Outside Kunlun Mountain, on the edge of Qing Province, in a barely clean small hotel.
In the standard room, Feng Ke was already meditating and cultivating on the bed, while Ji Xue stood by the window, calmly gazing at the sky, waiting for Ye Ling and her daughter to return.
Her eyes were filled with confusion.
The events of today were too much, even for her, a dragon.
Everything was far beyond her imagination, shattering her perception of this world.
And the figure of Ye Ling, the protagonist of today, lingered in her mind even late into the night.
"From now on, I am that person's pet..."
Ji Xue murmured softly. Although she had made this choice willingly, she had never submitted to anyone since her birth. Now, suddenly having a master, she was unaccustomed to it.
"Ji Xue."
At this moment, Ye Ling's voice sounded in Ji Xue's mind, making her pause slightly.
"Master?"
She quickly looked around but couldn't find Ye Ling's figure.
Ye Ling's voice sounded in her mind again, "Come out first. I'll wait for you on the rooftop. Don't disturb Feng Ke."
"Yes!"
Ji Xue quickly responded, then immediately jumped out the window and flew towards the rooftop.
There, Ye Ling, dressed in a trench coat, sat on the edge of the rooftop, quietly watching the bright moon in the sky.
Xiao Lan's soul was perched on his shoulder, breathing evenly and steadily.
It seemed that under the nourishment of Ye Ling's spiritual power, Xiao Lan's soul was stabilizing and was no longer as weak as before, as if it could shatter at a touch.
Seeing the harmonious and peaceful scene between Ye Ling and her daughter, Ji Xue was stunned for a moment, then her lips curled slightly, and her eyes showed a look of relief.
She walked forward, "Master..."
Ye Ling did not turn his head and said softly, "Sit next to me."
"Yes."
Ji Xue responded gently, sat beside Ye Ling, tucked her long hair behind her ear, and looked at Ye Ling, "Master, why did you call me up?"
"I can do anything for Master, including offering my body."
She knew that many powerful cultivators in the past often had their demon pets serve them after taking them in. After agreeing to become Ye Ling's demon pet, she had prepared herself for this.
Ye Ling hadn't thought that far and said, "Wu Shu Yi is dead."
Ji Xue was stunned.
Ye Ling continued, "But that's not the point. I found Bai Xiao Sheng, the one who killed Wu Shu Yi, the person who designed Wu Shu Yi to kill you."
"From that guy, I got some information worth paying attention to."
Ji Xue's eyes narrowed slightly, "Master means it's related to me?"
"Yes." Ye Ling nodded. "Ye Feng was secretly instigating you and your daughter to kill each other with the Kasi tribe. You should be aware of this, right?"
"I am aware." Ji Xue nodded solemnly. "But I never understood why Ye Feng targeted me like this."
"I was sealed by the gods for over two thousand years, and I clearly had no connection with him."
"That's not necessarily true." Ye Ling smiled and looked at Ji Xue, asking, "When you were sealed, could you sense what was happening outside?"
Although Ji Xue didn't know why Ye Ling was asking this, she still nodded, "Yes... Although I couldn't see the entire Wolong Mountain, I could roughly sense the flow of energy within Wolong Mountain and thus judge what was happening in the mountain."
"However... because I was sealed, I was asleep most of the time, so I didn't know many things."
"I'm afraid I will disappoint Master."
"Asleep most of the time?"
Hearing Ji Xue's words, Ye Ling frowned and asked, "I learned from Bai Xiao Sheng that Ye Feng targeted you because seventy years ago, he did something on Fulong Mountain."
"And you and the Kasi tribe might have been witnesses to something he did, which is why he decided to eliminate you."
"Think carefully, seventy to eighty years ago, did you sense anything unusual?"
"Seventy to eighty years ago..."
Ji Xue hesitated, "During that period, my spiritual power had been depleted by the seal, and I was sleeping most of the time. In those ten years, I was probably asleep for nine-tenths of the time."
"That long?"
Ye Ling's frown deepened.
Now that all the Kasi tribe members were dead, only Ji Xue could know what happened on Fulong Mountain back then.
If Ji Xue also didn't know what happened, then nothing could be investigated.
With the only clue broken, if Ye Ling wanted to know what Ye Feng did on Fulong Mountain later, he would probably only find out after capturing Ye Feng.
Ji Xue also fell silent, trying hard to recall what had happened back then.
After all, this was the first task Ye Ling had given her, and she didn't want to disappoint him.
Suddenly, Ji Xue seemed to have thought of something, her eyes lit up, and she quickly said, "I remember something strange happened back then!"
"Something strange?"
Ye Ling, who had already given up hope of finding clues from Ji Xue, was moved by Ji Xue's words and said, "Tell me!"
"Yes!" Ji Xue nodded. "I remember it was in 1943 or so. Anyway, I always heard the Kasi tribe people say that Yan Xia was still in dire straits."
"That summer, I was still asleep, but I suddenly felt the temperature in the mountains drop significantly, and the spiritual energy in the air became extremely chaotic."
"It was summer, but a blizzard suddenly swept through the mountains, completely sealing off the entire mountain."
"A blizzard in summer?" Ye Ling confirmed.
Ji Xue said firmly, "Yes, I can be sure that the blizzard was man-made. In the more than two thousand years since I was sealed, this was the first time I encountered a blizzard in summer."
"At that time, I also tried to investigate what changes had occurred in the mountain, but the surrounding energy became increasingly chaotic, greatly weakening my perception. Therefore, I was not very clear about the specific events in the mountain, and could only vaguely feel an abnormally powerful spiritual energy erupting in the mountain."
"As for whether that was my illusion, I don't know... After all, the blizzard only lasted for a day, and then the weather cleared up. I had been sealed for too long, and I only remembered the general year, not the specific events."
"Can you find the source of that spiritual energy eruption?"
Ye Ling suddenly had a premonition that the summer blizzard was the reason Ye Feng was determined to eliminate Ji Xue and the Kasi tribe at all costs!
"It seems..."
Ji Xue tried hard to recall, but her memory was already very vague and fragmented, "It should be... in the back of the mountain... I remember that Wolong Mountain had a collapse that time, and the terrain was changed. Since I didn't pay much attention to that matter, I'm not very clear about the specifics."
"I see..."
Ye Ling pondered for a moment and said to Ji Xue, "Let's go back to Fulong Mountain again. You think carefully about the specific location and narrow it down to a certain range."
"If there was a battle on Fulong Mountain back then, the traces of the battle should still remain. From those places, a lot of information can be excavated."
"Yes!"