Chapter 15 – If there is a next life?
Mount Tai experienced an earthquake, causing a landslide.
One massive boulder crashed in front of the cable car ticket office, flattening a cable car that was about to descend.
Fortunately, the cableway itself was not affected, or else all the tourists on it would have been in grave danger.
What was even more surprising was that the seven people crushed inside the cable car were drug traffickers, with both the buyers and sellers present.
Moreover, these seven were the masterminds of two drug trafficking organizations, with many lives taken by their hands.
Many people said it was the manifestation of the mountain god of Mount Tai.
Some even linked this sudden event to the Mirage of Mount Tai's sealing ceremony.
...
This was something Chen Huaian learned only later.
The first thing he did after descending the mountain was not to call an ambulance but to find a small supermarket to borrow a power bank. He charged his phone, opened the "Virtual Girlfriend" game, and sat on a chair as if nothing had happened. Beside him, Zhang Rui was anxiously dialing 120.
He felt half responsible for Chen Huaian's fracture that day.
If he hadn't said such harsh words, maybe Chen Huaian wouldn't have insisted on climbing Mount Tai?
"Let me see what my virtual girlfriend is up to."
As soon as the game screen opened.
Chen Huaian was bombarded with notifications.
[You have 130 days of life remaining.]
[Your virtual girlfriend 'Li Qingran' is under attack by a small beast tide!]
[Your virtual girlfriend 'Li Qingran' is fighting desperately...]
[Your virtual girlfriend 'Li Qingran' is injured.]
[Your virtual girlfriend 'Li Qingran' is severely injured!]
What the heck?!
Chen Huaian felt a pang of anxiety. How did she get injured just while he was climbing?
How could there be a beast tide attack at that time of night?
Even if it fits the nocturnal nature of demonic beasts, this is a game, don't players need to sleep?
He quickly closed all the notification boxes and saw a heart-wrenching scene.
The house was nearly destroyed under the attack of the demonic beasts. Li Qingran was surrounded by a horde of beasts, with corpses of demonic beasts scattered around her.
She was half-kneeling in a pool of blood, her head lowered, her long black hair covering her face. She was holding a broken sword, still wearing the new clothes from the "Top Up 30 Get Bonus" event, but now they were covered in claw marks, with no alluring sight beneath the torn fabric, only bloody wounds.
[Your virtual girlfriend 'Li Qingran' is in critical condition!]
"Unfortunately, I still couldn't... meet with... the senior..."
Li Qingran felt she was about to die.
She barely lifted her head, looking at the ceiling with a hole in it, her pale cheeks devoid of any color.
Her hollow eyes gazed at the morning sky, growing dimmer, as everything in her view gradually turned gray.
In her 19 years of life, looking back, it was all filled with sorrow.
Her father died in battle, her mother poisoned by assassins from an enemy nation.
She thought joining the Azure Cloud Sect would allow her to avenge her parents, but it was just jumping from one quagmire into another.
The Cultivation World's rules were strict, forbidding interference in mortal affairs.
But these rules were just shackles for ordinary cultivators.
So she worked hard to improve her cultivation level, diligently, hoping to one day rise above the rules and comfort her parents' souls in heaven...
Yet now she was expelled from the sect, her dantian and spiritual root destroyed, left in a miserable state.
A sparrow flew past the hole in the roof.
Li Qingran's eyes gained a bit of light.
In just two days, every moment with the senior flashed in her mind,
Even though the senior never appeared, he gave her care and warmth without asking for anything in return.
"In this life... Qingran can no longer repay the senior's kindness... cough cough."
She hunched over, blood and tears mixing as they dripped down her mouth.
"If there is a next life..."
A demonic beast, seeing Li Qingran on the verge of collapse and no longer a threat, rushed forward to tear her apart.
At that moment.
Dozens, if not hundreds, of thunderbolts descended from the sky.
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Boom boom boom——!
The majestic thunderbolts, with an aura of authority and ferocity, struck down, turning the house and its surroundings into a blinding white.
Song Jiaojiao, who was about to leave, hid in a secret formation, staring in shock at the scene.
What did she just see?
A bunch of Thunderfire Talismans fell from the sky, shooting towards those demonic beasts!
Whose Thunderfire Talismans were these?
Li Qingran's?
But even the cheapest Thunderfire Talisman costs 500 low-grade spirit stones each, and this was at least tens of thousands of low-grade spirit stones. Li Qingran couldn't possibly afford that, so there was only one possibility: someone behind Li Qingran had intervened.
Who could that person be?
Song Jiaojiao looked at the overwhelming thunder, her face pale.
The thunder continued.
The Thunderfire Talismans were thrown down like they were worthless.
At least two hundred were thrown, blasting all the demonic beasts inside and outside the house to smithereens, reducing their remains to ashes before stopping.
The thunder gradually faded, and the house remained intact.
But the area around the house was filled with countless thunder pits.
Inside the house, Li Qingran lay unconscious in a pool of blood, surrounded by raging thunderfire, but a golden shield kept it at bay.@@novelbin@@
"Hiss—! This place is not safe to stay."
Song Jiaojiao felt something was about to go wrong, a sense of foreboding rising in her heart.
The next second, a Thunderfire Talisman suddenly appeared above her head.
The talisman emitted a golden light, with the characters on it exuding the majesty of thunder.
"This is, Immortal Grade?!"
Song Jiaojiao's eyes widened.
An Immortal Grade Thunderfire Talisman, aimed at her.
Aimed at her, a mere cultivator who hadn't even reached the Foundation Establishment stage?
There was no need to wonder how the other party discovered her.
To someone who could throw such talismans like trash, her concealment formation was just a toy.
"Ha... haha..."
A wry smile appeared on Song Jiaojiao's face.
The next second,
Boom——!
A golden thunderbolt as thick as a bucket descended from the sky.
The concealment formation shattered instantly.
Along with Song Jiaojiao inside, leaving no trace...
...
Seeing the red dots on the map all wiped out, Chen Huaian finally breathed a slight sigh of relief.
He hadn't been this tense even when he fractured his bone and encountered falling rocks on Mount Tai.
"Damn it, can't this game have an enemy alert system? You leave for a moment, and there's a monster raid?"
He had just drawn from the Lucky Koi pool five hundred times.
The items he got were either spirit stones, Thunderfire Talismans, or Sound Transmission Talismans.
How to put it? Getting low-grade spirit stones is definitely a loss, but both Thunderfire Talismans and Sound Transmission Talismans are a gain.
Moreover, not all the Thunderfire Talismans were of common grade; there were also a dozen high-grade and superior-grade ones mixed in.
Immortal Grade is the hardest to get; after five hundred draws, he got two.
He just used one to strike down that little boss hiding in the shadows.
But he also got a superior-grade magic weapon, the Su Xian Sword.
He didn't know how much a superior-grade magic weapon would sell for, but since it wasn't available in the Qi Refining shop, it must be a weapon commonly used by Foundation Establishment stage cultivators.
He probably made a good profit, right?
But now wasn't the time to think about that.
Chen Huaian looked seriously at Li Qingran's body.
[Status: Excessive blood loss, near death]
[Cultivation Progress: 1456/4999 (Fifth Layer)]
[Remaining Life: A short while]
[Favorability: 35 (Admiration)]
"Well... the game character is severely injured, so according to normal procedures, I should give medicine first."
Chen Huaian opened Li Qingran's Storage Ring and dragged an Immortal Grade Great Rejuvenation Pill from the monthly card to her mouth.
But he received this prompt:
[Your virtual girlfriend 'Li Qingran' is critically injured and unable to swallow the Great Rejuvenation Pill on her own. Medicine administration failed!]
Very much in line with realistic logic and subjective initiative.
Chen Huaian thought,
You made a game so hardcore,
Are you trying to take a civil service exam?!
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