Chapter 323: Chapter 64: Return to the Hehuan Sect
Ten years have passed, and on this day, Ji Mingyu was lying on the cloud bed, eyes closed, taking a nap. At her level, meditation alone wasn’t enough to enhance her cultivation, so she didn’t waste time on breathing exercises.
On the other hand, with nothing to do, Xiaoxue had been diligently cultivating after being taught Divine Techniques by her master, using top-grade Spirit Stones to set up an Array around her. Over the decade, she had gained quite a lot.
"Hmm?" Ming Yu suddenly opened her eyes and sat up, only to see in the water mirror, outside the Dao Palace’s mountain gate, a blue sword light flying out swiftly toward the direction of Shanhai Market, just as in her first descent from the mountain years ago.
Ji Mingyu’s eyes turned slightly red; she seemed to choke up a bit, biting her lip, she said: "Finally, you’re willing to come out."
Currently, Xiaoxue was cultivating in human form. Upon hearing this, her ears twitched, and she immediately leaned over to have a look.
She still looked like a seven or eight-year-old, cute and adorable.
She could actually grow a bit more, but Xiaoxue internally assessed herself and decided that maintaining a young human form would help sustain her master’s affection for her.
If she continued to grow, turning from a "child" into a "teenager" and then into a "woman," her master might see her as a threat and might "eliminate" her in the future.
So Xiaoxue cautiously maintained her original form, and her master did not inquire about it.
As soon as Chu Xuan appeared, Ji Mingyu quickly packed up everything arranged in this cave, ready to follow him at any moment.
Now, the thing she wanted to do most was to find a way to leave a Divine Technique talisman on Chu Xuan.
Even if its effect wasn’t as good as the bracelet, unable to penetrate places like the Ruo Wood Secret Realm, it could still break through ordinary sect’s Mountain Protection Array.
Actually, with Ji Mingyu’s cultivation level, it was quite easy to accomplish without anyone noticing. But since last time when the bracelet used for "surveillance" was discovered by Chu Xuan, he was enraged and almost smashed the bracelet onto her face.
Mingyu worried that doing it again and being discovered by Chu Xuan would make their relationship completely irreparable.
So she hesitated and decided not to act rashly, wanting to first see what Chu Xuan intended to do after coming out.
In the water mirror, the master and servant first saw Chu Xuan heading to the Wugen Ping base.
Xiaoxue guessed: "He might be looking for the whereabouts of his senior sister; he should have heard those rampant rumors after coming out."
Mingyu frowned lightly. Though in her view, Qin Mengyao was the first to be out of the picture, now after their "harmful" actions, Qin Mengyao’s little maneuvers seemed trivial.
At most, she had subtly rejected Chu Xuan’s "confession" once without leaving a trace, but later she explicitly told Chu Xuan that she regretted it and wanted to restore their relationship.
Chu Xuan, for the upcoming wedding, heartlessly rejected his senior sister, and even her later descent into demonhood had something to do with this.
Surely by now, he felt not only no dissatisfaction but also some guilt toward Qin Mengyao. If she truly wanted to reconcile with Chu Xuan, when they meet, wouldn’t they be like dry wood and fire, quickly getting involved?!
Ji Mingyu thought more and more anxiously, even wanting to find that woman and eliminate her ahead of time.
"Master," Xiaoxue quickly guessed most of her psychological activities from Mingyu’s expression.
"Don’t panic. Remember, Chu Xuan has already achieved some great enlightenment; I don’t think he’ll easily fall into another romantic relationship, and might even be averse to intimate contact with women."
"Even if they, as senior sister and junior brother, meet, Chu Xuan would mostly hold her in camaraderie and want to help her by bringing her back to the sect, not what you’re worried about happening."
Mingyu thought so too, realizing it made sense; she was inherently clever, only concerned about causing chaos.
Then she worried, "What if Qin Mengyao is particularly proactive? I know Chu Xuan’s lustful personality well; can he really resist?"
Xiaoxue was somewhat confused, "Although Qingqing keeps calling him ’lustful sheep,’ Chu Xuan seems fine to me, right? Last time, when Qingqing proactively approached him, he declined very gentlemanly, so perhaps that won’t occur."
"Plus, based on my observations, Qin Mengyao doesn’t have that kind of personality; she’s relatively reserved."
Ji Mingyu muttered to herself, "Indeed, she’s not like Qingqing, that licentious woman."
Since last time Qingqing tried to offer herself and constantly teased Chu Xuan during the journey, the label of "seductive harlot" had already been pasted in Ji Mingyu’s mind, imagining her as someone who could pull Chu Xuan into doing it on the grass.
Watching Chu Xuan complete his business and leave directly, Mingyu murmured, "Where is he going now?"
"Wait, this direction, could it be going to..." her face slightly changed.
As for Chu Xuan, in the marketplace, as soon as he appeared, he sensed someone spying nearby. After a brief calculation, he figured out the origin, shook his head, and paid it no mind.
As soon as he left, someone notified the Li’an Demon Sect and Purple Heaven Jade Mansion.
...
"Hehuan Sect."
After four days, Chu Xuan finally revisited an old place, raising his head to look at the white jade arch at the mountain gate, and read the three large characters in a complex tone.
Recalling those years, he embraced little snow mink, was captured by Min Xinlan to this place, as she smilingly said to him, "Come, once you cross this mountain gate, you belong to me."
At that moment, Chu Xuan was already desperate, prepared to officially join Hehuan Sect, temporarily tolerated for twenty or thirty years, and later to overthrow the group of demonesses, dominating the sect, becoming the Sect Leader of Hehuan Sect.
But the twists of events are so fascinating; who could have predicted the developments that followed?
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