The White Moonlight Subdues Everyone with a Suona - Chapter 21
Chapter 21: Na Na Na Na Na
The disciples behind them burst into laughter, and Feng Feishuang instantly realized she had been played.
Furious, she snapped: “You—”
“Fellow Disciple Ji, why not let her join us?”
A naive and slightly hesitant voice interrupted the curse about to slip from Feng Feishuang’s lips.
She paused, shifting her gaze over.
It was that little girl to whom she had spoken the harsh truth in front of everyone earlier.
Jiang Ju said, “Now that she has left those people, if she goes back alone… the journey won’t be safe.”
Meeting those eyes that harbored underlying fear yet tried their absolute best to show friendliness, Feng Feishuang pursed her lips and looked away.
When she looked back at Ji Bingyu, Feng Feishuang suddenly felt there was nothing worth being angry about anymore.
Just like that, with Jiang Ju stepping forward and everyone tacitly agreeing, Feng Feishuang unexpectedly joined the team.
Everyone, including the elders outside the water mirror, was astounded by this dramatic turn of events.
Yet what was even more incredible was still to come.
These disciples were bound in teams of three or four with ropes around their waists, actually climbing up the boulder mountain one after another.
However, this boulder mountain was so high its top was out of sight. Just when everyone thought they would give up, these eighteen disciples—including Feng Feishuang, who joined later—did not back down, not a single one of them.
The first wave of boulders injured one person.
The second wave of boulders knocked three disciples off.
By the third wave of boulders, the injured Pei Leye truly couldn’t hold on any longer. Grasping Ji Bingyu’s hand, he earnestly entrusted her.
“Master Ji, I’m relying on you! Your humble younger brother will take his leave first!”
Master Ji: “…”
What kind of address is that!
If it weren’t so ill-timed, Ji Bingyu really wanted to send him on his way with her own hands.
Heaven’s Will: [Brother Ji, Brother Ji, forget it, forget it.jpg]
As the long-absent voice sounded in her mind, Ji Bingyu lowered her eyes and held the rope, watching Pei Leye disappear after voluntarily letting himself fall off the cliff.
She suddenly felt a bit suffocated.
She knew Pei Leye didn’t want to drag her down.
Was she truly doing the right thing?
Everyone was pushing themselves to the limit for a concept she proposed that couldn’t even be called reasonable, but… was this truly correct?
[Yes.]
Heaven’s Will suddenly spoke solemnly.
[I can’t tell you too much right now, but this time, Ji Bingyu, your choice exceeded my imagination—you even *￥#&^%￥…]
As the familiar censored gibberish sounded, Ji Bingyu suddenly felt much more at ease.
It was only at times like this that she could feel the reliability of Heaven’s Will.
Boulders were still falling from the sky. In just a brief moment, another three disciples were knocked down.
Outside the water mirror, Elder Hua of Lingxiao Sect noticed something amiss. She fell silent for a moment, then cast a side-glance and said, “Old Daoist Xuanfeng, don’t tell me these disciples can actually come out?”
Daoist Xuan Feng remained silent for a long time.
A moment later, he said dryly, “It shouldn’t have been possible.”
Shouldn’t have been.
At first, only a small portion of people noticed the word, but soon almost everyone realized the problem.
The Liuming Valley disciple’s eyes widened.
“So they might actually poke a hole through the sky and… come… come out?!”
Daoist Xuanfeng stared fixedly at the water screen. After a moment, he suddenly let out a long sigh.
This boulder formation was the array core of this trial.
Daoist Xuanfeng had assumed no one would abandon fine mountain ranges to avoid climbing them, choosing instead to challenge such extreme difficulty—what on earth were these disciples doing this for? To this day, Daoist Xuanfeng still couldn’t figure it out.
Ji Bingyu’s nonsense rhetoric might fool a few idiots, but which of the disciples who reached the third trial wasn’t a paragon among people? How could they all be fooled by her?
Yet they actually believed it.
Not only that, all along the way, these disciples laughed and made noise, helping each other out.
They actually managed to put aside their prejudices.
If one didn’t know it was a trial, it practically looked like an outing!
Daoist Xuanfeng, “There is still one final wave.”
He gritted his teeth and suddenly spoke within the soundproof array of the four major sects.
“I will release this wave of boulders.”
Chang Qingzi withdrew his smile.
“You must not disrupt the rules of the trial.”
Yun Qingruo frowned.
“How old are you, yet you still want to step in against a few new disciples?”
He Zhongxian said disapprovingly.
“They are almost at the peak. Are you planning to break our agreement?”
Unexpectedly, Rong Qingyuan, who disliked Daoist Xuanfeng the most, said faintly, “Let him.”
Chang Qingzi glanced at Rong Qingyuan and said coldly, “At most, no more than five boulders.”
He was the Sect Master, after all; the aura he exuded when adopting a stern expression was unmatched by ordinary people.
Daoist Xuan Feng uttered an “alright” inside the soundproof array, stood up, and flipped his wrist.
Although his personality was somewhat stubborn and rigid, he was still upright and honorable, disdaining to play petty tricks in secret.
—
Inside the water mirror, the situation reversed in an instant.
Feng Feishuang was originally still grumbling that her fingers had been scratched by the boulders.
Beside her, Jiang Ju kept sneaking glances at her, not daring to speak.
Feng Feishuang hated seeing people act timid the most. She released the rope, grabbed Jiang Ju’s hand, and said in dissatisfaction, “What are you—” looking at?
She couldn’t finish her sentence. A boulder suddenly fell from the sky without any warning!
Feng Feishuang’s mind went blank.
She didn’t even have time to react.
By the time she regained consciousness, she only felt her face was ice-cold, while a little fool beside her was crying.
Oh, so the stuff on her face was blood.
Feng Feishuang thought hesitatingly.
The next second, she immediately fell into a rage over her own disfigurement, followed instantly by utter despair.
She felt she must look even more destitute than a beggar in the slums right now.
As the eldest young lady of the Feng family, Feng Feishuang felt she couldn’t take this kind of humiliation.
“…Stab… me to death.”
Jiang Ju, “Wh-what?”
“Stab me to death!”
Feng Feishuang repeated impatiently, her mouth filled with the metallic taste of blood.
“Don’t you fear me? Killing me once should make you feel a bit better, right?”
Jiang Ju froze, and then cried even harder.
It was strange to say; so many times before, Jiang Ju had managed to hold back her tears, but ever since the second trial, she seemed unable to control her tears at all.
“I won’t kill you!”
Spasms of pain racked her body.
Feng Feishuang rolled her eyes and cursed under her breath.
“Little useless trash.”
She was in excruciating pain, trying desperately to control her twitching fingers, yet she couldn’t pull out the dagger she wore close to her body no matter what.
After going back and forth, in the end, it was still Jiang Ju who took action.
A second before the rope around her waist was cut, Feng Feishuang, who was in so much pain she almost lost consciousness, suddenly raised her head.
She remembered something very important.
“…Hey, I still don’t know your name?”
“Jiang… Jiang Ju.”
—
The first and second boulders fell in succession from Ji Bingyu’s left and right sides.
She subconsciously wanted to dodge the stone falling on the right first, but in the next second, she realized she wouldn’t have time to dodge the boulder on the left.
The current situation was like a setup laid by heaven just to make her die on the spot.
Destiny was as such; it couldn’t be avoided at all.
If Ji Bingyu continued to dodge now, the one who would suffer would be Shen Hege beside her.
For a split second, Ji Bingyu even drifted off in thought, remembering that in the original novel, the top rankers this time were Xuanyuan Fentian and Yan Liusu—a double victory, immensely glorious.
If these disciples hadn’t fooled around with her, perhaps they could have also secured a decent rank on Xuanyuan Fentian’s side?
However, in that fleeting second, Shen Hege shoved her to the right with force.
With the boulder right above his head, Shen Hege turned a blind eye to it.
He even took the time to smile at Ji Bingyu.
He even said:
“Thank you.”
—
Five boulders, five situations.
In a moment of crisis, someone was willing to die for their companion; someone put down their former arrogance, risking their life to save a “commoner” they used to look down upon; someone set aside prejudice, willing to sacrifice an arm to save a frail young gentleman.
Li Fuqing said, “A hero saving a beauty.”
First Senior Sister Yu Yun said, “It’s a beauty saving a hero!”
The two argued, unable to decide a winner. In the end, Rong Qingyuan let out a light laugh and set down the teacup in his hand.
The crisp sound of porcelain clashing, accompanied by a voice as clear as spring water striking stones, brought an end to this dispute.
“It is heroes appreciating fellow heroes.”
As the last word fell from Rong Qingyuan’s lips, a beam of golden light suddenly broke through the water mirror.
The elders had long expected such an unusual situation to occur.
There was spiritual energy reinforcing the edges of the water mirror, and at this moment, the spiritual energy surged wildly, intertwining into golden beams even grander than in the first trial.
The disciples observing in front of the water mirror held their breath.
They involuntarily felt a bit nervous, yet felt they had already guessed the answer.
Light and shadow plated a golden outline onto the returning person, and the figure of a woman was the first to emerge from within.
She stepped out of the light, looking as if she were being sent off from afar by the glow.
Her figure was graceful and slender, like a goddess descending upon the world.
Her voice was crisp and moving, like hearing celestial music.
She said—
“Which motherfucking dumbass played tricks at the last minute to mess with your dad! Hurry up and get your ass out here to die!”
