The Ancient Realm Goddess
Black and White

Inside the Baihu forest, an old man was grumbling unhappily. He followed where Ling Suyao's footsteps were until it ended up somewhere. There was nothing special in that place, but that was where the trail disappeared. And most importantly he also found two large lion carcasses. Is it possible that his disciple has fought against that lion, then?

He's spreading his eyes. If the girl had indeed died from losing to the lion, then her corpse would have gone nowhere. Or at least if the lion ate it then there should be something left, whether it was cloth or something else. But apparently there was nothing there. There's nothing left. He was also astonished, why did this lion die?

He examined the carcass of a lion that had begun to rot, hoping for any traces of human remains. However, all he found was maggots gnawing at the lion's flesh. So disgusting. Finally He Jin looked around. Nothing is perfect, there must be something that can be a clue to him.

Then his gaze was fixated on a suspicious pile of ash. He could see some burning ash marks that were certainly different from something else. He immediately scooped it up. His hands became trembling. Even if it was just ashes, he could still feel them.

According to his point of view, the ashes were already there from five or six days ago. That's been a while. And it was precisely with Ling Suyao beginning to disappear. No doubt, it was his death. His precious disciple was no longer there. How does he have to deal with this?

He snorted and searched for another aura. However, he did not find any suspicious human aura. Then who did it? If not a human then the one who might attack Ling Suyao was a spirit beast. A spirit beast that had a fire attack!

He Jin jumped into the sky. He already had possibilities coming into his brain. Among them was, a fire-powered spirit beast attacking Ling Suyao's group because the girl either offended her or was conquering her. There was also another possibility, which was that someone attacked the girl using a contracted spirit beast. Both are equally possible. No, he has to find out now!

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The next day Qing Yue'er was relaxing when suddenly Xiao Mo came to see her. The little boy was wearing white clothes. Qing Yue'er found out at a glance that the boy had a slight resemblance to Ying Jun. What if these two meet? He can't think about it. If judging from the nature of Ying Jun for sure they would start to quarrel.

"Why did you come here? Is there something you need?" qing Yue'er asked after observing Xiao Mo.

"Miss, sir asked you to come visit him." Xiao Mo said it without looking enthusiastic. His calmness should indeed be praised for a child his age. "Now" he continued.

Qing Yue'er nodded. He walked along side by side with Xiao Mo. "Xiao Mo, aren't you studying here as well?"

"Why should I study here?" ask Xiao Mo. "I have a master to teach me."

"You call you master, why not a teacher? Don't you mean senior brother to me?" Qing Yue'er's expression turned complicated. Imagining Xiao Mo being his senior brother ..it was very funny. However, he himself was older than the boy.

"No, he is not my teacher," Xiao Mo looked at Qing Yue'er, "more precisely he never said anything about it."

Qing Yue'er nodded. He understands the point. Maybe Han Qiong did not raise Xiao Mo to be his disciple, but he still taught the boy about something, about science as well as law. "He treated you well, didn't he?"

"of course. I don't know what if I never met him" Xiao Mo said. He turned his eyes back to the streets.

"Where is your family?"

Xiao Mo was speechless with a changed expression. Qing Yue'er noticed it so she immediately stopped her conversation. Maybe the boy still didn't want to tell her things. It's okay, after all they're not someone who's in a close relationship either.

"I salute you. Master appreciates you so much, maybe only this time did he treat someone like that," Xiao Mo said.

Qing Yue'er smiled. "That's why one has to be clever."

"So you admit to being clever? Maybe more precisely sneaky." Xiao Mo sneered.

"Ah, that's impossible." The corner of Qing Yue'er's lips became twitching. When he looked ahead, they both arrived at their destination.

"Come in, I'll check out the herbs outside." Xiao Mo walked towards his master's herb garden.

Qing Yue'er smiled slightly and walked over to the entrance. "Teacher, your student's coming." Without waiting for a long time there was a voice from within telling him to enter. He opened the door and walked in.

As usual, Han Qiong was busy in the backyard. This time the old man was watching the bottles neatly arranged on the table. Every now and then he would pick it up and sniff it for a moment before finally putting it down again. He turned his head towards Qing Yue'er. "Come here."

Qing Yue'er approached and gave a greeting of formality. "What did the teacher call me?"

"Girl, I have a lot of potions. Try to figure out which is the cure and which is the poison." Han Qiong looked at Qing Yue'er with familiar eyes.

Now Qing Yue'er chuckled. That person looked more like Han Qiong whom he had first met in the city of Fuli first. The old man had a changed attitude. It would be good to do a disguise.

Qing Yue'er threw away her thoughts. He started picking up bottles to check the contents. The first bottle has a clear liquid. When he smelled it, there was no scent. He frowned in surprise, but he immediately put down the bottle and turned to another bottle. Take it and check like the bottle before.

At first he was so confident, but it turned out that he was overdoing it. After checking all the bottles, he was completely engulfed in confusion. How not? All the contents inside have the same characteristics, odorless and colorless. He circulated his spirit power to detect it further.

When he saw the green light in Qing Yue'er's hands, Han Qiong became shocked. "You've already made a breakthrough in spirit power?"

"That's true, but it's also not such an amazing thing," Qing Yue'er said as she carried out her task.

Qing Yue'er did not know what Han Qiong was thinking. He is more focused on his work. Using the power of the spirit turned out to not exert much influence for him. Perhaps it was because his teacher also already knew that he was a world spiritist so what was being tested for him was something that world spiritists could not detect.

Even so, he did not become desperate. He researched the smallest details of all the bottles for almost an hour. After that, he finally found something different. He smiled happily and dropped himself onto the chair. His breathing became even more relieved now.

"Hows it? Have you found it?" ask Han Qiong.

"Yes," Qing Yue'er stared confidently, "there is only one poison there."

"So which one?"

"The bottle is at the far right," Qing Yue'er replied.

Han Qiong raised both of his eyebrows. "Why do you think it's poison?"

Qing Yue'er did not react much. "Because only the bottle has dew on the lid."

Han Qiong's laughter instantly exploded. He did not know why the girl had such ridiculous thoughts and strangely the answer was a truth. How could he think of getting there?

"Hows it? Aren't I right?" Qing Yue'er asked proudly.

"Yes yes, you are right. I didn't know there was any dew there either. I shouldn't have to close it so that you don't find it quickly" said Han Qiong who seemed to regret his own carelessness.

"How can a teacher be like that? Master should be happy that I was able to find him," Qing Yue'er protested.

Han Qiong laughed again. After a while, he finally stopped laughing. He changed his expression to be more serious. "Girl, I'll say something."

"What's that?"

"In a few days I will do closed door meditation" Han Qiong said.

Qing Yue'er looked at her teacher in surprise. Would normally a teacher would say that if they were going to do a closed puntu meditation. However, it is also a natural thing. Maybe the teacher will shut down for a long time. It's not good if they don't know each other. "Will it be long?"

"Not a long or short time problem. Actually I'm a little worried, you just got the beast. What if someone is after him? It's gonna be dangerous." Han Qiong's face showed regret.

"It's okay. I think they might have brains, too. If anyone chooses to attack me then they will also face off against my contracted beast. It shouldn't be that stupid," Qing Yue'er casually said. He didn't think too much about things. Actually he remained calm after all.

Han Qiong looked to sigh. "It should be like that." He wanted to delay it until a longer time, but he had already delayed it from before the spirit hunt was held. At that time he wanted to make sure his student was okay so he went to the event and postponed his meditation. But who would know things would be completely unexpected.

He could not delay until long or his own breakthrough call would evaporate and disappear. At that time he would have a hard time finding an opportunity to be able to break through again.

"Teachers can calm down. Nothing's gonna happen, but I want to ask you one thing." Qing Yue'er looked at her teacher.

"What do you want to ask?"

"If the people here want to harm me can I do something?" qing Yue'er asked.

Han Qiong looked at his disciple with a complicated look in his eyes. However, after a while he smiled sincerely. "Do what you think is right. Isn't that what it is?"

Qing Yue'er nodded. "I will do the right thing in my eyes. Even if other people see me doing the wrong thing, but as long as I feel right then it'll be fine."

"good. It was a good thought," praised Han Qiong.

The black and white laws were nothing concrete. If we think something is true, not necessarily others think it is. The opposite also happens with things that are considered wrong. Why that? The answer is very easy, everyone's point of view is often different. Maybe that's why humans can't judge things arbitrarily.

He had not expected Qing Yue'er to have this broad of thoughts. Ah, that girl is really amazing. He was lucky to have found a very good seedling.

Qing Yue'er smiled. For him one cannot think too narrowly. Yes, there are many heads in this world. People's point of view is also different. Now he already had the permission of his teacher so his feelings had already become even more relieved.

"Then today is enough. Be careful here. Maybe I will shut myself down for a long time" Han Qiong said.

Qing Yue'er nodded. After that, he said goodbye to going back to the dormitory. He didn't know, but there were a lot of thoughts going into his brain and it seemed like something might not be pleasant was about to happen.