Chapter 304

Chapter 304: Heavenly Principle Is Clear, Retribution Never Fails
In fact, it was not only Lan Zi Yu. No one on Lone Moon Peak, including her, had ever noticed that Lan Zi Yu might have other feelings for Yu Zhao.

After all, Lan Zi Yu’s attitude toward Yu Zhao in the past had been extremely bad. Even if the others were unhappy with Yu Zhao, for the sake of their old Senior Brother-Junior Sister relationship, they would at least hold back a little.

Only Lan Zi Yu had no scruples. If he wanted to scold her, he scolded her. His words were sharp, and he even spread Yu Zhao’s ugly “scandals” in public, making her infamous throughout the Five Elements Dao Sect.

Could that really be Lan Zi Yu’s way of liking someone?

If so, then Yu Zhao was truly unlucky to be liked by him.

Right now, Lan Zi Yu was still drowning in the shock of Yu Zhao’s Nascent Soul Formation.

Even though he had suffered losses at Yu Zhao’s hands several times, deep down he still treated her as that same Junior Sister who never talked back when scolded and never fought back when hit.

Even when Yu Zhao took first place in the sect’s grand cultivation competition, he still had not recognized her true strength.

Only when Ye Cong Xin told him that Yu Zhao had already formed a Nascent Soul did he finally wake up from his hazy memories of the past.

Yu Zhao was no longer the same.

She was a true favored daughter of the heavens.

After going through the disaster of Rebuilding Dao Foundation, she had still left everyone far behind.

The talent he had always been so proud of was not worth mentioning in front of Yu Zhao.

The more Lan Zi Yu thought, the more hopeless he felt.

Everyone, everyone was moving forward, and only he was standing still, even slipping backward.

[What was the point of him being alive anymore?]

[Ding! Warning! Warning! Target strategy character’s Luck Value has suddenly dropped. Suspected suicidal intent detected. Host, please stop him at once!]

Startled by the sudden voice of the System in her Sea of Consciousness, Ye Cong Xin’s soul almost flew out of her body.

She lowered her head.

Sure enough, she saw a pain and despair in Lan Zi Yu’s eyes that seemed ready to overflow.

It made Ye Cong Xin think of the day when Lan Zi Yu had misunderstood and thought they had done something improper after drinking.

Back then, he had also worn a face full of despair and had thoughts of death.

“Pa!”

New and old grudges stacked together. Ye Cong Xin suddenly swung her hand and slapped him.

She used all her strength in that slap, knocking the seated Lan Zi Yu sideways and sending him crashing to the floor.

Feeling the burning heat in her palm, Ye Cong Xin’s scalp tingled with pleasure.

This was the feeling.

So satisfying!

Lan Zi Yu was stunned by Ye Cong Xin’s slap.

Half his face went numb.

The metallic taste of blood in his mouth reminded him that this was not a dream.

“You…”

Lan Zi Yu exploded in anger and was just about to lash out when Ye Cong Xin suddenly dropped to her knees in front of him with a thump, and her tears fell at once.

“Second Senior Brother, I didn’t mean to hit you, I just wanted to shake you awake! Do you know how much it hurts my heart to see you like this? Wuu wuu…”

Ye Cong Xin cried like pear blossoms in the rain.

Lan Zi Yu suddenly found it hard to get angry.

His rage was stuck in his chest, neither going up nor down.

It felt like his whole chest was about to explode.

“Second Senior Brother, blame me, hit me if you want. I’d rather you beat me to death than watch you keep sinking like this. I’m really so sad…”

Ye Cong Xin had always known how to play weak.

Most of Lan Zi Yu’s anger melted under her sobs, but he was still a bit resentful: “Even if you’re sad, you still can’t hit my face…”

And she had even slapped his face so hard it was swollen!

“Second Senior Brother, I’m sorry, but I really couldn’t think of any other way to make you pull yourself together, so I had no choice but to do that. Does it hurt a lot?”

Carefully, she reached out to touch Lan Zi Yu’s swollen cheek.

Lan Zi Yu impatiently turned his head away.

Ye Cong Xin reached out again.

Lan Zi Yu dodged again.

After doing this several times, it was finally Lan Zi Yu who gave in first.

A cool feeling flowed from Ye Cong Xin’s fingertips into Lan Zi Yu’s cheek.

“Senior Brother, it must hurt a lot. I’m really sorry…”

Lan Zi Yu stared blankly into Ye Cong Xin’s tear-reddened eyes. Listening to her gentle voice, the last bit of resentment in his heart also disappeared.

He had always known that his Junior Sister liked him, but he had no romantic feelings for her and could not respond to her love.

Yet his Junior Sister still liked him silently, admired him, and tied her whole heart to him.

For her to slap him this time, she must have gathered a lot of courage. In her heart, she would only feel worse than he did.

There was a trace of pity in Lan Zi Yu’s eyes when he looked at Ye Cong Xin.

While he was sunk in depression, his Junior Sister must have been hiding in some corner, worrying about him in secret.

Even if it was just for his Junior Sister, he should not stay sunk in gloom.

“Junior Sister, I’ve thought it through. I’ll pull myself together again and stop giving up on myself.”

“Eh?”

Ye Cong Xin blinked.

She had not even gotten to use the words she had prepared, and Lan Zi Yu had already figured it out by himself?

“Junior Sister, you shouldn’t worry about me anymore either. Look at you, you’ve gotten thinner.”

Ye Cong Xin: “?”

[Is Lan Zi Yu blind?]

She had just broken through the Golden Core Stage recently. Her body had gotten better, and there was finally a little more flesh on her face.

She had been quite happy about that, and yet Lan Zi Yu actually said she was thinner.

[Clearly I got fatter, okay!]

But it was exactly because of this line that she figured out Lan Zi Yu’s real thoughts.

Lan Zi Yu did not want to see her hurting over love, so he decided to pick himself up again?

Ye Cong Xin clicked her tongue softly.

Luckily, Lan Zi Yu was still the same Lan Zi Yu, laughably full of himself.

Even after she slapped him, he still believed that she was madly in love with him, to the point of life and death.

He had found confidence again from her, so now he felt like he could do it again.

Fine. As long as Lan Zi Yu could refocus on his cultivation, she was willing to play the foolish woman whose heart held only her dear Senior Brother.

Besides, she had just slapped Lan Zi Yu once. That did not count as a loss.

The two of them complemented each other, and the mood between them slowly grew more relaxed.

…

In Master Qing Yan’s cave residence, everything was a mess.

Master Qing Yan braced one hand against the wall. His face was pale, and his forehead was covered in a dense layer of sweat.

In his Sea of Consciousness, a familiar voice spoke with helplessness.

“Qing Yan, you and I are originally one. Unless I agree, you cannot drive me out of your Sea of Consciousness. Why must you be so stubborn?”

“Shut up! You are not me. You are an incarnation of a malevolent spirit, disturbing my Dao heart!”

Master Qing Yan’s voice was hoarse, and disgust filled his brows.

“Sigh.”

The spirit soul let out a soft sigh.

As the main body of this world, Master Qing Yan had the exact same personality and way of thinking as he did, so he knew that Master Qing Yan did not truly disbelieve him, he just refused to believe.

He did not want to believe that the young disciple he had cared for so much was a malevolent spirit. He did not want to believe that Yu Zhao, whom he had cast aside like trash, actually had a pure and childlike heart.

It was just like before, when he had clearly sensed that Ye Cong Xin’s cultivation was strange, yet pretended not to know, letting her grow step by step, until she caused a disaster that shook the heavens.

Now that he knew the truth, he wanted to make up for it, but the stubborn Master Qing Yan refused to listen to any advice.

[Is this life really going to repeat the same mistakes?]

That thought had just flashed through the spirit soul’s mind when, in the next second, he suddenly felt a chill all over his body.

Master Qing Yan was his self from the previous life.

And the him who had undergone Soul-Transmigration to Another World was exactly the Yu Zhao whom his past self had tried so hard to save, yet never understood.

Heavenly Principle was clear, and retribution never failed.

The Sage had not lied to him after all.