We Agreed On Experiencing Life, So Why Did You Immortals Become Real? - Chapter 447: From Now On, This Will Be Your Name, All Right?
The Western Region. Ten Thousand Dao Sect. Devil Lord Peak.
Yu Yunwei, the Sect Master of the Ten Thousand Dao Sect, was reading through intelligence reports sent by the Wind Listening Pavilion.
The more she read, the deeper her elegant brows furrowed.
According to what the Wind Listening Pavilion disciples had reported, Sili had been in the palace for approximately two months now.
Sili suspected that the ruler of the Zhou Kingdom was Senior Brother’s reincarnation, and had entered the palace to investigate. That much Yu Yunwei could understand but she had been embedded in the palace for this long and still had not determined the true identity of the Zhou Kingdom’s ruler?
By all reason, the Zhou Kingdom was nothing more than a minor mortal dynasty, and Sili was no ordinary cultivator.
She was at the early stage of the Immortal realm.
If Sili had truly wanted to, she could have done far more than simply determine whether the Zhou Kingdom’s ruler was Senior Brother’s reincarnation. She could have known exactly who the ruler spent the night with each evening, and for how long.
“Could it be that the Zhou Kingdom’s ruler truly is Senior Brother’s reincarnation, and Sili is simply trying to get a head start for herself, deliberately keeping me in the dark?”
Setting down the report in her hand, this thought suddenly surfaced in Yu Yunwei’s mind and the more she turned it over, the more likely it seemed.
Otherwise, there was absolutely no reason for that Sili to remain in the imperial palace for so long.
As for the possibility of her falling for the Zhou Kingdom’s ruler, that was even less likely.
Although Sili appeared to be a frivolous woman on the surface, in truth her heart could no longer hold room for a second man.
The only person she would ever have feelings for was Senior Brother.
“This will not do. I need to send someone else to the imperial capital to take a look.”
Yu Yunwei thought to herself.
She could no longer place her complete trust in that wayward Sili.
After much deliberation, Yu Yunwei decided that she could send Ning Wei to the Zhou Kingdom.
Ning Wei was the little girl that Senior Brother had brought back. She had always regarded Senior Brother as an elder brother, and likely harbored no special feelings beyond that.
Moreover, Ning Wei was utterly loyal to her, like a younger sister, which made her a far better choice than that wayward Sili.
In addition, although Ning Wei had not yet entered the Upper Three Realms, her Nascent Soul realm strength was more than sufficient to found her own sect and be addressed as a founding ancestor.
Ning Wei was also not the type to go out looking for trouble, so she would not cause any problems in the Ten Thousand Laws Realm.
Furthermore, Ning Wei had been stuck at a bottleneck and was having difficulty breaking through. Letting her travel through the Ten Thousand Laws Realm for a while might give her some unexpected gains.
“Elder Sister Yunwei!”
Just as Yu Yunwei had made up her mind on the right person to send, Ning Wei came rushing in.
“Ning Wei, you are here. Perfect timing. There is something I need to ask of you.” Yu Yunwei said with a smile. “I would like you to leave the Western Region and make a trip to the Zhou Kingdom. How does that sound?”
“Go to the Zhou Kingdom? That is no problem at all…”
Ning Wei blinked, but quickly remembered what she had come in such urgency about.
“No, no, Elder Sister Yunwei, let us set that aside for now. The Myriad Flower Valley, something has happened over there!”
“Something happened at Myriad Flower Valley?” Yu Yunwei’s eyes sharpened. “What happened?”
“I, I am not quite sure how to explain it. Elder Sister Yunwei, please, please just go and see for yourself. In short, over at the flower valley, there is, there is something unusual…”
Ning Wei was so anxious she looked ready to jump up and down.
Seeing Ning Wei in such a state, Yu Yunwei asked no further questions, and hurried out of the room, flying toward Myriad Flower Valley at once.
In less than the time it takes to brew a cup of tea, Yu Yunwei arrived in the airspace above Myriad Flower Valley.
Looking out across the view before her, tens of thousands of blood kui flowers still covered the entire valley floor, a boundless sea of flowers swaying gently in the spring breeze, their delicate fragrance drifting softly through the air.
The blood kui flower was like that. It would go a thousand years or more without blooming, but once it bloomed, it would not wither for several hundred years, and at its longest could grace the world with its beauty for a full thousand years.
The last time Yu Yunwei had personally witnessed the blood kui flower bloom, and she had visited Myriad Flower Valley from time to time during this period.
So the sight of the valley covered in that sea of red flowers was something she had grown quite accustomed to but today, the blood kui flowers seemed far redder than they had ever appeared before.
As Yu Yunwei reached out her spiritual sense to feel the surroundings, she could clearly and unmistakably perceive that the spiritual energy of Myriad Flower Valley was continuously converging toward a single spot.
Yu Yunwei looked toward that place. It was her Senior Brother’s grave.
In front of the tombstone, there was one small, delicate blood kui flower.
Yu Yunwei descended from the air and walked to Senior Brother’s grave, looking at that one flower.
A spring breeze swept through Myriad Flower Valley.
Petal after red petal was lifted by the gentle wind, swirling and dancing through the air, spinning ceaselessly overhead, until at last, as though drawn by some unseen pull, they drifted down toward that single blood kui flower.
Hundreds upon thousands of petals wrapped themselves around the one blood kui flower that stood before Senior Brother’s tombstone.
Yu Yunwei waited quietly.
Half a quarter of an hour later, another spring breeze passed through, and the petals were slowly scattered away and where the petals had gathered, the single blood kui flower that had been there was gone without a trace.
In its place sat a little girl, carved as though from the finest pink jade.
The girl appeared to be no more than around three years old.
Her skin was fair, her round little face still carrying the soft chubbiness of an infant. Her tiny hands were like little buns with fingers growing out of them, and her plump, pale little limbs were as adorably round as sections of lotus root.
“Yunwei, Senior Master once said that if there were another life to be lived, she would wish to become a blood kui flower, blooming in an endless valley of flowers.”
Looking at the little girl who had blossomed forth from that blood kui flower, Yu Yunwei’s eyes trembled, and the words Senior Brother had once said to her drifted back into her mind unbidden.
A moment later, the little girl’s brow furrowed slightly, then gradually eased open, and her long lashes fluttered gently.
The little girl, who looked for all the world like a porcelain doll, slowly opened her eyes. She sat up in a daze, settling herself into the flower field like a little duckling, and looked at the big elder sister before her with wide, curious eyes.
Seeing a human for the first time, the little girl’s expression carried a hint of nervousness and fear but for some reason she could not explain, toward this big elder sister standing before her, there was a strange and inexplicable feeling of familiarity and warmth in her heart.
Yu Yunwei stepped forward, and with a touch of her fingertips she guided the blood kui petals drifting around them.
The blood kui petals settled upon the little girl’s body.
Yu Yunwei wove those petals together into a small red dress and dressed the little girl in it.
“Thank you, big elder sister.” The little girl said in a clear, bright voice, looking at the pretty red dress on herself.
“No need to thank me.” Yu Yunwei smiled faintly, reached out, and stroked the little girl’s small head. “What is your name?”
“My name…” The little girl thought about it seriously, then shook her head with great conviction, her large, bright eyes gazing up at Yu Yunwei. “Big elder sister, I, I do not have a name.”
“No name? Then would it be all right if elder sister gave you one?” Yu Yunwei said in a gentle voice.
“Yes, yes please!” The little girl nodded eagerly, her eyes full of anticipation.
“Hmm…”
Yu Yunwei appeared to think it over carefully for a moment, and then her eyes lit up.
“I have one. Since you are a blood kui flower, let us keep it simple.”
“Xue Kui…”
Yu Yunwei pinched the little girl’s soft, chubby cheek.
“From now on, this will be your name, all right?”
