Chapter 9: Return the Phoenix Bones

Zhao Yue obviously felt that, having said all that, Shen Qingli would surely return to her side happily.

She had thought that Shen Qingli would defy her like this only to attract her attention.

Just like before, when she kept making outstanding advancements to give her face, it was all just to get her praise.

Su Chacha also told her that, "Master, don't worry, upon hearing this, the eldest senior sister will definitely leave Bing Xue Feng, she loves you so much."

Zhao Yue nodded slightly, her heart deeply in agreement.

Pei Jianshu, standing behind her, frowned slightly and said, "Junior sister, you shouldn't have come here. It's extremely cold, which is bad for your body."

"Yeah, yeah!" Gu Cihe said with an agreeing expression, "Junior sister, let me send you back first."

"I'm fine." Su Chacha shook her head firmly, "The eldest senior sister left Saint Maiden Peak because of me; I must bring her back, otherwise what kind of person would I be?"

"She's really scheming!" Gu Cihe said with an annoyed face, "Wanting the master's attention in such a petty way, using you as a raft. Junior sister, don't worry, our sect up and down has long seen through her face; we won't be fooled!"

"Your body hasn't recovered yet; I'll send you back." Pei Jianshu said while grabbing Su Chacha's arm, preparing to take her away on his sword.

Shen Qingli, who had just come down from the peak, happened to see this scene.

"Eldest senior sister!" Su Chacha shouted immediately, still holding Pei Jianshu's arm, turning her head to Zhao Yue and saying, "Master, look! The eldest senior sister is indeed thinking of you!"

Zhao Yue's expression eased slightly, but her gaze at Shen Qingli was utterly cold, "Hurry over and kneel! Apologize to your junior sister, and I'll take you back."

Shen Qingli:?

How many times must I say it before Zhao Yue understands that we have truly severed ties?

"No need, I……"

"Still being stubborn!" Gu Cihe cut off Shen Qingli's words, sneering, "You didn't leave the sect, ran to Bing Xue Feng— isn't that just deliberately stabbing the master's lungs, making her unable to rest, forcing her to personally come fetch you back?"

"Eldest senior sister, you've really gone too far this time. You clearly know the master most dislikes any contact with Peak Lord Shen." Su Chacha said with difficulty, "Come over quickly and apologize to the master, don't make her upset."

Upon hearing that, Zhao Yue's gaze toward Su Chacha became extremely gentle, full of approval.

Gu Cihe shouted even louder, "Shen Qingli! What are you standing there for? Hurry over and apologize to the master and the junior sister!"

Shen Qingli was utterly exasperated, "What did I say? Now I have to apologize to two people in a row."

In short, it's all her fault.

But she would no longer foolishly bear all the blame; she crossed her arms and said, "You love to apologize so much, you do it yourself."

"I don't think I, a person whose living mother tore out two hundred and six phoenix bones from my body bloody and raw, have any fault! Even if the Heavenly King himself came, he would only condemn Zhao Yue for poisoning and devouring her child!"

"What did you say!" Zhao Yue, furious, raised her hand!

Shen Qingli mocked, "How, still want to beat or kill me?"

"She can't do it."

The silently standing Shen Jin in the rear had already walked to Shen Qingli's side.

He had also thought that Shen Qingli, who had hastily come down the mountain, wanted to go with Zhao Yue.

Now it seems she truly has given up on Zhao Yue, Saint Maiden Peak, and the Jade Sect.

"You little bastard! This place isn't for you to speak!" Gu Cihe knew Zhao Yue couldn't stand Shen Jin, "Get lost!"

Shen Jin glanced at Gu Cihe indifferently, basically not putting him in his eyes at all.

He only gazed at Zhao Yue with a detached coldness, enunciating each word, "She said, she's not leaving."

Zhao Yue's face turned green! Yet inexplicably she didn't dare vent her anger, let alone draw her sword and attack.

Su Chacha, however, said, "Eldest senior sister, stop being stubborn! Otherwise the master will really get angry and abandon you."

"She likes being with that bastard so much, let her be." Zhao Yue's tone icy, "I'll just pretend I never gave birth to this evil spawn!"

"Eldest senior sister! He was born of a lowly wretch who stole another's dao companion! How can you join him in stabbing the master's lungs?"

"Hurry up and apologize to the master!" Su Chacha said angrily, as if she were agonizing over the mother-daughter relationship between Shen Qingli and Zhao Yue.

"Chacha says it well." Bai Ren Shan's voice came down.

Zhao Yue's eyes flickered slightly, realizing the Sect Leader must have summoned the Grand Elder.

No wonder Shen Kuo didn't come to stop her; this is tacit permission for her to take away this evil offspring!

"A Li, I know you feel wronged, but your mother pulled out your phoenix bones for the greater good. As the eldest senior sister, you ought to help your fellow disciples."

"Like this, I'll decide. You kowtow once to your junior sister, then three times to your mother, seeking their forgiveness; I will lift the punishment of sending you to the Endless Abyss, and also open the ancestral hall to formally admit you into the sect."

Bai Ren Shan, speaking leisurely, covertly sized up Shen Qingli, feeling somewhat surprised— a person who had her phoenix bones torn out and even self-detonated her phoenix soul, after enduring so many trials, actually looks better and better?

"Sect Leader—" Gu Cihe's tone was resentful!

Bai Ren Shan, however, waved a hand at him.

Gu Cihe immediately shut his mouth; the Sect Leader's authority brooks no provocation.

And Shen Jin, upon looking again at Shen Qingli, saw her take a step forward!

Shen Jin's eyes sharpened instantly, then he curled a mocking smile— he knew she would choose Saint Maiden Peak!

Shen Qingli also indeed said, "Thank you, Sect Leader, for your magnanimity."

Bai Ren Shan nodded slightly, however—

Shen Qingli then said, "I can enter the Jade Sect, but I have three conditions."

"You dare put forward conditions!" Gu Cihe immediately retorted!

Bai Ren Shan also didn't stop him, evidently thinking Shen Qingli unworthy to propose conditions.

But Shen Qingli, unmindful of their attitudes, said bluntly, "First, I will not apologize to anyone; second, the Jade Sect has me but not Su Chacha; third, I will absolutely not enter Saint Maiden Peak."

"Daydreaming!"

"Nonsensical!"

Almost everyone shouted in unison a curse!

Zhao Yue even said, "Sect Leader, she's just ungrateful! Better to throw her into the Endless Abyss right now; if she doesn't suffer a bit, she'll never admit fault."

"Never mind." Bai Ren Shan shook his head regretfully, "Someone come."

The disciples of Law Enforcement Peak immediately stepped forward, wanting to take Shen Qingli away!

Shen Jin impassively stepped in front of Shen Qingli and said just one word: "Get lost!"

The Law Enforcement Peak disciples immediately drew their swords; a scarlet purple light flickered in the depths of Shen Jin's eyes, and dark clouds in the sky faintly flickered with thunder.

Shen Qingli's hand, however, grabbed Shen Jin's shoulder: "Just stay there."

The sharp light in Shen Jin's eyes faded; he turned to look at her in disbelief, "You still want to go with them?"

Shen Qingli nodded, feeling that staying at Bing Xue Feng still involved too much trouble; it was time to leave.

But Shen Kuo arrived, saying, "She won't go with anyone; she has no guilt—on the contrary, it's her!"

Shen Kuo, looking at Su Chacha, his gaze extremely cold: "It's time to return my daughter's phoenix bone!"

Amid the bursting ice light, a huge snow-white phoenix seemed to rise into the sky above Bing Xue Feng, fierce and proud, accompanying Shen Kuo's words as it shot straight into the heavens.