Chapter 61 [061] Luo Zhenyue
"Zhongli Jin's spiritual roots do need figs, but - that should be his own business, you don't have to bring it up." Chen Xiang stood beside Shi Qing, looking at the three people who were busy collecting herbs at the edge of the middle valley, and asked with some questioning.

When Cangying and the other two went to pick red spider lilies, Shiqing and Chen Xiang were guarding alone on the other side.

The conditions for picking red spider lilies are very harsh. The two of them don't know anything about herbs, so naturally they don't dare to approach rashly.

Before Shi Qing responded, Shen Xiang spoke again: "Did Daidi ask you to take care of Zhong Lijin and get the figs?"

If no one else had mentioned the effect of the figs, Shi Qing would not have known about it as he was concentrating on practicing sword skills, and it was even more impossible for him to pick them deliberately for Zhong Li Jin.

Shi Qing said calmly: "No."

"No?" Chen Xiang was stunned, his eyes darkened, "So you want to collect figs for Zhongli Jin yourself? Why? Do you like him??"

Shi Qing: “…”

——There’s no need to make such a big leap.

Chen Xiang, dressed in a charming red, suddenly stepped forward and looked up at Shi Qing, a little aggrieved, "The effect of figs is only for those who need to reshape or transplant spiritual roots. Among us, only Junior Brother Zhongli Jin needs it to stabilize his spiritual roots. Since you didn't ask you to take care of Zhongli Jin, I can only think that you wanted to get it for Junior Brother. Senior Sister, tell me honestly, do you really like Zhongli Jin?"

Shi Qing explained: "Master said that I can use it as medicine."

"Master, what's wrong?" Chen Xiang frowned, "He said... you can use figs as medicine?"

"Yeah," Shi Qing nodded: "It's good."

Shen Xiang: “…”

Although she knew that Shi Qing was not looking for the figs for Zhongli Jin, she still couldn't be happy.

Why did the headmaster say so?
If figs have only one effect, why would we need them?
[System, has Shi Qing's spiritual roots been destroyed? ]

The sound of electricity flowed through Shen Xiang's mind, and the system's cold and mocking voice sounded: [I didn't know that when the mission started, she had already been practicing in Sanqing Mountain, idiot. ]

Shi Qing glanced at Shen Xiang.

She heard the conversation between the two again.

However, judging from the tone now, it seems that the so-called system has been controlled by the junior sister and is no longer leading her by the nose.

The system's voice did not succeed in angering Shen Xiang. She only had use for this thing now and would not be affected by it at all.

If the headmaster had not specifically warned people not to talk about certain things, Shi Qing would have been able to answer almost every question.

So it’s best to just ask.

Shen Xiang held Shi Qing's hand. Her hands were not like those of ordinary girls, "hands as soft as catkins and skin as white as cream". Instead, due to years of sword practice, she had calluses on her hands and her grip was a little rough.

But Shen Xiang liked it very much. Even if it was just a temporary pull, their fingers had to be interlocked.

"Senior Sister, I have a few questions for you," she said.

"What's the matter?" Shi Qing responded calmly.

Chen Xiang asked: "Have your spiritual roots ever been destroyed?"

Shi Qing shook his head: "No."

"Then - is it a transplant?" This is the second possibility. Although the possibility is not high, I still have to ask.

Shi Qing still shook his head.

"No?" Shen Xiang frowned.

Unexpectedly, Shi Qing meant - "I don't know."

She did not lie. After being rescued from the foot of the mountain by her master and waking up from her coma, she was accepted as a disciple by Shi Yue and stayed in the Sanqing Blessed Land to personally teach her the skills.

“…” Shen Xiang pursed her lips slightly, she knew that Shi Qing was telling the truth.

"Senior Sister, from now on, no one except Senior Sister Cang can know that you need figs."

"Yeah." Shi Qing did not ask the reason. After all, as a naughty child, the fact that the junior sister could tell him something so seriously showed that even she herself thought it was important.

What is a big deal for naughty kids is an even bigger deal for adults.

Shen Xiang’s logic makes sense.

In the world of cultivation, any little movement can be deduced into a whole chain of logic to put labels on others.

Shi Qing needed figs simply to reshape her spiritual roots or transplant them, but she had been practicing since she was a child, and her spiritual roots had never been destroyed. Therefore, if outsiders knew about it, they would definitely think that Shi Qing's spiritual roots were transplanted. That kind of transplantation method requires dissecting the spiritual roots and planting them while the person is still alive. It is extremely cruel and terrifying, and the scene is bloody. The person being dissected is in excruciating pain, and it is a unorthodox practice that is not tolerated by the orthodox.

If this matter were to be exposed, it would be inevitable that some thieves who have been keeping an eye on the movements of Sanqing Mountain would make a big fuss about it.

*
Suddenly, there was a splash of water above the valley!
Shi Qing caught the sound and instantly appeared on the river like the wind, with the snow-white sword under her feet. Her eyes were as sharp as a knife, sweeping across the river surface where unknown aquatic plants were floating from far to near.

Seeing this, Cangying smiled and said, "Don't be too nervous. It should be a kind of aquatic creature in the Santu River in Huangquan Valley, called the Burial Fish. Their food is the brown grass on the surface of this river."

After Shi Qing heard this, the tense and powerful aura around him disappeared without a trace in an instant.

After saying "Oh", Yu Jian returned to the shore.

Chen Xiang was still talking to Shi Qing, but she suddenly disappeared in a flash, and she was almost scared.

"...You are too fast." Shen Xiang said.

Shi Qing: "Save people, quickly."

She put away her sword and stood obediently on the shore. Shen Xiang felt that she was like a security guard guarding a big star's event. She smiled and said, "Senior sister! You are so amazing."

"Yeah." Shi Qing felt very comfortable with this kind of compliment, and raised his head slightly: "I am strong."

Shen Xiang: “…”

Well, how can it not be considered a kind of admiration for the strong?

Two seconds later, there was movement on the water surface again.

Shi Qing looked over and suddenly noticed a hand!

"Something's wrong."

She rushed over again, and this time the snow-white bandage seemed to have found the target. It suddenly dived into the river and pulled out the girl who was struggling hard but to no avail!
"Shi Qing?!!!" Cangying was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth when he saw this!
no--!
How could someone swim in this Sanzu River? ! !
Seeing this, Zhongli Jin and disciple Xu hurriedly left the red spider lily bush and returned to the shore.

It was unknown how long the unconscious girl had been soaking in the Santuo River. Her whole body was covered with spiritual power. She must have had a magic weapon on her that prevented her from being harmed by the miasma of the Santuo River.

Cangying gave her a quick check and found that she was fine, so she gave her some blood-replenishing pills. After a while, her eyelashes moved slightly, and she slowly opened her eyes and woke up.

"Who... are you?" Her voice was a little weak. She glanced at everyone present, but was startled when she saw Zhong Lijin: "Zhong, Zhongli - cough cough!!"

The girl coughed twice, and when she saw the boy's eyes seemed a little excited, "It's you?!"

Everyone: "..."

The collected land, the rescued girl, the excitement of waking up, and the sight of Zhongli.

——Why does this script sound so familiar? ! !

Shen Xiang's heart was filled with alarm. [System? ? ?]

[…It’s not me.]

Shi Qing: “…”

The five men suddenly stood three feet away from the girl, as if they were facing a formidable enemy.

"What, what happened?" The girl was a little surprised. She saw Zhongli Jin and the other four people suddenly staring at her with a scrutinizing, wary and vigilant look.

"It's me! Brother Zhongli! Have you forgotten?!"

Zhongli Jin: “…” Liu Xitong had said something similar before.

"Young lady," Zhongli Jin said, still maintaining his courtesy, "why are you alone in the Santu River in Huangquan Valley?"

The girl said anxiously: "I am not alone, I have fellow disciples! But we met a three-path dragon and were defeated!"

Five people:"……"

It's exactly the same story as Zhou Xiaowu's! !

Cangying asked: "If that's the case, then tell me, what's your name, where do you live, how old are you, who is your master, why are you here, and what's your purpose?!"

The girl seemed to have never been questioned like this before. She immediately got angry and said angrily with red eyes: "Who do you think you are? How dare you question me like this?! I am Luo Zhenyue, the daughter of the leader of Xiaoyun Sect! What sect are you from?!"

Cangying: "Luo Zhenyue?"

Chen Xiang: "Luo...Zhenyue?"

Shi Qing: "...Stiff neck?"

This sounds familiar, it seems like this person really exists.

Zhong Lijin seemed to remember: "You are... Miss Luo?"

"Brother Zhongli! You still remember me!" Luo Zhenyue seemed very happy. She got up and excitedly rushed up to hug Zhongli Jin.

The young man suddenly dodged, seeing that she was wet all over and smelled of the miasma of the Sanzu River, he really didn't want her to get too close to him.

"Miss Luo," Zhong Lijin raised his hand and bowed, smiling, "It's been more than two years since we last met. You've become even more charming than before."

Cangying: “…”

She discovered that her junior fellow apprentice was also very capable of telling lies with his eyes open.

Facing this girl with waterweed on her head, her body sticky and wet, and smelling of the Sanzu River water, how could he remain calm and still gently praise her with the words "colorful and moving"? ? ?
“Brother Zhongli, I heard everything!” Luo Zhenyue said indignantly, “Your spiritual roots were destroyed by the demon cultivators, and most of the mountain sect was slaughtered. You already suffered setbacks, but who would have thought that Shi Qing from Sanqing Mountain would come to cancel the engagement right after you were abandoned. It was so heartless and ungrateful! I’m so angry!”

Cangying poked Shiqing with her elbow: "Point at you."

Shi Qing: “…”

Catching Cangying's words, Luo Zhenyue suddenly looked at Shi Qing beside him: "You are Shi Qing?!!"

"It's all a misunderstanding." Zhong Lijin said immediately: "The person I married was not her."

"It's not her? How is that possible! Why would she come to cancel the engagement if it's not her?! Brother Zhongli, how can you be so kind?! You don't have to say good things for her! This kind of person! Is so shameless!" Luo Zhenyue didn't believe it.

Cangying: “…”

Shi Qing: “…”

They believed that the girl in front of them was definitely not a person with ulterior motives like Liu Xitong and Zhou Xiaowu.

This demeanor, this way of speaking, this arrogant look...

Cangying and Shiqing shifted their gazes at the same time, their eyes falling on Shen Xiang who was standing beside them.

Chen Xiang: “…”? ? ?
Chen Xiang hurried forward and said, "It's indeed not Senior Sister Shi Qing, because the one who married Junior Brother Zhongli is me!"

Since Zhongli Jin already knew the truth about the broken engagement, there was no need to continue to allow others to misunderstand Shi Qing. "I like Junior Brother Zhongli, so we got married, but later I didn't like him anymore, so naturally I had to break off the engagement."

Luo Zhenyue's face turned red with anger: "What did you say?! It was you?! You are such a heartless and ungrateful villain!"

Chen Xiang raised an eyebrow: "How did you add insult to injury? I was planning to cancel the engagement, but the timing was not right. Besides, Junior Brother Zhongli must not have cared about this marriage at first, right?"

She looked at Zhongli Jin.

"Young Senior Sister is right." The young man nodded, "Junior Brother doesn't have such intentions either. His goal in this life is to achieve enlightenment and become an immortal, so he naturally doesn't want to be bothered by love affairs."

After Zhong Lijin finished speaking, Luo Zhenyue suddenly felt extremely disappointed: "Ah? You... don't plan to find a dual cultivation partner? Obviously that would be faster."

"The method of dual cultivation, with the complementation of yin and yang, can indeed speed up the progress, but it will also invisibly add many causes and effects, which is not conducive to overcoming the final thunder tribulation. Speaking of which, why is Miss Luo here?" Zhongli Jin asked, changing the subject.

Luo Zhenyue threw away the water plants on her head in disgust, and used the body purification technique to clean her body. When she heard the boy's question, she looked at him distressedly and said, "It's for you, Brother Zhongli."

Zhongli Jin: “…”

Slowly type a "?"

Luo Zhenyue said, "I heard that the figs in Huangquan Valley are extremely beneficial to those who have reshaped their spiritual roots. They only bear fruit once every fifty years, so this time I specially asked my senior brothers to bring me here, just to find figs for you to use as medicine!"

Cangying: “…”

She glanced at Shi Qing.

Oh, someone thinks the same as you.

Zhongli Jin came to Huangquan Valley this time with the intention of finding the fig.

If it could be used as medicine, after taking it, the speed at which his spiritual roots absorbed spiritual energy would be greatly increased.

“Thank you for your kindness, Miss Luo.” Zhongli Jin lowered his eyes and raised his hand, saying politely, “But I can get the figs myself, and I will help you find your fellow disciples later, and then leave here with them. Huangquan Valley is closest to Ksitigarbha, and apart from the Three Paths Dragon, I don’t know if there are any dangers.”

"Why are you so distant again?" Luo Zhenyue looked aggrieved and disappointed, "You called me Zhenyue before."

Zhongli Jin: “…”

That was in the past too.

The first time he went to Xiaoyun Sect with his father, he called her Miss Luo twice when she was introduced. Later, starting from the competition for cultivators a few years ago, he always called her Miss Luo.

Luo Zhenyue was very unhappy at that time and insisted that she call him Zhenyue. She had no choice but to call him that again.

The fourteen-year-old Zhongli Jin was still relatively young. Although he was annoyed by the admiration of the beautiful girls, he did not mind it.

Now that I think about it, I was too naive and frivolous at the time. I should have made my heart clear to myself earlier, otherwise I wouldn't have been surrounded by so many romantic interests.

The old man teased him in his mind: [Poor thing, it's the same old story again. You are so popular with girls, but you want to cultivate the ruthless way.]

Zhongli Jin: […Senior.]

He became more and more helpless and even began to grit his teeth.

*
[Luo Zhenyue? Little bitch.] The system suddenly gritted its teeth and cursed.

Chen Xiang sneered: [You know him again? ]

[How dare you covet Zhongli Jin, you are so ignorant of your own abilities! ]

Chen Xiang: [Don’t introduce yourself. ]

She is now criticizing the system in various ways.

[Host, she is not an easy person to deal with! I have a handle on you, so I naturally don’t dare to harm you. Please listen to me this time. She dares to put a curse on the male protagonist! ]

In the original novel, a group of people rescued Luo Zhenyue in Huangquan Valley. In order to be with Zhongli Jin, she even used love poison to seduce the young man. Fortunately, the hero's Taoism heart was strong and unbreakable, so he did not succeed.

[Since Zhongli Jin can survive, what are you worried about? ] Shen Xiang raised an eyebrow, but didn't care.

[But if this happens, the male protagonist will be tortured by the love poison every night! He must have sex with a mermaid to get rid of the poison! ]

Chen Xiang: [Oh, so what? What? You still want to have sex? ]

System: [……] It’s about to explode!

One day it will kill Shen Xiang! Take this body! And be with Zhong Lijin forever!!!
I’m updating early today!!! Good afternoon! I have to take an exam tomorrow and leave tonight, so I don’t have time to write at night, so I’m updating in advance!