“Ah ……” the twin girls ah’d, followed by some apologies, “I haven’t had a chance to say, Smokey has been in seclusion.”
Mo Wuji’s face sank, what was too late, this was simply an excuse. He didn’t believe that Granny Linglong was lying to him in the first place, even if he didn’t have the opportunity and time to talk to Smokey regularly, Granny Linglong would have told Smokey the truth before.
“Smokey, I’m Mo Wuji, do you really not remember me?” Mo Wuji didn’t chase after her this time, instead, he called out loudly.
All the gazes were focused on Mo Wuji, Mo Wuji had been out for almost a year and didn’t know who Smokey was. However, there was no one in the Questioning Heaven School Palace who didn’t know who Smokey was.
She was the only Mutant Five Elements Spiritual Root in the Questioning Heaven School Palace, and was also the fastest cultivator in the Questioning Heaven School Palace. In a year’s time, she had crossed the Pulse Expansion Realm, and not only had she opened up a hundred spirit complexes, she had also cultivated to the tenth level of Pulse Expansion, and finally succeeded in building her spirit. At this moment, Smokey was already a strong person at the seventh level of Spirit Building. It was conceivable that in the near future, Miss Smokey might be the first powerhouse of the new generation of the Heavenly Enquiring School Palace to ask for the True God Realm.
If it wasn’t for the matter of the extra-territorial cultivators appearing on the Lost Continent this time, Smokey would have already been famous throughout the Lost Continent, and would have been the proudest of the proud sons of the Questioning Heaven School Palace!
Even if the Questioning Heaven School Palace was now fighting with the Extraterrestrial Cultivators, Granny Linglong had sent Shi Jinwen to follow Smokey. Shi Jinwen was not only a Sixth Grade Earthly Pill Master, her strength was also renowned throughout the entire Questioning Heaven School Palace.
“Mo Wuji? It was you who sent me to my master’s side and requested for my master to save me?” Smokey turned her head and walked back when she heard the three words Mo Wuji.
Mo Wuji was pleasantly surprised, he didn’t expect that someone had already told Smokey about this long ago, presumably it was Granny Linglong who said it.
“Yeah, it’s me, Smokey don’t you remember anything from before?” Mo Wuji hurriedly said.
Seeing Smokey taking the initiative to talk to Mo Wuji, Shi Jinwen didn’t say anything else even though it was unpleasant. Smokey was not only the treasure of the Dan Tower, but likewise the treasure of the Heavenly Enquiring Academy.
Smokey softly said, “Big Brother Mo, I don’t remember the past though. Master and I said to remember your kindness. If you didn’t save me, I might have died long ago.”
Although Mo Wuji could hear a strong sense of gratitude from Smokey’s tone, he was not half as elated. Smokey was no longer the Smokey that clung to him before and did everything for him. She finally had her own thoughts, her own opinions.
Mo Wuji was tempted to continue talking about the matters of the Northern Qin County Kingdom and the Lord Cheng Yu Kingdom, things that Granny Linglong didn’t know and needed him to tell Smokey herself.
However, this gratitude and independence of Smokey’s made Mo Wuji suddenly lose the idea of telling Smokey about this. Let bygones be bygones, hadn’t he always wanted Smokey to have her own opinions and thoughts? Now that Smokey had them, not only did she have them, she also had strong qualifications and a master, he should be happy for her.
“Big brother Mo, thank you, I wanted to go look for you a long time ago, but I’ve just been in seclusion. This time, when my master wasn’t around, I pestered my senior sister to take me to the place where I fought with the extra-territorial cultivators to try out, and this is the only time I got the chance to meet up with you ……” As she spoke, Smokey had already taken out a storage pouch and handed it over to Mo Wuji, “Big Brother Mo, this bit of stuff is my token of appreciation, even though I know it’s more than your saving your life, this is nothing at all …… Please don’t mind these things, Big Brother Mo ……”
Mo Wuji subconsciously accepted the storage bag, the fact that taking a storage bag and giving it away was in itself an extremely extravagant thing. Not to mention the fact that there were things in the storage bag.
“Smokey, if you want to know about your previous memories, I can tell you.” A dazed feeling surged through Mo Wuji’s heart, causing him to wonder to himself why he had said the words he originally did not want to say.
Smokey shook her head, “Big Brother Mo, Senior Sister told me that the reason why I am cultivating faster than everyone else right now. It’s because my heart is clean and clear, with no distractions. If I knew a lot of things from the past, maybe I would never have this cultivation speed again. But I’m still very grateful to Brother Mo, thank you.”
After saying this, Smokey bowed to Mo Wuji, “Maybe in the future, when I’ve achieved success in my cultivation, I’ll come back to find Big Brother Mo, and ask him to help me tell me about the interesting things from the past.”
Was the previous anecdotes? Mo Wuji looked up at the still familiar Smokey and suddenly became disillusioned. The reason why Smokey was able to cultivate so quickly, aside from having something to do with her spiritual root qualification, her comment about having no distractions was indeed an important reason. There wasn’t any cultivator who could be like Smokey, who wasn’t disturbed by things in the outside world and didn’t have so many messy things in her heart.
“Thank you Miss Smokey for the gift, I’ll just put it away.” Mo Wuji put away the storage bag and suddenly smiled, “Actually, there wasn’t much in the past and I’ve pretty much forgotten about it. That’s all, if Miss Smokey has any difficulties in the future, you can still come to me, Mo Wuji, in my heart, I will always be your big brother.”
“Hmph!” Shi Jinwen snorted coldly, “A mere outer disciple, big talk. Smokey, let’s go.”
Smokey turned back to Mo Wuji and bowed once again, “Thank you, Big Brother Mo, Smokey will definitely keep this in mind.”
After saying, these words, she no longer stayed for a moment longer and turned around to walk to Shi Jinwen’s side.
Mo Wuji looked at the far away Smokey, a feeling rose in his heart. He had come to this world for more than a year, but he had yet to completely see himself as a true cultivator. He did a lot of things that were laced with emotions and ego emotions.
It was as if he insisted on coming back to see Smokey this time, as if he was still thinking about Fei Bingzhu and the Tao Ao couple, and as if he had been very apologetic for letting Eleven Niang send Mo Xiangtong away and give up the Leaping Immortal Sect Assembly ……
Smokey, on the other hand, had integrated into a cultivator’s identity much earlier than he had; she had favours to repay favours, and then completely dropped everything to pursue the cultivator’s path. Never waste her avenue because of favours, it can be said that public and private are clearly separated.
Was this also what he needed? Mo Wuji shook his head, this was not what he needed. He had his own path, and his dao was all worked out by himself. For him, what should be memorised, that must be remembered.
Right at this moment, a barefoot man carrying an unsheathed longsword landed in front of him, and this barefoot man’s gaze swept around the grand hall. Mo Wuji then felt as if he was being seen through and through as if his entire body was being torn apart by a sharp sword a few times.
“Greetings, Elders!” After this barefoot man appeared, the numerous disciples in the grand hall bowed to greet him.
The barefoot man nodded and then said, “This time, when we go to the battlefield of the great war with the extra-territorial cultivators, I will lead the team together with Elder Shi Jinwen of the Dan Tower. Please exit the main hall below the Spirit Building Realm, outer disciples, and miscellaneous disciples ……”
Mo Wuji was slightly stunned, what was going on? He had originally planned to follow the crowd to check out the Extraterrestrial Battlefield, it would be best to protect Smokey at all times. Although Smokey’s cultivation level was higher than his, she had been in closed-door cultivation, she hadn’t seen much of the insidiousness of the cultivators outside, so she might have fallen for someone else’s trick and she wouldn’t even know it.
It did not occur to me that the leader of the Sword Lake, Zhu Yue Shan, said that the outer disciples were not qualified to go to the battlefield.
Mo Wuji quickly reacted as he said to Ren Tianxing, “Senior Brother Ren, I’ll see you later.”
He guessed that Ren Tianxing would definitely be going to the battlefield where he was fighting with the extra-territorial cultivators, and since he was not qualified, he would go to Ask Heavenly City first.
Smokey’s qualifications were so high, and with Shi Jinwen taking care of her on the side, he didn’t really need to worry about Smokey’s safety.
Even if Mo Wuji didn’t explain anything, Ren Tianxing vaguely understood something, he took out a wooden box and handed it to Mo Wuji: “Senior Brother Mo, I believe we’ll see each other again soon, you don’t need to worry about that matter, I reckon that he went to the battlefield as well. The things inside this box will be of use to you, take it first.”
“Good, thank you Senior Brother Ren.” Mo Wuji collected the items and turned around. Since this was not a place for him, an outer disciple, there was no need for him to remain here.
He also understood the meaning of Ren Tianxing’s words, which was for him not to care about Jin Yu. With such a big event happening in the five empires, Jin Yu must have gone to the battlefield.
Leaving the sect hall, Mo Wuji opened the item that Ren Tianxing gave him and found that it was a face . Mask Spiritual Instrument. Mo Wuji’s heart was filled with gratitude, he naturally knew why Ren Tianxing gave him the face . Mask Spiritual Vessel. Even though Jin Yu was not in the Questioning Heaven School Palace, this item was really a blessing in disguise for him.
Mo Wuji had planned to go back to his cave to take a look around, thinking that he didn’t have anything in the Outer Sect Peak. Perhaps Chao Buheng was still a friend, and now that he had offended Jin Yu, it was obviously not the right time to go to Chao Buheng.
After a slight hesitation, Mo Wuji also decided to go to Ask Heavenly City to see if Zhen Shaoke had arrived at Ask Heavenly City.
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After arriving at Questioning Heaven City once again, Mo Wuji felt even more of that depression from the invasion of the outer domain cultivators. He had been to Questioning Heaven City a few times, and it had never been like this. Not only were the streets sparsely populated, even those merchant buildings were deserted.
Mo Wuji purposely came to Luo Hai Merchant Building to enquire about Nine Moons Dan Pavilion, to Mo Wuji’s regret he did not get the news of Nine Moons Dan Pavilion’s entry into Questioning Heaven City from Luo Hai Merchant Building here.
Luo Hai Merchant House was also in the elixir business, since Luo Hai Merchant House had not even learnt of Nine Moons Dan Pavilion’s entry into Questioning Heaven City, it meant that Nine Moons Dan Pavilion had indeed not yet come to Questioning Heaven City.
Mo Wuji was not worried about Nine Moons Dan Pavilion not being stationed in Questioning Heaven City. The land in Questioning Heaven City was difficult to get, and as Nine Moons Dan Pavilion was a latecomer, it was only normal that it did not have the means to purchase a commercial building here.
He didn’t want to go back to the Heavenly Questioning Palace, and there was nothing for him to do in Heavenly Questioning City. Mo Wuji was debating whether or not to go to the Extraterrestrial Battlefield alone to take a look, when he heard someone behind him call out, “Senior Brother Mo.”
What a familiar voice, Mo Wuji turned around and saw a familiar face, Cen Shuyin. Compared to the previous times he had seen her, Cen Shuyin’s face was even paler and her expression was extremely haggard. Even so, it was difficult to conceal her stunning beauty.
No good, Cen Shuyin’s condition was definitely caused by cultivating the Seven Styles of Heavenly Thunder. Mo Wuji’s first thought was to hurry up and leave.
