Sunlight streamed in through the window, illuminating Ayao sitting on a futon in the simple room, meditating. Her breathing was deep and even, and with each breath, spiritual energy gathered around her, her body surrounded by shimmering, starlight-like light.
About two hours later, A Yao heard Lu Yun Shen's telepathic message:
"Little Seven, activate the formation. Third Brother needs to speak with you."
Ah Yao wants to curse, but why can't she give people some peace and quiet?
After Lu Yunxing left, A Yao set up a magic array outside. When Lu Yunshen brought his men here and saw the array, he knew he couldn't force his way in, so he sent a telepathic message.
Ayao stood up, went out to open the door, and saw Lu Yunshen standing outside the pavilion, followed by several maids. Ayao dispelled the array and asked Lu Yunshen, "Is there something you need?"
Lu Yun Shen smiled gently and said, "Aren't you going to invite me in?"
Upon hearing this, Ayao stepped aside.
Lu Yun Shen stepped inside and looked at A Yao, whose expression was indifferent, feeling somewhat lost. He wasn't used to A Yao like this. Although his seventh sister used to be flamboyant, willful, and domineering, she had never treated him so coldly. She always tried to attract their attention in various ways.
She's given up now; she doesn't want your attention or your concern anymore.
A voice suddenly came from inside me.
"Xiao Qi, Mother already knows about what happened to you. She sent me to see you, and she also wants us to help you get some things." With that, Lu Yun Shen waved his hand, and several maids behind him bowed to A Yao before casting spells and getting busy.
A maidservant, observing the empty table, waved her hand and added an expensive tea set. She then arranged various rare and precious objects on the empty shelves. Another maidservant noticed the worn-out screen, removed it, and replaced it with a silk screen inlaid with moonstones. Yet another maidservant removed the white gauze curtains and replaced them with even more precious and rare fabrics…
After watching them finish tidying up the living room, Ayao wanted to go to her bedroom, but she said, "Alright, stop busying yourselves. Put down everything you gave me, I'll arrange it myself."
The maids all stopped and stood respectfully to the side.
No one used to respect Miss Yao, but now that everyone knows about those forty-nine unlucky guys, who would dare to cause trouble again?
Lu Yunshen said, "These are their duties. If you are not satisfied with anything, Xiaoqi, just ask them to change it. These women will be your maids from now on."
Ayao said, "I don't need maids. What do I need maids for? I don't have any money for them to make."
Upon hearing this, the maids panicked and immediately knelt down.
Ayao said, "Don't kneel before me, there's really no profit for you here." She said to Lu Yunshen, "If Third Brother really cares about me, give me the Alchemy Golem, at least the Alchemy Golem won't curse me behind my back."
Hearing this, Lu Yun Shen felt a tightness in his chest and said, "I've dealt with those people. Third Brother promises that nothing like this will ever happen again. Little Seven, you..."
Ayao looked directly into his eyes: "I don't need maids, I'm serious. Alchemy puppets, Nascent Soul stage, will you give me one? Lu Xuening seems to have quite a few."
Looking into A Yao's eyes, Lu Yun Shen felt as if her gaze could pierce through his soul. The words "Lu Xue Ning has quite a few" stung his heart. He said, "Fine, if you don't want this maid, then don't!"
He turned to the maids and said:
"You may all step back!"
All the maids withdrew.
Then he waved his hand, and several beams of light flew out of his storage bag. The moment they landed, they transformed into swordsmen dressed in white robes. These swordsmen looked exactly alike, each carrying two long swords on their backs. They were all alchemical puppets, and their cultivation levels were all in the mid-Nascent Soul stage.
Lu Yunshen removed his own restrictions from the puppets and said to Ayao, "These alchemical puppets are all at the mid-Nascent Soul stage. With your current cultivation level, Xiaoqi, they will be difficult to control..."
“I won’t stay at the Foundation Establishment stage forever, does Third Brother have so little confidence in me?” A Yao said.
"No, no, no, that's not what I meant," Lu Yunshen quickly said.
After waving her hand to put the puppets into her storage bag, A Yao walked to the futon and sat down. Lu Yun Shen looked at her profile and said softly, "Xiao Qi, I'm sorry."
Ayao paused for a moment, then quickly returned to normal.
I'm sorry, she actually got the chance to hear his apology.
In her past life, she gave everything she had, all she wanted to hear were these words, but in the end, no one ever said them to her. But these words came too late. Tens of thousands of years too late. She didn't care in her past life, and she cares even less now.
She lost her family, but she has already received love from her master.
Before her eyes appeared a towering phoenix tree, with her master standing beneath it, catching a golden leaf that blew by. The wind ruffled her flowing robes, and she turned, smiling softly. Her exquisite beauty shone like moonlight and a bright pearl. She said:
"Ayao, I have no children, but in my heart, you are my child."
"Ayao, if I were to perish one day, you would be the new emperor!!"
"Ayao, you must protect the Phoenix Clan!!"
Suddenly, the shattered sky reappeared before their eyes, and evil power filled the heavens and earth. The fire of Nirvana ignited the entire underworld, but it could not stop the Demon Lord.
The Demon Lord Xuantian's laughter echoed in the void.
"What phoenix? It still died at my hands—"
However, she was unable to repay her master's kindness, was unable to save her master, and failed to protect the Phoenix Clan. In the end, she also died.
They're really useless.
With her memories fading, A Yao lowered her head, radiating immense sorrow. This sorrow infected Lu Yun Shen, who was unaware that A Yao was immersed in her past life's memories. He only assumed that her sadness, pain, and grief were because of him, because of the neglect of her parents, brothers, and younger brothers.
“Ah Yao, I…”
He said, "Ayao, Mother, Mother and Fourth Brother all care about you."
Ayao looked up at him and asked, "Really? Then why didn't your fourth brother, besides your third brother, even come to see me? Do they not know the way?"
Ayao blinked innocently and curiously, admiring Lu Yunshen's stiff expression. He opened his mouth, but couldn't utter a single word of explanation.
"Alright, Third Brother, you can go back now! I'm going into seclusion for about two or three years. If there's nothing else, please forget about me, Third Brother and everyone else, just like before!" A-Yao said with a smile.
Looking at her smile, Lu Yunshen saw no hatred, no grievance, no sadness in her eyes, nothing at all.
His mind suddenly jolted, and he remembered the day A Yao turned three.
The day they lost Ayao, his mind went completely blank.
He lost his sister again.
Lu Yunshen didn't know how he got out of Yingxiu Peak. He stood on the sea of clouds, looking at the pavilion on Yingxiu Peak with a blank expression.
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