Chapter 83 Demon Lord 083%
In the dungeon, Qu Yaoyao broke free from the chains, her body covered in blood, with wounds of varying sizes all over her body, and was surrounded by layers of demon troops.
She can't escape.
The ground was littered with snake corpses. She had severely injured the Yinshan Python Demon and cut off half of its tail. Looking at the giant python that had transformed into its original form and was madly rushing towards her, Qu Yaoyao gasped for breath and gathered her spiritual power again.
When Chao Yuan arrived, the girl was covered in blood, her hair and clothes fluttering in a dazzling radiance. She hovered in mid-air, a massive snow lotus blossoming behind her. Pure light fell like stars, scattering across the demons and absorbing their malevolent energy. For a moment, the sky and earth lost their color, transforming into a pure white void.
She is...
Noticing the flames ignited beneath the Snow Lotus illusion, Chao Yuan's breathing stopped, his voice trembling uncontrollably, "Yaoyao——"
This is her original power.
She wanted to burn her origin and die with them.
Qu Yaoyao didn't want this to happen either.
She still wanted to live, wanted to see Xie Qingxun again, wanted to see more of the world. But the current situation had forced her into a corner. With no one to help her and her path already dire, she might as well do something more meaningful before she died, cleansing the immortal sect of its filth.
"Yaoyao——"
Just as she was about to burn her own essence, she suddenly heard someone calling her.
The familiar voice, mixed with the distinct fear, anger and panic she could sense, caused her men to hesitate and couldn't help but turn their heads to look.
At just one glance, she saw a red-clothed figure outside the demon army. A cold mask covered his face. He looked up at her, his eyes through the mask were cold and sinister, and there were too many emotions that she could not understand.
After that day, Qu Yaoyao repeatedly recalled what she looked like at that time. She didn't know how she could see Demon Lord Chao Yuan so clearly and carefully in just such a short glance.
The golden light covered all the demons and monsters. At that critical moment, in the void, she could only see the Demon Lord Chao Yuan.
She saw his jet-black hair swirling behind him, his cool, crimson robe swaying in the air. He flew toward her, extending his pale hand to touch her. Qu Yaoyao tentatively raised her hand, but before she could raise her arm, she was struck by something and fell back uncontrollably, further and further away from Chao Yuan.
Bang--
Because Qu Yaoyao was distracted, the giant python's broken tail hit her hard.
It was as if all her internal organs were displaced and her body was crushed and broken. Qu Yaoyao's blood surged and she spat out a mouthful of blood. Her vision went black and all the light in her body dissipated.
Chao Yuan's unstoppable self-destruction was stopped by the Yinshan Python's tail, but he wasn't trying to save Qu Yaoyao, but to find a way to make her die more horribly. Chao Yuan saw that he was about to catch her, but she was further away from him. He missed and watched Qu Yaoyao fall from the sky.
Time seemed to suddenly slow down.
Chao Yuan's long eyelashes trembled, and the murderous aura around him was rampant, and he pounced ferociously in all directions.
When the Yinshan Python Demon sensed something was amiss, the evil spirits took shape, gaping their bloody mouths and madly tearing at his flesh. Not only the Yinshan Python Demon, but all the demons present were not spared, their evil spirits attacking indiscriminately, even Di Shu and Huang Ying, who had followed them.
"Hiss..." Huang Ying's back of the hand was hit by the evil spirit and a layer of skin was peeled off.
She opened her mouth and sucked to stop the blood flowing from the back of her hand. She used one hand to disperse the evil spirit around her and saw from afar that Chao Yuan flew over and caught the falling Qu Yaoyao.
"Little lunatic." Huang Ying sneered softly and quickly evacuated by pulling Di Shu.
“…”
Qu Yaoyao didn't know what was wrong with her. She just felt light and weightless all over, and even the excruciating pain just now seemed to have disappeared.
She remembered trying to destroy herself and perish along with the demons, when she suddenly heard Chao Yuan calling her. She saw Chao Yuan running towards her, and she tried to grab his hand. In that moment of distraction, the Yinshan Python dealt her a fatal blow. When she regained consciousness, a demonic aura surged through the sky, and she lay in Chao Yuan's arms. A constant flow of spiritual power flowed through the back of his hand and into her spine, supporting her and allowing her to blink and breathe.
She heard Demon Lord Chao Yuan call her, "Yaoyao."
"Is it... a dream?" Qu Yaoyao spoke with difficulty. The blood at the corner of her lips had not dried yet, staining her chin and cheeks, and soaking her collar.
She blinked, but the scene in front of her was still there. She could only breathe hard and look at the only person she could see at the moment, Demon Lord Chao Yuan.
He was also looking at her, dressed in a cold red robe, the mask on his face carved with devilish patterns, looking like he was both crying and laughing. His hair swept down in front of him, and he held Qu Yaoyao tightly with one hand, shaking with it. He ordered her in a hoarse voice, "Don't sleep."
"Without my order, you cannot close your eyes."
So domineering.
Qu Yaoyao saw his beautiful red-gold eyes through his mask. She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she felt that the look in his eyes when he looked at her was more ferocious and contradictory than the evil ghost mask covering his face.
I really want to...see his face behind the mask.
Qu Yaoyao closed her eyelashes, feeling that she could not hold on any longer.
She didn't know if she was going to die, so before she completely lost consciousness, she raised her arm tremblingly and placed her bloody hand on Chao Yuan's mask. Chao Yuan didn't move, allowing her to take off his mask. Then, Qu Yaoyao saw the face she had been thinking about.
Xie Qingxun.
Qu Yaoyao silently repeated the name in her heart.
She hadn't cried when she was nearly killed by the snakes, but now, looking at the face before her, Qu Yaoyao couldn't stop crying. Her vision began to darken, and her arms slowly fell, weakening as she leaned against Chao Yuan's embrace. She closed her eyes and whispered, "Demon."
"Sure enough, he's good at deceiving people."
Even if this was just an illusion cast by Demon Lord Chao Yuan, she accepted it.
The sound transmission mirror fell to the ground, and Mo Xuanxiao's worried voice came from it: "Yaoyao, can you hear me?"
"Two hours are almost up, are you all right?"
Qu Yaoyao had already fallen into a coma and was unable to answer his questions. Chao Yuan, the Demon Lord, held her and stood up. He glanced at his mirror and said in a low voice, "Yaoyao?"
He laughed, "Can you even call someone Yaoyao?"
Click——
Without waiting for Mo Xuanxiao's response, Chao Yuan stepped on the mirror and smashed it to pieces.
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Qu Yaoyao did not die, but was seriously injured by the Yinshan Python Demon, with several bones broken and her origin slightly damaged.
When she woke up, she found herself floating in a circular pool of water. The water was icy cold and emitted a hint of chill. Although it was not as good as the thousand-year-old cold pool of the Wanmen Immortal Sect, fortunately it could still be of some use and could help her repair her broken bones.
After absorbing the cold air from the pool water for a while, Qu Yaoyao felt better. She moved her body and sat up from the pool.
It was a dimly lit hall, lit only by a few candles and surrounded by red curtains. Gazing at these familiar curtains, Qu Yaoyao vaguely guessed where she was. She stood up and climbed out of the pool, lifted the red curtains, and walked out, arriving at the familiar bedroom.
The room was filled with the rich aroma of snow coral, and wisps of smoke rose from the incense burner and dissipated.
Qu Yaoyao parted the curtains and saw Chao Yuan, the Demon Lord, reclining in a golden chair. His regal red robe trailed the ground as he leaned back, one hand supporting his forehead, his dark hair cascading down his side. Quietly approaching, Qu Yaoyao noticed he had his mask back on.
...Was that day a dream?
Recalling the face she saw before she fainted, Qu Yaoyao stopped in her tracks.
Demon Lord Chao Yuan seemed to be asleep, and did not react to her approach, not moving a muscle. Qu Yaoyao waited for a moment, and a lot of thoughts suddenly flooded her mind. After a moment's hesitation, she decided to continue approaching Chao Yuan.
"I thought you would take the opportunity to leave." Qu Yaoyao heard his low and hoarse voice when he stopped in front of Chao Yuan.
"I do want to leave." Qu Yaoyao did think so, "but before I go, I still have two things to do."
"The first thing I need to do is find Qu Jingxian."
"The second thing..." Qu Yaoyao paused and continued to walk closer to Chao Yuan. The fluttering hem of her clothes touched his red robe, rubbing and entangled with it.
Seeing that Demon Lord Chao Yuan didn't show any rejection, she squatted in front of him, looked up at him, and continued, "The second thing I want to find out is whether you are Xie Qingxun."
Almost as soon as she finished speaking, Qu Yaoyao's hand fell on Demon Lord Chao Yuan's mask. Chao Yuan reacted quickly and pressed it down, saying in a cold voice, "How many times do you want me to tell you that Xie Qingxun is dead?"
Qu Yaoyao stubbornly wanted to take off his mask, "Then what's wrong with your face?"
"If you are not him, why do you look so much like him!"
Chao Yuan Demon Lord sneered, "You said it too, it's just a resemblance."
If we take it seriously, "like" and "is" are two completely different concepts.
Qu Yaoyao didn't care. The two times she saw Chao Yuan's face under the mask, he was unconscious. Today, she had to see it again. The more Chao Yuan tried to stop her, the more she wanted to see. The two of them fought fiercely, neither willing to admit defeat. At that moment, Qu Yaoyao seemed to have forgotten that killing her was as easy as killing an ant.
"Hmm." The wound on Qu Yaoyao's wrist had not healed yet, and it hurt when she exerted force.
With this cry of pain, she felt the force that was restraining her loosen, and she immediately pulled off the mask on Chao Yuan's face, finally seeing his true face...
It was exactly the same as the two times she had seen it before. The face in front of her had long eyebrows, phoenix eyes, a straight nose, and pale skin. It was 70% similar to Xie Qingxun. Qu Yaoyao stared at the face in front of her, looking for their differences.
Compared with Xie Qingxun, the face in front of him was less ethereal, and his facial features were more delicate and beautiful, especially those beautiful and bewitching phoenix eyes, which became more narrow and deep, making people lose their mind if they looked at them for a long time.
"You..." Qu Yaoyao took a long time to find her voice.
Chao Yuan raised his eyelashes and looked at her. Hearing her affirmation, "You are obviously him."
Even though his facial features had changed slightly, Qu Yaoyao knew that he was Xie Qingxun.
Chao Yuan chuckled softly, his red-gold eyes clearly reflecting Qu Yaoyao's reflection. He insisted on his previous answer, "I'm not."
"Qu Yaoyao, Xie Qingxun is dead."
Qu Yaoyao shook her head. She had heard this sentence enough these days. "You are not dead, how could you die?"
"You clearly told me at the time to wait for you, and you said you would come back..."
"Yes, I will come back." Chao Yuan interrupted her, "But it will only be me, Chao Yuan, who will come back. Xie Qingxun is dead and he will never come back."
Qu Yaoyao didn't quite understand what he said, "But you're already back."
"Xie Qingxun," she grabbed his sleeve and explained anxiously, "I didn't want to kill you. I really didn't want to kill you."
"I didn't know there was something wrong with the bracelet, and I didn't intend to hide the Kunlun Stone from you again. I know you hate me, so I left the Kunlun Stone behind and wanted to leave, but I didn't expect Qu Yingsi to catch me. I, I..."
Qu Yaoyao choked up and couldn't continue.
This was what she had wanted to explain to Xie Qingxun for a hundred years. She thought of many scenes of their reunion. He might hate her or disbelieve her, but he shouldn't look at her so indifferently.
Chao Yuan's face showed no emotion at all in response to Qu Yaoyao's explanation. He simply said, "A hundred years have passed. Don't you think it's too late to talk about this now?"
Qu Yaoyao was stunned for a moment, not knowing what to say. Her nails dug into her palms, the stinging sensation keeping her awake. After a moment, she spoke again, "So what do you want me to do?"
"Xie Qingxun." Qu Yaoyao retracted her gaze from his face, "I owe you a life, so I'll give it back to you, okay?"
Chao Yuan's eyelids twitched, and without thinking, he said in a harsh voice, "You dare."
She dared to try her self-destructive act again.
Perhaps realizing his own emotional fluctuations were too obvious, he quickly regained his composure and said indifferently, "If I wanted to kill you, you would have been a corpse by the time I returned. Why wait until now?"
Before he could utter a cold word, a warm feeling hit him in the arms. Qu Yaoyao hugged him without any warning. She hugged his waist tightly and sniffed, "Xie Qingxun, I really miss you."
I have been thinking about this hug for a hundred years and cried secretly several times.
Demon Lord Chao Yuan waited for a moment before placing his hand on her hair. He lowered his eyes to look at the girl in his arms and said, "I miss you too."
His tone changed, and he added coldly, "Thinking about how to torture you."
Qu Yaoyao's eyelashes trembled. She buried her face in his chest as if she couldn't hear what he said, and said in a muffled voice, "You said at the time that you would let me wait for you and that you would drag me back and forth into the abyss."
She remembered every word Xie Qingxun said at that time.
She asked, "Since you wanted to torture me, why didn't you come to me earlier? Why did you come to rescue me when you sent the Yinshan Python to torture me?"
Chao Yuan frowned, "When will I send someone to Yinshan..."
He paused mid-sentence, his face turned cold and he changed his words: "I saved you because you are still useful."
"Qu Yaoyao, you might have forgotten that the Kunlun Stone I want is still in your hands."
It turned out that he was after the Kunlun Stone.
Qu Yaoyao's eyes darkened. "Then, if I had given you the Kunlun Stone, would you have let that giant python torture me?"
Chao Yuan's expression grew colder and colder, and he uttered a single word, "Yes."
"I understand." Qu Yaoyao didn't blame him. She slowly withdrew from his arms without crying or making a fuss.
His arms felt empty, and Chao Yuan felt a little irritated. Then he heard Qu Yaoyao put forward a condition to him, "I can give you the Kunlun Stone, but you have to let Qu Jingxian and I leave."
Chao Yuan snorted, "Are you negotiating terms with me?"
Qu Yaoyao's injuries hadn't healed yet, and now they were aching again. She bit her lip, lowered her head and apologized: "I'm sorry."
She had promised him that she would give him the Kunlun Stone, and now she was using it to negotiate with him, which was indeed embarrassing and shameless. But she had no other choice. She had to rescue Qu Jingxian.
"As long as you let us go, I will not break my promise this time and will hand the Kunlun Stone over to you personally."
Chao Yuan couldn't bear to see her dying look, so he said impatiently, "Okay."
Before Qu Yaoyao could be happy, she heard him say again: "Qu Jingxian can leave, but you can't."
This answer was within Qu Yaoyao's expectations. "I, I can stay, but you must release Qu Jingxian and the other cultivators trapped here."
"Okay." Chao Yuan repeated.
Perhaps because of the Kunlun Stone, he was very indulgent towards the conditions proposed by Qu Yaoyao.
Qu Yaoyao didn't smile at this, but instead became even more uneasy. Seeing that she had something else to say, Chao Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly, "What else do you want to say?"
Qu Yaoyao said in a weak voice, "The Kunlun Stone is not with me now. You must let me go back and get it."
Chao Yuan's breath was choked.
"Are you kidding me?" He grabbed Qu Yaoyao's wrist and pulled her into his arms, holding her tightly. He said in a bad tone, "Do you think I'm too good-tempered and won't do anything to you?"
Time and again, challenging his tolerance for her.
Qu Yaoyao was a little panicked. "I don't have it. The Kunlun Stone is really not with me. Can you trust me again? I will definitely bring it back to you when I return to the Immortal Sect."
"Why should I trust you again?" Hadn't he trusted her enough times before?
Qu Yaoyao really didn't want to lie to him this time, "Otherwise, you and I will go to the Immortal Sect to get it."
"What did you say?" Chao Yuan looked as if he had heard something funny. "You're still as vicious as ever. Do you want those idiots from the Immortal Sect to deal with me?"
"...I didn't." Qu Yaoyao really didn't know how to explain it. It wasn't that she couldn't see Chao Yuan was targeting her, so she gave up struggling and asked, "What do you want?"
Chao Yuan lifted her chin and said, "If you want me to trust you, shouldn't you show some sincerity?"
"What sincerity?"
Chao Yuan remained silent, his dark gaze fixed on Qu Yaoyao's face. Suddenly, he leaned forward and kissed her...
The author has something to say: Chao Yuan: Look, I’m going to show you how to say one thing and mean another.
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