Chapter 66: Bound to the Birth System, Becoming a Winner in Life Chapter 66: City Lord's Little Concubine (8)

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Protagonist:

Shen Yao

Hiss!

It hurts, my whole body hurts everywhere!

When Shen Yao regained consciousness from the chaos, her mind was filled with nothing but the word pain.

It hurt so much; she vaguely remembered that when she fainted, she had already protected herself to the maximum extent.

But the power of the array explosion was too great, especially the oppressive force of several attributes mutually generating and overcoming each other colliding head-on; Shen Yao, a mere Qi Refining Cultivator, truly could not endure it.

Unable to help but smile bitterly in her heart, Shen Yao urgently wanted to open her eyes to check her situation, only to find that she could not move her whole body at all now.

Shen Yao:?!?!

She hurriedly summoned the system in her mind to ask what exactly was going on.

Shen Yao was also pondering that after this battle, she was probably completely without connection with Fu Hengyan.

Unexpectedly, the system slowly told her that Fu Hengyan was currently meditating and regulating his breath right by her side.

'Pity that both of you are injured too severely; Fu Hengyan can barely take care of himself now. Host, you can only rely on yourself.'

The system's tone carried a bit of pity, after all, when the Host fainted, the system did not faint.

On the contrary, not only did the system not faint, it was even extra spirited.

Because Fu Hengyan had acted to save Shen Yao, and the defensive array Shen Yao was currently in was personally laid down by Fu Hengyan.

Telling Shen Yao all these things she did not know, the system was excited: 'Host, your luck has come; as long as you seize this good opportunity to capture Fu Hengyan, our mission in this life will be more than half completed.'

Such a good opportunity as now, a single man and woman alone in one room, must be seized!

Shen Yao:...

Shen Yao couldn't help but chuckle twice; she admired her own willpower to endure the pain.

'Now I can't even move, how can I contact Fu Hengyan.'

Quickly take out pills to feed me; as you said, this opportunity is once in a thousand years.

System, you absolutely cannot be stingy at a time like this.'

Shen Yao decided to take action to shear the system's wool; the system had so many treasures, what was wrong with her using some?

System:...

'Fine, but after using the pills, Host, you must guarantee to capture Fu Hengyan.'

The system's voice sounded pitiful, which gave Shen Yao an extra strange sense of satisfaction in her heart.

Mm, indeed, bullying the system (boss) is satisfying; the true voice of a worker.

'Rest assured, with my ability, isn't this easily captured?'

Regardless of whether it succeeds or not, Shen Yao's confident attitude was not for show.

The words of guarantee were spoken earth-shatteringly; whether the system believed it or not was unknown, but Shen Yao herself definitely believed it.

Just like that, the system let Shen Yao take the healing pill that had existed in its space for a long time through special means.

A warm current spread from within Shen Yao's body outward; her originally withered dantian was once again filled with spiritual power, and the wounds on her body were also restored together.

Of course, no matter how miraculous the pill provided by the system was, it could not make Shen Yao jump around immediately.

It could only be said that it temporarily resolved Shen Yao's predicament, allowing her to stand up and move.

'That's good, that's good,' Shen Yao secretly moved her fingers, and sensation returned.

Opening her eyes and standing up, Shen Yao hurriedly climbed up from the ground, her gaze blank.

Not far from her was a young man sitting on a steam cushion with his eyes closed, resting.

The man was dressed all in white, his black hair tied in a topknot placed behind his head; by his side lay a waist sword with silver light flashing, and the sharp sword qi overflowing from around the sword body made Shen Yao feel a stinging pain.

Wow, the True Person is indeed more photogenic than the picture.

Shen Yao sighed in her heart, then got up nimbly and carefully walked to a spot three meters from him and stood still.

'Senior, the grace of saving my life is hard to repay; this young girl has some spirit stones, a set of Spirit Gathering Arrays, a bottle of Hui Ling Pills, as a small token of my intent; please, Senior, use them to restore your cultivation realm.'

After speaking, Shen Yao reached into her storage bag and took out spirit stones, Hui Ling Pills, and Spirit Gathering Arrays.

She used spiritual power to support and send all the spirit stones to beneath him, placed the Hui Chun Pill before him, and laid the Spirit Gathering Array around his body.

After finishing these, Shen Yao again respectfully bade farewell to Fu Hengyan, then turned her head to the edge of the defensive array to take out a steam cushion and meditate with her eyes closed.

The system panicked: 'Host, why did you give away a whole bottle of Hui Ling Pills? Without pills, how will you restore your spiritual power?'

Hui Ling Pills are pills commonly used by cultivators to restore bodily spiritual power, and are also very common pills in the Cultivation World.

There are Hui Chun Pills with better medicinal effects, but Shen Yao's cultivation realm cannot use them.

This time entering Yunwu Mountain, besides spirit stones, Shen Yao had purchased the most Hui Ling Pills and Spirit Gathering Arrays; who made these three items the most cost-effective things for restoring spiritual power?

Pity, they were all given to the life-saving benefactor; now Shen Yao's whole body had nothing but a few Yunwu Stones, only attack and defense items.

Shen Yao calmed her mind and breath, feeling the thin spiritual energy in the air, calm and composed: 'Meditate to recover, then speak; the grace of saving my life must be repaid with full effort.'

'Aren't you wanting me to strive to capture Fu Hengyan? If I don't give away my trump cards, how can I win the other party's favor?'

'Wait until the other party recovers; a lofty Golden Core Cultivator, could he still lack my benefits?'

Shen Yao spoke with such solemn assurance that she successfully convinced the system in her mind.

The system then stopped speaking, just quietly waiting for Shen Yao's benefits.

Shen Yao, without obstacles disturbing her recovery, meditated even more patiently.

After this meditation, by the time Shen Yao had restored her internal spiritual power to about seventy-eighty percent, Fu Hengyan had already finished his cultivation, holding his waist sword in hand and looking toward outside the array.

Seeing Shen Yao open her eyes, Fu Hengyan gave her a faint nod, his every posture exuding an aloof and noble coldness.

Shen Yao: ……Wow, is that how it is? She had thought Fu Hengyan should have a gentle, jade-like temperament.

As expected, one cannot judge a person by appearance; to judge by looks is truly unwise.

Muttering a couple of sentences in her heart, Shen Yao rose from the steam cushion and gave Fu Hengyan another deep bow with clasped hands.

"Senior"

"My surname is Fu"

"Senior Fu"

"You, how is your body? The Spirit Gathering Array from before, and the Spirit Stones, the Hui Ling Pills — many thanks."

Fu Hengyan evidently did not have much experience dealing with female cultivators.

Judging from the conversation between the two just now alone, one could tell Fu Hengyan was not considered sensitive in this regard.

The petty person in Shen Yao's heart couldn't help but jump and cheer — it's good that he's not used to it; he's truly an old hand, and with her IQ she might not necessarily be able to handle him.

Understanding these things, Shen Yao's face wore a sweet smile, and she offered Fu Hengyan an even greater string of thanks: "Many thanks to Senior Fu for reaching out to save me; compared to Senior Fu's life-saving grace, the Spirit Stones and Hui Ling Pills and such that Junior Shen took out are not worth mentioning."

Fu Hengyan's voice was clear and pleasing; despite his expressionless face, with a fine face there, the coldness in his words was plainly reduced by several degrees.

"You are too courteous; it was merely a trivial effort," Fu Hengyan said, raising his head to scan a circle around the surroundings, "You and I are now trapped in the array, danger in all directions.

For a short while, I'm afraid it won't be easy to get out."

If it were him alone, giving it his all should be able to break through such an array.

But now bringing along a female cultivator only at mid Qi Refining, Fu Hengyan shook his head inwardly — the difficulty was somewhat great.

He had not, however, thought of abandoning Shen Yao here and leaving alone.

Fu Hengyan hailed from the Fu Family of Dongzhou, and because of his own outstanding talent, he entered the Tianjian Sect to cultivate the sword in his youth.

Over many years, his worldview was as upright as could be; not to mention Shen Yao had a life-saving grace toward him, and her body even carried a fragrance that set his heart at ease — even if the two were complete strangers, Fu Hengyan would not abandon the other and ignore them.

This is the persistence unique to people of the Righteous Path, just like back then when Fu Hengyan chose without hesitation to sacrifice himself in order to save all the disciples of the Tianjian Sect.

"Senior Fu feels, how much longer do we still need to wait here?"

Shen Yao took small steps to Fu Hengyan's side, conveniently telling him her name.

Fu Hengyan looked at Shen Yao, who was an arm's length away, his thin lips curling slightly: "Three days."

The attacks inside the array are not endless; they also need time to recover.

And the previous rampage of the Four Direction Arrays was because Fu Hengyan broke the central array and took away the Metal-attribute Yunwu Crystal used to suppress the array.

Right now, they are hiding in the Defensive Array; they must first wait for the offensive outside to slow down before they can break the situation.

"Three days?" Shen Yao pondered for a moment, then nodded along: "Time-wise it's enough.

Senior may not know, the situation in Yunwu Mountain is complex; every year there is a time limit for entering the mountain to gather Yunwu Stone.

It's best not to exceed half a month this time; otherwise, if Yunwu Mountain undergoes a change, wanting to leave the mountain smoothly will become much more difficult."

Every year, among those who enter Yunwu Mountain to gather Yunwu Stone, there are unlucky ones who get trapped inside and cannot leave.

Whether they live or die, no one knows, because those who failed to escape from within Yunwu Mountain have never appeared in the Cultivation World again.

Fu Hengyan gave an "Mm": "Rest assured, in three days I will break the array, and at that time I will directly activate the Jade Tablet to leave the mountain."

The Jade Tablet is the identity token that every person entering the mountain receives upon entry.

Its function is for positioning; after all, Yunwu Mountain is mostly clouds and mist, and without special means it's hard to find the way out.

Shen Yao nodded: "Junior Shen understands."

"Go rest," Finishing his words, Fu Hengyan turned and walked to the steam cushion to sit down.

Seeing this, Shen Yao withdrew her gaze, turned around, and while observing the situation outside the Defensive Array, contacted the system in her mind.

"The fragrance on my body is useful to Fu Hengyan? How come I couldn't sense it."

Just now Shen Yao was very close to Fu Hengyan; there was a probing intention hidden inside.

The fragrance on her body — the closer, the richer the scent; it wouldn't be very choking, but it would make people lose their composure.

These were all things the system told her; the result now was that she tried, and nothing happened at all.

Even to put it impolitely, Fu Hengyan's gaze at her was indifferent and ruthless, no different from looking at a block of wood.

Shen Yao: ……This is the benefit the system spoke of? I didn't see even a single bit of it.

"Host, Fu Hengyan has Golden Core cultivation; how could a Qi Refining cultivator like you detect it.

Rest assured, through inner heart fluctuations, the system judges that he is not as calm as he appears.

Host, the system acts, quality guaranteed, no accidents will occur."

Shen Yao truly felt the system's thick skin — praising itself while not forgetting to diss her at the same time.

Shen Yao gave a cold snort: "It had better be so; otherwise, I can only give up."

There is nothing difficult in the world, as long as one is willing to give up.

Shen Yao knew how to adapt; to be like a stubborn fool, mustering all one's strength to deadlock to the end? That's something only youngsters would do; Shen Yao long ago no longer had that kind of hard-headed mindset.

Turning back to her own steam cushion and sitting down, Shen Yao took out her Storage Bag, fished out some Spirit Fruits, and buried her head eating them.

Crunch crunch——

In the dense space, no matter how small the sound made, it would still be heard.

Shen Yao was already very considerate of Fu Hengyan, even thinking while eating whether to offer some to the other party.

Pity her Spirit Fruits really couldn't be called good; giving them might instead be taken as looking down on him; forget it, forget it, just focus on herself.

With Shen Yao letting herself go like this, Fu Hengyan sitting not far away appeared exceptionally uncomfortable.

As a famous shut-in of the Eastern Continent Cultivation World, what accompanied Fu Hengyan's early fame was his purity.

It's not that Fu Hengyan is easily fooled; the purity here refers to Fu Hengyan's energy being basically entirely placed on cultivation, his attitude toward other things being that whatever works is fine.

Even Fu Hengyan had not eaten normal Cultivation World food for a long time; when he couldn't Bypass Grain he ate Bypass Grain Pills, and after he could Bypass Grain he relied entirely on his own Bypass Grain.

Even more frugal than an Immortal Maiden who drinks flower dew — she eats nothing at all, solely focused on cultivation.

"Senior Fu, Senior Fu?"

Fu Hengyan opened his eyes, a trace of bewilderment in his gaze.

"What is it?"

Shen Yao smiled, presenting the Spirit Fruit cradled in both hands before the other's eyes.

Fu Hengyan:...

"Is it for me?"

His gaze unconsciously softened; Fu Hengyan lowered his head, revealing his superior jawline.

Shen Yao nodded, decisively placing the Spirit Fruit into Fu Hengyan's hands, "This Spirit Fruit is not a famous variety, but it wins in its sweet and pleasant flavor; Senior Fu can have a taste during leisure moments."

Having spoken, Shen Yao turned and left, leaving Fu Hengyan only a clear and graceful silhouette.

Fu Hengyan lowered his head, looking at the few Spirit Fruit held in his hand.

Only the size of an infant's fist, green in appearance, the skin smooth and lustrous; smelling them, fruit fragrance overflowed in all directions.

Mm, it seems he can no longer remember when he last ate this kind of fruit with such thin Spiritual Energy.

In Fu Hengyan's impression, besides Star Shattering, what accompanied him at his side every day were only various alchemy pills.

The lingering fragrance at his nose tip impossible to dispel, Fu Hengyan, a person originally hard as iron, began to immerse himself in it.

As if possessed, he put the Spirit Fruit into his mouth and chewed; Fu Hengyan sighed that it was indeed as Shen Yao said — sweet, clear, and moist, leaving fragrance between teeth and cheeks.

"Look, Fu Hengyan ate it."

In her mind the system popped up, smugly showing off to Shen Yao.

Shen Yao couldn't help but admire the system's ability — it could even fathom a cultivation person's psychology; it seems the system's previous non-assistance across several worlds was just an excuse.

Secretly marking a tally for the system in her heart, Shen Yao echoed the system's words, turning to guarantee she now knew where to make the next breakthrough.

"Where?" The system seemed like a naive sweet fool, its question coming out dull and stupid.

Shen Yao sat back on the Steam Cushion, lowering her head to organize her Storage Bag, "Naturally, the aspect of daily life.

It's very obvious the other party lacks life experience — doesn't even eat Spirit Fruit much.

Tsk tsk, one look and you can tell he's that kind of Cultivation Maniac.

With this sort of person, you can't discuss cultivation — you'll be led astray by them; you must start from aspects they've never encountered.

For instance, some sense of ritual that ought to exist in life — though useless, it brings genuine joy from the bottom of one's heart.

Didn't you say Fu Hengyan's body can never advance again for the rest of his life?

Since that's the case, he should make the most of his limited time and properly enjoy life."

The Cultivation World is so vast; Shen Yao also wants to go out and see it.

Traveling alone carries risks, so she should find a partner with powerful Martial Force; two people traveling together means double the joy.