Chapter 110: Who Dares To Say You Are Ugly?
The supreme wood spirit root was dug out, and instantly lost its vitality, turning into a pile of ashes.
And beside him, Shen Yaobi had already squatted in a corner, covering her mouth and crying without any regard for her image.
Large swathes of tears dripped from the corners of her eyes, like a violent storm, ravaging the twin lotuses in the center of the pond, giving her no chance to breathe.
She didn’t even dare to cry out loud, for fear of being heard by Shen Liqian and affecting her actions.
Shen Yaobi didn’t understand. She had already tried her best to make her older sister dislike her, so why would her older sister still choose this path? Why did she still want to die in her place?
In this moment, she finally understood why, no matter how coldly and indifferently she treated Shen Liqian, Shen Liqian had always treated her as before.
Shen Liqian had known all along, she had known all along!
Shen Liqian was not aiming for the position of Saintess, which symbolized the highest power of Lapis Lazuli Azure Sea, but to marry into the Dragon Domain in her stead, to walk this path of death for her!
Shen Yaobi cried silently, like a wild beast completely trapped in a cage, gradually losing her original ambition and vitality.
And Shen Liqian, her gaze was so cold, so indifferent, and so resolute, as if she were eliminating something that should not have existed in this world. Even though Shen Yaobi was crying her heart out beside her, he didn’t care.
He didn’t care that the flesh and blood under the dagger came from himself, and he didn’t care how much pain he was enduring now.
After an unknown amount of time, Shen Liqian loosened her grip, and the dagger fell to the ground.
She cast one last look at Shen Yaobi, her eyes filled with pity and reluctance, but then turned her head and knelt before her father, her voice clear and calm.
“Now, Shen Yaobi and I have the same talent and the same cultivation. May I—”
“Compete for the position of Saintess.”
The illusion disappeared, but Shen Yaobi’s cries lingered in Ming Zhaoshuang’s ears, heartbreaking.
Ming Zhaoshuang’s eyes still replayed the last scene, as if seeing the path Shen Liqian would choose after leaving them. A tear unexpectedly fell from the corner of his eye.
Ming Zhaoshuang reached out and brushed it away, drying it.
Looking up again, time had passed, and Fei Changxiu and the others had been waiting for a long time. Seeing them awake, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
Fei Changxiu said, “What did you guys see? You’re all so slow, especially junior sister. Why are you crying?”
Shen Liqian, as pale as in the illusion, said with a smile, “I didn’t see anything. I just made a choice.”
Ming Zhaoshuang also adjusted and joked to Fei Changxiu, “I saw a mole on the corner of my eye, and someone called me ugly.”
“Who dares call you ugly?”
Fei Changxiu clenched his fist and said to Ming Zhaoshuang, “Your mole is so beautiful! Those tasteless people, senior brother will beat them up one by one.”
Ming Zhaoshuang heard this and chuckled, then continued, “It’s you, Senior Brother Xiu’er, who called me ugly.”
Fei Changxiu choked and jumped up, angrily saying, “I would never say such an unjust, ungrateful, conscience-less, and blind thing! Junior sister, don’t frame me!”
Shen Liqian chuckled but looked closely at Ming Zhaoshuang’s face and said, “Don’t say it, this mole under Zhaoshuang’s eye wasn’t obvious before. You couldn’t see it without looking carefully, but now it seems to have grown a bit, it’s more obvious, and more striking.”
Fei Changxiu said, “No, it looks just the right size now, but if it keeps growing, won’t it really become ugly? Then I wouldn’t have been wrong. How ugly would it be if it covered half your face?”
“When have you ever seen a mole grow to be half your face?”
Ming Zhaoshuang was speechless, but in his heart, he knew that this mole would not change anymore.
Because, the soul has returned.
Fei Changxiu raised his eyes and saw that Qin Feilong, although he had escaped the illusion early on, still had a dazed look in his eyes, seemingly lost in thought.
He slung an arm around Qin Feilong’s shoulder and said, “Do you know what I saw?”
Before Qin Feilong could answer, he answered himself:
“I saw that in the Chief Senior Disciple match six months from now, you accidentally killed me. How is this possible? Let alone whether you could beat me, even though your cultivation is a bit lacking, your temperament is a bit lacking, and your looks are a bit lacking, you’re not a bad person. How could you possibly kill me!”
Fei Changxiu extended a finger towards Qin Feilong, pointing at himself, and said, “If I can tolerate you riding on my head, I’ll just beat you up with a barrage of blows until you cry out for mercy, and then you’ll know who the Senior Brother is.”
Hearing this, Ming Zhaoshuang chuckled and asked, “Chen Xing, what did you see?”
Ming Chenxing remained silent, only looking at Fei Changxiu, and said in a low voice, “I saw myself breaking ties with the Eldest Young Lady over some matters, and finally dying.”
As Fei Changxiu had said, he indeed died at the hands of Qin Feilong.
And he, after Fei Changxiu’s death, fantasized about confronting Qin Feilong, this Heaven’s Chosen, but not wanting to implicate Rim of Dusk Mountain Range, he simply broke ties with Ming Zhaoshuang, and even almost descended into the demonic path, facing death nine times.
But even though his cultivation later reached the Mahayana Stage, a full Major Realm higher than Qin Feilong, he ultimately died under Qin Feilong’s sword.
Or rather, he died by someone else’s sword.
He always felt that the person in the illusion was not Qin Feilong, and even if it was Qin Feilong, he had already lost most of his will.
But he still chose the same path, to see himself, to see his true heart.
Qin Feilong heard Fei Changxiu’s words and looked up at him. A few glimmers of life flashed in his previously dazed eyes.
His illusion could be said to have reached the pinnacle for a man, or even the pinnacle for everyone in the cultivation world.
He saw himself break through numerous hardships and win the admiration of many beautiful women. They changed him, smoothed his rough edges, and completely lost their own personalities, all for a glance of his favor.
Logically, he should have been very happy, but he felt extremely bored, even feeling that they were like puppets with no emotions, performing their own play alone.
And he, too, was like that.
Even the most manipulated puppet.
He saw himself kill Fei Changxiu, kill Ming Chenxing, kill many, many people, but according to his nature, as long as others didn’t cross his bottom line, he wouldn’t kill them.
Take Fei Changxiu, for example. Although he disliked him, Fei Changxiu was at most a bit verbally abusive. He was his fellow disciple, and Qin Feilong wouldn’t directly take his life.
Later, he successfully ascended, becoming the Number One Person in tens of thousands of years, but he never felt so empty.
He could even see threads attached to his body.
In the end, under the control of these threads, he even killed Shen Liqian, killed many men and women he didn’t know. He didn’t even understand why he was killing them before his sword had already struck.
Qin Feilong was afraid of such a self.
At the last moment, he raised his sword unconsciously, cutting off the threads on his body.
What was the point of achieving Dao and ascending? What was the point of having beauties all around him? That was not him.
He just wanted to be himself.
Now, Qin Feilong retorted to Fei Changxiu, “Senior Brother Fei, are you sure you can still make me cry out for mercy now?”
He now possessed the Dragon Clan Bloodline and practiced three paths simultaneously. Even if Fei Changxiu was two Major Realms higher than him, it wouldn’t be an easy win.
Fei Changxiu rubbed his nose, seemingly a bit embarrassed, and pouted:
“Anyway, you lost.”
Let’s not even discuss how hard he won, just whether he won at all.
The youngsters bantered for a while, and then Wei Shuo’s voice was heard.
“Congratulations everyone on successfully passing the trial. As for the reward, I believe you have already gained much, so I will not say more. Next, please proceed to the deepest part of the Secret Realm and find my Primordial Brush that I always use. It has been waiting for its master for a long time.”
