Chapter 22 This Male Lead is Really Hard to Kill (22) He was caught while trying to escape, and...
Less than half an incense stick later, three knocks came from outside the window. Fu Li touched her neck, which was covered with red marks from Shao Ye's pecking, and got up while cursing.
Qi Yue was indeed waiting outside fully armed. When Fu Li showed his head, he threw him a dark-colored ordinary immortal servant's robe.
"You change first. I've already cast a spell to put all the servants of Yaohua Palace to sleep, so no one will notice for the time being. But we still need to act quickly."
Fu Li nodded and quickly changed his clothes. However, he wasn't very familiar with this kind of deep robe, and he couldn't smooth out the collar properly, so he didn't bother with it. He followed Qi Yue and climbed onto the crane's back.
Above the thirty-third heaven, celestial mist swirled, and a crane carried two people through the mist.
Because he couldn't see anything and his consciousness was sealed, Fu Li remained tense, gripping Qi Yue's sleeve tightly with both hands. He failed to notice the young man's increasingly enigmatic and unfathomable gaze that occasionally drifted towards him.
After flying for a while, Fu Li couldn't help but ask, "Why does this bird fly so slowly? How long will it take to get there?"
Qi Yue looked away from his slightly open collar and said calmly, "It flies slowly because you're on the other end. The crane has only ever carried me before."
Fu Li whispered, "Then why don't you just come up here and let it take me directly to my destination?"
Qi Yue glanced at him and chose to remain silent.
Because of the added weight of one person, the crane did fly a little slower than usual. About half an hour later, it finally reached the territory of Hanging Moon Cliff.
Qi Yue dismissed Fu Li from the crane and followed behind him with her head bowed. A short while later, two guards approached. Seeing Qi Yue display his Yaohua Palace badge, they bowed respectfully and asked, "May I ask what brings you here, Immortal Lord?"
Qi Yue said calmly, "The storeroom of Yaohua Palace is full, and a batch of miscellaneous items were cleared out recently. The Immortal Venerable sent me to dispose of them." As he spoke, he shook the storage bag in his hand with an air of importance.
It's common practice for celestial palaces to throw their discarded items into the mortal realm. If a destined person finds these items there, it might even lead to a rare and precious celestial encounter.
The two guards immediately stepped aside to make way for the two, saying, "Since it is the Immortal Venerable's order, please go and return quickly."
Qi Yue nodded and led Fu Li toward the Worry-Free Pool.
After walking a distance, Fu Li raised his head, thoughtfully touched his chin, and sighed, "I never thought that one day I would have to borrow your face to pass the level."
Qi Yue glanced back at him and urged, "There's no time for sighs. Take this." He then handed him a bronze ritual implement shaped like a prayer wheel, with a ten-petaled lotus flower carved on the top, and the body of the wheel seemed to exude the fragrance of lotus.
"This magical artifact is called the Spirit Gathering Lotus. As long as it is in a place with spiritual energy, it can automatically absorb spiritual energy. By twisting the tube, it can shoot out attack spells forward. Although the seal in your body cannot be broken, using this to defend yourself in the lower realm should not be a problem."
This is actually a magical artifact that Qi Yue obtained after ascending to heaven, but it is the most useful for Fu Li at present. It seems that it was specially selected for him.
As Qi Yue explained, he couldn't help but glance at Fu Li.
Seeing how much he was helping her, Fu Li finally straightened her posture and said to Qi Yue with a serious and solemn expression:
"Thank you. If I have the chance, I will definitely repay your kindness today. In the name of the Demon Lord, I swear this oath!"
Upon hearing this, she noticed the man's ears were flushed red. "Then can you repay me a little right now?"
Fu Li was stunned: "What?"
"I have nothing now, and I haven't even made a comeback yet. How can I repay you?"
Qi Yue's ears turned even redder, and she looked at him awkwardly, as if embarrassed but unwilling to look away.
"Can I... lick it?" he asked cautiously, his eyes fixed intently on the rosy, fair skin beneath Fu Li's loose-fitting shirt, which he had been coveting for a long time.
Fu Li noticed his gaze, her expression changed drastically, and she jumped aside.
He snapped angrily, as if he'd been harassed by a thug, "Do you even know what you're saying?!"
Qi Yue's Adam's apple bobbed as he gazed at the young man's smooth, delicate skin beneath his collar, which opened and closed with his large movements, bearing faint traces like decaying red plum blossoms—a sight that would captivate even in a dream.
Seeing that Fu Li was unwilling, he had no choice but to settle for second best.
"Then let me lick your hand, just once, okay?"
Fu Li slapped him across the face as she pleased, as if to wake him up, and yelled, "Are you crazy?!"
After being hit, Qi Yue could only suppress her emotions, covering her face with a wronged expression and whispering, "You were the one who seduced me first..."
Fu Li was even angrier: "Who the hell seduced you! Explain yourself!"
In the end, this incident passed. Qi Yue gently touched the slap mark on his cheek with his fingers, and led Fu Li to the edge of a pool shrouded in mist. He pointed to a place where the water was not clearly visible and said, "This is the Pool of No Worries. If you jump in from here, you can reach the lower realm."
"Take the things I gave you and don't lose them." He stared intently at Fu Li for a moment, then shoved him down.
Before Fu Li could even feel herself falling, she felt herself stepping on the ground, and nothing had happened.
He stood there blankly in the pool, intending to ask if he needed to take a few more steps, but then he saw Qi Yue's expression change:
"Oh no! He knows..."
Before he could finish explaining what he knew, a powerful pressure descended from the sky, as forceful as thunder and as powerful as the rules of nature. This caused the people of Suspended Moon Cliff to involuntarily bend their knees and kneel on the ground, trembling as if awaiting divine punishment.
Qi Yue also knelt on the ground, his face extremely pale. What worried him more was not his own situation, but the person in the Pool of No Worries—
"I have followed you all this way, just to see where Immortal Lord Qi intends to take my wife."
A clear, melodious voice rang out, crushing the last shred of hope in the hearts of those present.
Fu Li was the only one who was not affected by the pressure and could still stand, but because he had no cultivation to protect him, the sharp aura that seemed to be able to pierce through the air made him extremely uncomfortable. His throat felt like it was being choked, and he could only gasp for breath.
His eyes were dark as he stared at the white-robed immortal who was walking through the air not far away. His heart was pounding like a drum. His attempt to escape had been exposed. Given Shao Ye's crazy nature, he probably wouldn't let him go today.
Shao Ye walked over with light, slow steps. He didn't even glance at the person kneeling on the ground as he passed by Qi Yue. He raised his wide sleeves, and in an instant, before Fu Li could even see clearly, the young man who had been slapped and told to leave half an incense stick ago and was now alive turned into dust and scattered in the air.
Fu Li's heart skipped a beat, and she couldn't quite describe her current emotions.
He opened his eyes wide and watched as Shao Ye walked step by step into the Worry-Free Pool, extending a slender, jade-like hand towards him.
"Ah Li, is it fun outside? It's time to come back with me."
Shao Ye smiled, but Fu Li knew that he only referred to himself as "the real one" when he was extremely angry or in the throes of passion in bed, and the current situation was definitely not the latter.
Fu Li's body stiffened, unable to take a single step, and she was unwilling to accept the man's outstretched hand.
He said dryly, "Wu Feng, let it go. I did go too far in the past, but you've retaliated for everything, haven't you? I don't want to dwell on those grudges anymore. You should let me go too, consider it letting go of the past, and just be a good Immortal Venerable. Isn't that better?"
This was the first time Fu Li had shown weakness in the name of the Demon Lord.
But whether it was the long-lost address he used or some other word that provoked Shao Ye, the man's eyes instantly turned cold and terrifying, as if brewing a chaotic storm.
"Good? Ha! Feng Fuli, you really are something else! Do you think that all the time I brought you back to the Yan Sect, brought you to the Heavenly Realm, and prepared to marry you was just for revenge?!" As he spoke, a sinister dark light flashed in his eyes, as if he was about to devour Fuli alive at any moment.
Fu Li couldn't help but want to back away, but his body wouldn't obey him. He watched helplessly as the man drew closer and closer, finally pulling him into an embrace that was both icy cold and burning hot.
The system whispered in his mind, reminding him not to anger the male lead, but Fu Li still stuck to his bottom line, speaking in a trembling voice:
"I don't want to marry you! I don't want to marry a man!"
These words became the final spark that ignited the explosive. Fu Li felt a blur before his eyes and was back in the inner hall of Yaohua Palace in the blink of an eye.
After a dizzying moment, he was pressed back onto the bed by the man, and before him stood Shao Ye's cold and stern face, burning with raging anger.
"You don't want to marry me? Then who do you want to be with?! That demon queen from the mortal realm?! Do you even know you want to preserve her purity and status for her? Do you really think she loves you the way you love her?!"
His words were like a tongue twister, leaving Fu Li completely bewildered.
If Shao Ye hadn't mentioned it, he wouldn't have remembered that he had once married a demon queen in the mortal realm.
However, the man's next words were:
"Ah Li probably doesn't know, but I once gave the Demon Queen a choice: stay in the cultivation world to protect the Demon Realm for you, or come with me to the Upper Realm. Do you know that she chose the latter without hesitation, caring neither about your life or death nor about what you left behind? Is this the kind of person you want to marry?!"
Fu Li was stunned for a moment, then finally remembered---
"The rose of Sharon in the Spirit Field---"
“Yes.” Shao Ye revealed a terrifying smile. “That rose of Sharon was none other than Your Majesty’s former Demon Queen.”
Fu Li couldn't help but think of the barrier surrounding the flowering tree that isolated all immortal spiritual energy. It not only prevented people from cultivating, but also forced her to watch as other flowers and plants in the spiritual field cultivated into immortals amidst abundant immortal energy. It was really too cruel!
He was about to complain about Shao Ye's cruelty when a blindfold was suddenly pulled over his head. He then felt as if he couldn't speak.
A tender kiss landed on her brow, and the man's husky voice reached her ear---
"All these years have passed, yet Ali has never understood my true feelings. How can I not resent her!"
"Ah Li, don't blame me. I'm just too afraid of losing you. Only by keeping you by my side and making sure you never dare to leave again can I feel at ease."
"Ah Li made a big mistake today, so bear with her for a while."
"......"
"I love you, Ali."
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