Longevity Fairy: Sister, Please Wait A Little Longer

Chapter 2: 002 - Ning Wanqiu

Chu Bai walked into the small house with his mouth open, then sat on the bamboo stool.

The system added Xiao Shijie's name to the optional partner list, which Chu Bai could understand.

After all, they had a foundation of emotions and had been together for over ten years.

But who is this Sect Master Ning?

"I'm just a Qi Refining early-stage disciple. In this lifetime, I haven't even seen many Gold Core elders, and now I'm supposed to have a partner who is a Soul Formation peak expert?" Chu Bai seriously doubted the crappy system's intention to kill him.

However, there was a line in the prompt that said it wouldn't affect the other party, meaning they wouldn't know about it.

In the future, when Sect Master Ning gets married, this matter will be in the past. So if he chooses Sect Master Ning, it's probably like renting an Innate Cave Mansion, with a lease of several decades, hundreds of years, or even thousands of years.

"She's over three thousand years old and still unmarried. She's either dedicated to the path of the sword for her whole life, or she has some issues in that area." Chu Bai exclaimed in shock.

"Sect Master Ning is a powerful expert at the Soul Formation stage. It should be fine if I mutter something she can't hear, right?"

On Blue Star, information leaks are particularly serious. When a wife goes for a prenatal check-up, private clubs immediately call to invite her.

But in the cultivation world, there are countless people who can fly and hide. Some are skilled in divination and can sense when someone is cursing them, so it's not strange.

"Wait a minute!"

Chu Bai interrupted his chaotic thoughts. "Xiao Shijie is my future partner. I choose Xiao Qingrou, not Sect Master Ning Wanqiu!"

Although he said that, his gaze couldn't help but look at the four characters [Innate Cave Mansion].

[Innate Cave Mansion]: An Innate Spirit Treasure that can condense Spirit Gathering Qi to assist in cultivation. As the owner's level increases, it can also activate trapping formations, killing formations, and shield perception, with endless uses.

"A named partner rewards an Innate Spirit Treasure. The ancient people didn't deceive me."

But Chu Bai still insisted on wanting Xiao Shijie.

"What can an Innate Spirit Treasure do? Can it help me achieve Foundation Building faster?"

The answer is yes.

This is a bit of a headache.

A named partner, unknown to others. Chu Bai and Xiao Shijie's agreement is at the Foundation Building stage, and the system opens up new partner slots at the Foundation Building stage.

Chu Bai is not a sixteen-year-old teenager. Qi Refining cultivators live less than a hundred years, Foundation Building cultivators live three hundred years, and Gold Core cultivators live a thousand years. If he really wants to be with Xiao Shijie for a long time, he should aim for longevity.

Even if he doesn't mention being together, for his own sake, living for a lifetime is incomparable to a few decades or even thousands of years.

With this in mind, Chu Bai's gaze became firm. "Shijie, wait for me to break through Foundation Building, and I will immediately propose to Elder Peng."

Peng Yuchun, Elder Peng of the Medicine Peak, is Xiao Shijie's master.

At the peak of Azure Cloud Sect, with the sound of flowing springs and a rainbow reflecting on the lake, a woman in white sat cross-legged in a small pavilion in the middle of the lake, gently playing the zither.

Her zither music was melodious and pleasing to the ear, with lingering echoes. It blended with the beautiful scenery on the mountaintop, adding a touch of immortality.

She was Ning Wanqiu, the current Sect Master of Azure Cloud Sect, a peak expert at the Soul Formation stage. In her early years, she was known as the Fairy Ning who had spread her name far and wide, even earning the title of the number one fairy of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Now, the passage of time had not left a trace on Ning Wanqiu's face. Instead, it added a transcendent and ethereal temperament. If she were to step out and claim to be the number one fairy, there would still be countless people who would respond.

As the song ended, Ning Wanqiu's fair arm gently lifted from the ancient zither, and with a flick of her slender finger, a bronze mirror appeared out of thin air.

Lord Zong's eyebrows furrowed lightly, his lips moved slightly, and his soft voice echoed, "Only one year left until the day I duel with the Sword Seeking Manor's master. It is rumored that the Sword Seeking Manor's master broke through to the Soul Formation stage last autumn, while I am still unable to break free from the shackles of Soul Formation."

The four major sects of the Da Zhou Empire, Azure Cloud Sect, Sword Seeking Manor, Peach Blossom Valley, each govern themselves. The Da Zhou Empire controls the country's luck and is on par with the top three sects in terms of overall power. Based on this assessment, the Emperor of Zhou is the strongest sect master here.

Ning Wanqiu is not interested in the Emperor, but her master was injured by the former master of the Sword Seeking Manor and had to go into seclusion. The grudges and grievances between the two sects cannot be explained in just a few words. Ten years ago, the two peak Soul Formation stage powerhouses dueled in the Western Desert, and nine years have passed since then.

Clearly, Ning Wanqiu saw the door to the Soul Formation stage nine years ago.

"Why?"

The leader of Azure Cloud Sect, dressed in white, murmured, "Is it just because the founder of the Azure Cloud Sword Technique was a man?"

The wind on the mountaintop stopped, and the flowing water hung motionless in the air.

However, this scene, as if time had stopped, only lasted for a moment. Ning Wanqiu made a gesture of touching the mirror, and everything around her returned to normal.

The bronze mirror in her hand is called the "Heaven's Gaze Mirror," which Ning Wanqiu obtained when she was still an ordinary merchant's daughter.

The first time she used it, she became a female disciple of Azure Cloud Sect, leaving behind her mundane life.

The second time, she killed a spy from the Demon Sect and ascended to the position of sect master.

Since then, a thousand years have passed since she last took out this mirror.

In the duel next year, as the sect master, Ning Wanqiu has means to protect herself, but she doesn't want to lose.

"Peering into the heavenly path is forbidden. The more times you do it, the stronger the backlash, and in severe cases, it can lead to destruction."

But Ning Wanqiu still doesn't want to lose. She has been practicing swordsmanship for three thousand years and has long cultivated an unbeatable spirit. Since she has made up her mind, she must take action.

With the gesture of touching the mirror, something is quietly set in motion.

Ning Wanqiu didn't dare to directly check the outcome of victory or defeat or the opportunity for Soul Formation. What she expressed to the Heaven's Gaze Mirror was whether there was anyone who could help her win this battle.

After a while,

The surface of the bronze mirror rippled, reflecting the figure of a handsome young man.

That boy was weeding in the medicinal field, with a calm expression, sweat on his forehead, and a smile on his lips.

"Him?"

Ning Wanqiu made a gesture, and the boy's background quickly became clear. "My Azure Cloud Sect unexpectedly has an inner disciple at the third level of Qi Refining... Wait! Qi Refining Stage... The heavenly path..."

Ning Wanqiu remembered that the Eastern Demon Nation's blood princess was accepted as a direct disciple by the Demon Ancestor with a Qi Refining body.

The Demon Ancestor said that the blood princess was the daughter of the heavenly path, and it turned out that he was right.

Since the blood princess took power, the former Demon Sect has become today's Demon Nation, and the power of one sect can surpass the four major sects of the Zhou Dynasty.

And that Demon Ancestor has long since ascended to immortality, and everything happened because he accepted the blood princess.

"A Qi Refining Stage cultivator cannot help me, let alone the fact that I only have one year left, unless this Chu Changge is also someone favored by the heavenly path!"

With this thought, Sect Master Ning was about to leave the mountain. Her fair and tender bare feet lightly stepped on the bamboo mat, her clothes fluttering as she floated away, and then floated back.

"Chu Changge is only sixteen, different from the blood princess back then. The disciples of the Demon Sect grew up in a sea of corpses and blood. If I, as the sect master, meet him, it might ruin the fate between us."

For a talented disciple to rise to fame, gain recognition, and be entrusted with important tasks, it requires time to accumulate.

Ning Wanqiu, at the peak of the Soul Formation stage and as the sect master, hastily going over and saying that she sees potential in him and is willing to take him as her disciple might scare the boy to death.

She clenched her right fist against the palm of her left hand, pacing back and forth in the pavilion. "I was too anxious. One year is not short. I can take it slowly."

After speaking, Ning Wanqiu transmitted her voice, "A Li, come and see me."

Suddenly realizing that the introduction had been censored, it was the first time she realized that an introduction could be censored...

(End of this chapter)