Uncanny Immortal 71

Chapter 71

Xie Qingzheng shook her head. “Neither.”

Before Tanluan returned, she did not intend to tell Mo Jiangxue about the dream.

But Mo Jiangxue rubbed her forehead and asked coolly, “Why did you ask me yesterday if I had had a dream? Did something happen to you?”

Xie Qingzheng’s heart skipped a beat.

Mo Jiangxue said, “Let me guess. Is it related to the gu on you? I drank your blood, so I was also affected a little?”

With her cultivation, she could have gone without sleep for days and nights without feeling tired. But for the past two nights, she would feel a wave of fatigue and would fall asleep uncontrollably. In her dreams, it seemed she had experienced something, but when she woke up, she did not remember the content of the dream, only feeling that her emotions were unusually turbulent.

Especially when she saw Xie Qingzheng’s face, her emotions were even more unstable.

Such strong emotions were a feeling she had never had.

Mo Jiangxue looked at Xie Qingzheng and ordered, “Tell me the truth. Don’t hide anything.”

“I…” Xie Qingzheng hesitated for a moment and lowered her head. “I wasn’t planning on hiding it. I just wanted to wait for Senior Tanluan to come back and confirm it with her before I told you…”

Otherwise, if she said that she had dreamed of her master’s face in her dream, and had even been so intimate with “her,” how embarrassing… it would also be easy to expose her own little thoughts.

Mo Jiangxue’s fingertip tapped the cinnabar mark between Xie Qingzheng’s brows and said coolly, “Stop beating around the bush. Tell me from beginning to end.”

Since she had ordered her like this, Xie Qingzheng did not dare to disobey and recounted the content of the dream from beginning to end.

After listening, Mo Jiangxue frowned slightly.

Xie Qingzheng, with her back to her, defended herself in a low voice, “Master, I can’t control the content of the dream. The things in the dream were not what I wanted to do…”

No, in truth, she really wanted to be like Tan Yuan, ignorant and fearless, expressing her love with sincerity and generosity, and proactively approaching the person she liked…

She was being insincere again.

Mo Jiangxue looked at her and asked with a frown, “Why are you facing away from me?”

Xie Qingzheng said, “Th-then I’m a little embarrassed…”

Mo Jiangxue: “What’s there to be embarrassed about? The people in the dream were not you and I. Turn around. I have some things to tell you.”

Xie Qingzheng scratched her palm, lowered her head, and turned around, again defending herself in a low voice, “Master, I really can’t control the dream. I really didn’t see Mu Ning as you…”

The more she emphasized it, the more it seemed like she was trying to hide something. Mo Jiangxue had originally been calm, but hearing Xie Qingzheng emphasize it again and again, her expression changed slightly and became a little unnatural. She averted her gaze, did not meet Xie Qingzheng’s eyes, and only said, “Those things are not important. You go back now, lie down, and sleep. You may be able to see many people in her dream, for example, Senior Fuyun, Sect Master Xie, Sect Master Wangqing, Shuxue… Remember the people and things in the dream, and tell me after you wake up.”

“Oh, oh, alright.” Xie Qingzheng vaguely agreed. “I understand. I’ll go and dream now.”

To her master, the little love affairs of Tan Yuan and Mu Ning were indeed not important. What was important was, who had Tan Yuan met later? What had happened to the Yaoguang sect later? And, from this dream of Tan Yuan’s, perhaps she could see the opportunity for the three sects, Tianxuan, Tianji, and Yaoguang, to merge into one.

“Come back.” Mo Jiangxue called Xie Qingzheng.

Xie Qingzheng walked to the door, then turned back, bowed, and asked, “Does Master have any other instructions?”

Mo Jiangxue pondered for a long while and said nothing.

Xie Qingzheng rarely saw a look of hesitation on her face.

Mo Jiangxue sighed slightly and waved her hand. “Forget it. It’s not important. You can go.”

“Alright, then disciple will take her leave.” Xie Qingzheng obediently turned and left. As she walked outside, she suddenly heard Mo Jiangxue’s voice transmission in her ear—

“If you encounter a special situation, you should wake up.”

A special situation? What kind of situation was that? Xie Qingzheng thought for a moment, and the image of Tan Yuan kissing Mu Ning’s cheek came to her mind. Her ears turned red, and she thought to herself: Is Master referring to this situation? Didn’t she say it wasn’t important?

It seemed it was still very important…

Xie Qingzheng bowed to the room where Mo Jiangxue was and replied softly, “Disciple will be mindful of her propriety.”

If Tan Yuan and Mu Ning really did have any more intimate actions, she would wake herself up. As long as her own emotions fluctuated too much, she could wake up.

After waking up, it was a little difficult to fall asleep again. Xie Qingzheng lay in bed for a while, her mind filled with her master’s face. She followed the old rule, pressed her sleep acupoint, and forced herself to sleep.

When she opened her eyes, she felt that she was lying in bed. A circle of people surrounded the bed, and a heart-wrenching pain came from her chest. Her right hand was tightly clutching Mu Ning’s left hand.

The cool touch reminded her of her master.

Thinking that her master might be in Mu Ning’s body, and that their dreams were connected, a secret joy arose in her heart.

She turned to look at the people by the bed. Those people said with joy, “She’s awake?”

“Junior Sister, you’ve been in a coma for three days and three nights. You’re finally awake.”

“Junior Sister, you’ve been holding Master’s hand for three days and three nights without letting go.”

“Master has also been taking care of you for three days and three nights without taking off her clothes.”

Xie Qingzheng thought to herself: Senior Tanluan, you really are something.

Mu Ning withdrew her hand and said, “Don’t listen to their nonsense.”

Tan Yuan was on the verge of death. She coughed a few times, said nothing, and looked at Mu Ning with deep affection.

Xie Qingzheng felt the ripples in her heart.

Mu Ning brought over a bowl of herbal soup and personally fed it to Tan Yuan.

During the days she was injured and recuperating, Tan Yuan stayed in Mu Ning’s bedchamber and was personally taken care of by Mu Ning. This had already overstepped the etiquette between a master and a disciple, but with her status as a Holy Maiden, and the fact that she had saved her life, it was not particularly rude for Mu Ning to personally take care of her.

The people of the Yaoguang sect only thought that the master and disciple were particularly compatible and had an extremely good relationship.

Three days later, the people of the Immortal Cult heard the news. The cult leader personally came to the Central Plains to visit and brought the cult’s witch doctors to heal Tan Yuan.

Mu Ning only saw the cult leader and the witch doctors of the Immortal Cult place wriggling gu worms on Tan Yuan’s chest. After a moment, the gu worms had sucked their fill of blood and were swollen. They were placed in a basin, and after some medicinal powder was sprinkled on them, the gu worms then sent the blood back into Tan Yuan’s body.

The pain in Tan Yuan’s chest immediately eased a lot, and she could get up and walk. She smiled and walked to Mu Ning’s side, saying to her, “Have you seen the medical gu arts of my Miao region?”

Mu Ning nodded, smiled faintly, and tucked the messy hair at her temples behind her ear.

After she was healed, the cult leader, on the grounds that she was young and ignorant and had caused trouble for the Yaoguang sect, wanted her to end her cultivation and return to the Miao region ahead of time.

Tan Yuan was so provoked that she choked for a while and quickly shook her head in refusal. “We agreed on a year! I’ve only been here for three months. How can I go back?”

She was unwilling to leave, naturally because of Mu Ning.

The cult leader said, “The Yaoguang sect has internal and external troubles now. Where do they have the time to take care of you?”

Mu Ning lowered her eyes, thought for a moment, and then looked up. “Yuan’er, you should go back with the cult leader.”

The two left and right envoys of the Yaoguang sect had been tragically killed by the demons of the Ten Directions Domain, and the demons were frequently harassing them. The Yaoguang sect was indeed not very safe now. If Tan Yuan stayed here, she might not be able to protect her.

Tan Yuan hid behind Mu Ning and said, one word at a time, “Whether you agree or not, in short, I am staying here. No one can take me away or chase me away.”

The cult leader said, “Yuan’er, your injuries are almost healed. Don’t cause any more trouble for Hall Master Mu.”

Tan Yuan said with a sharp tongue, “It’s precisely because the Yaoguang sect has internal and external troubles that I must stay and help everyone! After all, we are master and disciple, and fellow disciples. If I were to hide back in the Miao region when they are in trouble, wouldn’t I become an ungrateful villain? It would also go against what you have taught me, Mother!”

The cult leader was speechless.

Tan Yuan went over and tugged at her sleeve, acting coquettishly, “Mother, just let me stay and do my part. I will take good care of myself and won’t cause them any trouble.”

Mu Ning watched for a while and was then informed by a disciple of her sect that there was an important matter to attend to. She saluted and took her leave. Before she left, she said to Tan Yuan, “Yuan’er, you should go home quickly.” Before Tan Yuan could reply, she turned and left.

When she returned to her bedchamber, it was already the middle of the night.

The bedchamber was empty.

Mu Ning sat alone on a pear wood chair, silent for a long while, before she called a maid, “Serve tea.”

A person came out from the side hall and brought a teacup to her. Just as she was about to withdraw her hand, the person held her wrist tightly. She looked up and saw that it was Tan Yuan. Her eyes lit up. “Yuan’er, you’re still here?”

Tan Yuan smiled. “Let me ask you, the moment you entered the bedchamber, did you hope that I would stay here, or did you hope that I would go back to the Miao region with Mother?”

Mu Ning: “I…”

Mu Ning hesitated to speak. Tan Yuan called her by her name directly and smiled. “Mu Ning, you don’t have to answer. I already know your answer.”

Tan Yuan wrapped her arms around Mu Ning’s neck, threw herself into her arms, and said in her ear, “You also have special feelings for me, right?”

Tan Yuan’s heart pounded, full of joy and sweetness. But Xie Qingzheng shouted in her heart, “Stop hugging, stop hugging! Wake up, wake up…”

Xie Qingzheng was in a panic, trying to wake up from the dream. The next moment, she felt Mu Ning gently push away Tan Yuan’s embrace and say, “Yuan’er, I know you are very good to me. You have saved me twice. But besides gratitude, I have no other feelings for you.”

A heart-piercing pain suddenly came from her chest, no less than the palm strike she had received a few days ago. Xie Qingzheng felt so much pain that she could barely breathe, and a coldness spread through her body.

How could words also hurt people like a sharp blade?

Tan Yuan asked, “How can that be? When you were with me, did you not feel anything for me at all? Was it all my illusion? No, Mu Ning, you must be lying.”

Mu Ning said, “I’m not lying. I have no feelings for you at all. Don’t fall any deeper.”