20: Chapter 20 Senior Sister, Let's Hold Hands

In the courtyard pavilion blooming with white plum blossoms,

Gu Qinghuan was sipping spiritual tea. Sitting opposite her was a stunning, voluptuous woman dressed in a bamboo-green immortal dress.

Chief Elder of the Hehuan Sect — — Chief Elder Chu Yizhu.

The seat of a chief Elder was above the masters of various peaks, making it the most influential existence right below the Sect Master and Vice Sect Master.

There were a total of four chief Elders, all at the Body Integration Stage Realm. Among the four, the highest-Realm one was the person right before her, at the ninth rank of the Body Integration Stage.

She was only a step away from the Mahayana Stage, whose lifespan could reach ten thousand years.

"I will take this Talisman back, and you and I are even."

Gu Qinghuan said coldly, "Thank you."

Chief Elder Chu Yizhu was originally not a person of the Hehuan Sect, but a first-class Elder of the Tianlu Talisman Sect, one of the five great immortal sects. Later, somehow, she came over here.

"Back then, you helped me retrieve what I wanted in the Secret Realm."

"I promised you that I could help you do something within my power."

"You used my favor on a Utility Disciple, don't you feel it's a loss?"

Gu Qinghuan looked at the rising and falling spiritual tea in the teacup, raised her head, and said, "How you settle accounts is your business."

"Hmm?"

"Please leave quickly!"

Chief Elder Chu Yizhu frowned slightly, her ears twitched, and her calm, unruffled eyes looked at Gu Qinghuan with great interest.

"It seems you have really changed a lot. Fine, I will take my leave."

Gu Qinghuan hurriedly took back the teacup opposite her.

Chief Elder Chu Yizhu vanished in a flash from the spot. As soon as she left, Lin Mo turned out from behind the carved, hollow-out white jade screen.

"Senior Sister, I'm here~"

Lin Mo waved his hands from afar, and Gu Qinghuan stood up to welcome him, except there was not much of a smile on her face.

As for the cold and aloof Senior Sister, she had always been an ice block. Anyway, Lin Mo had never seen her smile to this day.

But for some reason, Lin Mo suddenly felt a trace of... anger from between Gu Qinghuan's brows?

Did she think he came too late? Senior Sister was not such a petty person...

Walking to the octagonal pavilion, as Lin Mo shifted his body to the left, Gu Qinghuan's pair of phoenix eyes followed and shifted as well.

Lin Mo felt something was eighty percent wrong!

It seemed he had to be careful tonight!

"Junior Brother Lin, sit down."

As soon as Lin Mo's butt hit the seat, he couldn't help asking, "Does Senior Sister blame me for walking in without reporting in advance?"

"Ahem, I was actually afraid that waiting outside the Immortal Cave for too long would make others notice something unusual."

Gu Qinghuan poured a full cup of spiritual tea for him, and Lin Mo hurriedly took it, "Thank you, Senior Sister."

"Drink slowly. This spiritual tea is very helpful for cultivation. Your Realm is low right now, so you cannot drink this whole cup."

Lin Mo took a sip and immediately felt the surging Spiritual Qi nourishing his Dantian.

"I have long ago set up the grand array so that it has no defenses against you. How could I blame you?"

Lin Mo nodded and suddenly said, "Someone was here just now?"

Gu Qinghuan's hand pouring tea paused abruptly, but she quickly returned to normal, "No."

Lin Mo narrowed his eyes slightly, "Then why is the chair still warm?"

"I was sitting over there just now, and only made room for you when you came."

Lin Mo smiled and said, "I didn't expect Senior Sister Gu to know how to lie as well."

Gu Qinghuan raised her delicate eyebrows, "What makes you say that?"

Only to see Lin Mo twitching his nose, "There is still a faint fragrance of orchids lingering here, which is definitely not the fragrance on Senior Sister's body anyway."

"If Senior Sister has nothing to hide in her heart, why cover it up?"

"As soon as I came in just now, I felt that Senior Sister's emotions were very wrong. Senior Sister, since you and I have already been bound together, it's better to speak some words out. Bottling them up in our hearts will only become a rift."

The slightly cool evening wind blew across the white plum blossoms, also stirring the beauty's jet-black hair ends.

Gu Qinghuan showed a look of astonishment. She prided herself on rarely having her emotional fluctuations seen through by others.

But she never expected that Lin Mo's mind would be sensitive to this degree.

Gu Qinghuan's red lips parted slightly, "Speaking of hiding, speaking of having something to hide in one's heart, isn't it Junior Brother Lin?"

Hearing this,

Lin Mo shrank his neck. Could it be that the matter of the System had been discovered?

"Ahem, I don't know what Senior Sister means."

"Senior Sister, shall we continue the treatment first?"

Gu Qinghuan put down her teacup. She always sat there so gracefully and upright, giving people a detached and ethereal feeling.

At this moment, the cold and aloof Senior Sister's gaze was as sharp as a knife, and she said softly,

"Since Junior Brother Lin said so, if there is something to say, it should be spoken out, otherwise it will surely become a rift."

"Then shouldn't the matter between Junior Brother Lin and Ye Zhirou be discussed with me in advance?"

Lin Mo thought she was talking about the dudou matter last time, "That dudou wasn't stolen by me; it was given to me by Ye Zhirou. It wasn't... nor was it what I wanted. The matter was like this..."

Just as Lin Mo was thinking about how to quibble, Gu Qinghuan frowned and said, "I mean, why didn't you tell me when you were threatened by Ye Zhirou and Su Qianqian?"

"Why didn't you tell me that Ye Zhirou used you to test medicine and planted Gu worms in your body?"

"I said before, if anyone wants to harm you, I will make a move. Dealing with two second-class Disciples, I still have spare capacity."

Lin Mo: "???"

How did she know everything?

Knowing all affairs of the world without stepping out of the house?

Only then did Lin Mo realize that he had made a huge mistake.

This cold and aloof Senior Sister before him, although not good at socializing with others, was exceptionally proud and aloof.

But after all, she was a Saintess. To say that there was no connection at all was impossible.

It's just why was she angry?

"Junior Brother Lin, you are very important to me now. I don't want anything to happen to you."

"If there is such a situation again next time, I hope you will inform me at the first instance."

Lin Mo rested his chin on his hand and smiled as he looked at Gu Qinghuan, "Senior Sister, what you said sounds a bit ambiguous."

"Ambiguous?" Gu Qinghuan's delicate eyebrows furrowed again, "Junior Brother Lin, I am talking to you about serious matters!"

Lin Mo tapped his fingers rhythmically on the table, a bit of tenderness in his gaze, "So, the Senior who rescued me from Lintan Cliff was invited by you?"

Gu Qinghuan turned her beautiful head away, "It wasn't me."

Okay, it was definitely you!

Making Gu Qinghuan lower her face to beg others was no easy task. Senior Sister actually went to such lengths for him.

Senior Sister, you really aren't being honest, with a little bit of tsundere on you.

"If I guessed correctly, Senior Sister guessed it from last night's events, right?"

"That's why you gave me that Talisman, which roughly has both life-saving efficacy and positioning functions, right?"

Gu Qinghuan turned her head back in surprise, "How do you know?"

After speaking, she bit her own red lips.

A warm smile bloomed on the corners of Lin Mo's mouth, "Thank you, Senior Sister. If it weren't for Senior Sister helping behind the scenes this time, I would have been in grave danger."

Gu Qinghuan remained silent.

Lin Mo asked with a guilty conscience, "Who is that Senior?"

Gu Qinghuan remained silent.

"Is that Senior a relative or friend of Senior Sister?"

Gu Qinghuan remained silent!!!

"Then... could the Senior completely erase my aura?"

This time the cold and aloof Senior Sister spoke, "Since she took action, you can rest assured."

The huge rock pressing down on Lin Mo's heart was finally completely shattered.

If someone else said this, there might be an element of bragging.

But who was Gu Qinghuan? Since she had said so, naturally there wouldn't be any problems!

But judging by Gu Qinghuan's meaning, was she going to keep it a secret?

Or was that female Senior's identity too sensitive?

"Junior Brother Lin, since you have already stepped into the Qi Refining Realm, why not take the opportunity of this rank grand competition to become a formal Inner Sect Disciple?"

"Or... after losing the constraints, are you planning to leave the Hehuan Sect?"

Lin Mo cupped his chin with both hands, "Leave? How could I leave? Wherever Senior Sister is, that's where I'll be."

Gu Qinghuan turned her body sideways and chided, "Glib-tongued and not learning properly."

Lin Mo: "Then should I leave?"

Gu Qinghuan's beautiful eyes glared slightly, "Quibbling? Deliberately making me angry?"

Lin Mo really couldn't hold it in anymore and laughed out loud, which also made Gu Qinghuan feel somewhat dazed for a moment.

"Senior Sister, I might not be a good person, but I never break my promise. Even if I want to leave, it will have to wait until Senior Sister has fully recovered."

"So Senior Sister, please sit by my side, extend your right hand, and let's hold hands."

Gu Qinghuan sat over and extended her hand, "Don't use reduplicated words, it feels very strange..."

"Mmph... Mmph?" Gu Qinghuan squeezed Lin Mo's hand, "Why does today's feeling feel so weak and powerless?"