Chapter 7 Chapter 7 Yao Ning felt someone was looking at her, but...
Chen Qian opened the tracing mirror again.
The air in the room was shaking like a water curtain, and the skylight and flowers outside the window were swaying and changing. Suddenly, the scene froze, and a sleeping woman appeared on the couch in the room. Her face was pale, and her expression changed several times. It was Yao Ning.
The main function of the traceability mirror is to reproduce past scenes, and it requires the hard work of both users.
In the flashback scene, Yao Ning woke up from his dream. After being in a trance for a while, he stood up and walked to the window, standing alone for a long time.
Then Xianxian came in with the medicine.
Although Xianxian is a silly kid, he has a kind heart. He wants to promote the relationship between Chen Qian and Yao Ning, so he tells a lie that Yao Ning can see through at a glance.
To make amends, he exaggerated and said that Chen Qian would come back to see Yao Ning at dinner time.
Time flows very quickly in the flashback scene, but Chen Qian deliberately slows down the flashback at this moment and looks at Yao Ning carefully.
The woman standing with her back to the window was wearing a white nightgown, without the dazzling hairpins and bright red clothes. Her slightly pale face reflected the flowers outside the window, and she looked sickly and charming.
But there was no weakness in Yao Ning's eyes. Her eyes were clear and calm, and she was indifferent to Xianxian's words.
The forced smile was very shallow, like a rain under the scorching sun, melting before it touched the ground.
Chen Qian found that his chest was emitting an empty echo.
That was not the reaction Yao Ning expected.
His dangling fingertips trembled slightly.
The scene continued, Xianxian disappeared, and Yao Ning was still standing in front of the window, not knowing what he was looking at. When he was tired of standing, he moved a chair and sat down.
The mountains swallow up the sunset, and the moonlight falls into the world.
There was no light in the room, and Yao Ning sat in the dim moonlight, motionless, like a lifeless doll.
In a blink of an eye, the moon set and the sun rose. Yao Ning stood up, looked around the room, and began to pack up.
Yao Ning packed up a few pieces of clothes, the commonly used hairpins and jewelry in a large and light bag with Lingshi. Without looking at the house again, he turned and walked towards the door.
Shen Qian subconsciously wanted to stop her.
As soon as he took a step forward, Yao Ning, who was recalling the scene, seemed to sense something, and suddenly turned his head and looked straight into his eyes.
Shen Qian was stunned.
Yao Ning felt someone was looking at her, but there was no one in the room.
It wasn't invisibility, nor was it something like demonic energy that couldn't be seen. Yao Ning tilted his head and tried to feel that gaze carefully.
She vaguely felt that it was not the gaze of today and at this moment.
Chen Qian was stunned. He saw Yao Ning looking back at him across time and space. At that moment, he felt a chill down his spine.
Yao Ning looked over at the scene of the past across time.
The water curtain shook violently, unable to withstand anything beyond the tracing mirror, and seemed to be about to collapse at the next moment.
Yao Ning tilted his head, his expression still calm, but Chen Qian saw a hint of madness in that calmness.
No matter how humble, gentle, or charming Yao Ning was, Chen Qian knew that she was never a pitiful weakling.
A flash of white light appeared at Yao Ning's fingertips, and the flame flowed like a sharp sword, piercing towards Chen Qian's eyes.
Everything happened in an instant.
The water curtain shattered, the recollected scene disappeared, and Chen Qian covered his eyes and squatted down.
After a long time, he removed his hand, and a line of blood and tears flowed down the side of his porcelain-white face.
Chen Qian ignored his red left eye, slowly stood up while holding the table, and finally confirmed a fact.
Yao Ning is gone.
He closed his eyes deeply.
Yao Ning is gone and will never come back.
Chen Qian felt a dull, indescribable feeling in his chest, his mind was in a mess, and countless thoughts were crammed into his head, but he suddenly thought of an insignificant fact.
Yao Ning left, why didn't Xianxian stop him?
Even if you can't stop it, why don't you tell yourself first?
Chen Qian did not blame Xianxian. He just used two questions to further establish an irrefutable fact.
He was really bad to Yao Ning.
Even his own apprentice felt that perhaps it was normal for Yao Ning to leave.
"So, your husband treated you badly, and you ran away because you couldn't stand it?" On the official road hundreds of miles away, the coachman asked Yao Ning in the carriage.
Yao Ning rested his hands on the window sill, looking at the scenery along the road. He tilted his head when he heard the words: "I'm not sure if that's bad."
The groom laughed: "Are you a silly woman?"
Yao Ning also laughed: "Not really. Well, let me put it this way, I actually forced him."
That was shortly after we got married.
Although Chen Qian became her Taoist partner according to the custom of the Marriage Lantern and slept in the same bed at night, the relationship between the two did not change much.
Yao Ning discovered that Chen Qian was not only cold and aloof, but also cold-hearted and emotionless.
Apart from the Tao, Chen Qian is not interested in anything else.
Chen Qian practiced swordplay from morning till night, and his swordsmanship had reached perfection. Yao Ning, who was watching from the side, could not help but admire the man's talent and perseverance.
In order to please Chen Qian, she began to study swordsmanship.
However, no matter how much she studied, Yao Ning couldn't come up with anything new, after all, Shen Qian had such great experience in front of her. She just learned a lot of knowledge related to sword practice.
However, when watching Shen Qian practicing sword again, Yao Ning discovered that his sword skills were masculine and domineering, but too masculine.
Chen Qian practiced the thunder and lightning mental method, his sword skills were as swift as thunder, fierce and domineering, and his power was naturally unmatched. However, when water is full, it will overflow, and when it is too hard, it will break easily. Anything that goes too far is never good.
Yao Ning understood this, and Chen Qian naturally understood it as well. After he had reached a certain level in swordsmanship, it would be difficult to make further progress. Even if his skills were high, without a swordsmanship that matched them, his strength would eventually be diminished.
Yao Ning even felt that the reason why Chen Qian had a cold temperament was perhaps to reduce his desires, avoid excessive fluctuations in his soul, and suppress the fierceness in his mind.
After several months of dedicated research, Yao Ning finally came up with a solution from a tricky angle.
Usually, Chen Qian always sparred with Chu Liangxiu to hone their sword skills, because one of them was strong and the other was cold, which complemented each other.
So that day, Yao Ning asked to join them.
The mental method she practiced was the Yangyan system, like the sun rising in the sky, illuminating everything with light.
Very restrained Chen Qian and Chu Liangxiu.
Yao Ning, however, felt that while restraint was necessary, they weren't out to fight to the death. Cultivating under this level of restraint, his fierceness and icy nature were minimized, his strength greatly diminished, and the corresponding limitations inherent in reaching the extremes would also be mitigated.
The three of them tried it and the effect was amazing.
Chu Liangxiu's state of mind was extremely pure, and he did not have as many restrictions as Chen Qian, so from then on, Chen Qian and Yao Ning mostly practiced together.
As his sword intent grew, his state of mind also loosened.
Above the state of leaving the body is the state of transformation into a spirit.
Chen Qian has already achieved the state of out-of-body experience. If he can enter the state of spiritual transformation, his lifelong pursuit will be within reach.
During that time, Chen Qian seemed to have gotten to know Yao Ning again. He finally let go of the grudge of "forcing marriage" and became more gentle in his attitude towards her.
When Chen Qian wants to be nice to someone, he seems to be really nice. He is well-mannered and tall and handsome. When he is with Yao Ning, he is considerate and caring in the details. Some female disciples blush and their hearts beat fast when they see him, not to mention that Yao Ning is deeply in love with him.
During a treasure hunt in a secret realm, Yao Ning and Shen Qian got separated. When he found him, he saw a female cultivator wearing the uniform of the Tianshu sect confessing her feelings to him.
The female cultivator was slender and tall, but Shen Qian was half a body taller than her. She lowered her delicate head, and a blush adorned her rosy face.
"Brother, I've noticed you since I entered the secret realm. Are you willing to practice dual cultivation with me?"
As she spoke, she raised her bright eyes and looked at Chen Qian, with a bit of innocence and boldness that was not contaminated by the world.
"If you're willing, I'll give you all the treasures I find. How about that?"
It was impossible for Chen Qian to care about such trivial things, but the innocence and unrestrainedness of this girl were very touching.
Yao Ning originally thought that with Chen Qian's personality, she didn't need to worry. Chen Qian would probably remain expressionless but reject this person properly and comprehensively.
But she hid behind the tree and couldn't help but feel worried.
But Chen Qian lowered his head and smiled. That smile was very gentle. The aura that kept people at a distance faded away. In this desolate and quiet corner of the secret place, the stunning smile was inexplicably ambiguous.
Chen Qian said, "Fairy, I'm sorry."
He suddenly turned his head and looked directly at Yao Ning who was hiding behind the tree, with a smile on his face: "I already have a wife."
Those were obviously two ordinary sentences, but they were like thunder exploding in Yao Ning's ears. Under Shen Qian's gaze, Yao Ning's blood rushed through his body. For a moment, he didn't know what day it was or what was going on.
The female cultivator looked over with disappointment and a bit of curiosity.
Still unwilling to give in, he said, "For a cultivator, having a wife is nothing. We can be together as a group of three."
Chen Qian didn't look at her, but stretched out his hand to Yao Ning and said, "Come here."
Yao Ning walked over as if he had lost his soul and stood in front of Chen Qian.
Chen Qian frowned slightly, and raised his outstretched hand towards Yao Ning as if to emphasize.
Yao Ning took a while to react before realizing that Chen Qian might want to hold her hand.
It's not her fault. After all, they have been married for so long, and Chen Qian has never done anything intimate with her. Even though Chen Qian was much more friendly to her during that time, he only supported her waist in crowded places, or walked side by side with her when walking on the Yunzhan Corridor - even so, Yao Ning was already completely infatuated.
Yao Ning pretended to be calm and put his hand in Shen Qian's hand as naturally as possible.
Then it was held tightly.
The hand that Chen was holding was not as cold as he had imagined. Instead, it was dry and warm, like a handful of fire in the snowy field, conveying endless warmth.
The force was not strong, but Yao Ning felt an electric current running through the place where the two of them were holding each other.
She was confused and wondered if Chen Qian's temperament had suddenly changed and he was like a child, secretly using his thunder and lightning skills to play a trick on her.
Later she realized that it was the feeling when her heart was beating so fast that her soul was about to leave her body.
Shen Qian held her hand and said to the nun: "I'm sorry, my wife has a bad temper."
Even someone as slow and humble as Yao Ning understood the doting implication in those words.
The female cultivator shrugged, looking very regretful, and said goodbye. She took a few steps and suddenly turned back and said, "Hey, you didn't practice dual cultivation in this secret realm before?"
The implication was that he rejected her because he had practiced dual cultivation before and didn't need it for the time being.
Neither Chen Qian nor Yao Ning answered.
It was the first time for them to hold hands.
Yao Ning didn't know how Chen Qian reacted after hearing this. She only knew that she couldn't help but imagine what the female cultivator said, and her neck was burning badly.
During that period, Yao Ning was like this, as if he had drunk the fine wine left behind by the immortals from the Nine Heavens, and was drunk and dizzy every day.
The first time Chen Qian kissed her and the first time Yao Ning saw the naked desire in his eyes was also in that dreamlike time.
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