Chapter 65 [Nutrient Solution 15000 plus update]

"I'm much better now."

When they saw Zhou Ming again, the young man was able to talk to them while half leaning against the head of the bed. Although he was still on an IV drip, most of the wounds on his body had shown signs of healing.

"My master should be back soon," he said, looking at the blue sky outside the window. His voice was still a little weak, and his eyes were a little empty. "Thank you for taking care of me during this time... ahem..."

Yi Yan poured him a glass of water.

He was sitting next to Gu Liangyi. Maybe it was because You's behavior just now was a bit excessive, so even though the two of them came together, they didn't dare to look at each other for even a second.

"Don't think too much," Gu Liangyi comforted him, "We will find out what that thing is. Now..." He paused, and then asked, "Can you still continue to practice?"

Zhou Ming reluctantly lowered his head, took a sip of water, and smiled bitterly.

"My cultivation is only one tenth of what it was, and my meridians have been severely damaged." He closed his eyes, but he still had to face reality. "To be honest, I don't know either."

Gu Liangyi looked at him speechlessly.

"There will be a way." In the end, he could only say this, "Hasn't your master already returned to the sect to help you find medicine?"

But Zhou Ming just thought that Gu Liangyi was comforting him, so he forced a smile and was obviously not in a very good mood.

"I've been thinking about this for a while," he said, changing the subject, "how that thing got into my body."

Gu Liangyi immediately sat up straight: "Do you have any idea?"

Zhou Ming nodded slightly, but he brought up another matter at this time: "Do you know why we hate the people of the Demon Cult so much?"

Without waiting for Gu Liangyi to answer, he continued, "Because they are not practicing the orthodox techniques of the immortal cultivation world, ordinary cultivators cannot reach the Golden Core stage even after practicing for one or two hundred years, but they can easily cross this stage and enter the Spiritualization Stage or even the Tribulation Stage."

Gu Liangyi blurted out: "Isn't that good?"

Zhou Ming curled his lips and said, "Yes, it does sound like a shortcut. But the price of fast cultivation speed is that they have sealed their own path to ascending. So far, in the past few thousand years, no demon cultivator in the Tribulation Crossing Stage has been able to successfully ascend. All of them died on the spot under the thunder, and no one survived."

"...So, this is a dead end?" Gu Liang blinked his eyes. "Then why did they choose this method of cultivation when they knew it was a dead end?"

"Master told me at the beginning that they are short-sighted and can only see the present. The orthodox practice we practice is completely different from those crooked ways. Although the process is difficult, as long as we persist, it will definitely be a smooth road."

Zhou Ming suddenly laughed bitterly: "But do you know that the first step for every orthodox cultivator today after entering a sect to become a disciple is to take the foundation-building pill of our Linshen Sect... From then on, you are not allowed to eat grains except water. My foundation-building pill was given to me by my master himself!"

He became more and more excited as he spoke, his five fingers tightly grasping the armrest of the hospital bed, and in the end his body leaning against the head of the bed began to tremble uncontrollably, and bright red blood seeped out from under the bandage again.

"I don't believe my master. My master would deceive me like this!"

He slapped the bed, ignoring the fact that the needle on the back of his hand was squeezed and deformed. He was panting violently, his face was in pain, and his eyes were full of hideous bloodshot. "But other than that foundation-building pill, I can't think of any other opportunity for that thing to parasitize in my body! Master also told me that those demon cultivators are brutal and often dig out people's hearts and livers, but now I can't tell who is good and who is evil!"

Gu Liangyi quickly comforted him. Yi Yan called the school doctor, who gave Zhou Ming another injection while scolding them both: "Why are you provoking him again? Don't you know how much effort we put in to get him back to this state? Get out, get out!"

After being kicked out twice in one day, Gu Liangyi rubbed his nose and felt quite embarrassed.

But after this happened, the subtle atmosphere between him and Yi Yan faded a lot, which made Gu Liangyi feel a little relieved.

Although he couldn't help but blame You in his heart, but thinking of Zhou Ming's words that were full of information, he took the initiative to ask: "What do you think Zhou Ming meant?"

"That foundation-building pill," Yi Yan said succinctly, "has a big problem."

Gu Liangyi also thought so.

Now all signs point to the existence of a traitor in the Linshen Sect, who is deliberately harming the cultivators. This huge conspiracy even involves most of the immortal cultivation world.

No wonder Zhou Ming was so upset. Gu Liang thought, if he knew that someone he trusted had betrayed him, he would probably...

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look up at Yi Yan.

Yi Yan was very observant and immediately caught his little movement.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

Their eyes met in mid-air. Looking at Yi Yan's calm eyes, Gu Liang opened his mouth and suddenly wanted to know, if he told Yi Yan now that he already knew his identity, what kind of expression would he show?

Will you panic, or will you subconsciously avoid and deny?

Gu Liangyou gave him some advice: "You can ask him indirectly."

Gu Liang thought about it and felt that what You said made sense.

He carefully considered his words and said to Yi Yan: "It seems that Zhou Ming and his master have a good relationship."

"Yes," Yi Yan said without a doubt, "Old Two told me that Zhou Ming was an orphan. He was brought back to the sect from a village at the foot of Kunlun Mountain by his master and raised. The two of them had a deep relationship."

The two walked out of the ward side by side. The open skylight outside made Gu Liang pause and narrow his eyes slightly.

Yi Yan happened to look at him at this moment. Under the lush tree-lined avenue of the campus, the tranquil scene of the black-haired young man subconsciously raising his hands to block the sunlight made him hold his breath slightly. His lips unconsciously pursed into a line, and his eyes seemed to be glued to the dandelion ring worn on his slender bones.

It was not until Gu Liangyi called him in a puzzled voice from the front that Yi Yan came back to his senses.

“Here I come.”

"I am an orphan too," Gu Liang said as he walked, and asked casually, "Brother Yi, how many people are there in your family?"

Yi Yan was silent for a moment, then replied, "There are seven direct relatives in the legal sense."

Gu Liangyi was surprised and asked, "So many?"

Grandparents, plus parents - no, Officer Fu has already died, so there are only five of them in total, right?

"My father died early, and my mother remarried later. My stepfather has two children, a younger brother and a younger sister, both in junior high school," said Yi Yan.

This was probably what happened after he left the welfare home, Gu Liangyi thought with regret, it is normal that Officer Fu has been sacrificed for so many years.

"Then your family must be very lively, right?" He smiled and asked, "Especially during the Chinese New Year, will your brothers and sisters ask you for red envelopes?"

"No," Yi Yan looked ahead, "They are not that close to me, and I don't usually live with my parents."

Gu Liangyi didn't react: "Weren't you in high school before? Boarding school?"

"It's boarding," Yi Yan said calmly, "but they moved to another city, so I usually don't go home on weekends."

“…………”

Gu Liangyi couldn't quite understand why Yi Yan did this. In his opinion, the company of his family was more important than anything else: "Then why do you want to stay alone?"

Yi Yan didn't say anything, but just glanced at the puzzled young man with a barely perceptible smile in his eyes.

"The sign of the coffee shop in front of your school is quite delicious." He answered irrelevantly, "The scenery is also nice."

It took Gu Liangyi more than ten seconds to understand what Yi Yan meant.

"You--" He stopped abruptly and stared at Yi Yan, who had a faint smile on his lips. His whole body turned red from head to toe like a cooked shrimp - half because of shame, half because of shock.

When he was in high school, Gu Liangyi also lived in a boarding school. Every weekend when his classmates went home and the campus was silent, he would sit alone in a study room near the street and read, and he would often read for an entire afternoon.

Across the street from the classroom was the coffee shop that Yi Yan mentioned.

"You've been following me since high school!?" He raised his voice in disbelief, looking at Yi Yan's expression as if he was going to call the police to have him arrested any second, "Are you a pervert?"

"I just want to see if you're doing well."

"You are a pervert!" Gu Liang said in a loud and powerful voice.

Yi Yan rubbed his nose and finally didn't tell Gu Liangyi. In fact, he had been doing this since the other party was in junior high school.

He apologized very skillfully: "I'm sorry, I didn't dare to come to see you at that time."

He looked at Gu Liangyi's eyes that were particularly bright because of his anger, and subconsciously rubbed the base of his middle finger with his left hand hanging by his side, and spoke in a low and gentle tone:

"I just hope you're okay."

When he learned from his father that the drug lord was still on the run, although he knew that the possibility of him appearing in the downtown area was small, during that period of time, Yi Yan would always dream that Gu Liangyi fell in a pool of blood again, and then he would wake up in a cold sweat and sit alone all night until dawn.

He knew that the police could not continue to protect a hostage who had been rescued, even if the main culprit had not been arrested.

Therefore, he refused his mother's request to move to a new city and start a new life with her, and chose to stay alone with Gu Liangyi who was studying in the other side of the city.

Across a busy street, Yi Yan, who had changed out of his conspicuous high school uniform, sat in a corner shaded by potted plants, holding a pen, silently watching a boy flipping through a book under the shade of a tree by the window.

Gu Liangyi would spend as much time in the coffee shop as he did in the study room.

Even though he knew that the other person could not possibly know of his existence, Yi Yan still got used to taking the bus and going through several stops to get here every weekend. He suppressed his desire to get close to the other person, took out his homework from his schoolbag, and kept writing until that figure stood up and disappeared into the night.

Every time he finished a question, he would turn around and see Gu Liangyi sitting quietly and healthily in the classroom, and the guilt in Yi Yan's heart would subside a little.

Although it was just a temporary solution, he really cherished this moment of peace and quiet.

This kind of secret companionship is like going on a date that is only known to one party.

The Earth audience who saw this scene tapped their keyboards passionately, and many of them turned into screaming chickens on the spot:

"Ahhhhh I told you, they have been having an affair for a long time!! They! Are! Real!!!!"

"Fuck... I really don't know what to say."

"Gu Liangyi is absolutely right, Brother Yi, you really are a bit perverted. (Thumbs up.jpg)"

"Good kids, don't learn this, it's against the law...Okay, Yi Yan didn't break the law, but stalking in private is definitely immoral!"

"But Yi Yan's worries are indeed not unreasonable. He is just afraid that Gu Liang will be retaliated against again and again, right?"

"So, Yi Yan has been Gu Liangyi's bodyguard for several years, right? He has been with him from middle school to college. Wow, no wonder he is so experienced."

"At times like this, I have to bring out that classic edited video that will be passed down forever - "Yan Yi CP Xiang: We just haven't seen each other for a long time"

"Gu Liang (standing at the dormitory door with a suitcase in hand, looking confused): 'Have we met somewhere before?' Yi Yan (with a cold tone and fireworks in his heart): 'No, I don't remember.'"

"Hahahahahaha, I've watched this video dozens of times. Every time the couple shows some sweet moments, I have to watch it again and whip the corpse again."

"Those CP fans watched the recording with a magnifying glass and said that Yi Yan's pupils dilated when he opened the door and saw Gu Liangyi, which meant that they fell in love at first sight. I said that was too far-fetched, but it turns out that this was not love at first sight for the two of you. It turned out that you two met again after a long separation?"

"That's right. The person you've been dreaming about has become your roommate. You must be very happy."

"Carob sack, what's with this déjà vu of a knight secretly guarding a princess?"

“Hahahaha, it’s not a princess, it should be a story about the love-hate relationship between the big devil and his loyal and perverted (crossed out) dark knight!”

"There is no killing! At most, it is a little sour in the early stage, but the sweetness is 100% lethal!"

"I finally understand why this couple is the United States. I can only say this earnestly: Brother Yi, don't love them too much."

"The food produced by wives at home and abroad every day can drown me. Woohoo, I have never been so happy in my life. It's like a hamster falling into a granary. I declare that from now on the forum will be my happy hometown!"

"Pay attention to propriety and scale. Gu Liang is still a minor. Let's just have pure love and don't drive without a license!"

"I'm holding the banner for couple! I'll move the Civil Affairs Bureau here right now and you guys hurry up - okay, we'll get the marriage certificate once Gu Liang reaches the legal age - damn, doesn't that mean there's still another six years?"

"It's okay. The whole world is their notary anyway. It doesn't matter whether they get the certificate or not."

"Wait a minute, Gu Liangyi hasn't spoken yet, right? Don't just listen to Yi Yan's one-sided confession. What if Gu Liangyi is disgusted by his behavior? Relationships should be mutual."

"Disgusted? Who are you talking about? Who?"

"It's so funny. Although you can tell the top and bottom at a glance, let's be clear-headed. I think everyone should know how high Gu Liangyi's status in Mo University is. If he really hates Yi Yan and wants to replace him, the headquarters can find him a row of substitutes within half an hour!"

"That's not the case. When their relationship was tense a while ago, Gu Liang's second personality kept saying 'I want to change people' with a sour face. It almost became a catchphrase, but he never put it into action once."

"Just like my parents, every time they quarrel, they say they can't go on and want a divorce. When my mom is about to take the keys and get ready to go out, my dad immediately starts kneeling on the washboard (slanting eyes.jpg)"

"The demon king who is so upright in his speech hhhh"

"You..." Gu Liangyi took a deep breath. He didn't know what to say for a moment. Yi Yan's gaze seemed to have warmth, making his cheeks a little hot.

He looked away, and suddenly seemed to remember something, and looked up and asked, "My classmate was blocked in the alley and blackmailed, and I helped him out. The next day, I heard that the gangsters were dealt with. Did you do it?"

"Who knows?" Yi Yan smiled. "I was just an ordinary high school student at that time."

Gu Liangyi was silent.

He stared at Yi Yan's strong arms and slender legs wrapped in the black combat uniform, and wondered which ordinary high school student could train like you?

He is also proficient in firearms and various fighting methods... Even for Yi Yan before he received training from the special forces, it was no problem for him to beat five thugs alone.

"Don't think too much." Perhaps seeing that Gu Liangyi's thoughtful expression did not seem to be disgusted, Yi Yan hesitated for a moment, but still boldly raised his hand and placed it on the young man's head, rubbing it lightly, "I don't want you to feel burdened by what I do, I am also doing it for myself..."

"To satisfy your own perverted desires?" Gu Liang blurted out.

Looking at Yi Yan's suddenly stiff expression, Gu Liangyi tried hard to suppress the upward curve of his mouth corners, and said somewhat awkwardly, "Anyway, thank you for protecting me."

"Are you a Taoist couple?" Zhou Qingzi asked curiously.

"Varied--"

The harmonious atmosphere was broken in an instant, and Gu Liangyi and Yi Yan took a step back and separated at the same time.

The two men stared at Zhou Qingzi, who had appeared in the middle of the road at some point in time. Gu Liangyi could even hear his own heartbeat pounding in his ears.

"When did you come?" Yi Yan withdrew his hand regretfully, looked at Zhou Qingzi and asked with a slight frown.

Are all the defense mechanisms of Mo University dead? How come no one noticed such a large person coming in from outside the school?

"Just now, I posted the teleportation coordinates here."

As Zhou Qingzi spoke, he walked around to the back of a roadside tree and took off a yellow talisman.

Noticing Yi Yan's cold and vigilant look, he raised his eyebrows and explained, "Don't worry, this thing is disposable, and even a cultivator in the Spiritualization Stage can only use it once a day, which is very physically demanding. If I hadn't consumed so much mana in the fight with you, why would I bother flying back to the sect on a sword?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the talisman paper in his hand began to burn on its own, turning into sparks in the air and disappearing without a trace.

"How many cultivators like you in the God Transformation Stage are there in the world of immortal cultivation?" Yi Yan was unmoved and continued to ask.

"Not many," Zhou Qingzi counted on his fingers, "If you count them all, there won't be more than thirty."

Thirty...

The sense of crisis once again weighed heavily on Yi Yan's heart, and Zhou Qingzi was obviously an old frivolous guy. He touched his chin, his eyes moved back and forth between Gu Liangyi and Yi Yan, whose face was cold, and he smiled meaningfully:

"I haven't seen you for a few days, but your mental problems seem to have deepened. It's really strange. What kind of cultivation method are you using? You don't have much mana in your body, but you can still have a demon in your heart. This is a bottleneck that only people in the Golden Core Stage will encounter."

Gu Liangyi immediately asked, "What did you mean just now? What is the inner demon?"

"No comment."

Zhou Qingzi glanced at him, said something and looked around: "Where is my good disciple? I spent a lot of effort to get this medicine, I guarantee it will cure the disease--"

"Just tell me what you mean first!"

Gu Liang clenched his fists. He knew that the inner demon was not a good thing. He was afraid that it would be the same as the curse mark in the previous world, something that could kill people at any time.

"You, come here." He said coldly.

Gu Liangyou: "Okay, I've been displeased with this Zhou for a long time."

If you dare to be arrogant in front of him, you must have the capital!

At the moment of personality transformation, Zhou Qingzi's expression suddenly changed!

He quickly retreated a dozen steps, tightly gripping the immortal sword in his hand, staring at Gu Liangyi as if he were looking at a monster: "You—actually, you have been possessed by a demon?"

Moreover, why was the young man in front of him an ordinary person just now, Zhou Qingzi thought in doubt, but now the terrifying power fluctuations around him gave him the feeling of facing a sect master in the Tribulation Crossing Stage?

"Inner demon?" Gu Liangyou sneered and took a step forward. "Are you talking about me?"

The sound of the wind in his ears gradually became noisier, and the strong wind blew the fallen leaves accumulated on the lawns on both sides of the road all over the sky. Zhou Qingzi looked at the thin and skinny black-haired young man in front of him as if he was facing a great enemy. He looked harmless, and Zhou Qingzi had thought so before, so his attention was focused on Yi Yan the whole time, and he didn't take the young man next to him seriously at all -

But at the moment the black-haired young man's footsteps landed on the ground, cracks appeared on the ground and spread in all directions at lightning speed!

“BOOM!!!”

Several members of the special forces team who arrived in a hurry subconsciously raised their hands to block the incoming dust. When they opened their eyes coughing, the shocking scene before them made everyone gasp.

"I advise you to adjust your mentality." The black-haired young man put his index and middle fingers together and gently tapped the center of Zhou Qingzi's forehead. However, Zhou Qingzi was unable to move because one of his legs was stuck in a crack in the ground. He could only stare at the two fingers approaching with his pupils suddenly shrinking. "We saved your disciple and have been taking care of him until now. It's just out of basic humanitarianism. We don't want to curry favor with Lin Shenzong, nor do we want to ask for any benefits from you. It's essentially just an exchange of value."

"But the way you looked at me and the tone of your voice just now made me very uncomfortable."

"If you have no sincerity in cooperating, then I don't mind being called a demon cult."

He applied a little force with his nails, feeling Zhou Qingzi's stiffness under his fingertips. Gu Liangyou curled his lips coldly and said nonchalantly: "Dig out the heart and liver, and there will be no bones left...right?"

During this period, due to the increase in faith on Earth, and the fact that the Demon God was originally targeting the world's strongest deity, which in the world of immortals is the Tribulation Crossing Stage, Gu Liangyou's power has been growing continuously. Not only has he long since recovered to his previous level, but he has also exceeded it by a large margin.

Faced with the crushing force of the unit level, Zhou Qingzi dared not move at all. Every cell in his body was trembling, screaming to tell him -

Will die!

Under the crushing power of this mountain, Zhou Qingzi managed to force a smile: "You...you are joking. I am just eager to save my disciple. How could I be disrespectful to you?"

Gu Liangyou looked down at him, with a hint of cold irony in his eyes.

"Really?" Under Zhou Qingzi's gaze, not daring to breathe, the black-haired young man said lightly, "It's good that it's not."

He took a half step back, and Zhou Qingzi quickly gasped for breath. Only now did he realize that he was covered in cold sweat.

"Now can you tell me what the inner demon is?"

The devil's voice came from the front again. Zhou Qingzi, who was pulling his legs out of the crack with a gloomy face, froze. This time he finally didn't dare to hide it anymore and explained honestly:

"The inner demon is a collection of distracting thoughts, obsessions, and negative emotions that a cultivator has developed during the cultivation process due to past experiences. If the inner demon is not eliminated, the cultivator's consciousness will gradually be occupied by it and he will go astray."

"Listen, this old man said that I am a collection of negative emotions," Gu Liangyou said lazily to the main personality, "How am I negative? And do you think our current state is called being possessed by a demon?"

Gu Liangyi was silent for a while, but then he sighed softly.

"Because I'm afraid of being alone, You," he said, "so I'm glad to have you."

Gu Liangyou suddenly closed his mouth.

Gu Liangyi knew that he was embarrassed, but what he said just now was indeed his true feelings.

He didn't care about being possessed. During the years when You was away, although he lived his life as usual, he would often talk to himself habitually, just like those rehabilitation patients who still had the hallucination of "non-existent limbs" after amputation.

After he realized it belatedly, the huge feeling of loneliness always overwhelmed him, and he became more and more taciturn.

"But Yi Yan can't be in the same situation as us," Gu Liangyou finally managed to get himself out of his previous emotions. He coughed and said, "This old Taoist is probably just a half-baked person. He can regard dual personality as a demon. Doesn't that mean that multiple personalities have split into hundreds of demons?"

So he asked Zhou Qingzi again: "What about Yi Yan?"

The members of the special task force who had just arrived stopped at the same time. They looked at each other and wisely chose not to interrupt at this time.

It's obvious that Gu Liang is standing up for Captain Yi. Didn't you see that Captain Yi was staring at him without blinking the whole time?

If you disturb someone's relationship, you will be kicked by a donkey!

"My friend..." Zhou Qingzi cursed himself in his heart for being so talkative today. If he had known earlier, wouldn't he have just gone to find his disciple? He ran into an ancestor who was not a demon but was more like a demon. He was so young and his cultivation was so high. "Actually, I don't know much about it, because I don't know what kind of skills you practice."

"But no matter what kind of skills, they all emphasize that one must be free from distractions and concentrate on the practice," he glanced at Gu Liangyou's unreadable expression and continued cautiously, "If one fails to do so, a demon in the heart will be born. But he hasn't reached that level yet. I just sensed that the power in his body is a little mixed. Anyway, if he continues like this, it will definitely have a negative impact on his body and practice."

Gu Liangyou turned his head and looked at Yi Yan: "He should be talking about the process of you meditating and practicing magic before, right? What were you thinking about?"

But this time, Yi Yan avoided his sight.

"Sorry," he said, not wanting to lie to Gu Liang, but also unwilling to tell the young man the truth, "I can't tell you."

"Can't say it, or don't dare to say it?"

Gu Liangyou stared at him and asked, "Fu Jingyan, do you think I'm a fool? Apart from my classmates and teachers, I only told one person about my admission to Mo University - you read the letter, right?"

The letter that he placed in front of Officer Fu’s tombstone with his own hands.

Yi Yan raised his head suddenly. He stared blankly at the black-haired young man standing not far away. After a long while, he asked in a hoarse voice: "When did you know?"

"You care when I found out."

Gu Liangyou walked up to him step by step. His tone was fierce, but his eyes were full of amusement and a little bit of uneasiness. Amid the inhalation of everyone, he grabbed Yi Yan by the collar and said, "I don't know what you are struggling with, but I can give you the answer right now--"

The sound of wind in the campus gradually died down, and everything was silent. Everyone looked at them with wide eyes, including billions of humans far away in another world.

The black-haired young man pulled Yi Yan in front of him and kissed him forcefully in a domineering and fierce manner.

Yi Yan's dark pupils contracted and then expanded as he felt the approaching hot breath. His body was as stiff as a stone. The breath he had been longing for had never been so close before. His rapid heartbeat was sending out a violent celebration signal, but the only remaining ray of rationality in his brain reacted subconsciously -

He took a half step back and dodged.

The young man kissed the side of his face.

Everyone present was stunned, including the hundreds of millions of viewers in the live broadcast room and Gu Liangyou himself.

Gu Liangyi's voice suddenly rose: "Ahhhhhhhhhh help me, You, what are you doing!!!"

Gu Liangyou ignored the main personality's mad screams. He stared at Yi Yan, watching him explain to him somewhat helplessly his actions just now. It was because he suddenly remembered that Gu Liangyou was not yet 85 years old. His brain, which was filled with impulse, gradually calmed down.

He closed his eyes tightly, the embarrassment and regret of being killed in public, as well as the overwhelming anger towards someone, gradually welling up in his heart.

Very good, Fu Jingyan.

He gritted his teeth and thought, this bastard betrayed him again!

"If you can't, just say it." He shook his hand away and said coldly, "Are you still a man?"

Yi Yan's explanation came to an abrupt end.

At that moment, the world was silent.