Chapter 132 132 "Did something happen to him?"...
Su Xiaoyuan didn't know where Fu Tingyun had gone, how long he would be gone, or when he would be back, and she didn't ask.
He disappeared completely, leaving only a text message on the communication mirror, telling her that everything in her dream was real.
He was always so thoughtful, even storing the puppet's tools and clothing in the warehouse. Su Xiaoyuan didn't know where the puppet had gone, perhaps he had also stored it in the warehouse at Dragon Ridge Peak.
The system disappeared, the death countdown disappeared, and her hope of returning home was completely shattered. The goal that had once guided her like a distant star was now gone.
Su Xiaoyuan was like a small boat thrown into the vast ocean, suddenly losing its direction.
But the sea was calm and sun-drenched, dotted with beautiful islands, offering breathtaking scenery in every direction. She could explore as she pleased, without worrying about encountering real storms or dangers, as Fu Tingyun would have already taken care of them.
The entire fairy world can be her playground as long as she stays - this is Fu Tingyun's attitude.
Su Xiaoyuan didn't want to go anywhere.
She attended classes as usual, ate, chatted, and went shopping with her bestie, and fed her four spirit pets on time. Although they were all divine beasts with extraordinary origins, they couldn't speak human language, so she still had to raise them the same way.
Ruan Mianmian was broad-minded and did not suspect that they were having a disagreement. She just thought that Immortal Ling Yue really had an urgent matter and had to go on a long journey.
The only change is that Sect Master Shen is now teaching the swordsmanship class.
Although the sect leader was busy with official duties, he still found time every now and then to give Su Xiaoyuan some special treatment.
Su Xiaoyuan knew with her toes who had asked her to do this.
His influence can be seen everywhere in her daily life and homework.
For example, the dining hall would always set the menu according to her preferences, and the stewards' hall would always deliver the pills and talismans she needed on time.
When it was her turn to choose a sword, the old leader of the Tianbing Sect came out of seclusion to forge a batch of swords and sent them to Taiyan for them to choose from.
Whenever this happened, she would get particularly angry.
He always secretly arranges everything for her, being considerate and stubborn. In fact, he is a dictator and control freak wearing a mask of gentleness.
But she happened to benefit a lot from his arrangements. She couldn't refuse Master Shen's special treatment just to resist Fu Tingyun's tyranny. That would only affect her own studies.
So she became even angrier, and a few times she almost couldn't help but want to take out the communication mirror and have a good quarrel with him, but she calmed down before she finished drawing the communication talisman every time.
There is only point in arguing when you want to make peace.
She didn't know how long she could hold on, but at least she didn't want to pay any attention to him for now.
Su Xiaoyuan suspected that Sect Leader Shen knew something because she would occasionally look at her with complicated eyes, as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.
Su Xiaoyuan pretended to be unaware and said nothing.
Until one day, she went to Feiwen Palace to learn sword as usual. Halfway through the class, Sect Master Shen received a secret message. His face suddenly changed. He hurriedly said goodbye and turned into the inner hall. He came out after a long time, his eyelids were red, obviously he had just cried.
As the leader of a sect, Sect Master Shen has always been mature and steady, and never shows her emotions. Su Xiaoyuan has never seen her like this.
She vaguely felt that this secret sound was related to Fu Tingyun - they had formed a soul bond, and sometimes they would have a subtle sense of connection with each other. She had been feeling uneasy these past few days, and her eyelids had been twitching constantly.
Where did he go? Is he in danger?
This was the first time Su Xiaoyuan had thought about this question in nearly a month.
If he just wanted to avoid her, he wouldn't need to leave the sect at all. He could just hide in Wuji Palace and not go out. There would be no possibility of an encounter.
Based on her understanding of this liar, even if he retreated and refrained from coming to her, he would not stay too far away from her.
And he left in such a hurry that he even left the sect the day before she woke up.
There must be something else.
What happened? Is he in danger?
She always took it for granted that he could do anything, but he could get hurt and even die.
Thinking of his body covered with scars and his fate of death at the age of twenty-one, Su Xiaoyuan felt flustered.
She hated herself for not being strong enough and still caring about him after they broke up, but when she thought that something might happen to him, she was so scared that she couldn't even hold the sword.
Sect Leader Shen slowly recited the sword techniques and key points in her ear, but the voice flowed past her ears like water and nothing entered her ears.
"Xiaoyuan," Sect Master Shen looked at her worriedly, "Are you tired? Do you want to take a break?"
Su Xiaoyuan pursed her lips, but couldn't help asking cautiously, "Did something happen to him?"
Sect Leader Shen avoided her gaze, gently pressed her shoulder, and smiled: "It's not his business, don't worry about it."
Su Xiaoyuan was worried, as her intuition told her that Sect Master Shen was not telling the truth.
"Does the Sect Master know when he will come back?" she asked again.
Sect Leader Shen looked at her with a hint of inquiry in his eyes: "Why doesn't Xiaoyuan ask him herself?"
Su Xiaoyuan was speechless for a moment and lowered her head: "I..."
Sect Leader Shen patted her head and said, "I know you are a good child. If you have any conflicts, it must be that boy's fault."
She sighed softly, "It's also my fault as a senior sister for not teaching him well. Did he ever tell you how he came to Taiyan?"
Su Xiaoyuan didn't know why she suddenly brought this up, so she nodded and said, "Master brought him back when he went to the anti-world to slay demons and monsters."
Sect Master Shen smiled and said, "Didn't he tell you that the 'demon' that Master eliminated was him?"
Su Xiaoyuan widened her eyes.
Sect Leader Shen took the sword from her hand and put it aside: "Xiao Yuan, do you have anything else to do next? If you have time, let's go in and have a cup of tea and talk slowly."
Su Xiaoyuan had originally decided not to care about the liar anymore, but her curiosity was aroused, so she followed Sect Master Shen into the inner hall.
Sect Master Shen personally brewed a cup of spiritual tea for her: "Junior Brother must have never told you his true life story."
Su Xiaoyuan: "I only know that his parents are mortals."
Sect Master Shen considered and said, "I don't know if it's appropriate for me to say this, but since you've already formed a soul contract, I shouldn't keep these things from you."
She rubbed her fingers against the teacup, a look of embarrassment on her face. "His parents can't really be considered his parents. He was born and raised, a spirit seed born from the Primal Chaos Realm. Neither demonic nor immortal, neither righteous nor evil. The previous Demon Lord acquired him by chance. But the spirit seed needs to be nurtured in the body of a suitable mortal, and that suitable person is Junior Junior Brother's mother, Princess Liang."
"Princess Liang was unable to bear children and sought medical advice everywhere. The Demon Lord sent someone disguised as a Taoist priest to treat her and took the opportunity to implant a spirit seed into her body.
As Junior Brother grew older, Prince Liang and his wife discovered he was different from an ordinary child. Strange phenomena began to appear frequently in the palace, and they began to suspect the child's origins. Prince Liang's ancestors had some connection with Master, so he sent a letter to Master for help. Master asked carefully, performed some divination, and understood the truth. He immediately left for the mortal world.
"Unfortunately, the Demon Lord's men got there first. When Master arrived, he saw a river of blood in the palace, with hundreds of mortals dead. Strangely, all the demon cultivators and evil cultivators sent by the Demon Lord were also dead.
"Only Junior Brother was sitting in a pool of blood, staring at his parents' corpses with an expressionless face."
Su Xiaoyuan imagined the scene and couldn't help but tremble: "They are..."
"Those demonic and evil cultivators must have been killed by Junior Brother. The people in the palace don't know what happened," Sect Leader Shen sighed. "Master investigated his soul and discovered that he had been manipulated by the demon master long before he even became a fetus, and was infected by the demonic energy..."
Sect Master Shen pinched his brows and sighed deeply, "To avoid future trouble, the best way is to kill him before he becomes powerful. Just as Master was about to draw his sword, Junior Brother crawled over to his mother's corpse, lying on top of her, calling out 'Mother.' In the end, Master couldn't bring himself to kill him and decided to bring him back to the sect and try to cleanse his soul."
Su Xiaoyuan couldn't help but tremble in her heart. She had heard that soul cleansing was more painful than skinning, pulling out tendons, or digging out the heart and drilling into the bones.
As if he could guess what she was thinking, Sect Master Shen said, "After arriving in Taiyan, Junior Brother had to cleanse his soul every seven days until he was fourteen. He always did it quietly and never cried once."
He paused and said, "Even so, Master has never let down his guard against him. When he took Junior Brother to the top of Dragon Ridge Peak, countless killing formations were set up inside and outside Wuji Palace to guard against Junior Brother. If he made any unusual moves, those formations would strangle him immediately.
"Master has always been worried that one day he would be forced to take action against Junior Brother, so he intentionally prevented us from spending much time with him, to prevent us from developing feelings and causing unnecessary heartache."
Su Xiaoyuan couldn't help but pursed her lips.
Sect Leader Shen said, "Are you blaming Master for being too cruel? In fact, he is the softest-hearted person I have ever met. He couldn't bear to kill Junior Brother back then, but he had to be on guard against him. He didn't dare to gamble the fate of the Three Realms on his kindness.
"For the past ten years, he has been tormented by his conscience. If not, he wouldn't have ended up with his soul shattered in the thunder tribulation. Before he died, he used the last remnant of his soul to place a killing seal in Junior Brother's soul to restrain him. If he made any unusual movement, he would have us kill him."
Su Xiaoyuan felt upset. She understood what Xu Ji Daojun did. Just like what Sect Master Shen said, he could not gamble with the fate of the three realms. The burden was too heavy and enough to crush any good person.
But what did Fu Tingyun do wrong? At least not in the children's version.
Sect Leader Shen said, "Master, before he died, said that Junior Brother was precocious. In fact, I knew he had murderous intentions from the moment I first met him. That's why he wept over his mother's corpse, which aroused his sympathy. After coming to Taiyan, he has been very well-behaved. Even when he was asked to undergo a sin like soul baptism, he didn't cry or make a fuss, because he knew he could be abandoned and killed at any time."
Su Xiaoyuan held the cup tightly, trying her best not to be soft-hearted: "Even if I knew this..."
Sect Leader Shen held her hand and said, "Xiao Yuan, I'm not telling you these things to ask you to forgive him. I just want you to know why he grew up like this. He doesn't know how to treat others well because no one has ever taught him. He only knew to hide his true identity in order to survive."
Su Xiaoyuan curled her lips: "His cultivation is so high, there is nothing to hide."
Sect Master Shen shook his head: "He is more frightened now than ever before."
After Su Xiaoyuan left, Sect Master Shen sat there for a while, then used his finger techniques to send a message to Xiao Wuxin: [Has that kid woken up?]
Xiao Wuxin: [I'm awake, I'm awake. If you want to scold someone, scold him instead. Don't take your anger out on me...]
Sect Leader Shen: [Tell him to talk to me.]
After a moment, Xiao Wuxin said cautiously, "Junior Brother said he wants to rest. He'll listen to Senior Sister's teachings once he's recovered."
Sect Leader Shen: […Ask him if he wants me to tell Xiao Yuan what he did?]
Immortal Ling Yue's hoarse and exhausted voice almost immediately rang out from the Jade Ring: [Big Sister.]
Sect Master Shen's chest felt like ice was blocking it. He took a deep breath and said, "If I had known what you were planning, I would have just killed you! Do you still know that you are on the right path?"
Ling Yuexianzun still looked unmoved: [I know.]
"You knew that, yet you still did this?! Do you know that soul-severing is a sorcery? Do you know that the Soul-Snatching Knife is a demonic artifact? Even that mad old Demon Lord didn't dare to use the knife on his own soul, and right after reinforcing the seal of the Chaos Realm... I was wondering why the seal was so good, and suddenly it went wrong! Why the hell?!"
Ling Yue Immortal Venerable said succinctly: [I am useful.]
Sect Leader Shen: [Is it for Xiao Yuan?]
There was silence from the other side. After a while, Xiao Wuxin said carefully: "Uh, Senior Sister, Junior Brother has fallen asleep... He asked me to tell you that tonight he will send the Soul Locking Jade to the transmission array in your palace, and ask you to help restore Xiao Yuan's soul. And don't let her know..."
Sect Leader Shen angrily said, "I won't help with this kind of thing! Let him go and tell them himself!"
Xiao Wuxin: [Sister Xiaoyuan is still mad at him, how dare he get close to her? Senior Sister, please be kind and help him...]
She choked out a sob and lowered her voice, "Junior brother looks so miserable... I've never seen him like this before, half dead, lying curled up in a ball in Xiaoyuan's little room in Yunyu Sect, without even a blanket on his bed... Do you want me to take a picture and send it to you?"
Sect Leader Shen rubbed his forehead and said, "Forget it, forget it. I owe him. He's my ancestor. What an injustice! What an injustice!"
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