My Enemy Became My Cultivation Companion

Min Ning forced a calm tone and said, "Naturally, it has nothing to do with it. What clever insight does the Princess have?"

Zhu E pondered slightly, somewhat lost in thought, saying, "Ah... then in a few years, the gentleman can come to the Prince Mansion, the Prince's female identity must not be exposed, if the gentleman is willing to endure a little, he can become a secondary concubine, in fact, never mind being a secondary concubine, what does it matter if I give up the position of the primary concubine?"

The words primary concubine, secondary concubine fell into Min Ning's ears, and her mind went blank.

What does this mean...

In a few years, will he become someone's primary or secondary concubine?

Min Ning's hand couldn't stop trembling.

Suddenly, the whole world seemed to have quieted down in front of her, everywhere was a chaotic mix of colors, a fact seemed to gradually surface, making her feel inexplicably cruel...

She won't... won't be able to marry him?

Min Ning trembled, turned her head sluggishly, staring at the second floor, in an instant, the entire boudoir seemed to shake with it, everything was shaking, nothing was not shaking, suddenly cracking open with large fissures, like an abyss, as if she saw Chen Yi enraptured within it, Qin Qingluo's tall figure instantly swallowed and enveloped him.

"Don't look, no matter how much you look, you can't replace the Prince."

She subconsciously thought it was Zhu E speaking, but the Princess didn't speak, just lay on the table sobbing, Min Ning realized she was hallucinating, but although the voice was a hallucination, the fact was not an illusion.

"Clearly, I knew him first..."

"You haven't gained the advantage even by being close at hand, aren't you a waste?"

The hallucinations appeared again, Min Ning frowned tightly, her cheeks twitching, stayed still for a long time, pondering for a long time, finally gritting her teeth, she dashed out without saying a word.

She didn't want to stay there any longer!

Min Ning's figure abruptly vanished from Miss Donggong's boudoir, she leapt into the woods in an instant, her figure like the wind, in a blink, she was a hundred meters away.

Yet she still didn't stop, her mind blank, as if she didn't know what stopping was, she crazily dashed through the forest, the falling leaves shattered as she touched them, her body twisting, moving extremely fast, but no matter how fast, it was not as fast as Qin Qingluo in her memory.

When Min Ning finally stopped, she turned her head, startled to find that the boudoir had disappeared without a trace, and she was already standing at the highest point of the slope, all around empty, with no trees, lifting her head, there was the majestic dusk sky, as if burning fiercely, a mass of orange-yellow.

The grand celestial curtain pressed low, she panted heavily, suddenly quieted down a bit, and fell backwards to the ground, she stared blankly at the sky, and at a certain moment, she suddenly became serene, inexplicably serene.

How come she had never seen such a vast sky before?

The breeze blew, a leaf inexplicably drifted over, Min Ning instinctively pinched it, stared dazedly at the leaf, and suddenly a voice came by her ear: "You used to be blindfolded by a leaf."

This seemed like an answer.

Min Ning was taken aback, muttering, "Who are you?"

"I am also a leaf."

"A leaf?" Min Ning said in a daze.

"A leaf that blinds the eyes."

After hearing this, Min Ning sometimes looked at the leaf in her hand, and sometimes looked at the dim yellow sky in front of her, she listened to that person's words, not knowing who the person was, just feeling the voice somewhat familiar, but these were not important, what was important were the leaf in front of her eyes, and the sky.

"A leaf covers the eyes, so one cannot see the sky." Min Ning was stunned for quite a while, mumbled to herself, "Is Chen Yi also a leaf?"

That voice seemed to know who Chen Yi was, "Naturally."

Min Ning moved the leaf aside, and once again she could see the vast sky, pressing down close in the dusk, rushing towards her.

In a sudden enlightenment, she felt she had been trapped in a cage before.

Indeed, trapped in a cage, that's why she thought about leaving the Capital City.

The Capital City was a large cage, for over twenty years, she had been trapped inside.

Min Ning suddenly became tranquil, just as her name suggests, she gazed at the sky in a trance.

Long after, she asked, "Leaf, who exactly are you?"

The voice replied, "If you must give me a name, then... 'Zhu Yu'."

"A strange name." Min Ning mumbled, and asked again, "Zhu Yu, why did you appear?"

"To move the leaf in front of your eyes."

"...Chen Yi?"

"That's right."

At the mention of him, Min Ning's brow furrowed again, her heart, which hadn't been calm for long, became restless once more.

"Why must... move him aside?"

"If you don't move him, how can you see the sky?" Zhu Yu chuckled, "Even if you leave the Capital, your heart is still trapped here, what meaning does leaving the Capital have?"

Min Ning suddenly fell silent, she knew in her heart that Zhu Yu was right.

The Capital City was a cage, and for more than twenty years it had kept her captive, she didn't want to stay here any longer, otherwise, she wouldn't have listened to her grandfather's words.

Min Ning moved the leaf aside, she gazed at the sky once more.

In the tranquil sky, there was nothing left in her eyes but the sky, far more noble than herself was Qin Qingluo, and the naturally charming Zhu E, even Chen Yi, all the bothersome trifles suddenly emptied away.

Min Ning watched for a long, long time, at first serene, but after a long time of serenity, she suddenly felt empty, with nothing left in front of her except the sky, even the sky was empty.

"Is there nothing at all?" Zhu Yu asked timely.

"There's nothing left." Min Ning replied blankly.

She suddenly felt this sky peculiarly monotonous, there should always be something.

"Then find that leaf again."

Upon hearing these words, Min Ning was taken aback, she didn't understand why, and suddenly turned her head, calling out a few times in succession, her heart full of confusion, wanting to ask for an explanation, but received no response.

She waited for a long time, but still got no response, then, as instructed by that voice, she lightly picked up the leaf.

This time, the leaf did not obscure the sky.

The leaf seemed to merge with the sky, yet also seemed to be separate from it, Min Ning suddenly comprehended something.

Why was she so persistently preoccupied?

Min Ning suddenly had a different mindset.

"After all, what am I afraid of?" Min Ning asked herself, chuckling lightly, "If Qin Qingluo truly replaces me, then so be it."

In his heart, even if she could be replaced, what did it matter?

As long as he was irreplaceable in her heart, that was enough.

Min Ning lay on the golden grass dyed by the dusk, gently closed her eyes, letting the breeze rush by.

In the distant woods.

Yin Tingxue leaned against a tree, craning her neck forward, curiously watching Min Ning.

She vaguely sensed a subtle change in Min Ning's mindset.

Zhou Yitang, who had been closing her eyes, finally opened her eyes, Yin Tingxue turned her face to look at her, asking softly, "What did you do?"

Zhou Yitang replied without looking sideways, "Have you ever heard the story of the ring old man?"

Yin Tingxue shook her head, it was a story she had never heard before.

"It was him who told it to me," the one-armed woman said casually.

Yin Tingxue wanted to say "Oh," but then she rolled her eyes a little, and softly flattered, "He cares about you the most, he never told me."

The one-armed woman seemed pleased, and said, "To her, I am akin to that."

Yin Tingxue heard something in her words, guessed, "So, you're guiding her, becoming half her teacher?"

Zhou Yitang did not deny it.

The young girl scratched her head, asking softly, "Didn't you say she's your rival in the path? You two are supposed to be rivals on the same path, competing, right?"

Having read the Buddhist Scriptures, and understood about the Taoist things, Yin Tingxue always knew what it meant to be rivals on the path.

Simply put, on a single road, not many can walk, only one or two can walk, reaching the pinnacle.

And the Spring and Autumn Sword Master Min Ning mentioned by the one-armed woman, was her rival on the path in the future.

Zhou Yitang simply said indifferently:

"She won't be able to compete with me."

The young girl heard the weight of this statement, and kept nodding slightly.

She looked at Min Ning, thought of something, and suddenly said:

"You really treat Chen Yizhen well, huh."

The woman, who was habitually contrary to her feelings, rarely did not deny it:

"If you can live for hundreds or thousands of years, living several decades for one person at a time, there is nothing wrong with that."