Chapter 166, Part 2: The Blind Girl in the World of High Martial Arts
Yu Wanwan left, leaving only the three of them standing outside, looking at each other in bewilderment.
Xu Qingzhou was in a hurry to see Yu Wanwan and had no intention of engaging in banter with the two of them, so he simply cupped his hands in greeting and adopted the attitude of a servant.
"Please, gentlemen."
Zhuang Xinyue stood up with the help of Shen Liuyun, her brows slightly raised.
"Young Master Xu, are you... truly willing to stay here?"
Would the once carefree and unrestrained young master of Wuliu Manor really be willing to become a menial servant in this valley?
She feared that the job was just a pretense, and that ulterior motives were at play.
Xu Qingzhou was well aware of Zhuang Xinyue's concerns.
“Miss Zhuang, this is a transaction, and it is the price I have to pay.”
He wasn't in the mood for further explanation and immediately changed the subject.
"Now that the poison in Miss Zhuang's body has been temporarily suppressed, you two might as well go back and discuss it properly."
Shen Liuyun and Zhuang Xinyue exchanged a glance, knowing that this was the end of the day.
"In that case, we'll take our leave now."
Shen Liuyun clasped his hands in thanks, unable to offer any other words of gratitude.
Xu Qingzhou nodded slightly, watching the two of them support each other as they left the Valley of Death.
As their figures disappeared at the valley entrance, the sound of the formation was activated again, and the valley entrance was once again buried among the green plants.
Xu Qingzhou narrowed his eyes, turned around, and gently pushed open the door of the wooden house.
The door wasn't locked, and Yu Wanwan was sitting on the edge of the bed, her fingertips gently stroking the leaves of a medicinal herb.
Hearing footsteps, she tilted her head slightly.
Unfocused gazes landed precisely on him.
"The person has been sent away?"
"They're gone."
Xu Qingzhou sat down next to her and waved his hand in front of her eyes.
Those eyes, which often held a faint smile, showed no reaction whatsoever.
Dull and empty.
A dense, persistent pain welled up in my heart.
"Your eyes..."
Yu Wanwan groped for his wrist and pulled it off, the smile on her lips unchanged.
"It's alright."
"..."
Xu Qingzhou remained silent, leaning his head against her, inhaling her scent.
Perhaps because she is blind, Yu Wanwan is more sensitive to his emotions.
The oppressive, low-pressure atmosphere emanating from him was almost overwhelming.
She was a little annoyed, so she placed her hand squarely on his face and pushed him back.
"Why are you acting like this? I'm just blind, not heartless!"
It's just a pair of naked eyes, what's the big deal?
If she wanted to, she could see every little detail of this world even without eyes.
"Besides, even if you're blind, it won't stop me from hitting you!"
"?"
Xu Qingzhou's melancholy mood was dispelled.
Before I could even react, a biting gust of wind was already blowing in my face.
With a twitch in his eyelid, Xu Qingzhou instinctively dodged to the side.
The chair he had just been sitting on was shattered into pieces by a single whip.
It terrified him.
She didn't hold back at all when she lashed out with that whip.
If you hit him...
Xu Qingzhou jolted awake, looking up in a daze and confusion.
"Xiao Wan, what's wrong with you...?"
Yu Wanwan chuckled, cracked the whip, and with a flick of her wrist, lashed out again.
"Don't call me that with your body, it's disgusting!"
The whip cracked loudly as Xu Qingzhou struggled to dodge and weave through the wooden house.
Fortunately, he was quick-witted and soon figured out the reason for her sudden outburst from her words.
They complained incessantly for a time.
That was the original owner's fault, what does it have to do with him?
Can't you be reasonable?
Clearly, Yu Wanwan didn't want to reason with him.
"Xiao Wan, listen to me! Although the young master is a womanizer, he's not lewd! He's still a virgin!"
With a flick of the whip, it grazed Xu Qingzhou's cheek and landed on the ground.
The wooden floorboards were pulled apart, leaving a long crack.
Yu Wanwan tilted her head.
"Um?"
Xu Qingzhou swallowed hard as he glanced at the cracks on the floor.
"The master of Wuliu Manor kept a close watch on the original owner. Although he was philandering outside, he didn't dare to do anything reckless because of the master's control!"
Afraid that Yu Wanwan wouldn't believe him, he quickly rolled up his sleeves, revealing his arms.
"It's true! The lord of the manor values his future grandson's talent highly and knows the original owner's character, so he specially placed a virginity mark on the original owner! If the virginity mark is not removed, the original owner will not have a good time if he has any improper thoughts!"
"..."
Yu Wanwan's expression was strange.
She pushed open the window, raised her hand to beckon a branch, and turned her head to "look" at Xu Qingzhou.
"Stretch out your arm."
"..."
Xu Qingzhou looked at Yu Wanwan, who was as gentle as a spring breeze, and then at the tender green branch.
I obediently walked over and stretched my arm out in front of the tree branch.
Through the sensation of the tree branches, Xu Qingzhou's outline clearly appeared in Yu Wanwan's mind.
His skin was very fair, and the bright red mark on his arm was particularly striking.
Yu Wanwan examined the virginity mark carefully for a few moments.
Mysterious incantations swirled around it, radiating a golden light invisible to the naked eye.
It really is a virginity mark.
Yu Wanwan was speechless and choked with emotion, her feelings complicated.
As a charming and womanizing male protagonist, he has a virginity mark on his body that will inevitably cause a backlash if he is forcibly defiled.
What's the reference to this? It wasn't mentioned in the story!
[According to analysis, the world the author of this novel lives in is very absurd to have a male protagonist with an impure character, but she really wanted to write a protagonist of this philandering type, so...]
"..."
So, they came up with the concept of the "cinnabar mark" for virginity?
In order to preserve his chastity as the male protagonist, this creator also...
They went to great lengths to achieve this.
To be honest, Yu Wanwan suddenly felt like laughing.
"No wonder this young master, who is quite powerful, was so easily made a male concubine by Hua Xiangrong."
So they forcibly broke the seal on his virginity, causing him to suffer a backlash and lose all his power.
Hmm, this setup makes sense.
Xu Qingzhou's expression shifted unpredictably, as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.
After a long while, he angrily lowered his sleeve, and, still feeling resentful, tapped her on the head.
"You don't have to be so obviously gloating!"
Yu Wanwan shrugged, and the long whip transformed into a straw bracelet, wrapping around her wrist again.
"Alright, you can stay then."
It has to be said that knowing he was still clean, the little knot in Yu Wanwan's heart quietly dissipated.
Even though I know it's not him who's dirty, it's the scumbag.
But there was nothing she could do; he was using a scumbag's body, and she just couldn't stand it.
Xu Qingzhou breathed a sigh of relief.
She didn't pursue the topic any further, so he didn't continue.
They were afraid that if they weren't careful, they would step on a landmine and get beaten up again.
"Why don't you just cure her directly?"
With her abilities, it shouldn't be too difficult for her to cure Zhuang Xinyue's poison, right?
Yu Wanwan didn't hide it from him either.
"There's something else inside her."
Xu Qingzhou paused for a moment.
"Something else?"
His first thought was of the outsiders who had appeared in those previous worlds.
"It's them again?"
Yu Wanwan nodded.
"Um."
Xu Qingzhou frowned.
"Who exactly are they? What is their purpose in doing this?"
Before Yu Wanwan could speak, Xu Qingzhou grasped her hand.
"Xiao Wan, now that I've regained my memories, are there some things you can tell me now?"
Through the hazy steam rising from the teacup, Yu Wanwan looked at him.
"Do you really want to know?"
"certainly."
He hates this feeling of not having anything under his control.
It made him look like an idiot.
Yu Wanwan let out a long sigh.
"Alright."
He put down his teacup and beckoned with his hand.
"Come here a little."
Xu Qingzhou didn't understand why, but he still went over.
As soon as she leaned closer, Yu Wanwan grabbed his wrist.
"Close your eyes."
Xu Qingzhou was stunned for a moment, then obediently closed his eyes.
The next moment, he felt a lightness in his body and a wave of dizziness.
He was all too familiar with this feeling.
Before I started cultivating, I would have this feeling every time I traveled through time.
However, this time the dizziness lasted longer than any of the previous crossings.
It took so long that he started to feel nauseous and wanted to vomit until he was completely exhausted before he gradually calmed down.
"Open your eyes."
A gentle voice sounded in my ear.
Like a gentle breeze, it lightly swept away the nausea in his heart.
Xu Qingzhou's eyelashes trembled, and she slowly opened her eyes.
What came into view was no longer that small valley and that log cabin.
Instead, it is a vast and boundless starry sky.
Countless nebulae slowly rotate like dazzling vortexes, coalescing into brilliant star clusters.
Colors defy all logic here; deep purple, azure, fiery red… countless colors intertwine to create a magnificent ocean.
Among these star clusters, Xu Qingzhou saw worlds he had visited before.
Those worlds are now millions of years past.
Even without them, they continue to thrive.
When Xu Qingzhou looked over, those worlds seemed to be looking back at him as well.
A series of mysterious and profound tremors arose, causing his whole body to go numb.
In that instant, he seemed to sense the subtle connection between himself and those worlds.
Without needing to observe specifically, a single glance is enough to understand the world's development after his absence.
Xu Qingzhou didn't understand why, but was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a long time.
“I told you before that these worlds are built around you.”
"The worlds you've been to, and the worlds you haven't been to yet but will go to in the future, together make up a universe."
The gentle, quiet voice gradually brought Xu Qingzhou back to her senses.
Although she had already mentioned it to him, he had a general idea of what was going on.
But knowing this is different from seeing it with your own eyes.
Yu Wanwan tugged at him and pointed to the other side.
"Look over there."
Xu Qingzhou stared blankly in the direction she was pointing.
There is an invisible barrier there.
The scenery on the other side of the barrier isn't much different from this side.
Yet it was even more mysterious and vast; just one glance made his heart race and his scalp tingle.
"That is the myriad realms of heaven and earth."
"All the heavens and myriad realms?"
The usually eloquent person was now like a fool, only knowing how to repeat Yu Wanwan's words.
Yu Wanwan didn't seem to mind and nodded with a smile.
"All the heavens and myriad realms" is a general term.
There are three thousand great worlds and three thousand small worlds. Wherever there are worlds, there are countless realms.
"It is also a specific reference."
Xu Qingzhou didn't dare to look too much, turned his head away, leaned on her shoulder, and listened quietly to what she had to say.
"Those powerful beings whose strength exceeds the world's tolerance limit will be expelled from the current world and sent to a world with a higher limit."
Yu Wanwan paused for a moment.
"You can understand it as a kind of ascension in another sense."
"When no world could withstand their power, they had nowhere to go, so they built their own dwelling in the cosmic sea."
Initially, these dwellings were scattered and random.
But most organisms are probably social creatures.
Gradually, when people built their houses, they built them next to each other.
Over time, that area will become a separate realm of countless worlds.
Yu Wanwan glanced at Xu Qingzhou, whose face was pale, and smiled.
"Whether it's me or the outsiders you've met before, we all come from there."
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