novelraw Chapter 69 : There Were Indeed Accomplices
Chapter 69 : There Were Indeed Accomplices
"...I won't let you off next time!" He gritted his teeth.
"Alright, alright, I'll be waiting for you."
"......"
Chu Sang hurriedly stepped forward to support the collapsing man.
Forget it, no matter how outwardly domineering he appeared, he couldn't change his inherently naive and kind nature.
Before she could return the way she came, she heard Tantai Ming's frantic calls from afar, "Ah, Little Junior Sister, are you alright? Why did you come out alone? If you encounter those ghost corpses in ambush, it would be troublesome!!"
The other senior brothers and sisters who came along were also extremely surprised to see Ling Yu, whom she was half-carrying. "Second Senior Brother!"
Second Senior Brother had actually come to the ghost city?
Disciples from other sects also rushed over upon hearing the commotion.
"We detected abnormally strong ghost energy fluctuations nearby earlier, so we came out to check. We found you missing and thought you might be in danger," Cui Xiu said, holding a compass-like spiritual tool in his hand. He cautiously scanned the surroundings and, finding nothing amiss, sighed in relief and put away the tool.
He turned his gaze to the unconscious Ling Yu behind Chu Sang, his eyes showing a trace of wariness. "...Who is this fellow Daoist? He wasn't traveling with us before. Do you know him?"
Having suffered ambushes from those ghost corpses before, they now didn't trust any unfamiliar outsiders.
Tantai Ming said, "This is our Second Senior Brother, not an outsider!"
"Why wasn't your Second Senior Brother traveling with you before? Did he come alone?" Other sect disciples were still puzzled.
Wen Renyue, quick-witted, almost immediately spoke up, "Second Senior Brother came to the ghost city for training and was ambushed by ghost corpses. He sent a distress signal to the sect not long ago, which is why we came."
"I see."
The others didn't think much of it. Since the ghost energy had disappeared, they didn't pursue the matter further.
The group returned to their campsite to continue meditating and resting.
"That was close. Fortunately, they didn't suspect anything. But why did Second Senior Brother come to the ghost domain alone?" Tantai Ming scratched his head.
"Let's ask him when he wakes up," Chu Sang said, looking up at everyone. "There's nothing major now. Senior Brothers and Sisters, you should go rest quickly. We need to continue our journey tomorrow."
"Aren't you going to rest?" To be honest, apart from himself, Little Junior Sister had expended the most spiritual energy and physical strength over the past few days. Su Chen'an was truly worried she might not be able to handle it.
"I'm fine. I'll stay to look after Second Senior Brother," Chu Sang shook her head. It wasn't that she wanted to hide things from her senior brothers and sisters, but for now, the fewer people who knew about Second Senior Brother being of the ghost race, the better, to avoid causing unnecessary trouble.
Moreover, she felt something was amiss about this whole affair.
Not long after everyone left, Ling Yu woke up. His silver hair had turned back to the black that blended in with the crowd, and his eye color had returned to normal.
He looked around the cave in confusion, his focus settling on the young woman before him. His weak voice carried a hint of bewilderment, "...Little Junior Sister?"
"Where is this place? Why am I here?" He leaned against the rock wall, pressing his aching temples with his hand, clearly unable to remember what had happened earlier.
Chu Sang stared at him for a few breaths before patting her chest, letting out a big sigh of relief.
"It's good that you're back, Second Senior Brother!"
In the more than half a year since they last met, Ling Yu had successfully broken through to the Nascent Soul stage. It seemed that after this return, it would be much more difficult for the second personality to seize control of the body again.
Her life was temporarily safe.
"This is the ghost city. Seventh Senior Brother and the others found you not far from here," Chu Sang asked. "Second Senior Brother, how did you come to the dangerous ghost city alone? Do you remember what happened before?"
"I remember encountering a cultivator who invited me to travel together. After that..." The handsome man sighed. "I'm sorry, I can't remember."
So there really was a villain trying to harm her Second Senior Brother!
"Where is that person? Do you remember what they looked like?" Chu Sang was filled with righteous indignation.