Chapter 119 Mistakenly Believing the Sky Has Collapsed
Yun Tianjiao took off his clothes and entered the bathtub when he heard a series of clattering and crashing sounds outside.
She called out to the fish a few times, but there was no response. Just as she was about to put on her nightgown and go out to check on them herself, the screen next to the bathtub was suddenly knocked down by a strong force.
The black panther, with the demon-slaying sword in its mouth, crashed in, rolling several times on the ground. Its fur was scratched in several places, and blood was drawn.
The Demon-Slaying Blade trembled slightly, seemingly trying its best to break free from the black panther's mouth. The blade and the panther's gleaming white teeth were locked together, producing a screeching sound that sent chills down one's spine.
The black panther narrowed its eyes fiercely, biting the demon-slaying sword tightly and refusing to let go, seemingly trying its best to crush the sword. The demon-slaying sword was merciless, cutting the black panther's lips and tongue, and drops of blood dripped down the black panther's chin.
It wasn't until Yun Tianjiao came over, forcibly pried open the black panther's mouth, and pulled out the Demon-Slaying Blade.
"Can you all stop making a scene? If you keep this up, get out of here!" Yun Tianjiao's room was now a complete mess. All the porcelain that could be broken was smashed to pieces, and the tables and cabinets were either overturned or lying on their sides, as if someone had ransacked the house.
The Demon-Slaying Blade seemed unwilling to give up, still struggling in Yun Tianjiao's hand. The black panther looked up at Yun Tianjiao with an innocent expression, its dark eyes so clear, blood dripping from its mouth, and several knife wounds on its once glossy fur, making it look quite pitiful.
Yun Tianjiao's heart immediately tipped in one direction.
She locked the demon-slaying sword in the cabinet and added a talisman seal. The demon-slaying sword angrily pounded against the cabinet, but no matter how powerful it was, it was still just a sword, and inside the sealed cabinet, it could only surrender.
Yun Tianjiao carefully examined the black panther's injuries and saw that it had large and small scratches on its paws, ears, back, and belly. He was heartbroken and couldn't help but curse the crazed demon-slaying sword again. He made up his mind to keep this unruly weapon locked up until the black panther gained spiritual power and could protect itself before releasing it.
"Miss, are you alright? I just heard some noises inside." At that moment, there was a knock on the door, and Yu'er's voice came from outside.
While applying ointment to the black panther's paws, Yun Tianjiao said, "Come in, it's nothing."
When Yu'er pushed open the door and saw the scene inside, she couldn't help but gasp.
"What... what's wrong?"
"The leopard and the knife are fighting, so I'll have to trouble Sister Fish to help clean it up."
The fish immediately used its magic, and in no time, it repaired the damaged furniture in the house, wiped up the water splashed on the ground, and put the messed-up items back in order.
"Thank you, Divine Lord Yu Li." Yun Tianjiao looked at the fish and smiled slightly.
Yu'er paused, turned to look at Yun Tianjiao, and showed surprise, "How did the God of Desire Dreams recognize me? I thought I had been very careful in hiding my identity."
Yun Tianjiao said, "Yu'er is my personal maid. In principle, she should serve me personally when it comes to things like bathing. However, Lord Yu Li only prepared everything and quietly withdrew. I called for someone just now, but no one answered. It is clear that you deliberately kept your distance and did not wait at the door. This is not the behavior of a maid. As for Zhu Jing, she is my sister. I think that she would not let a male deity become my maid if she had drawn us into her memories."
Yu Li smiled and sighed softly, "As expected of the God of Desire and Dreams, you saw through such a small detail. It's really... spying on others while they're bathing, which is rather improper."
"However, why does the Divine Lord Yuli conceal his identity?" Yun Tianjiao asked.
Yu Li lowered her eyes, a faint blush of embarrassment rising on her cheeks. "I... still feel guilty towards the Goddess of Desire and Dreams. If I could serve you as your maid for a while, perhaps it would help to dispel my inner demons."
“Lord Yuli need not take it so seriously,” Yun Tianjiao said frankly. “Given the circumstances back then, if our situations were reversed, I might have made the same choice as you. For so many years, you have concealed my divine aura, making those who wanted my life think that I was dead and stopped chasing me. That is already a great favor to me.”
"I dare not accept your kindness. At that time, when your divine essence dissipated, I could only watch from the sidelines, powerless to stop it. It was only by chance that I discovered that there were still fragments of your divine essence remaining. I used my meager strength to add a barrier to cover your divine aura."
Speaking of this, there was something in Yun Tianjiao's mind that he couldn't quite understand.
"So you also know about the matter between me and the God of Fu Luo?"
Yu Li nodded. "At that time, I dared not act rashly and could only watch as you were imprisoned by the God of the Underworld. I'm sorry..."
At this point, Yu Li felt even more ashamed, as if she could see her cowardly self from back then, always hiding in the shadows, never daring to live as brightly and freely as the person in front of her.
Although both are goddesses, the difference between them is as vast as the difference between heaven and earth. She could only watch from afar, as if peering at the sun and moon.
"That's all in the past. I'm only asking out of curiosity. During the years I was imprisoned by Fu Luo, all the pilgrims dispersed, the temples and statues were destroyed, and no one offered sacrifices or worshipped me. I could feel my power weakening little by little, so why is there still some divine essence left?"
Yu Li can actually answer this question.
"I happened to witness the fall of the God of Desire and Dreams."
"What do you see?"
"At the moment of your fall, two particularly strong obsessions transformed into the power of faith. They almost swore an oath with their lives to find you and keep you here. I guess... it was these two forces that preserved a portion of your divine essence."
"Two obsessions?" Yun Tianjiao recalled carefully and could roughly guess that one of them should come from Zhiwei, but where did the other power come from?
Yu Li gave Yun Tianjiao a meaningful look, “From the God of the Palace.”
Yun Tianjiao was stunned.
If there's anyone in this world besides Zhiwei who would be willing to swear an oath with their life to survive... it would probably be Fuluo.
She hated and loathed this person so much, but she never expected that he would be partly responsible for her survival.
Yu Li added, "Perhaps that's why my spell to shield divine energy didn't work on those two; they were the first to discover your identity."
The room fell silent, and neither of them spoke for a moment.
Taking advantage of the opportunity when Yun Tianjiao applied medicine to his belly, the black panther buried its head in Yun Tianjiao's arms, rubbing against him affectionately, and even tried to stomp on Yun Tianjiao's face with its paws, only behaving itself after being slapped.
Yu Li stared at the black panther for a moment, then suddenly asked, "This is... the God of Wisdom?"
The cabinet containing the demon-slaying sword began to make rapid clanging sounds again.
Yun Tianjiao finally finished treating all of the black panther's wounds, patted its head to signal it to get up, but the black panther acted stubbornly and clung to Yun Tianjiao, refusing to leave, so Yun Tianjiao let it be.
“I guess it’s Zhiwei, but it doesn’t seem to have awakened its self-awareness yet; it’s still an unintelligent little leopard.” As he spoke, the black leopard yawned, quite fittingly, and turned around to lick its fur.
Yu Li said, "After the death of Princess Yan Meng of the Ghost Realm, the God of Desire Dream was personally sent to the Xuanxiao Gate by the Heavenly God Zhiwei in order to preserve your divine essence. You know this, right?"
Yun Tianjiao nodded. She had seen this scene in the memories of the Black Panther Paperweight: Zhiwei carried her up the Xuanxiao Gate's Heavenly Ladder, suffering serious injuries.
But what happened afterward, she never knew. As a ghost spirit, how did Zhiwei survive the damage to the Heavenly Ladder Formation of the Xuanxiao Sect? Every time she asked, Zhiwei would stammer and seem to be deliberately avoiding the question.
Yun Tianjiao voiced his question, and even the usually gentle and dignified Yu Li Goddess covered her mouth, revealing a slightly sly smile.
"I think the Heavenly God Zhiwei is unwilling to mention this matter because he is embarrassed."
Yun Tianjiao raised an eyebrow. "Oh? It seems that Lord Yu Li knows the inside story?"
Yu Li said, "When I received the news of the incident in the Ghost Realm that day, you had already set off for the Xuanxiao Gate by the time I arrived there. By the time I got to the Xuanxiao Gate, your divine essence had already been sent into the gate by the Heavenly God Zhiwei, and he himself was almost completely destroyed by the great formation on the Heavenly Ladder, leaving only a faint remnant of his soul. Coincidentally, there was a dying black panther at that time, so I attached his soul to the black panther."
Yun Tianjiao was stunned. He looked down at the black panther in his arms and met its large amber eyes.
She had initially thought that Zhiwei had only entered Zhu Jing's memories and thus possessed the black panther. Little did she know, the black panther was originally Zhiwei!
If that's the case, wouldn't he... have spent another lifetime with her?
My feelings of pity for Black Panther's injury were now even more complicated.
“No wonder…” Yun Tianjiao murmured.
Yu Li asked curiously, "No wonder what?"
Yun Tianjiao smiled, his gaze towards Yu Li filled with gratitude.
“In that case, Lord Yu Li, you are truly my great benefactor.” She immediately stood up and bowed to Yu Li.
Yu Li quickly helped her up, somewhat apprehensive, "Lord Yu Meng, this is unacceptable."
“Ah, Lord Yuli, you truly deserve my great courtesy. Not only did you save Zhiwei back then, you also saved me. I used my divine essence to quell Muge's resentment, and I was prepared to die. However, Zhiwei gave me the Ghost Pill, forcibly protecting my remnant soul. I think he was inspired by you to attach my remnant soul to a cat, which preserved my soul and allowed me to continue existing in the world as a ghost spirit.”
Yu Li blushed again. In fact, it was none other than herself who pushed Yun Tianjiao's remnant soul into the black cat's body that day. However, she didn't want Yu Meng to owe her another favor, so she said, "With the wisdom of the Heavenly God Zhiwei, even without me, she would have thought of this method..."
"Lord Yu Li, there's no need for such modesty. Without you, neither I nor Zhiwei would be where we are today." Yun Tianjiao suddenly became interested, took out two jars of fine wine, and invited Yu Li to drink with him.
Yu Li was initially quite shy, but after drinking a few more cups of wine, he became more talkative and began to recall the past when they guarded Tianzhu together.
The two women drank and chatted until they were completely drunk, ignoring the sound of the Demon-Slaying Blade being struck in the background.
...
Zhiwei is going crazy.
He was drawn into Zhu Jingxianjun's memories, and when he opened his eyes again, he found himself transformed into a knife in the little girl's hand.
He didn't know what was going on until the little girl led him into a forest, where he saw Yu Sishu being attacked by a three-headed demon beast.
Yu Sishu, the daughter of the Xuanxiao Sect's leader, is Yu Meng's second reincarnation. In this life, he is naturally by her side again, but he has kept this experience buried deep in his heart, ashamed to speak of it. Later, when Yun Tianjiao asked him several times, he always gave her vague answers.
Because in this life, he was transformed into a black panther without any intelligence, a wild beast without any spiritual power!
Although his soul was still his own, in the first few years, his soul power was very weak, his consciousness was confused, he forgot who he was and what he was supposed to do, and he almost really thought of himself as a black panther.
Until that day when he accidentally entered Wuwang Cliff, he saw Yu Sishu being surrounded by three demonic beasts.
Even though he couldn't recognize her or remember who he was, the strong urge to protect and be close to her still drove him to recklessly fight the three-headed monster.
Later, Yu Sishu brought him back to Xuanxiao Sect. Yu Sishu was quite persistent and determined to transform this wild beast into an unparalleled spirit pet. She fed him all kinds of rare and precious materials, but to no avail. He himself felt ashamed, but Yu Sishu did not give up. In the end, she actually came up with a crooked way to awaken his intelligence and turn him into a spirit beast.
On the day his intelligence was awakened, his soul power was fully restored, and he remembered everything. From then on, his cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds, and he only hoped to transform into a human as soon as possible.
Therefore, when Zhiwei entered Zhu Jing's memory and saw the black leopard blocking Yu Sishu's way, she felt extremely complicated.
On one hand, he was furious, feeling a sense of suffocation as if his identity had been stolen; on the other hand, he was disgusted, thinking that the black panther was just a clumsy beast, reminding him of his unbearable past.
In such a conflicted state of mind, before he could even react, Yu Siran grabbed him and began hacking at him, sometimes smashing the monster's head, sometimes slashing at its claws, leaving him dizzy and disoriented until he lost consciousness.
Fortunately, Yu Sishu was eventually rescued. But when he opened his eyes again, the sky fell. He watched as Yu Sishu rode on the black panther, affectionately stroking its fur and gently calling it Zhiwei!
He's right here! Inside this demon-slaying sword! How could you call out the wrong person!
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