Chapter 158
Every month, it was time for the Dao Sword Sect to come to Dan Peak to collect pills.Witness the debut of this chapter, unveiled through Ñôv€l--B1n.
Last month, it was another butler from the Butler Hall instead of Jian Yuanjie who came. Qin Ran didn't recognize him and didn't care. He thought Jian Yuanjie had died and the Dao Sword Sect had arranged a new pill butler. He just prayed that this new butler could last longer and be seduced by the "evil" forces outside the sect later.
But at noon today, when Qin Ran was refining pills in the pill room, he suddenly heard a familiar voice from outside the research building: "Junior brother, are you there? Senior brother has come to check the pills."
This familiar voice scared Qin Ran. He rushed out of the research building in a few steps and came outside to see the person who had just walked across the small bridge. It was...Jian Yuanjie!
"Jian... Elder Brother Jian?!" He even stammered.
In the Land of Immortal Legacy, in the fog, under the horror of the Devouring Demon Willow and its catkins, even someone like Su Changqing had died. How could someone like Jian Yuanjie still be alive?
It really was that good people die young while evils last for a thousand years!
"Junior Brother Qin!" Jian Yuanjie greeted Qin Ran with a bow and said with a smile, "Long time no see!"
Qin Ran calmed his agitated mood a little and exclaimed, "I didn't expect you to still be alive, elder brother!"
"Alas..." Jian Yuanjie shook his head and sighed, "Just barely surviving, luckily not dead yet."
Looking at Jian Yuanjie, Qin Ran hesitated for a moment before asking, "Then how did you escape from Elder Brother Su Changqing and Sister Su when they chased me and others to kill in the Land of Immortal Legacy?"
Jian Yuanjie was stunned and asked in confusion, "Did Elder Brother Su Changqing and Sister Su chase us to kill? I really don't know about this!"
He asked back, "Did they chase you to kill, junior brother?"
"They chased me from the Land of Immortal Legacy to the Hengduan Mountains, and further chased me out of the Hengduan Mountains to a city in North Chu... Fortunately, when the catkins of the Devouring Demon Willow erupted greatly, Elder Brother Su was also busy escaping, otherwise I would have been dead for sure." Qin Ran said half truthfully.
"That Elder Brother Su is the so-called Seed of Dao, said to be able to achieve the Dao. Junior brother, you were actually able to escape from him, I admire you!" Jian Yuanjie exclaimed,
"After I escaped from that valley, I got lost in the fog and wandered around in the fog... Until I met the white catkins falling to the ground, killing countless creatures. It was a flash of inspiration that made me bury myself underground, and that was how I narrowly survived."
Qin Ran suddenly burst into tears, feeling that heaven was unfair, and said,
"When Elder Brother Su tried to kill me, he said he had already killed Elder Brother Jian. I was heartbroken then and wished I could kill Elder Brother Su with my own hands... Unfortunately, my strength was insufficient to defeat the two elders, so I could only run away...
"Sword qi? What amazing talent!" Jian Yuanjie exclaimed. "If Chief Liu knew about this, his face would turn green with anger."
"I'm not a sword cultivator after all, so I still limited her potential..." Qin Ran said.
As they walked, Jian Yuanjie suddenly saw the willow branches by the lake and cried out in surprise: "That's the Devouring..."
"Those are just ordinary willow branches!" Qin Ran smiled and said, "Planting some willow branches and trees by the lake also makes it look better."
Jian Yuanjie took another two looks at the willow branches and nodded, "They are indeed just ordinary willow branches. Elder brother is seeing things."
"Having heard of the monstrous crimes committed by the Devouring Demon Willow recently, it's hard for me to remain calm when seeing willow branches..." he added, "I'm making junior brother laugh."
"I'm also terribly frightened..." Qin Ran said, "After that incident, I still haven't had a good night's sleep until just recently. "
... Did cultivators, especially those at the Golden Core stage, really need sleep?
Jian Yuanjie also saw the old ginkgo tree in front of the wooden house, and exclaimed in surprise, "Wow, this ginkgo tree actually didn't die and survived the catastrophe."
"That old tree has developed wisdom and might have become a demonic beast already. It probably just narrowly survived under the protection of previous seniors of our sect." Qin Ran said.
"Indeed..." Jian Yuanjie nodded while looking at the cat tree and scratching posts that had the shape of Qin Ran's face on them, then laughed and asked, "What are those things?"
"Some toys made as pranks by my disciple..." Qin Ran explained to Jian Yuanjie in detail about Li Shiyin and Zhuifeng's evil ideas.
"Where is your spirit tiger from Yellow Springs?"
"Out playing."
The two chatted all the way. Qin Ran sent Jian Yuanjie to the stone path at the original exit of the forest—now it was just a stone path without the forest—pretending to still be as respectful as brothers as before.
"Goodbye, elder brother!" Qin Ran waved goodbye.
Jian Yuanjie waved and quickly left Dan Peak.
After Jian Yuanjie's figure disappeared, the smile on Qin Ran's face also vanished. He hurriedly turned back to check the situation of the Devouring Demon Willow...
He was going to use the Devouring Demon Willow as one of the bases to set up the grand mountain-protecting array. Originally he could slowly wait for the Devouring Demon Willow to recover before setting up the array, but now, it seemed he couldn't wait any longer.
