Chapter 42: True or False (Bonus Chapter for 500 Nutrient Solution) As long as I...
"Your injuries are too severe. Even with the Thousand-Year Snow Lotus, your current body cannot neutralize its medicinal effects. The Thousand-Year Snow Lotus will do you more harm than good. Therefore, we need to find another way to repair your body first, and dual cultivation should be the most suitable method."
He looked at Li Chenjin's suddenly cold face, but felt no fear whatsoever. Instead, he smiled again, as if he didn't care whether he would live or die.
He continued, "The spiritual energy here is abundant. I will use myself as a vessel to transform the spiritual energy and transfer it into your body to repair your spiritual meridians. It should not be a problem to restore your body to 30% within ten days."
"I don't need it," Li Chen said coldly.
Shen Zhengyuan's smile remained unchanged as he slowly said, "Of course I knew you would say that. But unfortunately, I don't like to hear anyone reject me, and I never care about anyone's rejection. I'm not discussing this with you; I'm just letting you know that I'm planning to do this."
"Get out of here..."
Before Li Chen could finish her curse, Shen Zhengyuan covered her mouth, then lowered his head and pressed his lips to her forehead.
This dual cultivation, of course, is proper dual cultivation.
However, this method of dual cultivation requires opening the spiritual palace and merging the primordial spirits of both parties.
If you accidentally trust the wrong person, and that person has malicious intentions, they can easily destroy you, both physically and mentally.
Therefore, such a close relationship can only be entrusted between vowing partners.
Although Li Chenjin was temporarily unable to muster any strength, he would certainly not open his spiritual abode and invite the wolf into his house.
She clenched her teeth, and only then did she feel the seal that was binding her spiritual power loosen. Suddenly, she heard Shen Zhengyuan say, "Do you wish that the person in front of you right now is not me, but the person you are thinking of?"
Li Chenjin: "..."
The person you're thinking about?
Who is it?
Who is she thinking about?
Shen Zhengyuan only said it casually, but Li Chenjin was actually distracted by it and was unable to guard his spiritual palace for a moment.
When a wisp of the other party's primordial spirit probed in, she felt the discomfort in her body suddenly disappear, as if she had returned to the state before her body was injured. The restriction that imprisoned her spiritual power was also suddenly broken.
In that instant, she used her spiritual power to blast the person in front of her away.
This was clearly a lose-lose situation, but she didn't care about losing each other now; she didn't care if they were both annihilated at this moment.
She spat out a mouthful of blood, and looking at the person who had also vomited blood due to the backlash from their injury, the anger in her heart gradually subsided. She leisurely sat up, crossed her legs, and even had the leisure to tidy up her blood-stained clothes. "How is it, Ancestor Shen? The feeling of being damaged by the backlash from your primordial spirit and spiritual veins is not pleasant, is it?"
Shen Zhengyuan said calmly, "When you said you wanted to save me, I didn't believe you. Now that I'm saying I want to save you, you still don't believe me."
"Help me?"
Li Chen seemed to have heard the biggest joke in the world, and laughed loudly several times, even though it aggravated his injuries and caused blood to spill from his mouth, he did not stop.
She looked at the person in front of her with a mocking look in her eyes and said with a smile, "Of course I believe you want to save me, but unfortunately I don't need you to save me, nor do I care about you saving me, and I don't need to save me in this way."
"Now the tables have turned. I disregarded your wishes and insisted on meddling in your affairs, and now you've paid the price. So, we're even now. Cultivator Shen, ah, no... I should say Ancestor Shen, now that we're even, would you please let me out?"
Shen Zhengyuan stared at her silently for a long while, then suddenly asked, "Who do you wish to see?"
Li Chen let out a sound of surprise, casually wiping the blood from his lips. "How am I supposed to answer this bizarre question?"
Shen Zhengyuan said calmly, "Everyone knows that the Sword God and his senior brother are in love."
Li Chen said, "It's just hearsay. You don't need to beat around the bush. I'll just ask you one question: are you going to let me leave voluntarily, or should I tear down this place and swagger out?"
Shen Zhengyuan said calmly, "You lied to me so many times before, didn't you ever really like me at all?"
Li Chen said slowly, "Whether I like it or not, I can't tell right now, and I'm too lazy to think about it. I only know that if Elder Shen insists on humiliating me like this, I will definitely take your life before I die."
“Ancestor Shen, I think you can guess that if it weren’t for the circumstances at the time, I wouldn’t have helped you at all. Isn’t my current situation partly thanks to the cultivation world?”
Shen Zhengyuan said, "If I said that it wasn't an ambush set up for you by the cultivation world, would you believe me?"
Li Chen smiled bitterly, "Whether you believe it or not is not important. The past is the past, I don't care, and I don't mind."
Shen Zhengyuan stopped talking, but grabbed Li Chenjin's hand, turned her palm over, and with his other hand smeared with some blood from her lips, drew a rune in her palm that she couldn't understand.
The moment the rune took shape, a red light flashed, and the rune, along with the bloodstains, disappeared from her palm.
Before Li Chen could even ask what this was, Shen Zhengyuan said, "Ten days. I will only repair your spiritual veins and will not seal your spiritual power again. If you feel that I have crossed the line, then kill me. Anyway, within twenty steps, you can easily take my life, can't you?"
Before Li Chen could figure out how to respond, Shen Zhengyuan continued, "Of course, if I die first, you will still be unable to leave this place. But if you die first, I will definitely refine you into a weapon spirit."
"You should know that once a magical artifact recognizes its master, even if the spirit of the artifact is unwilling, it can only obey its master."
Li Chen said coldly, "Are you threatening me?"
Shen Zhengyuan said calmly, "If you think it's a threat, then it is. You liked me and wanted to rebuild the cultivation world with me, didn't you? You broke your promise back in Snow Mang Mountain, so why can't you keep your promise now?"
"If you are truly unable to fulfill your promise, I can only wait until after your death, imprison your soul, and help you fulfill your promise. Whether what you said was true or false, once I believe it, it must be true, and it can only be true."
Li Chenjin: "..."
How come the current Shen Zhengyuan is even crazier than the Shen Zhengyuan from hundreds of years later in her memory?
Was it because she didn't understand her nemesis well enough before, or because she always forcibly knocked him unconscious and accidentally damaged his brain?
Li Chen remained silent for a long while before asking, "If I stay here for ten days, will you let me leave?"
"Yes," Shen Zhengyuan said. "I will let you leave in ten days."
Li Chen blinked, looking at the person in front of him, as if trying to analyze whether what he said was true or false.
After a long while, she reluctantly nodded and said, "Okay. But Elder Shen, I have to have a serious talk with you about what you've done."
"When it comes to saving lives, there are priorities, but we should also consider the patient's wishes. Look at what you did just now; anyone would think you had ulterior motives. So it's better to talk things out from now on. Otherwise, look, we're both hurting each other now, which is exactly what you wanted."
Shen Zhengyuan said, "If it had been your senior brother instead of me just now, would you still have acted this way?"
Li Chenjin smiled slightly, "As long as I'm unwilling, it's the same result no matter who it is. Even if I'm about to die, I still have the ability to drag others down with me."
Shen Zhengyuan lowered his eyes, sat down on the edge of the bed, stretched out his hand, and stopped talking about the previous topic. Instead, he said, "It's just for healing."
Li Chenjin: "..."
She remained silent for a while, then extended her hand to Shen Zhengyuan.
As their hands clasped together, they pulled each other closer.
As the spirit palace opened, the two spheres, each with a few cracks, met again.
The moment they touched each other, they transformed into two tiny figures that looked exactly like them.
Although this kind of dual cultivation is a proper dual cultivation, when the souls are in contact, it still brings a strange feeling like being electrocuted. It's not exactly uncomfortable, but it's not exactly comfortable either.
Although they are now practicing dual cultivation, in reality, it is Shen Zhengyuan who is unilaterally transferring his spiritual power to her, while she is unable to give any feedback.
After maintaining this state for an hour, of the ten parts of spiritual energy transmitted by Shen Zhengyuan, at most only one part remained, which could be considered better than nothing.
Let alone ten days, even twenty or thirty days, it's unlikely there will be any progress.
After it was over, Li Chen slowly opened his eyes, smiled, and said softly, "Cultivator Chen, this method is useless. I know my current condition better than you do. My five senses are gradually disappearing. Even if there is a thousand-year-old snow lotus now, it cannot cure me."
"What you're doing can only barely prolong your life, but this method is harmful to you in every way. In the long run, it will also damage your cultivation. So, if you ask me, you're already this old, so don't be too reckless in everything, and be careful."
Shen Zhengyuan: "..."
Shen Zhengyuan had known for a long time that Li Chenjin had a sharp tongue, and he was also very familiar with Li Chenjin's way of turning the tables and changing the subject.
He remembered that when he first met Li Chenjin, he would feel a little annoyed by her words, but now, hearing them again, he felt a sense of nostalgia and satisfaction, as if from another world.
Since Shen Zhengyuan didn't respond, Li Chen stared at the person opposite him, unsure of what to say. He could only say, "Ancestor Shen, you are very busy, and I don't dare to keep you too long. Why don't you go and take care of your business first, and we can catch up when you're done?"
Li Chen's words were clearly an order to leave, and Shen Zhengyuan did not linger. After removing the shackles from Li Chen's hands and feet, he turned and left.
But such a carefree turn made Li Chenjin's heart start to pound.
Based on her understanding of Shen Zhengyuan, he was not someone who would do useless things. Everything he did was purposeful, and he was never the type to act on a whim. Therefore, the things he did in the beginning must have had a purpose and plan.
The chaining at first, followed by the drugging, and then the pretense of forcing himself on her, even though he was injured, showed no sign of shock or surprise. This shows that he knew from the beginning that she would resist and was prepared to accept the outcome of her resistance.
If all these things were merely a prelude to getting her to agree to treatment later, then it would be a terrible waste. Therefore, he must have some intentions that she has not yet discovered.
Author's Note: That's right, Da Chen is up to something. All of the previous actions were just a smokescreen, to prevent Xiao Li from figuring out what he was up to. [doge emoji]
The two of them were incredibly cunning. Xiao Li was temporarily at a disadvantage due to his lack of extracurricular knowledge (the fact that their weaknesses were each other's strengths made them remarkably complementary), but he was already thinking about how to escape.
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