CHAPTER 55
As Qin Yu expected, Jun Shi also sent someone to look for him a few days later. They agreed to meet at a restaurant at the foot of Tianyanzong Mountain.
On the day of the appointment, as soon as Qin Yu stepped into the restaurant, a well-dressed man came to greet him. Qin Yu sensed the surging demonic energy in him, “Are you from Jun Shi?”
The man replied respectfully to Qin Yu, “Lord Dao Jun is wise, His Highness is in the elegant pavilion upstairs, please follow me.”
Qin Yu nodded and walked upstairs under his guidance. On the way, Qin Yu suddenly asked, “What kind of person is Jun Shi in your heart?”
“This…” The man was at a loss, not knowing how to answer.
Just at this moment, a door in front opened, “Why don’t you come and ask me, A’Rong?” Jun Shi leaned against the doorpost and looked at Qin Yu with a smile.
The eyelids of the man leading the way jumped and he immediately lowered his head. He had never seen His Highness smile so brightly.
Qin Yu noticed his strangeness and understood a little more. He already had the answer to the previous question. “Since His Highness has said so, I will not refuse it. Then I…” As he was speaking, Qin Yu suddenly smelled a very light fragrance. His steps paused and he looked at the source of the fragrance, that is, Jun Shi standing in front of him, and his eyes widened slightly.
“A’Rong?” Jun Shi waved away his subordinates, walked quickly to Qin Yu and anxiously looked at the person who suddenly froze.
The fragrance that was more obvious than before lingered around Qin Yu. If he smelled it correctly, this should be…
Qin Yu lowered his eyes. It seemed that things were far more complicated than he thought. He rubbed his fingertips to calm down his shock, looked at Jun Shi who was unaware with complicated eyes, and then said, “Please tell me what kind of person you are, Your Highness.”
“Are you really okay?” Jun Shi took Qin Yu to the elegant pavilion and sat him down, pouring him a cup of tea.
Qin Yu stared at his reflection on the water and said, “It’s okay, I just made an interesting discovery.”
Jun Shi’s hand trembled as he poured the tea. He had a hunch that this discovery was definitely not going to be interesting to him. But seeing that Qin Yu didn’t want to say more, he didn’t want to ask any more, so he could only follow Qin Yu’s previous words and say, “I think I am a very considerate person.”
“Considerate?” Qin Yu asked him back.
“Of course,” Jun Shi said, moving closer to Qin Yu, their breaths mingling, “A’Rong, didn’t you notice? I have always been obedient to you. I never ask you questions aggressively if you don’t want to say anything and I won’t make you feel embarrassed…”
Qin Yu couldn’t help laughing as distanced himself from him.
Enduring the sudden huge disappointment, Jun Shi asked, “A’Rong, don’t you believe me?”
Qin Yu thought to himself, do you dare to say this in the name of Xie Qiu or…? But on the surface, he pretended to be honored, raised the teacup and said in a long tone, “Believe it? Why not? Thank you for your consideration, I will use tea instead of wine to toast Your Highness.” After saying that, he drank it all.
This behavior was obviously intended to irritate people and Jun Shi was indeed irritated, “A’Rong, you…forget it.” Jun Shi frowned slightly, “If you don’t believe it, then don’t believe it. After all, I can’t force you.” He said so, but he kept staring at Qin Yu with a resentful look.
“Ahem.” Qin Yu turned his head to avoid his sight, suppressed his smile and asked, “Have you asked the Demon Lord about Chun Tu?”
Jun Shi’s eyelashes trembled. He didn’t expect Qin Yu to still remember this. He sighed softly and replied, “I asked, and my father said that it was in his hands before, but it is not with him now.”
If the system hadn’t discovered it later, Qin Yu would definitely not believe this sentence, but now he believes it, because Chun Tu is indeed not in the hands of the Demon Lord, “Then have you asked him where Chun Tu is now?”
Jun Shi’s eyes did not move when he heard this. He stared at Qin Yu excitedly, until Qin Yu raised his eyebrows slightly, then he chuckled and said, “Of course I asked, A’Rong, guess what father said?”
Qin Yu tapped his fingers on the table, glanced at Jun Shi with interest and said leisurely, “Did Lord Demon use it to please his sweetheart?”
“Ahem…” Jun Shi put down the teacup in a hurry and coughed non-stop.
Seeing this, Qin Yu patted him on the back gently, “You reacted so strongly, could it be that I was right?”
Jun Shi panicked and didn’t know how to answer. How could he not react? This matter was a mess. If he denied it now, there would definitely be problems in the future. But if he admits it, he really didn’t have that idea at the time…
In the end, Jun Shi replied, “A’Rong is such a wonderful person. In fact, Father just said that it would be impossible for me to get Chun Tu, so I should give up on it.”
Qin Yu shrugged and said, “I see, I thought too much. What are your plans next, Your Highness? Or do you want to continue to work hard to get the attention of the Demon Lord?”
Jun Shi shook his head, “I choose to let it go. Didn’t A’Rong say this before? Instead of struggling, it’s better to let go.”
Qin Yu smiled, “It seems that Your Highness has let it go.”
“No.” Jun Shi shook his head again, staring into Qin Yu’s eyes and said, “I found something more meaningful than it.”
“Oh, what is it?” Qin Yu asked him.
Jun Shi’s throat suddenly felt dry. He lowered his head and moistened his throat with tea, and said word by word, “I have someone I want to spend my life with. As long as he nods and agrees to be with me, I will care about nothing. A’Rong wants to…”
As Qin Yu was listening, suddenly his relaxed expression tightened, and he quickly stood up and said, “Sorry, Your Highness. I suddenly remembered that the task assigned to me by my master has not been completed. This task is extremely urgent, I have to deal with it first! We will talk next time.”
“Wait a minute, A’Rong! When is the next time you said?” Jun Shi frowned when he found that Qin Yu was really going to leave, and immediately reached out to grab his arm and asked.
Qin Yu pondered for a moment, “If nothing unexpected happens, it should be Chi Huai’s coming-of-age banquet.” After that, Qin Yu took Jun Shi’s hand that was tightly holding his arm, turned around and walked hurriedly towards the door. It seemed that there was really an urgent task waiting for him.
No way! After Qin Yu walked away, Jun Shi picked up the teacup in front of him and played with it casually, then slightly raised the corner of his mouth and the teacup turned into powder in an instant. He stood up and walked to the window, looking at the endless river in front of the restaurant and shook his head helplessly. He didn’t assign him any urgent tasks. The only task was to attend Chi Huai’s coming-of-age banquet and the time was three months later.
So A’Rong interrupted him deliberately? Why? Has A’Rong seen through his disguise? As soon as this thought came to mind, Jun Shi immediately denied it. He had absolute confidence in his disguise, otherwise he would not have been able to go from being a disciple to the position of the leader of the Tianyan Sect without being discovered.
Or did A’Rong not like him? Thinking of this, Jun Shi suddenly found it difficult to breathe, as if the air in his lungs was sucked dry.
Impossible, Jun Shi thought with a pale face. After all, he has lived for so many years, even if he has never fallen in love with anyone, he isn’t ignorant of emotional matters. The way A’Rong looks at him was not unintentional, otherwise he would not have thrown away all his concerns and sank quickly.
Just then, a flash of inspiration flashed through Jun Shi’s mind. Jun Shi remembered Qin Yu’s attitude towards Xie Qiu, his other pseudonym, which was also sticky.
An extremely bad guess immediately formed in Jun Shi’s mind. Could it be that A’Rong is a person who only flirts but does not marry? The more Jun Shi thought about it, the gloomier his face became. At this moment, he regretted the fact that he often played the game of retreat. If he had known that this day would come, he would have been watching him from the side!
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On the other side,
“Host, you are teasing him again.”
Qin Yu, who was flying back to Tianyan Sect on a sword, closed his eyes and felt the breeze brushing against his cheeks, and said, “How can it be called teasing, system? It’s me who was deceived and now I’m heartbroken.”
“Please suppress the smile in your voice, host, this will increase credibility.”
Qin Yu laughed and said, “You don’t understand, system, this is just the expression of my extreme sadness.”
The system choked, I see that you are clearly thinking about how to toss people back and forth.
However, “How did the host find out that Yin Li is Jun Shi?”
Qin Yu thought as he looked at the rolling clouds around him. Yin Li was more than just Jun Shi. How could someone who could disguise himself for many years in Tianyan Sect be just an unpopular demon prince?
As for “How did I find out? Of course, I found out by the fragrance on his body…”
Jun Shi had a light fragrance on him. If you didn’t pay special attention, even the person with the fragrance would not notice it . The reason why Qin Yu noticed it was because he used it specifically to deal with Su Zian.
Previously in the secret realm, he deliberately led Su Zian to a dead end with the information collected by the system and appeared in time to save him when he was about to be tortured to death. Because in his opinion, letting Su Zian die quietly in the secret realm was too easy for him. During this period, he sealed all the nightmares in Su Zian’s heart. As long as he fell asleep, the nightmares would torture Su Zian again and again, making him repeat those painful and miserable lives over and over again.
In order to torture Su Zian every day, Qin Yu specially prepared a potion that could make cultivators fall asleep according to ancient books and put it into a medicine insect to make Su Zian sleepy from time to time.
As a result, one night, Qin Yu suddenly sensed that the inconspicuous medicine insect was destroyed by someone with spiritual power, and he immediately knew who this person was. Because even though most people in the cultivation world have spiritual power, everyone’s spiritual power is slightly different and Qin Yu is quite familiar with the spiritual power fluctuation that destroyed the medicine bug. He once sensed the same fluctuation on Yin Li, who taught him, so this person is undoubtedly his master, Yin Li.
Moreover, when making the potion, Qin Yu added some spices to suppress the smell of the potion itself. As long as someone touches the medicine bug, they will be infected with this smell. Interestingly, he actually perceived the same smell on Jun Shi today.
What’s more interesting is that the spices were collected by Qin Yu when he completed other tasks. This world does not have them, so there is no such thing as coincidence. Therefore, Yin Li, Xie Qiu and Jun Shi can be equated. In other words, they are the same person.
Thinking of this, Qin Yu raised the corner of his mouth and thought to himself, and they are all vests. His true identity is still hidden behind the scenes…
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In the confinement room, Su Zian woke up from a nightmare again, his bloodshot eyes staring at the ceiling. If there were anyone present, they would be surprised and open their mouths wide, because at this moment, Su Zian had completely lost his former spirit, his eyes were dull and his breath was hanging by a thread. It would not be an exaggeration to say that he was about to die.
“If Han Rong discovers the evil spirit in you, he will be the first to get rid of you. What will you do then, Su Zian?”
It came again! Su Zian suddenly opened his eyes wide, held his head with both hands, and tossed and turned in pain on the bed, “Don’t say it anymore, please don’t say it anymore!”
For a while now, Su Zian has a voice in his mind. Once he wakes up, it will keep telling him about the tragic end he will face, almost every time it drives Su Zian crazy. Later, Su Zian realized that this should be his inner demon. The inner demon means that the evil spirit in his body has become strong to a certain extent.
Su Zian was even more frightened, and soon he was physically and mentally damaged by the double torture of the nightmares and inner demons. Suffering when awake and still suffering when asleep.
Occasionally when awake, Su Zian would look at the finger marks on the wall and the fingers without nails which were a result of when he was in agony and went crazy, and he wished he could die. But when he thought of Qin Yu, he felt that he could hold on a little longer. As long as he could get his favor, he would still be the favored son of heaven that he held in his palm and everyone looked up to. But now the problem he faced was to survive this wave of torture. But it was really too painful, he could not bear it any more. Su Zian was so uncomfortable that he pounded the bed and pulled his hair hard, but it didn’t work. He even felt that his head was going to explode.
Just when Su Zian was about to knock himself out to escape the torture of his inner demon, the door of the confinement room suddenly opened. He opened his hands to block the light coming in and looked at the door in disbelief. The guard standing there said to him, “Three months have passed, you can go out.”
Su Zian widened his eyes, tears instantly fell, he was finally leaving this damn place. But when he thought of the problems he was going to face, his mood suddenly became low again. As he had not seen the sun for a long time, Su Zian could not adapt to the strong light for a while. He could only walk in Tianyan Sect with his head down, enduring the attacks of his inner demons, so he did not even notice when he bumped into someone.
The other party was obviously impatient. He grabbed Su Zian’s collar and said viciously, “I avoided it, but you still rushed up to me! Are you trying to scam me?”
“I…” Su Zian looked at the strong man, moved his lips a bit but finally closed them. He was no match for the other party now. If he fought back, he would definitely suffer. But under the cuffs of his clothes, he clenched his fists tightly.
He thought to himself, in the previous life, such a person did not even have the qualifications to approach me, why should I suffer this humiliation in this new life! Su Zian did not notice that the demonic energy in his body had become more concentrated than ever before.
When the man’s companion saw that something was not right, he immediately came over and grabbed him, “Okay, calm down, brother, don’t be impulsive. You have finally gotten rid of a bunch of menial tasks by doing good deeds to atone for your sins, do you want to go back and do it for a few more months?”
The man was obviously scared. He immediately let go of his hand and said, “You’re lucky today, kid. Let’s go.”
After being let go, Su Zian did not leave immediately. He looked at the Wanghan Peak in the distance and muttered to himself, “Atone for your sins by doing good deeds?” He did not notice that the two people who had just left turned into a path and disappeared in an instant.
