Chapter 235 Junior Sister, Descendant of the Sword Ancestor
Roaring—
Under the pouring lava, the mountains of Qiong Peak successively shattered and collapsed. After nearly two hours of fermentation, the mountain fire had already spread more than fifty li.
The lake water dissipated, beasts fled, and the forest was a mess.
If left unchecked, this earth vein mountain fire, ignited by the furnace explosion, would not rest until the mountains and wilderness within a hundred li centered on Qiong Peak turned into an inferno.
The high-ranking disciples of the Sword Sect, drawn by the light of the previous furnace explosion, although they didn’t know what had happened in Qiong Peak during the night, they had hastily retrieved a large number of water-attribute talismans and earth materials from the Sword Sect’s treasury. Using various spells, they were slowing down the spread of the mountain fire.
“Senior Brother, this fire just won’t go out! We’ve already used over three hundred water-attribute talismans, and Senior Sister Chen’s rain-summoning spells are almost draining her spiritual energy!”
“For now, have all the junior brothers and sisters with depleted spiritual energy retreat to the sect to rest. Everyone else continues! We just need to hold on until the Elders arrive!”
“…Yes!”
… …
At the same time, in the sky above, six cultivators wearing golden-white Daoist robes looked down at the world below with furrowed brows.
“Elder Tian Xing, this earth spirit fire is difficult to extinguish.”
The old man with a white beard stroked his beard and said:
“Indeed. Qiong Peak was originally the place where Yun Jian Shang Xian and the Sect Master attained Deity Transformation. The spiritual energy of the earth veins below is chaotic, like a jar of aged wine. That light just now, it seems someone was secretly refining pills here… setting fire to the wine jar… Heh heh…”
Another person held a spiritual mirror and, from a bird’s-eye view, observed the passage of the Qiong Peak earth spirit fire, saying:
“Stop complaining and find a way to extinguish this fire first. If it burns through the earth veins like this, the geographical map within a thousand li will have to be redrawn.”
“Is there a better way? For the ten Nascent Soul Elders in the sect to extinguish this fire will surely take several months and require tens of years of True Essence.”
“It’s easy to start a fire, but hard to extinguish it,” said the female cultivator leaning against a huge Jade Gourd. “I heard that the Sword Ancestor had a Xuan Ling Sword that could sever Heaven and Earth. If we had that sword, suppressing the chaotic spirits here would be a piece of cake.”
“So, where is the sword?”
The female cultivator glanced at the other side: “You’re asking me?”
“If you don’t know, then why are you talking nonsense!”
The old man with the white beard shook his head: “—The Sword Ancestor’s life-bound spirit sword, the Snow Jade Myriad Spirit Sword. Sect Master Yun has been searching for it for over a thousand years, but alas, its whereabouts are still unknown. Perhaps when the Sword Ancestor perished, the sword also shattered or fell into the hands of Demonic cultivators in the Eastern Domain…”
“Everyone, stop chatting. Let’s form a formation, first smooth the earth veins, then calm the chaotic spirits, and finally extinguish the mountain fire.”
The six sighed helplessly, and each summoned their spirit swords and formed seals to gather spiritual energy.
Six streams of spiritual energy drew a massive regular hexagonal formation on the curtain of the sky, large enough to cover the entire Qiong Peak, shrouding the area below.
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—
The wind and snow suddenly stopped, and the dark clouds in the sky were instantly dispersed by the spiritual light.
Ye Anping, carrying Pei Lianxue, flew on his sword and arrived above a lake boiling from the spirit fire.
The “Snow Jade Myriad Spirit Sword” in his hand, entirely made of profound ice, emitted astonishing cold air, as if it were melting. wisps of white mist continuously diffused outwards from the sword body.
Seeing the formation appearing in the sky, Ye Anping immediately understood that the Elders of the Sword Sect had arrived and were preparing to appease the chaotic spirit earth veins to extinguish the earth spirit fire here.
In a sense, the culprit of this earth spirit fire was him.
Therefore, he naturally had to take responsibility for this earth spirit fire.
—Not really!
In the game’s plot development, there was no furnace explosion or mountain fire. Zhuang Yan had successfully refined the煞丹, so the current plot had completely diverged from the game.
However, both the furnace explosion and obtaining this “Snow Jade Myriad Spirit Sword” were within his plan.
These two events led to one outcome.
And that outcome was a gift he prepared for his Junior Sister.
Ye Anping let out a breath, turned around, handed the Snow Jade Sword to her, and asked: “Junior Sister, were you ever worried that Senior Brother wouldn’t think highly of you?”
Not knowing why her Senior Brother would ask this, Pei Lianxue tilted her head, pondered for a moment, and then nodded: “Mmm… Senior Brother is the Young Master of the Hundred Lotus Sect, my parents are mortals, and I was brought back by Sect Master Ye, a mortal who entered the immortal path…”
Pei Lianxue’s eyes trembled, revealing a hint of unease: “Why is Senior Brother suddenly asking this?”
Ye Anping shook his head, cupped her face, and said softly: “Senior Brother always felt he wasn’t good enough for you.”
Pei Lianxue expressed her confusion: “Huh?”
Ye Anping smiled and shook his head, saying: “Junior Sister, you are far more extraordinary than you realize. Feng Yu Die is the chosen one, Xiao Yunluo has the Azure Dragon physique, and you are never inferior to them.”
“…I have a Three Spirit Root.”
“What did Yun Jian Shang Xian just say? Didn’t you hear him?”
“What did he say?”
Does this girl not listen to anything anyone else says besides him?… Ye Anping felt somewhat helpless, yet also a little delighted. “He said you have the pure water physique.”
Pei Lianxue hesitated for a long time, still unable to understand, and asked back: “…Is that very powerful?”
“Very powerful, much, much, much more powerful than Senior Brother… Compared to you, Senior Brother is nothing.”
“… …”
Pei Lianxue was silent for a moment, then looked down at the sword in her hand and said: “Senior Brother is just Senior Brother. Even if someone is more powerful than Senior Brother, Senior Brother is still my Senior Brother… and my Dao Companion!”
Ye Anping was somewhat speechless, and awkwardly continued to explain: “You are no longer just an ordinary cultivator who entered the immortal path from mortality. Look at the sword in your hand, what do you think you are now?”
Pei Lianxue was silent for a moment and said righteously: “I am Senior Brother’s Dao Companion!”
“What else?”
“Senior Brother’s Junior Sister?”
“…What else?”
“…Pei Lianxue?”
Is this girl really that foolish?
Ye Anping pouted, gently pinched her cheek, and explained: “You have now received the inheritance of the Sword Ancestor, a descendant of Yun Jian Shang Xian. This identity is enough to command the Moon Shadow Sword Sect, to allow you to appear before the gates of immortal families with pride, and to make the entire Hundred Lotus Sect respectfully bow to you.”
“… …”
Pei Lianxue hugged the sword, lowered her eyes, pondered for a moment, and asked back: “Then I’m no longer Senior Brother’s Dao Companion?”
“…Yes.”
“Then it’s fine,” Pei Lianxue pouted and complained. “As long as I’m Senior Brother’s Dao Companion, it doesn’t matter what else I am.”
“… …”
Ye Anping now felt as if he had prepared a priceless gift for his Junior Sister, only for her to toss it into a storage room gathering dust. He felt inexplicably helpless and embarrassed.
His Junior Sister, in this state, seemed to have no idea of the weight of being the “Descendant of the Sword Ancestor.”
He gave her this gift precisely because he wanted her to become a little prouder, even a little more arrogant, but it seemed she was content to maintain the status quo, as long as she was his Dao Companion, she cared about nothing else.
It was his fault that his Junior Sister was so indecisive.
—He had raised her to be this way.
“Alas—”
Ye Anping sighed softly, helped Pei Lianxue tuck her wind-blown hair behind her ear, and said: “Junior Sister, use this sword to assist the Sword Sect Elders in appeasing the chaotic spirit earth veins here. Do you know what to do?”
Pei Lianxue looked at the sword in her hand, then gazed at the raging spirit fire around them, and tilted her head: “…I don’t know.”
Ye Anping sighed again and explained in detail: “Alas— you are like this…”
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