Xiuxian first lady

Chapter 121 - The Origin of Hatred

Under Su Zhi's provocative gaze, Chen Qingcheng slightly closed his eyes.

He has always been cold-hearted, and has maintained a close relationship with these fellow disciples, but after all, they live together on this mountain, almost all their lives.

He went up the mountain at the age of 13, and Su Zhi had already followed Teacher Lingxuzi.This senior brother entered the cultivation way of immortality after he became an adult. Counting his age, he could be called an uncle at that time.

But after more than two thousand years, the age difference of dozens of years has been wiped out.

By the time Teacher Diyangzi accepted Qingping again, the brothers and sisters had gone hand in hand for seven or eight hundred years.

No matter how the personnel changes later, Chen Qingcheng always thought that Su Zhi, a veritable senior brother, would support Tianwen Mountain forever just like him...

The pain from his chin forced him to raise his eyelids and look directly at Su Zhi's face.

"Bei Chen," Su Zhi's voice returned to his usual gentleness, if his hand hadn't slipped down and strangled Chen Qingcheng's throat, there would be no clue that he had turned his back, "Tell me, why did Xiao Zhuzi go down the mountain? Why...why are you hiding it from me?"

When he said the second sentence, Su Zhi's tone changed, not like a pressing question, but like an ordinary complaint.

When Master Qingping made a decision as the head of the house and didn't discuss it with him in time, he also complained in the same way.

But Chen Qingcheng just pondered for a moment, and the hand on the throat tightened violently.

Although the Xiu family reached a certain level, breathing was no longer necessary, but the body's instinct still made him feel pain.

And this kind of pain is not as good as the pain caused by the two heart-piercing locks that penetrated his lute bone.

Cutting off the meridians and penetrating into the bone marrow made him unable to display even a single trace of his cultivation, and he couldn't even lift his hands, so he could only sit there and endure all of this.

"Why do you do this, Beichen! I'm sorry for you!"

Su Zhi's expression was as usual, only the hand that was tightening around Chen Qingcheng's throat was venting his anger.

It wasn't until he found that Chen Qingcheng was so weak that he was almost in a coma, only relying on Legilimency to hang a trace of clarity, he let go of his hands and let out a long breath, and sat down cross-legged.

"Beichen, talk to me," Su Zhi sighed deeply, "You are always like this, you keep everything in your heart, since you were a child."

Chen Qingcheng managed to breathe through, and just as he was about to speak, something with a fishy smell rushed up from his chest.

He didn't even have the strength to cough, so he could only let the blood overflow from the corner of his mouth, dripping onto the skirt of his clothes.

"Senior Brother..." He said hoarsely, "The one who betrayed us first, wasn't it you?"

Su Zhi had already picked up the handkerchief, intending to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth for him, but he was taken aback when he heard this, and his hands stopped in the air for a long time, and finally heaved a sigh.

"I don't understand what you're saying..." He whispered, seemingly forgetting what he was holding the veil for.

Chen Qingcheng's lips were covered with bright red blood, but because of this, his lips were even more pale, and he seemed to have lost his vitality.

But he still slowly opened his mouth and said: "Senior brother had contact with Wujilou, when I... left the mountain?"

Su Zhi's body shook violently.

"Who told you that?"

Although it was a rhetorical question, it actually answered a few things.

Most importantly, he didn't deny it.

Chen Qingcheng fell silent again.

This kind of silence seemed helpless stubbornness, because he was the one being restrained after all, even if Su Zhi couldn't kill him for a while, all kinds of torture methods alone were enough to make his life worse than death.

But he knew very well that what Su Zhikui came to at night was obviously far from asking about Bai Xiaoxiao's whereabouts and purpose.

That was just an introduction, to draw out their mutual emotions, and take this opportunity to have a deep talk.

As for Su Zhi, who has always been gentle, he was ruthless from the very beginning. Chen Qingcheng thought that this probably stemmed from the hatred accumulated over the years.

His senior brother, for some reason, has been secretly hating him.

It was this kind of hatred that could not be uttered that made Su Zhi go to see the people in Wuji Tower behind Tianwenshan's back.No matter how they talked or whether they reached a consensus, Chen Qingcheng believed that Su Zhi would never look back.

Even if he didn't take refuge in Wuji Building, he would never stay on Tianwen Mountain again.

But what is this for? ...

"Look, you still don't want to tell me anything." Su Zhi seemed to say regretfully, he reached out his hand to Chen Qingcheng's chest, and sent a wisp of inner breath into it.

At that moment, it was as if a sharp knife cut open the blood in the body, and sprinkled a handful of iron sand into it.

Su Zhi quietly looked at Chen Qingcheng's eyes that suddenly widened and quickly lost focus, waited for a while, but did not wait for the slightest moan of pain, so he could only shake his head.

"You're so stubborn! Why didn't you tell me?... I remember, you've been like this since you went up the mountain. You were punished by the teacher for not practicing well, and you didn't say a word. I asked you, but you didn't say anything..."

It seems that due to the extreme weakness of the body and mind under the torture, Chen Qingcheng was also vaguely reminded of the scene back then.

In that scene, there was an adult in his mid-30s, and a teenager.Adults are elegant and approachable, while teenagers are always cold, rarely speak, and can't even smile.

"Don't worry, the cultivation of Qin's state of mind is not a day's work." He heard the adult say, in a very friendly voice, "But I also heard the teacher said a trick..."

The boy still didn't speak, but his eyes were shining, as if he was asking a question.

"It's the Qianling Cave on Ganlin Peak, do you know? The Ten Thousand Years of Black Ice there can help people improve..."...

Later memories are very blurred, because when Teacher Xuanjizi found Qianling Cave, he found that the young man was cold and stiff, and completely lost consciousness.

The three teachers all thought that he was eager for success, and coupled with the fact that the young man didn't know what to do, that's why he came up with this method of practicing.And the boy didn't say anything.

He thought it was true that practicing in Qianling Cave could improve his skills, but his own cultivation base was not enough, so he couldn't use this method, and it wasn't that his senior was hiding something on purpose.

Looking back now, that might be the beginning of Su Zhi's hatred for him.

With trembling lips, Chen Qingcheng was about to speak when suddenly Su Zhi pushed him on his shoulder and fell down weakly, lying on his side with his heavily injured shoulder, unable to even move a single finger.

"You have such a temperament, I really don't know what Teacher Xuanjizi has taken a fancy to you!" Su Zhi leaned down to stare at him, his voice was cold, "It's just that I have spoiled you for 800 years, and it's nothing more than Qingping and Biyou. Didn't you become the same as me when you started? Who would have thought that you still have this iceberg face, and you didn't even say a word when you saw them pointing to Qingping as the head..."

It was so!
Chen Qingcheng heard Su Zhi's increasingly indignant voice, and realized something in his heart.

In fact, he really wanted to be a humble senior brother.But seeing the three teachers' preference and importance for the young disciples, he couldn't help it.

Especially after confirming Qingping, who is too young as the successor head.

But he doesn't hate Qingping.

Because the little disciple's favor is not something he can decide by himself, and he can't blame the teacher, so he vents his anger on Chen Qingcheng, who is also "falling out of favor" and should be in the same camp as him.

He knew that it was impossible for him to be indifferent and calm about everything like Chen Qingcheng, so the hatred was doubled.

This seems to be able to explain what Su Zhi is doing today, but Chen Qingcheng still feels a little strange.

There was an unformed idea coiled in his mind, and he tried hard to think about it, but couldn't catch it for a while.

The lingering sharp pain from the meridians, flesh and blood in the body, and even the bones of the limbs tormented him one after another.A few times he could hardly help crying out, and forced it back into his throat, becoming intermittent dull moans.

Su Zhi looked at him sympathetically.

"Beichen, why are you bothering? With your status as No. 1 in cultivating immortals, you are willing to stand behind Qingping, and if there is a natural disaster, you will be the first to step forward..."

Chen Qingcheng's eyes tightened suddenly, he finally knew what the thought he was looking for was.

"Senior brother, you..." He gasped, trying to make his voice clearer, and every word reached Su Zhi's ears, "You have practiced...the Extreme Profound Kungfu...isn't it... ..."

(End of this chapter)