Chapter 250: The Touching Little Falcon—Did It Want to Save Its Master?

Ning Fei drifted through the air.

He had never been someone who loved challenging his limits. It was only because he had drawn the Parachuting Mastery skill and had a System quest that he decided to take this on.

But right now, feeling the parachute's drag pitting his body against the earth's gravity as he drifted in the air overlooking the land, he found the sensation to be exceptionally pleasant.

In this moment, he felt like he understood why skydivers and wingsuit flyers were willing to risk their lives for such endeavors.

Because this feeling was truly wondrous.

"Ning Guan master is too fucking handsome."

"This is definitely my husband. He even knows how to skydive."

"That scene just now really blew me away. I'm making it my live wallpaper."

"I bet my feed will be spammed with this short video for the next few days."

"Leaving a comment to commemorate the first time I've seen sword-flight in the real world."

"Imagine if Ning Guan master hadn't opened his parachute during the fall, but instead turned around and flew back up. What kind of feeling would that be?"

"If you mean actual sword-flight, I'm pretty sure Ning Guan master would be taken away for research."

"Hahaha, it's just a performance Ning Guan master put on for everyone. No need to look too deeply into it."

"I have to say, the entertainment value is off the charts. This is the most beautiful skydive I've ever seen."

The netizens were going crazy.

Various massive donations flooded across Ning Fei's Live-stream Room.

Some large donations triggered platform-wide announcements, meaning that no matter which stream viewers were watching, they would see a banner stating that someone had gifted a super rocket.

And in Ning Fei's channel, the massive donations never stopped.

As a result, more and more netizens flocked to Ning Fei's Live-stream Room to see what was going on.

Unfortunately, they missed the live broadcast and could only watch the playback.

Even so, watching the recording, they still thought the scene was insanely badass.

The popularity of Ning Fei's Live-stream Room easily broke past 20 million.

The master of Qingfeng Temple flying on a sword and livestreaming a skydive over the mountains—this content possessed immense appeal on its own. Coupled with Douniao Live's promotions and Ning Fei's inherent popularity, he easily completed the quest.

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing the quest 'Live-stream Skydiving'. Reward item: Zouwu Hand Beads."

The System's prompt rang out right on time.

"Zouwu Hand Beads. The four benevolent beasts are finally complete,"

Ning Fei felt utterly relaxed.

Hanging from the parachute, he gazed down at the earth below.

The joy of skydiving did not lie solely in the freefall. Once the parachute opened, drifting with the wind was also extremely pleasant.

Ning Fei manipulated the parachute's cords, steering his direction as he leisurely descended.

Fortunately, his skydiving skill was quite high and he could control his heading. Otherwise, landing in the forest and getting hung up in a tree would have made him a laughingstock.

After touching down, Ning Fei put away the Peach-wood Sword and began gathering up the parachute.

Some experiences were enough to have just once.

Ning Fei was quite satisfied with how the process went.

The viewers were still discussing it in the bullet comments, but he didn't want to say much more.

After packing up the parachute, he traversed the woods, stepped onto the mountain path, and continued his trek up the mountain.

Along the way, Ning Fei ran into Village Chief Qin Zheng.

Seeing him wearing a Daoist Robe and carrying a white pack on his back, Qin Zheng asked curiously, "Ning Fei, what were you up to? Foraging for mountain goods?"

Normally, when Ning Fei went out to forage, he would at most wear a dark blue Daoist Robe since it was easier to wash. This Taiji Robe was a bit too conspicuous.

That was why the village chief had bothered to ask when he saw him in the white robe.

Generally speaking, Ning Fei only wore the white robe inside Qingfeng Temple.

"Nothing much, I just went skydiving," Ning Fei answered with a smile.

"Skydiving?"

Hearing this, Qin Zheng's eyes widened in direct disbelief, briefly stunned.

There weren't many things that could surprise him, but Ning Fei doing this was definitely one of them.

"Yeah, skydiving," Ning Fei nodded and affirmed, noticing the village chief's expression.

Qin Zheng nodded, took a drag from his dry pipe, sighed out, "Young people nowadays," and walked off with his hands clasped behind his back.

"Haha, does the village chief think Ning Guan master's life is too thrilling? He actually went skydiving."

The netizens commented upon seeing this interaction.

Seeing these comments, Ning Fei simply smiled.

"Everyone, the village chief probably just thinks my hobbies are a bit peculiar."

"When the village chief was young, his experiences were way more thrilling than mine."

Ning Fei's words instantly piqued many people's curiosity.

During the wild boar incident in Qinshan Village, the village chief had already left the netizens dumbfounded with just a red-tasseled spear.

"Ning Guan master, tell us! What did the village chief do when he was young?"

The netizens couldn't help but press him.

To this, Ning Fei kept his mouth shut and didn't elaborate.

The village chief was the only college student in Qinshan Village in his early years. Despite being an educated man, he carried a fierce, rugged edge in the way he did things.

After returning to his hometown, he joined the village committee. To protect the interests of Qinshan Village, he got into plenty of fights with the neighboring Zhujia Village.

However, he had mellowed out a lot now. Whenever someone brought up the past, the village chief would just smile and say, "Back in the day, I was a famous handsome lad across all the surrounding villages. How could I possibly get into fights?"

The village chief loved watching "Drawing Sword". Back then, his temper was barely any milder than Li Yunlong's. As soon as he heard the two villages were arguing over the ownership of a patch of woods, he would grab a wooden bench and march out to brawl.

Of course, everyone had a sense of restraint. They didn't go for lethal blows when they fought.

Fortunately, Zhujia Village also had a fierce guy who managed to keep Qin Zheng in check every time. Otherwise, Qin Zheng truly would have been the local tyrant of Qinshan.

When netizens previously discussed who the "apex" of Qinshan Village was, Ning Fei thought to himself that Qinshan Village had always had an apex—a man in his sixties who loved smoking a dry pipe and had spent decades building up this mountain village.

Of course, Ning Fei couldn't possibly recount these stories.

After all, the village chief was a cadre now. In the past, the management style was chaotic and unregulated. Nowadays, the atmosphere was clean and upright; the current climate meant that any blemish could alter a cadre's fate.

Ning Fei couldn't possibly discuss this with the netizens during a live stream.

Wouldn't that just be throwing the village chief under the bus?

Deep down, Ning Fei still held a great deal of respect for the village chief.

Returning to Qingfeng Temple, Ning Fei stored the parachute pack in the warehouse. Barring any accidents, he wouldn't be needing the thing again.

The video of his sword-flight went viral, utterly dominating feeds exactly as expected.

Leaping off the edge of a cliff, stepping onto a wooden sword as his robes whipped wildly in the wind of his freefall—that scene was explosively cool.

Finally, popping open the parachute with the circular Tai Chi diagram on it made him look even more striking.

After returning to Qingfeng Temple, Ning Fei opened his mobile phone and watched that video of himself as well.

Viewing it from a third-person perspective, Ning Fei noticed something different.

It was the moment he jumped off the cliff—Little falcon had leaped right after him.

Furthermore, the video also picked up Little falcon's urgent, sorrowful cries.

In a vacuum, the freefall velocity of objects is constant, but in reality, Ning Fei's descent speed was visibly faster. Therefore, Little falcon had been constantly accelerating, desperately trying to catch up to him.

In the video, Ning Fei's posture while flying on the sword was incredibly handsome.

Very few people noticed that right behind him was a white falcon, thinking its master had fallen off a cliff and trying to save him.

Ning Fei only noticed it now.

He hadn't expected Little falcon to react this way when he jumped.

"Little falcon, come here."

Feeling deeply moved, Ning Fei called Little falcon over and rarely hugged it the same way he would hold Little Fox.

Generally, Little falcon was rather aloof, only ever perching on Ning Fei's shoulder or arm.

This time, however, it quietly let Ning Fei hold it in his embrace.

Seeing this, Little Fox poked her little fox head out, her face full of confusion.

In her eyes, Little falcon was the very symbol of aloofness, yet right now it seemed a good deal warmer.

Little Dog and Little Fei, those two goofballs, were still playing around in the courtyard. One moment they were running to the slide to go down a few times, and the next they were chasing each other in circles around the Three Purities Hall. They completely missed this scene.

As for Xiao Feng, its main function was more like a decoration for Qingfeng Temple. An adorable, completely red little bird fluttering about the Daoist temple only required one Red Phoenix Pill a day, adding a nice touch of color to the place.

Ning Fei stood in the courtyard, feeding each of the little guys their respective meals.

He now had a refrigerator dedicated exclusively to storing pet food.

Dog food for Little Dog, fruit for Little Fox, and raw meat for Little falcon. Little Fei was much easier to raise; ordinary mixed grains were just fine.

Afterward, Ning Fei took out the Bai Ze Spiritual Talisman and pasted it beneath the horizontal inscribed board of the Three Purities Hall.

The Bai Ze Spiritual Talisman was a talisman with red characters on a yellow background. If one looked closely, they could see the majestic image of Bai Ze drawn on it.

Likewise, Ning Fei slipped the Zouwu Hand Beads onto his wrist.

The bracelet was entirely whitish-gray, and a Zouwu was carved into every single bead.

Once put on, the bracelet brought no discomfort whatsoever. His wrist couldn't feel a single ounce of pressure from it, almost as if it had become a part of his body.

Ning Fei stood beneath the Three Purities Hall, gazing upward.

The Phoenix, the Qilin, Bai Ze, and Zouwu. He had now collected all the items corresponding to the four benevolent beasts.

As the saying goes: "A mountain need not be high; the presence of an immortal makes it divine."

His current Qingfeng Temple should now count as "having an immortal presence."