Mahayana 148
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Chapter 148: Returning the Lost Treasure Intact, Restoring the Honour of Qingxu
TL : Cnine
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Part 1
What they did not know was that such a grand lineup was not merely to welcome Su Miaoqing and Xiao Yifeng.
When the two of them informed their senior brothers and sisters that they had obtained the relics of Grandmaster Qingxu, as well as the inheritance of the Boundless Horizon Palace,
their Third Senior Brother and another quickly realised the matter was serious. They immediately notified all their fellow disciples to come and escort the two of them, and secretly sent a message back to the palace.
After Su Qianyi learned of this matter, he wished he could personally set out himself. In the end, he decisively dispatched several elders of the Boundless Horizon Palace to escort the two all the way back.
The main concern was that the treasures and inheritances carried by them might be lost, causing the sect’s legacy to be severed once again. That was why such a grand escort had been arranged. After all, what they were transporting was a sect’s inheritance and the mortal remains of their Martial Granduncle.
Fortunately, nothing happened along the way, and the two returned safely to the sect.
The flying ship slowly entered the territory of Boundless Horizon Palace, and only then did everyone finally relax. At least they were safe.
The people aboard the flying ship began flying down one after another, slowly walking into the Hall of Inquiry and taking their places in an orderly manner.
At this moment, inside the Hall of Inquiry, the important members of Boundless Horizon Palace had all gathered. Aside from those who were away from the palace, everyone had arrived. Even the older generation elders who usually ignored worldly affairs had come out.
Even during ordinary meetings the attendance was never this complete. Su Qianyi and Lin Ziyun sat at the upper seats of the hall, their expressions solemn. On Lin Ziyun’s face, the anxious longing she tried to hide was impossible to conceal.
After all the elders and disciples had taken their seats, Xiao Yifeng and Su Miaoqing slowly stepped into the hall. They quickly swept their gaze around the room and were startled by the grand assembly. Even Su Miaoqing behaved herself, walking into the hall with a solemn expression.
At last, Lin Ziyun saw Su Miaoqing again. She was completely unharmed. After two years apart, she appeared even more stunning and captivating.
Her complexion was rosy, and she even looked slightly fuller than two years ago. Her figure had fully matured, and she was actually even more voluptuous than Lin Ziyun herself, clearly surpassing her teacher.
This was completely different from what Lin Ziyun had imagined. She had thought that Su Miaoqing would have grown thinner!
Meanwhile, the young junior disciple beside her had become even more elegant and handsome, tall and refined like a jade tree. His expression was calm in the face of everything, and his bearing was extraordinary and detached, making him unforgettable at first sight.
Both of them were vastly different from before. Whether in appearance or temperament, it was as if they had been completely reborn. However, the two carried treasures that concealed their aura, so it was impossible to tell what their cultivation level was.
“Disciple Xiao Yifeng greets Master and Madam. I pay my respects to Master and Madam. Greetings to all the elders,” Xiao Yifeng said as he bowed.
“Qing’er greets Father and Mother and pays her respects. Greetings to all the elders as well!” Su Miaoqing said at the same time.
“So the two of you still remember how to come back? If you had stayed outside any longer, I would have started to think the two of you had eloped.”
Su Qianyi was furious. Because of these two troublemakers, he had almost gone to seek help from several senior brothers in the Heaven Inquiry Sect.
“Master jests. This disciple would not dare,” Xiao Yifeng replied with a wry smile.
He truly had not expected the Immortal Palace to conceal the aura of the two of them, causing their soul lamps to nearly extinguish and throwing Boundless Horizon Palace into complete chaos.
“Qianyi, this matter is not their fault. Didn’t they also render a great service? It is good enough that they returned safely,” Lin Ziyun said.
Su Qianyi also knew that this was not the time to be angry. Hadn’t several elders already shown impatient expressions?
He looked around the hall and nodded to several elders within it. The elders quickly formed hand seals, instantly activating the formation array inside the Hall of Inquiry.
At that moment, the only people left in the hall were Su Qianyi’s true disciples and several of the sect’s great elders. The hall was sealed off from the outside world.
After confirming that no one was spying, Su Qianyi slowly asked, “Yifeng, Miaoqing, you two said you found the relics and inheritance of Grandmaster Qingxu. Is this true? This matter is of great importance. You must not speak recklessly!”
Everyone qualified to remain in the hall looked toward Xiao Yifeng and Su Miaoqing, with most of their attention falling on Su Miaoqing, since she was the one most likely to have obtained the inheritance.
Along the journey, in order to prevent any leakage of information, they remained wary of one another. No one dared to ask questions. They only confirmed that the two indeed carried the inheritance.
After Xiao Yifeng bowed to Su Qianyi, he said, “Reporting to Master, this disciple and Senior Sister accidentally stumbled into an Immortal Palace. Inside, we received guidance from Grandmaster Qingxu, through which we discovered the remains and remnant soul of our Martial Granduncle.”
“Then did you obtain the inheritance of Boundless Horizon Palace?” one impatient elder asked urgently.
Xiao Yifeng nodded. “This disciple indeed received the final inheritance of Grandmaster Qingxu, as well as the inheritance treasure, the Obsidian Snow Sword. Unfortunately, after completing the transmission, Martial Granduncle no longer had the strength to maintain his soul body and passed away.”
After that, Xiao Yifeng recounted how the two of them had obtained the Immortal Palace jade pendant, how they entered the Immortal Palace, and how they received Qingxu’s guidance.
Finally, he explained how Qingxu entrusted the inheritance of Boundless Horizon Palace to them, and after sending the two of them out of the Immortal Palace, peacefully passed away. Of course, it was a slightly embellished version.
Naturally, this was Xiao Yifeng’s way of smoothing over the truth, quietly burying both his own involvement and the rather unforgivable act the two of them had committed against their lineage.
A Martial Granduncle seizing the body of a junior disciple… That alone was scandalaous enough. And for him to have personally extinguished that elder’s remnant soul? That was a tale far too thorny to tell plainly. So he and Su Miaoqing had long since rehearsed their version of events.
With that, he retrieved Grandmaster Qingxu’s remains, painstakingly pieced back together beforehand, from his storage, and laid them out with solemn care in the hall.
“It truly is Senior Brother Qingxu…” The surrounding elders needed only a glance to recognise him.
Before his master’s remains, Su Qianyi bowed his head and ordered that they be properly prepared, intending to lay him to rest on a chosen day.
“You claim Master Qingxu entrusted everything to you, including the sect’s legacy treasure, the Obsidian Snow Sword, and its resources. So… Where are they now?” Su Qianyi asked.
Xiao Yifeng nodded, taking out the Obsidian Snow Sword from his storage ring. Beside him, Su Miaoqing also handed over the storage ring she had obtained from Grandmaster Qingxu.
Lin Ziyun, being a woman, was naturally more attentive. She noticed the unusual storage ring on Xiao Yifeng’s hand.
She then discreetly glanced at her daughter’s hand, and sure enough, saw another ring of the same kind. A trace of a strange expression appeared on her face.
With a wave of his hand, Su Qianyi summoned the Obsidian Snow Sword and the storage rings, which turned into streaks of light and landed in his palm.
After inspecting the Obsidian Snow Sword with his divine sense, Su Qianyi’s expression changed slightly.
“It really is the Obsidian Snow Sword! Is our Boundless Horizon Palace finally going to rise again?” An elder said, tears streaming down his face.
Su Qianyi first handed the storage ring to several elders, allowing them to examine the residual divine sense upon it. Only then did he erase the divine sense on the ring and immerse his own consciousness within it.
After a while, he could not help but laugh loudly. “As expected, these are indeed the treasures that our Boundless Horizon Palace had taken away by Master Qingxu. They match the records perfectly.”
As he spoke, he passed the storage ring to the other elders for inspection. After examining it, they nodded in satisfaction, confirming that the two juniors had not embezzled anything.
“Then what about the imprints of the original inheritance techniques? Are they all complete?” one elder asked anxiously.