[天命为凰]

Untitled Part 13

013- Heavenly Wheel

Because he spoke about Liu Jizhen yesterday with his disciple, Yu Wen Shi thought of him again today.

If you were to push forward time by ten years, how impressive would Liu Jizhen have become? By default, he was the Eldest Senior Brother when he entered the sect, and was the direct descendant of a Grandmaster lineage. As a martial practitioner, he had become the top expert of the fifteenth generation, always leading by a far margin.

Nine Jade Palace was not at all a harmonious sect; there had always been internal strife in every generation, but this did not include the fifteenth generation. This time, Liu Jizhen became the figure that they all admired in the fifteenth generation – someone they had neither the right nor ability to challenge.

Yet who would have thought, the former Liu Jizhen that no one could hope to match up, to wound up having his Meridians severed and end up being banished to Green Jade Valley?

Yu Wen Shi felt a myriad of emotions as he thought of Liu Jizhen's former glory. In this life, I probably won't be able to see that familiar silhouette again even if it were outside Green Jade Valley, right? It is indeed lamentable.

Wait a moment! Who is that man? Why does he look so familiar?

Yu Wen Shi could not help but reach out and rub his eyes. Following his tenth birthday, he had never behaved so naively in front of others.

He observed a man walk over, entering his bamboo-fenced small courtyard from the outside. That man wore plain cotton-clothing and had unkempt hair and a beard, a modest appearance that was offset only by his tall and muscular stature.

He stopped outside the fenced off courtyard door and gave it a few knocks.

Yu Wen Shi recovered his attention, standing up in surprise. "Senior Brother Liu?!"

The visitor was indeed Liu Jizhen.

His calm gaze looked towards Yu Wen Shi as he nodded. "Junior Brother Yu Wen."

Yu Wen Shi hastily opened the door. "Why have you come? Did anything happen?"

He was not to blame for having such a thought, for he knew of Liu Jizhen's stubbornness very clearly from growing up together. There was no doubt that he did not have the intention to leave after he entered Green Jade Valley. It was totally unexpected that Yu Wen Shi could still see him outside the Valley.

"There's a matter I would like to ask for your help on."

"What is it?"

"That disciple of mine, she has fallen ill."

Yu Wen Shi's mouth fell open, not closing for a long while.

......

Lu Mingshu forgot where she was.

Wrong, again. Wrong, try again.

She did not know how much time had passed since she began trying to solve the cube, but her mind was completely immersed.

Slowly, she found a solution. 81 cubes may be a lot, but she could start from the corner then unify...

The rows of colors on the wood cube gradually acquired a regular pattern, the colors slowly unifying.

Lu Mingshu had yet to discover the abnormalities occurring in her body.

Back when she first started to fiddle with the wood cube, a light streamer had flown up to twine around her. Every time she twisted a row, those streamers would light up.