When Li Xiuchen was around, this man never went into seclusion, preferring to keep his cultivation at the initial stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm for eighteen years. But now that Li Xiuchen was gone, this man immediately went back into seclusion, only giving him a few trivial instructions, and then said nothing more.
The sour taste had slowly turned into bitterness, and finally turned into a raging fire, burning Luo Jianqing's heart.
The joy that had just been there was gone from his handsome face. Luo Jianqing bowed and said expressionlessly, "Master, I hope to obtain your order from the Supreme Elder to expel a new disciple from Mount Taihua who should not have entered the mountain."
Luo Jianqing lowered his head and waited for Xuan Lingzi's answer. After a long while, he heard the other party's voice calmly ask, "Why?"
Luo Jianqing asked again: "Don't you need to ask who it is?"
Xuan Lingzi said, "It's the boy who wanted to join Yuxiao Peak just now."
Luo Jianqing's body tensed.
His master never remembered people. He didn't even remember all seven top disciples from the seven peaks of Mount Taihua, but now he actually remembered Li Xiuchen.
Luo Jianqing lowered his eyes and frowned, his voice growing even colder. "It was him. Master, when we were on the Thunder Road, Jianqing saw with his own eyes that he deliberately took a step back, hiding behind the 6-year-old girl who was accompanying him. He even tugged on the edge of the girl's clothes to completely block the lightning for him. Such an unkind and unjust person should never enter our Taihua Mountain. Please understand, Master."
Luo Jianqing clenched his fingers tightly, waiting for the man's answer.
After a long moment, Xuan Lingzi's voice remained steady, "Since he has already joined Haoming Peak, Senior Brother Guangling will naturally investigate on his behalf. Talk to Senior Brother Guangling about this matter and ask him to thoroughly investigate it. If it's true, don't show any mercy."
Luo Jianqing gritted his teeth, the fire in his heart already burning into a ball.
"Jianqing, you must not interfere in this matter. Remember, you should concentrate on your cultivation and not get too involved with that disciple."
As soon as he finished speaking, the door of the bamboo house was closed.
Luo Jianqing stood alone in front of the bamboo house, still maintaining his bowed posture. After a long moment, he slowly stood up and gazed at the bamboo house with a bitter and complex gaze, as if he could see the people inside.
Yes, he had forgotten that it was this man's natal sword that had fiercely pierced his chest. That sword was so cold, just like this man. Decades of master-disciple bond couldn't compare to the eighteen years of Li Xiuchen's friendship. If it weren't for the Mysterious Spirit Sword, a heavenly-grade magical weapon, Li Xiuchen, even if favored by Heaven, wouldn't have been able to cross levels and kill him.
But it happened to be the Xuanling Sword!
A surge of turbid air surged through his chest, and Luo Jianqing's eyes narrowed as he quickly flew into his own bamboo hut. As soon as he entered, he vomited blood. The resentment and depression that had been lingering in his heart since his rebirth dissipated, replaced by a surging rage.
"You are my master and I am your apprentice?"
"In my previous life, I strictly followed the rules and never stepped out of line. But what did I get in return?"
"No sound... No sound."
"No sound!"
For the next three days, Luo Jianqing meditated in the bamboo hut, recuperating from the turmoil of anger that had raged in his heart. On the afternoon of the third day, Luo Jianqing heard a commotion coming from the foot of Yuxiao Peak. He immediately descended the mountain, sword in hand, and immediately saw the unruly Jie Zizhuo.
Luo Jianqing's mouth twitched, and he turned and left.
Xie Zizhuo quickly followed, and without saying a word, he suddenly leaned down and hugged Luo Jianqing's thigh: "Senior Brother!!!"
Luo Jianqing: "..."
After a while, Luo Jianqing shook off the thing on his leg, but the thing was holding on to him very tightly, like a dog-skin plaster, and he couldn't get rid of it no matter what he did.
Luo Jianqing said speechlessly: "Junior brother, you are also a Jindan cultivator after all, can you have some dignity?"
Xie Zizhuo shook his head without any concern: "No! Senior Brother, I won't get up unless you agree to my request!"
Luo Jianqing: "..."
After Luo Jianqing dragged Jie Zizhuo all the way up to Yuxiao Peak, he grabbed a glass of Bamboo Green Tea from Yuxiao Peak and drank it straight from the teapot, pouring it directly into his mouth, like a cow chewing a peony. Luo Jianqing gave him a sidelong glance in annoyance, but Jie Zizhuo seemed not to notice. After he finished drinking, he lay down and hugged Luo Jianqing's thighs again.
"Brother, save me!!!"
Luo Jianqing speechlessly gave Li Zizhuo a slap on the face, and then listened to his explanation.
It turns out that the reason Xie Zizhuo had asked the younger junior sister to refine the elixir was not for himself, but for the spirit beast of his fifth junior brother... That day, Xie Zizhuo went to the Beast Control Peak to look for his fifth junior brother, but he didn't find him. Instead, he found a sixth-level spirit beast that his fifth junior brother had recently tamed.
Xie Zizhuo took a big sip of tea and said, "Brother, it's a sixth-level spirit beast! That's equivalent to a Nascent Soul cultivator, and it's tamed!"
Luo Jianqing raised an eyebrow: "So what did you do to him?"
Xie Zizhuo chuckled and said, "I just had a fight with it."
Luo Jianqing doubted that Xie Zizhuo, at the early stage of his Golden Core cultivation, could pose any threat to a sixth-rank spirit beast. However, things are unpredictable. Xie Zizhuo was unaware that the spirit beast had a hidden injury, and that his fifth junior brother had left to find elixirs for it. Faced with Xie Zizhuo's shameless provocation, the spirit beast, already intelligent, could not hold back. Regardless of its hidden injury, it engaged in a fight with Xie Zizhuo, ultimately leaving him severely injured.
Xie Zizhuo was originally thinking, "How could I be so strong?", and then he was beaten into a pig's head by his fifth junior brother who rushed over after hearing the news.
Fifth Junior Brother had already instructed all the disciples of Beast Taming Peak to beat up Jie Zizhuo whenever they saw him, and if they couldn't beat him, they would call him in to do it! So during Luo Jianqing's absence, Jie Zizhuo was hated by everyone, to the point where he often had to go into seclusion.
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