Spectating the Angsty Romance of the Master and Disciple from the Sect Next Door Chapter 116

Even though the person was right in front of her, she still missed them maddeningly. She couldn’t miss her enough, couldn’t love her enough.
Li Jin’an was belatedly struck by an overwhelming wave of longing. A beat later, she felt a love so thick it almost suffocated her, and her distress could not cease. It was as if a large hole had opened in her heart, impossible to fill.
Xie Huaixue pursed her lips. With her intelligence, she could naturally figure out what had happened. This was not difficult for her; she could even accurately guess the location of Fuxian Pond and deduce that they might have fallen into the chaotic flow of space-time due to some irresistible force.
“She doesn’t want you to worry. Only if you’re well can she have no worries.”
Li Jin’an looked up blankly. “Huh?” She was still trapped in the negative emotions that she couldn’t extricate herself from. When she looked up, her crimson eyes made her appear a little dazed, her phoenix eyes slightly wide, no longer displaying the fierce and unruly demeanor from her earlier rampage.
Xie Huaixue raised a hand and stroked Li Jin’an’s furrowed brows. She said word by word, “No matter which Xie Huaixue it is, none would bear to see Li Jin’an sad.” Just as Immortal Venerable Xie could confidently say she would notice Li Jin’an’s abnormality from the start, the current Xie Huaixue could also understand what Immortal Venerable Xie was thinking.
No matter when or where, Xie Huaixue’s way of loving would never change. What was carved into her bones, blood, and soul would not change due to shifts in space-time. As long as Li Jin’an was there, Xie Huaixue would not lose her anchor point.
Li Jin’an looked at the serious-faced Xie Huaixue. For some reason, she suddenly smiled, her bright phoenix eyes lively and spirited. She suddenly hugged Xie Huaixue tightly, mischievously blew a breath into her ear, then said with immense joy:
“I also feel bad for every Xie Huaixue, so don’t be unhappy.” She raised an eyebrow, like someone spoiled rotten. “If you’re unhappy, I’ll think it’s because I was clumsy or said something wrong to upset you. Don’t you feel bad for me?”
A sword cultivator, adept at fighting and killing, might not be very sensitive in thought and quite carefree in social interactions. But in her long battles, she had long since honed an intuition for precisely seeing an opponent’s weaknesses. Without needing to look or think, she could instantly pinpoint an enemy’s weakest and most fatal point, then deliver the strongest blow.
Before, this skill was only used by Li Jin’an on her enemies. But now, she would use this intuition for perceiving essence to observe Xie Huaixue. Based on their mutual understanding and unspoken accord, it was easy to discover that Xie Huaixue’s mood was not wonderful right now. She was always like this. When Xie Huaixue was quietly upset, she would be like a sharp sword, instantly breaking through Xie Huaixue’s gloom. Even if she couldn’t understand why Xie Huaixue was unhappy, it didn’t matter; she would give Xie Huaixue a big hug.
Xie Huaixue subtly shifted her gaze, letting it fall on the mole on Li Jin’an’s earlobe. She instinctively raised a hand and pinched it gently, sighing softly in her heart, then softly replied, “Okay, I won’t be unhappy.” How could she be unhappy? Every second she shared her feelings with Li Jin’an was incredibly precious to her. To achieve this, she must have put in a lot of effort later on. And now, she had already been lucky enough to gain all this without doing anything.
In fact, compared to caring about Li Jin’an’s deep affection for her future self, she felt more heartache. Even for her own sake, she didn’t want to see Li Jin’an looking dispirited and sad. Her little sword cultivator should always be proud and unrestrained, as if she could draw her sword and cut down all injustice in the world at any moment. Even when bristling and stomping her feet, glaring at her with raised eyebrows, and speaking sarcastically, she was incredibly adorable.
Li Jin’an suddenly thought of something, and her eyes lit up. Grinning at Xie Huaixue, she spoke in an incredibly astonished tone, her voice even changing pitch due to the shock. “Are you jealous?!” Without waiting for Xie Huaixue to answer, she confirmed this fact to herself as if talking to herself. “I knew it! Sometimes your aura would suddenly turn cold in the space-time before last, so that’s… how it is!”
Li Jin’an stood with her hands behind her back, her eyes sparkling as she looked at Xie Huaixue, wearing a sly look as if she had caught Xie Huaixue’s little secret. Immensely smug, she was like a big cat with its tail held high. “Huaihuai, you have so many little thoughts.”
Li Jin’an truly saw Xie Huaixue in a new light. This person appeared to be the most proper and rule-abiding, so self-disciplined and principled that even if she favored Li Jin’an, she wouldn’t go easy during a fight. She had her own unwavering principles. If Li Jin’an could defeat her, she would be happier than anyone, but it could never be in such a way. She didn’t want Li Jin’an to go astray.
Aside from this, Xie Huaixue was generally strict with herself and wouldn’t try to impose her own demands on others. So, such a strict person would secretly get jealous of her future self, huh! You really can’t judge a book by its cover.
Xie Huaixue pursed her lips and remained silent. Her eyelashes lowered, trembling slightly, and her ears beneath her dark hair quietly flushed red. She truly didn’t want to respond to this person’s teasing.
Li Jin’an grinned. “I’m not laughing at you; I just think you’re so adorable.”
The words had barely left her mouth when her eyes rolled back, and she collapsed onto Xie Huaixue. Her original injuries hadn’t fully healed, and then her soul was damaged from jumping through space-time. In such a state, she had also overdrawn her body to force a Mid-Stage Soul Transformation demonic cultivator to self-destruct. After Immortal Venerable Xie arrived and then left, her emotions had undergone violent ups and downs, experiencing both great joy and great sorrow. Her body and spirit had reached their limits, and she naturally couldn’t hold on.
Jiang Fengmian, who had managed to catch a Lingjing Sect cultivator and ‘study’ them for a bit, came over at the right time, offering to help. “Junior Sister Xie, do you need me to carry Daoist Li?”
“No need.” Xie Huaixue nodded at Jiang Fengmian, scooped Li Jin’an into her arms, and said gently, “Please trouble Senior Sister Jiang and the City Lord to handle the follow-up matters. I’ll take An’an to heal her injuries.”
Jiang Fengmian’s eyes darted around, and she nodded blankly. “Huh? Oh, okay, I’ll go right away!” Without waiting for a reply, she saw Xie Huaixue anxiously carrying Li Jin’an away.
Jiang Fengmian propped her chin in her hand, watching their retreating figures thoughtfully.
The green-robed Lingjing Sect cultivator quietly came over and shot her a contemptuous look. “Don’t you get it now?”
Jiang Fengmian looked at her suspiciously, not understanding what new craziness the Lingjing Sect people were up to.
“They’re secretly together!” The Lingjing Sect cultivator tutted in wonder, holding up the spirit-recording stone in their hand, and said with emotion, “Normally, they fought tooth and nail, but it turns out they’ve been together behind everyone’s backs for ages! Who could have imagined this!”
“…?’ Jiang Fengmian’s mouth fell open in shock. It was already bad enough being constantly outshone by two people younger than herself, yet with higher talent and cultivation realms. But there was something even worse: not only was their combat prowess god-like—at the Nascent Soul stage, they could forcibly kill a Soul Transformation demonic cultivator, leaving their peers in the dust—but while others were constantly striving to catch up to them, these two actually got together?!”
“Yes, it’s exactly as you think. We can’t compare to them in cultivation, and we can’t even compare to them in finding a romantic partner.” The green-robed person profoundly patted Jiang Fengmian’s shoulder and said with much empathy.
That was simply nonsense. It was impossible for their generation of cultivators to surpass these two in finding a romantic partner, because the first and second best had been internally ‘digested’; they couldn’t find anyone even if they wanted to.
“It can be like this? Wasn’t one of them on the Emotionless Dao, and the other a sword maniac who had bluntly said that love and romance were nothing but trouble?”
Because it was still early—not a thousand years later, when their relationship would enter a calm and peaceful period—this was the most intense period of their rivalry. The moment Li Jin’an opened and closed her eyes, she would go find Xie Huaixue to fight, and whenever she gritted her teeth and stomped her foot, it was because she couldn’t beat her and was provoked. Sometimes, even the onlookers feared these two would become so antagonistic that it would cause a rift between the Sword Sect and the Dao Sect. At that time, any slight disturbance would cause an uproar in the cultivation world.
Now was a critical period in the war against the demonic cultivators. If the Sword Sect and the Dao Sect, two of the Nine Great Immortal Sects, fell out, it would truly be adding frost to snow. Just the affiliated forces of the two sects, countless small sects and factions, could stir up a huge commotion; they would definitely be willing to charge into battle for their respective leaders.
Who would have thought. The Sword Sect and Dao Sect weren’t falling out; they were joining in marriage!
“Who knows? Anyway, I don’t cultivate the Emotionless Dao, nor am I a sword maniac, so how would I know what they’re thinking?’ The green-robed person said grumpily, standing on the battlefield outside the city and looking inward, as if seeing the scene of Li Jin’an and Xie Huaixue embracing across the distance. She shook her head with a sigh. ‘Wonderful, wonderful, simply too wonderful!'”
“Hmph! According to the cultivation world’s unwritten rules, if you catch a Lingjing Sect cultivator hiding and avoiding the battlefield, you can demand that the person work for free for seven days. What do you think?’ Jiang Fengmian asked sinisterly.
“Not good.”
The green-robed person felt that this person had bad character. Just now, they were standing together, gossiping nicely, but now she had changed her mind. So, they turned and ran. But before they could successfully conceal their aura, they were grabbed by the scruff of the neck by Jiang Fengmian.
“Go on, then. Next time, don’t jump out so readily when you get carried away by watching the show. You’re always caught.”
The green-robed person secretly made a decision at that moment: if Jiang Fengmian’s embarrassing stories weren’t widely spread throughout the cultivation world, it would be her fault! She wanted Jiang Fengmian dead! Didn’t Jiang Fengmian know that their sect’s rule was to deduct three years of annual stipend for being caught just once?! The stipend was one thing, but the most important thing was the humiliation!
It wasn’t as if their Lingjing Sect wasn’t contributing; they had sent out nearly half the sect’s cultivators, wasn’t that enough? She hadn’t acted simply because it wasn’t her turn yet, and according to her divination results, even if Li Jin’an and Xie Huaixue didn’t display their divine might, Cloudmount City would still be fine in the end.
She swore she would indefinitely and darkly stare at Jiang Fengmian, writing Jiang Fengmian’s gossip and anecdotes into a booklet to be passed down through the ages, making Jiang Fengmian even more famous in the cultivation world than Li Jin’an and Xie Huaixue!
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When she opened her eyes again, what greeted her was Chixin Sword Lord’s large face. As if she had suffered a nightmare, Li Jin’an closed her eyes again, wanting to roll over and continue sleeping, but then someone patted her cheek.
“What? After displaying your divine might, you’re not going to recognize me, your burdensome master?”
Li Jin’an, once again listless, opened her eyes, drawing out a long ‘Ah.’ “How did you get here so fast? Master, if you don’t speak sarcastically, I’ll recognize you!”
“Fast? Chixin Sword Lord scoffed, tapping her forehead. “Do you know how many days you’ve been unconscious?”
“Huh?” Li Jin’an didn’t understand.
“Not fast at all. You’ve been unconscious for a full eleven days. Even a pig could have crossed mountains and rivers to get here by now. Huaixue has been looking after you for these eleven days.” As Chixin Sword Lord spoke, she slightly shifted her body, revealing Xie Huaixue, who had been hidden behind her.