People always say that habit is a terrifying thing. For example, back then when Wen Xuan had just become a demonic beast, he couldn’t get used to his furry state at all. Even after shapeshifting, he couldn’t do anything about his ears and tail. Yet within a mere ten years, he stopped treating these excess fluffy parts any differently than other parts of his body.
Especially on cold nights, he practically couldn’t fall asleep without hugging his tail anymore.
Yet tonight, in his dreams, he absentmindedly hugged and rubbed the thing in his arms and suddenly discovered that this wasn’t the familiar fluffy feeling from his memories. Instantly, he woke up in surprise. Opening his eyes, he saw he was hugging a person in his arms. Lowering his head and looking again, he saw his own tail currently wrapped around that person’s leg.
Wen Xuan’s old face turned red. With a whoosh, he swung his tail behind him.
But he only moved it halfway when the person in his arms reached out a hand and grabbed the tail. Using his fingers to gently rub the tail, that person asked in a low voice: “Shixiong, how come you’re awake?”
How could Wen Xuan say it’s because he wasn’t used to suddenly hugging a person in his arms?
Wen Xuan could only cough once, evade the question, and ask: “How come you’re awake as well?”
“Too happy. I can’t sleep.” As Jian Yi said this, he nuzzled against the crook of Wen Xuan’s neck. Although he couldn’t sleep, he didn’t dare to move randomly while Wen Xuan was fast asleep a while ago and had been laying here stiffly all this time. Now that Wen Xuan was awake, it was like he escaped his reins and started rubbing without restraint.
Wen Xuan felt somewhat ticklish from the rubbing and unconsciously moved back. This movement made all the soreness in his body rise again from his bones, making him groan out loud. His head also recalled the extremely intense scene from before.
Really. Really too intense. In the end, when they left from that tree next to the waterfall, Wen Xuan practically couldn’t walk and had to be carried back by Jian Yi. Such a long road back, naturally Wen Xuan was seen by his subordinates. Recalling the expressions on those little demons’ faces at that time, Wen Xuan almost felt his vision turn dark.
Even though he didn’t care about his image like before, he still couldn’t help but feel his heart palpate thinking about how his subordinates will see him in the future.
As his heart thumped, he lowered his head to look and discovered Jian Yi’s brows slightly furrowed, clearly also distressed about something currently. Wen Xuan instantly forgot about his little worry and asked in concern: “What are you thinking about?”
“I……” Jian Yi found it somewhat hard to speak: “In the future, I might not be… as useful as I was before.”
This was talking about the fact that he could no longer decipher the Will of Heaven. Because he used up the strength held inside that round jade equipment, Jian Yi had lost his greatest advantage. The only thing left was his understanding of the original novel. However, because of his arrival, this world has already experienced great changes. The benefits of knowing the original novel was limited.
Wen Xuan finally understood why Jian Yi couldn’t find him. He also learned about how Jian Yi completely exhausted that power in one breath in order to find him. Wen Xuan didn’t know if he should laugh or cry. Rubbing Jian Yi’s head, he said: “Even without these things, my Jian shidi is the most impressive.”
Jian Yi lifted his head, the light in his eyes shining bright.
“So you searched for me for three days and couldn’t find me. That’s why you went to stay in the illusion for seven years? How outrageous,” Wen Xuan grumbled: “Good thing I couldn’t resist coming to find you. Or else who knows when I’d be waiting until.”
These words made Jian Yi somewhat embarrassed. Then Jian Yi remembered one thing: “Oh right. Shixiong, how did you find me?”
“Ah……” Wen Xuan also finally remembered something.
Qin Shiyu was the one who told him about Jian Yi’s location. Logically, he owed Qin Shiyu a favor. Now that he finally found Jian Yi, he should head back to return this favor.
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That’s right. Wen Xuan saw Jian Yi’s memories before and also saw some of the stuff that happened in the original novel. He knew his ultimate ending. And that ending was closely related to Qin Shiyu.
All of this was related to the thing that Qin Shiyu wanted to ask of him.
This story starts with the person that has always been following behind Qin Shiyu, Xue BingEr. This girl’s ancestors were from Penglai Sect. Her position in the North Penglai was pretty high, her natural aptitude was also well off. However, her personality was spoiled and unreasonable, as well as shortsighted. She would often do foolish things. This kind of girl, although not lacking in the number of romantic pursuers, speaking honestly, wasn’t the type to be liked by Qin Shiyu. However, Qin Shiyu kept her by his side all this time. Even after Penglai Sect collapsed, Xue BingEr continued to be the woman of the highest position in Qin Shiyu’s harem.
The real reason wasn’t because Qin Shiyu felt very favorable towards this woman. Instead, it’s because of another woman.
In Qin Shiyu’s youth, he encountered great catastrophes. His family clan collapsed and everyone died. He himself almost lost his life. Luckily, a female cultivator from Penglai Sect passed by and saved him. That female cultivator managed to save Qin Shiyu’s life, but suffered grave injuries and ended up dying not long after. After this, the elders from this female cultivator’s family collected her broken soul and used a secret technique to transfer it into a baby for rebirth. This then became Xue BingEr later on.
However, this reincarnation born from the secret technique was still very different from her previous life. Therefore, Qin Shiyu has been attempting to awaken the female cultivator inside Xue BingEr’s body all this time. In the original novel, Qin Shiyu found the cultivation method for extreme water roots inside the powerful demon’s trap and eagerly gave it to Xue BingEr to cultivate; because that female cultivator was also an extreme water root. However, Xue BingEr’s own root was lacking just a little from an extreme water root. Because of this little difference, Xue BingEr couldn’t handle the cultivation method she learned and started to rot from within. The spiritual bones in her body practically all started to crumble to dust.
The only method of saving Xue BingEr was to find a set of extreme water root and transplant it to her.
In the original novel, Qin Shiyu experienced hundreds and thousands of hardships to finally infiltrate Violet Feathers to find Wen Xuan who had been enslaved there for a hundred years. He made an offer. He can save Wen Xuan out of there, but Wen Xuan needed to give his extreme water root to Xue BingEr.
Wen Xuan agreed, because he was too desperate for freedom.
Yet after they actually left Violet Feathers, Wen Xuan broke his promise and escaped when Qin Shiyu was careless. This was because Wen Xuan would die if he didn’t have his extreme water root.
This matter gave Wen Xuan a second crime on top of his first ‘betraying his teacher and destroying a clan’: Breaking faith and forgetting his promises. The combination of these two crimes caused Wen Xuan to be reviled and cursed by thousands even after his death. Furthermore, the second crime was actually even worse than the first most of the time, because in the end, Qin Shiyu unified the world and became the deserving ruler of the realm.
Ultimately, Wen Xuan didn’t manage to live anyways. Qin Shiyu ended up finding him later on. He stabbed a sharp blade into Wen Xuan’s heart and finally took away his spiritual root forcibly.
This plot was written extremely clearly in the original novel. Jian Yi knew about it already. Wen Xuan also knew about it now.
“Are you still going to help him?” Jian Yi grinded his teeth: “I already said it before, that woman was a walking disaster. It’s a shame I wasn’t able to eliminate her back then……”
Seeing Jian Yi reveal this kind of vicious expression again, Wen Xuan lightly patted him on the shoulder, calming him down. No matter how many gratitude and grudges were formed in the original novel, in the end, they were all only in the original, right? The truth right now was that Wen Xuan really did rely on Qin Shiyu’s information to find Jian Yi. Not to mention, in order for Wen Xuan to travel freely inside South Feng, Qin Shiyu also gave him a lot of protection.
Of course, Wen Xuan already knew what Qin Shiyu wanted to ask because of the original novel; so he was already on guard.
The next morning, the soreness that Wen Xuan felt was somewhat better. At least he could move around as usual. Jian Yi, however, still remained by Wen Xuan’s side, hands outstretched like he was guarding something to protect him, almost like he was afraid Wen Xuan would suddenly fall over or something.
What really made Wen Xuan feel comforted was that the attitudes those little demons had towards him didn’t change by much.
It’s only when they looked at Jian Yi, that those little demons would reveal a look of admiration. That expression was practically like they saw a hero.
Wen Xuan rested a little more and returned to moving around as usual. Then he brought the group of little demons and Jian Yi to rendezvous with Qin Shiyu as agreed.
Qin Shiyu has been waiting for him in a hurry for a long time. Seeing him arrive, he hastily brought Wen Xuan into the hall and very quickly explained what he needed.
Wen Xuan finished listening and couldn’t help but exchange a gaze with Jian Yi.
The message that passed through the two people’s eyes was: As expected.
In this world, Jian Yi clearly also brought Wen Xuan to the trap placed by that powerful demon. But what resulted was that the two sides had to report the finding to their own sects. Therefore, Qin Shiyu wasn’t able to reap the same amount of profit as in the original novel. However, that cultivation method ultimately landed in Qin Shiyu’s hands anyways and caused Xue BingEr to end up in the same tragic situation as the original novel.
Who would have thought that in order to prevent Wen Xuan from obtaining a suitable cultivation method, the Sect Leader of the Water Cloud Sect, Jizi Ang, directly gave that cultivation method to North Penglai Sect.
“Cultivator Wen,” Qin Shiyu took a deep breath: “I know we have not interacted much before. We even have conflicted. My request does somewhat put you in a hard position. However, I already don’t have any other plans now and can only come beg you.”
Saying this, he led Wen Xuan and others into a secret room to let them see Xue BingEr.
When Wen Xuan saw the figure laying on the ice bed, Wen Xuan immediately froze. Before this, he never had a good impression of Xue BingEr, yet he still remembered that she was a rather good looking girl. What he saw currently was only a mass of flesh and blood, that’s all.
All the skin on Xue BingEr’s body has broken down, revealing the flesh underneath. It was impossible to see her original appearance.
Right now, she was definitely in pain. Yet that broken body didn’t move at all. Moving closer, Wen Xuan could feel the ice cold air surrounding her. In order to preserve her for a longer period of time, Qin Shiyu used magic to freeze her time.
Seeing the scene before his eyes, Wen Xuan couldn’t help but sigh.
“Cultivator Qin,” he asked: “Back then, when you gave that cultivation method to her, did you know things would become like this?”
Qin Shiyu’s face twitched, he didn’t answer.
Wen Xuan changed his question: “If you knew this would happen ahead of time, would you make the same decision?”
“What’s the point of thinking about this right now?” Qin Shiyu grinded his teeth: “I’m only begging you to help me……”
“How am I supposed to help?” Wen Xuan turned, looking like he was only casually changing his standing posture, yet his right hand already slid down to his waist, ready to grab his flying sword at any given moment: “The thing that you need, I have absolutely no reason to give to you.”
That’s right. In the original novel, Wen Xuan was enslaved by the Violet Feathers for a hundred years. That’s why he had no other choice but to agree to Qin Shiyu’s condition. Right now, Wen Xuan wasn’t at such a disadvantage. Even in the original novel, he knew enough to run away. Right now, he had less reasons to give up his spiritual root.
Qin Shiyu naturally knew this as well. There’s no way he could make Wen Xuan hand over that spiritual root.
Luckily, thanks to the changes brought about by Jian Yi, Qin Shiyu was able to find Wen Xuan several years ahead of the original novel. Xue BingEr’s condition hasn’t worsened to the point where she needed an extreme water root with no alternatives. Qin Shiyu still had time to ask for the second best thing right now.
“Cultivator Wen, You don’t need to be like this. I only want you to lend a hand, that’s all.” Qin Shiyu compared his own strength with Wen Xuan, then looked at the person standing behind Wen Xuan. Clearly deliberating for a moment, he finally made a decision: “I only want you to write a letter to Murong Feng of the Thousand Sunshine Trading Company……”
Qin Shiyu’s second best solution was the heavenly demon horn in Murong Feng’s hands.
Now that Murong Feng’s extreme fire poison has been completely cured, that heavenly demon horn was only a decoration in her hands. Many people have begged to purchase that item from her before, some even promising a sky-high price. However, she had declined them all. Murong Feng even announced that unless Wen Xuan asked her for this item, she definitely wouldn’t be giving it to anyone else.
After hearing Qin Shiyu’s explanation, Wen Xuan nodded. If it was only this, it was really not anything complicated at all.
Wen Xuan looked at Xue BingEr’s rather tragic appearance again: “Is that heavenly demon horn enough to save her though?”
Hearing these words, a dark expression flashed across Qin Shiyu’s eyes: “Even if it can’t save her, it can alleviate her situation and give her some more time. As long as there’s time, there’s hope.”
A disturbed expression appeared on Wen Xuan’s face: “Then she will have to suffer in pain for even longer.”
“What else can I do?” Qin Shiyu said in frustration: “In order to save her, this is the only plan.”
“If you knew this would happen ahead of time……”
Here it was again. This question again. When Wen Xuan asked this question before, Qin Shiyu didn’t actually answer. For Wen Xuan to ask it again right now, Qin Shiyu only felt a ball of fire stuck in his chest, about to erupt: “So what if I knew ahead of time? The method I gave her to cultivate was for the sake of saving her as well.”
This ‘her’ wasn’t talking about Xue BingEr. Rather, he was talking about the female cultivator back then. In Qin Shiyu’s eyes, Xue BingEr was only an outer shell. Everything he did was all for ‘her.’ Presently, Qin Shiyu was already partially successful. The consciousness of that female cultivator was already waking up in Xue BingEr’s body. Yet, he never expected for Xue BingEr’s body to start breaking down because of it. The ‘her’ who had been awakened after all this effort would only die together with this body.
Hearing these words from Qin Shiyu, Wen Xuan didn’t even have time to say anything when Jian Yi abruptly looked up.
Ever since Wen Xuan arrived in Qin Shiyu’s residence, Jian Yi was either looking at Wen Xuan or looking at his own feet. He has never looked properly at Qin Shiyu once, as if he was using this method to express his detest towards this character. This was the first time his line of sight landed on Qin Shiyu’s face.
“It’s all for her?” Jian Yi repeated and asked back.
He knew why these words would grab his attention. It’s because he also said something similar once before. He also thought that these words were very powerful. He thought that these words could represent his own selfless devotion. However, in those days that Wen Xuan left him behind, he silently reminisced by himself, silently pondered by himself, silently reflected by himself, and finally discovered how absolutely disgraceful these words were in reality.
“You think you’re doing this all for her……” Jian Yi looked at Qin Shiyu in the eyes: “But have you ever listened to her opinion?”
In the original novel, ‘she’ had been frozen by magic the entire time, unable to say a word until Qin Shiyu pulled out the extreme water root from Wen Xuan’s body and transplanted it into Xue BingEr’s body. Would ‘she’, who had once stepped forward bravely for a boy she didn’t know, really feel happy for this?
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“I’ll save you but only if you give me a vital organ”Sounds like a great deal.”I helped you find your lover so give me a vital organ”Even better deal.How’s this guy the hero?
I guess the author chose the wrong guy¯_(ツ)_/¯
Thank You for the chapter (•‾⌣‾•)و ̑̑♡
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The fact that the little demons are staring at JY like that 🤣 I’m imagining they’re thinking something like “wow, only JY could successfully pin down our fierce leader”. What a man 😂 oh wait.. I forgot they heard and probably saw them getting it on 😆😏
Character development for JY!! yayyayyy
Man, finally i see jian yi realize his mistakes!