Chapter 63: True Love Trial and Straight Man's Social Death Confession
True Love Test and Straight Man's Social Death Confession
The faint light from the stone barrier plunged the entire narrow corridor into deathly silence.
Everyone's eyes were focused on Jiang Xuelan and Li Jiuyou, filled with shock, inquiry, and (in the eyes of Bai Zhi and the immortal sect disciples) **understanding and contempt**.
Jiang Xuelan felt that those gazes were even more unbearable than the evil source's erosion. Beneath his frozen face, embarrassment and shame threatened to boil. He subconsciously tried to shake off Li Jiuyou's hand, but found that the other party's fingers were tightly clenched due to shock and inexplicable emotions.
"What are you looking at!" Li Jiuyou was the first to react. His scarlet eyes glared at Bai Zhi and the immortal sect disciples with anger, trying to mask the turmoil in his heart with ferocity. "It's this broken wall that's acting up! What does this have to do with me?"
Bai Zhi, however, seemed to have grasped some powerful evidence. She pointed at the two men's still clasped hands, her voice trembling with excitement and jealousy. "What's wrong? Why didn't it react when we attacked it, but you two...when you two got angry, it lit up? Junior Brother Jiang! You still dare to say that there's nothing between you two?! This is clearly... proof of **mutual understanding**!"
Affectionate connection?!
Jiang Xuelan and Li Jiuyou were shocked by these four words and blurted out at the same time:
“Nonsense!”
"Are you blind?!"
However, their unanimous rebuttal, with even the same rhythm of anger, seemed to subtly match some kind of "synchronization" condition again.
The light on the dark stone wall became brighter, and even some fuzzy, intertwined ice-blue and red-gold light threads appeared faintly, flowing slowly like a living thing!
Everyone: “!!!” It’s confirmed?!
Xuan Jia's shell trembled with excitement in A Che's arms. "It's lit! It's lit again! The synchronization rate is off the charts! I've long said this is a destined bond! A match made in heaven! A pair created by earth! Even the trial barrier has been certified!"
Man Gu scratched his head and innocently took out his notebook to record: "Wang and Jiang Xianjun jointly refuted Fairy Baizhi. Barrier brightness +1. Suspected to be an advanced application of 'beating is love, scolding is affection'?"
Ah Che's face flushed red as he looked from his senior brother to Big Brother Li, muttering softly, "So... we have to get angry together?"
Jiang Xuelan and Li Jiuyou looked at the brighter barrier and listened to the outrageous remarks around them. For the first time, they felt a synchronized sense of despair, wanting to destroy everything.
This damn heart tomb! This damn trial! Who designed it?!
At this moment, the old thought sounded again, with a barely perceptible hint of... **helplessness**?
"It's not... anger... but... **resonance**..."
"Heart Grave... Reflecting Heart... Manifesting... **True Love**..."
"Resistance... is futile... Honesty... is the key..."
Resonance? Truth? Honesty?
Jiang Xuelan and Li Jiuyou looked as if they had swallowed a hundred flies alive at the same time.
How could they, two people who wanted to strangle each other, be so "honest" and "sincere" in front of a nonsensical wall in such a situation? And even have a "resonance"?
This is more difficult than asking them to fight ten more nightmare vine mother bodies!
Bai Zhi seemed to have seen hope. She rushed to the barrier and shouted to the stone wall: "Senior! I am Bai Zhi, a junior, and I am deeply in love with Junior Brother Jiang Xuelan. Heaven and earth can bear witness to this! This love is pure and sincere. Please understand and let me in!" She tried hard to gather all her love and possessiveness for Jiang Xuelan.
The barrier didn't react at all, and even the icy blue and red-gold threads of light avoided her position as if in disgust.
Bai Zhi: “…”
Immortal Sect disciples: "..."
Seeing this, Li Jiuyou sneered with a bit of malicious pride: "See, crazy woman, unrequited love is useless!" He regretted it as soon as he said it, because this seemed to indirectly admit that the barrier needed something "two-way".
Sure enough, the barrier seemed to "understand" his words, and the light flickered in anticipation.
Li Jiuyou: "..." He wanted to smash this broken wall!
Jiang Xuelan took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down. He carefully pondered the words "heart tomb reflects the heart" and "manifests true feelings," and then combined them with the sadness and longing that permeated the place, as well as the traditions of the Zhe tribe...
"Perhaps," he began slowly, his voice returning to its usual coolness, yet with a hint of uncertainty, "this place isn't testing love between men and women, but rather something more broadly... a **true bond**? For example... comradeship? Or... a common goal?"
This was the most reasonable speculation he could make based on logic and the available information. Instead of asking him to admit he had any "affection" for Li Jiuyou, he might as well let him eat ten more God-Slaying Gu!
Li Jiuyou's eyes lit up, and he immediately agreed: "That's right! That must be the case! I and this Ice Face are now grasshoppers tied to the same rope, with the same goal, which is to kill the evil god and break this broken contract! This bond is real enough, right?! Open the door quickly!"
The two reached an agreement again and tried to silently recite "cooperation", "goal" and "unlock the contract" in their hearts.
The light of the barrier stabilized a little, but no passage appeared.
The old man's thoughts echoed faintly: "...deceiving oneself...deceiving others..."
"The bond... although real... is not complete... **its sincerity**..."
"My heart is so thick...why not...face it head on..."
Not sincere enough? Face it directly?
This broken wall also has psychological counseling functions?!
Jiang Xuelan and Li Jiuyou's faces were as dark as the bottom of a pot. They'd already faced it head-on! Did they really have to hug and pour out their hearts right there and then?!
Just as the two of them were madly complaining in their hearts and were deadlocked——
"Whoosh whoosh!"
Several fierce attacks suddenly came from behind, hitting Jiang Xuelan and Li Jiuyou in the back! It turned out that a few unwilling disciples of the immortal sect, seeing that the barrier had not been opened for a long time, tried to launch a sneak attack!
"Looking for death!" Li Jiuyou turned around angrily and was about to fight back.
Jiang Xuelan also condensed an ice shield at the same time.
But the attack came too fast and too suddenly! The two were also disturbed by the barrier issue!
Seeing the attack coming——
Li Jiuyou and Jiang Xuelan's voices overlapped again!
This time, without any thought!
Li Jiuyou suddenly pushed Jiang Xuelan to the side! He then used his back to withstand the attack, groaning, and blood flowed from the corner of his mouth again.
Jiang Xuelan was pushed against the stone wall. Seeing that another attack was about to come to Li Jiuyou, he swung the Frost Silence Sword without thinking!
He blocked the fatal blow for Li Jiuyou, but the huge impact made his throat feel sweet and his internal injuries were triggered.
One of them had blood at the corner of his mouth, and the other was pale. Because of the sudden attack and the subconscious desire to protect each other, they were very close to each other, their breaths intertwined, and they could see the lingering shock and anger in each other's eyes and... a hint of worry that they had no time to conceal.
**BOOM!!!**
This time, the pitch-black stone barrier suddenly erupted with an incomparably brilliant bluish-white light! The icy blue and red-gold threads of light happily intertwined and swirled, eventually forming a stable, rotating "light gate" in the center of the stone wall!
The road to the heart tomb is open!
The old thought sounded with a final sigh:
"My heart of protection... though clumsy... is also... **sincere**..."
"The entrance... is open... quickly... take... the 'Heart Source Crystal'... and reinforce... the seal..."
Behind the light gate, on the stone platform in the center of the circular space, a fist-sized, constantly beating crystal that exudes pure life and soul energy is clearly visible.
However, no one rushed in immediately at this moment.
Everyone's eyes were still on Jiang Xuelan and Li Jiuyou, who were leaning against each other in an ambiguous posture, looking a little dazed because of the lightning-fast protection they had just shown to each other.
Bai Zhi's face was ashen as death, and she murmured, "...A protective heart? Clumsy?..." She watched Li Jiuyou push Jiang Xuelan away and get injured himself, and watched Jiang Xuelan block the sword for Li Jiuyou... Isn't this... ?
Jiang Xuelan and Li Jiuyou quickly separated, each adjusting their robes. Their expressions were extremely unnatural, as if they wished they could disappear right there.
Xuan Jia's trembling voice broke the silence, filled with immense awe (awe of gossip): "...In my ten thousand years of life...this is the first time I've seen...someone pass the test of true love by 'blocking each other's swords' and 'speaking in unison'...What kind of sincerity is this? **Tsundere's sincerity**?!"
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