"My good brother! I knew you would pester Master and come along! Sure enough, you've arrived now!" Ye Liang was just as excited and happy to see his brother Qin Shaoyang.

“That’s a must. If it weren’t for having to come with my father and lead a large group of people, I would have come ahead of him long ago. But it wouldn’t be good to leave my father behind. I’m more than happy to have him bring so many disciples to support you, Brother Ye. I dare not disobey him now! I’m afraid he’ll get angry and not come at all!” Qin Shaoyang said readily.

These words made Ye Liang feel that Qin Shaoyang was a true friend. He said, "Good brother, no need for further words. Everything is understood without needing to be said. Now, let me arrange your accommodations first. Many senior members of our sect are waiting to see our master!"

Then he said to his master Zhang Yuzhen, "Master, Senior Han Feng will also be coming over in a little while. Today, our sect will have a grand reunion."

Zhang Yuzhen was also deeply moved and said, "Yes. Actually, on the way, we also met several junior disciples from our former sect. They were your peers. Although they are juniors, they came here after hearing that their sect was in trouble. Right now, they are coming with your grandmaster. By arranging them this way, we won't worry that they will be bullied by the disciples of the Eternal Sect on the way."

Ye Liang immediately said, "Master, don't worry. I have already set up a teleportation array in Xiaodukou Village. As long as they are disciples of my sect, they will see the teleportation array with my message when they pass through Xiaodukou Village. They will then take the teleportation array and arrive here in one less day of travel."

Upon learning that Ye Liang had already made this arrangement, Master Zhang Yuzhen was overjoyed and said, "Good, good. Then you don't need to use the Flying Immortal Talisman to pick them up. Let them and your grandmaster take the teleportation array back together. It won't make a difference if it takes half a day."

“Okay, Master,” Ye Liang readily agreed.

"Master!" The junior sister rushed over with the little deer Bao'er.

Judging that Master should have arrived by now, the junior sister, after arranging things for the senior uncles with the two senior sisters, actually ran back ahead of time.

He must be eager to see his master.

Zhang Yuzhen was delighted to see her youngest disciple and immediately handed the child she was holding to her son, Qin Shaoyang, saying, "Yang'er, hold your little brother for me. I'm going with your senior sister to see my former fellow disciples."

"Yes, Auntie!" Qin Shaoyang had often helped his aunt take care of the children, so he wasn't surprised at all.

His younger brother also loves to follow him around; when he hugs his little brother, the brother smiles at him.

However, at this moment, Qin Shaoyang was looking forward to going to fight someone with Ye Liang, but now he was the brother who helped his aunt take care of the child. It made Qin Shaoyang feel a little embarrassed, so he gave Ye Liang a self-deprecating smile.

Ye Liang smiled and said, "Brother Qin, just focus on taking care of Xiao Feng. Anyway, I won't need you to interfere with the matter of guarding the sect."

"No! Brother Ye, I came here to fight alongside you and share life and death!" Qin Shaoyang became anxious upon hearing this.

Ye Liang said firmly, "Brother Qin, stop arguing. This is non-negotiable. Whether it's you, Master, Grandmaster, or my friends in the martial world, I appreciate your kindness in coming here. I will not let you participate in the battle. My senior sisters and I are enough. How can I let you risk your lives to fight for me?"

"Brother Ye!" Qin Shaoyang wanted to argue.

Ye Liang didn't give him a chance, patted him on the shoulder, and smiled.

What is brotherhood? This is brotherhood!

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"Junior Sister Yuzhen!"

"Senior Sister Yuxia!"

"Yuzhen!"

"Uncle-Master Baoyi!"

After many years apart, the sisters and disciples of the same sect, as well as the uncle and nephew, suddenly met again today, which truly evoked a myriad of emotions.

"Yuzhen, I heard you just had a baby this year, is that right? I never expected that your cultivation level would still be so high after having a child!" The senior disciples had so much to say and so many feelings to share with Zhang Yuzhen, the last leader of the Bixian Sect.

Zhang Yuzhen, brimming with excitement, first paid her respects to her senior uncles before rising and saying, "My cultivation level is nowhere near that of Xue'er and the others. My cultivation level was also given to me by Liang'er and the others. Now, their cultivation levels are beyond your wildest imagination, senior uncles. They are all experts at the Golden Core Realm! They recently passed the Abyss Trial left behind by the Ancestral Master, and can be considered as junior disciples recognized by the Ancestral Master! They are much more powerful than us!"

"You girls are so young, and you've already reached the Golden Core Realm? We guessed you were quite advanced based on your impressive equipment and aura, but we never imagined you were this advanced! You're all Golden Core Realm experts!" The senior uncles were astonished and couldn't believe it.

“That’s right!” Zhang Yuzhen had so much to say about these disciples: “Look at their equipment and magic weapons. Aren’t those the equipment and magic weapons of the Golden Core Realm?”

Senior Sister Qi Xue nodded gently and spoke up for Ye Liang, saying, "Our equipment was all obtained with our junior brother's help. Our cultivation levels were also raised by him, one level at a time. We've been through a lot together, sharing life and death more than once or twice."

"I also fought the Mystic Ice Crab King with them in Xiaodukou Lake. I know how many life-and-death hardships these disciples have gone through along the way," Zhang Yuzhen said, speaking up for her disciples.

"The big lake in front of Xiaodukou Village that we passed on our way here? I've heard that there's a powerful crab king there, so when I heard that boats are now running there again, I wondered which immortal cultivator had rid the villagers of this menace. I never expected it to be someone from our sect! This is a great deed to rid the people of a menace! It's worth publicizing!" Uncle-Master said excitedly.

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