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Tribulation, also known as the Calamity or Kalpa is a process when a cultivator crosses and transcends their current stage or level so that they can go further for their cultivation.
What did he mean?
Li Longling could not see Ye Anping's expression. She didn't know if he was smiling or talking to her seriously, and she couldn't tell if his words were true or false.
The girl named Pei, who had just spoken, said that Wu Yue was a demonic cultivator.
But Wu Yue had the token from her father.
Could this mean that her father was behind the demonic cultivator's appearance in the Dragon House?
Her father was the one who helped the demonic cultivators?
Her father was the spy colluding with the demonic cultivator, the traitor she had been trying to find these days?!
How could that be?!!
She couldn't believe it.
This man in front of her must be trying to drive a wedge between her and her father!
That's right!! That must be it!!
Li Longling bit her lips and wanted to refute Ye Anping's words, but she could not think of any evidence to prove her father's innocence.
If Wu Yue was really a demonic cultivator, then there was no way her father could get away with it.
But still...
"..."
Li Longling gritted her teeth hard, and her hand clutched the soil underneath the grass.
Ye Anping knew that it was hard for her to come to terms with such a fact. In fact, in the game's plot, she was never told what Li Feng had done, not even at the end of the Dragon House incident.
The cause and course of the Dragon House incident were, in the end, concealed by Si Xuanji.
The news that reached the various sects in the Western Region was that "Li Feng fought against five Demonic Sect cultivators alone, but unfortunately fell into a trap and died." This was also the 'truth' that Li Longling knew in the game.
Si Xuanji's white lie successfully saved the Dragon House and allowed Li Longling to take over the family business left by her father, but at the same time, it also planted a time bomb in her heart.
This bomb would detonate a hundred years later, during Li Longling's Nascent Soul Tribulation*. It would become her inner poison that led to her untimely death, due to her destabilizing under the strain of the Nascent Soul Tribulation.
Even before her death, Li Longling still stubbornly believed in this lie.
But, that was in the game.
There was no doubt that the plot line in this world had been changed again.
Ye Anping did not know what the consequences of his actions would be. He just had a vague feeling that telling Li Longling the truth was the right thing to do.
The truth might make her feel confused for a short time, but it was better to be confused now than at a critical moment.
"Sigh--"
Ye Anping sighed softly. Since he wasn't going to say anything more, he went back under the collapsed pavilion to continue inspecting Wu Yue's storage bag.
After inventorying the contents of Wu Yue's storage bag, Ye Anping burned everything that should be burned. He only took the spirit stones, a few pills, and the magic weapons that he could sell. He then separated thirty thousand spirit stones, went to Feng Yu Die, and threw them next to her.
"Miss Li, we have to go now. Just wait until Sister Feng wakes up and takes you back to the Dragon House."
"..."
Having said that, Ye Anping waited for two breaths. Seeing that Li Longling didn't have the slightest intention of answering him, he summoned his flying sword, and together with Pei Lianxue, they took off and headed toward Duchun City.
When they were up in the sky, Pei Lianxue looked back at Li Longling sitting on the ground, leaned next to her 'husband', and asked in a low voice, "Hubby, can't she see?"
"Huh?" Ye Anping was a little surprised. He rarely heard his sister take the initiative to ask about other people, so he answered, "Well, she's been blind since birth because of the extremely flaming energy surrounding the Dragon House."
"Is there no way to cure it?"
"There is, but..." Ye Anping looked back at her. "What? You want to cure her?"
"... She looks quite pitiful."
"Well..."
Ye Anping thought for a while.
There must be some pills that could cure her blindness, but those things were so rare that even Li Feng couldn't get them, and he didn't have the means to find them now.
Actually, he did have a ready-made method, he just didn't know if it would work.
Such were, for example, the Eye Shifting talismans he used to monitor the Dragon House, which allowed people to share their vision.
Of course, Ye Anping could also guess that the ordinary Eye Shifting talismans did not work, or else Li Feng would have thought about it long ago.
But what if he used his physiotherapy skills to encrypt the Eye Shifting talisman directly on Li Longling's meridians and turn her whole being into such a talisman?
If it worked, he could get a very good reward from Li Longling.
But he would have to think about it later, because, at the moment, there were more pressing matters.
After Li Longling returned, Li Feng would probably not be able to sit still.
Perhaps in the next two days, he would cooperate with the three remaining demonic cultivators to force the activation of the formation.
"Ah-- if only Miss Li could persuade him."
"Eh? What?"
"It's nothing. There might be a fierce fight ahead."
Pei Lianxue nodded, only half understanding. "Hmm..."
...
After Ye Anping and Pei Lianxue left, the forest became quiet.
The only sounds heard were the chirping of cicadas and the rustling of leaves in the wind.
The smell of grass and trees was refreshing and pleasant.
In such an environment, Li Longling soon calmed down.
She had been rejecting what Ye Anping told her, but now she finally figured out that it didn't matter whether his words were true or false.
What she needed to do now was to immediately return to the mansion, find her father, and ask him about this matter face to face.
Even if it would turn out to be true what Ye Anping implied...
"Even so..."
At this thought, Li Longling hugged her knees tightly, her nose felt sore, and she seemed to have something stuck in her throat that couldn't come up or down.
Wanting to vent her anger, she clenched her fist and swung it hard at the grass beside her. Unexpectedly, she somehow hit something soft.
"Ah..." Li Longling herself was startled.
"Burp--"
Feng Yu Die, who had been punched in the stomach, woke up instantly from her sleep and looked around in confusion.
She felt a sharp pain in her head, and it took her a while to recover. Looking around and seeing that Li Longling was the only one there, she was puzzled. "Sister Li, where are the others?"
"..." Li Longling was startled for a moment before replying in a low voice, "They left."
"What? They left?"
Feng Yu Die lowered her head. She had wanted to have a good chat with Sister Pei, whom she hadn't seen for a long time, but now...
Remembering what just happened, she looked around and found a bag of spirit stones next to her. She took it, and seeing that there were thirty thousand spirit stones inside, her mood greatly improved.
She stood up, patted her robe, and put the spirit stones bag into her storage bag.
"Sister Li, did my brother tell you about Master Li..."
Li Longling quickly interrupted. "He did."
"Then, what are you going to do?"
"I..." Li Longling bit her lip, hesitating. "I'll go and talk to my father."
Feng Yu Die nodded, grinned, and patted her shoulder again. "Sister Li, remember, we will always be on your side."
"Uhm..."