Spectating the Angsty Romance of the Master and Disciple from the Sect Next Door Chapter 104

Chixin Sword Lord was still struggling to process Li Jin’an’s words, a beat behind, then another.
This was why Li Jin’an worried how terrified she would be if Xie Huaixue and Yinyue Monarch weren’t in this timeline. Two sword cultivators together only knew how to fight and kill; they’d be utterly useless the moment they needed to use their brains.
A group of sword cultivators could attack the Demon Palace, but they couldn’t even put half a brain together.
Relying on Chixin Sword Lord to make decisions was truly courting death.
Jingting Dao Lord pondered for a moment, then raised an eyebrow and asked directly, “Fuxian Pond? Why would you go to Fuxian Pond for no reason? Didn’t I give you a pocket dimension?”
Clearly, Jingting Dao Lord understood her future self’s mindset well, easily predicting what her future self would do.
A hint of sorrow touched Yinyue Monarch’s eyes, her worry seeming to solidify. “Anan, are you very scared?”
In her eyes, Li Jin’an was still a twenty-year-old child, an age that was merely a fraction compared to a thousand years. How could she not be afraid after suddenly encountering such a drastic change, abruptly returning from a familiar environment to a millennium ago?
Li Jin’an looked up at Yinyue Monarch with longing eyes, all her past longing released in that moment. She burst into childish sobs again, large tears rolling down her face. She cried in hitched sobs, her eyelashes wet, her beautiful phoenix eyes looking particularly piteous.
Xie Huaixue had originally been worried about her master’s health, but seeing Li Jin’an cry like this, she completely lost her resolve. She could only take out a handkerchief from her storage ring and carefully wipe away Li Jin’an’s tears, her eyes filled with a tenderness and pity she didn’t even know she possessed.
From her seat of honor, Yinyue Monarch wiggled her fingers. Ever since Li Jin’an had learned to be concerned with appearances, she would rather bleed and sweat than shed tears, never crying so pitifully yet adorably again, let alone acting spoiled.
Sword cultivators are truly adorable.
It’s true, a household should have an adorable sword cultivator, especially one with a fire spiritual root. Huaixue is doing it right; only by making Anan entirely her own will it truly be safe.
Thus, the three elders leisurely and composedly enjoyed the junior’s teary-eyed appearance, finding Li Jin’an to be a truly adorable child.
Jingting Dao Lord even tilted her head and observed Chixin Sword Lord, already imagining the foolish woman wailing and crying in front of Yinyue. Everyone else is drunk, only I am sober, she thought. Yinyue and her disciple truly have Chixin and her apprentice completely under their thumb. How could two foolish sword cultivators ever outplay them?
Chixin Sword Lord noticed Jingting Dao Lord’s impolite gaze, narrowed her eyes, and glared fiercely before turning her head to look brightly at her beloved Dao companion.
Yinyue Monarch calmly and comfortingly glanced at the adorable sword cultivator they kept at home.
Li Jin’an didn’t know what these outwardly dignified elders were thinking. She answered their questions in order, saying emotionally, “Anan isn’t scared. To be able to see Monarch again is already a blessing from heaven.”
Well, actually, she hadn’t even had time to experience fear. In other words, she was just excited – excited to see Yinyue Monarch, excited to see the Immortal Venerable in her youth, excited to give them a huge fright… she hadn’t even considered being afraid.
Chixin Sword Lord scoffed, directly calling her out. “She’s just foolishly bold. Hot-headed, she charges right in, not caring about consequences or fear.”
Li Jin’an pretended not to hear her. With tears still clinging to her eyelashes, she seriously looked at Jingting Dao Lord. “You gave us the pocket dimension, and my master took it to protect my three disciples. I don’t know if my master will be able to protect my disciples in such a critical and dangerous moment. Our lineage can’t possibly be wiped out by the space-time turbulence, can it!?”
Only then did the realization dawn on her, and she finally felt nervous and afraid.
All three generations of Jijin Peak—old, middle-aged, and young—were at Fuxian Pond. If anything happened, it would truly be a total wipeout.
Jingting Dao Lord dispelled her worries. “You’re worrying too soon. The pocket dimension is a solidified alternate dimension that cannot merge with the time-space of the Lancang Continent. As long as people stay inside peacefully, they will be expelled by the space-time turbulence.”
Li Jin’an breathed a sigh of relief, relaxing as she leaned on Xie Huaixue’s shoulder, rubbing her head affectionately. “That’s good.”
She didn’t know how long she could stay in this timeline before being expelled to another. So, she simply gave up on maintaining appearances, acting as spoiled as she wished and clinging as much as she wished.
Anyway, once she returned to her own timeline, no one would remember any of this!
Xie Huaixue slightly lowered her gaze, letting Li Jin’an lean on her. She quietly watched her future Dao companion from a thousand years ahead, her brows peaceful and serene.
How wonderful.
Li Jin’an unexpectedly met Xie Huaixue’s gaze and suddenly flushed red in the ears. Xie Huaixue was only twenty-one, yet she already had the aura and gaze of the future Qingxiao Immortal Venerable, which surprisingly made the Sword Sovereign shy.
Before Li Jin’an could be shy for too long, she heard her master ask in a spoilsport manner, “Then how did you enter the space-time turbulence? You and Huaixue became Dao companions—such a good thing—surely you weren’t so foolish as to venture into space-time turbulence for adventure?”
If her foolish apprentice had nothing holding her back, she might genuinely brave the space-time turbulence out of curiosity or excessive longing for Monarch.
“Master, I am Jijin Sword Sovereign, not Foolish Sword Sovereign,” Li Jin’an protested, letting out a deep sigh with an expression of bearing too much. “This brings us to the matter of Xie Huaixue’s and my disciples.”
Xie Huaixue’s already straight back became even straighter at these words.
However, the reason she sat upright and respectfully was different from Jingting Dao Lord. No matter how firm and calm her temperament, she would still be curious about what her future life with her Dao companion would be like.
At this moment, Xie Huaixue had just rejected an imperfect confession with an ulterior motive, and a hint of sadness emerged in her heart. Before she could understand why her heart felt as heavy as a large stone, the excessive emotional fluctuations triggered her cold poison, and she entered the cold pond in the back mountain.
Yes, her cold poison was far more severe than Li Jin’an knew, which was also her reason for cultivating the Emotionless Dao—Deep love does not last long; extreme wisdom is prone to harm.
It was then that Li Jin’an from a thousand years later bounced in, giving her a big hug and saying they would be Dao companions in the future. The accumulated emotional chill in Xie Huaixue’s heart was instantly brushed away. She understood why she had been sad and subtly felt anticipation.
As for why Jingting Dao Lord was interested in Li Jin’an’s next words, only Yinyue Monarch knew.
“As everyone knows, Xie Huaixue’s and my relationship will be quite strained for the next thousand years. People will call us sworn enemies, arch-rivals, all that messy stuff.”
Her first sentence left everyone present speechless. They hadn’t lived to a thousand years later; how could they possibly ‘know’?
Li Jin’an went on, “These are minor matters, completely unimportant, so let’s skip past them. Then, my three disciples inherited my insignificant little virtues, such as tenacity, proactivity, and fierce competitiveness. They’d periodically go pick fights with Xie Huaixue’s two rascal disciples, and then when Xie Huaixue took on her third rascal disciple, I came to the Dao Sect to attend the ceremony…”
Chixin Sword Lord interrupted her. “Stop talking nonsense… hmm, actually, don’t be too brief. We’re not in a hurry, you can take your time.”
Li Jin’an gave her a disdainful look that said, You’re such a pain, then saw the expectant gazes of Yinyue Monarch and Xie Huaixue, and only then did she patiently begin from the very start.
It was just a little too far back.
“After you spied on Xie Huaixue and me during our trip to Three Realms Mountain, hmph! Shameless elders…” Li Jin’an talked endlessly, recounting everything that would happen between her and Xie Huaixue in the future, naturally not forgetting to slightly embellish her own image.
She talked from night until day, then mumbled on until night again, having to answer questions from all directions. Fortunately, they had all achieved inedia, or they wouldn’t have been able to last.
On the morning of the third day, Li Jin’an finally breathlessly recounted the grievances and feuds of the next generation. If Yinyue Monarch and Xie Huaixue, master and disciple, hadn’t gently coaxed her with soft words, she truly would have thrown in the towel.
“…That’s also why I refer to Xie Huaixue’s three disciples as rascals. The eldest has insidious and malicious thoughts and even got entangled with the first-rate sect Futu Valley. The second and third simply weren’t human; one was a half-demon, the other a demon. Truly, everything dirty and foul ran to Qingxiao Peak! If not for Lan Ci, Xie Huaixue and I would still be peacefully enjoying the flowers, moon, and scenery on Qingxiao Peak!”
In front of the elders and the twenty-year-old Xie Huaixue, Li Jin’an still spoke righteously. Surely, she wouldn’t directly say that Chixin Sword Lord’s dual cultivation technique was so effective that they never had a moment’s rest!
“I don’t know when I’ll suddenly jump to the next timeline, and I don’t know how Xie Huaixue is doing, or when we’ll meet up and get out of the space-time turbulence…”
After chattering endlessly, Li Jin’an finally calmed down due to excessive fatigue, beginning to worry about the problems she had pushed to the back of her mind.
“I will leave you clues to meet up.” Xie Huaixue paused, then repeated, “My future self will leave you clues before the timeline corrects itself.”
“Hmm?”