Homeward Journey
"That's good. The weak are born to challenge the strong. This shows that you are a young and energetic challenger. You should be happy." Chang Xia said calmly. She retracted her gaze and said, "Let's go. Today, Old Zhou will cook for us. If you are late, you won't be able to grab his dishes."
Shen Siyan didn't move.
Chang Xia looked back at him: "Please"
Shen Siyan readily agreed: "Okay, I'll order the 'Phoenix Flying' dish."
Changxia: ...
I'm inviting you to leave, not to have a meal!
Because it was their master's funeral, all the disciples of Cangfeng Mountain were pulled out to receive the guests. They had not left the mountain for hundreds of years, so there was not much to talk about with others, and they could only exchange awkward pleasantries.
By the time Chang Xia walked into Shiweitian's private room, everyone was staggering with exhaustion. Even Li Bai was sprawled on the table, unwilling to speak.
Shen Siyan was overjoyed and said, "Look, look, you don't communicate with others normally, and now you have become like this."
Li Bai said weakly: "Brother Shen, aren't you tired?"
Chang Xia sneered: "Of course he is not tired, he has been hiding in the Cloud Pavilion for a lazy day."
Shen Siyan retorted: "Aren't you the same?"
Chang Xia: "I entertained so many guests today, didn't you see?"
Shen Siyan: "You just say a few words and leave."
Chang Xia: "My master is gone, who has the heart to bother me anymore?"
Shen Siyan looked at the people stumbling around in the private room.
Changxia: ...
"I am now number one in the world."
Shen Siyan: ...
So you take advantage of the fact that others can't beat you and treat everyone with a sour face, right?
But...it seems that there is nothing wrong
Why are you still so friendly to others when you are already number one? Then your number one position will be in vain soon!
After a busy day, Changxia said goodbye to her fellow apprentices and returned to the wooden house on the top of the mountain. When she saw the other two empty houses, she felt that her master and senior brothers were really gone.
Yunting was too lively during the day, everyone was laughing and joking, as if sadness did not exist.
Funerals are such things.
Changxia was about to turn off the light in his room and go to bed when there was a sudden knock on the door.
It’s Lingyao.
She stood outside the door, hugging her pillow, looking pitiful. Her clothes were torn by the sword energy.
Apart from Li Bai, she was the last one to join the sect. In addition, she did not like to practice magic and killing power, so she was helpless against the sword energy on the top of Cangfeng Mountain.
Lingyao pointed at Changxia's bed and asked, "Sister, can I sleep with you today?"
Changxia was stunned and moved aside to let her in.
"sure."
Lingyao is the most timid among her junior brothers and sisters. Perhaps it is because she came to Cangxuan from the outside world alone, or perhaps it is because of the bad memories that Morning Star Mountain brought her.
She has always had a deep uneasiness about this world.
Master has been very busy over the past hundred years, and Lingyao was raised by Changxia.
She is also the one who relies most on Changxia among all her junior brothers and sisters.
Lingyao made the bed properly, borrowed a side room, washed up, and changed her clothes before she dared to lie on Changxia's bed.
She was very skilled in this process. After being captured by the people from Morning Star Mountain and rescued by Changxia, Lingyao stayed with Changxia like this for a long time.
Senior sister has always been gentle, kind and easy to talk to. She would not refuse a hurt and timid junior sister. It was not until Changxia went to Chi Zhouhai to serve on duty that Lingyao built her own house on the mountainside.
After many years, she returned here again.
Lingyao opened her eyes and turned sideways to look at Changxia.
"Sister, are you sad?"
Chang Xia asked: "Why do you feel that way?"
Lingyao's voice echoed in the empty room. Clearly, it was a private conversation between the girls, so there was no need to set up soundproofing this time. There were only the two of them on the mountain.
"Whether it's Master or Master Zuo, they are all people that Senior Sister is very close to."
Lingyao has no sense of belonging to this world. To be honest, the departure of her master and Lord Zuoshan did not affect her much.
The only thing she cared about was that her senior sister would be sad because of this.
Lingyao waited for a long time before she heard a chuckle from the darkness.
“It’s sad, but it’s useless to be sad.”
Lingyao blinked. She couldn't see her senior sister's appearance, so she had no idea what her senior sister's mood was like.
She suddenly reached out and hugged Changxia.
Chang Xia suddenly froze, then asked softly, "What's wrong?"
Lingyao said in a trembling voice: "Senior Sister, I'm scared."
Changxia didn't know what Lingyao was afraid of exactly, but it didn't matter.
She just patted Lingyao's back gently and said comfortingly: "Don't be afraid, Senior Sister is here."
Lingyao responded in a low voice.
She lowered her eyes and recalled that many, many years ago, when she had just arrived here and had not had the chance to get to know this bizarre world, she was forcibly taken away by the people of Morning Star Mountain.
They said she was destiny.
But the lunatics of Morning Star Mountain are studying destiny.
They thought they had arranged the best of everything for her, but she was like being locked in a gorgeous cage, with wave after wave of fortune tellers looking at her like a monkey.
The look that was a mixture of pious longing and dirty desire made her feel sick.
After her master brought her back to Cangfeng Mountain, he was busy continuing to save the weak. The almighty Zuo Shanzhu would not care about these trivial matters among his disciples - or perhaps he was happy to see it happen, happy to see what kind of destiny these lunatics suppressed by fate could work out.
As for the eldest senior brother, haha, even though she had only known him for a few days, she already knew that this senior brother was only willing to put on a gentle mask when he was happy.
As long as she didn't die, he didn't care.
No one rescued her.
Just when she thought the world was terrible, Changxia suddenly rushed in.
That was the first time she met this senior sister who was originally on a mission outside.
Her clothes were still stained with dust, she looked exhausted, her sword was dripping with blood, and she stood in the backlight with murderous intent.
Even though she couldn't even see her face clearly, even though it was Xie Fengxue who came over to help her remove the ban, she could only see Changxia.
She had clearly heard from the people at Morning Star Mountain that her senior sister was in the southern border and could not return for the time being.
An inexplicable joy emerged from the bottom of my heart.
She suddenly realized—
There was actually someone willing to travel thousands of miles and kill someone for a stranger.
The goose yellow corners of the clothes outlined the golden sunlight. From that moment on, Lingyao felt that Changxia was like the sun.
Like a traveler in the desert who finally reached the oasis of her dreams, she trembled with excitement, but Changxia thought she was afraid.
So she pushed Xie Fengxue away and hugged her junior sister.
"Don't be afraid, Senior Sister is here."
So at this moment, Zhu Lingyao, who had been an orphan in two lives, finally found her way home.
Time seemed to overlap at this moment. When Chang Xia said "Senior Sister is here" again, in the dim twilight, where no one could see, the timid girl's eyes were calm and even slightly cold.
Her pupils were dark, as if she wanted to devour this fate.
Lingyao suddenly curled her lips. She was in her senior sister's arms, and said silently to someone:
"I'm not afraid of you anymore."
Senior sister is here.
——
Tinglan arrived on the third day. Her Majesty the Queen is very busy now, so this is already the fastest speed.
When the Queen travels, even though the people of the East, who are the most courteous, try to simplify the process, the process is still astonishingly complicated.
But when we actually arrived at Yunting, it was not the case.
The Queen first lit a stick of incense for Bie Jingchun and Zuo Qin respectively, and then had her private time.
In Yunting, no one dared to disturb Changxia's junior sister without any scruples.
When she saw her fellow junior brothers and sisters coming out in an orderly manner to greet and see off the guests, she was a little surprised.
The queen, who was used to big scenes, didn't know what to say for a moment.
So she picked someone at random and asked, "Chu Xian, what are you busy with recently?"
Li Bai is still young, and all she has to do is study. Jiang Bailu doesn't need to ask. Lingyao is so shy that she probably won't be able to utter two words even if she asks.
So she chose Chu Xian.
The fifth junior brother who was named was stunned for a moment, then said, "He's busy with a big guy."
Tinglan raised her eyebrows, really busy
Li Bai blinked and asked curiously, "How big is it?"
Lingyao answered for Chu Xian: "It's so big that it can change the entire Cang Xuan!"
She was also an insider, and then turned to look at Chu Xian: "Isn't it finished yet?"
The last time I looked at it, the basic structure was already there.
Chu Xian frowned, "I don't know why, I just can't finish the last step."
Tinglan didn't know what Chu Xian's "big thing" was, but she comforted him, "It's okay, take your time."
She leaned on the railing of the pavilion above the clouds, with layers of floating clouds outside.
The sun is high above the sea of clouds,
The Tower on the Clouds is truly built on the clouds.
Speaking of which, she grew up here, but she had never really taken a good look at this world-famous sea of clouds.
This is probably the common problem of the so-called "hometown". Because it is readily available, too familiar, and right in front of us, we never care about it.
The past always passes by in a hurry, and the future seems long. Now, when she can only return to Yunting as a guest, she realizes that the Human Emperor Palace and Yunting are thousands of miles apart, and these thousands of miles of mountains and seas will be the way home that she will never be able to set foot on for the rest of her life.
Jiang Bailu moved over slowly.
Originally, she didn't let him go to the East Territory to find her, but this time she came back to Yunting by herself, so it was only natural for him to go and talk to her!
Thinking of this, Jiang Bailu became bolder and held his head high.
Shen Siyan picked up a fruit in his hand, threw it into the air, and then held it steadily in his mouth.
He patted Li Bai's shoulder and said, "Didn't you ask me last time what a male bird's courtship looked like? It's pretty much like this."
Li Bai: ...
She was just curious about when Sanli San's beautiful feathers would fully spread.
Zhou Xiaosu came over with the food. The young man had just grown up, a head taller than Li Bai. He put the food box down and covered her eyes with his hands.
"Children, don't watch this."
Li Bai peeled Zhou Xiaosu's hand away, pointed at Shen Siyan and said to him, "Then tell the old kid not to watch these either."
Zhou Xiaosu looked at Shen Siyan with a stubborn look.
Shen Siyan: ...
"Okay, let's not look at it."
It seemed as if he really meant what he said. He held the back of his head with his hands and walked away leisurely step by step.
Li Bai and Zhou Xiaosu chatted while putting the food boxes away from the table.
He moved very quietly, for fear of disturbing the two people on the edge of the cloud.
For Huo Tinglan, the third senior sister of Cangfeng Mountain, such leisure time is the most precious thing.
Time will no longer forgive her, and they, her younger brothers and sisters, must always treat her better.
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