Spectating the Angsty Romance of the Master and Disciple from the Sect Next Door Chapter 162

The atmosphere on Qingxiao Peak was utterly dead. The expressions of the three people present were extremely grim.
Xie Huaixue’s expression was solemn, her aura chaotic for a moment, but it quickly stabilized.
Jingting Dao Lord was the same; she immediately calmed down, understood what had happened, and let out a soft sigh of relief.
Although these sword cultivators made her so angry every day that she wanted to kill them, when something truly happened, she inevitably worried for them.
While they could immediately calm down and understand the situation, Chixin Sword Lord couldn’t. She was completely frantic, looking anxiously at Xie Huaixue and Jingting Dao Lord.
“That butterfly hasn’t been turned by someone again, has it? Will Li Jin’an be alright? Why aren’t you worried at all?!”
She wanted to save her dao companion, but she didn’t want to sacrifice her disciple!
Both her dao companion and her disciple were extremely important; it wasn’t a matter of saving one and abandoning the other.
She had raised Li Jin’an all the way to the Mahayana stage; was that easy for her?!
“Slandering the Heavenly Dao, you’re out of luck now, aren’t you?” Jingting Dao Lord snorted. “Don’t worry. The Heavenly Dao probably just wanted to teach her a lesson.”
“What Heavenly Dao?” Chixin Sword Lord, who hadn’t noticed the fleeting aura of the Heavenly Dao at all, was utterly confused. “When did Li Jin’an slander the Heavenly Dao again?”
Jingting Dao Lord gave her a deadpan stare. So, she hadn’t been listening seriously earlier when Li Jin’an was rambling about her hooking up with the Heavenly Dao, had she?!
No, she had listened, but she hadn’t taken it to heart at all.
Although Chixin Sword Lord couldn’t figure out the logic, she was truly relieved to know that Li Jin’an had only been given a small lesson and wasn’t in real danger.
The two elders didn’t notice that Xie Huaixue had been silent for a long time, staring blankly at her own hands, her phoenix eyes blinking in confusion.
…
Her consciousness clouded for a moment.
Li Jin’an opened her eyes to find herself on a small island, surrounded by a raging, furious blue sea. In her hand, she clutched a bewildered black butterfly.
Suddenly, a turbulent wave crashed over them, drenching both the person and the butterfly.
“…”
Li Jin’an expressionlessly flicked the still-dripping black butterfly, then wrung out her soaking wet hair. “Spiritual energy can’t be used here. Do you have any idea why?”
The black butterfly struggled symbolically for a moment. Finding it couldn’t break free, it skillfully lay still, letting Li Jin’an torment it. Only after she stopped did it say dazedly, “No idea at all! I didn’t even activate the time regression channel!”
Li Jin’an remembered the fleeting, unfathomable aura and gritted her teeth. “I knew it! That damn Heavenly Dao truly harbors malicious intent towards me!”
Whether she was drawing the target after shooting the arrow or not, was the Heavenly Dao scamming her, or wasn’t it?!
How could something as significant as time regression be activated by simply pressing the black butterfly’s eyes? Even with the Gui clan’s external realm totem added, it shouldn’t be like this.
Clearly, some ill-intentioned, malicious fellow was meddling!
The black butterfly didn’t know the backstory, but it felt that neither the Heavenly Dao nor Jijin Sword Sovereign were good things. It was just two villains fighting, so hitting both with fifty blows was definitely not unfair!
Before she could continue cursing, several more waves surged over, nearly washing Li Jin’an and the black butterfly off the small island.
“Peh, peh, peh, I’m almost full of water… Wait!” Li Jin’an’s expression became serious. She ran to the edge of the island, scooped up a handful of seawater, and put it back in her mouth to taste.
The black butterfly, fearing her brain might also be waterlogged, cautiously asked, “Did you taste anything?”
Li Jin’an didn’t know what it was thinking. She excitedly flicked the black butterfly in her hand. “We’re currently inside someone else’s Sea of Consciousness!”
The moment she said this, the already turbulent sea grew even more violent. The sky suddenly turned gloomy, thick with dark clouds, lightning flashing and thunder rumbling, as if a heavenly punishment was descending.
“The owner of this soul sea must have a bad temper,” Black Butterfly indignantly declared, sharing her anger.
Understanding they weren’t in reality, Li Jin’an, even though she still couldn’t use spiritual energy, instinctively learned to control her thoughts, and her red robes instantly became refreshingly clean.
Hearing this, Li Jin’an raised her eyes and emotionlessly glanced at Black Butterfly.
Unlike Xie Huaixue, who valued facts and logic, she relied more on intuition when considering matters.
She had a strong premonition—
that this bad-tempered soul sea owner was likely herself.
Without reason, she just felt it was so.
Black Butterfly, who had been inexplicably glared at, deeply felt that Jijin Sword Sovereign was truly on the verge of madness, and timidly shrank her antennae, then watched helplessly as Li Jin’an’s figure grew larger and larger. The already treacherous sea surface became even more violent, with furious winds roaring and incessant waves crashing down on them.
Li Jin’an’s figure stood unmoving in the raging sea, then grew to colossal proportions.
Suddenly, the heavens and earth tilted, and the sea water surged backward.
Black Butterfly’s vision blurred, and she found she could see outside. However, the perspective was strange, as if she had turned into a bird perched on a tree, looking down at the ground.
The next second, she swooshed back into the soul sea from the bird’s-eye view.
Black Butterfly, dizzy and disoriented, lay on Li Jin’an’s overly broad shoulder, and dry-heaved.
Since Black Butterfly had come with Li Jin’an, their perspectives were naturally bound together.
Li Jin’an, who was currently fighting an unknown past version of herself for control of her body, was distracted for a moment. Her face darkened, and she roared, “Don’t you dare puke on me, or beware your butterfly life!”
Because of her distraction, an opening was seized, and cold, knife-like waves crashed over her again.
Li Jin’an snorted coldly, thinking her past self was adorably foolish. How could she not understand her own soul sea and body?
Little Li was merely showing off her limited skills before Big Li.
She accelerated the process of wresting control from the body’s original owner.
Black Butterfly honestly lay on Li Jin’an’s shoulder, not daring to make a sound, fearing that the current Li Jin’an, who would kill gods and Buddhas if they stood in her way, might casually deal with her too. Just as she was bored to the point of drowsiness, her vision abruptly changed again, causing her to fall directly from Li Jin’an’s shoulder.
She flapped her wings and flew up, finding she could see the world outside the body again. Not only that, but there was also a small ‘Li Jin’an’ with a foul expression beside her.
“What are you looking at? Haven’t you seen an unlucky soul whose body has been seized by herself?”
Black Butterfly honestly shook her head. She truly had never seen such a strange thing as one’s own body being seized by their future self.
Little ‘Li Jin’an’ ground her teeth, about to ruthlessly destroy the butterfly, when a grand voice echoed across the entire sea region, “You already know it’s me, so why are you still like a wild horse unbridled, impossible to rein in?”
“Are you willing to give your body to me?”
“No, I’m not. But I am much stronger than you now, so your opinion doesn’t matter,” Big Li said with utmost honesty, “You can call me Big Li, and I’ll call you Little Li.”
Little Li bared her teeth, rebelliously fighting for control of the body once more.
Not to mention her future self, even if the Jade Emperor himself came, she would still slap him. She would absolutely not surrender.
Big Li: “If you don’t behave, I’ll reveal all your embarrassing future incidents. With an outsider butterfly present, I don’t believe you won’t be embarrassed.”
Little Li: “?”
Black Butterfly: “?”
Listen, is that even a human thing to say?
Big Li ignored the strange expressions of the person and the butterfly in the soul sea, completely disregarding the reputations of her two selves, and began to passionately narrate.
Losing to Xie Huaixue for a thousand years and never being able to recover, for the sake of being number one, she resorted to all sorts of means. Not only did she attempt wicked schemes, she also wanted to break Xie Huaixue’s Heartless Dao, and was rejected when she confessed on Three Realms Mountain…
Little Li, who was only sixteen years old, was dumbfounded. “You’re so vicious!”
Big Li didn’t humor herself at all, and sneered, “As if you haven’t thought about it yourself.”
Little Li: “So did you succeed?”
Big Li, with a profound expression: “You could say I succeeded, or you could say I didn’t.”
“?” Little Li was utterly confused.
“Anyway, what I’m striving for now isn’t that ‘number one’. You’re just a kid, why ask so many questions?”
It’s a different ‘one’.
“What exactly is your relationship?” Little Li thought of Xie Huaixue, who was also sixteen, and genuinely couldn’t imagine them becoming Dao companions in the future. Yet, inexplicably, she didn’t seem to reject this possibility.
It seemed rather good…
Little Li quietly shivered, feeling she had truly fallen.
“We grew old together, our bond as fresh as if we’d just met, and as familiar as old friends,” Big Li thought of her Dao companion and said with a radiant smile.
“…Tsk, I don’t understand, but I know that in the future, I will eventually become the person I despise most. I’ll even start playing with words, it’s utterly disgusting,” Little Li said with extreme disdain.
It seemed her habit of ‘tsk-ing’ everywhere began at sixteen.
“Ignorant, like a blind man feeling an elephant, illiterate, simply disgraceful!” Big Li was so exasperated she started spouting nonsense, then sharply asked, “Do you genuinely not understand, or do you just not want to?”
Little Li scoffed, “You mind your own business!”
“Who’s telling you what to do?!”
“You just did!”
“I couldn’t be bothered to tell you what to do!”
Black Butterfly raised her wings and curled herself up, trying to resist this double-layered attack of words and spiritual pressure.
She didn’t understand. How could someone be fighting over a body just now, and then childishly bicker right after, especially when they were the exact same person!
Big Li snorted through her nose: “I’m going to find sixteen-year-old Xie Huaixue now, awooo awooo awooo, I’m going to see Xie Huaixue!”
Although she couldn’t see the expression on this body at the moment, she imagined it was probably eyes closed, head tilted back, howling wildly.
Little Li instantly flared up, and, under intense emotion, seized back control of the body.
Sixteen-year-old Li Jin’an and Xie Huaixue’s relationship was neither good nor bad. They weren’t close, but it hadn’t deteriorated to the point where they’d avoid each other later or send their disciples to fight on their behalf.
Little Li hadn’t decided whether to improve her relationship with Xie Huaixue, but she absolutely would not allow Big Li to see sixteen-year-old Xie Huaixue.
Each has their own Xie Huaixue, why should you go see my Xie Huaixue!
That’s hers!
Li Jin’an, regardless of the era, had an absolute possessiveness over Xie Huaixue.
A wicked dragon would never allow anyone to covet her sole and most precious treasure, even if that person was another version of herself.
Black Butterfly looked at the bewildered Big Li, flapped her wings, and knew this would happen.
When people get cocky, they easily become careless, and one misstep can lead to eternal regret.
However, even with the precedent, Little Li still scoffed at the word ‘humility’. This time, it was her turn to fiercely strike herself.
“So you’re not that great after all, no wonder you could never defeat Xie Huaixue. So stupid, and you still dare to see my Xie… the current Xie Huaixue!” Little Li became smug.
Big Li crossed her arms and narrowed her eyes.
The atmosphere became explosive.
Black Butterfly thought for a moment, then dove headfirst into the sea, pretending to be a dead butterfly.
Big Li’s phoenix eyes flashed open: “I can stop fighting for control of the body, but you must go see Xie Huaixue now.”