Chapter 72 Never Believed in Me
Li Yuanying originally had to worry about how she would protect the demon pill if she met Qilang on a narrow road, but unexpectedly, she was imprisoned in a barrier by Prince Fu by mistake, which saved her a lot of trouble.
Li Yuanying said to the Crown Prince, "The Imperial Master has disguised himself as me to lure Qilang away, lest he find us and cause further trouble. So, for now, you and I are safe. When daybreak approaches, I will go to the Great Seal in the city center. Meanwhile, all I need you to do is find Imperial Master Fuyu and have him come see me."
The prince shook his head somewhat unconfidently: "I can't do it."
"It's simple. Just tell him that I ran away and take him to the Dayin Center to find me." Li Yuanying instructed.
The prince was a little confused.
Li Yuanying just smiled calmly: "Just do as I say."
The night became long.
As long as the Sky Chain is recast tomorrow, all this will be over.
Li Yuanying leaned on the bed, and the prince sat opposite her. She and Qilang once sat face to face like this. His gentle kiss seemed a little distant.
The warmth of Mount Buzhou seems to have happened just yesterday, yet it also seems to have disappeared long ago.
That kind of happiness became unreal, like the unknown morning of tomorrow. She was looking forward to it, but also afraid of its arrival.
"Wanwan, you are the hope of the Li family and the hope of the Dagan Dynasty." Li Zhongdao once said this to himself.
She persisted in this sentence for fifteen years.
Study the techniques and endure sufferings that ordinary people cannot endure.
The cold attacks, causing pain that is unbearable for ordinary people.
"Wanwan, remember, when the deadline comes, it is time for you to get the Polar Cold Lotus. After getting the cold lotus, you can forge the Heavenly Chain." Li Zhongdao once said this.
She kept in mind everything her father said.
"I've already sacrificed you, so I can't sacrifice Yuan Xi anymore."
That day, when Li Yuanying questioned Li Zhongdao why he didn't allow Li Yuanxi to learn magic and only let her learn it, her father answered so dejectedly.
Since when, her relationship with her father has become worse and worse. In the end, she became more and more powerful, and her father became more and more afraid of her.
She became the real master of the Li family.
Father, after tomorrow, I will have completed all the missions you wanted me to accomplish.
Li Yuanying said in her heart.
My fate with the Li family ends here. I hope we will have no connection in the next life.
She looked out the window at the bright moon, recalling the fifteenth day of the lunar month she had spent with her mother. If she had been born in peacetime and were an ordinary woman, she would probably be at home learning needlework, occasionally reading some leisurely books, or practicing swordplay and horseback riding with her brothers. Her life would have been very carefree.
However, these assumptions do not exist.
Just when Li Yuanying was lost in thought, she suddenly heard a loud noise. The light from the bright moon changed slightly, and she became nervous.
The barrier was broken.
"Prince, something is coming." Li Yuanying said in a low voice.
Suddenly, a black figure flew into the house from the window. Li Yuanying looked closely and saw that it was a dark-skinned monster with a bulging front mouth and a mouth full of fangs.
"Monster! Monster!!" The prince was so frightened that his face turned pale. He rolled and crawled to hide behind Li Yuanying.
A puff of white smoke came out of the monster's mouth, and it stared at Li Yuanying with a ferocious expression.
Li Yuanying felt that the clothes on the monster looked very familiar. There was a python embroidered on the cuffs of the black clothes, which seemed to be the symbol of the Shouming Guard.
"Senior Brother?" Li Yuanying tried to call out.
A low growl came from the monster's mouth, as if responding to Li Yuanying's words.
"It's really you! Senior brother!" Li Yuanying was surprised and happy, but when she saw her senior brother's expression, she became worried again.
"Senior Brother, I heard from Fifteen. I didn't expect that when I was not around, you would actually - it's my fault that I didn't take good care of you." Li Yuanying felt a little guilty. If they had been more careful when they went to Candi Village, if she could have found Fifteen earlier, perhaps Senior Brother would not have become like this.
Zhang Qingchen didn't say anything. He walked to Li Yuanying's side and used his sharp nails to cut the rope tied to Li Yuanying.
He uttered a few simple syllables from his throat, low and unclear.
Li Yuanying didn't understand at first, but when she listened carefully again, she realized that Zhang Qingchen had said, "The formation is broken."
Li Yuanying was shocked: "The formation was broken? Who did it?"
Zhang Qingchen wrote the word "seven" on Li Yuanying's palm.
It turned out to be him.
He knew what he wanted to do.
No, he might not be clear about it. He just felt that this formation must have other uses. Since he couldn't find himself, he would break her formation first.
"The formation must be set up before dawn." Li Yuanying frowned.
Zhang Qingchen continued to write on Li Yuanying's palm: "What are you going to do?"
"Brother, I need to recast the Heavenly Chain. Only by recasting the Heavenly Chain can order be restored to the Three Realms. If you want to recast the Heavenly Chain, you must restore the Yuanming Great Seal, and then use the demon pill in my hand to activate the formation before you can recast it."
Zhang Qingchen pointed to his heart and then pointed at Li Yuanying.
Li Yuanying held Zhang Qingchen's hand: "Brother, I know you are willing to help me."
Zhang Qingchen nodded.
"Brother, listen to me. If Qilang finds me, we won't be able to defeat him. He will definitely take the demon pill from me. So—" Li Yuanying concentrated her energy into her dantian, took out the demon pill from her body, and handed it to Zhang Qingchen. "Brother, you take the demon pill and hide it. I'll go hold Qilang back. Before sunrise tomorrow morning, you must bring the demon pill to the Great Seal Center. I'll be waiting for you."
Zhang Qingchen shook his head and pointed at Li Yuanying anxiously.
"Don't worry about me. He can't do anything to me. I have the leverage over him," Li Yuanying said. Although she knew Qilang's real name and could control him, the longer she controlled him, the more damage Qilang's spirit would suffer, ultimately leading to his death by vomiting blood.
So, after trying it out of necessity last time, she didn't dare to use it easily this time.
"Hurry up, senior brother. After you break the barrier, he will find this place soon." Li Yuanying urged.
Zhang Qingchen took the demon pill hesitantly and then stood up.
"Brother, I must go and restore the Great Seal. Remember to deliver the demon pill to the Great Seal Center before dawn, otherwise all my plans will be in vain."
Zhang Qingchen looked at Li Yuanying and nodded vigorously.
Then he disappeared into the night.
"Prince, remember, your mission is to make sure he comes to the Great Seal Center to find me. Do you understand?"
Prince Fu was frightened to death by Zhang Qingchen and he still hadn't recovered. He nodded woodenly.
Afterwards, Li Yuanying rushed to the seal in the city center without stopping. She needed to repair it before dawn.
When Li Yuanying arrived, she found that the Gu family and Qilang's soldiers had been fighting for several rounds. Half of the seal had been destroyed, and the Gu family was holding on to the other half. She looked around but didn't see Fu Yu Guoshi.
A man in black stood on a rooftop not far away, looking at the battlefield with an indifferent expression, seemingly nonchalant. Only when he saw Li Yuanying did his face change slightly.
The young man jumped off the roof, landed steadily on the ground, and walked towards Li Yuanying with an expressionless face.
The flying stones and sharp knives from the fight between the Gu family and the Fuxi soldiers flew past the young man, but did not disturb his composure at all.
Qilang's cold and handsome face became clearer and clearer until he was only a few meters away from Li Yuanying.
Qilang stopped and said calmly, "Madam, you finally showed up. Why did you dodge just now?"
Li Yuanying guessed that it might be Master Fu Yu who pretended to be herself and lured Qilang and the Gu family into a fight.
"I have nothing to be ashamed of, so why would I hide?"
"Really?" Qilang said quietly, "It really feels like three years since I last saw you apart from my wife. I just wonder what your wife feels."
"Of course I miss you so much. As the saying goes, if you keep thinking about someone, there will be a response. My husband, you are finally here." Li Yuanying did not show any weakness.
"Madam, do you still want to control your husband this time?" Qilang said this with an unhappy tone.
"The variety is different every day, how can it be so boring?" Li Yuanying answered the question with a question.
Qilang snorted, his expression stiff.
"Madam, when will you return the things you took from me?"
"What is that?" Li Yuanying pretended not to understand.
"Madam, are you so forgetful? You took something that belonged to my mother the day before, but you deny it today?"
"Oh, I lost it."
"You!" Qilang was furious. He didn't expect this man to be so shameless, but he did not feel the breath of the demon pill on Li Yuanying.
Qilang adjusted his mood and asked: "Where did you hide it?"
“I never hid it.”
"What are you going to do with it? Why are you building this strange seal?"
Li Yuanying looked at Qilang's face. She felt that this was not the time to quarrel, but she had no other choice.
It’s such a pity that the last time I spent with him was so tense.
"I'm sorry for you." Li Yuanying suddenly said this.
Qilang was stunned. He didn't expect Li Yuanying to suddenly apologize.
"You miss your deceased mother so much and just want her soul to rest in peace, but I have disturbed her again. I am sorry for you." Li Yuanying added.
"Since you know this, why don't you return the demon pill to me?"
"But I also have my own way to go." Li Yuanying said word by word.
Qilang didn't say anything, he just looked at Li Yuanying with a faint expression.
It seemed as if there was a rubber band between the two of them that was about to break. Li Yuanying knew that this was a tug-of-war that would end in losses for both sides.
There is no right or wrong between the two of them, only opposition.
No matter which side the scales of fate tilt towards, it will cause great harm to the other side.
"I shouldn't have had a deeper relationship with you in the first place." Li Yuanying broke the silence between the two.
If they had no feelings for each other from the beginning, perhaps they would not be so miserable today.
When Qilang heard this, his calm expression suddenly changed, and a trace of anger emerged: "What did you say?"
He seemed to have put a lot of effort into asking this question.
"If I had known this would happen, I would have been harsher on you, leaving you with only hatred in your heart. Now - and in the future, you should feel better." Li Yuanying said.
The anger on Qilang's face slowly turned into sadness. He looked at Li Yuanying intently, like a wounded animal. "Do you know how important a real name is to Xie?"
Li Yuanying didn't expect him to ask this. She looked at Qilang in confusion.
"I told you my real name. Do you know how much I trust you?"
Li Yuanying understood it all, but she didn't know how to answer.
"So, you would rather nothing had ever happened between us, and you never thought about telling me what you wanted to do, right? Because you never believed me, you never thought that I might support you and help you."
Qilang became more and more excited as he spoke. He took a deep breath and said, "Have you never thought about trusting me—even just once?"
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