As Ye Anping contemplated these matters, the two young herbalists rewrapped his wounds and applied bandages.

“Young Master Ye, we will take our leave now. If you need anything, just ring the bell by your side, and we will come,” they said politely.

“Oh…” Ye Anping quickly snapped back to reality and thanked them, “Thank you both.”

“You’re welcome~,” the two young herbalists smiled, appearing as if they hadn’t inadvertently offended him. Ye Anping breathed a sigh of relief.

As they pushed a small cart out of the room, two individuals who had been waiting outside for a while entered.

Pei Lengxue and Xiao Yunluo exchanged a glance, and then Xiao Yunluo approached and offered a tray of pastries to Ye Anping. She said, “Though we’ve met before, it’s still a small token of my respect. I apologize for the misunderstanding during our previous encounter at the massage center.”

Ye Anping nodded and accepted the gift, “Miss Xiao is too polite, the message is a new experience, and it’s not easy to adapt to it at first, by the way. thank you for the pastries.”

After the greeting, Xiao Yunluo glanced at Pei Lengxue and discreetly moved aside. Perhaps it was because of her presence that Pei Lengxue seemed a bit uneasy.

Normally, she would have immediately sat next to her senior brother, leaning on his shoulder.

“Senior brother, I came here to check on your injury. How is it?”

“It was a minor injury, but when Physician Zhou examined it, Elder Bai was present, and it turned into this,” Ye Anping shrugged helplessly. “Don’t worry; it’s not as severe as the ones you’ve given me in the past.”

Hearing this, Xiao Yunluo seemed momentarily stunned as she looked at the bandages all over Ye Anping’s body and the various jars of medicine on the nearby table.

This wasn’t as severe as what Pei Lengxue used to inflict? How severe were the injuries before?! She looked at Pei Lengxue curiously to see her reaction. To her surprise, Pei Lengxue let out a sigh of relief and smiled, saying, “Well, that’s good.”

Xiao Yunluo: …

Ye Anping, noticing that Xiao Yunluo was focused on him and Pei Lengxue, pondered for a moment and then said, “Well, in a few days, if you have some free time, come to my massage center, and I’ll take you to the Tianqiong Spring Return Pavilion for a visit.”

“Tianqiong Spring Return Pavilion?” It was the first time Pei Lengxue had heard of this place. “What is it?”

Seemingly excited to join the conversation, Xiao Yunluo eagerly explained, “Lengxue, it’s the best jewelry store in the Western Region. I wanted to take you there before, but it’s a bit far.”

“It’s only about half a day’s journey by flying on a sword,” Ye Anping added.

“Ah, that’s still quite far,” Xiao Yunluo chuckled.

Pei Lengxue hesitated and asked, “If it’s the best jewelry store, then isn’t all of the jewelry there expensive? No need, Senior Brother. Besides, I don’t like wearing jewelry; it gets in the way when practicing swordsmanship.”

“How can a young lady not have jewelry?” Xiao Yunluo leaned in closer to Pei Lengxue, sitting next to her. “Jewelry for a woman is like wine for a man. You should have a few pieces to show off. When attending banquets and such, men compete in drinking, and women exchange jewelry to wear. Besides, Lengxue, you’re so beautiful. If you wear a necklace or bracelet, it’s like adding the finishing touch.”

“That’s right, Miss Xiao is absolutely right.”

“Call me Sister Xiao, Young master Ye.”

Ye Anping and Xiao Yunluo exchanged glances, and Pei Lengxue, who noticed this, furrowed her brow, and coughed to remind them.

Cough, cough…

“Ah…” Xiao Yunluo was taken aback and quickly averted her gaze, silently sighing to herself, (Lengxue really guards her senior brother fiercely. Just a simple accidental eye contact during a normal conversation, and she gets upset)

Pei Lengxue paused, furrowed her brow, and said seriously, “But I already owe Senior Brother so much that I can’t repay it all. If I buy jewelry now, Senior Brother, do you not want me to repay you the spirit stones anymore?”

“You still remember that?”

“Of course, I do!”

Ye Anping jokingly replied, “Then take your time to repay it. Even if it takes two or three hundred years, I’ll be here, being your creditor for two or three hundred years.”

“…”

Listening to the banter between these senior brother and sister, Xiao Yunluo had a string of question marks over her head and thought to herself, “Perhaps only people who have been close for over a decade can understand the subtleties in their relationship.”

“Hmm…” Pei Lengxue pursed her lips and nodded, hesitating for a moment. Then she said, “But let’s buy something less expensive, maybe at the market. Remember when we were shopping with Senior Brother last time? There was a jewelry store that looked good.”

“Let’s go to the Tianqiong Spring Return Pavilion first, if you can resist buying anything, then let’s go to other store.” Ye Anping added.

“Alright…”

She thought, (Senior Brother is already working hard at his therapy to earn money. I must save money for him!)

At that moment, Ye Anping noticed a spot of blood on Pei Lengxue’s clothes and furrowed his brows. He asked, “Junior Sister, what were you doing just now?”

“Hmm?” Pei Lengxue looked at the spot he was pointing to and then replied, “Oh, that… I just killed a chicken.”

“What did you kill a chicken for?”

After a brief hesitation, she said, “Senior Brother, I saw a ghost last night!”

“A ghost… you mean one of those malevolent spirits and specters?”

Xiao Yunluo chimed in, “Yes, Lengxue said that last night, while she was practicing swordsmanship in the courtyard, she saw the ghost of a dismembered little girl in the bamboo grove next to the Three Harmony Courtyard.”

“What?!” A sea of question marks appeared in Ye Anping’s mind.

Why didn’t he know about such occurrences in the Profound Star Sect? He had encountered similar tasks before, but they were usually in the domain of demonic cultivators in the Eastern Realm. The Profound Star Sect was for immortal cultivation! It was a place of spiritual beings; where would ghosts come from, and why would they come to the Profound Star Sect?

After thinking for a while, Ye Anping asked, “Junior Sister, can you describe what the ghost looked like?”

“It looked like a girl who was around eight or nine years old, with hair longer than her height…”

With just these few words, Ye Anping took a deep breath, but with Xiao Yunluo present, he decided to skip this part and asked, “I think I have an idea.”

Undoubtedly, with the description of an eight or nine-year-old girl with hair longer than her height, he could deduce that it was Xiao Yunluo mother, Sima Xuanji, the Loli Baba, who was part of the main storyline in the game.

However, he felt a bit flustered. Did Sima Xuanji have contact with his Junior Sister so quickly? Was it a chance encounter, or was there more to it? He had thought Sima Xuanji wouldn’t appear for at least another two or three months.

In the game, the first time Feng Yudie saw Sima Xuanji was after she had reached the Foundation Establishment stage. She had spent almost half a year raising her favorability with Xiao Yunluo. Now, it seemed that his Junior Sister’s “female charm” was far more potent than he had estimated.

In just about a month, his Junior Sister had “attracted” Sima Xuanji.