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"He's really not awake."

Then she bit her lip, silently withdrew her hand, pulled the blanket closer to herself, turned to the side with her back to him, and her ears were so red they looked like they were about to bleed.

"woke up?"

Cheng Ling Shuang's voice came from the doorway.

Li Sushang sat up abruptly, pulling at the wound on her left shoulder, wincing in pain: "Master!"

Cheng Ling Shuang leaned against the door frame, holding a bowl of medicine in her hand. She glanced expressionlessly at the two people on the bed and said, "You can sleep quite a bit, the sun's already high in the sky."

"Master! He, how could he... I... I... I'm right next to him..."

"There's only one bed. Where else would I put it if not next to you?" Cheng Ling Shuang's tone was indifferent. "On the floor?"

"Master, you have a bed there, oh, you have a bed there!"

"If I give it to him, where will I sleep?"

Li was speechless for a moment, then sobbed, "Master, you... men and women shouldn't touch each other!"

"Well……"

Cheng Ling Shuang lowered her eyes, lost in thought and remained silent.

Li Sushang sighed inwardly, suddenly realizing that it was indeed a bit harsh to ask her master to understand this common sense.

After all, he was the fifth disciple of Taixu; the only person besides Chiyuan Zhenren in the past hundred years to comprehend the supreme martial art "Taixu Sword God"; he started learning martial arts at the age of two, entered the Taixu realm at the age of 18, and was known as the peerless swordsman "the supreme divine sword, free and detached from emotions".

Ling Shuang spent thirty-seven years wielding her sword with a pure heart, yet she never truly stepped into this mortal world.

They have never encountered setbacks, never experienced failures, and have neither the slightest desire nor the slightest attachment.

Common sense, rules, logic, rationality, worldly affairs... all these things bind the mundane and mundane, but Ling Shuang neither cares about them nor pays attention to them.

But only those who are fortunate enough to know him well will realize just how skilled he is at talking to himself.

Just like it is now.

"Yes, it's my fault," Cheng Ling Shuang said earnestly. "I should have thought that at your age, it's time for you to consider matters of the heart."

Li Sushang: "..."

I'm exhausted, truly exhausted.

"Waaah..."

A muffled groan came from the bed, and Zhang Yang opened his eyes.

I'm not dead?

Did I time travel again?

That doesn't make sense either, the cooling isn't finished yet.

Zhang Yang turned his head and saw a face very close to his.

Brown twin ponytails, with an apricot-yellow hairband.

It is Li Sushang.

The two people looked into each other's eyes.

"……morning?"

"Early my foot!"

Li Sushang grabbed a pillow and threw it at his face.

Zhang Yang's face was covered in pillows, but he was too weak to dodge, so he just took the hit and muttered, "Is this how you treat a patient...?"

"Who told you to sleep in my bed!"

"I want to know too..."

Cheng Ling Shuang stood to the side, watching the two bicker back and forth, and calmly added, "The medicine is on the table, drink it yourself."

Zhang Yang struggled to sit up and looked around: "May I ask who you are?"

"Cheng Ling Shuang".

"Ah." Zhang Yang was stunned for a moment, then quickly adjusted his expression. "Thank you for saving my life, senior."

"Thanks to the person next to you," Cheng Ling Shuang said. "You're lucky she didn't die."

Zhang Yang turned his head and glanced at Li Sushang.

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The atmosphere was silent for a short while.

Li Sushang spoke first: "Master...where is Uncle-Master Ma Fei Ma?"

"He got into a fight, lost, and left," Cheng Ling Shuang said. "Don't worry, he won't bother you again."

Li Sushang was silent for a moment: "...Master."

"Ah."

“My father and my mother…” Li Sushang took a deep breath, gritted her teeth, and tried her best to keep her voice from trembling: “My father and my mother…are they really dead?”

Cheng Ling Shuang remained silent for a while.

"Ah."

One word.

Gently, as if without any emotion.

But Zhang Yang noticed that when she said that word, her gaze shifted away.

Li Sushang's lips were trembling, and her eyes were red, but she clenched her teeth tightly to keep the tears from falling.

After a long while, she finally spoke, her voice hoarse: "...Was it made by Master Chi Yuan?"

"Uncle-Master Ma Fei Ma said that it was True Person Chi Yuan who killed my father and mother, and that it was True Person Chi Yuan who burned down Yi Jian Manor." Li Sushang raised her head and looked at Cheng Ling Shuang. "Master, is it true?"

Cheng Ling Shuang turned her head and looked at Zhang Yang: "What did you get out of Ma Fei Ma?"

Zhang Yang was slightly taken aback, then smiled bitterly and said, "He admitted it. The Seven Swords of Taixu, twenty years ago, besieged Taixu Mountain and killed the Crimson Kite Immortal."

Li Sushang suddenly turned her head to look at him, her eyes wide open.

“But—” Zhang Yang paused, “the Crimson Iris Immortal has been resurrected. So Ma Feima thinks that when the Crimson Iris Immortal returns this time, he will definitely kill all seven of you one by one.”

"So... Master Chiyuan killed my father and mother... for revenge? Then my mother also..." Li Sushang looked at Cheng Ling Shuang, "was my mother also involved in the murder of her master?"

Cheng Ling Shuang said, "I participated."

Li Sushang's tears finally fell, flowing down her cheeks and dripping onto the quilt, leaving a small, dark stain.

"Why...why did you kill your grandmaster? Wasn't she your master? Didn't she teach you all your martial arts? Why..."

Cheng Ling Shuang remained silent for a long time before slowly saying, "True Qi has no eyes, and Heaven's will is merciless, so people are treated like straw dogs."

"True energy can corrupt the mind. If one's mind is unstable when practicing it to a high level, one will go astray and become a demon."

"The people of the Taixu lineage show no mercy to demons."

Li Sushang stared at her blankly.

She knew this precept all too well, yet when she spoke of it now, it felt incredibly heavy.

“At that time, the fourth brother had already shown signs of demonic possession. Master insisted on the ironclad rule of ‘demonic possession must be punished’ and decided to execute Jiang Wanru.” Cheng Ling Shuang said, “The eldest brother did this to protect the fourth brother. She had long harbored resentment towards Master’s ironclad rule of killing demons on sight, regardless of whether they had harmed anyone.”

"The second brother was the mastermind."

"The third sister did it to protect her twin sister."

"As for the fourth sister herself, she has become possessed by demons, just to survive."

"I……"

Cheng Ling Shuang paused for a moment, "I assisted Su Mei, and I don't think there's anything wrong with my master, it's just... I can't remain indifferent."

"Old Six followed Su Mei and helped her from beginning to end."

"As for the seventh brother, your mother..." Cheng Ling Shuang's voice lowered, "She didn't have the intention to kill her master, but she was forced to take sides. After that incident, she was the one who suffered the most, and her sword heart was shattered."

Li Sushang's tears flowed uncontrollably.

She remembered that when she was a child, her mother would sometimes sit alone in the yard late at night, staring blankly at the moon.

She remembered that her mother would sometimes stroke her head and say things she couldn't understand at the time.

"Shang'er, you must take good care of yourself."

"Mother hopes you will never understand those things in your life."

She never understood what those words meant.

Now she understands.

"So, True Immortal Chi Yuan has been resurrected and returned for revenge." Li Sushang's voice was very soft. "She killed my father, killed my mother, and burned down the Memory Sword Manor. Who's next? Me? Or you?"

Zhang Yang, who was drinking his medicine, suddenly spoke up: "I have a question."

Li Sushang and Cheng Lingshuang both looked at him.

Zhang Yang raised his head, looked at them, and said slowly and deliberately, "If True Person Chi Yuan didn't hate you, nor did she want revenge, then the person who burned down Yi Jian Manor wasn't Chi Yuan at all?"

Chapter Fourteen: Another Day of Nonsense

"If True Person Chiyuan didn't hate you, nor did she want revenge, then the person who burned down Yijian Manor wasn't Chiyuan at all?"

Zhang Yang's words echoed in the room.

Cheng Ling Shuang didn't speak, and neither did Li Su Chang.

There was only an oil lamp on the table, its wick crackling as it cast a flickering shadow on the earthen wall.

After a long while, Li Sushang finally spoke: "...What do you mean by that?"

Zhang Yang put down the bowl of medicine in his hand, looked at Cheng Ling Shuang, and said something that seemed unrelated: "Senior, do you still remember Yan Shi Luo?"

Li Sushang was stunned for a moment.

Yan Shilu?

The character Yan Shilu in "The Sacred Flame Jade Lotus Platform"?

Of course she knew that the most legendary demonic cult leader in the storyteller's tales had infiltrated the Lotus Assembly in disguise, defeated three sect leaders in succession, set fire to the Jade Lotus Platform, and left laughing.

When she was a child, her eyes would light up when she heard this, and she wished she could be there herself.

But why bring him up all of a sudden?

Cheng Ling Shuang's eyebrows twitched slightly: "I've heard of it."

Were you there at the time?

Li Sushang was even more confused.

What scene?

Isn't the story of Yan Shilu from decades ago?

How old was Master at that time?

“I was there.” Cheng Ling Shuang nodded slightly. “I was two years old at the time. I was near the scene. The concentration of true qi was too high. People nearby either died or went insane, but I survived.”

Li Sushang opened her mouth, but for a moment she didn't know what to say.

Two years old.

My master was at the Olympic torch relay when he was two years old.

She had never heard her master mention it.

Cheng Ling Shuang continued, "When Yan Shilu was young, he spent the night at Wangshan and a deity appeared in his dream, giving him three volumes of extraordinary books. He claimed to be protected by the gods, and people in the martial arts world also said that he had divine assistance behind him. He created the Jade Divine Skill, which allows him to freely control flames."

"Forty years later, he disguised himself and infiltrated the Lotus Assembly, defeating the leaders of the Shao, Lian, and Hua sects in succession. He then set fire to the Jade Lotus Platform and left laughing. This is the story Su Chang had heard."

"Thirty-nine years ago, he accepted the invitation of Chu Buchen, the Sword Saint of Moshan, and created seven sword techniques on the spot to defeat Chu Buchen by using his sword against his sword."

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