With Lu Yuting's usual high-profile behavior, most of the people here recognize her, her family is rich and powerful, and she is used to being the darling of everyone in the Yunxian Sect, and no one will deliberately disturb her interest.

After a short silence, the crowd centered on the two of them began to whisper, but their voices were not deliberately quiet, discussing Liu Qingmian's affairs unscrupulously, and even the disciples in charge of registration in several nearby places were happy to watch the excitement, and they registered slowly in their hands, which was regarded as a pastime after work.

Someone else said about her being captured, "I heard that she was robbed by the people of the Demon Sect for more than a year, who knows if she is a spy or not?"

"It's quite pitiful, but the head should take care of our safety, how can we let this kind of person come back?"

"Hey, I heard from my senior sister who works in Zongmen Square that the head of the sect gave her a compensation of 1,000 contributions!"

"It's a good life, I don't know where I've been playing for a year, and I'll have money to get when I come back, or I'll find someone from the Demon Sect to collude to play a play?"

The voices were like a sword shot at her, and she could only take them all, some silently watching the violence, others saying gossip they knew, joining in the rumor-mongering. Liu Qingmian watched all this silently, as a former social animal, she had long been accustomed to the beatings of life, but she thought that everything would become different in the world of cultivation and become freer, but now it seems that this is just another society.

She has always respected everyone's choices, so she doesn't pay attention to what others say, so she won't interfere where the two senior sisters end up going, because she still remembers that after she recovered from her injury, although the two senior sisters had a look of disgust on their faces, they still took her to cultivate together and treated her as a friend.

She was just a little lost, when the three of them faced everything together, as if they were not afraid of anything, now she is the only one left, and there is no one who can help her speak.

But what if they can't live together as long as they're good friends?

"Even if we're not together, what?"

With just one sentence, it brought an indomitable momentum, and immediately stopped the slanderous whispers around him. This somewhat neutral voice was even deeper than before, Liu Qingmian looked up, at this time the sun was in full bloom, and a slender figure came against the light, and it was not until she approached that Liu Qingmian called out.

The eyebrows are like ink paintings, the eyes are bright, and the little sister who used to have a bitter face all day long seems to have completely changed as a person.

"Senior Sister Zhong!" Liu Qingmian shouted in surprise.

The person who came was Zhong Hanyan, her change was very big, the already small face was more and more sharp at this time, and the knife-like side gave people a sense of perseverance, her eyes were lazy, but when she looked at you, she had a feeling of being pricked by needles in her spirit, which made people uncomfortable!

Zhong Hanyan appeared domineeringly, ignoring the eyes of others, and walked straight to Liu Qingmian, with a big smile on his face: "Xiaomian! miss me!?"

Liu Qingmian also laughed, opened his arms, and the two long-separated figures hugged each other tightly.

"Who is this, so arrogant?"

"It seems to be Zhong Hanyan, Master is a weirdo..."

The people around came back to their senses and started a new discussion, Zhong Hanyan gently let go of Liu Qingmian, almost Jin Dan's cultivation made her have a strong perception within a certain range.

In just a moment, she found the person who spoke ill of her master.

"Eh, why can't my body move!" From the crowd behind Lu Yuting, a trembling voice shouted in a panic, and the people next to her flashed away in horror, not to mention the same door that she was talking with before, because she was the closest, and she ran the farthest when she was hiding, completely exposing the helpless disciple, only to see her expression frightened, but her whole body was frozen in place as if she was bound by something.

"Senior Sister Lu, help me!" she shouted, Lu Yuting frowned in disgust, and the rest of the people quickly stepped back, making a small space for the three of them, for fear that she would be found out if she had said bad things just now.

At this time, all the attention was focused on her again, she wanted to run but couldn't move, she was talked about by everyone like a public execution, her face was flushed with anxiety, and she could only eat the consequences of her own evil and accept all the embarrassment she had just given to others.

Liu Qingmian looked at the disciple, and he didn't feel happy in his heart, because the spectators around him didn't care who was being targeted, and they didn't care about right and wrong, they just wanted to see others make a fool of themselves, and tried their best to hide themselves behind others.

Liu Qingmian couldn't help but think of the style of the head Yan Lingchu, with such a head, it is no wonder that there is such a bad atmosphere in the sect.

Lu Yuting suddenly chuckled, took out the jade flute and quickly clicked it on the disciple who was fixed, the person was loose, and the whole body fell softly, Lu Yuting glared at the crowd behind, and said, "Which team is it? Take it down, don't be embarrassed here!"

In this way, someone dared to step forward and help her back.

Liu Qingmian and Zhong Hanyan looked at each other and smiled, this was the first time they had seen Lu Yuting make a move, this magic weapon that was smashed with money was different, Zhong Hanyan raised his eyebrows, and said to Lu Yuting: "Senior Sister Lu is really a bodhisattva, please be kind to my little sister next time!"

"Look at what you said, where did I treat her badly, I haven't seen her for more than a year, I just want to say hello! Hanyan, I didn't say you, your temper is a little bit tighter, if you let your ancestor know about this today, I'm afraid I will blame you again!"

Zhong Hanyan narrowed his eyes, the smile on the corner of his mouth did not decrease, and he didn't seem to be aware of the threat in the other party's words at all: "Senior sister is right, but the senior ancestor said last time that I am the most promising person in her sect to enter the top ten, and she will fully support my cultivation in the near future." ”

"Thank you for accompanying me to compete!" Zhong Hanyan smiled like a fox.

Liu Qingmian quietly wiped her sweat, this woman's Shura field was really terrifying, Zhong Hanyan's poisonous snake skill was afraid that it was progressing faster than her cultivation!!

The two glanced at each other, and there were invisible swords and swords in their eyes, but they all greeted each other with etiquette on the surface. Zhong Hanyan lined up behind Liu Qingmian, and everyone who understood her horror seemed to have been silenced, and the surroundings were dumbfounded, and there was no one to take the lead in speaking, and this farce was over.

"Baihua Peak, under the Red Silk Gate, one person. ”

The registrant respectfully took the jade plaque and completed the registration quickly, Zhong Hanyan didn't stay long, and pulled Liu Qingmian out of this area.

The two walked side by side, left the registration area together, and finally got away from the crowd of good deeds, Liu Qingmian suddenly felt that the air around him was a lot fresher, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhong Hanyan looked at her funny, as if he knew what she was thinking, and comforted: "Actually, not everyone is like that, some people just don't hear it, and they are not interested in listening to it, and some people may be powerless, after all, most people are here and can't help themselves, and they can only rely on themselves to do anything, as long as they don't take the initiative to hurt others, they are doing good deeds." ”

Zhong Hanyan's comfort belongs to the kind of people who use ugly big truths to make you fresh and face reality, and then you will find that she is right, but for those who want to live in a beautiful fantasy, it will only make them disgusted. Liu Qingmian belongs to the former, and she is also glad that she can wake up quickly, because the power of this world can really kill people.

Liu Qingmian turned her head and looked at her senior sister who was already a head taller than herself, and felt an inexplicable peace of mind in her heart, which was a feeling she didn't have at all when she got along with Lin Yurou before. Now she can be sure that Zhong Hanyan has grown much more than Lin Yurou.

There were only three days before the competition, and neither of them was in a hurry to go back to practice, so they walked out along the avenue together to familiarize themselves with the venue of the competition in advance. The area where they signed up just now was located at the edge of the Zongmen Square, and the two of them were now in the center of the square, that is, the place where the ring had been arranged.

The size of these rings is very large, but Liu Qingmian still asked: "Isn't this size too crowded for the group stage? ”

Zhong Hanyan said with a smile: "If this is the case, you don't need to say it, the others would have already made a fuss!" After speaking, he took Liu Qingmian's hand and quickly walked to the nearest ring, "Look at this, this, these lines are all to make the joint tighter when the ring is spliced together, and the railing on the side of the stage is also removable, don't worry, ninety percent of the people in the Yunxian Sect are long-range combat, and the remaining one percent are people who break the sword!"

"I feel sorry for Broken Sword Peak...", I was already making final preparations for the competition. Draw a formation.

"Seeing that you are carrying a good sword on your back, aren't you a sword cultivator under the Fengling Sect?" Zhong Hanyan's face was incredulous, Liu Qingmian hurriedly waved his hand, and said, "No, no, this is just a magic weapon she borrowed from me to use, and it doesn't have to be used to cut people..."

"It seems that you are free-range, don't be discouraged, I am the same, at least my life is very free!but..."Zhong Hanyan was halfway through speaking, and suddenly stared at her, as if he was seeing a treasure, and his eyes flashed with cunning: "Since we are all the same, I also happen to be a teammate, Xiao Mian, you must not have a team, right?"

Of course, Liu Qingmian didn't have a team, she was hoping that someone would find her to form a team, so she agreed, but for some reason, Zhong Hanyan's eyes suddenly gave her an ominous premonition.

"Wise choice! Let's go, I'll take you to meet another teammate first, she's very powerful, only a little worse than me!"

"Then I might hold you back, can I really join?"

"Why are you holding back?" Zhong Hanyan said in surprise: "Xiao Mian, you are also very strong, you secretly tell me, did Master Feng Ling teach you some private mastery? The true breath on your body is really wonderful~"

"Senior Sister Zhong, don't be like this, you act like a pervert. Liu Qingmian pushed her away with a look of shame, and the latter smiled: "Don't joke with you! Seriously, I didn't team up with you because of sympathy or something, I was really optimistic about you." ”

While the two were talking, they had come to a junction that Liu Qingmian had never been, and the vegetation on both sides became less and less visible to the naked eye, until there were dark rugged mountains and rocks on both sides, and in the distance was an endless mountain field, with countless peaks like swords towering in between.

A solemn mountain gate, towering in front, the plaque on it is engraved with three big characters, Broken Sword Peak.