Qiong Yi was stunned. The strange aura and ghostly cries he had just felt melted like snow after this clear and magnetic voice sounded. With a sore nose, she staggered to her feet and ran towards the man, grabbing his arm tightly.
The young man was confused by her move. Just now he felt an unusual smell outside the forest, so he came in with a lamp and saw Qiong Yi, who was slumped on the ground with a pale complexion.
"Yes...yes..." Qiong Yi couldn't stop trembling between her teeth and her words were stumbling.
Sheng Xuanyuan pushed her hand away, looked at the bloodless cheek, and said in a calm tone: "What's there?"
"There is a ghost... there is a ghost here..."
"Oh." Sheng Xuanyuan responded, holding the lantern and walking out.
Qiong Yi stagnated, her legs were still weak and she couldn't keep up with his pace at all, "...Hey..."
Sheng Xuanyuan did not pause to wait for her.
Qiong Yi called again, but still no response.
She felt extremely wronged: "Sheng Xuanyuan!!"
Sheng Xuanyuan looked back at her.
"...Don't leave."
Qiong Yi whispered, almost pleading.
"Why?"
Qiong Yi said dumbly: "...I...I'm afraid...I'm afraid of ghosts...you, don't...walk so fast..."
Sheng Xuanyuan looked at her carefully from head to toe, as if thinking about something, then passed his hand over and tentatively called out: "Lu Qiongyi?"
Qiong Yi raised her head in surprise. She never expected that Sheng Xuanyuan would call her this name, and he also added a surname inexplicably.
She put her hand on the hand he held out to her. The hand was very slender and warm. Sheng Xuanyuan held her hand tightly, and Qiong Yi felt the energy flowing in. After a moment, he shook off her hand and said, "If you can walk, just walk."
"I thought you were a ghost." Sheng Xuanyuan walked in front with a lantern and explained lightly. Since ghosts cannot carry their true energy, he had to identify themselves through physical contact: "This forest is not very peaceful. Rumors have always said that there is a monster. The female ghost usually hides very deep and refuses to show up, and the Su family has not caught her, so the disciples usually don't come here."
Whether he was frightened or choked by Sheng Xuanyuan's words, Qiong Yi was speechless: "...I look like a female ghost?"
Sheng Xuanyuan pictured her pale face in his mind and said, "Yes."
Qiong Yi was silent for a long time, and then asked: "...Then how do you know my name?"
"You said it yourself in today's class." Sheng Xuanyuan said.
Qiong Yi was speechless: "...my name is Qiong Yi. There is no 'Lu', so I am not Lu Qiong Yi."
He said perfunctorily and asked, "Since you are afraid of ghosts, why did you come here by yourself?"
"I don't know." Qiong Yi hesitated, "If I didn't know there was a ghost here, I wouldn't have come here if I knew..."
Sheng Xuanyuan couldn't understand that a Taoist cultivator could be afraid of ghosts. It was unheard of. His eyes were full of disdain: "Then what is your sword for?"
"...Cultivate your moral character." Qiong Yi turned his head and replied.
Sheng Xuanyuan stopped talking and led Qiong Yi out of the woods. After leaving the woods, Qiong Yi discovered that there was a moon tonight and scattered stars. She didn't know what would have happened if she hadn't met Sheng Xuanyuan tonight, and her mind was still unclear, like a nightmare.
Sheng Xuanyuan looked back at her: "When you go back, be sure to keep your mind clean and don't get infected by ghosts and evil spirits."
She nodded.
After speaking, Sheng Xuanyuan walked away without looking back.
Qiong also called out: "Sheng Xuanyuan."
Sheng Xuanyuan looked back at her and saw her saying very sincerely: "Thank you for saving me."
He glanced away, said calmly, "No, no," and left.
When Sheng Xuanyuan returned to his dormitory, Su Ye had been waiting for him in the room for a long time. When he saw him entering the room, he smiled and asked, "How long does it take to walk to that point?"
"I encountered an evil spirit." Sheng Xuanyuan said indifferently: "I didn't see a ghost, I only saw a person."
As the head of the Su family, Su Ye naturally knew that there was an evil spirit hiding in the gloomy grove: "That ghost has been silent for many years without any movement. We all thought it had been annihilated. How could you encounter it?" He said. After a pause, he asked again: "Meeting someone? Who did you meet?"
"He's from the Lu family. He's the one who came late today, and he's also the one who had a conflict with his family."
Su Ye was happy: "I remember. She was in the same class as us, called Lu Xiyan? Why is she there? Could it be that she got lost after dark?"
"She said she saw someone sneaky."
"Really? Is the female ghost really awake?"
"I don't know. However, I was indeed attracted by the ghost breath."
"There's something strange." Su Ye thought as he held his chin.
Sheng Xuanyuan recalled the ghostly aura he felt on the school grounds, "The aura seemed thick but not light, not an imp."
"Suppressing evil spirits and exorcising ghosts is your strong point, so what if you are not a kid." Su Ye straightened his body and said, praising him in his words, but his expression seemed to be bragging about himself. After a second thought, he added: "It's strange, that sneaky one has not been seen for many years, why does it appear now?"
Sheng Xuanyuan only felt that the affairs within the school area should be left to the Su family. Although he came from a family of exorcists, he was not a nosy person. After chatting with Su Ye for a few words, he went back to the inner room to meditate and practice.
*
The night passed by.
Qiong Yi returned to the inn and slept peacefully that night, without any nightmares. When he told Lu Li what happened that night the next morning, Lu Li nervously wiped his precious senior sister's body all over her body. I looked over it carefully to make sure there was nothing wrong.
"It was the man surnamed Sheng who took me out of the woods." Qiong Yi punched him on the forehead when he looked at himself, "Don't look at me, I'm fine now!"
Lu Li was beaten but was not angry. He felt that his senior sister's energy had returned. He stroked his chest and sighed, "Fortunately, it's okay." He knew very well how afraid Qiong Yi was of ghosts, even more so than ordinary people without cultivation. , and are more likely to be targeted by ghosts who covet spiritual power.
"It's okay if you didn't stop me at that time. You didn't come to find me after I ran out. I almost died of fear inside." Qiong Yi said angrily.
Lu Li paused and whispered, "It's Senior Sister. You said I should leave you alone..."
Qiong Yi was speechless: "...You really don't care when I say I don't care? No wonder Xiaosi said you are stupid."
"Ah?" Lu Li was puzzled, and felt even more confused when Qiong Yi looked like he was trying to figure it out on his own. The two walked into the school together and went to different rooms. Qiong also found the seat where he sat yesterday.
"Did you hear that? Ms. Xie really isn't coming this time."
"Why, do you really look down on this study gathering?"
"Hey, I guess it was before, but now? I'm just busy with work."
"What to say?"
"There is a riot in the Western Desert!"
Qiong Yi turned around to listen to the discussion of several people around him, and thought to himself: "The Xie family is so powerful that it is best to organize their troops. How can they not even be able to suppress the Rongjiang army?" She was lost in thought for a moment, only to see the upright-looking man in white clothes from yesterday. The old master walked into the school room. He looked around the room, and suddenly there was silence.
The master's lectures were really boring, and he just read the scriptures, with long and narrow tones that wandered around the room, making people feel sleepy. Qiong had also been familiar with this classic book about body and mind since she was a child, and now she knew it by heart. She was listening with her chin propped up in boredom, her eyelashes fluttering and blinking. As she looked around, she suddenly saw the man sitting in the row behind her. , Su Ye was lying on the table and sleeping soundly.
"Pfft." Qiong Yi couldn't help laughing, and thought to herself: "This Su Ye really deserves the name of the Su family's young master, and he sleeps so blatantly. Besides, this master is the head of the Su family. Sent here, right? I wonder what I would think when I see my young master sleeping in the hall."
"Su Ye——!"
The old master walked to Su Ye and slapped his ruler on the table where he was lying: "Go outside and stand sober! Hurry up!!" The master discovered it faster than Qiong Yi expected. Su Ye sat up in a daze. After feeling at a loss, he got used to walking outside. He walked to the door and stood there, rubbing his eyes, as if he hadn't woken up yet.
There was a burst of laughter in the room, and it took a long time for the veins on my husband's forehead to disappear.
After class ended, Su Ye also stood up and woke up. This man was so shameless that he slipped back into the room as if nothing had happened. He also said hello to the master who walked out of the school, and said "walk slowly" with a smile.
Qiong had never seen such an arrogant and ruthless person before. Not only did she find it interesting, but she also felt a sense of awe in her heart.
Su Ye went back indoors to collect the pens and papers on the table. He was not depressed because he was made to stand for a whole class. He actually seemed quite happy.
Seeing him like this, Sheng Xuanyuan didn't bother to talk much, so he secretly thought to himself that he would be lucky, and heard the voices of others talking in his ears:
"Those two..."
"Over there? Young Master Su Su Ye and Young Master Sheng Xuanyuan of the Sheng clan are all celebrities among the relatives of the five major clans today."
"Su Ye? Hehe, then fame means notoriety, right? Look at how he is doing nothing all day long. He is ignorant and has no skills. He is idle and cannot be a big deal. I heard that he is very romantic."
"Pfft - I heard that Sheng Xuanyuan has an older brother."
"Not just one, but two!" He added, "However, if his second brother Sheng Zijing hadn't been deaf, how could he still have Sheng Xuanyuan."
"Snapped--"
There was a sound of breaking wind, and a black shadow flew between the two people like an arrow leaving its string, and then embedded itself deeply into the wall. Cracks gradually appeared in the wall. Qiong also looked at it, and saw that it was just a pen that had not been dipped in ink.
"Say, keep talking."
Su Ye pressed down the other pen spinning in Sheng Xuanyuan's hand, smiled and said to the two people, "Why don't you say anything anymore? Huh?"
Sheng Xuanyuan said expressionlessly: "My hands are slippery."
Then he said, "If you criticize me more, I don't mind sliding on you two."
"Sheng Xuanyuan, don't be angry. Isn't what they said about me the truth?" Su Ye walked over with a smile, stepped heavily on the table in front of the two people, then looked down and sneered, his momentum suddenly increased: "But. Again. Sheng Zijing, who spreads rumors, says, be careful..."
He smiled and wiped his neck with the blade of his hand, his brows raised.
The two people were obviously frightened and stunned. They knew they were wrong but were too angry to say anything, so they had no choice but to walk out of the classroom. One of them seemed to turn around and cursed something, but was stopped and pulled away by the other.
Qiong also saw the excitement and thought it was a big deal. After witnessing the whole process from the sidelines, she thought it was a good show. She walked to the wall and pulled out the pen. The pen penetrated deeply into the wall but was not damaged at all, showing the strength of her secret power.
This level of cultivation... is probably comparable to that of senior brother.
She walked up to Sheng Xuanyuan and handed over the pen. When she was about to say something like "well done", she somehow remembered that she had called Sheng Zijing deaf some time ago, and she couldn't help but feel guilty.
Although this has always been said outside.
"Master Sheng, pen." Qiong Yi raised his hand to hold the pen, "Thank you very much for last night."
Sheng Xuanyuan took the pen and set it up: "Didn't you say thank you before? Why do you have to say it again?"
Qiong Yi was just being polite, but she froze when he heard him ask such a question, and replied with a dry smile on her face: "Oh."
What's going on with this guy?
Why does it choke people to death every time they speak a word?
Qiong Yi turned around with a smile on her face, thinking: If she hadn't taken me out of that shabby forest last night, I would have been kicked in the head by a donkey before I came to talk to you.
