Lu Xueyuan was frightened by the sudden scolding and immediately knelt down. She knelt on the ground in an upright position, her back straight.

Bai Duchen didn't turn around, but asked lightly, "Do you know what's wrong?" ”

"I don't know." Lu Xueyuan lowered her head and did not look at Bai Duchen, her mind at the moment was not on herself at all, but she was thinking about where Lou Yi would be to help her steal the Holy Fire Stone now.

Bai Duchen turned around when he heard her answer, looking at Lu Xueyuan in front of him, with hidden anger and hatred in his eyes. He never imagined that the little girl he had raised and nurtured with his heart would grow up like this, and she would learn to lie to herself.

Bai Duchen glanced at Lu Xueyuan's beautiful face, brushed down his sleeves, and then reached out and plucked something from the top of her head. He stretched out his hand in front of Lu Xueyuan, only to see a lilac wisteria petal, quietly flowing in his hand, and a trace of strange and gentle fragrance.

There was a moment of panic in Lu Xueyuan's eyes, she raised her eyes, stared at the petals in his hand, and said in disbelief: "Wisteria petals..."

Bai Duchen waved his hand to smash the petals, as if he had expected it, and said: "The wisteria flower will not be extinguished, and anyone who has been stained by pollen will leave traces on the body, you are afraid that you don't know about this matter." ”

Lu Xueyuan recalled on the spot, she only remembered that she and Lou Yi went to find Wisteria Po in order to help her solve the problem that she had no spiritual root. After that, he went to look for the flint, and the whereabouts of Lou Yi are unknown......

Now that Master Zun knows about this, he must have known that Master Chiye came to Qingya Mountain for her. And at this moment, Bai Duchen spoke: "The Holy Fire Stone was told to you by Wisteria Mother. ”

Sure enough, it turned out that the master knew it early on, but he didn't explain himself, could it be that he had other plans? Lu Xueyuan became vigilant for a moment, she didn't seem to believe that Bai Duchen would know that she was the initiator of this matter, and deliberately protected herself, you know, this is a holy flint!

Even if he didn't know what the power of the Holy Fire Stone was at first, now that he saw that the water of Biling Lake dried up and the falling waterfall solidified, Master Chi Ye did not hesitate to come to Qingya Mountain to make a fuss, and he knew that this thing was not trivial.

Lu Xueyuan seemed to have made up his mind, knowing that he couldn't hide anything from him, and said in a low voice: "Since the master knows everything, then the disciple won't hide it, the holy flint, it was indeed me who stole it!" ”

Hearing that she had confessed to herself so quickly, Bai Duchen chuckled lightly and said, "Do you think I don't know, with your current strength, it is impossible to find the Holy Flint?" What's more, before going down the mountain, the teacher specially instructed that you should not go down the mountain. ”

Just as he finished saying this, Qi Zhurong came in from outside the door, and was about to report the results of his inquiry to Shizun, but saw Lu Xueyuan kneeling on the ground, and he didn't know what happened for a while, but when he was in a dilemma, he was stopped by Bai Duchen.

"Zhu Rong? This is what the teacher told you before going down the mountain? Bai Duchen's eyes when he looked at Qi Zhurong were deep, without a little tenderness, which formed a strong contrast with when he looked at Lu Xueyuan.

Although they are both disciples of the master, the 'biological' and 'non-biological' ones are different, Qi Zhurong has always thought so. However, he is not jealous, because his junior sister has a poor background, and I have seen pity since he was a child, and he is willing to protect his junior sister from harm as a senior brother.

"Master!" When Qi Zhurong heard Bai Duchen's words, he knelt beside Lu Xueyuan, he raised his hands and looked at his master and said, "It's all the disciple's fault!" I didn't look at my sister for a while, so that she... Let her go down the mountain privately. After he finished speaking, he also looked at Lu Xueyuan, thinking that he shouldn't have said anything wrong, the way the master is now, it must be because of what the junior sister has done, and all he can think of, the only thing that the master minds is not letting the junior sister go down the mountain, he thought about it like this, and didn't feel that there was anything wrong with what he said.

Lu Xueyuan lowered his eyes and glanced at Qi Zhurong carefully, seeing that he took the initiative to take the fault on himself, but it was one thing to say that he went down the mountain, so it can be seen that he didn't know that she and Lou Yi stole the holy flint, so naturally he should not be blamed for this matter.

"Master!" Lu Xueyuan raised his head and said to Bai Duchen.

"You're trying to say that this has nothing to do with him, right?" Bai Duchen seemed to see through her thoughts, standing a few meters away from them, dressed in white and cold, as if shrouded in moonlight, "But you have forgotten Yuan'er, everything in this world is not always clear, just like me and you." ”

He reached out and lifted the teacup on the table, put a sip of hot tea into his lips, took a shallow sip, and said, "Today's matter, if you admit that you did it, you, me, and even the entire Hechen Sect will become a joke in the world, and even my future position may be in jeopardy." ”

It turns out that the five major factions of the Nine Domains are fighting fiercely, and they are vying for the position of the first master, as long as the supreme position is spent, there will be more immortal magic weapons, and disciple resources, and the more famous they are outside, the more they will maintain their reputation for thousands of years. No wonder, the Hechen Sect has always been ranked first in the cultivation realm.

This is something that Lu Xueyuan never thought, she had never stood on such a high place, and naturally she could not imagine such a complicated situation.

And Qi Zhurong, as the senior brother of the Hechen faction, could not ignore the possible situation and the damage caused to the Hechen faction.

"Zhu Rong, are you guilty?" Twilight Dust's voice was still faint, but there was undeniable firmness in his tone.

"Disciple... The disciple is willing to be punished by the master! Qi Zhurong didn't argue, and silently lowered his head.

"It's not fair!" Lu Xueyuan looked at his senior brother and blurted out.

"Fair? You talk to your teacher about fairness, do you know how the word 'fairness' came about? Bai Duchen put down the cup in his hand and turned to look at Lu Xueyuan, he put his hands behind his back, and his cold face seemed to have a layer of gloom.

"The disciple has not heard any great truth, the disciple only knows that one person does things and one person is responsible, since it is the disciple who does the wrong, he should be punished himself, and don't involve others anymore." Lu Xueyuan said and bowed deeply to Bai Duchen, and said, "Senior brother has not done anything wrong, please forgive me, just punish me alone!" After speaking, he bowed to Bai Duchen three more times.

Qi Zhurong was beside him, but he didn't dare to come out, so he only dared to pull Lu Xueyuan's sleeve with small movements, asking her to stop talking.

Although he knew that Bai Duchen was a 10,000-year-old cold character, he didn't pay much attention to all the trivial matters in the mountain, and he was extremely gentle and polite to others, and he had never blushed with anyone, but once it came to the matter of his junior sister, the master would always lose his principles extraordinarily, just like protecting his junior sister in public outside the Hechen Hall today, he directly offended Master Chiye. It can be seen that the master is really angry now.

Lu Xueyuan didn't think so, she thought that this matter was originally her fault first, even if the master handed her over to Chi Ye, she had nothing to say, but she had to be saved by him, and she had to deter herself by punishing others, which was too much of a bit of an example.

So she argued with reason, saying that she had to ask for an explanation for the senior brother who should not be sacrificed.

Bai Duchen was calm, as if she had seen through the character of her 'unscrupulous' apprentice, and knew where her weakness was and where she hated the most.

This time he went down the mountain, he seemed to have figured out something. Instead of saving and not teaching, it is better to set an example and let her understand the gloom of this world.

"Since you are so sincere, you are willing to accept it for your senior brother, then I will promise you as a teacher," a smile suddenly appeared on Bai Duchen's cold face, and continued, "It's just that you have to answer a question truthfully." ”

"What's the problem?" Lu Xueyuan raised his head and said.

"Who is it that helped you get the flint?" Bai Duchen's eyes were like water, and he seemed to have become extraordinarily deep, and his previous tender appearance suddenly became unfamiliar, as if he should have been like this, not knowing life and death, and having no affection.

"I said, it's me." Lu Xueyuan lowered his eyes, and his long eyelashes were on his face, casting a reflection.

At this moment, it began to rain heavily outside the door. In the middle of winter, the wind and rain were shaking, and a strong wind blew the door of the Hechen Hall 'squeak', and Lu Xueyuan also felt the icy chill behind him.

"Really? You're alone. Bai Duchen sneered, looked at the pouring rain outside the door, and suddenly flicked his hand, opened the three gates and six doors on the main hall, and let the cold wind and cold feathers pour into the Hechen Palace.

Lu Xueyuan and Qi Zhurong knelt on the cold floor, their legs were crispy and numb, mixed with coldness, and they were suddenly blown by the wind and rain brought in.

"Qi Zhurong was unable to restrain him, so he knelt in the rain for three hours." As soon as Bai Duchen's voice came out, the two people on the ground looked up at him in unison.

Qi Zhurong seemed to be in disbelief, but he couldn't disobey the order, frowned, and was about to get up from the floor in the next second. But she was grabbed by Lu Xueyuan, her resolute eyes seemed to be full of anger, and her gaze at Bai Duchen was full of hostility.

"I said, it's a new disciple, Lou Yi." When she had said this, she turned her head away from him.

Qi Zhurong seemed to be frightened, and said, "Joan... King Joan? The mountain he took you down? I said, why didn't I see him, but he went home? Qi Zhurong originally felt that a prince had to go to the mountains to cultivate immortals, but it was just a whim, he was used to living a comfortable life in the gold and silver nest, and he wanted to experience the poverty of the world, and he would go home in a few days, which he had already thought of.

Lu Xueyuan did not respond positively to his conjecture, she had already explained everything she knew, so it was good to ensure that the senior brother would not be innocently implicated, as for the rest, she would explain to the master that it was all her whim, and she had nothing to do with Lou Yi, at best, she was only half an accomplice, and she was still intimidated by herself.

Just when she thought that everything was planned, a person came in from outside the door, that person had golden branches and jade leaves, red robes, and the servants who were waiting behind him stood in two factions, which showed that the origin was not small.

She ordered someone to remove the umbrella covering the roof, retreated the red robe on her body, and was only startled when she saw Bai Duchen, and then said delicately: "Where is my brother Louyi?" ”