Chapter 847: Extra Chapter 4: 84

Guyun Que's gaze was too clear.

He stared at Xiao Jiu without blinking, as if saying: If she doesn't give him a definite answer today, he'll stay here and not leave!

Xiao Jiu probed, "Um… little brat… oh, no, Que, did my Shulan sister do something in the Ten Thousand Great Mountain that unintentionally offended you? You know, I and Wu Ling are close friends, we've shared life-and-death bonds; Shulan is your senior, so if she's offended you, please don't hold it against an elder—I'll apologize for her."

Xiao Jiu kept wailing inside.

She never imagined she'd one day apologize to someone for Bai Shulan.

What kind of person is Bai Shulan?

So tsundere… although Xiao Jiu knows Bai Shulan is sharp‑tongued but soft‑hearted, her demeanor doesn't seem like someone who'd do ridiculous things.

Xiao Jiu really felt both guilty and curious.

The gossip urge rose up, impossible to suppress.

Looks like after she gets rid of Guyun Que, she should send someone to properly investigate Bai Shulan's whereabouts.

Once she's found, Xiao Jiu will immediately press her for the gossip between her and Guyun Que.

"Not 'unintentionally'."

Guyun Que suddenly said that, leaving Xiao Jiu completely bewildered.

After a moment's pause, Xiao Jiu carefully recalled what she'd just said, and her face fell.

This matter seems impossible to get past.

Not "unintentionally".

Guyun Que meant that Bai Shulan deliberately provoked him.

It seems… it really was deliberate.

From the start, Bai Shulan had been using Guyun Que, but later events seemed to go off track.

Bai Shulan now… is probably just hiding from this brat, right?

Truly, the tides turn—what a sight to behold after living so long!

Xiao Jiu had no choice but to take out the letter Bai Shulan wrote her and hand it to Guyun Que to read.

The more Guyun Que read, the tighter his brow furrowed.

She's guarding herself so tightly.

Even her best friend and everyone at the Bai Family Clinic were kept in the dark.

Is he some kind of flood beast?

Guyun Que suddenly felt a faint ache in his chest.

His internal injuries originally needed half a month of rest to fully heal.

The Grand Elder earnestly advised him not to run outside, to stay quietly in the clan and fully recover before speaking further.

But Guyun Que couldn't wait.

He knew her methods too well; he feared that if he delayed another half month, he wouldn't even be able to catch a trace of her.

He never expected he'd still lose to her in the end.

Guyun Que also didn't understand his own feelings; he just felt a stifled breath in his chest, which only eased when he saw her in person.

Maybe he's angry she left without a word.

Or maybe he's worried about her injuries, unsure if they've healed.

Back then, at the blood pool, she struck the gu demon's main body with a dozen silver needles, lending him a hand.

She must have suffered backlash as well.

Perhaps she's been hiding somewhere, closing off to recuperate.

Xiao Jiu kept staring at Guyun Que; at that moment she saw his eyes suddenly brighten, as if a flash of light passed through.

Huh? What happened?

Is this brat imagining things again?

Guyun Que indeed thought of something.

He recalled that Bai Shulan had gone to the Ten Thousand Great Mountain to take revenge. (Details in the side‑story chapter on Guyun Que and Shulan.)

The target of her revenge was his former Senior Aunt, Ma Yue'e.

In the Sacrifice Tower battle, Ma Yue'e did not die.

Including his damned Master, who also didn't die.

Perhaps… perhaps Bai Shulan is hiding and closing off to recuperate because she fears being cornered by those two and inviting deadly disaster.

That must be it!

Although she has some cultivation and a decent mind, she's afraid of gu.

Against ordinary minor gu practitioners she could suppress them, but facing his Master and Ma Yue'e she'd surely only get beaten.

Thinking this through, Guyun Que felt he'd suddenly found a direction to strive.

If he killed his Master and Ma Yue'e, cleared the door, helped her take revenge, and eliminated all potential threats, would she no longer need to hide?

By then, wouldn't he be able to see her?

Having thought this through, Guyun Que turned and was about to leave.

Xiao Jiu instinctively called out, "Hey, Que, where are you going?"

What the heck, he's acting all mysterious!

Guyun Que replied, "Back to the Ten Thousand Great Mountain, to take revenge!"

Xiao Jiu???

All right.

Although she doesn't get his thought process, she respects it.

"Wait a moment." Xiao Jiu again handed over the silver box, "This is what Wu Ling left for you, and also what Elder Sister Shulan wrote in a letter, entrusting me to definitely hand it to you—take it with you."

Guyun Que took the silver box, examined it closely, and soon discovered that the box concealed another world.

During the period he was in seclusion to heal his wounds, he had been staying in his aunt's room.

The clan chief and the grand elder said that everything belonging to his aunt was left to him, so he could move anything in the entire courtyard.

At first, he still felt somewhat inhibited.

Although he had regained his memories from before age five, he recalled his mother's dying instructions to him.

"His aunt is his only relative left in this world."

But he had never truly seen his aunt, except for that phantom that appeared in his sea of consciousness when he was taming the Wangchuan insect.

He still felt somewhat unfamiliar with his aunt.

But as he gradually came into contact with the things his aunt left behind, especially her annotations in the ancient books on witchcraft that he often read, he could sense through those notes that his aunt was an extremely formidable person.

People all have a psychology of admiring the strong.

Although his aunt had never met him in person, she had always been searching for him; even after her death, she left a group of people to continue seeking him, and she had refined the Wangchuan insect for him…

As time passed, Guyun Que's understanding of his aunt grew deeper, so when he saw the special pattern carved inside the silver box, he immediately thought of the inner side of a bookshelf in his aunt's study, which was also carved with the same pattern.

Guyun Que repeatedly rubbed that pattern on the silver box—yes, he would not mistake it.

Every inner side of each bookshelf in his aunt's study was carved with a different pattern as decoration.

But only one matched the pattern engraved inside the silver box exactly!

Was his aunt trying to tell him something through this method?

Guyun Que's longing to return to the Ten Thousand Great Mountains reached its peak at this moment.

He put away the silver box, clasped his hands toward Xiao Jiu, then bowed deeply: "Xiao Jiu Zhanggui, thank you."

Having said that, he left without looking back.

Xiao Jiu waited until Guyun Que had completely left before letting out a long breath.

At the same time, she also felt a little worried.

"This child Yun Que, from now on, will fully take over Wu Ling's burden."

"The heavens of the witchcraft lineage in the Ten Thousand Great Mountains are likely to change again…"