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The door was pushed out a little when it seemed to encounter an obstacle.
Chu Li didn't force herself to use any force, but instead glanced towards the door.
A curled-up red ball lay peacefully on the ground by the door.
She took a few steps closer, squatted down, and gently touched the fox's smooth fur with her fingertips.
As if startled, the fox's fur bristled instantly, but quickly softened again under Chu Li's gentle caress.
After touching him for a while, there were only slight undulations on his body, as if he were asleep.
Chu Li hesitated for a moment, but still picked him up and carried him back to the room.
As if disturbed, the fox in her arms shifted slightly, its head and body leaning against Chu Li.
Just as Chu Li was about to place him on the cushion beside her, the fox's paws clenched into fists and gripped her robes tightly.
She seemed somewhat dazed, staring into the distance for several minutes before returning to her usual spot to continue her cultivation.
As for her junior brother... let him lie down if he wants, it's only occasionally anyway, so it won't affect her.
As dusk settled, Chu Li heard rustling sounds behind her. She placed her hand on the porthole, her gaze still fixed on the outside: "Awake?"
Even if she were slow to notice, she could tell that her junior brother had been avoiding her lately, but what puzzled her was that she didn't know why.
Could it be because she's too strict with her junior brother? Otherwise, why would she deliberately avoid him?
Although she had picked up her junior brother who was lying at her door today... she thought uncertainly, "The fact that my junior brother appeared at my door must mean he's seeking peace?"
But she still planned to have a good talk with her junior brother, just in case he suddenly disappeared again one day.
Having thought this through, she directly asked the question, sharply piercing through the crumbling pretense between the two.
She waited for a long time but did not receive a reply from her junior brother, and his aura remained unchanged. Finally, she could not help but turn around to look.
Just then, Nan Yi stood up, his tall figure casting a long shadow in the setting sun, almost reaching Chu Li's feet.
He finally spoke, but what he said was completely different from what Chu Li had imagined.
"Senior sister, are you injured?"
"What?" Chu Li paused, completely unaware that Nan Yi had brought up the issue with her again.
Nan Yi stepped forward and, before Chu Li could react, swiftly lifted the sleeve on Chu Li's right side.
On that fair arm were extremely gruesome scars, and Nan Yi's expression immediately hardened.
He had only noticed that Chu Li's movements were a little slow when she hugged him earlier, so he guessed that she was still injured, but he didn't expect it to be so serious.
Chu Li pushed Nan Yi's hand away and tried to pull down her sleeve. "It was just an accident when I was trying to catch the person who was trying to possess me."
That person probably practiced other evil arts as well, and he was an old monster after all, with a cultivation level higher than that of the Nascent Soul stage. She didn't pay attention at first, but was grazed for a moment.
"It's just a minor injury, you haven't answered yet..."
But her usually well-behaved junior brother did not obey her as usual. Instead, he gripped her arm tightly, and there seemed to be a hint of hostility in his eyes.
He closed his eyes briefly and softened his voice: "Senior sister, let me help you apply the medicine. As for what happened before, let's just let it go. I don't want to answer it."
Chu Li was stunned for a moment, and while she was lost in thought, Nan Yi had already taken out the medicine bottle he was carrying, ground the pills inside into powder, and applied it little by little to her wounds.
Soon a cool breeze came, and Chu Li lowered her head slightly, just in time to see her junior brother's profile—long, narrow eyes with perfectly upturned corners, his face sharp yet gentle.
For a moment, even she couldn't help but sigh, "Indeed, the fox clan produces many beauties, but my junior brother must be the most handsome among them."
Nan Yi said he didn't want to answer, and Chu Li didn't press him further. She was a considerate senior sister, and if her junior brother was unwilling, she wouldn't bring it up. However, she still had to remind him of one thing: "This is the only time. If you encounter any problems in the future, please communicate with me in time."
"That way, your senior sister will know what you're thinking."
That was the last sentence Chu Li uttered.
Even after Nan Yi returned to his sect, he still often thought about her and felt an urge to tell her everything about his origins and his feelings.
But rationally, he knew that if he spoke rashly, he would probably only end up being abandoned by his senior sister.
After all, it would be too easy for her to abandon him; all she would have to do was mention it to the sect leader...
As for the sect leader, he probably wishes his senior sister were far away from him.
Everything needs to be done gradually.
That day, another knock sounded in Chu Li's ear. She knew who it was, so she simply called out to him to come in.
A fiery red shadow flashed through the air and snuggled into Chu Li's arms again.
Chu Li casually stroked the soft fox fur a few times and laughed, "Why are you using your original form today?"
It hasn't been long since the sect competition ended, but she had some insights from a trip recently and went into the Domain Pavilion, only coming out today.
I just don't know how Nan Yi discovered that she had come out of the Domain Pavilion so quickly.
Nan Yi rubbed against Chu Li's chest a few times with his fox body before looking up at her: "Senior Sister, may I cultivate with you?"
Chu Li didn't understand at first, and simply replied as usual, "We're not together all the time..."
She looked down into Nan Yi's dark eyes, paused for a moment, and suddenly understood what Nan Yi meant.
Does Nan Yi want to cultivate in the same room as her?
Just like during the sect competition before?
She hesitated for only a moment before quickly refusing. Cultivating within the sect was fundamentally different from cultivating outside; she could cultivate more conveniently and quickly on her own.
She didn't like having people around her when she was cultivating.
Nan Yi nuzzled Chu Li's palm with his head again, "Senior Sister, is it not allowed? I feel that my cultivation speed has increased when I cultivate with you."
Chu Li patted the fox's head, but her words remained firm: "No, it's inconvenient for two people to cultivate together. As for the faster cultivation speed, that must be your imagination."
Upon hearing this, Nan Yi's expression didn't change much. He knew that he couldn't get his senior sister to agree the first time, so he wasn't disappointed.
Chu Li initially thought that this was just Nan Yi's sudden idea, and that he was probably just used to being together during the sect competition. He thought that once they actually started cultivating together, he would find that it was quite disruptive.
To her surprise, although her junior brother seemed to stop asking her questions, she would always find Nan Yi sitting by her door cultivating whenever she opened the door.
Moreover, he thoughtfully erected a barrier around his cultivation area to avoid disturbing her inside the house.
Regardless of the weather, he stayed in that small place.
Chu Li even had a special talk with him about this, but Nan Yi insisted that he would never disturb her, and even asked in return, "Senior Sister, have I disturbed your cultivation?"
"No, but you can't..." keep cultivating outside.
Cultivating outside is more dangerous. If you are attacked at a critical moment, your spiritual energy may be reversed.
"Senior sister, don't you have another barrier on the outermost layer?" He smiled at Chu Li and said casually, "With the barrier there, no one can get in."
He insisted on cultivating outside, and Chu Li didn't argue with him, so she just acquiesced to the matter.
However, during her rest, Chu Li couldn't help but think of her junior brother outside, and would occasionally look out the window.
As time went on, she gradually accepted it. Actually, it wasn't without its advantages; if her junior brother encountered any problems during his cultivation, she could help him in time.
Nan Yi would occasionally look out the window during breaks in his cultivation, but unfortunately, it was difficult to see inside from the outside.
He continued to bury himself in cultivation, but he knew that he had no way to improve his strength until his injuries were completely healed. In other words, he was currently at the Foundation Establishment stage and could only remain at the Foundation Establishment stage.
The fox clan's cultivation level follows their tails. As long as a new tail grows, it means that their cultivation level can break through to the next stage. However, his other tails have long been cut off, and for some reason, they cannot grow back.
So now he only has a tail left, and his cultivation level has remained stuck at the Foundation Establishment stage for a long time.
No matter how many doctors he consulted before, including many renowned physicians known for their miraculous healing abilities, none of them could cure his injury.
But now, he has fallen in love with someone. If his cultivation remains stagnant, how can he have the face to go to her and tell her his feelings?
Who would choose to be with someone who has no future?
As he thought this, his consciousness gradually drifted into chaos.
In a daze, he heard someone softly calling his name in his ear; it was the voice he knew best.
“Junior brother,” he finally came to his senses and saw the person speaking to him clearly, “Don’t exert yourself too much, and take care of your health.”
This was Chu Li's somewhat tactful reminder. When she went out this morning, she found Nan Yi lying on the ground, his consciousness blurred. Upon checking on him, she discovered that he was exhausted from not resting for too long.
She sighed, glanced at Nan Yi who seemed to be caught in self-doubt, and thoughtfully decided not to bother him.
Even Nan Yi himself didn't expect it—he forgot that Foundation Establishment cultivators still need a certain amount of rest, and then, right in front of his senior sister, he was completely exhausted and fainted.
This is so embarrassing!
Fortunately, he quickly adjusted his mindset.
His gaze involuntarily drifted back to Chu Li's direction.
Perhaps because the two were too familiar with each other, Chu Li did not sense his approach. Instead, she was staring intently at her palm, deep in thought.
Two faint points of light lingered in the palm of his hand, but they seemed to be repelled by some kind of force, preventing them from merging smoothly.
Chu Li was slightly startled when a furry touch touched her cheek. She turned her head slightly and saw that Nan Yi had turned into a fox and was perched on her shoulder.
"Senior sister, what are you doing?"
Chu Li's thoughts returned, and she spoke slowly. She had recently been trying to merge the fragments of the two spaces, but she didn't know where the error was. She had tried several times, but the two fragments repelled each other.
Nan Yi tilted her head, looking at the light spot in Chu Li's palm, and suddenly spoke up: "Senior Sister, why don't you think about it from a different perspective..."
He stretched out his paw and gestured several times. Chu Li listened attentively, and after a long while, she nodded cautiously: "I will try the method you mentioned."
She had previously been constrained by conventional thinking, but after listening to Nan Yi's words, she gradually sorted things out and felt that his approach was worth a try.
Instead of forcing the two points to move closer together, she changed her approach, letting the two points of light wander freely in her palm...
The light flickered in and out of his palms. In a sudden moment, Chu Li clasped his hands together and opened his palms again. There was only one light spot that was brighter than the previous two.
Chu Li's eyes lit up instantly; this method was indeed feasible!
She subconsciously turned to look at Nan Yi and found that Nan Yi's eyes were also full of smiles.
Chu Li could hardly contain her excitement. She had been thinking about this for several days, and this was how she finally solved it. She lifted the fox with both hands and brought it to her eyes.
A gentle kiss landed quietly on the fox's brow.
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