Chapter 61
It is known that the "Demon-Falling Order" is a powerful weapon against demons and is the natural nemesis of the demon clan. The male protagonist is half human and half demon. No matter how powerful the seal on the male protagonist is, it will not allow a dignified immortal weapon to flatter him so openly.
Jiang Wan's expression was serious, and his entire body seemed to have fallen into an ice cellar.
Eliminate all impossibilities, and whatever remains, even if it is no longer possible, is the truth...
Thinking of that possibility, Jiang Wan's eyes suddenly became empty.
My brain is frozen...
Seeing such an emotionless look, Lin Xubai's heart tightened. He had never expected that his identity would be revealed so dramatically.
Just as he didn't care about Jiang Wan's identity, he didn't care about the identities of Xingxuan Immortal Venerable in the world of immortal cultivation and Tianshu Patriarch of Guiyuan Sect.
She is just Jiang Wan, and he is just Lin Xubai.
Born neither human, demon nor immortal, he was incompatible with the world of immortal cultivation. Knowing that he was an alien since childhood, he had to disguise himself with a gentle smile and treat everyone with an elegant attitude.
Who knows that when he heard Jiang Wan's words, "You must have experienced so much grievance to have such a good temper," his heart suddenly stopped beating at that moment. Countless inexplicable sorrows surged up as if breaking through the ice, but were completely dispelled by the sweet warmth. His heart was burning, and he savored it over and over again.
He could have ascended and left this world long ago, but because of his father, the man who raised him, he cut off this path and was forced to stay in Guiyuan Sect and become the patron saint of the sect and even the world.
Everyone says that he is the strongest in the immortal sect... Lin Xubai laughed at himself in his heart, because in fact he is just a tool.
He didn't understand why the swordsman gave up his promising future for the sake of the Heavenly Demon Girl, nor did he understand what other people meant by "like" and "love"...
Now that he had experienced it himself, he finally understood why the swordsman at that time made such a choice, and he also had a concrete feeling for the beauty of the world that the man had described.
"So, this is what love is..."
Although Lin Xubai was worried about his true identity being suddenly exposed, he also believed in Jiang Wan's friendship for him. Besides, Jiang Wan was not a person who cared much about identity, so he was not too worried that the relationship between them would be affected by this truth.
The main reason he was worried was... now that she knew, would she think he was too old or something...
Lin Xubai hadn't forgotten Jiang Wan's previous comments about 'Xingxuan Immortal Venerable is an old man'. Although he hadn't mentioned it since returning from the Demon Realm, his age and seniority were indeed quite high...
Jiang Wan didn't feel Lin Xubai's uneasiness at all. Jiang Wan pressed hard on his solar plexus and took a deep breath, "You...Xing, Xuan, Xianzun?!"
"...Um..." Lin Xubai nodded cautiously.
"This!" Jiang Wan pointed at the red-glowing token still floating in the air. "Is it yours?"
"...Hmm..." Lin Xubai looked in the direction of Jiang Wan's finger, his eyes instantly cold, "Ah... Wan doesn't like it... The Demon-Falling Order was given to Guiyuan Sect years ago, but it's no longer there..."
He hasn't forgotten who was the culprit who caused his identity to be exposed unexpectedly today.
"Five years ago, you were the one who fought the Demon Lord in the Endless Sea?"
"Hmm..." Lin Xubai immediately retracted his gaze, looking at Jiang Wan with tenderness, "When the succubus took you away, I was so desperate that I... ventured into the Endless Sea."
"Wait a minute? Who was your friend at that time? If I remember correctly, he seemed to be a demon cultivator..."
"Ah...it's Lou Zang, but people usually call him Sha Mo."
Jiang Wan: ...Please don't say such informative words in such a nonchalant tone!
Your private friend, a great immortal cultivator, is actually a demon cultivator... and one of the Five Demon Lords. Is this acceptable to tell others?
During the Immortal Sect Competition, Zhao Yu framed her for colluding with the demon cultivators and being an undercover agent of the demon clan just because she made friends with the demon cultivators!
"Wait!" Jiang Wan's eyes widened, suddenly realizing the source of all this. "Then on the day I joined, I asked if Hei Leng was yours. Why did you lie to me?"
Besides, Guiyuan Sect has a good entrance trial, why are you, a retired immortal, joining in the fun?
"Ah..." Lin Xubai was stunned for a moment, then scratched his nose, lowered his eyes slightly, and blinked innocently, "At that time, you pulled me out from under the tree without saying anything. I saw how anxious you were, and I also recognized that black ridge. This... can't be considered a lie, right..."
He didn't dare to say it at that time. It was just because Jiang Wan asked that. He saw that it was something from the demon clan, so he answered that way.
Jiang Wan:!!!
She was so angry that she laughed.
So... you're just being kind enough to help me, right?
"Then what I told you later about those situations... about family... you..."
"Those are all true. I didn't lie to you!" Lin Xubai interrupted, continuing to act pitiful. "It's just that those things happened when I was still young and hadn't yet entered the Mahayana stage."
Jiang Wan looked coldly: ...
What has she done over the years?
She cuts off the male protagonist's romantic interests, sticks to him all the time, and sends him clothes, pills, and spiritual weapons under the pretext of caring for the younger generation; she digs up all kinds of negative information in Guiyuan Sect to instill in the male protagonist the idea that righteous monks are heartless and disloyal, and tries to subtly brainwash the male protagonist into abandoning immortality and cultivating magic, and promotes the magic path with selfish motives, persuading the male protagonist to join their harmonious and friendly demon family to jointly create a beautiful and high-quality demon life.
Jiang Wan replaced the word "male protagonist" with "Xingxuan Immortal Venerable" and she felt terrible. Who is she and what is she doing...
I won't talk about peach blossoms, I don't have them anyway...
So what has she been doing all this time…playing wits with the air?
He even confronted the giants of the cultivation world, saying he was two-faced, not only putting down the deity, but also often subtly persuading them to join the Demon Realm...
What a sin...
She has been busy these past few years, but it was all in vain...
Jiang Wanhun returned to the small room she had reserved for herself in the cabin in a daze. Facing Lin Xubai's lonely expression, she raised the barrier and closed the door.
It was late at night, and he didn't care about anything else and just went straight to Yan Yan.
"What's the name of the child my second sister left behind? How old is he this year? Are you sure he's in Guiyuan Sect now?"
Yan Yan suddenly received a message from Jiang Wan. He was confused by the series of questions, but he still heard clearly what Jiang Wan asked.
"I think it's called Lin..." Yan Yan paused as he spoke, as if trying to recall the child's name. He was completely unaware that Jiang Wan on the other end of the line had a gloomy and anxious expression on his face. "Lin... Shu."
"Which shu is Lin Shu?"
"Shu, as in the clouds rolling and spreading."
"Clouds roll and disperse?" Jiang Wan quickly visualized this word in his mind.
She carefully recalled the screenshot of the novel interface her friend had given her. Wasn't the hero's name in three characters...
Lin Shu...Lin Xubai...
Jiang Wan suddenly recalled that she seemed to know why she had misunderstood that the male protagonist's name was three characters. At that time, the male protagonist's name was on the last sentence of the interface, which was where the page turned.
There should be another word after "Lin Shu Bai Tian" on the page. It should not be "Lin Shu Bai", but "Lin Shu". She broke the sentence wrongly and wrote "Lin Shu Bai".
Jiang Wan:!!!
The characters "Shu" and "Xu" are too similar, and their traditional Chinese characters are also similar, so it's easy to mistake them at first glance...
"As for how old he is this year." Yan Yan didn't know that Jiang Wan had fallen silent due to shock and regret. He just thought Jiang Wan was waiting for him to answer the next question. "The growth period of the demon race is different from that of the human race. Calculating the time, he should be about the same age now. He looks like a human boy of eleven or twelve years old.
I don't know where the child is hidden by Guiyuan Sect now, but it's definitely inside the sect. Sister, what's wrong? Why are you asking all this suddenly? Do you need my help? You, a demon, have been alone in Guiyuan Sect for so long without being discovered by Xingxuan, the old immortal, right? Sister, you..."
Yan Yan rambled on and on, but Jiang Wan didn't hear a single word. Her eyes were blank, and her heart was completely dead...
So what has she been doing for the past five years?
Ahhhh!
Jiang Wan didn't dare to think about it too much. She rolled over on the bed with her head in her hands, wanting to find a crack in the ground to crawl into and cry bitterly.
Outside the barrier, Lin Xubai threw the seal of the culprit of all this back to the hands of the headmaster Xiao Xin who was far away in the main hall with a cold expression.
The two immortal artifacts were immediately silent when they saw their colleague who was seeking death being treated so cruelly by his master. One pretended to be just an ordinary folding fan, and the other pretended to be an ordinary hair crown.
As for the immortal weapon? What is that? They don't know.
After clearing away the things that were in the way, Lin Xubai stood quietly under the red silk tree, looking at the home that Jiang Wan had built for him that belonged only to them. His cold and oppressive expression gradually faded away.
It was not until midnight that Lin Xubai estimated that Jiang Wan had come to his senses about his identity, and then he raised his hand to lift the barrier set by Jiang Wan.
He knocked on the door twice, composed his expression, and then said softly, "A Wan..."
The door was pushed open, and Jiang Wan looked at Lin Xubai, who had half of his body exposed, with an expressionless and cold face. The words that wanted to ask him to leave were stuck in her throat. Her peach blossom eyes, which were full of spring, were now wet, and there was a bit of caution and fragility. Seeing this, Jiang Wan softened her heart and acquiesced to Lin Xubai's behavior.
Lin Xubai lowered his eyes slightly after receiving tacit consent, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised and then quickly flattened.
Lin Xubai lowered his voice and walked over the stool beside him to sit next to Jiang Wan.
His eyes moved slightly, and his gaze swept over Jiang Wan, who was sitting on the bed with her knees hugged, but made room for him. Lin Xubai's eyes moved slightly, and the arc that he had just suppressed rose again. Helplessly, he had to turn slightly to hide the smile that he could not suppress.
"You... dislike me? Just because I'm Xing Xuan?" Lin Xubai's eyes were dim as if covered with a layer of mist. "But I've always been my true self when I'm with you. Didn't you say you'd be with me forever? And now, you want to leave Lin Xubai for Xing Xuan...?"
"How, how could it be..." Jiang Wan tightened his arms around his knees, "Even if you are... you're still a rookie. I just felt that there's a difference between our statuses. I was ignorant in the past and have offended you."
"Ah Wan, by saying this, you're alienating me." Lin Xubai moved closer to Jiang Wan. "Identity is just an empty title. My feelings for you are the same as yours for me. They haven't changed at all because of our different identities."
In fact, Lin Xubai was quite afraid that Jiang Wan would want to stay away from him because she was afraid of his identity. The thought of this possibility made Lin Xubai's heart stab. He could not accept Jiang Wan staying away from him, not even a little bit.
"If Ah Wan doesn't feel at ease..." Lin Xubai smiled, "How about you and I get married?"
As Lin Xu's eyes rolled, his peach blossom eyes seemed to contain a shimmering firefly light, and there was even a seductive feeling of wanting to say something but not being able to.
Seeing Jiang Wan's face stunned by his charm, Lin Xubai's smile deepened. He raised his hand to stroke Jiang Wan's head, but Jiang Wan turned her head away.
Lin Xubai's eyes flashed. He proposed marriage because he felt that he and Jiang Wan were in love with each other and Jiang Wan would not refuse. But now, Jiang Wan's reaction was different from what he expected.
She dodged and did not answer. Lin Xubai's heart suddenly fell from the sky, and it hurt so much.
Jiang Wan was instantly frightened back to her senses by Lin Xubai's words "get married". Not only did she avoid Lin Xubai's hand, she also avoided his gaze.
"This... isn't good... Today, Zhao Yu said that I was colluding with the demon cultivators. Actually, she wasn't entirely wrong. You see, you know Gu Yun. I do have a few friends in the demon clan, and I have a good relationship with them... It's not an exaggeration to say that I'm deeply involved with the Demon Realm."
Jiang Wan racked her brains to find reasons to refuse, and cried out in her heart, "Oh my God, she has never spoken so elegantly. It's back, all the classical Chinese that her Chinese teacher taught her is back."
"I'm even familiar with the guardian demons around the Demon Lord. In fact, you can hear that I am indeed from the Demon Realm and my identity is not clean. I am also interested in the Demon Dao, ah no...
I have great respect and affection for the Demon Lord, and I admire her deeds in the Demon Realm. She's so young, yet she's managed to command the entire Demon Realm to worship only her, and she's spent years purging the Demon Realm of bloodshed. It's because of my deep admiration for her that I volunteered to join the Guiyuan Sect, hoping to contribute to the Demon Lord's cause.
Look, you are a...Supreme Immortal..." Jiang Wan paused, "We...are not suitable..."
Lin Xubai's eyes turned cold, his brows furrowed in silence. Only the white knuckles of his fingers clenched in his sleeves could reveal how awful his mood was. After all Ah Wan had said, didn't she still despise his status as an Immortal Venerable, thinking it was inferior to that damned Demon Venerable?
He was not angry. A Wan only said that because of her identity. He was not angry, not at all!
Lin Xubai's eyes were completely dim. He suddenly grabbed Jiang Wan's hand and pressed it on the pillow at the head of the bed. His ten fingers intertwined, locking Jiang Wan firmly on the bed.
The two of them were so close that Jiang Wan could feel the warm breath brushing against her neck, the scorching heat from their intertwined fingers, and the weight that locked her down as if there was no way to escape.
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