"If you keep talking nonsense, I will tear your mouth open, strip you naked, and throw you to Yingyi's door."
Zhu Tan shuddered exaggeratedly and said, "Junior sister, you are really ruthless."
"Don't talk nonsense. I want to go to the martial arts conference. You have to take me there. If you agree, I will borrow the sword from the master."
"Why don't you go to the martial arts tournament by yourself? I also want to get closer to Yingyi in the village."
"I don't know the road! What if I get lost halfway and miss it. Just tell me whether you agree or not. If you agree to my request, I will go and borrow the knife for you now."
Zhu Tan thought for a while, gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I promise you." The worst he could do was to be punished by his master afterwards. Anyway, he had already been punished once last time Ye Wuji ran away, so it didn't matter if he did it again.
"Okay, feel free!" Ye Wuji patted Zhu Tan's shoulder, "Just wait, I'll go borrow the knife for you now."
The secret room where Xie Hanyi retreated was underground in his room. Ye Wuji walked to the door of Xie Hanyi's room without any obstruction.
"It's strange, why is Master not guarding this retreat?" Ye Wuji muttered, then reached out and knocked on the door.
"Master, are you there?" Ye Wuji asked.
After knocking for a while, no one answered.
Is it still in retreat? But in the past, when Master was in retreat, it was not like today. Generally, if there was any sound outside, Master would hear it immediately. Could something have happened? Ye Wuji thought of this, opened the door and walked in.
There was no one in the room, so Ye Wuji walked to the inner room and pressed the switches on both sides of the portraits in the room. The stone door on the wall rotated in, revealing a downward stone step. There were green luminous pearls inlaid on both sides of the stone steps, and Ye Wuji climbed down the steps in the dim light.
"Master, are you there?" There was a stone room under the stone steps. The door of the stone room was closed tightly. Ye Wuji stood at the door and shouted.
After a long time, Xie Hanyi's voice came from inside the stone gate.
"Wuji, what are you doing here?" Xie Hanyi's voice sounded a little rough.
"Master, you have been in seclusion for seven days."
"Yeah." Xie Hanyi responded briefly,
"Aren't you... still not coming out?"
"When we encounter bottlenecks, there is still time."
"That's it." Since the master encountered a bottleneck in his martial arts practice, Ye Wuji didn't want to disturb him any more, "Then I'll leave first."
Ye Wuji was about to turn around and leave when the stone door suddenly opened. Xie Hanyi stretched out a hand from inside, grabbed Ye Wuji's sleeve and pulled him in.
Ye Wuji only had time to let out a short scream before Xie Hanyi hugged her around the waist and held her in his arms. Xie Hanyi's chin rested on her neck, and his heavy breath blew against her ears.
"Master?" Ye Wuji wanted to turn his head to look at him, but Xie Hanyi clamped his chin with one hand, unable to move.
"Don't move!" Xie Hanyi's voice was low and slightly hoarse, "Don't look back."
"Master, what's wrong with you? Did something go wrong in your practice?" Ye Wuji was a little anxious.
"It's okay, it's okay..." Xie Hanyi's voice was very soft, but his arms were so tight that it even made Ye Wuji's waist hurt.
"Master," Ye Wuji couldn't help but twist his body, "Can you loosen your hand?"
"Don't move!" Xie Hanyi shouted again. Not only did he not loosen his grip, he hugged him tighter. Ye Wuji felt that his waist was about to break.
"Master, let me tell you something." Ye Wuji thought that the master would not hurt her anyway, so he simply relaxed and thought about finishing the matter Zhu Tan asked her.
"Yeah." Xie Hanyi responded in a low voice.
"You got a knife some time ago. Can you lend me that knife for two days?"
"Can."
"Then... I'm going to get it now."
"Yeah." Although Xie Hanyi agreed, he still didn't let go.
"Master, I'm going to get the knife."
"Yeah." Xie Hanyi still didn't let go.
"Master, my senior brother and I have made an appointment to go to the town down the mountain to buy jewelry later."
"Um."
"Master, please let me go quickly!" Ye Wuji began to break Xie Hanyi's hand.
Xie Hanyi suddenly pressed her to the ground, grabbed her hands and pressed them above her head.
"Master!" Ye Wuji struggled, "What's wrong with you? I'll go find Dr. Lin!"
"I told you, don't move!" Xie Hanyi stared at Ye Wuji, his eyes filled with bloodshot eyes.