Chapter 63: Senior Sister and Junior Brother

  "It's the middle of the night, why are you calling me and not sleeping?" I turned over and closed my eyes again. Wait a minute, Murong Zhui Feng has always been dazed and confused, and has always referred to himself as Hei Feng Zi, so why did he call out his real name today, and his voice doesn't even sound right? Thinking of this, I sprang up "What did you just say?"

  "Come out for a moment, I have something to tell you." Murong Zhui Feng said and turned around to leave the cave, his neutral tone replaced by a gentle one.

  "She finally woke up." I muttered to myself, grabbed the Jiuyang Brush, took a look at the Golden Cannon that shook the sky, and walked out of the cave.

  "Don't call him, come with me." Murong Zhui Feng turned his back to me and said, then twisted his waist and swung his sleeves, rising into the air and landing on a giant snowless boulder hundreds of feet away. The majestic pose was precisely Murong Zhui Feng's self-created Sleeve Dance Qingfeng.

  "Hold, ambush." I fixed my eyes on the white wolf that had just exited the cave and ordered it to guard the Vajra Cannon. Then, I turned around, grasped the hilt of my sword, and leaped up several times, finally landing at the foot of a giant boulder where Murong Zhui Feng was standing.

  "What do you want to do?" I naturally said in ancient language.

  "I understand what you're saying, your ancient language isn't that good, stop showing off." Mu Rong Zhui Feng, who had come to his senses, gave me a ruthless blow.

  "Who are you?" I asked stupidly, it happened suddenly, and my brain couldn't react quickly enough.

  "You know who I am, why ask deliberately." Murong Zhui's words were sharp. Although he was still wearing a tattered cotton-padded jacket, his dull expression had disappeared, replaced by cold arrogance and a hint of sadness.

  "Are you the sixth senior sister of the Wind Chasing Sect, Murong Zhui Feng?" I further confirmed, in this deep mountain where there was no human trace for a thousand miles, I didn't quite believe my judgment and would rather believe in the living reality.

  "Jiushi's Taoist skills are highly profound, even Emperor Chen of the Chen Dynasty called him a true person. How dare you call him a Taoist?" Murong Zhui Feng's face showed anger as he loudly questioned.

  "He is me, I am him. Do I still need to mention those common courtesies when referring to myself?" I turned my back and hummed coldly. No matter who she was, if she wasn't polite to me, I didn't need to give her a good face either.

  "Little brother, how much of the 9th Master's divine consciousness has awakened within you?" Mu Rong Zhui Feng was taken aback by my blunt retort and softened her tone. This time, she even called me little brother.

  "Many things I remembered, but not all." Everyone eats soft and doesn't eat hard. When Murong Zhui's tone softened, I didn't dare to retort with harsh words.

  "On the night you bid farewell to Master Yicheng, did you remember what Master told us in the Guanqi Pavilion?" Murong Zhui Feng walked down from the giant rock and approached me.

  "Where is Guanqi Xuan?" I took a step back and asked in return. What Guanqi Xuan was, I really had no idea.

  "Ah~~~~~" Murong Zhui Feng was greatly disappointed and let out a soft sigh.

  "This San Sheng Zhen Ren wouldn't want to be the Matchmaker for Fengfeng Daoren and Zhuifeng Daogu, would he? It's quite possible that Jie Jiao doesn't prohibit arranged marriages, but Zhuifeng is a dwarf, I reckon Fengfeng Daoren definitely won't be pleased..." My mind was filled with wild thoughts, and the more I thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed.

  "What did San Sheng Zhen Ren entrust you with?" I asked tentatively. The weather was cold, and my feet were numb from the chill.

  "Third Brother and Fifth Brother... never mind, I'll let Master tell you himself." Murong Zhui Feng suddenly changed the subject "Your Qi gathering technique is quite impressive, it has a few sparks of fire, and your Qi is deep blue and solid, not easy to achieve. How old were you when you started learning the way?"

  "Is the 21-year-old, Three Saints True Person still alive?" As soon as I heard it wasn't a matter of men and women, my heart felt a little lighter, but immediately afterwards my face turned red again. Actually, my Qi gathering technique was quite good, and the deep blue color was because I had secretly eaten that Purple Yang Condensing Pill, but this was not something I could proudly tell her about, so I quickly changed the subject.

  "I suppose so." Murong Zhuifeng gave me an ambiguous answer to my question.

  "What's 'that'll do'?" I wanted to get to the bottom of it.

  "You were 21 years old when you started practicing Taoism. To have achieved your current level of cultivation is already quite impressive." Murong Zhui Feng didn't pick up on my conversation thread.

  "I have some questions..." I suddenly thought of something and hesitated to express my doubts.

  "I knew what you wanted to ask. Back then, my physical body was already damaged, and I had no choice but to use the Ling Qi obtained from my bitter cultivation to separate my yang soul from my body and seal it with the Delayed Soul Technique. This was all for the sake of fulfilling my master's orders and finding my ninth junior brother to return to the mountain gate and take charge of the grand plan. However, my mortal body could not withstand the strain, and I couldn't use the Five Peaks Borrowing Qi Seeking Spirit Method. I had no choice but to search for him in every city, like searching for a needle in the ocean.

  Later, I found out that my ninth junior brother was residing in General Chen's mansion, so I rushed there as quickly as possible. Who would have thought that my ninth junior brother had already left for Kunlun due to some urgent matter? I chased after him but couldn't catch up. When I arrived at the village at the foot of the mountain, something strange happened to my attached soul and original spirit.

  When I reattached myself to a person, I discovered that our master had already ascended as a deity and was in the Jade Pool. As for me, due to my urgent situation, I mistakenly attached myself to the top scholar of the Imperial Examination, and my divine consciousness was damaged. Now, I can only be clear-headed for a brief moment when both the sun and moon are empty." Muyong Chui Feng's eyes were dim and confused, his black hair blown by the wind, and his words carried a hint of loneliness.

  Tonight is the first night of the twelfth lunar month, a time when there is neither sun nor moon, it seems what Murong Zhui Feng said was true.

  "The Three Saints True Man has already ascended to immortality, what are you still doing here?" I asked anxiously as the eastern sky was already showing a faint white light.

  "Kunlun is the ancestral mountain of the immortals, where my master rode a crane to return. If any of my nine fellow disciples receive news on a certain day, they will surely come to pay their respects, and the village I used to live in, now a small town, is the only way to enter the mountain. My divine consciousness is unclear, and I couldn't walk far, so I can only wait here. Who knew that this wait would be for twenty-five cycles..." Murong Zhuifeng raised his hand to smooth out his wind-blown hair, looking desolate.

  "All these years you've been constantly using the Delayed Soul Technique, isn't that killing a lot of people?" I frowned slightly.

  "It's just a dog or a pig, no need to be sad if it dies!" Murong Zhui Feng replied with ease and naturalness, without any hint of guilt. It seems that the outside world's negative evaluation of Jie Teach is not entirely unfounded, as the disciples of Jie Teach indeed have their own extreme ways of doing things.

  "Haha, it seems that these years you haven't waited in vain, modern language you've learned quite well." My words were laced with sarcasm, originally I had some sympathy for Murong Zhuifeng, but who knew she would be so ruthless.

  "What did you say?" Murong Zhui Feng stared at me with wide eyes.

  "I said..."

  "How did I end up here?" Murong Zhui Feng's face was filled with astonishment.

  "It's alright, little brother, go back to sleep quickly." I sighed and turned around, walking back.

  The sky brightened, the wind stopped, and the rare good weather arrived. A group of people set off on the road, patting their backpacks that were full of the smell of foxes. Thirty miles north, a frozen lake surface appeared before them.

  After the ice auger is used to smash stones on the ice surface, it can be confirmed that the ice surface is solid and can be walked by people.

  "Didn't you sleep well last night?" Jin Gang Pao looked at me with a series of yawns.

  "It's okay, let's hurry." I basically didn't sleep at all in the second half of the night, it would be weird if I wasn't tired.

  The frozen lake surface is relatively narrow, about five miles wide, and longer from north to south, with the end not visible to the naked eye. After walking a few more miles, I took out the map of Hanshui "Old Cow, look at this marked terrain on the map, it should be here, and this white area should refer to this water area, but how come we can't see that blue gas now?"

  Jin Gang cannon pinched the key to look around, indeed did not find any blue gas existence, until the end even recited the condensing god key, also did not discover anything abnormal aura nearby, instead found on the right side of the mountain peak a few red spirit monkeys.

  "Lao Yu, this map of yours is over a thousand years old, is it still accurate?" Jin Gang cannon handed me a cigarette.

  "It should be about right, just walk another ten miles and we'll completely pass the blue gas column marker range, let's go take a look." I said uncertainly.

  Walking on the lake surface makes me feel very unsteady, and I've been observing the underwater breath more than once to prevent unexpected situations. However, under the water is a piece of tranquility, and I haven't even seen a fish with some Taoist skills.

  "Woof woof~~~" The white wolf running in front suddenly let out a loud bark.

  I and Jin Gang Cannon raised our heads to gaze out, on the surface of the water in the distance appeared a not very large island, I raised my thumb to measure "dead ahead three kilometers, let's take a look..."