When Chu Wanning finally woke up, it was already noon.

Tachiro is such a good thing. He had a good sleep last night. There was no trouble with nightmares anymore. He yawned and sat up slowly.

"Mo Ran?"

The apprentice who had always loved to stay in bed more than him was not in the place where he slept last night. Chu Wanning was slightly stunned and called out like this.

No one takes care of it.

He stood up, tidied up his clothes, and while tying his long foggy hair, he walked towards the compartment of the wing room. Thin of water vapor was steaming behind the Su-embroidered screen depicting the mountains of Yunyan, as if someone was bathing behind.

“…Mo Ran.”

Chu Wanning stood outside and called again.

Still no response.

He couldn't help but feel suspicious. Chu Wanning knocked on the wooden edge of the screen. After many successes, he frowned and turned to the back of the screen.

This is a place specially used for bathing and washing in the room. There is a camphor wood bath barrel in the middle. Chu Wanning glanced at it and found that the water inside was full of hot and sprinkled with Chinese herbal flowers and plants that the store had already arranged. But there were no one who took a bath.

But looking around, Mo Ran took off his clothes and folded them on the wooden rack.

Could it be that he had taken a shower and ran out without clothes?

Chu Wanning twitched his forehead, pressing down this terrible thought, pursing his thin lips, his face looking a little ugly.

Just as I was turning around and about to leave, I suddenly heard two "gurgling" sounds behind me.

Chu Wanning turned around and saw several bubbles rising from the large wooden barrel covered with petals and herbs.

——Is there anyone inside?

As soon as this thought came out, he heard the sound of "wow". A naked young man jumped out of the bucket like a dragon coming out of the water, which shocked Chu Wanning to take two steps back.

The young man seemed to be holding his breath under the water, so he didn't hear Chu Wanning calling him outside. He couldn't hold it in, so he stood up, revealing his upper half, and swung the water droplets on his hair like a dog on the shore, all the water splashed on Chu Wanning's clothes.

"Mo Ran!"

"Ah!" The man shook his head was stunned and suddenly opened his eyes wide open. He seemed to have never expected to see him as soon as he came out. He was extremely surprised, "Master!"

"you……"

His eyes swept over the young man's body shape, and his gradually expanded shoulders and back seemed very wide, with fluent and tight lines, and full of youthful tension. The water droplets gathered along the solid muscles in his chest and flowed slowly, and the sun shone with a dazzling luster.

He was like those very beautiful mermaids, half floating on the water, his hair and eyes were wet, and there were even a few petals in his hair.

Mo Ran smiled and walked towards Chu Wanning with a smile, folded his hands against the side of the bucket, stretched his shoulder blades like leopards, and looked up at him with his head raised.

Chu Wanning felt dizzy and hot for a moment, and subconsciously said: "What are you doing?"

"Take a bath."

"Morning?"

"Hehe." I felt a little guilty. In fact, I wanted to take a shower at the beginning to suppress the evil fire. Later, the fire was suppressed, but I felt that I had taken off my clothes. It was better to take a shower. I was happy while I was washing, so I dived into the bottom of the water to practice breath holding. Unexpectedly, Chu Wanning hit me right away.

"Why are you smirking?" Chu Wanning frowned, his tone gradually became colder, in an attempt to cover up his brain heat. "I didn't know how to wake me up when I got up early. I was messing around here, throwing clothes from east to west, and forming a combination—"

"Master. You... have water here."

He raised his hand and wiped Chu Wanning's side face.

"Union."

Mo Ran smiled. He forgot that his hands were wet. Wiping Chu Wanning's face would only get wetter the more he rubbed it.

Chu Wanning stood there stiffly, the air around him was cold, his face was tight and his lips were slightly pursed, but his eyelashes trembled.

It felt like he was clearly coaching a hunting dog, but the cunning puppy raised his head and arched it, and it was pleasing to him.

"...Put your clothes and get out. We are going to prepare to return to the sect."

In the end, Chu Wanning threw down this sentence with a cold face and left with a shook her sleeves.

But where Mo Ran didn't see, his ears turned red.

Just like where he didn't see it, there was also a pair of wet, complicated, but still longing eyes looking for him to leave uncontrollably until the corner disappeared.

The cuteness on Mo Ran's face disappeared, but turned into anger.

He angrily patted into the water, scooped up a handful of rubbing his face hard.

What a hell.

What's going on today?

I just saw him while taking a bath and just raised my hand and touched his face.

The ** that I finally suppressed was harder again...

"Why have you worn your clothes for so long?"

By the window, Chu Wanning turned his face, his clothes fluttered, his thin hair blew across his jade-colored cheeks, and he blamed him a little impatiently.

Mo Ran coughed a few times and vaguely said, "I used spells to evaporate my hair. I used it, but it was not smooth, so I was slower. Master."

It was rare to see him speak so well. Chu Wanning looked at him again in surprise and said, "After you have finished washing, go pack your things. We will rent a fairy boat back later. I don't want to run a sword, and I'm tired of riding the horse. I'm happy to walk on the water road."

"Oh, okay." Mo Ran didn't dare to look at him more, and coughed a few times in disguise.

Chu Wanning frowned and said, "What's wrong with your throat?"

"……nothing."

Turning around to get the luggage, the two of them bought some dry food and snacks in the store, and then went to the dock to rent a boat and board the road.

When the boat sailed through the Yangtze River, when it reached a place where it was not feasible, it formed a wooden wing, and used magic as a support to travel to the sky. Although it was not fast, it was better to be comfortable and secluded.

Eight days later, the two arrived at the top of life and death, and the wooden boat stopped in front of the mountain gate.

Mo Ran lifted the bamboo curtain and asked Chu Wanning to come out of the cabin first, and then follow him. At this time, the bright moon was hanging high. It was late at night. Elder Yuheng once told Xue Zhengyong not to send anyone to greet him in a letter, so the two of them climbed up the stairs and arrived at the entrance of the main gate, and met four disciples guarding the gate.

"Elder Yuheng!"

"Young Master Mo!"

When the four disciples saw them, somehow a hint of panic flashed across their faces. Before they could react, the people knelt down and raised their heads and said anxiously: "Elder, young master, someone is sending someone to find the two of them now! The Lord sent a letter to send a letter to the two of them to avoid them for a while. It seems that the fat pigeon is still flying slowly and has not been sent to you! Elder, young master, you should go to Wuchang Town to hide for the sake of the limelight, but don't go in!"

Chu Wanning narrowed his eyes and asked, "Why are you so panicked?"

"I am a person from the upper world of cultivation. He said that the elder wants to practice evil skills and wants to take you to Tianyin Pavilion for questioning!"

"Tianyin Pavilion?" Mo Ran said in surprise, "Isn't that a prison formed by the top ten sects, specifically to examine the ten evil people?"

"Yes! They rushed for the incident in Caidie Town!" One of the female disciples said in a panic, "Do you remember it? It was the time when you were beaten by a stick!"

"That's at most abusing the magic of immortals and affecting mortals. The master has already been punished. Why did he suddenly turn up the old accounts and even startle the Tianyin Pavilion?" Mo Ran frowned, "Also, what's wrong with evil skills?"

"We don't know much about the specifics, but people who heard that all the villagers in Caidie Town died overnight. The murderer was a half-immortal and half-ghost thing, as if he was instructed by someone. The ghost immortal had a profound magic power, and ordinary cultivators would never be able to drive her away, so those people in the upper world of cultivators suspected... they suspected that this was done by Elder Yuheng!"

Chu Wanning: “…”

"Puff." Mo Ran laughed, "I'm still thinking that it's something. Just explain this misunderstanding clearly, why bother to hide." He turned to Chu Wanning and said, "Master, look at their brains. You can get rid of a little monster, and say you are competing for the limelight with the younger generation. You kill a big monster, and you suspect that you are practicing evil skills and raising ghost immortals to hurt people. Then let's stop doing anything, it's best to learn from them to concentrate on meditation at home and cultivate immortals."

Chu Wanning didn't laugh. He looked ugly. After a while, he asked, "All the people in Caidie Town are dead?"

"It is said that this is true, and there is no living."

“…”

Chu Wanning closed her eyes.

Seeing that his expression was strange, the female disciple said uneasy: "Elder?"

"Although this matter is not what I do, it may be because of my failure to eliminate demons. I have the responsibility, so how can I avoid it?" Chu Wanning slowly opened his eyes, "Mo Ran, go in."

In Wushan Hall, twelve bronze lamps were arranged on both sides, each of which was ten feet high, with nine layers of copper branches stretching out from top to bottom, from short to long, totaling 356 candles, illuminating the lights of the hall at the top of life and death, just like daytime.

In the hall, Xue Zhengyong stood in a solemn uniform with his leopard eyes as if he was ringing, like an iron statue, staring at the people below.

"Master Li, I will tell you the last time. Elder Yuheng is not in the sect at this moment, and Xue can guarantee the title of the head of the neck. He is definitely not deliberately doing the matter of Caidie Town. Don't talk nonsense anymore...that..."

Mrs. Wang covered her sleeves next to her and whispered: "Huang."

"Well, don't talk nonsense anymore!" Xue Zhengyong waved his hand and said with a stern aura.

Mrs. Wang: “…………”

In addition to the on-duty disciples at the top of life and death, more than 30 people stood under the hall, almost all wearing green brocade robes, whisks on their arms, and a celestial silkworm crown. They were disciples of the new rise of "Bitanzhuang" in the upper world over the years. The man in the lead was about fifty years old, with two beards like catfishes, floating in the wind. Who is not Li Wuxin, the owner of Bitanzhuang?

Li Wuxin twisted his long beard and sneered, "Sect Master Xue, my respectful sect is also the right way, so I reasoned with you. Caidie Town was in the Queen Yuheng of the noble sect and his disciples who had eliminated demons. Except for the three of them, Chen Yuanwai's family has never had any contact with any immortal cultivator. People and physical evidence are there, and you have to recognize it if you recognize it, and you have to recognize it if you don't."

Xue Meng, who was standing beside his father, couldn't help but cursed: "You guys have the fucking face to say? When did you care about the affairs of the lower world of cultivation? On weekdays, they all stood by and watched over themselves ascend to heaven, and if something happened, they would fall into my master. Where did the truth come from?"

"Young Master Xue." Li Wuxin was not angry, but looked at him meaningfully and smiled, "I once heard that the young master was famous and known as the Phoenix Child. When I saw him today, hehe, he was so so cultivating, which really made me open my eyes."

"you--!"

Li Wuxin slowly rolled his eyelids and turned to Xue Zhengyong: "Sect Master Xue, I have strict laws in the cultivation world. Once I interfere in this matter, I will investigate it thoroughly. If you insist on refusing to hand over Yuheng, Mo Ran and others, I have to invite the world's largest sect, Confucian style sect, to come and preside over justice!"

Xue Zhengyong has a weak temper. He heard what he said, quite disgusted: "Wow. I know that you have a good relationship with Rufengmen in Bitao Villa, but even if Nangong Liu himself stood in front of me today, I still said the same thing - if you don't get a friend, this matter has nothing to do with Yuheng."

Xue Meng also said: "Parent Li Zhuang is here to go. I won't send you off."
To be continued...