SQLJBFDTW Chapter 93

Chapter 93: Luck, Meeting an Enemy

The rain was pouring down, blurring the vision into a white expanse, the sound a cacophony in the ears.

The two of them rested for a while in their room. Chao Jianxue, propping his chin up, sat leaning against the windowsill, watching the heavy rain. It showed no sign of stopping, and he really didn’t want to go out.

But he was even more unwilling to be a hands-off shopkeeper. After clinging to Yu Wei and whining for a moment, he finally made up his mind, changed into a narrow-sleeved outfit suitable for travel, and tied up his hair, which had returned to waist-length.

Yu Wei held a handful of his hair. Chao Jianxue tilted his head, and the hair was drawn from between his fingers.

“How is it?” He blinked, wanting to ask if his tie was crooked.

Yu Wei said, “Very good-looking. Last night was also very good-looking.”

Chao Jianxue couldn’t help but smile. He wanted to ask how good-looking it was, but looking at Yu Wei’s eyes, he wondered if they could even leave before nightfall if he said it. After this period of time, even he himself felt like last night was a dream.

But seeing the empty jar of rock candy on the side, he was a little embarrassed and pointed to it, asking, “What about this? Return it?”

Yu Wei put it away and said, “No need to return it. I’ve already paid the shopkeeper and told him. He said it’s fine—”

He smiled slightly, “He even said that if it’s not enough, just ask the kitchen for more.”

“Ah.” Chao Jianxue shifted his gaze. If the shopkeeper knew what they two had done with the rock candy, he would probably be shocked. In an extreme case, being kicked out would be a light punishment.

Therefore, after going downstairs, facing the shopkeeper’s warm greeting, Chao Jianxue found it difficult to cleanly face his honest, middle-aged face. He hurriedly took an umbrella, grabbed Yu Wei’s hand, and fled.

The heavy rain beat against the umbrella with a pattering sound, one green bamboo umbrella, one light-colored umbrella, pressed closely together. Chao Jianxue wanted to hold Yu Wei’s hand, but in such heavy rain, holding hands would get them wet, and the umbrella wasn’t big enough for both of them.

He moved closer, and the umbrella tilted involuntarily, the rain pouring down on Yu Wei’s shoulder. Chao Jianxue quickly shifted to the other side, but the rain from Yu Wei’s umbrella soaked half of his side.

“…” Chao Jianxue was annoyed. He recited a spell, and a flash of spiritual light surrounded him.

All the rain cleverly avoided the two of them. Chao Jianxue put away his umbrella and squeezed under the green bamboo umbrella.

Yu Wei smiled and stood even closer to him, his hand hidden in his sleeve, holding his.

Chao Jianxue was amused, very proactive, pulling his hand out and clasping his fingers against the back of Yu Wei’s hand, taking the initiative, and finding his hand warm and cool, with distinct joints, long fingers, very nice to touch.

But after touching for a while, he suddenly thought of the “evil deeds” of this hand last night and immediately froze again.

Such a moment of wandering thoughts and a moment of shyness were all his own internal drama. Chao Jianxue couldn’t help but despise himself for being blinded by beauty, why was he thinking more and more messily? But this hand had done many evil deeds last night, he touched the calluses left by years of swordsmanship and used a little force at the base of his fingers as revenge, and Yu Wei hissed.

“What’s wrong, Senior Brother?” Yu Wei asked.

Chao Jianxue snorted, “Just find it unpleasant.”

Yu Wei pondered for a moment and said seriously, “But that’s not what you said last night.”

Chao Jianxue: “…Forget it.”

Who remembers what nonsense he was spouting? In short, Chao Jianxue knew that he was very open, but now it was daytime, saying these things was inevitably weird.

There were very few pedestrians on the road. After the two of them left the South City, they no longer concealed themselves, concealed their figures, and quickly arrived at the West City.

The two Great Ascension cultivators were very comfortable, without any delay, they appeared in front of a courtyard.

The Cold Lotus in Yu Wei’s palm was put away, those subtle blue spiritual lights were pointing to this small courtyard.

“Will Mo Tanzhou be inside?” Chao Jianxue looked at the houses in the heavy rain and couldn’t help but feel a little uneasy. If they were unlucky, Mo Tanzhou might have already transferred the person, or the person inside might not be Mo Zezhi at all.

Yu Wei said firmly, “Senior Brother, you and I are already Great Ascension.”

Great Ascension cultivators were already revered as superiors in the Xuanzhen Realm. Chao Jianxue calmed himself, the strength was there, even if they faced Mo Tanzhou, they were not afraid of losing.

He nodded, “You’re right.”

The two leaped over the courtyard wall and landed steadily on the ground. The courtyard didn’t look like anyone lived there, the ground was empty with fallen leaves. The puddles were deep and shallow, and a few leaves were scattered by the rain.

Chao Jianxue’s footsteps were light, the sound of the rain helped them hide their movements. He came to the side window and looked inside, Yu Wei had already set up a formation on the outside, the weak spiritual light submerged into the rain. If the person in the house wanted to escape, they would be trapped by the formation.

Chao Jianxue nodded to him, gave him a look, kicked open the window, and flipped inside.

Unexpectedly, the two of them searched around the room and couldn’t find anyone.

Yu Wei touched the shiny table, there was no dust on his fingertips, indicating that someone lived here.

“Did they slip away?” Chao Jianxue said regretfully.

“No.” Yu Wei walked into the inner room and carefully looked at the furnishings in the room. “My spell won’t go wrong, there is still someone here.”

His tone was an indisputable affirmation and calmness. Chao Jianxue was fascinated by his reliable aura, and waited quietly for him to act.

After a while, Yu Wei touched an inkstone.

The corner of his mouth curled into a confident arc, and he lifted it slightly. Then he heard a tremor behind the bed, something had been opened.

Chao Jianxue was stunned, “How did you know?”

Yu Wei said, “It’s just a common secret room mechanism in large families.”

He said it so lightly, Chao Jianxue was very excited. His Dao companion was so knowledgeable but so humble and calm! He quickly kissed Yu Wei on the lips.

After kissing, without waiting for Yu Wei to react, Chao Jianxue cast a spell to move the bed away, revealing a dark room staircase on the ground.

The stairs extended downwards, the darkness obscuring the conditions.

Chao Jianxue simply flew down, raising a cluster of faint spiritual fire in his palm for illumination.

This secret room was not big, the furnishings in the room were old, but after Yu Wei reminded him, Chao Jianxue saw that formations were set up in the four corners of the southeast, northwest, and southwest, also to prevent the people trapped inside from escaping.

It seemed that their luck was good.

Chao Jianxue took a few steps forward and kicked something that jingled. He lowered his eyes and saw a golden cup lying on the ground.

The wine pot rolled a step further ahead, the wine inside hadn’t completely flowed out, it was conceivable that it was recently dropped.

In the silence, he heard another person’s breathing.

Chao Jianxue brought the faint fire in his palm closer to his lips, pursed his lips, and breathed lightly.

The spiritual fire instantly brightened, illuminating the entire secret room, and also clearly illuminating the person within ten steps in front of them.

Since the Immortal Sect Competition, it was truly the first time Chao Jianxue had seen Mo Zezhi.

He had thought that with Mo Zezhi’s petty personality, he would find an opportunity to retaliate against him, and he had also imagined the scene of Mo Zezhi meeting him again, it would be a fight, or ridicule.

But Chao Jianxue never expected that seeing Mo Zezhi again would be like this.

Mo Zezhi’s hands had been hung high, his clothes were disheveled, and the exposed skin was covered with green and purple marks, not like he had been beaten, but like abuse in that sense.

But even more terrifying was that there were countless rune-like patterns drawn on his face. His originally handsome face—Chao Jianxue said objectively, the original Mo Zezhi was indeed handsome, otherwise he would not have been easily deceived by his appearance—appeared very distorted.

For a moment, Chao Jianxue couldn’t find a suitable opening remark, he didn’t say a word.

Mo Zezhi was the first to squint his eyes and see him clearly. He was stunned at first, and then he trembled violently, sparks shooting out of his eyes, he simply wanted to pounce on him and bite him to death: “It’s you! It’s you! You’re not dead! He lied to me!”

That kind of hatred was too biting, Chao Jianxue felt like he was sitting on pins and needles.

Yu Wei stepped forward and looked at him coldly: “What did Mo Tanzhou do to you?”

When the name was mentioned, Mo Zezhi became even more manic, and let out a scream from his throat that could be described as shrill: “It’s all your fault!” He glared at Chao Jianxue.

Chao Jianxue frowned tightly and finally took a step forward. Yu Wei wanted to hold him back, but he shook his head and said, “It’s okay.”

He got closer to Mo Zezhi, as long as Mo Zezhi reached out, he could strangle his neck.

But Chao Jianxue was not afraid, he was expressionless and asked, “What do you mean by that?”

Mo Zezhi glared at him, his eyes licking over his beautiful flesh, wishing he could drink his blood and eat his flesh: “If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have ended up like this, becoming that bastard’s plaything…”

Yu Wei scolded coldly, “When Mo Tanzhou was unknown, you repeatedly humiliated and abused him because of his identity, and even designed to kill his mother, so this end is nothing more than what you deserve.”

After hearing this cause and effect, Chao Jianxue instantly understood the connection.

After Mo Zezhi was injured by him, his cultivation greatly declined, and the Tianyao Sect leader also gave up on him and turned to cultivate Mo Tanzhou. And Mo Tanzhou had long harbored resentment against him, he definitely couldn’t let him go easily, so he used this method to retaliate against him, Mo Zezhi turned into this inhuman appearance.

“If Chao Jianxue hadn’t cut off my roots and ruined my life! How could I have fallen into Mo Zezhi’s hands!” Mo Zezhi roared.

“You’re wrong.” Chao Jianxue interrupted him, his tone was calm and he looked at him, “You ruined yourself. You used to be arrogant, how many people did you oppress other than me? It’s just that you were unlucky to meet me. If you had repented in time and given me an apology, it would have been fine. But you were shameless in the competition, so I had to teach you a lesson.”

“Hehehe, seeing me in this miserable state, you must be very proud, right?” Mo Zezhi said.

Chao Jianxue frowned, “What am I proud of? What you become is actually none of my business.”

Mo Zezhi sneered: “Really? Chao Jianxue, don’t you want to kill me? But over the years, I have always wanted to kill you.”

Chao Jianxue had no intention of getting entangled with him in these hatreds, and dropped his spiritual power on the runes on his face, and was immediately speechless.

“The ones on your face, did Mo Tanzhou do it?”

Mo Zezhi ridiculed, “Isn’t this something that can be understood at a glance?”

“He wants to borrow the power of demons, but he still wants to maintain his position as the young master of the Tianyao Sect, so he borrowed my body.”

So that’s it!

Chao Jianxue exchanged glances with Yu Wei.

He said, “You hate me, but do you hate Mo Tanzhou?”

Mo Zezhi seemed to have heard a big joke, and laughed even more, making the chains rattle: “Hate! How can I not hate! Do you know what kind of humiliation I have suffered from him!”

Chao Jianxue said again, “How about making a deal with you?”

His expression was peaceful, his appearance was no different from decades ago, but the Foundation Establishment cultivator who was shorter than him back then was now promising and calm. Where was he like a rat covered in dirt, Mo Zezhi’s smile twisted.

“You say.”

“We’ll take you out, and you help us identify all the things Mo Tanzhou has done.”

This was a good deal.

Mo Zezhi’s teeth chattered, presumably due to excitement.