Chapter 18 Chapter 18 If only you were my senior brother...
Why don’t you ask your senior brother?
Ji Chu answered without thinking:
"Of course I feel that seniors are more approachable."
There was a silence.
Ji Chu thought that the senior did not believe him, so he explained:
"Although Senior doesn't like to talk, I can feel that you really want to help me. The process of repairing the meridians is complicated, but Senior always comes. In my heart, you are the closest person to me in the sect."
Meng Yuci looked at her gravely:
"Yeah?"
Ji Chu nodded: "Of course."
Thinking of the ending in her previous life where she was abandoned by Chen Ke and stabbed to death by her senior brother, Ji Chu couldn't help but sigh:
"If you were my master..."
As she said this, she suddenly realized that there was something wrong with what she said. Now her nominal master was the head of the sect. How could she dare to look down on the head of the sect?
So Ji Chu immediately changed his words:
"——I wish you were my senior brother."
After she finished speaking, she seemed to remember something happy, and her eyes lit up:
"Senior, your cultivation is so high, you are not really one of my senior brothers or great masters, right?"
Looking at Ji Chu's excited expression, it seemed that if he was really some "senior brother, uncle, or grandmaster", she would immediately change sides and join someone else's sect.
Meng Yuci: “…Heh.”
For the first time, he felt what it was like to be laughed at by someone.
He was so lawless that he even picked on his master.
A wisp of sword energy floated at his fingertips, and he secretly wondered whether he should teach this disobedient junior sister a lesson on behalf of his master.
Ji Chu was completely unaware of his impending doom and continued to mutter to himself:
"Actually, my senior brother is pretty good to me. He's always had a strong sense of responsibility, and it must be very frustrating for him to have a junior sister like me. But because of his status, he can't drive me away... Plus, I'm stupid and dumb, which always makes him angry..."
The more Ji Chu spoke, the more depressed he became. He felt like he had been a burden to his senior brother in his previous life.
No wonder my senior brother in the previous life was so cruel to get rid of her.
The sword energy lingering on Meng Yuci's fingertips dissipated after hearing her words.
It's not necessary to drive him away.
People are indeed stupid, but they are not rotten wood that cannot be carved. It's just that no one has carved them carefully in the past, so they have grown too recklessly.
The road to seeking the truth is long, and there are many unpredictable people among the cultivators. With her personality, she is too easy to suffer losses.
After Ji Chu finished speaking, he held his cheek and sighed, muttering softly:
"Oh, forget it, it's all... I should just repair my meridians."
She quickly immersed herself in the network of meridians in front of her.
Meng Yuci stopped talking and just watched over her quietly, giving her some well-placed advice from time to time.
Later on, Ji Chu's own spiritual power had entered the routine, so he stopped talking and just watched silently.
It took two full days for Ji Chu's meridians to be fully repaired.
She had never practiced in meditation for such a long time before. At this moment, her heart was filled with pride and satisfaction, and she looked at the meridians flowing smoothly in front of her with satisfaction.
When he was about to end his meditation, he suddenly discovered that the mysterious senior's consciousness was still here.
"Senior, you've always been with me!"
Ji Chu was very happy:
“Senior, you are so kind!”
Seeing her happy expression, Meng Yuci suddenly remembered that day when he wanted to help her repair her meridians as her senior brother, but she was so uneasy that she couldn't even enter a state of meditation.
Finally, she said that she was not familiar with him.
Uncomfortable in his presence.
Oh.
Now I'm glad to have someone to accompany me.
Even though he knew that Ji Chu was still thanking him, the two completely different attitudes, even towards the same thing, made him feel particularly unhappy.
Meng Yuci lowered his eyes and heard Ji Chu ask:
"Senior, will you come again in the future?"
Meng Yuci suddenly raised his eyes and looked at Ji Chu with an unfathomable look:
"You want me to come?"
Ji Chu nodded hurriedly:
"Senior, I can't bear to leave you. If you don't have time to come, can I come to you if I have any questions?"
She had a look of anticipation on her face, and her expression was one of undisguised dependence.
He ignored his senior brother and easily entrusted his trust to a person whose name and purpose were unknown, and said things like "I can't bear to let him go" and "see you later"?
He really didn't know what was going on in Ji Chu's mind.
The urge to teach her a lesson came back to him.
Meng Yuci attributed the vague unhappiness in his heart to "The master's dignity cannot be violated, how can a disciple be picky?", and his eyes were like swords, sweeping back and forth across Ji Chu's face.
After a long time, he uttered coldly:
"Can't."
Ji Chu let out a disappointed "ah" and immediately turned into a cat that had failed to get food, with even its ears drooping.
Meng Yuci felt a lot more relieved.
"Oh well."
Ji Chu had no intention of getting entangled, and just said:
"Well...thank you for your help these days, I will be forever grateful."
Meng Yuci didn't answer and directly withdrew his spiritual consciousness.
Ji Chu finished his meditation and immediately looked around. There was no trace of any cultivators around.
The senior came suddenly and left even more suddenly.
It was as if God had sent it specifically to help her repair her meridians.
She sat there and cleared her mind for a while, feeling the abundant spiritual power in her meridians and dantian, and realized that the biggest problem that had hindered her practice in her previous life had been solved.
Compared to her previous life where her meridians were blocked and she couldn't make any progress, she is now terrifyingly strong.
Ji Chu was brimming with confidence, feeling that he could definitely change his fate this time, and at the very least, he could beat Chen Ke and Xue Xianchen to a pulp.
So she couldn't wait to take out the sound transmission jade and said to Xu Ying:
"My meridians are repaired! I'm full of spiritual energy!"
Xu Ying immediately replied:
"It's a happy event! Dinner tonight!"
That night, the four of them sat around in Jiang Chengxu's yard.
Xu Ying and the other two had bruises on their faces, but they just kept eating with their bowls in hand.
Even Chen Wu was not as reserved and sincere as before. After greeting Ji Chu, he began to shovel rice into his mouth frantically, looking like he had been abused and hungry for several days.
Ji Chu, who was about to show off his strength, saw this scene and immediately forgot what he was going to say:
"What happened to you? Who hit you?"
Xu Ying put down the bowl, sighed, hesitated to speak, and shook her head without saying anything.
Ji Chu looked anxious: "What happened?"
Jiang Chengxu pressed the wound at the corner of his mouth, hissed, and asked her:
"Ji Chu, how many days did it take you to repair your meridians?"
Ji Chu: "Two days. What happened?"
"Two days!"
Xu Ying raised her head and repeated it angrily:
"For two whole days, we were beaten by the treasures in the Secret Treasure Pavilion!"
Ji Chu: “…Oh my God.”
Hearing Xu Ying's words, Chen Wu nodded heavily.
He had the lowest cultivation level and was beaten the worst. He had a big bump on his forehead and one of his eyes was black and blue.
Even someone like Jiang Chengxu, who has a strong ability to withstand blows, had a wound on his nose bridge, and he grimaced every time he moved.
Ji Chu: “…Oh my God.”
Everyone really dotes on her so much that she quietly took on everything in the Secret Treasure Pavilion.
She looked at her bruised friends with admiration and pushed the hot pot towards them.
"Eat more quickly."
The three of them didn't hesitate and started eating.
While eating, Xu Ying couldn't help herself, put down the bowl and slapped her thigh:
"After thinking about it, it's all Kong Huiduan's fault! I'm so pissed!"
Jiang Chengxu couldn't eat anymore, so he put down his bowl and leaned on the table with his hands, looking thoughtful.
Xu Ying stood up and rolled up her sleeves and said:
"Why not just go beat him up right now..."
Chen Wu exclaimed "Ah" and subconsciously looked at Ji Chu.
Ji Chu had already stood up and started rolling up his sleeves.
When Chen Wu was cleaning the Secret Treasure Pavilion, he learned a series of stories through the quarrel between the two, such as "Kong Huiduan pursued Xu Ying but was rejected", "Kong Huiduan ridiculed Xu Ying and was beaten", "Kong Huiduan provoked Xu Ying and Jiang Chengxu to play mixed doubles", etc. His disgust for Kong Huiduan had reached its peak.
Coupled with the two days of being beaten by the secret treasure, the "rules" and "morals" in his heart quickly disappeared, and he said with courage:
"Add me in!"
Ji Chu looked at him in surprise:
"Are you going too?"
Chen Wu stood up in a hurry, so hastily that the stool made a harsh friction sound. He looked like he was ready to join this "evil organization" even at the cost of his life.
"I'm going too!"
Jiang Chengxu reached out and pulled Ji Chu and Xu Ying down from the left and right:
"Two heroic women, fighting and killing is too rough~"
Xu Ying was angry:
"Why are you stopping me!"
Ji Chudao:
"I can't rest easy if I don't beat him!"
Chen Wu nodded: "Although I might be punished for hitting someone, but... I also want to hit him!"
"I'm not trying to stop you."
Jiang Chengxu tapped the table with his five fingers, smiling evilly.
"I have a good idea."
*
One day later.
Li Jingmo looked at the large box of fish in front of him and marveled at it, as if praising the faction for having such a bold person:
"Kong Huiduan, you're so brave! It takes two hundred years for a single prawn to grow, and you dare to steal ten of them in one go!"
Kong Huiduan was shocked, wondering how the miscellaneous books he bought privately turned into a box of fish.
But Li Jingmo was too lazy to listen to his explanation, not to mention that he couldn't explain the channel through which he secretly bought miscellaneous books.
He raised his hand and slashed across the notebook, ruthlessly deducting a thousand points from Kong Huiduan, and said sarcastically:
"Luckily the fish is still alive. If it had been cooked, another 500 points would have been deducted."
The nose is about to turn crooked due to the air hole.
*
After hearing the news, Ji Chu and the others burst into laughter and quickly returned to their own practice.
Jiang Chengxu was about to be promoted, and Xu Ying was not willing to fall behind, so she practiced much more diligently than before.
Chen Wu was thinking about "Ge Er" and would search for ways to gather his soul whenever he had time.
Ji Chu is also very busy.
After finishing the swordsmanship class during the day, he went to Qingji Peak to feed the rabbits, and then went back to study the brick painting worth "one thousand points". He could only meet Xu Ying and others when they had dinner together.
Ever since she had dragged Xue Xianchen onto the life-and-death stage and won beyond everyone's expectations, there had been fewer voices pointing fingers at her in the sect.
Elder Xu's attitude towards her also improved a lot. He would watch her sparring with swords from time to time and nod with satisfaction.
Ji Chu was very happy about this, and his love for kendo grew day by day.
However, the matter of the Immortal Conference and the "Golden Eyes" was always weighing on her mind. She could force herself to concentrate in class, but ran away faster than a rabbit after class, which caused Elder Xu to frown at her back frequently.
This happened every day. Whenever Elder Xu finished saying the get out of class was over and just wanted to call her to say something, she had already run away.
After many days, Elder Xu finally couldn't bear it anymore and found an opportunity to go to the main peak and file a complaint with Meng Yuci.
"I thought she had some tenacity and was a good candidate for swordsmanship, so I wanted to give her some extra pointers. But she turned out to be lazy and wouldn't stay even a quarter of an hour."
Meng Yuci was speechless after hearing this.
He hadn't visited Ji Chu for some time since her meridians were fully repaired.
But he knew without even looking that Ji Chu was so busy because of the more than 900 points he was short of for the "Asking the Immortal Conference". He had almost bought up all the red spiritual fruits that Qingji Peak used to feed the rabbits.
I heard Elder Tan mention casually that the disciples sent by Mingwu Hall to feed the rabbits fed them too often. Those rabbits were cautious and ate little, and would run away at the slightest disturbance.
Now they are all fed so fat and strong that they can't run fast even if they are chased.
He just listened to it and felt nothing in his heart, and did not remind Ji Chu of his plan.
After all, their initial contact was because of her breaking the barrier.
Now that her meridians have been repaired and all the spiritual power has been absorbed by her, she only needs to practice step by step, and a breakthrough and advancement is just around the corner.
He has nothing to worry about.
Therefore, after listening to Elder Xu's complaints, Meng Yuci showed no reaction and only said:
"She's still young, and everything she sees is strange. It's causing the elders a lot of worry."
Elder Xu was a straight-laced man who was not good at smoothing things over. Hearing these uncultured polite words from him, he felt a little anxious.
"That Chen Ke is a fool, and the headmaster is also busy. You are the best in swordsmanship, but your own junior sister can't even fly with a sword and crash into a tree. If I were you, how could I sit still?"
This was not a very polite remark, but Meng Yuci showed no emotion at all and calmly asked him:
"Then according to what the elder said, what should I do?"
Elder Xu waved his sleeves and said:
"There's no secret to swordsmanship; it's all about practice. If she were my disciple, I'd make her practice the sword ten thousand times a day, and she wouldn't be allowed to sleep or eat until she finished!"
Meng Yuci thought about Ji Chu swinging his sword ten thousand times every day with an empty stomach. He might even stiffen his neck and cry. He was still thinking about "changing a senior brother" in his heart.
Fortunately, it was him who was too lazy to bother with the child.
If Elder Xu ran into them, I'm afraid there would be another big fight.
Meng Yuci then said:
"I'll go check it out tomorrow when I have class."
The author has something to say:
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Ji Chu (slamming the table): Is it wrong to leave right after class? Why are you calling your parents?
Senior Brother (helplessly): You’d better go and take a look, so that the child doesn’t really make the teacher angry to death.
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