Yu Sui watched i Liangyu for quite a while. Seeing he showed no signs of waking, she turned back to look at the map on the table, carefully considering the hundreds of years before Strange Fire's arrival:
At that ti, World Destroyers wouldn't be burned to death by Strange Fire and could use Strange Fire's power without burden.
This ant Strange Fire was controllable before.
Yu Sui recalled again the scene from her childhood of holding that small fla in her palm, then looked at the later records. After Strange Fire went dormant and reappeared, the ability to release Strange Fire varied from person to person.
So World Destroyers could only release it once.
So World Destroyers would be burned along with Strange Fire after releasing it three tis.
Strange Fire was changing, but too few World Destroyers had participated in Water Vessel plan experints, and nothing had been publicly announced, so people's understanding of Strange Fire was very limited.
Yu Sui also hadn't discovered any records of death resonance among the five World Destroyers in the text and images. Was it unknown, or had it never happened before?
This ti the six kingdoms and Taiyi decided to restart the Water Vessel plan. Did they learn about death resonance from Yu Xian?
Did they want to control World Destroyers first rather than spend great effort opposing them?
From Yu Xian's identity exposure to death hadn't taken very long, and he himself had little combat ability. Compared to other World Destroyers, killing him required almost no effort.
Yu Sui carefully examined the distribution on the map. Each of the six kingdoms had their own sches. Perhaps because of the Floating Pagoda matter, the world would soon be in chaos, so they didn't want World Destroyers causing trouble at this ti to disrupt their planning rhythm.
She looked at the Water Vessel's position in the southwestern seas, lightly tapping the boat symbol with her finger, making it sway left and right.
Water Vessel.
Going to the Water Vessel ant losing freedom even if one didn't die.
Yu Sui didn't give much consideration to Water Vessel matters. She wouldn't go.
If Xue Mushi wanted to be with Tu Miaoyi, he wouldn't go either. The remaining three World Destroyers, judging from previous communications, didn't seem like the type to obediently go to the Water Vessel as test subjects.
As for what Gao Tianhao said about heavenly character text hiding secrets that could strip away Strange Fire, Yu Sui still had so doubts.
After all, Gao Tianhao hadn't succeeded in doing it.
Tomorrow was month's end, the night of the full moon. Yu Sui had sent all the cipher text to Gu Qian. After Li Jin Shuang talked with Xun Zhiya, Xun Zhiya still decided to invite her to help together.
Yu Sui thought about the two troubles of Strange Fire and Breath Soil and couldn't help pressing her temple. For now, learning more Nine Schools Arts was more useful.
Strange Fire was changing.
This point made Yu Sui thoughtful. Her gaze unconsciously moved upward, and when she swept over i Liangyu, she paused, feeling sowhat calr.
There was soone even more clueless than her.
If Senior Brother never left Taiyi for his whole life, with Saint Chang Gen's protection, he wouldn't have too hard a ti.
But people all yearned for freedom and the unknown, especially soone with Senior Brother's rebellious temperant. But he must have thought it through carefully, knowing that if he recovered his mories, he would definitely face so difficult choice.
If Gu Qian hadn't coincidentally made i Liangyu rember so mory fragnts, Senior Brother wouldn't have made this decision.
Yu Sui speculated about Gu Qian and i Liangyu's backgrounds. When dawn broke and the burning pain from Strange Fire weakened, she curled up in her chair and fell asleep.
When i Liangyu woke up, Yu Sui had just fallen asleep not long ago.
Waking up in an unfamiliar strange environnt, i Liangyu was initially wary. When his dark pupils swept over the person across from him, he paused and gradually restrained the cold aura around him.
The text and images on the table were still there. Yu Sui didn't know how to put them away and didn't want to wake i Liangyu, as he looked quite tired too.
i Liangyu glanced at the door and could sense the ti change. It was already the next morning, and he had fallen asleep, but Junior Sister hadn't woken him.
The high-backed chair enveloped Yu Sui completely. She curled up her feet, pressed close to the chair back, rested her hands on the armrests, making herself into a small ball. Her long hair and dress hem draped to the floor, her sleeping face peaceful and obedient.
i Liangyu just watched quietly like this, making no movent or sound to wake her.
The closed indoor environnt shut out all the outside clamor. In the silence, he gazed at the person across from him, so indescribable emotions growing in his heart.
Last night's candlelight had burned out. The main room was dim without lit lamps. The glowing text and images on the table separated the two, with flowing clear water and burning flas entangled together, inseparable from each other, flowing through every part of Xuangu Continent.
i Liangyu judged whether he liked soone by the most obvious sign: when alone with that person, did his heart want to leave quickly, stay a bit longer, or feel indifferent.
Master wasn't always at the Ghost Way Saint Hall. Previously when he went to the Ghost Way Saint Hall and only Yu Sui was there, it counted as being alone together.
Initially i Liangyu would feel it wasn't very interesting and would leave after staying a while.
But gradually, even when only Yu Sui was at the Ghost Way Saint Hall, he stayed longer and longer.
Yu Sui was a humble, studious child. When encountering problems she didn't understand, she would actively ask i Liangyu. As long as i Liangyu ignored her once, she wouldn't ask a second ti.
i Liangyu could feel the slight joy and satisfaction rising from deep within when alone with Yu Sui.
Even just watching her like this without doing anything, he surprisingly didn't find it tedious.
i Liangyu was still wondering when his patience had beco so good when he heard knocking at the door outside.
The rhythm was neither hurried nor slow, and the voice was gentle: "Sui Sui, I brought you breakfast."
i Liangyu wanted to block out the voice from outside to prevent disturbing Yu Sui's rest. Junior Sister already didn't sleep well, so any ti she could sleep should be treasured.
But Yu Sui was too sensitive and woke up after sensing soone else approaching.
She rubbed her eyes with her hand while straightening up, looking at i Liangyu with sleepy eyes, her expression sowhat wooden, showing no joy or anger.
"Let him call. Sleep a bit more." i Liangyu said.
Only then did Yu Sui turn her head toward the door, seeing a not-too-obvious shadow on the door.
Gu Qian outside called: "Sui Sui."
"Senior Brother." Yu Sui stood up. Without asking when i Liangyu had woken up, she pointed at the glowing text and images on the table, indicating for him to put them away.
i Liangyu lightly lifted his eyelids. Seeing she was still going to open the door, he waved his hand to erase the text and images from the table surface.
"Co here first." i Liangyu beckoned Yu Sui, having her co before him, then grabbed Yu Sui's hand: "Wipe your face, wake up more."
Going to open the door in such a dazed and cute state would make Gu Qian's eyes go straight, wouldn't it?
Yu Sui let i Liangyu grab her hand, then pull at her sleeve to roughly rub her face, which indeed made her completely alert.
She looked at the man before her and said calmly: "Senior Brother..."
i Liangyu pinched her face, speaking carelessly: "If you want to hide, just hold it in and don't say it."
Yu Sui swallowed the words that had reached her lips and slowly walked to open the door.
i Liangyu watched her back and frowned with a silent cold smile. She really did want him to hide.
As soon as the door opened, i Liangyu also looked up. Not-too-harsh light shone in, and Gu Qian's smiling face also entered his cold, indifferent eyes.
"Sui Sui..." Gu Qian had just started to speak when he noticed i Liangyu behind her. He sat behind the main room's long table with a composed manner, yet it made Gu Qian freeze.
Why, is, i, Liangyu, here!
Gu Qian's mood had been quite good today. Yesterday, because of the dormitory change, he had talked with Yu Sui.
Yu Sui said that after not seeing each other for over two years, they had beco distant, but becoming distant was also normal. Brother Gu had better friends around him now, and she was sincerely happy for Gu Qian.
The more Gu Qian listened, the more heartbroken he felt, thinking his care for Yu Sui during this period was truly insufficient. If he let them beco distant like this, Gu Qian absolutely couldn't accept it.
If Yu Sui was unhappy living with Shu Chujun and wanted to change dormitories, then she should change.
Gu Qian would do better, but he couldn't possibly accept i Liangyu's existence.
"Why is he here?" Gu Qian asked directly, frowning deeply, no longer hiding his disgust.
Yesterday Gu Qian had also made things clear with Yu Sui. i Liangyu could be her Senior Brother, but only a Senior Brother.
He and i Liangyu were enemies. This wouldn't change because of Yu Sui.
i Liangyu coldly glanced at Gu Qian, then withdrew his gaze, very naturally picking up the cooled teapot from the table, standing up to place it on the stove, preparing to boil water for tea.
As if he were the master here.
This behavior made Gu Qian's temples twitch, feeling this person was really putting on an act, scheming everywhere.
Yu Sui stood at the doorway. The door wasn't even half open, barely enough for just her to stand: "I had so questions I wanted to ask Senior Brother, so I invited him over."
After speaking, she reached out to take the food box Gu Qian handed over: "Is this breakfast? Thank you, Brother Gu."
Gu Qian was still staring at i Liangyu: "Eat it yourself, don't give it to him."
Yu Sui nodded: "Mm!"
Only then did Gu Qian withdraw his gaze and look at Yu Sui: "What questions do you want to ask him? Why didn't you ask first?"
"They're all related to Ghost Way School Nine Schools Arts. Brother Gu, you're not a Ghost Way School disciple." Yu Sui answered reasonably.
Gu Qian said: "I know them. Ask first."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a light but not heavy scoffing sound from inside, not loud but clear enough for him to hear.
Full of mockery.
Gu Qian couldn't control himself from looking up at i Liangyu, the anger in his heart growing rapidly.
Yu Sui didn't want these two to have contact today. Gu Qian should focus on getting his Floating Pagoda fragnt. So she blocked with one hand and lowered her voice: "Brother Gu, you haven't forgotten what I said yesterday, have you? I called Senior Brother here, and we're only discussing Nine Schools Arts matters. Master recently wants to practice several curse techniques. I'm sowhat confused and want to hear Senior Brother continue explaining."
Gu Qian also understood and wouldn't destroy Yu Sui's opportunity to learn Nine Schools Arts. No matter how dissatisfied he was inside, he endured it, treating i Liangyu as if he didn't exist.
Moreover, yesterday Yu Sui had told him that the Prince wanted to invite Saint Chang Gen to cooperate, or rather wanted to persuade Saint Chang Gen to cooperate. If he fought i Liangyu to the death at this ti, it might ruin the Prince's plan.
Gu Qian took a deep breath, treating i Liangyu as nonexistent, and glared down at Yu Sui: "Rember to co find if anything happens."
"Mm!" Yu Sui nodded.
Gu Qian added: "Also rember to tell if you still feel uncomfortable anywhere from your previous injuries."
Yu Sui smiled brightly: "I know."
Gu Qian gave her many instructions before leaving. Yu Sui watched Gu Qian walk away before closing the door. Just as she turned around, she saw i Liangyu standing by the stove, looking at her with an inscrutable expression.
Those slightly upturned eye corners outlined barely perceptible coldness, but his dark pupils just quietly looked at you, not much different from his usual cold, casual manner.
Making one unable to guess, unconsciously pondering.
Yu Sui extended her index finger to lightly touch her red lips, making a silencing gesture. After holding her breath and concentrating, she sensed the flow of Five Elents energy in the room and reached out to catch a tiny golden butterfly lurking in the void.
School of Nas word command, an eavesdropping butterfly materialized. Gu Qian had secretly released it when leaving.
Yu Sui crushed the golden eavesdropping butterfly. Gu Qian, standing before the Dragon Stairs, sensed this and frowned, cursing in his heart: that bastard i Liangyu.
Gu Qian looked back toward Yu Sui's direction. He still wasn't completely at ease.
Yesterday Yu Sui had explained that she wanted to help the Prince persuade Saint Chang Gen to cooperate, so she was pretending to be close to i Liangyu. But for so reason, whenever he saw these two standing together, he felt annoyed.
Gu Qian took a deep breath, forcing himself to look away, his expression extrely calm.
Sui Sui absolutely wouldn't like i Liangyu.
He and Sui Sui had been together since childhood and would continue being together in the future, never separating.
......
At this mont in the room, seeing Yu Sui find and destroy the School of Nas eavesdropping butterfly herself, i Liangyu raised an eyebrow slightly: "Junior Sister, your alertness has improved considerably."
"After all this ti, it wouldn't make sense if I hadn't made so progress." Yu Sui walked toward the table and curled back into the chair, hugging her knees with both hands. She turned her head to look at i Liangyu: "I've been very sensitive to Five Elents energy flow lately, always afraid of suddenly being locked underground again."
It sounded like aftereffects from the chanism Island trip.
i Liangyu's expression paused slightly. His originally cold aura beca gentler as he walked toward Yu Sui: "Really that afraid?"
"Just a little bit." Yu Sui made a gesture, looking at i Liangyu with one eye open and one closed.
i Liangyu heard a hint of playfulness in her words and realized she was joking. He stood in front of the chair, looking down at her.
Yu Sui propped her head up with one hand, tilting her head back slightly to look back: "Senior Brother?"
i Liangyu said: "You're quite mischievous too."
Yu Sui lowered her eyes and smiled: "Senior Brother didn't look very happy just now. Is it because you didn't sleep well?"
"I slept very well." i Liangyu was still looking down at her: "It's you who seems to have made up with Gu Qian. How long was your cold war? Now you look like you've reconciled."
"We made up yesterday." Yu Sui opened the food box on the table and peered inside. Everything was what she liked to eat: "To apply for a dormitory change at the academy, the other people need to agree too. After I hit Shu Chujun at the dining hall that day, everyone agreed to let change dormitories. When Brother Gu found out, he ca to talk with ."
i Liangyu patiently asked: "Talk about what?"
"Brother Gu talked about many things from the past, our days studying at Qingyang National Academy. I'd almost forgotten so things, but hearing him ntion them brought back mories." Yu Sui bit into a at pie and looked up at i Liangyu with gentle eyes: "We really did spend a very long ti together, seeing each other every day. Brother Gu's days in Qingyang were chaotic. Following him around, I could always see a lot of excitent."
i Liangyu had previously told Yu Sui about his childhood at Taiyi, but Yu Sui had never revealed her childhood life. This was the first ti she ntioned it, yet it was full of Gu Qian. i Liangyu listened carelessly and even politely said: "When he's not around, you can call him Gu Qian."
Yu Sui looked back at him while biting the at pie, surprise in her bright eyes. i Liangyu said with an unchanged expression: "He has a na. It's Gu Qian."
"Gu Qian." Yu Sui said.
i Liangyu nodded his chin slightly, indicating she hadn't said it wrong.
Yu Sui couldn't help but turn away and laugh quietly.
i Liangyu rested one hand on the chair back, lightly tapping the chair back with his knuckles. Yu Sui stood up to get a teacup from further away, then sat back down. As she settled, several strands of hair fell onto i Liangyu's hand.
The black hair lightly brushed against i Liangyu's hand as Yu Sui moved.
i Liangyu's gaze involuntarily swept over, his slender fingers lightly hooking a strand of hair, slowly winding it around.
"Compared to , my mother likes Gu Qian more. Gu Qian said he wrote to Qingyang telling Lady Su not to send people to kill for Breath Soil anymore. He's on my side." Yu Sui held her cup and sipped so clear water, continuing: "By saying this, he's torn his face with Lady Su. Gu Qian also said he'll treat better in the future. We've been together since childhood and can't possibly separate."
i Liangyu stood by the chair, his fingers playing with several strands of hair, saying calmly: "If Gu Qian treats you well, will you like him?"
From his perspective, Yu Sui and Gu Qian had indeed spent many years together. Those real tis that had existed couldn't be denied.
Yu Sui made a soft sound and turned to look at the person standing beside her: "Senior Brother, I'm not the type who will definitely like you just because you treat well, very well, even unconditionally well."
i Liangyu nodded, his lips curving up for an instant as he said lightly: "I understand."
But he himself was sowhat like this type of person.
Unless you treat very, very well first, I couldn't possibly like you.
Yet the result was the opposite. Yu Sui hadn't been particularly good to him anywhere, but i Liangyu couldn't help but show goodwill to Yu Sui first, always protecting her, wanting her to be well.
As i Liangyu reflected on himself, he heard Yu Sui say: "It's not that I like Gu Qian. It's that Gu Qian likes ."
He said: "You're quite clear about that."
"Gu Qian likes , and he also likes Xun Zhiya." Yu Sui said very seriously: "He's attracted to both people. Maybe he hasn't realized it yet. He can risk danger for Xun Zhiya, protect her, not want her to get hurt, but he also can't accept separating from , can't live unlike how we used to in Qingyang."
Gu Qian's attitude toward Qian Ying was sisterly, toward Xiang Feifei was companionship, but only toward Xun Zhiya and Nangong Sui was special.
Perhaps in the future, Gu Qian would have to choose only one.
No matter which one he gave up, he'd never forget for the rest of his life.
i Liangyu snorted coldly with disdain: "How does he manage to like two people simultaneously?"
"It doesn't have to be simultaneous." Yu Sui said: "I could also like Gu Qian when in Qingyang and like Senior Brother when at Taiyi."
i Liangyu looked down at her: "Are you looking for death?"
Yu Sui shrank her neck: "Senior Brother, I was just making an analogy."
She looked at i Liangyu timidly, while deep inside she observed the possessiveness the man unconsciously revealed at this mont. She could even feel the fingers behind the chair back that had wound around her hair were gradually pulling more black hair toward them.
Yu Sui successfully made the atmosphere dangerous but found it very interesting.
i Liangyu wanted to say that whoever he liked, he'd only like that one person for his whole life, but thinking it over, he felt these words were too sentintal. Saying them would only make Junior Sister laugh, so he decided not to say them.
But Junior Sister's thoughts were sowhat dangerous.
i Liangyu stared at her without moving his eyes, lowering his voice to ask: "How many people do you want to like?"
Yu Sui hesitated and didn't answer.
i Liangyu snorted coldly: "How many?"
Yu Sui tentatively raised her hand. Under i Liangyu's cold stare, her fingers trembled, but she finally held up one.
She said distressedly: "But Senior Brother, I can't guarantee I'll only like this one person for my whole life. What if I change my mind later and like soone else?"
i Liangyu pressed down the finger she held up, saying carelessly: "Don't be afraid. After you change your mind, I'll kill whoever you like."
Yu Sui stared at i Liangyu in a daze.
She thought she might be sick.
Hearing such spine-chilling words didn't give her a sense of crisis but instead made her secretly happy.
i Liangyu wasn't afraid of scaring her, but seeing Yu Sui freeze, he didn't want to see her show fear either. So he placed her hand back on the table surface and pointed to the food box: "Eat."
Yu Sui took another at pie and bit into it.
i Liangyu very naturally changed the subject: "What I showed you last night, did you finish reading it?"
"I finished reading it." Yu Sui nodded: "Senior Brother, you disappeared these past days because you went to get this text and images?"
i Liangyu said: "No, I spent these days at the School of Nas' Jueyun Peak challenging the Twelve Heavenly Steps."
"Oh." Yu Sui said: "My attraction to Senior Brother just decreased by a tiny bit."
i Liangyu: "......"
If he'd known, he would have lied despicably.
i Liangyu softened his voice: "Do you have any questions?"
"I was quite surprised when I first started reading. In hundreds of years, it changed so much." Yu Sui took small bites of the at pie: "My Strange Fire, on the other hand..."
Halfway through speaking, she suddenly felt i Liangyu place his palm on her head. This action interrupted Yu Sui. i Liangyu said: "You don't need to tell the specific secrets of your Strange Fire. I'm afraid my mories might be spied on in the future."
Yu Sui: "...Alright."
She rolled her eyes and looked at i Liangyu: "Who told you all this?"
i Liangyu withdrew his hand and paused: "Yan Xiaochuan's master, School of Nas instructor, Mu Yong'an."
Yu Sui was sowhat surprised: "Instructor Mu knows about Senior Brother's situation?"
"He knows, but can't say." i Liangyu also reminded her: "If you learn anything, rember not to say it out loud. It's very likely Taiyi will notice."
Who at Taiyi could possess such power?
Yu Sui imdiately thought of Taiyi's 24 Saints.
i Liangyu had originally wanted to find Gu Qian to secretly restore his mories using his Divine chanism Arts, but who knew this kid would directly expose his Divine chanism Arts when he fought with Sheng Hao that ti.
Now everyone knew, and Saints would pay attention too. Those with sensitive and cautious minds, if they discovered i Liangyu was deliberately seeking out Gu Qian to use Divine chanism Arts, would sowhat notice.
The more capable ones would directly suspect Gu Qian's Divine chanism Arts could affect the seal within i Liangyu's body.
Yu Sui hooked her finger at i Liangyu, indicating for him to co closer.
i Liangyu rested one hand on the chair back and bent down toward Yu Sui sitting in the chair. Just as he bent down, Yu Sui raised her head and whispered in his ear: "Senior Brother, do you know about Taiyi having Floating Pagoda fragnts?"
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