Saving the White Moonlight Chapter 75

Since they had been called back to Fenghua Immortal Sect, Yan Zhuguang and Yun Mixue did not delay. They directly changed direction and returned to Fenghua Immortal Sect.
The elders and Chu Ningyan’s group also received the message.
Gu Chen’s meaning was that since they had already found that the sect master’s death was connected to the Dripping Blood Demon Domain, it was enough to continue investigating in that direction. There was no need to spend so many people searching for traces of demonic cultivators.
Besides, such a huge thing had happened to the Qiao family. Demonic cultivators were acting so arrogantly in the righteous path’s territory. Chu Ningyan and Yun Changyue were only Golden Core cultivators, and Yan Zhuguang was only at Foundation Establishment. If they met demonic cultivators, it might become a great loss for the sect. So it was enough to leave the elders to continue investigating. Everyone else was called back to the sect.
As for Yun Mixue, she was the sect’s Eldest Senior Sister. The opening of Qinggong Tower should naturally be hosted by her. The former sect master’s cause of death was important, but the sect’s next generation was even more important. For the sake of the sect, she did not need to keep investigating outside. Returning to the sect to host the opening of Qinggong Tower was more important.
Not only that, Gu Chen also used the opening of Qinggong Tower to call back every Fenghua Immortal Sect inner disciple training outside who could be contacted.
In outsiders’ eyes, perhaps Fenghua Immortal Sect had heard some news and was using an excuse to call back the disciples outside, afraid that demonic cultivators would keep running wild in the righteous cultivation world and damage Fenghua Immortal Sect’s talents.
Some people knew of this and mocked Gu Chen for being cowardly and afraid of trouble. Some followed the trend and began calling their own disciples back to their sects. After such a wide recall, no one paid attention to Yun Mixue and Yan Zhuguang anymore.
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“You are saying that Qiao Shengjiao has many suspicious points?”
Earlier, there had been no way to explain in detail through the message jade tablet. Now that they had returned to the sect, Yan Zhuguang told Gu Chen what she and Yun Mixue had encountered at the Qiao family’s remains.
She was unwilling to place Yun Mixue in danger, but she was very willing to use the male lead’s strength. As the master of a sect, Gu Chen could not do nothing and act as a hands-off manager inside the sect, could he?
“Exactly,” Yan Zhuguang said. “That Qiao Shengjiao tried every method to make us leave. I do not know why. I suspect it may be connected to the Qiao family’s destruction. But to avoid something going wrong if we followed him rashly, we could only give up.”
Gu Chen nodded. “I will send people to investigate Qiao Shengjiao. You do not need to handle this matter anymore.”
Yan Zhuguang nodded. Since Gu Chen had accepted this matter, she truly would not care about it anymore.
Yun Mixue waited until they finished speaking, then said, “For the opening of Qinggong Tower this time, does Sect Master have any requirements?”
Gu Chen shook his head. “None. Following the old rules is enough. You have hosted the opening of Qinggong Tower many times. I trust you.”
“Thank you for Sect Master’s trust.”
On the way back, Yan Zhuguang had already heard Yun Mixue and the system speak about Qinggong Tower.
Qinggong Tower was a treasure tower that belonged only to Fenghua Immortal Sect’s inner sect. It stood in a small corner of the inner sect. Just like its name, its whole body was deep green. The entire tower was hidden among green mountains and forests. If one did not search carefully, one would not notice it.
Qinggong Tower itself was a magical treasure, left behind by a powerful sect expert from who knew how many years ago. It was used for inner disciples to train and cultivate, to protect Fenghua Immortal Sect’s inheritance.
Inside the tower were traces of spells, artifact techniques, sword intent, and other things left by generations of Fenghua Immortal Sect disciples. There were also countless formations, talismans, and restrictions inside.
Being inside Qinggong Tower was like being inside countless Daos of Fenghua Immortal Sect inner disciples from past generations. By using the understanding of countless seniors to improve one’s own understanding, if one’s comprehension was strong enough, one’s strength might rise rapidly. Breaking through a certain realm again and again in a short time was not impossible.
To support these traces of Dao left inside the tower, Qinggong Tower consumed a huge amount of spiritual energy. If it was opened, the spiritual energy used would increase even more. If it were open every day, even Fenghua Immortal Sect could not support it. So Qinggong Tower was usually only partly open. It would randomly open one area and let inner disciples comprehend there.
If someone was unlucky and never got the area they wanted to enter, or suddenly discovered that the place they entered had no understanding that matched them at all, they could only accept their bad luck.
Every time an inner disciple rose by one major realm, they would receive one chance to enter Qinggong Tower to study and comprehend. No more than five disciples of each realm could be in the tower at the same time. So Qinggong Tower was not a place one could enter whenever one wished.
The opening of Qinggong Tower that Gu Chen spoke of was the rarely seen full opening. It usually happened during a special time for Fenghua Immortal Sect, such as when the sect’s talents were lacking, or when there was some other need to quickly raise the strength of their disciples.
When Qinggong Tower was fully opened, all Fenghua Immortal Sect inner disciples who had not used their previous chances could enter the tower to comprehend.
Unlike a partial opening, a fully opened Qinggong Tower opened every area inside the tower. Of course, the full area was extremely large. Finding something inside that benefited oneself was not easy either.
As an inner disciple, Yan Zhuguang already had one chance. After breaking through to Foundation Establishment, she gained another chance. With two chances in hand, she was naturally qualified to go to Qinggong Tower.
According to the system, the female lead in the plot had also entered Qinggong Tower. To help the female lead increase her strength, the male lead naturally would not let go of such a chance.
However, the male lead had specially fully opened Qinggong Tower for the female lead only after she swallowed the Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed and gained a spiritual root. After all, without a spiritual root, she could not cultivate. Even if she entered Qinggong Tower, it would only waste a chance and bring no gain.
If Su Qian’er was the reborn female lead, perhaps she would react to Qinggong Tower. Yan Zhuguang was very interested in this.
“Sect Master is opening Qinggong Tower because of Su Qian’er?”
Gu Chen did not deny it. “It is somewhat connected to her. But it is also time for Qinggong Tower to open.”
With Fenghua Immortal Sect’s current situation, they indeed needed to properly raise the strength of the sect disciples. Otherwise, after releasing their disciples outside, those disciples might be bullied by people from other forces.
In truth, after the former sect master died and Gu Chen became sect master, he should have found a chance to open Qinggong Tower. He had only pressed it down until now.
“When Sect Master told Junior Sister Su about the Qiao family, did Junior Sister Su do anything unusual?”
Gu Chen looked at Yan Zhuguang a few more times. “Why ask that?”
Yan Zhuguang could not say that she suspected Su Qian’er might be the female lead reborn, so she casually found a reason. “I am just curious. I do not know whether Junior Sister Su knows the reason the Qiao family was destroyed, or whether she knows her own background.”
In truth, Yan Zhuguang understood that although Su Qian’er was someone reborn, she did not even remember her original name. Even if the former Su Qian’er knew her own background, the current her might not know it. Unless… after Su Qian’er was reborn, someone had contacted her and told her.
Gu Chen said, “She likely does not know.”
“The death of the Qiao branch family head struck her very hard. It nearly made her lose her reason. She even hated me, the person who passed the news to her.”
Yan Zhuguang and Yun Mixue were both stunned.
Yun Mixue felt it was somewhat unbelievable. To vent anger on the person who passed on the message, and that person was even a sect master, meant Su Qian’er’s state could no longer be described as simply unreasonable.
It seemed Qiao Zhenbang’s death had truly caused her terrible grief.
As for Yan Zhuguang, she naturally did not think Su Qian’er’s hatred toward Gu Chen came from misdirected anger. To her, it looked more like Su Qian’er had lost her reason and accidentally revealed the true thoughts in her heart.
Su Qian’er hated Gu Chen?
Why?
“Did the male lead ever do anything bad to anyone?” Yan Zhuguang asked the system.
The system said, “That is hard to say… The male lead has always treated his own people well. Toward enemies, he is as decisive as an autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.”
“Although the male lead draws hatred, most people only dislike him or think he deserves a beating. If we are talking about hatred, then they are probably all minor cannon-fodder characters, the kind who die in the plot.”
Yan Zhuguang also found it strange. If Su Qian’er was the female lead reborn, then because Gu Chen had once treated her as Yun Mixue’s shadow, it would be understandable for her to resent Gu Chen. But hatred was absolutely impossible. Otherwise, these two people could not have lived happily together in the end. They were not the sort who liked suffering.
In fact, as a cultivation-version sweet romance about a domineering master and his runaway little wife, the male lead naturally could not like anyone besides the female lead.
The system had specially told Yan Zhuguang that, according to the original author’s meaning, the male lead had only missed his dead junior sister too much and mistaken his longing for that figure in his memory as romantic love.
So, although the white moonlight was a white moonlight, the person the male lead truly liked was still the little enemy female lead, Shen Wanqing, who spent time with him later.
In the early stage, to create conflict and misunderstanding between the female lead and male lead so they could torment each other before their feelings slowly warmed, innocent Yun Mixue had been dragged in. The supporting characters had been forced to torment the female lead in her name.
But torment was torment. From start to finish, the male lead protected the female lead very much. Otherwise, it would not be a sweet romance, right? For every bit of bullying the female lead suffered from others, the male lead took revenge a thousand or ten thousand times over.
In the early stage, the female lead left only because she learned from others that she was the male lead’s substitute for his white moonlight. She misunderstood and left out of anger, only seeking a moment of satisfaction. Later, under the push and repeated trouble caused by the second male lead, Blood Lotus Demon Lord, the female lead and male lead cleared up the misunderstanding. After the male lead rescued her from the Dripping Blood Demon Domain, they completely walked onto the path of sweet love. There were not many painful points later.
The female lead was unlikely to feel hatred toward the male lead. Then had Yan Zhuguang guessed wrongly? Was this Su Qian’er not the female lead reborn?
Yan Zhuguang was rarely this confused.
If not the female lead, then who exactly was Su Qian’er?
With this question in mind, on the day Qinggong Tower opened, Yan Zhuguang, who was one of the tower challengers, separated from Yun Mixue, who was hosting the opening, and moved over to Su Qian’er’s side.
Su Qian’er’s expression was not very good. She seemed to have returned to the pale weakness she had when her body had not yet been repaired. Her eyes were dark and heavy, almost reflecting no light. She looked a little frightening.
Yan Zhuguang frowned. This Su Qian’er’s state seemed a little wrong.
“It has only been a few days. How did Su Qian’er become like this?” The system was also very surprised when it saw Su Qian’er. Even before her Heavenly Restraint Body was repaired, Su Qian’er had not looked like this.
“These are signs of falling into the demonic path.” Yan Zhuguang’s voice was somewhat heavy.
Since Su Qian’er had been reborn, Yan Zhuguang could also be certain that she truly did not have her previous memories. Could the death of Qiao Zhenbang, who to her might only count as a stranger, really strike her this hard?
“Falling into the demonic path?!” The system sucked in a breath. Falling into the demonic path was no joke.
“Junior Sister Su,” Yan Zhuguang said, looking at her with some worry, “your body is more important. There is no rush to challenge the tower.”
Su Qian’er’s pitch-black eyes stared straight at her. “I want to challenge the tower.”
“It seems she has developed an obsession.” Yan Zhuguang shook her head inwardly. If no miracle appeared, Su Qian’er was probably beyond saving.
She tried saying to Su Qian’er, “Then, when we challenge the tower later, shall we go together? Perhaps we can look after each other.”
Su Qian’er thought for a moment, then slowly nodded. “All right.”