Chapter 95: Learning Reward
Swapping fates?
Sang Jing looked at the map, then at the formation in the room, and then at the head of the Sang family as if she were a fool.
If it were so easy to swap, then the world would be full of old antiques. Would it be your turn to pick a good prospect?
Taking the formation map and walking over, Sang Jing smelled a fragrance. She raised her hand to her nose and realized why the two people in the room had no reaction to such a big commotion. It was a hypnotic incense.
Circling the formation twice, Sang Jing broke the main formation eye. The formation instantly dimmed, and the intertwined auras on the head of the Sang family and Sang Lingxi also slowly separated.
“Xiao Jiu?” Sang Jing squatted in front of Sang Lingxi and raised her hand to pinch the back of her neck and her temples.
After kneading for a while, Sang Lingxi finally opened her eyes. The moment she saw Sang Jing, tears streamed down her face uncontrollably. She didn’t dare to cry out loud but hugged Sang Jing with a wronged expression and sobbed. “Sister Sang Jing…”
Sang Jing hugged her and patted her on the back, saying in a low voice, “It’s alright.”
“Sang Jing,” Xie Yu called her. “Someone’s here.”
Sang Jing hummed in a low voice. Feeling Sang Lingxi trembling in her arms, she picked her up, turned, and walked out the door, seeing the hurried Sang Wanning and Sang Lingfei, with Shen Lan behind them.
Seeing the person Sang Jing was holding, Sang Wanning pursed her lips and frowned. Sang Lingfei’s eyes widened. “She, wasn’t she already sent back?”
Sang Wanning turned her head and glanced at her, her eyes extremely sharp.
Sang Lingfei immediately didn’t dare to speak.
Sang Jing looked at Shen Lan. Shen Lan understood, took two steps to her side, and saw the formation in the room, as well as the fate-swapping formation map that Sang Jing had handed over.
“Sang Wanning!” Shen Lan was furious. She held the map in her hand and pointed at the formation in the room, questioning, “Is this what your Sang family does!?”
It was a great taboo for a Xuan Master to use metaphysical arts to harm people. Whether it involved luck or lifespan, as long as this thought was discovered, the Xuanmen would not let it go, and the Special Investigation Team would not let it go lightly.
In the reception hall of the Sang family, Shen Lan sat in the main seat, and Sang Jing sat beside her, looking at the formation map. Below stood the two heads of the Sang family and some direct relatives, a total of more than twenty people.
“Swapping fates?” Shen Lan sneered, looking at the head of the Sang family, who had been woken up by a basin of water. “How ridiculous. The Sang family is a Metaphysics family with a history of nearly a hundred years. You, a head of the family, want to swap fates with just a formation map? And you want to swap the fate of a child. Are you even human?”
Sang Jing had no mind to watch the Sang family members in a state of panic. Her gaze was fixed on the formation map, and there were still doubts in her heart.
Swapping fates…
When she had seen the formation map and the two formations, the first thing she had thought of was Xie Yu and Xie Yu.
The two were similar yet different. The fate-swapping on this formation map involved a Ghost Master and raising a ghost, and the relationship between the Ghost Master and the ghost. But Xie Yu and Xie Yu’s fates were swapped, which was even more vicious and cruel.
This map was drawn by her mother. Did she study this… because of Sister Sui?
Could it be that she had been expelled from the Xuanmen back then also because of this formation?
With the matter exposed, the head of the Sang family did not hide anything anymore. For all these years, she had been struggling to advance to eight-coin and was unable to lead the Sang family back to its original position.
A while ago, she had been implicated by the Donglai branch, and it was even more difficult for the Sang family to rise. She was unwilling and did not want to see the Sang family decline in her hands. So she had thought of Sang Cixin. She had opened that sealed room and had accidentally seen the fate-swapping formation map.
For a Xuan Master, talent was more important than hard work. The head of the Sang family knew that with her talent, seven-coin was already her limit. To go any further…
So she had set her sights on that fate-swapping formation map.
“Chairman of Tianxuan, this is my fault alone and has nothing to do with the other members of the Sang family. I hope the chairman of Tianxuan will not implicate the innocent,” the head of the Sang family said, taking all the blame.
Sang Jing raised her eyes and glanced at Sang Wanning beside her.
Sang Wanning must have been involved in this matter. But they might have discussed the consequences of being discovered before they had acted. The head of the family had taken the risk. If it failed, she would bear all the consequences, letting the second master of the family go, so that the Sang family would not be without a leader.
“Don’t you think it’s ridiculous to talk about implicating the innocent now?” Shen Lan slapped the table and said sharply, “Isn’t that child innocent? Isn’t she also a member of your Sang family?”
“You don’t have to worry about the Sang family’s punishment. The Special Investigation Team and the Xuanmen will have a decision after discussion,” Shen Lan’s gaze shifted to Sang Wanning, who had not reacted from beginning to end, and the corners of her lips turned up. “But since it involves swapping fates, it will be difficult for the Sang family to be preserved.”
The head of the Sang family looked up at Shen Lan abruptly. Sang Wanning was the same, and there was finally an emotion in her eyes that could not be suppressed.
The head of the Sang family was furious and pointed at Sang Jing. “What about her!? If we’re going to be implicated, this formation map is from her mother. Shouldn’t she also be punished!”
Shen Lan just wanted to laugh. “You need to swap fates. Does she?”
Everyone present might have had thoughts if they had that map, except for Sang Jing. She didn’t need it and disdained to use such a method.
Soon, people from the Liangshui Special Investigation Team came, and everyone in the Sang family was taken away for questioning. Shen Lan was negotiating with them.
Sang Jing took this opportunity to go back to that room.
The furniture in the room was very old, and many of them were covered with a thick layer of dust. No clothes were left, only a few books and a few practice talismans on the table.
She could no longer remember her mother’s appearance, but here, it was as if she could see a young and lively girl sitting at this table, facing the sunlight from the window
. Every strand of her hair seemed to be translucent. She was seriously drawing talismans and incantations, and when she was resting, she would talk and laugh with her Sister Sui.
After wiping the table and chairs, Sang Jing sat down and looked at the talismans one by one.
Xie Yu bent down from behind and hugged her, rubbing her face against hers. “Your mother’s handwriting is so beautiful.”
Sang Jing’s movements paused, then she let out a laugh. “Is she your mother for you to call her that?”
Xie Yu buried her face in Sang Jing’s neck and took a deep breath. “Why not?”
Her phone rang. Sang Jing took it and saw that it was a message from Shen Lan.
The punishment of the Special Investigation Team and the Xuanmen on the Sang family—
The direct lineage would all have their Celestial Master coins confiscated, their qi drawn out, and their meridians sealed, turning them from Celestial Masters to ordinary people. And for thirty years, if anyone in the Sang family used metaphysical arts to do evil again, the Sang family would be completely abolished, and their descendants would not be allowed to cultivate metaphysical arts.
This had completely sunk the Sang family, unless the Sang family could produce another Sang Cixin or Sang Jing.
But this was almost a fool’s dream.
Xie Yu saw the content of the message. “Are you a little happier?”
“It’s alright,” Sang Jing said, tapping the screen and replying to Shen Lan.
Shen Lan had seen Sang Lingxi and felt that her talent was not bad. She wanted to take her back to Tianxuan to cultivate and asked for Sang Jing’s opinion.
Sang Jing didn’t say anything. Saving Sang Lingxi this time was considered to have repaid the old lady’s merit and karma. She was also clear with the Sang family.
“Then… can I have a kiss?” Xie Yu asked in a low voice.
Before Sang Jing could agree, she had already leaned over.
A second before she was about to kiss, a finger was on her.
Xie Yu pulled back a little to look at her, not very happy. “What’s wrong? No kiss?”
Sang Jing took out a book from somewhere and handed it to her. “Learn first. When you’ve learned well, you can have a kiss.”
Xie Yu took it and flipped through two pages. She found that it was a book that taught ghosts how to cultivate. It was very detailed and comprehensive, almost like a complete textbook.
“…”
Why do you have to learn first to be in a relationship?
“Alright.”
Xie Yu flipped through the table of contents and began to bargain. “Then can we have a kiss as a reward for each small section? And then for a large section, hmm… okay?”
Sang Jing: “…”
Is this a horny ghost?
She looked down at the table of contents and pointed with her hand. “Learn up to here.”
Xie Yu glanced at it. The place Sang Jing was pointing to was almost in the latter half of the entire book.
Something about restoring a human body and the five senses.
“No…”
“Hmm?”
“Alright then.”
Xie Yu began to push her luck again. “Then can I wear that outfit from the morning?”
Sang Jing laughed out of anger. She really was a horny ghost.
“You can, as long as you study seriously.”
“Then it’s not too much to give me a little something to look forward to, right?” Xie Yu said, taking advantage of Sang Jing’s inattention and leaning over to give her a kiss.
“Mwah~”
There was nothing useful in the room, only that half of the formation map.
When they returned to the main gate of the Sang family, Shen Lan was still there.
Sang Jing was a little surprised. “You didn’t leave?”
“Ah, I was just about to go to the Special Investigation Team,” Shen Lan said, seeing the map in her hand. “If you want to know more about your mother, I can help you check on the Xuanmen’s side.”
Sang Jing nodded. “Then thank you very much.”
Shen Lan crossed her arms and smiled at her. “I’m helping you so much. When you want to join the Xuanmen, you have to consider my side first.”
An all-around talent was needed everywhere. She had to coax her and worship her.
“Alright,” Sang Jing was also willing to owe this favor.
After sending Shen Lan off, Sang Jing and Xie Yu took the Ghost Gate through the Yin Road to Shahe.
Her mother’s diary had also mentioned Shahe. Sang Jing began to feel a little nervous. She had a feeling that this place, Shahe, would not be as smooth as before.
Hua Changge and Wei Qingyun had also just arrived not half a day ago. They had eaten and booked a room, then had split up to go to the marked points on the map for a field investigation.
When Sang Jing arrived, they hadn’t come back yet. Wenren Jin came to pick her up and take her to an apartment villa.
Wenren Jin had a house in the urban area of Shahe, which she usually didn’t live in. This time, it came in handy.
As expected, she had taken care of everything from food and clothing to housing and transportation.
“It’s good to be rich,” Xie Yu sighed as she entered the door.
It was magnificent and dazzling.
Sang Jing glanced at her.
Xie Yu coughed and said to her in a low voice, “Of course, you’re the best.”
“There are empty rooms on the second and third floors. You can see which one you like. What do you want to eat at night? I’ll have the aunt prepare it in advance,” Wenren Jin said, completely at ease in her own home.
“Hot pot, a little spicy.”
“Alright.”
Sang Jing finally chose a room on the top floor of the third floor, with a not-so-small balcony, which was beautifully decorated with flowers and plants, very pleasing to the eye. It was very suitable for a few people to sit together and have afternoon tea and chat.
The others hadn’t come back yet.
Sang Jing started her second livestream of the day on her phone.
Almost no one was discussing the content of the White Whale Live gala today. The internet was flooded with posts analyzing the exchange between Xie Yu and Sang Jing.
Now that one of the main parties had come forward to livestream, whether it was Encounter’s fans, the netizens who had been watching Sang Jing’s livestream, or those who were just watching the show, they all flooded in.
Sang Jing was sitting on the balcony, her back to the night sky.
The moon and stars were bright tonight, particularly beautiful.
She didn’t speak or look at what the bullet comments were saying, but opened a video.
A while ago, it was rumored that Encounter was going to start working again and had taken on the voice acting for a popular TV series. The role was a powerful and ambitious princess. A trial recording was released today, with only one line.
“This throne should have been mine.”
Actually, Encounter had voiced a similar role before, a high-ranking and powerful person above all others. Her performance had been outstanding, and the character’s charm had been fully displayed. Even passersby would praise her after hearing it.
But now, this princess’s line was weak and even had a sinister tone. Those who didn’t know would have thought it was some unfavored prince who wanted to seize power. It didn’t have the slightest bit of a legitimate princess’s presence.
Many people were shocked when they knew that this was Encounter’s voice acting.
【Did they just change the person? What kind of voice acting is this?】