“Further up is Shizun’s loft, the place where Shizun usually cultivates in peace.” Bai He looked towards the top.
Passing the Mysterious Heaven Hall, Bai He led Ye Luqing towards the mid-slope area.
The two arrived at the other side of Azure Sky Peak. Here, there was a lake rich with spiritual energy, named Emerald Water Lake.
Beside Emerald Water Lake, there was a small courtyard with white walls and black tiles. Several jade-white, tall and straight trees of an extraordinary breed were planted nearby, clearly no common stock.
“Junior Sister Ye, this is your residence. A single house with its own yard; you don’t need to cram in with other disciples.”
Ye Luqing nodded. According to the original work’s setting, outer sect disciples of each peak lived in communal dorms. Inner sect disciples had spacious cave residences, like dormitories, shared by three to five people. Only a Peak Lord’s Direct Disciples could have their own personal house.
It was just a line in the book, but experiencing it firsthand made her feel how very real it all was.
Just as Ye Luqing was about to enter the courtyard to take a closer look, a light pink blur suddenly flashed nearby.
“Hmm?”
Ye Luqing looked in that direction. What met her eyes was a petite girl with fluffy, light pink long hair and clear, azure blue eyes, her figure seemingly even shorter than her own by a few points.
“This is Junior Sister Ying Qianqian, our Azure Sky Peak’s third Direct Disciple.” Bai He introduced her.
“Hello, Senior Sister Bai! Hello, Senior Sister Ye!”
Ying Qianqian greeted the two energetically, then looked at Ye Luqing with some curiosity.
Ye Luqing nodded slightly, curiosity also filling her eyes. This Junior Sister Ying Qianqian was barely mentioned in the original story, essentially serving only as background for the line “Azure Sky Peak’s three Direct Disciples.”
“Why is Junior Sister Ying here?” Ye Luqing asked.
Ying Qianqian smiled, a little embarrassed.
“I heard the news that Senior Sister Ye woke up and thought I’d help tidy up your place first.”
“A few Spirit-Gathering Arrays had stopped working, so I did some minor maintenance on them too. If I did anything poorly, I hope you can guide me, Senior Sister.”
Looking at Ying Qianqian’s slightly blushing cheeks, a feeling of warmth arose in Ye Luqing’s heart.
This Ying Qianqian had no plot in the original work, which meant she should be a simple, proper Junior Sister with no schemes or tendency to cause trouble.
Plus, being so enthusiastic about helping her senior sister, she was definitely a good kid.
“Thank you, Junior Sister.”
She grinned and reached out to rub the other girl’s little head. The soft, silky pink hair was unexpectedly pleasant to the touch.
What a cute pink furball. Being able to cuddle with a loli junior sister—this trip across worlds wasn’t a waste.
I forgot the beginning, I forgot the middle, but in any case, she, Ye Luqing, was not a lolicon…
Ying Qianqian was a bit dazed by the rubbing, somewhat at a loss. She had never been treated like this before.
Bai He, standing to the side, watched this scene with gratification. Before her amnesia, Ye Luqing was always circling around Xiao Qingxuan. She, the Senior Sister of Azure Sky Peak, couldn’t see Ye Luqing once in several months, let alone the other junior brothers and sisters.
A close, intimate scene between the senior and junior sisters, Ye Luqing and Ying Qianqian, like this was something she hadn’t witnessed in years.
Just then, a streak of light from a transmission talisman flew up from the base of the mountain, transforming into a paper talisman that landed in Bai He’s hand.
“Cauldron Peak’s Yang-Protecting Array was shattered by a Seventh-Revolution Pill Lightning strike. They request an elder from the Formation Arts Lineage to repair the array…”
Bai He sighed. Currently, she was the only one at the Spirit Transformation Stage at Azure Sky Peak, so it had to be her.
“Sorry, I need to go to Cauldron Peak. Junior Sister Ye, follow Little Junior Sister and take a look around for now.”
With that, Bai He soared into the air and flew towards Cauldron Peak in the west.
“Senior Sister Bai is so busy…”
Ye Luqing watched the direction Bai He had flown off. This Senior Sister of Azure Sky Peak didn’t actually have much screen time in the book. Her main role was appearing as Vice Sect Master Bai Yuhan’s daughter, and later being wounded by Xiao Qingxuan when trying to stop her from falling into the Devil Path.
The biggest mystery surrounding Senior Sister Bai He in the book was: who exactly was her father? The original work never mentioned it at all, making it a mystery Ye Luqing was very concerned about.
There were some rumors saying Bai He was very likely Bai Yuhan and Sect Master Feng Linyi’s child. Although both were female, for a Dao Integration Realm-level Dao Venerable, creating a child was trivial.
But this news was unconfirmed. If she had the chance, she definitely wanted to ask and find out the truth.
Beside her, Ying Qianqian nodded and said,
“Ever since Senior Sister became an elder of Azure Sky Peak, she’s been just as busy as the other elders, rushing around to the various peaks of the sect.”
Ye Luqing was a bit surprised. “Senior Sister Bai is already an elder?”
Ying Qianqian paused for a moment at the question.
“Yes, after Senior Sister broke through to the Spirit Transformation Stage last year, she was automatically promoted to an elder of Azure Sky Peak.”
“Back when she was resisting the Lightning Tribulation during her breakthrough, you even helped Senior Sister by setting up a stabilizing guardian array, Senior Sister Ye.”
Ye Luqing also froze. She naturally didn’t have these memories.
She suddenly realized that the plot mentioned in the book was only a small part of this world.
A person’s life isn’t just the highlight reel of a story; it’s mostly made up of ordinary daily life.
Those parts not inked into the pages didn’t mean they didn’t exist.
Ye Luqing instinctively reached out and pinched Junior Sister Ying Qianqian’s soft, tender little cheek.
“Ah!”
Faced with this sudden sneak attack, Ying Qianqian became even more flustered and could only close her eyes and let this Second Senior Sister’s hand grope around as it pleased.
Looking at the bashful pink furball before her, Ye Luqing could feel the other’s body heat, see her trembling light pink eyelashes, and even smell the young girl’s fragrance, like early cherry blossoms.
Everything felt so real. It was absolutely not the virtual world she had imagined.
So real, yet so beautiful.
Then… how should she face Xiao Qingxuan?
According to the original world line, Xiao Qingxuan would gradually sink into the abyss of blackening after failing to resurrect Ye Luqing again and again. After turning dark, she would resort to any means to achieve Immortal Ascension, all just to bring Ye Luqing back.
But the problem was, in this world line, Ye Luqing had directly “come back to life.”
In the original work, Xiao Qingxuan’s complete blackening was indeed a major plot turning point. If she wanted to return to Earth, she had to fix this world line, meaning a 400% Blackening Value.
If Xiao Qingxuan were a character in a galgame, she could just mechanically click the mouse and walk onto the desired route.
But the problem was, Xiao Qingxuan was a living, breathing person, not just a few lines of text in a book.
As she was pondering this, a jolt of electricity passed through her fingertip, causing her to instinctively pull her hand back.
Seeing Ying Qianqian’s small face squished like a squirrel’s, Ye Luqing smiled apologetically.
“Ah, sorry.”
“I’ll go take a look around the courtyard first.”
Ye Luqing took a deep breath, exhaling her somewhat messy thoughts along with the air, then stepped into the courtyard. Ying Qianqian, behind her, didn’t make a move to follow for quite a while.
Watching Ye Luqing’s back, a complicated look flashed through Ying Qianqian’s clear blue eyes, and she murmured almost imperceptibly under her breath,
“Senior Sister Ye’s memory really does have a problem, and her cultivation has fallen to the Golden Core Stage.”
“If that’s the case, then there should be an opportunity for ‘that matter’…”
