Feng Xiao watched as Qi Yu clenched his fists tightly and took off the outer robe from Liu Xing and put it on himself.
What on earth is going on?!
Qi Yu straightened her clothes, jumped around a bit to get used to her new body, opened the door with satisfaction, added a protective barrier to the small thatched hut, and headed towards the scripture pavilion.
Feng Xiao stood behind her, pondered for a moment, and then followed.
The same senior brother who had been guarding the entrance to the Sutra Repository was standing there. He stopped Qi Yu with a stern face and said, "Register your name first."
Qi Yu took out the pass and said with a smile, "Meteor."
The senior guard had some impression of this junior brother who came to the Scripture Pavilion every day, but he didn't expect him to come with the elder's pass today, and instead of his usual bitter and resentful expression, he was all smiles.
Noticing the strange expression on her senior brother's face, Qi Yu immediately put on a long face and asked listlessly, adopting her usual expression, "Senior brother, are you done?"
"Alright, go in now. If you're going to take any books out, remember to take good care of them."
Qi Yu nodded slightly and walked into the Sutra Repository.
She lowered her head and headed straight for the third floor. At the entrance to the third floor, she encountered a guard disciple and was only allowed to enter after showing her pass.
The bookshelves on the third floor of the Sutra Repository are much more spacious than those on the first and second floors, and the decoration is also more exquisite. Because an elder's pass is required to enter, very few people can come up here.
However, some elders would occasionally come to visit the library.
A woman in red standing in front of the bookshelf turned around when she heard Qi Yu coming up.
Qi Yu tucked his hands in and whispered, "Greetings, Fairy Red Lotus."
The Red Lotus Fairy nodded slightly. She didn't recognize the thin male disciple, so she turned back to organize the books on the bookshelf.
Qi Yu quietly circled the three floors but did not find a register recording information about past disciples.
She glanced at the Red Lotus Fairy who was diligently tidying the bookshelves, and quietly went up to the next shelf.
The fourth floor was filled with various cultivation techniques made into jade slips. Qi Yu glanced at the labels casually but didn't find what he was looking for, so he went up to the top floor of the Scripture Pavilion.
Only a few dim oil lamps were lit on the top floor; there were no lighting instruments at all.
This environment is actually quite suitable for sleeping...
Qi Yu quickly browsed the titles of the books on the bookshelf, when suddenly his eyes were drawn to a pile of messy scrolls.
Stacks of paper files were piled up in a corner of the top floor, scattered haphazardly, yet the papers looked very familiar.
It was the same kind that the senior sister used to record her information.
Qi Yu was overjoyed and slipped over while crouching low.
She picked up a scroll at random, and the page she happened to be on contained information about shooting stars.
"Twelve years old, possessing five spiritual roots, parents killed in the Blood Fiend Cult massacre..."
Qi Yu frowned. Blood Fiend Sect...
"Child, what are you looking through?"
A sudden voice rang out behind Qi Yu, startling her so much that her hair stood on end and the file slipped from her hand.
She forced herself to remain calm and turned around to look at the person who had come.
An elderly man with white hair and beard, who looked old and near death, stood behind her. He leaned on a rattan cane with one hand and stroked his long beard with the other. His cloudy eyes shone with a strange brown light, as if he had seen through Qi Yu's identity completely.
Qi Yu's hands trembled slightly. She had clearly checked the top floor just now and there was no one there.
When did this incredibly strange-looking elder appear?
Looking at Qi Yu's nervous appearance, the elder said quietly, "You're here, why did you bring a little tail with you?"
He lightly tapped his cane.
Feng Xiao, who had been hiding not far from Qi Yu, gradually revealed himself.
The elder smiled mischievously and said, "Young man, your trick may fool others, but it can't fool my eyes."
Qi Yu frowned as she looked at Feng Xiao, who had suddenly appeared. She hadn't expected that Feng Xiao had been following her all along, and she didn't know when he had started following her.
Oh my god, could it be that he saw her taking off Meteor's clothes?
I hope she won't be seen as a pervert...
Feng Xiao's handsome face remained expressionless. He didn't react even after being exposed, and silently stood behind Qi Yu with his arms crossed.
Sweating profusely, Qi Yu met the elder's ambiguous smile. After thinking for a moment, he decided to first find out who this elder, who guarded the highest floor of the Scripture Pavilion and saw through Feng Xiao's disguise at a glance, really was.
"May I ask your honorable name, senior?"
The elder waved his right hand, and a rattan rocking chair appeared behind him. He leisurely leaned back, and the rattan chair, as if it had a life of its own, produced a cup of hot tea and handed it to the elder. He took the teacup and took a small sip.
Qi Yu watched his series of smooth and fluid operations, and slowly opened her mouth wide.
The elder looked at her, chuckled, and said, "My name is Fei Qingmu."
Flying Aoki?!
Qi Yu was shocked. Wasn't that the name of the founding sect master of the Flying Star Sect?!
Wasn't he already dead?!
The Flying Star Sect has existed for over two thousand years now, which means...
"Ahem, if I may ask, senior, are you a human or a ghost? Oh, no, how old are you?"
Fei Qingmu laughed and said, "It's a genuine person, little girl, there's no need to be afraid."
Little girl! The shell she's wearing doesn't look like a little girl at all, which means that Fei Qingmu not only saw through Feng Xiao's invisibility, but even the system's disguise pill couldn't fool him...
"You must be Yun Gui's new disciple. Logically speaking, you should call this old man 'Grandmaster'. I saw what you looked like in the secret realm. Stop being so coy and tell me why you went through all this trouble to come here."
Qi Yu gave up struggling, omitted some of her true intentions, and said in a half-truthful tone:
"It is like this, Grandmaster. Master gave me a cultivation technique called 'Chaotic Spiritual Body' before. I am very curious about who this senior is who discovered the secrets of the Chaotic Spiritual Root and created the 'Chaotic Spiritual Body'. Master said that this senior was executed for harming the innocent, so I wanted to try my luck and see if I could glean some of his words from his life."
Fei Qingmu's eyes dimmed slightly, as if he were lost in memories, "Xiuzhu, him..."
Xiuzhu must be the name of Zhu Xiuzi.
Qi Yu swallowed hard, looking at Fei Qingmu expectantly, "What's wrong with him?"
Fei Qingmu said, "What a fool!"
Qi Yu: "?"
Why is it not quite the same as her imagined recollection of the past?
Fei Qingmu took another sip of hot tea and said, "Xiuzhu is too stubborn. If someone bullies him even a little, he will fight back a hundredfold. In addition, the effect of this Chaotic Spirit Body makes him even more unrestrained. The higher his cultivation level, the more reckless he becomes. In the end, he even killed the son of the Yunyang Sect's sect leader and tore his body to pieces. The Yunyang Sect wanted to demand an explanation, so how could I protect him?"
Qi Yu: "...Why did he kill the son of the Yunyang Sect Master?"
Fei Qingmu said calmly, "That fellow raped the female cultivator who had been taking care of Xiu Zhu since before her reputation was established, whom he regarded as his elder sister."
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