Chapter 277 Business Trip to Yanyun Tower
Xu Yao knew that the reason why Jiang Heng and Ning Ming had an affair was not because of Jiang Heng, but because she had a past relationship with Jiang Wu. When she was young, Jiang Wu saved her life and told the child that he had a twin sister. She will never forget the life-saving grace, which is one of the reasons why she chose to follow Ning Mingmei.
Changle Gate even has information about Jiang Heng, let alone Ning Mingmei. Among the four people present, only Gui Ruoxue did not understand why Xu Yao glanced at Ning Mingmei when mentioning the portrait of Jiang Heng.
He only asked: "So, your identity as the furnace tripod may be exposed, right?"
Ning Mingmei kept silent. Gui Ruoxue said: "It's okay. Doesn't Qingji Sect also have cultivators with furnace cauldron physique? Besides, you are in a high position and have great power now, so they can't do anything to you."
"It seems that the matter of Changle Gate must be considered carefully. I am afraid that by then, we will be forced to intervene." Baimian suddenly said.
"Whether we are trapped or not, we have already been trapped. How can we live in this world and be independent from the rest of the world?" Ning Mingmei said.
"I am familiar with Changle Gate, you can let me take action." Baimian said.
The meeting ended here. Ning Mingmei is about to set off for Yanyun Tower. After much consideration, he decided to bring Baimian with him this time. Gui Ruoxue and Xu Yao were stationed in Qingji Sect as usual, taking care of the rear for Ning Mingmei.
But before leaving, Ning Mingmei discovered that the three people seemed to have something to say to him.
Xu Yao first spoke to Ning Mingmei at the railing. She said, "Peak Master, those portraits of Changlemen must be destroyed. No matter how much it costs."
Ning Mingmei pondered for a moment and said with a smile: "Do you think it is better to be Jiang Heng's child or Jiang Wu's child in the eyes of others?"
"...They are both very good people. It's just that most of the time, things in this world cannot be measured by the 'good or bad' in one person's eyes." Xu Yao said slowly, "However, in the eyes of the world, it doesn't matter who's child is between the two of them. A demon world witch, a public enemy in troubled times, compared to that, being a furnace cauldron is just the most insignificant thing. After all, stance is always more important than identity."
Ning Mingmei said: "How about using one's life experience as a tool to 'abandon the dark and join the light'?"
Xu Yao: "Peak Master, you also know that this is not feasible. If you express your position for the first time, others will force you to express your position for the second and third time. Today they want you to take the lead in cursing your own life experience, tomorrow they want you to dig your mother's grave, and the day after tomorrow they will want you to give up your resources and show your loyalty to the fairy world... Whether you are the son of Jiang Heng or the son of Jiang Wu, there will be no peace. Moreover, if you are the son of Jiang Heng, the human royal family is still there, and the mob is still there. If you are the son of Jiang Wu, Jiang Duo and Fozi are still there."
Recognizing anyone will involve a lot of forces. And when the issue of interests becomes an issue of attitude, the matter is completely ruined.
Ning Mingmei also understood what Xu Yao said. He said, "It seems that the only way is to find a way to go there."
Xu Yao said: "Peak Master, the person who goes out to do this must be carefully selected. This is like handing a fatal handle to someone else. If this person is unreliable..."
"I understand." Ning Mingmei said.
Now, on the surface of Piaomiao Peak, only Xu Yao knows the relationship between Ning Mingmei and Jiang Heng. But Ning Mingmei just caught a glimpse of Baimian's eyes and felt that he also had something to say.
Sure enough, when Ning Mingmei found Baimian, the two of them leaned on the railing and enjoyed the wind for a long time. Baimian said: "Yes, I know everything."
"You know?"
"When I was young, I was with the sect leader... Therefore, I had the opportunity to enter his secret vault. At that time, I wanted to find something bad about him, so I happened to see it." Baimian said.
Ning Mingmei was silent, and then said quietly: "Brother, you never mentioned this."
"I haven't told anyone about this, not even the mob."
"Why?"
At the beginning, Bai Mian regarded the mob as the descendants of Spark Island and was willing to go through fire and water for them.
Baimian's answer surprised him: "Because you know nothing about it."
"Yes, I hate the people from the big sects. They treat us as tools and dogs, but the leader of Changle Sect is also a furnace cauldron, but he also treats us as tools and dogs, so I never understand why he does this? He is also a furnace cauldron! But he also treats the furnace cauldron as a tool and a dog. Doesn't a furnace cauldron with power still be a furnace cauldron? Doesn't he insult himself when he insults us?" Baimian said while holding the railing, "I still can't figure it out. I thought the mob would give me the answer. But until I entered Qingji Sect and came to Piaomiao Peak, I still didn't get the answer."
"I regard my puppets as tools. When I control them, I control them like tools, just like they control us." Baimian said, "I often wonder, if I was not born as a furnace, would my life be different? The answer is no. So I thought again, if I was born as a furnace, but had a powerful and good mother like the leader of Changle Sect, would my life be different? But my answer is still, if I became the leader, my life would still not be peaceful. This is the only way I can live my life."
"So, I have never told anyone about your life experience, nor have I told you about it. Of course, I have also felt resentful. Why can you live like this? Why did you still join the Qingji Sect and remain loyal to it despite this? But one's life experience has nothing to do with oneself."
Ning Mingmei looked at Baimian quietly. After Baimian took off his weird disguise, he did not look gloomy or sharp. Instead, his face had a kind of fierce, desperate beauty. This kind of fierceness will trigger people's desire to destroy. Therefore, in Changle Gate, Baimian was always humiliated. But at this moment when he said these words, he looked a little fragile and a little silly.
This made Ning Mingmei feel...
Ning Mingmei: "Brother, now all forces are eyeing Changle Gate. With your IQ, I think it will be difficult to enter Changle Gate and destroy the evidence."
After all, Bai Mian was a man who could be fooled by the German sewers and was defrauded of eight million by Ning Mingmei.
"I will try my best." Baimian said, "In fact, Junior Brother, you have already reduced your contact with the mob a long time ago, right?"
Ning Mingmei was alert. It was rare for Baimian to make a statement that was very intelligent. He asked, "Brother, what do you think?"
"It was not until much later that I realized that they had strayed from their original intentions. Although Junior Brother is still fighting alone on Piao Miao Peak, I have seen everything he has done for the immortal world and for mortals over the years. Now, I no longer care about the mob or Spark Island. Because what is really important is not which group of people, but the firm belief in my heart. I believe that as long as I follow Junior Brother, I can reach any place no matter how far it is." Bai Mian said, "Junior Brother..."
Ning Mingmei: "Speak."
Baimian: "The lightning dancing on your fingertips is my unchanging faith."
Lei Linggen Ning Mingmei: ...
Baimian: "I will make you my king in this life, and I will use my blood to seal your territory."
Ning Mingmei: ...
Baimian: "Junior brother uses his own life to exchange for ten years of innocence in the world of immortal cultivation..."
Ning Mingmei: "You can shut up now."
Baimian: "Junior brother, these are some of the quotes from Weng Xingyun that I found after searching for them in the market. Now I have modified some parts and give them to you. In my eyes, although your methods are different from hers, they are very similar."
...It seems that asking Baimian to carry out the task of destroying evidence is indeed unreliable.
Ning Mingmei's last conversation partner was Gui Ruoxue. When he turned around, he saw Gui Ruoxue standing in the distance. He leaned against the stairs, holding a bottle of Sprite in his hand, his eyes flickering.
"You have something to say to me?"
"Let's go to the rooftop." Gui Ruoxue said.
The two stood on the rooftop. Gui Ruoxue looked at the mountains and took a sip of Sprite.
The years for cultivators are long. Decades have passed, and he is still the same as when Ning Mingmei first met him. Her hair was waist-length and she was wearing a green shirt, but she was holding a bottle of green Sprite in her hand.
Ning Mingmei: "Wig, you seem to have gained some weight."
Gui Ruoxue: ...
"Do you know? When I was unhappy as a child, I always liked to climb to a high place in Minghua Valley to look at the stars. Even Gui Ruoxu didn't know this, let alone Lu Mengqing." Gui Ruoxue said.
He didn't mind the dirt and sat directly on the rooftop. Ning Mingmei actually felt a little disgusted by the dirtiness. He pulled off a corner of Gui Ruoxue's coat and sat on his clothes calmly.
Gui Ruoxue turned around and said: …
Ning Mingmei: "Once my clothes are stained with dust, they will look dirty."
"What are you farting for in black? It's not cat hair!" Gui Ruoxue cursed.
Ning Mingmei remained calm and even looked up at the starry sky. Gui Ruoxue stared at him for a long time, and finally, he sighed softly.
"What's wrong, Wig? I heard that your stocks have been doing well recently." Ning Mingmei said.
"Ning Mingmei." Gui Ruoxue said, "I always feel that I am very far away from you sometimes. There are always many things about you that I don't know at all."
He looked at the dark night sky: "It's like looking up at the stars... they are very far away from you. So you can only look up."
Ning Mingmei: "You suddenly become so artistic, I'm not used to it."
"That's all." Gui Ruoxue suddenly smiled. "Rather than knowing your secret, I want to know what you want to do, how to do it, and how I can help you achieve this wish in the end."
He patted Ning Mingmei on the shoulder and said, "Come to me when you need me. You know you can always find me. Those great elders are shallow and short-sighted. They can even think of ways to hurt both sides in order to fight among themselves. Ning Mingmei, don't let them get away with it."
"Yeah." Ning Mingmei said.
Gui Ruoxue pulled out the corner of her clothes and stood up. When he turned around, Ning Mingmei said, "All of you seem to think that I have a direction I want to reach in the end."
Gui Ruoxue said: "Isn't it?"
Ning Mingmei: "What if I say that I just want to be a rich man for the rest of my life, enjoy wealth and glory, live in the best office building, and eat the best food?"
Gui Ruoxue laughed: "That's not bad either."
Gui Ruoxue went downstairs. Ning Mingmei, however, remained standing on the rooftop, looking at the sky. After a long time, he sighed and said, "Is that so..."
"Actually, I don't know where I want to go."
He pondered for a long time, and finally said something inexplicably: "Lian Chengyue, I know where you want to go. But Qi Miancheng, where do you want to go?"
"Haven't you achieved your goal?"
…
Half a month later, Ning Mingmei's carriage set off from Qingji Sect. He was accompanied by many disciples, including Baimian and two talented people from the back mountains. He was sitting in a small car with Jiang Ying beside him, and Fang Wuyu was in another car.
The three of them were going to Yanyun Building to attend an academic conference, so they decided to go together.
Lian Chengyue was busy running around in the car. Jiang Ying fanned herself, admiring the handsome young man, and said to Ning Mingmei, "Your disciple is really obedient and sensible. I envy you."
Lian Chengyue bowed her head: "Thank you, Master Jiang Feng."
Jiang Ying laughed and said, "Haha, I envy you so much for having such a beautiful master."
Lian Chengyue got off the car. Ning Mingmei drinks tea.
The journey from Qingji Sect to Yanyun Tower is long, and Jiang Ying couldn't stay idle along the way. She and Fang Wuyu didn't have many common topics, so she naturally asked Ning Mingmei, who she thought was more pleasing to the eye and more interesting, to ride in the same car and chat about gossip.
"Master Bai has been very busy these days. Several major sects have jointly petitioned to sanction Changlemen, but they haven't decided yet whether to 'suppress the bandits' or 'recruit them'. Now that immortals and demons are at war, Changlemen's geographical location is very special - in fact, this is also the credit of those great cultivators back then, so that they can enter and exit Changlemen more conveniently. Now, Changlemen has become a place with great geographical advantages during the war. No one wants Changlemen to fall into the hands of the other side." Jiang Ying smiled, "This is what they deserve."
Ning Mingmei said: "Hmm. Are they inclined to suppress the bandits or recruit them?"
"Each position has its own reasons. Those who are inclined to recruit the bandits want to raise the banner of unity among all races. Now they want to tie the demon world, the human world and the fairy world together, but unfortunately each tribe and race has its own thoughts. Changlemen is not just a simple sect, but represents the 'furnace tripod'. If our side slaughters the furnace tripods first, how can they raise this banner?" Jiang Ying put the fan to her lips, "Those who are inclined to suppress the bandits want to destroy Changlemen to set an example. And I guess, the more someone is held hostage by Changlemen, the more inclined they are to do so. For example, the one from Qiushimen is quite funny. I heard that he is a frequent visitor to Changlemen, but now he is speaking righteously."
Ning Mingmei asked: "What does Master Jiang Feng think?"
"Me? I'm not familiar with the affairs of Changle Gate." Jiang Ying said, "I went there once before, and never again."
Ning Mingmei said: "Master Jiang Feng thinks so? I thought Changlemen is full of beauties, which is very pleasing to the eyes."
"I go out to have fun. Who would like to listen to the screams of a bird in a cage?" Jiang Ying waved the fan.
Ning Mingmei smiled. Jiang Ying said, "I've heard enough of the screams of caged birds in my father's backyard."
Ning Mingmei only knew that Jiang Ying was the favorite daughter of a powerful monk who owned mines, but he had no idea that she had such a past. Jiang Ying said: "My father is very powerful. He is a local tyrant in our area. Do you think that since I was a child, many people have come to pay me attention?"
"It seems that this is not the case."
"That's not true. My father likes women. He has too many women, and he doesn't have a principal wife. It's not because he wants to give them equality, but because he likes to see women fighting for him, just like people like to watch cricket fights." Jiang Ying said, "My father's women are his beautiful crickets. From childhood to adulthood, I have seen them vying for favor. When some rise, others fall. The rising star wears a jeweled hairpin and is proud of herself. She walks past yesterday's flowers and thinks she is superior to others. She thinks she has power. But what is the reality? I look at them and know that she is just a cricket in my father's eyes. I have seen with my own eyes that a woman died. My father took back the jeweled hairpin he gave her and gave it to the next one. The next one is still happy, thinking that she has defeated the previous one, and this is her trophy..."
Ning Mingmei said: "It's really pitiful."
"Poor? My mother was a lady from a wealthy family. Before she married my father, she didn't know he was such a person. But she always had a yearning in her heart. As long as she was a sufficiently moral 'first wife', my father would eventually be influenced by her, just like in the storybooks, and reconcile with her. So, she strictly abided by etiquette and lived her life like a book of female instructions. Only in this way can she feel at ease. As her daughter, I should stand on the same front with her." Jiang Ying said casually, "So when I was seven years old, she wanted to bind my feet."
Ning Mingmei subconsciously glanced at Jiang Ying's feet. Jiang Ying chuckled: "What are you thinking about? If she succeeded, would I still be sitting here and talking to you as the leader of Qingji Sect?"
"My father stopped her because I am his most 'favored' daughter. I knew how to please my father from a very young age. He treated me differently from his women - he wanted a lively and lovely daughter. But do you think he really stopped her because he loved me? No, he just didn't want to live without a lark that could only make him happy and jump around." Jiang Ying said, "The first time he really looked at me was when I was a golden elixir. A heavenly monster appeared in the family mine, and my sisters and brothers were very scared. They argued all night about whose people should kill it."
"So, I went out of the Jiang family's main gate, killed the monster, and dragged the monster's body back through the main gate. I dragged it all the way, and the monster's blood covered the entire mining area, so everyone knew that I killed the monster. When I dragged the monster into the lobby, my sisters and brothers who were originally arguing fell silent. So I stood beside the bloody corpse, smiled and looked up at my father, and said to him like a lark, Dad, I'm back, just like I usually do when I try to please him. It was not until that moment that he began to look at me as if I were a person, as if I were a daughter."
Ning Mingmei: "It seems this is a story with a happy ending."
"Really? But I know he looked at me like this not because he suddenly fell in love with me, nor because he saw my value as a 'person'. It's because he found that I was similar enough to him. He looked at me, just like he loved himself immensely. So he could train me, just like he trained himself when he was a child. Maybe this is the relationship between father and son for him. Fathers always look for their own shadows in their children, and then fall into self-indulgent narcissism. But fortunately, this also made me realize that being a child who pleases my father is no different from being his beautiful cricket." Jiang Ying said lightly, "I was not very happy at that time, and even hated myself a little. Because I suddenly realized that my mother was so useless, and her methods were worthless."
"At least now, you are independent. The entire Jiang family will obey your orders."
"Hey, this is indeed a good part of the ending. When I was a child, I told myself not to be like my mother, and later I did it. But unfortunately, many years later, I found that I did not become my mother, but became more and more like my father. Logically, I should hate him, right?" Jiang Ying smiled, "When a person escapes from an obvious enemy, he falls for another person. It was not until a long time later when that person walked on the road that he realized that the other person was just a more hidden enemy. But there is no chance, she has been shot through the heart by an arrow--"
Ning Mingmei said: "You still have a long life ahead of you. If you want to do something else, it's not too late."
"Forget it. I'm too lazy to move. And I'm considered a good person. You see, I never go to Changle Gate." Jiang Ying lay back, "If it were my father, he would definitely go."
Everyone has weaknesses. For example, Jiang Ying at this moment. Ning Mingmei drank tea and looked at this beautiful woman who had always been pretty and smart, knowing that the incident at Changle Gate might have touched her heart.
Not sure if I can start from here?
"However, I am not optimistic about the ending of Changlemen." Jiang Ying held up his chin and suddenly said, "Lean towards the demon world? Lean towards the fairy world? Eat both? Don't be ridiculous. People without power are just crickets everywhere, and are birds to be admired by others. Even if they betray other crickets, defeat other crickets, and become the last one with power, they are just the biggest cricket."
"An insect in a cage cannot fly. Even if it bangs its head against the cage and gets bloody, it is just a trapped animal fighting."
It is better to be clear and silent.
Finally, the two saw the banner from afar - it turned out to be the welcoming team from Yanyun Tower. From a distance, Ning Mingmei saw the leader Song Mingke.
I don’t know if it’s because we haven’t seen each other for many years. The originally clear and gentle young man has now become a beautiful young man who is a little hard to understand. Song Mingke bowed to everyone and said, "Thank you all for coming from afar. I am here to greet you on the orders of the Lu Lou Master."
Jiang Ying covered her mouth and laughed: "How can ordinary visiting scholars get such treatment? To have the most proud disciple of Master Lu come to greet us? We are all benefiting from Master Ning Feng's help."
Fang Wu Yu also looked at Ning Ming Mei with a look of pride. Song Mingke bowed his head and said, "Dear guests, please come this way."
Jiang Ying and Ning Mingmei returned to the car. After sitting down, Jiang Ying said, "I think Song Mingke's expression is a bit strange. There must be something wrong. Baoqin, go check it out."
Perhaps because of her childhood experiences, Jiang Ying was well-versed in human nature and observant, and she could see at a glance that there was something strange about it. Ning Mingmei waited for the result, looking at the scenery of Yanyun Tower outside the window.
The Yanyun Tower is surrounded by thousands of islands in mist, floating like the Penglai Fairy Palace. The air is full of moisture, although many places are still under construction. As the world's number one sect, Yanyun Tower does have its own unique features.
Soon, Baoqin came back: "Peak Master, this matter is not difficult to find out. Everyone in Yanyun Tower knows about it."
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