I Outworked the Entire Cultivation World
Chapter 574 - 523: Saving a Life
On the way back to the Yun clan, Jiang Yuebai encountered someone.
It was the scruffy cultivator Chu Xin, who was waiting on the path that one must take to reach the Yun Clan Land. Since flying was forbidden in the Yun Clan Land, everyone had to walk through this pine forest path to enter the valley.
Seeing him, Jiang Yuebai was both surprised and unsurprised.
"Why aren’t you running?" Jiang Yuebai asked first.
Chu Xin raised an eyebrow in surprise, "How did you know it was me?"
At this point, he didn’t intend to hide anything.
Jiang Yuebai chuckled lightly, "I can recognize anything I’ve marked even with my eyes closed."
Chu Xin moved his still-burning shoulder without concealment, "Your fire is pretty powerful. I figured, with you at the Yun clan, my plans won’t work, so let’s just sit down and talk."
"Lin Zhengtang and Yan Ziru are your parents? And you killed the Snow Demon? What grievance do you have with the Yun clan?" Jiang Yuebai asked.
The "Lin" from Lin Zhengtang and the "Yan" from Yan Ziru were both present in Chu Xin’s name, so when Jiang Yuebai saw the memorial tablets, he associated them with Chu Xin. He intended to return to the Yun clan to probe a bit, but he didn’t expect Chu Xin to show up himself.
However, it was strange that if he had a grudge with the Yun clan, then why had he previously attacked that Lei clan male cultivator who was bullying Yun Muyuan?
Chu Xin scratched the stubble on his face, "You want the Ten Thousand Years Stalactite, right?"
Jiang Yuebai raised an eyebrow, "Will you give it? If you’re willing, I’ll leave immediately and depart from the Doumu Realm, never interfering with your enmity with the Yun clan again."
Chu Xin shrugged helplessly, "I’d like to give it to you, but I can’t. Besides, you took my Undetermined Cold Ice Spring. Doesn’t that count as compensation?"
"I took it by skill. If you have the skill, take it back." Jiang Yuebai said shamelessly.
Chu Xin chuckled and shook his head, "Alright, I’ll accept my loss this time. If you help me rescue someone, I can give you some more of the Ten Thousand Years Cold Stalactite. How about it?"
Jiang Yuebai thought for a moment. If she couldn’t get the Ten Thousand Years Stalactite, obtaining enough Ten Thousand Years Cold Stalactite would work as well. After all, she only wanted it for refining artifacts, not to drink it.
"Who do you need saved?"
"My brother."
"Where is he?"
"In Yun Muyuan’s hands."
Jiang Yuebai was stunned for a moment, then quickly reacted, "You’re not the children of the Snow Demon and Yun Muyuan?"
Indeed, pure-blooded demons and humans couldn’t have offspring. Only Extraordinary People, who were born with a mixed bloodline of humans and demons, could produce offspring with both human and demon bloodlines.
The two children of the Snow Demon and Yun Muyuan were actually taken from someone else.
Previously, she intended to investigate at the Yun clan whether the Snow Demon’s children were born within the clan. But now that was unnecessary.
Chu Xin was the eldest son mentioned in the previous story, "accidentally killed" by the Snow Demon, and Yun Muyuan was now trying his best to save Chu Xin’s younger brother, publicly known as the second son of the Snow Demon and Yun Muyuan.
Chu Xin attacked the Yun clan repeatedly, possibly just to take his brother away.
"How do we save him?" Jiang Yuebai asked.
If saving someone was all it took to get the Ten Thousand Years Cold Stalactite, things would be much simpler. She really didn’t want to get involved in this feud, nor did she want to wreak havoc.
"You trust me so easily?" Chu Xin asked in return.
Jiang Yuebai smiled confidently, "Anyone trying to scam me has never walked away alive from my hands!"
Except that bastard Qii Siheng, whom she planned to deal with sooner or later!
Chu Xin nodded, releasing his crossed arms and standing straight, his gaze briefly drifting to where Yun Muyuan resided.
"The valley where Yun Muyuan stays is a trap. There’s a ’Three Fire Tribulation Immortal Array’ set up there. I’m not confident in breaking in safely. Once you return to the Yun clan, Yun Muyuan will come to find you. At that time, you carry this with you and follow him into the array."
Chu Xin raised his hand, and an Ice Crystal Snowflake Pendant dangled under his palm.
Jiang Yuebai squinted to examine the Snowflake Pendant, which looked identical to the mark on the Bear King’s forehead.
"And then? Where’s the Ten Thousand Years Cold Stalactite?"
"Once I’ve settled my grudge with Yun Muyuan, I’ll naturally give it to you."
Jiang Yuebai lowered her eyes, and three strands of divine thought calculated the potential problems and solutions throughout the process.
In any case, she was confident she could retreat unscathed.
"Alright."
Jiang Yuebai agreed, lifted her hand to absorb the Snowflake Pendant into her grasp. Chu Xin smiled slightly and turned into a cold wind, leaving first.
"He actually cultivated the Undetermined Cold Ice Body. Remarkable!"
Jiang Yuebai tucked the Snowflake Pendant into her sleeve and broke through the sky, returning to the Yun Clan Land in less than half an hour.
Upon returning, she saw Xing Qishan, beaming with joy, preparing to lead a group of Yun clan Foundation Establishment Disciples out.
The cold wind whistled, Chu Xin tucked his hands together, with messy hair, he also looked like someone who had just returned from outside.
"Where are you going?" Chu Xin asked casually without looking at Jiang Yuebai.
Xing Qishan didn’t sell him face and snorted before leaving.
The following Cloud Family disciple respectfully said, "Master Qishan has discovered traces of the Snow Demon, we’re going over to investigate first."
Chu Xin sniffed, "Be careful then."
After speaking, Chu Xin yawned, passed by Jiang Yuebai, and returned to rest at the guest house.
Jiang Yuebai: ...
Really knows how to act!
If the Cloud Family knew the Snow Demon was living among them, wouldn’t they be scared to death?
Fortunately, the guest house is on the outskirts of the Cloud Clan Land, completely separated from the Cloud Family’s important places with an independent array; otherwise, who knows what might happen.
Jiang Yuebai walked to the courtyard where she lived and indeed saw Yun Muyuan.
Heavy snow covered his entire body. No one knew how long he stood there, as the snow had buried his calves.
He looked exhausted, like someone who had nowhere to turn, trapped in a desperate situation. Only when he saw Jiang Yuebai did a glimmer of light ignite in his eyes.
Yun Muyuan walked straight to Jiang Yuebai and first bowed with his hands folded.
"Earlier, I was being offensive, and I ask you to help me, my friend."
Jiang Yuebai raised an eyebrow, finding his change in attitude somewhat bewildering.
Yun Muyuan explained, "A few days ago, I heard the disciples in the clan say that your friend is skilled in Fire Method, which is why I wanted to ask for your help..."
Jiang Yuebai suddenly understood that Yun Muyuan did not believe that she could help earlier. After learning she was skilled in the Fire Method, having no other option, he came to ask her to try.
This information must have been revealed to Yun Muyuan by Chu Xin.
Earlier, Jiang Yuebai believed Yun Muyuan was acting out of fatherly love, thinking it was because he was a foster son, but upon learning he wasn’t, Yun Muyuan’s willingness to let his cultivation fall, even humbling himself to save someone, brought mixed emotions.
If not for some interest worthy of such sacrifice, his actions genuinely moved people.
Jiang Yuebai did not immediately agree, "You know what I want, I won’t help for nothing."
Yun Muyuan raised his head; his white hair was covered with frost. After struggling several times, he said, "The Yun Family’s Secret Treasure I truly cannot give you, but if you need anything else, I will do my best to fulfill it."
"Then you should first prepare a deposit of 100,000 Spirit Stones. Once I receive the Spirit Stones, I will follow you."
Yun Muyuan clenched his fist, "I will find a way to gather the Spirit Stones for you, but Songhe can’t wait any longer."
Jiang Yuebai looked steadily at Yun Muyuan’s reddening eyes and sighed, "Alright, I’ll go and see first."
"Thank you, my friend!" Yun Muyuan bowed deeply.
Jiang Yuebai followed Yun Muyuan away from the Cloud Clan Land toward the mountain valley of the back hill. She constantly felt a Divine Thought of the Nascent Soul Stage surrounding her and Yun Muyuan, with others following behind.
It seems Chu Xin was right; the Cloud Family isolated Yun Muyuan in a place, setting a trap to lure the Snow Demon onto the hook.
Only it’s unknown whether the Cloud Family knows the Snow Demon is already dead and the current Snow Demon is Chu Xin?
With Yun Muyuan’s guidance, Jiang Yuebai smoothly entered the mountain valley behind the Great Array.
The snow was white and thick, with a solitary wooden cabin standing at the foot of the mountain.
Upon entering the cabin, the Spirit Wood burning in the stove filled the whole room with orange-red light, yet the bed in the corner of the room continued to emit bursts of piercing cold air.
A pale-faced, extremely thin teenager lay quietly sleeping on the wooden bed, covered with a thick fur blanket, and tiny ice crystals adorned his curled eyelashes.
If it weren’t for the breathing, he would look just like a corpse.
Jiang Yuebai walked over, and Yun Muyuan lifted Yun Songhe’s hand from under the blanket, revealing only a layer of skin wrapping it.
Jiang Yuebai checked his pulse with two fingers. As soon as her fingers touched his skin, a powerful chill surged throughout Yun Songhe’s body right up to the heart, but the chill contained Demon Energy.
This scenario felt familiar to Jiang Yuebai; it was like when she unintentionally fused with Jia Xiuchun’s Cloud Mushroom Grass Bloodline because of Little Green.
Only Jia Xiuchun was an Extraordinary Person, and the Cloud Mushroom Grass Bloodline was very weak. It was transformed and absorbed through Little Green, and a Supreme Elder at the Divinity Transformation Stage intervened in time, allowing her to survive the ordeal and successfully fuse.
However, Yun Songhe was different; he absorbed the pure Demon Energy without much cultivation and survived until now, a true miracle!
"What do you think, can you drive away this chill, my friend?" Yun Muyuan asked urgently.
Jiang Yuebai withdrew her hand and looked at Yun Muyuan, asking, "You and the Snow Demon, are you trying to turn him into an Acquired Extraordinary Person?"
Yun Muyuan’s pupils quivered, and the Ice Crystal Snowflake Pendant fell from Jiang Yuebai’s sleeve, instantly turning into cold mist. Chu Xin stepped out from it.
"Father, long time no see."