At dusk beside the spiritual field, Li Yuechan’s lips puckered slightly after hearing her brother’s words.

    “Not even inviting me to eat together...”

    Li Muyang, who had gotten up with the food container, chuckled and said, “You have your own spiritual rice provided by the sect, why are you always thinking about mooching off my meal?”

    “Go on, go back and cook for yourself. If you want to eat my rice, you still have a long way to go.”

    Li Muyang carried the food container his sister had brought while humming a cheerful tune and entered the tile-roofed house.

    Li Yuechan watched his retreating figure and sighed.

    “Sometimes I really can’t tell if you’re stingy or generous...”

    Shaking her head, the girl turned and left.

    Calling him stingy? He nearly went broke buying spiritual medicine to save her.

    But calling him generous? Yet, he wouldn’t even share his spiritual rice with her.

    The girl sighed silently and turned to walk down the mountain.

    The setting sun’s afterglow bathed her, and on the empty mountain path, a sudden voice of an old woman echoed,

    “Your brother... there are some peculiarities about him.”

    This abrupt voice was completely unexpected as if a sinister whisper had come from the heavens.

    Although Li Yuechan was alone on the deserted mountain path, she was not afraid of the sound of the voice.

    Instead, her eyes brightened.

    “Senior!”

    Li Yuechan exclaimed in a low voice, surprised. “You’re awake?”

    The woman’s voice chuckled, “Yes, I’ve finally awakened. After absorbing so much essence from low-level demonic cultivators and resting for so long, I’ve finally stabilized my soul and woken up.”

    With a sigh, the woman continued, “Little girl, you’ve suffered these past days. I vaguely sensed your terrible condition while I was asleep, but it was a critical time for my recovery, and I couldn’t be distracted unless it really couldn’t be helped. I had planned to help you completely clear the demonic energy from your body after waking up...”

    The girl on the mountain path smiled and shook her head,

    “Senior, you don’t need to worry. My brother has already healed me. Although it cost a lot of money, I will definitely earn it back for him in the future. As for you, Senior, the fact that you’ve repaired your soul is already great news. I won’t mind.”

    The girl reassured the woman with a smile.

    The voice from the void chuckled, “What a broad-minded little girl you are. I indeed didn’t misjudge you. If it were my unworthy disciple from before, he would probably have resented me for ignoring him.”

    There was a hint of bitterness in the woman’s voice as if it evoked some unpleasant memories.

    “Anyway, I know he’s my brother, the one who spent all his money and went through great hardships to save me.”

    Saying this, the girl turned to look at the small house halfway up the mountain and sighed softly, but her eyes were filled with determination.

    “As long as he’s my brother, that’s enough.”

    The girl’s soft murmur scattered through the woods.

    The old woman chuckled and said, “I didn’t tell you to harm your brother... little girl, why are you reacting so strongly?”

    “By the way, if I remember correctly, he’s not your blood brother, right? No blood relation?”

    “Since you two are so close, why don’t you just marry him? It would be perfect to share your secrets with him. Then you can progress together as husband and wife. Your future prospects will be boundless.”

    The old woman said cheerfully.

    At these words, the girl’s face turned bright red, and she became embarrassed.

    “Senior!”

    The girl stamped her foot in shyness and ran off.

    “What nonsense are you talking about!”

    With her cheeks burning, the girl walked briskly along the mountain path, while the laughter of the old woman echoed in her ears, seemingly very pleased with teasing the young girl’s reaction.

    However, there was something the old woman didn’t say because she wasn’t entirely sure herself.

    She had a vague feeling that she saw traces of some ancient demonic technique on Li Muyang.

    That technique, which was said to have been lost for many years, came from the Black Cloud Village...

    Thinking of this, the old woman sighed deeply.

    If the secret about Li Yuechan’s brother really had something to do with Black Cloud Village, that would be extremely dangerous.

    But she couldn’t be certain it was indeed the demonic technique from Black Cloud Village.

    It might just be a similar trace of some demonic technique.

    Logically, the things from Black Cloud Village should no longer exist in the world.

    That terrifying and eerie village’s best fate would be to remain buried in the river of time and never to reemerge.

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