Chapter 48
Helan Xue is looking at him.
This is not his real body, just his divine sense. Lin Queli doesn’t know how Helan Xue managed to establish a divine connection with him. Could it be from that previous blow?
But even if it’s not his real body, and it seems like a dream now, as long as a cultivator’s divine sense is present, they can do anything. In fact, their divine sense is even more powerful than their physical body, considered a cultivator’s “spirit body.”
Cultivators generally don’t easily establish divine connections with others because it means entrusting their soul. Any damage to the divine sense will be returned to the physical body several times over.
And divine connection is mutual. Helan Xue has come to Lin Queli’s sea of consciousness, which means Lin Queli can also do the opposite, but he doesn’t have the ability, nor does he dare.
If Helan Xue kills him here, he will also die, and he will die even more miserably, his soul scattered!
Lin Queli’s legs went weak. He subconsciously covered his flat belly in his sea of consciousness, feeling a little desperate.
The Long Aotian he had worked so hard to trick, he doesn’t want to rewind again. And if he rewinds… will it still be the same snowball?
The snowball has been in his body for half a year, and he has already developed feelings for it.
Lin Queli himself finds it magical.
Lin Queli subconsciously took several steps back, his face pale. “Shi-Shizun…”
Helan Xue’s eyes flashed. “What did you call me?”
This was their first conversation after their reunion after six months.
Visibly, it was not pleasant.
The surroundings were silent for a long while, and the atmosphere instantly became strange and oppressive.
Lin Queli was startled and, after a long while, said with a tremble, “I’m sorry, I-I… I mean, Taxue Xianzun…”
The next moment, Lin Queli saw Helan Xue’s golden eyes turn red.
In the sea of consciousness, everything, including one’s emotions, can be visualized. For example, the snowball is the visualization of the “child’s” consciousness. Now, because of Lin Queli’s fear, the surroundings are filled with trembling ripples.
At this moment, Helan Xue is staring at Lin Queli. Although his expression is calm, his eyes are filled with danger, and behind him is a raging blizzard.
Lin Queli is about to cry. Can he avoid a head-on collision now?!
Helan Xue walks towards Lin Queli step by step.
Lin Queli sees the blizzard getting closer and closer to him, as if it’s about to devour him.
Until Helan Xue is in front of him, Lin Queli can’t hold on any longer and directly “thumps” down on his knees.
He hugs Helan Xue’s thigh and is almost about to cry out. “Immortal Venerable, I was wrong!!! I was so wrong! For the sake of our acquaintance, can you listen to my explanation first, please, sob, sob, sob—I can really explain!”
Helan Xue looks at the pathetic Lin Queli before him, his breathing becoming more and more rapid.
After Lin Queli had run away, he had thought that this person would come back soon. His disciple was pure and kind, and it was all just a misunderstanding.
But not only did Lin Queli not come back, the Demon Clan had also caused chaos, and he had escaped from under his nose time and time again.
The person who had escaped did not have a familiar aura. It seemed it wasn’t him. He couldn’t sense the prayer beads, nor could he connect these things with his little disciple.
But he was the leader of the Righteous Path and could not gamble with the three realms.
And if it wasn’t Lin Queli, then there was no trace of him left in the three realms. Where on earth had he escaped to to hide his tracks so perfectly?
So Helan Xue could only admonish himself to be patient and not let his inner demon take advantage of him, and to stabilize his mind amidst the repeated stabs of his inner demon.
His inner demon said he was crazy.
The Lin Queli before him spoke extremely quickly, “I swear I have absolutely no sordid thoughts about you! I was lying when I said I liked you and wanted to dual cultivate with you before. I was forced to dual cultivate with you. I really respect you! I am willing to do anything to make up for my mistake, I only ask the Immortal Venerable to forgive my previous impudence!”
“And I can also explain the matter of the Demon Clan killing and setting fires for the fragments recently. That wasn’t me, it was Lin Luo. I really didn’t do it… whoa—!”
Lin Queli felt his neck being suddenly choked by Helan Xue. His vision spun, and he was pressed to the ground.
The force was so great that Lin Queli was dizzy, and the pain in the back of his head made him cry.
“Immortal Venerable…”
Helan Xue’s expression became even more terrifying.
He had resisted before, but now, upon seeing Lin Queli, Helan Xue finally knew that he was indeed crazy.
It wasn’t that his disciple had committed a great offense against him, but that he himself couldn’t control his thoughts.
The obsession that had accumulated for a thousand years slowly surfaced. For the first time, he had a… person he wanted.
The little liar before him had only used him as a tool, but he was the one who was in a mess.
“Cough… mmm…”
Looking at Lin Queli, whose neck was being choked, whose cheeks were flushed from struggling, and who was tilting his head back, trying to breathe, Helan Xue felt a twisted sense of satisfaction in his heart. The person he had been searching for for half a year was finally in his hands, and he could no longer escape.
Helan Xue lowered his head and said softly, “Now that the six-month period is almost up, and you don’t have the Sky Frost Flower, how will you survive this poison outbreak?”
Helan Xue’s eyes were blood red. A voice urgently wanted him to take back control from the Demon Clan, as if this way he would not be a tool for the Demon Clan’s dual cultivation, and he would still be the “Shizun” the Demon Clan was trying to please.
But the demon before him no longer called him Shizun, but used Taxue Xianzun like an outsider, wanting to sever all ties with him.
He used him and then casually discarded him, treating him as a tool for dual cultivation. There is no such way in the world.
Even if it was dual cultivation, it would not be just once.
“Ugh…” Lin Queli sensed the dangerous aura and trembled as he looked at Helan Xue, who was pressing down on him. The Helan Xue before him was not the usual otherworldly immortal master, but… half-demon, with a menacing aura and blood-red eyes.
Lin Queli was not sure how much reason the current Helan Xue had, but he still summoned his courage. He grabbed the hand that was choking his neck with one hand, wanting him to loosen his grip so he could catch his breath and speak. With the other hand, he tugged at Helan Xue’s sleeve and said softly, “Immortal Venerable, cough… can-can you return the Sky Frost Flower to me?”
“Return?” Helan Xue narrowed his eyes. “That is a spirit flower that This Venerable has nourished with my spiritual energy for six months. What does it have to do with you?”
Helan Xue tightened his grip again. Lin Queli kicked his legs and trembled all over, tears welling up in his eyes.
Lin Queli averted his eyes. Okay, Helan Xue doesn’t want him anymore. He is indeed not a member of the Myriad Sword Sect. This flower has nothing to do with him. But sob, sob, sob… without the flower, he will die!
Lin Queli tilted his head back and said with difficulty, “Cough… th-then I’ll tell the Immortal Venerable about Lin Luo’s intelligence and help you get the fragments. In exchange, you can give me the Sky Frost Flower, okay? Mmm… please… you…”
“Is this the backbone and conduct of the great Demon Lord?” Helan Xue sneered. “Betraying your own kind and groveling before the Righteous Path?”
It’s… just like the old days. Even after becoming the Demon Lord, he still loves to act cute.
“Cough…”
Lin Queli couldn’t hold on any longer. He grabbed Helan Xue’s hand on his neck and whimpered.
Helan Xue: “But how can This Venerable believe that the ‘Lin Luo’ you speak of is another person, and not you yourself? You little liar… your words have no credibility.”
“Sob, sob, sob… I was wrong… cough…”
Even Lin Queli’s fingertips were trembling, and he was in a pathetic state.
I can’t—
If this continues, I’ll really be choked to death by Helan Xue. Before he fainted, Lin Queli gathered a breath and threw all his spiritual energy at Helan Xue, trying his best to push him back.
Helan Xue was caught off guard. He didn’t expect his “little disciple” to attack him, and for a moment, he was really hit and let go.
But he quickly flicked his sleeve again, dissolving Lin Queli’s move, and pressed him down again.
The two’s spiritual energy became entangled. Helan Xue was pressed against Lin Queli due to the immense force. He also let himself press down, and at the same time, he wrapped his arms around Lin Queli from behind, his hands forcefully pressing on Lin Queli’s waist, and squeezed.
“…!”
Lin Queli only felt his whole body go limp. He collapsed his waist and lay prostrate on the grass. He was already suffering from the furnace cauldron’s outbreak, and now his lower body was covered by Helan Xue’s spiritual energy, and a cold wind and snow slipped under his clothes. In an instant, he lost his defense.
“Mmm… Immortal Venerable… ah…” Lin Queli’s hands tightly clutched the ground, trembling even more.
Realizing what Helan Xue was about to do, he only felt disbelief, even incredulity.
Why…!
Helan Xue said coldly, “This Venerable will not make any deals with you, this little liar.”
But if he dual cultivates with Lin Queli at this time, then it will cut off Lin Queli’s path of using the Sky Frost Flower.
After dual cultivating with the Extreme Cold Yuan Soul more than once, Lin Queli’s body will no longer be satisfied by the Sky Frost Flower. Even if it is useful, it will not cure the root cause.
In this way, His Highness the Demon Lord will have no way out. At that time, he will be the one begging me to listen to his intelligence, not making a deal with an untrustworthy liar.
“Ah…!” Lin Queli was extremely scared. “Sob, sob, sob, n-no! The Immortal Venerable is too fierce, I don’t want to…”
Sob, sob, sob, Da Zhuang, help me—!
But the System would be forced to shut down when faced with a restricted plot. At this moment, the System was already preparing to disappear. Before disappearing…
【Host, look on the bright side. This is also a way to cure your illness… it’s-it’s good!】
【Goodbye!】
“…!”
Ah, ah, ah!!! No—
In the sea of consciousness and in reality, there was a subtle difference. For example, before he had used the prayer beads, but now he could just use his ethereal spiritual energy.
Lin Queli felt a rough intrusion deep into his soul. He crawled forward in a daze, but his waist was grabbed by the person behind him and pulled back, with no escape.
“Immortal Venerable, spare me, sob, sob, sob…”
Lin Queli heard the voice of the person behind him.
“So you’re saying you don’t want it?”
Lin Queli lowered his head and knelt on the grass. He buried his face in his arm, his voice carrying a sob, looking extremely pitiful.
“I…”
The person behind him did not stop. He panted, his voice unsteady. “I-I do…”
Lin Queli could only plead, “But can the Immortal Venerable, can you be a little gentler.”
“Don’t call me Immortal Venerable.”
Huh?
Lin Queli was confused. If not Immortal Venerable, then what? If I call him Shizun, Helan Xue will definitely be angry, right? But he and Helan Xue have no other relationship. Then what does Helan Xue want?
Lin Queli was only dazed for a moment before he was punished. He first let out a sticky, light cry, then said in a fluster, “My lord, my husband…”
This was what he had unintentionally heard when he and Helan Xue were in the brothel before. The person in the next room had been calling out these words one after another. But that was just a customer. Where did the husband come from? So he thought that this might be a term of endearment and fun when doing this kind of thing.
“…”
The person behind him seemed to pause, and then Lin Queli was punished even more heavily, making him cry out.
These cries made Helan Xue flustered.
“Don’t play tricks, and don’t speak again.”
Lin Queli’s eyes widened, because then a spell was cast on his mouth, and he could no longer speak, only let out a suppressed moan.
Helan Xue did not look at his face, nor did he listen to his voice, just kept moving.
But this also made Lin Queli feel at ease. He curled himself up. The two became more and more intense, but only in this sea of consciousness that no one knew.
