Lin Ranzhi became even more anxious when she saw that Zhuo Qingtan had been silent for so long without speaking.

"Hey! Senior Sister Zhuo, you are talking! This is no joke. Don't rely on your high spiritual power and good talent to think that you will be able to withstand the grinding of the bone-suppressing nails! The bone-suppressing nails are inserted.

If you remain in the body for a long time, your roots will be damaged. Even if you regain your innocence by then, what use will it be? If you become a disabled person because of this injury to your spiritual roots, not only will you not be able to cultivate immortality in this life, but you may even have to do so for the rest of your life.

Lingering on the illness. Do you want to be like these days for the rest of your life, needing help from others to walk even a few steps?"

Zhuo Qingtan had a headache due to her noise, and just when he didn't know how to deal with it, suddenly there was a vibration on the entire Broken Ring Peak, and the old wooden walls of the Ordination Hall let out a mournful groan at the same time.

Both of them changed color at the same time.

Lin Ranzhi frowned and looked out the window: "Is this... the barrier on Duanjie Peak opened? Did the Master and the Palace Master leave the seclusion and open the seal on Duanjie Peak?"

"no."

Zhuo Qingtan shook her head slightly, her expression slightly condensed: "This wave of fluctuations is a little abnormal... The barrier was not opened by its owner on its own initiative, but because the host's spiritual power was weak and could not be sustained, it was forced to break.

open."

Lin Ranzhi was shocked when he heard this and hurriedly took out the piece of Langya jade he was wearing at his waist.

Each disciple of Duanxu Palace has a Langya jade tablet. If the spiritual power is injected into the Langya jade, he can contact his fellow disciples in the palace.

However, due to the barrier within Duanjie Peak, the Langya jade on the waists of Zhuo Qingtan and Lin Ran before entering the Duanjie Peak ordination hall were dim and unusable.

At this time, the two pieces of Langya jade around their waists emitted a faint white fluorescence.

——As expected, the barrier of Duanjie Peak has disappeared, and their Langya Jade will regain its effectiveness.

Before the two of them had time to digest this series of events, they heard two "swish" sounds of swords coming from far away and reached the top of the mountain in an instant.

"Sister!"

"Senior sister! I'm coming!!"

Before anyone arrived, it was brother and sister An Luofu and An Yunong who arrived.

Lin Ranzhi stood on his head with his willow eyebrows and shouted: "Brother Luofu, An Yunong, you are so bold! You actually broke into the forbidden area of ​​Duanjie Peak without permission."

Luo Fu said in a good temper: "Junior sister Ran, we happened to be at the foot of the mountain before we went far. We saw that the seal barrier of Duanjie Peak disappeared. I don't know what happened. I was worried that something had happened, so I came up to investigate."

An Luofu and An Yunong had been waiting at the bottom of Duanjie Peak early today, expecting Lin Ranzhi to arrive and begging her to bring the ginseng chicken soup they had ordered their private kitchen servants to prepare into Duanjie Peak.

I never thought that Lin Ran was so easy to talk to today. She seemed to be in a hurry, so she took her things and left.

The two brothers and sister were confused for a moment, and did not leave after that. They wanted to wait for her to come out and then ask about the current situation of the senior sister. Unexpectedly, after a while, the mountain of Duanjie Peak shook, and soon they found that the barrier was gone.

live.

They were in a hurry and flew up with their swords.

After hearing his explanation, Lin Ranzhi said nothing more, although she was still a little dissatisfied.

Unexpectedly, An Yunong suddenly shouted loudly, interrupting the conversation between her brother and her.

"——Okay! Lin Ranzhi, it turns out you really have ulterior motives! This is how you look after my senior sister!"

As soon as An Yunong entered the door, he immediately searched Zhuo Qingtan with his eyes, and then he saw at a glance the thin figure sitting upright like a green bamboo pole at the stone table at the door.

The senior sister who used to be as powerful as a tree in the sky in her eyes is now extremely thin, and her face is even more ugly than when she returned to the palace eight days ago.

The cloud-white Duanxu palace dress that Zhuo Qingtan was originally wearing was quite fitting, but now it was draped loosely on her body. At a glance, it looked like her bones could no longer hold up the dress.

Her face was also bloodless, and the black hair that she used to have now seemed dull and dull.

Zhuo Qingtan frowned slightly and whispered in agreement: "Yunong, you are so rude."

"Sister!"

An Yunong opened her eyes wide in shock, her eyes were red and she felt very aggrieved.

She whispered angrily: "Lin Ranzhi actually dares to do the following and treat you so harshly. Why do you still speak for her?"

However, An Luofu calmly glanced at the exquisite dishes on the stone table, then pulled his sister, shook his head to dissuade him: "Yunong, senior sister is not wrong about you, you are really unreasonable, and you have wronged junior sister Ran Zhi.

.Look, junior sister, even the meals she prepares for senior sister are so delicate and attentive, how could she treat senior sister Qingtan so poorly?"

An Yunong was stunned. She followed the direction of An Luofu's finger and looked intently at the stone table. Her face suddenly turned green and red.

She came back to her senses after a while and apologized in a low voice: "Junior Sister Ran, I was reckless. It turns out that you are such a good person with a hard mouth and a soft heart."

Lin Ranzhi: "..."

To be honest, when she heard this, she still blushed a little and felt guilty.

Today's meal was actually the only time Zhuo Qingtan had carefully prepared a meal since she had been shut down from Jiefeng for eight days, but she happened to be bumped into by her junior brother and sister. She did not dare to accept this compliment.

So, Lin Ranzhi cleared her throat uncomfortably, and was about to confess honestly. After all, she had no merit and no reward.

Zhuo Qingtan had already spoken softly: "Junior Sister Lin has indeed taken good care of me these past few days."

Lin Ran paused and subconsciously turned to look at her. She saw Zhuo Qingtan looking at her with a smile and shaking his head slightly at her, almost invisible.

Is this... telling her not to say it?

She was probably afraid that An Yunong and the others would cause trouble for her.

"Furthermore......"

Although Zhuo Qingtan's voice was weak, the words he said should not be underestimated: "Even the junior brothers and sisters who received errands in the Master Ordination Hall did not show any concern at all, and that is even more natural. I am here to be ordained and punished, not to enjoy.

Since you are the direct disciples of the Palace Master, you must not treat the rules of Duanxu Palace as if they are nothing."

"But......"

An Yunong was about to say something when he raised his head and met Zhuo Qingtan's eyes as clear as a pool of clear water. He couldn't say a word and had to keep the words in his heart.

But...her senior sister is like the bright moon in the sky, self-denial and etiquette, noble in character, and very upright, so why should she have to suffer such hardships?

An Luofu pulled her and signaled her not to talk back, then took the lead in saluting and responded: "Yes, senior sister, Luofu must strictly abide by the teachings and the palace rules."

An Yunong had no choice but to follow closely and respond in a low voice: "...Yes, senior sister."

Zhuo Qingtan supported the stone table and straightened up with difficulty.

The bone-suppressing nails at the two major spiritual veins on her knees suddenly vibrated as if they were alive. She swayed violently and almost couldn't stand.

An Yunong and An Luofu were startled, and they both stepped forward to support her, but Lin Ranzhi took a step ahead.

"Ah! Senior sister!"

"Sister, be careful!"

Zhuo Qingtan calmly stood up with Lin Ranzhi's hand holding her, and raised her hand to stop them from surrounding her: "It doesn't matter."

She had a calm expression on her face, but Lin Ranzhi, who was supporting her, knew very well that the arms covered by Zhuo Qingtan's cloud sleeves were trembling slightly.

In fact, Lin Ranzhi discovered long ago that she had been just holding on.

When Zhuo Qingtan was eating just now, although Zhuo Qingtan tried her best to keep her right hand steady, her left hand, which was hidden under her sleeve and was not holding chopsticks, was actually trembling very weakly.

It's just that Lin Ranzhi saw that she had to endure it really hard, so he pretended not to know and didn't expose her.

Now that Zhuo Qingtan didn't want her junior brothers and sisters to worry, she would help her out again. It was all in return for her kindness in teaching her how to practice Hunyuan Jue.

Lin Ranzhi cleared her throat and prepared to drive people away.

"Now that people have seen you two, shouldn't you leave? I'll just show my kindness, since I haven't seen you today, so hurry up and leave!"

After driving them away, she should help Zhuo Qingtan back to bed to rest for a while. Even if she was sitting upright on the bed, it would be painful, but it was better than talking to them at the door with the cold wind blowing.

An Yunong looked at her in surprise when he heard this: "What? Now the seal on Duanjie Peak has disappeared. This means... This means that senior sister can go out! Why should we leave? It should be

It’s best for us all to go together!”

"Nonsense!" Lin Ranzhi's brows were so tight that they could kill a fly.

"Senior Sister Zhuo just said that this barrier was not opened by my master on his own initiative."

An Yunong paused for a moment, then rolled his eyes and said loudly: "My master did say that senior sister should be punished with eight bone-suppressing nails at Duanjie Peak, and senior sister also suffered. Senior Uncle Changsu was indeed at Duanjie Peak.

I set up a barrier to let my senior sister stay in the barrier to think about her mistakes. When the barrier was there, my senior sister never left. However, now that the barrier has disappeared, it has nothing to do with my senior sister. She has been punished, and

She has passed the confinement and has not disobeyed the orders of the palace master and the ring elder. Now that the barrier has disappeared, it is no different if we take her back to Qingyue Peak to reflect on her own, and continue to stay here."

"This..." Lin Ranzhi hesitated.

If it had been one day before, she would definitely not have let go. She wished that Zhuo Qingtan would have been exposed to the cold on Duanjie Peak, lacking food and clothing, and suffering more bits and pieces of sins.

But at this time...

Lin Ranzhi paused slightly and asked them to take this opportunity to take Zhuo Qingtan back.

Zhuo Qingtan glanced at An Yunong with slight disapproval.

The bright smile on An Yunong's face froze instantly. She lowered her head silently and avoided Zhuo Qingtan's gaze, but she was so stubborn that she refused to change her words.

An Luofu thought about it and couldn't help but follow suit.

"Senior sister, what Yu Nong said is not unreasonable. Since the seal barrier of Duanjie Peak has been broken, it must be that the master and the elders encountered more troubles in the Taixu Secret Realm, which caused Master Changsu's spiritual power to fail.

, resulting in the inability to continue to maintain the barrier. If they cannot come out for a while, the senior sister will still need to decide on all matters in Duanxu Palace, and the disciples will also need to be assigned the task of eliminating evil spirits and demons. If you declare yourself on the Broken Ring Peak

, it is of no benefit to Duanxu Palace."
To be continued...