Cultivating immortality relies on spatial abilities; defying fate to become the protagonist.

Chapter 82 Fellow Villagers (Part Two)

The man in black didn't answer. Shi Qinghan frowned, seemingly enduring pain, and asked through gritted teeth, "Since you're going to die, tell me, who put the Soul-Dispelling Powder on me? Tell me, and I'll hand over the token."

"I may tell you, it's your fiancée, Liu Yinyin. She and the eldest young master were in love, but you forced this marriage through your father. Third young master, you have only yourself to blame!"

Shi Qinghan felt a sharp pain in his heart. The person he had wholeheartedly protected turned out to be a treacherous wolf. The feeling of being betrayed was truly awful, even though it wasn't the real Shi Qinghan's experience.

Gu Shihan looked at Shi Qinghan. Since they were from the same hometown, she decided to help him.

The men in black were not particularly powerful; two were at the early stage of the Golden Core realm and three were at the late stage of the Foundation Establishment realm, so they were not difficult to deal with.

Gu Shihan landed gracefully, unleashing all seven swords of the Seven Star Silk Sound Sword, each aimed at one of the five men in black.

A scream rang out, and the five men collapsed, severely injured and unable to move.

Shi Qinghan only managed to say one sentence: "They...they all deserve to die!" before she fainted.

Gu Shihan tied up the five people, came to Shi Qinghan's side, and put a healing and hemostatic pill into his mouth.

High-quality pills are really good; the bleeding has stopped, and the wound is slowly healing.

Fifteen minutes later, Shi Qinghan woke up and felt that the pain in his body was gone.

Seeing Gu Shihan meditating to the side, he said, "Thank you for saving me, fairy! Shi Qinghan is very polite! May I ask your name, fairy?"

"Gu Shihan, Fellow Daoist Shi, what should we do with those people?" Gu Shihan nodded and asked, pointing to the few people who had fainted to the side.

"I'll kill them!" Shi Qinghan staggered to his feet, using his sword to support himself, and slowly walked over, thrusting his sword at them one by one.

"What happened?" Shi Qinghan wondered, seeing that no one had been killed.

"You...you can't use spiritual power? And you're a transmigrator?" Gu Shihan thought for a moment and still asked.

"You...you know about time travelers? You're also...from the same hometown?" Shi Qinghan's eyes widened, his face filled with surprise, as if all his injuries had healed.

Gu Shihan walked over and handed over a pill, "Antidote!"

Without a second thought, Shi Qinghan took the pill and put it in his mouth. The pill entered his stomach, and his spiritual energy was restored.

Shi Qinghan's expression turned strange. He seemed to feel unwell all over, his meridians throbbed, and his spiritual energy surged wildly within him. Before long, he was drenched in cold sweat.

"You...you can't circulate spiritual energy?" Gu Shihan rubbed her forehead, forgetting that this person had said he had only been here for less than half an hour.

If the spiritual energy is allowed to run rampant, Shi Qinghan will likely be ruined.

He sighed and said, "Don't move around. I'll help you regulate your chaotic spiritual energy. Don't resist."

Shi Qinghan nodded. Gu Shihan grabbed Shi Qinghan's left hand and asked, "What kind of spiritual root do you have?"

"What spiritual root? I don't know. To be honest, I don't... I don't have any memories of that... Shi Qinghan. I only know that the name is the same as mine in my previous life, also called Shi... Qinghan!" Shi Qinghan said, trying to suppress his discomfort.

Gu Shihan looked at Shi Qinghan with some sympathy. She probed in with her wood-attribute spiritual power and immediately felt the burning sensation. "You have a fire spiritual root! Remember the route I used to circulate my energy."

He probed into the fire elemental energy again, guiding the spiritual energy in Shi Qinghan's meridians along the channels until it reached his dantian.

After two cycles, the chaotic spiritual energy within Shi Qinghan's body calmed down. Gu Shihan stopped and said, "Continue circulating the energy!"

Shi Qinghan was very obedient and completed another full cycle of her practice before stopping.

"Thank you, Shi Han! From now on, you will be my friend, my closest family member. Thank you!" Shi Qinghan stood up, bowed, and said.

"Alright! You can deal with them now!" Gu Shihan stepped aside.

With a swift movement of his sword and the enhancement of spiritual power, Shi Qinghan finished off the man in black in just a few strikes and turned to leave.

"You don't want their storage rings anymore?" Gu Shihan spread her fingers slightly, and several storage rings, several storage bags, and the weapons used by the men in black were in her hands.

"Shi Han, what is this... could this be the so-called magic?" Shi Qinghan was surprised, feeling as if he had discovered a new continent.

When he woke up today, the body was dead from severe injuries. The original owner of the body may have wanted to die with the enemy, but he only killed three people before dying from his own injuries.

When Shi Qinghan arrived, his first instinct was to run, but no matter how fast he ran, the others followed him from a distance, asking him what kind of family head's token he wanted.

Shi Qinghan, who had just arrived, had no idea what the Clan Head's Order was. She was still in a daze, thinking she was dreaming.

It wasn't until I felt the pain in my body that I realized I had encountered something fantastical, perhaps a time-travel or rebirth story from a novel.

Feeling frustrated, he came to this realization, which led him to give up resistance and wonder if he could go back after dying.

That's the scene Gu Shihan saw. "Shihan, where are we? The cultivation world?"

"Yes, the cultivation world, this is the spirit world, and we are in the Soul Devouring Forest."

"In the cultivation world, I'm a cultivator too. Can I fly?"

"It should be possible, but you seem to have forgotten how to fly, haven't you?!" Gu Shihan poured cold water on Shi Qinghan, who was eager to try.

"What should I do? I remember reading in novels that the cultivation world is all about the strong, and robbing, killing and stealing are commonplace. What am I going to do? Shi Han, can you teach me for the sake of us being from the same hometown? I, Shi Qinghan, swear I will never betray you. You will always be my family and my friend!"

Before Gu Shihan could stop it, the light of the oath fell, and Shi Qinghan was stunned.

"Shi Qinghan, this is the world of cultivation. Oaths cannot be made casually. Heaven will punish those who break their oaths. You must never make oaths casually again!" Gu Shihan said earnestly.

"I...I understand!" Shi Qinghan was also startled by the light of the oath, and stammered, "We used to make oaths all the time, and they never came true. I didn't expect that here, even making an oath wouldn't work. What kind of strange place is this?!"

Shi Qinghan lowered his head and squatted down dejectedly.

"Shi Qinghan, since you're here, make the best of it. Cheer up, I'll guide you for a few days, and you'll understand. Watch me! Today I'll teach you your first lesson: after killing someone, the first thing to do is to take their storage treasures—that's your spoils. The second is to destroy the evidence. The third is to leave the scene as quickly as possible!"

After Gu Shihan finished speaking, she launched a fireball, and the group was burned to ashes.

Shi Qinghan's eyes were filled with amazement. She quickly moved closer to Gu Shihan and said, "Shihan, you are amazing. I, Shi Qinghan, am so lucky to meet a fellow villager in this strange world. Shihan, you will be my sister from now on."

"Shi Qinghan, stop being so glib. We'll find a place and teach you properly for a few days. Come on! There's a cave over there!"

The two arrived at the cave one after the other, intending to stay there for a few days.

(End of this chapter)