Chapter 43: Old Dream (VI) “Just accompany me to finish this one thing, I…
Lian Qiang was so angry that she actually laughed. Seeing that more and more people were gathering around her and watching, she didn't want to make a big deal out of it, so she stood still and calmed herself down. "There are so many people here, could you please have a moment with me, Immortal Lord?"
Chi Xingji looked around, understood what she meant, and said, "Okay."
His celestial aura was too conspicuous in the demon world, so Lian Qiang had no choice but to bring him to the small courtyard where he lived. Chi Xingji didn't enter at first, but took a quick look and asked, "Don't you plant any trees?"
"I've planted it before, but it didn't survive." Lian Qiang answered without thinking, answering Fang Jue's words.
What she was more worried about was why Chi Xingji asked this question. Did he know her preferences and habits?
Fortunately, Chi Xingji seemed to be asking casually. Lian Qiang led him in with a cold face and didn't even want to serve him a pot of tea.
He got straight to the point: "You've been lying to me all these days."
"I didn't!" Lian Qiang instinctively wanted to refute, but was locked in Chi Xingji's clear gaze. She tried to avoid him, but then realized she was too obvious, so she forced herself to face him calmly.
"You do," he said confidently. "If not, I'd be visiting you as a mere acquaintance, reminiscing about the past. Why are you so nervous?"
Lian Qiang closed her eyes, trying to calm the rage welling up in her chest. She opened them again and said, "I've said it before, there's a difference between immortals and demons. The Immortal Lord came to the demon world alone to find me, not afraid of causing controversy, but I am. You must have something to ask of me. I'll definitely do what I can, but feel free to ask."
"I recently found some clues about my past. I know where I once belonged," Chi Xingji said, and Lian Qiang's heart began to lift. "I hope you can accompany me to the Wuji Sword Sect."
"no!"
Lian Qiang quickly refused, and Chi Xingji asked, "Why? Didn't they say it's okay to talk about it?"
Taking a deep breath, Lian Qiang really wanted to kick him out immediately. She was really controlled by his words. She couldn't tell Chi Xingji that there were too many bad memories of him there, and she was afraid that he would remember something, so she didn't want to go there anymore.
Seeing her silence, Chi Xingji continued to press: "If you have a clear conscience, why don't you dare to go with me?"
"Immortal Lord, I am a demon," Lian Qiang suddenly sneered. She finally mustered the courage to look him in the face. She raised her hand and displayed the black lotus on the back of it. "You're asking a demon cultivator to penetrate the vital territory of the Immortal Sect. If someone accidentally discovers me, do you want to see me surrounded and killed?"
"I promise, I will get you out of here safely..."
"——I don't need you to bother protecting my people." Someone pushed the door open and said coldly. Lian Qiang hurriedly stood up and wanted to stand behind Jiang Lang.
Chi Xingji reached out to shake her hand, but missed, his fingertips barely brushing against her sleeve. He stared at his fingertips for a moment before looking up to see her smoothly standing behind Jiang Lang.
"Why are you here?" Lian Qiang asked quietly, but then realized she had done nothing. Chi Xingji had caused such a commotion, Jiang Lang could only be unwilling to intervene, not unaware of the situation.
As expected, Jiang Lang glanced at her, and everything was said without words. This seemingly intimate interaction between the two fell into Chi Xingji's eyes, and his eyes dimmed, and his hands under his sleeves tightened little by little.
"I was wondering who was showing off his power in my territory," Jiang Lang narrowed his eyes and smiled, "it turned out to be Xingji Immortal Lord. I have long heard of your great name."
Neither of them used any strength, they just stood there calmly, but Lian Qiang could smell a tense atmosphere.
She tugged at Jiang Lang's sleeve, signaling him to speak more politely. If Chi Xingji continued to behave erratically, it would not be a good thing to offend him. Her little actions naturally did not escape Chi Xingji's eyes. Chi Xingji had no idea that she would defend someone like this.
The sword cultivator calmed his mind and said, "I came here just to find her. I have no intention of disrupting the order of the demon world."
Chi Xingji's gaze shifted to Lian Qiang again: "I apologize for any offense."
"What a great saying, 'I didn't mean to disturb you.' If we only consider the heart and not the deeds, everything will be judged. Even if you didn't mean to do that, you have broken the rules of our demon world. Now you want to forcibly take my subordinates away. Do you think I'm dead?" Jiang Lang snorted coldly, as if he would not give up.
"...Subordinate? Is that how you view her?" Chi Xingji pondered the meaning of the word. Lian Qiang knew he must have misunderstood something again, and she hadn't mentioned this to Jiang Lang. She opened her mouth to refute him, but then thought it would be better to just let it go. This way, it would be better for both of them.
Jiang Lang gave him a suspicious look. "How I view her is between us two. What does it have to do with you?"
"No matter who you are, you have no right to interfere with what she wants to do." Chi Xingji calmed down. "If she is willing to go with me, I will take her away even if it means destroying this place. If she is unwilling, this time it is my fault."
The Demon Lord laughed twice. "Unwilling? Abrupt? Didn't you hear what Qiang said earlier? She said she didn't want to go with you. She told her concerns, yet you kept forcing her. Is this how an Immortal Lord does things?"
His tone suddenly became sharp: "Do you really respect her as much as you say?"
As if a sore spot had been touched, Chi Xingji remained silent for a long time.
Since meeting Lian Qiang, he also felt that his temperament had changed significantly. Before, he was completely free of desires, his only desire being to regain his past memories. But why did he want to regain his memories? Chi Xingji had no idea.
He just felt that everything he lost was extremely important to him, more important than his life.
For this reason, he went down to the mortal world and met Lian Qiang.
Something that had vanished with the vanishing memories seemed to be slowly reviving. Chi Xingji watched himself irresistibly approach her, as if he had finally found something he had lost. She had clearly stated in harsh words that they should part ways, but Chi Xingji, sensing something was amiss, still rushed over.
—An emotion he himself didn't know the source of was driving him. He just felt that if he let her go like this, he would probably regret it for the rest of his life.
Chi Xingji slowly opened his eyes. The small room was invisibly divided into two worlds by him and Jiang Lang, and Lian Qiang was looking at him from the far, unreachable other side.
If he wanted to go over, Jiang Lang would probably not allow him.
"...One last thing," Chi Xingji said with difficulty, "Just accompany me to finish this one thing, and I will never bother you again. I only ask for this one answer. But if you don't want it, I will leave immediately, without any complaints."
Lian Qiang remained silent for a long time. She should have refused. Chi Xingji had already said so, and with Jiang Lang defending her, she could have simply refused.
But she refused, and the dream silk on her chest felt slightly hot, as if questioning her.
——Are you really willing to reject him like this?
——You say you don’t need dream silk and you want to try your best to let go, but can you really have no regrets?
——He came all the way to the demon world to find you. Don’t you really think that he has true feelings for you and will not waver?
At this moment, Lian Qiang understood that the three words "Chi Xingji" were a long nightmare for her, not to mention that it was Chi Xingji who had lost his memory. She couldn't control herself from having such a dream, even if it was a nightmare, she was willing to accept it.
Perhaps it was fate that they would meet again, and fate had destined them to be entangled like this.
"Okay," Lian Qiang heard herself speaking with equal difficulty, "I'll go with you one last time."
"Lian Qiang--" Jiang Lang was dissatisfied and wanted to refute, but she stopped him with a smile and a shake of her head.
Chi Xingji's eyes lit up, and he was about to speak when she stopped him: "I just hope that the Immortal Lord will keep his promise and stop pestering me in the future."
Are you pestering her... and won't let go?
The hope in his eyes suddenly disappeared, and Chi Xingji was silent for a while before pursing his lips: "...It's a deal."
Jiang Lang was dissatisfied and wanted to attack again, but Chi Xingji said, "Don't worry, Demon Lord. I will bring her back the same way I took her there. She will never be harmed in the slightest."
At this point, it would be unreasonable for Jiang Lang to make things difficult for him. Lian Qiang used the excuse of needing to settle down for a few more days to persuade Chi Xingji to leave. Facing Jiang Lang, who was disappointed with his son, Lian Qiang felt guilty and vowed: "Don't worry, when I come back, I will definitely burn the dream silk and won't fall in the same place again."
"Dream silk? That's quite rare," Jiang Lang said, as if he had heard something new. "But I don't know when you went to Kunlun Mountain."
Lian Qiang's smile froze for a moment: "What... do you mean?"
"What do you mean by what I mean? You have been absent from your post many times, and I don't know where you are having fun, and you don't allow me to ask more questions?" Jiang Lang was about to knock on her head, and Lian Qiang was stunned for a moment and did not dodge.
"Dream silk, don't you have it too?"
She gestured, but saw Jiang Lang frowning, his expression not pretending, and asked doubtfully, "What do I need the dream silk for?"
Lian Qiang was speechless, and then thought of another possibility: perhaps, Jiang Lang ignited the dream silk and forgot everything related to it.
After thinking about it, I'm afraid this is the only possibility.
Although Lian Qiang felt regretful, she also understood that this was his own choice and he wanted to say goodbye to the past. It was not reasonable for her to comment too much, so she concealed her expression and smiled and passed it over.
Lian Qiang didn't actually have anything to take with her, as she had nothing to carry with her. Over the past few days, Lian Qiang realized that if she died, she wouldn't leave anything behind. The heaviest burden on her was her past.
What she and Chi Xingji are about to do is to uncover the past again.
The two of them had little to say during the journey, but as they neared their destination, Lian Qiang sensed something was amiss. Compared to the Wuji Sword Sect, this road felt more like... a path to their former home.
Lian Qiang's heart was in turmoil, but she couldn't show it. She guessed Chi Xingji must have discovered something, which was why he turned back, but he definitely didn't know the truth, so she must not lose her composure.
As long as she refused to admit it, Chi Xingji couldn't do anything to her - Lian Qiang made up her mind and vowed to play dumb to the end.
But when they really stood in the courtyard in their memory, Lian Qiang couldn't hide her complicated mood.
After all these years... she finally came back. And she came back with Chi Xingji.
A hundred years have passed, things have changed, and people's moods are no longer as good as before.
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