Being knocked down by the Heavenly Dao while ascending

"I came here specifically to find you."
"I came here specifically to find you."
……
Pei Mingyan kept repeating this sentence in his head. He felt like his phone was infected with a virus and was stuck and rewinding repeatedly. Only this sentence was replaying endlessly.

It’s so haunting!
He looked up at the sky. The sun was blindingly bright, the rays of light radiating and shrinking, as if the heavens could not stop laughing.

Pei Mingyan snorted, and it was unclear whether it was a sneer or a mockery.
He put his fingers on the corners of his mouth, pushed them up, and forced a smile, "We have no grudges in the past or today, right? Please let me go, okay?"

"We are like a mayfly in the universe, a grain of sand in the vast ocean.①Note"

“???” Pei Mingyan was stunned.
Everyone present was stunned at the same time.

Fang Qing looked mysterious and continued, "I lament the brevity of my life, and envy the infinity of the Yangtze River.②Note"

Pei Mingyan couldn't help but react.
The heroine knew that he was not Mei Shanxue, and even knew that he had traveled through time and space, so she came to test him.
His face was solemn, and he didn't answer. Instead, he turned to Uncle Yu and said, "Uncle Yu, I don't know this person. If she wants to see me, I will come to see her. I'll leave the rest to you. Xiao Kong and I will go back first."

"Huh? Isn't that how we recognize our relatives?" Fang Qing muttered, "I didn't even read the words 'The King of Heaven and the Tiger of Earth' or 'Chicken Stewed with Mushrooms'."
She coughed and shouted to Pei Mingyan: "Wait a moment!"

Seeing Pei Mingyan walking out while rubbing the hair of the little guy next to him as if he hadn't heard anything, Fang Qing was a little anxious, but he wasn't at all panicked like a prisoner. He just asked Pang Yuan, "Can I talk to him alone?"

Pang Yuan glanced at Tingzi, as if he was a little surprised by her attitude. "Ah? I'm just a small manager of the academy. I'm not the one who makes the decision."

When Uncle Yu saw Pang Yuan's gaze, his heart sank. He didn't know whether the dean had returned.
He glanced at Pang Yuan and said to Fang Qing, "Pei Mingyan has made his attitude clear. It would be better if you don't force it."

"...?"
Pei Mingyan stopped. He felt that this sounded a bit strange.

Uncle Yu paused, as if considering how to phrase his words.

Fang Qing was also bewildered. "No, uncle, although I really want to say 'I insist' after hearing what you said, but... I just want to discuss something with him. What do you want to discuss?"

Uncle Yu was embarrassed, "Didn't you say——"

Fang Qing thought of the lie she had told. She glanced at Pei Mingyan and stopped him from saying anything. "What do you mean by what I said? Anyway, no one else can hand over the spiritual herb except me. I think you guys need it in your current situation." She acted cute and said, "Don't worry, I won't do anything else. I really want to talk to Pei Mingyan about something. I won't bother you after I've said it. I swear to God!"

Swearing to God is just like playing.
Pei Mingyan thought to himself.

Uncle Yu remained silent, obviously in a dilemma.

Pei Mingyan didn't want to make things difficult for Uncle Yu.
Uncle Yu was not good at talking, but he was a fairly upright person. Besides, the spiritual herbs concerned the dean, and these people were like roast ducks with pierced necks. How could they say a word? Even though Uncle Yu didn't give him direct orders, he had a place in his heart.
Anyway, they will still listen to the heroine in the end, so it would be better for him to come out to help them out and gain some favorability.

"What's the matter?" Pei Ming turned around and asked.

Fang Qing seemed to suddenly remember to be polite. He didn't say anything and continued to wait for Uncle Yu's reply.

Uncle Yu saw Pei Mingyan turn around, and then looked back at the pavilion.
The curtains were drawn and the pavilion was completely silent. He nodded.

Fang Qing snapped his fingers and said happily, "Okay, then you guys wait here for a while, I'll bring him back right away."

As soon as the words fell, Uncle Yu and the others saw a flash before their eyes, and the two men disappeared.
Xiao Kong was so anxious that he yelled and rushed to Uncle Yu, "Uncle Yu, Uncle Yu! Where is he? Pei Mingyan said that this woman is very strange and he loses control every time he sees her. He asked me to catch him! Don't let him do anything stupid! But why did he suddenly disappear?"

Uncle Yu didn't understand what was going on and didn't know how to answer for a moment.
Xiao Kong knew that the dean needed to rest, so he stopped shouting, but pulled Uncle Yu with a pout, looking as if asking him for help.
Uncle Yu was helpless. He opened his mouth again and again but couldn't say anything.

Pang Yuan looked indifferent, his eyes constantly wandering between Uncle Yu and the pavilion.

Suddenly, Dean Xue's light, sickly voice came from the pavilion, "Xiao Kong, they are fine."
"Oh, since the dean said so, then everything must be fine!" Xiaokong let go of his hand and ran back to where he had just stood to wait for someone.

Pei Mingyan saw a flash of white before his eyes, and then someone grabbed his arm. When he looked clearly again, he found himself in an extremely small space.
He looked at Fang Qing. Her personality was completely different from what was described in the book.

As soon as Fang Qing entered, he let go of his hand and took two steps back.
Despite this, there was still only a short distance between the two.

Fang Qing started talking quickly, "Please bear with it for a moment! It's really too difficult to block the Heavenly Dao's prying eyes. My cultivation is not good enough, and I only have this double coffin to deceive the Heavenly Dao. Although it's a bit crowded, you have to make do with it. We'll leave after we're done talking."

Heaven?
Pei Mingyan stared at Fang Qing, as if trying to see through her body and into the soul within.
However, he could not see through everything about the heroine. Originally, he could still see the complicated luck of the heroine, but once he wanted to explore more, the gray fog was filled with a dizzying power, which made him retreat involuntarily.

Maybe it's a test from heaven?
Pei Mingyan said vaguely, "The last time we met, it was not a coincidence."

"Of course it's not a coincidence, big brother!" Fang Qing wiped his nose, his tone was so aggrieved, "I'm a ghost Fang Qing, I'm the author! My relatives and friends are waiting for me to go back and start a group. Everyone is ready, just waiting for me to call them in, let's hurry up!"

"..." Pei Mingyan frowned, did not respond, and did not interrupt her.

Fang Qing seemed to have noticed the worry behind his frown, and explained, "I'm not a puppet of Tiandao, nor am I here to do some spy game. I'm here to talk to you about serious business. We have to take down this fake Tiandao first before I can go back."

False heaven?
Pei Mingyan pretended not to hear the word, and twitched his mouth, looking disgusted with the other party's familiarity, "We?"

"Fifty-six ethnic groups are all one family, that's us!" Fang Qing moved his shoulders, stepped back a little, and stood close to the coffin. "Forget it, stop talking nonsense. Listen to me. I wrote the novel in a mixed-up way, but the things I wrote about really happened, although I can't remember what I wrote. However, I still remember a few things. For example, at the end of the damn story, I wrote a brilliant idea that the world would collapse! This is definitely not okay. There are so many innocent people here. I can kill them with just one sentence. I'm not the real creator god."

This is a lot of talk, but what’s the point?
Pei Mingyan blinked several times in disgust, his face speechless, "I...tell me your plan first."

Fang Qing was suddenly interrupted, "Ah? The plan... is to take down the fake Tiandao, and then we each go back to our own homes and find our own mothers."

“……” Pei Mingyan felt a little suffocated.
He sighed, "Sister, you've seen that I've been brought down by the heavens time and time again. Do you think it's appropriate for you to find me?"

Fang Qing seemed to have suddenly been plugged into a power source, and everything became smooth immediately. "Oh! Are you talking about this? No, this can only be done with you and Shang Nanyi."

Shang Nanyi, the hero in the book, is a disciple of Xuantian Sect, one of the fourteen sects among the three mountains and fourteen sects. He was originally the only son of the sect master. After the sect master passed away, Shang Nanyi's status and position plummeted. He began to travel around and accumulate his own power.
Later he met the heroine, they developed an emotional bond, and after dealing with the villain, both of them ascended to heaven.
The world collapses.

"Listen to me, although I don't understand what happened, but after thinking about it, the reason why the world collapsed was caused by this fake Heavenly Dao... um... okay, blame me for writing it." Fang Qing touched his nose, "In short, it was the fake Heavenly Dao who gathered all the power in the world and forced me to ascend. As for the solution, as long as I don't ascend, this world will not have any problem in surviving for another ten thousand years."

Pei Mingyan probably understood what she wanted to do. "You mean, because of the fake Heavenly Dao in the novel you wrote, and due to unknown reasons, the real Heavenly Dao temporarily lost its function, so you want to find Shang Nanyi and Mei Shanxue. Because if you hadn't written the novel, these two people would have been the ones who would have ascended, is that what you mean?"

Fang Qing was so excited that she took two steps forward, and almost held Pei Mingyan's hand, "Brother, I am so grateful! I am glad you understand! I went through so much trouble to get to Yingshan last time, but I didn't expect that group of villains would follow so quickly, and I didn't even have a chance to find you before they caught up with me. When I saw you, I wanted to howl, but then I remembered that I wrote that plot, and I was afraid that you would be harmed, so I cut off the formation and jumped off the cliff." Pei Mingyan heard her mention these people, and couldn't help asking, "Where are those people chasing you?"

Fang Qing suddenly realized, "Oh, no wonder you haven't been enthusiastic. Did you misunderstand? They are not dead! I am a good young man in the 20th century. Apart from fighting and killing in games and doing some immoral things like guarding corpses from time to time, I would never kill anyone in real life! I gave them all... um, labor reform."

Pei Mingyan nodded. If this was true, the conflict between the heroine and the dean had not completely escalated and could still be saved.
"If that's the case, you still have a chance to leave."

Fang Qing nodded, "Well... well, now that we've discussed this, can you think of a way to get me out?"

"........."
A deep feeling of unreliability surged into Pei Mingyan's mind, and for a moment he didn't know how to answer this person. Should he praise her for doing whatever she wanted by relying on the laws of nature, or scold her for not thinking about the consequences?

Seeing Pei Mingyan's expression, Fang Qing shouted, "Don't! Brother! Brother! I really have no choice. Only you two can check and balance the fake Heavenly Dao. I will try my best not to eat other people's luck, not take other people's treasures, and try my best to keep my cultivation stagnant! But this Heavenly Dao is really crazy! Look at the messy cultivation on my body. It's the ones who chased me last time. I know that Heavenly Dao protects me, so of course I don't hesitate to jump directly. As expected, nothing happened when I jumped down. There was a big lake below, and I just fell into the lake! What happened! Those who chased me also jumped in, and then couldn't get up! This is really bullshit. Later we found that there was something wrong with the water. It melted the cultivation of several people. Not only was I fine when I soaked in the water, but I also absorbed the cultivation of several people. I didn't practice the Star Absorbing Art, so why did I do these fake things! Just when I thought I was going to become food for something under the water, a sand sculpture flew over and used its claws to lift me up from the water. Sand sculpture! Really a sand sculpture, the kind made of sand!"

"........."
Pei Mingyan stroked his forehead, as if he was suppressing his emotions.

"Don't be speechless. I am still speechless. Do you understand? I am just too full. I am running desperately in front, afraid of eating another bite. The Heavenly Dao is chasing after me with a lot of cultivation to feed me. I really can't run away! I will cancel the contract for the novel when I go back. It really hurts others and myself!"

Pei Mingyan suddenly stared at Fang Qing and asked, "Isn't Fang Qing's life wonderful?"

"No one wants this excitement! Why should I be neither alive nor dead? Let me tell you, the ultimate reason why life is priceless is because it only has a few days. I should eat and drink, and when I die, I will lie down in the ground and not cause trouble to Guo Jia. Isn't this good? The pressure on the earth is still small. If everyone is a thousand-eight-hundred-year-old monster, even if the earth turns into a green grassland, there won't be enough grass for everyone." Fang Qing became more and more angry as he spoke, beating his chest and stamping his feet, "I'm not kidding. My relatives and friends are really waiting for me to go back and start a group. We still have to fight for the first armor!"

After hearing her words, Pei Mingyan relaxed his guard a little.
So... this is actually, a game, a stand-up comedy, and a girl's anger?
While the other person was taking a breath, he hurriedly said, "The air is a little scarce here, should we use it sparingly?"

"Oh, yes, let's get down to business." Fang Qing exhaled and was about to speak.

Pei Mingyan interrupted quickly. This girl must have been holding it in for too long. She finally found someone to talk to, but once she opened her mouth it was like a flood. Even pulling the floodgates was useless.
"I'll do it, I'll ask you, you answer... No, just say yes or no."
Pei Mingyan asked the question that concerned him the most, "How do you know my name?"

Fang Qing's face suddenly changed as if her throat was being strangled. She was silent for a while and said, "Well... I have to apologize to you first. I'm sorry."

Pei Mingyan narrowed his eyes, "Hmm?"

"That's right... the reason you came here was because I hugged Tiandao's thighs in my dream and cried for my parents, saying that I was unfamiliar with the place and there was no one to talk to, and I was about to become autistic... and I called for my grandpa and grandma, so Tiandao agreed to my small request and sent you here."

Pei Mingyan's face suddenly turned cold.

Fang Qing scratched his fingers and licked his lips. "As for your name, I heard it from Pang Yuan."

"Pang Yuan?" Pei Mingyan felt that this matter was getting complicated. He thought for a moment and asked, "How do you know him?"

Fang Qing carefully glanced at Pei Mingyan's face and thought to himself, "Damn, he really is worthy of being the most powerful person in the world today. With just a cold face, his aura can make people feel timid!"

She answered carefully, "I was afraid of a big mess, so I was working diligently on the plot before going to Yingshan, not slacking off at all. After Yingshan confirmed that you were really coming, I sneaked into Juwu Banshan, but I didn't find you. I was anxious, so I went to find Shang Nanyi. I didn't dare to tell the truth, so I had to trade the treasure with him and ask him to help find you."

"Wait a minute." Pei Mingyan interrupted, "Is Pang Yuan Shang Nanyi's man?"

"I don't know either. There was no such person when I was writing the book. But Pang Yuan indeed arranged for me to come in. He is probably Shang Nanyi's subordinate. He was the one who told me about your situation."

"So it was your idea when Pang Yuan wanted to take me away last time?"

"I don't know about that." Fang Qing said, "The exchange between Shang Nanyi and I is that he should bring you to see me. If that doesn't work, he can send me to see you. I didn't ask for the details."

Pei Mingyan was increasingly confused about the plot. Was the academy, which was the villain, actually controlled by the male protagonist? Could it be that the book was actually a training story for the male protagonist to teach the female protagonist?
He looked at the author sitting opposite him who was even more confused than him, and stuffed his doubts about the plot back into his stomach.

"So now, you know nothing about the fake Tiandao, and you don't have any specific connections with Shang Nanyi, let alone any plans." Pei Mingyan said in a tense voice.

"I think you are easier to convince. After all, we are from the same place. It will be the same if we convince you and then go find Shang Nanyi. Besides, with your reputation as Young Master Mei, Shang Nanyi will be more likely to believe us." Fang Qing saw that the other party did not mention the fact that she summoned people, so she couldn't help but start to defend herself.

Pei Mingyan sneered, "Just because of your baseless guess, you didn't ask me if I agreed to summon me here. Now you need help, and I should help you as a matter of course with just one word from you?"

Fang Qing was speechless for a moment, "I... that's not what I meant, I just had no choice -"

"There's nothing I can do." Pei Mingyan interrupted her.
"Fake Heavenly Dao is unfair to Mei Shanxue. Even if I want to help you, I will never take risks with him before I am absolutely sure. You are the darling of Fake Heavenly Dao. Fake Heavenly Dao was born for you and will not make things difficult for you. You can jump off the cliff and do whatever you want because you know your life will not be in danger. But behind me stands Mei Shanxue and the lives of tens of thousands of people in the Mei family."

"But... I did this so that we can go back!" Fang Qing retorted: "I'm not doing this just for myself!"

Pei Mingyan's face was cold enough to drip water. "This matter has nothing to do with me, and even less with Mei Shanxue. Do you understand?"

Fang Qing rolled his eyes and muttered quietly: "If I don't wear it in, he will still die."

Pei Mingyan raised his voice and said angrily: "But we don't know where Mei Shanxue has gone now!"
He was so angry that he tapped his forehead unconsciously a few times. "Before you came in, this was just a book. After you came in, everyone you met is alive. They have their own dreams and their own lives."
Pei Mingyan clenched his palms and tapped his chest with four fingers. "As for me, what I have now should have belonged to Mei Shanxue. He is him, and I am me. I occupy his identity for a while, so I must protect the entire Mei family for him until he comes back."

Fang Qing seemed to be frightened and stepped back, but was blocked by the coffin lid.

Pei Mingyan took a deep breath, suppressed all his emotions, and asked: "Now, do you understand why I hid in the academy?"

"You are doing this to protect the Mei family." Fang Qing said in a low voice.

Pei Mingyan stopped looking at her and just said, "We can go out now."

Fang Qing boldly grabbed the clothes on his arm and said, "So as long as I make a thorough plan and convince Shang Nanyi, you can help me?"

(End of this chapter)