Let Me Explain, Fairy
Chapter 907 - 565: Xifeng Mountain

Chapter 907: Chapter 565: Xifeng Mountain

The vast blue sky stretched on and on, and the Qing Head Cart slowly advanced along a narrow road, its thick wheels rolling over the ice and snow, spraying up a misty haze, the moments quietly serene.

Xu Yuan lazily stretched, reclining on the soft bed, casually opened the window, and gazed towards both sides of the official road.

Distant mountains dark as ink, a crystal-clear stream splitting the banks, the magnificent landscape of the Central Plains hills instantly caught his eyes.

The scenery was beautiful, but the look in Xu Yuan’s eyes carried a hint of weariness.

Since leaving the capital, it has been more than a month already, and even the most beautiful landscape can become tedious after several months.

The only consolation could be that the scenery outside has undergone some minute changes over time.

When they left Di’an at the beginning, in late winter, the landscape was a pure white, the world nearly turned into a cascade of white waterfalls with the winter snow. However, today, the snow had melted, and bits of lush green gradually emerged in their sight, spreading wildly at an incredible speed.

Another new spring has arrived.

Enjoying the early spring breeze and sipping the morning tea delivered by Xiao Bai, Xu Yuan’s gaze swept across opposite, where a girl in ink-black clothing was seated on a cushion.

As his treasure-seeking maiden for this trip, leaving the capital with the Big Ice Lump was essential, and to take her on this journey, Xu Yuan even had his father intervene and visit Ran Jianli to cover this up.

However, now he somewhat regretted it.

He should have arranged for Ran Qingmo to go directly to the Great Desert and wait for him, while he first went alone with Bai Muxi to the Feng Family Ancestral Land to retrieve the Feng Family’s treasure token, then join her later.

If it had been arranged this way, a month’s travel might have flown by in a blink, rather than feeling like each day was an eternity as it did now.

This was probably the first time in Xu Yuan’s current and previous lives that he detested such a long journey so much.

Wanting to find the excitement that Xiao Bai eagerly pursued was impossible inside the small carriage.

At the start of the journey, Xu Yuan occasionally took Bai Muxi for strolls in the forests, but gradually, Ran Qingmo grew suspicious.

Because they were gone for too long.

After considering it, Xu Yuan decided not to continue acting this way.

A life of indulgence elevates the threshold of desires, constantly seeking higher thrills, while a life of asceticism can make the next delight peak incredibly high.

But the cost of asceticism is boredom.

Now, Xu Yuan couldn’t even find someone to talk to.

The Big Ice Lump constantly in cultivation, seemed as if it had infected Bi Luo Chun; both women stayed inside the carriage every day cultivating, apparently trying to see who could break through to Primordial first.

That made Xu Yuan suffer.

These two could cultivate, but he could not.

His constitution required using the home’s formation that extracts the essence of Yin Ghosts and Ghouls, and his fourth sister had not yet developed a portable set of Formation Patterns.

As for delving into studying Spellcraft?

Xu Yuan wanted to, but dared not.

Because studying Spellcraft consumes Origin Qi.

Before leaving, Xu Xinyao had only made him a dozen crystals that could replenish the black Origin Qi in his body. Using one meant one less remaining; if wasted recklessly, should danger arise with depleted Origin Qi, death awaited.

After a month’s journey, Xu Yuan felt ants crawling all over him.

Travel?

It felt like imprisonment!

Rubbing his temples, Xu Yuan glanced to his side.

Sure enough, Bai Muxi, who had just prepared his morning tea, sat silently next to Ran Qingmo on the cushion and continued reading.

One clad in pure white, the other like ink in black, pleasing to the eye at a glance, but after staring for a while, Xu Yuan still withdrew his gaze, his eyes limply sweeping back and forth across the limitless blue sky unconsciously.

Indeed,

He should have let the Big Ice Lump go directly to the Western Desert to wait for him...

Thinking about these messy issues, he didn’t know how much time had passed until the bright sun hung high, and Xu Yuan caught a glimpse in the corner of his eye of a tiny black shadow under the distant blue sky rushing towards their slowly moving carriage.

Seeing this scene, Xu Yuan’s wandering mind suddenly shook.

Has the message finally arrived?

Muttering softly, Xu Yuan immediately sat up and extended a hand out of the window.

Soon, the black dot in the sky transformed into a Purple Dragon Sparrow with a purple-tinted tail, obediently landing on Xu Yuan’s fingertips, a rolled-up paper tied with a thin string to its tiny claws.

Purple Dragon Sparrow, an Entry Level Demonic Beast, used by the Black Scale Guards for short-distance messaging.

It must be the message from the Black Scale Guard division around Xifeng Mountain.

Unwrapping the paper from between the claws, Xu Yuan casually threw the small bird out of the carriage, which flapped its wings a couple of times and instantly flew towards the blue sky.

Slowly unfolding the paper, Xu Yuan was browsing it when a crisp and tranquil female voice suddenly came:

"Young Master, is it a message from the Black Scale Guards?"

In this past month, Xu Yuan and the two women seldom had a chance to talk. Hearing this, he immediately looked up and softly smiled:

"Yes, you stopped cultivating?"

Bai Muxi slightly lifted her hand, a wisp of five-colored Dao Charm faintly visible. Clasping her hand tightly, the Dao Charm dissipated, and she softly said:

"I’ve hit a small bottleneck; it seems I won’t make any progress for a short time."

As Bai Muxi finished speaking, she keenly caught the flicker of delight in Young Master’s eyes and felt inexplicably happy.

Throughout the journey, she indeed had been cultivating, but the expressions of boredom gradually turning despondent on her Young Master’s face were clearly observed by her.