Chapter 140: Xi Moongqing (1)
Ximen Surin’s concern was indeed justified. When Qing recovered dramatically from her madness at the Demonic Cult through the teachings of the Great Meditation Divine Arts, the ominous star in the sky had glowed red with anger and regret.
Ximen Surin, who read the meaning of this star, had offered ritual sacrifices in the middle of the night, relieved that her disciple had overcome a great crisis.
In fact, she had been worried a thousandfold since then, fearing that her gentle, kind, and not at all vicious disciple might return injured in body or mind from that ruthless place called Jianghu.
And as autumn deepened, the time for her return had passed, but the disciple did not come.
Then a disciple who went out shopping brought news asking about rumors of a great calamity in Sichuan, something about rebellion and assassination plots, with Qing’s name involved.
With her heart sinking, Ximen Surin arrived in Chengdu in one step, crossing the natural barrier of high mountains in the Sichuan basin using the highly refined technique of Sword Flight.
Of course, Ximen Surin was a great elder of Daoism who knew courtesy and propriety, so she did not commit the uncivilized act of knocking on the Tang Clan’s door in the middle of the night when she arrived.
She first got a room and spent the night. Then, after tidying her clothes, she visited the Tang Clan at the hour of Si (10 AM), when it would not be an inconvenience to visit.
And finally, she laid eyes on her disciple.