It was a silent, cloudless night with bright stars and a bright moon.
On the top floor of the Stargazing Pavilion in Brilliance City, on the open-air platform, Si Xuanji, wearing an extravagant dress several times longer than her, sat on the couch with her legs stretched straight, looking up at the starry sky.
Thousands of stars were captured by her yin-and-yang eyes at this moment.
Since the beginning of the war between the immortals and the demonic cultivators, she had been looking at the star chessboard. How many immortals fell, how many demonic cultivators turned into dust, all reflected in her eyes through this chessboard in the sky.
There were also several descendants of the immortals who were originally unknown but had made great contributions in the Eastern Region war.
The Beast Tamer Sect, Hundred Cries Sect, and Shadow Tiger Sect also had sent countless jade slips, praising those people, intending to draw Si Xuanji's attention to them.
After all, she was the leader of the Black Star Sect.
Who among the sect leaders in the Western Region wouldn't want to send their disciples to her as apprentices or give them opportunities?
However, even though the people they recommended might be the best among the cultivators of the young generation, none of them caught her eye.
Xuanji was very picky.
Mr. Qi was still the most accurate judge of people. The Young Master of the Hundred Lotus Sect that he had recommended to her was so good...
He could destroy so many demonic cultivators, break through the Heavenly Sorrow City, and sleep with her for three months without stopping...
Si Xuanji pursed her cat-like lips and looked at the dark star surrounded by the two stars, "Heavenly Pivot" and "Heavenly Demon". A hint of longing appeared in her yin-and-yang eyes.
In the past, a month was nothing more than a blink of an eye for her, but now that she had a cultivation partner, the days when her cultivation partner was not by her side were like years.
Si Xuanji rubbed her belly and felt that she had overestimated her patience.
After all, this was the first time she had a cultivation partner, and she had no experience.
She thought that since Young Master Ye had 'fed' her well before, she could starve for a year or two, but after just a few months, the little tiger's stomach started growling again.
I really want to have sex with Ye Anping...
"Sigh..."
Si Xuanji lowered her head and looked at Xiao Yunluo who was massaging her feet.
Seeing that she was also absent-minded, she shook her head slightly and turned to look behind her.
With a face full of reluctance, Pei Lianxue pinched her shoulders with all her strength as if she wanted to bruise her.
Seeing her extremely awkward expression, Si Xuanji pouted. "Are you so reluctant to massage my shoulders and back?"
Pei Lianxue pouted back and complained. "Well, I am. I want to find my brother..."
"I understand that you want to find your brother, but why did you recklessly bring Yunluo and the other five into the Deep Dark Sect and mess around?"
"...Well, I didn't mess around. I chopped off the leader of Deep Dark Sect... Ouch!"
Si Xuanji frowned and flicked her forehead. Perhaps because she felt that Pei Lianxue's forehead was hard, she flicked it hard, and a puff of green smoke popped out.
Although Si Xuanji knew that Pei Lianxue was quite strong, and the leader of the Deep Dark Sect was unlikely to make things difficult for her, it was an entire demonic sect after all.
Pei Lianxue's move to take Xiao Yunluo into the Deep Dark Sect was still risky.
After all, the fact that Pei Lianxue and the others succeeded was partly due to luck.
If Zhou Minghe had not underestimated the enemy at the beginning, Pei Lianxue and the others would probably have been trapped in the Deep Dark Sect, isolated and helpless. Not to mention dying, they would at least be seriously injured.
Ye Anping entrusted Pei Lianxue to her. If Pei Lianxue accidentally got hurt, she would have a hard time explaining to Ye Anping.
This little girl was so important in Ye Anping's heart that even she couldn't compare to her.
Come to think of it, she was a little jealous.
However, she was not a petty person.
Xuanji the Great Warrior had a broad mind and didn't want to compete for favor with a bunch of little girls...
"Sooner or later, you're going to see your brother, why are you so anxious?"
Pei Lianxue rubbed her forehead and answered, "But the Second Idiot followed him. What if the Second Idiot has bad intentions towards him, won't my brother be at a disadvantage?"
"What if I also have ill intentions towards your brother?"
Pei Lianxue frowned and glared at Si Xuanji, clenching her fists. "Then, I'll have to beat you up later."
"Why not now?"
"I can't beat you now... I'll beat you up when I can."
Bang—
"Ouch!"
Si Xuanji flicked her head again before gently grabbing and tugging her cheeks. "Then, I will wait for that day."
"Woo..."
Pei Lianxue puffed up her cheeks in frustration, like a little girl who had many ups and downs over time, with determination burning in her eyes.
Xiao Yunluo, who was massaging her master's feet, listened to their conversation, sweating silently.
A burst of hurried footsteps came.
A servant of the He family rushed in from outside the pavilion and shouted happily. "My Lord, the Eldest Lady is back!!"
He Buqun frowned and narrowed his eyes. "Who?"
The servant paled in fear when he saw this look. He bowed and changed his words. "The Young Master..."
Swish—
Before he finished speaking, a blood light swept across his neck, and the servant's head fell off.
Still frowning, He Buqun ordered the servants waiting on both sides. "Drag him to the Alchemy Hall to refine him in blood pills! That's what happens to people who speak nonsense."
"Yes, Master..."
The two servants ran out tremblingly, one holding the head and the other carrying the body.
As they ran out, a slender man with a head in his hand stepped into the room and looked at the servant who had been beheaded. His sword-like eyebrows and star-like eyes remained emotionless and extremely sharp.
This man was He Buqun's eldest "son", He Qingjiao, who was in the late stage of the Nascent Soul.
Because only men could practice the secret method of the He family, He Buqun actually wanted to use her to make pills when she was born, but her aptitude was too good.
Compared with her, He Buqun's other two sons, He Jiming and He Jifeng were worlds apart.
Therefore, He Buqun kept her but gave her a male name and made her pretend to be a man in public.
He Qingjiao walked into the room and threw the head in her hand on He Buqun's desk with a look of disdain. "Father, your son is back."
"Hmm..." He Buqun looked down at the head and saw that it was the leader of the Dark North Sect. He stroked his beard and nodded with satisfaction. "With the late Nascent Soul stage, you can easily kill a Deification cultivator... Qingjiao, you are much better than your two useless brothers."
"Heh... Thank you for the compliment, Father. If there is nothing else, I will go back to my room to condense my energy."
"Wait a minute."
He Qingjiao had just turned around and stopped again as if she felt very bored, and she walked back. "Is there any news about Sister Gu?"
"...Sister Gu? You still call her Sister? She betrayed our sect and is no longer your Junior Sister."
He Qingjiao narrowed her eyes slightly. "Father, I have said this many times. I know Sister Gu's temper, and I don't believe she betrayed us."
"But Jiming died in her hands. He was your third brother."
"My third brother always provoked her, it's no wonder he was killed. If Sister Gu is accused of treason just because she killed him, please forgive me for not being able to accept it."
"..."
"Also... I went to see He Jiming's body. He died from a toxic parasite, which doesn't seem to be Sister Gu style. If Sister Gu did it, he should have been chopped into pieces of meat, instead of his upper body exploding and leaving only the lower body behind."
He Qingjiao looked at He Buqun with sharp eyes, as if questioning him.
Under her gaze, He Buqun was silent for a while, then simply stopped pretending and said bluntly, "Qingjiao, then I will be frank with you. Gu Mingxin is indeed not a traitor. I framed her for this crime. However, she was the one who killed He Jiming..."
He Qingjiao seemed to have expected this already, just waiting for her father to say it. Without any emotion on her face, she just asked, "Why?"
"As long as she was in the Heavenly Demon Sect, you would never be accepted as a direct disciple by the Supreme Lord of Hell."
"Heh... pointless."
He Qingjiao raised her head, squinting at her father. "In the Heavenly Demon Sect, she's the only one I acknowledge. I wanted to fight her after she formed her Nascent Soul. I can get the position of the Patriarch's direct disciple by killing her in the sword duel."
"Qingjiao, I know your temper. If you really can't find an opponent, why don't you find someone from the Immortal Family to fight?"
"Heh... Immortals?" He Qingjiao sneered at the head on the table. "The leader of the Dark North Sect, an early-stage Deification cultivator, only lasted one hundred and twenty moves before I finished him off..."
"Qingjiao, don't be too arrogant."
He Qingjiao spread her hands. "I'm just stating the facts."
"Then, why don't you go directly to the Black Star Sect and kill the old woman Red Moon? "
"Wait a few years to reach the Deification stage, and I might as well give it a try."
"Hmph..."
He Buqun snorted coldly, thinking that this girl was ignorant, but he didn't say much. He just took out a scroll from the side and threw it to her. "Alright, go and bring me the heads of these two girls."
He Qingjiao spread out the scroll and saw two somewhat abstract portraits drawn on it. One of them was ordinary-looking, and the other seemed to have a pair of dragon horns. Curious, she asked, "Who are they?"
"The one with horns is the Young Miss of the Black Star Sect, and the other one without horns is called 'Liang Xiaoxue'. Not long ago, the two of them with four or five disciples of the Black Star Sect went straight to the Deep Dark Sect and killed all the Elders. According to the news, Liang Xiaoxue's spiritual sword is the original spiritual sword of Immortal Yun Jian from back then... So she should also be Patriarch Yun Tianchong's successor. "
"Yun Tianchong? Isn't he the castrated leader of the Moon Shadow Sword Sect? I heard that he conquered Heavenly Sorrow City alone, and I wanted to find him to fight..."
"Hehe... If you look down on others, you will suffer a big loss sooner or later."
"Heh..." He Qingjiao sneered. "But it sounds like there is something behind it. I don't know if he's really that powerful or just exaggerated."
He Qingjiao bowed to He Buqun, put the scroll back into the storage bag, and turned around, leaving the pavilion.
He Buqun seemed to remember something and added, "Qingjiao!! Go to the Heavenly Demon Palace and tell the Patriarch that you killed Chen Mingfeng."
"..."
However, there was no response. He Buqun smacked his lips slightly and sighed, but didn't say much. He continued to analyze the battle situation.