Chapter 226: Yiyi and Jiujiu Improve Their Relationship
Yun Jiujiu wants to elope with someone she’s only known for a short time?
Yun Yiyi listened, and felt something was off.
She hadn’t spoken much with Feng Yu, only meeting him once when investigating a case in the Sword Pavilion.
He wore scholarly white clothes, with sword-like eyebrows and phoenix eyes. Though not comparable to her Ye Anping, he appeared to be a good-looking person at first glance. Moreover, amidst his silver hair and golden eyes, there was a hint of feminine gentleness.
However, based on his reaction during the investigation, he was probably not stupid.
In other words, the person might be putting on an act.
“Second Sister, I advise you not to be so impulsive. Get to know him better before anything else. You don’t know what kind of person he is, yet you’re going to run away with him? With your brain, he could sell you, and you’d probably help him count the spirit stones.”
Upon hearing Yun Yiyi bad-mouth Feng Yu, Yun Jiujiu instantly became unhappy and pouted, retorting:
“What’s wrong? Jealous? My Brother Yu is great, his thoughts are pure, and his skills are excellent.”
“You’ve only known him for less than a month, right? Do you know if he’s good or bad at heart?”
“Of course, I know!” Yun Jiujiu exclaimed, tilting her head back. “Anyway, I’m sticking with him. Once we get out, I’ll write him a love letter.”
“With handwriting like ants crawling out of an egg, you want to write a love letter?”
“Do you understand the sentiment?” Yun Jiujiu twisted her eyebrows and said with a smile, “So what if my handwriting is ugly? As long as I’m pretty, it’s fine. Brother Yu praised me for being beautiful, hmph.”
“… …”
Yun Yiyi could see it clearly now; her second sister was completely bewitched.
Her brain wasn’t very good to begin with, and after being subjected to a love蛊, her brain became even worse.
However, she could also somewhat understand it.
It was like a coincidence; when Yun Jiujiu met Feng Yu, she also met Ye Anping.
It was just a pity…
“Sigh—”
Yun Yiyi let out a long breath, feeling a strange pang of jealousy. She thought to herself that once she got out, she would definitely write a love letter to Ye Anping and bury him on the highest and best mountain peak of the Sword Sect, visiting him every month to play music for him.
She felt that in her lifetime, she would never meet another Ye Anping.
“Second Sister, after we get out, shall I help you test Feng Yu?”
“Huh? Test what the heck? Why do you need to test him?”
“I’m afraid you’ll be deceived. Anyone could abduct and sell you. If it weren’t for the few strategists on Jian Jiu Peak to help you…”
“Go, go, go—What could he deceive me about?”
“Deceive you…”
Yun Yiyi looked Yun Jiujiu up and down. She originally wanted to say “body,” but with Yun Jiujiu’s thirteen or fourteen-year-old stature, her flat chest, and her short legs, there was no body to deceive…
Yun Jiujiu, sensing Yun Yiyi’s gaze on her chest, reacted and immediately glared, cursing:
“Go to hell!”
Yun Yiyi withdrew her gaze and pouted. “He might deceive you out of spirit stones or earthly treasures. Have you thought about whether he’s asked you for things?”
Yun Jiujiu pondered for a moment and replied, “Roasted chicken, two roasted chickens every day. If I don’t give him roasted chicken, he won’t drink with me.”
“Don’t you get tired of it?”
“Brother Yu really likes roasted chicken.”
“Then do you think you are roasted chicken? Will he like you like he likes roasted chicken?”
?
Yun Jiujiu blinked for a moment, then glared at her.
“I think you’re the roasted chicken.”
“No… what I mean is…” Yun Yiyi’s lips moved for a moment, and she sighed, “Never mind, I won’t talk about this with you anymore.”
However, seeing Yun Yiyi’s expression, Yun Jiujiu paused, twisted her eyebrows, and threatened:
“Yun Yiyi, don’t you dare try to seduce my Brother Yu! If you dare, I’ll break your legs.”
“Who wants your Brother Yu?”
“Didn’t you just lose your cultivation partner? Who knows how you…”
“Can you not speak or what?!”
“I’m—”
Dong dong—
As the two chatted, two sounds came from outside the iron door of the stone chamber. Yun Yiyi and Yun Jiujiu instantly closed their mouths and turned to look at the door.
The hinges of the iron door seemed to be rusted, emitting a “creeeeak” sound that gave Yun Jiujiu goosebumps as it opened.
A person outside the door stepped directly over the threshold. Seeing the white beard trailing behind him, Yun Yiyi’s brows immediately furrowed.
—Zhuang Yan.
Zhuang Yan walked in with his hands behind his back, glanced at the sisters leaning together, and smiled with a raised eyebrow.
“Miss Er and Eldest Miss seem to be getting along quite harmoniously?”
“Elder Zhuang…” Yun Yiyi mumbled, narrowing her eyes.
Yun Jiujiu, seeing Zhuang Yan, her eyes lit up, and she said, “See? I told you our Third Sister and Brother Yu would definitely react immediately and come to save us.”
Yun Yiyi glanced at her like she was an idiot, speechless for a moment. Zhuang Yan, upon hearing this, couldn’t help but burst into laughter.
“Ahaha—Miss Er is as always…” Zhuang Yan paused here, then his smile instantly vanished, and he became serious. “Stupid.”
“Hmm?” Yun Jiujiu’s eyes widened instantly, and she glared, cursing, “Old man Zhuang, who are you calling stupid?!”
“You.”
“… …”
Zhuang Yan shook his head and sighed with his hands behind his back.
“Alas—The times are declining. There isn’t a single descendant of the Yun family who can carry the burden. The Moon Shadow Sword Sect was originally founded by Yun Jian Shang Xian himself. During his lifetime, the Moon Shadow Sword Sect was on par with Xuan Xing Sect and Taibai Sect. But ever since Shang Xian fell at the hands of a demonic cultivator, and the position of Sect Master fell to his son, Yun Tianchong. The sect has been declining, and is now close to becoming a second-rate sect.”
“Elder Zhuang, what do you mean by that?” Yun Yiyi countered, narrowing her eyes.
“What I mean, Eldest Miss should know. Yun Tianchong is your father, you should know him better than I do. He is promiscuous and self-indulgent, his Dao heart is chaotic, and he even wants to break through to immortality? Do you think he will be able to come out after his next closed-door cultivation?”
Yun Tianchong, after emerging from his seclusion in March, would soon go into seclusion again to break through to the Deity Transformation stage, which is the stage for cultivators entering the void.
Yun Yiyi was not very familiar with breaking through the void, but she had heard of it. Breaking through the void was tens of thousands of times more difficult than Core Formation or Nascent Soul Formation. The test of the Dao heart and destiny was almost despairing, and failure would surely lead to the disintegration of the spirit.
Given her father’s character, she had always felt that her father had almost no chance of breaking through the void. The others in the sect had the same idea, but her father insisted on going his own way. Who could persuade him?
In other words, after Yun Tianchong’s next closed-door cultivation, the Moon Shadow Sword Sect would almost certainly lose a late-stage Deity Transformation cultivator.
At that time, the highest cultivation level within the sect would only be late Nascent Soul, and no one would be able to carry the banner of the Sword Sect.
Seeing Yun Yiyi’s silence, Zhuang Yan shook his head.
“Eldest Miss is intelligent, but her aptitude is too low. Second Miss has good aptitude, but her brain is like a wooden fish. Third Miss has good aptitude and a good brain, but her destiny is too poor. In the future, no matter which of you inherits the Moon Shadow Sword Sect, it will be irredeemably doomed.”
Yun Yiyi looked at him fearlessly and countered, “Then what are Elder Zhuang’s wise opinions? Currently, there are only three of us descendants of the Yun family, and there are no outstanding talents among the inner disciples…”
“Heh… who says there are only three of you?”
“Who?”
“Your eldest brother, Yun Kunwu.”
Zhuang Yan smiled, stroked his beard, and said,
“He is also my direct disciple. He has a Heavenly Spiritual Root aptitude and is a Sword Heart body. Kunwu reached Foundation Establishment at the age of fourteen, Core Formation at nineteen, and Ascended to Nascent Soul cultivator at thirty. Compared to him, what are you two, who have cultivated for sixty to seventy years and are still in the middle to late Foundation Establishment stage?”
“I have heard of him, but unfortunately, he died hundreds of years ago and returned to dust.”
“Heh heh, what you’ve heard is not necessarily true.”
Zhuang Yan stepped forward, grabbed Yun Yiyi by the collar, and pulled her up from the ground.
“Yun Tianchong personally destroyed his body back then and imprisoned his spirit in the forbidden grounds of the Sword Sect. My poor disciple has been guarding the Sword Tomb for the past hundred years, never seeing the sun or moon, while you three sisters have been playing house outside. Competing for the position of Sect Master? Heh, what a joke!!”
Looking at Zhuang Yan’s furious eyes, Yun Yiyi swallowed. She could tell that Zhuang Yan had gone mad, and no amount of persuasion would calm him down now. So, she simply closed her mouth, but she did not avoid his gaze.
Ye Anping died because of this person, and she would definitely make him pay a thousandfold. But for now… she had to endure.
Seeing that Yun Yiyi was not afraid, Zhuang Yan paused, then put her down and said,
“Eldest Miss has great courage, but I wonder if you will still have this much courage later.”
“… …”
“Take them up.”
Zhuang Yan left with his hands behind his back and said something to the outside of the stone chamber.
Two Sword Sect disciples in the early Core Formation stage entered from outside the door, pulled Yun Yiyi and Yun Jiujiu up from the ground, and led them out of the stone chamber with iron chains.
… …
