Saving the White Moonlight Chapter 66

“Host, are we not going to the Soul Lamp Hall? Where are you going? This is the direction of Zhouxue Peak, right?”
The system was also confused. The host had shot off in a flash, without even thinking about whether the direction was right. The host should not make a mistake like this, should she?
Yan Zhuguang ignored it. She acted as if she knew nothing, her face full of excitement as she kept flying forward.
Behind Yan Zhuguang, Su Qian’er shifted uneasily. Yan Zhuguang spread out her spiritual sense and let it fall on Su Qian’er. Right now, Su Qian’er was looking at the scenery below with a puzzled expression.
Yan Zhuguang flew on as if everything were normal. Only when a faint shadow of Zhouxue Peak could be seen in the distance did Su Qian’er suddenly shiver and ask, “Senior Sister Yan, are you certain this is the way to the Soul Lamp Hall?”
“Hm?” Yan Zhuguang seemed to come back to herself. She looked around. “Look at me. I got carried away and went the wrong way. Thank you for reminding me, Junior Sister Su.”
Yan Zhuguang stopped sharply in midair, turned slightly, and continued flying. “Sorry, Junior Sister Su. This is my first time flying with someone on my sword, and I could not split my attention. I only focused on controlling the sword and forgot the proper business.”
Su Qian’er shook her head. “I am the one troubling Senior Sister Yan.”
“No trouble.” Yan Zhuguang pointed toward Zhouxue Peak. “That is Eldest Senior Sister’s Zhouxue Peak. I live there too, and I often head that way, so just now I went there by instinct.”
“Right,” Yan Zhuguang said, seeming casual. “How did Junior Sister Su know this road was not the way to the inner sect’s Soul Lamp Hall? If Miss Su had not noticed, we might have unknowingly ended up on Zhouxue Peak, drinking in the snowy wind.”
Su Qian’er was silent for a long time. Her brows furrowed as if she were thinking about how to answer.
Just then, a voice came from a distance that was neither close nor far. “I was wondering when you would notice. I did not expect it to take you this long. You are already someone’s senior sister. How can you still be so rash?”
The speaker was naturally Yun Mixue. She had been following Yan Zhuguang and Su Qian’er at a distance. Only after Yan Zhuguang suddenly changed direction did she come over to join them.
After Yun Mixue appeared, Su Qian’er let out a breath of relief.
Yan Zhuguang smiled at Yun Mixue in a coaxing way. “My skills are still poor, and I delayed proper business. Luckily, Junior Sister Su reminded me. Otherwise, I would have made a joke of myself.”
Yun Mixue looked at Su Qian’er in surprise, then said to Yan Zhuguang, “Junior Sister Su has only just arrived, yet even she discovered that you went the wrong way. That shows how unreliable you are.”
“Not at all…”
Su Qian’er said softly, “I was only guessing. I saw that Eldest Senior Sister had not followed us, so I felt a little doubtful and asked Senior Sister Yan one extra question.”
After hearing this, Yun Mixue glanced at Yan Zhuguang. Her eyes seemed to say, See? Miss Su even noticed I was not there, but you did not.
Yan Zhuguang looked innocent. She had not ignored Eldest Senior Sister on purpose. She had only wanted to test Su Qian’er.
Aside from Yan Zhuguang, no one cared about this small episode.
Su Qian’er’s mind was sensitive, but after feeling a little doubtful, she let it go. She never would have imagined that behind her doubt was Yan Zhuguang’s purposeful test.
After all, her experience was too strange. Who could guess it? She did not know that Yan Zhuguang, a person who had only met her a few times, had suspected her from the very beginning.
Yun Mixue and Yan Zhuguang came to the inner sect’s Soul Lamp Hall for the second time. The elder of the Soul Lamp Hall had already received the sect master’s notice, so he very simply lit a soul lamp for Su Qian’er.
Afterward, he looked at Yan Zhuguang and said, “Your talent is truly extraordinary. At your cultivation speed, it may not be long before your soul lamp has to be moved to the core Soul Lamp Hall.”
“Elder praises me too much. It is all because Eldest Senior Sister teaches me well.” Yan Zhuguang glanced at Yun Mixue.
Yun Mixue said, “It is Zhuguang who cultivates steadily and works hard. Eldest Senior Sister is ashamed. I have actually cared for you too little.”
“If Eldest Senior Sister can call that caring too little, then would Zhuguang not be a poor little thing with no one to care for her?” Yan Zhuguang shook Yun Mixue’s arm. “I know Eldest Senior Sister treats me best. Eldest Senior Sister, do not be angry with me. How about next time I take Eldest Senior Sister flying on my sword?”
“You. Do you think Eldest Senior Sister cares about riding your sword? Stop being naughty.”
Yun Mixue bowed to the elder. “Thank you for the trouble, Elder.”
The elder waved his hand. “It is my duty.”
Yun Mixue said to Su Qian’er, who was standing to the side silently looking around the Soul Lamp Hall, “Junior Sister Su, let us go to the Disciples Hall. You still need to receive your entry supplies.”
Su Qian’er looked at the two of them and nodded. “Mm.”
Yan Zhuguang stood where she was for a moment. She had only taken two or three steps when Yun Mixue turned back and said, “Are you not coming? Do you plan to keep bothering the elder?”
Yan Zhuguang shook her head, then followed with a grin. She deliberately stood on Su Qian’er’s other side, sandwiching Su Qian’er between them.
Because they were already very familiar with the entry process, Yun Mixue and Yan Zhuguang quickly sent Su Qian’er to the inner disciple cave residence.
During that time, Yan Zhuguang did as she had said and introduced the scenery inside Fenghua Immortal Sect to Su Qian’er all along the way. But Su Qian’er did not seem very interested. No one knew whether she had truly listened.
Only when the two said goodbye did Su Qian’er finally perk up. When she saw Yun Mixue and Yan Zhuguang off, her face looked especially polite and relaxed.
After they left the inner disciple cave residence area and only Yan Zhuguang remained beside her, Yun Mixue rarely showed some doubt. “Junior Sister Su seems not to like us very much.”
Yan Zhuguang spread her hands. “Perhaps Junior Sister Su is angry that we shut her out and refused to let her stay on Zhouxue Peak?”
“Junior Sister Su should not be like that…”
Yun Mixue truly believed Su Qian’er was not suited to be looked after by her. Zhouxue Peak was harsh and cold, and Yun Mixue was away year-round. She had not even cared properly for her own Zhuguang, so how could she add Su Qian’er, who had never cultivated before?
If Su Qian’er was angry because of this, then Yun Mixue could do nothing. Su Qian’er could only think it through herself.
Seeing that Eldest Senior Sister was really thinking about it, Yan Zhuguang could not help coughing softly. “That may not be the reason. I was only guessing. Perhaps Junior Sister Su only felt that we neglected her, so she is upset?”
In truth, Yan Zhuguang felt that Su Qian’er probably had some unknown knot in her heart toward Eldest Senior Sister, and Yan Zhuguang herself was merely an extra.
But to Yan Zhuguang, it was better for Su Qian’er to keep her distance from Eldest Senior Sister. That way, if Su Qian’er suddenly developed evil intentions one day, she would not be able to harm Eldest Senior Sister without anyone knowing.
Now that Su Qian’er had been sent far away to the inner disciple area, a long distance from Zhouxue Peak, Yan Zhuguang felt very satisfied.
Yan Zhuguang was happy, but she could not escape Yun Mixue’s questioning. Yun Mixue asked her, “Just now, if Junior Sister Su had not reminded you that you were going the wrong way, what were you going to do?”
Yan Zhuguang smiled and did not hide that she had tested Su Qian’er. “Eldest Senior Sister, do you think it is normal for someone who has never been to Fenghua Immortal Sect to remind me, a disciple of Fenghua Immortal Sect, that I was going the wrong way?”
When they returned from Tianyu City, they had come from another direction. Although Yan Zhuguang had introduced that road to Su Qian’er, she had never mentioned where an important place like the inner sect’s Soul Lamp Hall was.
Yan Zhuguang had taken Su Qian’er toward Zhouxue Peak. Along the way were all discussion platforms and arenas for inner disciples. Yet under those circumstances, Su Qian’er said Yan Zhuguang had gone the wrong way. How could someone who had never been to Fenghua Immortal Sect judge whether the direction was right?
As for Su Qian’er’s reason, it was even more forced.
Because Eldest Senior Sister had not followed, she suspected they had gone the wrong way? If Eldest Senior Sister knew Yan Zhuguang had gone the wrong way, would she not remind her? Why would she let them go by themselves?
The reason Yun Mixue had not reminded her this time was that she had an understanding with Yan Zhuguang. She knew Yan Zhuguang might want to do something, so she did not expose her at once and only followed the two slowly from behind.
An ordinary person, even if they wondered why Eldest Senior Sister was not with them, would not suspect that the direction was wrong, right?
“Zhuguang means…” The doubtful points Yan Zhuguang raised also left Yun Mixue puzzled. “Junior Sister Su knows Fenghua Immortal Sect so well. Perhaps she prepared in advance? Maybe Family Head Qiao sent her to the sect with some purpose?”
Yan Zhuguang thought about it. Oh. What Eldest Senior Sister said made sense too.
Yan Zhuguang had always believed Su Qian’er’s soul was unusual, so all her guesses were based on that idea.
In her view, before Su Qian’er was reborn, she might have lived in Fenghua Immortal Sect, which was why she knew the sect so well.
But for people who did not know that, their thinking would go in another direction. Eldest Senior Sister’s idea was the reasonable suspicion most people in this world would have toward Su Qian’er’s odd behavior.
Yan Zhuguang did not say that Yun Mixue’s guess and hers were completely different. Instead, she first approved of Yun Mixue’s thought. “It is not impossible.”
In any case, whether Yan Zhuguang was thinking too much or Eldest Senior Sister was thinking too little, it was enough to make Eldest Senior Sister suspicious of Su Qian’er.
With questions in her heart, Yun Mixue went with Yan Zhuguang to Gu Chen’s residence.
This place was his territory from when he was a titled eldest senior brother, a barren mountain that looked rather poor.
The barren mountain was not very tall, but it was made up of several small peaks. The top of the tallest peak in the center had been sliced flat by a sword, and on it stood a luxurious palace that did not match the barren mountain at all.
That palace was where Gu Chen lived.
“Come in.”
The two had just reached the mountaintop and had not yet announced themselves when Gu Chen’s voice sounded by their ears. They did not pause and walked straight into the palace.
Gu Chen was waiting in the palace’s central courtyard. Unlike in the great hall, his posture was very casual. Right now, he was sitting on the ground on a low step.
Beside his foot was a black-and-white rabbit, chewing on the long hem of his sleeve. Gu Chen did not mind and simply let it chew.
“What happened to the promised domineering male lead? His character setting feels a little broken,” the system complained in Yan Zhuguang’s sea of consciousness.
Yan Zhuguang and Yun Mixue were about to bow to Gu Chen, but Gu Chen stopped them.
“No need for such empty courtesy.”
He said, “You found that the former sect master’s death is related to the Dripping Blood Demon Domain?”
Yun Mixue said, “That is correct. In the hidden realm Junior Sister Yan discovered, there were traces left by the former sect master, as well as marks left by the Dripping Blood Demon Domain. The elders also calculated that the place where the former sect master fell was outside that hidden realm.”
Gu Chen lowered his head and thought for a while. Then he asked Yan Zhuguang, “What exactly is the condition of Su Qian’er’s body?”
Gu Chen looked straight into Yan Zhuguang’s eyes. “Is she the Heavenly Restraint Body?”
Yan Zhuguang was somewhat puzzled. “Heavenly Restraint Body?” Was that this world’s name for the special physique of a child born between an immortal cultivator and a demonic cultivator?