Chapter 175

Chapter 175: Forced Interruption

After Wei Yun Qing was kicked out of the bracelet space, she passed out. On the other side, Yun Xi increased the strength of her divine sense, wanting to wipe away the divine sense imprint above in one go. Just then, someone triggered the formation array around her courtyard.

Yun Xi frowned. She did not want to deal with it, but the person outside the formation seemed determined to see her and kept knocking at the array.

Dian Dian also sent her a voice transmission. “Master, it looks like a steward from the Feng Family. He looks anxious, so it should be urgent.”

Yun Xi had no choice but to pause her attempt to erase the divine sense imprint. Still, she did not want to let Wei Yun Qing get off easy. She forced her divine sense into the bracelet space and swept out every good thing Wei Yun Qing had stored inside.

Spirit stones, spiritual plants, jade boxes, artifact robes, ores, and all kinds of random items piled up until they buried the unconscious Wei Yun Qing.

Yun Xi sent Fei Xia Butterfly a voice transmission. “Put away everything I took out of the bracelet.”

“Yes, Master.”

Fei Xia Butterfly flapped its wings and circled the room once, drawing all the things Yun Xi had yanked out into its own internal space. Then Yun Xi wrapped it with her divine sense and carried it out of Wei Yun Qing’s room.

Yun Xi withdrew her divine sense first. With a wave of her sleeve, she opened the formation array and asked with a frown, “Why are you knocking on my formation in the middle of the night and disturbing my cultivation?”

When the Feng Family steward saw Yun Xi, he immediately bowed respectfully. “Master Wei, please forgive me. I came on the Ancestor’s orders to invite you.”

Hearing that the Feng Family Ancestor was looking for her, Yun Xi knew something had happened. She stepped out the door at once. “Why are you looking for me?”

The Feng Family steward did not know the details. He only knew the Family Head’s closed-door cultivation had run into trouble, but as for what kind of trouble, he could not say.

“I understand.” Yun Xi’s expression stayed cold. “I’ll go to the Ancestor myself. You can go back.”

Her figure flashed, and she vanished from her courtyard.

In the next instant, she appeared in the Feng Family’s back courtyard and saw Ancestor Feng Feng, whose expression was grave.

“Ancestor, what happened?” Yun Xi asked.

Ancestor Feng Feng looked even more serious. “Jia Qing went into seclusion to consolidate his cultivation, but he showed signs of a qi deviation and slipping into evil.”

Yun Xi’s face darkened. “Signs of slipping into evil? Was my uncle set up?”

The Feng Family Ancestor shook his head. “I don’t know. I sensed a powerful spiritual energy fluctuation and found Feng Jia Qing’s spiritual energy in chaos, with signs of corruption. I intervened and protected his sea of consciousness and dantian first. What happens next depends on him.”

Once Yun Xi learned that Feng Jia Qing’s condition was still stable, she asked, “When did the spiritual energy fluctuation start?”

The Feng Family Ancestor thought for a moment. “About two quarter-hours ago. After I stabilized Jia Qing for now, I sent the steward to find you. If Jia Qing truly falls into evil, you and I will have to suppress him together. I’m only skilled in alchemy, not fighting. I figured you could handle it.”

At that timing, Yun Xi’s heart sank. It was too much of a coincidence.

Dian Dian sent another voice transmission. “Master, isn’t that very close to when you were fighting over Wei Yun Qing’s space?”

[A thousand alpacas stampeded through Yun Xi’s mind.] She ground her teeth and did not answer Dian Dian. Instead, she focused even more on Feng Jia Qing.

Feng Jia Qing’s expression kept shifting, like he was acting out a silent play. One moment he looked happy, then shocked, then despairing, and then blank, as if he had gone through something no one else could see.

Yun Xi frowned. “Ancestor, why do I feel like something is clouding Uncle’s mind?”

Ancestor Feng Feng frowned too. “It seems like it. I forcibly suppressed the chaotic spiritual energy in his body. As long as he can break free of this state, he should be able to recover his mind.”

The old and the young watched Feng Jia Qing in silence. After an hour, Feng Jia Qing’s expression finally calmed, and the spiritual energy around him grew docile again. Another hour passed before Feng Jia Qing opened his eyes.

Ancestor Feng Feng and Yun Xi both let out a breath and flashed into Feng Jia Qing’s room.

When Feng Jia Qing saw Yun Xi, he froze for a brief moment. When his eyes met Ancestor Feng Feng’s concerned gaze, they turned red, and he stood up from the meditation cushion.

“Ancestor, I’m fine. I made you worry,” Feng Jia Qing said.

Only when Ancestor Feng Feng saw that Feng Jia Qing’s gaze was clear and his spiritual energy steady did he nod. “What happened earlier?”

Feng Jia Qing shook his head. “I don’t know. I only know I was meditating and circulating my technique, and then it was like I was suddenly dragged into an Illusion Realm, and I experienced some things.”

Yun Xi ground her back teeth again. By now, she was sixty percent sure her guess was right.

She asked, “Uncle, do you remember what you experienced? Anything special?”

Feng Jia Qing sighed. “I can’t remember anymore. The only thing I remember is you.”

“Me?” Yun Xi asked.

“Yes,” Feng Jia Qing said.

“What was different about me?”

“The other you was completely different from you now.”

“How was she different?”

“She was more willful. She did things based only on what she liked. She didn’t cultivate as hard as you. And she only had a single lightning spirit root.”

Yun Xi thought it through. Something had likely wanted to interrupt her from stealing Wei Yun Qing’s opportunity, so it forcibly dragged Feng Jia Qing’s soul into the novel’s plot and made him walk through a pre-set storyline. Luckily, Feng Jia Qing broke free. Otherwise, it would have affected his cultivation in the future.

Ancestor Feng Feng did not understand the twists and turns behind it. He only frowned and asked, “Qing Qing, were you set up by someone?”

The moment Feng Jia Qing heard that nickname, he lost his composure. “Ancestor, I’m already a Golden Core Master. Don’t call me by my nickname anymore.”

Ancestor Feng Feng glanced at Feng Jia Qing and said, “Already a Golden Core Master, and you still got set up. Your Golden Core looks a bit weak.”

The words stung, but Feng Jia Qing could only sigh helplessly. “Ancestor is right. Jia Qing will cultivate harder and won’t give anyone another chance to set me up.”

“Learn from it. Be more low-key in the future.”

“Yes, Ancestor,” Feng Jia Qing said.

Seeing that Feng Jia Qing took it to heart, Ancestor Feng Feng raised his hand to Feng Jia Qing’s wrist and checked him. After that, he said to Yun Xi, “Yun Xi, you check too. Don’t let your uncle be left with any hidden trouble.”

“Alright,” Yun Xi said.

Yun Xi understood what he meant. She had a lightning spirit root. If any corrupt aura had entered Feng Jia Qing’s body, she could force it out. She immediately sent a strand of divine sense into Feng Jia Qing.

A moment later, she withdrew her divine sense and said, “There’s no corrupt aura in Uncle’s body.”

“Good,” Ancestor Feng Feng said.

Only after confirming Feng Jia Qing was fine did Ancestor Feng Feng relax, but he still frowned. “I suspect it was done by someone Jia Qing interacted with these past two days. It’s hard to investigate right now. A lot of people came to congratulate him.”

Yun Xi’s mouth twitched, but she could not explain anything. She could only say, “Ancestor, for the next two days, let Uncle stop cultivating for now. Wait until his state of mind calms down before he goes into seclusion again. Let him sort through what happened recently. He might find a clue.”

Ancestor Feng Feng agreed. “Yun Xi is right. His current state isn’t suitable for seclusion.”

Feng Jia Qing had already recovered by the time he woke up, but his family was worried about him, so he accepted it without complaint.