Chapter 127
Next, the Five Elements Immortal Jade Essence appeared as an auction item. After Song Pianxian called out a price, surprisingly, no one competed with her, as if the priceless treasure placed above was not worth mentioning.
Even if someone couldn’t help but make a sound, before the words were spoken, they were firmly covered by their companions:
“Is the Essence important or is life important!”
Because everyone present was silent, the originally small voice reached everyone’s ears.
…
The scene became quieter than ever.
The auctioneer held the small golden hammer, his expression complex, but he didn’t dare to say a word, let alone shout to urge people to bid higher.
Yu Yi rubbed the mustard seed ring between her fingers, raised the amount of spiritual stones, and completed the transaction at the proper price.
The remaining process naturally had no more flaws.
The demonic cultivator was originally a transformed beast. The auctioneer who was handing over the items, in order to please the customers, held a demonic beast bag and sternly ordered the Sea-disturbing Snake to transform back and stay inside.
This auctioneer was only at the Golden Core stage, far inferior to the demonic cultivator. It was a great humiliation for the demonic cultivator to reveal its true form at the auctioneer’s command. But who made the demonic cultivator now be restrained by the God-Locking Chain, with no cultivation at all?
Yu Yi watched coldly, seeing the demonic cultivator gritting its teeth and refusing to yield. The God-Locking Chain in the auctioneer’s hand suddenly tightened, leaving deep purple bruises on the demonic cultivator’s fair neck. The demonic cultivator curled up in pain, seeming to have no choice but to give in—
“No need.”
A clear and cold voice sounded.
The auctioneer quickly loosened the force, not daring to ask more questions, and bowed to Yu Yi:
“Yes.”
Song Pianxian, who had just opened her mouth halfway, stopped. She looked at Yu Yi with a trace of surprise in her eyebrows and eyes, but more of it was relief.
Yu Yi couldn’t bear to see others suffer, especially this little girl whose dignity was being trampled upon.
Thinking of Yu Yi’s sudden cold attitude, Song Pianxian thought, perhaps… Yu Yi considers herself and others, seeing the demonic cultivator in such a state when “losing cultivation,” perhaps there is some hidden personal pain.
Thinking of this, Song Pianxian’s gaze towards Yu Yi softened even more.
Yu Yi seemed to sense something, grasping the God-Locking Chain of the demonic cultivator and then looking back.
“Let’s go, we’re going back.”
When Song Pianxian said this sentence, it was surprisingly gentle, even she was somewhat surprised. She even worried whether Yu Yi could hear it.
Yu Yi nodded gently, her cold expression regaining a lively color, her smile pure, beautiful, and clean.
Only then did Song Pianxian feel relieved. She turned back and continued to hand over the Five Elements Immortal Jade Essence with the people at the auction.
Behind her, Yu Yi tightened her grip on the God-Locking Chain.
She raised her long eyelashes and glanced at the demonic cultivator behind her.
“Follow behind me, don’t wander.”
The demonic cultivator hesitated and nodded. She looked at the girl in front of her and said in a hoarse, dry voice:
“Thank you.”
This cultivator was the first to take care of her during this time.
Yu Yi’s finger, reflected beside the dark chain, paused.
“No need to thank me.”
But this sentence seemed to have the opposite effect; gratitude filled the face of the demonic cultivator.
Yu Yi simply stopped looking at her.
Thank her?
What’s there to thank her for?
She just told this snake not to wander.
Don’t disobey and get close to her like a puppet.
Including just now speaking up, it was only because she wanted to speak before Song Pianxian.
Yu Yi looked at Song Pianxian’s slender figure, her long eyelashes drooping, casting a long, narrow shadow over her expression.
Song Pianxian shouldn’t care about these things; she should just look at herself.
As she was about to put the Five Elements Immortal Jade Essence into her storage bracelet and leave, there was another incident.
A female cultivator in bright robes suddenly left her fellow cultivators and walked over, heading straight for Yu Yi, smiling before speaking:
“Yu Yi, it’s really you.”
“Well, I heard you woke up. I came back from Zhendu Province to see you. Unexpectedly, you weren’t at Lingyun Sect waiting for me to come, so I came out for a stroll, and luckily ran into you.”
“After so many years apart and encountering such sudden changes, I feel relieved now that you have a puppet.”
As the female cultivator spoke, she handed Yu Yi a storage ring:
“It was originally bought for you. Now I don’t have to make a trip to Lingyun Sect. It’s perfect; I can accompany my uncle on this trip.”
Yu Yi was handed a storage ring in a casual manner. She pursed her lips and accepted Lu Yi’s gift.
“Yeah, it’s been many years,” Yu Yi sighed.
Lu Yi is the daughter of the Valley Master of the Earth Sect Feifeng Valley. Although Feifeng Valley is only a sect of the Earth level, its various industries are extremely prosperous. Apart from a slight shortage of top-level cultivators compared to the Four Great Sects, it is not lacking in anything, and even surpasses the other three sects slightly.
Both of them were daughters who stood at the pinnacle of the cultivation world from birth. In their childhood, they were innocent and carefree, so it was normal for them to be playmates.
Lu Yi is sincere and has always been like this.
Even in the previous life, when she was bound in a secret room of Lingyun Sect, she heard that Lu Yi came to look for her.
Lingyun Sect blocked her words, saying Yu Yi refused to see her. Lu Yi waited in Lingyun Sect for seven days, leaving behind the storage ring before finally leaving.
Qu Xirong listed the treasures from the storage ring in front of the imprisoned Yu Yi, speaking softly, praising, letting her see clearly one by one, and then satisfyingly putting them away in her sleeve.
The second time Qu Xirong mentioned Lu Yi to her, she said that Lu Yi and her elders went to a secret realm in Tianfeng Province and did not return, perishing inside the secret realm.
Yu Yi put away the storage ring, looking at her friend whom she hadn’t seen in many years, her expression relaxing, about to smile at Lu Yi.
But at this moment, Lu Yi looked at Song Pianxian with curiosity.
“So this is the puppet left by Aunt Qu? Wow, it’s really nice. Your surname is Song? Ms. Song, I’ve heard a lot about you.”
“…”.
Yu Yi’s nascent smile vanished instantly.
The next moment, she squinted and put on a professional fake smile, “Her name is Song Pianxian, you can call her Elder Song.”
Before Lu Yi could ask again, Yu Yi turned and asked, “Where are you going with your uncle?”
“Ah, we’re going to Tianfeng Province. The Tianfeng Association is about to open, it’s going to be lively. Aren’t you coming?”
In Yu Yi’s heart, there arose a premonition about Tianfeng Province.
“We also need to find some spiritual herbs,” Yu Yi brushed it off simply, not mentioning what the herbs were for in the auction realm.
Lu Yi sighed deeply, “Well, in that case, who knows when we’ll meet again.”
Yu Yi glanced at Song Pianxian, hesitated for a moment. Would Song Pianxian agree with her decision?
But then she thought, even if she acted without consulting, Song Pianxian wouldn’t do anything to her, right?
She shouldn’t…
Facing the vague and unclear boundary between the two, Yu Yi eagerly stretched out her metaphorical claws:
“However, since your family’s business spans across five provinces, let them help me find some first. I and Pianxian will go to Tianfeng Province to see the excitement.”
With the matter of accompanying Feifeng Valley settled, the departure date was set for three days later.
Accompanying the crossing of the tribulation from Feifeng Valley, who was also from Lingyun Sect Daiyuan Peak, and being the friend of their young miss, of course, they wouldn’t object.
As for Yu Yi…
Yu Yi returned to the mansion with Song Pianxian, blinked, and asked, “I acted on my own just now, you’re not angry, are you?”
After asking, she carefully observed every nuance of Song Pianxian’s expression.
Song Pianxian seemed surprised by the question, then her eyes softened slightly, her tone gentle and composed, “No, Yu Yi, don’t overthink it.”
Yu Yi’s lips curved upwards.
She followed Song Pianxian into the room briskly, her skirt blossoming like a joyful flower, her green hair swaying at her waist.
Hmph.
A flower blossomed in her heart, with two tiny green leaves swaying gently, resembling a young girl with her hands on her hips.
Song Pianxian didn’t need to turn around to see Yu Yi’s expression with her divine sense. Seeing Yu Yi seemingly happy, Song Pianxian’s mood also improved.
But ultimately, her support for Yu Yi’s decision was not to appease her happiness but because she believed Qinglu was a reliable partner, capable of making any decision in her place.
Song Pianxian never doubted this.
While Yu Yi went to settle the demon cultivator, Song Pianxian dealt with the most urgent matters first.
During the demon cultivator auction just now, she received a task from the system.
This time the task was not distributed via voice but directly appeared in her mind, as if white pencil strokes were written on a blackboard.
Only now did Song Pianxian have time to inquire if the system had returned. Was it 09?
Song Pianxian concentrated for half an incense stick’s time, finally waiting for the new mental notification to appear:
“09 has been recovered by the System Department.”
“In accordance with the regulations of the Quick Transmigration Bureau, compensation measures will be taken for the accidental loss of system commands by mission personnel: an additional three to five key instructions will be provided in the form of tasks.”
“During the mission, the mission personnel cannot reinstall the system, and the free mode will be converted to send-receive mode. Wishing you a successful mission.”
After reading these three sentences, Song Pianxian thought quietly for a moment, then lightly tapped the tabletop with her fingers.
“Is it you who sent me the task? 01.”
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Translator: Glariosa
Editor: Ruu
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