Chapter 13 I'll listen to my sister.
Sun Yu smiled sweetly, her voice carrying the vigor and crispness of a young man, "Thanks to you, sister, otherwise I would still be in the illusion and unable to wake up. You saved me and protected me, I don't know how to repay you."
Lost in the repeated calls of "sister," Mu Jianjian blushed. "Oh, it's not that. It's just that your snake is so powerful. By the way, does it have a name?"
While Sun Yu was unconscious, Mu Jianjian was no longer afraid of snakes. She placed her hand next to her hair bun, and the slender snake obediently coiled around her palm along her fingertips.
"Its name is Huahua, and it's been with me since I was a baby."
"Huahua is not only amazing but also very cute." Mu Jianjian stretched out her fingertip.
Hua Hua held her head high when she heard the first part, but she immediately became unhappy with the second part, "cute".
"Hiss~" This great master is wise and mighty! Where is the cuteness?
"Did I say something wrong?" Mu Jianjian was a little disappointed when she saw that Hua Hua was unwilling to let her rub her head against hers.
"No, sister, what Hua Hua means is that it's not good enough and doesn't deserve your praise," Sun Yu said with a smile as she looked at Hua Hua. "Don't you think so, Hua Hua?"
A blatant threat!
The flower quickly pressed against the girl's slender finger and began to rub against it, making Mu Jianjian laugh.
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Over the next few days, as the two ventured deeper into the cave, they encountered more and more spider webs and fought against monsters more and more frequently.
During her battle alongside Sun Yu, Mu Jianjian clearly sensed the difference in levels within the cultivation world. Although Sun Yu was only two levels higher than her, it was as if she had crossed a chasm, making him seem unreachable.
This further strengthened her determination to become stronger, and she became more strict with herself during battles, which allowed her true energy, which had just entered the Foundation Establishment Realm, to quickly become stable.
After walking for three days, the view inside the cave opened up, revealing the stone walls and a bronze door in front of them. Even though the lion and tiger statues on both sides were already rusted and dilapidated, they could not hide the magnificent and domineering aura of the past.
Seeing the flickering flames through the cracks in the stone door, Sun Yu tugged at Mu Jianjian's sleeve. "Sister, the Daoist couple is inside. We can't explore deeper yet."
Divine senses can be inexplicably hindered when exploring inside the cave, which is why Mu Jianjian didn't notice the spider swarm when she woke up.
Mu Jianjian nodded, and under Sun Yu's gaze, she put on a human skin mask she had bought from her spatial bag. "Let's go."
Is my sister's face fake...?
A thought flashed through Sun Yu's mind as her gaze slowly swept over Mu Jianjian's new mask. Was her name also fake...?
With a rumbling creak from the stone door, a panicked female voice rang out from inside, "Who? Who's here?"
In the vast underground palace, the ghostly fires glowed faintly, and six thick, dark pillars stood atop them. A woman covered in blood could be seen carrying an unconscious man and hiding behind one of the pillars.
The two were none other than Master Ye and his wife, whom they had parted ways with a few days prior.
Mu Jianjian shifted her gaze to the dried bloodstains on Ye Sao's clothes and at the corner of her mouth, then to the unconscious and weak-breathing Ye Xiushi—a deep, piercing knife wound lay on his abdomen.
Aunt Ye glanced timidly at the two who had just entered, but her gaze lit up when it fell on Sun Yu, who was wearing a veil. "Fellow Daoist Sun! Could you... do us a favor?"
Her expression was guilty and her eyes darted around, but her tone was urgent, as if she had grasped at a straw.
"Where is Qiu Bin?" Sun Yu didn't respond to this question. He looked around and saw that the underground palace was empty. Apart from the entrance where the two of them came in, there was only the path in front of them. There was no sign of Qiu Bin.
"I beg you... I beg you two to save Miss Qiu!"
Aunt Ye's next sentence made Mu Jianjian raise her eyebrows in surprise.
Go rescue Qiu Bin? What exactly happened between them?
"What happened to her?" The most urgent task is to find out the cause and effect.
"It's a long story..." Ye Sao's voice trembled as she seemed to still be in shock. "After the three of us entered the cave, our Dao hearts were shaken by the illusion of the secret realm, and we were almost swallowed by the spider swarm. Fortunately, we had Qiu's pills, which saved us from disaster. But as soon as we entered this underground palace, we encountered people fighting."
Sister Ye held the unconscious Ye Xiushi in her arms, her voice filled with anguish, "That man is highly skilled and ruthless. I was supposed to die, but... he shielded me from the wrath. Please... please go and save Miss Qiu. She has been locked in a stalemate with someone for a long time ahead."
"You're being ridiculous. Your husband is injured and you won't let us save him, but instead you'll go and save a stranger." This logic doesn't make sense, and Mu Jianjian became wary.
Sun Yu then raised another point: "You've already witnessed Qiu Bin's untrustworthiness, so why do you still trust her so much?"
What made her so sure that Qiu Bin would share the treasure with them?
"I..." Aunt Ye hesitated, but after a moment she gritted her teeth and said, "Because Miss Qiu made a vow to us."
In the world of cultivation, taking a vow to the Dao is to make a pact with the Heavenly Dao. Once you break your vow, you will trigger a heavenly tribulation and destroy your Dao heart.
I see. That explains it. Mu Jianjian just felt... would someone like Qiu Bin make a vow?
Sun Yu remained calm and made no move after hearing the whole story. Recalling the time when Qiu Bin used Mu Jianjian as a backrest, a murderous intent flashed through his mind.
Go save Qiu Bin? He still wants to kill her...
Just as Sun Yu was about to refuse, Mu Jianjian, who was standing to the side, smiled and rubbed her hands together. "The main problem is that we don't know the background of the people fighting with Miss Qiu in the inner hall. What if we rush over and our cultivation is too low, and we end up making things worse?"
She wanted to save Qiu Bin? Qiu Bin almost killed her!
Sun Yu hurriedly grabbed Mu Jianjian's clothes.
"You are..." Aunt Ye recognized Sun Yu, but had no recollection of Mu Jianjian.
"My name is Sun Yuanyuan," Mu Jianjian lied without batting an eye. She took Sun Yu's hand, which was tugging at her clothes, and said, "I'm Sun Yu's older sister. My younger brother went into the secret realm with you before, and we were very grateful for your care."
The warm touch of her fingertips spread throughout her body, and Sun Yu blushed unnaturally from behind her veil.
"Not at all..." Recalling the theft of Sun Yu's beast core, Aunt Ye didn't want to say more and changed the subject, "The one who fought with Miss Qiu was... the Third Young Master of Hehuan Palace, he's at the seventh level of Foundation Establishment..."
After steeling herself to say these words, Sister Ye waited quietly for the siblings to refuse, despair rising in her heart.
If Miss Qiu were to lose the fight with the Third Young Master, she and her husband would probably be the first to be dealt with. Sister Ye slowly released the porcelain bottle of pills in her hand, a sense of powerlessness welling up inside her.
"These are the pills Qiu Bin gave you?" Mu Jianjian asked, noticing the character "Qiu" engraved on the porcelain bottle. "You two are seriously injured now, why don't you take them?"
A bitter smile crossed Aunt Ye's downcast lips. "We want to leave it to...our daughter."
She's so young, she's only just learned to speak...
In order to save their daughter, the couple, who were only at the Qi Condensation Perfection Realm, chose to enter a secret realm full of Foundation Establishment cultivators in search of a glimmer of hope.
Because they wanted to save their daughter, even though both of them were seriously injured, they couldn't bear to take the life-saving medicine.
“This pill contains the Thousand-Mechanism Inducing Agent. If you take it, you’ll probably be Qiu Bin’s puppet for the rest of your life.” Sun Yu glanced at it and immediately identified the ingredients.
The Thousand-Mechanism Induction technique, which uses true qi as a guide to apply poison in alchemy, is one of the secret arts of Yingzhou. A thought flashed through Sun Yu's mind.
“Wh…what…” The pill in Aunt Ye’s hand rolled to the ground, the “thump thump thump” sound echoing in the empty hall. Resentment, confusion, disappointment, countless emotions flashed in her eyes, but in the end they turned into nothingness.
Mu Jianjian sighed inwardly, her eyes fixed on Sun Yu, a plan forming in her mind.
"Sister, do whatever you want," the boy said gently, as if he had seen through Mu Jianjian's plans. His voice was so tender and inviting, it seemed to have a gravity that drew people closer. "I'll do whatever you say, sister."
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