Chapter 92

Chapter 92: Dazed

Chang Le An’s lips trembled, a sharp sound breaking from his throat as he shouted: “You… you are spouting nonsense!”

[Li Shuang gave you that sky high luck. If she didn’t give it, what are you?] Yan Fan’s scornful words roared through his mind.

He whipped his head toward Li Shuang and spoke in a fluster: “Tell Yan Fan clearly! This is my own luck, it has nothing to do with you! Li Shuang, say it right now!”

He rushed on, voice rising: “And back at the Sword Sect, I often had surprise gains! After entering the secret realm, my luck only got boosted. What does that have to do with you, Li Shuang! Are you teaming up with Yan Fan to lie?”

He glared at her without blinking.

Yan Fan gave him a cold look and let out a short laugh. He lie? How laughable. Li Shuang had done her best for her Junior Brother, but in the end she raised an ingrate.

Li Shuang’s face was calm.

She had never told the truth about his so called luck. At first, she helped hide it. Later, even when Chang Le An kept blaming her, she still did not explain.

It was not because she was so kind.

It was because a person like Chang Le An, if he kept thinking he had heaven shaking luck and lived inside that empty dream, then when the dream broke, he would only fall into deeper despair.

She had plenty of patience to wait for the day that backlash came.

But today, since Yan Fan had already said it, Li Shuang no longer cared to hide it.

She said, steady and cool: “Chang Le An, your background is complicated. When you first entered the sect, the Disciples of Ling Xu Peak kept rejecting you. Do you remember this?”

“Of course I remember!” His face twisted as he snapped: “They were foolish and ignorant. At first they avoided me like floodwater. Later, when they found I had great luck, they all rushed to get close.”

He could not help remembering his so called glorious past: “Inside the sect’s Crescent Pool, that rare silver fish no one else could catch, I hooked one after another! Isn’t that proof of my luck? I never even knew how to fish!”

As he spoke, he kept staring at Li Shuang, not sure if he wanted to convince her or convince himself.

Li Shuang said calmly: “You did not know fishing, but I did. I drove the silver fish to your hook on purpose.”

His face went stiff. He blurted, reaching for another point: “No! Impossible! Fine, even if you can explain the silver fish, then what about the treasures I found in the mountains?”

She lifted a brow and said: “I planted them ahead of time.”

The Sword Sect’s lands were wide. Besides the inner grounds, there were many mountains. Disciples sometimes trained in the ranges around the sect. Out of so many people, only Chang Le An came back with gains time after time.

All that made him believe deeply in his luck.

Hearing Li Shuang’s light words now, his face turned ugly and his voice went shrill: “You’re lying! You must be lying! You shameless person, why would you help me like that? You had no reason!”

Before Li Shuang spoke, Yan Fan’s eyes turned colder as he said: “You still cannot tell? You were born in the Devil Path. Li Shuang did all this so the sect’s Disciples wouldn’t reject you, so you could join the sect smoothly.”

He and Li Shuang had only met a few times and hardly spoken, but just by listening, he could guess her thought.

Chang Le An had been with Li Shuang for more than ten years. He should have known her far better.

And yet he still had not understood her good intentions.

In that moment, Yan Fan felt a bit of pity on Li Shuang’s behalf.

“She could be that kind?” Chang Le An’s chest heaved as he shouted. [So Yan Fan means he could join the sect and be taken in by Immortal Ling Xu all because of Li Shuang? No. Impossible.]

He would not admit it, but his eyes turned dazed. A long buried memory rose up.

When he first entered the sect, he was assigned by force to Ling Xu Peak.

Immortal Ling Xu ignored him. The Disciples near him kept their distance.

Even though he had an earth attribute Single Spiritual Root, the constant rejection and doubt shook his mood and held back his training.

One night, he stood on the cliff edge in pain, thinking: [Should I just jump and end it?]

A cool voice called to him then.

It was Li Shuang.

She acted like she did not see his wish to die. She only told him in a cold tone to return to the Disciple quarters and stop roaming around.

That time, he truly meant to die, but once he was stopped, the urge to die eased a little.

As the First Senior Sister, Li Shuang was always busy.

But during that stretch, she spent more time inside Ling Xu Peak. More than once, she stopped other Disciples from rejecting him.

It did not work.

In front of her, those Disciples acted friendly. In private, they still pushed him away.

He stayed as alone as before.

Back then, it was Li Shuang who told him: “You cannot choose your birth, but you can choose your future. If you keep going, things will get better.”

And then, things really did get better.

He began to show so called luck. The Disciples around him drew closer.

He grew more confident, and his cultivation rose fast.

He thought he was the chosen one.

But in truth, it all came from another person’s gentle care.

His lips kept shaking. [I don’t believe it. I refuse to believe it.]

“You delayed so much training time just for those fools?” Yan Fan could not help saying.

Li Shuang glanced at him and answered lightly: “Senior Brother Yan, instead of worrying about old stories, think about how to deal with what is in front of us.”

These Sand Scorpions were not strong, but this was a desert, and their numbers were endless.

Beside them, a Goldenwing Eagle watched for a chance to strike.

Yet the group had drifted into talking about the past.

Li Shuang did not regret what she had given. Her heart was always sincere.

She did not regret giving up her old feelings. Her path was wide and bright. If she kept walking, a new world would open by itself.

Yan Fan pressed his lips together and said: “I have always treated you as my biggest target. I pictured many times how we would meet again. I trained my sword like mad just to surpass you one day. But now I have entered Divine Transformation, and you are still at the Qi Refining Stage. I thought I could surpass you, but I never thought it would be in this way.”

Li Shuang slanted him a look and said lightly: “Do not be too regretful. Soon enough, you will be chasing my back again.”

Her voice was faint, but full of strong confidence.