Chapter 29 Reflection (Bonus Chapter: 1000 Nutrient Solution) "We still have something to do..."

How do I get into the Cliff of Repentance?

Upon hearing Shen Cangyu's words, Xu Qiubai jumped up: "You really want to go?"

It is said that one cannot enter the Cliff of Repentance casually, and outsiders are not allowed to visit when one is repenting.

Shen Cangyu stared at him, and Xu Qiubai, feeling intimidated by her gaze, said, "I do have a way to get there."

After all, he was a regular at the Cliff of Contemplation, and going there was as easy as going home.

“I know a way to get there. I’ll take you there,” he said, walking out but turning back after a few steps. “Wait for me. I need to go back and get something.”

He ran back to the first hall of Xingxiang Hall, and Shen Cangyu followed him inside.

Standing outside the door, she immediately saw the enormous statue of the Heavenly Fragrance Goddess in the first hall. Her face was kind and gentle, and just one look from her could bring peace to one's heart.

Looking at her, Shen Cangyu felt his anger subside considerably.

Xu Qiubai disappeared into some corner, so she sat on the cushion in front of the statue, closed her eyes, and focused on the green frame in her head.

Ever since she heard that strange notification sound before she lost consciousness on the ship, that green frame has stayed in her mind and never disappeared.

She wasn't sure if this was related to Shen Qingyan's death.

There should have been many words in the book, but as she sifted through it, she could only see a hazy mist, unable to make out the contents. She read through the few clear words and discovered that it recorded the demonic cultivators she had encountered before.

This includes the life stories of those demonic cultivators and the plots related to them.

Shen Cangyu found scrolling through the pages too time-consuming, so he simply tore off the paper with the words on it from the green frame and set aside all the currently displayed content.

Strangely enough, this scroll could be torn, and the top and bottom would automatically glue back together after being torn. Seeing how obedient the scroll was, Shen Cangyu confidently tore it apart.

She began to visualize the characters she was now unlocking.

Two of the three Boundless Beings had already died. She flipped through the scrolls related to them, which recorded their stories from their previous lives. Her eyes welled up with tears at just one glance. She wondered if the scroll was imbued with some kind of evil magic, as it made her feel so deeply connected to the characters.

She simply stopped watching their storyline and focused on the two divine messengers.

The Amitabha Buddha is a man who likes to cast a wide net to gather believers. He specifically targets the pitiful people who have suffered oppression. He takes advantage of their resentment, anger, and jealousy, using their indignation as a weapon to attack more people, further inciting the anger and complaints of others.

He feeds on anger, but after his followers grow, he devours them and transforms them into his own power.

Shen Cangyu felt that Amitabha was essentially a coward hiding behind his believers. He dared not attack, so he could only use others to stir up trouble.

"Most of the world's cunning schemes originated from her."

Judging from this description, Wan Qianzhong must be a very powerful cultivator.

Shen Cangyu didn't know what she had gone through, but she had indeed heard of Wan Qianzhong's name. In the past, when she was reading Jiang Qian's manuals on mental techniques, she had seen ink marks on the book covers.

At first, she didn't know what it was and thought it was a mark unique to mental manipulation.

It wasn't until later, when she saw Wan Qianzhong's name on a manual of mental techniques that hadn't been crossed out, that she realized that what had been crossed out was Wan Qianzhong's signature.

At the time, Shen Cangyu didn't understand why everyone had to erase Wan Qianzhong's name. Now, she probably knows the reason.

Perhaps Wan Qianzhong was once a renowned cultivator who created many mental techniques, but she was eventually expelled from the cultivation world for becoming a demonic cultivator. Although her books are still circulated, her name has been erased from them by everyone.

Thousands upon thousands of layers...

What exactly is the Copper Coin Eye? Why did it become one of the Five Evils? What exactly did it go through?

"I'm back!" Xu Qiubai ran over carrying a large box.

Shen Cangyu snapped out of her daze and looked at the box in his arms: "What is this?"

“My master told me that this was medicine for my senior brother. He was imprisoned on the Cliff of Contemplation before his injuries had healed. She couldn’t examine him by observation, listening, questioning, and palpation, so she relied entirely on my vivid descriptions to brew several doses of medicine for him based on her intuition.”

"Is it really okay to take medicine that you picked based on your gut feeling?" Shen Cangyu didn't believe it.

"You'll know how good our medicine, Teling, is once you've tried it."

"Forget it, I have no intention of taking the medicine," Shen Cangyu said with a forced smile, taking the medicine box from his hand. "Let's go, we'll go up to the Cliff of Repentance in your own way."

*

"Good sister, I beg you, please let us in!" Xu Qiubai cried, clinging to the arm of a disciple from the Cliff of Contemplation.

Xu Qiubai, crying and shouting, pointed to the medicine box in Shen Cangyu's hand and said, "We really came to deliver medicine to Senior Brother Pei on Master's orders. He is seriously injured and will die on the Cliff of Contemplation if he doesn't take the medicine!"

He took the medicine box from Shen Cangyu's hand, opened it and showed it to her: "Look, it really is medicine!"

The disciple from Siguo Cliff looked at him with suspicion, picked up the medicine from the medicine box and carefully examined it. After confirming that there was really no problem, he stared at him again, and then his gaze fell on Shen Cangyu: "Then who is she? Why isn't she wearing the sect uniform?"

Xu Qiubai chuckled and said, "She's a disciple from Penglai, and she's here in Kunlun for an exchange and study session. Her sect uniform hasn't been issued yet... She's also here to see Senior Brother Pei on the orders of the sect leader!"

The tailor had already taken Shen Cangyu's measurements, and her Kunlun uniform was being made urgently, but it hadn't arrived yet. These days, she could only wear her own clothes, which attracted a lot of attention, but she walked with an open mind.

Now that she carries the title of Penglai Envoy, the more people ask her about her identity, the more people will know about her status as Penglai Envoy.

"Really?" Xu Qiubai's words were mostly suspicious, as the disciples of Siguo Cliff had already witnessed, so they didn't believe him at all.

"Really!" Xu Qiubai jumped up and down anxiously, pointing to the name tag on her waist and saying, "If you don't believe me, go ask the sect leader, ask him now."

"Alright," the disciple from Siguo Cliff relented, stepping aside to reveal the mountain path behind him. "Go and come back quickly. Don't stay on the mountain all day again and get caught by the patrolling disciples. If you blame me, I'll report you to Xingxiang Hall."

Having received her permission, Xu Qiubai instantly forgot her words and pulled Shen Cangyu upstairs, saying, "Thank you so much, Senior Sister!"

"Is this the solution you were talking about?" Shen Cangyu looked at him and said softly.

She thought his method was to find an unguarded mountain path to sneak up, but it turned out he just wanted to curry favor with the gatekeeper to get up there.

"If you want to blame someone, blame the Wenxin Diaolong group for designing such a broken barrier. This place is full of bewildering arrays. If you don't go in this way, you'll probably never come out."

Speaking of this, Xu Qiubai said with deep feeling: "If this bewildering array is not broken, the people trapped on the mountain will not be able to get out. They can only stay on the mountain for as long as the barrier remains closed. Moreover, there is nothing in this bewildering array. There is no food. When they are thirsty, they can only drink dew, and when they are hungry, they can only eat mud..."

"There's no food!" Shen Cangyu raised her voice. "Our senior brother will be at the Cliff of Repentance for three months. If he doesn't eat or drink for three months, he'll starve to death!"

Xu Qiubai waved his hand: "If I were locked up on the mountain for three months, I might really starve to death, but if it's Senior Brother, he won't go hungry."

After they finished speaking, they passed through layers of misty forest and saw the scene of the Cliff of Contemplation. Before them was a barren, flat area with rocks, and Pei Wenjing was sitting in the center of the flat area.

A large number of boxes and packages were placed at the entrance of the Cliff of Contemplation.

“Look,” Xu Qiubai said, pointing to the things at his feet, “His master, senior brothers and sisters certainly wouldn’t let him go hungry; they’ve prepared steamed buns for him for several months.”

Shen Cangyu: "..." That's quite thoughtful.

Besides steamed buns, there were many other things, such as quilts and mats; she even saw a small wooden pony.

Shen Cangyu: "?"

"Oh, that must have been brought to him by Senior Brother Dog. Senior Brother Dog loves making wood carvings for everyone to play with."

There was no need to bring it here.

But seeing the mess on the ground, Shen Cangyu's heart sank. At least Pei Wenjing hadn't been mistreated.

"But why doesn't he touch these things?" Shen Cangyu looked at the things, which were far away from Pei Wenjing. He was just sitting cross-legged in the middle of the ground, with nothing around him.

“The eldest brother is quite disciplined,” Xu Qiubai said. “Unless it’s absolutely necessary, he will stay there until he can’t take it anymore before he touches the food… After all, they, the Wanqi Guixin, emphasize arduous cultivation and are the most able to endure hardship.”

Shen Cangyu's lips, which had just curled up, fell back down, but Xu Qiubai did not notice.

He put the box on the ground: "These medicines are the same. If you give them to him, he won't touch them. No matter how you try to persuade him, he won't listen. He'll find the medicine himself when he can't take it anymore."

After finishing all this, Xu Qiubai clapped his hands and looked at Shen Cangyu, saying, "Alright, now that you've seen Senior Brother Pei and he's alright, are you relieved? Can you go now?"

Shen Cangyu didn't respond to him. Instead, she picked up the medicine box on the ground and strode towards Pei Wenjing.

With a thud, she placed the medicine box on the ground.

Upon hearing the sound, Pei Wenjing looked up at her. In the white mist, the colors of his two eyes, one black and one white, were more distinct than ever before.

“Your eyes have changed,” Shen Cangyu said, looking down at him. “Your injuries have worsened.” When his injuries were severe, his eyes would involuntarily change color, and yin-yang symbols would swirl around him, repairing his body.

His eyes are so clearly colored now, his injuries must be very serious.

Pei Wenjing looked into her eyes, which seemed to hold a fire within them, extremely dazzling, and he was momentarily stunned.

Shen Cangyu squatted down and opened the medicine box: "Take your medicine."

Pei Wenjing snapped out of his daze and tried to stop her: "According to the rules..."

Shen Cangyu interrupted him: "Don't make me angry."

“I’m sorry…” Pei Wenjing lowered his eyes.

“You’re the one who should apologize,” Shen Cangyu said, taking medicine out of the medicine box and placing it in his hand. “I’m asking you, can you achieve enlightenment by just sitting here without taking any medicine?”

"cannot……"

"If my health collapses, will I have to spend even more time recuperating in the future?"

Pei Wenjing's fingers curled slightly, and after a long while, he replied, "Yes."

“You’re just trying to punish yourself this way, but can punishing yourself undo the things that have been missed?” Shen Cangyu stared at him and said, “Since the past cannot be undone, why can’t you turn back and think about the future?”

She wasn't very cultured, nor was she good at being sentimental, but for some reason, a sentence suddenly came to her mind: "What's past cannot be changed, but the future can still be pursued."

Pei Wenjing listened to her words, his eyelashes trembling slightly. He looked at the medicine bottle in his hand, slowly opened it, poured out the medicine, and put it into his mouth.

Shen Cangyu breathed a sigh of relief: "Let's take our medicine and eat well first, and then think about the punishment later, okay?"

Pei Wenjing looked up at her.

Shen Cangyu looked into his eyes, one black and one white, and said softly, "We still have a way. It's not too late."