allonlinenovel Chapter 200 The Truth Will Be Revealed Again (9)
Chapter 200 The Truth Will Be Revealed Again (9)
Li Tingyun didn't know that Mei Shiyu's smile was mocking his stammering.
He was tough and chewy, like a piece of tough beef tendon that you couldn't break even if you broke your teeth. This reminded Mei Shiyu of a certain little brat, but thinking of that little brat made her feel a little sad.
Mei Shiyu stopped laughing and asked, "Do you have a grudge against my senior brother?"
Li Tingyun replied tactfully, "There is a bit of a grudge between us."
"What 'holiday'?"
"Want to know? I'm not telling you."
How old are you? Why are you saying such things?
Sneaky and cheap.
He looks even more like that little brat now.
The more I think about it, the sadder I become.
Mei Shiyu sighed, straightened up, rubbed his waist and patted his back. His movements were very small. Li Tingyun was staring at him too closely, unable to take his eyes off him for a moment. He was very reserved in everything he did, including breathing.
Li Tingyun asked again, "Are you really not going to lie down and rest for a while?"
Mei Shiyu insisted, "No. But I hope you can relax your eyes."
"Huh? Why are you so concerned about me? This is so sudden."
He was just being delusional.
"I mean, could you please stop looking at me?"
Mei Shiyu squeezed out each word from between her teeth.
Look, look, look, what's so interesting? He kept laughing, staring at him and laughing nonstop, without stopping, not even letting him catch his breath, it was utterly inexplicable!
"……All right."
Now, it was Li Tingyun's turn to feel sentimental.
He said sadly, "Then I have no choice but to leave."
After saying that, he really left.
Mei Shiyu thought he would come back soon, so she didn't dare to let her guard down. But a day or two passed and he didn't come back. A month or two passed and he still didn't come back.
Mei Shiyu had already slept several times because he couldn't stay awake any longer. Normally, he wouldn't need to hibernate, but he was injured and his body needed to recover, so he decided to sleep a little longer. When he woke up, the main hall was still empty, cold, and devoid of human presence.
Sigh, where did that person go?
Just then, Li Tingyun returned, carrying a refreshing sea breeze with him, as if he had just returned from the beach.
Mei Shiyu asked him, "Did you go to the East China Sea?"
"I went to Penglai." Li Tingyun brushed his collar and took a sniff. Sure enough, there was a slightly salty smell. Just a little bit. Mei Shiyu's nose was too accurate.
"Hasn't Penglai already been taken by you...? What are you still going there for? Do you have to be so ruthless as to wipe them out?"
"You don't even live by the sea, why are you being so nosy?"
"I...you...who wants to care about you?"
Li Tingyun stopped beside him, reached out and touched his shoulder. Although he slapped her away, she was secretly pleased: "You're not avoiding me anymore? Why?"
Mei Shiyu said helplessly, "What's the point of hiding from you? You don't seem like you're going to do anything. I really don't understand why you brought me here and then did nothing about it?"
Li Tingyun: "If I said I didn't actually intend to arrest you, would you believe me?"
Mei Shiyu: "I don't believe it."
Li Tingyun: "Then I have nothing to say."
Mei Shiyu: "I'm leaving."
Li Tingyun: "You can leave now."
They opened the palace doors and pushed him out, shouting, "Go, go, go!"
They were chasing people away.
The rain during the plum season brought great joy.
She took a few steps back facing him, and seeing that he really didn't make any move, she turned and ran.
They went east.
They passed through Qinglong City and Qinglong Palace, but did not see Ye Juechun himself.
The city enjoys a spring-like climate year-round, with beautiful natural phenomena. If one were to indulge in admiring exotic flowers and plants along the way, it would take countless days to see and appreciate them all.
Even with leisure time, one has no time to spare; passing through a sea of flowers, not a single petal clings to one's body.
Only after leaving the Four Symbols City did he finally relax a little.
I thought I had finally broken free from control.
Suddenly I felt a heat on the back of my neck.
A chill ran through me.
I touched it with my hand, and lo and behold, the Yin-Yang Curse is back.
This is what Li Tingyun meant when he said he didn't know when it would "relapse".
Did he really not know? Why was the timing of the relapse so coincidental? Was he really trying to trap me in the Taiji Hall? Mei Shiyu wondered.
This person is truly despicable. Even if the curse relapses and his cultivation is ruined, he cannot go back!
But once he left Qinglong City, he didn't know where to go.
Should he return to the sect? Li Tingyun killed his senior brother, and others assumed he had some kind of entanglement with Li Tingyun, plus everyone knew he and his senior brother had always been at odds…
It's easy to assume that he had long been in cahoots with the Taiji Hall, and that he instigated Li Tingyun to kill his senior brother. This is perfectly logical and has a clear cause and effect!
how to explain?
He couldn't clear his name even if he jumped into the Yellow River!
Even if his second senior brother is willing to believe him, there are so many people and so many opinions in the sect, how can he possibly manage them all?
This is not a simple matter of mindset, nor is it something that Mei Shiyu can ignore simply because he doesn't care.
He can certainly believe that the innocent will clear themselves, walk his own path, and let others talk!
But he couldn't implicate his second senior brother and allow others to pin the charges of condoning evil and bending the law on his senior brother.
If he goes back, his senior brother will definitely be in a difficult position.
Mei Shiyu wandered aimlessly, pondering: If he simply couldn't use his spiritual power, that would be fine, but at this very moment, many cultivators had publicly issued "challenge letters" to him in the Beijing News—he never read newspapers, but his second senior brother had told him this a while ago, intending to remind him.
His antics in Hell became common knowledge. His second senior brother told him: "It's all over the cultivation world. Everyone knows that the Azure Frost Sword is ranked ninth on the Divine Weapon Ranking. Its owner is young and promising, but he is unorthodox and depraved, having an affair with the Master of the Taiji Hall..."
Those who were unconvinced, disapproving, and filled with righteous indignation naturally couldn't suppress their tempers and all sought to challenge him.
The second senior brother was very tactful, only saying that the two of them were " fooling around" and not saying that they were "ambiguous," which was to save face for Mei Shiyu.
In fact, Li Tingyun's action of carrying him horizontally was perfect. If Mei Shiyu were a girl, it would be even more perfect, because Li Tingyun carried him as if he were carrying a precious treasure that no one else could touch. He was gentle, careful, and attentive, just like... just like carrying his wife into the bridal chamber on their wedding night!
The second senior brother didn't know why he had such a strange idea in his head, but he asked many people in private, and after the discussion, they all agreed that Li Tingyun was sick.
It wasn't that they were mistaken; it was just that Li Tingyun gave off such an absurd, strange, and inexplicable feeling.
Mei Shiyu wanted to say no, that's really not how it is. He didn't "hang out" with Li Tingyun. He clearly met Li Tingyun for the first time. How could Li Tingyun be so crazy as to take him back to Daoxuan Sect?
Upon hearing the word "brought back" to Dao Xuanzong, Mei Shiyu felt utterly humiliated.
Good heavens, he's hardly ever been held in his life! Very rarely. His master, senior brothers, and senior sisters like to tease him and hold him because he's young, but he always resists and struggles fiercely, so no one dares to touch him.
This was true when he was a child, and it's even more so now that he's grown up. Who would still hold him in their arms all the time?
Mei Shiyu doesn't dislike hugging and cuddling, he just resists others touching him inappropriately. Passive is no good, active is fine. To be honest, he quite likes holding children, like how he used to pick up Yuanbao, lift him up high, and spin him around—it was all very easy for him.
When Yuanbao was little, he often snuggled in his arms. But later he grew too big and strong, such a big lump that he couldn't hold him or hug him, so he had to give up.
Later, when Yuan Che came along, he thought he could finally get his hands on her again. Unfortunately, just like him, Che'er got goosebumps all over when someone hugged him, and was filled with fear and trepidation, so he had to give up.
Stop, stop, stop.
Mei Shiyu was lost in thought.
He wandered into some remote mountain wilderness, plunging headlong into the deep forest. All sorts of mountain spirits and wild monsters came to pester him. His pure Yang body, cultivated since childhood with the ruthless path, was extremely rare. He was a hot commodity, and everyone wanted a bite.
Fortunately, although he had lost his spiritual power, he still possessed swordsmanship skills, and the monsters in the mountains were not highly skilled, so he could barely manage to cope.
Soon, night fell. As darkness descended, evil spirits from all directions swarmed out, filling the forest with a ghostly atmosphere.
As Mei Shiyu was walking, a tiny, still-developing spirit suddenly darted out and bit his arm with a "whoosh." Its teeth weren't fully grown yet, and it couldn't even bite through his clothes.
Mei Shiyu flicked it away with just two fingers, but after flicking away one, she looked down and saw another one on her leg. After shaking off the one on her leg, she found three or five more hanging on her body.
Mei Shiyu sighed repeatedly, feeling both amused and exasperated.
These little gadgets usually can't get close to him. Cultivators have personal restrictions, so demons and monsters with low magic power can't get near him at all. Who told him that he can't use any spiritual power at all right now?
Not to mention these little creatures were eager to bite him, even mosquitoes and midges were circling around him, buzzing and making noise.
He really lacks common sense.
On a hot summer night, who would dare to wander into the mountains? Even if you were lucky enough to escape lurking beasts, bewitching spirits, or being devoured by demons, you would still be bitten half to death by insects in their breeding season!
Sure enough, not long after he entered the mountains, he was covered in bites, and his neck was so itchy that he almost scratched it until it bled.
There was a stream blocking the way, so I had to wade across. The stones at the bottom of the stream were covered with moss, and I slipped and fell, getting soaked. I had no magic and my clothes wouldn't dry, so I could only walk slowly, dripping wet. Then, I accidentally got my wet clothes caught in the bushes and tore them in half.
These little, sporadic annoyances are incredibly frustrating.
These don't seem like anything special.
He was just bitten by mosquitoes and insects, fell into the water, and tore his clothes. At most, he was a little disheveled. Moreover, the reason he was disheveled was entirely due to his lack of experience and carelessness.
But for Mei Shiyu, this was like a young woman getting married for the first time. He never imagined that he would one day fall to such a state.
With nowhere to go, exposed to the elements, all alone, he was not only vulnerable to bullying even by dogs, but also by snakes, insects, and rodents.
Fortunately, he still had some self-defense skills, otherwise... Mei Shiyu covered his face, looked up, and saw a full moon hanging on the treetop. He thought to himself, "Thank goodness, with the sun and moon as my friends, I'm not lonely."
The moment the idea took hold, a dark cloud drifted in, obscuring the moon and plunging the sky into darkness. Mei Shiyu stared in stunned silence, then chuckled softly as she came to her senses.
Yes, he smiled.
What else can I do but laugh? Should I cry?
He braced himself against the tree trunk and straightened his tattered clothes. Suddenly, a sharp pain shot through his wrist. He turned around and saw that he had been stung by a scorpion's tail. He was incredibly unlucky.
Looking up further, wow, there were more than a dozen withered vines hanging upside down from the tree, their red glowing and hissing.
Mei Shiyu abruptly stepped back a great distance, patted his chest, still shaken; he had almost stumbled into a snake pit!
A scorpion stinging him is not bad luck, but good luck.
This sudden shock was quite exciting. Mei Shiyu felt a bit tired, not just tired, but also a little cold and hungry. Without cultivation, he was no different from an ordinary person. How many years had it been since he had experienced hunger?
No, he had never felt that way.