The Master Possessed An Innate Charm, Irresistibly Seducing His Young Disciple - Chapter 20

When Li Sichen woke up, Yu Huaixin was nowhere to be found. He rushed out of the house and began to search everywhere.

Nearly an hour passed. Li Sichen searched almost every corner of the village, but there was still no sign of Yu Huaixin. This sparked a wave of doubt. Had Yu Huaixin already left the village?

Just in case, Li Sichen returned to the room where they had stayed the night before. Yu Huaixin was still not there. He felt torn; he wanted to go out and find him, but he feared that if Yu Huaixin had stayed behind, leaving now would cause them to miss each other.

“Xiao Chen”

Hearing that familiar call, Li Sichen turned around instinctively. However, the sight before him left him paralyzed with fear.

In the distance, Yu Huaixin was staggering toward him. His white robes were in disarray and stained with mottled patches of blood. His damp white hair hung lifelessly over his shoulders. His face was deathly pale and his lips were devoid of color, save for a smear of blood he had not yet wiped away. Despite his state, he forced a weak, strained smile.

He looked as if he had just crawled out of a pile of corpses.

Li Sichen had no idea what Yu Huaixin had endured in such a short time, but that smile felt strangely foreign. It was an indescribable sensation. Of course, these thoughts lasted only a split second. His primary concern was Yu Huaixin’s condition, and he ran toward him at full speed.

Watching Li Sichen run toward him, Yu Huaixin slowly retracted his smile. A faint, imperceptible chill flickered in his eyes. In the next moment, his legs gave out and he collapsed toward the ground.

At the last second, Li Sichen caught him.

“Master!”

“Mmm” Yu Huaixin gave a weak response and offered another smile to signal that he was fine.

But how could Li Sichen not worry? As Yu Huaixin slumped into his arms, the white hair on his right shoulder shifted to reveal a bloody wound. The injury was nearly half a finger deep. It was clear someone had acted with malice, intent on tearing a piece of flesh from him.

Li Sichen felt a chill settle in his heart. He reached out to touch the wound but pulled back, terrified of causing more pain. His arms shook uncontrollably.

“How did this happen? Who did this?!” Li Sichen asked hysterically.

Seeing the treasure he held most dear being repeatedly destroyed, Li Sichen felt as though he could not breathe. He did not understand why his desperate attempts to protect this person always ended in failure. He hated his own insignificance. If only he were stronger, perhaps none of this would have happened.

Yu Huaixin remained calm. He looked at the man mourning for him with the gentlest gaze his pale eyes could muster and spoke softly. “Xiao Chen, do I look very ugly right now?”

With red eyes, Li Sichen let his tears fall onto Yu Huaixin. He gathered him into his arms and stood up quickly. “I am taking you back! Do not be afraid, Master. It will be all right! I will save you!”

“Heh, Xiao Chen, your Master is not afraid. Your Master is very happy right now. Xiao Chen, the ghost realm is piercingly cold. I am so cold. Xiao Chen, when can I take you with me? Then your Master would have no regrets.”

Yu Huaixin struggled through his last words before his eyes drifted shut and he fell into a deep faint in Li Sichen’s arms.

Li Sichen quickly placed Yu Huaixin on the bed and summoned the system immediately. “He is injured! Save him!”

[This will cost one hundred points to exchange for a Life-Returning Pill from the mall. However, Host, I suggest you try another way. You have been using your initial five hundred points without earning any new ones. At this rate, you will run out. Friendly reminder: if you use another hundred points, you will only have two hundred left! Even if you do not care about your own life, do you not want to save Yu Huaixin’s future fate?]

“Exchange it! Do it now! Yu Huaixin is injured like this, and I am too weak to help! Where am I supposed to find help in the middle of nowhere? Exchange it now!”

Li Sichen was frantic. He knew that for an injured person, delaying was not just wasting time; it was wasting a life. Beyond the visible wounds, he had felt several broken bones while moving Yu Huaixin to the bed. Delaying further to look for other options was no different from killing him.

[Fine then.] Seeing Li Sichen’s persistence, the little blue sphere complied and exchanged one hundred points for the Life-Returning Pill.

Once he had the pill, Li Sichen carefully placed it in Yu Huaixin’s mouth and used his immortal techniques to help him absorb it quickly.

The little blue sphere watched with a conflicted expression. Suddenly, its face updated to a gossipy grin. [Host, you have fallen in love!]

“No, I have not.”

[You have! You definitely have feelings for him! Look at how worried you are. You even cried your eyes out for him. You have fallen for him!]

Li Sichen did not respond to the system’s teasing. Instead, he asked, “When will he wake up?”

The little blue sphere thought for a moment. [This medicine is very powerful! He should wake up in about three days!]

Li Sichen rolled his eyes. Three days? What kind of powerful medicine requires three days to wake someone up? Was it a fake?

[However, if the Host provides external care, such as looking after him well and helping his body recover in better conditions, he might wake up sooner!]

“Understood.”

The little blue sphere continued. [Host, have you really fallen for him?]

Li Sichen remained silent.

[Host, do not avoid the question. Your face is all red! How embarrassing!]

Li Sichen ignored the chatter.

[So, after the mission is complete, do you still want me to send you back? Or have you changed your mind and decided to stay here? I saw that you were not very happy in your own world anyway. You always skipped sparring sessions at your martial arts hall. Host, why don’t you just stay?]

Li Sichen continued to remain silent, but his fists tightened slowly.

[Host, my system also has a sub-system for certain interactions. If you need it in the future, I can give you a free trial!]

Li Sichen was startled. A sub-system like that belonged on a completely different kind of website. Wait, he realized, this world was not exactly a wholesome story to begin with.