Wen Xuan walked nonstop back to the previous room. When he saw Murong Feng still sitting in that chair, the anger in his heart finally lessened slightly.
“Cultivator Wen.” Murong Feng asked him: “Did you finish considering?”
“Yes. I’ve decided.” Wen Xuan nodded his head: “Murong-xianzi, very sorry, but I can’t accept your terms.”
Murong Feng felt a bit surprised. As a golden core cultivator, everything that occurred in this building was under her control. She heard very clearly the conversation that Wen Xuan and Jian Yi had. In that conversation, Wen Xuan seemed like he was going to agree. Yet in the end, he declined.
“Why?” Murong Feng asked him.
“If it was only based on pros and cons, then I really don’t have any reason to decline. If you had requested something else, I probably would have agreed a long time ago.” Wen Xuan answered: “But marriage shouldn’t depend on benefits.”
Murong Feng’s eyes raised as she looked at Wen Xuan: “Then what should it be based on?”
Wen Xuan was momentarily at a loss for words, as if he never expected her to ask this so bluntly. It took Wen Xuan a while to answer: “Of course, it’s about feelings.”
“……you rejected me because of feelings?” Murong Feng said with a smile that’s not quite a smile.
“I have no desire to marry you.” Wen Xuan furrowed his brows: “And you have no desire to be married to me as well.”
Murong Feng declined to comment. She only thought it was funny. She called Wen Xuan an old fashioned person just now. That really hit the mark.
“Could it be that you have someone you like?” Murong Feng asked him.
Wen Xuan was briefly stunned, not knowing how to answer.
Good thing Murong Fen didn’t wait for his answer either. She only continued to say: “In many instances, marriage is only a collaboration of interests.”
Wen Xuan furrowed his brows, clearly not in agreement.
He asked: “Since it’s a collaboration of interests……for xianzi to suggest such favorable conditions for me, I presume I also bring extreme benefits for you as well. But no matter how much I ponder, I can’t understand, just what exactly can I give you?”
“A very important thing.” Murong Feng said.
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“Looks like I guessed right.” Murong Feng calmly looked at him: “You really do have a top quality water root.”
Guessed? Wen Xuan swallowed a mouthful of air into his stomach, almost choking in shock. After a while, he finally returned from his thoughts, extremely gloomy– Back then when he first met Jian Yi who exposed his top quality water root, the other also said he guessed it.
Yet Murong Feng’s ‘guess’ was more of a hypothesis.
Very quickly, Murong Feng explained her thought process.
First of all, Murong Feng had an unusual body constitution. If any extremely pure water type object approached her, she could feel it. Back then when Wen Xuan was outside of the building, she perceived Wen Xuan because of this. But at that time, there were plenty of people outside. Later, Murong Feng felt this extremely pure water type object moving away. When she lifted the window curtain, she saw only Wen Xuan and Jian Yi were leaving the scene. That’s how she was able to discern that this object was on these two people.
Then through holding the two people’s hands separately, she determined it was Wen Xuan.
“Originally I thought you were carrying some extremely pure water type spiritual weapon on you.” Murong Feng said: “At first I planned to ask you to trade that item to me, however, I very quickly recognized you. Although this is our first meeting, I’ve investigated the Water Cloud Sect’s Wen Xuan before.”
Wen Xuan was surprised.
“One reason was because your reputation amongst your peers at that time was quite impressive.” Murong Feng explained in great detail: “The second reason was because you seemed to be the first one to discover that ancient mausoleum in the mountains outside of Sanyuan Town.”
Sanyuan Town? Wen Xuan blanked briefly and then realized that she was talking about that ancient mausoleum that Jian Yi brought him to. All of the sudden, he recalled many not so pleasant memories.
“How is that mausoleum currently?” He asked.
“Nothing really.” Murong Feng said: “Still at a deadlock. A deadlock between the Four Inner Clans and Three Outer Clans. These seven clans are all fighting over the objects in that cave. Who knows when they’ll be able to open the last barrier.”
It’s already been this long, yet they were still in a deadlock? Wen Xuan felt a bit surprised.
“No one wants to be the person who opens that barrier.” Murong Feng explained: “After all, no one knows, once the door opens, what if they let out the thing inside, what kind of consequences would result.”
The thing inside? There was really something inside it? So it really wasn’t purely an ancient mausoleum? Wen Xuan felt ripples rise continuously in his heart. That was the place he found following Jian Yi’s lead after all. Later, he informed the sect. Logically, it no longer had anything to do with him, but he couldn’t help but follow its development with interest.
But this was rather off topic. Murong Feng didn’t continue to talk about it. Very quickly, she moved the conversation back to Wen Xuan: “That place can only be found by people with outstanding water roots. I investigated all of the people who discovered that place. Originally I had planned to examine everyone individually, but I never found the time. It was from that investigation that I discovered, Cultivator Wen, you……shouldn’t have such an outstanding magic tool on you.”
This was really a very sad conclusion. Wen Xuan had no words. Spiritual items that had extremely pure attributes were the best of the best. No matter if it’s extremely pure water type or extremely pure fire type or any others, the rarity of these items was no less than a top quality water root. With Wen Xuan’s assets, he really couldn’t afford any of that.
“And plus, I can feel you have a divine sword on you.” Murong Feng continued to say: “Despite being injured, this sword’s essence is that of a water type divine weapon. It’s a little lower quality than the extremely pure water type object I require. These types of flying swords are all naturally arrogant and hard to tame. They very rarely listened to the instruction of low level cultivators, unless you had an extremely outstanding spiritual root which was compatible with it.”
With these clues, she was pretty certain that the extremely pure water object that she felt on Wen Xuan wasn’t anything that can be traded, but rather, it was Wen Xuan’s top quality water root.
“Untradeable. Without the top quality water root, you’d die.” Murong Feng summarized. “But as long as we become husband and wife, and stay together for the rest of our lives, we’ll have the best of both worlds.”
So this was her train of thought. Wen Xuan really didn’t know what to say.
Alright. Adding this woman, the number of people who knew Wen Xuan was a top quality water root was now up to five.
At the moment, Murong Feng was looking very hopeful at him, as if still expecting he would change his mind: “I answered so much because I wanted to express my sincerity. Please believe me. This collaboration will only bring you benefits. I wouldn’t screw you over.”
Wen Xuan said firmly: “Apologies, Murong-xianzi, but I still can’t agree.”
“Why?” Murong said: “Feelings are basically illusory and abstract. Yet you want to give up this enormous benefit placed before you over something like that? If you had someone you liked, fine. But if you don’t, I really can’t understand the reason for your decision.”
“Although illusory and abstract, feelings are not something to play around with.” Wen Xuan said resolutely and without hesitation: “There’s no one. It’s my individual decision, not because of anyone else.”
Really such a wooden mentality, so serious it was ridiculous. Murong Feng shook her head.
She looked at Wen Xuan again, the expression on her face changed. There was less of a high and mighty, well planned look, and much more bitterness and agony.
She stood up, walked forward two steps and then kneeled down in front of Wen Xuan.
Wen Xuan abruptly took a huge step back, extremely flabbergasted.
“Cultivator Wen,” Murong Feng knelt steadily, lowering her head to look at Wen Xuan’s feet: “If this wasn’t just for the sake of collaborative benefits, but rather, this is the biggest plea that a woman like me has ever made in my entire life, would you be willing to consider it?”
“Murong-xianzi, why do you have to be this way!” Wen Xuan felt somewhat panicked. He wanted to help her up, but didn’t know where to put his hands.
“Do you want to know the reason?” Murong Feng raised her head, giving a bitter smile.
Not waiting for Wen Xuan to answer, she abruptly lifted her clothes, grabbed one of Wen Xuan’s hands and pressed it on her lower abdomen.
It’s inappropriate for men and women to touch! Wen Xuan practically died of shock.
But the next second, Wen Xuan felt something was not right.
Under his palm wasn’t the feeling of smooth unblemished skin that should belong to this beautiful looking woman, but rather…… a bumpy surface covered by layers and layers of scarring, like the texture of skin that was burned terribly.
Wen Xuan looked at Murong Feng’s face in shock.
Murong Feng maintained her bitter smile.
Gradually, Wen Xuan’s hand started to tremble. He really never imagined, under those magnificent robes, this woman would be like this.
“It’s already much better.” Murong Feng said: “Before you came near this building, the flames had been burning inside me, burning very fiercely. My cultivation is unable to control this kind of fire so it can only do its best to mend my body. As it burns, I’m mend. The result isn’t very pretty so now it’s like this. Good thing with you by my side, the fire quenched somewhat.”
“You……” Wen Xuan’s voice started to tremble as well: “have always……”
“15 years.” Murong Feng said: “Since I was ambushed by enemies 15 years ago and was infected with an extremely pure fire type poison, I’ve been like this. Only an extremely pure water type object can save me.”
She let go of Wen Xuan’s hand, but Wen Xuan still remained where he stood, not knowing what he should do in response.
“Cultivator Wen,” Murong Feng bent down and kowtowed on the floor: “Please save me.”
Wen Xuan was at a loss, not knowing what to do.
He was unwilling to casually enter a marriage that didn’t have any feelings involved. That’s why even in front of such enormous enticements, he still wanted to decline. But facing this kind of circumstance, to ask him to do nothing as a woman continued to be tormented by this kind of nightmare, was also something he couldn’t tolerate.
Thank You for the chapter (｡･ω･｡)ﾉ♡
Meu coração dói pela mulher mas tbm pelo Jian…
I still kinda hopes he agrees….