Chapter 67 [Jiaozhu] A Jiang is jealous

"Dreams will always come true one day." At this moment, Chen Lian was just as he appeared to outsiders, with a kind face and benevolent expression. He said that he had never forgotten what A Jiang forced him to do, and that he wanted to dominate the three realms.

He will never forget these, just like those painful memories, they will be forever engraved in his heart.

If one wants to dominate the three realms, it is far from enough to just have cultivation. If he has a weakness, he can be destroyed in one blow. His past is a weakness, but fortunately it can no longer hurt him.

Now A Jiang has become his weakness. Anyone with an eye can certainly see that when he used to take a demon as a slave, he would beat and scold it at will, and the demon would die within a month.

Not only did Ajiang survive for a month, but he also had no scars on his body, which made it hard not to arouse suspicion.

He had already decided that if his cultivation could surpass Ajiang, he would definitely kill the other party and take his bones for his own enjoyment.

This can be considered as making the best use of one's resources. Although it is painful to kill a loved one, nothing is more important than himself. He cannot let down his past self, so he can only let down A Jiang.

If there were an afterlife, he didn't want to go through all that again, didn't want his trust to go to waste time and time again. He wanted to be born into a happy family, even if it meant a mediocre life, it would be better than this one. He also didn't want to meet Ajahn in his next life. He had let Ajahn down in this life, and he didn't dare see him in the next.

Forget it, maybe there will be no afterlife. People like him who do so many bad things and have bad character will probably go to the eighteen levels of hell after death and will never be reborn.

So he cannot die. Even if he goes to hell, he will turn into a ghost and crawl out of hell.

"Then go back to sleep. You'll dream when you fall asleep." Ah Jiang sat up and raised his hand to gently touch Chen Lian's face. "I want to remember your appearance forever."

Afterwards, after Chen Lian packed up briefly, he went to the conference hall in the valley to meet with the leaders of other sects. Only Yu Jinlan and A Jiang were left in the courtyard.

Yu Jinlan has always had a prejudice against A Jiang, and she doesn't understand why she is inferior to a servant. Chen Lian actually treats a servant better than herself. At first, she thought the two of them had that kind of relationship, so she wanted to follow and check it out. If so, Yu Jinlan would have caught Chen Lian's handle, otherwise there would be no loss.

When she didn't know that Chen Lian was unwilling to bring her, she felt that something was wrong. In the past, no matter which sect or faction he attended, Chen Lian would always bring her with him, but now he only brought servants with him?

Although they were calm along the way, Yu Jinlan guessed that was just on the surface. Didn't she know her master well? She had specially checked Shen Lian's family background in order to become his disciple.

Because of her status as a royal lady, it was relatively easy for her to investigate Chen Lian. What she didn't expect was that Chen Lian didn't change her surname or given name and had been called Chen Lian for more than 30 years. She originally thought that Shen Lian would at least change her name after those experiences, but in fact she didn't.

This surprised her and made her think that Shen Lian was a truly ruthless and ungrateful person. She grew up in the palace and naturally knew that ruthlessness and cruelty meant cruelty. Those people had no relatives, no friends, no lovers, and no weaknesses, so they became ruthless and powerful. She also wanted to become powerful, so she took great pains to become a disciple of Shen Lian, just to become a person like Shen Lian.

Only today did she realize that she was wrong. Chen Lian might not be heartless or ungrateful, but he was afraid and was covering up the truth. Such a person was not worthy of being her master.

So after seeing Shen Lian leave, she stood in front of Shen Lian's door and knocked.

“Master, Master!”

She called out loudly twice and the back door opened automatically. She stuck her head in from outside and looked around but saw no one. Suddenly, a figure stood in front of her. She was so scared that she staggered back a few steps and almost fell down the stairs.

"He's not in now."

Ajahn raised his head slightly and looked down at her.

Yu Jinlan steadied herself, her gaze calming down from the panic she had felt. She looked at A Jiang, her heart filled with confusion and dissatisfaction. She didn't understand why a servant could stand before her so calmly, even moving freely in Shen Lian's room. The servants before her had been tied up, hung, or covered in wounds. What right did A Jiang have?

"What are you doing here?" Yu Jinlan's voice carried a hint of command. She was Shen Lian's apprentice. With her identity and status, how could a mere slave be worthy of standing in front of her?

"If I'm not here, where else can I be?" A Jiang raised his eyebrows, not understanding the other party's intention.

"This is not the place for you!" Yu Jinlan took out a spiritual rope from his Qiankun bag, tied it around Ajiang's hands, and pretended to drag Ajiang out of the house.

A Jiang raised his tied hand. He was very strong and no matter how Yu Jinlan pulled, he just stood there without moving his hand.

"Who do you think you are? You are just a servant, how dare you disobey my orders!" Yu Jinlan's voice rose a few degrees, and her spiritual power increased again, trying to drag A Jiang out of the room.

A Jiang sighed softly and waved his hand, causing the ropes binding her wrists to dissipate.

Yu Jinlan looked at A Jiang in shock. A small servant actually had such strong spiritual power that he could dissolve the spiritual rope. The spiritual rope was a high-level magic weapon. How could it be dissolved so easily?

"What? Are you shocked?" A Jiang saw the confusion and bewilderment in Yu Jinlan's eyes. "With your limited strength, you dare to challenge me?"

A Jiang raised his hand and pushed Yu Jinlan out of the eaves. He had been unhappy with this female disciple of Shen Lian for a long time. She always hung around in front of Shen Lian, and people who didn't know would think they had a good relationship.

Yu Jinlan fell to the ground, stunned when he heard A Jiang call himself, "This King?"

"Who...who are you?" Realizing Ajiang's identity, her voice trembled. She climbed to her feet and looked at him warily. If her suspicions were correct, the servant before her was the king of the mermaid tribe. With such powerful spiritual power that he could easily dissolve the spiritual rope, and being a mermaid, yet calling himself "king," who else could he be but the king of the mermaids?

But she never expected that Chen Lian actually subdued the mermaid king. That's right, she also investigated how Chen Lian became his disciple. She killed the previous king and took the mermaid pearl. Although this information was difficult to find out and she only learned about it recently, she finally found out and understood her master better.

As for why she went to check, it was because when she calculated the time when Chen Lian became a disciple, Chen Lian was already of adult age. Logically speaking, the cultivation world should not accept disciples before the age of adulthood.

Yu Jinlan looked at the merman in front of him, who seemed to be unaware that Chen Lian was his enemy.

"The King of the Mermaids? Are you the King of the Mermaids?" Without waiting for A Jiang to reply, Yu Jinlan continued, "How could the King of the Mermaids condescend to be a slave?"

"What does it have to do with you? It's you who doesn't fulfill your duty as a disciple and hangs around in Jingling Waterside Pavilion all day long?" He was very dissatisfied with the fact that he couldn't do some things.

Of course he knew that Shen Lian would not be attracted to a woman like Yu Jinlan. She was not as pretty as himself, and if she was not pretty enough, she would not be attractive enough to Shen Lian.

But in the end, he couldn't figure out Chen Lian's thoughts. Sometimes she was nice to him, and sometimes she was mean to him. They were obviously fine when they watched the sunrise together, but when they returned to the yard, she immediately turned against him.

"That's my master's house. What does it have to do with you? I can go in whenever I want. You don't think that just because you move in, you become half the owner of the place, do you?"

Well, you know what, A Jiang really treats that place as his own nest.

Seeing A Jiang nod, Yu Jinlan almost cursed out loud.

"You're so ridiculous!" Yu Jinlan laughed in anger. She couldn't accept that the servant she had always looked down upon could have such a noble status and could so easily dissolve her spirit rope. She felt her dignity was greatly insulted. "How could someone be so shameless?"

"Mermaids are not human." A Jiang said lightly. Seeing the man in front of him so angry, he felt secretly happy. He took a few steps back, grabbed the door with both hands, and prepared to close the door while he was ahead, and no longer paid attention to Yu Jinlan.

I never expected that Chen Lian would come back at this time.

"What are you arguing about?"

Shen Lian's voice echoed in the courtyard, a hint of displeasure. His eyes swept between A Jiang and Yu Jinlan, as if searching for an answer.

Yu Jinlan stood up straight immediately, a flash of panic in her eyes, but she quickly concealed it. She knew she couldn't lose her composure in front of Shen Lian, especially since she had just discovered A Jiang's true identity.

"Master, I want to go out and take a look, but when I came here yesterday, I saw that the situation in the valley was so severe. I was afraid that something bad might happen, so I came to ask for your advice." Yu Jinlan broke out in a cold sweat. She didn't expect Chen Lian to come back, so she made up an excuse on the spot.

"Really?" Shen Lian fixed his eyes on A Jiang, looking at his innocent face, and wanted to laugh.

"Yes, Master, I really want to go out for a walk and see the scenery in the valley." Yu Jinlan's legs felt a little weak. She knew Chen Lian's behavior best. Usually, when a disciple made a mistake, Chen Lian would laugh first, but she could never admit her true intention, at least not before she could completely threaten and undermine Chen Lian.

"Master has taken a look, and the scenery inside the valley is no different from the sky. If you want to go, Master will not stop you."

"Ah, in that case, I won't go." Yu Jinlan quickly ended the topic, "I'll take my leave."

Shen Lian waved her hand, and Yu Jinlan entered the house as quickly as possible.

Seeing this, Shen Lian walked forward and took A Jiang into the house.

"Why did you come back so suddenly?"

A Jiang still remembered that Chen Lian had turned against him in the morning, so his tone was not as gentle as last night.

"It's just a meeting, why does it take so long?" Chen Lian would not admit that he missed A Jiang as soon as he entered the conference room. He missed him so much that he left early.

"I see the valley is quite full of food. I heard the food here is good. I want to take you out to try it?"

When Chen Lian came back, he heard what the disciples of other sects said. In fact, he didn't like going out. It was just that Yinyou Valley was too stuffy, and he didn't like Yu Jinlan being there. He wanted to be alone with A Jiang. After all, when his cultivation level surpassed A Jiang, it would be the end of A Jiang's death, and they would not have much time together.

"OK."