Chapter 135: The Third Disciple’s Arrival

Xia Baiqian glanced at the young woman and clicked her tongue inwardly.

Still, she felt relieved as she climbed down from Chu Huaizhou.

Standing aside, she steadied her own Dao and injuries.

Chu Huaizhou was startled as he looked at the young woman, whose development had also exceeded expectations.

He studied her carefully before speaking slowly:

“Yinlu… Little Bao? Is that you?”

His voice was a bit hoarse, hesitant to confirm.

After all, in his memory, his third disciple had been skinny and looked undernourished.

She was usually quiet and withdrawn, like a little punching bag.

Bullied by the second senior sister, and silently enduring the first senior sister’s cold treatment.

Later, after spending more time with her two senior sisters, they realized she wasn’t pretending.

She truly was a poor little thing; they felt guilty and treated her well, wishing they could hold her in their palms.

At that time, they were all young and had terrible childhoods.

So their personalities were somewhat flawed, but later they improved under Chu Huaizhou’s care.

The person before him… no, she should be called a woman.

Except for her face, her temperament and figure had changed so much she didn’t resemble Meng Yinlu.

If not for the signature cowlick, Chu Huaizhou wouldn’t have dared to call out.

Adding ‘Little Bao’ after her name was his pet name for Meng Yinlu.

Because she was truly adorable.

Meng Yinlu blinked. Hearing ‘Little Bao,’ her eyes lit up.

Her long eyelashes cast tiny shadows on her cheeks.

She turned to look at Chu Huaizhou. Her expression remained cool, but there was a sense of relief.

As expected, his third disciple had probably remained unchanged after three hundred years.

Still his favorite disciple, a truly warm padded jacket.

Definitely not like those rebellious disciples who plotted against their master.

But he had to admit, she had… changed a lot.

Meng Yinlu knelt on one knee and bowed to Chu Huaizhou.

She said solemnly, “Disciple Meng Yinlu has lived up to your guidance. With your instruction, I have successfully broken through!”

Chu Huaizhou’s gaze inadvertently swept over her leg lines, tightened as she knelt on one knee.

The thick, opaque black stockings were stretched, faintly revealing the fair skin of her knee.

She was perfect, like a work of art.

It made Chu Huaizhou think of an old, clichéd joke.

‘This leg could be played with for a year!’

Her waist-cinching black dress outlined a breathtaking curve from waist to hip, and her full bustline rose and fell with her breath.

‘Damn it, what am I looking at! This is inhuman!’

He blinked to dispel the thoughts and lifted her up with his power.

“Oh, between you and me, there’s no need for such formality. I’m just glad you’re safe.”

Seeing her like this, Chu Huaizhou felt even more emotional.

But speaking of which, how did Meng Yinlu get in here?

Since the master of this place had already focused their gaze here, the entrance should have been sealed by now.

“Yinlu, how did you know I was here and manage to enter?”

Given the critical situation, with Ye Feng and Di Xiaoyao around, and his own memory loss, he felt younger than his disciples.

Chu Huaizhou was too embarrassed to call her ‘Little Bao.’

Hearing this, Meng Yinlu lowered her eyes, looking a bit disappointed.

But she still answered honestly:

“I just broke through and instinctively felt that you were in danger.”

“So I followed my intuition here, and my intuition told me there was a spatial disturbance somewhere.”

“I slashed it open and came in.”

Bai Li continued maintaining her domain and spells beside him.

A smile bloomed on her charming face.

“Xiao Lulu, you came at just the right time! A breakthrough means late-stage Nascent Soul, right? As expected of you, meow!”

Xia Baiqian rolled her eyes. Her junior sister was always so lucky.

She happened to arrive at the most critical moment to save the day.

But it was good that it was her. If it had been the senior sister, she would have truly fallen into darkness.

As she said before, if Elder Di’s words were correct,

Junior Sister Yinlu’s arrival would likely resolve this crisis.

And she definitely wouldn’t be like the senior sister, demanding repayment after saving him and getting close to the master.

Speaking of which, Junior Sister Yinlu’s talent was really strong. She was the last to join the sect among the sisters.

Yet her cultivation advanced the fastest. Meanwhile, she herself was still in the early stage of Nascent Soul after so long.

Before, because the master always protected her, she enjoyed being cared for.

She didn’t work hard on cultivation.

Now… Xia Baiqian realized her strength was becoming more and more inadequate.

Lately, things had been unstable, with many unheard-of things emerging.

Xia Baiqian forced a smile, but deep exhaustion showed in her eyes.

She couldn’t even get the master, let alone protect him.

‘Do I… even have a reason to exist?’

‘Maybe I should just die.’

At this moment, the crisis hadn’t passed, and no one paid attention to Xia Baiqian’s deteriorating mentality.

Chu Huaizhou’s attention was caught by Meng Yinlu’s calm, cool words.

He was shocked. ‘This… is this right?’

They hadn’t told anyone about coming here, yet Yinlu found them so easily, as if it were no trouble at all.

And she called it intuition. That was too strong, right?

With Xia Baiqian as a precedent, Chu Huaizhou instinctively became suspicious.

‘Could she have used some secret technique to locate me?’

But seeing her naive, innocent look, he quickly dismissed the idea.

‘Impossible, impossible. Yinlu is an honest child. She wouldn’t do something like that.’

After speaking, Meng Yinlu kept staring at Chu Huaizhou’s face and noticed his stunned expression.

So she shuffled closer, reached out a delicate hand, grabbed his index finger, and shook it gently.

Her beautiful eyes seemed to shimmer with mist.

She lowered her head and whispered:

“Master… is it because I shouldn’t have come? Am I bothering you? That’s why you won’t call me ‘Little Bao.’”

“I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Can you still call me ‘Little Bao’?”

Chu Huaizhou, who knew her well, understood immediately.

‘She doesn’t think I meant to blame her for coming, does she?’

That would be a huge misunderstanding.

Chu Huaizhou quickly shook his head. “No, how could that be.”

“Yinlu… Little Bao, you came just in time.”

Meng Yinlu’s eyes lit up again, and she visibly brightened.

The cowlick on her head swayed.

While they chatted, the master of this place wasn’t idle.

Knowing that a single goat’s hoof could not defeat this group, it gathered a stronger attack.

Two even larger, more solid and terrifying black goat hooves emerged.

Ready to stamp down again.

The ground of the big white radish field, which had been ringing under Bai Li’s domain, had completely rotted into bloody, stinking flesh.

The whole cave widened as the gaze fell.

The bloody ground surged as several enormous blood-colored worms burst out.

They struck together with the goat hooves!

Chu Huaizhou watched in terror.

Meng Yinlu’s cuteness had almost made him forget the danger.

How could they escape?

Bai Li formed hand seals to cast spells again.

Xia Baiqian bit her tongue, ready to stimulate her essence blood to strengthen the Celestial Pure Glass Crystal.

Taking all this in, Meng Yinlu said coolly:

“Little Bai Li, Senior Sister Bai Qian, rest for now. Leave this to me.”

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