Immortality Through Array Formations

Chapter 713: Chapter 564 Parting_3

Bai Zixi’s gaze was complex, and her heart was heavy with emotions she couldn’t understand. “I’ve promised Master to take good care of Junior Brother…”

“Mmm.” Bai Zisheng nodded as well.

They invoked Master’s name, hoping that their mother would listen to reason.

But Bai Qiancheng shook her head, “How exactly will you take care of him?”

Both of them were taken aback.

Bai Qiancheng continued, “Once in the Bai Family, if he encounters any danger, who will be there to protect him?”

“You?”

“With just Qi Refinement, what can you do? Even if you reached Foundation Establishment, then what?”

“In the Second Grade Cultivation World, a Foundation Establishment Cultivator can command the winds and summon the rain, but in the Bai Family, a mere Foundation Establishment Cultivator, who can you really protect?”

Bai Qiancheng looked at the two children, her heart aching for them, yet she didn’t sugarcoat her words:

“Moreover, you are descendants of the Bai Family, you rely on the Bai Family, not on yourselves. You want to protect him, but what if one day…”

“The Bai Family wants to harm him?”

“What will you do? What can you do?”

“Can you defy the clan?”

“With your Cultivation, how can you stand against the Bai Family, an ancient lineage of ten thousand years?”

“If you can’t defy them, are you prepared to watch… your little Junior Brother die before your eyes?”

Bai Qiancheng’s words were icy cold and realistic.

Bai Zixi and the other’s faces turned pale, they hung their heads low, clenching their fists tightly, but they couldn’t find any words to say.

They couldn’t protect anything…

Neither Master nor their little Junior Brother…

Bai Qiancheng looked at the two children, her gaze softened slightly, and her tone was a bit more gentle:

“Cultivators, ultimately, must rely on their own Cultivation…”

“I know you have deep feelings for each other as fellow disciples, but bringing that child, Mo Hua, back to the Bai Family is not helping him, it’s harming him…”

“The Bai Family is too vast, its karma too profound, it’s also too complicated…”

Bai Zixi said with a trembling voice, “Mother, then…”

Bai Qiancheng hesitated for a moment, then slowly extended her hand and touched Bai Zixi’s head, sighing, “Go…”

“To forget your little Junior Brother is the best protection you can give him…”

…

The little Senior Brother and Senior Sister were leaving.

They were going to Liyuan City, where they would take the Flying Cloud Ferry and leave the Dali Mountain State boundary.

Mo Hua came to see them off.

It was his first time visiting Liyuan City and encountering the Cloud Ferry.

The Cloud Ferry was huge, extravagantly ornate, docked at the ferry port like a colossal kun fish with wings in the sky. It was said that once it took flight, it was like a great ship in the sea of clouds, with incredible speed, capable of crossing state boundaries.

The principle of the Cloud Ferry seemed to be based on harnessing the flow of Spiritual Energy and rising among the clouds.

Mo Hua was very curious, but because of the imminent departure, his mood was somewhat downcast, and he wasn’t in the mood to study the Cloud Ferry…

Bai Zisheng was worried that Mo Hua was unhappy, and babbled on and on.

He spoke of the famous attractions of Qian State, like some sky-touching Taoist constructions, ancient, atmospheric temples and monasteries, the hanging Sword Qi Waterfall, the Bai Family’s ancient pavilions, Three Clear Spirit Mountain… and many others.

Mo Hua listened with great interest.

Bai Zisheng also told Mo Hua to be sure to visit the Bai Family someday.

But he warned him to improve his Cultivation before going.

There were many villains in the Bai Family, who might harm him…

Mo Hua gave Bai Zisheng a gift, a great dragon controlled by a Spirit Pivot Formation, no longer a crawling reptile compared to before.

Mo Hua added two wings to it, and flapping them, it could lift off the ground. Although it couldn’t “fly” high, it was much better than crawling on the ground.

But adding wings made it look a bit ugly.

Mo Hua also promised, “When I’ve learned more about Formations, I’ll craft one for you, a dragon that can fly without wings!”

Bai Zisheng was overjoyed and then asked Mo Hua:

“That technique I taught you, have you been practicing it?”

Mo Hua was startled, “Which technique?”

Bai Zisheng looked unhappy and enunciated every word, “Flying! Dragon! In! The! Sky!”

Mo Hua remembered the move Bai Zisheng had created himself, leaping into the sky, striking a pose, then wielding a long spear and descending from the heavens with that spear technique…

Mo Hua felt a bit embarrassed, “That… Can I not learn it…?”

Purely a showy sequence of movements, completely useless.

“No way!” Bai Zisheng insisted, “This is a move I created myself, and I’m only teaching you. In the whole world, only the two of us brothers will know it! You must learn it well!”

Mo Hua said helplessly, “Alright then…”

Bai Zisheng saw Mo Hua agree and nodded in satisfaction, then he seemed to remember something and became a bit downcast.

“I originally wanted to go back to Tongxian City to see Uncle Mo and Aunt Liu, but now I can’t go there. Qian State is so far away, I don’t know if there’ll be another chance…”

The food Aunt Liu makes is so delicious.

Bai Zisheng missed the carefree and well-fed days in Tongxian City terribly.

Mo Hua consoled him, “There will be a chance.”

Bai Zisheng perked up a bit and nodded.

After thinking for a while, Mo Hua asked, “What about junior sister…”

All this way, he hadn’t seen the junior sister…

Bai Zisheng paused, sighed, and said, “She originally wanted you to go to the Bai family too, but now that you can’t, she might feel a bit embarrassed to face you…”

What’s there to be embarrassed about…

Mo Hua said in a low voice, “Is junior sister throwing a tantrum?”

Bai Zisheng thought for a moment and nodded, “I guess so…”

But he knew that it probably wasn’t the case.

Ever since she heard Mother’s words, Zixi had locked herself in her room, seeing no one, as if afraid that encountering Mo Hua again would make her heart ache.

Bai Zisheng didn’t quite understand and shook his head.

Feeling sad after parting is normal.

That’s exactly why we should see each other more…

Thus, Bai Zisheng couldn’t help but chat with Mo Hua for a long time, until someone urged them, saying the Cloud Ferry was about to depart. Only then did he bid Mo Hua farewell, looking back three steps at a time as he boarded the ferry.

“We’re really… parting now…”

Just before entering the Cloud Ferry, Bai Zisheng’s eyes suddenly felt a bit sore.

The moments they spent together day and night, the three fellow disciples, laughing and playing, bickering and making noise, all rushed to his heart…

Bai Zisheng tried hard to hold back his tears, took a final look at Mo Hua, and committed his junior brother’s image to memory. Then, he stepped into the vast expanse of the Cloud Ferry.

Mo Hua stood at the ferry port, feeling reluctant to let go, but still silently watched his senior brother and the unseen junior sister depart.

Inside the Cloud Ferry.

Bai Zisheng knocked on Bai Zixi’s door, “Aren’t you going to see junior brother?”

There was silence inside the room.

“If you don’t see him, you might… never see him again…”

Despite his words, there was still no response from behind the door.

Bai Zisheng shook his head helplessly, clutching the large dragon his junior brother had given him as a parting gift, and turned to leave.

In the room, Bai Zixi sat silently, her dark eyelashes quivering, her beautiful eyes revealing a trace of melancholy.

The clear sunlight poured in, her cheeks slightly pale, which added a mournful beauty to her originally cold and flawless visage.

There she sat quietly, her thoughts unknown, her emotions complex and unsettled.

Moments later, the Cloud Ferry’s massive humming sound began.

Bai Zixi suddenly felt alarmed, and Bai Zisheng’s words echoed in her mind:

“You might… never see him again…”

Her heart trembled, and she quickly got up, left her room, and walked onto the deck of the Cloud Ferry.

But by then, the Cloud Ferry had already set sail.

The sky was clear, and the Cloud Ferry, grand and splendid, lifted off among the clouds, rolling up layers of cloud waves.

When Bai Zixi looked out again, the sea of clouds stretched out endlessly.

Mo Hua’s small figure had been obscured by the vast clouds, completely vanishing from her sight…

Never… to be seen again…

A sharp pain struck Bai Zixi’s heart, as if carved with a knife, and a single tear, clear as ice and snow, slowly slid down her pallid cheek…

The white clouds surged like great waves, and the flowing clouds like the sea carried the Cloud Ferry, sailing into the wind, farther and farther into the endless sea of clouds…

The Great Dao is boundless, seas of clouds lie between.

This parting, who knows when we will meet again.