Chapter 233: Bing Mei
[Use your illusion eyes.] Yu Nianzhen suddenly transmitted.
As he spoke, he moved a little to stand in front of Jiang Yue so that others couldn’t see his husband’s eyes.
A moment later, Jiang Yue gasped and closed his eyes.
[Azhen, you are awesome. How did you know there is a formation?] Jiang Yue asked.
Because of his origin, Jiang Yue was naturally sensitive to illusions and formations.
However, he didn’t feel anything when he first looked at his surroundings.
It was only after he opened his illusion eyes that he realised there was a massive formation in front of them.
The formation was more complex than others he had come across and he was immediately entranced.
[This formation should be above the fifth level. How did you discover it?] He asked.
[I didn’t.] Yu Nianzhen said and then continued.
[There are many black wind beasts in the Black Wind Abyss and they appear randomly. After suffering many times, my senses became sharper. This time, I noticed the surrounding qi is subtly moving in one direction.]
[The formation should be using the surrounding qi to maintain itself.] Jiang Yue inferred and nodded.
While the two were talking, a group of young ladies exited the formation.
They were dressed in white and their expressions were a little frozen, making them a little unapproachable.
"Welcome to our Ice Palace sect." One of the young ladies spoke.
Her eyes were calm and her face didn’t show the welcome she uttered.
However, no one cared about this.
All they wanted was to enter the sect before everything started.
"Fellow Daoist, how can we enter?" One of the cultivators asked.
"The martial contest is open to everyone but only those with an invitation are allowed to attend our ancestor’s birthday banquet." Another young lady answered.
"Those with an invitation can stand on this side and the rest are on that side." She continued and pointed to indicate what she meant.
However, her words were perfunctory and she didn’t bother to hide her contempt.
She felt that those who were qualified to attend the ancestor’s birthday banquet were all important people in the Cangxing world.
How was it possible for them to arrive on a vulgar flying boat?
Using this mentality, she didn’t put people to heart and was careless with her expressions.
"I am a direct disciple of the Tang clan. How can I join my clan?" Someone asked and Yu Nianzhen was taken aback.
"What’s wrong?" Jiang Yue whispered.
"I seem to have heard this voice before." Yu Nianzhen said and frowned.
He turned about and saw a young woman.
She was the same age as them and for a moment, he couldn’t recall where he met her.
"Are you meeting women behind my back?" Jiang Yue complained and glared at his husband.
Yu Nianzhen, who was suddenly accused, immediately looked at his husband.
"How is that possible? I only have XiaoYue in my heart." He hurriedly assured.
"Hmmph, who knows! Maybe you like curvy beauties."
Yu Nianzhen groaned and didn’t know how he provoked such bad luck.
However, his hands were tied even though he knew Jiang Yue was messing with him.
The only thing he could do was coax his husband until the other was tired of teasing him.
After being coaxed for a while, Jiang Yue chuckled and stopped messing with his husband.
"Do you remember where you met her?" He asked and Yu Nianzhen looked at the person.
At first, he couldn’t remember and wanted to ignore the matter but a memory suddenly came to mind.
"I fought her in the Thousand Herbs Garden." He said.
Jiang Yue looked at the man and raised his eyebrow.
"I snatched blue-silver berries from her." He said and Jiang Yue smiled.
"I see."
After coming out of the Thousand Herbs Garden, Jiang Yue refined the blue-silver berries and his body improved a lot.
"Do you think she will remember you?"
"Who knows?"
"You are right. It doesn’t matter."
After all, it was common to grab opportunities from others. Snatching from the woman was the natural thing to do and Yu Nianzhen was not regretful.
"Please prove your identity and let someone from your sect pick you up." One of the young ladies from the Ice Palace sect told the woman from the Tang clan.
"Here is my identity jade." The woman said and showed the jade tied to her waist.
One of the young ladies inspected the jade and told the young woman to stand aside.
[Do we use our identity jades?] Jiang Yue asked and frowned a little.
He was still worried they would be arrested as soon as they revealed their identity as direct disciples of the Sea Cloud sect.
[The Sea Cloud sect won’t do anything until after the event." Yu Nianzhen said.
Although he didn’t know a lot about the sect, he knew the sect master and elders were face-saving.
They wouldn’t cause a scene by arbitrarily arresting direct disciples who hadn’t committed a crime against the sect.
"Let’s hope that’s the case."
After saying that, Jiang Yue held his husband’s hand and walked toward the group of young ladies from the Ice Palace sect.
"We are direct disciples of the Sea Cloud sect." He said.
As soon as he said that, everyone looked at them and he couldn’t help but feel a little self-conscious.
’Why are they looking at us?’ He wondered and discreetly looked around.
[Don’t worry, it’s because you are extraordinarily handsome.] Yu Nianzhen said.
When Jiang Yue heard that, his lips twitched and his nervousness dissipated.
"Are you fellow Daoist Yu and fellow Daoist Jiang?" A young woman asked.
Her voice was a little fast and it was easy to tell she was excited.
"Does the fellow Daoist know us?" Jiang Yue asked and looked at the young woman.
She was younger than the rest and looked to be about fourteen.
However, her cultivation was already at the second level of the origin forging realm which showed her talent was extraordinary.
"My name is Bing Mei. Ancestor Yang sent Bing Mei to find you."
When the girl said that, the watching eyes became sharper.
Everyone knew who ’ancestor Yang’ was and couldn’t help but be curious about the identity of the two young men.
"Bing Mei, calm down. How can you randomly recognise people?" One of the young ladies from the Ice Palace admonished.
"I can’t be wrong." The girl pouted and even the boys were confused.
They had never met the girl but she seemed to acknowledge them as soon as they met.
"They haven’t shown their identity jades. How can you be sure?"
"Ancestor Yang said I will recognise his disciple as soon as I met him. I recognised him right away." Bing Mei insisted.
However, the leading young woman from the Ice Palace sect had a headache.
What did it mean to recognise the disciple as soon as they met?
She didn’t understand and intended to do everything according to the instructions given by the sect.
"Fellow Daoists, please show your identity jade?" She said.
"Senior sister, do you need the identity jade to know? Can’t you see he is dressed like ancestor Yang? Ancestor Yang said I should look for a person who is dressed like him and has an expression like the world owes him a billion spirit stones."
When he heard that, Jiang Yue broke into laughter.
He didn’t expect Yu Nianzhen to be recognised because of his master’s outlandish fashion sense.
However, he couldn’t deny this was an effective method.
Jiang Yue didn’t believe there was a second person with a temper like Yu Nianzhen’s, who dressed in such a flamboyant way.
’I will kill him one day.’ Yu Nianzhen thought and gritted his teeth.
For worked so hard to get this far but his damned master was still messing around!
Yu Nianzhen was annoyed but also a little relieved.
Since his master could afford to joke around, it meant his situation wasn’t too bad.
[Are you relieved?] Jiang Yue asked.
[Mmmh.] Yu Nianzhen nodded and revealed his identity jade for inspection.
Soon after, his identity was cleared and the two followed Bing Mei into the sect.
[It’s a good thing we hid Hongzhu in the ancient palace.] Jiang Yue said.
[Yes.]
Initially, the three didn’t think it through and planned to enter the sect together.
However, after listening to some rumours, they realised things wouldn’t be so simple.
For one, Hongzhu was a demonic plant.
Even if she could pass through the sect’s defence formation, she didn’t have an identity.
After thinking about it, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue hid her in the ancient palace.
In this way, the two could enter the Ice Palace sect without drawing unnecessary attention and arousing suspicion.
When the time came, they would find a chance to release Hongzhu from the ancient palace and let her watch the martial contest.
[We should keep Li Futian in the ancient palace.] Jiang Yue said as they walked.
[We have to convince Hongzhu first.]
