Chapter 32
“Shizun…?”
After Lin Queli fell, he only felt dizzy, so he lay on the floor for a while, waiting for the dizziness to pass. But not only did it not subside, his head also started to hurt.
The wound on his arm had long been healed, but it seemed the residual toxins were still effective, and now he was very uncomfortable.
Just then, Lin Queli saw Helan Xue arrive, with Shouyang following behind him.
Ah…
This is awkward.
Lin Queli propped himself up with both hands, trying to get up, but found that he failed again. And to his surprise, he saw Helan Xue actually pick him up horizontally.
Shouyang was even more dumbfounded.
He had never seen his Shizun like this…
But his junior martial brother was indeed endearing. If it were him, he would also want to take care of his junior martial brother like this. Reasonable!
Helan Xue placed him on the bed. Lin Queli looked at the more approachable Shouyang and endured his headache to ask, “Senior martial brother, what’s going on with that woman? Isn’t she from the Tiandi tribe?”
Shouyang sighed. “We came to discuss this with you.”
He pulled up a chair and sat down. “You were unconscious for a day. During this time, we interrogated that woman. Not only is she not from the Tiandi tribe, she’s not even a demon…”
“Huh?!” Lin Queli’s eyes widened.
Shouyang sighed again.
“It’s a long story, and also a bit… unbelievable.”
Helan Xue sat on the side, playing with his prayer beads with his eyes closed, as if he were concentrating, but his expression was not very good.
Shouyang organized his words for a while before saying, “That woman is from the Radiant Church.”
“Huh??” Lin Queli’s eyes widened even more.
The leader of the Radiant Church, wasn’t that the elder who had told Helan Xue at the banquet that he wanted to let his young disciples come along to learn? And these young disciples were indeed eager to learn… anyway, they were more studious than him, and had helped a lot.
Shouyang continued, “If that woman is not lying, then tonight… or rather, the ones who have been invading Yuncheng recently are her and the other people from the Radiant Church. They have cultivated the demonic path and used demonic magical tools to disguise themselves as people from the Tiandi tribe and have teamed up with the Demon Clan’s ‘Elder Jin Chan’ to find the Demon Sword fragment.”
Lin Queli was stunned. “But the Radiant Church is a righteous sect? Why would they do that? Could that woman be lying?”
“No, she can’t lie under extreme torture.” Shouyang said coldly, “The Myriad Sword Sect has its own methods.”
A chill ran down Lin Queli’s spine.
O-okay then…
Heaven and earth as my witness, I’m someone who’s going to run away before my cover is blown. I hope this extreme torture won’t be used on me.
But Lin Queli was still a little confused and couldn’t help but ask, “The Radiant Church is a righteous sect. Righteous sects are all good people, right? How could good people team up with Elder Jin? If they teamed up, wouldn’t they have participated in killing the common people and activating the Demon Sword to create chaos?”
It sounded too strange!
Shouyang was stunned, then shook his head. “Junior martial brother, you’re right… so we were also very incredulous when we found out the results. But the fact is, such an outrageous traitor has appeared in the Righteous Path. We don’t know why they did it, but we are already investigating, and we should have results soon.”
Lin Queli scratched his head. “Oh… maybe they were threatened by Elder Jin.”
Helan Xue slowly opened his eyes and looked at Lin Queli with a complicated expression.
The Radiant Church was a major sect. How could it be threatened by the Demon Palace? And if they were really threatened, they wouldn’t be acting so proactively now.
His little disciple was simple-minded. It seemed his worldview and cognition all came from him, his Shizun. He had told Lin Queli with certainty before that the Demon Clan were bad people and the Righteous Path were good people, so he had believed it without a doubt.
But Helan Xue was not wrong. Lin Queli, who had transmigrated, all his concepts were given by Helan Xue.
Helan Xue closed his eyes.
He had also never encountered such an absurd thing, which almost overturned his cognition. The Righteous Path was indeed not all people of high moral character, but at least they wouldn’t do such a heinous thing that violated human ethics.
This time, the ones who had committed the killing were the Righteous Path, and the ones who had saved people were…
Before, those demons and ordinary people were trapped in the tree heart together, and then they were rescued together. After getting along on the way, their relationship had actually become close. Those common people had mistaken the demons for cultivators and begged them to save them when the “Tiandi tribe” disguised by the Radiant Church attacked the city.
A’Lin and the others had actually saved them.
Shouyang asked A’Yu why he had saved them. A’Yu said, because those people were all farmers, just like them.
A’Yu also said, “They are just ordinary people, not you hypocritical righteous people!”
Helan Xue thought to himself, perhaps the answers and teachings I gave Lin Queli were too rigid…
What if my little disciple is deceived by other people from the Righteous Path in the future?
Shouyang said, “Regardless of whether the Radiant Church was threatened or not, they have committed a monstrous crime and definitely cannot shirk responsibility. The Myriad Sword Sect will not sit by and do nothing.”
“Mmm…!” Lin Queli nodded. “Then A’Yu…”
“We still need A’Yu for now, so we have to detain him first. But I’ve left him a relatively comfortable room.” Shouyang said, “Now we might have to help him find his so-called older sister and clansmen to find out more.”
Lin Queli breathed a sigh of relief. So Shouyang’s meaning was that they wouldn’t harm A’Yu and his clansmen for the time being! And his Shizun would even help him fulfill his promise to A’Yu… That was great!
And after Shouyang said this, he was suddenly amused by himself.
It sounded so absurd.
Their Myriad Sword Sect… would actually cooperate with the Demon Clan to investigate the dirty deeds of the Righteous Path.
Shouyang couldn’t help but glance at Lin Queli.
This “rebellious,” “unruly” little junior martial brother of his was really… special.
If it weren’t for his unconventional behavior, they might never have had the opportunity to reach this point.
Shouyang said to Lin Queli, “Only the three of us know about this matter for now. Don’t spread it out for the time being, so as not to alert the enemy.”
“Oh, okay!”
Shouyang: “This is what we have found out so far. I also want to ask you, what else do you know about A’Yu? Shizun said that you seem to have had contact with him.”
Lin Queli paused. “Umm…”
He looked at Helan Xue guiltily.
How did Helan Xue know?
Lin Queli scratched his head and told them about A’Yu’s request at the brothel that day.
“Then maybe…” Shouyang frowned. “Could it be that the Radiant Church attacked the Tiandi tribe, imprisoned their clansmen, and then had their own people replace them?”
Lin Queli: “…What’s the purpose of doing that?”
“I’m not sure. That’s what we need to investigate.” Shouyang patted Lin Queli’s shoulder. “So senior martial brother is going to work. You, this fragile one, should rest well.”
Shouyang left in a hurry.
Lin Queli glanced at Helan Xue. He hadn’t left yet, so he carefully said, “Shizun… I… am going to sleep?”
I’m already injured. You can’t still ask me to practice, right?
Now that Shouyang had left and they were no longer talking about business, the headache that had been suppressed with great difficulty came back. Lin Queli held his forehead uncomfortably and lay down.
Looking at Lin Queli like this, Helan Xue paused for a long time before finally speaking. “Why not stay in the same room with This Venerable?”
“…?”
Huh?
What did he say?
What did Helan Xue say?!
Lin Queli was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head. “This disciple doesn’t dare to annoy Shizun again. Anyway, it’s all this disciple’s fault.”
Helan Xue frowned. “You are indeed wrong about today’s matter.”
“…”
Lin Queli very decisively lay down and turned around, facing the wall and not looking at Helan Xue.
“Oh.”
“Even if we don’t pursue the previous matter, you have also made many mistakes today. First, you went to the brothel regardless of your safety, and then you rashly blocked the arrow. What if that hidden weapon was poisonous?”
Helan Xue’s voice was already cold, and now that he said this, it really sounded like he was blaming him.
Lin Queli muttered in a small voice, “I was following Shizun’s instructions, protecting Shizun.”
Helan Xue paused and closed his eyes slightly.
“Protecting also requires one to act within one’s means.”
Lin Queli pouted. Indeed, I was overestimating myself…
Lin Queli: “Then Shizun, you can hit me.”
Seeing that Lin Queli’s tone was very weak, yet he was still asking him to hit him, Helan Xue frowned. “Are you having a tantrum with This Venerable?”
“…No.”
Lin Queli pouted aggrievedly. He wasn’t having a tantrum.
He was already injured, and Shizun was still so fierce!
Lin Queli sniffled.
Helan Xue paused.
He couldn’t see Lin Queli’s face, only seeing his shoulders seemed to be shaking slightly.
Helan Xue held Lin Queli’s shoulder and turned him over, only to see that Lin Queli’s eyes were red and his face was extremely pale.
Lin Queli rubbed his eyes and quickly explained, “This disciple is because of a head-headache.”
Sob, sob, sob, so embarrassing!!
Helan Xue stared at Lin Queli, his gaze seeming to be different, but when Lin Queli wanted to capture it, it disappeared again.
Lin Queli turned his head, wanting to hide his face, but Helan Xue held him tightly, forcing him to look at him.
“Shizun…” Lin Queli reached out and grabbed Helan Xue’s wrist, saying uncomfortably, “Don’t look.”
Helan Xue said in a low voice, “Are you crying?”
When he had scolded Lin Queli in the past, his tone had been much heavier than this, and he had even hit him, but Lin Queli had never been like this, just jumping around and begging for mercy and acting cute with him.
“I’m not! I’m really not!” At most, I was just sad about the points!
Lin Queli felt even more embarrassed now.
Helan Xue frowned.
After a long while, he sighed heavily. “This matter… This Venerable is also at fault.”
“…?”
He had heard too many explosive lines today, and Lin Queli couldn’t react for a moment.
Huh?
These words… came from Helan Xue’s mouth?
From Taxue Xianzun’s mouth??
Helan Xue said, “This Venerable made a misjudgment on the matter of the Tiandi tribe. I should not have punished you by making you kneel all night, and the matter of protecting me is also the same.”
When Helan Xue held Lin Queli’s shoulder, he was pressing on the place that had been injured by the hidden weapon.
Now the wound was completely invisible, but Helan Xue still remembered where it was.
His little finger gently brushed over that piece of skin, a very small movement that no one knew.
But what puzzled Helan Xue was that after he said this, Lin Queli, who had only had slightly red eyes and was pouting at him, his expression instantly collapsed. Large teardrops rolled down from his eyes, leaving two winding tear stains on his pale face.
Lin Queli sniffled. “Th-then does Shizun still hate me?”
Helan Xue was even more puzzled. “Why would I hate you?”
Lin Queli sobbed, “Shizun doesn’t even hit me.”
Helan Xue: “?”
Helan Xue frowned at Lin Queli.
What kind of teaching has this child received, that not hitting him means hating him? It’s the other way around.
Lin Queli held out his hands to Helan Xue. “Th-then I want a hug.”
Helan Xue paused. Seeing Lin Queli’s doe-like eyes filled with water again, he could only reach out and pick him up.
He was now sitting on the edge of the bed, and Lin Queli was sitting horizontally on his lap, his head resting on Helan Xue’s chest. He seemed to feel a little embarrassed and buried his face in Helan Xue’s chest.
Helan Xue pinched Lin Queli’s chin to stop him from being a quail. “You haven’t said yet, why do you think This Venerable hates you?”
Lin Queli pouted and remained silent.
He took several breaths. Seeing Helan Xue staring at him, those golden eyes like still water, although without emotion, were still oppressive. He couldn’t refuse.
After hesitating for a long time, Lin Queli said carefully, “Because, because I just want to be close to Shizun, but Shizun doesn’t like or is not satisfied with anything I do.”
Sob, sob, sob, it’s not that I’m sad because Shizun doesn’t like me, it’s mainly for the mission! I still have to do the mission!
Lin Queli said righteously in his heart.
Lin Queli’s tone still had a hint of a sob, soft and fluffy.
Helan Xue sighed lightly.
“You.”
Lin Queli lifted his red and swollen eyelids and sniffled. “Then Shizun doesn’t hate me?”
Helan Xue lowered his eyes. “If I hated you, would I still let you be so presumptuous?”
Lin Queli followed Helan Xue’s gaze and saw that he had smeared his tears and snot all over Helan Xue’s collar, making his immortal-like white clothes wrinkled and dirty.
“…”
Ah.
Lin Queli broke into a smile through his tears. “Hehe.”
He wiped his tears.
“Then can we dual cultivate?”
“…”
🤣🤣🤣 Queli não perde uma hahahah