"Senior Sister, you and Second Senior Sister should go and rest. I can keep an eye on things here. Down the mountain, the bandits are building siege equipment, and they won't be able to finish it anytime soon. You can rest assured, Senior Sister." Ye Liang instructed his eldest senior sister to go back and rest first.

The eldest sister said, "Let me accompany my junior brother to enjoy the scenery here a little longer. I can't sleep if I go back now."

"Uh." Since his senior sister said that, Ye Liang was no longer in a hurry to tell her to go and rest.

"Yo yo!"

The junior sister's deer suddenly cried out twice, its head still facing the mountain ridge to one side, nodding and shaking its head as if indicating something.

"What's wrong, Little Deer?" The junior sister felt something was wrong, so she squatted down and came over to ask.

Ye Liang looked in the direction the little deer's head was pointing and vaguely saw a figure flashing through the dense forest.

He immediately told his senior sister, "Someone is coming."

"Bandits?" The second senior sister immediately gripped the Azure Profound Spirit Sword in her hand, preparing for battle.

The eldest sister is the same.

The junior sister immediately stood up and looked up at the mountain.

Ye Liang said, "It doesn't look like it. They came from another direction. Let's be patient, we'll know everything when they arrive."

The visitor was said to be hostile, but Ye Liang was already highly skilled and daring, so he wasn't too worried about who the visitor was or whether they had ill intentions.

"It's Wei Shiwu. And his men."

Before those people even got close, the senior sister had already recognized who they were.

"This guy surnamed Wei, Senior Sister knows him, what's his background?" Ye Liang asked with concern.

He never expected that the aloof and elegant senior sister would recognize a man.

Could he be the lover in the heart of the eldest sister?

If that's the case, Ye Liang would feel slightly disappointed.

In his heart, he always felt that his senior sister, who was as pure as ice and snow, should not like men.

Some women are meant to be like the snow on a snow-capped peak, untouchable and unworthy of being defiled. (Some typos and homophones are to avoid being misunderstood by the "crab god" (a derogatory term for someone who is obsessed with certain things). I won't explain them again. For example, the "reading" here is intentional. Those who nitpick can leave now.)

"He's the son of the village chief of the village below our mountain gate. He's also the village guard captain, responsible for protecting Wei Village. He has a few men, all villagers." Second Senior Sister Su Qing explained to Ye Liang very carefully on behalf of Senior Sister.

The eldest sister also said, "Because it is a village under our mountain gate, people from our sect have been coming to this village for a long time to barter or buy some daily necessities, so we still know some of them."

"So that's how it is." Knowing that it was a village at the foot of the mountain, and also a small market town for trade, it was no wonder that the senior sister knew it.

Ye Liang felt much more at ease.

Before long, three or four men appeared, wearing helmets and armor. The armor was not a complete set, but it conveyed the same message, making it clear that these people were warriors.

When these people arrived at the gate of Bixianmen, the last few were a bit tired. As soon as they arrived, they sat down on the ground and kept fanning themselves to dry their sweat.

Having climbed all the way up the mountain, they were clearly exhausted.

The person in charge, however, was neither out of breath nor red-faced, as if he were someone of some level, and he came over with a knife to talk to the senior sisters.

Upon arriving, instead of exchanging pleasantries, he directly cupped his hands and asked the senior sister, "Why is there a man here? Doesn't the Bixian Sect forbid men from entering the mountain?"

This person seems quite hostile towards my existence.

Could he be an admirer of the senior sister?

However, judging from this person's stiff attitude towards the senior sister, it doesn't seem like the attitude an admirer should have.

Could he be straight?

He was used to feeling good about himself and thought that this made him very manly, which would make the cold and aloof senior sister fall in love with him.

The senior sister replied coldly, "This is a matter of my sect, and it has nothing to do with you."

"That's a good reply from my senior sister," Ye Liang thought to himself with a smirk.

"You. Hmph." Wei Shiwu was very displeased, and snorted coldly, his attitude becoming increasingly harsh. "Fine. I won't ask about your sect's affairs. I came to tell you that bandits have come down the mountain, probably intending to attack the Bixian Sect. I was afraid you wouldn't know, so I came specifically to remind you. Now that you're standing here, it seems you know? Or was it my fault for going to all this trouble to cross the mountain to tell you?"

"Thank you. We already understand." The eldest sister was aloof and elegant, but she still knew how to treat guests. She immediately turned to the second sister and said, "Junior sister, do you still have any wild boar meat at home? Bring some over for these brothers down the mountain. They've had a hard time climbing the mountain. Let them take the meat back to eat and replenish their strength."

"Great!" The people behind Wei Shiwu were immediately delighted when they heard about this good news.

They were so excited that they immediately stood up, ready to wait for their share of the meat to take home and eat.

"No need! We're not beggars, we didn't come here to beg for meat! Besides, you make it sound like you're very wealthy! I've heard that you mostly eat vegetables and tofu!" To everyone's surprise, the senior sister's good intentions were met with a cold shoulder.

"Damn it! Who do you think you are, acting so arrogantly? What makes you so great that you talk to my senior sister like that? Do you have any manners at all? If someone offers you meat and you don't like it, you can refuse. But who gave you the right to laugh at my Bixian Sect for being poor?" Ye Liang simply couldn't believe that there could be someone in this world with lower emotional intelligence than him.

Actually, the young master isn't really that lacking in emotional intelligence.

However, he never needs to pursue women; countless young models are lining up to be his sugar daddy. So, he doesn't have to worry about women at all.

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