Chapter 86 Fusion [Fusion Progress: 20%]

What's the meaning?

At this moment, Shen Cangyu's attention shifted elsewhere: "What do you mean? Are you saying that I won the competition just now, but actually you let me win?" How ridiculous, is this an insult to her?

Shen Cangyu is heartless and unyielding. She is a blockhead. Although she seems to have a clever mind, she is actually more ruthless than Xiaoyao You. Pei Wenjing knew this and smiled self-deprecatingly: "Winning or losing is not important to me."

"It's very important to me!" Shen Cangyu said, grabbing his collar. "Say it again, weren't you just letting me have my way?"

Her eyes were fixed on Pei Wenjing, burning with intense passion.

Pei Wenjing looked into her eyes and felt a surge of joy. He couldn't bear to look away, but seeing that Shen Cangyu was truly angry, he had no choice but to lower his eyes and let blood trickle from the corner of his mouth: "I'm really hurt. My heart hurts so much." Based on his understanding of Shen Cangyu over the years, he knew that this was the trick she was most susceptible to.

He coughed a few times, about to collapse onto her.

Shen Cangyu quickly stood up, letting him fall to the ground.

What the hell? Shen Cangyu looked at Pei Wenjing, who was lying on the ground with a frown, and a sense of horror welled up from the bottom of her heart. Pei Wenjing seemed to have been possessed, suddenly saying strange words and making strange movements. She suddenly couldn't understand him anymore, and she couldn't even understand his 100 points of favorability.

The day before, Pei Wenjing's favorability towards her was stuck at 75, a level that had remained unchanged for years. Unexpectedly, after this competition, her favorability suddenly soared to 100. Surely, this favorability couldn't have been earned through fighting.

Pei Wenjing is not a masochist.

No, there's another possibility. Shen Cangyu's eyelids twitched.

Pei Wenjing awakened the "foolish" thought among the five evils.

Could it be that her own public outcry spurred Pei Wenjing to unlock the "Obsession" ability among the Five Evils? Otherwise, there's no other explanation for why he suddenly fell in love with her.

If affection reaches 100, then it must be love.

If it weren't for infatuation, how could one fall in love so suddenly?

Has he gone mad? This is Kunlun, this is the arena, everyone is watching. Does he dare to become one of the Five Evils at this moment? Is he really not afraid of being discovered by the elders, being branded a demonic cultivator, and being forced to relive the events of the past?

Fortunately, Pei Wenjing hadn't completely gone mad; he just kept staring at Shen Cangyu, his gaze following her as she walked off the stage.

Shen Cangyu was afraid that if she stayed with Pei Wenjing any longer, he would fall ill, because the 100 favorability points hanging in the background made her feel uneasy.

Their relationship was ambiguous and unclear, yet also distant. Although Shen Cangyu acknowledged Pei Wenjing's special qualities, she was unwilling to place too much importance on him. She feared that Pei Wenjing's presence would influence her actions. She couldn't guarantee that Pei Wenjing wouldn't one day stand against her. She hoped that one day, when Pei Wenjing became her enemy, she would be able to bring herself to harm him.

"What were you doing on stage just now?" After stepping off the stage, Mingzhao looked at Shen Cangyu and then at Pei Wenjing on the stage. She felt that the atmosphere between the two of them was strange, as if something sticky was holding them together.

"Maybe I messed up his brain, but I always feel like he's a strange person," Shen Cangyu said.

She was giving the others a heads-up so that if Pei Wenjing did anything outrageous, she could excuse him by saying she'd driven him mad, which was why he was acting strangely. As for what others thought of Pei Wenjing, as long as his identity as one of the Five Evils hadn't been exposed, there was still a possibility of a smooth turn.

They had been taking classes together in the same lecture hall for so many years, so Lu Yuan naturally knew of this person's existence, but she never took Shen Qingyan seriously.

As soon as Shen Qingyan stepped onto the dueling platform, she frowned. She wanted to encounter a more powerful opponent, not someone like Shen Qingyan.

But soon, her furrowed brows relaxed. She thought that if she defeated Shen Qingyan, her ranking would improve, which would be a good thing.

Lu Yuan immediately unleashed the power of the Great Fox Immortal, and the enormous fox landed, almost taking up half of the arena. Lu Yuan's previous match had been extremely intense, leaving her with numerous injuries. Although she had treated her wounds after the match, her internal injuries wouldn't heal quickly. She planned to finish the fight quickly so she could rest sooner.

The white fox raised its paw and slapped in Shen Qingyan's direction.

Shen Qingyan rolled away to dodge Lu Yuan's attack. One of them focused on hitting, while the other focused on dodging, staging a cat-and-mouse game.

Lu Yuan fought for a while, her movements becoming faster and faster, and she gradually grew annoyed at being toyed with. She had never realized before that Shen Qingyan was so agile, as slippery as an eel, and no matter how she hit him, he could always escape through her fingers.

The white fox bared its teeth and roared angrily. Its foot stomped on the ground, causing tremors to emanate from the ground. The ground shook, and Shen Qingyan lost her footing and fell to the ground.

Inch by inch, blue flames rose from the ground, enveloping Shen Qingyan. The flames weren't hot; instead, they left a layer of frost on his skin upon contact, and frostbite marks gradually spread from his skin.

Lu Yuan scoffed, "Useless is useless."

What are the legendary doctors, alchemists, or sword masters? They are all useless on the martial arts stage where victory is determined by force.

In the past, Shui Linglong learned that the alchemy master who could produce excellent pills was actually Shen Qingyan. So she befriended him, hoping to learn alchemy experience from him so that she could spread her experience and let more people master the art of alchemy.

Unfortunately, Shen Qingyan only told Shui Linglong that he didn't have any special skills in alchemy; he simply put the pills into the furnace and lit a fire to refine them.

Shui Linglong didn't believe him and used some tricks to spy on his entire alchemy process, only to find that he wasn't lying. Judging from his methods, he wasn't even qualified to be an alchemist, but unfortunately, those pills did indeed appear in his hands.

Perhaps this is fate, or talent.

He had no skills and nothing to replicate, so he became Shui Linglong's discard. Later, with the closure of Xingxiangtang, the clinic remained open but was not as good as before. The medicine in Xingxiangtang's inventory was divided up, and Shen Qingyan lost his place to stay.

It seems that no matter where he gets close, he will eventually fall apart and end up in a bad situation.

"There's nothing you can do but run away."

The white fox opened its mouth and bit Shen Qingyan's abdomen. If its teeth were to close, it could bite the person in front of it in half.

Seeing this, the referee was about to announce that Lu Yuan was the winner of the competition when Shen Qingyan suddenly raised his hand.

"It will make even ghosts and gods weep!"

A bolt of lightning struck, and Lu Yuan quickly released him, throwing him to the ground and jumping aside. Luckily, she dodged quickly enough; the spot where she had landed was left charred, and the lightning had only barely grazed her fur.

Dark clouds surged in the sky, lightning flashed and thunder roared; it looked like it was about to rain.

The rain hadn't started falling yet, but bolts of lightning kept striking the dueling platform. This was real heavenly lightning, unlike the "heavenly lightning" they had conjured with their mental techniques; being struck by this lightning would likely mean certain death.

Lu Yuan leaped and dodged the bolts of lightning that struck down.

The lightning seemed to have no eyes, striking indiscriminately, bolts of lightning hitting Shen Qingyan, and even the referee standing to the side was not spared.

Shen Qingyan lay motionless on the ground, and the audience below couldn't help but mutter, "Was he really struck dead?"

At this moment, Shen Cangyu suddenly saw a flash of blue light on Shen Qingyan's body, like ripples spreading out, which disappeared in an instant.

Suddenly, a string of words appeared above his head.

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What is this thing?

The referee, dodging the lightning bolts, saw Shen Qingyan lying unconscious on the ground, his fate unknown. He quickly announced that Lu Yuan was the final winner of the competition.

As soon as he finished speaking, he quickly released a magical barrier to block the lightning bolts on the dueling platform. With the lightning blocked by the magical barrier, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and tried to use an earth shield spell to lift Shen Qingyan off the platform and hand her over to the physician.

Suddenly, Shen Qingyan opened his eyes. He looked blankly at the dark barrier above his head. When he heard thunder, he suddenly came to his senses and remembered that he was undergoing a tribulation of lightning!

He quickly sat up, only to find that the texture of his hands was strange; it was charred mud ground struck by lightning, not the wooden floor he remembered.

Where is this place?

When Lu Yuan saw that he was awake, he bared his teeth at him.

Shen Qingyan's eyes sharpened, and he drew his sword to block in front of him, but the touch felt strange. He looked down.

This is not his sword. His hands are also larger than before; these are not his hands.

"How did you wake up? I thought you were going to die." The referee was halfway through casting Earth Shield when he suddenly saw that the person had woken up, and he was completely confused.

The person in front of me was almost struck by lightning and turned into charred remains, yet not only is he not dead, his eyes are still so clear. It's truly strange.

"May I ask, senior, where exactly is this place?" Shen Qingyan bowed to him and asked tentatively.

"What?" The referee paused, his mind a jumble. Shen Qingyan wasn't killed, but he was stunned. What should he do?

He was in charge of overseeing the entire competition. If any contestant had an accident and the elders needed to find someone to punish, he would probably be the first one they questioned.

He quickly reminded them, "This is Kunlun. You're having a competition right now, don't you remember?"

If Shen Qingyan were to say, "I remember now," then everything would be over.

"Kunlun..." Shen Qingyan said in a deep voice under the referee's expectant gaze, "Take me to see your sect leader."