69novels Who exactly is the female lead in Chapter 70?
Who exactly is the female lead in Chapter 70?
Shen Qingci continued to play with the spiritual plant in her hand, seemingly completely unconcerned about Cheng Xiao's reminder.
If someone hadn't been watching over her, she probably would have picked one and put it in her mouth.
Faced with Cheng Xiao's question, she closed her eyes, shook her head, and pretended to be calm and collected: "You're being superficial, aren't you? Who says that someone who cultivates the Path of Ruthlessness can't have a Daoist partner? It's just that I found a Daoist partner, and I didn't give her any real feelings."
Cheng Xiao pretended not to care and lay back down on the recliner: "I didn't expect you to be so insightful."
After saying that, he continued to probe: "So our Supreme Dao Sect's Holy Maiden just agreed like that? Did she think so herself? Cultivating the Path of Ruthlessness is already pitiful enough, and now she has to find someone with no feelings at all to be her Daoist partner, isn't that even more pitiful?"
While gathering information, Cheng Xiao also ended up scolding himself.
He recalled when he became a disciple, his master said that his fate was like a reed in the water, unattached to the world, and most suitable for cultivating the path of ruthlessness.
So many years have passed, but he doesn't feel sorry for himself.
Shen Qingci stood up from the ground.
She went into Cheng Xiao's workspace, pulled out a recliner from inside, placed it next to Cheng Xiao's recliner, and then lay down on it with practiced ease.
When she doesn't feel like cultivating, she chooses to come here to relax.
Her master would usually come to arrest her, but there was nothing to worry about today.
Because of the sect's grand ceremony and marriage alliance tomorrow, all the people in charge of the sect are so busy that they have no time to take care of them.
She can then relax and slack off.
Shen Qingci yawned: "You think a lot. Someone with the status of a saintess, how can she decide her own marriage? Everyone admires and longs for her. I actually think she's quite pitiful. At least she can't be lying here lazing around like me right now."
"The Holy Maiden is already so powerful, her cultivation level is probably much higher, yet she can't decide her own future? Who is so despicable as to force her into an arranged marriage?" Cheng Xiao pretended to be indignant and continued to gather information.
Shen Qingci, who was standing to the side, had already closed her eyes.
She basked in the sun, enjoying the fragrance of the surrounding spiritual plants, feeling utterly content.
"The higher she gets, the less she has control over her own destiny. Our sect is full of factions, and we fight amongst ourselves every day. You know that, right?" Shen Qingci's tone was languid. "Some people want to use her to improve relations with the Heavenly Sword Pavilion, some want to taint her with worldly karma and destroy her Dao heart, and some want her to leave the Supreme Dao Sect. In short, there are many reasons. In the end, everyone pushed her up. It's precisely because she is a Holy Maiden that she can't resist."
Upon hearing this, Cheng Xiao silently pondered in his heart.
It seems that this marriage alliance was not what the Holy Maiden desired, and the Supreme Dao Sect was not a monolithic entity, which made him begin to have some plans.
"She is indeed quite pitiful. I thought that once she reached her level of cultivation, she could do whatever she wanted," Cheng Xiao said with emotion.
Shen Qingci let out a long sigh: "There are too many things in this world that are beyond our control. If you ask me, we should just cultivate to the Nascent Soul stage, then leave the sect, find a remote place to start our own sect, be fed and cared for every day, and if we encounter danger, we can just use our primordial spirit to escape. We can live as long as we can."
"You have no ambition at all."
"Now I understand things clearly."
After chatting with Shen Qingci for a while, Cheng Xiao began to inquire about the situation of Tianjian Pavilion.
He learned from the other party that this sect called Tianjian Pavilion had been practicing swordsmanship for generations, and the swords they produced were all peerless, which was exactly what the Supreme Dao Sect needed.
This marriage can also be considered a form of alliance.
The Heavenly Sword Pavilion provides high-level magical artifacts to the Supreme Dao Sect, while the Supreme Dao Sect provides protection to the Heavenly Sword Pavilion.
Everything looks fine.
The "saint" who is the sacrifice is probably not happy, but she has no way to refuse.
If she refuses, it would be disrespectful to her teachers and elders and disregard the overall situation of the sect; if she accepts, her Dao heart, cultivated over many years, might even collapse directly.
The person behind the scenes has certainly played a clever game.
Whether the saintess accepts the marriage or not, it will only benefit them, not harm them.
But the saintess herself is probably in a terrible predicament right now, isn't she?
At this moment, he finally understood what the sentence in the system's background story meant: "For life, he was trapped on the altar by the invisible cage of righteousness and justice."
Cheng Xiao had made up his mind.
The two most important things now are to find a way to gain the saintess's trust, or at least to speak to her.
The second task was to ascertain the cultivation levels of the strongest combatants in the Supreme Dao Sect and the Blissful Gate.
With Cheng Xiao's current cultivation level, he was naturally not afraid.
But I'm here to win over the female lead and clear the levels, not to fight.
If the fighting goes on until the world turns upside down, even if we win, there won't be a way to end it.
not to mention......
When Cheng Xiao first entered the instance, he felt that the spiritual energy of this place was much more abundant than that of Shenhe Prefecture.
Perhaps there are many people here with similar cultivation levels to him.
Moreover, he had read in ancient books that when the world was first created, the path to immortality was never interrupted, and cultivators at that time could directly step into the next realm without ascending.
I wonder what the current situation is like in this place.
What if there really is someone whose cultivation level is a whole realm higher than his?
In the first two instances, Cheng Xiao was invincible. He never expected that he would have to worry about such a thing one day.
To ensure the success of the operation, he planned to be cautious this time and make sure he understood the situation before taking action.
Cheng Xiao chatted with Shen Qingci for a while longer, asking him almost everything he wanted to know.
After calming down, even breathing soon came from the recliner next to me.
After seeing that Shen Qingci had fallen asleep, Cheng Xiao cast a spell on her to prevent her from waking up in the middle of the night.
He then jumped up from the recliner and strode out of the Taishang Daozong plantation.
The most urgent task is to find the female lead and at least talk to her.
Several hours have passed since Cheng Xiao entered the instance, but he hasn't even seen the female protagonist yet.
If he hadn't clearly remembered the system mission, he would have thought that Shen Qingci, who had just appeared, was the real female protagonist of this instance.
After leaving the plantation, Cheng Xiao quickly moved through the Taishang Dao Sect.
As a menial disciple, he was not allowed to wander around the sect, but he used a few tricks to evade the patrolling disciples.
He did not make a fuss about it.
Before we can figure out the true situation of the Supreme Dao Sect, we should proceed with extreme caution.
If it turns out that he was actually outsmarting thin air, that would be the best outcome.
The Supreme Dao Sect is very large, divided into outer and inner sects. The outer sect consists of ordinary disciples and is divided into twelve peaks, while the inner sect, as the core area, selects talents from among the ordinary disciples each time.
Within the inner sect, there are four major forces.
The Holy Maiden's faction is called the Forgetful Snow Pavilion. It only accepts female disciples, and everyone there cultivates the Path of Ruthlessness. The disciples in the sect all take solitary cultivation as their main method of cultivation.
"Abandoning limbs, discarding intelligence, separating from form and knowledge, becoming one with the Great Void, this is called sitting in oblivion," this is what Shen Qingci just told him.
Cheng Xiao evaded numerous defenses and finally arrived at Zuowang Xuege.