refuse to be a teacher

"……What's up?"

The long curtain quickly opened a slit outward, and Xue Lan caught a glimpse of the submissive face from the pillow, and the accumulated negative emotions suddenly arose in her heart.

"My master has stopped..." He closed the door behind him with his backhand, and then said in a low voice, "If you have anything to say, you can talk to me directly."

Shaking his head from the pillow, he still did not hesitate to say: "Since the elders have asked Mr. Yan to go over by name, I will wait here until he wakes up."

"Then there's no need to wait." Xue Lan turned indifferently and said, "He won't go anywhere, I have the final say!"

"Hey, Brother Lan Yin!" Panicked from the pillow, he hurried to catch up and grab his arm, Youyou didn't know why, so he said, "What's wrong with you...?"

Xue Lan gently pushed him away, and the color in his eyes was even more piercingly cold: "What do you think? What is my master's situation now... You still want him to work day and night for Jielongyin?"

"you……"

From the pillow, he was slightly taken aback, and then quickly recalled a short passage that Yan Jue mentioned unintentionally just now.

——The current me is exhausted, and I have no way to recover.How can a dying person save her?

"I've checked his pulse, and it's weaker than ever before." Xue Lanyin said in a deep voice, "According to his cultivation base, it's not enough to suppress the severe toxin brought by Jielong Seal. minus..."

He closed his eyes hard, but couldn't muster up the courage to finish his sentence.

"Mr. Yan has always had his own plans, presumably... he won't lose his life just because of this."

He silently raised his eyes, which were as sharp as a hawk, and stared straight at the almost eclipsed anxious face in front of him. Under the dual pressure of reason and reality, he did not choose to blurt out the truth.

Xue Lan smiled casually, obviously not believing it and said: "And you know everything?"

Cong Zhen said: "What Mr. Yan said personally, I am just a bystander."

Xue Lanyin immediately said in a daze, "...what did he say?"

"Zhe Huan is now poisoned and his life is in danger. Mr. Yan knows that he is powerless to rescue him, so he proposes to set off for a long trip to the southeast immediately, and try to see if he can find the help of old Yi Shangxian."

"What?!" As soon as the words came out, Xue Lan's face changed drastically, "He wants to go back to find that old man?"

Since I didn't know how to answer for a while, and hesitated for a long time, Fang continued to explain the reason to him: "I heard that the old master Yi has obtained the true biography of the former Feng'ai sword master, and his cultivation has reached the peak that no one can match. So hidden Shi Gaoren, if you can really save Zhe Huan's life...how can you just ignore your fellow disciple?"

"No... Master, what on earth is he thinking?"

Unexpectedly, Xue Lanyin did not feel half at ease with this explanation.After listening to it all the time, he was full of doubts and anxiously said: "It took so much effort for us to leave Changxingju, and now he plans to run and hang around under Yi Shangxian's nose—if it's not a self-inflicted snare, what is it?" ?”

It's really unbelievable.He couldn't figure out what was going on in Yan Jue's strangely thinking brain circuit.

"What? But what's wrong?" Cong asked puzzled, "Is there any problem, Senior Yi?"

"Forget it, you still don't understand." Xue Lan waved her hand, and said a little tiredly, "When Master wakes up, I will ask him myself."

"Mr. Nayan..."

"He's not going to discuss matters, and he's not going anywhere." Xue Lan turned around and opened the long curtain, but she still refused and said, "Please don't wait, elders, if there is anything, you can either come over and discuss with me...or you will never leave. Hold on, just don't say anything."

——In the evening, the showers gradually subsided.

The water droplets that converged into a stream overflowed the eaves in an instant, and then followed the raindrops blowing obliquely by the cold wind to close together on the low window in the corner, leaving a series of broken and uneven water marks in an instant.

Yan Jue fell asleep until his eyes became dark, and when he woke up again, it was dark.Xue Lanyin had been watching him all the time, and when he saw that he opened his eyes in a daze, he turned his head and poured a bowl of warm water over to him, spoonful after spoonful to the person's mouth.

A little fresh honey was put in the water, and the sweet taste quickly diluted the fishy smell that had been entrenched in Yan Jue's throat for a long time, which made his haggard face look more energetic.After feeding a bowl of sugar water in a slow manner, Xue Lan reached out to touch his forehead again, until he confirmed that the temperature was normal, then quietly let out a sigh of relief, and said, "It's a good thing you don't have a fever... you sleep After such a long time, is there any discomfort?"

Yan Jue glanced at him, and said noncommittally: "Did someone come to look for me when I fell asleep?"

Xue Lan didn't even think about it, so she said directly: "No."

Yan Jue hesitated for a while, then raised his finger to point to the bed, and asked tentatively, "Then I...sleep again?"

Xue Lanyin nodded and said: "...You continue."

Yan Jue really responded and lay back down, but this time, he couldn't fall asleep no matter what.He curled up in the bed and tossed and turned, finally remembered something, then opened his eyes and looked at the silent dog apprentice beside the bed, and said: "You just... just came back for a while, it seems... Talked to me a lot. What did you say?"

"No." Xue Lan stretched out her hand to tuck the corner of the quilt for him, and said softly, "You heard wrong."

Yan deceived and said: "...you tell me the truth."

Xue Lan also had a meal because of the action at hand.After a long time, Fang answered him word for word: "Tell me the truth first."

Yan Jue said helplessly, "What do you want me to say...?"

"How long can you hold on?"

"..."

"Your cultivation base is exhausted, there is not much internal energy left, and even the true energy that protects your body has been completely dissipated." Xue Lan said with dim eyes, "Tell me, this is what you want me to do" Don't be blind Worry' reason?"

Yan Jue's throat choked, and he said dumbly in an instant: "I..."

"I'll take you back to the Lianshui Bamboo Forest..." Xue Lan interrupted him immediately, and couldn't help but say, "I'll find a way to heal you later, and you just stay here and don't go anywhere."

"Xue Xiaomao..."

"Don't think about anything else. Jielongyin is still a long-term residence, and you don't need to think about your far-fetched plans." Xue Lanyin hurriedly stopped him and said, "No matter what happens in the future, you have to listen to me Yes, I won't let you make decisions on your own again."

"...Okay, Xue Xiaomao."

Yan Jue sat up straight with his arms half propped up, then put his hands on his shoulders, and said in a low voice, "Listen to me first, okay?"

Because of Xue Lan's stiff expression, she clenched her fists into his arms so hard that every inch of the tense bones on the back of her hands could be clearly seen.

"Although the Soul Sent Curse can reverse the life of a person, it is not a superior forbidden technique that has no flaws in the rumors-everything has a gain and a loss, and a loss must have a loss. It bears the huge amount of cultivation lost day and night by the forbidden technique. It has exceeded the limit that the human body can bear... Maybe it won't be long before I..."

He didn't say any more, just smiled lightly.The pale but graceful lip line silently opened a soft light arc with the influence of the facial features.

Xue Lanyin's complexion instantly collapsed uncontrollably.

"It was to save me... right?" He murmured in a daze, "It used to be, and it is now... If it wasn't because I ran out of the Lishui Bamboo Forest on impulse, you would probably still be in retreat today without incident. Cultivation, isn't it..."

"No." Yan Jue closed his eyes and shook his head, and immediately denied it aloud, "It has nothing to do with you, everything is my own cocoon."

"You still want to lie to me! It's all my fault...I caused you to become what you are today, it's me...I'm too bad, Master...you shouldn't have saved me..."

Because of the sudden warmth in Xue Lan's eyes, her voice gradually became hoarse.He bowed slightly, and buried most of his face deeply into Yan Jue's thin and frail chest, but the salty tears unstoppably rolled down his cheeks, soaking the small piece of white clothes under his eyes instantly.

"It really has nothing to do with you." Yan Jue let out a long sigh, stretched out his arms and hugged him lightly, so as to support him along the way, lowered his head and leaned into his arms, "Blame myself, I'm too greedy... always parting life and death Look at it more than anything."

Xue Lan struggled twice subconsciously, as if she was about to refute something, but the moment she raised her head and looked into his eyes, she keenly detected a trace of strange and complex emotions.

"I used my cultivation base to activate the soul-sending spell, not just to save your life..." Yan Hua said calmly, "As early as 20 years ago, at the end of the battle to seize the seal, I used this forbidden spell to save your life in Fengai. Inside the blade of Su Jian, the last remnant soul of my master was stubbornly sealed."

Because Xue Lan was shocked all over, she felt her limbs and bones were all icy cold: "Master, you..."

Yan Jue lowered his eyelashes, leaned his sharp side cheeks against his slightly trembling shoulders, and said in an obscure and difficult way: "When I was 12 years old, my parents and elder brother died together, so I started practicing forbidden techniques to try to bring them back to life. The misguided path—the Soul Sent Curse was added suddenly, and its wear and tear was enough to kill a person... It was Master who risked his life to save me and made me swear not to have any more contact with this kind of magic.”

——However, he failed to obey the teacher's order after all.

Once the Jielong Seal was born, it was immediately destroyed.Qin Huan resolutely sacrificed under the wooden sword. It was Yan Jue who insisted on using the forbidden technique and forcibly left the half-soul body of the sword master alive. , It is also completely shameless to see the upright and awe-inspiring life-saver in the past.

In this way, there is a clear and reasonable explanation for Qin Huan and Yan Jue's disparate behaviors of being close to each other but not seeing each other for a long time in the middle of the long trip.

Hearing this all of a sudden, Xue Lan stared at Yan Jue's weak and bloodless face because of a lack of concentration, and for a moment, she didn't know where to speak.

"All along, I have been too paranoid, trying to keep everything by my side after trying so many twists and turns... But in the end, it turned out that I was not blessed." Yan Jue turned his head to the side, as if already A bit resigned to fate and said with a wry smile, "I was self-defeating from the beginning to the end, so how can I blame you...?"

A timid and selfish person, who is always afraid of death and loss, wants to covet the rare human kindness and warmth around him at the same time. Now that he has ended up in such a mess, why is it not God's punishment for him?