Chapter 38: Grudges Do you know what grudges I have with Qi Rongli? ...
“No!”
Yue Baiyin categorically refused while packing his things.
Xu Xingxing put the pile of junk he was packing back in its place. "What are you doing? Why are you packing up all of a sudden today? Are you leaving?"
"I was already packing before you arrived. How could it be so sudden?" Yue Baiyin snatched the things from Xu Xingxing's hand and stuffed them into his Qiankun bag. "Xiao Ran and Xiao Hei are both healed. Why am I still here?"
"Xiao Hei hasn't recovered yet? How can he be recovered? He just woke up last night. We need to observe him for a few more days at least!" Xu Xingxing winked at Xiao Hei, who was leaning against the door with his arms folded.
After receiving the message, Xiao Hei coughed helplessly and perfunctorily: "Xingxing is right, I'm still not feeling well."
"If you feel unwell, just lie down! Why are you joining in the fun? Even if you still have internal injuries, your master's spiritual power is more effective than any panacea. The two of you hugging each other and sleeping for a few days will be much more effective than my painstaking treatment." Yue Baiyin shouted impatiently, "Don't try to stop me. I have to leave today!"
Xiao Hei froze, his usually articulate mouth choked to a halt for the first time. His face began to flush suspiciously. He quickly turned away, saying only, "Call me when you're ready."
"Attack?!" Yue Baiyin's voice became sharp. He looked at Xu Xingxing, "What? Do you want to knock your master out or tie him up and take him away? If you dare to betray your master and ancestors like this, don't blame me for expelling you from the sect!"
"I dare not! Oh my God! Heaven bears witness to my devotion to you!" Xu Xingxing quickly raised his hands in surrender. "At that time, my uncle-master and Qi Rongli both forced me to surrender, but I refused to give in!"
"If you haven't agreed, then what are you doing here?" Yue Baiyin was skeptical, but his tone softened slightly. "Why not just reject it on your master's behalf?"
"How could I refuse? Before I could say a few words, Qi Rongli dragged his sick body out of bed and knelt down in front of me, asking me to bear it for him. He really is not afraid of tormenting me." Xu Xingxing complained.
"He knelt down for you?" Yue Baiyin became excited again. "This man is truly despicable and shameless. He kneeled down for you and you let him kneel down? You have already merged with your body. If you try to stop him, what can he do to you?"
"Master, you're talking without any hesitation." Xu Xingxing retorted stubbornly, "It's because I just achieved fusion that I don't dare to act rashly! I'm not familiar with this spiritual power yet. If I lose control of my magic power, it won't be him kneeling to me, I'll be kneeling to him at his grave!"
Yue Baiyin was so angry that his nostrils flared constantly. If his nose were bigger, it could have acted like wings and carried him flying. After a while, he finally uttered, "What a scoundrel! He's not trying to apologize to me, he's deliberately trying to make me unhappy."
"Give it to me too." Xu Xingxing interrupted.
Yue Baiyin walked to the table, drank a sip of tea, sat down and continued to curse: "Kneel down, damn it! Even if he digs Master out of his grave and makes him kneel down, I will not forgive him!"
“…”
"Okay." Seeing his determination, Xu Xingxing felt relieved. She poured herself a cup of tea and drank it. "Are you still packing? I'll help you."
Yue Baiyin looked at her suspiciously: "What? You're not going to stop me anymore?"
"Hey, you've already brought out the master. I'm afraid if I stop you again, you'll ask me to accompany the master."
"What nonsense are you talking about? How can you joke about your master so casually?"
"...You only need to set the fire yourself, and don't allow your apprentice to light a lamp."
"Who made me the master?"
Xu Xingxing was speechless. She rolled her eyes and helped him pack his bag. "Let's go quickly. If you go any slower, I'm afraid I'll end up leaving with Qi Rongli."
"Don't fart, how can he compare with you."
Xu Xingxing changed the subject: "Why don't you take Xiaoran with you?"
"What? You want to stay?"
Xu Xingxing nodded and said as a matter of course: "You and him have a grudge, but after I was injured, I ate and lived with him. He is dying, so I have to see him off."
Now Yue Baiyin was silent and just drank cup of tea after cup.
Xu Xingxing stopped talking and just kept stuffing his rags into his Qiankun bag.
"Master, clean up your clothes yourself. They are too dirty. I don't want to touch them."
"What do you know? That's the original flavor. How do you think Master integrated into the spirit beast?"
"Oh? Pigs are also spirit animals? Aren't they livestock?"
Yue Baiyin: ...
He rarely talked back and drank another cup of tea. When Xu Xingxing thought he would remain silent, he suddenly asked, "Wouldn't you feel sorry for Qi Rongli if I just left like this?"
"A little." Xu Xingxing was honest. "But not much. Am I not putting some pressure on you? If you don't care, why should I care? Besides, when he knelt in front of me, he should have thought of your choice. Kneeling to me was also his choice. You have to bear the consequences of your own choices. I don't want to get involved in your affairs anymore."
Yue Baiyin seemed to be choked by her bluntness and was speechless for a moment. He took another sip of tea, calmed down, and then continued, "You don't think that your teacher is unkind, do you?"
"No." Xu Xingxing said calmly, "You must have your own reasons. If Qi Rongli hadn't knelt before me once, I wouldn't have come to persuade you."
Yue Baiyin laughed, a little sadly: "You are quite open-minded."
"It's not that I'm too optimistic." Xu Xingxing paused and sighed, "It's that I've discovered that there are some things I really can't tell right from wrong."
"Oh? What's that?"
"You know Shi He, right?"
"That evil sect? Fang Zhiming probably told me that he deserved death. Why are you bringing him up?"
Xu Xingxing looked at him with a rare serious expression: "Master, I do understand him a little bit."
Yue Baiyin's expression froze, and he frowned, "What do you understand about his understanding? If you weren't the one designated by the Tianji Pavilion to savior the world, according to the old rules, your spiritual power would have been forcibly crippled. You must never say that again!"
She looked at Yue Baiyin's serious expression, a wave of sadness spreading from the bottom of her heart. She insisted, "He lost his legs because of his brother. The once proud boy has become a cripple. But my father simply helped him to get revenge and brought him some books. He thought this was a good life. If it continues like this, it will be good too."
"Master, if I were him, I wouldn't live in humiliation. Even if I lived, I wouldn't be able to avoid jealousy. Just for this reason, the evil heretic you mentioned is far superior to me. I can't comment on what happened later. His mistakes are true, but his helplessness is also true. He deserved his punishment and his death is not a pity, but I still feel sorry for him. This is not contradictory."
"You don't have to think too much. I don't care about this set of skills. Even if it is completely abolished, I will not change my mind, just like I can't change your mind."
Yue Baiyin's knuckles turned white as he gripped the teacup, his brow furrowed. He opened his mouth to retort, then paused. After a long moment, he gave a wry smile and sighed, "You seem to be more insightful than I am."
"No, Master, I'm just an ordinary person, more ordinary than you, my father, and even Shi He. I can't do the righteousness you talk about. I can only make a few comments without any splash, and add a few unnecessary regrets. I don't have anything else." It was like reading a book. No matter how heartbroken she was or how many tears she shed, it was just a story. She was just a spectator and could not affect anything. She always had an accurate positioning.
Yue Baiyin fell silent again. He drank cup after cup of tea until the teapot was empty. He finally spoke, "Do you know what the grudge between Qi Rongli and me is?"
After saying that, he laughed at himself and said, "It's just my grudge with myself."
Without waiting for Xu Xingxing to speak, he asked, "During the Demon-Chasing War, Kunlun used a trick to lure the demon army into Spirit Beast Mountain. Do you know about this?"
Xu Xingxing paused for a moment, remembering that Fang Zhiming had once told her a few things, and replied, "Yes, I heard the battle was brutal. Almost all the spirit beasts in Spirit Beast Mountain were eaten, and the Beast Taming Sect fell apart."
"In fact, there is another hidden story behind this battle." Yue Baiyin seemed a little anxious. He wanted to drink another sip of tea, but the teapot was empty, so he stretched out his index finger and bit his knuckles.
Xu Xingxing looked at the mud under his nails and thought: Fortunately he didn't bite his nails.
But seeing that Yue Baiyin was in a bad mood, he spoke to comfort him, "Master, you don't have to say it."
Yue Baiyin looked up at her, his eyes bloodshot: "Shut up, the atmosphere has come to this, are you trying to suffocate me to death!"
“…”
Xu Xingxing didn't respond. She used magic to condense a lump of ice and burned it with a red fire. Soon the ice turned into boiling hot water. She picked up the teapot and poured it in. After brewing the tea leaves, she poured a cup of hot tea for Yue Baiyin.
As soon as it was placed on the table, Yue Baiyin drank it all in one gulp, without even spitting out the tea leaves floating in the cup.
Xu Xingxing opened his eyes wide:
...Isn’t it hot?
Yue Baiyin stopped chewing his knuckles and poured himself another cup of tea. Staring at the cup, he spoke slowly, "Actually, the spirit beasts in the Spirit Beast Mountain...we delivered them there ourselves."
Um?
Xu Xingxing didn't react.
"And they were all poisoned."
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Xu Xingxing understood what he was saying, and for no apparent reason, she began to panic. She subconsciously looked at Xiao Hei, but he was leaning against the door frame, not saying a word, not moving his back, not even turning his head.
She didn't want to listen anymore.
But Yue Baiyin clearly didn't want to let her go. He looked at her deeply and let out a strange laugh: "This plan was suggested by Qi Rongli."
"Spiritual beasts are heavenly treasures, and even more so sacred objects for monsters to cultivate. The poisonous beasts on that entire mountain are the deadly poison we personally delivered to the monsters."
Her heart choked, as if she had swallowed a stone.
When Fang Zhiming told her about this before, she had never seen a spirit beast before. He said that almost all the spirit beasts in the entire mountain had been eaten by the demons. She felt it was cruel, and the picture in her mind was of demons devouring deer, bears and other animals.
After all, it is always difficult for people to imagine things beyond their cognition.
And now, the person closest to her in this strange world is always in human form, but in reality he is a spirit beast.
She would never forget the scene of him transforming into a giant black dog and protecting her that night.
She really didn't want to listen anymore.
She didn't dare to think about it anymore.
Her mind couldn't help but imagine, but she still tried to force herself back to her previous low-cognition self.
Being treated as an ordinary spirit beast was cruel enough, and she didn't want to know about anything even more horrific.
If you don’t understand, you will naturally choose to escape.
So, she smiled awkwardly: "Master, why don't you just leave quickly and stop talking. Do you think I look like I want to listen?"
Don’t let me, an outsider, get entangled in the affairs of your previous generation.
But Yue Baiyin seemed to be addicted to talking. He seemed to grab her head and force her to look directly at the Spirit Beast Mountain that was filled with blood that night.
His voice was miserable and strange:
"Half of those beasts can already transform into human form."
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