Published at 18th of October 2020 06:29:13 PM
Chapter 62
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I covered my mouth with my eyes widened, raising my head to gaze at him. The moonlight was behind him, making his expression dimly illuminated. While I was before him, my entire face was welcoming the moonlight. My facial expression should completely and clearly be filled with astonishment and stupidity.
Many years ago, under the memorial arch at the mountain gate, above the long flight of steps, after I got drunk and did that thing with Mo Qing, I fell into a deep sleep. It was not until the next morning, while I was fast asleep, he had placed the mirror around my neck.
Afterwards, I slept for more than half a month. When I woke up, I had forgotten everything that happened in those three days. So this affair with Mo Qing, other people did not even know about it.
Therefore, in Mo Qing’s recollections, only he himself should know about the affair under the memorial arch at the mountain gate. It became a secret, quietly hidden in his heart, unable to be told to anyone else.
As a result, even up until now, he had never told me about what happened that year.
So for what reason did I suddenly know about the origin of this mirror? I even said it with such certainty, so much so that I knew he gave it to me back then.
So… How did I know?
I bowed my head to curb the stumped and astonished look on my face. In the blink of an eye, I came up with a thousand lies in my mind, but each one seemed to be full of flaws and would not stand up to scrutiny. Therefore, I turned my neck back and raised my head up again, just in time to see Mo Qing was still staring at me like before. His eyes were probing, containing some unconcealable fluctuations.
I gritted my teeth: “Alright! Come hither! It was me! I’ll be respons-…”
Mo Qing conveniently plucked down a piece of leaf and pressed it against my lips, stopping the words I was about to utter, “Fold another one.” He changed the subject quite completely.
I was somewhat stunned by him, but I still followed along with his train of thought: “I can also make a dragonfly, do you want a dragonfly this time?”
“It’s still better to fold a butterfly.” He tilted his head, gazing at the bright moon, “Two butterflies form a pair, makes a couple.”
I angled my head to look at him, only to see that he had already turned his face away, but his ears were slightly stained with redness.
No matter how I knew about it, in any case, I already knew about it. Since it appeared that by mentioning it, the both of us became somewhat shy, then let us just keep this tacit mutual understanding — this was his wish.
“Oh.”
I bowed my head to fold another butterfly.
I restrained the slight but intensive stirrings in my heart, quietly experiencing the throbbing that was more tantalizing than the so-called ambiguity. It was as if there was a piece of paper stuck in between the palms of the two people. The paper unbreakingly separated the two palms, but it did not affect the sensation of warmth from my palm to his.
Compared to undisguised candidness, being able to see through this obscure haziness, it really pulled at a person’s heartstrings.
As I remained silent, I finished folding the butterfly in my hand. Mo Qing’s eyes glanced towards the side, peering at the butterfly. Right at the same time, the previous butterfly that lingered on his fingertips also flew up, circling around the butterfly in the hollow of my palm twice and immediately carrying it away. Together they were spry and lively. At first glance, the two butterflies looked so delicate, but their fluttering demeanor was so stunning.
I took hold of Mo Qing’s hand and walked slowly behind the two grass butterflies. Beside me, Mo Qing’s lips held a shallow curvature, as the warmth from the hollow of his palm made me fall in love.
This night, the wind and the moon on Chen Ji Mountain carried an inseparable tender love that I had never felt before.
When the Hour of the Rat was quickly coming to an end, Mo Qing blinked and took me back to Wu E Palace. In fact, if it was not due to the time constraint, then I would possibly walk hand in hand with him around Chen Ji Mountain for three days and three nights.
*Hour of the Rat (子时 – zǐ shí) – between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m.
After Zhi Yan’s soul returned, it did not take long for Mo Qing to take Wan Jun Sword and blinked away.
I knew that he had gone to Su Mountain to look for Shi Qi and Qin Qian Xian in the magical arrays. Mo Qing was probably fed up with such days like this, where he had no other choice but to restrain himself every single day.
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He carried Wan Jun Sword and left. Even though his injuries were still not completely healed, I was still reassured. No matter how powerful the magical arrays in Su Mountain were, with Mo Qing’s current level, even though he would not be able to freely move around, at least his life would not be in danger. The only difficult problem was finding which magical array both Shi Qi and Qin Qian Xian had charge into.
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I waited quietly at Chen Ji Mountain for two days. During these two days, I only idled my time away teaching Zhi Yan external martial arts and going to the ghost market to visit Zi You. Every day, he would go to the Da Yin Netherworld Bank to watch his past because he was afraid that he would forget.
So then, I became curious about his older brother, Zi Yu. Logically speaking, if his older brother was dead and was at Chen Ji Mountain, then when he died, he would definitely drift to this ghost market. However, Zi You had no knowledge about it, so that proved that his brother was still alive. Therefore, he was living from my era of Dark Guards to Mo Qing’s era, so what was he doing now?
If he was so loyal to me like Zi You had said he was, then after I died, how did he get along with Mo Qing?
Or rather, he did not die nor did he stay in Wan Lu Sect, but was wandering around Jiang Hu by himself?
I used this free time and made Zhi Yan go investigate for any news about Zi Yu. However, any news about the Dark Guards, the Dark Guards themselves refused to talk about it and other disciples would not know much about it either. So this investigation had no results.
However, on the third day, Mo Qing still did not return and Chen Ji Mountain experienced a slight change.
A lot of Wu E Palace’s guards had changed.
Zhi Yan did not notice it because she was not familiar with Wan Lu Sect, but I sensed something strange. I felt that there was something wrong with Wan Lu Sect.
On the fourth day, Mo Qing still had not returned like before. The time frame was so long that Zhi Yan started to realize that there was something wrong: “Li Chen Lan has been out for so many days, even if he couldn’t find my Big Uncle, he should come back to see you, why isn’t there any news coming back?”
As I listened, my expression was solemn.
That same evening, I circled around Chen Ji Mountain. Each mountain and each peak did not appear to have any strange movements. However, when I was drifting across a corner in Wu E Palace, I caught sight of Mo Qing’s Chief of the Dark Guards. His face was covered with a thick, black cloth, hiding his true identity.
Yi, was he not dispatched by Mo Qing to look for Shi Qi and Qin Qian Xian? So he should currently be by Mo Qing’s side.
Just right at this moment, he was assigning tasks to a Dark Guard in the corner: “On South Mountain Lord’s side, dispatch more people to keep watch, also in Sima Rong’s residence in Feng Zhou City, don’t let your guard down.”
I pricked up my ears, crossed my arms, and floated by his side, coldly staring at him.
After he finished assigning tasks to the other person, he glanced around, then walked into Wu E Palace. In the palace, on the west side, on the third brick, he stomped down three times. I raised my eyebrow, my expression became even colder.
Was he wanting to go to the dungeon underneath the main peak?
Under each named mountain peak in Chen Ji Mountain, there were dungeons, like the dungeon under Xi Yue Peak, where it used to imprison Liu Cang Ling, was only for regular “criminals,” but the dungeon under the main peak was used only to imprison some powerful people who I wanted to tame, because they were unwilling to surrender and pay allegiance to me. Later, these people either died or truly surrendered to me, but after I died, it seemed that Mo Qing did not have the urge to make people submit to him. He was benevolent in his teaching, therefore, this dungeon got deserted. The only one imprisoned inside…
Not long ago, when the person inside joined forces with Jiang Wu, coordinating internal and external offenses that nearly harmed everyone, it was my North Mountain Lord, Yuan Jie.
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This Chief of the Dark Guards wanted to go down and look for Yuan Jie?
There was a magical array in the dungeon, so the Instantaneous Travel Technique could not be used, only by engaging this mechanism in Wu E Palace was when one could go down. However, this mechanism’s passage was only known to the Chief of the Dark Guards and the Sect Leader.
I crossed my arms and drifted down together with the Chief of the Dark Guards. As I drifted down, I scolded Mo Qing for not being capable of recruiting someone. Look at what kind of trusted confidant that he recruited and placed by his side!
I truly felt resentment towards someone who did not meet my expectations!
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The lengthy mechanism went downwards for a very long time, until it finally reached the bottom. As the Chief of the Dark Guards walked out, I followed him, going through the deep passage. In the damp dungeon, reaching the end, I finally saw a gray-haired old man sitting in the prison.
Sure enough, he came to see Yuan Jie.
However, it was more than that, he fished out a key and immediately opened Yuan Jie’s prison door: “Come out, the time has come.” As he said that, he threw Qing Gang Staff that was hanging at his waist inside.
Oh, all right, he released the prisoner, even gave him a weapon, this was all done quite thoroughly.
Although Yuan Jie’s appearance cut a sorry figure, his mannerisms still bore some haughtiness from his North Mountain Lord’s position. He picked up his staff and slowly stood up: “Where’s Li Chen Lan?”
“He went to Su Mountain, I had someone lure him into the magical array in that part of Su Mountain. He has been injured recently and the magical array has been modified by me, so he won’t be able to come out for a little while.”
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Yuan Jie dryly coughed twice, slowly walking out from the prison: “He’s injured? Who has this ability?”
“Since he came back from overseas getting Liu He Tian Yi Sword, his injuries have not healed. Recently, Li Chen Lan has been enigmatic and unpredictable, doing things completely without rules. He hacked Ling Ting Mountain, destroyed Jin Zhou City, and saved the grandmaster of Guan Yu Pavilion. After that, he fought with Luo Ming Xuan, who had just awakened, afterwards he sustained grave injuries that have not healed, and even used the Ninth Heaven Technique to search for someone. Right now, he used the Sect Leader Command to order everyone in the sect to burn paper offerings for the former sect leader… I don’t know what tricks he’s playing.”
That was right, I still remembered how startled your expression was when you received the Sect Leader Command, you brat.
So at that time you were muttering in your heart, why this move of Li Chen Lan made people unable to understand him more and more.
“Burn paper offerings for the former sect leader?” Yuan Jie walked forward with his staff and sneered, “He took the former sect leader’s life away and robbed the sect leader’s power. Now he even tolerated the idea to hypocritically burn paper offerings. Hmph, Li Chen Lan’s conscience can even be so restless?”
Oh… Every time I listened to this old man talk, my frame of mind was always so complicated.
“Li Chen Lan hid the body of the Golden Immortal, Luo Ming Xuan, in Wan Lu Sect. He hasn’t told anyone where he hid the body. Right now in this world, perhaps the only one who can fight him is Luo Ming Xuan. Previously, I had heard that in order to resurrect Luo Ming Xuan, he needs the Qin family’s blood, and now the Qin family’s Qin Zhi Yan just happens to be in Wu E Palace. If we can find Luo Ming Xuan’s body, then make use of Qin Zhi Yan’s blood and enable him to be resurrected once more. Wait until the two of them fight, both sides suffer, you and I will naturally reap the benefits of being the fishermen.”
As I stared at the Chief of the Dark Guards, I could not control the corners of my mouth from drooping down in displeasure. Your child-like thoughts made people feel really disgusted.
“Mhm.” Yuan Jie said next to him, “Although Luo Ming Xuan was sealed by the former sect leader, but to prevent Wan Lu Sect that was established by the former sect leader from being destroyed in Li Chen Lan’s hands, this is the only way.”
Then I stared coldly at Yuan Jie.
No wonder I was not even fond of you before, even though you were so loyal, you pig brain.
I did not want to see the two conspiring people anymore, so I directly passed through the main peak of Chen Ji Mountain, right above was exactly Zhuo Chen Hall. The time was not too far from the Hour of the Rat. As I drifted towards Zhi Yan, I told her to lie down and separate from her body.
*Hour of the Rat (子时 – zǐ shí) – between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m.
She was somewhat dazed by my seriousness.
“Chen Ji Mountain is going to have a civil strife. Perhaps, this body of yours will even become a sacrificial lamb. In a moment, I’ll possess your body and immediately go to Su Mountain.”
No matter what, I must inform Mo Qing of the situation on this side, so that he could prepare before returning to the mountain. Besides, I could not leave Zhi Yan here.
I just hoped that Mo Qing had hidden Luo Ming Xuan really well. Never mind if they could not find his body, but if they did find it…
Tch.
Damn his uncle whatever, the influence of this Golden Immortal lingered on even more than me!