Spectating the Angsty Romance of the Master and Disciple from the Sect Next Door Chapter 115

Li Jin’an’s heart thundered, her eardrums pounded.
On the bloody battlefield, she stared blankly at Xie Huaixue.
Heaven and earth suddenly fell silent. Her eyes, ears, and heart were all filled with Xie Huaixue, who was so close at hand.
Though the person was right before her eyes, Li Jin’an felt as if she had fallen into a deep ocean, unable to breathe or speak. She couldn’t utter a word. “Uh, uh, uh… Xie Huaixue! Xie Huaixue!”
No one knew how tumultuous her emotions were at that moment, so agitated that she could only call out Xie Huaixue’s name.
The cultivation bond, witnessed by the Heavenly Dao, linked the two together, their hearts connected. There was no way she could mistake her own Dao Companion.
Xie Huaixue understood her meaning. First, she gently pulled her Dao Companion, who was struggling to speak, into her embrace. Then, she raised her eyes and swung her Gleaming Radiance Sword.
Under everyone’s watchful eyes, the Gleaming Radiance Sword pierced through the glabella of the early-Nascent Divinity stage demon with an unstoppable speed, leaving no chance for its nascent soul to escape. It died on the spot.
The Nascent Soul stage demons battling Jiang Fengmian widened the three eyes on their foreheads in terror. Without hesitation, they turned and fled. The remaining demonic soldiers also scattered, running as fast as their legs could carry them.
Demons were bloodthirsty and warlike, but no demon could remain unwavering in the face of such a chasm-like disparity. They might not fear death, but they wouldn’t cheerfully charge into certain doom.
Jiang Fengmian stood stunned, her mouth agape in shock. She tried to swallow but realized her mouth had been open for too long, her throat completely dry, with no saliva to swallow. She could only choke down a mouthful of acrid air mixed with blood and demonic energy.
No way!
Gazing at each other actually allows them to draw strength?!
Was she crazy, or were they both crazy?!
She had never slackened in her cultivation, so how could she not understand these two’s methods? Weren’t they all Nascent Soul stage cultivators?
Jiang Fengmian seriously began to ponder whether there truly existed cultivation techniques in the cultivation world that allowed for the transfer of spiritual energy through eye contact.
“Absolutely, right?!”
A green-robed person, hidden among the crowd and holding a spirit-recording stone, dropped their disguise and stared in shock with an open mouth at everything. They then frantically searched through their old spirit-recording stones, beginning to compare recent battle footage of Li Jin’an and Xie Huaixue, trying to find evidence of their sudden rapid increase in power.
This was the first time watching a spectacle made them so sad.
Li Jin’an and Xie Huaixue fought, and they watched the show—wasn’t it good for everyone to get along?
Why did they have to progress so rapidly behind everyone’s backs, making everyone unhappy!
Such was the state of mortals.
Meanwhile, Li Jin’an and Xie Huaixue, at the center of everyone’s attention, were also far from calm.
“You found me.”
For some reason, at this moment, Li Jin’an felt an inexplicable urge to burst into tears, her voice a little choked. She knew that in places she couldn’t see, Xie Huaixue must have put in immense effort for this reunion.
Even great cultivators at the Tribulation Transcendence stage could not travel through the chaotic flow of space-time as if on solid ground, unable to comprehend its mysteries, much less casually alter the past under the gaze of the Heavenly Dao.
Each space-time was independent, parallel, and disconnected. When space-time chaos occurred, and space-time became disordered, these threads would tightly intertwine, constantly flowing. It was impossible to go to whichever space-time one wished.
It went without saying that for Immortal Venerable Xie to meet Jijin Sword Sovereign, she must have endured hardships akin to crossing mountains and rivers, traversing countless space-times to reach Li Jin’an.
Precisely because of this, tears streamed down Li Jin’an’s face. She couldn’t stop them no matter what, looking at Xie Huaixue through blurred eyes.
Xie Huaixue tenderly stroked Li Jin’an’s long hair, wiping away her tears with her fingertips. “Yes, I found An’an, so don’t be afraid. I won’t lose An’an.”
Li Jin’an tightly grasped her wrist and anxiously asked, “How long can you stay here?”
“Less than a quarter of an hour.”
Xie Huaixue was not like Li Jin’an, who went with the flow and was content with whatever came. Whenever space-time detected her, an outsider, and expelled her, she would move to the next space-time, quickly assume her identity, and have a blast. She played when she arrived and wasn’t sad when she left.
She was easygoing and knew her own limitations. In matters like this, she would only make things worse, turning simple matters arduous and complex, drifting further and further in the wrong direction. It was better to simply stay put and wait for Xie Huaixue to find her. While she couldn’t do anything else, she could trust Xie Huaixue wholeheartedly.
Although her soul was damaged due to the shifts in space-time, it was still within Li Jin’an’s tolerance.
Xie Huaixue was different. She constantly and actively entered one space-time after another, performing space-time leaps. This not only placed a heavy burden on her soul, but space-time would also quickly discover her as an outsider and expel her soul.
For Li Jin’an, she would search heaven and earth. The only thing that never changed about Xie Huaixue was that she would always walk towards Li Jin’an, a thousand times, ten thousand times over.
At this moment, Li Jin’an was exceptionally intelligent and perceptive. She firmly stated, “I will wait for you right here. I won’t run around recklessly. Don’t worry about me.” She couldn’t do anything for Xie Huaixue; the only thing she could do was take care of herself, so Xie Huaixue wouldn’t have to worry about her while also being busy.
Never before had Li Jin’an hated her own clumsiness and powerlessness as much as she did now. She finally understood how difficult it was to ‘let nature take its course,’ as Yinyue Monarch had said in the space-time before last. No one could remain indifferent knowing their Dao companion was in danger. Even someone as resilient as Jijin Sword Sovereign couldn’t do it; she was just a mortal who cared for her Dao companion. But she could do nothing; she could only wait where she was.
This feeling was awful.
Xie Huaixue smiled faintly. “So good.”
Just as Li Jin’an understood the pain she was enduring, she also understood Li Jin’an’s feelings. So, she was not stingy with praise. Her fingertips traced over the veins on Li Jin’an’s wrist, as if sharing their pulse beats, completely becoming one at that moment.
Li Jin’an smiled with her, unwilling to be coy any longer. She puffed out her cheeks and curiously asked, “I did something uncharacteristic of this version of me earlier. Will the ‘you’ of this space-time notice anything unusual about me?”
Xie Huaixue did not have the memories of her own self in this space-time, but she still said confidently, “Yes, you will, from the very beginning.” No one knew better than her how much attention and care she gave to Li Jin’an.
She couldn’t say when this habit had formed, but wherever Li Jin’an was, she would always notice Li Jin’an first and secretly pay attention, discreetly scanning her from head to toe, inside and out.
Smiling, she spoke of the thoughts of her un-met self. “No matter which Li Jin’an it is, it’s still Li Jin’an, and all of them are adorable.”
They shared the same sentiment. They would be utterly captivated by their Dao companion from any different period.
Li Jin’an was slightly pleased. She triumphantly curved her eyes into crescents. “You’re also very cute, especially when you were little. You couldn’t even speak, and only called out ‘An’an, An’an.’ The moment I called ‘Huaihuai,’ you’d turn to look at me—that’s what you call good.”
Xie Huaixue smiled without speaking, her expression somewhat profound.
Li Jin’an blinked her eyes, belatedly realizing something. She always couldn’t help but tease Xie Huaixue from various periods, so what about Xie Huaixue?
“…You know, my past self was both dull and foolish, and very conceited. Her words were unpleasant, so please play with me gently.” Li Jin’an said dejectedly. “I wasn’t very clever to begin with; don’t play me into a fool!” She couldn’t think of anything else right now; she only worried that her selves from various space-times would be played even more foolish by Xie Huaixue.
Xie Huaixue couldn’t help but laugh, pinching her wrist. “What are you saying? I won’t bully you.”
Li Jin’an gave her a disbelieving look. She wouldn’t bully her, but she could trick her into apologizing and coaxing others, while pretending not to care, yet stomping her foot in eagerness to fawn over Xie Huaixue. Just thinking about it made her vision go black. The future was pitch black, with no light to speak of.
In the past, it took them over a thousand years to finally understand each other’s feelings. This wasn’t just due to needing an opportunity, but also two important reasons: one, Li Jin’an hadn’t ‘opened her spiritual aperture’ yet, her head was harder than a sword, completely un-enlightened; and two, Xie Huaixue had reservations and hesitated repeatedly, choosing to give Li Jin’an the initiative.
In the chaotic flow of space-time, all changes would be corrected and return to their original state. Thus, even if Xie Huaixue did something outrageous to Li Jin’an, no one but Xie Huaixue would remember it.
Xie Huaixue circled Li Jin’an’s wrist again, embracing her in Li Jin’an’s dazed gaze. She buried her face in Li Jin’an’s shoulder, took a soft breath, and her voice gained a hint of strength. “Wait for me happily.”
Li Jin’an realized something, tightly grasped Xie Huaixue’s wrist in return, and clenched her teeth fiercely, unable to say anything. Her eyes suddenly reddened again.
Xie Huaixue gave Li Jin’an a comforting smile, tapped her crimson eye corner with a fingertip, and repeated, “Wait for me, be good.”
“Okay.” Li Jin’an’s vision blurred, and she said for the second time, “Okay.” This time, it was her turn to be concise.
A breath, an instant, a second passed in a flash, yet felt incredibly slow, vast and boundless, so slow that Li Jin’an had nothing to do but blankly count her own heartbeats. A thousand tribulations of life concluded; a single lamp illuminated the long day.
Li Jin’an raised a hand to cover the spot on her chest where she could no longer feel their Dao companion bond, and met with a sense of loss Xie Huaixue’s eyes, whose emotion had changed.
It was different. A Dao companion and a future Dao companion were still different.
Immortal Venerable Xie’s gaze towards Li Jin’an always carried an undeniable weight. This Xie Huaixue, however, was somewhat cautious because Li Jin’an rejected closeness like a hedgehog, afraid that an inappropriate word might cause their newly eased relationship to fall apart again.
The former was indulgence, the latter was accommodation.
Li Jin’an let out a long sigh.
Jiang Fengmian, who had been waiting for a long time in the outer circle, was just about to come closer and ask why they had talked for so long and were now hugging, when she met Li Jin’an’s crimson eyes. They were vulnerable yet fierce, as if, with such reddened eyes and utterly broken appearance, she was about to cut through the entire demonic realm.
Jiang Fengmian paused, then instantly turned around. Her excellent eyesight allowed her to spot some sneaking Lingjing Sect cultivators at the base of the city wall, and she decided to confront them.
Yes, that’s right. She wasn’t afraid of being silenced.
Xie Huaixue frowned slightly, with a hint of confusion between her brows. She looked clearly at Li Jin’an. “Just now…”
Li Jin’an narrowed her phoenix eyes and leaned straight into Xie Huaixue’s arms. Looking at the person right before her, she sighed, “I miss you so much.”