The White Moonlight Subdues Everyone with a Suona - Chapter 26
Chapter 26: Na Na
Ji Bingyu was ultimately kicked out by Master Qianming.
As the eldest senior brother, Li Fuqing heard about this matter and specifically put down the important tasks in his hands, traveling all the way from Xueyu Peak just to watch Ji Bingyu’s joke.
In the end, as this guy was laughing and sneering, for some unknown reason, a croak suddenly popped out of him.
Ji Bingyu, “…”
She raised her eyes and spoke tentatively, “Eldest Senior Brother?”
Li Fuqing said expressionlessly, “You heard wrong.”
As if deeply afraid that Ji Bingyu would pursue the matter, he added another sentence, “There was no frog croak. This Lord’s true form is a rabbit, and how could a rabbit croak?”
This sentence had so many points to ridicule that even Ji Bingyu didn’t know where to start for a time.
Anyway, since she had nothing better to do, she tiptoed, carefully leaning closer to Li Fuqing, her heart itching, “So Eldest Senior Brother is of the Demon Race? Your true form is actually a rabbit?”
“I have Demon Race bloodline, but I am not of the Demon Race,” Li Fuqing corrected. Immediately, he narrowed his eyes dangerously, “What do you mean by ‘actually a rabbit’? What’s wrong with rabbits? Do you look down on rabbits?”
Ji Bingyu shook her head repeatedly, denying it without hesitation, “How could that be! Bunnies are so cute; I naturally love to eat—love bunnies!”
As her words landed, to cover up the embarrassment of her slip of the tongue, Ji Bingyu conveniently attached a exquisite smile.
Thanks to Ji Bingyu’s good looks, smiling like this now didn’t make people feel she was being flattering; instead, it was quite cute.
Seeing her like this, Li Fuqing snorted, grabbed her, and placed her onto his flying magic treasure.
Anyway, since she had been kicked out, rather than letting her stand here waiting for others to watch a joke, it was better to bring her back to the peak to discipline her himself.
Ji Bingyu stood on Li Fuqing’s flying magic treasure.
Practice makes perfect; this time, Ji Bingyu was not as nervous as last time and was even in the mood to carefully observe the full appearance of the floating boat under her feet.
Compared to Rong Qingyuan flying directly on his qin, Li Fuqing’s floating boat was not his own magic treasure and looked much simpler.
Looking at the vast green landscape under her feet, Ji Bingyu fell into deep thought.
Not that she wanted to complain, but the thing under her feet looked more and more like a cabbage leaf???
The floating boat slowly drifted down to the ground. Ji Bingyu pondered for a few seconds.
She was a person who couldn’t control her curiosity, and at this moment, she couldn’t help asking, “Eldest Senior Brother, is your flying magic treasure a cabbage leaf?”
It would have been fine if Ji Bingyu hadn’t brought up this matter, but the moment she mentioned it, Li Fuqing’s whole face began to contort.
He remembered once again the fear of being dominated by endless echoes.
Although from a certain perspective, this matter was simply Li Fuqing bringing it upon himself, it didn’t prevent Li Fuqing from pushing part of the blame onto Ji Bingyu’s head.
If! It! Wasn’t! For! Her!
“It! Is! Not! A! Cabbage! Leaf!”
Li Fuqing gritted his teeth and said, “Shut the hell up!”
“As—What can’t this Lord eat! Even now, this Lord is the most noble member of the Heavenly Realm’s Rabbit Clan; how could I fall to the point of eating cabbage leaves!”
“That makes a lot of sense.”
Ji Bingyu clapped her hands together and casually asked without thinking, “So why does a rabbit need to learn how to croak like a frog?”
Li Fuqing, “…”
Li Fuqing, “Ji! Bing! Yu!”
Li Fuqing was so furious his fur was about to explode, but Ji Bingyu wasn’t afraid in the slightest.
After all, through the past few days of getting along, she already knew that this guy was essentially a husky that was fierce on the outside but weak on the inside?
However, on the surface, Ji Bingyu still had to pretend to be a little scared to give Li Fuqing a way out.
Thus, relying on her nimble body, Ji Bingyu darted all over the field, while Li Fuqing chased her until he was out of breath.
He stubbornly kept his temper and disdained to use spiritual energy against a little girl who hadn’t even drawn Qi into her body yet.
As a result, the two of them fooled around, creating a grand momentum like thousands of troops and horses.
Standing inside the Huaxue Pavilion, Shaoyang Yu and Shen Hege took everything in, “…”
The two exchanged a helpless glance, both seeing the unconcealable smile in each other’s eyes. Seeing those two still causing trouble, almost knocking down the plum trees that had been transplanted with great difficulty on Xueyu Peak, Shaoyang Yu flew down, landing between the two of them.
When Ji Bingyu saw Shaoyang Yu, her eyes lit up.
She immediately pulled Shaoyang Yu’s arm, acting cute sweetly, “Second Senior Sister, Eldest Senior Brother is picking on me~”
Hiss—
Li Fuqing touched the goosebumps raised on his arms, looking at Ji Bingyu in disbelief.
She could even say such words out loud?!
But it’s fine, Li Fuqing comforted himself.
Junior Sister Shaoyang has always been famous for her iron blood and cold face; she is definitely not a person who acts on emotion, she won’t—
“How old are you already, still squabbling with Little Junior Sister.”
Under Li Fuqing’s incredulous gaze, Shaoyang Yu spoke calmly.
She felt the warmth from her arm tightly pulled by Ji Bingyu, her heart warming up.
When she first met Ji Bingyu, Shaoyang Yu liked this little junior sister very much.
The young girl was pretty and pure-minded, and she didn’t find the mask on her face strange at all, never like others who pretended to be fine on the surface but gossiped behind her back.
Moreover, Ji Bingyu could laugh and cause trouble.
On the way back from the Hall of Enlightenment this morning, she even picked flowers along the path for her, chirping and laughing around her.
If back then… she should have been like this too, right?
Thinking of this, Shaoyang Yu said with a cold face, “Junior Sister is young. What’s wrong with you being hit a couple of times by her? Why are you running around? What if Junior Sister gets bumped into because of you!”
Li Fuqing, “???”
Li Fuqing felt so wronged; there was no bunny in this world more miserable than him.
He immediately turned to Shen Hege, who had rushed over, and asked, “Junior Brother! Do you also think it’s my fault?!”
Listening to his tone, if Shen Hege said ‘yes’, he was on the verge of taking someone down with him to perish together.
Shen Hege had always been of a mild temper.
Suddenly dragged out and questioned by Li Fuqing at this moment, his whole body froze on the spot.
“I…”
He hesitated for a moment, slowly retreating into his shell, “It’s my fault; I came too late.”
The more Shen Hege spoke, the more certain he became, to the point that in the end, he even took the blame for Ji Bingyu being kicked out of the Hall of Enlightenment by Master Qianming onto himself.
He looked at Ji Bingyu with a face full of guilt, “Junior Sister, don’t worry. Next time, I will definitely not forget to remind you to review your lessons in advance.”
Ji Bingyu was dumbfounded.
She could feel that everything Shen Hege said was not put on, but that he felt guilty truly from the bottom of his heart.
But—but there was no need for that at all!
Ji Bingyu looked at Li Fuqing and Shaoyang Yu.
Seeing that both of them had a look of being accustomed to this, she understood that this was not a matter of a single day.
Only at this moment did Ji Bingyu understand why Rong Qingyuan had previously said to let Shen Hege, who had already entered the sect, mix into the new disciple trials to “temper his mindset.”
Looking at the stunned little junior sister beside her, Shaoyang Yu rubbed Ji Bingyu’s head and said to Shen Hege, “Alright, these are all Eldest Senior Brother’s fault; what does it have to do with us!”
Unexpectedly, this time, Li Fuqing did not refute.
Just as Ji Bingyu was about to open her mouth to say something, a crane’s cry sounded near her ears.
Rong Qingyuan, dressed in green robes, arrived lightly, landing a few steps in front of the disciples.
“Did something happen?”
The four of them looked at each other, shaking their heads in unison with extreme tacit understanding, and immediately found their own excuses to scatter.
Li Fuqing, “Reporting to Master, this disciple’s homework from yesterday is not yet completed. I shall take my leave first.”
Shaoyang Yu, “Reporting to Master, this disciple still has a music score that hasn’t been thoroughly studied. I shall take my leave first.”
Shen Hege, “Reporting to Master, er, this disciple will study the music score together with Second Senior Sister, so I shall take my leave first as well.”
In almost the blink of an eye, the three of them vanished right before her eyes, as fast as a gust of wind.
Leaving only Ji Bingyu and Rong Qingyuan staring at each other on the spot, big eyes against small eyes.
Rong Qingyuan said slowly, “You should be studying in the Hall of Enlightenment.”
Ji Bingyu said slowly, “I was kicked out.”
The two looked at each other and laughed out loud in spite of themselves.
After laughing, Rong Qingyuan said, “Although Master Qianming is rigid, uncompromising, self-important, somewhat serious, and conservative, he is not bad at heart. If you study under him, you will still be able to learn a thing or two.”
Ji Bingyu blinked, unable to tell for a moment whether Rong Qingyuan was praising or criticizing him.
However, that was beside the point.
Ji Bingyu picked out some funny anecdotes from the past few days and told them to Rong Qingyuan.
As she spoke, she inevitably began to feel distressed about her cultivation.
Though she acted as if she didn’t care on the surface, she now knew that when she walked out, she represented not just herself, but the honor of Xueyu Peak.
In Ji Bingyu’s heart, failing to draw Qi into her body was a small matter, but losing face for Xueyu Peak was the real big deal.
Unknowingly, the past few days together had already led Ji Bingyu to view everyone on Xueyu Peak as family.
“What does that matter?”
Upon learning of Ji Bingyu’s distress, Rong Qingyuan shook his head with a chuckle, “If the honor of Xueyu Peak could be lost by a little disciple like you, then I, as the Peak Master, would be quite a failure.”
He curled his lips into a faint smile at Ji Bingyu, “Just do as you should. It doesn’t matter if your cultivation is a bit slow. Do not let external matters disturb you or disrupt your mindset; otherwise, it defeats the purpose.”
“Besides, it’s merely a Heroes Assembly Martial Gathering. Even if your cultivation reaches the required level, if you truly do not wish to go, your master is willing to accommodate you.”
“Since A-Yu is under my lineage, there is no need to make things difficult for yourself over such trivial matters.”
Hearing Rong Qingyuan say this, Ji Bingyu finally let out a sigh of relief.
That ‘Giant Baby Assembly Martial Gathering’ or whatever didn’t sound like a fun place at all from its name alone.
As an everyday lazy worker bee, Ji Bingyu didn’t have much of an obsession with the path of cultivation, let alone participating in such an exhausting gathering.
The previous Newcomer Trials alone had cost her half her life.
If she had to deal with those “giant babies” again, wouldn’t she be sent straight to the afterlife?
…Wait, could this be some new method of ascension?
Seeing Ji Bingyu fall into deep thought, Rong Qingyuan tapped the tip of her nose, “Snap out of it.”
A sensation as cool as jade touched the tip of her nose, causing Ji Bingyu to shiver.
When she raised her eyes, she saw that Rong Qingyuan had already walked ahead of her.
He turned slightly, his eyes curving as he pressed his fan against his lips, looking somewhat helpless.
“Watch your step while walking; don’t go tumbling down the peak. If that happens and I lose a lively and clever little disciple for no reason, who am I supposed to reason with?”
His tone was gentle with a hint of banter, his voice clear and refreshing like the wind blowing through a bamboo forest, without the slightest trace of peril or conflict.
Ji Bingyu touched her nose and responded with a smile, “Yes.”
Thank goodness!
Her master was truly laid-back inside and out.
Although he had a bit of a villain’s face, he wasn’t someone with deep scheme or difficult to get along with.
It seemed that as long as she laid low on Xueyu Peak in the future, everything would be worry-free!
Once she made up her mind to be a thousand-year-old sloth, Ji Bingyu, no longer forced to shoulder Xueyu Peak’s KPIs, instantly felt immensely relieved!
She perked right back up!
The two quickly arrived in front of Ji Bingyu’s cave abode.
Upon parting, Rong Qingyuan looked at her and suddenly held up a single finger.
“One question.”
Ji Bingyu hesitated for a few seconds, then astonishingly grasped the implied meaning behind Rong Qingyuan’s gesture.
Even Ji Bingyu herself found it unbelievable, yet she truly understood Rong Qingyuan’s meaning.
Today, she could ask him one question, and Rong Qingyuan would definitely answer it.
Ji Bingyu composed her mind.
Recalling everything from earlier—Shen Hege’s inexplicable backing down, Shao Yangyu’s unfinished words, Li Fuqing’s rare silence… Ji Bingyu decided to dig right from the root of the issue.
So—
“Eldest Senior Brother is a rabbit, so why does he croak like a frog?”
Rong Qingyuan curved his attractive eyebrows and eyes, seemingly having long expected her to ask this question.
“To temper his mindset.”
Rong Qingyuan said, “Fuqing comes from the Demon Realm, carrying a bit of arrogance and evil in his bones, so he needs extra tempering.”
He spoke with breeze and light clouds, but Ji Bingyu knew with her toes that it wasn’t that simple!
So, Master made someone who looked like a husky, thought he was a wolf, but whose true form was a rabbit, learn how to croak like a frog?????
Ji Bingyu was filled with deep respect.
A husky is truly a linguistic genius!
…
Just like that, a few more days passed.
Ji Bingyu attended classes step by step according to schedule.
Almost every time after school, her senior brothers or sisters came to pick her up.
Even Shen Hege, whose cultivation was similarly not high, would come to pick Ji Bingyu up after class whenever he had free time.
Such a harmonious scene was obviously rare, making quite a few disciples feel envious and sour inside.
Right then, a disciple remarked mockingly, “Junior Sister Ji sure is lucky.”
“Who knows how she got first place and gained Master Qingxu’s favor. Heh, what impressive methods.”
Ji Bingyu stopped in her tracks.
She looked at this female disciple.
The female disciple wore bright yellow robes, looking somewhat familiar; she seemed to be from Piaomiao Peak.
Thinking of the plan in her heart, Yu Qianxue felt even more triumphant, a sneering smile appearing on her face.
After enduring and lying low for so long, she had finally found an opportunity!
She heard that “her” new junior brother, Xie Yu’an, had an exceptionally good relationship with Ji Bingyu.
If Ji Bingyu were punished, he would bound to accompany her or visit her.
Heh, as long as it goes like this… then there would be no worry…
Yu Qianxue’s plan was entirely seamless.
Calculating that Ji Bingyu wasn’t the type to take a loss lying down, she added fuel to the fire.
“Relying merely on a decent face. Heh, Junior Sister Ji hasn’t even drawn Qi into her body yet, right?”
Seeing this, many disciples intentionally slowed their pace, tacitly dragging their feet while exchanging excited glances.
Look! It’s Yu Qianxue from Piaomiao Peak and Ji Bingyu from Xueyu Peak!
One is a female disciple favored by Master Qianming and directly taken into his lineage, while the other is the champion of this year’s new disciple trials.
Who knows what a grand sight it will be when these two clash!
Fight! Fight!
However, this time, the spectators were destined to be disappointed.
Today was the second day of the month, the day Shaoyang Yu returned after going down the mountain to complete a mission.
Ji Bingyu didn’t want her Second Senior Sister to wait for long, nor did she care to waste words with irrelevant people.
So under the gaze of the crowd, she gave a fake smile, “Thanks for the compliment, Senior Sister. Your appearance is quite unique, too.”
Spectating disciples: Hiss—
Listen! Listen to that—are those human words!
As expected of a disciple under Master Qingxu of Xueyu Peak. So what if she hasn’t drawn Qi into her body yet! This knack for passive-aggressive mockery was clearly learned straight from the master!
Yu Qianxue was stunned as well.
Whether back when she was in the Demon Realm or now, she had never seen such a brazen person!
Seeing her initial strike fail, Yu Qianxue said in annoyance, “Ji Bingyu! I wasn’t complimenting you!”
“Oh, it’s fine. I was complimenting you, though.”
Ji Bingyu shrugged carelessly.
After taking a few steps, she turned her head, smiled at Yu Qianxue, and mercilessly delivered a fatal blow—
“And, Senior Sister, you really have a vegetable leaf stuck on your teeth.”
