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

Jiang Yueming glanced at Xu Youan, who looked calm, and curled the corners of his lips.

on purpose?

Ah.

"Master Zhai, do you want me to continue?" Xu Youan asked with his head lowered and his hands bowed.

Jiang Yueming tapped the fan in his hand, took a few steps towards him, lowered his eyes slightly to look at him, and a meaningful smile appeared on his face: "Xiao An'an, how much of your secret do you think I have seen?"

Xu Youan pursed his lips, his expression unchanged.

The smile in Jiang Yueming's eyes became even brighter.

He opened his fan and chuckled, "Not bad, not bad, you are worthy of being the leaders of the two sects. You have such good control over spiritual arts at such a young age. You really deserve praise. I just don't know," he changed the subject, and swept his sharp eyes over everyone in the hall. He raised his folding fan, and a huge water ball fell from the sky, instantly enveloping all the disciples.

Even Jiang Liqian and Shui Lian'er, who were inside the barrier, were not spared.

"You didn't even bother to wipe the candy crumbs off your mouths. You've really made this place dirty."

A cold and suffocating feeling instantly swept across the entire Qimingzhai.

Without the water-repellent beads and without any water-avoidance techniques, all the disciples floated in the water for a moment, flapping their hands constantly, trying to escape from the water ball.

Xu Youan, who was surrounded by water, swam towards Jiang Liqian without thinking, and Gu Chengxue beside him, for some reason, also subconsciously swam in his direction.

However, Jiang Liqian, who was worried about their anxiety, did not wait for them to come. Instead, she held her breath, let the spiritual power flow in her body, and subconsciously recited the immortal formula, and the fire spirit technique appeared in her palm.

At first, it was just a small flame maintained by spiritual power, flickering in the water, and seemed to be about to go out at any time. But as Jiang Liqian practiced the Qiankun Heart Method, the surrounding thunder spiritual power all rushed to her body in an instant, and the flame in the palm of her palm instantly expanded countless times.

Without thinking, she used the flames to transform vines to wrap around the water ball. In less than a cup of tea, most of the water ball was evaporated. The disciples jumped out of the water ball one after another as if they were living their lives again. Some were lying down, some were sitting down, and they breathed in the fresh air in big gulps.

When Jiang Liqian fell to the ground, her face turned a little pale.

The muscle memory from her previous life as a swordsman made her attack subconsciously, but when she looked up and met Jiang Yueming's half-smile, her heart skipped a beat and she couldn't help but regret her recklessness.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

"Cough-cough-!"

There was a loud coughing sound. Jiang Liqian recognized Shui Lian'er's voice and hurried to look for her. Seeing her coughing in pain, the regret in her heart faded away.

Whatever, even if it's to save people...

She quickly walked over and helped Shui Lian'er up from the ground. While smoothing her back, she performed the Dust Removal Technique on both her and herself. The wet disciple uniform looked brand new in the blink of an eye.

Shui Lian'er choked on the water several times. Her face turned red and she kept coughing. She was in so much pain that tears came out.

It was still the water ball that hit her. Qin Beiyao, who was the first to grab her and prevent her from being washed away, took out a pill and fed it to her, and she felt better.

"How do you feel? Are you still feeling uncomfortable?" Jiang Liqian asked anxiously.

Shui Lian'er shook her head weakly and leaned her head in her arms. After a long time, she managed to sit up straight.

"Li...Li Qian, cough cough..." She looked up at her, her eyes filled with shock, disbelief, and even more confusion. "You... cough cough...you also know the Five Elements Spiritual Arts? Why are you different from... cough cough, cough cough...and Junior Brother Xu and the others? You're almost as powerful as Master Zhai!"

Not only her, but also Qin Beiyao next to her, Gu Chengxue who rushed over, and the other disciples who had recovered all looked at her with strange eyes.

Really, really strong!

Is this level of skill truly what a normal cultivator should possess? Even if it's a mutant spiritual root, being able to draw Qi into the body so quickly is one thing, but he can also master it without a teacher, and utilize the Five Elements spiritual arts so seamlessly, as if it were as easy as drinking water or eating. Is this really something a cultivator of only four or five years old could achieve?

Or rather, she only saw Master Zhai use it once, and she already knew how to do it...

So, this is the gap between geniuses and ordinary people?

It was like an invisible chasm, she stood alone on one side, and they all stood on this side. The chasm that could never be crossed lay between them, making people feel inexplicably terrified.

Jiang Liqian looked at them belatedly and subconsciously took a step back.

It was the same look and expression again. It was the same in her previous life in Qimingzhai. She just taught a lesson to a ruffian who failed the test and stayed in Qimingzhai to study for another year, but then she was inexplicably shunned by the people in Qimingzhai.

Everyone avoided her when they saw her, fearing that they would have anything to do with her.

Fear or disgust, Jiang Liqian sometimes couldn't tell which emotion was in their eyes.

She tried to please them, at least on the surface, to be good sisters and brothers in the same school, but it was all in vain.

It was also because of this that she would rather be tortured by the old man and be the last one to work for him every day, rather than walk alone among them and watch them walk past her in groups of three or two.

Now... is the old scene going to happen again?

Just because she shouldn't be so powerful, shouldn't have dissolved the water ball to save them?

Even Shui Lian'er, the friend she had finally made again and who she called her sister, was going to hate her?

And there is also Junior Brother, Junior Brother...

She turned around suddenly and frantically looked for Xu Youan in the crowd.

But no matter how hard she looked, she couldn't see him.

Her vision was blurry.

Xu Youan.

Xu Youan...

"Senior Sister, I'm here." Suddenly, a voice as clear as water flowed through her heart, instantly filling the emptiness in her heart.

She turned around suddenly and saw Xu Youan standing behind her, with heartache hidden in his eyes as bright as stars.

He held her trembling hand and said firmly and seriously: "Senior Sister, I will always be here."

As long as you look back.

I never left.

The tears in Jiang Liqian's eyes almost burst out, but she forced herself to hold them back.

Shui Lian'er, who was sighing at this moment, also sensed that something was wrong with her mood. She tugged at her arm curiously, blinking her beautiful eyes: "Little Bean Sprout, what's wrong with you? You're so powerful, and the Qiankun Sect will be able to dominate the world in the future. Why are you suddenly unhappy? I'm going to tell my mother this good news so that she can reward you, the daughter who has brought her honor. She'll be so happy!"

After saying this, she patted her chest again and said, "From now on, when we go out, we will look very respectable!"

"By the way," she turned around and patted Qin Beiyao's shoulder, "since you've turned over a new leaf, I, your younger sister, will also make friends with you so we can share in the glory. No need to thank me too much!"