The junior brother struggled for a moment, but seeing the determination on his senior brother's face, he naturally understood that further persuasion would be useless. He gave a helpless sigh and said, "All right, Senior Brother, I'll head back first. You must be careful. Remember, our youngest junior sister is still waiting for you!"
At those words, the senior brother trembled slightly, then smiled. "I'll remember."
But just as his junior brother had taken a few steps away, the senior brother called him back.
The junior brother turned around with a hint of delighted surprise. "Senior Brother, have you changed your mind? Will you leave with me?"
The senior brother shook his head. "Junior Brother, if-and I mean if-anything really does happen to me, treat our youngest junior sister well."
"Senior Brother!" The junior brother grew anxious.
"I know you've liked her since childhood too," the senior brother said.
The junior brother's face flushed crimson. "Senior Brother, what kind of damned nonsense are you talking about? Farewell!"
Watching his junior brother storm off, the senior brother shook his head helplessly.
After resting for just under a quarter of an hour, the senior brother headed in the opposite direction from his junior brother. But before he had gone several li, his heart suddenly jolted. A fierce, sinister aura sent an involuntary shudder through him.
He looked up ahead in horror and saw a figure charging rapidly toward him.
"Aaah!" A wretched scream cut off abruptly. A member of the Jianghu a li ahead of him, apparently another Peerless Realm expert, had been cleaved in two by a single saber stroke from the charging figure.
Without time to think, he turned and fled. But before he could take more than a few steps, pain struck his waist, and then he could see