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Lu Qianling was somewhat bewildered. She had indeed come to find her master, but as soon as she arrived at the door, she saw that familiar-looking fox.
She had intended to hide to the side and observe the situation first—after all, the fox looked so heartbroken that she couldn't just brazenly go in front of him.
But to her surprise, she was caught red-handed by her master. She hurriedly responded and turned to find Xie Wanqiu, her senior sister.
“Late Autumn, tell me everything that happened, including how the fox clan came to find you and how they described it…” Chu Li paused before saying the name, “Nan Yi’s injury.”
The real focus was on Nan Yi's injuries; she wanted to know why the fox clan would place their last hope on her.
Just before Xie Wanqiu arrived, Chu Li had thought about it carefully. She should no longer have any feelings for Nan Yi, so why was she still disturbed by him?
It must be that Nan Yi's wounds haven't been healed yet. In any case, he was still her junior brother before, and just for that reason, she wanted to try to help him recover.
If the injury could really be healed, then she probably wouldn't be so worried anymore.
"I had only briefly heard about Nan Yi's injury from the fox clan before. It is said that there is the power of law on it, so ordinary medicine is not very useful. And almost none of the doctors have reached the Tribulation Transcending stage, so they have no way to eliminate that law."
The laws can only be used by cultivators in the Tribulation Transcending stage. If Nan Yi still has the power of the laws on his body, it proves that when he was attacked, one of the attackers must have been a powerful cultivator in the Tribulation Transcending stage.
But then Chu Li had another question: "The power of laws... I remember that the fox clan also has one or two powerful cultivators at the Tribulation Transcending stage. Could it be that they cannot eliminate it?"
Xie Wanqiu's eyes also showed some confusion. She herself had only recently entered the Tribulation Transcending stage and hadn't even come into contact with the laws yet.
She hesitated before speaking: "I remember that a fox mentioned that a powerful figure in their clan seemed to have intervened, but for some reason, they were unable to completely eliminate it."
This caused that wisp of law power to cling tightly to Nan Yi like a malignant tumor, preventing him from making any progress in his cultivation.
After a moment's thought, Chu Li understood the situation. The power of laws also varies in level, and some higher-level laws are difficult to eliminate by lower-level laws.
As for her time law, it is almost among the top-tier, which is why the fox clan wanted to send Nan Yi over to try her out.
After figuring this out, Chu Li decided to give it a try immediately. Although she hadn't studied the laws of time in great depth, it would be enough to expel the power of another law.
The light blue skirt appeared abruptly in front of Nan Yi's eyes. He looked up in a daze, feeling that his senior sister seemed to have changed, but upon closer inspection, it seemed that nothing had changed.
Chu Li bent down, pinched the fox's nape with two fingers, and lifted it up. Their eyes met at the same level.
Nan Yi opened his mouth, wanting to ask if he still had a chance to explain the previous issues, and if he still had a chance to soothe her anger.
He also wanted to ask if she had done something to change her aura...
But before he could ask a single question, his eyes, which had been staring for too long, began to tire, and his eyelids began to droop uncontrollably. The next second, he completely lost consciousness.
Chu Li let out a soft breath. She hadn't figured out how to face him. They had just argued, and now she was running over to help him treat his injuries. It didn't seem right at all.
So she decided to knock him unconscious immediately, so he would be completely unaware of everything.
But when she saw the fine fur, she couldn't help but reach out her hand, and then she was unconsciously drawn to his gleaming eyes for a moment...
Fortunately, the final result wasn't bad.
She carried the unconscious little fox back to her dwelling.
After putting him on the bed, she couldn't help but touch him a few more times. She thought that she might not be able to touch someone with such a good feel again in the future, so she should take the opportunity to touch him more often.
Besides, he was the one who made me angry in the first place, so what's wrong with touching him a little more?
However, she did manage to restrain herself; after touching it a few times, she began to examine his wound.
The wound was located at the end of his tail, where the tail should have grown. However, due to the encroachment of the power of the law, he was unable to grow a tail after being injured, and his cultivation level could not advance any further.
Chu Li raised her right hand, and light began to flicker at her fingertips. Without hesitation, she placed the fingertip near the fox's tail.
The remaining power of the laws there seemed to be putting up a stubborn resistance. Chu Li's eyes flashed, and his aura almost poured out.
However, he was careful to restrain his aura, otherwise, with Nan Yi's current cultivation level, he might still be injured under such a powerful aura.
The entangled power of law seemed to finally give way and began to slowly retreat.
Chu Li remained solemn. She did not believe that the other party's power of law was so simple. If it were so easy to be forced back, then Nan Yi would not have needed to come to her side.
As the power of the laws beneath him receded to a certain extent and his body's light began to dim, a sudden, intense pulling sensation swept towards Chu Li!
Seeing the resistance of the laws, she felt a sense of relief, as if the dust had settled. She raised her other hand and slowly clenched it back, forcing the subtle power of the laws hidden in the air to reveal itself.
This power of law is indeed cunning. Chu Li calmly crushed the power in her hand, splitting it into two streams. One stream wrapped around the wound to attract her attention, while the other stream was quietly preparing to drag her to a certain place.
Although Chu Li didn't know where the other party planned to drag her to, it certainly wouldn't be a good place.
But at that moment, the power that had been staying on the wound suddenly reversed its state of entanglement and instead spread towards Chu Li's fingertips.
The scene before her suddenly changed, and she heard a series of impacts. Chu Li raised her eyebrows and thought casually, "This power of law is indeed up to no good. It is using its last bit of power to trap people in this space."
Unfortunately, such tactics could not trap her at all—or rather, not just her, but any powerful being who possessed the laws could escape; it was just a matter of how long it would take.
The master of this law is indeed quite powerful, but the power of this law that he left behind has been greatly depleted. In other words, there isn't enough energy left to hold back a cultivator in the Tribulation Transcending stage.
She turned to leave, but suddenly heard a familiar voice in her ear.
She subconsciously turned around to look, and only after seeing the eight tails that almost filled half the sky did she realize where that wisp of law power had sent her.
Back then, Nan Yi still possessed eight tails. Chu Li stared at him for a few moments and felt that his appearance was somewhat different from his current appearance. Could it be that his cultivation had regressed and his age had also regressed?
The man before me now appears significantly more mature.
Opposite him stood a group of... magical beasts. Unlike spirit beasts, magical beasts were more bloodthirsty and brutal.
Moreover, he didn't know who was deliberately trying to harm him. The opposing side actually had eight Nascent Soul stage cultivators, one Tribulation Transcending stage cultivator, and several Nascent Soul stage cultivators and below.
That one in the Tribulation Transcending stage must be the one who casts the laws.
This situation was naturally beyond what a Nascent Soul cultivator could handle. Even with his exceptional talent, he would find it difficult to escape unscathed.
Therefore, his tail was torn off piece by piece, and blood splattered everywhere.
Chu Li's eyes flickered with uncertainty. Even though she knew these were all things that had happened in the past, no matter what she did, she couldn't change the outcome.
But she couldn't help reaching out, trying to catch the wisp of fox fur that was falling from the sky.
The fox fur fluttered down, lightly passing through her palm and continuing along its usual path.
Then, she saw the cultivator at the Tribulation Transcending stage unleash another palm strike towards Nan Yi. That palm strike carried a powerful force of law, directly blasting Nan Yi into the pit—
Chu Li felt a surge of killing intent almost immediately, but the scene before her eyes blurred again. She was slightly stunned before realizing that her pressure had been too strong, directly crushing that strand of law and causing the image to shatter.
She stared intently at the fox before her, trying her best to suppress her overwhelming emotions.
After a long while, she sighed softly in her heart. Since she had witnessed Nan Yi's injury a few years ago, it was impossible for her to remain completely indifferent.
But... never mind, considering that Nan Yi was my junior brother before, I'll help him one more time.
Chu Li hadn't used too much force, so Nan Yi regained consciousness in a short time.
He opened his eyes, his mind still a little foggy, and murmured, "Senior Sister..."
Before he lost consciousness, he clearly saw his senior sister.
Was it just my imagination?
Panic rose almost instantly from the bottom of his heart. That day in the Wuxiang Hall, he was only concerned with protecting his pitiful self-esteem, trying to deceive his senior sister.
But then my senior sister suddenly returned to her original residence and stopped appearing outside.
No matter how much he tried to explain to his senior sister, he couldn't find her—he successfully found the entrance, but he could no longer enter it.
At this moment, he realized with absolute clarity that if Chu Li did not want to see him, then he probably had no way to see her again.
Perhaps only if his cultivation also reaches the Tribulation Transcending stage can he truly rely on himself to come to Chu Li's side. But regardless of how long it takes to enter the Tribulation Transcending stage, his current injuries directly kill off this possibility.
Never before had he so loathed himself for being injured, so loathed himself for remaining silent until the very last moment.
In the past few days, he had thought that if he were willing to tell everything in the Wuxiang Palace, would Chu Li at least have a chance to forgive him?
Now we can only hope that she still has a sliver of compassion and a sliver of longing for her original self.
A sudden light shone into the tightly concealed room, and Nan Yi's actions preceded his thought.
With a sudden kick of its limbs on the bed, the fox soared into the air and headed straight for the figure at the door.
Chu Li was caught off guard and was hit hard as soon as she pushed the door open. She was not seriously injured, but the fox in front of her kept falling down after it hit her.
She twitched her lips and subconsciously grabbed the fox by the scruff of its neck again. As if it were a signal, a huge fox tail wrapped around her waist, while the fox's limbs clung tightly to her body without hesitation.
Chu Li: ……
She didn't even need to reach out; look how skillfully she followed up her move.
"Get down."
Nan Yi pretended not to hear, his whole body tense, as if afraid the other person would pull him off.
He was really scared this time. What if Chu Li left again as soon as he let go?
"Lili, let me explain..."
Chu Li's brows furrowed almost instantly. "What did you call me?"
She was somewhat incredulous. She had only ever been addressed in this way when she was a child. Since her cultivation level had risen to the Tribulation Transcending stage, no one had dared to address her in this way.
Even cultivators of the same cultivation level as her address her as Venerable One.
The voice in front of her paused for a moment before saying, "Can't I call you Lili? I've wanted to call you that for a long time, and besides, you're not really my... senior sister anymore."
Under Chu Li's deep gaze, he finally swallowed those two words back, but that didn't prevent the other party from understanding his meaning.
He said, trying to cover it up, "Too many people can call you 'Senior Sister,' I don't want such an ordinary title."
Nan Yi paused for a moment before continuing, "It was indeed my fault for concealing the truth before, but now, are you still willing to listen to my explanation?"
His voice was low, but Chu Li was very close to him and heard every word clearly.
It seems that a soft spot in my heart is silently collapsing.
Chu Li suddenly realized that she had been wrong before. Even if the memories of those thousands of years would overwhelm the memories of the past two years, the love that arose from those memories was still shining brightly.
One day, these memories, tinged with light, will sprout anew and once again occupy a large part of her heart.
Those principles she once thought were unbreakable and unchangeable by anyone turned out to be incredibly fragile in the face of certain people.
She finally smiled slowly, a smile that was one of relief and openness, and she hugged the fox in her arms tightly.
"Great, I have plenty of time left, so I can listen to your explanation slowly."
The door was still half open, and the gentle sunlight shone on the two of them, as if they were gilded with an eternal golden light.
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