"Master, if one day, I and several fellow disciples come to face each other with swords, what will you do?" Shi Yuan asked curiously.

Chao Yao sat on the stone bench in the yard, the sunlight falling on her through the gaps between the leaves.

With his slender fingertips, he held the white jade wine jug and sneered lazily.

"Master, no one can control me." Chao waved his hand: "If that day comes, it will be useless to look for me."

"That's your own calamity."

Shi Yuan chuckled and said, "Then I'll trouble Master to build a grave for me when I lose."

"Why build a grave when you are dead? When a person dies, it is like a light going out. The body that is left will turn into dust sooner or later."

"How heartless." Shi Yuan complained to her.

"If Master knew in advance that the sect was in trouble, would you leave before that?" Shi Yuan asked seriously for once.

"Am I, your master, so ruthless?" Chao Yao said unhappily.

"Even if you know it is an inevitable heavenly calamity, you won't leave?" Shi Yuan asked again.

Chao Yao frowned slightly when he heard her question: "What exactly does Ayuan want to say?"

"To be honest, Master, I have been having a dream recently. In the dream, the sect was destroyed by a powerful unknown force. Everyone in Shangqing Sect died, except for my three junior brothers."

"Ever since the day I entered the sect, I have been trapped in this nightmare from time to time." Shi Yuan said to Chao Yao seriously.

"Nightmare?" Chao Yao frowned and looked at Shi Yuan: "Really?"

"If I hadn't experienced it myself, I wouldn't have believed it. Sometimes, even when I was meditating, I would fall into nightmares intermittently. Every time I woke up, I felt like I was living my life all over again."

Shi Yuan lowered his eyes and said, "A Yuan knows that what I said today is incredible. It is normal for Master not to believe it."

"When did you say you didn't believe it?" Chao Yao sighed and sat up straight.

"Tell me in detail." Chao Yao handed a pot of wine to Shi Yuan, who took it and took a sip.

After thinking for a moment, he began to talk about some things from his past life.

"So this is the reason why you have been so indifferent to your fellow disciples recently?" Chao Yao asked after listening.

Shi Yuan nodded: "Yes."

"A heavenly calamity." Chao Yao sighed, "If it is really a calamity from heaven, how can the Shangqing Sect resist it?"

"Since your three junior brothers have extraordinary backgrounds, I think what will happen to them in the future is not something you and I can control. Even if I expel them from the sect today, it may not necessarily avoid a disaster, let alone save your junior sister."

"The Immortal King is going through tribulations, the demon prince is forced to fall into the human world, and there is the Demon King of the demon world. Ayuan, do you think that even if your master gives them a sword now, it will end all this?" Chao Yao stretched out his hand to catch a leaf, turned his head and smiled at Shi Yuan.

"If it were so easy to escape the shackles of fate, why would your master and I live a life of drunkenness and debauchery?"

Shi Yuan suddenly found it difficult to understand what his master said.

"So Master wants me to do nothing?" Shi Yuan asked in confusion.

Chao shook his head: "No."

"Since you've been having nightmares since Aque started joining the sect, why are you telling you only today?" Chao Yao rubbed her head, with a rare tenderness in his eyes.

"What happened today made me feel that we are all just puppets being pulled by strings. No matter if I was just having a nightmare or I really lived my life again, it seemed like everything was arranged, and we will never be able to escape the control of the puppeteer." Shi Yuan indeed felt this way today.

That fear still lingers in Shiyuan's heart.

Shi Yuan felt that he couldn't change all this on his own.

With her current strength, she can't protect the sect at all.

After weighing the pros and cons, Shi Yuan felt that the only person he could trust was his Master.

Chao Yao laughed inexplicably: "Marionette?"

"Who knows? Maybe it is."

"Forget about the sect's affairs. You don't have to worry so much. I, your master, am still alive." Chao Yao drank the last drop of wine and pinched Shi Yuan's cheek: "I wonder why you are so murderous now."

"Tell me what you want to do with your fellow apprentices."

Shi Yuan was also a little drunk, and looked at Chao Yao in confusion: "Master will treat them the way I want them to?"

"Among all the people in Chaoyao Peak, you are the only disciple chosen by me, Ayuan. If I don't help you, who else can I help?"

"Only me? What does Master mean by this?" Shi Yuan didn't understand. She felt that Master must know something.

But if you know it, why don't you say it?

Chao Yao waved his hand at her and said, "Don't ask. The answers to some questions can only be found by yourself. I, your teacher, cannot tell you directly."

"What if the disciple wants the master to kill them directly?"

Chao Yao stroked his chin and said, "You can, but I advise you not to."

Shi Yuan was depressed and sighed: "Why?"

"In your nightmare, did you kill them all in the end?" Chao Yao asked with a smile.

"Yes." Shi Yuan nodded truthfully.

"What's the result?" Chao Yao raised the corner of his mouth with a hint of teasing on his face.

"As a result..." Shi Yuan's mind was in a daze and he didn't quite understand what Chao Yao meant.

"If you really want me to give them a direct blow with the sword, that's fine, you decide for yourself, but you will have to bear the consequences yourself, little disciple."

"Aque is your little disciple." Shi Yuan muttered softly.

Chao Yao clicked his tongue and said, "You really do love your little sister."

"Forget it, forget it, let's just leave it at that." Shi Yuan waved his hand.

"No more killing?"

"You said you can't kill him, so why kill him?"

"Then you can be expelled from the sect, on the grounds that when you pay your respects to me tomorrow, your left foot will be the first to step into Chaoyao Peak."

Shi Yuan:......

When she told Chao Yao about her experiences in her past life, she was prepared for him to call her sick, but Chao Yao actually believed her outright.

Shi Yuan felt that Chao Yao didn't call him sick simply because she was sick, and her illness was more serious than his.

He listened to his own disciple sitting under a tree, cursing for a few words and then falling drunk.

Chao Yao took her wine back and drank the rest himself.

"You're still greedy for alcohol."

Chao Yao had just finished the rest of the wine when he saw Wen Que pushing the door open.

Seeing the delicate and pretty little apprentice, Chao Yao waved to her.

Wen Que walked over obediently, but still looked at Shi Yuan from time to time.

"Master." Wen Que walked up to Chao Yao, who smiled at her and said, "Would you like to drink?"

Wen Que quickly shook his head: "Senior Sister said I'm still young and can't drink."

"Your senior sister is too nosy. Don't listen to her." Chao Yao handed the wine to Wen Que again.

Wen Que didn't dare to refuse and took a small sip.

"Okay, now it's time to teach you how to draw the qi into your body." Chao Yao took back the wine jug.

He pinched Wen Que's little face and said, "Let's go to the top of the mountain."

Wen Que was about to answer when he found himself being dragged away by Chao Yao.

Even in the blink of an eye, we reached the top.

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