My mother is the empress

Chapter 26: Brainless Protection
"Elder?"

"Elder Li, you are awake——"

Yan Moer and Zuo Fanyu took a step back at the same time, one looking anxious, the other blushing for an instant.

Especially Zuo Fanyu, she felt that her situation should be more serious than what happened outside!

When did Elder Li wake up?

He and Xiao Zu talked quite a lot just now. Li Zi asked himself how much he had heard and whether... whether he had heard what he was thinking.

The young girl's vague love instantly turned into a fishbone stuck in her throat, making Zuo Fanyu want to stab Li Ziwen twice more and make him faint again.

In order to preserve your beautiful secret love.

What’s the difference between this and dying before accomplishing the mission!
The only difference is probably that the person who was suspected of killing Zuo Fanyu's secret crush disappeared on the spot like a gust of wind carrying Yan Moer.

"Protect Xiao Zu. I'll go check out the situation."

Then the white figure completely disappeared into thin air.

He is truly worthy of being called a sword immortal.

Zuo Fanyu and Qin Baiqing were left looking at each other.

After a while, Qin Baiqing frowned, retracted her disdainful gaze, and looked at Zuo Fanyu seriously, "You should find someone else to like."

Qin Baiqing's intuition told her that this person must have heard something!
But he didn't say anything and just ran away like the wind, which made Qin Baiqing suddenly remember the wise words her mother once taught her.

"My dear daughter, there is a terminal disease in this world, called straight men..."

Qin Baiqing still doesn't understand what her mother meant by what she said, but after years of being influenced by her, Qin Baiqing feels that an arrogant person like Li Ziwen might be able to understand her.

So he stood on tiptoe more solemnly and hugged Zuo Fanyu's waist for a few seconds.

Before Zuo Fanyu could react and hugged back, she had already decisively stepped back, with a look on her face that said "don't come near me".

This was the greatest comfort she could accept.

"Anyway," Qin Baiqing nodded to herself, very seriously, "He's a stinking straight man, you should find someone else to like."

"Thank you, Xiaozu, for comforting me." Zuo Fanyu laughed.

She squatted down and held Qin Baiqing in her arms this time, without encountering any resistance.

Then Zuo Fanyu suddenly realized that it seemed that passively hugging and actively hugging represented different meanings in Xiaozu's mind.

Now I understand Xiaozu better.

Zuo Fanyu was strangely satisfied. She coaxed Qin Baiqing softly, "Xiao Zu, do you want to go out and watch the fun?"

When I went out, I found that the place where the trouble was happening was the market for independent cultivators, and the two groups of people were still cursing at each other in anger.

"Fellow Daoist Qingyun is too unreasonable! This Blood Spirit Grass was accidentally damaged when you were picking it. I didn't ask you to pay for it all, but you should at least give me some damage compensation!"

"It's because your Blood Spirit Grass is of poor quality, why are you asking me to compensate you? You are just blackmailing me!"

"You are unreasonable, you are a scoundrel!"

"You are extorting money from me!"

"..."

While the few of them were doing oral gymnastics, Zuo Fanyu frowned and glanced at the blood spirit grass on the stall, and an idea suddenly came to his mind.

There is still the aura of Qingyun technique remaining on it.

It seems that Qingyun's disciples were not skilled enough and accidentally damaged the rhizome during the inspection.

She sighed silently, thinking about how to accept this farce, but she found that Li Ziwen had already drawn his sword without saying a word, and threatened those casual cultivators in a cold voice: "If you insult my Qingyun disciples, you shall be beheaded!"

Zuo Fanyu collapsed instantly.

How come he is still such a brainless person who protects his own shortcomings!

While the farce here had not been seen by more people, Zuo Fanyu hurried forward and almost begged the Qingyun disciples to calm down.

If their own people were causing trouble and bullying independent cultivators, it would be a disgrace to Qingyun. "Get out of the way!" Li Ziwen glanced at Zuo Fanyu unhappily, and he was no longer friendly to her. "They are just a bunch of independent cultivators who are parasites in the cultivation world. You must protect them."

After saying this, he glanced coldly at the casual cultivators opposite him, looking them up and down, and immediately looked down on them even more, "Those who don't practice swordsmanship are all trash."

"Elder Li..." Zuo Fanyu was hesitant to speak, and began to despair of Li Ziwen, who was out of touch with the world.

It's good enough for a casual cultivator to get the skills. Who would bother to practice sword skills which makes no money and is difficult to practice?
But just when Zuo Fanyu was getting extremely anxious, he suddenly discovered that the Qingyun disciple who had started the trouble first had fallen silent, with a dazed look on his face.

Her eyes flashed, and before she could do anything, she found that Qin Baiqing had come to the side of the disciple without her knowing when.

The small hand fell in front of him and grabbed a wisp of demonic energy.

"He was possessed by evil spirits, which affected his brain, and that's why he became such a rude and violent person."

"Xiao Zu, be careful. Don't get close to these people."

Zuo Fanyu carried Qin Baiqing away in time. At this time, Li Ziwen also put away his sword and walked over. His first reaction was: "Demonic energy? I have kept the Zhuyin Sword away. It couldn't have been done by it."

"Young Master." The Void Bracelet explained, "The evil spirit has already entered very deeply. It entered the body while on the flying boat."

"Wouldn't it be even more difficult to eradicate?" Zuo Fanyu frowned, hugged Qin Baiqing and stepped back a few steps, fearing that the evil spirit would contaminate Qin Baiqing.

Then he fell into deep thought, "Will it affect the Hundred Sects Competition?"

She thought of the Hundred Sects Competition and did not dare to delay any further. After carefully placing Qin Baiqing aside, she simply took out the spirit disk to test the other disciples.

Rays of white spiritual light overflowed from the spiritual disk and spontaneously fell on each disciple. Most of them actually began to have black energy appearing on their bodies!
These black gases represent that there is demonic energy in their bodies, which pollutes the white light of the spirit disk!
The situation has become serious.

Even someone as conceited as Li Ziwen realized something and glanced at the indignant cultivators with a complicated expression.

Then he took a step forward and lightly tapped the disciples who were infected by the evil spirit. His gesture was like a sword, leaving behind an afterimage, blocking the movement of the evil spirit.

He said in a deep voice: "Go back and practice the Pure Heart Technique in seclusion. You are not allowed to come out of seclusion for less than three days."

The Sword Master is conceited and strict, both to himself and his disciples.

Now that he knew about the abnormalities in these people, he would never allow the Hundred Sects Competition to be affected, so he swept his cold and sharp eyes across the entire audience and warned everyone again: "Recite the Pure Heart Technique for three days and the evil spirit will be eliminated. After three days, if anyone still has evil spirit in their body, they will be sent back to the sect immediately to receive punishment!"

"Yes!"

Everyone was afraid to take it with them. After knowing that there was evil spirit in their bodies, they felt itchy all over and went back to retreat immediately.

The mess of the independent cultivators was left to Zuo Fanyu to clean up. Qin Baiqing also refused to go back. She blinked her big eyes eagerly and acted cute to Zuo Fanyu, "I have never seen an independent cultivator market in my life. How pitiful..."

Zuo Fanyu's heart was hit hard and he stood there in a daze. He wished he could buy out the entire independent cultivator market and give it to Xiaozu!

However, he had already taken the opportunity to run away, and Zuo Fanyu also woke up.

I don’t have enough money to buy out the casual cultivator market to make Xiao Zu happy… It’s useless!
Here, Qin Baiqing has already started looking around.

“It’s not for eating.”

“This isn’t edible.”

"There's something delicious here! Have one!"

"..."

"Ouch!" Just when she bought a corn dumpling and had not yet had time to swallow it, a burly man bumped into Qin Baiqing and almost knocked her out.

The corn balls also rolled to the ground. The man apologized in a muffled voice, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," and left in a hurry.

"Impolite." The Void Bracelet was dissatisfied.

"It doesn't matter, what if he's in a hurry to go home for the funeral?" Qin Baiqing puffed out her cheeks, and patiently queued up again, staring at the steaming fresh corn balls.

No one noticed, and the sturdy man who was rushing to the funeral slipped into the alley and reported in a deep voice to a delicate girl.

"No spiritual energy escaped when I came into contact with her, which confirmed that she had no cultivation!"

"well done."

The scent of lily of the valley wafts in the air in a sinister way.

(End of this chapter)