Chapter 99: Moving Forward
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After the shock passed, Yue Qianchou calmed his emotions and refocused his divine sense on the golden pearl, smoothly entering Utopia for a quick sweep. Every scene his divine sense encountered was as vivid as being there in person. It was clearly not his imagination – this was obviously a further change in the relationship between himself and the golden pearl after his cultivation entered Foundation Establishment stage.
Yue Qianchou’s divine sense was like the master of this space, inspecting his great rivers and mountains. Afterward, his divine sense instantly positioned itself beside Bai Suzhen. He could see her peerless countenance still bearing deep confusion as she looked around from time to time.
Yue Qianchou glanced at Guan Yu and Chen Feng in the distance, fell into contemplation, then after a moment, affectionately called beside Bai Suzhen’s ear: “Sister.” The latter looked around alertly.
“Sister, I am Yue Qianchou. Don’t worry, and don’t speak. I have something to tell you…” Yue Qianchou used his divine sense to explain exactly what he had just discovered about this divine sense ability.
Bai Suzhen’s confusion immediately cleared, and her expression returned to calm.
“Sister, do you know? In the cultivation world, I can only be completely certain of two people who are truly good to me. When I first stepped into the cultivation world, I met the first person who was truly good to me – that was my master Hao Sansi. Unfortunately, I only understood this after his death. The second person is you, Sister. With Master dead, Sister is the only person in the cultivation world to whom I can entrust everything, including my life. In this rolling world of mortals and heartless cultivation, I couldn’t bear the loneliness and stepped into it. Since I’ve made this journey, I don’t want to stop so quickly. Please allow me to continue forward. Having Sister by my side is the comfort of my lifetime. I only hope that when I can’t go on anymore, or when I’m tired, I can hold Sister and sleep peacefully. Can you understand my feelings?” Yue Qianchou spoke gently, the threads of emotion in his words warming the heart.
After Bai Suzhen’s silence, she nodded lightly, her face blooming with a radiance no one had ever seen – a radiance without any constraints! A thousand years of bitter cultivation not for the great Dao, but just to walk through the human world once. Cultivating from demon to human, yet a heart demon always followed like a shadow, unable to escape the constraints of being a demon. That butterfly dream of mandarin ducks from over two hundred years ago had locked her heart tightly. She had once resented why she came to this human world. Now, hearing Yue Qianchou’s words, nightmares dissipated like smoke, her heart had found belonging. What did it matter whether she was human or demon? Having a soulmate for thousands of years – what else couldn’t she let go of? She would accompany him!
After Yue Qianchou finished speaking these words to Bai Suzhen, Qu Ping’er flashed through his mind. He sighed inwardly, hoping she too would be someone to whom he could entrust everything. But his heart, corroded in darkness in his previous life, found it very difficult to completely trust someone.
“Sister, in a moment I will ask you to return Guan Yu and Chen Feng’s life essence souls to them,” Yue Qianchou suddenly said in the silence.
Bai Suzhen nodded calmly.
“But I hope Sister will refuse,” Yue Qianchou said again.
Bai Suzhen was startled, then a trace of reproach flashed across her face. With her intelligent and perceptive nature, how could she not understand her little brother’s thoughts? He had just said some nice words, then turned around to make her be the villain while he played the good person. Could there be such a detestable person? But she still nodded.
“I want to ask Sister for one more thing,” Yue Qianchou said coldly: “From now on, anyone who comes to our Utopia – as long as I haven’t given Sister advance notice – please collect all their life essence souls.”
After Bai Suzhen nodded in agreement, she sighed. It seemed little brother’s ambitions were not small!
“The boss is here!” Chen Feng, who was planting flowers, suddenly called out joyfully. Guan Yu also stood up.
Yue Qianchou appeared beside Bai Suzhen with a grin. The latter couldn’t help but give him a reproachful look, while he acted as if nothing had happened and waved to his two subordinates. Guan Yu and Chen Feng quickly ran over.
“Haven’t had a drop of water for two days, memorized nearly ten thousand words of sword control techniques – it’s all stored here.” Yue Qianchou pointed to his head and said to the two: “Go get me something to eat, and I’ll record it for you both.” He took out two blank jade discs from his storage bag and waved them at the two men.
Guan Yu and Chen Feng nodded excitedly and immediately ran off to hunt.
“I want roasted wild chicken,” Yue Qianchou didn’t forget to instruct. He then held a jade disc in each hand and concentrated on recording the sword control techniques he had memorized. He had known this recording method back at Qingguang Sect, but unfortunately his divine sense hadn’t been strong enough before reaching Foundation Establishment stage. Today was his first time using it – he wondered how effective it would be? After recording, he injected his divine sense to examine it and found it wasn’t difficult at all.
While waiting for food, Bai Suzhen asked for the pill formula jade disc and completely unlocked the final three layers of restrictions on it. She also asked for another jade disc to record her understanding of formations and gave both to him.
Guan Yu and Chen Feng returned – one carrying a jar of wine, the other holding a roasted chicken for their boss. The latter rewarded them with two jade discs containing sword control techniques. After Yue Qianchou filled his stomach with wine and meat, all three began cultivating eagerly.
For those who had reached Foundation Establishment stage, sword flying wasn’t particularly difficult. The three spent half a day mastering it. The difficult part was controlling swords to fight enemies – that wouldn’t be easy to succeed at without serious effort.
Seeing it wasn’t something that could be mastered in the short term, Yue Qianchou asked Bai Suzhen for the two men’s life essence souls in front of Guan Yu and Chen Feng. Bai Suzhen said expressionlessly: “I have my own judgment and don’t need your nagging.” She then floated away.
Yue Qianchou wore a bitter smile. Instead, Guan Yu and Chen Feng came to comfort him, advising him not to worry too much – Sister Bai would never have any intention to harm them. He could only shake his head and give up, repeatedly expressing his apologies to the two. Having just received sword techniques and being in high spirits, plus owing all their current achievements to him, the two also kept consoling him.
After this performance, Yue Qianchou didn’t stay long and returned to his room. Upon opening the door, he saw Ling Feng and the other two. The three hadn’t expected Yue Qianchou to actually be in his room and all stood up. In their impression, Yue Qianchou was someone who rarely came back – they didn’t know what he was busy with all day.
Yue Qianchou had things on his mind and wasn’t in the mood to chat with them. He waved at them in greeting, drew his sword with a sword technique, leaped into the air, and departed on his sword. This left the three men stunned in the courtyard, savoring the moment endlessly. Thinking back to when all four were at Qi Refining tenth level, now there was already a difference between heaven and earth. No matter how aloof the three tried to be, they couldn’t avoid the bitter taste in their mouths.
Yue Qianchou flew his sword straight to the Scripture Repository Hall. After entering, he wasn’t interested in other miscellaneous classics and specifically opened boxes containing various techniques to examine. He had already discussed this with Bai Suzhen – he would look while using his divine sense to inform her, and Bai Suzhen would record them one by one in the bamboo cottage. Whether useful or not, he wanted all cultivation techniques.
His unusual behavior attracted the attention of the Scripture Repository Hall guards. Other disciples would spend a long time silently memorizing after finding one technique, but he was rapidly examining them one by one, immediately switching to another after finishing one. But this was all – there were no rule-breaking actions. The guards could only conclude that he was searching for some particular technique.
