Chapter 559 Imperial Uncle Xuanji, Master and Disciple? Sisters? Or…
Clouds shadows traverse the sky, and the moonlit water sprinkles the vast sea of clouds, illuminating the ink-black clouds of the Eastern Domain as if they were draped in a silver veil.
A large Immortal Ship with seven masts and twenty-eight sails glided alone above the sea of clouds, with the starry sky and the bright moon overhead.
Ye Anping, dressed in the immortal robe of a Xuan Xing Sect elder, stood alone before the lookout platform at the bow of the ship. His deep purple eyes gazed at the endless sea of clouds ahead, a hint of anticipation on his face as if awaiting some news.
Gu Yan was dead, and He Buqun was dead. The remaining demonic cultivators of the Tian Mo Sect were now leaderless.
Although they were still resisting under the siege of Lei Wanjun and the sect masters from the Western Regions, they would not hold out much longer. Ye Anping estimated that the Tian Mo Sect’s mountain gate would be breached within half a month, and within three months, the various sects of the Western Regions would have exterminated all the remaining hidden demonic cultivators of the Tian Mo Sect.
After this, other remaining demonic sects in the Eastern Domain would most likely surrender or flee. The sects from the immortal families of the Southern, Western, and Northern Domains would then begin to carve up the Heavenly Treasures of the Eastern Domain…
If nothing unexpected happened, the smoke of war in the Eastern Domain would completely cease within three years.
As for what would happen next, it would likely be similar to when the Saint Emperor led the immortal families, unifying the four domains – East, West, South, and North – while demonic cultivators would lurk in the shadows like mice, waiting for an opportunity to rise again.
The calendar, which changed only once every few thousand years, would turn a new page.
Perhaps thousands or tens of thousands of years later, a “Demon Venerable” similar to the one in the Demonic Cultivation Calendar of ten thousand years ago would emerge from the remaining demonic cultivators, unifying the hidden demonic cultivators of various regions and turning the tide.
But that was something for thousands or tens of thousands of years later…
Ye Anping felt as if he understood the fear that Great Hero Xuanji had always harbored – the future that was once known had now all become unknown after this event…
Gurgle… Gurgle…
The sound of a wheelchair came from behind him. Mo Chi Ling rolled her wheelchair to his side and spoke softly:
“Young Master Ye, why are you lost in thought here alone? Why don’t you go back to your room and accompany your dao companions?”
“Agu and Yudie have woken up?”
“Their spiritual power is depleted, and they will likely have to lie in the room for another half a month before they recover.”
“I see…”
Ye Anping shrugged slightly. Feng Yu Die and Gu Ming Xin had joined forces to kill He Buqun, and without much rest, they had helped mobilize Gu Yan’s formation. They indeed deserved more sleep.
Xiao Yunluo, perhaps because she was a dragon, recovered her spiritual power quickly, but she was still lethargic these past few days. Currently, she was staying with Si Xuanji under Qiu Shui Rou’s care.
As for Junior Sister…
She found Xiao Tian and Xue E quite cute. For the past few days, when she wasn’t with him, she would basically hold Xiao Tian and Xue E and wander around the Immortal Ship whenever she was awake. She was surrounded by the other female disciples of the Xuan Xing Sect on the Immortal Ship like an idol.
“How is Senior Mo’s hand?”
“It doesn’t hurt anymore, but it was tempered with Purple Spirit Willow for hundreds of years…”
Ye Anping pondered. Although the game didn’t mention anything to cure the Purple Spirit Willow poison, he could easily think of at least seven types of immortal-grade pills that might be useful for Mo Chi Ling.
Moreover, among the items brought back by Big Brother Liang from the Imperial Sect’s secret vault, there were many rare treasures that he didn’t have any use for and were difficult to sell.
There were always more solutions than difficulties!
“This isn’t a major problem. Once we return to the Hundred Lotus Sect, I will find a detoxification pill for Senior Mo.”
Ye Anping looked at Mo Chi Ling’s wheelchair and suddenly thought of Li Longling.
One was lame, and the other was blind…
And they were both sensible and knowledgeable. Their relationship should be very good after they met.
Now that everything was settled, after returning to the Hundred Lotus Sect, he could rest for a few days before heading to a solitary island at the southernmost tip of the Southern Domain, which didn’t exist on any map, to retrieve the medicine.
With his current cultivation at the early Nascent Soul stage, there would be no danger, only the process would be slightly cumbersome.
Mo Chi Ling nodded and smiled:
“Then, once Young Master Ye has cured me, I will pledge myself to you~ How many children do you want, Young Master Ye? Don’t look at my delicate body; I can easily give birth to more than ten little ones for you~~”
“?”
“Hehe… Just kidding.” Mo Chi Ling looked into the distance, squinted, and tilted her head. “However, my life was given to you by Young Master Ye. Now that my great revenge has been avenged, the belief that kept me alive before no longer exists… To have something to do in the future, I must find a new belief, mustn’t I?”
Ye Anping smiled helplessly. Before she could say her next sentence, he hurriedly asked:
“Then, Senior Mo, could you continue to manage the Heartbreak Palace?”
“Mmm… Heartbreak Palace?”
“Mmm.”
Ye Anping nodded and explained very seriously:
“The situation in the five domains will surely be stable for several hundred years, but the undercurrents will never stop. I also need to, as always, observe the overall situation and make plans for the future. Therefore, intelligence and information are paramount. Heartbreak Palace, which Senior Mo has managed for nearly a thousand years, is the eyes and ears I need most…”
“… Young Master Ye really knows how to change the subject.”
Mo Chi Ling puffed out her cheeks and pouted like a young woman, complaining, “You clearly wanted me to acknowledge you as my master… but you don’t treat me like a servant. I was still looking forward to you doing something improper to me…”
Ye Anping sometimes truly didn’t know if Mo Chi Ling was joking or serious. He replied speechlessly, “Senior Mo, I am not a demonic cultivator…”
“Oh~ Right, I forgot Young Master Ye is an immortal cultivator~”
Mo Chi Ling tapped her lips and replied:
“Young Master Ye is more insidious and cunning than most demonic cultivators I’ve met in the past thousand years… especially in his methods of seducing women…”
“Thank you for the compliment.”
Mo Chi Ling didn’t expect Ye Anping to be so unperturbed, and immediately pouted, saying, “I suppose that Commander Xu has also been completely captivated by your divine calculations~~”
“Uh…”
— “Spot on!! Spot on!!”
— “Ye Tianchong!! Ye Tianchong!!”
Suddenly, two hoarse voices came from above, causing Ye Anping to look up with a dark expression. He saw A-Ying flying up from below the sea of clouds and landing steadily on the railing beside him.
When he found the Demon Emperor before, he had been afraid the Demon Emperor would be too late, but now, judging by A-Ying’s tone, it seemed Xu Mulan’s side was fine.
Although there was no further plot in the game.
But based on his understanding of Chen Yin.
After Sun Juehu’s death, Chen Yin would most likely use Sun Juehu’s death to reignite the hatred between the Xuan Xing Sect and the Hantian Kingdom and then usurp the Sun family by force.
Although Ye Anping did not have concrete evidence that Chen Yin would do this.
It was better to dismantle such a person, who was like a time bomb, directly.
Better to kill by mistake than to let go…
As for the future of the Hantian Kingdom, it would depend on what the sisters Xu Mulan and Xu Xiyue did. At least until the Crown Prince could stand on his own, Xu Mulan, holding Sun Juehu’s Mystic Ice Dragon Spear, would be the regent of the Hantian Kingdom.
Ye Anping glanced at A-Ying and tapped its head:
“A-Ying, your mouth…”
“Eloquent! Eloquent!”
“I wasn’t praising you…”
“Saying one thing and meaning another! Saying one thing and meaning another!”
“Hiss—”
Ye Anping took a deep breath and exhaled a nameless resentment from his heart.
He couldn’t be bothered to argue with a bird…
“Go quickly! Go quickly!”
Ye Anping glanced at it:
“Go where? Go where quickly?”
“Enter the tiger’s den!! Enter the tiger’s den!! Fuck Xuanji!! Fuck Xuanji!!”
“?”
Mo Chi Ling was also stunned by A-Ying and commented:
“Young Master Ye, this parrot is truly full of spirit~ This is the first time I’ve met such an eloquent parrot in my thousand years…”
A-Ying proudly turned its head away:
“Hmph~~ Only ten bushels of talent! Ten bushels of talent!”
“Sigh—”
Ye Anping inexplicably had the urge to roast it and give it to Feng Yu Die, but he reconsidered, after all, it was a gift from Mr. Qi to Xuanji…
Just then, as if hearing A-Ying’s voice, Qiu Shui Rou, also dressed in an elder’s robe, came looking for him. Seeing that Ye Anping’s expression was not good, she quickly stepped forward, grabbed A-Ying, and covered its mouth:
“Master Ye, although I don’t know what A-Ying said, please don’t take its words to heart…”
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Upon hearing “Master Ye,” Ye Anping’s skin crawled, and he shivered from his feet to the top of his head.
He looked at Qiu Shui Rou in disbelief and asked:
“Senior Qiu… did you just call me…”
“Master Ye~” Qiu Shui Rou covered her mouth and smiled. “The Qiu family has served my Little Martial Aunt for generations, and it is my eleventh generation. Now that there is finally a male master, I am actually quite happy in my heart…”
“Hiss— This…”
“Master Ye, my Little Martial Aunt just woke up and the first thing she asked me when she opened her eyes was where you were? Master Ye, you don’t know, ever since my Little Martial Aunt met you, she has been thinking of you in private every day~ hoping you would spend more time by her side.”
Qiu Shui Rou bowed and said:
“My Little Martial Aunt has been alone for thousands of years and is very afraid of loneliness~ Otherwise, A-Ying wouldn’t have lived this long…”
“Polite my ass?! Polite… Caw—!”
“Alright~” Qiu Shui Rou smiled and patted Ye Anping’s shoulder, pushing him towards the direction of the cabin. “Hurry up and go. The cabin on the topmost floor has a restriction seal, you can just go in directly~”
Ye Anping looked back at Qiu Shui Rou, who was smiling at him with narrowed eyes. He always felt that she was avoiding the important issues and hiding something from him.
However, Xuanji had been in a coma for almost ten days, and now that she was awake, he should indeed go and visit her.
“Then Senior Mo, I will take my leave first. I will trouble Elder Qiu to escort Senior Mo back to her room.”
“Okay~~”
Qiu Shui Rou waved her hand, watching Ye Anping enter the cabin at the stern of the ship. Then, as if feeling guilty, she sighed with relief.
“Alas—”
Mo Chi Ling tilted her head and asked:
“Elder Qiu, why are you sighing?”
“Uh… It’s nothing. I’ll escort Miss Mo back to her room and then get you some healing pills…”
“Thank you…”
… …
——-
On the first floor of the stern, there was a large banquet hall.
Since this Immortal Ship was returning directly to the Western Regions, in addition to Ye Anping and his companions, there were also Western Region cultivators who had been injured fighting the demonic cultivators at the Tian Mo Sect.
These cultivators, who were recovering from their injuries, had nothing to do and were drinking and chatting in the main hall on the first floor.
Ye Anping disliked being bothered, so he put on the jade pendant Xuanji had given him, concealing his aura. He intended to go upstairs directly to Si Xuanji’s room, but the gossip from a table of female disciples he passed by made him unable to resist stopping to listen:
“I heard that while we were fighting the demonic cultivators outside with the elders, Senior Pei and Young Master Xiao went directly to the Tian Mo Sect Main Peak by themselves. The two of them, working together, killed nearly a thousand Tian Mo Sect disciples in no time.”
“I heard that too! I thought it was impossible at first, but Senior Liang, who accompanied them, did indeed return with hundreds of demonic cultivator storage bags…”
“As expected of Senior Pei and Young Master Xiao. Senior Pei is gentle and seems absent-minded usually, easy to get along with. Young Master Xiao too, when I didn’t have any Spirit Gathering Pills before, Young Master Xiao even gave me a bottle of Spirit Gathering Pills.”
“It’s a pity that Senior Pei, for some reason, has taken a liking to that young master from the Hundred Lotus Sect… Although his reputation is quite grand, with a dual spiritual root and a Heavenly Dao Nascent Soul, he doesn’t seem to have done anything remarkable…”
“Alas… Yes. I actually think Senior Pei and Young Master Xiao are a perfect match.”
“Right, right… I think so too. If the two of them became cultivation partners…”
… …
Hearing these people praise his junior sister, Ye Anping was secretly pleased.
Hearing these people belittle him, Ye Anping felt he could understand and was indifferent, after all, what he had done had not yet been made public, and he did not intend to make it public in the future.
And when he heard them talking about his junior sister and Yunluo becoming cultivation partners…
Feng Yu Die from the game suddenly appeared in his mind.
“It seems I’ll have to make public what I’ve done later, otherwise I’ll be called a hypocritical gold-digger by rogue cultivators…”
Ye Anping shook his head with a wry smile and continued upstairs without stopping, heading for the third floor.
The second floor was where ordinary disciples lived, and the third floor and above had soundproof and detection-blocking restrictions, requiring a token to ascend. Therefore, the corridor on the third floor was quiet at the moment.
As he passed by the rooms of Feng Yu Die and Gu Ming Xin, he secretly took a look. The two of them were lying on their beds, their breathing steady, with faint smiles on their faces, looking as if they were having sweet dreams.
As for Pei Lianxue, when Ye Anping looked in, he saw her sleeping on her side, hugging Xue E and Xiao Tian. The two little ones were now staring with their large eyes, looking quite like they were imprisoned. Seeing Ye Anping arrive, they both cast pleading glances at him.
However, Ye Anping ignored them.
He closed the door and continued towards the next staircase, heading further upstairs.
Arriving at the top floor, as soon as he stepped on the last stair, he was faced with a pair of red wooden doors hung with purple gauze curtains.
Ye Anping braced himself, approached the door as if facing a formidable enemy, and knocked:
Bang bang—
“It’s me…”
“Come in…”
Si Xuanji’s slightly sweet voice came out. It sounded much weaker than usual, indicating that ten days were not enough for her previous injuries from Sun Juehu to heal.
Ye Anping thought that since Great Hero Xuanji was still injured, he, the one acting as the ox, shouldn’t be too tired…
“Hoo—”
Ye Anping exhaled slightly, pushed the door open lightly, and tiptoed in.
Then, he sucked back the breath he had exhaled…
“Hiss—”
On a large bed wide enough to accommodate ten Great Hero Xuanjis, Si Xuanji and Xiao Yunluo were sitting on the bed in matching semi-sheer gauze nightgowns in a “duck” position.
Although their personalities were worlds apart, if one disregarded Xiao Yunluo’s dragon horns and their respective hair colors, their appearances were similar: both were petite and flat-chested girls.
If one had to find a difference, Si Xuanji’s immortal aura was much stronger than Xiao Yunluo’s.
Ye Anping stopped speaking and was about to turn around to close the door first. However, after Si Xuanji waved her hand slightly, she closed the wooden door for him and even locked it with a Dragon Restraining Lock with twelve layers of restrictions, turning the entire room into a secret chamber…
“Anping~ Come here~~”
Si Xuanji squinted her eyes and beckoned him.
Xiao Yunluo, on the other hand, looked very nervous, pressing her skirt tightly with her hands, her cheeks flushed as she lowered her head, completely afraid to look directly at Ye Anping.
— … —
Ye Anping took a deep breath and then, as if giving up resistance, walked to the bedside and asked, “Xuanji, Yunluo, aren’t you going to rest a little longer?”
“No need to worry.” Si Xuanji narrowed her Yin-yang eyes and said, “Anping, I was actually thinking just now about how to reward you this time. At first, I thought of having you serve me, but I felt it wasn’t enough, so…”
— … —
Si Xuanji gently took Yunluo’s left hand and asked, “Anping, do you want sisters to serve you together? Or master and disciple to serve you together? Or perhaps mother…”
“Hiss— Xuanji…”
“Oh~ You want all of them, right?” Si Xuanji blushed like Xiao Yunluo, pouted, her cheeks tinged with red, and then pulled on Xiao Yunluo’s sleeve. “Sister, you need to teach your sister… This is my first time~ It won’t be good if Anping laughs at me…”
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Xiao Yunluo was so frightened that she immediately turned into a statue. Seeing her master turn into her sister, she hesitated, remained silent for a moment, and then nodded, “Master, how about… how about… I go downstairs first, and you and Anping…”
Upon hearing this, Si Xuanji’s eyes sharpened instantly, and she asked, “So Yunluo, are you going to disobey your master’s orders? Hurry up and help Anping change his clothes.”
“Hiss— Ah!! Okay…”
Xiao Yunluo was startled and quickly climbed off the bed, reaching out to untie Ye Anping’s belt.
Then, Si Xuanji’s expression suddenly changed, and she showed a frightened look, covering her chest and saying, “Anping, I am Yunluo’s…”
Ye Anping finally couldn’t help it, grabbed Xiao Yunluo’s hands, and saved his belt, smiling helplessly, “Xuanji… Stop playing.”
“Hehe—” Si Xuanji chuckled and became serious, saying, “Alright, just kidding. Sit down quickly. Yunluo and I will help you release your Yang energy… you have a Nascent Soul, so there’s a buffer for Yang energy, but after all, Sun Juehu and Gu Yan both died at your hands this time. If your Yang energy erupts, you might really be in mortal danger…”
Hearing this, Ye Anping suddenly remembered.
After the Eastern Huang Immortal City and Tian Bei City incidents, he had indeed experienced two Yang energy eruptions, but because he had formed a Heavenly Dao Nascent Soul, those two eruptions were somehow endured by his meridians.
At that time, he only felt a slight heat.
But Gu Yan had died indirectly by his hand, and Sun Juehu had been killed by his final blow…
If the Yang energy of two Void Returning stage cultivators erupted, it might indeed be enough to blow him up.
“Hiss—”
“Right?” Si Xuanji reached up and pulled down the shoulder of her nightgown, saying, “Originally, I could handle it alone, but my injuries haven’t recovered, and Pei Ya Tou is only at the Nascent Soul stage. Yunluo, Feng Yu Die, and Gu Ming Xin haven’t recovered either. So, I thought it would be safer for Yunluo and I to help you release your Yang energy together… If that’s not enough, then add Pei Ya Tou… If that’s still not enough, then Qiu Shui Rou… If it’s still not enough, I’ll have all the female disciples on the Immortal Ship…”
Listening to Si Xuanji’s words becoming increasingly strange, Ye Anping noticed a trace of fear in her eyes. He quickly stepped forward and held her shoulders.
“Ah…”
Si Xuanji suddenly came to her senses, her eyebrows flicked to the sides. After a moment of confusion, she realized she had lost her composure.
“Anping… Perhaps this sounds strange coming from me, who has lived for thousands of years.”
She gently held Ye Anping’s hands, pressed him against her face, and closed her eyes, saying, “I had a nightmare earlier, I dreamed you died… Anping, I’m really afraid that you’ll suddenly disappear…”
Si Xuanji looked up at Ye Anping, her Yin-yang eyes glistening slightly, and her small hands gripping Ye Anping’s hands tightened.
“Anping, I am a Void Returning stage cultivator. But to you, when it comes to matters of dao companions, perhaps I am just a Qi Refining stage cultivator…”
Ye Anping had always been unsure if Si Xuanji was acting, but considering her acting skills were astonishingly bad.
However, Si Xuanji’s current appearance was something he had never imagined.
He had never expected that the Great Hero Xuanji, who once roamed the world with her sword, would also have such a vulnerable appearance.
“Xuanji, I’m not going anywhere…”
“Mmm…”
Si Xuanji pursed her lips slightly and closed her eyes. Ye Anping also exhaled slightly, cupped her face, and kissed her lips…
Xiao Yunluo, sitting beside them in a “duck” position, watched the scene with mixed emotions.
She no longer knew whether she should be shocked by her master’s pitiful appearance just now, or angry that the two of them had forgotten her existence…
She was beginning to dislike her “habitual” self.
— … —
Lingering on the bedsheet.
Then Si Xuanji called out, “Yunluo, come here…”
“Hmm?” Xiao Yunluo’s eyes lit up when she heard that her master hadn’t forgotten her and immediately nodded without a second thought, “Okay!!!”
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