Chapter 18

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

The small restriction in front of Qiong Ming Peak was like paper in Yan Yue’s eyes.

She originally didn’t want to destroy the restriction, but because she was filled with resentment towards An Lan, she still shattered the restriction with a punch.

Then, Yan Yue rode the wind and passed through the heavy stone doors of Qiong Ming Peak. She finally arrived in front of the small courtyard at the top of the mountain.

At this moment, the sky was about to brighten. Mist lingered, and clouds caused people to shut their eyes. The morning chicken that woke up late was still crowing.

Through the wooden wall that was as tall as a person, Yan Yue saw a young girl bending down to pour water into a wooden bucket.

Good lord.

“They sure seem to be living leisurely!”

When she thought of how her beloved disciple had been so angry that she sat under the Tree of Reflection for several days, the anger in Yan Yue’s heart rose even higher.

“Bai Lian!”

Yan Yue called out and walked into the courtyard with heavy steps. A terrifying whirlwind swept up around her body and her spiritual power leaked out a little.

Pop, pop, pop.

The ajar wooden door swayed back and forth in the wind.

Yan Yue had already thought of a countermeasure before coming.

Firstly, she had to suppress Bai Lian’s arrogance in one go.

Then, before the others could react, she would forcefully bring her back to Zhu Yan Peak and let her apologize in front of Wenren Yale. It would be best if she could make her cry.

At this moment, even if the sect master and the others rushed over after hearing the news, it would be too late.

At that time, what was done was already done!

The commotion outside the courtyard attracted the attention of the girl in the courtyard. She put down the wooden bucket and looked at the door nervously.

Who was it?

She was new here, and there weren’t many people she knew in the entire Immortal Du Sect.

Squeak.

The door was suddenly pushed open and Yan Yue walked in aggressively. She narrowed her eyes and shouted, “Bai Lian, why aren’t you coming over to pay your respects to me… Huh?”

Where was Bai Lian?

Looking at the unfamiliar girl standing in the courtyard, Yan Yue swallowed the words she had prepared in advance.

“Who are you?”

Xiao Jinse lowered her head slightly and bowed. “Senior, my name is Xiao Jinse.”

“Xiao Jinse?”

She had never heard of such a person.

Yan Yue curled her lips.

She first swept a glance at the neat courtyard, then checked Xiao Jinse’s cultivation. She was at the first level of the Qi Refinement realm, and her aptitude was surprisingly poor. It was definitely impossible for her to be a disciple of the Immortal Du Sect.

Suddenly, Yan Yue understood.

This woman named Xiao Jinse must have been captured by Bai Lian to do hard work!

Bai Lian?

More a pretentious schemer!

Who knew what kind of vicious thoughts were hidden under that beautiful appearance!

She was just like An Lan.

Heh, as expected of a disciple taught by An Lan!

Yan Yue snorted. Xiao Jinse was so scared that her body trembled. She was afraid that she would cause unnecessary trouble for Bai Lian if she didn’t handle it well.

Yan Yue hurriedly comforted the other party. “Don’t be afraid. I’m Yan Yue, the head of Zhu Yan Peak of the Immortal Du Sect. Tell me where Bai Lian is, and I guarantee that you won’t have any trouble! Well, not only won’t there be trouble, but she won’t dare to coerce you anymore from now on.”

“Coercion?”

Xiao Jinse’s mind was filled with question marks.

When had she been coerced by Senior Sister Bai?

Xiao Jinse realized that something was wrong after thinking about it. To be honest, before leaving the Xiao family, she had experienced this scene several times. This woman who called herself the head of Zhu Yan Peak was clearly here to find trouble!

Xiao Jinse gritted her teeth and said, “Senior Sister Bai has never threatened me, and I don’t know where Senior Sister Bai is.”

Yan Yue stared at Xiao Jinse for a long time before suddenly sighing. “Silly child, she ordered you around like this, but you still call her your senior sister. I really don’t know what she fed you.”

“…”

Xiao Jinse didn’t know how to explain to Yan Yue. She could only say, “Senior Sister Bai is very good to me.”

“Does being good to you mean getting you up early in the morning to do chores?”

Xiao Jinse explained, “I took the initiative to do this.”

What a scammer!

Yan Yue decided to ruthlessly expose the disguise of this pretentious schemer, Bai Lian.

She persuaded, “Did Bai Lian promise you that as long as you were obedient, she would help you cultivate?”

Xiao Jinse shook her head.

However, this couldn’t shake the righteous Yan Yue.

“What a silly child. Bai Lian is lying to you. With your aptitude…”

Yan Yue paused for a moment.

She couldn’t be too direct.

She forced a smile and tried her best to act like a “rich lady” who would generously say, “You don’t want to work? Don’t worry, I’ll support you.”

“As long as you’re willing to stand up and testify, I can take you in as a disciple.”

Xiao Jinse was confused. “Testify?”

Yan Yue said word by word, “I want you to expose Bai Lian!”

This voice was deafening, stunning Bai Lian, who had just reached the top of the mountain and had already broken through to the peak of the Foundation Establishment realm.

“What?”

After realizing that these were Yan Yue’s words, a chilling memory surged into Bai Lian’s heart.

She clearly remembered that there was a similar outcome in a certain storyline with Second Junior Sister…

Yan Yue, who didn’t get along with her master, took the opportunity to find trouble. Under Yan Yue’s interrogation, Xiao Jinse revealed everything that “Senior Sister Bai” had done to her.

After that, Bai Lian was done for!

After the five peaks meeting, Senior Sister Bai’s natural saint disguise was exposed, and her reputation quickly fell to rock bottom.

That day, snow fluttered and the north wind howled.

On that day, “Senior Sister Bai” was pulled onto the punishment platform to be displayed in public. Under the disdain of ten thousand people, “Senior Sister Bai” consumed the poison called “Immortal Breaking Pill”. No matter how she struggled, she still couldn’t escape the outcome of being corroded by the poison.

“Damn!”

Bai Lian was stunned.

The time didn’t match.

The plot in the game happened a year after Second Junior Sister joined Qiong Ming Peak. At that time, she had more or less already developed her relationship with Second Junior Sister.

But now…

She had only touched Second Junior Sister’s hand a few times, let alone do bad things to her.

Bai Lian was about to cry.

She needed to calm down. Now was not the time to panic.

She heard her second junior sister speak. Her second junior sister didn’t belittle her according to Yan Yue’s intentions. Instead, the other party changed her previous weak style and retorted Yan Yue fiercely.

“Even if you’re the head of Zhu Yan Peak, I won’t allow you to slander Senior Sister Bai!”

“?”

Yan Yue was stunned.

“Senior Sister Bai is very good to me. Thousands of people in the Immortal Du Sect all know this! It’s impossible for me to help you slander Senior Sister Bai!”

Yan Yue said, “Did Bai Lian threaten you…”

“Shut up!”

Xiao Jinse was very angry.

What a shameless old thief.

Others could belittle her, but she couldn’t tolerate others belittling Senior Sister Bai!

She spoke fiercely about how Bai Lian had brought her back from Green Mountain City.

“It was Senior Sister Bai who repaired my crippled spiritual root. It was Senior Sister Bai who gave me hope. It was Senior Sister Bai who kept comforting me, someone with extremely poor aptitude…”

Yan Yue charged over aggressively. Before she could say much, the other party was already yelling out at her. Although she vaguely felt that she had made a mistake, she was still very angry. She was so angry that she wanted to smash the seven-string zither.

Unfortunately, there was no zither here.

She could only say in a low voice, “Aren’t you afraid of me?”

Xiao Jinse straightened her neck. “Why should I be afraid?”

That stubbornness was really impressive, almost making Bai Lian cry.

Success, success!

She wasn’t bewitched by the system. It was indeed useful to treat her junior sister well.

Next, as long as she stopped thinking about doing anything to this second junior sister, the other party wouldn’t be a time bomb.

She needed to set an example and start caring for her junior sister!

However…

The road was still long.

As long as An Lan kept bringing new women back to Qiong Ming Peak, Bai Lian’s trouble was far from over.

The few junior sisters that had yet to arrive were much harder to deal with than this second junior sister.

Yan Yue took a deep breath and said, “Forget it, I won’t hide it anymore. I came today to avenge my disciple!”

Xiao Jinse nodded. The fox tail was revealed!

“Your disciple is?”

“Wenren Yale!”

Xiao Jinse was silent. It was that person.

“Heh.” Yan Yue fiercely explained Wenren Ya’s current situation and came to a conclusion. “This is all Bai Lian’s fault!”

Bai Lian, who was listening, felt her teeth hurt.

She remembered that Yan Yue was extremely protective.

She finally understood why all the mission rewards for Wenren Yale were very rich. If she provoked Wenren Yale, she would have offended Yan Yue. How could the rewards not be rich?

In addition, Wenren Yayue was an especially awkward person. By comforting her, it was even possible that Bai Lian would cause a backlash…

“I’m really speechless!”

Bai Lian was about to crack. If An Lan was here, she would definitely shout, “Master, save me!”

As Xiao Jinse and Yan Yue faced each other, new mission options appeared in front of Bai Lian.

[Mission 1: Sect Master, please uphold justice (Mission Reward: Top-grade Dharma artifact, Dawn Sword Array)]

[Mission 2: Appear immediately (Mission Reward: Spirit Grass Dragon Leaving Grass)]

[Mission 3: Watch coldly (Mission Reward: Spell-Flight)]

Choosing one or three was equivalent to temporarily pushing all the pressure to Second Junior Sister.

At this moment, Bai Lian couldn’t do such a thing. No matter how she considered it, she shouldn’t leave her second junior sister alone.

Then she could only choose option two.

Bai Lian walked out calmly, as if she was casually strolling.

“Aunt-Master Yan, you’re looking for me?”

[Mission completed. Mission reward, Dragon Leaving Grass]

Xiao Jinse and Yan Yue turned around at the same time.

Bai Lian!

Yan Yue’s gaze fluctuated. If one only looked at appearance, Bai Lian was definitely far from being a bad person.

She said, “You’ve finally appeared. Now, it’s time to settle the score for bullying Ya Le.”

At most, she would be beaten up.

No matter how bold Yan Yue was, she didn’t dare to kill her. Being beaten up by Yan Yue wasn’t anything embarrassing.

Bai Lian planned to follow this aura and say a few harsh words to increase her Junior Sister’s favorability, but Xiao Jinse spoke before her. “To think you’re still the head of Zhu Yan Peak. You’re actually so unreasonable!”

Yan Yue said, “How am I unreasonable?”

Xiao Jinse said, “It was clearly Wenren Yale who took the initiative to provoke Senior Sister Bai. Not only did Senior Sister Bai not ridicule her, but she even stood up for her when others mocked her for overestimating herself. Now that you’ve come to find trouble with Senior Sister Bai, isn’t this unreasonable?”

Yan Yue opened her mouth.

Xiao Jinse continued, “If you don’t believe me, you can go and ask a few people at the scene.”

“…”

She…

Yan Yue no longer suspected that Xiao Jinse was lying. She would know after investigating.

But facing An Lan’s two disciples, she couldn’t bring herself to admit her mistake at all. If it weren’t for the sake of fighting for justice, she wouldn’t have fallen out with An Lan so badly.

In short…

“Since you’re so confident, come back to Zhu Yan Peak with me to confront Ya Le.”

Bai Lian nodded and said, “As you wish, Aunt-Master.”

She could tell that Yan Yue wasn’t bad by nature. Otherwise, the mission reward for mocking Wenren Ya’er wouldn’t be a high-grade magic weapon, but a high-grade spiritual weapon.

This Aunt-Master sure was a little arrogant and delicate.

After all, she was the daughter of the previous sect master.