After her senior sister was reborn, she actually became a powerful and arrogant protagonist?!

Chapter 261 Your Master Did It to Save the Sect Leader

"Now that you are a sword cultivator at the Mahayana Realm, and have worked so hard for Xiaoyao Peak for so many years, you have the right to know these things."

As Zhao Yushi spoke, his gaze fell on Fu Cang.

Chu Luobai understood immediately.

"The sect leader and I have some business to attend to, so you'll stay here..."

"I do not."

"...what?"

Fu Cang answered so quickly that Chu Luobai wondered if she had misheard something.

"It's so boring here, I want to stay with you."

Fu Cang spoke again, his eyes very serious.

"..."

Chu Luobai fell silent again. She could sense that Zhao Yushi beside her was desperately trying to suppress his laughter.

Are you sure you want to come with me?

Chu Luobai, unusually suppressing his temper, asked again.

“You are my master, of course I will follow you.”

Fu Cang said this as if it were the most natural thing in the world, and even brought up the master-servant contract again.

But as soon as he finished speaking, his figure suddenly disappeared from the spot.

"Alright, Sect Leader, let's go."

After Fu Cang was taken into the spirit beast space, Chu Luobai felt refreshed and invigorated.

"Go to the main peak."

Zhao Yushi found this scene amusing.

Even among the demon race, Fu Cang's face is top-tier.

Despite that explanation, Chu Luobai was still able to throw him into the spirit beast space without changing his expression.

Well, he truly lives up to his reputation as Mu Changfeng's good disciple; their styles of doing things are exactly the same.

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Soon, Zhao Yushi landed outside a small cave behind the main peak.

The cave was surrounded by an extremely clever illusion, which even Chu Luobai, who had broken through to the Mahayana realm, could not see through.

"This is the real place where your master is in seclusion. What you knew before was just a smokescreen."

Zhao Yushi said with a slight apology.

"As Mu Changfeng's disciple, this matter shouldn't have been kept from you..."

"My level of understanding wasn't high enough before, so even if I had known, I could only have caused more trouble."

"Sect Leader, there is no need to blame yourself."

Chu Luobai understood the implications and shook his head slightly, offering words of comfort.

"Don't be surprised by what you see next."

As Zhao Yushi spoke, he unlocked the seals on the cave one by one.

“These seals were all set up by your master back then, and only I can break them in the entire sect.”

"From now on, if you want to visit your master, just come find me."

Chu Luobai nodded and followed Zhao Yushi into the cave.

The cave was larger than Chu Luobai had imagined, and upon looking up, she saw Mu Changfeng sitting on the stone bed.

"Master..."

When his master, whom he hadn't seen for hundreds of years, suddenly appeared in front of him, Chu Luobai felt a slight sting in his nose.

"No, this is not your master."

Zhao Yushi shook his head, stepped forward, placed his right hand on Mu Changfeng's shoulder, and his spiritual energy surged, causing a sudden ripple in the entire cave.

Then space rapidly distorted, and the scenery in front of us vanished one by one.

A small cave, barely big enough for one person to pass through, appeared before them.

Following the cave for about a minute or two, the view suddenly opened up before us.

Along the way, Zhao Yushi removed many traps and seals.

"Your master is here."

Chu Luobai's gaze passed over Zhao Yushi's shoulder and landed in the center of the cave.

This cave was several times larger than the one outside, and a raging fire burned on the ground, forming a circle.

Mu Changfeng was sitting in the center of the circle, his hands resting on the back of a strange woman.

"Master..."

Chu Luobai murmured, his gaze involuntarily falling on the woman.

The woman was dressed in red, as if flames were spreading across her body, and just by looking at her, one could feel the astonishing aura emanating from her.

However, her body was covered with layers of white frost.

The coldness battles the flames, melting and then condensing again, in an endless cycle.

The scorching heat and the biting frost created two completely different sensations that abruptly appeared in the same place.

and...

Chu Luobai stared at the raging flames, a sense of unease spreading through his heart.

With her current cultivation level, ordinary flames are like air to her; they are practically nonexistent.

But this flame not only made her feel it, but also caused a burning pain when she got close.

"This fire..."

Chu Luobai cast a questioning look at Zhao Yushi.

"You guessed right, this isn't ordinary fire."

"This thing is called Rootless Fire. It was born from a forbidden zone of heaven and earth and is an extremely rare treasure."

Zhao Yushi's expression was also very solemn.

"It was your master who went through great hardships to find it, in order to suppress the cold aura on the sect leader's body."

"Sect Leader? This is the true Sect Leader of the Azure Cloud Sword Sect?"

Chu Luobai already had a vague guess in his heart, but he was not sure.

“That’s right, compared to me, the temporarily appointed sect leader, she is the real one…”

Zhao Yushi couldn't help but sigh, his tone filled with emotion.

"You should know about what happened between Zu Yang and Xiao Xuancheng back then. Although the sect leader killed the demonic corpse, he was also harmed by the contingency plan left behind by the demonic corpse."

"When demonic energy enters the body, it transforms into cold energy, which can directly freeze the spiritual sea, rendering the sect leader a complete cripple."

"The sect leader kept it from us back then, but how long can such a thing be kept secret..."

As Zhao Yushi spoke, his tone gradually became more and more guilty.

"It's all our fault for being useless; we couldn't save her."

"Later, your master found the Rootless Fire, gave me some instructions, and then entered this place to go into seclusion with the sect leader."

"They were maintaining a fragile balance, and any external intervention could have killed them both."

"Chu Wang and I have been searching for many years, but we have not been able to find a better solution."

A hint of despair appeared on Zhao Yushi's face. As cultivators at the Mahayana Realm, they might seem omnipotent to others.

But only they themselves know their own insignificance and powerlessness.

"So that's what happened to Master."

That's why I didn't appear when I was in trouble in my previous life...

Looking at Mu Changfeng's profile, which was already eroded by the cold air, Chu Luobai felt a strange emotion welling up inside her.

"We didn't tell you back then because we were afraid you'd blame yourself. Now you're on the same level as us, and what we old folks can't think of, perhaps you can..."

Zhao Yushi said quietly, then added a sentence.

"However, you don't need to be too anxious. Chu Wang and I have estimated that the sect leader and Mu Changfeng can maintain this state for several hundred years without any problem."

"Keep searching, we'll eventually find a way to save them."

Seeing Chu Luobai's increasingly serious expression, Zhao Yushi sighed inwardly. He didn't know if telling Chu Luobai about this today was the right thing to do.

But he couldn't bear to see Chu Luobai lose her master without knowing the full story...

"I'll go out and check the situation first. You stay here and keep your master company."

After Zhao Yushi finished speaking, he left the cave, leaving the space to Chu Luobai.

"Master..."

As Chu Luobai looked at that familiar face, memories of the past flooded back, and her vision gradually became misty.

Suddenly, Fu Cang's voice rang in her mind.

"The chill emanating from this human seems so familiar."