The main peak, Divine Wing Peak.
Several days had already passed since they arrived at Divine Wing Peak.
That night, Ye Youran entered the Tranquil Heart Pavilion where Ye Feiyan was staying.
“Master.” Ye Feiyan’s expression remained calm as she folded her hands at her waist and gave a slight bow.
Ye Youran sighed and said, “This is really giving me a headache.”
Ye Feiyan asked, “Master, what is troubling you?”
Ye Youran looked at her disciple. For some reason, she always felt unusually relaxed around this young woman. Whenever she stood before Ye Feiyan, it was difficult for her to maintain the imposing dignity of a Sect Master.
She exhaled softly and said helplessly, “What else could it be? It’s about your cultivation art.”
“The ordinary Qi Condensation arts in the sect definitely aren’t suitable for you, and I don’t want you cultivating the ones you were given before. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been any recent news of a secret realm producing a suitable Qi Condensation art either. All of you possess excellent talent. Making you cultivate ordinary Qi Condensation arts would simply be a waste.”
Ye Youran sighed again and continued, “My Clear Serene Qi isn’t compatible with you either. This is giving me such a headache. Though my junior brother…”
“Junior brother…” The moment Ye Feiyan heard those words, her eyes shifted slightly. She softly asked, “Do you mean Mas… Peak Master Lu?”
“Yes, exactly. Him.”
Ye Feiyan asked, “How does my cultivation have anything to do with Peak Master Lu?”
Ye Youran replied, “You stay on the peak every day, so naturally you wouldn’t know. My junior brother has entered the Scripture Pavilion. He’s searching for suitable Qi Condensation arts for his two disciples.”
Hearing this, a faint ripple passed through Ye Feiyan’s beautiful eyes.
In her previous life, the Qi Condensation arts they had cultivated were precisely the ones their master had painstakingly searched for and obtained.
Ye Feiyan asked, “Master, did you ask Peak Master Lu to search for suitable arts for us as well?”
“Yes.” Ye Youran continued, “Your Martial Uncle is a peerless genius. If he’s the one searching, he’ll definitely be able to find something suitable. I thought that since he was already doing it anyway, he could simply search for yours along the way. But…”
Ye Feiyan’s heart involuntarily tightened as she asked, “But what?”
Ye Youran complained, “But your Martial Uncle refused. He said the four of you aren’t disciples of Heavenly Sword Peak and that searching for suitable Qi Condensation arts is extremely complicated and troublesome, so he told us to figure it out ourselves. I’m already the Sect Master and have so many things to deal with, yet he isn’t considerate of me at all… What a headache.”
Ye Feiyan fell silent.
She merely looked calmly at Ye Youran.
Finding her gaze somewhat strange, Ye Youran asked, “What’s wrong?”
Ye Feiyan replied softly, “It’s nothing, Master.”
Yet faint waves had already risen within her heart.
In her previous life, after Master had accepted them as disciples, he had cared for them in every possible way. He had personally spent an unimaginable amount of time searching for suitable Qi Condensation arts for them.
But now…
He was not even willing to do it.
The realization instantly disturbed Ye Feiyan’s heart.
Ye Youran said, “You don’t need to worry. I’ve already asked a Supreme Elder to help, so we should have results soon. I have a scroll of quasi-Heaven-grade Geng Metal Qi here. Cultivate this first. Later, you can switch to the quasi-Emperor-grade True Geng Metal Qi. That should be reasonably compatible with your talent.”
She sighed regretfully and continued, “Unfortunately, there hasn’t been any news of an Emperor-Grade Qi Condensation Art appearing anywhere in the world. Otherwise, no matter what it took, I would obtain one for you.”
Ye Feiyan quietly looked at the scroll before gently nodding and accepting it.
She said nothing more.
Ye Feiyan watched her departing figure before slowly looking around at everything inside the cave dwelling.
In all fairness, Ye Youran treated her extremely well.
She was doing everything she could to find suitable cultivation arts for her. Even the pills she provided were more than three times the normal allocation. She had hardly mistreated Ye Feiyan in any way.
But in her previous life, Ye Feiyan had been nothing more than a cripple.
Even then, the cultivation arts Master had found for her had all been Emperor Grade…
Pills, treasures, and countless precious resources…
Master had never deprived her of anything.
Her supply of pills had practically never stopped. Even precious pills capable of cleansing pill toxins had never been lacking.
Ye Feiyan still had no idea where Master had obtained so many pills or how much of Heavenly Sword Peak’s accumulated wealth he had exhausted for her sake…
Ye Youran treated her well because she valued her talent.
But Master…
Master had truly spoiled her to the bone and cherished her from the depths of his heart.
Memories of everything that had happened in her previous life resurfaced one after another.
Now that Ye Feiyan had confirmed that Su Chen’s claim that their master had accepted them as disciples as part of some grand conspiracy did not hold true, doubts inevitably began to emerge regarding the other incidents for which Su Chen had once presented seemingly irrefutable evidence.
Ye Feiyan did not dare think too deeply about it.
She merely remembered the past and recalled what Ye Youran had just told her. A soft sigh escaped her lips.
“Master… if you’re going to be this heartless, are you trying to make your disciple die of heartbreak…”
Perhaps that was also why she still did not want to begin cultivating.
She wanted to know whether there was still a possibility that things might change.
Would Lu Qing eventually accept them as his disciples again?
If he did, perhaps it would prove that Su Chen had not deceived them…
…
Meanwhile, Xiao Ning, Ye Lingyu, and Liu Yao also heard the news.
None of the three slept that night.
It was not until the sky gradually brightened at early dawn that Xiao Ning’s delicate brows suddenly furrowed.
Her master in this life, Saintess Xuanbing, Nalan Qingqing, had arrived.
Xiao Ning quietly looked at the woman who had become her master in this life.
Nalan Qingqing said, “Judging by your progress over the past few days, you haven’t been slacking off. Your cultivation is progressing well.”
Xiao Ning replied, “I wouldn’t dare slack off.”
In truth, Xiao Ning had not been in any hurry to cultivate during these past few days.
She was also waiting.
Even she did not know exactly what she was waiting for.
Because of this, she had not hurried to cultivate the Ice Lineage Emperor Qi that Lu Qing had given her in her previous life. Instead, she merely consumed the sect’s pills as usual while practicing ordinary Tranquil Heart Arts and methods for regulating her Qi and blood, slowly adjusting her body to its optimal condition.
Nalan Qingqing said, “The Sect Master previously went to Senior Brother Lu and asked him to search for suitable cultivation arts for all of you while he was already searching for his own disciples. Although he refused, Senior Brother has always had that sort of personality. Perhaps he’ll still find something for you in the end.” Find the original chapter at g.com.
She continued, “In any case, you don’t need to worry too much about the cultivation arts. Everything should be settled within 10 days or so at the latest. All four of you are rather unusual. When we tested your compatibility with most of the rare Qi Condensation arts within the sect, the results were unexpectedly poor. That’s why we need to search more carefully for something perfectly suited to each of you.”
Xiao Ning asked, “Master, are you very familiar with Peak Master Lu?”
Nalan Qingqing replied, “Back then, we entered the sect together as disciples.”
She said only that single sentence and did not elaborate further, as though the subject involved something she deeply preferred not to discuss.
Xiao Ning did not ask again.
Meanwhile, elsewhere, Liu Yao and Ye Lingyu had not begun cultivating either.
Both seemed somewhat absentminded as they waited.
However, at this moment, all four women’s brows furrowed slightly as the same thought occurred to them.
In their previous life, the reason Ye Feiyan and the others had eventually killed their master was because of a long chain of evidence and facts presented by Su Chen.
And the very first foundation supporting that entire chain of supposed evidence was…
At this point in time, their master had merely been an ordinary Venerable.
After accepting them as disciples, how could an ordinary Venerable possibly produce several incomparably precious Emperor Lineage Qi Condensation Arts, treasures so rare that they were almost impossible to find in the world, and give one to each disciple?
After that, he had produced enormous quantities of pills, treasures, Heavenly Treasures, and other resources that an ordinary Venerable could never possibly possess.
He had even nurtured them all the way until they became Great Emperors…
Did that not mean he had never been an ordinary person in the first place?
Perhaps he had actually been an unfathomably powerful existence concealing himself extremely well.
Perhaps he had accepted them as disciples because he had been plotting something from the very beginning, intending to use them as the cause through which he could glimpse an opportunity to obtain the fruit beyond the Great Emperor Realm…
That had always been one of the greatest suspicious points.
But in this life, Master had not accepted them at all.
Instead, he had accepted Ye Lian’er and Zhang Shi.
If everything Su Chen had said was true, then did that mean Master was now scheming against Ye Lian’er and Zhang Shi instead?
But Su Chen had clearly claimed that all seven of them possessed unique physiques, and that was precisely why Master had targeted them.
Such physiques were supposedly unique throughout the entire world.
Then how could Ye Lian’er and Zhang Shi be explained?
Confusion filled the hearts of the four women.
If they wanted an answer, they could only wait.
‘So… will Master really do what the Sect Master and the others think he might do? Will he search for new Qi Condensation arts for us… and perhaps use that favor to demand repayment, asking us to become his disciples again and return beneath his tutelage?’
‘If that happens, would it mean that everything Su Chen said was true and Master really does have some hidden conspiracy?’
‘Or… was there never any conspiracy at all?’
None of the four women could be certain.
So they waited.
They waited for this matter to finally produce an answer.
More than anything, they wanted to know whether the Qi Condensation arts that Lu Qing had personally searched for and obtained for them in their previous life…
Would once again be placed before them by his hands in this life?