Chapter 168
But until the end, Lin Qingshuang did not get a single explanation from that person. She did not know who that person was, what his identity was, what his name was, or even whether he was a human or a ghost, let alone whether he was an enemy or a friend.
She was very panicked, worried that the man would reveal the fact that she was reborn, but she soon discovered that the man didn't care about her at all.
He just told her that if she wanted to improve her cultivation and ascend to the upper realm in the shortest possible time, she had to listen to him obediently. Otherwise, if he could choose her to be the owner of the bracelet, he could naturally change it to a new owner.
It was only this bracelet that was recognized as the owner, not him.
However, due to the seal, his consciousness can only rely on the power of the bracelet to remain in the lower world for the time being.
Lin Qingshuang still felt unwilling when she heard these words. She didn't understand why this person was willing to spend so much effort to save her and teach her, but why he had such an indescribable hostility towards her?
Under normal circumstances, Lin Qingshuang might not have been so passive, but at this moment her mind was extremely confused and she couldn't analyze any important clues at all.
And now she was caught off guard by the news that person suddenly told her, and the other party's cold and bored attitude made her usual calm and rationality disappear into the distance.
At this moment, there was only one most important thought in her mind, which was who was this person?
She originally thought that she was blessed by God and had finally obtained the divine weapon, but she didn't expect that God was playing a joke on her and she has been under the control of this man from the beginning.
This person must have had a purpose in helping her to be reborn. She was not a fool, but she had no way of knowing that purpose. Now she only knew that the person was mysterious and powerful, and could even go back in time, which showed how powerful he was.
She may not have the ability to resist that person at all, so she can only rely on him, and also in front of this mysterious man who helped her return to the past.
The memories and advantages of her past life were all useless, which made her feel uneasy and panic-stricken.
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On the other side, Feng Jixue searched for clues by constantly reading ancient books, and finally found a bamboo book engraved with the seal of the magic cultivation record in the library and found a way to understand the love pig.
The method to get rid of the insect is not difficult. It only requires that the man and woman be in communion with each other when they form a marriage contract, and fill each other's bodies with spiritual power. Then, a drop of blood from between the brows of the beloved can be used to lure the insect out of the heart.
The method is not difficult, but the difficult part is that they need to be able to communicate with each other's minds when they make the vow. He can do this. He is a love-sick person. No matter he knows whether the vow is true or not, he and Yanyan will be able to communicate with each other's minds.
But if he told Yanyan about this in advance, she would definitely make a fuss, especially since their relationship became close. He also knew that this little sister would be the most unreasonable when she made a fuss. By then, let alone helping him, maybe in the end, she would not even want to see him. This made Feng Jixue feel extremely conflicted. If he wanted to help her, he had to keep it a secret from her. But why did he have to do it when the two of them were forming a contract?
Making a covenant is no small matter... If on the day of the covenant, the junior sister found out that his kindness to her was all out of a lovesickness, would she be so sad that she would shed tears?
Thinking of this, Feng Jixue developed an unprecedented aversion to the matter of freeing the insect. He wondered if it was the insect that was influencing him?
But this matter obviously cannot wait much longer and cannot be delayed any longer. The main reason is that in recent times, Feng Jixue has discovered that the influence of the love pig on him has become more and more profound.
The longer it dragged on, the weaker his desire to free the love pig became. Sometimes he even thought that it was okay to be controlled by the love pig.
Whenever it was late at night and there was no one around, Feng Jixue would be awakened by this nod in his mind, and after that he would find it difficult to concentrate, with his mind completely focused on this matter.
His mind was struggling and confused, and he could hardly control himself. This situation was most serious when he was with Yanyan.
Every time she touched him without any scruples, he had the urge to get entangled with her regardless of the consequences. He wanted to be close to his junior sister more and more, and to touch her skin. All kinds of thoughts would emerge in his mind, those imaginative images, and those shameful things, and even his thoughts gradually became confused.
Even during his sword practice on weekdays, he couldn't concentrate. However, after not seeing her for just one day, his mind would be filled with the smile and figure of his junior sister, leaving him completely powerless to resist.
No... I really can't go on like this.
If the love-sucking snake is not untied, he is afraid that he will do more irrational things because of his junior sister. The original double-petal flower mark on his chest has now become six petals.
Lovesickness is moved by love, so the marks rarely appear normally. But if he is with Yanyan, when his emotions fluctuate a little, the marks will appear faintly on his chest skin, and the color will become more and more crimson.
In fact, up to now, he has long been unable to tell whether his feelings for his junior sister were influenced by a love-sick man or came from his true heart.
But if he doesn't break free of this puppet-like control, he will be unwilling for the rest of his life. How can he be truly together with his junior sister without any grudges?
So even though his heart was filled with complicated conflicts, Feng Jixue finally chose to understand Gu, which meant that he would deceive Yanyan. Thinking of this result, his heart trembled slightly.
He didn't know what his state would be like after understanding the love dragon, and he didn't know what Yanyan's reaction would be if she knew that he formed a bond with her just to get rid of the relationship controlled by the love dragon.
He didn't even dare to think about it...
But he can compensate her. Even after he unties the love pig, he will stay by her side as before and will not let anyone bully her.
Thinking of this, Feng Jixue finally made the decision in his heart. Perhaps because he felt guilty, he became more doting on his junior sister. As if to make up for what would happen in the future, he indulged her almost without any bottom line.
Nan Yan was confused by this level of unbridled indulgence. She felt that her eldest senior brother seemed to have come to his senses recently and could say nice things to coax her. He no longer liked to lecture people with a stern face like before.
Sometimes he would even take her to the market at the foot of the mountain to play, buy her all kinds of robes and hair accessories, and all kinds of colorful headbands, and then braid her hair into a different color every day, which made Nan Yan very happy, so she would be more enthusiastic when tormenting her senior brother.
But there were also strange times when her senior brother would stare at her and occasionally become absent-minded.
Sometimes he would look at her with an unnatural gaze, and then when she looked away, he would pretend to be calm and look away.
Nan Yan was teasing him at first. After pretending to turn her head away, she quickly turned her head when the other person was not paying attention and caught the man's sight.
Then she laughed and threw herself into the other's arms, mocking her eldest senior brother who was already so old but still looked at people secretly like those young people in the mortal world. If he wanted to look, he could just look openly. She didn't mind.
Her senior brother shook his head and laughed, but he pulled her into his arms and hugged her tightly, so tightly that Nan Yan couldn't breathe for several times. Then he stretched out his hand to pinch her white jade earlobe and whispered shameless words in her ear.
This made her beautiful senior brother, who was as cold and lonely as the snow on the top of a mountain, blush suddenly, his eyelashes trembled slightly, and a trace of annoyance appeared in his eyes, but he could do nothing about her.
In the end, he could only lower his head and actively kiss her cheek. His slightly cold lips bit her neck hard with a sense of punishment, moving slowly upwards, finely and densely.
It seemed as if he wanted to completely block her rosy little mouth that kept opening and closing, making her unable to utter a word. In the end, she could only make a few sporadic sounds.
But I have to say that as time goes by, her senior brother's kissing skills have improved a lot. Maybe people with high talents can learn things quickly.
In fact, Nan Yan also noticed this man's abnormality.
Nan Yan didn't care about this at all. She even wondered calmly in her heart whether this man had found a way to understand the love pig, otherwise why would he feel inexplicably guilty when facing her?
Nan Yan didn't think too much about it. Anyway, that day would come sooner or later, so she was not in a hurry.
Recently, there have been some major events in the sect. First, the outer disciple who was accidentally whipped by the eldest senior sister got half of the opportunity from the Qingxu Secret Realm, and after a thorough cleansing of his bones and marrow, he was finally reborn.
Finally, he was accepted as an inner disciple by Elder Qingfeng, and instantly became a core member of the inner sect from a mere disciple of the outer sect.
There is also the eldest senior sister whose cultivation level suddenly increased dramatically. This is truly astonishing. The eldest senior sister whose cultivation level had been stagnant finally broke through years of self-imprisonment some time ago. She advanced two levels in two months and is now in the middle stage of the Golden Core, only one small level away from the eldest senior brother.
When people heard the news, they were all amazed and sighed. How could ordinary people achieve such a talent?
To break through two levels within two months, this speed of cultivation was something they had only seen in storybooks.
To be honest, even the rarest geniuses in the world of cultivation would find it difficult to achieve a rapid breakthrough in such a short period of time while maintaining stability and not regressing. This is truly not an easy task.
So while everyone was amazed, they were also confused, wondering how the master sister did it.
When others wanted to ask about it, Senior Sister Pian just said that all they had to do was practice diligently, and that all improvements in their cultivation were the result of gradual accumulation. If one indulged in playfulness and refused to work hard, then even if the opportunity was good, one would not be able to make a breakthrough.
話是這麽說不假，但宗門裏刻苦修煉的人不少啊，誰能做到這樣的修煉速度啊？
但再想問下去的時候，大師姐也不肯搭理了，最後衆人只得出了一個結果，可能還是天賦最重要吧。
自從大師姐連續突破兩層境界之後，衆人明顯能感覺地出來他們大師姐的性子似乎有些變了，變得越來越冷漠了。
從前的大師姐性子再冷，也不會對同門視而不見，有時候興致來了也會和宗門師弟們一起出行任務，可如今的大師姐在面對他們時總有種高高在上的疏離感。
尤其是前兩日的宗門任務結束後，大師姐居然從外頭帶回了一個男修，一個容貌華美卓絕，氣質冷漠，且身份神秘的黑袍男子。
據大師姐說自己在山下解決妖獸時被魔修圍攻，是眼前這位道友及時出現救了她，最後還極為大方地指點了一下她修煉功法上的不妥，所以大師姐這才帶着此人回到了宗門，以期望對方能夠在宗門小住一段時日。
對于這番解釋衆人自然是沒有懷疑的。
畢竟那男修雖然身份神秘，但身上卻沒有任何一絲魔族的氣息，進宗門陣法也是毫無反應的，所以那人肯定不是魔族修士。
而那男修進了宗門後也沒做什麽別的事情，成日裏與大師姐形影不離的，在宗門內也并未四處亂晃，安靜地好似一尊冰雕。
不同于大師兄的冷冷清清，那男修的冷漠帶着一種高高在上的輕視，可能修為高深的修士都有這種氣勢。
他幾乎沒跟宗門裏的任何人說過話，也懶得用正眼瞧人，成日裏一副面無表情的模樣，渾身散發着一股生人勿近的冷漠氣息，叫人看着便覺得不太好招惹。
如今那人便以大師姐的同伴自居，暫時居住在大師姐隔壁的院子裏，不過宗門私底下也悄悄傳開了，都說那男子可能是大師姐下山後挑中的道侶。
旁人不知道那人是誰，南嫣還能不知道嘛？不過她還真不知道鏡無延忽然顯露身形，且以大師姐道友的身份出現在宗門到底是什麽意思？
畢竟最近她忙着跟她的美人大師兄培養感情，對于宗門流傳的事情也沒在意。
不過世事就是這麽無常，她老老實實的不去惹事生非，偏就有些麻煩事情不受控制地落到她頭上來了。
事情的起因是因為一株已經成熟的赤陽冰絲草，小師妹跟林師姐同時看中了那株赤陽草，小師妹先瞧中了，大師姐卻先付的靈石，最後兩人誰也不肯低頭，就這麽起了争執，後來小師妹一時手快想要去搶那株赤陽冰絲草，結果卻不小心折斷了根莖，冰絲融化，那株赤陽草也失去了效用。
這下可捅了馬蜂窩了，兩人因為這事也算是徹底撕破了臉面，不僅如此，小師妹好端端的也不知怎麽就惹到了大師姐身旁的那位道友了，如今被對方扣住了，不肯輕易放人。
等到風寂雪聽到這個消息時，幾乎來不及處理手頭的事情，轉身立馬朝着山下坊市趕去了。
他一來便瞧見了平日裏在他面前活蹦亂跳的小師妹被人欺負得眼冒淚花，臉龐微紅，一副委屈至極的模樣，偏又倔強地不肯讓眼淚掉下來，那雙眼睛死死盯着面前的那個黑袍修士。
那兩人之間的氣氛似乎還有些古怪。
風寂雪可以很明顯地感受到那男修對小師妹并沒有惡意，他此刻甚至覺得小師妹對那男修的敵意更多一些。
那男修雖然抓着嫣嫣的手腕不放，力道卻不是死緊的，且周身的氣息平緩輕和，眉眼間也沒什麽殺氣，只是目光冷冷瞧着面前的人，似乎在說着什麽。
那男修是林師妹在山下出任務時遇到的道友，按理說小師妹與他毫無牽連，也不知這兩人是因何而起了争執。
風寂雪瞧見這一幕時便隐約覺得有些不對勁，眉間輕蹙，他下意識地朝兩人走了過去，直接打斷了兩人之間的對峙。
“嫣嫣……”
他朝着南嫣直接喊了聲。
聽到聲音之時，兩人同時轉頭。
看到來人，南嫣臉上的表情明顯更委屈了，要不是手腕還被人抓着，她可能立馬就鑽進對方懷裏了。
風寂雪一開始是沒有從那男修身上感受到任何殺意，偏偏等他走過去時，那男修周身散發的氣息瞬間冷冽了不少。
這讓風寂雪不動聲色地斂了眉。
目光對上那男修冰冷的視線，聲音冷靜詢問，“不知我家小師妹什麽地方得罪道友了，有什麽事情我來承擔，還請道友先放開她吧，你抓着她很久了。”
鏡無延輕呵了一聲，冷眼瞧着面前這個裝模作樣的臭丫頭，聲音愈發冷淡，“承擔？你承擔得起嗎？我如今好不容易才尋得的這一株赤陽草卻被你們宗門這個不知天高地厚的小丫頭手快給折斷了，這害得我無法治愈舊疾，難道我不該找她讨回這公道嗎？”
他說這話的時候倒是松開了一直捏着她的手腕，不過是直接甩開的。
南嫣被他氣得氣息不穩，胸口微微起伏着，心裏卻在想着這人嘴上說得這麽冠冕堂皇的，實際上就是看她不順眼，想找個名正言順的借口收拾她一頓罷了。
先前在山下的時候，她不好反抗，這會兒靠山來了，南嫣表情立馬變得更委屈了，轉個身一頭就紮進了自家大師兄寬厚的胸膛裏，一副被人欺負慘了的可憐模樣。
嘴裏還不動聲色地煽風點火了一把，“師兄，他們合起夥來欺負我，那株赤陽草明明是我先瞧見的，我就是晚了一步，就被他們搶走了，後來還要教訓我……”
話音剛落，她便瞧見對面的鏡無延面無表情地朝她掃了一眼。
那眸光毫無波瀾的，卻冷淡的很。
南嫣莫名有種後頸發涼的感覺，其實這人還真沒欺負她，甚至她跟林師姐起争執的時候，林師姐被她的伶牙俐齒惹惱了，下意識地舉着劍要教訓她一頓的時候，還是那人突然出來阻止的。
可是那又怎麽樣呢？
誰讓這人如今已經跟她劃清了界限了。
鏡無延冷笑了一聲，似是不屑，“我若真想欺負你的話，你以為自己此刻還有命在？”
他也不知道自己今天是怎麽了，為什麽非要跟這人糾纏不休？
可能就是單純的看那丫頭不順眼，方才這臭丫頭在坊市瞧見他的時候，還裝作一副不認識的模樣，不僅搶了他的赤陽草，折斷了根莖之後還死鴨子嘴硬死活不肯認錯。
他眼皮輕撩，眸光淡漠掃過那臭丫頭烏黑的後腦，對着他的時候是一副橫眉冷對的模樣，偏偏在她師兄懷裏卻是格外乖順，還裝模作樣地滿口怨忿地控訴着他的惡行，好似他對她做了什麽天大的惡事一樣。
他若真對她做了惡事，她還敢在他面前這般嚣張任性嗎？不知死活的臭丫頭。
這麽一想，鏡無延原本沒什麽起伏的心緒也變得有些波動不平。
而在另一邊的風寂雪并未聽懷裏這個小師妹的片面之詞，他知道自家小師妹很少會吃虧，這丫頭有時候是過于任性了，他雖縱容着她，卻也不會不分青紅皂白地就護着她，倘若有錯，自然是要賠禮道歉。
于是風寂雪又找其他在場的弟子詳細問了一遍事情經過，這才得知那枚赤陽草的确小師妹先看見的，只不過她猶豫着還沒決定好，也就是這個時候，那位道友委托林師妹先付了靈石，之後小師妹氣不過沖上去要搶，卻失手毀了那株赤陽草。
聽到這裏的時候，風寂雪已經不自覺地皺了眉，赤陽草其實并不珍貴，但那株不是普通的赤陽草，而是變異後的赤陽冰絲草。
被不識貨的攤主混在一堆赤陽草中當普通靈植一起賣了，這才引發了這場争執。
如今那株赤陽草已經被小師妹給毀了，根莖折斷之後，冰絲融化，那株變異後的冰絲草也失去了效用，現在再去計較誰先誰後已經毫無用處了。
于是風寂雪沉默了一瞬，直接将人護在懷裏，然後冷靜道，“對不住了，我家師妹年紀小不懂事，得罪道友的事情，我今日代她向你道歉。不過這赤陽草既然已經毀了，再去計較也無計于補，赤陽草雖然難尋，卻也不如火精石珍貴，既然道友身患舊疾，我便用這枚火精石作為補償，你看這樣如何？”
火精石與赤陽草同等屬性，甚至火精石更為珍貴罕見，這樣的補償絕對不算吃虧。
這原本應該是最好的解決辦法了，偏偏鏡無延眸光冷淡掃過那親密無間的兩人，又瞧見那丫頭安安份份趴在她家師兄的懷裏，時不時地擡起頭來瞪他一眼。
鏡無延眸眼微眯，周身氣息瞬間冷了不少，然後輕飄飄地說了句，
“不如何。”
冷淡又漠然的聲音瞬間讓周圍的動靜變得安靜了不少。
Jing Wuyan raised his eyelids and said, "Since she ruined it, let her come here and kowtow and admit her fault. Who are you to her? Why should she apologize on her behalf?"
Nan Yan couldn't help but grit her teeth when she heard this. It would be fine if he just admitted his mistake, but he even wanted her to kowtow and admit her mistake. This bastard was clearly taking revenge on her and making things difficult for her.
Nan Yan gritted her teeth in hatred, but her face showed an expression of anger and aggrievedness. She just lay in her senior brother's arms, pretending to be pitiful, trying to gain sympathy and fan the flames.
"Brother... I'm right, it's their fault..."
When Feng Jixue heard this, his eyes instantly turned colder. He didn't know whether this man was targeting him on purpose or was really angry. Otherwise, how could he not even take the Fire Essence Stone, but instead wanted Yanyan to kowtow to him and admit her mistake?
"Why do you have to be so aggressive, fellow Taoist?"
The other person was wearing a dark robe, with cold eyes. Hearing his words, he couldn't help but reveal a hint of sneer, "You do pamper her, pampering her to be so lawless and reckless, she has no guilt when she makes mistakes, and she doesn't even have the courage to kowtow and admit her mistakes. You can protect her for a while, but in the future, if you are not by her side, who can protect her like this for the rest of her life?"
The last few sentences were ambiguous, and the voice was low and unclear whether he was mocking or angry.
The eldest senior brother didn't think too much about it and simply ignored the strangeness in his tone. A faint frown appeared between his brows and he looked at the man with a slightly cold gaze, "So, you mean, Daoist friend, you must not get involved today?"
Jing Wuyan's eyes were dim, "So what?"
As soon as the words fell, the atmosphere around them instantly became depressing and solidified. It was obvious that the two men were confronting each other.
In the past, Jing Wuyan's cultivation had not recovered and he could only show up in front of Nan Yan. Now, with the improvement of Lin Qingshuang's cultivation, the Qiankun bracelet was nourished by her spiritual energy and its power was slowly recovering. Up to now, his cultivation had also recovered by two or three levels.
Although it is not as good as when he was in the upper realm, it is much better than when he just woke up from the Qiankun bracelet.
He could have clearly hidden himself in the Qiankun bracelet with a secret identity, but he didn't know why he asked Lin Qingshuang to get him a legitimate identity as a cultivator. In the end, he pretended to be a fellow Taoist and lived in their sect openly.
He originally thought that the girl would be surprised and curious when she heard the news, and might come to him to ask for clarification, asking him whether he had other purposes in joining their sect. However, such a long time had passed, and the stinky girl had never come to see her once.
Even if I meet him on weekdays, I have to pretend not to see him.
He didn't know why he was so abnormal today, especially when he saw the girl joking around with others for a few spirit stones in the market just now. He couldn't help but think of the time when she cheated him. He asked Lin Qingshuang to buy the Red Sun Grass, but he didn't know that the little girl also took a fancy to it, and was so bold that she started an argument with others without knowing her own limitations.
A mere Foundation Establishment cultivator dared to confront a senior sister who was in the middle stage of the Golden Core, and finally even reached out to grab it. If he hadn't appeared in time to protect her, the girl's arm might have been cut in half. But what was the result?
Before he could even say a word of thanks, he was slapped away by the other party. Then he watched as the little girl turned around without hesitation and threw herself into the arms of her eldest senior brother, still telling all his dirty deeds and accusing him of teaming up with others to bully her.
Haha... this little girl is so heartless.
He has no conscience at all.
Especially when she threw herself into her senior brother's arms without hesitation, Jing Wuyan clearly felt a strange emotion surging in his chest, as if he was stabbed by something, making him unable to control the aura around him and wanting to rush up and grab her back.
It was also at this moment that Feng Jixue clearly felt the murderous intent of the man opposite him. It was not directed at anyone else, nor at Yanyan, but obviously at him.
But when had he ever offended him?
Feng Jixue frowned, then turned around, let go of Nan Yan from his arms, and turned to look at her.
The eldest senior brother raised his hand and drew the long sword from his waist. His temperament became even colder. He was dressed in snow-white clothes and black hair, and he looked like an immortal. He was not at all weak against Jing Wuyan's momentum. "I can naturally protect my people for the rest of my life. Don't bother you worrying about this matter."
As soon as the words fell, I saw the man opposite me calm down, and the smile on his face became colder, "Really? Then why not give it a try and see if you can protect her from me today?":,,.