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Chapter 233 Nascent Soul True Monarch - Hua Yaoyue! [Seeking Monthly Tickets]

"Exactly."

Judging from Kong Xifeng's tone, she most likely knew Plum Manor, or at least had heard of it... Ji Yuan nodded very seriously.

"No wonder you had the chance to use this teleportation token to escape after you met him."

"What the Supreme Elder means is..."

Ji Yuan asked questions when he didn't understand.

"He has always been carefree. If he were to encounter any of the other old monsters in the Shang Court, he might kill you without a second thought."

Kong Xifeng said casually.

So, am I lucky or unlucky?

Ji Yuan felt somewhat helpless for a moment.

"Anyway, it's good that you're back. Remember to be more careful next time you go out."

Kong Xifeng didn't say much. She was only saying these few words because of Hua Yaoyue. If it were an outsider, she probably would have thrown them out long ago.

"You young people chat, I won't disturb you."

After Kong Xifeng finished speaking, his figure instantly disappeared from the spot.

Ji Yuan didn't even notice how she left. All I can say is, this Nascent Soul stage monster is terrifying!

With her master not here, Wen Ling'er felt even more at ease. She quickly stepped forward and took Ji Yuan's arm, "Come on, Brother Ji, I'll show you around Qingfeng Island."

"Let me tell you, it's been more than ten years, and my master has never let me go out except to tell me to go home. He always says to wait and wait."

"I'm so tired of staying on Qingfeng Island."

With the Supreme Elder present, Ji Yuan felt embarrassed to be held back by Wen Ling'er, so he quickly stepped forward and subtly pushed her arm away.

Wen Ling'er seemed somewhat puzzled.

But Ji Yuan quickly changed the subject, "Where are Brother Wen and the others now? How are they doing? I've been looking for them all these years, but I haven't seen them."

"He's doing just fine, humph. He does nothing all day but fish, he doesn't even bother with alchemy anymore."

"I now live on Misty Island in the sect. That place can only be found by an outsider. The first time I went there, it was my senior brother, the sect leader, who took me there."

"Sect Leader, Senior Brother?"

Ji Yuan was somewhat surprised to hear this address.

"Yes, Master told me to call them that. Besides him, there's also Senior Brother Yunyuan, Senior Brother Xuanxiao, Senior Brother Liexiao, Senior Sister Suxin..."

Wen Ling'er counted them one by one on her fingers.

Ji Yuan's lips twitched slightly upon hearing this. How could he not understand what Wen Ling'er was saying?

She became the disciple of a Nascent Soul stage elder, and thus all the other Golden Core cultivators in the sect became her senior brothers and sisters.

So, does that mean I have to call Wen Ling'er "Uncle-Master Wen"?

"Ling'er, how did your cultivation reach the peak of Foundation Establishment?"

Ji Yuan looked around at the surrounding mountains and rivers, and asked as if he was just trying to make conversation.

He was curious about just how terrifying the cultivation speed of this strange spiritual root was.

Ji Yuan was born with a pseudo-spiritual root, but through his own efforts and with the slight help from the panel, he has reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment from the ninth level of Qi Refining in just twelve years.

But what about Wen Ling'er?

Twelve years.

He went from an ordinary person with no cultivation to a great master at the peak of Foundation Establishment!

"Just keep practicing like this, and your cultivation level will increase."

As Wen Ling'er spoke, she struck a meditation pose, "But cultivation is so tiring, and Master forces me to cultivate every day."

"And now my cultivation level is improving so slowly."

"slow?"

"Yes, at first I could break through my cultivation level in just a few days, but now it's so difficult. I've been at the peak of Foundation Establishment for almost half a year, and I still don't know how to form a core, let alone a fake one. Sigh."

Wen Ling'er seemed a little unhappy, and kicked small stones on the ground as she walked.

...I shouldn't have asked.

Ji Yuan chuckled and then asked, "Can outsiders like us go up to Misty Island where Brother Wen is?"

Wen Ling'er might not notice, but Ji Yuan could guess that the people living on Misty Island were most likely "connected individuals".

It allows some disciples within the sect to focus on their cultivation without worrying about what will happen after their death.

"Sure, I'll tell Master in a bit, and I'll take you to see your parents. They've been talking about you all these years."

"No need, you can take him there yourself."

Kong Xifeng's voice rang in both of their ears at the same time.

This also made Ji Yuan pause... This Supreme Elder had been spying all along; he really had no sense of chivalry.

"Okay, thank you, Master."

As they talked, the two continued walking outside.

As they walked, Wen Ling'er explained to Ji Yuan what this place was for and what had happened to her there.

She practically wanted to tell Ji Yuan everything she had experienced over the years.

She was almost ready to pass on her cultivation techniques to Ji Yuan.

Kong Xifeng then said again, "Ji Yuan, right? Your master has arrived."

"Master?"

Ji Yuan was overjoyed and quickly looked up at the island.

A white streak of light swept straight in from the east, causing clouds to disperse and thunder to rumble in its wake.

"Ling'er, wait a moment, I'm going to see my master."

"I'm going too!"

Wen Ling'er immediately shouted.

Ji Yuan then summoned the flying boat Feng Huai and took off to the outside of the island.

Hua Yaoyue stopped in front of him at just the right moment.

"Disciple greets Master."

Ji Yuan quickly cupped his hands in a salute.

Hua Yaoyue looked him up and down, and only after seeing that he was alright did she ask, "Who did you run into?"

"The person I bumped into at Tianzhu Mountain last time, I met again at Mirror Lake this time. He is from Plum Manor," Ji Yuan hurriedly explained.

"Oh? It's him."

Hua Yaoyue's expression remained unchanged as she casually said, "Alright, if there's nothing else, go wait for me on Forget-Worry Island. I have something to discuss with the elders."

Only now did Ji Yuan notice that Hua Yaoyue in front of him looked travel-worn and disheveled.

Her once neatly tied hair was now slightly disheveled, and there was a tear in the hem of her skirt.

...Did Master go out and get into a fight?

Otherwise, how could it have turned out like this? And normally, as soon as I returned to the sect using the teleportation token, my master should have already received the news.

Logically speaking, they should have arrived long ago.

But it took her until now to arrive... She just rushed back from outside the sect.

"Alright, then I'll wait for Master on Forget-Worry Island."

After Ji Yuan finished speaking, he transmitted his voice to Wen Ling'er and said to her, "Ling'er, my master has some things to attend to. I'll come find you after I'm done. Then we can go find Brother Wen together."

"Oh well……"

Although Wen Ling'er was not very happy, she still agreed.

Then Ji Yuan bowed to Qingfeng Island and said, "Thank you, Supreme Elder."

After speaking, he urged the wind-blown locust tree beneath his feet and sped off to the east.

Seeing that Ji Yuan was safe and sound, Hua Yaoyue finally felt relieved. She made a hand seal with one hand, took a step forward, and the dusty aura on her body instantly disappeared, restoring her usual dignified elegance.

Wen Ling'er looked up at the incredibly tall woman in front of her and blinked.

"Are you my Senior Sister Wangyou?"

Hua Yaoyue looked down at the little girl in front of her, a rare smile appearing on her face. "That's right, so next time you see Ji Yuan, remember to have him call you 'Shishu' (a term of respect for a senior female disciple).

"No way, he's my brother Ji."

Wen Ling'er refused, and instead, she used her magical artifact, which flew like a swallow, to circle around Hua Yaoyue.

"Senior Sister Wangyou, you're so beautiful! No wonder you're Brother Ji's master."

As Hua Yaoyue walked towards Qingfeng Island, she replied with a smile, "What? Just because I'm not good-looking doesn't mean I can't be your brother Ji's master?"

"No, it's just that Brother Ji is already very handsome. It would be strange if his master wasn't good-looking. But thankfully, Senior Sister Wangyou, you are very beautiful. You are the third most beautiful person I have ever seen."

"Oh? Then who are first and second?"

"My mother is first, my master is second, and you're third, Senior Sister Wangyou."

"You have such a sweet tongue. I'll give you a little something extra later."

As the two were talking, Hua Yaoyue had already set foot on Qingfeng Island.

As soon as she landed, Kong Xifeng emerged from the island, seemingly having come specifically to wait for her on the shore.

"Ling'er, go back inside first."

Kong Xifeng said with a smile.

"Ah? But Ling'er wants to hear it too, Master." Wen Ling'er stepped forward and hugged Kong Xifeng's arm, acting coquettishly.

"Ling'er, be good and listen to me."

"Oh well."

Wen Ling'er turned back three times before leaving the place with great reluctance.

After she left, Hua Yaoyue said with a smile, "I've never seen the elder have such a gentle side. If those people back then knew that the famous 'ruthless flower-destroying Kong Xifeng' was actually so gentle, they would probably be so scared that they would crawl out of their coffins."

"hehe."

"Perhaps it's just that people get old. When people get old, they tend to become more sentimental. Besides, Ling'er's personality is indeed very likable."

"So you're treating her like your own granddaughter now?"

"More or less."

Kong Xifeng did not deny it.

Hua Yaoyue seemed to have thought of something, and the smile on her face faded slightly. "Elder..."

"You don't need to call me 'Senior Sister' anymore, right?"

Kong Xifeng squinted at Hua Yaoyue in front of her and said with a smile, "Either call me Fellow Daoist, or... call me Senior Sister."

Hua Yaoyue didn't rush to reply, but considered it carefully for a while before saying:

"Fellow Daoist Kong".

Upon hearing this address, Kong Xifeng's smile gradually faded, and even her eyes became very complex, as if she were disappointed, sad, and somewhat angry. But in the end, all her expressions turned into a long sigh.

"Yaoyue, it's been so many years, don't you really feel any sense of belonging to the sect at all?"

"Fellow Daoist Kong, you know that I will have to leave this Canglu Continent sooner or later. As for the Water Dragon Sect... I can't protect it," Hua Yaoyue said frankly.

"If you're leaving, you can't take the entire sect with you..."

Before Kong Xifeng could finish speaking, Hua Yaoyue interrupted, "I can't protect her."

After failing to protect her with two consecutive attempts, Kong Xifeng stopped trying to persuade her and stepped forward, pressing down on Hua Yaoyue with boundless pressure.

In an instant, the clouds that had been covering the Water Dragon Sect parted and the sun shone brightly on the thousands of islands.

The lake water surrounding Qingfeng Island seemed to have been submerged by an inch.

Kong Xifeng frowned and asked in a deep voice, "Hua Yaoyue, do you really not take the sect seriously?"

Hua Yaoyue looked at the Supreme Elder in front of her and suddenly let out a sneer.

As the laughter subsided, the lake water, which had been suppressed, surged back up and returned to normal. Hua Yaoyue said with a helpless smile, "Fellow Daoist Kong, you couldn't stop me when I was at the Golden Core stage. Now that I'm at the Nascent Soul stage, what do you think you can do to me?"

Upon hearing this, Kong Xifeng's imposing manner immediately deflated.

Once that breath was released, he seemed to have aged considerably.

"Yaoyue, I am really getting old... But as you can see from the current state of the Water Dragon Sect, those two lads, Yunyuan and Xuanxiao, are good at internal and external struggles within the sect, but if you really ask them to take on the Water Dragon Sect, they can't handle it."

"So this is why you, Fellow Daoist Kong, are trying to negotiate with a tiger for its skin?"

Hua Yaoyue cuts straight to the point.

Kong Xifeng fell silent after hearing this.

She looked down at the calm lake for a long time before softly saying, "I have no other choice."

"Is there really no other choice?"

Hua Yaoyue sneered again, "I've already given you the path, you had two paths to choose from, but you still chose this one. Fellow Daoist Kong, I only have one question for you."

"Go ahead and ask."

"Are you trying to negotiate with a tiger for its skin? Are you trying to protect the entire Water Dragon Sect, or are you doing this for your own sake, Kong Xifeng?"

This question left Kong Xifeng speechless.

So she remained silent.

But silence itself is also a form of response.

Hua Yaoyue didn't press further. She simply said, "If you're willing to go south, I'm willing to offer you protection for a while. But if you insist on dealing with a tiger for its skin, I can only give you one piece of advice..."

"What did you say?"

"Don't treat those crazy people who defied the heavens and lived a second life as fools..."

After Hua Yaoyue finished speaking, Kong Xifeng suddenly looked up, but quickly lowered her head again. "I know."

"But what you, Hua Yaoyue, see is only what you see."

"Oh?" Upon hearing this, Hua Yaoyue seemed to have just become interested, and then asked with a smile, "Then I'll trouble Fellow Daoist Kong to enlighten me. What is it that I, Hua Yaoyue, haven't seen?"

Kong Xifeng pondered for a long while before saying, "They want to leave our Shangdong Six Immortals Sect with no way out, so why should we leave them a way out?"

"They want to fight amongst themselves? Then let them fight amongst themselves together."

Hua Yaoyue's eyes seemed to show some interest, and then the two of them no longer spoke to each other face to face, but instead communicated telepathically for a while.

After a while.

Having calmed down, Hua Yaoyue was about to leave. She had already taken to the air when, as if remembering something, she turned to look at Kong Xifeng.

"Fellow Daoist Kong seems to look down on me, his last disciple?"

Kong Xifeng, leaning on her cane, said frankly, "She has good talent, decent strength, a good mental state, and excellent looks, but unfortunately... her spiritual root aptitude is too poor."

"Ha, spiritual roots? In the end, who doesn't need all five?"

Hua Yaoyue sneered.

"You mean to say he's a genius, right?" Kong Xifeng didn't change her opinion because of this. "But a genius who doesn't grow up is never a genius."

Hua Yaoyue stared at her, and in that instant, she suddenly understood why the Water Dragon Sect had fallen to its current state.

They also understood why there wasn't a single Golden Core Peak cultivator.

Such a clear fault has appeared.

There's a saying: "If the upper beam is crooked, the lower beam will be crooked too."

Hua Yaoyue didn't say anything like "You're wrong." Before leaving, she simply said, "In the future, I hope my last disciple will go higher and farther than me."

These are the words that Hua Yaoyue said.

The unspoken thing she said was... "The reason I was able to break through to the Nascent Soul stage today is because of his help."

"You think highly of him."

When Kong Xifeng said this, there was finally a hint of seriousness in her eyes.

She didn't believe in Ji Yuan, but she believed in Hua Yaoyue.

Since Hua Yaoyue spoke in this way, she must have had the confidence to do so.

……

This was the first time Ji Yuan had set foot on Forget-Worry Island without Hua Yaoyue present.

So his first thought was, should we take a stroll around the island?

Because he always went wherever Hua Yaoyue was whenever he came before, there are still many places on this island that he has never been to.

For example, the dungeon where Yun Qianzai was imprisoned... Feng Zhitao went there, and she said that the yin energy down there was very heavy.

Ji Yuan even considered planting the Yin Ghost Flag there to nurture it.

For example, when I was chatting with Ran Kui a while ago, Ji Yuan heard him mention that there was a spiritual plant growing on the southwest side of Forget-Worry Island, and the spiritual fruit it bore was just like grapes, with an excellent taste.

He only tried it during the first few years after becoming an apprentice, and hasn't eaten it since.

After thinking it over, Ji Yuan decided to give up the idea.

It's best not to wander around without your master's permission.

So when Ji Yuan arrived at the pavilion, he quietly released his divine sense, which was comparable to the early stage of the Golden Core realm!

With the blessing of a level 2 Meditation Room and the nourishment of the Nine Palaces Soul-Suppressing Scripture day and night, Ji Yuan, though only at the late Foundation Establishment stage, possesses a spiritual consciousness comparable to that of a Golden Core cultivator.

But as soon as he released his divine sense, before he could even cover the mountaintop, Hua Yaoyue had already arrived behind him.

Ji Yuan was so frightened that he immediately withdrew his divine sense and stood up from his position. "Master... Master."

"Why are you so afraid?"

It's unclear whether Hua Yaoyue noticed Ji Yuan's divine sense, but she didn't mention it. Instead, she went directly to the soft chair, turned around, and comfortably lay back down.

Whether it was because she hadn't lain down for too long or what, this time when she lay down, Hua Yaoyue actually let out a comfortable groan.

"No, I'm not afraid. What is there to be afraid of with Master here?"

Ji Yuan sat back down without any hesitation.

"Hmm, where's the 'as you please' wine?"

Hua Yaoyue naturally extended her hand to her closed-door disciple.

Ji Yuan spent a full year away from home, and even the most generous amount of wine he had left behind had all been drunk up by Hua Yaoyue.

So the craving for alcohol in my stomach had been brewing for a long time!

Ji Yuan took out the remaining dozen or so jugs of Sui Xin Wine from his storage bag and explained, "I've been traveling the whole time and haven't had time to brew wine, but the batch I brewed on Wuyou Island should be ready by now. I'll bring it to Master in a few days."

"Okay, remember to bring some other drinks too, let's finish this one."

Hua Yaoyue casually picked up a pot, drank it all in one gulp, and then said sweetly,

"Okay."

It's just alcohol, there's plenty of it!

"Since you've encountered Plum Manor, things are much easier."

Hua Yaoyue seemed even happier after drinking the "Wishful Thinking Wine," so she spoke with great ease, "If you meet him again next time, just say one sentence to him, and he won't dare to lay a hand on you."

"What did you say?"

Ji Yuan pricked up his ears.

"Ask him if he has forgotten the beating he got on Mozhu Island."

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