In just half a moment, Tingbai returned to the mountaintop where they had been before.
However, right in front of him, there was no longer any sign of the Emperor Venerable.
"Muwan, where's the Emperor Venerable?"
"He's gone."
Tingbai let out a sigh and then said, "I've basically grasped all the information about that guy just now. That fellow is called Qingfeng. He's a protector of the Divine Sect. If I hadn't used a special spiritual technique, I'm afraid he would have detected me."
Muwan gave a charming smile. In front of the Emperor Venerable, Tingbai was so timid that he didn't dare to say a word.
No one knew that he was actually a six - element spiritual pharmacist.
"The Emperor Venerable always does things unexpectedly and is unpredictable."
Yan Ruyu, the millennium - old imperial teacher, had stayed in Qingyun Country longer than anywhere else.
The place where the Emperor Venerable lived was on a mountain ridge in Qingyun Country that pierced straight into the clouds. Every time, he would stare blankly at Qingyun Country.
It was said that this was the place where the Emperor Venerable had grown up.
They couldn't even begin to imagine what the Emperor Venerable, such a powerful being, had been like in his childhood.
In the place where the Emperor Venerable rested, there were several spiritual tablets.
It seemed that they were for the Emperor Venerable's birth parents.
Every time the Emperor Venerable mentioned the two people on the spiritual tablets, a faint smile would always appear on his lips.
There was also a thought - provoking spiritual tablet. On it was engraved only three characters - Aunt Qin. They didn't know who Aunt Qin was, and they didn't dare to ask.
"Let's go together?"
"No. The Emperor Venerable only told you to wait for him in the capital, Chang'an. I'm going back to Qingyun Country."
"What are you going back to Qingyun Country for? Did Su Mu tell you to go back?"
Muwan shook her head and said, "Qingyun Country is the Emperor Venerable's homeland. I have to return to Qingyun Ridge. If something happens to the lord of Qingyun Country, he will surely come to find the Emperor Venerable. If I'm there, it will save the Emperor Venerable from having to travel back and forth."
Tingbai nodded, paused for a moment, and said, "Then be careful."
"Okay."
The names Muwan and Tingbai were both given to them by Yan Ruyu.
Muwan: Like being bathed in the spring breeze, gentle and melodious. Just hearing the name, one could tell that it belonged to a gentle woman.
Tingbai: Pleasant to the ear, growing old together in harmony. This name was elegant, but it didn't match Tingbai's true nature. It was said that this was the name the Emperor Venerable casually gave him when he took a baby as his disciple and returned to Qingyun Ridge.
Pleasant to the ear, growing old together in harmony.
Could it be that the Emperor Venerable had fallen in love with someone at that time and wanted to grow old with that person?
However, all these were just Tingbai's idle speculations without any substantial evidence.
"I wonder who that important figure is that could make the Emperor Venerable take action personally. This is only the second time I've seen such a thing in my life."
The first time was seven years ago.
At that time, the Emperor Venerable had been dealing with a sudden flood in Qingyun Country and was extremely busy. It was not until evening that he had a little spare time.
As soon as he opened his spiritual sense, he felt a sharp pain in his chest. Immediately afterwards, they saw the usually elegant Emperor Venerable mobilize his spiritual power like a madman. He directly tore through the plane and forcibly reversed space.
More than an hour later, the Emperor Venerable returned.
In his arms, he was holding a red - clothed woman of peerless beauty.
Muwan and Tingbai had seen this woman before.
The Emperor Venerable had once brought her to Qingyun Ridge. At that time, she had just been a child. All day long, she would hold grapes and chase after the Emperor Venerable. At night, she couldn't sleep soundly and would clamor to eat lily fruits.
Such a lively and innocent girl had no breath at all in the Emperor Venerable's arms.
Muwan still remembered that at that time, the Emperor Venerable was the scariest he had ever been in her memory.
For a full seven days, he neither spoke nor ate. He just stared at the red - clothed woman on the ice bed.
Muwan and Tingbai exchanged a few more words and then went their separate ways.
At this moment, in a hidden river in the Eastern Swamp Wilderness, the river was actually torn in half from the middle, as if it had been chopped off.
Slowly, a man walked out from the gap.
Every move of the man seemed to be able to tug at the plane.
As soon as he appeared on this land, the whimpers of a hundred beasts were heard.
At this time, Yan Ruyu was dressed in a white robe. His mother was right. The people of the Feng family were most suitable in white robes. On the corners of the white robe, there were a few embroidered black bamboos, looking elegant and refined.
Beside him, there was also the divine beast, Bai Ze.
As soon as Bai Ze appeared, it would surely cause panic among the demonic beasts in the forest.
The king of all beasts, Bai Ze, had an air quite similar to Yan Ruyu's. They were both cold and hard to get along with.
"Bai Ze, can you sense the aura of a phoenix?"
Bai Ze closed his eyes. After a while, he slowly opened them and shook his head.
The phoenix was the king of all birds. If it was in this hidden river, Bai Ze could easily sense its presence.
But now it seemed that the phoenix was probably not here.
The place where Ling'er had appeared before was a hidden river. The Eastern Swamp Wilderness was vast, and there were countless places like hidden rivers. Trying to find Ling'er was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
But no matter how slim the hope was, he would find a way to find Ye Ling.
He had said that he would protect her for the rest of his life.
She had once declared that when she grew up, she would marry him. He had taken it seriously and it had touched his heart. His father had once said that if a woman could make such a promise to you, she must be sincere to you and you must not treat her lightly.
Yan Ruyu always remembered the story of his father and mother.
His mother's words, with the passage of time, he had never forgotten.
"There's no sign here. Then let's go to the next place."
Bai Ze nodded. The white - robed man slowly walked forward and unexpectedly disappeared from the spot.
Ling'er, for thousands of years, I've lived a very lonely life.
Back then, you stumbled into my arms and made me take responsibility for you.
I gave you a phoenix, taught you mental techniques, and taught you how to refine pills. I thought that all I could give you was just these things. But during those decades of getting along, I gave my heart to you completely.
Wait for me. Wait for me to take you home.
Zhao Shuning, who had been sleeping soundly, suddenly woke up at that moment.
Looking at Shuang'er and Se Se sleeping soundly beside her, her right eyelid kept twitching.
"Could it be that I'm going to have some romantic encounters?"
A twitching right eye foretells romance. This saying was told to her by her master.
When Ye Ling was a child, she was especially afraid of her right eyelid twitching. Because she had heard that a twitching left eyelid foretells wealth, while a twitching right eyelid foretells disaster. So every time her right eyelid twitched, she would cover it tightly.
Once, when her master saw this, he said, "A twitching right eye foretells romance. This means that many people will like Ling'er in the future."
So at this moment, Zhao Shuning's first reaction was, could it be that she was going to have some unwanted romantic encounters?
It couldn't be, could it?