Chapter 75
The reason Sheng Ningyu was so restrained during the Thousand Mountains Trial was to bring the Xie family's past to light and to investigate whether the Chu family was behind her assassination attempt.
But now that it's truly broad daylight, Sheng Ningyu's heart still feels empty, like thousands of duckweeds floating in the air, with nowhere to land.
She borrowed the Phoenix Clan's teleportation array from Feng Xiaosheng, who then decided to have Feng Qingxing accompany her.
“He is of the Chu family bloodline.” Feng Xiaosheng said succinctly, “If there are any mechanisms or formations within the Chu family of the East Sea that require blood to break, he could be of some use.”
That being said, it's also too blunt.
Sheng Ningyu's lips twitched, and she looked up at Feng Qingxing. The other party did not show any displeasure at her words. Instead, he nodded to Feng Xiaosheng as if he was pleased that he was useful.
"I will obey the young lord's name."
Sheng Ningyu: "...Wow."
Feng Xiaosheng rolled her eyes.
A light rain began to fall outside, which was nothing to worry about for cultivators, but Feng Xiaosheng felt a strange sense of unease.
She looked at Sheng Ningyu again and again, finally managing to stop her furrowed brows, and scolded her in a low voice: "What were you thinking that day during the Thousand Mountains trial? You dared to try to fall into demonic possession? Aren't you afraid that your mental state will be blocked and you will never be able to progress again?"
The situation on that day should be resolved as quickly as possible, otherwise Yuan Xiaoer might truly have his Dao heart tainted by worldly desires.
But Sheng Ningyu naturally dared not tell Feng Xiaosheng this.
She coughed lightly, feigning nonchalance: "I'm an elder, so naturally I have to protect them. This was our agreement, why are you asking again?"
Feng Xiaosheng frowned: "Then you don't need to gamble with yourself."
Sheng Ningyu is somewhat unusual.
Judging from Feng Xiaosheng's expression, it's not hard to tell that she seems to feel she has suffered a tremendous injustice.
But what's the big deal?
Sheng Ningyu is carefree by nature. Most of the time, she will walk away when she is annoyed or tired of something. Even if someone offends her, she will usually settle the score on the spot. Therefore, she never feels wronged.
Besides, she wasn't some ignorant disciple from any of the immortal sects. The Thousand Mountains Trial was all too familiar to her, so she naturally knew that it was all fake.
But it's different for those little guys who haven't been tested yet.
Sheng Ningyu raised an eyebrow, smiled, and flicked the phoenix feathers off Feng Xiaosheng's headdress. She put her arm around Feng Xiaosheng's shoulder and joked, "Feng Xiaohong, don't you know how to choose?"
Feng Xiaosheng suddenly asked, "What should we choose?"
Sheng Ningyu turned her head and looked at the disciples coming and going around her. Regardless of their sect or faction, they all bowed their heads and bowed respectfully when they saw Feng Xiaosheng.
Sheng Ningyu clicked her tongue in amazement, and couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
Feng Xiaohong, who used to joke with her, that proud and innocent little princess of the Phoenix Clan, is now the leader of the righteous path that everyone admires.
"Young Master, I saw you sitting upright at the head of the eleven immortal sects that day, and now you are the leading figure among the hundred sects. If I suffer a minor injury, it would be a matter of my mind being affected by the thousands of junior disciples in front of everyone. Which is more important, you still want to choose?"
Feng Xiaosheng paused, stopping a short distance away. She turned her head, her gaze dark as she looked at the hand on her shoulder: "Sheng Mingyue, tell me, which of these two is more important?"
not good!
Feng Xiaohong actually called her by her full name!
This means she's very angry!
Sheng Ningyu felt a jolt of alarm in her heart. Just as she was about to pull her hand back, someone grabbed her wrist.
Feng Xiaosheng stared at her and said, "No matter what, you must never part with the Phoenix Cry Sword."
"I understand." Sheng Ningyu breathed a sigh of relief after narrowly escaping disaster. She also straightened her expression and gave the same advice, "I just heard that since the trial was broken, puppet barriers have sprung up everywhere. Be careful, you are all alone here."
Feng Xiaosheng nodded in agreement. She looked at the group of cultivators around her who dared not step forward because of her imposing presence, but who had passed by several times already. She released her grip on Sheng Ningyu's hand and chuckled, "I can keep things under control here, but it's mainly you. Now that the Sword Venerable has appeared, I'm afraid many people will be eyeing you."
Before Sheng Ningyu could speak, Feng Xiaosheng asked again, "You're not angry?" She looked Sheng Ningyu up and down a few times and made a judgment, "You're definitely not angry."
Why aren't you angry?
Feng Xiaosheng found it extremely strange. She looked at Sheng Ningyu with curiosity and stepped forward beside her: "We were both doing things behind your back, so why aren't you angry with Xie Qianjing?"
Sheng Ningyu glanced at her sideways: "How many things have you been hiding from me?"
During the Thousand Mountains Trial, Sheng Ningyu absolutely did not believe that Feng Xiaosheng had prepared any other way to break the deadlock except for her using the Ten Thousand Swords Formation.
Not to mention Chu Yuandao.
The reason they kept this from her was simply...
A warm feeling welled up in Sheng Ningyu's heart, and a silent smile appeared on her lips: "Feng Xiaohong, don't worry, those old things about the Chu family won't hurt me so easily."
Feng Xiaosheng neither agreed nor disagreed, but slightly raised his head and looked up at the sky.
Sheng Ningyu looked up with her.
The wind howls, the rain falls gently, and old dreams of loved ones linger in the misty rain.
Feng Xiaosheng looked at the rain falling on him, caught a drop with his spiritual power, and smiled gently.
She asked out of the blue, "What does the rain look like to you?"
Sheng Ningyu replied without hesitation, "It's somewhat like... the snow from that year."
She couldn't quite put her finger on what they had in common, but since Feng Xiaosheng had asked, Sheng Ningyu answered instinctively.
The two looked at each other, and ignoring the surprised and probing gazes of those around them, they burst out laughing together.
The Phoenix Clan elders emerged from the formation and were shocked by what they saw, which then triggered a series of astonishing events.
"Those who argue about whether the young lord will compete with her for the top spot in the cultivation world after the Sword Sovereign's return should see this," the Fourth Elder said in a low voice. "Even the most foolish person would understand after seeing this scene."
Let alone a struggle.
The Fourth Elder was very suspicious. Even if the Bright Moon Sword Master wanted to change "Chasing the Moon City" to "Bright Moon City", their young master would not utter a single word of objection.
In the past, most people thought that the phrase "chasing the moon" meant "chasing away the moonlight". Who would have thought that "chasing the moon" actually meant "pursuing".
The Fourth Elder sighed softly and looked once more at the Sword Master standing beside the formation.
He wore ordinary clothes and dressed in an ordinary manner, but his entire being exuded an extraordinary and imposing sword intent.
Others often say that sword cultivators, in the end, should learn to conceal their sharpness, but this person seems to be doing the opposite, showing no restraint whatsoever.
His brows still held a confident and unrestrained air, and his sword strikes were swift and decisive, without the slightest hesitation.
Everything remains the same as before.
The Fourth Elder suddenly understood why the Sword Master's title was "Bright Moon".
Both her sword and she herself have become a moonlight that many people pursue throughout their entire lives.
It is nowhere to be found, yet it is everywhere.
Just as Sheng Ningyu was about to step into the formation, her wrist was suddenly grabbed.
She is clearly an elder now, and if she were in a sect, she would be a steward or elder of some standing. Yet, ever since she returned, the people around her who know her always treat her like a child.
Sheng Ningyu wasn't displeased at all; she just found it a little amusing.
She was by nature a lazy person who preferred to break through all laws with a single sword strike and detested the intricate schemes and power struggles of the cultivation world.
In the past, since the truth was already out in the open, she would have preferred to pretend to be deaf and dumb and let others handle the aftermath for her.
Sheng Ningyu never believed that she could do everything; on the contrary, she held a certain viewpoint.
Some things, if she doesn't do them, someone else will naturally do them for her.
But this time is different.
Sheng Ningyu watched as Feng Qingxing entered the formation first, and the surrounding Phoenix Clan elders looked at her with the same wary gazes they held for a femme fatale. She shook her head, then leaned close to Feng Xiaosheng's ear and said mysteriously, "Once all this mess is over, I was planning to go to the Phoenix Clan to visit you and Old Phoenix Lord again. But now, I reckon within three days, all the places under your Phoenix Clan's name will blacklist me."
"Speak," Sheng Ningyu raised her eyebrows, "What else are you hiding from me that you want to tell me?"
It's also the right hand.
But this time, Sheng Mingyue showed no resistance. Feng Xiaosheng curled her lips into a smug smile, hooking Sheng Ningyu's finger around it and shaking it just like she had done many years ago.
"The question you asked me earlier," Feng Xiaosheng said, looking into Sheng Ningyu's eyes, "do you really not know the answer?"
What's the problem?
Sheng Ningyu was stunned for a moment, but quickly came to her senses.
"You mean the Trial of a Thousand Mountains?"
"Everyone in the world knows I will choose you."
Sheng Ningyu suddenly stopped talking.
Many times, Sheng Ningyu would treat Feng Xiaosheng with the same attitude she had back then, but she knew in her heart that the person in front of her was no longer the same as the boy she once was.
The innocent look was replaced by a calm that concealed her true feelings, the arrogant and aloof demeanor was replaced by a noble air, and even the origin of the name "Little Red" was now tinged with white.
Feng Xiaosheng said, "I have ordered people to guard many noisy places in the cities, and not allow them to spread rumors and slander our past. Also, when we finally broke through the Thousand Mountains Trial, the first person I pulled was you."
Feng Xiaosheng is not incapable of breaking the deadlock.
Aside from wasting some effort and injuring a few disciples, there's no real loss.
But Feng Xiaosheng remained unmoved.
She wanted the whole world to know the immense pressure Sheng Ningyu faced in eradicating the demonic seed and protecting those people. She wanted those protected by Sheng Ningyu to feel ashamed and guilty. Even if they lacked such conscience, she wanted them to be filled with fear and never dare to cause trouble again...
She wanted the whole world to know that the only person capable of protecting everyone and ensuring their safe escape from the encirclement of demons was Sword Master Sheng Ningyu.
The Phoenix Clan elders around them had already avoided the two of them, all bowing their heads and not daring to look up, except for Feng Xiaosheng, who still had a smile on his face.
"Sheng Ningyu".
Feng Xiaosheng looked at the person in front of him, tightened his grip, then suddenly loosened it, only smiling and lowering his eyes, repeating the action with a hint of helplessness.
"The whole world knows I would choose you, do you really not know?"
Sheng Ningyu stared intently at Feng Xiaosheng.
The sunlight was obscured by clouds on the horizon, and the wind swept through the treetops and across the lake, creating ripples. Fine rain, like threads, fell from the gray sky, dense and continuous, like a light veil woven between heaven and earth, settling on the earth.
At this moment, however, it no longer resembled snow.
The wind howled and the rain poured.
Sheng Ningyu suddenly stepped forward and gave the person in front of her a hug.
Mountains and seas have risen and fallen, stars have shifted and constellations have turned; in the past sixty years, much has changed in this world.
Flowers bloom and wither, the sea rises and falls, and even the patterns carved on wood will become blurred by wind and rain as the protective spiritual array gradually weakens.
But some things never change.
Sheng Ningyu said softly, "You look very good in a white cloak too."
She didn't speak again, and the embrace lasted only a moment before they parted. But looking at that back, Feng Xiaosheng's lips curved into a slightly smug smile.
very good.
No matter what, she will always be the best friend in Mingyue's heart.
...
Within the Chu family of Donghai.
A suffocating dark aura permeated the Chu family compound. Outside, the puppet barrier howled, and the cries of the Chu family members echoed. That eerie and sinister aura seemed to corrode even the air itself.
[Chu Jiye, my good son, I don't blame you for what happened just now.]
Chu Yuandao had only one body left. He gently stroked the top of Chu Jiye's head. His body was almost transparent, like a drop of ink in water, turning into thousands of threads that wrapped around Chu Jiye's body.
Chu Yuandao's gaze was fixed on the distance, something bulging in his eyeballs with each movement. He sensed the ever-growing twisting malice emanating from Chu Jiye and sighed, "Are you truly willing to hand over the glorious future to someone else?"
These words seem to have triggered some kind of curse.
Chu Jiye looked at the person in the Yin-Yang Mirror, his eyes gradually turning bloodshot.
"Xie Qianjing..."
His low laughter echoed through the empty Chu family home.
Xie Qianjing, your recklessness is simply because you take advantage of her affection.
What if she didn't like you that much?
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Author's Note: Xie Qianjing: [Pitiful]
Mingyue: You're overthinking it.
I'm back……!
(Without further ado, I'm kneeling down in awe.)
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