A week has gone by, since the fight in the woods had happened.
Yang Kai in the meantime had fallen into a steady schedule of spinning the wheel, practicing body tempering, cleaning around the pavilion, and meditating on the Emptiness Sutra before going to sleep.
Today while Yang Kai was on his way to clean the Pavilion, he saw a group of disciples coming over in his direction with Su mu in the lead.
After seeing Yang Kai, Su mu and his follower smiled. Some of the follower came forward quickly and took the broom from Yang kai saying that as a junior brother, how can they let their senior brother do sweeping.
Yang Kai didn't argue with them and looked at Su mu with curiosity in his eyes.
"Senior brother Yang kai." Saying this, Su mu and the others joined their hands and bowed in his direction as a form of greeting.
"So, it's junior brother Su mu that came to meet me" Yang Kai saying this, before he nodded his head to others recognizing them from the previous day.
Seeing this, they were very happy on the inside. After all, some of them had seen him fight and easily take down Storm manor disciples on his own. So, they were happy to be remembered by someone so strong.
After that some of them started to sweep the floor while the others started to fix his wooden hut for him to make it more comfortable to live in.
After the exchange, Su mu took out two bottles of wine before handing one of them to Yang kai.
After seeing Yang kai accept it, Su mu said "I will be the first to offer you a toast" Before gulping down the entire bottle of wine.
In response, Yang kai said with a smile adoring his face "Then I will gladly accept this toast from the junior brother Su mu" Before gulping down the bottle of wine in his hand completely.
After the toast, Su mu asked Yang kai "Let's go to your humble abide. there is something that I want to discuss with you."
After thinking about it, Yang kai nodded his head while thinking about what Su mu might want to discuss with him.
After a bit of walking, they arrived at his house which was being repaired by the disciples following Su mu. After a fleeting glance, they walked to the back of the hut near the lake before taking a seat on the ground.
After taking a deep breath, Su mu asked "Why did you save us back then?"
Hearing him, Yang kai said " So you are asking me the reason why did I save you back there? Well, since all of you call me senior brother, Naturally I have to act like one... That's probably the reason."
Su mu asked again "Really?"
Yang kai replied " What other reason can there be?"
Su mu said "VERY WELL! If you consider us your Junior Brothers, then we will consider you as our Senior Brother! Also, I apologize to senior brother for showing you that embarrassing display on our first meeting that day."
"Hmm, I also apologize to you for knocking you down that time." Yang kai said.
"Don't worry about that senior brother. After all, I wasn't thinking straight at that time setting up that act to win over a girl's heart." Su mu said self mockingly.
"Don't worry about that anymore now. Just don't do that kind of thing again. After all, it took a lot of effort on my side to stop them from murdering you. But still you should stay away from them after all even if they don't kill you, they would at the very least beat you half to death." Yang kai said while shaking his head. His eyes filled with pity for the fate waiting for Su mu.
Hearing him Su mu showed a terrified look on his face and remembering about the two girl's standing in the sect as one of the most talented disciples in the sect. Not only that but there was also a rumour of them beating a person half to death, who was speaking ill of their dear brother.
While remembering the rumour and recalling Yang kai's word his eyes widened as he came to a conjecture that yang kai was the brother in the rumour.
After thinking of this, he redirected a hopeful glance at Yang kai, who after seeing the look on his face understood the meaning quickly looked away from him. completely ignoring the look that was directed this way.
Seeing this the hopeful look on Su mu's face was broken while his eyes turned hollow.