Was it you that night?
Chapter 228 - 226: Mr. Wuya, Please Give Me a Slap

Chapter 228: Chapter 226: Mr. Wuya, Please Give Me a Slap

Dongfang Wuya felt that Xiao Bai was overthinking. Although he had given Shen Qinghe many gifts, it was only because he found her pleasing to the eye and she was someone his immortal pills had saved. Naturally, his concern for her would be greater than that for others, but he had no intention of taking advantage of Shen Qinghe. After all, she was only in her twenties, whereas he was already of an age counted in ten thousand years; Shen Qinghe and he were not of the same generation.

"Mr. Wuya is asking if you wish to let her leave!" Dongfang Wuya felt the topic had strayed.

"That depends on whether the master is willing to part with Fairy Qinghe or not," Xiao Bai said with a smile.

The more Dongfang Wuya looked at Xiao Bai, the more he found him an eyesore; asking him was equivalent to asking in vain.

Relying on Shen Qinghe was less feasible than trying to break the space himself.

With this thought, he twisted the Golden Cage that held Shen Qinghe and exited Bixiao Tower.

Shen Qinghe couldn’t be bothered to look at Dongfang Wuya, turning her back to him.

Dongfang Wuya frowned but, being magnanimous, chose not to take issue with her actions.

He summoned all his spiritual energy, causing the entire Sky Pole Sect to quake, but the space remained intact without a single crack.

He suspected that within this space, his cultivation base might be suppressed.

Shen Qinghe saw through his intentions and hurriedly cautioned, "Don’t use brute force. I’m afraid if the space shatters, we won’t be able to return, and we’ll be devoured by time and space. It would be better to find the person who set up this Retrospective Space and solve the problem at its root."

Dongfang Wuya glanced at Shen Qinghe, abruptly returned to Bixiao Tower with the cage, and thereafter opened it.

Shen Qinghe let out a sigh of relief and said to Dongfang Wuya, "Mr. Wuya, hit me with your palm. The last two times, I returned when you attacked me. Could you try again?"

But Dongfang Wuya called Xiao Bai over, and Xiao Bai approached with a bitter face, "My master is reluctant to harm Fairy Qinghe, and I, too, cannot bring myself to strike her."

"Who said I cannot bring myself to do it?" Dongfang Wuya looked at Shen Qinghe’s face, feeling it resembled a shelled egg. If he struck too hard and marred her beauty, what then could be done?

Seeing the master and servant dithering, Shen Qinghe simply slapped herself.

She held nothing back, feeling a pain throughout her body, and when she refocused her eyes, discovered she had already left the Retrospective Space.

Not a soul was in Bixiao Tower, and Shen Zhiyao was nowhere to be found.

When she exited Bixiao Tower, she coincidentally ran into Shen Zhiyao returning. The moment she saw her, she rushed forward to embrace and scold her, "You damn girl, where did you run off to? Do you know how worried I was?"

Shen Qinghe took Shen Zhiyao back to Bixiao Tower and told her about her venture into another space.

"That’s preposterous," Shen Zhiyao felt it was inconceivable, surprised that Meng Yun’s guess was correct.

"That’s the truth. If it weren’t for my reminder, Mr. Wuya wouldn’t have noticed he had entered another space. By the way, Dad is also there; we must find out who has trapped them in that space," said Shen Qinghe in all seriousness.

"At first, I suspected Xiao Chen, but Meng Yun’s observations over the past half-month suggest that Big Senior Brother seems normal. I can’t think of anyone other than Big Senior Brother who would want to disrupt your wedding with Mr. Wuya."

Shen Qinghe was astonished, "I’ve been gone for half a month?"

"What else? I was near despair, and when I saw you just now, I thought I had seen a ghost," Shen Zhiyao recalled, still feeling a pang in her heart.

Shen Qinghe suddenly felt it imperative to break this situation soon, fearing that the longer it dragged on, the less stable the space would become. If Dongfang Wuya and Elder Shen were truly devoured by time and space, what then would be the proper course of action?

She listed all the suspicious names, trying to figure out who was behind harming Mr. Wuya.

"During my disappearance, did anyone act out of the ordinary?" Shen Qinghe inquired.

"Not really. When everyone heard you had disappeared, they were all very anxious. The most anxious were Meng Yun and the sect master, and Xiao Chen was also very worried..." Mentioning this, Shen Zhiyao thought carefully and then added, "Actually, Yan Changsheng was also very anxious. Upon learning of your disappearance, he became so upset that he vomited blood and then fainted."

Hearing of Yan Changsheng vomiting blood and fainting, Shen Qinghe’s eyes darkened, "Could it be that Yan Changsheng has gone mad and become obsessed?"

"I suspect that’s the case. Ever since Yan Changsheng fainted, he has been brought back to Shaonian Tower. The sect master was worried and wanted to find a medical cultivator to check his pulse, but he refused. Now that I think about it, I find Yan Changsheng’s behavior quite peculiar. He didn’t show up on the day of your marriage. That’s abnormal, isn’t it?" Shen Zhiyao raised her voice at the last sentence.

Shen Qinghe was stunned.

Yes, why hadn’t she thought of that?

On the day of her marriage to Dongfang Wuya, everyone attended, even Nan Sheng came, yet Yan Changsheng was the only one who did not appear.

In the original work, Yan Changsheng possessed a very secret ability. He had killed many cultivators with higher cultivation bases than his and later became the Demon Chief leading the Demon Realm.

If Yan Changsheng could rewind time and killed cultivators with higher cultivation bases in a space he controlled, wouldn’t that make sense?

"Do you still remember being injured by Nan Sheng’s Thousand Shadows Sword?" Shen Qinghe asked in a hoarse voice.

"How could I forget that? At that time, I thought I was done for, but then I saw..." Shen Zhiyao paused, her eyes wide with disbelief, looking at Shen Qinghe, "Was it Yan Changsheng who saved me at that time?"

"It was him! You said you were almost done for, and Yan Changsheng just happened to appear at that moment. Could it be that he used Time Retrospection to save you, so you had no wound on your body? Does that make sense?" As she spoke, Shen Qinghe flew towards Shaonian Tower on her sword.

Shen Zhiyao followed closely behind, still finding it incredible.

She had heard of talismans capable of time retracement, but that was just hearsay; she had never heard of such a thing being able to save lives.

The two sisters reached Shaonian Tower as fast as they could, and although there was a barrier set up outside the tower, Shen Qinghe had her life-bound magic treasure in hand. With a flick of her sword, the barrier was broken with a loud bang.

Yan Changsheng, who was meditating, let out a small, bitter smile upon hearing the commotion.

She had still come, and so quickly at that.

As Shen Qinghe barged in, Yan Changsheng was standing in front of the window with a pale face, "Qinghe, you’ve come?"

"It was you who saved elder sister back then, right?" Shen Qinghe got straight to the point.

"If I say it wasn’t, would you believe me?" Yan Changsheng held a sliver of hope.

Shen Qinghe decisively shook her head, "Elder sister was saved by you, and Mr. Wuya was also taken by you into the Retrospective Space, wasn’t he? Why would you do this? What has he done to obstruct you, that you treated him this way?"

If it weren’t for the sisters noticing Yan Changsheng’s abnormality, if it weren’t for her accidentally breaking into the space where Dongfang Wuya was, would Dongfang Wuya have been trapped in that space forever?

Yan Changsheng looked intently at Shen Qinghe, "You ask what he has obstructed me with? Qinghe, what do you think?"

As Shen Qinghe met Yan Changsheng’s piercing gaze, all her words choked in her throat, and suddenly an incredible thought flashed through her mind, "You—you couldn’t possibly be..."