Destiny is ashes

Chapter 30 Bai Qinghan

An Jing had known Bai Qinghan for a long time.

The reason is quite interesting: like many other children, Bai Qinghan has never been to school. She is illiterate, so it is difficult for her to learn martial arts, and she cannot read the Emperor's Heaven Sutra.

An Jing was very worried about this and even used his private time to tutor these illiterate children so that they could learn writing and martial arts as quickly as possible.

Bai Qinghan is the one who learns the fastest among them. He is often praised individually by An Jing and praised as a learning example.

At that time, he and Bai Qinghan had an impression of each other, but they had hardly talked about it. Even when An Jing praised the other party, Bai Qinghan just nodded gently a few times, appearing very shy.

As for our formal acquaintance, it originated from a sparring session.

As the eldest senior brother, An Jing would occasionally act as an assistant to the instructor, helping those who were not very good at battle drills or martial arts to practice and teach them the movements and force-generating postures.

Especially nowadays, sparring is getting closer to "real sword training", which requires really knocking down the opponent, instead of just stopping at the point as in the past, and requires more careful supervision and guidance.

Bai Qinghan is one of them, but she is a little more special.

It’s not that she doesn’t know how to use her strength and martial arts, but because her martial arts skills are too good, she always hurts people, and even almost kills people.

Some martial arts cannot be used during sparring.

Eye poking, elbowing, glancing blows, heel stomping, blows to the temple, blows to the heart... these techniques can easily cause injury or even death once they are used.

But Bai Qinghan couldn't stop himself and used these techniques subconsciously.

On the surface, she was just a rather weak girl with a beautiful appearance and usually silent, just like an ordinary shy and introverted girl - she couldn't even read at first, and had a natural and pure beauty.

But this is just an illusion, a disguise.

Her dark eyes, which were usually dull, would burst into amazing brilliance during rehearsal.

At that time, Bai Qinghan was more like some kind of vicious beast than a human being, such as a hungry winter wolf or a hunting cheetah.

When that ferocious and ferocious aura was revealed, even the young boys and girls who had experienced disasters were unable to react and all retreated subconsciously - and this retreat gave Bai Qinghan an instinctive hint, causing her to rush forward with even greater momentum.

Although in the end, Bai Qinghan realized that he was not in his hometown where bandits were rampant, but in the relatively safe Xuanming Manor. He held back in time and did not injure his companions too seriously.

But obviously, after a few times, no one dared to practice with her anymore.

At this point, An Jing can only follow his instructor's instructions and fight this smart and dangerous guy.

Then, An Jing knocked her down with three punches, curing her excessive instinct to hurt.

Bai Qinghan's situation is very simple: she has lived in a precarious environment since she was a child. Once she comes into conflict with others, it will be a fight of life and death. As a young girl, if she is not ruthless when she strikes, how can she survive in the vast wilderness?

And her parents...may also have some problems, which makes her feel insecure all the time.

In short, this extreme insecurity caused her to suffer from serious mental illness. Once the situation came to the point where she needed to fight, she would definitely kill.

The fact that she was able to stop showed that Qinghan was trying very hard to restrain himself, but a few months was not enough to change a habit of many years.

But for An Jing, none of this is a problem.

It is actually easier to deal with enemies who do not know specific martial arts and only rely on instinct to kill.

Because this means that they can only attack the vital points.

Facing Bai Qinghan's eye attack, An Jing, who was well prepared, raised his left hand to block it, and punched her wide-open throat with his right hand, making it difficult for her to breathe.

When Bai Qinghan retreated, he used the force to kick An Jing in the chest, but An Jing dodged it by leaning sideways and punched her right leg, forcing her to roll over to release the force. When Bai Qinghan stood up again and prepared to attack An Jing again, An Jing had already stepped forward and punched her in the jaw, knocking her out completely.

After waking up, Bai Qinghan was stunned for a while.

When An Jing was wondering if he had hit her stupidly, she suddenly stood up, apologized and thanked An Jing.

"I'm sorry...thank you, big brother."

Bai Qinghan's voice was completely different from her actions. It was soft and sticky, like some kind of sweet-filled white flour dessert: "I seem to have woken up from a dream..."

"Yeah." An Jing didn't know what to say. Was it a good thing that he knocked her down?

"I'm going to apologize to the other people I hurt."

Bai Qinghan didn't care about An Jing's reaction. She lowered her head, looked at the ground, and said softly: "I have always told myself that I am safe. There is no need to be so scared... Even in the Demon Cult's manor, they will not kill people at will..."

"and many more?"

An Jing noticed the key words, he interrupted in astonishment, lowered his voice and said: "Demon Cult?"

——You actually know about the Demon Cult? !

"Yes." Bai Qinghan looked at An Jing with a strange but clear gaze, and the depths of his dark eyes flickered with faint blue fluorescence: "Big Brother, don't you also know this?"

"In order to live a little longer, we all sold our lives to the Demon Cult, didn't we?"

In the following time, An Jing often communicated with Bai Qinghan.

Different from her soft and cute appearance, Bai Qinghan is a girl with unusual views on various things. She knew from the beginning that she was bought by the Demon Cult, and did not think there was anything wrong with it.

Bai Qinghan's hometown once encountered a demonic disaster. Ten years ago, a real dragon from the vast sea mist suddenly migrated away from his hometown. Many demons and monsters that were originally suppressed by it fled and wreaked havoc around the vast sea, causing countless deaths and injuries.

She was born in such a turbulent time, and had to follow her parents to snatch food from the mouths of others, wild beasts and evil spirits since she was young.

She had never learned to hold back. Once she started fighting, she had to kill people. If she didn't, she would be the one to die.

Bai Qinghan's parents are dead, and she sold herself because no one was willing to adopt a wild girl from the vast ocean. People were afraid of her ferocity and were afraid that their throats would be bitten by this little beast if they got close to her.

"Compared to Dahuang and Dachen, the Demon Cult only eats people, and they eat them in moderation. Look, they haven't eaten all of us in the past six months."

“They’re still full.”

This was Bai Qinghan's idea. She had a pair of eyes that could see through people's hearts. This was her natural ability. She had long seen An Jing's vigilance towards the teachers and lecturers, and knew the true nature of the Demon Cult.

"No." An Jing was silent for a while, then slowly said: "They are not full. They are waiting."

"If you pull out the seedlings too early, you won't be able to eat rice. If you kill the small animals, there won't be any big animals. The demons are always hungry and always eating. They are just enduring and waiting for a rich feast."

"……I see."

Bai Qinghan nodded slightly, lowered her head and looked at her toes. She said softly: "But at least during this period of time, they won't eat us all."

An Jing didn't answer, he recalled those medicine jars.

After a moment, when An Jing came to his senses and asked her not to say this casually, Bai Qinghan looked at him with a strange look.

"Brother, I just haven't read any books." She said, "I'm not stupid."

(End of this chapter)