Evil Master and Disciple

Lotus Peak, where Fairy Yumian lives, is one of the many peaks floating around Xingluo Peak. It's not very large, but gets its name from its lotus-like shape.

Fairy Yumian has been very low-key over the years and rarely leaves Lotus Peak. Every day she plants flowers, plays the piano, drinks tea, and teaches a few disciples how to practice.

Fairy Yumian has three true disciples, and these three disciples are very strange.

The eldest disciple is An Nian, who is sixty-three years old this year and is at the peak of Guiyuan realm. His Buddhist name is Jingchi, and his magic weapon is the Xuangui Sword, which is of immortal grade and was given to Fairy Yumian by Master Xuanfu when she was young. It has the water attribute among the five elements, but also has some Xuanjin attributes.

The second disciple, Zhang Huixin, is sixty-eight years old this year. His Buddhist name is Jingyi, and his magic weapon is the wood-type sword Qingling.

The third disciple, Miao Wanshu, is seventy years old this year. Her Buddhist name is Jingshu. No, she used to be called Jingshu, but now she is called Jingmei. Her magic weapon is the fire-type fairy sword Chixuan.

Other people's disciples are arranged from oldest to youngest in age, but Fairy Yumian's disciples are just the opposite. Among these three true disciples, the eldest disciple An Nian is the youngest, while the youngest disciple Miao Wanshu is the oldest.

This situation is caused by two reasons.

One of them is the Yunhai Sect’s generation system.

Only inner disciples have formal Dharma names, and the ranking is based on the time when the disciple entered the inner sect.

For example, Ye Feng, who is only in his teens, is the eldest disciple of Master Yulong. If Master Yulong accepts another 30-year-old disciple now, even though the disciple is twice as old as Ye Feng, he still has to call Ye Feng "big brother".

The second is the personal factors of Fairy Yumian.

To be honest, Master Yun Yi has been quite caring towards Fairy Yumian over the years and has not deliberately suppressed her because of what happened back then.

It was Fairy Yumian who took the initiative to go to Lotus Peak for meditation. Master Yun Yi gave Fairy Yumian full freedom. She was not under house arrest in Lotus Peak. Like other elders of Yunhai Sect, she could come and go at any time and go down the mountain to gain experience. Even the disciples who would serve her food and daily life were chosen by Fairy Yumian without interference from anyone.

Fairy Yumian has been isolating herself these years.

For the first hundred years or so, Fairy Yumian lived alone on Lotus Peak. Until a few decades ago, when she was a little old, she found several female outer disciples to take care of her daily life.

An Nian was very smart and seized the opportunity. He was the first to enter Lotus Peak.

Fairy Yumian had been bored for more than a hundred years, so she taught An Nian some mental techniques. An Nian was very talented and his cultivation improved rapidly.

Fairy Yumian liked An Nian very much, so less than a year after An Nian entered Lotus Peak, she was accepted as a true disciple, so An Nian is the eldest senior sister.

True disciples mainly practice cultivation all day and cannot spend too much time on housework. Then Fairy Yumian found several outer female disciples one after another.

Yu Mian accepted two disciples who made rapid progress in cultivation as her disciples. This is how she ended up with three disciples, whose ages did not decrease but increased with each level.

There are eight women on Lotus Peak now, four of whom are female disciples who do menial work.

Early in the morning, An Nian stretched and yawned as she walked out of her boudoir in the blue brick and tile house.

She wore a purple-black long skirt with a blue silk ribbon tied around her waist. Her beautiful upper body was like the surrounding mountains, making people want to climb it.

A thin girl in red was watering flowers. Seeing An Nian, she said, "Big Sister, I haven't seen you in the past few days, and now you look so tired. What have you been busy with recently?"

An Nian shook her head and said, "Nothing, I just went to do something. I finished it last night, so I can sleep well from now on. Sister Wanshu, why are you watering the flowers today?"

The girl in red rolled her eyes and said, "Don't call me Wanshu! The "Shu" in my name has lost that touch. Call me Wanmei from now on!"

An Nian said, "Oh, you're still thinking about this. Your Dharma name Jingshu was changed. What does it have to do with your name?"

The girl in red is Miao Wanshu, whose Buddhist name Jingshu was taken away by Huang Ling'er.

Miao Wanshu's cultivation level is not very high. Although she is a few years older than An Nian, she looks like she is already twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, while An Nian now looks like an eighteen-year-old girl.

You can basically judge a person's cultivation level by looking at his age and appearance.

The older you are, the younger you look and the higher your cultivation level.

Miao Wanshu snorted, "Wanshu and Jingshu are the same Shu. My Jingshu has become Jingmei, so Wanshu has naturally become Wanmei too! Don't let me know who stole that from me, or I'll never let her go!"

An Nian smiled and said, "Sister Wanshu, the Transmission Institute has investigated and found that there is a duplicate name. You joined later than the other party, so your Dharma name was changed. It is indeed the first-come, first-served rule of our Yunhai Sect. Don't be angry. I haven't greeted Master for several days. I'll go see if Master has woken up..."

Lotus Peak is a small inverted cone-shaped mountain with a circular top, a large courtyard of about 300 square meters, and seven or eight blue brick and tile houses.

The entire courtyard structure is oriented west to east, and is built almost close to the edge of Lotus Peak.

There was only a small space left at the gate of the courtyard.

An Nian knocked on Fairy Yumian's door, and before Fairy Yumian could say anything, An Nian pushed the door open and walked in.

Fairy Yumian is a few years older than Fatty Yulong, but the two look very different in age.

Fairy Yumian has a very high level of cultivation and has the secret to maintaining her youthful appearance. Although she is nearly four hundred years old, she looks only in her forties. Although there are some fine wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, her skin is still fair and her upper body is not sagging. She does not give people the feeling of loose skin and being very old.

Like An Nian, Fairy Yumian had a red cinnabar dot between her eyebrows, representing purity.

Her room was different from the rooms of other elders. Most of the rooms of the elders of the Yunhai Sect could be described as bare and bare. They kept as few things as possible, and some trivial items were stored in the storage magic weapons they carried with them.

Fairy Yumian's room is different. There are several large ink-splashed landscape scrolls hanging on the wall. Judging from the scenery, they should be paintings of the Tianyun Mountains.

There are a lot of furniture in the house, as well as some flowers and plants.

Even the bed is decorated with carvings of dragons and phoenixes, it is a very expensive loft bed.

A bead curtain divides the room into two parts, the bedroom inside and the leisure and entertainment area outside.

Fairy Yumian loves drinking tea. She has a teahouse carved from an old cypress stump.

She likes to play the piano, and there is a rosewood piano table on one side of the teahouse.

There is a very elegant bronze incense burner on the piano table.

Wisps of white smoke slowly rose from the incense burner, filling the entire room with a light and elegant fragrance.

Fairy Yumian was wearing a white silk dress and was wiping the skin of a guqin with a soft cloth.

Seeing An Nian come in, Fairy Yumian raised her eyelids. Her eyes were very big and had not become dull and turbid due to years of erosion. There was still light in the depths of her eyes.

From the furnishings in her room and the light in her eyes, it can be seen that for the past two hundred years, she has not been enduring in Lotus Peak, but living a life.

"Nian'er, you haven't been at Lotus Peak these past few days. What have you been doing? You're a girl, don't mess around."

"Master, I'm going to help Jinghong!"

An Nian sat obediently in front of the piano table, picked up a wooden stick and a dagger on the table, then opened the lid of the incense burner and gently scratched the wooden stick with the dagger. The wood chips turned into powder and slowly fell into the incense burner, making the fragrance in the room even stronger.

"Help Jinghong? He is currently preparing for the upcoming inner sect competition. How can you help him?" Fairy Yumian was a little curious.

An Nian said casually: "Help him protect Junior Brother Ye Feng."

"What?" Fairy Yumian was stunned. "Protect Ye Feng? That wicked disciple of Old Six, Ye Feng?"

"Yes, someone wants to kill him, so Jinghong asked me to protect him secretly. However, I have been busy for nothing these past few days. I didn't expect that Uncle Yuying also sent Sister Jinhe and Sister Yunshuang'er to protect him secretly, and Uncle Yulong is also hiding in the dark. The killer showed up last night, and I didn't even show my ability..."

Fairy Yumian's eyes fixed, and she said, "Nian'er, what's going on? Tell me in detail."

An Nian shrugged and said, "I don't know either. It seems that Junior Brother Ye Feng was murdered more than three months ago and buried in a mass grave. Fortunately, he was lucky enough to crawl out on his own, but he lost all his memories.

The killer was probably worried that Ye Feng would recover his memory, so he wanted to silence him."

"Who wants to kill Ye Feng?"

"I don't know. He was masked. It seems that Uncle Yulong didn't want us to know his identity, so he took him away directly. Ye Feng has offended too many people in Yunhai Sect. The number of people who want to kill him cannot be counted even if a hundred people put their hands together. It's not surprising."

An Nian actually didn't care much about who wanted to kill Ye Feng.

In her opinion, Ye Feng had offended too many people, and the killer was probably just one of them.

But Fairy Yumian didn't think so.

If it was just a simple personal grudge, why would Yuying secretly send her two most outstanding disciples to protect her?

In the past, Yuying and Yulong had a pretty good relationship, but more than two hundred years ago, something unknown happened and the two suddenly stopped communicating.

Fairy Yumian was living alone on Lotus Peak at that time. It was a long time before she learned from Fairy Yunyu that Yuying and Yulong had returned from the mountain together. Yuying was seriously injured. There was a horrible scar from the bottom of her neck to her navel. She was almost cut in half by a knife. It was indeed a miracle that Yuying did not die with such a serious injury.

Since that time, the relationship between Yulong and Yuying has deteriorated. They quarrel whenever they meet. No one knows what happened between them at the foot of the mountain.

Fairy Yumian asked Yuying several times in private, but every time Yuying looked around and talked about irrelevant things, and did not tell her what happened more than two hundred years ago.

However, over the years, Fairy Yumian always felt that the relationship between Yuying and Yulong was not as bad as it seemed.

Twelve years ago, Yulong picked up his current eldest disciple Ye Feng from the foot of the mountain.

Because Ye Feng was young at the time, less than three years old, Yulong directly threw Ye Feng to Mozhuxuan.

Yuying has been helping Yulong raise Ye Feng for nearly three years.

If Yuying and Yulong were really incompatible, how could she help Yulong raise Ye Feng?

It also reminded me of some things I heard about Ye Feng in recent months.

Fairy Yumian fell into deep thought.

She felt as if she had discovered some big secret.

"Master, Master..."

Seeing that his master was in a daze, An Nian couldn't help but call out to him a few times.

Fairy Yumian came back to her senses.

"Master, what's wrong with you?"

"Nothing, just some memories coming to mind. Nian'er, since the person who wanted to kill Ye Feng has been caught, don't run around. Didn't you say you wanted to participate in this inner sect competition? There are less than two months left, so you should prepare well."

An Nian curled her lips and said, "I'm already sixty-three years old. I can only participate in exhibition matches for older disciples, which are for other sects to see. Even if I achieve the best results, I can't get a ticket to the Lingshan Fighting Competition. Oh, how great it would be if I were under forty!"

The fierce girl sighed, looking depressed.

The Yunhai Sect's inner sect examination is divided into two parts.

The focus is on the battle between disciples under the age of 40, because the Lingshan Competition in half a year requires that all participating disciples must be under 40 years old.

According to the tradition of Yunhai Sect, those who rank in the top ten of this inner sect competition can represent Yunhai Sect to fight in Lingshan.

However, the inner sect examination is held every sixty years, so there must be some disciples who are over forty years old.

For example, Jin He, An Nian and a group of older inner disciples.

It’s not that they are not excellent, but that they are out of age and cannot participate in the Lingshan Competition.

In order to test the cultivation level of this group of disciples and at the same time increase the influence of the sect itself.

Therefore, there is another part in the Yunhai Sect’s internal test, in which young elite disciples between the ages of 40 and 70 can also participate.

Because every time there is a major test, all the sects and independent cultivators in the world will send disciples to watch the ceremony. Although these over-age contestants cannot participate in the Lingshan Competition, they can still become famous throughout the world.