"Monk."
Just as Shi Chan was feeling worried, he heard Liu Li call out softly. Her voice was very low and faint, and it was impossible to tell what her emotions were.
Shi Chan turned his head and saw that his hand was still tightly holding Liu Li's slender arm, so he quickly let go.
Liuli did not turn to look at him. Shichan looked at her profile but could not discern any emotion from her face.
After a moment of silence, Shi Chan asked with a smile, "What's wrong, young lady?"
Liuli still didn't turn to look at Shichan, but asked in a low voice, "When my Nine-Tailed Fox clan was wiped out, were you involved?"
Shi Chan straightened his face and solemnly said, "I was completely unaware of what happened on Fox Plain. If I had known beforehand, I would have done everything in my power to stop it."
Hearing Shi Chan's solemn words, Liuli's heart suddenly relaxed.
Even if she could forgive the hatred for being accidentally killed by Shi Chan, she could not forgive the tragedy on Fox Plain. If Shi Chan really participated in that cruel massacre, then even if she loved him, she had to kill him to be worthy of the innocent lives on Fox Plain.
Fortunately, the blood feud on Fox Plain had nothing to do with him.
"Okay." Liuli turned to look at Shichan, then smiled gently, tilted her head, and said softly, "I believe you."
The three words "I believe in you" struck his ears and resonated in his heart, causing Shi Chan to feel a moment of dizziness. Time seemed to return to that dense forest many years ago, when he first descended the mountain, his heart filled with the grand ambition of eliminating demons and monsters, saving suffering people, and emptying hell.
He, still a young boy, told her about his grand ambitions, and she smiled and said, "Little monk, I believe in you!"
"I believe you can do it!"
Shi Chan was stunned. At this moment, his eyes were only on her figure and her gentle smile, and there was no Buddha or anything else.
What is the meaning of ten thousand years of cultivation, or the salvation of all sentient beings...? None of these can compare to the smile on her lips.
Liuli turned her gaze away from Shichan's face and looked up at the sky. She saw that lightning was gathering above Shichan's head and was about to strike.
Liuli pursed her lips, and a flash of light appeared on her storage ring. She tossed out a black bead. The bead was about the size of an infant's fist, completely black, with black demonic energy surging within it, appearing so dense that it seemed about to overflow.
This bead is called the Spirit Demon Bead, and its grade is high. The Spirit Demon Bead has no offensive power; it has only one function: to rapidly absorb the spiritual energy within a ten-mile radius into the bead and then convert it into pure demonic energy for Liuli's cultivation.
The spiritual energy in the Demon Realm is scarce, and since all demons cultivate, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is divided among so many people, making it even more insufficient. Without the Spirit Demon Pearl, cultivation will naturally be slow.
Liuli threw the Spirit Demon Pearl above Shichan's head and chanted an incantation to activate it. The pearl began to spin rapidly. Then, all the demonic power in the thunderclouds was absorbed by the Spirit Demon Pearl. With the pearl as the center, a circular gap with a diameter of about ten feet gradually appeared in the sky.
Liuli recalled the Spirit Demon Pearl, turned to Shichan and said, "Monk, hurry up and go out."
"girl……"
Only then did Shi Chan come to his senses. He looked at Liuli with unusual tenderness, almost blurting out a sentence that had been echoing in his heart countless times:
"Liuli, I love you. I'm willing to return to secular life for you. Let's go together..."
Fortunately, in the next moment, he remembered the demonic tribulation that had not yet been overcome and the suffering beings, and he abruptly stopped this impulse.
"Monk, hurry!" Liuli looked up and saw the gap in the sky closing in, and her brows furrowed. The Spirit Demon Pearl couldn't absorb much spiritual energy at a time, and this time it had absorbed pure demonic energy. By the time Liuli had used up all the demonic energy within it, she would be unable to absorb any more spiritual or demonic energy. If Shichan didn't leave after the gap closed, Liuli would be in trouble.
Shi Chan seemed to still be hesitating, so Liu Li stomped her foot, grabbed his arm, and flew straight into the sky with him.
“Miss Liuli…” Shi Chan shook his head helplessly, letting Liuli pull him up and fly away. They soon arrived at the gap.
The gap closed quickly, leaving only enough room for three people to walk side by side. Liuli grabbed Shichan and flew out, then released his hand, glanced at him briefly, and plummeted down, landing just as the gap melted away.
Shi Chan looked down as Liu Li's figure disappeared before his eyes, feeling a deep sense of loss.
At that time, thunderclouds filled the middle part of the demon array. Shi Chan was floating above the thunderclouds. There were still stone pillars standing around him, but there was no more demonic energy blocking him above.
Shi Chan paused for a while, his body moving as if he was about to descend back into the demon array, but he quickly stopped. After hesitating for a long time, he shook his head and flew upwards away from the demon array.
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