My father is a Confucian sage, but the system forces me to be a crude warrior

Chapter 413 Taking Down the First Snow

The faces of Liu Shishi and Sai Chuxue were visibly flushed.

"man."

Liu Shishi spat.

Sai Chuxue blushed and couldn't help but say, "You're being lewd."

The two were cultivators from the Xuanzhen Division, and they had known about the seven meridians and eight extraordinary vessels, acupoints throughout the body, and the structure of the human body since childhood.

Naturally, they understand the bodies of men and women.

Zeng Anmin couldn't help but blush: "I didn't do it on purpose..."

"How could a Confucian scholar be unable to control his lustful desires?"

Liu Shishi looked Zeng Anmin up and down, a hint of suspicion on her face.

"Well... it's a long story."

Zeng Anmin touched his nose.

He didn't want to get too entangled with the two of them on this issue.

Talking too much makes you seem inferior.

But if he said too little, he was afraid that the two of them would realize that he had just made progress in his martial arts.

At the same time, a sense of vigilance arose in his heart.

If you don't want to reveal your martial arts cultivation level, you must always pay attention to your internal organs.

Fortunately, this time it was the perineum, which can be explained by male physiology.

If these two catch me again next time, it will definitely be hard to explain.

"I'd like to know." Liu Shishi raised her eyebrows slightly, crossed her arms, and looked at Zeng Anmin.

"..."

Zeng Anmin was speechless.

Is it appropriate for you to talk to me about this topic, older sister?

He looked at Sai Chuxue.

Unexpectedly, Sai Chuxue also pricked up her ears, wanting to hear what foul language Zeng Anmin would utter.

"Perhaps I have a special talent."

Zeng Anmin touched his chin.

"I have long heard that you sons of the powerful and wealthy are mostly spoiled brats who cannot control your desires at a young age and frequent filthy places like brothels."

Liu Shishi grinned, then looked at Zeng Anmin teasingly: "I suppose you feel the same way?"

Zeng Anmin coughed lightly: "Sister Liu Shi might not believe it, but I am only nineteen years old."

"The primordial yang has not been released."

The primordial yang has not been released?

Liu Shishi was slightly taken aback, her face full of suspicion: "Really?"

Of course it's fake.

"Of course it's true." Zeng Anmin said earnestly.

“My father was strict in his discipline. Whether it was back in Liangjiang County or after we came to the capital, he never relaxed his demands on me.”

"If you don't believe me, how can you not believe my father?"

“If it is true that Lord Wenqing disciplines people strictly, then it is indeed true,” Sai Chuxue couldn’t help but speak up from the side.

Liu Shishi's lips twitched slightly.

She glared at Sai Chuxue with annoyance: "Didn't you say you were ignoring him? Why are you starting to defend him now?"

"I was talking to my senior sister, not him."

When Sai Chuxue heard Liu Shishi say that, her face flushed again, and she lowered her head and remained silent.

"Hmph, I think you're just a leopard that can't change its spots..." Liu Shishi realized she might have gone a bit too far, and then muttered:

"Anyway, I can't control you."

"When you get back and your master sees you using the Heaven-Asking Array to shorten your lifespan, don't say I didn't stop you."

Upon hearing this, Sai Chuxue's expression froze.

Realizing she had misspoke, Liu Shishi looked up at the sky and said, "Hey, the moon is quite bright tonight..."

The courtyard fell silent.

Zeng Anmin frowned and stared at Liu Shishi, asking, "Setting up the Heavenly Questioning Array will deplete one's lifespan?"

"Senior sister, what do you mean by that?"

“It’s nothing…” A hint of panic flashed across Sai Chuxue’s face: “It’s getting late, my senior sister and I need to go back.”

As he spoke, he pulled Liu Shishi up and headed out of the courtyard.

But her arm was gripped by a warm, large hand.

Feeling the warmth of the hand on her arm, Sai Chuxue instinctively tried to shake off the arm.

But that big hand was like a pair of pliers, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't shake it off.

“Let go…” Sai Chuxue looked up and was met with Zeng Anmin’s serious, earnest, and gentle eyes:
"What's the deal with setting up the Heavenly Inquiry Formation?"

Seeing that look in his eyes.

Sai Chuxue felt her heart skip a beat, her bright eyes flashing with panic, and she lowered her head:
"It's nothing... don't ask."

Zeng Anmin's brows furrowed more and more deeply.

He looked up at Liu Shishi and said, "Senior sister, you tell me."

"Oh dear, we didn't do anything sneaky or underhanded, so why can't we talk about it?"

Liu Shishi looked up at Zeng Anmin, her expression completely indifferent:

"Do you remember when the people from Xuanlun Manor rushed ahead of our relief fleet to steal grain before we entered Xiliu?"

“Hmm.” Zeng Anmin nodded.

"After they joined the Western River, the grain that Xuanlun Manor bought was stolen by river pirates, remember?"

Liu Shishi crossed her arms, then gave Sai Chuxue a disappointed look:

"Silly junior sister, seeing you running out of food and anxiously pacing around every day makes me feel sorry for you."

"So they secretly set up the Heaven-Asking Formation, hoping to calculate the location of the river pirates and the grain."

"When I found her, she had already collapsed on the battlefield."

"Senior sister... I didn't do it for him. I just felt sorry for the disaster victims." Sai Chuxue felt her face burning hot and explained.

But her explanation was far too weak.

"Keep pretending." Liu Shishi pouted. "I'm too lazy to even say it."

Zeng Anmin felt a pang in his heart.

He remained silent for a long time.

He looked straight at Sai Chuxue.

Sai Chuxue didn't dare to look him in the eye; her eyes were full of evasiveness.

"So, the reason you've had a persistent high fever these past few days is because you set up the Heavenly Inquiry Formation, right?"

At some point, Zeng Anmin's voice became somewhat hoarse.

The first snow of the season remained silent.

“Yes,” Liu Shishi said for her.

"Don't you know that the Heaven-Asking Formation requires thirty years of lifespan as a price?!"

Zeng Anmin clenched his fists and stared intently at Sai Chuxue.

Sai Chuxue remained silent.

"Who among the disciples of my Xuanzhen Division doesn't know this?" Liu Shishi answered for her as before.

“Junior Sister Sai.” Zeng Anmin slowly approached Sai Chuxue.

Under the moonlight, his shadow stretched very long.

The black shadows gradually covered the first snow of the season.

“We should go…” Sai Chuxue’s gaze was extremely evasive.

Her first instinct was to run away.

“Junior Sister Sai.” Zeng Anmin took her hand:
"listen to me."

His voice was extremely serious: "There are some things I need to make clear to you."

Sai Chuxue's struggling hands stopped moving, but her little head was still lowered.

Zeng Anmin took a deep breath:

I can feel your feelings for me.

“I know that you’ve been cold to me for so long because you’re angry with me.”

Sai Chuxue pursed her lips and remained silent.

"Remember this?"

Zeng Anmin slowly took out a wooden compass from his waist.

The moment the compass appeared.

Sai Chuxue opened her lips slightly.

"This is what you gave me back then, and you even said that it could withstand a full-force attack from a fourth-grade expert."

Zeng Anmin smiled softly.

He reached out and gently stroked the compass.

A wave of nostalgia.

Memories of the two of them instantly flooded Sai Chuxue's mind.

Her face turned redder.

"When I first went down to Nanjiang, I didn't touch it when I was surrounded and attacked, and I didn't touch it when I fought with others. Even when the demon king attacked later and I was injured, I still didn't touch it."

Zeng Anmin's face showed a gentle expression:

"Because this compass is just too important to me."

"Because I know deep down that it is a silly girl's longing for me."

Zeng Anmin felt that it would be even better if there was some heartwarming background music at this moment.

"I never intended to let that silly girl down." Zeng Anmin's voice softened further:
"But that silly girl seems to have some misunderstanding about me and hasn't given me a chance to explain to her."

"In my heart, I actually longed for that silly girl."

……

Sai Chuxue pursed her lips tighter and tighter.

At the same time, she felt her vision becoming increasingly blurry.

She didn't dare blink.

She was afraid that if she blinked, something in her eyes would drip down.

"Thirty years of my lifespan, just to exchange for a piece of information that is useful to me."

A bitter smile appeared on Zeng Anmin's face.

Only now does he realize just how much he owes Sai Chuxue.

The little girl didn't say a word.

But of all the women he knew, she was the one who sacrificed the most for him.

"I did it for the disaster victims... um?"

Sai Chuxue felt her mind was in a whirl.

It was like a thunderclap from the horizon.

It blew her body apart.

Drain her soul.

It also tightly locked up all her strength.

"Oh dear!!"

Liu Shishi was also stunned. She stood to the side, jumping up and down, exclaiming, "How could this be?!"

"What kind of behavior is this?!"

"Indecent!"

"The rituals are ruined and the music is ruined!"

"..."

She covered her eyes tightly with both hands, but couldn't help opening her fingers slightly to leave a gap.

After a long time.

Zeng Anmin slowly raised his head and looked at Sai Chuxue:
"Please stop being angry with me, okay?"

Sai Chuxue's mind was completely blank at this moment.

She couldn't say a word.

He just nodded blankly.

Zeng Anmin held her tightly in his arms.

They could feel each other's strong heartbeats.

"Sister."

Zeng Anmin's voice rang out.

"What?" Liu Shishi's expression faltered slightly when she heard Zeng Anmin call her.

Tell me about the history of the first snow.

……

The night is getting dark.

I can't sleep.

The three sat on a stone bench in the courtyard.

The two hands, one big and one small, were tightly clasped together.

Sitting opposite me was Liu Shishi, who was talking non-stop.

"Actually, Junior Sister Sai is only seventeen years old this year."

"I still remember the day fourteen years ago when Senior Brother Shen took her little hand and led her into the sect. She was timid, like a wounded fawn."

"Senior Brother Shen?" Zeng Anmin was taken aback.

Mentioning the name Senior Brother Shen.

Both Liu Shishi and Sai Chuxue's faces darkened slightly.

"Yes, Senior Brother Shen."

Liu Shishi looked up, her face now devoid of its usual nonchalance, replaced only by memories and sadness:

"Master's second disciple, a second-grade array master."

"His talent is arguably the strongest among all of us disciples."

"He was only twenty-seven years old when he became a second-grade array master. Our master was in seclusion for many years and had no time to teach us disciples, so this Senior Brother Shen took on this important task."

"I was trained by him."

"The first snow too."

Zeng Anmin listened intently.

He asked a question: "Then why haven't I heard of his name before?"

Very strange.

A second-rank array master from the Xuanzhen Division should have a great reputation, regardless of what he has done.

"Because... my senior brother."

When Liu Shishi heard the words "senior brother," she even gritted her teeth.

"Eldest brother?"

Zeng Anmin sensed a hint of gossip in his mind.

"Second Senior Brother Shen Qiu has extremely high talent, and he is the first among all the disciples to break through to the second-grade array master."

"Senior Brother Shen Nian was jealous, so he framed him for wanting to find the dragon vein, going against Master's wishes, and wanting to establish another dynasty and become emperor."

"The emperor at that time was not the current emperor, but Emperor Tongzheng, an emperor with extremely small-mindedness."

"Emperor Tongzheng conspired with the eldest brother to slander the second brother."

"This was used to force Master to come out of seclusion, causing Master to fail to break through to the Eternal Realm."

"The Eternal Realm?" Zeng Anmin was hearing this name for the first time.

"Yes, above the first-grade array master is the Eternal Realm, which is the highest realm of our Profound Array Division."

As Liu Shishi said this, a look of longing appeared on her face: "I wonder if I will ever be able to reach that level in my lifetime."

Although it was only a few words.

But Zeng Anmin sensed a conspiracy.

He felt that the eldest brother Shen Nian's accusation against the second brother Shen Qiu was a pretense, and that the real reason was that the Tongzheng Emperor forced Xu Tianshi out of seclusion and made him fail in his breakthrough.

If Master Xu were to break through to the Eternal Realm, wouldn't the imperial power be even more constrained by him?

"You guessed it too?" Liu Shishi crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow at Zeng Anmin.

"Guessed what?" Zeng Anmin looked innocently at Liu Shishi.

"Alright, these are all secrets of my Xuanzhen Division, I can't tell you any more." Liu Shishi shut up in time.

Zeng Anmin blinked and raised the hand he was holding to Sai Chuxue: "I am the son-in-law of the Xuanzhen Division."

“My nephew is also from the Xuanzhen Division, and he even became Xu Mingxin’s disciple.”

"Am I not half a member of the Xuanzhen Division?"

"Uh."

There is some truth in this.

"And then?" Zeng Anmin asked, looking at Liu Shishi.

"Later, the second senior brother died."

"When Master finds out the truth, he discovers that Second Senior Brother never intended to refine any dragon vein and establish himself as emperor. It was all a conspiracy between Emperor Tongzheng and Senior Brother Shen Nian."

"But it was too late by then. No matter how much Master wanted to settle scores with Senior Brother Shen Nian, he had already disappeared without a trace."

"And all these years, Master has been searching for Shen Nian's whereabouts."

"Disappeared without a trace?" Zeng Anmin narrowed his eyes:
"What level of cultivation is Shen Nian at?"

"If he were still alive, he would probably be at the second rank by now."

Liu Shishi sighed.

"Oh."

Zeng Anmin seemed to suddenly realize something.

He looked up at Sai Chuxue and asked, "Have you found out where the water pirates are?"

Sacrificing thirty years of one's lifespan to set up the Heavenly Inquiry Formation, just to find out the whereabouts of those water bandits who stole the grain, should be no problem.

"No."

"No??"

Zeng Anmin was stunned.

"Hmm." Sai Chuxue pursed her lips: "My skills are not yet proficient."

"Nothing?"

Zeng Anmin frowned and looked at Liu Shishi.

"do not know."

Sai Chuxue looked up at Zeng Anmin somewhat timidly and said, "After setting up the Heaven-Asking Formation, all I saw was a blank space."

A blank space?
Liu Shishi suddenly looked up: "Are you sure it's a blank page?"

"I'm sure." Sai Chuxue sighed. "I didn't want to say it."

"No!" Liu Shishi's expression slowly turned cold.

"how?"

"Someone used a secret technique of my Xuanzhen Division to shield you from the heavenly secrets of your Heavenly Questioning Formation!"

"What does that mean?" Zeng Anmin's heart stirred slightly.

"The Heaven-Asking Formation is only passed down to direct disciples... There's no way an outsider could know about it, so only the secret techniques of the Mysterious Array Division can conceal the Heavenly Secrets of the Heaven-Asking Formation..."

(End of this chapter)