Chapter 86 Youthful Spring Robes (Thirty-Two)
Yanghua Sect, Lianyun Peak.
"Senior brother, tomorrow is Elder Ruan's ceremony to take over as sect leader, why are you still here?" Liu Xian looked up at the roof and raised his hand to shield his eyes from the glaring sunlight.
The gentle-looking young man was wiping his sword with his head down. The jade pendant by his ear was translucent and white in the sunlight. A small beast with fiery red fur was lying on his shoulder, lazily licking its paws. When it heard him, it tilted its head and rubbed against his cheek.
“I wouldn’t be able to help even if I went.” Xuan Zhiyan raised his hand and touched Wu Tuo’s ear, not caring at all.
“Senior brother.” Liu Xian sighed helplessly, biting his lip, “I know you’re still angry with me, but if I hadn’t stopped you then, you would have been killed by Jiang Gu along with Wei Feng.”
Xuan Zhiyan paused in wiping his sword. "I don't blame you."
“You’re clearly blaming me.” Liu Xian clenched his sleeves. “I know you still care about your former master, and you follow Wu Hezhi, but things have come to this. Now, Elder Ruan Keji has won, and he is the one in power in Yanghua Sect… Wu Hezhi came back to fight a few days ago, and now he’s locked up in the dungeon, which is heavily guarded. He’s also very ill and there’s no way he can recover. Senior brother, don’t do anything foolish.”
Xuan Zhiyan's eyes turned slightly cold. "Did Ruan Keji send you?"
Liu Xian was stunned, and after a long silence, he said, "No."
During the previous battle at Yanghua Sect, Xuan Zhiyan went to Yunchi to save Liu Xian and Yu Qianning. When he learned that Wei Feng was in danger, he wanted to rush back, but Liu Xian held him back tightly, and he didn't even get to see Wei Feng one last time.
After that, Qu Fengyu and Wu Hezhi escaped, and Ruan Keji joined forces with Qu Qing to cripple Xie Fuxue's cultivation and completely took control of Yanghua Sect. The status of the elders and disciples who followed Ruan Keji immediately rose, including Shen Yuxin and Liu Xian. Xuan Zhiyan then realized that Shen Yuxin and Liu Xian had always been people placed next to him and Wei Feng.
Xuan Zhiyan had always regarded his current master, Shen Yuxin, as a man of integrity and upright character, but little did he know that just a few days ago, it was Shen Yuxin who had orchestrated the capture of Wu Hezhi and even used some underhanded tactics to imprison Qu Fengyu on Shuying Peak...
In the end, all his true mentors and friends died, leaving him completely alone.
Fortunately, he was a nobody and no one paid him any attention, except for the fact that he had once stood up for Wei Feng and defended Lianyun Peak. Only he knew how to break and enter the formation, and the sect had recently been embroiled in internal strife, so Ruan Keji had sent many people to persuade him to hand over Lianyun Peak.
Liu Xian tried to persuade him to no avail, and could only leave helplessly.
Xia Ling climbed up the ladder and sat down next to him. "Young Master Xuan, why don't we just hand over Lian Yunfeng?"
Xuan Zhiyan remained silent for a long time before whispering, "This is Wei Feng's home."
Xia Ling's servant followed his master and burst into tears upon hearing this. "But how can you possibly contend with Ruan Keji all by yourself? He's just too busy to deal with us right now. Once he's secured his position as sect leader, we'll be no match for him. Why are you doing this to yourself? If the young master is watching from heaven, he certainly wouldn't want to see you in such a difficult situation."
Xuan Zhiyan pulled Wu Tuo into his arms and said in a deep voice, "I will not let Ruan Keji succeed."
Xia Ling suddenly felt a pang of panic.
——
Meanwhile, in Qingliang Village.
"Master, these are all pills and magical artifacts for nourishing the spirit. They may be of some use." Wei Feng carefully sorted out the pills and magical artifacts and respectfully placed them in front of Jiang Gu.
Jiang Gu was resting with his eyes closed and did not respond.
Looking at his indifferent profile, Wei Feng had countless guesses in his mind, but he still tried to remain calm. "Master, Yanghua Sect is definitely not peaceful right now. I think I'll go and scout ahead tonight."
"Go ahead," Jiang Gu finally said.
Wei Feng was stunned for a moment, not expecting Jiang Gu to agree so readily, which made him a little at a loss. He got up, but did not leave immediately. He stared at Jiang Gu for a while before saying, "Master, I will definitely be back before dawn."
Jiang Gu slowly opened his eyes.
Perhaps because he felt guilty, Wei Feng's gaze darted away for a moment, but then he gave Jiang Gu a harmless smile before turning and leaving.
Jiang Gu watched his departing figure, his expression slightly cold.
He didn't care about Wei Feng's subtle distance, but he was concerned about the fact that he had lost all his cultivation. Even though he could kill Wei Feng at any time, he wasn't confident that he could control Wei Feng in his monster state.
Keeping Wei Feng around under these circumstances would be a huge hidden danger for him—from any perspective.
Jiang Gu glanced at the meticulously categorized pills and magical artifacts on the table, then got up and pushed open the door.
Wei Feng's presence has completely disappeared.
This was the first time Jiang Gu had gone out since waking up. The courtyard was small and simple, but it seemed that Wei Feng had been very free while he was unconscious. He had repaired the dilapidated courtyard inside and out, and even hung a small copper bell under the eaves, which made a crisp sound when the wind blew.
Yellowed bamboo leaves covered the ground. Jiang Gu pushed open the thin wooden door and saw a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy holding two children, his dark face beaming with a bright smile.
"Brother Gu, you can get out of bed now?" Jinzi quickly put her sister-in-law down and rubbed her hands awkwardly. "They insisted on coming to play with Gu Feng, and I couldn't stand their nagging, so I had to bring them along."
The two children hugged Jiang Gu's legs from either side, and the little girl tugged at his sleeve, "Handsome brother, hug me."
“Gu Feng isn’t here.” Jiang Gu quickly realized that Gu Feng was Wei Feng’s alias. He raised his hand to brush aside the two mortal children and said expressionlessly, “Come find him again tomorrow.”
For some reason, Jinzi instinctively felt intimidated when she looked at him. He nodded cautiously, probably realizing that Jiang Gu didn't like children, and quickly went forward to hug his younger brother and sister-in-law.
Jiang Gu was about to leave, but was stopped by him, who frowned slightly.
Jinzi broke out in a cold sweat and quickly handed him the somewhat worn purse. “Brother Gu, this is money collected by the villagers. You’ve been unable to work for months because of your leg injury, and Gu Feng is too young to help. Please take this.”
"No need." Jiang Gu didn't even glance at him and walked straight past.
Jinzi's hand holding the purse froze awkwardly in mid-air. She only realized what was happening when he was almost out of sight. "Brother Gu, where are you going?"
Jiang Gu did not answer. Instead, when he reached the village entrance, he raised his hand and took the Heavenly Rank magic artifact that Wei Feng had placed above Qingliang Village. In the blink of an eye, he disappeared from his sight.
Jin stood there blankly for a while, then suddenly turned around, looking at the purse in her hand with a puzzled expression. "Huh, how did I get here?"
Silver and Copper Coin were lying on the ground watching ants move their house. Silver tilted its head and pointed to the small courtyard, saying, "Brother, the house looks new now."
"Strange, who built this dilapidated courtyard? It's been abandoned for decades." Jinzi became increasingly puzzled.
“Handsome brother,” said Tongqian’er.
Jinzi froze. "Who?"
Tongqian'er, with snot running down his face, looked increasingly lost. "I don't know."
"Let's go, let's go, this place is creepy. Don't come here to play again." Jinzi picked them up one in each hand and headed towards home.
In mid-air, out of his sight, two cultivators dressed in the robes of the Lin family disciples were observing them from above.
"There's actually a village here." One of them said, "You really sensed the young master's presence just now?"
"Hiss, it seems there's only a tiny bit." The other person replied uncertainly, "Anyway, everyone living here is a mortal, so why don't we try searching their souls?"
"No need. Searching souls is too troublesome for mortals. If they accidentally turn everyone into madmen, we'll have to deal with them. Let's search again carefully. If we don't find anything, we'll leave."
"What a hassle, it would be so much easier to just kill them all."
"Don't be silly, or you'll be struck by lightning."
"It's just a matter of multiple lightning strikes; a Heaven-Rank magic treasure can solve that..."
"Huh? There's the aura of a cultivator ahead. Let's go check it out!"
The two cultivators hurriedly flew away on their swords.
A cool breeze blew by, and Jinzi, who was carrying his younger siblings home, was unaware that the entire village had narrowly escaped disaster. He was worried about how to explain the mysterious bag of money to his mother when he got back.
Beyond the mountain, Jiang Gu watched the two Lin family cultivators who had been lured over, tightened the spirit pet pouch at his waist again, and then entered the spirit pet pouch himself.
The surroundings were plunged into darkness in an instant.
Jiang Gu didn't care. The narrow and cramped space made him feel safe. The spirit pet bag he was in had sunk to the bottom of the lake, and Lin Feibai was in the spirit pet on his body. Those people would never be able to find his trace.
He said that returning to Yanghua Sect was only to send Wei Feng away, and that he would never expose himself to anyone's sight until he found a way to fully restore his cultivation.
Jiang Gu meditated quietly in the spirit pet pouch, eliminating those overly complicated thoughts for him. When he realized that most of these thoughts were about Wei Feng's momentary agitation, he quickly cleared them away. However, after trying various methods to repair his primordial spirit without success, he felt unusually bored.
An image of Wei Feng sleeping in his arms involuntarily flashed into his mind. If that ugly thing came back and found that he had already left, he would probably cry his heart out...
Realizing what he was thinking, Jiang Gu's expression turned cold, but before he could think further, a golden light suddenly flashed from the wrist where the artifact was hidden.
Jiang Gu immediately banished those extraneous thoughts, focused his mind, and clearly sensed the direction the artifact was pointing.
It is the hidden paradise of Xiyuan.
At the same time, Wei Feng, who was lurking near Yang Hua Zong Shu Ying Peak, suddenly felt a pain in his canine tooth.
He hissed, and just as he was about to see what was going on, a familiar figure suddenly swept past not far away. He would recognize that figure even if it were reduced to ashes—
"Mysterious Evolution!" Wei Feng quickly pressed it onto his earring, and the communication talisman flashed red twice.
The person who was riding the sword in mid-air suddenly stopped, touched the jade pendant on his earlobe with surprise and uncertainty, and after a long while tentatively asked, "Wei Feng?"
“It’s me! What are you doing carrying so many magical treasures?” Wei Feng asked.
Xuan Zhiyan rubbed his ears vigorously, then turned his head and looked around. "Where are you?"
Wei Feng's released ghostly runes detected no other divine senses, so he boldly flew to Zhiyan on his sword, "Zhiyan, I—"
Bang!
Before he could finish speaking, Xuan Zhiyan punched him in the face.
"What are you doing?!" Wei Feng covered his face and stared at him in disbelief.
Xuan Zhiyan clenched his aching fist and stared at him in bewilderment. "You're still alive?"
"Of course I'm still alive!" Wei Feng winced in pain. "But you're about to beat me to death!"
Xuan Zhiyan said blankly, "But they said Jiang Gu killed you..."
“How could my master possibly kill me—” Wei Feng paused abruptly, then grabbed his arm and flew towards the back of the mountain, “Anyway, I’m still alive now.”
Xuan Zhiyan immediately roared, "You fucking didn't even give me a message while you were alive! Do you know how heartbroken I was?!"
"Of course I know!" Wei Feng shouted back, but his voice trailed off halfway through. He said in a low voice, "It's just the situation. I'm afraid that if I contact you, my whereabouts will be exposed, and then I'll be in danger and you'll be dragged down with me."
Xuan Zhiyan looked at him with a mixture of anger and worry. "Tell me the truth, what exactly happened?"
"That's a long story," Wei Feng said in a low voice. "The main reason I came back this time is to take something with me."
"What is it?" Xuan Zhiyan asked.
"The Purple Mansion of Wei Mingzhou," Wei Feng said. "I need your help to provide cover."
“Okay.” Xuan Zhiyan nodded without saying a word. “Just tell me what to do.”
Wei Feng pointed in the direction of the treasure pavilion.
He didn't intend to follow Jiang Gu's plan. His master had now lost all his cultivation, and there was no guarantee that his secret actions wouldn't be discovered. It would be better to strike first.
Wei Mingzhou's Purple Mansion should be enough to trap Jiang Gu, who has no cultivation. At that time, he can do whatever he wants inside.
When Master recovers his cultivation, he can do whatever he wants with me.
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