Chapter 89 Chapter 89 I chose you, from beginning to end...
"Jiang Zhaoxue!"
As Pei Zichen rushed towards Jiang Zhaoxue, in the other bedroom, Jiang Zhaoxue snapped her fingers, tightening the chains. Shen Yuqing's hands were pulled apart and hung up. Red light shackled his body, embedding itself into his flesh and blood, blocking his spiritual energy circulation. He was forced to kneel on the ground, screaming in shock, "Untie me! Stop messing around!"
Jiang Zhaoxue listened and stood up, breathing heavily.
She was not in good physical condition, and this set of spells almost took her life. But when she heard Shen Yuqing's cry, she immediately became angry and kicked Shen Yuqing!
Shen Yuqing was provoked by her kick and struggled hard, the iron shackles clanging, frightening Jiang Zhaoxue so much that she took several steps back. Then she saw the thunderbolt along the iron chain and hit Shen Yuqing violently. Shen Yuqing lost his strength instantly due to the pain and knelt on the ground, gasping for breath.
Jiang Zhaoxue stood by and observed. Seeing that he was completely locked up, she finally breathed a sigh of relief. Then she knelt down on one knee and looked at him through the barrier. She said happily, "Don't struggle. The Dragon Locking Formation is designed to deal with high-level cultivators like you. The higher your cultivation, the more painful the thunder. Don't ask for trouble."
"Do you really think I can't do anything about your formation?" Shen Yuqing gritted his teeth and Jiang Zhaoxue smiled.
"I know you have many ways, but no matter what method, you still need to mobilize spiritual power to attack. But if you really want to mobilize spiritual power..." Jiang Zhaoxue's eyes fell on the red light rope on his body, "Don't you want to kill your precious disciple?"
Shen Yuqing froze when he heard that. Jiang Zhaoxue raised her hand and pointed at the red rope on his body, reminding him, "This is a mandarin duck rope. Mu Jinyue is tied to the other end. It's easy for you to break free, but Mu Jinyue's life will be gone. If you don't care, then break free."
"Jiang Zhaoxue!"
Shen Yuqing was furious when he heard this. Jiang Zhaoxue raised her hands to cover her ears and said in disgust, "Be quiet, I'm not deaf."
"Let me go!"
"Just let go." Jiang Zhaoxue said openly, "A small dragon-locking formation can lock up our Pavilion Master Chen?"
"Stop messing around!" Shen Yuqing was clearly furious, but he still didn't break free from the rope. He gritted his teeth and said, "Let me go!"
Jiang Zhaoxue looked at him and sighed, "I told you that you have her in your heart, right? Look, I've tied you up with this rope, and I'm willing to give it back to you."
Jiang Zhaoxue stood up, looking rather disgusted. "You've been avoiding me like a cat avoiding a mouse for the past two hundred years, and now you're trying to show off to me? If you're really that powerful, our children would be older than Pei Zichen, and you'd still be here today?"
"Jiang Zhaoxue..."
"Nvjun."
Pei Zichen's voice suddenly came from the door. Hearing Pei Zichen's voice, Jiang Zhaoxue froze for a moment. She was not sure whether Pei Zichen had heard what she had just said without restraint, and felt a little guilty for a moment.
Shen Yuqing's muscles tensed up and his breathing stopped.
Being embarrassed in front of Jiang Zhaoxue was completely different from being embarrassed in front of Pei Zichen. He felt embarrassed and turned his head away.
Pei Zichen stood at the door and glanced at the two of them indifferently. He felt a little hesitant, but he also knew that they were embarrassed. He looked at Jiang Zhaoxue and confirmed that she was okay before saying, "My Lady, Mu Jinyue just told me something and asked me to come and ask Master."
Hearing this, Shen Yuqing seemed to already know what was going to be asked and instantly became nervous.
Jiang Zhaoxue glanced at Shen Yuqing meaningfully, smiled, moved away, pointed with her round fan, and said lightly, "Ask."
Pei Zichen got Jiang Zhaoxue's permission and set his eyes on Shen Yuqing. After thinking for a moment, he stepped into the room, knelt down on his own initiative, and saluted, "Master."
When he knelt, he was on the same level as Shen Yuqing, which made Shen Yuqing look less embarrassed.
However, Shen Yuqing was unwilling to accept this favor and said directly: "Get lost!"
"Master," Pei Zichen knelt respectfully on the ground, pretending not to hear Shen Yuqing's words, and asked calmly, "Just now, my junior sister told me that if I don't take the God-Slaying Sword, the Lady will be in danger of her life. I wonder if you really mean it?"
"What?!"
Anan was the first to scream, and to others it sounded like a lot of noise.
Jiang Zhaoxue was also a little surprised and looked at Pei Zichen in surprise: "What does this have to do with me?"
Pei Zichen didn't answer, staring at Shen Yuqing. Shen Yuqing never looked at him, suppressing his panic and saying, "I don't know what you are talking about." "Disciple guesses."
Pei Zichen's expression was calm, revealing no emotion. His tone was humble and respectful, as if he was reporting his itinerary to Shen Yuqing. He spoke slowly, "The Dragon Locking Formation is specifically designed to target high-level cultivators. The higher the level of cultivation, the more difficult it is to break the formation. When the Lady Lord leaves, it will automatically seal Master's consciousness and five senses, ensuring that Master falls into a coma."
Shen Yuqing listened and looked over coldly. Pei Zichen remained unmoved and continued, "Later, the Lady Lord will lead her disciples to Xuecang Mountain, destroy the Holy Pool, kill Xinluo Yi, and save the people of this time and space."
"Save?" Shen Yuqing sneered, "What can you use to save us? Save the people here, but don't take the God-Slaying Sword? What about the True Fairyland?"
"There are always other ways to get the God-Slaying Sword, but these people only have one life." Jiang Zhaoxue raised her eyes, "Shen Yuqing, the fruit here is the result of the cause we sowed. If I hadn't let Song Wulan discover this method of human sacrifice, and you hadn't brought Mu Jinyue back, this disaster wouldn't have happened."
"What is written in the Book of Destiny will happen even if you and I don't come back!"
"But now it's because of you and me," Jiang Zhaoxue emphasized. "Since it's because of you and me, as cultivators, how could we dig a pit for them, watch them jump in, wait for them to be buried alive and then grow a tree, then pick the fruit and say it was their fate? From the moment you and I returned, we have become history, not just bystanders."
"What nonsense!" Shen Yuqing shouted, "You are ignoring the will of heaven and disturbing the cause and effect!"
"That doesn't matter." Pei Zichen interrupted their conversation in a light tone.
Jiang Zhaoxue and Shen Yuqing paused, then turned to see Pei Zichen calmly speaking, "The Lady wants to save the people here. This is the Lady's decision. I just thought that Junior Sister must have been trying to stop the Lady and I from lying, but to be cautious, I came to Master to verify. If Junior Sister really was just trying to stop the Lady's lies, then I won't delve into it. Master, rest well." Pei Zichen bowed his head and said, "Disciple and the Lady will go first."
Pei Zichen stood up and looked at Jiang Zhaoxue. "My Lady, is the magic circle ready?"
"Oh." Jiang Zhaoxue reacted and glanced at Shen Yuqing. He guessed that Pei Zichen was forcing him, so he nodded and said, "Okay, it will take effect in a while."
"Then let's go."
Pei Zichen nodded. Jiang Zhaoxue said nothing more. She walked to his side, looked back at Shen Yuqing, thought for a moment, and said seriously, "Rest well. When your formation is unlocked, we should be able to go back. By then, I might have returned to Penglai. This will probably be the last time we see each other."
Jiang Zhaoxue nodded, his expression becoming a little calmer as he said his final goodbye: "Take care."
Hearing this, Shen Yuqing's heart tightened. Watching Jiang Zhaoxue and Pei Zichen walk out side by side, Shen Yuqing couldn't help but shout, "Jiang Zhaoxue, stop! Come back!"
The farther Jiang Zhaoxue was from him, the less he could see and hear clearly. Panic spread from his heart, spreading to his fingertips, bringing inch-by-inch pain.
He couldn't help but gasp and said urgently, "Jiang Zhaoxue, Jiang Zhaoxue, come back! Jiang Zhaoxue—it's real!"
Shen Yuqing finally lost control and shouted, "You will die. If you don't take the God-Slaying Sword, you will die!"
"Don't lie to me." Jiang Zhaoxue waved her hands with her back to Shen Yuqing, "What does the God-Slaying Sword have to do with me? I don't believe your nonsense."
"The Tianyan vine is the companion of the God-Slaying Sword!" Shen Yuqing shouted. Jiang Zhaoxue paused, and then heard Shen Yuqing's voice, which seemed to be in collapse. He shouted, "In a thousand years, you will use the Tianyan vine. It was planted when the God-Slaying Sword was born. If you don't take the God-Slaying Sword, you will die in a thousand years!"
Hearing this, Jiang Zhaoxue was shocked. In an instant, her mind flashed back to the calamity that almost destroyed her when she was in her early twenties. Her spiritual roots were shattered, and everyone said that she would not live long. In her dying moments, she lay on the bed wailing and calling out his name.
"Chen Zeyuan, when will you come back?"
"Chen Zeyuan, it hurts so much."
"Chen Zeyuan..."
What did he say at that time?
He said, "Yaoyao, I'll be back soon."
Later, Penglai found the Tianyan vine for her, and she finally repaired her spiritual roots and survived, but he never came back.
The young man in her memory who never spoke but always accepted her silently, changed his appearance overnight. When she went to see him at the mountain gate, he didn't show up. When she wrote to him, he didn't reply. He only said, "We are not equal and have nothing to do with each other."
If it weren't for the battle in Cangming Sea, where they formed a bond of solidarity, he might have been able to hide from her forever.
The ups and downs were so great that she almost thought that the "Yaoyao" that comforted her in a trance was a memory she had imagined. For the past two hundred years, she didn't even dare to ask him for confirmation, and she always regarded this matter as a "possibility."
But what does he say now?
"Tian Yan Teng?" Jiang Zhaoxue turned around and sneered, "Where did the Tian Yan Teng I use come from? How do you know?"
Shen Yuqing didn't say anything, he just lowered his head and said nothing.
Jiang Zhaoxue was immediately enraged. He hurried back to the house, grabbed Shen Yuqing by the collar, and shouted, "Speak! If you don't, I will assume you are lying. I will kill Mu Jinyue right now. Without pure Yin blood, the God-Slaying Sword will never be born!"
"I was the one who found that Tianyan vine."
Shen Yuqing spoke hoarsely. Pei Zichen froze in his tracks. He couldn't help but look up at Jiang Zhaoxue beside him. He saw Jiang Zhaoxue staring at Shen Yuqing intently and corrected him, "My father and brother brought it here."
"After I found him, I found a disciple from the Spirit Sword Immortal Pavilion and passed him on to Penglai through three different hands." Shen Yuqing said hoarsely, "They don't know."
"They don't know?" Jiang Zhaoxue was amused by his words and sneered, "Pavilion Master Chen is such a kind man. He went through so much trouble to find such a spiritual object and sent it to me without saying a word. He asked for everything and asked for nothing. I don't know when did Pavilion Master Chen show such deep affection for me?"
"They found it in a village called Linfang Village. A Jindan cultivator showed them the way. That cultivator is the husband of one of my uncles."
Shen Yuqing talked about the details that were unknown to outsiders. The matter of Tianyan Vine was extremely confidential back then, and Penglai had never revealed it to the outside world.
Jiang Zhaoxue paused. She stared at Shen Yuqing, examining his expression to discern his true intentions. She felt the air in her chest surge. She took a deep breath, adjusted her mood, and forced herself to calm down. She gritted her teeth and said, "Why didn't you tell me back then?"
"I don't want you to owe me."
"You don't want me to owe you anything?" Jiang Zhaoxue thought this excuse was ridiculous and couldn't help but laugh. "Are you afraid that I'll pester you? Then why did you save me? Why did you risk your life to find the Tianyan Teng?"
Shen Yuqing clenched his fists. Jiang Zhaoxue combed his thoughts, thinking hard: "You went looking for this thing because you have feelings for me. Why did you come back and refuse to see me or marry me? You have been like this to me for the past two hundred years? If you treat me like this, you are afraid to even see me. How could you go and find the Tianyan Vine for me? Do you think I am a three-year-old kid fooling around? Do you think I am stupid?!"
Jiang Zhaoxue grew angrier as he spoke. Thinking back to the past, he couldn't help but stand up and taunt her, "Shen Yuqing, are you really going to do anything to get the God-Slaying Sword? You're even going to tell any lies..."
"I'm not lying."
"If you're not lying, why don't you come back?"
"I'm not lying!"
"I haven't lied for two hundred years, yet you treat me like this? What's your reason for doing this to me?"
"I don't……"
"You lied to me! Otherwise, why didn't you come back that year..."
"Because my junior sister's spiritual roots are gone!" Shen Yuqing couldn't control himself and shouted loudly, "When she was trying to get the Tianyan vine from me, her spiritual roots were devoured by the vine. She can't survive without them. The only way is for her to marry me through the dual cultivation technique of the Lingjian Immortal Pavilion and use my spiritual power to prolong her life. I can't come back until I find a way!"
After hearing these words, Jiang Zhaoxue was stunned.
Shen Yuqing's breathing was rapid. He lowered his head, clutching his clothes tightly, and spoke in a hoarse voice: "My junior sister, Song Qingyin, was also a genius on par with you in her time. She was more suitable for sword training than me, and was more respected by the Pavilion than me. If she were alive, the position of Pavilion Master would not be mine. She is the hope of the Spirit Sword Immortal Pavilion, and she should have been the number one female cultivator in the True Immortal Realm."
Thinking of that person, Shen Yuqing closed his eyes and turned his head. He tried hard to control his emotions and said with difficulty: "But it was because of me... because I insisted on going to the Human Realm to find the Tianyan Vine. She betrayed the rules of the pavilion and opened a passage to the Human Realm for me. She went down to the lower world with me. We went to Xue Cang Mountain together. A thousand years later, Xue Cang Mountain was full of ancient magic arrays and snow. We searched for five days and five nights before we finally found the Tianyan Vine. I thought, I thought this was the result. I was full of joy and went with her. But I didn't expect..."
"What didn't you expect?"
Jiang Zhaoxue couldn't understand, and then she heard Shen Yuqing clench his fists and say in a hoarse voice: "The Tianyan vine suddenly swallowed her."
"Impossible!" Jiang Zhaoxue immediately denied it. "The Tianyan vine only devours the host it's planted in. It takes five hundred years to bloom and another five hundred years to bear fruit. Song Qingyin was less than twenty years old at the time. How could she have planted a mature Tianyan vine?"
If it wasn't planted by Song Qingyin, how could it have devoured her?
"Incredible, isn't it?"
Shen Yuqingtian also seemed to find Jiang Zhaoxue's words absurd. Thinking back to that year, when he watched in horror as the Tianyan vine suddenly sprang up and dragged Song Qingyin away, he was a little dazed. "For a long time, I couldn't figure it out, but at that time, I just watched the Tianyan vine devour her. I just reacted quickly and cut off the Tianyan vine in time, but even so, my junior sister's spiritual roots were still taken away. That Tianyan vine also fully blossomed after devouring my junior sister's spiritual roots."
Shen Yuqing's smile was filled with a hint of madness: "It has blossomed and fully matured, but my junior sister has completely cut off her path to immortality. Jiang Zhaoxue, how can you let me come back?"
He raised his eyes to look at Jiang Zhaoxue and said in a hoarse voice: "Are you coming back after stepping on my junior sister's life?"
Song Qingyin lost her spiritual roots in order to obtain the spiritual roots of the Tianyan vine that saved her. If she were an ordinary cultivator, she would have died without a doubt. However, she was a disciple of the Lingjian Immortal Pavilion. Using the Lingjian Immortal Pavilion's dual cultivation method, she could share the spiritual power of her fellow disciples.
However, using spiritual power to prolong a person's life would be a huge loss, and ordinary cultivators would not be willing to do so. The most suitable and only person who is willing to do so and who owes Song Qingyin is Shen Yuqing.
If he didn't stay and marry Song Qingyin, Song Qingyin would die.
But since he was married to Song Qingyin, how could he have anything to do with her anymore? Jiang Zhaoxue listened and understood, but she still couldn't figure it out: "Then... why didn't you tell me?"
She recalled the time when she was young and waited at the entrance of the Spirit Sword Immortal Pavilion day after day, and couldn't help but say, "If you tell me, I won't bother you. Since I owe her, I will pay her back."
"We don't want you to feel indebted." Shen Yuqing raised his eyes to look at Jiang Zhaoxue. For a moment, he seemed to see Jiang Zhaoxue's younger self. "Your personality is different from Qingyin's. In fact, she likes you very much. She doesn't blame you for this matter. For her and for me, we don't want you to feel guilty. And..."
Shen Yuqing seemed embarrassed. "At first, I kept wondering if there were any other solutions, so I kept trying to delay this matter. The year we separated, even though Master urged me to, I didn't practice dual cultivation with her... I searched everywhere for something to prolong her life. Even though I knew it wasn't a long-term solution, and I knew I shouldn't be delusional, I kept thinking, maybe, I could turn back."
"What happened after that?" Jiang Zhaoxue suppressed her anger. "Before, I was pestering you by myself, so it was understandable that you didn't tell me. But later, you didn't tell me when we discussed our marriage, and you didn't tell me when we got married. She...she's been dead for so many years, and you never told me a word!"
"Because I can't afford the gamble." Shen Yuqing said calmly, "After she dies, I want to find a way for her to live. The Tianyan vine devoured her spiritual roots. You used the Tianyan vine, so you still have her spiritual energy in you. I want to take her spiritual energy from you, recall her soul, and send her into reincarnation. If you don't agree, I won't be able to get her spiritual energy from you, and she will be finished. So I have to hide it from you and get it quietly."
"What happened after that?" Jiang Zhaoxue frowned. "You succeeded, didn't you? Mu Jinyue is her reincarnation, right? Back then, you were looking for the baby everywhere because you knew Song Qingyin had gone to reincarnation, and you wanted to find her. Since you succeeded, why didn't you tell me? If you told me, I would feel guilty, and I would help you. I would be grateful to Mu Jinyue and would never make things difficult for her—"
"Because I don't believe you." Shen Yuqing spoke truthfully, and Jiang Zhaoxue was stunned.
As Jiang Zhaoxue spoke, she desperately followed the clues from the past and suddenly realized something: "How did Song Qingyin die?"
"How did he die..."
Seeing her react, Shen Yuqing couldn't help but laugh. His voice was very soft, but he said, "I don't know."
Jiang Zhaoxue had a hunch that something was wrong. She saw Shen Yuqing turn around and look at her. Suppressing her resentment, she said, "At that time, your father and brother condescended to bring you and the Penglai elders to the Lingjian Immortal Pavilion to discuss marriage. That morning, I told Master to make it clear to them that Qingyin and I were in love and had already made an engagement. If necessary, I would tell your father and brother about the Tianyan Vine. Master went there in the morning, and in the afternoon..."
Shen Yuqing fell silent for a long time, and then she seemed to have the ability to speak, and said hoarsely: "Junior sister's maid came to tell me that Junior sister committed suicide."
Hearing this result, Jiang Zhaoxue's eyes twitched slightly, but she was no longer able to be surprised. She only numbly asked, "And then?"
"When I went to see her, she was still breathing her last breath," Shen Yuqing said tiredly. "She told me that this was her own choice and she didn't want to drag me down. She told me to be with you. You've been so good to me, so I shouldn't feel guilty towards her."
Shen Yuqing laughed as she spoke: "But she has been recuperating in the house for almost a year. I told people not to let her know about these troubles. How could she know that I was still related to you?"
"Who do you think told her?"
Jiang Zhaoxue knew that he had the answer in his heart.
Shen Yuqing looked at Jiang Zhaoxue calmly, as if looking at a murderer, and said calmly: "She praised you to me."
Jiang Zhaoxue listened, met his gaze, and seeing his expressionless face, she said, "She said that the pomegranate hairpin on your head is very beautiful. When she passes away, can you bury one with her?"
Hearing this, Jiang Zhaoxue closed his eyes.
She didn't have many pomegranate gem hairpins, but she remembered that she had brought one with her when she went to the Lingjian Fairy Pavilion to discuss the marriage. She wanted to have a festive look and also wanted to dress up nicely to meet him.
Song Qingyin, who had not left her house for a year, accurately described what she was wearing at that time before her death.
"So I came to ask you. That day I asked you if you had been to the back mountain, and you said no," Shen Yuqing laughed, "You said you had been waiting for me."
"You think I'm lying."
Jiang Zhaoxue understood. "You think I went to see her out of jealousy and hatred, and forced her to death?"
Shen Yuqing didn't say anything, so Jiang Zhaoxue knew that this was a tacit agreement. Jiang Zhaoxue laughed mockingly: "So you don't believe me?"
"How can you expect me to believe it?"
Shen Yuqing couldn't help but get excited. "I don't know how she died. It's possible that the Spirit Sword Immortal Pavilion forced her to death in order to curry favor with you and facilitate this marriage. It could be that your father and brother forced her to die, or it could be you... I can't believe it. I can't believe anyone! I can only hide her and find a way to pay her back what I owe her!"
"Why?" Jiang Zhaoxue asked calmly.
Shen Yuqing calmed down a bit after hearing her voice. After struggling for a moment, he said, "The reason why Tianyan Vine is the companion of Zhanshen Sword is because Tianyan Vine grows at the junction of extreme yin and extreme yang. Extreme yang is the seed, and extreme yin is the embryo. When Zhanshen Sword was born, Zhanshen Sword was an extremely yang object. Its pure yin blood is extremely yin. With the huge energy when Zhanshen Sword was born, a seed of Tianyan Vine can be obtained to take root and sprout. But if there are two extremely yang objects at this time, then two seeds of Tianyan Vine can be obtained."
Jiang Zhaoxue listened and understood. She looked at Shen Yuqing and saw him raise his eyes, staring at her and saying, "The reason why the fire poison in your body is so difficult to eliminate is because you have a Fire Qilin demon pill in your body. This is an extremely yang object. Now that two million people have sacrificed themselves, the power of all living things is enough to nurture two Tianyan vine seeds. This is the only chance to plant two seeds at the same time."
There are two seeds of Tianyan vine. One will be given to her a thousand years from now, and the other can be kept until all of them return to the True Fairyland, and he will get it for Mu Jinyue.
With the Tianyan vine, Mu Jinyue also had a natural spiritual root, and what Song Qingyin had lost in the past was returned to her.
This has been a plan for nearly two hundred years, and he has been planning it since Song Qingyin's death.
He obtained the spiritual energy left by Song Qingyin's spiritual roots from her to summon and nourish Song Qingyin's soul, and then sent Song Qingyin's soul into reincarnation to find the Fire Kirin Demon Pill and find the reincarnated Mu Jinyue. He took Mu Jinyue back to the present, a thousand years ago, and planted two seeds of Tianyan Vine when Song Wulan sacrificed two million people.
"If you wanted to save her so badly, why did you bring her back?"
Jiang Zhaoxue understood, and as soon as he opened his mouth, Shen Yuqing froze.
Seeing his expression, Jiang Zhaoxue spoke in confusion, "Since you know the whole story so well, you should have guessed that Song Qingyin was devoured because Mu Jinyue planted the seeds of the Tianyan vine now. As long as you don't bring Mu Jinyue here, or don't let her plant the Tianyan vine, or destroy it after planting it, then Song Qingyin will not die in a thousand years, and you won't have to pay her back."
If it weren't for the Tianyan vine planted by Mu Jinyue, Song Qingyin's spiritual roots would not have been devoured a thousand years later.
If her spiritual roots had not been devoured, with Song Qingyin's qualifications, the Lingjian Immortal Pavilion would have protected her and no one could harm her.
"If that's the case," Jiang Zhaoxue was a little confused, "Why did you bring her back to plant the Tianyan vine?"
Shen Yuqing didn't say anything. He just sat there and Jiang Zhaoxue waited for him quietly.
After waiting for a moment, Jiang Zhaoxue suddenly realized what the answer to her question might be. She suddenly felt that it was meaningless and waved her hand, "Forget it..."
"Because I want you to live."
Shen Yuqing suddenly spoke, and Jiang Zhaoxue was stunned.
She looked up and saw Shen Yuqing slowly raise his eyes and stare at her, as if his flesh and blood were torn off, revealing a beating heart beneath the bones. After there was nothing left to hide and avoid, he finally admitted: "Jiang Zhaoxue, even if you are full of sins, I still want you to live."
He wanted her to live.
He knew clearly that if he planted the Tianyan vine now, Song Qingyin would die in a thousand years, but he still insisted on bringing Mu Jinyue with him, determined to plant the Tianyan vine with all his might.
He scolded her, blamed her, hated her, and resented her.
He said she was a demon, unruly, frivolous and wanton. He thought she was jealous and suspected she had poisoned his junior sister again and again. But in the face of life and death...
He chose her again.
He was so absurd and unfair, and it went against the teachings of his life, so he reflected on himself and took her sins as his own. He spent two hundred years torturing her and himself every day to atone for the sins they committed in their youth.
So he never felt that he had chosen Mu Jinyue. Even though he protected Mu Jinyue and chose Mu Jinyue again and again, he never felt that he had done anything wrong.
Realizing what he had been thinking and struggling with for the past two hundred years, Jiang Zhaoxue stood there in shock, but soon, his anger rose rapidly.
Two hundred years... Even though there was forced control in the book, it was still her real two hundred years.
He took the Tianyan vine without telling her and left, leaving her like a joke to go to the Lingjian Immortal Pavilion every day. When she tried her best to save him, he still said nothing. In the end, he believed Song Qingyin's dying instigation and treated her as a murderer. He tortured her for two hundred years and finally came to tell her that he chose her?
He said it was for her own good and that she loved him, but he never believed her.
Jiang Zhaoxue's heart was in turmoil. Looking at the young man in front of him who was always so righteous, he gritted his teeth and couldn't help but tauntingly said, "So, should I thank you for your kindness?"
Shen Yuqing's eyes trembled slightly, but he remained unmoved.
Jiang Zhaoxue's anger grew, and his tone became even more venomous. "Thank you for your generosity and for silently sacrificing for me. Even though I might have killed your junior sister out of jealousy, you still chose to protect me and tolerate me. Do you think your love for me is as deep as the ocean? Should I be deeply moved and cry bitterly after knowing all this, regretting my actions and understanding your painstaking efforts? But what did I do wrong?"
"You're not wrong, are you?" Shen Yuqing tried her best to control her emotions. "If you hadn't pestered me back then, Qingyin wouldn't have died. Regardless of whether you looked for her that day or not, from the moment you and I formed a pact, neither Lingjian Immortal Pavilion nor Penglai could keep her. Don't you understand?!"
"Is it my fault?" Jiang Zhaoxue laughed angrily as she listened. "Did I ask you to find the Tianyan Vine? Did I kill Song Qingyin? Did I ask you to keep it a secret? Did I ask you to sacrifice yourself for me?! If you had told me back then, I would never have bothered you. Whether Song Qingyin took her spiritual root herself or I spent my whole life repaying her, I would have been grateful to both of you! But you were so self-righteous that you deliberately concealed the truth in the name of doing something good for me. I was completely clueless and became the murderer who forced Song Qingyin to death. I have to bear your debt of gratitude for two hundred years. Shen Yuqing, are you doing this for my own good?"
Jiang Zhaoxue became angrier and angrier as she spoke. She couldn't help but step forward and grab Shen Yuqing by the collar, shouting, "You're just satisfying yourself!"
"So what?!" Shen Yuqing listened, and suddenly became excited. He looked up at her, tired and paranoid, and said through gritted teeth, "Whether it's to satisfy myself or for you, you owe me!"
Jiang Zhaoxue's eyes trembled at her words. Shen Yuqing stared at her intently: "Jiang Zhaoxue, you and I are destined to be together in this life, as written in the Book of Destiny. I brought Mu Jinyue here a thousand years ago to plant the Tianyan vine that saved you. This was the cause, and a thousand years later, you loved me as the result. You and I are destined by heaven, and cause and effect are intertwined. As long as you live, you owe me one day. No matter what," Shen Yuqing's eyelashes trembled slightly, hinting at something, "We are inseparable."
After saying this, Pei Zichen couldn't help but tighten his grip on the hilt of his sword.
The dead leaves outside the window were blown into the house by the wind and smashed against his cheek. He stood by, as if he was back to his youth when he just fell off the cliff. His heart was empty, he didn't know where he came from, nor how to go back.
He stood aside and looked at the man who seemed to be entangled in vines, and his whole body seemed a little dizzy.
Jiang Zhaoxue's eyes were filled with anger. She grabbed Shen Yuqing's collar tightly and listened to him say calmly: "Jiang Zhaoxue, you survived."
She used the Tianyan vine that Song Qingyin fed with her spiritual roots and survived by stepping on Song Qingyin's corpse.
Jiang Zhaoxue felt a chill in her heart and a tightness in her chest when she heard these words. She looked at Shen Yuqing as if he saw through her eyes, and listened to him say seriously: "No one can take you away, and we will never be separated."
"What if I don't want this life?"
Jiang Zhaoxue spoke in a hoarse voice, startling the two people beside him. Jiang Zhaoxue held her breath, her voice trembling as she spoke each word solemnly, "I don't want this Tianyan vine. You don't have to plant it, and we won't owe each other anything..."
"Don't mess around!" Shen Yuqing shouted in panic, "You can't change what's written in the Book of Destiny!"
"But I..."
"sister!"
Before Jiang Zhaoxue could finish her words, a loud bang was heard in the distance. Pei Zichen subconsciously protected Jiang Zhaoxue. Before he could wait a moment, Ye Tianjiao's voice rang out outside, hurriedly saying, "Sister! Something happened, sister!"
As he spoke, Ye Tianjiao stumbled in, pressed his wounds, leaned against the door, and said anxiously: "Mu Jinyue...Mu Jinyue ran away!"
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The author has something to say: The next chapter will be at 20:00 tomorrow night
In case you don’t understand, here is a timetable:
Now Jiang Zhaoxue and his companions have returned to more than 1,200 years ago. Taking the time before Jiang Zhaoxue and his companions' travel as year 0, the timeline is as follows:
- Before 1267 (the 15th year of Chongming), Li Xiuji was born, and the male and female protagonists traveled to this time point
-1263 (the 19th year of Chongming), the male and female protagonists meet again, Pei Zichen is 21 years old, Li Xiuji is 4 years old
-1255 (the eighth year of Zhenshun), the male and female protagonists leave the fantasy world, Pei Zichen is 25 years old, Li Xiuji is 12 years old
-1250 (the 13th year of Zhenshun), Li Xiuji was 17 years old, the sword of beheading the gods was born, the Tianyan vine was planted, the Xuanming Emperor entered the ghost world, and the Silla Yihuoshi was beheaded.
-1000, the creation of the Nine Netherworld
-In 224, the second male was born
-223, the heroine is born
-201, the heroine strives for the Nascent Soul, and her spiritual roots are shattered
-200 years, the Nine Netherworlds complete their engulfment of the Great Wilderness, the Cangming Sea War, the Xuanming Emperor is sealed, Jiang Zhaoxue and Shen Yuqing get married, and Song Qingyin dies.
-17 years ago, Pei Zichen was born
-8 years ago, Pei Zichen and Jiang Zhaoxue met for the first time, and Pei Zichen's family was killed
-7 years ago, Pei Zichen entered the Spirit Sword Immortal Pavilion
-Half a year ago, Mu Jinyue entered the Spirit Sword Immortal Pavilion
In 2000, Jiang Zhaoxue awakens, Wu Yuelin saves Pei Zichen, and falls off a cliff with Pei Zichen.
The Tianyan vine was planted by Pei Zichen. This paragraph was difficult to write. I struggled for many days and tried my best.
When I first set up this plot, I actually wanted to write about Shen Yuqing's sense of tragedy and Pei Zichen's sense of fate caused by the Tianyan vine seed, and I wanted to write about the true appearance of love.
Shen Yuqing planned painfully for two hundred years, thinking that he had given up Song Qingyin and chosen Jiang Zhaoxue, and planted the Tianyan vine to save Jiang Zhaoxue. However, it turned out that it was Pei Zichen who actually planted the Tianyan vine.
Shen Yuqing's love is to tie Jiang Zhaoxue with debt, husband and wife, and everything else. Pei Zichen's love is to want but cannot reach out, and finally can only support with his flesh and blood.
This was the plot purpose considered when the Tianyan Teng plot was originally designed.
But when I actually wrote this plot, I found that at least when Shen Yuqing said this, if it was not written well, it would vaguely give people the feeling of "Look, he is a person who has loved you for two hundred years. Jiang Zhaoxue, you don't know what is good for you and you are confused!"
So I kept grinding it out, and I felt like it went against my original intention of writing this plot.
I've actually written chapters 87/88/89 over a dozen times. I'm so tired of writing that I don't know how the final result will turn out. I hope I've written what I wanted, but if it's not good enough... I can only say that I didn't mean to make you angry [burst into tears][burst into tears][burst into tears]
Then when I wrote it later, I also felt that there were so many long dialogues. There should be a plot crisis. Did Qie Mu Jinyue do something first? But I felt that if I didn’t write about Shen Yuqing here, I would find no place to show this line.
And I’ve read it so many times myself that it’s hard for me to evaluate whether it’s because I’ve read it so many times that I think it’s too much or whether it’s true, so I’ll just leave it like this for now.
The next chapter will push the event, and the entire Scroll of Light will be concluded soon. Xiao Pei and Xiao Xue will have a time to fall in love [Good Luck Lian Lian][Good Luck Lian Lian]
I am more familiar with writing Errenzhuan.
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