Chapter 4

Just thinking about this, the nervousness of being caught gossiping behind someone's back instantly disappeared, and was replaced by a shock and indescribable excitement.

The thin-skinned disciple's face soon turned red, and he looked at Nan Xi with trembling pupils.

Even those who were a little calmer could not hide the surprise on their faces.

Nan Xi wanted to laugh when she saw their reactions, but after so many years of doing missions, her professional qualities were still very good, and she forced the smile to turn into tears in her eyes.

"I just...want to be nice to someone. What's wrong with that?"

After Nan Xi finished speaking, she wiped her tears with her fingers and secretly glanced at the expressions of her disciples before turning her back. She was afraid that she would not be able to hold back her laughter and run away quickly.

At this time, the disciples were completely stunned, staring at Nan Xi's back as he ran away with wide eyes.

After a while, someone hesitantly spoke up, "Grandma Sister, did you really curse Qi Qian with us just now?"

One of the disciples said in a daze: "Not only did he scold Qi Qian, he also scolded himself."

"The senior sister said that she wanted to make Qi Qian's injury worse."

"He also said that he had no dignity at all."

"She also said that she really loves Qi Qian, and she agreed with us when we said that she was shameless and didn't care about the sect."

In this conversation that was so dull that it was hard to describe, one person after another, what was reflected was the shock that these people felt as if their worldview had been refreshed.

Someone trembled and said, "Has the senior sister finally gone crazy?!"

Everyone: “!!!”

These words were like a drop of water dropped into the seemingly calm hot oil, instantly stirring up everyone's emotions.

Yes! The senior sister is like this, saying that she loves Qi Qian so much that she can't help herself, and then she says that she wants to kill him. Isn't this a typical case of love turning into hate?

Saying that you are not wrong while at the same time saying that you have no dignity, isn't this a typical example of being confused about one's own mistakes?

After seeing Qi Qian for the first time, Senior Sister has not been normal. Could it be that the unrequited love in recent years has really pushed Senior Sister's spirit to the extreme, and now she is really abnormal? ?

The more they thought about it, the more they felt that this was the case.

Then the gossip turned into quiet discussions, with everyone trying to come to terms with the news and discussing what to do.

"We definitely can't just sit back and do nothing about this matter, or else if something happens to our senior sister in the future, we'll all feel guilty."

"Let's put aside other things. As the eldest senior sister of the Tianyun Sword Sect, even if she can't compare to the chief disciple of another sect, we can't really let her go on like this."

"Then what should we do? It seems that we can't help Senior Sister by ourselves."

"Report to the Sect Master. Although the Sect Master is scary, he has always been very kind to me."

"...But the headmaster is so kind to my sister, will he really not silence us?"

“…”

Other disciples noticed the excitement here and came over to ask them what happened. Everyone present shook their heads and said that the gossip was caught by the senior sister, and then they secretly found another quiet place to discuss it carefully.

The final result is that even if the leader kills him, he must tell the leader about this matter.

Even if the Sect Leader is terrifying, he probably won't really silence them. At most, he will just let them go to the back mountain to train for a few days.

Nan Xi didn't know yet that he had been considered mentally ill by those disciples.

She finally managed to hold her laughter in where there was no one around, then she grabbed a tree nearby and burst into laughter.

[Haha ...

System: [Host, please do not get too complacent and always remember your mission. ]

The system loves to say these kinds of unpleasant things. Nan Xi is used to it and just keeps complaining to herself.

[Did I complete the task badly? It was simply too good. I sacrificed myself to be a moron, and completed the task so well, couldn't you talk to me a little more? ]

System: […We cannot say bad things about the male and female protagonists.]

[Okay.] Nan Xi had almost finished laughing. She took back her hand from the tree and carefully arranged her clothes to ensure that her image did not stray from that of a romantic novel heroine.

She walked back to her residence slowly, not forgetting to tease the system.

[Since I completed the task so well, won't you give me a reward, system? ]

[No rewards at this time.]

[How stingy! Do you want me to be free labor forever? That's too much. ]

【……】

[System? System? Why are you silent? ]

【I just went to the headquarters to apply for benefits. 】

[Great! ]

…

Except when faced with a plot and having to complete a mission, Nan Xi usually listens to her master.

For example, when He Jian asked her to add 10,000 sword swings to her daily practice, she got up an hour earlier than usual and started sword practice.

While she was practicing hard, the disciples who had been hesitating all night finally sent a general to knock on the door of Hejian.

I knocked once, but no one answered.

Knocked twice, no one came.

The disciple was afraid of the sword to begin with, so he didn't have the courage to knock on the door for the third time. He turned around weakly and helplessly to look at his companions in the corner.

Seeing that there seemed to be no one around, those people came running over again. Someone stared at a device on the door for a few seconds, then slapped his thigh.

"Oh no! The master is not here, we came here in vain."

The absent headmaster was in Nanxi's yard.

Regarding the matter of the mind's voice, he looked up a lot of information last night, but all of them just said that there was a certain magic weapon or secret method that could steal other people's minds, and some were lost or destroyed, and some of them had extremely harsh conditions for cultivation.

I've never been able to hear other people's thoughts without using anything.

After verification, the headmaster confirmed that he could only hear Nan Xi's voice, so the problem was with Nan Xi, so he came early in the morning.

When the head monk arrived, Nan Xi had already swung the sword 7658 times. The high-level monk came silently and she did not notice it. She was still swinging the sword silently and counting.

【7659,7660.7661……】

The headmaster didn't expect Nan Xi to be so serious. He subconsciously kept silent and watched for a while.

Nan Xi's sword-holding hand was steady, and the force with which she swung the sword was exact every time. She might have practiced for quite a while before he came, and there were fine beads of sweat on her forehead and nose tip, but her hand was still steady.

Even someone as demanding as the headmaster couldn't find any fault with this sword swing.

He watched quietly for a while, until Nan Xi swung the sword 10,000 times completely, then he said: "Not bad, if you can be so serious every day in the future, I may be able to exempt you from sword-swinging practice sooner."

Nan Xi had just put the sword back into the scabbard when she was startled by the sound of the sword. She looked back trembling with fear, unable to hold back her expression, and the fear on her face was clearly revealed.

"When did Master come?"

"When 7659 is down."

"Oh." Nan Xi silently sat on the cushion in the yard and circulated the spiritual power around her body.

Every time you practice a lot, you will feel tired at first and extremely weak in the middle, but after you are tired to the limit, spiritual power will spontaneously flow out to nourish the flesh and blood and drive the body to spontaneously absorb spiritual energy.

The spiritual energy absorbed at this time is of a purity that cannot be compared with ordinary practice.

Although Nan Xi had to suppress her cultivation for the sake of the mission and did not feel wronged when being punished, she did not want to waste the spiritual power she had worked so hard to gain.

He Jian looked even more satisfied.

He recalled when he first accepted Nan Xi as his disciple. Although she was very small, she was able to complete the tasks he assigned her without any error. The other elders would say that he was too strict, but at that time everyone envied him for having a good disciple.

But now... when He Jian thought of Qi Qian, his face suddenly darkened.

He had heard everything that happened the day before in detail. He certainly could not tolerate his disciple being insulted in this way.

So when Nan Xi had just completely absorbed the spiritual power, he stood up suddenly and said with a serious face: "You have done well today. You need to continue to maintain it in the future. You can't delay the practice of swordsmanship. I will check it carefully next week."

Nan Xi always ignored He Jian's dark face, nodded obediently, looked at He Jian's leaving back, and thought silently.

【How about making Master satisfied next week? 】

He Jian paused, but left without looking back. However, as he strode forward, a hint of relief appeared on his face.

Little did he know that behind him, Nan Xi saw him leave, used a cleansing spell on herself, went back to the room, and threw herself onto the bed.

I hugged the quilt and said to the system: "Although I am not tired now, let's talk about sword practice in the afternoon."

Then he closed his eyes and fell straight into sleep.

Even though he didn't know about this, He Jian's good mood didn't last long. He was walking on the road when suddenly a group of disciples came and stood in front of him. Each of them looked frightened and didn't have the demeanor of a disciple from a big sect at all.

His face darkened and he was about to scold her, but the leading disciple shouted, "Oh no, Master! Senior Sister is not normal!"

He Jian's already gloomy face immediately darkened, "No matter what your eldest senior sister is like, she is still your eldest senior sister. You must never slander her. What I taught you in the past..."

The disciple interrupted the sword in a panic.

"I don't mean to slander you. Master, please listen to what our disciples have to say!"

These people had been organized before they came. Although they were a little panicked because they blocked the leader's way, after they closed their mouths with Jian, they quickly told him everything that happened yesterday.

The leading disciple said sadly: "I guarantee that this incident really happened. If it is false, I will be punished immediately!"

He Jian listened to the entire story and his expression changed from gloomy to serious.

He thought of two things at this time.

The slanderous words these disciples said about Nan Xi were not necessarily spoken by Nan Xi himself, but might have been the result of his inner thoughts being revealed.

But with such a broken heart, could it be that his beloved disciple is really abnormal? ?

Nan Xi, who was not normal, sneezed violently in her sleep and almost woke herself up. She rubbed her nose and asked in a daze, "Who is scolding me?"

Then he rolled up his quilt and fell into sweet sleep again.