Lady Cultivator

"Master!" Ruan Mingzhu cried and ran into the main hall of Shangqing Palace.

Jing and Daojun originally laughed. When he saw her coming in, he calmed down and said calmly, "What's going on?"

Ruan Mingzhu burst into tears and said: "Master, I didn't mean it. I just saw that Uncle Mo's spirit beast was very interesting, so I wanted to ask her for it. I didn't want to make her angry."

Jinghe Daojun slowly frowned: "Then what?"

Ruan Mingzhu lowered his head, hiding the hatred in the corners of his eyes: "Uncle Mo seems to be very angry."

After saying this for a long time, there was no response. Ruan Mingzhu raised his head again and saw Jing and Daojun sitting on the dragon chair. He slowly picked up the tea and said, "Mingzhu."

"Huh?" She was a little confused about her master's attitude.

Jinghe Daojun looked at her with an indifferent expression: "Tiange has always valued the things around her. Although what you want is a spiritual beast, she regards it as a companion, so she refuses to give it to you."

Ruan Mingzhu was startled, not expecting Master to react like this.

Jinghe Daojun continued: "If you have nothing to do, go back and practice hard. You are not young anymore, and you still have several decades. If you can't form elixirs, it will be difficult in the future."

Ruan Mingzhu was startled when the issue of pill formation was suddenly mentioned: "Master..."

"Don't you want to form an elixir?" Jinghe Daojun looked at her with sharp eyes, "How can you form an elixir when there are so many things in your heart? Tiange is much younger than you, and she was homeless when she was young. She is now a Zhu In the late stage of foundation, you will soon complete the foundation building and hit the core formation. What about you? You have been taught by me personally since you were a child. You have successfully built the foundation at the age of twenty-one. You should be the proud son of heaven. Why are you now more than 170 years old? , but it’s still only the middle stage of foundation building? What have you been doing in the past sixty years? Why have you made no progress?!”

Taojun Jinghe's expression became stern, Ruan Mingzhu's heart trembled, and she stammered: "Master... Then, the spiritual veins of Yungang Mountain are too bad. I practiced there, and it has no effect at all..."

"Really?" Jinghe Daojun still looked at her like this, "What about the pills I have sent you over the years? Although I didn't ask you to come back, my master has never deducted from you because of your example. Even if you just take the elixir, sixty years will be enough for you to reach your mid-term peak, right?"

Ruan Mingzhu lowered his head and said nothing.

Jing and Daojun softened their expressions again. He said softly: "Okay, don't think about irrelevant things, just go and practice hard. This time the master summoned the disciples to return to the mountain for something important. If you can do it well, it will only be good for you."

"..." Ruan Mingzhu was silent for a long time,

Finally, he agreed honestly, "I understand, Master."

Rushing out of the Shangqing Palace, Ruan Mingzhu's face turned red. When she saw the gatekeeper looking at her with an inquiring expression and hidden hostility in his eyes, she said angrily: "What are you looking at?!"

After being scolded by her, the gatekeeper looked away and did not retaliate, but disdain appeared on his face.

"You -" Just as he was about to lose his temper, Ruan Mingzhu gritted her teeth and endured it when she thought that this was the entrance to the Shangqing Palace. She threw the flying magic weapon with a wave of her hand and flew into the air.

Seeing her leaving, the gatekeeper disciple. Then he snorted softly and muttered in a low voice: "You really take yourself seriously..."

Ruan Mingzhu flew to a deserted hilltop and looked at it for a while before confirming that it was his destination. She fell down and walked towards the well-hidden cave.

"Senior brother, senior brother! Are you there? I am Mingzhu!" She shouted twice, but there was no reply for a while, then she continued to shout, "Senior brother! Come out and see me, I am Mingzhu!"

After a while, the door of the cave opened. She was overjoyed and was about to rush forward, but she was startled and her face darkened: "Who are you?!"

It was Ye Zhenji who opened the cave and came out. When he saw Ruan Mingzhu, he was also stunned: "Who are you?"

Ruan Mingzhu looked inside with a calm expression: "Where is my senior brother?"

Ye Zhenji touched his head and asked strangely: "Are you new here? Are you in the wrong place?"

"This is my senior brother's cave!" Ruan Mingzhu stared at him, "Boy, who are you? Why are you in my senior brother's cave?"

"You are not my aunt. There is no senior brother of yours here." Although Ye Zhenji has a good temper, he was rude when others spoke so harshly. "You should leave quickly. Although my master is kind, there are people like this." If you don’t have good manners, he will also get angry.”

"Master?" Ruan Mingzhu looked around, and finally a smile appeared on his face, "You are my senior brother's apprentice, right? Tell him. I am Mingzhu, and he will know."

Seeing that Ye Zhenji had not moved, Ruan Mingzhu shouted again: "Go quickly!"

She was really rude when she ordered people around. Ye Zhenji was an honest person and did not get angry. He just frowned and said, "Who is your senior brother? My master is practicing. If I bother him carelessly, he will be angry." of."

"you--"

Ruan Mingzhu was about to get angry when she heard a familiar voice coming from the cave: "Zhenji, let her in."

Ruan Mingzhu was overjoyed: "Senior brother!" After saying that, he rushed into the cave.

"Hey -" Ye Zhenji became even more puzzled when he saw her like this. Who is this? Didn’t the master only have one apprentice after his master, his aunt? Where did another person pop up and call him master and brother?

However, since the master had spoken, he didn't feel like saying anything. He closed the cave and walked slowly back to the hall. After thinking about it, he didn't go back to his training room. Instead, he sat next to Xiao Huo who was curled up in a ball for training. Pretend to be looking after the spirit beast.

In fact, Xiao Huo was already a third-level spiritual beast, and his cultivation was always higher than him, so he didn't need to take care of him at all. During this time, Xiao Huo was immersed in training again. The master said that it seemed that he was about to advance to another level, so he didn't send Xiao Huo back.

The door of the master's training room was open, and Ye Zhenji pricked his ears, listening to what was going on inside.

"Senior brother!" Seeing Qin Xi, Ruan Mingzhu was so excited that she rushed to him in a few steps, with tears in her eyes, "Senior brother, I finally see you again!"

Qin Xi still maintained his practicing posture. Opening his eyes, he glanced at her lightly: "Mingzhu, regardless of my cultivation level or seniority, you should call me uncle, not senior brother."

Ruan Mingzhu was stunned for a moment, with a sad expression on his face: "Why? Why are you and Master treating me so coldly after I finally came back? It's been sixty years, can't you forgive me?"

"These are two different things." Qin Xi's tone was still cold and contained almost no emotion. "In the past, when we were young, we allowed you to call us random names. Today is different from the past. You and I are no longer children. What should we do? You should understand."

"But senior brother is always senior brother in my heart!" Ruan Mingzhu blurted out, "If my father hadn't been the master's apprentice and the master wouldn't have accepted me as his disciple, we would have been brothers and sisters!"

"But it is true." Qin Xi said, "It has been sixty years and you still haven't understood this truth. Don't blame Master for treating you coldly."

Although his tone was calm, his words were not polite at all. Ruan Mingzhu was stunned again, then suddenly lowered his head and cried.

After crying for a while, she sobbed and said: "I really don't understand... I don't understand what I did wrong. Why do you and the master treat me like this? Didn't you just hurt a disciple? The sect is fighting privately again. We're not the only ones, and there's nothing wrong with that person. You and Master... let me stay alone in Yungang Branch. It's so remote and everyone else ignores me. I... I live a very miserable life there..."

If these words were cried in front of Jinghe Daojun, maybe she would get a word of comfort, but the person who heard her words was Qin Xi. He was expressionless, as if the person crying in front of him was a wooden person. He himself is also a wooden person.

Ruan Mingzhu cried for half the time and couldn't stop crying, so she had to wipe her tears, looked at him with red eyes, and begged softly: "Brother, I finally came back, can you tell me not to drive me away? I won't cause trouble again. Now, I’ll listen to you from now on, okay?”

Qin Xi didn't speak, as if he didn't hear anything.

Ruan Mingzhu waited for a while and couldn't help but said: "Senior brother, senior brother, have you forgotten? When you first came here, you always stayed alone in the back mountain. Every time, I went to find you, so you would come back..."

Qin Xi's eyes moved when he mentioned the past. Ruan Mingzhu thought he would soften his heart, but she still heard his cold voice: "What's the use of talking about this? If you were the original pearl, how could Master let you You went to the branch alone, and they didn't let you come back for sixty years?"

Ruan Mingzhu was stunned and said hurriedly: "Brother, do you have no feelings for me now? We...we grew up together for almost a hundred years, do you have no feelings for me at all?"

Qin Xi looked at her and said quietly: "I told you before, I only have the road in my eyes, and I don't think all other things are important. I don't have what you want, so why do you have to force it?"

"Senior brother!" Ruan Mingzhu shouted, looking at his dull expression, tears rolled out of her eyes, "I...I don't ask you to respond to me, I just ask that you can be as good as before." Call me kindly, remind me about my cultivation, and chat with me when nothing happens... Is this too much?"

Ruan Mingzhu who said these words was mournful, not arrogant and domineering, only miserable about not having what she wanted.

Qin Xi suddenly felt a pain and felt that he had been touched somewhere. But he quickly calmed down and said in a calm voice: "Mingzhu, do you never think that you are wrong?"

Ruan Mingzhu lowered his head and shook his head angrily: "Isn't it just hurting a disciple? For us cultivators, hurting one or two people is nothing. Haven't you and the master killed many people? I haven't..."

"It's not because you hurt people." Qin Xi interrupted her, "If you can get it, work hard for it. If you can't get it, you should give it up. Because you can't get it, you will vent your anger on others, and even treat others with anger. Don't you feel that your state of mind has been distorted by the same disciple? Master indulges you so much that you want to get everything, but how can you get anything in this world? If you didn't have Master, how could you get it? What can you get?”

His tone was very calm, but his words were stern. He looked at Ruan Mingzhu without any fluctuation in his eyes: "Mingzhu, I am not a master, and I will not teach you what is right and what is wrong, but I know that you and I are two different people. , even if we grow up together, we will never get together. Don’t be obsessed with it anymore.”) Book friends, please pay attention!