Uncanny Immortal 110

Chapter 110

Xie Qingzheng stared at her, her gaze clear.

She was the high and lofty moon, she was the unmelting ice and snow on the mountaintop, she was a god who could be looked at but not reached. But after spending so much time together day and night, the moon seemed to be getting closer and closer to her, and the ice and snow were gradually melting into lukewarm water, and the water was enveloping her from head to toe.

She was completely under her control, and all her thoughts had nowhere to hide. She could not guess her thoughts, and she had nowhere to escape.

Xie Qingzheng didn’t want to escape at all. She was willing to be controlled by her.

Seeing that Xie Qingzheng did not answer this question, Mo Jiangxue averted her gaze and said softly, “I have only ever done it to you.”

What did that mean?

Xie Qingzheng was in a daze. Her heart pounded, and her whole person seemed to be floating on a cloud.

Did she mean she had only ever kissed her? Or did she mean she had only ever given her breath?

Was she teasing her? Or was she serious?

She suddenly did not dare to look at her master directly. She turned her face away, her mind a blank, and murmured, “But we are master and disciple… you, don’t you mind?”

Didn’t she mind this relationship that was like a familial bond?

“What is there to mind?” Mo Jiangxue looked at her, the smile on her lips fading a little. She raised an eyebrow slightly, her tone hinting at a bit of confusion. “Even if it were a cat, if it were to die in front of me, I would still save it. Do you mind?”

“No, no!”

Xie Qingzheng suddenly understood. Her master was indeed giving her breath to save her. She couldn’t help but feel a pang of shame… what had she been thinking? How could she say that she minded? She quickly made an excuse for herself, “Thank you, Master, for saving me. There was not enough air in the wall at that time. I was about to be suffocated to death.”

Mo Jiangxue nodded and accepted her thanks with reserve.

But Xie Qingzheng was still very conflicted. Did her master really need to be mouth-to-mouth when she gave someone breath?

She asked euphemistically, “Then Master, have you ever kissed a little cat?”

Hearing this, Mo Jiangxue said nothing and shot her a look.

Xie Qingzheng quickly did not dare to dwell on it. “Alright, alright, I won’t ask anymore. Don’t glare at me so fiercely!”

One after another, they were all using their seniority to pressure her…

She secretly made a note of this question and planned to ask it again at another time.

The master and disciple first went to see Xiao Wangqing.

In name, they were still people of the Xuanji Sect.

With Mo Jiangxue at the Tianshu Sect, Xiao Wangqing had the other elders of the Xuanji Sect stay behind to guard the mountain. She had only brought a few dozen elite disciples with her, and Senior Sister Min He had also returned to the sect first.

The master and disciple, Mo Jiangxue and Xie Qingzheng, were temporarily staying at the main peak where Sect Master Xie was. The sect masters and disciples of the other sects were temporarily staying at the Guest Welcoming Peak.

The Guest Welcoming Peak looked busy, but it was orderly, and no one dared to speak loudly. The moment the master and disciple appeared in the square, a cultivator from the Tianshu Sect led them into the main hall.

“Why have you come? Your injuries have not yet healed. You should be resting well.”

A gentle, low voice came. Xie Qingzheng looked up and saw that it was Xiao Wangqing who had personally come to greet them.

Mo Jiangxue nodded in salute, and Xie Qingzheng bowed. “Greetings, Sect Master.”

Xiao Wangqing smiled and ruffled Xie Qingzheng’s head.

“Sect Master Xiao, is this your esteemed sect’s guest elder?”

Someone, seeing Mo Jiangxue, came forward to chat.

Xiao Wangqing briefly introduced the two of them.

A gentle smile hung on her lips. No matter who came over to chat, she could accurately say their name and identity. She knew that Mo Jiangxue liked quiet and did not like crowds. After those people had left, she took the master and disciple to a side hall and chatted with them in detail.

Xie Qingzheng reported to her about getting lost in the great desert, being trapped in the ghost city, and being saved by Sect Master Xie, but she omitted the memory images she had seen after being possessed by the dog.

Xiao Wangqing ruffled her hair again and said gently, “It hasn’t been easy for you, child. After you get back, whatever reward you want, I will grant it to you.”

Xie Qingzheng returned a smile, her feelings complicated, and replied, “Alright.”

“Jiangxue, this is what Shuxue asked me to bring you.” Xiao Wangqing took out a brocade pouch from her storage pouch and handed it to Mo Jiangxue. “The pills you asked her to refine before.”

Mo Jiangxue took it, nodded in thanks. She had previously asked Pei Shuxue to refine the Gu wine she had brought back from the Miao region into easy-to-carry pills.

After some more idle chat, Xiao Wangqing still had to socialize and could not talk to them much. She told the two of them to rest well in the Tianshu Sect and to come and find her at any time if they needed anything, and then she went back to the main hall to socialize.

When they returned to the main peak of the Tianshu Sect, Xie Qingzheng thought of Sect Master Xiao’s gentle and kind appearance, of her similar background, of her past of being bullied by her fellow disciples, and then of her own suspicions. She couldn’t help but sigh softly.

“By the way, Master, why do you think Sect Master Xie wanted me to stay at the Xuanji Sect back then? I heard her and Sect Master Xiao talking. At that time, the reason she gave was that the daughter of a sect outcast could not enter the sect.”

Mo Jiangxue thought for a moment and said, “Perhaps they had brought you back to the Tianshu Sect back then, and many people in the Tianshu Sect knew of your existence.”

Xie Qingzheng thought of the images in her memory, her feelings complicated. “That’s right. When Sect Master Xie was young, she had seen Sect Master Xiao being isolated and bullied by her fellow disciples because of her identity as the daughter of a sect outcast. She was worried that if I returned to the sect, my identity would not be able to be hidden, and I would also be treated like that…”

Even with her, the Sect Master, backing her, she might still, like her in the past, have no friends…

The Xuanji Sect was a new sect formed from the merger of three sects. The cultivators of that time had either died, been injured, or had scattered. Besides those few elders, the new generation of disciples hardly knew anything about Xie Fuyun.

Mo Jiangxue said, “Besides these reasons, there is another reason.”

“What?”

“Sect Master Xie wants all the major sects to obey her orders. You and she have a deep connection. If you were to enter the Xuanji Sect, in the future, she would support you to take charge of the Xuanji Sect.”

Xie Qingzheng was taken aback for a moment and said, “Is there that reason too? Then she has really thought far ahead.”

The current Tianquan Manor was in name only and was equivalent to being under the command of the Tianshu Sect. The Kaiyang sect and Tianquan Manor were in the same boat, and they were also unable to contend with the Tianshu Sect. She had heard that there were also guardian elders of the Tianshu Sect stationed in the sect. Yuheng Palace had been sneak-attacked by the demonic cult this time and had suffered heavy losses, and was no longer a threat. As for the Xuanji Sect, the Sect Master was sophisticated and never offended anyone. Because of Mo Jiangxue, the demonic cult had not gained any advantage when they had sneak-attacked the Xuanji Sect.

“Master, then do you think the Sect Master knows these things?”

“She must have guessed. She and the Tianshu Sect are probably in a cooperative relationship at the moment.”

“Why do you say that?”

Mo Jiangxue speculated, “From your memory, for Wangqing to have been able to sit firmly in the position of sect master back then, Gu Hongying of the Tianshu Sect must have helped her a lot. She may have been taking orders from the Tianshu Sect all along. Sect Master Xie sent you to the Xuanji Sect with the intention of having you become her disciple, so that in the future, you could justifiably inherit the lineage.”

“But at the Sword Discussion Assembly back then, something happened to me, and it was not convenient for the Sect Master to take me as her disciple.”

At this point, the master and disciple looked at each other.

Back then, because of the Tianxuan Sword, her background had been exposed, and she had also indirectly caused Mu Qingdai’s life to be in danger. The various elders of the Xuanji Sect had learned of her and Xie Fuyun’s relationship and would naturally have objected to Xiao Wangqing taking her as a disciple.

Xie Qingzheng said gloomily, “No wonder at that time, I had clearly knocked Mu Zifu’s sword away, but the Sect Master did not call a halt and let Mu Zifu continue to harm people…”

Mo Jiangxue said, “I had my suspicions at that time, but I couldn’t guess her motive.”

Xie Qingzheng’s brow furrowed into a knot, and she said with a struggle, “I can understand that she is unwilling to be a vassal of another sect, but…”

But the one who had been schemed against was her, and it had almost cost Elder Mu her life. After that, in order to protect her, her master had taken the initiative to go into seclusion for three years to eliminate the malevolent qi of the Tianxuan Sword, and in the end, because of the over-consumption of spiritual energy, it had led to a backlash from the evil curse.

Mo Jiangxue reached out and smoothed the knot between Xie Qingzheng’s brows, saying softly, “I also can’t figure her out sometimes.”

To be fair, after she had come to the Xuanji Sect, Xiao Wangqing had not treated her poorly.

When the yin poison in her body had first acted up, Xiao Wangqing had even transferred thirty percent of her cultivation to her to help her suppress the evil curse, and had also given her the Tianxuan Sword, and had later guided them to find the Immortal Cult to detoxify.

As for Xiao Wangqing and Xie Fuyun, those were all just guesses, with no real evidence.

Xie Qingzheng sighed. “Setting aside those guesses, even if the Sect Master did scheme against me once, but if she really wanted to harm me, in those three years on Ethereal Peak, when you were not there, she had countless opportunities to do so. But she was quite good to me, and would often have Senior Sister Min He come over to chat with me and bring me things.”

Mo Jiangxue glanced at Xie Qingzheng and said coolly, “We had already performed the discipleship ceremony at that time.”

The hidden meaning was that Xiao Wangqing was wary of her.

Xie Qingzheng said, “Oh,” and cupped her hands to Mo Jiangxue. “Then thank you very much for your protection, Master.”

Mo Jiangxue said, “She is also wary of Sect Master Xie.”

Xie Qingzheng: “Mm…”

She felt that the Sect Master and Sect Master Xie were actually very similar in some aspects. It was difficult to simply evaluate them. Both of them would scheme against others for their own interests, but one did it without a trace, while the other did as she pleased and did not care about what others thought at all.

Mo Jiangxue: “But there is still something not right.”

Xie Qingzheng: “Hm?”

Mo Jiangxue: “Do you still remember the words on the Buddha statue in Qingjia Town?”

Someone had reminded them at the very beginning that Xiao Wangqing was suspicious. And who could that person be?

The ones closest to the Sect Master and who knew her best were none other than the people of Zixiao Peak, the Sect Master’s two personal disciples, Shui Yan and Min He, and also Vice Sect Master Pei. Could it be one of them?

Xie Qingzheng: “Vice Sect Master Pei’s legs are inconvenient, so it’s impossible for her to have gone down the mountain. At that time, it was Senior Sister Min He who took us to that abandoned temple, but Senior Sister Min He… it can’t be her, right? She was so angry when she saw those words. As for Senior Sister Shui Yan, cough, she is always veiled, and is always out. I have had very little contact with her and don’t know her. She seems to appear and disappear like a ghost…”

Mo Jiangxue nodded and said, “I haven’t seen her many times either.”

Xie Qingzheng: “Anyway, let’s not go back to the Xuanji Sect for the time being. After we have gotten the Yuheng Cauldron and have broken the evil curse on you, Master, then we can go and figure those things out.”

Mo Jiangxue hummed in acknowledgment.

The main peak of the Tianshu Sect was protected by a barrier, and others could not enter and leave as they pleased, so there were not many idle people.

The master and disciple walked all the way, and besides a few handymen, they did not see any other cultivators.

They came to a stone wall, on which were carved seven paintings, with text beside them. Xie Qingzheng stopped and looked carefully. They were one of the life stories of the seven ancestors, “Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yaoguang, Yuheng, and Kaiyang.”

Of these seven ancestors, some were of royal blood, some were originally Daoists, some were from a medical background, and some were from a blacksmith background…

Xie Qingzheng pointed to one of the figures. “Master, look at the story of this ancestor of the Yaoguang sect.”

This ancestor with the Daoist title “Yaoguang” had cultivated the way of heartlessness since she was a child and had renounced love and desire. Before she had attained the Dao and become an immortal, when she had founded the Yaoguang sect, she had once encountered a worldly tie, but in the end, she had decided to sever this worldly tie, to stay away from the secular world, to stay away from the worldly tie, and to cultivate in seclusion. Before that person had left, she had once asked her, “If time could be turned back, if you had met me before you had entered the Dao, how would you have chosen? Me, or the Dao?” The Yaoguang Daoist had been silent for a long time and had not answered.

Xie Qingzheng was a little puzzled. “So what would this ancestor have chosen in the end? This story has no end…”

Mo Jiangxue stared at the paintings on the stone wall and was also silent.

Xie Qingzheng said, “If it were me, I would choose the worldly tie.”

Mo Jiangxue said, “That means your worldly heart is too heavy.”

This painting was called “Asking about Love.” In truth, it didn’t matter what the person in the painting chose. Every person who saw this painting would choose their own answer in their heart.

These paintings were for the disciples of the sect to test their Dao heart.

Xie Qingzheng focused her gaze on Mo Jiangxue, a hint of a test in her eyes, and asked, “And you, Master? What would you choose?”

Mo Jiangxue’s gaze moved from the paintings and landed on Xie Qingzheng’s face. Her clear and cold features were faintly tinged with a smile.

She had not liked to smile before, and her expression was always cool and indifferent. But lately, her smiles had become more and more frequent, especially when she was facing her. Her gentleness was no longer impassive but had become obvious.

She did not speak. Xie Qingzheng looked at her for a moment, and her heart tightened. She seemed to be able to guess the answer, a vague answer.

She would probably choose the worldly tie…

But the next moment, what she said was, “I cultivate the Way of Transcending Emotion, not the Way of Heartlessness. I do not need to face this choice.”