Was it you that night?
Chapter 243 - 241: Qinghe’s Immortal Fate

Chapter 243: Chapter 241: Qinghe’s Immortal Fate

After the White Deer entered the stone room, it simply laid down and dozed off. Shen Qinghe walked a full circle and then leaned close to the White Deer to ask, "Why have you brought me here? What do you want to do?"

The White Deer opened its beautiful eyes, glanced at her lazily, and continued to snooze.

Shen Qinghe realized she couldn’t count on the White Deer, so she began to wander around the stone room.

After several rounds, she still hadn’t discovered any particular treasures in the room. There were just a lot of stones, and the stones were of different colors.

She stood in the very center of the stone room, staring at the stone wall for a while. She noticed a few black stones that were particularly eye-catching and went forward to gently press on one of them.

As she pressed all the black stones, the stone room suddenly began to spin rapidly.

When the room grew quiet again, the formerly crude stone room had transformed into a chamber made of white jade.

Embedded in the jade wall were two jade boxes, and floating in the air was a line of words, "Choose one of the two, and in it lies your immortal fate."

In other words, if she chose incorrectly, it meant she was not destined for immortality, was that the message?

Shen Qinghe subconsciously looked towards the White Deer lying on the ground, only to see that the creature was still snoozing, which meant she had to make the choice on her own; no one could help her.

Since it was about immortal fate and also an opportunity, there were many cultivators who came to the Black River Secret Realm and could not encounter such a fate. Without the help of the White Deer, she wouldn’t have been able to enter this Jade Chamber.

Shen Qinghe didn’t know how to choose at the moment, so she simply closed her eyes and used her Divine Sense to feel the two jade boxes.

Doing so, she instinctively liked the feeling given off by the jade box on the right side; peaceful and tranquil. That was the one.

With just a gesture, the jade box on the right came into her hands.

She opened the jade box subconsciously, only to find it empty, containing nothing at all.

Just then, Nan Sheng suddenly barged in without warning, trying to snatch the jade box from her hands.

Shen Qinghe had not expected Nan Sheng to appear so abruptly, and she instinctively gripped the jade box in her hand tightly.

"Qinghe, it seems your luck isn’t that great," Nan Sheng said as she stepped forward and snatched the other jade box from the left stone wall, "Two jade boxes, one for you and one for me, isn’t that fair?"

Having said that, she opened the jade box, and as soon as she did, the room was filled with a fragrant aroma.

Shen Qinghe found this fragrance very familiar; when she had seen Dongfang Wuya feed Shen Zhiyao an elixir in the Bixiao Tower, it was this exact lush fragrance.

Could it be that the so-called immortal fate of the Black River Secret Realm was nothing but an Immortal Pill?

At the sight of the elixir, Nan Sheng’s eyes lit up, and she immediately threw the pill into her mouth.

After swallowing the elixir, her Spiritual Power surged, and her Cultivation Base soared.

In an instant, she continued to breakthrough and reached the Completion Stage of the Emergence Stage, only a step away from Divinity Transformation.

Nan Sheng was ecstatically delighted, looking at Shen Qinghe with smugness, "This time, you were the one who chose first, and I picked the leftover box. This outcome simply proves one thing, the real can’t be fake, and the fake can’t be real."

The deeper meaning in her words was nothing more than to suggest that Shen Qinghe, as cannon fodder, should be aware of her status and not delude herself into thinking she could take away the position meant for the true female protagonist.

Shen Qinghe glanced at the empty jade box in her hand, her lips parting indifferently, "Why were you following me?"

Given that the White Deer was so fast, she should have lost Nan Sheng by now. How could Nan Sheng have found her exact location so precisely?

Nan Sheng showed a triumphant expression, "That’s because before the Secret Realm opened, I quietly cast a Shadow Chasing Talisman on you. Therefore, wherever you went, I could trace you."

Shen Qinghe’s lips curved slightly, "So that’s how it was."

As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly drew her sword at Nan Sheng.

Nan Sheng had been on guard against Shen Qinghe from early on, and in the instant Shen Qinghe made her move, she met the attack with her Thousand Shadows Sword.

Having experienced a surge in her cultivation base earlier, she had thought she could suppress Shen Qinghe, but Shen Qinghe’s sword, with the force of a mountain crashing down, broke through her defense and buried her along with her sword into the ground.

Her breathing was erratic, her blood surged, and she quickly couldn’t withstand Shen Qinghe’s onslaught. In a panic, she threw a bunch of talismans at Shen Qinghe, all of which were easily neutralized by her.

In the end, she embarrassingly threw a Teleportation Talisman on herself and thus barely managed to escape from Shen Qinghe’s grasp.

She didn’t get far before she spat out blood and collapsed, unable to rise.

Her eyes were filled with a resentful look.

Her cultivation base was much higher than Shen Qinghe’s; why couldn’t she withstand even a single move under Shen Qinghe’s sword?

Luckily, she had snatched the Immortal Pill from Shen Qinghe, considering it as vengeance for a previous blow.

Meanwhile, Shen Qinghe regretted not having killed Nan Sheng and, looking at the empty jade box in her hand, still couldn’t understand. "Little Deer, do you think I really chose wrong? Why is the jade box I picked empty?"

The White Deer looked at Shen Qinghe with a grievous gaze, feeling that the name Little Deer was too common.

It wasn’t until Shen Qinghe asked White Rope, "Little Rope, what do you think happened?"

The White Deer felt psychologically balanced again upon hearing this.

White Rope, being unassuming, felt a sense of intimacy when Shen Qinghe called it Little Rope, happily dancing around Shen Qinghe.

Little Deer watched this and quietly thought to itself, "Idiot!"

"Shall I call you Little Deer and Little Rope from now on?" Shen Qinghe suddenly discovered the joy in these names and said excitedly.

Little Rope was delighted to finally have a name.

Little Deer, upon hearing this ordinary and commonplace name, silently aimed its deer bottom at Shen Qinghe.

"Little Deer, are you an Immortal Deer? May I ride on your back?" Shen Qinghe suddenly took a great interest in Little Deer.

Little Deer crouched down in front of Shen Qinghe, who curiously sat on it and stroked its pure white and soft fur. "Your fur is really nice."

Little Deer couldn’t be bothered with Shen Qinghe, the bumpkin, and carried her, flying mid-air.

Shen Qinghe felt it was no different from Sword Riding. Sword Riding required the use of Spiritual Energy, but sitting on Little Deer allowed her to be lazy.

She opened the jade box again and found no treasure, but she believed in her instincts and felt that the jade box contained the immortal fate she sought.

Looking down from the sky above the Black River Secret Realm, everything below was pitch black and indiscernible. Little Deer flew slowly, she yawned and decided to embrace Little Deer and take a brief rest with closed eyes.

As soon as she closed her eyes, she felt that serene and tranquil aura and thus entered a White Jade Chamber.

The Chamber had four walls, and each wall was covered in dense script, containing the "Chaos Immortal Scripture," "Shangqing Immortal Scripture," "Heaven and Earth Heart Scripture," and "Ancient Divine Mantra," respectively.

She didn’t know what they were but felt they were incantations for cultivation and began to unwittingly recite the contents of the Divine Arts.

The "Ancient Divine Mantra" intrigued her the most; the name seemed to match the scripture that suited Dongfang Wuya’s status.

Entranced by the content on the walls, she lost track of time, which was quickly slipping by. The Black River Secret Realm was about to close, and all the cultivators participating in the Black River Secret Realm were waiting for her alone.