The abandoned cannon fodder girl's path to immortality

Chapter 247 The Past

Chen Jinshu listened silently, though it was only a few words.

She could already feel that despair and helplessness.

Inevitably, one's heart becomes depressed.

"Later, I managed to escape back to Nanzhou, but I also completely destroyed my foundation."

The Blood Escape Technique backfired, shattering his Dao foundation, making further progress impossible.

The poison had lingered for a century, and it took the family fortune to barely suppress it, but it had already damaged their very essence and shortened their lifespan…

She suddenly raised her head, her eyes burning with an almost insane obsession.

"I hate him! I hate him so much I could eat his flesh and sleep on his skin! But I know I can't kill him. My broken body is too fragile; he could easily crush me if I even got close! And I can't bring ruin to my already declining family!"

When Zhou Wanning said this, her tone became weaker and full of helplessness.

"So I came back! Dragging this broken body back to where this nightmare began! Using my remaining array skills, I rented this stone house on the very edge of this wasteland, right under his nose!"

"I'm barely clinging to life, desperately taking on jobs to earn spirit stones, not to prolong my life, but to maintain this isolation array! So that I can 'watch' him!"

"I want to watch! To see how he uses the same tricks again! To see how he seduces women who are as young, hopeful, and naive as I was back then!"

Whenever a strange female cultivator entered his 'cold dwelling'.

My heart feels like it's being ripped out with a knife! I know another one of me is about to suffer!

I couldn't bring myself to rush in and save them.

Zhou Wanning's voice choked with sobs, and a strange emotion welled up in her eyes, but she suppressed it tightly.

"Fellow Daoist Chen, you know I don't have that ability! I can only try my best to remind them before they go in!"

"I pretended to meet him by chance, subtly hinting at Lin Xiao's bad reputation."

I deliberately talked to someone outside his door about the 'danger' of the waste dump, mentioning that a female cultivator had mysteriously disappeared.

But how many women in this world, blinded by sweet words and so-called 'chance encounters,' can actually listen to the ramblings of this madwoman?

Zhou Wanning suddenly chuckled, as if she had already seen through many things and no longer excessively pursued anyone's perfection.

Having calmed down, she began to slowly recount her story to Chen Jinshu.

"Some heard this, got scared, and made excuses to leave hastily, escaping unscathed. But most of them looked at me as if I were a madman jealous of their 'opportunity,' a vicious old woman trying to 'sow discord'! They still walked through that door..."

She shook her head slightly, her expression full of self-mockery, as if laughing at herself for being nosy.

"Last month, a young girl from a small sect in the Eastern Continent, who had just completed her Foundation Establishment and possessed a water-elemental root, came to purchase the 'Qingxin Yulu Pill' to save her master."

That beast Lin Xiao tricked her into going in with a broken ancient pill formula that he got from who-knows-where!

I stopped her! I even grabbed her at the alley entrance and told her Lin Xiao wasn't a good person! But she shook off my hand, saying I was meddling, her eyes full of wariness and disgust! She went inside and never came out again.

Zhou Wanning's hunched body trembled violently, and her surging emotions once again shattered the calm she had barely managed to maintain.

She coughed violently, her hands trembling so much that she could barely hold the jade box.

Chen Jinshu's dark eyes were shimmering with tears, slightly reddened. Without hesitation, he reached out and steadily supported Zhou Wanning's trembling arm. A pure and gentle stream of wood spirit energy slowly flowed into her body, helping her calm her turbulent blood and qi.

After a long while, Zhou Wanning's cough gradually subsided, but her breathing became even weaker, and her face turned ashen. She looked at the jade box containing the Life-Creating Pill in her hand, then at Chen Jinshu, whose eyes were red as a rabbit's, and whispered words of comfort:
"Fellow Daoist Chen, you are different. You are strong enough, and clear-headed enough. You believed my words and avoided that beast's trap. You even attracted Elder Liu to expel him. My two hundred years of surviving, two hundred years of suffering, have been worth it!"

"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Chen. Thank you for eliminating this scourge and gifting me such a precious elixir..."

Chen Jinshu felt a surge of bitterness in her heart. She had harbored a deep resentment for a hundred years and had to endure such mental torment every day. How had she managed to get through these two hundred years?
“Fellow Daoist Zhou, you are not useless. Your warning saved me and indirectly saved others who may step into this place in the future. Although Lin Xiao escaped with his life, the cycle of heaven and earth will surely bring retribution. His Dao heart is flawed, and he committed such an evil deed, so he will surely be punished by heaven. Please accept these two Life Creation Pills and take good care of yourself.”

She paused, her gaze sweeping over the stacks of array-related books in the room. "Fellow Daoist's mastery of arrays is profound. If you need spiritual materials or assistance, Jinshu will do her best to help without hesitation."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Wanning managed a relieved smile through her tear-streaked face.

"This pill is enough for Fellow Daoist Chen. I am content."

She let out a long, long sigh, a breath that seemed to have been building up for two hundred years before finally being released.

"I have guarded this filthy place for far too long, and I have seen enough of it. Now that Lin Xiao is gone, my wish has been fulfilled."

She looked up, her cloudy gaze fixed on the gray sky outside the window, as if she had made an extremely important decision.

“It’s time for me to leave. I need to find a truly peaceful place. Perhaps I can use these remaining years to organize the few insights I’ve gained about the Dao of Confrontation, so that they won’t be completely buried in this filth.”

Chen Jinshu nodded silently, understanding in his heart.

Leaving this place of sorrow and seeking peace in the final moments of her life to organize her knowledge might be a good choice for Zhou Wanning now.

"Take care, fellow Daoist." Chen Jinshu solemnly cupped his hands in greeting.

……

A moment later, at Meiyun Residence.

When Chen Jinshu returned to the courtyard, he also brought with him a lingering gloom.

Pushing open the courtyard gate, the Yinshan Sparrow, already impatient, transformed into a streak of blue and red light and pounced on the old plum tree with its gnarled branches in the corner. It hopped among the sparse shadows, emitting a clear "clang clang" chirp, a joyful sound of returning to its nest.

However, Chen Jinshu's mind was filled with Zhou Wanning's tragic past experiences, as if she had experienced them herself, which made her heart ache.

"I need to do something to calm my nerves."

Chen Jinshu sighed softly, made a hand seal with her fingertips, and her figure blurred like ripples on water. The next moment, she was in her spiritual plant space.

Looking around the spiritual plant space, she felt a sense of satisfaction and contentment, and a relaxed smile appeared on her face.

The spiritual fields are crisscrossed with paths, and most areas are covered with spiritual plants of various ages and excellent quality.

The Concentration Flower unfolds its pale golden stamens, exhaling a faint light that nourishes the soul; the Purple-Veined Polygonum multiflorum vines are thick and gnarled, with deep purple veins faintly visible beneath the leaves.

The more precious chalcedony fungus is carved like mutton fat jade, quietly radiating a warm glow.

Further away, there were even a few rare Grade 3 spirit tree seedlings, their branches lush and green, stretching upwards with great effort.

In one corner of the space, there is a reserved open space, about half an acre in size.

The soil, freshly turned over, exuded its unique, slightly fishy fragrance.

These were the spiritual plants she planned to use to cultivate the ones she would soon obtain from Medicine King Valley.

Then I saw her squat down and carefully place the seeds of the Azure Nether Grass into the ditch.

After sowing, she turned her palm upwards, drawing upon the rich spiritual energy in the space, gathering it at her fingertips, and transforming it into vibrant blue dewdrops, which she then sprinkled evenly over the sown area.