EBE Chapter 509 Peace and Well-being
Chapter 509 Peace and Well-being
Unable to resist the boy's persistent questioning, the girl could only say that once he had paid off his food bill, she would take him to exorcise the demon. She needed to eat first and then meditate to heal her injuries.
Qingzhi was skeptical, secretly wishing he could tear the demon that had injured his junior sister to pieces, but his junior sister did indeed need healing...
Seeing the icy look in his eyes soften, the girl quickly added fuel to the fire: "If I take you away now, won't we really become deadbeats? It will bring shame to our sect."
The boy pursed his lips and remained silent.
Having finally managed to fool the boy, the girl excused herself to go to her room to rest, waved goodbye to him, and closed the door to the room.
The boy belatedly realized that the basin of bathwater he had boiled was actually for his junior sister—but the thought that the water was used to wash away the blood on her body made his heart sink again.
"Hey, watch out!" A shout rang out beside him. The waiter, who had come to the backyard to get something, saw Qingzhi staring blankly at him, about to chop the axe into his own hand without even looking. He quickly shouted and rushed over, snatching the axe away with lingering fear.
"What are you daydreaming about? Aren't you concentrating on your work? Are you even using your hands?!"
Qingzhi suddenly came to his senses, still worried about his junior sister, and turned around to go to the room to see if she was there.
When the waiter saw his actions, he quickly pulled him back.
Thinking about their relationship, he laughed, a hint of teasing in his smile: "You've only been gone a short while and you already miss your 'sister'? She's not in the wine shop right now."
Qingzhi's face immediately darkened.
Xiao Er was very good at judging situations. Seeing that the boy was somewhat sincere, he said, "Although she told me not to tell you, I'll tell you since you work so hard and don't try to cheat. The abandoned land temple in front of the village is haunted. That's why your 'sister' came here."
Upon hearing him reveal where his junior sister was, Qingzhi couldn't wait for him to say anything more and hurriedly ran out of the wine shop.
The land temple is in ruins and desolate.
Spiderwebs were everywhere, weeds covered the ground, and broken pieces of dust were scattered all around.
Qingzhi frowned, his longing for his junior sister compelling him to enter without hesitation.
First, a cold wind blew in, followed by swirling dust that stung the eyes.
Qingzhi covered his eyes with his sleeve, and when he put it down again, what he saw was no longer the half-collapsed earth temple.
It had become the room of the junior sister of the Tianqian Sect. The window was half open, and peach petals drifted into the room on the breeze. In the misty white steam, a peach blossom screen as tall as a person stood quietly in the center of the room, blocking out the light and shadows, as well as the rising incense smoke.
A faint candlelight shone from behind the screen, illuminating the outline of a wooden bathtub. Inside the tub, a slender, fair-skinned young girl cupped water and slowly poured it over her body…
Qingzhi's breathing became disordered, and he felt as if the blood in his entire body was boiling. The surging heat was impacting his blood vessels and meridians, as well as his fragile nerves.
He knew he shouldn't, he knew this was just an illusion to deceive him, but... but his eyes were uncontrollably fixed on the screen, a voice inside him constantly urging—go over, walk over, go around the obstructive screen, and...
His heart pounded, a surge of emotions assaulting his reason. His mind was uncontrollably filled with images of a face, her name, and the way she looked at him.
This feeling is both strange and familiar, terrifying yet alluring and seductive.
he looks like……
"Slap—!" A slap landed hard on the back of his head.
Qingzhi stumbled forward abruptly, and the illusion before him vanished instantly, returning to the dilapidated earth temple.
The faint scent of peach blossoms reached his nose, and as expected, his junior sister's exasperated voice rang in his ears: "Qingzhi, have you forgotten all the cultivation you've done these past few years? You were fooled by such a crude and low-quality illusion, and you still want to venture into the secret realm?!"
He couldn't tell whether he felt a fleeting joy or disappointment. He turned around, looking pitiful yet glaring angrily at the girl.
"Junior Sister, you promised to come with me to catch demons, but you lied to me again!"
"...Well, this..." The girl's momentum suddenly weakened, and she turned her head away to cough as if to cover it up.
Just then, a strange rustling sound came from inside the dilapidated temple. Qingzhi reacted quickly, drawing his sword and thrusting it towards the source of the sound.
But the girl grabbed his arm and hurriedly pulled him behind a pile of rotten wood, making a "shh" gesture to him.
With a casual grab of her right hand, she forcibly withdrew his sword.
Qingzhi paid no attention to the situation with the spirit sword. He was pinned down by his junior sister, who was very close to him. The fragrance of the peach blossom wine was so strong that it made him dizzy and unable to concentrate.
Could this be a side effect of the succubus illusion I just fell for?
He stared blankly into thought.
"What are you daydreaming about? Come with me, I'll show you a good show!" The girl tapped his head and pulled him along furtively to the small hill behind the dilapidated temple.
Qingzhi kept reciting the Heart-Cleansing Mantra, barely managing to pull his gaze away from his junior sister and look at the mountain valley in front of him, which was constantly emitting various spiritual lights and making sounds.
With a final, deafening roar, the entire mountain valley trembled, and a red array gradually materialized amidst the mountain mist. In the center of the array, a gigantic, boar-like, tiger-like monster lay dying, its body covered in blood.
When Qingzhi saw the demonic beast, he was surprised and immediately thought of his junior sister's injuries.
He said that a little succubus could not possibly harm his junior sister. It turned out that the succubus was bait deliberately released by this beast to lure people over and then eat them.
A chilling killing intent flickered in his eyes. He gripped the hilt of his sword, ready to go out and kill this beast, to make it utterly and completely dead.
The girl's hand, which was about to draw her sword, was gripped tightly by the person beside her. She said disapprovingly, "These are all traps I secretly laid. We've already caught it. It will be killed by the Wuji Formation soon. Don't rush."
Qingzhi did not understand.
"Junior Sister, we have swords, why bother with all this fancy stuff? You should have brought me here sooner. I could have just killed it with one sword, saving you from getting hurt..."
The girl shook her head, her laughter both unrestrained and languid in the spring breeze: "Little Qingzhi, my sword is only for begging for wine. There's no other use for it."
Despite her face being covered in dust and her bright red dress riddled with holes from setting traps, the young man felt that his junior sister was unparalleled in the world, more radiant and peerless than any peach blossom.
He so wished, so much wished, that his junior sister could stay in his sight forever.