Chapter 320 3rd Restart
Chapter 320 Three Restarts
"If you become stronger, can you get whatever you want?"
The woman seemed confused.
She looked down the mountain in confusion, and hesitated to go down the mountain to visit the woodcutter, but she floated in the air and finally circled back to Qin Baiqing.
Hesitantly asked, "How can I become stronger? How strong do I have to be to make the Queen Mother compromise with me?"
"Is it stronger than the Queen Mother?"
"No one can do it..." The woman showed her sorrowful expression and denied herself first: "It's impossible. He and I can never be together. The Queen Mother is the chasm between us. Am I destined not to be with him in this life?"
The raindrops fell again along with the woman's sorrow. Qin Baiqing twitched her mouth, feeling inexplicably tired.
The sad raindrops grew heavier and heavier, and finally fell on the woman's face like tear marks. She was hazy in the thin mist, immersed in her own sadness.
"Why don't you listen to advice?" Qin Baiqing said sternly, waking her up suddenly: "Don't cry! Practice well!"
She was furious, and the woman was shocked. She looked at Qin Baiqing blankly, with all the rain stopping.
She just waved away the girl's worries, and pulled her to retreat, saying:
"There is no strongest, only stronger! Just practice what you want, and don't worry about the Queen Mother or anything like that. If you don't practice and just stay where you are, you will get nothing."
For the first time, she felt a sense of disappointment and without saying a word, she found a cave to take the place of the goddess in seclusion. Her body spontaneously mobilized the goddess's cultivation and mental skills, and she became extremely skilled in moving someone else's body.
The sun rises and the moon sets, the stars move, and during the retreat, Qin Baiqing is immersed in the moment, watching countless green mountains change their colors many times.
She opened her eyes again, and saw the grass growing and the birds singing, the green hills as before, and the mountain was quiet and silent, no different from the world before her retreat.
The woman leaned against the lake and glanced at Qin Baiqing from afar, with many deep and unspeakable words in her mind.
Qin Baiqing was afraid that she would cry to him again. Feeling her own powerful cultivation level, she confidently followed the same path down the mountain. However, she found that the road surface seemed to have changed a little.
The path was completely covered by mountain weeds, and the woodcutter's house also looked brand new.
She remembered that the last time she came here, there was a small sapling behind the woodcutter's house, but this time there was no tree at all. A huge tree pit appeared on the ground, and not far away was the busy woodcutter.
The man turned around subconsciously after hearing the footsteps. The two were stunned after looking at each other. Qin Baiqing paused in her confident steps and looked dumbfounded.
This is not the woodcutter played by Feng Budu.
She wanted to ask the goddess what happened, but a few small mounds behind the mountain explained everything. The woman floated over and paused everything at some point, asking Qin Baiqing:
"To you, the changes in the world are but a blink of an eye during your seclusion, but the life span of a mortal woodcutter has come to an end."
"Now, do you want to continue practicing?"
The woman asked, and Qin Baiqing opened her mouth, speechless.
The confidence in her victory faded away, and turned into complete incomprehension. Her mind was a little stuck: "Is your illusion... so real?"
"This is what will happen if you choose."
"This is totally different from what I imagined. This is not right." Qin Baiqing became more confused.
In her world, there has always been only one option: whether she wants it or not. As long as she becomes stronger, she will get what she wants no matter how hard she fights for it. There is nothing that cannot be solved without strength.
But now, if she said that the woodcutter was her target, wouldn't she be putting the cart before the horse?
She lowered her head as if thinking, and all her previous experiences seemed to be invalid. Her brows were furrowed in confusion, and Qingshan did not respond. The woman whispered to the side: "Do you want to do it again and try a different option?"
"Come again! I won't believe it!"
The world turned upside down for who knows how many days and months. Qin Baiqing stood in the ever-changing time and space and saw a towering tree growing in the huge tree pit. The tree was shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye, and gradually, it returned to the small sapling it was when they first met.
When she came back to her senses, the woodcutter had turned into Feng Budu again. His axe had just fallen to the ground in shock. He looked at the mysterious and ethereal goddess and began to blush.
"Oh! You're blushing like a teapot bubble!"
Qin Baiqing strode forward aggressively, and when she saw the woodcutter trying to retreat in panic, she pulled him back and asked with her chin raised arrogantly: "You blush, does that mean you like me?"
"That's right, I like you too, I want to marry you and become an ordinary mortal couple!"
"Girl, you..." The woodcutter was shocked.
"Don't refuse!" Qin Baiqing opened her eyes and said, "I have admired you for a long time. I came to find you because I saw you were alone and didn't have a family. Now that you like me, then be with me!"
She just didn't believe that letting the goddess be with the woodcutter so early this time would not eliminate the regret in her heart.
The woodcutter blushed and broke free from Qin Baiqing's hand, but did not refuse. Qin Baiqing forced him to marry the goddess.
The moment she put on the wedding dress, Qin Baiqing felt her body lighten. As expected, she saw the goddess taking over her body and living hand in hand with the woodcutter, leading the four seasons of life in the human world.
She could only stay inside the goddess' body, chin in her hand, staring blankly.
"The Queen Mother is here..." The goddess's leisurely voice suddenly awakened Qin Baiqing's thoughts.
She perked up, and before he could react, she took over the body again, and found that the woodcutter had been held hostage by the Queen Mother at some point, and was about to transform into a snake and suppress him under the stone peak.
"How dare that annoying old woman steal my people!" Qin Baiqing immediately stood up and skillfully adjusted his cultivation, but found that the goddess had made no progress in all these years with the woodcutter, and her cultivation had stagnated. She was easily subdued by the Queen Mother and had no power to fight back.
The woodcutter had been suppressed on the stone peak, and at the last moment he was still looking eagerly in the direction of the goddess. Qin Baiqing was bound tightly and felt unprecedented powerlessness.
"It failed again..."
The woman appeared again and asked Qin Baiqing: "Do you want to start over again? Do you have any other choice?"
"Yes, of course!" Qin Baiqing wiped her face, wiping away the tears from the goddess's crying, and said stubbornly: "You want me to choose only one between cultivation and love? But I want both!"
After saying that, he ran straight to the woodcutter who was intact after the time reversal, slapped him on the forehead, and passed on his mental skills to him without reservation: "You will follow me to cultivate immortality in the future. When you have achieved great success, we can be together forever!"
The two of them went into seclusion separately. Qin Baiqing remembered the lesson from last time and devoted herself to cultivation. She also used her only free time to instruct the woodcutter. There was no sweetness and love like last time.
On the day when the woodcutter ascended to heaven, Qin Baiqing, who was in seclusion, was inspired. After breaking out of the cave, he went to find Feng Budu, the woodcutter who was among the immortals and had a distant look on his face.
He was just like a statue on the wall overlooking the world. There was no love in his eyes as he looked at the goddess. The two of them looked at each other in silence. Qin Baiqing suddenly couldn't say the marriage invitation that was on the tip of her tongue.
Perhaps it was because the woodcutter at that time was only cold and unfamiliar with the goddess.
"Wrong." Qin Baiqing clenched her fists, jumping out of the goddess's persona, and tried to see Feng Budu through the woodcutter: "This illusion is wrong, it is wrong in itself."
(End of this chapter)