Shen Tang, lowering her head, was still in a dazed state, her small mouth half-open. This appearance was a stark contrast to her usual calm gentleness and her overbearing demeanor towards enemies. Seeing this, Lu Xing Zhou’s heart couldn’t help but skip a beat, and he too, for a moment, was dry-mouthed and speechless.

Both could hear the other’s heartbeat, thump, thump, like a symphony.

It wasn’t known how long passed, but Shen Tang was the first to regain her composure. Raising her head, she saw Lu Xing Zhou’s stunned expression and, for some reason, felt a bit like laughing. Her shyness almost completely vanished, and with a flick of her eyes, that hidden charm reappeared: “How long… do you want to hold me?”

Lu Xing Zhou also snapped back to reality. He calmly adjusted Shen Tang’s posture in his arms, letting her lean back against him and sit on his lap.

Only then did he free a hand. One hand encircled her waist, and the other guided the wheelchair towards the room. “I’ll hold you until we get back and you stop,” he said.

Shen Tang, with her back to him, slightly pursed her lips and secretly spat.

Still pretending to be calm? Something hard was pressing against me. Do you dare say it?

With the rolling and bumping of the wheelchair, it was still pushing, pushing.

This awkward posture… how did it become like this?

From the courtyard to the edge of the bed inside the room wasn’t really that far, but this mere distance felt like walking for a year.

Finally, with difficulty, they reached the edge of the bed. Lu Xing Zhou gently lowered Shen Tang back onto the bed and still very calmly said, “I will refine some more medicine to strengthen bones and muscles for you to use. After this, have Qing Li support you for a walk every day. I feel in about ten more days, you will be completely recovered.”

After saying this, without waiting for a reply, he directly turned his head and quickly left, as if nothing had happened.

Shen Tang leaned against the headboard, biting her lower lip tightly, her expression somewhere between crying and laughing, her face as red as rosy clouds.

After an unknown period of daze, as if she had just come back to life, she suddenly shouted out loud: “You dead white hair! Get out here! Is that how you protect me?”

Du Gu Qing Li appeared with a whoosh: “You can’t call me white hair, it’s very rude.”

Shen Tang laughed out of anger: “Can he call you that? No, is that the key issue right now?”

“He’s also rude, but at least he didn’t add the word ‘dead’,” Du Gu Qing Li said. “Going back to the topic, since it’s the two of you, doing something improper together doesn’t seem surprising.”

Shen Tang was almost led astray and forgot why she had called her. After being dazed for a while, she angrily said, “I’m asking if you just watched me fall, is that how you protect people?”

Du Gu Qing Li said, “Let me think. I couldn’t move Hu Zheng Si over, but I could put you on his body.”

Shen Tang: “?”

Du Gu Qing Li tried to translate: “I feel you should prefer being caught by him.”

“Why would I prefer that? Can you not think for me?”

Du Gu Qing Li was more puzzled than her: “You are clearly special to each other. Anyone can see it. I don’t understand why you just won’t admit it.”

Shen Tang was dazed for a good while, then somewhat powerlessly turned over and lay on her pillow, muttering, “What if it were you?”

“I would definitely tell him directly. I don’t know what’s the point of holding back,” Du Gu Qing Li said. “Just like he also told me directly.”

Shen Tang: “???”

Bad, a closed loop?

Du Gu Qing Li said again, “But this assumption is meaningless, because I won’t have this emotion.”

Shen Tang glanced at her: “Wait until you reach a certain point, you’ll always have this day. I’ll wait for the moment you tell him directly, you must notify me to watch from the side.”

Question Sheng Yuan Yao, understand Sheng Yuan Yao, become Sheng Yuan Yao.

“I won’t have that day,” Du Gu Qing Li said as if it were a matter of course. “My cultivation is special, originally my emotions are indifferent. Moreover, Master has been alone her whole life, I will only imitate Master.”

“What if your Master finds a man?”

“That is something that can never happen.”

Shen Tang showed a polite smile: “I hope you can always be so confident.”

Du Gu Qing Li said, “No matter how I am in the future, anyway, I just don’t support you, right? Then I’ll go.”

Just as she was about to turn around, she heard Shen Tang sigh: “Later, don’t be like this… it will make us very awkward.”

Du Gu Qing Li frowned: “Why?”

“I’m not at the time to talk about love, he doesn’t want to either, and…” Shen Tang smiled: “He has someone in his heart.”

Du Gu Li was a bit surprised: “How do you know?”

“Intuition,” Shen Tang said calmly. “Actually, it’s not a rare thing for men in this world to have several women. I’m not a jealous woman either. If the person in his heart is me, and he has a few others to dispel loneliness, I really don’t care that much… But I, Shen Tang, cannot be the one used to dispel loneliness, do you understand?”

Du Gu Qing Li stood there in a daze, feeling a bit complex, wanting to collapse.

Shen Tang glanced at her, finding it a bit funny: “What’s with that expression? Weren’t you just very eloquent?”

Du Gu Qing Li hesitated and said, “Where is there such a complex thing? Since you already think like this, shouldn’t you feel, want to make yourself the person in his heart?”

This time it was Shen Tang who was in a daze. After a long time, she said, “What if I can’t?”

“Then you can’t. What’s the difference from now?”

Shen Tang stared, her mouth agape.

Du Gu Qing Li looked at her sympathetically: “You’ve practiced too much of the Huang Ji Jing Shi Jing, your head is full of messy things. Properly practice some sword instead.”

After finishing, she turned and left. Shen Tang looked at her back and ground her teeth.

You practice the sword, do you understand things very well?

Wait!

A moment later, a rhythmic light knock came from outside the window: “Hall Head.”

Shen Tang took several deep breaths to adjust her emotions, and said faintly: “Enter.”

Someone entered through the window, kneeling on one knee on the ground: “Hall Head asked about the terrain problem. After discussing, we believe it requires linking arrays to solve, but the specific type of array needed still needs discussion. Primarily, we need to know the approximate meaning of this terrain, for example, is it to bury treasure, or is it related to a lost secret realm… or is it itself a man-made mountain and river array? What was the purpose of the array setter? After confirming, we can judge how to solve it.”

“As long as we know, you have a way for any type of array needed?”

“Some might not be possible. At that time, perhaps we can consult the national master?”

“Understood, I will clarify further.”

“Yes.”

“Go notify Uncle Zhong and the others. They should go to Dan Xia Mountain… After this, Dan Xia Mountain will be the new mountain gate of Tian Xing Sword Sect.”

The person who came wanted to speak but stopped.

“What is it? Just say it if you have something to say.”

“When we first heard that the Hall Head was leading remnants to escape and hiding their tracks, we never thought that in such a short time, we could establish a mountain gate of over a thousand people, with adjoining mountains and connecting fields… This Mr. Lu is very capable, you should definitely win him over.”

Shen Tang again looked at the ceiling in a daze, and after a long time, she said in a low voice: “Shen Qi…”

“Ah?”

“All along, it has always been him winning me over… He let me stand up, helped Tian Xing Sword Sect become what it is today, and even he let A Nuo send a batch of low-level classics to enrich the Sword Sect’s hidden scripture pavilion… What did I give him? A stalk of Five Elements Grass? Or that fruit? The fruit wasn’t mine, and I also used it myself.”

Shen Qi: “……”

“He values this terrain secret very much… If it is truly useful to him, I will exhaust all my resources to help him achieve this matter.”

Shen Qi said, “Recently, there have been some undercurrents in Xia State, and even the shadows of other powerful sects from neighboring states and counties… The Hall Head is still not suitable for too much distraction.”

Shen Tang sneered: “Fen Xiang Lou?”

“Fen Xiang Lou is just one of them, there are still others,” Shen Qi said. “Among them, Huo family’s Yang De Chang is linked with quite a few, almost inciting all the sects in Xia State behind the scenes. We temporarily don’t know what they want to do.”

“Nothing more than jointly embarrassing us at the grand ceremony, letting the crowd who have recently received aid from Dan Xia and other observers be disappointed in us, damaging the sect’s reputation, and naturally obstructing our development. Furthermore, whatever we do subsequently, they will all compete and snatch, trapping us in an industry quagmire,” Shen Tang said coldly. “Now they don’t dare to openly deal with me, nothing more than suppressing us from these directions, as long as they prevent us from gaining momentum.”

“Since the Hall Head knows their intentions, do you have a plan? If it’s an open martial arts competition and so on, I’m not too convenient to show up, relying solely on Tian Xing Sword Sect…”

“If I rely on you for everything on the surface, then what is the point of me, Shen Tang, cultivating until now?” Shen Tang said lazily: “Whether others embarrass us, or we suppress Xia State in one move, is at this moment.”

Shen Qi was a little startled. Only then did he remember that his Hall Head was a dignified fourth-grade strong… Previously, she appeared broken and weak, nothing more than having a broken leg and also deliberately hiding her cultivation.

But she was now almost recovered.

A complete Shen Tang, she herself was a flag, enough to make the imperial family’s struggle for the heir fear, let alone just a mere Xia State?

The new version of the list of heroes had not yet been issued, but each state had already reported to the main department for printing. Among them, Du Gu Qing Li and A Nuo had deliberately hidden themselves and were not on the list, while Shen Tang, as the signboard of the Sword Sect, naturally no longer hid.

The new sect master of Tian Xing Sword Sect, Shen Tang, twenty-two years old, fourth-grade sword cultivator, ranked thirtieth on the Da Qian New Show List.

The top thirty on the New Show List was already very impressive in people’s eyes, and it would surely shock Xia State when it was issued. But that was still because Sheng Yuan Yao reported her rank based on her broken leg at the time of reporting, and her combat power estimate was only based on past performance and the flying sword performance in the recent demon and monster war. The Huang Ji Jing Shi Jing was not included, and the Zhen Mo Si’s combat power assessment was partially low.

No one knew what her actual rank should be.