Chapter 7 He truly wasn't Master's only one. ...
Inside the cave was a hidden world, with flickering firelight burning on both sides. It had no heat, yet it could illuminate the entire cave.
At the end of the cave, there is a stone pillar half a meter high engraved with patterns, and a round ball emitting a faint golden light floats on the pillar.
Look closely and you'll see a small golden snake coiled inside the sphere, its eyes half-closed as if it were hibernating.
Bai Yuheng was overjoyed. She had indeed guessed correctly; Yuan Guang and the others had preserved her magical spirit. Overjoyed, she stared intently at the little golden snake in the circle, unable to get enough of looking at it.
Suddenly remembering his purpose here, he suppressed his joy and excitement, his hands quickly forming hand seals, and he chanted a spell.
Suddenly, a strange movement came from behind her. Bai Yuheng opened her eyes, stepped forward and touched the sphere. A thread-like light wrapped around her outstretched hand.
"what are you doing here?"
A tall figure appeared behind them, blocking the light streaming in from the cave entrance, pressing down heavily and making it hard to breathe.
Bai Yuheng thought to herself, "Oh no!" and turned around with a slightly surprised and embarrassed smile: "Master? What are you doing here?"
Pei Yuan stared at her with a cold gaze, as if she were a dead object. His hand, hidden in his sleeve, was gathering magical power, as if he would kill her if she moved even slightly.
"I'd like to ask you why you're here?" Pei Yuan coldly stared at her, a hint of murderous intent flashing in his eyes. "And why did you come here?" His gaze swept over the sphere behind her, his suppressed coldness intensifying. "Speak! Why did you come here? Why did you head straight here? Did you want to steal it?"
This was the first time he, as her master, had spoken so much to her; his cold words were full of pressure.
Bai Yuheng chuckled, "Well, I couldn't sleep last night and thought I'd do some exercise on the back mountain. That's when I discovered this cave, and I couldn't resist my curiosity, so I came in..."
"..." Pei Yuan narrowed his eyes, raised his hand and pinched her from a distance, "Tell the truth."
He didn't believe her.
The pressure on her neck tightened. This was the first time Bai Yuheng had ever seen Pei Yuan like this. He was no longer the gentle and cheerful man she remembered, but rather like a cold and slippery snake, clinging to her neck, flicking his scarlet tongue, his dark and gloomy eyes staring at her, as if he were considering where to bite to kill her with one blow.
Unfamiliar, accompanied by a chilling coldness, the breath of the plunderer Bai Yuheng in her lungs.
"Tell me quickly, who are you?"
The suffocating cold brought Bai Yuheng back to her senses, and she used a hand seal to remove the restraints from her neck.
With one hand supporting the stone pillar and the other rubbing her stinging neck, Bai Yuheng said angrily, "This brat really wants to strangle me."
"Haha, I'm your disciple, Master?" Bai Yuheng was still laughing, her mind frantically trying to come up with a solution.
"Still lying!" Pei Yuan coldly rebuked, then turned and made the thread-like thing wrap around her.
Bai Yuheng flicked the silk thread away, and it fell to the ground and vanished into nothingness.
"You!?" Pei Yuan's eyes flashed with shock.
Who exactly are you?
Bai Yuheng feigned confusion and said, "Who am I? What are you talking about?"
Pei Yuan suddenly fell silent.
"A complete liar!"
The next moment after his silence, he delivered the fatal blow.
Bai Yuheng dodged but didn't make a move, and said loudly, "Master, if you want to fight, go outside and fight. Don't break the things here!"
Pei Yuan: "..."
The next moment, he calmly withdrew.
As the two walked outside the cave, Bai Yuheng had already thought of what to say.
"I will tell you the truth."
Pei Yuan looked over indifferently.
"What other tricks are you planning to pull?"
"You accepted me as your disciple, but you haven't taught me once in the past few months. I'm not reconciled. I'm more talented than all of them. I traveled thousands of miles and went through all sorts of hardships to come to Tianyan Sect to study, hoping that one day I could achieve something and trample those who bullied me under my feet!" Bai Yuheng talked to herself, becoming more and more excited as she spoke. The hatred flashing in her eyes was genuine. Pei Yuan seemed to see his former self in her.
"But you took me as your disciple and never taught me anything. I heard that my grandmaster, Emperor Hengluan, left behind many rare magical manuals and precious weapons, so I wanted to sneak out at night to take a look..."
"..." Pei Yuan remained silent for a long time, "Although I did not teach you, that is not a reason for you to come and steal the Emperor's relics without permission."
Based on her years of experience with him, Bai Yuheng tearfully pleaded, "I only want to learn the magic taught by the Emperor. You've been reluctant to impart the Emperor's secret techniques, so can't I learn them myself? If the Emperor were alive, he might even praise me for being intelligent and eager to learn..."
"Shut up!" Pei Yuan's temples bulged with veins, his face turning cold.
Bai Yuheng's heart skipped a beat. It seemed that trying to sabotage things was pointless and had backfired.
You are not worthy to mention her!
Having said that, he gathered thirty percent of his magical power and struck her.
Bai Yuheng cursed inwardly, "This brat is so stubborn!"
Just as he was about to strike, a hollow sound suddenly came from inside the cave, followed by a flash of golden light that deflected his attack back.
Pei Yuan dodged to the side.
"Bang!"
The rebounding magic snapped a century-old tree in half, and Bai Yuheng couldn't help but feel heartbroken, for it was all the tree she had painstakingly planted back then!
Pei Yuan covered his eyes with his sleeve, and when he saw the golden light surrounding the person in front of him, his pupils shrank and he stood there stunned.
The golden light slowly enveloped the person in front of them. The golden snake in the sphere opened its eyes, looked at Bai Yuheng, flicked its tongue, and stretched its body.
Bai Yuheng's wrist was forced up, and she pretended to shout to Pei Yuan, who was standing there dumbfounded, "Master, save me! What is this!?"
Pei Yuan's temples were throbbing with rage, and the bitterness in his heart intensified. He had tried a thousand methods to awaken it, but none could compare to this person's touch.
Master truly doesn't love him; even the magical spirit she left behind doesn't choose him!
"Master! Master! Help me!" Bai Yuheng was still shouting for help. "Is this stupid snake going to bite me?!"
The "stupid snake" seemed to sense her disdain and hissed at her to show its displeasure.
"..." Pei Yuan gritted his teeth, his cold mask cracking, and scolded her, "Shut up! This is the Emperor's magical spirit, and it is choosing you."
Every word I uttered felt like a sword piercing my heart.
As soon as she finished speaking, the little golden snake slithered into her body through her wrist. The golden patterns that had been hidden by her sleeve suddenly became visible. In an instant, before she could see clearly, she was forced to close her eyes by a burst of golden light.
When I opened my eyes, the mountains and forests had returned to their original quiet and serene state.
Pei Yuan walked over step by step, grabbed her wrist, lowered his eyes to stare at the golden snake pattern wrapped around her fair wrist, and pressed his thin lips tightly together.
"Master, Master..."
“From now on, this spirit will be yours.” He spoke abruptly, his eyes filled with undisguised jealousy and resentment. “Starting tomorrow, I will teach you magic.”
"Thank you, Master!"
Pei Yuan glared at her coldly: "Don't be too happy yet. Now that you've become my disciple, you should know that my requirements are very strict. If you can't stand it, then leave Wangxian Mountain as soon as possible and find another way out!"
Bai Yuheng patted her chest and assured him, "My disciple can certainly withstand it!"
Seeing that his expression was really bad, and that he kept glancing at her wrist as if he wanted to chop it off, Bai Yuheng felt uneasy, withdrew her hand, and asked cautiously, "Are you... alright?"
She always felt that he was about to reach his limit.
"..." Pei Yuan glanced at her, released her hand, and said coldly, "If I see you trespassing in the cave again..." He paused, then grew even colder, "There won't be a next time. You can go back to where you came from!"
Having said that, he turned and left.
Bai Yuheng watched his departing figure and felt that he seemed to be fleeing in panic. As he disappeared into the desolate mountains and forests, he seemed even more lonely and forlorn.
Bai Yuheng shook her head, banishing these far-fetched thoughts from her mind, her heart overflowing with joy.
Although she only had a few wisps of her primordial spirit within her, the magical spirit still recognized her as its master.
"It seems we can fight side by side again."
The small, golden-red snake at the base of her wrist flickered, as if in response to her.
The next day.
Pei Yuan kept his word and led her in cultivation, though this master seemed a bit strict.
Bai Yuheng deliberately pretended to be learning magic for the first time, but she was frightened by his tightly furrowed brows from beginning to end. Had she overdone it? She wasn't sure, after all, she had taught herself magic back then, and by the time she formally started learning, she had already surpassed her peers. She had never seen what it was like for someone else to learn for the first time.
Pei Yuan was in a terrible mood. He thought that the spirit left by his master had not made a mistake in choosing her, as she was indeed more talented than him. But the thought that this spirit was left by his master and had not chosen him was tearing his heart apart with a dark possessiveness.
He was indeed not the only one his master had.
Pei Yuan gave a self-deprecating laugh.
A magic spirit is a spiritual entity that a cultivator will conjure up after mastering a magic technique to its ultimate level and breaking through to a higher realm. For example, when a swordsman and a swordsman become one, a sword spirit will be created.
Furthermore, the spirit only obeys the master's commands. After the master's death, the remaining spirit will either perish or become dormant and frozen until it encounters a cultivator with the same physique, but the latter possibility is almost zero.
—Until she came along.
Pei Yuan would be lying if he said he wasn't jealous. He had tried a thousand methods but failed to gain its approval in order to verify his conjecture, while someone else could easily win its favor.
The spirit of the cultivator is also another spirit of the cultivator, representing the cultivator's most hidden side, greed, anger, and delusion, which are interdependent.
Bai Yuheng's heart skipped a beat again. She felt that her master was looking at her as if she were an enemy, with a fierce and cold gaze.
She asked timidly, "Master, did I do something wrong?"
"..." What could Pei Yuan say? He could only say that you have extraordinary talent, and even your act of pretending to be stupid is full of flaws.
No, you did a great job.
"Thank you for the compliment, Master!" Bai Yuheng ignored his barely suppressed grit and gave him a friendly smile.
"..." Pei Yuan felt even more depressed when faced with her bright smile.
Even her temperament is so good, unlike him. The Emperor would definitely like her more.
"Alright, that concludes today's lesson. Practice hard, and I'll teach you something new tomorrow."
"Yes!" Bai Yuheng watched him leave.
Bai Yuheng lowered her eyes to look at the little golden snake on her wrist, touched it, and chuckled softly, "Old friend, do me a favor tonight."
The little golden snake flashed.
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