After returning to the Complete Heaven Sect’s base, Liang Yi had not yet managed to call out to his junior sister apprentice when Yu Gejing pulled Su Youyi into her room for a private chat.
"Wait..." Liang Yi stood there, hand extended, frozen in place.
For the first time, Liang Yi felt that his junior sister apprentice had truly grown up. How obedient she used to be.
He Zhiqing patted Liang Yi on the shoulder, sighed, and turned to head to his own room. For some reason, Liang Yi felt a sense of kinship with his senior brother, as if they were both wanderers at the ends of the earth.
The bright moon hung high, and the evening breeze caressed the face, bamboo shadows swayed.
Liang Yi glanced at senior sister apprentice Yu’s room, where two figures sat together, seemingly caught up in conversation.
It looked conversation wouldn’t end anytime soon, and his junior sister apprentice seemed to be intentionally avoiding him. Liang Yi helplessly turned and left. He would wait until tomorrow. Let his junior sister apprentice calm her emotions first.
"Your senior brother is gone, now spill it, what did you two do during the day?" Yu Gejing sensed Liang Yi’s departure and her face lost its gentleness, showing a teasing expression.
"Nothing... really, nothing," said Su Youyi, her legs clamping her hands with a blush on her face, looking shy. How could one easily speak of such things?
"Oh? Still daring to hide it from your senior sister? Watch out for my killing move!"
Yu Gejing snickered evilly and pinned Su Youyi on the bed.
"So ticklish! Stop tickling my waist..."
"Hmm, confess and be lenient, resist and be punished! Aren’t you going to confess?"
The courtyard was silent, only the scattered moonlight and dense bamboo listened to their playful teasing.
"Haah..." The next morning, Su Youyi stood by her senior brother’s side, yawning.
"Didn’t sleep well last night?"
Liang Yi saw Su Youyi’s small face tinged with tiredness and asked with a frown.
"Last night... I chatted a bit late with senior sister," Su Youyi admitted guiltily, speaking softly. With her level of cultivation, going without sleep for several days wouldn’t be a problem; the fatigue was more due to emotional exhaustion.
"Tsk, even sleep isn’t done properly."
Liang Yi reached out with both hands, lifting Su Youyi’s face slightly towards his. His delicate palms covered her tender cheeks, and his thumb rested on her eyelids, circulating Daoist skill and gently rubbing.
A minor Daoist skill, simple enough to refresh a person’s spirit and dispel fatigue.
It is not always the case that the higher the Daoist skill, the better; simpler ones tend to have smaller repercussions, like the one Liang Yi was using now, which, despite modest effects, came with no side-effects.
Su Youyi, now tense enough to have stopped breathing, closed her eyes and enjoyed the massage from her senior brother; the coolness emanating from his palm made her softly smile.
"Su junior sister apprentice!" Yu Gejing appeared at the entrance of the hall, intending to ask if she wanted to go for a stroll on the street.
Seeing this scene upon entering, Yu Gejing’s little cherry mouth formed an "O", and after blinking her eyes, she said:
"I seem to have come at a bad time, carry on."
She turned and pulled He Zhiqing, who had seen nothing yet, intending to wait at the entrance and check if those families had arrived.
"What’s going on? What are they doing?" He Zhiqing, being pulled by the hand by Yu Gejing and having to bend down because of the height difference, asked in confusion.
Liang Yi heard the sound of a fist hitting a head, the world went quiet.
"Senior brother..." Su Youyi’s voice was not very clear because her cheeks were held by her senior brother.
"Don’t mind them, you’re what’s most important!" Liang Yi looked as usual, completely unaffected, still focused on massaging attentively.
About half a teacup’s time later, Liang Yi took a deep breath, withdrew his hands, and surveyed his junior sister apprentice left and right.
"How are you feeling?"
"I was feeling a bit weary, but now I’m feeling much better!" Su Youyi looked at her senior brother’s withdrawn hands, feeling a tiny bit reluctant in her heart.
"Will there be a next time?" Liang Yi kept a straight face, he had to make his junior sister realize the gravity of the problem.
Being tired for too long can lead to a terrible mood, a bad mood leads to a short temper, a short temper makes you find fault with everyone, finding fault with everyone makes you want to off all those who irritate you, and so over time, won’t my junior sister once again become a lady devil?
The memories of his past life’s junior sister, who grew up to be a cold-blooded killer, flashed through Liang Yi’s mind. He quickly shook his head, dispelling these terrible thoughts - with him, Liang Yi, as the senior brother fostering her growth, such a scenario would absolutely not happen.
"Senior brother, don’t you know me yet?" Su Youyi hugged Liang Yi’s arm and acted coquettishly. Updates are released by Nov3lFɪre.ɴet
"Don’t pull that on me, I can guess your little schemes just by thinking with a hair on my head, so just promise me truthfully." Despite saying he wouldn’t, Liang Yi still didn’t have the heart to push his junior sister away.
"Got it, got it, you really are a nag, senior brother."
The plan to stay up every night for cultivation and have her senior brother give her a massage daily went down the drain, and Su Youyi felt a bit sulky.
"Daughters can’t be kept at home forever, now you even find faults with your senior brother," Liang Yi pretended to sigh heavily in mock sadness.
"It’s not like that, I didn’t," Su Youyi denied it twice over.
Suddenly, the amusing Liang Yi felt a gaze on him.
He had felt this sensation twice before, but this time it was especially distinct, as if right behind him.
Not far away, He Zhiqing and Yu Gejing, followed by four others, were slowly walking towards Liang Yi.
The gaze that Liang Yi felt came from one of the young men dressed in black robes with brocade - Ying Tianxing from the Mystic Bureau.
As for the three others, not to mention the dead-fish-faced Ke Mengzhan, the remaining two made Liang Yi’s expression turn somewhat peculiar.
Those two from the Ten Thousand Miles Mountain of the Demon Clan, why do they look so much like Wind Cloud Leopards that have become spirits?
"What a coincidence?" Liang Yi took a closer look, and it indeed seemed like the truth.
Although members of the Demon Clan choose to take on human forms after their spirit opening, they still retain their race’s fundamental traits, so the existence like Beast Girl is not just mere talk.
Upon drawing closer, based on Liang Yi’s experience of almost completely wiping out the wild Wind Cloud Leopards, these two were indeed Wind Cloud Leopards that had become spirits.
Oh no, it was spirit opening, to be exact.
And Feng Ya and Feng Yuan also unconsciously frowned upon seeing Liang Yi.
For some reason, they felt an indescribable aversion to the Banished Immortal’s senior disciple before them. Despite never having met him or interacted with him before, they couldn’t shake the desire to leave a claw mark on his face.
The two leopards exchanged glances, realizing that they were not alone in this feeling.
Overall, aside from the dead-fish-faced Ke Mengzhan, the other three behind He Zhiqing all seemed to have a rather negative view of Liang Yi.
Liang Yi touched his face - his charm value...
Ah well, he was used to it!
He Zhiqing, Yu Gejing, and Su Youyi also noticed this strange situation.
As for Liang Yi himself, he didn’t particularly mind; although his charm broke through the heavens and was fatally handsome, charming even the Goddess of Fortune with his looks.
But he is not spiritual coins, he couldn’t be loved by everyone.
"I am Liang Yi from the Taoist Sect, first time meeting you. The one behind me is my junior sister, Su Youyi. She’s rather shy, so I’ll say hello to everyone on her behalf." Liang Yi greeted Ying Tianxing and the others with a warm smile while looking straight at them.
Regardless of how others viewed him, one should never lack manners.