Chapter 61 Whether I leave or not is up to you.
"I wasn't looking at anything," Mei Liangyu replied casually, without looking away.
Yu Sui walked to the side, squatted down and looked at Ji Shuyan's body that had been brought back. He was wrinkled and looked like a dried corpse, but even thinner than a dried corpse, as if his bones, flesh and blood had been crushed and mixed together to form a piece of paper. His face could still be barely recognized.
This was the first time she had ever seen a living person have their life force drained and turned into a talisman, not to mention that Ji Shuyan had a close relationship with Madam Su and was ordered to kill her.
Yu Sui was examining it carefully.
The room was quiet for a moment.
Mei Liangyu withdrew his gaze and went to find his junior sister. When he got there, he saw Yu Sui resting her chin on her hands, staring intently at the human skin talisman.
The talismans used by the Ghost Daoist to kill are quite eerie, with bizarre and distorted appearances. Most people would feel a chill down their spine if they looked at them for too long.
Mei Liangyu leaned against the table, looked down at Yu Sui, and asked her, "You've been staring at him for so long, aren't you scared at all?"
Yu Sui looked up blankly: "Why should I be afraid?"
Mei Liangyu thought of many things. For example, you are a delicate little princess. Your innocent and harmless appearance is too deceptive. Every time I look at you, I feel that you are delicate and weak. I can only associate you with beautiful things. You are out of place in a world full of blood and fire. But in the end, he only said one sentence: "As long as you are not afraid."
“I want to see him more.” Yu Sui turned back and stared at the dead Ji Shuyan. “I will remember what everyone who comes to kill me looks like. Maybe one day I will die at their hands. At least I want to remember who killed me before I die.”
An unexpected answer.
Mei Liangyu looked down at Yu Sui, who was squatting on the ground. The tables and chairs around them were scattered, and the first floor was too quiet, with only the two of them talking.
He seemed to think for a moment before casually saying, "Your mother is a well-known thirteenth-level master in the farming family."
Um?
Yu Sui looked at Mei Liangyu in surprise, meeting his deep, thoughtful eyes, and listened as Mei Liangyu continued, "Taiyi has a large and diverse population, including people from all six kingdoms. The outer city is even more chaotic. Even if you don't leave Taiyi, news from outside keeps coming in, so I've heard people mention it."
"Who mentioned it?" Yu Sui asked curiously. What kind of person would mention Madam Su?
Mei Liangyu paused for a moment before saying, "The person is already dead."
That night, he was the first to arrive at the Five Elements Water Field.
He saw the old man, who was seriously injured and on the verge of death. The old man looked up at him, shook his head slightly, and gestured for him not to go over. The man who had once chatted with him so happily had left him with only an obscure and incomprehensible sentence.
That same night, unusually, all twenty-four saints from the academy came to see the old man die.
His master asked him if he had spoken with the old man, but Mei Liangyu lied to Chang Gen Saint for the first time and did not tell him what the old man had said.
Mei Liangyu recalled the details of that night in his mind again, and said to Yu Sui in a slow and unhurried manner: "When I was talking to him about the Nine Schools of Farming, he mentioned your mother. She was famous for being able to summon five phantom beasts. Phantom beasts are a forbidden technique of the Farming School because if you are not careful, you will be devoured by the phantoms. The Farming School's treasure, the Breath Soil, can prevent this unstable backlash from happening."
Yu Sui nodded, looking attentively like a well-behaved student listening to a lecture.
Mei Liangyu said, "So your mother knows more about the Breath of Earth than you do, and she also has her own power. As long as she tells the outside world that the Breath of Earth is not with you, or that it is incomplete and only half of it exists, there will be far fewer people chasing after you."
"How did you know I only have half of the Breath Soil, Senior Brother?" Yu Sui asked in surprise.
Mei Liangyu stared at her and asked, "You only have half?"
Yu Sui blinked: "Yes."
Mei Liangyu said "Oh" calmly, "I just said it casually, I didn't expect you to really only have half of it."
Yu Sui: "..."
He got away with it again.
Mei Liangyu just felt that since Yu Sui was able to cultivate, she was not an ordinary person. Perhaps something had restricted her in the past. It was known that Yu Sui had the Farmer's Treasure, the Breath Soil, in her body, and the problem might lie in the Breath Soil.
But Mei Liangyu said, "Judging from your mother's strength and status, it is indeed possible. It's just that your family didn't stop it much and let the news spread."
Yu Sui then propped her face up with one hand, looking up at Mei Liangyu with a gentle smile in her eyes, and said, "Because half of it is with my mother."
Mei Liangyu was also thinking a lot during his conversation with Yu Sui, but what he said was only the tip of the iceberg of his thoughts. Perhaps because he thought too much, he seemed to be able to guess many things easily, but for Mei Liangyu, they were all just his own guesses, so there was no need to tell anyone.
Hearing Yu Sui say it himself, Mei Liangyu's eyes widened slightly, but then she realized that it was indeed possible.
If Lady Su had obtained the Breath of Earth during her pregnancy, she might have fought for its power during childbirth.
“He also came to Taiyi to kill me and seize the Breath Soil because of my mother’s orders.” Yu Sui looked back at Ji Shuyan and said softly, “He also likes my mother very much and seems to be able to do anything for her. But he also hates me and thinks that I am a burden to my mother. So he should be very happy to be ordered to kill me.”
Upon suddenly learning the secret of the Nangong family, Mei Liangyu blinked and said, "Then he truly deserves to die."
Yu Sui added, "My mother will probably be disappointed, but she has lost a capable assistant, while I have lost a deadly threat. I'm quite happy about that."
She rested her head on one hand, her gaze towards Ji Shuyan calm and distant, her words clear and distinct, as if she were recalling something or pondering something.
At this moment, Mei Liangyu was thinking that his junior sister was indeed quite something.
He learned of the mother-daughter killing incident unexpectedly, but Mei Liangyu said nothing.
What can I say?
It is said that not all parents in the world will sacrifice everything for their children, and not all parents will love their children.
Indeed, not all.
There are always mother-daughter relationships that are different from ordinary ones.
Family can be wonderful, or it can be cruel.
It's just that you happen to not have a wonderful family and are in a cruel relationship.
Mei Liangyu looked at Yu Sui and felt that she didn't need anyone to teach her these things. It wasn't that she didn't understand, and she had already made her choice.
Moreover, having no memory of his parents or family, he couldn't possibly utter any words of praise or celebration.
"Senior brother, you won't tell anyone, will you?" Yu Sui blinked and looked back at Mei Liangyu.
"No, don't worry." Mei Liangyu said casually.
Just as Yu Sui smiled, Mei Liangyu squatted down, met her gaze, and said with a smile, "There's one more thing."
She widened her eyes slightly and asked curiously, "What?"
Mei Liangyu said, "Spit out the apricots."
Yu Sui: "..."
Blackbeard, who was already able to rest, was woken up by Yu Sui and went out to knock on the door of the merchant's house where he was already asleep. He bought a basket of fresh apricots from the merchant's inventory.
Mei Liangyu sat at the table, staring intently at a basket of fresh apricots. Yu Sui brought over a basin of water, picked out a few good-looking apricots, and washed them in the water. His senior brother's hands were wrapped in bandages, so he couldn't touch the water.
While washing them, Yu Sui muttered to herself, "I didn't eat many... maybe a few dozen. Most of them were soaked in alcohol, some were made into jam, and the rest were made into apricot preserves and apricot cakes. Senior brother, were they delicious?"
Mei Liangyu then looked away, glanced at Yu Sui, and then looked back at the apricots Yu Sui was washing: "Not bad."
He paused for a moment, then asked, "Did you make this yourself?"
Yu Sui nodded: "Yes."
After saying that, he took a dry cloth, wiped the wet apricots, and handed them to Mei Liangyu.
Mei Liangyu reached out and took it, asking, "Your mother wouldn't starve you, would she? You'd have to cook for yourself, wouldn't you?"
Yu Sui was stunned: "No, that's not true."
Mei Liangyu responded with an "oh".
After realizing what was happening, Yu Sui laughed and said, "Although my relationship with my mother isn't good, it's not to the point where she doesn't feed me. I can cook some of my favorite dishes myself."
Mei Liangyu thought to himself, "We've come to the point of life and death, yet they haven't stopped feeding you. This relationship is indeed quite strange."
"Don't wash it, I'll take it back to eat." Mei Liangyu looked up at Yu Sui. "Do you want to go back now, or wait overnight and go back tomorrow?"
Yu Sui scooped up the apricots from the water and looked back: "Is Senior Brother leaving?"
Mei Liangyu sat up straight by the table, but spoke lazily: "Whether I leave or not is up to you."
Yu Sui glanced out the window: "It's already dark. I'm afraid you'll be ambushed again if you go back now, so let's go back together tomorrow."
Mei Liangyu nodded: "Okay."
Yu Sui wiped the apricots she had just washed out of the water and asked, "Is Senior Brother's injury any better?"
"More or less." Mei Liangyu popped a small apricot into her mouth, puffing out one cheek, and mumbled, "The Dragon Slayer Cave challenge opens in a few days, do you want to go?"
Yu Sui blinked, feigning ignorance: "What is the Dragon Slayer Cave Challenge?"
"The cultivation challenge is held once a year. I heard that tens of thousands of years ago, the last dragon of the Xuan Gu Continent died in Taiyi. The people of Taiyi preserved its body and modified it with mechanical arts and the Nine Schools of Arts. It can appear and disappear at will, and there is a world of its own inside."
Mei Liangyu explained, "Most importantly, the Dragon Head has the Ye Pool, which contains the inheritance marks of various Heavenly Secrets Techniques. You don't need to cultivate; you only need to obtain the inheritance marks to possess the Heavenly Secrets Techniques."
Yu Sui was hearing this for the first time and asked curiously, "What are the conditions?"
Mei Liangyu leaned back in his chair and gently looked up at her: "The Dragon Slaying Cave challenge has no restrictions on the disciple's level. Anyone from Class A to Class B can go. It lasts for a month, but there is only one chance to enter. If you are kicked out inside, you will have to wait until next year."
"Can we still kick people out?" Yu Sui asked in surprise.
“Only nine people can enter Yechi,” Mei Liangyu said. “With limited spots, everyone has to compete based on their own abilities, and we will also try to reduce the number of competitors.”
Yu Sui looked at him and raised her hand to make a gesture: "You and I are the same. We are all from the Ghost Daoist school, and we all want to steal the Ghost Daoist school's Heavenly Secrets Technique."
“There are quite a few disciples of the Ghost Daoist School, and our competitors are not just you and me,” Mei Liangyu said.
Yu Sui then asked, "Can I steal another family's Heavenly Secrets Technique?"
Mei Liangyu replied, "No, you can only rob your own family's property."
Yu Sui asked him, seemingly bewildered, "But Senior Brother, you know other schools' Heavenly Secrets Techniques, didn't you obtain them through inheritance marks?"
“No.” Mei Liangyu ate an apricot and decisively rejected the guess, skipping the topic. “At that time, three entrances will be opened: Dragon Tail, Dragon Feet, and Dragon Belly. Top-level disciples will all prefer Dragon Belly because it has a closer starting point and is more competitive. I suggest you go for Dragon Tail and don’t go to Dragon Feet. The dangers inside come not only from the disciples of the academy but also from the dangers inherent in the Dragon Slaying Cave itself.”
"By the time you get from the dragon's tail to its feet, the people in that area will have already taken care of most of their problems."
"If you get lost inside, don't look at the stars in the sky to identify yourself, as they may not be accurate. You can bring a mirror or look at the reflection in the water to see the real thing."
"Prepare medicine and food in advance. If you get injured, the disciples of the medical family may give you a ride."
"If you accidentally enter the formation of soldiers and armor, you will be able to get out in a quarter of an hour as long as you don't fight the soldiers and armor puppets inside. If you do fight the soldiers and armor puppets, you will have to break the formation to get out."
Mei Liangyu told Yu Sui a lot about things to be careful about when entering the Dragon Slayer Cave, because he felt that he would not meet Yu Sui again, so he told her in advance so that Yu Sui could stay in the Dragon Slayer Cave a little longer.
At least they won't be sent out of the Dragon-Slaying Cave in the morning and then sent out in the evening.
Yu Sui nodded and listened obediently. Before they knew it, they were chatting until late at night. A maid came to say that Wei Ren had woken up, and Yu Sui went upstairs.
Seeing Yu Sui get up and leave, Mei Liangyu then looked away and saw a table full of apricots that she had washed clean. It was another night that her junior sister hadn't rested or slept.
He held a cool apricot in his hand and gently rubbed it, his thoughts drifting back to the night the old man died: the old man was driven out of the forbidden Upside-Down Moon Cave by the Legalist sages. He went to the Upside-Down Moon Cave, seemingly looking for something, but later the sages searched the Upside-Down Moon Cave thoroughly and found nothing wrong with it.
Gu Gan also wanted to go to the Upside-Down Moon Cave to find something.
It's quite a coincidence that this year's Dragon Slayer Cave Challenge involves the dragon corpse traveling through the Legalist, Taoist, and Martial Arts Schools.
Mei Liangyu was now a little curious about what else was in the Upside-Down Moon Cave besides the Milky Way.
[Author's Note]
Dear readers:
Let's discuss this peacefully and not attack or argue with each other. Some of the comments are really cute and funny, and I can't help but read them.
There will be interactions in all kinds of relationships, whether it's family, friendship, or camaraderie, and both men and women will be involved. It's true that not every interaction between a man and a woman is romantic love. Only those relationships that are explicitly stated in the text are different perspectives on feelings.
Everyone can ship whichever couple they like, as long as it's not BL (Boys' Love) and they're happy. After all, I write stories because I enjoy watching other people fall in love.
This is truly my own creation, meaning I can write however I want. Therefore, I don't know which plot point, passage, or word will cause the harmonious relationship we had in the previous chapter to break down. I also don't want you to feel unhappy while reading, so I apologize in advance for letting you down. This is the only level of ability I have, and I can only write to this extent.
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