Chapter 64
Sigh, Wen Wan thought to herself. Monkey was a good monkey, an honest monkey, and she did need to go back and deal with many things as soon as possible, but to be asked to leave right after waking up was a very strange feeling.
In the end, it was the little monkey's own kind who saved her and took her in for a while. She didn't know when she would have a chance to come back and repay them. Fortunately, she still had all her belongings. She found two top-grade spiritual plants, covered their aura with spiritual energy, and disguised them as ordinary plants before giving them to the little monkey.
She patted the little monkey's head and said, "These are precious things in the cultivation world. If you have the opportunity, these two spiritual plants can help you become a spirit, gain intelligence, and perhaps even cultivate like us and live a long life."
An ordinary monkey lives for twenty or thirty years, at most forty or fifty years. Living to a hundred is a luxury for them, but if a monkey becomes a spirit, what is a mere hundred years?
The little monkey's eyes lit up when it saw the spiritual plant, and it was even happier after hearing Wenwan's words. It eagerly took the spiritual plant and nodded vigorously.
"Also, although I've used a magic spell to make them look like ordinary grass to others, if a powerful cultivator discovers they're valuable and tries to take them away, and you can't protect them, then give them to them. Your life is the most important thing, understand?" Wen Wan instructed anxiously.
Thinking of this scene, the little monkey was a little reluctant, but still obediently nodded to Wenwan's words.
Seeing this, Wenwan felt relieved; after all, the monkey was quite sensible.
Seeing the little monkey looking a bit disappointed, he comforted it, "But it's alright. If we have the chance to meet again, I'll give you a new spiritual plant."
The little monkey looked at her with its big eyes in disbelief, as if asking: Will you really give me something this good again?
Wen Wan nodded: "Of course."
When Wenwan took a step forward and wanted to turn around to look at the little monkey again, the intersection behind her had already disappeared, and the little monkey was nowhere to be seen either.
She was somewhat surprised, but didn't seem too unexpected.
Just in case, she used a disguise technique to slightly alter her appearance.
No one on the way asked about her current situation, and she didn't even know how long she had been unconscious. According to the little monkey, the people of her kind who had helped her had all passed away, and it would take time for her wounds to heal completely, so it seemed like it would be quite a long time.
In short, better safe than sorry.
Wenwan had been traveling aimlessly for several days, without any sense of direction or human habitation. It was easy for her to lose her way.
She looked up, searching for the sun's position, calculating the approximate time, and then determining the four directions (north, south, west, and east) using the method of north at the top, south at the bottom, west on the left, and east on the right. Just as she was struggling with which direction to go, a figure appeared in front of her and slowly walked towards her.
"Senior Sister Wen...?"
The visitor seemed unsure.
Looking at the person in front of her, Wen Wan recognized him at a glance. However, compared to their last meeting, he had already shed his childish appearance and now looked more mature.
In Wenwan's world, she had only taken a nap, but in Fang Ruo's world, a hundred years had passed.
Wen Wan shed her pretense and said playfully, "Do I look like one?"
It was just a joke, but Qi Liao Fang Ruo was so excited that she almost burst into tears. If it weren't for the taboo against men and women touching each other, he probably would have rushed up and hugged her.
"What's wrong? Why are you so agitated? What happened?"
She knew nothing about what had happened while she was unconscious, and Fang Ruo's excitement from the start only fueled her curiosity.
"I'm sorry, Senior Sister Wen, I got too excited." Fang Ruo calmed down before asking, "Senior Sister Wen, where have you been all these years? We've all been looking for you, but we've found nothing. If it weren't for the horoscope telling me that you're still alive, we would all have thought you were gone."
The Destiny Chart is a diviner's innate weapon, which can only be refined after reaching a certain level of mastery. Each use requires a significant amount of the diviner's cultivation, but the accuracy of the predictions is 100%.
It seems that Fang Ruo has made considerable progress over the years and now has her own destiny chart.
“I have no recollection of anything that happened during that time. In my memory, I lost consciousness after being knocked off a cliff, and when I woke up, I was in a water curtain cave. Then, I was led away by monkeys.”
"Without direction or human habitation, I couldn't determine my location or how to find you. I wandered around here for days, just trying to figure out which way was north, south, east, and west. I was going to just keep going in one direction and see if I could find anyone when I ran into you."
"I don't know anything, not even how long I slept." Wen Wan shook her head, then asked him, "Did you find me through the horoscope? Can you tell me what happened? How is Brother Chu?"
Mentioning Brother Chu, Fang Ruo seemed to want to hide something, her eyes darting away. Finally, she sighed and said, "You slept for a hundred years, and a lot happened during that time, especially Brother Chu. He did all this for you..."
At this point, Fang Ruo seemed reluctant to continue.
Wen Wan looked at him and said seriously, "You don't need to worry about anything. If it involves me, don't hide it from me."
She never imagined that she would sleep for a hundred years. Would she never see her family again? Was her beautiful mother and the three little ones with her younger brother the last time she saw them?
Wenwan was filled with many thoughts and felt a little sad.
Before the laws of nature, life is as insignificant as an ant, let alone ordinary people.
Fang Ruo thought about it and realized that she shouldn't hide anything from Senior Sister Wen. She nodded and said, "It's a bit complicated. Let me tell you from the beginning."
“After you went to the burial ground, I immediately wrote to the Huashan Sect. Before I could figure out what to do next, I was suddenly knocked unconscious. When I woke up, I knew something had happened, so I rushed over immediately.”
“After arriving at the burial ground, I found the place where you fought. You were no longer there. The ground was covered with corpses, and apart from Senior Brother Chu and me, there was no other living thing.”
"At that time, Senior Brother Chu was clearly in a state of complete madness, but he was special. He was not affected at all and was still a normal person. He remembered you and he remembered me. If it were any other demonic cultivator in this state, he would have long since become unrecognizable to his family."
"Later I learned that you were knocked off a cliff by the Supreme Elder of Kunlun, and Senior Brother Chu, who witnessed this scene, became a demon. The shadow you left behind became Senior Brother Chu's weapon of slaughter."
"It was that group of hypocritical old bastards who knocked me unconscious, intercepted the letters, and then tried to kill you in order to seize Zhaoxin. But they didn't expect that Senior Brother Chu had refined Chi Yuan's clone, completely entered the demonic path, and greatly increased his strength."
"What they didn't expect was that the Zhaoxin they had fought so hard to get during the fight was a fake."
"Fake?" Wen Wan couldn't help but ask. What about the pain of having her heart ripped out that she had suffered?
Well, although it didn't hurt much, I quickly lost consciousness and was completely unaware of anything.
Fang Ruo nodded: "It is precisely because Zhao Xin is fake that they are so eager to rely on her to gain power, and Senior Brother Chu has seized the opportunity to exploit their weakness."
In battles between powerful beings, even a single flaw can cost one's life.
"Later, Zhaoxin disappeared. When I arrived, only Brother Chu was left standing alone in the mountains of corpses and seas of blood."
"Later, we went to the bottom of the cliff together, hoping to find your body, but we found nothing."
"Because of his identity, Senior Brother Chu could no longer perfectly disguise himself. In addition, he killed several powerful figures. Those so-called righteous sects were wary of him and took this opportunity to attack Senior Brother Chu. Headmaster Mo had no choice but to put Senior Brother Chu in the forbidden area of Huashan Sect under the pretext of imprisonment."
"For some reason, Senior Brother Chu was not affected by the demonic energy. He behaved just like a normal person, unlike other demonic cultivators who caused chaos everywhere. In addition, with the protection of Sect Leader Mo, he was not punished. He was only restricted in his personal freedom."
"Senior Brother Chu didn't care. He firmly believed that you were still alive and only hoped that you would inform him when you had news of him. After that, he stayed quietly in the forbidden area."
Wen Wan breathed a sigh of relief; the result was much better than she had expected.
"Then what about the fact that Zhaoxin is fake?" Wen Wan asked, voicing the question that had been on her mind.
Fang Ruo looked at her before saying, "The Zhaoxin they stole was your heart, and they tried to kill you, but the Zhaoxin in their hands also disappeared shortly after you went missing."
"It turns out that it wasn't Zhaoxin, but Zhaoxin is indeed related to you. At first, I couldn't understand it either, until I saw you again, I understood."
“Senior Sister Wen, Zhaoxin is not an object or organ in your body.” Fang Ruo looked at her seriously: “You are Zhaoxin yourself, which is why you are still safe and sound. You do not belong to a mortal body, just like Senior Brother Chu. You are both very special.”
"Me? Zhao Xin?" Wen Wan was completely confused. Wasn't she just an ordinary person, with a little bit of talent? How did she suddenly become a legendary artifact? She was clearly just a person.
"And then what?"
Fang Ruo shook her head: "Then because of this misunderstanding, they gained nothing and lost their lives. You also had a near-death experience and slept for a hundred years. Senior Brother Chu also passed away in the end."
"Rebirth!?"
No, you wake up one day to find a hundred years have passed, and you know nothing about it. Your family members have probably all died of old age, and even Brother Chu is gone? Passed away?
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