"Qing Qing, you're not fully recovered yet. What are you doing here!"
Elder Forsythia's face darkened. The look in her eyes as she regarded Qing Qing was full of concern for the junior.
Elder Lianshan quickly told someone to bring a chair over. The chair was padded with a thick cushion so that Qing Qing could sit comfortably.
Qing Qing coughed twice and艰难ly raised his hand, bowing to the elders. "Qing Qing... thanks all the elders."
Li Xian also walked out from behind Qing Qing and stood beside Shen Qing.
But Shen Qing noticed that Li Xian seemed different. Before, Li Xian's eyes always sparkled with light and a smile when looking at her.
But now, Li Xian's eyes were filled with complex emotions. When looking at Shen Qing, there was also a tinge of darkness and guilt in his eyes.
Shen Qing was just about to ask when Li Xian pulled her aside. "What's coming up next is Qing Qing's matter. Let's watch from the side for now."
Shen Qing nodded, but there was a faint uneasiness in her heart.
"I believe everyone here already knows what just happened. If it weren't for Wansheng, I might have already entered the cycle of reincarnation."
Everyone in the main hall fell silent, especially the elders of the sect.
Their young sect master was schemed against by the sect master right under their noses and almost lost her life. And an outer - sect disciple was also involved.
Especially since those two were the treasures of the top - ranked sects in the Nine Desolate Continent. If the people from those two sects came to settle the score, who knew what would happen.
It was really embarrassing!
Elder Lianshan glared fiercely at Qing Dai. If it weren't for her, the magic weapon passed down by the ancestors of the Green Wood Sect wouldn't have been lost.
He looked at Qing Qing with regret and said, "Wansheng is your contracted magic weapon. It sacrificed itself to save you. It's a pity... a pity for our Green Wood Sect...哎哎哎??"
Before Elder Lianshan could finish his regretful words, he saw a small green sprout floating in Qing Qing's palm.
"Isn't this Wansheng?!"
"It didn't disappear!"
Shen Qing was also surprised for a moment, and then it seemed normal to her. So the aura of Wansheng she felt before wasn't an illusion!
Qing Qing held Wansheng in his hand, his face full of cherish.
"Wansheng didn't disappear. It became my heart. I've inherited all its abilities. From now on, I am Wansheng, and Wansheng is me!"
"However, what I want to tell you is not this, but why the sect has a rule that only women can inherit the position of the sect master of the Green Wood Sect."
"That's because if Wansheng forms a contract with a man, the consequence of forcibly catalyzing plants will backfire on the contractor. And the refining of the Elixir of Immortality not only requires using Wansheng to catalyze spiritual plants but also causes harm to the user. The Elixir of Immortality is not only the spiritual medicine of the Green Wood Sect but also the medicine that saves the sect masters of all generations."
"If a woman takes the Elixir of Immortality, it can delay the backfire. But because of their physical constitution, men can hardly relieve this backfire even if they take the Elixir of Immortality."
"For the sake of the Elixir of Immortality, Ban Fenghe had to obtain Wansheng."
Qing Qing had struggled to say such a long passage and was already exhausted. Even his forehead was covered in fine cold sweat.
Hearing Qing Qing's explanation, everyone was in an uproar.
Although Jiang Zhiyun didn't say a word, she kept looking at Qing Qing with worry.
Even though she knew that Wansheng had merged with Qing Qing, she still couldn't help but worry.
Qing Qing tried to calm his breathing and took a quick look at Shen Qing and Li Xian.
He had revealed the secrets of the Elixir of Immortality and Wansheng in front of everyone without even avoiding Shen Qing and Li Xian, which showed his great trust in the two of them.
No wonder Qing Qing had never been able to refine the Elixir of Immortality before. It wasn't because of his physical constitution at all. It was because Wansheng knew how serious the backfire would be if a man refined the Elixir of Immortality, so it had never allowed Qing Qing to succeed.
It didn't want its contracted master to be hurt.
But Wansheng couldn't speak, and Qing Qing didn't understand Wansheng's intention, so he had been exhausting himself, thinking it was his own problem.
And it was only after Wansheng became Qing Qing's heart that he understood what Wansheng had in mind.
Ban Fenghe slumped to the ground powerlessly.
Qing Qing had already told everything, and she had lost her last chance to stay in the Green Wood Sect.
If only she had listened to Shen Qing just now. Then she could have exchanged the information about the Main God's Temple.
But now, it was too late.
Ban Fenghe regretted it deeply. She really hadn't expected that Wansheng, as an ancient magic weapon, would do so much for Qing Qing, and that Qing Qing could wake up in such a short time.
No, she must not return to the Main God's Temple!
"Master... no... Elder Lianshan! Please let me stay in the Green Wood Sect. I've thought it through. I'll tell you all the information you want to know. I only beg you to let me stay in the Green Wood Sect as a handyman disciple!"
Ban Fenghe pleaded desperately. The sound of her kowtowing forcefully echoed again in the main hall.
"Why is she so afraid of going back to the Main God's Temple? Isn't her father a guard of the temple?"
Shen Qing couldn't understand why Ban Fenghe's reaction was so strange, so she whispered to Li Xian beside her.
Li Xian instinctively moved a bit further away when he felt Shen Qing getting closer.
But in this environment, it was hard for Shen Qing not to notice this small movement of Li Xian. So she was stunned for a moment and stared blankly at Li Xian, not understanding why he had such a reaction.
Li Xian also felt a bit remorseful. When he met Shen Qing's hurt eyes, he was so anxious that he wanted to hold Shen Qing's hand, but then he thought of something and restrained himself.
Shen Qing suddenly lowered her head to hide the surprise and a trace of sadness in her eyes.
"It's me... I got too close. Don't mind..." Shen Qing said softly, with a faint tremor in her voice.
She was all too familiar with such a movement.
In her previous life, she had struggled in the Qingyun Sword Sect. She was bullied by Lin Yibai and those from Wangyou Peak. All the disciples regarded her as a plague. As long as she got close, they would stay away.
Shen Qing didn't expect that she would experience this illusion of being bullied again from Li Xian.
Shen Qing first habitually thought about whether she had done something wrong, and then she tried to escape by apologizing.
She was afraid that Li Xian would do something even more embarrassing or say something that would make her uncomfortable.
"Shen Qing, it's not like that..."
Li Xian clenched his fists tightly, looking at Shen Qing's side face, his heart full of pity. But he still didn't dare to touch Shen Qing.
"It's okay. I was talking about Ban Fenghe. Since she doesn't want to go back to the Main God's Temple, she must have encountered something unacceptable there. I wonder if we can get her to talk about it..."
Shen Qing said a lot of things, but her mind was in a mess. But she had to use this way to buffer the situation.
But obviously, this way didn't relieve her. Instead, she felt even more uncomfortable.
Tears gradually welled up in her eyes, and her mind was filled with the disgusted looks of others in her previous life. She thought she had slowly walked out of it.
But a small movement from Li Xian had directly exposed the vulnerability in her heart.
She knew that this wasn't the time to think about these things, but she still couldn't help but feel scared.
Shen Qing secretly despised her own weakness.