1117: Chapter 329 Mother-in-Law_2 1117: Chapter 329 Mother-in-Law_2 In the starry sky, something had unfolded, the grand battle between Mystery Huang and Seal Emperor had not sparked off, and even the scent of war had calmed.
Half a month later, Su He, leading Ji Feixue, flew to the outside of East Cloud Mountain, arriving near what would later be Long Moon Mansion.
But at this time, the gatehouse of Long Moon Mansion was not yet in existence.
Su He glanced at Ji Feixue beside him and wondered, was Long Moon Mansion built under Ji Feixue’s very eyes?
He wondered who the first owner of Long Moon Mansion was.
He decided to inquire about it from his wife once he returned.
The current Ji Feixue deserved a spanking; she knew so many secrets but never shared them with him.
“Wife, how can your injury be treated?” Su He finally asked, his biggest worry now spoken, though throughout their journey, Ji Feixue deliberately avoided the topic.
Su He didn’t press her, but now that they were back, his worries couldn’t be suppressed any longer.
He could sense that Ji Feixue’s condition hadn’t worsened, and it wasn’t too late to seek help from Emperor Ma Shi, or else wait until the confrontation in the stars ended, and offer a hefty reward.
Ji Feixue shook her head, “Don’t ask, follow me to a place.”
As she spoke, she pulled Su He down from the clouds, now on top of Yunmeng Ze.
She led Su He walking on water—she had to hold his hand; she couldn’t do it herself, she merely directed while Su He performed the Escape Skill.
Their speed was swift; they quickly passed over where they once temporarily dwelled, landing on a small island.
From the outside, the island appeared to be an ordinary island within the Big Swamp.
However, once on the small island, its true form was revealed.
The island was not large, covered in lush, verdant trees.
Underneath a large tree was a simple, wooden hut, the kind that could be seen anywhere.
Yet, to Su He, it appeared a bit unusual.
It had stood there for at least three or four thousand years without a hint of decay, as if it were frozen in time.
Across from the wooden hut stood two towering trees, bearing marks that Su He was all too familiar with—these were the indelible marks left by a dragon that had coiled around these trees for years.
Taken elsewhere, this tree would be the best refining material, filled with abundant dragon power, much better than thousand-year-old thunderstruck wood.
Arriving here, Ji Feixue’s expression turned even more serene and cold.
Standing on the edge of the island, her eyes slightly lowered, her gaze grew concentrated, and she didn’t enter for a long while.
Su He stood by her side, quietly accompanying her.
Watching her uneven breathing, he gently grasped her hand.
After a long while, Ji Feixue exhaled and softly opened her lips, “This was where my parents secluded themselves.”
Her gaze fell on the hut, “My father built it himself.
He was just a common Scholar back then and did a shoddy job, but my mother really liked it.
She secretly set up a Formation beneath the hut to ensure it didn’t decay over time.”
Su He also looked at the hut, his lips slightly curving, “My father-in-law’s craftsmanship was really poor!”
He couldn’t compare to Su Huanian, who also loved building his houses wherever he went, always setting up protective formations and never using a portable cave dwelling.
Ji Feixue’s eyes flicked over to see Su He grinning cheekily, “But still, it’s very cozy!”
A faint shimmer from his Star Ring enveloped both him and Ji Feixue, “In the future, we also have a courtyard, not in Yunmeng Ze, but next to it, north side of East Cloud Mountain.
There’s a house, a lake, and Dragon Pillars.”
“Our courtyard hosts forty li of bamboo forest, and even the grass is different from the outside.” Su He looked around as though fearing others might overhear, whispering, “I’ll secretly tell you, our home’s grass tastes sweet.”
A slight smile appeared in Ji Feixue’s cool, deep eyes.
Clearly, his vivid narration could conjure images, yet Su He gestured animatedly, laughing heartily when speaking of places he loved.
Ji Feixue listened quietly, her eyes roaming as she envisioned the cave dwelling seventy-three thousand years later.
Her eyes sparkled, listening about every grass and tree of Long Moon Mansion, the rippling Autumn Lake, and the distant Snow Mountain.
Even about the Barbarian King Puppet running all over the courtyard.
Time stretched long; Su He moved from speaking about humans to beasts, the sky was filled with stars casting down a blanket of starlight.
Only then did he slowly stop, turning to gaze tenderly at Ji Feixue.
Perhaps having slept well along the way, Ji Feixue today felt not the slightest hint of sleepiness.
She listened as Su He finished speaking bit by bit, her lips slightly curving.
She walked forward slowly, “This here, is where I broke out of my shell.”
Ji Feixue gestured towards a part of the island with remnants of a Formation.
Ji Feixue was over a thousand years old, but the Formation from when she hatched had not been removed.
Even the chaotic footprints outside the Formation had been preserved by special means—that was a man’s footprint.
Looking at the footprint, Su He could even imagine, back when Ji Feixue was still inside her dragon egg here, his father-in-law pacing back and forth around the egg, reveling in the joys and anxieties of becoming a father for the first time.
Crossing the Formation, they stopped under the big tree where Ji Feixue reached out to touch the lingering marks on the trunk, softly speaking, “In the past, my mother coiled herself around this trunk.
She was unwell; this was a special Dragon Raising Wood used for healing.
From the time I hatched, she remained coiled here.”
For a thousand years, it had entwined around the Dragon Raising Wood, looking at the cabin no longer inhabited by an old man, looking at the Formation no longer holding a Dragon Egg.
Perhaps it occasionally reminisced about the past, the cozy scene of a dragon, a person, and an egg?
Scenes once frequently seen now carry a different weight.
The ancient tree still stands, but the Azure Dragon on it is nowhere to be seen—only the lingering Dragon Qi, condensed yet not dispersed.
Ji Feixue raised her hand, with a wisp of Dragon Qi entangled around her fingers, swirling around like a little dragon around her delicate fingers.
It felt like being held by a mother’s hand, a sensation never experienced even when her mother was alive.
Ji Feixue’s body trembled as she lowered her head.
Ever since she became independent, she seldom visited this place until her mother turned into a rainbow and disappeared, compelling her to rush to the island in hopes of finding some traces of her.
But apart from traces of family life, there was nothing left on the island.
Perhaps in her mother’s eyes, nothing was more important than family?
The island had been sealed off for who knows how long, accessible only to family.
Even previously, when searching for the Dui Gua, she did not come to the island to look, even though the Dui Gua had been used by her mother and was more likely to be here.
Su He grabbed her hand.
Ji Feixue turned to look at him, her eyes serious, “Kneel down!”
Huh?
Su He was stunned, then joyously picked up his robe and knelt in front of the large tree.
Ji Feixue looked at the tree and whispered softly, “Mother, I have brought him to meet you.”
Su He then bowed deeply, “Mother-in-law, I am Su He from Long Moon Mansion outside East Cloud Mountain.
We have land and grain at home, an Underwater Cave Dwelling, and a Large Treasury.
Rest assured I will never let your daughter go hungry or cold.”
A blush rose on Ji Feixue’s face, and she kicked him on the leg, “Don’t talk nonsense!”
Su He laughed, “How can this be nonsense?
I just want mother-in-law to know a little about me…”
He laughed, looking into Ji Feixue’s eyes and then back at the two large trees, “Mother-in-law, please be at ease, my heart is true for Princess Snow, from 730,000 years in the future to 730,000 years past, crossing the river of time.”
Ji Feixue’s breath tightened, and she bowed her head, slowly kneeling next to Su He, and quietly said to the tree, “Mother, he…has not lied.”
The wind blew, and the two large trees rustled simultaneously as if echoing from the abyss.
“Eh?
Mother-in-law, are you asking him to take good care of me?”
Ji Feixue was startled, her teeth clenched in frustration as she poked him.
Su He laughed, jumped up, and ran away.
The chilly air carried a hint of shyness which was just right!
Before her mother transformed into a rainbow, she had plucked all her scales to leave for her daughter—she must have loved her unimaginably; how could she enjoy seeing her daughter always so downcast?
Smile!
The wind grew stronger, shaking the Dragon Raising Wood.
A dragon scale fell from the tree and, like a shield, landed at Su He’s feet.
Su He blinked, looking at the shield and then at Ji Feixue, innocently asking, “Is this a meeting gift from mother-in-law?”
A flash of disbelief crossed Ji Feixue’s eyes as she turned to look at the tree, her eyes trembling.
“You’re not dead, are you?!”
The dragon scale had always been there, unwavering for thousands of years, but just as Su He arrived, just when the wind blew, just then the dragon scale fell.
“You’re not dead, right…”
Asking this, Su He took her hand and gently squeezed it.
No one else had come, nor had the mother-in-law appeared.
It was only the wind that caused the dragon scale to fall from the large tree.
Ji Feixue’s expression slightly fell.
She remained quiet for a long time, then bent down to pick up the dragon scale, examining it for a while before stuffing it into Su He’s arms, “She gave this to you.”
There weren’t many of her mother’s dragon scales left in the world.
Most had been destroyed by Meng Xiao.
Truly intact ones, she now had only two left.
On the Dragon Raising Wood, the scales that had dropped over the years had no life energy.
This one given to Su He was among the few fine ones left.
Su He chuckled softly, safely stowing away the dragon scale.
Three daughters-in-law, but this was the first time he received a gift from a mother-in-law.
He bowed once more to the large tree and followed Ji Feixue into the cabin.