Chapter 285 Guide to Qizhen Fantasy Dream
Just as He Danggui was dizzy and thinking wildly, suddenly, the tall walls on both sides quickly sank deep underground. The light above her head was bright or dark from time to time. The next moment, the ground shook and He Danggui’s small body had nothing to hold on to. She subconsciously closed her eyes, and squatted on the ground with her head in her arms.
When she opened her eyes, the scene in front of her made her realize that she was once again in the Wu Xiang Ge of Lord Ning’s Mansion.
She got up from the ground, checked her body and found that there was no injury at all. Shangguan Ming Ri’s whip seemed to have hit the top of her skull, and she was knocked down and fainted despite feeling no pain. However, it was so strange that there was no injury left. She remembered what Meng Xuan said that in “Qizhen Fantasy Dream”, others couldn’t see and hit her, but she was able to see and hit them... Was it true?
What a real dream. Were the images she saw on the walls of the “seventh stage” the real ones? Zhu Quan of the previous life died at that time, so who was the middle-aged Zhu Quan lying in the Wu Xiang Ge in this fantasy dream?
Love Poison... It turned out that Zhu Quan was controlled by Love Poison, so he was very abnormal, calling her nickname from time to time...
She remembered Bai Yangbai said that he had a way to cure Love Poison, which was said by the fifty-year-old Bai Yangbai. Now the thirty-five-year-old Bai Yangbai might also have a way to cure Love Poison. As long as the poison was cured for young Zhu Quan, she would be able to completely get rid of him in this life. She couldn’t bear the suffocating feeling when she was with him for a second. It was time to end the entanglement between them.
She looked back at the ground on the left. The young Zhu Quan, who was supposed to be lying there, had disappeared. On the other side, Qi Xuanyu and others were still standing next to the soft couch to treat the middle-aged Zhu Quan.
Most of the deep wounds of the Zhu Quan’s naked chest had almost healed. She looked at the calm Qi Xuanyu in a puzzled expression. Who on earth was he? His acupuncture skills were superior to any other people, which was insurmountable even by the old Dr. Dou Haiqin!
At this time, Sima Ming Yue was still muttering something like “the ghost manifestation of Concubine He”, which was sneered by Shangguan Ming Ri, “Nonsense. A dead person won’t have a ghost!”
The middle-aged Zhu Quan on the bed suddenly opened his eyes and propped up weakly. He looked around and asked anxiously, “Yiyi’s ghost? Where is it! Where is it!”
Qi Xuanyu smiled and said, “Don’t take it seriously. They were just teasing. You need to stay in bed due to bad injury.” He pressed Zhu Quan’s shoulders to make him lie down, and told Shangguan Ming Ri and Sima Ming Yue to bring hot water and bandages to clean and bandage their master’s wounds.
He Danggui felt very uncomfortable after seeing what happened on the wall of the seventh stage and didn’t want to confront the middle-aged Zhu Quan with a weird temperament in this room. Thinking about this, her soul floated out towards a bare mulberry tree with a bluestone beneath it. She packed up her skirt and sat down, taking out the ink-colored jade pendant and letters left by Meng Xuan to have a look.
She took the jade pendant in her hand and looked at it for a while. Then she untied the hair on it to sniff the scent. It was the green tea scent that Meng Xuan had, and it hadn’t changed after three years. Thinking of the miserable look when she saw him the last time, she felt sorrow in her heart. How could she be worthy of a good man treating her like that? Perhaps it was wrong for her to make an agreement with Qing’er about finding a husband who agreed monogamy. If she didn’t leave him so willfully after three years, he wouldn’t meet her in the fantasy dream in such a dangerous way.
According to Meng Xuan, the so-called “Qizhen Fantasy Dream” was an event that happened many years ago. The characters, though real and lively, were just people from the past.
Incredibly, Zhu Quan of the previous life killed Shangguan Ming Ri before Concubine He died. However, in this fantasy dream, he was still alive. Zhu Quan of the previous life was subjected to Love Poison on the night Concubine He died, and then fell into this life with her following the thorn star. Concubine He’s soul returned to the Shui Shang Temple, where all the stories began. In this fantasy dream, Zhu Quan was still alive.
He Danggui guessed that Zhu Quan in the previous life was blown to pieces due to the tactical matrix, and then was refined in the spatio-temporal tunnel. In this life, there are only some sporadic soul fragments, which had been sealed in the depths of the cave. But by chance, they were caught by Zhu Quan in this life. The same magnetic field allowed them to quickly absorb and integrate with each other, resulting in a young Zhu Quan who was infected with a trace of the “Soul Love Poison” and infatuated with Concubine He from time to time.
In this afternoon, after hearing Qi Xuanyu’s story about the thorn star and the strange story of the “reincarnation of the Tenth Princesses”, that Zhu Quan, curious and disgusted by his occasional onset, revisited the old place with the intention of curing his illness and tried to find the truth in the cave of the Bitter Bamboo Grove where he had first fallen in love with Concubine He. As a result, he was really absorbed by a few soul fragments left over from the last time. Then he found more memories, and felt more “hatred” for Concubine He beyond his “love”. Therefore, he humiliated her in public in the ancestral hall, followed by committing the murder in the Depositary of Buddhist Texts, wanting to kill her to relieve from the curse of the previous life.
Zhu Quan said that every time he felt “heartache” in the past three years, his martial skills would increase by a few points, and now he had reached the Ninth Stage of internal force. He Danggui still didn’t know much about the internal force and how powerful the Ninth Stage of internal force was, but she guessed that in addition to Love Poison and memories carried in the soul fragments of the Zhu Quan in the previous life, there might also be some internal force. And the so-called “heartache” was probably the pain when the souls of the Zhu Quan in both previous and this life were fused into one. As for the internal force, it was the legacy from the previous Zhu Quan to this one through time and space.
However, Zhu Quan in this life didn’t have a complete memory of his previous life. He was also confused by the story in the fantasy dream, mistakenly thinking that Concubine He could help him improve his martial skills. Therefore, he wanted to kill her not only to get rid of the curse but also to leverage her to have more powerful kungfu. According to Zhu Quan’s temperament of acting ruthlessly without leaving any opportunity, after he used her, he would kill her, instead of creating a happy ending for her without worrying about food and clothing. Many years of working with Zhu Quan made her know this person’s temper. She also heard him tell some Wuying Tower informers many times with such a promise, but once the confidential matter was done, no matter whether it was successful or not, he would kill that person to keep it secretly.
Even if she understood the various truths of her previous life, and no longer treated Zhu Quan as an enemy, Zhu Quan in this life had no intention of letting her go. As an old saying went, “humans didn’t mean to hurt tigers but they did”. It seemed that she must continue to treat Zhu Quan in this life as an enemy. She should always be on guard and counterattack if necessary, otherwise, she would repeat the tragic ending of the previous life, and there would not be a righteous Bai Yangbai who came to rescue her.
Now, the thing that puzzled her most was that since her soul and Zhu Quan’s soul fragments came along with the thorn star, who made this “Qizhen Fantasy Dream”? She only knew of one expert who could create the fantasy dream, Bai Yangbai, but when Shangguan Ming Ri was fighting with her, she suddenly heard Qi Xuanyu say, “Your naughty has made you big trouble.” It seemed to be said to her. He also explained the acupuncture method in detail to Shangguan Ming Ri and Sima Ming Yue who didn’t understand it at all. Didn’t he...tell it to her, who intended to learn the method with bright eyes?
Moreover, Bai Yangbai said that only the creator of the dream could see the dreamer when entering other’s dreams.
If Qi Xuanyu could see her, could it be...he was the creator of the dream? And this “Qizhen Fantasy Dream” was made by him. Since Qi Xuanyu had such superb medical skills, it was not surprising to have superb dream-making skills. After all, the master was good at everything. But what was the point of doing this? Was it to deceive Zhu Quan in this life?
If the dream maker was Qi Xuanyu, then...was it the “elder Qi Xuanyu” who was said to be far away in Nihon in the previous life, or the “young Qi Xuanyu” who had spoken out all kinds of secrets in this life?
Meng Xuan said that the “Qizhen Fantasy Dream” was an event that had happened many years ago, but the “Zhu Quan’s suicide” in this fantasy dream had never happened before, so how could it be an old event in the past? He Danggui shook her head and explained to herself that Meng Xuan didn’t know Taoism. He probably heard some from Bai Yangbai about fantasy dreams. The personal relationship between Bai Yangbai and Meng Xuan seemed to be good, so Meng Xuan’s words were not necessarily credible.
It was only then that He Danggui began to observe the envelopes in her hands. There were three large greased paper envelopes stacked together. The greased paper’s surface was too smooth to be written on, so she couldn’t know the contents and who sent the letter to whom. Since they were all left to her by Meng Xuan, she should real all of them.
She used her nails like a knife and opened the first envelope, which wrote, “Guide to Qizhen Fantasy Dream. Read carefully before entering the dream, and then you can travel freely in the seven stages — to pick up hot chicks and tease with little sisters. There is nothing impossible, only unexpected — yes! Qizhen Fantasy Dream is what men like most and women hate most, which will lead you to the most exciting journey. Take actions, boy!”
He Danggui was sweating as she read it. She knew this was written by Bai Yangbai. The font was scribbled with a bit round corner, and the strokes of the writing were stretched very long, as if trying to show the inner unrest... But these were not the key points. The point was since Bai Yangbai gave this envelope to Meng Xuan three years later and asked him to bring it here to her, why didn’t Bai Yangbai help Meng Xuan come here with his skills? Instead, he asked Meng Xuan to find someone like Qi Xuanyu who was completely impenetrable.
Meng Xuan knew clearly that Qi Xuanyu was affiliated with Zhu Quan, and Zhu Quan was secretly involved in making Su Xiaoxiao pregnant with Meng Xuan’s child, destroying Meng Xuan’s relationship with her. Then why did Meng Xuan asked Qi Xuanyu for help instead of Bai Yangbai? Regarding the cultivation of the Taoist School of Metaphysics, Bai Yangbai must be more powerful... Meng Xuan was badly injured when he traveled through time and space. Couldn’t it be Qi Xuanyu that was making trouble?
He Danggui frowned and shook her head. She couldn’t figure it out. If she continued thinking like this, everyone would be suspicious, and she would not find the answer anyway. She only hoped that Meng Xuan was okay and could find herself to treat his injuries.
He Danggui continued to read the letter. The explanation of “Qi Zhen Fantasy Dream” above was similar to that of Meng Xuan, showing that according to Meng Xuan, in the seventh stage, people would lose their original appearance and changed back to the way they were when they were children. Therefore, the seventh stage was also called the “happy stage”, where people would become the year when they were joyful.
According to the description in the letter, she was now at the “first stage”, where there were some “projected people” who were actually living in reality. They would do things that they wanted to do in reality but couldn’t do it in time. They would tear off the mask of hypocrisy to be their true selves. Thus, the “first stage” was also known as the stage of returning to nature. People in it, whether men or women, would boldly speak and act, and be the truest selves in their hearts...
He Danggui paused when she read it, and she couldn’t help sweating. Bai Yangbai carelessly wrote, “Rape often occurs in the ‘first stage’, so ladies, please beware of perverts. And boys, please don’t feel ashamed and guilty. Follow your mind to do everything you want to do! Go!”
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