Chapter 444: The Protagonist's Heart Knot

*Clang, clang, clang---!*

Yun Jiujiu's small wooden clogs made an earth-shattering sound, and each step left a dent on the bricks in the corridor of the side hall, which showed there was an extremely urgent matter.

Ye Anping, who was carried on her shoulder like a sack, only felt like he was flying close to the ground.

Those who didn't know that Yun Jiujiu was taking him to comfort Feng Yu Die, might think that Feng Yu Die was dying and asked him to perform the last rites...

Ye Anping tried to struggle, but based on what his sister had just said, he imagined what Feng Yu Die had done, so he let Yun Jiujiu carry him all the way to the side hall of the **Central Peak**.

After crossing almost half a mountain, Yun Jiujiu came in front of a small hall that looked like it was used to store wine. She kicked open the double doors of the hall and blew them in. "Feng Yu Die, I've caught this dude Ye, stop crying!"

As she said that, Yun Jiujiu's impatient face changed as if she had seen a ghost. She suddenly froze at the door, still carrying Ye Anping.

Ye Anping, who was bending forward on her shoulder, also came back to his senses and looked up into the room.

However, Feng Yu Die's "snot and tears" that Yun Jiujiu just described were completely different from what he expected.

Dressed in white, Feng Yu Die was sitting cross-legged in front of a table with three roasted chickens. She had a chicken leg in each hand and stuffed them into her mouth. She seemed quite surprised to see Yun Jiujiu rushing in with Ye Anping on her back, and her eyes were full of questions.

*Slurp~~*

She pulled the chicken bone out of her mouth, swallowed the meat, then looked between Ye Anping and Yu Jiujiu. "Why did you catch Master Ye?"

Yun Jiujiu was dumbfounded. She gingerly placed Ye Anping on the ground, walked over, and put the two door panels that she kicked off back on the door frame. "Weren't you crying your eyes out just now? I brought him, so you stop crying."

Feng Yu Die looked reluctant to admit it and pouted. "Who's crying..."

"You think I'm blind? Just now, your snot and tears were all over my clothes, and you even rolled on the ground."

Feng Yu Die scratched the back of her head. "Are you drunk?"

"Hiss-- I've only had two jars of wine. Who's drunk?"

"Then, you are seeing things..."

Feng Yu Die put up a show of not wanting to argue with her and continued to eat her roasted chicken. However, after taking a bite, she pulled out another roasted chicken leg and looked at Ye Anping.

"Young Master Ye... do you want some too?"

Yun Jiujiu was speechless. "..."

Ye Anping looked at Yun Jiujiu, then at Feng Yu Die, who was pointing a chicken leg at him. He noticed that Feng Yu Die's eyes were slightly red.

He thought for a moment, then looked at Yun Jiujiu. "Second Miss Yun, maybe you've had too much to drink?"

Feng Yu Die hastily echoed. "See, Young Master Ye also said so..."

?

Yun Jiujiu felt that she was being played by these two. One of them was inciting while the other was asking questions whose answers were already determined. She was extremely annoyed and wanted to beat both of them up.

But seeing that Feng Yu Die finally stopped crying, she just rolled her eyes at them and waved her hand. "Damn it, I'm going to find someone to drink with. I'm not staying with you two little ninnies anymore."

With that, she turned around and walked out of the room. She hooked the door slightly with her clog and closed it with a bang.

At this moment, the windows were tightly closed. Once the door was shut, it was as if the inside and outside of the house were separated into two worlds. Not a single sound could come in.

Ye Anping stood at the entrance, watching Feng Yu Die for a while, then walked over and brought out a mat. He lifted his robe and sat cross-legged opposite her at the table before taking the roasted chicken she handed over and taking a bite. "Hmm... not bad, spicy."

"Yes, the roasted chicken here in the Sword Sect is spicy. Jiujiu said that spicy food will go very well with the wine."

Feng Yu Die lowered her head and nodded, then took the roasted chicken and ripped the skin with small bites. Seeing that Ye Anping seemed to like the roasted chicken here, she pushed a plate toward him.

The two of them sat face to face and didn't say anything else as they ate their roasted chickens in silence. Unknowingly, Ye Anping had finished most of the chicken in front of him. He wiped his mouth with a handkerchief and asked, "So, why did you kiss my sister in front of my father's red-crowned expensive crane?"

"Hehe..." Feng Yu Die smiled awkwardly. "Sister Pei told you..."

"Yes."

"Well... my master said that if you kiss in front of a crane, the crane will bring you a baby."

Ye Anping pinched the bridge of his nose and shook his head, feeling helpless.

"Didn't Yunluo tell you where the children came from?"

"She did."

"Then, why are you still thinking..."

Feng Yu Die interrupted firmly. "But, this is what my master said. My master told me that there are thousands of ways to seek immortality, and none of them is absolutely wrong. Sister Xiao told me that men and women can give birth to children through dual cultivation, so why can't we also kiss in front of the crane?"

This question stumped Ye Anping, and he couldn't help but ask himself: Yes, why?

However, he realized that this question was similar to whether the chicken or egg came first.

Why do humans reproduce bisexually?

There was no answer to this question, and the answer was not important.

What was important was the obsession in Feng Yu Die's heart.

Ye Anping could tell that Feng Yu Die knew what was going on, but she would rather deceive herself than believe that Master Taixu had lied to her, even though it was just such an insignificant lie.

Master Taixu's position in Feng Yu Die's heart was so important that she even became one with her Dao Heart.

The purpose of Feng Yu Die's cultivation was still the same. She cultivated because Master Taixu asked her to.

Once Master Taixu's image in her heart collapsed, she would also lose her way to the immortal path. Therefore, she would rather lie to herself than admit that her master was lying to her.

The so-called inner demons were born from confusion.

Ye Anping couldn't help but think of Feng Yu Die in the game.

Feng Yu Die was also like this in the game. She followed Master Taixu on the path of immortality and cultivated assiduously. However, after meeting Xiao Yunluo and sharing life and death experiences with her, she finally walked out of the path that Master Taixu had paved for her when she was young.

For him, the reason why he was walking on the immortal path was to protect the ***Hundred Lotus*** Sect and Pei Lianxue.

The Feng Yu Die in the game wanted to protect Xiao Yunluo and the girls she had taken a fancy to...

Ye Anping pondered for a while before bluntly stating, "But the fact is, cranes or storks don't bring babies."

"...Maybe the kissing method is wrong? Or maybe it's not that bald crane. I heard that there are snow-white cranes in the **Southern Region**..."

*Slap---*

Ye Anping slammed the table hard and interrupted her with a firm voice. "No, it means no!"

"..." Feng Yu Die shrank her neck in fear, pouting. "I know, why are you so fierce..."

"Sister Feng, if you continue like this, sooner or later, you will confront an inner demon because of your master."

"So, my master lied to me?"

"Well, at least in this matter, she did."

Feng Yu Die sniffed slightly, and two big tears squeezed out of her eyes. She asked between sobs, "Then, what else did she lie to me about?"

"There are two kinds of lies in the world, one is well-intentioned and the other is malicious. Your master is from the first category. She just didn't want you to be like her, and suffer because of some stinky men."

Feng Yu Die wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes with her index finger and nodded slightly. "Hmm..."

"Don't cry. You're in your twenties, why are you still like a little girl?"

"Hmm... sniff---" Feng Yu Die sniffed hard. "So, are you a stinky man or not?"

?

What kind of question was this?

Ye Anping was silent for a while before reaching out. "...Why don't you smell it?"

He had only intended to make a joke, but Feng Yu Die looked at his outstretched hand and simply brought her nose close to it and nodded. "Smells like roasted chicken."

"...What nonsense is this?" Ye Anping rolled his eyes at her.

However, when Feng Yu Die suddenly squinted her eyes at him, and two shallow dimples appeared beside her slightly oily lips, that warm smile seemed to have pulled his heartstrings.

*Dong---*

Ye Anping felt his heart tremble suddenly as his eyes were attracted by Feng Yu Die's bright smile and couldn't move away.

"It smells good, hee hee--"

A warm current slowly flowed down from the chest and condensed in his lower abdomen...

*She seems pretty good*. These four words suddenly stirred up a ripple in Ye Anping's heart.

However, as saliva mixed with chicken fat dripped from the corner of her mouth, the ripples instantly calmed down.

Feng Yu Die sucked back the drool from the corner of her mouth and giggled. Seeing Ye Anping's face suddenly turn red, she was a little confused.

"Slurp... Master Ye, why are you blushing?"

Ye Anping came to his senses and covered his face with his hands to hide his complicated expression, but then he revealed a bitter smile.

Right now, he somehow felt that the trap that the *Heavenly Dao* had set for him was quite good. He looked up at Feng Yu Die's alluring face and sighed slightly.

"Sigh..."

"What's wrong?"

"I suddenly think you're quite pretty."

"?"

Yu Die shrank her neck and frowned slightly. "I don't buy this, but... hehe~ I am naturally born beautiful. Of course I am beautiful."

"Hehe... you're so full of shit."

"Hmm..." Feng Yu Die lowered her eyes, then looked at Ye Anping's face and asked, "Master Ye, you don't seem to have lied to me..."

Ye Anping thought for a while before giving an ambiguous answer. "I don't remember. Maybe I did."

"When?"

"Who knows..."

*Yeah, who knows...*

Feng Yu Die thought to herself, her golden eyes returning to their usual luster. She grabbed the roasted chicken in front of her and gobbled it down in big mouthfuls. As she ate, she said, "By the way, Sister Pei's face is so smooth and tender... it feels like chicken skin when kissed."

?

*It's not like I haven't kissed her before...Oh no, she almost led me astray.*

Ye Anping's eyes twitched slightly. "You wanted to tell me this?"

"Hee--"

Seeing Feng Yu Die's playful smile, Ye Anping stretched his hand and twisted her cheek, but Feng Yu Die twisted his face as well this time.

"Hiss---

"Young Master Ye, you let go first."

"You first..."

And it was unknown whether Feng Yu Die had switched on something strange or so, but Xiao Tian suddenly poked her head out from Ye Anping's forehead, looking like she had just woken up. *"Huh? Anping, what are you doing?"*

However, seeing the two of them twisting each other's faces, Xiao Tian covered her mouth and snickered.

"Shut up!"

"Xiao Tian, shut up."

...

Clouds rolled up in the night sky, and before they knew it, a ray of dawn lit up the snow-covered mountains of Sword Sect.

Yun Jiujiu found a few disciples of the Sword Sect to drink with her all night. In the morning, she came over to check on them. Seeing the two of them sleeping peacefully on the ground, she was relieved and didn't wake them up. She asked a maid of the Sword Sect to come in and clean up the place quietly, then covered them with a quilt before going back to her own **Sword Wine Peak** to sleep.

...

Two days passed in a flash.

*Dong---!!*

A distant bell sounded, announcing a brand new day at **Flowing Water Peak**.

The flower window was half-opened, and the sunrise and morning light, accompanied by the chirping of birds, shone on the window lattice of the deserted back hall in a corner of the *Cloud Mansion*.

Yun Yiyi put on a new set of clothes, quietly opened the door, and went to the bed to shake Xiao Yunluo, who was still sleeping.

"Miss Xiao? Miss Xiao..."

Xiao Yunluo woke up slowly, feeling dizzy. She propped herself to sit up and looked at Yun Yiyi beside the bed. She sucked the saliva from the corner of her mouth and asked, "Slurp-- Miss Yun, is it dawn?"

Yun Yiyi looked slightly apologetic. When she drank with Xiao Yunluo two days ago, she actually didn't expect that Xiao Yunluo couldn't hold her alcohol. After drinking a pot of wine, she fell asleep until now.

The wine was indeed quite strong. She had taken it out from the Sword Sect's treasury, and it was said that it was brewed by Grandpa Yun when he was a child and had been sealed until now.

"Well, it's dawn. Master Ye asked me to call you, saying you are leaving soon. Commander Fu Xuan and the others have already packed up."

"What?" Xiao Yunluo sat up in a daze. "Didn't Anping say he wanted to rest in Sword Sect for three days? He even said that he would go shopping with us at Sword Sect Market..."

Yun Yiyi pursed her lips and asked, "Er... Miss Xiao, don't you remember? Didn't we go yesterday? We bought a lot of things."

"?"

"Look at this..." Yun Yiyi took out a pair of bracelets from her storage bag. "This is what Anping gave me when we went shopping together yesterday."

"..."

Xiao Yunluo looked at the bracelet and was dumbfounded. She remembered drinking with Yun Yiyi for a while, and then she woke up at this moment. Could it be that she had lost her memory?

"Well... I don't remember."

"Sister Pei and I drank some wine with you yesterday. Anyway, Anping asked me to call you. I'll get you some water to wash your face. Get ready to go."

Although Xiao Yunluo didn't know what was going on, she felt it wasn't a big deal. She nodded and moved her legs off the bed. She stretched, and with Yun Yiyi's help, she cleaned her face, wrapped the dragon horns on her head, and went to **Central Peak** to meet Ye Anping and the others.