Chapter 096: Blue Moonlight (Twenty-Five)

After a fleeting moment, Luo Qifang turned her eyes away. This person who had always been fearless and undaunted was now inexplicably flustered and nervous. She vaguely felt that some disaster was approaching, but she had no way of finding out.

"Xun Gui, what's wrong with you?" Chen Yunli ended the conversation with the system, and saw that his face was pale and there was a layer of sweat on his forehead, so he picked up his sleeve and wiped it for him.

Luo Qifang was feeling flustered, and an impulse that came from nowhere made him avoid Chen Yunli's hand - so Chen Yunli's hand froze in mid-air, and his expression froze instantly.

The system prompt sounded at the right time: "The destined marriage buff bestowed upon him by the Heavenly Dao of this world has taken effect. For the next period of time, he should remain chaste in front of his legitimate lover."

“…”

Chen Yunli was not angry, he just felt it was ridiculous.

"Who set up this shitty heavenly law? Can I apply to have him beaten up?"

The system chuckled and disappeared again.

At this time, Luo Qifang finally came back to her senses, feeling some inexplicable emotions in her mind that shouldn't appear in her, and the last bit of blood color on her lips faded.

"Destiny...?"

"What did you say?" Chen Yunli withdrew his hand and asked in confusion when he saw that his lips were moving but no sound came out.

"No, I didn't say anything." Luo Qifang's eyes flickered slightly, and when she looked at him again, her expression had returned to normal.

He held Chen Yunli's hand tightly, perhaps to draw courage from him, or perhaps to fight back stubbornly.

"Let's go eat." Luo Qifang placed Chen Yunli's hand on her cheek, tilted her head and kissed him, calmly suppressing the repulsion and tearing feeling surging in her heart. "Let's go to Mingyue Pavilion."

He's not in the right condition.

Chen Yunli was led forward by Luo Qifang. Although she had no idea what he was going through, she could feel his body trembling unnaturally and his irregular breathing.

"Xun..."

"Don't ask," Luo Qifang said. After just a moment, his clear and elegant voice became hoarse as if it had been burned on hot gravel. "Zhu Ji, I want to have a good meal with you again."

Chen Yunli widened his eyes in surprise, then his face darkened. He grabbed Luo Qifang's wrist and pulled him in front of him.

The powerful man who used to be able to overturn mountains and rivers with a flip of his palm could not even withstand his little force and faced him in a somewhat embarrassed manner.

Luo Qifang's face was as pale as gold paper, his lips were pale, and golden lines appeared on his pupils, as if someone was drawing in his eye sockets with a golden pen.

Chen Yunli recognized the pattern—a heavenly inscription. Legend has it that when heaven bestows a unique blessing upon a beloved descendant, it appears as a symbol on the person being blessed, and it usually doesn't last long.

——Reuniting with the person you loved in your previous life and having the opportunity to renew your old relationship and grow old together is indeed a blessing from a common sense perspective.

But Luo Qifang is trying her best to suppress their appearance.

Chen Yunli didn't love him, but he also regarded him as a friend. Seeing him in so much pain but unable to do anything, he suddenly felt a deep sense of powerlessness in his heart.

Even so, he could only feign ignorance and reached out to caress Luo Qifang's face: "Are you feeling uncomfortable? Did something go wrong with your cultivation? I'll take you back to rest."

"...No, I'm fine. Really."

Luo Qifang rubbed his palm affectionately, then took a deep breath, and the spiritual power in her body surged, flowing and rolling, with extreme strength and sharpness, and finally suppressed the "Heaven-given Inscription".

However, his condition did not improve, but became worse. The pain of burning fire swept out from the depths of his soul and spread to his internal organs and limbs, as if it was a furious storm imposed by the kindness of heaven.

Luo Qifang's figure swayed, and Chen Yunli hurriedly caught him. Just as he was about to ask him what was going on, a person appeared in front of him quietly.

Sui Changsheng pushed aside the veil hanging in front of his hat and pointed two fingers at Luo Qifang's wrist.

Chen Yunli looked at him, then at the almost unconscious person in his arms. His body tensed slightly at the person's proximity, hinting at a slight repulsion. However, precisely because of the person's proximity, his aura became less chaotic.

"Strange." Sui Changsheng said, his voice as clear as the clashing of jade, his tone tinged with interest and confusion, "He's clearly not injured, so why is his spiritual power so chaotic?"

Before he finished speaking, Chen Yunli hurriedly asked, "Is your life in danger?"

"Probably... not." Sui Changsheng shook his head. He wasn't one to meddle in other people's affairs. Looking at Luo Qifang's pale face, he couldn't help but say, "He and I are equally powerful. Let's find a quiet place to put him. I'll try to regulate his breathing."

"……good."

A moment later, Chen Yunli brought Luo Qifang and Sui Changsheng back to their residence, arranged for the former to sit cross-legged on the bed, and made room for the latter.

Sui Changsheng sat opposite Luo Qifang, placed his palms against his, and used his spiritual power to inject it into his meridians, guiding his turbulent spiritual power back to its proper place and restore peace.

The techniques they practiced were vastly different, and they had never met before. Sui Changsheng originally thought that Luo Qifang's spiritual power would be particularly repulsive to his own, and was prepared to slowly cultivate it. However, who would have thought that his spiritual power not only did not repel him, but could also merge with his own spiritual power and become stronger, which was not much different from dual cultivation.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but be a little surprised.

Chen Yunli stood aside with his arms folded over his shoulders. With his keen eyesight and understanding of cultivation, everything that Sui Changsheng had discovered was naturally visible to him.

It’s a match made in heaven… Rather than a match made in heaven, it’s more like a shackle.

To the two of them, the way of heaven is like a CP fan who is obsessed with pairing up. No matter what the actual situation is, he will just put a red string made of steel bars on people's hands whether they are willing or not.

The main reason why CP fans are just entertaining themselves is that they don't affect the protagonists at all. However, the laws of nature in this world are extremely overbearing. A cow won't drink water, right? Even if your head is chopped off, it's the same as using your mouth to hold water.

It deserves to decline and become silent in later generations.

"Puff... cough, cough cough..."

A sudden cough interrupted Chen Yunli's thoughts. He looked over and saw Luo Qifang coughing up blood and slowly opening her eyes.

He and Sui Changsheng met each other's eyes unexpectedly. The weather was nice, the sun was shining brightly, and the wind rustled the tree branches. Everything was just at the right time and just right.

It's supposed to be an atmosphere that will captivate you at first sight.

"I am Sui Changsheng, and I travel around the world with the Honglu Sect." Sui Changsheng spoke suddenly, and the fingers pressed against Luo Qifang's palm slowly curled up, unconsciously wanting to hold his fingertips.

Luo Qifang suddenly retracted her hand, then her face turned pale and her arms trembled with pain.

"...Luo Qifang." He lowered his eyes and said through gritted teeth, "Thank you... for saving me."

Sui Changsheng gave him a deep look and said, "You know why we met."

Luo Qifang remained silent.

He smiled and didn't mind, rolling up his right sleeve to him - beneath his wrist, a string of runes flashing with golden light was dissipating.

"It is my fate. I have no intention of interfering with you." Sui Changsheng turned his head and stared at Chen Yunli, sighing softly, "My body in this world is still of great use to me. I must stay alive in order to revitalize the sect. I'm sorry."

Chen Yunli pretended to be confused: "What...do you mean?"

Luo Qifang suddenly jumped off the bed, blocking him behind her, staring at Sui Changsheng and saying, "I refuse! I won't be with you..."

"Mr. Luo, destiny cannot be violated. If you must violate it, and you don't mind paying the price, then do you care about the person most important to you?"

Sui Changsheng stood up, lifted his clothes, took off his bamboo hat, and calmly shook the veil on top. "Your weakness is obvious, I know it, and so does Tian."

Just as he finished speaking, a layer of haze suddenly covered the sunny scene outside. It turned out that a thick dark cloud was covering the sky above Baixue City. Heavy rain was about to come, with lightning and thunder.

Luo Qifang instantly clenched Chen Yunli's hand.

"You'll have to think it over carefully. However, if you make a different decision than I do, I will try to set things right."

Sui Changsheng put on his hat again, held the veil tightly, and when he passed by Luo Qifang, he patted him on the shoulder very quickly.

"Take care of yourself."

After saying this, he turned into light and quickly disappeared from the sight of the two.

Chen Yunli stared at Luo Qifang's pale face. From the city gate to here, less than a moment had passed, and his life had turned upside down, just like the sky outside, which had changed from bright sunshine to dark clouds, unpredictable.

"...Pearls."

He stood there in deep thought for a long time. Chen Yunli also stood with him and responded the moment he spoke: "Speak."

"I love..."

"boom!--"

There was a deafening roar of thunder, and blue lightning flashed past the window, illuminating Luo Qifang's frighteningly calm face and drowning out his unfinished words.

Chen Yunli was startled and his body shook instinctively. It was this trembling that made him make up his mind.

"Zhu Ji, do you remember what you said when you agreed to be with me?" Luo Qifang opened her mouth again, and each word she spoke was extremely difficult. Her voice became lower and hoarser.

Chen Yunli knew which sentence he was referring to, but he could only suppress his heartache and ask, "Which sentence?"

“Cough, cough, cough!…”

As soon as Luo Qifang opened her mouth, she started coughing violently. She coughed so hard that she couldn't stand and fell backwards.

Chen Yunli hurriedly supported him, but he grabbed her arm with great force, as if he was trying to keep her or demand strength to support himself.

His eyes were red, and a look of sudden realization flashed across his face: "If we don't love each other, we can both leave each other - you said it wasn't my fault, didn't you know that a long time ago..."

Chen Yunli's confused expression made him swallow the second half of his words.

"Xun Gui, what do you want to say?" He pulled Luo Qifang into his arms and sighed imperceptibly from an angle where he couldn't see. "Why are you bringing this up?"

Luo Qifang reflexively raised her hands to hug back, but her arms froze in mid-air, restrained by an invisible force and unable to move forward.

"Zhuji, I don't...I don't love you anymore."

Chen Yunli heard him say this in a whisper.

Maybe...his throat was no longer able to utter a sound because of the grief in his heart.

"Why?" Chen Yunli pushed Luo Qifang away in astonishment and asked in disbelief.

He followed the established script, but in his mind, he had already cursed every one of the 18 billion lines of code in the system, with the system as the center.

Luo Qifang forced out a smile that was uglier than crying, stumbled onto the bed, lowered her head, and let her hair fall to cover her eyebrows.

He didn't dare look at Chen Yunli, and likewise, Chen Yunli couldn't bear to look at him.

"Because... I am... Sui Changsheng..."

History of Songfeng Academy: Luo Qifang, Volume 30

...On this day, Xungui and Zhuji were separated, and for the sake of immortality, they were said to...

"……love at first sight."

Chen Yunli: “…”

That's ridiculous.

He laughed out loud.

…

Chen Yunli slammed the door and left.

Before leaving, he questioned Luo Qifang for a long time, from the nonsense words "love at first sight" to whether he really wanted to break up with her for someone he just met, every word he asked clearly and distinctly, which cut off his thoughts and also cut off Luo Qifang's retreat.

Luo Qifang sat against the headboard, listening to the clamor of the torrential rain outside. With the departure of his lover, the excruciating pain in his body gradually subsided, and his cheeks and lips regained their color.

He blinked, dropped two tears, and wiped them away.

Luo Qifang was never a person who indulged in self-pity or pain, nor did he believe in fate.

"...Fuck your uncle's laws." He said softly, a bright fighting spirit burning in his eyes, "Just wait, sooner or later I will overthrow you!"

Luo Qifang thought that he would definitely resolve this messed-up destined marriage and get Chen Yunli back.

They still have time, everything is still possible.

At this moment, Luo Qifang's fighting spirit was high. Cultivators have long lifespans, and he, gifted with extraordinary talent, was bound to reach a realm equal to the Heavenly Dao. Regrets could eventually be made amends, and those lost would eventually be found.

He still doesn't understand what fate is.