In a small room on the Flying Boat, because it was a trip outside the Sunset Sect, only Inner Sect disciples were included. Even someone like Jiang Luo, who had only recently entered the Inner Sect, had a small room to rest in.
Unlike the other disciples, Jiang Luo stayed alone in her room, copying the portrait of Xu Lin she had seen at Zhaowen Tower.
She had even used the Imprint Tracing Technique, a copying method that could reproduce a portrait exactly as it was.
She was full of curiosity about Xu Lin’s identity.
If someone had told her that the current Holy Son of the Sunset Sect was formerly the Senior Brother of the Vast Dao Sect, Jiang Luo would never have believed it.
Maybe someone was trying to harm Senior Brother.
But the key was, this was not something she had heard from someone else. It had come from Xu Lin’s own mouth.
Those earlier words that had seemed almost like a joke, saying he was the Holy Son, Jiang Luo had completely disbelieved at the time, but they had indeed been true.
Now, as for this identity as the Senior Brother of the Vast Dao Sect, Jiang Luo could no longer quite tell whether it was true or false.
That book in Zhaowen Tower was from a long time ago. She estimated that in the entire Sunset Sect, only she had a copy in her hands.
She considered herself rather unclear about the relationships within the sect, but she vaguely felt that if others really learned this, the entire Sunset Sect would be thrown into great upheaval, and it might even threaten Xu Lin’s identity as Holy Son.
So she no longer dared to casually bring it out, and could only copy the portrait.
She had been wanting to ask clearly for some time, but when she remembered that time before, when she had only met with Senior Sister and said the wrong thing while probing, Xu Lin had flown into such a rage.
Just thinking about it made Jiang Luo fearful afterward.
Later, she thought that after copying it, she would compare this portrait in front of Xu Lin, and then there should be no problem.
Jiang Luo picked up the portrait and looked at it, her brows tightly furrowed and the corners of her mouth slightly pressed together.
“This really is exactly the same as Senior Brother.”
It was impossible for there to be someone in this world with the same name and surname who also looked exactly the same, right?
Even twin brothers could not be like that.
“What’s exactly the same as me?”
The sudden voice gave Jiang Luo a great fright, and she instinctively hid the portrait behind her back.
But when she looked carefully, outside the only wooden window left in the small room, Xu Lin was crouching there at some point, still holding a Spirit Fruit with a bite taken out of it, looking quite like a monkey.
Once she saw who it was, Jiang Luo finally let out a long breath of relief. She glanced at Xu Lin reproachfully, but seeing him like that, she could not help worrying.
“Senior Brother, how did you show up from there? Hurry and get down.”
Jiang Luo did not understand what the Heavenly Firmament Realm could do, crossing a distance of a thousand miles in an instant.
She only remembered that before setting out, the Elder had warned them that this Flying Boat was traveling high in the sky, and if they left it without permission, they might end up badly bruised.
“I just flipped down from above.” Xu Lin jumped down from the window, completely at ease.
“Then how did you know I was staying in this room? I never told you.”
More accurately, there had been no time to tell him. Jiang Luo had only learned she was staying here after boarding the Flying Boat.
“Here, this.” Xu Lin raised his wrist, revealing the place where the Heart-Binding Curse was, “Don’t you know that with this thing, as long as I lightly stir it, I can know the other person’s approximate location?”
Jiang Luo shook her head blankly. This was her first time being placed under a Heart-Binding Curse, so she truly did not know.
Xu Lin sighed. He did not know whether to call Jiang Luo innocent and naive, or simply foolish, that she did not even know this.
He took a Spirit Fruit from his chest. This was one he had taken from Xi Ranchen’s fruit plate. He lifted it high, then tapped it on Jiang Luo’s head, “You’re not even worried that I might be a bad person. You didn’t know anything, yet you dared let me place a Heart-Binding Curse on you.”
Jiang Luo puffed out her cheeks, dissatisfied, and muttered inwardly. Although Xu Lin did not count as a bad person in her eyes, he was not entirely a good person either.
“I was also worried something had happened to you. I couldn’t see you on the Flying Boat deck, and I was bored, so I just decided to come see you.”
“Really?”
Warmth welled up in Jiang Luo’s heart. She could feel that Xu Lin was giving her special care.
“After all, you don’t exactly look like someone who can be trusted to be fine.”
That one sentence instantly snuffed out Jiang Luo’s warmth.
To put it plainly, it was not entirely concern for Jiang Luo, but worry that something might happen to her.
That worry was all because Jiang Luo treated this trip like an outing, without even a bit of vigilance toward the Luo Xu Mountains.
Especially since Jiang Luo was a disciple participating in this kind of training for the first time. If she was even slightly careless, the Luo Xu Mountains would become her burial ground.
“What do you mean I don’t? No matter what, I’m already an Inner Disciple. I can stand on my own, alright?”
Jiang Luo would not accept Xu Lin’s assessment.
Xu Lin shrugged, with a look that told Jiang Luo to savor it herself, and then he casually let go of the hand holding the Spirit Fruit.
Feeling the Spirit Fruit above her head wobble as if about to fall, Jiang Luo hurriedly raised both hands to catch it.
And just as both her hands reached out, Xu Lin was quick-eyed and quick-handed, snatching that piece of paper right from Jiang Luo’s hand.
“Let me see what you’re hiding that you won’t let me look at.”
Before Jiang Luo could take it back, Xu Lin stepped back, keeping his distance from her.
Only belatedly did Jiang Luo realize that although the Spirit Fruit was now in her hands, the copy she had just made had been taken away by Xu Lin in an instant.
She pressed her lips together and bit her lower lip, angry and vexed, yet helpless.
She should have just answered Xu Lin directly earlier and said, you are a bad person.
Fortunately, it was only the portrait she had copied. If it had been the book from Zhaowen Tower, there would probably have been trouble again.
When Xu Lin had heard Jiang Luo’s words earlier, he already felt that what she was hiding should be related to him. After seeing the portrait, he still frowned.
“Why are you drawing me when you have nothing better to do?”
He looked at Jiang Luo in confusion and asked suspiciously, “You’re not trying to put a bounty on me, are you?”
Jiang Luo only felt Xu Lin was being unreasonable, and for a moment she could not find a suitable reason, “Can’t I just draw you, Senior Brother?”
Xu Lin clicked his tongue, his brows tightly knit. If Jiang Luo had done something like this before, he absolutely would have become wary of her, just like last time.
But now there was the Heart-Binding Curse, and combined with the fact that Jiang Luo simply could not be that scheming, he did not act the way he had before.
Not long ago, Jiang Luo had been so candid with him, and Xu Lin had been able to sense a bit of her little thoughts.
“It’s best not to casually take this thing out.”
Xu Lin pondered for a moment, then still said, “Otherwise it can easily cause no small amount of trouble.”
“Really?”
Jiang Luo widened her eyes. Her guess was somewhat confirmed, and she hesitated for a moment, “Then does Senior Brother also think it looks like you?”
The purpose of drawing this had been to compare it with Xu Lin face to face.
The difference was that before she could find a suitable reason, Xu Lin had shown up on his own.
Xu Lin tilted his head, feeling that Jiang Luo’s question had come out of nowhere, but he still looked at the portrait again, then lowered his eyes, “It’s quite similar, except a bit too thin.”
Surprised, Jiang Luo’s mouth fell slightly open.
Even Xu Lin said it was similar, so the Senior Brother of the Vast Dao Sect recorded by Zhaowen Tower really was the Senior Brother before her eyes.
But the more Jiang Luo reacted like this, the less Xu Lin understood what was going on.
She was drawing for fun in her spare time. Fine, no problem.
He had said the drawing looked like him. Shouldn’t she be happy? Why was she making this kind of expression?