Chapter 9: This is a lie

“Adversary! Adversary! Adversary!”

“Without a spiritual root, how can you cultivate in the future!”

Mori Sword Hall.

The clouds and tigers are painted, the green smoke is misty, and the ancient trees cover the top.

Li Wanshou’s face was gloomy, and for the first time, he loudly rebuked at the Xu system, and to be able to make the previously amiable old man scold in this manner, it was evident that he was truly furious this time.

“It’s simple, I just don’t practice, Sensei.”

The Xu system replied with a faint smile, perhaps because this simulation was already coming to an end, and there was nothing timid about facing the furious Li Wanshou.

There was a pause.

This time the voice was somewhat calmer, “After all, I don’t have a few years left to live after this time, so it’s the same whether I cultivate or not.”

Hearing this, Li Wanshou’s expression froze, the anger on his face gradually faded and changed into a very complicated look, just like that, he gazed at his beloved disciple who had lost all his cultivation.

“Go ahead, tell us exactly what you did, from beginning to end.”

“Yes, Sensei.”

There’s no hiding, and there’s no need to hide.

System Xu told how he had researched the outer spirit roots and the move to burn himself to make them without any omissions, allowing Li Wanshou to listen thoroughly.

“Ah,” Li Wanshou’s eyes went wide.

Even missed yanking off a white beard.

“How could it be, I just casually said it in the first place, and you actually did produce an outer spirit root.”

“Heavenly wizards, heavenly wizards!”

Li Wanshou was first overjoyed, and then shook his head regretfully, “Unfortunately, you, this child, have cut off your own spiritual roots, or else ascending to Immortality would not be impossible.”

The old man suddenly lapsed into silence, shaking his head again and sighing.

Hovering and pacing back and forth in the temple.

Finally the hater stomped his foot.

Angrily, he looked at the Xu system.

“Adverse disciple, why are you so hasty, do you actually know what you have done, why don’t you talk to Master in advance!”

Enduring the old man’s scolding head-on, Department Xu shook his head slightly, “If I had told you beforehand, you would have stopped me, right?”

“I understand what you’re saying, Sensei, you’re trying to get me to slow and steady, to save Mo Li’s life without hurting myself.”

“But, I can’t do it.”

“Can’t do it watching your loved ones step into death.”

The old man was speechless.

His lips subconsciously quirked twice, but in the end he didn’t bother to curse anything.

The eyes gradually became relieved, and at the same time a little relieved.

It’s like seeing a childish child grow up into a man, and the elders can’t help but feel emotional.

“The Master understands.”

“Since you made the decision, there’s nothing I, as a teacher, can say.”

All the angry emotions subsided as much as possible, and Li Wanshou said, “On the clan’s side, I’ll take care of it for you, I can more or less say a few words.”

“But on Mo Li’s side ……”

Li Wanshou wanted to speak and stopped speaking.

He knew that the bond between the two siblings was extremely good, and if he let his sister Xu Moli know that her elder brother had sacrificed himself to save her, he feared that he would be on the verge of an emotional breakdown.

The clear wind came gently, scraping the ancient trees outside the temple to rub together, forming waves of undulating shadows of the sea of leaves.

Trance and the ancient bells humming.

Xu System’s pupils were hidden and ghostly, “I don’t intend to tell her the truth, and when some time passes, I’ll leave the Heavenly Sword Sect.”

“At that time, Mo Li will be left to the teacher’s instruction.”

Sacrificing the life of an older brother so as to live is too harsh a reality.

Even a weathered man can blame himself and feel guilty for it.

Not to mention.

That young girl who had seen the Xu system as the one she relied on in her heart since she was a little girl, and who was with her all the time.

……

When all matters had been discussed with his master, System Xu slowly left the Sen Sword Hall carrying an ancient wooden sword that the old man had forced upon him.

The details are as follows:

“Get lost, Adversary!”

“Take this sword with you, so that you won’t be killed by mortals later and lose my face out there!”

The old man cursed, jumped, and blasted the Xu system out of the ancient hall.

Slam the door with a bang.

It was as if he never wanted to see the Xu system again.

Xu System stood outside the hall, the lapis lazuli paved path winding down, reaching behind him and grasping the wooden sword hilt tightly, a raging and surging fluctuation of mana was transmitted from within.

With the permission of the original owner.

Even mortals can be driven at will.

“The disciple leads the way.”

……

Returning to the cave, Xu Department guarded the bedside for two days before the outer spirit root completely fused with the young girl’s body, and the original Heaven’s Doom dissipated in an invisible manner.

Corresponding to this was the young girl’s sense of chi that had inexplicably broken through.

It is clear that the practice has not really begun.

But with his own talent, he took the first step to transcendence.

“Brotherhood ……”

Xu Moli’s voice was rustling with the weakness of a major illness, but she soon found that her body was no longer in pain, and there was even an indescribable relief.

“Great.”

As if guessing something, she, on the sickbed, revealed a sweet smile to Department Xu, “What elder brother promised Mo Li has already been done.”

“Yeah.”

The Xu system gently gripped the young girl’s white palm that had regained its warmth.

Like holding a flying flower.

Catch the summer breeze.

The tired voice was filled with gentleness, “Elder brother promised you that he would definitely save Mo Li and come back, definitely.”

The young girl laughed even more, but as she laughed, her eyes reddened uncontrollably, and she could only keep wiping them with the back of her hand.

“I’m sorry, brother, I don’t know what’s wrong, but suddenly I feel like crying.”

“It’s like something really sad happened.”

“That’s weird, obviously I should be happy right now.”

Somehow.

Unknown why.

Xu Moli clutched the lapel of his coat, his fingers white with exertion, as if something extremely important was going away, something that must never, ever be lost.

More important than your own life, more valuable than all the persistence.

It is like the root of a tree, the wing of a bird, and the tooth of a beast.

A suffocation that would be absolutely impossible to survive without.

“It’s okay.”

Xu Department’s soothing voice came from beside him, the palm of his hand gently rubbing the young girl’s hair, and only at this moment would the young girl’s emptiness from the loss of that which was important to her be briefly replenished.

“I think it’s because Little Mo Li has been sleeping for too long and her body is a little out of sorts.”

“It will get better after a while, don’t worry about it.”

Is that right ……

The seventeen year old girl felt that something was not quite right, but on second thought, there was no reason for Department Xu to lie to her, so perhaps it really was because she had been sick for too long before that she could not control her tears.

With that thought, her emotions gradually calmed down.

Already.

There’s nothing to be afraid of anymore.

No matter what hardships and dangers he encountered, his elder brother would be by his side, and as long as he was there, there was nothing worth fearing.

Yes, as long as the older brother is there.

Xu Moli took the initiative to grip Xu Department’s hand tightly, gripping it tightly, gripping it hard, holding on tightly and refusing to let go.

“Will brother leave Mo Li?”

“…… won’t.”

This is a lie.