Chapter 176

Chapter 176: A Big Shot’s Guidance

After making sure Feng Jia Qing was fine, Yun Xi returned to her own residence. Once the formation array settled, Dian Dian crawled out and landed beside the meditation cushion.

“Master, this is definitely not a coincidence,” Dian Dian said.

Yun Xi smoothed her long hair. “Of course it isn’t. The moment I moved, something happened on Uncle’s side.”

Dian Dian scratched its ear with a back paw. “Then what do we do next? Are we still going to seize Wei Yun Qing’s opportunity?”

“If I seize it and the people around me get unlucky, how am I supposed to seize it?” Yun Xi said through clenched teeth.

She was certain that when she had guarded the wooden token space, protected the life-saving pill, secured the ?Thousand Shadow Wind-Supporting Technique? that belonged to her, and obtained the ?Peerless Sword Thunder Art? ahead of time, nothing like today had happened.

After thinking it over, Yun Xi summarized a rule. Anything that had originally belonged to her would stay hers as long as she protected it herself.

But as long as Wei Yun Qing had the ability to fight for something, then the two of them could compete. Who won in the end would depend on skill.

Yet if it was Wei Yun Qing’s opportunity and Yun Xi could not take it, and if taking it meant someone around her would suffer, then that was just too unfair.

She would rather be the one who got unlucky. At least she would get the benefit, and if someone made trouble for her, she could accept it as training. But if it involved the people close to her, she could not control it at all, because she could not watch everyone she cared about every moment.

Yun Xi took a deep breath. Her divine sense entered the wooden token space, preparing to consult that big shot. She felt too stifled like this.

Dian Dian was still waiting for her answer when it noticed Yun Xi’s gloomy expression and tightly furrowed brows. In the end, Yun Xi simply closed her eyes and began meditating, as if she had thought of something. Dian Dian did not disturb her and quietly curled up beside the meditation cushion to guard her.

After Yun Xi entered the space, the chat group’s light screen lit up and automatically showed that she was online.

She directly messaged Ethereal Aura.

“Senior, are you busy? This junior has something to ask.”

Ethereal Aura: “What is it?”

Passing Clouds and Smoke: “I can’t seize other people’s opportunities.”

Ethereal Aura: “Opportunities are ownerless things. Why can’t you seize them? Even if a name is written on it, as long as you’re stronger than them, you can still take it!”

It was a domineering statement, and it was also how most cultivators acted.

Yun Xi briefly explained Wei Yun Qing’s situation. She did not say outright that she wanted to steal Wei Yun Qing’s opportunity, but she believed Ethereal Aura would understand.

Ethereal Aura did understand. He replied, “This kind of situation exists. The other person should be what people call the favored daughter of fortune.”

“Just because the Heavenly Dao favors her, I’m supposed to hand over opportunities and suffer? Anything she touches, I have to give up?” Yun Xi asked.

“Fool.” Ethereal Aura’s reply was sharp. “An opportunity is called an opportunity because whoever has the ability takes it. You can’t covet the opportunities she already has in her hands, but you can still covet the ones she hasn’t gotten yet.”

“Besides, if you can’t steal the opportunities she already has, why not have someone else steal them? You need to test what the bottom line is!”

The moment Yun Xi saw the message, she felt like she had been struck awake. She had been thinking too simply. She assumed that as long as it was Wei Yun Qing’s opportunity, she could not touch it, and she ignored the fact that she still had a chance to scheme for anything Wei Yun Qing had not yet gotten.

“Thank you for your guidance, Senior. This junior understands,” Yun Xi replied.

After receiving the guidance, Yun Xi withdrew her divine sense from the chat group.

The instant she opened her eyes, she sensed that Fei Xia Butterfly had returned.

Yun Xi opened the formation array and let Fei Xia Butterfly into the room. In the next instant, her room was filled by more than half with the items Fei Xia Butterfly released.

Yun Xi clicked her tongue. “Looks like, where I couldn’t see, Wei Yun Qing got fed a lot of resources. This time, it all benefited me.”

Yun Xi let Fei Xia Butterfly and Dian Dian pick some resources that suited their cultivation. Then she waved her sleeve and sent everything into the space. These were her resources now.

On the other side, Wei Yun Qing had already woken up. The first thing she did was reach for her left wrist. Once she confirmed the red bracelet was still there and the divine sense imprint remained, she finally relaxed.

Only then did she realize her head hurt badly, clearly from damage to her divine sense. She planned to take a pill that could repair divine sense, but in the next breath, her face turned deathly pale.

Everything she had saved up inside the bracelet space was gone. Even the ground had been scraped clean. Wei Yun Qing spat out a mouthful of blood on the spot and fainted again.

The next day, Yun Xi went to accompany Feng Jia Qing. She stayed with him for three straight days, and only after she confirmed that Feng Jia Qing had fully recovered did she finally feel at ease. Right then, someone from the Wei Family came looking for her and asked her to return to the Wei Family for a visit.

Feng Jia Qing did not stop her. He personally escorted Yun Xi out of the Feng Family.

“Yun Xi, you don’t need to worry about me,” Feng Jia Qing said. “Just treat it as me going through a Heart-Devil Tribulation. My state of mind is steady now. From here on, I’ll just cultivate step by step.”

“Alright,” Yun Xi said. “Uncle, you must be steady and grounded. Don’t rush.”

Feng Jia Qing said helplessly, “I remember. You’re so young. Don’t carry so much on your shoulders. Just take care of your own cultivation.”

Yun Xi pressed her lips into a smile and nodded. She could not exactly tell him he had suffered because of Wu Wang’s disaster, so she only nagged a little more.

After Yun Xi returned to the Wei Family, she went to see the Family Head, Wei Ling Tao, first.

“Second Uncle, why did you call me back?” Yun Xi asked.

Wei Ling Tao sighed. “Yun Qing’s divine sense is damaged, and she’s recovering. I called you back to ask whether you have any pills that can nourish the soul.”

Yun Xi put on a frown. “Did her cultivation go wrong?”

Wei Ling Tao shook his head. “That’s what she says, but it doesn’t look like it to me.”

“Then I’ll go take a look at her exact condition first,” Yun Xi said. “It’s best to treat the cause.”

“Alright.” Wei Ling Tao nodded. “I’ll go with you.”

Wei Ling Tao knew very well that the relationship between these two sisters was not as friendly as it looked on the surface. To be safe, he chose to accompany her.

The two of them went together to Haitang Courtyard. The first person they saw was the anxious Du Ruo Lan.

When Du Ruo Lan saw them arrive together, she immediately put away her restless expression and stepped forward to bow. “Family Head, Master Wei, you’re here.”

Wei Ling Tao returned the greeting with a nod and asked, “How is Yun Qing right now?”

Du Ruo Lan frowned. “Yun Qing has been in her room the whole time and won’t let me go in. I don’t know how she is.”

Yun Xi was not about to care about that. Coming to Haitang Courtyard at all was already out of respect for the Wei Family Head. There was no way she would wait for Wei Yun Qing to come out on her own.

She raised her voice. “Wei Yun Qing, if you can move, come out. The Family Head is begging me for medicine for you.”

Du Ruo Lan wanted to stop her, but it was too late. Nearby, Wei Ling Tao seemed to have expected Yun Xi’s impatience, so he stood there calmly and looked toward Yun Qing’s door.

The moment Yun Xi’s voice fell, Wei Yun Qing opened the door and walked out.

Seeing Wei Yun Qing’s pale face and her unsteady aura, Yun Xi felt a bit of gloating. But before she could mock her, Wei Yun Qing clenched her teeth and demanded, “Was it you!”

“Was it me what?” Yun Xi asked.

“You did it, didn’t you!”

“What did I do?”

“You stole my things.”