IS Chapter 141

Chapter 141

Ye Zhuo gently touched him and then separated, lowering his eyes to look at Li Yuan.

So, dragon pupils could gradually become round.

The moment he touched him, Li Yuan froze as if under a holding spell, staring at him intently. Ye Zhuo waved his hand in front of his eyes.

Li Yuan grabbed his wrist.

“Just now, you said you forgot. Do you remember now?” Li Yuan’s voice was a little hoarse.

Ye Zhuo: “I didn’t ask you to release the Dragon Scent Guide.”

——Could it be that he released the Dragon Scent Guide? This man, Ye Zhuo, was simply turning things upside down. Li Yuan said, “What do you remember?”

Ye Zhuo looked into his eyes, a hint of confusion between his brows, still scrutinizing him.

Could this person really forget? Or was it that some things he didn’t know how to say, he couldn’t bring himself to say them? If he secluded himself for a longer time, would Ye Zhuo even forget who Li Yuan was?

Li Yuan said, “Ye Zhuo, what are you thinking?”

Li Yuan asking this made Ye Zhuo feel annoyed. It seemed like Dragon Li Yuan could easily say what he wanted to say, something he himself wasn’t as good at. But usually, he didn’t have much to say to others.

Ye Zhuo slowly thought for a moment, and finally gently lowered his head, first lightly touching him for a few breaths, then biting Li Yuan’s lips. He learned it, it should be correct.

Li Yuan held the back of his head, their lips touching, Li Yuan chuckled softly, and Ye Zhuo could feel the vibration of his chest. What was he laughing at?

“Ye Zhuo, you’re not doing it right,” Li Yuan said.

Saying that, he went to kiss Ye Zhuo. He didn’t use much force, just wrapped him in his arms, kissing him bit by bit. He guided Ye Zhuo, slowly, kissing him a little deeper. When he used to kiss Ye Zhuo, was this man always distracted by cultivation? Otherwise, how could it be like this?

Actually, Li Yuan felt that Ye Zhuo also liked him. At least, Ye Zhuo also liked him kissing him like this.

Even when such gentle actions had made the person breathless, Li Yuan didn’t stop. Ye Zhuo’s waist was so kissed that he had no strength left, like holding lotus petals in his hand.

Ye Zhuo pressed on Li Yuan, stopping him from continuing. He took a few breaths and leaned against Li Yuan’s neck. Li Yuan pried open his fingers, then intertwined his own fingers with them.

Ye Zhuo was thinking about what he wanted to say at first.

——But Dragon Li Yuan really did release the Dragon Scent Guide.

Now, without him saying anything, Li Yuan also felt the familiar scent of the Dragon Scent Guide. It seemed like this kind of scent hadn’t appeared between him and Ye Zhuo for a long time.

“Not intentional,” Li Yuan frowned and said, “It came out on its own.”

…Insignificant. Ye Zhuo thought.

The scent of the Dragon Scent Guide surrounded him, and his thoughts flickered a few times like ripples on the water’s surface, as if this would better retrieve the thoughts that sank beneath the surface.

Scattered new snow was falling from the sky, and the distant mountains were also covered with a faint layer of white. Dusk was approaching, and on the water, there was a unique kind of silence.

“The Immortal Realm may not be a good place,” Ye Zhuo said. “Maybe there aren’t many Daos to cultivate, and there aren’t any interesting people to meet. I’m not doing it for that, so I can go. But if you go there, it may not be as beneficial to your growth as staying in the Dragon Realm.”

Li Yuan felt a slight annoyance.

“Did Wei Sheng Xian say that the Immortal Realm demands spiritual energy from the lower realms, so you think this way?” He said, “If it were a prosperous great realm, it certainly wouldn’t do such a thing. But even if it’s really a place of tigers and wolves, how can you go and I can’t?”

“Whether you can go or not is secondary. Whether you can even go is still unknown,” Ye Zhuo said indifferently, “Before I came, you were looking at the realm records, you should have some idea in your heart. That’s a realm above humans, you’re not from this realm, so there’s naturally no path. There’s no need to waste your energy.”

“Your Immortal Realm seems to have few paths, but the realms are interconnected, all derived from the Great Dao. If you really want to find one, is there really no path to take?”

Ye Zhuo didn’t push him away, his words seemed to push him away ten thousand miles back to the Dragon Realm. Li Yuan held his waist and said coldly, “Ye Zhuo, you yourself are someone who has cut through realm barriers, do you think it makes sense to say these words to me?”

Stubborn as a mule!

“So what if you find a path and go in? Is there a path to get out?” Ye Zhuo propped himself up and retorted, “What are you going to do as a dragon? Stay in the human Immortal Realm for the rest of your life? The Immortal Realms are self-contained domains, difficult to enter and exit. Go back to the Dragon Realm and tell your Dragon Ancestor, see if he’ll let you go to the Immortal Realm!”

A fire rose in Li Yuan’s heart.

He wasn’t going to argue with this man, but this man was talking back even more righteously! So what if it was the Immortal Realm?

The word “immortal” is half “human.” The so-called Immortal Realm, at best, means profound Dao techniques and long lifespan. At worst, it means that the Heavenly Dao has its own order, wanting to take those who cultivate too powerfully, to the point of disturbing the peace of a realm, and separate them. With this deep meaning, once you reach the Immortal Realm, it will be very difficult to go to the lower realms or other realms. Among the myriad realms, there are many Immortal Realms, and the Immortal Realms are closed off, which is common knowledge.

Ye Zhuo himself knew these things, did he think he didn’t know?

“The Dragon Ancestor can’t control me. As for why I want to go, don’t you know?” Li Yuan said, “You go your way, I’ll go mine. It’s no use you saying anything, I won’t listen anyway. It’s better not to say anything. If I get annoyed and you keep talking, I’ll bite you.”

Dragon Li Yuan had really taken the wrong medicine!

Ye Zhuo resolutely said, “I don’t like it.”

“Don’t like what?”

“My path is set,” Ye Zhuo said, “Go to the Immortal Realm to see Yun Xiang Xi and ask him about the sword. I’ll take responsibility for my own life and death, it has nothing to do with anyone. My sword is the same, it has never had other thoughts.”

Li Yuan listened to him. Maybe this was the first time he had heard Ye Zhuo say what he was thinking.

“What about me?” Li Yuan asked.

“You are an ancient mythical beast, cultivating the primordial chaos of heaven and earth, traveling between the Northern Sea and the Cangwu Sea at dusk, touring the myriad realms. Your path is also set,” Ye Zhuo looked into his eyes, “Because of me, you’re obsessed with the Immortal Realm, which will harm your cultivation. Because of you, my heart is unsettled, which will also harm my sword. So, I don’t want you to go to the Immortal Realm.”

“So, this will harm cultivation?” Li Yuan said, “Ye Zhuo, I won’t, will you?”

“Whether you will or not has nothing to do with me,” Ye Zhuo said, “If you insist on going to the Immortal Realm, I’ll find it an eyesore.”

Li Yuan: “Exactly where is it an eyesore? If you think I’m bothering you, you can just say it.”

“You and I each have our own Dao, which were originally very good. If we insist on getting involved with each other, it will all go against our wishes. Like a sword that can’t be practiced to its best, I don’t like it.”

Li Yuan: “All I know is that just because it’s different from your original plan, you think it’s not good, and you don’t want it anymore.”

“I don’t want it anymore,” Ye Zhuo quietly looked at him and said, “Besides, whether I can even reach the Immortal Realm is unknown, maybe I’ll just die.”

“What’s so difficult? I still have to find a way to get to your Immortal Realm, where is the difficulty for you to go?” Li Yuan said, “Get up, I’ll take you to kill our way into Upper Purity Mountain right now and kidnap their ancestor, and get an ascension spot.”

Ye Zhuo: “Don’t want to.”

“At worst, you can learn from Yun Xiang Xi and let the Heavenly Dao send down thunder to strike you a few times. You’re not afraid anyway, it won’t kill you,” Li Yuan said, “If you want to go to the Immortal Realm soon, even if this world really doesn’t give me a path to ascension, even if I can’t get over there for a while, you just wait for me in the Immortal Realm for a hundred years, a thousand years, there will always be a way to come find you.”

“If that Immortal Realm is really outlandish and doesn’t want a dragon like me to enter, I can still wait for you in the Dragon Realm. You’re so powerful and have plans, in three or four thousand years, one or two myriads of years, maybe you’ll come out on your own,” Li Yuan said seriously, “At that time, you come to the Dragon Realm to find me, I’ll live a very long time anyway, I’ll always wait for you.”

Ye Zhuo held Li Yuan’s chin and looked at his face.

Three or four thousand years, one or two myriads of years.

He wasn’t a man who kept his word easily. So, he didn’t think about trusting anyone.

The scent of the Dragon Scent Guide lingered, like a fog. He watched Li Yuan’s face shake in his vision, as if a long time ago under the Yulan Magnolia Tree, he got drunk and saw that dragon through the wine, inviting him to drink as well.

Ye Zhuo also remembered that one day. Li Yuan insisted on taking him to the back mountain to see an incomprehensible deer cub. He also said that he could let those spirit deer become the mountain-guarding spirit beasts, so that in one or two hundred years, there would be a Tribulation Transcending Demon King to guard the mountain.

When Dragon Li Yuan said one or two hundred years, it was like people saying one or two days.

But for Ye Zhuo, it wasn’t like that. Actually, he had never thought about one or two hundred years.

Ye Zhuo: “Dragon Li Yuan, how many years have you lived until now?”

Li Yuan didn’t answer.

“Anyway, I…” Ye Zhuo paused, “I’ve only lived for twenty-odd years, a summer insect can’t talk about ice. Li Yuan, in ten thousand years, your dragon cubs will be as big as you are now.”

“No dragon cubs,” Li Yuan reached out and stroked his cheek, “I’m only waiting for you.”

“Maybe I’ll die,” Ye Zhuo said, “Die on the way to the Immortal Realm, die in the Immortal Realm, be killed by Yun Xiang Xi.”

“That’s even simpler,” Li Yuan looked at him, as if his eyes were shining, and Ye Zhuo’s strange feeling grew stronger. The next sentence he heard the dragon happily say: “If you die, I’ll accompany you.”

How old is this dragon this year?

As he spoke, Li Yuan grabbed his right hand, “Ye Zhuo, if we really can’t go to the Immortal Realm together for a while, will you leave a soul lamp for me?”

“If the lamp doesn’t go out, I’ll keep looking for you. If the lamp goes out, I’ll return to the Azure Firmament with you.”

Ye Zhuo: “You’re too absurd.”

Where was he absurd? This was something Li Yuan had thought about long ago.

“Died, conclusion after burial, isn’t this the kind of thing you always appreciate?”

“It can’t be that if you die, I’ll take your sword, learn your swordsmanship for a lifetime, like Great Master Xia,” Li Yuan said, “If I really want to live, I don’t know if I can live for tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years, wouldn’t it be too miserable to live a lifetime like that, I won’t.”

Ye Zhuo felt a headache: “What are you comparing it to?”

Li Yuan didn’t speak.

“Can’t I?” He said softly.

After a while, he said again: “Then, can’t a gentleman die for his confidant? In your human world, aren’t there many such things?”

“Not many, you’ve read too many storybooks,” Ye Zhuo withdrew, he wanted to leave. The words had gone too far, they couldn’t be said.

Li Yuan grabbed him.

As evening approached, Ye Zhuo saw in the night, Li Yuan’s eyes, staring at him sadly.

“I lied to you, Ye Zhuo,” Li Yuan said, “If you die, I won’t die. There’s still the Dragon Realm, I can’t leave. I won’t practice your sword either, I can’t learn it. If you die, I’ll be like before, go back to wherever I should go. Traveling the Northern Sea in the morning and the Cangwu Sea at dusk, right? Your human poems are well-written. If you want life and death to be unrelated to me, then it will be unrelated. I’ll just accompany you for a journey, is that okay?”

Ye Zhuo quietly looked at him.

“You said it too late,” he said, “I won’t believe it.”

“Is there a difference between saying it early or saying it late? Ye Zhuo, you’re so smart. You know everything,” Li Yuan suddenly smiled, but there was no smile in his eyes, just a deep, cold, and indifferent gaze, like an unfathomable abyss.

“So, you don’t want to be related to me, and you don’t want me to be related to you. You just want your heart to be pure,” Li Yuan said, “Ye Zhuo, can you?”

——So what?

Since all the causes and effects, life and death, and wild thoughts are known, why can’t the karmic connections be cut off early, and each return to purity?

Ye Zhuo: “Can’t I?”

“You remember too little, Ye Zhuo,” Li Yuan held Ye Zhuo’s chin, wanting him to look at the cold pool.

Ye Zhuo didn’t like Li Yuan’s actions, but Li Yuan held him tightly. He was already annoyed, but he was still pressed down, having no choice but to look at the cold pool water.

He saw the quiet and clear cold pool water, the night scene of the cold pool, and himself in the cold pool. And the ubiquitous scent of the Dragon Scent Guide. Spreading like a fog on the water’s surface.

He heard Li Yuan’s voice, which was also different from his usual voice, cold and deep.

“Second Palace Master Ye, I came to the human world to find you. Later, I was here. Do you know what I was thinking at that time?”

Ye Zhuo couldn’t break free. Li Yuan wanted him to turn around again and look into his eyes. The dragon pupils were only a line. Ye Zhuo saw it and felt danger.

“You’ve done all kinds of bad things, Ye Zhuo, good and evil will eventually be rewarded,” Li Yuan said, “You’re so beautiful, you deserve to fall into my hands.”

Ye Zhuo didn’t want to stay here any longer. Dragon Li Yuan was already unreasonable.

He wanted to leave. Just as he broke free a little, the waves of the cold pool water came crashing over, pulling him back into Li Yuan’s arms.

This was water. Here was a dragon that came from the deepest part of the abyss, a water-attribute dragon. The water from all directions surrounded him, wanting him to have nowhere to go. Wherever he went, he would be pressed back against Li Yuan’s chest.

Ye Zhuo was angry: “Let go of me.”

“I don’t want to listen to a word you say,” Li Yuan quietly watched the bright red sleeves flutter in the water. He lowered his head and looked at the mist-like red spreading at the corner of this person’s eyes. He listened to this person’s rapid breathing. Because of anger, and because of something else. He approached everything about Ye Zhuo.

“Ye Zhuo, you give me a re-think.”