Chapter 9 Chapter 9 But we are really just friends

Yun Du was walking in front at a slow pace, perhaps to prevent the people behind from falling behind.

Wei Xin followed his footsteps and moved behind him without any hindrance. If it weren't for the headband tied around his eyes, it would be impossible to tell that he was now no different from a blind man.

After walking for a while, the temperature dropped, and snowflakes flew all over the sky and fell on them.

In the illusion, neither of them's skills were useful, and they could actually feel the climate changes here.

Wei Xin's face was almost frozen, and he stammered, "Have you been to this damn place before? Is this the place you are most afraid of?"

"No." Yun Du looked around, his eyebrows slightly curved, "I haven't been here for many years, why would I be afraid?"

Wei Xin actually heard a hint of nostalgia.

The two found a place to sit down, and Wei Xin waited for him to beg for mercy and ask for a way to get out.

But who would have thought that after he sat down, he closed his eyes and rested, and did not ask any other questions.

After an unknown amount of time, Wei Xin shuddered, raised his hand and touched Yun Du's arm, which was almost frozen. He couldn't help but ask, "Don't you want to go out?"

"I do and I don't."

"Why not?"

"This place is deserted and uninhabited, without the entanglement of the secular world, and with you, Lord Demon, as my companion, it is worth dying for."

"Bah, I won't stay here to wait for you to die." Wei Xin stood up and swore, "I'm leaving. If you want to die, stay here."

"Walk slowly, be careful of the slippery road."

Wei Xin walked for a long time, but there was nothing but white space, no direction and no end. He came back and noticed that Yun Du's breathing had become much weaker.

He bent down and touched Yun Du's body. He was covered in snow and almost completely enveloped by ice and snow, but he still had no intention of escaping.

Many people who enter into an illusion become addicted to it, unwilling to escape from it, and live in an illusion their entire lives.

Did he really intend to wait for death here?

Wei Xin kicked the snowman and asked, "This scene really existed, right? How did you escape before?"

"If you want to get out, don't be impatient." The Iceman smiled and said slowly, "Be patient. Someone will come to save us sooner or later."

"Dream on. Who else can come in here except me?" Wei Xin ignored his nonsense and was determined not to let himself die here.

He stood up, closed his eyes and calmed his breathing, his robes fluttering in the wind.

......wind?

The direction of the wind is not consistent with the direction of the snow.

He walked slowly towards the windy place. He didn't know how long he had been walking before he felt the wind gradually getting stronger, blowing away the gauze in front of him. The flames, so fierce that they turned white, came towards his face and enveloped his entire body.

If it's fire, it's easy to deal with.

Wei Xin curled the corners of his mouth and jumped into the fire.

Because of the Scarlet Blood Pearl, he could be said to have been practicing by crawling around in the fire since he was a child, and had gone through the stages of devilish possession, nirvana, and enlightenment several times. No one in the world knew how to control fire better than him.

The ice and snow on Yun Du's body gradually melted, wetting his hair and eyelashes. In the blink of an eye, he saw Wei Xin walking towards him covered in flames.

Once you get close, the water droplets on your body are quickly dried up.

"See, someone really came to save me." Yun Du said with a smile.

Wei Xin rolled his eyes in his heart, dimmed the flames as much as possible, and stared at him intently: "This place is actually your nightmare, right?"

"No, this is where my dream began." Yun Du raised his head and replied.

"?"

"That's what I call opportunity." Yun Du said.

Wei Xin thought of what he had just said about waiting for someone to rescue him, and asked curiously, "No wonder you don't want to leave, are you waiting here for someone to rescue you?"

"yes."

"You knew this was an illusion, but you still wanted to wait for him to come?"

"yes."

I would rather be frozen here in the ice and snow than move a single step away.

Wei Xin seemed to have found what he cared about most, no, the person he cared about.

If you care about something, you will have weaknesses.

This trip was not in vain.

"Who is he? Is he a man or a woman? How old is he?" Wei Xin asked.

"Master Demon seems to be very concerned about me."

"The topic has come to this point, it would be a waste not to ask." Wei Xin moved closer to him and held his hand.

Yun Du was startled and raised his eyelids, only to find that his pupils had changed. The black pupils gradually turned into heterochromatic pupils, one red and one green. His consciousness seemed to be captured by these eyes.

"Since you don't want to tell me, I'll go and see for myself." Wei Xin looked at the man with dazed eyes, closed his eyes with a wicked smile, and when his cultivation and consciousness were at their weakest, he hooked out his soul and entered his consciousness.

"......"

Although I was prepared for this person to not follow the routine, I was still speechless when I saw that his mind was full of eating and drinking.

In the spiritual consciousness, not only can one roughly understand the person's cultivation level, but also get a glimpse of some secrets that outsiders cannot see.

Simply forcing your way into someone else's most secret spiritual realm will backfire on you. Not only will your power be weakened, but if you're not careful, you won't be able to escape.

This is a very risky thing to do.

It was the first time for Wei Xin to do this. He had never met someone with so many mysteries and someone he couldn't understand at all, so he just gave it a go.

Fortunately, this person is not completely a drinker and meat lover.

The deeper he went, the more he felt that there was a bottomless pit inside. Wei Xin explored inside for a long time, but still could not reach the bottom.

"Master Demon." Yun Du's voice echoed from all around, "You trespassed into my territory without permission. Isn't that a bit too casual?"

"Then what should I do?" Wei Xin asked with a smile.

"A gentleman should put courtesy first. At least you should tell me first."

"I'm not a gentleman." Wei Xin sneered, shuttled in the darkness for a while, finally glimpsed the light, pasted a talisman on his body, and entered smoothly.

As soon as he landed, he was knocked to the ground by a powerful force - someone was attacking him.

Without saying a word, he started fighting with the opponent.

What surprised him was that this person was very familiar with his skills and his cultivation was higher than his, but this person's face was blurry and judging from his body shape, he was not Yun Du.

"Who are you?" Wei Xin asked.

The opponent seemed to have gone mad and attacked him with all his might.

He was good at breaking into Yun Du's consciousness. At this moment, his power was less than 10% of his usual level. Facing this man, he had no power to defend himself. In a short while, he had been hit by several moves and his body began to ache.

He couldn't even tell what kind of tactics the other party was using. They were just attacking randomly without any rules or strategies. He couldn't even tell which sect they were from.

Wei Xin retreated from Yun Du's consciousness in a wolfish manner.

Yun Du opened his eyes and looked at him with a smile: "Did you see him?"

"Who is he?" Wei Xin wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and asked viciously.

The people inside don't seem to be people Yun Du imagined out of thin air; they must have existed in this world.

"I don't know him either. You will meet him if you are destined to do so."

Wei Xin sat in meditation on the spot, regulating his breathing and strengthening his internal strength.

Although he suffered some setbacks, it was not completely without gain. At least it was confirmed that Yun Du's cultivation level was above the three elders of Qingguan Sect.

In terms of strength alone, Yun Du is his biggest opponent.

But...he discovered something else.

Yundu...it seems like he really has no ill intentions towards me?

There were countless opportunities to kill him here, and even if he had not been able to leave the spiritual realm just now, he might have been killed by the faceless man with a blurred face.

Although these two puzzles were solved, more doubts emerged.

Why does Yundu hide his strength?

Why did they come to collect his ashes at the end?

Who is that faceless man? What is his relationship with Yundu?

Many doubts are caused by Yun Du.

He suddenly opened his eyes, and without looking back, he threw a piece of talisman behind him, which stuck to the bloody person behind him.

"Wei Xin, I'm going to kill you - ah!!" A ball of fire surrounded the person who came to attack, burning his hair and clothes, and then his body.

The smell of cooked meat gradually spread.

Yun Du watched the scene calmly.

Wei Xin clapped his hands and stood up. He looked back at the half-burned face and suddenly realized, "Oh, I remember who he is."

"who."

"A few days ago, I went down the mountain and met a medicine cultivator who said he wanted to join the Xuanji Sect and has been following me."

Yundu: “?”

“He also said that he liked me.”

Yundu: “???”

Wei Xin: "I want to know more about me."

Yundu: “???”

“Then I brought him here.”

Yundu: “…”

"Look, these are freshly-taken ashes, still warm." Wei Xin picked up a handful of ashes from the ground, placed them in front of him, showed an innocent smile, and blew them on his face.

Yun Du raised his sleeves to cover the ashes and sighed, "What a sin."

Wei Xin observed his reaction carefully and said with a half-smile: "Are you scared? Tell me, what crime have I committed?"

"The Demon Lord is too handsome, which makes people have evil intentions. It is a sin."

"......?"

The smile on Wei Xin's face froze, and he said, almost gritting his teeth, "I have never seen such a shameless swordsman!"

"I have never seen such a handsome demon king."

"You also saw with your own eyes what happened to that man just now." Wei Xin sneered twice, and a ball of fire appeared in his hand, extending its tongues of fire greedily.

Yun Du turned around and unnoticedly quickened his pace: "Oh, I don't know what time it is now. My uncles, aunts, sisters, and nephews must be waiting anxiously. I'll go first."

Wei Xin stared at his back steadily, then lowered his head to look at the flame in his palm.

The illusion had disappeared, and the two had returned to the Abyss. Killing him now would be as easy as he had trapped himself in illusion and consciousness just now.

At this time, Yun Du, who had walked away, suddenly turned back and asked: "Do you still want to stay here?"

"You take care of me."

"It's dark and gloomy here. You'll be lonely here all by yourself. Why don't you come out with me and finish the rest of the home-brew?"

Wei Xin raised his hand, and the light illuminated his face, allowing him to see Yun Du's expression in front of him. He was so calm, with a slight smile on his face, as if he was talking about the most ordinary thing.

But it was clear that they had just gone through temptation, deception, disguise, and threats against each other and completed a game in which there was no winner or loser.

He explored the opponent's weaknesses and sincerity, and he also showed his own trump card - no one can walk out of this dark abyss soberly.

"The food is getting cold." Yun Du said again.

Wei Xin clenched his fist and followed.

Yun Du smiled warmly, and when he came closer, he asked, "How do we get out?"

Wei Xin stared at him and suddenly asked, "If one day I fall into your hands, how will you deal with me?"

"You are so brave, mighty, and domineering, how could you fall into the hands of a mere disciple like me?" Yun Du said readily.

"......" Wei Xin put the ashes in front of him again, "If I die in front of you, you will......"

Yundu quickly shook off the ashes in his hand.

"...Did you raise it too?" Wei Xin's mouth twitched slightly.

"Why do you still keep this man's ashes?" Yun Du took out a handkerchief and wiped his hands clean.

"You haven't answered my question yet."

"If it was your ashes, I would definitely not scatter them. I would save them and use them as fertilizer for flowers."

Upon hearing this, Wei Xin was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter: "Flower fertilizer, it turns out to be flower fertilizer..."

"What's wrong with you?" Yun Du saw him laughing non-stop and scratched his head, "Are you stupid in this damn place?"

After a long while, Wei Xin finally stopped laughing and said, "Let's go out."

"Really?"

"Um."

Since Yun Du didn't intend to be his enemy, he could only resist.

"How do we get out?" Yun Du asked.

"You pulled me..."

Before he could finish his words, Yun Du grabbed his hand.

"——'s sleeves! Sleeves!!" Wei Xin said angrily.

"Yes, sir." Yun Du grabbed his sleeve again.

"Close your eyes."

Yundu closed his eyes obediently.

There was a flash of white light, and my feet finally touched solid ground. All I could hear was the sound of things hitting the doors and windows.

Wei Xin retracted the barrier, and all the disciples outside rushed in. Seeing Yun Du pulling Wei Xin's sleeve and behaving very intimately, their originally worried expressions changed in an instant, and everyone had different expressions.

"Yun Du, what are you doing?!" the great elder pointed at them and asked.

The second elder glanced at the food and wine on the table and touched the dishes: "The food is cold."

Upon hearing this, Wei Xin heard Yun Du sigh with regret.

"Yun Du, how can you associate with this man? Don't you know who he is?" asked the elder.

"Yundu, you are so confused! If you catch him quickly, we can pretend nothing happened!" The second elder slammed the table in frustration.

"The problem is that I can't take him down. This is Wei Xin. Even you two elders can't subdue him. How can I do it alone?"

Seeing that he was pretending to be stupid and stumped the two old men, Wei Xin couldn't help laughing, sat down with a swagger, and poured the remaining wine into the glass.

"Yun Du! I see that you don't want to fight with him at all. How can you be competent for such a big task? If Qingguan Sect falls into your hands, won't it have to join forces with Xuanji Sect?!" the Great Elder shouted.

The disciples looked at each other, obviously a little worried.

"Brother, you will never associate with Wei Xin!" A clear female voice came from the door. Yun Jin hurried over and heard their conversation outside the door.

"It must be Wei Xin who has controlled Senior Brother. Isn't the Xuanji Sect the best at seducing people? And there is also the Soul Summoning Art, which always manipulates people's hearts!" She ran to Yun Du and grabbed his arm, "Senior Brother, you were hit by his Soul Summoning Art, right?"

"No, we are just friends." Yun Du turned around and looked at Wei Xin, "Right?"

Wei Xin picked up the wine glass and drank it all. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, he looked up at him and curled his lips: "Yes."

The disciples gasped and looked at the two of them in disbelief.

Yun Jin didn't believe that his senior brother would be friends with Wei Xin no matter what, so he raised his sword and pointed it at Wei Xin.

Wei Xin held the sword blade with two fingers, but was slapped on the chest by her.

The power of this palm is neither big nor small.

Although he couldn't be killed, the portrait hidden in his chest was revealed.

Yun Jin picked up the portrait on the ground. The elders and disciples gathered around him. They recognized it as the fragment of their sect's lost scroll and cut out the portrait of Yun Du.

The way people looked at them suddenly changed.

Wei Xin: “…”

Wait, can you give me a chance to explain?

“Brother, what’s going on between him and you?” Yun Jin tried hard to maintain his sanity and asked in a weak voice.

"Don't get me wrong, we are just friends." Yun Du said.

Wei Xin nodded vigorously.

"He just stole my portraits, watched me bathing, and secretly came to see me in the middle of the night, but we are really just friends."

Everyone: “???”

This is what you call a friend! ??? ???

"We wouldn't be like this as friends..." I don't know which disciple muttered.

Wei Xin: “…”

Okay, that opportunity is completely gone.