The Mysterious Guy

"Big Sister, who is he?"

The man looked at Ling Xuanxiao with a face full of wariness, even hiding behind Lin Wanqing.

"He's Big Sister's junior brother."

"Junior brother? What's that?"

"Mm, it means Big Sister's little brother," Lin Wanqing explained.

The man pouted. "He's Big Sister's little brother? Then who am I? How can Big Sister have another little brother?"

Lin Wanqing said dotingly, "Be good. He's Senior Sister's junior brother, while you're Big Sister's little brother. It's different."

"Mm... then who's closer to Big Sister!"

Lin Wanqing helplessly pinched his little cheek. "Of course you're the closest to Big Sister."

The man smiled from the bottom of his heart.

Only then did Lin Wanqing remember. "Junior Brother, what did you come to see me for?"

Ling Xuanxiao clutched his chest, lowered his head, and looked awful.

"Junior Brother, what's wrong?"

"Nothing. I just suddenly felt a little nauseous."

"Nauseous? Did you eat something bad?"

"Probably." Ling Xuanxiao skipped over the subject. "Senior Sister, he is...?"

"Oh, just call him Fanyue."

"Fanyue?"

Ling Xuanxiao searched through his mind for that name, but found no corresponding information.

Lin Wanqing explained, "I met him half a year ago. At the time, he was lying by the river and had already lost his memories. He kept calling me Big Sister, so I had no choice but to keep him by my side for the time being. I also wanted to bring him back to Shu Mountain and see whether we could help him recover his memories."

"Then is he a cultivator too?"

Ling Xuanxiao asked a crucial question.

Lin Wanqing shook her head, then nodded.

"He is a cultivator, but his cultivation is very low—so low that one can barely sense any cultivation from him. And his meridians seem to be blocked. He should have suffered some kind of sealing technique."

"Oh?"

Ling Xuanxiao raised his brows, unable to stop himself from grumbling inwardly.

His identity was unknown, his origins unknown. Judging by his appearance alone, he was definitely no mere passerby.

And there was even a sealing technique on him...

How could she casually bring someone like this into the sect?

"What did Master say?"

"Master went into seclusion. I went yesterday, but didn't get to see him."

Of all times, he had to enter seclusion now.

"What about the other elders? Perhaps they have a way."

"Most of the other elders don't have time either."

Was this really such a coincidence!

Ling Xuanxiao hesitated for a moment. "Senior Sister, I happen to know a few spiritual spells. Perhaps I can try helping him recover his memories."

Lin Wanqing nodded. She was not surprised that her junior brother knew such things.

Ling Xuanxiao had cultivated since childhood, following the Sect Leader across mountains and seas. He had learned a great many miscellaneous things.

It was said that he could even invite a god to possess him.

While muttering something about the sun setting beyond the western hills and the sky turning black...

Ling Xuanxiao cupped his hands in salute. "Then let me make some preparations first."

"Alright." Lin Wanqing agreed at once. "Fanyue, hurry and thank your big brother."

"Oh, thank you, Big Brother~"

Fanyue said timidly.

Ling Xuanxiao put on an amiable smile.

"Oh, right, Senior Sister. Did you give Fanyue that name, or did he tell it to you himself?"

"He told me himself. He said that was the only name he remembered."

Ling Xuanxiao nodded again and took a Wooden Eagle from his Storage Ring.

Then, using the tone one would use with a child, he said, "How about Big Brother gives you a toy?"

"What is... this?"

Ling Xuanxiao activated the Wooden Eagle's switch. Without needing any spiritual power, the Wooden Eagle spread its wings and flew up, circling once through the air before returning to Ling Xuanxiao's shoulder.

Fanyue's eyes lit up: ╰(*°▽°*)╯

"Do you want it?"

"Mm!"

"Come take it. Big Brother is giving it to you."

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Fanyue hesitated, looking at Lin Wanqing and then at Li Xuanxiao. Seeing Lin Wanqing nod with a smile, he finally ran over and accepted the Wooden Eagle.

"Thank you, Big Brother."

Li Xuanxiao smiled and reached out to ruffle his hair.

Then he took his leave.

When he returned to his thatched hut on Silver Sword Peak, the smile on Li Xuanxiao's face finally disappeared.

He raised his hand. Two strands of Fanyue's hair were already in his palm.

"Fanyue..."

Li Xuanxiao murmured the name.

With a casual wave of his hand, the bookshelf inside the thatched hut appeared before him.

Li Xuanxiao opened a book and picked up his brush, writing down those two characters.

After finishing, the brush did not stop.

Swish, swish, swish~

A moment later, Fanyue's appearance had been sketched onto the paper.

He then closed the book over the two strands of hair.

As an incantation flowed from his mouth, the page soon burst into flames without fire.

This spell was connected to Shu Mountain's Grand Compendium of All Things.

It was much like Baidu Encyclopedia from his previous life, encompassing every sort of information and record, great and small, within the Nine Provinces.

As long as Shu Mountain had ever recorded someone, this marvelous spell could easily find it.

Shu Mountain's foundations were unfathomably deep. There was almost no person or matter it could not locate.

Li Xuanxiao furrowed his brows tightly. The corners of his eyes twitched as he merged his consciousness into this vast world of spells.

In an instant, thick volumes surged forth in the depths of his mind like a tide, piling into mountains.

Some of those books were old and yellowed, giving off an ancient aura.

Others were as pristine as new, glimmering with faint spiritual light.

The books rapidly flipped through their pages all at once, as though vast data were being searched.

Yet second after second passed.

Countless densely packed books had already been searched through, but not even the slightest scrap of information related to the other party could be found.

Finding nothing was even more chilling.

Li Xuanxiao frowned and pondered, as though facing a formidable enemy.

Damn it!!

What the hell had Third Senior Sister brought back?

Yet aside from him, no one cared in the slightest.

Li Xuanxiao made two preparations for this.

First, he used Mohist Mechanical Arts to make a wooden cicada to monitor Fanyue.

The advantage of Mohist Mechanical Arts was that it did not require spiritual power, making it difficult for cultivators to notice.

For the second, he wrote anonymous letters to the Law Enforcement Elder and the Deputy Sect Leader respectively, telling them to beware of the person Third Senior Sister Lin Wanqing had brought back.

The reason he chose those two...

Was that although there were seven Peak Masters, none of them wanted to meddle in the affairs of disciples from another peak.

It was the kind of work that exhausted one without earning any gratitude.

The original Peak Master of Silver Sword Peak, Li Xuanxiao's master, had become the new Sect Leader.

Silver Sword Peak temporarily had no Peak Master.

Meanwhile, the Law Enforcement Elder oversaw Shu Mountain's laws, while the Deputy Sect Leader acted in the Sect Leader's stead during the Sect Leader's seclusion.

Thus, writing to those two was undoubtedly the best choice.

After finishing all this.

Li Xuanxiao went to find his junior sister, Zhao Lu.

Zhao Lu was counting the treasures her senior brother Li Xuanxiao had brought back for her this time, all of them looted from the Tiger Demon's cave.

According to Shu Mountain's rules, whoever carried out the mission got to keep the spoils.

Li Xuanxiao had picked out some supplements suitable for Zhao Lu, along with two magical artifacts.

Li Xuanxiao gave Zhao Lu an important task: she was to pretend to run into Third Senior Sister by chance, then casually bring up where, when, and under what circumstances Third Senior Sister had met Fanyue.

If Li Xuanxiao investigated too meticulously himself, it would easily arouse suspicion.

It would be different if he left it to Zhao Lu.

Besides, girls found it easier to talk with other girls.

Zhao Lu accepted the assignment.

Over the years, Zhao Lu had long ceased finding her senior brother's strange actions strange.

She had even voluntarily joined her senior brother's little gang.