Translator: Rize
Editor: Larkspur
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The next day, they journeyed towards Shen Yao City.
Mu Yunjin, from the very beginning, had been feeling stuffy; it felt like something inside her was jumping up and down, stifling her and making her feel unwell.
Thinking about it, surely it was the so-called Spirit of the Black Lotus.
What bad luck! Without good cause, how could such a thing spread out? She couldn't wait to see this Daoist and split open his belly; that'll be good.
"What are you thinking?" Chu Li turned to look at Mu Yunjin and noticed her, from time to time, touching the pit of her stomach and frowning.
Mu Yunjin curled her lips and shook her head, "It's nothing."
Chu Li fell silent for a moment.
After an unknown amount of time had passed, the carriage finally arrived at Shen Yao City gates where they were stopped by a city guard.
Ding Xian who was driving the carriage, on seeing the guard approach to scrutinize, fished out a token from his pocket and handed it over to the city guard.
One look at the token and the city guard’s face changed. He immediately bowed over to Ding Xian in ceremony, and spoke in an embarrassed voice, "The City Lord has orders, all the people entering Shen Yao City, no matter who, have to undergo a personal inspection, including the...... nobilities.”
Ding Xian had followed Chu Li to Shen Yao City several times and naturally knew of the rules of Shen Yao City. At this time, Ding Xian approached the carriage curtain and peered inside.
"Master, we have arrived at Shen Yao City."
"En."
There came a clear voice, followed by a well-defined hand holding a jade bead out of the carriage.
When the guard saw the jade bead, he immediately recognized it and bowed down in a "please enter". He then shot a look at the guard by the door and said, "Open the city gate!"
The carriage slowly drove into Shen Yao City.
Mu Yunjin leaned over and took the jade beads from Chu Li and held them in her hand for a moment.
"What is this?"
"Qu Xinyao's stuff." Chu Li replied.
Hearing it, Mu Yunjin nodded in understanding and raised her eyebrows, and gossipingly looked at Chu Li.
"You and Qu Xinyao also have friendly relations?"
"No." Chu Li shook his head and added, " Yesterday, before Xu Heyu left, he gave it to benhuangzi."
"It turns out that this city is really different from other cities."
It's rigorous enough to keep an eye on every entrance, and one doesn't know about the customs here.
Thinking of this, Mu Yunjin lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked out.
After failing to see what she expected, Mu Yunjin sat up and stretched out a little more to see the road ahead only to see the carriage journey turns more and more remote.
"Are we going to find the old Daoist first?" After Mu Yunjin sat down, she looked at Chu Li.
"En."
As soon as she heard that they would find the person first, Mu Yunjin was somewhat nervous. After expelling a breath, she sat there quietly and remained motionless.
Her mind was abruptly preoccupied.
If they succeeded in breaking the array and rescuing Rong Fei, would she have to return the Huang Yu Pavilion to her?
If so, it was indeed a good thing. After all, she had limited ability to take over such a large and mysterious organization, so there was still some pressure.
What's more, they're all...
Half-human and half-beast.
I can't handle it!
..........
After the carriage entered the city, it drove for about half an hour and finally stopped in front of the door of a deserted thatched hut.
Mu Yunjin almost fell asleep in the carriage. After getting out of the carriage, she looked around and found herself in a barren land. Half of the roof of the hut in front of her was broken and half of the outside walls were also old and decrepit. It looked to be on the verge of collapsing at any moment.
"Someone lives here?" Mu Yunjin raised her eyebrows in surprise.
Chu Li looked at her eyes and said, "Go ahead."
When they came to the door, Ding Xian knocked softly. After a while, on hearing no reply, they slowly opened the door of the hut.
'squeak, bang--'
Two sounds and a moment after the door opened, it fell heavily on the ground and left a gust of dust in its wake.
Mu Yunjin frowned and muttered about the dilapidated place. When she looked inside, she saw nothing but a heap of withered grass on the ground.
On the pile of withered grass, an old man in a gray robe sat cross-legged, his eyes closed as if he were meditating.
At this time, no one spoke.
Mu Yunjin looked at the old man. She saw his ragged clothes and white hair tied with a cloth strip, and his shoes already had several holes on the soles.
Such a man in ragged clothes, in any case, looks like a vagrant. How can he be Chu Li's trusted Daoist?
Truly baffling.
After standing for a long time, Mu Yunjin's legs turned a little sore. She looked around and saw that the ground under her feet was made of mud. She had yet to find a place to sit so she was a little helpless.
"The little lady can no longer stand?"
A teasing voice sounded.
Looking at the source of the voice, Mu Yunjin saw the old Daoist who was sitting with his eyes closed a moment ago, had opened an eye, and was giving her a once-over, displaying a trace of mockery.
Seeing the old Daoist’s unfriendly gaze, Mu Yunjin snorted.
" You have been sitting for so long, why tell me to stand?"
"Oh, you dare answer back?" The old Daoist laughed contemptuously, and a sudden stream of qi flew out of his sleeve, sweeping Mu Yunjin.
Ding Xian was about to step forward but was held back by Chu Li.
Mu Yunxin was not afraid of the qi flow that was directly pressing onto her. She dodged it easily. She had barely regained her footing when two more came her way.
Mu Yunjin evaded one after another. When she eventually stopped, she was no less than a tempest in a teapot. She pulled out the phoenix tail whip on her wrist and raised it in her hand.
"Smelly old man, are you sick?"
At her words, the old Daoist raised his eyelids to reveal a glimmer of light. He then raised his wrists, splashed qi on the ground and several crushed rocks hurled towards Mu Yunjin.
Mu Yunjin bit her lip as her face turned tense. Since the old Daoist wasn’t being polite, she would have no qualms either.
Waving the whip in her hand, one by one she smashed the gravel. Then, Mu Yunjin shook the whip and it flew towards the old Daoist.
The old Daoist didn’t even raise his eyelids and continued to sit cross-legged. When Mu Yunjin's whip fell, he moved back and forth, his face was calm, he didn’t even blink.
The whip that Mu Yunjin swung down pounded several empty places. She instantly burned with rage; this bad old man is intentionally teasing me.
"Your whipping skills aren’t good enough to fight me." The old Daoist raised his eyelids suddenly, and his tone was full of contempt.
By now, Mu Yunjin was hopping mad.
Holding the whip in her hand, she suddenly injected true qi. The Phoenix Tail Whip flashed a faint purple light, Mu Yunjin raised her chin and slightly raised her eyebrows, "Don't say I don't respect old people."
After that, the Phoenix Tail Whip danced in the breeze on Mu Yunjin's hand and with a strong wind-like sound surged towards the old Daoist.
The old Daoist wanted to dodge, but Mu Yunjin was well prepared. She held the whip in one hand and beat the old Daoist with the true Qi from the other. The true Qi wrapped around the old Daoist, which immobilized him for a moment, and firmly received a flog.
"Ouch --"
The old man, whipped by the Phoenix tail, cried out with pain.
When Mu Yunjin’s about to lash a second, Chu Li stepped forward, reached out, and grasped the whip, to stop her.
Mu Yunjin glanced at Chu Li and saw him shaking his head at her. Her mouth twitched before she put away the phoenix tail whip and wrapped it in her wrist.
"Young lady, not bad. It's better to be my apprentice." The old man caressed the spot he was whipped for a while and laughed at Mu Yunjin.
Mu Yunjin looked at the old man and ignored him.
"You don't even want to continue to fight me, yet you have the nerve to be my shifu?"
"Ah, deliberately let you win, you are still pushing your nose to heaven, but your skills, not ordinary ah." The old Daoist looked at Mu Yunjin, his tone full of meaning.
Mu Yunjin was stunned, her face was a little stiff for a while. In her rush, she had almost forgotten and used the condensation method from the Xuan Ling Sutra.
Extreme...
Chu Li also looked at Mu Yunjin, his eyes slightly dark and heavy. He saw that the old Daoist and Mu Yunjin were making fun of each other.
He opened his mouth slightly.
"Elder Feng Xuan, the Spirit of the Black Lotus was drawn out yesterday and is now in Yunjin's body."
When the old Daoist, Feng Xuan, heard this, he was instantly happy and laughed unbridled.
"You mean, the Spirit of the Black Lotus is in this lady's body?"
Chu Li nodded.
"Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, oh, that's funny. I was worried that I was just whipped and couldn’t avenge! The girl came to my door by herself." Daoist Feng Xuan couldn't restrain his laughter.
Mu Yunjin bit her lip, she resisted the impulse of whipping the old man a few more times and opened her mouth with a flat face.
"Be serious, and quickly tell how to remove the Spirit of the Black Lotus from my body?"
"Humph!" Daoist Feng Xuan snorted and curled his mouth. "Girl, this Spirit of the Black Lotus is not a simple thing. If you don't bring it out in time, it will merge into your blood, turn it black as ink, and then you’ll die miserably..."
Mu Yunjin's heart turned cold. She frowned, simply ignored Daoist Feng Xuan, and trained her eyes on Chu Li with a bitter face.
"Chu Li, you are a calamity..."
Chu Li looked at her small, bitter face, and didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. He turned to look at Daoist Feng Xuan with a smile that was not a smile.
"Asking Elder Feng Xuan to please point a way out of this predicament."
"It's very simple. Let this girl revere me as her shifu. I will teach her the tactics of breaking that array. After that, she will be able to break the formation." Feng Xuan replied.
Then, Daoist Feng Xuan looked at Mu Yunjin in the eyes and added, "My old ways are all unique. If this girl does not venerate me as a shifu, she will never get me to teach the old ways to break the formation."
"Well, little girl, do you want me to be your shifu?" Feng Xuan complacently raised an eyebrow.
Mu Yunjin gritted her teeth and tenaciously glared at Daoist Feng Xuan.
How could this damn old man be so annoying‽ Bowing to him as a shifu, when he looks this sloppy? In what way does he strike one as a religious person? No wonder this black lotus came from him, it is not a decent thing!
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