In the main hall behind him, there was a wave of spiritual power, subtle and fleeting, which was deliberately discovered by the people inside.
Lu Yun stood up straight. As she watched, the door of the main hall opened. The elders inside had long disappeared, and only one person stepped out.
The flaming red clothes swayed as the other party walked, like the most gorgeous flower, blooming with a touch of evil that was unique to him.
In Lu Yun's memory, her senior brother was always in high spirits, as if he had endless energy to accompany her to spend money.
But at this moment, as she looked at the person walking in the darkness, Lu Yun keenly caught a trace of fatigue on the person, which flashed away and was well concealed.
The two stared at each other, Lu Yun saw the usual smile on Ji Hongxi's face, and Ji Hongxi saw the coldness in Lu Yun's eyes.
Ji Hongxi paused for a moment, then came naturally.
"Don't worry, I'm fine."
Ji Hongxi raised the corners of his lips, but the expression on his face remained unchanged. He took a step forward, his body as stable as an unyielding mountain.
Lu Yun shook her head, she walked over and supported him.
"If it doesn't work, don't be brave."
"Well, how can a man say no, little junior sister, how about I prove it to you."
Ji Hongxi spoke nonsense with a look of indifference on her face.
Normally, Lu Yun would have thrown the person away, but this time, she just gently supported him.
The fingers pressed on the opponent's wrist, and all the spiritual energy in the opponent's body was drained.
The demon bone was like jade, extremely warm and moist, but in Lu Yun's perception, the ink color that should have been pitch black turned into a mottled gray-black, lifeless.
"It's a seal."
She pursed her lips, restraining herself from getting angry.
"Um."
"This is the result of Master's discussion with them."
"very good already."
The punishment he received was to put a few seals in his body so that he could not use the power of the demon bone at will. Compared with being treated as a monster and cleaning up the family, the Hidden Sword Sect was biased enough to favor him.
For a sect like the Hidden Sword Sect, reputation and strength are both a manifestation of status and a constraint on behavior.
He was not expelled from the Hidden Sword Sect, and as a disciple, every move he made was related to the honor of the sect, so he deserved to suffer this little trick.
It's just that this process is a bit cruel.
"Does it hurt?"
Lu Yun frowned, the emotion in his heavy eyes unclear.
"It won't hurt."
Ji Hongxi stretched out her hand to smooth the wrinkles between Lu Yun's eyebrows. Her seductive peach blossom eyes were full of tenderness, but her words were particularly bad.
"I just can't go out with you anymore, little junior sister."
He wanted to smile, but his body was too heavy, and the evil smile he was most accustomed to couldn't raise the perfect arc.
Lu Yun understood what the other party really wanted to say.
"It doesn't matter, I will handle Second Senior Brother's matter."
She bent down and lifted the person up with her thin shoulders. When the other person wanted to struggle, a sword was placed on Ji Hongxi's neck.
"If you don't want your neck to bloom, don't move."
What can a person who can't do it do to show off his strength?
Faced with the coercion of his junior sister, Ji Hongxi finally made a compromise and stayed peacefully on Lu Yun's back.
Feeling Lu Yun's thin but strong shoulders beneath her, Ji Hongxi was speechless for a long time before speaking softly.
"My little junior sister has grown up."
A very soft voice, almost a whisper, floated into the wind.
She has grown up.
So old that he is no longer the child who pulls his sleeves and wants to hear all kinds of fairy tales.
She was big enough to stand beside him and shield him from the wind and rain.
The little junior sister who he had high hopes for grew up as he wished.
"Eldest brother, I have grown up a long time ago."
In this world of cultivation where the jungle prevails, how could she remain a child hiding behind her senior brother?
So...when you need to rely on me, just rely on me.
The unfinished words stopped at her lips and teeth, but she knew that the other party could understand.
The deep laughter caused Ji Hongxi's chest to vibrate. Feeling the spiritual power belonging to his junior sister soothing the pain in his organs, Ji Hongxi closed his eyes with peace of mind and allowed himself to fall into coma.
Lu Yun carried Ji Hongxi back to Wentian Peak.
Strictly speaking, Ji Hongxi was not injured. He just forcibly dispersed the spiritual power in his body and had people carve a seal on his demonic bones without any resistance.
After absorbing the spiritual energy again, the opponent will recover.
But before that, Ji Hongxi would sleep deeply.
The constant wind blowing on Wentian Peak was too strong and always reminded them of the difficulty of the road they were traveling on.
When she reached the top of the mountain, she saw Yun Shuiqing waiting there.
"Fourth senior brother."
She said hello: "I will send senior brother back first."
Yun Shuiqing followed Lu Yun, and all the words finally dispersed when she saw the person.
The look he looked at Ji Hongxi was particularly complex, and the ice in his eyes was dancing, as if it was turning into a cold sharp blade to choose someone's life.
But eventually, that emotion subsided.
He said: "Okay, let me help you."
He has always known that the senior brothers and sisters all have their own secrets.
For Yun Shuiqing, the biggest secret was the identity of Sword Spirit, and he had never concealed this in front of these people.
Unlike human beings who grew up little by little as a toddler, he appeared like what he is today.
I didn't understand anything at that time, but I was brought back by Yun Tian, and with the name Yun Shuiqing, I became a young disciple on Wentian Peak.
What he was most curious about at that time was not his master Yuntian, but this senior brother who seemed gentle but was actually cold.
He takes good care of these junior brothers.
But he could also clearly see that his eyes were cold. He used his best acting skills to teach these juniors gently in order to satisfy the master who was so eager to fool.
Later, he discovered this situation in the second senior brother and even the third senior brother.
Brothers and sisters can be entrusted with life and death, but secretly they hide it from each other. The distance between them is clear and no one has ever crossed it.
Familiar...yet strange.
This change happened after the junior sister appeared.
The smile in the eyes of the senior brother became real. In addition to the sword, the second brother Jian Chi also saw his little junior sister. Even the most hypocritical third senior brother spent more time on Wentian Peak because of his little junior sister.
At that time, he understood that the junior sister was the link between them and the senior brothers.
She restrained them, involved them, and brought these abnormal disciples together to prevent them from going too far.
What they thought about most at that time was how to protect their little junior sister and let her grow up happily.
In the blink of an eye, more than ten years later, the little girl had thick shoulders. She held the sword and walked side by side with them.
That's what he thought.
But he knew clearly that he was not among "them".
He is different from them.
Just like when the senior brother was being tortured in the main hall, the junior sister could obviously call him for help, but she didn't.
Because he is a sword spirit, a sword spirit belonging to the Hidden Sword Sect, he and the Hidden Sword Sect are one, and it is his destiny to stay here.
But if this fate would prevent him from becoming "them", he... didn't want to admit it. (End of chapter)
