Chapter 92 Junior Sister Switches to the Path of Ruthlessness 3 (Sound of Sharpening a Knife)
How dare you laugh at me?
Yun Chiyi tried to get up by bracing herself on the ground with both hands, but then she found that her knees were in great pain. She turned to the side, bent her leg and looked down, and saw that her knees had been scraped by the hard stone platform and were bleeding.
Lin Yuwan tried to pull her up, but as soon as she exerted force, Yun Chiyi gasped several times.
"Is my leg broken...?"
Lin Yuwan reached out and touched it, saying coldly, "Don't worry, Senior Sister, it's not broken yet."
His tone sounded a little regretful. Yun Chiyi frowned and tried to move around, but she gave up: "I can't walk like this now. Carry me back."
The mountain path was so difficult to traverse that it would be virtually impossible for a small, ten-year-old child to carry someone down it.
Lin Yuwan understood perfectly. He walked to the side, broke off a tree branch, and stuffed it into Yun Chiyi's hand.
"Senior sister, please walk faster."
After he finished speaking, he didn't care whether Yun Chiyi lived or died, and went down the mountain with his basket on his back.
Yun Chiyi followed behind with a limp. The road back was wet and slippery, but fortunately her feet stopped hurting after walking for a while, and she was able to keep up with Lin Yuwan's pace.
When Yun Chiyi arrived at the mountain gate, her nose was frozen stiff. The senior brother on duty looked at her, who was covered in dirt, and felt a little incredulous.
"Junior Sister, why are you going to the back mountain on such a cold day?"
Yun Chiyi sniffed, her cheeks red from the cold: "Seventh Senior Brother, let's go gather herbs."
When her seventh senior brother saw the injury on her leg, he asked in surprise, "You went alone? How did you get your leg injured?"
Yun Chiyi pointed her chin behind her: "And Lin Yuwan." She didn't answer why she was injured.
When facing Yun Chiyi, the seventh senior brother was all smiles, but when he saw Lin Yuwan carrying an empty basket, his lips immediately drooped: "Junior brother, where are the spiritual herbs?"
Lin Yuwan ignored him and walked right past him.
Such a young age, yet such a bad temper. Seventh Senior Brother disdained to speak to him, and then smiled and told Yun Chiyi to go back and drink a bowl of ginger tea, as he was going to ask Bai Qi for medicine to bandage his wounds.
Yun Chiyi hurriedly responded, but it was too cold to talk while standing in front of the mountain gate. She leaned on a tree branch and chased after Lin Yuwan, calling his name several times but receiving no response.
Let her go; it's not like she doesn't know the way.
Yun Chiyi thought she should get the medicine from Bai Qi first. She walked into the disciples' courtyard and bumped right into Bai Qi.
A look of surprise flashed across Bai Qi's face as he put his hands behind his back: "Junior Sister, why are you back?"
Yun Chiyi casually said, "The snow blocked the road, so we came back first."
After she finished speaking, Bai Qi noticed the bloodstains on her knees and asked her some questions, which made him somewhat worried.
Yun Chiyi simply said that she tripped over a tree root while going down the mountain, so as not to lose face. Finally, to save face, she said, "I will definitely practice more diligently in the future."
Bai Qi understood: "We'll talk about cultivation later. I'll go get you your medicine."
He passed by, leaving a sweet scent in his wake. Yun Chiyi watched his retreating figure and began to ponder. His gaze had been evasive just now, which seemed a little different from usual.
Also, why not let her mention cultivation?
When Yun Chiyi returned to her room, it wasn't Bai Qi who brought the medicine, but Lin Yuwan. The two looked at each other and both saw impatience in each other's eyes.
Yun Chiyi was disheveled and dirty, with her two hanging buns drooping like rabbit ears.
Lin Yuwan put down the medicine and, unusually, offered to boil some water for her senior sister to wash her face.
He inexplicably became very enthusiastic, busily boiling water and wringing out a cloth to wipe Yun Chiyi's palms.
Yun Chi was about to apply the medicine. He glanced at it casually, not knowing what the other man was up to. He took the medicine and first wiped his frostbitten face, then his wrists and palms.
She noticed Lin Yuwan's eyes darting around, and secretly followed his gaze, looking around the room.
Once he stopped moving, she lifted her eyelids and looked up at the roof. The tiles were tiles, and the beams were beams; she couldn't make heads or tails of it.
A glint flashed in Lin Yuwan's eyes before she silently withdrew her gaze. At that moment, Yun Chiyi lowered her head and blew air into the wound on her knee.
"Senior sister, I'm going to cultivate."
Yun Chiyi kept her head down and waved for him to leave: "Close the door."
As soon as Lin Yuwan left, Yun Chiyi closed the window and strangely tilted her head back to look at the roof.
System: [Nothing special]
What exactly are they looking at?
Yun Chiyi hopped one foot to the spot where Lin Yuwan had been standing. After looking up for so long, she felt a sore neck and a heavy head, but still found nothing.
Could it be that she's too nervous...?
Regardless of all that, there's no need to gather herbs today. Stealing a half-day of leisure, Yun Chiyi reopened the cultivation manual from last night.
She sat cross-legged on the bed, circulating her spiritual energy. When she opened her eyes again, it was already dark. Time had passed very quickly.
Yun Chiyi ate a small brown sugar steamed bun for dinner, then put on her cloak and went to the bamboo forest behind the mountain to test her sword.
In her hand was a peach wood sword, a birthday gift that Bai Qi had carved for her.
The cold moonlight poured down from the bamboo forest, reflecting on the mottled white snow. A gentle evening breeze stirred her hair. Yun Chiyi raised her sword and assumed a stance, only to find that her skills were rudimentary and she couldn't even stand steadily.
She was still cold and her bones ached at night. She practiced twice, trembling as she held the sword, wanting to give up. But when she thought of the sea of fire two years later, where she, at the Qi Refining stage, could only wait to be burned to ashes, she shook out her sleeves again and practiced the sword with a serious expression.
Once she calmed down and came to her senses, she realized that the snow around her had melted under her feet, and a ring of bamboo leaves had been removed. She felt warm all over, neither cold nor sleepy.
The system asked her why she hadn't started pursuing the male supporting character yet.
Yun Chiyi was practicing her sword with great interest when she replied, "Do not disturb me while I am cultivating."
As dawn approached, she put her snow-covered blue cloak back on and passed by Lin Yuwan and her other senior brothers' rooms. Suddenly, she had an idea and decided to go to the window to listen for any sounds.
Five people lived in Lin Yuwan's room. As soon as you entered, you could hear a series of snores, rising and falling like spring thunder. Even standing outside, you would get a headache from listening to them.
Yun Chiyi covered her ears with one hand and poked a hole in the window with her peach wood sword. She pressed her eye to look and was surprised to see that there was no one in Lin Yuwan's spot, only a huddled-up blanket.
After checking carefully several times, Yun Chiyi was quite certain that Lin Yuwan was not there.
I noticed him acting suspiciously during the day; he was definitely up to something.
Yun Chiyi stepped back a few paces and reached out to push the window paper back up.
She thought of Bai Qi and sneaked into his room again. Bai Qi was highly skilled, so she couldn't get too close. Knowing that there was someone in his room, she went back around.
As she walked along the road, a faint, rustling sound came from her left. Her scalp tingled instinctively, and she held her breath to listen. It sounded like the sound of a knife being sharpened, rubbing back and forth on a whetstone.
Yun Chiyi tiptoed, this time keeping an eye on her back to avoid being knocked unconscious again.
A figure loomed larger and larger in the dim moonlight. Taking a step forward, Yun Chiyi almost stepped on the shadow's hand. With her back against the wall, she peeked out a little to take a look.
The person under the giant shadow was Lin Yuwan. He held a short dagger in his hand, scooped up water with his left hand and poured it on the blade, while he focused intently on rubbing the blade back and forth on the whetstone.
Yun Chiyi would feel more comfortable with anyone else, but Lin Yuwan is so thin and small that she looks inexplicably scary wherever she sits.
Yun Chiyi retreated silently. On her way back to the house, she thought that rather than being scared by him all the time, she should try to test his bottom line and make him show his fangs.
She couldn't understand how Lin Yuwan managed to destroy Chengming. He must have tested the waters before anything happened.
In the following days, Yun Chiyi secretly cultivated while ordering Lin Yuwan around.
Unexpectedly, Lin Yuwan remained calm and composed. Even when Yun Chiyi went too far, he kept quiet and didn't utter a word in rebuttal, letting Yun Chiyi punish him as she pleased, seemingly not caring at all.
Yun Chiyi's original intention was not to bully Lin Yuwan. His submissive attitude made her a little tired, so she began to focus on how to improve her cultivation.
Spring arrived in the blink of an eye, and the snow on the back mountain melted into water, flowing into the clear stream.
Early in the morning, after taking the pill, Yun Chiyi swallowed some spring water and involuntarily sniffed it. Her eyelids twitched, and she suddenly looked up at the roof.
A familiar taste.
She was focused and didn't mistake the smell; a sweet scent was indeed wafting down, exactly the same as the scent Bai Qi wore in winter.
Strangely, after that day, she no longer smelled that scent on Bai Qi.
Suddenly her legs went weak, and her heart tightened as she grabbed the corner of the table for support.
What exactly is this?
Will it cause harm to her body?
What is Bai Qi hiding?
Yun Chiyi moved a stool over, stood on it, and looked up, but it was too far away to see clearly.
She thought for a moment, then went out and pulled Lin Yuwan into the house.
Upon entering, Lin Yuwan's body stiffened immediately, her fists clenching warily, clearly also smelling the sweetness.
His reaction actually reassured Yun Chiyi, at least indicating that neither of them knew the source of the smell.
Yun Chiyi ran over and closed the doors and windows, approaching Lin Yuwan with curious eyes.
"I have a secret to tell you."
Upon hearing this, Lin Yuwan immediately stepped back: "Senior sister, a secret that's been revealed is no longer a secret."
His wary expression dispelled Yun Chi's idea of investigating together. She crossed her arms and snorted, "Fine, don't listen if you don't want to."
Lin Yuwan was too lazy to reply, so she turned and left, but before stepping out of the room, she couldn't help but look back up.
Yun Chiyi stopped looking; staring at it until she went blind wouldn't yield any results.
Bai Qi's flustered expression at that time still bothered Yun Chiyi, and the resentment was rekindled by the strange fragrance today.
She sat down to drink tea, thinking to herself that things were now fraught with danger and she could no longer sit idly by and wait for her doom.
A little while later, Yun Chiyi changed into a light green spring outfit, held the cultivation manual in her arms, and skipped and hopped to Bai Qi's room to find him.
She tiptoed and knocked on the door: "Senior brother, senior brother, are you in there?"
A moment later, Bai Qi opened the door and asked in a gentle voice, "What is it?"
Yun Chiyi bent down and squeezed under his arm into the room. She was already standing in the room, scratching her hair with her index finger and said with great distress, "Senior brother, there are twenty-one sections in the Clarity Mind Method, but I can't understand this sentence at all. Good senior brother, can you explain it to me?"
Bai Qi took the book from her hands: "Why did you suddenly decide to cultivate today?"
He smiled gently, while Yun Chiyi twisted her fingers shyly.
This scene caught Lin Yuwan's eye. He walked past seemingly indifferently, then suddenly changed direction in the shadows, pressing himself against the wall to wait for any movement from inside the room.
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