Seeing them so close, Xu Le’an couldn’t help feeling happy. He had grown up together with Yi Ning, and although he couldn’t measure up to Yi Ning’s incomparable talents, he still once felt unhappy about the Sect Leader’s partiality.
But they were still brothers under the same master. Now, seeing that Yi Ning was able to lower his walls and let someone else into his world, Xu Le’an sincerely felt happy for him.
“Having a sensible disciple and a sensible little brother, Shixiong seems to be much happier than before.” On the road here, Xu Le’an had chatted plenty with Gong Xiuxian.
This disciple had a good heart, and spoke about his days with Yi Ning in detail.
How enviable, why wasn’t his disciple this sensible?
When Yi Ning heard his words, he said expressionlessly, “I have already expelled him and no longer recognise him as my disciple. If Shidi likes him, you are free to take him in.”
It would be better than dirtying his eyes everyday.
Xu Le’an’s face was full of embarrassment. If Yi Ning really didn’t want him, he actually had half a mind to take Gong Xiuxian in.
Yi Ning’s words had just left his mouth when Gong Xiuxian reached out a hand and grabbed his wrist, saying quietly, “Shizun, don’t say such things. I already told Liu Rugeng to move out, he’s now only an outer disciple. Don’t be angry anymore, okay?”
Xu Le’an hadn’t managed to react to what what happening before his eyes when he say Yi Ning’s cousin lift his leg up and kick Gong Xiuxian two steps away.
“Gege, don’t let your clothing get dirtied by dust.” Dust like Gong Xiuxian.
Yan Xuan rubbed Yi Ning’s wrist, then directed a smile at Xu Le’an and said, “Since you like him, from today onwards he’s your disciple. Treasure him well.” After a pause, he looked at Yi Ning and asked, “Are we going?”
“Go.” Yi Ning replied lightly.
“Shizun!” Gong Xiuxian suddenly raised his voice, looking unwillingly at Yi Ning and saying, “Can you give me one last chance? I’ll do anything!”
If he could just make up for it, he was willing to do anything for his Shizun. Gong Xiuxian couldn’t endure Yi Ning’s coldness any longer.
Yi Ning’s footsteps halted, but he didn’t turn back, only replying indifferently, “You don’t need to do anything, just stay away from me.”
You can’t go back. Nobody can.
Once, he had also been touched by Gong Xiuxian’s words.
On the perpetually isolated Mount Yunqing, Gong Xiuxian accompanied him day in and day out. Before he arrived at Mount Yunqing, he had been afflicted by poison, and it was Yi Ning’s tireless efforts to seek out an antidote that turned up a cure.
At that time, Gong Xiuxian stared into his eyes, took his hand and placed it on his heart, and said seriously, “Shizun, it’s so nice that you’re here.”
From that day onwards, something between him and Gong Xiuxian changed.
When he was cultivating, Gong Xiuxian would cover him gently with a robe and stay by his side unmoving, occasionally grinning foolishly, occasionally falling into a daze.
Occasionally, he would even say, “Shizun, you’re so good-looking, don’t you have many admirers?”
During the Lantern Festival, Gong Xiuxian would clumsily make a few strange-looking tangyuan. The ones that he placed in Yi Ning’s bowl would always be the best-looking ones.
When they were out exterminating evil. Gong Xiuxian, still unfamiliar with his sword technique, would stand in front of Yi Ning and shield him.
When Yi Ning was injured by a demonic cultivator’s sharp claws, causing fresh blood to scatter into the air, he would say in a trembling voice, “Shizun, does it hurt?” In the next moment, tears would begin rolling down his cheeks.
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Once upon a time, Yi Ning thought that this was what the mortals called love.
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In order to prevent Yi Ning from leaving him, he would even use underhanded tactics and dig out Yi Ning’s spiritual core, all in an attempt to leash him to his side.
Gong Xiuxian wanted his childhood friend and he also wanted Yi Ning. Where in the world would such a good thing happen?
If love was something so filthy that it could be shared with others, then Yi Ning didn’t want it.
Someone suddenly touched the back of his hand, and a chilly voice drifted into his ears. “Immortal Master, why are you in a daze? If it’s hard for you to let go of your old flame, then go find him.”
Yi Ning suddenly stood still, and the gaze with which he used to look at Yan Xuan was several degrees colder. “If you want me to go back and find him, then I will do as you wish.” He didn’t like Yan Xuan needling him like this, and so casually said something.
What he didn’t expect was that Yan Xuan would be briefly stunned, looking away awkwardly and saying, “I don’t want you to.”
Yi Ning: …
Why did he suddenly become so obedient?
Sometimes, he couldn’t tell what was going through Yan Xuan’s mind. Yi Ning let out a long breath and continued speaking, “In the future, don’t say such things anymore. There’s no longer anything between him and I.”
“Oh.” Yan Xuan made a low sound of affirmation, then after a while he spoke again, “I didn’t say there was anything between the two of you, I just don’t want you to think of him.”
He didn’t want him to think of Gong Xiuxian?
Maybe it was just a figment of his imagination, but Yi Ning seemed to sense a double meaning to his words.
“Why don’t you want me to think of Gong Xiuxian?” Yi Ning grabbed onto his sleeve, pulling him back in front of himself.
Yan Xuan didn’t put up any resistance, allowing himself to be pulled around. Only after some time had passed did he reply in a light tone, “He disgusts me.”
Very clearly, these three words weren’t any sort of ironclad evidence. However, Yi Ning’s heart softened towards this rare sight of Yan Xuan acting so obedient, so he reached out a hand, patted his shoulder, and said, “Isn’t it the same for me? Then, from now on, we should stop using him to disgust each other.”
Hearing his words, Yan Xuan’s lips curled upwards, and he said, “Then you shouldn’t speak to him anymore going forward.”
His personality had always been like this, greedy and insatiable. If you gave him an inch, he’d take a mile. Yi Ning just so happened to be helpless towards him, so he could only nod his head appeasingly and reply, “Alright, then you also shouldn’t say those words to upset me.”
The two of them reached an agreement, and their moods had improved significantly.
After Mingguang Sect’s name list was handed over to the people in charge of the Inter-Sect Tournament, Yi Ning suddenly found himself with free time on his hand and didn’t know what to do with it.
“Ever since you undid the seal, you haven’t had time to properly relax, right? I’ll give you a few days off, so head down the mountain to have some fun.”
While practicing calligraphy within the main hall of Mount Yunqing, Yi Ning said these words to Yan Xuan who was lazing on the couch and basking in the sun.
Yan Xuan opened his eyes, his gaze landing on the figure of the person currently practicing calligraphy. A nice waist, nice thighs, slender and long-limbed, it really lived up to his Immortal Master bearing.
What meaning did this world have? It would be better to stay by his side and bask in this momentary illusion, lazing around as he pleased, free and unrestricted.
“Not going.” Yan Xuan picked up Yi Ning’s outer robe and pulled it over his eyes, blocking out the glaring sunlight.
This outer robe smelled very nice, it was like he was being wrapped up in Yi Ning’s embrace. He couldn’t resist taking a few more sniffs.
To the side, Yi Ning turned his head back to look at him uncomprehendingly. Yan Xuan should be around 25, 26 now, but why is he still so lifeless every day?
He lifted his brush and dipped it in ink, saying slowly, “It is not yet winter, yet you’re already a lazy snake napping away.” After a pause, he picked up the paper and laid it out under the sun to dry.
“What are you writing?” Slurred words came from the couch, evidently, he was already nodding off.
By Yi Ning’s side, he became more and more like a living person. He would smile, rage, and now he’d even get sleepy.
Yan Xuan noticed this and gently opened his eyes. In the future, he would become even more reluctant to part from Yi Ning. Just like a gambling addict, upon tasting a little bit of sweetness, he’d bet his entire fortune until he lost everything.
“A wave that has departed will not return, and time that has passed will not come again.” Yi Ning replied placidly, with a smile on his lips, then continued, “Life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest.”
What ‘enjoy it to the fullest’? Was he even worthy of doing that?
Yan Xuan suddenly laughed, pulling away the robe covering his face and sitting up. “Go, we’re going to enjoy life to the fullest.”
He grabbed hold of Yi Ning’s wrist, and the hand holding onto the brush trembled slightly, causing huge drops of ink to drip onto the freshly-written words.
It was ruined.
Yi Ning gritted his teeth, momentarily lamenting the loss of those words, then took in a deep breath and said, “I’m not going. You can go by yourself.”
Unexpectedly, Yan Xuan was no longer sleepy, reverting back to his clingy self from the past. He took hold of Yi Ning’s elbow and dragged him to his side, half coaxing and half detaining him as he said, “Since you disturbed my sleep, why don’t you accompany me to have fun? I know a good place, I’ll bring you there to experience a part of the world you’ve never seen before.”
After all these years of exterminating evil, there wasn’t anywhere in the world that Yi Ning hadn’t been to. However, seeing Yan Xuan so excited, Yi Ning didn’t have the heart to dampen his enthusiasm and could only reply helplessly, “As you wish.”
In any case, he would still be idling away. Yi Ning looked at Yan Xuan’s side profile, the sunlight scattered over his face, his eyes glittering like stars, and the brilliant smile on his lips.
He suddenly felt that days like this weren’t so bad after all.
The Demon Carriage’s speed could cover thousands of miles in a day. Sitting in it, it seemed as though time itself was passing faster.
Not even an hour later, Yan Xuan stopped the carriage. Yi Ning estimated that they were already a fair distance away from Mingguang Sect.
What was here for them to travel all this way? Yi Ning couldn’t fathom what Yan Xuan was thinking. It seemed as though he had crafted an array of masks to conceal his heart, causing him to be unable to guess which one was the real Yan Xuan.
“What are you daydreaming about now?” Yan Xuan lowered his head to look at him, then continued, “We’ll have to fix this bad habit of yours.”
Every time Yi Ning did this, Yan Xuan always felt that he was cooking up another trick to deal with him, something strange and frightening.
Yi Ning ignored him, reaching out a hand to pull aside the curtain hanging over the carriage’s window. Yan Xuan grabbed his wrist to stop him, narrowing his eyes in a smile and said, “What’s the hurry? Here, eat this.”
He handed Yi Ning a red pill that looked just like a poison pill. Yi Ning’s expression stiffened momentarily before he heard Yan Xuan’s voice by his ear. “You don’t trust me? Immortal Master, I’m really hurt by your cruelty, my heart’s almost shattered into pieces already…”
“Shut up.” Yi Ning closed his eyes, then looked at that red pill, sighing lightly. Why did he always use such tricks to test him and see if he trusted him?
Yi Ning took the pill and swallowed it, giving Yan Xuan a hard glare and ignored the deep smile in his eyes. He looked outside and was suddenly frozen in place.
Miasma lingered in the surroundings and demonic fog billowed everywhere. This was the demon realm!
According to rumours, the entrance to the demon realm constantly shifted locations. Without a Token of Passage, the demons within couldn’t exit and the humans outside couldn’t enter. This was the true congregation location of demonic cultivators.
However, Yan Xuan was a half-demon. That year when he took up the mantle of Demon Venerable, he didn’t like the thick miasma of the demon realm, so he built his palace in the human realm.
Thus, Yi Ning had never been to the demon realm; after all, he had only exterminated evil in the human realm.
No wonder he made him eat that pill. The miasma here was enough to instantly kill him, who currently only had a weak mortal body.
He shot Yan Xuan a glance and said, “This was the ‘good place’ you were talking about?”
Yan Xuan took out a token from his storage ring and weighed it in his hand, acting innocently pitiful and said, “Immortal Master, do you look down on the place I took you to? That’s also to be expected, since Immortal Master Yi Ning is like the bright moon and gentle breeze, the scenery on a high mountain. You surely look down on a demonic cultivator like me.”
Yi Ning: …
“I’m not looking down on you. I said something wrong, okay?” Yi Ning pressed his hand to his forehead. His words had just fallen when he was pulled over by Yan Xuan, who said excitedly, “It’s good that you know your wrongs. Follow me.”
You really are a little hooligan who still acts innocently even after taking advantage of someone. Yi Ning sighed, endure it, I can’t beat him as I am now.
After a round of self-hypnosis, Yi Ning followed behind Yan Xuan and left the carriage.
Only after exiting the Demon Carriage did he discover that the ground here was incredibly damp, to the point where it seemed as though just digging around in the soil would unearth bugs. There were ancient trees and weeds everywhere, the sky was pitch black, and the atmosphere was incomparably gloomy.
Yan Xuan didn’t seem to see anything strange about it, pulling Yi Ning along like they were strolling leisurely in a garden.
After walking for an unknown period of time, the ground beneath their feet became softer and softer, and puddles started dotting the land.
“We’re here.” Yan Xuan suddenly spoke, taking out a token from his storage ring and tossing it randomly onto the ground.
There was nothing before them except for a few trees, there wasn’t even a building that could be used as a landmark. How could Yan Xuan tell?
Like he had seen through Yi Ning’s thoughts, Yan Xuan smiled and said, “You don’t have to keep pondering it. I’m not telling you.” If he told Yi Ning, then when Yi Ning recovered his cultivation, he might very well come to the demon realm and slaughter all the miscreants here.
The token sank into the earth, being completely swallowed in an instant. Like a seed, it grew a sprout, but what was unbelievable was that the appearance of the sprout that grew was like it had already wilted and died.
Gradually, the sprout grew branches and leaves, in an instant turning into a large tree. There was a human face on the bark, which slowly opened its mouth and said–
“Whom, whence, whither?”
Yan Xuan said deeply, “A dead man, life, the Yellow Springs.”
The face froze for a moment before letting out a long sigh and said, “I welcome the return of the Demon Venerable.” In the end, he still came back.
The large tree suddenly toppled over, uprooting itself and turning into dust that reformed into a token. Before their eyes, a thick fog rose, stirring up wind and sand that blinded Yi Ning’s eyes. The person by his side reached out a hand and covered his eyes, saying deeply,
“Close your eyes.”
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Thank you for the chapter and I really miss when we didn’t have to lock chapters but thx for the headsup.
Nooo,you should throw him out the sect not only from your peak! (●´⌓`●) And time for the first date~
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AND YES! KEEP SELF-HYPONOSING URSELF, BRO!
Do whatever u want, just keep the lazy snake ahhahahaha
thank you for the new Chapter ☺
Enjoyed the chapter, thank you! 🥰
I vote that we let ml do whatever he wants to do to gong something and liu b!tch. Torture? Clean kill? Go for it bby
And then he can go home to hug mc
Thanks for the chapter!
Thanks for update…. the relationship between the inmortal master and the Venerable demon is getting better and better
Time for adventure for Master Ning!
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»Xu Le’an hadn’t managed to react to what what happening..« to what was happening
So, that Gong guy still can’t see his wrongdoings. I just hope he won’t appear that much from now on, he’s just an eyesore Dx
Off to a demon realm date~
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