Chapter 40

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Asking the Heart (1)

The mountain road is wet, the rock walls are black and green, and a few plants and trees stick their heads through the cracks.

Huai Bai led Pei Yu to the heart-questioning platform——soon the second trial was about to begin.

Huai Bai thought, her little apprentice had done a big deal in silence. Fortunately, she covered up at the early stage, so Ning Xiao could also suppress the matter at Danxia Palace.

She has no doubt that her apprentice will grow into a genius who astounds the world, but the more genius she is, the easier it is to be envied, not to mention the fact that the Zhuangzi Saints and Mo Sect are still watching.

The more dazzling the light, the more you have to bear when you are young.

But she only wants Pei Yu to live happily and have a good childhood like those children in modern society.

“Mas-Master…” Pei Yu stopped and looked up at Huai Bai, her expression a little nervous.

Huai Bai turned around and smiled: “What?” Seeing the girl hadn’t said a word for a long time, she squatted down and said softly: “Are you still thinking about the Heavenly Stairs? Don’t worry, it’s just that the stairs have collapsed, no big deal. Even if the sky falls, there is still the master.”

When Pei Yu heard the words, she seemed to be slightly scratched by something in her heart. She lowered her eyes slightly, her cheeks were stained with crimson. She loosened her clenched left hand, and placed a golden leaf safely on her palm.

“Master, give it to you.”

This is not a precious thing, will Master like it?

Pei Yu bit her lip, her heart beating. This is the world she loves, and she wants to give it to the person she cares about most in the world.

Huai Bai took the leaf and smiled: “Thank you, I like it very much.”

Pei Yu tried to stay calm, but her lips couldn’t help raising its sides, and her eyes were full of joy, “It’s good for the Master to like it.”

Huai Bai curled her fingers and scratched the girl’s small nose, “Little baby, go to Ask the Heart.”

Gushan’s second trial is to Ask the Heart.

Compared to the Heavenly Stairs, this trial seemed much simpler. The participants in the trial only need to place their hands on the heart-questioning stone.

On the questioning stone, they will see what they desire most in their hearts.

Parents, wives, children, fame… Once you enter the immortal gate, you are destined to abandon a lot of things. Some people are lured by longevity, cut off the dust, worship the immortal gate, and when they look back, they have passed years, and the old people become loess, and they understand that for themselves, the most important thing is lost.

The heart-questioning stone is actually used to give the disciples who are about to enter Gushan a chance to choose. Let them ask their own minds if it’s worth it, so they will not regret it in the future.

Huai Bai thought that the Dao ancestors who made trials in the past were very well-intentioned, and they were preaching to these young people as early as the beginning of the road.

At this time, there were more than a dozen young people standing under the stage of Asking the Heart. All disciples had reached six hundred steps and were qualified to enter the inner peak.

They raised their heads, looking forward at the jade platform, and the questioning stone with white light on it.

There were four white feathered girls standing on the asking platform.

Seeing Huai Bai coming, they flew off the stage one after another, praying in front of Huai Bai: “Teacher Huai Bai.”

Huai Bai nodded and said with a smile: “Don’t worry about me, I just accompany my apprentice to Asking the Heart.”

She had finished speaking, and everyone was shocked. As the peak master, to accompany a disciple who has not yet started to participate in the trial, is something that is unprecedented in the Immortal Sect.

Although they all thought that Huai Bai’s cultivation was shallow, their perception of her couldn’t help but improve.

“If only my future master was so gentle.”

“Is this the Shouxian Peak Master? It’s so good-looking, just like a fairy.”

Yu Chisu had been thinking about the changes in the heavenly steps. When she saw Huai Bai, she suddenly got excited, waved her hand and shouted: “Immortal chief, Pei Yu!”

Huai Bai smiled at her.

Yu Chisu folded her hands on her chest, Xishi clasps at her heart, “Immortal chief smiled at me la la la la!”

(T/N: Xishi clasps at her heart is an idiom meaning [admiring] a woman’s lovely looks, despite the pangs of illness; basically saying she’s fangirling over her looks)

Pei Yu frowned slightly, and subconsciously stood in front of Huai Bai, but she immediately realized that with her current stature, she couldn’t stop the eyes of others.

She bit her lip a little annoyed, and turned her head to quietly glanced at Huai Bai.

Why does Master smile at others?

Huai Bai still smiled like a spring breeze, and said to the disciples of Feiyu Peak: “Let’s start the trial.”

The four nodded when they heard the words, and flew to the jade platform, announcing the beginning of Asking the Heart. Then they ordered each person to take measurements.

Who knows what those teenagers saw on the heart-questioning stone. When they stepped off the stage, their eyes were wet and red, and there was no original longing in their eyes. Instead, they thought and wavered.

Sheng Ji stayed on the stage for a long time, eyes red as blood, and walked down silently holding the sword.

“Hey, are you okay?” Yu Chisu asked curiously.

It is rare that Sheng Ji did not answer harshly, but shook his head in silence.

Huai Bai squinted her eyes slightly, and remembered that when she was a teenager, the scene of uneasily placing her hand on the heart-questioning stone was still vivid. She didn’t expect that hundreds of years had passed in the blink of an eye.

If placed in the original world, she has lived for several lifetimes.

The back of her hand was gently scratched, she looked down, and Pei Yu respectfully said: “Master, it’s my turn.”

Huai Bai held her back again and smiled: “I’ll be with you.”

Pei Yu raised her head in amazement. After a while, she bowed her head again and said in a low voice, “Thank you, Master.”

Huai Bai took the girl and slowly walked up to the questioning platform.

She remembered that she had come to another world for the first time, groping on the road alone, practicing swords alone to kill the enemy, and when she was exhausted, she sat in front of Guangyin Lake, looked at the bright moon, and felt a kind of loneliness.

Her master once said that the Dao is a lonely road, and you can only walk by yourself and realize it by yourself.

But she didn’t want Pei Yu to be as lonely as herself, she wanted to be able to accompany this child, and do her best to stay with her forever.

The heart-questioning stone shone with a soft white light.

Huai Bai held Pei Yu and said softly, “Just put your hand up.”

Pei Yu hung her hand on the questioning stone and hesitated. At this time, she and the master were still clasping hands, which meant that the master would see the picture in her heart. What should Master do if she sees herself in such an unbearable way?

But her plight did not last long.

Huai Bai quickly released Pei Yu’s hand, touched her head, and pushed aside.

This is the child’s privacy, she has no intention of getting involved.

Pei Yu let go of her heart, and a faint loss came to her again. She glanced at the heart-questioning stone and put her hand on it.

Everything in front of her became blood red.

The red mist was thick as the sea, and she saw a person slowly walking in the blood red. Black clothes and black drapery hat, her face was covered, and only a pair of autumn eyes appeared.

The person penetrated her body and walked to the lonely city in silence.

Pei Yu was surprised in her heart and silently followed behind this person.

Not long after, she walked into the city and saw the bright spring in the gloomy crowd——it was a young Master. Her face still had the tenderness of a young girl, her brows were alienated and cold, and a deep clear sword hung on her waist.

“Thank you for your help.” When Huai Bai saw the person in black, her eyes lit up a little.

Under the black veil, red lips raised slightly, “You are welcome.”

When Huai Bai heard the hoarse voice, she was a little surprised, and then asked, “Dare to ask the name of the fellow Daoist?”

Who knows what the person was thinking, she laughed, and said dumbly, “Ming Luan.”

Then Pei Yu had many pictures pass in front of her eyes, hazy and indistinguishable, and finally fell into the master’s smiling voice in her ears——

“Ming Luan, today is the date of the bond between you and me. In my world, spouses should be honest with each other when they get married, so I also want to tell you a secret.”

“Want to know? I’ll tell you with one kiss.”

Pei Yu didn’t have time to hear the secret before the heart-questioning stone suddenly heated up. She was caught off guard and it was so hot that she withdrew her hand.

Huai Bai came hurriedly and asked, “Apprentice, what’s the matter?”

Pei Yu shook her head and put her hand up again, but there was no trace of past events before her eyes.

What is that just now? Is it… the past between the blood demon and the master?

Her heart was messy and numb, and she couldn’t help frowning.

In Danxia Palace.

Ning Xiao suddenly said “Ah…”, his eyes became a little complicated.

Lingsu Peak Master asked hurriedly: “Head Senior Brother, what happened?”

Ning Xiao gave a wry smile, shook his head helplessly, and said, “I’m afraid Gushan will change the trial rules in the future.”

Huangzhong Peak Master asked: “Why did you say this?”

Zhuoyu Peak Master said: “The senior brother means that the Heavenly Stairs are broken, and we have to find a new way to test them in the future, but the heart stone and the dust washing pool can still be used.”

Ning Xiao sighed, “The questioning stone is also broken.”

“What?”

“……What?”

“This, Pei Yu?”

Zhuoyu Peak Master was dumb for a long time before murmured: “Maybe, can you do a repair?”

Lingsu Peak Master suddenly opened her eyes, “Let her not go to the dust pool! Please!”

Zhen’s thoughts:

Well… looks like we get a little bit more info on the different version of Pei Yu that Huai Bai knows. We also have a name to distinguish her from Pei Yu! But yeah, I can’t believe Pei Yu really broke another trial LOL.

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