Chapter 093

Chapter 93: This Time, She Is Not Alone

The moment Ye Wan Wan fell, Li Wan Zhi and Fang He An also ran out, hopping with worry beside Bai Jian. Fang He An seemed to just remember something; he slapped his head and said in a panic: “Medicine, I have medicine. Master made them. Junior sister, take them quick.”

He fumbled to pull the bottles out. Ye Wan Wan smiled: “Senior brother, I am fine. I am just tired. Let me sit and rest a while.”

Li Wan Zhi snapped in anger: “Your face is whiter than my clothes. How is that just tired? Who looks like this when they are only tired?”

Shen Nan Zhou said nothing as he scanned the area. He found a clean spot, carried Ye Wan Wan over, and sat her down against a tree.

She felt his hands shaking and asked in doubt: “Are you hurt?”

Shen Nan Zhou shook his head. With his body, normal people could not hurt him. But for some reason, he could not use his true cultivation. Otherwise, he would have had to leave. Because he could not use it, she had to charge at the front alone.

Ye Wan Wan seemed to guess it too. She smiled easily and said: “Do not mind it. Wasn’t it always like this before?” Every time at the Immortal Devil Battlefield, she had been the one at the front, because he had asked for it. No matter what, she had been under his command. Although she was not now, habits are hard to change. [No. It is different now.]

Li Wan Zhi cut in, anxious: “Junior sister, just worry about yourself. Why are you worrying about him? And stop talking about the past. This is not the old Supreme Sect. You are now our Heavenly One Sect junior sister. Do not try to act tough. If something happens, your senior brothers will step up. If we cannot, the senior uncles will. Why are you pushing yourself? Here, take the medicine!”

Ye Wan Wan was made to take the pills. Fang He An, for once, agreed with Li Wan Zhi as he said: “He is right. If every fight needs you to rush in first, then what are we as senior brothers for?”

Fang He An wrapped her wrist. Seeing the blood keep flowing, he felt deep heartache and some guilt as he said: “I will find a way to make my spiritual root work.”

Li Wan Zhi added: “I have started to get the hang of the Thunder Command Art. Master said in one or two months I can practice the first level. When that time comes, I will help you.”

Bai Jian had already summoned the Greatforce Sword back. She stood to the side. Hearing them, she did not know what she should be studying, so she nodded hard and said: “Me too.”

Ye Wan Wan laughed: “That is great.”

The little miss looked so simple that Li Wan Zhi could not help flicking her forehead as he teased: “Why do you look so silly?”

Bai Jian and Fang He An threw a punch at the same time and shouted: “What are you doing!”

With that punch, Li Wan Zhi rolled three or four times before he stopped. He sat on the ground and looked around in a daze, then wailed: “I only bounced a finger off her forehead. Why did you hit me?”

Ye Wan Wan burst out laughing and could not hold it back: “Hahahaha.”

Bai Jian and Fang He An had been ready to say a few words to comfort Li Wan Zhi, but when they saw Ye Wan Wan laugh, they lost all interest in comforting him and said: “Serves you right.”

Fang He An scolded him: “Can you touch junior sister at a time like this?”

Li Wan Zhi crawled back and stared at Ye Wan Wan’s forehead as he asked: “It is not red, right?”

Ye Wan Wan said: “No.”

Li Wan Zhi lifted his robe and pants and said, aggrieved: “I am red.”

On his knee, a patch of skin was scraped off. The four of them fell silent and did not want to say anything.

Li Wan Zhi looked pitifully at the four of them. In the end, Fang He An soothed him: “Alright, I will put medicine on it when we get back.”

“Okay!” Li Wan Zhi burst back to life at once, bright as sunshine.

Ye Wan Wan smiled and said: “Fourth senior brother, tell me about the fight in the sky. It makes my neck tired to keep looking up.”

Li Wan Zhi froze, then looked up quickly and said: “Oh, oh, senior uncle is crushing him. Wow! Senior uncle swung the hoe, and he fell down.”

Ye Wan Wan also looked over and saw that Wen Tai had already been knocked down. There was no suspense. Wen Tai would lose for sure.

Shen Nan Zhou watched them, then got up to leave. Fang He An was about to ask where he was going when he saw Shen Nan Zhou drag Ye Yi Ran over, tied up like a package. Fang He An said: “Right, we need to take him too.”

Li Wan Zhi snapped: “That brat. This is all his fault.”

On the other side, Xun Yin had already taken Wen Tai. When things looked settled, everyone planned to return to the sect. Yan Ju descended by Sword Flight. Seeing Ye Wan Wan’s condition, he frowned and started to speak: “You…”

Ye Wan Wan whispered: “Young Senior Uncle, please do not tell master.”

Yan Ju frowned and asked: “Do you think you can hide it?”

He lifted Ye Wan Wan onto his back. Though his face looked fierce, his touch was very gentle. As he stood, he knocked each of the other three on the head, and even Shen Nan Zhou was not spared, the three knocks sharp and crisp, and he said: “I will teach you when we get back. You could not even protect your junior sister.”

With that, Yan Ju carried Ye Wan Wan and took Bai Jian ahead. Li Wan Zhi and the others hurried to follow.

Back at Heavenly One Sect, Yan Ju did not take Ye Wan Wan to Snow Mountain. He brought her to Disciples’ Peak, to her old room, and said: “The cold on Snow Mountain is heavy. You drained your spiritual power. You will recover faster here.”

After speaking, he looked at Ye Wan Wan and hesitated. She said: “Senior uncle, if you have something to say, say it.”

Seeing the others were not there, Yan Ju spoke frankly: “Since you knew it was dangerous, why did you ask Fang He An to make me arrive half a quarter hour later? Did you think about what would happen if, in that half quarter hour, we did not get there in time?”

Ye Wan Wan thought about it seriously, then answered: “It would not happen.”

Yan Ju paused. Ye Wan Wan lifted her head and smiled as she said: “I knew you were close by, and I knew that once you got the news you would head out at once. But because it was my request, senior uncle, you would keep my words in your heart. So even if you did not understand what I asked, you would not act right away, and in fact, you did not.”

When they followed Ye Yi Ran to the village, Xun Yin and Yan Ju had already arrived.

Ye Wan Wan said: “I did not know what they were planning, and I did not know if we had caught everyone. But anyone who saw what I did today will believe one thing.”

Her voice was firm as she said: “The number one genius is me. The Innate Spirit Bone is me. The Heaven Grade Spiritual Root is also me.”

Yan Ju’s pupils shrank in shock as he said: “You…”

Ye Wan Wan’s voice stayed calm as she said: “If there is a problem, come at me.”

Yan Ju could not speak for a long time. He stared at her, stunned. After a long while, he asked in a hoarse voice: “Why do you take all this onto yourself?”

Ye Wan Wan said softly: “Because there are people I want to protect.”

A hand landed on her head. Yan Ju patted her hair. His eyes were complicated and a little pained as he asked: “Are you tired?”

Ye Wan Wan smiled and said: “For the people I like, I am not tired.”

“I like it here. Instead of letting everyone become targets, let me be the one,” she said softly, then added: “Senior uncle, this is our secret. Keep it.”

It was not only Bai Jian. Even Fang He An and Li Wan Zhi were not simple. Ye Wan Wan knew they all had a Heaven Grade Spiritual Root, the same as her. Bai Jian had an Innate Spirit Bone. Li Wan Zhi’s body was special. And Fang He An was more than just a Variant Wood Spiritual Root. Each of them had secrets. But Ye Wan Wan did not care. She only cared about them.

Yan Ju’s eyes turned a little red. Ye Wan Wan smiled and said: “Senior uncle, do not worry. I know I am not alone. I still have you, I have master, and I have the senior uncles.”

She spoke each word clearly: “This time, I am not alone.”