Chapter 84

Chapter 84: The Correct Use of Fanning Wind and Stirring Fire Art

Shen Sang Ruo hung around Immortal Maiden Azure Luan’s neck and grinned brightly as she said: “Immortal Maiden Azure Luan, did you come here just to save me? I knew Immortal Maiden Azure Luan wouldn’t leave me alone.”

Immortal Maiden Azure Luan answered lightly: “You are thinking too much, I only refuse to let anyone act wild on my turf.”

There was no way she would allow someone to drag a person away by force inside her Wind-Moon Spirit Ruins. Otherwise, what had all her years in the Cultivation World been for? If the people sent by Chang Li caused trouble on her land and something happened, that dog would mock her to no end.

Shen Sang Ruo put on a puzzled look and said: “But you already kicked me out of the Wind-Moon Spirit Ruins, so I wasn’t on Immortal Maiden’s land.”

Immortal Maiden Azure Luan ground her teeth and forced an explanation: “The area near the Wind-Moon Spirit Ruins is also my turf,” then she gave a cold laugh and added: “What, I saved you and you are still unhappy? If you are unhappy, let go and roll off me.”

Shen Sang Ruo clung to her shamelessly and chirped: “Happy, happy. Immortal Maiden Azure Luan is beautiful and kind, Immortal Maiden Azure Luan is one of a kind, Immortal Maiden Azure Luan is the best.”

She stopped talking; if she said more, Immortal Maiden Azure Luan might really blow her top.

The Azure Luan Clan was skilled at flight and incredibly fast. Even Master Ling Xiao at Peak Divine Transformation would find it hard to catch up, and he would not lower himself to chase her anyway.

They soon left the Flying Cloud Sect and reached a safer area.

Immortal Maiden Azure Luan asked, thinking of Master Ling Xiao’s pushy manner and feeling instant dislike: “Was that person your Master? A man like that deserves to be a Master?” She snorted and thought he was no better than that dog Chang Li. His cultivation might be top tier, but that did not make him a fit Master.

Shen Sang Ruo corrected her: “To be strict about it, he is my former Master.”

Immortal Maiden Azure Luan said: “Right, you already cut your ties with him. You escaped a bitter sea.” With a Master that unfit, Shen Sang Ruo’s natural talent would only be buried. Immortal Maiden Azure Luan did not know what life had been like for Shen Sang Ruo in the sect, and she did not know that the nonsense inside the Flying Cloud Sect was not just from Master Ling Xiao alone.

Immortal Maiden Azure Luan brought her down in a forest.

Shen Sang Ruo looked at her and asked: “Where will you go now? Back to the Wind-Moon Spirit Ruins?”

Immortal Maiden Azure Luan shot back and gave her a look for fools: “If I don’t go back to the Wind-Moon Spirit Ruins, then where? Do I have a second Azure Jade Palace?”

Shen Sang Ruo’s eyes flashed and she answered at once: “Come with me to Ninghua Sect.”

Immortal Maiden Azure Luan refused without thinking: “No.” She disliked going out at all. If Shen Sang Ruo had not been seized and put in danger, she would not have stepped out of the Azure Jade Palace even half a step.

Shen Sang Ruo grew even more curious about the past grudge between Immortal Maiden Azure Luan and Immortal Lord Chang Li. But with Azure Luan’s awkward nature, if Shen tried to persuade her, she would turn around and leave, and there would be no second chance to speak.

Shen thought hard about how to trick Immortal Maiden Azure Luan into going. In just a few breaths, a plan formed in her mind. [Got it! Since Immortal Lord Chang Li was not kind, then don’t blame me for not being loyal. Heh heh heh.]

Putting on a look of realization, she muttered as if to herself: “So it really is just like Immortal Lord Chang Li said.”

The single line stopped Immortal Maiden Azure Luan, who had been about to leave. She turned back to look at Shen Sang Ruo.

Shen made no move to go on. Immortal Maiden Azure Luan narrowed her eyes, suspicion filling her gaze as she asked: “What did that dog say?”

Shen showed a troubled face, hesitated, and then asked softly: “Do you really want to hear it?”

“Speak,” Immortal Maiden Azure Luan said, her tone growing hard. She just knew that dog Chang Li must be chirping behind her back.

Shen took a deep breath and said: “Fine, I’ll say it. Immortal Lord Chang Li made a bet with me about whether I could get Immortal Maiden Azure Luan to come to Ninghua Sect.”

She kept going: “He bet that you would not go. He said Immortal Maiden Azure Luan does not have the guts to look for him, that you can’t beat him, and that you will shake with fear when you see him.”

“Did he really say that?” The anger in Immortal Maiden Azure Luan’s eyes was plain, but a thread of doubt still remained.

[Did I make it too extreme? Did I judge their way of dealing with each other wrong?] Shen kept her expression calm and continued without blinking: “Of course he said it. There were even worse parts I can’t bring myself to repeat. Immortal Lord Chang Li went way too far.”

She spoke with detail and confidence, like it was all true. Joking aside, the technique she cultivated was the Fanning Wind and Stirring Fire Art; adding fuel to the flames was her specialty.

Watching suspicion in Immortal Maiden Azure Luan’s eyes get burned away by fury, Shen Sang Ruo could hardly keep the smile off her lips. If Immortal Lord Chang Li set her up, she would let him taste a disaster out of nowhere too.

Elsewhere, Immortal Lord Chang Li sneezed and said: “Achoo, who is thinking about me?”

Then Shen put on a show, gave a faint sigh, and spoke with a touch of regret: “Then I won’t bother Immortal Maiden Azure Luan. I’ll head back to Ninghua Sect first.”

“Hold it, I’m going back with you,” Immortal Maiden Azure Luan said, full of force.

“But didn’t you…” Shen started, and Immortal Maiden Azure Luan cut her off at once: “But what? Not what? I cannot stand sneaky people slandering me behind my back.”

Shen nodded again and again in agreement: “Exactly. I also think Immortal Lord Chang Li should not have said that.”

Immortal Maiden Azure Luan’s face turned ice cold, like she could eat Immortal Lord Chang Li alive, as she said: “What skill is it to talk behind my back? I will go to Ninghua Sect right now and see if he dares say it to my face.”

Shen raised her hand and said with spirit: “I will lead the way for Immortal Maiden.”

Immortal Maiden Azure Luan became a streak of blue and rushed toward Moonshadow Valley with Shen Sang Ruo.

When they reached the passing Formation, Shen said: “Once we go through this Formation, we will be in Ninghua Sect.” After she first found the Ninghua Sect, she set a Concealment Method here to stop other people from stumbling in.

Immortal Maiden Azure Luan paused, staring hard at the spot where the Formation lay, lost in thought. Her face looked both hesitant and a little sad. [He was not wrong. I really did not dare to look for him.]

She lowered her eyes. She knew very well that those words were ones Shen Sang Ruo made up on purpose to prod her into going to Ninghua Sect. If she did not let herself believe that it was what Chang Li said, how could she force herself to come here?

“Immortal Maiden Azure Luan?” Shen Sang Ruo called softly.

[Forget it. I am already here. Since I came, I will at least smack that dog Chang Li before I go back.] Immortal Maiden Azure Luan snapped back to herself. Her face returned to the furious mask from before as she said: “Let’s go.”

Her look from a moment ago made Shen Sang Ruo feel like she had just learned something huge, and now she could not wait to see what would happen when the two of them met.

The Formation lit up, and she and Immortal Maiden Azure Luan landed steady inside Ninghua Sect.

[Heh heh heh, Immortal Lord Chang Li, I brought you a big surprise. Get ready.]