Chapter 779: Chapter 003: Soul Swallowing
“We should go for another check-up first,” Jiang Ningxin looked at Zhou Yan. “You’ve been completely engrossed in ancient knowledge, but now we live in a scientific society…”
“Science? Do you know where I’ve been all these years?”
Zhou Yan faintly smiled. He didn’t contradict Jiang Ningxin.
“Where were you? Weren’t you lying in the hospital?”
Jiang Ningxin followed Zhou Yan’s lead and asked.
“Old legends speak of Pangu’s Heaven Creation, Kua Fu chasing the sun, the diligent bird filling the sea, Nuwa nding the skies, Hou Yi shooting the suns, among others. And then there’s the famous Zhuang Zhou, who spoke of dreaming he was a butterfly.”
Zhou Yan said softly.
The chaos triggered by the earthquake in the hospital led many to rush out, but after so ti, nothing out of the ordinary ensued, allowing the atmosphere of fear to gradually subside. Many, though, had left the hospital to wait and watch outside.
Zhou Yan and Jiang Ningxin were still inside the hospital ward, a private, cozy room, where only Zhou Yan had been staying, but there, the sll of disinfectant was long gone.
The dust and impurities could not approach Zhou Yan’s body.
“You an to say? You’ve witnessed those legends?”
Jiang Ningxin, reverent of ancient knowledge, had always harbored doubts, unlike Lin Qianqian who completely disbelieved.
“Yes, Zhuang Zhou is a main figure of the Taoist school, not a fool. But why couldn’t he distinguish whether it was Zhuang Zhou dreaming he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming it was Zhuang Zhou?”
“Geniuses, after all, are sowhat different, ‘great wisdom appearing foolish, great skill appearing clumsy’ are not just idle talk.”
Zhou Yan explained.
This ti, Jiang Ningxin also grew more serious.
Zhou Yan spoke logically, not like soone spouting nonsense. This eased the doubts she originally harbored.
“You want to tell … these years, you were truly not foolish, but… were cultivating? Traveling through the soul world?”
Jiang Ningxin was highly adaptable, a trait common in modern people amid complex and chaotic information.
“Pretty much, just like I can now see that your bodily condition is very poor. But you are virtuous, not self-exiled, without losing your chastity lightly in youth. This alone has saved you. A girl losing her chastity too early may lose the body’s protective ability against peril, attracting misfortune. Lin Qianqian, her family’s Qi Fortune is good, yet due to her lacking virtue, has attracted bad luck, latent and about to encounter disaster.”
“Ah…”
Jiang Ningxin exclaid, involuntarily covering her mouth, showing her astonishnt.
Only she knew her physical condition so far. As for Lin Qianqian’s situation, she knew a bit, yet had been unable to contact Lin Qianqian, unaware of her recent state.
Yet unexpectedly, Zhou Yan saw through it all.
Jiang Ningxin felt as though she was in a dream.
Being directly told by a man that she was still a virgin was strange, not as embarrassing or panicky as Jiang Ningxin had imagined, because Zhou Yan was too calm, like a deep, clear pond, exerting no pressure or embarrassnt.
Jiang Ningxin, with cheeks slightly flushed, looked at Zhou Yan, suddenly feeling a vague dependence.
But Zhou Yan slightly distanced himself from her, saying, “Don’t be dependent, nor foster any fondness for . After all, we are not of the sa world. I ca to this world to comprehend my own path, untainted by romantic entanglents.”
“You… you can understand what I’m thinking?”
Jiang Ningxin incredulously looked at Zhou Yan.
She uncontrollably recalled the experience when Lin Qianqian tricked her into watching a foreign art film, thinking of tis when she cared for Zhou Yan, occasionally ‘checking’ his body while washing him.
She imdiately felt very uneasy, as if all was seen through.
This made her extrely uncomfortable, her pretty face instantly flushed, her heart full of fear.
People are indeed strange, sotis unable to control their thoughts, the more they try to control not thinking about sothing, the more it occupies their thoughts.
Jiang Ningxin, being rely a mortal, exhibited such behavior as well.
Zhou Yan looked at Jiang Ningxin strangely. This calm gaze suddenly made Jiang Ningxin feel sowhat abashed.
“Emotions are simple, just follow your heart, no need to worry. I, too, won’t entertain any thoughts because of it. I am just soone who walked the path of an ordinary person.”
Zhou Yan’s voice contained a trace of Soul Power, calming the anxious heart of Jiang Ningxin.
“It seems… you really have changed. You were truly not foolish, only because you practiced a peculiar Cultivation Technique, embarking on the path of cultivation.”
Jiang Ningxin finally cald down, because of this, she could now speak less distantly with Zhou Yan.
Won are like this.
Once breaking through that bit of reserve, even a lady can beco carefree.
This is a unique characteristic of modern won, unfelt in other Star Domains.
“I originally thought that for my Soul to rge with my withered and corrupt physical body, I would need several days. However, the peration of Soul Power has fused them into one so quickly. Compared to the strength in that other world, it has clearly decreased by a hundred million tis. But, I still possess the strength of the Nine Changes of Sword Void. It’s just this world’s own suppression, as if entering a Gravity Array, a billion tis stronger than an ordinary Gravity Array.”
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