Chapter 807: Building a Cart Behind Closed Doors

Walking into the study and seeing the high stack of letters on the desk, the envelopes at the bottom already slightly yellowed, Xiang Xiaoyu's eyes suddenly felt a bit sour.

He picked up a letter, looked at the cover; it was written by Little Wei Yuan. He picked up another one; it was still written by Little Wei Yuan.

Just like this, during the several years that Xiang Xiaoyu was in seclusion, Little Wei Yuan wrote letter after letter, not caring that he had never received a reply.

Xiang Xiaoyu gently stroked the letters with his jade-like fingers, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he muttered to himself: "... I wonder what my Yong'an City has developed into now."

The maid responsible for cleaning the study chuckled: "Young Master, in the few years you were in seclusion, this person has been writing to you! If I didn't know he was a man, I would have thought you had hooked the soul of some girl again!"

"Stop talking nonsense; this person is my fellow apprentice."

The maid curled her lips and said: "Cut, where have I seen fellow apprentices write so many letters? You are not normal!"

Xiang Xiaoyu was about to argue a few words when an elegant voice sounded outside the study: "It is truly gratifying that my nephew has achieved the Shaoyang Star Lord!"

A man in green clothes with a short beard walked into the study. Xiang Xiaoyu stood up to salute and said "Third Uncle."

The man smiled and said: "It seems that in less than ten years, I will be surpassed by you. Haha, your Third Uncle was also known as the number one genius of that generation, but compared to you, the number one genius of the entire Xiao family, I still can't compare. The heavy responsibility of revitalizing the Xiao family in the future will depend on you."

"Third Uncle praises too much. Third Uncle gave many pointers back then, and your nephew remembers it in his heart." Xiang Xiaoyu was still humble and polite.

The man said: "The Immortal Ancestor has decided to hold an Immortal Form Ceremony specifically for you, inviting nearby aristocratic families and sects, especially Shangguan Qianmo from the Sword Palace who will also be present, to celebrate the appearance of the Shaoyang Star Lord. Your grandfather is still in seclusion, so this ceremony will be hosted by me. The date is set for noon seven days later; what do you think?"

"Everything follows the family's arrangements."

The man nodded with satisfaction, looked at the letters on the desk again, and said: "This Little Wei Yuan is truly attentive to you."

Xiang Xiaoyu smiled and said: "After all, he is a fellow apprentice, and we have experienced several years of life and death together; the sentiment is different."

After the Third Uncle left, Xiang Xiaoyu sat upright behind the desk, ordered the maid to light a stove of incense specifically for the Great Tang Imperial Family, brought the ten-thousand-year Arctic long-haired mammoth ivory letter-cutting knife, and then took the blood-fetal mutton-fat white jade embryo as the base, the tiger-lying paperweight carved by a master over ten years, and placed them neatly on the desk.

With everything ready, Xiang Xiaoyu picked up the earliest letter, opened it solemnly, sat upright, and read it carefully in the afternoon sun.

After reading only a few sentences, the smile on Xiang Xiaoyu's face disappeared.

After reading several letters in a row, Xiang Xiaoyu's face was already livid, he bit his lower lip hard, and the ivory letter-cutting knife in his hand shattered into several pieces with a *pa* sound!

"Is he still human? Is he human?!" Countless dirty words squeezed out from Xiang Xiaoyu's beautiful lips.

He couldn't understand no matter how he thought about it, how Little Wei Yuan managed to persistently write letters to him, yet there wasn't a single word of longing for Xiang Xiaoyu in the letters, all of them were boasting about himself.

Boasting about himself was fine, but in the end, he never forgot to be sarcastic about Xiang Xiaoyu, and his movements of pulling and stepping were skillful.

Xiang Xiaoyu directly picked up the most recent letter and tore it open, but used too much force and accidentally tore the letter paper into two pieces. He pieced the two halves of the letter paper together and saw the first sentence at the beginning of the letter: Xiang Xiaoyu, younger brother...

Xiang Xiaoyu took the previous letters; sure enough, the beginning of the first few letters was "Xiang Xiaoyu, my elder brother," and now it had become "younger brother"? Who gave him the courage? Even if Xiang Xiaoyu agreed, the Shaoyang Star Lord would absolutely not agree!

Xiang Xiaoyu barely suppressed his boiling anger and continued to read.

"... Immortals play chess, and your elder brother is a chess piece. I won by half a move, but failed to wipe out the opponent, which is quite regrettable. After that, during my cultivation one day, I wanted to push my cultivation one step further, but unexpectedly an immortal crossed the boundary to launch a sneak attack!

Your elder brother fought a bloody battle and luckily won by half a move, and that immortal fled with injuries..."

Xiang Xiaoyu covered his face with his hand. He can really boast; this is really boasting!

Boasting for several years and still enjoying it; does he think Xiang Xiaoyu is stupid, or particularly easy to bully?

After cultivating the Shaoyang Star Lord, Xiang Xiaoyu's temper became much more irritable. The so-called gentle temperament of the Shaoyang Star Lord was compared to the Sun and Yangming.

Without a word, Xiang Xiaoyu opened the sword treasury, took down the magic treasure long sword specifically crafted for him by the family for the Dharma Form stage, and without bringing anything else, took off in the courtyard.

The personal maid below noticed something was wrong and flew up behind him; she unexpectedly also had Dharma Form cultivation. She called out anxiously: "Young Master, where are you going?"

Xiang Xiaoyu said: "I'm going on a long journey."

"Then what about the Immortal Form Ceremony?"

"... Not holding it!!"

The voice echoed in the air, and a line of fire in the heights had already gone far away at an astonishing speed. Although the maid was also Dharma Form, her speed was far worse than Xiang Xiaoyu's, and in the blink of an eye, she couldn't see Xiang Xiaoyu's figure anymore.

Many high-level cultivators in the ancestral land were alarmed, and divine senses swept over the scorching traces left in the air, not understanding what had happened. However, looking at the direction of the trajectory, it was heading west.

Little Wei Yuan spread out a large piece of paper, calmed his mind, dipped the brush in ink, and then lifted his wrist to write four large characters on the paper:

Building a cart behind closed doors.

These four characters possessed sharpness without being fully exposed, and where they were vigorous, they were restrained by three parts; they already held a hint of the true meaning of "guarding simplicity," and were the pinnacle work of Little Wei Yuan's life. Looking at these four large characters, Little Wei Yuan was secretly feeling proud when he suddenly felt the study had become much hotter, as if he were being scorched under the midsummer sun.

Subsequently, a pleasant voice with a grinding sound rang in his ears: "Are you saying I'm building a cart behind closed doors?!"

Little Wei Yuan looked up, both shocked and happy: "Xiang Xiaoyu, fellow apprentice?! It's really you, you finally came back! That's great, you didn't have any news during this time, and your elder brother was very worried."

Xiang Xiaoyu's willow eyebrows stood up, his pupils were on fire. This guy now calls him "younger apprentice" so smoothly, so naturally? He squeezed a few words from between his teeth: "Just came out of seclusion, and wanted to come over quickly to ask for some pointers from Senior Brother!"

Xiang Xiaoyu bit the words "Senior Brother" very heavily.

Little Wei Yuan looked Xiang Xiaoyu up and down and said: "You also became Dharma Form? *Hmm*, among our batch, you aren't considered slow. Pointers are not worth mentioning, but talking about insights with you is no problem."

Xiang Xiaoyu couldn't bear it anymore. He was the one who hoped to take over the Immortal Ancestor's mantle, and the Shaoyang Star Lord was also proud and arrogant; how could he tolerate Little Wei Yuan being sarcastic again and again?!

At this moment, the Shaoyang Star Lord manifested, his large sleeves waved, and a large piece of sunlight rolled up Little Wei Yuan. The two appeared in the sky above the Xiancheng. Xiang Xiaoyu drew his sword and shouted: "I just cultivated the Dharma Form, my cultivation is still shallow, please Senior Brother give me some good pointers!"

The sky above the Xiancheng was like having an extra great sun. Such a big movement naturally alarmed everyone. Immediately, over ten divine senses probed over, and someone said in surprise: "What kind of Dharma Form is that, it looks so powerful!"

Another person also said: "Ordinary sword-holding immortals are common, but once they have a name and surname, and have an immortal position, they will be extremely terrifying! This sword-holding immortal is obviously extraordinary, but I don't know what his duty is."

Xiang Xiaoyu took everyone's discussion into his ears, and his mood finally improved a bit. He thought to himself that there were still people who knew goods. It was not strange that they didn't recognize the Shaoyang Star Lord; after all, the Star Lord's position was too high and rarely manifested in the world. Even the Xiao family only had records in the classics, and no one had ever really cultivated it.

These ten-plus divine senses were all very strange, and Xiang Xiaoyu didn't recognize a single one. He didn't expect that in just a few years, there would be so many strange Dharma Forms in Azure Void.

Little Wei Yuan looked at Xiang Xiaoyu with disbelief and said: "You really want to spar with me?"

"... Otherwise?" Xiang Xiaoyu was so angry that he accidentally said his inner thoughts, and then didn't intend to talk nonsense with Little Wei Yuan anymore, directly drawing his sword. If he said a few more words, Xiang Xiaoyu felt his Dao heart would be lost.

Little Wei Yuan put on a look of astonishment, and then with a look of earnest advice, said: "No need, right? Your Dao heart is not stable just after breaking through; what if you leave some hidden dangers..."

Xiang Xiaoyu was angry, furious, enraged: "... Don't need you to worry!"

At this time, in various places in Azure Void, one after another strong or strange auras emerged. The cultivators of the Grand Beginning Palace were originally in seclusion in various places, but at this moment, they were all alarmed by Xiang Xiaoyu's aura like the great sun in the sky, and they all came out of seclusion to see.

Xu Yi, Cui Yu, and the other two Dharma Forms among the sixteen young masters and misses hadn't been in seclusion and arrived the fastest. Cui Yu's aura was obviously special, and Xiang Xiaoyu couldn't help but take a few more looks and greeted him.

Cui Yu was very happy to see Xiang Xiaoyu suddenly, but looking at the scene in front of him, he said in surprise: "Junior apprentice, what are you doing? You don't want to spar with Little Wei Yuan, do you?!"

Xiang Xiaoyu said coldly: "Is there anything wrong with that?"

Cui Yu kindly advised: "It's been a long time, we should catch up properly, why be so unable to think?"

If it weren't for the old sentiment, Xiang Xiaoyu would have almost sprayed the three words "Shut up."

At this time, Xu Henshui, Sun Yu, Yu Zhizhuo, True Person Chuhe, and others also rushed over. They could be considered the older generation and had been in Azure Void for a long time. Seeing this scene, they knew what had happened.

These people were all calm and composed, no one spoke, just eyes shining, quietly watching.

A moment later, Bao Yun, Ji Liuli, Feng Tingyu, and others also arrived, but they were staring at the Shaoyang Star Lord in the sky, eyes burning.

The Shaoyang Star Lord clearly felt the deep and surging malice, his expression tightened, and he began to be on guard, no longer relaxed as before.

Deep in the medicine garden, the chicken also woke up.

Finally, Zhang Sheng appeared quietly, standing on the periphery. At this time, her aura was obscure, almost without any presence. If it weren't for Little Wei Yuan bowing, many people wouldn't have noticed her arrival at all.

Xiang Xiaoyu was also respectful to Zhang Sheng, and immediately bowed. Zhang Sheng nodded, accepted his salute calmly, and then looked toward the Shaoyang Star Lord.

The Shaoyang Star Lord was suddenly like facing a great enemy.

Xiang Xiaoyu didn't understand why the Shaoyang Star Lord was like this, but no matter how irritable he was, he realized at this time that the atmosphere was a bit wrong. Why did these people look like they were here to watch a show?

Moreover, he was shocked to find that except for Zhang Sheng who couldn't be seen through, the surrounding acquaintances had all become Dharma Forms, even Xu Yi and the others who were playboys back then had become three Dharma Forms. Compared with them, his progress was really slow!

However, it didn't matter if the progress was fast or slow. With the Shaoyang Star Lord, even if he was in seclusion for a hundred years, it was worth it. It was just that Zhang Sheng couldn't be probed; as soon as Xiang Xiaoyu's divine sense approached, it was blocked by the sword energy she generated herself.

At this time, Zhang Sheng glared at Little Wei Yuan and said: "Stop when it's enough, don't be heavy-handed."

Little Wei Yuan said respectfully: "Teacher, rest assured, I will definitely not hurt the junior apprentice."

No matter how good Xiang Xiaoyu's temper was, he couldn't bear it, and said coldly: "Can we start fighting?"

"Wait a moment!" Little Wei Yuan pointed at the Shaoyang Star Lord and said: "We are sparring; can such naturally born spiritual things be used? Is it that as long as it is in the Dharma Form, it can be summoned and used?"

"That goes without saying!"

Little Wei Yuan grinned: "Then don't blame your elder brother for being unkind and bullying the small with the big."

He waved his large hand, and saw three Yu Jing Mirage Demons appear, surrounding Xiang Xiaoyu tightly.

Xiang Xiaoyu was stunned!

The Shaoyang Star Lord showed determination, preparing for a life-and-death battle to seek some dignity.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 808 =====