Chapter 497: Senior Brother, Be Good to Her
The deeper they ventured into the Eastern Domain, the more chaotic the world became.
The clouds were stained blood-red by the malevolent aura, and there was no distinction between day and night.
Amidst strange and grotesque ghost mountains, three streaks of sword light passed through from west to east.
Ye Anping, wearing a bamboo hat and flying on his sword, led the way, holding a map he had drawn himself. He then looked up towards Seven Star Pass in the south.
It had been seven days since he, Feng Yu Die, and Gu Ming Xin emerged from the heavenly cave near the canyon beside Donghuang City.
For these seven days, they had not stopped, following the desolate mountains on the borders of the Eastern Domain, where demonic cultivators rarely appeared, and heading towards the “Heartbreak Palace” in the southern part of the Eastern Domain.
The reason for going to “Heartbreak Palace” was simply because Mo Chi Ling was hiding there.
The immortal families were attacking the demonic cultivators of the Eastern Domain from three sides, and information was paramount. Although Ye Anping remembered the complete map of the Eastern Domain and had Xiao Tian and Xue E accompanying him, the war situation changed in an instant.
After all, he did not possess a celestial eye, so he could not know what kind of trap the demonic cultivators would set up and where on any given day.
Furthermore, Brother Liang’s black market connections were useless in the Eastern Domain. Gu Gu was an eccentric person, and even less likely to be familiar with the information brokers in the demonic cultivator black market.
Therefore, Mo Chi Ling’s information was especially crucial for the immortal family cultivators.
However, thinking of Mo Chi Ling, Ye Anping inexplicably recalled what Feng Yu Die had done to her in the game, and he couldn’t help but glance back.
Feng Yu Die had been secretly watching Ye Anping’s back. Seeing him turn his head, she seemed a little embarrassed and smiled.
“Young Master Ye, what is it?”
…
In the game, although the process was a bit complicated, the result was similar to that of Taibai Sect’s Ancestral Lingzhi:
— Feng Yu Die wore Mo Chi Ling down.
However, that was the Feng Yu Die in the game.
The Feng Yu Die in the game would not blink shyly, blush, or even avoid eye contact when looking at a man. Instead, she would meet their gaze, draw her sword, and… well, you know.
Ye Anping raised his hand and pinched the bridge of his nose. Seeing a mountain shaped like a crescent moon lying on the ground about ten miles ahead, he quickly said,
“Let’s rest here for two hours before continuing. If I remember correctly, there should be an ancient Sword Tomb there. Since Senior Sister Feng needs a spirit sword, we can pick one up on the way.”
Xue E, sitting on Ye Anping’s left shoulder, looked at the mountain and said,
“If I recall correctly, the Tian Mo Book Scroll also wrote about it, it was…”
Before Xue E could finish, Xiao Tian, sitting on Ye Anping’s right shoulder, quickly pulled the Heavenly Scroll of the Dao out from inside her skirt and interjected,
“Anping, it was left there by a Moon Spirit Sect sword cultivator named ‘Shen Xin’. It is said that every time he killed a demonic cultivator, he would plant the demonic cultivator’s magical artifact or spirit sword in the mountain…”
Xue E quickly snatched the conversation back, crossing her arms and saying,
“He wanted to overcome his inner demons by killing demonic cultivators, but in the end, he couldn’t sustain it. After killing more than seventeen hundred demonic cultivators, he died there due to the accumulated malevolent aura and injuries from years of fighting. His sword was also left there.”
After speaking, Xue E tilted her head slightly, pouted, and glanced at Xiao Tian, taunting her.
“You can’t even memorize the contents of the scroll, and you still have to look it up. How embarrassing. Ye Anping, are you very regretful now for writing your name on the Heavenly Scroll of the Dao?”
Xiao Tian immediately lowered her head, looking wronged, and rubbed her fingers. But after thinking for a moment, she retorted.
“Anyway, for Anping, both the Heavenly Scroll of the Dao and the Tian Mo Book Scroll are useless books! Anping knows everything…”
Caught between the two little ones, Ye Anping was mentally exhausted. He raised his hand and tapped each of them on the head.
“Xue E, stop arguing. And Xiao Tian… you should also memorize the contents of the Heavenly Scroll of the Dao. What if you encounter something and don’t have time to look it up?”
“Oh…”
Xiao Tian nodded and simply flipped the Heavenly Scroll of the Dao back to the first page, starting to memorize it diligently.
Xue E looked at her memorizing the book with the expression of someone watching an idiot. She originally wanted to retort a few more words, but since Ye Anping had spoken, she continued to talk about her own things.
However, she paused upon seeing the sword mark above Xiao Tian’s left eye and couldn’t help but ask,
“Ye Anping, how did this golden idiot get that injury on her eye?”
Ye Anping calmly replied, “…My Junior Sister did it.”
?
“…Ah?!”
“What? Do you want it too?”
Xue E fell silent, and suddenly remembered that the “Liang Xiaoxue” from Donghuang had frozen Ah Mang with a sword before cutting off her own Ming Xin’s hand. A trace of fear inexplicably arose in her heart.
“Can your Junior Sister also see this golden idiot?”
“No.”
Xiao Tian raised her head slightly and said proudly,
“Hmph! Anping, when we get back, ask Pei Yatou to give her another one too.”
Ye Anping shook his head slightly, pinched Xiao Tian’s face, and no longer intended to chat with them. He slowed down the speed of his flying sword and, following his memory, landed on the mountainside of the crescent-shaped mountain peak.
A chilling wind swept through the mountain forest, as if something unclean was hiding within.
The three of them entered a withered forest on the mountainside and walked about five hundred paces through the misty woods before arriving at a cave entrance carved with countless ancient sword marks on the rock face.
Ye Anping sat down at the cave entrance and sent his spiritual sense into the cave to investigate, ensuring safety, while Feng Yu Die went to cut some branches in the forest to prepare a fire.
Gu Ming Xin squatted beside Ye Anping, resting her chin on her hands and smiling sweetly. Seeing Feng Yu Die walking back into the forest, she immediately asked,
“It’s time to rest. We’ve been flying on swords for seven days…”
?
Ye Anping, who had just finished a simple investigation of the cave, shuddered when he heard this. He quickly withdrew his spiritual sense, opened his eyes, and saw Gu Ming Xin lick her lips as if hinting at something.
“A’ Gu…”
Hearing Ye Anping’s tone, Gu Ming Xin knew what he was going to say. She quickly reached out, pointed at Ye Anping’s chest, and drew circles, squinting and saying,
“Why are you like a maiden guarding her purity? Don’t men need female companions to relieve their stress when they are out? You clearly enjoyed it last time. Just say it if you like it, and I like it too…”
…
Seeing that Feng Yu Die was not around, and Xiao Tian and Xue E were sitting on a nearby rock, she said softly,
“If you care about that white idiot, I’ll go into the grotto with you later, and then… you can do whatever you want to me~ hee hee…”
…
Ye Anping inexplicably wanted to say “You’re so seductive!” right now, but in the end, he didn’t. Not to mention it would be bad for Feng Yu Die, but he hadn’t packed a wheelchair in his storage bag when he left.
After a moment of silence, Ye Anping ignored Gu Ming Xin’s seductive aura, expressionlessly pushed himself up, supporting himself on his knees.
“Xiao Tian.”
“Yes!!” Xiao Tian, who was memorizing books on a nearby rock, immediately scurried over. “Anping, you called me…”
“Accompany me inside to get the sword. A’ Gu, you and Senior Sister Feng can just guard the cave entrance.”
Without giving Gu Ming Xin a chance to speak, Ye Anping said this and then strode into the stone grotto filled with sword marks, even having Xiao Tian sit on his head.
Xiao Tian, with her Heavenly Scroll of the Dao’s spiritual aura, shone goldenly, saving him the trouble of using the spiritual light spell. Xiao Tian alone could illuminate a ten-foot radius.
Watching Ye Anping go in, Gu Ming Xin puffed her cheeks and puckered her lips in dissatisfaction.
“Tch…”
Xue E also flew over and patted her head to comfort her.
“Ming Xin, Ye Anping is an immortal cultivator, and his personality is very steady. He will definitely not agree if you say that to him. You should be a little more shy. I think Ye Anping likes those shy girls…”
Gu Ming Xin pouted and added,
“…And silly girls.”
Tap tap—
Feng Yu Die also returned with a pile of firewood. Seeing that Xiao Tian and Ye Anping were not there, her eyes showed a trace of vigilance. She threw the firewood aside and was about to chase after them.
But before she could chase in, Gu Ming Xin said disdainfully,
“Ye Anping told me to wait outside with you. Don’t go in.”
…
Feng Yu Die stopped, looked back at her and Xue E, hesitated for a moment, then turned and walked back. She didn’t seem to want to talk to Gu Ming Xin, and just found a place to sit down, closed her eyes, and began to meditate and cultivate her Qi.
Gu Ming Xin also had no intention of talking to her. She walked to the firewood Feng Yu Die had brought back, set up a bonfire, used a talisman script to ignite it, and then sat down to cultivate her Qi.
Above, blood-red clouds covered the sky, and a chilling wind blew through the cave entrance. The crackling sound of the bonfire became the only sound.
About two quarters of an hour later, footsteps could be heard from inside the cave.
Ye Anping, with Xiao Tian on his back and a frown on his face, walked out. He had entered empty-handed and emerged empty-handed.
Upon hearing the footsteps, Feng Yu Die immediately woke up from her meditation and turned to look.
“Young Master Ye…”
But seeing Ye Anping’s troubled expression, her voice abruptly stopped.
Ye Anping looked at Feng Yu Die, let out a sigh, sat by the bonfire, took out his marinating roasted chicken from his storage bag, placed it by the bonfire, and began to ponder with his chin in his hands.
He remembered very clearly that there should be a good spirit sword here, and judging by the appearance of the cave entrance, he had indeed come to the right place.
However, it seemed someone had gotten there before him.
The mechanisms and restrictions that should have been in the cave were all disabled. When he reached the deepest part, the place where a spirit sword should have been planted was empty.
This was not a game. Opportunities were for those who were destined, not for protagonists or players.
Being beaten to something first was not an incomprehensible matter.
His coming here to get the sword was actually just a detour. There were thousands of good swords in the Four Domains. The Thousand-Year Profound Stone Sword that Brother Liang had snatched from Xiao Yunluo was still in Brother Liang’s bag.
However, he was still quite displeased.
Ye Anping decided that after meeting Mo Chi Ling, he would ask her about who took Shen Xin’s “Demon Eater.”
“Demon Eater,” while not comparable to the spirit sword inherited from Yun Jian Shang Xian, was after all left by an immortal sword cultivator who once made demonic cultivators tremble with fear. If it were in the world, there would be no reason for there to be no news of it.
“Young Master Ye, what’s wrong?”
“It’s nothing, it just seems someone got here before us…”
“Anping, it’s okay. At worst, we can go somewhere else. There are many opportunities in the Eastern Domain.”
Ye Anping did not speak. Seeing that the roasted chicken was starting to ooze oil, he poked it with his finger, then took it down and handed it to Feng Yu Die.
“Here.”
“Mmm…” Feng Yu Die smiled shyly, holding the roasted chicken with both hands. “Young Master Ye, do you want the chicken leg? I’ll save it for you…”
Although Ye Anping didn’t really want to eat it, after careful consideration, he replied,
“Just save one.”
“Okay… Hehe…”
Gu Ming Xin, sitting on the other side, looked at the two of them and pouted. She felt as if this Feng Yu Die was like a silly daughter they had given birth to. She didn’t disturb them and closed her eyes to meditate.
The three of them rested by the bonfire for about an hour, then mounted their flying swords again and continued towards Heartbreak Palace as planned.
… …
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Black clouds pressed down on the forest, with willow catkins fluttering with a hint of purple spiritual light.
In the willow forest behind Heartbreak Palace, a man wearing a ghost mask pushed a woman, who was completely wrapped in bandages, for a walk in the forest.
The woman wore a purple silk dress, concealing her entire body. However, her perfect maidenly figure was not hidden by the skirt.
Mo Chi Ling closed her eyes, smelled the faint fragrance of flowers and plants in the forest, and asked,
“Where has Sister Gu been these past few days?”
The man pushing the wheelchair nodded and replied,
“She went to Donghuang and was captured by the Young Master of the Kong family.”
Mo Chi Ling’s eyes
narrowed upon hearing this. She asked, “Don’t tell me half of it. What happened next?”
“After that, she caused a big scene in the city and helped the various sects of the Western Regions capture Donghuang with almost no casualties.”
“Is that so…” Mo Chi Ling lowered her eyes and cupped her chin, thinking for a moment. “Then the Kong family’s young master who captured her was most likely Ye Anping… You went to investigate a few days ago, did you find anything?”
“I did investigate, but…”
The man’s tone was heavy. After squatting for a moment, he continued,
“Before he formed the Heavenly Dao Golden Core, there was nothing special about him. From what I heard, it was as if that person suddenly soared to the heavens without any warning, and I didn’t hear of him obtaining any great fortuitous encounters.”
“Is that so… Ever since I picked up Sister Gu, I’ve heard her constantly praise that person. I didn’t pay much attention at first, but now it seems this Ye Anping is not to be underestimated.”
The man nodded slightly at her words.
“Palace Master, are you planning to meet him?”
“What do you think?”
“We need to see more. Your subordinate cannot fathom Ye Anping’s thoughts. Who knows if he might have malicious intentions towards you, Palace Master? Moreover, he is an immortal cultivator, and you are a demonic cultivator…”
“I don’t care about these things. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. From the perspective of the immortal families, they want to kill my Master, and I also want to shred my Master. Our goals are the same.”
Mo Chi Ling sighed lightly, looked up at the sky, and said,
“I’m also very curious, what kind of person is the man Sister Gu talks about day and night.”
The man pushing the wheelchair was silent for a moment, then nodded in agreement.
“Then I will go and make preparations.”
“Mmm… He should have just left Donghuang. Then tell them to meet at ‘Chi Mountain’…”
Just as Mo Chi Ling was making these arrangements, a black mist suddenly descended from above. Another man wearing a ghost mask emerged from the black mist and bowed.
“Palace Master.”
“What is it?”
“Gu Ming Xin has brought two people to Heartbreak Palace. Those two appear to be two immortal cultivators, one man and one woman. The woman has silver hair, and the man is very handsome…”
Very handsome…
Mo Chi Ling was stunned for a moment, but then she frowned. She quickly looked up at the person behind her and asked,
“Which of you told Sister Gu the location of my Heartbreak Palace?”
“Palace Master, we all follow your orders and have not revealed any information about Heartbreak Palace to her.”
“Then how did she know…”
Mo Chi Ling was perplexed, and a trace of fear inexplicably arose in her heart. Centuries ago, after escaping from the Tian Mo Sect, she had been hiding from Yu Yan, fearing that Yu Yan would find her.
Therefore, the only people who knew the location of her Heartbreak Palace were her few trusted confidants.
These people, like her, had been poisoned by Yu Yan to varying degrees, but due to their cultivation levels, they could only endure.
“Heartbreak Palace” was originally established by her to kill Yu Yan.
But now, if Gu Ming Xin could find her Heartbreak Palace, how could Yu Yan not be able to?
Mo Chi Ling was silent for a long time, then said,
“Lead them to the Main Hall. I’ll change my clothes and be there.”
“Yes.”
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