The years I was in the human world

"Master? Master!" Wei Ruge's slightly flustered voice sounded.

When Baili Changqing was demonstrating sword moves to Kong Que, his meridians suddenly went backwards and the spiritual energy condensed in his fingertips suddenly dissipated. He used the tip of his sword to stick to the ground and tried to barely maintain his body shape, but he could not hold on and fell to one knee. He covered his chest with his hand and spat out a mouthful of blood with internal organs.

Wei Ruge's pupils shrank suddenly, and he hurried forward to support Baili Changqing. He was about to ask someone to ask a doctor to treat him, but at the critical moment, Baili Changqing grabbed his sleeve, raised his head, and shook his head with pale lips, saying, "Don't say anything."

"Master!" Wei Ruge's eyes immediately turned red. He was so worried that he forgot about the hierarchy. "You are so injured, why don't you call a doctor to see you?"

"Don't say too much. I know my own injuries." Baili Changqing did not explain. He stood up with the help of Wei Ruge and said worriedly, "I will be in seclusion again. You will be in charge of the affairs of the peak. And your nephew will also need your hard work to teach him. Do you understand?"

"I will definitely live up to Master's trust." Wei Ruge always listened to Baili Changqing's words. Now that he was entrusted with an important task, he naturally responded to everything. He nodded heavily, but hesitated and said, "Master is seriously injured. Do you want me to find my second senior brother to come back and protect you?"

Baili Changqing refused. Seeing Wei Ruge was puzzled, he reluctantly explained, "After all, she is not your senior sister." So you can't force her.

Wei Ruge was a shallow-minded person, but he understood this principle. It was just that Lu Zhouxue couldn't come back to protect the Dharma, and Baili Changqing's situation was so bad, so he acted like a villain who went back on his word: "Master is seriously injured, how can there be no one to protect the Dharma? Since Senior Brother is not coming, why don't I protect the Dharma for you!"

"Nonsense." Baili Changqing scolded him weakly, "You come to protect the law for me, who will take care of the affairs in the peak?"

"Master was in seclusion before, and no one was taking care of him, but he was fine, wasn't he?" Wei Ruge's stubborn temper came up, and he was determined to protect Baili Changqing, but when he saw his master's cold and arrogant attitude, he softened his tone and played the emotional card, "Master is here, Wuxiang Peak is here. If Master is not well, I will be alone guarding such a big Wuxiang Peak. Master, please love me."

As Wei Ruge spoke, his eyes became red as if he was about to cry. Baili Changqing, who had been repeatedly humiliated by Lu Zhouxue, could not help but soften his heart when faced with such a well-behaved, sensible and dependent little disciple, and finally compromised and said, "Then you come."

Wei Ruge supported Baili Changqing into the secret room for emergency retreat. He had no time to take care of any trivial matters in the peak, including the peacock.

The girl silently watched the master and disciple supporting each other into the secret room. They never remembered her existence from beginning to end. A bitter smile that was inconsistent with her age appeared on Peacock's childish face. She silently raised her head to hold back the tears in her eyes, but she didn't expect that the setting sun in the sky dyed the clouds red, as red as her mother's skirt. She didn't know if it was due to the stimulation of the light or some other reason, a crystal tear fell to the ground, leaving a dark pit.

She was forgotten and ignored once again. Kong Que returned to the Phoenix Terrace in a state of despair. The main hall door was heavily closed, and no light could get in. She curled herself up on the floor, and as she walked back, the tears that she had suppressed for a long time finally rolled down. The girl buried her face in her knees and sobbed, shaking with tears. She missed her mother, the mother who still loved her even when she was dying.

No one loves her except her mother. Her father never cares about her; her brother has little affection for her and is distant and cautious when they get along with each other; Xiao Fengzhuo and Xiao Fengzhuo are very nice to her, but they are strangers after all; as for Lu Zhouxue... Kong Que has complicated feelings towards him.

As a stranger to her, he undoubtedly treated her the best. But because of this, Kong Que felt so hurt when she heard him say to Baili Changqing: "Kong Qingzuo is just Yu Zhao's daughter. In the final analysis, she has nothing to do with me. If you don't care, just let her fend for herself. Why should I worry about it?" She originally liked Lu Zhouxue the most...

Peacock was tired of crying, and sat on the edge of the bed with her legs hugged, in a daze. The door of the main hall was suddenly pushed open, and a big furry cat came in through the gap. She raised her tearful face and looked at the cat who was also looking at her stupidly. The big cat snorted softly and spit a candied haws covered with its saliva in front of Peacock. She looked down blankly. The candied haws was bought for her by Lu Zhouxue on purpose in the human world. She and the big cat both had a share.

Yes, even if Lu Zhouxue said she didn't want her, even if he wasn't her biological mother, he still cared about her. Peacock wiped the tears from his face, hugged the big cat's head, and said to himself: "Ah Cat, are you worried about me?"

The big cat couldn't speak, but its amber eyes looked at the peacock with concern. It was indeed worried. The peacock, who understood this, burst into laughter. She rubbed the big cat's head and said with a choked voice, "I'm fine, you don't have to worry about me."

The big cat meowed softly, and Peacock was startled. She seemed to understand what it meant, and said hesitantly: "You want me to go out and find my brother? When did he go out?"

The big cat stopped meowing. It opened its mouth, bit the corner of the peacock's clothes and dragged the person out.

"Ah cat, be good, don't drag me, I'll go out with you." Peacock rescued her clothes while soothing the somewhat irritable cat. Thinking of what Yaoguang said to her that day, Peacock gritted her teeth and finally made up her mind, "Ah cat, let's go tell Brother Lu that someone wants to harm him!"

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Lu Zhouxue was fully awake at dawn. By then, Xiao Fengzhuo had already left, leaving behind a formation and a set of change of clothes around him. He stood up from the hot pool dripping wet. His clothes were already thin, and the white clothes that had been soaked in water made him look even more revealing. His jade-like chest, slender waist, long thighs, and slightly perky buttocks were all clearly visible, like a beauty emerging from the bath.

A cloak with a mixture of dew and pine wood scent suddenly fell over my head, and a familiar young man's voice jokingly sounded behind me: "Hurry up and put on your clothes. The demon tribe has always been indifferent to meat and vegetables. Not everyone can remain calm like someone else."

Lu Zhouxue took off the cloak covering his face, and saw a young man in red standing with his back to him: "Put it on and I'll come back."

Although Lu Zhouxue was very curious about the other party's identity, since he was able to wake up in the hot pool after his old illness, it proved that the other party was not a bad guy who took advantage of the situation. Lu Zhouxue changed his clothes silently. Although he was not used to being naked in front of outsiders, he was not a young girl after all, and it would not hurt to look at him twice. The other party really didn't need to do this.

"I'm fine." Lu Zhouxue tied up her clothes and folded the cape that the boy had just thrown to her. She was going to give it back, but the boy refused: "Take it. It wasn't originally mine. It was left to you by Xiao."

"Wei Ruge?!" Lu Zhouxue saw the boy's face was a little surprised. He didn't expect him to be here, so he didn't listen to the second half of his words. So he asked, "Why are you here?"

The young man raised his eyebrows, but also accepted Lu Zhouxue's address to him. As revenge for Xiao Fengzhuo's deliberate concealment of the truth from him, he also mercilessly revealed the other party's past: "Xiao asked me to watch you."

"The surname Xiao, do you mean Xiao Fengzhuo?" Lu Zhouxue hesitated. Although he was a little confused as to when Xiao Fengzhuo became so familiar with Wei Ruge, it made sense for him to ask Wei Ruge to take care of him. So he didn't think much about it and asked, "He came here, why did he leave?"

"Who knows?" The young man lazily leaned against the old tree next to him, and calmly arranged Xiao Fengzhuo's affairs. "Maybe there are some beautiful women waiting to be favored when he returns."

Lu Zhouxue felt that something was wrong. Given Wei Ruge's stubborn personality, could he really be so eloquent? But he was not familiar with Wei Ruge after all, so this thought just flashed through his mind and he did not take it too seriously.

"I'm just kidding." Seeing Lu Zhouxue's helpless expression, Wei Ruge stood up and put the heavy sword on his back. "He hasn't finished dealing with the trivial matters in the demon tribe yet, so he can't get away for the time being. I'll take care of you during this period. When he's done, he'll come back to find you."

"I'm not a three-year-old child. Why do I need to be looked after?" When Lu Zhouxue learned that it was Xiao Fengzhuo who asked Wei Ruge to look after him, he felt a little touched, but then he felt helpless. Xiao Fengzhuo and Wei Ruge, these two people together are not as good as him, and he doesn't know who will take care of whom.

"Do you need to talk about it?" the boy said, "I have already promised someone, so I must keep my promise. Before he comes back, I will go wherever you go."

Hearing this, Lu Zhouxue naturally had no choice but to let the young man follow him. He originally wanted to return to Zhongting first, after all, he couldn't abandon Peacock. It was easy to get into the Southern Wilderness, but when it came time to return, it was impossible to leave the Southern Wilderness.

"Further south is the Cangwu Plain, where the gods are said to be buried. Ghosts and spirits are forbidden to travel, and most of the magic of traveling is restricted here." Lu Zhouxue wanted to try again, but Wei Ruge explained the reason directly, "Nothing will happen anyway, just travel slowly."

Lu Zhouxue thought about it and realized that this was the truth, so he suppressed his thoughts and just walked slowly on the snow without leaving any footprints.

"It's getting late, do you want to rest?" As they couldn't use the Thousand Miles River and Mountain, nor could they fly the sword, the two of them were not traveling very fast. Before they knew it, the sun was setting. Wei Ruge looked at the gradually setting sun and pointed to an inn at the foot of the mountain. "There is no village in front and no shop behind. If you want to rest, if you miss this place, you will have to sleep in the wilderness."

"Take a rest." Lu Zhouxue made the decision without thinking too much. It was okay for him, but Wei Ruge was just a child who was not even twenty years old. In terms of seniority, he was still his junior. He was not poor, so why should he let the child follow him and suffer in the open air?

The mountain inn with a plaque that reads "Yi Chen" is crowded. At the back of the first floor of the inn is a stage, where the storyteller claps a wooden stick and talks nonstop, "In this vast world, there are countless famous monks, and there are countless fights between sects, but there are only two or three who are well-known. The one I'm talking about today is the Phoenix of Zhongting, the former Zhaoyang Sword Yuzhao, and now the Phoenix Lord Lu Zhouxue."

Someone in the audience could no longer sit still and shouted, "You old fool, you've told the same story about that bastard Phoenix three hundred times. What's the point? Can't you tell something new?" The man spoke in a rough voice and looked ferocious.

The storyteller was not afraid at all, still smiling, and said leisurely: "The current Phoenix Lord Lu Zhouxue is different from Yu Zhao. You have never seen him. The Snow Phoenix has a man's body, but a face like a lotus. His figure is even more graceful, even better than Zhu Huang back then."

The storyteller told the story vividly and seriously, as if he had seen it with his own eyes. For a moment, if Lu Zhouxue had not been the person involved, he would have been curious about the demeanor of Lord Phoenix.

Everyone in the room was even more interested after hearing this. The big man spoke again, but he was a little unconvinced: "Is it really that mysterious?"

The storyteller smiled and shook his head, neither saying yes nor no. He just clapped the wooden stick in his hand and slowly told the story: "Lu Zhouxue is the Red Phoenix Nirvana, with a figure of ice and snow. The Supreme Elder of the Zhongting Court was so impressed by him that he went to Dongshan in person to investigate the old case and clear his name despite his old injuries."

"Even our demon clan's Commander Xiao, who is such a romantic and unrestrained person, was also fascinated by the beauty of the Snow Phoenix and was willing to stay in the court for three months for her. That would have been fine, but the Demon King recalled her and she missed her every day and suffered from a long-term heart disease. Doesn't this prove that the Snow Phoenix's beauty is peerless?"

The storyteller told the story vividly, and Lu Zhouxue choked on the tea in his throat. Wei Ruge looked him up and down seriously, and even nodded in agreement: "This is true. Xiao is indeed confused."

"Stop joking." Lu Zhouxue was used to scolding Xiao Fengzhuo. Now that there was someone else in front of him, he still said it out of habit.

"Don't believe it?" Wei Ruge raised an eyebrow. He was not like Xiao Fengzhuo who was always so unruly. He played with the empty teacup in his hand and said with a half-smile, "You can ask him yourself in the future. But Xiao probably doesn't tell the truth. You have to listen to him the other way around."

Lu Zhouxue: “?” What a mess.

"Forget it." Seeing Lu Zhouxue's confused face, Wei Ruge did not explain any more. He smiled and simply changed the subject. He put the teacup in his hand straight and said meaningfully, "This demon tribe is not a big place, but there are many things to do."

"What?" Lu Zhouxue was a little flustered by Wei Ruge's words just now, and for a moment she could not keep up with his jumping thoughts.

"Lu Zhouxue, don't you notice that everyone in this inn is staring at you and me?" Wei Ruge slammed the teacup in his hand, making a crisp sound. He did not lower his voice deliberately, but the inn was noisy. Logically, no one except Lu Zhouxue could hear him clearly. Unexpectedly, the moment his voice fell, the whole inn fell silent, as silent as death.