Starting My Cultivation With Time Management

Chapter 1104: Chapter 72: An Zhisu’s Inner Struggle

The simultaneous request by the two to leave made Chen Guanshui instinctively feel something was wrong.

What is going on? Are they going back to the sect to get reinforcements? Will they return with a large group of their family to take me away?

But he still feigned calmness and said with a smile:

“Must you go back? I can have Ah Jing help bring the books over.”

“Daoist friend of Jade Pond also knows artifact forging?” Shi Liuli said surprisedly, “I’m not sure what particular books are needed yet; it might take going through about a hundred books to confirm. How about asking the friend to take a look?”

“The library of the Xu Family of Southern Heaven is heavily guarded with numerous traps and overseen by elders.” Xu Yinglian also smiled as she spoke, “However, Daoist friend of Jade Pond is highly skilled in illusion techniques, so surely you could bypass those hurdles to find the books I want.”

“Let’s forget it.” Upon hearing how troublesome it was, the Kunlun Mirror immediately got cold feet, “Guanshui, I think it’s better to let them handle it. After all, this concerns mending the heavens, so we must ensure nothing goes wrong.”

I’m just afraid that once they go back, an unforeseen incident might occur… Chen Guanshui complained silently.

However, thinking it over carefully, although Liuli is scheming, she’s expecting our child at this moment and surely won’t betray me.

Yinglian has always been proud and aloof, definitely disdaining to ever act deceitfully.

Carefully pondering all possibilities, Chen Zi’ang finally realized that from the moment he entrusted his wives with the grand task of amalgamating the Heaven-Mending Stone, it was destined that he must trust them—otherwise, all prior actions would make him look like an idiot.

“Alright.” He quickly put on a “trust without doubt” attitude and said briskly, “I’ll see you off.”

After sending Xu Yinglian and Shi Liuli off, Chen Guanshui returned to the undersea cavern and couldn’t help but let out a long sigh.

In his original plan, once he gathered the six fragments of the Heaven-Mending Stone, it was just a matter of doing this and that to turn them into the Heaven-Mending Stone for mending the heavens.

Now it seems that “this and that” is actually quite troublesome, what is going on?

Shouldn’t once you have all the fragments, the six pieces come together with a snap and directly fly to the sky for mending?

Circling some unrealistic ideas in his mind, Chen Guanshui once again looked towards the five-colored stone fragments in the furnace.

Compared to their initially sharp-edged shape, the fragments in the furnace were already sticking together, forming a kind of “you in me, me in you” state, indicating that the melting process was indeed near its end.

Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly felt something pressing against his back.

Chen Guanshui: ?

“Junior Brother.” An Zhisu’s voice came from behind, “I have a few questions to ask you.”

Chen Guanshui was startled, suspecting that Senior Sister An was holding a sword against him from behind, and if he didn’t answer satisfactorily, she would pierce him front and back, blood splattering everywhere!

“Ask away, Senior Sister.” He said calmly.

“You…” An Zhisu hesitated, only to hear Chen Guanshui suddenly say firmly:

“I have loved.”

An Zhisu: ?

“No.” She felt a slight urge to laugh but quickly stiffened her face again and said coldly, “I now know that the reason you took the alias Ling Yunpo to join Shushan was to seize the Heaven-Mending Stone fragment from the Long Eyebrow Immortal.”

“Moreover, it was me who personally chose you to join Qingluo Peak, not that you were scheming to join the master’s sect, so I do not blame you for that.”

“But they…” Before An Zhisu could finish, Chen Guanshui explained once more:

“Qiu Changtian and Xu Yinglian forming as Daoist Companions does not mean Ling Yunpo cannot have feelings for Senior Sister An. I initially indeed thought this way.”

“It is not because I am shameless, but as a double agent, I must constantly divide my heart… into three parts. In Kunlun, I play as Qiu Changtian, in Penglai, I play as Luo Yan, so I have no way to think about Ling Yunpo.”

He sighed deeply and said:

“Senior Sister, at this point, it’s my fault towards you.”

An Zhisu remained silent, her heart in severe turmoil.

Of course, she understood what being a double agent meant. If while playing Ling Yunpo in Shushan, he had already pledged his life to Senior Sister, and then while playing single Luo Yan in Penglai, he refused all girls who showed interest, constantly reminding himself “I already have Senior Sister,” isn’t that nonsense?

When playing Luo Yan, he also had to consider Ling Yunpo’s persona, he would be exposed instantly!

Regarding Junior Brother already having a Daoist Companion in other sects, when An Zhisu thought back on it now, she still felt both angry and distressed.

She was angry about having so many romantic rivals, annoyed that Junior Brother had kept it a secret from her until now, and the subtle heartache deeply hidden was due to knowing that “Junior Brother had no other choice,” under which she felt sympathy and compassion for his current embarrassing predicament.

Others mend the heavens and ascend in place, being revered as the most sacred among the human race by later generations; yet my Junior Brother mends the heavens risking life and limb, like walking on thin ice, finally to be left isolated, with even the closest ones finding it hard to forgive him, what sense does that make!

“Even if you admit to having failed me, what can you do now?” An Zhisu said sadly, “Now that it’s done, can I kill you, or kill them instead?”

“They are not at fault, please do not harm them, Senior Sister.” Chen Guanshui sensed the hard object was still pressed against his back, guessed her intent, and said in a heartbroken manner, “Please cut me down instead.”

“Dying on the eve of mending the heavens, are you willing?” An Zhisu trembled as she spoke.

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