Yuntaoyao held her head and huddled in the corner, shivering. She peeked at Xuan Yuan from the gap with extreme panic and fear.
There are still red bruises on her neck left by the magic chain, plus the red handprints from being pinched just now, making her look very pitiful.
Like a canary that has been abused for a long time and is extremely sensitive and fragile, but also a very beautiful canary.
Xuan Yuan's hand that wanted to help Yuntao Yao stayed in the air for a moment and then took it back.
He is a cultivation genius that is rare to see in the Tianyuan Continent for thousands of years. From the time he was born to now, his mind has been filled with cultivation. When he goes down the mountain, he basically searches for various secret realms to experience. It is rare that he has the opportunity to interact with outsiders like this.
His memory remained that after leaving the secret realm to obtain the materials for tempering his apprentice's magic weapon, he found an inn in Yueluo City to meditate and restore his magic power.
Then he smelled a strange fragrance, and he immediately realized that it was the secret incense made by the master of Hehuan Sect.
But he was exhausted just after leaving the secret realm. In addition, he was seriously injured by the demonic energy during the previous battle with the demons, so he was intoxicated by the incense without noticing, and was tied up by the high-grade magic weapon, the immortal rope.
His last consciousness was about the cowardly leader of the Hehuan Sect, who actually carried him on his shoulders and happily wanted to carry him to dual cultivation...
He then lost consciousness, and when he woke up, the girl in front of him gave him medicine.
He subconsciously thought she was from the Hehuan Sect, so he grabbed her neck.
Now it seems that this was a misunderstanding and he scared her.
But looking at the trembling girl in front of him, he felt that her state was not just because of the fright he had just pinched her, but that she had been in an environment where she had been bullied before.
Xuan Yuan retracted his hand and took a few steps back to distance himself from Yuntao Yao.
He tried to speak in a calm tone, but as he had done for thousands of years, his voice was still extremely cold, and even his apology sounded extremely oppressive. It felt like he was not apologizing, but interrogating.
"Sorry, I encountered something before I was poisoned and fell into coma, so I was more vigilant. May I ask, where did you find me and why did you save me?"
Xuan Yuan took the initiative to distance himself, allowing Yuntao Yao, who was shaking in the corner, to calm down a little.
But she was still very scared and didn't dare not answer Xuan Yuan's question.
She tried hard to explain her innocence with a trembling voice: "I...I happened to pass by Luoyue City. I wanted to buy some dry food there for the journey. When I was leaving the city, I found you fainted at the entrance of the alley.
Then...then there were many people in the city searching for someone. I saw that they were from the Hehuan Sect, and they said they were looking for a good-looking man, so I guessed that they were probably looking for you..."
Xuan Yuan frowned slightly, feeling that this girl who had just reached the foundation-building stage was a bit verbose in her words, and she didn't even get to the point after talking for a long time.
He went straight to the point and asked again: "Then you and I are not related, so why did you risk offending the Hehuan Sect to save me? It was you who brought me here? Where is this place now?"
This time he asked three questions in a row, sounding more like he didn't believe Yuntaoyao and was interrogating her.
Yuntaoyao was so frightened that she wanted to shed tears again, but she was afraid that Xuanyuan would become even more impatient with her.
She sniffed her small nose, held back her tears, mustered up the courage to continue replying to Xuan Yuan, and tried her best to explain clearly what had just happened:
"I...some tribesmen were forcibly taken away by the Hehuan Sect to practice in the past. Once they were taken away by the Hehuan Sect, they either never came back, or they lost half their lives when they came back.
So I know they are not good people. I saw you look so handsome...handsome. If you were kidnapped by the Hehuan Sect people, you would probably end up like my people.
I was going out of the city anyway, so I simply brought you out with me. I just arrived at the foundation building. I don’t know much about anything else. I am still good at Qinggong on the road. I took you all the way to escape to Luoyue City, which is about thirty years away.
An abandoned village kilometers away,
Then I saw that you seemed to have been poisoned and you were unconscious all the time. I couldn't just leave you alone. It would be bad if you were discovered by the people of the Hehuan Sect again, so I fed you some of the few I had left.
Detoxifying spiritual water..."
After hearing this, Xuan Yuan's eyes, as cold as thousand-year-old icebergs, seemed to melt away.
He didn't expect that the little girl in front of him had such a simple and simple reason for saving him.
Just because her tribe had been persecuted by the Hehuan sect, she happened to meet him who might be kidnapped, so she saved her without thinking of the consequences...
A Taoist doesn't like to owe others any favors. He simply asks: "You saved me. If you have any requests, just ask."
Yuntaoyao raised her head and glanced at him cautiously, perhaps feeling that he was not as scary as before.
She struggled to get up from the ground and was silent for a moment, as if she was thinking of making a request. But in the end she shook her head and said, "Forget it, I just saved you. I don't have any requests."
After saying this, she smiled sadly, her smile indescribably desolate: "I have nothing left, and I am just hanging on for a breath. I don't need anything."
Xuan Yuan could feel the deep despair radiating from her body.
He didn't know what happened to her, but he had been practicing for eight hundred years and he had seen a lot of suffering in the world. Since she didn't want to tell, he shouldn't ask more questions.
But he pursed his lips, feeling that he had to repay this kindness, so he asked: "Who is the girl's name? You just said that your tribe was persecuted by the Hehuan Sect, and I happened to have enmity with the Hehuan Sect.
Why don't you, girl, go to the Hehuan Sect with me tomorrow to see me destroy the whole family of the Hehuan Sect? How about taking it as revenge for your people and my repayment for the girl's rescue?"
The scum-killing system who had been silently watching Yuntaoyao's performance beside him couldn't help but applaud Xuan Yuan: "Wonderful, this Xuan Yuan's brain circuit is wonderful!"
Of course, complaints about the slag removal system cannot delay Yuntaoyao's performance.
"Revenge?" Yuntaoyao asked back, then suddenly laughed, as if he had heard something funny.
Under the moonlight, she was wearing a washed off-white long dress, which was so fragile that it seemed like it could be blown away by a gust of wind. She smiled and burst into tears, which made her look even more miserable.
Under Xuan Yuan's puzzled gaze, she gently wiped away her tears without saying anything more, turned around and walked out.
Before leaving, she turned to Xuan Yuan and said: "No need, there is more than one Hehuan sect that persecuted my people, and you don't need to know my name. As long as you pretend that you haven't seen me tonight, don't talk to those cultivating immortals from other sects in the future."
Just let people catch me."
After saying that, she left the dilapidated thatched house and disappeared into the vast night without waiting for Xuan Yuan to reply.
Not long after Yuntao Yao left, Xuan Yuan received an urgent message from the Xuantian Sword Sect.
"Elder Xuanyuan, what's wrong, Yuntaoyao, who was trapped in Lingquan Cave on the top of Piaomiao Peak, broke through the confinement and escaped!
In two days' time, without the guidance of her hard work, Senior Sister Feiyuan will be completely destroyed and become a useless person. Have you left the secret realm? Can you help me use the secret method of finding people?"
Xuan Yuan frowned. In the final battle with the demons, his apprentice Fei Yuan used himself to block the demon king's self-destruction final blow. He was seriously injured. He must save his apprentice.
He quickly sent a message to Xuantian Sword Sect: "Send any of Yuntaoyao's personal belongings, and I will now activate the secret method of searching for people in the entire Tianyuan Continent."
The secret method of finding people in the Mahayana period can basically cover the entire Tianyuan Continent.