AWB Chapter 219 As long as Lin Sui is alive, that's better than anything else.
Chapter 219 As long as Lin Sui is alive, that's better than anything else.
The two said almost in unison.
After they finished speaking, the old man and the young man stared at each other in a mysterious silence.
"Master?" Mao Yang exclaimed in surprise, "Didn't Miss Lin say that she was unaffiliated with any sect? Why would she call Master Zhang 'Master'?"
The Celestial Master's Mansion of Longhu Mountain has a prestigious reputation in the martial arts world; surely it's not something to be ashamed of?
Lin Sui, this apprentice, is even less likely to be like that.
If he could, he would really like to kick the furry guy away and replace him with Lin Sui as his disciple.
That would be absolutely hilarious!
Lin Sui was also somewhat surprised: "Master Zhang? The only remaining Grand Celestial Master, the senior Master Zhang from Longhu Mountain?"
“He’s not the only one left.” Master Zhang had a kind face and spoke gently. “Fellow Daoist Lin is also a Grand Master, and his cultivation is probably even above mine.”
"Therefore, I really do not deserve to be called Master by Fellow Daoist Lin."
Lin Sui was stunned.
If Zhang Tianshi is not her master, then why does she look the same as her master?
Lin Sui took a closer look at his face, and then frowned.
In the long history of the Celestial Master, spanning more than a century, he indeed never accepted a disciple named Lin Sui.
There wasn't even Qi Yan.
I got to know them through television, through variety show broadcasts.
Most importantly, she used to be unable to see her master's face clearly.
But now we can see Zhang Tianshi clearly.
This undoubtedly proves even more strongly that he and his master are indeed not the same person.
But Lin Sui also discovered that, starting eight years ago, Zhang Tianshi would go into seclusion for a period of time every year.
It can take anywhere from a month to ten days.
Eight years ago was the year she began practicing mystical arts at the age of ten.
Each time the master appeared, he would indeed stay for either a month or ten days.
Is it a coincidence?
Seeing that Lin Sui remained silent for a while, Master Zhang brought up the old topic again: "Fellow Daoist Lin, may I take a look at your bracelet?"
He was presumptuous; he didn't even knock on the door, but came eagerly for the bracelet.
Lin Sui remained silent for a moment, then nodded.
Tangxi carefully helped her pick up the bracelet and gently placed it in Zhang Tianshi's hand, then stared straight at him without moving.
Zhang Tianshi understood and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I won't cause it any further damage."
Tangxi then turned around and sat back down on the edge of the bed.
Zhang Tianshi placed his withered fingers on the broken end, closed his eyes in concentration, as if sensing something.
After a long while, he opened his eyes: "Just as I expected, this bracelet once contained a kind of divine energy, but it has been used up."
Lin Sui was taken aback: "What do you mean by 'seemingly a god but not a god'?"
"Simply put, it is something that is similar to a god, but not a god. As for what it is, forgive my ignorance, I have no way of knowing."
Zhang Tianshi handed the bracelet back to Lin Sui, his gaze towards her exceptionally gentle: "Fellow Daoist Lin's experience in the Void World must have been extremely dangerous. Could you tell me about it?"
Lin Sui didn't want to talk about it.
However, faced with the villains' menacing gazes, she eventually gave in.
She glossed over the fact that she almost didn't make it back and gave a brief, easy-to-understand account.
However, the dangers involved can still be glimpsed.
Yu Cinian and the others looked extremely grim.
Tangxi carefully held Lin Sui's hand, hiding her tears behind her mask—Sui Sui must be in so much pain.
Unable to bear it any longer, Lu Xiang hugged Lin Sui tightly, her voice trembling: "It's good that you're back, it's good that you're back."
As long as Lin Sui is alive, that's better than anything else.
Lin Sui heard Lu Xiang's heart pounding rapidly, almost as if it were about to jump out of her chest.
She hugged Lu Xiang back: "I'm sorry for making you worry."
"Is the power gone after one use?" Si Xingran asked, standing up.
Master Zhang nodded: "The bracelet can't bear too much either."
Si Xingran clicked his tongue.
Then there's no way to restore Lin Sui to her original state.
That's possible...
Zhang Tianshi was helped by Mao Yangyao.
Seeing that Lin Sui was alright, the old man didn't linger any longer and had Mao Yang help him back to the hotel.
Little did he know that his arrival would stir up quite a ripple in Lin Sui's heart.
The master is not a master, Old Mo is like a god but not a god...
If Old Mo is such a being, then there is no such thing as death.
What did she bury with her own hands?
Why did Lao Mo fake his death?
Or perhaps the seemingly divine power hidden in the bracelet didn't belong to Lao Mo, but was something he obtained from his master.
The master is the one who is like a god but not quite a god.
This seems to make more sense.
What about my senior brother?
Senior brother, do you know that Master is not Master?
Lin Sui lay on the hospital bed, staring blankly at her two white fists.
The bracelet was taken by Si Xingran.
The others followed her out, seemingly discussing how to repair the bracelet strap exactly as it was.
Lin Sui thought it shouldn't be too difficult, since Lao Mo had already fixed it once.
"Knock knock!"
There was a sudden knock on the window. Lin Sui's mind, filled with questions, was a little sluggish, and it took her a while to slowly turn around.
Then, unexpectedly, I was confronted with a round face pressed against the glass window.
When Lin Sui looked over, the round-faced man stepped back, gripping the window frame with one hand and pointing to the window latch with the other.
She was staying in a detached hospital building, only two stories high, with no security bars on the windows.
Lin Sui looked at him calmly for a few seconds, and when he pointed it out again, she finally sighed and went to open the window.
She struggled to open the window while making the zongzi (sticky rice dumpling), and it took her a lot of effort.
Throughout the entire process, the people outside the window just watched leisurely, showing no intention of helping at all.
Lin Sui couldn't tell for a moment whether he was faking it or genuinely couldn't open the window.
After all, she had asked him that question last time, and he remained as steady as a rock, never giving a direct answer.
Lin Sui had no way to deal with him.
"Sigh, our junior sister really has had a lot of bad luck." Qi Yan nimbly climbed through the window, but instead of coming in, he sat on the windowsill.
He had just taken a shower and smelled of shower gel.
It also has a lemon flavor.
He gently flicked Lin Sui's forehead, his fingertips brushing against it with a touch of warmth.
He asked jokingly, "Those people aren't some kind of jinx, are they? Came here specifically to bring you bad luck?"
"Senior brother." Lin Sui glanced at him but didn't say anything.
Qi Yan raised his hands in surrender: "Okay, okay, I won't say anything bad about them anymore."
She tilted her head and smiled, "But don't you really think it's safest to be with me?"
“But you went abroad.” Lin Sui said without any emotion, simply stating the facts. “In the beginning, it was you who introduced me to participate in this program.”
To Qi Yan, it sounded like a wronged accusation.
He touched his nose guiltily.
The year he went abroad, Old Mo had just passed away not long before.
Although he had his reasons for doing it, it was undoubtedly cruel to Lin Sui at that time.
Qi Yan sighed, patted Lin Sui's two swollen hands, and said softly, "It's my fault, Junior Sister, you've worked hard."
Lin Sui shook her head.
She didn't blame Qi Yan; she just suddenly wondered whether her senior brother had asked her to participate in the program intentionally or unintentionally.
"I just saw my master," Lin Sui said.
“I know.” Qi Yan nodded, then shook his head. “But he’s not my master.”
Lin Sui: "...You knew all along?"
Qi Yan tugged at a sunflower petal: "Would you believe me if I told you I only found out today?"
Lin Sui pursed her lips, neither saying she believed nor disbelieved.
She was just curious: if her master was a being who was neither god nor deity, then what role did her senior brother play in all of this?
So she asked again, "Why did your master only teach you Peking Opera?"
And unsurprisingly, the answer was still the same: "Because when my master accepted me, he swore that he would never touch mystical arts again in this life."
"Is it possible that you don't need to learn mystical arts at all?" Lin Sui looked directly into his eyes.
Qi Yan was stunned, his pupils dilating in shock.
Just as Lin Sui was wondering if what she said was right, Qi Yan suddenly realized, "So that's how it can be explained!"
Lin Sui: “…”
She expressionlessly extended two fingers that could barely move.
"What are you doing... Ouch, ouch, ouch!" Before Qi Yan could finish speaking, his earlobe was pinched hard.
This was his Achilles' heel, and Lin Sui found it quite easy to exploit.
Even when Qi Yan cried out in pain, he remembered to keep his voice down, like an adulterous lover, afraid of being discovered.
Seeing his frustrated and resentful expression, Lin Sui suddenly felt it was pointless.
She lay back down on the hospital bed, staring at the stark white ceiling, and murmured, "Senior brother, before I die, will I hear a single truth from you?"
Qi Yan, who was grimacing and rubbing his ears, paused.
He lowered his eyes and stroked the sandalwood beaded bracelet on his wrist. After a moment, he smiled and said, "When the time comes, you will naturally know what you want to know."
Lin Sui: "When?"
"Your cause and effect with them ends."
Lin Sui was stunned.
She turned to look at Qi Yan and saw him sitting sideways on the windowsill with his head down, most of his face hidden in the darkness and indistinct.
Just then, footsteps and the sound of a wheelchair came from outside the door.
Li Ye and the others are back.
"I have to go, otherwise those lunatics will turn on me again when they see me." Qi Yan said, turning to jump off the windowsill.
Lin Sui looked at him and suddenly said, "Thank you, senior brother."
She didn't explicitly say what she was thanking him for, but she felt that Qi Yan should understand.
Qi Yan waved his hand without turning his head and jumped down.
The figure vanished into the thick darkness of the night in an instant.
At the same time, the ward door was pushed open.
Lu Xiang leaned against the door, her tone cool: "Oh, having a secret rendezvous with your dear senior brother."
Li Ye quickly walked to the window and looked out, only to see a Maybach slowly driving away from the hospital.
With a stern face, he slammed the window shut.
Lin Sui was helpless.
These people are like people with super hearing.
But before she could say anything, surprisingly, they didn't press Qi Yan any further.
Instead, he took out a brand new model of wristband.
Lu Xiang carefully avoided Lin Sui's injured hand and put the bracelet on her wrist: "Your bracelet will take a while to be repaired. In the meantime, just wear this for now."
"Is it difficult to fix?" Lin Sui asked in surprise.
She thought Si Xingran would be able to fix it quickly, since he was best at these things.
Si Xingran, who saw right through her thoughts, darkened her face again: "I'll say it again, I'm a hacker, not a repairman."
"Oh," Lin Sui said suddenly, "Is there a difference?"
Si Xingran: "..."
In the two days since Lin Sui woke up, many people have wanted to see her.
First, it was the Li family.
I came for Li Ge.
Li Ge has been mute for several days and is almost driven crazy with fear.
It was only then that Li Ye learned what Lin Sui had done, and he was deeply moved.
It turns out that even when someone is throwing a tantrum, they still care about him secretly.
This made him tremble slightly again.
Thankfully, she's still alive.
Li Ye kept Lin Sui in the dark, like a fierce god blocking all the Li family members from entering the house.
These people were sent by the current head of the Li family. They said it was for Li Ge, but actually they were sent because they heard that Li Ye had gone missing in Changshou Village.
They had no choice but to leave in frustration, having no other option but to confront Li Ye.
Next was Cheng Feng, who was eager to know how Xiao Lingdang was doing.
Lin Sui met him.
Then she glanced at his side and said, "Little Bell is fine; she's right beside you."
Cheng Feng's eyes widened instantly as he strained to see the air around him: "Little Bell? Little Bell, are you there?"
Lin Sui's hands were not functioning properly, so Tang Xi helped her throw the cow tears to Cheng Feng.
Knowing the uses of cow tears, Cheng Feng quickly applied them to his eyelids.
In an instant, a familiar girl's face came into view.
She remained the same as before, and as she had been with him for the past ten years, her eyes clear, filled with adoration and dependence on him.
Cheng Feng's eyes immediately welled up with tears: "I'm sorry, Little Bell."
He is too cowardly.
He kept saying he would take her away, but in the end he left her alone in the dark, damp underground, letting her be devoured alive by the Tai Sui.
How desperate she must have been, and how much pain she must have been in.
"If I had been braver and taken you away sooner, you wouldn't have..." Cheng Feng covered his face in anguish.
Little Bell smiled and said, "Brother, I'm already very satisfied to be your younger brother for ten years."
They were just strangers who met by chance.
As Lin Sui said before, they shouldn't have crossed paths.
It was her obsession that led to these ten years of greed.
It was during her ten years with the Cheng family that she learned what a real family should be like.
She had also witnessed the prosperity and excitement of the outside world.
She died without regrets.
only……
"Is Mom sick because of me?" Little Bell asked guiltily.
Ever since she realized she was dead, she wondered if living with ghosts for too long had caused her mother's physical functions to deteriorate.
"It will have an impact, but it's not a big problem. One talisman can solve it."
Lin Sui raised her eyes: "Besides, your mother is not seriously ill; it was a misdiagnosis by the hospital."
"Really? It's a misdiagnosis? It really is a misdiagnosis?" Cheng Feng asked anxiously.
Seeing Lin Sui nod, he was both surprised and delighted, and hurriedly went to hug Xiao Lingdang: "A-Yue, A-Yue, did you hear that? It was a misdiagnosis!"
After his hands passed through the small bell's soul form, he froze in place.
He forgot that his younger brother was dead, and Little Bell was dead.
Little Bell couldn't help but tear up: "Brother, if there's a next life, would you still want to be my brother?"
Looking into her expectant eyes, Cheng Feng slowly reached out and gently embraced her: "Okay, in the next life, I'll still be your brother."
The little bell smiled happily, and its soul turned into specks of light and disappeared.
Cheng Feng stood there blankly for a long time before lowering his hand, looking lost and dejected: "My brother is gone. I don't know how to explain this to my parents when I get back."
Lin Sui: "Don't worry, no one remembers Cheng Yuexiu anymore except you."
Cheng Feng was taken aback.
Is he the only one who remembers the younger brother who would chase after him calling him "brother" repeatedly, who would secretly cover for him when he made a mistake, who would hold an umbrella for him when it rained, and who would cook porridge for him when he was sick?
Cheng Feng closed his eyes, tears welling up in his eyes.
Lin Sui turned her face away and did not make another sound to disturb her.
However, at that moment, Director Wu called: "Master Lin, something bad has happened!"
"Wang Tengda and Wang Yuefeng are dead. They were killed by Luo Rulan!"