SQLJBFDTW Chapter 23

It turned out to be a letter for help.

Hua Ze said that his important junior apprentice had been kidnapped and disappeared at the Youmeng Sanqiandu ferry. However, this matter concerned the privacy of his junior apprentice, so it was not appropriate to ask the elders of the Huan Yao Sect to handle it. Therefore, he wanted to ask Yu Wei for help.

Chao Jianxue and Yu Wei looked at each other in dismay. He wondered, “Are you very familiar with him?”

Yu Wei shook his head: “Just a glimpse at the Shuiyue Valley last time.”

“Then why is he looking for you?”

Yu Wei also showed a troubled expression.

“Hey, isn’t this simple?” Nan Shan said, “It must be that among our peers, only our Junior Apprentice Yu Wei has high cultivation, excellent character, and is the most reliable. If they want to hide it from their own sect, of course, they have to find disciples from other sects. If it were me, I would also look for you!”

“Junior Apprentice Yu Wei…” Chao Jianxue trembled three times.

Qiu Shui also squeezed over: “However, that is the Youmeng Sanqiandu. When you look at this place name, don’t you feel a sense of excitement?”

Yu Wei folded the letter, but still felt it was inappropriate: “This matter should be handled by the Huan Yao Sect’s own disciples.”

“That’s hard to say! Little Junior Apprentice, saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda. Are you really not going to take a look?” Qiu Shui pleaded.

She was bored in the sect, and it seemed that she could only sneak out to play while the master was in seclusion.

“Are you really going? When the master comes out of seclusion, he will definitely scold you for being greedy for fun!” At the critical moment, Nan Shan’s sanity still remained, trying to pull her back.

Chao Jianxue was also uninterested. Looking for someone, it was obviously a chore.

The wind picked up, and he shook his cloak, thinking about going back to Qingxue Zhu to take a nap, and then figure out how to prevent Yu Wei from continuing to improve.

Is this speed of progress still human?

Behind him, Qiu Shui was still pestering him, threatening to detain him and not let him leave if Yu Wei did not agree.

However, just as he stepped into the door of Qingxue Zhu, something flashed in Chao Jianxue’s peripheral vision. He stepped back again.

It was a gray sparrow, holding a note in its mouth.

“Youmeng Sanqiandu, Thousand Miles Sword.”

Chao Jianxue rubbed the note in his palm in a flash.

He looked around, but there was no one. He opened it again and took a closer look. It was clearly the three words “Thousand Miles Sword”.

Wasn’t the Thousand Miles Sword snatched away by the demon cultivator that day?

Did the person who wrote this note know that he had cultivated the Thousand Miles Heart-to-Heart?

On the Guanyue Terrace, Qiu Shui was tearful, saying “I haven’t been down the mountain for decades, and people are going to get moldy”, “I’m so young, Qiu Shui is going to turn into stagnant water” and so on.

She was actually about to cry.

Chao Jianxue returned, joining her and saying, “Why don’t we go and take a look? People have already sent it to you. Where is cultivation not cultivation? Isn’t it said that Youmeng Sanqiandu is like spring all year round? It’s quite cold here.”

Yu Wei frowned slightly, still hesitating.

Qiu Shui immediately stopped crying, and stood close to Chao Jianxue affectionately: “You see, Senior Brother also said so, let’s just go and play, okay, Junior Apprentice!”

Chao Jianxue nodded like a chicken pecking rice.

For the sake of the Thousand Miles Sword, he had to go and take a look.

Yu Wei finally relented: “But we must leave one person in the sect.”

“I’ll stay.” Nan Shan smacked his lips and said, “You’d better go and come back quickly. This year is a big year, and it would be best to make it in time for the sect’s New Year’s Eve dinner.”

The Xuanzhen Realm has a major year every fifty years, with a reunion dinner once every major year, which is quite unique.

Yu Wei nodded, agreeing. Qiu Shui screamed, and immediately flew to her room to pack her luggage. Chao Jianxue also put on his fox fur cloak and quickly went down the stone steps, disappearing in a short while.

Nan Shan looked at their backs, and then looked at the bubbling hot soup on the table, shaking his head like an old man: “I didn’t expect the most mature and steady person in the entire sect to be my Second Senior Brother.”

Inside Qingxue Zhu, the two pear trees in the courtyard were tightly close together, and thin snow had already hung on the branches.

Chao Jianxue had just packed his bags and went out when Li Zhenzhen came to talk to him again.

Since they recognized each other, they had to meet every now and then. Being a stranger in a foreign land, they were closer than relatives.

Hearing that they were going to Xizhou, especially after learning that Yu Wei was also going, Li Zhenzhen rubbed his hands together: “Take me with you! Good Xuexue, good brother!”

He called out disgustingly, and Chao Jianxue playfully kicked him in the butt: “Can I stop you? It’s even better if you, a Yuan Ying master, come along!”

“You don’t know yet—” Just as he was about to say that Yu Wei’s cultivation had improved abnormally, he saw Yu Wei standing at the entrance of Qingxue Zhu in the blink of an eye, so he naturally stopped talking.

Li Zhenzhen couldn’t hide his fawning nature, and said with a flattering smile: “Junior Apprentice Yu, let me go with you!”

Yu Wei’s gaze fell on Chao Jianxue: “When did Senior Brother and Senior Brother Li become so close?”

So he had seen their previous playfulness. Li Zhenzhen did not hide it: “Yes, yes, we got acquainted when you were in seclusion. I often come to visit.”

Hearing these words, Yu Wei’s clear eyes dimmed slightly, but it was fleeting. He nodded: “Thank you, Senior Brother Li, for joining us.”

The few people agreed to meet at Qingxue Zhu.

Chao Jianxue felt it was too cold and invited them in to wait. It was Qiu Shui’s first time entering this Senior Brother’s inner room, and she was immediately dazzled by the glittering gold and jewels inside, wandering around and pondering.

Chao Jianxue and Yu Wei sat opposite each other and drank tea.

After a few months of cultivation, Chao Jianxue had also learned many small spells, such as making tea automatically heat up, lighting fires in the air, and other life tips, showing off well in front of Yu Wei.

He blinked, signaling Yu Wei to drink quickly. The latter obediently took a sip.

Chao Jianxue asked: “Is there anything different?”

Yu Wei: “Tea.”

Chao Jianxue: “Isn’t it just right to drink? Isn’t the temperature just right? Look at this pot, it’s cold.”

Yu Wei was silent for a moment, and a smile appeared on the corner of his lips: “Yes, Senior Brother’s temperature control skills are very advanced.”

Chao Jianxue was satisfied and picked up a cup to drink, but he didn’t control it well because he was too complacent, and it was too hot, so he sprayed it out immediately.

He smiled awkwardly, changing the subject: “Why hasn’t Senior Brother Zhenzhen come yet?”

“I’m coming, I’m coming!” Senior Brother Zhenzhen appeared in response. The door opened, and there was a drag oil bottle next to him.

He gave Chao Jianxue a painful look of being stuck.

Xie Bingyuan looked sincere: “I heard Senior Brother Zhenzhen said you were going to Youmeng Sanqiandu, and I want to go too.”

It could be seen that the snow scene all over the sky had suffocated everyone.

Adding one more person is just adding one more person on the road.

The five people set off like elementary school students on a spring outing, chattering non-stop. To be precise, Qiu Shui, Li Zhenzhen, and Chao Jianxue were more chattering. Xie Bingyuan and Yu Wei were relatively calm. These two people were the youngest.

This time, they still used the sect’s teleportation array. Because the distance was long, they stayed in the white teleportation array for a while.

Chao Jianxue complained to Li Zhenzhen in the jade card communication: “It’s like a bug.”

Li Zhenzhen said: “I think this teleportation array is quite like an elevator. If someone comes to sit before foundation building, they will feel sick.”

The two looked at each other and smiled, as if they were close friends.

Yu Wei stood next to Chao Jianxue, taking in the expressions of the two, and immediately understood that they were quietly transmitting sound with jade cards.

His already dignified expression became even more dignified, but if someone was interested, they would notice the slightly downward-turned corners of his lips.

The white light faded away. When they opened their eyes again, the fragrance came to their faces, and the spring flowers were blooming. One tree after another of purple cherry trees grew at the ferry, the petals fluttering in the wind, and the grass was growing and the orioles were flying.

Qiu Shui was the first to jump out like a monkey, wishing she could lie on the grass and roll a few times.

The few people were not wearing sect disciple uniforms, and soon mingled with the tourists, also becoming passers-by admiring the spring.

Only when they saw it with their own eyes did they know that Youmeng Sanqiandu was not a false name. Just being in it was a miasma of fragrance, drifting for ten miles without stopping, and there was also music coming from nowhere, wisps and strands, as if from another world in a dream.

The five people took a small boat and urged their spiritual power to float. After passing the Zima Bridge, they saw Youmeng City and went to the Huan Yao Sect to find Hua Ze first.

The Huan Yao Sect disciple guarding the door did not ask much, but nodded knowingly, took the letter and went inside.

After a while, Hua Ze came out, gratefully pulling them to the Xianghua Mengli Building in the city.

The building was as its name suggested. It was the first time for the five people to come to such a place of romance. Even Qiu Shui, who had been eager to try before, blushed. Before entering the door, she was touched on the face a few times by a pretty sister.

Before stepping into the building, Yu Wei resisted: “Fellow Daoist Hua, let’s find another place.”

With him speaking, Xie Bingyuan and Qiu Shui were relieved, and each pulled their own senior brothers back.

Hua Ze looked regretfully at the gorgeously decorated pavilion, and finally took them to sit down in a teahouse.

It was said to be a teahouse, but it was completely different from the small stalls and shops in other places. From the lintel to the threshold, it revealed a delicate style up and down. It was covered with flowers everywhere, and the curtains were also made of bamboo, with irises and other flowers and leaves painted on them in vermilion.

Speaking of which, which shop or house in this entire Youmeng City is not exquisite? At first glance, you can only see two words: romance, and then look deeply, you see two words: rich!

In this kind of inexplicable atmosphere, everyone seemed a lot restrained.

Hua Ze skillfully asked someone to serve tea and snacks, and began to explain the cause and effect of the matter.

It turned out that Hua Ze’s close junior apprentice had been taken away by a friend using magic three days ago, and there was no news so far. As for why this matter was difficult to talk to the master, the so-called “friend” was actually a dual cultivation friend.

Although the Huan Yao Sect regarded dual cultivation as a normal cultivation path, the masters always warned their disciples to have love without affection, and they had to solve the emotional debts they caused themselves. The masters would not come forward.

This dual cultivation friend of Junior Apprentice Hua was from another sect, and it would not be good to make a big fanfare to find them.

Therefore, he thought of asking Yu Wei and the others to help.

Chao Jianxue thought that it was not a big deal. Maybe it was a couple eloping?

Yu Wei nodded: “Is there a portrait?”

“Yes.”

He took out a scroll from his sleeve, and a few people leaned their heads together to look. The person in the painting looked five points like Hua Ze, but was more mature.

Chao Jianxue asked: “Does that girl have a portrait?”

“What girl?” Hua Ze was stunned, and then reacted, laughing and said, “This fellow daoist misunderstood. My junior apprentice’s friend is a man, and there is no portrait, but he is a dan cultivator.”

Chao Jianxue: “…” Your circle plays pretty wildly.

But seeing that the expressions of the people around him were not abnormal, and it seemed that he was the only one surprised, Chao Jianxue also pretended to be accustomed to it and nodded steadily.

After drinking the tea, Hua Ze agreed to meet them near the Zima Bridge where Junior Apprentice Hua disappeared at midnight, and temporarily separated.

They were not in a hurry to settle down and strolled leisurely in Youmeng City. They happened to meet a cultivator who painted portraits, so they sat down and asked to be painted.

The portrait was drawn quickly, with the five people in the same frame. Chao Jianxue and Li Zhenzhen sat in the front row, and the remaining three people stood behind, leaning against the big purple cherry tree, with occasional petals falling on them.

Chao Jianxue sat upright, posing with a very serious smile, and the corners of his eyes twitched from smiling, and the painting was finished.

The five people took it over and saw that it was painted with spiritual power. The portrait could actually move. The ink-wash version of the five people had fluttering clothes, which was very stylish.

Xie Bingyuan plucked up his courage and said, “I want to draw a picture with Senior Brother Yu!”

Yu Wei nodded in agreement.

Qiu Shui said: “I want it too, I want it too!”

Li Zhenzhen said: “I want it too, I want it too!”

Chao Jianxue: “…”

Yu Wei’s eyes paused on his face, as if waiting for something, but Chao Jianxue ignored him and walked directly to the portrait painter.

He stood next to the portrait painter and watched him paint.

In the picture, Yu Wei had a decent, light smile throughout the whole process, like a human-shaped standing sign, without any movement at all.

Swish swish swish—

The three people finished painting in turn, all holding their beloved paintings and admiring them non-stop.

Finally, the portrait painter asked: “Do you two want to draw a picture together?”

Chao Jianxue looked at Yu Wei. Yu Wei was still standing under the purple cherry tree without moving. The broken shadows of the tree fell on his face, quiet like a hazy dream of past years.