Pei Jing frowned: "You don't have to say sorry, Fenghuang doesn't blame you."
The girl was silent for a long time and didn't reply for a long time.
The green blood in the jade bead flows slowly, like a teardrop that has solidified for a hundred years.
Pei Jing asked her, "Do you still remember what happened in West Kunlun?" Qing Ying's voice was weak and she wanted to speak, but the wound was too deep. She opened her mouth, but because of the pain, her breath was weak and she couldn't form a sentence.
Pei Jing sighed in his heart and said gently: "Don't worry. You should recuperate in the bead first, and I will ask you again when your injury is healed. If you don't want to see Feng Jin now, then don't see him."
A cyan light flickered, as if to say thank you. She closed her eyes and fell into a long sleep.
Pei Jing put the beads into his clothes and walked towards Xuanyun Peak. The outer peak test, today is the draw. When he rushed over, the huge competition platform standing in the sea of clouds was already full of people. First, the inner test of each peak.
Everyone from Shangyang Peak gathered under a stage, and a senior sister with fluttering sleeves distributed tokens to them. Pei Jing came over, and everyone silently made way for him—he had Elder Chen Xu from the inner peak Wenqing Peak as his backer, so he couldn't afford to offend.
Pei Jing was usually treated like this and was used to it, so for a moment he walked quite naturally.
His self-righteous look made him seem even more arrogant and domineering in the eyes of those who were interested.
When he walked to Xu Jing's side, Pei Jing found that Xu Jing was also looking at him with a complicated expression. He touched his face and asked him, "Am I more beautiful again?"
Xu Jing sighed and shook his head: "No, I just lament that you have been treated unfairly during the year at Yinghui Peak."
Pei Jing was full of questions: "What?"
Xu Jing couldn't hold it in any longer: "You actually know the leader of Wenqing Peak, why don't you just join the inner peak? I remember when we joined, there were ten places for the inner peak, you could definitely fight for it."
Pei Jing finally knew the truth—Chen Xu and Feng Jin came from the Purple Bamboo Forest and asked everyone at Shangyang Peak to confirm his background.
He turned to the disciples who were secretly looking at him and gave a brilliant smile with red lips and white teeth, looking very friendly.
A group of disciples: "..." Humph! A piece of trash walking in the background.
Pei Jing stopped smiling and whispered to Xu Jing, "Are these people crazy? Even if I came in through the back door, I am strong enough to beat them. It is not a problem to beat them to tears. You are so desperate that you dare to look at me?"
Xu Jing heard it and realized it was true. He looked behind him. Many people were listening attentively, trying to eavesdrop on what they were talking about, but pretending not to care at all, their eyes were just rolling around.
Xu Jing turned around and explained to him: "It's different. In the past, you had a backer, and it was the disciples of Yinghui Peak who were angry. But after a year, you have almost subdued them, and no one has any prejudice against you. Now these people are all senior brothers and sisters from Shangyang Peak."
Pei Jing smiled: "Oh, so that's it."
Xu Jing, as a know-it-all in Shangyang Peak, could talk about everything. He said, "The opinions about you are quite polarized now. We have been with you for a year and we all know your strength. Now we admire your character even more - you didn't use such good resources and insisted on relying on your own strength to enter the inner peak. This is worthy of admiration."
Pei Jing pretended to be embarrassed: "No, no."
Xu Jing frowned and gestured backwards: "Then there is another group, these senior brothers and sisters with more experience in Shangyang Peak. They think you are a waste. Even with Elder Chen Xu as your backer, you can't enter the inner peak. How weak must your strength be? I'm afraid that the Yinghui Peak test and the competition with Xiao Chen were arranged by Elder Chen Xu to give you a chance to show off."
Pei Jing seemed to be talking about someone other than himself: "Then I have quite a lot of drama."
Xu Jing didn't know why he could still laugh, and said angrily: "We entered Shangyang Peak together. We put in a lot of effort and publicity to force you into the Outer Peak Four Heroes. Don't let us down."
Pei Jing laughed non-stop. Xu Jing was simply his source of happiness. As the leader of the Five Greatest Men in the World, he had to rely on false propaganda to become one of the Four Greatest Men in Yunxiao Outer Peak. How degenerate.
Xu Jing got angry and said, "Be serious!"
Pei Jing straightened up for a second and nodded: "Okay, thank you all for your support. If I win first place, I will set up two tables at the entrance of the mountain and invite you to come and have a drink."
Xu Jing: “… …” Drink your head.
The senior sister handed out tokens to them one by one. When it came to them, she snorted coldly when she saw that they were chatting happily.
Pei Jing and Xu Jing immediately stood up properly.
The one standing in front of them was a senior sister in the middle stage of foundation building. Her appearance was considered top-notch in the world of cultivation where there were so many beauties. Her eyebrows were as beautiful as a painting, she wore a proper dress, a jade hairpin, and her black hair was smooth. But her expression was not good, and her tone of voice was not friendly: "I was talking about the rules just now, did you listen?"
When Xu Jing saw that something bad was going to happen, he hurried ahead of Pei Jing and said carefully, "I heard it, I heard it, thank you, Senior Sister Wuhen."
Senior Sister Wuhen's expression improved slightly, but she was still cold: "Get the token and go to the queue. Go up when you are called."
Xu Jing: "Yes, yes, yes."
After the senior sister walked a little further away, Pei Jing asked, "Who is this?"
Xu Jing rolled his eyes, thinking that he was just a frog in a well: "That's Senior Sister Wuhen. You don't even know the most beautiful woman in my Shangyang Peak? I've told you about her before—she's the one who refused to enter the inner peak because she was afraid of falling in love with Pei Yu."
Pei Jing: “…Oh.”
Yes, according to the rumors, he is a heart-stealing thief in the inner peak, a playboy and a man without feelings.
Xu Jingdao looked at his senior sister's departing figure and muttered, "But this most beautiful woman in Shangyang Peak is indeed worthy of her reputation."
Pei Jing was quite graceful. After all, this was his close admirer, so he just praised him: "Well, not bad." He had good taste.
Of course, if Yu Qinglian were here, she would probably be angry to death.
Xu Jing looked down at his own sign: "Forty-three, it will probably take a long time before it's my turn."
Pei Jing also took a look, seventy-two, and said, "I'm behind you, we can go eat something now."
The sun was shining brightly. There were a bunch of makeshift tents next to the Xuanyun Peak’s martial arts arena. A group of people were crowded there, drinking tea or watching a play. The tent closest to the arena was the busiest. When Pei Jing and Xu Jing entered, a group of people were crowded together, placing bets.
From a distance, someone could be heard saying loudly, "Guessing the winner of this round is boring. Why not take a big gamble and guess who will be the first this time?" The man immediately replied, "You said, take a big gamble, then the starting price will be ten medium-grade spirit stones." Everyone laughed and said, "Sure! You can't regret it if you lose!"
The group of young people were all anxious, so they rolled up their sleeves and divided up several plots of land on the table.
"That's fine! I'll bet on Zhongnan Peak Changwu!"
"Changwu from Zhongnan Peak, he's a dark horse. He seemed to have ranked high in the last outer peak test."
"How could we forget Senior Brother Lin Feng who won first place in the last Outer Peak Exam?"
"Brother Lin Feng only narrowly defeated Sister Bu Heng - I bet on Sister Bu Heng from Zi Yang Peak. Zi Yang Peak and my Shang Yang Peak are both ranked first among the outer peaks, so their strength cannot be that much worse."
Speaking of this, the disciples of Shangyang Peak sighed: "It's also because of Senior Sister Wuhen, why didn't she want to enter the inner peak? Otherwise, who knows who would be the number one."
"You've all finished talking about the people, so I'll just mention a dark horse. Chu Junyu from Shangyang Peak, do you know him? - Maybe he's not a dark horse, I heard that this kid had already reached the foundation-building stage when he entered Yunxiao."
Ru Yunxiao was at the foundation-building stage, but few people present believed him and sneered, "Don't tell me you've been brainwashed by his suitors - who are you trying to fool? He's good-looking, and his fake strength is almost becoming real. Besides, he didn't seem to sign up. He's so elusive, and I haven't seen him once."
Talking about this false strength, several people were laughing, but they couldn't keep their smiles when they thought of one person.
Pooh first as a sign of respect.
"I heard that someone made Senior Brother Changwu, Senior Brother Linfeng, Senior Sister Buheng, and that kid Zhang Yiming into the Four Outer Peak Heroes. Don't you have eyes?"
"Zhang Yiming, just hearing his name, I can tell he's not on the same level as the previous person. Rumor has it that he has a relationship with Elder Chen from Wenqing Peak. What a bullshit relationship. It takes several lifetimes to find out that they are not even remotely related."
"He only bullies those kids from Yinghui Peak. There are always people who are better than you. This time, I'll teach him to recognize his own strength."
Every word reached Pei Jing's ears.
Xu Jing thought: "They are still too naive." Pei Jing smiled and said: "That's good. They know I have a backer, but they are still mighty and unyielding. This is my Yunxiao disciple."
Xu Jing wondered why his words were so strange.
Pei Jing was at the edge of the crowd, patted someone on the shoulder and said, "Brother, make way." The person in front was chatting happily, turned around and glared at him, "Where are you here!" The young man smiled brightly, "I'm here to make a fortune." The person in front didn't know him, and cursed at him, but still made way for him.
The table was in chaos, with pieces of spirit stones pressing down heavily. Everyone rolled up their sleeves and engaged in verbal battles, with saliva flying everywhere.
"Brother Changwu, you're right to trust me. Zhongnan Peak depends on him!"
"My Senior Sister Bu Heng has completed the initial stage of foundation building! She is about to break through to the middle stage!"
"Lin Feng..."
"Zi Qi..."
Amid the commotion, a very abrupt voice of a young man was heard: "I'm betting on Zhang Yiming, do you have any land left?"
"???"
Everyone quieted down, and then a young man appeared. He had a handsome face and a bright and clean smile, but his words were a little thoughtless.
The man who was the banker just thought he was being taken advantage of and laughed: "There is land, there is land, how much do you want to bet?"
Xu Jing squeezed in from behind, fearing that Zhang Yiming would go in and cause trouble, so he stood beside Zhang Yiming, panting, "Hey..." Before he finished speaking, he suddenly felt something empty around his waist. Pei Jing, who had no money with him, took the money bag hanging from Xu Jing's waist without even looking away. With a mighty force, he pressed the money on a corner of the table, leaned forward, and said with a gleam of lightning: "Press all my money!"
Everyone: “… Oh no.”
Xu Jing: “…”
Damn you, why.
Xu Jing gritted his teeth in anger: "Zhang Yiming!!!"
Pei Jing smiled and said, "Don't be angry, wait for me to set up two tables at the entrance of the village."
He quickened his pace, fearing that Xu Jing, a good-tempered young man like him, would get angry and hit him.
The land of Xuanyun Peak is very large. There is a small hillside on a fault on the mountain. The tent is built very high. Yellow and purple flowers are in full bloom, and dandelions are swaying in between. Pei Jing jumped down from the hillside, and his sleeves rolled up the dandelions, and the white pappus flew into the air. One flower fell in front of Pei Jing, and he blew it away with a smile. Then he looked up and saw Ji Wuyou standing under the shade of the tree, weak and pale.
This was the first time they met after returning to Yunxiao.
Pei Jing was a little surprised, but after all, he was his future disciple, so he stepped forward and asked, "Why are you here?"
Ji Wuyou was stunned. If he had admired, been close to, and been grateful to Zhang Yiming before, now that he knew his true identity, his emotions had changed a lot - from awe to unfamiliarity to helplessness. Even the ridiculous thought of standing shoulder to shoulder with him had faded.
He stammered, "Zhang... Master Pei, Sect Leader Pei."
Pei Jing could see the changes in Ji Wuyou's feelings towards him, and Shu Yan had indeed told him, but it was better this way.
He suppressed his smile and said, "You are also going to participate in this outer peak test?"
Ji Wuyou pursed his lips and nodded.
The fat boy has grown into a skinny boy now. Like all the protagonists of fantasy novels, he has a pair of firm and dark eyes.
Pei Jing said: "Alright, just do your best, I'm optimistic about you."
Pei Yuzhi's encouragement made Ji Wuyou feel a little timid, but then he was overcome by the desire to become stronger. The crazy and fearful mood in that strange village dissipated, and he slowly woke up. After hesitating for a long time, he said, "Brother Pei, what happened that day?"
Pei Jing said: "You don't remember?"
Ji Wuyou lowered his head: "Yeah."
It's just that the protagonist is still too young, and his lies are full of mistakes. Pei Jing knew that he still remembered, but he didn't expose him: "Nothing happened, you were just controlled by that monster. Now that you are out, there is no need to think about it."
Ji Wuyou's voice was even lower: "Yeah."
Pei Jing asked: "What's your number?"
Ji Wuyou said: "Number seven."
Pei Jing said: "Then let's go to the ring."
Ji Wuyou: "Yes."
The thin and frail boy walked a few steps and suddenly turned around.
Pei Jing thought that he had really grown up a lot, from a silly and stupid child to a boy who could conceal, test and look forward to things. Pei Jing waved the flowers in his hand, looked at him and smiled, "Anything else?"
Ji Wuyou said: "I'm sorry."
The boy's voice was lost in the wind. Pei Jing understood and said, "Perhaps, I should apologize for you on behalf of Yu Qinglian."
Ji Wuyou smiled shyly and palely and said nothing.
Turning around, his smile slowly faded. On the way to the ring, against the wind, with thin clouds and mist, he heard the casual and interesting laughter of the woman in his mind.
"Why are you doing this?"
Ji Wuyou ignored her in his heart.
The goddess said: "You really wanted to get out that day regardless of everything, including sacrificing their lives. Tsk, those who are not awakened by the devil are selfish."
Ji Wuyou defended himself, saying, "I just want to survive."
The goddess smiled meaningfully.
Ji Wuyou slowly clenched his fists and said, "In that world, no one will help me. I just want to survive."
The goddess sneered: "Yes, you are right. If a person does not work for himself, he will be punished by heaven and earth. Everyone has his own difficulties."
Ji Wuyou looked at his hands, which seemed to be only a layer of skin left, and the dormant blood flowing in the blue veins. He kept repeating in a low voice: "At that time, I had no choice. I just wanted to survive."
The goddess seemed to have seen his future, and smiled casually, "You are right - the path of cultivation is so cruel, fate is unpredictable, and you will really face a situation where it is either you or me. Masters and apprentices turn against each other, husbands and wives kill each other, and there are too many things. The key is to survive and become stronger."
Ji Wuyou pursed his lips.
He doesn't blame Yu Qinglian—
It’s just that from now on, I will never trust anyone again.
The goddess said this and thought of other things. She was now a phantom, sitting elegantly in the clouds, her aqua-blue feather gauze dress swaying in the wind like the waves of the deep sea. Her slender fingers rolled her long hair, but her eyes were looking deeply in the direction of Pei Jing. The corners of her red lips were raised, and her smile was a bit ferocious.
She seemed to... smell a familiar scent.
Pei Jing's opponent was defeated by him in three seconds. Facing everyone's gnashing eyes, he jumped down from the ring. The scene was full of senior brothers and sisters, and no one was happy for him. Only Xu Jing was thinking about his money, and he was relieved when Pei Jing won a game.
"Who's your next opponent?"
Pei Jing said: "How should I know?" Just beat him and it will be over.
All the senior brothers who were unhappy with him were making sarcastic remarks about him.
He deliberately raised his voice. "Have you heard about the match at Zhongnan Peak? It seems that as soon as Senior Brother Changwu came on the field, his opponent surrendered in a hurry."
"Yes. There are even more powerful ones, Senior Sister Bu Heng..."
Because it was an intra-peak competition, the elders and peak masters did not come, and it was organized by several older brothers and sisters. They were too old and had no hope of building a foundation, so they were jealous and naturally followed the rules. This ensured fairness in all aspects.
However, because the peak master was away, the disciples were lawless and said all kinds of things. The most bizarre thing was that some people speculated on his relationship with Chen Xu. Some said they were poor relatives who had nothing to do with him, some said it was just a small favor from a chance encounter, and of course the most bizarre thing was that they thought he was Chen Xu's cauldron.
Of course, this statement was really dark, and the person who proposed it was beaten and never spoke again.
Pei Jing listened to their gossip and was too lazy to pay any attention.
Now it is just a trial run, he is waiting for the disciple from Zhongnan Peak.
Return to the room prepared for them by Xuanyun Peak.
Pei Jing suddenly felt a chill on his neck and took out the necklace. After a dazzling green light, the girl who had just slept for a day woke up. It was also the first time that Pei Jing saw clearly the appearance of the young master of the Blue Bird tribe.
She was young, petite, with wounds all over her thin white arms. She didn't have the brutality and viciousness of the Bluebirds. On the contrary, her blue pupils were pure, her lips were pale, and her black hair fell on the side of her face, making her look very weak.
"Why did you wake up?"
Qing Ying was awakened by the breath that made her heart palpitate, like a nightmare of the abyss and swamp, her whole body was trembling, but she could calm down now. The wound on her throat was more painful when it healed, and she couldn't speak, so she used her fingers to tell Pei Jing what she wanted to say in the air. Her nails fell off, and her hands were broken in several places, which was very hideous, and blood slowly floated in the air.
Very faint handwriting.
"Queen Mother of the West, Changwu, Zhongnan Peak."
"Kill her, don't die, mask."
Pei Jing could guess what she meant: "The Queen Mother of the West is behind my Changwu on Zhongnan Peak?"
Qing Ying shook his head: "Yes."
Pei Jing: "She is in Chang Wu's body. She is immortal. Do we need a mask to destroy her?"
Qing Ying nodded.
It was similar to what Pei Jing guessed. Pei Jing didn't want her to waste too much energy, so he asked: "After the Blue Bird of West Kunlun was exterminated, you escaped with her. Did she control you and make you kill for her?"
Qing Ying closed his eyes and shook his head.
Pei Jing said: "She controlled Changwu? She made Changwu kill people for her."
nod.
Pei Jing: "Why did she kill people and dig out their internal organs?"
Qing Ying's expression was painful, and a trace of deep sadness flashed across his eyes: "Eat, secret technique."
Pei Jing: "She eats those internal organs and practices martial arts with secret techniques. At the same time, she also cultivates human pills to solidify your soul?"
Qing Ying was silent for a long time and then nodded.
Pei Jing found it interesting now: "She also helped you to solidify your soul? I heard from Feng Jin that you two had a pretty good relationship in the past."
Qing Ying said nothing.
Pei Jing said slowly: "But she is the one who exterminated your clan, right? The Blue Bird Clan of West Kunlun all died at her hands. She helped you solidify your soul and controlled Changwu's nourishing pill for you to take - but you broke free from the control and made that human pill sober up. You controlled that human pill, ran out, bit Changwu in the main hall of Zhongnan Peak, and used this opportunity to tell him how to deal with the Queen Mother of the West."
"That mask you saw earlier..."
But later, Changwu dealt with the Queen Mother of the West and did not let her go. Or maybe Qingying knew it all along and just wanted to die together.
Pei Jing paused for a long time, and only asked softly: "In Kunlun Penglai Mountain, the Queen Mother of the West was kind to the Blue Bird Clan, and they have been friends for generations, which is a legend. The Penglai Goddess in my memory is not like this. Feng Jin said that in one of her lives, the Queen Mother of the West had no spiritual roots and died early. Is it related to your Blue Bird Clan?"
"Why would she attack the Bluebird Clan?"
His words fell.
Qing Ying slowly closed her eyes, tears overflowed and flowed across her face, mixed with blood.
The urge to vomit surged up in my body.
Penglai Mountain is hidden in the white mist, and the pedestrian path is dripping with dew in the morning. The elegant Queen Mother in the mural, when she looked back, she also smiled as pure and flawless as a girl. Carrying flowers through the forest, the water blue dress swept across the spring of Kunlun. Green plums in white porcelain bowls, plum blossom wine in the snow, several generations of entanglement, saving and knowing each other, this lifelong friend.
In the end, nothing can stop the fickleness of fate and the unpredictable human heart.
It was a dark and endless night in Kunshan. The wind was blowing hard, and she was uneasy. She dressed and went to the palace to look for her. Before she arrived, she smelled the scent of blood. Standing on tiptoe, the young clan leader looked out the window.
That scene still makes her hands and feet cold, she feels panic and despair, and her head hurts as if it exploded!
She saw rivers of blood.
She saw that the formation was cold and eerie.
I saw the high and mighty girl having her hands and feet tied.
I saw pain, hideousness, anger, endless hatred and pain on her face.
There was a violent storm in West Kunlun Mountains. The lights were dim, and the shadows of several giant birds were reflected on the wall, looking crazy and greedy.
She saw the elders of the tribe transformed into giant birds, sharing the food of the gods.
He stretched out his hand tremblingly.
Qing Ying wrote word by word in the air.
"Eat, secret technique."
"God, Ming."
Author's words: Enough of the foreshadowing! The Yunxiao part will end in the next chapter (… I should be able to… )
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