Don't be afraid, fairy, I'm blind

Chapter 445: Sleeping on the bed
The bonfire flickered under the dead tree on a snowy night. You Su lifted the golden roasted snow rabbit meat from the fire, and the fat dripped onto the snow, making a sizzling sound.

He had been really hungry for a long time.

He thought he could have a good meal at the Qianhua Venerable's place, but he didn't expect that he would be taken away by this woman before he could eat a few bites. Now that he thought about it, the few sips of tea he drank at Qianhua Puppy's place made him even hungrier.

Thanks to the fact that the woman had just experienced a war, this was a rare rest time for them during their trip to block the sea well, so the snow rabbit that was lucky enough to survive in the snow unfortunately became his meal.

Venerable Qianlong leaned against a tree trunk to regulate her breathing. The hem of her plain skirt rustled in the cold wind, and her cheeks seemed to glow with a cold blue light under the moonlight.

"Eat something?" You Su tore off half a rabbit leg and handed it to her.

The fairy's eyelashes trembled slightly, and her pale face flickered in the firelight. She looked at the snow rabbit that had been destroyed like this with a look of pity:

"I have been fasting for a hundred years."

"Oh." You Su responded casually and took back the rabbit leg.

The aroma of meat mixed with the scent of pine resin filled the cold air. He deliberately opened his mouth wide as if to bite, and out of the corner of his eye he saw Venerable Qianlong's snow-white neck rolling gently.

"Wait." She suddenly spoke, but her eyes wandered back and forth on the rabbit leg that was about to be put into You Su's mouth.

You Su pretended to be confused and stared at her blankly. The woman was a little evasive when she saw You Su's eyes, but she still spoke:

"I haven't smelled the smell of fireworks for a long time. I want to taste this worldly taste."

She was not greedy for food, but at a time when the wind was howling and she was physically and mentally weak, there was a warm bonfire beside her and like-minded Taoist friends to accompany her. Faced with the other party's kindness, how could she bear to refuse it.

You Su suppressed his smile and handed the rabbit leg over again. When Venerable Qianlong took it, their fingertips touched, and You Su clearly felt that her hand was a little cold.

The fairy was about to take a bite of the rabbit meat, but she saw You Su still staring at her. She couldn't help but frown, "You eat yours, why are you looking at me?"

"If you want to eat, just eat. Are you afraid that I can't see? I am blind."

The woman was speechless after hearing these words. She thought to herself that the young man was quite shameless. He was obviously not blind but he always pretended to be blind. He wanted to make fun of her by seeing her "going back on her words".

Fortunately, she was not a shy person and would not let the boy succeed, so she gently raised her goose neck and put the rabbit leg into her mouth.

The fine snow fell on her temples, contrasting with the oily shine on her lips.

"How?" You Su didn't make fun of her.

"It's OK." She lowered her eyes to hide the fluctuations in her eyes, "Although it's only seasoned with fine salt, the food from my Beiaozhou is delicious."

You Su smiled bitterly when he heard that, and looked at her eyelashes stained with snow particles. He suddenly remembered the banished immortal with fluttering sleeves when he first met her. Now he looked like a girl who tasted the forbidden fruit.

He put the remaining half of the snow rabbit on the fire and turned it over. The rabbit meat curled up in the charcoal and the fat dripped down the stick.

"No matter how selfish those people's ideas are," he suddenly said, "I think the old man at least really thinks so. He really thinks that it can make Bei'ao a better person."

Venerable Qianlong condensed ice crystals on her fingertips and flicked the melted snow water towards the fire. She was silent for a moment, but her reaction was surprisingly calm:
"Ah."

You Su glanced at her and thought that even though she had killed him with her own hands, she must be sad.

The snowy night was quiet. The two were silent. Only the bonfire crackled among the dead branches. The dancing sparks were blown into the night sky by the north wind, interweaving with the snow flakes, as if crushed stars fell into the snowfield.

You Su tore the roasted rabbit meat into thin strips, and the oil condensed into amber beads on his fingertips.

"The 'sir' that the old man was talking about..." He suddenly spoke, his voice wrapped in cold mist, "Have you really never heard of him?"

Venerable Qianlong stared at the leaping flames, as if trying to catch a dormant shadow in the flickering light and shadow:
"I have been in charge of Bei'ao for nearly three hundred years. Someone who can plan such a chess game under my nose should not exist."

"Actually, before this, I always thought that the gentleman those people were talking about was you."

You Su thrust the pine branch into the snow, and the cold light of the Mosong Sword reflected the wrinkles between her brows:
"You've been worried that I was the one directing and acting out this drama? It wasn't until I killed him myself that you realized I wasn't the 'Mr.' he was talking about?"

"Based on what I've seen before, you and that gentleman are intertwined in this grand plan. It's hard for me not to associate you with him."

The woman sighed inadvertently, "Someone borrowed my obsession to revive Bei'ao and laid a net outside the chessboard. I want to know who he is more than you do."

The fire suddenly burst into three feet of flames, and You Su handed the torn meat over again.

"We're about to face each other anyway, so who cares who he is?"

The woman was stunned when she heard this, then she smiled, but she no longer coveted the boy's food.

"That's right. I'm fasting, you can eat it yourself."

You Su didn't bother to be polite with her and just started enjoying his meal.

"We will set out at dawn. When I light the talisman, they will gather in Changbai City."

"Don't you need to rest for a while?"

"Time waits for no one." The woman's eyes were firm.

"Is it too hasty?"

"He is holding back his strength because he really doesn't want to destroy his hometown anymore. Otherwise, we wouldn't have decided the winner so quickly." What she meant was, of course, that she didn't consume much energy.

You Su raised his eyebrows and stopped talking. He felt that once a person decided to fight to the death, no one else had the right to dissuade him.

"I forgot to ask him how Master Olympiad Mathematics is doing." You Su patted the snow that fell on his shoulders.

"He was imprisoned in the Prison of the Exorcist Department. Since he was his disciple, he took the initiative to take the responsibility of interrogating him. He admired his disciple very much and probably wouldn't be willing to do anything to him."

You Su nodded slightly upon hearing this, praying that the unruly Hua Taoist priest would not suffer too much.

"Do you really think Bai Ze can unite the people of Shenshan?" he asked again.

"Why do you trust her less than I do?"

That's because I know that she also has a Slowpoke personality... If Bai Ze continues to fight with the Lord of Jianlong Palace for control of the body, You Su feels that it would be unthinkable.

As if sensing You Su's worry about Bai Ze, Venerable Qianlong pursed his lips secretly. For some reason, a vague sourness arose in his heart.

Why didn’t I meet him first…?
"Although she hasn't returned to the mountain for thirty years, the changes in the sacred mountain are minimal. Even the people are still the same. She knows as much as I do. Even if she uses leverage to threaten them one by one, she will definitely be able to win over a lot of people."

"I hope so." You Su sighed. "How did you get up from the bottom of the sea?" The woman asked cautiously. If their relationship had not eased, she would not have been comfortable asking these questions.

"Follow the sea well you dug."

This answer made the woman feel a little embarrassed. She didn't know if this could be considered as saving them in disguise. Of course, she couldn't really think so shamelessly.

"What is the seabed like?"

"It's completely different from what I imagined. There's no water there. Instead, there's a layer of pitch-black mucus that creates a huge space where people can breathe normally. It's like a sea within a sea that breeds evil spirits. But it's too strange and spooky. I guess Bai Ze and I haven't even entered its core area. I'm afraid we've only seen the tip of the iceberg."

Just hearing this description, Venerable Qianlong felt a palpitation in his heart, and he could not help but say in fear: "This discovery is enough to shock the Five Continents. At least it lets us know that there is really an evil nest under the sea, so we will not be left without revenge. As the first person in the history of the Five Continents to return from the seabed, you and her will definitely go down in history."

You Su shook his head, "He's not the first one. Before us, there was already a senior who came ashore from the bottom of the sea. But he seems to have returned to the bottom of the sea."

This sentence made the woman's pupils shrink suddenly, as if she was more shocked than knowing that there was really an evil nest under the sea. She wanted to ask You Su who that person was, but suddenly she remembered something, and her face showed even more disbelief:
"You saw her? Is she really not dead yet?"

"I didn't meet that senior, but he left many stone tablets deep under the sea. It was thanks to the stone tablets that recorded various information that we were able to escape death in the sea. I said that he returned, and I also inferred it from the inscriptions on the tablets."

"This lunatic..." The woman murmured softly, unable to hide the shock in her heart.

"He said that it was the Lord who invited him to enter the seabed from the sea well. Does the Lord know who he is?" You Su was very curious about the identity of the senior.

"She said I invited her?" Venerable Qianlong seemed even more surprised.

"Is not it?"

"Of course not. She came to me herself and said she wanted to help me test whether this sea well could really reach the bottom of the sea. I don't even know how she knew I was digging a well here, so of course I wouldn't let her do anything. But she threatened to expose my plan, so I had to agree to this fearless woman's request."

"woman?"

"Yes, but like a man, her title is the Venerable Founder of the Mountain."

You Su frowned and thought carefully, but he couldn't find this person in his mind.

The woman saw his confusion and said, "Her title is taboo, and people dare not even pronounce it, but she insisted on not changing it. In addition, she was born very recently and disappeared two hundred years ago, so people in later generations don't know that there was such a maverick."

Opening up the mountains, opening up the mountains, the most important thing in the world is the five mountains. After listening to this, You Su even felt that Venerable Qianlong's evaluation of this senior's eccentricity was still a bit conservative, and it was clearly a great rebellion.

"Why did this senior disappear?"

"Two hundred years ago, she attacked the Immortal Ancestor Temple on Henggao Mountain with her bare hands. No one knew why, but no one has seen her since then, and even this honorific title has been gradually forgotten. If it was her, it wouldn't be surprising if she wrote on her tombstone that she was invited by me. How could such a domineering person like her admit that she came uninvited?"

The more You Su listened, the more shocked he became, and he lamented that there was such a wonderful woman in the world.

"But why did she go to the bottom of the sea twice?"

"No one knows what she wants to do, including the time she went to the sacred mountain. Compared to those illusory fairies, she is truly independent from the world."

You Su nodded slightly when he heard this, and became more and more curious about what kind of person this senior was.

Seeing that You Su was talking more, the woman pinched her jade fingers without noticing and took the opportunity to ask the question that she was more concerned about.

"Bai Ze, does she... does she hate me?"

You Su knew that the woman couldn't help herself, and fiddled with the rekindled bonfire, "If you really feel guilty, you should ask her yourself. Even if she really hates you, she won't tell me."

You Su felt that since these two people were two souls in one body, they were "family members" who were closer than their own people. How could anyone be so hard on themselves?
Sparks crackled and exploded. Venerable Qianlong looked at the leaping flames, as if she saw herself who always huddled in the shadows. Because she was too lonely, she had a second self.

She had secretly made up her mind that the next time they met, she would let Bai Ze return to this body, even if she had to sleep more in the future.

The firelight made the woman look even paler, like porcelain. You Su still softened his heart: "But when she talked about you to me, there was no hatred or resentment in her eyes. She said that you both did excessive things to each other, but she was the one who was driven out."

The woman finally smiled as if relieved, and it sounded like the clear sound of a spring stream breaking through the ice: "Although she is timid, she is indeed more sober than me."

"Of course, she did say something bad about you. She said that when you were studying in Shenshan, every time you were punished by the lecturer, you would pretend to be unconscious so that she would have to do the punishments, such as copying the "Youshan Book" three hundred times. She will remember this grudge for the rest of her life." You Su smiled wickedly.

The fairy turned her head suddenly, "She even has this..."

"She even said that she caught a cold because of staying up all night, but you blame her for not taking care of her health."

The bonfire suddenly burst into a golden glow, which made the tip of Venerable Qianlong's ears red. She turned her face away, her voice muffled in her fur collar: "You're too talkative."

The snow stopped at some point, and the Milky Way flowed over their heads.

You Su was full and felt a little tired. He leaned against the tree trunk next to the woman and closed his eyes:
"Remember to call me at dawn."

Venerable Qianlong looked at the profile of the young man beside him, stunned and a little dazed.

When a person can fall asleep peacefully next to another person, he or she probably considers her as his or her own.

In the light of the fire, the two people were clearly some distance apart, but in the silhouette they looked like they were leaning against each other.

The woman looked at the thin figure of the boy curled up in the snow, and suddenly took out a piece of cotton wool from her bag and covered him with it. You Su's even breathing was mixed with the woman's very soft murmur:
"Thank you."

You Su's eyelashes trembled slightly, but he did not open his eyes.

He was not really tired, he came to look for his master's wife.

But unexpectedly, when he returned to the warmly decorated Sword Sect courtyard, he did not see the figure that had been haunting him.

Before that, the master's wife would always quietly stay by his bedside.

Did something happen to Master's Wife?

Rather than a bad prediction, You Su was more inclined to believe that his master's wife had her own things to do. After all, no one could live in a dream forever.

The sunrise was silent and the bonfire gradually died down.

"It's time to set off." Venerable Qianlong stood up and brushed off the frost on his skirt. The drama of taking back the sacred mountain finally reached its climax.

You Su looked at the dawn in the sky and suddenly felt that the snow in Beiao was actually quite gentle sometimes.

(End of this chapter)