My Arch-Nemesis Cried and Begged Me Not to Die 78

Chapter 78:

Extra: Married Life – When I learn the mind-reading curse, I’ll use it on you first!

After getting married, Yan Jingyu finally opened up the Yan estate and handed all matters over to Qi Mufang, widely accepting disciples.

Qi Mufang was quite responsible, reporting his progress to him regularly every month. Although Yan Jingyu didn’t like to manage these things, he was infected by the other’s attitude and would always listen very seriously.

He was not a particularly well-organized person, liked luxury, enjoyed himself, and had a wide range of hobbies. But if responsibility came to his door, he could still bear it.

In short, he was quite adaptable to his environment.

Two months after getting married, besides continuing to study what else his laws of the Heavenly Mandate could do, Yan Jingyu would from time to time run to the Wutong tree to look at those phoenix eggs.

At present, the only phoenix cub had finally begun to learn to transform. It no longer chirped non-stop, but began to follow behind Yan Jingyu, walking on its two short legs to look at the phoenix eggs with him.

Yan Jingyu had recently read a lot of small knowledge about raising phoenixes, but he had never really tested it out and could not tell by the naked eye which cub was about to hatch.

He looked at the eggs one by one, but he didn’t really dare to use his divine sense, because he had learned that an overly powerful divine sense, no matter how gentle, might affect the growth of the unhatched cubs.

As he was observing, something suddenly pulled him hard from behind. Yan Jingyu turned his face and saw Xiao Guai’s signal.

A short, fat hand was pulling at an eggshell under the Qiwu flower. The hands were really too short and could not completely hold the egg, but the hand strength was not small, and it was turning the egg back and forth in the grass nest.

Xiao Guai let out a “aowu” sound, its two eyes revealing a hint of accusation.

Yan Jingyu casually picked up a nearby vine branch and whipped it heavily on the small, short hand.

What followed was a “wah” sound. Feng Guiyu immediately put his hand behind him, his two eyes like a gushing stream of water.

Yan Jingyu didn’t even glance at him, directly turned the egg back, and placed it firmly. Only then did he curse, “You just love to be mischievous.”

This was not the first time this had happened. Yan Jingyu didn’t know which phoenix clan he was a descendant of. Although his arrogant and domineering personality, and his liking to bully others, was a bit like Liao Chen’s, Liao Chen wasn’t this much of a nuisance. Every time he came to see the phoenix eggs, he had to pull them with his hands twice.

Yan Jingyu had watched with his own eyes as the activity on a phoenix egg was turned by him until it had mostly disappeared. He had to urgently put it in his own spiritual abode to nurture it. Only in the past two days had it finally recovered a little.

After Yan Jingyu finished beating him, he didn’t care about him. Feng Guiyu soon stopped crying. He sniffed and looked at Xiao Guai with a fierce gaze. Xiao Guai raised its head and gave him a look.

When he hadn’t yet transformed, he had always liked to bully Xiao Guai, chirping and jumping non-stop, his round eyes full of contempt. Xiao Guai, on the surface, ignored him, but would always, when he was doing bad things, such as stealing food, knocking over Yan Jingyu’s favorite teacup, and messing up Yan Jingyu’s newly started chess game, timely report to Yan Jingyu.

Yan Jingyu had actually disliked tattletale children when he was a child, but now that he was an adult, he felt that a child who would tattle was the best-behaved, especially when facing a dead child like Feng Guiyu.

“What’s wrong now?” Liao Chen’s voice came from the Qiwu flower grove. As soon as Feng Guiyu saw him come over, he was about to cry again, but was stopped by a look from him.

“…” Feng Guiyu’s eyes were watery. He raised his small, fleshy hand and wiped his face.

“He was playing with the eggs again.” Yan Jingyu’s voice was filled with anger. “Hurry up and take him out. Don’t be annoying here.”

Liao Chen smiled. “How is Qi Yan?”

He was talking about the egg that had almost been played to death by Feng Guiyu last time. Yan Jingyu had given the name he had prepared before to this one, thinking that its life force was so weak, giving it a double-fire name might allow it to hatch healthily.

“Just a little better.” Yan Jingyu, while carefully checking each egg, said, “I don’t know who this kid takes after, being so mischievous…”

“Isn’t this quite like you?”

Liao Chen could always anger Yan Jingyu with one sentence. He immediately turned his head, his eyes wide. “What did you say?!”

“I meant.” Liao Chen said good-naturedly, “Didn’t you also always tease our demonic race like this before?”

“My issue with you is a matter of position!” Yan Jingyu said, “How can it be the same as him?! He’s playing with the eggs of your phoenix clan!”

Liao Chen suddenly smiled. Yan Jingyu immediately stood up straight. “What are you smiling at?”

“Nothing, nothing.”

“I’ve figured it out recently.” Yan Jingyu said, “Every time I get angry, you’re there smiling. What on earth are you smiling at? Are you that happy when I’m angry?!”

Noticing that he was really a little angry, Liao Chen restrained himself a little. “Really, no.”

He had also discovered a little. After Yan Jingyu got married, especially after he started to check the phoenix eggs and take Feng Guiyu with him every day, his temper was getting bigger by the day, and his reason was getting less and less by the day. If before, Yan Jingyu would still know how to think from another’s perspective, now he had completely given up.

Yan Jingyu was indeed a little angry. He sometimes really didn’t understand what Liao Chen was thinking, especially when he was very angry, he actually smiled… weren’t they Daoist companions now? Why did he have to smile when he was angry?!

“Alright, alright, don’t be angry.” Seeing his face getting angrier and angrier, Liao Chen reached out and directly grabbed Feng Guiyu. “I’ll take him away now, okay?”

“Go?!” Yan Jingyu said, “Where are you going? Were these eggs laid by me? Are the ones to be resurrected my clan members?!”

“…Then I’ll stay?”

“Get lost.”

“…” In the end, Feng Guiyu was still taken away by Liao Chen. As they walked out of the Qiwu flower grove together, Feng Guiyu had a gloomy look on his face, his voice tender. “Where are we going?”

Liao Chen’s good face disappeared as soon as he went out. He said coldly, “Fishing.”

“I don’t like fishing…”

Liao Chen directly pressed him onto the floating bridge and cast a freezing spell. He himself took a fishing rod and slowly began to move.

When the sun was gradually setting in the west, Yan Jingyu finally came out of the Qiwu flowers. Xiao Guai followed behind him with slow steps. Yan Jingyu turned his face and saw Feng Guiyu sitting obediently beside Liao Chen, and his heart became even more blocked.

Feng Guiyu clearly had such a lively personality, but in Liao Chen’s hands, he was always so obedient. On the other hand, in his own hands, even though he had hit his palm and twisted his ear, he just couldn’t make him be honest.

He looked over there with a complicated expression. On the other side, Liao Chen had already spoken calmly. “Move.”

So Feng Guiyu was manipulated to turn his face and looked at a small wooden bucket on the side with watery eyes. Inside were some wriggling earthworms. Feng Guiyu immediately wanted to cry. “Worms, worms…”

“We of the phoenix clan have none who are afraid of worms.”

As soon as Liao Chen’s words were finished, Feng Guiyu’s small hand immediately went in. He immediately let out a “aowu” and wanted to cry out, his heart madly wanting Yan Jingyu. But his throat seemed to be blocked. Liao Chen glanced at him. “When you’re not afraid anymore, then you can let go.”

At the same time, he looked up and gave Yan Jingyu a smile.

Yan Jingyu’s heart immediately became even more blocked.

He turned and went into the house, countless question marks in his heart. Is Liao Chen provoking me? Does Feng Guiyu not like me? Am I not as majestic as Liao Chen, or not as good to him as Liao Chen?

Clearly, he has also stayed in my spiritual abode… why is he only close to Liao Chen? Why does he only listen to Liao Chen?

He asked himself, Yan Jingyu felt that he should be more approachable than Liao Chen… but in the end, he and Liao Chen were of the same clan, a bloodline connection, which was naturally different from him, a human.

He pursed his lips and suddenly saw the formation in front of the house ripple. Ming Zelin timidly looked left and right, and after confirming that there was only Yan Jingyu in the room, he ran over. “I saw that it was almost dinner time, so I hurried to make it and send it over.”

Yan Jingyu grunted in acknowledgement and tidied up the table. Ming Zelin observed his expression. As he placed the dishes on the table, he said, “Does Grandmaster have something on his mind?”

“I just don’t quite understand what a child is thinking.” Yan Jingyu placed the dishes on the table with him. “Do you think I or Liao Chen is easier to get along with?”

Ming Zelin stiffened at once.

Yan Jingyu said, “Don’t worry, he can’t hear.”

Ming Zelin immediately said, “Of course it’s you! You are the most approachable immortal lord in the world! I really want to stay with you every day…”

Yan Jingyu looked at his bitter expression, his heart moving slightly. He subconsciously probed his sea of consciousness and said with some understanding, “Having problems with your cultivation? Why don’t you tell your master?”

“I…” Ming Zelin’s expression was complicated. Yan Jingyu was helpless. “In the future, if you have any problems, you can come to me here at any time. I won’t tell him.”

Ming Zelin was overjoyed and nodded quickly. “Cultivating demonic arts is a little different from cultivating immortal arts. Brother Qi can’t help me, but the Demon Realm, I dare not go… now, there are more and more people entering the Yan estate. Although they are all outer sect disciples at present, I can’t talk to them either…”

He was indeed in a dilemma at this moment. To go to the Demon Realm meant following Liao Chen, which he was quite resistant to. But to stay in the Yan estate, it was difficult for him to communicate with others about the Dao, and he often hit a bottleneck. And the newly entered immortal sects would also think he was a demonic race person because he was Liao Chen’s apprentice.

Jiuyi Mountain was a phoenix clan ancestral land after all. Liao Chen didn’t like outsiders to enter randomly and would only allow him to come when Yan Jingyu wanted to eat a few of his specialty dishes. If he wanted to see Yan Jingyu, he also had to find a special time.

Yan Jingyu only listened to him for a few sentences and almost understood his meaning. He said at once, “In a while, a large number of little phoenixes may hatch on Jiuyi Mountain. If you are not used to staying in the Yan estate, you can come and help me. I also need manpower.”

Hearing him directly give a future plan, and not just a verbal promise, Ming Zelin was even more overjoyed and nodded repeatedly. After finally confirming his own affairs, he began to rack his brains to think of something to help Yan Jingyu. “Children are indeed not easy to raise, and they are difficult to understand. But you have the laws of the Heavenly Mandate. Can’t you see through what he is thinking in his heart?”

“This has nothing to do with the laws.” Yan Jingyu was helpless. “It’s probably because I don’t have much experience with children. It should be better in the future.”

“I heard that some Heavenly Mandate masters have some talismans that seem to be able to let people temporarily hear the thoughts of others. If you need it, I can help you inquire about it.”

Yan Jingyu was surprised. “There’s such a thing?”

“Mm.” Ming Zelin answered all his questions. “Ever since the thirty-six rules fell, many secret arts have also seen the light of day again. But the Heavenly Mandate art is not easy to learn. I have only heard of this secret art, but I have not yet seen anyone who can really make it. But you are a true Heavenly Mandate master. If there is really someone in this world who can refine a mind-reading curse, it must be you.”

Yan Jingyu was immediately interested. It wasn’t that he really wanted to use this curse to listen to what Feng Guiyu was thinking. He had just suddenly discovered something new.

That night, after Ming Zelin left, Yan Jingyu began to search the Vast Expanse Book.

He believed that if there really was a mind-reading curse in this world, then there would surely be a record of it in the Vast Expanse Book.

The first hour he went in, Liao Chen knocked on the Vast Expanse Book. Yan Jingyu replied, “You guys eat first.”

Liao Chen didn’t eat the food of the human race before, but after getting married, he had also developed the habit of having three meals a day with him. But the main purpose was to accompany him, not to eat himself.

Two hours later, Liao Chen knocked on the Vast Expanse Book again. Yan Jingyu spoke again. “You guys sleep first.”

Feng Guiyu, who had just finished eating, woodenly changed back to his original form, hugged himself with his small wings, and lay down on Yan Jingyu’s pillow with fondness.

Liao Chen had no intention of sleeping.

In the middle of the night, the Vast Expanse Book was knocked again. Yan Jingyu spoke. “You guys get up first.”

Liao Chen couldn’t help but get angry. He glanced at the sleeping cub on the pillow and finally also dived in with his spiritual sense, saying coldly, “What on earth are you busy with?”

A mind-reading curse had already led to other classics. Yan Jingyu was flipping through them and said casually, “Is Xiao Yu up yet?”

“It’s still the middle of the night. What’s there to get up for?”

Yan Jingyu came back to his senses, slightly stunned. “Then why aren’t you sleeping?”

“Are you thinking of how to improve your own techniques, thinking of how to defeat me?”

“…” A small-minded person. Yan Jingyu was annoyed. “Can’t you have some normal thoughts?”

“Then what on earth is it that can make you so engrossed? You don’t even sleep? Don’t you usually get sleepy when it’s time?”

Yan Jingyu had originally wanted to tell him properly that he was studying the mind-reading curse, but was angered by his two or three sentences until he had no words. He was annoyed. “If you want to look, then look.”

Liao Chen, while unhappy, picked up a book beside him and casually flipped through it.

But he had no purpose to begin with. The mind-reading curse mentioned in the books Yan Jingyu was flipping through was only a few strokes. He couldn’t find the main point for a while, and soon he was bored and threw it aside, and began to stare at Yan Jingyu.

Yan Jingyu was made to feel strange by his staring. He had no choice but to speak again. “You should sleep first.”

Liao Chen sneered. “I’ll just stare at you here and see what tricks you’re up to.”

“…” When I learn the mind-reading curse, the first one I’ll use it on is you!