Stars fall and locust trees grow

After seeing Bai Xin disappear into the barrier, Li Chi and the other two reluctantly turned around and left.

On the way back to the outer courtyard, I happened to pass by the martial arts field.

Hu Weiyu went to practice sword very consciously, saying that he did not want to disappoint Senior Brother Bai's expectations.

He entered the sect two years later than Li Chi, and he has a middle-grade spiritual root. Now he is only at the third level of the mortal realm. If he wants to enter the inner sect as soon as possible, he really needs to study hard.

However, Li Chi had no desire to practice today, so he gave Hu Weiyu some instructions and went to the secret base under the Weihua Peak with Qi Luoxing - the corpse lying under the big locust tree.

"I never thought that there is a barrier set up in our inner courtyard?!" Li Chi held a locust flower in his mouth, crossed his legs, and looked thoughtful.

It has been seven years since I entered Juyun Sect. During this period, I saw people from several nearby courtyards entering the inner courtyard one after another, but I never saw anyone from the inner courtyard come to the outer courtyard.

Most importantly, as a member of the Li family's side branch, he had never met the proper elders of the sect. When he first entered the sect, he only asked a gatekeeper disciple to pass on the letter that his mother left before her death.

Doesn't the Li family need him to recognize his ancestors? !

After frowning and thinking for a moment, Li Chi still couldn't figure it out.

He put down his crossed legs, sat up straight, tilted his head and looked at Qi Luoxing beside him and said, "Axing, don't you think this inner courtyard is a little mysterious?"

"I don't know if it's mysterious or not, but cousin..." Qi Luoxing closed his eyes, stretched out his ears and began to listen around. "Don't you think there seems to be some strange noises around here?"

"Ah ha?!" Li Chi also pricked up his ears when he heard that.

The breeze blew slowly across the valley, caressing every leaf of the old locust tree and every flower that exuded a faint fragrance, making a rustling sound.

However, if you listen carefully, you can smell an almost inaudible sob amid the rustling sound.

Li Chi turned his head and quickly identified the source of the sound.

He coughed lightly, then stretched out his finger and pointed at the tree.

Qi Luoxing understood.

The two of them understood each other tacitly and jumped up the tree one after the other.

I saw a trembling little boy curled up on a huge branch at the top of the locust tree.

He buried his face in his knees, and his arms wrapped around his knees were covered with purple scars, some new and some old, which looked shocking.

Li Chi couldn't help but reach out to touch it.

The young man shrank back, then slowly raised his head, revealing a pair of red and swollen eyes from crying.

"He looks... so weak, so small, so short, and so ugly..." Li Chi complained in his heart.

He knew what he should say to comfort the little crybaby in front of him, but this was not his area of ​​expertise.

After racking his brains for a while, he finally reached out and touched the other person's messy head. "What's wrong?! You're crying like a little girl! Are you being bullied?!"

“Little girl…?!”

Are you so comforting? !

Qi Luoxing, who was standing by, rolled his eyes helplessly when he heard this, "Cousin, if you say that, it will only make him want to cry even more!"

Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, the other party started crying even harder, with snot and tears flowing like crazy.

“Waaaaa… stop crying!” Li Chi was immediately flustered. “When you cry like this, you really look like a little girl!”

Qi Luoxing: “…”

Cousin, you really have a good mouth.

The young man cried for nearly a quarter of an hour in Li Chi's arms, and then slowly fell asleep.

Li Chi and the others were worried about leaving him alone, so they carefully took him down from the tree and carried him all the way back to the dormitory.

The other person was thin and small, and it was very easy to carry him on my back.

When he put him on his couch, Li Chi accidentally discovered that there was blood on the boy's back.

Their uniforms for the outer courtyard were pure black, so even if they were stained with blood, it was basically invisible. Moreover, when I was on the tree just now, I only noticed the other person's arms and didn't notice the wound on his back at all.

"The clothes were not damaged. It looked like he had deliberately taken off his shirt and then cut it with a sword."

Qi Luoxing carefully pulled open the boy's shirt, "Fortunately, the clothes are not stuck to the wound."

Li Chi took out his ointment, found a piece of clean cloth, wet it, and began to clean the boy's wound.

"Damn it! Who on earth is so vicious that he would kill such a young child?!"

As he applied the medicine, he cursed angrily under his breath.

"They shouldn't be from the outer courtyard, right?!" Qi Luoxing thought for a moment and said, "Our outer courtyard has always been very harmonious over the years. I have never heard of any disciple daring to bully a fellow disciple."

"As for the stewards, they only put me in solitary confinement."

"It can't be that the people from the inner courtyard came out to bully him, right?!" Li Chi immediately retorted.

"That's not impossible." Qi Luoxing said, "We'll ask him when he wakes up. If it was someone from our outer courtyard who did it, we'll put a sack on him and beat him up!"

"What if someone from the inner courtyard did it?"

"Then wait until we enter the inner courtyard and then beat him up!"

Li Chi grinned: "Agree!"

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The other disciples in the dormitory had all gone out to practice. At this moment, there were only three of them in the room, and it was very quiet.

Li Chi and Qi Luoxing stayed beside the young man, gossiping in low voices about his age, identity, time of joining the sect and the courtyard he lived in, to pass the time.

However, just half an hour later, the boy who was originally sleeping suddenly began to talk in a daze, and his body became extremely hot. Li Chi touched his red face, and then touched his own forehead, "Ah Xing! Something seems to be wrong with this skinny boy! His body is so hot that he can bake pancakes!"

"It should be caused by the wound on the back." Qi Luoxing wet a piece of cloth with water, wrung it dry and placed it on the boy's forehead.

"We need to find some pills for him to take, and then use spiritual energy to catalyze it. This way he will get better faster and suffer less pain."

Li Chi nodded. "Then you stay here for now. I'll go get some pills from the old man with the goatee. He happens to be on duty at the outer courtyard today!"

Manager Wei, who has a goatee, still has the same stern expression as he has for thousands of years.

However, although he looked stern on the surface, he was actually quite attentive to the disciples in the outer courtyard. After hearing what Li Chi had said about the young man, he immediately and generously threw him a small bottle of pills.

"Take two pills three times a day. Generally, the fever will subside after three days, and you can stop taking the medicine then."

Li Chi immediately began to express his gratitude after receiving the medicine, and before leaving, he did not forget to compliment him, "Thank you, Manager Wei! Among all the old men in our outer courtyard, your goatee is the most elegant!"

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