Chapter 10 Forced Sexual Intervention He initially didn't believe Li Chen would insist on breaking the...

He had initially doubted that Li Chen's attempt to sever his tendons was a ploy to force herself on him, thinking it was just nonsense she made up. But after seeing it today, he now thought...

Why did Li Chenjin's previous words sound so true?

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When Li Chen woke up, she saw Shen Zhengyuan, who had just finished washing and drying the clothes. For a moment, she thought she was living a secluded life in the mountains with her future nemesis.

She slowly sat up, and her gaze fell upon the freshly cooked, still steaming food on the table.

Not far from the table, there was a small medicine stove, in which some kind of medicine was being brewed, and billowing white smoke with a medicinal smell was constantly rising.

Her gaze slowly returned to her bedside, where a stool stood with a bowl of hot water on it.

She thought that, given Shen Zhengyuan's personality, he would run away after she fell into a coma. Unexpectedly, not only did he not run away, but he also did these things. Sure enough, her nemesis was not as ungrateful as she had imagined. There was still a good chance to guide him onto the right path.

Seeing that she was awake, Shen Zhengyuan walked to the bedside, grabbed one of her hands, and took her pulse. Li Chen couldn't help but chuckle. "Cultivator Shen, did you suddenly become a master of Huangqi techniques without a teacher while I was unconscious? You can even take pulses now."

Shen Zhengyuan couldn't glean anything from taking her pulse, so he could only ask, "How are you feeling now?"

"I feel pretty good," Li Chen said. "Look, there's water, food, and medicine. If I still don't feel well, wouldn't I be letting down Cultivator Shen?"

Shen Zhengyuan withdrew his hand and said, "You haven't told a single truth."

Li Chen asked in astonishment, "No way, Cultivator Shen? How come I haven't said a single word of the truth? Is this how you speak to your savior?"

“Didn’t you say you were from the Zen meditation world?” Shen Zhengyuan said, “But when I changed your clothes, the wounds on your body and the way you fought back then clearly showed that you were from the sword cultivation world.”

Li Chen nodded, "Ah...yes, I did indeed live in the sword cultivator world, so it's not wrong for you to say I'm from the sword cultivator world. But I never said before that I wasn't from the sword cultivator world. It's all just your wild guesses. You guessed wrong, so how can you say that I don't tell the truth?"

Upon hearing this, he glared at him and said, "You're clearly just making excuses."

"Am I wrong? Have I never denied that I am a member of the sword cultivator world?" Li Chen asked. "No, right? So you see, it's all just your own wild imagination and guesswork, not me lying to you."

"you……"

Shen Zhengyuan was speechless for a moment. He wanted to turn around and leave, but seeing Li Chen raise his eyebrows and smile at him, he was furious. After thinking for a long time, he said, "You are from the sword cultivator world. The casualties in the sword cultivator world are second only to those in the magic cultivator world, and there are very few people left. So it is reasonable for you to leave that place and seek protection in the Zen cultivator world."

"But your cultivation is not weak, and your swordsmanship is superb. You can even unleash sword energy from a tree branch you pick up at random, so you must have been a great master in the sword cultivation world before. Since you can cultivate to such a level and have such mastery of swordsmanship, it means that you do not have a heart disease. So... you are actually suffering from internal injuries and cannot easily use your spiritual power, otherwise you will vomit blood due to the recurrence of your injuries. Am I right?"

Li Chen remained silent, nodded, and looked calmly at the person in front of him, a smile still on his lips, as if silently encouraging him to say the rest of his words.

“Since you are a powerful figure in the sword cultivation world, you must have other purposes for approaching me. It’s definitely not as simple as you said at the beginning,” Shen Zhengyuan said. “What exactly is your purpose? What do you want to get from me? If you just want to gain my trust and then seize the magic weapon, then you don’t need to go to such lengths. I can take out the magic weapon now and let you choose.”

“I really have no interest in those magical treasures,” Li Chen said. “Besides, didn’t you already give me something? I found it by my pillow as soon as I woke up. Judging from the material, it looks like some kind of magical artifact, quite similar to your Qiankun bag.”

Shen Zhengyuan said, "What I'm giving you is a storage bag. It can hold ordinary inanimate objects, but it can't hold magical artifacts or living things. It's not as useful as a Qiankun bag, but it should be enough for you."

Li Chen examined the item in his hand carefully, exclaimed "Ah!" and his eyes lit up. "It is indeed enough. Thank you for your generosity, Cultivator Shen. This is truly a good item. Cultivator Shen is so kind and generous. I will accept it without hesitation."

Shen Zhengyuan gazed at her silently for a long time before asking, "So what exactly is your purpose?"

Li Chen sighed, "I've already said it, it's all for you, Cultivator Shen. If you don't believe me, there's no point in me saying more. Anyway, we've been traveling together for so long, so why don't you be patient with me a little longer, Cultivator Shen, and observe me to see if what I'm saying is true."

"Then what kind of injury did you suffer?" Shen Zhengyuan asked again. "You can't use your spiritual power, yet you know so much about my injuries and the Thousand-Year Snow Lotus. So your injuries must be the same as mine. So you actually want to get a solution from me? Your goal is also the Thousand-Year Snow Lotus?"

“But now your situation seems to be better than mine. If you go alone, you won’t be held back by me… So you chose to stay at first because you knew I was a disciple of the Dharma Cultivation Realm and wanted to get a magic artifact from me to help you get to Snow Mang Mountain faster, right?”

Li Chen nodded. "Alright, since you've already guessed this much, I'll tell you the truth. I am indeed interested in the Thousand-Year Snow Lotus, and it's currently the only one that might be able to heal my old injuries."

Shen Zhengyuan sneered, revealing an expression of "I knew it," but then he heard Li Chenjin continue, "However, I really didn't intend to compete with you for it. That snow lotus is destined to be yours. I just wanted to see it for myself."

Shen Zhengyuan asked in disbelief, "Don't you want to heal yourself?"

Li Chen sighed, "Of course I want it. But what's meant to be yours, I won't take it. The Thousand-Year Snow Lotus is destined to be yours, and right now you need it more than I do, don't you? As for whether there will be a second one, and whether I can wait for the second one, that's all up to fate. I don't really care."

When Li Chen said this, her eyes were full of sincerity, and it was clear that she wasn't lying. However, Shen Zhengyuan couldn't understand it for a moment, and hesitated for a long time before saying, "Could it be that you like me, that's why..."

“Cultivator Shen, I’m currently suffering from a relapse of an old injury. Can’t you give me some peace and quiet?” Li Chen interrupted. “Look at you, as soon as I woke up, you started asking me one question after another. You won’t give me water, food, or medicine. I’m practically your savior, is this how you treat your savior?”

Shen Zhengyuan: "..."

He stopped talking and brought the food over.

The contents of the bowl were not some rare delicacy; it was just leftover dry food mixed with water and boiled together. It was barely edible, but not very tasty.

Fortunately, Shen Zhengyuan wasn't picky, and neither was she, so the two of them just made do and got through the meal.

They had solved this meal, but they didn't know what their next meal would be like. Luckily, they were still on the mountain, where they could pick some wild fruits in addition to game.

Li Chen could easily pick up any dry branch and use it as an arrow, whether it was flying in the sky or running on the ground.

Shen Zhengyuan was a cultivator. If his spiritual veins were intact, he could easily catch some wild animals using magic arrays. Unfortunately, he couldn't use his spiritual power now, so he could only watch from the side. After the prey landed, he would pick it up with great insight and silently begin to process it.

As for the wild fruits in the mountains, Shen Zhengyuan didn't recognize them much. He could only follow behind Li Chenjin and silently pick the fruits she pointed to when she raised her hand to point.

Shen Zhengyuan fooled himself for three or four days, and finally got to eat a decent meal after Li Chen woke up.

Just as Li Chen was about to start eating, he suddenly heard the person opposite him ask, "How can you tell whether those wild fruits and mushrooms are poisonous or not?"

Li Chen paused, his chopsticks still outstretched. "What's wrong again? Cultivator Shen, are you interrogating a prisoner?"

Shen Zhengyuan paused for a moment before saying, "I just suddenly remembered that people in the sword cultivation world only have eyes for swords. They would rather abstain from grains for years than waste time on such things. Your cultivation and swordsmanship cannot be learned in a short time, which means you have been in the sword cultivation world for quite some time, but your behavior and conduct are different from those of people in the sword cultivation world..."

Li Chen said helplessly, "So you're suspecting me again, right?"

Shen Zhengyuan didn't speak, but that was tantamount to acquiescing. Li Chenjin could only say, "Alright, to avoid you thinking about this tonight and getting sleepless, and then bothering me, I'll tell you about it."

“When I was still young, I was indeed always in the world of sword cultivators. My family members were also from the world of sword cultivators, but later, due to some things, I had some conflicts with my family and was kicked out. At that time, I happened to be injured and my spiritual power could not circulate, so I could not abstain from grains.”

"I was hungry, so I thought I'd catch some pheasants or rabbits to fill my stomach, but I was quite badly injured at the time, and I couldn't catch any live animals. So I could only pick some wild fruits to eat. At first, just like you, I couldn't tell which wild fruits were edible and which weren't. I was poisoned a few times before I slowly learned to tell them apart."

"Then, I happened to meet a dog. As soon as we met, it gave me a pheasant and then helped me pick wild fruits. As I watched it pick more and more, I gradually learned to distinguish between what was poisonous and what wasn't. Later, I even gave that dog a name, Fermented Rice Balls."