books44 Chapter 5 Are you surprised? Is it surprising?
Chapter 5 Are you surprised? Is it surprising?
Li Tingyun's body floated, surrounded by a soft halo of light that enveloped him.
It was the person opposite who cast the spell, intending to "pick" him out of the messy pile of corpses.
The distance between Li Tingyun and him gradually shortened, and then he landed steadily. Due to the significant height difference, he could only look up and linger on the other person's face for a long time before quietly looking away.
It's fucking gorgeous.
[Host, I didn't expect you to be a member of the "looks-matter" club?]
"It wasn't before, but it is now."
[Vulgar, utterly vulgar.]
"I just can't believe that you could write such an incredibly good-looking character."
[You flatter me, you flatter me.]
[I have deeply inherited the essence of Jin Yong's writing style; my characters are all handsome men and beautiful women, and I avoid anything ugly.]
After all, we can't write literature with the depth of appreciating ugliness, but we do have some understanding of the superficiality of those who fawn over pretty faces.
"Vulgar, extremely vulgar."
【…】
[Host, listen carefully. He is the protagonist's first master, and the person who had the greatest influence on the protagonist's life—Mei Shiyu, the peak master of the Hidden Sword Peak of the Dao Xuan Sect.]
Li Tingyun's smile froze. "Say that again?"
[Surprised? Unexpected?]
He is indeed Mei Shiyu, a sword cultivator from the Dao Xuan Sect.
In the original text, Mei Shiyu was the most talented sword cultivator of Dao Xuanzong, the top sect of the ten immortal sects. However, for some unknown reason, he betrayed the righteous path and submitted to Taiji Palace for decades.
He and Li Tingyun colluded and committed countless evil deeds.
But in reality, he was an undercover agent who endured humiliation and hardship.
The villains gave him tasks, but he failed to complete a single one.
Despite the fact that he had already fallen so low, Li Tingyun remained completely oblivious and continued to entrust him with important responsibilities.
The villains in the original book are truly baffling in their intelligence; they lack everything and rely solely on brute force.
However, the author, Wang Laoliu, loves to write plot twists, sometimes they are truly amazing, and sometimes they are so shocking that they can kill you.
Li Tingyun never suspected Mei Shiyu, but she killed him by a twist of fate, destroying his body and soul so that he would never be reincarnated.
Wang Laoliu arranged this part of the story very down-to-earth.
The reason was that Li Tingyun had a stunningly beautiful woman by his side. This woman was so capricious that she fell in love with both Li Tingyun and Mei Shiyu at the same time.
One day, while she was being intimate with Li Tingyun, she tearfully confessed her feelings.
Li Tingyun's thought process was quite peculiar; he directly called Mei Shiyu over to him.
He said, "It would be so much fun if the three of us were together."
The three of us.
Mei Shiyu had probably never seen such a shameless person in his life.
She resolutely rejected him.
Li Tingyun was enraged and, in a fit of rage, killed him and scattered his ashes in the wind.
Is this some kind of brain-dead plot that carbon-based life forms could come up with?
Li Tingyun really wanted to know what kind of emotional trauma Wang Laoliu had experienced to write such a shameless and unscrupulous plot.
This has led to everyone gouging out their own eyes, fearing that looking at it for too long will turn them into idiots. In the comments section, everyone is offering a hefty sum to buy a pair of unpolluted eyes.
Oh dear, it's not entirely my fault!
At the time, the book was very popular, attracting many female readers. They suggested that the supporting characters be made more three-dimensional, for example, adding more romantic subplots between Li Tingyun and Mei Shiyu.
"So you just added a threesome?"
They say they want a love that's earth-shattering. Isn't that earth-shattering enough?
"……enough!"
Li Tingyun decisively ended the conversation. At that moment, Mei Shiyu had already placed her hand on his shoulder and called out to him—
"Yuan Che".
Yuan Che, Yuan Che... Isn't that the protagonist's full name?!
Li Tingyun gasped. Everything was in chaos.
[Hiss... Northwest Shanxi is in complete chaos.]
Mei Shiyu's expression was complicated, with a hint of bewilderment and guilt in his eyes.
"Sorry, I'm late again this time..."
"Yuan Che, come with me."
Li Tingyun flatly refused, "My name is not Yuan Che, you have mistaken me for someone else."
He pointed to the mess behind him, with corpses strewn about, a truly tragic scene. "Go look for him there."
Mei Shiyu looked at the jade pendant hanging from his belt, bent down and took it off, saying, "This is a magical artifact from the cultivation world, which is not commonly seen in the mortal realm. Yuan Che, you probably don't remember the past karmic connections."
Mei Shiyu recalled his master, who was also the sect leader of Dao Xuan Sect. When he was traveling around, he passed by Lingxi Village and met Yuan Che who was born. He discovered that Yuan Che had a unique spiritual root and was a good candidate for cultivating immortality. So he personally put the jade pendant into Yuan Che's swaddling clothes.
Li Tingyun also realized that this plot was in the book, and now he was in trouble; he couldn't explain himself.
Should we admit that he stripped the protagonist of his clothes and that he obtained the jade pendant against his conscience?
"Yuan Che, is it because your relatives and friends have not found peace and you have something to worry about?"
"not me……"
"No need to say more."
Mei Shiyu slowly shook her head. It seemed that this child was very wary and would not easily trust others.
"How about this, I will perform a ritual to help their souls find peace and settle your worldly ties."
Li Tingyun shut his mouth and didn't say anything. He lowered his head and kicked the pebbles at his feet, secretly making plans in his mind.
It's good that he helped these souls find peace; it's like he salvaged the terrible situation for the villain.
Call system: "Sixth Brother, are you still there?"
Hey, I'm here.
"I'll try to escape as soon as he forms his formation, but do you think I can get away?"
[Since the host already knows the answer, why ask me again? For a mortal to try to evade a cultivator's six senses is simply humiliating.]
[I think you should just admit you stole the protagonist's things, return them, and apologize, then that's all.]
"You're really talking without any sense of the situation."
"I'm currently wearing the face of a villain in his childhood, without any magic power or cultivation. How am I supposed to survive?"
"Taking the protagonist's magical artifact is indeed immoral, but with his life hanging by a thread, who cares about his shamelessness?"
[So what if it's immoral? Why make excuses?]
"..."
Li Tingyun remained indifferent, raising his eyes to look at Mei Shiyu, "Immortal Venerable... can you really help me deliver these lost souls?"
Mei Shiyu smiled gently and lightly, holding a sword in her right hand. The sword hummed and suddenly flew out of her hand, turning into sword energy.
The blade grazed past the boy in front of him.
In a split second, Li Tingyun's heart trembled.
The longsword pierced through the air, as sharp as frost and snow, barely avoiding the boy's body, and flew towards the mess behind him, its roar causing mountains to crumble and its shout causing the wind and clouds to change color.
Li Tingyun turned around following the direction the sword's edge pointed, staring intently at the divine weapon, thinking, "This is... the Azure Frost Sword?"
Yes, Mei Shiyu always carries the sword Qing Shuang. Sword cultivators treat their swords like wives, and if given the right opportunity, they can even nurture a sword spirit.
The hilt of the Azure Frost Sword remained untouched, yet it moved freely, spinning several times and leaving countless afterimages that transformed into forbidden runes, forming an array above the mountain of corpses and sea of blood.
Mei Shiyu flew into the center of the magic array, moving so fast that he stepped on the ground silently and left no trace.
He channeled the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into himself, then poured it into the formation, causing countless fluorescent blue light spots to burst forth.
[As expected of a top-grade ice spirit root... the spiritual energy is so pure.]
Among the five elements of spiritual roots, only the fusion and mutation of the water and wood attributes can produce the ice spiritual root.
Those with extraordinary spiritual roots possess innate talents.
"Soul—come back!"
A gust of wind dispersed the foul air, and Li Tingyun raised his arm and face to block the incoming shockwave.
He saw the purest and most pristine spiritual energy spreading out in an instant through the gaps between his fingers.
A waterfall of fluorescent blue light, like the sky after the rain, completely enveloped the entire pile of bones.
As the ethereal Taoist music was chanted, the bones gradually disappeared, returning to all things.
All the filth in the world has been reduced to fragments, dust, and grime.