SQLJBFDTW Chapter 40

Chapter 40: Dongyuan, Stubborn Little Junior Brother

Thunder illuminated half the sky. Chao Jianxue had forgotten to close the window before going to bed, and the wind and rain were battering the window shutters, showing signs of intensifying.

Startled awake by Yu Wei, he lost all sleepiness, got out of bed, and went to close the window. Looking at Yu Wei’s condition, his eyebrows and eyelashes were covered in frost, his spiritual power was loosely leaking out, and his whole body was enveloped in a layer of cold air.

Even in this state, Yu Wei still endured and said, “Did I wake you up, Senior Brother?”

Looking at him like this, Chao Jianxue could guess most of it: “Did you force down the dan poison, and now it’s backfiring?”

So why on earth would this person not properly recuperate in the quiet room in the middle of the night, but instead come to stand in front of his bed with wet hair!

“It’s nothing.”

Yu Wei raised his sleeve to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth. If Chao Jianxue hadn’t sensed the chaotic spiritual power in his body and recognized the dan poison from the Spring Passion Pill, he would have thought nothing was wrong just by looking at his composed appearance.

An unnamed fire rose in his heart, and he said coldly, “Just keep enduring it, you’ll endure yourself to death sooner or later! Are you trying to cultivate into demonhood? No need to call Elder Lin, I can see it, the dan poison hasn’t been suppressed properly at all. You forgot that for the past few months, it’s been suppressed for a while and then relapsing. It’s clearly not fully suppressed yet, why did you run out to find me in the middle of the night?”

Under his barrage of questions, Yu Wei pursed his lips tightly, looking like he was about to collapse from pain, and began to meditate and circulate his energy.

Seeing him about to fall, Chao Jianxue ultimately didn’t say anything more. He didn’t dare to act rashly, sitting on the side and carefully watching Yu Wei.

As the saying goes, if you walk by the river often, you’re bound to get your shoes wet.

Lord Ziwei was even more right, enduring such things blindly isn’t good.

Thinking about it now, this was really inhumane. Letting Yu Wei go to detoxify would be fine, surely he wouldn’t ascend to immortality just from detoxifying.

Taking advantage of Yu Wei closing his eyes to regulate his breathing, which seemed to have stabilized somewhat, he suggested, “Little Junior Brother, do you have someone you admire, or could you go to the Hehuan Sect and ask if there are any girls willing to help you detoxify?”

Yu Wei suddenly gave him a fierce look.

“…No.”

Chao Jianxue thought he was too stubborn and stuck in his ways.

“What’s wrong with dual cultivation? Dual cultivation is a wonderful thing! Are you perhaps keeping yourself pure for someone?”

The cold air around Yu Wei suddenly intensified, freezingly so. Chao Jianxue shrank back, moving his chair slightly.

“Otherwise, what do you say we should do? Enduring like this will make you sick. I’m thinking about your future happiness. Or,” he even joked, “Little Junior Brother, do you know what the Sunflower Manual is? The kind of cultivation technique that says, ‘If you want to practice divine skills, you must first castrate yourself’!”

Yu Wei’s breathing gradually became unstable again. He tried to form hand seals again, but the dan poison was more difficult to resist than ever. Forcibly suppressing it with the Cold Soul Spell only brought endless pain.

His late-stage Nascent Soul realm was repeatedly impacted. Moreover, his eldest senior brother was saying things he didn’t like to hear. Yu Wei’s spiritual power stagnated, and he spat out another mouthful of blood.

His spiritual power was scattered and disorderly, and the Cold Soul Spell was no longer able to suppress it at all.

Chao Jianxue saw that things were really bad!

He was afraid he was really going to cultivate into demonhood!

He immediately stood up, grabbed the outer robe hanging on the clothes rack without a word, and ran outside.

Behind him came Yu Wei’s weak call: “Senior Brother… umbrella…”

When someone’s life is at stake, who cares about that damn umbrella! The umbrella was stored in the closet, there was no time to find it now!

“You wait for me here!”

Chao Jianxue rushed into the rain, facing the wind and rain head-on, and flew towards the main peak with his spiritual power.

His master hadn’t emerged from seclusion yet, he needed to find Elder Lin and the Sect Leader.

The window was blown open again by the strong wind. Yu Wei turned his head and saw the gloomy wind and rain, with flashes of white light occasionally streaking across the dark night sky. And his senior brother’s figure was already out of sight in the rain.

He was so weak and had just recovered from his injuries, how could he withstand such heavy rain…

His vision gradually blurred, and his thoughts drifted away, but an idea gradually took shape in Yu Wei’s mind.

He needed to become stronger, more resistant to poison, so that he wouldn’t let the people he cared about get hurt because of him.

So that all the sudden wind and rain in the world would avoid the person he gazed upon.

“You’re soaked like a drowned rat, are you stupid? Couldn’t you have shouted through the sect’s jade token communication?” Li Zhenzhen threw a blanket over Chao Jianxue’s head, telling him to put it on.

Chao Jianxue blew his nose again and again, shocked, “Oh yeah, I didn’t think of that at all!” But he didn’t have the Sect Leader’s and Elder Lin’s communication tokens, the only ones he could drag out in the middle of the night were Li Zhenzhen and Nan Shan.

But that wasn’t enough!

An hour ago, he went straight to the top of the main peak, and in the pouring rain, he banged on the Sect Leader’s residence door.

The disciple who opened the door was still drowsy, and couldn’t recognize him for a moment. He didn’t expect this person to be so rude, rushing straight in and knocking him around.

Turning around to chase after him and scold him, he saw the person rush straight into the Sect Leader’s Listening Wind Pavilion. The disciple was so shocked that his three souls almost left his body. Could it be some assassin from another sect!

Before he could chase into the Listening Wind Pavilion, he saw the Sect Leader being dragged out by his sleeve, with only one shoe half-on.

The disciple had never seen the Sect Leader in such an undignified state. He stood rooted to the spot, not daring to move, and watched the two fly away.

From afar, he could still hear the Sect Leader’s stern criticism.

“How impolite! Even if it’s an emergency, you can’t forget the etiquette of the immortal sect! Chao Jianxue—Chao Jianxue!” The Sect Leader was dragged back to the Clear Snow Abode in exasperation, scolding and grumbling.

He also dragged along Elder Lin from the Wenyao Hall.

Now, thanks to Elder Lin’s acupuncture, Yu Wei looked like a hedgehog.

The Sect Leader’s face was gloomy. He called Chao Jianxue, “Come over and explain.”

“How did you get poisoned by this Spring Passion Pill?”

Chao Jianxue sneezed several times again, his voice muffled, “Accident… It was an accident.”

The Sect Leader snorted coldly, clearly not believing him, “Pure dan poison is one thing, but this has traces of demonic energy. Even if Yu Wei is strong, he can’t withstand dan poison mixed with demonic energy in the long run! Tell me the truth, and I might be able to save his life!”

At this time, Qiu Shui and Nan Shan also arrived in the rain, but were stopped outside the inner room by Li Zhenzhen.

The two craned their necks to look inside, and were a little worried seeing Chao Jianxue facing the Sect Leader alone. Eldest Senior Brother’s mouth isn’t forgiving, they were afraid he would argue with the Sect Leader.

Apart from Chao Jianxue, no one else knew that Yu Wei had been poisoned in the Dreamlike Three Thousand Crossings.

On the couch, more and more needles were being stuck into Yu Wei’s body to seal his meridians and draw out the dan poison. Elder Lin was sweating profusely, and Yu Wei was painfully closing his eyes tightly.

Chao Jianxue didn’t expect there to be demonic energy involved. He told the truth, “Yu Wei and I accidentally entered the narrow realm of the demonized Senior Lin Yao in the Dreamlike Three Thousand Crossings. Lin Yao gave him the poison.”

The Sect Leader’s eyes narrowed slightly, “Lin Yao…”

He exchanged a look with Elder Lin, who had turned his head back, and they already had a judgment.

“Lin Yao is a God Transformation stage pill cultivator, and indeed, he disappeared a few months ago. If what you said is true, I must quickly invite the Sect Leader of the pill cultivator faction here.”

Chao Jianxue quickly said, “It’s true, really true, more true than gold!”

“I’ll ask you again, setting aside the fact that you tempted your junior brother to leave the sect without permission to go to the Dreamlike Three Thousand Crossings, why did you get involved with Lin Yao? Is there any participation from other sects in this?”

A huge burden was thrown on Chao Jianxue’s head unexpectedly. He thought this old man didn’t like him, he had felt it during the New Year.

He glanced at Yu Wei and suppressed his anger, “No. It was an accident.”

“I hope that’s the case!” As the Sect Leader spoke, he cast a spell on his personal jade token.

Chao Jianxue pouted and looked at Li Zhenzhen and the others. None of them dared to sit down, they were all standing outside.

What are you standing for? This is the Clear Snow Abode, his house!

So he took the lead and plopped down next to them.

After a moment, a human-shaped phantom faintly appeared above the jade token. It was the Sect Leader of the pill cultivator faction.

The pill cultivator faction had a complex network of connections, and each person had their own alchemy techniques. This pill cultivator Sect Leader didn’t have deep interactions with Lin Yao on a daily basis, but he could tell at a glance that it was indeed Lin Yao’s work.

“However, this dan poison has already invaded the Purple Mansion, and it’s very likely that it also contains the Hehuan Sect’s unique Spring Passion Powder. Either he can enter the God Transformation stage to detoxify, or he has to engage in dual cultivation a few times…”

“No…” Yu Wei suddenly woke up in shock, wanting to turn over and get out of bed in a hoarse voice. Chao Jianxue took a step forward and held him down, saying fiercely, “You’ve been stuck full of needles, be quiet!”

“The method of dual cultivation… isn’t necessarily important…” The Sect Leader muttered to himself.

“It has to be with someone he admires to detoxify,” the pill cultivator Sect Leader said.

The people in the inner room were speechless.

It was obvious at a glance that Yu Wei had been focused on cultivation all these years, where would he find someone he admired? Surely they couldn’t force him to like someone now, right?

“I will cultivate to the God Transformation stage… Please rest assured, teachers…” Yu Wei said stubbornly.

Elder Lin flicked his fingers, and the hundred silver needles on his body were retracted. He said unhappily, “You’re still going to cultivate to the God Transformation stage? Your late-stage Nascent Soul realm has already fallen back to the early stage. It’s extremely dangerous!”

At the moment the silver needles were pulled out, Yu Wei groaned and immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

Chao Jianxue watched with heartache, thinking on one hand that Yu Wei was the protagonist so nothing would happen, and on the other hand, wondering what if.

The pill cultivator Sect Leader said again, “There is another method that can delay the onset of the dan poison, and perhaps even dissipate some of the toxicity.”

“What is it?” Chao Jianxue asked first.

“The Yu family of Dongyuan has a secret treasure called the Bitter Cold Heart, whose cold power can have some effect. Just now I heard you talking, the young friend who was poisoned is also surnamed Yu, I wonder what his origins are?”

Several pairs of eyes all looked at Yu Wei.

Yu Wei sat up, and said frankly, “I was indeed born in Dongyuan, but I am not from that Yu family of Dongyuan. I am just from a remote branch family.”

“It seems I overthought it. The Yu family of Dongyuan has always been mysterious and unwilling to interact with the various sects of our immortal world. It may be difficult to ask for this Bitter Cold Heart.”

“What’s so difficult? Isn’t it fine to just knock on their door?” Chao Jianxue said.

The Sect Leader was angered again, “Impudent!”

Chao Jianxue didn’t bother arguing with him.

“The Jade Frond Boat where the Yu family resides is even harder to find,” Elder Lin added.

“Don’t let Mu Yuan know about this matter yet, he is at a critical stage of breaking through,” The Sect Leader pondered again and again, “I will ask someone to send a message to the Yu family.”

This matter was temporarily put on hold. After Yu Wei received the acupuncture, his spiritual power circulation was no different from usual, and the speed of his recovery was something Chao Jianxue envied. But Elder Lin warned him, “The more times the poison breaks out, the more severe it will be. Next month, you must be fully prepared!”

Yu Wei started a hellish training regimen like a machine. Chao Jianxue didn’t stop him.

Because he was not only indifferent, but also powerless.

After being caught in the rain, he had a high fever for two days, and he felt like there was some kind of power struggling and rampaging inside his body, making him nauseous.

As the saying goes, getting better from an illness is like pulling silk from a cocoon. He went back to living a good life where food came to his mouth and clothes came to his hands.

As he lived on, he didn’t know what kind of luck he had again. It must have been that the demon core of the spider demon had finally merged with him. Chao Jianxue transformed and jumped to the late stage of the Golden Core realm in one fell swoop.

After waiting for several more days, Chao Jianxue was fully recovered, but there was still no news from the Yu family of Dongyuan.

He didn’t want to see the Sect Leader, so he asked Li Zhenzhen to inquire. The result he got was that the Yu family of Dongyuan didn’t bother to respond at all.

Outrageous!

Chao Jianxue felt that Yu Wei couldn’t sit and wait for death like this.

So early this morning, the breeze felt cool and comfortable on his face.

Chao Jianxue put on his usual gold-threaded moon-white robe, lightly stepped onto a treetop, and sat on the tree to “ambush” Yu Wei, who was going to cultivate.

Hearing the movement, Yu Wei raised his face. Chao Jianxue’s picturesque face was dazzling in the sunlight, making him squint.

“Little Junior Brother!”

The hem of the eldest senior brother’s robe was blown by the spring breeze, looking triumphant. Countless small, shimmering points of light shone through the gaps in the leaves behind him.

His smile was bright and confident. He threw a fruit to Yu Wei. “Let’s go!”

“We’re going to Dongyuan!”