Chapter 296: If they could cultivate together, their injuries would probably heal faster.
Mu Sanniang watched her younger brother.
Chen An gazed at the frail yang girl in his embrace.
His expression was a little nervous, and he gently held Jiang Qiuchi’s delicate palm.
Just as he was about to ask, he saw the girl’s eyelashes flutter, and her eyes slowly opened.
Chen An’s expression brightened, and then he heard Jiang Qiuchi move her lips.
Her voice was a little weak, and Chen An subconsciously leaned in, concentrating to listen.
Although she could somewhat understand, seeing this scene with her own eyes still made Mu Sanniang lower her gaze, and her body couldn’t help but tremble.
“Since you have nowhere else to go, why don’t you come to my place first…”
Jiang Qiuchi blinked and said carefully.
Chen An was stunned. He hadn’t expected her to speak not of her injuries, but of this.
He frowned, “But I don’t know where the Joyful Union Sect is, and is that place really suitable for quiet cultivation and healing?”
Chen An was deeply skeptical.
Despite her severe injuries, Jiang Qiuchi glared at him as if she had a surge of energy.
“Of course, I told you it’s not what you think!”
Finally, the girl puffed up her cheeks and stubbornly added, “And it’s not the Joyful Union Sect, it’s the Great Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Harmony Sect!”
As she spoke, she glanced at the young man’s left wrist.
The blue cloth that had been wrapped there was gone, replaced by a band of pure white.
Jiang Qiuchi then looked at the white-skirted girl standing quietly beside them. She felt an inexplicable ache in her heart, and her expression turned dejected.
Her reaction made Chen An think her injuries had worsened. He quickly picked up the girl and replied, “Alright, you’re the boss!”
Looking at the young man’s anxious appearance, Jiang Qiuchi’s heart warmed.
However, a very selfish thought suddenly flashed through her mind.
Once the thought arose, it could no longer be dispelled, like an evil whisper, lingering at the tip of her heart.
If only she could stay injured forever…
Jiang Qiuchi closed her eyes again, not daring to think further.
Meanwhile, seeing that the girl could still argue with him, Chen An’s heavy heart finally settled.
He breathed a sigh of relief and, remembering something, turned to look at Mu Sanniang beside him, who had been silent until now.
Her dark hair fell on her shoulders, and she lowered her head slightly, her expression unclear.
Chen An scratched his head, a hint of unnaturalness on his face, and he spoke softly, “Sister, is it okay?”
Mu Sanniang raised her head upon hearing this.
The girl’s expression remained unchanged, showing no sign of any anomaly. She knew what her younger brother meant and gave a shallow hum.
“It’s fine as long as my brother decides…”
When it came to her younger brother, despite any reservations, Mu Sanniang still chose to concede.
Of course, this was also greatly related to Jiang Qiuchi’s selfless act of blocking that sword strike.
In the face of such a situation, if Chen An didn’t want to refuse Jiang Qiuchi’s request, Mu Sanniang didn’t want to make her brother feel embarrassed.
She was always like this, unconditionally doting on the young man.
After all, as long as her brother was still hers in the end…
Mu Sanniang reassured herself, suppressing the emerging negative emotions deep within her heart, not showing even the slightest hint.
It’s fine…
It’s fine…
A voice interrupted Mu Sanniang’s silence.
It was her younger brother.
He was holding the red-dressed girl and had already taken a few steps. He stopped and turned back, his tone sounding a bit confused.
“Sister, let’s… go?”
Mu Sanniang was stunned for a moment, then came to her senses and followed.
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The Great Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Harmony Sect had always been a very mysterious sect in the cultivation world.
Although the sect’s name was rather suggestive, it was actually a single lineage. The sect’s exact location had never been known, and its internal affairs were far from what ordinary people imagined.
However, it was by no means a proper, righteous sect.
Especially the current generation’s personal disciple, Saintess Jiang Qiuchi, had once given the Great Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Harmony Sect a notoriously bad reputation, making it almost equivalent to the Joyful Union Sect.
This was because of the things she had done, including but not limited to persuading monks to forsake their vows, painting erotic pictures of the Buddha, setting fire to three thousand four hundred volumes of Taoist scriptures in the Zhongnan Academy, and single-handedly accusing the academy’s three thousand disciples of being hypocrites, and so on…
It was only in the last ten years, perhaps due to some encounter, that she had become much more subdued.
However, even though she was no longer as active, legends about this vixen of the Joyful Union Sect were still spread throughout the jianghu.
Therefore, when Chen An, accompanied by the two girls, stepped into the large city named Xiangcheng for the first time according to Jiang Qiuchi’s instructions, he easily heard tales of this infamous vixen at the inn where they stayed.
He looked at the storyteller on the stage who was speaking fluently, coughed lightly, and turned to go upstairs.
The storyteller frowned, glanced at him, and then continued to speak with great animation, “It is said that the vixen, although she committed all sorts of evil and enjoyed playing with people’s hearts, was truly of exquisite beauty. Coupled with the persistent rumors that anyone who cultivated with her could easily break through realms, it stirred the hearts of countless cultivation prodigies…”
Chen An walked up to the second floor, hearing the incessant voices from downstairs. He thought, you’re determined to go down the path of self-destruction, I can’t even save you if I wanted to.
He reached the door of the room they had booked and was stunned as he opened it.
Because the two girls inside were staring at each other.
One was lying on the bed, and the other was standing by the bed.
The one lying on the bed was naturally the vixen mentioned by the storyteller downstairs.
However, she was not the arrogant and domineering figure she once was. Her charming face revealed an uncontainable weakness.
She had taken most of Zuo Yunshan’s sword energy head-on. The fact that she was still alive was a miracle.
It had to be said that after causing trouble in the jianghu for so many years, Jiang Qiuchi’s survival skills were not to be underestimated.
And the one standing was Mu Sanniang.
She gazed at the girl lying on the bed, her expression emotionless, but her eyes were fixed on her, making Jiang Qiuchi feel somewhat uneasy.
She heard the sound of the young man opening the door and quickly looked over, calling out to him, her tone subconsciously tinged with a hint of grievance.
Her charming eyes complemented her appealing expression.
“Chen An~”
The girl’s voice was exceptionally delicate.
Chen An walked over when he heard this.
He sat by the bed, gently held her hand, and asked softly.
“What’s wrong?” he asked.
Jiang Qiuchi first glanced at Mu Sanniang casually, then shook her head and said softly, “It’s nothing, I just wanted to call you.”
Getting the expected answer, Chen An could only smile helplessly and didn’t say anything.
There was no other way; patients always received preferential treatment.
Especially since she was ill because of him.
Because he was focused on Jiang Qiuchi’s condition, Chen An did not notice the subtle change in his younger brother’s expression behind him.
Mu Sanniang gritted her teeth, her hand by her side clenched tightly.
Damn old vixen…
At this moment, in Mu Sanniang’s heart, Jiang Qiuchi had become the primary rival attempting to snatch her brother away.
And the young man by the bed, also because he had his back to her, prevented Mu Sanniang from seeing the subtle change on his face.
Because just now, Chen An had received a telepathic message from Jiang Qiuchi.
“If they could cultivate together, their injuries would probably heal faster…”
The girl looked at him pitifully, then deliberately averted her gaze and sent a telepathic message, “But let’s forget it. Although the internal injuries caused by the sword energy are somewhat painful, they are bearable.”
“I just hope that I won’t make you do things you don’t like.”
(End of Chapter)
