"Want to feel the baby?" Lu Xian'er gently stroked her belly and playfully stuck out her tongue.
"Uh..." I was instantly stunned into a daze. Facing a young woman like her, I truly didn't have much resistance, and no wonder Lord Tasting Sword had been so infatuated with her. But now was not the time for this. After thinking it over, I calmed myself and said, "Xian'er, the mountain has come down as you wished, but what are you planning to do next?"
Lu Xian'er was pulled back to reality, and she also recalled the devastation wrought upon her family. However, more than half a month had not passed here—it had already been two months—so she was much stronger than I had imagined. She said, "I don't know where to start investigating, but there is one suspicion I've never been able to let go of... Perhaps this could be a lead, but I'm afraid Senior Brother will find it difficult to accept..."
"Oh... I'm fine with anything. I've already fallen to this state anyway. But judging by what you mean, could this somehow be connected to Master again?" I felt somewhat melancholy as well. Leaving behind the junior brothers and sisters I had spent so many days with was one thing, but after taking on the identity of Senior Brother, I inevitably began to overlap with that identity in my heart. For example, I would sometimes think that Lord Tasting Sword's grief might actually have something to do with how he had brought Senior Brother and Junior Sister up the mountain from childhood and painstakingly cultivated them. What we were doing was practically no different from betraying him. If we put ourselves in his place, who could easily accept the situation now?
"Senior Brother, if I said that I suspect