IVYSCP - Chapter 91
Chapter 91
"You don't even have a name. I can't just keep calling you demon, demon, demon."
"You don't even have a face. You look like a ghost. I'll call you Ah Gui."
"You little thing, so dumb and silly. Even the wood knows how to talk and you still can't. Might as well call you Ah Mu."
Gu Huai stared blankly at the distant medicinal fields, and in her ears it was as if that stumbling, halting, childish voice sounded again.
"Im-Immortal, don't be angry. Ah Mu, Ah Mu helped gather herbs and came back."
Ah Mu could speak. What had she done back then? Oh, she remembered now. She had shoved Ah Mu forcefully toward Ah Gui and screamed at them hysterically.
"Go! Why are you following me!? You're demons, I'm a cultivator. You'll get me killed! What heart could demons have? You just want to see me die!"
Ah Mu didn't understand what she was saying, but Ah Gui did. Ah Gui looked hurt, and holding Ah Mu, she left, glancing back with every step.
"Ah—"
Gu Huai sighed a long sigh. Only when she came back to herself in a daze did she notice that someone had arrived at the treehouse at some unknown time.
"Pavilion Master Shen." Gu Huai picked up an empty cup from the side.
Shen Qi, waving the round fan in her hand, smiled as she entered the house. A barrier then enveloped the treehouse, cutting off all sound from the outside.
"Why is the Little Medical Immortal so downcast? Is something troubling you?" Shen Qi sat down across from her, studying her without any restraint. Seeing that she didn't speak, she asked with a smile, "There's something I'm truly curious about. I wonder if the Little Medical Immortal could clear it up for me."
"Earlier, the Little Medical Immortal had Linglong Pavilion secretly spread word of the discord between Piaomiao Sect and Shangtianqiong. After the Ancient Yao Forest, you also had Linglong Pavilion covertly and widely publicize the matter of Shangtianqiong disciples becoming demonized. Targeting Shangtianqiong like this... could it be there's bad blood between you? And two days ago, you asked me to find a chance to send that magical artifact to that child called Xue Zizai. I was truly curious, but unintentionally discovered that the child left with Immortal Venerable and Elder Ah Xi."
Shen Qi leaned her upper body toward Gu Huai, her fox-like eyes narrowing. "There seem to be undercurrents stirring between Piaomiao Sect and Shangtianqiong. I don't believe there isn't another person's hand at work in this."
Gu Huai's gaze turned cold. She let out a cold laugh. "Has Pavilion Master Shen forgotten the rules of Linglong Pavilion? Take the money, handle the matter, ask nothing else. What, do you, the Pavilion Master, intend to be the first to break the rules?"
Shen Qi also laughed. "Of course not. I merely wish to make a deal with the Little Medical Immortal. I have a premonition that the Immortal Realm won't stay peaceful for long. I want to buy the truth behind all this from the Little Medical Immortal. Of course, you don't have to tell me right now. Waiting until after the dust settles is also fine. I imagine you will still have need of Linglong Pavilion in the future."
Gu Huai curved her lips. "Fine."
Shen Qi looked at her with slight surprise.
She agreed so quickly.
"After the dust settles, I will tell you the truth of all matters. Whatever price you sell it for then is none of my concern. I also know the rules: what is sold to Linglong Pavilion cannot be spread further." Gu Huai didn't stand on ceremony with her either. "As for the price of buying this truth, I'll still have to trouble Pavilion Master Shen to help me spread one more thing."
Shen Qi's eyelid twitched. "What thing?"
Gu Huai lowered her eyes, the curve of her lips seeming both there and not. "The Tianyan Yue Family's former Hidden Moon Lord, Yue Zhiwei, died at the hand of Shangtianqiong's Sword Venerable, Lou Wudu."
Shen Qi drew in a sharp breath.
To spread such news... with Shangtianqiong's capabilities, they would trace it back to Linglong Pavilion in less than three days. In the current situation, offending Shangtianqiong was hardly a wise move.
Shen Qi's eyes flickered slightly. "This news of yours... is it true or false?"
Everyone knew that the former Hidden Moon Lord, whose Heavenly Divination Art was extraordinary, died unexpectedly at the hands of the Demon Race.
If this news was true, then what lay in between...
Shen Qi dared not think deeply on it.
"What, does Pavilion Master Shen not dare?" Gu Huai said. "If this matter is spread and Shangtianqiong moves against Linglong Pavilion, wouldn't that confirm the matter? If it's false, an upright body fears not a crooked shadow, and Shangtianqiong would even less do anything to Linglong Pavilion. Should Sword Venerable ask about it in the future, you can just say someone sold this news to you and had you spread it. Naturally, you'll be cleanly absolved of it."
Shen Qi looked at her utterly unflustered manner and for a moment could not determine truth from falsehood.
"I'll consider it."
"Found it!"
Xue Zizai crawled out from a pile of books, her face slick with sweat. She turned her head to look to the side. Pei Xi was sprawled out on her back atop another pile of books, sleeping soundly.
Xue Zizai: "..."
Taking a deep breath, Xue Zizai comforted herself: it's fine, she can't read anyway.
She walked over, about to wake Pei Xi, when who knew, before her eyes the scene blurred, the back of her collar tightened, and her whole body was lifted up.
"!!!"
Her mouth was sealed by a spell, unable to cry out. Xue Zizai stared wide-eyed at Pei Xi.
Pei Xi moved. Turned over and continued sleeping.
Xue Zizai raised her head to see who had grabbed her. When she saw, her eyes instantly blazed with fire.
Yu Ting!!!
Yu Ting looked down at her. "What, this is how you treat your savior?"
Xue Zizai couldn't speak, but in her heart the curses hurled at her had already piled up by the basketful.
Yu Ting, carrying Xue Zizai, flashed once before the Ten-Thousand Names Stele and was gone.
Ling Qingyue and Pei Yin saw it. The two of them instantly rose, their figures transforming into streaks of light as they pursued.
Yu Ting seemed to have prepared beforehand. She used a magical artifact to swiftly disappear, leaving behind only a single sentence for Ling Qingyue and the other.
"If you want to save her, come to the Great Wilderness."
Ling Qingyue frowned, not understanding why Yu Ting would suddenly appear and take Xue Zizai away.
Back when trouble arose in Linshui Town, she had suspected it was Yu Ting who deliberately let Xue Zizai go and forcibly opened up Xue Zizai's meridians.
By logic, if Yu Ting was Lou Wudu's person, she shouldn't have let Xue Zizai go.
Pei Yin said, "She wants to use Xue Zizai to lure us to the Great Wilderness."
Ling Qingyue nodded and spoke with confusion. "Aunt Su hinted that the method of tribulation transcendence is in the Great Wilderness. And Yu Ting? What does she intend by luring us to the Great Wilderness?"
Pei Yin: "We'll know when we go."
Afterward, the two of them found Pei Xi still deep in slumber atop the book pile. Ling Qingyue reached out and pinched her nose shut. Finding that she would open her own mouth to breathe, she then used her other hand to cover Pei Xi's mouth.
Pei Xi's face slowly reddened, her brow furrowing.
When she could hold it no longer, she suddenly opened her eyes, reached out to pry Ling Qingyue's hands away, and gasped for air. She grumbled discontentedly, "What are you doing?"
Ling Qingyue poked her puffed-up cheek. "Where is the person you were supposed to watch?"
"Right there, isn't she?" Pei Xi casually pointed at one pile of books.
Ling Qingyue looked at her. Pei Yin also looked at her.
Pei Xi belatedly realized there were only the auras of the two of them there. She came awake in an instant, then scurried through the piles of books searching.
She didn't find her.
Pei Xi stood guiltily before the two of them, even reverting to her yao form.
Ling Qingyue tapped her long nose. "After we bring the person back, you'll eat her dreams for another three days."
Since Yu Ting was using Xue Zizai to lure them to the Great Wilderness, prior to that, Xue Zizai should not be in mortal danger. Though it was unknown whether she would be frightened by the Great Wilderness.
Pei Xi snorted in dissatisfaction and nodded unwillingly.
On the skyship's journey to the Great Wilderness, Ling Qingyue received a message from Nie Wenxiao. It said that the disciples sent to investigate the Mortal Realm had sent word back. They had found that in the lands of the Central South there had once been a Yuelou Country, but after they located the ruins of Yuelou Country, there had been no further news from them.
Nie Wenxiao intended to go see for herself.
After Ling Qingyue told Nie Wenxiao about Lou Wudu's identity, Nie Wenxiao did not hesitate either. She only said, "It is my responsibility that they have fallen into a dangerous place. I must bring them back."
After the jade token transmission cut off, Ling Qingyue stared blankly at the jade token.
Pei Yin saw this and asked softly, "What are you thinking about?"
Ling Qingyue blinked and asked, "Both are sect leaders, so why is the gap so large?"
One, for the sake of her own cultivation, wouldn't hesitate to trample the entire sect beneath her feet.
One, knowing full well the danger, would still go for the sake of her disciples.
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