"Could it be that he wanted to learn it himself before saving Madam Hu?" This thought suddenly surfaced in Ding Dian's mind, and he could not help advising, "Young Hero Song, your comprehension is greater than anything I have ever seen, but the Divine Light Scripture is vast and profound. It is absolutely impossible to master it in such a short time."
"Just recite it when I tell you to. Why so much nonsense? Speak faster!" Song Qingshu snapped coldly.
Seeing the crazed look on his face, Ding Dian knew that he had fallen into a mental obsession. Still, having wounded someone first, he felt guilty and recited the latter half of the Divine Light Scripture: "Heaven covers, earth bears, and all things are born. That which has not emerged from the earth is called yin within yin; that which emerges from the earth is called yang within yin..."
Ding Dian recited faster and faster, while Song Qingshu's eyes grew brighter and brighter. When Ding Dian finished the final line, Song Qingshu swept out a hand. "You two, get out!"
"How is this possible?" Ding Dian could not help looking back repeatedly as he left. Song Qingshu's meridians had clearly been completely severed before, yet after hearing him recite the Divine Light Scripture, the divine light in his eyes had turned inward, and the aura around him clearly felt like the Divine Illumination Skill had just taken form.
"I must be mad!" Ding Dian pinched his thigh hard. The pain told him that he was not dreaming. Yet he had always been quite proud of his talent for martial arts. Without a master's guidance, he had spent five years studying the Divine Light Scripture on his own before mastering it. He had never expected to encounter someone even more monstrous—someone who had mastered the Divine Light Scripture after hearing it recited only once, even though he had been a cripple with severed meridians just moments ago!
"So this really is just a game..." Song Qingshu gave a bitter smile inside the room as he felt all his meridians fully healed and true qi surging through his body. The idea of learning a martial art simply by hearing a secret manual once was something Song Qingshu could only recall seeing in games in his previous life. Once players obtained a manual, as long as they met the cultivation requirements, they could right-click it and instantly max out the skill.
After waiting for a while without hearing the cold, mechanical voice of a system NPC, Song Qingshu looked at the beauty in his arms and smiled openly. "Game or not, I am real. Sister-in-law is real too. That is enough."
As a well-informed man from Earth, Song Qingshu had always viewed everything with suspicion ever since crossing over and witnessing this chaotic world. He had secretly considered several theories. The one he found most plausible was that, after his car accident, scientists had taken him away for some secret experiment, extracted his consciousness through some virtual-reality technology, and placed it into this carefully designed game world...
In truth, Song Qingshu was simply overthinking it. The universe was vast, and Earth's scientific system was but a drop in the ocean, utterly incapable of explaining many wondrous phenomena. Unfortunately—or perhaps fortunately—crossing over was one such phenomenon, as was the formation of this familiar yet chaotic world.
Because Song Qingshu had crossed over as a soul, his soul power was several times greater than that of this world's native inhabitants. Do not underestimate that difference of several times; it brought a qualitative transformation. Things that others needed years to learn, he could master after hearing them once. That was the reason.
"Sister-in-law, forgive me." He had previously promised not to let any other man touch her body, but he was not another man. When he had set her bones earlier, he had already touched what he should and should not have touched. Song Qingshu murmured to himself and gently untied her garments.
Madam Hu had originally felt colder and colder, her body seeming to grow lighter as she slowly drifted through endless darkness... Then, suddenly, a ray of light appeared in the sky, and the sun slowly rose.
As sunlight shone upon her, Madam Hu felt warmer and warmer, while her body became heavier and heavier... Where am I?
Madam Hu slowly opened her eyes, her awareness gradually returning. Then her face drained of color as she discovered that she was completely naked. At that moment, Song Qingshu's voice came from behind her. "Sister-in-law, do not get agitated. I have mastered the Divine Light Scripture and am treating your injuries. Your wounds are too severe; do not let all our efforts go to waste."
Madam Hu sighed inwardly. What an enemy. It was not enough that he touched me last time—now he has seen everything...
Feeling threads of warmth flowing from the palm pressed against her back, Madam Hu's heart trembled. She gritted her teeth and simply closed her eyes, leaving it to fate.
After a night of treatment, Song Qingshu finally pulled Madam Hu back from the Gate of Hell. When the two opened the doors of the ruined temple, they were greeted by Ling Shuanghua's kind smile and Ding Dian's dumbfounded expression.
Ding Dian had no time to care about Madam Hu's flushed face. Instead, he pulled Song Qingshu aside and questioned him at length. Once he learned that Song Qingshu had truly mastered the Divine Light Scripture, he looked at him with a complicated expression. "I am actually wondering whether I should get rid of you while you are still growing..."
Song Qingshu's heart skipped a beat. After treating her all night, his true qi was now completely exhausted, and he had no strength to resist at all.
Ling Shuanghua smiled and scolded, "Brother Ding, stop frightening Young Master Song. If you had not acted so rashly last night, none of this trouble would have happened."
Ding Dian smiled awkwardly, clasped his fists, and dropped to his knees. "Brother Song, last night I judged a gentleman's heart with a petty man's mind. I repaid kindness with enmity and nearly caused this... Miss Hu's death. I offer you both my apology." He did not know Madam Hu's full name, only that they addressed one another as sister-in-law and brother-in-law. But seeing how intimate they were, and considering that treatment would surely require her to be completely undressed, Ding Dian's expression turned strange. In his haste, he could only call her Miss Hu.
Song Qingshu had wanted to cut him into a thousand pieces yesterday, but fortunately Madam Hu was safe in the end, and he had mastered the Divine Illumination Skill and restored his meridians. With everyone happy, Ding Dian no longer seemed so disagreeable to him, and Song Qingshu quickly helped him up.
One night had passed as though a lifetime. The four of them sighed with emotion. After exchanging pleasantries for a while, Ding Dian and Ling Shuanghua saw that Madam Hu was unharmed and bade the two farewell.
During that time, Song Qingshu hesitated over whether to remind them again not to return to Jingzhou. But when he inadvertently saw Madam Hu's weakened expression, his heart hardened. Leave it to fate. If you run back to Jingzhou and let Ling Tuis kill you again, you will have deserved it. Who told you to hurt Sister-in-law?
Now that the two of them were alone, Madam Hu felt rather uncomfortable. Neither knew how to break the silence.
As a modern man, Song Qingshu did not particularly care about what had happened the previous night. However, he feared that Madam Hu might be too thin-skinned. If he accidentally provoked her into angry embarrassment, that would be disastrous.
In the end, Madam Hu could no longer bear the ambiguous silence and asked, "How did you make Ling Tuis agree to their marriage that day?"
Song Qingshu nearly laughed when he heard that. He had not expected that after holding it in for so long, she would come up with such an irrelevant question. Suppressing his amusement, he explained, "When I was alone with Ling Tuis once, I used the Soul Transfer from the 'Nine Yin Manual' to hypnotize him. When he heard the specific cue I gave him, he repeated every word exactly as I had taught him."
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