Chapter 32 Immortal Lord 032%
Qu Yaoyao was dragged to the bottom of the sea by a dragon.
When she regained consciousness, she found herself lying in a dilapidated underwater palace. The palace was built with huge rocks to block the sea water outside, and it exuded an ancient and dilapidated atmosphere everywhere.
Rustle, rustle——
Something was crawling slowly overhead.
Qu Yaoyao propped herself up and stood up. When she looked up, she saw a large shadow. She saw a several-meter-long dragon coiled on the stone wall, looking at her.
...It was the dragon that abducted her.
Qu Yaoyao opened her eyes wide and stared at the dragon motionlessly. The dragon was spitting out its tongue, and Qu Yaoyao's face was reflected in its lantern-sized red eyes. The palace fell into an eerie silence for a moment.
"Aren't you afraid of me?" The dragon couldn't help but speak out when he didn't hear Qu Yaoyao's scream.
It was a jet-black dragon, its body a snake, its antlers a deer, and its body covered in scales. A blood-red gemstone nestled in its forehead, like a third eye. Compared to a true divine dragon, this one lacked the imposing and divine presence, but compared to a giant python, it possessed a more spiritual and beautiful presence.
Qu Yaoyao looked at the dragon so close, hesitated for a moment, and replied cautiously, "I'm still a little scared."
As a cold pond snow lotus, Qu Yaoyao didn't have much experience, but she had seen real divine phoenixes and golden dragons. So when facing the dragon, although she was a little afraid, she was not terrified.
"Interesting." Seeing that Qu Yaoyao seemed to be really not afraid, the dragon laughed deeply and transformed into a black-robed man with a human head and a dragon body.
"What about this?" After transforming into a dragon, it did not look like an ordinary human. It had horns on its forehead, dark skin, and scales on its cheeks.
His appearance was much uglier and more sinister than a dragon's body. Although ugly, he was much smaller than a dragon's body. So Qu Yaoyao shook her head and said, "I'm not afraid anymore."
"Not afraid?!" Jiaolong didn't seem happy after hearing this. Instead, he stared at Qu Yaoyao with a gloomy face and said grimly, "I still prefer the look of a woman screaming in fear."
Sliding to Qu Yaoyao's side, he sniffed her neck with lustful eyes and said greedily, "You smell so good."
"A beautiful and sweet bride like you must taste delicious."
Qu Yaoyao shuddered slightly. She took a step back uncomfortably, her pupils slightly widening as she repeated, "Eat?"
His bride is for eating?!
As the corner of the palace lit up, Qu Yaoyao discovered that there were several female skeletons piled up in the corner. Some of the bones were still wrapped with iron chains, and some had broken heads and looked horrible.
Qu Yaoyao started to get scared.
Her alert and flustered look was a strange sight in Jiaolong's eyes, and he couldn't help but laugh. He stretched out his tongue and licked his lips. He raised his hand to grab Qu Yaoyao, but she dodged awkwardly. The attacking spiritual power he swung landed on the man without any pain or damage.
When Xie Qingxun entered the palace, Qu Yaoyao had already been captured by the dragon, her hands and feet chained and tied to a stone pillar. He wasn't in a hurry to enjoy the meal; instead, he slid his dragon body around the stone pillar, whipping Qu Yaoyao with a long, thin whip.
"Scream, scream out loud for me!" Because of excitement, the dragon's face was distorted and became more ugly, and the shape of a dragon occasionally appeared on its face.
The whip he used on Qu Yaoyao was not heavy, as if he was afraid of hurting this body, so he just swept the whip lightly each time, causing Qu Yaoyao visual fear and then stopped.
Qu Yaoyao bit her lips tightly and refused to say a word. The originally delicate and beautiful bride was now in a disheveled state, with her hair and clothes in disarray, and she was holding back her tears.
She felt her world being shaken once again.
Although she didn't quite understand what the dragon was doing, she instinctively felt disgusted and repulsed, and a strong desire to survive surged in her heart. Qu Yaoyao mobilized her original spiritual power and actually shook off the chains that bound her body when the dragon whipped her down again.
This was her thousand-year cultivation as a Snow Lotus. Although she could only use half of it in this desperate situation, it was still enough to catch the dragon off guard.
The dragon didn't expect Qu Yaoyao to have the strength to fight back, and was hit by her without any preparation. As her body retreated, Qu Yaoyao tried to run away, but before she could take a few steps, she was knocked to the ground by the dragon.
"Good job, little girl. I didn't realize you have some abilities." The dragon looked even more excited.
He used his tail to wrap around Qu Yaoyao's body bit by bit, and said with a sinister smile: "Better than eating you, I now have a better way to play."
The spiritual power unleashed by Qu Yaoyao's attack was so pure, the fragrance of lotus permeated the air, driving the dragon mad, greedily seeking to obtain the breath of the snow lotus from her body. Besides inhaling it, there was another, more direct, way to obtain the breath of the snow lotus: dual cultivation and deprivation, until the body dried up and died.
The dragon placed his hand on Qu Yaoyao's shoulder.
He clenched his fists, and just as he was about to tear the wedding gown apart, a white figure landed silently behind him. Like a ghost, it leaned over the dragon and spoke in a low, cold, and gloomy voice, "What's so interesting about you? Why don't you tell me about it?"
"Who?!" the dragon was shocked.
Before he could turn around, he felt a sharp pain in his heart and a hand pierced through his body.
Xie Qingxun's hair fluttered as he slowly pulled out the heart he was holding. He chuckled and said softly, "I thought this ancient dragon came from nowhere, but it turned out to be a snake pretending to be one."
A viper turns into a dragon after 50,000 years and into a snake after 100,000 years.
If it really was a dragon that had only practiced for ten thousand years, it would be impossible for it not to feel Xie Qingxun approaching. However, the dragon in front of him, let alone fifty thousand years, probably even a thousand years of cultivation was watered down. It all relied on practicing evil techniques to quickly advance to become a dragon.
It looks like a dragon but it is not a dragon, it is a viper but it is no longer a viper, it is just a lowly monster.
Bang--
A creature like this had no power to fight back against Xie Qingxun, and was easily killed by him in one move. Blood splattered everywhere, and the dragon fell to the ground without a heart, transforming into a huge giant dragon.
Qu Yaoyao scrambled sideways before he fell. An iron chain still clung to her feet, its source firmly fixed to the stone pillar, impossible to tear apart with magic. After trying a few more times, she retracted her swollen fingers, looked at the man not far away, and cleared her throat.
"Um..." Qu Yaoyao said softly, "Can you help me open it?"
Xie Qingxun was studying the snake heart in his hand. The heart separated from the body and turned into a fist-sized bead. Hearing Qu Yaoyao's voice, he raised his eyes and looked at her standing there without moving. He just said lazily, "You still have the nerve to call me."
She chose to run away on the wedding day instead of earlier or later, which not only made him lose face in the world of cultivation, but he also had to patiently find her and clean up the mess for her.
Qu Yaoyao really didn't have the face to look for him. After Xie Qingxun suddenly appeared from the sky and helped her escape from the dragon's mouth, she wanted to find a crack in the ground to bury herself. Why did anyone else have to come, why did it have to be Xie Qingxun?
But no matter what, she owed Xie Qingxun a favor this time. Now that he had found her, Qu Yaoyao could only shamelessly pretend not to understand what he said and silently tugged at the chain again.
Seeing Xie Qingxun looking at her coldly and showing no intention of helping, she submissively looked up at him and said, "Please, help me, please."
Xie Qingxun's eyelids jumped, "Where did you learn this from?"
This girl only looks obedient, but in fact she is stubborn and hard-headed. She has never begged him for anything so humbly before, and now her soft tone is full of coquettishness. If no one guides her, she will never do it.
Qu Yaoyao didn't know what he was thinking, so she pointed at the dragon corpse beside her and said, "He just taught me that if I beg him, he won't hit me."
"Did he hit you?" Xie Qingxun narrowed his eyes slightly.
Qu Yaoyao nodded and rolled up her sleeves to reveal her fair and tender skin, which was covered with several crisscrossing whip marks. "It didn't hurt too much, but the marks won't go away."
Xie Qingxun glanced at him a few times, then quickly looked away when he saw there was no bleeding. He casually asked, "Did you beg him too?"
"How could that be?" Qu Yaoyao said with some pride, "He's such a pervert. I wouldn't beg him even if he beat me to death."
But she turned around and begged him.
Xie Qingxun really didn't know whether he should be happy about Qu Yaoyao's transformation.
In order to break the chains, Qu Yaoyao's fingers were swollen. When she tried to break them again, a hand slapped the back of her hand. Xie Qingxun squatted down with a cold expression, "Get out of the way."
Qu Yaoyao withdrew her hand in pain, feeling so guilty that she didn't have the slightest temper.
She kindly reminded: "This is not an ordinary chain. It can't be broken by spiritual power. Should we look for the key?"
Without even raising his eyelids, Xie Qingxun rejected Qu Yaoyao's proposal with silence and held the chain with both hands.
Qu Yaoyao sighed inwardly, they were indeed the Twin Emperors of the world of cultivation, they were ruthless and quiet but also very powerful, they could pull the chains that others couldn't break free of even with their spiritual power, but he did it with his bare hands.
"Immortal Qingxi is truly powerful." Qu Yaoyao praised him in advance, thinking that the chain would break as soon as she finished speaking.
Snap——
The chain trembled, but was still intact on Qu Yaoyao's feet.
While Qu Yaoyao was silent, Xie Qingxun tried again. This time, he directly wrapped spiritual power on his hands and pulled hard... the chain was still intact.
Qu Yaoyao: “…”
Xie Qingxun: “…”
There was a long silence, the only sound in the quiet being the clanking of chains.
Qu Yaoyao thought to herself that she couldn't let anyone lose face by asking for help, so she took the initiative to break the silence, "This chain seems to be able to actively absorb the spiritual energy that attacks it, otherwise why don't we look for the key?"
Xie Qingxun didn't respond.
No longer with a disdainful attitude, this time he looked at the chain carefully a few more times, vaguely feeling that he had seen it somewhere.
Where have you seen me before?
Dark, cold, and transparent chains gleaming with cold light...
Xie Qingxun's breathing became heavier and his head began to ache slightly. He slowly picked up the chain on the ground.
Perhaps because of the passage of time, the chain is no longer as crystal clear and cold as I remember. The luster has faded, the chain is dirty and gray, and it is impossible to tell what it originally looked like.
"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with this chain?" Qu Yaoyao asked in a low voice after noticing his gradually cold gaze.
Xie Qingxun gripped it harder and harder. Under Qu Yaoyao's surprised gaze, he scratched his palm and dripped blood onto the chain. Soon, wisps of cold air emerged, and the chain absorbed Xie Qingxun's blood, turning dark red at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Snap——
After seeing the chain turn red, Xie Qingxun reflexively dropped it to the ground.
Some memories that were too old were cracked, and Xie Qingxun's eyes went dark when he looked through the chain. Endless darkness surged in, and from the depths came the sound of chains shaking violently and someone's faint breathing.
Very light, very hard.
The darkness is endless and contains all kinds of unknown horrors.
Xie Qingxun clenched his fingers. Just as he was about to move closer, a hand suddenly appeared in the pitch-black darkness. Light shone in, and the hand wavered before his eyes, repeatedly calling out to him, "Xie Qingxun, what's wrong with you?"
...Xie Qingxun.
Yes, he is Xie Qingxun now.
The darkness in front of him dissipated, and Xie Qingxun saw a dirty little cat's face.
Qu Yaoyao didn't know what was wrong with Xie Qingxun. Seeing him slumped to the ground with a pale face, she knelt down and approached him, waving her hands from time to time in front of him, "Can you hear me?"
"Xie Qingxun?" Seeing his unfocused eyes as if he were blind, she asked worriedly, "Can you still see me?"
"Don't scare me."
Xie Qingxun stared at her without blinking, and suddenly raised his hand to cover her cheek.
Qu Yaoyao's cheeks were soft and tender, warm and soft to the touch, and extremely comfortable. The once delicate and beautiful little girl had, after all her struggles, become a disheveled, dirty cat. Yet, her eyes remained round, bright, and clear, untainted by the mundane world.
Xie Qingxun squeezed the girl hard a few times, causing her to make several grimaces. When he had enough, he raised his hand and pushed her aside, saying with a noble and cold expression, "Get out of the way! Don't get so close to me."
Qu Yaoyao was driven aside by him in a daze, half of her cheeks were pouting and red, and she had not yet recovered from Xie Qingxun's series of actions.
"What's wrong with you?" Qu Yaoyao's cheek was pinched by him and it hurt a little. She couldn't help but raise her hand to rub it.
Xie Qingxun stood up, regaining his usual aloof demeanor. He looked at the chains again, his eyes cold and indifferent, and summoned his Jade Bone Fan.
Bang--
The jade bone fan collided with the chain, making a buzzing sound.
The chain that had been indestructible just now began to crack. As Qu Yaoyao stood up, it shattered into countless sharp pieces, flashing a cold light.
"It's so powerful!" Qu Yaoyao was finally free.
Overwhelmed with excitement, she leaped in front of Xie Qingxun and, without a trace of composure, hugged his arm. Seeing the Jade Bone Fan fly back into Xie Qingxun's hands, she looked up with sparkling eyes, "Can I touch it?"
Xie Qingxun smiled, raised his hand and grabbed Qu Yaoyao's face. He gently pushed her away and said coldly, "No."
Qu Yaoyao blew on her cheeks and reluctantly looked away.
“…”
Now that the person has been found, it's time to go back.
This is the bottom of the sea, and it is in the deep sea. If you want to get out, you must pass through the sea. When Xie Qingxun thinks about going into the water again, his face looks a little ugly.
As he looked at the abandoned palace with a cold face, Qu Yaoyao noticed the beads thrown on the ground by Xie Qingxun. When she bent down to pick them up, she glanced at the dragon's corpse and felt something moving.
Looking at it with suspicion, Qu Yaoyao noticed that the red stone between the two horns of the dragon was trembling slightly as if it was about to fall off.
"Xie Qingxun." Qu Yaoyao tugged at his shirt hem, "Look what that is."
Xie Qingxun followed Qu Yaoyao's gaze, bent down and pulled the red stone out from the dragon's forehead.
Almost immediately after the red stone left its body, the dragon's massive corpse began to shrink and thin, transforming into a slender black snake. With both men's attention focused on the red stone, no one noticed the dead black snake suddenly open its eyes and lunge towards them, its tongue spitting out.
"Be careful--" Qu Yaoyao was the first to notice the black snake.
She reflexively retreated and tried to grab the black snake with her hands, but the black snake was slippery and extremely fast. As Qu Yaoyao dodged, Xie Qingxun's position was exposed, and she bit him hard on the neck.
Qu Yaoyao: “……!!”
Xie Qingxun: “…”
Blood trickled down his neck, staining his snow-white collar like a plum blossom. Xie Qingxun stood frozen in place, expressionless, still clutching the red stone Qu Yaoyao had asked him to see.
"You hid pretty quickly." Xie Qingxun spoke coldly, and looked at Qu Yaoyao with his dark eyes.
Qu Yaoyao opened his mouth to defend himself, but seeing the black snake still biting his neck tightly, he said awkwardly, "What should I do now..."
What else could he do? He couldn't let this despicable thing keep biting his neck.
Xie Qingxun dropped the red stone in his hand, raised his hand to grab the black snake's vital point, and pulled it off his neck with force.
This thing is quite tenacious. Even after Xie Qingxun ripped out his heart, he still managed to breathe. He even tried to drag someone to hell with him. But what's the point?
Xie Qingxun snuffed out its last breath and used his spiritual power to shatter its body, leaving not even a bone fragment.
Qu Yaoyao quickly ran up to him and gently pulled open his bloodstained collar. Seeing the wound on his neck gradually turning black and steaming, she stammered, "It, it seems to be poisonous."
"The viper is a poisonous snake." Given the vicious nature of this creature, its venom is extremely strong and difficult to cure.
Qu Yaoyao was a little panicked, "Will you be okay?"
Xie Qingxun glanced at her.
Although he was the one who was bitten, he was calmer than Qu Yaoyao, who was unharmed. He raised his hand to wipe the blood from his neck and replied lightly, "If I weren't Xie Qingxun, you'd be talking to the dead right now."
Is it that powerful?
Qu Yaoyao felt very guilty and was anxiously thinking of a way to remove the poison from him. Xie Qingxun impatiently pulled her aside and said, "Let's go up first."
Qu Yaoyao nodded, and before leaving, she stuffed the dragon heart and the red stone into her arms. She heard Xie Qingxun mock her, "Why are you picking up these junks?"
"They don't necessarily have to be rags." Qu Yaoyao was in a good mood at the moment and whispered back, "Maybe I can use them in the future."
Xie Qingxun ignored her and pulled her out of the palace.
.
This is the deep sea, dark and far away from the land.
The cold seawater rushed towards her, but it was all blocked by Xie Qingxun's protective shield. Qu Yaoyao was being pulled by his arm, and she turned her head to look at him from time to time. Xie Qingxun didn't even turn his head and said, "If you look at me again, I'll dig your eyes out."
Qu Yaoyao was not afraid of him at the moment, "You are like this and you still want to scare people."
"Whether it scares you or not, you can try it."
Qu Yaoyao pretended not to hear anything.
Seeing that his face was getting paler and paler, she asked with concern: "Can you still hold on?"
Xie Qingxun looked at the endless sea, and as the strength of Qu Yaoyao's arm gradually faded, he said quietly, "I'm afraid we can't hold on any longer."
He wasn't kidding. His vision was blacking out, and his strength was draining away rapidly. But this was the ocean floor, and it was deep sea. Only cultivators skilled in high-level techniques could successfully dive in. If he fainted, both he and Qu Yaoyao would be in danger.
With his arms hanging down, Xie Qingxun no longer had the strength to grab Qu Yaoyao.
His eyelashes fluttered, closing and opening again and again. He could only barely hold up the protective shield they held together. He had no strength to swim upwards, so Qu Yaoyao could only hold him and drag him upwards.
"Xie Qingxun, you must hold on."
"Don't fall asleep." Qu Yaoyao was extremely panicked and almost used her hands and feet to drag him.
Seeing Xie Qingxun's eyelashes trembling and about to close his eyes, she couldn't help but say, "Look, there's light ahead. We can get out soon!"
Light?
Xie Qingxun opened his eyelashes again and strained to see above him, only to find that it was pitch black and he could not see anything. He could not help but sneer weakly and said, "Little liar."
Taking advantage of the fact that he had no strength to deal with her, she lied to him again.
Qu Yaoyao insisted: "I am your light!"
Schools of fish occasionally passed by, and in the distance, the low moans of giant whales could be heard. In the sea, they were the only light, but as Xie Qingxun lost strength, this light gradually dimmed, seeping into every drop of water.
"It's so cold." Xie Qingxun rested his chin on Qu Yaoyao's shoulder and murmured softly.
Qu Yaoyao was struggling to swim upstream. Thinking she had misheard, she hurriedly replied, "Cold? Is the water cold?"
"Why do you feel cold? Aren't you water?"
Xie Qingxun remained silent and did not respond.
He was indeed of the water element and practiced pure water-based magic, but no one in the world of cultivation knew that he hated water, and hated the bitingly cold icy water the most.
Over the years, he carefully hid his true self, but for Qu Yaoyao, he repeatedly broke his vows and even went to the deep sea, which he most resisted. His breathing became slower and slower. He smelled the lotus fragrance emanating from Qu Yaoyao and couldn't help but sneer: "To escape from marriage, you really ran away to a good place."
If it weren't for his snow lotus, he would never go to such lengths for anyone else.
"Tell me, are you born to be my nemesis?" Otherwise, why would nothing good happen to him every time he met her?
It was another big joke. Before he came to find her, he threatened to give her a good beating to make her learn her lesson. In the end, he saved her, but he was the one who was injured and embarrassed.
What exactly went wrong?
...Xie Qingxun was about to lose consciousness.
As he gradually fell into coma, the protective shield protecting them was breaking bit by bit. Looking at the sea top that still seemed to have no end, Qu Yaoyao's heart trembled and her hands and feet began to feel weak. As a snow lotus that had been born in the cold pond for thousands of years, she was a good swimmer. If she left Xie Qingxun behind, she could try her best to rush out of the sea.
Perhaps Xie Qingxun had also thought of this. Before he fell completely asleep, he struggled to pronounce her name: "Qu Yaoyao."
His voice was so weak that it was unclear. He said, "...Don't let me die in the dark."
If this body really wants to die, it doesn't matter where it is, even if the head and body are separated and not even a complete corpse is left, at least it doesn't have to die in the dark and cold water.
Perhaps it was because Xie Qingxun was already unconscious, but Qu Yaoyao could actually hear a hint of fragility and fear in his voice.
How could that be? What is he afraid of?
Qu Yaoyao didn’t understand. Could a strong and cold-hearted person like him be afraid of something?
"I won't abandon you."
The light shield shattered, and the last ray of light in the darkness went out.
The sea water covered the two of them, and the feeling of suffocation covered their mouths and noses. Qu Yaoyao lowered her head to cover Xie Qingxun's mouth and hugged him tightly.
The author has something to say: Xiao Xie: I really owed you in my previous life.
Yaoyao: Oowo.
Before coming——
Xiao Xie: I want her to die.
After saving people——
Xiao Xie: Yaoyao, don’t leave me.
This is probably the most pretentious and embarrassing male protagonist I have ever written.
I did it, I'm not a dog.
Thanks to the little angels who cast mines: 25693420 2; I want to go to college, confused 1;
Thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution: 2 bottles of A River on Wushan Mountain; 1 bottle each of Anyun and Littleone;
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