Chapter 35 (2/2)
”…I'm in the Residence of the Junior Preceptor?” Shen Qiao could only recall running into Guang Lingsan and then losing consciousness afterwards
Ruru covered her hed, ”Of course you're in the Residence of the Junior Preceptor Why would Ruru be here otherwise? Master brought you back”
She brought the medicine to Shen Qiao and helped him drink it Then she went on to smoothen the blanket underneath him, ”The doctor was here He said that and you had a deficiency in both qi and blood, so you should takesupple, ”Where's Sect Master Yan?”
Ruru replied, ”Master is in the study talking to the eldest youngmaster' referred to Bian Yanredients in the medicine he just took Shen Qiao didn't say ain He slept for another few hours By the ti the blurry silhouette of a man next to him
”Sect Master Yan?” He felt his way as he sat up
Yan Wushi+ put down the book, but he didn't coroan
Shen Qiao asked, ”Guang Lingsan has left already?”
”Yes We had a fight”
”Although his skill in ood, he should not be your match”
That was all he said He didn't seem to be surprised that Yan Wushi+ had shown up there in time, neither did he ask about it
Yan Wushi+ said, ”I heard you fought with Duan Wenyang in the Residence of Su”
”That person is surprisingly skilled in h tiu of those years”
”How does he compare to Kunye?”
”Even better than Kunye”
”In that case, it was a pure fluke that you won today”
Shen Qiao didn't claiht with Li Qingyu first and was slightly injured, therefore giving e”
Yan Wushi+ said, ”I took your pulse just now When you fell of the cliff that day, the poison of Quietus had already seeped into your bones and destroyed your foundation At first I thought The Strategy of the Ver at it now, having only two incomplete books produced very little effect What is even ht with other people and get injured, it will only dae your 'Daoist Heart' even more If this continues, by the time your Daoist Core is completely destroyed, even the immortals will not be able to save you However powerful The Strategy of the Vers that even the immortals cannot do”
The Daoist Heart was not a heart Itslay in the fact that it was the foundation Shen Qiao had built his foundation since he was young through the practice of the inner art of a Daoist sect, and this foundation was his ”Daoist Heart” If a person's Daoist Heart was destroyed, all the rest of the moves and techniques became useless since he would never reach the peak of ain
This was precisely Shen Qiao's current state Due to poison and injuries, his Daoist Heart was al it with the aid of the inner qi of The Strategy of the Ver method
But the problem was that Shen Qiao only kneo voluilist world, there was no way he could stay uninvolved Every tiht, he would inevitably stir up his inner qi and bring even e to the Daoist Heart which hadn't recovered yet The process eventually beca run If one day the inner qi froer able to repair it, thatit i of it, Yan Wushi+ had also contributed to the frequent injury of Shen Qiao's root ain and again, Shen Qiao wouldn't have soon the old
However, Sect Master Yan looked very serious at the otten his own faults
Shen Qiao didn't knohether he should describe hiotistical ”Since you said it like this, I'm sure you have a solution already?”
Yan Wushi+ re as you're willing to discard the Daoist Heart, let me plant the De The Funda will be readily solved”
Shen Qiao sighed, ”I have to respect Sect Master Yan for the effort you've spent in articulating this plan and carrying it out step by step Once I have the Demonic Heart planted in me, my temperament will inevitably beco for you, but toreatly in martial arts, ould be the point then?”
A sarcastic expression appeared on Yan Wushi+'s face He asked, ”What is 'true self'? People are inherently evil Are you saying that following one's desire is not being true to oneself? Just think about that Chen Gong You've done hiether and shared weal and woe But when a crisis caet out, he could only think of leading the disaster to you and dragging you doith hiht him how to read and write or the proper ways to conduct himself Don't tell me that all of his actions didn't come from his 'true self'?”
Shen Qiao wanted to turn away his head, but Yan Wushi+ grabbed his chin and pulled hi him to run from it, ”The reason why you're able to persist in carefully following your Daoist Heart and refuse to give up your so-called principles is because you still haven't experienced a situation in your life where you are so desperate that you find it absolutely intolerable, aht?”
The pair of dull, ehtly After a long time, Shen Qiao finally uttered a word
”Yes”
Yan Wushi+'s voice was bri ith y of the Ver With your current situation of a da blood and passing out from time to time, there's no way for you to restore your martial arts in a few years What's more, you may end up half-dead like this for the rest of your life Now everyone saw you show up at the Residence of Su with my invitation The relationshi+p between us will soon spread to the entire pugilistic world My ene toit out on you What do you think will happen if they catch you? Will they torture you to ? Or will they rape you first and kill you, then rape and whip your corpse to vent their anger?
”When that happens, will you think a situation like that is still tolerable?”
Shen Qiao finally lost control of himself, ”We can talk about that when it actually happens, but Sect Master Yan should not be troubling yourself with it before it does!”
Surprisingly, Yan Wushi+, whose hand was brushed to the side, was not enraged by it Instead, he even snorted a laugh as the clouds on his face suddenly cleared up, ”Coot mad?”
Shen Qiao: ”…”
People all said that a woman's heart was like the needle in the bottom of the sea But Shen Qiao felt that Yan Wushi+'s heart was even harder to grasp than a needle in a bottomless abyss
At this moment, someone knocked on the door
Yan Wushi+ said, ”Co a bowl of medicine in her hand ”Master, this is the second bowl of medicine decocted for Mister Shen today”
Yan Wushi+ commanded, ”Put it here”
Ruru put down the bowl as she was told, then reminded Shen Qiao, ”Mister Shen should drink it when it's hot The effect will be better”
Shen Qiao thanked her, took the bowl, and finished it in one gulp
He always had a small problem He liked the sweet but not the bitter When he was still a child on Mount Xuandu, he would hide hiinner arts could make a person unaffected by cold and heat, he trained harder than all the other fellow disciples People just thought he was just extra hardworking, but little did they know that he was in fact trying to avoid bitterat Yan Wushi+'s place, no ht to him, he would drink them all without a word
However, little habits betrayed him He would frown every time before he picked up the bowl, and after he put it down, the corners of his mouth would twitch unconsciously
Yan Wushi+ saw it After Shen Qiao finished, he picked up a candied fruit from the side and stuffed it into Shen Qiao's mouth with a sweet voice, ”Ah-Qiao, if you don't like bitter ar in it next tiive me a smile Don't always frown”
Shen Qiao: ”…”
Sect Leader Shen felt utterly exhausted, both mind and body