Chapter 129

Chapter 129: Siblings Meet

Frost Profound Ice Needles was refined using Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Ice as its main material. As its master’s cultivation rose, the number of ice needles she could control would increase. With powerful divine sense, the ice needles could enter a body and move everywhere inside it, attacking the enemy’s weakest places.

And the Frost Profound Ice Needles’ attacks were not limited to the flesh. They could also injure a cultivator’s soul. When it was refined, soul-devouring iron was added, which was why it had that effect.

With Yun Xi’s current divine sense strength, if she went all out, she could control at least five thousand ice needles. But she did not want to expose herself, so she kept it within five hundred, a fairly normal level of divine sense control.

To cooperate with its master’s training in ice-needle attack techniques, Dian Dian nearly got stabbed to death. Fortunately, it used its specialty and burrowed into the ground, blocking those ice needles for an instant. Otherwise, it would have become the first spirit beast to be stabbed into a hedgehog.

Yun Xi only failed to control her strength at the beginning. After that, she did not make that mistake again. To make up for it, she compensated Dian Dian with two mid-grade spirit stones, which nicely soothed Dian Dian’s fragile little heart.

Yun Xi came out of seclusion in the fourth month. She had thoroughly understood everything Master taught her and added her own understanding on top of it. With an ice attribute cultivation method now, she felt her cultivation, which had not changed for a long time, had finally loosened a bit. That was a good sign.

After coming out, Yun Xi went to the back mountain to train alone for a while. After harvesting a wave of prey, she sent message talismans to the Wei Family disciples, inviting them to Soaring Snow Peak as guests. This time, she did not leave out Wei Yun Qing either.

By sheer coincidence, when Wei Yun Qing received the message talisman, she was awkwardly chatting with Sheng Yu Hong.

Wei Yun Qing realized that ever since that time she “misunderstood” Wei Yun Xi, Sheng Yu Hong’s attitude toward her had grown cold. It made her anxious, and at the same time it made her hate Yun Xi even more.

She always believed she should not be like this. She should be the one everyone focused on. She should be the one being chased after, not Wei Yun Xi. Because of this, she almost suffered qi deviation during cultivation.

And Sheng Yu Hong, as the Sect Master’s eldest disciple, was not stupid. From his interactions with Wei Yun Qing, he had already noticed that the two Junior Sisters Wei did not get along. They even acted separately, only maintaining surface peace.

He also appreciated Wei Yun Xi more. Besides that indescribable feeling of resonance, it was also because Wei Yun Xi only showed him respect. And after she entered the inner sect through her own efforts, even that respect disappeared. She treated him as an ordinary fellow disciple. That gave him an oddly subtle sense of difference.

If Yun Xi knew what Sheng Yu Hong was thinking, she would definitely say, “You’re overthinking it. There was never any respect. I was acting. The only reason I didn’t say anything too harsh was because my strength didn’t allow it.”

But because of that sense of difference, Sheng Yu Hong instead wanted to find an opportunity to get closer to Yun Xi. He naturally would not miss this chance, so he took the initiative and said, “Junior Sister Wei, may I go with you that day to visit Soaring Snow Peak as a guest?”

Wei Yun Qing was so tense she almost dug her nails into her palm. She forced a smile and said, “Of course. Junior Sister will meet up with you first, then we’ll go see Little Sister Yun Xi.”

“Good.”

After getting a definite answer, Sheng Yu Hong turned and left. He needed to prepare a gift.

Wei Yun Qing took a deep breath and returned to her own residence as well. Right now, she had to endure, because her opponent was stronger and had a harder backer.

Zong Hao and the others were all very happy after receiving Yun Xi’s message. Each of them prepared a small congratulatory gift, and the next day they went early to Soaring Snow Peak.

Yun Xi had already told the Soaring Snow Peak disciples in advance. She personally waited at the foot of the mountain for her Wei Family brothers and sisters.

Wei Yun Ting and Wei Yun Ying arrived first. Yun Ting had just broken through to the Foundation Establishment Stage. After receiving the message talisman, she came over to greet Yun Xi and then went into seclusion. After handing Yun Xi the gift, she left.

Yun Ying was still hovering at late-stage Qi Refining. But since she had a Foundation Establishment Pill in hand, she was not in a hurry to break through. Instead, she worked hard to temper her cultivation. This visit to Soaring Snow Peak was also because she wanted to build a good relationship with Yun Xi.

Wei Yun Ying said with a smile, “Yun Xi, congratulations on taking a Nascent Soul True Lord as your master. In the sect from now on, I’ll have to call you Martial Uncle.”

Yun Xi smiled back. “We’re all sisters. In private, you can still call me Yun Xi.”

Yun Xi did not refuse the address “Martial Uncle.” The gap had already opened. There was no need for her to lower her own status.

Yun Ying said it as a test. After hearing Yun Xi’s words, she felt a little uncomfortable, but she knew how to read the room. She did not say more. She chatted casually with Yun Xi for a couple of lines until Wei Zong Yu and Wei Zong Hao arrived. The two of them had met on the way.

Zong Yu was also not rushing to reach Foundation Establishment. He wanted to walk the path of a sword cultivator, so he had been tempering the sword in his hand. He was truly happy for Yun Xi and grateful for Yun Xi’s care.

The reason he could cultivate at a steady pace was because he had a Foundation Establishment Pill as his safety net, and that Foundation Establishment Pill was refined by Yun Xi. He remembered that kindness and would not treat it as something Yun Xi was obligated to do just because they were both Wei Family disciples.

“Wei Martial Uncle, congratulations on taking a master on Soaring Snow Peak. From now on, your cultivation path will definitely be much smoother.”

“That’s too polite. In private, just call me Yun Xi.”

After a couple of lines, Wei Zong Yu said, “Zong Han and Zong Jin teamed up to complete a sect mission and can’t make it back in time. They asked me to congratulate you. They said once the mission is done, they’ll come visit you.”

“Alright.”

Yun Xi felt that everyone who could come had already come, so she prepared to lead everyone to her place, but a voice stopped her.

“Yun Xi, we’re late.”

The four of them did not need to turn around to know who it was. The speaker was Wei Yun Qing.

Yun Xi glanced at Wei Yun Qing, and at Sheng Yu Hong beside her. A trace of understanding flashed in her eyes. These two still ended up together.

Fortunately, this time she had not entered under the Sect Master. She would not become the stepping stone Wei Yun Qing used to cling to Sheng Yu Hong. As for whether those two liked to come and go together, it had nothing to do with her.

Sheng Yu Hong clearly felt the stiffness in the atmosphere. He coughed lightly and said, “Junior Sister Yun Xi, please forgive my uninvited visit. That day I ran into Junior Sister Wei Yun Qing, and I happened to hear your message talisman. I wanted to come congratulate you.”

Yun Xi followed the principle of not striking a smiling face. With a calm expression, she made a “please” gesture, and the group went to Yun Xi’s small courtyard.

When Wei Yun Qing saw the pond of Third Rank snow ling flowers inside the courtyard, jealousy made her eyes go red. In the end, she could not hold it in and asked, “Yun Xi, how did you fence the snow ling flowers into your courtyard? That’s not good, is it?”

Yun Xi glanced at her and said evenly, “This kind of snow ling flower is everywhere on Soaring Snow Peak. Master said this pond grows the best and is good for my cultivation, so he let me fence it in.”

“Is that so? Your master is really good to you.”

“Yeah. I originally had a lot of questions I wanted to ask Master, but Master entered seclusion to push for Deity Transformation. I can only wait until Master comes out before I ask again.”

Yun Xi was absolutely showing off.

Yun Qing felt that if she said one more word, she would probably be so angry she’d spit blood. She forced a proper, shallow smile and sat by the stone table in the courtyard, pretending to greet Wei Yun Ying.

Sheng Yu Hong finally found an opening. He handed Yun Xi a jade box and said it was his congratulatory gift.