Chapter 82 Xuanfeng is in danger, and the maid comes to his rescue.
Inside Guan Xiao's study, the doors and windows were tightly shut. Qi Men frowned and said worriedly, "I've lost contact with Lord Xuanfeng!"
"What?!" Guan Yue asked in shock, "Lost your senses?"
Guan Yue realized the seriousness of the situation. Qi Men and Xuan Feng had always communicated using their spiritual connection, and could contact each other at any time within the Immortal Mountain and even within the Heavenly Realm. Now, however, they had lost their connection!
"When did you lose your senses?" Guan Yue asked.
"just!"
"Could this be temporary? Should we wait a little longer?"
Qi Men shook his head and said, "There are times when I can't get in touch with him, but the connection has never been lost. It's like... he's disappeared..."
"Disappeared?! What was the last message the master sent back?"
"The last message I received was that he and Flying Eagle were going to break through a dark curtain of torrential rain! After that, I lost contact with him!"
"Torrential rain? What kind of torrential rain would block the perception of consciousness?" Guan Yue was puzzled, then suddenly his eyes widened in horror, "Unless, this torrential rain doesn't exist in this world!"
"That's exactly what I'm worried about!" Qi Men said, banging on the table. "The recent floods in the south are very strange. Lord Xuanfeng suspects they are caused by humans, and I'm worried that your disappearance is related to the floods!"
"What do we do now?" Guan Xiao asked.
Qimen thought for a moment and said, "Lord Xuanfeng went missing on the way from Jiude Valley to Jiujiao Mountain. I'll go there now and see what happened! You all stay here and keep an eye on the rain! Our valley is long and narrow, with many connecting walkways and houses, so it can't withstand heavy rain! Therefore, communicate with Lord Yinhao first, and if the rain gets too heavy, we need to divert the rain to a flat area!"
"Yes, Lord Qi!" Guan Yue replied.
"Lord Qimen! Rest assured, we will protect Jiujiao Mountain!" Guan Xiao replied solemnly, bowing slightly. Then, he hesitated before asking, "However... should we inform the Empress?"
Qi Men thought for a moment and said, "No need for now! It's not appropriate to publicize the fact that the master is missing! As for the flood, we're just taking precautions, there's no need to be so nervous. If there's a flood here, then nowhere is safe!"
"yes!"
...
Bai Er was busy tidying up the bathtub and Su Yuyao's dirty clothes when she called out, "Hey? Miss! You forgot to bring your longevity lock!"
As Bai Er turned around with the longevity lock in hand, she bumped into Qing Yue, who had a serious expression, and Su Yuyao, who was looking dejected, following behind her.
"Yao'er, look at yourself! What kind of appearance do you have?!" Qingyue scolded, "How could you meet and speak with Young Master Guan Yue in such a disheveled state?"
"I..." Su Yuyao lowered her head and said, "I didn't know that Brother Yue'er would come to see me! Besides, it was Bai'er who didn't dress me properly!"
"Ah?!" Bai Er was so frightened that she immediately knelt down and said, "Your Majesty! This servant...this servant..."
"Alright! Yao'er, stop using Bai'er as a shield!" Qingyue took the longevity lock from Bai'er and pinned it to Su Yuyao's chest. "You have a husband now, you need to be careful in everything you do!"
"Your Majesty! Have you approved of the wolf clan's practice of recruiting husbands?" Su Yuyao asked cautiously.
"I haven't approved of it!" Qingyue helped Su Yuyao tidy her hair and clothes. "But everyone knows you're together, so you need to keep a clean record and not give anyone cause for gossip!"
“I’ve done nothing wrong, what’s there to be afraid of?!” Su Yuyao shook the bell on her chest. “On the contrary, it’s Xuanfeng who’s always running around outside, who knows what he might encounter… eh?”
Su Yuyao didn't use any force, but the bell still jingled and fell to the ground.
Xuanfeng?! Su Yuyao's heart skipped a beat!
"You child! What nonsense are you talking about!" Qingyue tapped Su Yuyao's forehead and said, "If you talk nonsense again next time, don't blame me for punishing you!"
White Ear picked up the bell from the ground and cried out in horror, "Ah! The bell has melted!"
"What?!" Su Yuyao stared at the bell in Bai Er's hand, which was slowly turning into silver liquid. "Xuanfeng... Your Highness! Has something happened to Xuanfeng?!"
"You child! What nonsense are you talking about?! They're just two bells!"
"This is the Joyful Bell that Xuanfeng gave me! He said only he could hear it! Now the bell has turned to dust, does that mean something happened to him?" Su Yuyao cried out anxiously.
"What?! This is Xuanfeng's Heart-Pleasing Bell?!" Qingyue's expression flashed with a hint of nervousness, but she quickly calmed down. "Silly child! Xuanfeng gave you this Heart-Pleasing Bell, but Bai'er picked it up just now. The Heart-Pleasing Bell melted to protect itself! Don't worry, when Xuanfeng comes back, I'll have him give you another pair!"
"Really?" Su Yuyao was skeptical, her heart pounding with anxiety.
"Of course it's true! Bai'er, you should help Miss get some rest! Report anything that happens immediately!" Qingyue said, staring at the slightly trembling Bai'er.
Bai Er raised her head and looked at Qing Yue with concern. She knew that the melting of Yue Xinling was not such a simple matter. She pursed her lips and nodded solemnly, "Your Majesty! Don't worry! I will definitely take good care of Miss Yao'er!"
"But...Your Majesty...I want to go find Uncle Qimen. He should know where Xuanfeng is..."
"Yao'er! It's so late! Don't disturb Lord Qi..."
"How could it be too late?! Brother Yue'er just said he was going to discuss something with Lord Qi! I'll just go ask and be right back!" Su Yuyao grabbed Qingyue's arm and pleaded, "Your Majesty! Please let me go!"
"Yao'er! Don't think I don't know! You're just going to see Guan Yue, aren't you?" Qingyue shook off Su Yuyao's hand, walked towards the door, and said to Bai'er, "Bai'er! Keep a close eye on the door for me! If Yao'er takes a single step out, I'll hold you accountable!"
"Yes!" Bai Er replied, quickly standing up to stop Su Yuyao. "Miss! Miss! Don't worry!"
"What?! When did I say I was going to find Brother Yue'er?!" Su Yuyao chased after Qingyue and said, "Your Majesty! I want to go find Uncle Qimen! Your Majesty!"
Qingyue stepped out of the room, turned around, stretched out her palm, and with a slight tremor, Su Yuyao's door was tightly closed.
"Ah? Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Let me out!" Su Yuyao pounded on the door, crying, "Why am I locked up?! Why won't you let me go to Uncle Qimen?! Is... Xuanfeng really in trouble?!"
Qingyue walked quickly out of the courtyard and ran into Qimen, who was also in a hurry to leave.
"Lord Qimen!" Qingyue looked at the anxious Qimen, already having a general idea of the situation. "Is it very dangerous?"
Qimen looked at Qingyue and bowed deeply, "Your humble servant will do his utmost!"
Qingyue curtsied deeply, "Thank you, Your Excellency!"
Qi Men returned the greeting slightly, then turned and quickly left.
"Lord Guan Xiao, Young Master Guan Yue, Yao'er must not know about this!" Qing Yue instructed.
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Guan Xiao and Guan Yue replied in unison.
“Your Highness,” Guan Xiao stepped forward and said, “it will probably rain for the next few days. The mountain roads are muddy, wet, and slippery. You and Miss Yao’er might as well…”
"Lord Guan Xiao, are you teaching me how to do things?" Qing Yue asked coldly.
"This humble servant dares not!" Guan Xiao bowed deeply. "This humble servant is only worried that Your Majesty is in a delicate condition and Miss Yao'er is still young. It may not be safe for her to walk on these muddy mountain roads every day!"
"Lord Guan Xiao, you're overthinking it!" Qing Yue said coldly as she turned and went back into the courtyard.
Guan Xiao stood up and sighed, "Go and talk to Lord Langzhi first. If there really is a torrential rain and flood, the first place that will be lost will probably be the manure drying yard! Tell him to be prepared."
"Yes!" Guan Yue replied.
...
Xuanfeng looked at the dissipating black mist in front of him and realized something was wrong! Here, whether it was mist or raindrops, they were all suspended in the air, and regardless of their form, they were all in a static state.
He tried to swoop down on his eagle to land on the ground, but the eagle couldn't flap its wings.
Upon seeing this, Xuanfeng leaped forward, only to be frozen in place! He frowned, straining to sense his surroundings, "Damn it! I've lost contact with the Immortal Master! This isn't a downpour!"
Xuanfeng then realized that he was in trouble.
The eagle transformed into human form and hovered beside Xuanfeng. "My lord! Where is this place?"
Xuanfeng gazed at the endless darkness, "I'm afraid we've stumbled into a passage to another dimension!"
"This kind of passage only exists in the Wuji Dao! How could it appear on the Immortal Mountain?!" Flying Eagle exclaimed in shock. "Could it be that someone... wants to move the Immortal Mountain away?"
"They didn't move the immortal mountain away, they brought the rain here!" Xuanfeng laughed and said, "Now I finally understand how they managed to bring torrential rain to the immortal mountain!"
"What do we do now?" Eagle asked anxiously.
"Wait!" Xuanfeng said helplessly, "We can't force our way through this kind of passage! We can only find a chance to rush out if we wait for it to start flowing..."
He felt guilty, yet helpless. He wanted to risk everything to see his girl quickly, but his impatience clouded his judgment, leading him and Flying Eagle into a predicament...
Su Yuyao was pressed down on the bed by Bai Er, who said, "Miss! Please stop making a fuss! Her Majesty has already come and said that she has asked Lord Qimen and that Lord Xuanfeng is fine. You can rest assured and get some sleep! We have to get up early tomorrow!"
"I can't sleep!" Su Yuyao's heart was still pounding. "If everything is fine, why is my heart still racing?!"
“Miss! Of course your heart is pounding! Doesn’t your heart pound every time you think of Lord Xuanfeng?” Bai Er said with a smile.
Su Yuyao blushed, "That's true, but..."
"No buts, if you really can't sleep, why don't you take out the wolf fangs and animal bones and play with them for a while?"
"Hey? That's right! I found a seashell today! It's in my pocket!" Su Yuyao finally shifted her attention.
She held the seashell, which was as big as a meat bun, in surprise. "How did this seashell get so big? It wasn't this big when I found it!"
"The seashells come in all sizes. Did you collect too many and misremember?" White Ear asked, tilting its head.
"Silly White Ear! This is a mountain! Finding seashells is already amazing enough! How could you find so many?!" Su Yuyao tapped White Ear's head with a seashell and said, "Go get my crescent blade! Pry it open and see!"
"yes!"
Su Yuyao placed the seashell between her two feet and squeezed it tightly, then used her crescent blade to slowly chop at the seashell's crevices.
"Miss! Be careful! Don't cut your foot!" Bai Er said worriedly, watching Su Yuyao's unsteady movements.
"I know!"
"Oh dear! Miss! Please slow down!"
"I know! Just shut up!"
"Oh dear! Miss!"
"Bai Er! Can you please be quiet!" Su Yuyao said impatiently. "I can't concentrate at all!"
Bai Er could only endure it in silence, watching Su Yuyao smash her knife between her legs one by one.
"Ah!" Su Yuyao screamed.
"Ah! Miss! What happened to you?! Did you cut your foot?!" Bai Er almost burst into tears.
Su Yuyao kicked her foot into Bai Er's arms, "Can't you wish me well for once?!"
Bai Er quickly picked up Su Yuyao's chubby feet to check them over. "Thank goodness, thank goodness, you're not hurt. If you had been hurt, Lady Qingyue would definitely not have let me off the hook!"
"White Ear! Look!" Su Yuyao grinned, holding up her crescent-shaped blade with round seashells hanging from it. "I cut it in! And I can feel something moving inside, maybe it's edible meat! Go prepare the stove, we'll roast it later!"
"Huh? This thing can be eaten?" Bai Er asked skeptically.
"It's definitely edible! Go and prepare it!" The thought of food gave Su Yuyao even more energy. She jumped off the bed, squatted on the ground, and, holding her crescent-shaped blade, repeatedly knocked the seashells to the ground. She was unaware that outside the immortal mountain, someone was suffering greatly because of her actions…
...
Beyond the realm of the immortal mountains, on a shallow beach in a lake, lies the empty shell of a giant sea turtle, from which echoes of screams of agony reverberate…
"Ouch! It hurts so much!" A boy in dark blue clothes was rolling on the ground, clutching his eyes. "Dad! Help me! Help me!"
A middle-aged man with a long beard and a wide mouth stomped his feet in anger, "You idiot! I specifically told you not to be reckless! Not to be reckless! And you actually went to Jiujiao Mountain to spy?! And you even lost your eyes! You really are... ugh!"
"Father... save me..." The boy covered his eyes, too pained to speak.
"Thorn!" The middle-aged man cried out anxiously as he saw blue liquid seeping from between the boy's fingers, "Help! Help!"
"Lord Haichao!" A burly man with a flushed face rushed in. "What happened?!"
"Xie Ao, Gong Ji went to spy on Jiujiao Mountain today and had his eyes ripped out. Come and see..." Hai Chao gently helped Gong Ji, who was curled up on the ground trembling in pain, to his feet. "Can his eyes be saved?"
"What?! His eyes have been removed?!" Xie Ao rushed forward to check and saw that Qiang Ji's right eyelid had been cut open, and blue liquid was gushing out of the blue eyeball!
"How could this be?!" Xie Ao gently covered his eyes with his palm and used his Qi to gently suppress the gushing blue liquid.
"Ah! No! No! It hurts too much!" Qiang Ji slapped Xie Ao's hand away and roared hoarsely, "You brat! That brat who watches the dung heap! I must kill her! Kill her!"
Xie Ao raised his head and shook his head slightly at Hai Chao. Tears welled up in Hai Chao's eyes, and his lips trembled as he asked, "Is there absolutely no chance?"
"Ah—!" Jiang Ji suddenly screamed, and a blue eyeball wrapped in black mist popped out of Jiang Ji's eye socket and rolled to the ground.
Gongji trembled twice and fainted in Haichao's arms.
Xie Ao stared in horror at the eyeball on the ground. "Damn it! Young Master Qiangji hid the dimensional portal inside the eyeball!" He stared intently at the black mist on the eyeball and whispered, "It seems that Young Master Qiangji hid the portal somewhere and then went to spy on people! So... the eyeball is gone, and the portal... is gone too..."
"What?! Oh my god! This idiot! Idiot!" Hai Chao held the unconscious Qiang Ji in his arms, wanting to scold him but unable to, wanting to hit him but unable to bring himself to, and could only sigh and ask, "Can we get the passage back?"
Xie Ao stretched out his hand, releasing red Qi to envelop the blue eyeball on the ground, his brows furrowing...
...
Su Yuyao was dumbfounded, holding a blackened lump of coal. She looked at the shell she had smashed and wondered why there was no meat in it.
Bai Er examined the broken seashells, asking, "Miss, where's the meat in this seashell?"
"There's no meat anywhere! I'm so angry!" Su Yuyao threw the coal briquette on the ground. "As expected, there's nothing good in a dung heap! Even the pearls inside the shells are black!"
"Hey? Miss!" Bai Er said, looking at the coal ball on the ground, "This ball looks like it's shed black ash!"
"What do you mean, black ash?" Su Yuyao said irritably.
"Look how black your hands are!" Bai Er said, pointing at Su Yuyao's hands.
Su Yuyao looked down and, sure enough, her two chubby little hands had turned black and chubby. She said angrily, "What is this! It has no meat and it's so dirty!"
Bai Er brought a soft, damp cloth and wiped Su Yuyao's hands. "Miss, you should rest early! I'll clean up these dirty things!"
Su Yuyao looked at the blackened lump of coal with resentment, "No way! I finally managed to pry it open!"
She angrily picked up the lump of coal, placed it on the bed, held it between her two dirty, chubby feet, and vigorously rubbed it with a handkerchief. "I refuse to believe it! Can a lump of coal really grow inside a seashell?"
"Oh dear! My lady!" Bai Er looked at the room and bed that Su Yuyao had dirtied, and felt like crying.
...
Xuanfeng floated in the darkness with his eyes closed, while Feiying kept a watchful eye on his surroundings.
Suddenly, a force tightened the darkness, and Xuanfeng opened his eyes abruptly, releasing his Qi field to envelop himself and the flying eagle. All the water vapor and raindrops outside the Qi field quickly condensed, forming dazzling black crystals!
"My lord! What's going on?" Flying Eagle asked, somewhat flustered.
"Don't panic, the person who left the passage here is retrieving it! If we can follow them safely, we'll find out who's behind the flood!" Xuanfeng said, squinting.
"Um... sir, what do you mean by 'safely following them'?" Flying Eagle asked cautiously.
"To follow safely means... to live..."
As they were talking, the black crystal suddenly began to tremble and shatter.
"My lord!" Flying Eagle nervously approached Xuanfeng.
"The opportunity has arrived!" Xuanfeng's Qi field suddenly expanded, probing into the broken crystal...
...
"Hey? There's something interesting here! Look!" Su Yuyao said excitedly, pointing at the black coal lumps.
Bai Er craned his neck to look, his face contorted in distress. "What's so special about it... Miss! Please don't bother! How are we supposed to wash these beddings?!"
"There's clearly a highlight! How come you can't see it?" Su Yuyao threw away the handkerchief and picked up the crescent blade, picking at it bit by bit.
Grayish-black dust rose little by little, forming a cloud of black mist that enveloped Su Yuyao.
Bai Er watched as Su Yuyao diligently picked coal briquettes from the black ash, and his vision blurred. "Miss..."
Su Yuyao frowned and scraped hard at the bright spots on the coal briquette. Suddenly, with a "poof," a beam of light shot out from the bright spots, igniting the coal briquette.
"Oh dear! Miss!" Bai Er watched helplessly as a cloud of black ash flew towards Su Yuyao.
"Cough cough! Cough cough! White fungus... cough cough..." Su Yuyao was gasping for breath from the black ash explosion...
...
Xuanfeng's Qi field merged into the trembling darkness, gradually taking control of the disrupted passage. His eyes sharpened, his Qi field trembled violently, and a crack was suddenly blasted open in the dark passage.
"Flying Eagle!"
The eagle's cry arose, the roc's feathers were sharp, and the black wind lightly stepped on the eagle's spine, rushing out quickly along the crack!
Amidst the starry night sky, rumbling thunder echoed, followed closely by streaks of lightning that tore through the Milky Way, culminating in a torrential downpour…
"My lord! Is that you?!" Qimen's spiritual connection was once again reflected in Xuanfeng's consciousness.
"It's me, we're alright!" Xuanfeng replied.
In the sky, a cloud covered in ivy finally slowed down...
...
The blue eyes slowly melted, and the black mist gradually dissipated. Xie Ao gritted his teeth but still couldn't control the passage that was disappearing.
“It’s over,” Xie Ao sighed, “The passage… is destroyed…”
"Huh?! Destroyed?!" Hai Chao's head buzzed. "This is the passage that Chao Xi obtained from the Wuji Dao! It was just destroyed like that?!"
"My lord!" Xie Ao said in a low voice, "It's better to destroy it than to have it discovered!"
Hai Chao steadied himself and nodded. "That's right. Then... is there still a chance for Qiang Ji's eyes?"
“There was still a sliver of hope… but his eyeball contained the passage, and once the passage was destroyed,” Xie Ao said, pointing to a puddle of blue water on the ground, “there was absolutely no chance left!”
Hai Chao gasped, fighting back tears, and gritted his teeth, saying, "Gong Ji, your father will avenge you! That... girl who watches the dung heap!"
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