Chapter 78 Rescue in the Snow Mountain, Immortal Sword Returns to Its Place
October 25th, Tianshan Mountains.
A faint tinkling sound of wind chimes rang out. Qingyu opened the car door, and a whooshing sound blew through the air. The girl leaned out and called to Qin Tianshu beside her.
"Where is this?! Why are we heading uphill? You haven't gotten lost, have you?!"
Although the wind and snow were not heavy at the moment, they drove against the wind, and the icy cold air seeped in. Qin Tianshu responded to Qingyu in a deep voice.
"We've reached the Tianshan Mountains. Just past here lies the Snow City!"
Qingyu blinked, the wind making her close her eyes. She cried out, "I know! But I can see a snow cliff not far from the window! Have we gone astray?"
The scholar turned his head and replied, "The snowy road was difficult to walk on! I was thinking of taking a detour, but I didn't expect to end up here! I must have gone astray!"
He glanced at the road again and said, "It's alright! Let me get down and check the road!"
"This is all snow! Your eyes were hurting a few days ago, let me get out! You go back to the car!"
Qin Tianshu had indeed been looking at snow too much a few days ago, and his eyes were a bit sore. Fan Xiang applied medicine to his eyes and he rested for several days. He was only better the day before yesterday. Fortunately, the wind and snow were not heavy today, and the scholar felt that he couldn't always let Wen Chuan drive, so he insisted on driving himself today.
Qin Tianshu glanced at the vast expanse of white in the distance, inwardly cursing himself for veering off course. He turned to Qingyu and shouted, "Can you do this?!"
Qingyu replied, "It's alright! Wenchuan will drive! I just came out to check the road and get some fresh air!"
"Brother! Come back! Let Fanxiang check your eyes again! Don't worry about the road!"
Inside the carriage, Zhang Xuan cried out in worry, "I should have known better than to play around with Brother Tianshu. I shouldn't have let him go out into the wind."
Qin Tianshu sighed, opened the car door and got in. Wen Chuan patted him, "It's okay, I'll do it."
The scholar nodded, and Lin Fanxiang stepped forward to ask him if he felt unwell. With that, Wen Chuan arrived at the carriage, while Qing Yu put on a cloak and jumped out of the carriage.
Wen Chuan traveled slowly, his spirit horse swaying its hooves on the snowy road. In the wind and snow, the boy muttered to himself, "How did we get here... This place is definitely a bit remote! We must be near the Tianshan Snow Cliffs!"
The Tianshan Mountains are steep and snowy every day, making them the coldest place in the Nine Provinces. However, the Snow-Viewing City beyond the Tianshan Mountains is a place where people live. The city has array formations developed by special array cultivators, and the city walls can ward off the cold air and weave snow spirits. Once you actually get there, you won't feel such intense cold.
Qingyu, wearing a red cloak, stood out conspicuously in the pure white world. The girl smiled and said, "It's alright, how about this, I'll go take a walk and have a look!"
She spoke quickly, and Wen Chuan looked at her with some concern, "The cold air in Tianshan is unevenly distributed, don't wander off..."
Suddenly, a violent blizzard erupted, and Qingyu felt a chill in her heart. She raised her arm and used her cloak to shield herself from the blizzard.
Wen Chuan suddenly raised his eyes and looked into the distance.
The howling wind seemed to want to turn people into ice sculptures, and even the spirit horse, which had been perfectly fine, began to become agitated. Just as Qing Yu was about to speak, she heard Zhang Xuan shout from inside the carriage, "Brother Wen! Sword sheath! Sword sheath!"
"The scabbard has gone mad!"
Wen Chuan jumped off the carriage in an instant. The carriage window was wide open in the wind and snow. Wen Gu's sword sheath flew up with a sharp force. In the howling wind, the sword sheath returned to the boy's hand. It was trembling wildly, extremely excited in the wind and snow!
The vast snow-capped mountains, the cliffs of Tianshan, its friends finally called out to it!
It's him!
You can't be wrong!
A fierce wind swept in with the force to obliterate everything. Braving the wind and snow, Qingyu looked at Wenchuan. They exchanged a glance, and the girl smiled and called out to him loudly.
"Your sword is calling you, go now!"
"We'll be there soon! Hurry up, ptooey, ptooey..."
Inside the carriage, Zhang Xuan was even more excited than the sword sheath. He shouted loudly by the window, his face covered in snow. The scholar pulled him aside, but he didn't look at Wen Chuan, only laughing and shouting loudly.
"We'll handle things here! You go first!"
The wind was strong and the snow was heavy. The white snowflakes almost knocked them over. Wen Chuan took one last look at Qing Yu. He gripped the sword sheath tightly and leaped up in an instant, taking advantage of the wind and snow. However, after another gust of snow swept by, his figure had already disappeared.
Qingyu laughed, and another gust of wind blew by, seemingly trying to overturn everything. The girl curled her lips and climbed onto the carriage!
As her dress fluttered in the wind, the girl faced the snowstorm head-on, her hands forming three swirling hand seals. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth formed an array, using snowflakes as its base and the raging wind as its eye. The fierce sound brushed past her ears, and Qingyu laughed.
"You mere wind and snow, you dare to block my path!"
The formation activated, spiritual energy arose, and in an instant, snowflakes danced wildly, yet fell peacefully—
As the last snowflake gently drifted down, the snow-covered ground was utterly silent.
Suddenly, just as things had quieted down, Qingyu smiled and knocked on the car window. Before the sound even finished, she was gone.
"This place is now peaceful. There are spiritual energy fluctuations on the distant cliffs. I'll go take a look!"
She walked quickly, and Zhang Xuan said, "Let's go too!"
After saying that, Zhang Xuan pulled Lin Fanxiang along. Qin Tianshu, who was walking at the back, sighed inwardly, but also smiled, "Let's go, let's go."
Let's go and see what exactly happened on the snowy cliffs of Tianshan.
...
Tianshan Mountains, snow-capped cliffs.
Azhi held her sword across Shangguan Ming's neck. The two stood on the cliff, seemingly only one step away from the abyss.
Wen Guhuaiyuan watched this scene, his eyes calm and even showing some disappointment.
"Azhi, what are you going to do?"
The wind and snow carried his slightly chilly tone. His question was cold and ruthless. Suddenly, Azhi laughed. She raised her chin as if proud, and tears seemed to roll down her cheeks. The woman turned her head and pressed the sword in another inch, as if she could kill Shangguan Ming on this spot in the next second.
"Shangguan Ming harmed my child. A life for a life, can't you see that!"
Shangguan Ming, nestled in her arms, closed his eyes slightly in fear. She said,
"Sister Zhi, calm down!"
"Do you think I'm like you?!"
Azhi suddenly shouted, as if the cold tones of the two men had ignited her anger. Her shout was shrill and sad, and when she turned her head to look at Shangguan Ming, her eyes flashed with absolute ruthlessness!
"calm!"
"Why should I calm down when it's clearly not my fault! Why does everyone tell me to calm down!"
"Shangguan Ming! Don't think I don't know, it was you who fell into the water that day! It was you! You ruined my life!"
Wen Guhuai frowned upon hearing this, and said sternly, "Azhi!"
The events of that day have been investigated and clarified. It was Azhi's Gu worm that fell into the cold water. She jumped in first and then dragged Shangguan Ming into the cold water. She was too impulsive. Afterwards, she lost her child. The physician said that she was unsettled and needed to be carefully looked after. Today, she went mad and stole the immortal sword and kidnapped Shangguan Ming to the snow cliff. He failed to take good care of her.
Thinking of this, Wen Guhuaiyuan said to Azhi in a deep voice, "Azhi, it's my fault for not taking good care of you. Don't be impulsive."
Looking at the gentle and composed young man before her, Ah Zhi suddenly found herself speechless. She was so tired. Why? Why did she have to come to such a cold place to suffer? Why couldn't she take a single step back now? Why?
Why is he unwilling to admit his true thoughts even at a time like this?
Why is she the only one acting like a madwoman? Why...?
"Azhi! The sword in your hand is special; you cannot use it!"
"Azhi!"
"Don't be impulsive!"
"You're insane!"
Unbeknownst to them, several more people arrived on the snowy cliff: Murong Wanyu, Wen Guyou, and Wen Guyu. They all came, and no matter how much they scolded or pleaded, Azhi remained unmoved. But Shangguan Ming's eyes reddened, her gaze even carrying a hint of incomprehension and pity. She looked at Azhi...
"Azhi! I sympathize with you for losing your child, but, but it was clearly you who fell into the water because of the Gu worms, so why blame us!"
"Okay, just admit I was wrong..."
"Don't be impulsive! Once a person dies, everything is gone! Sister Zhi!"
Despite Shangguan Ming's earnest persuasion, Azhi gripped the sword hilt tightly, pulling Shangguan Ming back step by step. Finally, she looked at Wen Guhuaiyuan, her smile pale and eerie, a gentle yet insane laugh.
"Huaiyuan, you've always wanted me dead,"
"Only when I die can you be with this woman openly and legitimately,"
"We were husband and wife, and today, I will grant you your wish."
The wind and snow carried her voice, the chill penetrating to the bone. Azhi, sword in hand, kicked Shangguan Ming in the back, sending her flying to the edge of the cliff. Many people rushed forward to help Shangguan Ming up, but Azhi smiled, then turned around, closed her eyes, and jumped into the abyss of Tianshan.
It's so cold.
She longs to go home.
The woman closed her eyes tightly. The biting wind howled in her ears. She felt so cold and in so much pain that she could no longer hold onto her sword.
It seemed noisy up on the cliff, but the wind was blowing upwards, and gradually, she couldn't hear anything anymore.
"That's quite interesting. He jumped off a cliff carrying someone else's family heirloom with him."
A woman's soft laughter drifted over, and Ah Zhi suddenly felt a complete silence around her, as if she were tightly wrapped by something. She opened her eyes, but couldn't see anything clearly... What she was wearing was a cloak.
It's so warm... She wanted to speak, but the strong winds from the fall from the cliff prevented her from saying anything.
The woman laughed again, holding Azhi through her cloak, as if the wind and snow were yielding to them.
"Ah Zhi, Ah Zhi, spring in Yizhou is so beautiful. If you jump down, you'll never see it again."
...
Amidst the wind and snow, the carriage swayed and bumped its way back onto the road.
The spirit flame lamps burned eternally, their warmth usually making people drowsy, but today, they calmed the hearts of the young people.
Zhang Xuan looked at Azhi lying on the daybed. She was dressed in a dark blue dress with a silver chain around her waist. Her appearance and attire did not resemble those of people from the north. She should be Wen Gu Huaiyuan's wife, the young lady of the Miao ethnic group in Yizhou.
The boy, recalling the scene just now, couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement.
"What a show, what a grand show."
Lin Fanxiang was brewing medicine. She waved her fan and glanced at Zhang Xuan. "You're still talking. You were almost discovered by those people just now."
When they arrived, they found Azhi and Wen Guhuaiyuan facing off. Not long after, Azhi jumped off the cliff. The group was in a chaotic state, and the wind was strong, so they were not discovered.
Achoo!
Qin Tianshu sneezed by the bookshelf. He had been watching the play with great interest while standing in the wind, but he caught a chill after coming back. Lin Fanxiang then said to Zhang Xuan, "Xuan, the medicine for relieving cold is ready. Bring it out for everyone to drink."
She prepared two kinds of medicine: a simple soup to keep warm and a tonic for Azhi. Azhi had only had a miscarriage a month ago and was wearing such thin clothes on the snowy cliff. Lin Fanxiang frowned when she saw her; she was too weak.
Qingyu sat on the swing chair by the car door, swaying back and forth. The girl's expression was indifferent, as if she was lost in thought. The car door was only slightly ajar to let in some air, and she just looked out at the pristine white scenery.
"Why was Azhi able to wield that immortal sword?"
"Anyone can take something that is unclaimed."
"And now?"
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