"Fourth Senior Sister, did you... did you misunderstand something?" Li Xuanxiao could not help asking.
Su Wan looked at him in confusion. "Could it be, could it be..."
"That's right."
Li Xuanxiao thought Su Wan had understood what he meant.
Fourth Senior Sister, you're a little too narcissistic!
"Could it be that you killed Senior Brother Murong just to have me!?" Su Wan said in shock.
At those words, Li Xuanxiao was even more horrified.
Though every one of Su Wan's deductions was wrong.
The result was somehow right.
What gave her little brain the idea that he would kill Murong Mo for her!?
Yet she had actually guessed right.
He really had killed Murong Mo.
Li Xuanxiao was on the verge of collapse inside. Insane!!
This was too insane.
If others found out and believed it, he would never be able to explain himself.
Li Xuanxiao hurriedly said, "Senior Sister, how could you possibly have such a thought?"
Su Wan took half a step back. "You killed Murong Mo amid the chaos, then pinned it on Di Nüfeng and Liu Qiushui."
"With my strength, how could I possibly be Senior Brother Murong's match?"
Su Wan came to her senses. That was true. Then she suddenly said,
"Could it be that you lured Di Nüfeng and Liu Qiushui into killing Murong Mo? Borrowing another's hand?"
Li Xuanxiao: ...
Senior Sister, you've gone abstract.
You're making me a little afraid.
"Senior Sister, how could you have such a crazy idea?"
"It wasn't me... Sorry..."
When Su Wan thought of how Li Xuanxiao had secretly monitored her before in order to protect her.
If he had killed Murong Mo for her sake, it did make sense.
"Fourth Senior Sister, what I mean is that you seem to have misunderstood something. I don't like you."
"Ah?"
Su Wan froze where she stood, as though she had heard something utterly unbelievable.
"You... what did you say?"
Jiang Luoshui, who had been crying, quietly lifted her head and pricked up her ears.
She looked exceedingly sneaky.
Li Xuanxiao said, "Senior Sister, I have no other intentions toward you. My original purpose in placing the paired Image Stones in your cave abode was to protect you, because you... how should I put this?
"Fourth Senior Sister, I'm going to speak frankly. Don't get angry.
"You were born to be a punching bag. In the words of my hometown, three blows with a stick couldn't knock a fart out of you!
"When people slander you, you won't say a single extra word. You only swallow your anger, then shed tears.
"Even when people falsely accused you of colluding with the demonic sect, you did not dare explain a single thing.
"That was why I stepped forward back then. I had already seen through this, so I made preparations in advance to protect you, lest Senior Sister suffer false accusations from others.
"As for matters between men and women, this junior brother is devoted solely to cultivation and has no such plans.
"Besides, Xuanxiao knows that his talent is mediocre and his appearance ordinary.
"While Senior Sister is exceptionally gifted and peerlessly beautiful.
"Someone like Xuanxiao simply is not worthy of you. Thus, I only hold admiration for Senior Sister and dare not overstep my bounds.
"If one day Senior Sister ascends to the Bright Platform and achieves the Dao, then if you still remember Xuanxiao, that will be Xuanxiao's blessing."
Li Xuanxiao gave a Daoist salute.
After that speech, Su Wan was left standing there, dumbfounded.
In just a few days, she had suffered two crushing blows in succession.
The first was the death and dissolution of her former lover, Murong Mo, with whom she had once shared mutual affection but never crossed any boundaries.
The second was that her junior brother, whom she had always believed deeply loved her and protected her from the shadows, had made his feelings clear.
It was not that he liked her, but that he simply wanted to help her.
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"..."
Several days later, the group returned to Shu Mountain.
After handing in the mission, Li Xuanxiao returned to Silver Sword Peak.
As for matters following Murong Mo's death, Shu Mountain would naturally handle them.
Back at Silver Sword Peak, Li Xuanxiao could not help feeling a lingering fear when he thought of everything that had happened these past days.
First, Murong Mo had tried to assassinate him.
Though Li Xuanxiao had expected that long ago.
And he had easily counter-killed Murong Mo.
But encountering beings on the level of Di Nüfeng and Liu Qiushui had completely exceeded Li Xuanxiao's expectations.
Fortunately, there had been danger but no real harm.
The cultivation world was far too cruel.
Working hard to raise his cultivation was the proper path.
"Senior Brother~"
The moment Li Xuanxiao landed before the thatched hut on Silver Sword Peak, he heard a pleasant voice.
"Senior Brother, you're finally back... Ow!"
Zhao Lu clutched her head and plopped down on the ground.
"Senior Brother, you're bullying me again."
"Did you cultivate properly while I was gone these past few days?"
"Of course I did."
"I can smell the scent of neglecting proper work on you."
"How could that be! I clearly cultivated properly." Zhao Lu argued.
Li Xuanxiao casually stuffed a pill into Zhao Lu's mouth. "This is a new pill I refined. If you lie, it'll make your feet stink—the lifelong kind!"
Zhao Lu's expression changed. A little fairy having smelly feet!
She did not want to live anymore.
"Did you cultivate properly or not?"
"I'm sorry, Senior Brother, I was wrong!" Zhao Lu sat on the ground, unwilling to get up. "Don't make my feet stink, I'm begging you..."
"You are not to leave your room for even half a step within the next half month!"
After dismissing his junior sister, Li Xuanxiao returned to the thatched hut.
He sat in meditation and continued digesting the cultivation he had gained, unwilling to waste even a second.
His thoughts inevitably turned to Di Nüfeng and Liu Qiushui.
Recalling the events of those past few days, though brief, they had been enough to carve themselves into his bones.
He had to remember this humiliation!!
Li Xuanxiao shook his head again and muttered to himself.
"I wonder... did those two perish together? Are they dead... If they aren't dead, they won't come looking for revenge, will they?"
Li Xuanxiao was naturally not worried about them coming to Shu Mountain.
But he could not possibly stay on Shu Mountain forever without leaving.
He could neither sleep nor eat in peace~
The moment he thought of that, Li Xuanxiao felt terrible all over.
At the end of the day, he was still too weak.
If he were strong enough, he would not need to worry about such things at all.
Thus, half a month later.
Li Xuanxiao had just ended his brief period of secluded cultivation when he saw, beneath the willow tree outside the thatched hut.
There stood a graceful figure in silence, one jade-like hand gently playing with the black hair that cascaded down before her like a waterfall.
She wore an exquisite tasseled gown with a wide skirt.
The fabric of the long dress was soft and smooth. As the breeze lightly brushed past it, the tassels at the hem swayed in enchanting motion, glimmering with specks of light.
The gown perfectly outlined her seductive figure. Her slender waist could be encircled in one hand, while her long legs appeared and vanished beneath the dress.
It was neither Su Wan nor little junior sister Zhao Lu.
It was Jiang Luoshui!?
Why was she here?
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