"Sect Master Qiu." Yu Jing suddenly appeared and stood in front of Jiu Hui and Zhi You. She saluted the newcomers tenderly: "The last time I saw Sect Master Qiu was fifty years ago. After so many years, Sect Master Qiu is still as charming as ever."
Yu Jing put her left hand behind her back and made a gesture. Jiu Hui immediately understood and took a few steps back. Seeing that Zhiyou did not react, she grabbed his sleeve and pulled him to her side.
"Junior Jiuhui greets Sect Master Qiu." She stepped on Zhiyou's foot.
Zhiyou, you could be smarter.
"Junior Zhiyou greets Sect Master Qiu."
Zhiyou looked down at his stepped foot and hid the unfinished snack into his sleeve.
Jiu Hui smiled with relief, that’s good, she knew she had to hide it in front of outsiders.
"Master Yu." Qiu Hua returned the greeting and smiled, "It is fate that we meet. I came here uninvited, please forgive me, Master Yu."
"It is an honor for all of us at Wangshu Pavilion that Sect Master Qiu is willing to step on this boat." Yujing turned around and said to Jiuhui, "Jiuhui, Zhiyou, why don't you hurry up and prepare tea and snacks?"
"Yes, Master." Jiu Hui led Zhi You back out, and the two asked the puppets to prepare the table and chairs. Jiu Hui saw Zhi You taking tea leaves from the ring and stopped him: "What are you doing?"
"The Qinglan Sect is of great status, and the tea produced by the sect is too ordinary. I think..."
"We are a small family in Wangshu Pavilion, how can we have rare and expensive tea." Jiu Hui washed her hands and took the fruit slices and peach blossoms: "Maybe Sect Master Qiu doesn't like drinking tea."
"We have many flowers and fruits in our sect. We use them to entertain guests and show our sincerity." Jiu Hui reached out to take the boiling morning dew on the stove: "Flowers bloom and fall, and it's always spring. This is good. I'll serve tea, and you serve snacks. Follow me."
The flying boat was traveling through the clouds, Qiuhua and Yujing were sitting facing each other.
Qiuhua didn't say anything, and Yujing smiled at her gently, with a flattering but not fawning attitude. In Qiuhua's memory, Yujing seemed to have always been like this, or should I say that everyone in Wangshu Pavilion was like this.
The first time she saw Yu Jing was five hundred and eighty years ago. On that day, she and Buting held a grand engagement ceremony. Yu Jing followed behind the former head of Wangshu Pavilion and accepted the gift from her master with a blushing face.
The second time she saw Yu Jing was five hundred years ago, one year after her master passed away, and she succeeded to become the leader of Qinglan Sect. There were so many guests at the succession ceremony, and she didn't notice Yu Jing at first, until the last guests said goodbye. Everyone was congratulating her, but Yu Jing told her to take care of herself.
The few times they met later, they came and left in a hurry. There was only one Qinglan Sect in the world, but there were countless small sects like Wangshu Pavilion. She and Yujing were destined to have different identities and status.
What surprised her was that Yu Jing's cultivation had reached the fusion stage. With such cultivation, he was more than qualified to be an elder in their Qinglan Sect. However, no one in the entire cultivation world noticed this.
"Master Qiu, please have some tea." Jiu Hui brought the teacup to Qiu Hua. Qiu Hua smiled and said, "We have known each other for many years, but I didn't know you had two caring disciples."
She took out two magic weapons, gave one to Zhiyou and put the other in Jiuhui's hand: "In the early years, an old friend liked the flying sword I made the most. Now the old friend is gone, and I don't know who to give the flying sword I made in my spare time to. You can take it and play with it."
The flying sword in Jiu Hui's hand was made of rare chalcedony, and there were many profound protective runes on the sword body. Such a flying sword was something that many people dreamed of.
"Why don't you thank Sect Master Qiu?" Yu Jing smiled and said, "Thank you Sect Master Qiu for spending money on these two children. My two disciples have ordinary cultivation and aptitude. With such a powerful protective flying sword accompanying them, I can rest assured."
"Thank you, Sect Master Qiu." Jiu Hui bowed deeply, but was helped up by Sect Master Qiu halfway through. "You are a junior of our family, there is no need to be so polite. Please sit down and have tea together."
Yu Jing smiled without saying anything. She glanced at Qiu Hua's hand that was supporting Jiu Hui's wrist. The aloof Qing Lan Sect's leader didn't have much friendship with her, and the words "my junior" were probably even more out of her reach.
Qiu Hua gently released Jiu Hui's wrist, picked up the teacup and took a sip, his eyelids trembling and drooping: "How old is Jiu Hui?"
"Master Qiu, I will be eighteen in two months." Jiu Hui pushed the snack in front of Qiu Hua and said, "Master Qiu, please try this snack. Is it to your liking?"
Qiuhua finished the whole snack and picked up the teacup again: "You are so young, very good."
The tea was neither cold nor hot, the temperature was just right. She looked at Jiu Hui with a smile: "The tea is delicious, and the snacks are also delicious."
"Are you here to attend the Nine Heavens Sect's Silver Class Fusion Stage Ceremony?" Qiu Hua looked at Yu Jing: "It just so happens that my sect is also going to attend the ceremony. If Pavilion Master Yu doesn't mind, we can go together."
Yu Jing almost crushed the snack in her hand. Qiu Hua participated in the fusion ceremony of the elders of Jiu Tian Sect? What kind of chaos would happen in the world to make Qiu Hua willing to go to Jiu Tian Sect
"How dare you despise me? It is our honor."
Yujing took out the mirror from the ring and said to Jiuhui, "Jiuhui, we will arrive at Jiutian Sect soon. Do you think my hairpin is suitable?"
The mirror flipped over, and Yu Jing accidentally slipped, and the mirror rolled in front of Qiu Hua.
Qiu Hua picked up the mirror, held it up to look at her face, and chuckled, "Hundreds of years have passed. Although my appearance has not changed, my eyes have become more vicissitudes. After all, I am not the same as before."
She returned the mirror to Yu Jing, who blushed and smiled shyly, "I am sorry for being rude and making Sect Master Qiu laugh."
The mirror did not change. It was Qiuhua herself, not a demon in disguise.
"Everyone loves beauty. How can this be considered rude?" Qiu Hua said unexpectedly gently, "Is everything okay with your clan?"
"Thank you for your concern, Sect Master Qiu. Everything is fine." Yu Jing took a sip of tea, which was the peach blossom tea that was commonly drunk in the sect. She smiled bitterly, "Sect Master Qiu, you also know that we in Wangshu Pavilion are few in number and weak in power. It takes the whole sect's strength to defend Taolin City. I'm not afraid of you laughing at me. For example, this Wanli flying boat costs hundreds of spirit stones for a day. It's just that we can't fly here on a sword to attend the Silver Master's Fusion Stage Ceremony. It would be shabby and embarrassing for the Silver Master."
"Pavilion Master Yu has advanced to the Fusion Stage, and I haven't given him a gift yet." Qiu Hua waved his hand, and a few bottles of pills and a bag of spirit stones appeared on the table: "Please don't despise me, Pavilion Master."
"How can this be so embarrassing." Yu Jing waved her hands repeatedly: "The fish and shrimp in the lake are fresh and plump now. We can still survive by selling fish and shrimp. How can we let you spend money?"
"All sects are of the same blood, Pavilion Master, please don't be polite to me." Qiu Hua stuffed the elixir spirit stone into Jiu Hui's hand and said, "Take it for your master." "Thank you, Sect Master Qiu." Jiu Hui accepted it and smiled broadly at Qiu Hua: "Sect Master Qiu is so kind. With the spirit stone you sent, my brothers and sisters and I don't have to go fishing every day."
"Children are ignorant. This... this..." Yu Jing sighed in shame and anger: "It's my incompetence."
"You are still a little girl." Qiu Hua smiled gently. She took out a brocade bag filled with spiritual stones and said, "Take this too."
"Thank you, Sect Master." Jiu Hui took it without hesitation.
Only Zhiyou, who was sitting next to them, was thinking seriously about when his senior brothers and sisters went fishing every day. He had never seen them once.
After staying in the sect for three or four months, he had no idea that the sect made a living by selling fish and shrimp.
"Master Qiu, Jiuhui is just a child, how can she carry so many spirit stones on her body?" Yujing's cheeks blushed slightly: "Please take the spirit stones back."
"To be honest with you, Master Yu, the first time I saw Jiu Hui, I felt that I was destined to be with her." Qiuhua placed the teacup on the table, and Jiu Hui filled the kettle with tea for her.
The smile on Yu Jing's face faded a little. What did he mean by that? Was he trying to steal her apprentice
"Maybe it's because I'm good-looking. On the day when I went to the Immortal City, an elder from the Ten Thousand Fire Sect also said that I had a connection with him." Jiu Hui put down the teapot and smiled innocently, "I think what Sect Master Qiu said is right. If we had no connection, how could we have met above the clouds?"
"Yes, meeting is fate." Qiuhua smiled: "Seeing Jiuhui reminds me of a friend who told me that she would accompany me to travel thousands of miles and see all the beauty in the world."
Jiu Hui refilled Yu Jing's tea and turned to ask Qiu Hua, "What happened next?"
Qiu Hua looked at the rolling sea of clouds in the distance and said in a desolate voice: "People's hearts are treacherous. There are not so many beautiful things in the world."
She lowered her eyes to glance at Jiu Hui and gently closed them: "Just now I saw that you seemed to be very interested in the Immortal Cauldron?"
Jiu Hui nodded with a smile: "I'm a little curious."
"Two hundred miles away from Qinglan Gate, there is a cliff-suppressing tripod. If you are curious, I will take you to see it." Qiuhua opened his eyes and looked in the direction of the Heaven-Suppressing Tripod: "That's the Heaven-Suppressing Tripod over there. Do you want to go and see it now?"
"Master Qiu, we will arrive at Jiutian Sect soon." Yu Jing suspected that Qiu Hua did not want to take her beloved disciple to see the cauldron, but wanted to trick her beloved disciple away.
"Since it's unfortunate today, let's do it next time." Qiuhua frowned in disgust. The Jiutian Sect was really an unlucky thing.
The flying boat landed outside the Jiutian Sect, and the Qinglan Sect’s phoenix boat also stopped nearby.
Tao Er huddled in a corner and whispered to Tao Xiangyi, "Didn't they say that Qinglan Sect and Jiutian Sect have a grudge against each other?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Jiu Hui suddenly turned her head and looked at him.
He was so scared that he immediately shut his mouth.
Jiu Hui raised her eyebrows and mouthed something to him.
What?!
After Tao Er saw clearly what Jiu Hui said, he gritted his teeth, lay on the ground, and began to roll and twist and howl crazily: "I don't care, I don't care, you promised me that you would take me to visit Wuyang City first, I want to go now! I want to go now!"
Tao Xiangyi opened his eyes wide in horror. What are you doing crazy again? Are you trying to kill yourself?!
Qiu Hua looked at the object in the corner of the flying boat that was twisted wildly and looked like a human. "What is that?"
"He is the child of my lifelong friend. He has been spoiled since childhood. Before coming here, we promised to take him to see Wuyang City." Yu Jing was worrying about how to separate from Qiuhua, and when he saw that the second son of the Tao family suddenly went crazy, he felt relieved.
Qiuhua looked at Jiuhui.
"Sect Master Qiu, how about you and your sect's disciples go ahead, we will be there later." Jiu Hui pointed to the head: "This child fell on his head a few days ago, and he is a little unconscious."
Qiu Hua looked at Jiu Hui and nodded slightly: "Okay."
Jiuhui bowed.
As soon as the people from Qinglan Sect left, Tao Er, who was still crawling in the dark on the ground, immediately got up from the ground, bowed and came to Jiu Hui: "Fairy, do you think my crazy posture just now was standard?"
"You are a teachable kid." Jiu Hui patted his shoulder and said, "Fake madness will only get you beaten, but real and effective madness will help everyone avoid trouble. Xiaoer, you have made progress."
"Thank you for the compliment, Fairy!" Jiu Hui's praise filled his face with joy. If Tao Er had a tail, he would have been wagging it wildly at this moment: "What's the trouble with entering Jiu Tian Sect with Qing Lan Sect?"
"What if the Jiutian Sect and Qinglan Sect start a fight? We are going in with Qinglan Sect. What will the Jiutian Sect think of us then?" Jiu Hui knocked on Tao Er's head: "Who can we afford to offend?"
Tao Er shook his head, he couldn't afford to offend anyone.
"Please move away from the sect ahead and don't block our way to the Shenji Sect!"
A huge flying tower appeared above the flying boat, and was about to press down on the flying boat of Wangshu Pavilion.
The author has something to say:
Yujing: Everyone knows us. We in Wangshu Pavilion are very poor.
Little Leek: You all know us. We in Wangshu Pavilion are so poor that we can only sell fish and shrimps.
Jiyou: What are you selling? When did you catch the fish
(End of this chapter)