The ten groups were divided into groups from the first level of Qi training to the first level of foundation building. Each group had 100 people. Everyone grew up in a similar environment and were born in a similar comfortable environment.
When the test subjects made their judgments on this case, almost all of them at the first level of Qi training believed that the woman was not guilty.
Most of the people at the second level of Qi training thought the woman was innocent, but there were some voices that she should be punished lightly. As the level of cultivation increased, the voices that believed the woman was guilty became stronger and stronger. By the time they reached the first level of foundation building, some people had become angry and suggested that they just kill the woman and put an end to it all, which would be the easiest way.
This was only the first stage of the experiment. In the second stage, Qin Shanying would take out the empire's highest skills and the best elixirs, and let all members of the experimental group practice, controlling the pace so that they could advance at the same pace.
When they each advance one level, that is, Qi training level 1 becomes level 2, level 2 becomes level 3, and so on, they judge the case again.
A strange thing happened at this moment.
The verdicts were revised at every level. In the level that everyone thought the woman was innocent, some strange voices appeared, thinking that the woman should still be punished. As the level of cultivation of the experimental group increased, the proportion of women being found guilty increased, and the punishment was also getting heavier. Compared with the original level of foundation building, the proportion of people who suggested directly killing women in the second level of foundation building increased.
This sociological experiment lasted a long time, with five rounds of promotions, spanning thirty years. The data on innocent verdicts at each level was like a pyramid that was getting smaller and smaller, while the inverted pyramid of guilty verdicts, even those sentenced to death, was expanding.
Finally, Qin Shanying came to an important conclusion.
"As cultivation improves, human nature fades, while demonic nature and violence increase. People gradually lose their empathy and compassion, and tend to treat others with brutality and sadism to satisfy their own twisted desires."
This is the first experiment.
Qin Shanying inherited the materialism and the idea of true knowledge from practice brought by Ming Jingchen. She also conducted a second round of social experiments, which were improved on the game theory experiments.
The test subjects were still from low to high cultivation, but this time the span was wider, there was a group for almost every major realm, in order of mortals, Qi training, foundation building, golden elixir, and Nascent Soul, each group had fifty teams, and each team consisted of three people.
Qin Shanying promised to give these test subjects high-priced spiritual stones, but they could choose to "donate" or "not donate".
If all three choose "not to donate", they are considered selfish and will not give any spiritual stones. If all three choose "donate", they are considered selfless and will give 30 spiritual stones to each person.
But if two of the three choose to donate and one chooses not to donate, the one who donates will get nothing, and the one who doesn't donate will get fifty spirit stones.
If one person donates and the other two don't, the two people who don't donate will get ten spiritual stones, and the one who donates will get nothing.
After informing them of the rules, Qin Shanying asked each team to discuss the plan within an incense stick of time, and finally isolated the three people and asked them to make a choice, but they could not know the choices of others.
The result made Qin Shanying feel chilled.
The lower the cultivation level, the more spirit stones each team gets. The higher the cultivation level, the fewer spirit stones each team gets. Many teams even get none.
Unlike ordinary game theory, Qin Shanying deliberately gave them a chance, allowing them to discuss and agree on cooperation in an incense stick of time. If the three of them trusted each other and chose "donate" together, they could get a total of 90 yuan.
However, due to the existence of suspicion and selfishness, even though they had agreed to "donate" together, they were still worried that the other two would secretly choose not to donate, so that they could get 50 Spirit Stones while they themselves would get nothing. In the end, the three of them got nothing.
Qin Shanying thus drew the second important conclusion, "The higher the level of cultivation, the more suspicious one will be of others, which reduces the possibility of cooperation."
With the first and second tests as a foundation, it was proven that the higher the cultivation level, the stronger the hostility and suspicion. However, it was impossible to prove whether it was because of the cruel experience of cultivation that made them violent and suspicious, or because there was something wrong with the spiritual energy entering their bodies. So Qin Shan was ruthless and did the third test, which was the most cruel but most revealing of the truth.
For high-level monks who have participated in the test, they deliberately set up traps to induce them to commit crimes, and then dispatched the masters of the Muyun Royal Family to capture these monks and put them in prison, abolishing their spiritual energy and refining their meridians, causing their cultivation to decrease to varying degrees, and then retest them after a few years.
Logically speaking, the outcome would only be worse after such an incident, but unexpectedly, these monks actually showed signs of revival of trust and empathy. The lower the cultivation level, the stronger the effect of revival of humanity.
"There is something wrong with the spiritual energy. The higher the level of cultivation, the stronger the spiritual energy in the body, so the stronger the demonic nature. If the level of cultivation decreases, the spiritual energy in the body becomes thinner, and the human side will revive."
After three experiments, Qin Shanying understood the cause and effect. While she was still sane, she wrote a letter to the Saint of the Church of Light, the second senior sister Dongfang Eyue, with whom she had a good relationship in the past, to tell her the shocking truth she had discovered and invite her to discuss how to solve the root cause of the war in the Beauty World.
Dongfang Eyue replied, saying that she had also discovered some unusual changes in the destiny of heaven and earth, and invited Qin Shanying to come to Guangmingding to discuss the plan in person.
As soon as Qin Shanying received the letter and saw the invitation, she immediately became suspicious and uneasy about Dongfang Eyue.
"Inviting me to Guangmingding to discuss this in person? Are you planning to set a trap to capture and kill me so as to reduce the number of competitors who could snatch your master away from you?"
Her eyebrows were furrowed, and she looked unhappy. She was about to invite Dongfang Eyue to her territory, the Muyun Empire, when suddenly Qin Shanying realized something. She held her right arm, which was about to write a reply, with her left hand, and her face changed drastically.
"Chain of suspicion! It's a chain of suspicion! In the past, Second Senior Sister and I often teamed up to fight against the pressure from the First Senior Sister, but today I actually started to feel suspicious towards her!"
Qin Shanying clearly realized that the seven people worked together to find a way to resist the devil, but the chain of suspicion caused by the devil itself might cause the seven people's cooperation to fail, just like her previous test subjects.
"Someone must take the risk and step forward to break the impasse! Otherwise, when Master returns, what will be waiting for him will be seven completely demonized disciples! How sad Master will be at that time!"
Qin Shanying suppressed the suspicion and uneasiness in her heart and wrote, "I will leave immediately after I have arranged the affairs of state."
After settling the government affairs of the Muyun Empire and putting the Empire into trusteeship mode, Qin Shanying packed her bag, fastened her usual weapon, the long whip, around her waist, and trekked through mountains and rivers to Guangmingding.
When Qin Shanying arrived at Guangmingding alone and came in front of Dongfang Eyue, Dongfang Eyue, who was sweeping fallen leaves in the yard, was startled and her eyes were full of disbelief.
At the top of the Cloud Peak, Dongfang Eyue, a saint of the Church of Light, dressed in a white shirt and red skirt, was making tea and setting up seats in the Cloud Peak Pavilion to entertain her fellow apprentices who had come from afar.
Qin Shanying took the warm tea poured by Dongfang Eyue and looked at the surface of the tea soup with a serious expression. After hesitating for a moment, she gritted her teeth and drank the tea soup. However, she urged the spiritual energy in her body to the extreme, protecting the meridians and acupoints, and carefully checked whether there was any problem with the tea soup she drank.
"You are so wary of me, why do you dare to come here?"
Dongfang Eyue concentrated on brewing and stirring the tea, and rolled up her long sleeves to pour another cup for Qin Shanying.
"I can't solve the problem by myself." Qin Shanying found that there was nothing wrong with the tea, and she drank another cup with a sense of relief. "Besides, without me, you can't deal with that crazy woman who doesn't care about her life by yourself."
"Suspicion makes you uneasy, but courage makes you bold."
Dongfang Eyue elegantly rolled up her sleeves and picked up the teacup. She first saluted the Wanjie Tianhen in the sky, then saluted Qin Shanying in front of her. Then she drank it all in one gulp and sighed leisurely, "Old Fourth is very smart, but not brave enough. Among the sisters in the same sect, I admire you more for your wisdom and courage."
Qin Shanying shook her head, "Now is not the time to talk about this. I just want to ask you the question you refused to ask in your letter."
Qin Shanying stared at Dongfang Eyue, who was one level higher than her and had reached the eighth level of the Mahayana realm, and said word by word, "How do you want to treat Master in your heart? Don't hide anything, otherwise our cooperation will end here!"
Dongfang Eyue put down the teapot in her hand, placed her hands on the table, and a blush crossed her beautiful face.
The pavilion was silent for a while, with only the chirping of birds flying over the clouds in the sky.
With a sigh, Dongfang Eyue said quietly, "I want to eat up Master completely."
Qin Shanying was speechless and said impatiently, "I'm not asking you that! Several of us sisters have the same idea, it's not a big deal at all, I'm asking..."
Before Qin Shanying finished speaking, Dongfang Eyue smiled strangely, a smile that was extremely sinister and evil.
"It's really a clean slate."
Qin Shanying's pupils dilated, and she covered her mouth with a look of horror.
After being shocked for a long time, Qin Shanying took a few deep breaths and regained her composure. She asked in a deep voice, "When did you start to have this idea?"
Making the "eight" gesture, Dongfang Eyue said slowly, "After you were promoted to the eighth level, the morbid desire you mentioned turned completely dark. I can't control my desire to look at recipes recently, so I invited you to find a solution."
Qin Shanying shuddered and asked quietly, "What about before?"
"It's similar to you. At first, I just wanted to have sex with the master, but later I slowly wanted to use drugs and forbidden spells to control the master."
"In the future, I want to transform Master's body and make him look like what I like."
"In the future, I will be like you, eager to abuse and hurt Master, using pain to make Master feel strong fear, and then obey my orders and never dare to leave me again."
"Until I was promoted to the eighth level not long ago, the perverted idea of eating my master kept lingering in my mind, no matter how hard I tried to control it, I couldn't get rid of it."
Dongfang Eyue's face flushed, and her eyes showed a sickly and blurred red light. She was obviously an extremely holy witch, but at this moment she stretched out her bright red tongue and licked her red lips with lust.
"Master's body is white and tender, yet has a unique masculine muscular feel, especially the muscles on his legs, which are really charming... If I get excited by licking him, I can bite off a large piece and swallow it into my stomach, which would be such a happy and wonderful thing..."
"I will eat Master mouthful by mouthful, letting Master completely merge with me in my stomach and never separate again. I will trap his spirit in my soul, and from now on I can have soul-to-soul intercourse with him at any time. Ah... I will orgasm just thinking about it..."
Dongfang Eyue held her flushed cheeks, her eyes sparkling with a glimmer of love, and spoke her terrifying true thoughts in a gentle tone, as if everything was a breeze. Qin Shanying felt a chill down her spine, and goose bumps swept over her body.
Closing her eyes and frowning, she took a few deep breaths, forcibly restraining the twisted desire in her chest. Dongfang Eyue looked at the sky with the Ten Thousand Tribulations Mark and said sadly, "I vaguely realized that it was the improvement of my cultivation that made me twist and turn into a demon step by step, but it is too late for me to turn back..."
"Since you are willing to talk to me, it means there is still hope!"
Qin Shanying knew that she couldn't continue to criticize him and provoke Dongfang Eyue.
The horror of her twisted thoughts has completely surpassed my whipping and trampling. If this continues, something terrible will happen. I quickly comforted her in a soft voice, "Let's sit down and think of a solution. We can always find the root of the problem and solve it accordingly."
"Like you, I have tried many methods to find the truth. The only difference is that you use scientific experiments, while I use divination." Dongfang Eyue looked up at the Ten Thousand Tribulations Sky Mark with a dull look, "What if we find the root cause? It's just fate after all."
Qin Shanying asked quickly, "What's the reason?"
Dongfang Eyue pointed at the Ten Thousand Tribulations Sky Mark, turned around and said to Qin Shanying word by word, "The Ten Thousand Tribulations Sky Mark is only a symptom, not the root cause. Master, you are only treating the symptoms, not the root cause."
"What is Ben?"
Dongfang Eyue walked out of the pavilion with her hands behind her back, looking down at the vast sea of clouds, which, under the late sunset, looked decadent.
The white dress and red skirt stood among the sea of clouds, fluttering in the wind. The shadow of the broken sunset was reflected in her eyes that understood the vicissitudes of yin and yang. The sad voice drifted away with the wind and blew into Qin Shan's heart, which gave rise to the absolute zero chill of being manipulated by fate.
"The beauty of time and space, life will end. The great way is annihilated, and the will of heaven cannot be violated."
After listening to the desperate facts narrated by Dongfang Eyue, Qin Shanying gradually regained her composure after a huge mental shock, "How long will it take?"
"Master has spent all his efforts to cultivate to the Heavenly Emperor Realm, but I'm afraid he can only extend the life of the Beauty Realm by about a thousand years. Looking at his progress in repairing it, I estimate that when he returns, the Sky Mark will reappear within ten years, and then continue to crack, eventually tearing the Beauty Realm apart, turning everything in this time and space into nothingness."
"Is there any remedy?"
Dongfang Eyue shook her head slowly, "I can only understand the destiny of heaven and earth through divination, but I don't know what to do."
Qin Shanying couldn't help but sigh. Suddenly, she realized something was wrong. "You just said that the demise of the Beauty Realm was the root cause of the rampant demonic energy. Is there any inevitable causal connection between the two?"
Dongfang Eyue took two cups filled with tea, and then turned an empty cup upside down. She took a long bamboo chopstick and placed it on the base of the inverted empty cup, and placed the two quilts filled with tea on both sides of the bamboo chopstick for balance.
Pointing to the left cup of tea, Dongfang Eyue explained, "This is Yang energy."
Then he pointed to the tea on the right and said, "This is Yin energy."
With a wave of her jade finger, the tea in the left cup flew up into the air and flew out of the cup, and the right cup lost its balance and spilled out.
"The yin and yang of heaven and earth restrain and balance each other. When the lifespan of the beauty world is about to end, the yang energy will disappear first, and the uncontrolled yin energy will grow and permeate between heaven and earth. The essence of spiritual energy is uncontrolled yin energy."
"Out-of-control Yin energy can be absorbed and refined by women to improve their cultivation, but it is a deadly poison to men. This is also the reason why men in the Beauty World are dying out."
Qin Shanying covered her mouth and exclaimed, "Could it be that Master was able to survive because he has infinite Yuan Yang in his body?"
Dongfang Eyue nodded slowly, "Everything in the world grows and declines, and so do the yin and yang energies. The dying Yang energy of the Beauty World was lost to the Three Realms and Six Paths, but by chance, it was brought back by the time-traveling master. His infinite Yuan Yang body is the source of the Yang energy of the Beauty World."
Looking at the Heavenly Mark of Eternal Calamity from afar, Dongfang Eyue's eyes gradually became gentle and affectionate.
"Harmonizing yin and yang is the instinct of any living being. For us women in the Red Beauty Realm, Master is not only a man, but also the only sun in this dark world full of yin. The stronger the yin in the body, the darker the abyss. People in the abyss will be extremely eager to monopolize the sun, and even devour it."
Dongfang Eyue's explanation cleared up all the doubts in Qin Shan's mind.
"Sister, since you have such a thorough understanding of the yin and yang, don't you have any clues to solve the problem?" Qin Shanying said sadly, "Master must have wanted to save the day and come back to live happily with us. But if he knew that after thousands of years of hard work, he would end up like this, he would definitely be very sad and regretful."
Dongfang Eyue shook her head helplessly, "Junior sister, you think too highly of me. Although I have been promoted to the eighth level of the Mahayana realm and have practiced the Yin-Yang magic to the point where I can see through the origin of all things, that is all I can do. Apart from that, I really don't know how to solve this problem."
Qin Shanying's long golden wavy hair fluttered in the evening breeze, and her melancholy eyes gradually gave rise to a hint of persistence and tenacity.
"How about we join hands with Senior Sister, and the three of us sit down together and think of a solution?"
Dongfang Eyue, who was usually calm and indifferent, changed her expression when she heard what Qin Shanying said. Her cheeks turned pale and she shouted, "Qin Shanying, are you crazy? She was a crazy woman who didn't care about her life back then. Now she has reached the ninth level and the yin energy in her body is heavier than mine. How dare you discuss this with her?"
"Do you have a better idea?" Qin Shanying crossed her arms in front of her chest, leaned back, and said boldly, "If you don't have the courage! Then I will go find her! I don't believe she can eat me again!"
Dongfang Eyue sneered, her smile was very creepy, "Don't you think she can do it?"
Qin Shanying shuddered, the fear in her eyes was only fleeting, and she said firmly, "Even if she is really crazy enough to eat me, I have to try for a chance of survival!"
"Alas..." Dongfang Eyue rubbed her head and frowned, looking like she had a headache. "You are so brave, I really don't know whether to praise you or criticize you... Let's write a letter to her together and see how she reacts!"
Qin Shanying and Dongfang Eyue wrote a letter together that night, briefly summarizing the cause and effect they knew, and sent the members of the Bright Church to Penglai Island.
After waiting for nearly two months, the believer came back with a letter.
The two of them were wrapped in spiritual energy, and from a distance they used their spiritual energy to open the envelope, pulled out the letter, and confirmed that there was no conspiracy before they leaned forward to read the contents of the letter. As a result, they were both dumbfounded.
"Encrypt?" Qin Shanying flipped through the blank letter paper, looked at it carefully against the light, and injected spiritual energy into it, but there was no reaction at all. An unhappy look appeared on her face, "Why add encryption for no reason! Who in the world is so blind that dares to peek at the exchange of letters between the three most beautiful ladies!"
Qin Shanying waved her hand and was about to ask the servant to bring some magical herbs to see if they could be mixed to make the contents of the letter visible. Dongfang Eyue stepped forward, picked up the blank letter paper with two fingers, brushed it to her nose, and waved her hand helplessly, "Don't bother asking people to bother. She didn't write anything on the paper at all."
"What does she mean by this?" Qin Shanying frowned and said angrily, "I sent her a letter to discuss something, but she came all the way here to send me a blank letter!"
"What does it mean?" Dongfang Eyue sneered, "Don't you know her character? She wants to tell us, 'She knows, but she doesn't care'. This blank letter is a contempt and ridicule for both of us!"
When they thought of Lin Yilian's arrogant look that looked down upon everyone, Dongfang Eyue and Qin Shanying gnashed their teeth in hatred.
The world is about to perish, evil spirits are in power, and trying to find a solution, this proud senior sister is so ridiculous.
"Have those four girls considered it?" Qin Shanying put down the blank letter and asked with a melancholy sigh.
Dongfang Eyue asked back, "What do you think?"
Recalling the character of the four of them, Qin Shanying shook her head and dispelled the thought, "If the boss is like this, then those four are even less reliable. Forget it."
Dongfang Eyue sat back in her chair, picked up the teacup, raised her little finger to hold the lid, and leisurely swiped the liquid surface again and again. She took a sip and asked, "What are you going to do next?"
"No plans." Qin Shanying frowned and sighed, feeling very confused. "I don't know if that woman really has a way, or if she is too evil and doesn't trust us at all."
"Who knows?" Dongfang Eyue put down the teacup, leaned back on the chair, and said in a rather lonely tone, "Everything in the world has its own destiny, so let's just follow the way of nature..."
Qin Shanying heard Dongfang Eyue's tone and knew that her quiet and inactive nature had emerged. She had lost the idea of resisting and said "I'm going back" in a deep voice, then turned around and left the hall.
"Going back?" Dongfang Eyue sat up straight and looked at Qin Shanying's tall back as she left.
"Let's go back." Qin Shanying stepped back and looked back, "What else can I do if I don't go back? Should I follow the Tao here with you?"
Dongfang Eyue chuckled and smoothed her braids, "Go find it. If you find it, tell me and I'll help you."
Qin Shanying raised the corner of her mouth, a forced smile that was three parts happy and seven parts bitter. She summoned her bag with her spirit finger, and it flew into the air and disappeared into the golden sea of clouds in the sunset.
...
By this point, most of the main content of the diary has been read, and the rest is a trivial record of how she has used all means in the past hundred years to find a way to save the Red Beauty World, eliminate the evil spirit, and allow Mingjingchen to return from repairing the sky and live happily with his normal disciples.
Qin Shanying has been searching for secret tombs in various parts of the Hongyan world with the whole country's strength, collecting various ancient books, trying to find some clues to save the world. The heavens will not let down those who work hard, and the huge investment finally allowed her to get some fragmentary clues.
Ming Jingchen whispered to the diary, "Time and space are like living beings, trying their best to survive. When any living being is about to die, it will instinctively struggle and try every possible way to keep itself alive. Even if it cannot survive, it will try to find a way to eliminate the last hope of continuation..."
Ming Jingchen thought this made sense, especially when he recalled the suffocation sex that Wu Ji loved to have with him, always strangling him to the point of death and forcing him to ejaculate his rich yang essence. This was actually the instinctive expulsion of genetic material before a living being died, hoping to rely on the last slim chance to pass on its genes.
Ming Jingchen spread his hands and leaned over to look at the thriving yang in his lower abdomen. He frowned and tilted his head to think, "Could it be that the endless yang in my body is the hope that the Beauty Realm is trying to expel with its last strength in order to survive and continue? But how should I use this hope?"
Ming Jingchen continued to flip through the pages, eager to find the answer in the diary, but Qin Shanying did not give a complete solution, only a few fragmentary words.
"God", "furnace", "mixed origin", "refining", "yin and yang", "six points", "heaven and earth", "the way", "balance"...
These words were scattered crookedly in the diary, and there was a question mark after each one. It seemed that Qin Shanying had picked up fragments of clues from various incomplete rubbings, and she didn't know how to string them together.
Qin Shanying searched everywhere for a way to save the world. Unknowingly, time flew by and a hundred years passed in the blink of an eye. There were still ten years before Ming Jingchen returned to mend the sky. The arrival of a letter interrupted Qin Shanying's search for a cure.
This letter came from Penglai Island. It was sent by Lin Yilian to Qin Shanying. There was only one simple sentence in the letter.
"Come here and I'll tell you what to do."
Qin Shanying estimated that there was a 90% chance that this was a trap deliberately set by Lin Yilian.
Looking up at the Wanjie Tianhen that was about to heal, Qin Shanying sighed, clasped her hands together and bowed to Tianhen, saying, "Master, please bless me. This is my last hope."
After arranging the affairs of the court, Qin Shanying sent a letter to Dongfang Eyue, put on a long whip at her waist, picked up her bag and set sail again for Penglai Island.
After traveling thousands of miles to Penglai Island, and among the lush green mountains, Qin Shanying stood in front of the stone archway with the words "Mingjingmen" inscribed on it, carrying her bag on her shoulders and looking around at the surrounding scenery, her clear eyes gave birth to a tender feeling.
"I wonder if there will be another chance for me to walk on this mountain path with my master holding my hand again." Qin Shanying stretched out her slender jade-like ring finger, wiped the slightly wet corners of her eyes, and then she gathered her full energy, circulated her spiritual energy to the extreme, and flew into the mountain gate.
In the dim mechanical room surrounded by mountains on Penglai Island, a graceful fairy with a royal sister style tied a big fluffy ponytail crookedly, wearing a loose short-sleeved sweatshirt, not even wearing pants, only wearing a pair of white cotton underwear, holding a lollipop in her mouth, holding the game controller, hunched over, sitting on the mat with legs apart, and focusing on the game on the spiritual crystal screen.
The light at the door went dark, and a tall shadow appeared. The fairy at home just glanced at it sideways and waved her hand impatiently, as if she was annoyed that she came at the wrong time and disturbed her game.
"I still need to adjust my body, so please go back to your room and stay there first. We can talk tomorrow if there is anything else!"
Facing Lin Yilian, the strongest beauty in the world, who was two levels stronger than herself and had the attribute of "a desperate woman", Qin Shanying did not dare to offend her even though she was unkempt and dressed casually.
Qin Shanying raised her hands and bowed to Lin Yilian, then went back to her room, fetched some linen and cleaned up with water, prepared some food, and went to bed early.
She didn't sleep well that night. She would be awakened by any disturbance, fearing that the crazy woman Lin Yilian would suddenly attack her and eat her alive as Dongfang Eyue said.
In their opinion, it is not surprising that a person who does not even cherish his own body and life can do something crazy.
After a night of anxiety, everything was fine.
The next morning, Qin Shanying rubbed her panda eyes and got up. Just like she did in the past, she went to the kitchen to clean up, boiled water, made tea, rolled noodles and made pancakes. After finishing, she held the tray and respectfully brought it to Lin Yilian's office.
"Big sister, please have some tea cake."
There was a lazy response from the room, and a spiritual fiber stretched out from the window, placed on the tray, and then retracted into the room.
"We worked too late last night, let's talk later." The person in the room yawned, and seemed not to be fully awake. "I'll come to you after I've slept well."
Seeing her casual and carefree appearance, Qin Shanying felt helpless and also felt a little strange.
"Although the senior sister was a little scary in the past, she was also dignified and elegant, and a role model for all of us junior sisters. After not seeing her for three hundred years since the Seven Lords' War, her personality has changed a lot."
However, seeing her casual look, which clearly showed that she did not consider herself an outsider, Qin Shanying felt relieved and went back to her room, sitting cross-legged on the bed to regulate her breathing.
The sun was gradually rising in the sky, and it was almost noon. There were knocks on the door. Qin Shanying opened her eyes and saw Lin Yilian, who had simply washed and dressed, wearing a shirt and cotton pants, with a big ponytail on her head, and her beautiful feet were wearing sandals. She nodded her head and gestured expressionlessly, "Let's go to the hall to talk."
Qin Shanying jumped up from the bed as soon as she put the bed board on it, and followed behind Lin Yilian obediently. Looking at her loose floral cotton pants, she felt a little ridiculous, and thought to herself, "This outfit is better than yesterday, but not much, at most just one more pair of pants."
The two of them sat down in the hall. Lin Yilian waved her hand and called for two cups of water, which were filled with lukewarm water. She gave one to Qin Shanying and one to herself, as if she was entertaining the guests.
She leaned sideways with her head propped on her chin, looking up and down at Qin Shanying, who she hadn't seen for many years. She was dressed in a blue dress and looked very energetic. She raised the corner of her mouth and smiled disdainfully, "You are quite good at dressing up."
"I come to see my elder sister, so I dare not be disrespectful." Qin Shanying said politely with a bow.
Lin Yilian picked up the teacup, took a sip and put it down, then said in a cold and somewhat unhappy tone, "You've been quite noisy recently."
"Making a fuss?" Qin Shanying was puzzled. "I didn't offend Senior Sister in any way, so why are you making a fuss?"
Lin Yilian waved her hands, not wanting to explain in detail, "You don't have to check anymore. It's meaningless to keep checking like this."
Qin Shanying hesitated for a moment and asked tentatively, "Did Senior Sister find a good solution?"
"I have my own way. You will know when the time is right." Lin Yilian said in a rather proud tone, not wanting to explain in detail to Qin Shanying.
Qin Shanying's face darkened immediately after hearing this. She never expected that she would come all the way here just to listen to Lin Yilian's useless words and see her arrogant and disdainful face.
"Junior sister, I dare to ask a question." Qin Shanying put away her humble attitude, her momentum gradually increased, and she asked coldly, "Under the influence of the evil spirit, what does the eldest sister plan to do with the master who is about to return?"
"You're quite bold." Lin Yilian snorted, swung her jade hands and played with her fingernails in the light, and said nonchalantly, "I'm not as weak as you guys. What can a mere demonic energy do to me? Master is Master. When he returns after a thousand years of repairing the sky, I will naturally treat him with humility and courtesy."
"Okay! Even if what you said about not being affected by the evil spirit is true." Qin Shanying raised her tone and asked seriously, "Then the Beauty World is about to perish, what are you going to do?"
"What does it have to do with me whether the Beauty World dies or not?" Lin Yilian raised her eyebrows, looking at Qin Shanying with contempt and disdain, "Don't forget, my master and I are not from your world. As long as I take him away from here and return to our original world, isn't that enough?"
Qin Shanying was both upset and shocked when she heard this. She thought to herself, "Master always wanted to open a passage back to the original world, but he failed even after cultivating to the Heavenly Emperor Realm. How could Lin Yilian, who is only at the ninth level of the Mahayana Realm, find a way?"
"Did you really find it?"
Lin Yilian smiled playfully, "I guess I found it."
"What method is it?" Qin Shanying paused, her tone suddenly weakened, and she asked carefully, "Senior Sister, can you tell me?"
Lin Yilian thought for a moment and said slowly, "From the perspective of cause and effect, our souls are not from this world, but were forcibly pulled here. If this world perishes, even though our bodies will die, our souls will surely be able to be transferred back to the original world to be reincarnated."
Qin Shanying listened to her absurd statement, and her face gradually became angry. "It's fine if you want to go crazy, but you even want to drag Master to go crazy with you! Human life is of paramount importance, how can you speak so lightly, don't you think about respecting life!"
Lin Yilian covered her mouth with her hands and laughed wildly, "Have you forgotten how I got here?"
Qin Shanying's brows were twisted into a frown, and her face was gloomy and ugly. "So, for a person who doesn't even respect his own life, I don't expect her to respect other people's lives! If this is what you mean, then please forgive me for leaving now!"
After saying this, Qin Shanying bowed and was about to leave when Lin Yilian sighed softly, "After all these years, your strong character is still so annoying... Please stay here. I will teach you a technique that can eliminate the evil in your body."
Qin Shanying was overjoyed when she heard this. She quickly sat back in her chair, her tone softened, and she said respectfully, "Senior Sister is really capable."
"Stop flattering me." Lin Yilian snorted, "I just don't want Master to come back and see you guys being so lewd and cruel, and hurt his feelings."
"Yes, yes, yes..." Qin Shanying nodded timidly, thinking that as long as there is a way to overcome the devil, at least one of the two major problems can be solved, "The Beauty World is about to die, and I'm afraid it only has 20 years left to live. Does Senior Sister have any solution?"
"I'm going to die?" Lin Yilian smiled and covered her mouth. "Who said I was going to die? Don't I still have 6,000 years to live?"
"Six thousand years of lifespan?" Qin Shanying was a little confused. "Could it be that Second Senior Sister made a mistake in her calculation?"
Lin Yilian neither admitted nor denied it, but just stared at Qin Shanying with a smile, which was a bit eerie, making Qin Shanying feel cold and uncomfortable. Her mind was racing, and suddenly she thought of something and her face changed. She said in surprise.
"Could it be that you want the six of us, the six junior sisters, to cultivate to the Heavenly Emperor realm one by one with the help of Master's Yuan Yang, and then go to the Ten Thousand Tribulations Sky to guard for a thousand years to inject our cultivation and extend the life of the Beauty World?"
Lin Yilian leaned sideways, her jade-like arms resting on the armrests of the chair, "Just tell me if this method will work!"
"No, this..." Qin Shanying looked distressed. She knew this method was wrong, but it was a feasible method. "This is only a temporary solution and not a permanent one. Master will not agree to it."
"What is the standard and what is the essence? A cat that can catch mice is a good cat. If the master hadn't spent thousands of years cultivating to mend the sky, there wouldn't be a bunch of women from the beauty world making such a fuss here!"
Lin Yilian waved her hands, "Second brother, take over the baton from Master, and you'll be the third one. One after another, if everything goes well, maybe we can go on forever."
"This..." Qin Shanying listened roughly and felt that what Lin Yilian said made some sense, but after listening carefully, she felt that something was not right.
"Why don't you go?" Qin Shanying noticed her method of repairing in shifts, and took herself out, protesting with some dissatisfaction, "You are obviously the most advanced, and there are only ten years left in the Beauty World, so you should be the one who should go!"
"Do you think I will go?" Lin Yilian raised her lips, "For you women from the world of beauty, I will watch you and Master being intimate day and night while I am alone in prison in the endless sky for a thousand years?"
"Just pretend I didn't say anything."
Qin Shanying knew Lin Yilian's arrogant temper very well. She used to take advantage of her master's absence to call her "you women from the beauty world" with a hint of disdain in her tone, as if "women from the beauty world" were the inferior "country people" she was talking about, and she and her master were the superior strangers who were chosen to travel through time and space to save the world.
Ming Jingchen is as pure as the moon, with a selfless and compassionate heart. He spent a thousand years in a kiln to protect the world. But if Lin Yilian, a proud and self-centered woman, were to go to a kiln, she would rather explode the world and perish together than do such a stupid thing.
Because Qin Shanying and several other sisters knew an important secret about Lin Yilian, which made them feel a deep fear and dread of Lin Yilian's crazy and desperate temper.
Ming Jingchen traveled through time passively, but Lin Yilian traveled through time actively.
She came here from the original world by committing suicide, chasing Ming Jingchen.
The soft is afraid of the hard, the hard is afraid of the strong, the strong is afraid of the stupid, the stupid is afraid of the desperate.
The six sisters dared not to provoke this kind of morbid, crazy, lustful and desperate criminal who didn't care about his own life at all.
"That's all we can do for now."
Qin Shanying secretly made up her mind to control her evil nature first and wait until Ming Jingchen returned, so that she could discuss ideas and find a solution with him.
"Okay, you can live in your original house from now on."
When Ming Jingchen saw this, he tilted his head in disbelief.
"Suicide? How could he commit suicide? Didn't Yilian say that he came here because his leukemia got worse and he died?"
After thinking for a while, Ming Jingchen suddenly realized, "Yes! After my accident, she was heartbroken and her condition was getting worse. She couldn't stand the double torture of mind and body, so she simply took poison and died. But she was afraid that I would blame her for not having the will to live, so she lied and didn't dare to tell me. Alas... this silly child..."
Ming Jingchen figured out the key points and continued to read on. The following content was simple and clear. The whole article was just about practicing, practicing, and practicing.
Fortunately, according to Qin Shanying's diary, the "Ice Heart Technique" created by Lin Yilian is indeed effective. Although it cannot eliminate the evil nature, it can calm the restless and abnormal desires in the heart, and can use reason to restrain the twisted desire for Ming Jingchen.
The diary also said that not long after Qin Shanying came, Dongfang Eyue also came. When she came, she caused some trouble because Lin Yilian didn't invite her at all and thought she was here to mess things up. The two of them fought a few times in the air outside the island. It was only when Qin Shanying came out to mediate that the two of them stopped fighting.
Later, Dongfang Eyue also stayed there and practiced the "Bingxin Jue". When Mingjingchen turned to the end, he still saw the word "practice". When he turned to the next page, there was nothing.
Ming Jingchen put the diary back, pondered for a moment, and suddenly came to his senses.
"It must be that when the two of them were practicing martial arts one day, Lin Yilian suddenly attacked and subdued them, absorbing their martial arts power, and her strength soared to the Heavenly Emperor level, and Shanying didn't have time to record what happened next."
Qin Shanying's diary provided a lot of information, allowing Ming Jingchen to roughly understand the cause and effect of the situation.
"If we want to continue to expand the information, we have to see if Eyue has left any clues." Ming Jingchen carefully put the diary and the jade dust handle back in place, made the bed, and tried to restore every wrinkle to the same state as before. After cleaning up the traces of his presence, he walked out of Qin Shanying's room and stood at the door to look at the setting sun.
"It's too late today. I'm afraid Yilian will be back soon."
After sniffing all over his body, he found that he had stayed in Qin Shanying's room for too long and had come into contact with her things, so his body was stained with her musky scent.
"This fragrance should give Yilian a clue." Ming Jingchen glanced around and thought about all the ways to get rid of the fragrance. They were all very troublesome and easy to leave loopholes. Finally, he fixed his eyes on the kitchen and walked in quickly to start making some dishes with heavy oil smoke and smell to cover up the smell on his body.
When I entered the kitchen and was about to prepare food, I accidentally saw a recipe for making meat on a cabinet nearby.
The moment I saw the recipe, a wave of intense fear swept through my body.
"If Lin Yilian really relied on devouring the power of the two people to advance from the ninth level of the Mahayana realm to the Heavenly Emperor realm, does that mean that she also inherited their twisted lust?"
"Shanying wanted to whip me, Eyue wanted to eat me, and I still don't know what Yilian originally wanted to do to me!"
"She is now the aggregation of the twisted lusts of the three above!" Ming Jingchen picked up the recipe tremblingly, and briefly looked it up. He was horrified to find that the recipe had been recently flipped through. His scalp tingled, and his body trembled. He suddenly remembered the famous saying on the Internet.
"The most important thing in life is temper - Hannibal."
The one he was with every day, the one he was intimate with every day, was a sickly witch who was three times as perverted as Hannibal. It was like sleeping with a tiger in his arms. If she couldn't control her rationality, she would probably eat him up physically.
"It's terrible...too terrible..." Ming Jingchen hugged his chest, his throat moved and he swallowed, "But I can't show any fear. Once I show fear, she will find out the truth, and then I will die!"
He took a few deep breaths to calm down his panic, knowing that if he showed his weakness at this moment, the yandere witch Lin Yilian would want to kill him, and all his efforts would be in vain, and he would not be able to save his two poor disciples, Eyue and Shanying.
Ming Jingchen resumed preparing and cutting vegetables, as if nothing had happened, as if he had not seen anything and did not understand anything.
The smoke from the fireworks rose up and floated into the clouds.
With her breath fluctuating and eyes flashing with a peach-like luster, Lin Yilian frowned and covered her chest, flashing and swiftly moving in the high sky at dusk.
After crossing the barrier and entering the sky above Penglai Island, Lin Yilian saw green smoke rising from the direction of the kitchen and smelled the smell of hot and sour noodles in the air, which was the smell she missed the most in the past.
A gentle and sweet smile emerged on her face, and her frown gradually relaxed. The sparkling luster in her eyes gradually faded, returning to clear eyes like autumn water. Lin Yilian put her hand down from her chest, rushed to the kitchen, and said with a smile, "Master, why do you have the mind to make hot and sour noodles for me today?"
"I see you're tired from running around, so I want to make you something you like." Ming Jingchen looked back and smiled, then continued to cook and season the noodles.
"Don't you already know why I work so hard? Why do you still cook for me?" Lin Yilian pointed at the hot and sour noodles and said jokingly, "Could it be that Master is really completely enslaved and is looking forward to being the furnace cauldron?"
"That's not the case." Ming Jingchen stopped what he was doing and sighed to the sky, "You know I'm weak-willed. No matter what you disciples do to me, I will eventually forgive you. I know you're busy preparing my execution rack, but I still want to make you something delicious out of my heart for you."
"Master, you really know how to talk in a way that pleases women~" Lin Yilian smiled and rolled up her sleeves as she stepped forward, "Let me help you."
The two worked together and two bowls of hot and sour noodles with a hint of red chili oil were ready and served on a tray.
Lin Yilian took the chopsticks handed over by Ming Jingchen, picked up a large ball of noodles and blew on it twice, then slightly opened her thin lips which were slightly dark red, and put the large ball of hot and sour noodles on the chopsticks into her mouth. Suddenly, her eyes narrowed in intoxication, and her cheeks turned pink like blooming peach blossoms, with an expression that was about to melt with happiness.
"The hot and sour noodles made by the chef are so delicious~"
Ming Jingchen smiled and put the pink morsel into his mouth, mumbling about the past, "You have a really weird taste. The tastes of ordinary girls from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai are relatively light, but you have a heavy taste, just like a girl from Sichuan."
"Very stimulating and delicious." Lin Yilian slurped the hot and sour noodles, leaving red oil all around her dark red lips. As she ate, she reminisced, "What you can't get is always disturbing. At that time, my parents didn't allow me to eat these stimulating foods, fearing that it would hurt my body, but I just wanted to have a taste of them. Only Brother Jing treated me well and would secretly give me some in the insulated box to taste."
"Just eat what you like." Ming Jingchen smiled, "Take advantage of these six months to eat more, you'll have to cook for yourself in the future."
Lin Yilian ate her noodles quietly without saying anything. After a long while, she asked quietly, "Brother Jing, will you hate me?"
"You know what kind of personality I have." Ming Jingchen simply threw the question back.
"Sometimes I really wish you weren't like this." Lin Yilian said in a light tone with a hint of criticism.
Ming Jingchen raised his head and opened his mouth, wanting to say something but stopping himself. His eyes happened to see her sharp nails. "Huh? Your nails grow so fast. They just grew so long a few days ago. Do you want me to cut them again?"
Lin Yilian pointed out her finger, looked at it, shook her head and put it down, "No need, just let it grow."
Ming Jingchen raised his head and looked at Lin Yilian's hair again. There seemed to be a few more strands of silver in it.
"Huh? Why do you have a few more white hairs? Are you too busy and tired recently? Do you want me to pull them out for you later?"
Lin Yilian stretched out her delicate jade hands to stroke her long black hair, forced a smile and shook her head, saying, "Master, no need."
They ate and chatted, and when Lin Yilian finished her noodles, she held her stomach with a satisfied look on her face, lowered her brows and said, "It's so good..."
Ming Jingchen cleared the dishes without saying a word, and returned to the hall after finishing all the work, "What do you want to play tonight? I'll play with you."
"Master, aren't you going to play games tonight?" Lin Yilian looked up in surprise.
Ming Jingchen shook his head, showing a lack of interest, "Today is just like that. If you want to play, I'll play with you."
Lin Yilian stared at Ming Jingchen with dull eyes, her sharp nails scratching back and forth on the table, making a slightly harsh sound, the luster of her pupils flickered, sometimes bright and sometimes dimmed, looking a little weird, her chest rose and fell, as if she was deliberately suppressing something.
Lin Yilian opened her thin dark red lips and said in a soft Wu dialect with a hint of intoxication.
"I want to do something exciting with Master tonight."