Chapter 39 Rebellion [What Shen Cangyu? Never heard of it]
Pei Wenjing looked up and saw a figure tumbling down the mountain, kicking up a cloud of swirling snow, rolling down like a whirlwind.
He was about to stop her when she threw a handful of snow at him.
"Senior Brother! Let's have a snowball fight!" Shen Cangyu sat in the snow, splashing snow at him.
Pei Wenjing raised his hand to brush the snow off his face, and looking at Shen Cangyu's enthusiastic appearance, he said, "Elder Fang said that you rely on your talent and are always lazy and don't do your homework."
Shen Cangyu looked up guiltily and looked away.
Pei Wenjing didn't let her off the hook: "Elder Fang also said that you fought with Xu Qiubai again."
“He started it!” Shen Cangyu exclaimed like a firecracker when Xu Qiubai was mentioned.
Pei Wenjing sighed: "Having you two troublemakers together will never bring peace."
"Senior Sister Linglong scolded Xu Qiubai, are you going to scold me too?" Shen Cangyu looked up at him, her tone aggrieved, but her eyes were full of the words "unrepentant to the death".
“I won’t scold you,” Pei Wenjing said, pulling her out of the snowdrift and looking at her clothes, which were already soaked with snow water. “Come on, let’s go back and change your clothes, or you’ll catch a cold.”
Just then, a strong wind blew up. She looked up at the large fish in the sky and only saw a small corner of its clothing. She then stretched out her arms and shouted, "Elder Xiangxiang!"
"My goodness, it's been so long since I've seen you!" Huang Menglu picked her up and kissed her cheeks passionately.
Shen Cangyu kept snuggling into her arms. Shen Cangyu always felt that Huang Menglu had a fragrance, so she loved to stick close to her.
"That's the aroma of wine. If you don't believe me, I'll let you try it." As he spoke, Huang Menglu took out a wine flask from his waist and was about to hand it to Shen Cangyu when Pei Wenjing quickly stopped him: "Elder Huang, she can't drink yet!"
“You little antique, you were so much fun when you were little, but now you’re more and more like an antique. It’s no fun,” Huang Menglu muttered to Pei Wenjing. She leaned close to Shen Cangyu’s ear and whispered, “I’ll bring it to you secretly next time, without him knowing.”
Shen Cangyu hugged her and nodded: "Mmm!"
Pei Wenjing was completely bewildered by what they were saying.
On a whim, Huang Menglu said, "Xiaoyu, would you like to ride in a fish carriage? I'll take you for a ride in the sky."
Pei Wenjing said, "The snow is too heavy..."
"Look, the snow stopped a long time ago."
...
Shen Cangyu suddenly opened her eyes, surrounded by swirling smoke. Just as she was about to get up, someone pressed her head down, saying, "Don't move."
Shui Linglong pressed her head down with one hand and used a moxa stick to heat the acupoint on the top of her head with the other: "Is it hot?"
Shen Cangyu was about to shake his head when she pressed his head down with her hand: "Don't move, just answer my question."
"It's not hot." Shen Cangyu was a little intimidated by her, even though this was their first meeting. Recalling the dream she had just had, Shen Cangyu suddenly realized that perhaps in those forgotten memories, she was indeed very afraid of Shui Linglong.
"Not hot?" Shui Linglong rolled her eyes and looked at her, her face expressionless, but her words were chilling, "It seems this evil wind has penetrated to your very bones, there's no saving you."
"Huh?" Shen Cangyu heard the sizzling sound of hair being burned off, and the next moment, a burning sensation exploded from his scalp.
She quickly reached out to cover it, but Shui Linglong was faster, easily blocking her hand and then twisting and pressing it down: "Still saying it's not hot?"
"Hot! Hot! Hot!" Shen Cangyu kicked the bed.
As the burning sensation subsided, she felt her head lighten. She saw Shui Linglong release her hand and put the moxa stick back into the tube: "Alright, don't expose yourself to wind or water for the next few hours."
Shen Cangyu agreed. Shui Linglong was packing things up, the medicine jars clinking together. Amid the noise, Shen Cangyu heard Shui Linglong's voice: "I don't know what you're going to do, but I know that Xu Qiubai's fate has changed since he met you."
Those who glimpse the secrets of heaven often possess the ability to see through people at a glance, could it be...?
"Xu Qiubai was destined to die young, we all know that, and we have tried many methods, but we have never been able to change this outcome. All we can do is take extra care of him, give him whatever he wants, and hope that he can live a happier life and not have lived in vain."
As Shui Linglong spoke, Shen Cangyu suddenly remembered that in her previous life, Xu Qiubai had indeed died during that previous trial. But this time, her appearance directly changed Xu Qiubai's fate.
Shen Cangyu thought that those who were looking into the secrets of heaven were unaware of these things, but he did not expect that they already knew Xu Qiubai's fate.
“But this time when he returned, his death was postponed for several years. After much thought, I realized that the only variable in this situation could be you.”
Shui Linglong closed the medicine box and looked at Shen Cangyu: "Your destiny is very strange. You shouldn't exist in this Kunlun scheme, but you are perfectly embedded in it, just like a missing bead in a jade plate that has finally returned to its place."
As she spoke, she frowned, and a hint of emotion finally appeared on her face: "But besides you, there's someone else vying for this empty seat. I can't tell whether this position belongs to you or him."
Upon hearing Shui Linglong's words, Shen Cangyu immediately thought of how she had no chance to join Kunlun in her previous life. Could it be that someone had taken away her rightful place and erased her existence?
If anyone truly possesses such extraordinary abilities, it could only be... the system, or perhaps the very essence of this world.
Shen Qingyan is the chosen one of Heaven. Heaven erased her identity to make room for its pawn.
Everything she possessed—her identity, her status, and even everyone's memories—was erased by the Heavenly Dao.
The Heavenly Dao wants to create a new story, in which she will not exist, and the senior brother will become a villain. They will all be stepping stones for the transmigrators.
Shen Cangyu finally understood why others would get frostbite when they touched the spirits, while she felt warmth when she touched them.
Why can't the attacks of living people harm the formless and invisible Wuliang Sheng, but when she attacks Wuliang Sheng, it's as if she's encountering a solid body?
It turns out that, in the eyes of this world, she has never lived. Whether it was her previous life or her current life, she is just a dead person.
She was also invisible and intangible, and was forgotten by everyone long ago.
Everything changed only after she finally appeared in the novel's plot and before the readers. Those lost memories began to resurface in her mind, she was seen by people, and thus she took on a new form.
“These words were seen by me through divination, and in principle, I shouldn’t tell you,” Shui Linglong said to Shen Cangyu, slinging her medicine box over her shoulder. “But you saved Xu Qiubai, and this is my way of thanking you.” With that, she nodded and turned to leave.
The room was quiet, with only the sound of pine branches burning in the incense burner.
Shen Cangyu sat quietly on the bed. She took out a copper coin, which slowly rotated in her palm.
She looked at the copper coin in her hand and suddenly gripped it tightly.
Someone wants to take her place, and that person's backer is the Heavenly Dao.
In her previous life, she let them succeed, and she didn't know how it would end, but in this life, she has returned.
The game of chess was overturned, the story began anew, and she was no longer the same person she was in her previous life.
What does it matter what the laws of Heaven, what does it matter what the system is, what does it matter what a transmigrator is?
She glanced sideways at the animated plot and the comments on the screen.
[Finally, the fun started after chapter 39, everyone!]
[Thanks, Commander! Successful landing! Skipping the earlier parts of the story definitely made the later parts much better.]
[This cheat code is awesome! This system is so useful! Why didn't it appear sooner? It's been so long since it appeared (picking nose)]
[As mentioned before, the preceding text is setting the stage; the protagonist needs to build relationships with NPCs to accumulate honor points... Without honor points, what can he use to exchange for favors in the shop...?]
[The plot development is poor. If you ask me, the system should have given the protagonist a generous beginner's gift pack right from the start, allowing the protagonist to become a god from the very beginning with incredible luck and have everything go smoothly.]
[The comment above is spot on; this is exactly the kind of plot I wanted to see.]
[Here's a pen for you to write]
Since Shen Qingyan entered the inner sect, the inner sect disciples have split into two groups. One group felt that Shen Qingyan was not worthy of entering the inner sect, so they spoke ill of him and even bullied him by taking advantage of their seniority, making him do hard and tiring work.
This group of people inexplicably reminded Shen Cangyu of her previous life. In her memory, the inner disciples of Kunlun in her previous life also had such ugly faces.
Another group of people developed a liking for Shen Qingyan, finding him to be gentle, unassuming, and without desires—a truly pure and kind person—and they always stood up for him. Half of Shen Qingyan's honor points came from them. As Shen Qingyan's protagonist aura grew stronger, so did the number of such supporters.
Seeing his unusual stubbornness, those people had no choice but to transfer their grievances to the Hall of Good and Evil.
The already poor reputation of the Hall of Good and Evil was further damaged by this.
Shen Qingyan certainly wouldn't cultivate the fields himself. He used the honor points he accumulated in the outer disciple competition to exchange for a cheat called "Shennong's Hand". As long as he released the skill, the spiritual plants in the spiritual field would automatically grow well. Even the precious herbs that were originally on the verge of death were revitalized under his cheat.
Elder Xu Mei heard that Shen Qingyan had saved the herbs they had tried to save for a long time, so she came to see him. When she saw him, Elder Xu Mei was delighted and said, "He is a very kind child."
After Elder Xu Mei spoke, many people changed their opinion of Shen Qingyan. Many brought him plants that they couldn't keep alive, asking for his help. Shen Qingyan accepted all requests, and his reputation as the "Divine Farmer's Healer" spread far and wide.
Elder Xu Mei looked at Xu Qiubai and asked, "I remember you had a plant that you tried to kill? Why didn't you ask Young Master Shen to take a look?"
“What Young Master Shen? Never heard of him,” Xu Qiubai waved his hand. “In my eyes, Kunlun only has one person with the surname Shen, Shen Cangyu. The others don’t count.”
Xu Qiubai has been hearing Shen Qingyan's name most often lately, and hearing it so often just annoys him. He really doesn't know where this person came from, and suddenly everyone is praising him.
Upon seeing this, Shen Cangyu suddenly remembered that in his previous life, Xu Qiubai died young and was the least affected by the Heavenly Dao and the plot among all the people.
If there was anyone present who was least affected by Shen Qingyan's protagonist aura, besides her, it would be Xu Qiubai.
Unfortunately, the novel's plot also included Xu Qiubai's words.
Shen Cangyu opened the barrage of comments and, sure enough, it was filled with insults.
Wow, who's this guy? He's so arrogant!
[What Shencang Jade? Never heard of it.]
[What Shencang Jade? Never heard of it.]
+1
[A weak reply to the comment above: Shen Cangyu seems to be... the protagonist's unrequited love's white moonlight (?)]
Let's not dwell on the past. She's just a woman; the protagonist has everything she could want.
[A villain?]
[I bet five cents on a "chasing-after-husband" scenario, where unrequited love will be a thing of the past.]
Shen Cangyu: "..." If you're sick, go get treatment.
She'd watched too many bullet comments and picked up about 80% of those trash talk phrases, but she regretted not being able to speak up in the bullet comments and angrily confront those people.
She gave a slight twitch at the corner of her mouth.
The system, right? The cheat code, right? Shennong, right?
She wanted to see how far he could go relying solely on his cheat-like abilities. A person without real strength will always remain powerless, and someone who only relies on external forces like honor points for assistance... she had plenty of ways to deal with him.
Author's note: ① Minors are prohibited from drinking alcohol.
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