The Quest for Immortality

Some things are not meant to be asked.

And with Junior Brother Mo’s personality, he typically won’t do anything he’s uncertain about.

Murong Caiyun thought for a moment and then asked, ”Why not directly tell the elders of the Hundred Flower Valley about this?”

Mo Hua shook his head, ”Can’t say yet...”

Because right now, it’s unclear whether the higher-ups of the Hundred Flower Valley are involved in this.

Sister Ye Jin’s deathwhether they have anything to do with it.

Murong Caiyun was taken aback, but soon understood.

She couldn’t help but sigh again. After pondering for a moment, she solemnly said:

”The Hundred Flower Valley is full of female disciples, and the rules are strict. No male cultivators are allowed inside.”

”If you sneak in, it’s fine as long as nothing goes wrong. If you’re caught, just say I instructed you to investigate.”

Mo Hua was stunned.

Hua Qianqian also looked shocked, ”Senior Sister Murong...”

Murong Caiyun shook her head, ”I regret Jin Er’s situation too, and I can’t help with other matters, so I can only take the blame for you.”

Hua Qianqian said, ”Senior Sister, you don’t need to take the blame, I...”

Murong Caiyun said sternly, ”You don’t understand, I have the Murong family behind me, and we are close. For Jin Er’s matter, you can ’collude’ with me, but not with Mo Hua, or else in the Hundred Flower Valley, there are people who will use this matter to make trouble for the Hua family.”

Hua Qianqian seemed to understand but still nodded.

After finishing her words, Murong Caiyun advised Mo Hua, ”Go and come back quickly, don’t stay long. Be careful.”

She sighed deeply, looked intently at Mo Hua, and earnestly said, ”I’ll leave Jin Er’s matter to you.”

”Understood, Senior Sister, don’t worry.” Mo Hua nodded.

It was getting late, and after Hua Qianqian led Mo Hua to the Hundred Flower Valley.

In the cave, Murong Caiyun was left alone.

Thinking about Jin Er’s matter, she felt sentimental.

Grabbing her attention were the various exquisite dresses on the ground, and she was stunned. Her mind couldn’t help but imagine Mo Hua wearing those dresses, appearing divine.

Murong Caiyun’s heart skipped a beat, and she quickly pinched her arm to divert her thoughts, helplessly thinking:

”I must have been led astray by that girl Qianqian...”

...

At the Hundred Flower Valley’s mountain gate.

The morning sun was bright, illuminating the valley filled with blooming flowers, vivid and colorful.

In front of the mountain path, Hua Qianqian whispered to Mo Hua:

”From now on, you are my little junior sister. Later, when we enter the mountain gate, I’ll hold your hand and pretend to talk with you.”

”If anyone asks you anything, just pretend to be shy and do not speak easily.”

Mo Hua nodded somewhat uneasily.

Hua Qianqian glanced at Mo Hua again, feeling regretful.

So many beautiful clothes that Junior Sister Mo... no, Junior Brother Mo didn’t wear. .

Furthermore, no rouge or powder was applied, only a simple hairstyle of a Hundred Flower Valley disciple.

However, Mo Hua’s natural red lips and pearly white teeth, just wearing a Hundred Flower Valley Taoist robe, appeared like a hibiscus emerging from water, needing no embellishment.

Applying powder and rouge would seem superfluous.

Besides, able to make Junior Brother Mo wear a Hundred Flower Valley Taoist robe is difficult enough; perhaps only once in this lifetime, must look more.

Hua Qianqian silently thought to herself.

She treated Mo Hua with more intimacy, her water-like gaze constantly focused on Mo Hua.

Mo Hua was made so uneasy by her gaze.

The two walked along the mountain path towards the mountain gate.

Hua Qianqian had good relations in the Hundred Flower Valley.

Along the way, many female disciples greeted her, and Hua Qianqian returned the greetings one by one.

Some inquired about Mo Hua, and Hua Qianqian explained:

”This is one of my clan’s little junior sisters.”

The other female disciples generally only showed amazement and couldn’t help but compliment.

Some were suspicious, but seeing Hua Qianqian’s natural demeanor and close relationship with this little junior sister, they did not suspect anything.

At the mountain gate, the usual practice was to use the Hundred Flowers Order to enter the valley.

But due to resting season, with many disciples coming and going, it was not strictly enforced.

Hua Qianqian secretly gave her token to Mo Hua, then coquettishly pleaded to a sect-guarding female elder:

”Auntie, I forgot my Hundred Flowers Order, please let me in~”

The female elder was very troubled, refusing:

”Absolutely not.”

”Please let me in~”

”No, the rules don’t allow it.”

”Auntie~”

The female elder glared at her, ”Even if you call me grand-aunt, it’s not allowed. At your age, forgetful mistakes, forgetting even the Hundred Flowers Order, go back and fetch it.”

”I just need to go in and fetch a Pill Scripture and come out soon,” Hua Qianqian was somewhat aggrieved, ”otherwise going back and forth would be so much extra effort. Auntie, you told me yourself; a cultivator’s time is the most precious...”

The female elder was left helpless.

Hua Qianqian then said, ”Auntie, let me in. You’ll forgive me this once, and I promise this time in the sect exam, the formation can get... grade B!”

”Useless,” the female elder scrutinized Hua Qianqian, ”you don’t even dare to promise a grade A.”

Hua Qianqian muttered, ”I must be able to get grade A first...”

”Fine,” the female elder saw Hua Qianqian boast big and set such ambition, saying, ”Just this time, next time without a token, no getting in even if you explain to the sky.” .

Hua Qianqian joyfully said, ”Thank you, Auntie!”

The female elder turned to Hua Qianqian’s side, looking at Mo Hua with brightened eyes, just about to ask something.

Hua Qianqian meanwhile dragged Mo Hua up the mountain.

”Junior Sister, hurry up!”

Mo Hua clutched the Hundred Flowers Order, pulled uphill by Hua Qianqian.

The female elder seeing this, could not stop them and could only sigh helplessly, murmuring, ”That girl, always so unruly...”

...

After entering the sect, Hua Qianqian took Mo Hua to a secluded valley with no one around and breathed a sigh of relief.

”Finally sneaked in, luckily not discovered...”

Her heart too was beating rapidly.

If exposed, it would end up ”mission failed before it even started.”

Mo Hua, seeing her like this, also became nervous.

If exposed, hard to say about physical death, but surely a ”social death.”

”Now I’ll take you to Sister Ye Jin’s Disciple’s Residence; follow me.” Hua Qianqian told Mo Hua.

”Okay.” Mo Hua nodded.

Thus, Hua Qianqian held Mo Hua’s hand, walking along the Hundred Flower Valley’s stone steps, toward the back mountain’s Disciple’s Residence.

Meanwhile, in the depths of the Hundred Flower Valley.

At the top of a pavilion.

An exceedingly beautiful woman with a cold expression was frowning, looking at a Hundred Flowers Divination Disk, her gaze focused.

The exceedingly beautiful woman also wore a Hundred Flowers Sect Taoist robe.

But this Taoist robe was dignified and elegant, yet extremely luxurious, truly embroidered with hundreds of different flowers, dazzling and splendid, each vying for beauty yet complementing each other, it was the highest grade ”Hundred Flowers Taoist Robe.”

The woman watched the mechanism disk spin, flowers withering one by one, her expression growing increasingly heavy.

Finally, she sighed, turned around, gazing into the distance from the pavilion, her gaze taking in the whole Hundred Flower Valley, entering a trance.

In the Hundred Flower Valley, vibrant and colorful.

On the mountain path, female disciples came and went, luxuriant as bustling.

It appeared exceedingly beautiful.

Just then, her gaze tightened, seeing on the mountain path, a pretty female disciple holding hands with another fresh and ethereal as a hibiscus junior sister, whispering as they walked.

The woman’s icy expression flickered with momentary surprise.