Chapter 33 So Difficult (Bonus Chapter with 3,000 Nutrient Solutions) It's too fast, she thought…
Lu Yuan hid in the corner of the artificial hill, and the lizard crawled up her shoulder to the back of her hand.
Shen Cangyu stood beside her, but didn't know how to comfort her. She wasn't good at comforting people, and in the past, she had few friends and no opportunity to comfort others.
“My sister is definitely leaving, which is why I wanted to find a powerful deity to protect her. The only one who can hold the fort at our cave entrance is the Great Fox Immortal, but his duty is only to guard the cave entrance. My sister is leaving Kunlun, and the Great Fox Immortal can't protect her,” Lu Yuan said, pausing for a moment. “Without the protection of the cave entrance, it's no use asking the people.”
She suddenly raised her head, looked directly at Shen Cangyu, and asked, "Aren't you the one who knows the Five Evils best? Tell me, are the Five Evils really that difficult to deal with?"
Yes, and no.
In his previous life, when Shen Cangyu entered Kunlun, the extermination of the Five Evils was nearing its end. The Five Evils were defeated, and the world returned to peace.
But she didn't know what Kunlun had gone through during those years. After all, although Little Kunlun was outside of Kunlun, it was very far away, so far that she couldn't hear the news coming from Kunlun.
Even from afar, Shen Cangyu had never heard of Qiu Sheng's name.
If Qiu Sheng were still the previous Kunlun Chief, she couldn't possibly not have heard of her. Unless Qiu Sheng was no longer alive when Shen Cangyu entered Little Kunlun.
Shen Cangyu belatedly wondered if Qiu Sheng had also died in this operation to eliminate the Five Evils? Qiu Sheng, Senior Brother Gou, Lu Sheng, Lu Qianhe... Could it be that they all perished because of the Five Evils?
She didn't want them to die.
Although she has only been in Kunlun for a short time, her happiness during this period far surpasses that of the previous decades.
She hadn't spent much time with Qiu Sheng, but she liked her senior sister very much. They cultivated together, discussed sword techniques, and sparred together. She had come to regard Qiu Sheng as her own family.
The dog-like senior brother didn't interact with her much, but he would always send some strange and unusual wooden toys to her room...
Shen Cangyu disliked the sect leader of Wanqi Guixin, but she liked the disciples of Wanqi Guixin. If it weren't for her copper coin eyes, she would have really wanted to be a disciple of Wanqi Guixin.
Given this, how could she bear to watch them die?
Since she could save Xu Qiubai, she could also change their fate.
“The five evils are hard to eliminate, but there must be a way,” Shen Cangyu said. “After all, evil cannot prevail over good.”
*
After leaving the Forest of All Beings, the lush green trees disappeared behind us. Without the protective array of the Forest of All Beings, a cold wind swept in from outside.
Shen Cangyu suddenly felt very cold. She stood at the foot of the mountain, looking at the winding mountain roads, but she didn't know where to go.
Are you going to Longjishan?
But Qiu Sheng wasn't in Dragon Ridge Mountain, and she didn't want to go back to the empty house there.
Shall we go to Xingxiang Hall?
The Xingxiang Hall is extremely popular, with countless people visiting it every day. Some come to ask for divination, some to pray for blessings, some to seek medical treatment, and some to ask for food.
During this period, Elder Xu Mei was so busy that she didn't have time to rest. Xu Qiubai would always be exhausted after helping for a while, and other disciples of Xingxiang Hall would have to carry him to an empty room to administer acupuncture and medicine. With his physical condition, it would be better not to help at all.
She didn't want to get in the way of Elder Xu Mei at the incense hall, nor did she want to sit idly with Xu Qiubai.
Shall we go to the library?
However, she had recently had a falling out with Elder Huang, and she didn't want to run into him now to avoid an awkward situation.
Shen Cangyu looked up at the snow falling from the sky. The setting sun dyed the thick clouds in the sky blood red.
She stood there for a long time, then turned and walked towards the Cliff of Contemplation.
If there is one person in this world who can understand her feelings at this moment, it is probably Pei Wenjing.
In this life, she only saw an unstoppable future and felt anxious. And all of this was Pei Wenjing's personal experience in his previous life.
He witnessed firsthand the complete disintegration of the once-united forces, followed by widespread betrayal and alienation.
Even though she knew that Pei Wenjing in this life was different from the one in the previous life—that he had no of those experiences or memories—she still wanted to see him at this moment.
The disciples of Siguo Cliff had long recognized Shen Cangyu, and when they saw her coming, they simply moved their legs aside to let her pass.
Shen Cangyu walked up step by step. This time, her state of mind was different from every time before. She suddenly didn't want to use the wind to travel. She just wanted to measure the long staircase with her own two feet.
The steps of the Cliff of Contemplation are very long. Disciples whose inner cores are sealed cannot use mental techniques, so they can only climb up step by step like she is now.
When you reach a point where you forget the affairs of heaven and earth, you can only see your own heart clearly. This is probably the meaning of reflection.
Shen Cangyu wondered why he had come back to life. Was it just for revenge? Or to make up for past regrets?
She kept moving forward, making up for old regrets only to have new ones appear. She couldn't guarantee that she could be perfect every time. As long as she was never satisfied, she would always have new anxieties and new pains. But she couldn't be "satisfied."
Having been reborn, she has many things to do: stopping the transmigrators is one, eliminating the five evils is another, saving her senior brothers and sisters is yet another, removing the copper coin eye from her body is yet another, and finally inheriting the Myriad Weapons Return to the Heart is yet another.
With one thing after another weighing on her, she suddenly felt a little tired.
Suddenly, Shen Cangyu stepped onto flat ground. She was stunned for a moment before realizing that she had already walked through the long staircase of the Cliff of Contemplation and reached the end.
It turns out that the time for reflection is only so short.
That's too fast.
She thought, and then she saw Pei Wenjing through the wind and snow.
Pei Wenjing was facing the entrance to the Cliff of Contemplation. As soon as she appeared, he saw her.
The smile on his face faded, and he stood up and walked towards her. Standing just a hair's breadth away, he glanced at the line beneath his feet; if he walked any further, he would cross the activity limits set by the Cliff of Repentance.
This is against the rules.
But looking into Shen Cangyu's eyes, he still took that step, grabbed her arm, and hugged her tightly: "Who bullied you?"
Shen Cangyu didn't speak, just let him hold her, smelling the scent of soapberry mixed with cedar on his body. She remembered the hug he gave her on Blind Mountain, and she remembered when she first entered Kunlun and rolled down the mountain, he laughed and lifted her out of the snowdrift and brushed the snow off her head.
She held him in her arms and slowly sighed, as if trying to blow away all the grievances she had accumulated over the past few lifetimes.
“It’s alright. I’ll avenge you once I get out of here,” Pei Wenjing said.
Shen Cangyu burst into laughter through his tears, saying that it sounded like village children agreeing to fight.
Pei Wenjing breathed a sigh of relief when he saw her smile and said, "I left your book with me."
Pei Wenjing pulled out a stack of books from somewhere and held them up in his hand.
Shen Cangyu looked at the mental arts manual in his hand and remembered that a few days ago she had brought the manual she couldn't understand to Pei Wenjing for an explanation. He explained it to her, but she still only half understood it. So she casually put the book aside and started to tidy up the precepts he had copied. She didn't expect that the manual would be left behind.
However, she wouldn't even notice if she really fell behind, since she had many books in her room, and to her they all seemed pretty much the same.
She said "oh" and casually stuffed the book into her sleeve.
Pei Wenjing looked at her and couldn't help but ask again, "What happened?"
Shen Cangyu said, "Senior Sister is going to recruit new students."
Pei Wenjing was silent for a while, then said, "We lost quite a few disciples during the previous training, so it's really time to find some new ones."
Shen Cangyu continued, "After they recruit people, they will eliminate the Five Evils. We have fought against the Five Evils before and know that they are very troublesome to deal with. Senior Sister and the others may not be able to defeat them."
Of the five evil beings, they had only met Wuliangsheng and Tongqianyan; there were three others they had not yet encountered.
But Wuliang Sheng alone is very difficult to deal with. He is invisible and formless, seemingly alive yet dead, and many attacks are useless against him. Otherwise, so many people would not have perished at his hands.
Currently, there are only two people who can defeat Wuliangsheng: one is Pei Wenjing, who inherited the Taiji Daoist method and can reverse Yin and Yang, and the other is her, who holds a copper coin in her hand.
But her victory over that Wuliangsheng was also due to luck; she just happened to encounter a Wuliangsheng who was obsessed with money. If she had faced the original Wuliangsheng, who only cared about his own appearance, even Shen Cangyu's "Coin Eye" skill would have been ineffective against him.
“If it’s my senior sister, there shouldn’t be any problem,” Pei Wenjing reassured her. “Don’t underestimate her.”
Seeing Shen Cangyu's furrowed brows, he said, "It's alright. After the confinement ends, I will look for information related to Tai Chi Daoist techniques to improve my cultivation as soon as possible and join them in eliminating the Five Evils."
But the worry on Shen Cangyu's face did not disappear. In his previous life, given Pei Wenjing's personality, he would definitely have gone with everyone to eliminate the Five Evils, but even though he went, he couldn't save everyone.
Pei Wenjing alone cannot save them.
It's so hard, so incredibly hard.
She thought.
She needs power, she needs information, she needs even more abilities. She also needs to pass the class assessment as soon as possible so she can join everyone in eliminating the five evils.
"I'm going back to study now!" she said to Pei Wenjing.
"The book." Pei Wenjing called out to her and handed her the book she had left behind.
Shen Cangyu casually stuffed the books into his sleeves and ran down the mountain.
The moonlight illuminates the underworld①.
Shen Cangyu walked through the fallen flowers in the courtyard, opened the door to the room, and the moonlight shone into the room, illuminating the books piled up on the floor.
She casually turned on the light by the door, pushed aside the books on the floor to make room for herself, and picked up the open books from the floor and hugged them to her chest.
She remembered what Elder Huang had told her.
She needs to read, she needs to read a lot of books.
Reading can change her fate; reading can save the people around her.
These are the books she brought back from the Cliff of Contemplation.
She put down the book she was holding and picked up that one. As soon as she opened it, a golden light flew out, and a tiny golden figure floated in the air, opening its mouth. She heard a familiar, warm voice.
It was Pei Wenjing's voice.
He chanted the incantation, and golden light flowed over the paper figure. He made hand gestures, moving slowly, as if afraid she wouldn't see the details.
Shen Cangyu imitated its movements, circulating the Qi within his inner core as his fingers flew across the page.
"Candle Dragon".
"Candle Dragon".
Their voices overlapped, and a golden-red fire dragon emerged from her palm, swirling in the room and illuminating all the candlelight.
She looked at the little figure. After he finished reciting the incantation, he didn't stop. Instead, he explained the knowledge in the book, not only the outline of the hand gestures, but also much more knowledge that she had never encountered before.
She listened to the little figures talking, looked down at the words in the book, and the Candle Dragon surrounded her. She read it over and over again without getting tired of it, unaware that dawn had broken.
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