After Deceiving Shizun into Dual Cultivating, I Ran Away With His Bun 53

Chapter 53

When he woke up again, Lin Queli found that his “new home” had been moved into a tent.
The Myriad Sword Sect had set up tents outside the city wall to stay on guard and change shifts. Lin Queli thought to himself, it seems I’ve successfully snuck in. Yay!
The heavy chains on his body had been unlocked, leaving only a chain on his ankle that bound him to the cage. The chain shone with a golden light. Lin Queli discovered that this golden light was the imprisonment spell set up by Helan Xue, with the cage as the boundary, trapping him here so he couldn’t escape.
Fortunately, besides these, the treatment of this “prisoner of war” was not bad. The tent was warm, not to mention, and the ground was also covered with a soft blanket.
It’s just… Helan Xue didn’t have to guard against him like this, right?!
Lin Queli looked at the cage, which had been continued with heavy spells, and the chains, which had been re-cast with Helan Xue’s spell. He thought to himself, how many layers of protection is this? How could I possibly…
—Hehe, there’s actually a chance to escape.
With the System, he could struggle a bit, but Helan Xue’s spiritual energy was too ridiculous. Lin Queli still didn’t dare to gamble.
This must also be the reason why Lin Luo had pushed him to Helan Xue. Now, the only one who could contend with the System and push through with brute force was Helan Xue, whose strength exceeded the original novel’s setting.
Perhaps sensing that Lin Queli was awake, Helan Xue lifted the tent flap and walked in with no expression.
As the flap was opened, a bit of wind and snow rolled in. Lin Queli subconsciously shrank back.
Helan Xue frowned.
A cultivator… especially a demon, shouldn’t be so afraid of the cold. Why did Lin Queli look so weak?
Could it be because of the furnace cauldron’s poison outbreak?
Helan Xue observed Lin Queli without a change in expression. Lin Queli’s condition was very bad now. It could be seen that it was the same symptom as the first poison outbreak in the Myriad Sword Sect.
But…
Before, when Helan Xue and Lin Queli had dual cultivated in the sea of consciousness, he had thought that Lin Queli would “surrender” because of this and would come to him to continue dual cultivating after three months. But now Lin Queli looked like he could still maintain his reason. Why? Logically, shouldn’t the furnace cauldron’s poison outbreak be more and more serious each time? Especially now that Lin Queli had been without an antidote for several months.
Helan Xue did not know about the matter of transferring the evil fire after giving birth to the Long Aotian. He just frowned slightly.
—Could it be that Lin Queli found someone else to detoxify him?
Impossible.
Could someone else be better than me?
Helan Xue stared at Lin Queli.
At this moment, Lin Queli was curled up in the cage with chains on his ankles, looking at him with some fear and wariness through the iron bars, like a small beast that had fallen into a trap.
He didn’t trust him.
Helan Xue rubbed the prayer beads in his hand and took a deep breath to concentrate.
After all, he also didn’t completely trust this former… disciple.
The actions of the Demon Clan in the past year were despicable and chilling, completely different from the little disciple he knew. A person could not change so much overnight, nor could they have such exquisite acting skills. Helan Xue did not believe that their past interactions were all fake.
Perhaps there was some misunderstanding, but no matter what, Helan Xue could not gamble with the entire Righteous Path.
Catching Lin Queli and confronting him was the biggest concession he could make.
Helan Xue sat down on the chair in front of the cage and stared at Lin Queli. “Is there anything you want to say to This Venerable?”
Helan Xue’s tone was very cold, with a hint of subtle anger.
Lin Queli swallowed hard with some fear. “If I say it, will you believe me?”
Lin Queli muttered in his heart, I’ve already told Helan Xue that I’m pregnant with his child, and Helan Xue still doesn’t believe it.
…Okay, the matter of a man being able to give birth is a bit explosive. It’s normal for Helan Xue not to believe it.
But the existence of the System might be even more explosive than a man giving birth. Will Helan Xue… really believe it?
Helan Xue asked back, “Then will you tell the truth?”
Lin Queli’s fingers gently clutched the corner of his clothes. He took a deep breath. “I will.”
He thought for a moment. It would be enough to just talk about Lin Luo and skip the System.
Helan Xue looked down and saw that Lin Queli’s eyes were sparkling, exactly the same as the day they first met when Lin Queli was begging to be his disciple.
He had never seen a demon with such eyes. Now, even though Lin Queli had disappeared for a year, he had not been tainted with demonic energy.
So he closed his eyes and stopped letting those eyes affect his judgment. “You can speak.”
Lin Queli: “To prove that what I’m saying is the truth, I hope Immortal Lord Changming is also present.”
A moment later.
Immortal Lord Changming walked in angrily. “Taxue, what’s the point of listening to what the Demon Lord says? Why not just kill him? Why listen to his bewitching words here? Aren’t you afraid of being deceived by him? Weren’t you deceived by him before…”
“Immortal Lord.” Lin Queli interrupted, “You once gave Lin Luo a piece of jade, right?”
Changming was stunned.
Huh?
He immediately reacted and thought to himself, this demon is about to start bluffing. He did indeed give Lin Luo a piece of jade, but that jade has already been shattered and no longer exists!
Lin Queli said, “I saw a piece of jade on Lin Luo’s neck. It seemed to be a waist tag originally, but I don’t know why it was broken, so Lin Luo polished a piece of the fragment and made it into a necklace to carry with him. I only saw it when he was fighting with me before, and his necklace accidentally slipped out of his collar because of his large movements.”
Changming froze in place.
That jade had been shattered when he and his disciple were slaying demons and exterminating evil outside. Could it be… Lin Luo went back to get it?
Changming admonished himself not to be led astray by Lin Queli.
Seeing that Changming’s thoughts had drifted far away and that he had listened, Lin Queli continued, “I saw that the jade’s design was unique and very ingenious… it seemed to be made into the shape of an ever-bright lamp, just wrapping around the carving on the jade. The carving on it was… the two characters ‘Ming Zhen’? But I don’t know what it means. Maybe I saw it wrong, but even if it’s not these two characters, I’ve already described it very clearly. Immortal Lord Changming should be able to judge whether I’m lying or not.”
The reason why Lin Queli remembered this detail so clearly was also because… Helan Xue had also given him many jewelry and tokens.
He liked them very much.
When he returned the jade bracelet, Lin Queli was actually a little reluctant, but this was a symbol of a Myriad Sword Sect disciple, and he didn’t have the face to accept it again.
Therefore, this was also why he had been wearing the prayer beads until they were completely shattered, and he was even a little sad because he couldn’t take them back.
No one had ever given him such a thing since he was young.
To Lin Queli, this was a symbol of identity, of being included in someone’s territory, of having a sense of belonging.
Therefore, when Lin Queli noticed that the jade and the jade pendant on Immortal Lord Changming were from the same source, he paid more attention to it, and was even a little… envious.
And after hearing Lin Queli’s words, not only Changming, but even Helan Xue was a little surprised.
Changming was just a title, the title for the leader of the Changming Clan. And so, after a thousand years, like Helan Xue, after sending off all his relatives and friends, gradually no one knew his name anymore.
Only three people in this world knew the two characters “Ming Zhen.”
Ming Zhen himself, Helan Xue, and his closest disciple, Lin Luo.
Changming… or rather, Ming Zhen, could no longer sit still. He rushed to the front of the cage and said urgently, “My disciple… where is my disciple?”
Lin Queli said coolly, “He was running around, killing and setting fires before. He should be playing cards with Elder Jin in the Demon Palace now.”
Now you should know, right?!
You’ve wronged a good person!! Watashi is just a scapegoat!!
Ming Zhen almost couldn’t stand steadily. “N-impossible… that child…”
In his eyes, Lin Luo was diligent, simple, and even had a hidden sense of inferiority. Why…
Lin Queli gave a dry laugh. “Anything can happen in the world. You might have to ask the Immortal Venerable about this. He’s familiar with it.”
Why else would they say that birds of a feather flock together? They’ve both been backstabbed by their disciples!
Helan Xue: “…”
Helan Xue looked at Lin Queli with a dark face.
He still has the cheek to say that.
Ming Zhen took a deep breath. “And how could that child have such strength!”
Seeing Ming Zhen’s devastated appearance, Lin Queli gradually felt a little guilty and uneasy.
He lowered his head, feeling quite guilty, but if he didn’t say it, he would be the one to die. The truth was just so. It was better for Immortal Lord Changming to know and be mentally prepared.
Lin Queli reminded, “Immortal Lord… he has been cultivating the demonic path for decades.”
Ming Zhen swayed. “How can I-I believe what you’re saying is true… and not some clue you got from somewhere…”
Lin Queli lowered his eyes. “I just told the truth. It’s up to you whether you believe it or not. Anyway… you can investigate it yourself? You can track Lin Luo’s aura. But even if you kill me, the Demon Sword will still be activated. Lin Luo has already collected five fragments, and the Demon Sword is now being forged on the demon altar.”
Helan Xue’s gaze sharpened.
If what Lin Queli said was true… then the consequences would be unimaginable!
Ming Zhen also widened his eyes. “Do you know that after you say this, we will definitely attack the Demon Palace! You are leading us into the Mount of Demons. You are a traitor to the Demon Clan!”
He didn’t expect Lin Queli to say such words. This was too unbelievable.
Lin Queli thought to himself, oh, great. Now I’m a traitor to both the Righteous and Demonic paths. I’m disliked everywhere.
Sob, sob, sob…
Sighing, Lin Queli said with a bitter smile, “Immortal Lord Changming, you and the Immortal Venerable executed many righteous cultivators before. Did you also betray the Righteous Path?”
Ming Zhen was stunned.
So Lin Queli said with a smile, “Then I exposed the conspiracy of Lin Luo, Elder Jin, and his minions. How is that betraying the demonic path? Precisely because I am the Demon Lord, shouldn’t I protect the ordinary people in the Demon Clan, or the seventy-two tribes who just want to live in peace?”
Of course, and also the snowball who has inherited the blood of the Demon Clan.
That’s the snowball who has been with me in my sea of consciousness for ten months. Rounding up, he’s my child.
Helan Xue looked at his former disciple.
Perhaps because of his hardships, his body was dirty and a little disheveled, his face was also a little pale, and there were dark circles under his eyes. He leaned against the cage, seeming a little weak, but Helan Xue found that once he looked at Lin Queli’s eyes, it was difficult to look away.
The tent was silent for a while.
A moment later, Ming Zhen took a deep breath. “This Lord has to ask someone to… to investigate it clearly.”
He ran away in a hurry.
Helan Xue turned to look at Lin Queli.
After Lin Queli finished speaking, he seemed to be unable to hold on and leaned against the iron cage, a little dizzy.
His condition was indeed very bad. He was at the end of his rope.
After giving birth to the Long Aotian, the transfer of the evil fire allowed him to hold on until now, but his body had long become dependent on the Yuan Soul, and the furnace cauldron’s addiction was now taking effect.

【Host… you have to hold on! We haven’t stolen the fragments yet! We’re so close to success!】
【If the Host really can’t hold on, the System will be forced to send you away!】
“…!”
Lin Queli was so scared he quickly perked up.
He looked at Helan Xue, so afraid that Helan Xue would just leave. He said in a low voice, “Immortal Venerable…”
【Host! How about you use a honey trap?】
“How do I use it!! I don’t know how!”
【I-I-I don’t know either. I’ll go and watch an ad to check—】
Helan Xue said with a cold face, “This Venerable has said, do not call me Immortal Venerable.”
“…”
Lin Queli thought for a long time and decided to skip the issue of the title. He said carefully, “I-I’m a little uncomfortable. Can I have some water?”
Helan Xue looked at Lin Queli with no expression.
Lin Queli lowered his head. He couldn’t fool Helan Xue.
What to do, what to do…
Helan Xue looked at Lin Queli’s appearance and stood up. “If you don’t behave, This Venerable will leave.”
“Hey, hey, hey, hey—”
Lin Queli panted heavily, his face flushed. “I-I…”
What to do, what to do—
Lin Queli closed his eyes and made up his mind. “I want to dual cultivate with you! Please, what conditions or rewards do you want? I-I can do anything!”
Anyway, I’ll run away after dual cultivating—
Helan Xue’s steps froze.
What?
Lin Queli was afraid that Helan Xue hadn’t heard and closed his eyes, throwing caution to the wind.
“Immortal Venerable, dual cultivate with me—!”