Chapter 352 Considerate Sister
Within the cabin, the woman cried so hard her body trembled, almost losing her strength to stand steady.
Li Yuechan saw this, hurried forward to support her aunt, while wiping her tears, and tried to console her.
Li Damu, who was blamed and beaten, huddled in a corner like a quail. This burly warrior dared not talk back as his petite wife scolded and hit him.
His arms were covered in bloodstains, and his face was full of scratch marks.
Facing his wife’s wailing, he just shrank his neck awkwardly, stammering.
“I… I didn’t know it would be like this…”
“Had I known someone wanted to harm Yang’er’s life, I definitely wouldn’t have called him back to the village.”
Hesitating, Li Damu then turned to Li Yuechan and asked,
“Yu Chan, you trained in the Demon Sect, you understand the ways of cultivation better.”
“Does your Demon Sect have any techniques for changing appearances, or disguise, like body doubles?”
“In storybooks, aren’t there such plots where someone uses a magical skin to disguise themselves and live as another, with none of the people around them realizing…”
“How about I disguise myself as your brother? I’ll take his place and escape on the Flying Boat with Aunt Su.”
“And you lead your second aunt and Muyang to flee.”
“As long as those demons chase after me, you all can be safe.”
The simple-minded Li Damu, with his limited knowledge, thought of a plan.
To die in place of his son.
But Li Yuechan shook her head helplessly, saying, “Uncle, disguises won’t work.”
“Those demons are able to relentlessly follow our direction; they must be using some sort of evil tracking magic on my brother.”
“Even if you disguised yourself as my brother, they would chase after not you, but wherever my brother is.”
In her heart, Li Yuechan was feeling some regret at this moment.
Regretting that she did not take her uncle and aunt far away from there.
She originally thought that when her teacher said there was no way, it meant the teacher did not want to make a move to save her brother.
After all, she could always feel that her teacher was inexplicably on guard and vigilant towards her older brother.
Or rather, after being betrayed and killed by the person he trusted the most in the past, the teacher no longer trusted anyone.
The reason he chose her was because the teacher had watched her grow up within her family’s heirloom jade, knowing her inside out.
But even so, the teacher had always observed her from a distance as she grew from a baby to now, until last year when she turned sixteen and was about to enter the Demon Sect in search of her brother, that the teacher finally appeared and decided to impart to her the methods of cultivation.
If it weren’t for her nature of gratitude and her caring character towards her relatives which had won the approval of her teacher, the teacher within the family heirloom jade would have continued to exist silently as he had for tens of thousands of years before, not disturbing anyone.
Even for her, whom he watched grow up from a child, the teacher took a long time to observe, let alone her brother whose personality had dramatically changed.
Li Yuechan guessed that her teacher had a way to break the situation but didn’t want to waste his power on her brother.
After all, the teacher used to be an Immortal. Even though only a wisp of his soul remained, he must have extraordinary means.
Back in Tianjiao City, the teacher had already revealed his extraordinariness.
But the teacher was unwilling to save anyone, yet she could not bear to see her brother die a miserable death, nor could she stand to see her uncle and aunt grieve over the sorrow of giving away white for black. Stay updated through My Virtual Library Empire
She could only beg the teacher, but was rejected.
With all hope lost, Li Yuechan could only put herself in danger, hoping that in a critical moment, the teacher would take action to save everyone’s lives.
But now that the situation has deteriorated to this point, the teacher still said there was no way.
Only then did Li Yuechan understand that the teacher had not lied to her.
Even if he could reproduce the miracle of Tianjiao City and bestow his power upon her, the teacher’s capability was probably not enough to solve the current deadlock.
After all, those who came to hunt them down were all notorious figures in the Demon Path, not to be underestimated in power.
It seemed this family was likely doomed.
With these thoughts, Li Yuechan’s heart was in turmoil.
She softly consoled her uncle and aunt for a few moments, and when her aunt’s crying had stopped, she took a deep breath, stood up, and said.
“I’ll go and discuss this with my older brother.”
Since staying on the Flying Boat meant certain death, Li Yuechan thought of having her uncle and aunt leave separately.
The Demon Cultivators were after her brother, they likely wouldn’t bother to track down two mere mortals, would they?
But no sooner had Li Yuechan pushed the door open than she found her older brother standing at the corner.
In the quiet corridor, the siblings’ eyes met, and silence fell in the air.
From the room behind them, the low sobbing of Liu and the crying complaints resumed.
Li Muyang, dressed in his movement technique robe, was standing outside the room, having seemingly been there for quite some time, listening in.
But he never went in, nor did he make a sound.
The room where his blood-related parents resided seemed to harbor some immense terror for him.
Now as sibling’s eyes met, a trace of embarrassment showed on Li Muyang’s face.
He instinctively wanted to wave to his sister, to show his composure.
He had been outside this room for a long time.
But hearing the wailing complaints of “mother” inside the room, and the desperate, subconscious thoughts of “father” wanting to die in his stead… Li Muyang, who had been at peace with himself, now couldn’t bring himself to enter.
Facing such a scene, he didn’t know how to face those two closest to him within.
He also didn’t know how to confront these “parents” who were willing to die for him with any sort of emotion.
For a long time, he had resisted acknowledging the existence of these two relatives, and now he found it hard to accept this weighty love.
So much so that he did not even react to the sound of his sister opening the door.
Now that they were facing each other, Li Muyang instinctively waved, trying to break the awkwardness.
But the girl reacted faster.
She took a quick step forward and grabbed Li Muyang’s hand.
Before Li Muyang could respond, she was forcibly dragging him away.
The two of them quickly moved away from that room and came to the exit of the cabin.
The bright daylight fell upon them as Li Yuechan softly sighed and said, “Big brother, you don’t need to go in there. Let uncle and aunt stay for a while.”
“You going in now would only make you uncomfortable.”
The clever and shrewd younger sister, as sharp as ever.
Seeing this, Li Muyang also let out a sigh of relief, feeling a weight lift from his shoulders—he truly did not dare to face his parents in that kind of atmosphere.
Now, as the siblings stood at the exit of the cabin, looking at the clouds that were swiftly passing by outside, Li Yuechan suddenly spoke.
“Big brother, I want to send uncle and aunt away on their own.”
“Even if they leave, they might still be found by the Demon Cultivators of the Green Sheep Society.”
“But after all, uncle and aunt are just two mortals. The Green Sheep Society is chasing us, they don’t need to resort to taking hostages.”
“If uncle and aunt can hide after they leave, maybe they can still find a way to survive…”
Li Yuechan shared her thoughts with Li Muyang.
Li Muyang thought for a moment and nodded, “Okay, I’ll have a maid escort them away.”
Li Muyang’s ultimate trump card was better off with fewer witnesses.
If he could, he even wished his adopted sister was not on the boat.
Although from the moment Yuechan decided to stay and face life and death with him, Li Muyang had lowered his guard against his sister somewhat.
But he was a cautious person, not willing to test human nature.
The temptation of an Ancient Immortal Artifact was enough to corrupt a human heart.