Chapter 64: Your Feelings, Your Efforts, Are Worthless in My Eyes
When Mingyan woke up again, he no longer felt any pain. He opened his eyes, looked around, and saw Huang Feiyan, Jade Peony, and Bai Ze standing nearby.
“You’re awake?” Huang Feiyan had been staring at his face, so she quickly noticed he had woken up. She asked with concern, “Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?”
“His injuries have completely healed. This self-healing ability is probably something even the descendants of your Phoenix Clan would admire,” Bai Ze stood not far away and sighed lightly. “I have some things I want to ask him. You two can leave for a while.”
Jade Peony didn’t speak. She just gave him a concerned look, then turned to Huang Feiyan. She hesitated for a moment, and Mingyan patted her hand. Only then did she decide to leave for now.
After the two of them left, Bai Ze sighed. “When I reached the mountaintop, I found you lying in a pool of blood. Tell me, what happened?”
“Nothing… just some accidents.” He recalled the previous scene and shook his head lightly.
“Accidents? You went into the snowy mountain outside the barrier, didn’t you?” Bai Ze crossed her arms, her brow furrowed tightly. “I don’t know how you got in, but you should know very well that the restriction left by the Demon Emperor is not for show. The thing outside is not something you can deal with now.”
My master said the same thing… He sighed inwardly. His master must have seen his reckless actions through the concentric pendant. Seeing him so seriously injured, she must be furious.
“I heard from Miss Yu that there seems to be something ominous on the sacred mountain,” he said. “And this ominous thing seems to only happen in one’s later years.”
Bai Ze frowned. “So you think it’s fine to go deep into the world outside the barrier? Because it’s just something ominous, and it only happens in your later years?”
He was silent, as if in tacit agreement. He sat up from the bed. The wound on his abdomen had healed, but he felt a sense of exhaustion, with no strength in his body.
“Those who explored the sacred mountain back then were at least at the Saint realm, and there were even Great Saint realm experts among them. Do you think you can compare to them now? How can you be so reckless? Just to find a star stone for your master?” Bai Ze was a little annoyed. “Mingyan, your life is far from being just… forget it. I shouldn’t be the one to tell you this. You should prepare yourself.”
Bai Ze really knew the purpose of his trip. He wasn’t surprised, just a little confused by her words. “What do you mean?”
Just as he finished speaking, the door was opened again. A cold, beautiful face appeared in his sight. He was shocked. It was his master, Yue Wu Xia!
She still wore that pale blue Daoist robe, otherworldly and peerless, beautiful to the point of being unreal.
Bai Ze snorted coldly, turned, and left, leaving the master and disciple alone.
“Master…” His mouth was dry, and for a moment, he felt a little guilty. He lowered his head and called out in a low voice.
“You still know I’m your master,” Yue Wu Xia narrowed her eyes. “I thought you had forgotten who you are, forgotten who I am.”
Her tone was as cold as when he had first met her. Since he had become her disciple, her tone had softened a lot. But now, it was as if they had returned to the past.
He sighed inwardly. He didn’t know how long he had been unconscious. His master, who was far away in the Eastern Continent, had actually rushed to the Demon Clan’s sacred land…
His master was a Saint. At her speed, she was much faster than the small teleportation arrays. He had experienced it once.
When she was warning him, she must have already set off. To make her so worried, even rushing to the Southern Continent, the guilt in his heart could not be described in words.
“I’m sorry for making you worry, Master.” He knelt down. “Your disciple is unfilial. Not only have I failed to put you at ease, but I have also caused you a lot of trouble.”
Yue Wu Xia walked to him and looked down, her eyes unusually cold. “Are you very proud? Proud that you didn’t die after getting what you wanted? Proud that you finally got what I wanted?”
“I didn’t think that,” he said in a low voice. He had guessed it before he fainted. His master would definitely be angry. So, there was no need to take out the star stone now. He would wait until she had calmed down.
“Give me the crystal,” Yue Wu Xia extended her hand and said coldly.
He looked up at her and opened his mouth, but in the end, he still took the star stone out of his Qi Sea.
As soon as the deep blue star stone appeared in the room, it emitted a dazzling light that scattered around, making the surroundings seem like a river of stars, making one feel as if they were in the universe.
Yue Wu Xia reached out and took the star stone. Without even a second glance, she smashed it on the ground. The star stone instantly shattered into dust.
It was harder than the diamonds of the mortal world, but for a cultivator, its strength was not enough to be used to refine weapons. In the hands of a Saint, it was too easy to destroy.
He looked at the star stone that had been smashed into dust and was silent.
He had been mentally prepared. When his master had asked him to take out the star stone, he knew what she would do.
There was an indescribable feeling.
“Does it hurt?” Yue Wu Xia narrowed her eyes and asked coldly.
“It was going to be given to you sooner or later. How you handle it is your freedom,” he shook his head.
“You say it so nicely,” she sneered. “I clearly warned you, but you were stubborn and insisted on risking your life to retrieve it. Your feelings, your efforts, are worthless in my eyes. Do you think you can repay the so-called kindness in this way?”
He lowered his head. “I just wanted to make you happy, Master…”
“Then do you think I’m happy now?”
“Master, your disciple already knows his mistake. Please don’t be angry, it will harm your health.” Of course, he knew his master was not happy at all. He knew his impulsive actions had made her extremely angry.
“Mingyan, you must understand, your life is not simply your life. Why do you think I wanted to cultivate you? Why do you think I poured so much effort and resources into you? Do you think it’s because of your charisma? Because I adore and dote on you?”
Yue Wu Xia took a deep breath, her tone carrying an unprecedented distance and coldness. “Since you insist on thinking that this is what you owe me, that you must repay my kindness, then I will make it clear.”
“My cultivation of you is entirely because when you grow up, you can protect the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Sacred Land, can fight against the Dark Era. It’s because you are useful to me. Your life was originally worthless to me. If you were not a Human King Physique, if you did not have this cultivation talent, I wouldn’t even have looked at you twice.”
“It is precisely because you are a Human King Physique that I have poured so many resources, spent so much effort thinking about how to make you grow up, to protect your existence. Your life has long ceased to belong to you. Since you want to repay me, that’s fine. Before the Dark Era is completely pacified, you will stay alive for me, even if you have to live a wretched existence.”
He looked at her, an indescribable feeling in his heart. He nodded and said in a low voice, “Disciple obeys.”
She looked at him kneeling on the ground and shook her head in disappointment. “Since you want to repay me, from now on, you have lost the right to decide your own life and death. No matter what, you must live.”
“Disciple understands,” he nodded, his face showing little emotion. His heart was indeed indescribably sour.
“Go out…” Her voice was a little tired. His heart was both sour and pained. He wanted to say something, but he couldn’t. He nodded, did nothing extra, and walked towards the door.
“Change your personality. Don’t be so stubborn anymore. You’re always so single-minded,” her voice sounded again, seemingly with a hint of ridicule. “Your stubbornness is not only meaningless, but it will also cost you your life.”
“Disciple… understands.” He turned and glanced at her back, nodding lightly. He turned to the door, but couldn’t help but look back at his master.
She stood there, not looking at him. He felt a sense of loss in his heart, walked out, and closed the door.
Hearing the door close, she looked at the shattered star stone on the ground and finally closed her eyes.
