Chapter 127
"I think if I don't fight you for a while, you'll go up to the roof and tear off the tiles." Feng Jue sneered, picked up the cold tea with crushed ice floating on it, took a sip, and glanced at Ling Shi behind her.
Lingshi didn't know who had put a handkerchief on her head, and the two corners of the handkerchief just covered her ears, which was like trying to cover her ears while stealing the bell. Even stealing the bell couldn't stop Lingshi from eating.
We are about to leave, if we don’t eat now, we won’t be able to eat anymore.
Lingshi quietly looked up and saw that her master and Zhuzi were not doing anything that the dragon could not see. She quickly took off the handkerchief from her head and wiped her mouth, saying, "Master, I'm leaving now!"
She has already obtained four clues and has basically locked down the destination. It all depends on whether someone has gotten there first!
"Be careful," Feng Jue warned. Since Ling Shi had her own plans, she let her do it. Furthermore, with the help of Meng Xiangfei, who was in the Spiritual Transformation Stage, Feng Jue wanted to see what Meng Xiangfei was going to do.
Lingshi smiled brightly, waved to Zhuzi, and packed two stacks of meat pies before leaving. She skipped through the crowd and disappeared in a flash.
In the alley, Meng Xiangfei smiled as she rubbed the cat's fat belly and placed it on the ground. Her thick eyelashes drooped, hiding the fleeting light in her eyes.
The cat that fell to the ground had its pupils erected, and it meowed and ran away.
She brushed the cat hair off her hands, stood up seductively, pointed at Yu Xuefei with a smile, and said in a sweet voice, "As the saying goes, those who are destined to meet will meet even after thousands of miles. Sister Yu and I are truly destined to meet in this vast sea of people—or does Sister Yu have other intentions for me and has been following me all the way here?"
"Woo." Meng Xiangfei hummed shyly, raised her arm, pinched her sleeve to cover half of her face, revealing only a pair of fox-like eyes looking at Yu Xuefei, and said with a sweet smile, "Whether it's fate or intentional, it makes my heart and soul surge and I'm extremely excited."
She winked at Yu Xuefei.
Yu Xuefei's body stiffened and the hairs on her back stood up. She had written many storybooks for many sisters in the valley. There were many lingering love words and suggestive flirting in the storybooks, but outside of the storybooks, this was the first time she heard someone tease her in such an unrespectable way.
Yu Xuefei and Meng Xiangfei looked at each other and thought: This is just an indecent witch!
"Fellow Daoist Meng." Yu Xuefei smiled politely, letting Meng Xiangfei's words go in one ear and out the other. She asked curiously, "Fellow Daoist Meng is a beastmaster, but I read in a book that a beastmaster can only control spirit beasts with whom he has formed a bond. But just now, Fellow Daoist Meng seemed to be able to control that orange cat without forming a bond with it?"
Meng Xiangfei leaned against the wall, her slender fingers on her lips.
She smiled sweetly at Yu Xuefei and said, "It's just an ordinary cat, without even a trace of spiritual energy. Why would we need to form a pact? But Daoist Yu does like reading."
She toyed with her black hair, her gaze shifted to Yu Xuefei, and she said slowly, "Are all the medical practitioners in Qianxiu Valley as well-read as Sister Yu?"
Yu Xuefei didn't answer. She and Meng Xiangfei didn't get along, and she seemed to be thinking of leaving. Meng Xiangfei smiled infatuatedly, pacing forward, inching closer to Yu Xuefei. She deliberately said, "Sister Yu, if you're interested in becoming a beast tamer, next time, call me good sister. I'll answer any questions you have about beast taming, and even if you want to learn it..."
She moved closer to Yu Xuefei and hooked her chin with her finger. Seeing Yu Xuefei looking away in shock and disgust, the smile in her eyes deepened. "Why not?"
"Then you'll realize that sometimes what's written in books isn't entirely true."
Meng Xiangfei stared into Yu Xuefei's eyes, raised her eyebrows, turned around, and slowly walked into the alley.
The sound of tinkling jade bells falling to the ground.
After the jade bell disappeared, Yu Xuefei woke up as if from a dream and looked forward in a cold sweat.
Why did she feel like she was being controlled by Meng Xiangfei at that moment...could the art of taming beasts be studied to such an extent? Yu Xuefei frowned and opened her umbrella. The medicinal fragrance of the oil-paper umbrella cleared her mind and the palpitations she had just felt disappeared.
She frowned and looked at the empty alley, which was the opposite of where Meng Xiangfei left.
03 and Feng Jue walked hand in hand through the crowds of Wuchang Town. They were like two drops of colorless water, quietly blending into the lake, watching the people coming and going, the faces of those who were either anxious or excited. 03 watched very carefully, moving her face from time to time, imitating the anxious expressions of those people.
"There's a treasure chest near Wuchang Town, which is why so many cultivators from all over the world have gathered here." Feng Jue pinched 03's fingers and said slowly, "I just don't know whose treasure chest it is."
03 was practicing the use of expressions. Upon hearing this, he said excitedly, "Feng Jue, has Xue Mengtao contacted you?"
"Not yet." Feng Jue said.
After leaving the Shuanglong Secret Realm, she sent a message to Siyi, but has not received a reply yet.
"Oh." 03 asked with the same excited expression, "If Xue Mengtao hasn't contacted you, let's go find Xue Bufan."
Looking for Xue Bufan?
Feng Jue looked at 03 and couldn't help but reached out and gently poked her eyelids, whispering, "You're staring too wide."
Yeah?
03 He immediately drooped his eyelids and looked at me coldly.
Feng Jue: "Tsk, it looks quite good, yes, very fierce."
That's awesome.
03, who was looking at him coldly, gave a thumbs-up and said, "Let's go and grab Xue Bufan's treasure box."
Feng Jue raised his eyebrows. "If Zhang Ye's target is Xue Bufan's body, we really can't let him break through too quickly. Delaying Xue Bufan will give us time to prepare. I was thinking about whether I should tell Xue Bufan about this directly, but..."
Thinking about how he was being carried around by Jingxing's soul possessed by the black soul and didn't notice anything was wrong, Feng Jue always felt that Xue Bufan was either really stupid or there was something she didn't know. No matter which of the two situations it was, Feng Jue didn't dare to take it lightly.
Both real stupidity and pretended stupidity can lead to fatal consequences.
03 smiled and said, "We won't tell him."
Feng Jue raised his head, looked at 03's expression, and frowned: "What do you mean, what are you hiding from me?"
"No!" 03 blinked.
A child ran past them, the expression on his face exactly like 03's current one.
Feng Jue sneered, pointed at 03, and said, "Who said you wouldn't hide anything from me?"
"I'm not hiding anything from you. I'm just investigating and collecting evidence. I'll tell Feng Jue once I'm sure of the result." 03 pinched Feng Jue's fingers, smiled, looked up, pointed to the sky, and said happily, "Look, a shooting star."
It's broad daylight, where does the shooting star come from?
Feng Jue glanced at 03, then looked up and saw a white light falling and dancing around her.
It is Siyi's communication talisman.
Feng Jue looked at it and said to 03, "It's like a pillow is given to you when you're sleepy. Let's go. The person you're looking for is in the Dark Cloud Rift Valley ten thousand meters away from Wuchang Town. The treasure box is in the rift valley. It's the treasure box of the Sword Hall."
"Are they all here?" 03 asked curiously. Seeing Feng Jue nod, he sighed, "The power of plot is truly something that cannot be underestimated!"
She tilted her head and said with a sense of wonder, "I'm in the plot too, hahahaha."
It's really amazing.
Feng Jue chuckled, winked at 03, and a bright light appeared in his eyes.
"Let me, the supporting character, stir up trouble for the protagonist."
03 shook his head, "Feng Jue is my protagonist."
Feng Jue couldn't help laughing and walked out of the city with her.
Dark cloud rift valley.
The long and narrow valley looks like a long scar across the earth when viewed from above. When you land on the ground, you will find that the rift is extremely wide and deep. If you fall to the bottom of the valley, you will feel a sense of panic as if you will never see the sun again.
But at this moment, the monks gathered around the rift valley
There are more people here than in Wuchang Town. Where there are many people, there will be a lot of noise, which makes the cold and solemn atmosphere disappear.
Zhao Hangyi sat in front of the Jinyu Tower, fanning himself. The golden ingot sails on the tower fluttered in the wind, attracting great attention. Disciples from Luoxia City, dressed in golden uniforms, came in and out to entertain guests, making the building look like the Dark Cloud Rift Valley branch of the Chengxian Chamber of Commerce.
03 jumped down from the spirit boat and turned around to receive Feng Jue. The cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage seemed to be embarrassed by the spirit boat. She placed her hand on 03's hand with dignity, lifted her skirt and walked down from the spirit boat.
She removed the cover, and Zhao Hang's eyes lit up as he sat there, and he immediately stood up to greet her.
Ever since Luoxia City and Lanyang Palace started cooperating, they have been adhering to the purpose of making the business bigger and stronger and the goal of taking the wealth of the five continents into their own hands. The two factions have been in harmony and the relationship between the disciples in the factions has become increasingly close.
The disciples of Lanyang Palace are "modest and polite" and not fussy about trivial matters, which complements the disciples of Luoxia City to some extent. Zhao Hang is alone in Wendao Academy and has heard a lot about the Five Continents. When he saw Feng Jue, he looked very enthusiastic.
"Palace Master Feng, it's Senior Sister." Zhao Hang folded his fan, pointed to the Golden Jade Tower, and said with a smile, "Elder Si and Junior Sister Xue are upstairs. Please come in."
"Thank you." Feng Jue didn't hesitate and took out the spirit stone and handed it to him.
Although they are in a cooperative relationship, they have to be clear about the accounts. If Zhao Hang is not given tea money, he will probably be scratching his head and tossing and turning tonight.
Zhao Hangyi happily accepted the spirit stones and took out the account book to record the accounts.
03 passed by him, stopped, and asked politely: "Hello, Zhao Hangyi, have you seen Xue Bufan?"
"Brother Xue?" Zhao Hangyi sounded like he had a very good relationship with Xue Bufan. Perhaps it was because they had shared life and death together in the Shuanglong Secret Realm. He twirled his fan with his fingers and said, "Brother Xue is in this rift valley. I invited him to live in the Jinyu Tower, but he refused."
"Oh?" Feng Jue's eyes turned, thinking that Xue Bufan's target was also the treasure box in the sword hall?
03 nodded and continued to ask Zhao Hangyi.
"What kind of person is Xue Bufan in your mind?"
Zhao Hang was stunned, not knowing why 03 asked this question.
He took out two spirit beads and rolled them around in his palm. Zhao Hangyi's eyes widened as he stared at the spirit beads in his hand and said, "Brother Xue is honest and upright. He is polite and courteous, even a little too polite, but I like being around him."
Zhao Hangyi felt very comfortable going on adventures with him, not being afraid of being stabbed in the back by him, and not caring about his nagging when it came to the distribution of tasks afterwards.
"Okay, thank you." 03 gestured to Zhao Hang to stretch out his hand, and in his expectation
A spirit bead was placed in his eyes.
Zhao Hangyi: “Uh.”
He stared at the other spirit bead at 03's fingertips.
"I'm just curious about Xue Bufan's usual personality, so can you keep the question I asked you just now a secret?" 03 pinched the spirit bead and swung it in the air.
Zhao Hangyi's eyes flickered as he nodded repeatedly, "Chengxian Chamber of Commerce is honest and trustworthy, and we always keep our promises."
"In that case, please swear to heaven!"
03 Showing a gentle smile like a phoenix.
Feng Jue on the side: "..."
Zhao Hangyi swore a vow and held the two spirit beads happily.
03 Holding Feng Jue’s hand, they walked into the gate of Jinyu Tower one after the other.
After entering the room, there was silence. Feng Jue declined the Luoxia City disciples' guidance. When she and 03 went upstairs to a secluded place, she asked in a puzzled whisper, "Why are you asking about Xue Bufan?"
03 Close your palm and open it towards Feng Jue. A small panel hidden in the palm of your hand unfolds to Feng Jue, and inside is Xue Bufan's file.
"I've been neglecting something, and now I want to find out."
Feng Jue stared at 03, then at the file in his palm. Just as he was about to ask a question, the door of a guest room upstairs was opened from the inside. Siyi walked out, looked down, and respectfully addressed them as "Palace Master." She smiled and said, "Xiao Tao and I have been waiting for you in the room. Since the Palace Master and fellow Daoist Xi haven't come in yet, we came out to check."
The panel on her palm sank silently into her hand. She smiled at Siyi and said, "Hello."
"It's a good Taoist friend." Siyi said in a gentle voice.
Feng Jue glanced at 03 and went upstairs first.
Xue Mengtao was waiting by the round table, pouring the freshly brewed tea into the cup. The immaturity on her face faded away, and her smiling profile became peaceful and beautiful as she called out to people respectfully.
The window behind her was open, and she could see the scene at the entrance of Jinyu Tower.
The Golden Jade Tower stood on a jutting cliff in the rift valley, offering a commanding view of most of the deep, serene ravine. Feng Jue walked to the window and asked directly, "Do you know how the news of the treasure box leaked?"
Would the students of Wendao Academy be so foolish as to invite others to compete with them for opportunities?
Siyi said, "My subordinates are incompetent and haven't investigated the cause. It seems like overnight, everyone in the five continents knows about the treasure box." She speculated, "Perhaps this is part of the assessment."
This guess was not impossible. Xue Mengtao said softly, "Zunzun Jing once said that for cultivators, luck and strength are both indispensable. If one can seize an opportunity from among millions of people, then it can be considered true great luck."
Luck.
Feng Jue thought sarcastically: Could it be that Zhang Ye doubted Xue Bufan's luck and wanted to test it through this test?
03 She sat down at the table naturally, patted the stool beside her and looked at Feng Jue. She picked up the teacup and drank it all in one gulp. After giving Xue Mengtao a thumbs up, she curled up the corners of her mouth.
Asked the same question as Zhao Hangyi.
"Xue Mengtao, you grew up with Xue Bufan and know him very well. In your eyes, what kind of person is Xue Bufan?" 03 grabbed a handful of candy from the storage ring and piled it on the table in front of Xue Mengtao.
Feng Jue, who was observing the rift valley, heard this, walked over and looked at Xue Mengtao curiously.
Xue Mengtao subconsciously looked at Siyi with a hesitant expression.
Siyi smiled and said, "Tell me about it. I also want to hear what kind of person our Xiao Tao'er's former lover was like."
Even now, Xue Mengtao couldn't help blushing when Siyi teased her like this. She tightened her face and said, "Time has passed, and I don't remember it anymore."
Siyi covered her lips and chuckled. Feng Jue glanced at her unhappily and said, "Don't make fun of her. Before she answers, let me ask you, what kind of person do you think Xue Bufan is?"
Feng Jue had a vague premonition, as if she had guessed the reason for 03's question. She raised her teacup and looked at Siyi. Siyi lowered her eyes and smiled slightly, recalling the few times she had met Xue Bufan. "When I first met Master Xue at Lanyang Palace and then again at Hongjiao Mountain, I didn't have a good impression of him. But then, when he risked his life to save Miss Qiu in the Chongshan Secret Realm, it really changed my opinion."
Siyi thought for a moment and said, "When we met occasionally afterwards, I felt that Master Xue was gentle, modest, and kind, a true gentleman."
As she spoke, 03 looked up and stared at Xue Mengtao. Seeing her stunned, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and he asked in a gentle voice, "Xue Mengtao, Siyi and Zhao Hangyi have similar opinions about Xue Bufan. You and Xue Bufan grew up together, do you think they are right?"
The other two people's eyes immediately turned to Xue Mengtao. Xue Mengtao twitched the corner of her mouth and asked doubtfully, "Could it be that after the sad experience of having all his spiritual veins severed, Master Xue has changed his temperament?"
"I'm younger than Master Xue. By the time I joined him, he had already made a name for himself and was the respected young master of the Lianshan Sect." Xue Mengtao said calmly, recalling the past. "Master Xue has been a child of destiny since he was young. Everyone in the Xue family loves him. Although he has a kind heart, he can't be described as gentle and refined..."
If we look beyond the previous environment, it is impossible for the Xue family to raise a gentle and refined person.
Xue Mengtao said this and glanced at Feng Jue secretly.
Feng Jue raised his eyebrows, understanding, "How come, he is also as arrogant and domineering as me?"
Xue Mengtao blushed and quickly lowered her head, saying, "Not really... Young Master Xue was fearless and ambitious, never taking anyone seriously. In the Xue family, he only listened to what the headmaster and his master said."
But if he was stubborn, these two people couldn't persuade him.
Hearing Xue Mengtao say this,
Siyi was familiar with this expression, which showed that Feng Jue was not in a happy mood, extremely unhappy.
"Is this the reason why you didn't tell me?" Feng Jue suddenly said.
03, who thought the snack was delicious and not overly sweet, suddenly choked, her eyes widening as she raised her hands to pat her chest in panic. Feng Jue frowned as he handed her the tea.
After gulping down the water and swallowing the snack, he breathed a sigh of relief and quickly explained, "Humans are complex animals. It's not uncommon for personalities to change after experiencing ups and downs."
"Perhaps you noticed it and brought it up for questioning. There must be other reasons." Feng Jue suddenly grasped a long whip and wrapped it around 03's wrist. "Tell me the truth, what else did you find?"
"Palace Master?" Siyi had a puzzled look on her face.
Feng Jue said coldly, "Get out."
"Wait." She glanced at the decorations in the room and stood up. "03 and I will go to the next room."
"yes."
Siyi and Xue Mengtao quickly stood up and respectfully escorted the two men out. After the door closed, they looked at each other. Xue Mengtao said anxiously, "Master..."
The Palace Master would not speak without a purpose, and would not mention Xue Bufan for no reason. Why would he suddenly ask them this question? Thinking of the incident of demon cultivators taking over other people's bodies in the Five Continents, Xue Mengtao's face turned pale.
Siyi's brain raced for a moment, and after a moment she raised her hand and patted Xue Mengtao's shoulder, saying with a smile, "It's alright, my good disciple. No matter what happened, if the Palace Master doesn't want to tell us, we'll just pretend we don't know."
"Remember, we know nothing."
Xue Mengtao looked into Siyi's gentle eyes and nodded heavily: "Yes."
A 03 was picked up and thrown into an empty guest room. Just as she stood up, a long whip flew over and wrapped around her, not even sparing her neck.
03Looking up, I greeted the beams: Hello, hello, long time no see.
"Go ahead."
Feng Jue stood in front of her with his arms folded
He looked at her coldly.
"You've already verified this with three people. Can you tell me now?"
03 nodded at the beam and said, "Although the sample size is small, given that the only people left in the Xue family seem to be Xue Mengtao and Elder Li Tanqi, who is nowhere to be found, I believe the logic is correct."
She looked at the beams with clear eyes. "After Feng Jue analyzed that Zhang Ye's goal was to possess Xue Bufan, I compared their data and found something that puzzled me."
A panel appeared in front of Feng Jue, showing a scene at the Wen Dao Academy. It was a scene where the students met with the teacher and worshipped the statue of Tao before setting off for the assessment.
The man standing in the center was magnified, and Jingxing, who bowed to the statue of the Taoist Saint, looked gentle, respectful and polite.
In the panel, at the end of the sword hall, a man who seemed a little lonely also saluted the statue of Tao Saint. The frozen action was intercepted and enlarged, and the two panels were placed side by side.
03 raised his hand to scratch the long whip on his neck, lowered his head, smiled at Feng Jue, and said, "Please look."
Feng Jue hesitated, her eyes scrutinizing the two panels. She looked at the panels, and 03 looked at her. Finding the same Feng Jue was adorable, and flowers appeared on 03's head, and he snapped his fingers.
Two figures, each performing a 90-degree bow, magnified to the same size, were combined. At the moment of their convergence, 03 said, "Jingxing entered the Dao through literature, respecting his teachers and the truth. He was a scholar with a strong character and gentle manner. Long Aotian in this book is also very polite."
She snapped her fingers again, and a ball of silver data floated out, and several panels flew out. Each panel showed Xue Bufan saluting as 03 had seen him before. As time went by, his waist became lower and lower, until finally, it overlapped with "Jingxing".
There seemed to be a chill behind Feng Jue, and his mind rumbled. He thought of the remaining soul of the real Uncle Jing, which was parasitized by the black soul and was riddled with holes in the Tiandi Temple. He murmured, "He is no longer Xue Bufan..."
Looking back, Xue Bufan dared to confront her at first, but later he became very quiet and honest. It seemed that it was not just because of the opportunity from Chongshan Fairy Palace.
"This way, we have found the reason why the demon cultivators are hunting down Xue Mengtao and Li Tanqi," Feng Jue said softly. "These people are most familiar with Xue Bufan. If they all disappear from this world, who will notice his abnormality?"
So... Xue Bufan had already been...
“Boom!”
Feng Jue's pupils constricted as he looked out the window. In the distant chasm stood a gigantic humanoid puppet, holding two swords. The words "Chao Mu Wen Dao" were engraved on its chest. This was the source of the loud noise.
When the puppet appeared, countless people in the rift valley shouted "Opportunity has appeared!"
"Fly away.
03 glanced at the crazy humans, then withdrew his gaze with disinterest and looked intently at Feng Jue. He said in a cold and gentle voice, "If our guess is correct, the cultivation level that Zhang Ye forced out was not intended for you or me. There should be a treasure box of 'Venerable Xingmo' in Xue Bufan's storage ring."
"The advanced world is really interesting. It turns out that Long Aotian and the villain are the same person." 03 put his hands on his stomach and laughed.
Feng Jue couldn't laugh at all. He took back the long whip wrapped around 03 and silently wrapped it around himself.
03 I thought Feng Jue was so cute that I couldn’t help but go up and hug her.
"But since he got it, let's take it away." The bubbles above her head bounced lively.
Feng Jue asked in confusion: "How to rob?"
If he has something in his stomach, can you ask him to vomit it out?
03 Let go of Feng Jue and point at yourself.
"I have another identity."
She picked up Jiuxiao, weighed it, and said happily, "I am her senior sister. She asked him for something, and Xue Bufan, who respects teachers, refused to give it to her. Isn't that disrespectful to her character?"
If he just doesn't give it.
03Looking at the chaotic battlefield outside with blood and rain, he smiled slightly.
Jiuxiao was unsheathed, and a cool breeze surged, covering the ground beneath his feet with a layer of white frost.
03 said: "Feng Jue, the world of immortal cultivation has a certain order of strength and weakness, so I can rob openly, so it should be no problem!"
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