Chapter 240

Chapter 240: Lan Zi Yu’s Favorability Meets The Mark
[Ding! Lan Zi Yu’s current Favorability is 88 points… 65 points… 85 points… 42 points…]

[Ding! The target’s Favorability is fluctuating too much. The value cannot be estimated for now.]

Ye Cong Xin’s heartbeat rose and fell with the changing numbers. The corner of her mouth twitched. She stood there, numb and silent.

[Lan Zi Yu is really something.]

He said he would take responsibility for her, yet in his heart he despised her in every way.

She had never looked down on Lan Zi Yu for his bad temper and sudden mood swings.

[What right does Lan Zi Yu have to despise me!]

Thinking of how he had been drunk last night, still calling out Yu Zhao’s name over and over, hatred rose even higher in her heart.

But her first task was still to steady Lan Zi Yu’s Favorability.

Her eyelashes trembled lightly. She lowered her voice and said: “Second Senior Brother, what we have is a pure sibling bond. What happened last night was an accident. I will forget it all, and you don’t need to feel guilty because of me.”

This move of retreating in order to advance really moved Lan Zi Yu. The bit of displeasure in his heart vanished into thin air.

Lan Zi Yu asked, trying hard to hold back his joy: “Junior Sister, is what you said really true?”

No matter how he tried to suppress it, the excitement in his tone was too clear.

Ye Cong Xin gritted her teeth in hate. She did not dare look up and let him see. Her voice stayed soft and weak, easy to bully: “Of course it is true. Second Senior Brother’s heart has long had someone in it already. How could I force you.”

“Junior Sister!” Lan Zi Yu burst out in anger and asked: “When did I ever have someone I admired? How do I not know about it myself!”

Ye Cong Xin suddenly lifted her head. Her tear-washed eyes flashed with a sharp light. She asked: “Second Senior Brother, do you know you were drunk last night and kept calling Senior Sister Yu’s name?”

Lan Zi Yu’s body shook.

[Yu Zhao?]

[No, impossible!]

[How could I like Yu Zhao!]

He had always treated Yu Zhao as a Junior Sister, no, as just an ordinary Fellow Disciple.

[Junior Sister must have heard wrong.]

[Yes, she heard wrong!]

He hurried to explain: “Junior Sister, you misunderstood. I already severed all ties with Yu Zhao long ago. I would never have feelings between a man and a woman toward her. Don’t ever bring this up again.”

Ye Cong Xin asked directly: “Since Second Senior Brother has no one you love, are you willing to become Dao Companions with me?”

Lan Zi Yu opened his mouth, but no sound came out for a long time.

Before Ye Cong Xin said anything else, he was the one who panicked.

He could honestly say that he liked his Junior Sister.

But this “like” held only the feelings of siblings and Fellow Disciples. There was no other kind of emotion mixed in.

He could not imagine his Junior Sister staying by his side as his Dao Companion.

[That would be wrong!]

As for why it was wrong, he could not explain.

Ye Cong Xin lowered her eyes and said softly: “Second Senior Brother, you don’t need to say it. I understand everything.”

Lan Zi Yu’s silence was the best answer.

Ye Cong Xin slowly stood up and walked toward the door.

Lan Zi Yu stared deeply at her back, full of restraint and sorrow.

He did not move at all.

Ye Cong Xin stopped at the doorway.

She said slowly: “Once I step out of this room, I will forget everything that happened last night. Second Senior Brother, you will always be my Senior Brother.”

She pushed the door open.

A single tear slid from the corner of her eye.

In the sunlight, it looked especially bright and colorful.

Plop!

The sound of the tear hitting the ground and the cold System voice rang out at the same time.

[Ding! Lan Zi Yu’s current Favorability is 90 points!]

[Ding! Favorability has reached the standard. Fortune Plundering Channel is now open. Lan Zi Yu’s current Luck Value is 9000 points.]

With her back to Lan Zi Yu, a faint curve lifted at the corner of Ye Cong Xin’s lips.

She ordered calmly: “Convert his Fortune into Spirit Power Points for me. I want to charge at the Golden Core Stage!”

[Ding! All right, Host. Fortune Plundering in progress…]

…

“Shui Qing Yue, Palace Mistress of Water Cloud Palace, went missing twenty years ago while protecting the disciples of Water Cloud Palace…”

Master Qing Yan read the short lines of text over and over again.

His family name by birth was Yu.

He had no blood relatives with the surname Shui.

So why would the Otherworldly Soul from another world call Shui Qing Yue his Little Sister?

If there was truly no connection, then his reaction when he heard Shui Qing Yue’s name could not have been fake.

Master Qing Yan wanted to summon the soul and question him.

But when he thought of that crazed, out-of-control state, he gave up on that idea.

He had barely managed to use the Sect Supreme Treasure to suppress the soul for a while. Unless it was absolutely necessary, he would never let it out to fight him for control of his body.

The problem was that Shui Qing Yue was not famous in the Cultivation World. The information he could find about her was pitifully little. If he wanted to know what relationship Shui Qing Yue had with him, he needed to search through other channels.

He thought for a moment and remembered the First Disciple he had pushed to the back of his mind, Fang Cheng Lang.

By a twist of fate, Fang Cheng Lang also seemed to have gained the memories of a lifetime. Maybe he knew some things that others did not.

With a thought, he used Blink Step to arrive outside Fang Cheng Lang’s cave residence, his aura completely unleashed.

After a short while, Fang Cheng Lang opened the tightly sealed main door and knelt to welcome Master Qing Yan’s arrival.

He bowed and said: “Unfilial disciple Fang Cheng Lang greets Master.”

Since that day they parted at the Endless Sea, Master Qing Yan had never seen Fang Cheng Lang again.

Now that they met again, he actually forgot the reason he had come. He just stared at Fang Cheng Lang in shock.

He started to say: “You…”

Fang Cheng Lang used to be like green bamboo, bright and gentle as clear wind and shining moon. He had the title of Gentleman Sword.

But the person kneeling in front of him, though he had the same face, lacked that spirit. His features were withered, his expression lifeless, as if he had suddenly aged a hundred years.

Even though Master Qing Yan had been dissatisfied with Fang Cheng Lang, he could not help feeling moved at the sight.

Fang Cheng Lang stayed kneeling in silence. He did not argue.

Master Qing Yan asked sharply: “You, are you blaming me for punishing you that day?”

Fang Cheng Lang answered in a low voice: “Disciple would not dare.”

“Your body and hair are given by your parents. By destroying yourself like this, aren’t you doing it on purpose for me to see?” Master Qing Yan snapped. “Fang Cheng Lang, when did you become like Yu Zhao, full of rebellious bones and acting as you please!”

Master Qing Yan was furious beyond measure.

To him, Fang Cheng Lang was clearly using self-harm to show his defiance.

Fang Cheng Lang still only said the same four words: “Disciple would not dare.”

Master Qing Yan let out a cold laugh in his anger and said: “Good, very good. So you also plan to go against me like Yu Zhao. Then why don’t you learn from her and betray the Sect? The world is wide. You can roam as you like.”

Before Fang Cheng Lang could open his mouth, Master Qing Yan cut him off: “You are not allowed to say ‘Disciple would not dare’ again.”

Fang Cheng Lang’s throat bobbed. At last he lowered his eyes and said: “Disciple has received Master’s grace. I have never thought of leaving the Sect.”

Yu Zhao could leave.

Because all the kindness she owed Master Qing Yan, she had paid back in the end.

But he could not.

He was Master’s Chief Disciple.

He not only represented Master Qing Yan’s face, but also the reputation of the Five Elements Dao Sect.

Besides, Master had never treated him badly.

In feeling and in reason, he had no excuse to leave Lone Moon Peak.

The reason Fang Cheng Lang looked so lifeless was not that he resented Master Qing Yan, but that he was already completely disheartened.

He was lucky enough to know the cause and effect of the past life, but no one believed him. No one believed that under Junior Sister’s gentle and cute appearance, she hid a heart that brought disaster.

Just like in the past life, when Yu Zhao had tried her best to expose the truth, yet still ended up abandoned by everyone.

Fang Cheng Lang thought: [Maybe this is retribution for us being blind in our previous life.]

[Since it is like this, why should I struggle?]

[As long as Ye Cong Xin does not hinder Junior Sister, everyone on Lone Moon Peak can become her sacrifice.]

[Master is no exception.]

Master Qing Yan looked down at him and asked coldly: “I am asking you, what exactly did you see on the Floating Island?”

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