Peking Opera Cat: I Became A Zi's Brother

"Look, you're panicking again."

"Bai Tang" caught his momentary distraction and suddenly stepped back. The chaotic energy condensed into a blue-gray shadow behind him.

"I don't even need to touch your two sisters. I can make you feel uneasy just by walking around you. For example, now——"

He suddenly pointed in the direction of the courtyard, and chaotic energy flowed out of the wall along his fingertips:

"I'll let a wisp of Chaos Qi stay nearby, doing nothing but watching. Do you want to fly back right now to take a look? But if you leave, what will happen to Xiaoqing? Leaving her alone in this shabby house, what if I've hidden other Chaos Qi—"

"you shut up!"

Mo Yun's ice silk suddenly formed a dense net, covering it with a devastating momentum, but was easily avoided by "Bai Tang".

A blue-gray figure flashed in the corridor, like an elusive shadow, while laughter echoed from all directions:

"Go after it! If you chase it out now, I'll take you to the icy lake to have a look. If you don't, you'll just have to stand here and guess—guess whether that wisp of chaotic energy has penetrated the ice cracks, whether Mo Zi has started coughing, and whether there's anything I left behind in the ice chips at Xiao Qing's feet."

Xiaoqing felt nervous after hearing this behind the ice wall. She was about to shout

"Don't believe him,"

Then she saw "White Sugar" suddenly waved his hand in her direction - a blue-gray ice particle flew past the ice wall, hit the distant column, and shattered into invisible powder.

"did you see it?"

"Sugar" shouted loudly,

"I want to throw something in there, but your ice wall can't stop it. Just now it was ice particles, next time it might be needles condensed from chaotic energy—Mo Yun, do you dare to bet? Bet that I will really miss next time?"

Mo Yun's ice shield suddenly vibrated violently, and a hint of instability appeared in the ice-blue rhyme power.

He knew it was a trick of the other party, but he was caught in the question of "Will I fail next time?" - he couldn't afford to gamble.

He couldn't afford to gamble with Xiaoqing and Mo Zi, even if there was a one in ten thousand risk.

Bai Tang looked at his tense back, his shoulders shaking with laughter. Chaos energy condensed into a swirling vortex around him, as if showing off his victory.

"I really don't have much Chaos Energy with me today. I can't kill anyone, nor can I break your ice shield. But I want you to remember one thing—"

He retreated to the corner of the corridor, his grayish-blue figure gradually melting into the shadows. Only his voice drifted towards him, carrying a sticky, chaotic aura, like a snake coiling around one's ear:

"As long as I want, I can make you stand still at any time. The more tightly you protect me, the more I know where to poke. The next time I come, maybe I will bring a gift, such as Mo Zi's favorite orchid, frozen with chaotic energy."

"you dare!"

Mo Yun's ice silk instantly pierced the corner, but only nailed to the empty wall, freezing a deep ice hole.

The voice behind the corner has faded away, but it carries a lingering chill:

"Just wait and see, Mo Yun—when you feel your life is stable, when Mo Zi's cough subsides, when Xiao Qing dares to run around in the yard, I will call you. Then you will have another choice: will you stay with the people around you, or return to the sect to save that nearly frozen Genji?"

When the last wisp of chaotic energy dissipated, ice chips were still falling in the corridor.

Mo Yun stood still, the ice shield slowly dissipated, revealing the newly formed white frost on his temples - the confrontation just now was more mentally exhausting than a head-on fight, and the coldness of his body began to surge up along with Yun's breath.

"elder brother?"

Xiaoqing called softly from behind the ice wall, afraid of disturbing him.

Mo Yun turned around after a long while. There was still a chill in his icy blue eyes, but they softened a little the moment he saw Xiao Qing.

He walked over and untied the ice wall. The moment his fingertips touched the ice wall, the ice surface suddenly cracked with fine lines - those were the traces left by the unstable rhythm when his emotions fluctuated just now.

"he's gone."

Mo Yun's voice was a little hoarse. She reached out to help Xiao Qing, but first rubbed her palms together, as if trying to get rid of the lingering chaotic energy.

"Let's go back to the house first. I'll ask the maid to add two more stoves."

Xiaoqing looked at the ice patterns on his fingertips and suddenly grabbed his hand - his hand was colder than before, with fine ice even between his fingers.

She didn't mention the threat of "white sugar", but just put the hand warmer in her arms into his palm:

"After we return, we will first replace the best silver charcoal for my sister's heater, and then have other disciples guard it over there."

Mo Yun held the heater, but the icy feeling on her fingertips did not dissipate.

He knew the purpose of "White Sugar" - it was not to hurt people, but to plant a thorn in his heart, so that every time he heard the sound of ice cracking or smelled the cold, he would remember today's confrontation and the words "Do you dare to bet?"

"boom!"

The sound of falling ice spikes in the distance came again, and this time it sounded particularly clear.

Mo Yun looked down at Xiao Qing's red, frozen fingertips and suddenly tightened his grip on the heater.

"Well, let's go back and make arrangements."

But when he turned around, he couldn't help but glance in the direction of Shenzong - was it really the case that a bluish-gray fog was floating there at this moment, just as "Bai Tang" said?

As soon as this thought came to his mind, he forced it down, but the chill left by the chaotic energy seemed to have penetrated into the bones and could not be warmed no matter what he did.