Chapter 120 Soul Contract
“What?”
Su Yanjun and Gao Yisheng exclaimed simultaneously.
“You’re already at Initial Realm - Sixth Rank?” Gao Yisheng asked, his face a mix of surprise and doubt.
One must know that Liu Sheng previously had no Cultivation, otherwise why would she have been arranged to be a Menshi.
“Yes, perhaps I am devout enough; once I Broke Through to the Initial Realm, my Cultivation increased very quickly.”
“Thank the heavens for the gift,” Liu Sheng said with gratitude, pressing her hands together and looking up at the sky.
“Shameless! Be careful, Supreme God will settle accounts with us.”
“But it’s not wrong, it is indeed a gift from the heavens, just a different kind of ‘heaven’.”
“Thanks for the gift from beyond the stars.”
“This really needs a good explanation. If not for the imperial examination being imminent, we should have proceeded slowly, and not exposed it like this.”
“No choice, who told that old man Fang to bully people!”
“Moreover, she really just Broke Through!”
Yes, last night, under various Opportunities, Liu Sheng actually Broke Through to Qi Refinement Stage - Second Layer in one go.
…
Yesterday, Liu Sheng returned home early and lay down.
It’s normal to want to lie down occasionally when you’re in a bad mood, right?
Wen Weilan and Cui Cui were not home; they had both gone to work on matters for Qingyun Pavilion.
It seemed that the small advertisement they had put up in Xiao Xiang House last time was indeed effective, as many Hunters of the Strange came to Qingyun Pavilion.
In the few days Liu Sheng and Wen Weilan were away from home, Cui Cui was almost too busy to handle everything.
So Wen Weilan was summoned by Cui Cui as soon as she arrived in Qinghe.
“Sister, sister, are you in a bad mood?” Ling Xiaoshu’s voice suddenly rang out.
Liu Sheng was startled and quickly sat up, seeing Ling Xiaoshu leaning by the bed, cupping her cheeks and looking at her.
Alas, this “one leaf obscures the eye” always made her forget Ling Xiaoshu’s existence.
“Sister, you didn’t forget me again, did you?” Ling Xiaoshu knew from Liu Sheng’s reaction and sadly curved her lips.
“It’s not my fault… your skill is too elusive…”
“I’m sad!”
“Don’t cry, don’t cry, how about I make it rain for you?”
“Good!”
Ling Xiaoshu’s playful banter indeed pulled Liu Sheng out of her frustrated and sad mood.
Ling Xiaoshu enjoyed the fine drizzle above her head, comfortably narrowing her eyes.
However, she still didn’t forget Liu Sheng’s unusual state.
“So, sister, why are you sad?”
Liu Sheng was not one to complain; since childhood, she preferred to keep any unhappiness to herself and digest it, believing that once she found a solution, the unhappiness would naturally disappear.
So she didn’t know how to tell Ling Xiaoshu.
“It’s probably, well, there’s something you thought was hopeless, and then you self-deceptively let it go. You could have just lived on peacefully, but then one day, someone told you that you had hope again. So you carried that hope, worked hard, but it was futile again, and the hope was gone again.”
Liu Sheng thought for a moment and vaguely explained.
“Although I don’t know what exactly happened to sister, I understand that feeling.”
Ling Xiaoshu lay on Liu Sheng’s lap, and the clouds and rain above her head sprinkled onto Liu Sheng’s skirt, so Liu Sheng quickly cut it off.
“When I was in that smelly basement, I don’t remember how long I stayed there. Every time someone came down, I would light up with hope, thinking someone could take me away, but still, no one did. Only you, sister, truly came down and saw me.”
Although Ling Xiaoshu spoke lightly, Liu Sheng could imagine that as Professor Tang wandered through the Universe for tens of thousands of years, passing through tens of thousands of worlds, countless people must have tried to go down to the basement, and Ling Xiaoshu must have been disappointed countless times.
It must have been tens of thousands of times.
“That’s not right, so you couldn’t come out on your own at all?” Liu Sheng suddenly realized.
She hadn’t even reacted, and then Ling Xiaoshu inexplicably clung to her and followed her.
Ling Xiaoshu then said sheepishly, “That’s right, for some reason, I was completely trapped in the basement, in a cycle.”
“Besides me, other entities were also there, but only I survived until you arrived.”
It was probably that the Federal Government’s prison for Professor Tang hadn’t completely failed, and the things inside were also trapped.
“Only the Soul Contract allowed me to follow the contractor in a special form, thereby bringing me out. And the prerequisite for the Soul Contract was to be able to see me, and… because of my life level, I could directly form the contract without sister’s permission…”
As Ling Xiaoshu spoke, she lowered her head even more shyly, but fearing Liu Sheng would be angry, she quickly explained, “However, we have an equal contract!”
“Soul Contract? No wonder you can follow my consciousness through Transmigration.” Liu Sheng remembered the Doll Tree army that formed due to Transmigration between the boxes.
“Yes, and you can also follow my consciousness through Transmigration,” Ling Xiaoshu said, “but I haven’t tried it yet.”
“I see. Besides that, what else? What will happen?”
Liu Sheng did not blame Ling Xiaoshu for the forced contract.
If it weren’t for Ling Xiaoshu’s forced contract, perhaps she would still be trapped in the Weird Domain.
Moreover, Xiao Shu probably didn’t want to say it because she was wary; this contract sounded like it involved deep and overbearing implications, and if the wrong person was entrusted, it might be exploited instead.
“Besides that, it’s living and dying together.”
“Okay, I understand. I will protect my life.”
“Sister, I will also work hard to grow up and protect you.”
Ling Xiaoshu’s tender little face was full of determination, which was truly adorable, making Liu Sheng unable to resist rubbing it vigorously a couple of times.
However, Ling Xiaoshu’s expression quickly became downcast.
“But the Spiritual Qi here, I can’t absorb it at all. It’s as if some entity deliberately locked the Spiritual Qi.”
“In that case, when will I ever grow up? I hate being so short and bald!”
Ling Xiaoshu tugged at the half-trunk on her head, feeling a bit angry.
“I know a place!” Liu Sheng suddenly remembered.
“And from the sound of it, with the Soul Contract, you can go too.”
So she took out the seven profound token and softly called out.
“Hey, Seven Profound.”
…
Returning to Chongdao Shrine after several days, Liu Sheng looked at the brilliant starry sky embedded in the broken roof, feeling as if she had returned home.
“Look, we have a starry sky room too.”
Liu Sheng transmitted this thought to Ling Xiaoshu beside her.
Ling Xiaoshu, having suddenly arrived here, found everything novel and exciting.
“That flying feeling just now, it’s very familiar, as if I once flew like that when I was a seed.”
“You can still remember things from when you were a seed?” Liu Sheng asked with her consciousness.
“Some blurry memories.”
Liu Sheng said nothing more, habitually beginning to Cultivate as soon as she arrived at Chongdao Shrine.
Since the Honghu Plan had fallen through, she might as well continue to Cultivate.
Perhaps she could even directly participate in the imperial examination if she reached Initial Realm - Sixth Rank.
However, Liu Sheng didn’t expect it to be that fast; she had only recently Broke Through to Refining Qi Stage - First Layer, so she would probably only be able to participate in next year’s imperial examination.
“Sister, sister, what is this!”
But before Liu Sheng could enter a meditative state, she heard Ling Xiaoshu’s noisy voice.
Liu Sheng opened her eyes and saw Ling Xiaoshu holding a god statue’s head, speaking excitedly.