Chapter 39 Tell Me You Were Forced
Yan Qu and Shen Qingning arrived at the Quzhou Cultivation Association early. After asking around, they found out that there was no woman with a double digit in her name among the people who had registered, nor was there any Song Jinghe.
Shen Qingning had been searching for so long, and finally got some news, but was stuck in a bottleneck again, and became impatient.
Yan Qu consoled her, "Perhaps that Miss Xiao Shuang used a different name when she signed up, but we didn't find out clearly. We'll know the result on the day of the competition."
Shen Qingning waited patiently for a week and rushed to the Cultivation Association early in the morning on the day of the competition.
Even if Jinghe doesn't participate in the competition, she will definitely come to watch it. She wants to ask him why he changed his heart and married another woman.
The Quzhou Cultivation Association is the most rudimentary one among the dozen or so states in the human world. In the entire yard, there is only a magic mirror of unstable quality, facing a dark place, which is the treasure trove of the Cultivation Association.
Once someone takes away the spiritual weapon, the image in the magic mirror will move with the spiritual weapon.
When Shen Qingning and Yan Qu arrived at the courtyard of the Cultivation Society, there were not many people inside.
Because usually, it takes the monks about two days to find the object with spiritual energy. The magic mirror will basically not change in the first two days. Only a few young monks will take turns watching it and notify everyone if there is any situation.
But Shen Qingning saw the person sitting in a wheelchair in front of the magic mirror.
She felt that the figure looked familiar, and suddenly thought of Master Song, the younger brother of Madam Fu in Suluan County a long time ago.
How come we meet here again? Shen Qingning had a vague guess in her heart, and she couldn't wait to rush to the man.
This time she finally saw his face.
The man sitting in the wheelchair was Song Jinghe, whom she had been looking for for a whole year.
Yan Qu noticed that she looked strange, so he chased after her and asked softly, "Qingning?"
But after seeing the man's face, she stopped talking. The man that Qing Ning had tried so hard to find turned out to be here. They had even met each other a long time ago.
Shen Qingning stared at Song Jinghe in surprise, and Song Jinghe also looked at her in surprise. Then Shen Qingning pouted and started crying, "Jinghe, what happened to your legs? Where's your spiritual energy?"
Song Jinghe was a little panicked. He didn't expect to see Qing Ning in such a scene.
He even took a half step back, "My leg injury hasn't healed yet, and my inner elixir is damaged again."
Shen Qingning was so busy crying that she didn't notice his dodging movement. However, Yan Qu, who was standing next to her, saw it and his eyes darkened.
“No wonder you didn’t return to the cultivation world, I knew something had happened.” Shen Qingning choked up and said, “How did you get injured?”
Song Jinghe pursed his lips and didn't really want to say anything.
Shen Qingning didn't mind. She took Song Jinghe's hand and said, "Come back with me. Uncle Song will definitely find the best doctor to treat you. Don't delay for too long and get sick."
Song Jinghe shook his head, gently pulled his hand back, and looked at the magic mirror, "I want to wait until the game is over."
Shen Qingning turned her head and looked at the suspended mirror, gritted her teeth and said, "Sister Shuang, right? Your wife is participating in the competition."
Song Jinghe looked at her in astonishment, "How did you know that?"
Shen Qingning wiped away her tears and sniffed, “I’ve been to the village where you stayed, and they told me everything.”
She held on to her last bit of hope and said, "Jinghe, tell me you were forced to do it. You had to marry that woman because you couldn't leave the village."
"I..." This was obviously the truth. Song Jinghe opened his mouth but couldn't say it. He knew clearly that once he admitted it, his fate with Fu Ning would be completely over.
He finally chose to remain silent.
Shen Qingning's eyes dimmed quickly. She couldn't hold on and took a half step back. Yan Qu supported her. "Jinghe, I came to the human world to find you regardless of everything. So this is the result? You really fell in love with another woman. Is the relationship between us for more than ten years worthless in your eyes?"
"No..." Song Jinghe frowned. Everything that happened with Qingning was still vivid in his mind. He even destroyed his inner elixir in order to find herbs for her. How could it be a worthless relationship?
Yan Qu really couldn't bear to listen any longer. He couldn't bear to see Qing Ning in pain, so he took a step forward and suddenly punched Song Jinghe in the face.
Song Jinghe's head tilted to one side, his hair scattered on his face, and even his wheelchair rolled back a foot.
Shen Qingning exclaimed and grabbed Yan Qu, "Are you crazy? Why did you hit Jinghe?"
Yan Qu was furious, "Such a fickle man, and you are still on his side? Shen Qingning, are you blind?"
After hearing this, Shen Qingning's tears fell like a string of beads, "Yes, I am blind, and you unreliable men are around me."
After saying that, she turned and ran out of the Cultivation Society's courtyard.
Yan Qu regretted what he said in anger. He gave Song Jinghe a warning look and chased after him.
Song Jinghe moved his cheeks, tilted his head back on the wheelchair and looked up at the sky. It was really painful.
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"Boss, the hero and heroine have met the villain." The system's voice sounded in Fu Ning's mind.
Fu Ning responded without much concern. Anyway, in the original plot, they should have met each other, as long as their favorability did not drop.
She was lying on the grass with Sun Huchang.
When the monks from the Cultivation Society shouted "start", she felt that people were eyeing her covetously from all sides, so she pulled Sun Huchang and slipped out of their sight.
She had long since found out that the Cultivation Association only had one magic mirror, which showed the location of the spiritual weapon. The outside world was unaware of anything else that happened. In other words, if someone wanted to kill someone in the competition, they could easily claim it was an accident and get away with it.
It is said that people have died in previous competitions. Fu Ning suspects that Sun Huchang in the original novel most likely died here.
"Sister Fu, Jinshan is so big, where can we find that little thing that we don't know what it is?"
"Shh." Fu Ning put his hand to his mouth and closed his eyes, "You have to feel it with your heart."
Sun Huchang imitated Fu Ning and closed his eyes, frowning and showing a constipated expression. After a moment, he opened his eyes and said, "Sister Fu, I didn't feel anything."
Fu Ning patted him on the head and said, "That's right, there's nothing to feel. There's nothing we're looking for within a mile. Let's go up a little further."
Sun Huchang covered his head and said, "Sister Fu, how do you feel? Aren't our cultivation levels similar?"
Fu Ning glanced at him and said, "It seems that you don't know how to release your spiritual power at all."
Sun Huchang said: "No, I can draw talismans."
Fu Ning attacked him mercilessly, "All monks know this."
She placed her hand on the ground. "See that purple morning glory?"
Sun Huchang looked at Xiaohua five steps away and nodded.
The flower suddenly began to sway from side to side, but the grass around it did not move at all. It was obviously not being blown by the wind.
"My current spiritual power can only go this far." Fu Ning stood up and the flowers stopped shaking immediately.
"Wow." Sun Huchang looked at Fu Ning and said in a flattering manner, "Sister Fu, you are so amazing. Please teach me."
"Okay, if we both get out alive, I'll teach you."
Sun Huchang followed Fu Ning's steps and patted the bag on his back, "That will definitely be no problem. I brought a secret weapon."
Fu Ning glanced at his bulging backpack and asked, "What secret weapon?"
Sun Huchang smiled and whispered in Fu Ning's ear: "gunpowder."
He was actually carrying such a dangerous thing. Fu Ning looked at him with an indescribable expression.
Sun Huchang continued, "If Master Yu tries to snatch something from us, we will blow him up."
Fu Ning was now a little suspicious. He did not kill Yu Chunyuan, but killed himself instead.
She held his arm and said, "We should try not to use such dangerous things."
Sun Huchang nodded, "I know, this is the last weapon, I will only use it when there is no other choice."
The two men climbed up the mountain road. When they were hungry, they sat on the ground and ate some dry food and continued on their way. Thanks to the large size of Jinshan Mountain, they did not meet any other people the whole day.
It was not until night fell that the two men searched all the way and reached halfway up the mountain.
The mountain road was difficult to walk on at night. Even if both of them lit a tinder, they could only illuminate a small part of the road in front of them. The rest of the surroundings were pitch black.
There was a rustling sound in my ears, coming from some unknown small animal.
Sun Huchang was a little scared. He looked at Fu Ning who was full of energy and said, "Sister Fu, let's take a break."
Fu Ning finally stopped, looked around, raised his head and said, "Okay, let's sleep in the tree."
"Huh? Why do we have to sleep in a tree?"
"Lighting a bonfire is the best way to deal with the wild animals in the mountains, but it is easy to expose our position and attract other monks. If we don't light a bonfire, the wild animals will come again, so sleeping in a tree is the safest way for us."
Sun Huchang looked at the tall branches and felt a little scared.
Fu Ning had already climbed up with ease. She found a thick branch, took out a rope from her bag, tied herself to the branch, and said to Sun Huchang, "It's okay, don't be afraid."
Sun Huchang swallowed his saliva, and as Fu Ning said, he picked a branch that was thick enough from another tree and tied himself up tightly.
He was extremely frightened at first, but perhaps because he was too tired from climbing the mountain all day to look for spiritual energy, he gradually fell asleep.
Fu Ning also fell into a deep sleep until he smelled the aroma of burnt meat.
Thinking she was dreaming, she sniffed hard, opened her eyes, and found that the surroundings had become brighter.
She turned her head and looked down. She saw several monks had lit a bonfire not far away and were roasting rabbits.
Fu Ning looked at the shiny rabbit legs, his eyes lit up and his stomach almost growled.
Unfortunately, there were five people on the other side, and their cultivation was all in the enlightenment stage. If she and Sun Huchang tried their best, they might have a chance of winning, but it would not be worth it just for the roasted rabbit meat.
Regretfully, she lay down again, but the fragrance kept her from falling asleep. Then she looked at Sun Huchang, who was actually snoring quietly. Fortunately, the group of people were far away and talking noisily, so she didn't hear them.
"Brother Wang, where do you think those two bastards could have gone? We've been looking for them for a whole day but haven't found them yet."
"Who knows? Jinshan is so big, and he ran away as soon as he shouted, do you know something?"
"Of course. Young Master Yu has to avenge his master after he was injured."
Fu Ning pricked up his ears. Young Master Yu should be Yu Chunyuan. He didn't expect that these people were talking about the two of them.
"But Master Yu's master is at least in the Nascent Soul stage. How could those two have such abilities?"
"Oh no." The man called Brother Wang said disdainfully, "It's mainly because the two Luwu of that woman are powerful. Now she has no Luwu, so she is just in the early stage of Kaiguang. As for that boy, he may be more difficult to deal with. He is in the early stage of Jindan, but we have more people. As long as we get ahead and find them first, Master Yu's two thousand taels of silver will definitely go into our pockets."
Fu Ning was amazed when she heard this. She said to the system, "I didn't expect that we are so valuable."
The noise below gradually stopped, and the five people, after eating and drinking their fill, began to sleep.
The forest returned to silence.
When Fu Ning was about to fall asleep again, she suddenly heard the system shouting in her head: "Boss, it's bad! A leopard has climbed up the tree where Sun Huchang is staying!"
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