Chapter 353 (2/2)

Taking a stealthy look at his surroundings, Mu Chen quietly posed this question to Su’er. He was extremely anxious and curious about this question. Within the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, it was the first time he had seen such a youthful Elder. Her age seemed to be not much older than his own. However, he did not dare to say this definitively, the possibility existed for some experts with unfathomable strength to change their appearances, just like Elder Zhu Tian with his youthful appearance. However, with a single look, Mu Chen was able to see that his youthful appearance was just a façade. The ancient aura filled with vicissitude was unable to be concealed.

However, Mu Chen was unable to sense such an aura coming from Ling Xi. Although the latter was cold and indifferent, she did not have an ancient aura coming from her.

“Hmm, Elder Sister Ling Xi never talked about this before. However, she only allows me to call her Elder Sister. I think that her age shouldn’t be big…” Hearing Mu Chen’s question, Su’er immediately suppressed her voice. Her big eyes were now filled with excitement. From the looks of it, her gossipy heart was no weaker than Mu Chen’s.

Mu Chen nodded his head in agreement. If the disparity between their ages was truly large, there shouldn’t be the matter of her asking Su’er to call her Elder Sister…

However, if that was truly the case. This truly would be a bit frightening. Just how old was she? She actually possessed such terrifying strength. This would simply cause Shen Cangsheng and the rest of the elite students to die of a heart attack.

“In fact, I think that even Elder Sister Ling Xi isn’t too clear about her age, since she seems to have forgotten a lot of things…” said Su’er as she tilted her head from side-to-side, looking somewhat puzzled.

Mu Chen immediately gawked. Forgotten? His brows started to faintly wrinkle up. The feeling this Ling Xi gave people was that she was slightly too mysterious, with no one knowing exactly where she came from. This world truly had lots of mysterious and unfathomable things.

Just as he wanted to probe further, a familiar figure dressed in white appeared in the distance, causing him to hastily shut his mouth. Similarly, Su’er stuck her little tongue out, while giving a pretentious act of helping Mu Chen with cleaning his blood stains.

As Ling Xi slowly walked over, her clear and icy pupils shot a look at Mu Chen as she said, “Looks like you’ve some spare energy left today.”

One could hear the faint chilling intent within her voice.

Mu Chen gave a dry laugh.

“Since you’re done with your training, why are you still here, instead of going back?”

Immediately following her question, Ling Xi gave her next order, “From tomorrow onwards, the number of Spiritual Arrays will increase to 30. After five days, you’ll enter the Spiritual Array House. If you’re still unable to open your Heart’s Eye State, you can go fumble around by yourself. I won’t teach such a stupid person.”

In response, Mu Chen gave a smile, without any bitterness shown on his face. He was, in fact, extremely curious to the point of anxiousness towards the so-called ‘Spiritual Array House’. From Su’er’s words, it seemed to be a place that was quite frightening. However, from Ling Xi’s words, didn’t it seem as though that place had some use towards opening his Heart’s Eye?

As this harbored this thought within his heart, he gave Su’er’s little head a rub, before saying his goodbyes and leaving.

Upon seeing Mu Chen leave, Ling Xi glared at Su’er while saying, “Do you want to see what I’ll do to you if you dare to say nonsense about me?”

“Su’er won’t dare to do it anymore,” replied Su’er hastily as she shook her head. Elder Sister Ling Xi is so scary. She really did hear us.

“Why are you not cleaning the bamboo forest?”

“Mhm Mhm…” Su’er nodded her head repeatedly, before hugging the large broom that was taller than her and proceeding to sweep the bamboo forest that had turned into a mess by Mu Chen.

As Ling Xi looked towards the little figure of Su’er, a faint smile surfaced at the corner of her mouth. In the next moment, she seemed to think about something as a somewhat blank expression presented itself slightly in her eyes. Giving a soft sigh, she turned around and headed back to the bamboo house, before entering its depths. Presently, there was a little bamboo house with tightly shut doors.

Opening the doors of the bamboo house, one could not see a single speck of dust within, with everything within being considerably simple and organised. A praying mat was present within the house, while a painting hung on the wall in front of it. The painting seemed to be of a black-coloured pagoda. A vague and indistinct figure of a lady sitting down was present on top of the pagoda. The figure was extremely blurry and indistinct. However, it gave people a feeling of peace and tranquility.

Ling Xi proceeded to kneel and sat down on the praying mat, before staring blankly at the painting. A blank and vacant expression fluctuated within her beautiful eyes, as if she was trying hard to remember something. However, after exhaling a breath of air with some pain, she clutched her forehead with her white hands as her black hair spilt all over the floor, causing her slender figure to appear exceedingly frail and miserable.

…

This was a desolated area of mountains and fields. On the summit of a lone peak stood a youth dressed in black with his hands behind his back. A black sword was carried on his back, while a black dragon mark sat within his forehead. An aura of extreme chill radiated from the dragon mark, giving people a terrifying feeling that would make them tremble in fear.

That familiar appearance was Mo Longzi.

Faintly panning his head, he looked at a distance far away in the north as a cruel and frosty smile surfaced at the corner of his mouth.

“Chasing me for so long… you two really have perseverance…However, this time, I’m afraid that you two won’t be able to return…this is the grand feast that I’ve specially prepared for you two…”

“Ha ha…if I’m able to kill the 1st and 2nd place of the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, would I be able to exceed him on their Bounty List?”

“I truly look forward to it…”

A soft and chilling laughter slowly rang out from the mountain peak as the figure dressed in black started to slowly dissipate in the air.