Spectating the Angsty Romance of the Master and Disciple from the Sect Next Door Chapter 49

Jiang Fengmian’s face turned pale with shock. She thought Xie Huaixue had really acted ruthlessly towards Li Jin’an. Her face was filled with disbelief, and she even looked up at the sun in the sky to confirm.
—It wasn’t rising from the west either.
That shouldn’t be.
Qingxiao had tolerated Jijin for over a thousand years. It didn’t make sense for her to suddenly stop tolerating her. Or did Jijin do something even worse at Qingxiao Peak than provoking heavenly lightning?
But Jiang Fengmian still felt that even if Jijin did something worse, Qingxiao wouldn’t get angry with her.
If you asked, it was simply because she had never seen an Immortal Venerable who could tolerate her sworn enemy, the Sword Sovereign next door, so much.
So, what exactly happened between Jijin and Qingxiao within just a few days?
Li Jin’an looked at her speechlessly. “Why are you acting so superstitious? Are you performing a ritual or doing a shamanistic dance?”
There really are people who never change, inside or out. What they think is written all over their face; you can see through them at a glance. It’s as if the words ‘honest, good-natured’ were carved on their forehead. They are practically a pure current in the Dao Sect, where everyone else has eight hundred extra schemes.
It can be considered a kind of consistency between appearance and reality.
Jiang Fengmian shook her head, thinking she was very cautiously watching Li Jin’an’s expression. She didn’t beat around the bush, testing the waters as she said, “Although I am one major realm below you and Qingxiao, and I don’t know if you two consider me a friend, we’ve known each other for over a thousand years, and we’ve fought side by side and faced life and death together on the demon battlefield. In my heart, you and Qingxiao are equally important people…”
Li Jin’an’s gaze became hard to describe. She now felt that Jiang Fengmian was not just a straightforward idiot, but also an overly emotional, straightforward idiot who inexplicably started sentimentalizing and moving herself!
The last big idiot who was so emotional was the Heavenly Dao.
She supposed these two idiots, one big and one small, would have a lot in common.
“Stop! What exactly do you want to say?” Li Jin’an impatiently asked. She was afraid Jiang Fengmian would keep rambling and reveal how she had used Jiang Fengmian’s name to ask Xie Huaixue out for a fight, just to prove how good their relationship was.
Li Jin’an looked for Jiang Fengmian because of her status as a Peak Master, which allowed her to use the Dao Sect’s spiritual boat to return to Sword Sect. She wasn’t here to listen to her reminisce about the past!
Jiang Fengmian cautiously said, “You and Qingxiao have fallen out. Can I pretend not to see it and not get involved?”
Li Jin’an was just about to say if she had nothing better to do than to say useless things, but before the words left her mouth, her expression suddenly changed. When she unilaterally decided to sever ties with Xie Huaixue in the past, she indeed asked Jiang Fengmian on the spot who was right and who was wrong, asking her to arbitrate right there…
Jiang Fengmian, who suffered an unprovoked calamity, faced Li Jin’an’s threatening gaze and firmly chose the correct side. And then she became, in Li Jin’an’an’s words, someone who favored her sect mate, disregarded the truth, and aided the wicked.
Li Jin’an feigned a cough. “That’s ancient history from how many years ago! How dare you bring that up? Qingxiao and I are doing perfectly fine, don’t worry about it needlessly!”
She felt Jiang Fengmian still had an old way of thinking and didn’t know how to adapt at all. Could things be the same as before?
After all, her sworn enemy really did become her wife… even if it was only in an illusion.
However, this couldn’t be blamed on Jiang Fengmian. Who could have imagined that the world was so unpredictable that an Immortal Venerable would like a Sword Sovereign? This was no less shocking than a Demon Lord bringing the demonic race to kowtow and swear allegiance to the human race. Even Li Jin’an now felt as if she had drunk fake alcohol, feeling dizzy and muddled.
“That’s good,” Jiang Fengmian replied with a smile. She was truly worried about the relationship between Jijin and Qingxiao; worrying had become a habit.
“Where’s the spiritual boat I asked you to bring?”
Before she even left Qingxiao Peak, Li Jin’an presciently sent out a small paper crane, telling Jiang Fengmian to borrow a spiritual boat and wait for her at the foot of Qingxiao Peak.
For such a short distance, she couldn’t bear to trouble herself.
As the Sword Sovereign of the Sword Sect, having helped the Dao Sect’s Immortal Venerable with such a huge favor, the Dao Sect should send a spiritual boat to take her back!
Jiang Fengmian took out a palm-sized wooden boat with the Dao Sect’s insignia. She activated it with spiritual energy, and the next moment, the small wooden boat was magnified a hundredfold and floated in the air.
The two of them leaped onto it.
Li Jin’an leaned against the railing and sighed leisurely, “It’s still more comfortable to ride a fair wind boat.”
Jiang Fengmian immediately exposed her. “When I went to the Hall of Reverent Affairs to find Elder Zhang earlier, the moment I said ‘spiritual boat’, he knew it was you again who didn’t want to fly back to Sword Sect on your sword.”
Li Jin’an pretended not to hear.
In the blink of an eye, the spiritual boat arrived at Sword Sect. Li Jin’an hypocritically invited Jiang Fengmian to be a guest at Jijin Peak, so she could fulfill her duties as a host.
Jiang Fengmian politely excused herself. She didn’t linger, turning the spiritual boat around and leaving immediately, for fear that Li Jin’an wouldn’t just make her a guest, but also want the Dao Sect’s property—the spiritual boat—to stay as a guest.
On the way, Li Jin’an continuously circulated her cultivation technique. Her Dantian’s spiritual energy became abundant again, and she even had the strength to roll her eyes now.
Indeed, the preconceptions in people’s hearts are insurmountable mountains!
Truly disheartening.
Li Jin’an shook her head with a sigh, then turned around to return to Jijin Peak. Just as she reached halfway up the mountain, she ran into the three little fools who were excitedly about to head out, ruling the roost while their master was away.
It was clear how happy they were that their master wasn’t home.
Qi Lingzi, usually a person of few words, wore a poorly made flower crown on her head. The garish red and green combination was already saying enough, and the flowers and grass were forcibly pieced together. It was already starting to fall apart.
From Li Jin’an’s perspective, she almost blacked out. Her Qilin disciple looked like a little goat with a bunch of grass on its head.
Whose masterpiece this was, went without saying. Only Ling Qiu on all of Jijin Peak loved fiddling with flowers and plants, and was keen on dressing up her senior disciple sister.
Li Jin’an naturally looked at her junior disciple. Great, she also had a flower crown on her head that was about to fall apart.
Anyone who didn’t know would think Jijin Peak had switched to eating grass!
Finally, there was her second disciple, Tan Yanyi. Li Jin’an turned her head away, unable to bear looking directly. She truly felt what a ‘spiritual attack’ was.
As expected, what goes around comes around, it just wasn’t time yet. No sooner had she asked Jiang Fengmian to drive the spiritual boat for her than she was ‘stabbed in the back’ by her disciples.
This foolish child didn’t wear a flower crown. However, she had stuck a few nondescript feathers near her temples, and on her forehead was an egg-sized, blindingly shiny flame stone. Her clothes were still a brightly eye-catching rose red, and around her waist was a jingling gemstone belt.
In four words: ostentatiously rich.
It was hard to say whether the senior disciple and junior disciple were wearing flower crowns to ostracize the second disciple who wasn’t wearing one, or if the second disciple, dressed like a bird-person, was ostracizing the senior and junior disciples on her own.
Li Jin’an’s first reaction wasn’t to scold her disciples, but to look up at the sky. She was simultaneously questioning her life and struggling hard to hold back her laughter.
Hahahahaha!
Heavens above, she actually had three such disciples!
“Come with me!”
Qi Lingzi and Ling Qiu exchanged a glance. Tan Yanyi forcefully joined their eye contact. They looked at each other, helpless, and could only dejectedly follow their master, honestly preparing to accept punishment.
It was still that study room, still that furious master, and those wilted disciples.
“Have the escort missions for the Spring Rejuvenation Valley been completed?”
Qi Lingzi stepped forward, her head still adorned with flowers and grass. She answered seriously and respectfully, “Master, we completed one a few days ago. We were just about to go to the Hall of Merit to receive the second mission.”
Ling Qiu pitifully added, “Master, we just got back. We weren’t slacking off.”
Tan Yanyi also wanted to act coquettishly, but unfortunately, Li Jin’an’s gaze immediately sent her back.
Li Jin’an genuinely questioned them, “So you plan to go out on missions looking like this?”
Outsiders wouldn’t think everyone on Jijin Peak was this terrible, would they?
How would the Immortal Venerable next door see her then!
She was different from these little fools!
Otherwise, she might as well send them to Chixin Peak. Didn’t they say grandparents spoiled their grandchildren? She figured Chixin Sword Lord would be very happy to take the blame for her grand-disciples.
The three of them looked down at their toes.
Li Jin’an called out names like the King of Hell. “Tan Yanyi, tell me, I really want to know how you meticulously put together that outfit.”
Tan Yanyi mumbled bashfully, “The Sword Sect’s disciple robes are too dark, so dull, not imposing enough.”
Actually, that wasn’t it. She just thought being more eye-catching would attract beautiful junior disciples, especially the female cultivators from Spring Rejuvenation Valley, who were all beautiful and rich. She really wanted to help them spend their spiritual stones on pills!
“Nonsense! If gray robes aren’t gray, can they be red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple?!” Li Jin’an said in one breath, her eyes wide.
The three of them simultaneously looked up at her, their eyes filled with surprise. Master was quite childlike.
Li Jin’an frowned. “What are you looking at me for? If you were at the Tribulation Transcendence realm and wore an outfit with all seven colors and had your heads full of feathers, I wouldn’t care. Others would still have to praise you for wearing it with style and presence!”
The three of them quickly lowered their heads again.
Whenever this old topic came up, they would play dead.
Li Jin’an leaned back against the chair, firmly refusing to admit that she was the one whose head was spinning from anger. She repeated the old adage about striving for progress and bringing glory again, before letting them leave.
“Alright, hurry up and change your clothes. Go do what you’re supposed to do.”
The three of them lined up one by one, and turned to leave.
“Oh, and Ling Qiu, you stay.”
Qi Lingzi and Tan Yanyi immediately looked over. Ling Qiu also looked confused.
The two who weren’t called silently gave Ling Qiu an encouraging look. Tan Yanyi’s look told her to fend for herself, while Qi Lingzi’s eyes were full of worry, as if Ling Qiu was about to venture into a dragon’s den or a tiger’s lair.
Li Jin’an thought they had too many issues. She wasn’t eating people yet, so there was no need to be so terrified.
Ling Qiu watched her two senior disciple sisters leave. Just as she turned her head to ask her master what she wanted, she heard her master across from her say something.
“What’s going on between you and Qi Lingzi?”
At that moment, Ling Qiu’s heart clenched. Her face instantly turned pale with fright. She played dumb, “My senior disciple sister, second disciple sister, and I are all fine. Master, why are you suddenly asking this? Who told you that our Jijin Peak is disunited?”
May she gain another sworn enemy tomorrow!
Li Jin’an speechlessly raised an eyebrow. “Is there a possibility that this master isn’t blind?”
Everyone on Jijin Peak knew that once their master referred to herself as ‘this master’, it meant they had to listen carefully to what she said next.
Ling Qiu still wanted to continue to play dumb, “Master, my senior disciple sister and I…”
“Alright, no need to hide it,” Li Jin’an said exasperatedly. “As long as you strive for progress and bring glory, and don’t cause such a feud that you’re estranged until death, or cause anything that splits the Jijin Peak’s lineage, I couldn’t be bothered to care about you.”
Li Jin’an highly suspected that words like ‘malicious’ and ‘destroyer of disciple relationships’ were carved on her face. Otherwise, why did these three little fools look at her like a man-eating ghoul?
She really didn’t eat people. And what was so delicious about little fools whose cultivation was mediocre? Couldn’t she just go ‘devour’ the delicious-looking Xie Huaixue instead?!
Ling Qiu immediately relaxed. She said with a grin, “Then Master, whatever you want to ask, your disciple will tell you everything and hold nothing back.”
Li Jin’an coughed, trying to exude the dignity of a master. She said calmly, “Just tell me why you like your senior disciple sister. Yanyi and you entered the sect at the same time, and you are of similar age. Yanyi’s personality is also more cheerful and outgoing than Qi Lingzi’s. How did you end up liking Qi Lingzi instead of Yanyi?”
Things she couldn’t figure out herself, listening to the romantic entanglements of the next generation and absorbing some experience, might just help her figure it out. After all, even her senior disciple was better than her at these things, not to mention her ‘social butterfly’ second disciple.
As for why she didn’t refer to the love stories of the older generation?
Heh, they were still too advanced.
Jingting Dao Lord’s words, “What’s wrong with adding me? I’m not here to break you two apart,” still sounded deafening when she recalled them now!
Li Jin’an really couldn’t imagine a scene where someone told her and Xie Huaixue that they wanted to join their family. Just thinking about it made her want to draw her sword!
If she really humbly learned from that, big trouble would ensue. So she could only draw lessons from young people’s love stories.
Li Jin’an quietly changed her sitting posture. Her gaze burning, she looked at her junior disciple.