I was reborn after cheating on the aloof and powerful man.

Chapter 47 Tianshan is a rickety, sinking ship.

The scene shifts, and Fei Xi finds herself in an extremely luxurious room.

On the ebony round table sat a set of glass teaware. Looking around, there was a rosewood screen inlaid with precious stones, ebony chairs inlaid with jade, a huanghuali wood table with a precious stone flower basket, a cloisonné enamel fish basin, a white marble throne... The whole room was filled with gold and silver utensils and precious porcelain, and the walls were covered with calligraphy and paintings by famous artists.

A sound like flowing spring water came from the right, interrupting Zhang Wang's gaze. Only then did Fei Xi remember that she seemed to have been drawn in by the music.

As if lured by the music, she stepped inside. The softness under her feet felt like walking on clouds. Looking down, she saw that beneath her shabby gray cloth shoes lay a thick carpet with exquisite patterns.

For some reason, a bittersweet feeling welled up inside her, a feeling that Fei Xi disliked.

She pursed her lips slightly, her eyes dimming slightly, but her expression immediately returned to normal when she saw the person behind the sandalwood scroll table.

A three-legged jade incense burner in the corner of the zither table emitted wisps of smoke, the lotus-shaped incense inside almost imperceptible.

The man behind the zither floated like an immortal in the wisps of smoke, clad in a moon-white silk crane-patterned cloak, his jet-black hair bound back with a small jade-inlaid crown. He sat upright before the zither, his posture as straight as a pine tree, his expression aloof and cold as snow. His jade-like fingers plucked the strings, the music flowing like a mountain stream, possessing a cold clarity that refused to be disturbed, so pure that one could almost smell the freshness of the water in the air.

Fei Xi, who had unexpectedly stumbled upon the scene, was preoccupied with her own thoughts and had little patience to listen to the man's playing. She directly interrupted his music.

"Senior Bian, when can I go down the mountain?"

After her sect was brutally wiped out, a group of vicious people relentlessly pursued her, her junior brother Ji, and her junior sister.

During their escape, the three got separated. Fei Xi returned to Qingcheng Mountain alone, silently collecting the bodies of the unjustly deceased members of her sect and carving tombstones for them.

After burying all the members of her sect, Fei Xi was taken to Tianshan by the man in front of her.

The entire sect was brutally wiped out overnight, and the whole affair was shrouded in mystery. Fei Xi mentally analyzed the known information about the incident, and she didn't believe that the mastermind behind it was Tie Guxing, the lord of Thunderbolt Fortress, who had a "blood feud" with her sect over the killing of his son.

Over the years, her master had been secretly investigating something. Seemingly afraid of implicating her, he never told her. However, even without his words, she could guess what he was investigating, since he had never been wary of her.

Mount Qingcheng, where the Qingcheng Sect is located, doesn't possess many coveted resources. If it wasn't for profit, then either Master's investigation touched upon the interests of the person behind the scenes, or perhaps the other party's true target was Thunderbolt Fortress, and the Qingcheng Sect was merely an insignificant ant in this conspiracy.

Fei Xi was unskilled in martial arts and outnumbered, making revenge extremely difficult. When the man told her with certainty that he would take her to Tianshan, she offered no resistance and obediently followed him there.

Tianshan, as one of the top forces in the martial arts world today, is also the most mysterious place in the martial arts world.

Fei Xi had only heard of this place from others before. The Tianshan Mountains mentioned by people in the martial arts world refer to the Twelve Peaks of Tianshan, a natural and precipitous mountain range located in the westernmost part of China.

The twelve peaks of Tianshan Mountain are divided into three sects, with the Bianyuan branch of Shuohan Peak as the main one, and the Shuangyi Sect of Feiyu Peak and the Taixu Sect of Beitian Peak as the other two.

In the past, people in the martial arts world only knew of the great reputation of Tianshan, but few had ever seen the true faces of the people of Tianshan.

No one knows the origins or lineage of Tianshan martial arts.

There was once a legendary martial arts figure, Chen Pingsheng, a martial arts fanatic, who bravely ventured alone into the Tianshan Mountains in an attempt to uncover their secrets.

Unexpectedly, he was easily defeated by a sweeping maid from Shuohan Peak with a broom. After this incident spread throughout the martial arts world, the people of the martial arts world became even more mysterious and esoteric about this unpredictable Tianshan Mountain.

Thirty years ago, for some unknown reason, the three sects of Tianshan had an internal conflict. The people of Tianshan were almost wiped out because of this conflict, and the Tianshan lineage was almost cut off.

However, during the Great War of Wei, Bian Yuan suddenly appeared. As a descendant of the Shuohan Peak of Tianshan Mountain, he swept away the northern barbarians with a single sword, and no one could defeat him.

Thus, the mysterious Tianshan Mountains and the unfathomable Tianshan swordsmanship once again came into the view of martial arts practitioners.

At this time, Fei Xi needed a quiet and safe place where she could access firsthand information about the martial arts world.

The Tianshan Mountains were undoubtedly an excellent place to gather information.

Along the way, Fei Xi asked the man many questions, trying to extract some useful information from him.

However, aside from knowing the other person's name and that he was the Lord of Tianshan, this indifferent man was unwilling to say another word.

Seeing that the man always ignored her, Fei Xi retreated to the side like an abandoned cat, no longer wanting to embarrass herself.

Along the way, Fei Xi tried to find out about her junior brother and sister. However, everyone in the martial arts world was discussing the upcoming sixth martial arts tournament, and no one mentioned the Qingcheng Sect that had been wiped out, let alone knew where her junior brothers and sisters had gone.

She left behind unique markings of her sect along the way, hoping that her junior brother or sister would see them and come looking for her.

However, half a month passed, and no one came to Tianshan to look for her.

She had wanted to go down the mountain to find her fellow disciples, but she was stopped halfway down the mountain. The person said that she could not go down the mountain without the owner's permission.

Knowing no martial arts skills, she could only return to the manor, barge into the other party's room, and hope to communicate properly with this senior Bian and get permission to go down the mountain to find the person.

"Do you have someone you love?" The man playing the zither was abruptly interrupted. His cold face was expressionless, and it was impossible to tell whether he was angry or not.

Fei Xi never expected that the man in front of her would neither agree nor directly oppose her going down the mountain, but instead ask her a question that left her completely baffled.

"Senior Bian, thank you for taking me in these past few days. My junior brother and junior sister are currently missing, and I need to go down the mountain to find them."

A bewildered Fei Xi stared intently into the other's eyes. Senior Bian Yuan seemed momentarily distracted, as if his rhythm had been interrupted, but he quickly regained his composure and said:

"...Three days later, you will come with me to Dongwu Island to participate in the martial arts tournament."

The man then lowered his head and continued playing the zither, ignoring her completely.

During this time together, their conversations were always like this, each talking to themselves. After saying what he wanted to say, this senior would ignore her. Fei Xi, as if she was angry with him, never answered his questions, but instead directly stated her demands.

She didn't understand why the other person was taking her down the mountain to participate in the martial arts tournament. But she knew that being able to get down the mountain in three days was enough.

Fei Xi had just come out of Senior Bian Yuan's courtyard when she encountered a woman in yellow who pointed at her and scolded, "You have no shame! How dare you enter my master's room so casually!"

“Miss Fei, our master values ​​rules the most. Although you are a guest brought back by our master, we in Tianshan have strict rules. We hope that you will not break them.”

Another woman in pink walked up, smiling, but her eyes held a condescending disdain. She emphasized the word "rules" with extra emphasis, clearly implying that Fei Xi was a person without manners.

"Miss Shishu, Miss Shimo, Senior Bian just informed me that I need to go out in three days, so I won't disturb you any longer."

Fei Xi finished speaking calmly, then turned and left.

She originally came to Tianshan to quietly gather information, but to her surprise, the vast main peak of Tianshan, Shuohan Peak, was only home to a dozen or so disabled elderly people and two maids who were constantly scheming against each other.

She asked for a copy of the Jianghu Gazette, and both of them made veiled accusations against her, treating her like a thief, as if she might steal a single page from Tianshan.

She had no patience to argue with such a cunning and self-righteous person over trivial matters; it was beneath her dignity.

She learned from an old man that there were two other sects in Tianshan, but apart from Senior Bian, the main sect didn't have a single proper successor. Senior Bian hadn't taken on any disciples yet, which greatly worried the old men.

Fei Xi was speechless. She wasn't from Tianshan, so what did it have to do with her? A maid who couldn't be managed, no heir, and a terrible personality—these kinds of people never end well.

Fei Xi, who knew nothing of conscience, just wanted to get off the sinking ship that was Tianshan as soon as possible.