Chapter 26 Part 2: Liao Chen, you really want to touch me right now.
Yan Jingyu looked at the other. The latter clearly didn’t know what was so special about the Spirit-Nurturing Jade and just continued, “When Jiuyi Mountain was breached, I had not yet awakened my bloodline. My mother, in her haste, could only seal me in the jade and said that after the disaster was over, she would come back and let me out.”
Yan Jingyu’s lips moved.
She had done the right thing. Even if Liao Chen had human blood, he would not have been let off.
His mother often sighed when she mentioned the phoenix clan, saying that some cultivators in the immortal sects were truly inhuman. For that wisp of bloodline, they would even let them crossbreed with other races. Even if it was not pure, it would still have the characteristics of the phoenix clan, just that the effect would be slightly smaller and the selling price a little lower…
And today, more than three hundred years later, there were still people constantly searching for that faint wisp of bloodline.
It was enough to see the greed of the human heart.
“But I did not wait for her.”
Yan Jingyu looked at his calm face. In the cultivation world, there was once a very cruel accessory called the Wufang Stone, which was to seal people or animals in ore. Through the translucent ore of different materials, you could see them struggling and moving in the tiny space. The more beautiful the thing sealed inside, the more valuable it was. Not until later did Hutian issue a decree and finally abolish this thing on the surface.
But in private, it still existed as a form of torture and to satisfy the special hobbies of some people.
Yan Jingyu couldn’t even imagine how desperate the phoenix woman who was willing to go to Kunlun Mountain to steal a Spirit-Nurturing Jade for her child must have been to have the heart to seal her child in the jade.
“You…”
“I couldn’t grow up in the jade.” Liao Chen’s voice was very soft. “The space in the jade restricted my growth. My bones hurt every day…”
He was only three years old when he was sealed in the jade. From the beginning, he had obediently curled up inside, waiting for his mother to return. Slowly, he began to call out to her because of the pain. He didn’t know how many days and nights had passed outside. He was in unbearable pain every moment. He was too young to understand why his mother hadn’t come back for him.
He had tried to break out of the jade countless times in the darkness. Fear bred grievance, grievance bred resentment, and resentment bred a monstrous rage. He didn’t understand why his mother was torturing him like this. He constantly thought about what he had done wrong.
But the jade not only imprisoned his body, but also imprisoned his bloodline.
His mother had speculated that half-demon children would mostly awaken their bloodline in their youth, but he had been trapped in the jade for too long. Not until his demonic bones gradually manifested and he finally managed to break out of the jade did he know that nearly two hundred years had passed in the world.
He explored the world in a daze, was deceived in a daze, and was pierced by the Flame-Sealing Thousand-Thorn Grass in a daze. Only then did he finally know that his mother had done all this to protect him.
He returned to the jade, but this time, he had sealed himself.
“You’ve always wanted to know how I survived under Chi Yuan’s hand.” Liao Chen’s voice was gentle. “Because I dug out my own demonic bones and tore off half of my demonic body. Only then could I survive in the world as a human cultivator.”
This was the first time Liao Chen had told him about his own affairs. Yan Jingyu had thought before that his background must have been difficult, but when all of this was personified, he was still a little lost in thought.
“…Without demonic bones, it must have been very difficult for you to enter the Dao.”
Liao Chen looked into his eyes. In them was pity for him, and other unclear emotions. He was silent for a while. “I know that you have been lowering your expectations all these years, from wanting to return to your peak, to only being able to choose to have your fallen leaves return to their roots… to now, being forced by me to break with Qin Zhongyou, I have cut off the last thread of connection between you and Hutian.”
Yan Jingyu hadn’t expected him to mention himself again. His lips parted. Liao Chen continued, “I know you miss home very much.”
Yan Jingyu subconsciously wanted to refute…
“But this is just the beginning.” Liao Chen gazed at him. “I will find the Heavenly Mandate Eyes, take back the Du Fang Sword, and help you break through to the Golden Immortal stage.”
“…” Yan Jingyu didn’t know how to face his gaze. He subconsciously lowered his head to look at the feather jade. After a while, he said, “You keep saying you’ll help me ascend to immortality. You must be planning to give me a fatal blow at the last moment. In that case, I will fall and become a Heavenly Soul. You will make me into a jade ornament and wear me on your body, so that everyone will know that I am your defeated opponent…”
Liao Chen: “…”
He said coldly, “I didn’t expect you to see through this. Since you are already on guard against me, it seems this plan will not work.”
So it is true… Yan Jingyu pursed his lips and glared at him.
Dozens of jade stones of different colors and materials, but all equally translucent and crystalline, floated up in front of him. “Why don’t I just refine you into a Wufang Stone now? You pick one yourself. See which one you like better?”
“…” Yan Jingyu casually grabbed a crystal and threw it at him. Liao Chen directly caught it, glanced at it, and said, “A Soul-Snatching Heavenly Crystal. To seal a waste like you, it’s a bit of an overkill.”
“You…” Yan Jingyu grabbed the yellow jade in front of him and threw it at him again. Liao Chen caught it again. “It’s a bit interesting, but this color isn’t transparent enough… so blurry, how am I supposed to see your ugly state after being sealed?”
“Liao Chen!” Yan Jingyu directly jumped up and kicked a transparent, water-like stone over.
Liao Chen turned to the side and once again easily caught it in his hand. He held it up to his eyes, looking at his flushed face through the water jade, the corners of his lips lifting. “This one is not bad. It’s crystal clear, and I can see you clearly… You say, should this Lord strip you naked and put you in, or should I dress you up beautifully first…”
“How about this, I’ll strip you naked and put you on the bedside table every night, and then take you out and dress you up during the day. This way, it won’t be the same every day, and others will also know how much this Lord values you…”
“Watch me tear your mouth apart!!”
Yan Jingyu flew over, his fist, with spiritual energy, brushing past Liao Chen’s nose. Liao Chen turned his hand to block his arm, but Yan Jingyu seemed to have anticipated it. He twisted his waist and lifted his leg, directly whipping at his face, forcing him to flip off the bed and land to the side. “I really shouldn’t have given you spiritual energy.”
“Regret it?” Yan Jingyu snorted coldly. “Then take that damn mark off me!”
“I let you have three moves, and you really think you’re something?”
“You’ve been beaten so hard you’ve moved your nest. Don’t you know if I’m something or not?!”
The two of them soon started to fight in the back hall. It was a lively exchange. The half-open lotus flower in the corner trembled from time to time. When Liao Chen’s sharp gaze fell on it, it became serene and elegant again.
Not until Yan Jingyu suddenly felt his palm go empty did he fall from the air, caught off guard.
Liao Chen tilted his head. Yan Jingyu fell heavily on the floor and didn’t get up for a long time.
He was motionless. Liao Chen slowly clasped his hands behind his back and said with deep meaning, “External spiritual energy is limited. Be careful next time.”
Yan Jingyu felt very embarrassed, and it also hurt a lot from the fall. He was quiet for a while, then said in a muffled voice, “You didn’t say so beforehand.”
“If I had told you, would you still have fallen for me to see?” Liao Chen kindly offered his foot. “Come, I’ll help you up.”
“…”
Yan Jingyu forcefully suppressed the fire in his heart, took a deep breath, and climbed up from the ground. He took the opportunity to sit cross-legged, took off the feather jade from his waist with a calm expression, and said, “You didn’t know that the companion jade made from the Spirit-Nurturing Jade would connect with the owner’s will, did you?”
Liao Chen: “?”
Yan Jingyu held the feather jade. Although the spiritual light on it had dimmed, there was still a lot left. He touched it with his fingertip, once, twice, three times…
The weak spiritual light chased after his finger, like a small dog being baited with a bone. Every time he tapped it, it would immediately roll up impatiently.
Yan Jingyu looked at Liao Chen’s gradually cooling face, the corners of his lips lifting. “Liao Chen, you really want to touch me right now.”
His finger tapped the feather jade again and again. Each time, the feather jade shamelessly tried to hold him back with its spiritual light. Yan Jingyu’s smile was soft and playful, but the feather jade accepted his teasing again and again without any dignity.
Liao Chen’s brow throbbed. He said slowly, “Nonsense.”
He reached out to snatch it, but Yan Jingyu was already prepared. He turned over and stuffed the feather jade into his collar, and at the same time, crossed his arms over his chest and snorted. “You don’t even know the characteristics of your own things, and you still have the nerve to laugh at me.”
“…It’s clinging to you because you have the divine wood on you. The divine wood is the guardian of the phoenix clan…”
“Do you think I’m stupid?” Yan Jingyu ruthlessly exposed him. “I had the divine wood on me when we first met. It wasn’t that good to me then!”
“Then, it’s because you went to Jiuyi Mountain and got some of the phoenix clan’s aura…”
“It is your fetal jade. Unless I am contaminated with your aura, how could it be so special to me?”
“…” Liao Chen’s eyelids also twitched. But Yan Jingyu suddenly realized something and abruptly moved closer to him.
Liao Chen’s whole body stiffened. He looked at his exquisite and inquiring face and heard him say slowly, “Inside the barrier of Jiuyi Mountain, what exactly happened? You…”
“You still have the nerve to ask!” Liao Chen’s expression suddenly became ferocious. He grabbed Yan Jingyu’s collar. Yan Jingyu was directly lifted up halfway, his eyes wide as he looked at his angry and humiliated eyes.
“Yan Qi, I’ll ask you one last time. Do you really, really want, that memory?”
“…” Yan Jingyu once again felt wisps of killing intent. He looked at the half-open demonic pupils in the other’s eyes and said slowly, “No, I don’t want it. I’m not curious at all.”
Liao Chen directly threw him aside, turned and walked to the bedside, and said coldly, “Get out.”
“…” Yan Jingyu tidied his collar, admired his triggered expression for a moment, and then bounced out.
It was a rare clear night. He decided to find someone to have a snowball fight with.
Just as Yan Jingyu walked out of the front hall, he suddenly stopped.
The snowstorm, which had just stopped, began to fall again, fluttering down.
Accompanied by the whining cold wind, it made his neck feel cold.
He stood blankly for a while, then abruptly turned in the direction of the back hall…
“No way…”
