"Sect Master, are you...?" After thinking it over, Ji Mo Fan decided to ask directly.
“It’s not entirely related to giving you the immortal bone.” Qi Yuan interrupted him, as if she had expected him to ask that question.
Ji Mofan blinked. "Then why?"
Qi Yuan chuckled and touched his chin. "Just some grudges with an old friend."
Ji Mofan kept blinking at him, looking like he was determined to stay here until he got to the bottom of things and explained everything clearly.
Even though it was clearly a cheating act, Qi Yuan couldn't help but laugh. "You little rascal, you've been incredibly sensible since you were little. You always keep a straight face in front of anyone, like a little adult."
"So you've finally learned to act cute and spoiled now?" He stopped laughing, his eyebrows curving as he looked at Ji Mofan with interest. "Not bad, you're finally acting like someone your age."
Ji Mofan touched the tip of his nose, feeling a little uncomfortable being described this way.
But...it doesn't seem too bad?
He rarely understood why Qi Fengyu liked to act cute.
Even if you can't get tangible resources, emotional value is still value.
He shook his head, banishing those irrelevant thoughts, and raised his head again. "Sect Master, you're changing the subject again."
Qi Yuan clearly didn't want to talk about why she got hurt, but Ji Mo Fan insisted on getting to the bottom of it.
"It's no use asking, it's not something you can fight against right now." Qi Yuan waved her hand at him in a coaxing tone, like she was talking to a child.
“Then I will work towards a direction that I can use to fight back,” Ji Mofan said. “You just need to give me a direction now.”
Qi Yuan stroked her chin and tilted her head, seemingly giving in to Ji Mofan's persistent pestering, and was pondering how to start the story from the beginning.
"Do you read storybooks?" he asked. "Are you familiar with the literature of doubles?"
Ji Mo Fan's eyes were empty.
Qi Yuan looked through his gaze and saw his empty mind.
He sighed, "In short, your sect leader grandpa is being pestered by someone because he thinks I look similar to his deceased Daoist partner. He's offering me all sorts of benefits just to get me to play the role of his Daoist partner."
"But I have my own Daoist partner, so the ending became me running away and him chasing me."
Jimo Fan: "..."
Ji Mo Fan: "Huh?"
Qi Yuan's few words had a profound impact on Ji Mofan, a child who never read storybooks.
And even setting aside how melodramatic and bizarre this story is...
"Who could possibly force Grandfather, the sect leader?" he asked in surprise, blurting out his thoughts.
Qi Yuan's current strength has reached the late stage of the Void Refinement realm. There are not only a handful of people in the entire cultivation world with higher strength than him, but they are also extremely rare.
Someone capable of doing something like this must be someone with high cultivation level who, instead of focusing on their cultivation, spends all their free time on romance...
"What kind of person would do something so absurd?" he said.
Qi Yuan was so amused by him that she dropped her cards and scattered them all over the table.
After making such a scene, he simply stopped playing cards, swept the cards on the table into his Qiankun bag, straightened his legs, and looked like he was about to have a heart-to-heart talk with Ji Mofan.
Ji Mo Fan then sat down on the other side of the soft couch.
"Do you know Qu Jin?" Qi Yuan asked.
Ji Mo Fan had just settled down when he almost fell off the soft couch. "What!"
No kidding, his head just went blank for a second.
Fortunately, Qi Yuan gestured for him to sit down before listening to him speak, otherwise he would have either bumped into something or fallen to the ground.
And to be honest, the person who subconsciously popped into his head just now was actually someone else.
However, considering that Fang Xuan's master, Li Mingyin, was absurd enough, his cultivation was not as good as Qi Yuan's, he gave up after a moment's thought and did not say anything.
“Supreme Venerable One, Qu Jin,” Qi Yuan said, “Is it really that absurd? Are you surprised?”
Jimo Fan: ......
He rubbed his head.
"Speaking of which, this matter is somewhat related to you as well." But Qi Yuan's revelation didn't end there. He stroked his chin and slowly said, "Because according to Qu Jin himself, his deceased Daoist partner was actually a genius whose name resounded throughout the cultivation world for thousands of years."
"Master of weapon crafting, Lu Tong."
*
When Ji Mo Fan came out of the Yun Cang Sword Sect, he felt a headache coming on.
Qi Yuan wouldn't lie to him, and the tone of his voice didn't seem to imply anything.
Moreover, his tone of voice is very firm, and any words he says without leaving any room for doubt must be a trustworthy source of information.
This made Ji Mofan somewhat more reasonable of Qi Yuan's strange behavior of sending Xihe all the way to the Demon Realm rather than trying to keep her by his side.
After all, Qu Jin was clearly more dangerous than the Demon Lord, who was very interested in demonic beasts.
But... Qu Jin and Lu Tong were once Daoist partners?
It was Ji Mofan's own preconceived notion of Qu Jin that led to this.
People always compare him to the Demon Lord, but the Demon Lord only rose to power after the last Immortal-Demon Conference. His resume is very clear, and he should be over 1,100 years old now.
However, Qu Jin's resume before the war between immortals and demons was relatively blank. Ji Mo Fan subconsciously regarded him as Xiao Wangyan's peer, without considering the possibility that Qu Jin might be much older than Xiao Wangyan.
In his previous life, he had almost no interaction with Qu Jin, and until his death, his impression of this person was only that of a hermit who did not care about worldly affairs.
As a result, in this life, Ji Mofan was first summoned by Qu Jin, who said a lot of strange and inexplicable things.
And then today, he heard this explosive story from Qi Yuan.
There are many rumors about Lu Tong, the master weapon refiner, in the cultivation world, but because he himself did not show much in matters of love, not many stories about his romantic past have been circulated.
As for Qu Jin, he's still alive, so who would dare to gossip about him in front of him?
However, considering the information provided by Qi Yuan, it's possible that there were some rumors before, but Qu Jin nipped them in the bud before they could even sprout.
If that's the case, then the reason why Qu Jin would show such a strange attitude towards me one day might be because of Lu Tong.
Ji Mofan touched his face.
But his appearance must be different from before, right? Otherwise, Shuanghuang, who has been a weapon-refining puppet by Lu Sheng's side for so long, should not have failed to recognize him.
*
"Master's Daoist partner?" Upon hearing Ji Mofan's question, Shuanghuang subconsciously repeated, "Not surnamed Qu, nor named Qu Jin?"
Ji Mofan was speechless for a moment, then blinked, "Who is Master Lu Tong's Daoist partner?"
“It’s a female cultivator named Lian Yuehua,” Shuanghuang said. “My master doesn’t like men.”
Ji Mofan tapped his chin with his finger, "So you've never heard Master Lu mention Qu Jin before?"
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