Chapter 126 A Moment of Inspiration: Over the next two days, the two of them traversed most of the accessible areas of the Qingfeng Sect. ...

Over the next two days, the two of them traversed most of the places that Qingfeng Sect could go.

Almost everyone in the Qingfeng Sect knew that the woman with the white blindfold was the young master of the Feixian Palace.

In their leisure time, cultivators from various sects or independent practitioners would gather together to chat, inevitably mentioning the number one immortal palace in the world, and then Xi Congshuang.

The young palace master is said to have reached the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage at the age of eighteen, but he almost went into a state of demonic possession, which resulted in him having white hair.

This is the young master of the Flying Immortal Palace, the number one palace in the world. He looks quite ordinary.

Most people think this way when they first meet Xi Congshuang: she is too quiet and reserved, without any of the pride of a young palace master of the Immortal Palace, and it is easy to overlook her presence if you don't pay close attention.

Cultivators with higher cultivation levels naturally possess an aura of pressure. This is not intentional; it's simply that their spiritual energy is abundant and solid, easily bringing a great sense of oppression to lower-level cultivators.

Therefore, everyone can see that Xi Congshuang doesn't look like a cultivator who has reached the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage at the age of eighteen.

Since that battle, not only did the Demon Realm suffer heavy casualties, but the Cultivation Realm also suffered heavy losses. The era when Nascent Soul cultivators were everywhere is long gone, and now even those at the Nascent Soul stage can be considered powerful.

Most cultivators above the Nascent Soul stage are in large sects, while those in the Core Formation stage can serve as elders in small and medium-sized sects, far surpassing most cultivators.

It's like the difference between a beginner student in a private school and a teacher who has passed the imperial examination.

It's easy to imagine how stark the contrast is between Xi Congshuang, who is led around by a girl in red every day, and everyone else.

She seemed oblivious to her surroundings, needing someone to guide her, and even needing a girl beside her to remind her to go up a flight of stairs. It seemed she was truly useless.

Xi Congshuang could still hear the occasional gossip, and others thought she was useless and couldn't hear much, but little did they know that she was fully aware of everything around her.

No one knew that in order to suppress the surging spiritual power in the spiritual vein, Xi Congshuang was fighting against the spiritual power almost every second, and restraining the spiritual power in the spiritual vein to the extreme.

Anyone else would have either exploded or committed suicide long ago due to the unbearable pain of their spiritual veins constantly being torn apart. Yet, she remained calm and composed in public, as if she were just a beautiful young woman with little spiritual power.

As a cultivator from a celestial sect, Xi Congshuang possessed a naturally refined and otherworldly aura. Although her eyes were covered, they could not be seen, but judging from the lower half of her face, Xi Congshuang had a beautiful appearance, and one could imagine that her eyes, if revealed, would be as stunning as her aura.

However, because she is blind, she has to cover her eyes all year round, which is a pity.

Only a few people knew that, in addition to the black dragon hairpin in her hair, Xi Congshuang also wore a white silk scarf over her eyes and matching earrings to help her see.

After walking for a while, Su Wenxin was a little tired, so Xi Congshuang suggested that they find a place to sit down.

Su Wenxin led the person to sit down in the pavilion. Not long after, the person who had just been complaining of being tired rushed out of the pavilion, only managing to leave behind the words, "Wait for me here, I'll be back in a bit."

Xi Congshuang never restricted her freedom, nor did she worry that she would run away. This attitude often made Lan Hui feel inferior.

After a while, the person who had run away came running back and placed a fluffy, slightly heavy creature on Xi Congshuang's leg.

Xi Congshuang was caught off guard and didn't react in time. Su Wenxin pulled her palm onto her lap and placed her on the back of the creature that arched up. It was warm, smooth, and felt very nice.

The furry, soft creature then let out a meow.

Its wagging tail kept rubbing against Xi Congshuang's arm, but it had three tails.

Xi Congshuang recognized it, and her smile deepened: "Three-Life Spirit Fox? Where did you catch it?"

Su Wenxin squatted down in front of her and reached out to stroke the spirit fox's head. The spirit fox then squinted its eyes comfortably: "It was in the tree. It ran up the tree and was too scared to come down, so I went to bring it down for it."

Climbing a tree is no challenge for Su Wenxin.

This fox looks like a cat, and its cry sounds like a cat, but it is born with three tails. It is gentle by nature and has an extra ability to guard the house compared to ordinary house cats.

Some monks would keep spirit foxes to guard their storerooms, symbolizing the protection of their master's treasures.

Folklore says that cats have nine lives, but whether this is true or not is currently unknown. However, the spirit fox is indeed said to have three lives and a wide range of detection capabilities. If an intruder disturbs the spirit fox, it can wait until its owner arrives.

However, because of its cute appearance and long lifespan, the Three-Life Spirit Fox's function of guarding the treasure vault was much less than its function as a spirit pet for cultivators with long lifespans.

The three-lived spirit fox, which was lying on Xi Congshuang's lap, had all three tails intact and was leisurely swaying its tails.

"If you like it, why not take it back and keep it as a spirit pet to relieve your boredom?" A voice came from behind, and the two turned around at the sound.

"This junior greets the sect leader."

Following Xi Congshuang's example, Su Wenxin also greeted the Qingfeng Sect Leader: "Junior Su Wenxin greets Sect Leader."

The person who arrived was none other than the leader of the Qingfeng Sect. She came alone, without any attendants.

Xi Congshuang stood up while holding the cat, and the sect leader quickly said, "There are no outsiders here, please sit down."

When her elders spoke, she obeyed and sat back down in her original spot.

When the leader of the Qingfeng Sect passed by Xi Congshuang, he also raised his hand and patted the spirit fox's head: "Your mother used to like raising spirit foxes. She not only liked raising spirit foxes, but also all kinds of spirit beasts, but she didn't like the big ones, she liked the small ones."

As she spoke, she sat down opposite Xi Congshuang: "Back then, Aying often asked me whether she was a formation cultivator or a cultivator from the Beast Taming Sect."

The entire Qingfeng Sect is as pure and upright as the breeze, and so is its leader.

A past event brought Su Wenxin closer to the two people in front of her, and she unconsciously began to listen attentively.

The sect leader continued, "When I used to go on training trips with Huaizhen, she would often be attracted by the cries of various spirit beasts. Sometimes even demonic beasts could trick her. She never learned her lesson and would go to see them every time. Aying found this very annoying. Sometimes she would go to rescue her, and sometimes she wouldn't. She would watch from the tree and wait for Huaizhen to get tired and start cursing before she would make a move."

Since the array cultivators had relatively few attack methods, and Xi Huaizhen was worried that using the zither to attack would hurt the little beast, she adopted the most primitive method—a chase.

Su Wenxin listened attentively.

She never resisted anything related to her mother. Her previous resistance stemmed from the fact that she had never met her since birth and had hardly heard anything about her. Yet everyone demanded that she follow in Su Xianzun's footsteps and didn't listen to her at all.

It was perfectly normal for Su Wenxin, who was young and impetuous, to have a rebellious spirit. Her name only had the two characters "Wenxin" in it, and her adoptive mother only gave her the name "Wenxin" without a surname.

Demons don't have surnames, so the Crimson Gold Bird Demon didn't take any surname.

Su Wenxin, now grown up, truly lives up to her name, acting only according to her heart. Her Su is the same as Su Ying's Su.

"But they won't let me do it," the sect leader said.

Su Wenxin asked, puzzled, "Why?"

Sect Leader: "It's probably because when I was young I loved fancy moves. When I made a move, I would unleash a barrage of swords, turning everything within my attack range into a hedgehog. It's not as precise as A-Ying's sword strikes."

The leader of the Qingfeng Sect is also a sword cultivator, and in his youth he was a sword cultivator who loved to show off.

Su Wenxin: "..."

The fox spirit nestled on Xi Congshuang's lap: "Meow."

He looks the gentlest, but the moves he practices are the most lethal. You really can't judge a book by its cover.

The sect leader looked at the two familiar faces in front of him and vaguely remembered that he was still a teenager.

Who would have thought that hundreds of years later, of the three who had traveled together, one had died and the other was injured, and she, because of her important position, rarely left the Qingfeng Sect.

Xi Congshuang heard a barely perceptible sigh from the other side. She knew that the sect leader had come alone not simply to talk about the past.

As expected, the sect leader began to ask about other things: "Speaking of which, it's also fate that young friend Wenxin went to Feixian Palace. Has Huaizhen said when she will take her as a disciple?"

Xi Congshuang thought to herself, "They've arrived," and then asked in confusion, "Taking on disciples?"

The sect leader was surprised. She looked at Su Wenxin, who was equally confused, and asked, "Then why did Huaizhen take young friend Wenxin to the Flying Immortal Palace?"

"..."

Xi Congshuang was thinking about how to tell the truth, but Su Wenxin was straightforward and didn't care about being tactful.

Su Wenxin said to the sect leader, "Because I made a mistake and poisoned Elder Qu of the Su Clan, I was taken away by the Palace Master to be punished in the Flying Immortal Palace. In order to make amends and avoid imprisonment, I was asked to test the medicine on Young Palace Master Xi. Not long after, I was taken to the Immortal Pavilion by Young Palace Master to continue my cultivation."

"Help her test the medicine? How could Huaizhen do such a thing?" The sect leader was genuinely unaware of this and instinctively retorted, "Back then, she and Aying had a deep friendship and even made a pact with me that if we had children in the future, we would take each other as disciples."

After a pause, the sect leader said, "How could she possibly..."

Xi Congshuang noticed the sect leader's gaze, nodded, and did not deny it: "This junior was also at fault in this matter."

The sect leader was completely speechless.

These are all family scandals, and it's perfectly normal not to air them in public. All she knew was that Su Wenxin was stolen by a bird demon at birth and, not long after being brought back to the Su family, suddenly went to the Flying Immortal Palace.

At the time, she thought her old friend was fulfilling a promise she made in her youth, but she never expected it to be for this reason.

The sect leader looked at Su Wenxin for a long time before resolutely saying, "You must have suffered a great injustice if you don't want to stay in the Su family. The Su family shouldn't punish you."

Turning to Xi Congshuang, he said, "You almost went mad with your cultivation and were struggling to stay alive. If you didn't know beforehand, I can't blame you."

Su Wenxin, who was moved by the first sentence, nodded emphatically when she heard the second sentence, poked Xi Congshuang's shoulder, and said seriously, "Yes!"

The sect leader chuckled, almost forgetting what he originally wanted to say: "I should have come out of seclusion long ago, but unfortunately, my old injury flared up when you were born, and more than three hundred years had passed by the time I came out of seclusion."

It's perfectly normal for cultivators to spend hundreds of years in seclusion. When they do emerge from seclusion, it's usually to handle important matters within their sect before returning to seclusion.

When they finally emerged from seclusion, they learned of a series of upheaval-inducing news.

Xi Huaizhen, who had the highest cultivation level among them, knew about her cultivation status before she went into seclusion. This was because she had defied the heavens during the war between immortals and demons, forcibly saving the lives of too many cultivators, which led to a backlash.

She may take a long time to recover, or she may never recover, but she told herself she never regretted doing it.

She just didn't expect that Su Ying would perish so quickly.

The sect leader's expression gradually turned melancholy, and he sighed softly, "Life is unpredictable..."

Xi Congshuang lowered her face, her hand constantly stroking the fox spirit on her leg.

Because she cannot see the surface, she acts more cautiously and cannot confirm whether what the other person is saying is true based on their expression during a conversation.

The person who should be her mother was being impersonated by an unknown entity. When her mother's old friend suddenly appeared before her, she dared not easily make a judgment to determine whether what she said was true or false.

After careful consideration, she chose to wait a few more days before asking the question she wanted to ask.

The scene of the three talking was witnessed by others, and in an instant, the news reached the Flying Immortal Palace.

It was just on the palace master's table.

The palace mistress was frighteningly calm after hearing the news. She was not someone who got angry easily; she usually suppressed her anger and did not easily show it to others.

She understood one thing almost instantly: an ingrate is an ingrate, and no matter how you try to raise him, you can never tame him.

Without much thought, the Palace Master quickly made a decision: "Since we can't keep them, then we shouldn't keep them anymore, and they shouldn't come back."

Crushing the jade slip again, the Palace Master simply said, "You may proceed."

*

After a long conversation, the sect leader did not stay long and soon left on official business.

Xi Congshuang got up and was led back by Su Wenxin, but she still had doubts in her heart and couldn't easily tell outsiders.

She told the elders of her sect that she was unsure whether they would change their allegiance as early as the Su family when the head of the family changed; she told her senior sister, who had taken good care of her, but the other sister was, after all, the palace master's first disciple and had obeyed the palace master's orders for many years, so asking questions rashly might alert the enemy.

Thinking about it this way, she was truly in a dilemma; saying it or not saying it was also a dilemma.

"You're so fast, wait for me." Su Wenxin suddenly said from behind.

Xi Congshuang paused, and the person behind her couldn't dodge in time and bumped into her.

She actually knew the way and could walk back to her residence with her eyes closed. However, because she had something on her mind, Xi Congshuang walked faster than Su Wenxin without realizing it.

It turned out that she was leading the way, rather than being led by Su Wenxin.

The two asked in unison, "Did the impact hurt you?"

Su Wenxin rubbed her slightly sore nose, her eyes welling up with tears from accidentally bumping into her shoulder.

Unable to get a reply, Xi Congshuang impatiently reached out and touched her cheek: "Where did I bump into you?"

Su Wenxin blinked her teary eyes and replied in a muffled voice, "It's okay, it doesn't hurt."

Xi Congshuang said apologetically, "I walked too fast and didn't consider you."

The hand that was supporting Su Wenxin's face reached the back of her hand that was covering her nose. A slight glint flashed at the fingertips, and the stinging pain in her nose instantly disappeared. The tears in the corners of her eyes were also wiped away.

In front of Su Wenxin's face, she raised her hand and wiped away the glistening teardrops on her knuckles.

It was just an ordinary action, but it inexplicably made her heart skip a beat.

*

Today is over, and tomorrow it will be the turn of the Golden Core cultivators to take the stage. The time to watch them has finally arrived.

Before going on stage tomorrow, Su Wenxin should first go to the Qingfeng Sect's martial arts arena to collect his competition badge. When the competition begins, the blank badges will display numbers, and those with the same numbers will be opponents.

After making arrangements with Xi Congshuang, Su Wenxin and Yu Se set off together to get the waist token.

The waist tag cannot be collected by someone else; you must collect it in person and activate it on the spot. Otherwise, you will be considered to have forfeited your eligibility to participate.

Most of the disciples at Ziyuan Xiaozhu were not present; they had all gone to the martial arts arena to collect their waist tokens. The elders had also been invited by their respective friends to catch up.

The surroundings were completely quiet, with only Xi Congshuang waiting inside the small building.

She calculated the time; it would take her two round trips to the training ground. Most of the other disciples had already returned, but Xi Congshuang hadn't seen Su Wenxin come back yet.

Before leaving, Su Wenxin said she would be back soon; she wouldn't lie.

Xi Congshuang became suspicious and decided not to wait any longer, so she got up and went out.

When she went out, she ran into her junior sisters returning together and asked them about Su Wenxin's whereabouts.

The junior sisters were no longer afraid of the young palace master and discussed among themselves for a while.

A junior sister who had seen Su Wenxin return said, "Miss Su? She and Senior Sister Yu Se have already returned. Didn't you see them?"

"No." Xi Congshuang walked past them and pushed open the door to leave.

Before anyone could react, they watched helplessly as Xi Congshuang left the house.

"Young Palace Master?"

"Is it really alright for the young master to just leave like this?"

"But does the young master know the way?"

This was everyone's question. Since the young palace master left, she had never been separated from anyone; it was either Miss Su or the senior sister.

Especially Miss Su, she guarded the young palace master very closely, never letting him out of her sight.

"She can't see, so she probably doesn't know the way. We can't let the young master go out alone!"

"Oh no, hurry and catch up with the young master."

The junior sister, realizing what was happening, chased after her, but Xi Congshuang was nowhere to be seen outside the door. She wondered how Xi Congshuang could walk so fast when she couldn't see.

*

Su Wenxin was very impatient when she was stopped.

She gripped the hilt of the sword that had been sheathed and patiently explained, "I've said it many times: if Miss Yu Se and I were passing by and an arrow suddenly flew out, I would definitely retaliate."

“Besides, it’s just an arrow. If it’s broken, it’s broken. What are you trying to do by pulling and tugging like this?” Yu Se immediately chimed in.

Among the disciples of the Rainbow Moon Sect, the leading youth held a large bow and raised his head in dissatisfaction, saying, "It was you who suddenly flew out and crashed into the range of my tracking arrow. I was originally planning to test whether this arrow was good or not, but you cut it in half and then tried to escape."

Su Wenxin: "Then why do you shoot arrows into the sky for no reason?"

Rainbow Moon Sect disciple: "Didn't I say I need to test the bow? I'll be competing tomorrow."

Su Wenxin sneered repeatedly: "With your level, you'd lose even if you went on stage. Stop wasting your breath. You might as well go back and cram tonight, practice a hundred arrows overnight, and then embarrass yourself in front of everyone again tomorrow."

"..." Everyone choked.

Yu Se was also shocked. She hadn't expected that Su Wenxin, who was usually taciturn, could be so fluent when she started cursing.

The Rainbow Moon Sect disciple was furious and tried to stop him from leaving: "How dare you talk to me like that? Do you know who I am? My master is the head of the Rainbow Moon Sect, and I am his last disciple."

"Who cares if you're an open disciple or a closed disciple? I'm going back, move aside." Su Wenxin knew she had been out for a while, so she gripped her knife in one hand and gestured for Yu Se to follow her.

This was a ridiculous and unreasonable matter to begin with. If it weren't for Su Wenxin passing by, who knows who this tracking arrow would have hit?

However, given the opponent's skill level, it's more likely that the piece will be broken.

Yu Se said speechlessly, "Is being a disciple of the Rainbow Moon Sect's leader something so remarkable? I am also a disciple of the Palace Master of the Flying Immortal Palace."

The disciples of the Rainbow Moon Sect were furious, and the leader shouted again, "Stop right there! Did I say you could leave?"

Su Wen ignored him and walked straight away.

Yu Se had never seen such a shameless person. If it weren't for the fact that fighting now would disqualify her from the competition, she would really like to have a match with this person.

She was startled by the arrow that suddenly flew out, and Su Wenxin was only trying to help her draw her sword, so she said, "Then what should we do?"

Tracking arrows aren't expensive; at worst, she can use her disciple allowance to compensate for them, to prevent the Rainbow Moon Sect members from spreading rumors.

The Rainbow Moon Sect members said, "Miss Yu Se, you are the disciple of the Palace Master of the Flying Immortal Palace. We will not compete with you, for we cannot win anyway."

Yu Se: "You're talking nonsense..." Before she could finish the word "talk," she was interrupted.

The young man raised his bow and pointed it at Su Wenxin: "I want her to apologize to me, to show her what happens when she breaks my arrow."

The reason why the Rainbow Moon Sect disciples dared to say this was simple: Yu Se was the Palace Master's disciple, just like him, and he couldn't afford to offend the number one immortal palace in the world.

However, Su Wenxin was a complete stranger and was not wearing disciple robes similar to Yu Se's, so he must be an unknown person, or perhaps a rogue cultivator with no one to rely on.

Bullying rogue cultivators is nothing to the disciples of the Rainbow Moon Sect. He had just patted his chest and assured his senior sister that his archery skills were excellent when, in the blink of an eye, his arrows were broken by an unknown person.

Having lost face so badly, they definitely need to get revenge.

Rainbow Moon Sect disciple: "If you don't want to offend our Rainbow Moon Sect, quickly kneel down and apologize."

Su Wenxin remained silent, and silently drew his sword three inches from its sheath.

Upon seeing this, a disciple of the Rainbow Moon Sect hurriedly said, "If you make a move now, you won't be able to participate in the competition!"

Su Wenxin drew all her knives, their cold blades intimidating. She didn't react much to his words, only uttering an "oh": "Are you letting me leave or not?"

She really looked like she could strike at any moment, and for a moment no one dared to speak.

Yu Se didn't dare to offer any advice.

"What's all this commotion... Isn't this a young friend from the Rainbow Moon Sect? What are you doing here?" The newcomer was very familiar; it was none other than Elder Qu of the Su Clan.

The last sentence was said to Su Wenxin.

Seeing Elder Qu's utter disgust towards Su Wenxin, the Rainbow Moon Sect youth assumed she was an accomplice: "So it's Elder Qu. This blind man suddenly appeared, broke my arrow, and refused to apologize to me. He even threatened me."

To everyone's surprise, Elder Qu turned around and said, "You unfilial brat, you cause trouble for everyone wherever you go. Hurry up and apologize to them!"

Before Su Wenxin could speak, someone descended from the sky, emanating a powerful aura that instantly shattered everyone.

Everyone present staggered back several steps, a metallic taste rising in their throats. Some lost their balance and fell to the ground, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

Elder Qu was the one who vomited blood. His foundation was far inferior to that of the disciples who cultivated personally, and he was the only cultivator present who could not withstand Xi Congshuang's pressure.

Upon closer inspection, the newcomer was dressed in a sky-blue robe, with a three-finger white blindfold covering his eyes.

The disciples of the Rainbow Moon Sect were dumbfounded. This oppressive aura was not something ordinary people possessed, and they dared not utter a word for a moment.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time. Is it this thing that's holding you back?" Xi Congshuang turned to ask Su Wenxin.

Hearing himself described as an object, the boy was furious: "Are you insulting my Rainbow Moon Sect?"

Xi Congshuang: "You don't represent the Rainbow Moon Sect. Let the captain of your team talk to me."

The boy was even more furious: "How dare you talk to me like that? Who are you? And you even dared to hurt me! I'm going to go back and tell my master to settle the score with you!"

He was the closed-door disciple of the Rainbow Moon Sect's leader. Normally, cultivators would show him deference because of his status, and even Nascent Soul stage cultivators were just his followers. He was used to being arrogant and had forgotten how to kill.

Xi Congshuang turned her head. Although she couldn't see anything, the young man from the Rainbow Moon Sect felt as if he were being watched, and his whole body went cold.

Even if you are perfectly aware of one thing, you cannot realize that this person is highly skilled and absolutely cannot be offended.

And why does the white blindfold look so familiar...?

Before he could recall the corresponding person, Xi Congshuang said, "What's there to be afraid of? It wouldn't be a pity to kill them."

No sooner had he finished speaking than the large bow in the boy's arms cracked open. He cried out, not out of pity for his precious bow, but because it was his natal magical artifact.

When a natal artifact forms a contract with a cultivator, the cultivator will also be injured if the natal artifact is damaged.

Her move was so sudden that no one even saw her make it, and the bow cracked with several deep and long fissures.

Su Wenxin's heart skipped a beat, and she quickly grabbed Xi Congshuang's sleeve, and sure enough, she saw red lines spreading across her wrist under the sleeve.

The last time I saw these red streaks was in a cold spring.

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The young master has arrived, everyone make way!