劍問蒼天 - 第58章 傷心 - 清風書屋

Facheng had taken two steps when he turned back again and said to Zhang Qingyue with a faint smile, "Junior brother Zhang, when you have time you should go look in on benefactor Lu Xueqi of your sect. She has been worried about you, you know—very worried!" His face held a hint of mystery as he exchanged a smile with Fajing, and the two went off together.

Zhang Qingyue was stunned a moment, then could not help looking toward the Little Zhu Peak contingent of the Canglan Sect nearby. This time the Little Zhu Peak's Master Shuijing had not come; the female disciples were led by the eldest senior sister, Wen Pei, and took their orders from Daoist Cangyan and Tian Buhui. Lu Xueqi was standing among them right now.

After more than a month without seeing her, Lu Xueqi looked somewhat thinner, though whether from those wounds he could not tell. But seen from here, Zhang Qingyue still felt a shock of beauty: this woman seemed born radiant, of a beauty unmatched in the world, and even grown thin she was like, among blooming lilies, a single drop of cool dew lightly revealed—desolate, a little proud and aloof, and all the more exquisite.

The female disciples of Little Zhu Peak were for the most part lovely women, drawing countless gazes from all around. Apart from the old monks of the Brahma Sound Temple who kept their eyes fixed straight ahead, the male disciples of the Canglan Sect, the Burning Cloud Valley, and others all looked this way, intentionally or not, and Lu Xueqi drew the most eyes of all. Only now she had returned to her former cold aloofness; when her gaze passed Zhang Qingyue by chance, it lingered only faintly a moment before moving on, with no other expression.

Zhang Qingyue felt somehow disappointed, though after a while he was instead rather glad. He had always been somewhat in awe of this icy, stunning woman, and now that she paid him no heed, he felt at ease. Before long his attention was caught by Tian Lingsu's giggling laughter, and he could not turn it back again.