Chapter 118 Familiar Place (1/2)

There were eight of them going to the Widespread Wintriness Sect. The reason why the sects were all gathered there wasn't that the sect was comparatively larger but that its location in the middle of the East Divine Continent made it a convenient place to convene.

After the Flying-cloud Stone left the Jade Qing Sect, Yu Yifeng looked in the direction of the mountain gate and sighed. ”I'm really an irresponsible Master. I'm always away nearly all year round...”

Xiao Chen patted him on the shoulder with a chuckle. ”It's okay. When they're older, they'll understand that their Master is the one who cherishes them the most in the world.”

Yu Yifeng turned his head around and smiled. ”It's been so long but I still don't know what sect and master you are under. From what Unfettered Martial Uncle said, your cultivation techniques don't belong to the Three Pure Sect.”

Xiao Chen smiled with a rather bitter expression. He didn't reply.

The East Divine Continent was so large that its size was equivalent to that of several plains in the Human World. Even though the Flying-cloud Stone that they were riding was speedy, it still took them half a day to get from Qing Province to Wu Province.

Watching the mountains, rivers, and creeks below, Xiao Chen gradually sank into a daze. Wasn't this the same kind of scenery that he saw when he traveled on flying swords with his Master back then? Was the land below truly his native land, the Great Divine Continent?

When Mu Chengxue noticed how he stood by his lonesome at the edge of the Flying-cloud Stone, staring dazedly at the ground below, she laughed. ”Hey! Be careful over there! If you fall, you won't be able to climb up, you know?”

”Ah! Is it that dangerous?” Xiao Chen replied, having recovered his senses. He was currently unable to use a flying sword in the Violet Manor. If he fell down, there wouldn't even be a skeleton left of him. Yu Yifeng laughed. ”She's kidding. There's a protective Barrier around the Flying-cloud Stone. You won't be able to fall.”

”Oh?”

Xiao Chen didn't know how long they had flown for he was immersed in staring at the terrain below. He kept hoping that he could find any places that resembled those from millenniums ago. However, what he saw disappointed him again and again. After the passage of thousands of years, the topography of the land had long changed. The mountains and lakes had been flattened; the vast seas had turned into mulberry fields.

However, in a moment of carelessness, he saw a certain mountain ridge. From this angle, the mountain ridge looked like a fairy that was dancing lightly and gracefully. The rims of his eyes gradually reddened as he yelled, ”Stop!”

His words startled everyone. Yu Yifeng walked over to him and saw Xiao Chen's reddened eyes. ”What's wrong?”

”Get down now! Stop flying! I want to go down!”

”Keep calm. We'll go down now.” Yu Yifeng couldn't understand Xiao Chen's sudden strangeness but ordered his two Junior Brothers to stop the stone from moving forward and maneuver it downward.

Their current location wasn't considered a part of Qing State. It was desolate for several hundred miles around them. Seeing that Xiao Chen's emotions were gradually calming, Yu Yifeng asked, ”Chen, what did you see?”

Xiao Chen didn't reply. He was certain that the ground under them was the Beautiful Immortal Mountains, the place where he met Hua Weiyang back then. There wasn't much change in the terrain here even after the passage of thousands of years. So the Violet Manor was truly the Divine Continent from all those years ago.

The Flying-cloud Stone slowly moved toward a bamboo forest. They saw that there were no less than one hundred species of birds here of all colors imaginable. The cry of the birds made for a beautiful choir of sounds. They weren't startled even after facing humans. There was even a stream of clear spring passing through the forest. Flowers of all kinds bloomed in abundance on the riverbank, all of them unnameable.

One of the female disciples gasped. She couldn't help herself uttering, ”What a beautiful place! No wonder Junior Brother Xiao is badgering us to come down! Hehe. Let's all go down and take a look.” While talking, she didn't notice that the rim of Xiao Chen's eyes was completely red.

”Why, why has this place not changed at all... It's been several thousand years! Weiyang! Is it you?! Have you been guarding this place all this while?”

Back then, that beautiful woman had breached the Mystic Cyan Sect alone for his sake and shouldered all the baseless charges against him. She had used a forbidden technique to block a life-threatening palm attack for him and ended up jumping down a cliff. He remembered how she had spoken to him in a gentle voice at that moment, saying, ”Three requests. You still owe me one more... I want you to live well...”

The roaring sound was so violent that the beasts beneath them fled everywhere and the Flying-cloud Stone shook fiercely. This shocked everyone. Yu Yifeng immediately caught hold of him. ”What's wrong with you?!”

Xiao Chen shook his head. When the Flying-cloud Stone was 20 meters away from the ground, the Barrier dissipated, and he shocked everyone by jumping down just like that. The two female disciples were so surprised that they cried out. Yu Yifeng instantly unsheathed his Immortal's Sword and transformed into a sword radiance that charged toward Xiao Chen. He managed to catch Xiao Chen in midair.

”Xiao Chen! What are you doing?!” Yu Yifeng didn't expect Xiao Chen to be this agitated. Even if the latter was now at the 7th level of Foundation Building Realm, an injury was still possible after falling at this height.

After landing on the ground, Xiao Chen remained silent and walked forward by himself. Every stalk of flower and blade of grass here were the same as back then. He could even find the spot where he and Hua Weiyang had their zither competition. He slowly took out the Nine-heaven Jade Pendant and started playing. It was still the same piece of music from back then; the only difference was that there would no longer be anyone coming here to hear him play the zither.

It was as if the voice from back then was ringing next to his ears. ”Hey! The one in front! Your zither skill is mediocre. I dare you to compete zither skills with me. The one who loses will do three things for the winner!”

Finally, tears slid down his cheeks without a sound, falling drop by drop on the strings of the zither. The sound of the zither gradually became quieter and melancholic.

The rest dared not to stay too far away lest he made even more shocking actions. Neither did they stayed too close to him. One of the female disciples said quietly, ”What's wrong with him? He was fine this morning. Why don't you go over and check on him, Senior Brother Yu?”