Two days later, they set off again for Apocalypse Academy.
Last night, a heavy rain made the air humid and the ground muddy. Qinghe was too lazy to fly on his sword, so he hired a carriage to travel.
The carriage was large, though not luxurious, but small in size yet complete in every way.
Qinghe ate pastries while enjoying the beautiful scenery outside the carriage, completely relaxed. All that was missing was two maids to give her a massage and a trim.
In fact, she had previously asked Shen Xun to act as her maid, but Shen Xun only glanced at her indifferently and did not intend to pay any attention to her.
Then she turned her gaze to Tong, but her intense gaze did not allow him to look away from the beautiful scenery outside the car for even a moment, and she failed a second time.
"Alas, it's truly a case of the heavens being jealous of beauty. A peerless beauty like me is ignored by everyone. Is this a distortion of human nature or a decline in morality?"
He muttered to himself, but no one paid him any attention.
He sighed again and continued eating the pastries.
Suddenly, a jolt occurred, and the pastry slipped from her hand. Just as it was about to fall to the ground, Qinghe reacted quickly, and with a flash of inspiration, she retrieved the pastry from her hand.
She frowned, lifted the carriage curtain, and asked, "What's wrong?"
Qi Rong turned to her and said, "There's a car blocking the way ahead."
Qinghe turned his head to look ahead and saw a luxurious carriage stopped in the middle of the road, not moving forward.
A moment later, a girl got off the car. She looked very familiar. Qinghe thought for a couple of seconds before he remembered that she was the girl who played music at the inn earlier.
After coming down, Hongxi headed straight for the depths of the woods, apparently because he had to use the restroom.
After she got off the carriage, two more women followed, one a beautiful young woman and the other dressed as a maid.
"Miss, I really don't know why you brought her along. She's troublesome, talks too much, has no cultivation at all, and is simply a burden!"
"Honey, when you're out in the world, you have to treat others kindly and not be arrogant. You've been with me for so long, don't you understand this principle?"
"But……"
"Alright," the woman in pink interrupted her, "Don't say things like that again."
The maid reluctantly shut her mouth.
The sound of horses' hooves came from behind them, and the two stepped back, watching as Qing and his group passed by.
The two groups of people passed each other by.
Qi Rong kept her eyes straight ahead and didn't glance to the side, but Mu Dong looked at her curiously twice. Unfortunately, the woman in pink was covered by a thin veil, so her true face couldn't be seen.
As the carriage passed by, Qinghe lifted the curtain and happened to meet the eyes of the woman in pink. Their beautiful eyes met for only a moment.
It wasn't until they had walked quite a distance that Qinghe lowered the carriage curtain and leaned back into the carriage.
"You don't look well. What's wrong? Do you feel inferior to someone and are feeling resentful?"
After Shen Xun finished making sarcastic remarks, he waited for Qing He to retort, but after waiting for a long time, he did not hear the familiar voice.
He couldn't help but turn around and see Qinghe staring blankly.
"Did I hit a nerve? You're really that bothered by someone being prettier than you?"
Qinghe remained in a daze, not uttering a word.
Shen Xun sensed something was wrong and shook her shoulder until she woke up.
Qinghe snapped out of her daze, slapped his hand away, and asked, "What's wrong?"
Shen Xun: "I was just about to ask you what's wrong. You didn't respond when I talked to you. I thought you had been possessed."
"Possession?" Qinghe asked him, "Is the possession you're talking about the kind of evil technique that takes over another person's body and destroys their soul?"
“Yes,” Shen Xun replied casually.
"Then, can you tell if someone has been possessed?" Qinghe asked seemingly casually, but his eyes were fixed on Shen Xun's expression, not missing a single detail.
Shen Xun leaned to one side and said confidently, "Who am I? Of course I can tell."
Qinghe's heart sank slightly. She slowly approached him, looked into his eyes, and said, "Then take a look and see if I've been possessed?"
Shen Xun looked back at her, his eyes deep and unfathomable.
"you……"
Qinghe's lips curled up unintentionally, seemingly indifferent, but his heart was churning with turmoil.
Shen Xun looked intently into her eyes, his expression solemn.
“You…” Shen Xun patted her shoulder, “Of course not, what are you thinking? If you were possessed, how could I not tell?”
Qinghe leaned against the carriage wall, and after a long while asked again, "Besides the art of possession, are there any other techniques that allow a wisp of soul to reside in another person's body?"
Shen Xun said leisurely, "Yes, in this vast world, there are countless techniques. There are always a few techniques that can achieve the result you described. As far as I know, there are three or four."
Tell me about it.
Shen Xun put down the pastries and explained the science to her.
"The first method is soul swapping. As the name suggests, it involves exchanging souls. As long as you find two people with the same fate, set up a soul swapping array, and have a master with profound cultivation perform the soul swapping technique."
Qinghe thought for a moment, then realized it didn't fit her situation. "Anything else?"
Shen Xun continued, "The second type is the Soul-Seizing Technique. Although this technique is not respectable, if one masters the Soul-Seizing Technique to its fullest extent, it can result in the exchange of souls."
He took a sip of tea and continued, "The third type is another dimension."
Qinghe straightened up. "Another dimension?"
"That's right. Another dimension is not a kind of magic, but a spatial glitch, an anomaly caused by a sudden distortion of space. This anomaly will disturb a person's spiritual field, causing the soul to leave the body. After the anomaly ends, the soul will return to the body, but there is a certain chance that it will find the wrong body, which will achieve the result you described."
Qinghe remained silent for a moment, then asked, "Is there any way to allow the souls to return to their respective places?"
Shen Xun shook his head. "I don't know either."
"Aren't you a divine book? Is there something you don't know?" Qinghe asked, somewhat surprised.
Shen Xun: "Who said that a divine book must be able to know everything? Besides, I am also injured. I am not in my complete form now, so it is normal that I don't know some things."
He paused, then moved closer to Qinghe, raising an eyebrow. "Speaking of which, you still haven't answered me. What happened just now? Why did your expression turn sour after just one glance at that woman?"
Qinghe recalled the moment when he brushed past the woman in pink and their eyes met, a tremor that ran deep in his soul.
That wasn't her feeling, but rather the original owner's emotion—not fear, but a burning desire to kill.
In that instant, Qinghe saw the jade pendant hanging from the pink-clad woman's waist, with a single character engraved on it—jade.
The surname "Yu" is not from a prominent family on this continent, but there is only one person with whom Qinghe has any connection, and that person is Yu Zhiqiu.
In the original story, Yu Zhi Qiu was a typical innocent second female lead, with a deep mind but pretending to be pure and harmless. She met the male lead, Mo Jun Qian, during an adventure, and from then on, she fell deeply in love with him. She did countless things for him, but unfortunately, Mo Jun Qian never even glanced at her.
In a way, the original owner's death was also related to her. If it weren't for her scheme, the original owner wouldn't have been trapped in a dangerous place, devoured by countless beasts, and left with no trace of his body.
However, there was one thing she didn't understand. At this point in time, the original owner hadn't even met Yu Zhi Qiu yet, and because of her arrival, the plot had already deviated from the main storyline. So why did the original owner's soul react when she saw Yu Zhi Qiu?
Qinghe looked out at the scenery along the road, his eyes filled with endless worry.
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