C41 (1/2)
The door opened, and footsteps rang out. Not long after, the small living room was immediately filled with people. One of the three people came over to Ling Yan and bowed, ”Senior Apprentice Brother has come out. Fool juniors and the other four did not come out to welcome you, causing you to fall into the mortal world. Fool Juniors and the others felt guilty. Please punish us, senior apprentice-brother.”
At this moment, Ling Yan was also very excited. Although he had never met his juniors before, they were, after all, the direct disciples of his parents. Since his parents were not on Earth today, they were the ones with the closest connections to him. He smiled and said, ”I can't even be sure of my own time when I came out of seclusion. How would you know? No wonder you two, Xiao Qian?” Ji Xiaoqian was her youngest junior sister. She had four people, and Ji Xiaoqian should still be around. However, she only had three junior brothers, so Ling Yan asked about them.
”In reply to Senior Brother's words, Junior Sister Zhuang is currently in closed door cultivation, so it is inconvenient for me to wake her up. Senior Brother, please forgive me.” The man in the middle answered respectfully.
Ling Yan said, ”What is there to not forgive about our fellow apprentices? I saw that she wasn't here, so I just asked. Hehe, you are Wu Qi? ” The person in the middle had a stocky face and looked like he was in his fifties. He had a crew cut, and if it wasn't for the pair of eyes that flashed brightly from time to time, he would have been the type of person that couldn't be found if he was thrown into the crowd. The man said respectfully, ”Senior Brother, I am Wu Qi.”
Before Ling Yan could say anything, the person on the left continued, ”Senior Brother, I'm Zhao Yu. Actually, we don't know about Senior Brother coming out of seclusion, so this matter should be blamed on me. If I hadn't been away for a few days, I wouldn't have let Senior Brother face this unfamiliar environment alone.”
Zhao Yu's face was thin and he looked around 30 years old. He wore a tailored and proper suit, and his entire body emitted a refined and talkative disposition. He looked extremely like an extremely powerless teacher, and his eye sockets were only short of a pair of close-sighted glasses.
Ling Yan knew that he was the third son of the Northern Song Dynasty, and due to his lack of interest in fame and wealth, he chose to travel to that place. On this day, he was lucky enough to run into the ZhongHan couple, and they accepted him as their disciple. At this moment, Zhao Yu had a face full of guilt as he blamed himself in his heart. The kindness of his Master and his wife to his martial brother and sister was as heavy as a mountain, and he was actually unable to even accomplish such a simple task as protecting them.
Ling Yan was surprised. ”You know where I go in seclusion?” and often go to guard it? ”
”Ha ha!” The person on the right laughed and said, ”Senior Brother, when Master and Mistress were on Earth, we used to often go outside your closed door cultivation abode to have fun, so of course we know about it. After they left for Sinking Cloud Star, the four of us found a place to stay not far away from your cave entrance, because it's a good place to cultivate. It's also Master's instruction, so it's completely the same as senior protector, so we cultivated here for three hundred years. Three hundred years later, Master's wife returned to Earth from Sinking Cloud Star, and made us brothers and sisters fortunately serve her for another hundred years. ”Before we leave, tell our brother and sister: In the future, the situation will develop and this place will become a densely packed crowd. In order to not attract attention, us siblings can look elsewhere for cultivation and just come back often to take a look.”
”Father and mother came back?” Ling Yan's face was filled with regret again. ”What is my closed door doing?” He had actually made his parents wait for him for hundreds of years! Just that it has been hard on you all. You actually worried about these long years just for my inexplicable death. Right, you must be Junior Brother Duanmu Yin, right? ”
Duanmu Yin looked to be around forty years old, with a square face and a wide nose, a wide mouth, and a handsome face. He had a short beard on his cheeks, and when matched with Ling Yan's tall figure of nearly 1.9 meters, he gave off a very dignified and steady vibe. He spoke in a deep voice, and even though his voice was low, it still made one's ears twitch. Besides, this is our responsibility. If Third Bro didn't have any business being dragged by me, we could have just taken you out.
Ling Yan looked at the three juniors in front of him. He knew that his parents had taken a fancy to them as disciples, but in fact, they were a bit selfish, and kept him in the heart of Earth. Feeling uneasy, Ling Yan said with a smile, ”After coming out of seclusion and seeing mother's message, I was worried that one of you guys would fail the Silent Spirit Stage and let me not meet you. Now that you guys have met me, you guys are actually all in the late and middle stages of the Nascent Soul Stage, Xiao Qian shouldn't be that much weaker, right?”
On the left, Zhao Yu continued, ”Among the five of us, besides you, Senior Brother, we are the ones with the highest cultivation level, but little junior sister, she is already at the late Nascent Soul stage and is only one step away from the exit. Next is second brother, at the late Nascent Soul stage, Fourth Brother and I have the weakest cultivation, we are both at the middle level of the Nascent Soul stage.” Although his cultivation was at the bottom, the smile on his face brimmed with joy and gratification.