Being knocked down by the Heavenly Dao while ascending

Fang Qing picked up the cup and gulped down several cups of warm water as soon as he arrived, complaining: "I think your place is too 'high up and cold'! I have experienced the benefits of cultivation, such as being able to withstand cold and heat, and being able to withstand beatings. However, seeing the heavy snow blocking the mountain, I feel cold in my heart. This cultivation physique is useless."

Pei Mingyan nodded, not commenting on her complaint, seeming to accept it completely. He moved a few useless teacups on the table and asked, "Is the man outside your companion?"

"Yes, it's my bodyguard." Fang Qing came closer and said in a low voice, "Shang Nanyi was afraid that I would run away, so he stared at me. I complained to Tiandao several times in my dreams, asking him to make things difficult for Shang Nanyi, but the fake Tiandao refused to do so. It turns out that the male protagonist is so good, his luck can't be suppressed!"

“……”Oh, so I, who was cannon fodder, deserve to have the worst luck.
Pei Mingyan looked outside again, "What's his name?"

Fang Qing scratched his head and looked back outside the house, not understanding what was going on. "It seems to be called Miaomiao. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Why did you call me here? Have you figured out how to deal with the fake Tiandao?"

“……”Isn’t this your problem?
Pei Mingyan no longer had any hope for her, "Did you tell Shang Nanyi?"

"Don't mention it! I'm almost pissed off! He's a pervert, you know?" Fang Qing pointed at himself, "I'm under his command, just a treasure hunter, and I'm exhausted taking him to various places to look for treasures. You said I can't run away in order not to implicate others, this fake heaven is poisonous, does it want to tire me to death? I dare not look for other people! Only Shang Nanyi can't be sucked by my luck! Damn! I'm almost annoyed! I'm a fighter, not a treasure hunter, why do I have to run around all day!"

"that……"

"Don't say anything! Just listen to me!" Fang Qing was so angry that he picked up the teapot and took a few gulps. "It was supposed to be a good world of cultivation. I won't die, so I can at least treat it as an adventure game. But what happened? The magic weapons are all thrown at me, and I'm like a gem sucker. I don't even take risks. As soon as I enter the game, the magic weapons are sucked away! What the hell! Do you understand my despair?"

Pei Mingyan knew that the other party would not stop until she finished complaining, so she nodded repeatedly and cooperated very well, "I understand."

Fang Qing turned her head to look at him when she heard this. Her expression changed as fast as a dye vat. It was hard to tell whether it was more aggrieved, more confused, or more angry. She swallowed back the words "You know nothing" and said, "Forget it! Let's talk business. Why did you come to me?"

"I asked you to come here for something else, but I have a question I have always wanted to ask you." Pei Mingyan said.

"what is the problem?"

"How old are you this year?" Pei Mingyan asked.

“Huh?” Fang Qing counted on his fingers, with a look of despair on his face, “You mean my age before I got in or after I got in? If not counting, I’m twenty-two? Probably twenty-three, not important, plus after I got in…Ahhhhhh!! I’m actually almost fifty this year!!”

"You..." How could your imagination run wild? It's my fault for not asking clearly.
Pei Mingyan rubbed his forehead, "I'm talking about Fang Qing's age, in his twenties? Is he over twenty-three?"

"Of course!" Fang Qing replied, "I guess she is about 27 or 28 years old this year? I don't know."

"Did you say fifty just now?" Pei Mingyan asked.

"Yeah, I'm twenty-three, and she's twenty-seven or twenty-eight, that's fifty, right? Are you so bad at math?"

Pei Mingyan paused for a long time. If this was the case, the age was barely correct. It had been more than 20 years since the extermination of the Fuling Clan. Fang Qing was originally under five years old, so he should be around 27 or 28 years old. Then...
He looked at Fang Qing again. What kind of obsession could make her care about the fact that she hadn't joined the team for more than 20 years?
"I'm really not very good at math." Pei Mingyan replied.

Fang Qing was choked. She said hastily, "Well, I was just joking. Don't take it seriously."

"How old were you when you entered this body?" Pei Mingyan asked. Fearing that the other party didn't understand, he added: "Or, how many years have you been in this world?"

"Ah this... let me think about it, wait a minute."

This wait lasted for a long time, and Fang Qing's expression changed from relaxed to confused to puzzled and then to solemn, but he never spoke.

Pei Mingyan asked: "Twenty-three years?"
Fang Qing moved his mouth and shook his head.

"What about eighteen years?"
Fang Qing pursed her lips and said nothing.

"Did they exist in the past ten years?"
Fang Qing took a deep breath, "No...no."

Pei Mingyan nodded, "It seems that you also understand it."

Fang Qing stood up and walked back and forth, grabbing his hair with both hands, "Impossible! How could this happen!"

"What the fake Heavenly Dao said to you may not be true." Pei Mingyan pointed at himself, "I have been in this world for twenty-three years, but you who summoned me have not been in this world as long as I have."

Fang Qing returned to the stool and sat down, "But this is clearly what I and Fake Tiandao said!"

Pei Mingyan replied, "You said you wanted to confirm whether the real me had come. Your judgment was based on my early ascension, which was different from the plot in the book. In fact, I ascended three times, and the first time I ascended was when I was eighteen. But you didn't show up. Think about your memory again, is it really as long as twenty years? Or, do you just have the feeling that you have lived here for more than twenty years?"

Fang Qing was silent for a long time, "What do you mean?"

"You said something when we were in the academy," Pei Mingyan replied.

"Hmm?" Fang Qing couldn't remember anything no matter how hard he tried. "I talk so much every day, I can't remember anything!"

"..."
Pei Mingyan was speechless and choked. "You said at that time that the man who stole the spiritual grass from the academy caught you, and then you fainted. When you woke up, you were lying on the ground. The alchemy furnace had exploded, and the man's body was lying next to you, right?"

Fang Qing nodded, "Yes."

"You said something at that time." Pei Mingyan looked at Fang Qing.

Fang Qing met his gaze and blinked in confusion, "What are you talking about? I don't remember it at all."

"You said - 'We might even become neighbors in the underworld', so..." Pei Mingyan didn't continue.

Fang Qing didn't understand what this meant for a moment, "So what? Don't just say half of the words, brother, it's scary."

Pei Mingyan hesitated, "What I'm going to say next is just a guess, don't take it seriously. Think it over carefully and decide whether you want to listen or not." "I've thought it over carefully, so you can be at ease. Hurry up and tell me! Shang Baopi is hard to deal with!" Fang Qing pushed his nose and raised the teapot to drink water.

Pei Mingyan turned his head away and didn't look at her. "Are you sure that you, the flower-growing family, are still alive?"

Fang Qing was stunned. He smiled instinctively at first, but then the smile disappeared on his face.
The hand holding the cup began to tremble, making the table shake. She held her hand and smiled blankly, "Are you kidding? How could I not be alive? I'm still online. I've regrouped and am waiting for me to call them in..."

Pei Mingyan looked back at her with a calm expression, "I am just telling you my guess. If you are no longer here, leaving this world may be your death. But if you still insist on going back, we will continue to discuss the next things. Of course, this may just be the deception of the false heaven, deliberately leaving this loophole, just to let me tell you, so as to give up your determination to go back, listen to its arrangements obediently, and ascend smoothly."

Fang Qing grinned, then lowered his head in silence.

"If you still want to go back, I will still help you when I can. If you don't want to go back, it depends on your thoughts. As long as it has nothing to do with the Mei family and the world doesn't collapse, I won't hinder you." Pei Mingyan's tone has always been very peaceful, "I hope you can think it through."

The small building was quiet for a long time. The evening breeze blew gently, and plum petals floated in and fell into the cup.
Fang Qing suddenly laughed heartily, "Ha, isn't it just death? If I'm dead, then so be it. If I'm not dead, let's beat up that fake Heavenly Dao! If I'm dead, I've also earned a year of happiness. The experience is rich enough for me to brag about in the underworld! Listen, Heavenly Dao is protecting me. I want the stars to give the stars a moon as a gift. This is a good thing that is hard to find even with a lantern!"

She might really be dead. Fang Qing knew it very well.
She is not a college student. Others may have just graduated or are still studying at the age of 23, but she is already working.
The weekend finally came, and on Friday night she formed a team to open a new dungeon. This process lasted for more than ten hours until the nanny couldn't stand it anymore and had to go to sleep. Although her heart felt uncomfortable from not sleeping for a long time, she felt that she could still hold on, so she didn't take it to heart. After calling a new nanny, she was about to enter the dungeon when she suddenly lost consciousness.

Maybe she just traveled through the book and she was fine when she returned.
Or perhaps she had died suddenly.
But parents...can they accept it...?

Pei Mingyan's eyes finally changed when he looked at the other person, and there was more admiration in them. "Anyway, just figure it out."

Fang Qing suppressed his emotions, saw his expression, and raised his hands in surrender, "Stop! Please don't look at me like that! People who don't know would think I'm so pitiful or that I saved the world! Shang Nanyi is such a scoundrel, it's unbelievable. If I were alive, I would have to work like this for hundreds or thousands of years without a day off. It's not like I'm addicted to being a wage earner because I'm full."
Fang Qing grabbed an apple from the table and started eating. "So, go back and accept your fate. Whether you live or die is decided by heaven! The worker can do whatever he wants. By the way, what do you want me to do?" She swallowed the apple. "Let me make it clear first. I will do my duty to beat up that fake heavenly being. Don't ask me to do other hard labor. Although I am not tired physically after practicing, I am very tired mentally after working for such a long time."

Pei Mingyan smiled and said, "It's not a big deal. It's just that the Mei family is too poor."

Fang Qing blinked a few times and almost choked on the apple. "No way, Master, the Mei family is still poor?! Are you trying to take advantage of me?"
After saying this, Fang Qing felt that this was strange. "No, why do you want money? Didn't you agree not to take Young Master Mei's body and money? Why, do you feel guilty and want to give them something good?"
Fang Qing took off the magic storage device from his wrist, fingers, waist and neck. "Here, here you go. I found all of these. They are almost full. Take the things inside. Even if the Mei family knows that you are not Mei Shanxue, these things will be enough for them to be grateful to you. It just so happens that my magic storage device is full. You can just empty it and return the magic storage device to me."

"..."
Pei Mingyan looked at the four bracelets, three rings, two jade pendants and a necklace on the table, and didn't know what to say for a moment.
Is this... the power of cheating?
Fang Qing smiled and said, "I'm telling you, don't be polite, just take it quickly. Who knows, once you leave this place, the idiot who saved me last time might come to your door."

"Forehead……"

Fang Qing held his face with his hands, "Ah! Thinking back to when I was playing, I was just a black guy. If there was a guarantee, I could only eat the guarantee. If there was no guarantee, I could only rely on the thighs of the European emperor to get some smuggled tail gas. Now I have become the ultimate European emperor. It feels so good just thinking about it! Hehehe~"

Pei Mingyan admired Shang Nanyiyi a little. He was worthy of being the male lead.
Being able to stand up to Fang Qing shows incredible willpower.

"You be happy first. We'll talk after you're happy." Pei Mingyan said.

Fang Qing glared at him angrily, "Straight man, straight man, it turns out that good-looking people always have flaws, and paper people are the most considerate. Hey, my baby is still waiting for me on the phone, wuwuwu, I must go back! I must go back even if I die!! "
After she finished speaking, she wiped away her non-existent tears and made a zipper gesture to her mouth.

Pei Mingyan saw this and started to speak, "The world has a carrying capacity limit——"

"Mmmm..." Fang Qing kept pointing at his mouth, looking like he had something to say!
Pei Mingyan's eyebrows almost twitched, and he said helplessly: "You say."

"Fuck! Am I not an accomplice of the fake Heavenly Dao?" Fang Qing covered his head. "Okay, stop talking. I understand."

Pei Mingyan really wanted to reply to her, "You know what I mean to you," but because it didn't fit his personality, he said, "So?"

Fang Qing pushed the things on the table towards Pei Mingyan, "Please accept me as your disciple! This is my gift to you!"

"Huh..." Pei Mingyan exhaled, "Sister, what are you doing?"

"Think about it, Shang Baopi will definitely not let me go. He is a blind man who only sees money. I can't absorb other people's luck, and I have to find someone who can protect me. Now you are the only one left. I have no choice. Think about it, if I stay with you, it will harm your reputation. So if you accept me as your apprentice, won't we be aboveboard?"

Pei Mingyan nodded. It was the first time he realized that Fang Qing's mind could work very quickly at certain times.
"you are right."

"Isn't it?" Fang Qing smiled. "When it comes to sucking up to powerful people, I am an expert. I remember playing games back then - never mind, Master, please accept my disciple's greetings!"

Pei Mingyan stretched out his hand to stop her, "I haven't finished yet."

"Can you please not tell me? Big brother! Please!"

Pei Mingyan gave her a look.

"Okay, okay, go ahead! The sooner you die, the sooner you will be reborn. If you die late, you will be reborn as an animal!"

"But Shang Nanyi and I can't avoid meeting each other." Pei Mingyan answered her.

"Why?! This was a mutually agreed deal between him and me. We paid for the goods and I don't owe him anything!" Fang Qing howled, "Even if we want to expose the fake Tiandao, I don't think Shang Baopi will agree easily! I wanted to mention it a hundred times, but he never gave me a chance! As soon as we stopped, he looked at me as if I were a gorilla beating its chest in the zoo! I'm about to collapse! I became a workaholic half to avoid his gaze! Really, anyone can stand it! If it wasn't for the confrontation with the fake Tiandao, I would have worked for him for nothing——"

Pei Mingyan finally couldn't help it and made a gesture to keep quiet.

Fang Qing thought there was some accident and stopped immediately.

Pei Mingyan pointed at the man outside the window and said, "What a coincidence, your bodyguard is Shang Nanyi's man. What's even more coincidental is..."

"Ok?"

Pei Mingyan curled his lips, "I know him."

(End of this chapter)