An hour later...

An Ling swung her sword in a flower pattern, inserted the Broken Star back into the scabbard, and patted it to improve her favorability. She took two steps forward, pulled up the dusty Shao Shuang'er from the ground, and asked worriedly, "Senior Sister, are you okay?"

"Well, what can happen to me?" Shao Shuang'er said with a forced smile, "It's just that I fell a little hard. It's much better than losing my life in the ring."

Murong Ziqiu took out a bottle of liquid medicine from his storage ring, handed it to Shao Shuang'er, and comforted her: "Don't practice anymore, apply the medicine first, otherwise you will have to lie in the cave all day tomorrow."

After Shao Shuang'er thanked Murong Ziqiu, she looked at An Ling's pure appearance and sighed, "Junior sister is really amazing. I couldn't even touch you. I really practiced for more than ten years in vain."

An Ling was a little embarrassed. She didn't know how to comfort Shao Shuang'er. In the current situation, anything she said would hurt her...

Seeing An Ling's tangled look, Shao Shuang'er burst out laughing. She patted An Ling's arm and comforted her: "I didn't say anything, why are you still tangled here? It's a fact that I'm not as skilled as others. If you deliberately let me win, I won't make any progress."

"Senior Sister... I..." An Ling felt even more guilty after hearing these words. She even began to think that it was her own problem that caused Shao Shuang'er to be like this.

Murong Ziqiu and Wu Baiquan came over and saw An Ling's guilt. Wu Baiquan couldn't help but marvel, "Oh my god, when did our sect have such a pure and kind disciple? If I were you, I would be extremely happy every day and tell everyone I met, 'Look at how great I am.'"

Murong Ziqiu smiled and said, "So this is the difference between you and Junior Sister An. She is not only capable, but also hardworking and humble. Unlike you, you just wander around everywhere every day."

After the two of them relaxed their relationship, the atmosphere became harmonious, and they decided to practice again tomorrow.

"Oh, by the way," Wu Baiquan suddenly said, "When I passed by the main hall this morning, Lao Wu asked me if I had any news about the man with double pupils."

When talking about this mutual friend who had disappeared for a long time, everyone felt sad.

"Xiulin, he left the sect without even saying hello," Murong Ziqiu shook his head. He looked at Shao Shuang'er and explained to her about Lu Xiulin's situation. "Shuang'er, you had already gone home at that time, so you didn't know that Xiulin also left the sect not long after you left."

"What!" Shao Shuang'er couldn't sit still anymore. Her face turned pale and she looked nervous. "Where did he go? Will he come back?"

Murong Ziqiu shook his head, "I don't know. He even threw away the communication charm that each of us had."

Wu Baiquan was depressed. "Maybe he never considered us as friends."

An Ling knew that Shao Shuang'er liked Lu Xiulin, so she stepped forward and held Shao Shuang'er's hand. "Senior Brother Lu is a lucky man. As long as he is safe and sound, that's all that matters."

"He...his soul was once pulled into the world of fragments! His condition is very dangerous, he should stay in the sect to recuperate, why did he leave?" Shao Shuang'er murmured.

"Sister, how did you know? There are also fragments? Didn't Senior Brother Lu lose his soul in the Sword Pavilion?" When An Ling heard about the "fragments", her ears perked up and she couldn't wait to ask.

Shao Shuang'er explained: "This is what Grandmaster Black Mist specifically told me before. It also told me to pay more attention to him. He...has a special physique. Try not to let him come into contact with anything related to those things again."

Thinking of Master Black Mist, everyone's eyes became red at the same time. Master, you really worry about your disciples, but it's a pity that in this world, good people don't get rewarded.

An Ling wiped the tears from her eyes and asked, "Besides these, does Master have any more information about the fragments?"

"How is that possible? It just said a few words to me and then went to find you." Shao Shuang'er shook her head.

As the eldest brother of the group, Murong Ziqiu could not hide Shao Shuang'er's thoughts from his eyes. He patted Shao Shuang'er and said, "I was there at the time, but the master only told you this. I guess he had some considerations."

After that, he turned to look at An Ling, "Junior sister, why are you so obsessed with things related to the fragments? It's not a good sign to be associated with those things."

"Brother, you also know that I have some connection with the Heavenly Dao," An Ling stroked the raised patterns on the scabbard of the Broken Star Sword and said lightly, "Some things cannot be solved by escaping. Instead of sitting and waiting for death, it is better to seize the initiative."

Murong Ziqiu looked at An Ling's changeable expression and suddenly felt as if he had never really known this new junior sister.

"Then, where did Xiulin go..." Shao Shuang'er whispered, "He went? He has lived with us since he was a child, practicing together with us. We have almost never been apart. Where else could he go?"

An Ling thought of Lu Xiulin's cave and guessed, "Could he have gone to the Great Xuan Imperial Capital? Isn't his cave a replica of the entire imperial capital?"

"That's impossible..." Wu Baiquan, who was most familiar with Lu Xiulin, blurted out, "Doesn't he hate the imperial capital the most?"

"Oh?" Everyone became interested and asked Wu Baiquan to speak.

Murong Ziqiu didn't expect that there were things he didn't know, so he teased, "Why did he only tell you? Is there something we can't hear?"

"That's true." Unexpectedly, Wu Baiquan nodded in response, "If he hadn't run back to the capital by himself, I would never have told him in my life."

"That time, I wanted to play a trick on him and put a love letter in his futon to... ahem," Wu Baiquan glanced at Shao Shuang'er imperceptibly and continued to narrate calmly, "But what I didn't expect was that I found a map of the imperial capital in his seat. It was covered with dense red crosses and filth. It was scary to look at."

"Just when I was studying the map, for some reason, he suddenly appeared behind me. He was scarier than a real ghost."

"I've known him for so long, and I've never seen him angry, but I saw it that day. He snatched the map back and stared at me viciously, as if he wanted to eat me alive."

"I was so scared at the time that I immediately apologized to him, but I didn't expect that he would tell me his story before he came to the Sword Sect."

"He said that the map was for revenge. One day, he would return to the imperial capital and use the blood of his enemies to pay tribute to his dead relatives."

Wu Baiquan said this with a slightly depressed tone, "Do you think he will suddenly become depressed and return to the imperial capital for revenge? He is alone, how can he defeat the imperial capital's thousands of troops?"

Everyone looked at each other and lowered their heads in silence, not knowing what they were thinking.

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