Chapter 800 Ordinary Life
No one expected that Xuanfeng would stand up. This was Gu Jiuchen's disciple. Gu Jiuchen's heart was cold, but he did not stop and soon killed the demon.
The battle ended, but the Black Demon Sect would definitely not give up. They still had a lot of powerful strength, but the situation in between needed to be well planned.
At this time, they took Xuanfeng back to the Tianxian Sect, but Gu Jiuchen did not deal with him. He still needed to observe. Although this disciple took the wrong path, he still wanted to give him a chance to see how he would perform later.
In the Tianxian Sect, the towering Zhaixing Tower was bathed in the golden sunlight of the morning, looking particularly solemn. Inside the building, Gu Jiuchen sat in front of the table in a plain white gown, flipping through the sect's list with a focused look, and his slender fingers occasionally tapped on the table, as if thinking about something. Unlike this solemn atmosphere, the back garden of the Tianxian Sect was full of vitality. Colorful butterflies danced among the flowers, and the crisp sound of birdsong came into the ears continuously. Ye Linglong, wearing a water blue dress, sat on a rattan chair full of white gardenias, with bright eyes and white teeth, talking to her good friend Mingyue with a smile.
"Do you think that Senior Brother Jiuchen feels bored staying in the Zhaixing Tower all day?" Ye Linglong picked a gardenia with her slender hands, put it on the tip of her nose and sniffed it, asking casually. Mingyue covered her mouth and chuckled, "There are hundreds of people in the Tianxian Sect, who doesn't look forward to seeing the Sect Master? Only you can say this." Ye Linglong stuck out her tongue playfully and stopped talking.
At this time, in the shadow behind the rockery in the back garden, a pair of sinister eyes were staring at the direction of the Zhaixing Tower. Xuanfeng, Gu Jiuchen's eldest disciple, clenched his fists, and his knuckles were whitened by him. All the master's attention was on Ye Linglong, but he, as the eldest disciple, received very little attention. Why? He was obviously gifted and entered the sect the earliest, but just because Ye Linglong was the master's Taoist partner, did he have to be inferior to others forever? Xuanfeng left the back garden quietly with a gloomy face. In the sunshine, the laughter of Ye Linglong and Mingyue came with the wind, but it was extremely harsh to him. He swore that one day, he would make everyone look up to him, including the master and Ye Linglong.
A few days later, in a secluded bamboo forest in the back mountain of Tianxian Sect, the clear and pleasant voice of a girl came. "Sister Linglong, I always can't master this set of swordsmanship. Can you show it to me again?" The speaker was Qingxia, Gu Jiuchen's new disciple. Ye Linglong smiled and said, "Okay, watch carefully." After that, she drew out the soft sword at her waist, and her figure was like a swallow, dancing in the bamboo forest. Qingxia watched intently, her eyes full of admiration.
Ye Linglong put away her sword, walked to Qingxia, and patiently pointed out the shortcomings of her swordsmanship. Qingxia was very smart, and she understood it at once. It didn't take long for her to master the essentials. The two practiced in the bamboo forest for a whole afternoon until the sunset. Before leaving, Qingxia reluctantly took Ye Linglong's hand and said, "Sister Linglong, thank you, you are so kind." Ye Linglong touched her head, her eyes full of pampering.
Night fell, and the stars were twinkling. After Gu Jiuchen finished dealing with the affairs of the sect and walked out of the Zhaixing Tower, he saw Ye Linglong standing under the osmanthus tree in the yard, looking up at the starry sky. He walked to her side, gently held her hand, and asked, "What are you thinking about?" Ye Linglong turned her head to look at him and said softly, "I'm thinking, when we travel around the world, where should we go first?" Gu Jiuchen took her into his arms and whispered in her ear, "As long as I'm with you, it doesn't matter where we go." The two stood in each other's arms, sketching a quiet and beautiful picture under the moonlight.
However, this seemingly sweet picture was distorted into a sarcastic scene in a pair of sinister eyes not far away. Xuanfeng hid behind the rockery and saw the intimacy of the two. The flame of jealousy burned in his chest and almost swallowed him.
"One day, I will destroy all this!" He gritted his teeth and hissed, turned around and disappeared into the night.
A few days later, the Tianxian Sect received an important task and needed to send its disciples to the Misty Forest to eliminate the monsters entrenched there to ensure the safety of the passing caravans. Gu Jiuchen assigned the experienced Xuanfeng to lead a team of disciples and repeatedly told him to be careful.
Xuanfeng obeyed the order respectfully on the surface, but sneered in his heart. He had planned long ago to take advantage of this opportunity to let Gu Jiuchen and Ye Linglong taste the taste of loss.
In the Misty Forest, miasma was everywhere and danger was lurking everywhere. Xuanfeng deliberately led the disciples to deviate from the planned route and lured them to a more dangerous area. As expected, they were attacked by a group of powerful monsters.
In the chaos, Xuanfeng found the right time, pretended to be defeated, and was seriously injured. He watched other disciples besieged by monsters, but did not help. He even deliberately screamed to attract more monsters.
When Gu Jiuchen and Ye Linglong received the news and rushed to the Misty Forest, they saw only corpses and a mess on the ground. Xuanfeng lay on the ground dying, painfully recounting the situation at the time, and put all the blame on the monsters.
Gu Jiuchen looked at the tragic scene in front of him, his heart was filled with grief, and he could not hide his disappointment towards Xuanfeng. "How could this happen? Didn't you say you had already explored the route?"
Xuanfeng lowered his head, hiding the resentment in his eyes, and said weakly: "Master, I know I was wrong, and I have failed your expectations..."
This scene happened to be seen by Mingyue who was passing by. She hid behind the tree and took in Xuanfeng's expression. She couldn't help but feel a little puzzled. Why did she feel that Xuanfeng's expression didn't seem to be self-blaming, but more like a kind of... pleasure after success?
Mingyue rushed all the way, and Xuanfeng's weird smile kept replaying in her mind. No, she must tell Linglong about this!
After returning to Tianxian Sect, Mingyue immediately found Ye Linglong and told her what she saw and heard in the Misty Forest and her guesses in her heart. "Linglong, I always feel that something is strange. Xuanfeng..."
"You mean, Xuanfeng deliberately..." Ye Linglong's beautiful eyes widened, and she couldn't believe it.
Mingyue nodded and said in a low voice: "I'm just guessing, but his expression is really strange. It doesn't look like the sadness of losing a fellow disciple at all, but..."
Ye Linglong's heart was covered with a shadow. During this period, she clearly felt that the atmosphere in the sect was a little abnormal. Some disciples looked at Gu Jiuchen with doubts and dissatisfaction, and talked about it privately.
"Sister Linglong, do you think Master is too strict with us? Look at the disciples of other peaks, they don't work as hard as we do."
"Yes, I heard that the disciples of Xiaoyao Peak only need to practice for two hours a day, and the rest of the time they can do whatever they want. We have to get up before dawn to practice."
"Shh, keep your voice down. If Master hears this, he will punish us to face the wall and reflect on our mistakes."
Ye Linglong tried to appease these disciples, but to little avail. These negative comments spread rapidly in the dark like a plague, eroding the foundation of Tianxian Sect.