Chapter 35 Great Change [Auspicious Start!]
There was a knock at the door outside the courtyard. As soon as Shen Cangyu opened the door, Lu Yuan squeezed in and asked to borrow her notebook.
Shen Cangyu found it strange: "I remember you already have your own notebook, why did you come to borrow it from me?"
Lu Yuan waved his hand and said, "That's different. What you have in your hand is Pei Wenjing's notes. He got all A's in his courses back then. If you study by looking at his notes, you will definitely pass the exam."
Shen Cangyu thought about it and realized that it made sense. She had no choice but to take out her handwritten notes from the bookshelf and hand them to her, while asking, "Are you going to the Scripture Pavilion today? If you are, come with me. I need to return some books."
"The Sutra Repository?" Lu Yuan hesitated for a moment, then waved his hand and said, "I'm not going. I'm going to watch the excitement later."
"What's all the commotion about?"
Lu Yuan looked at her with a puzzled expression: "Little Kunlun is holding an outer disciple competition. The winner can enter Kunlun to study. Haven't you heard? All the disciples of Wanqi Guixin are there. I thought you knew, but it turns out they didn't tell you..."
A competition among outer disciples?
Shen Cangyu recalled that a few months ago, Kunlun disciples went to the mortal realm to recruit disciples and then sent them all to Little Kunlun. Unexpectedly, not long after, they started holding disciple competitions in an attempt to recruit people.
It seems that the matter of the Five Evils is indeed urgent, and Kunlun can no longer wait.
“Then I’ll go take a look too.” Shen Cangyu followed her outside.
As they walked, Lu Yuan explained the rules of the outer disciple competition to her: "I heard that the top ten winners of the competition will have the opportunity to study at Kunlun."
Top ten, that's great. Only one person could make it that year, and that one spot went to Shen Qingyan.
"However, my elder sister reminded me that if we see a suitable person during the competition, we can recruit him to fill our cave's population. Other caves have more than a dozen people, but our cave is only for the Lu family. After our parents passed away, it's just my elder sister and me left. It's time to add more people to our population."
"What's the meaning?"
Lu Yuan pointed to his eyes and said, "The top ten in the competition will definitely enter Kunlun, but we don't just recruit individuals. As long as we have disciples we like, we can recruit them. Kunlun is not strict in this matter; if you want someone, just ask."
Shen Cangyu frowned; this rule was quite different from what she knew in her previous life.
In the previous life, the rules for recruiting members of the Kunlun inner sect were extremely strict. Not only did one need to win in a competition, but one also needed to pass through layers of review by the elders and then have their aptitude tested at various schools. Only after completing all the procedures could one become an inner sect disciple.
The Kunlun she saw this time was very different from what she had heard about in her previous life.
The changes were so drastic that she felt as if what she had seen in her previous life was just a dream, and she couldn't distinguish between what was real and what was fake.
She always felt that after entering Kunlun, everything she had seen before was nothing but illusion and prejudice.
In her previous life, she saw the inner disciples of Kunlun as arrogant and domineering, believing that all Kunlun disciples were like that. But when she actually entered Kunlun, she realized that it was just her prejudice; there were many people with different personalities in Kunlun, and she had generalized from a single case.
The same goes for the opportunity to enter Kunlun. She always remembered that entering Kunlun was as difficult as climbing to heaven, but Lu Yuan said it so casually that it made her feel that there was no threshold to entering Kunlun.
Is it that her memory is faulty, or has something happened over the years that has made everything different?
She didn't know that perhaps it really was just a coincidence, that she just happened to arrive at the wrong time of year.
Shen Cangyu followed behind Lu Yuan, using the Wind Riding Technique to travel towards Little Kunlun. There was a long distance between Kunlun and Little Kunlun, like layers of mountains blocking the outer disciples' chance to enter the inner sect. No wonder she hadn't seen a single outer disciple even after staying in Kunlun for so long.
I really don't know which mountain path she took in her previous life, that led her to stumble into Kunlun several times by accident. Fortunately, she encountered Pei Wenjing every time she entered Kunlun, and he didn't expose her, but instead led her out.
"This arena in Little Kunlun is quite large." Lu Yuan looked at the huge crowd from afar and pulled Shen Cangyu to squeeze into the viewing platform.
Kunlun took this competition very seriously. Whether they were newly initiated disciples or long-time disciples who had been with Little Kunlun for many years, no one missed this opportunity and they all signed up to participate. As a result, the audience below the stage was packed.
When they arrived at the arena in Little Kunlun, the competition was nearing its end, and they were facing their final match.
"I'm late, I haven't seen the other people's matches yet..." Lu Yuan said in frustration.
The top ten have been determined, and regardless of victory or defeat, they will all enter Kunlun. Therefore, this final competition can also be considered an exhibition match for them. The outer disciples will showcase their life's work in the competition, allowing the people of Kunlun to see their true abilities.
There are five arenas in Little Kunlun, and people are standing on all five arenas, fighting fiercely, with no clear winner or loser, except for the arena on the far left.
The two fighters battling on the far left are both newly initiated disciples, which attracts the attention of most of the spectators.
Shen Cangyu followed the crowd's gaze and was taken aback.
The person on the dueling platform was actually Jiang Qian.
She remembered that Jiang Qian had already run away when they reached the shore. She thought he would go somewhere to bide his time and build up his career. She never expected that he would actually go to Xiaokunlun.
He knew perfectly well that he possessed the "Coin Eye," and that the person who possessed it was also in Kunlun. With Kunlun's campaign to eliminate the Five Evils at its peak, if exposed, he might face certain death; yet he still came.
This was something she hadn't expected.
Shen Cangyu stared at Jiang Qian's figure. His movements were strange, and the dagger in his hand was like a snake's fang, stabbing fiercely at his opponent.
His opponent dodged Jiang Qian's moves, staggering and clumsy, seemingly powerless to fight back, yet he managed to evade all of Jiang Qian's skills.
"Who is that?" Lu Yuan looked at him and felt that he looked familiar.
A bystander said, "He's incredibly lucky. Anyone who encountered him along the way either got hurt or made a mistake because of their arrogance. That guy didn't know any moves, yet he still made it all the way to the end. We all say that he has exceptional luck; he's a chosen one."
The man rolled away to dodge Jiang Qian's dagger and ran outside. When he looked up, his face was covered in dirt, but it couldn't hide his handsome features.
Shen Cangyu looked at that face and her face turned pale.
A sharp buzzing sound rang in Shen Cangyu's ears, and she couldn't help but cover her ears. The scene in front of her was like distorted snowflakes.
Everything around them seemed to freeze, as if time had stopped.
Suddenly, white frames emerged from beneath her feet, rose up, and surrounded her, dazzling her.
[Great luck with the opening!]
[The author has finally started a new novel! I've been waiting for this book for so long! (yay!)]
Me too, I bought shares when the pre-sale period started.
【(Pressing the paw)】
Is this a romance novel? Or is it a story without a romantic pairing?
[Replying to the comment above, the author's works are all about the absolute protagonist. The protagonist is the strongest in the world, and women only affect his speed at drawing his sword.]
[I read this author's previous work; the male lead has a harem of millions, the whole world loves him, and he can have any type of wife he wants. Go ahead and ship him!]
Is it clean?
[We're not cuckolds.]
Why is the male lead getting beaten up from the very beginning? Isn't this supposed to be a wish-fulfillment story? Is this supposed to be a wish-fulfillment story?
[It's all good; anyone who offends the male lead will die. Our Brother Chen doesn't hold grudges.]
The dense text swarmed into her vision like flies, and before the sharp sound had faded, her soul felt as if it were being torn apart, a throbbing pain spreading from top to bottom. She stared at the rapidly flying bullet comments surrounding her, gritted her teeth, and with a forceful wave of her hand, the surrounding bullet comments vanished.
The surrounding sounds, lights, and colors surged back like a tide, and the scene returned to normal. She covered her head and looked at Lu Yuan beside her. Lu Yuan did not notice her strangeness and kept his eyes fixed on the stage.
Apart from Lu Yuan, everyone in the stands around him had their eyes glued to the stage, without looking away.
Shen Cangyu turned his head and saw Jiang Qian's dagger thrust out, aimed directly at Shen Qingyan's heart.
A crimson sword flew out, blocking his attack and slamming him down. The sword's energy made Jiang Qian's face turn pale, and he spat out a mouthful of scalding blood.
“Martial arts competitions require that the point be used to stop,” Qiu Sheng said, looking down at Jiang Qian with cold eyes. “Knowing that your opponent is no match, you still deliberately hurt him. Your evil desires are too strong. Kunlun will not accept a disciple like you.”
The people in the stands echoed indignantly, "That's right, he didn't know his own strength. If someone like that enters Kunlun and gains more magical power, who knows if he will turn on the people around him?"
Public outrage was immense, but Jiang Qian simply wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and stepped down from the stage.
"This person is truly ruthless," Lu Yuan exclaimed. "Even though he's clearly in the top ten and has already secured his place in Kunlun, he still had to make a move..."
Shen Cangyu watched Jiang Qian's figure and bit her lower lip.
It's a good thing Jiang Qian isn't joining Kunlun. Right now, she can only protect herself; she doesn't have the energy to protect him. In her previous life, Jiang Qian stayed in Little Kunlun and never entered the inner sect. Could it be because of Shen Qingyan? But... the Jiang Qian she remembered was more conservative in his actions. Why would he try to kill Shen Qingyan in public?
Shen Cangyu watched as Qiu Sheng pulled Shen Qingyan up from the ground and said, "You are the winner of this competition."
No, this isn't right!
The Qiu Sheng she knew would never say such a thing.
In Qiu Sheng's eyes, it's all about the strength of the fighters. Victory is victory, and defeat is defeat. It's impossible to deprive the victor of their right to do something like "not using enough force" and to distort the truth.
A chill seeped from Shen Cangyu's heart. She looked at the cheering crowd around her, the noisy sounds filling her ears.
Shen Cangyu realized that the world was beginning to change.
She looked at Shen Qingyan's clear yet somewhat timid eyes on the stage, and in a daze, she realized that the person in front of her was not Shen Qingyan, but that person.
She stiffly shifted her gaze to Pei Wenjing in the distance. Pei Wenjing stood behind Qiu Sheng with an unchanging expression, arms crossed, looking at the people on the stage as if he did not recognize Shen Qingyan.
Someone threw a flower onto the stage, and then fruits and flowers fell down one after another.
Applause and awards poured in. Shen Qingyan looked at the crowd around him, not quite understanding why everyone was cheering, even though he hadn't done anything... He thought for a moment, then gave everyone a bewildered smile. His figure shimmered in the sunlight.
Qiu Sheng looked at him with a soft gaze.
Shen Cangyuxin in the stands felt like she had fallen to the bottom. She looked to her side, where the comments were still flying around relentlessly.
(Sprinkling flowers)
[One more member added to the harem]
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