Shen Jiu's Self Saving System

Chapter 8

Three days later, each of Cang Qiong Mountain's Twelve Peaks prepared their disciple attendance rosters, and all headed to the conference.

The convening location of the Immortal Alliance Conference this time was a rolling mountain range extending for many miles, with complex terrain, named Jue Di Gorge.
People of reputation were conscious of their rank, and wouldn't participate in the Immortal Alliance Conference, to compete with their juniors for the limelight. There was no need, and it would be below them.

Therefore, the twelve Peak Lords and members of the same generation would not sign up.

The cap on the number of spots was high, naturally the more the better; in the end the number setting out grandly for Jue Di Gorge, well-equipped, was actually around one hundred. This many people flying on their swords would be too high-profile and disturb civilians, so most of them still traveled by carriage. Of course this excluded the proud immortal of Bai Zhan Peak and his handful brutes that were considered worthy enough to join the conference.

It never occurred to Shen Jiu that leaving Bai Zhan Peak would make him somewhat emotional, it was probably due to the fact that he knew what was bound to happen was getting closer. Though he was somewhat anxious about that, he was reluctant to admit that Bai Zhan Peak was beginner to forge it's way into his icy heart. Though the infrastructure was admittedly less appealing than that of Qing Jing, the stone buildings made to withstand the beatings of war had grown on him. Whether this was due to his dead shidi's influence or not, he didn't know.

Over the few years that he'd been in Liu Qingge's body even he had noticed the soft spot he was growing. Either that, or somehow in his first life someone was controlling his emotions but now he felt like he'd been opening up slowly. It was also probably due to the fact that people were less scared of him, was he really that horrible in his past life? Yes. He was.

He felt the air brush over his face, at least he could enjoy the lush air of the human realm with all of his limbs intact.

Not once during the 2 years he's been back has he come across Liu Qingge's sister, Liu MingYan. He wasn't quite sure if he could face her after what he'd done, especially in her dead brother's body, so he was grateful that she hadn't sought him out.

Though, when he'd arrived she discreetly managed to come and find him. He hopes that in this life she doesn't become a brainless member of Luo Binghe's 'harem'. After being around Shen Yuan for a while he'd picked up on a few words, adding each to a small dictionary he stores in his system so he won't forget the meaning.

"Gege." She bowed for the sake of formality, cupping one hand in the other with perfect graceful form. He's sure that Liu Qingge would be proud of the woman that she is now.
"MingYan." He bowed back, to which Liu MingYan rose an elegant eyebrow. He could definitely see the similarities of her and her brother when he was that age. Only, Liu Qingge was a lot more snappish back then. Always telling him to shut up for no reason, to become his fighting partner even though he clearly wasn't a Bai Zhan disciple (sometimes he had to ask himself whether or not Liu Qingge even had friends... though he couldn't judge because he didn't either...) and yelling every time he turned him down. He was quite... well... easily agitated.

The old Peak Lord of Qing Jing cooed saying that Liu Qingge had wanted to spend more time with Shen Jiu so he kept seeking him out like that, apparently it reminded her of when her wife was younger, being too proud to admit her feelings. Shen Jiu just thought that he was annoying. Because, who in their right mind would come to his chambers just as he was about to go to sleep and start yelling about duelling! Though, he had to remind himself that Liu Qingge probably wasn't in the right mind, always screeching for his attention. Sometimes he thought their rivalry was really stupid. But sometimes he relished it, because at least he saw him as a rival and not just a good for nothing slave to push around the peak. His disciples days... definitely weren't the best...