Chapter 397 The Holy Son of Miao Territory Was Bewitched by the Villainous Cult Leader (35 chapters)
Regardless of the exact details of the events, there is no doubt that he took advantage of Gu Shixian.
Therefore, he didn't care how Gu Shixian wanted to handle the matter.
"Is everything that Valley Master Ding said true?"
Ding Baiyu hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
“Then…why don’t you merge Peach Blossom Valley into my Sun-Holding Sect? The beauty of Peach Blossom Valley makes me happy.”
Ding Baiyu's expression was not good. "Sect Leader Gu, Peach Blossom Valley does not belong to me personally. I'm afraid I cannot agree to this."
"Tch, didn't you just say you'd listen to me? I just have my eye on Peach Blossom Valley."
Such a beautiful place should belong to his wife.
He doesn't keep his word, and like his junior brother Shao Pingyuan, he's not a good person.
888: You act like you're some kind of saint. You're both equally bad, so neither of you should look down on the other.
"If Master Gu truly likes Peach Blossom Valley, Peach Blossom Valley is willing to open its doors to Master Gu and the Holy Son. The two of you are welcome to come and stay in Peach Blossom Valley at any time. However, if you ask me to give up Peach Blossom Valley... I regret that I cannot comply."
Yu Sheng tugged at someone's sleeve and said with a smile, "He was just joking, so please don't take it to heart, Valley Master Ding."
Yu Sheng was afraid that if she didn't speak up, Gu Shixian would turn into a bandit and seize her territory.
Peach Blossom Valley is one of the oldest sects in the martial arts world. The valley masters of each generation were buried in the peach forest on the back mountain after their deaths. In other words, Peach Blossom Valley is like their ancestral grave. How could they possibly agree to you stealing their ancestral grave?
Gu Shixian naturally listens to his wife the most, and almost everything Yu Sheng says goes.
This scene deeply stung Shao Pingyuan's eyes.
If only my senior brother could treat him like Gu Shixian and Yu Sheng did.
Looking at the happy couple, and then glancing down at his own disheveled state, he couldn't help but laugh at himself.
See? Nobody cares about him.
"Despicable and shameless" is not enough to describe him. How could anyone care about someone like him?
Even his senior brother, who used to be kind to him, now loathes him. If it weren't for their brotherhood and his position as the master of Peach Blossom Valley, his senior brother would probably have killed him the moment he regained consciousness.
Shao Pingyuan felt a sharp pain in his chest and spat out another mouthful of blood.
He felt his eyelids were very heavy, and the things in front of him were so blurry that he could only see the outlines of things. There was a buzzing in his ears, as if someone was talking, but he couldn't hear clearly.
Shao Pingyuan's body collapsed uncontrollably. Seeing this, Ding Baiyu instinctively stepped forward and caught him. "Junior brother, how are you?"
He could feel himself falling into a pair of warm embraces, an embrace that carried a faint scent of peach blossoms.
Is this... Senior Brother?
Shao Pingyuan struggled to open his eyes, but lost consciousness the next second.
Ding Baiyu anxiously hugged Shao Pingyuan and hurriedly left with him.
As for Gu Shixian and Yu Sheng in the courtyard, he naturally had no time to pay attention to them.
So much so that the Peach Blossom Valley disciples, who had been secretly watching the commotion inside, were wondering why they heard the old valley master suddenly shouting when they saw Ding Baiyu anxiously carrying Shao Pingyuan as he rushed out.
The sharp-eyed disciples naturally noticed the bloodstains on Shao Pingyuan's chest and the corner of his mouth, and were immediately stunned.
Is the Valley Master injured?
Sure enough, the two big devils came to cause trouble. Otherwise, why would their Valley Master be carried out by the old Valley Master covered in blood?
That must be it!
Damn it! They actually injured their valley master. Does that great demon Gu want to disband Peach Blossom Valley?
What a sinister intention!
After the two left, Gu Shixian looked at Ding Baiyu's hurried departure with a puzzled expression. "Sheng Sheng, is there something wrong with Ding Baiyu here?"
Gu Shixian pointed to his head.
"How so?" Yu Sheng asked softly, teasing the small snake on her wrist with her fingers.
"Why does he care about Shao Pingyuan? Shao Pingyuan crippled his martial arts, imprisoned him for two whole years, planted a love potion in him, and took away his position as the valley master. Yet he didn't even turn Shao Pingyuan into a hedgehog with a single sword strike."
Yu Sheng watched Ding Baiyu's departing figure and murmured, "Maybe... he's fallen for her?"
The love potion has been neutralized. If Ding Baiyu truly had no feelings for Shao Pingyuan, she wouldn't have looked at him like that.
There was a hint of love for Shao Pingyuan in her eyes, but it was so faint that it was barely noticeable unless you looked closely.
Not to mention his reaction when Shao Pingyuan fainted.
It's quite obvious that Ding Baiyu wasn't indifferent to Shao Pingyuan either.
Gu Shixian was somewhat surprised, but more speechless. "No way, Shao Pingyuan treated him like that, how could he still fall in love with him? If it were me, I would kill him!"
Yu Sheng said with a half-smile, "Then... what if we changed the protagonists to you and me?"
Gu Shixian was speechless.
Because he knew that if he and Yu Sheng were the main characters, he would probably be so happy he'd fly away.
"So, how can you know whether Ding Baiyu ever had feelings for Shao Pingyuan if you didn't put yourself in his shoes?"
"It seems they'll end up together," Gu Shixian said wistfully.
To be honest, he really didn't think Ding Baiyu and Shao Pingyuan were a good match. Shao Pingyuan's love was too obsessive. In order to get Ding Baiyu, he actually dared to cripple his martial arts.
Gu Shixian became even more doubtful about the possibility of them being together.
Yu Sheng calmly shook her head. "They won't be together. If Shao Pingyuan hadn't done these extreme things, perhaps Ding Baiyu would have ended up with him."
But he destroyed that possibility himself. Although Ding Baiyu was not without feelings for him, Shao Pingyuan still crippled his martial arts, planted a love potion, and imprisoned him for two years. Let alone Ding Baiyu, even a normal person would not be able to accept that.
Ding Baiyu's anxiety for him stemmed more from the senior brother's concern for his junior brother. Moreover, with his martial arts crippled, if Shao Pingyuan were to suffer another accident, Peach Blossom Valley might truly be annexed by the Sun-Embracing Sect.
Peach Blossom Valley was where he had lived since childhood, and he wouldn't allow such a thing to happen, but he also truly wouldn't be with Shao Pingyuan.
"Let's go, didn't we say we were going to admire the flowers? We can stay a couple more days." Yu Sheng wasn't in a hurry to leave. Since they were already here, they should at least finish enjoying the show.
888: Exactly!
As the two passed by the disciples of Peach Blossom Valley, they naturally noticed the resentment in the disciples' eyes.
The two of them naturally knew what was going on.
"Your Valley Master's injury has nothing to do with us. Don't try to frame us. As for how he got injured, ask your Valley Master Ding," Gu Shixian snorted coldly, expressionlessly taking Yu Sheng's hand and walking away amidst the suspicious gazes of the disciples.
The two went outside Peach Blossom Valley and brought in the Grand Elder, Ah Lu, and Ah Zi. Since they had chosen to stay in Peach Blossom Valley for a few days, it would be best for them to stay in the valley as well.
We can't exactly let the three of them sleep in the carriage outside, can we?
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As Ding Baiyu stood in front of Shao Pingyuan's door, hesitating whether to go in, he heard a heavy thud coming from inside.
He hurriedly pushed open the door, and the first thing he saw was a teacup lying on the floor.
"Senior brother?" Shao Pingyuan's eyes lit up when he saw Ding Baiyu.
"Senior brother, before I fainted yesterday, was it you... holding me?"
Ding Baiyu answered truthfully, "Yes."
Shao Pingyuan is very happy now.
He watched Ding Baiyu squatting on the ground, picking up the broken pieces of porcelain. He hesitated, but finally asked the question he most wanted to ask.
"Senior brother, do you... have a crush on me?"
Ding Baiyu seemed to have guessed what he wanted to ask, and calmly replied, "No, Shao Pingyuan, I will not be with you."
He meant he wouldn't be with Shao Pingyuan, not that he disliked Shao Pingyuan.
Just as Yu Sheng said, Ding Baiyu's feelings for Shao Pingyuan were very complicated.
He admitted that he did have unusual feelings for his junior fellow apprentice, and at that time he felt that his feelings were wrong.
That was his junior brother whom he had watched grow up since childhood; he couldn't have such thoughts.
Therefore, in order to sever his own feelings and to make Shao Pingyuan give up on harassing him, he used Gu Shixian.
If Shao Pingyuan hadn't been so heartless, crippling his martial arts, planting a love potion, and imprisoning him, perhaps... they might still have been able to be together.
But there are never any "what ifs".
He also knew his junior brother's temperament well, and if he could do it all over again, he would still do the same thing.
So no matter what, the two of them will never be together.
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