Being knocked down by the Heavenly Dao while ascending

Fang Qing was getting more and more confused as he walked. After all, they were in the world of cultivation now. In the martial arts world, people could fly over eaves and walk on walls when they were traveling! How come they were in a more advanced martial arts world and had to walk?
"Pei, Mei...uh, why do we have to walk?"

Of course, it was not entirely what Shang Nanyi wanted.
Xue Qingyu is taking care of Xiaokong's affairs, and Shuyu's affairs have been delayed for so many years so it doesn't matter if they are resolved a day earlier or later.
As for the Mei family, he and Mei Shuyu, the source of the chaos, have already left, and the Mei family's safety is temporarily safe.
And Mei Xucheng...leaving him in Juwu Banshan instead of sending him back to the Mei family was a test in itself.
Therefore, as long as the fake Tiandao does not come to cause trouble, there is really no need for him to worry.

He pointed at the eight horses that were leisurely stepping in the air and said, "Shu Yu hasn't traveled far in many years. Walk slowly so that he can see the scenery."

"Okay, okay, I'll listen to you. You are the one who is right anyway." Fang Qing muttered softly, but his eyes could not help but look at the eight white horses flying in the sky. It's not that these horses are really rare. After all, in the world of cultivation, not to mention horses, even weapons can fly. A few horses are no problem at all. The problem is that they are walking. Although their walking speed is definitely not that of ordinary people, compared with flying horses, their speed is not enough.
Besides, the horses would be tired if they kept flying and stopping! She definitely didn't want to ride in a carriage.
"Hey, I think your second brother is quite lonely up there by himself. Besides, we are all companions, so we need to get along with each other in order to understand each other."

Pei Mingyan glanced at Qianshui who was following Fang Qing silently, "My second brother doesn't like to interact with strangers."

Fang Qing didn't notice Pei Mingyan's gaze, and tried to say, "This can't be called a problem! No one is a friend from the beginning. We all started as strangers. If we don't make contact, we will always be strangers. Only by getting along with each other can we gradually become mature people. Besides, you see he is alone up there, without any friends, and no one to explain things to him. He has less fun looking at the scenery, which is quite boring."

Pei Mingyan couldn't help but understand what she meant. He pretended not to understand and said, "Is that so? I'm sorry to bother you guys."

"what?"

"I'll go upstairs to accompany Shuyu, you guys walk around downstairs?" Pei Mingyan said, trying to hold back his laughter.

"I just don't understand why we can't just fly there on a sword—"
As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Fang Qing immediately understood - Pei Mingyan was clearly stalling for time.
Yes, they have no bargaining chips with Shang Nanyi, but Shang Nanyi sent Qianshui as a reminder. Does it mean that Shang Nanyi is the one who is anxious?
They just need to delay time and wait for Shang Nanyiyi's action. Only when he takes action can more information be exposed.
But, Pei Mingyan, didn't he say a word before starting the plan?
Pei Mingyan smiled and gave the key words that they had agreed on last night, "After all, you have just joined my school. A master must hone his disciples!"

"Bah! Nonsense. Which bastard came up with this rule? I'll go talk to him." Fang Qing immediately cooperated.

Pei Mingyan looked at Qianshui again. When he heard the word "Master", Qianshui's eyes changed. He even glanced at Fang Qing covertly, then lowered his eyes, and a flash of light passed by his fingertips.

"I don't know who said it before, but now, I think it's me who said it."

Fang Qing stopped walking and stared at the moving horse for a long time. She turned back and blinked at Pei Mingyan with her left eye. The two of them understood each other tacitly - the plan had begun.
"Okay, okay, okay. You are the master, so I have to listen to your advice. You go up. Can Miaomiao and I just walk?" Fang Qing said impatiently.

Mei Shuyu suddenly poked his head out and said, "Brother, it's always weird to see the scenery alone. Bring Miss Fang and that brother up."

Pei Mingyan looked up at him and smiled gently, "Okay. I'll listen to you."

Mei Shuyu nodded, and retracted his body. A whistle came from the car.
A dark cloud-like shadow suddenly covered the heads of several people, bringing a hint of coolness. It turned out that the carriage blocked the sun's rays.
The horses' hooves moved lightly, and the carriage moved forward, but the altitude was getting lower and lower. The horses landed one after another without raising a trace of dust.
It is called a carriage, but in reality it looks more like a huge house. The entire carriage is not small just from the appearance, about 100 square meters.

Fang Qing whistled, "This must be a good horse that leaves no footprints on the snow!"

Mei Shuyu pushed open the wooden door that represented the car door and jumped out of the car, but he did not respond to the compliment, nor did he even look at him. He just walked towards Pei Mingyan, his eyes resting on him, and called out affectionately, "Brother, go up and have a rest."

Fang Qing felt embarrassed and stuck out her tongue. She followed the two quietly and got into the carriage together.
There is also space magic in the car, and the entire car is divided into several rooms, and there is even a second floor.
Fang Qing had never had much interest in architecture, so she didn't look at it for long. She just glanced at it, and after making sure that she would have a single room of her own at night, she looked away.

Mei Shuyu took Pei Mingyan to sit in the place that could be called the living room. There was a huge window over there, and it was from here that Mei Shuyu had just stuck his head out.

He let Pei Mingyan sit in the main seat, and busied himself replacing the tea and spiritual fruits. He was even worried that his brother would be bored, so he specially prepared books on music and chess.

Fang Qing didn't pay much attention to Mei Shuyu at first, but after looking at her, she couldn't help but look at her.
Because of this involuntarily, she discovered that Mei Shuyu was a little different.

Most practitioners have protective gas masks, which can protect practitioners from the influence of the four seasons, from the obstruction of wind and rain, and from the invasion of wind and dust.
On the other hand, this is also a layer of defensive equipment. Except for those cultivators who practice hard, this protective air shield is a basic equipment that almost all cultivators must have.
What's more, in fact, the robes worn by most cultivators are also equipment engraved with formations. For those with deeper backgrounds, the robes themselves are rare magic weapons.

But Mei Shuyu was different, he had cultivation, but the strange thing was that not only did he not have a protective shield, but there was also a strange power condensed around him. The reason why this power was strange was that it was very complex, as if the power of thousands and millions of people were mixed together, and it seemed that everyone had drawn out a tiny bit of extremely precious power and condensed it together.
Let Fang Qing describe it, it's like a hemp rope twisted by force.
And because power itself is a very illusory thing, although this "hemp rope" looks thin, these thin energies can be infinitely extended and woven together to form a close-fitting energy shield that changes with Mei Shuyu's movements.

The reason why this shield, different from the protective air shield, caught her attention was that ordinary air shields were designed to protect against external attacks, but this energy shield was different in that it locked the inside out.

To put it bluntly, this is something that locks Mei Shuyu up.
If she hadn't been cheating, she might not have been able to see that Mei Shuyu had such a thing on her.

And during the time she was staring at the other person, although Mei Shuyu moved, her eyes seemed to be fixed on Pei Mingyan and almost never moved away.
For example, Pei Mingyan just frowned, and he could almost guess why he frowned from his actions just now, and thus resolve Pei Mingyan's slight dissatisfaction.

Fang Qing paused when she saw this. She made a cup of tea, walked to Pei Mingyan, bent down, handed him the tea, and said, "I have already become your disciple, but I have never served you the apprenticeship tea. Master, would you please have a sip?"

Pei Mingyan reached out to take it, but the tea turned halfway and landed in Mei Shuyu's hands.

Mei Shuyu acted like a spoiled child, "Brother, I'm thirsty, please give me the tea."
At the same time, he glanced at Fang Qing from the corner of his eye. Fang Qing was startled by the murderous aura in it, and by the way, he interpreted what the other party wanted to say - what did you put in it?
really.
Mei Shuyu has a high level of cultivation and is unexpectedly obsessed with Pei Mingyan - have you ever seen a younger brother staring at his older brother without moving his eyes?
Fortunately, this younger brother has no ill intentions for the time being and does not want to hurt Pei Mingyan. He looks more like a protector.

That shouldn't be a big problem, but why did the Mei family lock him up?

Pei Mingyan said to Mei Shuyu, "This is Fang Qing's apprentice tea. You can't drink it carelessly. Be obedient."

Mei Shuyu held the cup tightly, but her tone softened, "But this is not the tea you usually drink..."

Fang Qing snatched the teacup back. "Oops! Give it to me, I just realized I put the wrong tea in. This is the tea for making incense, and I didn't pay attention and put it in the wrong place! You must not drink it!"

Despite this, Mei Shuyu still remembered Fang Qing in his heart. If he hadn't stopped him, this man would have given his brother something he shouldn't drink!

Fang Qing was swept up in the other party's cold gaze and had to avoid the sharp edge for the time being.

She ran to the window on the other side of the room and sat down, her cheeks slightly red.
Qianshui followed and acted as her bodyguard. She glanced at the blue sky and white clouds outside the window, as if attracted by the scenery, or just to cover up the embarrassment of her mistake in tea leaves.

"I seem to understand why you mentioned Mei Shuyu." Fang Qing whispered to Pei Mingyan.

"Based on the only clues we have so far, I suspect that the reason why he is like this is because of Shang Nanyi."

Fang Qing paused for a long time, as if considering the wording, "You may not know Shang Nanyi very well... How should I put it? He is not the same as in the books. Although many situations are not the same as in the books, his situation is particularly different."

"Ok?"

"I remember I originally wanted to write Shang Nanyi as calm and steady."

“…” Pei Mingyan was speechless for a moment, blaming him for being so serious.
I still remember one of the questions he had after listening to the book was - why did the male protagonist, who was a calm and steady man, become arrogant and rude after meeting Fang Qing?
After meeting Fang Qing, he had his own answer. Maybe Fang Qing was set up to be calm and steady, but when he started writing, probably due to the limitations of experience and personality, the protagonist's personality changed and he became an arrogant and rude person.

Because Pei Mingyan didn't say anything, Fang Qing didn't notice his helplessness towards her. She was immersed in her own thoughts. "But when I started writing, I don't know why, a strange feeling kept telling me that the male protagonist shouldn't be like this. This is also the reason why the character of the protagonist I wrote was so disconnected. Later, after I entered the book and learned about the existence of the fake Tiandao, I thought about it and felt that it was the fake Tiandao that had an impact on him, causing him to become arrogant and rude. But when I really came into contact with Shang Nanyi, I didn't feel any disobedience at all, as if his original character should be like this..."

Pei Mingyan was silent for a while, then said in a voice transmission: "You mean to say that the fake Heavenly Dao cannot affect the male protagonist, Shang Nanyi, or even that there is something in Shang Nanyi that can even affect your creative thinking as an author?"

"I certainly thought about it that way."

Pei Mingyan didn't reply, and both of them fell into deep thought.

If Shang Nanyi can make the fake Heavenly Dao avoid his light, then what is he relying on?

Fang Qing couldn't help but ask: "If Shang Nanyi is really so powerful, should we continue to design him?"

Pei Mingyan gave a positive answer: "The plan will continue."

Fang Qing said "hmm".

During this time, Mei Shuyu kept looking at the two of them. He seemed to realize that they were talking behind his back, but he said nothing and just watched quietly.

The eight riders on white horses flew higher and higher. The mountains, rivers, and towns gradually became farther and farther away and smaller. The clouds were within reach. As they flew, the clouds settled under their feet.

Suddenly, a loud and clear bird song was heard from the sky.

Fang Qing and Qian Shui's expressions changed at the same time.

"No way!" Fang Qing shouted!
Qianshui was also horrified, "Why is it here!"

(End of this chapter)