Chapter 19 Senior Brother, Here You
Yu Sui didn't have to wait long before the patrolling guard came out and returned the Wind Listening Ruler to her: "It's fine now. If it still doesn't work next time, come find me again. Your Wind Listening Ruler seems a bit slow; I tried several times without success, but there's nothing seriously wrong with it."
Thank you.
Yu Sui nodded, and just as she put away the Wind Listening Ruler and was about to leave, the door opened again.
Mei Liangyu came out and was looking down at the Wind Listening Ruler in his hand. The communication academy sorcerer beside him said, "Impossible. Don't worry, no one can break the communication array of the three families. The inscriptions on the Wind Listening Ruler must be interconnected to send a message. Every word and sound in the message will leave a trace in the mountains. It cannot bypass the inscriptions and the mountains."
"Besides, the incident occurred within the academy, not somewhere else. Our communication array covers the entire Taiyi region. No message can escape the surveillance here, and it must be connected from here to operate the Wind Listening Ruler."
"You saw it yourself just now; what he said about what won't happen."
"The fact that the runes of the three core mountains of the communication array could be stolen is something that even the three founders might not be able to do. The mountains have been modified again and again over the years, becoming more and more solid than before. If such a vulnerability were to appear, it would be a disgrace to the three families."
The warlock from the Communications Institute said confidently, "That kid is absolutely talking nonsense. Don't let him off the hook when you make your judgment."
Mei Liangyu suddenly stopped in his tracks and looked up at Yu Sui, who was standing in front of him. Yu Sui was also looking at him, and when he saw that Mei Liangyu had noticed him, he smiled in a friendly manner.
“It’s too late,” Mei Liangyu put away the Wind Listening Ruler and said slowly, “That kid has already been released by my junior sister.”
Yu Sui scratched his face.
The warlock from the Communications Institute exclaimed in shock, "How can we let such a liar get away so easily!"
“Yes,” Mei Liangyu said with a forced smile, “Why don’t I go and ask my junior sister what she thinks?”
Upon hearing this, the sorcerer from the Communications Academy realized something was amiss. Looking around, he spotted Yu Sui standing innocently in front of him, and then Mei Liangyu beside him. The sorcerer leaned closer, covering his face with his hands behind his back, and whispered, "Is that girl in front your junior sister?"
Mei Liangyu: "You can ask yourself too."
The sorcerer from the Communication Academy immediately turned around and went back inside.
Yu Sui took the initiative to greet him, "Senior brother, are you here at the Communication Academy to check on my brother's Listening Wind Ruler?"
Mei Liangyu walked past her and headed outside, saying without looking at her, "What's so interesting about his Wind-Listening Ruler?"
The Institute of Communications cracked Gu Gan's "Listening Ruler" and found that the messages inside were clean, consisting of everyday exchanges, with nothing amiss.
As students of Taiyi, everyone knows that if they are caught, the Listening Wind Ruler will definitely be taken by the Communication Institute to be cracked, and all communication messages will be exposed.
Therefore, it was impossible for Gu Gan to use the "listening wind ruler" to send a message before taking action, leaving behind any incriminating evidence.
Yu Sui followed behind Mei Liangyu, saying, "Senior brother, here you go."
What will you give me?
Mei Liangyu turned around and saw that Yu Sui had also stopped. In his outstretched palm was the note he had left on the table in the Ghost Path Sanctuary.
The paper had a sentence written on it: "Are you serious about taking this apprentice on?"
The black ink is flowing and elegant, each character demonstrating superb brushwork. The strokes are strong and powerful, with just the right amount of finishing touch, making it a feast for the eyes.
Yu Sui initially took the note because she was attracted by the handwriting; she thought it was beautiful and wanted to keep it.
Now that she has met Mei Liangyu, she has changed her mind. When Mei Liangyu looked away from the note and slowly looked at her, Yu Sui smiled and said, "Master said he is serious."
Mei Liangyu stared at Yu Sui, whose bright smile lingered in his eyes for a long time. He seemed to be trying to discern something from Yu Sui's face, but he couldn't be sure. In the end, he simply raised an eyebrow and gestured to the note in her palm, saying, "If you get it, it's yours."
Shen Shi (3-5 PM).
As Yu Sui emerged from the Communications Institute, he asked Blackbeard thoughtfully, "I'm not the type to be disliked on the very first day we meet, am I?"
Blackbeard dared not be presumptuous and answered respectfully, "The princess is intelligent and quick-witted, of course not."
He thought to himself: Although she doesn't seem particularly clever or quick-witted at first meeting, she's certainly not the kind of girl who would be disliked. On the contrary, a well-behaved and charming girl like the princess is quite popular.
Yu Sui said with distress, "Li Jinshuang doesn't pay much attention to me, and neither does my senior brother. Is this their problem or mine?"
Blackbeard answered quickly and decisively: "Of course it's their problem."
“But my senior brother doesn’t seem to want to get along with me peacefully. Senior Li also said before that my senior brother isn’t the kind of person who would give in to me. Plus, with what happened with Brother Gu, his impression of me must be really bad.” Yu Sui sighed. “Could you look into my senior brother? Let me think about how to get along with him.”
Blackbeard nodded repeatedly: "No problem, Princess, don't worry, I'll take care of it."
Instead of searching blindly on your own, it's better to make use of existing resources.
Blackbeard has lived in the outer city for many years, so he definitely knows more and has more connections than she, who just arrived in Taiyi on her first day.
Now that the emperor is far away and the emperor is nowhere to be seen, Yu Sui, who usually follows her everywhere she goes, is experiencing freedom for the first time in the academy.
Yu Sui and Blackbeard strolled around the academy, familiarizing themselves with the terrain. Along the way, they often looked at the Wind Listening Ruler. Blackbeard was sensible and never looked at it or asked about it.
Although she transmitted the cipher to Taiyi's communication array using the Wind Listening Ruler, it would take time for the messages to spread and infect the array, because the communication array here was simply too large.
Taiyi's communication array is the largest Yu Sui has ever seen.
She once thought the communication array in Qingyang Palace was very large, but compared to it today, it could only be considered large in the face of Taiyi's communication array.
The capital city of Qingyang is also very large, but it cannot cover the entire capital city with just one communications institute. Instead, it is divided into many communications arrays according to the regions.
Yu Sui was always accompanied by secret guards when she went out. Her every move was monitored by the Nangong family to prevent the "Xirang" from being seized. At the same time, Nangong Ming also needed to keep track of all the movements of this pawn.
When necessary, Nangong Ming would also expose Yu Sui to danger. He would first throw out bait to mislead those vying for the Breath Soil into thinking they had a chance to strike. On one occasion, Yu Sui was captured, and if she hadn't used her strange fire to know that someone was always following her, she would have had to take matters into her own hands to survive.
Fortunately, she didn't make a move that time, because Nangong Ming was with her.
The existence of the secret guards, seemingly to protect Yu Sui, also imposes the most restrictions on her.
This directly resulted in Yu Sui having to go to the communication array to find the connection point by looking at several mountains, and he had to rack his brains to find a way every time he went to a different communication array.
It was only last year that Yu Suicai successfully achieved the goal of not having to personally observe the operation of the data mountain, but instead taking the initiative to implant encrypted messages into the data mountain of the Communication Institute and monitor it from within.
In recent years, what Yu Sui has seen from different communication networks in various regions is mostly people's daily communication, which is interspersed with ambiguous and obscene words sent by men and women, or insults and curses against certain people or things.
For top-secret conversations, people like Nangong Ming wouldn't use the Listening Wind Ruler to communicate; they would only announce the location and time of the meeting on the ruler.
After gaining a clearer understanding of Nangong Ming's power in the capital, Yu Sui couldn't help but marvel at her luck after sending the message to Zhongli Que back then.
If Zhongli Que had revealed back then that she could transmit messages using the Wind-Listening Ruler without needing inscriptions, she definitely wouldn't be alive today.
If Yu Sui were to casually bypass the inscriptions and send messages to others, it would eventually alert the Communications Institute. Even if the Communications Institute searched the entire six kingdoms, they would still have to find her.
At that time, it won't just be the Communication Institute that gets offended, but the entire Yin-Yang School, the Taoist School, and the School of Martial Arts.
Whatever Yu Sui does, he must be cautious and extremely careful.
Mei Liangyu returned to the Ghost Path Holy Hall.
The door wasn't closed, leaving a narrow crack, seemingly for future opening, or perhaps left open for him. It could mean many things, such as provocation.
Mei Liangyu examined the door carefully for a moment and found no signs of it being slashed or kicked. In fact, it was "completely unharmed." Apart from the fact that it was opened at an inappropriate time, there was nothing wrong with it.
How did she open the door?
Nangong Sui may have lied; in fact, she does know the Nine Schools of Arts.
Mei Liangyu squinted slightly and pushed open the door to go inside.
The lights inside the hall remained on, and the candlelight above flickered, yet it enveloped the space in tranquility and warmth.
He walked to the desk, looked down, and casually glanced across the surface before asking, "What's so special about my junior sister that she caught your eye, sir?"
Ink flows on the suspended drawing paper.
The answer from the Sage Chang Gen appeared in Mei Liangyu's mind: "Fate."
Mei Liangyu pulled up a chair and sat down at the table, arms crossed, in a lazy posture: "Master, there are many kinds of fate. My fate with you is a bad one, but what about yours with her?"
The Sage Changgen replied, "Excellent."
Mei Liangyu laughed when he heard this: "So I'm the only bad guy."
Thinking about it carefully, when he decided to keep Gu Gan under surveillance, wasn't he a "bad guy" in Yu Sui's mind?
Yu Sui believed that Mei Liangyu must have a bad impression of her for rescuing Gu Gan from the Legalists.
Mei Liangyu also believed that Yu Sui must have a bad impression of Gu Gan after the verdict.
After all, they were childhood sweethearts.
Mei Liangyu twirled the pen in his hand and asked, "My junior sister said she doesn't know any of the Nine Schools of Arts, so how did she open the door?"
The Sage Changgen replied, "She was born with this ability."
Mei Liangyu adopted a humble, eager-to-learn expression: "For example?"
The Sage Changgen said, "Go and ask her."
Mei Liangyu was chatting with his master in the sanctuary when dusk fell outside. The wind-listening ruler beside him glowed faintly, a message from the "Eat Well" group:
Xing Chun: "Have you eaten?"
It's dinnertime again.
Mei Liangyu replied with a no.
The remaining two both said no.
Xing Chun: "Give me a reason not to eat, right now."
Zhong Lishan: "They are practicing the soldiers' formations, which will continue until tomorrow morning."
I didn't have time to eat this.
Cang Shu: "I can't leave if Liu teaches a class."
This is too much to eat.
Mei Liangyu: "I'm not hungry."
I don't want to eat this.
Xing Chun replied a moment later: "When I die, you can open the coffin lid and pull me up when you're ready to eat."
Mei Liangyu put away the Wind Listening Ruler, picked up a pen, and silently wrote down a chapter of the Ghost Daoist mental cultivation method on a piece of paper before getting up and leaving.
He first went to have dinner with Xing Chun. When Xing Chun mentioned that new students were being admitted to the hospital today and that dormitories would be assigned, he remembered that he seemed to have a new roommate, so he rushed to the dormitory.
It was quite late when Mei Liangyu arrived at the inn. The surrounding streets were lit up, and a fog had rolled in. He stepped through the fallen flowers as he entered the inn's gate. There weren't many people on the first floor at this time, and because he was too lazy to use his wind-riding technique to go upstairs, he headed towards the dragon staircase.
A person was standing at the dragon ladder.
Mei Liangyu already felt that he looked familiar even before he got close.
He stopped a short distance away and watched as Yu Sui kept drawing strange symbols on the passage mark on the Dragon Ladder Gate, but still couldn't draw the correct incantation to activate the Dragon Ladder.
He seems to genuinely know nothing about the Nine Schools of Thought.
Mei Liangyu strolled over to Yu Sui's side, and before she could draw the correct incantation, she reached out her hand and asked, "Which floor are we going to?"
Yu Sui let out a sound of surprise, turned her head to look, and watched Mei Liangyu, who had opened the dragon ladder, walk into the door.
"Sixty," Yu Sui replied.
Mei Liangyu stood in the middle of the dragon staircase, raised his head and glanced at her: "Aren't you going to come in and wait to take the stairs?"
Yu Sui then went inside.
Watching the dragon ladder ascend, Yu Sui couldn't help but reach out and scratch her cheek.
She had just discovered that the mechanism of the Dragon Ladder was somewhat similar to the operation of the Mountain Array, and was testing whether she could control and change the activation runes of the Dragon Ladder through the runes of the Mountain Array when her senior brother arrived.
Hopefully, he hasn't discovered his intentions.
Yu Sui stood obediently in the corner of the dragon ladder. Mei Liangyu, who was near the exit, glanced at Yu Sui at the back and asked in a light tone, "Don't you know the Wind Control Technique?"
"I haven't learned it yet," Yu Sui replied.
Mei Liangyu then asked, "You didn't remember the incantation for the Dragon Ladder either?"
Yu Sui breathed a sigh of relief: "I haven't memorized it yet."
Mei Liangyu: "Then you can take the stairs tomorrow."
Yu Sui nodded: "Mm!"
Mei Liangyu: "..."
He turned to look at Yu Sui with an inscrutable expression, only to be met with a blank and innocent look from Yu Sui.
Mei Liangyu stopped the dragon ladder and told her to leave.
As Yu Sui walked, she looked at him expectantly: "Senior brother, you wouldn't be so angry as to kick me out, would you?"
“Follow my drawing just now.” Mei Liangyu raised his chin at the Dragon Ladder’s activation interface, urging Yu Sui to follow along stroke by stroke.
It wasn't that Yu Sui hadn't memorized how to draw the incantation for the Dragon Ladder, but now that things had come to this, if she were to say that she actually knew how to draw it, Mei Liangyu would definitely stuff her into the Dragon Ladder and then have it bury her directly underground.
Having no other choice, she had to follow Mei Liangyu's example and write it stroke by stroke.
Yu Sui had been playing dumb for over a decade, so one more time wouldn't make a difference. She even pointed to a spot and asked Mei Liangyu with feigned seriousness, "Senior brother, why is it drawn like this?"
Mei Liangyu's reply was quite cold: "Don't worry about why it's drawn this way, just remember how to draw it."
Looking at this superficial and ineffective teaching method, Yu Sui felt that he should not take on any apprentices in the future.
Seeing that Yu Sui had almost learned it, Mei Liangyu let Yu Sui do it on her own and stopped following along. The two of them went up and down the dragon ladder many times. Yu Sui felt that the time was right and said as she went upstairs this time, "Thank you, senior brother, I have learned it."
She hadn't expected her senior to be such a man of action, doing things without ever seeming offensive or annoying.
Mei Liangyu leaned against the wall of the Dragon Ladder, and under the gentle moonlight, she looked at Yu Sui standing in the middle of the Dragon Ladder. After a long while, she asked, "You have studied the Dragon Ladder incantation for so long, yet you were able to open the door of the Holy Temple, which has a Class A defensive spell, in less than half an hour."
The ascending dragon staircase suddenly came to a stop.
Yu Sui raised her head and glanced at Mei Liangyu: "Senior brother, I always have things I'm good at and things I'm not good at."
Mei Liangyu: "What are you good at?"
Yu Sui rolled her eyes: "You're good at opening doors, aren't you?"
Mei Liangyu scoffed: "The Dragon Ladder Gate is still a gate."
Yu Sui laughed and said, "Then I'm good at opening the doors of the sanctuary, but not so good at opening the doors of the dragon staircase."
Their eyes met, neither of them looking away. In Mei Liangyu's eyes, Yu Sui smiled brightly, her hair sticking up on her head as if it were taking root, sprouting, and blooming. The swaying little flowers, combined with her bright and beautiful smile, could deeply attract people with her appearance, making it difficult to discover the depth within.
A moment later, both of them seemed to realize something and turned their gaze away, looking at the dragon ladder.
Why is it stopped moving?
[Author's Note]
Thank you so much for your support! I will continue to work hard!
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