CH 83.1

Chapter 083: Reunion

There are some dried yellow leaves on the bluestone stairs. Su Tingyun is a little careless and steps on these dead leaves. In the silent night, they could still make crisp crunching noises.

The Soul Lamp in her hand is covered with rust, with a gloomy green glow. In this still night, it appears like a phosphorous fire jumping on a grave, looking eerie.

She appeared too suddenly, making Fang Dingyuan very nervous. He pinches a finger, and quickly kicks a stone with his toes, which lands on a seemingly ordinary stone crevice. For an instant, the tree’s shadow moves. Borrowing the power of heaven and earth, the sun and moon, a formation activates.

At the same time, a small paper kite flies out of his sleeve, the current emergency signal of the Qiankun Array Hall. This signal flies into the sky, calling all the cultivators in closed-door training to come out and defend against the enemy together.

These days, those outside cultivators are only interested in fighting for the formation diagram in the Array Hall. Back then, everal elders were injured trying to protect the diagram. Now, he too will protect it even if he has to throw his life away.

The kite takes to the air and explodes with a bang. Like a meteor bursting all over the place, countless rays of light and shadow shoot out from the dark mountain in an instant, and one of them shouts: “Who’s there, how dare you break into the Array Hall!”

“What’s going on?!”

The silence of the night is shattered by an angry shout. As she sees the line of people before her, Su Tingyun doesn’t continue further with the soul-drawing lamp.

She recognizes Li Xinmei’s master Ning Xuzi at a glance. He hasn’t changed much, he’s still fat.

Su Tingyun carefully secures the lamp in one hand, then she takes out a jade token in her other hand, flashing it in front of them, “I’ve come on the behest of the pavilion master of Qianji Pavilion, I hope you’re all well.”

Back then, Qianji Pavilion rescued the Array Hall, and they were all grateful. Now that they could see the jade token, they understand how this person came in.

Ning Xuzi turns his head to look at Fang Dingyuan. This child is good, but he is a bit too impulsive. He made a move without confirming the situation. Fortunately, she stopped– another step forward, and she would have fallen into maze.

Ning Xuzi knows that although Fang Dingyuan’s cultivation base is still a little lacking, his formation skills are extremely high. Ning Xuzi signals with his eyes, telling him to deactivate the formation himself, so that they would not waste more time.

Fang Dingyuan looks Su Tingyun over, again and again, and feels that she’s a little familiar, but couldn’t remember where they’ve met. He deactivates the formation and apologizes. As soon as he returns to the diagram, he finds that the light spots on the formation are flickering, and that there’s something going on with Li Xinmei.

On the other hand, Ning Xuzi hurriedly comes over, “Has this benefactor come to visit so late at night to talk?”

Su Tingyun coughs twice in embarrassment. She is currently in a hurry, and she doesn’t want to discuss it with others. After apologizing to Ning Xuzi, she moves towards the formation diagram, but Fang Dingyuan is watching closely. Even if it’s their benefactor coming closer, he refuses to let her take a step forward. Instead, he glares at Su Tingyun, as if saying that he would break her legs if she comes any closer.

Just then, he hears Li Xinmei’s voice, “Granny.”

No one else in the Array Hall knows that Li Xinmei’s primordial spirit is still hidden in this diagram, and everyone is shocked to hear a woman’s weak voice.

Su Tingyun’s eyes suddenly grow hot. With a palm, she pushes away the boy that’s in her way. She walks towards that formation diagram and touches it a few times, “Xiao Mei, are you in there?”

“Granny.” Li Xinmei never imagined that her granny is still alive.  She looks much younger than before, appearing to be in her thirties, but she recognizes her at a glance.

She stands there holding the lamp, her body seems to be glowing, and a warmth floods into Li Xinmei’s heart, nourishing her primordial spirit.

Everything she did before was not in vain.

Granny is still alive.

“Granny…” There’s already the tone of weeping in this voice.

Hearing Li Xinmei’s voice, Fang Dingyuan is dumbfounded. He is tall and buff. As his eyes unfocus, he looks like an idiot, a towering buffoon. As if he doesn’t possess eyes with golden light that could give people insight (formation eyes), he seems as stupid as a gorilla.

The person he’s just been fiercely glaring at is the Granny that Xiao Mei often talked about, her closest relative. It’s over. Has he left a bad impression on Granny?