“…”
Another seemingly ordinary morning.
Mu Qiu Ying stood to the side, quietly watching Chen Juenian absorb the surrounding spiritual energy.
‘The Sealed Dust Bow’?
This peerless martial skill related to the bow actually shared a connection in name with the foundational martial technique of the Dust-Sealing Sword Sect, a major power of the Ninth Heaven.
“Xuanyuan Nian.”
Hearing Mu Qiu Ying’s soft call, Chen Juenian stopped his meditation and opened his eyes.
“Senior Mu, is something the matter?”
“A few days ago, I happened to obtain a peerless martial skill related to the bow. Coincidentally, you chose the bow as your weapon… Today, I shall impart this martial skill to you.”
Sometimes, Chen Juenian truly regretted it.
He should have placed restrictions on the martial skills when he imparted them.
Now, not only was the Hundred Arms Art doubled, but the Sealed Dust Bow was doubled too.
“Thank you, Senior Mu!”
“Mhm.”
Chen Juenian’s behavior held no impropriety.
Neither his actions nor his cultivation level gave him the means to impart martial skills through dreams.
It seemed this peerless martial skill had truly just appeared out of thin air.
Yet, Mu Qiu Ying still harbored doubts about him.
Because he was the only person left she could suspect.
But… if this child really was an immortal, what should she do?
Impossible.
It was simply impossible.
She just needed one piece of proof, proof that this peerless martial skill really did just appear out of nowhere.
After that, she wouldn’t need to suspect this innocent child anymore.
“…”
“…”
Chen Juenian wanted to find the root cause that made Mu Qiu Ying feel jealousy.
So, even at the risk of exposure, he had to help Mu Qiu Ying.
After all, he genuinely liked this child, Mu Qiu Ying.
“Qiu Ying, what’s wrong?”
Looking at Mu Qiu Ying standing before him with puffed-out cheeks, Chen Juenian leaned down and gently patted her head.
“It’s gone.”
“What’s gone?”
“The book.”
A book?
What book?
Chen Juenian was stunned for a moment.
Had the Ping Duoduo Secret Manual he gave Mu Qiu Ying disappeared?
“A book under the bed. You, Immortal, have no idea that book even exists, right?”
“…”
Though a bit confused, Chen Juenian understood clearly that the choice he made now would affect the outcome.
Since Mu Qiu Ying said there was originally a book under a bed, it meant in her perception, there definitely was one under a bed somewhere on his mountain.
“Of course I know. How could that book just disappear for no reason? Perhaps you should look for it again.”
Which bed?
What kind of book?
After Mu Qiu Ying turned and left, Chen Juenian could only gamble.
It should be the bed his disciples slept on.
But what kind of book was it?
Something related to cultivation?
Or one that recorded various heavenly materials and earthly treasures?
Could it be—
“…”
“Mmm…”
Mu Qiu Ying arrived inside Chen Juenian’s room, her face now completely flushed red.
To be honest, Chen Juenian was also struggling to keep a straight face.
It seemed he had guessed correctly.
Even though he hadn’t wanted to guess correctly.
“Found it?”
“Yes… Immortal, I found it.”
“That’s good. Since there’s no issue, from now on you are my disciple. I will do my best to nurture you. But before that, I have a question I want to ask you.”
Mu Qiu Ying lifted her head and met Chen Juenian’s gaze for a moment before shyly looking away again.
“What is the question…”
“Do you truly not regret it? Replacing your sister, cutting off her immortal path.”
“…”
“You don’t have to answer if you don’t want to. I won’t ask again after this.”
Chen Juenian took another risk to probe once more. Clearly, he gained nothing from it.
Afterwards, he obediently followed Mu Qiu Ying’s wishes and began living out daily life with her in the dream.
During this time, Mu Qiu Ying’s behavior seemed perfectly normal.
The reason wasn’t hard to understand.
Now that Mu Qiu Ying had obtained what she wanted, who else was there for her to be jealous of?
Thus, it seemed he could only search for the answer within Mu Qiu Ying’s past memories.
“…”
“…”
After tidying up the formation, Chen Juenian sat on the bed and began pondering the information he’d obtained from Mu Qiu Ying’s dream.
It wasn’t that he had no gains.
At least he now knew there was a book of that kind somewhere on Juenian Mountain.
Since Mu Qiu Ying, who had never been up the mountain, knew about it, it must have been Mu Chunxiang who told her.
Initially, he hadn’t guessed in this direction.
He thought it might have been a cultivation-related book left under the bed by his diligent former disciples.
But once he remembered what they all ended up doing…
Was it that thing that caused his disciples to become like that?!
“…”
“So it really wasn’t him…”
Mu Qiu Ying was forced to recall the despicable version of herself from the dream.
And the result?
The behavior of the immortal in the dream held no impropriety whatsoever.
Aside from the sudden appearance of the immortal’s dwelling, which she had never seen before, everything else almost perfectly matched her own perceptions and conjectures.
This could already prove that the immortal in the dream, including everything else, was all her own imagination.
Forced to admit everything, Mu Qiu Ying turned her focus back onto herself.
Was that narrow-minded child in the dream really her?