My junior sister sees everyone as a heretical cultivator.

Chapter 288 Their relationship is really good!
Su Ling'er let out a long sigh of relief. The relief of surviving the ordeal made her tense nerves go numb.

She quickly composed herself, forcing a sweet and obedient smile onto her pale face.

She took small, quick steps and ran out of Qingxu Hall, but as she passed the few bronze and wooden statues covered in dust at the entrance, she felt...something was off.

The location seems to be different from before, and the Taoist temple has been abandoned and the memorial tablets have been moved away. Why were these statues left behind?

A strange feeling flashed through her mind, but she didn't have time to think about it, because outside the mountain gate, the figure she both respected and feared was waving at her with a smile.

"Senior Brother!" Su Ling'er stopped at the mountain gate and complained, "How did you find me? I just saw this abandoned Taoist temple and wanted to come in and see if there was anything good, but it's so dilapidated!"

She put on a convincing act, shrugging helplessly at Lin Qingfeng: "Alas, what a pity! You wouldn't believe it, after searching for ages, I actually found a spirit-gathering array that looked pretty powerful, but the spirit stones on it had already been pried off!"

“I knew it,” Lin Qingfeng said, looking like he had seen through everything. “I just felt that even if there were any treasures in such a dilapidated place, they would have been looted long ago.”

“You are my junior sister, how could I not know where you are? Your path is guided by cause and effect, and it is not difficult for me to follow the traces. I hope that when you do sect missions in the future, you will also have this kind of inquisitive mind.”

"Hmph!" Su Ling'er kicked a pebble at her feet and added, "I'll never come back to this lousy place again! It's such bad luck!"

She complained, but her body betrayed her, and she moved closer to Lin Qingfeng, her voice becoming sweet and cloying: "Senior Brother is so good to me, he even came to call me home for dinner! Let's go back quickly, I'm starving!"

"Hehe," Lin Qingfeng said smugly, pulling out a string of bright red hawthorns covered in sugar frosting from behind his back. "Look, I bought you a candied hawthorn on my way back. I think this is something you're destined to have. Do you want it?"

Su Ling'er's eyes lit up instantly, and she nodded repeatedly like a chick pecking at rice: "Yes, yes, yes!"

The words had barely left his mouth when Lin Qingfeng suddenly flicked his wrist! "Here you go!!!"

"call out--!"

That string of candied hawthorns, like an arrow released from a bow, was enveloped in a faint layer of spiritual energy and shot straight toward Su Ling'er with a whooshing sound!

Su Ling'er's pupils dilated instantly!

No?! Is this how you give candied hawthorns at home?! Are you sure it's not a murder weapon?!
She watched helplessly as the string of "murder weapons" rapidly magnified in her field of vision, almost grazing her cheek as they flew past.

In a flash, she twisted her waist, her arm shot out like lightning, and firmly grabbed the candied hawthorn. Then, with a sudden burst of strength from her arm muscles, she swiftly flung it back!
"Senior Brother! Is this how you give someone a candied hawthorn?!" she shouted angrily, shaking it as she did so. "I think you're trying to kill me!"

"Hehe, this is an 'opportunity,' but opportunities are not easily obtained." Lin Qingfeng easily caught the candied hawthorn that flew back, and then threw a dart back with his other hand, saying, "The struggle for the Great Dao can be decided in an instant. If you can't even catch this today, how will you catch the glimmer of hope that flies from the sky in the future? By the way, have you seen Wang Xiedi and the others?"

"How would I know? Didn't you throw it down?" Su Ling'er caught the candied hawthorn again with great difficulty, and then threw it back with force. Then she replied in the same manner as her senior brother: "Everyone has their own destiny, how can I watch over them all the time!"

"Not so," Lin Qingfeng said, shaking his head as he casually played with the "candied hawthorn boomerang." "The bond between fellow disciples is also a link in the Dao. I have already seen through the maze and completed a full cycle, while they are still wandering on the way. It is clear that their Dao hearts still need to be tempered."

Su Ling'er threw it back: "Don't you even know what your cultivation level is, and what theirs is?! If you run back and forth, they might not even be able to keep up, okay?!"

Right there in front of this dilapidated Taoist temple in the desolate mountains, the two of them, oblivious to everyone else, launched a thrilling yet childish throwing battle using a string of candied hawthorns as weapons.

Meanwhile, Wang Xiedi and Li Chunfeng arrived at the mountain gate, panting heavily.

They were staying at the Su residence peacefully. The eldest brother even gave them "Initial Understanding of Beast Fire," "Alchemy Notes," and a gem, saying it was a prize from a competition. But then Su's father mentioned that his daughter hadn't returned for dinner yet. For some reason, the eldest brother soon found out that Su Ling'er had gone to Qingxu Mountain.

The two of them felt a sudden jolt of fear, afraid that Su Ling'er had revealed something. That's why they begged their senior brother to lead them and the others along. But when they were almost at the mountain gate, their senior brother seemed to suddenly remember something and went back.
As soon as they arrived, they witnessed this absurd scene. Wang Xiedi looked at the candied hawthorns flying through the air and the two people having so much fun, his lips twitching wildly. He couldn't help but mutter, "They... they really have a good relationship... but what's Senior Brother's cultivation level now? Nascent Soul? He's already completed a round trip so quickly?"

"I don't know, but they really have a good relationship!" Li Chunfeng chimed in. "That's a good thing!!"

Ultimately, it was the voices from this side that brought the "battle" on the other side to a halt.

"Who said we're on good terms?!" Su Ling'er grabbed the candied hawthorn in her hand and started eating it, saying angrily.

“That’s right!” Lin Qingfeng also took out his candied hawthorn and started eating, looking heartbroken. “The Great Dao is ruthless. I originally intended to enlighten her with a fortuitous opportunity, but alas, she is beyond redemption!”

"Is this some kind of enlightenment you're offering?! You're clearly trying to kill me!"

"Alas, if I had truly harbored murderous intent, you would have already been reincarnated a hundred times over. Enough, enough, the world is too foolish to understand the suffering of my Daoist heart..."

Seeing that her senior brother was about to launch into another long-winded discourse, Su Ling'er waved her hand while eating, saying, "Alright, alright, senior brother's Taoist magic is profound! Senior brother is the best, the best! I'm just dull-witted. Let's go, let's go home for dinner!"

The group of people wandered off, making a lot of noise.

Su Ling'er praised her senior brother, but in her heart, her determination was as firm as a rock.

After entering the city and observing their interactions with ordinary people, she increasingly felt that this senior brother... did not seem to be as sinister and cruel as she had initially imagined traditional evil cultivators to be.

He's more like... a playful, carefree eccentric, but that's only true for him personally.

However... this does not mean that Guixi Sect is not a demonic sect.

The secrets hidden behind this sect are probably far more terrifying than I imagined. The fellow disciples and senior brother who often fall into a daze, Elder Qian who was turned into a puppet... all of this seems to indicate that there is an invisible black hand controlling everything in the Guixi Sect.

The eldest brother may simply be caught in the middle of the game, unable to control his own destiny, but I myself must also cultivate more diligently in order to find my own path to survival in this game.

Perhaps the righteous path and the demonic path in this world are not as clearly distinct as one might imagine.

Perhaps, I am currently in a "devil's den".

But so what?
From now on, Su Ling'er will walk her own path.

Even in the deepest hell, the heart can still yearn for the light.

And this path of cultivation, unique to her, the true righteous path in her heart, has only just begun.

Before the gate of Qingxu Temple, their figures gradually disappeared into the distance, leaving only the incense stick inserted in the incense burner, which burned out its last wisp of smoke in the lonely night wind.

……

Across from the Su residence, in the shadow of a huge locust tree, a slender figure had been waiting for a long time.

Why hasn't that immortal from the Su family returned yet?
(End of this chapter)