Chapter 139 End of Main Text [VIP]
In a corner of the herb garden, several disciples of the Yantian Sect, dressed in light blue sect robes, squatted in a circle and whispered among themselves.
While occasionally glancing up at the two people in the distance, Mingheng asked his senior sister Mingxin with a question: "Senior sister, is this person really our junior grandmaster uncle?"
This isn't right, is it?
Wasn't our junior grandmaster always aloof from worldly affairs, so taciturn that he barely spoke a word even to the sect leader?
He recalled what he had just heard—the words about emotional debts and the thought that you didn't want him—and suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.
This is so sticky and mushy, it's definitely not their aloof junior grandmaster!
Mingxin angrily smacked this unreliable junior brother on the head.
"When are you going to get rid of this habit of speaking without thinking!"
Then, he knocked on the heads of each of the junior brothers and sisters who had just nodded in agreement: "And you, you think you can't hear what I'm saying just because the senior isn't here?"
In fact, she was quite shocked as well.
But even if you have doubts, you have to keep them to yourself! They all rely on the good tempers of their seniors and junior grandmasters, and dare to say anything.
The buzzing sound, like the buzzing of bees at a gathering, drifted into Qingran's ears on the wind, making her chuckle.
He wanted to say that his junior brothers and sisters were quite interesting, but then he realized that these disciples called him "Little Grandmaster Uncle," so calling them "junior brothers and sisters" wouldn't be appropriate.
He looked at the person opposite him who was staring intently at him.
The Frost Palace is constructed entirely of millennia-old ice inscribed with array patterns, and its crystalline appearance truly lives up to its name.
The man wore a plain white robe with silver patterns, his hair was as white as snow, and even his pupils were a pale silver, making him seem even more otherworldly.
His long hair was tied back with a light blue jade hairpin. Upon closer inspection, the hairpin was shaped like a curved snake, the only unusual color on his body besides silver.
Her appearance was undoubtedly extremely beautiful; if I had to describe her in eight words, it would be something like "skin as white as ice and bones as elegant as a jade tree."
Qingran scrutinized him closely, her gaze sweeping from top to bottom and from left to right without any attempt to conceal it.
The man stood quietly, letting him observe, his eyes fixed on Qingran.
Years have passed since we last met. Qingran smiled wryly and asked, "How should I address you?"
The man came to his senses: "My name is... Jiuxu."
"Nine Voids." Qingran chewed on these two words. "Is it your own name, or did your sect give it to you?"
The man said, "That's my original name."
Seeing Qingran's gaze drifting into the distance, seemingly lost in thought, Jiuxu's heart tightened, and she tentatively took his hand.
It still feels the same temperature and texture as I remember.
He held Qingran's hands in his palms, his thumbs stroking the smooth backs of her hands, and repeated softly, "I thought you didn't want me."
Qingran's eyes sparkled, and she narrowed them: "You are someone I worked so hard to build up, how could I not want you?"
"Really?" The man's clear silver eyes looked at him, seemingly cold, but with a deep, hidden probing look in them.
Qingran nodded: "It was an unexpected epiphany. I didn't regain my senses until a hundred years later. I never expected so much time to have passed."
Jiuxu believed whatever Qingran said.
A faint smile appeared on his lips: "Congratulations."
A collective gasp came from not far away.
Jiuxu seemed not to hear and did not react at all, but Qingran was amused and laughed again.
It seems men don't laugh often these days, hence the exaggerated reaction from the Yantian Sect disciples.
He carefully admired the curve of the man's lips; like snow melting in early spring, they were indeed beautiful.
Seeing him smile, Jiu Xu's smile widened, and then there was another, even more pronounced gasp from not far away.
Qingran was overjoyed. Although Jiuxu was happy to see Qingran happy, he still glanced helplessly at the sect disciples who were secretly watching from afar.
The disciples of Yantian Sect covered their mouths in unison.
Mingxin urged her junior brothers and sisters who were watching the excitement, "Stop watching and hurry up and gather herbs."
After finally getting the group of dawdling ducks to their feet, they turned around and the two figures were no longer there.
Qingran and Jiuxu didn't go far; they simply used magic to conceal their presence.
Qingran explained that she had undergone a sudden enlightenment and her cultivation had progressed from the mid-stage of the mortal realm to the late stage of the mortal realm. She then lifted the man's wide sleeves.
Jiu Xu did not resist at all and allowed him to examine her.
Her firm, fair forearms were exposed to the air, and even with her dark eyesight, faint, almost invisible scars could still be seen.
His brow furrowed.
Jiuxu lowered her sleeve and smoothed his brow: "Don't worry, it won't affect me."
Qingran: "What do you need to heal you?"
The Frost and Snow Palace has just appeared in the world; perhaps it possesses extinct spiritual herbs and lost elixir recipes—
“External things are useless,” Jiu Xu said, taking his hand again. “The rest can only be nurtured slowly as my cultivation improves.”
Qingran then used a wisp of her spiritual power to probe his cultivation level.
He had never been able to discern the man's cultivation level, and he assumed that the man was wearing a magical artifact to conceal his cultivation.
Even after careful investigation, they haven't found anything conclusive. Based on their intuition, they've determined that it's roughly the early stage of the Mortal Realm.
In the early stages of the mortal realm, even the boasts of being blessed with extraordinary advantages have been toned down. This must be the favored son of Heaven, right?
Especially after hearing Jiu Xu say that his cultivation path is different from others, he is born without any bottlenecks, and even without cultivation, spiritual energy will actively enter his body.
Amidst her mixed emotions, Qingran couldn't help but think about the man's origins.
This doesn't seem like cultivation; it's more like restoring one's cultivation level.
He thought for a moment and then asked, "How much do you know about your background?"
Jiuxu said, "I am more than just myself."
From the moment he woke up, he knew his name was Jiuxu, but when he tried to recall his past with Jiuxu, his mind went blank.
After answering the question, the smile on his lips faded slightly.
Qingran looked at him, hooking her fingers together: "What are you thinking about?"
Jiuxu raised his eyes, his silver pupils as white as frost: "You... is it because of my past?" He blurred those three words.
Qingran smiled and nestled into his arms, her eyes crinkling with laughter: "Do you know how long ago that was?"
Jiuxu hugged him and shook her head, feeling both satisfied and happy at the closeness of her beloved, and uneasy and empty because she was unsure why he had initially approached her.
Qingran opened her mouth, but suddenly realized that she couldn't say exactly how many years ago that happened.
"Have you heard of the Star Sea Riot?" Seeing the man nod, Qingran said, "Your past is probably related to that."
*
Half a month later, two figures, one in green and one in white, appeared hand in hand in the Kunlun Mountains.
With the Daoist disciple of the Nine Void Sect leading the way, Qing Ran entered the Yantian Sect openly and legitimately through the open entrance of the mountain-protecting array.
Elm Leaf and Mingxin were at Frost Snow Palace, and other elders and disciples were also heading there. Jiuxu had only gone on a whim and was not part of the team exploring the secret realm. He left without any burden after informing them.
The snow on the summit of Kunlun Mountain never melts, and one can often see fluffy snowflakes falling from the sky.
The Yantian Sect was built on the snow-covered peak where snow falls all year round. It was a vast complex of buildings that looked like a fairyland from afar.
Because of the large territory and the relatively small number of disciples in the sect, when Jiuxu and Qingran appeared in the library that occupied a mountaintop, they did not encounter any other cultivators on the mountaintop.
Moreover, this is a library for high-level cultivators; ordinary disciples have a separate library, the Three Books Pavilion, which is closer to their residences.
The library is shaped like a tall tower and is shrouded in an invisible defensive array.
With a single hand gesture, Jiu Xu caused the defensive formation to emit a hazy glow, revealing an entrance that could be entered by a single person.
"Is it okay if the sect finds out you brought me in like this?" Qingran asked as she stepped into the entrance.
The man who came in next pursed his lips. When he saw Qingran looking over, he forced himself to remain calm and said, "Master and my senior uncle all know you."
Qingran: "Hmm?"
Jiuxu: "I said you are my Daoist partner."
Qingran: "?"
We need to find out what happened while he was away.
Entering the library, Jiu Xu led Qing Ran to the top shelf where the history of the Tianyuan Realm was recorded.
The bookshelves did not contain physical books like those of humans, but rather jade slips suspended in the air. When one scanned the jade slips with their spiritual sense, the book titles and summaries of the information recorded on them would automatically appear.
Jiuxu retrieved the artifact related to the Star Sea Riot based on his memory.
He had read all the jade slips in the library, and now he handed them directly to Qingran.
Qingran quickly scanned the document with her spiritual sense, then said four words: "...I see."
Among the information that has been passed down, the Tianyuan Realm does not have a definitive conclusion on the cause of the Star Sea Riots in history.
However, the Yantian Sect has a unique lineage. In the past, an ancestor nearing the end of his lifespan attempted to deduce the secrets. After several generations of relaying and integrating the findings, the most likely conclusion reached was—
The turmoil in the star sea was caused by the fall of a powerful being from the third realm.
Qingran immediately believed most of it.
The second realm is observing the starry sea, and it seems reasonable that the fall of a powerful being in the third realm would cause a turmoil in the starry sea.
He looked at the man beside him who seemed to be sculpted from ice and snow.
Jiuxu met his gaze and said, "I have no memories of the past."
"Who said I was going to ask you that?" Qingran raised an eyebrow. "What I meant was, now you should believe that my feelings for you have nothing to do with your past, right?"
A smile appeared in the man's silver eyes: "I believed it a long time ago."
The two walked hand in hand to the outside of the library. The man raised his hand and waved it, and a tree as clear and translucent as ice crystals appeared on the edge of the cliff.
The two sat down on the ground, Qingran leaning lazily on the man's shoulder: "When did you wake up?"
Jiuxu's expression was lost in memories.
He woke up less than half a year after arriving at the Yantian Sect. The time was very short, and he remembered nothing except his own name.
Later, each time I woke up, the time I was awake would be a little longer, and more and more of my memories would be restored.
A year later, he regained his memories of all the small worlds and also figured out the world and environment he was in now.
He asked the sect leader who had sent him there.
The sect leader said that the person who brought him here did not show up, only saying that he was being sent to become a disciple.
So Jiuxu became the sect leader's disciple.
He possessed exceptional talent and made rapid progress in cultivation, reaching the Nascent Soul stage in just over ten years, a stage that others might not even reach even after their lifespan has ended.
Feeling that his cultivation had made some progress, Jiuxu asked his sect leader to divine the location of his Daoist partner, and the answer he received was the desolate mountains of the demon race.
Jiuxu rushed to the desolate mountain, but found nothing.
After his disappointment, he returned to the Yantian Sect and began to learn divination from his master. He then discovered that his talent for divination was even greater than his talent for cultivation.
The master didn't seem surprised.
Jiuxu didn't ask any more questions. After mastering the basics of divination, he went down the mountain and began the process of searching for people while performing divination.
He was talented, and his divination results were never wrong, but he wasn't talented enough, so every time he rushed over, he would only arrive empty-handed.
Gradually, he began to suspect that Qingran might be intentionally avoiding him.
He could calculate everything, from heaven and earth to people and himself, but he could never figure out what his beloved was thinking.
His last divination was that he predicted Qingran would appear in the Frost and Snow Secret Realm.
The reason why the Yantian Sect was able to appear outside the secret realm before other sects is precisely this.
Jiuxu left without any hope.
Fortunately, this time he finally got what he wanted.
Coming back to his senses, the man said, "My elders in the sect treated me very well. They used all sorts of rare and precious herbs and treasures on me, and I woke up in just six months."
He slowly recounted to Qingran his past of alternating periods of wakefulness and dizziness, jokingly saying that because of the excessive consumption of soul-type pills, the sect disciples still retain the habit of favoring rare and precious materials of corresponding attributes when they go out for training.
He didn't mention a word about the self-doubt and struggles he experienced when he couldn't find Qingran.
But couldn't he have guessed it if he hadn't mentioned Qingran?
Qingran still remembers that the second thing this person said to him was that he thought he didn't want him anymore.
He hugged the arm in his arms tighter, his hand sliding down the arm and into the man's palm.
The man grabbed him tightly with his hand behind his back.
Qing Ran said in a gentle voice, "I didn't mean to leave you behind."
The man smiled from an angle where he couldn't see him: "I know." His usually cold voice sounded very gentle at that moment.
He knew Qingran hadn't done it on purpose, so the past pain was irrelevant.
He was only thankful that the rock remained unchanged, and Qingran's love for him remained the same.
The two nestled intimately under the tree, their black and white hair intertwined, their blue and white robes shimmering together. Pure white snowflakes drifted down, landing on their hair and shoulders, chasing and dodging each other, inseparable.
"Aaaaaaah, host, I'm here!"
Suddenly, a cheerful voice broke the silence.
At the same time, a small sphere of energy with wings appeared in the air, gradually becoming clearer as if it were glass that had been wiped clean.
Qingran quickly restrained the man beside her.
The man looked at him questioningly.
Qingran explained to him in surprise, "This is the friend who has been taking me through time and space in the past."
Then, jokingly asking the suddenly appearing system, "Why are you only arriving now?"
He thought the system wouldn't come.
"I came over as soon as I finished work!" the system replied.
After checking his own work and finding something amiss, the flight maneuver suddenly stopped.
"Aaaaaah, how could it be a hundred years from now? The calculation was correct, it must have been an operational error, waaaaah~"
It cried and threw itself into its host's arms.
The man narrowed his eyes slightly, reached out and took out the small ball, aiming it at himself.
The tearful system saw him: white hair, handsome face, a man who looked so familiar.
Isn't this a human raised by the host?!
The system exclaimed in surprise, "Human, you're awake?"
Fortunately, it woke up, otherwise the host would have been all alone for the past hundred years. The system felt heartbroken at the thought.
Jiu Xu calmly introduced himself: "Hello, I am Jiu Xu, Qing Ran's lover."
"I know you, we're old friends."
The system, in a friendly manner, stretched out its wings at him: "I am the host's best friend and work partner, System Zero Zero Zero!"
"You can call me Lingling, just like the host does~"
Oh, my friend.
The man's expression softened.
Qingran rested her chin on her hand as she watched their interaction, her eyes and lips filled with a pure smile.
The sky darkened without anyone noticing, the snow continued to fall, and stars twinkled in the azure night, creating a wondrous and magnificent scene.
At the Star Gazing Tower, the sect leader of the Yantian Sect, who had been standing with his hands behind his back, withdrew his gaze from the celestial phenomena, shook his head, and chuckled.
Heaven may never grow old, but our love will never end.
Life is inherently filled with passionate love, and this sorrow has nothing to do with the wind or the moon.
It seems it's time to get started on the long-awaited Daoist Couple Ceremony.
A note from the author:
The main story ends here. I like this slightly ambiguous ending. Thank you to everyone who has followed this far. I'll start posting extra chapters tomorrow!
Thanks for the lightning strike, thanks for the watering, chirp!
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