don't have any conflicts when we get along. I am weak, beautiful, and pitiful, so it is not difficult for him to sympathize with me and protect me to Yechi. He is willing to help within his power."

Xue Mushi was stunned by her line of thinking. After a moment, he said, "Aren't you indirectly praising your own beauty?"

Yu Sui looked up at him and said, "Yes."

Along the way, Xue Mushi had a good impression of Mei Liangyu, and continued the conversation, saying, "You are his only junior sister, so you must be somewhat different to him."

"What's the difference?" Yu Sui asked, puzzled.

Xue Mushi frowned, trying to describe the feeling: "It's just... the details. Compared to how I treat you, the details, the tone of my voice, are much better."

“My senior does treat girls differently from boys. Sometimes he’s inexplicably polite, but he doesn’t treat me any differently. It’s not like he doesn’t have other female friends, and I see they get along very naturally,” Yu Sui said. “I don’t even dare to compare myself to his friends of many years. You’ve only known him for a few days, so how dare you compare yourself to me?”

There's simply no comparison.

Xue Mushi sighed and said, "I just think your senior brother is very smart and capable. It would be terrible to have someone like that as an enemy."

Yu Sui tapped the Listening Wind Ruler lightly with her fingers, smiling somewhat helplessly: "I don't want to be enemies with my senior brother either."

Her impression of Mei Liangyu only gradually deepened during her time at Zhanlong Cave; before that, it was all vague and insignificant.

"It's alright, he doesn't know you have a different kind of fire, we're not enemies yet," Xue Mushi comforted her.

Yu Sui glanced at him, a half-smile on her face.

"If my senior brother knew I possessed a different kind of fire, what do you think he would do?" Yu Sui asked.

When Xue Mushi was asked this question, he remembered that his master was the Sage Changgen. After hesitating for a moment, he replied, "I might tell the Sage Changgen."

As a fellow destroyer of the world, Xue Mushi also knew how great the threat posed by the strange fire was.

Yu Sui gazed into the depths of the jungle, remaining quiet.

Xue Mushi waited a while before daring to ask her, "Did I hurt your feelings?"

"Hmm?" Yu Sui glanced at him out of the corner of her eye. "I was just thinking about how I want to live my next life."

Xue Mushi asked in alarm, "Why would you want to think about the next life?"

“You should think ahead. I’ve already experienced death resonance three times, and without exception, all the World Destroyers whose identities were exposed died. The fact that the Xuan Gu Continent hasn’t been destroyed means that the World Destroyers will be eliminated,” Yu Sui said. “Have you thought about your next life?”

Xue Mushi shook his head: "I haven't finished living my life yet."

"Once it's over, there won't be a chance to think about it anymore." Yu Sui rubbed her eyes, watching the light and shadows shift and change. "The strange fire burns too fast; by then, I won't even have time to think about what my next life will be like."

Xue Mushi added, "You won't necessarily be burned to death by the strange fire."

Yu Sui propped her head up with one hand, looking relaxed, and spoke slowly: "So, my mother dug up half a piece of the Breath Soil and sent her to die?"

"Or I might be captured and killed by my father's enemies."

She seemed to be seriously considering this question.

“Your Nangong family certainly has a lot of enemies,” Xue Mushi agreed. “The possibility of being killed by your enemies is even greater.”

She was the heir chosen by Nangong Ming, and among so many children, Yu Suisha would be the first choice.

Yu Sui meticulously listed the enemies she knew, and Xue Mushi was stunned by the string of names she uttered.

The two chatted from day to night, their topics ranging from the Nangong Prince's Mansion to the Strange Fire, the Floating Pagoda, and then to Taiyi. Most of the time, Yu Sui did the talking, while Xue Mushi listened.

During the day, they would talk back and forth, but at night it was almost entirely Yu Sui talking while Xue Mushi listened attentively.

Because Xue Mushi also possessed a different kind of fire, Yu Sui could be less hesitant and didn't have to consider what to say and what not to say every time. She could also ask her directly what she wanted to know without beating around the bush.

This was the day she spoke the most since she came into this world.

Even though she and Zhong Lique were on good terms, they mostly communicated through the Wind-Listening Ruler. In the past two years, due to Nangong Ming's orders, they had only spoken face-to-face a handful of times.

Normally, no one would talk to her like this.

When Yu Sui was in the Qingyang Prince's Mansion, she would either tinker with the Five Elements Light Cores in her room or sit in the courtyard alone in a daze. Once she left the mansion, she was accompanied by many unseen guards. When she stayed in her own courtyard, no one was monitoring her.

Despite having talked so much today, Yu Sui actually felt very happy. It was the first time she had discovered that talking could be so pleasant.

Xue Mushi also felt that she was talking more and more, and even if he didn't respond, Yu Sui could continue talking naturally. Or perhaps it was because he seemed to be listening attentively that Yu Sui was able to continue talking.

Yu Sui had so much to say, but there was never anyone she could ask to speak.

Xue Mushi had once been told by Tu Miaoyi that he looked weak on the outside but was as stubborn and hard on the inside as a stone. At this moment, he felt that Nangong Sui was also as lonely and cold as a stone.

She was like a strangely shaped stone, unable to blend into the pile of rocks. The other stones didn't like to play with her either, so she had to find her own way in. So she fell into the water and was washed away, fell into the mud and got stained, and hung high up to be eroded and polished by the wind and sand. Finally, she became like an ordinary stone, able to blend into the pile of rocks, but only she knew that she was an outsider.

Only after comparing himself to Yu Sui's situation did Xue Mushi realize how precious Tu Miaoyi was to him.

To think that there would be anyone in this world who would unconditionally accept a destroyer is naive.

But to meet someone like that would be incredibly lucky.

Seeing that Xue Mushi was yawning several times and seemed sleepy, Yu Sui stopped talking and told him to go and rest. She then wiped the thin layer of sweat from her forehead and stared blankly into the night.

It seems that deep down she had also secretly hoped for the day her identity would be exposed.

Because this power is the most unique and powerful in the world, the thrill of unleashing such power to burn away all the lowly arts of the world without anyone stopping you is also very tempting.

When Yu Sui first released the strange fire, he tasted that feeling. The supreme existence and the power to crush everything are easy to become addicted to.

Once you start, you'll start again and again. Using overwhelming power can be addictive.

Yu Sui stared at the cluster of flames deep within her consciousness.

Perhaps it wasn't the strange fire that tempted her these past two years.

Instead, she was drawing closer to the strange fire.

Yu Sui sometimes wondered how long she could hold on.

Next year, or tomorrow?

Yu Sui and Xue Mushi could simply wait and enjoy the peaceful days; Gu Gan, on the other hand, ventured into Dragon Throat Mountain, only to find himself facing a terrifying ordeal at the very end.

Gu Gan had entered the Dragon Head Ye Pool last year and obtained the Legalist Heavenly Secrets Technique, making him very familiar with the Dragon Slaying Cave challenge. He also cooperated seamlessly with the people around him. Relying on his divine secrets, Gu Gan was not afraid of the loss of the five elements' energy from Dragon Throat Mountain. He could even be one step ahead of others, so he was confident that he could go to Ye Pool first and then go to the Upside-Down Moon Cave.

When he was almost at the top of the mountain, he unfortunately ran into Mei Liangyu and his group.

Zhonglishan had already entered the Dragon Head Ye Pool, and Mei Liangyu and the others did not plan to set up any more formations to stop people, as that would offend too many top-level disciples.

But unexpectedly, he met Gu Gan, who was trying to go to the dragon's head, at this time.

This is truly a case of meeting on a narrow road.

Gu Gan's heart skipped a beat, but Nian Qiuyan and the others felt that his arrival was just in time.

The two groups inevitably fell into a battle. As the number of people increased, Gu Gan could no longer use his divine skills without restraint. However, the mountaintop was within reach, so Gu Gan did his best to ensure Xiang Feifei's advance and draw fire.

Unfortunately, Mei Liangyu and the others only had him as their target, completely ignoring Xiang Feifei and focusing their attack on Gu Gan.

Seeing Gu Gan in danger, Xiang Feifei turned back to help, but was bitten by the poisonous insects released by Cang Shu.

Without the five elements, the advantages of the disciples of the Farming School and the Medical School become greater, and the physical skills and swordsmanship of the disciples of the Military School can also be considered an advantage.

Disciples of the Fangji family can also avoid many risks and resist some attacks by relying on the divine wooden talisman.

Because Yu Sui had to keep an eye on Mei Liangyu, he went to deliver a new light core to her before the Five Elements Light Core was about to disappear. When he saw Gu Gan fighting with his senior brother and his group, he couldn't help but frown.

She watched patiently and witnessed Gu Gan being eliminated by the combined attacks of Kong Yiyi, Mei Liangyu, and Cang Shu.

The moment Gu Gan's ingeniously crafted heart shattered, the news spread.

This scene made Yu Sui laugh.

It turns out there are people even more unlucky than her.

Xiang Feifei and Huo Xiao stared in disbelief at Gu Gan's elimination, but soon the attack that had been directed at Gu Gan turned back on them.

Before Li Jinshuang could even unleash her sword spirit, she was forced to retreat repeatedly by Kong Yiyi's swordsmanship.

Watching Gu Gan's team members being eliminated one after another until they were completely wiped out, Yu Sui stood up and woke Xue Mushi up.

Xue Mushi instantly snapped out of his daze and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Gu Gan has been eliminated," Yu Sui said in a flat tone.

"How did he get eliminated?" Xue Mushi couldn't believe it.

"Too confident," Yu Sui said casually. "We're both men, maybe you should learn to be more confident like Gu Gan."

Xue Mushi was stunned for a moment before standing up and saying, "Isn't he overconfident? I had a bad feeling that he would be eliminated if he wanted to try to enter the Dragon Head Ye Pool first."

Yu Sui nodded: "Then he truly lives up to his reputation as the Divine Calculator Xue."

Xue Mushi felt a bit disappointed in Gu Gan: "What will we do if he eliminates us?"

This really shows that plans can't keep up with changes.

"Either we wait outside, he won't be willing to lose this opportunity like this." Yu Sui had already thought of many possibilities. "Or we can go."

"Do we know where the fragments of the Floating Pagoda are in the Upside-Down Moon Cave?" Xue Mushi asked.

Yu Sui looked at him with a smile, without saying a word.

Xue Mushi sighed and began to mutter to himself about how disappointing Gu Gan was.

[Author's Note]

Thank you so much for your support! I will continue to work hard!