Being knocked down by the Heavenly Dao while ascending

Pei Mingyan patted his shoulder, gently pushed him away a little, and asked with concern: "How is your injury?"

Mei Shuyu hunched his shoulders and lowered his head slightly, not daring to look directly at the other person. "No, nothing happened."

Pei Mingyan really found it difficult to accept this contrast. The Mei Shuyu mentioned by the elders and the Mei Shuyu he saw seemed to be two different people.
The second younger brother who was with him was always obedient and timid, but he was the kind of sensible and well-behaved boy that made people feel sorry for him.
He did not forget the mission of this trip. "I left at noon because I still had things to do. The elders did not mean it."

"Brother, just go and take care of your own business. I'm fine." Mei Shuyu raised his head, seemingly not caring about the elders and the others at all. He said hastily, "I'm fine!"

Pei Mingyan observed him, "You and your father and mother really have nothing to hide from me?"

Mei Shuyu paused and shook his head repeatedly, "No, no."

Pei Mingyan's face turned cold.

Mei Shuyu lowered his head even lower, as if he wanted to retreat a little.

Pei Mingyan moved his hand on Mei Shuyu's shoulder, and his hand happened to fall on Mei Shuyu's pulse.

Mei Shuyu moved and wanted to pull it back, but she didn't dare to use force, so she could only let him feel her pulse obediently.

As he took Mei Shuyu's pulse more deeply, Pei Mingyan's expression became more and more solemn. He could not help but condense his strength into extremely tentative tentacles, which probed into Mei Shuyu's veins along her wrist.

Mei Shuyu shrank his head, as if trying to hide himself, but his wrist was held tightly.

Pei Mingyan gave Mei Shuyu a look and she dared not move anymore. She was as stiff as a dead salted fish.

Pei Mingyan let go of his hand and said with a sullen face: "Should I figure it out myself, or should you explain it to me?"

"I... I'll tell you." Mei Shuyu said timidly, "I had this disease before I came to the Mei family."

Pei Mingyan nodded, "You are the son of an old friend. When your father adopted you, did he know your situation?"

"I know, of course I know." Mei Shuyu felt very aggrieved, "I...I didn't lie to my father, nor did I lie to everyone."

Pei Mingyan pulled him into the house, closed the door, and pushed him to sit on a chair.
He stared at the other's chest and forehead and asked, "What's going on with the demonic energy in your body?"

Mei Shuyu shook his head, "I don't know... Ever since I knew about the existence of demonic energy, they have become more and more numerous."

Demonic energy.
As I said at the beginning, in the world of this book, there is no distinction between good and evil in the literal sense, there is only friction and conflict caused by different interests. Therefore, there is naturally no such thing as the righteous path and the evil path, and the species of "devil" does not exist.
Demonic energy is a pure negative energy. It coexists with the air, or is mixed in the air. When humans breathe, they will inevitably inhale some of it, but this amount of demonic energy is not fatal and will not even cause disease.
Because when people exhale, they also send out negative energy, so ordinary people do not have to worry about demonic energy, let alone practitioners?

Practitioners absorb the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, which is naturally mixed with negligible demonic energy. Practitioners will isolate this demonic energy from outside.
However, Mei Shuyu, as a cultivator, has demonic energy gathering in his body. It seems that his body is even worse than that of an ordinary person, but he is indeed a cultivator with decent cultivation. It is really a strange and weird thing.

Pei Mingyan vaguely understood why the entire house, including the furniture inside, was made of white marble.
The evil spirit is black and is most conspicuous in a pure white environment. The reason why there is not a single green plant in the entire yard is probably because people consider that if the green plants are invaded by the evil spirit, it will in turn affect Mei Shuyu.
There is no such worry for houses made of white marble, after all, white marble can ward off evil spirits. Since ancient times, the fences and statues of emperors were mostly made of white marble, which is very telling.

Pei Mingyan nodded, "I also discovered from taking your pulse just now that you have a different constitution and cannot eliminate these energies. Over time, the evil energy will accumulate and you will be controlled by it and lose your mind until -"

Pei Mingyan suddenly realized!
Why did the world in the book collapse? This question was not answered definitively when I talked to Fang Qing last time, but for now, the things he encountered that were not explained clearly in the book actually had their own explanations.

So, what if the world collapse is not just caused by ascension?
Fang Qing said that the two people destined to ascend are him and the male protagonist, and Xue Qingyu said that the energy of the entire world is only enough to support the ascension of two people.

In the end, Mei Shanxue died, and the people who ascended to heaven were Fang Qing and Shang Nanyiyi. There should be no problem with the energy, so the world should not have collapsed for this reason.

But what if there is a negative energy occurring that no one knows about?
How did the world collapse? Did the way of heaven break? Or did the original world explode directly?
Or maybe both?
Mei Shuyu has never appeared in the book, which means that in a place without the protection of the Mei family, he will accumulate "demonic energy" faster.
Mei Shuyu has been in the Mei family for about twenty years, and with the help of the Mei family, the evil spirit has accumulated to its current state.
If he had been without protection for twenty years, how much negative energy would he have absorbed?

Then, the problem arises.
Why did Mei Shuyu suddenly come to the Mei family about twenty years ago? What made him change his original path?

Seeing that he stopped talking, Mei Shuyu thought he was angry, and hurriedly explained, "I hardly leave the Mei family now, and my father and the elders are also trying to control it for me. Big brother, I won't hurt anyone!"

"No problem, I'll find a solution to your problem."

When Mei Shuyu heard him say that, the little panic he had felt disappeared. Suddenly, there was a flash of light, and a dagger appeared in his hand. "This is a special dagger that can easily pierce my body. If...if one day I lose control, I hope to die in my brother's hands." Pei Mingyan felt that something was wrong with this script, something was very wrong.
"I don't kill people easily, and you're my brother." Pei Mingyan closed Mei Shuyu's open palm, "I won't take the dagger, in case you really become a disaster one day."

Mei Shuyu hung his head in dejection, a rage coming from nowhere filling his chest. He clenched the dagger and was about to throw it away.
But when he thought that he was facing Mei Shanxue, the man he had called his elder brother for twenty years, he could no longer vent his anger.

"I will definitely rescue you." Pei Mingyan said to him.
This sounds strange, but it is something he has to do. If Mei Shuyu is really the main reason for the collapse of the world, he naturally cannot just sit there and do nothing, nor can he kill him.
Otherwise, wouldn't the condensed "demonic energy" be released instantly, which might be the reason why the world collapsed?

Mei Shuyu didn't know the reason behind this, and was so moved that she threw away the dagger and cried like a baby while hugging Pei Mingyan's shoulders.

Pei Mingyan raised his hands, thought for a while and decided to pat the other person on the back, just as if he was a child.
Anyway, Mei Shuyu always acts like a child in front of him.

When he was almost done coaxing her, Pei Mingyan asked again: "I remember my father said that you actually had many choices. Why did you choose to come to the Mei family in the end?"

Mei Shuyu wiped her tears and asked, "Brother, what do you mean by this?"

"I didn't mean to doubt you." Pei Mingyan said it, but he felt that he didn't believe it, and added: "If you want to get better for your illness, you shouldn't come to the Mei family. Xuantian Sect is proficient in the transformation of yin and yang, and may have better methods for your body. Why did you choose the Mei family?"

Mei Shuyu recalled for a long time, "I don't remember anything too small. I left home at that time and was indeed heading for Xuantian Gate. We walked for a long, long time, and when we were almost there, I was already groggy. When I woke up, someone whispered in my ear to tell me to come to the Mei family, because only here could I be saved. I told the news to my nanny, and she said that it was the spirits of my parents who were blessing me and guiding me as I got lost, so we changed our route and headed for the Mei family."

"Nanny?"

"It was the wet nurse." Mei Shuyu answered, "She sent me to the gate of the Mei family and left, leaving me only a letter, which I later gave to the head of the family."

Someone deliberately sent Mei Shuyu to the Mei family. What was this person's plan?
Using Mei Shuyu to blow up the Mei family? You shouldn't be so shallow.
Could it be that as he thought, Mei Shuyu would blow up the world after absorbing the "demonic energy"?

"Whose voice did you hear when you woke up? Why did you believe it?"

Mei Shuyu shook his head, "I don't recognize that voice..."

Pei Mingyan realized that his tone was too serious and afraid of scaring people, so he softened his tone and asked, "What did that person say to you? Do you remember?"

"He said, go find someone... go to the Mei family... there's hope... be good... and listen." Mei Shuyu paused for a long moment, then nodded affirmatively, "That's it."

Pei Mingyan nodded, "Well, I understand. I'm going out in a few days, do you want to go with me?"

Mei Shuyu jumped up happily, "Go! But if you leave the Mei family, the evil spirit will--"
"Leave it to me." Pei Mingyan patted his shoulder and coaxed him to the bed. "It's time to go to bed now. Listen to your brother and don't go out tonight."

Mei Shuyu nodded, lay down on the bed obediently, pulled the quilt over her, placed her hands neatly on the quilt, and closed her eyes.
It's like a tool that performs its tasks obediently.

Pei Mingyan glanced at the black air lingering around Mei Shuyu's chest. If it weren't for the heart and brain that the elders of the Mei family tried their best to protect, Mei Shuyu would have lost most of his sanity by now.
His father asked him to come over to see him, probably because he was planning to confess the matter to him.

He walked out of the room, remembering what the elders had said about Mei Shuyu. He took advantage of the gap in the door to look at the person lying on the bed.

Mei Shuyu opened his eyes. The timid and obedient look had disappeared. His face was stern, like a killer who would stand up and execute orders at any time.
But Pei Mingyan's words telling him to sleep seemed like an order that could not be disobeyed. Even though his eyes were open, he did not get up and continued to lie quietly, without even moving his hands. If you didn't know, you would think Mei Shuyu was sleeping with his eyes open.

Pei Mingyan thought about it and decided to ask the expert in this field - Xue Qingyu.
He suspected that Mei Shuyu was given a strong mental suggestion when he was turning near Xuantian Gate.
The content of this hint was related to the Mei family and to him as well. Even the reason why Mei Shuyu acted so strange in front of him was due to that hint.

Pei Mingyan walked out of the yard under the moonlight, looked at the sparse stars in silence for a long time, then secretly climbed over the wall to leave Mei's house and slipped back to Juwu halfway up the mountain.
Ah Qing really understood him. The small building was stocked with all kinds of dried fruits, the windows were all open, and she also prepared plum wine for him.

He flew onto the roof, put the wine jar casually aside, half-lying on the green tiles, looking at the full moon hanging high in the sky with blurry eyes. He seemed to see something vaguely on the pancake-like moon, but when he opened his eyes again, there was nothing.
He smiled, closed his eyes, lay on the roof, and fell into a deep sleep without realizing it.

Early the next morning, Ah Qing's voice was heard, "Master! Master! Tell the medicine manager to enter the Mei family's territory!"

The pharmacy manager came, and so did "Mei Xucheng".

(End of this chapter)