I have a high-risk profession in the cultivation world.

Chu Chenmu heard the system notification urging him to complete the final step, and turned to leave with a gloomy expression.

Chu Chenmu knew that the plot had reached a crucial point, and it was time for him to make his move.

But he couldn't forget the boy who had won the competition a few days ago, smiling brightly at him. Although the smile was only for a moment, it was enough to dazzle him and be remembered for four whole days, or perhaps longer.

If he turned and left now, Luo Suichen would definitely hold a grudge, and he would be reminded of the exact same experience in his past life. However, his relationship with Luo Suichen had just eased up, and Chu Chenmu didn't want to be misunderstood by him.

But the system kept urging him in his mind and even brought up punishment.

It's quite annoying.

Chu Chenmu thought.

But the system's punishment actually worked; he felt like he'd been given a few sharp electric shocks.

His face didn't need to be deliberately gloomy; it was simply extremely pale. He knew he couldn't delay any longer, and without even saying a word to the others, he turned and left.

As luck would have it, Luo Suichen was caught off guard and knocked to the ground, spitting out a mouthful of blood. When he looked up, he saw Chu Chenmu's gaze fixed on him from afar. The moment Luo Suichen fell to the ground, Chu Chenmu's brows suddenly furrowed, his face turned icy cold, and his smile vanished. Then he turned and left.

This scene perfectly matched the memories deep within his mind.

In an instant, Luo Suichen recalled Chu Chenmu's attitude towards him over the past few days, and he understood everything.

I understand it completely.

He lost again, so has he disgraced the dignified Elder Po Jun once more?

Ah.

Sure enough, his improved attitude and generous praise a few days ago were just to get his disciples to fight for him to get a better ranking.

What exactly is he expecting?

Ridiculous.

But he wanted to win even more. He wanted to prove something through this match that no one believed in, though he wasn't quite sure what it was.

Perhaps it was to prove that Chu Chenmu's prejudice against himself was wrong throughout both lifetimes.

Perhaps it was to prove that he was never a despised beggar.

He relentlessly squeezed out all the spiritual energy in his body, resorting to a strategy of exchanging injury for injury, willing to lose a thousand of his own to injure eight hundred of his enemy.

Their fight dragged on and on, until Tian Yige and Su Chengdian had finished their sparring and were utterly astonished by what they saw. Luo Suichen's wounds multiplied, so much so that even Senior Brother Sun wanted to call a halt, but Luo Suichen wouldn't allow it.

Tian Yige and Su Chengdian grew increasingly anxious as they watched. This fighting style was clearly all-out. Could it be that their junior brother had some old grudge against Senior Brother Sun? But they dared not interrupt, for fear of distracting him.

But the most devastated person in the entire event was Senior Brother Sun, who was inexplicably attacked as a mortal enemy.

He was clearly holding back at first, so why did he become so reckless after I knocked him down once and then got back up?

He didn't do anything at all, and he was very measured in his actions!

Senior Brother Sun felt wronged, but he couldn't express it.

But now that things had come to this point, he couldn't stop; he was afraid that this madman would really kill him.

Luo Suichen had already exhausted his spiritual energy, and even his meridians were beginning to ache. Taking advantage of the moment when he knocked Luo Suichen down again, Senior Brother Sun quickly spoke up: "Junior Brother Luo, this is just a sparring match after the sect competition. There's no need to fight so hard. If there's any misunderstanding between us, please give your senior brother a chance to explain!"

Luo Suichen lay on the ground, struggled for a moment but couldn't get up.

After fighting for so long, he finally calmed down again.

Gritting his teeth, he stood up and said, "Senior Brother Sun, you have excellent skills. Junior Brother feels inferior and also turns to leave."

……

Chu Chenmu, unaware that Luo Suichen had just seen everything, and also unaware that his disciple was nearly killed, felt unsteady on his feet after the punishment ended. Fearing that someone would notice something amiss, he left in a panic, thus failing to notice that the young man on the distant arena had witnessed his reaction.

Then I heard the notification sound in my mind again:

【Congratulations to the host, the mission is completed. 】

He simply didn't want to pay any attention to it.

He doesn't want to talk to anyone right now, and he hates the whole world equally.

It hurt him terribly.

Luo Suichen dragged his injured body back to his room, but as soon as he entered, he collapsed and coughed up blood. He didn't care, just sat on the floor and quietly leaned against the bed.

He wanted to raise his hand to make a hand seal to get himself a glass of water, but he couldn't raise his hand. Coincidentally, he also didn't have the spiritual power to make a hand seal for him.

……

Chu Chenmu was lying in bed, moaning and groaning as she tried to calm herself, when she heard Tian Yige's message via carrier pigeon saying that Luo Suichen had somehow gotten into a fight with Senior Brother Sun and was seriously injured when he left. She and Su Chengdian still needed to wait for the closing of the sect competition, and asked her to go find him first.

Chu Chenmu felt like a corporate slave who was suddenly notified to work overtime on a Friday afternoon. He was full of resentment but had no choice but to take a look at Luo Suichen, thinking that he had better be seriously injured.

Upon arriving there, Chu Chenmu realized that Tian Yige had indeed reduced her telepathic communication.

This is not just a serious injury; it would be an exaggeration to say that he is about to die.

Chu Chenmu saw that Luo Suichen's thin body was covered with wounds, his light-colored disciple's robes were almost stained red, his face was deathly pale, even his lips had lost their color, and large beads of cold sweat were seeping from his forehead. Chu Chenmu was definitely heartbroken. He knew that Luo Suichen had experienced this in both his lives, and might hate him even more in his heart. After all, they had spent more than two years together in this life, and the experiences of cooking together, celebrating the New Year together, setting off firecrackers together, and building snowmen together were not fake.

Chu Chenmu is actually a sentimental person. The more cautious and hesitant he is to have any expectations, the more he cherishes and remembers the experience.

This is why, despite his words, he still came to see Luo Suichen without hesitation.

But he felt a secret sense of schadenfreude, after all, Luo Suichen's current state looked quite similar to his own near-death state when he used the transmigration experience card.

Hmph. ╭(╯^╰)╮

Chu Chenmu stepped forward and helped Luo Suichen onto the bed. He used his spiritual power to check Luo Suichen's condition. His spiritual energy was depleted, which was easy to deal with. Two Rejuvenation Pills would do the trick. Although his external injuries were somewhat serious, Luo Suichen himself had a wood spiritual root. Once he regained consciousness and circulated his spiritual energy, taking a few more pills would be fine.

The problem is that he has only been cultivating for a little over two years, and this sudden depletion of spiritual energy has damaged his meridians, causing some breakage. This is considered a hidden injury; it can heal if left untreated, but there will be some obstruction when circulating spiritual energy through this area in the future, which will not be beneficial to his future cultivation.

He still had to find him some medicinal herbs. Thinking of this, Chu Chenmu felt a little annoyed. He was the one who had to do all the work, so his movements naturally became more laborious.

He found a few pills and fed them to Luo Suichen, not caring whether he would choke to death. He just patted him down and then found some wound medicine. He moistened the clothes that were stuck to the wound with water, tore them off, and applied the medicine to him.