Chapter 57 [057] Each with His Own Agenda
The sect's large teleportation array can only be used in emergency situations. When returning, everyone also travels back via teleportation.

Apart from broken wrists and bleeding, the disciples had no other injuries. For a cultivator, a wrist injury is not fatal. They can take a blood-restoring pill to stop the bleeding and they will be healed in two days.

Cangying herself was also injured. Liu Xitong had hit her very hard. Although she had recovered a lot with the help of healing pills, she still needed serious treatment in the later stage.

After all, the body of an alchemist is not as good as that of a sword practitioner. They spend more time on refining pills and making medicines, and their self-healing ability is relatively poor.

"Senior Sister Cang, you should also go and rest. We will leave Senior Sister Shiqing to us."

On the first night back at the sect, Cangying was still guarding Shiqing's bedside. The fellow disciples were a little worried about her and advised her, "Yes, you are not well yet."

Cangying shook her head, "No, Master assigned me to Shiqing. I am her exclusive physician and I am most familiar with her body. I cannot leave."

“But—” The disciples frowned slightly and wanted to say something else.

Cangying waved her hand and asked them to go back first. "Don't worry, I'm fine. Shiqing saved me in time and fed me the elixir. It's your Senior Brother Xu who needs to rest."

Disciple Xu's pale face regained some color.

He was nailed to the stone wall and bled too much, his injuries were even more serious than Cangying's.

The blood-restoring pill stopped the bleeding and helped him replenish his vitality, but it was still not enough.

So the disciples looked at Disciple Xu and said, "Brother...see what Senior Sister said."

"That's it. Take a rest."

Disciple Xu looked at Shi Qing lying on the bed, with a hint of bitterness on that handsome and dignified face. Even if he really wanted to stay, Senior Sister Cangying would not allow him.

"Senior Sister Shi Qing...is she okay?" the young man asked in a soft voice.

Cangying said: "Don't worry, I'm here."

She patted the young man's shoulder and advised softly: "The most important thing for you now is to have a good rest."

"...Yes." Disciple Xu nodded and finally left the room.

After going out, he met Zhongli Jin at the door.

The boy had just finished taking a medicinal bath, changed his clothes, and washed his face. There was no trace of the miserable appearance with blood coming out of all his orifices.

"How is Junior Brother Zhongli's health?" Disciple Xu asked with concern.

Zhongli Jin bowed to the young man and said, "It's all right now."

After taking the elixir and recuperating with the medicinal bath, his body has recovered well. He can now walk and mobilize his spiritual energy to regulate his breathing.

The boy's voice was calm and gentle, completely different from his previous childish appearance.

Disciple Xu was stunned for a moment - "You are..."

Zhongli Jin responded softly: "Yeah, I already remembered it."

At Bald Rock Ridge, when he saw Shi Qing cutting his wrists to let the blood flow and using his body to block the demon wolf, his memory was restored.

Perhaps the blood clot in the brain was sucked away along with the Red Blood Sealing Array.

That's why I asked it angrily and heartbrokenly after knowing what the Xu Nian Jue was.

"Senior Brother Xu needs to rest. I am fine now. If you are worried about Senior Sister Cang being on duty alone, let me stay and help." Zhong Li Jin said.

Disciple Xu smiled bitterly and said, “You have to ask Senior Sister Cang first. Senior Sister Shiqing is under her care. Whether she can help depends on what Senior Sister Cang thinks.”

"Okay." The young man passed by disciple Xu and was about to push open the door when he suddenly heard the young man say, "Junior Brother Zhongli."

"What's the matter, senior brother?" Zhongli Jin looked at Disciple Xu from the side.

The curve of the young man's lips was somewhat bitter and weak. He stared at the boy, not knowing whether he was looking at Zhongli Jin or at himself.

His voice was slightly hoarse as he gently advised: "Senior Sister Shi Qing...will never have the same thoughts as you and me in this life."

"Don't get too deep, that's all I can advise you."

After Disciple Xu finished speaking, he turned around and slowly left.

Zhongli Jin's hands were still on the door panel. The moment the young man finished speaking, his fingertips trembled slightly.

The words are very light, but every word carries a lot of weight.

The faint smile on his face gradually disappeared as the young man spoke.

"..."

Senior Brother Xu is right.

But that’s not right either.

There was a look of indifference between the boy's black pupils.

His eyes were slightly lowered, staring calmly at the threshold below, his gaze dim.

With its back to the light source, its fair face appears even darker under the night sky.

Shi Qing wouldn't have that thought, perhaps just because - this person is not strong enough.

If he could return to his peak moment, with a sword that shook the sky and his might that swallowed mountains and rivers, Shi Qing... would it still be like this?

The image of Shi Qing snuggling in Liu Muzhou's arms seemed to reappear in front of the young man's eyes.

——That man is very strong.

He is strong and sturdy, and has reached the peak of the late Jindan period. It won't be long before he breaks through to become a Yuanying.

Junior sister did say something quite good.

Shi Qing really likes strong people.

Even she herself, in order to become stronger, did not hesitate to enter the Dao of Death and practice the Void Thought Technique.

This kind of practice, without deliberate guidance, is generally not known to the public.

and so……

The young man clenched his fists and clenched them tightly.

He pursed his lips and frowned.

The leader is Shi Yue.

——So, what is your intention?
*
Chen Xiang held the letter papers in her hand. After returning to Sanqing Mountain, Shi Qing was taken to Baicao Pavilion. She wanted to go and take a look, but was stopped by Cangying, who asked her to go back and rest.

In desperation, Shen Xiang had to return to the blessed land of Sanqing first.

The headmaster was in seclusion, so she was the only one in this huge blessed land.

After pushing open the door of her room, she did not go back to bed to rest, but rummaged through the drawers in the room looking for something.

Finally, in one of the corners, she saw a black bag.

The black bag looked like it had been thrown away by someone. It was small and covered with dust.

That was when Shen Xiang came back from the mountain a few months ago and found the bag he had been carrying with him.

But in her amnesia state, she thought it was useless and threw it in a corner.

Now I know that it is the Qiankun bag in the sleeve. When you put something into the sleeve, the black cloth bag will automatically cover the entire pair of wide sleeves, and any object can be put into it.

Shen Xiang had no expression on his face and slowly opened the bag.

There seemed to be endless space inside the small black bag. She saw a wide variety of objects, all of which were small gadgets from towns on earth, as well as a sword and a pile of stationery.

Her breathing became heavier and her heart beat faster as she took out the pile of letter papers.

"..."

Of course, these words are uglier than her dog-crawling handwriting.

These are letters of reply from Shi Qing.

Chen Xiang was not good at calligraphy, but at least he could write it, and slowly he got used to using the brush.

Shi Qing, however, practiced swordplay all year round and seldom touched a pen, so naturally his handwriting was even uglier.

She read them one by one.

The beginning is always written by my junior sister herself.

These things complete the final pieces of the puzzle in my mind.

She leaned against the wall, looking at the letter that was closest to her.

The letter talked about the recent situation in Sanqing Mountain and mentioned the head master, saying that everything was fine.

Finally, Shi Qing asked, what do those two lines of poetry mean?
"..."

Unfortunately, before I could get a reply, the system made me lose my memory. Shen Xiang actually traveled to this world a long time ago.

The original owner, Ah Xiang, traveled through time when she was four years old.

She was brought back to the mountain gate by the head of the sect Shi Yue and became everyone's junior sister.

When she first came here, she was arrogant and looked down on these ancient people. She was always making trouble and was angry because the leader Dai Di was always partial to Shi Qing.

Because at that time she had substituted her real-world daddy for Shi Yue, so she couldn't stand the fact that her daddy had eyes for someone else, and gave her preference to Shi Qing.

She also hates Shi Qing. The system says that Shi Qing is a vicious female supporting role and will break off the engagement with the male protagonist after he is deposed in the future.

Taking all factors into consideration, she hated Shi Qing and always tried to make trouble for her. When something went wrong, she would put the blame on Shi Qing.

Unfortunately, the leader was a sensible person and could always see through her green tea tricks. He would then criticize her and put her in a dark room.

She was alone, cold and hungry at night, and hadn't yet gone on a fast. There were only three people in the Sanqing Blessed Land: her, Shi Qing, and the head of the sect, Dai Di.

In fact, if she apologized to Shi Qing, the headmaster would soften his heart and let her go back to her room to sleep and have a hot meal.

But Shen Xiang had just come out and was also stubborn. After all, how could a girl who grew up pampered and spoiled be willing to bow her head?
So she would rather starve than apologize.

However, her four-year-old body could not withstand the hunger and cold, and she fainted in the small dark room.

When she woke up again, she found herself in bed.

Shen Xiang's eyes were filled with pride, she knew that the headmaster must have been soft-hearted.

As a result, when he was leaving the house, the man asked in shock: "How did you get out?!"

Later she found out that it was Shi Qing who secretly took her out of the small dark room in the middle of the night and sent her back to her room.

Shen Xiang felt a little complicated, but she would not change her opinion of Shi Qing because of this.

She started to act even more because she wanted to tear apart the girl's calm and indifferent appearance and see her become hysterical like all the women she had met before.

She didn't believe that anyone would not be affected by her aura.

However, in the following years, no matter what she did or how she bullied Shi Qing, the other party always looked indifferent and had no intention of retaliating.

Concentrate on practicing swordplay and meditation, either in seclusion or regulating breathing.

There isn't even a hint of the deception and intrigue that occur between women and girls.

Shen Xiang realized that Shi Qing and the system said something different.

She wanted to see Shi Qing get angry, and when it went too far, the girl really ignored her.

At that moment, Shen Xiang felt as if he had lost something important in his heart, and he was so flustered that he was out of his mind.

Finally, she couldn't stand this feeling anymore and ran to make peace. When she found that Shi Qing didn't care, she was relieved, but at the same time she became more and more unwilling to accept it - why did she make her so flustered, but she was so calm? ?

So I started doing it again.

Until she was ten years old, she sneaked into the training team of Shuangjian Peak and went to a black mountain.

Chen Xiang had always wanted to see how these sword cultivators fought against monsters, but she didn't expect that even though she was hiding in the dark, she was discovered and carried away by a demon eagle!
Shi Qing found her and chased the magic eagle to a cave. The monsters would devour each other. The magic eagle's eggs were eaten by a magic wolf. The powerful magic wolf even swallowed the eagle and finally wanted to eat her.

Fortunately, Shi Qing arrived in time.

But Shi Qing was no match for a demon wolf of this level.

Her back was scratched by the wolf's sharp claws, blood was flowing, her clothes were torn, and she knelt on the ground, supporting her body with a sword.

Chen Xiang was held tightly in Shi Qing's arms.

At this moment, she realized clearly how stupid she had been before.

Why do we always believe those stereotyped and sarcastic labels? Why do we believe so much in the system's words? And refuse to believe what we see and feel with our own eyes?
Why did it take her six years and only now for her to understand this?

Shen Xiang broke down and cried.

She always wanted Shi Yue to make a choice between her and Shi Qing, and she always wanted Shi Qing to show the same malice in front of her as other women before she felt she had won.

She knew that her heart was twisted and perverted, and she knew that what she had done was excessive and bad.

But she couldn't control herself. She lacked a sense of security and always needed the tolerance of others to get a moment's comfort.

She was so wrong, and she really knew it.

"Run away, Junior Sister."

Shi Qing slowly let her go, holding up his body and letting the layers of bandages on his body fall off, revealing the extremely hideous patterns of spells underneath.

--"escape."

Chen Xiang didn't know when he escaped from the cave, nor did he know what happened to Shi Qing later.

When she came to her senses, Shi Yue was already standing in front of her, looking at her with disappointment in his eyes.

Then he stretched out his hand and slapped her hard.

That was the first time daddy hit her.

The blow caused her head to tilt to one side, and blood even flowed down the corner of her lips.

But Shen Xiang did not hate the man, she even felt that Shi Yue was right to beat him.

If I beat her to death, Shi Qing would be fine again.

She was willing to bear it.

*
At first, when Shen Xiang knew that she was engaged to Zhong Lijin, she was very happy and secretly went to see the hero several times.

I didn't expect the task to be so easy. It's different from what the system said. The one I'm getting married to is not Shi Qing, but me!

She only needs to show care to the male protagonist after he is deposed, be firm in her determination not to cancel the engagement, and form a Taoist couple with Zhongli Jin and ascend together to complete the task.

But after the accident at the age of ten, everything changed.

She doesn't like Zhongli Jin.

She didn't want to complete the mission, didn't want to follow the destined heroine route.

She wanted to stay in Sanqing Mountain, stay in this world, and stay with... Shi Qing.

So - break off the engagement.

Clear when requested.

She also had her own little despicable thoughts.

In this case, Zhongli Jin will definitely not like Shi Qing.

She would have one less strong rival.

Two years passed, and each day felt like a year. Even though I traveled everywhere and looked everywhere, the fire of longing in my heart still burned more and more fiercely.

Her personality has become much calmer, of course, this is on the surface.

Only Shen Xiang himself knows.

She became more ill.

Finally, I will be able to return to Sanqing Mountain in a month and see my senior sister.

Who would have known that the system, which had been silent for two years, would give her a heavy blow in the last month after returning.

Fortunately, whether it is myself before or after losing my memory - I am essentially the same person.

So before she lost her memory, she fell in love with Shi Qing.

The same happens after losing memory.

This was not anticipated by the system.

*
Shen Xiang huddled in a corner, sorting out the letters he and Shi Qing had exchanged over the past two years.

Store it like a treasure.

Shi Qing asked in the letter what "If you are looking for a good match in the Red Mansion, Mr. Xue is worthy of being paired with Concubine Xiang" meant.

Shen Xiang didn't have time to reply.

So now she could only face Shi Qing's letter and say faintly, "Senior Sister."

"Lord Hengwu and Concubine Xiaoxiang are a perfect match..."

Here we come!!! Everyone’s memory has been restored!!! Hahahaha!!

Therefore, Zhongli Jin, Chen Xiang, the original male and female protagonists - began to have their own ulterior motives.