TBOUMTBDK Chapter 65

Chapter 65: His World

Yun Xia was stunned. What did he say, outside the Three Realms?

Why would he… know?

Yun Xia stared blankly at the Demon Lord. Had he heard wrong? How could he have revealed his origins in one breath?

Even if, even if he suspected his identity, shouldn’t he suspect him of being someone from the Immortal Realm? No, that’s not right. This person already knew the identity of this body, but how could he have guessed that he came from outside the Three Realms?

That’s too outrageous!

Even the smartest person shouldn’t be able to guess to this extent!

The two stood facing each other. Yun Xia opened his mouth, his thoughts in a mess. He wanted to say something, wanted to retort, but the formation forced him to speak, and he could only tell the truth.

“I… indeed… come from outside the Three Realms.”

After saying this, he took a deep breath, staring at the Demon Lord in astonishment.

The Demon Lord heard his answer, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he said softly, “As expected.”

Yun Xia: “…”

So you were just trying to trick me just now??

Seeming to see through his thoughts, the Demon Lord took a step forward, raised his hand, and gently stroked his cold cheek:

“Not entirely tricking you. I couldn’t be 100% sure until I got your answer. However, I was quite confident.”

“…”

The Demon Lord’s fingertips were warm, his movements gentle, and he accepted this fact very calmly. Yun Xia looked at him, thinking, as expected of the Demon Lord, he can accept even this kind of thing.

“You… believe it?”

The Demon Lord smiled faintly: “Of course I believe it. I witnessed everything myself.”

Witnessed it himself. Yun Xia was silent.

So, he had already been exposed? But how sharp does one have to be to come to such a conclusion? Besides the Demon Lord, no one around him should have such an outrageous idea, right?

If he told them, they probably wouldn’t believe it and would just think Yun Xia was joking.

Or like another person here—

Xiao Tongfu’s voice was filled with deep disbelief: “What are you saying? Outside the Three Realms? What does that mean?”

Yun Xia also heard him murmur, “The Three Realms are the Three Realms. The Three Realms represent the entire world: the Immortal Realm, the Human Realm, the Demon Realm. What other realms could there be besides these?”

“There’s no such thing as outside the Three Realms!”

Yun Xia looked at the Demon Lord. Did the Demon Lord mean he wanted him to explain his true origins to Xiao Tongfu as well?

Could it be that this was related to breaking the formation?

The Demon Lord also said, “Tell me about it. I’d also like to hear.”

It was useless for Yun Xia to not want to say it. He couldn’t lie, nor did he intend to talk nonsense. Since things had come to this, he sorted out his thoughts a little.

Feeling like he would be talking for a long time, Yun Xia also looked ahead. Due to Xiao Tongfu’s turbulent thoughts, the entire street in front of them was crumbling, with things constantly falling onto the street. The “people” materialized by the Demon Lord were running around in panic, and they were even realistically screaming and dodging because they accidentally got hit by falling objects, creating a scene of chaos and noise.

It very vividly expressed Xiao Tongfu’s chaotic mood.

Yun Xia, not wanting to let things rest, raised his head and said to Xiao Tongfu, “Can you calm down first? Don’t disturb me. Look how calm Your Esteemed Lord is. Why are you making such a fuss? How am I supposed to explain?”

Xiao Tongfu: “…”

The Demon Lord chuckled: “That’s a bit of a tall order. You’re not even allowing people to be surprised?”

Yun Xia: “He can be surprised silently in his heart. Is this formation connected to his mood?”

Xiao Tongfu angrily said, “Shut up! Are you two making fun of me?”

Yun Xia paused. He was probably right. Xiao Tongfu’s mood was connected to the formation. Was the key to breaking the formation here?

So that’s why the Demon Lord wanted him to talk about his real identity, to shake Xiao Tongfu’s mind?

Yun Xia said without batting an eye, “Making fun of you? I don’t think so. I’m just telling the truth. Even Your Esteemed Lord can only tell the truth here. If you think telling the truth is making fun of you, then I can’t help it.”

Then, Xiao Tongfu’s emotions became even more turbulent.

He never expected that this formation, specially prepared for the two of them, would now make him so uncalm.

“Shut up! Shut up!!”

Yun Xia paused and said, “I can’t seem to shut up. Can you make me shut up?… Looks like you can’t.”

Due to Xiao Tongfu’s repeated obstructions, the formation seemed to give him some kind of punishment. Yun Xia heard a muffled groan of pain.

Although Xiao Tongfu was the holder of the formation, it seemed he couldn’t completely control it and couldn’t even stop Yun Xia from speaking.

Xiao Tongfu was both angry and frantic, but he really couldn’t make Yun Xia shut up. Instead, he was injured by the backlash from the formation due to his previous actions.

Perhaps because of Xiao Tongfu’s injury, the surrounding turmoil calmed down a lot. Yun Xia couldn’t wait any longer. He materialized a very modern-looking long sofa, suddenly jumped up, and sprawled on the sofa, letting out a sigh of contentment.

He also waved to the Demon Lord: “Your Esteemed Lord, come sit down quickly. It’s so comfortable.”

The Demon Lord glanced at the sofa, sat down next to Yun Xia, and sank into it a little.

Yun Xia propped his head up and looked at him: “How is it?”

The Demon Lord smiled slightly: “Very soft. It’s indeed something you like. Is it from your world?”

When Yun Xia was reading and cultivating in his study, he once complained that the things here were too hard and the cushions were too thin. Every time he sat down, he would specifically take several cushions and stack them up to sit on.

His favorite place was the only soft couch in the study.

But even the soft couch wasn’t as soft as this sofa.

“Yes, it is. Your Esteemed Lord, I indeed come from outside the Three Realms. I’m not a person of the Three Realms. But to say specifically where I come from is a bit difficult to explain. I come from another world, a world without Spirit Qi and Demonic Chi, where everyone is an ordinary person, and everyone’s life span is only a few decades, a place similar to the Human Realm. That place is called Earth.”

Yun Xia paused and said softly, “That’s my real home, but it’s probably a home I can never go back to.”

The Demon Lord listened quietly and gently took Yun Xia’s hand.

Just as a faint sadness was spreading, Xiao Tongfu’s voice abruptly interrupted: “That’s just the Human Realm! What Earth, what another world? Ridiculous!”

His heart felt incomparably absurd, and reason told him that such an unbelievable thing couldn’t be true.

However, another voice was telling him that of course it was true. If it wasn’t true, the Separation Bone Illusion Heart Formation wouldn’t be showing it.

“No, impossible! Something must be wrong. What outside the Three Realms? Ridiculous! You can’t lie in the Separation Bone Illusion Heart Formation, but the Demon Lord is clearly not Li Yu, yet he also ‘deceived’ the formation. In other words, in other words, it’s possible! As long as he believes his own memories, then it’s possible to deceive the formation! Yes, yes! That must be it!”

Xiao Tongfu muttered to himself. He had found a reason that he thought was very reasonable for himself. However, the more he refuted, the heavier the backlash of the formation was on him. Xiao Tongfu stood at the center of the formation, painfully covering his head.

No, the formation is backfiring!

But how was he supposed to accept such a thing?

Yun Xia was too lazy to pay attention to him. Whether it was his modern world or here, even if they knew he couldn’t lie, there would still be people who were unwilling to accept reality.

Although what he said was indeed unbelievable.

Yun Xia recalled his previous life, and a smile couldn’t help but appear on the corner of his mouth: “Although we only have a life span of a few decades, which doesn’t seem as long as you immortals and demons, we also have fun that you can’t experience. Modern life is very convenient and very enjoyable. Here, there are only so many ways to entertain yourself, but in my world, you can watch movies, listen to music, eat all kinds of delicious food, play games, and go up to the sky and down to the sea, although it’s definitely different from your going up to the sky and down to the sea.”

The Demon Lord listened very carefully and patiently. Seeing Yun Xia complaining, he even said, “Then in the future, the Demon Palace will be completely open to you. You can go wherever you want. How about that?”

Yun Xia’s eyes lit up: “Really! Great, great!”

“However, you still have to be careful in some dangerous places where more dangerous demon beasts and people are kept.”

“Mm-hmm!”

Then, Yun Xia began to explain to the Demon Lord what movies were, how to listen to music, and how to play games.

Because the formation could directly copy the things people imagined in a one-to-one ratio, Yun Xia materialized a TV while he was talking and played classic movie clips he had seen in his previous life based on his memory.

Incredibly realistic characters and scenes appeared on the small screen. Yun Xia, with a bit of showing-off intent, racked his brains to recall the various blockbusters he had seen before.

Yun Xia found that although there were many details he couldn’t remember clearly, those details were filled in here. The formation could dig up more than Yun Xia had imagined, and even things he wasn’t aware of could be added, which was very magical.

Games were even more needless to say. It was just a pity that the game consoles materialized here weren’t real, or he would really want to play a few rounds. His hands were too itchy.

Even the Demon Lord was dazzled by what he saw and nodded, “Very interesting. Although you are just ordinary people without Spirit Qi or Demonic Chi, you have very strong manual skills and a lot of ideas.”

“Although we don’t have Spirit Qi or Demonic Chi, we have electricity, gas, natural gas, wind energy, nuclear energy, and solar energy. It’s true that our life spans aren’t as long as yours, but when it comes to convenience of life, my world is much more convenient.”

The Demon Lord watched him talk with great interest and smiled, “Is that so?”

“Of course. Let me show you.”

While saying this, he also didn’t forget to say to Xiao Tongfu, “Senior Brother Xiao, are you watching too? Let me show you my world. How about that?”

Xiao Tongfu was exasperated: “Bastard! You’re talking nonsense! These are all just things you imagined!”

Yun Xia could imagine giant flowers flowing with honey and huge mushrooms for people to live in, which meant he could imagine things that didn’t exist in reality. So, everything before might be fake!

However, Yun Xia immediately said, “Senior Brother Xiao, these aren’t fake. They’re all extracted directly from my past memories. They all existed in reality. Look, I can’t tell lies. I really come from outside the Three Realms. Many things there are different from here. If you don’t believe me, I can continue to show you.”

He had already discovered that the more he materialized things from his original world, the more unstable this formation space seemed to become. This instability wasn’t the instability that appeared on the surface, but the instability that Yun Xia’s Divine Consciousness perceived, which was hard to explain, but he felt a faint rejection.

Even this space was rejecting his truth.

Ignoring Xiao Tongfu’s fury, Yun Xia turned to the Demon Lord and said, “Your Esteemed Lord, do you feel the formation rejecting you?”

The Demon Lord nodded: “Yes, but its resistance to us should be different. If I’m not mistaken, it’s rejecting you because you’ve brought something that exceeds the formation’s capacity. It’s rejecting me because of me personally.”

Yun Xia was puzzled: “Why is it rejecting you personally? Is it afraid of you because it knows you’re the Demon Lord?”

The Demon Lord smiled: “Of course not. Although the Separation Bone Illusion Heart Formation is powerful, it doesn’t have its own consciousness. It’s just that a formation that has existed for hundreds of years will more or less have some spirituality and will have some instinctive reactions in order to protect itself and prevent itself from collapsing. It’s a Divine Consciousness-type formation. My Black Lotus is quite special. It already knew about it the moment I came in. The rejection is towards my Black Lotus, an instinctive rejection of a powerful similar existence.”

So that’s how it was!

Yun Xia finally understood why the Demon Lord rarely materialized things before. It was because of the Black Lotus. Your Esteemed Lord was being treated specially by the formation.

Just as the Demon Lord said, an invisible powerful force quietly restored those broken things. Those materialized people also slowly returned to calmness, forcibly stabilizing this space.

Somewhere, Xiao Tongfu naturally also heard the Demon Lord’s words. He gritted his teeth tightly, thinking, Demon Lord, Black Lotus, why was he so unlucky to have encountered the Demon Lord!

His spirit, which was already not very normal due to the tearing of his Divine Consciousness, became even more extreme at this time. As the maintainer of the formation, he should have been able to stay calm, but each of these two people made it impossible for him to stay calm, and each one was more outrageous than the other.

While Xiao Tongfu was suffering from the formation’s backlash due to his overly turbulent thoughts, Yun Xia saw hope.

“Good! I understand. Since that’s the case, then I’ll continue!”

The Separation Bone Illusion Heart Formation is different from other formations. It weaves a dreamlike beautiful dream for people. Beneath the beautiful surface is a path that leads people to the abyss without them realizing it.

Fortunately, he and the Demon Lord had both “awakened” now. He was actually quite glad that if it was a simple battle of force, then he could only rely on the Demon Lord, but now he could also contribute a necessary part to leaving the formation!

What he could do was to show his world to the greatest extent, building a very realistic and detailed other world for Xiao Tongfu and the formation, shaking Xiao Tongfu while also allowing the formation to collapse!

“My Divine Consciousness power is too limited. Let me think. I can’t waste it,” Yun Xia said.

Here, although he couldn’t use his Divine Consciousness power, he needed to use Divine Consciousness power to materialize the things in his mind.

The larger and more complex the specific things materialized, the more Divine Consciousness power was needed. But in order to better show the world he lived in, Yun Xia had to show it very specifically.

Besides this, he also really wanted to let the Demon Lord know about his past life.

It was like introducing someone to his beloved hometown.

Yun Xia knew that he couldn’t directly move the entire street of Holy City over like the Demon Lord, but he thought of a very good way to be opportunistic and reduce the pressure on his Divine Consciousness!

Soon, this giant tree forest changed its appearance. Yun Xia materialized huge screens inlaid on the trunks of the giant trees, and his memories were displayed in the form of playback on the screens.

It was very similar to the previous display of TV shows and movies. This time, because the screens were huge and there were enough of them, people had a sense of immersion.

So, he displayed everything he had seen and heard when he went to school, ordered takeout, went to the supermarket, and went out to play with friends in the form of playback.

Moreover, the Divine Consciousness power consumed in this way was smaller than he had imagined.

“This is a supermarket. It’s big, right? It has everything in it. Ah, this is my favorite snack. I’m so hungry. Let’s get some to eat…”

Yun Xia, while saying this, directly conjured a bag of potato chips in his hand and crunched it down, simulating the taste and texture of past memories.

It was just a pity that the Demon Lord couldn’t imagine the taste of potato chips. Yun Xia ate it himself to show the Demon Lord and then described it to the Demon Lord.

“It’s like this. It’s very crunchy, and it feels very good to chew. You can tell just by listening to the sound, hehe. As for the taste, please recall the barbecue and grilled meat-flavored potato chips I ate with you before. Please graft it over.”

The Demon Lord was quite curious. He took the potato chips in his hand and watched Yun Xia eat with him.

“The taste is not bad,” he said with a smile.

The two sat on the sofa, eating and watching. Yun Xia also kept talking to the Demon Lord.

“This is called an airplane. Although we ourselves can’t fly, we can go anywhere in this world…”

“This is a highway, and there are all kinds of cars running on it. We don’t have to exert ourselves at all to travel by sitting in this…”

“This is a coffee shop near our school. Coffee is a kind of drink. It’s bitter, but of course, there are also not-so-bitter ones. I’m quite sensitive to coffee, so I don’t dare to drink high concentrations, or I won’t be able to sleep all night…”

Yun Xia babbled, showing the Demon Lord his memories and talking about his past life.

He often blurted out some nouns that the Demon Lord couldn’t understand or only half-understood.

But the Demon Clan did not interrupt, just listening and watching quietly.

Yun Xia paused and suddenly said, “Your Esteemed Lord, aren’t you curious about what clothes we wear?”

“I’m curious. What clothes?” the Demon Lord asked very supportively.

Yun Xia smiled slyly, remembering the novels he had read before. Conservative ancient people always felt very ashamed of modern people’s clothes. He also wanted to see how the Demon Lord would react.

So, he materialized the clothes of modern people and specifically selected summer clothes.

This was actually a bit difficult, but fortunately, Yun Xia had seen enough of it. So, various dressing styles appeared, men and women, skirts and short sleeves, vests and short skirts, men and women showing their arms and legs, all of them.

He didn’t know what the Demon Lord would think about this…

Then he saw the Demon Lord looking over each of them very calmly and saying, “Quite special. Is it because it’s hot?”

Yun Xia: “… Yes.”

The Demon Lord smiled and continued, “I’ve been to the Human Realm. The summer in the Human Realm is very hot, but they don’t dress as little as you do. There are men working who take off their shirts, but women still wear long clothes.”

He tilted his head and looked at Yun Xia, thoughtfully: “You want to see if I will… be shy?”

Yun Xia: “…”

He had no choice but to answer: “Uh, yes.”

The Demon Lord said with a smile, “The people of the Human Realm might, but everyone in my Demon Realm knows that the Demon Clan are straightforward and free, and they won’t be easily shy about this.”

Yun Xia: “…”

That’s right, he almost forgot this point. Although the people in Holy City don’t dress very revealingly, that’s because this is, after all, an ancient worldview, and the dressing style won’t be too different. But from other aspects, the Demon Clan are indeed mostly more open. Yun Xia had also seen many people dressed strangely, just not specifically dressing in a less direction.

It should also be related to the weather in the Demon Realm?

He also asked the Demon Lord. The Demon Lord said, “The sky in the Demon Realm is different from the Immortal and Human Realms. There is no sun, no moon, and no stars, but there is wind, rain, and snow. It is only especially hot at the edge of volcanoes, and this kind of heat can’t be relieved by wearing less clothes. If ordinary people from the Human Realm come without a cultivation base, they will die from the heat poison.”

The two were chatting as if no one else was around, talking about small things like clothing, food, housing, and transportation.

But it was these small things. The more they chatted, the stronger the rejection Yun Xia felt.

It really worked!

This feeling of rejection was difficult to express and extremely specific, like something was pulling at every nerve in his body. It wasn’t unbearable, but it was just uncomfortable, and this discomfort was constantly increasing.

Yun Xia didn’t say anything. In the next step, he increased the stakes and materialized some buildings, such as the school he was relatively familiar with, the office building where he interned, the dormitory building, and some more famous high towers, all of which were different from any ancient buildings in the Three Realms.

These buildings stood among the giant trees, very abruptly.

Yun Xia couldn’t materialize a street, but a few buildings were still possible.

In this way, the consumption of Divine Consciousness became greater.

Yun Xia endured the throbbing pain in his head, pulled the Demon Lord, and said with a smile, “Come, let’s walk around together.”

The Demon Lord exerted force with his hand, and Yun Xia was pulled back.

Yun Xia turned his head: “What’s wrong?”

The Demon Lord gently pressed his hand on his forehead: “Do you have a headache?”

“A little, but it’s okay. I can hold on.”

The Demon Lord frowned.

Yun Xia whispered, “Didn’t you say you wanted to rely on me? Look, he’s starting to waver again, which means it’s very useful. I can hold on.”

Xiao Tongfu knew that he couldn’t go against the formation, but even if he kept telling himself that what Yun Xia said was indeed true, if he didn’t accept it, the formation would backfire on him. He would also increase the instability of the formation because he was connected to the formation.

But the problem now was that the formation itself, which was based on the existence of the Three Realms, was also wavering because of Yun Xia. Even a formation that had existed for many years, had been through many people, and had taken over countless memories and emotions would collapse.

Xiao Tongfu was dazed and angry. He wanted to escape for a while and calm himself down first, but he had nowhere to go in the formation and couldn’t stop.

Once the formation was activated, he had to watch the people in the formation at all times and couldn’t leave for a moment.

The Separation Bone Illusion Heart Formation not only trapped Yun Xia and the Demon Lord, but also trapped the formation holder. This was supposed to be a game that couldn’t be lost, but Yun Xia was showing all kinds of things continuously, without giving him a chance to breathe.

Things were already out of control.

This can’t keep going like this!

He had to do something!

That’s right! Emotions… Emotions are the most unstoppable!

He still had to use the formation rules to defeat them!

In the giant tree forest, the Demon Lord looked around, half-closed his eyes to feel it, then hooked his lips and smiled, gently holding the back of Yun Xia’s head.

Yun Xia was stunned. He was about to speak, but then he felt his Divine Consciousness power become incomparably abundant, and the pain in his head disappeared completely. He felt like he could continue to materialize!

“What… what’s going on? Your Esteemed Lord, did you transfer your Divine Consciousness power to me?”

The Demon Lord said, “Of course not. There was some chaos in the formation, and the suppression on me was relaxed a little. I used its chaos and its rules to return your state to half an hour ago.”

Yun Xia said in surprise, “That works too? Your Esteemed Lord, you’re too amazing!”

The Demon Lord smiled: “If it weren’t for you, this formation wouldn’t have had such an anomaly so easily. It’s very powerful, accumulated over countless years, the Divine Consciousness power of countless people. Just like Xiao Tongfu said, it’s almost impossible to break. Meeting you can also be considered the end of its road.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the vibration in the air became more and more intense, like a response to the Demon Lord’s words, so intense that it even affected the buildings materialized by Yun Xia.

Cracks climbed up the outer layer of the buildings, and the huge screens shattered with a bang, turning into glowing fragments and falling to the ground.

But after a while, the formation’s own recovery ability still gradually smoothed the space.

As a formation that had existed for hundreds of years, the formation had its own instinct and had a strong self-repair ability.

At the formation core, Xiao Tongfu looked at the two people with a ferocious smile, thinking, now that things have come to this, let’s fight to the death. Being forced to this point is worth dying for!

Then, his body became more and more transparent, and the Divine Consciousness power poured continuously into the formation core, merging with the formation…

Yun Xia felt the space return to calmness, thought about it, and simply showed his past living home.

A small three-bedroom apartment.

It was the place where he grew up.

The Demon Lord stood in the house, his clothes out of tune with the surrounding furnishings. It was clearly an ancient person who had strayed into the modern age.

It was very small, not even as big as his bedroom in the Demon Palace, but it was clear that it was very warm, with traces of ordinary people living everywhere.

The Demon Lord’s gaze swept over every inch. He inadvertently scanned Yun Xia, and his eyes paused. Because Yun Xia was wearing a T-shirt and shorts, revealing his slender limbs, and his hair was no longer long but short, he was sitting cross-legged on the sofa with his bare feet, looking at him.

The sofa looked very soft and was sunk down from being sat on. A thin blanket was pressed under Yun Xia and dragged onto the carpet underneath. Yun Xia also leaned against a big pillow behind him, resting on the arm of the sofa.

He stretched out a leg and hooked the thin blanket that was drooping to the ground, covered one leg with the blanket, and his bare skin rubbed against the blanket. The feeling was very comfortable.

He leaned comfortably in the corner of the sofa, like a lazy cat, smiling at the Demon Lord: “Your Esteemed Lord, this is my true appearance.”

The Demon Lord looked at him, his eyes darkening slightly. He raised his foot and walked in front of him, reaching out and rubbing Yun Xia’s fluffy head.

Yun Xia raised his cheeks and squinted his eyes to enjoy.

At this moment, even knowing it was fake, he was still very at ease. In his long-lost home, confessing his true identity to the Demon Lord made him feel unprecedentedly relaxed, without any burden in his heart.

The wide neckline was slightly open. The Demon Lord’s gaze looked down from top to bottom. His collarbone was raised, and below was a piece of fair chest. Further down, pink dots were faintly visible, hooking people to want to go deeper, to touch, to hear Yun Xia make a charming sound.

The Demon Lord’s gaze swept over him, and his eyes gradually deepened.

Desire surged up inexplicably.