Watching her Fourth Senior Brother being tormented into such a miserable state, Ye Qiao, who was standing to the side, was forced to defend herself. However, she didn't even last the span of a cup of tea before she was sent flying out of the array.
Xie Chuxue smiled and said, “Why are you dodging?”
“Didn't you love catching your enemies off guard before?”
“If you encounter an opponent faster than you, you'll have no choice but to be utterly suppressed.”
So...
Xie Chuxue smiled as he finished, “Let's continue, then.”
Ye Qiao: ...This world has finally gone mad.
Lying slumped on the ground nearby, Luo Qingyu couldn't help but twitch her lips upon hearing Xie Chuxue's cheerful tone.
Little Martial Uncle is clearly planning to torment us to death.
...
Over the next few days, Ye Qiao was trapped inside the array for a full three days. Luo Qingyu had broken out on the second day, after which she spent her time slumped on the ground, waiting for Ye Qiao.
It wasn't until the afternoon of the fourth day that Ye Qiao finally found the array core. The two fellow sufferers lay side by side on the ground.
Dead, do not disturb!
“You're out?” Xie Chuxue lazily opened his eyes. “I didn't expect the two of you to be quite so fast.”
Over these seven days, the two of them suffered inhuman torment. Xie Chuxue first honed their speed in breaking arrays, and once they grew proficient, he constantly altered the formations to make things difficult for them.
Though the results were excellent, they were both on the verge of collapsing.
With a pale face, Ye Qiao looked at Xie Chuxue and asked in a quiet voice, “Little Martial Uncle, did Second Senior Brother also survive this kind of treatment back then?”
Xie Chuxue replied casually, “Indeed. Ming Xuan and Xue Yu both went through this exact same process.”
“No way?” Filled with doubt, Ye Qiao turned to Luo Qingyu. “Fourth Senior Brother, were you also poisoned by Little Martial Uncle's teaching back then?”
Luo Qingyu spoke weakly, “No. Back then, I only had to attend normal classes.”
“Ah?” Ye Qiao turned back to Xie Chuxue and asked in confusion, “Little Martial Uncle, why did you torment Xue Yu and Ming Xuan, but not Fourth Senior Brother?”
Xie Chuxue explained with a beaming smile, “Well, Xiaoyu is a genius. On ordinary days, she was either reading in the Library Pavilion or in closed-door cultivation refining artifacts. She simply had no free time, so she naturally escaped it.”
The moment he finished speaking, Ye Qiao collapsed right next to Luo Qingyu like a salted fish that had lost all its dreams.
Xie Chuxue quickly stepped forward and picked the two of them up by their collars, asking in a flurry, “What's wrong with you two?”
He remembered that Ming Xuan and Xue Yu had been quite resilient in the past. They hadn't... probably, maybe, been tormented to this extent, right?
When Qin Fanfan rushed over, he immediately saw his junior brother holding onto the collars of his two genius disciples.
One was so weak they had virtually no strength left, breathing their last, while the other was being shaken so much they were dizzy and on the verge of collapsing.
Qin Fanfan was so angry he directly smacked Xie Chuxue on the head and barked in exasperation, “What have you done to my two disciples?!”
With an innocent look, Xie Chuxue blinked and replied unhurriedly, “They're both fine!”
Just as he spoke, Luo Qingyu and Ye Qiao dazedly opened their eyes.
“See? Aren't they perfectly fine?” Xie Chuxue flashed a smile and instantly let go of their collars.
Ye Qiao and Luo Qingyu both fell back onto the ground with a soft thud at the same time.
Qin Fanfan: “...”
The fall woke Luo Qingyu up completely, though her head was still spinning.
Beside her, Ye Qiao felt as if her soul were floating away.
Luo Qingyu spoke with a resentful look in her eyes, “Little Martial Uncle, do you have any Teleportation Talismans?”
She wanted to take her Junior Sister to find Senior Brother. If they didn't leave now, her Junior Sister probably wouldn't survive.
Xie Chuxue smiled and shook his head. “I don't have Teleportation Talismans, but I do have a teleportation array here. Want to learn? I can teach you.”
Before the words even fully left his mouth, his fingers rapidly formed hand seals. Without giving them any time to react, he directly teleported them away.
“No—!”
...
Seeing his two prized disciples vanish in an instant, Qin Fanfan was so enraged that he punched Xie Chuxue right into the wall, embedding him so deeply he couldn't even be pried out.
He gritted his teeth and demanded, “Where are my Xiao Qiao and Xiaoyu?!”
Xie Chuxue chuckled and leisurely extracted himself from the wall. He casually patted the dust off his clothes and said with a nonchalant expression, “I don't know. The teleportation array is randomized, so it all depends on their luck.”
Seeing his calm and breezy demeanor, Qin Fanfan perfectly mirrored the irritable temper of their master from back in the day. His hands itched with anger, wishing he could throw a couple more punches.
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