Chapter 1669 - 984: Wooden Baby Court

All the engravings have been browsed over and over again, deeply etched in memories, transforming into individual figures...

Suddenly, there was a faint breathing sound in her mind, a slow and deep exhale.

Snap, she fell down.

She opened her eyes, with a trace of regret in them.

She was so close to enlightenment.

Turning her head, she saw a poorly dressed young boy bleeding from his seven orifices, collapsed and unable to get up, about ten meters to her left.

The people nearby were unfazed.

"Tsk, just another pathetic fool trying to forcibly gain insight and getting backfired."

"Little brat, how stupid."

Those who still have time to mock others are not truly cultivators.

Nor are they people with a benevolent heart.

"Hey, no one’s caring for this little brat blocking the way.... Why is no one taking him to Wooden Baby Court to save his life...."

"You fool! Seeing a physician at Wooden Baby Tower costs at least a thousand spirit currencies, with that idle money, it’s better spent on a couple of jugs of wine and some meat."

Indeed, that person pouted and kicked towards the boy, wanting to move him away, but he missed.

The boy had already been picked up by someone by the collar and was being carried directly towards where the sakura petals drifted.

"Tsk, seems we really have a fool here...."

Sui Yi had already noted the especially different scenery under this Ice Gleam High Wall in contrast to the vast surrounding white snow.

— In the snow, in that courtyard, there was a large ancient cherry blossom tree with sprawling roots.

The cherry blossoms bloomed so splendidly, clustering like clouds and cotton, pink and glazed, dreamlike and exquisite, with the petals drifting gently in the icy glacial winds, falling one by one upon the river by the courtyard... gliding along the transparent cold current, flowing gracefully downstream.

So beautiful.

And the people inside were formidable too; this ancient cherry blossom tree should not have survived in such a harsh environment, yet it lived, and lived so well. If not aided by the environment, then surely by people.

Sui Yi, carrying the boy, hesitated briefly and entered.

Wooden Baby Court, a wooden abode obviously made with cherry wood...

The house was neither big nor small; its layout showed there was one servant and one master.

Someone had already come out to express thanks, turning thrice with every step, seemingly very reluctant to leave.

Sui Yi noticed that the maid was quite beautiful and gentle, her words elegant, her manners ladylike, which was rare in this dragon ape’s world of large-scale evolution.

Full of ancient charm.

"Young master."

The maid saw Sui Yi, approached, and her gaze fell on the boy in Sui Yi’s hands.

"This person has fainted due to consciousness backlash, I request for your aid in healing him, much appreciated."

The maid, observing Sui Yi’s appearance as ordinary and not particularly outstanding, nonetheless heard the grace in his speech, his eyes calm, giving a spontaneous and elegant feeling, thus found him pleasing, and smiled slightly: "Do you wish for me to heal, or my teacher?"

Teacher?

That question was indeed somewhat peculiar.

"Anyone able to heal will do, depending on Miss’s and your teacher’s convenience."

The maid now genuinely smiled, "Since you are not of the same intent as those people, it’s true that I will help heal him... bring him inside then."

Sui Yi carried the boy inside, where it was bright, clean, and well-ventilated, with such ancient charm reminiscent of Qin’s Confucian style.

Sui Yi noticed the painting hanging on the wall, momentarily froze, his brows slightly furrowed, though not obviously.

The maid did not notice, placed the youth on the couch, and a row of silver needles appeared with a wave of her hand.

Sui Yi could tell from her actions that she possessed skill far beyond his, and naturally even less than Jhiang Chenyu, this giant spirit of medicine, but she was very skilled nonetheless. Sui Yi knew that this silver needle technique is generally an exceptional art, in any time and space a secret not easily passed on, so she turned around.

Seeing Sui Yi turn around, the maid was a bit surprised and said: "If you are bored, young master, you can go outside to the water platform to enjoy the view."

"Alright."

Sui Yi walked out of the courtyard door, to the water platform, beside the massive ancient cherry tree, where the spacious water platform was covered with cherry blossoms, and below the platform the blossoms layered upon each other, a vivid sight to behold.

Sui Yi wandered over, looking up at this ancient cherry tree, and as she gazed, she lowered her eyes.

It’s actually nurtured through willpower.

It’s akin to how she previously nurtured flowers and plants with magnetic sensation, except magnetic sensation is a special energy, while willpower is simply willpower, used for nurturing life?

Sui Yi suddenly realized the biggest change over nine thousand years was this vast world itself.

In a sudden thought, Sui Yi closed her eyes again.

A gentle breeze blew, cherry blossoms brushed across her face.

She saw that year, at the Witch Court rituals, thousands upon thousands of people... of all races under the heavens, standing below the altar...

With heads held high, watching the High Priest in plain clothes, with silky black hair, holding a bundle of bamboo slips, step by step ascending those ninety-nine steps, every stage she passed, the corresponding people would kneel down.

Lords and courtiers, peerless heroes, all under the swaying beacons, the vast Jade Bi, sincerely bowing, lowering their souls, chanting the ancient ritual hymns....

Throwing the bamboo slips into the beacon’s fiery blaze, casting the Jade Tablet into the rivers.

As the High Priest turned back, with a gentle wave of her sleeve, everyone rose... but upon looking up, many, many people were gone...

Beneath them lay continuous beacon and corpses, blood staining the Jade Tablet’s mountains and rivers, the green hills vanished, tears of blood unending.

She closed her eyes in an instant that lasted nine thousand years.

Then she opened her eyes again.

The cold wind was like snow, ceaseless mountains and rivers, entertainers withering, Jianghu elusive

, yet how many old friends remain...

She doesn’t even remember herself anymore.

Life and flourishing, enlightenment in an instant.

Magnetic Sensation unparalleled in the soul, merging into the heavens and earth, entering that vast and enduring Ice Gleam High Wall....

Absorbed into a single engraving.

Magnetic Sensation devours, soul overlays, could such a grand realm allow her comprehension?

There’s no room for refusal, only conquest.

Just as the High Priest once mastered the peerless of the Human Realm without uttering a word.

One engraving, comprehended!

Willpower increases, the realm rises.

The second!

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"Alright..." The Maid pulled out the Silver Needles, touched the youth’s forehead with her fingers, her expression slightly eased. She put away the Silver Needles, feeling puzzled. She could discern that this man had no connection with this youth; their attires didn’t match at all. The former clearly came from a good background, extraordinarily graceful, while the latter belonged to the disciples cultivating on the edges of the high wall in a desolate mountain area, young yet downcast.

For such a man to have sent this person here was already a matter of great kindness, a thousand Spirit Currency would naturally not be difficult for him. Leaving the Spirit Currency and departing swiftly to comprehend the patterns was the right thing to do. Why did it seem as if this person was accustomed to being in the backyard by the water terrace?

Surely not harboring some ulterior motives?

It seemed that Teacher’s inner chamber was very close to that water terrace....

The Maid thought so and couldn’t help but walk out. Just as she exited the courtyard gate, she saw a figure standing under the cherry tree at the water terrace with their back to her.

Now upon seeing, she realized that this man was not exceptionally tall, but extremely thin. Logically, he should not be attractive, yet his demeanor under the tree made her, who had seen countless outstanding figures of the world, dazed.

There’s an aura that has nothing to do with appearance, nothing to do with environment, just the person.

Standing there is like a towering mountain, a meandering river, or another ancient and splendid Ancient Cherry Tree.

Cherry blossoms fluttered around him, then quietly fell, more gently than ever, making one reluctant to disturb.

So, when the Maid came back to her senses, wanting to speak, an invisible breeze came, encircling the whole residence... After a moment, the Maid knew that no one outside could see beyond that water terrace backyard.

She realized, walking to a beaded curtain door, she greeted, "Teacher..."

"It likes her very much... let her stay, do not disturb."

"Yes."

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Cherry blossoms continue to fall, even if there’s a person standing under the tree. The water still flows, even if there’s a person standing daily under that tree.

Day and then night.

In the night, the stars are sparse, under the Ice Gleam High Wall, the night is so clear, starlight dotted, countless stars fill the sky.

The brightest is that river that is transparent during the day.

A hand caught a petal.

Sui Yi gently cupped it in his palm, closed, then released it, letting it fall.

"Picking up and letting go, it likes the person, indeed is different..."

The voice echoed softly.

Sui Yi turned to see the woman sitting at the edge of the water terrace, her feet dangling over the water, in a loose, pale gray long shirt linen robe. Such an old-fashioned attire on her slender gracefulness appeared exceptionally ethereal and ancient in tone. Perhaps that ancient tone emerged when she leaned against the pillar, two fingers hooking a fish-mouthed liquor pot and giving a light glance away.

Under the moon, Xuan Ji.

A thought flickered through Sui Yi’s mind, glancing at the stars above, made a slight calculation, raised his eyebrows slightly but did not proceed further.

"Got lost in thought for a moment, forgot the time, disturbed the Teacher for four days, my apologies."

"Observing the stars, examining the years, you guess, how long has it existed?"

Sui Yi knew she was referring to this Cherry Tree.

Her gaze circled around the Cherry Tree crown, looping back.

"Ten years."

"Ten years? Over the years, more than tens of thousands of people have been here, adding up to hundreds of thousands each year, many more over a hundred years... They all think it’s at least a thousand years old."

"In their eyes a thousand years, in Teacher’s eyes, it should be only ten years, or one year, or even a fleeting moment."

"Heaven and earth with living beings, living beings and souls, souls with time, time then with heaven and earth... how long have you lived then?"

This woman, drinking alone under the moon, with lonely brows and an elegant figure, rendered Mr. Sui momentarily silent.

After a long while.

She softly said, "A dream of vanities, an instant of glance."

The Female Teacher’s fingers that hooked the liquor pot paused slightly, the motion of sending the pot to her thin lips slowed towards Sui Yi, yet it was just a pause. Only then did she carefully look at this man who had stayed in her domain without permission for four days.

Pale, thin, man.

Common amidst the multitude.

She laughed gently, said, "In the Physician’s place, it’s not auspicious, don’t come next time..."

The voice was light and distant.

Then she continued drinking, and when the pot was set down, Sui Yi was already gone.

Just the railing held a string of Spirit Currency.

The Spirit Currency was crisp, lightly resonating with the wind, and cherry blossoms unconsciously floated onto that Spirit Currency, seemingly reluctant to leave.

She was dazed for a moment.

"Raised you for so many years... yet still not as close as a passerby... Even her wealth is good?"

She shook her head, chuckling softly, stood up, not bothering even with the liquor pot, directly entered the room....

A night of silence.

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