SQLJBFDTW Chapter 74

Chapter 74: First Kidnapping – The Eldest Disciple’s First Attempt

A small ice lotus grew from the ground.

Then, a second, a third…

Chao Jianxue felt the chill spreading from the ground and opened his eyes to this scene. He keenly sensed that Yu Wei’s spiritual power was out of control; it was the spiritual power overflow from the Frigid Soul Bitter Lotus technique.

“Liar… liar!” Yu Wei’s voice sounded desperate, and he even heavily punched the bed at the end. Chao Jianxue’s heart jumped with the motion.

He almost thought the bed would be smashed.

Listening to these accusations, Chao Jianxue’s heart was filled with complex emotions. He had indeed lied to his little junior brother, and he couldn’t deny it. He was willing to kneel before Yu Wei every day after kidnapping him and kowtow in apology.

After a long while, Yu Wei started walking, slowly leaving, deaf to the sound of the ice lotuses shattering under his feet.

After a long time, the remaining ice lotuses melted one after another, leaving behind streaks of deep and shallow water stains on the floor.

Chao Jianxue rolled out from under the bed, breathing a sigh of relief as he looked at the ceiling.

Then, he sighed again.

So, does little junior brother still have feelings for him?

If that’s the case, then the psychological burden of kidnapping him would be even heavier.

How should he naturally appear before Yu Wei?

He cheated him out of the immortal sword that should have belonged to him, deceived his body and mind—the body part was debatable—and finally pretended to be dead, wiped his hands clean, and left. If he suddenly appeared before Yu Wei, grinning and saying, “Hi, I’m not dead, I’m back!” things would definitely end badly, right?

He returned to the One Leaf Boat cabin. Qin Cai, yawning, asked, “Where did you go?”

Chao Jianxue replied weakly, “I got lost wandering outside.”

“Heh, you’ve been here for days and still get lost.” Qin Cai rolled over, mumbled something, and continued to drift off to sleep.

Chao Jianxue thought for a while, then summoned the Green Tea Willow sleeping in his vase and said, “Go and inquire about where Yu… that person went today and why he expended so much spiritual power.”

Green Tea Willow revealed two sharp teeth: “Who is Yu that person? Why doesn’t Demon Lord dare to say his full name?”

Chao Jianxue, in good temper, didn’t argue with him, saying softly, “You know who it is.”

This somewhat helpless tone made Green Tea Willow’s skin crawl, so he quickly crawled out through the crack in the window.

He worked quickly. The next day, Chao Jianxue was studying the Frigid Soul Bitter Lotus technique when he returned.

He perched on the windowsill and said, “I happened to meet a little demon who said he saw Yu that person go to Ink Lake and use his spiritual power to probe very deep into it.”

Chao Jianxue, of course, knew what Ink Lake was.

Yu Wei might still be unwilling to give up and was searching for his corpse or this spiritual bracelet?

He had used a sufficiently concealed technique; Yu Wei wouldn’t be able to detect that this spiritual bracelet was within the One Leaf Boat.

Since Yu Wei’s spiritual power was currently weak, wasn’t it a good time to kidnap him?

He clenched his fists, waiting quietly for night to fall.

The White Jade Pavilion had three floors, each with a corridor and railings. Chao Jianxue quietly flew onto the roof, lightly crouching on the outer circle of the corridor.

There were no lights inside. He looked through the window cracks, regretting that he didn’t have the ability of the Seventy-Two Transformations to transform into a flying insect or something and fly in openly.

Dimly, Yu Wei sat properly behind the curtains, accompanied only by a layer of moonlight. There were still many small ice lotuses around, as if floating in the water-like light. He didn’t tie up his hair. His eyes were lightly closed, and his satin-like hair fell down, diminishing that unapproachable aura he usually possessed.

Chao Jianxue swallowed lightly.

This was the first time he had seen Yu Wei, fully grown into a young man, at this distance.

He had sharper edges than he did decades ago, with slanted eyebrows reaching his temples and slightly upturned eyes. When he opened his eyes and looked from afar, he resembled a solitary moon and a cold sword, but now, examining him closely with his eyes closed, he was like a figure draped in mist, like facing a piece of jade.

He had indeed wasted all his spiritual power exploring Ink Lake, not noticing that someone was within fifty steps of him.

Chao Jianxue remembered his purpose and sprinkled some powder inside through the window crack.

This was a poison from the Demon Realm, mixed with Green Tea Willow’s snake venom, which could make someone faint in a short time and lose their spiritual power protection.

But whether it would succeed depended on the other person’s cultivation level.

The powder sparkled, flying to Yu Wei’s side under Chao Jianxue’s control. In a short while, Yu Wei fell down.

Chao Jianxue was overjoyed, but still not reassured, he gently opened the window a little more and threw a small stone at Yu Wei’s feet. Yu Wei didn’t move.

Act quickly!

He changed his disguise in advance, took out a hemp rope, quietly and silently flipped through the window, tiptoeing like a thief, and quickly came behind the curtains.

Ah!

There was another serious problem.

He hadn’t learned how to tie someone up beforehand, or what kind of knots to use.

He could actually use magic, but Chao Jianxue’s magic had demonic energy. If Yu Wei didn’t wake up, his Only Sword would react, and he didn’t dare to.

Holding the rope in his hand, Chao Jianxue frowned and gestured for a moment, but helpless, he had to tie him up randomly for now!

He turned Yu Wei upright, wrapping him around several times like a rice dumpling, but when tying him up, he was afraid of pulling his hair, so he had to straddle him, tying him up while lifting his hair.

The prepared rope wasn’t long enough, so he couldn’t wrap him from head to toe like a mummy, so he had to tie him up more sparsely.

Disciples patrolled below the White Jade Pavilion, their occasional laughter and chatter audible. Chao Jianxue licked his lips, his hands and feet moving non-stop. But he was a little nervous. Not only was one of Yu Wei’s hands not tied up, but he himself was also tripped.

Yu Wei was quiet and peaceful, his eyes deeply closed, as if letting him do as he pleased. When Chao Jianxue was tying him up, he inevitably touched his waist and arms. Although it was through his clothes, the memories of the past came flooding back, his face gradually heating up, and his hands trembling a little.

He took a long time to tie the knot. Green Tea Willow urged him by the window, “Why isn’t it done yet?”

He saw the scene inside the house and stared: “Demon Lord! You’re playing around yourself! What’s with the rope! Just pick him up and take him away!”

What he said made sense. Chao Jianxue was speechless with himself. Why did his IQ drop whenever he was around Yu Wei?

He used the rope only because he was worried that Yu Wei would break free halfway, but as long as he held him tight enough, Yu Wei, poisoned and limp, wouldn’t be able to break free. As long as he restrained his hands so he couldn’t make any hand seals, he could apply a silencing spell after leaving the One Leaf Boat.

He picked up Yu Wei horizontally. At the same time, he saw Yu Wei’s eyebrows tighten, as if he were about to wake up.

When would Green Tea Willow’s snake venom finally kick in?

He realized that the Only Sword placed aside was trembling, with a great possibility of being unsheathed.

Too fast, he couldn’t even take him out of the One Leaf Boat like this!

Chao Jianxue made a painful decision, at least to get out of the One Leaf Boat first.

He jumped down from the White Jade Pavilion with Yu Wei in his arms, rushing all the way, stepping on the lotus leaves to fly out of the One Leaf Boat. It was the same waterfall from that year, but to facilitate entry and exit, the narrow path of the waterfall had been widened. He turned around with the person in his arms and went out.

However, at the moment of exiting the waterfall, Yu Wei suddenly opened his eyes.

Chao Jianxue looked down.

Meeting his cold eyes, he paused, and then heard a sword cry. He reacted quickly, dodging the Only Sword chasing from the One Leaf Boat, and threw out a body-fixing spell. Without its master’s spiritual power, the Only Sword could only be fixed in the water, unable to move.

At this time, the snake venom was still taking effect on Yu Wei’s body. He struggled, but the rope knots Chao Jianxue had tied on him were very tight, and he couldn’t break free. Yu Wei’s eyes, like cold stars, were about to shoot out ice picks.

He spoke: “Courting death.”

Chao Jianxue: “…” He continued to fly towards the Demon Realm.

Green Tea Willow hung on his neck, proudly saying to Yu Wei, “Being favored by the Demon Lord is your good fortune.”

These words, in Yu Wei’s ears, were obviously humiliating.

Yu Wei clenched his fists, forcibly operating the Frigid Soul Bitter Lotus technique. Chao Jianxue felt like he was holding a piece of solid ice, and seeing Yu Wei use force in his wrists, the rope was getting tighter and tighter, with signs of gradually breaking.

“Only… Sword, come!” he shouted.

A powerful pressure came from behind. Green Tea Willow was so frightened that he coiled his body tightly. Chao Jianxue dodged left and right. Yu Wei was obviously extremely angry and wanted to order the Only Sword to open the formation again.

Just as the word “open…” was uttered, Chao Jianxue had no other choice. Bothered by the Only Sword, he couldn’t free up his hands, so he directly leaned over and crashed his lips onto Yu Wei’s.

Green Tea Willow “tsk”ed.

The Only Sword almost fell behind.

Being forcibly kissed by a demon was definitely the greatest shame in Yu Wei’s life.

He trembled all over, and the ropes binding his wrists broke in an instant, and the spiritual energy around him ignited with blazing spiritual light.

Heh, this was anger to the extreme.

Chao Jianxue wanted to use brute force, but there was still a certain distance from the Demon Realm. Coincidentally, at this time, a voice flew closer, calling out loudly, sounding familiar: “Is that Yu Wei, young friend Yu?”

Unfortunately, the person who came was actually Lord Ziwei!

Knowing that he couldn’t contend, Chao Jianxue threw Yu Wei away and flashed away, running away like smoke before Lord Ziwei arrived.

Yu Wei rolled onto the beach in a sorry state, the rope burned to ashes by his spiritual fire in an instant. The Only Sword flew close, whining and comforting its master, and the flying sword formation also failed to attack the target, falling in vain in the air.

Yu Wei coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Lord Ziwei landed, surprised to see him in this state: “Who could have turned you into such a state?”

Yu Wei pressed a finger on his spiritual point, probing the cause and effect within, and said coldly: “A demon in the Great Ascension stage sneaked into the One Leaf Boat and poisoned me with snake venom when my spiritual power was weak.”

“Your mouth…”

Yu Wei calmly wiped away the blood that had been knocked out of his lips, but the cold air overflowing from his body revealed his extreme displeasure.

Lord Ziwei showed a loving gaze towards the younger generation: “Don’t go chasing after him. Your spiritual power is completely messed up. I advise you not to do things that drain your spiritual power these days. Ink Lake is so deep and has so many spiritual objects. How can you explore it completely with spiritual power?”

“Thank you, Lord, for your guidance. I won’t do it again in the future,” Yu Wei said.

He had already explored Ink Lake completely.

But it was all in vain. Not even a piece of clothing was found.

–

Chao Jianxue did not return to the Demon Realm, but instead decided on the principle of ‘the safest place is the most dangerous,’ and returned to the One Leaf Boat by the same route.

He changed back to Lu Ren’s face, pretending that nothing had happened, and went back to the room to sleep. Qin Cai was sleeping very deeply and was not awakened by his movements.

The first kidnapping ended in failure.

He said to Green Tea Willow, “Next time, make your poison stronger.”

Green Tea Willow: “I’m just a Nascent Soul, not poisonous enough. Why don’t we ask the elder for some?”

Chao Jianxue: “…Won’t that kill him?”

Green Tea Willow: “Hehe.”

Waking up the next day, Qin Cai stared at his mouth for a long time before asking, “What happened to your mouth?”

Chao Jianxue licked it, and felt a stinging pain.

“Oh, I accidentally bumped into something,” Lu Ren said with watery eyes.

Not long after the morning practice, a disciple came to deliver a message, saying that the Boat Master would personally come to see everyone’s cultivation today.