Chapter 40: The Unchangeable Fate

Seeing Mu Yinshen approaching, Xie Buyou quickly looked around. As expected, someone had already been attracted by their movements, with curiosity and inquiry in their eyes.

Mu Yinshen was originally one of the protagonists of this banquet. His undisguised presence next to Xie Buyou naturally aroused some people's gossip.

"Calm down." Xie Buyou put his hand on his shoulder to stop him from getting any closer. "There are a lot of people watching you now. You just became the direct disciple of the head of the Tianjian Sect. Aren't you afraid that something bad will spread?"

"How come?" Mu Yin did not move closer, but kept this ambiguous attitude and whispered to him, "Don't worry, I have a good reputation in the fairy world. Even if others ask, I can answer that we are friends, right?"

"You know my identity so quickly?"

Xie Buyou knew that Mu Yinshen would know his identity sooner or later, but would it be earlier than in the plot? Not only earlier, but so early that Mu Yinshen only met Xie Nan once!

Xie Nan has been practicing swordsmanship diligently in the sect ever since he searched for the jade pendant. He has never even left the sect, let alone met each other. It's good enough that they can still remember each other's names!

Mu Yinshen's next words let Xie Bushu know that he still remembered them.

"I heard that Buyou has a younger brother? His name is Xie Nan?" Mu Yinshen smiled meaningfully, "That's unfortunate, the boy I saved was also called this."

"I think I told you that when we were in the secret realm, but I forgot to tell you my name."

"Were you so sure at that time that he was my...wife?"

"…Why do you say that?"

"So you knew him, didn't you? You knew he was your brother, but you didn't admit it?"

"Is that why you..."

"Thank you!"

The conversation was interrupted, Xie Buyou and Mu Yinshen looked at each other at the same time and found that Tang Fengshan was walking towards them.

Tang Fengshan looked at the two of them expressionlessly, then tried to pull Xie Buyou out, but Mu Yishen, who was quick-eyed and quick-handed, grabbed Xie Buyou's arm.

The scene suddenly changed into Tang Fengshan grabbing Xie Buyou's shoulders, and Mu Yinshen grabbing Xie Buyou's arms. Xie Buyou was sandwiched between the two and felt very uncomfortable.

More and more people around were looking here, and the gossipy eyes were about to burn Xie Buyou through.

"Can't we talk somewhere else?"

The two answered in unison:

Mu Yinshen: "No."

Tang Fengshan: "Okay."

The two looked at each other, and sparks flew between their eyes.

Xie Buyou: "..." What's going on?

Xie Buyu didn't want to use force, but the current situation didn't allow him to hesitate. Relying on his higher cultivation level, he grabbed the two men's arms and dragged them away.

Xie Bu was under constant scrutiny and gossip, and the anxiety completely disappeared after he left the party.

Although the organizer Qian Qiudai left, and two of the three major sects, Mo Wanli and Tang Qingyan, were also missing, most people still chose to stay at the banquet and wait.

"Go to my mountain." Mu Yinshen said.

He wanted to make a big fuss so that more people would know about his relationship with Xie Buyou. As for what the misunderstanding would be, it was not important.

I just didn't expect Xie Buyou to be angry. Since I met Xie Buyou, I rarely saw him with a tough attitude.

Xie Buyu glared at him and said, "Lead the way."

Mu Yinshen nodded and summoned his own life sword to float in front of him. He looked in the direction of Xie Buyou after holding the life sword horizontally, and then found that Xie Buyou was pulling Tang Fengshan away from him.

Mu Yinshen: “?” What are you doing?

Tang Fengshan was also very surprised as to why Xie Buyou looked so nervous. It was just a demon-killing sword, wasn't it? Could it really kill him?

"Why are you so scared?" Tang Fengshan asked him with a puzzled look.

Xie Buyou pursed his lips tightly and said nothing. What else could it be? Of course, it was because the sword that Mu Yinshen summoned was the same sword that stabbed him to death!

Is this plot a mess or not? Mu Yinshen still walked out of the secret realm and entered the Tianjian Sect with his natal sword, Jiuxiao.

Thinking about it this way, the only person whose plot has completely gone off track is Xie Nan, who is still practicing swordplay on the top of the mountain.

Afraid that Tang Fengshan would notice that something was wrong with him, Xie Buyu could only shake his head and say, "It's nothing, I just feel uncomfortable when I see him."

Mu Yinshen: “…” I can hear it.

Xie Buyu summoned his Zhaoyun Sword and took Tang Fengshan to Mu Yinshen's residence.

The three of them sat around the stone table together. There was a peach tree in Mu Yinshen's house, with pink flowers blooming all over the treetops, and the soft petals were scattered all over the ground with the breeze.

Compared to the simplicity of the house, the peach tree seemed too extravagant. Most sword cultivators pursue simplicity, and a peach tree like this is a rare existence in the Tianjian Sect.

"I didn't expect you have a peach tree here. It seems that Master Qian really likes you as his personal disciple."

Xie Buyu looked up at the peach blossom trees and sighed. There were only green trees with half of their leaves plucked out.

Mu Yinshen looked at him with a smile on his face, and said, "I remember you said you liked peach blossoms, so I asked the head master for a hilltop with peach trees."

Tang Fengshan on the side sneered, and slammed the round black chess piece in his hand in the middle of the stone table.

"I thought you had provoked a rival, but it turned out to be a romantic encounter."

"Look at your star, it has changed."

White grids spread out from under the black chess pieces, covering the entire stone tabletop. Stars twinkle in it, distributed on each grid, intricate and chaotic, yet orderly. This is the star map unique to Guijin Hall.

Tang Fengshan stretched out his white index finger, pointed at the largest and most dazzling golden star in the star map, and said, "Do you see this?"

Xie Buyou nodded, "It's moving."

The golden star was shining brightly, moving at a speed visible to the naked eye. It was surrounded by densely packed stars of varying sizes, with a few of them being the most conspicuous.

Tang Fengshan asked again, "Then do you know why it moves?"

Xie Buyu shook his head in confusion, "I don't know."

There were too many stars on the star map and he couldn't understand them at all.

Tang Fengshan nodded: "I don't know either."

Xie Buyou: "..."

Mu Yinshen: "..."

"Your star is deviating from its original orbit." Tang Fengshan's index finger slid down from the golden stars to a shining, but black star, and continued:

"Not only your star, but also this black star is moving. You are moving towards each other."

"I calculated this black star for a long time, but I couldn't figure out its origin. But it gave me a bad feeling."

Xie Buyou: "Want to vomit?"

Tang Fengshan: “A little bit.”

Mu Yinshen couldn't help but frown after hearing what Tang Fengshan said. He looked at the two so-called stars running towards each other and said to Tang Fengshan, "So what do you want to say? Mystery teller?"

Tang Fengshan looked at the peach blossoms all over the ground and said softly, "It's not what I want to say, but you should ask Xie Buyou, what did he do?"

"Stars are like people. Each person corresponds to a star. Everyone has his or her own destiny. If you go against the destiny, the star you belong to will also shift. But no matter what, it cannot be completely changed. No matter how many times it shifts or how many times it gets confused, it will eventually return to the corresponding destination."

Xie Buyou felt a pang in his heart. Was this a warning to him not to waste his time? Or was it saying that no matter what he did, he would eventually die at that time and that could not be changed?

"So what did you do?" Tang Fengshan fixed his gaze on Xie Buyou again, looking at him with his star-like eyes, as if he wanted to see through him.

Xie Buyou felt his scalp tingling from being stared at, but Mu Yinshen was also looking at him. There was an unclear expression in his dark eyes. He stared at him intently, as if waiting for his answer.

They stared at him from the left and the right, waiting for his answer, but Xie Buyou couldn't say anything.

How dare you say he is a time traveler?!

What if it is misunderstood as a snatch? !

Even though no one has noticed anything wrong with him yet, it doesn't mean that they won't in the future! Who knows if he will just disappear into thin air after he dies in this world?

"Uh...I..."

Xie Buyou was unable to utter a word for a long time, his eyes darting around everywhere, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that he was feeling guilty.

Mu Yinshen always felt that this matter had something to do with him. Could it be related to Buyou wanting to kill him? But what could have happened that could make Buyou be so cruel to him? They had known each other for many years...

"Forget it." Tang Fengshan sighed and stopped forcing him.

But there is one more thing he wants to remind Xie Buyou. He said, "Xie Nan's star has also changed."

He pointed to a white star very close to the golden star and said, "Its star trajectory is completely off track now... Wait! Xie Nan seems to be possessed!"