Seeing Xu Yanxi knocked to the ground by Shen Qing's few nonchalant words, the Qingdai Sect Master gave Xu Yanxi an annoyed look and silently cursed her for being useless in her heart.
Although Banfenghe had been ridiculed by Xu Yanxi just now, she remembered the ultimate purpose of calling people over. Gritting her teeth, she stepped forward and helped Xu Yanxi up.
Indignantly, she said to Shen Qing, "Shen Qing, how could you say such things? Senior Xu is after all Li Xian's mother. No matter what misunderstandings there are between them, filial piety should prevail."
"Don't you know the saying 'There are no unrighteous parents under the sky'? How could you still talk back to your elders?"
Shen Qing immediately flew into a rage and was about to roll up her sleeves and argue, but was held back by Li Xian.
Li Xian pulled Shen Qing behind him and took a step forward. The malevolence on his face grew stronger.
"What did you say? 'There are no unrighteous parents under the sky'?"
"Filial piety?"
Li Xian approached step by step, and Banfenghe suddenly felt a bit timid.
She had never seen Li Xian like this. The killing intent and anger in his eyes were about to engulf her. It seemed that as long as she nodded and said yes the next second, Li Xian would break her neck.
Banfenghe hid half of her body behind Xu Yanxi, hoping that Xu Yanxi could help her block Li Xian's anger.
But Xu Yanxi was always in a daze, immersed in her own world, not paying the slightest bit of attention to Banfenghe.
"Li Xian... I just hope that you and your mother can resolve your past grievances," Banfenghe seemed to have found an excuse for herself and began to speak with confidence again.
"Your mother is your only relative in this world. How could you bear to make her so sad? After the misunderstandings are resolved, there will be one more person in the world who loves you. Isn't that good?"
Li Xian let out a cold laugh and threw out a sentence, "Mind your own business."
He summoned his natal sword and held it in his hand, as if he was about to take action. But Shen Qing didn't want him to confront these people in the Qingmu Sect. She immediately stepped forward and held the hand that Li Xian was holding the sword with.
"Li Xian, calm down. This is not a good time to take action. I've already injured Banfenghe once. If you injure her a second time, things will be hard to resolve."
"Moreover, she is your mother. We have other ways to solve this."
Li Xian lowered his head and looked at Shen Qing. The malevolence in his eyes had not completely dissipated. Shen Qing could feel that Li Xian was at the limit of his patience. If she hadn't stopped him just now, Li Xian would really have taken Banfenghe's life.
Thinking of this, Shen Qing tightened her grip on Li Xian's hand a bit more until Li Xian put away his natal sword. Only then did Shen Qing heave a sigh of relief.
Shen Qing glanced at Banfenghe and saw that she was showing a victorious expression on her own. Sighing, she pulled Li Xian away.
This time, no one spoke up to persuade them to stay. After all, in their eyes, Shen Qing and Li Xian were afraid of Xu Yanxi and were fleeing in a hurry.
After returning to the courtyard, Jiang Zhijun and Qing Qing were gossiping, lying on the window and looking at the scene outside.
Both of them were sticking their butts out, with embarrassed smiles on their faces as if they had been caught red - handed.
"Well... Qing Qing and I were just afraid that you guys would get hurt... so we were just keeping an eye on, not deliberately gossiping," Jiang Zhijun explained awkwardly. But Qing Qing beside him was a bit speechless.
Your explanation is no different from trying to cover up the truth...
Qing Qing had recovered quite well after the continuous treatment from Elder Lianshan. But because the toxins in his body had been hidden for a long time and were difficult to eradicate completely for a while, he still looked sickly.
He calmly poured a cup of water for Li Xian and said, "I always feel that sometimes you and I are in the same boat, both troubled by our own pain."
"No wonder we two loners can become friends. There's a reason for it."
Li Xian took a deep breath and drank the tea in one gulp. He could taste the strong fragrance of the tea, which was the spiritual medicine that Qing Qing had put in to calm the mind.
Li Xian looked up at Qing Qing and then at Jiang Zhijun standing beside him, and said, "There are still some differences after all."
Qing Qing and Jiang Zhijun immediately understood what Li Xian meant and both involuntarily turned their heads away, their ears turning red.
Qing Qing coughed pretentiously and said, "You still have the mood to joke. It seems your state of mind is still quite good."
"Insignificant people naturally can't affect my mood. I'm just a bit annoyed."
Li Xian said in a deep voice. After sensing that the auras of the three people outside had disappeared, his tense mind finally relaxed.
Although he always comforted himself that the matter was over, the scars buried in his heart would never disappear.
That night, Li Xian and Shen Qing rarely climbed onto the roof of Qing Qing's house and lay comfortably looking at the star - filled sky.
They had known each other for quite a while, and this was their tacit understanding. Whenever someone was in a bad mood or encountered a bottleneck, they would meet at night and lie quietly together.
Cultivators always yearned for the world in the sky, which was the place they wanted to reach with all their might in this lifetime.
So looking at the stars and the moon in the sky, their originally confused Dao hearts would always settle down.
"Have you ever seen your father?" Shen Qing suddenly asked.
Of course, Shen Qing knew that Li Xian was only three years old when his father passed away, so what Shen Qing was asking was whether he had seen a portrait of his father or something like that.
But Li Xian shook his head and replied, "No. There used to be many portraits of my father in my mother's room, but when I was locked in the dark room, my mother burned them all in a fire."
"Yuxuzi once said that I look very much like my father, so when I was a child, my mother would sometimes hold me and cry bitterly, or she couldn't accept my face."
Li Xian's tone was flat, and Shen Qing couldn't tell his emotions.
But then Li Xian said self - deprecatingly, "Maybe the reason my mother didn't kill me when I was a child was because of my face that resembled my father's."
Shen Qing knew that no matter what she said at this time, she couldn't comfort Li Xian's wounded heart, so she just silently accompanied him and chatted with him casually.
Neither of their original families was very happy. Shen Qing was born into a family that favored sons over daughters, while Li Xian had a father he had never met and a paranoid and resentful mother.
Shen Qing couldn't even tell which of them was more unlucky.
Both of these families were no good.
"Shen Qing, I know your younger brother is Shen Chuyun. I can understand that your relationship is not good, but I've never heard you mention your parents," Li Xian asked, turning his head and looking at Shen Qing curiously with inquiring eyes.
Shen Qing fell into silence. She had never told others about her original family. Only True Lord Hengling and Shen Chuyun knew what kind of people her parents were.
She deliberately avoided this question, not because she was afraid of being ashamed if others knew, but because she just didn't want to admit that that disgusting couple was her biological parents.
If she hadn't grown up in Xiaolin Village since childhood, Shen Qing would even have suspected that she was not her parents' biological child but was picked up.