Xu Chunniang didn't miss the surprise on Zhao Xingsan's face, but she didn't say anything more.
"I'm here to see Senior Brother Zhuge."
Zhao Xingsan took her into the room and spoke softly.
"After taking the medicine, Senior Brother Zhuge's condition has stabilized. It's just that the heart and soul were damaged, and I'm afraid it will take a while to recover."
As for the issue of Tao Xin, he did not mention it.
Xu Chunniang glanced at the person lying on the bed. Zhuge Yun's originally slightly feminine appearance became even more fragile due to his illness and closed eyes.
She withdrew her gaze, sat on a chair, and poured herself a cup of tea.
Before she came, she had thought about whether Zhuge Yun had been corrupted by the demon soul.
But after thinking about it, she felt not.
After all, in the city lord's mansion today, Xie Changyuan looked like he was beating him to death.
If Zhuge Yun was really corrupted by the demon soul, he would be considered one of their "ones", so why bother to be cruel?
On the contrary, Shangguanxue who lives in the city lord's mansion... needs special attention.
Zhuge Yun was seriously injured and needed time to recover, but she was plotted against.
If she hadn't controlled the demon soul, in the past few months while Zhuge Yun was recovering from his injuries, his soul would have been initially eroded by the demon soul.
What role did Shangguanxue play in this matter?
Did he know nothing, or was he corrupted by the demon soul...
Xu Chunniang took a deep breath, and her intuition told her that what was involved in the city lord's mansion was definitely a shocking secret.
But now that she is far away from the sect, under the nose of this group of people, she can only stand still for the time being.
Wait for Zhuge Yun to recover from his injuries as soon as possible, and then go up to Fengwei Mountain to hunt the element-devouring beast.
But looking at Zhuge Yun's appearance, I don't know how long it will take to recover.
"Ahem..."
A low cough interrupted the silence in the room, and Zhuge Yun woke up weakly.
Zhao Xingsan stepped forward quickly, "Senior brother, how do you feel?"
"Haha, I've made you laugh."
Zhuge Yun closed his eyes, as if he didn't want to say more.
Zhao Xingsan continued to enlighten him again and again, but he never said a word, seeming to be disheartened.
It seems that this blow was very heavy for him.
Xu Chunniang stood up and looked at Zhuge Yun, "Junior Brother Zhao, why don't you let me and Senior Brother Zhuge talk alone."
"Okay, then I'll go back first."
As soon as Zhao Xingsan left, there were only two people left in the huge room.
Feeling the silence around him, Zhuge Yun felt a little nervous for no reason.
Then he thought with some self-deprecation that although he had targeted Xu Chunniang, he had not done anything too extreme.
She shouldn't take advantage of his illness to take revenge...right?
He waited for a long time without seeing Xu Chunniang's words, and finally spoke softly, "Are you satisfied with how I look now?"
"To be honest, I'm not very satisfied. I thought you had some real ability, so I agreed to duel with Xie Changyuan, but I didn't expect you to be so unbearable."
Zhuge Yun choked and stared angrily.
Xu Chunniang didn't care about his anger, but instead raised her eyebrows and smiled.
"Senior brother, you are overestimating your abilities. Are you worthy of standing next to Senior Sister Shangguan? You really want to eat swan meat."
"You! Cough cough cough..."
Zhuge Yun's anger surged, causing him to cough violently, and he unconsciously clenched his hands into fists, "How dare you say that I am..."
"Toad."
Xu Chunniang looked at him calmly and spat out those three words, "If Xie Changyuan didn't want to go too far and spared your life, how would senior brother have any life now?"
Zhuge Yun closed his eyes heavily, his chest heaving violently, and it took him a while to squeeze out two words through his teeth, "Get out."
Xu Chunniang did not leave, "Actually, I am very curious about why a sword cultivator who is so rational and responsible, Senior Brother, becomes so... out of his mind every time he encounters something related to Shangguan Xue."
Zhuge Yun felt a chill in his heart, feeling that his secret was being spied upon.
He suppressed this feeling and said solemnly, "You don't understand."
"I don't quite understand, but if we hadn't met Shangguan Xue that day at Fengcrying Mountain, I'm afraid we would have hunted the Yuan Devouring Beast and returned to the sect."
Zhuge Yun was silent for a long time, "I will recover from my injuries as soon as possible and help you complete the commission as soon as possible."
"I hope so."
Xu Chunniang's face was cold, but she sighed secretly in her heart.
Originally, she wanted to anger Zhuge Yun and see if she could get something out of him.
But it seemed that he didn't know that Shangguan Xue might be infected with a demon soul.
However, Xu Chunniang didn't know that after she left the room, the sadness and brokenness on Zhuge Yun's face disappeared.
There was a flash of worry between his brows, and then he stood up, pointing his right hand like a knife, and cut his left palm.
Blood gushed out from his palm, fell to the ground, and gradually condensed into a miniature magic circle.
And at the moment when he sent his consciousness into the magic circle and ignited it, deep in the Xiaoyao Sect's main peak, nearly 100,000 miles away from Hunyuan City, somewhere in an extremely huge blood soul formation, emanating
Emit a faint light.
The defenders were two Jindan monks, so they immediately noticed the movement of the Blood Soul Formation.
"It's Zhuge Yun's soul lamp that has turned on. He should be in Hunyuan City right now."
The two of them looked at each other and both had an ominous premonition. After reading the message he sent back, the premonition intensified.
"Hunyuan City... Haha, what a real Hunyuan Master!"
"It's not a good time to alert the enemy now, and since the Tianyuan Secret Realm will open in half a year, we must get the Realm Breaking Talisman."
After the two discussed for a while, they injected a stream of soul power into the soul lamp.
In a certain room named Xuan in the Xiangyun Inn, the blood array painted by Zhuge Yun became darker and darker as it burned.
However, every time the blood formation dimmed, he would tighten his palms and release more blood to maintain the connection between it and the blood soul formation.
It wasn't until he got the news he wanted that Zhuge Yun stopped bleeding, erased all traces in the room, and lay back on the bed again.
Thinking of the instructions given by the sect elders and what Xu Chunniang said not long ago, he couldn't help but have a headache.
Naturally, Tianyuan Secret Realm must be visited. The main reason he came to Hunyuan City on this trip was to find the realm-breaking talisman inside.
But now there is still half a year until the Tianyuan Secret Realm is opened. Not many people know the news at the moment.
The wounds on his body can sustain him for a month. The remaining months are more than enough to hunt down the element-devouring beasts.
Seeing that Xu Chunniang couldn't wait to complete the commission, what method should he use to delay it for several months?
When Zhuge Yun thought about it, he felt his head hurt even more. He had been practicing for so many years, and he had suffered the most injustice today.
But he had a heavy responsibility and had nowhere to talk.
Zhuge Yun took a deep breath, simply stopped thinking about it and just took it one step at a time.
Junior Sister Xu wouldn't leave him alone and drag the other junior brothers and sisters up to Fengweishan, right?
Zhuge Yun was actually right. Xu Chunniang had really thought about the feasibility of leaving Zhuge Yun to hunt the element-eating beast.
But she didn't do that after all, it seemed too deliberate.
In order to avoid the evil soul master secretly thinking too much, she would rather wait a little longer.