Against the Gods - Volume 10 - Snow Song Flame God

by Mars Gravity

  Yun Che opened his lips to speak. He was almost in a stupor at the moment but still managed to maintain an extremely vague consciousness. “If it’s someone else… disciple… will obey Master’s words… But disciple… is unable to… do it with her…”

  Mu Feixue, “…”

  “For what reason?” Mu Xuanyin asked.

  “Because… she… resembles… Little Fairy…”

  Yun Che’s voice came to a halt as he spoke out the two words, “Little Fairy.” Suddenly, a pained expression appeared on his face, showing no signs of disappearing any time soon.

  “Little Fairy? Who’s she?” The light in Mu Xuanyin’s eyes flickered slightly. She didn’t hear this name when Mu Bingyun talked about Yun Che with her.

  “She… is… no longer in this world…” His consciousness became further indistinct but his voice turned even more pained.

  It was natural, as talking about Little Fairy was basically coming into contact with the deepest and most painful, shame-inducing, regretful and untouchable place of his soul.

  Mu Feixue, “…”

  “…” Mu Xuanyin fell silent for a brief moment. She slowly moved her hands away from his chest after driving out all of the horned dragon blood.

  “Disciple… requests Master… to rescind the order…” Yun Che’s face turned pale as he closed his eyes and continued, “Or else… Jasmine would… loathe me… when she finds out…”

  His eyelids shut down completely as he truly passed out.

  The words he spoke came from the depths of his soul but he wouldn’t remember saying anything of it after awakening, due to his consciousness being disassociated from it.

  Mu Xuanyin stood up before quietly turning around to face Mu Feixue.

  “Feixue, tell your grandfather that the previous decision has been cancelled.”

  Her voice was devoid of any anger or majesty. Even she was surprised by how easily she decided to rescind the order.

  Especially considering that it was an order the Sect Master had decided on in the presence of everyone during the Great Sect Assembly.

  After the prohibition was lifted from her body, Mu Feixue lightly waved her hand before her chest; her naked jade-like body was now covered in new snow-white garments. She bowed slightly without making any sound in response and turned around to leave.

  “Wait a moment!” Mu Xuanyin said all of a sudden. She paused for a bit before continuing, “Have Huanzhi come here. This king wants to discuss some matter with him.”

  Bathing in the snow falling from the sky, Mu Feixue lonesomely walked out of the Sacred Hall. Afterwards, she stopped in her tracks to look silently at the pale white world around her. But she wasn’t unable to stay as quiet as the Snow Region within her heart.

  “Just… what sort of person is he…?”

  She lightly murmured to herself.

  That Little Fairy… is no longer in this world… but he still disobeyed the order of Sect Master, willingly suffered such a great torment, and even didn’t hesitate from self-mutilation because of her.

  Do I truly resemble that much…?

  Earlier, her world was only filled with pure snow, without the presence of any blemish or dust.

  But at some point in time, the figure of the man who chose to suffer devastating pain over touching her, even after receiving the order directly from the Sect Master, had etched deeply into her heart and soul… Perhaps, it was impossible now for her to ever erase it, no matter how hard she tried.

  Mu Huanzhi rushed over to Sacred Hall burning with impatience. When he reached the entrance, he saw Mu Xuanyin standing with her hands at her back with a cold and clear look in her eyes. Apparently, she was waiting for his arrival.

  He promptly stepped forward and performed a salutation from a distance, “Huanzhi pays respect to Sect Master. Huanzhi feels extremely apologetic to make Sect Master wait so long.”

  “Get up.” Mu Xuanyin’s voice travelled through the snowy wind, carrying a hint of tiredness.

  “Huanzhi, This king called you here to entrust a task.”

  Mu Huanzhi got up and nodded, “Sect Master, please give your instructions.”

  “Feixue…” Mu Xuanyin’s cold eyes looked somewhat complicated, “We’ll have to temporarily drop the matter that was decided for her and Yun Che. However, you’re not allowed to privately marry her off to anyone else without this king’s permission!”

  The latter part of her words were clearly said in a stern tone making Mu Huanzhi’s heart skip a beat. He didn’t get time to think through it as he nodded at once in agreement, “I understand.”

  “This king wants you to look for four things.”

  Mu Huanzhi focused his mind and pricked up his ears. The things for which Sect Master herself was going to instruct him to seek were bound to be extraordinary after all.

  “The four things are: a Qilin horn, a Wood Spirit Orb with at least seventy percent of it spiritual power preserved, a Divine Nine Star Buddha Jade and… an intact Immortal Emperor Grass!”

  Initially, Mu Huanzhi was listening intently to her words. But when he heard “Wood Spirit Orb”, he couldn’t help but raise his head in startlement. Soon after, he heard his throat made a deep sound involuntarily, as his ears caught the names of “Divine Nine Star Buddha Jade” and “Immortal Emperor Grass.”

  Putting the Qilin horn aside, a “Wood Spirit Orb” was the life source of the people from Wood Spirit Race. Once it was taken out of them, their bodies would die and their soul dissipate into thin air. Their number was on continuous decline due to the large scale hunt for them. That naturally lead to a ceaseless increase in the selling price of the Wood Spirit Orb. In addition, killing people of their race was widely recognized as unethical and inhumane. Therefore, Wood Spirit Orbs had always been sold in private, with no one daring to do it publicly. As a result, it had become extremely difficult to obtain the orbs nowadays, much less one with seventy percent of its spirit power preserved.

  It was also an option for him to go hunt a member of Wood Spirit Race but doing so would be equal to defying the heavenly law, and righteous profound practitioners, would not do it openly.

  Now the possibility of getting his hands on a Wood Spirit Orb was still viable but the Divine Nine Star Buddha Jade and the Immortal Emperor Grass were the kind of things that could be only seen in the ancient records. It was uncertain whether even the rumor of their locations could be heard once in several thousand years. It was immensely hard to obtain them even in the upper star realms.

  Chapter 1015: The Beauty of Xuanyin

  “Is there a problem?” Mu Xuanyin slightly frowned upon seeing Mu Huanzhi’s reaction to her words.

  Mu Huanzhi promptly said, “Huanzhi has remembered it all and will at once set out to do as instructed. Just that… the members of Wood Spirit Race generally remain hidden in lower star realms where the situation is comparatively less threatening to their lives. Moreover, whether it’s a Wood Spirit or a Wood Spirit Orb, the business involving them has always been carried out in private. All we can do now is to send some people to the lower star realms and covertly look for the thing we want. However, being able to actually get our hands on an orb with at least seventy percent of its power preserved will heavily rely on our luck.”

  “As for Divine Nine Star Buddha Jade and Immortal Emperor Grass, ” Mu Huanzhi exhaled lightly, “Huanzhi will try to the best of his ability.”

  He didn’t dare ask Mu Xuanyin why she would need to look for such things all of a sudden.

  “Get it done as soon as possible,” Mu Xuanyin said. “In case you get the information about their whereabouts but find it beyond your ability to obtain them, do let this king immediately know about it.”

  “Yes.” Mu Huanzhi’s heart thumped loudly. Her words clearly indicated that she was in a hurry to get these things. But the names she had mentioned were absolutely extraordinary things, so getting hold of even one of them in a short time was especially difficult, to say nothing of all four of them.<
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  “Sect Master, I’ve an idea about the place where we could find the Qilin horn.”

  “Oh?” Mu Xuanyin narrowed her eyes. “Speak!”

  “Yes.” Mu Huanzhi recollected his thoughts for a bit before continuing respectfully, “Around two years ago, I incidentally heard from Yunzhi that the Ice Wind Imperial Family, which Mu Hanyi comes from, possesses an object that is considered to be their halidom. It has always been within their possession since the time Ice Wind Empire was founded. Reportedly, it was coincidentally dug out of the bottomless firn and is extremely likely to be an intact Ice Qilin horn. Therefore, it was viewed as the halidom safeguarding the empire and has been passed down in the Ice Wind Imperial Family for the last seventy to eighty thousand years.”

  “…Since they consider it a halidom that’s safeguarding the empire, and have kept it a secret for such a long time, how is it that Mu Hanyi disclosed this matter to Mu Yunzhi?” Mu Xuanyin asked in a cold voice. Undoubtedly, Mu Yunzhi wouldn’t have known about it without Mu Hanyi telling it himself.

  “About that…” Mu Huanzhi seemed a bit awkward. “According to Yunzhi, Mu Hanyi told her about the Ice Qilin horn because of a decision made by the monarch of Ice Wind Empire several years ago. If Mu Hanyi could become a direct disciple of the Sect Master, he was willing to offer the halidom, which they have kept in secret for tens of thousands of years, to the Sect Master as a token of gratitude.”

  “Hmph! Then he truly revealed the secret on purpose!” Mu Xuanyin said in a cold tone.

  Mu Huanzhi said, “It has been several hundred thousand years since the Qilins in the Eastern Divine Region became extinct. It would require us to go to Western Divine Region to look for a Qilin horn, which is going to be extremely troublesome. If the Ice Wind Empire really has a Qilin horn, to get it from them would be the best choice. In half a month, Mu Hanyi will be returning to the empire in order to participate in his father’s birthday, which is planned to be held in celebration of him turning a thousand years old. We just need him to bring it along when he comes back to the sect, or… should Huanzhi personally set off right now to obtain it?”

  If Mu Xuanyin were to order them, the Ice Wind Empire would obediently offer it up to her, even if they had ten thousand guts.

  “No need.” Mu Xuanyin rejected his proposal. “Do not speak of the things this king has discussed with you today to anyone else.”

  “Search across the lower star realms for the Wood Spirit Orb and secretly search through the upper star realms for any findings of the Divine Nine Star Buddha Jade and Immortal Emperor Grass. Remember to assign the task only to those people that you deem reliable enough. As for Qilin horn, you don’t need to bother about it. You have to be particularly careful not to reveal the work I entrusted to Yunzhi and Mu Hanyi. You may now leave.”

  “Yes.” Mu Huanzhi felt extremely doubtful in his heart but he could only retire in a hurry.

  Amidst the snow and wind, Mu Xuanyin slowly turned round and looked far off to the north with her cold, starry eyes. Her lips faintly opened to utter the words, “Ice Wind Empire…”

  Yun Che awakened after remaining unconscious for an unknown period of time. Having recovered his consciousness, he felt countless streaks of refreshing, cool, and bone-penetrating energy pouring into his body, which made him clear-headed in no time.

  Upon opening his eyes, he saw a puddle of still water. In the distance, he also saw a vast number of rare herbs of various magnificent colors. The aura infused in the air entering his nostrils was extremely cold and pure.

  It was… the Heavenly Netherfrost Lake!

  His entire body was soaked in the lake. The injuries on his body had disappeared without a trace and his mind felt incomparably calm and clear.

  He quickly recalled the events that happened before him passing out. He released the Dragon Soul which helped him to sober up for a brief moment and used all his power to smash his head. Afterwards…

  “Oh? You woke up so soon?”

  A delicate and soft voice reminiscent of silk, made the confused Yun Che feel his body at once go numb and his bones turn limp. He subconsciously turned around to look at Mu Xuanyin leisurely lying down at the shore of lake at some distance. Her exceedingly beautiful face, that could invoke great admiration in countless beings, seemed to be carried an almost indiscernible faint smile.

  She slowly sat up upon seeing Yun Che wake up. Beneath the snow white robe, her long and slender legs that excelled even Mu Feixue’s size and proportion, naturally bared themselves as she was sitting in a cross-legged posture. Yun Che’s mind was intoxicated by the orchid fragrance that diffused into the air as the two legs rubbed against each other, making him sink into a trance like state.

  “Che’er, your body seems to be absorbing the cold energy of the heavenly lake water. Is it also due to the power of the Evil God?”

  In the Snow Song Realm, everyone knew about Mu Xuanyin’s stern and heartless nature and hence, no one dared to offend her. Even someone as arrogant and proud as Yun Che absolutely didn’t dare act rashly in front of her. But at this time, the Mu Xuanyin before him contained a slightly concerned look in her eyes. Her beautiful face was brimming with enchantment and her moving lips gave off an impression similar to a bud disgorging stamens. Every word that escaped her mouth held softness and warmth.

  She appeared to be the same beautiful woman as when he had seen her for the first time and unwittingly called her “Big Breasted Senior Sister.”

  Even Yun Che didn’t know how long he spaced out for before coming to his senses. He promptly stood up in the lake, “Mas…”

  Halfway through his words, he felt something odd about the refreshing and cool feeling on his body. He subconsciously lowered his head and discovered that he wasn’t wearing anything at the moment. Taken aback by his current state, he immediately jolted back into the heavenly lake as though he had been electrocuted. His mind was in so much chaos that he even forgot to take out a set of clothes to wear from within the Sky Poison Pearl.

  Mu Xuanyin let out a lovely laugh at his embarrassed look. She laughed so much that her beautiful body was shaking, causing her full chest, beneath the snow white robe, to bounce continuously as those dazzling, snow white mounds nearly spilled out of the overlap.

  At the moment, Mu Xuanyin was dressed in a loose and comfortable robe with the pattern of the Ice Phoenix on it. An extremely special ice silk seemed to have been used for the pattern as it was particularly dazzling to the eye. Her ice blue hair looked natural and gorgeous as it spread on her aromatic shoulder and jade-like back; it was slightly wet as though she had just taken a bath. Unexpectedly, her shoulders were only covered by sleeves that appeared as thin as a cicada’s wings, causing the arms that were plump and glossy like a white root of lotus, to be faintly discernible.

  “Brat, your body was contaminated by the blood energy of horned dragon but you still refused to touch even a beautiful woman like Feixue. That made me worry about whether you have some sort of illness and so I carefully inspected your body to take care of the issue. However, it seems that you really don’t have any concerning ailments.”

  ‘Inspected… my body…’

  “~！@#￥%…” Yun Che once again fell into a daze after having come to his senses just a while ago. His mind uncontrollably thought of all sort of things that shouldn’t have happened. In a flurry, he casually grabbed a set of clothes to wear before very carefully surfacing out of the lake. “Disciple… is grateful for Master’s… concern… About Feixue, she…”

  His memory after knocking himself out was quite fuzzy. He had no idea whether he did something to Mu Feixue in the end.

  Besides, even if it was possible to recall the things that happened later, he was still basically unable to do so at present. His thoughts were a complete mess right now and wicked flames seemed to be crazily burning all over his body. The more he tried to suppress them, the more forcefully and intensely they burned. The phenomenon was pretty similar to the time when the bl
ood of horned dragon was fused into his body.

  Mu Xuanyin possessed an absolute beauty under the heavens but she held an equally supreme and chilling might, which elicited an extreme fear in everyone. In the Snow Song Realm, there wasn’t a single person who would dare stop their gaze on her for more than a single breath. This fact was made quite evident when even the Flame God Realm’s three sect masters didn’t dare meet her eyes.

  But the Mu Xuanyin before Yun Che didn’t give off any aura that would induce pressure or intimidation in others. Her umber-black eyebrows were like fog and her beautiful eyes were amorous. The cold and majestic look in her eyes had become soul-captivating. Although she was in a sitting posture, the curves of her body were so seductive that they could make a person’s blood vessels burst open from the boiling temperature of the blood. Each part of her body and every inch of her skin were emanating a bewitching and magical enticement.

  Yun Che’s gaze fell directly on her charming and alluring body. He couldn’t turn it away, no matter how hard he tried. The evil fire had started spreading from his lower abdomen to every inch of his body.

  “Oh? So you still have the conscience to be concerned about Feixue, huh.” Mu Xuanyin spoke softly, “You can rest at ease, she hasn’t lost her vital yin. It’s just that you’ve seen everything there’s to see and felt her all over, so she can’t really be called a flawless white jade any more. Shouldn’t you be explaining yourself to the other party now?”

  “…” Mu Xuanyin’s tender and soft voice was soul-shaking and tantalizing but Yun Che barely heard her words as he kept staring fixedly at Mu Xuanyin’s… chest. When she leaned forward in the sitting posture, the part of the robe around her chest slid down a bit, revealing the two overly ample and soft mounds. As they were pressed from both sides a lustrous valley could be seen in between; the deep ditch that was enough to nibble away at one’s restraint and sanity with just a glance at it, was now fully exposed before his eyes.