My Senior Brother Turned Black After I Died. Chapter 31
byChapter 31 Chapter 31 (500 nutrient solution plus update) In the middle of the night…
After seeing Elder Lin off, the room became quiet, leaving only Ji Hantong’s shallow breathing and the occasional sound of wind and snow outside the window.Shen Lanchuan did not leave, but sat down on the chair next to the bed again, his eyes falling heavily on the small ball on the bed.
In his sleep, Ji Hantong seemed to be insecure. His small hands tightly grasped Shen Lanchuan’s fingers and refused to let go. Shen Lanchuan also did not pull out. Elder Lin’s words in his mind were like a huge stone weighing on his heart.
Only Ji Hantong himself can refine the spirit-restoring pill.
But now Han Tong not only has his memory regressed to his childhood, but his body has also regressed into that of a child.Not to mention alchemy, I’m afraid I can’t even recognize the alchemy furnace and medicinal materials. Is there really no other way?
Shen Lanchuan closed his eyes and suppressed the anxiety and weakness surging in his heart.He can’t panic. If he panics, what will Hantong do?
“Senior Brother Mingshu,” Xin Xuezhen returned after seeing Elder Lin off, the worry on his face not fading, “What Elder Lin said may not be the only one. Can we ask the seniors from Yaowang Valley or Alchemy Sect to give it a try?”
Shen Lanchuan shook his head, his voice a little harsh: “Elder Lin’s abilities are not inferior to those of the Yaowang Valley and the Alchemy Sect.”
He paused and then said: “However, the medicinal materials may be prepared first.”
“Except for Yu Xinlan, everything else is easy to talk about.” After Xin Xuezhen finished speaking, he hurriedly left to prepare.
There were only two people left in the room again.Ji Hantong was not actually asleep, he just closed his eyes and made crazy calculations in his mind.
Ji Hantong roughly pieced together the current situation.
That Yuheng Immortal Lord was supposed to be a very powerful person, but due to some reasons, his body regressed and he might even lose his life, so he allowed himself to travel through time and took advantage of the loophole.
If you want this body to return to its original state, you must refine an elixir, but that elixir can only be mastered by Immortal Yu Heng.
But now I am a fake who came from time travel and doesn’t even know what alchemy is.
What to do?
Tell Shen Lanchuan frankly that I am not your junior brother, I am just a lonely ghost who took your junior brother’s body?
Ji Hantong felt his neck go cold just by imagining that scene.These are immortals and elders who can fly to the sky, escape from the earth, and move mountains and seas. If they find that they have taken over the body of their junior brother, they may directly destroy him as a lonely ghost, or worse, use some soul-searching and soul-refining method to pull him out and make him immortal forever.
Ji Hantong shivered and clutched the quilt tightly.
no!You must not let them know that you are a fake!
Ji Hantong clenched his fists in his heart. The top priority was to play the role of the Yuheng Immortal Lord well, at least survive first and then slowly think of a solution.But…how to play the role of an amnesiac alchemy master?He doesn’t even have basic common sense about this world!
Wait, they just said that the original owner did this to save his apprentice. That apprentice seems to be named Li Cangming?
Ji Hantong’s heart moved.Maybe we can start from this apprentice?Since the original owner risked his life to save him, it means that this apprentice is very important to him.Go and see him. First of all, he fits the character of the original owner’s beloved disciple. Secondly, if the disciple needs the master to risk his life to save him, he is probably just a fledgling boy in terms of age and cultivation. He must be better than these people who have lived for hundreds or even thousands of years.
After making up his mind, Ji Hantong quietly opened one eye and glanced at Shen Lanchuan sitting beside the bed.
The man was still sitting there, his posture upright, his side face looking a little cold in the dim light coming through the window lattice, his eyebrows slightly frowned, obviously worried about something.Ji Hantong looked at his impeccably handsome face, and the little flame of beauty control in his heart flickered again.Seriously, when you wake up every day and see this face, you will feel better, right?
He moved slightly, pretending to have just woken up, rubbed his eyes, then looked at Shen Lanchuan, and said in a confused voice that he had just woken up:
“Senior brother…”
Shen Lanchuan immediately came back to his senses, turned to look at him, his eyes softened instantly: “Are you awake?”
Ji Hantong shook his head, holding the edge of the quilt with his little hands, raising his little face and trying to make a worried and curious expression: “Brother, you just said that I was injured because I was trying to save my apprentice. How is my apprentice now?”
He asked cautiously, with just the right amount of concern in his eyes. Ji Hantong thought that his acting skills were perfect, but for some reason the man in front of him immediately turned dark.
Shen Lanchuan turned his back angrily and stopped looking at him.
After Han Tong woke up, the first person who took the initiative to show concern was Li Cangming.
Even if the memory regresses, even if the mind becomes a child, is the subconscious concern still directed towards that person?
Shen Lanchuan’s fingertips tightened slightly, and veins appeared on the back of his hands.He almost wanted to refuse immediately, wanting to tell the ignorant little person in front of him that that person was not worth your care and that you almost lost your life trying to save him.
But when the words came to his mouth, facing Ji Hantong’s clear, questioning and slightly uneasy eyes, all the sharp words were choked in his throat.
The current Han Tong is not the junior brother who will smile to him, rely on himself, and only has eyes for himself. The current Han Tong has no memories of him for hundreds of years. He is unfamiliar and curious about everything.
If he categorically refuses, or even shows disgust, it will only frighten Hantong and make him feel more uneasy and alienate from her.
Shen Lanchuan closed his eyes and suppressed the roiling jealousy and dark thoughts deep in his heart.When he opened it again, there was only a quiet gentleness in his eyes.
“His name is Li Cangming,” Shen Lanchuan’s voice was steady, with no emotion audible, “You gave him part of your strength before you fell into coma, helping him survive a very dangerous disaster. He is now out of danger, but he is still recovering from excessive consumption.”
Shen Lanchuan: “Junior Brother Xin has arranged for the best medical practitioners to take care of him. You don’t have to worry.”
After hearing this, Ji Hantong showed an expression of “I see” on his little face, and then his concern became more obvious: “Is he still unconscious? Can I go see him?”
He raised his little face and looked at Shen Lanchuan eagerly, with pleading in his eyes.
Shen Lanchuan’s heart seemed to be slightly twisted by something.
After his own explanation, Han Tong still wanted to see Li Cangming.
This realization made his chest feel tight.But there was still no emotion on his face. He was silent for a moment and then said: “You are still very weak. Elder Lin told you to rest.”
“I’ll just take a look and come back soon, okay?” Ji Hantong stretched out his little hand, gently tugged on Shen Lanchuan’s sleeve, and begged softly, “I’m a little worried, and I don’t remember anything. Senior brother, didn’t you also say that I became like this just to save him? Maybe I can remember something when I see him?”
Ji Hantong said the last sentence hesitantly, but his eyes were serious.This was not entirely an excuse. He really hoped to find some clues from Li Cangming.
Shen Lanchuan looked at the white and tender little hand holding his sleeve, and then at Ji Hantong’s expectant face, he was defeated after all.He couldn’t refuse Han Tong like this, even if the other person wanted to see Li Cangming.
“…Okay.” Shen Lanchuan heard his dry voice.
“Yeah!” Ji Hantong nodded immediately, a shallow smile spread across his face. Although he was still pale, the sickly air in his body seemed to have weakened a bit.
Shen Lanchuan looked at his smile, and the haze in his heart seemed to be dispelled a little.He sighed resignedly, stood up, and first took out a snow-white fox fur cloak that was thick, soft, and obviously child-sized, and carefully wrapped Ji Hantong tightly, and then took a similarly furry hood and put it on him, revealing only Yuxue’s cute little face.
Then, he carefully took Ji Hantong, who was wrapped like a small snowball, into his arms.
His body suddenly soared into the air and was embraced into a warm and solid embrace. Ji Hantong subconsciously stiffened for a moment.The cool breath belonging to Shen Lanchuan instantly surrounded him, unfamiliar, but strangely reassuring.He could feel the other person’s steady and strong arms and the body heat transmitted through the clothes.
Ji Hantong moved uncomfortably, but quickly calmed down.He is now a “cub”. It is normal for him to be carried away, but it is strange to struggle.And being held like this was indeed much more comfortable than walking on his own short legs.
Shen Lanchuan carried him out of the bedroom.The wind and snow outside have stopped, but the top of Cangwu Peak is still covered in silver and bitingly cold.An invisible spiritual barrier naturally circulated around Shen Lanchuan, blocking out the cold wind and snow foam.
After all, they are both on Cangwu Peak, and Li Cangming’s residence is not far from Ji Hantong’s residence, and they can be reached in a short time.
When the disciples guarding outside the courtyard saw Shen Lanchuan, they quickly bowed and saluted: “Mingshu Immortal Lord.” When their eyes touched the tightly wrapped child in his arms with only a small face showing, a trace of surprise flashed in their eyes, but they immediately lowered their heads respectfully, not daring to look further.
Strange, it seems that Mingshu Immortal Lord has no children. This child looks a bit like Yuheng Immortal Lord. Is he the child of Yuheng Immortal Lord?
“How is Li Cangming doing?” Shen Lanchuan asked.
“Back to Immortal Master, Senior Brother Li is in stable condition. The medical cultivator just came to see him and said that his breath has been slowly recovering, but his spiritual consciousness has been greatly depleted.” The disciple replied respectfully.
Shen Lanchuan nodded and walked into the house with Ji Hantong in his arms.
The room was filled with soothing warm incense and soft light.Li Cangming was lying on a couch covered with soft mattresses, his eyes closed tightly, and his face was still pale, but it was much better than the dying appearance in the mission hall.He had changed into a clean middle coat, and some healing scars could be seen on his exposed wrists and neck.
Ji Hantong was held by Shen Lanchuan and looked curiously at the young man on the couch.
Is this the apprentice that the original owner wanted to save at all costs?He looked young, probably about the same age as himself, and he looked quite handsome, but he was too thin and his complexion was bad.
The world of cultivation is indeed so terrifying, and it can cause such tragedy at every turn.
He looked at Li Cangming’s face carefully, trying to find a sense of familiarity or triggering some memory of the original owner, but unfortunately there was nothing.This face was completely unfamiliar to him, and he was not as impressed as when he first saw Shen Lanchuan.
Shen Lanchuan stood aside, his eyes fell on Ji Hantong’s small face, which was looking at Li Cangming intently, and then glanced at the unconscious young man on the couch, and the sourness in his heart rose uncontrollably again.His arms holding Ji Hantong tightened unconsciously, and then relaxed immediately, for fear of strangling him.
Ji Hantong looked at it for a while, then looked away without seeing anything interesting, and asked Shen Lanchuan in a low voice: “When will he wake up?”
“The doctors say it can take as fast as three to five days, or as slow as ten months. It depends on his own recovery.” Shen Lanchuan answered in a calm tone.
“Oh…” Ji Hantong responded, a little hesitantly. It seemed that he couldn’t expect to get any useful information from this apprentice in a short time.
As he was thinking about it, he suddenly felt the arm holding him tighten slightly again, and Shen Lanchuan’s voice with no discernable emotion came from above his head: “I’ve seen it, we should go back, you need to rest.”
Ji Hantong raised his head and met Shen Lanchuan’s lowered gaze.The eyes were very deep, and the pupils were as black as jet jade.
Ji Hantong felt an inexplicable thump in his heart, vaguely feeling that his behavior of visiting his apprentice seemed to make the senior brother unhappy?
But he didn’t dare to ask any more questions and just nodded obediently: “Yeah, okay.”
Shen Lanchuan said no more, hugged him and turned around to leave the guest house, returning to the main house in silence.
After placing Ji Hantong back on the bed and tucking him in carefully, Shen Lanchuan stood beside the bed and looked at him quietly for a moment before saying, “Have a good rest and don’t bother yourself anymore. I’ll stay in the side yard next to you. Just call me if you need anything.”
“Senior brother…” Ji Hantong couldn’t help but call in a low voice.
Shen Lanchuan stopped and looked back at him.
Ji Hantong opened his mouth, but didn’t know what to say.He didn’t know what to say, but he subconsciously didn’t want Shen Lanchuan to leave, but there didn’t seem to be any good reason to keep him.
In the end, he just whispered: “Thank you, senior brother.”
Shen Lanchuan’s eyes moved slightly, but in the end he just said “hmm” softly, turned around and left the room, closing the door gently.
The room became quiet again.
Ji Hantong lay on the soft quilt, looking at the ceiling of the tent, his brows furrowed tightly.
The situation seemed more complicated than he thought.
This senior brother Shen Lanchuan seems to care and love the original master very much, and seems to have a vague rejection of the apprentice Li Cangming. Is it because the original master was injured while saving his apprentice that he angered the apprentice?
He does this even to his own junior nephew, not to mention himself, the impostor who has taken over his junior brother’s body.What if the secret is exposed one day, or if I accidentally touch this senior brother’s reverse scale…
Ji Hantong shrank further into the quilt, revealing only a pair of big eyes full of worry.
The future is worrying…
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Outside the door, Shen Lanchuan had not gone far.He leaned on the pillars outside, looked up at the ever-lasting snow on Cangwu Peak, and closed his eyes.
Han Tong’s concern for Li Cangming was like a thin thorn piercing the softest and most paranoid place in his heart.
He knew he shouldn’t be like this.Hantong has lost his memory, and his concern may just be instinctive.Li Cangming is his apprentice, and he cares about his apprentice as a matter of course.
But understanding it intellectually is one thing, accepting it emotionally is another.
More than four hundred years of getting along day and night have already turned that protective heart into an overwhelming possessiveness.He was used to Han Tong being the only one in his world, and he was used to Han Tong’s happiness, anger, sorrow and joy being all caused by him.
“I’m really…” Shen Lanchuan laughed at himself in a low voice, digging his fingertips into his palms, leaving blood marks.
despicable.And there is no cure.
But even so, he won’t let go.
Hantong is his.Always.
“Pfft——”
A large mouthful of blood fell on the white snow, which was shocking.
Shen Lanchuan raised his hand to wipe the corner of his mouth, and then stared blankly at the blood on his hand.
Soon, he reacted quickly and used magic to clean up the blood stains to avoid being discovered by Ji Hantong, and then rushed back to his room to meditate and adjust his breath.
After coming back, he kept thinking about Ji Hantong, so much so that he even forgot about being injured in Zichen Valley.
Thinking of Zichen Valley, Shen Lanchuan frowned again.At that time, he was thinking about Ji Hantong and didn’t think much about it.Now that I have calmed down and carefully thought about everything in Zichen Valley, I still feel that something is very wrong.
Although Shen Fu went crazy and closed the door in the end, he didn’t really want to trap him inside.
And why did Shen Fu call him over?Why did he say that his goal was achieved as soon as he entered Zichen Valley?
After adjusting his breath for about an hour, Shen Lanchuan suppressed the raging spiritual power in his body, and the burning pain in his internal organs was slightly relieved.The internal injuries have not healed, but the mental exhaustion has surged up like a tide.
So many things happened in just a few days that even a determined person like Shen Lanchuan would find it difficult to bear.All kinds of emotions were mixed together, weighing heavily on his heart.
In fact, Shen Lanchuan rarely felt tired.Since he embarked on the path to immortality, especially after his master Daoxuan passed away, he has become accustomed to shouldering everything, becoming accustomed to being the support of his junior brother, and accustomed to being calm and self-possessed in the face of any difficulties and looking for a way out.
But this time, when he looked at the small, fragile Han Tong on the bed, looking at him with completely unfamiliar eyes, he felt deeply tired for the first time, and even…a trace of confusion.
If all the medicinal materials are gathered, Hantong still cannot recover his memory and abilities, and what should he do if he cannot refine the healing pill?Do you want to watch his origins continue to suffer losses, maybe even…?
No, it won’t.There must be a way.
Shen Lanchuan forced himself to stop these negative thoughts.He calmed down, stood up, washed himself briefly, and changed into clean dark clothes.
The running around for days has consumed too much of Shen Lanchuan’s mind. Now that he relaxed, Shen Lanchuan’s sleepiness hit him like a mountain.He walked to the bed and lay down undressed. Almost as soon as his head touched the pillow, his consciousness sank into the darkness uncontrollably.
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As the night deepened, the wind and snow on Cangwu Peak seemed to be getting stronger. The whistling wind sounded like some kind of wailing, passing through the courtyard and beating on the window lattice.
In the main room, Ji Hantong slept uneasily.
He had a nightmare.
In the dream, he returned to the familiar yet unfamiliar high school classroom, and was immersed in studying the Huanggang secret papers and high school must-answer questions that he could never finish.Suddenly, the ceiling of the classroom cracked, and countless ferocious beasts fell from the sky and rushed towards him.
Ji Hantong tried desperately to run, but his legs were as heavy as lead and he couldn’t run far.The faces of the surrounding teachers and classmates also began to become blurred and distorted, and they burst into sharp laughter.
“You are not Ji Hantong…”
“You are a lonely ghost…”
“Occupying someone else’s body…”
“Bring him back!”
The chains wrapped around Ji Hantong’s hands and feet. They were bone-chilling and tightened, almost strangling him.Ji Hantong struggled in fear, but saw those blurry figures taking off their modern clothes and replacing them with Taixuan Taoist robes. The leaders turned into Li Cangming, Xin Xuezhen, and the elder Lin he had seen during the day.They stood not far away, looking at him coldly. There was no gentle concern in their eyes during the day, only scrutiny and cold murderous intent.
“The evildoer who dares to seize the body of Immortal Lord She Yuheng shall be punished!”
Xin Xuezhen pulled out a cold sword, the tip of which pointed directly at his heart.
“Kill the monsters!”
“Kill the monsters!”
“Kill the monsters!”
The rest of the people were also raising their arms and shouting, their voices rising and falling one after another.
“No -!” Ji Hantong sat up suddenly in shock, gasping for air, his forehead was covered with cold sweat, and his heart was beating wildly in his chest, almost jumping out of his chest.
In front of me is a familiar, antique bed tent, and outside the window is the sound of howling wind and snow.There were no classrooms, no papers, and no immortals trying to kill him.
It’s a dream…just a nightmare.
Ji Hantong covered his chest, shocked.But the fear in the dream was too real, and the cold murderous intention and the touch of the chains seemed to still remain on the skin.He was alone in the room, and the darkness seemed to have substance, squeezing in from all directions.Ji Hantong’s forced composure during the day fell apart when he was alone late at night.
After all, he was just a sixteen-year-old boy, and for the first time he traveled through time and fell into such a completely unfamiliar and dangerous situation, and his body was only a few years old.During the day, he could still rely on his survival instinct, but in the dead of night, fear and helplessness overwhelmed Ji Hantong like a tide.
He kind of missed the real world.Although Ji Hantong was just an orphaned high school student on the margins of society there, due to national policies, the orphanage did not provide him with food and clothing; the society was stable, and he did not have to worry about being stabbed to death with a sword when he woke up.
My nose was sore and tears rolled down without warning.Ji Hantong quickly wiped it off with the back of his hand, but the more he wiped, the more he wiped it off.
If you can’t cry, what’s the use of crying?No one here will feel sorry for him, no one will comfort him.
But…it’s really scary.
Afraid of being exposed, afraid of being killed as a body-stealing monster, afraid of never being able to go back, afraid of this strange world…
In the darkness, Shen Lanchuan’s handsome face suddenly emerged clearly during the day.That person… although sometimes he looks a little scary, especially when it comes to Li Cangming, most of the time he is gentle, cautious, and even a little indulgent towards himself.
Moreover, he is really good-looking.Ji Hantong thought inappropriately that if he were in the original world, he would probably be tempted to go up and make friends with such a senior brother.
The thought strangely dispelled a little of the fear.At least for now, this senior brother is his only support in this world.
Ji Hantong wanted to get close to this person, and wanted to make sure that he was not alone in facing this endless darkness and unknown.
Almost without thinking, Ji Hantong lifted the quilt and stepped on the cold floor with his bare feet.Chill instantly shot up from the soles of his feet, and he shivered, but he still fumbled to find the clothes Shen Lanchuan had worn for him during the day and put them on randomly, put on his shoes, and pulled the fox fur cloak tightly around him.
Then, Ji Hantong tiptoed to the door and carefully opened a crack.
The corridor outside was empty, except for a few long-bright lamps swaying in the wind and snow, casting swaying light and shadow.Shen Lanchuan said during the day that he lived in the side yard next to it.
Ji Hantong took a deep breath, mustered up his courage, and ran towards the side yard on his short legs.The wind and snow were biting, and he stumbled as he ran, his heartbeat beating like a drum, half out of coldness and half out of fear.
The door to the side yard was ajar.Ji Hantong gently pushed it open. It was dark and silent inside.Through the faint snow light coming in from outside, he could vaguely see a figure lying on the bed inside.
It’s Shen Lanchuan.
He was sleeping so deeply that he didn’t even notice anyone coming in.The sound of even breathing was particularly clear in the silent room.
Ji Hantong stood at the door, looking at the blurry outline on the bed, and hesitated for a moment.Do you really want to go there?Will the other party regard him as an ignorant child?Or worse, being directly discovered by Shen Lanchuan that something is wrong?
However, the fear in the dream and the coldness of being alone at this moment finally defeated that hesitation.He bit his lower lip, took off his cloak stained with snow foam, and then tiptoed quietly to the bedside like a thief kitten.
Shen Lanchuan slept on the outside of the bed, facing inward.Ji Hantong looked at the broad back, and then at the empty space inside. A trace of struggle flashed across his face, but in the end his desire for warmth and safety prevailed.
He climbed onto the bed on his hands and knees, clumsily and carefully, for fear of waking up the person on the bed.Fortunately, the bed was soft and he was light, so he made almost no sound.
After getting into bed, Shen Lanchuan’s body temperature and the clear and clean breath immediately surrounded him, dispelling the chill in his body and strangely soothing the panic in his heart.
Ji Hantong breathed a small sigh of relief, opened his eyes wide in the darkness, and looked at the back of Shen Lanchuan’s head and long ink-colored hair close at hand.He slowly moved his body, getting closer little by little, until his small back was almost touching Shen Lanchuan’s back before he stopped.
So warm…and so reassuring.
The tense nerves finally relaxed completely, and a strong feeling of fatigue came over me.Ji Hantong yawned slightly, his eyelids getting heavier and heavier.Before falling into a deep sleep, he subconsciously stretched out his short arms and gently hugged one of Shen Lanchuan’s arms, pressing his little face against it, as if he could catch the only driftwood in the darkness.
This body seems to be very dependent on the senior brother.
This must be the fault of the original owner, who couldn’t live without his senior brother no matter how old he was. Unlike him, he had long been used to sleeping alone.
Yes, it must be the fault of the original owner, Immortal Yu Heng. Anyway, it has nothing to do with him, Ji Hantong.
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