Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

"Fourth Senior Brother?"

Zhang Ruoxue's words startled everyone.

Jiang Yuetian and Lin Yuan turned around and were astonished to find that Gu Xingzhuo, who had been sleeping in the room behind Zhang Ruoxue, had woken up and was weakly walking out of the room, leaning against the wall.

With a cold and expressionless face, Gu Xingzhuo looked at Zhang Ruoxue with complex emotions, his eyes filled with sadness, nostalgia, admiration, and fear...

But in the end, he only spoke, saying in a low and slightly immature voice:

"I also need to go."

"Go find the Great Wilderness Flame."

55. An Unexplained Change

Gu Xingzhuo woke up very suddenly, as if he knew Zhang Ruoxue was going to leave.

He said he was going to go with Xu Yanliu and the others to find the Great Wilderness Flame, but he didn't say why.

"Given my status, the Great Wilderness Heavenly Flame would not disrespect me."

Gu Xingzhuo spoke in a cold tone, devoid of much emotion, and his facial features rarely changed.

He was subject to the vicissitudes of life and death, and there was an inseparable connection between the extremes. Although he and Dahuang Tianyan were not anxious for long, they were both extremes after all, and he believed that Dahuang Tianyan would not turn him away.

That's what he said, and that became the reason that persuaded Zhang Ruoxue and the other two.

finally--

Gu Xingzhuo still joined Zhang Ruoxue's team.

He didn't speak directly to Zhang Ruoxue. It seemed that Gu Xingzhuo was still Gu Xingzhuo, without retaining any memory of Qu Wenxue.

But Zhang Ruoxue didn't know how to face her fourth senior brother.

Gu Xingzhuo is the inheritor of the impermanence of life and death, and is also the embodiment of impermanence itself, as well as Liu Xun Kong's incarnation in this world...

And Liu Xunkong was his lover from before he lost his memory...

This relationship is really complicated—at least Zhang Ruoxue's head felt very messed up, so messed up that it made her almost explode with the few brain cells she had left.

However, Gu Xingzhuo's joining was only beneficial to Zhang Ruoxue, with no drawbacks—after all, he was her senior brother and one of the Twenty-One Extremes.

Moreover, Gu Xingzhuo recovered faster than expected. Perhaps it was because he had survived his past life's tribulation. In addition to being even colder than Fan Luokui, he also gave Zhang Ruoxue and the others a sense of mystery that was hard to fathom.

It was as if he harbored some secret that no one knew.

Thus, the two siblings, whose fates were intertwined, embarked on a journey together to find the Great Wilderness Flame.

……

"They're gone..."

Courtyard houses—no, amidst ruins.

The beautiful woman, dressed in a red and white patterned fitted cheongsam, sighed and looked around. The courtyard, which had been wantonly trampled and destroyed, was in a state of ruin and desolation. The courtyard that she once regarded as her second home had become so ravaged, which was truly heartbreaking.

He turned to the side, half-squatted down, and pinched the little face of Yuan'er, who was staring blankly to the side. "Yuan'er, is there anything you want to do?"

"Me?" Xiao Yuan'er's fair and lovely face was stretched out, her cherry lips pouted, and she said indistinctly, "Yuan'er doesn't have anything she wants to do. If I had to say... I want to go to the Qin Sect in a while!"

"The Qin Sect..."

To be honest, Yuan'er has always aimed to master the art of playing the zither and has been constantly studying the meaning and meaning of zither music.

After all, Emperor Wen was Yuan'er's lifelong idol and the object of her deepest admiration.

But before that—

Looking around at the ruins, Jiang Yuetian suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and an idea came to him:

"Yuan'er, how about... we rebuild the courtyard house?"

"Eh?!"

"Yuan'er probably doesn't want the teacher to see the courtyard like this either, right? If the teacher comes back and sees this courtyard, he certainly won't be happy."

Lin Yuan blinked her bright, watery eyes, clapped her hands excitedly, and immediately beamed with joy: "That's right! We have to show the teacher a clean and beautiful yard!"

"Then, the teacher will definitely praise Yuan'er too~" A little drool dripped from the corner of the little girl's mouth, her face full of greed, and she chuckled, "Then Yuan'er will have lots and lots of lollipops to eat... an endless supply of lollipops... hehehe..."

As expected of a child, they have absolutely no resistance to sweets.

Jiang Yuetian chuckled twice, ruffled Yuan'er's little head, and messed up her rosy hair slightly before saying, "I bought quite a lot of stone and jade before, so I don't need to go shopping anymore. Let's just use the materials we have for now."

"Ooh!"

With great enthusiasm, Yuan'er rolled up her sleeves, revealing two snow-white and slender forearms, her delicate little hands clenched into fists. "Yuan'er will do her best!"

A few hours later—

"Yuan'er can't keep going..."

The little girl named Lin Yuan sat on the ground, looking utterly helpless.

Rebuilding the courtyard houses... is more tiring than I imagined!

Although they were cultivators, it was clearly impossible for them to rebuild the entire courtyard house in a short period of time.

If it's a talisman cultivator who specializes in spell techniques, there might be some possibility—a talisman cultivator who can build a tower from sand with just a twist of their fingertips is, in a sense, a master architect.

But Xiao Jiang and Lin Yuan are different—

They all have to put in physical effort—it's not just manual labor that can be done by simply moving a finger.

Moreover, all of Yuan'er's spiritual energy is contained within that double pupil; as for her physical body...

Extremely weak.

The little queen inside her body was also sealed away, so there was no way to have her done for her.

"So tired...more tired than practicing the piano..."

Yuan'er sat on the ground, sweat dripping from her forehead, her little belly making a rumbling sound, and she subconsciously pouted her little mouth.

"Senior brother~"

Jiang Yuetian, who was laying the fourth wall, put down the stones in his hand, turned around helplessly, and met Yuan'er's clear and lovable eyes.

"Hehehe..."

With her eyes curving into cute little crescents, Yuan'er sat on the ground expectantly, swaying back and forth as if trying to move her body.

She just smiled and didn't say anything, but Jiang Yuetian knew what the girl meant.

Glug glug—

Yuan'er's little belly seemed to be protesting.

This girl...

Jiang Yuetian gave a helpless bitter laugh, and then the storage ring on his right hand flashed with a faint light.

"Alright then, I'll prepare a sumptuous dinner for you first."

"Great!"

Yuan'er excitedly jumped up from the ground, not forgetting to flatter Jiang Yuetian: "Yuan'er will never get tired of the food that Second Senior Brother makes!"

"Just your sweet mouth."

Jiang Yuetian smiled faintly, then skillfully took out the kitchen utensils.

Yes, kitchenware.

There are probably very few cultivators in the entire Three Heavenly Domains who would put a complete set of cooking utensils in their storage ring—and not only that, but also a large amount of food, occupying 80% of the space in their storage ring. Jiang Yuetian is probably the only one in the world who would do that.

However, he didn't care at all—because he had to cook for Yuan'er, and this sacrifice was necessary.

……

We were full and satisfied.

No, to be precise, only Xiao Jiang drank a little bit of alcohol, and he drank it secretly—because the smell of alcohol would make Yuan'er, who never drinks, faint on the spot.

"Whew... I'm so full!"

Yuan'er lay on the stone table, her eyes half-closed, her tender little face full of satisfaction. She stroked her bulging little belly and chuckled.

Jiang Yuetian reached out and gently stroked Lin Yuan's head, then looked up at the bright moon hanging in the night sky, at the starry sky, and at the beautiful full moon.

I wonder how Ruoxue and Xingzhuo are doing now?

Have we arrived at the location of the Great Wilderness Heavenly Flame?

What if we get attacked on the way?

Will the people of the Demon Dynasty come after them?

do not know.

He couldn't interfere with Zhang Ruoxue, who was far away and unknown.

"Senior brother..."

Lin Yuan sent out a soft call.

"Ok?"

Jiang Yuetian turned around and saw that Xiao Lin Yuan had closed her eyes, smacked her lips, and murmured indistinctly, "Senior brother... delicious! Delicious... Senior brother..."

Did this girl dream that she was going to be eaten...?

Jiang Yuetian looked at the silly girl Lin Yuan, who seemed to be gnawing on something, and gave a helpless bitter smile. She carefully got up without making a sound.

A cold wind blew by, and he casually summoned a brown cloak, using it as a blanket to gently place on Yuan'er.

The little girl seemed to find this very comfortable. She shifted her body, changed to a more comfortable sitting position, and fell asleep with a sweet smile on her face.

Night fell, and silence enveloped everything.

Just looking at Lin Yuan's sleeping face, Jiang Yuetian smiled contentedly.

Being able to stay with Yuan'er is one of the luckiest things in his life.

If I had to name another lucky thing, it would probably be meeting Yunping and the other people from Yuntian Academy.