Being knocked down by the Heavenly Dao while ascending

At the same time, the situation below the stairs was tense.
Fang Qing and Mei Shuyu stood facing each other. Mei Shuyu seemed to be out of control. After vomiting the last mouthful of black blood, he formed seals with his hands. A black and gray aura surged and surrounded him completely!
Before Fang Qing could say anything, the waiter rushed to the front, "Mei Shuyu! Stay sane! Think about the Mei family! Think about your elder brother! Control yourself! You don't want Mei Shanxue to die because of you, do you?"

The rolling black gas paused for a moment. Seeing that it worked, the waiter turned to Fang Qing and said, "Don't provoke him anymore! Otherwise, no one can bear the consequences! You watch him! I'll go find Mei Shanxue!"

Fang Qing's expression turned strange. Is this waiter not hiding anything?
And...are you still acting now?
Fortunately, the result was good. The inn belonged to Shang Nanyi. Was there any need to continue the performance? There were not many people left in the inn.

The waiter may not have noticed that Pei Mingyan was still on the second floor and had disappeared.

The problem is that even if the "audience" disappeared, Mei Shuyu did not stop.
This made Fang Qing even more suspicious—Mei Shuyu was really out of control!
But Pei Mingyan on the second floor was indeed real, but the other party did not respond, which made Fang Qing more hesitant.
Finally she decided to give it a try and took a step forward.

This action seemed to have touched Mei Shuyu's reverse scale. At this moment, a black gas filled with murderous intent stabbed towards Fang Qing.
The murderous aura was more like a signal of final collapse. At the same time, countless murderous auras burst out from Mei Shuyu's body, and all the decorative ornaments in the inn were shattered to pieces in an instant.

Fortunately, Fang Qing's previous judgment was correct. Only the square table in the corner was safe from the murderous aura.
The herbal tea shop owner and his wife had long wanted to drag their son away, but the boy was determined not to leave.
He sat there motionless, his hands tightly gripping the table.
The two middle-aged men couldn't bear to leave their only child behind, so they stayed with him as well.

Seeing this, Fang Qing threw out a bracelet to cover the square table to protect it, and then ran straight behind Mei Shuyu.
Regardless of whether it was an act or not, she had to subdue Mei Shuyu.

However, the moment she flew up, a black gas mercilessly knocked her down.
Fang Qing lacked combat experience and was not fully prepared, so she was hit hard. A smell of rust filled her nose. She suppressed her urge to vomit and swallowed the blood, but some residual blood flowed out from the corners of her mouth.

She wiped the blood on her sleeve, and then touched the ring, bracelet and pendant, and several magic weapons flew in front of her.
To be honest, she doesn't know how to use them, and has always treated these magic weapons as hidden weapons and thrown them around.
Fortunately, the magic weapon is spiritual and will fly back when thrown out, so it can be used as a boomerang instead of becoming scrap metal.

But the black gas can destroy the world after all. All magic weapons were shot down after encountering it. At the same time, a black gas attacked Fang Qing. Fang Qing dodged and stepped back. He was about to avoid it, when suddenly!
A figure rushed out from the corner of the living room, blocked Fang Qing, and shouted, "Don't hurt her!"
It's that boy!
Fang Qing, who had already escaped, stopped and flew back, throwing out the ribbon that she was most skilled at using to try to drag the person back.
However, time had been wasted. Even though Fang Qing was extremely fast, he was still unable to save the people!

"Child!"
The cries of pain from two middle-aged men came from the corner!
The black energy rushed into the boy's body without hesitation.
At the same time, a golden light flew out from the house on the second floor and entered the boy's body almost at the same time as the black air. If one had sharp eyes, one would be able to see that the golden light was in front and the black air was behind.

The boy was shrouded in a foggy blackness and his figure could not be seen clearly.

Fang Qing watched a person being devoured in front of her eyes from a close distance. Her pupils suddenly widened, and regret, astonishment, and grief flashed through her mind. Her instinct told her that it was best to step back, but emotionally she couldn't abandon an innocent person who was dying to save her.

She swung the ribbon, allowing the black air to corrode the ribbon and tightly bind the black mass.

At this moment, Pei Mingyan's voice suddenly came - "Shu Yu!"

Mei Shuyu stopped where he was instantly, the surging black gas continued to surge and struggle, his face changed from green to red, and finally, the black gas was unwillingly absorbed back into Mei Shuyu's body.
Mei Shuyu finally couldn't stand anymore, so he knelt on one knee and lowered his head.

The black gas disappeared, and the boy revealed his figure at this time.
No one knew what his condition was, but he was in good health. Fang Qing went to pick him up.

"Don't worry, he's fine."

Fang Qing breathed a sigh of relief. Even though she trusted Pei Mingyan, she still reached out to touch the boy's nose. Only when she confirmed that the other party was still breathing did she finally feel relieved.

But Pei Mingyan had come behind Mei Shuyu without him noticing, and put one hand on his back to help him maintain his balance.
The protective air shield appeared again and locked tightly around Mei Shuyu.

Fang Qing confirmed that both of them were fine, and turned to return the boy to his parents, when he heard Pei Mingyan say, "Take him with you."

The woman was about to come over, but was stopped by the herbal tea shop owner.
The herbal tea shop owner bent his waist and forced a smile, "My benefactor, just now my child told my husband and I that he wanted to practice cultivation. We don't know if he has the talent for cultivation. Since you also want to help my child, we will entrust my child to you. We will remember your great kindness in our hearts."

Fang Qing looked hesitantly at the boy she was hugging, then at the woman.
The woman covered her mouth with her hands, clearly trying to stop her crying from escaping.

She understood after a quick thought that the other party thought she could help the boy break his fate of dying in the wood.
"Don't worry, no matter whether what the fortune teller said is true or not, I will definitely protect him and make it through his tenth birthday safely."

The woman nodded repeatedly. Although there were tears in her eyes, one could see the gratitude in them.
Fang Qing nodded to them and said, "The bracelet will protect you. Please leave as soon as possible."
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As soon as he reached the second floor, Fang Qing put the boy on the bed and turned back to settle accounts with Pei Mingyan, "Pei Mingyan, what the hell are you doing..."

The tone of questioning changed from self-righteous to surprised...
Just because the house was so lively.

There was a carpet on the floor, and the two "bodyguards" were trapped behind the door, sleeping cross-legged on the floor.
The counter owner was lying on the table by the window, and next to him was the waiter who was calling out to look for Mei Shanxue.

Not only that, there was also a person lying on the couch, it was the man with the jade flute.
There were also a few people leaning on the footstool of the couch. They were the people who followed the man playing the jade flute. They should be bodyguards or servants.

"Uh..." Is this a complete catastrophe?
Fang Qing was about to ask a question when he saw the screen that was used to separate the small study room suddenly opened.
There was a man sitting behind the small desk, wearing a long green gown.
He smiled at Fang Qing apologetically, "Young Master Mei left for a while just now. It was not intentional."

People have said this, what else can you say? Do you think you, a grown man, should wait for others to pick you up?
Of course it was impossible to tell, so Fang Qing stopped worrying and asked Pei Mingyan: "Isn't it true that Mei Shuyu can't resist your wishes? Why did the agreed script suddenly change?"

"I was the one who instructed Shu Yu to do this."

"you?!"

Pei Mingyan pointed at the man with the jade flute and said, "Because I found a strange energy in him."

"Hmm?" Fang Qing took a look and didn't see anything strange. Pei Mingyan didn't say anything, just stretched out his hand and lifted the boy on the bed to the man with the jade flute on the couch.
The couch was not small, and could barely accommodate two people lying flat. I don’t know if it was a coincidence, but the two people lying down had their arms crossed together.

At this moment, even someone like Fang Qing who didn't know how to practice cultivation could clearly see that a green energy from the boy's body surged towards the man with the jade flute, and the red flame on the man with the jade flute became more and more intense.

"This..." Fang Qing looked at the boy. When he looked at him alone, there was nothing special in the boy's body. Although he had a talent for cultivation, he had no cultivation level. But the energy just now was indeed a very pure cultivation level.

"This is the result we have been waiting for." Pei Mingyan sent the boy back to bed.

Fang Qing tucked the boy's quilt in and made sure he was okay. Then he glanced at Mei Shuyu, who had recovered, and asked, "What happened?"

Pei Mingyan looked around the room, took out a small walnut-like gadget, and put all the people inside.
Then he sat down at the table and asked, "Do you remember the confessions of the two bodyguards?"

Fang Qing nodded. "The two bodyguards just said a bunch of nonsense. The summary is that they didn't mean to hurt anyone. They were just sent to monitor us, mainly to see if anything happened to us."

Pei Mingyan nodded, "Yes. But there is another very mysterious saying, if an emergency occurs, they must step forward to rescue, even if they have to sacrifice their lives for it."

"Isn't this a story made up by those two people in order to survive?" Fang Qing expressed his understanding.

"You can understand it that way," Pei Mingyan said, "Let's assume for now that what they said is true."

Xue Qingyu, who was sitting behind the desk, carried a book and walked to the desk, then sat down and said to Fang Qing, "Those two people are not as skilled as you. Even if they wanted to lie, they wouldn't make up such a lie. So you can be sure that what they said is true."

Pei Mingyan nodded, "So there is only one question left - protection. What are they going to protect? There are three of us, and they want to protect one of us." Pei Mingyan paused, probably afraid that Fang Qing didn't understand, and added, "The reason why I guess it's one person is because to protect three people, at least three bodyguards should be sent. But the cultivation of these two people is too low, and they are not here to protect anyone. From this, it can be seen that their purpose is to monitor."

Xue Qingyu added, "However, the assumptions in their words are particularly suspicious, as if they are certain that something bad will happen to you."

"Excuse me for interrupting." Fang Qing said, "It's not surprising that Pei Mingyan knows this, but how did you know this, Dean Xue?"

Xue Qingyu was puzzled, "Didn't you just say that?"

"...Well, you guys continue." Fang Qing poured himself a cup of tea and used his few brain cells. "Surveillance itself is to see if there is an opportunity to take action. It's too far-fetched to use this to judge that they firmly believe that something will happen to us."

Pei Mingyan took over the conversation, "If there is no protection behind, the meaning of this sentence is just as you said. So I have a guess, since they firmly believe that there will be an accident, who will be the accident? The accident can't be me, nor you, it can only be Shu Yu."

"Oh! I understand. The problem is you. None of us can beat you. There's no fun! The problem is me. Hehe, fake... My godfather is not a pushover either!" Fang Qing continued, "So you let us act out that script full of loopholes?"

"Yes." Pei Mingyan smiled. "The content of the script is not important. We just need to convey the information to the other party and let us confirm our guess."

Fang Qing finally understood, "The key point of our message is that Shuyu will die if he gets hurt. Once the other party takes action, we can confirm that the incident is caused by Mei Shuyu. The waiter's concern and even the sudden attack of the man with the jade flute can confirm this."

"Before this, I had confirmed that the incident was caused by Shu Yu, but the evidence was weak after all, so when you asked, I did not tell you immediately."

"Ok?"

Pei Mingyan took out a brocade box. Fang Qing felt that the box looked familiar and immediately realized that this was the box that Pei Mingyan used to remove the flower petals stuffed in her mouth after she was tied up.

"This!" Fang Qing looked strange, and suddenly remembered the reason why she was tied up - wasn't she tied up because she listened to Pei Mingyan's lies? !
"Ahem, coincidence! Coincidence!" Pei Mingyan said, "I really didn't expect Shu Yu to attack you."

Fang Qing had an expression that said, "Do you think I believe it?"

Pei Mingyan cleared his throat, "That's not the point. The point is that when Shuyu tied you up and brought you in, the waiter and the two bodyguards saw it, but they didn't take action. This shows that a grudge is not enough to be called an accident, or, when you were the one in trouble, it was not an accident. At that time, it could be guessed that the accident was Shuyu, but there was too little information, so it was forced after all. So when testing, it actually conveyed two pieces of information, one was that Fang Qing died at the hands of Mei Shuyu, and the other was that Mei Shuyu was seriously injured and was about to die. The point is obvious, their focus has always been on the second one."

Fang Qing recalled how the waiter stopped her from hurting Mei Shuyu and advised everyone to leave. "He knew about the black energy in Mei Shuyu's body."

"That's right." Pei Mingyan glanced at Shuyu. "Since Shuyu came to the Mei family, his situation has been concealed very well. I only found out about it recently. Then why is the other party so sure that Shuyu's injury will lead to something unexpected?"

Fang Qing thought for a while and said, "He was the one who sent Mei Shuyu to the Mei family."

Xue Qingyu said, "And that mental suggestion is actually a control over Mei Shuyu. He used twenty years to strengthen the restraining power of the suggestion, making Young Master Mei the only straw to tie down the out-of-control Mei Shuyu. He trusts Young Master Mei very much."

Pei Mingyan gave the final summary, "Shang Nanyi, you are with us."

(End of this chapter)