Shen Qingmang lay on the couch, raising her wrist to examine the Lianlizhi bracelet. She had just chatted with Si Rong for a long time, and now she wasn't sleepy at all, her mind racing.
After they had passed the emotional barrier, she and Gu Sui Han didn't say a few words along the way. Both of them tacitly maintained a wonderful atmosphere, fearing that they would ruin something if they opened their mouths.
However, at this moment she had a lot to say to him.
She was stroking her bracelet when she suddenly heard Gu Suihan's voice nearby. "Is the Master asleep?"
She hurriedly put on a coat and pushed open the door, but there was no one there.
"Sui Han?"
"It's the intertwined branches, Master."
She returned to the couch, raised her wrist, and murmured, "It sounds even clearer than the communication jade pendant, almost like a mobile phone."
"What is a mobile phone?" the other party asked.
"Ah, you can hear it?" Shen Qingmang was a little embarrassed. "The radio effect is too good."
"Is it a tool from the world Master originally lived in?"
Shen Qingmang was silent for a moment, then said, "Yes. You finally figured it out."
"I know you're not the same person as your former master anymore. Do you know how I felt after I came out of the Passage of Severing Love?"
"What's your feeling? Confused? Bewildered? Confusing? Feeling absurd?"
“It’s a relief.”
"Hey?" Shen Qingmang looked out the window.
Gu Suihan's voice was gentle and deep. "I originally thought you were my former master, and that you possessed memories of your past life. I saw your dramatic change in personality as a change intended to avoid disaster. So, even though I felt the change was so drastic that you seemed like two different people, I never considered it that way."
"That's normal. There's no such thing as possession in your world. Who else would think of this except that unconventional person in An Yanxiang?"
"Is he important to you?"
Shen Qingmang heard the emotional change in Gu Suihan's tone and laughed, "Are you jealous now? Don't worry, I don't have any good feelings towards An Yanxiang. Didn't I always believe what you said before, that he was the one causing the trouble?"
"That's good."
"You haven't finished yet, why do you feel so relieved?"
"After all, we are master and disciple. After I fell in love with you, I thought you were my master in the previous life. I felt a little guilty. I also thought about loving you silently and not disturbing you. But I found that I couldn't stand it..." Gu Sui Han's voice became smaller and smaller.
The smile on Shen Qingmang's face grew deeper and deeper. "What can't you tolerate?"
"I can't stand you always taking care of Hao Xin and Si Rong, and so many outer disciples. What have they done to deserve your favor? And I... I clearly..."
"You've clearly sacrificed the most. To save Qiongju, you gave up your perfect physique for cultivation and cut off your own path to enlightenment and ascension, yet you haven't received her favor again." Shen Qingmang sighed. "Sui Han, do you hate me for taking over your place?"
"No hatred!" Gu Suihan said quickly, "I originally wanted to save Master and repay her kindness. I have done my best and have no regrets in my heart, no regrets in front of heaven and earth. Master's inability to be resurrected was not caused by me, nor by you. I have no regrets, and you don't need to feel guilty either."
Shen Qingmang's voice grew heavy. "If I had known this earlier, I would have done my best to compensate you. I'm sorry, Sui Han, I didn't know you'd sacrificed so much."
"I told you not to feel guilty. Meeting you is my great fortune. You've given me so much warmth, but I was just too greedy," Gu Suihan said, then smiled. "Luckily, I was greedy enough to actually gain your favor."
She rubbed her brows. "You don't have to be so humble, Sui Han. You're very good, really very good. It's me, on the other hand, who's actually very ordinary. In my own world, I'm just an ordinary teacher. Since coming here, I've been learning techniques on the spot, and I often rely on your help."
"If you had always been so high and mighty, perhaps I wouldn't have dared to think of stealing the sunlight."
"So your liking for me isn't just a transference of feelings towards Qiongju?"
"I never liked my former master."
"Hey?" Shen Qingmang twirled the bracelet. "But I clearly saw you two being very intimate."
"That was an illusion, Master, not something that happened in the past. I mistook her for you, so I wanted to get closer. You actually only appeared that one night, right?"
"So the night you've been thinking about so much was the night we fought!" Shen Qingmang breathed a sigh of relief. "I was scared to death."
"What are you thinking about?"
"No, no, I didn't think much about it. But since you're not in love with Qiongju, why would you be willing to sacrifice yourself for her?"
"I've told you before, you're my only light. The 'you' I was referring to back then was actually my master from my previous life. Although she was a bit cold, she gave me a place to stay. Gu Fangping was always mean to me, and my mother was always submissive. I originally wanted to join the Taichu Sect simply to escape that place, not to cultivate. She praised my aptitude and gave me guidance. Although it wasn't as much as your care, it was enough for me, who had lost all hope at the time, to rekindle my hope for life."
"Yeah, I know." Shen Qingmang put his face against his wrist, as if trying to convey warmth to the other person through the wooden bracelet.
"After Master's sacrifice, the light went out again. I feel that life is boring and fate is unfair. Why should good people bear the consequences of the mistakes made by evil people?"
Shen Qingmang sighed deeply again.
"But I didn't jump right away like I did in the illusion." Gu Suihan paused and said, "At this point, there's nothing to hide. I lied to you before."
"Haven't you lied to me enough before? Tell me, what's going on?"
"After Master passed away, he left some spiritual energy to me, and also left me the Peak Master's Order. When the Sect Leader came out of seclusion and learned about all this, he also passed away not long after. So I became the new Sect Leader."
Shen Qingmang opened her eyes wide and thought to herself: So this is the subsequent plot that she has never seen!
"Hao Xin was expelled from the Taichu Sect, and Si Rong grew up a lot overnight, finally taking on some responsibilities. We've been seeking a way to restore spiritual energy. Si Rong led people to explore the outer world's mysteries of the spiritual realm, narrowly escaping death several times, but ultimately brought back a large number of spiritual stones, saving us from our crisis. Hao Xin seemed to have helped her a lot when she was in danger, but he eventually came back. We joined forces with other sects to wipe out the Fangyuan Sect. Without them, spiritual energy between heaven and earth is no longer so scarce."
"I don't think that's right." Shen Qingmang frowned. "It's true that with one sect missing, there will be enough spiritual energy for a short period of time, but there will be new cultivators in the world, and they will continue to compete for spiritual energy. This is not a long-term solution."
"I know. I originally wanted to find a foolproof plan and go back in time, so that no matter when I returned, there would always be a way to resolve the dilemma. However, despite our efforts, we could only get so far. It was then that I plunged into the abyss."
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