Chapter 186

"That's all?" Xie Bi An stared at Yun Zhong Jun suspiciously, "You risked your life to betray Qi Meng Sheng and went to great lengths to do all this just for the position of Sect Leader?"

"I do want your core. If I had the Absolute Human Emperor, not just the Cangyu Sect, but even the Immortal Alliance would be in my hands. Just that, digging out your core is easy, but refining your core is too difficult. By weighing the pros and cons, I should grab what I can."

"Yun Zhong Jun really has a clear view of things." Xie Bi An said coldly, "Then those things you said in the Realm of Nothingness, about past life and present life, Zong Zi Xiao and so on ..."

"It's just to mess with your mind." Yun Zhong Jun said indifferently.

Fan Wu She said with a sullen face, "What did you say to my senior brother in the Realm of Nothingness?"

"Wu She, forget it." Xie Bi An glanced at the Qingfeng Sword, still feeling a little hesitation, "You will really let us take the Qingfeng Sword away?"

"As soon as dawn arrives, Shen Nong Ding will open the furnace. The walls of First Fortress Qian have been repaired, the next step is up to you." Yun Zhong Jun took two steps back, "If the Immortal Alliance defeats Qi Meng Sheng, return Cangyu Sect to my hands."

Xie Bi An immediately picked up the Qingfeng sword and protected it in front of his chest, fearing that Yun Zhong Jun would go back on his word: "Okay, it's a deal."

The corners of Yun Zhong Jun's mouth lightly pulled up subtly.

"Wait, where is the Golden Trunk Jade Policy? You said you could show me the Golden Trunk Jade Policy."

"The Golden Trunk Jade Policy is not in my hands. If Qi Meng Sheng dies, it will be useless if I keep it.  By that time it'll be handed over to Heaven Master to bring back to the underworld."

Xie Bi An thought in his heart: this sounds reasonable. The Golden Trunk Jade Policy is part of the Book of Life and Death, so it should be returned to the underworld when the time comes.

When they left the palace, they did not expect to get the Qingfeng Sword back so smoothly, so they acted more carefully, fearing that this was another trap dug by Yun Zhong Jun.

When they found Lan Chui Han and wanted to leave as soon as possible, they learned that First Fortress Qian was locked down.

"Locked down? When did that happen?"

"Just now. After the walls were patched up, the whole fortress was locked down." Lan Chui Han frowned, "I'm afraid that once dawn arrives, they will search for us from door to door, street to street. First Fortress Qian is not big, one day is enough to finish the search."

"We should find a place to hide first. Yun Zhong Jun said once dawn arrives Shen Nong Ding will open the furnace. The quenching of fire will require high-ranking cultivators to take turns to be in the formation, and they will soon be extremely busy.  By then, we will wait for an opportunity to escape."

Lan Chui Han shook his head and said, "Bi An, I am injured now. It's inconvenient to move around. If the three of us can't find a good place to hide, you guys can't get away by bringing me along. Why don't you hide me first and then find a way to leave."

"No way." Xie Bi An rejected flatly, "It's too dangerous to leave you alone here. If you land in their hands again, what can we use to exchange for you this time?"

Fan Wu She looked askance at Lan Chui Han sitting on the ground: "I do think this is a good idea. Senior brother, it is important that we bring the Qingfeng Sword back to master as soon as possible."

"No, we can't leave big brother Lan alone." Xie Bi An squatted down, put Lan Chui Han's arm to his shoulder, and helped him up, "Besides, now is the time when the search is the strictest. How can we avoid the situation? We must ensure that the Qingfeng sword is absolutely safe."

Fan Wu She's expression had no ripples. He just coldly watched Lan Chui Han hanged onto Xie Bi An. Lan Chui Han had a bigger body build than Xie Bi An, and he almost enveloped Xie Bi An. The two of them were almost face to face when he lowered his head a little.

Fan Wu She roughly tugged up Lan Chui Han's other arm and put half of his body to his side.

"Wu She, be gentle." Xie Bi An rebuked.

Lan Chui Han grunted, "Yeah, Black Immortal. Your movement is so savage, is it possible that you have some preconceptions about me?"

Fan Wu She cursed: bastard.

The street was already full of pursuers. They couldn't go far with the injured, so they found a common mansion nearby and used the puppet charm to subdue the family.

There is no place to hide here. They first settled Lan Chui Han, and then prepared a few eyesight hindering talismans. Those who were sent to search from house to house must be low-ranking cultivators, or ordinary guards of First Fortress Qian. With this eyesight hindering technique, it should be enough to hide.

The three of them were tired and sleepy after a long night's work. Lan Chui Han took some medicine and went to sleep, while Xie Bi An asked the woman of the house to cook for them.

Fan Wu She pulled Xie Bi An inside the house: "Take off your clothes, I'll take a look at your injury."

"It's just a flesh wound. The bleeding stopped long ago."

"Let me see." Fan Wu She aggravated his tone.

Xie Bi An helplessly removed his shirt. Except for the arrow, which was shot by Hua Xiang Rong, pierced into his arm, the others are indeed on the flesh. Fortunately, this arrow did not hurt the bone, so there is no serious injury.

"This is an ice arrow?" Fan Wu She pinched Xie Bi An's arm and checked the wound.

"Yes."

"It hurts right?" Fan Wu She gently stroked his small arm and said with a lowered head, "I should have gone to save you guys at that time."

"Where exactly did you go at that time? Did you really go to look for the Golden Trunk Jade Policy?"

"Yes, but I didn't find it. I heard the explosion and then I saw you guys running out."

Xie Bi An did not doubt him, it's just that up until now, he still had lingering fears, "It was thanks to that explosion, otherwise we would have had a hard time escaping. Brother Lan said that Yun Zhong Jun purposely let us off the hook, not wanting us to fall into the hands of the Flying Plume Ambassador, but the blow that hurt him didn't look the least bit merciful."

"Yun Zhong Jun's words cannot be trusted, including the matter of giving us the Qingfeng Sword. He's just using us to eradicate Qi Meng Sheng and the Flying Plume Ambassador. Anyways, be careful of him."

"Of course." Xie Bi An said doubtfully, "But who blew up the city wall? An explosion that big would have taken at least a few dozen Thunderfire Stones."

"It should be the Immortal Alliance's inside man inside Chidi City. There are hundreds of thousands of people in this city, and a large number of travelers are from the inner Pass."

"Maybe." Xie Bi An nodded, "The Immortal Alliance has explicitly forbidden the influx of Thunderfire Stone into the Central Plains without reporting it, but it has long been proliferating outside the Pass, and it is said that many hunters even use it to fry their prey."

"Let's not think about that for now." Fan Wu She re-dressed his hastily treated wounds and bandaged them, "It's time for you to rest."

Xie Bi An laughed, "I'm waiting for food."

Fan Wu She took Xie Bi An into his arms and looked at the fine hairs on his face through the dim oil lamp, and couldn't help but lower his head for a kiss: "I don't want to see you get hurt again."

"It's just a small injury, don't be nervous." Xie Bi An held his hand and said softly, "At least we retrieved the Qingfeng Sword on this trip. It was all worth it."

Fan Wu She rubbed his cheek against Xie Bi An's: "When I become stronger, so strong that no one in the world can fight against me, I will protect you so well that no one can hurt you even one bit."

Xie Bi An said with a smile, "Really? Then senior brother will wait for you to become an Immortal Lord of this genereation."

"Immortal Lord is nothing." Fan Wu She said in a sullen voice, "I want to be the strongest." I want to get back everything that belongs to Zong Zi Xiao.

Xie Bi An snorted and laughed.

"What are you laughing at?" Fan Wu She whispered, "If you laugh again, I'll bite you."

"I'm laughing at the fact that sometimes you're like an adult and sometimes you're like a child."

"I'm like a child?" Fan Wu She gave a light hum, "Your grandson is still sleeping next door."

Xie Bi An froze, not reacting for a moment.

"Oh, that’s not right. Great-grandson."

Xie Bi An didn’t know whether to laugh or cry: "Don't talk nonsense."

"How am I talking nonsense? Lan Chui Han is Lan Zhong Ming's grandson, isn’t that Zong Zi Heng’s great-grandson? If he knew that, how could he afford to call you 'big brother'? He should kowtow and call you great-grandfather at most." Fan Wu She thought hatefully: he also needs to call me Ninth great-grandfather.

"You must not talk nonsense in front of Brother Lan."

"This is the truth, how can you call it nonsense?"

Xie Bi An lowered his head and fell silent.

Fan Wu She sensed that the atmosphere was not right: "Senior brother, I'm just joking. I won't tell him."

"Wu She, sometimes I, no, many times, I have a feeling, as if ..." Xie Bi An sighed softly, "you are treating me as Emperor Kong Hua."

Fan Wu She was stunned. Despite his guiltiness, he instinctively denied it immediately, "How could I? I, I didn't take you as Emperor Kong Hua."

"You know very well that I am resisting the memory of Emperor Kong Hua from corrupting me, so why did you make a joke out of it?"

"I didn't mean to." Fan Wu She hugged Xie Bi An tightly, "Senior brother, don't be angry, I didn't mean that, I didn't treat you as Zong Zi Heng."

Xie Bi An said helplessly, "I'm not angry at you. I know you didn’t do it on purpose, just don't be like this again. Emperor Kong Hua is Emperor Kong Hua, I'm me. Reincarnated as a human means I'm a different person. I don't want to bear the grudges of my previous life." To this day, he avoids calling out the name "Zong Zi Heng" and only calls Emperor Kong Hua, as if this can distance the two of them as much as possible, because deep in his soul, Zong Zi Heng is constantly getting closer to him, which makes him afraid.

"I won't." Fan Wu She buried his face into the nest of Xie Bi An's shoulder, "I will never do it again."

He knew that no matter what he did, even if he crawled back to earth from Avici hell*, even if he got the power of his previous life again, the complete and intact big brother would never come back again. He cherished the person in his arms. He cherished the mutual love of this time, and he had to stop the devil in his heart --- the obsession to turn Xie Bi An back into his big brother regardless of everything.

Xie Bi An patted Fan Wu She’s hand: "Alright, senior brother is not angry."

Fan Wu She pestered him for a while to be intimate. The meal was ready, and the two of them ate their fill and discussed how to escape from Chidi City.

The moment the sky turned white, a rumbling sound suddenly came from the distance, as if opening the mountains and cracking the rocks. The loud sound went straight to the sky. The earth also trembled. Such an ancient and sacred sound, compared to last night's explosion of Thunderfire Stones, was simply a town’s clamor.

Lan Chui Han was awakened: "It's Shen Nong Ding!"

Xie Bi An and Fan Wu She ran to the courtyard one after the other, and looked at the eight fortresses of Chidi City with the eight trigrams surrounding the core furnace-shaped mountain, which was shaking off all the stones and carbon ash. The blinding golden light burst out of the countless cracked crevices and passed through ten thousand feet of snow on the plain and glowing earth.

The thick "shell" of volcanic ash embedded in Shen Nong Ding was peeled off one by one during the awakening of this ancient divine object, finally revealing its original form --- a huge bronze cauldron.

Xie Bi An sighed, "It is worthy of being an ancient divine treasure."

With a boom, a blazing flame flared up under the body of the cauldron.

 

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PS: I'm SUPER busy today, I hope I can upload one more chapter by night time, but I can't guarantee that :')

 

Avici hell*[阿鼻地狱]--- (Sanskrit: Avici), one of the Buddhist hells

 

Edited on 17 May 21 (Emzie)

 

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