Chapter 4: Crossing the River at Night. She was lonely and widowed, with a strong presence of the Seven Killings star, and a self-centered nature...
Shen Cangyu raised his hand to look at it and saw that his fingers were short and small, clearly those of a child.
She quickly got out of bed, without putting on a coat or shoes, and rushed straight to the cabinet in the corner. She pulled back the turf cloth covering it and found a bronze mirror.
She had picked up the bronze mirror at the market. Its surface was pitted and uneven, reflecting a person's rough features. Shen Cangyu wiped away the wood chips and dust from the mirror and looked at her reflection in the light.
This is her face, or more precisely, what she looked like when she was eight years old.
She looked at the person in the mirror, her heart pounding in her chest.
She's back; she's returned to her childhood.
Everything that had happened in the past seemed like a dream, so absurd. If it weren't for the bone-chilling cold of the wooden planks beneath her feet, she would have thought she was still dreaming.
Can the dead be brought back to life?
Shen Cangyu hadn't believed it before, but now she had no choice but to. Just like before she entered Kunlun, she didn't believe that people could have the ability to summon wind and rain, or go to heaven and earth.
Moreover, the world is a storybook, and this one incident alone is more absurd than anything else.
The original story of this novel is about the protagonist, Pei Wenjing, who devoted himself to cultivation, broke through obstacles along the way, sought the truth in his heart, saved the people from suffering, and finally attained immortality.
However, the story in the novel has changed. A person from who-knows-where has landed in this world and completely altered the original plot.
This time traveler, Shen Qingyan, demonstrated to everyone what it means to be an absolute protagonist. He didn't need to work hard; all the resources and connections would come knocking on his door, begging to be taken in.
She didn't understand what an absolute protagonist was. She only knew that Pei Wenjing was also a protagonist, but Pei Wenjing couldn't beat Shen Qingyan.
Does being the absolute protagonist mean being much more powerful than the main character?
Once you become the absolute protagonist, everyone in the world will want to kiss you.
Since she was able to come back to life, why couldn't she replace Shen Qingyan and become the so-called "absolute protagonist"?
Shen Cangyu raised his head and looked at the window that was blocked by wooden strips. His gaze went through the gaps in the wooden strips and looked at the howling snow outside the window.
She tossed aside the bronze mirror in her hand and, as if unaffected by the cold, pushed open the door and walked outside.
The silver moon hung like a hook, the world was vast, and her gaze seemed to pierce through layers of snow to see the end of the sky.
She wants to go to Kunlun.
In her previous life, she climbed vines and scaled cliffs to find a rare and precious herb for the Kunlun disciples, earning her a merit and being brought back to Kunlun. Because of her expertise in identifying medicinal plants, she joined the Rare Treasures Workshop and became a disciple of the Warehouse Elder, responsible for purchasing rare and precious items.
This time, she didn't want to repeat the mistakes of her previous life. She didn't want to be an outer disciple; she went to Kunlun with the goal of becoming an inner disciple.
Back then, the Immortal Lord of Kunlun ascended to immortality after comprehending the purest sword intent. Kunlun disciples then focused primarily on swordsmanship, all vying to catch the Immortal Lord's eye and inherit his legacy. Cultivating other Daoist arts to achieve ascension was far too difficult.
No one knows how far one must travel on those paths of Taoism to become an immortal.
Only by inheriting that pure sword intent can one attain enlightenment and ascend to immortality.
But Pei Wenjing was unwilling to learn swordsmanship. Clearly, when he first entered Kunlun, the Heavenly Palace Town Stone trembled violently, and the Kunlun Immortal Lord, who had long since ascended to the Heavenly Realm, sent a special message down to the mortal world, specifically requesting that Pei Wenjing be his successor and his representative in the mortal realm.
The elders of Kunlun were overjoyed. Kunlun had been silent for hundreds of years without the appearance of a second immortal, and now, they had finally seen one.
The elder was moved to tears, vowing to properly nurture Pei Wenjing. But Pei Wenjing kicked the Heavenly Palace Town Stone off the mountain, declaring he wouldn't learn swordsmanship. He then turned to studying Tai Chi techniques, ignoring the elder's words.
But Shen Qingyan is different. The elder said that he has a pure and perfect heart and is the most suitable person to inherit the pure sword intent.
The inheritance of the Kunlun Immortal Lord is a coveted prize, sought after by everyone. How could she be left out of such a prize?
She wants to learn swordsmanship, she wants to become a sword cultivator, and she also wants to compete for the inheritance of the Kunlun Immortal Lord.
If it weren't for Shen Qingyan in her previous life, she wouldn't have died.
He owes her a life, and she will take back everything that belongs to Shen Qingyan!
"Girl, what are you doing?"
The wooden door not far away creaked open, and the neighbor uncle poked his head out from the crack, looking at Shen Cangyu with a puzzled expression.
Shen Cangyu snapped out of her daze and sneezed: "It's nothing!"
She shrank back into the house and slammed the door shut.
Back in her room, she rubbed the snow off her clothes and sneezed.
It's so cold! Is her home really that cold? It seems she's been living in Xiaokunlun for too long, getting used to a good life, and has almost forgotten the hardships of life.
Little Kunlun benefited from Kunlun's influence, having also set up numerous formations, making it warm in spring and cool in summer. Even in winter, the snow falling from the sky was gentle. At that time, she heard her fellow disciples beside her jokingly say, "In Kunlun, even snow dares not offend the immortals."
She hadn't noticed it before, but now she felt it deeply.
After returning to her room, she didn't crawl back into bed, but instead rummaged through her drawers and began packing her belongings.
It's quite a distance from her little hilltop to Kunlun; if she were to walk, it would probably take several months. If she could hitch a ride on a post horse, it would shorten the journey considerably.
However, she was penniless and did not have enough money to cover the expenses of the post horse.
Oh, what a worry...
Shen Cangyu sighed and rummaged through the cabinet, trying to find something valuable.
Suddenly, she felt a thick brocade pouch under the thick fur coat. She took it out, untied the cord, and took out a jade pendant.
Looking at the jade pendant, her restless heart immediately calmed down.
This jade pendant was left to me by Grandma Wang. Grandma Wang passed away suddenly, and she didn't have many valuable things left to her, but this jade pendant was one of them.
Thinking of Granny Wang, Shen Cangyu suddenly thought of...
The warehouse elder liked to use his half-baked fortune-telling skills to predict everyone's fate. When he saw Shen Cangyu, he shook his head and said, "You have weak ties with your family and relatives, and you will bring death to everyone around you. This is your fate."
Shen Cangyu thought he was talking nonsense.
But she didn't dare say it in front of the warehouse manager, since the warehouse manager still held her salary, and she couldn't very well go against her own principles.
Whether it was because the fortune teller's prediction came true or because the warehouse elder's fortune-telling skills were truly remarkable, Shen Cangyu had stayed in Little Kunlun for so many years without having a single friend by his side.
There are far more people who cause her trouble than people who want to have dinner with her.
bother.
Thinking about it this way, the old warehouse manager's words might actually make some sense. She did indeed lose her parents when she was young, and later, Grandma Wang, who raised her, also died in an accident when she went hunting in the mountains and was buried by rocks.
She had no relatives or friends by her side, and most of the people who were kind to her did not have a good ending.
Pei Wenjing was no exception.
The eldest brother was good to her, and then he was killed by that time traveler.
If all of this is her fate, then why did God give her a second chance?
Shen Cangyu gripped the jade pendant tightly and put it around her neck.
She murmured, "Since God has given me a second chance at life, does that mean I can still defy fate?"
To change the situation and save the people she wants to save.
Shen Cangyu packed her bundle, rolled up all the furs in the house, stuffed them into a thick cloth bag, and carried it on her back. She found an axe under the bed, gripped it in her hand, opened the door, and went outside.
She wants to go to Kunlun, and she wants to go now; she doesn't want to wait even a moment longer.
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