Caged Bird
What...what to do
She won't cry, will she? How do you comfort a crying girl? If the senior sister knows, she will kill him!
Chu Xian frantically searched in his storage bag and finally found the handkerchief that Zhu Lingyao had accidentally left behind last time. He washed it but had no time to return it.
He rubbed Lingyao's face twice and said, "Don't cry."
Unexpectedly, Lingyao felt even more aggrieved.
"My makeup is ruined too."
Chu Xian scratched his head helplessly. Why are girls so troublesome? They have to tie their hair into pigtails and put on makeup on their faces. It doesn’t look good.
He turned his head and took a closer look at Lingyao, thinking guiltily, she's... still pretty.
Finally, Chu Xian said inexplicably: "I'll help you comb your hair and put on your makeup, is that okay?"
Um
Lingyao looked at him suspiciously.
"Fifth Brother, can you?"
As if sensing his junior sister's distrust, Chu Xian frowned and thought to himself, Yes! It must happen!
It was just hair and makeup; his hands never shook when he drew runes on his weapons.
Although he had no experience in drawing these things for girls, the worst that could happen was that he would treat Lingyao's head as a weapon.
He is quite patient with weapons.
Lingyao was not confident enough to let Chu Xian comb her hair right away, so she made up an excuse and started eating with messy hair and smudged makeup.
Neither of them was talkative, so the meal was eaten in silence.
It's even a bit embarrassing.
Lingyao felt she needed to do something to lighten the mood. She peered through the window and glimpsed Chu Xian's forge outside. Fifth Senior Brother seemed to have crafted something massive, a vision before it even took shape. The surrounding sounds of wind, rain, thunder, and lightning mixed together, and she couldn't make sense of them.
But that thing, from a distance, looks like a... big wheel
Lingyao asked: "Brother, what are you burning this time?"
When talking about his creation, Chu Xian's eyes lit up a bit: "A big guy, the kind that can change the whole Cang Xuan."
Lingyao asked: "Is it bigger than Master's Four-sided Sword Formation?"
Chu Xian opened his arms: "Bigger!"
He rarely felt proud. "This time, Senior Sister will definitely look upon me with new eyes! Then she'll know who her most promising junior fellow disciple is."
Lingyao was eating rice and thinking to herself, Fifth Brother is like a little kid asking for rewards from his elders.
The kind that can make you happy for two months just by patting your head.
——
After the tea banquet, it was not a good idea for everyone to stay in Xiaoling Mountain.
The Master's original intention was to help Xiaolingshan to ensure a smooth transition of power before leaving, but Master Huifa said that the Buddhist disciple was still traveling and had not returned, so the succession banquet could not be held.
Changxia felt that Master Huifa seemed to glance at him intentionally or unintentionally.
Even though Xingyun looks unreliable, he is actually a Buddhist.
Changxia still felt a little guilty when he thought about how he had asked him to stay in Chi Zhouhai for three months and therefore missed out on the Zen master's seventh day.
Forget it, I should be nicer to that little monk in the future. I can’t suppress his education too much.
As a young man, it’s no big deal to be a little arrogant.
The next step was for everyone to return home. The mountain was quite lively. Not to mention the people from Yunting, the teacher from Luhu, Pei Jianshou and his apprentice from Sanchidao, the patriarch of the Xi family from the East Territory, and some people from other forces were all there.
Chang Xia took the initiative to ask Xie Fengxue: "Brother, are you going back to Cangfeng Mountain?"
Xie Fengxue held a small Gongshu lock in his hand, put it back in place, and then placed it in Changxia's palm.
"I still have some things to do in the southern border. I will go back after a while."
Chang Xia raised the gadget in his hand: "What is this?"
"Gongshujia's new little thing. I put something inside. You'll know when you untie it."
Changxia's face suddenly fell. She really didn't know how to do this thing. It would take her forever to figure it out on her own.
She subconsciously wanted to seek help from Zuo Qin.
I found that this person was plucking Bodhi tree leaves with Bie Jingchun.
Bodhi tree: ...
Master Zuo Shan elegantly patted the dust off his hands, and then, feeling it was not enough, he rubbed his hands on Bie Jingchun's clothes, which actually made the dignified sword immortal take three steps back and look at him warily.
"Why should an old man like me get involved in your little hobbies?"
Then he looked at Xie Fengxue: "Don't make it too complicated. With her brain, even if you put your feelings into it, she might not be able to figure it out even after hundreds of years."
Xie Fengxue disagreed, "How can it be hundreds of years? She hasn't even been able to open the box of secrets I gave her for her 100th birthday."
Changxia: ...
You still gave it to me even though you knew I couldn't open it.
Xi Lizhu, who had been hiding behind her ancestor, did not forget to unleash her suicidal instinct when she saw this scene.
Ruo Ruo raised his hand and said, "Senior, I've played this before, I know how to solve it."
Before Xi Jiang could make a move to stop his unlucky child, Xi Lizhu silently shrank back at the mere cold glance from Xie Fengxue.
She can still distinguish between seeking death and real death.
Zuo Qin came up with a bad idea and said, "If you can't open it, just chop it open. Your sword is still very sharp."
Chang Xia: "I can split the star formation on your mountain."
Bie Jingchun was eager to try: "Count me in! Count me in!"
Pei Miaoyi, who was about to take Pei Xi away, stopped when he heard this.
He also wanted to try out the power of the Star Array.
Zuoqin felt a sore toothache.
A bunch of reckless men!
Xun Ansheng watched them with a smile from beginning to end. A gentle breeze blew on Xiaoling Mountain, rustling the bodhi leaves.
He still felt like someone was missing here.
Seeing Pei Miaoyi, Chang Xia asked casually: "Shou Pei Jian, is your Sanchidao sword tomb still open?"
Pei Miao glanced at her suspiciously: "It's open, but there's no need for you to go in."
At their level, it is no longer the sword that leads the person, but the person that supports the sword. Even ordinary iron can be transformed into a divine weapon after being washed by their sword intent for hundreds or thousands of years.
Chang Xia said intentionally or unintentionally: "Help my junior sister pick one, some people are busy with their own affairs and don't even take care of their children."
After saying that, she folded her arms and glanced at someone seemingly unintentionally.
Xie Fengxue: ...
Pei Miao hesitated for a moment, "I can open the sword tomb for your junior sister, but I have a favor to ask of you."
Pei Jianshou said this as he pushed his apprentice out.
"Xilai has rarely walked down the mountain. He has a simple personality. Please take care of him more."
Those decades that I spent with Akui were spent in the mountains.
Although her strength has greatly increased now, she may not lose in a fight with Pei Jianshou, but after all, she was the one who asked for help first. Changxia was embarrassed to refute him, so she agreed: "No, no, the young master has a pure heart, which I am far inferior to. If you are willing to accompany me, it will be an honor for me."
Pei Xilai wanted to hang his head to the ground.
Not only is his swordsmanship inferior to Changxia's, he is even worse than her at telling lies with his eyes open.
The matter was settled in just a few words. Li Bai had already followed Yun Ting's spaceship back to Cangfeng Mountain. Since Changxia used her as an excuse to go to the Western Territory, he naturally had to go and pick her up.
Sanli San was returned to Changxia by Xie Fengxue. Before leaving, Changxia asked Bie Jingchun on the bird's back: "Master, won't you go back to see your little disciple?"
For more than a year, she and Xie Fengxue have been taking care of Li Bai, and no one knows who he is accepting as his apprentice.
Bie Jingchun waved his hand and said, "I'm going to Chi Zhouhai soon. I'll bring a gift for Xiaolibai when I come back."
Changxia looked at Bie Jingchun and couldn't help raising his eyebrows.
She seemed to know how Song Jia was going to deal with the group of old immortals including the Nine-tailed Red Fox.
But just as she had thought before, Song Jia's possession by the devil should be part of Yun Ting's plan.
In other words, he's one of us.
Her own people have been trying to kill her for so many years.
Thinking back to when she first arrived in Chi Zhouhai hundreds of years ago, she had escaped death from Song Jia's hands many times.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have thrown him directly into the group of monsters.
It was true that he wanted to kill her in the Red River Secret Realm. After so many years of fighting and killing, she shouldn't be unable to distinguish the murderous intent.
So where did this person's hostility towards her come from?
Changxia sat on Sanlisan's back, and Pei Xilai sat behind her, looking around curiously.
The cultivators of the Three-foot Dao always fly swords when they go out. He has never ridden a mount, so this is his first experience.
Chang Xia couldn't help but say, "Akui's first time flying was just like you."
When Pei Xilai heard this, he almost burst into laughter: "I knew that Ah Kui and I have a tacit understanding."
Changxia: ...
"Your master brought you to Xiaoling Mountain this time, probably to pack you up and send you to the East Territory, why didn't you go with Tinglan?"
She agreed to keep Pei Xilai, not only to repay Pei Miao's favor, but also because Pei Xilai was the future of Mingyue Palace and had a close relationship with Tinglan. If she wanted to know Tinglan's situation, he was a good way to get through him.
Pei Xilai didn't hold any defenses against Chang Xia and answered honestly, "I wanted to follow, but the Queen didn't want to. Plus, the time hasn't come yet, so I don't need to go to the East Territory now."
Changxia noticed the key point: "The time has not come yet"
Pei Xilai: "Right now, Zhongtian Ziwei has only fallen into the star orbit. It will not be fully restored until twelve years later. Only then will the Queen become the true Human Emperor, and only then will the half of my time and space power be useful."
Changxia remembered that Ye Shuxing had also told her about Zhongtian Ziwei. He said that she would be involuntarily caught in the whirlpool at that time.
It now seems that Cang Xuan's fire is not burning strongly enough, and it will take another twelve years before it is truly ignited.
What about Senior Brother and Zuo Qin? Are their plans also going to happen twelve years from now?
Changxia pinched his eyebrows, feeling that he had to use his brain more and more recently.
These were clearly what Xie Fengxue was thinking about before.
She suddenly thought of something else.
"Did your master tell you to get close to Li Bai?"
Pei Xilai nodded: "Yes, Master said that Li Bai is Cang Xuan's last resort."
Chang Xia was shocked. What does the last retreat mean?
The more information clues she got, the more confusing things seemed to her.
It was as if someone was weaving a huge, airtight net that covered the entire Cang Xuan.
She used to think of herself as an eagle soaring freely in the sky, but now she felt like a bird in a cage, except that the cage was big enough to make her think she was flying into the sky.
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