Staying clean in the mud

Qing looked towards the distance in despair and couldn't help asking, "Master, are we really not going to help them?"

The girl brought the tea to her lips and blew on it. "As long as you don't do anything stupid, even if she is injured or dead, I can save her."

Qing Jue's eyelids twitched wildly, and he felt a sense of unease in his heart. The spirit bird landed on a branch, slipped, and fell into the grass.

Linghu Luoxi suddenly jumped out of the ruins and tightened the chain. Lin's lips seemed to be smiling, but his eyes were cold. "Do you think everything will be fine like this?"

Linghu Luoxi turned around to look at the wounded people behind him, his eyes moved for a moment, then he returned to his unreliable look.

"Junior Sister! What do you want to do?!" Yun Suiqi felt increasingly uneasy, struggling desperately and shouting, "Come back!"

"You...are you going to leave it behind too?!"

Hearing an unfamiliar questioning voice, everyone looked in the direction of the sound in astonishment. Ye Lingyou, his hands tied behind his back, knelt on the ground, staring at Linghu Luoxi with a complicated look in his eyes, "Please..."

Everyone, hearing Ye Lingyou speak for the first time, was filled with astonishment. Linghu Luoxi was also stunned. Feeling the chains in her hands loosen, she slowly closed her eyes and activated her inner elixir. The golden elixir in her dantian flickered.

Lin frowned, trying to break free, his voice tinged with barely perceptible anger. "If I force my golden elixir to self-destruct, my body and soul will be annihilated, and I will never be reincarnated again! You think you can die with me?"

"Junior sister, don't!"

Linghu Luoxi looked at Shen Chuwei, and when their eyes met, Shen Chuwei's words of dissuasion got stuck in his throat. They both nodded at the same time. Shen Chuwei endured the pain and suddenly threw Jiuchen Jun into the air, forming a protective shield.

"Junior Master! Stop her quickly!" Xuan Yu's eyes were red with anxiety. He looked at Chi An and Shangguan Yi in panic, his voice choked with sobs and broke, "Speak! Persuade her! Quickly persuade her!"

Linghu Luoxi hugged Lin tightly. At the last moment, he turned around to look at everyone, and his usual lazy and annoying smile appeared on his face again. "Do you believe me?"

"Master..."

Before anyone could try to persuade him, Chi An suddenly remembered that he was just a teenager. The two of them regained some of their childishness and said in unison, "Believe!"

The last trace of hesitation in Linghu Luoxi's eyes vanished, and her confidence ignited, prompting her to activate her inner elixir even faster. Lin cursed coldly, "Stupid!" and began to struggle. Linghu Luoxi's hold on him tightened.

"Junior Sister!"

"Luo Xi!"

In the instant before the earth-shattering explosion engulfed everything, Linghu Luoxi turned her head, leaned close to Lin's ear, and whispered arrogantly, "Your mother will always be your mother..."

"boom--"

An explosion followed, shattering the heavens and earth, sending clouds of dust billowing through the air. The blast tore through the surroundings, and everyone collapsed to the ground, their entire body powerless. The protective shield shattered, revealing a protective formation beneath their feet.

The Ghost King suddenly opened his eyes, frowned, and stood up. Qing Jue secretly observed the Ghost King's expression and guessed something, but did not ask.

"Walk!"

Looking around at the silent surroundings, everyone was choking with sobs and unable to speak. Yun Suiqi looked down at the jade bracelet on his hand, gently stroking it, and his heart moved slightly: This is...

The next second, the jade bracelet made of the photo stone projected a screen. Everyone looked up and saw Linghu Luoxi's big face appear in front of them. He then smiled and took a few steps back.

"Brother, by the time you find this, I might already be gone, but don't worry, it's fate." He rubbed his chin with a somewhat malicious expression, "If those two friends also accompany me to leave, remember to treat me to a meal, and don't take ugly photos of me!"

Everyone couldn't help but chuckle, their frowns gradually relaxing. Just then, the sky suddenly flashed with lightning and thunder. A bolt of lightning struck down, and where the lightning faded, an irregular crack was torn open in the space in front of Chi An and Shangguan Yi.

Xue Nianchao and the others stood there in a daze, staring at the crack warily. Shangguan Yi and the other man looked at each other, then supported each other, dragging their wounded bodies step by step towards the crack.

"Big Sister, don't go over there!" Yin Yin shouted in panic, reaching out to grab Chi An's sleeve. "I don't know what's behind that. It's too dangerous!"

Chi An shook his head and took out a letter from his pocket, "Give this to Nangong He for me." He glanced at everyone and sighed softly, "I'll be leaving first."

Yinyin wanted to say something, but Qiu Mucan was the first to agree. Shangguan Yi stroked the double-edged sword, his eyes filled with reluctance, turned around and handed it to Yan. After Yan took it, he took out the Pavilion Master's token.

Yan took a step back, knelt on one knee, bowed his head and said: "The Pavilion Master has instructed you to accept this!"

The crack was gradually shrinking. The two of them didn't hesitate and limped in. A second before the crack was completely closed, they smiled in relief and said, "Take care..."

"Senior Sister! Senior Brother Shangguan! Take care--!" The shouts of the crowd were completely isolated outside the healing space.

The cracks closed, as if nothing had happened. A gentle breeze caressed everyone's faces, and the tears on their cheeks gradually fell.

The young girl arrived slowly on her sword, looking down at the ruins before her. With a wave of her hand, the wounds on the people gradually healed. She turned and ordered, "Send them back to the sect!"

"Yes." Qingjue saluted.

Time flies, and within this week, the five major sects were reorganized.

Xue Nianchao noticed someone and retracted his sword energy. "Big Brother? Second Brother? Are you planning to visit the Sect Master?"

Jiang Yeqing nodded and continued forward, Ye Lingyou following closely behind. Qin Ling stood under a large tree, and the two saluted, "Master, your injury..."

Qin Ling shook his head, "My injuries have improved a lot."

In this world of cultivation, there is a legend that is known to everyone.

The Red Dust Tower was still bustling with people. The storyteller in the center slapped the desk and began to narrate, "Continuing from the last chapter, that great battle was truly earth-shattering..."

A delicate hand suddenly raised itself, and Lin Muyan, cracking melon seeds, asked, "So what happened to them in the end?"

"Well..." The storyteller stroked his beard in a pretentious manner, "Let's wait for the next chapter to find out!"

After that battle, Ye Luo did not die, but returned to the original real world. When Ye Luo woke up, he was on the stone table in the back garden.

"I... am back?!" Ye Luo looked around excitedly.

The next second, Qin Chi and the other two gradually woke up. Xu Zhao stretched and said lazily, "I feel like I had a dream."

Ye Luo felt something in his hand, and when he looked down, it was the extremely familiar book. He opened it and took a look, and their ending was a happy one.

"Oh my goodness, it's not a dream!"

"It's over! The exam is about to start! Hurry up!"

After three days of solitary and courageous struggle, the exams were finally over. Qin Chi was calmly packing up his things when Ye Luo suddenly called them. Xu Zhao and the others had just answered the phone.

"Ashore!"

"Is it the same one?"

"yes!"

At that moment, the summer cicadas were chirping and the lotus flowers were untainted by the mud. Although the camellia had been knocked to the ground by the heavy rain, the soil had been washed away. Their story had just begun.

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