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

Jiang Liqian was surprised and happy, her eyes immediately lit up and she turned around to look.

Xu Youan was looking at her with a pair of pure eyes.

Although his face was pale, he looked lively.

"Junior brother, are you awake?!"

Xu Youan nodded gently, then lowered her eyes and apologized apologetically: "I'm sorry, Senior Sister, if it weren't for me, you wouldn't have come..."

Jiang Liqian shook her head, squatted down and wiped the dust off his face.

"I don't blame you. I know you're a very good person." After a pause, she asked tentatively, "Can you tell me...why did you come here? Did something happen?"

Xu Youan grabbed her sleeve and tightened it, then looked up at her: "Senior Sister, if I tell you that I can't say it, will you blame me?"

He asked cautiously, not daring to blink.

Although the tone was clearly not one of begging, Jiang Liqian felt her heart soften.

Can't you say it?

Yes, in this world of cultivation where life and death are the key, who doesn’t have secrets?

"I don't blame you, but I want to know why you are unconscious. Was a monster attacked you?" She can ignore other things, but she must ask this clearly. What if there really is a monster hiding in this stone forest? If she is not on guard, she may become the monster's food.

Xu Youan did not hide this matter and told the whole story.

"After leaving for an hour, I was about to return the same way I came, but the way back was suddenly blocked by rocks. I had no choice but to find another way out, but I got lost and walked further and further away. Then, a monster that looked like a fish but was a hundred feet long jumped out from the ground and attacked me.

"I couldn't outrun it. It was as agile in this sand as a fish in water. Luckily, the Soul-Suppressing Pearl given to me by Third Senior Sister protected me, so I was able to stay safe. But even so, I was still shocked by its strength and... I fainted."

After saying that, Xu Youan lowered his head guiltily.

"Senior Sister, I'm sorry, I'm so useless."

Jiang Liqian was so nervous that her heart was about to jump out of her throat. Fortunately, her third senior sister had the foresight to give them magic weapons for self-defense, otherwise she would have been killed today.

She patted her chest with lingering fear, then solemnly held Xu Youan's hands and stared straight into his eyes: "Junior brother, I'm not a nosy person, but please promise me that at least when you are with me, if you want to leave temporarily, you must inform me in advance. As your senior sister, I need to ensure your safety, okay?"

Xu Youan was stunned for a moment, curled his fingertips slightly, and nodded heavily.

"Okay, Senior Sister, I promise you."

Jiang Liqian felt relieved and couldn't help but smile gently. She raised her hand and touched his head.

What a good and obedient little junior brother.

It's just a pity——

Her eyes darkened.

People's hearts will change.

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Jiang Liqian asked him if he was injured and if he could stand up and walk on his own. Xu Youan nodded and slowly stood up from the ground by holding on to the stone wall.

But his thin body was swaying in the wind, which made me feel anxious, as I was afraid that he would be blown away by the wind in the next second.

Fortunately, the pain in Jiang Liqian's dantian came and went quickly. After talking for a few words, she no longer felt anything.

She took the initiative to walk over and held him up with her hand.

The two leaned on each other and slowly walked out of the stone forest.

On the way, Jiang Liqian showed Xu Youan the topographic map compiled in his sea of ​​consciousness. Xu Youan looked at the map on the ground without saying a word.

"This is all temporary. The boulders here will change position, and the way out will change accordingly. I can sense the lightning spiritual energy around me, which is most compatible with me. I can use its flow to lead us out of the stone forest, but I'm afraid it will take a long time."

Moreover, an unpredictable magic circle may not always work for her. What if it takes advantage of her perception and leads them to a dangerous place, like the fish monster, then it would be really difficult to escape.

"Senior sister is right to worry. The terrain here is complex, with overlapping boulders, crisscrossing and unpredictable. We are too small in it and can easily become the passive one." Xu Youan seemed to see through Jiang Liqian's worries at a glance and spoke.

"However, I have already recognized what kind of magic circle this is and found its escape route."

Jiang Liqian was surprised.

"But, Junior Brother, weren't you just brought back by Master?"

Xu Youan lowered his eyes and said, "Out of curiosity, I went to the library inside the peak and took down a book on formations. I happened to have this, so I wrote it down."

It turned out to be the case.

However, the formation book is not like ordinary books and scriptures that can be memorized by rote. If you don't have any talent in the formation, even if you look at the formation book, you will only be confused and won't be able to remember anything.

There is no way to start.

This is the natural barrier between the practitioners of different sects.

In order to set up a soul protection formation for Xu Youan, Jiang Liqian looked at the formation diagram word by word and stroke by stroke, and failed three times before she barely succeeded.

She had some basic knowledge of this, but Xu Youan had just flipped through the book and memorized the formations inside. He was able to learn and apply them flexibly and figure out the way out of it so quickly.

Could it be that her junior brother is a genius in practicing formations?

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but ask curiously: "Little Junior Brother, how did you meet Master? Have you ever measured spirit stones?"

Xu Youan told everything he knew without reservation and without hiding anything.

“I came to Tiangan Sect to become a disciple. On the way, I was blocked by gangsters. It was my master who saved me. He said that I had a destiny with the immortals and wanted to take me in as his disciple, so he brought me back.

"When I was at the mountain gate, the disciple guarding the mountain tested my spiritual roots and found them to be top-grade mutant wind spiritual roots."

Now Jiang Liqian really believed what his master said. He was really good at judging people.

All the apprentices he accepted were extremely talented.

The eldest senior brother has a top-grade single fire spiritual root, the second senior brother has a top-grade single earth spiritual root, the third senior sister has a top-grade single wood spiritual root, and the fourth senior brother's life experience is extremely mysterious. Now he has accepted her, a junior brother who has a top-grade mutated thunder spiritual root and a top-grade mutated wind spiritual root.

There is no better luck than Master, right?

You should know that the quality of spiritual roots is divided into five categories - top quality, upper quality, middle quality, lower quality and waste quality. Among them, four spiritual roots and five spiritual roots are the most common. With three spiritual roots, one can become an outer disciple of a sect. If each of the three spiritual roots can have a middle quality, it is not too much to be an inner disciple of a small sect. If each spiritual root is better, one can enter the inner sect of a large sect.

Master has accepted so many disciples with single spiritual roots and some with mutant spiritual roots at once. Could it be that Master really has some luck?

Jiang Liqian smacked her lips, but now was not the time to think about these trivial things. The most important thing was to get out of the stone forest.

"Junior Brother, did you figure out what kind of formation this is?"