After rebirth, the eldest sister voluntarily abdicated and gave way to the wise.

She raised her eyes and met a pair of eyes as clear as water.

"Xu Youan..."

"Yeah," he replied softly, his voice hoarse from drowning, but his eyes were fixed on her, "I'm here, Senior Sister."

Somehow, Jiang Liqian suddenly felt her heart tremble.

In panic, she took a step back.

The eyes that were originally as bright as stars suddenly dimmed.

Xu Youan struggled to support his body and tried to sit up, but his whole body seemed shaky, like a fallen leaf with nowhere to rest in the wind.

Poor and weak.

Jiang Liqian's heart ached, and she subconsciously reached out and held his waist firmly.

When she realized what she had done, a bright red flush appeared on her face and she wanted to let him go immediately.

But if we let go at this time, wouldn’t it be even more strange?

What's more, she is just a little girl now, and the other party is just a young boy. Even if it is a mortal realm where men and women are separated by a large barrier, they are not yet of age.

She was just thinking too much. She was almost thirty years old in her two lifetimes combined, so she should just treat it as taking care of a child.

After giving herself some psychological hints, she felt less awkward and moved a little closer to him so that he could lean on her shoulder and rest for a while.

Xu Youan hasn't learned the magic yet, and he almost drowned, so he must have been very frightened. As his senior sister, she should comfort him.

However, she was not the third senior sister and was not good at speaking, so she really didn't know what to say.

"Um...Um, Junior Brother, are you feeling okay now?"

Xu Youan lowered his head, and from Jiang Liqian's point of view, she could only see his slightly trembling eyelashes, clear and cool, as if a ginkgo leaf was gently sweeping across his heart.

"Senior Sister, I'm cold..."

The low and hoarse voice had a barely perceptible tremor, and even Jiang Liqian's hardest heart couldn't help but soften a little.

"Are you cold? Don't be afraid, I'll go find some firewood. You'll be warmer by the fire." Jiang Liqian quickly performed a dust-removing spell on him to dry his clothes.

Then he asked him to sit still and then he stood up to find some dry branches.

Unexpectedly, Xu Youan gently pulled her sleeve. He wanted to speak, but he didn't dare to, so he pursed his pale lips. His beautiful eyes were full of hesitation.

Jiang Liqian looked back at him in confusion.

He obviously didn't pull very tight, but she couldn't break free for a moment.

"Senior Sister," he looked at her, his eyes flickering with restraint, loss, and a hint of pleading, "I'm really cold..."

"Can you, hug me?"

Jiang Liqian was stunned.

But then he thought about how he suddenly fell into the lake and had no spiritual energy to protect him from the cold, so he would feel very cold. If he was not warmed up quickly, he would probably get a serious illness.

Forget it, he's still a child. Hugging him can also transfer some spiritual power to him, at least to warm up his internal organs so that he won't shiver from the cold.

Thinking of this, Jiang Liqian did not hesitate, and quickly walked over to hug him, using the little spiritual power left in her body to drive away the cold for him.

Xu Youan weakly rested his chin on her shoulder, feeling the warmth from her. His extremely cold heart finally found a home and calmed down bit by bit.

No more hesitation, no more fear.

A long time passed, so long that he began to feel delusional, as if another lifetime had passed. Then he spoke softly, "Senior Sister, I'm not cold anymore."

Jiang Liqian let him go, stared at his pale face suspiciously, touched his head, and shook his hand.

Well, no fever.

But his hands were surprisingly cold.

But she saw that he had indeed stopped shaking and her spiritual power was almost exhausted, so she stood up and prepared to go to the nearby woods to find some dry branches to make a fire.

Before leaving, she warned him: "Don't wander around, wait for me to come back."

He nodded slightly.

"I'll wait for you to come back, Senior Sister."

Jiang Liqian felt relieved, summoned the Soul-Suppressing Pearl, held it in her hand, and walked cautiously into the woods ahead.

It was not until he could no longer see her back that Xu Youan's face changed. He covered his chest and spat out a mouthful of blood.

A ball of inky black smoke suddenly flew out from a black ring on his index finger, getting bigger and bigger, and more and more solid. Finally, a woman in black clothes and wearing a black gauze hat walked out of it.

The woman's eyebrows and eyes cannot be seen, and her whole body seems to be immersed in darkness. Even if she walks in front of you, you can hardly feel her presence.

It seemed like there was no breathing, no heartbeat, and no pulse.

It's as if she doesn't exist at all.

Only a piece of colorful jade hung around her waist, adding a touch of brightness.

The spiritual jade exudes a gentle divine light, and an extremely beautiful divine bird is carved on it.

She looked down at Xu Youan's miserable condition, with sarcasm and disdain flashing in her eyes.

"How weak." She sneered contemptuously.

Xu Youan wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, put his hands into the lake water and washed them carefully over and over again, and then used water to wash away the bloodstains on the shore.

Hearing this, he looked calm, without any expression of humiliation.

"No matter how weak I am, you still have to rely on me to survive."

The woman's eyes immediately narrowed dangerously.

But then, she calmed down again and warned him coldly, "If you don't take the medicinal bath before sunset, your shattered meridians will never be repaired. You'd better think carefully and stop wasting your time on a little girl."

"Waste of time?"

Xu Youan laughed softly.

"Everything I do is a waste of time, except her."

The woman frowned slightly, and a hint of contempt flashed in her sharp eyes.

It's ridiculous. He knew that if the spiritual power entered his body, he would be dead, but he actually let the girl's spiritual power wander around in his body. If she hadn't intervened secretly, he would have died immediately.

It's amazing that he could endure such bone-breaking and tendon-tearing pain.

"You'd better remember the agreement between us and don't die easily, so that I don't have to find a new body, which will be very troublesome for me." After saying that, the woman turned into a puff of smoke and returned to the ordinary mysterious ring.

Xu Youan lowered his eyes, letting the cold wind blow through his thin robe. His eyes were hidden under his scattered hair, dim and unclear.

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Jiang Liqian didn't know what kind of monsters would appear in this forest, so she didn't dare to go deep into it. She picked up dead branches on the ground around the forest, filled her arms with a large pile, and put some into her storage bag before turning back.

Because she was afraid that Xu Youan would get anxious, she almost jogged the whole way.

Seeing Xu Youan still sitting by the lake waiting for her from afar, she breathed a sigh of relief and quickened her pace to run over.

"Junior brother, I'm back!" She shouted as she ran to him, put down the dry firewood in her arms, and went over to shake his hands.