"What... what's wrong with me?" Qin Beixuan asked cautiously.
Zhao Chen'an wasn't sure if Qin Beixuan liked him. If he asked directly whether he liked him or not, would it scare the man away?
"Umm, it's nothing," Zhao Chen'an gave a silly smile. "I just wanted to ask if you're not fond of that female cultivator."
Qin Beixuan thought for a moment. "I was indeed a bit annoyed by her before, but later I found her much more bearable."
For instance, when she wisely left and when she mistakenly thought that he and Zhao Chen'an were Dao companions, Qin Beixuan suddenly took a better view of her.
Zhao Chen'an: "???"
Could Senior Brother's opinion of someone change so suddenly?
Qin Beixuan lowered his gaze and looked at Zhao Chen'an gently. "If we don't go down the mountain soon, it'll get dark and there will be fewer people. It'll be harder to find those marked by the Sympathy Formation."
Zhao Chen'an slapped his forehead. "Look at my forgetfulness. Let's go, let's hurry and look for them."
Zhao Chen'an casually took Qin Beixuan's hand and grinned at him. "Senior Brother, do you think the murderer will escape?"
"No." Qin Beixuan felt the warmth between his fingers. His fingers trembled slightly, but he didn't pull away. Instead, he let Zhao Chen'an lead him down the mountain.
*
The sky had already turned into evening. The land was bathed in the warm orange glow of the setting sun. On the slopes of Lianhua Mountain, two tall teenagers stood side by side, looking up at the sunset.
The red robe on Zhao Chen'an fluttered gently in the mountain breeze. Looking at the setting sun in front of him, he even had the thought of growing old with Qin Beixuan and watching the sunset every day.
Qin Beixuan turned his head and calmly watched the person in front of him showing a look of longing at the sunset. He couldn't help but ask curiously, "What are you thinking about?"
Suddenly, a glint of red light flashed from a corner of Lianhua Mountain. Qin Beixuan's eyes widened sharply. This was the resonance of the Sympathy Formation, which meant...
The murderer was still on the mountain!
"Nothing. I was just sighing about life looking at the sun. Hmm?" Zhao Chen'an looked at Qin Beixuan, who was staring intently at the opposite peak. "Senior Brother, what are you looking at?"
Zhao Chen'an waved his hand in front of Qin Beixuan's eyes. Qin Beixuan came back to his senses and his expression turned extremely serious. "Just now, the murderer resonated with the Sympathy Formation."
Then he pointed in a certain direction on the opposite peak. "It's right here. Let's fly there on our swords and take a look."
"Okay."
But when they arrived, there was no sign of anyone. Zhao Chen'an suspected that Qin Beixuan had misseen, but judging from Qin Beixuan's expression, he seemed quite certain that someone had just been here.
Zhao Chen'an decided to search around. When he pushed aside a patch of grass, he saw a stone in the grass with a talisman paper wrapped around it.
What was this?
Zhao Chen'an gently peeled off the talisman paper from the stone, shook it in his hand, and carefully examined the words on it.
Hmm? This was... a teleportation formation!
The teleportation formation was similar to the Qiankun Shift in Ziwei Mountain. However, for the teleportation formation, the spell had to be written on paper, and five pieces were needed. The Qiankun Shift in Ziwei Mountain could be activated directly by memorizing the incantation and using spiritual energy.
It seemed that someone had really been here.
"Senior Brother, I..."
Zhao Chen'an wanted to tell Qin Beixuan about this. When he raised his hand, he saw that Qin Beixuan was also holding a talisman paper and looking at him.
Both of them were stunned for a moment and then burst into laughter.
"Yes, it's a teleportation formation. There should be more around here," Qin Beixuan said. "Let's search around some more."
"Okay."
Before long, they had thrown all the stones wrapped with talisman papers they had found on the ground in a jumble.
Zhao Chen'an counted them. There were indeed five, but one of the talisman papers was damaged, as if deliberately.
"Senior Brother, look at this," Zhao Chen'an handed the damaged talisman paper to Qin Beixuan. "I don't understand formations, but it looks like it was deliberately destroyed."
Qin Beixuan took the talisman paper, unfolded it and glanced at it. He said firmly, "You're right. It should be the murderer who was afraid of being discovered by us and came here to destroy this teleportation formation."
Zhao Chen'an looked regretful. The clue they had finally found was broken again.
Seeing Zhao Chen'an's expression, Qin Beixuan slowly said, "Don't worry. I can repair the formation."
Zhao Chen'an: "..." Was Qin Beixuan really this awesome?!
What other skills did he have that Zhao Chen'an hadn't discovered yet?
This murderer must have had extremely bad luck. After killing someone and destroying the formation with great effort, he never expected that there would be someone here who could repair the formation!
If the murderer knew this, he would probably faint from crying in the toilet.
Qin Beixuan simply added a few strokes on the talisman paper, and the talisman was fixed. It was incredibly fast.
"This... is it okay already??" Zhao Chen'an looked at the talisman paper in Qin Beixuan's hand doubtfully.
"Of course it's okay." This was the first time Qin Beixuan had met someone who dared to doubt his ability. He was at least a half - powerful figure in the cultivation world. If he couldn't even repair a talisman paper properly, if Ji Qingchen knew about it, he would probably laugh for a whole year.
When he was a child, he once made a mistake. He accidentally ate Gu Xi's monster - transforming pill as a candy bean. As a result, a pair of silver - white fox ears grew on his head, and he was too scared to go out for four or five days.
After his master found out about this, his uncles also gradually knew about it, and then their disciples, and finally the whole of Ziwei Mountain knew. To make matters worse, they all came to watch his ears!!
It was so embarrassing. Fortunately, Zhao Chen'an had entered the sect a few years later and didn't know about this, or else he would have been extremely ashamed.
Qin Beixuan wrapped the talisman paper around the stone and arranged them on the ground in a circle.
The circle might look disordered, but actually every step couldn't go wrong. Otherwise, there would be a huge deviation in the teleportation location!
Qin Beixuan pulled Zhao Chen'an into the formation and then said, "The space here is too small. Only one person can be teleported at a time. You go first."
"Senior Brother, let's go together," Zhao Chen'an said mysteriously.
Qin Beixuan was puzzled. "How can we go together?"
Zhao Chen'an squinted and smiled. "Hurry up and activate the formation. I'll teach you."
Qin Beixuan recited a few incantations as he was told. Suddenly, a pale white light circle lit up under Zhao Chen'an's feet. At that moment, Zhao Chen'an quickly grabbed the front of Qin Beixuan's robe and pulled his senior brother into the formation forcefully.
Due to the crowded space, Qin Beixuan subconsciously put his arm around Zhao Chen'an's waist, and the two of them were embraced together.
Zhao Chen'an grinned triumphantly. He stood on tiptoe and exhaled a breath on Qin Beixuan's Adam's apple. His voice was filled with joy. "How about my method, Senior Brother?"
The tingling sensation from his Adam's apple made Qin Beixuan swallow hard. He suddenly had an urge to kiss Zhao Chen'an!!