Spectating the Angsty Romance of the Master and Disciple from the Sect Next Door Chapter 90

Before this, as the strongest senior sister of Qingxiao Peak, Lan Ci had an overwhelming advantage over Zhong Fei and Ning Zhufeng. No matter the situation, she could always gain the upper hand.
This was not only because Lan Ci had been in the Dao Sect for a hundred years and had cultivated her influence there for a long time, but also because her strength was the greatest. In the Three Realms of the Lancang Continent, only strength commanded respect.
Even if Lan Ci’s true face was exposed and she became despised, her cultivation was real, and she remained Qingxiao Immortal Venerable’s foremost disciple.
However, if this hundred-year period were stretched infinitely, and her Core Formation great perfection cultivation were placed within it, it would seem utterly insignificant.
As long as one lived long enough, their cultivation would eventually rise, especially for a “future” Demon Lord.
After gaining a portion of future memories, the relationship between Lan Ci and Ning Zhufeng instantly reversed.
Lan Ci’s eyes were filled with rage. After a moment, she calmly retorted, “May I ask, Demon Lord, did your future self achieve your desires?”
Ning Zhufeng’s young and delicate face suddenly darkened, and she stared fixedly at Lan Ci, her killing intent chilling.
Lan Ci, however, was not afraid of her. She continued to smile, her expression extremely mocking.
In the scenes she had witnessed, Ning Zhufeng was indeed mighty, usurping her father to become the unified Demon Lord, easily suppressing the human grand cultivator Venerable Ling Xu and Monster King Zhong Fei, calling forth wind and rain, omnipotent.
But so what?
The future was the future, and now was now.
The current Ning Zhufeng was not the Demon Lord from the future scenes. After all, if a mere Foundation Establishment cultivator went around claiming to be the Demon Lord, people wouldn’t just not get angry; they wouldn’t even think she had betrayed humanity. They would only think she had a problem with her brain, suffering from a severe delusion, and needed to be sent to Ancient Life Peak to see Elder Yin immediately. A brain illness was best treated early and shouldn’t be delayed any further.
Furthermore, the future Monster King Zhong Fei was utterly annihilated, proving that the future could indeed be changed. The future was uncertain.
With her current advantage, Lan Ci didn’t believe she would lose to Ning Zhufeng again.
Lan Ci continued, “Can Ning Zhufeng obtain what the Demon Lord could not?”
Ning Zhufeng knew she was referring to their master.
In the future scenes they had both received, their master was cornered step by step by them, already isolated and helpless. She no longer possessed the cold, lofty detachment of Qingxiao Immortal Venerable from before, yet she was not a puppet to be manipulated. Moreover, there was a wounded Jingting Dao Lord eyeing them covetously, determined to severely wound them despite her injuries.
If not for Jingting Dao Lord, their coveting of their master might have already come true, or in a future they hadn’t seen, they might have long since eliminated Jingting Dao Lord as an obstacle.
“Jingting…” Ning Zhufeng gnashed these two words, her brow clouded with gloom. “The present and the future differ too greatly. This lingering Sect Master of the Dao Sect and her disciples will not be so prominent in the future; they’ll be driven from power early on.”
“The changes aren’t just with the Dao Sect Master; now, the most deserving person to die has survived,” Lan Ci said bitterly.
It was obvious who she was referring to at this moment.
Compared to the beautiful future they had seen, the present was utterly unrecognizable; they hadn’t experienced a single good day.
Being whipped, beaten, having their memories erased, being knocked unconscious by explosions…
Yet, both Lan Ci and Ning Zhufeng firmly believed that the future scenes they had witnessed were real. This was because they were immensely confident in themselves, believing they would surely become pivotal powerhouses in the future. Moreover, the stark contrast and immense disparity between reality and the future made them feel even more immersed.
As beautiful as the future they had seen was, reality was just as unsatisfactory. Therefore, even if they only saw fragmented future scenes, they could only believe them deeply.
Lan Ci pondered for a moment, then said, “All these variables revolve around Jijin, Jijin Sword Sovereign. If it weren’t for her, you and I wouldn’t be in such a sorry state, and that fool Zhong Fei wouldn’t have died so carelessly.”
If it were in the future, they would certainly wish Zhong Fei had died sooner and found peace, but not now. They were already at an absolute disadvantage, facing the flourishing Jijin Sword Sovereign was like an ant trying to shake a colossal tree. Now, with one less ally, it was even bleaker; it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say they were struggling at every turn.
“Even if we know, what then? We can only lay low and avoid her might, seeking our own opportunities to bide our time until another day.”
Don’t be fooled by Ning Zhufeng’s pleasant words; in reality, she simply couldn’t win and could only escape. She would go out and cultivate in hiding until the moment they dared to face Jijin Sword Sovereign.
No matter how unwilling they were, they had to endure and lie low, unable to even show the slightest dissatisfaction in front of Jijin Sword Sovereign. Mainly because if they showed even a hint of disrespect, Jijin Sword Sovereign would truly show them no mercy.
“This is the only way.” Lan Ci guessed, “Do you think Jijin Sword Sovereign also saw the future unfold, just like us?”
Ning Zhufeng, however, had a different opinion. She coldly snorted and said with extreme displeasure, “Given Jijin Sword Sovereign’s possessiveness over Master, if she knew our intentions towards Master, would she let us live until now? It’s more like Jijin Sword Sovereign can’t stand any living being around Master.”
Her mood was terrible. Long before, she had regarded Xie Huaixue as her possession and a stepping stone to power. Obtaining Xie Huaixue meant gaining cultivation power and the position of Demon Lord. Yet, seeing the future, she still hadn’t succeeded. No matter how horrific the things she did, Xie Huaixue’s eyes still didn’t see her, and this desire transformed into a deep obsession.
And yet her obsession rushed towards Jijin Sword Sovereign, whom she detested the most. How could she possibly accept that!
She didn’t believe that everyone could obtain such an opportunity as foreseeing the future. If that were the case, Jijin Sword Sovereign wouldn’t have died so early in the future she saw.
Lan Ci still felt uneasy. “Then what about Zhong Fei?”
“Who knows? It’s not impossible she was foolish enough to expose her demonic energy and true form.”
Lan Ci lowered her eyes and sighed as if deeply heartbroken. “If Master’s cold poison flares up, what then?”
The atmosphere within the barrier fell silent for a moment. The two skipped this topic and began discussing the future scenes they had witnessed.
The reason it was referred to as ‘witnessed future scenes’ was because the foreseen future wasn’t anyone’s personal memory, but rather scenes shown from a third-person perspective. They were fragmented and discontinuous; some events even had only a beginning and an end, and what happened in between was unknown. But for them, it was already enough.
Knowing their future choices, they could seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, seize opportunities, forcefully close the gap between themselves and people like Jijin Sword Sovereign and Jingting Dao Lord, and then come back for revenge. At that time, everything would be completely different. Master would truly have nowhere to escape, and they would also get their wish.
…
Jijin Sword Sovereign and Immortal Venerable Qingxiao’s spiritual union ceremony was set for twelve days later.
As soon as this news broke, not to mention the uproar across the entire Lancang Continent, it also sent ripples through the cultivation world. Cultivators big and small were discussing this matter, and it became a new way for cultivators to greet each other. Many renowned rogue cultivators actively sent invitation scrolls to the Dao Sect, wishing to attend the ceremony.
It was like following a novel serialized for thousands of years, where in a mundane part, the narrative suddenly shifted, without transition, directly writing an unexpected ending. They simply had to witness this up close; otherwise, how could they justify their thousands of years of avid attention to these two?
After informing the unaware Chixin Sword Lord and the Sword Sect Master about the spiritual union, Chixin Sword Lord rushed to the Dao Sect, cursing and grumbling with her people. As for the Sword Sect Master, he would only arrive after twelve days.
The first thing she did upon arriving at Qingxiao Peak was to curse loudly. “How could this wretched child, Li Jin’an, not wait until after the spiritual union to inform me? She completely skipped a step!”
Utterly disrespectful of her elders!
Li Jin’an appeared to be obediently listening to the scolding, but in reality, she had sealed her hearing and secretly transmitted a message to Xie Huaixue, complaining that her Master had become even more irritable. Unfortunately, Xie Huaixue did not reply.
When she saw Chixin Sword Lord’s lips stop moving, she leisurely unsealed her hearing, and then her expression instantly changed drastically.
“…Before, she not only carved the six characters ‘hates Xie Huaixue the most’ into a rock on Chixin Peak with her sword, but also tore up all the books she took from you, dug a pit, and buried them. And she even mockingly erected a wooden tombstone, on which she crookedly wrote…”
Chixin Sword Lord glanced at her, ignored her, and continued to speak eloquently.
Li Jin’an turned pale with shock. “Wait! Master, what are you saying!”
“Something to foster the relationship between Dao Companions,” Chixin Sword Lord said.
Li Jin’an’s eyes widened. This is clearly meant to sow discord!
What a vicious Master! To actually tarnish her disciple’s image like this and ruin the relationship between her disciple and Dao Companion!
“Master, do you even believe what you’re saying?”
“Why wouldn’t I?” Chixin Sword Lord said calmly. “I’m merely helping Huaixue understand you a little better.”
Li Jin’an, no longer a solitary, unyielding sword cultivator, pouted and called her out directly. “Come on, old lady, you just can’t stand Jingting Dao Lord knowing about this before you. I’m genuinely curious, sometimes I don’t know whether you hate Jingting Dao Lord, love her, or both love and hate her. You old-timers truly are…”
The rest of her words weren’t spoken because Chixin Sword Lord, like Jingting Dao Lord, had unethically silenced Li Jin’an, but because Chixin Sword Lord had already drawn her destiny sword, intending to cleanse the lineage.
Jijin Sword Sovereign was just shy of becoming a rogue cultivator on the eve of her spiritual union with Immortal Venerable Qingxiao.
After Chixin Sword Lord left, Li Jin’an immediately pounced onto Xie Huaixue, whining and complaining pitifully. “If I didn’t have a Sword Sect background, wouldn’t I be even more unworthy of you? You didn’t even help me subdue my Master!”
From those two words, “subdue,” it was clear that what Chixin Sword Lord had said was absolutely true; it was incredibly authentic. This person (Li Jin’an) was definitely not a good sort; there was nothing mischievous she couldn’t do.
“Your esteemed self could even ‘hate Xie Huaixue the most’ and bury Xie Huaixue’s books and erect a tombstone. How could you be unworthy of Xie Huaixue then? Your esteemed self is being too self-deprecating.”
Li Jin’an puffed out her cheeks, being targeted with sarcasm, yet couldn’t refute it, because she was genuinely guilty.
Due to a small interlude, Chixin Sword Lord quickly left and had left out many bad things Li Jin’an had done, including but not limited to Li Jin’an drawing incredibly ugly portraits of Xie Huaixue, secretly calling her ‘Xie Huaixue’ not because she was illiterate but intentionally giving Xie Huaixue a nickname, randomly picking an unlucky flower to listen to her badmouth Xie Huaixue, then mercilessly destroying the flower, pulling off a petal with each ‘bad person’ accusation…
Furthermore, the tombstone where those books were buried read: My undying devotion to Xie Huaixue (scratched out fiercely) — eternal enmity! This time, she really couldn’t spell.
All her various misdeeds were simply too numerous to count.
“Xie Huaixue, how could you be like this!” Li Jin’an, being the villain, was the first to accuse.
Xie Huaixue asked leisurely, “How so?”
Li Jin’an leaned closer and kissed her hair, her beautiful phoenix eyes gazing brilliantly at her, almost whispering, “How could I love you this much?”