"Qingxuan, from now on, you must take good care of yourself... Some things, don’t remember too deeply, let go... Perhaps you will be a bit happier."

He looked at Sui Yi again, opened his mouth, seemingly embarrassed to speak, or perhaps unable to find the words, but seeing Sui Yi’s slight nod, he understood, and then smiled.

He closed his eyes.

Tyrant Blade Yue Shan, there is regret in this life, that is not being able to defeat that scoundrel, but this is fate.

If back then there wasn’t that moment of compassion... his child would have been as old as Qingxuan by now...

This is fate... 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

Shi Qingxuan buried Yue Shan beside the Secluded Forest Cottage, simply built a grave and erected a monument.

The surrounding flowers and grass linger, the Ancient Trees tower, the stream babbles, the view is expansive and clear, indeed a rare beauty in this world.

After burning incense and paying respects, Shi Qingxuan was no longer sorrowful, just increasingly indifferent...

Sui Yi thought, the disposition of this girl must be even more detached than those in the Buddhist Sect, over time, it’s either becoming indifferent to life and death, or forgetting the mundane world.

"Teacher," Shi Qingxuan gently called to Sui Yi, bringing Sui Yi back to his senses, "Are you ready?"

"Yes... please follow me, Teacher."

Throughout, Shi Qingxuan didn’t mention Yue Shan’s death or her parents to Sui Yi, just led Sui Yi to her small house. Sui Yi waited for a while in the small hall; Shi Qingxuan emerged.

She handed a scroll to Sui Yi.

Sui Yi looked at Shi Qingxuan in surprise.

"This is one of the scrolls left by my mother back in the day... named ’Supreme Goodness like Water’. Before she passed away, she advised me to look at it if I ever had something weighing on my heart... I’ve read it over the years, found it very useful for calming the mind and warding off evil. Teacher, since you carry the Evil Emperor’s Relic’s evil nature, and now you are heading to such a perilous place in the Western Regions, with it, perhaps it may help you somewhat."

The evil nature within Sui Yi is like a ticking time bomb, carrying it to the Western Regions is inherently unstable. Previously, when Shi Feixuan left, she mentioned letting Sui Yi go to Jingnian Zen Temple to use He’s Jade, but Sui Yi didn’t agree. Unexpectedly, fortune turns, and Shi Qingxuan brought out such a Secret Manual.

The cultivation technique scroll left by Bi Xiuxin? And the strength of Shi Qingxuan’s mind and determination is evident, since she says it can dispel the evil nature, the power of this cultivation technique is apparent, and it was deliberately left for her by Bi Xiuxin, considered as a relic.

This kindness... probably quite significant.

"Teacher saved me, not to mention this scroll, even all the cultivation techniques, my mother would be willing to give to you..." Shi Qingxuan, like Sui Yi, tends to speak softly yet has a charm that is hard to refuse.

Sui Yi tilted his head, looking at Shi Qingxuan’s clear and serene eye color, "I’m about to go to the Western Regions... I’m afraid I won’t be able to return it to you in the short term, otherwise, may I copy and print a copy?"

"It’s possible, but this scroll was written by my mother in Gold Inscription, the original and the copy are somewhat different, Teacher is best using the original."

Shi Qingxuan’s generosity made Sui Yi raise his eyebrows slightly, and he didn’t refuse, "... then I will bring it back when I return from the Western Regions, is that okay?"

Shi Qingxuan nodded, smiled, "Is this considered a promise from Teacher to Qingxuan?"

Sui Yi was stunned, said, "It is."

"Then that’s better than anything..." Shi Qingxuan smiled slightly.

Sui Yi did not stay long in this cottage, Shi Qingxuan did not keep her either, but before Sui Yi left, she deposited the painting scroll given by Lie Xun at Shi Qingxuan’s place, as she had no suitable place for it outside of Changan, and the painting scroll could not be taken to the Western Regions. Leaving it with Shi Qingxuan was the most appropriate, after all, she would return from the Western Regions and return the mental method.

Shi Qingxuan naturally agreed and said farewell to Sui Yi.

After Sui Yi left, Shi Qingxuan stood in the courtyard for a long while, finally looking at the spot where the large Buddha sat, just glancing lightly, some garment corners flashed in the corner of the large Buddha.

Her eyes darkened slightly, turned and walked into the house.

Changan, within a certain palace courtyard.

A woman leaned against a pillar, a carrier pigeon landed on her fingertip, took down the letter and looked at it, her lips curved slightly, "Western Regions, Snow God Mountain... turns out still need to go over there~~"

She turned her head to look toward the Western Regions, her eyes deepened, "Someone is already awake, next, it should be their clash."

Western Regions borderlands, Barbaric Wilderness Lands, the weather is unpredictable, frigid or scorching.

But near Snow God Mountain direction, plus now the season, just arrived at the Western Regions borderlands, it’s full of people wearing big cotton jackets, such a lot of "plump people".

And the sky university snow flying, resembling the white fluff of those cotton jackets, desperately and incessantly falling, the mountain, piece by piece towering white, the plains, piece by piece endless white, the lake, piece by piece thick and hard as iron white, ordinary people frozen cheeks cracked, glowing red, martial artists with frosty temples, singing loudly the songs of Central Plains or those from the Hu people...