Their clothes were in tatters, originally neat hair was scattered messily on their shoulders and faces were covered in soot.
Chu Jing was curled up in one corner, mumbling, "Let me out..., I don't want to die...help."
I have already heard the story from my mother's mouth.
Zheng Xu conspired with people from Sha Tian sect to defeat me and take my place in the tournament, then he would purposely lose to Sha Tian sect to get benefits.
Zheng Xu knew his own strength and knew that even if he participated in the competition, there was no chance of defeating Sha Tian Sect, so he agreed to the their request and used Chu Jing to cause the conflict between me and him.
In that contest, he naturally pretended to be injured in exchange for my concern, but didn't expect that I ignored his injury and he lost the competition.
Later, the Sha Tian people approached Chu Jing again and wanted her to poison me before the competition. That is the bowl of soup the night before the competition contains stuff in it can make me feel dazed and and weak during the fight.
No wonder after the final competition, being defeated by me, the people from the Sha Tian sect people kept mumbling to themselves that it was impossible.
Honestly, Sha Tian sect is kind of stupid.
What makes them think I wouldn't be on guard against Zheng Xu and especially Chu Jing?
When Zheng Xu saw me, he became agitated, "Wen Wen, are you here to help me?"
My next words directly exposed his shameless and self-righteousness. "According to the rules of the sect, those that betrayed the sect will go through thirty whip lashes and stripped of their skills. Those that attempted to harm or had harmed other sect members will have their immortal bones removed and send to the mortal world."
Zheng Xu shook his head in denial, unwilling to believe it, " Wen Wen, I didn't have a choice. I know that I am not as good as you. I have been practicing hard since I was a child, just hoping to represent the sect in the Xian Xia competition. Later I listened to the Sha Tian sect's offer, saying that as long as I help them, they will give me their sect's spirit herb, and with the spirit herb, my skills will soar quickly."
"That's why I agreed to them, but I never thought of hurting you or anyone in the sect!"
Seeing that I was still indifferent, Zheng Xu gritted his teeth turned towards Chu Jing and said, "It's her. Sha Tian sent her the poison and told her to find an opportunity for you to drink it. However she secretly changed the poison to another poison that kills people!"
After hearing this, Chu Jing instantly rushed over and grabbed onto Zheng Xu, screaming, "Zheng Xu,you think you are completely innocent? Didn't you marry me back then because you wanted to make Song Wen suffer and not have the heart to practice, so that you could take her place in the competition!"
Not to be outdone, Zheng Xu slapped her and shouted, "What about you? You are sincere in marrying me? You just covet my status and want to use me to climb the on the ladder of immortality. Without me, you would still be the mean and shrew peasant girl in the farmland!"
I folded my arms and listened to the quarrel between the two of them, not to mention it was quite interesting.
The words of the two of them really exceeded my expectations. One was selfish and the other was greedy, basically dog biting another dog.
Zheng Xu then looked at me and begged, " Wen Wen, I admit that I had a purpose in approaching you at the beginning, but in the process I have slowly fallen in love with you. In fact,Sha Tian Sect asked me to find you in the first place. I had the opportunity to kill you, but I couldn't bear to do it."
"Wen Wen, please let me go for the sake of our previous relationship, okay?"
"Don't remove my immortal bones, just let me stay in the sect, I don't mind being the lowest servant. Please forgive me!"
It's always the same words over and over, I listened with disinterest, "I don't care what difficulties you have. Although I don't bear a grudge, that doesn't mean you are relieved of punishment."
Rules are rules, those that violated them will be punished.
"The punishment is to be carried out accordingly." I waved to the guard.
Seeing my determination, Zheng Xu's hand that was holding on to the cell door finally dropped and he collapsed on the ground. He first laughed a few times before he covered his face and started crying.
Behind him, Chu Jing kept hitting his body, and countless vicious curses came out of her mouth.
...
"Do you know why I asked you to practice the method of ruthlessness?" My mother asked.
Without waiting for my reply, she continued, "There are so many men in the world who are weak, your sincerity will often become a tool for the other party to use you. Only without emotions can you be indestructible and achieve happiness."
My mother knew about my thoughts and these will hinder me from moving forward and improving. Hence she has not allowed me to represent and participate in the Xian Xia competition.
It wasn't until the day I finally cultivated ruthlessness did she became relieved about me.
Emotions are redundant, it doesn't do any good except affecting your mood or your opponent's.
.....
When Zheng Xu's immortal bones was removed his once remarkable swordsmanship was reduced to nothing.
It was a pity.
He wasn't demoted to the mortal world since after the punishment he became crazy.
According to the words of younger junior sisters, he was rioting all over the yard like crazy, running around while still talking plausibly.
"Wen Wen, senior brother will take you to fly a kite..."
"Wen Wen, let's go play in the mortal world. Senior brother buy you candy and delicious food!"
"Wen Wen...."
In the end, he died after ramming his head into a pillar.
When those junior sisters described it to me, they carefully watched my expression. They knew about my past with Zheng Xu and were afraid that I would feel sorry for him.
But my face was as usual and I didn't feel sad. After all, Zheng Xu brought all this on himself, no?