Chapter 585: Gazing at the boundless mountains and rivers, my thoughts drift far away

Because he stood up hastily, he accidentally knocked over the tea cup on the table.

Pa~

The tea cup fell to the floor, letting out a crisp sound, instantly shattering into pieces, tea splashing everywhere.

This scene caused Lu Yunfeng and Wu Shushan to both show surprised expressions.

As Academy Dean, Li Daoyun had always been composed; when had he ever lost his composure like this?

What exactly did he see?

At this moment, Li Daoyun bore no relation to composure; his feelings were nothing but shock.

The woman before him bore an almost identical resemblance to the person in his memory, filling him with a dreamlike daze.

"Sui Feng?!"

He let out a low shout, his voice trembling.

"Sui Feng?"

Even though the sound was faint, Ye Qingran still caught it.

A gleam flashed across the depths of her eyes.

Indeed, Li Daoyun knew her mother.

Since he called out her mother's name, does it mean that the person who came to Xiliang City back then and took her mother Yun Sui Feng was Li Daoyun?

Ye Qingran remained composed, walking up to Li Daoyun.

As Ye Qingran drew near, Li Daoyun grew more startled the longer he looked.

"They look alike, really too much alike!"

For a moment, he thought he was seeing Yun Sui Feng herself.

However, he soon calmed down. Though they look alike, there are still some differences between them.

"Dean Li, this is Elder Ye Xiu, and this is Instructor Ye Qingran."

Wu Shushan noticed Li Daoyun's oddness, but didn't dwell on it, instead routinely introducing the two to him.

"Ye Qingran?!"

This name gave Li Daoyun another jolt.

He learned from Gu Elder that the Academy had a new Special Grade Instructor surnamed Ye, a Pill Emperor, but he didn't yet know her name was Ye Qingran.

"Dean Li."

Ye Qingran and Fu Hanxiu both nodded, having exchanged greetings.

"Just now I heard Dean Li mention my mother's name; could Dean Li know my mother?"

Ye Qingran didn't wait for Li Daoyun to speak, but first revealed her identity.

Li Daoyun was now certain that Ye Qingran was Yun Sui Feng's daughter.

He gazed at Ye Qingran with deep eyes, his feelings immensely complex.

Back then, he had finally found his junior sister Yun Sui Feng's whereabouts, rushing all the way to Xiliang City, only to learn that she had married and even had a daughter.

However, that child had already died young; he checked his fate, and the star chart had already dimmed.

He found Yun Sui Feng with the Donglin Emperor, and took her away from Xiliang City.

But now, that child who was thought to have died young stands alive before him.

His junior sister's child is still alive!

All this feels like a dream, unreal.

"Know, how could I not know?"

After a moment, Li Daoyun nodded, the light in his eyes turning gentle.

"I am your mother Yun Sui Feng's senior brother; by seniority, you should call me Uncle Master."

Ye Qingran's heart skipped a beat.

Indeed, Li Daoyun is the man the Donglin Emperor spoke of who took her mother away and called himself a senior brother.

"Uncle Master." Ye Qingran complied.

"Eh~" Li Daoyun replied with a smile.

At this moment he didn't know how to describe his feelings.

His junior sister's child is still alive, and has grown into a graceful, lovely figure, her bearing even surpassing hers back then.

Wu Shushan and Lu Yunfeng were also quite surprised, especially Wu Shushan.

He is the only person in the Academy who knows Yun Sui Feng.

That is Li Daoyun's junior sister.

Li Daoyun had once mentioned Yun Sui Feng to him, and also shared with him those past events from their sect.

Although he had never seen Yun Sui Feng, he also knew she was an extraordinarily beautiful woman.

Ye Qingran, is she Yun Sui Feng's child?

But Li Daoyun said that child had died young?

"Uncle Master, I learned from the Donglin Emperor that it was you who took my mother away; I don't know where she is now."

Ye Qingran didn't expect to find Yun Sui Feng so easily; she felt things going too smoothly were somewhat abnormal.

"She..." Upon mentioning Yun Sui Feng, Li Daoyun's face darkened.

Seeing this, Ye Qingran slightly furrowed her brows.

Could it be that her mother is not in the Academy?

"You needn't worry; your mother is still alive, but..."

"But what? Is she in the Academy?"

Ye Qingran squeezed her fist, full of anticipation.

"Here, yet not..."

What does it mean?

Even the near‑genius Ye Qingran, whose wit borders on the demonic, showed a puzzled expression.

Li Daoyun realized that a few words wouldn't clarify it, so he pointed outward, "Let's go, I'll take you to see, then you'll understand."

Thus, the party walked toward the back mountain.

Along the way, Li Daoyun and Ye Qingran talked about some matters concerning Yun Sui Feng.

He and Yun Sui Feng are senior brother and sister.

She knows that Yun Sui Feng is an alias; her true identity is the legitimate eldest miss of Yunfu in Nan Yin Zhou.

When Yun Sui Feng entered the sect, she was only fifteen. In the preceding two years she would return to Yunfu every few days; in the third year she became unusually erratic, adopted the alias Yun Sui Feng, and instructed her fellow disciples not to reveal her identity.

One day in that third year, after she went down the mountain, she never returned.

The sect master and the senior brothers searched for a long time but got no news; that same year, the prized eldest miss Yun Ling of Yunfu, Nan Yin Zhou, disappeared.

Soon, the group arrived at the cliff beneath the back mountain.

The Qingfeng Cave is on the sheer cliff.

It is a huge cavern, hidden atop the cliff, concealed and hard to find.

After entering, it revealed a different world.

Inside the Qingfeng Cave, it is clean and tidy, with abundant spiritual aura.

But inside there is no one, no trace of breath, only a cold jade bed, flickering with intermittent light.

Anyone can see that no one has been here for a long time.

"Your mother is right here."

Li Daoyun pointed toward the jade bed and said to Ye Qingran in this way.

Including Ye Qingran, the several of them all claimed they saw nothing.

She looked at Li Daoyun with puzzlement, but heard him say, "Back then I discovered the junior sister was still alive, brought her from the Donglin Emperor back to the Academy, placed her in this Qingfeng Cave, waiting for the day she might awaken again..."

These years, the reason he spent most of his time traveling abroad was simply to find a way to awaken the junior sister.

Later, he took Lu Yunfeng as a disciple, adding another mission to his shoulders.

But he is incompetent; he couldn't cure even one.

"One day, I found she was missing, was startled, but soon I sensed through a magical artifact that she was still here, only having entered some mysterious space."

Ye Qingran lifted the corner of her eyebrows.

Li Daoyun's meaning is that within this Qingfeng Cave there is another space, and her mother Yun Sui Feng is there?

She slowly approached the jade bed, and after confirming she saw nothing, she simply closed her eyes.

In her ears came the wind from outside the cave, whistling past...

Chaotic and piercing.

Yet, amid the endless chaos, she clearly heard a faint call.