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Seeing Qi Heng, she quickly put down her things and said, "Welcome back to the mountain, Elder Tai."
Qi Heng waved his hand and walked inside with Liu Shu.
She looked back with some surprise, took a careful look, and realized that they were actually two ghosts.
The ghosts of Maoshan are obviously unable to feed on life energy. They can move under the sun only because the Taoist priests on the mountain use spells to sustain them.
Qiheng noticed her frequent glances back and grabbed her arm. "No need to look anymore. Go and worship the master, and you can ask anything you want."
Liushu finally turned around and hurriedly followed him with his short legs.
After passing the mountain gate and several courtyards, they arrived at a large hall.
There were disciple guards at the doors on both sides. When they saw Qiheng hadn't had a chance to pay his respects yet, they interrupted him, "Where is Qifang?"
"The headmaster is meditating in the back mountain."
Qi Heng waved his hand and hurriedly went there with Liu Shu. There was a hint of impatience in his appearance.
The disciples on guard looked at each other, not knowing what could make Elder Tai so anxious.
*
There is a grave monument in the back mountain, and it is rumored to be a gateway to the unseen underworld.
The sword in Qì Fǎng's hand can dance with blossoms, and its cold white light is particularly dazzling and blinding under the sunlight.
At the age of eighteen or nineteen, with a look that falls somewhere between youth and adulthood, his appearance is as striking as a sharp sword in this realm.
Despite his youthful face showing signs of greenness, it bears an exquisite delicacy, much like the sword he wields, gleaming with a cold light.
After completing a set of sword moves, when she tried to sheath her sword, some scattered sword aura could not be controlled and cut a crack on the nearby cliff wall.
As a result, Qifang furrowed her brows.
After practicing for a long time, the sword aura still cannot converge perfectly.
"Qi Fang!" At this moment, a familiar voice rang out not far away, sounding quite satisfied. "Not bad, you have actually reached a high level of proficiency in the Hanguang Sword. It seems that during the time I was away, you have made some progress."
Qi Fang's expression warmed up a bit as he faced Qiheng: "Master, you give me too much credit."
Qiheng knew that his disciple had a cold personality and didn't waste words: "This time, I returned to bring you a disciple."
He smiled and pulled the puzzled Liushu out from his side, introducing, "This is Liushu that I found down the mountain, naturally adept at understanding yin and yang. He used to be a young beggar, no stranger to hardship, and I've brought him here to be your apprentice."
留殊被齐衡扯到身前，惊喜的几乎说不出话。
少年白皙的脖子上留着一道她最熟悉不过的印记。
要不是还有点理智，她险些开口直接叫了哥哥。
Since recognizing the two of them, she has never found them so quickly, especially for Song Shi.
And Qi Fang, who looked over because of Qi Heng's words, also froze when she met a pair of cat-like eyes.
These eyes made him feel familiar.
Even this child, his whole being carries a sense of familiarity that leaves him speechless.
He couldn't help but recall a person.
But the child died.
Qi Fang's eyes suddenly condensed a layer of flowing light, standing in the dazzling white sunlight with eyebrows slightly drooping, extending a pale white hand to Liu Shu: "You come here."
Staring at him all the time, Liu Shu immediately went forward, leaving Qi Heng, who was about to comfort her, stunned.
What's going on one by one?
Is this one with lowered eyes and a gentle look the disciple who always vents cold air? And is this obedient one who goes along with whatever he's told the little brat he picked up on the way and pretends to be old and steady?
Liushu walked over and obediently placed his hand on the hand extended by Qifang.
The cold, pale, slender fingers gripped a yellow and skinny chicken claw, to be honest, it looked quite ugly, especially in contrast.
But Qian Fang did not show any disgust.
Liu Shi could feel a warm flow without any threat flowing through the tendons and veins, probably checking the bones and talents.
This process lasted for about half a stick incense, and Liu Shi saw a faint redness gradually spreading in Qian Fang's eye sockets. His eyelashes quickly drooped, blocking any other emotions in his eyes.
Although he quickly contained his emotions, Liusu still felt an indescribable sadness and surprise emanating from him.
She blinked, pretending to be oblivious, but secretly wanted to pat her brother's head to comfort him in this state.
The relationship between the host and Qi Fang in this world is also not simple.
"You should follow me from now on, I will be your master," the young man's cold voice had a warmth that he couldn't restrain.
Qiheng's eyelids were twitching as he listened on the side.
His beloved apprentice is not in the right state.
What's wrong with this girl? Could it be what he's thinking?
He even regrets a little bringing this girl back with him.
Especially after the apprenticeship ceremony, the level of care his beloved disciple has for that little girl is simply astonishing.
After enduring for over a month, he needed to go down the mountain again and finally had a good talk with Qifang before leaving.
"Qing Fang ah...during these days, I've observed that you have developed some inappropriate feelings towards that little girl Li Shu... Honestly, tell your master, is it true?"
Qi Fang pursed his lips and Qi Heng couldn't help but think that things were not going well. Qi Fang's resistant posture clearly indicated that he hit the nail on the head.
Unexpectedly, the next moment, Qi Fang spoke up: "Teacher, before you rescued me, our Qi family was wiped out by bandits. I wasn't at home at that time and was the only one who managed to escape. I went out to buy sugar figures for my younger sister."
A 19-year-old boy, with tears in his eyes again in front of his master, stuttered words that he couldn't normally say: "I thought I was the only one who survived. She was only three years old at that time, so small. I thought she couldn't survive, master."
"I thought she wouldn't survive... everyone died."
Qi Heng was dumbfounded, never expecting this relationship.
Qi Fang was born into a wealthy merchant family in Xuanzhou, but tragically became the sole survivor after the annihilation of her family overnight.
He slipped out to the night market to buy sugar people for his sister and escaped a disaster.
When Qiheng found him, the teenager was kneeling in a congealed pool of blood, sobbing in a hoarse voice, on the verge of passing out, with ghosts filling the entire courtyard.
If it weren't for him picking up the person, the young man might have committed suicide in the next moment and become one of the many lost souls in the courtyard.
After being picked up, the person fell silent and started practicing without uttering a word, becoming completely indifferent and devoid of human emotions.
Qi Heng sighed and said, "I misunderstood. I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence. When do you plan to tell her about this?"
Qi Fang touched the sword at his waist and whispered, "She doesn't need to know about these things."
"Don't you plan on acknowledging your sister?"
"Being her master is enough."
*
"Master." Liu Shu handed the talisman in his hand to Qi Fang, waiting for him to inspect it.
It has been five and a half years since they went up the mountain.
In the past five years, Liushu has become a revered figure in the entire Maoshan School, and even in the entire Daoist community.
The only one who could surpass her peers like this before was her master, Qifang.
Whenever disciples from other sects encounter disciples from Mount Mao, their tone is often sour as they ask how both geniuses ended up being recruited by Mount Mao.
Qi Fang took the talisman and after inspecting it, said, "Very good."
His look with droopy eyebrows and eyes was somewhat gentle, with a clear and gentle face. The girl standing next to him had a delicate appearance, resembling him by about seventy to eighty percent.
Returning the talisman to Liú Shū: "How is your Hán Guāng sword practice going?"
"Flexible and in control." Liushu's words are not exaggerated.
In fact, she has long been able to be flexible and in control.
After all, she is different from Qifang.
In the case of equal talent, Qifang's life only lasted twenty-four years, while Liushu has already experienced several worlds, and her cultivation is beyond comparison with ordinary people.
Relearning is just a change in the way spiritual power is manifested.
Qi Fang nodded and left after assigning new homework.
Leaving his courtyard, Liu Su went around to the back mountain and walked down to the foot of the mountain.
On the way, I met several disciples sneaking down the mountain. I was scared and relieved when I recognized who they were.
"Did the junior sister complete her homework so quickly?"
"What does the junior sister plan to do outside the mountain today?"
Several people asked questions with a smile on their faces.
Liu Shu casually pulled off a branch and lightly tapped it on the ground, saying, "It's the time for the midday lecture. I just heard from my master that the disciples will be summoned for a surprise inspection of today's lessons at three-quarters past the hour. I wonder how well prepared my fellow disciples are."
As soon as they saw it, their faces changed and they scrambled up the mountain.
By the third quarter of an hour after noon, they were done for today!
Leaving with a satisfied smile, Liushu slowly descended the mountain.
At the foot of the mountain, there was a small town. She went around to a teahouse, and the server inside leisurely approached her with a smile, saying, "Miss Li, you're late today."
Liushu directly throws the silver to him: "Just give me the item."
Xiao Er takes the silver, runs back to the backyard, and after a while, he really comes out with the item: "They are all here from these days."
After taking the remains, Liushu raised her hand and left the teahouse.
In her hand was a folded paper, on which were recorded some strange events that had occurred recently in Chaozhou, the place where Xie Lin'an was located, especially those related to Taoists or ghosts.
This habit started three years ago.
The system cannot detect such a far place, so she has to go out and get it herself.
Fortunately, the tea house is reliable.
She walked towards the mountain while looking at the things recorded on the paper.
Actually, it's nothing much. Most of them are obviously fabricated fake stories, but there are also some useful things among them.
For example, during the five years she has been away, Qisu is no longer a beggar. Moreover, she has managed a restaurant in Chaozhou with the money she left behind and has become quite famous.
After all, there are not many young people who can start from scratch and become restaurant owners like him. And considering his background as a beggar, it adds even more story elements. Many people who visit Chaozhou will hear about this story.
She continued to flip through the pages, and suddenly came across a paragraph.
"The newly appointed governor of Chaozhou has invited a group of Taoist priests to exorcise the ghosts in the abandoned mansion from the previous dynasty, which has been deserted for nearly a century. Those who entered the haunted mansion returned insane."
留殊脸色因为这么一句话骤变。
她将纸收好匆匆上山，其他弟子正在被于长老检查功课，先前溜下山的几个在人群最前方挨罚，戒尺一下下打的闷响，光是看着都觉得疼。
They saw Liusu return, a glimmer of hope appeared in their eyes, hoping that Junior Sister could say a few words.
No need to make a special plea, just a few casual words can appease Senior Elder Yu.
There's no way, geniuses always receive special treatment.
However, the young disciple they had high hopes for ignored them, not even glancing at them, and quickly rushed into the main hall with an unsightly expression.
With the elder holding a ruler, observing the anxious expression of Liu Shu, he couldn't remember to punish anyone at this moment and dropped the ruler, following to the main hall.
Leaving a group of disciples looking at each other.
A few people who were punished in front crawled up, rubbing their buttocks and looking towards the direction of the hall.
Well... the junior sister apprentice also saved their lives in a different way.
I just don't know what happened to make the usually calm junior disciple so panicked.
But they didn't dare to get involved in such matters, they were afraid of the sect leader.
*
Liu Shu found Qi Fang and said, "I want to return to Chaozhou. It's only six months away from the end of my six years. I want to go back early."
Qifang looked at the anxiety hidden in her eyes and asked, "What has happened?"
Liu Shu goes down the mountain every month, and he knows that.
When she went down the mountain for the first time, he was afraid that something would happen, so he followed her all the way.
So it is also clear what she did when she went down the mountain every month.
"I am in Chaozhou, and there is a very important friend of mine who is in trouble now."
Qie Fang lowered her eyes, and her dark color faded a bit: "Is it called Xie Lin'an?"
Liúshū lián léng dōu méi léng, dāngchū tā bèi dài jìnlái de shíhou, Qí Héng dàgài jiù yǐjīng jiāng tā de shì quánbù gàosù Qī Fǎng le.
Tā méiyǒu zhēyǎn, diǎndiǎn tóu.
Qī Fǎng běnshì xiǎngyào jùjué de.
Just hearing the name Xie Lin'an, without even seeing the person himself, brought discontent and disgust to the peak in his heart for no reason.
But seeing the anxious expression on Liu Shu's face, he couldn't refuse: "······I'll accompany you."
He always felt that there wouldn't be any good outcome in meeting Xie Lin'an, so he didn't trust leaving Liu Shu to go alone.
Liu Shu didn't dwell on this point either, nodded and went back to his own place to pack up, while Qi Fang also had to arrange the affairs of the mountain gate.
Later, Elder Yu did not hear anything about the matter and was directly relieved of his burden by Qi Fang.
Both of them were not procrastinators, and in less than half a day, they had finished handling all the follow-up matters and set off for Chaozhou overnight.
Qifang was so anxious that she even used the teleportation spell called "Shukuchi".
The spiritual energy system in this world is much higher than in the previous worlds, but a spell like "Shukuchi" is not something that an ordinary cultivator can sustain.
Fortunately, Qi Fang is not within this category.
They traveled through the night and were supposed to arrive in three or four days, but with the cheating assistance of Qi Fang, they arrived outside the city gate before dawn on the second day.
Unlike a few years ago when the city gates were wide open and curfew was not imposed, now the city gates are tightly shut. It is probably not until the next day when the sky is bright that one can enter.
Qifang glanced and pulled Liushu, then pasted a talisman on the city wall and passed through it.
After the two of them left, the talisman ignited by itself without fire, leaving behind no trace of ashes.
"Where to now?"
"An abandoned mansion in the east of the city."
As soon as the words fell, the space in front of Liushu distorted and shifted.
She stood placidly next to Qi Fang, and half a second later, the space returned to normal, and they found themselves standing in a dilapidated and messy courtyard!!!