SQLJBFDTW Chapter 72

Chapter 72: The Old Residence – All Gone!

Chao Jianxue stood up in one breath, summoning his sword. Qing Tu Liu was startled, thinking he was about to make some earth-shattering move.

Was he going to storm the Tianyao Sect right now?

Their demon realm had only signed an agreement with the Immortal Sects a few years ago. This wouldn’t be good, Demon Lord!

However, Chao Jianxue squatted back down.

He didn’t even need to wait for a second or third attempt; he chickened out as soon as he stood up.

So many senior human cultivators, if he just barged in and kidnapped someone, and Yu Wei fought him to the death, he would be surrounded and attacked. Forget about bringing the person back to the demon realm, him escaping with his life would already be due to ancestral luck.

Chao Jianxue decided to bide his time.

The green snake wrapped around his arm again and again. He grabbed Qing Tu Liu by the neck, hauling him back to the demon realm.

The first time Chao Jianxue came to the demon realm, he was muddle-headed and his eyes were too ill to see clearly. When Qing Tu Liu said he was a retainer of his father’s clan, he didn’t react at all.

Come to think of it, if the Qing clan didn’t have a soul contract with Qi Wu, Chao Jianxue reasonably suspected that Qing Tu Liu would have eaten him.

The Qing clan, who thought they could be free after losing their master, suddenly found themselves with a half-demon young master overnight. Bound by the soul contract to be loyal, what could they do? Of course, they crammed him with knowledge, desperately trying to turn Chao Jianxue into a great power.

Chao Jianxue was also exceptionally promising. The restriction on his demon power had been completely broken, and he was constantly absorbing demon energy and spiritual energy. No wonder they said the potential of half-demons was extremely high.

As soon as he stepped into his mansion, a Qing clan elder emerged from the shadows.

The scales on his face had turned white, showing his advanced age.

Seeing the long strip Chao Jianxue was holding, he was furious, “Qing Tu Liu! Why did you turn into this! If people see this they will think my Qing clan is so soft, where is the face of the Demon Lord!”

Chao Jianxue agreed, casually coiling Qing Tu Liu into a knot and throwing him to the Qing clan elder: “Please trouble the elder to educate him properly. Rather than following me, it would be better to manage the Youmin Gambling House properly. The revenue for this season has declined again. How can we unify the Xuanzhen Realm if this continues?”

He spoke with heartache, elevating the purpose to a high level, because the Qing clan elder’s dream was to see demon cultivators unify the Xuanzhen Realm.

Qing Tu Liu was twisted into a pretzel, miraculously untwisted himself, turned back into human form in a flash, dodging the elder’s tail, and shouted, “Don’t hit me, don’t hit me! Demon Lord, why are you treating me like this…”

He was chased away by the elder grabbing his hair.

If it had been in the past, Chao Jianxue would never have imagined himself having such a conversation with Qing Tu Liu. After he frankly accepted that he was a demon, the demons he encountered were actually not bad.

Chao Jianxue entered his room, letting his ears out to comb the fur.

Over the decades, his ears had become slightly lighter in color. Qing Tu Liu told him that Qi Wu’s true form was not a cat, but a demon born from nature. If he had to use an animal analogy, it was more like a black panther.

Unfortunately, a half-demon couldn’t transform into a beast form, only have some demon traits.

He lay down on the couch, raising his hand to look at the jade bracelet on his wrist.

“Sigh…” Chao Jianxue thought and thought, tentatively, “Yu…”

The remaining word circled around on his tongue, like some kind of taboo. He couldn’t bring himself to say it no matter what.

“All day long, you’re ‘Yu’ this and ‘Yu’ that, is there a horse to ride?”

Chao Jianxue’s forehead twitched. He jumped up, sending out a beam of light. Qing Tu Liu “Aiyo!” and disappeared into the shadows again.

Chao Jianxue was furious, casting a spell to close all the doors and windows tightly, leaving not a single crack.

Being a Demon Lord was a little suffocating.

Chao Jianxue made up his mind, turning around and closing himself off again.

–

The deep lake in the middle of Zhongchang Heaven is called Ink Lake. The Wuwu Sect now floats horizontally on the surface of Ink Lake. If anyone knew the truth, they would find that the appearance of the Wuwu Sect is very different from a century ago.

Curved bridges were erected around the sect. Only when viewed from the sky could one know that the construction of these curved bridges was a protective formation for the sect.

Large fish in Ink Lake occasionally surfaced, creating ripples.

The Immortal Sect Grand Competition had ended. Yu Wei, according to his agreement with Li Zhenzhen, brought the disciples back to the Wuwu Sect.

The disciples were not familiar with him, respectfully addressing him as “Lord Yu Wei.” They were led back like little chicks.

Yu Wei stood on the shore. The gentle ripples of the lake lapped at his robes, then receded. Yu Wei seemed to be unable to restrain himself, taking a step forward.

“Yu Shidi!” Li Zhenzhen screamed.

He rushed over, keenly seeing that Yu Wei seemed to be walking into the water. He remembered what Yu Wei had said that day, and thought he was going to commit suicide for love.

Yu Wei turned around, looking calm.

“Now that you’re here, why not go back and take a look? Nan Shan and the others miss you…” Li Zhenzhen said, steeling himself.

Yu Wei glanced at the dark water surface again, and said, “Okay.”

“Really?” Li Zhenzhen thought he had misheard. Yu Wei hadn’t returned for a long time, why did he suddenly agree?

He hurriedly led the way, but Yu Wei said, “I know the way.” After speaking, he tapped his toes and flew off the water surface, heading straight for the former Fuxian Mountain.

That’s right, after all, it was a place he had lived in for decades, how could he forget the way?

Li Zhenzhen followed closely behind.

Entering Fuxian Mountain, the outer disciples heard that that Yu Wei Shixiong had returned, and curiously poked their heads out, staring with wide eyes, not daring to blink.

Cold and aloof, was this the aura of a genius?

Li Zhenzhen racked his brains beside him, telling all the interesting things that had happened in the sect recently, but Yu Wei’s expression didn’t change much.

Li Zhenzhen always received a lot of supportive responses in front of Xie Bingyuan and others, but only got to perform a solo act here with Yu Wei. He felt frustrated.

At this time, a person walked towards them on the mountain path, it was Qiu Shui.

Qiu Shui had also grown much taller compared to before, and had shed the childish face of a young girl, becoming more mature and steady.

She said in surprise, “Little Shidi is back.”

After thinking about it, she turned around: “I’ll go tell Nan Shan.”

Yu Wei called out to her: “Shijie doesn’t need to. I’ll be leaving soon, there are still matters to deal with in Dongyuan.”

Qiu Shui sighed, “Are you still blaming Nan Shan Shixiong?”

Back then, Little Shidi was knocked unconscious by the head of the sect’s hand chop, and after waking up, he started fighting with Nan Shan when he saw him, scaring Qiu Shui and Li Zhenzhen and others to quickly pull the two apart.

When had Yu Wei ever been so undignified as to fight with someone, they almost thought he had been possessed by a demon.

But this was also the only time Yu Wei had publicly lost his composure in front of them. After all, that matter happened within their own sect, who wouldn’t break down? Everyone expressed their understanding.

Only Qiu Shui felt that Yu Wei was blaming Nan Shan for punching and kicking Chao Jianxue at the time.

Yu Wei said to her, “It’s already in the past, how is Nan Shan Shixiong now?”

Fortunately, since he was still willing to ask about his situation, their relationship hadn’t broken down. Qiu Shui breathed a sigh of relief and said, “Shizun hasn’t woken up, so Nan Shan has to come forward to handle the affairs of Fuxian Mountain for the time being. Lord Shen Du also often comes to help.”

She asked with concern, “Are you doing well in Dongyuan?”

Yu Wei nodded: “I have already accepted a batch of disciples and am teaching the Yu clan’s cultivation methods.”

“Oh,” Qiu Shui sighed with emotion, “I didn’t expect that the first of us to go out and start our own sect would be the youngest, you.”

The three unconsciously followed Yu Wei’s footsteps to a special place.

Li Zhenzhen’s heart, which hadn’t been sad for a long time, became sad again.

It was Chao Jianxue’s former residence, Qingxue Pavilion.

None of them had entered it again.

Yu Wei wanted to go in before, but he hurriedly ran away as soon as he stepped inside. Was he going to take a look today?

Qiu Shui saw his face, which was so calm that she couldn’t pick out a single ripple, and coughed softly: “If you want to go in, go and take a look. No one has cleaned it inside, everything is kept as it was.”

Yu Wei stepped inside.

The green leaves rustled.

Qiu Shui asked Li Zhenzhen: “Li Shixiong, aren’t you going?”

Li Zhenzhen said with heartache: “I’m not going, I’m afraid I’ll be moved by the scenery, he’s my only brother, I didn’t expect… sigh!”

After a while, Yu Wei came out.

His expression didn’t change, and he said to Qiu Shui: “Let’s go see Shizun again.”

Mu Yuan was still sleeping in his cave dwelling. The disciples had set up formations around his cave dwelling to gather spiritual energy, hoping that Lord Mu Yuan could wake up as soon as possible.

Yu Wei didn’t take the road to Guanyue Terrace, and the two didn’t mention it.

He came to the front of Mu Yuan’s cave dwelling, raised his hand and flicked it, and a pale blue glowing lotus flew out of his palm and landed on the ground, growing another flower.

Only then did the two realize that these unknown spiritual flowers around Shizun’s cave dwelling were planted by Yu Wei, they thought they were planted by other lords or yuanjun.

It turned out that Yu Wei had returned many times when they didn’t know.

He said, “With this spiritual lotus, the spiritual energy here will accumulate faster.”

Qiu Shui nodded repeatedly: “Understood.”

Yu Wei performed a complete disciple’s salute in front of Shizun’s cave dwelling, and seeing that he was about to go down the mountain, Qiu Shui retained him again: “Little Shidi, if you have time, why not stay for one night?”

Yu Wei said politely: “I don’t need to trouble Shijie, it’s getting late, I’ll go back to Dongyuan now.”

Watching his receding back, the two sighed in unison.

How did a good Shimen become like this awkward.

Li Zhenzhen thought to himself that you don’t know the relationship between Yu Wei and Chao Jianxue, so of course you can’t figure it out.

He knew it too well.

If Chao Jianxue hadn’t confessed to him, he would have been kept in the dark.

Yu Wei was too deeply hurt by being deceived of his body and heart, and still hasn’t changed his infatuation, and suffered a major blow, and his temperament changed drastically.

Li Zhenzhen said, “Then I’ll go back too.”

Qiu Shui nodded: “I won’t see you off?”

Li Zhenzhen smiled at her: “What’s the point of seeing me off.” He slowly walked back alone.

On the way down the mountain, Li Zhenzhen passed Qingxue Pavilion again.

He took another look at Qingxue Pavilion, the houses and tiles were still the same as before, the pear tree in the courtyard had grown very tall, lush and green. If it was spring, it would be covered with small white flowers, looking like snow from a distance. As soon as you opened the door, you could see Chao Jianxue practicing his sword in the courtyard.

Ah, don’t think about it.

Li Zhenzhen clenched his fists, and finally made up his mind to go in and take a look.

After all, no matter how unwilling he was to face it, he would eventually have to face it. He was prepared to shed tears in Qingxue Pavilion.

He raised his foot and stepped into Qingxue Pavilion, stepping over the shade of the pear tree, and a cool feeling spread throughout Qingxue Pavilion.

He didn’t know if the formation he had set up in the house back then was still there.

Li Zhenzhen mustered his courage and pushed open the door.

Li Zhenzhen was dumbfounded.

He rushed back up the mountain in a panic, grabbed Qiu Shui’s sleeve, panting, as if he had seen a ghost.

Qiu Shui asked in confusion: “Didn’t you go back? What’s wrong again? Did your Little Shidi set the mountain on fire?”

Li Zhenzhen’s throat was very dry, and he couldn’t say a word. He swallowed hard, and said loudly: “It’s gone!”

“Gone?”

“Everything in Qingxue Pavilion is gone!”