"What do you mean?" Shangguan Jianxing said he didn't quite understand. The past was the past, the future was the future, but Lanzhi was talking about "my past, or my future." How could the past be the future? He was almost confused.
Lan Zhi didn't expect him to understand. She had just had a sudden thought: could Shangguan Jianxing see what happened before her rebirth, and by the way, find out the reason for her rebirth? However, Shangguan Jianxing was blind every time he looked, so she couldn't count on him in the short term.
"It's nothing, just pretend I didn't say anything." Lan Zhi said.
"True knowledge retraces, rune stargazing!"
The ancient runes deep in Shangguan Jianxing's pupils lit up, and within two seconds, bright blood oozed from the corners of his eyes.
Shangguan Jianxing sat in the wheelchair and took out a handkerchief to wipe his eyes.
"I'll take you back..." Lan Zhi pushed the wheelchair, feeling deeply moved by the myriad of strange cultivation methods in this world. She even wondered if there was a method like Shangguan Jianxing's. She pushed Shangguan Jianxing back to the Lotus Garden and asked, "Can you really become stronger this way?"
Shangguan Jianxing said, "Yes."
Lan Zhi said, "But I feel like you lost your sight even faster this time than last time... I feel like you didn't become stronger, but weaker."
Shangguan Jianxing: “…”
After a moment of silence, he explained, "That's because the forbidden power within you has increased. It's really strange. You're only at the Qing Yuan realm, yet you possess the power of the laws of heaven... Could it be that your parents are powerful figures? Are they secretly protecting you?"
Lan Zhi said: "My father died a long time ago. I watched him being buried with my own eyes."
Shangguan Jianxing asked, "Could it be possible that this was a fake death?"
Lan Zhi shook her head. "My ancestors did have a very powerful spiritual master, but our family gradually declined..."
If he wasn't really dead, which father would have the heart to abandon four young children?
"Sorry, I shouldn't ask this." Shangguan Jianxing said.
"It's okay, just take care of your eyes."
Lan Zhi looked around and was about to ask where Jiang Qingcheng had gone, but she saw Jiang Qingcheng coming out with a big bowl of steaming chicken soup.
"Oh! Brother, weren't your eyes healed? How did you become like this again?" Jiang Qingcheng placed the bowl on the stone table in the courtyard and walked to the wheelchair in small steps. She looked at Shangguan Jianxing with a distressed look on her face, her eyes watery. "I even specially stewed chicken soup to celebrate your eyes' recovery. I didn't expect, I didn't expect you..."
Shangguan Jianxing calmly comforted him, "Don't cry, I'm used to it."
Jiang Qingcheng rubbed her eyes to prevent the tears from falling. She looked at Lan Zhi and asked, "Sister Lan Zhi, what happened to my brother?"
"Maybe it's a relapse of an old illness..." Lan Zhi answered casually. Her eyes fell on the steaming chicken soup not far away and asked, "Can you cook?"
This is really rare.
"I didn't know how at first. I almost set the kitchen on fire when I was trying to light a fire. I gradually learned how to do it..." Jiang Qingcheng replied.
Shangguan Jianxing said, "I want to eat rice, Qingcheng, please make some for me."
"Okay, okay, I'll go right away." Jiang Qingcheng turned around and went into the kitchen again. Maybe she was afraid that Lan Zhi would eat it secretly, so she took the chicken soup away before going in.
After hearing her footsteps fade away, Shangguan Jianxing said to Lan Zhi, "I can only control Jiang Qingcheng for a month at most. If I control her for any longer, she will completely lose her mind and become my puppet. My family will not allow me to do such a heinous thing, so I must set Jiang Qingcheng free in advance."
Lan Zhi asked, "After she is free, will she remember what happened during this period?"
"No, I will erase the relevant memories. Anyway, I am using a fake identity now. I can just change my face and move in again when the time comes." Shangguan Jianxing said calmly.
"But my two brothers and the housekeeper all remember you."
"This..." Shangguan Jianxing pondered for a moment and asked, "Do you mind if I erase their memories?"
Lan Zhi didn't say anything either, just stared at him dimly.
Shangguan Jianxing couldn't see her expression, nor could he hear her reply, so he said, "Don't worry. My attack has no side effects and won't cause any harm to their bodies. Besides, my identity is quite special, and if they knew too much, it wouldn't be good for them. It's better for them to forget me. When they can leave the Great Rui Kingdom and reach my family's territory in the future, I will naturally help them restore their memories."
"Then... okay."
Lan Zhi reluctantly agreed. She asked, "Jiang Qingcheng has been under your influence for so long. What will she become when she wakes up?"
"She'll be back to her old self."
Shangguan Jianxing continued, "As for the time I was there, she will remember that she was sick and had been lying down for a long time. During this time, you were the one who took care of her. Later, when she recovered, she would be very grateful to you."
Lan Zhi said, "I don't want her gratitude."
Shangguan Jianxing pondered and said, "Then... then it's the housekeeper who has been taking care of her?"
"Forget it, let me take over." Lan Zhi waved her hand, but what she was thinking in her heart was, if Jiang Qingcheng's attitude towards her changed in the future, should she still take revenge on Jiang Qingcheng for what happened in her previous life?
...Of course I want revenge!
At most, it would make Jiang Qingcheng die more quickly.
Lan Zhi claims that she is not a good person. Even if Jiang Qingcheng did nothing in this life, she would still kill Jiang Qingcheng.
innocent?
Wasn’t Lan Zhi’s three-year-old daughter innocent in the previous life?
Besides, Jiang Qingcheng is not innocent at all. In this life, Jiang Qingcheng is in cahoots with Yuan Zhan. If Lan Zhi had not been reborn, everything would probably still develop along the same trajectory as before.
Lan Zhi left the Lotus Garden with a gloomy face, returned to her room, and began to refine the elixir.
I don’t know if it was because she was holding a grudge in her heart, or because she was already familiar with the medicinal properties of the herbs, but this time she succeeded in one go, and she actually refined three poison pills in one furnace!
Each pill is pure and crystal white, with a few golden light patterns on it. It has a refreshing sweet smell and the fragrance is so strong. Who would have thought that this is a poison pill?
According to the records in the "Poison Spirit Sutra", this poison pill is called "Jie Xiang Pill" and must be refined by the calamity fire of heaven and earth to fully integrate the medicinal properties of various medicines. It also contains a drop of leaf juice from the orchid god flower, which is specifically used to poison practitioners in the Chengyuan realm.
If a spiritual master below the Chengyuan realm swallows the pill, not only will he not suffer any harm, but his cultivation will be greatly improved, making people mistakenly think that it is a panacea. But if someone in the Chengyuan realm swallows it... then it will be a deadly poison pill!
The lethal mechanism of the Jiexiang Pill is a little complicated to explain. The body and soul of a person in the Chengyuan realm are stable, and the pill can destroy this stability. If one is lucky, the person who takes the pill will go astray and become an ordinary person. If one is unlucky, he will die directly.
However, below the Cheng Yuan realm, this stability is not possessed, and the toxicity of the Jie Xiang Pill has no effect. Instead, it will help to improve one's cultivation, making people think that this pill is a treasure.
As for those above the Chengyuan realm, their physical fitness is too strong and the Jiexiang Pill will not work.
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