That demon was decisively cut in half by Jian Yi and fell limp to the floor into two pieces, motionless.
The clues to the empathy parasite snuffed out just like this? Wen Xuan couldn’t help but feel it was a pity.
But just as he thought this, Jian Yi used the tip of his sword to poke that shadow vigorously: “What are you pretending for? Get up.”
At this time, the flush on Jian Yi’s face has already retreated, his usually composed and prepared appearance returning.
After his voice sounded, the two pieces of shadow trembled for a moment and then started to bind together at the injury site. Slowly, it reformed back into one body. Moments later, the black shadow completely returned to its original state. It was still that shadow attachment demon, only its color looked slightly dimmer than before.
Trembling all over, it was clearly still somewhat startled from being cut in half. It didn’t even dare to speak.
“Whatever we ask, you better answer truthfully.” Jian Yi raised his sword and pointed the tip of his blade at it. He said in a stern tone of voice: “Don’t try to do anything funny again.”
Don’t say it like it did anything funny earlier. Wasn’t it just answering truthfully? The shadow attachment demon felt wronged. However, since it’s been chopped in half twice by Jian Yi already, it was really intimidated. Therefore, it can only make a face, not even daring to retort at all.
“This……” Wen Xuan was somewhat surprised: “This kind of demon can survive even after all that?”
“That’s right. They’re very difficult to kill.” Jian Yi poked the tip of his sword on the shadow attachment demon’s body, making it shake all over again: “Cut it once, damage its cultivation once. If you want to eliminate it, you must completely cut away its cultivation. Seeing its appearance right now, it probably has 3-5 cuts left.”
“That’s really troublesome.” Wen Xuan couldn’t help but exclaim.
You can’t really blame him for not knowing. The big battle between cultivators and demons was something that happened over hundreds of thousands of years ago. The rumor was demonic cultivation has been chased out of the main continent a long time ago. Vanishing without a trace for all of these hundreds of thousands of years, who would have thought they’d be able to see a demon today?
Speaking of which, since they haven’t appeared in hundreds of thousands of years, why would one appear today?
Thinking about this question, Wen Xuan’s expression turned slightly heavier: “Other than this one, are there any other demons in the North Ning Continent?”
“We probably should ask it thoroughly.” Jian Yi said with a smile.
As Jian Yi smiled, he lifted the tip of his sword upward and let it reflect a cold light, making that shadow attachment demon feel cold sweat all over.
It instantly shivered: “According to what I know……”
“Don’t say anything now. We won’t believe you.” Jian Yi interrupted it and then said with a smile again: “Let’s make a contract.”
He was really making this watertight. The shadow attachment demon couldn’t help but remain silent.
“You’re really going to make a contract with it?” On the contrary, Wen Xuan felt a bit worried: “It’s a demon after all. Its nature is deceitful and malicious. What if it’s plotting against you……”
“Shixiong, don’t worry.” Jian Yi said: “I just have to be a bit careful while making the contract. Once the contract is set, no matter how deceitful and malicious it is, it can’t do anything significant.”
Although this was true, Wen Xuan couldn’t help but worry. However, they really needed to know a lot of things from this demon. Using a contract to subdue it was indeed the best method. Pondering for a while, Wen Xuan finally said: “Since it’s like this, then let me be the contract holder.”
Jian Yi was momentarily stunned, then he couldn’t help but smile. How could he not know, Wen Xuan was afraid that the demon would seize advantage of the situation and counterattack. So he wanted to face the danger of this counterattack himself.
That shadow attachment demon jolted however, mistakenly thinking that Wen Xuan wanted to become contract holder because he wanted the benefits and was trying to snatch the opportunity from Jian Yi. It promptly attempted to drive a wedge between the two by asking: “That’s not really good, right? This cultivator Jian used up quite the effort. It’s not right that he doesn’t get anything…….”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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That shadow attachment demon conjoined its two parts together again, its black colored body paled a bit more. It gloomily scooted to the side, not wanting to say even one word more, sulking so hard, it practically wanted to cry.
However, Jian Yi used the tip of his blade to poke at it again: “You can explain this one.”
Under the threat of Jian Yi’s blade, the shadow attachment demon reluctantly explained: “Other than sharing life and death together, the empathy parasite also connects your spiritual energy. In many situations, the two of you will be treated by the Will of the Heaven as one person.”
“Therefore?” Wen Xuan’s face was full of astonishment.
“Therefore, it doesn’t matter which of you forms the contract with me, the other would become the contract owner as well……” The shadow attachment demon made a face: “Even those magic tools that you own prior which have already recognized one owner will listen to the other person’s orders from now on.”
Not daring to say anything extra, it laid out this truth while feigning nonchalance. It knew that whenever two people learned of this truth, often, a hard to avoid estrangement and suspicion would rise between them.
Unexpectedly, Wen Xuan only chuckled: “That makes things a lot easier.”
As for Jian Yi, even more so, he lowered his head and smiled bashfully: “Since it’s like this, when I said my things are shixiong’s things before, it’s no longer nonsense now.”
Hearing these words again, Wen Xuan couldn’t help but look over. Jian Yi was looking slightly to the side. As expected, his face was slightly red again.
The shadow attachment demon only felt like his dog eyes were blinded.
At this moment in time, he can only hope that these two people didn’t know the proper method of making a contract with a demon. After all, the most severe type of contract between cultivators, the blood vow, required essential blood as medium. However, many demons had no blood nor flesh. Naturally, they didn’t use that method. Meanwhile, the only contract that was effective on demons, the death contract, normal cultivators knew nothing about.
In the end, it despaired. Wen Xuan naturally didn’t know. However, not only did Jian Yi know that demons required death contracts, he even knew the exact process of how to form a death contract from the beginning to the end. It didn’t take him long to get everything prepared.
Jian Yi stated a bunch of cryptic incantations without errors, then used his spiritual energy to draw an eccentric design in the air. After the incantations ended, the design that was drawn by the spiritual energy abruptly pulsed, gaining a layer of black. Then, it became a fist sized vortex in mid air. The entire process was smooth and without hesitation, no faults at all.
What’s left was only for the shadow attachment demon to provide a drop of essential demonic energy and throw it into the black vortex for the death contract to be counted as complete.
“Hurry up.” Just as the shadow attachment demon looked at this black vortex in conflict, Jian Yi urged it.
The shadow attachment demon was frustrating over the fact that as long as this death contract was completed, it was equivalent to giving these two people complete control over all of its cultivation. A mere thought of theirs could decide whether it lived or died. How could it willingly accept this situation?
It decided to do a little trick. It condensed a drop of normal demonic energy, planning to pretend it was essential demonic energy……
However, Jian Yi’s eyes were sharp and keen. Without a word, he immediately swung his sword at the demon.
The shadow that was cut into two pieces didn’t fall over limp on the ground this time. Instead, it curled up abruptly and leaped towards the shadow under a tree, wanting to use the opportunity to escape.
However, back then when it had such a good moment, it still didn’t manage to escape. How could it escape at a time like this?
Jian Yi’s speed wasn’t fast enough, but this was Wen Xuan’s specialty area. In a flash, numerous Ice Blades flew out and completely blocked all paths of survival for the shadow that was dashing about left and right. Immediately after, Jian Yi’s sword caught up and cut the two piece shadow into four pieces.
“You better count carefully now.” Jian Yi said in an ice cold voice: “How many more do you have left?”
When the shadow condensed into one body again, the color was so light it was practically transparent, exposing the face around its ‘head’ area. Its expression looked extremely pained while its entire body shook and trembled. In order to forcibly move itself in an unrecovered state, it wasted a large amount of cultivation. At this moment, it was already at the end of the line. One more hit and it’d be completely eliminated.
But it finally managed to cultivate to this point, how could it just resign to signing a death contract with these two young brats. How can it resign to being ordered around by them?
After the pain, the shadow attachment demon’s face was full of humiliation.
Seeing this scene, Wen Xuan silently sighed and couldn’t help but soften: “Although it’s a demon, there’s no need to treat it like this, right?”
The shadow attachment demon abruptly looked towards him, suddenly gaining a spark of hope.
But then it heard Wen Xuan continue to say: “Since it’d rather die than submit, then we should just release it from worldly worries.”
The shadow attachment demon was face full of tears: Here I thought you were kind hearted, but you’re actually this vicious!
Meanwhile, Wen Xuan already summoned his divine sword precursor over, looking like he was going to do as he said and give the final strike, ‘releasing’ the demon.
“Wait wait! I didn’t say I’d rather die than submit! I didn’t say that!” Under the threat of death, the shadow attachment demon eagerly jumped over in front of the black vortex Jian Yi summoned, gathered its essential demonic energy, and threw it in with its eyes closed.
As for the pain and humiliation before, it has already forgotten completely to the back of its head.
Jian Yi heaved a long sigh: “Shixiong is the best after all.”
Wen Xuan shook his head in exasperation.
Moments later, the vortex spun slowly, the black color gradually fading away and becoming a white colored ball of light. It landed on the tip of Jian Yi’s finger and buried into the fingerprints on his finger, leaving behind a light mark.
At the same time, Wen Xuan also felt heat on his fingertip. He raised his hand to look. Sure enough, a light circular mark also appeared on his finger. It was only the size of a pin, looking exactly the same as the one Jian Yi has. Meanwhile a link also appeared in his heart. This link was connected to the shadow attachment demon. From this moment onward, no matter what unusual thing happened with this shadow attachment demon, the two of them would know. And with only a single thought, they can make it experience unspeakable suffering. Unless they voluntarily canceled the contract, it was bound for the rest of its life.
However, at the very least, the shadow attachment demon preserved its life.
Also as soon as the contract was signed, it knew these two people no longer planned to kill it directly. Therefore, it became bolder instead. Immediately it said to Jian Yi in a peculiar tone: “You really aren’t simple huh? All of these in and outs, even some of us demons don’t understand it with such clarity.”
When Jian Yi heard these words, he first looked at Wen Xuan.
Wen Xuan’s expression didn’t change at all. Ever since he saw Jian Yi read the Will of the Heaven, no matter what Jian Yi knew, Wen Xuan didn’t find it strange at all.
As long as Wen Xuan didn’t suspect anything, Jian Yi felt extremely indifferent. He said with a cold smile: “Before you go off track, you should say what you need to say.”
The presence of other demons? The shadow attachment demon fell silent for a moment, but didn’t remain silent for too long. Amongst demons, although logically, they should unite against a common foe. In the end, they always viewed themselves as most important. Betray wasn’t something taboo to them.
In comparison, Wen Xuan and Jian Yi were both its contract owners right now. The quality of life for its future days depended on these two people. Naturally, it’d think for these two people’s sake.
“I also don’t really know why there are demons in the North Ning Continent.” It said: “I hibernated for a long time and just woke up these recent years. As for other demonic cultivators, I’m not sure. After I woke up, I’ve seen only a few. If need be, I might be able to get in touch with them. However, let me say the ugly words first. If you want to cause trouble for them, you’re not qualified at the moment.”
Jian Yi nodded: “No rush.”
Wen Xuan wanted to speak but hesitated, clearly not wanting to put this matter aside. However, after a while, he still sighed and accepted the fact that they weren’t strong enough at the moment.
“Then let’s talk about the empathy parasite.” Wen Xuan said: “You really don’t know how to get rid of it?”
The shadow attachment demon shrank towards the shadow under the tree, clearly looking rather awkward.
“That……” He pointed at the corpse that only had half a head on the side of the road: “person is an inner disciple of Cerulean Feathers. However, his shifu died so normally, people didn’t bother with him. After I took over his body, I read plenty of jade slips inside the Cerulean Feathers Sect. That’s where I learned how to use the empathy parasite. As for the method to get rid of the parasite…… at that time, I didn’t think I’d need to use it.”
Therefore, you didn’t learn it? Wen Xuan’s cheek twitched.
“Can you go back to learn it now?” Jian Yi followed up.
“Let me try……” As the shadow attachment demon said this, he squeezed back into the corpse of Zhao guy from Cerulean Feathers who was missing half a head.
Then, a strange thing happened. The Zhao guy’s horrifying corpse got up just like that, felt its way to where the other half of its head was, picked it up, then pieced it together like a jigsaw puzzle. Wen Xuan forcibly suppressed the disgust he felt and saw, after a period of wiggling, the two head pieces stuck together again at the seams and started to reconnect. Even the injury that was sliced open by the sharp sword gradually closed, looking wonderful and unblemished in the end. It was still that slightly handsome fox-like face, looking like it was never chopped off.
Moving his head slightly, the guy touched the site of his injury with the tips of his fingers, then let out a breath: “Looks like it’s all good.”
Entering the body, even its voice changed to something different. Originally, the shadow attachment demon’s voice was extremely high pitched. Right now, it sounded closer to a normal man…… even if it was still slightly high pitched.
Wen Xuan couldn’t help but click his tongue in wonder.
Jian Yi’s eyebrow raised: “This cultivator is called what?”
“Zhao Feiyu.” The shadow attachment demon, no, right now it was the Zhao guy from Cerulean Feathers answering.
As he talked, he gave Jian Yi a glance. After signing the death contract, he was connected internally with Wen Xuan and Jian Yi. Naturally, he was more sensitive to the state of these two people. With just one glance, he instantly discovered an aura that he didn’t notice before on Jian Yi’s body. His expression promptly changed subtly.
He almost asked directly, however, he was an astute type in the end. Very quickly, he realized that it wouldn’t be good for Wen Xuan to hear what he discovered. Therefore, he only looked back and forth between the two people, wanting to talk but hesitated.
“Then we’ll be troubling Cultivator Zhao to deal with the method to get rid of the empathy parasite.” Jian Yi cupped his hands at him.
Wen Xuan still looked somewhat conflicted. Clearly he hasn’t quite adapted to the situation before him yet. However, he wasn’t such an inflexible person, and knew what’s urgent and what’s not. After a moment, he also cupped his hands similarly: “Please.”
Zhao Feiyu nodded and turned to leave.
“Wait.” Jian Yi followed him and said: “I still have a few words to say to you.”
Originally, Wen Xuan wanted to follow him, but Jian Yi turned his head and said: “Shixiong, can you clean up the scene here? It’ll prevent people from seeing anything strange if they happen to come by in the future.”
After the two people left Wen Xuan behind and walked further away, Jian Yi finally grabbed Zhao Feiyu and asked viciously: “Ask away, what is it?”
Zhao Feiyu replied: “It’s really nothing. I just discovered traces of a curse left on your body.”
“A curse?” Jian Yi furrowed his brows.
“A curse that’s already been utilized.” Saying this, Zhao Feiyu suddenly felt courageous again. After a while, he chucked: “Your body has already been cursed to death once before– so in the end, we’re actually the same kind of people huh?”
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Não tinha pensando como q o original morreu …
i love horror, i love spooky stuff, i love all of it. however, reading about the demon re-entering a corpse and just smushing his severed head back together, like you’d fix a play-doh sculpure? that messed with me.
Dropping it cause of the empathy parasite bs. Its like cn authors are unable to write normal romance
Honestly tho… it was probably those cliche af Gu parasite we see in every other xianxia novels… Why can’t the author just let the romance develop naturally I wonder… sighs
It will actually develop naturally….. That is why Jian Yi didn’t let the shadow demon to say anything about dual cultivation or the way in which it is beneficial…. So far, this empathy parasite will let Wen Xuan understand Jian Yi a little better, such as those flashing by past of Jian Yi…..
I think if he’s cultivation keeps growing he is find out eventually if not why would the sect leader also tell Jian shidi that the path he is walking is different from his shixiong?
I call dibs on Wen Shixiong being a demon or at least half a demon or something else because there’s no way i will believe he’s 100% human