Saving the White Moonlight Chapter 56

“Wall-Wind Formation?” Yan Zhuguang was a little puzzled. She truly did not know this one. Was it another thing the original book’s author had privately invented?
The system rarely encountered something it knew and was very excited to tell its host. In the end, not only did it know, even Senior Sister knew…
The system suddenly wilted. Host definitely wanted to learn about the formation from Senior Sister more.
Yun Mixue nodded. “It is indeed the Wall-Wind Formation. This is a secret formation unique to Fenghua Immortal Sect. It is usually used to protect important treasures. The person who set up this formation was at least at late Core Formation. I think it should indeed be the former sect master, whose strength was suppressed to late Core Formation after entering the hidden realm.”
Since it used Fenghua Immortal Sect’s secret art and was connected to the marks on the silk cloth, then the person who set the formation was likely the former sect master. And the owner of that silk cloth was also the former sect master?
Yan Zhuguang asked curiously, “How do we undo this Wall-Wind Formation?”
“There are two ways. One difficult, one easy.”
Yan Zhuguang looked ready to listen.
“First, agree to the request made by the person who set the formation,” Yun Mixue said. “This is the easiest method. Once the request is accepted, the formation will open accordingly.”
Yan Zhuguang asked, “It is that simple? Just agree? There are no other requirements?”
Yun Mixue shook her head. “Naturally, it is not as simple as a verbal promise. It only succeeds after making an oath.”
For cultivators, an oath made to the heavenly Dao had to be completed. Otherwise, the words sworn in the oath would come true.
Even if some tricky method could temporarily avoid the oath, when the final tribulation came, the heavenly Dao would settle each account.
For cultivators, making an oath was a very serious and severe matter. Unless they had no other choice, no cultivator would lightly swear an oath.
Yan Zhuguang understood. No wonder it sounded so simple. So this was where the trap lay. It was easy to say, but if the person who set the formation deliberately made a difficult request, then choosing between the request and the treasure would be hard.
“Then what is the difficult method?”
“Forcefully breaking the formation,” Yun Mixue said. “The Wall-Wind Formation has thirty-six different changes, and no one knows which one the person who set it chose. When breaking the formation, one must be careful and remove it ring by ring. If there is even the slightest mistake, the Wall-Wind Formation will immediately destroy itself along with the treasure it protects.”
Not only did one have to successfully guess which of the thirty-six changes the formation setter had used, one also could not make the slightest mistake while dismantling the formation. Otherwise, it would be like drawing water with a bamboo basket, gaining nothing.
The easy method was truly “easy,” and the difficult method was truly “difficult.”
Yan Zhuguang thought for a moment. Since they had found the Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus, no matter whether using it had a price, Yan Zhuguang definitely planned to take it.
Would it not be wasteful to leave it here for nothing? Just thinking of it felt like a pity.
“Senior Sister,” Yan Zhuguang said, “why don’t we listen to what request the person who set the formation made? Just listening should not make the formation destroy itself, right?”
“It will not,” Yun Mixue said, looking at the formation. “That is fine. If the request is not excessive, we can help complete it.”
If this formation had been set by the former sect master, then as the sect’s master, the request he left could perhaps be treated as his final wish.
Yun Mixue drew an ice-white symbol in the air with her finger. With a light lift of her hand, the symbol floated into her palm. Then she walked forward a few steps and pressed the palm marked with the symbol against the place where the formation light had appeared earlier.
Yan Zhuguang followed her steps and also walked before the formation light. The moment Yun Mixue’s hand touched it, layers of formation light spread like ripples. Then the formation that wrapped around the entire Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus area no longer lit only in one part. It revealed itself completely.
Then a voice appeared inside the stone cave.
“Later one, agree to one request of mine, and I will let you obtain the Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus.”
Yan Zhuguang looked at Yun Mixue. Yun Mixue said, “It is indeed the former sect master.”
After saying this, she said to the formation, “Senior, please speak.”
The flowing light on the formation paused, and that voice sounded again. “I have a beloved daughter who was born lacking. Her body is weak and sickly, and medicine is useless. I searched the world for her and finally found a Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus here. I thought I could change her fate against heaven, but fate toys with people.”
“When I found the Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus, this strange flower still needed ten years to mature. However, the hidden realm’s open period is one year. I could not wait ten years inside the hidden realm. To prevent the Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus from being taken by others, I had no choice but to use this poor method and set a formation to wait for later people.”
“Later one, if you agree to give one seed of the Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus to my beloved daughter, help her make up for her defect, and do not blame my beloved daughter for the lotus seed or take revenge on her in any way, I will give the other two Heavenly Heart Lotus Seeds to you as payment.”
“If you agree, make an oath as proof. This formation can be broken at once, and the Heavenly Heart Lotus Seeds may all be taken.”
Yun Mixue and Yan Zhuguang looked at each other.
“This formation was set at least ten years ago…”
“The former sect master has a weak and sickly daughter?” Yan Zhuguang’s attention was in another direction. She had only heard that the former sect master had a son, a hopeless person who was involved with Yun Changyue. She had never heard he had a daughter.
Yun Mixue also looked puzzled. She shook her head. “The former sect master had no daughter, much less a weak and sickly daughter that medicine could not help.”
This was very strange. Either this was not truly the former sect master of Fenghua Immortal Sect and someone had deliberately impersonated him, or the sect master had an unknown daughter.
In Yan Zhuguang’s view, the second possibility was more likely. “Senior Sister… could Su Qian’er be the sect master’s beloved daughter?”
Yun Mixue frowned deeply and hesitated before shaking her head. “Probably not. Although Miss Su was born weak, she is the daughter of the cultivator surnamed Su’s son and the Qiao family’s young lady. How could she be connected to the sect master?”
Yan Zhuguang did not think that was certain. “Miss Su’s parents died early. Whether she is truly their blood child…”
Who knew whether the cultivator surnamed Su and the former sect master had made some deal, having him find a way to make Su Qian’er become the Qiao family’s granddaughter? If they wanted to hide Su Qian’er’s identity, letting her take the place of a child who might or might not have been born would be the safest method.
Yun Mixue shook her head. “The Qiao family is also a great clan. They are not easy to fool. How could they fail to discover a mere bloodline problem?”
“Miss Su’s body cannot cultivate the cultivation world’s methods, and she herself has no right to inherit the Qiao family. There would be no need to care whether her bloodline belongs to the Qiao family.”
Yun Mixue was silent for a while. “The sect master’s daughter, even if born with a defect, could receive excellent care in the sect. Why would the sect master go to the trouble of arranging for her to enter the Qiao family almost as an orphan?”
“Perhaps he did not want the sect to know he had such a child, one born flawed and unable to cultivate. Or,” Yan Zhuguang looked straight into Yun Mixue’s eyes, “this daughter’s origin had a problem.”
Yan Zhuguang laid out her guess before Yun Mixue without hiding anything.
She had said before that once she confirmed Yun Mixue was truly worthy of her trust, she would show Yun Mixue her most real self.
Although Yun Mixue did not want to agree, she had to admit that Yan Zhuguang’s guess was very possible.
Because the argument between the sect master and that cultivator surnamed Su had indeed been witnessed, and this silk cloth that seemed to come from the sect master’s hand had indeed passed through the cultivator surnamed Su’s hands and fallen into the hands of Miss Su, who had been born with a defect.
Yan Zhuguang’s guess was completely reasonable.
Only, if Miss Su truly was the sect master’s daughter, then no matter what purpose the sect master had in sending her to the Qiao family, it would be a heavy blow to the former sect master’s image.
Yun Mixue took a deep breath. “I think Zhuguang’s guess is indeed possible.”
Yan Zhuguang softened the serious expression she had worn earlier and held Yun Mixue’s wrist. “Senior Sister, do not be sad. This is only my guess. Maybe I guessed wrong? Why don’t we think about whether to agree to his condition?”
Yun Mixue raised a hand and touched Yan Zhuguang’s head. “This hidden realm was discovered by Zhuguang, and the silk cloth with the marks also belongs to Zhuguang. Whether to agree is up to Zhuguang.”
Although the former sect master had discovered this Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus first, the treasure had not yet matured then. That meant the former sect master and the treasure had fate but no share. He should have let it go. Setting up the Wall-Wind Formation had been a rogue act from the former sect master.
If Yun Mixue had discovered this hidden realm herself, she might have agreed to this matter and fulfilled the sect master’s wish. But Yan Zhuguang had discovered the hidden realm, and Yun Mixue did not think she had the right to decide for her.
Yan Zhuguang rubbed against Yun Mixue’s palm.
In the world without her, Senior Sister had probably chosen to agree, right? Otherwise, she could not have brought the Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus’s seeds back to Fenghua Immortal Sect. Senior Sister had no greed for the Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus, so she definitely would not have chosen to destroy the formation.
But this time, the choice was Yan Zhuguang’s. Yan Zhuguang said, “Destroying the formation is far too difficult. To avoid losing both the chicken and the rice, it is only one lotus seed. Let us agree to the former sect master’s request.”
Yun Mixue could not help laughing. “Zhuguang is speaking rather bluntly. Senior Sister thought you would say, ‘He was, after all, the immortal sect’s former sect master. It is better to fulfill his wish.'”
Yan Zhuguang blinked and said with a touch of slyness, “That is naturally what I would say to outsiders. But Senior Sister is different. Why would I need to say such grand-sounding words to you?”
She added, “We should indeed thank the former sect master. If not for the aura of the formation he set drawing us here, we might not have found the Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus. Agreeing to his request can count as repaying him.”
As for the other two Heavenly Heart Lotus Seeds, they would be split between her and Senior Sister. She would not let Senior Sister hand them to the sect with a broad, careless heart.
Mm. Senior Sister’s share would also have to be kept with her, so no one could trick Senior Sister out of it.
Yun Mixue nodded. “All right. Then let us make the oath.”
“Wait!” Yan Zhuguang said. “I can make the oath. Senior Sister does not need to.”
Yun Mixue was puzzled. “Is it not the same?”
Of course it was not the same. How could making an oath and not making one be the same?
Yan Zhuguang had always wanted Su Qian’er to stay far away from Senior Sister. If the sect master’s daughter truly was Su Qian’er, how could Yan Zhuguang let Senior Sister be bound to Su Qian’er by an oath?
“Of course it is the same. If I make the oath, Senior Sister will also go with me to complete it, right?”
“Naturally.”
“Since that is the case, why make one more oath? Does Senior Sister think making oaths is fun?” Yan Zhuguang rolled her eyes at her.
Yan Zhuguang refused no matter what to let Yun Mixue also swear. Helpless, Yun Mixue could only compromise and watch Yan Zhuguang make the oath. The formation light contracted and fell onto the Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus in the center.
“Only after the oath is completed will the formation’s effect fully disperse,” Yun Mixue said. “It is also to prevent people from exploiting loopholes.”
If the person who made the oath opened the formation, but the treasure in the formation was taken by someone else, would the Wall-Wind Formation not have been set for nothing? With this restriction, even if the treasure was taken by another person, that person would have to inherit the previous person’s oath before the formation could fully open.
And Yan Zhuguang, at the same time the formation opened, learned the news about the former sect master’s daughter.
She looked at Yun Mixue. “The former sect master’s daughter really is Miss Su.”
After it was truly confirmed, Yun Mixue no longer felt worried.