The snow clouds in the sky did not disperse, making it difficult to distinguish between day and night.
Seven immortal boats with the Black Star Sect flags were lined up, sailing under the vast clouds. The disciples were busy moving back and forth on the deck, carrying and sorting the objects they had just collected from the Moonfall Gorge.
"Put the spirit stones here... Seal all the demonic materials and put them at the back of the ship."
...
In the cabin below, the window was half-open, and the dark clouds could be seen rolling back like a curtain.
Wearing a plain white nightgown, Pei Lianxue was sitting alone on the edge of the bed, with her feet soaking in a steaming water basin. For the past half hour, she had been listening expressionlessly to Xiao Tian and Xue'e's chattering.
Although Pei Lianxue did not understand such esoteric stuff, like "heaven's destiny" and "demonic destiny", she still understood that Xiao Tian seemed to have been following her brother since a long time ago.
However, Brother had never mentioned it to her before.
"So, only Feng Yu Die and brother could see you before?"
"Ah... yes! Only those who are destined by heaven can see the spirit of the Heavenly Scrolls like us... um!"
"Oh..." Pei Lianxue grimaced slightly, then looked at Xue'e. "What about you?"
"..."
Xue'e was actually very confused until now, but Xiao Tian simply explained on her behalf. "She is the spirit of the Heavenly Demonic Scroll, called the black bastard! She is very very bad!"
"......?"
Xue'e slowly turned her head and glanced at Xiao Tian, and suddenly a row of blue veins appeared on her forehead. She subconsciously reached out to the hilt of the wooden sword on her back. "Golden fool, you are looking for trouble!"
"Humph, who is afraid of who?! Come on!"
The two little ones argued and started fighting in front of Pei Lianxue, causing her to look at them in a daze, not knowing what to do.
At this moment, the door creaked.
Ye Anping, who had just taken a quick bath next door, walked in wearing a white shirt, steaming rising from his body. Seeing the two little ones fighting in front of his sister, he was fed up with their argument, so he walked up, picked up one in each hand, and threw them out of the room.
"...She insulted me first..."
Pah—
Ye Anping ignored them as he closed the door with force and pinched his brow before letting out a long breath. He walked to the bed and squatted down, then picked up his sister's small feet from the foot basin, wiping them dry and placing them on the bed.
Although Pei Lianxue didn't say anything, after he came in, her face showed some dissatisfaction. "Hmph! Stinky brother..."
"Well, you were still forming your Nascent Soul at that time, and I had no choice but to take Yu Die to Brilliance City first, and then... Xiao Tian told you just now..."
"Yeah…she did." Pei Lianxue turned away and complained, "So, are you going to marry the second idiot? And that... Gu Mingxin?"
"Uh..."
Seeing that Ye Anping was a little hesitant, Pei Lianxue frowned, asking, "Hmm? Are you?"
"Yeah." Ye Anping hesitated for a while, then nodded and admitted, sitting on the edge of the bed. "Sister..."
But before he could finish his words, Pei Lianxue frowned and cursed loudly. "Stinky lecher brother! Ye... Ye Tianchong!! Humph!"
"..."
"Yunluo, Yiyi, Longling... There are so many of them, but he is still flirting with other women outside, and even the old lady who is thousands of years old, the leader of the Black Star Sect, was not spared!!"
"..."
However, seeing that her brother was stunned by her scolding, Pei Lianxue suddenly came to her senses, wondering if she went too far, and whether he would dislike her. She immediately lowered her head and nervously called out, "Brother, I just..."
"Ah... It's okay." Ye Anping came to his senses and wanted to laugh for a moment.
He felt that his sister had really grown up, and he nodded. "Yes, sister, you are right to scold me, and I should apologize to you for that matter."
"Ah... I don't want you to apologize... It's just..."
"It's just..."
Pei Lianxue rubbed her hands, hesitated, then wriggled her body closer to him. She stuck on Ye Anping's shoulder, tightly holding his arm, and complained with a pout. "Forget about the Second Idiot and Gu Mingxin, they can't beat me, but that Si Granny from the Black Star Sect... I can't beat her..."
Ye Anping didn't understand Pei Lianxue's train of thought. He was taken aback and asked, "...Why do you have to beat her?"
"If I can't beat her, I won't be the most powerful person around you in the future, and you won't want me anymore."
Pei Lianxue strangled Ye Anping's arm tighter and tighter as if she were afraid that he would be snatched away by someone. Ye Anping's face turned pale, and he felt that his arm was about to be torn out by his sister.
"... Sister, stop... My arm is about to fall off."
"Oh..."
"What are you thinking? How could I not want you?! Besides, Xuanji has lived for thousands of years. What are you competing with her for... Did she bully you? I will help you teach her a lesson later..."
"Brother, you can't beat her either..."
"Winning or losing doesn't depend on who has a higher cultivation level. In the past few years, which of our opponents had a lower cultivation level than us..."
Pei Lianxue didn't respond. She rubbed her face against Ye Anping's shoulder and nodded. Then, she glanced at his profile, and after a moment of silence, she said, "Brother..."
"Well, what?"
"...I want to practice dual cultivation."
In front of the amber eyes, watery and full of innocence, Ye Anping suddenly found himself at a loss for words.
After a moment of silence, Ye Anping asked with some concern, "Sister, don't you need to rest? You just..."
"Woo—"
Pei Lianxue bit her lips slightly, seeming to be quite dissatisfied with her brother's answer.
Frowning, she grabbed Ye Anping's wrist and pressed him directly onto the bed, ignoring what he said. Like a hungry wolf that had seen meat, she pounced on him and stripped him naked in no time...
...
Meanwhile, in the cabin directly below.
Squeak, squeak—
Squeak... squeak—
Xiao Yunluo sat on the chair with her hands supporting her cheeks, looking at the dust falling from the ceiling and listening to the creaking of the bed upstairs. She was pouting, and her feet in the embroidered shoes were restless. It seemed she couldn't wait any longer.
However, she knew that going there now would be a waste of time, and she would definitely be kicked out by Lianxue.
After not seeing Ye Anping for a few months, Lianxue had been so frustrated that she had killed all the demonic cultivators she had encountered along the way. How could she be willing to give Ye Anping to her now…
"Sigh…"
Xiao Yunluo sighed resentfully, but then she thought that Lianxue was not strong enough, and it would only take a day or two at most.
She had been waiting for several months, so what was another day or two?
The question now was...
Xiao Yunluo retracted her gaze and looked at Feng Yu Die, who was now sitting at the same table with her.
Feng Yu Die's face was still swollen after being squeezed by Pei Lianxue. At this moment, she looked like a polar bear that had stolen honey, sitting there and slowly chewing roasted chicken.
Seeing Xiao Yunluo looking over, Feng Yu Die froze for a moment, then simply twisted off the chicken butt and handed it over. "Sister Xiao, do you want to eat too?"
"...Who cares about your roast chicken?" Xiao Yunluo was speechless, and she frowned. "Second Idiot, I remember you said you were devoted to Lianxue before? When did you start liking Anping?"
"Well…Master Ye is always good to me. And I asked Sister Pei before, but she didn't agree, so I let go... Hehe—"
"Oh..."
Xiao Yunluo didn't find it strange.
When she heard that Ye Anping took Feng Yu Die to the Eastern Region, she had already expected that the two of them might have an affair...
She wasn't as possessive as Lianxue. It would be more accurate to say that her edges had been worn away by reality.
Ever since she knew that her master and Ye Anping had become a cultivator couple, nothing could shock her anymore.
Even if Ye Anping came over and said to her now, "Actually, Elder Qin from Heavenly Cloud Peak is also my cultivation partner," she would probably just say, "Really? Oh, okay."
If you want to blame someone, blame her for falling in love with this man called Ye Anping...
In short, Ye Anping had too much yang energy, and in the future, as his cultivation increased, the rice jar would also become bigger and bigger.
Even with a few more girls, everyone would eat their fill.
Since everyone could eat their fill, there's no problem!
Xiao Yunluo pursed her cat lips, supported her cheeks, and raised her eyebrows. "So, have you and Anping practiced dual cultivation?"
"...Eh?" Feng Yu Die's hair stood up on her head as she shook her head. "No."
"Ah? You and Anping have been alone together for so long... How did he solve his yang energy problem..."
"Hmm... We just kiss, and sometimes Young Master Ye hugs me to sleep. Young Master Ye says that's enough." Feng Yu Die smiled shyly as she wiped the oil from the corners of her mouth. "Hehe..."
"..."
Xiao Yunluo scrunched her face. Looking at Feng Yu Die's temperament which was the same as her hair color, she frowned. "But don't you feel unwilling?"
"...What's there to be unwilling about?"
A happy smile spread across Feng Yu Die's face as she replied, "Sister Xiao, Young Master Ye is very good to me. He makes roasted chicken for me; in cold places, he wraps me in a blanket; when I fall asleep, he lets me lean on him; he also got me a good sword. Anyway, I am quite satisfied..."
"..."
Hearing this, Xiao Yunluo felt a little weird.
If it weren't for this comparison, she wouldn't have felt that way, but now, Feng Yu Die's naive answer made her feel that she only liked Ye Anping because she was greedy for his body.
Although Ye Anping was indeed handsome, had a good figure, was smart, and very skilled...
"Then... don't you want to practice dual cultivation with Anping?"
"Well... it's not that I don't want to, I'm actually quite curious." Feng Yu Die thought for a while and replied, "But there's no rush. We are in the Eastern Region now. When things are settled here, we can talk about it after returning to the Western Region..."
"..."
Xiao Yunluo was about to say something, but she stopped. She sighed and didn't want to continue the topic.
However, at this time.
Boom—!!
A loud noise shook the whole ship, and pieces of sawdust fell from the ceiling.
Xiao Yunluo subconsciously thought that Lianxue and Anping were doing something new, but after thinking about it, she felt that something was wrong. She immediately picked up the sword leaning against the table and rushed out of the room.
"Second Idiot, you stay here. I'll go out and take a look..."
"Ah, no way..."
The two ran along the corridor of the cabin and all the way to the deck. When they rushed out of the cabin, they saw a female disciple of Heavenly Cloud Peak lying in a wooden barrel.
On the other side was Gu Mingxin.
She held a blood-colored sword in her hand and looked at the female disciple without the slightest hint of mercy in her eyes.
Coming out, Xiao Yunluo and Feng Yu Die saw the area full of disciples in the Core Formation stage with their swords drawn, alert to Gu Mingxin's every move.
Xiao Yunluo took a deep breath and put on her Young Miss' posture. Pushing away the two disciples in front of her, she walked into the middle and looked at Gu Mingxin angrily. "What are you doing?!"
"It's just that someone was looking for trouble, so I fought back." Gu Mingxin had a mocking expression as she lifted her sword and added, "Know that it was your disciple who started it."
Xiao Yunluo frowned and looked back at the disciple who had been knocked down. Seeing that she was not injured, she asked,, "What's going on?!"
The female disciple staggered to her feet from the broken wood, gritted her teeth, and glared at Gu Mingxin. Lowering her head, she replied, "Young Miss Xiao, she is a demonic cultivator… so..."
"..."
"Brother Zhou, Sister Lin, Sister Qi… they just...sob--"
Hearing these three names, Xiao Yunluo understood what was going on.
Zhou Yi, Lin Yuru, Qi Lianxin... these three people died in the chaotic battle with the demonic cultivators in the Moonfall Gorge earlier. They and the female disciple in front of her were fellow brothers and sisters who entered the Black Star Sect at the same time.
Envy and fear breed the desire to kill.
Gu Mingxin pursed her lips. "It wasn't me who killed them, eh? In fact, you could even say that I helped avenge them. Why are you bothering me?"
"Don't talk!"
Xiao Yunluo frowned and glared at Gu Mingxin, then took a deep breath. "The sect has its rules, and I just issued a notice to you that this person is not an enemy... Take Sister Sun back to her cabin to reflect on herself for fifteen days!"
"...Yes, Miss."
Watching the two take the troublesome disciple to another ship nearby, Xiao Yunluo let out a breath and turned to look at Gu Mingxin. "You follow me..."
However, just as she said that, Gu Mingxin brought her face close to Xiao Yunluo's face, frightening her so much that she shrank her neck and took a half step back. However, thinking that there were so many disciples watching around, she mustered up the courage and went back the half step. "Hiss-- what... what are you doing?..."
Gu Mingxin narrowed her eyes and smiled. "Hee~ Little dragon, where is Ye Anping? I have buried He Qingjiao~"
"In... down there."
"Okay~ Thank you~"
Gu Mingxin raised her hand and knocked on her dragon horn, and then glanced at Feng Yu Die who was holding a roasted chicken, and jumped into the cabin.
Frowning, Xiao Yunluo murmured, "What the hell..."
But the next moment, she remembered that Ye Anping and Lianxue were entangled together...
She took a deep breath and hurried into the cabin. "Wait..."
Because Gu Mingxin didn't know which room Ye Anping was in, she simply started from the first room in the cabin corridor, opening the doors of each room one by one and looking inside.
"Ye Anping~~"
"Is Ye Anping… in?"
"Ye Anping~~"
...
When she checked the fourth room, Xiao Yunluo caught up and shouted. "What are you doing? Anping is not free now! If you want to find him, talk to him later..."
"Um… not free?"
Gu Mingxin tilted her head, smiled, and simply ignored Xiao Yunluo. She walked to the next room, raised her hand, and gently knocked on the door frame.
"Ye An..."
However, the moment the word "Ping" was about to come out, a white little hand broke through the door and grabbed her face.
"Huh?"
Before Gu Mingxin could react, the little hand shook slightly, and she fell heavily.
Bang—
With a loud noise, Gu Mingxin's head smashed through the floor and poked into the cabin directly below, causing Feng Yu Die, who was holding a roasted chicken, to slowly raise her head and look into her eyes, speechless...
"..." "..."
At this moment, Pei Lianxue was holding the quilt wrapped around her body with one hand, resentment and murderous intent mixed on her face. She sneered at the upside-down Gu Mingxin, then reached out to the storage bag on Xiao Yunluo's waist, who was stunned, and took out a golden lock to bind Gu Mingxin. "Yunluo, keep an eye on her."
"Oh..."
Pei Lianxue nodded fiercely and then walked back to the room, wrapped Ye Anping, whose cheeks were blushing, in another sheet before picking him up in a princess-carry. Stepping over Gu Mingxin's body, she walked past Xiao Yunluo, entered the room opposite with an intact door, and hooked her foot to close the door...
Bang—