Chapter 47 Listening to the Oracle (Part 3) "Being spoiled and arrogant, I wish you a lot."...
Shi Xiangyue remembered that he met Jiang Zunyue one night more than three hundred years ago.
That summer, the Shixiang tribe had just held a sacrificial ceremony. Uncharacteristically, the tribe leader allowed the girls chosen to repair the barrier to spend their last night at his home.
Shi Xiangyue is one of them.
At midnight, the rustling of insects and birds echoed incessantly. A warm evening breeze streamed through the half-open window. In the pitch-black room, a young girl sat at her dressing table, her expression indifferent and her posture languid, quietly combing her long hair.
The bright moonlight, like the corner of an open folding fan, flowed over her head and body like water. The light reflected from the bronze mirror only accentuated her beautiful face.
The girl's eyes were filled with inextricable indifference, sleepy indifference and extreme world-weariness.
A sacrificial ceremony had been held during the day, and she was still wearing the red dress embroidered with gold thread, with a plum blossom painted on her forehead.
"Coo..." The owl hooted three times.
Shi Xiangyue put down the wooden comb and turned to look at the bundle that had already been packed on the table, frowning.
The sacrificial ceremony of the Shixiang tribe is held every twenty years. This time it was held a few years earlier. According to the high priest, it was because there were signs that the barrier was loosening.
She knew that with her talent, she would be chosen as a sacrifice sooner or later. After tonight, like her mother, who had also been chosen as a sacrifice ten years prior, her soul would be crushed, her body dissolved, and she would become part of the barrier.
Not a pretty death at all.
Shi Xiangyue likes everything beautiful and nice-looking.
So she couldn't accept dying in such a hasty manner.
The clan leader often said that it was an extremely honorable thing to be chosen as a sacrifice to repair the barrier and maintain the stability of the cultivation world for a hundred years.
Most people in the tribe also think so.
But she scoffed at it.
If you think it's glorious, go and make a sacrifice! Don't just hide aside and say nice things.
Besides, she wouldn't believe the nonsense about "glory".
The night before her mother was taken away for sacrifice, she sat alone in the courtyard until dawn. She stayed by her side, not leaving. At dawn, her mother's first words were also her last, and Shi Xiangyue still remembers them to this day.
——She said: "Run away, run away far away. The Shixiang Clan has nothing for you to stay with. It's best not to come back in your lifetime."
Of course Shi Xiangyue had to escape.
Her legs are on her body, and life and death depend entirely on her thoughts.
She calmed herself down and was about to get up.
The next moment, a clear voice suddenly rang out in the room.
"Huh?"
"Whose bride are you? You are so beautiful."
Is there anyone in the room?
Shi Xiangyue was frightened and turned around suddenly, only to see someone sitting by the window.
The young man was about seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing a frosty white round-necked robe and a red jade belt around his waist. He held a long sword in his arms, his hair tied high with a golden lotus crown, and on his feet were a pair of black boots embroidered with gold.
The moonlight shone through the window, and the silvery-white light made the boy's skin look snow-white and translucent, allowing Shi Xiangyue to see his face clearly.
He had a pair of narrow and deep eyes, thick black eyebrows, a high nose bridge, and an inconspicuous little mole next to his thin vermilion lips.
The language is frivolous and the attitude is arrogant.
Shi Xiangyue's silent eyes were devoid of emotion as he asked indifferently, "Who are you?"
"Jiang Zunyue."
The young man glanced sideways and caught sight of the bulging bundle on the small table. He raised his eyebrows slightly and uttered a sigh, "Have you already agreed to elope? Oh, I really envy your lover."
Shi Xiangyue frowned imperceptibly. His purpose was exposed to a complete stranger. Although he could maintain a calm exterior, deep down inside, it was like a stone dropped into a river, creating a ripple.
"So, you're here to arrest me?" she asked.
"Catch?" Jiang Zunyue jumped down from the window and said quite reasonably, "I'm not from your Shixiang clan, why should I work for them?"
"Besides, it's time to change these old-fashioned things. Who would be willing to put their life in the hands of others and let a single word decide their life or death?"
"Actually, I'd rather see you run away."
Jiang Zunyue leaned against the wall by the window, his eyes moving away from Shi Xiangyue's fiery red dress.
"If you don't run away, the patrol will come."
Shi Xiangyue swiftly put on his bag and took something out of his pouch, holding it in his hand.
"How much?"
Jiang Zunyue didn't understand: "What?"
Shi Xiangyue: "If I hire you to protect my safety, how much will you pay?"
Jiang Zunyue was stunned for a moment, then raised her lips and chuckled: "How many do you have?"
"I only have a gold leaf." Shi Xiangyue spread out his palm to prove that he was not lying.
"make a deal."
"It's too late to go through the main door, let's go through the window." The young man jumped up to the window and stretched out a hand to her, "Miss Shi Xiang, does this look like we're eloping?"
"Stop talking nonsense."
"Like your head!"
The girl lifted the hem of her red skirt and put one foot on the wooden frame of the window. Before she jumped down and was caught by the young man in white, she raised her hand and grabbed the pearl necklace around her neck and pulled it hard.
"Pah--" Pearls symbolizing wealth fell to the ground one by one, bounced, and rolled far away.
Shi Xiangyue felt like a bird that had escaped from a cage, and from now on she could fully embrace the freedom she had longed for.
She closed her eyes and jumped lightly.
Like a fairy who has fallen into the mortal world.
"Miss Shixiang."
Jiang Zunyue caught her accurately.
Master Xiangyue put his feet on the ground and felt a sense of security in his heart.
"My name is Shi Xiangyue."
"There's a 'moon' character in my name too, what a coincidence."
"Stop trying to get close to me and leave."
Shi Xiangyue had no attachment to the Shi Xiang clan at all. He turned around and ran away without looking back.
Jiang Zunyue held the sword, shook his head and smiled, silently performing a spell to wipe out her breath.
After making sure that no one was chasing him, he put away his sword, crossed his hands behind his head, and walked leisurely towards her.
"I've been trying to create a set of sword techniques lately, but I haven't been able to come up with any good ideas. When I saw you tonight, I suddenly had an epiphany."
"This first move might as well be called, Meeting a Beautiful Woman Under the Moon..."
*
Shi Xiangyue likes everything beautiful and nice-looking.
Including people.
From the first moment she saw the young Jiang Zunyue, she couldn't take her eyes off him.
Three hundred years ago, on the night Jiang Zunyue broke into her house, her heartbeat silently declared:
She likes him.
A glance is a thousand years, that's about it.
Shi Xiangyue picked up the bracelet and placed it in the palm of her hand, slowly rubbing its edge back and forth with her fingertips. Gradually, the glass bracelet seemed to have warmed up and gave her warmth in return.
She remembered everything that happened between her and Jiang Zunyue, but she had forgotten how to love him.
For this, she regretted it alone for three hundred years.
"Besides the bracelet, did he tell you anything else?"
The summer evening breeze rustled the leaves.
Xie Rangchen said: "No."
“…Okay, I understand.”
"Is there anything else?" Shi Xiangyue put away the two bracelets. "If there's nothing else, I'll go back and rest."
Xie Rangchen thought for a moment and said, "Three hundred years ago, Master brought me to Changning Mountain, where I first met you. After we returned, Master's ruthless path had some problems, so he went into seclusion for half a month."
"He also came out of seclusion with this pair of glass bracelets. I dare to guess that there must be something very important in the glass bracelets. Moreover, it is related to you."
Upon hearing this, Shi Xiangyue looked down at the bracelet, but couldn't figure out what it was for a long time. He thought it was probably just a strange decoration.
"You know..."
Shi Xiangyue wanted to ask him if he knew what the transparent "silk thread" inside the bracelet was, but he saw the young man who was drinking tea a moment ago frowned briefly and put down the teacup.
Xie Rangchen stood up and saluted her.
"Master's wife, my junior sister is looking for me."
"Please forgive my rudeness. I will leave first."
Shi Xiangyue nodded and watched him go away.
But just as he was about to step out of the yard, she heard the voice of the oracle.
"Xie Rangchen——"
Shi Xiangyue called him.
"Just now, the oracle had something to convey to you."
"When we meet old friends again, we don't recognize each other."
"The bond of the previous life continues in this life."
Xie Rangchen didn't have the heart to think about the deeper meaning of these two nonsensical sentences for the time being.
With the soul contract as a bridge of communication, he now only knows that his junior sister is calling him.
He wanted to return to his junior sister as soon as possible.
*
This was Zhu Ciying's first time forming a soul bond with someone, and she needed to slowly figure out many of its functions.
She tentatively created a ball of spiritual power in her spiritual palace, outlining the shape of a cloud, which floated over the place where Xie Rangchen had taken root.
Then he asked, "Senior brother, where have you been?" while directing the clouds to simulate the rain scene, with small water droplets falling down with a crackling sound, hitting "Xie Rangchen's body" drop by drop.
In fact, her method works remarkably well.
In less than a quarter of an hour, Xie Rangchen's figure appeared in front of her through the dark night.
"What urgent matter does Junior Sister want to see me about?"
"No, I just saw that you didn't sleep in the house, and I was worried that you would get lost in Changning Mountain at night."
"No." Xie Rangchen said, "As long as the soul contract is still there, or if you need me, no matter where you are, I can find you."
"And Junior Sister," he paused, not knowing what to say, "Why did you call me by making it rain?"
Zhu Ciying: "Because it can highlight me, I really want to meet my senior brother soon?" "The momentum is quite strong."
She probably didn't realize that the spirit within her aura, his own, was actually connected to his five senses. She naively and ignorantly drenched him in a torrential downpour, and Xie Rangchen, after emerging from Master Xiangyue's courtyard, felt a lingering dampness and heat.
The journey wasn't long, but he was exhausted both physically and mentally. He thought his junior sister was crying.
"What about you? Can't sleep?"
"Yeah." Zhu Ciying took out two pieces of candy, gave one to Xie Rangchen, and kept one for herself.
She ate the candy and habitually folded the candy wrapper into a five-pointed star shape.
"It's been five days, Brother. I don't have the patience to waste any more time."
As long as the Demon King is not destroyed, she will not feel at ease.
"Then have you figured out what to do?" Xie Rangchen said.
Zhu Ciying pinched the edge of the star, shaped it, and then compared it with the stars in the sky.
"Whether I think it's good or bad, you will help me."
Sounds very confident.
Xie Rangchen was a little helpless: "Because of your favor, you are arrogant. I wish you all the best."
Zhu Ciying turned her head, looked at his relaxed brows, and tapped her forehead.
"Xie Tiantian, the soul contract tells me that you are willing and enjoy it."
"Even if I really am spoiled, it's because of you."
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Author's words: Xie Tiantian: I feel like I should get closer to my junior sister soon [heart]
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