My Arch-Nemesis Cried and Begged Me Not to Die 42

Chapter 42: An urgent, flustered, clumsy kiss.

Yan Jingyu was resolutely not going to use this method to save his life.

Of course, the main thing was that he didn’t think this could save his life. He didn’t know if Liao Chen was pretending to be stupid or was really stupid. That group of immortal physicians was clearly just half-full buckets of water. In fact, they couldn’t do anything about his situation at all, yet he still took it seriously.

He forcefully drove Liao Chen out of the bed curtains, lay down and tossed and turned for a while. Just as he had finally put the matter down, Liao Chen’s voice suddenly came faintly. “Guess what I’m doing?”

Yan Jingyu’s eyes shot open.

He ignored Liao Chen, and Liao Chen also fell silent. Yan Jingyu frowned and pulled open the bed curtains. He found that he had already started to circulate his heavenly cycle. He relaxed a little, and just as he was about to fall asleep in a daze, Liao Chen’s voice came again. “I’m watching you.”

“…” Yan Jingyu couldn’t help but curse. “Are you sick?!”

He waited angrily for Liao Chen’s response, but there was no sound from outside again. Yan Jingyu tossed and turned for a while again, constantly reciting the Purity Incantation in his mind. “Calm the mind and quiet the thoughts, gather the qi and return the spirit, the spiritual platform is empty and bright, all distracting thoughts are driven away…”

“You really don’t want to try it with me?”

Drive away my ass!

Yan Jingyu directly pulled open the bed curtains, jumped off the bed, and picked up a candlestick on the side. He came to Liao Chen with a menacing aura. But Liao Chen directly disappeared from the jade bed. Yan Jingyu turned and found him on his own bed. Just as he chased after him, he had already returned to the cloud bed, saying slowly, “Your soul-lamp now only has a few months left. If you allow me to enter your Gu Dao…”

As he flashed around, he continued, “Perhaps we can drag it out for a while longer. One more day, and the hope will be a little greater…”

“I know you think doing that kind of thing is disgusting, but have you and I not done it before? The strange combination of circumstances before, perhaps it was to pave the way for today…”

“Pave the way for your broken scrolls and fragmented chapters, seeing flowers in a fog and trying to scoop the moon out of water!” Yan Jingyu really couldn’t catch up to him. He stopped, panting, and said, “Do you have a brain at all?!”

Liao Chen was currently moving to his bed. His expression was serious. “Yan Qi, I just want to save you.”

“Even if it can delay the consumption of the soul-lamp, so what? How long can it delay it for once? After coming out of Jiuyi Mountain at that time, wasn’t my soul-lamp also decaying day by day…”

“That’s because I didn’t know that this could help you. Why did you never say so?”

“…” Why should I say so! No, why do you assume I know everything?! Yan Jingyu’s mind was in a mess. Before he could find the right words to respond, he heard him continue, “If once is useless, we can do it twice, three times. If we do it more, it will always be useful.”

“Alright.” Yan Jingyu tapped the jade bed with the candlestick, took a deep breath, and said, “May I ask, Lord Demon, how long do you take once?”

Liao Chen raised an eyebrow. “You don’t have a count in your heart?”

“…” Yan Jingyu forced a smile. “I don’t remember clearly. Is that not allowed?”

“This Lord’s shortest…” Liao Chen raised his finger, his voice calm. “…once also takes half an incense stick’s time.”

Yan Jingyu’s mouth twitched again. While forcefully smashing the jade bed with the candlestick, he cursed himself for discussing such an embarrassing and ambiguous question with Liao Chen here. He took a deep breath. “You also said that you take at least half an incense stick’s time once. In other words, half an incense stick’s time, and you can only produce that…”

He slightly opened his index finger and thumb a tiny bit and squinted his eyes. “…that little bit. I’m not wrong, am I?”

Liao Chen’s face darkened slightly.

“What the immortal physicians meant was that your essence can delay the consumption of my soul-lamp. But they said you, your, essence, which is the tiny bit of stuff you can only produce in at least half an incense stick’s time, not the matter of us dual cultivating itself. I’m not wrong in saying this, am I?”

Liao Chen’s brow twitched.

Yan Jingyu’s lips curved, his tone malicious. “Or do you want to correct me and shorten the time you produce it?”

“Even if it’s half an incense stick’s time, that little bit.” Liao Chen was calm. “Your Gu Dao can’t even hold it, right? How much was wasted at that time, don’t you remember?”

Yan Jingyu’s lips trembled slightly. Liao Chen continued, “I think that instead of asking me to shorten the time, you should think carefully about how much you can eat and how much you can absorb. This is the most practical thing. Don’t you think so?”

“…” Yan Jingyu took another breath and laughed twice. “Yes, this is also a practical problem to consider… Then the problem comes again. On what grounds do you think that the speed of your production plus the speed of my physical body’s absorption can catch up with the speed of the soul-lamp’s burning? If we focus on this matter for a day and can only extend it by a day and a half, or even three days, then may I ask…”

He knocked on the jade bed with a clang again. “If I want to live for another year, how long do we have to waste on this matter?!”

“One-third of a year.” Liao Chen gave a rather clever answer and at the same time extended, “If we can focus on this matter for ten years, you can live for another thirty years. A hundred years would be three hundred years…”

“What about drug resistance?!” Yan Jingyu said, “Do you really think you’re doing a math problem?! Can you guarantee that it will be so rigorous without any mistakes?! How long can you output day and night?! Are you sure that after three days, ten days, a month, you won’t be completely empty?!”

Liao Chen looked at him. This time, he was quiet for a long time. “Your body probably can’t even take three days.”

Yan Jingyu laughed again in anger and nodded. “Yes, so this matter can only be planned intermittently, right? Even for one day, I need to rest and recuperate. The so-called rest and recuperation is to lie on the bed like I’m dead…”

The last sentence, his tone became sinister. “Let’s say we do it for one and rest for three. We both endure all kinds of psychological discomfort and finally get an even more uncomfortable result. Do you think this deal is really worth it?!”

Liao Chen was silent for a long time again. “If we add physical labor, you really can’t do it. If it really doesn’t work, I’ll put it in a bottle for you…”

He glanced at Yan Jingyu’s face, a little hesitant. “You should at least use a little.”

Yan Jingyu covered his face with his hands.

His cheeks were burning, his mind was burning, and the blood throughout his body was also burning.

He felt that he and Liao Chen really had nothing to talk about anymore.

Damn immortal physicians, this bunch of bastards. If it weren’t for them, he wouldn’t have had to discuss such an embarrassing, toe-curling problem with a stubborn person like Liao Chen…

This fiend was usually prone to anger and had a very thin skin. But once he set his sights on something, he was like a hyena, not giving up until he achieved his goal…

He was quiet for a while. “We should both calm down.”

The spring night of the Demon Palace still had a lingering chill. Yan Jingyu sat down on the roof, looking at the countless stars in the sky, then raised his hand to stroke his burning cheek.

He covered his face with his hands and lowered his head, taking a few deep breaths. The cool air passed through his throat, but was assimilated by the heat in his heart after entering his lungs.

After several deep breaths, he still couldn’t calm his heart. The lowering of his skin temperature instead made him feel the heat inside more directly.

He began to recite the Purity Incantation in his mind again. “The fire of anger is raging, the horse of the mind is difficult to rein in. Stop the thoughts and settle the mind, the lake of the heart is calm. Do not ask about right and wrong, delete all grudges and resentments…”

“Yan Qi.”

Yan Jingyu was startled and jumped up, but suddenly slipped his foot. Liao Chen timely reached out and hooked his waist, and with a forceful pull, he brought him directly into his arms.

A few tiles slid down from the roof and fell, making a clear, shattering sound.

In that instant, Yan Jingyu’s heart beat wildly.

He was actually not much shorter than Liao Chen. To be suddenly held so tightly, the other’s face was almost right in front of him. He parted his lips in shock, his expression dazed as he looked at Liao Chen.

Not until the other gently let go did he subconsciously take a step back and barely stand firm on the roof. “Can you not suddenly appear?”

“I still want to try.”

“What are you trying for? I told you, they probably don’t even know what they’re talking to you about…”

“I don’t want you to die.”

“…” Yan Jingyu turned away, lowered his head, and fiddled with his fingers. Liao Chen’s figure appeared in front of him. “As long as there is a chance to save you, I want to try once.”

Yan Jingyu looked at him again, his lips moving. “What happened in Jiuyi Mountain was an accident. But between us, it shouldn’t be like that…”

“I know.”

“Then have you ever thought that if I survive, will you still be able to kill me with a clear conscience?”

“Are you already afraid to face me with a clear conscience?”

“I’m asking you!”

“I can.”

Yan Jingyu met his gaze. Liao Chen’s gaze was very calm, and firm. “I just want to save you, just want to fight you fair and square. I can be unscrupulous for this purpose. Yan Qi, I can be completely at ease. I will absolutely not give up on killing you because of these things.”

Yan Jingyu did not speak.

“Are you afraid that you can’t face me?” Liao Chen took a step forward. Yan Jingyu’s body leaned back slightly, his retreating foot firmly welded to the ground. He took the opportunity to look up and directly into Liao Chen’s eyes. “I don’t want to have any other relationship with you.”

“What relationship?” Liao Chen said, “What do you think our relationship is now?”

“A very chaotic relationship.” Yan Jingyu said, “It can’t be more chaotic.”

He turned, but Liao Chen pulled him back again. “Can you not be so stubborn! What on earth are you afraid of…”

“I’m not afraid of anything.” Yan Jingyu shook off his hand. “Liao Chen, do you really not think that you are controlling me too much?”

“But I’ve always been doing it for your own good…”

“It’s precisely because you’re doing it for my own good.” Yan Jingyu’s tone was determined. “That’s what’s wrong.”

“Then what do you want me to do?!” Liao Chen gradually became angry. “Do you want me to take advantage of your weakness and kill you now?! Or do you want me to watch you die? And do nothing? Didn’t you also say before that you don’t want me to die? If you and I were in each other’s shoes today, what would you do?!”

“I would kill you.”

Liao Chen was stunned in place.

Yan Jingyu finally had the confidence to retreat. He calmly distanced himself from Liao Chen. “If I were still the Immortal Lord Dufang of Hutian, and you were the waste who had accidentally lost all his cultivation, I would not hesitate to take your life.”

“I suggest you think carefully about everything that has happened between us. Since we met again, how many things have you done for me, and what have I done for you? If you can sort it out properly, what kind of attitude I am treating you with, then you won’t want to be in my shoes.”

Liao Chen’s brow throbbed silently. Yan Jingyu had already taken another step back and moved his gaze away. Just as he was about to go down, he suddenly heard him say, “Since you want to kill me so much, why do you have to talk to me about these morals?”

Yan Jingyu immediately turned to him. “Who’s talking about morals with you?”

“You weigh who has paid more between us. Isn’t it because you don’t want to owe me?” Liao Chen took a step closer. “Just like when you faced Ruan Qingwan. Clearly, you had already taken the blame for her. Clearly, you had already arranged a place for her. Clearly, it was all her own choice. But just because of those things she experienced when she was young, you think it’s right for her to hate you. You think you are also partly responsible for all of this. Am I right?!”

“…Why are you bringing her up?”

“I’m bringing her up to tell you that I hate you to death just like she does! It’s just that she chose the low road, and I chose the high road. So you don’t need to talk to me about any morals! Because all of this is what I want to do. I am being good to you for my own purpose. I know you want to die. You have wasted a hundred years and achieved nothing. You returned to Hutian but were shut out. You helped Qin Zhongyou kill me but got Qin Zixuan’s assassination in return. You are eking out a living under my hand and have to watch my expression. You really want to ask me why I put you in this dilemma, but you also feel that all of this is for your own good, so you can’t blame me…”

Yan Jingyu retreated, but Liao Chen pressed on step by step. “All these years, you have been constantly reflecting on what you did wrong. If it was wrong for you to abuse the Heavenly Mandate Eyes, then should those people you saved with the Heavenly Mandate Eyes have died? But if it was not wrong to abuse the Heavenly Mandate Eyes, why couldn’t your Heavenly Mandate Eyes see their future before the disaster happened? The morals in your heart and the teachings of Hutian all tell you that you did not do anything wrong, but all the disasters that have fallen upon you make you feel, did you really not do anything wrong? If you did not do anything wrong, then why did you have to go through all of this?”

“But you’ve thought it over and over, and you don’t think you’re wrong. You can’t deny that your father teaching you to be righteous and kind was right, you can’t deny that your mother teaching you to be gentle and perceptive was right… so you don’t even dare to blame yourself. Even if it’s just self-suffering, it will make you feel that you are being unreasonable!”

“You were still alive before because even though you knew this was a heavenly punishment, you still couldn’t let go of your responsibility as a son. You were thinking, what if, what if one day you could really find those people… until you finally found them. You clearly knew that my demonic energy would instantly drain all the power of your soul-lamp, but you still pleaded with me, because you knew I didn’t care about your life… so, you were already prepared to die.”

Yan Jingyu stared at him and said slowly, “What are you telling me all this for?”

Liao Chen was also panting. The sky above was boundless, dotted with stars. Liao Chen restrainedly clenched his fingers. “Since you have thought about it for a hundred years, for so long, and you still don’t know who to blame, then let me tell you who was wrong.”

Yan Jingyu’s eyes widened slightly. He watched as he raised his hand and pointed to the sky. “What was wrong was the rules.”

In that instant, thick dark clouds suddenly gathered in the sky. Yan Jingyu couldn’t hear what he was saying, but he subconsciously looked up, his heart pounding with fear at the terrifying purple thunder rolling in the clouds. He subconsciously walked towards Liao Chen. “Don’t say any more…”

The immortal physicians also suddenly stepped out of the Lingxi Hall. The moment Li Xiao heard the commotion, she had already put up a protective shield. Yu Qiuye also hastily put away his small courtyard and ran all the way into the academy, saying in terror, “Why is there a Heaven-Slaying Divine Tribulation in the Demon Palace?!”

Li Xiao’s face was ugly as she looked at the sky. All the little demons were looking on with curiosity and fear.

The immortal physicians also acted at the same time, strengthening the barrier supporting the Lingxi Hall. This thing was previously to prevent them from escaping, but at this moment, it had become their life-saving straw.

“What is this thing?” The immortal physicians looked at each other. But someone said in a deep voice, “The Heaven-Slaying Divine Tribulation. It must be that Liao Chen has offended the Heavenly Dao. When this thunder strikes, I’m afraid the entire Demon Palace will be scattered with him.”

“Heaven-Slaying…” The crowd’s faces were pale. “In my lifetime, I have only heard that a thousand years ago, an immortal went against the heavens and angered the Heavenly Dao, causing it to send down its divine might. What on earth did Liao Chen do…”

“Yes, that should be the most recent heavenly tribulation…”

“No.” Another person said, “The last time a heavenly tribulation appeared was not a thousand years ago… that was a heavenly tribulation that had not yet taken shape. My master saw it with a thunder-detecting compass. It struck a full one hundred and thirty-three times…”

Liao Chen’s lips trembled slightly. He did not look up, but gazed at Yan Jingyu. “The only thing that can break a law-grade artifact is another law of the same level. The reason your Heavenly Mandate Eyes couldn’t see clearly was because…”

“Rumble—!”

The thunder let out a threatening roar, as if ten thousand beasts were stampeding. Yan Jingyu strode forward and forcefully covered Liao Chen’s mouth, saying in a panic, “Don’t say any more, Liao Chen, don’t say any more…”

Liao Chen calmly pulled his hand down. He held Yan Jingyu’s two hands firmly, word by word, “You can’t hear these words now, but it doesn’t matter. After you ascend to immortality, all the hidden authority will become ineffective. You will remember everything I said.”

“Yan Qi, above the rules, there is someone…”

Yan Jingyu suddenly kissed his lips.

His restrained arms lifted, and he forcefully hugged Liao Chen’s neck.

He was urgent, and flustered, clumsily kissing the other’s lips.

The thunder tribulation wildly let out a thick body from the clouds. Under the cover of the thick dark clouds, it was like a peeping giant eye.

Liao Chen finally reached out his hand, forcefully wrapped his arms around Yan Jingyu’s body, and fiercely and roughly kissed him back.

Yan Jingyu was forced to part his lips, his body pressed tightly against his from being held so tightly. He was kissed until he could hardly breathe. The space behind him was burned through by the Li Fire. Liao Chen directly pressed him in.

He fell between the soft bed curtains.

“I know you don’t want to be unclear with me.” His lips were pressed against Yan Jingyu’s, whispering in the gaps, “I swear, I want to save you, definitely not because I have any feelings for you.”

His lips pressed down heavily again. His breath came to Yan Jingyu’s ear, accompanied by a wet touch.

“One day, I will kill you with my own hands.”