"By the way, I'm going down the mountain to train." Remembering the purpose of his visit to Ge Gen, Ji Mo Fan straightened up and habitually put his hands into his sleeves.
"Oh, so how many days will Master be gone this time?" Ge Gen lowered his head somewhat dejectedly, but still spoke in a very sensible tone.
Then Ji Mofan gently flicked his forehead.
“What are you thinking about? Come down the mountain with me,” he said.
Ge Gen initially covered his forehead and stood there stunned for a moment.
Then she jumped up and down excitedly several times, "Is Master going to take me down the mountain to gain experience?!"
"But I heard that other disciples only get the qualification to go down the mountain for training after they have reached the Foundation Establishment stage. I am only at the Qi Refining stage now. Is it really okay?"
"Why not?" Ji Mofan was amused by his reaction.
Not to mention that the Yun Cang Sword Sect has never had any rules requiring disciples to reach the Foundation Establishment stage before they can leave the mountain.
This is simply a convention among everyone to ensure the smooth progress of the training.
After all, cultivators only have the ability to fly on swords after they reach the Foundation Establishment stage, at which point they can move more flexibly and avoid wasting time traveling to different places.
In that case, the cultivation efficiency would probably be less than staying in the sect and working in isolation.
Even if such a rule really existed, Ji Mofan could tear it down for the sake of Ge Gen.
Originally, he just thought that Ge Gen had lived in Chaogui Village since he was a child, and this was a good opportunity to take him out to see the world.
Unexpectedly, I stumbled upon this kind of thing.
This is terrible. He dares not leave the child he picked up in the Yun Cang Sword Sect to be bullied any longer.
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Ge Gen still couldn't fly on a sword, so Ji Mo Fan didn't forget to take a small flying magic weapon from the warehouse before leaving Yun Cang Sword Sect.
The name on the sign is Shen Yun's, since given that person's current state, he certainly wouldn't refuse such a harmless request.
His heart is now completely devoted to Qi Fengyu.
Occasionally, Ji Mofan would find it strange that the combination of a water-elemental root and Qi Fengyu's poor acting skills could actually be so powerful, making a Nascent Soul stage expert so devoted to him.
If you can't learn it, then Ji Mofan would also want to take a shortcut.
However, Ji Mofan's trip was ostensibly for training, but in reality, he couldn't let go of the person named Yu Wen he had met in the secret realm.
Thousand Crane Tower is not very famous, with only about a hundred disciples. It is naturally incomparable to the five major sects. Ji Mofan had almost never heard of them before.
After making several inquiries, they finally learned of their location. However, when Ji Mofan led Ge Gen to the mortal towns around Qianhe Tower, he suddenly realized that this was the very place where he had fought against the demonic cultivators in his previous life.
At that time, there was no Thousand Crane Tower in this area; it was under the jurisdiction of another sect called Yanhongmen.
According to his memories from his previous life, less than a year before the war broke out, shortly after the Dao Asking Conference, what happened at Qianhe Tower?
How could a hundred or so people suddenly disappear without a trace?
He sensed something was amiss, so he suppressed his thoughts for the time being and took Ge Gen to a restaurant in town where they stayed.
Regardless of what happened between Yu Wen and Xu Jingwen in the secret realm in their previous life, the outcome was probably similar to this life: he successfully brought the Arc Light Qilin's egg back to the sect.
Logically, we should wait for the egg to hatch on its own, as the doctor suggested, and then scrape blood from the Qilin's bones to use as a medicinal ingredient.
Newborn monsters are powerless for a short period of time, and even a powerful monster like the Arc Light Qilin cannot escape this natural law.
However, judging from later developments, it seems that they did not use the Qilin's bones and blood to heal their fellow disciples, but instead spared its life and even had Yu Wen make a contract with it.
What was the key to this? Ji Mofan couldn't figure it out for the time being. But this matter must be related to the disappearance of Qianhelou.
He felt uneasy until he found out the whole story.
He feared that the bloody scenes of his past life would be repeated before his eyes.
For Ge Gen, this was only the second time he had traveled far from home since birth.
The first time was when he traveled alone from the distant Chaogui Village to the Yuncang Sword Sect in order to seek refuge with Jimo Fan.
Children aged twelve or thirteen are at an age where they are very curious. When they come down from the mountain, they want to go up and see everything new and interesting.
But he was very obedient and well-behaved, just standing aside and observing with his eyes, without mentioning what he wanted at all.
The roadside vendors, seeing such a cute child, were happy to chat with him a bit more, waving their freshly drawn sugar figurines in front of him, "Little friend, do you have a design you like?"
"Uncle, you're so good at making sugar figurines!" Ge Gen wasn't shy at all when a stranger approached her; she just blinked her bright eyes and hopped around praising him.
"The cranes look like they're about to come to life! And the peonies, I can almost smell their fragrance!"
"Oh my, little one, you're so good at talking." The uncle couldn't stop smiling after just a few words. "Is there any pattern you want? Uncle will draw one for you."
Just as Ge Gen was about to shake his head, a hand suddenly reached out from behind and pressed down on his head.
"What do you want? I'll buy it for you." Ji Mofan casually pinched the child's cheek a couple more times; it felt very nice.
"Young man, your younger brother is really adorable." The uncle saw a young man with an ethereal air appear next to the well-behaved child who was talking to him. They looked to be less than ten years apart in age, and he subconsciously assumed they were brothers.
“He is my… um…” Ge Gen was about to argue that Ji Mo Fan was his master, but before he could finish speaking, Ji Mo Fan pinched his face into a chicken beak.
"Thank you, everyone says our child is very well-behaved," said Ji Mofan.
He couldn't quite explain why he had stopped Ge Gen from speaking.
There was no need to hide his identity. His face was basically on par with the status of the Yun Cang Sword Sect. As long as one was a cultivator, even if one did not recognize him, one had at least heard of him.
But after hearing the uncle blurt out the word "younger brother," he suddenly felt an urge not to deny the relationship.
He was momentarily overcome by emotion, but then he realized—
I'm suddenly longing for the feeling of having a family again.
The reason I used to be so open and honest with everyone in the Yuncang Sword Sect was partly because I was afraid that others would think I was useless and that I would be thrown back into the beggars' heap to live the same miserable life as before.
On the other hand, he cherishes this hard-won relationship, even though the effort and reward are completely disproportionate.
He's willing to give 99 points for every single one he gets.
Now he's willing to let go not because he doesn't want it anymore, but because he feels that since he can't get it no matter how hard he tries, he might as well just give up.
The longing in my heart is still there.
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