Wen Xuan thought about that stupid thing between himself and Jian Yi. The more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became. Some hints of grumpiness were even displayed on his face.
Murong Feng watched on from the side, thinking this was really very amusing and couldn’t resist teasing a bit: “Cultivator Wen……”
Yet just as she said this, the spiritual energy suddenly shook massively.
Murong Feng instantly closed her mouth and looked outside in surprise.
This vibration came extremely suddenly, but also extremely ground shaking. In that instant, not only that one place shook, rather it was in all directions, affecting everywhere. Almost as if the entire spiritual energy under the sky all shook at once. Even the mortals outside who couldn’t feel spiritual presence felt the air almost sinking briefly.
“This is……” Wen Xuan was also bewildered and looked outside as well. He didn’t get a chance to figure it out yet when an overbearing aura suddenly erupted from a certain direction.
Wen Xuan instantly pushed open the door and rushed outside. He looked in that direction, inexplicably shocked beyond words.
It was an overbearing demonic energy.
In the ancient battle, humans and demonic beasts allied together and the demons suffered a huge loss. After that, demons clearly were heading towards extinction. Even if there were a few that escaped, they were few and weak, unable to succeed in the current circumstances. But what they felt at this moment in time was undoubtedly an extremely powerful demonic energy.
How could there be a demon who could still emit this kind of energy in this world?
Murong Feng followed Wen Xuan closely behind, her elegant brows furrowing tightly and expression grave: “Looks like something huge happened.”
In this short moment, Cultivator Sun also charged out of his room and met up with them. His face was also filled with the same shock.
Jian Yi was slightly slower, yet he came out of his room not long after. In comparison to the shock on the other people’s faces, Jian Yi was far more calm. His expression was just exceptionally grave.
He quietly stood next to Wen Xuan, without saying a word.
“This…this direction…… could it be?” Wen Xuan looked towards the direction of the demonic energy. Very quickly he sensed something and his face color paled somewhat. He flipped out a memory from his heart and compared it to the situation in front of him currently. Then he discovered shockingly that he was very familiar with the direction where this demonic energy was coming from.
The memory was back then when he first met Jian Yi. Jian Yi had brought him to find an ancient mausoleum. The divine flying sword that he carried currently was found over there. Later, he reported this place to the Sect and then never went there again.
The direction the demonic energy was coming from was exactly the same as the location of that ancient mausoleum.
Wen Xuan unconsciously turned his head to look at Jian Yi.
Jian Yi gave him a nod.
Wen Xuan’s face instantly turned white as paper. He thought that the ancient mausoleum was somewhat fishy before and once suspected if there was a trap there, and also suspected if something terrible was hidden there. However, he never thought that at the deepest part of that place, there’d be such a strong demon hidden there.
If this demon really escaped from that place, Wen Xuan felt, he was probably partially responsible for the blame.
He quickly took out that divine flying sword and wanted to rush over to take a look.
“Shixiong,” Jian Yi pulled on his sleeve and stopped him, shaking his head: “That’s not a situation you can get involved in.”
No need to talk about other things, just talking about the distance between the two locations currently. If Wen Xuan wanted to rush over there, with his speed, it’d still be several days later. How could Wen Xuan not understand this logic? But if he was expected to just standby and watch, he couldn’t do it either.
“What Cultivator Jian said is correct.” Murong Feng swept back her bangs and advised: “Cultivator Wen, let me speak frankly. Even if a golden core cultivator like me went over at this time, I’d only be a hindrance.”
Hearing these words, Wen Xuan felt extremely surprised.
Murong Feng didn’t explain anymore. She only closed her mouth and indicated for them to be quiet momentarily.
Very quickly, Wen Xuan could feel a presence passing by from far away. Surprisingly, it was a nascent soul Daoist Master flying by. Seeing the trajectory, this unknown nascent soul cultivator was currently rushing towards the location of the demonic energy.
Wen Xuan did his best to spread his senses. Sure enough, he discovered that from all different directions, several nascent soul cultivators were all rushing over.
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In this kind of situation, there really was no way for them to interject. Wen Xuan sighed, but his mood became even heavier.
Alarming all of these nascent soul cultivators, this matter was surely extremely important.
“Good thing there’s all of these nascent soul cultivators here.” Murong Feng’s expression already started to relax a lot. She said with a smile: “Even if the sky falls, we aren’t responsible to hold it up.”
Saying this, she walked towards the direction of her room like nothing even happened.
Wen Xuan sighed again, standing where he was and only acknowledging those words. However, looking at Jian Yi who was standing calm and unperturbed by his side, he still had one thing he couldn’t understand: “Jian shidi, the place that you brought me to back then……”
“Shixiong,” Jian Yi interrupted his words and said: “You’re not to blame.”
Wen Xuan slowed to a stop.
“I’m also not responsible.” Jian Yi continued to say: “This is only inevitable.”
Wen Xuan quietly examined these words and then made a solemn face: “Sure enough. You knew about this already. But if you already knew, then……”
“Shixiong,” Jian Yi asked him: “Do you remember the two cultivators we met back then?”
Qin Shiyu and Xue BingEr. Wen Xuan naturally remembered.
“To be honest,” Jian Yi told him: “When I brought you over there, we actually stole their opportunity.”
Startled, Wen Xuan then pondered briefly. He knew this was actually the truth.
Jian Yi was someone who read the original text. The reason why he knew about that ancient mausoleum was because he read about Qin Shiyu finding it in the original text. Then he made the decision, and thought up all sorts of plans to bring Wen Xuan over there one step ahead. Not only did he not feel guilty about this at all, he was completely merciless when encountering the two people from the original text.
Understanding all of this, Wen Xuan felt like he didn’t know if he should laugh or cry.
“Even if I didn’t bring you, that place would still be discovered in the end. Then everything would have developed the same to this current state.” Jian Yi explained seriously: “Not to mention, after we left, that place has been managed together by the Water Cloud Sect and Penglai North Branch. Out of those people, who isn’t experienced? Even if I didn’t say anything, how could they have not sensed it? Shixiong, in comparison to us, they know much much more.”
These words felt a bit like twisting the truth, yet there was no way to refute them. Wen Xuan recalled the miserable experience of being cheated by the Water Cloud Sect Leader before and was momentarily speechless.
“None of them stopped it so why must we assume responsibility?” Jian Yi asked him in the end.
“Very well.” Wen Xuan patted his forehead: “I can’t win against you.”
Jian Yi smiled. He really didn’t feel guilty at all about this matter. This was a major thing that happened in the original novel. As long as it didn’t cause harm to Wen Xuan, he didn’t bother wasting time thinking about how to stop it. As for bringing Wen Xuan over despite knowing there was something dangerous there– At that time, Wen Xuan’s cultivation was not even mid stage of yuan gathering. He couldn’t even break through the 2nd barrier, don’t even talk about the 3rd barrier that needed a late stage yuan gathering cultivator. As long as they didn’t break that 3rd barrier, Wen Xuan was completely safe.
Meanwhile, those nascent soul cultivators, who flew over from everywhere in North Ning, almost reached that place of gathering.
Yet just at this time, that originally ground shaking demonic energy, suddenly weakened in an instant.
Startled, Wen Xuan almost thought there was something wrong with his senses. But after careful examination, he really did feel that demonic energy was becoming weaker and weaker. After a moment, he actually couldn’t even feel it at all. At this time, those nascent soul cultivators didn’t even get the chance to encounter that demon yet.
“Did it…… hide away?” Wen Xuan said in surprise.
Jian Yi nodded, a complicated expression showing on his face: “He is very smart.”
Wen Xuan’s emotions were also very complicated. In face of the assembly of nascent soul Daoist Masters, for that demon to choose to avoid meeting his enemies head-on, it indicated that his actual strength wasn’t enough to contend against all of these nascent soul cultivators. This was something worthy of rejoicing. Yet since this demon knew to hide, it made this matter much more troublesome.
After a while, Wen Xuan shook his head and once again recognized the fact that this was not something he could interfere with.
Accepting this reality, he asked Jian Yi: “What should we do next?”
Jian Yi faintly furrowed his brows. Thinking for a moment, he shook his head: “This thing shouldn’t affect us too much momentarily. We only need to wait for those nascent soul cultivators to deal with it.”
Then they should continue as before, doing their own business? Wen Xuan looked dubiously at Jian Yi.
Jian Yi nodded, but seemed a little hesitant. He felt like he seemed to have forgotten something, but for the moment, he couldn’t remember at all.
Later that day, the maids who were left in the dust by Murong Feng finally caught up, bringing with them the infant who was temporarily handed over to them by Murong Feng.
Murong Feng clearly liked this infant very much. The maids just brought him over and she already hugged him into her arms, refusing to let go.
Jian Yi saw how this infant was raised even more white and chubby, and suddenly yelled ‘ah.’
He remembered. He really did forget one thing.
Or more correctly speaking, he forgot one person. The person that he wanted to throw this infant at originally.
The Cerulean Feathers Sect, Zhao Feiyu. Shadow Attachment Demon. Demon, demon! Just imagine for a second. Such an unusual period of time, this small little demon laid buried in the midst of a righteous cultivation sect, with all of these terrifying strengths all over.
Jian Yi didn’t really care about Zhao Feiyu’s fate, but he had to care about the method of resolving the empathy parasite.
Immediately, he charged back to his own room and hastily sent a letter towards Zhao Feiyu.
Wen Xuan noticed Jian Yi’s sudden rush and followed him into the room. After Jian Yi’s reminder, Wen Xuan also quickly realized the seriousness of this situation. With a heavy face, he also waited impatiently for Zhao Feiyu’s return letter with Jian Yi.
Good thing they didn’t wait for very long before Zhao Feiyu’s reply came back.
Jian Yi opened the letter. From the fleeting scrawl, the two people can tell just how much Zhao Feiyu was panicking at the moment. With the sudden appearance of all of these nascent soul Daoist Masters searching all over the world for demons, Zhao Feiyu was really terrified.
If possible, Zhao Feiyu only wanted to dig a hole and bury himself in it.
But he made a death contract with Jian Yi so his life was held in the hands of Jian Yi and Wen Xuan. He must listen to these two’s instructions. And in Jian Yi’s letter, Jian Yi expressed very severely and clearly that he needed Zhao Feiyu to exchange for the solution of the empathy parasite as soon as possible and quickly hand it over to the two of them, disregarding everything else.
Fortunately, Zhao Feiyu already gathered some sect contribution points from all over. Although he didn’t do any tasks of high value and didn’t accumulate too much, it was enough to exchange for the solution of the empathy parasite. He was able to reach this first step very quickly.
Therefore, he wrote a location in his return letter, hoping that Jian Yi and Wen Xuan would meet up with him as soon as possible.
Jian Yi remembered this location then ripped this letter into dust with his spiritual energy. The two people didn’t dare to dally and quickly said their goodbyes with Murong Feng.
“You’re going already?” Murong Feng said: “That’s good actually. Later today, I’m going to return myself. When you guys are done with your business, you can come to Anfeng City to find me.”
The two people agreed, then rushed towards the location that Zhao Feiyu wrote. As for that infant, he can only be given back to Murong Feng to look after for the moment. Good thing Murong Feng was very happy about this.
That location wasn’t too far nor too close. Wen Xuan’s speed on the divine flying sword was very fast. The two people traveled a day to reach it.
When they arrived, they looked left and right, but couldn’t find Zhao Feiyu’s figure.
Then they waited for about half a day and finally heard a soft trembling voice coming from behind them. Turning their heads to look, they saw a small snake.
The small snake slowly crawled before the two people and opened its mouth. A black shadow then crawled out of its stomach.
Abruptly seeing the shadow attachment demon’s real form again, the two people both became rather nauseous in unison. When this black figure dug out a jade slip from its stomach, the two people practically threw up.
However, this jade slip was really very important. Jian Yi forcibly endured his desire to throw up and grabbed it out of the shadow attachment demon’s hand quickly.
“You two, you two……” Finally, the shadow attachment demon was free to speak with them. This voice was faintly trembling, filled with a sorrow from the bottom of its heart: “I almost thought I wouldn’t be able to see you guys again……”
This story actually was really enough to make people shed tears.
Cerulean Feathers was the branch that Violet Feathers opened in the North Ning Continent. The highest cultivators inside the sect were a few golden cores, which allowed this shadow attachment demon to live like a fish in water. But the nascent soul masters that were only present in Violet Feathers abruptly jumped from Central Sheng to Cerulean Feathers. A total of three arrived.
The shadow attachment demon was so scared it didn’t even dare to use Zhao Feiyu’s body anymore. It decisively let that body look like it died suddenly and hid its real form into the shadows. Good thing the shadow attachment demon was best at hiding its presence. Those nascent cultivator’s thoughts weren’t focused on him either, so he managed to escape like this, barely.
Along the way, he switched at least 10 different bodies, pig, bird, snake, anything he could use, he used. Then he’d see nascent soul cultivators flying over his head every once in a while, again and again, scaring him so much that the animal he was possessing shed fur in fear.
Narrating to this point, the shadow attachment demon was practically crying.
At this time, with the method of resolving the empathic parasite in hand, logically, the two people no longer needed to care about his fate. But they did sign a death contract in the end. At the very least, they count as being on the same boat. Therefore, the two people still acted benevolently and comforted it briefly.
Face full of tears, the shadow attachment demon was practically about to rub tears onto their hands.
Just at this time, he suddenly stiffened, extremely perceptive. How could he not be perceptive? On this one day, the feeling of nascent soul masters flying over his head every once in a while was enough to force him into insanity. In a blink of an eye, this shadow attachment demon slipped into the grass bushes behind the two people and disappeared, only leaving behind an area of swaying grass.
Wen Xuan and Jian Yi weren’t as perceptive. It wasn’t until the shadow attachment demon completely disappeared that they sensed there was indeed a nascent soul cultivator headed in this direction.
There were plenty of nascent soul cultivators flying around all over the world right now, so they didn’t think too much and waited for this person to pass. It wasn’t until this person flew closer and closer that Wen Xuan made a surprised sound and felt this presence was exceptionally familiar.
This nascent soul cultivator who carried a familiar presence to Wen Xuan seemed like he was just passing by, but suddenly, as if he abruptly discovered something, he stopped in midair and then turned around, landing directly in front of the two people.
Wen Xuan stepped forward and called out: “Shifu.”
That’s right. This nascent soul cultivator who was passing by just happened to be Chu Lian. Since all of the nascent soul cultivators have dispatched, for them to meet Chu Lian at this time was a very natural coincidence.
Chu Lian furrowed his brows tightly, his mood clearly extremely displeased.
“Why would you be here?” He asked Wen Xuan.
……How was he supposed to answer this? Wen Xuan made a face and then replied respectfully: “This disciple has been searching for materials for the yuan gathering stage before. Right now, I’m journeying for experience outside of the Sect.”
After saying these words, Wen Xuan abruptly remembered. Back then, when Chu Lian gave him Ye ShengGe’s cultivation method, he said that once Wen Xuan read this method, he was no longer Chu Lian’s disciple.
But currently Chu Lian didn’t even bother with this thing.
Before he landed, he already noticed that Wen Xuan was yuan gathering again. Now examining closely, he can only confirm this truth more clearly. Chu Lian’s gaze remained on Wen Xuan, clearly very complicated.
“You’re yuan gathering.” Then, he said these pointless words.
“That’s right.” Wen Xuan answered with these pointless words: “This disciple is yuan gathering.”
“This time should have been very different than before. Have you……” Occasionally Chu Lian would seem like a proper shifu and express a hint of concern towards his student. But he really wasn’t used to being a shifu. This tiny amount of worry didn’t even have a chance to be expressed before Chu Lian furrowed his brows and berated severely: “Since you’re already yuan gathering, why are you still wandering around outside randomly? Why haven’t you returned back to the Sect? Right now, there’s a bit of a problem outside. It’s really not very peaceful, do you know that?”
The corner of Wen Xuan’s mouth twitched unconsciously. He can only obediently nod his head: “Yes. This disciple understands. I will return very soon.”
Chu Lian finally revealed a faintly satisfied expression. Patting his sleeve, he was just about to ride the wind upward again.
Yet just at this time, Chu Lian’s gaze suddenly constricted and he turned towards the grass bush behind Wen Xuan. With this look, Chu Lian’s complexion changed instantly. The spiritual energy in his hand flew out like a sharp blade as he shouted loudly: “Demon! Where do you think you’re hiding!”
In the blink of an eye, that shadow attachment demon was hit by the spiritual energy and let out a miserable shriek. Chu Lian swiftly walked over and captured it in his hand.
No matter how this shadow attachment demon cried, yelled and struggled, it couldn’t escape Chu Lian’s palm.
Wen Xuan and Jian Yi both withdrew their gazes, unable to watch.
Ze. they actually felt a bit bad for it.
Thank You for the chapter (๑•͈ᴗ•͈) ♡♡♡
I actually liked that demon. Farewell, my friend. We’ll meet again if fate brings us together…
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RIP dear friend