Chapter 29 [029] Memory Regression
[With such a huge thunderstorm, Shi Qing and the male protagonist...won't they die in it?] Chen Xiang stared blankly at the dark cloud-covered area ahead. At this moment, sand and rocks were flying everywhere. Because of the thunderstorm, the wind was no longer as fierce as before, but finally revealed a hint of coolness.

[Host, no, Zhongli Jin is the man of destiny, the ascended male protagonist, he will not die. ]

【What about Qing at that time?】 Chen Xiang asked: 【How was she?】

[The host does not need to care too much about the vicious female supporting role. She cannot die, and will be slapped in the face by the male protagonist later. The plot will not allow her to die during this period.]

Shen Xiang was still worried.

She ran out, staring at the ruins and rocks, and slowly clenched her fists.

Until the last bolt of lightning fell, the remaining soul of the Demonic Bird dissipated in the sky and earth, and a beam of extremely dazzling white light suddenly burst out from the cracks in the rock pile. Only then did Shen Xiang's eyes brighten and he let go of the heart that had been hanging in the air.

The rocks were washed away, and everyone saw a green figure flying into the air on a sword in the place that had been buried tightly just now. Abundant spiritual energy lingered around the body, like a kingfisher reborn from the fire, lively and cold.

"Shi Qing!" Cangying shouted excitedly.

This guy is fine!
But the next second, she said in worry and surprise: "Zhong, Junior Brother Zhongli?!"

Shi Qing, who had escaped, was holding a blood-red boy in his arms.

The young man was in a deep coma, with not a single piece of healthy flesh on his body. Even though Shi Qing had given him a blood-restoring pill, his condition was still not good.

The snow-white clothes had long been completely dyed red by the blood. The hair was messy, soaked with blood, and slightly stuck to the face.

Her picturesque eyes were tightly closed, her brows were tightly furrowed, and her thin lips, which usually always showed a smile, turned bright red, and she looked extremely painful.

Shi Qing flew down to the ground with his sword and placed Zhongli Jin on the ground.

The bandaged hand gently wiped the boy's face, but there was a red spot that would not go away no matter what, and it existed right between the boy's eyebrows, like a dot of cinnabar, adding a bit of evil charm to this already beautiful face.

Shi Qing had a blank expression on his face. He wiped it twice more vigorously, but still couldn't wipe it off.

She looked at Cangying and asked, "If I can't wipe it off, what should I do?"

Cangying: "??? No, isn't this the time to worry about whether it's been wiped clean?? Shouldn't we first use our spiritual power to check Junior Brother Zhongli's body and prescribe the right medicine to ensure that his life is not in danger?"

"Oh." It seems so.

Shi Qing stood up and gave his seat to the professionals.

Cangying injected spiritual power into the boy's body, checked him, and opened his eyes heavily: "...The situation is very bad, his tendons and veins are broken, his internal organs are bleeding severely, and there is even a hint of demonic energy entering his body. I can't heal him with my ability, I must quickly ask for help from Elder Cangyen!"

"Okay," Shen Yunying squatted down, and gently brushed Zhongli's eyebrows with her slender hands. She cast a spiritual spell there to seal the boy's eyebrows and prevent the spiritual energy from leaking out. Then she said, "Junior Sister Cang, you and Junior Sister Shiqing take him out of the secret realm first. I and my brothers are here."

"Yes!" Cangying nodded.

Liu Muzhou looked at Shi Qing and nodded slightly: "Not bad, congratulations on your success."

Shi Qing's eyes lit up slightly, and he said "hmm" softly, "Thank you, Senior Brother."

Chu Cheng took out the formation plate. The shape of the formation plate and the patterns engraved inside were exactly the same as those inlaid on the host venue outside the secret realm.

The man injected spiritual power into it and activated the teleportation array. When he was about to send Shi Qing Cangying and others out, a snow-white bandage suddenly rushed out in a certain direction, wrapped up a girl's body, pulled her in, and disappeared together!
Chu Cheng was stunned, looking at the empty magic array, and looked at Liu Muzhou beside him uncertainly: "...Senior Brother Liu, did I see it wrong just now? Why did I seem to see Junior Sister Shi Qing... dragging that little girl Shi Xiang over here?"

Liu Muzhou: "...You are not mistaken."

Because he saw it too.

Chu Cheng: "... Didn't the disciples from other sects see it?"

The two of them looked around. People from other sects were probably still clearing the rubble or searching for treasures in the ruins, so they weren't paying attention to this side.

Chu Cheng breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately.

If it were discovered that Sanqing Mountain had sent one more person than the quota to the Demonic and Martial Arts Secret Realm, they would definitely be held accountable and held to account.

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Before Shen Xiang could react, Shi Qing almost wrapped her like a mummy with bandages.

“Woo?! Woo woo woo?!” No! What’s going on! She was so worried about her before! And then suddenly she was tied up with these white bandages! This time it was even worse, she even covered her face tightly, leaving only one nostril to breathe and one eye to see things! Too much!! A vicious female supporting role is a vicious female supporting role! Bastard!

As the white light flashed, a feeling of weightlessness came over me. When I stepped on the ground again, the scene in front of me suddenly changed!

The familiar water mirror, the familiar suspended stone platform, and in the center of the platform, there was a handsome man in a green robe holding a whisk.

Shen Xiang: “…”

This is, it came out? ?
Shi Yue had already learned what happened in the secret realm. When his eyes fell on the unconscious boy, his face became extremely gloomy.

"Jin, Jin'er?!" An old and hoarse voice came from behind them.

As the first few people to come out of the secret realm, they naturally attracted everyone's attention.

The guardian elders of each sect all looked towards the central stone platform with heavy expressions.

Shi Qing turned his head and happened to see a man with white hair and beard staring at the young man with his eyes closed on the ground with a sad face.

Shi Yue hurried forward and said, "Master Zhongli..."

"Get out of here!" the man yelled, waved Shi Yue away with red eyes, ran forward and picked up Zhongli Jin.

He seems to be Zhongli Jin's father - Zhongli Zhen.

"Where is Doctor Dan?! Where is Doctor Dan?!" he shouted.

Cangying said: "Master Zhongli, my junior brother's injury is too serious. Now we must go to Jinping Peak to find my master, Elder Cangyan!"

Zhongli Zhen immediately stood up, holding his son in his arms and charging towards Baicao Pavilion on his sword.

Elder Cangyan was forced to wake up and examined the boy while yawning.

"It will probably take an hour. During this time, you wait outside the pavilion and don't disturb her. Ying'er will stay to help." After the woman finished speaking, she yawned again, her eyes showing fatigue. She waved her sleeves and closed the door of the pavilion forcefully.

Several people were waiting on the terrace outside Baicao Pavilion.

The man trembled and said, "How could he be like this... How could he become like this?! My son... My son..."

"Thunder tribulation." Shi Qing said: "Use your body to attract the thunder."

Zhongli Zhen trembled and looked at Shi Qing in disbelief: "...Use your body... to attract thunder?"

Shi Qing nodded: "Yes, protect me."

The young man used his body to attract lightning, helping Shi Qing to overcome the calamity and protect him.

"So... it's because of you?" Zhongli Zhen murmured.

It seems to be true.

Shi Qing nodded, "Yeah."

It seems so.

The young man said that as long as he stayed to protect her, he would give her the Baijie Pill. Although she refused, Zhongli Jin used the last yellow talisman to cast a golden light shield to cut off her retreat.

Shi Yue's eyes widened. He didn't expect his silly disciple to admit it like that! Even if there was a reason, the words now were ambiguous! He shouldn't have nodded so bluntly!

"No - Master Zhongli, please listen to me -" Shi Yue wanted to explain for Shi Qing, but his stupid disciple couldn't speak clearly and couldn't really tell the reason.

However, the man now seemed to be unable to listen to anything. "It's because of you--!" His spiritual power suddenly surged, and he drew out his sword and slashed at Shi Qing!

"Wait! Sect Leader Zhongli--!" Shi Yue wanted to stop him, but Shi Qing's bandage wrapped around his arm the moment he was about to block it.

Shi Yue was stunned.

So the sword chopped down straight, and the sword wind pierced through Shi Qing's body. She suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood and fell to one knee on the ground.

Zhongli Zhen's sword didn't actually hit Shi Qing in the end.

The man gripped the hilt of his sword tightly, staring at the girl who was injured by his sword, "Why didn't you hide?"

Shi Qing did not raise his eyes, his voice was cold and indifferent, a little hoarse: "You can't hide."

"You also know that you harmed him?" Zhongli Zhen questioned word by word.

"Yeah." Shi Qing nodded: "I didn't expect it."

"He used his body to attract the thunder."

The moment the golden light shield opened, it was clearly protecting both her and Zhongli Jin.

But in the end, she didn't expect the boy to leave the cover and attract the lightning.

When the thunder tribulation was over, she was about to take Zhongli Jin back to Cangying, but she saw the young man covered in blood, surrounded by evil spirits, lying soundlessly in front of the stone gate.

Zhongli Jin's whole body was burning hot, his spiritual energy was disordered and abnormally full. If he didn't quickly draw out the excess spiritual energy, he would surely explode and die.

So Shi Qing tapped his forehead lightly and transferred the excess spiritual energy into his own body. After the boy's body temperature dropped slightly, he took him to find Cangying.

"The strong take it as their responsibility to protect life."

"I failed to protect him and ended up hurting him. That's it."

"You can't dodge this sword."

It is the responsibility of the strong to protect the people. She failed to protect Zhongli Jin and instead caused him to become like this, so she cannot dodge this sword.

Zhongli Zhen's grip on the hilt of the sword suddenly tightened, his eyes fixed on Shi Qing: "This isn't the first time you've hurt him."

"Shi Qing, you came to cancel the engagement when he just woke up from his coma. His spiritual roots were destroyed and his cultivation was ruined, but you immediately came to draw a line and add insult to injury! You have already betrayed him and made him so angry that he almost vomited blood and died. Now you are so guilty and self-blaming! You are so hypocritical! I was blind to agree to this marriage in the first place! I actually thought you were a hardworking, kind-hearted child!"

"Wait!" Shi Yue suddenly realized, "Master Zhongli, do you think I wanted Qing'er and Jin'er to get married?"

Zhongli said angrily: "Isn't it?!"

Shi Yue: “…”

This is a huge misunderstanding!!

"Sorry." Shi Yue stood in front of Shi Qing, took a deep breath and said, "At that time, I actually wanted my daughter Shi Xiang to marry Jin'er."

Shen Xiang, who was tied up like a mummy: "???"

——Nani? !!!

"Who are you kidding!" Zhong Lizhen didn't believe it: "You said your daughter was in Sanqing Blessed Land and asked me to go see her. I went and that person was obviously Shi Qing!"

Shi Yue: "Is she the only one in Sanqing Fudi at that time?"

"..."

Zhongli Zhen suddenly remembered that when he secretly watched the girl from the Shi family in Sanqing Blessed Land, it seemed that Shi Qing was not the only one.

It was just that the girl was practicing sword skills very hard at that time with a very serious expression, so he thought it was her.

What about the other one? What was he doing at that time?
He recalled carefully and saw that another little girl in pink clothes seemed to be playing in the mud next to him.

"..."

Shi Yue saw that the man's expression seemed to change, so he sighed and said, "Master Zhongli, it turns out that there has been a misunderstanding for so many years."

"My daughter is not very smart. If she relies on her own cultivation, I don't know when she can realize the great Dao and ascend to become an immortal. So at that time, I had selfish motives and thought that if Jin'er married her, it would definitely help her cultivate, so I proposed the marriage. However, I didn't expect that you have been misunderstanding the wrong person for so many years." Shi Yue said: "In any case, the cancellation of the engagement is a fact, and the harm caused to Jin'er is also a fact. As Shi Xiang's father and Shi Qing's master, I will not escape this point."

Zhongli Zhen seemed silent.

The somewhat weathered face was a little bewildered, and after a moment he asked, "So...what about the girl who is actually married to my son?"

Shi Yue looked at Shi Qing, and Shi Qing looked at Shen Xiang who had been tied up like a mummy beside him.

Shen Xiang: “…”

Zhongli Zhen: “…”

Shi Yue: “…”

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[It’s not the system! What’s going on? ? Why is it me who is getting married? ! Oh no. Is it the original owner? ? ] Chen Xiang was confused.

[This, this... I don't know either... When the story begins, the vicious female supporting role has already broken off the engagement. ]

[If the one she was getting married to wasn't Shi Qing, why would she cancel the engagement? ? ]

Shi Qing: “…”

The junior sister seemed to have forgotten how she had falsely conveyed the imperial decree to ask for her help.

At this moment, the door of Baicao Pavilion was suddenly opened, and Cangying said excitedly, "Junior Brother Zhongli is awake! He's fine!"

It's not even an hour yet, and it's going so fast!
Zhongli Zhen didn't care about the misunderstanding of breaking off the engagement and rushed directly into the pavilion. When he saw the young man sitting on the bed with a pale face as if he had just woken up from a coma, the man suddenly burst into tears and knelt down beside the bed with almost no strength left in his body, "Jin'er!"

"Father..." Zhongli Jin spoke weakly.

"Are you okay?!" the father and son said at the same time.

"I'm fine!" they both said in unison.

Zhongli Zhen heaved a sigh of relief, "It's good that everything is fine... It's good that everything is fine..."

"You too," Zhongli Jin smiled weakly, "It doesn't matter, Shi Qing can cancel the engagement, and I don't care about her! You don't have to be too angry about this, and you don't have to stain your sword with blood!"

Zhongli Zhen: “…”

This seemed to be what Zhongli Jin said to Shi Qing two years ago when he came to cancel the engagement and he was so angry that he vomited blood and fainted before waking up from a coma.

"Speaking of which... where is this place?" The young man looked around, with a hint of doubt on his handsome and pale face. His brows were slightly furrowed, causing the blood droplets on his brows to look a little more seductive. "It doesn't look like the Xuan Xiao Sect, and..."

Zhong Lijin looked at his wrist and asked, "Why can I feel the spiritual energy flowing through my body? Isn't it useless?"

Zhongli Zhen: “…”

Shi Yue: “…”

Cangying: “…”

——My memory has regressed to two years ago!!! It was just after my engagement was broken off!!

　Yes, my brain is broken, and my memory just went back to the time when I hated Shi Qing the most, hahahaha.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)