Duosheng Danyuan

"Zeng Yixi? Why haven't you left yet?" Lin Xu asked, looking at Zeng Yixi leaning against the door.

"It wasn't just me, everyone was still here, waiting for you at the door. You guys were really something, whispering for so long, it made me... cough cough! It made me unable to resist coming in to find you."

"Were you eavesdropping on our conversation?" I squinted at Zeng Yixi at the door, my tone tinged with displeasure.

"Eavesdropping? I'd love to eavesdrop, but Chen Yu wouldn't let me. He said Su Wanqing just got back, and you must have a lot to talk about. Our presence at this time would only get in your way. So, we can only wait outside the Refining Heart Hall, huh? But you guys are so slow... cough, cough! I couldn't wait any longer, so I opened the door of the Refining Heart Hall again and came back to find you and see what you've been dawdling about."

Coughing, Zeng Yixi explained to me.

"You said you were waiting outside the Refining Heart Hall?" I frowned. "How did you get back after leaving the Refining Heart Hall? Didn't you pass by the Refining Heart Purification Pool?"

"I knew you'd ask that," Zeng Yixi smiled and continued, "I only came back to the Refining Heart Hall on a whim, and I didn't expect to actually find you. Just like yesterday, we can go out through this door and get directly to the entrance of the Refining Heart Hall. I don't know if it's because the three of you are still in the Refining Heart Hall, but when I opened the door from the outside of the Refining Heart Hall and came back, I was able to get directly to your classroom."

"Oh, I see," I replied casually.

"So, are you coming or not? Let's go to Yangyuanzhai together. We all do activities as a class, and if the three of you don't come, it'll just be the seven of us, which isn't very fun, is it?"

"..." Faced with Zeng Yixi's invitation, the three of us fell silent for a moment.

"How so?" Lin Xu asked me and Su Wanqing.

"I'm fine with either. Besides, I think Sister Zeng is right," Su Wanqing replied.

"Of course that's right! We're all in the same class, so naturally we should organize activities as a class unit," Zeng Yixi said with a smile.

"Brother Changfeng, what do you say?" Lin Xu asked me.

"Go ahead, it's always good to communicate more," I said, keeping my eyes on Zeng Yixi.

"hey-hey."

So the three of us followed Zeng Yixi out of the Refining Heart Hall. As soon as we stepped outside, we saw five people standing outside the doors of the other Refining Heart Halls, waiting for us.

"Where's Qian Zhe?" I asked.

"He couldn't wait and ran off first," Zhang Muyun said.

"Wow..." Lin Xu's eyes turned to Zeng Yixi when he heard Zhang Muyun say that. "He can get in?"

"Well..." Zeng Yixi scratched her cheek awkwardly, then said, "I don't think so, right?"

"you..."

"Who cares if we can or can't, we still have to go to Yangyuanzhai." I waved to stop Lin Xu from asking further questions, smiled, walked to the front of the crowd, looked around at everyone, and said, "Shall we go?"

"Okay, let's go." Chen Yu nodded, turned around and took the lead, heading towards Yangyuanzhai first, and the others followed him.

On the way, Tang Anran and Wang Hao couldn't wait to ask Su Wanqing about what had happened yesterday and why Elder Huaizhen had given her face. Su Wanqing didn't hide anything; she recounted her experiences to everyone, and what she said was basically the same as Elder Qingyue's description, with almost no discrepancies.

"And then what happened? Did the sect leader take you to the Zhengxuan Hall? What else did you encounter in the Zhengxuan Hall?" Zhang Muyun pressed.

"The elder forbids me to say," Su Wanqing said with an apologetic smile.

"I'm not allowed to say..." Wang Hao muttered to himself, pondered for a moment, then suddenly realized, "Could this also be part of the rules?"

"It's hard to say..."

"What do you mean by 'it's hard to say'? It's not like we can't talk about anything that happens after we go to the Zhengxuan Hall, is it?" Tang Anran asked, puzzled.

"Alright, alright, you all know the general situation, so don't keep asking." Lin Xu raised his hand to shield Su Wanqing, waving to stop the others from pressing for more details. "If you want more information, you can come to our hut and talk about it, like yesterday. Asking questions here will only yield vague answers, right?"

"This..." Wang Hao hesitated.

"Mm," Chen Yu nodded.

"Okay." Tang Anran shrank back and nodded reluctantly.

At the back of the line, Zeng Yixi and I walked side by side, chatting idly.

"Su Wanqing actually encountered so many things... Hey, do you think that chief disciple who was beheaded by Elder Jianshan will have any further developments?" Reflecting on Su Wanqing's description, Zeng Yixi pondered seriously, "No matter what, that guy's appearance and exit were both too abrupt. I feel like he definitely has more secrets to hide. Shi'an... the sect leader calls him Shi'an. Is he like Elder Huaizhen, without a surname, or is it just that the sect leader simply didn't mention his surname?"

"Your perspective on things is still so unique," I sighed, speechless.

"Come on, don't you watch TV dramas? Characters who suddenly appear and disappear like this might bring some unexpected developments." Zeng Yixi rolled her eyes at me, then continued to think to herself.

"Hmm..." Hearing Zeng Yixi say this, I was reminded of the thin man who reappeared yesterday. Wen Guanmiao called him Li Shuyan.

In this respect, Zeng Yixi and I are actually the same. These kinds of characters who suddenly appear and disappear are indeed worth noting.

Thinking about this, I suddenly realized, "Oh, right, what happened after yesterday?"

"What happened... Ugh, that guy, he really is a pervert..." Zeng Yixi's face instantly showed a look of disgust when she mentioned what happened yesterday.

"abnormal?"

"Well, let me tell you, yesterday... wait, you're not planning to trick me into telling you this, are you?" Zeng Yixi suddenly realized what she was saying and looked at me with a mischievous grin, "Getting something for nothing isn't a good thing, you know."

"What do you mean by 'getting something for nothing'? I taught you the 'Hundred Meridians Return to Origin' technique yesterday, how are you going to repay that favor?" I said, pursing my lips.

"Come on," Zeng Yixi said, completely unfazed. She rolled her eyes and pointed at my nose, feigning annoyance. "If that's how you see it, then I'll have to have a serious talk with you. Who was it that left me next to that perverted senior sister yesterday and went back to the hut alone? Yes, I was going to let you go first, but you left on your own, weren't you? Not only that, you even used your departure to bargain with that Wen Guanmiao and gained an answer to another question! So, you're the one who owes me more."

"You clearly heard the answer to that question too..." Helpless, I touched my nose to ease the awkwardness.

"Anyway, in the end, you still abandoned me and ran away yesterday. I'm being magnanimous by not holding it against you, and you still have the nerve to mention that 'Hundred Meridians Return to Origin' technique?"

"Hey, it's not like I brought Wen Guanmiao here. It was clearly your stupidity that led her here, okay?"

"Ugh!" Zeng Yixi's face immediately turned bright red after I exposed her. She gritted her teeth for a long time before finally managing to stammer out a sentence with an expression that was almost on the verge of tears, "Well, you can't entirely blame me..."

"Uh..." Zeng Yixi's reaction was completely unexpected. I didn't know what to do and was at a loss. I really wanted to take out my phone and look at it remotely.

After a long pause, I was at my wit's end. I sighed and said, "Then let's call it even, okay?"

"It's a deal!"

"Well!"

Almost the instant I finished speaking, Zeng Yixi's expression changed from one of impending tears to one of beaming smiles.

"Don't say I change my mind so quickly that you'll go back on your word. A real man keeps his word, right? Hehe..." Zeng Yixi said cheekily, revealing a smile that made me want to punch her again.

"Fine..." Zeng Yixi had already said everything I wanted to say. Completely helpless, I sighed, covered my face, and then said, "What about the things Su Wanqing shared about her experiences at the Old Xuan Palace? That can't be included in the even score, can it?"

"I don't agree with that," Zeng Yixi shook his head with a smile, then continued, "Su Wanqing shared her observations about the Old Xuan Palace with everyone, not just me. You want to use this clue to exchange for my information? Fine, you find five other people first. If they're willing to share the information they obtained individually, I'm willing too. How about it?"

"..."

"Alright, stop looking so grumpy," Zeng Yixi said with a smile, nudging me with her elbow. "I'll share with you for free the story of me and that perverted senior sister from yesterday."

"Sigh...why didn't you just do this sooner?" I sighed helplessly.

"...Hmph, you're definitely not popular with women." Zeng Yixi snorted coldly, somewhat angrily.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing much," Zeng Yixi rolled her eyes, speechless, then tidied up the wound on her chest and said, "Compared to Wen Guanmiao, there are actually many other things worth discussing, such as what happened in the Refining Heart Hall today."

"Indeed." I nodded in agreement.

"So, after I finish sharing Wen Guanmiao's story with you, you have to tell me what you discovered, okay?" Zeng Yixi whispered in my ear.

"Isn't that a bit much? As the main character of the Refining Heart Hall today, you should have discovered far more than I have," I said, puzzled.

"Of course, but I'd still like to hear your opinion. Didn't we make eye contact a few times?"

"Wow... let's make it clear beforehand, this part is free, right?"

"Forehead..."

"It's free, right?"

"Okay, now I'll tell you what happened yesterday, listen carefully..."

"It's free, right!?"