Fate Trading System – Chapter 267

Plan A

Furnace 18

[Refresher: Qi Refining stage → Foundation Establishment stage → Golden Core stage → Nascent Soul stage → Divine Transformation stage → Void Refining stage → Body Integration stage → Great Accomplishment stage]

Black profound stone, beautiful ice coffin.

Shang Huai, with an excited heart, carefully approached, holding that medicinal pill.

“Shizun¹…”

Shang Huai nestled obediently beside the ice coffin, the mask he wore on his face already removed, revealing his delicate and pretty features.

“Shizun, I will definitely make you wake up.”

Shang Huai obsessively traced the features of the sleeping person with his finger, a dark, gloomy look in his eyes.

The medicinal pill melted in the sleeping person’s mouth. Shang Huai knelt beside him, anticipating its effect.

The man in the ice coffin, with his cold and elegant features, opened his eyes, like ice and snow beginning to melt.

Shang Huai was too agitated to make a sound.

“Shizun…”

The voice was so strange that it startled even Shang Huai himself.

“Shang Huai.”

The person spoke, his expression still somewhat dazed.

It really worked! It really worked!

“Shizun… Shizun… It’s so good… so good that you can open your eyes again…”

Shang Huai’s expression was a bizarre mix of crying and laughing, looking extremely strange.

The person in the ice coffin seemed a little confused by his words, but in an instant, fell back into a deep sleep.

Shang Huai was abruptly jolted awake; all the longing he hadn’t had time to express was forcefully pushed back down.

Having hope was better than having none. He had searched for so many methods, wasn’t this the result he wanted?

Shang Huai leaned there for a while, muttering to himself for a bit, then left this space.

Meanwhile, Su Xin and Jing Yueru were still searching for fortuitous encounters².

Su Xin was certain that medicinal pill was definitely useful, but what she meant by “useful” was different from what Shang Huai himself thought.

The pill formula Su Xin had exchanged 1/12th of her life for could indeed awaken a Destroyed One³, but the Destroyed One’s consciousness would be missing, or rather, they would lose their consciousness.

The Destroyed Ones were originally people annihilated by the Heavenly Dao⁴. To put it concisely, the rules did not permit their existence, nor did they allow them to become stronger. So, even if the physical body could be awakened, the consciousness could not return.

The soul would have long since entered a new cycle of reincarnation, and the consciousness would have long dissipated between heaven and earth. If one forcibly awakened them, all one would get was an empty shell, a puppet.

Su Xin found it very strange. This secret realm was so large, it should be impossible for there to be no good things. But for some reason, neither she nor Jing Yueru had encountered anything, except for the place she herself had purposefully sought out.

Shang Huai suddenly reappeared before them. The black mist surging around him seemed to have thinned considerably. Su Xin could clearly see his chin and his eyes, which were filled with excitement.

“How did it go?”

What was awakened was probably not the soul spirit⁵ of Shang Huai’s Shizun, but merely fragmented memories.

“Alright, I’ll help you neutralize this fire poison. You must not go back on your word; you have to refine that medicinal pill for me.”

“Naturally.”

Shang Huai first made an oath to reassure Su Xin.

“If I have a need, you must help. Until the time is right, you are not to cause trouble for me.”

Su Xin demanded. This person’s biggest weakness was now in her hands; she wasn’t worried he wouldn’t agree.

“Alright.”

In the cultivation world, oaths were not made lightly. Every action had its cause and effect, and swearing an oath even more so. If one violated an oath, the promised price for betraying it would indeed come true.

Shang Huai gave the antidote to Su Xin, then glanced at her thoughtfully.

“I didn’t choose wrong after all. If not for this, how would you have gotten this opportunity?”

Shang Huai said this, his words thought-provoking.

Su Xin sneered. Shang Huai thought she had performed a body seizure. For a body seizure, there couldn’t be two souls in one body. Shang Huai’s meaning was that she should thank him for driving Wei Shuangling mad or forcing her to her death, otherwise, how would she have had the chance to seize the body?

“Shang Huai, by doing this, are you worthy of your Shizun?”

Su Xin was referring to what Shang Huai naturally understood—wasn’t it just that while he was infatuated with his Shizun, he was also involved with other women?

“What’s it to you?”

Shang Huai’s expression was extremely cold. In a blink, he vanished from before Su Xin and the others, as suddenly as he had arrived.

Shang Huai and his Shizun had never been in a relationship like dao companions, so how could one speak of betrayal?

Su Xin didn’t know what to make of Shang Huai. If he truly liked his Shizun as much as he showed, how could he touch other people? But his plundering cultivation⁶ was merely to become stronger to do what he wanted, such as waking his Shizun.

But no matter what kind of person Shang Huai was, to Su Xin, he was an enemy, someone who had to die.

Although Wei Shuangling’s personality was a bit spoiled and pampered, somewhat unreasonable, unable to see through many things, and even a bit foolish…

…her heart for cultivating the Dao was righteous, and she had no crooked or evil thoughts. Just because Shang Huai took a liking to her, she was abandoned, had her most important thing destroyed, lost her self-respect, had her pride broken, and could never recover. How could this be described merely as an irreconcilable hatred⁷? It was the kind of hatred that made one wish to slaughter your entire family.

When Jing Yueru saw Su Xin take the antidote, her heart also calmed down a bit.

Although she could control the spread of the fire poison in Su Xin’s body, she couldn’t control Su Xin’s pain.

Every time, Su Xin still had to be tormented by that pain, which made Jing Yueru feel very distressed watching her.

“How strange. We’ve walked this far, how come we haven’t encountered anything?”

Su Xin felt it shouldn’t be like this. The map clearly showed many red dots, so why was there nothing now?

“Who knows? But there probably aren’t any good things left here. Why don’t we stop and cultivate?”

Jing Yueru was rather indifferent. She felt that apart from the spring in the deepest part of the secret realm, nothing else seemed very interesting.

What Su Xin and the others didn’t know was that as they approached, those secret treasures and guardian demonic beasts all hid if they could hide, and dodged if they could dodge, acting extremely cowardly.

Just as Su Xin and Jing Yueru left, a rabbit carefully hopped to a hidden corner, spat out the secret treasure it held in its mouth, and replanted it properly.

They were all a little scared, not knowing why that person had returned after so many years.

Lord Fourteen, can you find out why?

【Jing Yueru once swept through this place. Those demonic beasts all remembered her aura.】

So, it’s like she has a walking exclusion zone around her, huh? No wonder there’s nothing wherever we go.

“Alright.”

Su Xin nodded. Since there was nothing to gain, they might as well all sit down and cultivate.

When the secret realm ended, Su Xin didn’t see Xiu Yan or Zhuo Nan. She felt that after this, the relationship between the two would probably worsen. That person Zhuo Nan seemed easygoing, but he was actually extremely petty⁸ and held grudges. After Xiu Yan messed with him like that, it was impossible for him to just let it go; he would definitely hold a super grudge.

Su Xin made a trip back to the Wei family. Jing Yueru had tried to stop her before.

“Why go back? They don’t treat you well.”

Jing Yueru pressed her lips together, looking unhappy. She thought Wei Shuangling’s parents were rotten to the core, actually selling their daughter. How could such people exist?

“Of course, I’m going to get what I’m entitled to. It’s fine, at worst, you can come with me.”

“Alright.”

The disciples of the Wei family all had their own allotted share⁹. Taking one’s own share was a matter of course. If one’s cultivation level was higher and one made more contributions to the Wei family, then one would naturally receive more.

Elder Wei was actually very surprised when he heard the news relayed by others.

He naturally hadn’t forgotten his daughter. He also knew his daughter had never died because her soul lamp¹⁰ was still lit. If the soul lamp wasn’t extinguished, the person, of course, was not dead.

Elder Wei knew he had wronged his daughter, but perhaps no one in this world could resist that kind of temptation.

But two days ago, he received praise, saying that their Wei family’s Wei Shuangling had brought honor to the family by directly achieving Foundation Establishment in the secret realm, and her future prospects would surely be smooth.

What secret realm? What Foundation Establishment?

Elder Wei didn’t understand at all. But now, he didn’t dare to openly contact his daughter. After all, their relationship must be very bad by now.

Elder Wei never expected that while he was here, agonizing and overthinking¹¹, the person he was thinking about would actually come to his door.

“Shuangling…”

“Don’t call me by my name. Where’s my allotted share? The share that all Wei family disciples get?”

Su Xin asked bluntly, not wanting any excessive interaction.

“Did you come back just for these things? How have you been lately? How did you escape from him? Will he come looking for you himself?”

“Right now, I don’t want to talk to you.”

Su Xin turned her head away. The original owner’s feelings for her father were, in fact, complicated. The more respect she had before, the more hatred she felt now.

But she was also a very moral person; she couldn’t possibly commit patricide¹² or do anything even more excessive.

This kind of thinking was actually quite disgusting, stemming from standing on the moral high ground and the transmission of concepts from ancient times.

If this matter got out, everyone would surely condemn Elder Wei, looking down on him with contempt. If Su Xin, or rather the original owner, were to do something retaliatory, it would definitely attract infamy.

Su Xin didn’t care about things like reputation, but she was concerned about the cause-and-effect relationships of this world. If she did something, thinking about its impact on her future, it would be very disadvantageous.

The original owner’s wish was to make her parents regret.

If they had a conscience, Su Xin felt this would be entirely achievable. But if he didn’t even have a shred of guilt, then she would have to approach it from another angle.

“Shuangling…”

Elder Wei sighed and presented the items to Su Xin. It wasn’t just the allotted share she was due; there were also some other good things.

Su Xin took them and turned to leave.

“Shuangling… you don’t plan to stay at home?”

“I am no longer your daughter. From the moment you sold me, you must remember, all my suffering was caused by you.”

Why are there parents in this world who defend outsiders when their own child is being bullied without making unreasonable trouble? Why do some even personally send them into a fiery pit?

Su Xin left crisply and decisively. There was someone waiting for her outside.

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