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"Then later, when you guessed my identity, why didn't you tell me?"
Chu Li's expression remained largely unchanged, but Nan Yi quickly became wary.
In the past, when Chu Li spoke to him, she was usually relaxed, and sometimes she would be a little helpless. She had never been as expressionless as she was now.
He tentatively tried to move towards Chu Li, but Chu Li raised her hand, and a force blocked his way. "You should just sit down—after all, you never even speak up about something this important," she slowly smiled, "so how can I let you stand?"
Chu Li was naturally angry. She was angry that he never mentioned such an important matter to her. Even though she had asked the sect leader about his injury before, she did not expect it to be so serious.
She wasn't a doctor, but the fact that the fox clan had actually sought her help meant that none of the doctors they had consulted before could heal Nan Yi's injuries.
As for herself... she wasn't a specialist in this area, and she had no confidence in it.
She looked at Nan Yi, who seemed unwilling to speak further, a hint of disappointment flashing in her eyes. She turned to leave, but before she did, she heard his hurried call. She paused for a moment, but then realized that he had no words of explanation to offer.
In the end, he simply left.
Nan Yi sat in the chair, somewhat dazed, staring blankly in the direction Chu Li had left. It seemed he... had still messed things up.
He always found it difficult to reveal his deepest weaknesses in front of his senior sister.
After leaving the Wuxiang Palace, Chu Li did not return to the place where she had always lived, but instead returned to the place where she lived when she was the sect's patriarch.
She hadn't been back for quite some time. She lifted her foot to walk around the stone in front of the door, but caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of her eye. She paused, then squatted down and picked up a strand of red hair hidden under the stone.
She didn't need to consciously perceive it to know that the strand of hair in front of her belonged to Nan Yi.
He'd been here before? But this place was clearly where she used to live... No, for Nan Yi, this place might also symbolize another identity.
The founder of the Wanxiang Sect.
He came here specifically to seek healing from his master, didn't he?
Suddenly, at this moment, Chu Li also began to feel uncertain. Did Nan Yi truly like her?
Or did he already know her true identity long before this, and his relationship with her was only to heal his injuries?
With that thought, she applied a little force to her hand, and the bright fox fur was instantly crushed into ashes and disappeared into her palm.
She turned her foot and remembered that in the area she had set up nearby, there was a criminal named Zhi Xiu whom she had captured years ago.
She locked him in the domain, firstly to make him reflect on his mistakes, and secondly to have him guard the place.
Of course, the second point is almost non-existent, since anyone who dares to come here will basically be blocked by the domain.
The moment she entered the area, a fawning voice rang out: "Oh, what brings you here? Your seclusion this time has been incredibly successful; your aura feels so much stronger than ever..."
Chu Li looked up, pinpointing the location of the plant cultivator, and said indifferently, "Come down, I have something to ask you."
"What does Your Excellency want to ask—" He stopped abruptly halfway through his sentence and immediately stated, "I have never been outside, and I know nothing about what is happening outside."
"Has a fox ever been here before?"
"Yes, that's not..." He glanced at Chu Li's darkening face, then immediately lowered his head and changed his tone, "You can rest assured, sir, I'm keeping a close watch on him. He has come a few times, but I haven't let him in."
He waited for a long time but received no reply. When he finally looked up, he found that she had already left. As he threw out vines and climbed up, he muttered to himself, "Why is she so fickle? I was still waiting for her to let me out."
Chu Li's thoughts were still somewhat chaotic. She found herself feeling a little lost for a moment, but this feeling was actually quite rare for her these days.
She only felt lost about the future when she was young, but as she grew older, her heart became much more determined. Even though she often encountered some bottlenecks in her cultivation, she never doubted herself.
She stepped into her residence—
A flash of light appeared before her eyes, and something with a bluish-green body charged straight toward her.
She instinctively raised her hand, but the blue color suddenly turned into a blur, its momentum undiminished, and it plunged straight into her brow.
A familiar feeling welled up in her heart, and she paused in her movements. There was no danger... it was just that her memories—were probably about to be completely restored.
It was also my fault for being too cautious before, worrying that I wouldn't be able to recover my complete memories after the Time Rift Realm disappeared, so I left a backup plan in my room.
A vast amount of memories flooded in, making the memories of the past year or two seem particularly fragile in comparison.
When Chu Li opened her eyes again, an aura flowed out, which she blocked in time with her spiritual power, thus preventing the entire room from turning into pieces.
The green lotus, which had been beaten ten times more than before, was circling around her, chattering away beside her, its words full of condemnation.
Back when Chu Li sealed her memories, the Azure Lotus, as her natal weapon, was originally meant to accompany her, but because the Azure Lotus had come to life, it was difficult to seal it.
Chu Li was worried that Qinglian might inadvertently let something slip, so she directly forbade it from communicating with her.
As a result, when Qinglian got into a bad mood, it would only leave a tiny bit of space whenever Chu Li asked it to help carry people—now that I think about it, it was all because Qinglian was throwing a tantrum.
Therefore, her lotus flowers could never fully expand.
Thinking of this, Chu Li smiled gently and raised her hand to touch the space between her eyebrows.
The blank space had been changed; now a pattern was imprinted between her eyebrows, which, from a distance, looked like a blooming blue lotus.
She sensed everything was familiar, and her heart felt a little lighter. This time, she hadn't made a wrong bet. Spending one or two years to successfully obtain the inheritance of the Law of Time was already a very worthwhile deal.
She immediately sat cross-legged and, as she had done countless times before, sought out the memory related to the laws of time and contemplated it again and again.
That powerful aura wasn't just confined to Chu Li's residence; it spread outwards, causing some of the Myriad Manifestations Sect disciples to look in the same direction with surprise.
As for those outside the sect, only those cultivators with high cultivation levels could keenly sense that magnificent aura and secretly wonder if the Myriad Manifestations Sect had produced another Tribulation Transcending cultivator.
Outside the Hall of No Form, three pairs of eyes exchanged glances.
"How did Master suddenly recover today?"
Xie Wanqiu remained silent. A major event had occurred today, related to Nan Yi, and immediately afterward, her master regained his cultivation memories. Anyone who thought about it would feel that the two events were connected.
"Could it be that Master has suffered a heartbreak and is devastated..."
Before he could finish speaking, Lu Qianfeng was slapped on the shoulder. Lu Qianling glared at him and said, "Can't you say something nice? That's Master!"
How could Master possibly...
As she thought this, her gaze unconsciously fell on the entrance of the Wuxiang Palace, and her breath caught in her throat.
If it were him, it wouldn't be impossible.
She saw the reflection of a fox in her eyes. Its fur was glossy and shiny, making it one of the best-looking foxes.
The other disciples were unaware of Chu Li's private quirks, but those of them had known her for a while and thus knew a little about them—she especially liked furry animals like foxes, and particularly liked animals that felt good to the touch.
Later, the Wanxiang Sect was established. Perhaps the master felt that it was not good to reveal this hobby in the open, so he hid it and ordered them not to mention it to others.
Lu Qianling had seen Nan Yi in human form before, but never in fox form. Upon seeing him this time, she immediately felt that this was the type that her master would like and favor. Even if it wasn't romantic love, her master would probably like this junior brother... or grand-disciple?
Thinking of this, Lu Qianling nudged Xie Wanqiu with her elbow again. When Xie Wanqiu looked up, Lu Qianling raised her chin and said meaningfully, "These two are quite far apart in terms of seniority."
"Have you forgotten how good your master was to him before? It's just a matter of seniority. Your master won't take it to heart. You should worry more about whether your position will be replaced."
Lu Qianling's face stiffened, clearly remembering her master's previous favoritism. Her position in her master's heart was already low, and if he squeezed her out again, wouldn't she fall directly to the bottom?
Now she had no interest in gossiping, as her own position was in jeopardy—she hurriedly said to Xie Wanqiu, "You keep an eye on things, I'm going to see Master."
Chu Li was still cultivating inside the house, but for some reason, this cultivation was not as smooth as before, and she felt a little worried every hour.
She frowned and circulated her spiritual energy around her body again—it went smoothly, so it wasn't a problem with her cultivation. What could be causing her to be so restless?
She couldn't resist in the end, reaching into her sea of consciousness and pulling out a somewhat dim memory—she had been focused on the laws of time, so she hadn't properly integrated the other memories.
In other words, aside from the memory of inheriting the laws of time, she currently has no idea what she has done in the past two years, and was originally planning to slowly recall it later...
But now it seems that I should first take care of what I'm concerned about.
She flipped through her past memories at lightning speed, and the subtle emotions that remained in those memories seemed to gradually resurface in her heart.
She placed one hand on her forehead and uttered two words... Nan Yi. She had actually left him behind in that memory.
But she's different now than she used to be... at least she won't be so easily attracted to a fox anymore.
But what surprised her most in her memory was not that, but that after exposing the fox's deception, she did not sever ties with him.
You must understand, since founding the Myriad Manifestations Sect, what she detests most is deception. Other things may have room for compromise, but deception...
Unless the other party has a legitimate reason for her to admit it.
But the fox clearly didn't, and even after recognizing her, it was unwilling to tell him its true purpose in coming to the Myriad Manifestations Sect.
She couldn't help but recall her previous vague speculations, and suddenly felt a sense of suffocation in her heart.
The crux of the problem has been found, but Chu Li discovers that after acquiring this memory, it seems even more difficult for her to calm down and cultivate. She even occasionally experiences auditory hallucinations, hearing foxes whimpering in her ears.
Wait a minute, she listened again and found that the sound was not an illusion. With a wave of her long sleeve, a water mirror appeared in front of her.
The scene in the water mirror kept changing, finally settling on a rock in front of the mountain, where a fox with fiery red fur was lying by the rock, whimpering.
She paused for a moment, then remembered that she had strengthened her domain before cultivating to prevent others from disturbing her. Now, those whose cultivation level was below the Nascent Soul stage couldn't even enter the domain.
She hesitated whether to let him in, but then she thought that they had still been arguing and bickering today, so it wouldn't be appropriate to just let him in so easily. Besides, after her memories returned, she still planned to focus more on cultivation and did not want to get involved in love as she had before.
Her eyes closed again, but quickly opened again, her emotions complex and hard to discern. In the end, she gritted her teeth and her low voice echoed in the room: "Qianling, go find your senior sister."
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