Chapter 471: Extreme Cold Manor
"Uncle Master, my newly taken concubine is having a difficult childbirth, I must return first."
"Brother, I just remembered I haven't cultivated today, so I won't disturb you all."
Steward Bai and Great Sage Jinchi casually found an excuse and left the courtyard.
They were not fools, naturally they could see that Elder Bing was in a very bad mood now, and staying here would likely result in being caught in the crossfire.
After the two disappeared, Chu Feng smiled and said: "Madam, what wine would you like to drink tonight, I'll go to the cellar to get it."
"There's no need for such trouble, I'm not angry because of the Extreme Cold Manor matter."
Bing Yan's tone was as cold as ever.
Chu Feng naturally understood that when a woman says she's not angry, it means she is angry.
He slowly said: "But I want to hear your story, and without wine, this story won't be worth listening to for long."
Bing Yan thought for a moment and said: "Then choose a jar of Holy Wine."
Chu Feng: "Alright."
Time passed in a flash.
As night fell, Chu Feng and Bing Yan sat quietly before a stone table, drinking.
The disciples had all received the news and did not come to disturb them that evening.
After half a jar of wine, Chu Feng embraced Bing Yan, eating peanuts while saying: "Yan'er, can you tell me about your grievances with the Extreme Cold Manor?"
Bing Yan took a sip of wine and said, slightly intoxicated: "This matter started from when I was a child..."
At midnight, Chu Feng finally finished listening to Bing Yan's story.
It was a very ordinary story. Bing Yan was born in the Extreme Cold Manor, and because her father favored his concubine over his wife, her childhood was not happy. Additionally, her mother had not borne a son for the Bing family.
Therefore, the lives of her mother and daughter in the Extreme Cold Manor were not good. Her mother wept all day, hating herself for not giving birth to a boy.
At first, Bing Yan thought that if she became more outstanding, her mother would be happy, and her father would also value them.
But as her talent gradually revealed, she did not win everyone's praise, instead attracting jealousy from peers in the clan, who often tripped her up.
Her mother did not feel proud because she became stronger, instead becoming more and more obsessed.
As for her father, he even scolded her in front of servants for performing so excellently, asking if she was deliberately trying to steal the spotlight from her younger brother, and even gave the resources distributed by the family to her to her brother.
The young Bing Yan could not understand the reasons for this, and gradually she closed off her heart, distancing herself from people. The only thing she did every day was to cultivate, and only when cultivating was she happy.
Without resources, she secretly hunted demonic beasts to exchange for resources.
Fortunately, heaven rewards the diligent. Bing Yan's talent was discovered by a marquis who served as an elder in the Wendao Academy, and he brought her to the Wendao Academy to cultivate.
After arriving at the Wendao Academy, with the support of that marquis, Bing Yan not only became a member of the Heavenly Spirit Academy but was also a renowned genius in the Wendao Academy.
Just as Bing Yan achieved success and fame, bad news came from the Extreme Cold Manor: her mother had passed away.
At that time, Bing Yan was no longer the ignorant girl of the past. She naturally knew the reason for her mother's death, and her first reaction was to raise her sword and kill her way back to the Extreme Cold Manor.
But she was stopped by that marquis. After arguing for three days and three nights in the Wendao Academy, Bing Yan chose to compromise and promised to act for the Extreme Cold Manor three times, with three ice feathers as tokens.
As time passed, Bing Yan gradually forgot about the Extreme Cold Manor. Only when she saw that ice feather today did the past resurface in her mind.
"So that's how it is."
After listening to Bing Yan's story, Chu Feng subconsciously tightened his embrace of the beauty in his arms, comforting her: "No matter what happens in the future, I will always be by your side."
"Mm."
Bing Yan responded, nestling in Chu Feng's embrace.
The two of them spent the night nestled thus.
The next day at dawn.
Bing Yan leaped from Chu Feng's embrace like a startled little deer, her pretty face blushing as she said: "My lord, you must have laughed at me last night."
Chu Feng's lips curved slightly, revealing a smile as gentle as a spring breeze: "My wife, you and I are one body, how could I laugh at you, and I think you were very beautiful last night as well."
"I'll go boil water for you to wash up."
After saying this, Bing Yan disappeared from Chu Feng's sight.
Chu Feng watched her departing figure, the smile on his face growing even brighter.
...
Ten days later, Chu Feng brought Bing Yan, along with a group of disciples who wished to leave the mountain, flying towards the direction of Wendao City.
Extreme Cold Manor was a direct subordinate power of the Wendao Academy. Every few hundred years, Extreme Cold Manor would produce a marquis who served as an elder in the Wendao Academy, and there was even a half-sage from the Bing family who cultivated in the Sacred Academy.
At the same time, Extreme Cold Manor was also the first subordinate power of the Wendao Academy in the northwestern part of Xuan Continent.
Therefore, there was a teleportation formation in Wendao City that led directly to Extreme Cold Manor.
After Chu Feng and the others entered the teleportation formation, in less than a moment, the scene before them underwent a heaven-and-earth overturning change.
Before they came, Wendao City had the appearance of spring warmth and blooming flowers, but in Extreme Cold Manor, it was a northern landscape wrapped in silver.
Before Chu Feng had time to appreciate the scenery, he heard a respectful voice.
"We pay our respects to the Great Sage of Qiankun and Elder Bing."
"You may rise."
Chu Feng said indifferently.
He had originally intended to pretend to be weak to take revenge on these fellows for his Dao companion, but unexpectedly, they showed a subservient manner right from the start, making it difficult for him to act out. It seems one cannot be too famous.
"Thank you, Great Sage of Qiankun."
The people of Extreme Cold Manor said with faces full of respect.
They had not expected that the Great Sage of Qiankun would come in person. After all, these years, Bing Yan and Extreme Cold Manor had long since cut off contact.
Let alone the younger generation, even among the older generation, not many knew that the Dao companion of the famous Great Sage of Qiankun was a member of their Bing family.
Fortunately, they had previously sealed the news and had not disclosed to the outside world who the Bing family would send to act this time.
If the Great Sage of Qiankun was willing to act for their Extreme Cold Manor, wouldn't they be able to take the top spot in this sixty-year grand competition.
However, when everyone thought of Elder Bing's relationship with Extreme Cold Manor, this thought was instantly suppressed.
The master of Extreme Cold Manor said with utmost respect: "Great Sage of Qiankun, this way please."
"Hmph!"
Bing Yan snorted coldly, her gaze towards the manor master filled with endless coldness.
The atmosphere suddenly became awkward, and the manor master quickly said: "Yan'er, I know you have anger in your heart, but now my Extreme Cold Manor is facing a millennium crisis, I hope you can let go of your prejudices."
Upon hearing these words, Chu Feng instantly knew this person's identity. He smiled and said: "Is there no one else in Extreme Cold Manor to speak? Our visit this time is not to cause trouble for ourselves."
Although his tone was very calm, when it reached the ears of the people of Extreme Cold Manor, it was like a bolt from the blue. After everyone exchanged a glance, an elder quickly stepped forward.
"What the Great Sage says is very true. How about letting this old man lead the way for you?"
Chu Feng did not respond to his words, but instead turned his gaze to Bing Yan, asking with a smile: "Yan'er, you make the decision."
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