Chapter 59 Fate (Bonus Chapter for 5,000 Nutrient Solutions) Winning over a new...
If he hadn't been driven to desperation, Shen Cangyu wouldn't have come begging for incense.
She realized that some things are like a mantis trying to stop a chariot with its own power, impossible to resist.
If the Sword Pavilion Master, a demigod, can see clearly the Heavenly Dao and the protagonist's affairs, then the Heavenly Fragrance Lady, a deity, must also know the inside story.
Shen Cangyu looked at the tall statue in front of him, inserted incense into the incense burner, and knelt down on the prayer mat.
She asked herself, "How can I get rid of the protagonist?"
The incense burned quietly.
Shen Cangyu raised his head and looked at the incense in front of him; the incense had gone out.
"Aren't you a god? Even you can't defy the will of Heaven?" Shen Cangyu asked.
The statue of the Heavenly Fragrance Goddess had a kind and benevolent expression, her eyes half-closed as she looked down upon the mortal world, but she did not respond to Shen Cangyu's words. The three incense sticks stood quietly in the incense burner; logically, once the incense had burned out, they should have been removed.
Shen Cangyu stubbornly remained kneeling on the prayer mat, staring directly into Tianxiang Niangniang's eyes: "Can't you see it, or are you unwilling to say it, or do you not want to change anything? No matter what the outcome, it doesn't matter to you, right?"
"Cang Yu!" Upon hearing this, Xu Qiubai was startled and quickly stepped forward to stop her.
Xu Qiubai was a bold and reckless person, but he never expected that Shen Cangyu in front of him would be even bolder than him, actually daring to question Tianxiang Niangniang in front of her.
He feared that Shen Cangyu would anger the Heavenly Fragrance Goddess, and that he would never again receive her blessings and care.
He heard Shen Cangyu say, "You don't care what happens to your followers, do you? Don't you have the ability to see the secrets of heaven? You can clearly see their fate, so why don't you go and save them?"
"Stop talking..." Xu Qiubai grabbed Shen Cangyu's arm, but saw her burning eyes and heard Shen Cangyu say, word by word, "You also have the ability to glimpse the secrets of heaven, don't you know that you should have died long ago?"
The color drained from Xu Qiubai's face.
Shen Cangyu didn't let him off the hook, and continued, "When you encountered the demonic cultivator in Nanke Mountain, weren't you carrying incense? You clearly had incense, so why didn't the Heavenly Fragrance Goddess save you? Aren't you her believer, her disciple, and her chosen successor? Didn't you ever wonder why she didn't save you?"
He asked.
He actually did ask.
When he returned to Xingxiang Hall after his training, he sat in the first hall and asked Tianxiang Niangniang why she hadn't saved him. Tianxiang Niangniang replied that it was his fate.
Xu Qiubai pondered for a long time. He wondered if his life had been saved by Shen Cangyu at that critical moment? Did the Heavenly Fragrance Goddess know he would come, and therefore refrain from intervening? Was the appearance of the demonic cultivator merely to deepen their connection? Was Shen Cangyu a very important person in his life?
Xu Qiubai asked Tianxiang Niangniang many questions, but she didn't answer him. So Xu Qiubai secretly observed Shen Cangyu, trying to figure out what kind of person she was and why she was so important to him.
He couldn't see through her, but he felt that she had an unrestrained and free spirit that he envied.
“The reason why Lady Tianxiang didn’t save you is because she wanted to follow the plot of the story,” Shen Cangyu said coldly. “In the story of this world, you are destined to die in Nanke Mountain, become Pei Wenjing’s inner demon, and make Pei Wenjing inherit the Taiji Daoist method. Once he learns the Taiji Daoist method, he will no longer be able to stay in Wanqi Guixin and compete with the protagonist for the right to inherit the Kunlun Sword.”
However, Xu Qiubai did not die in this life. In order to keep the plot going, other Kunlun disciples died instead. But no matter who died, the goal was to allow Pei Wenjing to obtain the Taiji Daoist method.
Inheriting the Tai Chi Daoist arts was also the first step for Pei Wenjing to fall into demonic cultivation. Currently, the people of Kunlun don't understand the Tai Chi Daoist arts, but in a few years, the voices claiming that the Tai Chi Daoist arts can reverse Yin and Yang and violate the laws of nature will grow louder. When Pei Wenjing's true identity is exposed at that time, he will be regarded as a demonic cultivator, and the Kunlun elders will extract his inner core, remove his immortal bones, and expel him from Kunlun.
This is how Shen Cangyu saw the plot in his previous life.
“You…” Xu Qiubai’s throat was dry, and his eyes trembled. “What are you talking about… what story, what protagonist…” She was using words that Xu Qiubai couldn’t understand. Xu Qiubai was caught off guard by this sudden information.
But in that split second, he suddenly realized that when he asked the Goddess Tianxiang why she didn't save him, she said it was his fate.
No wonder his connection with the Goddess of Heavenly Fragrance has become much less frequent since then, and he has gone from being the Goddess of Heavenly Fragrance's most beloved believer to an ordinary disciple who glimpses the secrets of heaven.
So this is the truth behind the matter.
"How do you know all this? Where did you hear this information? Who exactly are you?" Xu Qiubai stared at Shen Cangyu and asked, "You inherited the Kunlun Sword, are you the protagonist?"
“I’m not, the main character is Shen Qingyan,” Shen Cangyu said.
She had never said these words to anyone except Xu Qiubai, because she knew that Xu Qiubai, like her, was a variable in this story.
Everyone else who is alive will be influenced by the protagonist, even the goddess Tianxiang Niangniang, who follows the story and contributes to the development of Shen Qingyan's plot.
But Xu Qiubai, being a variable, is different, and Shen Cangyu tries to find a breakthrough from him.
The doors to the First Hall were tightly closed. Shen Cangyu picked and chose the information she knew and told it to Xu Qiubai. As she looked at him, her shock gradually turned into calm.
Shen Cangyu knew that he had taken her words to heart.
Besides the uncertainties, there are two other reasons for choosing Xu Qiubai as a partner.
Firstly, she knew that many people in Kunlun disliked Xu Qiubai, and that he had a limited social circle and few connections. Shen Cangyu didn't need to worry about him telling others these things; he had no one to confide in anyway, and even if he did, no one would believe him.
Secondly, she still remembered the memories she saw in the assessment secret realm. In that memory, it was mentioned that Xu Qiubai defected from Kunlun and joined the Five Evils, and the Xingxiang Hall was destroyed.
In her memories of her previous life, none of these scenes occurred.
In a world without time travelers, Kunlun suffers hardship and disaster.
In the world the time traveler arrived in, Xu Qiubai died, but those disasters did not occur.
"I've fallen into the demonic sect? How could that be..." Xu Qiubai subconsciously denied it, but as soon as he said it, he looked at Shen Cangyu's eyes and realized that she was not joking.
Shen Cangyu said a lot to him, and what he said seemed like a fairy tale, utterly absurd, yet there was a certain rationality in the absurdity.
Just like this phrase, "fallen into a demonic cult"...
Although he denied it verbally, he could not hide his true feelings.
He does indeed have the potential to become a demon, but he has always suppressed this thought in his heart.
He grew up in the Xingxiang Hall from a young age. His ability to see the secrets of heaven was innate, not a choice he made himself. From the time he could remember, he was forced onto the path of seeing the secrets of heaven and forced to become the successor chosen by the Heavenly Fragrance Goddess.
Everyone praised his talent, saying his ability to foresee the secrets of heaven was exceptionally accurate, surpassing the other disciples' ten years of arduous cultivation. But he always doubted whether these praises were sincere.
Perhaps they were just trying to trick him into spreading his celestial secrets, or maybe they wanted to use his abilities to see more. They weren't really sincere towards him.
The more he was praised, the more suspicious and afraid Xu Qiubai became.
Because he knew that peering into the secrets of heaven was his instinct, not his belief. As he grew older, he saw this more and more clearly.
He will absolutely not inherit the ability to glean secrets.
But he never dared to voice this thought, because so many people had high hopes for him. If he said he was giving up, he feared they would all hate him, feeling he had wasted everyone's time. As long as there's no one around you, you'll never hear any voices denying you again.
The voice haunted him like a ghost, appearing whenever he faced criticism from others.
He can't escape it, and he's bound to be affected by it.
That same voice had blinded him during the classroom assessment years ago. By the time he realized what was happening, he had already used underhanded tactics to eliminate his fellow contestants.
He killed someone in the illusion. Although it was an illusion, he couldn't help but worry that everyone might hate him in the future.
But a voice inside him told him that this was just an illusion, and he hadn't actually killed them, so what did it matter?
The voice said, "They'll hate you sooner or later anyway. Even without this experience, they have a million reasons to hate you. Instead of worrying about when they'll start to hate you, why not take the initiative and make them hate you now?"
After Xu Qiubai left the illusion, he was met with pairs of eyes glaring at him.
He saw millions of versions of himself through their eyes, like mirrors stacked together, reflecting millions of versions of himself.
That time, instead of feeling panicked, hesitant, doubtful, or afraid as before, he felt exhilarated.
From that assessment onward, the number of people who disliked Xu Qiubai increased exponentially, which actually made Xu Qiubai feel relieved. Rather than worrying about whether the people who came to talk to him had ulterior motives, he figured he might as well cut off everything at the root and stop everyone from coming to talk to him.
If he can't meet everyone's expectations, then he'll let everyone be disappointed in him.
Xu Qiubai knew that he was like an evil demonic cultivator.
Elder Xu Mei thought he was unruly and always patiently guided him, trying to help him improve. But Xu Qiubai felt that Kunlun was not suitable for him, and that he would definitely leave if given the opportunity.
He wanted freedom, boundless freedom.
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