Chapter 48 (Part 2)

At this time, the people from Law Enforcement Hall came out to patrol. Seeing her running around the market like a headless fly and bumping into walls everywhere, they quickly went over to ask.

“Master-Aunt, what are you doing here?”

“Lingfeng, what are you doing here?”

The Law Enforcement Hall disciple and the leading Soul Transformation cultivator asked at the same time.

“Senior Sister Lingbi, why did you take a patrol task? Then have you seen Little Junior Brother? I lost him.”

Lingfeng did not notice the Law Enforcement Hall disciples’ speechless expressions as they looked to the heavens. She grabbed Lingbi’s hand and asked her for help.

“Lingfeng, did your brain run away from home? Little Junior Brother is missing, and you don’t know to ask with your message-transmitting jade slip?”

Lingbi was so angry that the veins on her forehead bulged. No wonder Lingfeng and Lingyin had never gotten along. If it were her, Lingfeng would also anger her half to death.

This Junior Sister really could not be kept. She was not reliable at all when doing things.

“You lost Little Junior Brother. When you go back, Little Martial Uncle won’t spare you.”

Lingbi was a disciple of Medicine Peak and also Qingquan’s eldest disciple. She had just returned from outside recently and was one of the sect’s few heavenly spiritual root disciples.

She usually cultivated and went out for training. After returning, she learned that the sect had gained a new Little Junior Brother. Although she had not met him, she had learned quite a few things about this Little Junior Brother from her junior brothers and sisters.

She also knew that Martial Uncle Qingyang treasured this little disciple as if he were afraid he would melt if held in his mouth and fall if held in his hand.

Lingfeng actually dared to lose him. If that was not courting death, then what was it?

“Ah! I forgot.”

Reminded by someone else, Lingfeng immediately took out her message-transmitting jade slip and called Yu Yu.

“Senior Sister.”

Yu Yu’s voice came from the message-transmitting jade slip, and Lingfeng’s heart immediately settled quite a bit.

But after Lingbi heard the young voice, she gained an initial impression of this Little Junior Brother. As expected, he was still a child!

“Little Junior Brother, did you and Senior Brothers go back? Why didn’t you tell me?”

Lingfeng clutched the jade slip and cried out her grievance.

“Tell you what? Tell you, and then let you lose Little Junior Brother a few more times?”

Linglong’s voice came from the jade slip. Hearing the ill will in his tone, Lingfeng knew she would not get through this easily. She only hoped Shizun still did not know about it.

“Does Shizun know?”

Lingfeng did not dare cry about being abandoned by her senior brothers and sisters. Besides, if this matter were truly weighed, she was the one in the wrong first.

“What do you think?”

Qingyang’s voice came out, scaring her so badly that she nearly dropped the jade slip in her hand.

“Careful.”

Lingbi reached out and caught the jade slip.

“Little Martial Uncle, Lingfeng will stay in the market temporarily tonight. I’ll watch over her.”

“Oh, it’s Lingbi. Then I’ll have to trouble you tonight. This unworthy disciple gives me no peace all day long. Little Feather originally wanted to tell her, but Lingzhen and Linglong wanted to teach her a lesson and wouldn’t let Little Feather speak.”

Qingyang explained the reason to Lingbi. At the same time, toward this female disciple, he truly hated iron for not becoming steel.

Look at Lingbi. Although she was also a heavenly spiritual root, in the way she conducted herself and handled affairs, she was tens of thousands of miles stronger than Lingfeng.

“Little Martial Uncle, it’s no trouble. It’s what I should do. She is also my Junior Sister. It’s only staying one night in the market. Little Martial Uncle, don’t worry. It’ll be fine.”

Lingbi glanced at the sullen Lingfeng, the amusement in her eyes not concealed at all.

“Thank you, Senior Sister Lingbi. I’ve caused trouble for you. Later, I’ll send some spirit fruit for you to eat. Please don’t disdain them!”

Yu Yu’s soft, sticky voice came from the jade slip, and Lingbi’s heart softened when she heard it.

She had not even met this Little Junior Brother, yet she already wanted to cherish and protect him. No wonder everyone praised him for being good. Compared with Lingfeng and the others, he really was far too well-behaved.

Hearing him call her Senior Sister, Lingbi wanted to steal the child.

If he were not her fellow sect Little Junior Brother, she would have stolen him away to be her own child.

“All right, I won’t disdain them. I’ve heard the spirit fruits Little Junior Brother grows are very delicious. Senior Sister will be waiting.”

Lingbi was not polite with Yu Yu. Although spirit fruit did not have much effect on her, since a heavenly spiritual root was already a full-value spiritual root and did not need any purification, spirit fruit contained a large amount of spiritual energy, so it still had some use for her.

She shut off the jade slip and tossed it back to Lingfeng.

“Let’s go.”

“Go where?”

Lingfeng asked back blankly.

Lingbi and the Law Enforcement Hall disciples all looked at her in unison. So she had not heard a single word of what had just been said?

“No, I just didn’t react for a moment. Senior Sister, I was wrong.”

Under everyone’s gazes as if they were looking at a fool, Lingfeng finally reacted and hurriedly admitted her mistake.

Senior Sister Lingbi had an even more explosive temper than hers. This was a heavenly fire spiritual root, a being who beat people up at the slightest disagreement.

“Mm.”

Lingbi could not be bothered to argue with her. Lingfeng’s stupidity was publicly acknowledged by the whole sect.

If not for everyone giving way to her, she would have been dealt with long ago.

Her strength was not high, yet her temper was big. If Lingbi had not seen that she had changed a lot after returning this time and was not as spoiled and domineering as before, she would not have paid any attention to her at all.

“Senior Sister, wait for me.”

Lingfeng chased after Lingbi and followed her toward the temporary residence.

At the same time, on Holy Sun Peak, the master and disciples guarding Qingyang’s great hall all breathed a sigh of relief.

“Luckily she ran into Lingbi. Otherwise, she wouldn’t even have had a place to stay tonight.”

Although Linglong always bickered with his younger sister, if she really had to suffer hardship, he could not bear it.

“For someone this stupid to actually be my younger sister, it seems when Mother was carrying us, she gave all the intelligence to me.”

Of course, when he was mocking her, he was not polite at all either. If he were not her real older brother, he would not be able to say such things.

“Senior Sister really leaves people with nothing to say. When we came back, I even made a bet with the Senior Brothers about when she would remember me.”

Yu Yu had bet that she would remember very quickly, but several Senior Brothers had all bet that she would not remember him until the market closed and there was nowhere left to play.

The result was just as expected. Yu Yu lost. He wanted to save some face for Senior Sister, but she messed it up herself. Who could be blamed?

“Little Feather, remember this. Next time, don’t go out with her.”

Qingyang’s expression was not very good. His little disciple had nearly been lost by his own fourth disciple. How could his expression possibly be good?

Before they went out, he had clearly instructed Lingfeng to watch his little disciple properly and not forget proper business just because she was playing.

And the result?

He might as well not have said anything! He, a dignified Daoist Lord at the Tribulation stage, had nearly been angered to death by his own disciple.

“Shizun, Senior Sister didn’t do it on purpose. She just…”

Yu Yu thought for a long while, wanting to find a good excuse for her, but in the end, he could not find one.

She had simply been playing and then forgotten his existence.

“Little Junior Brother, don’t make excuses for her. We understand her better than you do.”

As her biological elder brother, Linglong stepped forward and hugged Little Junior Brother. He really could not bear to let a child rack his brains trying to find excuses for his younger sister.

Yu Yu also gave up. He truly had no way to keep finding excuses and reasons for Senior Sister.

It seemed that this time, Senior Sister would not be able to escape punishment.

“This time, no one is allowed to plead for her. Especially you, Little Feather.”

Qingyang especially named his little disciple, afraid that he would soften his heart and plead for Lingfeng again.

“Oh.”

Seeing that Shizun looked very angry, Yu Yu obediently nodded and stood beside Linglong.

The next day, Lingfeng was escorted back by Lingbi. Along the way, she looked everywhere for excuses, all because she wanted to return a little later.

“Stop dragging it out. If you keep delaying, you’ll only add to your crimes.”

Watching her dawdle everywhere, Lingbi could not help speaking.

If not for the fact that Lingfeng would have no good days once she went back, Lingbi would have slapped her flying long ago.

For such a short road, she had somehow managed to take the whole morning.

Lingbi was a heavenly fire spiritual root, and her temper was famous in the sect for being explosive. She often beat people up at the slightest disagreement.

If she could use her hands, she absolutely would not use her mouth. On Medicine Peak, no one dared provoke her.

Originally, with her spiritual root, Pill Peak or Refining Peak would have been the most suitable place for her. It was just that her parents had old ties with Martial Uncle Qingquan and, before their deaths, entrusted her to Qingquan.

Even for the sake of her parents, Qingquan could not feel at ease handing her over to other senior brothers to raise. It was not that he did not trust his own senior brothers, but when this child had first entered the mountain, her whole person had been in a closed-off state.

Perhaps because she had personally watched her parents die in front of her, she followed no one except Qingquan.

With no other choice, Qingquan could only raise her himself.

Fortunately, cultivation methods had common principles. Lingbi had exceptional talent in spells, and aside from the Holy Sun lineage, among the Ling generation she was someone whose combat power could rank in the sect’s top five.

She was one of the few heavenly spiritual root disciples who often came back, because the person she cared about most was Qingquan.

At first, there had even been people who said she was in love with her own shizun, speaking of Qingquan and Lingbi in an extremely unbearable way.

That time, Qingsheng flew directly into a great rage and killed more than a dozen elders and the disciples under them. Only then were the rumors that had just begun to appear suppressed.

All of this had happened several hundred years ago. At the time, Lingbi was only in her early twenties, and because she had reached Foundation Establishment early, she still had the appearance of a young girl.

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