Chapter 114 The Mu Family Village (2/2)
Yu Yifeng nodded. ”This is no place to stay. We'd better get out first.” Then, he said to Xu Gu, ”Senior Brother Xu Gu, are you coming with us?”
Xu Gu chanted Buddha's name again and sighed. ”The murderous desire here is quite strong. I will stay to convert these people... Amitabha!”
Yu Yifeng put his palms together at him. ”Then, we shall take our leave first.” He said to Xiao Chen, ”Let's go outside and talk.”
With Yu and Mu in the front, no ordinary cultivators dared to provoke them. When they reached the desert outside, the winter seemed to disappear into summer again. Yu Yifeng summoned a Flying-cloud Stone and they all leaped up. Finally, Yu Yifeng asked, ”Martial Uncle Qing Feng sent me a message and told me that you have come to Violet Manor more than a month ago. Why didn't you come to the Jade Qing Sect?”
”Err... ” Xiao Chen grinned. ”I was held back by some matter in the Zhou State.” Mu Chengxue said, ”Oh? So you were that Han Chen, who stormed away with the beauty?” As she spoke, her gaze shifted over to Luo Shangyan and rested there.
Xiao Chen smiled bashfully. ”So you two know everything.” Yu Yifeng turned to face Luo Shangyan. ”How should I address you, Miss?”
Luo Shangyan replied, ”I am a disciple of the Three Pure Sect, Luo Shangyan.” Yu Yifeng nodded. ”Years ago, I went to visit Perfected Immortal Zixu once. You were then still very young. You must have forgotten me.”
Luo Shangyan immediately raised her head. ”Do you know where my Master is now?”
Yu Yifeng sighed and shook his head. ”I have heard. Old senior Changfeng, Perfected Immortal Zixu, Master Lingjue... the three of them went three years ago to investigate the Soul-consuming Evil Flower and then had disappeared together. No one has heard of them since.”
Xiao Chen did not wish to upset Luo Shangyan and changed the topic. ”By the way, Brother Yifeng and Miss Mu, what have brought you here?”
Yu Yifeng looked at Mu Chengxue and said, ”Actually, we have been trying to locate Miss Mu's elder brother for years.”
Xiao Chen stared at Mu Chengxue and saw a dejected look on her face. The present trip must have been a fruitless one too. No wonder she tried to steal the Closing-sky Mirror from Skygale Sect. The Closing-sky Mirror could reveal everything that had happened in a particular location. She must have needed it to trace her elder brother.
No one spoke. At last, Yu Yifeng said, ”Miss Mu, my Master has asked me back over an urgent matter. I will search for your brother with you after this. Don't worry. We will locate him.”
Mu Chengxue nodded and smiled. ”It's time you go back. Your two young disciples have missed you.”
Xiao Chen felt his spirits rise. He had not expected Brother Yifeng to have taken in disciples. He, on the other hand, was still the same muddle-headed boy. He smiled. ”How do you feel about being a Master?”
Yu Yifeng shook his head and smiled. ”I just hope they aren't so playful as to pull out my Master's beard again. I will still be the one getting scolded... ” After he said this, he realized that Xiao Chen had turned despondent, all a sudden. He asked, ”Chen, what's wrong?”
Xiao Chen lifted his head and smiled. ”No... nothing!” He suddenly remembered that he was a naughty boy too when he first went up Mystic Cyan Mountain. He had tugged his grandmaster Perfected Immortal Qingxuan's beard too. Perfected Immortal Qingxuan was the Sect Leader of the Mystic Cyan Sect. No one had the guts to do this for several centuries.
The Flying-cloud Stone soared for an hour. Yu Yifeng gazed ahead. He said, ”If I'm not wrong, it's the Mu Family Village ahead. Miss Mu, it's been a while since you came back. Since it's along the way, why don't we all drop by for a visit?” Then, he said to Xiao Chen, ”Let's wait till tomorrow before we leave for the Jade Qing Sect together.”
Xiao Chen nodded. He had wanted to go to the Jade Qing Sect in the first place. His grandfather was an old friend of Perfected Immortal Qingchen. He ought to visit him on this trip to Violet Manor. Moreover, he needed Brother Yifeng's men to search Xian'er out.
They soared for another 20 or so kilometers and landed in a peach blossom wood. The entire wood was full of flowering peach blossoms. Their scent invigorated the senses. Xiao Chen felt a little strange. It was the height of summer. Why were peach blossom trees blooming so resplendently?
Mu Chengxue's mood took a turn for the better. She inhaled a deep breath and smiled. ”Every time I return, these peach blossoms will flower so beautifully. They look like they will never wilt.”
Yu Yifeng said, ”You're right. Spiritual Qi lingers here everywhere. This must have been the reason.”
Spiritual Qi lingered here everywhere? Xiao Chen stared around him. Why did he sense a lifeless, gloomy air? He was very sensitive to death and lifelessness.
As they talked, the trembling voice of an old woman rang out from the other end of the wood. ”Is it Xue? Are you back?” An old woman, over 70 years of age, staggered in on her walking stick.
”Aunt!” Mu Chengxue gave a joyful cheer and dashed over.
Yu Yifeng smiled gently. ”Miss Mu was brought up by this aunt. She is a close kin. Let's go over and greet her.”
Xiao Chen focused his eyes. Was it so? Why did he sense something odd about this old woman?