Spectating the Angsty Romance of the Master and Disciple from the Sect Next Door Chapter 100

Jingting Dao Lord was quite reliable when it came to serious matters. Hearing they were going to Fuxian Lake, she didn’t ask why; she simply had Yun Liuguang deliver a crystal-clear jade sphere to Li Jin’an.
The jade was warm and lustrous, with inner radiance, and warm to the touch. Inside the jade sphere, one could see a table and several chairs.
—A Mustard Seed Space.
Yun Liuguang explained, “Master asked me to tell Sword Sovereign and Immortal Venerable that if you encounter irresistible forces, avoid them first, do not act recklessly.”
“As long as the green mountains remain, there’ll be no shortage of firewood.” Those were Master’s exact words.
This sentence was the original; the previous sentence clearly wasn’t. Presumably, Jingting Dao Lord’s original words weren’t very elegant, so Yun Liuguang had to refine them a bit.
For the sake of the Mustard Seed Space, Li Jin’an magnanimously didn’t quibble with Jingting Dao Lord over trivial details. She smiled sweetly as she watched Yun Liuguang leave. After Yun Liuguang left, Li Jin’an, as if presenting a treasure, handed the jade sphere to Xie Huaixue. She sighed with emotion, “Dao Lord’s private treasury is like her strength—unfathomable, always capable of giving new surprises.”
Xie Huaixue gave her a light glance, but didn’t refute.
At the bonding ceremony, she had given both her and Xie Huaixue a hollowed-out hand bracelet. That was a fortune that even Jijin Sword Sovereign and Immortal Venerable Qingxiao would eye with respect.
She couldn’t give them something and not give her direct disciple, Yun Liuguang, anything, could she? Partiality wasn’t this partial. These were already three vast sums of resources, and now she could even give out a Mustard Seed Space. It was clear that Jingting Dao Lord’s wealth was simply a bottomless pit.
She didn’t know how such a powerful and wealthy Jingting Dao Lord was overthrown in the Heavenly Tome. A wounded tiger still retains its ferocity; who dared to stroke the tiger’s whiskers?
Could it be that Dao Venerable abolished Jingting Dao Lord and Yun Liuguang after waking up? Impossible! If she wanted to abolish them, she would have done so long ago. How could she wait until now?
One must know that when Dao Venerable took Jingting Dao Lord as a disciple, Jingting Dao Lord had said that if she took her, she could only have her as a single disciple, and of course, she wouldn’t disappoint Dao Venerable. Dao Venerable, with her good temper, agreed. Even when their philosophies clashed later, when Jingting Dao Lord wanted to go on a killing spree across Lancang Continent to thoroughly establish the supreme prestige of Dao Sect, Dao Venerable, though not supportive, readily abdicated, fully letting go and allowing her to do as she pleased.
Dao Venerable was clearly the kind of person who was helpless but indulgent towards her disciples. Even if a disciple made a mistake, she wouldn’t bear to punish them.
If Li Jin’an’s master were Dao Venerable, she could cause so much trouble that the entire Lancang Continent would stand against their master-disciple pair.
Then it was for other reasons. Actually, it was quite simple to imagine. The cultivation world in the Heavenly Tome and the current cultivation world were not the same group of people. If the three monstrous disciples rose to power, it was easy to imagine how chaotic and dark the cultivation world and even Lancang Continent would become. Attacking Jingting Dao Lord during a massive upheaval in the cultivation world wasn’t impossible either.
The surroundings were deathly silent, as if all sounds had been swallowed, causing a profound sense of unease.
She probed with her spiritual sense, and after entering the mist above the pool, she was suddenly startled. “This mist will dissipate spiritual sense!”
Even though the dissipated spiritual sense was minuscule and had no actual effect on her, it was still shocking.
Chixin Sword Lord looked at her with even greater shock, utterly amazed by her disciple’s practiced knack for courting disaster. “Why can’t you change your impulsive habits? Didn’t you know what kind of place this was before coming here?”
She finally understood. Whether it was Li Jin’an with her sword slung over her shoulder, or the Jijin Sword Sovereign, who had achieved great success and was revered as the foremost sword master, they simply couldn’t shake their bad habits. In fact, having a Dao Companion meant one more person to indulge her, making her even more lawless.
Li Jin’an pouted aggrievedly and leaned closer to Xie Huaixue, gesturing with her eyes for Xie Huaixue to witness how fierce her master was, still getting lectured even at over a thousand years old.
Xie Huaixue could only squeeze her palm and transmit a calming message, “Don’t act foolishly in front of Master.”
After speaking, she also nodded apologetically towards Chixin Sword Lord.
Chixin Sword Lord naturally wouldn’t be angry with Xie Huaixue; she only rolled her eyes dramatically at Li Jin’an, completely baffled as to how Ming Gongyu and Xie Huaixue, this master-disciple pair, could both treat that mischievous child Li Jin’an with such special regard.
“I brought a wooden boat. Get on.”
The waters of Immortal Soothing Pool were also quite peculiar. If spiritual vessels were used, they not only couldn’t levitate but would even corrode and dissipate the spiritual energy-infused hulls. Flying through the air was even less feasible; the higher and faster one flew, the greater the consumption of spiritual power, and the higher one’s cultivation, the greater the restrictions.
So, they could only honestly paddle a boat like mortals crossing a river, not daring to use a single trace of spiritual power.
Xie Huaixue was her Dao Companion, and Li Jin’an couldn’t bear to let her toil. Chixin Sword Lord was an elder, and Li Jin’an couldn’t bother her. If she dared to suggest letting them paddle, Li Jin’an was certain their already precarious master-disciple relationship would likely end there.
Li Jin’an could only grimace and paddle with her back to Xie Huaixue and Chixin Sword Lord.
Arrogant and overbearing for half her life, she returned to being a boatman for her Dao Companion and master!
Suddenly, the wooden boat’s speed increased slightly. Li Jin’an turned her head to look, and her phoenix eyes trembled.
Xie Huaixue lowered her gaze and softly said, “Two people working together can be faster.”
In front of elders, Xie Huaixue wouldn’t act wildly like Li Jin’an; her every action was composed and self-possessed.
Li Jin’an gave a short “hmm,” turned her head, curved her lips into a smile, her mouth upturned high, and then met Chixin Sword Lord’s narrowed eyes…
She silently turned her head back. Against the backdrop of the black pool and thick mist, Xie Huaixue appeared even more pure and graceful, truly beautiful, impossible to grow tired of gazing at.
Compared to Chixin Sword Lord’s wrinkled face, Li Jin’an instantly felt her eyes brighten, and a sense of sudden clarity spread even amidst the pervasive fog.
As she paddled along, Li Jin’an began to use her free hand to touch the mist, study the waters of Immortal Soothing Pool, and observe that there were no living creatures beneath the pool’s surface… In short, she was very busy.
When she grew tired of researching, she started pondering the chaotic relationship between Yinyue Monarch, Chixin Sword Lord, and Jingting Dao Lord. She couldn’t figure anything out, so she started thinking about their names. Chixin Sword Lord was Tan Yu, and Yinyue Monarch was Ming Gongyu. Gong Yu… wouldn’t that mean Yinyue Monarch ‘made a move on’ Chixin Sword Lord…? No wonder her master was so useless; there were signs long ago.
Hahahahahaha!
Then Jingting Dao Lord’s name didn’t fit in with the other two. It was Xu Luozheng; it sounded quite nice, but it didn’t quite match Tan Yu and Ming Gongyu. No wonder she actively inserted herself between the two.
Li Jin’an was amused by her own thoughts and desperately wanted to tell Xie Huaixue her idea. Unfortunately, she couldn’t use spiritual power, so she naturally couldn’t transmit a message, and could only stare eagerly at Xie Huaixue.
This emotion was too complex; no matter how much Li Jin’an winked and gestured, Xie Huaixue couldn’t understand. She merely thought Li Jin’an couldn’t sit still, so she took her hand and asked, “Are you tired?”
Li Jin’an dejectedly shook her head, but then quickly cheered up. She silently mouthed out the scandalous tales of the elders, accompanying it with the continuous paddling of her hands. It was a unique form of fun.
Suddenly, after an unknown amount of time paddling, the wooden boat hit something with a dull thud.
Chixin Sword Lord, who had been resting with her eyes closed for an unknown period, suddenly opened them and said in a deep voice, “We’ve arrived. Stop showing off.”
Li Jin’an didn’t retort. Instead, she backhanded and drew out her Blazing Radiance Sword, squinting as she surveyed the small island in the center of the pool. The mist had dispersed slightly, but she could only see things within ten meters of herself. She saw a nearly extinguished bonfire piled nearby, and tied to a nearby pillar were the unconscious Qi Lingzi, Tan Yanyi, and Ling Qiu.
Besides them, there was no one else.
Lan Ci was nowhere to be seen.
On the ground were some footprints of varying depths, from the same person, and it looked like they were injured.
They must have left not long ago.
Li Jin’an cleanly severed the trio’s iron chains, pulled them down, and exhaled a sigh of relief. “It’s fine, just some external injuries.”
Chixin Sword Lord checked them one by one before finally putting her mind at ease. She looked up at the two and said, “I’ll stay here and guard them. You two go hunt down that villain. I’d like to see who dares to provoke the Sword Sect so brazenly.”
She didn’t know this was Lan Ci’s doing, still thinking it was a wicked cultivator at work.
Li Jin’an and Xie Huaixue exchanged a glance. They agreed, and added with unease, “If three months pass and we haven’t returned, please take the three of them and leave first.”
It was very necessary to prevent the Heavenly Tome and the beast from causing trouble in advance.