Chapter 2832 — A Shift in the Heavens
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Little Taohong gave a start and hastily pushed the person's hands away. "Brother Kang, stop fooling around..."
"Haha, Little Taohong, you're really sharp—guessed it was me right away!" Kang Jingming turned with a grin and came around to face her. "What's the matter, Sister Taohong? You look like you're not in the best of moods?"
"Brother Kang, the Young Sect Master has seemed... off these past few days, and he's grown a little distant from me. Did I do something wrong?" Little Taohong's standing in the Mystic Pill Sect rested entirely on her being Tian Canbian's attendant. Without that identity, she would not even rank with an ordinary disciple. How could she not worry?
"No, surely not? The Young Sect Master is quite courteous to me?" Kang Jingming blinked. "If anything, I'd say his attitude toward me has been getting better and better!"
"Is that so..." Little Taohong gave Kang Jingming a look of complicated emotion. Could it be that the Young Sect Master... she...
"That's right!" Kang Jingming nodded. "Little Taohong, aren't you overthinking this? I'm sure it's just that the Mystic Pill Sect's trial hasn't ended yet, and the Young Sect Master is worried about the results. These past few days he keeps asking me whether any trial participant has come back successfully, and he told me to report to him the moment I hear anything!"
"I see..." Little Taohong thought it over, and it made sense. Tian Canbian did seem to be paying especially close attention to the outcome of the Mystic Pill Sect's trial lately, so his poor mood was not so hard to understand. At that thought, she felt considerably reassured.
Tian Canbian quickly arrived at the side courtyard where Ancestor Xuanzhen resided. He knocked on the door, and at once heard the Ancestor's deep, kindly voice: "Come in!"
Tian Canbian entered the courtyard cautiously, stepped into Ancestor Xuanzhen's room, and said respectfully, "Master, your disciple has come!"
"Tianbian, you're here? Sit wherever you like." Ancestor Xuanzhen gestured toward a cushion not far away.
"Yes, Master!" So Tian Canbian's true name was in fact Tianbian! He voiced no objection to being addressed thus by Ancestor Xuanzhen, and sat respectfully facing the Ancestor.
"Tianbian, I hear you've been out of sorts these past few days?" Ancestor Xuanzhen set down the book in his hand and looked at Tianbian with a warm gaze.
"Master... I... I feel I'm not cut out for this. The Young Sect Master's duties are so tiring and so hard. I'm not the right material..." Tianbian lowered his head, not quite daring to meet Ancestor Xuanzhen's eyes. "I wonder when my sister will be able to come back—whether she can return safely..."
"Tianbian, you must understand: you are the true Young Sect Master. All these years, your sister has stood in for you in that position—how hard it has been for her! A girl, bearing pressures and hardships greater than your own—when will you finally grow up?" Ancestor Xuanzhen sighed, his tone tinged with the frustration of one who wished iron could become steel. "Your sister was born only a few minutes before you. You are twins, a dragon and a phoenix; in theory, you are the same age. But look at you—and then look at your sister!"
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