Chapter 83 [Jiaozhu] The spirit pearl helps A Jiang ascend to heaven and obtain the immortal bone to build a body
Chen Lian looked at his hands covered in Ajiang's blood. He didn't want to kill Ajiang. He wanted to kill those people, not Ajiang.
He didn't want the only person who cared about him from beginning to end to die in this world. He didn't want Ajiang to die. Even if Ajiang betrayed him, he could tolerate it. At most, he could destroy Ajiang's cultivation and imprison him in the Demon Palace, which was better than death.
"I don't want to, I don't want to kill you, I don't know why..." Chen Lian couldn't stop crying. He had never cried so miserably before, not even when he was wandering around and being bullied and beaten. This was the first time he cried so miserably.
"I don't want you to die..."
Seeing that A Jiang's eyes were becoming increasingly lifeless, Chen Lian kept injecting demonic energy into his hands. He even thought of giving the spirit pearl to A Jiang, but he quickly stopped this idea. If A Jiang didn't survive, if he lost the spirit pearl, with the wind and waves outside, who knows how he would be killed.
He watched helplessly as Ajahn gradually lost his life. His shaking hands touched Ajahn's pale face, holding it in his hands and pressing his face against his.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry…”
At this moment, his heart was empty, as if something had died with A Jiang and ceased to exist, gradually eroding his last bit of sanity.
After a moment's silence, Chen Lian let go of A Jiang, covered his forehead and laughed out loud.
"Hahaha--"
"No one cares about me anymore!"
There is no one in this world that he cares about!
The world was not kind to him, and everyone was mean to him. Without A Jiang, what was the use of this world for him?
It would be better to destroy it completely!
He would not think of resurrecting Ajiang, because he was the one who killed Ajiang. Since he was already dead, there was no need for him to live. Now that Ajiang was dead, he had no weaknesses and his death was not in vain.
Chen Lian looked deeply at Ajiang lying on the ground. With a wave of his hand, Ajiang floated in the air. He could not use the cleansing technique, so he could only wipe the blood from the corner of Ajiang's mouth with his clothes.
He leaned closer to A Jiang, raised his hand and wiped it away bit by bit, with a smile on his face, "Don't you miss your people?"
"Don't you want to marry me?"
"Hahaha..." The corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching. He started crying again while laughing. Sometimes he laughed, sometimes he cried. His crazy appearance was even more terrifying in the moonlight. "Then wait until the day you and I get married. I will personally send them down to accompany you."
Not only that, he also wanted to destroy the world of cultivation step by step, and let those people be buried with his Ajiang. After everything was over, he would go to accompany Ajiang.
Thinking of this, he wiped the blood off Ajiang's face and took Ajiang back to the demon world, back to this deserted palace.
Because Shen Lian had a bad temper, Mo Niang didn't dare to come in to serve him, and Shen Lian didn't want them to serve him either. Usually it was A Jiang who accompanied him. Now that A Jiang was dead, he had nothing left, and he became the lonely Shen Lian again.
He placed Ajahn in a crystal coffin and lay on the lid, looking at the quiet beauty inside the coffin. Just like a few days ago, Ajahn sat there quietly, motionless, as if he was still alive.
The cold air in the hotel froze A Jiang's heart, which was not yet completely dead, and made his already pale face even paler.
Ah Jiang was not dead, but the magic breath injected by Shen Lian blocked the circulation of spiritual energy in his body, and the spiritual flow was blocked. At the moment when Shen Lian injected the magic breath, he heard a very harmonious sound, and it seemed that only he could hear it.
"A Jiang, do you want to rescue Shen Lian?"
He wanted to, of course he wanted to, he didn't want to see Shen Lian fall into such a state, he didn't want Shen Lian to become a devil, he wanted Shen Lian to come back.
"I want to, I want to save him!" A Jiang's voice echoed throughout the space. Snow was drifting around, just like the outside world, it was winter.
But the snow in this space is completely different from the snow in winter. It is not cold at all here, but warm instead. There is endless white all around, with no end in sight.
"But who are you, and why should I believe you will help me?"
"I am the Lingzhu you are talking about." Lingzhu has been sleeping for many years. Now, because of the nourishment of Yan Ru's divine blood, and when Chen Lian injected magic breath into Ajiang, the spiritual energy in Ajiang's body called to him, and he finally woke up.
"Your idea is correct. A purified mermaid pearl can indeed remove the demonic aura." Like other species, the spirit pearl has the ability to read people's minds. The moment he entered A-Jiang's body, he knew all of A-Jiang's thoughts. "However, this only treats the symptoms, not the root cause. The reason why Shen Lian has become possessed by the demon is undoubtedly caused by my other self."
"Another you?"
"It's the alien species you mentioned."
The world is divided into two paths: good and evil. Since there are spiritual beads, there must be magic beads, which are alien species.
The alien species was not created later in life, but was born with him. Heaven will not allow one side to dominate, and will create another side to balance it out.
When they were in the Demonic Abyss, the demonic energy in their environment was very strong, so he played a role in restraining the demonic energy. After leaving the Demonic Abyss, the demonic energy around them became less and less, so his power naturally weakened, and the alien species became stronger.
"Why should I trust you?"
"For now, you can only trust me. I have to help you, but he has really gone too far." The spirit pearl refers to the alien species. The alien species has always wanted freedom. He knows it, but he has no freedom either. He and the alien species share a body and cannot be separated. "The purified mermaid pearl can only suppress the evil spirit. It cannot save Shen Lian at all. If you want Shen Lian to return to his former self, the most important thing is to eliminate the alien species in his body. You can't compete with it yourself, and neither can I."
Because the alien is him, and he is also an alien, he and the alien are one and the same, and cannot be separated. This is equivalent to conjoined twins. Now, what is in this space is only his residual consciousness. When he wants to wake up, the alien will continue to suppress him and prevent him from waking up.
It just so happened that the spiritual energy in Ajahn's body attracted him, and he followed the spiritual energy into Ajahn's state of mind.
"Only if you ascend, I can take your immortal bone—"
Lingzhu didn't say anything else. He had consciousness but no body. He needed a body, and it would be best if this body was made of immortal bones, so that he could exert his strongest cultivation to fight against the other him.
He was also very clear about the deal between the alien and Jing Yinchuan. He wanted to obtain a body before the alien, but he would not force Ajiang. Everything depended on Ajiang's wishes. If Ajiang was unwilling, he still had other ways, but it would be too late by then.
"Why are you silent?" A Jiang thought Lingzhu wanted to make some conditions, so he said, "Whatever you ask for, I will satisfy it." Even if he couldn't do it, he would do it, even if he had to go through fire and water to save Chen Lian.
"I will take your immortal bones and create a body for me to suppress the alien species."
"Okay, I agree."
Losing his immortal bones wasn't a big deal, it just ruined his cultivation. His Ah Lian was safe and sound, and the clan was at peace, so whether he had any cultivation or not was unimportant.
"Remember not to rush things. When we meet again, it will be time for you to ascend."
Lingzhu wanted to transfer his spiritual energy to Ajiang, but Lingzhu's current consciousness was just a remnant, and he had not yet fully awakened. He could not transfer his original power to others through consciousness alone.
Lingzhu's voice echoed in the empty space and then disappeared.
There was only the sound of the wind, and then it became cold.
Shen Lian in the outside world was drunk. He lay on the crystal coffin and touched A Jiang through the transparent lid.
"A Jiang, do you regret coming ashore? Regret becoming my slave. If none of this had happened, you wouldn't have died." After saying this, Shen Lian muttered, taking another sip of his wine. "I regret so much, I regret meeting you."
"Why did you let me feel loved and then..."
For a moment, Chen Lian didn't know what words to use to describe what happened between him and A Jiang, so he remained silent.
He sneered, "It's really ridiculous. If I had known that this would be the outcome between you and me, I should have treated you better and made everything better."
"I should have expected this..."
"I killed you, but I still have to pretend to accompany you here. Do you think I am disgusting?"
"Hahahaha——" Chen Lian stood up and dropped the wine jar. He could no longer stand steadily, and while dropping things, his body fell to one side. His forehead hit the crystal coffin beside him, and a big bump instantly appeared on his forehead. The skin was broken, and blood was faintly oozing out.
He supported her and slowly stood up. He slammed the coffin lid and said, "Why are you still restless after you die?"
Shen Lian was angry and sad, his voice echoing in the empty demon palace. His emotions were like waves in a storm, surging and uncontrollable. His pain and self-blame turned into reproaches against Ajaan, even though he knew that Ajaan could no longer respond to him.
The blood that oozed from Shen Lian's forehead slid down his cheek, dripping onto the crystal coffin lid before slowly flowing into the coffin. His eyes were bloodshot, and the alcohol had made his consciousness less rational.
"Why don't you speak? Why do you always remain silent when I scold and hit you?" Shen Lian's voice was filled with desperate pleading. He slapped the coffin lid, "I hate the way you look. You act like a coward!"
Chen Lian went crazy and said all kinds of things against his will. His A Jiang was not a coward. A Jiang was giving in to him.
His tears welled up again, his voice began to choke, and his body trembled with the violent fluctuations of his emotions. He knelt in front of the crystal coffin, his hands hanging limply at his sides, his head lowered, and his breathing was rapid and heavy.
"I've already said that, why are you still silent, you——"
"What do you want me to do with you..."
Dead silence.
"It's better to die..."
He knelt in front of the crystal coffin, his body trembling slightly from crying. His fingers gently stroked the coffin lid, as if he could feel the remaining warmth of Ajahn.
"It's better to die..."
His eyes were dull and he kept repeating this sentence.
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