Chapter 72: Rotten wood cannot be carved

  Ye Jingchen suddenly appeared out of nowhere, giving me quite a fright. Then he came up with such a nonsensical sentence, leaving me bewildered: "What did you say?"

  "I know what you're thinking, he's not Ge Fei and won't treat you with the same single-minded devotion as Ge Fei did. Didn't Ge Fei tell you to leave before he left? Why are you still sticking around here? He has countless enemies, it's very dangerous for you to follow him, sooner or later you'll lose your life. Leave him and go back to living a good life." Ye Jingchen sat down in the chair, his sword-like eyebrows furrowed, speaking to me with a serious and sincere tone.

  I was baffled, he always appeared and disappeared mysteriously, every time he showed up, he would say a bunch of inexplicable things, and wasn't he a fox demon? What's the point of running to the mortal world for no reason? And why did he hate Ge Fei... or Xu Shiwei, anyway they're all the same. When I had nowhere else to go, he suddenly appeared again.

  To be honest, I didn't think he was a bad person, otherwise, I wouldn't have gone to ask for his help that day. I looked at him with suspicion: "What makes you say that? I know you've always disliked Ge Fei... or rather, Xu Shiwei, and several years ago you even threatened Ge Fei to leave me. Is that right?"

  "Yes." Ye Jingchen admitted without hesitation.

  Sure, here is the translation:

  "As expected, I was a bit angry: 'Why?'"

  "Because you won't have a good outcome." He still said this.

  I couldn't help but wonder how he could be so certain. I looked at him, my words laced with a hint of hostility: "Can you predict the future?"

  "Foreknowledge only works on ordinary people, it has no effect on someone like you." Ye Jingchen was indeed honest, in fact if he said he really could foreknow things, I would probably believe him.

  As for Ye Jingchen, I'm not afraid of him now. Instead, I find him very familiar. Ever since that time when I left his house, every time I see him, I have a feeling of déjà vu. So, speaking to him is also quite casual: "Your meaning is...I'm not an ordinary person."

  "I am Ye Jingchen's junior sister, how can I be an ordinary person?" Ye Jingchen's sword-like eyebrows slightly raised, and his delicate and handsome face revealed a rarely seen smile.

  "Ah, my junior sister! I was shocked in my heart, but on the surface, I remained calm and composed: "How can you be so sure that I'm your junior sister? Maybe I just happen to look a bit like her."

  "Because of the chill on your body, of course. Those Taoist priests call it yin energy." Ye Jingchen had a smile in his eyes and didn't seem as serious as usual.

  Actually, I had thought about this problem before. These days, someone has been calling me Xiangxiang, and twice there was something about the "Mystic Ice Technique". He Lianshuo even said that the Mystic Ice Technique was mine, at the time I just thought he was talking nonsense. Now thinking back, it seems there are many suspicious points. Could it be... that I am really the reincarnation of Xiangxiang? Even if I were, I would still be me, and no matter what, it's impossible for me to suddenly become Xiangxiang. Besides, I still think that I'm not Xiangxiang. If I were really Xiangxiang, wouldn't I have been born with spiritual powers or something? How could those dead ghosts scare me so much that my soul would leave my body?

  I smiled at him: "Your junior sister must be very powerful, right?"

  "That's for sure, within the six realms, only she can cultivate the Xuanbing technique to perfection." Ye Jingchen said this with a hint of pride in his eyes.

  No matter how powerful, it's still a dead end! It can be seen that whether one is dead or not has nothing to do with being powerful or not. No matter how formidable, in the end, one will still die. Of course, I can only say this in my heart and dare not speak it out loud.

  I spread out my hands: "This isn't right, your junior sister is so formidable, but I'm just an ordinary person. Even if I were reborn, I should have some spiritual power. Look at me, not to mention spiritual power, I don't even have much physical strength."

  "That's because I sealed your spiritual power when you were born, but you still broke through that seal. Otherwise, do you think you would have the yin-yang eyes and the wound on your foot? Do you think an ordinary person could be injured like that and still run around calmly all day?" As he spoke, Ye Jingchen glanced at my miserable-looking feet.

  He then looked gloomy and said: "I thought you would never meet that person in this lifetime, who knew such an accident happened, I miscalculated."

  Although I'm not clever, I still understand his meaning. He thought that by sealing my spiritual power, I would never meet Ge Fei in this lifetime, or rather, Xu Shiwei. Thinking of this, I suddenly remembered what Xu Shiwei said, and I had an epiphany - Ye Jingchen has been stopping him from going to Qing'an all along because he was afraid that I would meet him!

  Why did he want to do this? He has a crush on me! I took a sneak peek at him and it's obviously not.

  If not, then what other reason is there? Even if I am his junior sister, he only treats me as a younger sister. A younger sister falls in love, what business is it of his? Why does he care so much? I was extremely perplexed: "Why do this?"

  Ye Jingchen was silent for a moment, his face gloomy as he replied: "He's not a good person!"

  "He's a good person everywhere! I think he may have a bad mouth, but he's absolutely not the kind of bad person you said." As for Ye Jingchen's words, I don't agree.

  Ye Jingchen's emotions had never fluctuated much, his face still wore the same gloom as before, only it was even more severe: "That's just for others, that's just for Jiang Manyun."

  "How can you be so sure? You said Xue Lang was very dangerous before!" I had too many questions in my mind, if Ye Jingchen could save Xue Lang, why did he say that Xue Lang would harm me?

  Ye Jingchen looks cold on the surface, giving people a sense of being out of reach, but his temper is actually quite good. I asked so many questions, and he was still very patient in explaining to me: "Xue Lang is a wolf demon, you know that, right?"

  "Uh-huh," I nodded, but he's a wolf demon and hasn't harmed me anyway.

  I don't understand, Ye Jingchen is friends with him, why would he want to harm me when I'm around? Do I have a grudge against him or something?

  "Do you know why he's called Xue Lang? Because... it's a homophone for Snow Wolf, and he's the crown prince of the Snow Wolf clan. But their wolf tribe doesn't have a king." He said this while looking at me with profound meaning.

  His gaze made me wonder: "What are you looking at me like that for? Could I still be the king of their wolf tribe?"

  "Of course not!" I could see that he was a bit speechless: "The king of the wolf tribe, Cangyuan, died over 3,000 years ago at the hands of Chen Xiang, and his mother, the queen of the Snow Wolf Tribe, also took her own life after her husband's death. At that time, Xue Lang had just been born, and he shouldered the heavy responsibility of the Snow Wolf tribe from a young age. I saw how pitiful he was, so I took him as my apprentice. Since he grew up and learned to take human form, he has been investigating the cause of Cangyuan's death all these years. If he ever finds out that it was Chen Xiang who killed Cangyuan, do you think he will let you off?"

  "That was your junior sister who killed him, not me." I felt a little scared in my heart, but on the surface, I still pretended to be calm. To be honest, I didn't want to admit that I was his junior sister.

  Ye Jingchen looked at me with a serious and solemn expression: "Whether you admit it or not, you are Chen Xiang. This is an unchangeable fact. If you don't want to leave, then cultivate well and try to achieve enlightenment as soon as possible. The Reincarnation Mirror was placed in your body by me that day. As long as you cultivate well, one day you will use it. Also, keep a distance from Xu Shiwei."

  What? Cultivation, Reincarnation Mirror... Nima, I'm not a Taoist nun, what's the point of cultivating?! Besides, I just want to be an ordinary person, living a good life is enough, why do I need to cultivate?! And can cultivation even save Ge Fei?! Eh, right! Thinking about it, I immediately asked Ye Jingchen: "Can cultivation save Ge Fei?"

  "No!" Ye Jingchen's face turned pale: "I told you, Ge Fei is just Xu Shiwei's spirit body, I tried my best to stop him, but he still went back, so don't think about these unrealistic things, focus on your cultivation."

  "If cultivation can't save Ge Fei, then why should I cultivate? I don't want to be an immortal anyway!" As soon as I heard that it couldn't save Ge Fei, I lost even more interest in cultivation.

  Ye Jingchen looked at me with a resentful expression: "I'm telling you, if you don't cultivate properly and something happens to you, who can help you? Now that you've broken through the seal, even if you don't provoke others, they'll still come after you! There's a bunch of them outside the door, do I need to let them in for you? Do you think just because Xu Shiwei warned them, they really wouldn't dare to come in? I'm telling you, your cold aura is enough to raise their cultivation by thousands of years, and they're all eagerly waiting for the chance to swallow you whole!"

  As he spoke, he was about to go open the door. Damn it, what if he's really coming?! Son of a bitch, what if that group of ghostly things all rush in and tear me apart?!

  "Hurry... hurry... I'll fix it! I'll fix it."

  If it weren't for him pushing me to this point, I would absolutely not agree to any crappy cultivation. Even if it's a long time later, when I no longer need to rely on others, I still hope that from the beginning, I didn't do any crappy cultivation. At least... at that time, I was in need of protection, at least, at that time, I was just a woman who needed protection...

  Ye Jingchen saw that I had agreed, and only then did he turn back with a satisfied expression. He raised his hand to gently stroke my hair, and a hint of bitter smile floated on the corner of his mouth: "Chen Xiang, it's not that your brother wants to force you, but rather your brother doesn't want a tragedy to repeat itself. Alright, he'll be back soon, I'll leave first. You must remember, no matter what, keep a distance from him. For your own sake, and for the sake of your loved ones."

  "Hey, hey! How to cultivate..." I hadn't even finished speaking, and he vanished, truly a ghostly figure! Never mind, never mind, he didn't say how to cultivate anyway. I'll just pretend he never mentioned cultivating. Alas, I'm indeed a useless, unambitious blockhead, a rotten log. Hmm, a rotten log can't be carved, and that's exactly what I am - an uncarvable lazy blockhead.

  "Lin Sijia, I bought pei dan shou rou zhou..." As expected, Ye Jingchen had just disappeared for a while, and Xu Shiwei was back. He was holding two paper bags in his hand, and when he walked to the front of the bed, he suddenly stopped and looked at me with a gloomy face: "Did Ye Jingchen come?"