Yunling Mountain.

Snow Moon Forest.

In front of a tall and plump red-haired figure stood a girl in a water-green emerald-patterned skirt.

The girl had waist-length hair and a melon-shaped face with a youthful look. She bowed her hands and said respectfully:

"Master, please look at the results of my practice."

After she finished speaking, the girl's spiritual energy surged, and her waist-length hair was blown upward by the spiritual wind. One of her clear eyes turned pink, and the other turned green.

Pink is the peach and green is the lotus.

The girl clasped her hands together, and the spiritual energy surging in the air turned into a crabapple flower and a lotus leaf, both as big as her palms.

As the girl waved her left hand, the crabapple tree shot towards a big tree.

The crabapple sank into the bark, and after a moment countless crabapple flowers grew on the tree. Then with a loud bang, these crabapple flowers and the entire tree turned into powder, as if they had never existed in the world.

The girl waved her right hand, and the lotus leaf fluttered into the Snow Moon Forest. After passing through dozens of large trees, it slowly dissipated.

The next moment, the places on those dozens of large trees that were pierced by the lotus leaves were all broken. There was a continuous rumbling sound, and all the large trees were broken into two and fell to the ground with a loud bang.

After Fang Xue used these two moves, a blush appeared on her fair face, and she knelt on the ground weakly:

"Master, I have just practiced the first level of the Tanglian Jue and can only use this one move. I am incompetent. Please punish me, Master."

Xia Qinglian looked down at her and suddenly asked, "Are you a top-grade water spiritual root?"

"yes."

Fang Xue knelt on the ground and answered respectfully.

Xia Qinglian said: "You have mastered the Tanglian Jue to the first level in one month. You are much more talented than your senior brother."

Fang Xue looked up in astonishment: "I have another senior brother?"

Xia Qinglian nodded: "Your senior brother's talent is far inferior to yours. It takes more than half a month to master an ordinary physical training method."

Fang Xue opened her clear eyes and said, "Is my senior brother a physical practitioner? Master, where is my senior brother? When can I see him?"

Xia Qinglian said coldly: "Your senior brother is too stupid, it's better if you don't see him. Okay, I will teach you the second level of "Tanglian Jue"."

"Thank you, Master!" Fang Xue was really curious about that senior brother, but she didn't dare to ask too much. She then followed her master carefully to learn the skills.

An hour later, Fang Xue had already learned the second level of "Tanglian Jue". The next step was to improve her proficiency and master it.

Xia Qinglian sighed again: "If your senior brother had half of your talent, I would be very pleased."

Fang Xue asked doubtfully: "Master, do you like Senior Brother very much?"

Xia Qinglian was startled and asked, "Why do you think so?"

Fang Xue asked honestly, "I feel like you can't help but be happy every time you mention my senior brother. I guess you must like him very much, right?"

"nonsense!"

Xia Qinglian snorted coldly, and Fang Xue was startled. She didn't know why her master was angry. She knelt down quickly:

"Master, please calm down. I spoke out of turn!"

After a while, the master finally regained his composure and said to her:

"Tell us what happened in Zhenyang Sect recently."

In fact, after Si Minglan was counterattacked by Qin Gengyun that night, she had already told most of the secrets of the Zhenyang Sect.

Just to prevent Fang Xue from knowing that she was Qiu Zhihe, Xia Qinglian pretended not to know and asked her to say it again.

After Fang Xue finished speaking, Xia Qinglian sneered:

"When you return to Zhenyang Sect, you must pay attention to Ye Xiyue and several other peak masters. I want to see how she will practice dual cultivation with them in order to become the head of Zhenyang Sect!"

Fang Xue didn't know that Ye Xiyue was threatened by Zheng Shengmo to practice dual cultivation. When she heard this, her mouth opened wide:

"Big sister wants to be the head of the sect? She even wants to practice dual cultivation with others for this?!"

She had heard so many heart-shattering things tonight that her brain felt like it was about to explode. She murmured:

"Zhenyang Sect...how could it be like this?"

Xia Qinglian looked at her and suddenly laughed.

Fang Xue was puzzled, "Master, what are you laughing at?"

Xia Qinglian said: "You finally understand that there are many hypocritical and shameless people in Zhenyang Sect. If one day I want you to kill your fellow disciples with your own hands, are you willing?"

Fang Xue bit her pale lips, and after a moment, she said seriously: "As long as they are really evil people, I will punish them with my own hands!"

"Then I want you to kill Si Minglan right now." Xia Qinglian said coldly.

Fang Xue was stunned, and quickly said: "Master, Third Senior Sister is not a bad person!"

Xia Qinglian sneered: "Didn't you say that Si Minglan was ruthless in Wuxi Town? How come she is not a villain?"

"But Third Senior Sister helped Uncle Qin and Sister Qiu! I always feel that Third Senior Sister is not born to be so... unruly and vicious. She is actually a good person. Master, please don't kill her!"

After saying this, he kowtowed three times and begged bitterly.

Xia Qinglian sneered: "When you became my disciple, you said that you only wanted to become stronger and didn't care about the good and evil of the sect. Why are you so obsessed with good and evil now?"

“I, I…”

Fang Xue thought for a long time, and finally said:

"My father and mother lived a hard life, but they never harmed anyone. If I practice evil, even if I could let them live forever in the future, I'm afraid they wouldn't want it."

"Okay, you can go back." Xia Qinglian suddenly said.

"Master?" Fang Xue thought she was angry and knelt down, not daring to get up.

Xia Qinglian helped her up, her voice slightly softer:

"I originally came here to kill Si Minglan tonight, but she was lucky enough not to do anything to offend me. Most people in Zhenyang Sect have kind faces but cruel hearts. You have to be careful."

"Practice well, and I'll test you again next time we meet."

"Yes, Master, take care of yourself too!"

Fang Xue knew that she didn't know when she would see him again. Her eyes were moist and she kowtowed several times. When she stood up again, the red figure had disappeared.

…

The edge of Caifeng Street.

There is a house not far from Lingdanfang.

It was the home of the abbot Pei Daoyu.

But at this moment, Pei Daoyu knelt down and said respectfully to a man in black:

"Mr. Messenger, I haven't seen Senior Chang Chunzi for many days. I really don't know where he is."

This man in black is from Xingluo Town, the Chang family.

Chang Chunzi is the fifth child of the Chang family. Although he is not favored, he is also a direct descendant of the Chang family. He has not been heard from for more than two months. The Chang family noticed something was wrong and has been sending people to look for him everywhere recently.

The black-clad messenger was one of them. He found out that Chang Chunzi and Pei Daoyu were very close, so he came to Yunling Town to ask Pei Daoyu about it.

Hearing Pei Daoyu's words, the Chang family messenger frowned and said coldly:

"really?"

"How dare I lie! Senior Chang Chunzi never likes others to ask about his whereabouts, so when I separated from him in Zhenyang City that day, I didn't dare to ask too much. I didn't expect that Senior Chang is now missing, and I can't help him. Please forgive me, Messenger!"

Pei Daoyu answered quickly, extremely respectfully.

The Chang family messenger stared at him for a moment, and finally said:

"I will trust you for now. I will return to Xingluo Town to report to the Patriarch. If I need your help, you must not refuse!"

"Please rest assured, Mr. Messenger. Senior Chang and I are close friends. I will do my best to find him!"

The Chang family messenger snorted and then left Pei's house.

Pei Daoyu sat down on the chair and let out a long breath. His vest was already wet with sweat.

However, just as he breathed a sigh of relief, he suddenly jumped up and cold sweat broke out all over his body in an instant.

He didn't know when, but a tall and plump figure with white hair and white clothes was standing in front of him.

Her face was covered with a white veil, revealing only a pair of cold eyes, which was chilling.