Chapter 79
Chapter 79.1: The Mysterious Asura's Scene
"In that case, I will accept it then." Qing Yu did not say much but accepted the ring.
Bai Zhi Yan looked at her and suddenly said with a smile: "I heard that you are going to that whatever Faint Mist Sect?"
"How did you know?"
"What do I not know of in these lands? Do you think my Fragrance Court is open for nothing?" Bai Zhi Yan replied with a smug look on his face, looking like that was the most natural thing in the world.
[How overly confident he is!]
"I'll say, wouldn't it be much better if you follow us back to Cloud Heaven instead? You'll get much better resources there so what are you going to that Faint Mist Sect for? With your powers, do you even need to go in there to cultivate at all?" Bai Zhi Yan still could not give up trying to poach her over to their side, not willing to give up on any chance he had.
Hearing that, Qing Yu looked at him expressionlessly and replied: "The higher level realms are so brutal, with endless killing and chaotic fighting everyday. If I go back with you people, with my current level of power, I will be sending myself to my own doom. If it wasn't for the fact that Cloud Heaven was too chaotic, would you people need to hide here and not return back there?"
"….." [What a pointed and prophetic statement!]
[This little lass' mind is just too incisive and sharp! !]
Just as they were talking, Lou Jun Yao then came in from outside. Detecting the strange atmosphere in the room, he could not help but raise up an eyebrow and asked in puzzlement: "What were you talking about?"
Bai Zhi Yan turned his head and looked at him appraisingly. "Where did you go?"
Lou Jun Yao turned his gaze on the culprit and did not answer him but came to realize that the box of crystal buns was now empty. The expression on his face suddenly changed and he asked emotionlessly: "You ate them?"
Bai Zhi Yan felt that the question he asked was a little senseless but he did not suspect anything as he replied: "That's right. I was hungry and I ate them all. Didn't Qing Yu bring it here for me?"
Upon saying that, he then looking in askance towards the young lady opposite him, and the latter blinked her eyes innocently at him.
"That was mine." Lou Jun Yao was looking at him without any emotion on his face, the expression strangely terrifying.
Bai Zhi Yan immediately felt that he was losing face here and his devilishly good looking plum blossom eyes then had flames sparking within. "What? We've been brothers who went through thick and thin for so many years. Can't I even eat a couple of buns from you? !"
"It's eleven of them." Lou Jun Yao corrected him with a deadpan face.
There were twelve in total in that box and one had been wasted by those two earlier with the rest now in Bai Zhi Yan's tummy.
In reality it was really nothing for Bai Zhi Yan to help himself to just a few buns. But as it was the first time the little fox was giving him something as a gift though it was just a box of buns, the meaning of those buns was extraordinary. How could he allow Bai Zhi Yan to eat them all just like that?
Though Lou Jun Yao was not aware at this moment, why he was even feeling happy just because Qing Yu had casually given him a box of buns.
"Lou Jun Yao! Let me tell you that I have been tolerating you for a very long time! If you continue to treat me so coldly and be so heartless, we cannot remain brothers anymore! !" Bai Zhi Yan exploded, spitting his words out through gritted teeth.
Qing Yu at the side did not know what to say. "….."
[What is happening here? Turning upon each other over a box of buns? ?]
[Isn't it just too ridiculous…..]
She looked on helplessly at the two men with swords drawn in their eyes and she began to say: "Here….. I have another box. If either of you want, just take it!"
"I only want the previous box." Lou Jun Yao said stubbornly.
"Sheesh! Who cares for those few measly buns of yours! Do you want me to vomit them out and return them to you?" Bai Zhi Yan retorted, purposely saying it in a disgusting manner.
Chapter 79.2: The Mysterious Asura's Scene
"Vomit. Vomit it out now. Things that belong to me, even in death, I do not want it to die inside your stomach."
"….."
[What a great classic example of a idiosyncratic couple who loved and hated each other at the same time.]
It was feared that it might not be suitable for her to remain there further. If she stayed any longer, she might find out more of the two men's love hate relationship and would have to be silenced sooner or later.
"You guys can carry on. I'll make a move first." Qing Yu said indifferently, and picked up the box of buns that had been despised by the two men before she slowly walked out from there.
Before she left, she saw that the few people downstairs were still deeply unconscious, all sound asleep. It was probably because the atmosphere was just too strange as there still wasn't a single customer.
[What a bunch of strange and eccentric people.]
She had however not noticed that after she walked a good distance away, the man at the door sleeping with his eyes open and who had not shown the slightest reaction from beginning to end, suddenly swiveled his eyes as he muttered thoughtfully to himself: "Just who could this lass be? Her relationship with the Lord is definitely not ordinary!"
"It is said that she is the Lord's benefactor who saved his life. The higher ups have given instructions that she is a person we must not offend."
The fella behind the counter was still clicking the abacus in a flurry, his head not lifting up at all as he spoke. The whole scene in there had changed so very quickly that it seemed the person who had been unconscious and snoring loudly just a moment ago was not him at all.
"You both know nothing at all." The man sprawled over the table had probably slept the most comfortably.
He was rubbing his still groggy eyes as he wiped off the suspicious wet stains from the corner of his mouth and he then gave a big lazy yawn.
If Qing Yu had been there she would surely have recognized that this man was the same grey robed man who had rescued her from the Barricaded Spirit Tower.
When the two other men heard that they quickly came awake, both of them highly taken aback. "This isn't just any ordinary benefactor you know….."
His tone of voice was heavy with profound meaning.
"What do you mean?"
"You wouldn't understand even if I tell you." The grey robed man said with contempt in his eyes, and he then gave another sleepy yawn. "Don't disturb me. Let me continue to catch up with sleep."
"….."
[Did this scoundrel not sleep at all in his previous life! ?]
[Twenty fours in a day and he sleeps for twenty hours. Spends two more hours eating and the last two hours remaining half awake and groggy. He's really one of a kind.]
Qing Yu brought back the still warm crystal buns for Qing Bei. Having not gone out from the manor for so many years he seldom saw the kind of snacks being sold outside. He was afterall still a child and it was bought for him by his favourite elder sister, hence he had naturally been highly delighted.
Ever since Qin Fang knew of the gifted talents they possessed, he was very relaxed with them but would still come check on their progress every few days. In contrast, he watched Yan Xi Rou and Yan Xi Wu very strictly.
Yan Xi Wu endured it silently and she was doing alright, while Yan Xi Rou was wailing incessantly in complaint about how tough it was. She had afterall been pampered and spoilt from a young age and had never encountered such suffering.
Even going back to complain to her Royal Concubine mother did not help as it was a direct order given by Yan Su himself, so no one was able to interfere. Moreover, her mother also had to tolerate the Duchess Mo Han Yan's sarcastic ridicule and she had her hands tied.
On the other side, Qing Yu returned to her room and was just going to flip through the <
In regards to her martial arts, because her weapons spirit Zang Mai had regained consciousness, her cultivation had been greatly accelerated, without having to share her excess energy to nourish her weapon spirit. Now she needed to improve and sharpen her skills in Medicine at the same time, though she did not know what level she was at herself at this moment.
Chapter 79.3: The Mysterious Asura's Scene
Sitting with her legs crossed on the bed, she had just entered her sea of consciousness when a shot of pain hit her in the brain for a moment.
Qing Yu knitted up her brows and she pressed a finger between her brows to massage it. [What happened there?]
She had not overtired herself, so why had she felt like that? Fortunately the pain had disappeared in an instant.
But just as she was not paying attention to it, a terrible and blood filled scene from Asura's Hell flashed before her eyes. Within an enormous array of stars, a man and a woman were locked in a tight embrace, their clothes stained with bright red blood.
The man's hand was gripped around the sharp blade thrusting towards his body which shielded the woman completely but the dagger in the woman's hand stabbed deeply into the man's chest.
Qing Yu's eyes flared open and her long slightly upslanted eyes were bright red, looking highly terrifying.
A golden light appeared at the side and the golden haired youth suddenly appeared where he then immediately pressed his finger lightly upon her forehead in between her brows. Qing Yu instantly fell limp and her body slumped into a heap on the bed.
"Mistress! Mistress, are you alright! ?" Zang Mai asked worriedly as he plopped himself down beside the bed.
"What just happened to me?" Qing Yu's brows were furrowed up as she brought her palm up to feel her forehead and found that it was covered in a layer of cold sweat.
"You're soul seemed to have been drawn into Asura's Hell that was filled with intense murderous intent. If I had not brought you back out in time, you will surely have been overwhelmed by that intensive murderous intent and kill every person you see." Zang Mai said rather trepidly, his heart still unsettled.
"Asura's Hell….. What is that….."
"Asura's Hell is a kind of dimensional space formed by the immense mind power left behind by a powerful pugilist with profound cultivation, and because of the heavy blood and slaughter involved, it is named as Asura's Hell."
Qing Yu suddenly fell silent.
She thought back to the scene she had just witnessed, with two people in it, a man and a woman.
It did not seem like this was the first time she had seen such a scene.
There was another time she came to recall.
It was during those few days that she had been unconscious from the Barricaded Spirit Tower. She was locked within a space and she was not able to remember clearly what had happened. The only thing she could recall was that the sky was red, the sun was red, and the Dark Crows were also red.
A whole large flock of red Dark Crows that exuded an aura of death cawed incessantly in the sky, their calls shrill and piercing to the ears, like they were mourning for all the people who were about to die.
She remembered that woman, the woman whose face she could not see clearly had parted her red lips and said to her a single word, sorry.
She had said sorry.
Qing Yu had probably not noticed it herself. Her eyes had grown red rimmed, and a single tear fell from the corner of her eye.
The golden haired youth became frantic with terror, almost bursting into tears himself. "Mistress! Mistress, what is wrong? Where is it hurting? Don't cry….."
The Mistress that Zang Mai had seen had never once shed a tear in weakness no matter how difficult the situation became. It could even be said that his Mistress was someone who did not know what cry was at all. This was the first time he saw a tear fall from her eyes and Zang Mai was suddenly unconsciously feeling helplessly frantic.
Hearing the youth's worried and flustered voice, Qing Yu snapped back to her senses. "What? Am I crying?"
She raised a hand up to wipe at her eyes and discovered that her eyes were wet.
She was stunned for a moment as well. She did not know why when she thought of that woman in her dream, with that pitiful smile on the corners of her lips, and that one word she spoke saying sorry, had made her heart wrench up with an unspeakable pain for an instant, unexpectedly causing her tears to fall unconsciously.
"Little Burrow, why am I seeing such strange scenes? I have never even seen those places before." Qing Yu asked softly as she looked at the wet tear stains on the back of her hand.
Chapter 79.4: The Mysterious Asura's Scene
Zang Mai took a deep pause and then said: "I think, that it probably has something to do with this body Mistress has been reborn into."
Qing Yu was startled and she went on to say: "Are you saying….. it's a memory from this body?"
"That's right, there is a very great possibility that is the case."
She had heard it from Qing Bei before. It seemed like they were not Yan Su's biological children. Before their mother had married Yan Su, she was already with child. On one hand, Yan Su had developed feelings towards their mother and on the other hand it was to repay the benevolence their mother had shown to him in the past, seeking to protect them.
[Then….. What was their mother's real identity?]
[Could it be possible that she really was linked to the Cloud Heaven in some way…..]
— Bright Moon Divine Temple —
Within the pitch black darkness that had a countless number of spirit tablets hanging in the air, it was not known from when a faint red light had started to glow, its colour growing deeper, turning a deep red like blood seeping out.
The woman below looked as if she could see the painful struggle inside, her elegant lips turned up slightly in a faint smile, her voice soft, like the slightest breeze would disperse it, and it was not known whether she was talking to herself or saying it to another person.
"If you knew this day would come, why did you do that back then….."
"All the pain and suffering you are feeling now, who would even know."
The person at the side then came forward to say in a low voice. "Her spirit body seems to have begun to be able to gain awareness. I believe that it will not be long before she will regain her consciousness."
The woman however laughed and shook her head. "This is still far from enough. She is still missing a small half of her spirit out there in the world. If the spirit is unable to join back together, whether she will regain her consciousness is still hard to say."
"Temple Lord, are you really going to have her resurrected?"
"Heh….." The woman laughed suddenly. "She has to suffer a little or she will never learn from it."
"I've already told her that things like love and affection must never be touched, never ever. But she had insisted on breaking the taboo and ended up meeting such a wretched end….."
Speaking of that, the woman then said a little self mockingly: "But since time began….. Who was really able to fully escape from its curse?"
When the news that the Dark Legions were recruiting Elixir Cultivators was released, the entire Cloud Heaven was collectively taken aback.
[What kind of a insidious plans does this bunch of devilish and unorthodox infidels have up their sleeves this time! ? They are actually trying to recruit Elixir Cultivators into their midst?]
It must be known that everyone of their members all possessed extraordinary skills, the paths they took in their cultivation unlike the ways the rest of the entire Cloud Heaven practised. Hence, no other place was shrouded in thicker mystery than them, with no one able to properly grasp their form of martial arts, which caused everyone else to be at an disadvantage when trading blows.
[If they allowed powerful Elixir Cultivators to join them, then how unbelievable is the Dark Legions going to become?]
[Wouldn't they reign and run amok in tyranny throughout the entire Cloud Heaven! ?]
Although the Divine Healers were not so adverse against the people from the Dark Legions due to the relationship between Bai Zhi Yan and Lou Jun Yao, but they were afterall people who helped the dead and saved the wounded, warriors who stood for righteousness. With their ancestors' teachings placed before them, they issued strict orders that forbade them from having any dealings with people from the Dark Legions, and any one who disobeyed would be thrown out of the Divine Healers Sect.
Hence although there was a reason why Bai Zhi Yan did it, but he had still gone against the Divine Healers Sect's rules, so to the outside world, he had announced that he was no longer the Divine Healers Sect's Young Chief.
The great family clan that had been handed down over for the past several hundred years must not be suffer the slightest taint to its name.
Although the Divine Healers Sect had already announced that there would not be able of their disciples taking part in the recruitment, but there were still many scattered Elixir Cultivators who roamed the realm that liked their wilful and unrestrained ways who came in free from any factions or entities.
In an instant, the numbers of the Dark Legions suddenly strengthened by quite a bit.