During the meal, Aze remained silent, occasionally glancing at the "Huangquan" on the table. Jinxiu on the side just sat there waiting. She didn't eat often, but only occasionally would she eat with Aze.
"Sister Jin, I want to leave Jiufeng Mountain."
Aze's sudden words made Jinxiu stunned for a moment, then she immediately smiled and pretended not to know.
"Do you miss home? It should be okay. I'll ask my master if I can accompany you down the mountain after a while. Let's go to Shannan Railway Station to see how A-Long and A-Gu are doing. I guess their children are already grown up. They must be surprised to see you still so young!"
Aze stopped using the chopsticks in his hand and looked up at the Jin embroidery on the side.
"Sister Jin, I want to leave Jiufeng Mountain, I want to leave Jiufeng Cave Heaven, I want to go to the real big world, to find Mr. Ji."
"Mr. Ji..."
Jin Xiu's mind flashed back to the days when she traveled with Mr. Ji. Mr. Ji's calm eyes and extraordinary demeanor were all vivid in her mind, yet seemed very far away.
"Aze, the world outside is not as peaceful as Jiufeng Cave Heaven. There are many monsters and ghosts..."
"But there are immortals like Mr. Ji out there!"
Aze retorted, causing Jinxiu to frown slightly and ponder in her heart.
"Mr. Ji has traveled all over the world and considers the four corners of the world his home. Moreover, he is a true immortal and his whereabouts are difficult to determine. If he doesn't come to find you, you won't be able to find him if you go to find him."
"I don't believe it! As long as you look carefully, you will always find Mr. Ji. Even if you can't find him for the time being, go to Dazhen, go to Haoran Academy, as long as you find the person who wrote this book, you should be able to know something about Mr. Ji's whereabouts!"
Jin Xiu certainly knew that Mr. Ji wrote the preface for the book on the table. Perhaps if she could find the author of this novel, she could really find Mr. Ji. But the key was not this, but that Aze could not leave Jiufeng Mountain at all.
"Aze, Dazhen is far away in Dongtu Yunzhou, which is too far away from us."
Aze no longer understood everything, he put down the bowl and chopsticks in his hands and said.
"I know there is a boundary ferry. Let's find a fairy port and take the boundary ferry to Yunzhou. It will take at most half a year to get there!"
"You can't just take the Realm Ferry whenever you want, and there may not be one that goes to Yunzhou. You may not see one once in ten years..."
Jinxiu lied to Aze with a guilty conscience, and then immediately added.
"In a few years, my Jiufeng Mountain will have another flying boat going out. When the time comes, I will go talk to the headmaster about it. Maybe I can..."
Aze had been looking at Jinxiu and suddenly interrupted her.
"Sister Jin, I want to leave Jiufeng Mountain. Even if I can't find Mr. Ji for a while, I don't want to stay here. They will only trap me on this cliff. Apart from you, I haven't seen many disciples of Jiufeng Mountain. I don't want to stay like this!"
"Aze, don't think too much. The headmaster has always cared about you. He just wants you to cultivate your character. He will allow you to go out when the time is right."
Aze smiled and shook his head.
"Sister Jin, you don't have to lie to me. I know you don't want me to be sad, but I know you don't usually see the headmaster, and he doesn't even consider me a disciple of Jiufeng Mountain."
"Aze..."
Jinxiu wanted to speak, but Aze raised his hand to stop her and continued.
"I have long been able to breathe in spiritual energy, and I have long condensed the artistic conception of the alchemy furnace. I have been cultivating myself for so many years. Although this cliff is not small, it is surrounded by steep cliffs on all sides, and it is suspended in the air. Isn't this to trap me? Otherwise, why don't you teach me the art of flying?"
This question left Jin Xiu speechless. With Aze's talent, it was impossible that she didn't teach him the art of flying because she was afraid that he wouldn't be able to learn it. She really didn't want him to leave.
"So they were not sure about accepting me as a disciple of Jiufeng Mountain. Maybe they really wanted to teach me well at first, but later they believed that I had deep demonic roots. They were even surprised that I could manifest the artistic conception of the alchemy furnace. They also calculated that my so-called Taoist alchemy furnace was half immortal and half demonic. The higher my cultivation, the more dangerous it would be to fall into the devil in the future. They trapped me on this cliff mountain until I died of old age, right? You just said you would take me to Nanshan Inn, but I'm afraid that's just wishful thinking."
Aze said this calmly, without the hysterical anger that Jinxiu had imagined, which made her a little overwhelmed.
"Aze, you have already forged an immortal foundation, how could you die of old age so easily..."
This rebuttal was so weak that Aze started laughing again.
"Sister Jin, I know you are good to me. You are the only one in the entire Jiufeng Mountain who truly cares about me. You can bring me some books from time to time, and even bring me some permitted cultivation classics. But I don't want to spend the rest of my life on this cliff mountain. I don't want to..."
"Sister Jin, I want to leave here, I want to leave Jiufeng Mountain! But I don't know how to leave..."
Jin Xiu just remained silent. Aze said a few more words, but when he saw that the other party ignored him, he didn't say anything more. The meal became unusually dull.
When it was time for dinner, Jinxiu cleaned up the dishes, simply asked Aze what he wanted to eat next time, and then left.
Not long after, Jin Xiu, riding on the wind, bravely flew to the courtyard where the head master of Jiufeng Mountain was. There were no other senior masters around except the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers. However, Jin Xiu stood outside the courtyard and hesitated for a long time.
Aze was right. In fact, she hadn't seen the headmaster for almost ten years. Usually, she would just ask her own master about matters concerning Aze.
When Jin Xiu mustered up the courage to knock on the door, a voice came from inside.
“Is it Jin embroidery?”
Jin Xiu quickly bowed and saluted.
"Disciple Jin Xiu, I pay my respects to the Master!"
The courtyard door was gently opened from the inside, and the head of Jiufeng Mountain stood in front of the door and looked at the disciples in front of him.
"No need to be polite. You came here for Aze, right?"
Jin Xiu raised her head, gritted her teeth, and ignored the fact that the headmaster was standing in front of her.
"Master, why don't you let Aze learn the art of flying? Why don't you let Aze go down the mountain? Do you really want him to die of old age in the mountain?"
"Hmm? Who told you that?"
Jin Xiu's voice weakened a little and she whispered.
"I was just imagining..."
Jiufeng Mountain's headmaster Zhao Yu shook his head and sighed.
"Aze's talent is indeed beyond our imagination, but this is not just a matter of talent for cultivation. You know that the basic method of the Nine Peaks Mountain Dharma that Aze practices is problematic in itself."
Jin Xiu was stunned and asked in confusion.
"What is the problem?"
Zhao Yu walked out of the courtyard, looked at the floating cliff mountain blocked by clouds in the distance, and spoke slowly.
"The method that Aze practiced should not have been able to condense an artistic conception alchemy furnace, but this instinct allowed him to do it."
Jin Xiu opened her mouth slightly and looked at the headmaster in disbelief.
"It's impossible to cultivate it. Why..."
"The masters in the sect read Aze's fortune, but they felt that his fate was vague and difficult to predict. In addition, he had evil thoughts, so they wanted him to calm down and breathe in spiritual energy for twenty years before doing what he wanted. But Aze was too unexpected."
Jin Xiu felt that Aze was not to be blamed at all, but she did not dare to question the headmaster and could only ask carefully.
"Master, what about Aze? Does he really have to stay on Yashan Mountain forever?"
Unexpectedly, Zhao Yu laughed.
"So many years have passed, and it's thanks to him that he has the patience to stay on that broken mountain. I think no one will have anything to say. It's time for Aze to learn the art of flying and obtain the Dharma lineage of my Jiufeng Mountain. Tell him to practice well in Jiufeng Mountain, and it won't be too late to come out of the mountain after he has learned the skills. If Mr. Ji can trust him, there's no harm in me trusting him too."
As Zhao Yu spoke, he handed Jin Xiu a small token, and a look of surprise appeared on the latter's face.
"Disciple receives the order!"
Jin Xiu was extremely happy now, even happier than when she got the approval of the headmaster. After receiving the token and bidding farewell to Zhao Yu, she happily went straight to the Magic Pavilion, found several magic formulas suitable for Aze to practice, and hurried to Yashan.
"Aze-Aze-the head master said that you can practice the art of flying, Aze-"
Jin Xiu entered Aze's room and placed the jade slips, jade signatures and mysterious jade books she brought with her on the table, but she didn't find Aze.
"Aze?"
Although Yashan is suspended in the air, it does not have only one cliff top. In addition to the nine huge peaks, there is actually a small hill that relies on the Jiufeng Mountain formation. It is more than ten miles square and has ample space for activities. There are even flowers, trees, flying insects and animals on it.
Jin Xiu couldn't find Aze, so she left the house and flew to the mountains to call him, but strangely, she searched some familiar places but couldn't find Aze anywhere.
"He doesn't know how to fly, could he have fallen off the mountain... No, no, it's impossible!"
Suddenly, Jin Xiu felt something and quickly flew back to Aze's room. She saw Aze standing in front of the table flipping through a book of spells. He turned to look at Jin Xiu at the door.
"Sister Jin, does the headmaster really allow me to learn these?"
"Yes! The headmaster told me personally, and he also said that he believes in you! This is the token he gave me, and he said that you can come out of the mountain after you have learned your skills well!"
It can be seen that Jin Xiu is in a good mood.
"By the way, why couldn't I find you anywhere just now? I couldn't even sense your presence?"
"Well, maybe it just happened to be the wrong time for Sister Jin."
"Why don't you smile? When you can fly, I'll take you to see the beautiful scenery of Jiufeng Mountain!"
"okay!"
Ah Ze finally smiled, but his peripheral vision had already returned to the book in his hand. The method of controlling the wind, controlling the water and mist, and condensing the method into clouds...
"Sister Jin, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't want to stay in Jiufeng Mountain for a moment!"