Not to mention that Xue Xue had learned her mother was about to arrive.
Back to the Heart Sword branch.
Pei Feng had been in seclusion for roughly five days.
Rumble—!
Amid an earth-shaking boom, Li Su, who had been cultivating intently inside the cave dwelling, slowly opened his eyes. He had not completely immersed himself in cultivation; almost the instant the explosion rang out, his eyes had already opened.
He looked toward the entrance. The tightly shut doors of the cave dwelling had now been shattered, with dust and smoke swirling there.
Before long, a figure walked in.
The man stared coldly at Li Su, mockery and ridicule in his gaze. "Senior Brother Pei Feng, your good days are over."
Li Su's brows creased slightly. Yet before he could speak, two Heart Sword disciples rushed in. Without a word, they went straight to stand beside the apparent culprit who had destroyed the cave dwelling's doors.
There was nothing particularly remarkable about the two, save for the red armbands on their left sleeves.
Li Su's eyes flickered slightly as he recognized what those armbands represented.
Disciplinary Hall.
One of them spoke. "Jiang Feng, you deliberately damaged a cave dwelling, violating the Heart Sword sect rules. Come with us."
"Fine." Jiang Feng looked utterly calm. He neither resisted nor denied it, merely nodded and turned to head outside.
As for the two Disciplinary Hall disciples, they did not linger either, turning to leave.
"Hold it!"
Though puzzled at first, Li Su quickly came to his senses and understood what was happening.
They were trying to destroy the fact that he was in seclusion.
Damaging a cave dwelling—especially one where a disciple was in secluded cultivation—was no trivial matter. If investigated, it was not something that could be settled with a simple