DDT - Chapter 159

Chapter 159: Immortal Venerable × Meow Meow Cat (14)

After leaving her little disciple in the small wooden hut halfway up the mountain, Immortal Venerable Qingyun returned to the training grounds at the summit in a flash. As she expected, her eldest disciple, Yun Qian, was still cultivating in the training grounds. Perhaps stimulated by the Little Junior Sister, and seeing his Master rushing back in a hurry, thinking he shouldn't slack off in cultivation, Yun Qian appeared increasingly diligent.

Immortal Venerable Qingyun saw the efforts of her eldest disciple, Yun Qian. A few short years were briefly insignificant in the eyes of cultivators. Immortal Venerable Qingyun still remembered the scene when she saved Yun Qian years ago. The once destitute child had now grown into a handsome young man. When she tested him back then, he was naturally intelligent with excellent bone structure. Under her guidance these years, he hadn't slacked off in his cultivation, and his cultivation base was among the best of his peers. Now that he had obtained a Little Junior Sister with even greater talent, Yun Qian was even more hardworking than before.

Seeing her eldest disciple Yun Qian finish a set of sword moves, Immortal Venerable Qingyun then stepped forward two paces. It was necessary to properly inquire of her eldest disciple about the events that had happened to her little disciple during the days she was away.

When Yun Qian finished a set of sword moves and stopped to rest and analyze, he noticed his Master standing not far away observing at some point. The sky was still early right now; presumably, his Master had come to understand the recent situation of the Little Junior Sister. Yun Qian put away his life-bound sword and casually cast a Dust Removal Spell, cleaning away the dust he had accidentally rubbed against while cultivating. Only then did he walk unhurriedly to his Master and bow.

Yun Qian picked the key points and recounted what he had seen and heard while interacting with the Little Junior Sister these past days. He also explained everything he saw after rushing to the foot of the mountain on the night of the full moon a few days ago to Immortal Venerable Qingyun in great detail.

After narrating these important pieces of information one by one, Immortal Venerable Qingyun finally understood why her little disciple had behaved so abnormally in the wooden hut halfway up the mountain just now. Although the reason was unknown, it was an indisputable fact that her little disciple detested white clothes. Immortal Venerable Qingyun sighed secretly in her heart. It seemed she was still not attentive enough and didn't understand her little disciple well enough. The little disciple's abnormality upon seeing white clothes was clearly not the first time, yet as a Master who had cultivated for a thousand years, she hadn't even been able to discover such a straightforward little matter. It seemed she still needed to cultivate in the ways of dealing with people and matters.

Immortal Venerable Qingyun already had some idea about her little disciple's matters in her heart, so she set them aside for the moment. Thinking about it, she hadn't properly guided her eldest disciple for a long time. In the past two years, Immortal Venerable Qingyun had spent most of her time leaving the mountain gate to travel outside, rarely having the chance to teach Yun Qian. Even when they occasionally met, she hurriedly arranged experience tasks for her eldest disciple. Thinking about it, she, as a Master, ought to be unqualified. Harboring a faint guilt in her heart, Immortal Venerable Qingyun stayed at the summit training grounds and patiently gave guidance for several hours. It wasn't until the sky grew dark and the cold wind at the summit blew fiercely that Immortal Venerable Qingyun waved her hand to end this session. Just as she had assigned homework to Chi Junluo, Immortal Venerable Qingyun also left several assignments for her eldest disciple, to be checked during the next guidance session.

His Master hadn't guided his cultivation like this for a long time. Yun Qian was happy in his heart and cultivated even more diligently. When he waved goodbye to his Master and returned to his own cave dwelling, he was still somewhat reluctant to part.

After watching her eldest disciple leave the summit training grounds, only Immortal Venerable Qingyun remained on Qingyun Peak. Even though the cold wind hunted fiercely at the summit late at night, Immortal Venerable Qingyun couldn't feel a trace of coldness even after removing her protective spiritual energy. With cultivation reaching a stage like Immortal Venerable Qingyun's, the physical body alone was extremely strong; mere mountain winds were not worth mentioning.

Immortal Venerable Qingyun summoned her life-bound sword and leaped onto it. The long sword, flashing with cold light and killing aura, rose into the air, carrying Immortal Venerable Qingyun several chi high. Beneath her feet were the endless peaks of the Xianyuan Sect, with thin spiritual energy shrouding the mountains. Above her head was a patch of chaos; through the gaps in the thick dark clouds, the appearance of the flourishing galaxy from a thousand years ago could be faintly seen. In just a short 1,000 years, this world had become unrecognizable.

She still remembered the words she said while looking up at the starry sky a thousand years ago when she was about to ascend to the Xianyuan Sect and leave her hometown. At that time, she was young and aggressive, with ten thousand feet of starlight above her head. She firmly believed she could cultivate to ascend to the Upper Realm and leave this absurd world where she had absolutely no sense of belonging. The distant galaxy was her belonging. But in just a short 1,000 years, ever since her Master ascended hundreds of years ago, the galaxy above the cultivation world had gradually been obscured by thick haze. The spiritual energy in the cultivation world and the human world grew thinner by the day. The cultivation bases of the great powers in the cultivation world seemed to have agreed to stagnate. For hundreds of years since then, no one had been able to ascend. Meanwhile, the cultivation progress of disciples from various sects became slower and slower. Many disciples' cultivation bases were stuck just before the Golden Core, unable to advance an inch. Even Immortal Venerable Qingyun, who had the best aptitude among her peers, had her cultivation stagnate at the ninth layer of Nascent Soul for hundreds of years. She couldn't even break through to the Great Perfection of Nascent Soul, let alone advance to the Spirit Transformation stage.

Thinking back to when she first discovered her cultivation had stagnated, Immortal Venerable Qingyun felt unwillingness in her heart and also a bit of breakdown. Once upon a time, she was also a high-spirited youth. She had thought her journey was the sea of stars, and once thought she could ascend to the Upper Realm to see a broader world. But she didn't expect to find it difficult to advance even an inch at the mere Nascent Soul stage.

Like other great powers whose cultivation had stagnated, Immortal Venerable Qingyun had also once cultivated frantically with her life on the line. But somewhere in the unseen, there was a layer of invisible force stopping the advance of everyone in the cultivation world. In those days, news of certain great powers falling into Qi Deviation during cultivation spread in the cultivation world from time to time. The final outcome was either exploding to death or having their cultivation completely ruined, causing panic in the cultivation and human worlds for a time. Seeing matters developing quickly towards an uncontrollable stage, several major sects of the cultivation world joined hands to suppress the terrifying secret news of the spiritual energy in this world becoming increasingly thin and several great powers falling into Qi Deviation, failing ascension, and perishing.

Haze obscured the stars in the sky. Especially in recent years, the astrology of major sects had almost become a decoration. With stars invisible, astrology was a joke. Six or seven years ago, when the Xingyun Pavilion of the Xianyuan Sect, which had the best geographical position, opened, Immortal Venerable Qingyun expended the strength of nine bulls and two tigers to complete the divination she wanted. In these past few years, the haze in the sky had become increasingly thick. By the time the Xingyun Pavilion opened again, perhaps even she, Immortal Venerable Qingyun, would no longer be able to complete a divination.

Hundreds of years ago, just as Immortal Venerable Qingyun was about to fall into Qi Deviation during cultivation, it was the strange dream brought to her by the Fated Person she had identified that soothed the spiritual energy in her body, saving her from fire and water.

Strong intuition told her she would meet this Fated Person in this world, and perhaps all turning points would be brought by the Fated Person.

Immortal Venerable Qingyun began to search for that person in the dream. In the subsequent hundreds of years, although her cultivation stagnated, her state of mind leaped forward in the tempering of dream after dream. Later, during an attempt at divination, she actually caught a glimpse of a corner of the Heavenly Dao!

Heavenly secrets must not be revealed, yet they were spied upon by Immortal Venerable Qingyun, a mere Nascent Soul cultivator.

World line collapse, Heavenly Dao crisis.

She could learn no more than that. She didn't quite understand the first half, but regarding the Heavenly Dao crisis, she knew the severity of the matter.

There was not much basis for this matter. Immortal Venerable Qingyun had only mentioned it to the Sect Leader of the Xianyuan Sect, but neither of them had a good countermeasure. Spying a heavenly secret was already rare; wanting to figure out exactly what was going on was even more difficult. Such heavenly secrets were not something people at their stage could understand, or rather, not something people of their world could understand. The Xianyuan Sect could only communicate with the sect leaders and elders of several major sects in the cultivation world, but no one could decipher the mystery of that heavenly secret. They could only say that the wind and rain were coming, and each made their own preparations.

Immortal Venerable Qingyun secretly circulated her spiritual power, but didn't receive a trace of feedback from the few stars amidst the haze. She shook her head secretly and quickly abandoned the thought of divination.

Now she could only place her hope on her little disciple. If her little disciple Chi Jun was her Fated Person, perhaps this situation could be broken.

Immortal Venerable Qingyun knew this matter was of great importance and couldn't be rushed. So she wasn't in a hurry to pry into the secrets on her little disciple. Anyway, she had waited for so many hundreds of years; she didn't mind waiting a bit longer. After flying slowly in circles over the Xianyuan Sect on her sword a few times, Immortal Venerable Qingyun put away her life-bound sword. Her figure flashed in the air, and she returned to the entrance of the small wooden hut halfway up Qingyun Peak.

The candle fire in the wooden hut had already been extinguished. With her good night vision, Immortal Venerable Qingyun easily saw the bulge of the bedding on the wooden bed. Her little disciple's even breathing sounded gently in the corner of the small wooden hut.

Apart from some faint starlight and moonlight falling from the sky, the only things flickering in the small wooden hut were the Spirit Stones glowing with various lights on the round wooden table.

These Spirit Stones were the homework Immortal Venerable Qingyun had assigned before leaving. The little disciple was still young; originally, she thought it would be very good if the little disciple could understand a part of the knowledge she explained in the afternoon. But after Immortal Venerable Qingyun briefly scanned the traces of formations and carvings on a few Spirit Stones, a flash of surprise passed through her eyes. Her little disciple's aptitude and hands-on ability were indeed not bad.

Immortal Venerable Qingyun tidied up the Spirit Stones on the round table in passing, lightened her footsteps, and walked to the bedside.

Half of Chi Junluo's furry little head was exposed outside the bedding. Her pitch-black hair shimmered with a smooth luster under the faint starlight. Her two small eyes were obediently closed. Because Chi Junluo was sleeping on her side, the cub's soft hair draped over the side of her face, exposing a bit of a petite, fair ear outside the hair.

Watching the cub's long eyelashes tremble slightly in sleep, Immortal Venerable Qingyun felt her whole heart was about to melt from the cuteness. Taking advantage of the cub's deep sleep, Immortal Venerable Qingyun reached out and gently rubbed her little disciple's small head. It seemed she had worked too hard in the afternoon; learning formations probably consumed a lot of the little disciple's brainpower. She was sleeping exceptionally sweetly now. Immortal Venerable Qingyun's act of rubbing the little disciple's head in the middle of the night failed to wake the little disciple from her dream. Chi Junluo's small head moved slightly, and one or two small whimpering sounds came from her throat, causing a flash of brightness to pass through the eyes of Immortal Venerable Qingyun, who had never been in such close contact with a cute creature.

After rubbing the little disciple for a while, Immortal Venerable Qingyun withdrew her hand with some reluctance. Having just stepped into the threshold of cultivating immortality, the little disciple naturally needed sleep to replenish energy. Immortal Venerable Qingyun had long passed the stage of needing sleep to replenish energy and spiritual energy. In the past, she would only meditate on the bed in the wooden hut to recover spiritual energy or cultivate. Now that her little disciple occupied her bed, she would just change places to cultivate. After all, this small bed in the wooden hut was slightly crowded even for her alone in the past; she couldn't possibly squeeze up there now to fight for a spot with her little disciple, right?

Immortal Venerable Qingyun pulled the bedding down slightly, revealing the little disciple's mouth and nose, and tucked the quilt in well. Turning to walk out of the wooden hut, she thought of what her eldest disciple had said earlier. Immortal Venerable Qingyun looked down at the azure light armor on her body. When she met her little disciple in the afternoon, the little disciple, who detested white clothes deeply, had shattered her white outer robe. Busy comforting her frightened little disciple, she hadn't thought to find another outer robe to put on.

For Immortal Venerable Qingyun, who was obsessed with cultivating immortality, the color of clothes wasn't important. Wearing white in the past was just because cultivators felt white better displayed their noble character and high integrity, and she just followed the trend. Now that her little disciple had such resistance and hatred towards white clothes, she naturally wouldn't wear white clothes again to provoke her cute little disciple.

Rummaging through her storage ring, Immortal Venerable Qingyun managed with great difficulty to dig out a black garment from the very back. Both her eldest disciple and little disciple wore black clothes. If she also wore black clothes, wouldn't this be a parent-child outfit?

Immortal Venerable Qingyun was already accustomed to the novel vocabulary that often popped up in her head. Just as well, she felt this so-called parent-child outfit could better close the distance between her and her disciples. Immortal Venerable Qingyun casually cast a Dust Removal Spell to clean the black outer robe and put it on her body.

Condensing spiritual energy into an ice mirror with a wave of her hand, Immortal Venerable Qingyun tidied her robes in front of the huge ice mirror. Looking at the upright woman in dashing black clothes in the mirror, Immortal Venerable Qingyun suddenly felt that these black clothes matched her temperament better. She immediately decided to go to the town at the foot of the mountain in the next two days to custom-make several sets of black robes, and incidentally custom-make several sets for her cute little disciple as well.

Immortal Venerable Qingyun waved her hand gently, and the huge ice mirror dissipated into the air, leaving no trace. Lifting her hand to look at her black gold-rimmed cuffs, Immortal Venerable Qingyun suddenly remembered she had actually forgotten to give the local specialty she brought from the Nine Nether Profound Sky to her disciple.

She flipped her right hand, and that small silver bracelet from the storage bag appeared in her palm. Golden light circulated on the small silver bracelet. Probably due to the richer spiritual energy on Qingyun Peak, this small bracelet was actually beginning to show the temperament of a high-grade spiritual artifact.

Immortal Venerable Qingyun walked to Chi Junluo's bed again. That tiny person had already turned over and was lying flat on the bed. Unknown what wonderful dream she was having, her small mouth smacked gently a few times. Moist water vapor attached to those tender pink lips. Immortal Venerable Qingyun stared blankly for a moment, then quickly came back to her senses and didn't think too much. Lifting a corner of the quilt, the child's fair and tender left hand was placed properly by her side. A section of white wrist was exposed under the tight cuff. Immortal Venerable Qingyun gently lifted Chi Junluo's left hand and carefully slipped the silver-white small bracelet in her hand onto Chi Junluo's wrist. That gold-patterned silver bracelet seemed to have spirituality, changing its size on its own to fit snugly on Chi Junluo's wrist.

Immortal Venerable Qingyun put that warm little hand back into the covers, pulled the bedding up properly again, and seeing the child sleeping sweetly, only then turned and left the wooden hut.

After finding a comfortable spot on a big tree next to the summit training grounds to cultivate for a night, early the next morning when the sky was just getting light, Immortal Venerable Qingyun hurriedly left the Xianyuan Sect on her sword, anxious to custom-make the black clothes.

Immortal Venerable Qingyun thought a lot along the way. Although she and her eldest disciple on Qingyun Peak had both changed to black clothes now, this wasn't a long-term plan after all. There were plenty of people wearing white clothes under the heavens. Just within the Xianyuan Sect, almost everyone wore white. Now that the little disciple had just stepped into the threshold of cultivating immortality, she still needed to stay on Qingyun Peak for a period of time. But eventually, she would have to go down the mountain. Not to mention the distant future, just taking the Inner Sect Grand Competition in two or three months—her little disciple would also have to participate. She couldn't possibly not see people for a lifetime and hole up on Qingyun Peak forever, right?

This ailment of losing reason upon seeing white clothes had to be cured as soon as possible. A word suddenly popped up in the heart of Immortal Venerable Qingyun, who was flying on her sword: Psychological Shadow.

Almost in an instant, Immortal Venerable Qingyun understood the meaning of this word. Since her little disciple was to walk the path of cultivating immortality, the psychological shadow still had to be eradicated if a chance was found. For cultivators, a grudge in the heart was extremely serious. If not handled well, this psychological shadow could very likely develop into a Heart Demon. Especially when advancing, if influenced by a Heart Demon, it was very easy to fall into Qi Deviation. At best, cultivation would be completely ruined; at worst, life would be endangered. Human cultivators knew the terrors of Heart Demons best; this was no joke.

Worried about her little disciple in her heart, the original joy of custom-making black clothes faded quite a bit, and her brows knitted slightly.

As for that black and white spirit beast mentioned by her eldest disciple Yun Qian, Immortal Venerable Qingyun temporarily had no intention of bothering with it. She also didn't require her little disciple to take her to see that spirit beast right now. She intuited that perhaps the time had not yet come.

The sky was already broad daylight. Without a roof to block the sunlight, Chi Junluo was soon woken up by the first ray of morning sun.

She hadn't rested properly in a bed for the past few days. Which day hadn't she cultivated in the summit training grounds until she was exhausted and fainted, then been carried by that Chaos Beast in its mouth to the cave dwelling halfway up the mountain to sleep for a night on the Chaos Beast's not-so-soft fur? Waking up the next morning, she would hop off to the summit training grounds to cultivate for a whole day again. Sleeping steadily and peacefully on the bed in the small wooden hut last night, the fatigue on her body was completely unloaded by the soft mattress beneath her. Waking up this morning, she felt even more spirited.

Chi Junluo still remembered the homework the Heroine had left for her yesterday. After getting up, she sized up the thin layer of small soft padding on the small wooden bed. With such thickness, based on her past experience, it shouldn't be very soft. During the days when the Heroine hadn't returned, although she also slept on this small bed, she hadn't noticed the profundity of this padding.

So Chi Junluo lifted the padding. Sure enough, she discovered a large formation on the back of this soft padding. This cultivation world was truly wonderful. Chi Junluo secretly memorized the formation, tidied the bed, and prepared to go to the summit training grounds to cultivate for a morning before coming back to continue doing the homework assigned by the Heroine.

Just as she walked out of the wooden hut, Chi Junluo lifted her small palm preparing to cast a Dust Removal Spell on herself when she suddenly saw a small silver bracelet that had abruptly appeared on her left hand. The color of the silver bracelet wasn't bright, yet it wasn't mottled either. Dark golden lines circled out beautiful patterns on the silver bracelet. Perhaps because she had been too absorbed in cultivation these days, Chi Junluo only now discovered that the golden tattoos originally on her left wrist had all disappeared. Before she could think, just as she was thinking about it, those beautiful golden lines gradually emerged on the white wrist of this body. The golden tattoos and the gold-patterned silver bracelet on the left wrist somehow matched inexplicably well when placed together. With another thought, the tattoos hid away again, leaving no trace visible.

This Qingyun Peak wasn't a place one could come and go freely. The small wooden hut protected by the formation set up personally by the Peak Master of Qingyun Peak, Immortal Venerable Qingyun, was even less of a place outsiders could intrude into at will. This silver bracelet on her hand must have been put on her personally by the Heroine after she fell asleep last night. As for the Heavenly Dao E Feng in her sea of consciousness? That was even more impossible; he didn't even have a physical body himself, so how could he put a bracelet on her?

Heavenly Dao: Feeling offended....

After Chi Junluo finished casting the Dust Removal Spell, while walking up the mountain, she tried injecting the spiritual power converted from the golden energy in her body into this silver bracelet. Just as the spiritual power poured in, the dark golden lines on the bracelet fiercely flashed a burst of blinding golden light. Fortunately, it was daytime and in the dense forest of Qingyun Peak, so that brief golden light didn't attract anyone's attention. The golden lines seemed to come alive, flowing on the bracelet. In a short while, the entire bracelet turned into a liquid of alternating gold and silver rotating around her wrist. A cooling sensation came from her wrist, and the liquefied bracelet seemed to be absorbed by the skin, disappearing from her wrist.

Chi Junluo looked at her empty wrist, a bit confused. Fortunately, a Heavenly Dao with much experience in cultivation lived in her sea of consciousness. The Heavenly Dao, who had been watching the drama since last night, kindly spoke up to give pointers. Chi Junluo followed the Heavenly Dao's guidance to use her divine sense for internal inspection. Only then did she discover that above her Myriad Spirit Root, a liquid object like a chain of alternating gold and silver was swimming slowly, faintly showing a trend of merging with the golden energy within her Myriad Spirit Root.

Suddenly, a sharp spiritual energy attacked head-on. The body, trained for many days, instinctively sensed the crisis and reacted, dodging the attack of this spiritual power. Only then did Chi Junluo end her internal inspection, realizing she had unknowingly walked to the summit training grounds. The cheap Eldest Senior Brother Yun Qian, who had been waiting at the training grounds early on, was looking at her with a smile, hooking his right hand to indicate that Chi Junluo could begin today's cultivation.

Temporarily throwing the silver bracelet swimming on the Myriad Spirit Root to the back of her mind—this was Chi Junluo's first contact with the world of cultivation. The cultivation over these many days had thoroughly aroused Chi Junluo's interest in cultivation. In short, recover strength first and figure out the cultivation method of this body. Only by possessing powerful strength could she justifiably be together with her Heroine.

What Chi Junluo needed to have a headache about now, besides strength, was the monthly full moon day. Now the Heroine was right beside her; how was she going to muddle through the full moon day? It was enough to give her a headache.

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