I thought I was just going over my memory from the beginning, but I didn't expect that it was already biased from the beginning.
Yun Cheng was just a spectator in this illusion. He saw himself practicing in the courtyard, and his new junior fellow apprentice smiled like a blooming flower and clung to him. After a few days, the junior fellow apprentice said to him, "Second Senior Brother, I haven't seen Fourth Senior Brother since I entered the sect."
"You should meet him," Yun Cheng heard himself say this in a gentle voice, and raised his hand to pat his junior brother's hair, "Second Senior Brother, it just so happens that I haven't seen your Fourth Senior Brother for a long time, so I will take you to meet him today."
When Yun Cheng brought his junior brother to the courtyard of his fourth junior brother, he found his junior brother with a red face and panting as he watered the spiritual plants in the courtyard.
Yun Cheng could tell at a glance that he had caught a cold, so he dragged Pei Yunshu into the room, felt his pulse and fed him some medicine.
Pei Yunshu's eyes were bright. Although he was ill, he was in good spirits. He smiled brightly at Yun Cheng, "Senior Brother!"
Yun Cheng pinched his face and asked sternly, "Why don't you take the pill?"
"I don't want to eat it," Pei Yunshu said, "The remaining pills I have here are extremely bitter. I would rather eat them than eat them."
Yuncheng: "Nonsense."
Pei Yunshu smiled with his eyes curved. He threw himself forward and threw himself into Yun Cheng's arms. "Brother, please give me some more pills that are not bitter to eat."
Yun Cheng couldn't help laughing, "Okay."
He thought of the junior brother he had brought with him, turned around and was about to ask him to come over, but he saw that the junior brother was looking straight at Pei Yunshu in his arms.
Yun Cheng patted Pei Yunshu's head and said, "This is your new junior fellow apprentice. You must have heard of him, right?"
Pei Yunshu stood up from Yun Cheng's arms and walked to the side of his junior brother with a hot face, "Junior brother, I am your fourth senior brother."
The junior brother pursed his lips and gave a shy smile.
Since then, Junior Brother has come to Yuncheng more frequently.
Yun Cheng took him to practice, and personally taught him where the spiritual energy was the most concentrated in a day. After a period of time, he and his junior brother became very close.
A few days later, his junior fellow apprentice accompanied him to the back mountain to pick herbs. When they were halfway through, they heard laughter not far away.
Yun Cheng took his junior brother over and saw a rope tied between two green trees. The fourth junior brother was on the rope, and the third junior brother was doing the hard labor for him behind him.
"Third Brother, try harder," Pei Yunshu laughed heartily. When he flew high, his black hair flew up, revealing an expression of sheer joy. "If you don't serve me happily, I will tell Master what you asked me to keep secret!"
"Don't!" The fourth junior brother smiled flatteringly, and then deliberately sighed, "Only villains and women are difficult to raise."
Pei Yunshu turned around and glared at him. The third junior brother pushed him with all his strength, "My good junior brother, you must keep the secret for your brother. You like the master the most among all the people in the sect, but how can I be ranked second?"
Yun Cheng listened to this and couldn't help but snorted, "He has been away for training for who knows how many years, and now that he's back he still has the nerve to say such things."
Pei Yunshu and Yuncheng thought the same thing. He repeated what Yuncheng said to his third senior brother and said in a long tone, "Among the brothers, you can barely rank fourth."
"Then it's still after the little brother?" The third brother took out his folding fan and fanned himself. "Okay, I know you're such a heartless person. Among all the brothers, the one you like the most is probably the second brother, right?"
Yun Cheng suddenly felt "himself" clenching his hands, and his chest began to beat faster.
He was looking forward to what his fourth junior brother would say.
The fourth apprentice brother followed the rope and said, "Brother, you are right."
Yun Cheng's face was hot, he couldn't help but clench his fist to his lips and coughed softly. Thinking of his junior brother beside him, he felt even more embarrassed. He wanted to turn around and go back with his junior brother, but he saw the look in his junior brother's eyes.
With cruelty and jealousy, full of malice as black as ink, but the next moment, the junior brother smiled gently, his eyes full of teasing, "Second Senior Brother, Fourth Senior Brother really likes you."
Yun Cheng's heart, which had not yet explored, was shattered by this sentence again. He shook his head in amusement and fled from this place with his junior brother as if fleeing from famine.
After that, Yun Cheng couldn't help but start paying attention to his fourth junior brother.
Fourth Junior Brother likes to laugh and has a lively personality. After Yun Man came back from his training, he and Yun Man always had a lot to talk about. Fourth Junior Brother likes spiritual plants and herbs. Sometimes when the spiritual herbs bloom, he is very happy. Fourth Junior Brother also likes to drink tea, especially the spring tea brewed with morning dew. He brews many pots in the morning and drinks from morning to night.
Yun Cheng also discovered that Fourth Junior Brother seemed to be very afraid of pain.
Master Ling Qing treated the younger junior brother very differently. The younger junior brother was also a likable person. Yun Cheng's eyes would be fixed on the fourth junior brother from time to time, and the younger junior brother noticed this. He found a place where no one was around and asked him, "Senior Brother Yun Cheng, do you want to become a Taoist partner with me?"
Yun Cheng was silent for a long time. When the sun moved westward, he said, "Stop talking nonsense."
He hurriedly dodged the junior brother, who said behind him: "Second Senior Brother, I think Fourth Senior Brother must be fond of you as well."
Yun Cheng couldn't continue practicing that night.
After that day, Yun Cheng paid more attention to the Fourth Junior Brother, but he soon discovered that as long as the Younger Junior Brother was in front of the Fourth Junior Brother, the Fourth Junior Brother would only see the Younger Junior Brother.
Whether in front of the master or in front of his fellow disciples, as long as his junior brother is there, Pei Yunshu will only pay attention to him.
Yun Cheng's heart sank little by little.
Not long after, disciples from other peaks became familiar with Pei Yunshu. After a few interactions, Pei Yunshu said that he wanted to go down the mountain with them to gain experience.
The place they were going to was very dangerous. The little junior brother's face changed immediately, and he rejected Pei Yunshu's request with a cold face in front of everyone. His words were harsh and sounded extremely hurtful. Yun Cheng didn't know what the other brothers were thinking, but he didn't want Yunshu to leave Wuzhi Peak, so he remained silent.
None of the fellow apprentices said anything. Pei Yunshu's eyes turned red and he said stubbornly, "I want to go!"
The fourth junior brother turned around and went back to the courtyard to pack up. Yun Cheng saw the expression in the youngest junior brother's eyes change gloomily and his face turned pale. After that, the youngest junior brother went into the master's room and said something. When he came out again, the master had locked up junior brother Yunshu.
After Yun Cheng found out, besides worry, he actually felt a secret joy.
My junior fellow apprentice is locked up in his courtyard, a nice and cozy place where he can hide away his beautiful daughter. He is not deceived by outsiders and is not contaminated by worldly affairs. This is the best method.
After that, even though they didn't say it verbally, the brothers seemed to follow some kind of secret rules for the next few days. No one took the initiative to find Fourth Junior Brother, and no one talked to Fourth Junior Brother.
If you put on a cold face, your junior brothers will be scared, and if they are scared, they will be extremely obedient.
After that, one night, the junior apprentice came to see him. He drank some wine and said in a tone that was either boastful or complaining: "Fourth apprentice brother is always pestering me. He looks like he wants to become my Taoist partner."
No one knew when the youngest junior brother left that night, but Yun Cheng drank until dawn. When the sun rose in the east and the ground was filled with golden light, he stepped into the courtyard of his fourth junior brother with bloodshot and cold eyes.
Yun Cheng, who was trapped in the illusion and attached to his original body, suddenly had a bad premonition.
This bad premonition became stronger and stronger as he approached his junior fellow's courtyard, and finally his heart stopped beating and his temples were throbbing with pain.
Then he knew why he had this bad feeling.
He picked up his junior brother's life-saving magic weapon and looked down at his junior brother as he escaped step by step on the ground.
The junior brother's eyes were filled with tears and he was terrified. He cried, "Second Senior Brother, I will never provoke you again. I will leave the sect. Can you let me go?"
The junior fellow apprentice whose cultivation was sealed looked as pitiful as a bird with broken wings in front of him.
Yun Cheng couldn't stop himself. He couldn't even close his eyes and pretend to be self-deceiving. Every time the scabbard fell on Pei Yunshu, every whimper and cry of fear and pain from Pei Yunshu.
It left a big hole in his heart.
The cold wind penetrated into his bones, and the chill spread from the root. Yun Cheng did not dare to look at Pei Yunshu's eyes, nor did he dare to look at what he was doing.
But he was forced to finish watching it. He watched it bit by bit, felt it bit by bit. The illusion seemed real, and the feeling of the scabbard hitting his leg was unforgettable.
This was why Fourth Junior Brother put him into this illusion.
Yun Cheng's heart ached so much that it felt numb.
He listened to Pei Yunshu's hoarse cry in the illusion and remembered the question he had asked him twice before: "Brother, why did you break my leg?"
So this is what Fourth Junior Brother meant.
*
Not long after Yun Jing and Yun Cheng fell into the illusion, their faces began to show some pain, their brows were furrowed, and their fists were clenched.
Pei Yunshu ignored them. He waited for Zhu You to knock down the sect leader. The demon cultivators looked at him like this and cursed him in their hearts. After cursing, they started thinking about how to survive.
Before they could figure it out, the invincible leader in their hearts fell heavily from the air to the ground. Zhu You rushed down head on, and his sharp claws pierced through the leader's chest.
"…" The demon cultivators of Huajin Sect panicked, "Sect Master!"
Pei Yunshu's eyes lit up. He flew to Zhu You's side and leaned over to look at the sect leader. "Zhu You, he was killed by you."
Zhu You's body was also covered in blood, and he had suffered a lot of serious injuries. He was gasping for breath at the moment. When he saw Pei Yunshu coming over, he held his shoulders, turned around, pinched Pei Yunshu's chin and kissed him deeply.
The anger and fighting spirit that had not yet been vented turned into another kind of heat during the entanglement of lips and tongues. Zhu You held Pei Yunshu's waist and couldn't help rubbing it, crumpling his clothes into wrinkles.
After Pei Yunshu reacted, his face turned blue and red. He held down Zhu You's head and hit him in the abdomen with his knee.
"Behave yourself," Pei Yunshu gnashed his teeth, wishing he could eat the dragon flesh alive. "If you do it again, I'll cook and eat you!"
"What do you want to eat?" Zhu You's temples were wet with sweat, and his breath was slightly dry. "Eat my dragon root—"
Pei Yunshu covered his mouth.
Afterwards, Pei Yunshu carefully examined the sect leader's body again and confirmed that he was dead. He carried Zhu You away from there and jumped to where Bailige was hiding.
When the Huajin Sect's demon cultivators learned that their leader had died, they were half grief-stricken and half secretly happy. They no longer gathered here and dispersed in an instant.
Young Master Qingfeng said: "Now that the Sect Master is dead, they don't have to worry about the poison in their bodies acting up."
Pei Yunshu and others only knew that there was a poison pill in his body. Young Master Qingfeng knew that this could not be used as an excuse. He brought the Divine Map back to Huajinmen. It was because of the poison pill he was poisoned with, but also because the Divine Map belonged to the sect master, and only the sect master knew how to crack it.
He brought them here in the hope of finding a way to break the spell and free them.
But now the leader was dead and everything was settled. He would only be asking for trouble if he said this. No one would believe him. Master Qingfeng whispered, "I'll let you do whatever you want with me."
When he said this, his eyes were fixed on Pei Yunshu.
Pei Yunshu pretended not to know and lowered his eyes. Zhu You beside him played with his hands, making his fair fingers turn pink.
Baili Ge said, "Let's not talk about this for now. Huayue is still holding the baby. Let's find a beautiful place here and bury the baby first."
The others nodded and went to find some Feng Shui treasured places. Pei Yunshu and Zhu You followed at the end. Zhu You didn't know why, but his breathing was always very heavy. He had just played with his hands and thought the color was really beautiful, so he put it in his mouth and sucked it gently.
Pei Yunshu came back to his senses, pulled his hand out of his mouth, and rubbed it on Zhu You's clothes a few times, "Why are you like a baby?"
Zhu You thought about it. He had just defeated a powerful enemy and was very excited. He asked, "I am a baby. Can I drink milk?"
Pei Yunshu thought of his previous nonsense and became a little angry, but Zhu You suddenly bent down, picked him up horizontally, left the group of people in front, and ran in the opposite direction with Pei Yunshu in his arms.
"Zhu You," Pei Yunshu was furious and bit his shoulder. "A baby is being buried over there, why are you making a fuss now?"
Zhu You: "Once dead, one cannot be resurrected."
Pei Yunshu's eyes flushed red, not sure if it was out of anger or shame, "Get lost!"
"I am also a baby," Zhu You lowered his head, pressed Pei Yunshu into his lips, pinched his cheeks, and made him open his mouth, "You love me and take care of me."
The thick and surging blood in his body made him completely different from usual.
When Zhu You left, a few strands of silver threads flashed with beautiful light. Zhu You lowered his head and shooed him away. Finally, Pei Yunshu made a big fuss, and he raised his hand and slapped Pei Yunshu's buttocks as a punishment. With red eyes, he pressed Pei Yunshu against the tree, tore his clothes, and acted like a baby for a while and drank enough water.