SQLJBFDTW Chapter 83

“Then why didn’t you tell me back then?” Chao Jianxue’s eyes widened.

Yu Wei slowly blinked and said, “Such things are dirty.”

So he felt that Chao Jianxue shouldn’t know.

Chao Jianxue looked at him, the sincerity in his eyes didn’t seem fake. He couldn’t help but think that Yu Wei was a bit of a hypocrite. What were they doing just now? What were they doing tying chains to the headboard?

However, if this series of events was really related to Mo Tanzhou, this person would be too terrifying.

In recent decades, the Tianyao Sect has grown immensely. Mo Tanzhou, as the chief disciple and the next Sect Leader of the Tianyao Sect, also holds a pivotal position in the Immortal Sect.

“Is there any news about Mo Zezhi?”

Yu Wei shook his head: “He disappeared without a trace.”

Perhaps he was dead, or perhaps he was being hidden.

Chao Jianxue really didn’t expect that he had always thought everything was a scheme set up by the Sect Leader. But now, after hearing what Yu Wei said, he suddenly realized that the Sect Leader would never go to such lengths to get rid of him.

Although the Sect Leader is an unreasonable old man who only believes in his own warped logic, he would never do something like killing a righteous disciple and framing someone else.

It is very likely that he was being used as a pawn.

“Even if it really was Mo Tanzhou who did it,” Chao Jianxue hesitated, unsure of what he really thought, “there’s no evidence anymore.”

“Shixiong, do you want to go back to the Immortal Sect?” Yu Wei asked him.

Chao Jianxue stammered for a while, then confessed, “I’m sorry to Lord Mu Yuan. If there’s a chance, I want to kowtow to Lord Mu Yuan and beg for forgiveness in person.”

“Then let’s find it.” Yu Wei said.

His words were firm and resolute. Chao Jianxue didn’t react to what he meant by “find.”

“What?”

He raised his surprised eyes. Yu Wei tightened his grip on his wrist: “Let’s find evidence. Let’s find Mo Zezhi’s whereabouts.”

Since there’s no breakthrough point with Mo Tanzhou, they would start with Mo Zezhi.

Chao Jianxue was startled, then smiled: “What’s the point of finding it? Proving oneself innocent is the stupidest thing to do. If I confirm that he did it, I can just go straight to the Tianyao Sect and kill them…”

“No.” There was urgency in Yu Wei’s eyes, “This is a reputation you shouldn’t bear. Shixiong, it’s not fair to you.”

Whether it’s fair or not, Chao Jianxue hadn’t thought about it for a long time.

He remained silent.

In these decades, he had been lurking in the Demon Realm. It wasn’t that he hadn’t thought about going to the Immortal Sect to seek justice for himself, but reason told him he couldn’t do that.

If the mastermind really was Mo Tanzhou, Yu Wei was right. He should clear his name.

If he wanted to be a sharp blade, he should first sharpen the edge of his sword.

The light in Chao Jianxue’s eyes gradually brightened. He suddenly felt surging with emotion. He sat up in one go, determined to find the evidence to frame him!

However, an unspeakable pain came from his buttocks. His lofty aspirations turned into a weak groan, and he collapsed again.

Yu Wei wanted to look in panic, but he was stopped by Chao Jianxue.

“I’m sorry, Shixiong…”

Chao Jianxue knew that demonic energy invasion would lead to some drastic actions.

Chao Jianxue felt that more important than clearing his name was Yu Wei’s demonic energy invasion.

He said to Yu Wei, “I’ll find a doctor from the Demon Realm for you.”

Yu Wei was stunned and said, “It’s okay.”

It was common for cultivators to occasionally have demonic energy invade their bodies. As long as they could stick to their original intentions, they could remove the evil thoughts during the next closed-door cultivation.

“No way!” Chao Jianxue’s attitude was very firm.

Yu Wei’s expression changed slightly and said, “Shixiong is willing… is it because I’m being invaded by demonic energy…”

He spoke weakly, and Chao Jianxue didn’t hear him clearly. When he asked him again what he said, Yu Wei said it was nothing.

When Qing Tu Liu came in, the two had already tidied up the mess, looking calm and natural.

He hid at the door, afraid to go in, and asked Chao Jianxue, “The affairs of the Ascension Festival have all ended. Will this… will this Lord Yu be living here from now on?”

Chao Jianxue nodded as a matter of course, but Yu Wei said, “I’m going back to One Leaf Boat.”

Hearing this sentence, Chao Jianxue turned his head and said sternly, “You’re not allowed to go out until I ascend to Tribulation Stage!”

“It doesn’t matter if Shixiong doesn’t want to say why he’s keeping me locked up. But I have to go back to the Immortal Sect to look for clues.” Yu Wei stood up, his expression calm, “Demonic energy fluctuations are frequent. Fumo Pass is about to be lost. This concerns the safety of the Xuanzhen Realm. The Immortal Sect and the Demon Realm will definitely have a meeting then. Shixiong, as the Demon Lord, will also have to show up. At least before that, we need to find the mastermind from back then.”

Yu Wei always thought things through thoroughly. When others could think of one, he could think of ten. But Chao Jianxue had always been the type to “meet soldiers with generals and water with earth.” His current worry was only Yu Wei’s demonic possession.

“But…”

Chao Jianxue still wanted to refute, but Yu Wei stared into his eyes and said to him peacefully, “Doesn’t Shixiong believe that I can suppress the demonic energy?”

He wanted to believe it, but the protagonist’s ending was clearly laid out there!

Chao Jianxue had a headache and was restless and anxious, almost wanting to bang his head against the wall.

Yu Wei still had feelings for him, which he was certainly happy about, but if he let Yu Wei leave, would it be detrimental to him? Would Yu Wei tell the Immortal Sect that he was not dead?

Since faking his death at the Wuwu Sect, he inevitably had been full of doubts and could not control these thoughts.

In the end, Chao Jianxue let him go.

Qing Tu Liu leaned against the door and sighed quietly: “He’s finally gone. I was scared to death.”

Chao Jianxue also looked at him quietly: “Why aren’t you afraid of me, but you act like a shrinking turtle when you see Yu Wei?”

Qing Tu Liu said: “You’re not scary. That Yu guy is scary. His spiritual pressure is crazy. He’s very similar to those lunatics I’ve seen before.”

In the past, Chao Jianxue didn’t think that Yu Wei would one day be described with the word “crazy,” but after experiencing what just happened, he deeply agreed.

Qing Tu Liu also said, “Just now you guys…” His gaze was strange, and he surveyed the room.

Chao Jianxue immediately blocked his line of sight, with a straight face: “What are you looking at?”

Qing Tu Liu “tsk”ed: “Lord Demon Lord’s face is radiant. Do I need to see what happened?”

How obvious was it?

Chao Jianxue put his palm on his face. Everything was normal. There was no fever.

Qing Tu Liu also said: “Don’t blame me for being nosy, Lord Demon Lord. After all, you’re not the same race. Some feelings are just for fun. Don’t take them seriously.”

Chao Jianxue gritted his teeth and said, “I don’t need you to tell me.”

He liked Yu Wei, but Qing Tu Liu’s words were like a thorn that pricked him. He had been worried in the Demon Realm for more than ten days. Yu Wei sent him a message saying that he had found Mo Zezhi’s whereabouts.

Under the clear breeze and moon, the water surface rippled. A small boat stood quietly on it, and the light gauze was slowly blown up.

Blown up and then falling, Chao Jianxue appeared at the bow of the boat like a ghost, wearing a hooded cloak. He lifted his hat, revealing an undisguised face that was beautiful enough.

Only his expression was slightly dazed.

“Aren’t we going to the Human Realm? Why did you ask me to come here?” He leaned slightly and looked around in the small boat’s cabin.

The bamboo curtain on the boat was rolled up, and the moonlight shone recklessly, covering Yu Wei, making the light of the firefly lamps insignificant.

Seeing that he had come as promised, Yu Wei’s dark face reappeared under the moonlight, with a sigh of relief.

“Why is Shixiong half a quarter late?”

Chao Jianxue bent over and walked in. The boat swayed, and then returned to calm.

“Isn’t it because the place you chose is hard to find? I found the wrong lake. I went to another body of water two miles away.”

“That’s good.” Yu Wei looked at him, “I thought Shixiong wouldn’t come.”

Chao Jianxue said “How could I not?” He curiously looked at the water surface outside the window: “You said you found out that Mo Zezhi is hiding in the Human Realm? Where did the news come from?”

“Mo Tanzhou goes to the Human Realm privately every month. Although he says it’s for the reason of eliminating demons, I’ve noticed that he goes to one country in the Human Realm alone.”

“Oh.” Since the demonic energy began to get out of control, demons have also appeared frequently in the Human Realm. Chao Jianxue knew about this. “Do you know how to open the teleportation array to the Human Realm? Wouldn’t it be better for us to go directly?”

But Yu Wei raised his hand and took his hand: “Shixiong, does being with me now mean that we have to be without a moment’s rest?”

He didn’t say it explicitly, but Chao Jianxue understood immediately. They hadn’t seen each other for several days, but he immediately started talking about serious matters. It was his fault.

Perhaps the moonlight was too cool, and Yu Wei’s gaze seemed sad, making Chao Jianxue feel uncomfortable.

“Aiya, if you wanted to go on a date, you should have said so earlier…” He scratched his face pretending to be relaxed, “I’m just anxious. Don’t think too much.”

He tentatively attributed Yu Wei’s mine-like sensitivity to demonic energy.

Having his intentions pointed out, Yu Wei took a deep breath and took the initiative to let go of his hand, saying, “I was rude.”

Chao Jianxue, however, went over, hugged his arm, and said with a smile, “In the future, if you want to go on a date, don’t talk to me so seriously in your letters. Just say generously, ‘I’ve prepared a small boat on the lake,’ and invite me to enjoy the moon or something, and I’ll understand!”

Yu Wei hid the joy at the corners of his lips and asked, “If I said that, would Shixiong come?”

He had regained what he had lost. He only felt that reconciling with Shixiong was unreal. What if Shixiong was lying to him again and suddenly disappeared without a trace?

Chao Jianxue comforted him and said, “I’ll come, of course I’ll come.”

Yu Wei looked at him, with both joy and sadness tearing at him. What if Shixiong was feeling sorry for him because of his demonic possession and was pitying him?

He suppressed the bitterness in his throat and said, “It’s also true that I said in the letter that we’re going to the Human Realm. This boat is going to the Human Realm.”

“Huh?” Chao Jianxue leaned out and looked out of the boat. The shimmering water reflected the moonlight, and the sound was clear and incomparable. But as the boat went to the middle of the lake, the phosphorescence under the water looked like a brilliant galaxy, forming a huge array.

“This is…”

Yu Wei said, “This is the Yu Clan’s teleportation array. It uses water as a boundary. One Leaf Boat was also hidden in the Dongyuan Mountains like this.”

The last time they boated to One Leaf Boat, the change of the array was completely hidden and the array teleportation was completed between the staggered lotus flowers.

But now here, Chao Jianxue clearly understood how this so-called teleportation array worked.

It was as if moonlight was ink and the water surface was paper. Under Yu Wei’s spiritual power, an array was formed, and then the water surface turned, the Milky Way was upside down, and countless tiny water droplets floated around the small boat, like a torrential rain falling upside down.

Chao Jianxue was very surprised and widened his eyes. The heavy rain poured down like a waterfall, and finally returned to calm, but the world was no longer the same. There were more mountains under the sky, and two rows of black crows flying in unison.

Was there such a magical teleportation array?

What other surprises did his little junior brother have that he didn’t know about?

Yu Wei also stretched out his hand, and his fingertips brushed across the cold water surface, rippling a satin-like wrinkle: “This is the Human Realm.”

In the past, when they went to the Human Realm, they needed several masters to open the array. Now they could go by themselves. Chao Jianxue thought that time really didn’t wait for anyone.

A round lamp was propped up at the bow of the boat, swaying forward. At the end of the field of vision, there were white walls and black tiles built by the water. The watchman beat the watch drum, walking and shouting. It was already the fifth watch of Yinshi, and it would be dawn soon.

Chao Jianxue took a deep breath of the Human Realm’s thin air—yes, for monks who were used to living in the Xuanzhen Realm, the air in the Human Realm was considered thin. He took a few deep breaths and got used to it.

At this point, some Human Realm people had already gone out to set up stalls. The two couldn’t fly ashore in full view of the public, so they could only honestly wait for the boat to dock.

Yu Wei took the lead and stepped onto the stone steps, then turned around and handed his hand to Chao Jianxue.

Chao Jianxue was stunned for a moment, his eyes moving up and down his hand and face, before he realized that he wanted him to take his hand to get ashore.

As a man, he hadn’t been treated so carefully for a long time, and he was a little scared and shy. He pushed away Yu Wei’s hand embarrassedly, took a big step, and also stepped on the stone steps, looking up at Yu Wei and saying, “Let’s go.”

Finally, Yu Wei also walked on the stone steps beside Chao Jianxue, but the fingers he had just stretched out tightened, leaving crescent-like marks on his palm.