SQLJBFDTW Chapter 90

Across the window, the deer demon opened its eyes in the sunlight, smiled at Chao Jianxue, and surprisingly, there was a hint of innocence.

A subtle emotion welled up in Chao Jianxue’s heart, filled with helplessness, but also a sense of relief. Deep down, he had hoped it would win the bet.

He turned his head to look at Yu Wei, whose smile was faint. Even the color of his eyes seemed to fade in the sunlight. He said, “Does Senior Brother believe it now?”

Chao Jianxue gave a vague “hmm” and awkwardly touched his nose, stubbornly saying, “Only one in a hundred thousand people is like this…”

“But there are always people you can trust.” Yu Wei looked at him deeply.

“Oh, maybe.” Chao Jianxue took the lead in walking back. His mind was full of mixed feelings, and he wanted to go back and sort them out properly. Yu Wei followed closely behind him, and the two were silent for a moment.

Suddenly, a male exclamation came from the room behind them, followed by the sound of a sharp knife falling. It was like a dull thunderclap on a clear, windless summer morning.

Chao Jianxue turned his head abruptly.

Through the window, the deer demon smiled at him, holding a handful of its own heart’s blood in its hand, which had condensed into a golden blood bead. Before Chao Jianxue could stop it, the blood bead flew into the man’s mouth. Instantly, the man’s complexion became rosy, even beyond normal, and the illness that was about to destroy his life was completely cured in the blink of an eye.

“You—” Chao Jianxue took a step forward, his heart inevitably heavy. So the deer demon hadn’t wanted to live in the first place. Whether the man had attacked it or not, it was going to offer its heart’s blood to save his life.

Losing the bet was the price, winning the bet was the reward.

Yu Wei reached out and placed his hand on Chao Jianxue’s shoulder, as if in comfort: “It is walking its own path.”

Chao Jianxue didn’t answer, his eyes slightly red, watching the deer demon’s body slowly transform. After the demon energy completely dissipated, it turned back into the most ordinary deer, its antlers already broken, looking very pitiful.

He only realized he was choked up when he spoke: “I just feel like it shouldn’t have ended like this…”

It had never harmed anyone from beginning to end. With hundreds of years of cultivation, it would have been a major demon in the Xuanzhen world. Its master had only given it a strange goal, and it had been painstakingly pursuing it.

There had never been such a demon in the human realm.

Yu Wei said, “I used to think demon nature was hard to change, but it turns out I was narrow-minded.” Truly, there were demons who could do things that humans could not.

Now that things had come to this, whether it was called stupid or foolish was of no help. Chao Jianxue covered his face and wiped it, then patted Yu Wei’s back and said in a muffled voice, “Let’s go back.”

As soon as he finished speaking, a sudden thunderclap rang out.

Chao Jianxue was startled by the fierce white light and shrank his neck, leaning closer to Yu Wei. When he looked up again, he couldn’t help but widen his eyes.

It was a tribulation cloud!

The dark, swirling mass above their heads appeared without warning. The surrounding area was clear for ten thousand miles, but only here had turned pitch black in an instant.

Yu Wei led Chao Jianxue to fly down to the side, in disbelief: “Is it Senior Brother’s?”

Chao Jianxue was even more clueless, asking in return, “Isn’t it yours?”

Yu Wei shook his head.

If it wasn’t theirs, who else could it be?

Looking up, the tribulation cloud did not move with them but remained steadily above the broken house.

Chao Jianxue immediately understood the situation, delighted, and said to Yu Wei, “Let’s protect it!”

Yu Wei also understood, nodded, and stood on either side of the house, activating their magical instruments. Spiritual light spread around the house, and in the blink of an eye, the red and purple lightning was so fierce that it changed the color of the sky and earth.

Seeing that the lightning was unusual, even more astonishing than the purple lightning they had seen in the Youmeng of the Western Continent, Chao Jianxue increased his strength, trying to block some of the power.

“Bang—Bang—Bang!”

The thunder kept falling, and the two were about to be overwhelmed. Suddenly, a ball of light broke out of the house amidst the thunder, spun in the air, and greeted the terrifying lightning.

The light was blinding in an instant. Chao Jianxue and Yu Wei had to close their eyes and retreat, leaning back to back.

When they opened their eyes again, they saw a golden divine creature standing in the high sky, with golden antlers like a tree crown and a large halo behind the antlers, unbelievably dazzling!

It cried out, its voice resounding through the clouds. All the birds in the mountains and forests soared into the air in an instant, circling around it as if in celebration. As the flocks of birds flew away, the tribulation cloud also dissipated, revealing the bright blue sky.

The man and his wife also came out of the house, weeping and bowing.

“It ascended!” Chao Jianxue couldn’t help but murmur.

The deer demon had become an immortal.

Ascension to immortality had not happened in the Xuanzhen world for thousands of years. The first ascension tribulation lightning after a thousand years had actually descended in the human realm.

The deer demon thought it had not completed nine hundred and ninety-nine good deeds. Could it be that it had actually completed them, and what it had just done was the last, nine hundred and ninety-ninth good deed?

No, Chao Jianxue thought, its ascension had nothing to do with how many good deeds it had done, but because the Dao of Heaven had recognized its path. It had the courage to believe in people even after seeing their greed and selfishness.

The divine creature landed in front of Chao Jianxue with a halo, lowered its head, and nudged Chao Jianxue’s hand. Chao Jianxue reached out and touched its horn.

Looking at it closely, it was no longer just a deer. Golden scales shimmered on its chest, holy and magnificent.

“It really transformed into a Qilin.” Chao Jianxue said.

It was indeed a Qilin.

The deer demon did not become a Qilin because it accepted the offerings of a country, but because it adhered to its promise and ascended, transforming into a Qilin. From then on, it was blessed with immortal light and understood the boundaries of doing good, so it could be a better immortal in the future.

The Qilin’s eyes were moist, and its nose was also wet. It nuzzled Chao Jianxue’s palm like a child and licked it, wetly: “You are very much like my master!”

What did this mean?

Before Chao Jianxue could ask, another person flew down, shocked to see him: “Chao Jianxue!?”

Chao Jianxue looked up and thought, well, he had completely forgotten about this!

When a demon ascended in the human realm, the Xuanzhen world would inevitably be shaken and would send someone to investigate!

There was no time to hide now. He gave an awkward laugh and hadn’t even said hello when the person saw Yu Wei beside him, even more shocked: “Yu Wei?”

“You’re not dead! Yu Wei knows too? Ah!?”

With several exclamations and questions in a row, Chao Jianxue was glad that the person who came was Li Zhenzhen. He exchanged a look with Yu Wei and quickly pulled Li Zhenzhen down the mountain.

Finally, at an unmanned teahouse by the roadside at the foot of the mountain, they forcibly pressed Li Zhenzhen down, closed his mouth that was open in shock, and sat on either side of him. Chao Jianxue stretched out his hand, and the tea and teacups in the teahouse flew into his hand on their own.

Li Zhenzhen wanted to shout again, but Chao Jianxue poured a cup of tea into his mouth, and Yu Wei pressed him down, not allowing him to be too agitated.

A large gulp of cold tea suddenly went down, and Li Zhenzhen’s scream was stuck in his throat, squeezing out a sentence: “What exactly is going on?”

Chao Jianxue “haha” said: “It’s a long story… the thing is like this…”

He told the story of his fake death, then being discovered by Yu Wei, and what happened after they came to the human realm, all in one breath. After he finished, he also felt thirsty. He didn’t mind using the same cup that Li Zhenzhen had just drunk from to moisten his throat.

Li Zhenzhen digested this complicated story for a while.

He raised his eyes again, his expression even more complicated as he moved back and forth between Yu Wei and Chao Jianxue.

Chao Jianxue asked, “What kind of look is that?”

Li Zhenzhen stammered, “No… no kind of look.” He looked at Yu Wei again, with a somewhat meaningful expression.

But he suddenly slapped his thigh and said, “So you guys are back together again?”

Yu Wei looked at Chao Jianxue, and Chao Jianxue generously admitted it, nodding.

Li Zhenzhen said, “Are you coming back?”

He was talking about returning to the Wuwu Sect. Chao Jianxue shrugged and said, “It’s not like I can go back whenever I want, and besides, I don’t want to go back for the time being.”

Li Zhenzhen scratched his head in a headache: “You really are… you guys really are… I feel like I’ve been played by you!”

“Aren’t you too?” Chao Jianxue said, “You also said you wanted to escape, but you still stayed.”

Li Zhenzhen recalled the situation at that time and said, “When I could really leave, I didn’t know what was wrong. I just couldn’t lift my legs. I’m still worried about those little brats. Forget it! Let’s not talk about this! Let me send a message back to the sect…”

“Don’t talk about my business!” Chao Jianxue said urgently.

Li Zhenzhen narrowed his eyes and took out the message talisman: “You really don’t understand brotherhood. I’m just sending the news of the Qilin’s ascension back.”

After he finished speaking, he looked at Chao Jianxue carefully, suspiciously: “Why do you seem to have become even more demon-like?”

What does it mean to be demon-like? Chao Jianxue didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, revealing his white teeth, and said, “I am a demon! A half-demon is also a demon!”

Li Zhenzhen clicked his tongue: “You are very frank now.”

Chao Jianxue said with a smile, “I have already accepted it. In fact, what’s wrong with being a half-demon? It’s not a big deal, as long as you have a clear conscience.”

He was now much more confident than the frightened Chao Jianxue from before, accepting what he was born with, believing that he would not be changed by demons, and thinking of becoming a sharp blade to break the fate of half-demons. Chao Jianxue had a flash of insight. This was his path.

Li Zhenzhen looked at Yu Wei again, still hesitating.

He was now more afraid of meeting Yu Wei’s eyes than Chao Jianxue was.

He stood up and said, “Now that the matter of the Qilin’s ascension has been clarified, I should go back too. Chao Jianxue, you see me off.”

Chao Jianxue didn’t know why, but he also stood up: “Okay.”

The affairs between the two brothers were not for others to be present.

So Yu Wei sat in the teahouse and waited for him.

Walking out a few hundred steps, the sun rose high, and Chao Jianxue rolled up his sleeves to cool himself off, asking, “What do you want to say to me?”

Li Zhenzhen said, “You worried us to death!”

Chao Jianxue smiled apologetically: “It happened suddenly, I didn’t want to waste any more words with the old man, the Sect Leader.”

Li Zhenzhen snorted twice and suddenly said, “Don’t you think Yu Wei is strange?”

“What’s strange?” Chao Jianxue said. Could it be that he knew about the demonic energy invading his body…

Li Zhenzhen looked like “I knew you didn’t know,” revealing a shocking secret: “Do you know that he stole everything from your Qingxue residence!”

“Ah—” Chao Jianxue opened his mouth wide.

Li Zhenzhen had a serious face and said, “I found out that he built a forbidden house in Yiyezhou. I guess it’s kept there! You have to be careful, he might… he might be a little perverted! According to the plot development of Qiu Shui’s novels, you are going to be locked in a small dark room!”

It seemed that Li Zhenzhen had read a lot of Qiu Shui’s private novels, he really understood…

Chao Jianxue scratched his neck awkwardly and said, “I know.”

Li Zhenzhen’s expression changed drastically immediately: “You know?”

Chao Jianxue said embarrassedly: “Actually, I also locked him in a small dark room. We are evenly matched, all the same.”

Li Zhenzhen’s expression became even more constipated.

Okay, between young couples, this is a kind of fun.

He struggled to adjust his emotions and remembered another thing, raising his eyebrows and said, “You definitely don’t know, there’s one more thing.”

Chao Jianxue was curious: “What is it? Stop whetting my appetite.”

When Li Zhenzhen talked about this, he shook his head and sighed, in short, he looked full of emotion.

He said: “That day after you fell, we did think you were dead. Because of your identity, later, the Sect Leader invited the Ying family from Dongyuan to return your belongings in person, and the head of the Ying family said ‘no need,’ but Yu Wei suddenly jumped out.

“What did he say—he said ‘what the Ying family doesn’t want, the Yu family from Dongyuan wants, the person the Ying family doesn’t want, the Yu family from Dongyuan regards as a treasure,’ he also said ‘I will always believe in Senior Brother,’ ‘you wronged Chao Jianxue, what face do you have to put on a righteous face,’ oh, and another sentence, ‘I would rather not be a disciple of the Wuwu Sect,’ everyone present was scared to death, Yu Wei had never been like this before, he simply scolded the Sect Leader and other elders present.

“It was also at that time that everyone knew he was a member of the Yu family, the master of Yiyezhou. In short, the expressions of those elders were very ugly, and they almost drew their swords to fight. A few days later, the Sect Leader went into seclusion, and a few months later, Yu Wei went to Dongyuan and broke contact with the sect.”

Chao Jianxue listened blankly, unable to imagine Yu Wei “jumping out.” He couldn’t even imagine Yu Wei scolding people. He asked as if seeking confirmation: “Did he really say that? Did he really say ‘always believe’ in me? I said that, and he still said that?”

Li Zhenzhen didn’t know what he had said, but it was absolutely true: “Everyone thought he had been possessed at the time, but don’t worry, there were few people present who suspected your relationship, only I knew. So ah, he really loves you to death!”

Chao Jianxue watched Li Zhenzhen leave by opening the array, returning to the teahouse lightly, Yu Wei holding a teacup, only looking like a jade statue sitting upright.

His eyes looked towards him, like moonlight flowing, as before, even better than before.