Chapter 63: Her Past
Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
Fatty Qu and Wei Zi Qi still thought of dissuading her, but she looked extremely resolute, forcing them to swallow their words.
"Have a good time cultivating them, we'll head off together when the time comes." Wei Zi Qi patted Sima You Yue's shoulder before walking out.
"Yup, rest assured, I will definitely protect you!" Fatty Qu also left after declaring this.
Sima You Yue closed the door and smiled when she thought of how Fatty Qu declared that he would protect her. Although she had been framed by her organization's second in charge, she did not carry on those bitter feelings to think that everyone in this world was a bad guy. She still subconsciously believed her own ability to discern. She could tell that Fatty Qu and Wei Zi Qi honestly treated her as a friend.
But she also knew that because of her contract with the Spirit Pearl, she would subconsciously leak out a kind of aura that caused those with a similar spirit to her to draw near to her.
When Sima You Yue returned to the General's residence, she related everything that happened to Sima Lie. Once Sima Lie heard that the Nalan Clan had attempted to kill Sima You Yue, he broke the desk in anger. He gritted his teeth and said, "This Nalan Clan has always set itself against my Clan, but it has actually dared to scheme against You Yue! It seems that we have been too lenient on them recently!"
"In any case, that Nalan Lan has been already been expelled from the academy and if we assume that they will continue their style of doing things, I'm afraid that they will not let Fifth Brother nor our family off the hook." Sima You Le said.
"What is there to worry about?! They won't let us off the hook, but neither do I intend to let them off!" SIma You Ming's voice came in from the outside.
Sima You Le watched as Sima You Ming walked in and asked, "Second Brother, you've returned?"
"Yup, I just came back when I heard you relate what happened." Sima You Ming said, "That Nalan Clan could go cause trouble for Fifth Brother at any time. Grandfather, since we have already promised the other party that we will take care of Fifth Brother well, we can't let him be caught up in such danger now."
Sima Lie nodded.
"Grandfather, Second Brother, what are you guys talking about?" Sima You Le heard the conversation between the two of them and looked at them in surprise.
Sima Lie and and Sima You Ming only now remembered that Sima You Le was still here and recalled that he did not know about Sima You Yue's identity. They didn't expect that they would be furious to such an extent that they would even forget about this.
Sima You Ming patted Sima You Le's shoulder, saying meaningfully, "Actually, Fifth Brother isn't our brother by blood."
"What did you say?!" Sima You Le had been so shocked by this piece of news that he started to shake all over, staring at Sima You Ming with disbelief.
"What I said is true." Sima You Ming said, "You were still very young in the year that Fifth Brother arrived at our home, that's why it's to be expected that you don't remember this."
"Fifth Brother actually isn't our brother by blood…" Sima You Le repeated this fact to himself twice over before raising his head to ask Sima Lie, "Then who are the parents of Fifth Brother?"
"We are also not sure who his mother is. Our Sima Clan had always owed his father a favor. At that time, they handed him over to us before they disappeared, so we are also unclear what his real identity is." Sima Lie said.
At that time when the Sima Clan had just arrived in this small place, they encountered some danger and it just so happened that Sima You Yue's father saved them. At that time they said that in the future, if they had the chance to, they would repay him. Who would have thought that a few tens of years later, he found them and passed Sima You Yue to them, even telling them not to let anyone know that Sima You Yue was a girl. At that time, only Sima Lie remained of the Sima Clan.
In order to protect Sima You Yue, Sima Lie even told everyone outside that Sima You Yue was brought back by his own son. Actually, at that time, his son had already disappeared for a few years.
It had to be noted that Sima You Yue's parents as well Sima You Le's parents both encountered the similar situation of disappearing. At least this point was consistant.
At that time, Sima You Le was still really young so he didn't remember. However, Sima You Qi, Sima You Ming and Sima You Ran all knew that Sima You Yue was not their brother by birth. However, they still never treated him as an outsider, as continued to treat him with as much love as the youngest of the family of the Sima Clan.
Sima You Le looked at his own Grandfather, then looked at his brother. They didn't look as if they were lying so he started to slowly digest this information.
"Grandfather, at that time, the person saved the life of our Sima Clan so today we must not watch as others harm Fifth Brother." Sima You Ming declared resolutely.
"Mm. That Nalan clan has always been looking for something to cripple our family. You should arrange for a shadow guard to surround the school compound to protect You Yue secretly once he leaves the school grounds. We cannot let the Nalan Clan cause any harm to him." Sima Lie said, "As for within the school, I believe that Feng Zhi Xing will not allow even a single hair on him to be harmed."
"Oh yeah, what kind of identity does that Feng Zhi Xing possess?" Sima You Le questioned curiously.
Sima Lie shook his head, "I don't know either. I had asked that old coot in the school before, but even he doesn't know Feng Zhi Xing's true identity. He only knows that he must be someone from another place, furthermore, he's here because of You Yue."
"Because of Fifth Brother?"
"Mm. Feng Zhi Xing said, You Yue carried a life jade. A life jade is not something that just anybody can possess. The people who do possess it are normally those from the large clans, furthermore, it has to be left in the family's ancestral hall. The fact that You Yue has a life jade that actually isn't placed in her ancestral hall and was actually brought out by her father shows that her identity isn't simple, neither is it safe."
Talking about Sima You Yue's life jade, SIma You Le and his brother thought of the time when Sima You Yue had gone missing for those few months and they had to rely on the perfect state of the life jade in order to stay sane.
"It looks like this world doesn't have people who even know about something like a life jade." SIma You Le said.
"That's right. The people of this world don't know how to make this at all." Sima Lile said, "They don't even have the materials to make it, much less have the strength to do it."
"So Fifth Brother's identity must be from somewhere outside of this world?" Sima You Ming asked.
"This is just my guess." Sima Lie said, "However, at that time, Feng Zhi Xing said something when he came here to look at You Yue's life jade. At that time, he said that he was there when You Yue's life jade was being made. This proves that he must also be from that place, and so, he knows You Yue's identity!"
"Then will he tell Fifth Brother's identity to him or not?" Sima You Ming knitted his eyebrows in question.
"Not right now." Sima Lie said, "Looking at the way he is, he's just here to see how You Yue is living. He's not here to tell him about the reality of his situation."
Hearing what Sima Lie said, Sima You Ming and Sima You Le both sighed. Even if Sima You Yue wasn't their brother by birth, they had lived their lives together for so many years that they had the same brotherly affection as real brothers. They did not wish for anyone to disrupt their current life.
"Alright, enough. You Le, you should return to school. You Ming and I will discuss how to deal with that Nalan Clan." Sima Lie said.
"Okay, if you need me to do anything please tell me. I'm also a part of this Sima Clan!" Sima You Le said seriously.
"Your responsibility right now is to cultivate properly and watch over Fifth Brother in school, that is enough." Sima You Ming patted Sima You Le's shoulder.
"Okay then, I will return first." Sima You Le shrugged and left the study room.
When they watch Sima You Le leave, Sima You Ming turned to Sima Lie and asked, "Grandfather, how do you plan to deal with the Nalan Clan…"
Chapter 64: Furnace explodes again…
Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
News of the expulsion of Nalan Lan, the female genius of the Nalan Clan, from the Imperial Academy had spread like wildfire across the entire capital. A single stone causing a thousand waves, every single street was discussing this.
Nalan Clan.
In the hall, the Head of the Nalan Clan sat on his seat with two elders sitting at each side. Everyone else sat at either side.
In the middle of the house, Nalan Lan was clad in blue as she sat on the ground with her head lowered. Her long hair cascaded down her back, covering her cheek.
Nalan Qi also knelt at a side, looking at the rising tension that locked them in a stalemate, he said, "Father, you cannot blame Elder Sister for this. It's all because of Sima You Yue. If not for him, Elder Sister would not have been expelled from school!"
"You still dare to speak!" Nalan slammed the teacup in his hand on the table and looked at Nalan Lan and Nalan Qi, who were kneeling, and berated, "You knew that this kind of things were not allowed in the premises of the Academy but you just had to do it. Now that you've been expelled, you've thrown away the face of the entire Nalan Clan!"
Nalan Lan lowered her head, not daring to utter a single word.
"Clan Head, Lan'er never thought that things would become like this. She thought that that trash would die simple, but who would have thought that he would survive and come back." An elder at the side said, "Lan'er just wanted to strike at that old coot Sima Lie. Didn't you see, when that waste went missing, we were really able to sieze the opportunity to strike at that Sima Clan."
"That's right, Clan Head, Lan'er is such a gifted child, just because we don't have the Academy, does it mean that the Nalan Clan will be unable to train the younger generation?" Yet another elder helped speak on behalf of Nalan Lan.
"But this matter of being expelled by the school has caused how much embarrassment to our clan?! We can't let this go unpunished, you are now confined to the family ancestral hall to devote yourself to repentance for 3 months. You better reflect on your actions thoroughly!" After listening to the two elders absolve his own daughter of guilt, Nalan Lan was more relaxed and gave Nalan Lan a very superficial punishment.
Nalan Lan bowed slightly before standing up to leave. From the beginning to the end, she did not utter a single word. Everyone thought that she was in shock by the situation, however, her eyes revealed hatred and malice. Once she was released from the ancestral hall, she would definitely take the life of that useless trash!
After Nalan Lan left, the elder waved his hand to dismiss the younger generation since they had no need to participate in the later conversation.
"Clan Head, this time, the Sima Clan is directly shedding all pretense of cordiality!" The Second Elder said.
"This time, that Sima Clan has caused us great disgrace. We definitely have to take revenge on them!" Nalan gritted his teeth and said, "It just so happens that when we went to visit the old ancestor, he also said that we should quickly cause their family to fall. Since that's the case, we should quickly make use of all our networks."
After understanding what the old ancestor meant, the First and Second elder nodded simultaneously.
The Sima Clan had always wanted to suppress the Nalan Clan. This time, they would definitely need to take the Sima Clan down.
As a result, the feud between these two clans and moved from the shadows, and started to be displayed on stage for all to see. Regardless of the domain, the two clans would always fight as if it was a you-live-I-die kind of situation.
With regards to their unrestrained battles, even while in school, Sima You Yue knew of a few. However, Sima Lie had ordered her to stay in school and did not allow her to come out so she could only stay in school to work hard and become stronger.
For a month after that, Sima You Yue remained inside the Spirit Pearl to practice pill refinement.
Before, she had already almost mastered pill purification. After practicing for a new more days, she set her sights on the second stage, fusion.
This time, during fusion, Sima You Yue chose the easiest pill to practice, the Coagulation Pill.
This Coagulation Pill only need four kinds of ingredients. Furthermore, they were relatively milder ingredients and the chances of exploding would be relatively smaller with higher chances of success. It was an introductory pill that was generally used by Alchemists.
After letting Little Spirit finish preparing the Spirit Ingredients, Sima You Yue went to look over the steps of refining the pill once again to make sure she had memorised it all before she began to purify the ingredients.
The most important step of pill refinement was purification and she was already extremely familiar with this step so she very quickly finished purifying all four ingredients. She separated the purified ingredients according to type before placing two into the pill furnace. After a while, she placed yet another type inside.
Thinking back on how things exploded the last time, Sima You Yue had some lingering fear when she put the pill ingredients in. She was extremely nervous that putting the ingredients in would cause the same occurrence as the last time.
However, the pill ingredients this time could be said to have given her more face as nothing like an explosion occurred, allowing her heave a huge sigh of relief.
Following the directions from the book, she controlled the intensity of the flame. At this moment, she realised that not having your own flame was really a troublesome thing for pill concoction.
After a few more minutes, Sima You Yue finally added in the last most important pill ingredient and it was still good, this time, nothing like an explosion occurred.
However, just when she thought that she was successful, a grunting sound came from inside the furnace, followed by a puff. A pasty smell leaked out from the hole in the pill furnace cover, declaring her failed attempt at fusion.
Sima You Yue put out the fire before opening the cover of the pill furnace. As she expected, she saw a dark black pasty sludge and could not help but to heave a sigh of disappointment.
"Yue Yue, do not be disappointed. This is merely your first time, failure is extremely normal. You just need more experience. Little Roar appeared beside her and comforted her.
"I'm not disappointed." Sima You Yue shook her head and said, "I was just thinking that refining pills was really not an easy task."
"Of course." Little Spirit also appeared in the air and said, "My previous owner told me before that just looking at the steps to refining pills was not easy, but there is a reason why it has obstructed so many thousands of Spirit Masters. When refining pills, every single minute of heat control and every single step of control needs to be precious. Further, its requirement on Spirit Power can be said to be to be found only one in a thousand."
"It looks like I can't do without instruction from a teacher." Sima You Yue touched her chin and began to think of who she should choose to teach her, however, she had gone through the list of Pill Masters in her brain without managing to find anyone suitable.
"They're all so repulsive, I wouldn't be able to learn much from them." Thinking of how all those Pill Masters always had their nose in the air, Sima You Yue had rejected all of them.
If those Pill Masters knew that they were treated by someone with such disdain, who knew whether or not they would be hopping about in anger!
"Forget it, I might as well try to practice on my own first. When that time comes that I meet a good Pill Master, then I'll think about how to hail him as a Master." Sima You Yue finished speaking before she took yet another pill ingredient to begin practicing once again.
Three days later, she finally managed to fuse her first liquid pill.
"Now it's time for the last step, binding!" Sima You Yue let out a long breath before putting her hand before the pill furnace, condensing her Spirit Power and sending it gently into the pill furnace.
"Bang-"
Once the Spirit Power came into contact with the liquid pill, it resulted in a huge explosion. The pill furnace directly exploded, sending splinters flying about everywhere. Sima You Yue had also been sent flying by the explosion.
"Damn it! It exploded again!"
Before she fainted, in her daze she saw a faintly discernible red silhouette appear by her side, as well as a pair of complicated eyes stare directly at her.
Gifts
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received Weekly Power Status
200+ Power
Ranking 
104 Power
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