One of my fairy-like friends

Sister longs to see Master...

“I will talk to Master.” Mingyan nodded, but then thought for a moment and said, “Master is very good to me. I have also told my sister about these things. She must have her own reasons.”

"You're very protective of your master, huh? Then I'll have to see even more." Wang Qingchu smiled. "I've heard Mengru talk about your master, saying she was once the most beautiful woman in the Eastern Continent. Do you harbor any rebellious thoughts towards your master?"

Mingyan raised an eyebrow. "What rebellious heart?"

"Don't you understand what your sister means?" Wang Qingchu smiled slightly. "Do you have romantic feelings for your master?"

Mingyan quickly shook his head. "Sister, you can't joke like that. I only have respect and filial piety for Master, and I have no desire for him. Besides, you should know that the one I like is Ning Feixuan."

Wang Qingchu moved closer, touching Mingyan's nose to hers. Her jade-like hands, cool with seawater, cupped Mingyan's face as she chuckled, "Do you only like Ning Feixuan? Silly boy, life is so long, why be attached to just one person? My Yan'er is so outstanding, there must be many who like you. Besides, Yan'er, do you really only have feelings for Ning Feixuan? Have you really not developed any romantic feelings for the others around you?"

Ming Yan opened his mouth, but Wang Qingchu stopped him with her jade finger. She smiled and said, "Don't deny it, Yan'er. You feel that you have no romantic feelings for your senior sister Yue Qingying or your friend Huang Feiyan, but what would you think if they really married other men and became someone else's Daoist partners?"

Tell me your most honest thoughts.

Mingyan subconsciously avoided Wang Qingchu's gaze and remained silent for a while.

He had actually thought about this problem a long time ago.

If his senior sister were to marry someone else... how would he feel? He and his senior sister were too close, even though they were both practicing together, and she had no ulterior motives, only wanting to train herself, but... over time...

Mingyan wasn't slow-witted; he just sometimes hesitated to acknowledge certain things because clarifying matters too clearly wasn't a good thing...

Just like now, unless he figures things out, he won't realize that his senior sister might leave him.

But once he understands it, he will realize it.

Yes, he is now the Holy Son of Wind Spirit, and Yue Qingying is the Holy Maiden of Moon Shadow. According to custom, the two are very likely to get together. But he is thinking of Ning Feixuan now. Even if his senior sister had such thoughts, she would give up, right?

"I...will I be sad? Will my sister think I'm too domineering? I clearly like someone else, but I'm sad about the possibility of my senior sister leaving me?" Mingyan didn't hide anything from Wang Qingchu.

"Yan'er, do you know who likes you?" Wang Qingchu didn't answer Mingyan's question, but asked with a smile.

Mingyan thought of Anran, pursed his lips, and nodded slightly.

"So, I suppose you didn't respond to her, or you simply rejected her, right?" Wang Qingchu held Mingyan's hand, her warm, sweet breath brushing against Mingyan's nose and lips, but Mingyan's mind was elsewhere, and he didn't notice.

"I figured out a way to reject her."

"Do you think she'll be sad?" Wang Qingchu asked with a smile.

"Probably, definitely." Mingyan nodded.

Do you like her?

“I only feel pity for her, not romantic feelings.” Mingyan shook his head. An Ran was a pitiful person. He helped her, but he had no romantic feelings for her whatsoever.

"Now, let's make a hypothetical scenario. Suppose that person is your senior sister, who actually likes Ning Feixuan very much, but also has some ambiguous feelings for your senior sister. Would you completely sever your relationship with your senior sister for Ning Feixuan's sake?" Wang Qingchu asked.

"Even if we sever ties..."

"You mean to say that even if you and your senior sister don't end up together, you can still maintain other relationships, right?" Wang Qingchu asked with a smile.

"...Isn't that right?"

"From my perspective, of course, whatever makes my Yan'er happy is what matters most. But Yan'er, why don't you think about it? If you were your senior sister, and you could only stand by and watch the person you like with another woman, how would you feel? Do you think your senior sister would be sad? Would she be upset?"

Without a doubt, my senior sister will be heartbroken.

"Can she keep watching forever? She'll eventually leave, you fool."

“Yan’er, your sister has lived for nine thousand years. If you include the time she spent sleeping, it has been hundreds of thousands of years. These hundreds of thousands of years of loneliness have made me understand something.” Wang Qingchu held Ming Yan’s hand and said softly, “A person’s life is actually very long, especially for people like us. So it is such a lucky thing to have someone by your side.”

Mingyan kept his sister's nine thousand years of loneliness in his heart. He had never actually experienced it, but he could make a vague imagination about it.

Her elders, teachers, comrades, and sisters have all left her. She can no longer find a single person of her generation in the world. She stands alone on a high, lonely mountaintop, looking down upon the world.

Watching the world change and the new generation rise up, even though she is the strongest person in the world, she can't find a friend with common interests. Perhaps she will visit the graves of her elders, comrades, and sisters to pay her respects, and talk about her past experiences, immersing herself in memories. Those people will come alive again, as if they are by her side.

But that's just an imagination, a dream. It will end. When you wake up, you'll find yourself all alone, with only the tombstone standing silently beside you.

"And in this long life, one has to experience so much. Watching your closest sister die in your arms, remembering the last teachings of your teachers with tears in your eyes, and when you look back on it, you always regret why you didn't do more for them when they were alive, why you didn't do your best to bring them joy, why you didn't stop...their departure."

"A person's life is too long, and regrets are inevitable. But when you realize that these regrets have become regrets, it is often too late to make amends." Wang Qingchu smiled and said, "Even if one has extraordinary abilities, what can one do? Can one bring the dead back to life? Can one turn back time?"

"Yan'er, if you end up with Ning Feixuan, but have to leave your senior sister, many years later, when you look back on this, will you regret it?"

Mingyan gazed at the horizon in silence.

If his senior sister truly liked him, and he also harbored ambiguous feelings for her...

Perhaps it was a thousand or two years later. His hair was still black, while the senior sister in front of him had already turned white. He stood in front of his senior sister and chatted with her about the past.

Then they talked about their past relationship... Time has healed everything. The senior sister smiled, with a deep weariness and a sense of relief.

She said those were just youthful naiveté, and that seeing him happy was enough for her.

Can he let go of the past like his senior sister did?

He possesses the body of a human king, meaning his lifespan is destined to be far longer than others.

He could only watch his senior sister grow old, and he could only bury her with his own hands. Then, when he recalled his past choices, would he feel any regret?

I regret not being able to accompany my senior sister, not being able to walk with her, and regretting that I have failed her feelings over the past two thousand years.

Because of his relationship with Ning Feixuan, and the fact that his senior sister had chosen someone else, could he genuinely offer her comfort and blessings? Mingyan felt that he was being hypocritical; he couldn't do it. Just as he said, he would be sad. Even though he had Ning Feixuan, he would still be sad because his senior sister had chosen someone else.

But his senior sister had no other choice; she stood by his side the whole time, watching him and waiting for him. Did that bring him comfort? Did that make him happy?

He couldn't be happy. The thought of his senior sister enduring a thousand years of loneliness, watching the person she loved be intimate with someone else...

"Yan'er, I've already experienced this feeling, although it wasn't romantic love. But the pain of romantic love might return even more intensely." Wang Qingchu said earnestly. "I don't want to wait until one day you tell me, 'Having tasted all the splendor of the world, it's hard to make up for a lifetime of bitter regrets.' I'm not saying all this to tell you to choose your senior sister and give up Ning Feixuan, but to tell you not to give yourself a chance to regret it. Hold on tightly to everything you can grasp. You like Ning Feixuan, and you also have a slight affection for your senior sister. Who told you that you can only choose one of them?"

"Do whatever you want, good or bad, your sister will always be there for you."

"My sister has been asleep for hundreds of thousands of years, not only to see my Yan'er, but also to ensure that my only relative will not waste this life and will not feel regret one day in the future."

"So, Yan'er, don't be bound by these things. It doesn't matter if you like Ning Feixuan, your senior sister, your master, or even Mengru and your friend Huang Feiyan. If you like them, then go for it. Our lives are so long. Are we just here to lose them and then be tormented by the pain of loss until one day we comfort ourselves with the words 'let go'?"

Chapter 167 Opening Ning Feixuan's Heart

Mingyan left Wang Qingchu's Qi Sea World.

These days, he has been thinking about Wang Qingchu's words.

Is the mentality of "If you want something, you should get it" really normal for cultivators?

My older sister is a fully grown adult with a kingly physique, a being on the verge of reaching the pinnacle of cultivation; her understanding certainly surpasses mine.

However, this rather reckless behavior...

Mingyan remained silent; this was different from any concept he had known since childhood.

If everyone thought like this, wouldn't the world have already descended into chaos?

Moreover, Mingyan knew that his sister cared more about him, and she had made no secret of the fact that she only cared about him and herself in this life.

Can he really do that?

Mingyan felt somewhat confused.

He took a deep breath, temporarily putting these thoughts aside, and walked out of Wang Qingchu's tomb.

Outside the tomb, a beautiful fairy from Yaochi was waiting for him. When she saw him come out, she smiled and bowed. "The Queen Mother of the West sent me to invite Young Master Ming to her palace. Please come with me."

Mingyan nodded and followed the Fairy of Yaochi to the main hall of the Queen Mother of the West. After that, the Fairy of Yaochi left. When Mingyan walked to the front of the hall, he saw Ning Mengru sitting inside. Her eyes were wide open, and the lotus flower between her brows was blooming silently. She was incredibly beautiful.

Ning Mengru's appearance goes without saying; she is extremely beautiful, dignified, and elegant. However, for some reason, Mingyan always felt that she carried a subtle, alluring charm, which was somewhat of a contrast.

Mingyan lowered his head. "Aunt Ning."

Ning Mengru opened her eyes and saw Ming Yan standing in front of the hall. She smiled and nodded gently, "Come in."

Mingyan strode into the main hall, looked around but did not see Huang Junru, and asked, "Aunt Ning, has Aunt Huang gone back?"

“Yes. I went back earlier. Now that the spatial laws are damaged and the teleportation portal is no longer working, it’s inevitable that I’ll be a little worried if I don’t stay at home.” Ning Mengru nodded gently. “However, this also means that for the next period of time, it’s unlikely that we at the Human Rising Realm and Half-Step Human Rising Realm will be able to leave the Holy Land.”

Upon hearing this, Mingyan snapped out of his reverie, realizing he had forgotten to ask his sister if the damage to the spatial laws was also related to Empress Qingzi.

However, his sister had said there was no need to worry about it... Mingyan naturally trusted his sister, and after thinking about it, he decided not to ask any more questions.

“Then I should also set off to return to the Fenglingyueying Holy Land.” Mingyan said. With his Qi Sea Realm cultivation, could he really travel half a distance back to Fenglingyueying in half a year?

Mingyan sighed inwardly. Yaoguang Star was too big, and losing the teleportation portal was really inconvenient.

"How long will it take you to return to Fenglingyueying alone?" Ning Mengru chuckled. "I recently observed the spatial laws within the teleportation portal and discovered that the Great Dao has begun to repair the spatial laws, but the process is slow and may not be able to perform long-distance teleportation. However, I guess that short-distance teleportation should be possible soon, and it won't be too late to leave then."

"Besides, if the ancestors find out that I'm letting you embark on your journey home alone, I'm afraid I won't be able to continue as the Queen Mother of the West," Ning Mengru joked.

"Aunt Ning, you're exaggerating..." Mingyan said, somewhat amused and exasperated. "Then how long will I have to wait?"

"If things go smoothly, it will take one or two months; if things go slowly, it will take three or four months. These massive teleportation portals will probably take seven or eight months or even longer to recover." Ning Mengru sighed softly. "I wonder if the Peach Banquet can be held smoothly."

"Should we still hold the Peach Banquet?" Mingyan's heart skipped a beat. Ning Mengru had said that Empress Qingzi would descend upon the present... Did Aunt Ning not know that the two previous imperial auras were released by her sister, or did Aunt Ning know but was certain that Empress Qingzi would descend during the Peach Banquet?

How strange... Oh well, why should I care about these things? My sister must have her own plans. I don't need to pay attention to them. Since she didn't tell me the details, I don't need to find out more.

“Three or four months...do we have to wait that long?” Mingyan was silent for a while before saying, “My senior sister and master don’t know my whereabouts. Now that the teleportation portal has been lost, they certainly won’t be at ease...I’ve been away from the Holy Land for a long time.”

Coming to the Jade Pool Holy Land was a spur-of-the-moment decision; Master and Senior Sister certainly didn't know...

"Don't worry about that. Before Huang Junru set off to bring you to Yaochi, she had already sent a message to Feng Lingyueying. She should arrive in a while." Ning Mengru smiled and said, "During this time, you can spend more time with the ancestors."

Ning Mengru was acutely aware of Wang Qingchu's concern for Mingyan, as she would periodically send her telepathic messages to inquire about Mingyan's situation...

Ning Mengru didn't know much about Ming Yan before, but in order to better convey the message to Wang Qingchu, she went to learn about everything about Ming Yan.

It's alright if you don't know him, but once you do... Ning Mengru discovered that this person, though seemingly honest and unassuming, has quite a few romantic entanglements...

However, you can tell just by looking at their faces that such a handsome young man with such talent is indeed very easy to win people's favor.

Mingyan sighed inwardly. He did want to spend more time with his sister, but it was the same old problem: spending too much time with her would make him rusty and despondent, to the point that he would lose all interest in cultivating immortality.

Although my sister is wonderful, I cannot indulge in that feeling. My sister may not care, but Mingyan cannot. My sister is not fully awake yet.

Ning Mengru's expression was somewhat strange, then she smiled and said, "Our ancestor just sent me a message, saying that she could arrange for you to have some training soon... In that case, it just so happens that I was planning to have Feixuan deal with a ferocious beast that is rampaging around here. You two are quite close, so why don't you go together?"

Mingyan was somewhat surprised, but he had no reason to refuse. "What level of cultivation does this ferocious beast possess?"

“Divine Realm, possibly at the maximum level,” Ning Mengru said. “There’s a blessed land nearby that was attacked before, and they’ve reported it. It’s perfect for you and Feixuan to handle it. Be careful. You go to the gate first, and I’ll notify Feixuan to meet you.”

Mingyan nodded and turned to leave.

Go hunting with Ning Feixuan? Mingyan's heart stirred. Regardless of whether his sister's words were right or wrong, he still wanted to continue pursuing Ning Feixuan and hoped to learn more about her through this opportunity.