106: Chapter 106 Jiang Jibai

"Sister Shen, what are we going to do after you leave!"

Inside the immortal cave, Li Youcai's voice was choked with sobs and his eyes were red-rimmed. If not for being intimidated by your usual authority, he might have just hugged your thighs and wept bitterly.

"It's fine, just keep a low profile in your actions usually."

As you accepted this year's tribute handed over by him, you casually comforted him.

The Bailian Sect that you had casually founded back then actually gave you a little surprise.

Its core members had all moved into Qingheng Island. Relying on your majesty and with Master Huoyan as your backing, riding on borrowed power, it had actually developed quite well.

Now, there were actually around five hundred gang members, and even a few Foundation Establishment cultivators had joined.

"Sister Shen..."

"Alright, alright, hurry up and spread the news. Don't wait until I've left and have some people still courting death."

You originally intended to ignore them, but considering that they had helped you acquire quite a lot of resources over the past twenty years, even without great contributions, they had put in hard work.

"Fine, I will instruct the Senior Brother to look after you a bit, but you must not act as arrogant and domineering as you used to."

As for whether the Senior Brother would listen to you, there was no need to worry; you had your own clever ways.

"Hey! Alright, alright, thank you, Sister Shen! Then this subordinate won't disturb you anymore!"

Li Youcai's mouth split all the way to his ears. After bowing in salute, he scampered away outside the immortal cave.

You looked at Shi Ying, who was standing aside with a listless expression, and raised an eyebrow.

"Are you looking like this because you've seen through the mortal world?"

"Sister Shen, I..."

The suspected lesbian, Miss Shi, hesitated to speak, stopping and starting over again.

That appearance was extremely similar to an infatuated person who had feelings difficult to express and promises difficult to keep.

"Ah~ Little Shi, I advise you not to think about following me, or else you will be even more miserable."

You stood up and earnestly patted her shoulder.

Seeing that her expression was still dejected, and thinking of their companionship over the past twenty years—considering her a special kind of good brother—you decided to encourage her a bit.

"Cultivate hard. The day you can smash a Nascent Soul cultivator with your bare hands, you can go to the Yucha Sect to snatch me back and do whatever you want."

Hearing this, Shi Ying abruptly raised her head, her pupils suddenly contracting as if a new world had opened up to her. Without even having time to greet you, she turned around and ran outside.

"Where are you going?"

"Cultivating!!!"

"Ah~ Youth is great."

Looking at her passionate back, you couldn't help but sigh softly.

Unlike you, normal cultivation had no hope at all; you could only rely on dual cultivation to sustain life...

...

Three days later, five flying boats slowly rose into the air from Qingheng Island.

Among them, four flying boats guarded an extremely gorgeous giant main boat, slowly flying toward the outside of the island.

On the main boat, you wore a scarlet-and-gold wedding dress, your long hair styled into a nine-loop bun adorned with all kinds of rare pearls and jades. Wearing a phoenix crown and embroidered cape, your entire body was illuminated by magical treasures with misty spiritual light, as gorgeous as a goddess from the nine heavens descending to the mortal world.

Just quietly sitting there already interpreted what it meant to have a country-overthrowing beauty and an appearance that puts the fish to shame and geese to descent.

But at this moment, a trace of sorrow was dyed between your brows. Sitting quietly before the guqin, a low zither melody slowly drifted out from the private room, as if it were recounting the endless sorrow in a woman's heart.

Jiang Jibai stood outside the door with a frown, raising his hand several times to knock, only to slowly lower it in the end. He had no identity or stance to ask what was wrong with the woman inside the room.

Just as he was about to turn and leave, a muffled, low sob suddenly came from inside the room.

Jiang Jibai suddenly thought of the young girl's bright smile that day, her shy expression, and those repeated calls of "Senior Brother" filled with sincere joy...

"Bang!"

His reason was instantly washed away. Unable to hold back any longer, he shoved open the door and saw a scene that made his heart tremble slightly.

The woman in full ceremonial attire was slumped by the window. Several strings of the guqin in front of her had snapped, and large tears rolled down from her red-rimmed eye sockets, heavily smashing onto the broken strings.

"Wuwuwu..."

After entering the room, those low sobs merged into waves of muffled crying, oppressing Jiang Jibai's chest with stuffiness.

"Senior Brother..."

As if you had just noticed him, you hurriedly turned your back and randomly wiped away the tears on your face.

Jiang Jibai remained silent for a long time before slowly walking closer, yet he only quietly sat down on the chair beside you without saying a single word.

He didn't know how to comfort you, nor did he understand why you were crying.

Perhaps because the embrace that day was too abrupt, he suddenly wanted to open his mouth and ask, but looking at the attire on your body, he didn't know how to speak anymore.

"Master is forcing me to marry someone; can Senior Brother help me?"

Your slightly hoarse voice suddenly sounded in the room, catching Jiang Jibai off guard for a moment.

Didn't Junior Sister happily accept it that day? Why had it turned into being forced by Master?

"Ah~"

You let out a faint sigh and tore off the heavy ornaments.

At this moment, beneath it all, you were still wearing a cyan-and-white long dress, just like that day, carrying a bit of haughtiness as you gave a dissatisfied glare to the dazed Jiang Jibai.

Before he could have any reaction, a familiar faint fragrance wafted into the tip of his nose.

"Junior Sister..."

Before he could speak, you reached out and pressed against his lips, your eye sockets once again brimming with tears.

"Senior Brother, do you know that Master taking me in as a disciple was purely to make me marry that stranger."

Saying this, you suddenly smiled self-deprecatingly.

"With Lianhuan's low cultivation and foolish aptitude, I'm afraid this is the only value I have left..."

Hearing this, Jiang Jibai, who was just about to push away your hand, slowly lowered it back down.

"It's not that I don't want to refuse, but once I speak up, I'm afraid I won't even have a final path to survival left."

Listening to your words of utter despair, Jiang Jibai's heart was also filled with a complex mix of emotions and a myriad of feelings.

How could he not understand this reasoning? It was just that Master had the grace of a second birth toward him, and he could no longer afford to betray...

Seeing him display a troubled look, you chuckled softly in your heart.

You suddenly sat up in his arms, the distance between the two of you instantly closing, making even each other's heartbeats clearly audible.

"Senior Brother~"

Hearing this soft and sweet voice, Jiang Jibai only felt a chill shoot up from his spine straight to his crown.

That string named reason was already tottering on the verge of snapping.

Your finger gently pressed against his descending lips, your tear-soaked eyes gazing affectionately at him while shaking your head desperately.

"No way... If Master finds out, she will never let you off."

Jiang Jibai also calmed down, but the gaze he directed at you was filled with pity and fondness.

"Junior Sister..."

A massive amount of romantic threads gushed out from within his body. For such a cultivator with a firm Dao heart, once they developed romantic feelings, their emotions would be a hundred times more intense than an ordinary person's!