Chapter 164 Slap "It was you, Jiang Yuhuo, who turned me into this!"
Jiang Yuhuo was sleeping soundly, her dreams were peaceful and uneventful.
But later she felt hot, hotter and hotter, as if something was binding her, as if she were trapped.
In the middle of the night, Jiang Yuhuo suddenly woke up and felt a warm, damp sensation on her neck.
Someone is licking her neck!
This realization startled her so much that she sat up abruptly in bed.
Wasn't she with her senior brother? How could this be?
Fear flashed through her mind first, and then she saw the people around her clearly.
It was Li Mengbai; she was lying on Li Mengbai's bed.
In the dim candlelight, Li Mengbai's face was flushed from the heat of her body, and his eyes were beautiful and hazy. He got up and came over to kiss her.
"You're awake? It's still early, go back to sleep for a while."
Jiang Yuhuo pushed him away.
"How did I get here? Where is my senior brother?"
Li Mengbai ignored her resistance, leaned over, and encircled her again. "He saw you were drunk, so he brought you back." He pressed her hand down, pulling her against the layers of brocade and soft fabric. "I'm so sleepy, shall we sleep a little longer?"
"You go to sleep, I'm not going to sleep."
She pushed away the person pressing down on her, turned over, and was about to get out of bed. She no longer wanted to cooperate with Li Mengbai's intimate actions, even though they were still engaged by contract.
Suddenly, my hand was grabbed by another hand.
Where are you going?
Are you going to look for someone else again?
Li Mengbai's voice was so gloomy it seemed to drip water, a stark contrast to his previous languid and soft tone; he was practically a different person.
Jiang Yuhuo looked up; he had turned his face away, and there was no sign of sleepiness in his eyes.
That's true. He'd been unconscious for so long, he must have already slept enough. His so-called sleepiness was just another lie that Li Mengbai made up on the spot.
Sometimes his lies were so convincing that Jiang Yuhuo couldn't tell the difference. After all, he could promise her under the osmanthus tree that he would never lie to her again, while simultaneously sending people to kill fellow cultivators behind her back.
"Let go!"
"I won't let go!"
"Jiang Yuhuo, you're mine! We're engaged, why are you going to find someone else?" Li Mengbai suddenly became fierce, gripping her wrist tightly and pulling her back to him, his eyes slightly bloodshot. "What did you say in the marriage contract? You held my hand and said, 'We'll walk together through heaven and earth, never abandoning each other in life and death,' have you forgotten all that?!"
"How could you leave me...and go to the banquet with him? I am your husband! I am the only one who should sit next to you!"
He reverted to his old self, his once shimmering eyes now sharp, revealing a ruthlessness and hatred forged from his gentleness, radiating a fierce aura.
Jiang Yuhuo hadn't seen him like this in a long time. Whenever they met again in Xidu City, Li Mengbai was always all smiles.
Now, he finally couldn't keep up the act anymore.
She sneered, "I remember, I remember you saying that you would never lie to me again, and you would never scheme against me again. But what did you do? You immediately went to kill those people behind my back. How many times have I told you not to hurt the people around me? Have you ever remembered?"
Li Mengbai understood that she was referring to the group of demon-slaying cultivators. Wen Yizhan's arrival had caught him off guard, making him almost forget about that bitch.
"Ha, the people around you. Do you think I can't see it? That bitch is here to seduce you. I want to tear him to pieces. Why should I tolerate him!"
Enraged, Jiang Yuhuo took a deep breath and asked in a low voice, "Just because of this, you want to kill him and other innocent people? What did they do wrong?"
"Then what did I do wrong?!"
After a low shout, Li Mengbai looked up at Jiang Yuhuo's angry face. He suddenly laughed, reached out a hand to gently stroke her face, and gazed at her with infatuation.
He asked himself and answered, "My mistake was falling in love with you, loving you so much that I couldn't stand anyone coveting you. I can't bear to see those people looking at you, those despicable things. You're already mine, yet they still try to seduce you. Anyone who seduces you deserves to die!"
"It was you, Jiang Yuhuo, who turned me into this!"
With a crisp "slap," the night fell silent once more.
Jiang Yuhuo looked at the figure that had been knocked to the side, "Don't try to justify your sins by claiming you love me." She took a deep breath, her voice calm after suppressing her emotions, "Li Mengbai, if this is how you love someone, then don't love me."
"It's unfortunate to be loved by you like this."
Li Mengbai was speechless for a long time. Suddenly, thousands of poisonous needles pierced through his spiritual sea, spreading from the initial corner to the entire spiritual sea in an instant. The pain was even greater than when he was punished yesterday, so intense that he felt like he was going to faint. He could no longer feel the burning sensation on his face, only the paleness brought on by the pain. But even so, he still gripped Jiang Yuhuo's hand tightly.
Jiang Yuhu used her strength to pry his knuckles open. Just as she was about to get up and leave, she was covered from behind again. Li Mengbai held her waist tightly and wouldn't let go. His face was pressed tightly against her arm as he gasped for breath and made a difficult sound, "I'm sorry... I was wrong."
He spoke haltingly, interspersed with painful groans.
"I'll change, uh..."
Jiang Yuhuo remained unmoved. He was always cunning and good at acting, and she no longer believed him, even though he seemed to be in great pain.
But the warm tears fell on the back of her hand, wetting a small patch.
She could see the tears streaming down his face as she looked down.
"It hurts... Fishing Light, my head hurts."
Jiang Yuhuo recalled what the old medicine man had said, that his spiritual sea had been restrained and that he could not have any major emotional fluctuations and needed to rest quietly for seven days.
This isn't just too big, it's extreme.
A warm, dry hand covered Li Mengbai's forehead, carrying equally dry spiritual energy, which flowed into his spiritual sea. Thanks to the Jia Yue Mermaid Pearl, her spiritual energy now also possessed healing power.
Li Mengbai lay in her arms, gradually feeling the pain subside. He couldn't help but press her hand down, making her palm completely press down without leaving any gap.
Thinking of Jia Yue, Jiang Yuhuo felt somewhat fortunate that he had left before her banquet, thus avoiding hearing Li Mengbai's insults and slander.
With just a glance, Li Mengbai was ready to kill. If she knew about her near-kissing encounter with Jia Yue, she couldn't imagine what else Li Mengbai might do.
Li Mengbai's groans of pain gradually subsided. Jiang Yuhuo felt that he should be alright now, otherwise she wouldn't have put the hand that had been healing him to her lips and kissed each of his fingers.
"The old medicine doctor said that your spiritual sea was restrained by the patriarch's order. Why did the patriarch punish you like this?"
Li Mengbai bit her thumb, slowly opened her eyes, still flushed from crying, and gave a self-deprecating smile, "If I said it was because of you, would you believe me?"
Jiang Yuhu remained silent; of course, she didn't believe it.
"See, you don't believe me, what's the point of me saying anything?" He forced a smile, looked up at Jiang Yuhuo, tears sliding from the corners of his eyes into his temples. He looked like an extremely fragile and beautiful object, which could be manipulated at will.
But Jiang Yuhuo knew it was all an illusion, so she looked away and said, "If you don't want to talk about it, then forget it."
Li Mengbai turned his head and buried his face in her waist, his voice muffled, "Actually, the reason doesn't matter. He can punish me anytime. No matter what I do, he's never satisfied."
There was a slight dampness around her waist. Jiang Yuhuo recalled the stories her senior brother had told her; such a person probably wasn't much better to Li Mengbai's birth mother.
Li Mengbai silently slipped his hand between Jiang Yuhuo's fingers, and two interlocking lines suddenly lit up, illuminating his almost manic face as he kissed her fingers.
"It doesn't matter that they don't like me. Now I have you, as long as you like me, that's enough. I only like you, don't leave me, as long as you're by my side..."
He slowly moved her hand to his neck, letting her hand rest on it, as if putting a collar on himself, with the collar's rope held in Jiang Yuhuo's hand.
"Give me a little love. Jiang Yuhuo, just give me a little love and I will always listen to you, forever..."
*
The snow-capped peak of Tianque Mountain, the Hall of Prayer for Spirits.
Of the seven elders, all but Elder Xingxuan were seated on round thrones.
"Master, the reason I summoned you here is because a disciple discovered this at the foot of the mountain." Elder Xueming, the head disciple, glanced behind him, and a white-robed disciple stepped forward with a tray. "You saw the Heavenly Pillar Marrow at the Grandmaster's place before. See if this is the one?"
Jia Yue picked up an extremely fine fragment from the tray. It was as clear and transparent as glass, but upon closer inspection, one could see that it contained flowing multicolored light. He infused it with a little spiritual power and recited the incantation that Situ Xin had taught him. Instantly, a surge of spiritual power rushed into his spiritual sea. Its power was so vast and profound that it could not be forged by the spiritual energy of the world today. It was the power of the ancient primordial era.
Although it was much smaller, Jia Yue was certain that it was the essence of the Heavenly Pillar, but wasn't it destroyed in the Spirit-Sealing Array?
He remained calm, his gaze sweeping over the object. "Where did this disciple obtain this item?"
Elder Xueming frowned. "It's in Moyu River."
Another elder took over the conversation. The disciple they found was his subordinate, and he was more familiar with the situation than the other elders.
"The day the Demon-Sealing Seal was destroyed, there was a tremor throughout the Immortal Sect, and the Heavenly Palace also sent disciples to investigate. The Demon-Sealing Seal was destroyed by the people of Kunlun, and they did not search carefully. The other aristocratic families only knew that the sealed demons had all been annihilated, and they had no intention of keeping them. But the existence of the Demon-Sealing Seal had its reasons. Its sudden destruction might cause changes in the world, so I asked my disciples to pay close attention. Sure enough, he found this thing at the bottom of the river."
At the bottom of the Moyu River... Jia Yue recalled the person who was on the verge of death in the river that night.
Could she have taken it?
Elder Xueming said, "Several elders and I have tried it, and this is not an ordinary fragment of the Heavenly Pillar, so we came to ask you to take a look. If it really is..." He narrowed his eyes, "the essence of the Heavenly Pillar may not be just one piece."
No, she said she entered the formation to retrieve the Earth Flame Vine. Even if Situ Xin's Heavenly Pillar Essence was indeed taken by someone else, it was Li Mengbai who took it.
Jia Yue quickly formulated a plan in her mind.
He changed his spell, and the glass shard in his hand immediately emitted a five-colored light. To everyone's astonishment, he flicked his finger, and the glass shard fell back into the tray.
"It is undoubtedly the marrow of the Heavenly Pillar."
The elders were overjoyed, "That means there must be other pillar marrow in the world."
"That's right, the four pillars of heaven should also have four marrow bodies."
"If that's the case, then there's still a chance."
Amidst the commotion, Jia Yue suddenly said in a deep voice, "But I suddenly remembered something else."
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