“Shixiong…… I……. ” Jian Yi instantly panicked somewhat, face green one second and white the next. Then, he clenched his jaw: “Shixiong, I don’t want to do this either, but she saw you. How can I let her leave here alive?”
So this was the reason? Hearing this reason, Wen Xuan roared angrily again, even more furious than before. Just because she saw him briefly, she should die? What kind of reason was this?
“Shixiong, I’m doing this for your sake.” Jian Yi continued to say: “I’m only trying to protect you.”
Here it was again. These words again.
It’s all for your sake. It’s for your own good.
In these days, how many times has Jian Yi said these words in total? And every time, Wen Xuan had no way to argue back. It was these kinds of words that always led to Wen Xuan’s compliance and surrender.
However this time, Wen Xuan has finally had enough. He stared fixedly at Jian Yi, not saying anything.
In face of this silence, Jian Yi’s complexion looked even worse. When he first saw Wen Xuan, Jian Yi naturally felt regret. If he knew beforehand that Wen Xuan was watching on the side, he definitely wouldn’t have done this kind of thing in front of Wen Xuan. However, after confronting Wen Xuan, the frustration and grievance in his heart took over.
“Shixiong, why would you appear here? Why aren’t you inside the cave?” Jian Yi shot a vicious look at the little girl that was protected behind Wen Xuan: “Did she make you come out?”
Thinking this, the killing intent in Jian Yi’s eyes actually increased, not decreased.
“Did you forget what I said before again? Did you forget what would happen if you were seen by people? Shixiong, take advantage of the fact that no one is close right now and return quickly. Just leave the outside things to me. I will definitely protect you well……” Saying this, Jian Yi took a few steps over. He reached out his hands, wanting to stroke Wen Xuan’s fur like before to soothe Wen Xuan’s mood.
Wen Xuan looked at the hand that Jian Yi extended over. He knew what kind of warmth that palm brought and couldn’t help but start to tremble.
Ah, that was the only light that he could still see right now. He was practically about to surrender once again.
But who couldn’t tell, Jian Yi was still full of killing intent. He was only waiting to act again after sending Wen Xuan away.
If Wen Xuan really yielded, it’d be the death of an innocent– And it’ll be his Jian shidi who will end up killing this innocent, just because of the reason ‘it’s all for your sake’– this was something that Wen Xuan couldn’t accept no matter what.
Ultimately, Wen Xuan didn’t let Jian Yi’s hand touch him, because that would have crushed all of his resistance. He took a step back and stubbornly guarded in front of the girl.
Jian Yi’s extended hand stiffened in midair just like that. After a moment, he withdrew his hand. Grinding his teeth, his expression started to twist somewhat: “Shixiong, move out of the way!”
Wen Xuan roared lowly, wanting Jian Yi to abandon this murderous plan.
“Move!” Jian Yi yelled loudly, infuriated: “Do you have to protect everyone? You clearly learned already that no one in this world is worthy of your protection! In your most desperate moment, no one helped you!”
Saying this, Jian Yi’s eyes reddened. Countless times before, he thought Wen Xuan’s world only had him. Yet, there’d always be some careless outsiders intruding. These outsiders, no matter who it was, clearly would only end up hurting Wen Xuan.
He started gathering spiritual energy in his palm, and actually wanted to circle around Wen Xuan to kill that girl.
He wasn’t the same as Wen Xuan. He didn’t want to consider if this girl was innocent or not. He didn’t want to consider if she needed to die or not. He only knew that this girl was a time bomb. Disregarding the anger Wen Xuan will have for him because of his actions towards her, to Jian Yi currently, a mere time bomb was already enough reason to get rid of her. There’s no way he’d let go of anything that could bring danger to Wen Xuan in the future.
Even if this will make Wen Xuan extremely angry, he would rather spend more time later to make up for this fissure.
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However, just as Jian Yi raised his hand, he heard a furious snarl. An upsurge of demonic beast spiritual energy erupted from Wen Xuan’s body and headed straight at Jian Yi.
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Wen Xuan gave Jian Yi one last deep look and then turned around to pick up the unconscious girl on the floor. Throwing her onto his back, he carried her and ran off.
When Jian Yi finally recovered and broke through that ice prison, he couldn’t see Wen Xuan at all.
Jian Yi’s hands and feet were cold, even somewhat numb. He spent a long time to finally acknowledge the truth that Wen Xuan actually left him because of some unknown girl. Instantly, his eyes turned bloodshot, as he gave chase towards the direction that Wen Xuan headed off to, as if insane.
Right now it was already nighttime. Wen Xuan was like the mist in the night, traveling through the clouds at a speed that couldn’t be clearly seen. He ran very quickly. He didn’t dare to stop. He knew that Jian Yi would definitely give chase. If it happened again, he didn’t know if he would still have the courage to make the same decision. At this moment in time, he can only protect the girl on his back and run like his life depended on it.
After some unknown time passed, a white line appeared on the horizon. The sky was starting to light up.
The cover of the night gradually disappeared. Just as Wen Xuan started to panic, he felt that the girl on his back moved a little, like she was about to wake up.
Wen Xuan hastily hid inside a cave and put the girl down.
Mere moments later, the girl opened her eyes and struggled to get up. At first she was somewhat confused. Then, she finally remembered what had happened. Instantly, her face turned white. After that, she took off the jade amulet that had broken from blocking Jian Yi’s attack from her waist and yelled: how terrible.
She held this jade amulet and nervously looked around.
Wen Xuan already hid himself behind heavy layers of trees. He originally only wanted to look silently, just making sure that this girl was safe. However, when the girl pulled out the jade amulet, Wen Xuan abruptly took a heavy breath.
This subtle movement was very quickly discovered by the girl.
The little girl first panicked. Then, discovering Wen Xuan didn’t have any bad intentions, she calmed down again: “Mr. Demonic Beast, could it be? You saved me?”
Wen Xuan’s gaze still remained staring at the jade amulet in her hand, a wave of shock surging in his heart. He was extremely familiar with the style of this jade amulet. Of course, this was because he once saw the same jade amulet countless times before– in that place that was originally in his body, on the waist of the divine memory of Ye ShengGe!
How surprising. This girl that he saved by chance just happened to have the same jade amulet on her waist as Ye ShengGe.
Wen Xuan then recalled the name that Jian Yi called this girl– Miss Ye?
Wen Xuan made a rumbling sound in his throat, not even knowing how he should be feeling at this moment. Just very complicated. In a flash, he had a whole bunch of questions to ask, yet he didn’t know where to start.
The little girl, however, already walked in front of him and asked quickly: “Mr. Demonic Beast, just what exactly happened?” Thinking about how Jian Yi suddenly dealt a killing blow at that time, she had lingering fear from the aftermath and also felt quite wronged: “Why did he want to kill me?”
Wen Xuan placed his paw on the ground but was very hesitant. After a while, he finally wrote: Can you see clearly now?
The little girl nodded. With the passage of time, the frost on the magic bead already melted.
However, Wen Xuan didn’t continue to write for quite a while.
Just as the little girl got ready to ask, Wen Xuan finally moved his claws, almost trembling as he wrote: Please forgive him.
The little girl was extremely surprised: “Why? He wanted to kill me!”
Please forgive him. Please forgive him…… Wen Xuan still said these words, writing them again and again on the ground. The more he wrote, the more he trembled. In the end, he really couldn’t write anymore and laid on the ground, howling sorrowfully.
“You…… Ai. Mr. Demonic Beast, don’t be like this……” The little girl frantically consoled him.
She really wasn’t a stone hearted person. Seeing Wen Xuan like this, she couldn’t resist nodding her head in the end and softening her voice, saying: “Okay okay. I wasn’t too hurt anyways, so……”
Saying this, she looked at the broken jade amulet in her hand, face scrunching up like a bitter melon: “However, no…… I still can’t pretend nothing happened. The jade amulet broke. Shifu will definitely scold me to death.”
When Wen Xuan heard ‘shifu’ this word, he recalled the mysterious relationship she had with Ye ShengGe. He hesitantly wrote on the ground: The Little Valley?
The little girl made a sound of surprise and looked at Wen Xuan with a completely different gaze: “How did you know?”
As expected. This girl came from the same place as Ye ShengGe, with the same shifu. Perhaps even related by blood.
Ye ShengGe– Because of this name, Wen Xuan felt a bit closer to her.
Then, the girl told Wen Xuan. That jade amulet was a token bestowed upon her by her shifu before she left. It could save her life once. However, her shifu also made it clear. As soon as the jade amulet broke, she must return immediately or he would expel her from the apprenticeship.
“Of course, shifu wouldn’t really expel me.” The little girl sighed: “but I might not escape from his fury.”
Originally there was also a teleportation talisman inside this jade amulet which would teleport her immediately when the amulet broke. However, for some unknown reason, the teleportation talisman didn’t work after the amulet broke. The little girl can only head back to the entrance connecting to The Little Valley herself.
This entrance wasn’t nearby. If she went on foot, it’d take several months. She definitely wouldn’t be able to get back before the time limit that her shifu set up.
Wen Xuan thought briefly and then volunteered to carry her. The little girl cheerfully agreed.
Wen Xuan’s flying speed was much faster. It only needed merely three days of traveling. However, he still had to avoid people along the way. Therefore, it took a bit longer. In the end, it took five days to arrive.
On the road, the little girl said her name. Surname Ye, first name Qin. Ye Qin.
Although Ye Qin agreed to forget that she was almost killed by Jian Yi, she still couldn’t resist brooding. Before they reached the Little Valley, she took the opportunity to ask: “Why did you have to plead for mercy for him? Are you guys that close? I once asked him if you guys were friends. He answered very vaguely.”
Wen Xuan didn’t know how to reply so he just remained silent. He can’t talk anyways.
“Or is he your master?” Ye Qin continued to ask.
Wen Xuan stopped abruptly in midair and almost threw her off. These words made him extremely indignant. He roared furiously nonstop.
Ye Qin actually didn’t mean it in a bad way. She was only deducting logically. Seeing she guessed wrong, she hastily apologized.
However, Wen Xuan couldn’t resist thinking. That’s right. What kind of relationship did he and Jian Yi have currently? After hearing the words Ye Qin said, he was really very angry. He wanted to say loudly that it wasn’t like that. He and Jian Yi were equals. However, ever since he turned into a demonic beast, after all this time, the interaction between him and Jian Yi clearly degenerated. He knew that actually, they haven’t been equals for a long time.
Just as he pondered melancholically, Ye Qin made a delighted noise behind him and said they had finally arrived.
Wen Xuan looked at the completely ordinary, barren little hill below him. This was the entrance to the Little Valley? Was there some kind of mistake?
Very quickly he discovered, there really wasn’t a mistake. This was it.
He saw a thing, laying on the withered grass of the little hill. It was an old message talisman that had bloodstains on it.
Around 30 years ago, when Wen Xuan was still in the Water Cloud Sect, this talisman was folded into a crane shape and sent out. It must have circled this place countless times, unable to enter. In the end, its spiritual energy was exhausted and it fell to the floor to face the rain and wind. Luckily, it was stuck between rocks. That’s how Wen Xuan managed to see it at this time.
As Ye Qing went to cast magic to open the entrance of the passage, Wen Xuan pulled this message talisman out from the cracks in the rocks and opened it carefully with his claws.
There were only these four words written on it– “I really miss you.”
Wen Xuan looked at these four words, silent for a long time. He carefully closed the talisman and then turned around to request Ye Qin, please let him come into the Little Valley to visit for a bit.
“Daoist master Ye……” Wen Xuan asked her: “Was Daoist master Ye’s remains buried inside the Little Valley?”
The passage was already opened. A warm white light enveloped Wen Xuan and Ye Qin.
Ye Qin answered in the white light: “Yep. You also know shixiong?”
The warm light dissipated. Below their feet was green grass. Ye Qin completed her words: “Do you want to sweep his tomb?”
Wen Xuan nodded, found out where Ye ShengGe was buried from Ye Qin, and headed off in the direction she told him. There wasn’t that much difference between the Little Valley and the outside world. The sky was just bluer and the grass was greener, like an otherworldly paradise.
Occasionally, Wen Xuan could see the residents of the Little Valley passing by. They had no cultivation and were only normal mortals, but Wen Xuan couldn’t help but feel panic. However, he very quickly discovered that when these residents of the Little Valley saw him, they didn’t act any differently than seeing another mortal, as if they weren’t surprised just because he was a demonic beast. It wasn’t until after he walked a bit more and saw other demonic beasts that Wen Xuan discovered, in this world, humans coexisted with demonic beasts.
However, he was ultimately only a guest in the Little Valley. After making a fleeting glance at everything along his trip, he very quickly arrived at Ye ShengGe’s grave.
Wen Xuan placed the message talisman with those four words here.
Daoist Master Ye…… Wen Xuan made a rumbling sound from his throat. He wanted to say many words, yet he couldn’t even say a single word. He wanted to write something on the ground, yet in the end, he still couldn’t write anything. In the end, he bent his front limbs and gave a deep bow. Everything was within this bow.
After this bow, Wen Xuan got up and surprisingly discovered someone standing behind him.
The person’s figure looked hazy, not very distinct, yet he was undoubtedly standing right there. Wen Xuan couldn’t feel this person’s cultivation level and unconsciously became vigilant.
“Don’t be so nervous.” The figure smiled faintly: “I heard Qin-er brought back a guest and came to take a look, that’s all.”
Saying this, the figure looked at Ye ShengGe’s grave and sighed: “But I never thought that you’d have ShengGe’s presence on you. My two disciples have such age differences, yet they were both destined to meet you. This is really quite extraordinary.”
Hearing these words, Wen Xuan jolted.
“It looks like you’re probably Wen Xuan. ShengGe mentioned you to me back then. He was even the one that gave you this name.” This figure thought about the things that happened back then and couldn’t resist smiling in reminiscence: “Nice to meet you. I’m the master of this Little Valley. I’ve already forgotten my name but everyone calls me Master of the Little Valley.”
Master of the Little Valley. Master of the Little Valley. Wen Xuan chewed over these five words countlessly, utterly astonished.
Back then Ye ShengGe fell because he was killed by the combined force of some villains. Not even a night had passed, those villains completely disappeared as if they vanished from the face of this world. Back then, there were rumors that the Master of the Little Valley got revenge for his disciple.
Those villains were all nascent soul cultivators back then. If the rumors were true, then this Master of the Little Valley was at least a Dasheng cultivator.
I kinda wish that Ye ShengDe wasn’t dead. He seems like a great person and… He and Chu Lian made a really good ship.
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Obrigada pelo capítulo ^^
Totally agree. It really makes you sigh in regret when thinking about their relationship.
Thank You for the chapter (๑╹ڡ╹)╭ ～ ♡
chu lian’s message finally reached its destination 😭
hey what’s up i am SOBBING. the idea that CL had this message ready for decades, holding onto it through so many tough battles that it’s battered and covered in blood, ready to send out when he died so that if he was gone there would still be one part of him left in this world, a final message holding the truest words he has left to share, and it’s “I really miss you”! I was not exaggerating i am sobbing that’s so fucking sad and romantic and amazing and terrible fcuk
If only Wen Xuan had grown up here… would he still need that fool Jian Yi? I feel so sad for Wen Xuan
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