After practicing the ruthless way, the little sister is too strong

"Little junior sister, what's wrong with you?"

Lin Xingfan's voice brought Xia Ling out of her shock.

"fine."

Although she said this, her eyes did not move away from the man setting up the stall.

The man was dressed in plain clothes, his face was pale and his body was thin.

His face was covered with several terrifying black marks, like some kind of curse lines, occupying almost half of his face.

He seemed a bit gloomy and depressed, not as high-spirited as he was in the past.

It can be said that at this moment he is very different from the handsome and gentle image in memory, and there is an air of death surrounding him.

But even with so many differences, Xia Ling still recognized it at a glance.

After all, he was the only one who did not ignore the original owner after the heroine Wen Wan came to the sect, and still cared about, trusted and helped her.

That is the third elder’s son—Gu Yuanzhou.

The original text describes that he had difficulty surviving after being pushed into the monster cave by Wen Wan, and the life tablet stored by the Yin Miao Sect in the Soul Temple was also destroyed.

Even she had never thought that he was still alive...

Xia Ling showed no emotion on her face. She looked at the two people beside her with a smile, "Sister Jiang, Fifth Brother. You guys go to the stalls in front first. I'm a little tired and want to rest here for a while! I'll catch up right away!"

Jiang Sumu nodded and said nothing more.

Lin Xingfan didn't think much about it, "Then hurry up and catch up."

"Yes, sir!" Xia Ling responded obediently.

After the two walked away, Xia Ling pointed at the rough stone that he had taken a fancy to and asked Gu Yuanzhou, who was lowering his head in front of him:

"I want to ask how to sell this rough stone."

"Ten high-quality spirit stones." His voice seemed to be damaged, and was extremely rough, not as clear as it used to be.

Xia Ling gave him a bag of spirit stones and then put away the raw stones.

Gu Yuanzhou checked it out, and after finding out the amount inside, he was silent before saying, "...Miss, you gave too much."

There are a total of 371 top-grade spirit stones inside.

Xia Ling raised his eyes to look at him, took out another ten high-grade spirit stones and pushed them onto the stall in front of him, saying calmly: "Senior Brother Gu, I didn't give them to you wrongly. I was paying you back. Didn't I promise you that I would return you double one day?"

"Snapped!"

The bag of spirit stones fell to the ground, and the crisp sound seemed to try to cut off the noise from the outside world.

"You..." Gu Yuanzhou's face turned even paler than before, his pair of empty and lifeless eyes staring blankly at Xia Ling.

His lips parted slightly, and the sound seemed to be squeezed out of his throat, carrying with it a sense of disbelief and an uncomfortable powerlessness.

"Fifth Junior Sister?"

Xia Ling smiled and said, "It seems that Senior Brother still remembers it."

On the first day Wen Wan joined the sect, Shui Qingheng gave Wen Wan a top-grade magical instrument, the Liuguang Guqin, as well as a high-level storage ring and various rare treasures.

These are things that the original owner never had, so it is inevitable that he feels a little disappointed.

Gu Yuanzhou, who saw that the original owner was disappointed, used up all his spirit stones to buy her a bamboo flute and gave it to her.

At that time, the original owner did not want to owe others a favor, so he promised to repay them double in the future.

And this amount is 371.

Gu Yuanzhou looked haggard, his eyelids drooping weakly, "...Since it's a gift, why should I return it?"

Xia Ling didn't respond.

She wanted to ask him: "Since you are alive, why don't you go back?"

The original owner became Shui Qingheng's fifth disciple when he was nine years old, and Wen Wan, who was two years older than the original owner, appeared a year later.

During this year, the original owner had developed some friendships with her fellow disciples. Even if Wen Wan secretly instigated them later, there would still be people who would stand on the original owner's side.

But...from the moment Gu Yuanzhou's life plate was shattered, it was the beginning of the tragedy of the original owner's life.

The only disciples who went down the mountain for training at that time were the original owner Gu Yuanzhou and Wen Wan.

They had never thought that they would encounter a rampaging monster. In order to protect herself, Wen Wan pushed him into the monster cave in panic and fled in a hurry.

But I didn't expect that the original owner also witnessed this scene with his own eyes.

However, when the original owner jumped into the devil's cave at all costs to try to rescue Gu Yuanzhou, Wen Wan rushed back to the sect first and used all means to push the death of Gu Yuanzhou onto the original owner.

The original owner, who was covered in wounds and had barely escaped death from the Monster Cave, was taken to the Discipline Department and severely tortured as soon as he returned to the sect.

No one would believe me even if I explained everything.

In the end, the original owner was spared the death penalty because his sister wrote a letter to plead for mercy.

It can be said that this incident was the fuse that caused the original owner to be abandoned by his friends and relatives and hated by everyone.

But he didn't die. If he had gone back then...

Will everything be different?

This thought inexplicably appeared in Xia Ling's mind.

But his mind is very clear.

Gu Yuanzhou's current situation must be extremely miserable. It was his own choice whether to go back or not, and it was not hers to judge whether the choice was right or wrong.

"...My face is ruined, my golden elixir is broken. Even my legs are crippled. I am a complete cripple." Gu Yuanzhou chuckled, his laugh was sad: "Do you think I am qualified to go back now? Can I... go back?"

Xia Ling was slightly stunned. She could see that he was not in good condition. But she never thought that his condition was much more serious than what the naked eye could see...

Yes, the original owner almost died when he escaped from the Monster Cave, and that was when he encountered only a few monsters.

And what he was going through was only going to get worse.

Seeing that she remained silent, Gu Yuanzhou looked self-deprecating and recounted the ridiculous past as if he were an outsider.

"…After being pushed into the demon cave by Junior Sister Wen, I was taken to the cave by a sixth-rank poisonous spider. I thought I was doomed, but when the poisonous spider was about to kill me, it encountered an invasion by other demon beasts, so I took advantage of the chaos to escape."

Gu Yuanzhou looked at her, the suppressed emotions in his eyes were so unsettling.

"At that time, my elixir had already shattered and my cultivation had all dissipated... I dragged this useless body through untold hardships to come to the sect, but was treated as a dirty thing and expelled..."

He seemed to find it a little funny. "Yes, a man who has been confirmed dead drags his disabled body back and claims to be the son of the elder. Who would believe it? Who would be willing to accept it? Maybe they would rather I was really dead than alive."

Xia Ling found it a little ridiculous.

Deportation?

How can it be?

The third elder's hair turned white overnight due to the grief of losing his son. He went to the demon cave in person to look for the body, but he didn't even find any bones.

Since then, he has been secluded and has been studying the spell of resurrection all day long...

The entire sect knows how important Gu Yuanzhou is to the Third Elder.

Even the disciple who was guarding the outer sect at that time was sent personally by the Third Elder just in case.

Logically speaking, they would not let go of anyone who claimed to be Gu Yuanzhou, let alone someone who came to the sect for help.

Even if it is fake, it will be brought to the Third Elder for confirmation.

But in the original owner's memory, those gatekeeper disciples said that no one had ever called themselves Gu Yuanzhou, nor had they heard anyone else mention him.

Thinking of this, Xia Ling's eyes changed slightly.

...Unless the gatekeeper disciple who expelled him at that time was instructed by someone else.

Who could do such a heartless thing?

It was Gu Qi who hated him the most and regarded him as a thorn in his side.

Or is Wen Wan afraid that Gu Yuanzhou is not dead and will return to the sect to expose everything?

Or is it the Third Elder’s mortal enemy, the Fourth Elder Gu Yi?