When they left the thatched cottage and headed for the pond, Qiu Xier couldn't help crying: "Master, aren't you deliberately making things difficult for us? If it really doesn't work, I'll go down the mountain to beg for water. Fetching water every day is not a way to live like this!"

If Qiu Xier had said something like this in the past, Gao Cang would have reprimanded her. He respected his master the most and could not stand seeing people speak ill of him.

But this time, Gao Cang also remained silent. The half-grown boy tightly grasped the wooden barrel in his hands, and finally squatted down and burst into tears with sobs.

Ran Ran said, "If you can't learn the skills well, you should be punished. Go away quickly."

When they arrived at the pond, they found that due to the rain last night, the pond, which was originally half full, was now about to overflow. If there were only four of them, it would take an indefinite amount of time to scoop out the water.

Ran Ran looked at the three dead people without saying a word.

She felt a little guilty, thinking that the three people were implicated because of her, so she took the lead in scooping water, and then carried it down the mountain.

I don’t know if it’s because of the erosion of rain, but the path on the mountain road has changed a lot and become more rugged. I have to concentrate and keep my steps steady before I can move forward slowly.

Ran Ran stared at it for a while before starting to walk down the mountain. But after a while, he suddenly let out a cry of surprise, then quickened his pace, walked down the mountain road to get some water, and then returned.

She walked slowly at first, then faster and faster.

"Hurry up and get some water and come down the mountain with me!" Ranran shouted excitedly.

Bai Baishan was sitting by the pond with Gao Cang and the others, discussing bidding farewell to their master and asking to go down the mountain. After hearing what Ran Ran said, he looked up listlessly and said, "We are all leaving, why are we still fetching water?"

Ran Ran came over, pulled a few people up and said, "Hurry up, I'll show you something fun."

After hearing what she said, several people had to get up, fetch some water, and follow Ranran down the mountain.

But there was nothing unusual about the mountain road except that it was wet and slippery, making it more difficult to walk. Gao Cang and the others really didn't understand why the little apprentice sister was so excited.

At this time, Ran Ran said, "Don't you realize that the direction of this mountain road is exactly the same as the Qigong method that Master taught us today?"

After hearing what Ran Ran said, Bai Baishan looked at it intently, then tried to take a few more steps, and said in surprise: "Yes, Junior Sister, if you hadn't told us, we wouldn't have noticed it! But how did this road become like this? Wasn't it washed away by the rain?"

Ranran shook her head. Looking at these roads now, they seemed to be formed by the surge of true energy and could not have been formed naturally.

If Su Yishui had mapped out these rugged mountain roads using his energy, he certainly would not have put so much effort into it just to make things difficult for his stupid disciple.

She thought for a moment and said, "You can carry water and follow the direction of the mountain road to see if you can understand the meaning of it."

This time, they all put their heart into it. When carrying water, unlike walking easily, they would try to walk steadily on steep slopes, and slow down their pace when going uphill to prevent the water in the bucket from spilling out. So once they followed their own itinerary and gathered their energy, it became clear where to concentrate their energy and where to speed up.

After they had circulated the Qi back and forth for more than ten times, the Qi that had been stagnant at first suddenly became much more fluid. Steam was already rising from the tops of Gao Cang and Bai Bai Shan's heads. Qiu Xi'er had also gotten the hang of it, and felt that her steps to carry water were lighter, not as heavy as before.

However, after trying several times, Ran Ran still felt that her Qi was blocked. She knew that the sequelae of her time in the underworld had not yet dissipated, so she was not in a hurry to circulate Qi, but just used the light body technique to circulate water briskly.

After realizing the good intentions of their master, Gao Cang and his companions became more spirited and no longer mentioned anything about going down the mountain and returning home.

After several people spent three days scooping out the water from the pond, Gao Cang and his companions felt that their inner energy was flowing abundantly, and it actually far surpassed the previous two years of practice of herding sheep and grazing.

Disciples have different comprehension abilities, so the teaching methods should naturally be different. Su Yishui obviously taught several stupid disciples through this more intuitive method.

Ran Ran felt that she had misunderstood her master and that it was wrong for her to talk back to him like that.

Since you are wrong, you should admit it.

So after hauling the water from the pond, Ran Ran, regardless of the numbness in his arms, went back to the kitchen to knead the dough, adjust the stuffing, and steamed the bean cakes that his master loved to eat, and personally delivered them to his study.

In the past, Master would read at this time. When I arrived at the study, it was true. Master was sitting on the incense mat, frowning as he flipped through the few remaining books in the library.

Well, Ranran looks at the empty library now and feels that she took too many books at the beginning.

She had followed Su Yishui back and did not bring the book back with her, so what the master was reading now was... that damned "The Book of Play"...

Seeing Su Yishui's handsome sword-like eyebrows becoming more and more furrowed, Ran Ran decided to save the plate of bean cake for his fellow brothers.

Just as she was about to quietly exit, Su Yishui spoke up: "Since you're here, why don't you come in?"

So Ranran could only smile awkwardly and carry the tray in again.

She deliberately didn't look at the opened "Wan Jing" and just picked up the bean cake and said to Su Yishui: "This is a cake made of red beans and honey that I cooked myself. It tastes the best when eaten hot."

Su Yishui said nothing, but just looked at the steaming cake. It was originally an ordinary bean cake, but Ran Ran had molded it into a red bunny and a pointed peach. It looked very cute, but it looked like a toy to fool children.

Su Yishui thought it was childish and didn't want to eat. He just lowered his eyes and said, "If you have nothing else, go out."

Ran Ran did not leave, because she came here to apologize to Su Yishui, so even though it was a little difficult to say, she still said honestly: "Master, I was wrong..."

Su Yishui raised his eyebrows and looked at the girl whose cheeks were as red as peaches, sneering: "You are right, there is no disciple like you who dares to teach the master in the whole cultivation world, but please don't kill me!"

If it were another girl, she would have run away crying after hearing such mocking words.

But Ran Ran pinched a little rabbit bean cake and handed it to Su Yishui's thin lips diligently: "Master, bite the butt of this rabbit, I added special stuffing in it!"

Su Yishui had a lot of harsh words to say but his mouth was blocked by a rabbit's butt. The fragrance of bean cake filled his nostrils and his mouth bit down uncontrollably.

Hmm...it turns out that there is diluted bean material inside, wrapped in the sweetness of honey, sweet but not greasy, and it flows and diffuses quickly among the taste buds.

Ran Ran asked with a smile, "Is it delicious? The last time I tried making it, I ate three in a row!"

After eating the honey-filled dessert, Su Yishui couldn't help but take Ranran's hand and put the whole little rabbit cake into his mouth.

After he finished eating, his brain was wrapped in honey and he needed some effort to recall what he had just prepared to scold the girl.

"Are you apologizing sincerely, or are you deliberately using food to shut people up?" Su Yishui couldn't help but eat another peach bean cake before asking with a stern face.

Ran Ran was pouring him some hot tea to refresh his mouth, and half raised her head and said, "Of course I have to apologize and let you eat well!"

After that, she deftly put the "Playing Sutra" she wrote in her previous life on the bookshelf beside her, and then said sincerely: "I shouldn't have misunderstood your good intentions in teaching your disciples. The foundation of the elder brothers is indeed much worse than that of the new junior brothers, and they are unable to study advanced skills with them. So Master, you usually let them chop wood and do rough work, which is really to temper them and help them lay a good foundation..."

But Su Yishui sneered after hearing what Ran Ran said: "You didn't misunderstand, I was really making things difficult for them before, hoping that they would see the point and ask to leave on their own initiative."

This...After hearing Su Yishui speak so frankly, Ranran couldn't continue his flattery for a while.

She was silent for a moment, then whispered, "But Master, why did you change your mind?"

Su Yishui stretched out his long arm, took down the "Playing Sutra" again, turned to the chapter about ferocious beasts, and then tapped the pages and said, "You wrote all these annotations, right? I'm curious, am I really as good as you wrote?"

Well, when she was correcting the mistakes later, she did write a lot of good things about the master, such as loving his disciples, being tough on the outside but soft on the inside, and being the best master in the world.

Su Yishui leaned over and whispered in Ranran's ear, "I was thinking, there must be some reason why I tolerate you trash around. Before I remember, you better become more useful, so that it won't be a waste of rice and flour..."

Ran Ran opened her mouth slightly, regretting her mistake in correcting the essay.

It turns out that in my previous life, I was a wise man who appeared foolish. I completely saw through my master's hypocritical face. This man was not a ferocious beast at all, but a giant snake with fangs that spewed venom!

She pursed her lips and looked at him, feeling a little dizzy with anger, and the feeling was getting stronger. So she picked up the remaining bean cake and was about to leave.

But Su Yishui grabbed her hand first: "You brought it here and you want to take it away? Are you a three-year-old child..."

Before he finished speaking, his brows knitted together because his fingers happened to touch her pulse and he immediately found that her pulse was unstable and seemed to be getting worse?

Su Yishui asked anxiously: "What's going on? Did your luck go astray while practicing?"

Now that he had discovered her, Ran Ran shook her head. The feeling of dizziness became even stronger. As a result, when Su Yishui held her hand, her body went limp and she fainted in Su Yishui's arms.

The moment the fragrant and soft body fell into Su Yishui's arms, his body stiffened slightly, and he felt that his heart, which had been empty, was suddenly filled.

But he didn't have time to think about it, so he could only let her sit cross-legged, then raised his hands and placed them on her back to circulate Qi for her.

When his true Qi flowed into her body, she felt a familiar warm current coming over her. She naturally began to practice the formula her master had taught her to circulate her Qi. It was like a long-lost spring of sweet water flowing through her body. The blockage was obviously healed.

Su Yishui's brows were furrowed, because he discovered that the two places where Ran Ran was blocked seemed to be the two vital points of Shenting and Chengguang. Moreover, her blockage was not caused overnight, but was a congenital deficiency. It was just that someone had been guiding her luck before, so she was no different from ordinary people.

Just when he was mobilizing his true energy, this girl actually moved her energy on her own, like a hungry bird, absorbing his true energy without any rest.

He only felt the energy in his Dantian sink. If he hadn't retreated quickly, he would have been sucked up by her...

After Su Yishui forgot a part of his memory, he had always been puzzled by one thing - even if he had given up half of his Jindan, twenty years of practice would have been enough to make up for it. But why was his current cultivation still not enough to form a baby? There was always a faint sign of exhaustion due to the loss of internal strength.

It was only when he was passing Qi to Ran Ran just now that he finally realized that he should have been passing Qi to this female disciple to keep her alive, so his cultivation was stagnant and could not go to the next level. And the cultivation he had been practicing hard for these days was just sucked away by this damn girl in an instant!

Thinking of this, Su Yishui's face turned extremely ugly. He pinched Ran Ran's shoulder and asked word by word: "What kind of curse did you cast on me? How could I be so selfless as to use my true energy to support you?"

Ran Ran, who had just woken up, blinked her eyes, and was also stunned when she understood what Su Yishui meant. The master's transfer of true energy to her was a daily practice for the master and apprentice.

Every once in a while, when her master was instructing her to meditate and circulate Qi, he would also transfer the Qi to her. As a result, Ran Ran had become accustomed to it, thinking that this was the only way for a master and apprentice to cultivate the Tao.

But Su Yishui gritted his teeth and said that what she used was the evil magic of the demon cultivators to replenish their true energy... Ranran opened her mouth in surprise and was speechless...

In other words, the reason she felt dizzy was not because of the reversal of yin and yang, but because Su Yishui completely forgot to replenish himself on time after returning from the underworld, which caused her to become exhausted.

Although Ranran had secretly made up her mind early on that she must observe etiquette with her master and try her best to forget that intimate and inappropriate memory.

But now she suddenly realized that her master had been silently supporting her with the cultivation that cultivators cherished. Ranran's nose suddenly felt sore and her eyes suddenly turned red.

Even if others said that he owed her, so what? She knew that he had been trying his best to make up for it, and even sacrificed his own Jindan cultivation to prolong his life. That was enough!

Perhaps because of her congenital weakness, Ranran's emotions never fluctuated much from childhood to adulthood. However, her emotions were always affected by the man in front of her who was glaring at her...

He had completely forgotten about it, but why did she feel like she owed him a lot and could never pay him back?

Thinking of the time when she was choking with sobs, Ranran felt extremely upset. She hugged the man's waist regardless and threw herself into his arms, sobbing.

Su Yishui was originally waiting to hear how this little witch would argue with him and how she had bewitched his mind and absorbed his skills.

But unexpectedly, the little vixen didn't say a word, but threw herself into his arms and cried loudly. If you didn't know, you would think that he had taken advantage of her!

Su Yishui was so angry that he reached out his hand to push her away forcefully, but the little witch who was crying so softly in his arms made it difficult for him to do anything.

He couldn't push her away, and he couldn't yell at her to leave. He could only let her tears wet the front of his clothes.

Looking at her twitching shoulders, Su Yishui's expression changed several times. Finally, he took a breath helplessly and said, "Why are you crying? Is it because you haven't absorbed enough energy?"

Ran Ran finally raised his head, sniffed, and tried to calm down and said, "Master, you should take back your Jindan, and you don't have to pass on your true energy to me anymore. Heaven has its own laws, and I shouldn't have been reincarnated like this. Instead of implicating you, it's better to let me die on my own."

As a cultivator, the greatest pain is probably to make no progress in cultivation, to see the hopelessness of immortality, and to gradually die of aging.

Although Su Yishui is a genius, it is not a long-term solution to nourish others with his true energy. If he had not planned to deal with Wei Yan earlier, he would have been exhausted by now and unable to continue.

But he had never told her these before. If Ranran had known this earlier, she would never have let Su Yishui do this.

After hearing the girl's resolute words, Su Yishui raised his eyebrows and asked, "Aren't you afraid of death?"

Ran Ran shook her head and whispered, "I hope you can live well..."

Seeing the determination in her slightly red eyes, Su Yishui suddenly felt his heart tighten, and it hurt so much that he couldn't breathe...

He didn't know what was wrong with him. Whenever he thought that Ran Ran might die, he would feel inexplicably terrified, as if he had seen her die before...

Su Yishui calmed down, and reached out his hand to wipe her tears, and said in a rough voice: "Before I remember why I saved you, you have to stay alive for me! How can you return what I gave you just because you want to?"

Ran Ran looked at Su Yishui's seemingly ruthless expression, but felt warm in her heart. She couldn't help but hug this seemingly ferocious beast again, sniffing the familiar breath in his arms greedily.

She couldn't even remember the last time she hugged him like this.

Su Yishui did not push her away. He lowered his eyes and thought about something. He asked coldly, "Did you always hold me like this before?"

This little girl is quite pretty. Could it be that she had seduced him in the past, which is why he is so fond of her?

Ran Ran knew that she had lost her composure. No matter how reluctant she was, she could only slowly let go, sat up, smoothed her hair, and said in a muffled voice: "Master, you... are like my father... When I miss my father, I can't help but hug you sometimes..."

This explanation is the most reasonable, and Ranran doesn't want Su Yishui to have any misunderstandings now.

She secretly warned herself never to lose her composure like that again, so she didn't notice that her fatherly master's expression was getting more and more sullen.

Su Yishui never expected that she would say such a thing. He looked at himself in the mirror and saw that he was still a 19-year-old boy. How could he look like the father of the little vixen?

He couldn't help but said in a cold voice: "If you miss your father in the future, go back to visit your relatives! Don't recognize every man you see as your father. If you have nothing to do, go out!"

Ran Ran sniffed and got up: "Master, are you... feeling okay now? Do you feel any discomfort?"

Perhaps it was because she hadn't inhaled her master's true energy for a long time, so she seemed to have inhaled a lot of it unconsciously just now. She didn't know if it would have any effect on Su Yishui.

Su Yishui looked sullen and just repeated coldly, "Get out!"

Ran Ran had no choice but to get up and slowly walk out.

When the little girl disappeared from his sight, Su Yishui finally realized what had happened. He seemed to let go of the little vixen lightly.

You know, he slowly gave her most of his cultivation energy.

Su Yishui never thought that the memory that was sealed by the soul-cleansing talisman was anything important.

But now he became more and more curious about why he tolerated Xue Ranran so much and why he was willing to risk his life to save Mu Qingge and her sister.

The only way to know all this is to find the Drunken Immortal and unlock the Soul Cleansing Talisman.

Ranran always thought that Su Yishui accepted so many new disciples simply because he was dissatisfied with the incompetence of his previous disciples.

But later she discovered that these new disciples all had surprising backgrounds. For example, Shen Kuang, his grandfather was actually the former leader of the Chimen, Shen Wen.

Although Shen Wen was a demon cultivator, he was also a great master in his time. Unfortunately, he accidentally accepted the wrong disciple and accepted Wei Yan, an ungrateful man.

It was well known that Wei Yan was eager for quick success and murdered his master Shen Wen. Shen Kuang and Wei Yan were sworn enemies.

Su Yishui accepted Shen Kuo as his son with an obvious intention, which was to recruit soldiers and deal with Wei Yan first.

As for Yue Sheng, he was a descendant of Yushan, who could compete with the three major sects in the past. Not many people know about the past when Jiuhua Sect suddenly emerged and led the other two major sects to suppress Yushan.

However, as a descendant of Yushan, Yue Sheng is determined to revitalize Yushan. It is naturally the best strategy for him to follow Su Yishui, who is not on good terms with the three major sects.

Although Yue Sheng is young, he has many connections in Yushan and has learned a lot about Chimen's recent movements.

For example, there have been many strange people coming in and out of Chimen recently. Although they are wearing the clothes of Chimen, the people in Chimen do not know them.

Moreover, Wei Yan also allocated to them a hidden Taoist temple behind the Chiyan Mountain in Chimen.

So Su Yishui planned to take people there to find out what was going on.

There are so many talented people in Xishan now, and Gao Cang and his friends originally thought that their master would not take them with him anymore.

But they didn't expect that several of their disciples who entered the sect earlier were all taken along by their master, even Bai Baishan who was slightly weaker.

Among the newly selected disciples, Su Yishui only picked two outstanding disciples, Shen Kuang and Yue Sheng.

But this time, they no longer traveled by car or horse, but walked on the wind.

Yue Sheng still disliked Gao Cang and the others, but his words became much more polite.

It was because when they did not leave Xishan, Yue Sheng provoked Gaocang and Baibaishan several times, but was bumped into by Su Yishui every time.

Su Yishui didn't say anything, but just asked Yue Sheng and Gao Cang to compete in stepping on eggshells. The loser would need to copy the Xishan rules a hundred times.