Chapter 284 - Home Base (1/2)

”See~ I told you they would come back on their own...You all worry for nothing~” Doctor Lou dismissively said as he lazily stretched out on a table with a yawn and stared at Qi Yin's back.

He was currently in a pavilion, situated next to a roaring waterfall situated on the edge of the Qi temple. Doctor Lou had ”followed” his sister home after running from the annoying meeting with the troublesome clan heads who were insisting on going to poking their noses where it did not belong.

Especially that annoying bickering trio of Feng, Han, and Long clans...Honestly, they should be thanking him for all his efforts and not questioning him, Doctor Lou thought with a pout.

Although, Doctor Lou could understand that the disappearance of the four suns was something that affected their own closely so it was natural they were defensive. They seemed even more worried than the three people who were directly affected by this phenomenon - they did not even show up to the meeting.

Then again, for a long time now Doctor Lou has not been able to tell what was going on the heads.

They all changed since that time, even he changed...Only Qi Yin here seemed to have remained the same or perhaps, she remained grounded to hold them all up. After all, she was the one directing things in the background in those early days.

Although, them not showing up was good because then the Qi siblings were left in charge of things, and so Qi Lou, Doctor Lou technically did not have to answer to anyone. So naturally, Doctor Lou disagreed with anyone going to check things out and told them it would all be fine with some time.

He kept signaling for Qi Yin to chime in and support him since, for some reason beyond him, people seemed to find her more reassuring. But she stubbornly remained silent and just quietly sat there, leaving poor Doctor Lou to sort things out on his own.

But thankfully mid-meeting, just before things were starting to get rowdier, the uninvited wedding guests returned to their positions, silently and mysteriously as they had left instantly brightening up the dark sky.

Their return naturally cooled the tension and then the focus shifted to where they went, Qi Yin was nice enough to remain silent and Doctor Lou obviously did not divulge. He simply announced that it was a good sign, nothing to worry about. It was simply the universe doing a bit of...rethinking?

And with that said, Doctor Lou announced they were busy, grabbed his sister, and hightailed it out of there and went to go find Long Jian.

It was normal for the other two, Feng Lifen and Han Shen to be absent from such meetings, in fact, them being present would be abnormal. But Long Jian took his rule very seriously and would never be missing in action in such a chaotic situation. They arrived at his palace, but they were barred from entry by his guards and were informed that he was not seeing anyone right now.

Other than fighting their way through, there was nothing else they could do and so Doctor Lou followed Qi Yin home, and here they were.

Qi Yin ignored Doctor Lou and continued standing there with her back turned to him observing the four suns, that looked completely normal and ”innocent” after causing so much panic with their otherworldly adventures.

Doctor Lou looked up at Qi Yin and grumbled, ”...I don't know if you've noticed but your wine cellar is empty...” Qi Yin still did not respond and so he went, ”Ah, but you can't blame me for that! You left me alone waiting here for so long with no one to keep me company, naturally I had to entertain myself by myself -”

”And whose fault is it that no one is here?” Qi Yin irritatedly asked, finally turning around, ”Also...I never invited you here.” She added as she sat down on the table on her side of the pavilion and poured herself a cup of tea.

Doctor Lou sat up and folded his arms and squinted at her, ”In case you've forgotten, this is my home too...I don't need your invite.”

”A home you abandoned...” Qi Yin calmly responded as she took a sip of tea.

Doctor Lou frowned and mumbled, ”I just needed some space...”

”Some space from here but not space from Taohua temple...”

Doctor Lou blinked and pouted at the waterfall. After a while, he finally said, ”You know I don't stay there anymore. If you paid attention to anything besides yourself, you would know that I handed it over to Xiao Feng and Xiao Han a long time ago. Hmph! You don't even know your own student's history and you call yourself a master -”

”We do not discuss frivolous matters...” Qi Yin loftily responded narrowing her eyes at him.

Doctor Lou rolled his eyes, ”Of course...if you were a tad bit more fun, I would naturally visit here more often...” He finished pulling at his long beard.

Qi Yin let out a breath in annoyance and put down her cup loudly, ”Why are you here?”

”To talk.” Doctor Lou said with a pout, ”I told you I've been patiently waiting to for you for a long time - Twice now I've come here and you ignored me. Hmph! I always make time for you...You're unfair.”

Qi Yin rolled her eyes and then went, ”Fine...what do you want?”

Doctor Lou snickered, ”I knew you would be interested...So I've come across a few things recently that have left me confused so -”

”Something besides what happened today?” Qi Yin asked with a frown.

Doctor Lou pouted again and swiftly waved his hand, ”Forget today...” He then leaned forward on his table and tentatively asked, ”Have you ever handled a person's soul essence before?”

Qi Yin looked at him skeptically, hesitated for a long time before finally admitting, ”A time or two...”

”You have?” Doctor Lou exclaimed, eyes widening in surprise, ”Why didn't you tell me? And here I thought you never did anything fu-”

”It's nothing for you to know! I - I just had a few...accidents.” Qi Yin admitted with difficulty.

Doctor Lou immediately fell over laughing, ”So you can have accidents?! Here I thought you were perfect and would never dab-

”If you have nothing more to say then leave, I'm busy!” Qi Yin cut in, glaring at the Doctor Lou.

Doctor Lou promptly stopped laughing and sat up, ”Fine...so stingy!” Squinting at her

”Says the one actively doing things behind my back...” Qi Yin said squinting back at him.

”Let's not get sidetracked!” Doctor Lou swiftly said, not wanting to talk about today's strangeness at all. ”Soooo...have you ever cleansed someone's soul essence before?”

”Cleansed?” Qi Yin exclaimed with a frown, ”Don't tell you're actually thinking ab-”