Shen Qing hadn't yet recovered from Ling Zhou's words when she looked down and found that her physical state was exactly the same as Ling Zhou's. Both were in a transparent spiritual soul state.
"I... Am I going to die??"
Am I going to die again??!!
Shen Qing stared in shock with wide - open eyes. "What's going on?"
Ling Zhou still remained as unhurried as ever. He intended to tease Shen Qing. "You're now in a spiritual soul state. Usually when you enter this small space, it's your physical body that comes in. But..."
Ling Zhou paused again as he spoke, making Shen Qing's heart skip a beat.
She had died once before, and Shen Qing wasn't sure if she'd be lucky enough to be reborn if she died again.
"Master, don't do this..."
Seeing the playfulness in Ling Zhou's eyes, Shen Qing knew that the problem should not be too serious. Otherwise, Ling Zhou would never have such an attitude.
After all, Ling Zhou wasn't like those people from Nianbai Peak.
"Stop teasing you. Your body was hit by two sword qi from Heng Ling. You should have been seriously injured, but luckily you have the spiritual bone. So I took the opportunity to unlock the seal on your spiritual bone."
"Don't stare at me like that. If it weren't for the spiritual bone, you'd be useless by now. Logically, with such a serious injury, you should have fallen into a coma. But I was really bored, so I pulled your spiritual soul in."
"Anyway, your spiritual soul is in a state of recuperation when you're in a coma. You might as well come in and accompany me..."
Ling Zhou's voice grew softer and softer because he saw Shen Qing's face getting darker and darker.
"Master!!"
Shen Qing was so agitated not only because Ling Zhou had unlocked the seal on the spiritual bone, which might arouse the jealousy of True Person Heng Ling.
But also because the separation of the soul from the physical body caused great damage to oneself.
There were some demonic cultivators who specialized in practicing this kind of technique for seizing other people's bodies. However, this technique consumed one's own essence, so they had to use the essence and souls of others to make up for it.
One instance of the soul leaving the body could result in either mental listlessness at best or damage to the essence and soul at worst.
No wonder Shen Qing was so agitated.
Ling Zhou shrank his neck in fear and quickly explained under Shen Qing's murderous gaze. "Little disciple, listen to my explanation. This small space already exists in your spiritual consciousness. Strictly speaking, your spiritual soul hasn't left your body. It can't be considered as the soul leaving the body, so it won't cause any damage to your essence and soul!"
"Moreover, don't you want to hear the conversation between Red Butterfly and Hong Chaoyang? You risked your life to get this chance!"
Hearing Ling Zhou mention Hong Chaoyang, Shen Qing stopped her action of wanting to beat Ling Zhou.
Taking the opportunity, Ling Zhou waved his sleeve, and a light curtain appeared in front of Shen Qing out of thin air.
What was shown in the light curtain was exactly what was happening around Shen Qing.
"Little disciple, sit down. Hehe," Ling Zhou had an obsequious smile on his face. He somehow conjured up two imperial concubine chairs and placed them on the ground. There was also a small tea table beside them.
On the small tea table, there were piles of spiritual fruits like small mountains.
Shen Qing was puzzled.
"Can the spiritual soul sit on the imperial concubine chair and eat spiritual fruits?"
Ling Zhou's movement froze. He said aggrievedly, "It's better than nothing..."
Shen Qing had no choice but to follow Ling Zhou and float towards the imperial concubine chair. Strangely enough, she could indeed sit on the chair, but she couldn't eat the spiritual fruits...
"Alright, little disciple, look quickly."
Shen Qing raised her head from the pile of spiritual fruits and just happened to see the figures of True Person Red Butterfly and Hong Chaoyang appear in the light curtain.
True Person Red Butterfly placed the injured Shen Qing on the small couch. The blood all over her body and her weak breathing made Hong Chaoyang's eyes turn red with fear.
She carefully pleaded with True Person Red Butterfly. "Mother, I beg you to save Shen Qing. I know you don't like her, and you don't like me making friends without permission. But please, for the sake of Shen Qing saving me in the dense forest, save her. Just help your daughter repay this kindness."
"If Shen Qing can wake up, your daughter will listen to you in everything from now on and will no longer disobey you."
While treating Shen Qing's wounds, True Person Red Butterfly watched her daughter's humble pleading and felt very uncomfortable.
Why didn't her daughter have even a little trust in her under her protection?
Hong Chaoyang's birth wasn't welcome. It could be said that she didn't look forward to this child, and the child's father even less so.
When True Person Red Butterfly first joined the Qingyun Sword Sect, she met a disciple from a small sect during her travels. Gradually, they fell in love and quickly became Taoist partners.
She thought that it was difficult for cultivators to conceive, so True Person Red Butterfly didn't take any special measures.
Unexpectedly, after just a few times, True Person Red Butterfly became pregnant.
After she became pregnant, she clearly felt that her Taoist partner was extremely excited. At first, she thought he was looking forward to the birth of the child.
So, still hesitating whether to give birth to the child, True Person Red Butterfly decided to keep the child in her womb for the sake of her Taoist partner.
As True Person Red Butterfly's belly grew day by day, the reactions of a pregnant cultivator gradually appeared.
Her cultivation gradually regressed. The adverse reactions during pregnancy were several times stronger than those of ordinary women. She couldn't eat or sleep well, and the spiritual power in her body was constantly being absorbed by the child in her womb.
Although the pregnancy of a cultivator was also ten months, these short ten months were enough to torture True Person Red Butterfly from a bright and beautiful woman into a haggard one.
During these ten months, True Person Red Butterfly had countless thoughts of getting rid of the child in her womb.
But every time she saw the happy face of her Taoist partner, she softened her heart.
Until that day, when she was about to give birth, her Taoist partner's fellow disciples came to congratulate him. She accidentally overheard their conversation...
It turned out that her Taoist partner practiced the ruthless path and planned to kill his wife to prove his way when she was giving birth!
True Person Red Butterfly was completely devastated, but the child in her womb had already taken shape, and it was impossible to get rid of it.
But if she didn't vent this anger, True Person Red Butterfly always felt as disgusted as if she had eaten a fly. So, on the day she gave birth, she and Yaoyue set up a deadly formation in the cave and killed that disgusting scumbag.
On the day Hong Chaoyang was born, her biological father died in front of her. And because everyone in that small sect practiced such an unorthodox way, they were all killed by True Person Red Butterfly alone. Everything in that small sect was burned to ashes by True Person Red Butterfly's spiritual fire.
So, that was why True Person Red Butterfly always told Hong Chaoyang that the great path was not easy, and it was even more difficult for a woman to cultivate. Once she fell in love, she didn't know what kind of ending awaited her.
True Person Red Butterfly was afraid that Hong Chaoyang would follow the same old disastrous road, but because Hong Chaoyang had that man's blood in her body, her feelings for Hong Chaoyang were a mixture of love and loathing.
When Shen Qing was having her soul searched, through the intertwined spiritual power between the two of them, she also peeked into a part of True Person Red Butterfly's memory.
After seeing Shen Qing's experience, True Person Red Butterfly thought that although it was not easy for a woman, she could also bloom different flowers in this hardship.
So, she agreed to Shen Qing's request.
True Person Red Butterfly took a deep breath. Her upturned fox - like eyes were full of exhaustion.
"Chaoyang, do you still remember... your father?"