Chapter 95 Demon Lord 095%
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Qu Yaoyao and others followed Mo Xuanxiao to join the main force.
In addition to some independent cultivators who were determined to search for treasure, Mo Xuanxiao gathered almost all the immortal sects who came here. Including those brought in by Qu Yaoyao, there were nearly a thousand people.
Mo Xuanxiao already knew the reason for the formation of this secret realm, and also knew about the Kunlun Mysterious Stone. This time, he brought many disciples of the Wanmen Immortal Sect out in order to snatch the Kunlun Mysterious Stone and prevent Chao Yuan from opening the Kunlun Sacred Mountain.
"The reactivation of Kunlun Mountain will not only bring disaster to the world of immortal cultivation, but will also affect the human world."
Chao Yuan had told her too little before, and Qu Yaoyao didn't fully understand. Now, from Mo Xuanxiao's words, she finally understood the devastating impact of Kunlun Mountain's reactivation. In ancient times, Kunlun Mountain was a place of immense danger. Not only was the Crown Prince and Emperor Phoenix sealed away there, but countless demonic beasts and ancient, vicious demons and monsters were also trapped there. If released, the consequences would be disastrous.
"Do you know how many people died in ancient times to seal the Emperor Phoenix Prince?"
After Mo Xuanxiao awakened his dragon bloodline, he began to recall many previously unknown events. For example, some of the events recorded in the ancient sect were false, while some unofficial histories and folk tales were true. Another example was the ancient sect's record of Crown Prince Di Feng, who was violent, cruel, and bloodthirsty. Born ugly and weak, he was despised and bullied by his own people, who admired his strength, and ultimately exterminated his own clan.
"The Emperor Phoenix annihilated the dragon clan and slaughtered all his own kind. After falling into the demonic path, he unleashed a bloody storm in the demon world, demanding that all demons worship him as their master. He declared war on heaven and earth, and the war lasted for a hundred years, resulting in countless casualties and widespread devastation."
The hatred that the immortal cultivation world holds for the Phoenix Clan is not groundless. In his time, Emperor Phoenix was too brutal and cruel, and the Phoenix Clan suffered because of him. If the immortals and gods had not worked together to seal and suppress him in the Kunlun Mountains, the world would have been destroyed in his hands long ago.
"The Immortal Sect has suppressed him for tens of thousands of years. If he comes out, he will definitely take revenge on us."
Qu Yaoyao listened to Mo Xuanxiao's conversation in a daze, and finally heard him ask, "Yaoyao, you are the Fairy Yaolian of the Wanmen Immortal Sect. Are you really going to disregard all human life for Chao Yuan?"
...Qu Yaoyao couldn't do it.
But is she going to betray Chao Yuan again for the sake of the people?
The Kunlun Stone around her waist became heavier and heavier, and Qu Yaoyao felt that she could no longer hold it.
They walked to the intersection of Nangu Island and the secret realm. A pale line separated the two worlds. On one side, there were mountains, water and continuous rain, and on the other side, there was pale falling snow. The snow-capped mountains rolled up and down to form a world of ice and snow, leading to the unknown end.
Mo Xuanxiao decided to rest here for one night and go back to Kunlun Mountain tomorrow to look for the last piece of black stone.
Qu Yaoyao was sitting alone under a tree, staring at the vast expanse of white snow opposite her in a trance. Ah Jiang ran over to her and said, "You're daydreaming again."
She plopped down next to her and asked with concern, "What did Xuan Yao Tianzun say to you? You've been so gloomy since you came back. Did he bully you again?"
Qu Yaoyao shook her head, "Mo Xuanxiao has never bullied me."
"Then why are you unhappy?"
Qu Yaoyao said: "Because, I'm thinking about something."
"Don't you understand?" Ah Jiang became interested. "This is where my role comes in. Yaoyao, if you have any questions, tell me. Maybe I can help you."
Qu Yaoyao had no intention of telling the story, but when Ah Jiang said that, she was a little moved. After thinking for a moment, she said, "I like someone. I have liked him for a long, long time. I have practiced hard for him. I just want to walk up to him and say I like you."
Ah Jiang listened quietly.
Qu Yaoyao added, "I finally got to be with him, but one day I discovered that he wasn't as wonderful as I imagined. He was even... the cruel demon everyone talked about."
Ah Jiang was shocked, "Xuan Yao Tianzun is a demon?!"
"No, no." Qu Yaoyao held back the tears that were about to burst out, and she rarely smiled. "The one I like is not Xuan Yao Tianzun, but the person in red you just saw."
Ah Jiang then realized that she had made a mistake. She felt a little embarrassed and muttered softly, "But I think Xuan Yao Tianzun likes you very much too."
"Oh." Without waiting for Qu Yaoyao to answer, Ah Jiang slapped his head and said, "I won't interrupt you, please continue."
Qu Yaoyao nodded. "I deceived him once and hurt him deeply. I blame myself."
"After he disappeared, I swore every day that as long as he could come back, I would give him everything he wanted, even if... the price was my death."
"Later, he did return, and I returned what he wanted as agreed. I had promised him this thing before he disappeared, and after he returned, I used it as a bargaining chip to get back a disciple of the Immortal Sect. When I decided to return it to him once again, someone told me... giving it to him would be a betrayal to the people."
The burden of life is too heavy for Qu Yaoyao to bear, but she doesn't want to deceive and hurt Chao Yuan anymore. Even if she had a strange dream, a dream is just a dream after all. She is no longer the silly little Xuelian, and Chao Yuan is not Xie Qingxun.
"The thing you want to return to him is the Kunlun Stone, right?" Ah Jiang was very smart. After asking a few more questions, she vaguely guessed what had happened.
"This is indeed difficult."
On one side are the common people, and on the other side is her lover whom she has deceived many times. People are partial to each other, and it is impossible to give up something you love deeply. "But there is still a way."
Ah Jiang had his own thoughts in mind, "Didn't you say that the subsequent deception, love and hate between you and him were all caused by the Kunlun Stone?"
She said, "If I were you, I would give him the Kunlun Stone since I promised him. This is my responsibility to myself and my lover. But people can live without their lovers. Don't forget that you still have friends and family. He is a demon, and you are an immortal. As a fairy from the Immortal Sect, you should fight against the demons and stop them from harming the people. This is your responsibility to the sect and to your own heart."
Ah Jiang reminded her, "Don't forget, there is still a piece of Kunlun Stone that has not been found."
Qu Yaoyao was stunned at first, and then everything became clear to her.
"I understand." After talking with A Jiang, her heart knot was untied.
Yes, after learning that Chao Yuan had come to Nangu Island to search for the Kunlun Stone, Qu Yaoyao's instinctive reaction was to stop him. She did promise to give Chao Yuan the Kunlun Stone, but she never expected him to find all of it.
"Thank you." Qu Yaoyao had the answer in her heart.
It was already nightfall. The cultivators had spent the day battling monsters while searching for surviving civilians, leaving them exhausted both physically and mentally. While everyone was meditating and falling asleep, Qu Yaoyao quietly slipped into the Kunlun Mountains, avoiding the crowd. She knew Chao Yuan was waiting for her not far away.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for Qu Yaoyao to find Chao Yuan. He was sitting sideways on a high snow branch, his red clothes hanging down and entwined with the snow-white branches, like a beautiful phoenix.
Before she could get close, Tu Ling appeared in front of her with an umbrella. She glared at him unfriendlyly, "Qu Yaoyao, you are so brave."
"Do you know how long the Demon Lord has been waiting for you?" Do you know how many plans he has delayed for you?
Qu Yaoyao had no good feelings towards this kind of harmful demon and wanted to find another way to bypass her, but Tu Ling kept pestering her and stood in front of her again.
"Get out of the way." Qu Yaoyao touched the Lian Chao on her wrist. She had limited time to come out and could not be discovered by Mo Xuanxiao.
Tu Ling kept pestering her, but when he saw her touching Lian Chao, he wasn't afraid and laughed instead, "You're just relying on the Demon Lord's favor. With your limited ability, if the Demon Lord really wanted to deal with you, you wouldn't even be qualified to draw your sword."
Qu Yaoyao didn't understand, "What exactly do you want to say?"
Tu Ling snorted. The longer she stayed with the Demon Lord, the more she grew tired of Fairy Yaolian. If she hadn't noticed the Demon Lord was interested in her, she would have skinned and eaten her long ago.
"Don't you humans have a saying that it's important to know yourself?"
Qu Yaoyao was not considered a human being, so she remained silent and did not respond.
Seeing her being so ungrateful, Tu Lingyanmei's expression turned a little ferocious. She gritted her teeth and said, "I just want to tell you that you are just a pet in the hands of the Demon Lord. You'd better be sensible and honest. Know your own status. Don't think that the Demon Lord will not do anything to you."
"If he gets bored, he can always get a new pet!" Take her for example.
It was the first time that Qu Yaoyao heard the word "pet" and she finally looked at the fox demon straight in the eye.
"Pet?" She didn't think the word "pet" was a good description, so she corrected him, "I'm not his pet, and Chao Yuan has no right to make me a pet."
"Oh, oh, oh, you're still angry." Tu Ling covered his mouth with his half-finger-long red nails and pretended to laugh twice: "Why are you taking your anger out on me? I didn't say you were a pet."
"What do you mean?" Qu Yaoyao stared at her.
Tu Ling swung his nine tails behind him and said what he had wished for: "It was Demon Lord Chao Yuan... who personally admitted that you are his pet."
It was that day in Fenyuan Palace when she was caught eavesdropping by Chao Yuan and she bumped into him and ran away.
Qu Yaoyao was stunned for a moment, subconsciously looking at the man on the tall tree. This time, she walked forward and Tu Ling did not stop her. Qu Yaoyao walked to the bottom of the tree, looked up at the man for a moment, and said, "Come down."
Chao Yuan was playing with the jade fan in his hand. He glanced at her and opened it with a snap. "Are you giving me orders?"
Qu Yaoyao pursed her lips. Her complexion, a little transparent against the backdrop of the white snow, looked no better than he had seen in Yingxian City. She lowered her head and kicked the snow off the ground. Her voice softened a little, but it didn't mean she was giving in to him.
"If you don't want to come down, forget it. It's fine to just say it like that."
With a snap, Chao Yuan closed the jade bone fan again.
"This is the Kunlun Stone you have always wanted." Qu Yaoyao took out the Kunlun Stone from the Qiankun bag and put it into a white sachet.
Under Chao Yuan's eyes, she placed the Kunlun Stone under the tree where he was, took two steps back and said, "I'll give it back to you."
This Kunlun Stone is too heavy. The longer Qu Yaoyao wears it, the more uncomfortable she feels. Now that she has handed it to Chao Yuan, she instantly feels relieved.
A faint smile finally appeared at the corners of her lips. Qu Yaoyao wiped the falling snow from her long eyelashes as she spoke, "Our love-hate relationship all started because of this Kunlun Stone. Now I am returning it to you as promised. I really didn't lie to you this time."
Chao Yuan was slightly stunned, as if he didn't believe that Qu Yaoyao would voluntarily hand over the Kunlun Stone. He looked at the stone and then looked at her again.
With his eyes half-closed, he asked defensively, "What do you mean?"
Qu Yaoyao didn’t mean anything, she just didn’t want to continue living this unhappy life.
"Chao Yuan."
She called out to him and told him what was in her heart, "I used to blame myself for owing you my life, but lately I've been feeling more and more... I don't seem to owe you anything. Or perhaps, the entanglement between you and me is not limited to this lifetime. With all the love and hate, it's no longer clear who owes whom more."
For example, Chong'an, whose identity is mysterious, and the strange dreams she has been having repeatedly.
Qu Yaoyao once thought seriously about who owed whom more between her and Chao Yuan. If she owed him because of the Kunlun Stone, then the origin of the strange dream was cause and effect. If she had given it to him at that time, the one who owed her would be Xie Qingxun.
"I don't want to die."
"Chao Yuan, I still want to live." At least, let her death be more meaningful, rather than being a key to bring suffering to the people.
Qu Yaoyao choked up as she spoke, but Chao Yuan felt annoyed listening to her.
"I don't understand what you are saying." He pushed himself up with his arms and jumped down from the tall tree. His fiery red clothes fluttered like a burning flame.
He didn't immediately pick up the Kunlun Stone on the ground. He just glanced at Qu Yaoyao, his red-gold eyes clearly reflecting her figure. "Since you are here, come with me."
He wanted to pull Qu Yaoyao's hand, but Qu Yaoyao dodged sideways.
"What on earth do you want to do?" Chao Yuan looked at her with a cold gaze. "My patience is limited. I am not in the mood to continue messing around with you."
Nonsense.
It turned out that in his eyes, everything she did was nonsense.
Qu Yaoyao sniffed, suppressed the urge to cry, and asked him, "What are you going to do after we find all the Kunlun stones and open the Kunlun Sacred Mountain?"
Chao Yuan patiently replied, "What do you think I'm going to do?"
Naturally, they had to open the seal of Kunlun Mountain and release the ancient demon god Emperor Feng.
"Then do you know that once the seal of the Kunlun Stone is broken, the monsters in the mountains will run out and endanger the human world..."
Before Qu Yaoyao could finish her words, Chao Yuan coldly asked, "What does life and death in the human world have to do with me?"
"They sealed me for ten thousand years. Why should I care about their life or death?"
Chao Yuan's heart was filled with violence whenever he thought about what happened ten thousand years ago. His pure demonic body was even more cruel and cold-blooded. He said with malice, "It would be better if they were all dead."
Those insignificant and useless mortals deserve to die, and so do those hypocritical and disgusting immortal cultivators. "Instead of worrying about their lives, you should think about what will happen to the cultivators who are trapped here now."
Chao Yuan curved his thin lips into a beautiful smile, gently stroking his jade fan and saying, "I will not let them leave here."
"Yaoyao, do you really want to stay and be buried with them?"
When the Emperor Phoenix is born, the world of immortal cultivators will definitely rise up to besiege it. Even if someone were to trap these monsters in the Kunlun Mountains again, the human world and the world of immortal cultivators would still be devastated, repeating the tragic scene of ten thousand years ago.
"I won't let them go." Chao Yuan's hatred was too strong. It was the resentment accumulated over tens of thousands of years that no one could understand, and it was not something that could be quelled by Qu Yaoyao alone.
Qu Yaoyao is not Chao Yuan. She does not have the resentment that has been sealed for thousands of years. She really has no way to persuade Chao Yuan to be magnanimous and forgive her, and selflessly fall into darkness forever for the sake of the people.
He is a demon.
He is a demon after all.
Qu Yaoyao got the answer she wanted, and she was so heartbroken that she couldn't breathe. She thought she would cry, but it turned out that she could laugh even when she was sad, and she would lose her reaction when it reached the extreme.
Qu Yaoyao should be thankful that she could still smile. She wiped the non-existent tears from her face, took a step back and said, "So, I can't go with you."
She also wanted to be with Chao Yuan. From the perspective of liking him, she wanted to see him escape from the predicament of ten thousand years and appear in his true form. She wanted to accompany him in this icy and dangerous sacred mountain and play with him in the snow. But all this was based on the premise that she was still alive and did not bear the lives of many people.
Qu Yaoyao is not a god, but her heart of Taoism has been firm after a hundred years of cultivation. She has always sought goodness and purity, and she cannot go against her heart of Taoism.
"I can't... go with you."
They eventually came to an end. After Qu Yaoyao decided to give the Kunlun Stone to Chao Yuan, she and Mo Xuanxiao would snatch the Xuan Stone from the secret realm. No matter what, she would get it.
Chao Yuan finally understood what was going on. The expression on his face gradually faded as he stated the facts, "So, you chose Mo Xuanxiao."
She didn't choose Mo Xuanxiao, but her own heart.
Chao Yuan laughed suddenly.
It was a dry, emotionless smile, colder than snow and harder than stone. He continued to smile because he felt he owed Qu Yaoyao a response.
"Qu Yaoyao."
He asked, "Why do you think I will let you go?"
He is a demon, the cold-blooded and ruthless demon in Qu Yaoyao's mouth. After Qu Yaoyao gave him the Kunlun Stone and revealed her feelings, how could he let her go back safely and let her be with another man.
"How silly." Chao Yuan sighed softly, his hair hanging down in front of his forehead, his eyes much darker than before.
Qu Yaoyao sensed the danger and when she wanted to escape, Chao Yuan had already appeared behind her and hugged her waist tightly.
Qu Yaoyao is much shorter than Chao Yuan. In the past, when they kissed, Chao Yuan would bend down and lower his head to accommodate her height. But this time, he was determined not to lower his head for Qu Yaoyao again, so he lifted her up into the air, pinched her chin and kissed her hard.
"Um... let go..." Qu Yaoyao's legs were shaking, and she felt that her waist was about to be broken by him.
Chao Yuan's strength was still increasing. The harder Qu Yaoyao struggled, the tighter his control became. Even the kiss became a rough punishment, blocking her breathing as if he wanted to swallow her mouthful by mouthful.
"If Mo Xuanxiao can hug you, why can't I?"
Chao Yuan's eyes grew darker and darker. When he heard Qu Yaoyao's broken sobs, he snorted, pressed his hand against her forehead, pecked her eyes, and said, "Do you really think I can't leave you?"
"You challenge my bottom line time and time again, and you still have the audacity to come to me and say you want to go against me."
"Should I say you are silly and cute, or you are so spoiled that I lose interest." Chao Yuan's words were like knives, each one piercing Qu Yaoyao's heart.
Qu Yaoyao's lips were swollen from his bite, and tears wet her long eyelashes, falling slowly, looking very pitiful. Trembling from the pain of his strangulation, she could only tightly grasp his drooping black hair and cry, "I did this... out of my last trust in you."
After such a long relationship, how could Qu Yaoyao not trust him at all? She always felt that she had grown up, but she still had some natural naivety, thinking that if she gave him the Kunlun Stone and made things clear to him, he would generously let her go.
She underestimated the evil and cruelty of the demon, and underestimated Chao Yuan's deep-seated love and hatred for her.
"I'm really sorry to disappoint you." Chao Yuan's long eyelashes trembled a few times after hearing this. His dark red eyes were cold and gloomy, but he still had a smile on his face.
"I won't let you go."
Chao Yuan pinched her chin and bit her again, whispering maliciously in her ear, "It's not that I can't bear to part with you, but I want you to see with your own eyes how these people die."
"When I've had enough fun, I'll send you down to be buried with them."
"Are you happy?"
Qu Yaoyao felt a sharp pain in her earlobe; Chao Yuan bit her again.
Grabbing Chao Yuan's hair tightly, she began to struggle again regardless of the pain, "You can't do this!"
"I must do this."
"Tu Ling." He asked the woman not far away with a smile, "This secret realm is very boring. Why don't we kill a few cultivators to relieve our fatigue? Let's start with those in black who have the best relationship with Qu Yaoyao."
"Tu Ling obeys your command." Tu Ling also curled up the corners of his lips.
Seeing that she was really going, Qu Yaoyao was forced into a corner and slapped him hard, "Chao Yuan!"
Her angry voice was filled with tears. "What exactly do you want me to do? What do I have to do to get you to let me go..."
She was so sad, really so sad.
Chao Yuan's fair face was marred by faint finger marks, his face slightly tilted from the blow, his hair drooping. He loosened his grip and threw the man to the ground. He cut off the black hair Qu Yaoyao was holding, his tone cold and filled with suppressed murderous intent, "You're really getting more and more presumptuous."
How dare you hit him.
Qu Yaoyao fell to the ground in the snow, curled up and sobbed, lost in her own pain. She felt that Ah Jiang was right, "You don't like me."
She cried and said to Chao Yuan: "You don't like me at all, and I shouldn't like you."
It's really sad to like him.
Chao Yuan's murderous intent intensified when he heard the last few words. He leaned over and grabbed her collar, saying, "Yes, I have never liked you."
"Who are you?"
"You are nothing more than a toy in my hand. If I like you, I will keep you. If I am tired of you, I will kill you. Since you are so determined to die, I might as well grant your wish."
Chao Yuan's murderous intent stirred. He raised his hand and swung out his Jade Bone Fan, as if about to strike Qu Yaoyao. Suddenly, a violent wind blew up, and a fierce attack came from a distance. Chao Yuan flipped his wrist and swung the Jade Bone Fan, blocking the fatal blow head-on.
Bang--
The two sides collided, and the wind and snow confuse the eyes.
"Demon Lord!" Tu Ling came over anxiously.
Chao Yuan's clothes and hair were blown by the wind. When the wind and snow stopped, the jade bone fan returned to his hand, but the girl who was supposed to be sitting on the ground crying was gone.
"Do you want to chase her?" Tu Ling was a little unhappy when she saw Qu Yaoyao being rescued. She wished that the Demon Lord would kill her sooner.
Chao Yuan's fingers holding the fan were shaking slightly. He looked at the exit of the snow mountain with an expressionless face. The fingerprints on his cheek had not yet disappeared.
"Since she wants to die, let her die with these cultivators."
Walking under the tree, Chao Yuan picked up the small sachet on the ground and saw that it was embroidered with a blooming snow lotus and was stuffed bulgingly.
After a pause, he tore open the sachet, revealing the red and transparent stone inside, which was indeed Kunlun Stone.
I don’t want to die.
【Chao Yuan, I still want to live.】
Chao Yuan frowned as he inexplicably recalled Qu Yaoyao's words. This was not the first time he had heard her say this. Ever since she agreed to hand over the Kunlun Stone to him, Qu Yaoyao had been acting very strangely.
What is the connection between Kunlun Stone and her, and what else is there that he doesn't know.
Chao Yuan became suspicious and prepared to reopen the Phoenix Clan's oracle.
The author has something to say: Qu Yaoyao: Come out, we broke up.
Chao Yuan: Breaking up is fatal, think it over carefully.
Whether Chao Yuan is normal or not depends entirely on how Yaoyao treats him.
I thought about this for a long time. When writing, I not only had to put myself in the shoes of the heroine, but also every character in the novel. To be honest, the most tiring thing was putting myself in the shoes of Yaoyao. In the current situation, she is in a really difficult situation. No matter what choice she makes, she will be at a disadvantage.
Thanks to the little angels who cast mines: Yi Zhihu Yan, Winter Star River 1;
Thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution: A Yuan 20 bottles; Wang Yan 14 bottles; Wan Xi and Winter Star River 10 bottles; Xi Xi 3 bottles; Qian Yu and Sleepy Kun Kun 1 bottle;
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