Song of Adolescence
Chapter 193 Immortal Mountain Beyond the Sea

Chapter 193 Immortal Mountain Beyond the Sea

When everyone saw Xie Xuan and Wuxin's expressions earlier, they thought that Xiao Se, who was inside the room, was already out of danger. But, now, Hua Jin’s words made everyone's hearts instantly drop below freezing point. Even the Confucian Sword Immortal Xie Xuan looked surprised. "Little genius doctor, please explain properly. Earlier, I could see that Xiao Se's injuries had been suppressed. What happened?"

Hua Jin replied, "His injuries are indeed not serious for the time being, but that’s really all I can do now. His pulse was too severely damaged this time. If he doesn’t completely cure the damage to his core, he will not survive for long."

"Who can really cure him?" Sikong Qianluo asked anxiously.

Ye Ruoyi thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps we need Medicine King Xin Baicao to come personally?"

"But Xin Baicao has disappeared for many years. Does the little genius doctor know where he is?" Tang Lian asked.

Hua Jin shook her head. "Shifu has gone on a journey to travel the world. I don’t know where he is either. But even if shifu came personally, I’m afraid he can’t cure this either."

"Even the Medicine King Xin Baicao can't cure his illness, then who else under Heaven can cure him?" Sikong Qianluo felt despair in her heart.

Ye Xiaoying and Lanyue Marquis exchanged a look, and at the same time remembered a name, "State Preceptor Qi Tianchen?"

"State Preceptor Qi Tianchen may be able to do it," Wuxin said, "But with Xiao Se’s current condition, stepping into Heavenly Revelations may not be the best option."

"Then what do you want? Let him die here?" Ye Xiaoying said angrily. "With me protecting Chuhe, who in Heavenly Revelations would dare to harm him?"

"Who harmed him back then can still harm him this time," Wuxin spoke in a low voice.

"What did you say!" Ye Xiaoying glared at him.

Hua Jin raised her head and suddenly said, "There’s someone who can cure him. I heard shifu mentioned it once, and I’ve also read a record of it in an ancient book."

"The immortal mountain beyond the sea, Penglai Island. An immortal free from this world, Soul Replenishment Technique," an elegant voice said slowly.

Everyone turned and looked at the Confucian Sword Immortal Xie Xuan standing at the door with his back to them, looking up at the sky.

"Yes." Hua Jin nodded. "It is indeed the Soul Replenishment Technique. Unfortunately, the second half of that book was destroyed. Shifu has been studying it for a lifetime and he still couldn’t reproduce it."

"Penglai Island, immortal mountain beyond the sea. That’s just nonsense!" Ye Xiaoying said.

Xie Xuan turned around and said, "No, the immortal mountain beyond the sea, Penglai Island, is a place that exists. It is not just nonsense written in a book. Every year, merchant ships will sail to Three Snake Islands to harvest precious snake galls, but the merchant ships dare not go further east than that. There is an undercurrent there which the merchant ships cannot cross. If they try, the ships will capsize. That’s why on the map of Beili, the boundary of the sea is marked by the Three Snake Islands. But, if you can sail past that undercurrent, you will be able to see Penglai Island. It is said that the island is surrounded by fog, illusory and fantastical, and on the island are rare and exotic treasures. An immortal lives alone on the island, accompanied only by heaven and earth, aging with the sun and the moon."

"Penglai Island is also something I've read in a book," Lanyue Marquis said. "The book said that it was the place where the sage of Heavenly Law, the Grandmaster of Heaven, founded the Jie Daoism Sect. At its peak, Buddha came to worship and thousands of immortals came on pilgrimage. But those are myths and legends recorded in fantasy novels. They’re not true, merely stories that the storytellers love to tell in teahouses and restaurants. Does the Confucian Sword Immortal believe in such myths too?"

"Buddhism has the sarira relics and immortality, Daoism has ascension to immortality. What myths describe, Xie Xuan doesn’t know, so I neither believe nor disbelieve, and will not speculate. As for that immortal mountain where an immortal lives, and what’s more a consummate martial expert, Xie Xuan has never met him, so I don’t know," Xie Xuan replied calmly.

"Since Mister doesn't know, why do you say that the Penglai immortal mountain is a place that exists?" Lanyue Marquis asked back.

"Because I have a good friend who always talked to me about Penglai Island. He said that he once visited that place when he was younger, and saw something that he would never have believed in his entire life, and he also met the only person in the world who could be called a consummate immortal. He said that when he landed on the island, the immortal was dressed in white which fluttered like an immortal. He jumped down from the top of the mountain, rode on the wind, and arrived in front of him in a flash," Xie Xuan said. "All of these, he saw with his own eyes."

"Perhaps your friend was talking nonsense after drinking." Ye Xiaoying didn't believe it either. "Mister, how can you believe such fantastical and empty words?"

"It’s true that every time he talked about that island, he was drinking, but his words are not nonsense. Because the person who said these things to me," Xie Xuan paused, "It's Baili Dongjun. So I believe it."

"Baili Dongjun?" Everyone was shocked.

Shifu? Tang Lian’s heart skipped a beat.

His father was the heir of Beili’s nobility, the Baili family, and inherited the title of Marquis of the Western Garrison. His mother was the daughter of the long-established Wen Clan, sister of Wen Hujiu, the present head of the Wen Clan. When he was seventeen, he visited Snow Moon City and climbed to the sixteenth floor by himself, and became the disciple of the Citymaster of Snow Moon City, Li Changsheng. After entering Heavenly Revelations, he brewed his own wine, Seven Cups of Starry Night Wine, and defeated the famous Autumn White Dew of Heavenly Revelation’s Diaolou Mansion, and earned the title, “Wine God”. Later, during the Demonic Cult Eastern Incursion, he single-handedly fought against the undefeated Sect Leader of the Demonic Cult, Ye Dingzhi, won by half a move, and saved all under Heaven from calamity. Later, he inherited the seat of the Citymaster of Snow Moon City. One of the most talked-about topics in the martial world today was who would be the number one under Heaven, Baili Dongjun or Luo Qingyang, who lived alone with his sword in Admirable Desolation City. Such a person would naturally not speak nonsense. If he said he’d been there, then he must have been there.

No one would doubt this.

"And as far as I know, Baili Dongjun seemed to have gone on a journey to that immortal island again?" Xie Xuan looked at Tang Lian.

Tang Lian nodded. "Yes, shifu left Snow Moon City more than half a year ago, to go to that immortal mountain beyond the sea, to replace a taste of wine he’d been searching for. He has not returned yet."

"What Mister is talking about is indeed unheard of, and now that I’m hearing it, it’s quite a shock. But since Citymaster Baili said that he saw it with his own eyes, this Marquis will not dare to object further. But, just now, Mister also said that there is an impassable undercurrent beyond the Three Snake Islands? Then, how does one cross it? Did Citymaster Baili tell you how?" Lanyuue Marquis asked.

Xie Xuan chuckled and said, "When I first heard this story, I was shocked too. But after my initial shock, I thought of going to that immortal mountain beyond the sea for a look too. So, I also asked the same question as the Marquis, and Baili-xiong did tell me the answer. But, forgive me, I cannot tell the Marquis."

"Why not?" Lanyue Marquis asked.

"Because." A raspy voice sounded. Everyone was startled, and they all turned to look.

Xiao Se, who was covered in silver needles, had crawled out of bed and was walking forward with difficulty. "Because only I can hear this secret.

"I am the only one who will go to that place." Xiao Se raised his head, walked through the crowd, and looked at Xie Xuan who was standing at the door. The expression in his eyes had completely swept away his laziness from before, and was now filled with an indescribable determination.

Xie Xuan smiled slightly, noncommittal.