Chapter 70 Immortal Lord 070%
Xie Qingxun was obviously angry, and Qu Yaoyao would be stupid to wait for him to come and catch her.
She took the initiative to walk over to Xie Qingxun, admitting her mistake with a polite attitude, but still couldn't get his forgiveness. The man was filled with coldness, his face expressionless and silent as he walked back.
Once they returned to Wangxu, Xie Qingxun suddenly stopped in front of Chengyu Hall. Di Shu knew he had more important things to do, so he took the initiative to ask, "How about I take Madam Yao home first?"
"Where to go back?" Xie Qingxun said with a smile.
Turning to look at Qu Yaoyao, who was cowering behind him, his eyes were dark and cold, but he spoke to Di Shu, "What should be done to those who dare to betray me?"
Di Shu opened his mouth but didn't dare to say anything.
Having followed Xie Qingxun for so long, he naturally knew that Xie Qingxun had the utmost tolerance for betrayal. Anyone who dared to rebel against him was personally executed, without exception. This time, Qu Yaoyao had rescued Qu Yingsi without Xie Qingxun's knowledge, nearly ruining his long-planned plan. Given Xie Qingxun's temperament, this would not end well.
"Lock her up in the underground palace first." Xie Qingxun said slowly.
Seeing that he didn't say anything more, Di Shu breathed a sigh of relief and quickly pulled Qu Yaoyao towards the underground palace. Qu Yaoyao wanted to explain a few more words, but Di Shu stopped her with a look. After they walked away, he reminded her, "If you have anything to say, wait until Master calms down."
Just locking her up in the underground palace first is a light enough punishment.
Qu Yaoyao could only quietly defend herself: "I didn't betray him..."
She had no idea what Xie Qingxun was planning. She rescued Qu Yingsi just to save her own life, but unfortunately she ended up losing more than she gained. Not only did she fail to destroy the Phoenix Blood and Tears, she also lost herself in it.
After witnessing Qu Yaoyao disappearing into thin air several times, Di Shu had a shadow in his heart. To prevent her from escaping again, he put chains on Qu Yaoyao's feet and said with embarrassment: "I'm sorry."
Qu Yaoyao moved her feet and shook her head: "It's okay, it's not the first time I've been locked up anyway."
Di Shu had something else to do, so he left in a hurry.
When he returned to Chengyu Hall, he found Huang Ying kneeling on the ground. She had witnessed the entire process of the appearance of the Phoenix Blood and Tears. Even though she had been able to convey the message to Xie Qingxun in time, her situation was still very dangerous.
Huang Ying was not flustered. She knelt on the ground with her back straight, looked at Xie Qingxun with her scarlet eyes and said, "I was born in the lower realm and was hated by the villagers and framed several times. My life was saved by Master."
"Before I met my master, I didn't know what was good and evil. I only knew that I would be loyal to whoever could save me from hell, even if that person was a demon or evil spirit." Huang Ying pronounced the last few words clearly and with great force.
Di Shu frowned, and seeing Huang Ying still staring at Xie Qingxun, he immediately scolded her, "How insolent!"
Xie Qingxun raised his hand to signal him to ignore it. His tone was calm and emotionless. He played with the Phoenix Blood and Tears in his hand and asked, "So, do you think I am an immortal or a demon?"
Huang Ying smiled. She wasn't afraid of losing her life at any moment. "For a disciple, immortals and demons are all the same. It all depends on what Master does."
"oh?"
Huang Ying said: "Master is an immortal, and the disciple is the little immortal king under the master's seat. If the master is willing to become a demon, then the disciple will be the sharp blade in the master's hand."
In other words, no matter what Xie Qingxun chooses, Huang Ying will only follow him.
"Okay." Xie Qingxun finally looked at her seriously.
The reason why he initially had the kindness to save Huang Ying was not only because of her eyes that were similar to those of the Phoenix Clan, but also because he saw a familiar aura on Huang Ying at that time.
This girl, who grew up bullied by the villagers, lived a tenacious and persistent life. Beneath her seemingly fragile exterior, she was already rotten and twisted inside. As she said, no one taught her good and evil. She only knew that she would do anything to escape hell.
But such a person can be his knife, and can also point the knife in his hand at him.
Xie Qingxun walked up to Huang Ying and said, "Look at me."
Huang Ying looked up in response, and saw Xie Qingxun's palm gathering a killing move, slapping it towards her mercilessly. Huang Ying's red-gold pupils widened, but she didn't move, not even dodging.
Swish——
The surrounding airflow was distorted, and Xie Qingxun's palm suddenly stopped when it was about to hit Huang Ying's head.
"Go out." He withdrew his hand.
Huang Ying's back was soaked with sweat, and she felt like she had died once before. Seeing that Xie Qingxun turned around and didn't look at her, she couldn't help but smile again, knowing that Xie Qingxun accepted her loyalty.
"Disciple thanks Master for not killing me."
Xie Qingxun threw the Phoenix Blood and Tears in his hand into the air and said calmly, "Go out and guard. No one is allowed to come in without my order."
"Huang Ying obeys the order."
As the palace door slowly closed, the other five phoenix treasures also rose into the air, emitting dazzling light.
Di Shu glanced outside the door and asked worriedly, "Master, do you really want Huang Ying to get involved?"
Xie Qingxun sneered: "She is a biting dog. If you trust her rashly before she is tamed, you will be bitten back."
"Then why did Master keep her?"
Xie Qingxun asked, "How do you think she was able to discover my secret?"
"Isn't it..." Di Shu paused and suddenly realized something. If it weren't for Xie Qingxun's intentional guidance, how could Huang Ying have been hiding in the back mountain of Xingyang Sect for so many days and then discovered the Phoenix Blood and Tears.
"At least now, she is loyal enough." This is enough for Xie Qingxun.
As the two conversed, the five phoenix treasures gathered together, forming a circle that encircled the Phoenix Blood and Tears. Lights of various colors shot straight into the sky, only to be intercepted by the palace's barrier. The light then filled the entire palace, blinding Di Shu.
Under such intense light, Xie Qingxun's eyes gradually turned red gold, unaffected. He stared at the six objects in mid-air without blinking, and saw the shadow of a colorful stone emerge from the light, accompanied by several lines of golden characters. The first sentence read: "Only by reappearing at Kunlun Mountain can the seal be broken."
"Kunlun Mountain." Xie Qingxun narrowed his eyes.
In ancient times, the sacred Kunlun Mountain did exist.
There, the sky is crimson, the ground is freezing, the mountains are covered in snow, and spiritual energy is abundant. However, because the weather there is so harsh, and there are dangers lurking everywhere, cold-resistant monsters and evil spirits abound, so few people go there.
With the end of the long war between immortals and demons, the Kunlun Mountain also disappeared. Many people said that the war lasted too long, and the countless lives lost caused the collapse of the mountain's spiritual veins. However, only Xie Qingxun knew that the Kunlun Mountain did not collapse, but was sealed.
Because the person they feared was suppressed in the sacred mountain, they wanted him to fall into the sacred mountain forever and never wake up, so as to maintain peace in the world.
Xie Qingxun only knew that the entrance to Kunlun Mountain was sealed, but he had no idea where that group had sealed it, or how to get in. He thought that if he could find all the treasures of the Phoenix Clan, he could open Kunlun Mountain. But now he realized that Kunlun Mountain was not only sealed, but also transformed into a colorful stone, divided into five pieces, and scattered all over the world.
They really went to great lengths to prevent Emperor Phoenix from coming out.
Unfortunately, they couldn't hold him captive.
Looking closely at the phantom of the colored stone, Xie Qingxun pondered something. The colored stones came in five colors: red, yellow, blue, white, and black. Xie Qingxun had seen the white one before in the secret chamber of the Wanmen Immortal Sect, but he had only glanced at it briefly and didn't know if it was Kunlun Stone.
Suddenly, his eyes fell on the red part of the stone.
The translucent red stone was lustrous and shiny, and the small piece looked like a gem. The more he looked at the red stone, the more familiar it seemed. Xie Qingxun had an excellent memory and quickly remembered the gem that fell from the forehead of His Highness the Deep Sea Wilderness when the viper transformed into a dragon.
"That turned out to be..." Kunlun Stone.
Xie Qingxun was stunned, remembering that the stone was picked up by Qu Yaoyao, and immediately waved his sleeves to take back these things.
Di Shu covered his face with his sleeves the entire time and could not open his eyes at all under the colorful lights. When the light faded, not only were the Phoenix treasures gone, but when he opened his eyes, he couldn't even find Xie Qingxun.
"Where is Master?" Seeing the hall door wide open, Di Shu chased outside.
Huang Ying stretched and was about to leave, but when she saw Di Shu's confusion, she raised her chin, looked in the direction of the underground palace, and said, "Of course, I'm going to see Qu Yaoyao."
“…”
In the underground palace, Qu Yaoyao was thinking about how to get out of trouble.
Chong'an stood beside her and gave her advice: "Xie Qingxun has already noticed that there is something wrong with the pendant. Now that things have come to this, you can only put the blame on me."
"Are you kidding?" Qu Yaoyao was stunned. "If Xie Qingxun knew there was someone hidden in the pendant, I wouldn't be able to protect you."
"I don't need your protection."
Chong'an squatted in front of her, with a few strands of snow-white hair falling in front of him. He said softly: "Yaoyao, I want to protect you. If I can't even do this, then there is no meaning in my existence."
Now, he has become a burden to Qu Yaoyao.
Qu Yaoyao shook her head, "I don't want it."
"You've helped me a lot. You did all this to protect me. How could I..."
"obedient."
Chong'an's voice became a little stern. He interrupted Qu Yaoyao and patiently taught her, "Then you can say that you picked up this pendant on the roadside. There is a remnant soul in it named Chongnan. The reason you went to save Qu Yingsi was because he bewitched you. He told you that Qu Yingsi had a treasure and asked you to help him get it to repay his kindness..."
Before Chong'an could finish his words, the door of the underground palace was pushed open.
The shallow light poured in but was quickly blocked. Xie Qingxun slowly walked up to Qu Yaoyao, glanced at the chains on her feet and asked, "Do you know your mistake?"
Qu Yaoyao glanced at Chong'an, nodded slightly and said, "I know I was wrong."
Xie Qingxun asked again: "Why did you go to save Qu Yingsi?"
Under Chong'an's gaze, Qu Yaoyao bit her lip, lowered her head and said, "Because she is my mother, you framed her and humiliated her like that, how could I just sit back and watch."
"Yaoyao!" Chong'an stood up.
Qu Yaoyao didn't look at him and spoke quickly, "You refused to tell me anything. I have no idea what you were planning. Xie Qingxun, I didn't mean to betray you, nor did I mean to harm you. I just wanted to rescue my mother and make her leave and never come back."
Xie Qingxun listened quietly and called out her name, "Qu Yaoyao."
"Do you think I will believe it?" Xie Qingxun was too lazy to point out every flaw in this lie to her.
In order to protect Chong'an, Qu Yaoyao threw herself into the fight, "Whether you believe it or not, this is the only explanation I have."
"Then aren't you afraid that I will kill you?" Xie Qingxun said calmly.
Qu Yaoyao rubbed her eyes and said some random words instead of answering, "You may not know, I've been very tired recently."
"Ever since I took over Shibu Baicao Garden, I've been anxious and restless every day, and even ended up losing someone. As much as I wanted to catch the murderer at first, I later became even more afraid of catching him, because I gradually realized that the murderer I kept calling cruel and terrifying was you."
"But the Xie Qingxun I know is not that kind of person."
Xie Qingxun tightened his fingers in his sleeves and said, "I have always been like this. You just don't understand me well enough."
"Really?" Qu Yaoyao blinked. "If you say that, I'll feel even more guilty."
After returning from Zhuzhenlou, Qu Yaoyao's tense mood has not relaxed. On the surface, she seems to have regained her composure, but in fact, she is often awakened by nightmares. In her dreams, there are all those people who were killed by Xie Qingxun. They cry to her and ask her to pay for their lives.
"Although you refuse to tell me anything, I can see that you had your reasons for destroying all these sects. I don't understand what hatred you have with them, so I have no right to blame you, but I also don't have the right to forgive you on behalf of those who died."
It was in this conflicting mood that Qu Yaoyao was locked up in Xie Qingxun's bedroom for several days. As she spoke of this, her eyes became moist and she could hardly control her emotions. "During these days, you rarely came back to see me. You may not know that I feel more relaxed when you don't come."
"I miss you very much, but I'm also afraid to see you."
"Because when I see you, I can think of those people you killed. I don't know whether to cry in front of you or smile in front of you. This is really too tiring..."
“I’m really tired.”
After saying this, she actually relaxed and breathed a sigh of relief: "Kill me if you want. It's better to be free sooner rather than continue suffering like this."
She said the last sentence against her will.
All of the previous words were true, but Qu Yaoyao didn't want to die at all. She said this because she was betting that Xie Qingxun wouldn't be willing to kill her. They had been together for so long, and Qu Yaoyao knew how much Xie Qingxun really loved her. And most importantly, if she died, Xie Qingxun would no longer be able to suppress the evil spirit in his body.
Xie Qingxun walked in front of Qu Yaoyao.
Chong'an had been watching from the side, his whole body tense, ready to expose himself and block a fatal attack for Qu Yaoyao. Xie Qingxun walked up to Qu Yaoyao, looked at her for a moment, and suddenly squatted down, using his finger to pick at her chin.
"Qu Yaoyao."
Xie Qingxun paused, then spoke emphatically, "I don't care how much truth there is in your words, and I won't investigate why you saved Qu Yingsi, but remember, you don't have a chance anymore."
"My indulgence has its limits. This is the last time."
Qu Yaoyao trembled her eyelashes, unable to believe that he would let her go so easily.
Xie Qingxun glanced at the pendant around her neck, which seemed to be enduring something. The hand that was pinching Qu Yaoyao's chin tightened a little. He asked, "I'll give you a chance to make amends."
"Where is the Kunlun Stone?"
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