Chapter 62: The Road to the Heart and the Triangle Confrontation of Jealousy
The Road to the Heart and the Sea of Vinegar: A Triangle Confrontation
Li Jiuyou's subconscious blocking and roar made the already delicate situation even more bizarre.
Fairy Baizhi watched Li Jiuyou shield Jiang Xuelan behind him, watching Jiang Xuelan, seemingly unresisting and even somewhat dazed, lean against him. She felt a blackout, her heart pierced by countless needles! She had imagined her Junior Brother Jiang to be aloof, aloof, and untouchable. How could he be so...**entangled** with this vulgar and violent demon king?! There was even a damned tacit understanding between them!
"Junior Brother Jiang!" Bai Zhi's voice was so sharp it almost broke, filled with tears and disbelief. "How could you...how could you let this evil creature touch you! He must have used some evil magic to bewitch you! Let me kill him and break the curse for you!"
As she spoke, she actually ignored everything and urged the Flowing Light Shuttle, filled with hatred and immortal spiritual light, to shoot at Li Jiuyou again! This time, the attack was filled with anger, and the power was even greater than before!
"Crazy woman! Are you done yet?" Li Jiuyou was trying his best to fight against the remaining evil energy in his body and the external pressure. Seeing this, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood. It was too late for him to swing his sword to block!
Jiang Xuelan's eyes turned cold, and without even thinking, he used the Frost Silence Sword to create an ice wall, accurately blocking Li Jiuyou!
The light shuttle crashed into the ice wall and shattered into countless points of light.
"Senior Sister Baizhi," Jiang Xuelan's voice was colder than the ten thousand year old black ice. "This place is dangerous, and the source of evil is at hand. Let's put aside our personal grudges for now. If you continue to act recklessly, don't blame me for being merciless with my sword."
He stood beside Li Jiuyou. Although his face was still pale, his posture was upright, his eyes were sharp, and his protective intention was unmistakable.
Li Jiuyou was stunned, his scarlet-gold pupils slightly dilated as he looked at Jiang Xuelan's icy profile. This icy face... is protecting him? Although his tone was still so annoying, but... **He's actually protecting me?**
An extremely unfamiliar, sour and numb emotion, like a subtle electric current, suddenly ran through Li Jiuyou's heart, making him forget to refute or even mock for a moment.
Bai Zhi was struck by lightning, her face pale as paper. She stumbled back a step, her beautiful eyes filled with brokenness and despair: "Junior Brother Jiang...you...you threatened me for him?"
The disciples behind her looked at each other in bewilderment. It looked as if the Light of the Immortal Realm and the Demon King had united, leaving Senior Sister Baizhi as the one causing trouble and disrupting the situation.
Xuanjia took the opportunity to shout, "Stop being dazed! Didn't you hear what the token said? 'Key back in place!' 'Heart Grave'! Find a way out if you want to survive! This evil source is getting stronger!"
A Che also held the Jianmu fragments and tried to expand the purification range. His little face was nervous: "Senior Brother, Brother Li, the map points over there!" He pointed to a corridor shrouded in shadows deep in the cave.
At the entrance of the corridor, ancient patterns similar to the edges of the bronze tokens could be vaguely seen.
Li Jiuyou was the first to come back to his senses. He suppressed the strange feeling in his heart and said angrily: "Hmph! You, with your icy face, still have some conscience! Let's go! Ignore this crazy woman!" As he said that, he grabbed Jiang Xuelan's wrist with his backhand (the action was so natural as if it had been practiced countless times), and pulled him towards the corridor!
"You!" Jiang Xuelan's wrist was grasped by the burning hand. After struggling for a moment, he was dragged forward again and could only quicken his pace to keep up. The Heart-Slaying Contract could sense the scorching heat of the other party's palm and a slight... barely perceptible rapid heartbeat?
"Wang! Wait for me!" Man Gu swept his opponent away with a stick and quickly caught up.
Ache and Xuanjia also hurriedly chased after him.
Bai Zhi looked at the backs of the two people leaving hand in hand (?), and was so angry that she was shaking all over. She screamed, "Chase! Chase! We can't let them get away!" She also led the disciples of the immortal sect to chase into the corridor.
The corridor was unusually narrow and dim, its stone walls covered in blurred murals depicting scenes of ancient rituals and ferocious beasts battling alongside towering figures (protoss?). The aura of evil had faded considerably here, but a heaviness and sadness, a condensation of countless longings and regrets, permeated the air.
"Heart Tomb..." Jiang Xuelan looked at the mural, a flash of understanding flashing in his icy blue eyes. "Could it be that this is where the Zhe tribe places the relics or... the hearts of their deceased members?"
Li Jiuyou paused, a complex expression flickering across his red-gold eyes. The Zhe tribe did have a similar tradition. Upon the death of a powerful warrior, their heart or other personal belongings would be consecrated to a sacred site known as the "Heart Tomb," symbolizing the soul's final resting place and the eternal power of their power. But he had never heard of such a place within the Ten Thousand Demon Tomb.
The deeper you go, the stronger the feeling of sadness and longing becomes, and it even begins to slightly affect your mind.
Jiang Xuelan seemed to see his mother's gentle smile and the leaves of the Xirang tree flash before his eyes, while Li Jiuyou seemed to hear his father's low murmur and his brother Feng Ye's hearty laughter... Both of them fell silent, with heavy hearts.
Suddenly, Li Jiuyou, who was running in front, stopped abruptly. Jiang Xuelan, who was following closely behind him, was caught off guard and almost bumped into his strong back.
"What's wrong again?" Jiang Xuelan frowned.
Li Jiuyou didn't look back, his voice was a little strange: "...There is no way ahead."
At the end of the corridor, instead of the vast tomb chamber he had expected, he saw a mirror-smooth, inky-black stone wall. Made of neither gold nor jade, it felt icy cold, as if absorbing all light and sound. The map's shadow vanished here, leaving the glint of light directly in the center of the wall.
"Is this the entrance to the 'Heart Tomb'?" Man Gu knocked on the stone wall with his bone stick, making a dull thud, but it didn't move at all.
"Token! Try the token!" Xuanjia reminded.
Li Jiuyou took out the bronze token and carefully pressed it to the corresponding position in the center of the stone wall.
The moment the token was embedded, the entire dark stone wall suddenly rippled with water-like patterns! Then, the stone wall became transparent, vaguely revealing what seemed to be a small circular space behind it. In the center was a stone platform, on which something seemed to be enshrined.
But at the same time, a powerful **mental barrier** with a sense of scrutiny blocked the entrance!
An old, tired thought rang out again, this time only echoing in the minds of Li Jiuyou and Jiang Xuelan:
"The heart's grave is a sacred place, only sincerity is allowed... Only the most sincere feelings and pure thoughts can reveal the path and comfort the spirits of the ancestors..."
The most genuine love? The purest thoughts?
Li Jiuyou: “???” What the hell?
Jiang Xuelan: "..." Silence.
This doesn't look like something that these two sworn enemies with a deep blood feud, forced to be bound together, and full of resentment would come up with!
At this moment, Bai Zhi and her men also chased to the end. Seeing the transparent barrier and the treasure (what she thought) looming behind it, greed flashed in her eyes: "The treasure is behind! Break it!"
She gathered her immortal power and struck the barrier fiercely!
The barrier did not move at all, but a powerful rebound force pushed Bai Zhi back several steps, causing her blood to surge.
"Senior Sister! This barrier seems to require special conditions to open..." a disciple reminded in a low voice.
Special conditions? Bai Zhi looked at Jiang Xuelan and Li Jiuyou in front of the barrier, especially their hands, which had been unconsciously clasped together again (due to running and exploring just now). Jealousy once again overwhelmed her rationality!
"True love? Could it be..." She looked at Jiang Xuelan, then at Li Jiuyou, and a ridiculous and devastating thought flashed through her mind. She screamed without thinking, "Junior Brother Jiang! Could it be that you and this monster... have been... secretly in contact for a long time?! That's why you were able to open this barrier?! Are you worthy of the cultivation of the Immortal Sect?!"
Jiang Xuelan's face darkened instantly: "Nonsense!"
Li Jiuyou was even more furious: "Bullshit! I'm not blind!"
However, just as they were simultaneously filled with intense and unanimous anger and rebuttal due to Bai Zhi's slander—
The pitch-black stone barrier actually lit up slightly!
Although it is weak, there is indeed a reaction!
Everyone: “!!!”
Jiang Xuelan: "..."
Li Jiuyou: “…”
Bai Zhi: “……???” Was I right to curse?!
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