Chapter 462

Chapter 462: You Go Play for a While First
Yu Zhao smiled and said: “Then I will thank Ancestor in advance.”

Right now, Ancestor Sui Bian was looking at Yu Zhao with such gentle eyes they were almost dripping.

He waved his big hand and said: “Come on, I will first take you to deal with that broken jade pendant on you, then I will introduce you to that group of old geezers. This concerns the entire Cultivation World, we cannot let you carry it alone.”

They had only met Nan Gong Yin by chance, so Ancestor Sui Bian could not possibly tell her their real destination. On purpose, he chose this desolate little planet as a stopover.

Ancestor led Yu Zhao flying west and explained to her: “The teleportation array out of here is hidden in a ruined temple to the west. After we transfer twice more, we will be able to meet them.”

Yu Zhao’s expression moved. She asked: “Ancestor, you still have not told me who that Senior we are going to meet is.”

“Ah, I have not said it yet? Hahaha, I thought I already told you.”

Ancestor Sui Bian let out two dry laughs, his eyes a little evasive.

Seeing this, Yu Zhao suddenly remembered that back in Godsfall Land, Ancestor Sui Bian had also shown a similar expression. She tried to recall: [What was that about back then again…]

“Could that Senior be Immortal Maiden Qun Fang? Or Immortal Maiden Qiong Lan? Or maybe Xiu Yu…”

“Stop, stop!” Ancestor Sui Bian was so anxious he almost rushed over to cover Yu Zhao’s mouth.

Yu Zhao looked at him with a half-smile.

He gave an embarrassed smile and said: “I really cannot hide anything from you. The Senior I am taking you to see is Qun Fang. But the relationship between her and me is not what you think. When you meet her, you must not talk nonsense.”

“Then what about Qiong Lan and Xiu Yu…”

Ancestor Sui Bian stiffened his neck and said in a guilty yet stubborn tone: “They are all my bosom confidantes!”

“Oh—”

Yu Zhao deliberately dragged out her tone, but in the end she still did not make any promise to Ancestor Sui Bian.

After she met them, she would know what to do.

After flying at full speed for about two hours, they stopped in front of a ruined temple deep in a mountain forest.

Ancestor Sui Bian walked into the temple like he knew the place well and soon found the teleportation array hidden in the backyard.

The spirit power here was thin, so it would take some time to activate the teleportation array.

Yu Zhao looked around the temple as she casually said: “Ancestor, the spiritual energy of this small world is even thinner than in the Cultivation World. We did not see many cultivators along the way.”

Ancestor answered carelessly: “This small world is on its way to decline. Naturally, its spiritual energy will keep getting used up and become less and less.”

“On its way to decline?”

Something flashed quickly through Yu Zhao’s mind.

Ancestor Sui Bian went on: “Yes. I only learned after coming to the Middle World that every world has its fixed fate, just like a cultivator’s lifespan.

“When the lifespan runs out, a person dies. When the fate runs out, the planet also perishes.”

Yu Zhao’s pupils trembled and her fists clenched before she knew it.

[Is the Cultivation World also facing a shortage of spiritual energy because its lifespan is almost over?]

[Does that also mean that even if she and the Seniors give everything they have to repair the Heavenly Ladder, they still will not be able to stop the Cultivation World from heading toward destruction?]

Yu Zhao stared at a dead tree in the backyard, her eyes a little empty.

After a while, the gap in the teleportation array’s spirit power had been filled.

Ancestor Sui Bian was just about to call Yu Zhao to step onto the teleportation array and leave when he saw her staring blankly at that dead tree. Curious, he asked: “What are you looking at?”

Yu Zhao came back to herself. The daze in her eyes was already gone.

“Nothing.”

She did not want to tell Ancestor Sui Bian about her guess.

Ever since he ascended to the Middle World, Ancestor had always been thinking about the Cultivation World. If she told him now what the Cultivation World might face, it would be a heavy blow.

Besides, it was only her guess and could not be taken as the truth.

Yu Zhao tried to comfort herself in her heart, and at the same time she also made up her mind. If she could not find a way to return, she would have to go test herself in the Daqian Alliance’s selection trials. Even if there was only a tiny chance, she still had to try.

Ancestor Sui Bian did not see through Yu Zhao’s thoughts and did not take it to heart. He placed the spirit jade into the teleportation array and then used his spirit power to activate it.

Everything spun around them. In the next moment, the two of them appeared in a bustling marketplace.

As Yu Zhao and Ancestor Sui Bian walked out of the teleportation array, she felt countless pairs of eyes fall on them. But those gazes quickly shifted away again and went back to watching the teleportation array.

Yu Zhao could not help clicking her tongue in amazement. The bounty notice issued by the Tu Clan really had stirred up the enthusiasm of more than half the cultivators in the Cultivation World.

However, they definitely would not guess that the Tu Clan’s other treasure was also in her hands.

With the help of the spirit bracelet around her wrist, Yu Zhao had avoided quite a bit of trouble.

Ancestor Sui Bian and Yu Zhao did not linger. They turned around and boarded the teleportation array heading to another small world.

After riding the teleportation array three times in a row, Yu Zhao thought Ancestor Sui Bian was finally going to take her to meet someone, but they boarded a fourth teleportation array.

Ancestor Sui Bian’s explanation for this was that he was afraid someone might be following them.

For the next day, Yu Zhao and Ancestor shuttled back and forth between different teleportation arrays.

After an unknown number of transfers, Ancestor Sui Bian finally brought Yu Zhao away from the place with the teleportation arrays to a quiet valley.

Inside the valley, all kinds of flowers were in full bloom, colorful and dazzling, their fragrance thick in the air.

Yu Zhao’s divine sense swept back and forth through the valley, and her eyes grew brighter and brighter.

It really was worthy of a Senior who was skilled in formation arrays. She could not sense even a trace of spirit power fluctuation. The concealment was too good.

One had to know that Yu Zhao’s eyes had been strengthened by a special ability. It was very hard for even the smallest clue to escape her gaze.

Yet the formation arrays in this valley seemed completely natural, without the slightest flaw. It was as perfect as an ordinary valley.

Yu Zhao was already impatient to see Senior Qun Fang.

Yet just as her excitement surged, she waited and waited but did not see Ancestor Sui Bian do anything.

She turned her head in surprise.

She saw Ancestor bending over with his backside stuck up in the air, picking flowers from a patch of blossoms while muttering: “This color does not look good. No, no. The shape of this one is not perfect…”

Yu Zhao: […]

“Ancestor?”

She called out to test him.

Ancestor Sui Bian waved his hand impatiently without even lifting his head and said: “Can’t you see I’m busy? Go play on the side for a while.”

Only then did Yu Zhao realize that this was not Senior Qun Fang’s residence at all, but just an ordinary, nothing-special valley.

And the reason Ancestor Sui Bian had brought her here first had only one purpose.

To pick flowers for a beauty.

Yu Zhao did not know whether to laugh or cry.

She glanced again at Ancestor Sui Bian, who was enthusiastically picking flowers, and after thinking for a moment, simply started to pick some fresh flowers according to her own taste.

When she had followed Senior He Huan to learn incense crafting back then, she had often received guidance from that Senior. Not only had she made some progress in incense crafting, her sense of beauty had also improved quite a bit.

Before long, she was holding a bouquet of fresh and elegant flowers.

Ancestor Sui Bian looked over and commented: “Yu Zhao, your taste is no good.”