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🕑 Added 2024-07-12 06:19:21 +0000 UTCChapter 161: Do You Like Me?
"Senior E Changguang's favorite piece of clothing is a bright red pleated skirt. She often wore it when she was at the cliff's bottom," Little Bai says.
"She likes talking to the Orchid Tongue Grass." Because there was no one else down there, she could only talk to the Orchid Tongue Grass.
"Did she ever mention me?" Xuanyuan Wentian asks, then shakes his head, "Did she ever mention Wang Xuanzhi?"
Little Bai pats Big Bai with a leaf, and Big Bai directly says, "No."
Even when talking to herself, she never mentioned Wang Xuanzhi's name. Some people love purely and passionately, but once they face betrayal, they will never forgive.
They hide these feelings deep in their hearts, let it gather dust, and never speak of it again.
Xuanyuan Wentian remains silent. The hostility in his chest is hard to dispel. Now that it's not dissipating, he feels an urge to kill. As this malice is in Su Tingyun's sea of consciousness, she could naturally feel it too.
"Did you secretly trap Big Bai in the Sealed Heaven? Since you set the seal, how could you trap Senior E inside it for three thousand years?" Su Tingyun's eyes redden slightly, and her voice sharpens.
Since Xuanyuan Wentian likes Senior E, he should feel affection or guilt towards her. Seeing his growing hostility, Su Tingyun thinks fast and yells at him.
Xuanyuan Wentian is a little startled, his previously straight shadow bends a bit. He sits down with his head lowered and, after a long time, says, "I was weak then, and I didn't remember some things clearly."
He sealed the Word Spirit over thirteen thousand years ago. At that time, his substitute just died, and it was as if he himself was just newly born. Coincidentally, the Word Spirit was reborn too. He helped the Hei Clan seize one Spirit, and sealed the other, intending to cultivate it into a wild creature.
Then he sealed himself again, forgetting his demonic identity, parasitizing in an ordinary human body to experience life once more. As demonic energy, he could only fully deceive the Heavenly Dao by parasitizing a pregnant female cultivator. For a long time, the laws of the Heavenly Dao wouldn’t be able to find him.
Infected by demonic energy, the infant's primordial spirit shouldn't survive. However, that time, the infant's primordial spirit didn't perish. After sealing, he would lose his memory upon entering the mother’s body. When he woke up, he thought he was just an ordinary baby.
One child, two consciousnesses. But he was stronger, so he dominated.
That time, his name was Wang Xuanzhi.
He could evade the Heavenly Dao's pursuit for exactly ten thousand years. A cycle of ten thousand years. Three thousand years ago, Xuanyuan Wentian's seal lifted, revealing his demonic identity. He faced the strongest strike from the Heavenly Dao. He has since then continuously weakened, unless he could find a suitable substitute to die in his place at the Dual Realms Mountain.
Actually, Obliteration Sword Tower was his place to cultivate substitutes. The conflict between the Haoran Zhenqi Sword and the Killing Sword was intense. Cultivators of the Haoran Zhenqi Sword thought themselves righteous, but they were nurtured by the resentment of a young dragon and the killing intent of ancient battlefields, inherently conflicted. A slight lapse in mind, and they would fall into the demonic path.
Every time he sealed himself, he lost his memory for a long time. And so, he really did sincerely cultivate the righteous path, became a chivalrous hero, and called himself Xuanyuan Wentian. But during a tribulation, he regained his memory and killed many fellow disciples. At that time, his sect was the Obliteration Sword Tower.
It was a coincidence. He fell into his own trap, experiencing it with lost memory.
He lived too long, played countless roles over the ages. Yet, there’s only one memory he never wanted to forget.
Like a sudden light in the darkness, illuminating his head for a long time, warming his heart.
The light never extinguished, and the memory never faded.
He once feared dissipation, so he fought against the Heavenly Dao. But now, he would rather die than forget.
Xuanyuan Wentian has great malice within himself, but upon hearing Su Tingyun's questioning, he goes quiet in his depression. He sits silently, not uttering a word.
Su Tingyun breathes a sigh of relief. She thinks for a moment and takes out the skirts she kept from back then. She wore one plain-colored skirt, but didn't touch the brightly colored ones. Luckily, her taller frame made the other skirts unsuitable, so she hasn't worn them.
The bright red pleated skirt lies on top, and the royal blue long skirt is underneath. Su Tingyun places them in front of Xuanyuan Wentian. She is curious about how Senior E met Xuanyuan Wentian and what their relationship was, but she doesn't dare to ask right now.
Su Tingyun extends her consciousness outward, finding the outside still pitch black. The tribulation has dissipated, and the area outside the barrier is desolate, a hundred-mile radius turned to scorched earth. Mingjian Sect is not far from the Obliteration Sword Tower, and the cultivators inside the tower are all in a state of panic. Many auras linger within a thousand-mile radius, watching the Obliteration Sword Tower from afar.
Among them are many strong cultivators, including Dan Biqing.
With such a commotion at the Obliteration Sword Tower, others are bound to come and see what happened. The grand wedding procession of their Sect was spectacular. If something really went wrong, most of those cultivators would rush in and strip the Obliteration Sword Tower of everything.
Even while watching, however, many people slander each other and start fighting at the slightest disagreement.
Although she has sealed the Qilian Mountains, temporarily preventing the spread of demonic energy, the cultivation environment in the White Cloud Realm is too harsh. Most cultivators in the world today are vicious, treating human lives like grass.
Killing and seizing resources are so common that it’s often hard to distinguish who is right and who is wrong, who is good or bad. The weak are not necessarily kind; as they would bully those weaker than themselves.
Because of this, the Beauty Scroll has appeared in the world. Su Tingyun sits quietly aside. When Xuanyuan Wentian finally lifts his head, she asks, "The appearance of the Beauty Scroll signifies the destruction of a realm. How can we stop it?"
Xuanyuan Wentian scoffs, "Only they can save themselves."
"Three thousand years ago, I threw the Beauty Scroll back into the Dual Realms Mountain. For it to appear again so soon, who can you blame?" He continues, "Even if you manage to kill Yan Yuqing, the Beauty Scroll will still reappear."
At this point, Xuanyuan Wentian suddenly says, "Of course, you could stop the killing by killing. Slaughter all the evildoers, so the rest won't dare to continue their evil deeds."
His tone is serious, but the gray shadow around him swirls, showing some excitement.
However, the demonic realm's power stems from the human heart. Suppressing the surface will not suppress the evil within. When killing for treasure has become the norm, many people no longer see it as wrong.
"Good people still exist," Su Tingyun says.
Like the fellow disciples at the Obliteration Sword Tower and the Grand Elder of the Qiankun Array Hall who sacrificed himself.
Xuanyuan Wentian: "Most of them die young."
Su Tingyun: "A single spark can start a prairie fire."
Xuanyuan Wentian: "The foul air can destroy a realm at any moment. I've seen it too many times."
It's hard to be a good person. Doing good often goes unrewarded, and saving someone might get you killed.
And so, good people die early, leaving the rest more vicious.
Suddenly, Little Bai speaks up, "Senior E Changguang was a good person too."
Xuanyuan Wentian shuts up.
Why does he find this Orchid Tongue Grass so annoying this time? Every word hits his weak spot, leaving him lost for words.
Xuanyuan Wentian doesn't want to talk anymore. He says coldly, "Get lost, don't bother me again."
Big Bai rolls around playfully, while Little Bai, bored, starts mimicking Xuanyuan Wentian's words.
"Get lost, don't bother me again." After saying this, the black aura around Xuanyuan Wentian surges, crushing towards Little Bai.
Little Bai quickly adds the latter part, "Ha ha ha."
"Get lost, don't bother me, ha ha ha."
The first part is Xuanyuan Wentian's voice, and the latter part is E Changguang's voice. The combination strangely calms him down.
He is a demon, and the world's filth is his strongest armor.
But that woman is the only weakness that leads to his heart. Because of her, he has a heart.
...
Seeing Xuanyuan Wentian silent, Su Tingyun sends a message to Dan Biqing, assuring him of their safety.
Wang Ningxi and Liu Feizhou are fine, and there is no sign of a disturbance at the Obliteration Sword Tower. Someone was undergoing a tribulation, and it has now passed, so there's no need for him to worry.
After receiving the answer, Dan Biqing leaves immediately. As for the others, Su Tingyun doesn't bother with them.
Bai Su's tribulation passes without major incident. He is now cultivating, healing, and consolidating his realm. He isn't too worried about Su Tingyun. The demon clearly won't harm her primordial spirit, so this isn’t necessarily a disaster. If used properly, it might even become an advantage.
Judging by the current situation, Su Tingyun clearly has the upper hand. Perhaps, fortune only favors the kind-hearted.
Bai Su thinks of this and smiles slightly.
He plans to tell the Bai family that in the future, they should come to the White Cloud Realm for their tribulations. It’s safe and painless since the seal here can even block Heavenly Tribulations. He wonders what kind of extraordinary person created such a heaven-defying array and barrier. He really wants to figure it out.
At this moment, he hears a soft call.
“Bai Su,” Su Tingyun stands by the window, waving at Bai Su in the opposite pavilion, “have you passed your heavenly tribulation?"
“En.”
“How did you notice something was wrong?” Su Tingyun is very curious, unable to figure out how Bai Su was able to tell.
“Would you ask such a question?” From the beginning, he sensed something was off because Su Tingyun would never suddenly ask such a question.
She always considered herself as one of the elder generation, their Granny.
Question?
Bai Su, do you like me?
Thinking of that creepy question, Su Tingyun immediately shakes her head. Xuanyuan Wentian asking such a question really refreshed her understanding of demons.
Little does she know, this is a question he has deeply hidden in his heart.
“Changguang, do you like me?”
You have celestial blood. If I am a complete demon, would you still like me...
Unfortunately, he never dared to ask this question out loud in the past.
And now, this question will never have an answer.
T/N: I'm confused of the timeline of Wang Xuanzhi and Xuanyuan Wentian too….
