Senior brothers, please stop abusing me. I'm going to change my ways to be merciless.

At this moment, Gu Xingyuan suddenly had an idea and his eyes lit up.

He picked up the clay figurine on the ground and said to Shen Rong, "Third Junior Brother, let's go and persuade Xiao Qi to come back first, and then take this clay figurine to beg Master. Master might relent when he thinks of the past!"

Shen Rong shook his head calmly.

"Second Brother, have you forgotten?" Shen Rong smiled bitterly, "Fan Li is no longer the Fan Li of the past. She has cultivated the Way of Mercy."

Just the first step of persuading Fan Li to come back is as difficult as climbing to the sky.

Gu Xingyuan said stubbornly: "So what? How can we know if we don't try?!"

Shen Rong looked at him quietly, "Second Brother, now that things have come to this, let's just forget it."

Gu Xingyuan said angrily, "How can we just let it go? I don't agree! Xiao Qi must come back and be with us!"

"I know you never like her. Fine, if you don't go, I'll go by myself!"

Shen Rong hesitated to speak.

Gu Xingyuan walked outside angrily.

Unexpectedly, Shen Rong suddenly yelled and called him.

"Second Brother, don't you understand yet?!"

Gu Xingyuan stopped but did not look back. His fists were clenched, and his back showed stubbornness and desolation.

Only Shen Rong's voice came from behind, and his words seemed to be trying hard to restrain something, with a hint of instability.

"Fan Li did this on purpose! This was all her plan from the beginning to the end!"

Gu Xingyuan turned around in shock and said in astonishment, "Plan? What do you mean?"

Shen Rong's eyes were rarely red, and Gu Xingyuan was slightly startled when he saw his eyes.

Shen Rong turned his head to the side, his jaw tense. The moment he closed his eyes, his expression returned to his usual cold and harsh tone.

"Fan Li wanted to leave Xuanji Peak, so she deliberately pushed Junior Sister into the water and brought the matter to Master... We all fell for her trick."

Gu Xingyuan murmured in disbelief: "How is it possible..."

Shen Rong walked forward and looked him straight in the eyes, "Didn't you notice that Fan Li was very abnormal yesterday?"

Gu Xingyuan followed his words and thought carefully.

Yes, Fan Li is very abnormal.

She took the initiative to admit last night that she pushed her junior sister into the water, as if she was afraid that she would not be able to report it to her master.

But now he ran away without taking anything, so impatient and without any reluctance to leave.

Did she really want to get rid of them?

Gu Xingyuan felt a pain in his heart.

"Second Brother, don't try to persuade her. It's useless. This is what she wants. She won't come back."

Shen Rong didn't want to be too direct, but he really couldn't stand Gu Xingyuan's self-deceiving look.

Even though the real answer was right in front of him, Gu Xingyuan still couldn't believe that Fan Li did it on purpose.

"I don't believe it. I just want to hear her admit it herself!"

Gu Xingyuan held the clay figure and rushed down the mountain like a gust of wind.

Shen Rong stood motionless in front of Fan Li's cave for a long time, looking decadent and confused.

On the other side, Gu Xingyuan searched almost the entire Tianji Sect but could not find Fan Li.

He searched until night, when he accidentally heard a disciple named Wang Xin say that Fan Li had been to Lingxiao Peak.

He then rushed to Lingxiao Peak and learned the whereabouts of Fan Li from Zhou Ming.

But it's not good news.

It turned out that after Fan Li was expelled from Xuanji Peak, he did not go to Wangyue Peak where the inner disciples gathered.

She left in a hurry without even finding a place to live, and her whereabouts are unknown.

Fan Li has no master now, so naturally he doesn't have to report to his master wherever he goes.

She was free and could leave by just saying goodbye to the inner sect elders. As long as she didn't tell anyone, no one would know her whereabouts.

Fan Li said goodbye to Zhou Ming before leaving, but Zhou Ming didn't know where she went.

Fan Li only said that she would be back before the Ten Thousand Immortals Conference.

When Zhou Ming learned that she was expelled from Xuanji Peak, he congratulated her.

Fan Li was very happy and not sad at all.

Zhou Ming didn't ask her how she did it, he couldn't wait to invite her to Lingxiao Peak.

Xiaoyao Sanren also came forward and said that he could take her in. Fan Li thanked them for their kindness, declined politely, and then flew down the mountain on her sword without looking back.

Zhou Ming felt very sorry that he couldn't let Fan Li stay in Lingxiao Peak.

He really admires Fan Li.

He thought that Fan Li, having learned Xiaoyao Sanren's shapeshifting technique, would be willing to stay at Lingxiao Peak and be their junior sister.

Those guys in Xuanji Peak who don’t know how to appreciate what they have are really enviable.

Therefore, when he saw Gu Xingyuan, Zhou Ming did not give him a good look.

"Why did she say goodbye to you before she left, but not to us?!" Gu Xingyuan looked unhappy.

When did Xiaoqi become so close to the people at Lingxiao Peak?

Gu Xingyuan did not go for training last time and did not know that Fan Li was friends with Zhou Ming and others in Lingyu Secret Realm.

Zhou Ming took a leisurely sip of tea and said slowly, "She's no longer from Xuanji Peak. Why does she have to report to you guys wherever she goes?"

"In other words, it's her freedom to go wherever she wants, and it's her right to say goodbye to whomever she wants. You have no right to interfere."

Zhou Ming's tone was light, but it made Gu Xingyuan feel suffocated.

Gu Xingyuan was speechless, his face was blue and purple, and he felt extremely uneasy standing in front of the two men.

He didn't even know when Xiaoqi made a new friend. Was it really because he didn't care enough about Xiaoqi?

Wang Fa sat beside Zhou Ming, blew on the tea leaves in his cup, and said quietly, "Come to think of it, Junior Sister Fan brought us quite a few gifts when she returned from abroad this time. Senior Brother Gu, do you have any?"

Fan Li actually brought them gifts? !

Gu Xingyuan was mad with jealousy, but he still forced himself to keep a straight face and said calmly, "Of course!"

Actually not at all.

If it were in the past, Gu Xingyuan would have thought that Fan Li had forgotten, but the situation is different now. He knows himself well, and Fan Li probably hasn't even thought about it.

Wang Fa seemed not to notice Gu Xingyuan's bloodshot pupils. He deliberately placed the gift on the stone table and said:

"Mysterious crystals, Qingling grass, spiritual sandalwood... they're all good things. Junior Sister Fan is so generous. I'm sure the gift she gave you, Senior Brother Gu, must be even better than these."

"It's a pity that Wushuang is still in seclusion. I don't know what gifts she prepared for Wushuang. It's not easy for us to open them and take a look. Sigh."

Zhou Ming naturally saw that Wang Fa was deliberately provoking him, so he also cooperated: "Wushuang and Junior Sister Fan are very close, so the gift she gave must be good."

Gu Xingyuan stared at the things on the stone table, his eyes filled with devastation, and he pulled the corners of his mouth with difficulty.

Before that, he will also have a share of these gifts!

Fan Li is going too far. He actually gave such a good thing to an outsider!

Gu Xingyuan originally thought that Fan Li had a very bad reputation in the Tianji Sect and would not have any friends if he left them.

Before this, when he couldn't find Fan Li, he even imagined her huddled alone in a corner, looking pitiful.

But in fact, he was wrong again, and the slap in the face came unexpectedly.

At this moment, Gu Xingyuan finally realized an extremely cruel reality: they were no longer the only ones in Fan Li's world.

She has her own friends too.

This should be something to be happy and relieved about.

However, the price of this is that Xiao Qi is getting further and further away from them...

Seeing Wang Fa openly showing off how close Fan Li was to them, Gu Xingyuan's heart was bleeding.

He couldn't stay there any longer, so he found an excuse and fled.

Zhou Ming snorted coldly and didn't want to say a word.

Wang Fa also restrained his cynical smile and said sarcastically, "There will be a time when you will regret it so much that you will vomit blood."

Late at night, Gu Xingyuan returned to Fan Li's cave in a depressed mood. As soon as he entered the door, he was overwhelmed by the smell of alcohol.

Gu Xingyuan was slightly startled, thinking that it was Fan Li who came back.

He cried with joy and blurted out "Xiao Qi".

However, before he could finish his words, he discovered that the person in the room was not Fan Li, but Shen Rong.

Why is Third Junior Brother here? Hasn't he left yet?

Shen Rong was leaning over the desk. When he heard the noise, he raised his head in a daze and squinted his eyes to look.

Then he laughed foolishly.

"Xiao Qi, you're back."

Gu Xingyuan's heart sank to the bottom, and then a wave of resentment rushed to his head.

If he remembered correctly, this was the first time Shen Rong called him "Xiao Qi".

Gu Xingyuan strode forward, grabbed Shen Rong by the collar, and roared, "Xiao Qi is gone, what's the point of you shouting now?!"