Chapter 126 I Want Hengluan, the Overlord of the Three Realms

Pei Yuan's left hand hung down, and his right hand covered his left arm. He had been injured by a demon while on patrol earlier that day while trying to save a child, and he couldn't lift his hand immediately.

As he walked heavily back to Wangxian Mountain, his sharp eyes scanned the surroundings for a certain figure, trying to avoid the places she might go.

Duobao was playing with the fish in the lotus pond. When he saw him return, he called out happily, flapped his wings, and ran to him.

Pei Yuan used his uninjured hand to close its beak and said coldly, "Keep your voice down."

Duobao tilted his head in confusion, then suddenly smelled the strong stench of blood on him and struggled to speak.

Pei Yuan frowned and scolded it, "Quiet. I'm fine, it's just a minor injury. Don't let your mother know."

Duobao's long neck made a gurgling sound.

Seeing that it had calmed down, Pei Yuan let go of its hand and patted its head.

"Chirp chirp chirp!"

Mother is not here!

Pei Yuan paused, lowered his eyes, and asked, "Not back yet?"

"Chirp chirp chirp chirp!"

—Duobao didn't see it!

Pei Yuan assumed that the dog was still avoiding him and stopped asking. He said to the dog, "You can't tell Mother about my injury, or your Eight Treasures Fruit will be gone."

"Chirp chirp chirp!"

No, no!

"Hmm?" Pei Yuan's eyes darkened, and Duobao lowered his head dejectedly.

"Chirp chirp~"

——Daddy~

"Being cute doesn't work."

Pei Yuan's tough attitude saddened Duobao, who kept whimpering softly, looking extremely aggrieved.

"As long as you don't say anything, I'll give you an extra Eight Treasures Fruit every day."

"Chirp chirp chirp!?"

--Really! ?

Duobao was still a child. When he heard that his stingy father was going to give him extra food, his round eyes lit up and he was overjoyed. He immediately forgot about his father's injury and nodded repeatedly, nuzzling his head against him.

Pei Yuan tapped its head, and before Bai Yuheng returned, he hid.

As a result, the young couple, caught in the cold war, failed to notice each other's "abnormalities".

When Pei Yuan realized Bai Yuheng was missing, she had already been imprisoned by Gu Pingzhi for three days.

*

“If you apologize to me, I can forgive you.” Gu Pingzhi looked at her. “Maybe I can even let you go.”

Bai Yuheng didn't even lift her eyelids, leaning against the stone wall, lost in thought.

"Look at me, Hengluan." Gu Pingzhi pinched her cheek and turned her face towards him, his heterochromatic eyes now blazing with a sinister fire. "Are you willing? As long as you are willing to bow your head, I will let you go back."

Bai Yuheng's face stung from his pinching, her cheeks bulged, and she tried to pull away but failed.

Gu Pingzhi naturally sensed her resistance, but he didn't care; he only wanted her word.

Gu Pingzhi lowered his eyes and stared into her angry eyes, then lowered his gaze to her slightly pouting lips, which he had pinched. Her lips, like two petals, were slightly parted, and her white teeth were faintly visible.

Gu Pingzhi's eyes darkened, his breathing quickened instantly, and he slowly leaned down, his hot breath spraying onto her face.

Bai Yuheng said with disgust, "Don't you hate me? What? You want to kiss me?"

"!!..." Gu Pingzhi seemed to be awakened by her words, or as if he had broken free from a spell. He quickly turned his face away, looking like some kind of demon or monster, his face behind the mask full of disgust and loathing. He stood up abruptly and glared down at her, "Ha, kiss you? Don't flatter yourself!"

Gu Pingzhi immediately moved several meters away from her, his eyes blazing with anger: "Since you refuse to listen to reason, then don't blame me for being impolite!"

Having said that, he flicked his sleeves and left, his steps quick, appearing to Bai Yuheng as if he were fleeing in panic.

Bai Yuheng wiped her face where he had touched her.

Not long after, Gu Pingzhi came again. Bai Yuheng was already used to it and was curious to see what tricks he would play.

As soon as he entered, his eyes widened as if he were furious. He gave a light sneer and looked down at me, saying, "That's right."

Bai Yuheng: "?"

Gu Pingzhi stared at her coldly, gritting his teeth as he said, "As you wish, I hate you!"

"……"baffling.

“But my feelings for you…” He gritted his teeth, his face flushed, and glared at her fiercely, “are definitely not ordinary!”

"?" Bai Yuheng didn't know what expression to use to look at him.

He went out and came back just to say this?

Bai Yuheng was very puzzled.

"But don't get too cocky. I won't give up my grand plan because of you!"

Bai Yuheng: "...Oh."

Gu Pingzhi stared coldly at her and said, "Do you have anything to say?"

Bai Yuheng pondered for a long time, determined not to provoke him further, and then tried to reason with him: "I just want to ask you, why do you still hurt the innocent? Those who humiliated and insulted you back then have all been killed by you, why do you still want to drag innocent people into this?"

Gu Pingzhi didn't hear what he wanted to hear. He pursed his lips and sneered, "Such ants are nothing more than sacrifices for my ascension to godhood. If they can help me become a god, it would be their honor."

Bai Yuheng felt that he was exceptionally vicious, and a chill seeped from his very bones.

Gu Pingzhi sat on the stone bed, took her hand which was chained, and said softly, "If you agree to stay with me, we can become gods together and become the rulers of this world, how about it?"

Bai Yuheng was thoroughly annoyed with him and didn't want to stay there for even a second longer. She coldly shook off his hand and said indifferently, "Heh, you wish."

"I'm truly sorry, but I already have a Daoist partner, and there's no way we could have anything going on!"

Gu Pingzhi's face twisted in pain: "You mean your little apprentice?"

He said sarcastically, "What's so good about him? You'd rather be his Daoist partner than become a god with me?"

Bai Yuheng said coldly, "Of course he's good, he's good in every way, he's tens of thousands of times better than you!"

Gu Pingzhi said "good" several times in a row, then laughed in exasperation: "You're really something, then I don't need to be soft-hearted anymore."

"Guards!" he roared. "Bring her along and attack the Tianyan Sect!"

The subordinate who walked in from outside replied, "Yes!"

Bai Yuheng stopped pretending. Since she wouldn't know Gu Pingzhi's plans anyway, she forcefully shattered the black iron chain when her subordinates tried to take her away.

With a flick of the wrist, a dagger pierced the man's neck, killing him instantly.

Gu Pingzhi was stunned for a moment, then finally realized: "So you've been faking it all this time!?"

Bai Yuheng flicked the blood off the dagger in her hand and said calmly, "Yes, if I didn't pretend, how would I know your plan?"

"Heh." Gu Pingzhi twitched his lips, feeling that he was still as stupid as ever, having been fooled by her again. "Then why not stop pretending now? I'd like you to pretend for the rest of your life."

Bai Yuheng smiled gently, striking straight to his heart: "Because Pei Yuan is still waiting for me to go back, I won't pretend anymore."

"..." Gu Pingzhi paused for a moment, then burst into laughter, laughing so hard he bent over, clutching his stomach. Wiping away tears from the corners of his eyes, he said with a playful tone, "Want to go back? We'll have to see what you're capable of then."

Having said that, a series of ruthless moves were about to be launched at her.

Bai Yuheng remained calm and accepted his challenge.

The two fought their way from inside the cave to outside. Bai Yuheng glanced around and realized that this place was not far from the Tianyan Sect, only a few mountains away. She was shocked that they were so bold and arrogant as to use this place as a stronghold.

Seeing the endless stream of demonic beasts closing in, Bai Yuheng knew she couldn't waste any more time with them. She quickly made a hand seal and blasted the nearest circle of demonic beasts to smithereens.

It's a pity Pei Yuan wasn't here. If he had helped, the power of this spell would have been many times greater.

What you keep in mind will surely come to pass.

As if on cue, a man in a dark green robe and a white phoenix charged into the horde of demonic beasts. Their movements were incredibly swift and their teamwork impeccable, slaying any demonic beasts around Bai Yuheng that attempted to ambush her.

Pei Yuan stretched out his long arm, encircled her waist, and pulled her up, so that she sat steadily on Duobao's back.

Bai Yuheng exclaimed in surprise and excitement, "Why are you all here?!"

Pei Yuan looked at her thin chin, his eyes filled with heartache, and said guiltily, "Knowing you were missing, I had Duobao follow your scent to find us here..."

Pei Yuan touched her cheek and said with concern, "You've lost weight."

Bai Yuheng shook her head, naturally seeing his guilt: "No, it's because I wasn't vigilant enough and was actually deceived."

"Chirp chirp chirp!"

—Let's stop talking!

Just as Pei Yuan was about to speak, Duobao chirped incessantly, interrupting them.

Gu Pingzhi, leading his demonic beast, coldly watched the two people, who seemed to be deeply in love, and felt his heart burning intensely.

He immediately ordered: "Kill them all!"

The monsters responded in droves, charging forward as if their lives depended on it, attacking them.

Bai Yuheng and Pei Yuan exchanged a glance, nodded, and quickly formed hand seals. A wisp of crimson gold and a wisp of dark green intertwined and flew out, like a large net or tens of thousands of arrows, piercing through the bodies of the demonic beasts, binding them together, and finally, with a deafening roar, they instantly exploded into a blood mist.

Taking advantage of the billowing smoke, Bai Yuheng cast a spell to bewilder Gu Pingzhi's vision, allowing Duobao to quickly fly away from the area.

When Gu Pingzhi blew away the miasma, the person was nowhere to be seen in front of the cave. He was so angry that his teeth itched, and the veins on his clenched hands bulged. He wished he could crush the person into dust and scatter them!

Duobao flew very fast, leaving the pursuing monsters far, far behind.

Bai Yuheng breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Gu Pingzhi hadn't chased after her. She turned around to look at the man behind her, her expression a mix of grievance and reproach: "Why did you take so long to come..."

Upon hearing this, Pei Yuan's heart tightened, and he hugged the person tightly: "I'm sorry."

"You have no idea how frustrated I am with that guy!" Hearing him say those strange things every day and his occasional fits of madness, she was really suffocating!

Pei Yuan stroked her head and said, "I'm sorry, it was my oversight..."

He originally intended to avoid her because of his injury, but then he thought that this would be a good opportunity to use his injury to gain her sympathy and pity, and also to end this sudden and endless cold war.

He really missed her, so much.

He didn't want to sleep alone at night, didn't want to see her evasive eyes, didn't want her cold expression, didn't speak to him, and didn't smile at him.

Therefore, he was able to discover her disappearance immediately.

Duobao followed her scent and searched all the way, finally hearing unusual activity near the mountain and encountering her.

Pei Yuan couldn't help but feel a little regretful. In just three days, his injuries had almost fully healed, so he couldn't use the self-inflicted injury trick anymore.

Bai Yuheng hugged him and whispered, "Let's stop being cold to each other, okay?"

Pei Yuan felt sorry for her and was also unhappy. She gave him a way out, which he quickly accepted: "Okay, no more cold wars, and I won't do it again..."

Bai Yuheng took the initiative to seek his lips, and Pei Yuan pressed them against hers.

After several days apart, the two kissed passionately, wishing they could make up for the days they had missed. They had endless passion for each other, their kisses flowing back and forth.

Their lips and tongues intertwined, their voices gurgling.

*

Amidst turbulent winds and billowing smoke, demons and monsters roam the three realms, turning the human world into a veritable hell.

Even if all the sects in the cultivation world joined forces, they would still find it difficult to kill all the demonic beasts and monsters that were impossible to eradicate.

As the war wore off and morale waned, many restless souls yearned for the arrival of a powerful being, just as the Empress Hengluan had sacrificed herself to save the world from suffering.

At this moment, news came from an unknown source that Emperor Hengluan had come back to life, which cheered up many cultivators who were about to give up. However, as they waited and waited, many cultivators died on the merciless battlefield, but they did not receive any confirmation or assistance from those so-called capable elders.

Panic gripped the people; many considered surrendering, while others fled to the legendary fairyland for refuge...

In the face of life and death, the full spectrum of human nature is revealed.

But everyone's choices were for themselves, to survive and seek refuge, to fight for the greater good and sacrifice themselves for the common people.

The war between gods and demons began with Gu Pingzhi's attack on the Tianyan Sect.

The elders of each sect led their disciples in a fierce resistance, and the two armies met on Qingluan Peak.

Sitting on the back of the blue-faced unicorn, Gu Pingzhi looked at some familiar faces from various sects and felt a moment of disorientation.

People from various sects recognized him, their eyes widening in astonishment. "Gu Pingzhi, you're still alive?!"

"Truly, a scourge lives on for a thousand years!" The Eastern Xuan Emperor glared at the person opposite him, his heart aching with anger at the thought that this was the same person who had caused chaos and countless corpses. He sneered, "Back then, the Purple Sun Celestial Venerable should never have taken you, this scourge, as his disciple! He let a wolf into the house and caused the entire sect to perish!"

Upon hearing this, Gu Pingzhi burst into laughter: "I haven't seen the Eastern Xuan Emperor for many years, yet he remains as frank and forthright as ever, which I greatly miss..."

"Hmph, enough nonsense! What are you planning to do this time?! You've turned the Three Realms upside down, do you intend to slaughter all the sects in the Three Realms now?!"

“Hahahaha, you make a lot of sense,” Gu Pingzhi said leisurely, propping his forehead up with his hand. “But I don’t want to kill anyone else right now…”

"Ha, not kill anyone? That's a joke!"

That's absolutely ridiculous!

So many people have died in the world today, innocent civilians who perished, fellow disciples killed by demonic beasts...

With countless corpses, this demon actually said he didn't want to kill anyone?

It's ridiculous!

Seeing that this person was unyielding, the Eastern Emperor raised an eyebrow and asked coldly, "What exactly do you want?!"

Some couldn't help but speculate, and angrily retorted, "Do you perhaps aspire to become the overlord of the Three Realms?!"

Gu Pingzhi's eyes darkened. He stood up, looked down at the mountains and seas, and waved his hand, laughing loudly: "That's right! I will be the master of this world!"

"Master of the Three Realms!"

"Dream on! As long as we're around, don't even think about it!"

Gu Pingzhi didn't care at all, and smiled, "If you want me to withdraw today, I can."

The Eastern Xuan Emperor's eyelids twitched, and he asked in a cold voice, "What are you planning to do now!?"

Gu Pingzhi frowned, and said through gritted teeth, "I want Hengluan. Hand over Hengluan, and I'll let you go. How about it?"

He glanced at the restless crowd, his eyes flashing, and smiled, "As long as you hand over Hengluan, I will immediately, right now, bring all the demon beasts back and stop the war."

What do you all think of my suggestion?