Long Aotian looked at Chu Yunying, who was standing to the side. His fourth senior sister trusted him the most and often helped him suppress Lin Fan, so he was counting on her to speak on his behalf.
Lin Fan glanced at Chu Yunying beside him, secretly cheering her on. As one of Long Aotian's concubines, whether his senior brother could succeed depended on his junior sister.
As long as she helps Long Aotian insist that he is an assassin, he can deny practicing swordsmanship with Leng Xingyue. Even if Leng Xingyue is the peak master, she will not be able to protect him.
Seeing her senior brother's expectant gaze, Chu Yunying felt as if her heart had been struck hard. Her senior brother had also used this look to ask for help before, but she had always ignored it.
“Since the murderer is someone else, I am willing to investigate this matter and find the culprit.” Chu Yunying stepped forward, her voice cold and devoid of warmth.
Although she did not offer any explanation or defend Lin Fan, she made her stance clear.
Upon hearing this, Lin Fan's face immediately fell, and he lowered his head in deep thought, trying to figure out where he had gone wrong.
"In that case, I'll leave this matter to you," Leng Xingyue said calmly. She glanced at the disciples and then dismissed them.
"Fan'er, you stay here." Lin Fan cursed inwardly as he walked out, but upon hearing Leng Xingyue's call, he returned, still cursing.
Chu Yunying had something to say, but when she saw her master asking her to stay, she looked at her senior brother's back with complicated emotions. Memories of the past flooded back, as if she hadn't seen him for a long time.
"Fan'er, why are you so eager to admit your mistakes today? Do you want to leave the sect?" Leng Xingyue asked.
"Master has misunderstood. No matter how I try to explain, no one will believe me, and in the end, it will be my fault. I might as well just admit it," Lin Fan said self-deprecatingly.
He tried very hard before, but was it useful? He only got punished more and more.
"Do you think I'm such an unreasonable person?" Leng Xingyue asked.
"Not only is she unreasonable, she's also brainless," Lin Fan thought to himself. Although he didn't know why Leng Xingyue was helping him, he figured it must be a problem with the damn system.
"This disciple dares not presume, I have simply come to a realization!" Lin Fan said.
"Oh, I'm curious!" Leng Xingyue said. She couldn't remember the last time she had a proper conversation with her eldest disciple.
"Cultivating immortality is for freedom, but one can also be free in the mortal world. If the path to immortality is full of troubles, it is better to return to the mortal world and find true freedom."
Lin Fan thought for a while and finally came up with some high-sounding, impressive, and hard-to-refute reasons.
He didn't want to live like a dog in his last life.
"It was my fault. This will never happen again. Focus on your cultivation. Youzhu Peak will always be your home." Leng Xingyue was somewhat moved, realizing what he was thinking.
After Long Aotian joined the sect, he constantly suppressed Lin Fan, and Lin Fan bore the brunt of the blame, regardless of right or wrong.
"This disciple only wishes to be accompanied by the mortal world and wander the ends of the earth," Lin Fan said earnestly.
"I beg Master to grant my request!"
"You're probably tired. Why don't you go back first?" Leng Xingyue said calmly.
Her eldest disciple's unusual behavior today puzzled her, and she had some guesses in her mind.
She told Lin Fan to go back and rest well, and that she would personally handle the chief's work in the coming days so that he wouldn't have to worry about anything.
Lin Fan's eyes were strange. Why did his master and junior sisters seem to have changed? Shouldn't they be standing with Long Aotian and trying their best to suppress him?
The system didn't give him any hints, so since he couldn't figure it out, he simply stopped thinking about it. He returned to his residence, and because of his rebirth, he moved out of his original place and chose to live in a place that was far from Youzhu Peak but closest to the human world.
"Hmm, who came over in the middle of the night?" He looked at the room with the lights on and opened the door with a bit of doubt.
However, he saw the most unbelievable thing in his life: Su Youxue was actually asleep on his bed.
She usually hates him, always fawning over Long Aotian, even more devoted than a nanny. Why is she coming to see him tonight and sleeping in his bed?
"I must have opened it wrong!" He left the room, closed the door, and reopened it. Sure enough, it was not an illusion. She really was asleep, lying on her stomach, and even drooling on his pillow.
"A trap? Or a design?" He walked closer and saw that Su Youxue was completely unaware and sleeping soundly.
"Damn system, what's going on? I don't remember this plot." He tried hard to recall his days at the Qingxiao Sect, and indeed, nothing like this had ever happened.
Normally, Su Youxue wouldn't even give him a second glance, so how could he possibly be lying in bed?
Ding: Female target detected. Host, would you like to use the Hehuan Powder to weaken the protagonist's destiny?
Lin Fan's face turned green. This damn system wanted to harm me. No wonder it rewarded me with the Aphrodisiac Powder. So this was what it was waiting for.
"I understand now. This is a conspiracy. Su Youxue deliberately slept in my bed. As long as I make the slightest move, Long Aotian will bring his fellow disciples over to frame me for defiling his junior sister."
When everything is put together, everything makes sense. He admits that he was seriously injured, but assassinating Long Aotian is not a big deal. As long as he doesn't die, he won't be seriously harmed. At least there is still room for recovery. Even if his cultivation is destroyed and he is expelled from the sect, he can still withstand it.
However, defiling a fellow disciple, especially since Su Youxue is a direct disciple, is an even greater crime. According to the sect rules, it should be punished with the death penalty, and it is estimated that her meridians will be destroyed and she will be exiled to a forbidden area.
Sure enough, all that was before was minor trouble; the biggest pitfall was waiting for them here.
Please refrain from paranoid behavior!
The system indicated that there were only the two of them within a kilometer radius.
Seeing that Su Youxue had moved, he quickly stepped outside and looked around to see if there was any disturbance.
Su Youxue got up, rubbed her eyes, and saw Lin Fan staring at her warily from outside the door. She asked curiously, "Senior Brother, why don't you come in?"
"Men and women should not touch each other. Why is Third Junior Sister in my room?" Lin Fan asked in return.
"I would like to ask my senior brother to grant me a request!" Su Youxue said with a smile.
Lin Fan shrugged and refused, saying, "I won't help, and I won't agree!"
Refuse to be a simp, starting with myself. As long as I am not seduced by beauty, I will not fall for the honey trap.
"Senior Brother, please help me!" Su Youxue stepped forward, her eyes filled with pleading. Her pure and beautiful appearance made it impossible for anyone to refuse her.
"Go find someone else, whether it's Wu Qiankun, Ye Chen, or Long Aotian, I won't help you." Lin Fan carefully walked past her. Su Youxue wanted to follow him in, but was turned away at the door and refused entry.
"It's late, junior sister, you should go back. It would damage your reputation if you were alone with a man.
Su Youxue understood his meaning: the so-called damage to her reputation was just a reason for refusing.
"Senior Brother, do you really dislike me that much?" Su Youxue suddenly felt a pang of sadness in her heart. Senior Brother had changed; he was no longer the one who cared for the sect and protected his junior sister.
"Junior sister is joking. I'm just tired. If you have any difficulties, go to your junior brother Long. He will definitely do his best to help you." Lin Fan's voice came out, with a hint of indifference.
He went into the room and hurriedly rummaged through his things. He saw that the pink and white underwear was hidden well and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Thank goodness, if Su Youxue had seen this underwear, he would have been too ashamed to show his face.
"Yes, I can carry it with me. I remember in my past life, after I lost a match with Long Aotian, he discovered my underwear, and then I was disgraced. As long as I don't die and can stay away from trouble, what does it matter if I'm disgraced!"
In his previous life, he intended to destroy his underwear, so he carried it with him. Coincidentally, it was the day of the sect's grand competition, and he lost, thus exposing the underwear.
As a result, he lost face in front of the entire sect, his reputation was ruined, and he continued to target Long Aotian relentlessly, being gradually trampled on to rise to power.
"There are still three months until the sect competition. By then, Long Aotian will have broken through to the ninth level of the Golden Core stage and will be able to crush me like a novice. If I don't break through to the Golden Core stage, my reputation will be ruined in three months. Even if my cultivation is not abolished, I will at least lose my position as the top disciple."
"System, I think following the plot might not be a bad idea."
He stroked his chin, thinking that as long as he kept an eye on Fang Shaohuo behind him, he wouldn't be exiled to the forbidden area. The chief of Youzhu Peak had made too many mistakes. First, he was stripped of his chief position, and then he was thinking about how to leave the sect.
Su Youxue waited outside the door for a long time, but seeing that Lin Fan was unwilling to open the door, she had no choice but to leave sadly. She couldn't understand why her senior brother had changed overnight.
Lin Fan was about to take off his clothes and go to sleep when he heard the system's voice in his ear.
Ding: Because the host's mindset is somewhat rebellious when doing the task, the task progress is slow, therefore, the punishment is to kneel for three days.
"Tch, you think I'll just kneel down like that?" Lin Fan said dismissively, but suddenly an irresistible force came over him, and the overwhelming pressure forced him to kneel down.
"You damn system..." he gritted his teeth, his mouth sealed by an invisible force, only able to make muffled noises.
Lin Fan was so angry he gritted his teeth. This damn thing, which task hadn't he completed? Even if he did nothing, the damn system would still force it on him. It was like it was trying to force a good person into prostitution.
Su Youxue returned to her residence with red eyes, feeling very aggrieved.
"Third Senior Sister, what's wrong?" Chu Yunying walked over and saw that Su Youxue was in low spirits, looking like she had been wronged, and asked curiously.
"It's nothing, just some sand in my eyes. Ying'er, is there something you need?" Su Youxue asked.
"Senior sister, you may not know this, but Long Aotian was assassinated. Master ordered me to investigate, so I wanted to ask if you have any clues tonight?" Chu Yunying asked.
"No, who would be so bored as to assassinate that sissy? All he does all day is complain, I'm so annoyed with him."
Su Youxue said calmly, "After being reborn, I re-examined Long Aotian and felt like vomiting. I couldn't bear to look at him."
Hypocritical, narrow-minded, ruthless, always seeking help from their master over trivial matters—they might as well cut off their own flesh and become a woman.
She couldn't understand why the people in the sect valued him so much and revolved around him.
Chu Yunying looked at her strangely. Usually, you're the one who runs over there the most frequently and helps the most. Why are you suddenly cursing?
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