Chapter 34

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The Clouds Return (2)

“Shiling?”

The girl put down the chopsticks that knocked on the bowl and sat down, “Yes, Shiling.”

Shiling is more dangerous than Tianhai Secret Realm, and there are more opportunities hidden in it.

That year, the secret realm of Shiling was born, and many immortal disciples went to explore it.

There are ten levels in the secret realm, and the more difficult it is as you go down, the more natural treasures you can get.

Huai Bai and the others shined brightly in the Tianhai Secret Realm. They were full of energy and vigor, so they formed a team to go to the Shiling Secret Realm. Everyone thought that they would return with a full load.

But until the secret realm was closed, no one returned.

After another ten years, when people were struck in the immortal gate with the loss of their four patriots, Huai Bai unexpectedly walked out.

There were four people when she went, and one when she returned.

No one knows what happened back then, except that Huai Bai said that her spiritual roots were completely destroyed, and since then she no longer holds the sword and her In the Clouds also disappeared.

Ordinary people only know that it is a pity that a peerless sword cultivator who was supposed to be reach further heights, with a sword flying to the immortal realm, unfortunately fell.

After listening, everyone was silent for a while.

A turbulent wave was set off in Pei Yu’s heart, her eyes lowered slightly, and the finger joints of the cup were white.

The girl glanced at the crowd and said, “But even if her spiritual roots are destroyed, no swordswoman in this world can surpass her.”

“Oh, it’s just a waste person.”

The girl stood up abruptly, “What did you say?”

“I said,” the speaking boy has sharp eyebrows, a narrow robe with arrow sleeves, a dragon pattern embroidered on the hem, a high ponytail in his hair, and a blue hairband wrapped around his forehead. “You can boast about Huai Bai harder, but she is just a waste now.”

“What do you know?” The girl trembled with anger, “Who are you? What right do you have to say that about her?”

The boy raised his eyebrows, “Who are you?”

The girl said angrily: “Qianhan Palace, Yu Chisu.”

The young man smiled contemptuously, “People from Qianhan Palace, only merely that.”

“Who are you?”

The boy raised his chin slightly, and said quite self-consciously: “Taichu Tian, Sheng Ji.”

The restaurant suddenly became lively, the name Taichu Tian Sheng Ji is famous. Even if they were not a member of the immortal gate, they had heard of him. The sword bone Tiancheng, the sword genius, once let several elders of the Zhuangzi Saints and Mo Sect rush to accept his young, the most popular figure among the juniors of cultivation.

Everyone started talking.

They all thought that Sheng Ji appeared at the foot of Gushan now, and it seemed that he wanted to participate in the trial. However, as long as he passes the trial, the Six Peaks will be open to him, and with his character, he will definitely choose the Baidai Peak with the strongest aura and the most strength.

Yu Chisu snorted coldly, “It turns out that he is also a swordsman.” She nodded, “I know, you are jealous.”

Sheng Ji didn’t let it go, “What am I jealous of? Is it of a waste?”

The word “waste” was not finished yet, when the cold wind suddenly started. Sheng Ji jumped back and avoided the “hidden weapon”, but his hair band was severed by the strength, and his hair was loose half-length.

The hidden weapon was placed on the ground nicely——it was a porcelain cup. The hair band is broken and the cup is not broken, which is enough to show the mastery of the direction and strength of the cup thrower.

But when everyone looked over, their eyes lit up first, and they couldn’t help being surprised immediately.

Sitting there was a little girl, who was made of porcelain, with white skin and delicate eyebrows, with a green feather cloak on her side, shoulder-length short hair half-draped, and a small jasper bead on her forehead.

Sheng Ji put his hair hastily behind him, frowned and said, “Did you throw the cup just now?”

Pei Yu smiled lightly, “Gushan, Shouxian Peak, Pei Yu.”

“Are you Huai Bai’s apprentice?”

“You are Huai Bai’s apprentice!”

Yu Chisu and Sheng Ji both spoke at the same time, and then stared at each other.

Yu Chisu said, “It because your mouth is dirty. Now the apprentices are coming to trouble you.”

Sheng Ji was quite disdainful, “What am I afraid of? What I said is not a lie. What’s more, there are high mountains and artificial peaks. Who in this world can’t surpass? I don’t see you people who are not good at practicing swords all day and blindly praise.”

(T/N: high mountains and artificial peaks comes from a couplet written by a friend of traditional Chinese painter Zhang Daqian, and it means that as long as a person is willing to climb, they are able to reach the peak)

Yu Chisu was angry and anxious, “How can I blindly praise, these are all what my aunt said!”

“Oh, follow blindly.”

“You!”

Seeing that these two people are suspected of swearing again, people around them rushed to persuade them. These two children are not small, and most of them will be able to enter the inner peak in the future, which is worth making friends with.

“Hey, you may be the same sect brothers and sisters in the future, so you all give in one step.”

Yu Chisu’s eyes widened, “Who wants to be the same as him? I want to worship under the Immortal Elder Huai Bai’s gate!”

Sheng Ji sneered, “Not promising.”

Pei Yu frowned silently when she heard the words, “My master will not accept disciples anymore.”

Yu Chisu let out a long “Ah”, “I am the young master of Qianhan Palace, why doesn’t she accept me?”

Qianhan Palace? Pei Yu sneered and said blankly: “She promised me that she won’t accept another disciple.”

“But I am from Qianhan Palace…”

Sheng Ji watched the excitement from the sidelines, “The household doesn’t like you, young palace master.”

Pei Yu didn’t intend to listen to them any more, and walked to the door.

She had been thinking about Shiling. In this world, He Qing and the others died too early, and Master… She remembered that on the treasure ship that rained day and night, Master told the story of the destruction of a few good friends. Although she didn’t know what copy, milk, and party were, she could vaguely guess one or two.

It turns out that the sadness on Master’s face at that time was not fake.

Thinking of this, Pei Yu’s heart could not help but feel pain. Laughing in front of people and hiding sorrow in the back, does the master also bear a lot of weight in her heart?

A sword blocked her way.

Sheng Ji raised his eyebrows, “Hey, you still owe me a hair band.”

Pei Yu was in a bad mood and did not speak.

Yu Chisu hurriedly stretched out her hand to push Sheng Ji’s sword, but it was a pity that she couldn’t push it even a few times. “Even children are bullied. Can you be human?”

Sheng Ji couldn’t help but stab her back, “I can’t even push the sword, it’s a waste.”

Pei Yu stood there listening to them arguing for a long time. Sheng Ji also worshipped the Gushan Baidai Peak in her previous life, and had been classmates with her for a period of time. She knew that in Sheng Ji’s eyes, there were only two kinds of people in this world, rivals and waste. When he first saw her, she was scolded by Sheng Ji several times, but after she had taught the arrogant young man several times, she never heard the term “waste”.

Words are like sharp blades, and they hurt people the most. What’s more, she was high-minded and thin-skinned. She was most afraid of being looked down upon and embarrassing her master. She cried for a long time because of the word “waste”.

But now she thinks about the grievances of her youth, like a dream. She felt wronged back then, but in the long time after she lost Gushan, she couldn’t help but miss it every time she thought of it. Just like a pot of green tea, it is bitter at first, and then after tasting, it is fine and sweet.

“Want to fight?” she asked.

Sheng Ji’s eyes lit up, “I’m just waiting for your words!”

… …

There was a shuffle of tiles on Lingsu Peak.

A few flying cranes gazed at the people who were sitting on the rock playing mahjong, and familiarly found another secluded hill to rest.

Huai Bai sneezed. She rubbed her nose, “How do I feel someone is scolding me?”

Zhuoyu Peak Master said very straightforwardly: “Can there be fewer people scolding you? Don’t you want to think about what you have done? By the way,” she thought of something, “Isn’t your new apprentice cheated from the Mo Sect? “

Huai Bai smiled and said, “No, no, I picked her up on the road.”

Zhuoyu Peak Master nodded, “That’s good. Last time, in order to compensate the Zhuangzi Saints, the senior brother asked me to temper several high-grade magic weapons and send them over. Oh, I feel sorry for me. The apprentices aren’t mine, so why do I have to send it to them?”

Lingsu Peak Master echoed: “That is, they are not able to keep people, but we are to blame. They are unreasonable.”

Huangzhong Peak Master said lightly: “Don’t lose, don’t mention it again.”

“Hahaha No loss is no loss, Ming Ying’s girl is a good seed, I still remember the appearance of the old guys in the Zhuangzi Saints who were so angry that they all lost their beards.”

Huai Bai stopped them, “It’s okay, okay, don’t mention this matter after you’ve said it once. If people hear it again, I’ll go to the senior brother to eat a pot again.”

(T/N: eat a pot aka the pot = blame and it’s basically saying she’ll get scolded for what happened again)

Zhuoyu Peak Master made a “cut” sound, “Where is the senior brother willing to punish you? He loves you the most, anyway. In the end, he’ll want me to the one to wipe your butt.”

(T/N: wipe your butt means clean up the mess they made)

Lingsu Peak Master said: “I heard that the Buddhism people and the Zhuangzi Saints are quarreling.”

Zhuoyu Peak Master asked hurriedly: “What’s the matter? Don’t those monks always claim that they want Buddhism? How come they quarrel?”

Lingsu Peak Master said: “Just half a year ago, in the blood mist, Zhang Li’s son died? The only young disciple who survived said that a strange nun appeared at that time. The nun glanced at them and the blood mist rose up.”

Zhuoyu Peak Master said, “Wow, demon nun.”

Lingsu Peak Master said: “Let’s only look at the excitement and not let the fire burn us.”

Zhuoyu Peak Master said, “The fire has already burned us, you forgot…”

Huai Bai felt the gazes of these three people, and coughed slightly, “I hit someone.”

Lingsu Peak Master said: “Junior sister, good fight! I saw that Chang Xiao not pleasing to the eye. You say she’s called Chang Xiao, but why always keep a straight face? She doesn’t like to laugh, so why not call it Chang Ku?”

(T/N: the pun is that Chang Xiao means always laughing while Chang Ku means always crying)

Zhuoyu Peak Master laughed suddenly, “Why do you care so much about whether people love to laugh or not? Didn’t you just fall in love with them?”

Lingsu Peak Master was stunned, “What are you talking about? I am different from you. My future Daoist companion will be the best son of the entire immortal gate.”

Huai Bai spread out the tiles, “Huh, give me the money.”

After several peak masters surrendered the spirit stones painfully, Huai Bai wanted to leave the playing table, but was caught.

“Why? Want to go if you win?”

Huai Bai was helpless, “Three senior sisters, I have won one battle, yet you still don’t let me go. My apprentice is still waiting for me.”

Zhuoyu Peak Master stretched out her slender jade finger and poked her forehead, “You have been thinking about your apprentice, yet the little things have no conscience. You have disappeared silently for half a year, and don’t want to worry about us.”

Huai Bai pressed her palms together to beg for mercy, “Okay, I am wrong, I am wrong. When I go out in the future, where will I go, who will I go to will all be reported to you. Is that good enough?”

Lingsu Peak Master gave her a white look, “Are you impatient? Have you developed your skills? Your wings are hard? You start to feel that the senior sister is annoying?”

(T/N: wings are hard is basically saying someone feels independent, it’s based off of how birds leave the nest once they learn to fly)

Huai Bai sighed long, “Don’t dare.”

The always indifferent Huangzhong Peak Master frowned, “Little Bai, but were you embarrassed that day?”

Zhuoyu Peak Master was furious, “Did Zhang Li and the others use Shiling’s affairs to make things difficult for you?”

The Shiling matter once caused an uproar in the Immortal Sect.

He Qing is the first disciple of the Mo Sect, and Ming Ruxue is the young master of Wangyue City and the elite of the Zhuangzi Saints, both of whom have high expectations. If the few of them died together in Shiling, it would be fine. The world could still express a few words of jealousy of the talents and shed a few tears, but Huai Bai returned.

Only she survived.

There were different opinions back then, and many unreasonable speculations and rumors came out together. There were even more jealous people who slandered that she betrayed her friends in the secret realm in exchange for a ray of life. Otherwise, how could she be the only one to survive?

What’s more, as soon as she came back, she claimed that she was badly injured and avoided seeing guests, and she never mentioned what happened in the Shiling at the time.

The Zhuangzi Saints and Mo Sect put pressure on them several times, wanting Gushan to surrender Huai Bai, and tell them all about what happened in Shiling.

Then Gushan’s Dao Senior changed his usually gentle temperament, used thunder to suppress all the rumors, and at the same time declared to the whole immortal gate that if anyone dared to mention Shiling, they would be an enemy of Gushan. Coupled with the destruction of Huai Bai’s spiritual roots, it is no longer the sword cultivator that astounded everyone in the past, and the two gates stopped.

The old thing about Shiling is still a sharp sword, lying between the three religions.

Speaking of Shiling, Huai Bai’s complexion dimmed for a moment, and she immediately smiled: “Where is it? Zhang Li makes things difficult for me? Does he dare?”

Lingsu Peak Master nodded, “True.” She paused for a moment and said softly: “Little Bai, the blood mist has recently reappeared, and the demons in the land of demons are also showing signs of change. Please stay in Gushan and don’t go around. Okay?”

Huai Bai pursed her lips, “Okay… but, my little apprentice was still thrown in the town by me. I must always take care of her.”

Zhuoyu Peak Master grabbed the corner of her clothes, “Don’t go! Play mahjong again! Don’t you know how to let your other apprentices go to work? Otherwise, what will the apprentices do?”

Huai Bai thought for a while and felt that what she said was very reasonable, so she took out the paper crane and said, “Bai’er, I have a little sister for you. In that room in our town, you go and take her to play. Have fun.”

“Master, why are you…”

Before she could finish talking over there, Huai Bai cut off the connection in time, pinched the paper crane into a ball, and threw it down from the sea of clouds.

Zhuoyu Peak Master leaned over and said curiously: “You haven’t said how you picked up your apprentice this time.”

Huai Bai lowered her eyes slightly, not knowing what she thought of, and smiled, “The fate is wonderful.”

… …

The place where Sheng Ji and Pei Yu competed was at the foot of Gushan.

A crescent-shaped blue pool was shining brightly in the autumn sun, the pool was clear, and the lake was fragrant with luxuriant grasses.

When they came, those who had good things followed behind and wanted to watch the excitement, so Sheng Ji used his magical powers to get rid of the group of idlers.

He thought, after all, she was also from Gushan, and he would not be too embarrassed to see if she looked up and bowed her head. Since he started to study the sword by himself, he was undefeated in the battle with his peers. He cultivated a temperament with a higher eye than the top, and naturally did not take the girl in front of him at heart.

(T/N: higher eye than the top means he’s confident that he’s the best of the best)

Yu Chisu persuaded: “Pei Yu, forget it, you can’t beat him.”

In the early days, Taichu Tian Sheng Ji was an insurmountable existence among the same generation, just like the proud sons of the past few eras.

Pei Yu kept her sleeves up in silence.

Sheng Ji pulled out the long sword behind him. The sword is three feet long, the blade is slightly wider, and the whole body is red. It seems that there is flame flowing in it, reflecting the dazzling light in the sun.

“This is my sword, Hongyan.” He saw that there was no cultivation level on Pei Yu’s body, so he didn’t pour his true energy into the sword, wanting to have a fair duel. Hongyan is made of Yan Ocean’s fine iron. It sinks a lot more than ordinary swords. The tip of the sword hangs from the ground. The real flame in the sword burns the vegetation within a few feet to black.

(T/N: Hongyan means swan goose and honestly that sounds so dumb that I decided to just keep it in the Chinese pinyin)

Yu Chisu said: “Pei Yu, you have to be careful. His sword is made of Yan Ocean’s fine iron. As long as it is affected by the sword wind, it will be burned. Do you have any swords to restrain with water attributes?”

Pei Yu said: “I use a knife.”

Sheng Ji laughed disdainfully, “The sword is the king of a hundred soldiers, and the sword can’t be used by ordinary reckless men, you will lose to me in weapons.”

Pei Yu pointed out, “The sword is the king of a hundred soldiers, and the sword holder needs to stand upright, have the universe in mind, just like the sword in their hand, with thousands of tempers and perseverance, so that you can use the sword to the extreme. You are proud of your heart and rarely experience setbacks. With a narrow vision and no dust, your swordsmanship may not be smooth sailing.”

(T/N: usually when Chinese text talks about dust, it means experiencing hardship)

If he always thinks that he is superior to others, he will never reach the realm of high mountains and artificial peak.

Sheng Ji became angry from embarrassment, his jade face turned red: “You, what qualifications do you have to teach me?”

Pei Yu sighed in her heart. She wanted to continue to reason with him, but after a while, she just took off her green feather cloak, carefully put it in the storage bag given by the master, and said flatly: “Let’s try it. “

Forget it, if you can fight, who needs to be reasonable?

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