bullyxtreme Chapter 231 What was our relationship in our past life?
Chapter 231 What was our relationship in our past life?
As soon as Li Tingyun said it, she changed her mind: "It's not liking, it's love."
"I want to say, I love..."
Mei Shiyu quickly covered his mouth.
This should have been a resounding slap, but for some reason, he didn't "wake him up" like he had done before when he punished that little brat Yuanbao for his insubordination.
Instead, they frantically covered his mouth and silenced him.
"Don't say that... I, I don't understand... No, it's not that I don't understand, I just..."
"I just don't know how to respond to you!"
"If you want to say another word to me, don't bring this up again!"
Mei Shiyu was flustered and confused. "This line is over, what's the next one?"
Li Tingyun said sadly, "I have something to confess to you."
“I…I transferred your merits away. Si Wuxie and Xia Changfeng did it for me. I didn’t originally intend to transfer yours…Never mind, no matter what, it’s all my fault.”
"I guess I was punished by heaven because I was too immoral, and I was turned into a child. All my cultivation and everything else is gone. I can't do anything. The only way to turn back is to make up for my lost merits."
"Xue Shi said that the merit book would be automatically corrected, which I actually knew. Transferring merit is not a good method, but I'm in a hurry. If I were to do good deeds and accumulate merit, it would take forever, and I can't wait that long."
"My original plan was to change back first, retrieve the Dividing Realm Sword for you, and you wouldn't have to take that risk. Then, I would return to the Demon Abyss..."
Although he doesn't know what's inside the Demon Abyss yet, the Book of Merits can be revised at any time, and he might soon regress to the age of twelve. If he stays outside, he'll definitely be a rat crossing the street, hated by everyone. It's better to go and venture into the Demon Abyss.
In the original story of Wang Laoliu, the villains often went to the Demon Abyss, so it was probably not a dangerous place.
Mei Shiyu asked, "Are you finished?"
Li Tingyun hummed in agreement.
"Is it the truth?"
"Realer than real gold."
His tone was strangely obedient.
It's not an act; it's just that he did something wrong and was in the wrong, so he became dejected.
Seeing his expression, Mei Shiyu couldn't help but chuckle. "Alright, I understand. You can transfer my merits as you please. I'm not undergoing tribulation for the time being, so what's the big deal?"
Li Tingyun never expected him to react this way, to have this attitude. "You...you don't blame me?"
"What's the point of me blaming you or not?" Mei Shiyu scolded lightly, "You've really lost all your virtue! Even Heaven couldn't stand it anymore, so it punished you by turning you into a child. Even after being punished, you don't learn your lesson and still want to take crooked paths and deceive the heavens? Li Tingyun, why can't you learn anything good?!"
Li Tingyun kept watching him and listening to his rant, her soul practically floating away.
That's so good... He's so good.
How can he be so kind?
There is such a good person as him in this world.
Li Tingyun was so good to him that she would die for him a hundred times, a thousand times, ten thousand times without hesitation... But why did he die because of her in her past life? Li Tingyun was in great pain, a piercing agony.
Even though Mei Shiyu said, "You didn't kill me," Li Tingyun knew that his death must be closely related to him. Perhaps, he was driven to the brink of despair by him and committed suicide out of despair.
Mei Shiyu frowned and said, "Stop staring at me, you're staring so hard you're going to burn a hole in my face."
"I'm sorry... I'm sorry." Li Tingyun took a deep breath, obediently turned her head to look away, her eyes lowered, her mood very low.
Mei Shiyu: "..."
If you ask him what he can't stand the most, it might not be Li Tingyun's toughness and difficulty, but rather the occasional moments when the other party reveals confusion, cunning, depression, disappointment, or even... grievances. Even if it's an act, he always falls for it.
In his previous life, Li Tingyun rarely acted this way.
He's learned to be a thief for the rest of his life.
Mei Shiyu sighed, "Alright, turn around, I won't say anything more to you."
Li Tingyun turned around and stared at him without blinking.
Mei Shiyu changed the subject and asked, "Do you know why I took back the Fenjing Sword?"
Li Tingyun said, "Wasn't it to help your master overcome his tribulation? You said it a long time ago, and I remember it all."
Mei Shiyu said, "But in your past life, you hated this sword to the bone. Its sword spirit was both righteous and evil, definitely not a good person. Have you forgotten all of this?"
Not to mention Li Tingyun, even Mei Shiyu himself has some memory gaps. He still can't recall anything about Xinglin and Kunlun Mountain after Yuan Che's "Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Sect".
His understanding of the Fenjing Sword was still limited to the fact that the other party tricked him into forcing his way into the Blood Swamp, allowing him to escape alive, which enraged Li Tingyun. Therefore, he used the ambiguous term "both righteous and evil" to describe it.
Li Tingyun frowned. "Isn't the sword spirit of the Fenjing Sword a powerful cultivator who keeps a low profile?"
In the original text, this is a character similar to a "hidden master," whose strength and identity are unknown, but he has a lot of screen time in the later stages. His first appearance is to give the protagonist a private tutoring lesson—to put it bluntly, this is a big cheat code that Wang Laoliu gave to the protagonist!
He's a hidden master, a true master who doesn't reveal his true identity. Even when "The First Sword of Immortal Path" was discontinued, this person's true identity was never revealed, making him all the more mysterious.
Perhaps only the author, Wang Laoliu, a genius, knows who he is.
"From what you're saying... so he's not a good person?!"
"I don't know, so I want to take it back as soon as possible and ask my master for clarification."
This is the real reason why Mei Shiyu risked searching for the Fenjing Sword a hundred years earlier than planned.
“I see… Alright, let’s put this question aside for now,” Li Tingyun looked at him with an ambiguous expression. “There are some things I’ve wanted to ask you for a while now.”
"You've been reborn. You know exactly when I slaughtered Lingxi Village. Why did you specifically choose that time to go to Lingxi Village? Aren't you afraid of running into me?"
Mei Shiyu said, "I discovered that I had been reborn on that day. Whether I run into you or not, I have to go."
"What are you going to do? Stop me? Why do you think you can stop me? What reasons or methods do you intend to use to stop me?"
"..."
"You also said that you have bid farewell to the sect and will no longer be the peak master of the thirteen peaks of the Dao Xuan Sect. You don't want to stay in the cultivation world and want to travel to the mortal realm. Why? Is there anything in the cultivation world that disappoints you? Or do you simply not want to meet me?"
"..."
"Why do you hate me so much, yet you're still nice to me? Why do you resist me so much, yet sometimes you allow me to get close?"
"..."
All of Li Tingyun's doubts pointed to a common question: "I want to know, what exactly was our relationship in our past life?"
After a long silence, Mei Shiyu uttered two words: "...enemy".
Li Tingyun said softly, "How I wish we could be friends."
"Go a step further, and become confidants."
"Take it a step further, and you'll be a couple."
Mei Shiyu pushed him, "Stop talking! That's impossible!"
Li Tingyun had cornered him in a dark, unyielding spot, and wouldn't budge no matter how much he pushed and shoved him. She pressed on, "In my past life, did I really never tell you honestly that I liked you? Not even once?"
Outside of the plot, when the characters are out of control, in a corner unknown to everyone.
Have I ever said that I like you, that I admire you, that I am devoted to you, that I love you so much?
"No! No!!!" Mei Shiyu was about to be driven crazy. "Get out of the way! Move aside!!!"
“No,” Li Tingyun said firmly, “Since I didn’t say it in my past life, I’ll make up for it in this life. I’ll say it to you every day…”
A crisp "snap" sounded.
Mei Shiyu finally couldn't hold back and slapped him in the face, "You want me to slap you every day?!"
Li Tingyun's face was slapped to the side, then he turned back and said, "That felt great."
Mei Shiyu: "..."
It appears that they have lost all their means and strength.