In the small courtyard, Jiang Yuebai and Lu Ying stood opposite each other. Lu Ying had tears in her eyes as she stared at Jiang Yuebai.
"I didn't call you back then. I was even glad that I didn't have to be possessed. So now, I don't have the face to face you again."
Jiang Yuebai's heart was in a knot. "Lü Ying, I have never blamed you. You provoked me with your words several times, but I was too stupid to understand what you meant. I know you are sincere to me, and I also know that you are a kind person."
Lu Ying shook her head. "No, I'm not as good as you think. I'm just an ordinary person. Do you understand, Xiaobai? I'm just an insignificant dot among the countless fireflies in this world."
The cool breeze blew her hair. Lu Ying withdrew her gaze and lowered her eyes, with a bitter smile on her lips.
"You were right when we were little. I deliberately wanted to be friends with you because you were weak and I felt so powerful when I was with you. But then you became so dazzling and I felt so frustrated. I envied you and even had bad thoughts. I hoped that you would fall and become like me so that we could be friends again."
"But after the gap widened, it became bigger and bigger. I couldn't catch up with you no matter what. The powerlessness and frustration made me miserable. So when Song Pei'er first taught me how to practice, gave me elixirs, and helped me improve wholeheartedly, I was very happy. As a result, I fell into her trap and was controlled by her."
"I have brought all of this upon myself, but in the countless dark nights of pain and fear, I still blame you and resent you, thinking that if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have come to this point today. I used words to provoke you, hoping that you would leave, but I was also using this to express the dark and dirty thoughts in my heart."
Jiang Yuebai frowned, and Lu Ying looked up with eyes full of misery.
"Xiao Bai, you know, there was a moment when I was glad that you came back, and Song Pei'er could change her target and let me go. How could I be worthy of being your friend? How could I have the nerve to stay and ask you to take care of me? I was also unwilling to let the light from you hurt my eyes, and be tortured by you to the point of jealousy and madness."
Jiang Yuebai walked up to Lu Ying, raised his hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and helped her tuck her hair behind her ears, his eyes full of heartache.
"Then go, leave here and leave me, live freely and freely, and come back when you can face me normally."
Lu Ying burst into tears and asked with a sob, "You... you really don't blame me?"
Jiang Yuebai's eyes were hazy and the corners of his lips were slightly raised.
"Like I said before, I've never blamed you, but I will never give in to you either. If you can catch up with me, go ahead. If you can't, just admit defeat. Just don't let these little things affect our childhood friendship, okay?"
"In the world of cultivation, strength is respected, which has suppressed human emotions. I have always disdained to treat my close friends in this way. No matter what level of cultivation you will reach in the future or what level of cultivation I will reach in the future, when we meet again, you can just call me Xiaobai and I will definitely respond."
Lu Ying's tears welled up and she nodded vigorously, "Okay."
Jiang Yuebai hugged Lu Ying and let her lean on his shoulder to vent her pain.
"Ah Ying, do you know? At this moment, I envy you for being able to abandon everything and pursue freedom and vastness, but I am trapped here because of hatred. Please help me to see this world first. When I can be free in the future, will you be my guide?"
Lu Ying burst into tears. She felt really ashamed in front of Jiang Yuebai's frankness.
Half a day later, outside the gate of Tianyan Sect.
Jiang Yuebai handed Lu Ying a storage bag. Lu Ying refused, but Jiang Yuebai pressed the storage bag into Lu Ying's hand without saying a word.
"I'm lending this to you. I'd feel uneasy if I didn't let you owe me anything, for fear that you'd run away and never come back to see me again."
Lu Ying clenched her storage bag and her eyes became red again.
"You're crying even though your eyes are swollen like peaches. I don't have much to lend you, except for the spiritual stones, talismans, spiritual wine, and the self-made formation flags and plates. There is only the set of "Five Flavors Collection" that Elder Li gave me. However, I put the first volume somewhere else, so you can look for it yourself when you go out."
Lu Ying suppressed her tears and smiled, "In fact, I have read many volumes of "Five Flavors Collection"."
"Because of me?"
Lu Ying nodded, "Well, at first it was because of you, and later it was because I really liked her, so I decided to go out and travel, walk the path that Wuweishanren walked, and learn her free and easy way."
"Very good, I won't say more, let's go early while it's still light."
Jiang Yuebai didn't like parting, so he turned around and left first.
"noob!"
Lu Ying called her, Jiang Yuebai paused, raised her head slightly to hold back her tears, turned around and smiled.
Lu Ying bowed deeply, stood up and said with a tearful smile: "Tomorrow I will call you Xiaobai. If you don't answer, I will spread your childhood embarrassment everywhere. Do you understand?"
Jiang Yuebai burst into laughter, "Am I the only one who has made a fool of myself? If I did, I did it with you."
Lu Ying walked away, disappeared among the green pines and cypresses, towards the vast land.
If we say goodbye now, we may not see each other again in this life.
I just hope you are well!
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In the Valley of Spiritual Beasts, the mist and clouds are colorful, the sun and the moon are shining, flocks of white cranes fly across the sky, and their clear cries echo in the empty valley.
Jiang Yuebai walked into the plain valley, where green lakes were dotted like stars. Various docile beasts could be seen gathering in groups everywhere, with three or five monks shouting and herding them.
Tianyan Sect is not a sect that specializes in taming beasts. Most of the spiritual beasts it raises are white cranes for transportation, horned rhinos and two-headed birds for pulling carts, spiritual beasts and insects that can be used for farming, and poultry and livestock that are supplied to the restaurants in each peak.
The rest are pets that the monks in the sect have placed here for foster care, and they use spirit stones or contribution points to hire special servants to take care of them.
Jiang Yuebai had heard of farming spirit beasts before, but had never seen one. This was because most of the spirit farmers in Huaxi Valley were poor, and they did not want to spend extra spirit stones to hire spirit beasts to solve problems that could be solved by human power.
"Excuse me, is Yunchang in the valley?"
Jiang Yuebai walked behind the male cultivator who was adding grass to the horned rhino and asked softly.
The male cultivator didn't even raise his head and said impatiently, "She is in the western mountain stream, not in the valley."
Jiang Yuebai went west on her own, passing through a herd of grazing green cattle, and startled two ferocious golden-tailed roosters. She also saw clever rats popping out of their holes, grabbing insects and staring at her.
"As expected of a spirit animal, even though it's just a small mouse, it looks very clever."
There was a cry of a crane. Jiang Yuebai looked up and saw a white crane flying towards her, landing gracefully in front of her.
"Qingfeng?"
Jiang Yuebai recognized Xie Jingshan's mount. Qingfeng spread its wings and cried again, then moved its neck closer to Jiang Yuebai for caress.
"Xie Jingshan went to the Sword Tomb, so he left you here for foster care? Just wait for him to come pick you up after he leaves the Sword Tomb."
Jiang Yuebai wanted to leave, but Qingfeng moved and spread her wings, as if he was trying to stop her from leaving.
"Brother Xiao, you can't do this. I ordered these earthworms first. You can't take them all away."
"Get lost!"
Hearing the sound, Jiang Yuebai turned around and saw a girl in gray being knocked away by a blue-clothed male cultivator, and fell heavily not far in front of her.
Moo~~
The cattle were frightened and fled away.
The blue-clothed male cultivator and the two gray-clothed servants with ferocious faces behind him looked up. The blue-clothed male cultivator recognized Jiang Yuebai at a glance, smiled contemptuously, and then quickly put on a respectful look.
"Isn't this the leader among our spiritual cultivators, Junior Sister Jiang Yuebai from Huaxi Valley? You two, hurry up and pay your respects to Junior Sister Jiang."
"Greetings, Junior Sister Jiang."
"He is an inner sect disciple, why don't you kneel down and worship him!"
A huge crane feather appeared in front of him. Jiang Yuebai gave Qingfeng a comforting look and told it to retract its wings.
Jiang Yuebai walked slowly to the injured girl in gray.
There was blood on the corner of the girl's lips. When she saw the inner disciple token on Jiang Yuebai's waist, she avoided him in fear and knelt down, not daring to stand up, without waiting for Jiang Yuebai to lend a hand.
Jiang Yuebai frowned, put his hands behind his back and looked across. A male cultivator in blue was standing, with two people kneeling behind him.
"If I'm not mistaken, you are Xiao Ankuo from Ziyun Valley?"
(End of this chapter)