109: Three-year agreement? What three-year agreement?

Wind and Cloud Sect, back mountain.

“Revered Master, why did you bring me here?”

On the quiet path, Feng Qiuya blinked her beautiful eyes, utterly bewildered as to why her Revered Master had brought her to the back mountain of the Wind and Cloud Sect.

“Qiuyu, your decision to break off the engagement with the Lin family was a mistake. Do you not know that Lin Yan is not a good-for-nothing at all… Alas, never mind. Since things have reached this point, it’s likely irreversible. Given his personality, he will surely come to the Wind and Cloud Sect in three years to avenge the humiliation of the broken engagement.”

Beside Feng Qiuya stood a beautiful woman in a plain dress, her figure curvaceous. As she moved her lotus-like steps, a section of her snow-white, jade-like long legs was faintly visible.

Yet, a lingering cloud of worry always hung between her brows, as if some troubling matter weighed heavily on her heart.

Feng Qiuya didn’t know what troubled her Revered Master, but she believed her decision to break off the engagement with the Lin family was not wrong.

“Revered Master! I don’t like Lin Yan! Even if his talent is extraordinary, I still won’t like him!” Feng Qiuya’s attitude was firm. Even if Lin Yan were to become a Martial Ancestor or Martial Venerable in the future, she would not bow her head.

If she didn’t like him, she simply didn’t like him!

Yun Zhi pursed her vermilion lips, looking as if she wanted to speak but hesitated. In the end, the words at her mouth turned into a helpless sigh.

“Forget it! Forget it!”

“Since you’ve made up your mind, I’ll take you to meet Grandmaster. It will also increase your chances of winning that three-year Agreement.”

As soon as she said this, Feng Qiuya was puzzled.

“Three-year Agreement? What three-year Agreement? When did I have a three-year Agreement? Why don’t I know about it?”

Hearing her words, Yun Zhi was also somewhat surprised. She raised her delicate brows slightly and asked in confusion, “Didn’t you go to the Lin family to break off the engagement this time? Did you and Lin Yan not make a three-year Agreement?”

“Revered Master, where did you hear that Lin Yan and I made a three-year Agreement?” Feng Qiuya looked at her Revered Master curiously, then paused and continued, “Originally, I really disliked this childhood engagement that was set from a young age. When I actually met that Lin Yan, I disliked him even more.”

At this point, she bit her silver teeth slightly, looking very angry: “I originally thought he would confront me with great backbone and, as you said, Revered Master, make a three-year Agreement with me. But he… he actually happily accepted my compensation and readily broke off the engagement with me. He even told me to visit often in the future and to bring more Medicinal Pills when I come…”

“I would rather die than let such a greedy, selfish, spineless, and shameless person become my future husband.”

“However, it’s a good thing he broke off the engagement with me. I no longer have to be bound by this marriage contract. I can choose the person I like to be with!”

The happier Feng Qiuya became, the more confused Yun Zhi grew.

How was this completely different from the plot? In her memory, Lin Yan had always been the image of a strong-willed youth. How could he be so worthless?

“Qiuyu! Something must be wrong!”

“Lin Yan, he… he’s not that kind of person!”

Her beautiful eyes flickered slightly. Feng Qiuya looked at her Revered Master with great confusion, “Revered Master, why are you speaking up for Lin Yan? Have you… met him?”

Yun Zhi said nothing, merely continued walking deeper into the back mountain.

Feng Qiuya followed closely beside her.

“Revered Master, don’t be deceived by his one-sided story! He’s a very bad person, you…”

Mid-sentence, Yun Zhi waved her hand, interrupting, “Qiuyu, I have my own considerations. I… won’t be deceived by him again!”

“Revered Master?”

Feng Qiuya felt that Yun Zhi was very strange today. Although she was still her gentle Revered Master, she always felt something was amiss.

Today, her Revered Master seemed to be carrying some burden, and those incredibly bright eyes seemed to have aged considerably.

The two no longer conversed, simply walking deeper and deeper until they arrived outside a grand hall in the back mountain.

Gazing at the ancient hall door ahead, Yun Zhi seemed to have made a momentous decision, bowing deeply.

“Disciple Yun Zhi, requests Revered Master to come out of seclusion!”

As Yun Zhi’s firm voice fell, within the grand hall, a vast and majestic Aura, like a slumbering Dragon, suddenly awakened.

A powerful pressure, which Feng Qiuya had never felt before, spread from the grand hall in front of them, eventually enveloping the entire back mountain.

Immediately after, the ancient door was violently blown open by a fierce wind.

Even Yun Zhi, a Martial Emperor realm expert, had to raise her sword to block the oncoming gale to withstand it.

And behind her, Feng Qiuya was unharmed due to Yun Zhi blocking in front of her.

“Why have you sought me out this time?”

A white figure emerged from the grand hall. He wore a white robe, his hair was entirely white, yet his face was incredibly youthful. His seemingly ordinary steps, in reality, caused ripples to spread on the ground with each stride.

Suddenly taking a step, he appeared before the two. A distance of several hundred meters was incredibly condensed into a single step, remarkably profound.

Gazing at the old man before her, Yun Zhi took a deep breath, knelt on one knee, and said with a pleading tone, “Disciple humbly requests Revered Master to come out of seclusion and accompany this Disciple to Mo Tie City in the Yun Ling Empire.”

“I remember saying that after the Wind and Cloud Sect was handed over to you, no one was to step into the back mountain unless it was a crisis of sect annihilation. Yet today, you disturb my seclusion for such a trivial matter. Can it be that you, a Martial Emperor, cannot resolve an issue in a remote small city?” The old man’s voice was indifferent, yet carried a hint of questioning.

Yun Zhi knelt on the ground, paused, and then said, “Revered Master, this remote small city has already brought our Wind and Cloud Sect to the brink of annihilation.”

“Oh?” The old man raised an eyebrow, his curiosity immediately piqued. A remote small city could actually bring their Yun Ling Empire’s strongest Wind and Cloud Sect to the brink of annihilation.

He would certainly listen carefully to this.

“Tell me! What in this remote border city, Mo Tie City, could cause our Wind and Cloud Sect to be annihilated?”

Yun Zhi looked at Feng Qiuya. The words reached her lips, and she hesitated again. But thinking of the Wind and Cloud Sect’s future plight, she hardened her heart and still spoke: “That person is called Lin Yan, he is Qiuyu’s former fiancé! He will attack our Wind and Cloud Sect in the future and annihilate us!”

“Qiuyu…” Gazing at the young girl hiding behind Yun Zhi, the old man frowned slightly. “Her former fiancé should only be fifteen or sixteen, right? A fifteen or sixteen-year-old child, and you, a Martial Emperor, can’t handle it, and you need me, an old man, to make a move?”

His words carried a hint of reproach.

Yun Zhi was, after all, a Martial Emperor expert. Considering Feng Qiuya’s age, her former fiancé was at most a Martial Master realm.

Such a small matter could be handled by simply sending any Wind and Cloud Sect Elder. Yet, Yun Zhi still came to find him, the former Sect Master, which was indeed somewhat inappropriate.

“Revered Master, Lin Yan is not an ordinary youth. He has a Soul body, a Martial Venerable realm Soul body!”

As soon as her voice fell, a bizarre black mist surged out from within the ancient grand hall, eventually condensing into a humanoid figure in the shadows.

At the same time, a strange cackling laugh echoed throughout the back mountain.

“Hehehe, I never thought the target I’ve been searching for was right here in Mo Tie City. A Venerable Soul, hehehe, besides that old undying Medicine Venerable, who else could it be? Little girl, lead the way. If this succeeds, you’ll be amply rewarded!”

Just as his words fell, an anomaly appeared in the sky. Space, at this moment, collapsed.

Huge spatial turbulence surged wildly above the Wind and Cloud Sect. However, these spatial rifts came and went quickly.

In just three breaths, they healed, and in the original location of the spatial rifts, two figures appeared.