“This change in attitude…?”
For a moment, Yino felt a bit confused and muttered quietly.
If he remembered correctly, Jinyue had just been sulking and calling him “a man of a thousand faces,” but not even three seconds later, Jinyue herself immediately changed her attitude and started scolding Chen Jianxin harshly.
Look how scared the poor boy was, his face pale as a sheet, looking like he might wet himself.
“Um… Miss Jinyue, are you alright?” Yunjin, though unsure of the situation, was also startled by Jinyue’s scolding and cautiously stepped forward to ease the tension.
As the only senior present, she was worried about any potential fights breaking out within the sect.
But from the current situation, it seemed that Jinyue had simply frightened a group of young disciples one-sidedly.
Thinking of this, Yunjin couldn’t help but look up at Yino. The latter still maintained a calm expression, unlike the trembling male disciples kneeling on the ground, despite being a fellow entry-level disciple of the Wuji Sect.
Everyone exchanged glances, and the atmosphere froze for a moment.
“Tch…”
Jinyue clenched her fist slightly, looking at Chen Jianxin, whose legs were shaking in front of her. She suddenly snapped out of her resentful state.
She lightly bit her white teeth, glanced back at Yino, then spoke with embarrassment, her red lips curling into an apologetic smile:
“Oh my~ so it’s Junior Brother Chen?!”
“So sorry… I was lost in thought just now and didn’t notice who it was. I thought it was some narcissistic stranger trying to hit on me…”
As Jinyue spoke, she became more invested in her act. Even her previous disgust completely vanished, and her peach blossom eyes, reflecting blood-colored patterns, displayed pure innocence.
The many disciples present wanted to say something, but the moment their eyes met Jinyue’s crimson enchanting gaze, the words on their lips seemed to be instantly forgotten.
Crimson blood spell marks reflected in the eyes of the young disciples, and their gazes became dull.
After a moment of silence, they all came to their senses, smiling and helping Jinyue ease the awkwardness.
“Oh, so that’s what happened! Senior Sister Jinyue, you gave us quite a scare…”
“Yeah, yeah! Chen, you should get up too. Senior Jinyue just mistook you for someone else, she wasn’t really scolding you!”
“That’s right, and brother Chen, you shouldn’t have suddenly reached out like that. It’s too disrespectful, even within the sect we need to be mindful of boundaries between men and women!”
Jinyue just smiled slightly, and the disciples all chimed in to help her out of the awkward situation.
Chen Jianxin, surrounded by everyone, also had crimson blood marks reflected in his eyes. He scratched his head and smiled with guilt: “I’m sorry, Senior Sister. It was my ignorance that offended you! I deserved to be scolded!”
“Is that so~”
Seeing that her illusion was working effectively on everyone, Jinyue’s lips curled up, as if regaining the confidence of her former talent in illusions through these young disciples.
She smiled coyly, as if deliberately, and bent down to extend her hand to Chen Jianxin, who was sitting on the ground.
“Junior Chen, do you need me to give you a hand?”
Jinyue’s voice was filled with gentleness, but her enchanting eyes reflected a faint blood mark.
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After a moment of silence.
Chen Jianxin was about to raise his hand to take hers, but before he could touch the girl’s fair jade-like hand, the young man suddenly turned pale and broke out in a cold sweat, as if some terrifying memory had surfaced in his mind.
He fearfully withdrew his hand and then shakily got up on his own.
“No, no need, Sister Jinyue!”
“As everyone just said, men and women should… should keep their distance and maintain proper boundaries…”
Chen Jianxin seemed to have developed some kind of psychological trauma. Let alone taking Jinyue’s hand, just seeing her bloody beautiful eyes made his pupils tremble slightly, reflecting a hint of instinctive fear in his eyes.
“You’re right, men and women should indeed maintain proper distance.”
“In the future, Junior Chen should be more mindful of his behavior~”
Jinyue pretended to be disappointed as she withdrew her hand, but beneath her beautiful facade, a cold smile revealed her satisfaction and disdain.
Yes, this is how it should be!
This was the illusory talent that Jinyue had always prided herself on!
After spending a night with Yino and the nine-colored deer, Jinyue had lost confidence in her illusions, always feeling that her eyes hurt after using them just a few times, and even causing her eyes to bleed when using illusions on the nine-colored deer.
But this didn’t mean Jinyue was weak; in reality, it was just that those two had extremely high resistance to illusions!
Usually, when dealing with these young juniors who were only at the Qi Refinement stage, Jinyue could scare them witless with just a glance; with a simple illusory suggestion, she could train them to be obedient.
“Alright, now that the misunderstanding has been cleared up, let’s get going! We’re all heading to Snow Village together, aren’t we?”
Jinyue smiled brightly, holding onto Yino’s arm, taking the initiative to ease the tense atmosphere.
Including Chen Jianxin and Yunjin, all the young disciples had no objections. The earlier awkwardness was swept away, and the atmosphere became harmonious.
However, Yino, the only one not affected by the illusion, couldn’t help but quietly criticize the situation, his lips twitching slightly.
“I see you’re also quite the shape-shifting fox…”
“Oh, really?”
Jinyue was slightly shocked when she looked up at Yino, her peach blossoms eyes reflecting blood-colored magical mark.
Yino thought she was going to use her illusions on him too, so he averted his gaze, his forehead imperceptibly breaking out in a light sweat.
But after they looked at each other for a while, Jinyue eventually just smiled, her eyes curving, dispersing the bloody marks from her pupils.
She held onto Yino, tilting her face up with a sweet smile:
“Yino, you’re my lifesaver. How could I compare you to those irrelevant people?”
“Ha, haha… I’m truly honored then.”
Yino said, somewhat embarrassed.
But just when he was completely off guard and most relaxed, a faint bloody pattern imperceptibly reflected in Yino’s eyes.
Jinyue clung to him, laughing and metaphorically wagging her tail:
“My benefactor is truly joking. We have a life-and-death bond!”
“But you know, since I’m so close to my benefactor, you should also be more considerate of my feelings!”
“Otherwise, even if it’s a life-saving grace, my benefactor might lose me one day~”
As she finished speaking, Jinyue smiled sweetly, her charming eyes once again reflecting bloody marks.
Yino’s eyes went fuzzy, and he nodded.
“I will reflect on it carefully…”
