Chapter 1604

Gu Hanyuan raised an eyebrow.

He said playfully:

"It seems you still haven't realized the situation. I'm treating your injuries, yet you return kindness with enmity, and I haven't even held it against you. You actually say you want to kill me? It seems I must teach you a lesson."

Long Xiaoyun felt a sense of impending doom.

Unfortunately, before she could react, she felt the world spinning.

When she came to her senses, she was already lying across Gu Hanyuan's lap.

The ominous premonition in her heart grew stronger.

She shouted in panic:

"What do you want to do!"

Gu Hanyuan teased:

"Naturally, to teach you a lesson. And to teach you not to be sharp-tongued when you have no power to resist, or you'll be the one to suffer."

With a crisp "slap,"

Long Xiaoyun's body stiffened, and she cried out in disbelief:

"You dare hit me?"

However, this did not make Gu Hanyuan stop.

Long Xiaoyun tried to struggle, but how could she be a match for Gu Hanyuan?

She could only continue to say resentfully:

"I will definitely kill you!"

Yet, as time passed, her voice grew weaker and weaker.

By the end, there was even a sob in her voice.

Long Xiaoyun pleaded weakly, her face streaked with tears:

"I know I was wrong, please don't hit me anymore."

Gu Hanyuan's heart skipped a beat.

Long Xiaoyun's weak appearance at this moment bore a striking resemblance to Wu Xingyun.

During the days when Wu Xingyun was hiding her identity, Gu Hanyuan had often taught her a lesson just like this when she was being mischievous.

The only difference was that Wu Xingyun's voice had been more alluring at the time.

Long Xiaoyun was more fragile.

Gu Hanyuan said calmly:

"Do you still want to kill me?"

Long Xiaoyun, having lost all her previous toughness, muttered weakly:

"I don't dare anymore."

One must know that neither Long Xiaoyun's father nor Lin Shiyin had ever disciplined her like this.

After a beating from Gu Hanyuan, she suddenly became much more obedient.

As the saying goes, if a brat is disobedient, a beating will fix it.

Long Xiaoyun's twisted nature was entirely due to being spoiled.

If the plot followed its original course, Long Xiaoyun would eventually become somewhat reasonable.

Decades later in the storyline,

Long Tianxiang once said:

"My great-grandfather Long Xiaoyun reflected deeply in his later years on his past willfulness. He deleted the harmful methods and venomous martial arts from the Lianhua Treasure Manual, leaving only the skills to save lives and help the world for future generations, and he added many of his own insights. Although what I have learned is not as extensive as the Lianhua Treasure Manual, it is much more righteous."

So Long Xiaoyun just lacked proper guidance.

Of course, if Long Tianxiang existed in this world decades later, she should call Long Xiaoyun her great-grandmother.

Gu Hanyuan smiled with satisfaction when he saw Long Xiaoyun surrender.

He flipped her over.

Long Xiaoyun's face turned beet red, and wanting to curse but not daring to, she said aggrievedly:

"What are you doing again?"

Gu Hanyuan glanced at her and said calmly:

"Treating your dantian, what else could it be?"

As he spoke, he placed his hand over Long Xiaoyun's dantian.

The spiritual energy of the "Ten Thousand Phenomena Yin-Yang Art" surged in, repairing Long Xiaoyun's dantian injuries.

Girls and boys are different, after all.

If Long Xiaoyun were still a boy, Gu Hanyuan would probably have just used some internal energy to heal him well enough.

But since Long Xiaoyun was a cute loli, he had to be more attentive.

As Gu Hanyuan's warm spiritual energy surged in,

Long Xiaoyun felt her entire body relax, and the dantian that had been aching dully no longer hurt.

There was even a sense of refreshing pleasure.

Her somewhat stiff body softened involuntarily.

Long Xiaoyun looked at Gu Hanyuan, who was earnestly healing her, and her small face gradually turned red.

She had already been quite taken by Gu Hanyuan's handsome appearance, and observing him at such close range, she found him even more pleasing to the eye.

For a moment, she had a strange feeling that being injured by Li Xunhuan wasn't so bad after all.

In fact, back at Juxianju,

Long Xiaoyun's quick surrender was somewhat different from what Gu Hanyuan had imagined.

She subconsciously did not want to come into conflict with the dashing and extraordinary Gu Hanyuan.

As for asking Long Xiaoyun's father to invite Gu Hanyuan to Xingyunzhuang as a guest, that was also with the intention of becoming his apprentice.

The few moves Gu Hanyuan had shown were far stronger than any master invited by the family.

Long Xiaoyun was naturally fond of martial arts, and seeing the unfathomable Gu Hanyuan, she naturally wanted to become his apprentice.

As for whether she wanted to take the opportunity to look at Gu Hanyuan a few more times while becoming his apprentice, only she knew.

Gu Hanyuan suddenly frowned and said:

"Long Xiaoyun's father really has wasted a piece of raw jade like you."

As the treatment deepened, Gu Hanyuan perceived it more clearly.

Long Xiaoyun's talent was far better than he had imagined.

If she could have proper guidance, she might not be unable to reach the pinnacle.

If she had a good cultivation technique, even becoming an Earth Immortal would be possible.

However, Long Xiaoyun had clearly been delayed by her father.

Her internal energy cultivation was a mess, and instead, she had learned a bunch of flashy but useless tricks.

This was truly Long Xiaoyun's father's inherent impression.

Seeing how powerful Li Xunhuan's "Little Li Flying Dagger" was, he had Long Xiaoyun spend a great deal of energy learning hidden weapons.

Little did he know that this was putting the cart before the horse.

Gu Hanyuan shared his views with Long Xiaoyun.

Long Xiaoyun asked blankly:

"Do you mean that my talent for martial arts is actually very high? And that I was just delayed by my father?"

No wonder she felt suspicious.

After all, in low-level fights, hidden weapons indeed had the advantage of surprise.

And the masters invited by her father were all third-rate martial artists.

Long Xiaoyun's perspective was inevitably narrow.

After Long Xiaoyun received Gu Hanyuan's affirmative answer again,

she suddenly raised her small face and said pitifully:

"Then can you take me as your apprentice?"