Chapter 271
Good man, Shen Jiao thought he was crazy enough.
Xue Shun is even worse than before.
He even found a reasonable explanation for his madness. Is that reasonable?!
"Qiongzhi! Is there any medicine to cure madness?"
Shen Jiao's throat hurt from shouting, but Qiongzhi ignored her.
Not here?
Shen Jiao retreated to the door and tended to some vegetable seedlings in the yard.
Shen Jiao walked back to Xue Shun with a stern face and said, "It's time to see a doctor for her ears, and your brain too. Don't be reluctant to spend money, find a good doctor, and at least try to pretend to be normal."
Shen Jiao really meant well and spoke earnestly.
Xue Shun: ...
"Nowadays, few people know what cultivators in the past looked like, but some ancient books should have recorded it. Each family has some such texts, but they are kept on the shelf and not allowed to be read casually, lest people become obsessed and immersed in it and unable to get out. I only came into contact with these after I gained that ability."
Xue Shun took out a book from the secret compartment of the bookshelf and handed it to Shen Jiao.
"Secret Records of the World's Winds and Clouds Part Three?" Shen Jiao was silent for a moment after reading it. "Sir, this doesn't sound reliable, okay?"
"My mother gave it to me."
"She might be playing a trick on you."
Shen Jiao had also seen Luo Wendi before. She looked capable of using a notebook from a bookstall as a secret manual.
Xue Shun was particularly easy to deceive at that time.
"Even if she's playing a trick on me, how do you explain this?"
Xue Shun stretched out a hand, and when Shen Jiao was confused, a black gas suddenly rose from his hand, and several mice squeaked and flew around in it.
"Is this... a trick?"
“…”
This stubborn donkey.
Xue Shun collected the black energy and the rat in his hand, waved his hand and said, "Just take it as it is."
Shen Jiao took the book and walked away in a daze.
In fact, she already believed that no matter what level of cultivation she had reached, it was impossible for a living being to appear out of thin air. But this kind of thing... really made it a little hard for her to accept.
For a long time, she thought she was crazy.
But Xue Shun now told her that she was not crazy, she just had a skill that she could not control.
What about the noise she'd endured all those years? What about the constant feigned deafness? What about the flowers, plants, and trees she'd killed...
Shen Jiao snapped back to his senses. "Master, you're lying, aren't you? If I really heard them talking, how could I expect everything I planted to die?"
Shenjiao did everything according to what they wanted, how could it be wrong?
"Have you ever seen a child who loves candy?" Xue Shun asked her, "If you let this child choose what to eat for three meals a day, do you think she would eat candy every meal or rice every meal? We can indeed hear them, but we only hear what they say, or what they want. Even though it sounds a bit outrageous, they do lie."
In short, Shen Jiao was cheated.
They chatter non-stop every day and seem very smart, but in fact they are no different from ignorant children. If Shen Jiao lets them do whatever they want, they will inevitably die.
"However, what I just said is one of the possibilities. The other possibility is," Xue Shun looked at her with a complicated expression and said, "you killed them."
Shen Jiao:?
“I kill flowers, plants, and trees?”
Do the peppers look like they're in trouble? All the hard work of fertilizing and watering them only to kill them before they reach maturity?
That person is not a human being, and he has not offended her. Why is she like this? Is she bored and feeling bored?
"It wasn't intentional," Xue Shun explained. "This ability requires spiritual power or something else to support it. You know what spiritual power is, so I don't need to explain it. As for what these other things are, I don't know either. I only know that when I lost control last time... I ate a lot of rats. Your ability is related to flowers, plants, and trees. Perhaps you also need to learn something from them."
Xue Shun was not very sure.
“I don’t know enough about these things, and Master Ma San also has a vague understanding. I have been looking for other people over the years, but I have never met them again.
By the way, you killed Linghe, right?
I went there and saw that all the flowers, plants and trees in that forest had withered.
And near the tomb..."
Xue Shun stopped here.
Shen Jiao had fought in both places, but she didn't remember it at all.
"This ability doesn't sound like a good thing."
"Well, so today's cultivators are completely different from you and me. Something must have happened in between, but there's no record, no record at all. The book I just gave you is all that Tongcai Villa knows. Of those thousands of words, ninety-nine percent are nonsense, with only a few dozen words talking about this incident. And they even pretended it was granted by a god in a dream. You should understand what that means, right?"
Xue Shun asked her.
Of course Shen Jiao understood that all the talk about gods telling dreams was nonsense.
This is only said because what is said is too shocking or cannot be accepted by others, so it is pretended to be a dream.
Regardless of whether those who heard or saw it believed it or not, the writer of the book has cleared himself of the charges.
"This is the third volume, and the rest..."
"No, and if you look closely, this one isn't the original one either. It was copied by someone else hundreds of years later."
Shen Jiao flipped through it. The yellow and brittle paper looked like it would be torn if she wasn't careful.
The handwriting at the beginning was quite neat, with a few words of nonsense in it, but it became increasingly messy towards the end, and when he mentioned the ability, his handwriting became even more chaotic...
"This book is not finished."
The last sentence in the book is incomplete, and there are many blank pages after it.
Shen Jiao's mind was in such a mess that he didn't have the energy to look carefully.
Xue Shun said, "There should be more to come. I don't know if something unexpected happened, or if I just didn't feel like writing anymore."
The person who wrote the book was hundreds of years away from the original book, and more than two thousand years away from them. No matter how hard Shen Jiao tried to guess, she couldn't guess what had happened.
"This man cut out his own name."
Normally, if you want to make a change, you just cross it out, but this person just cut a hole in it, as if he was afraid that others would know who he was.
Shen Jiao asked, "Where did this book come from?"
"It's been passed down from my ancestors," Xue Shun said. "Don't look at me like that. Where can I ask about something that even my parents don't know?"
"That's true..."
Xue Wuliang is the head of the Xue family, and the clan’s secrets should not be hidden from anyone else, not from him.
But--
"Could it be that the manor master and his wife know about it, but don't want to tell the young master? This ability doesn't look like a good thing. Perhaps... the manor master and his wife don't want the young master to get too deeply involved."
"Are you determined to be the world's number one troublemaker?"
Xue Shun's words were very unpleasant.
Shen Jiao: ...
"I am also thinking about the Master... and myself. Even if I don't understand this ability thoroughly, I should at least be able to control it."
Shen Jiao originally wanted to say that she was thinking about him, but Xue Shun's look forced her to change her words.
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