Chapter 19: Strange Ning Guang Hearing her Shifu"s question, Ning Guang"s heart abruptly tightened. She thought her Shifu had discovered some tiny clue.
Despite this, no hint of it showed on her face, phoenix eyes open round, moist with water, reflecting the white pear blossoms reaching into the sky. Looking naive and innocent, she said, "Didn"t you shut them back in the nest last night?" What? They"re gone? "
Di Jiufeng sighed, her mood a bit morose. "That"s right, I don"t know what happened. This morning, not a one was left. I used spiritual sense to look for them, but I couldn"t even find a trace of breath. "
"Could they have run away?" "
Seeing no trace of suspicion towards herself on Di Jiufeng"s face, Ning Guang immediately let out a held breath. Returning to ease, she picked up her sword hilt and trotted over to her Shifu"s side. "Shifu, didn"t you let all the chicks free to roam? They got tired of staying on the mountain and went out to wander, when they want to come back of course they"ll come back. "
Di Jiufeng shook her head, her face still showing displeasure. "If they really ran away, how could they get back? If they don"t starve to death, someone will catch and eat them. Was I not good to them? Why would they want to run away? "
"Of course you were good to them, but even better to me. Shifu, don"t be sad, they may have left, but I will always stay by your side. "
She grabbed her Shifu"s sash and swayed with all her strength. When all her Shifu"s gaze was focused on her, Ning Guang finally pulled up her lip and smiled.
She forcefully threw herself into her Shifu"s embrace. When her nose filled with the peach fragrance on her body, Ning Guang finally felt the twisting possessiveness in her heart achieve a little consolation. She thought for a while, then suddenly pulled out that rare book of sword techniques from a qiankun pouch: "Shifu, don"t think of those chicks anymore, why don"t you teach me the sword. This set of sword tricks is getting harder and harder, I can"t understand it by myself. "
"You can"t understand it? "
Hearing Ning Guang"s words, Di Jiufeng had a sudden revelation of her own negligence. In her heart, she knew the strength of the ancient witch and felt her own Ning Guang would be one and the same. She had always neglected Ning Guang. The fact was, she was still a ten-year-old child. Even many of the masters in the sect with profound cultivation level couldn"t wholly grasp this set of sword techniques, don"t even speak of her young little disciple.
"Ning Guang, Shifu has been careless. "
Compared to the chicks, her own disciple was much more important. Di Jiufeng"s heart filled with remorse, and she discarded all her other tasks right away, taking Ning Guang by the hand to teach her to dance with her sword. In the s.p.a.ce of one evening, her disciple"s intelligence and talent disappeared completely. She couldn"t imprint things in her memory at first glance ever again, and sword techniques had to be taught many times before she could learn them.
Despite this, Di Jiufeng wasn"t annoyed at all. She even took great pleasure in this change.
Like this, five years pa.s.sed in a flash. Ning Guang was fifteen now, and because Di Jiufeng raised her well, she blossomed into a great beauty. Tall and slender figure, standing tall in the mountains, she looked like an iris dancing and swaying in the wind. On a backwards glance, crystalline sword glares rippled in her long and narrow phoenix eyes. Even though she seemed cold and aloof, people would still want to ascend mountains of swords or descend into oceans of fire for her.
"Shifu, today is the inner disciples" grand compet.i.tion, all the elders will be making an appearance. Did you forget? Why are you still not up? "
Di Jiufeng tugged at the blankets, rolling them over her head and wrapping herself into a ball.
Bound feet, smaller than the palm of a hand, poked out of the blankets, fine skin shrouded with red silk translucent as if carved from jade, some mysterious impulse making Ning Guang reach out her hand.
Her fingertip slowly wandered its way up her Shifu"s ankle. Like touching a piece of silk brocade, it was fine and smooth with no trace of flaws.
Ning Guang caressed Di Jiufeng"s calf, circling around to amble to the back of her knee. The skin there was especially soft and abnormally warm, piercing from Ning Guang"s fingertip into her heart, making her gaze blur in a split second.
She especially liked this type of sensation, her breath growing slightly heavy, her hand"s movements becoming more and more audacious.
Waves and waves of tingling itch spread up from her ankle, pa.s.sing her knee, and audaciously invading her thigh.
Di Jiufeng was dead tired and didn"t plan to pay attention at first, but this warm and cold fingertip was like a feather, stirring her little by little until her whole body began to tremble.
She couldn"t bear it anymore, ripping aside the blanket and looking out.
Under the clear and shallow light of dawn, the elegantly white-clothed Ning Guang stared down at her toetips in terror, some mysterious billows stirring in her gaze.
Di Jiufeng looked at her for a while. Unknowingly, some strange feeling arose in her heart——
She felt she had caught the eye of some predator, hiding in the shadows like a tiger watching its prey, silently calculating its scheme until the moment arrived for it to devour her until not a fragment of bone was left behind.
Di Jiufeng couldn"t resist shivering, creasing her brow and exerting some strength to free her leg from Ning Guang"s hand. "What are you doing? !"
Her voice subconsciously held some imposing tone.
Notes
This chapter was translated by Lily. 蛛丝马迹: lit "spider thread and horse tracks", means "tiny clues".