Miss Fairy, Please Hear Me Out

Tian Yan... A little girl? Xu Yuan froze when he heard the name, then began digging through his memories, trying to find anything related to it.

After searching every corner of his mind, forget a little girl, he could not even find a female. He did not find a person, but he did remember a cultivation art called the Yan TianArt, Heaven Deriving Art.

The Heaven Deriving Art was not the last of the only three Blood-tier cultivation arts. In fact, it had never been implemented at all. It had not even appeared in the game. It had only been briefly mentioned in the official guidebook.

What was the description of the Heaven Deriving Art again? Xu Yuan frowned, trying to recall. After thinking for a long while, he barely managed to remember the guidebook’s description of it. It was simple, but also domineering. To deduce the secrets of Heaven.

After a moment of silence, Xu Yuan asked in a low voice, “A little girl named Tian Yan? How did you meet her? And why would you believe what she said?”

Ran Qingmo thought for a moment, then gave a simple explanation. “After I cultivated to third rank, my master told me to leave the mountain and travel the world. I saved her near the Nine Abyss Gorge. After that, while I was taking her with me, she told me many strange things.”

“Strange things?” Xu Yuan frowned.

“She said there would be an earthquake in West Circuit Prefecture, snow in Nine Splendors in August, and that the northern frontier would be attacked by the barbarian tribes all the way to the walls of Frostnorth.”

“And all of those things came true?”

“Mhm.” Ran Qingmo nodded.

Xu Yuan’s eyes gradually grew serious. He now roughly understood why Ran Qingmo had been so certain. He asked softly, “Since she said the Sword Sect would be destroyed, did she mention anything else? Something about the future.”

“Mhm. One more thing.” Ran Qingmo nodded.

“What?”

“Emperor Jiajing will die next year.”

Xu Yuan’s breath caught sharply. His fist tightened slightly as he asked in a low voice, “Do you know where she is now?”

Ran Qingmo shook her head. “Mhm... She disappeared while I was cultivating.”

Hearing this, Xu Yuan felt his head start to ache. At least one mystery from his past life had now been solved. Ran Qingmo’s source of information had not been a traitor in the Chancellor's Manor. Someone had directly deduced it using a cultivation art capable of peering into Heaven’s secrets.

He was a transmigrator who had once possessed a god’s-eye view, and even he had not known these things. Yet that little girl named Tian Yan had.

The deeper Xu Yuan’s understanding became, the stranger this world seemed to him. First there was Qin Weijiu, hidden in the shadows. Now, on Ran Qingmo’s side, another mysterious little girl named Tian Yan had appeared out of nowhere.

To disappear without a trace while Ran Qingmo was cultivating, completely unnoticed by gods or ghosts alike, meant one of two things. Either it was a special effect of the Heaven Deriving Art, or that little girl’s cultivation had been higher than Ran Qingmo’s at the time.

And even setting cultivation aside for now, there were far too many unsettling questions. Why had that little girl named Tian Yan told Ran Qingmo all those things? Had she done it deliberately, or had she simply been giving Ran Qingmo an opportunity? And did such a mysterious little girl harbor any hostility toward the Chancellor's Manor? He knew none of it.

At that moment, Xu Yuan suddenly understood why all those old fossils in the novels he had read in his previous life loved acting like riddle-spewing bastards in front of the protagonist. When your strength was lacking, even if you knew certain things, all you could do was look up at them helplessly. That feeling really was suffocating.

Of course, Xu Yuan was not despairing in the slightest. He could call for backup. As it happened, Xu Changge was also in Stillwater right now. He could hand this whole mess over to him and let him suffer the headache. And if even his big brother could not handle it... then his old man could come!

With that thought, Xu Yuan suddenly looked at Ran Qingmo and asked, “Right. Would you allow me to tell Xu Changge about this?”

When Ran Qingmo heard that, she immediately stared at Xu Yuan and shook her head. “Can you not tell him?”

Xu Yuan said quietly, “I’ll only tell him about that little girl named Tian Yan.”

Ran Qingmo stared at Xu Yuan. After hesitating for a moment, she still said, “But... but he’ll still find out about me.”

Xu Yuan thought for a moment and roughly understood what she was worried about. He asked directly, “You’re worried about Xu Changge finding out that you already know about our Chancellor's Manor’s plan to destroy the Sword Sect?”

Ran Qingmo took a moment to process the meaning of his words. Then she lowered her head and looked toward the tips of her shoes. She could barely see them. After a few quiet breaths, she answered softly, “Mhm. Yes.”

Xu Yuan smiled when he heard that. “You actually don’t need to worry about that.”

“Why?” Ran Qingmo raised her eyes.

“Because he already knew.”

Ran Qingmo’s beautiful eyes blinked twice. Once she understood, she immediately tightened her grip on her black sword and tried to run.

But Xu Yuan gave her no chance. The moment he finished saying that, he reached out and grabbed her wrist.

This matter was not hard to deduce. Xu Changge clearly knew that the person who had kidnapped him back then was Ran Qingmo, but he had shown no intention whatsoever of digging into her motives. Was that normal? No. In fact, it was downright abnormal.

Xu Yuan had been excluded from the Chancellor's Manor’s decision-making circle because of his glorious record of past misdeeds, but his big brother was absolutely one of the people inside that circle.

In other words, Xu Changge had to know about the Chancellor's Manor’s plan to overthrow the Celeste Sword Sect. And since he knew that, then was it really so hard to guess why Ran Qingmo had kidnapped Xu Changtian at that particular time?

A leak that serious, and he let it slide for Xu Yuan’s sake? What a joke. If Xu Yuan’s face carried that much weight, then in his memories, that brother of his would not have strung him up and beaten him.

And there was only one possible explanation for something so abnormal. His old man and his brother were plotting something behind his back, and the time had not yet come to completely tear off all pretenses with the sects under heaven.

That was why Xu Changge had chosen to endure. Just like back then on Suspended Heaven Cliff, when he had gone with the flow and let this iceberg of a woman escape.

Xu Yuan held Ran Qingmo’s snow-white wrist and smiled as he comforted her. “Don’t panic. Xu Changge won’t make a move against you right now.”

Ran Qingmo’s eyes were still a little wary as she glanced in the direction Xu Changge had left. “Why?”

Xu Yuan said without the slightest concern, “Because we still aren’t ready to go to war with the sects. We won’t burn that bridge yet.”

Ran Qingmo suddenly fell silent. She pressed her lips together. “Why are you telling me this...?”

She could more or less understand that what he had just said already counted as a secret of the Chancellor's Manor.

“Didn’t you tell me about Tian Yan too?” Xu Yuan smiled. He paused, then his tone suddenly changed, and he laughed with a hint of mockery. “And besides, even if you tell them, no one on the sects’ side will believe you.”

Ran Qingmo knew the truth and had tried to warn the sects, but among all the sects she had approached, no one had been willing to believe her. In the end, the one willing to believe her was actually the Chancellor's Manor, the very force standing on the opposite side of the sects.

Xu Yuan found that rather ironic.

Ran Qingmo fell silent after hearing this.

Xu Yuan waited quietly for a while. Seeing that she still did not speak, he said softly, “If you die by his hand now, then I, Xu Yuan, will be buried with you.”

Ran Qingmo’s delicate body relaxed slightly, and she shook her head. “I don’t need you to be buried with me.”

Xu Yuan smiled faintly, then asked again, “Can I tell Xu Changge about Tian Yan?”

Ran Qingmo thought for a long time. This time, she finally nodded. “Okay.”

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