Chapter 195: He both loved and hated it.
Mei Liangyu followed Yu Sui all the way and vowed to her that he would repair the damaged jewelry for her.
Yu Sui said, "Even if it's repaired, it won't be the same as before. I don't want anything with flaws."
Mei Liangyu frowned and followed beside her: "I'll redo it for you."
Without turning his head, Yu Sui replied, "Senior brother, do you know how valuable these jewelry materials are? The raw materials alone are priceless."
Mei Liangyu frowned even more deeply. He thought, "What valuable thing is this? How come it's so fragile?"
On second thought, these beautiful objects are indeed precious and fragile.
The beautiful jewelry that his older sister used to wear would break if dropped on the ground, or leave scratches and dents, causing flaws. He and his brother used to get scolded for this a lot.
As if recalling a corner of her memory, Mei Liangyu paused slightly, but then followed after her in an instant.
“No matter how valuable it is, I can get it and make you a new batch of jewelry,” Mei Liangyu said.
Yu Sui's eyes flickered slightly as she glanced at the man walking beside her. She saw him frowning in thought, occasionally glancing at her expression. Their eyes met, and Yu Sui slowly turned away. Mei Liangyu softened her tone again: "Calm down."
"Tonight I finally understand why you made me swear an oath, Senior Brother." Yu Sui wasn't done teasing him yet, continuing to scare him, her words light and casual, "Who could withstand something like this?"
Mei Liangyu took a deep breath and pondered, "Then should I ask someone else to teach me?"
Yu Sui looked straight ahead and said slowly, "I don't trust anyone except my senior brother."
Mei Liangyu finally realized what she meant, stopped in place, and waited for Yu Sui to take two steps forward without realizing it. Then she suddenly reached out and pulled her back, saying with a forced smile, "Nangong Sui."
Yu Sui was turned over by Mei Liangyu, who grabbed her shoulder with one hand, forcing the two of them to face each other.
"Isn't it funny to see me so anxious?" Mei Liangyu asked her in a low voice.
When Yu Sui realized that her senior brother had discovered she was just pretending to be angry to tease him, she looked up at Mei Liangyu, nodded, and gave a heavy "hmm".
Mei Liangyu: "..."
The scene before him filled him with both love and hate.
Yu Sui said, "But those jewelry..."
"We'll send you a new one," Mei Liangyu assured her.
Yu Sui then smiled, her eyes crinkling.
Seeing that she was really just joking with her, Mei Liangyu breathed a sigh of relief without showing any emotion.
Yu Sui pointed at the jewelry that Mei Liangyu was holding and said in a pretentious manner, "Senior brother, your swordsmanship still needs improvement, otherwise you wouldn't have broken them all."
What could Mei Liangyu say? She could only hum softly and follow her forward.
After walking for a while, Mei Liangyu asked, "Where are you going?"
"Go to the clinic," Yu Sui said. "Your hand is injured. It was injured when it went directly through the protective aura. You should go to Sister Yuezhen to have it treated."
Mei Liangyu didn't say anything, but followed her, letting Yu Sui lead her to the clinic.
Shi Yuezhen, who is on duty at the clinic tonight, is quite busy.
Disciples arrived in droves, some feeling unwell, others suffering from imbalances in their five elements due to overly hasty cultivation, and still others injured during trials.
She was busy running around by herself, and was somewhat surprised when she saw Yu Sui and Mei Liangyu enter. Holding a medicine pot in her arms, she asked, "Which of you is injured?"
“Me,” Mei Liangyu shook his injured hand, “isn’t this obvious at a glance?”
Shi Yuezhen smiled and said, "Then wait a moment."
"You go about your business." Mei Liangyu didn't ask for her help and skillfully went upstairs to her own cubicle.
Yu Sui followed Shi Yuezhen upstairs and asked her if she needed any help. Shi Yuezhen shook her head and told her to go and take care of Mei Liangyu first.
Mei Liangyu was fiddling with the medicine pots alone in the cubicle. Yu Sui stood at the door, looked outside, then closed the door and asked, "Why is it that Sister Yuezhen is still the only one on duty at the clinic? Where are the other medical disciples?"
She muttered to herself, "Is Qian Ying's medical skills so extraordinary that she can prevent the other disciples from coming?"
Mei Liangyu glanced at her and laughed, "The person you're talking about isn't that powerful."
Yu Sui asked, "Was Sister Yuezhen bullied by the medical family?"
“I thought so before, but now I don’t think so.” Mei Liangyu slowly applied the medicine to herself. “Don’t meddle in your sister Yuezhen’s affairs. She’s not as simple and weak as you think. If she doesn’t want to, she has plenty of ways to leave here.”
Yu Sui sat down by the door, cupping her face in her hands as she watched Mei Liangyu busy herself.
She didn't think of Shi Yuezhen as a simple and weak senior doctor.
Hearing the sounds outside, Yu Sui asked softly, "Did Sister Yuezhen stay because of her duty as a doctor to treat and save lives?"
"A doctor's heart is benevolent," Mei Liangyu said, squinting. "She doesn't have this."
Yu Sui straightened up, looked around, and whispered, "Senior brother, is this considered talking badly about someone behind their back?"
“No.” Mei Liangyu wrapped a bandage around her hand, a roll of bandage between her teeth, but her words were still clear. “I always thought you two were close because you both recognized that you had similarities with each other.”
Yu Sui narrowed her eyes as she looked at Mei Liangyu, and once again sighed in her heart that if Mei Liangyu were her enemy, then the level of difficulty in dealing with her would be no less than that of Nangong Ming.
Mei Liangyu's initial acquaintance with Shi Yuezhen and Cang Shu was not pleasant.
It has a bit of the meaning of turning enemies into friends.
Mei Liangyu didn't tell Yu Sui too much. Some things involved Shi Yuezhen's private affairs, so even though he knew what Shi Yuezhen was going to do, he didn't say anything.
As the two left, Shi Yuezhen was still carefully inquiring about the injured disciple's condition. She always had a patient and gentle demeanor, making it difficult for people to be wary of her.
Yu Sui's schedule has been very tight lately.
Just as dawn broke, Mei Liangyu would call her over to listen to Xing Chun's lecture.
The cultivation of Yin-Yang School cannot be rushed. Xing Chun said that after she finished studying the book "Ling Xian", she had mastered the introductory level of the Nine Schools of Yin-Yang School.
I must be careful to keep my learning of the Nine Schools of Yin and Yang arts a secret, and not let my master find out.
In the afternoon, I went to the Ghost Path Holy Hall to listen to the Holy Master Chang Gen talk about the Ghost Path incantations. Occasionally, I also had to go to the academy to listen to other teachers give lectures.
In the evening, I went to the strategist's academy to familiarize myself with summoning the sword spirit and learn strategist sword techniques with it.
After all that commotion, Yu Sui returned to his lodgings late at night, put on the Extreme Sea Cold Jade, and was able to fall asleep immediately.
Recently, the academy has been investigating the Lan poison, and some saints are also looking for the Milky Way Water. Ou Rushuang does not dare to make any rash moves, and Zhang Xiangyun and others are living very low-key lives, waiting for the storm to pass.
Although Nian Qiuyan wanted to talk to Yu Sui, she never had the chance.
She was either accompanied by Xing Chun, Mei Liangyu, or someone who had entered the Ghost Path Holy Hall.
Mei Liangyu believed that the sword spirit was the most powerful force that Yu Sui could quickly master at this stage, and that was not wrong. Although Yu Sui possessed even stronger powers than the sword spirit, she couldn't fully master them in a short time.
Compared to Li Jinshuang's uncontrollable sword spirit, Yu Sui's sword spirit is much easier to control.
Aside from the first day being uncontrollable, Yu Sui was able to actively summon the sword spirit on the second and third days.
Once the Blade Spirit appeared, it began to kill indiscriminately, determined to destroy everything.
Mei Liangyu's military formation was destroyed several times by the sword spirits that disrupted the balance of the five elements.
Thanks to Yu Sui's efforts, after the sword spirit emerged, it didn't immediately kill Mei Liangyu, but instead attacked the puppet soldiers and then the city's general.
After being forced to deploy his troops once again, Mei Liangyu said to Yu Sui, "You have to find a way to make it listen to you. If you tell it to sit, it will sit; if you tell it to stand, it will stand."
Yu Sui nodded.
After re-entering the armored formation and summoning the sword spirit, Yu Sui thought for a moment, and as the black skeleton charged towards the army behind the yellow sand with its sword, Yu Sui said to it, "Sit."
The black skull paused its slashing motion, its dark head turned back, and two empty, deep eye sockets stared at Yu Sui.
Originally, it was just a skeleton that knew nothing, but for some reason, Mei Liangyu felt that he could see a puzzled expression on its charred skull.
Yu Sui stretched out his hand to the black skull, pointed to the ground, and repeated: "Sit."
The black skull gripped his long sword, slowly turned around, knelt down facing Yu Sui, his long sword stuck in the yellow sand, his head slightly lowered, like a soldier obeying orders.
Yu Sui walked over, squatted down in front of it, and reached out to touch the black skull's head for the first time. As she expected, it was burning hot, as if the charred bones were still being burned by flames.
“You have to listen to me.” Yu Sui reached out and cupped the black skull’s head, looking directly into its empty eye sockets, and said seriously, “I want to destroy everything, but not now. I can learn how to hide my killing intent, and so can you.”
The black skull's eye sockets were empty and deep, filled with endless darkness. Long after Yu Sui finished speaking, a faint golden light appeared in that abyss.
Yu Sui was very satisfied; she believed that the black skull had understood.
So she got up, ready to say a few more words to it, and the black skeleton also got up, and as soon as it stood firm, it raised its sword and slashed at the army.
Yu Sui: "..."
Okay, they still need to talk.
Aside from roaring, the black skeleton didn't say a word to Yu Sui. Yu Sui didn't know if it could speak or not. Even when communicating with its soul, the black skeleton only responded with actions.
While Yu Sui learns the art of war, he also needs to teach Black Skull to suppress his killing intent.
The duration of the sword spirit's materialization is related to the master's five elements.
The powerful sword spirit consumes more of the Five Elements Qi when it moves. Yu Sui spends about two hours with the sword spirit every night, consuming a huge amount of the Five Elements Qi every day. Occasionally, after leaving the armored formation, he feels very tired and doesn't even want to walk.
Mei Liangyu then carried her back on his back.
They left the military strategist's camp late at night, when there was hardly anyone on the road.
Mei Liangyu didn't use any wind manipulation techniques; he simply walked step by step toward the residence.
At first, Yu Sui would chat with him, or play with the wind-listening ruler by herself, and sometimes she would just lie on his back and take a nap.
However, every time Mei Liangyu fought the Black Skull, he would be burned by the white smoke waves or the crimson crystal flowers falling from the Black Skull.
Yu Sui would then take him to the clinic.
Sometimes when she fought with Mei Liangyu, she would get injured, even if it was just a scratch.
Shi Yuezhen had gotten used to Mei Liangyu and Yu Sui coming to the clinic late at night.
She was sometimes busy and sometimes idle at the clinic.
The farmhouse recently held a cultivation assessment. Although Cang Shu wanted to come and accompany her, Shi Yuezhen refused, telling him that he could come after he passed the assessment.
Tonight, Yu Sui saw the injured Li Jinshuang in a cubicle on the first floor, so he temporarily abandoned Mei Liangyu and went into the cubicle to ask Li Jinshuang what happened.
Shi Yuezhen and Mei Liangyu were on the second floor. She stood at the door and watched Mei Liangyu skillfully prepare the burn ointment. She looked thoughtful and said, "You are trained in military arts and swordsmanship, but you always get burned when you come here."
Mei Liangyu asked casually, "Do you have any better burn ointment to recommend?"
Shi Yuezhen went into the cubicle and found the medicine on the cabinet to reconstitute it. The two of them prepared the medicine at different tables with their backs to each other.
Mei Liangyu asked her, "How much longer do you plan to stay at the clinic?"
Shi Yuezhen opened the medicine jar, smelled it, and laughed, "What, do you want me to teach Sui Sui the art of medicine?"
“Even if you wanted to teach her, I wouldn’t dare let her learn from you.” Mei Liangyu wrapped his wound with bandages. “Do you have any interest in teaching others medicine?”
Shi Yuezhen said, "No, that's not true."
She took out a medicine bowl and poured the medicine into it: "I still need to stay at the clinic for a while."
Mei Liangyu asked, "How long?"
Shi Yuezhen said, "Let's begin with the Hundred Families Night Walk."
Mei Liangyu said, "I heard that Dean Jiang gave her extraordinary purple plate pot to Qian Ying."
Shi Yuezhen paused in her action of pouring medicine into the bowl. She stood in the dimly lit corner, and no one could tell what she was looking like at that moment.
“It was just given to me today. I got the information from my master, so it can’t be wrong.” Mei Liangyu had her back to her, her expression indifferent. “Her weakness is that she’s too soft-hearted, but that doesn’t mean she’s not smart.”
“Last time she saved you from the Legalist judgment, it was because she was soft-hearted. Dean Jiang saved you, which also means that she rejected you.”
Shi Yuezhen smiled slightly and said, "Do you think I've been at the clinic for so long just to gain the dean's sympathy and get her to give me the Purple Plate Pot?"
Mei Liangyu looked at his bandaged hand, raised an eyebrow and said, "Of course not, I'm telling you to be careful, so I don't run into you a second time at the Legalist Tribunal."
Jiang Shulan was kind-hearted, but that didn't mean she didn't notice anything.
After a moment of silence in the room, Shi Yuezhen replied gently, "I know my limits."
Yu Sui waited for Li Jinshuang downstairs.
The military strategist's place has been quite lively lately. Li Jinshuang was injured in a competition and felt that if she continued to push herself, it would cause the Five Elements to become disordered, so she came to the clinic.
Yu Sui asked her, "Who is your opponent? Is he/she very strong?"
Li Jinshuang said, "Kong Yiyi."
Yu Sui nodded: "That's really impressive."
Li Jinshuang remained silent.
Yu Sui comforted her, "You'll soon be just as amazing as Sister Yiyi."
Li Jinshuang sat up in bed and asked her, "Why are you at the clinic too?"
"I'm injured." Yu Sui stretched out her hand to Li Jinshuang, showing her a red mark on the back of her fair hand caused by the sword energy.
Li Jinshuang: "..."
This injury should heal in a little while.
"I came with my senior brother; he was more seriously injured," Yu Sui said. "If I hadn't come, I wouldn't have met you. You must have been so bored by yourself. It's good that I came, isn't it?"
Li Jinshuang was amused by her words.
Yu Sui stood up and said, "Are you thirsty? I'll go get you a glass of water."
Li Jinshuang responded, and Yu Sui had just lifted the curtain of the cubicle when she caught a glimpse of a figure rushing toward the clinic in the night. She immediately put it down and retreated back into the cubicle.
Gu Gan, carrying Xun Zhiya who was covered in blood, rushed into the clinic with a gloomy expression, followed by Ji Meng, who was equally anxious.
"Where are they?" Gu Gan asked coldly, not seeing the medical disciples on duty.
Ji Meng decisively said, "Let's go to the second floor!"
[Author's Note]
Thank you so much for your support! I will continue to work hard!
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