IS Chapter 15
by VolareCradling the person who had fainted, Li Yuan felt he might have sighed.
Reaching out to turn the person away from his shoulder, what was revealed was a beautiful but lifeless face.
The person wouldn’t wake up for a while. Their eyes were closed, and the bloodstains under their eyes hadn’t been wiped away, leaving a trail of crimson.
They didn’t seem like the one who had been killing gods and Buddhas just moments ago.
Li Yuan reached out and wiped away the streak of blood.
After probing their pulse slightly, he found that although they were alive, they were merely alive.
Li Yuan realized that this person might need some care.
And it was also time to leave this place of trouble.
–How to take the person away?
In this situation, it seemed that picking up Ye Zhuo and carrying him away was the most reasonable choice. But Li Yuan didn’t really want to do that.
…He felt that such an action was excessively strange, not something that should happen between enemies.
–So he transformed into his dragon form and carried Ye Zhuo away in his mouth.
When Ye Zhuo’s consciousness gradually returned, he couldn’t immediately determine where he was.
He was surrounded by a strange, cold, and moist aura, its source unknown, but it made his meridians feel relaxed, as if he were soaking in water.
A slightly familiar fragrance of medicinal pills lingered between his lips and teeth.
Beneath him was something soft.
Ye Zhuo suddenly opened his eyes.
Before him was a hazy white mist of spiritual energy, and beneath him was the same. He reached out to touch it, and it felt cool and soft.
–He seemed to be enclosed in something, unable to feel the flow of air. In the distance were a few round, gentle lights.
Ye Zhuo got up.
Above him, something slowly opened as he stood up, and light from the outside shone in. Ye Zhuo finally saw where he was.
–He was in a crystal-clear, snow-white seashell.
As he got up, the giant spiritual shell opened its upper half on its own.
Looking across, sure enough, there was a soft jade couch, and in front of it was a clear jade table, with several night-illuminating pearls placed on it.
These spiritual objects were not found on land, so they naturally came from the sea.
The sea had pearls, and also dragons.
In the halo of the pearls, Li Yuan was sitting properly at the table, reading a book.
He looked quite presentable.
When people praised others for their outstanding appearance, they often said that they had the countenance of a phoenix or the bearing of a dragon. There was some truth to that.
Looking at where they were, it was a spacious cave that was completely different from the crystal furnishings. Apart from the light of the luminous pearls, there was only a stack of natural light coming through the gaps in the mountain rocks above. The stone walls were covered with moss, and it was unknown which mountain in Sichuan this natural cave was in.
“Awake?” Li Yuan looked up at him.
Having expended so much energy, he had thought it would take at least three days and three nights to wake up, but he had woken up sooner than expected.
Ye Zhuo looked at the white mist around him, “Thank you for saving me. What is this?”
“For healing,” Li Yuan said, “But it’s not very useful. Come out if you don’t want to stay in there.”
Healing was just a side effect; the main reason was that stuffing him into the shell allowed it to be closed. Out of sight, out of mind, he could concentrate on reading.
The spiritual mist was moist and subtly repairing the hidden injuries in his meridians. Ye Zhuo sat on the edge of the shell and looked at him, the series of memories before he fainted flooding into his mind.
Xiao Zhenzong leading the way, the Martial Sect intercepting, the Dao Sect ambushing.
If the Martial Sect had killed him, it would naturally be revenge for revenge, and there would be nothing strange about dying. It would just be an issue of grievances in the martial world.
If the Martial Sect couldn’t, the Dao Sect would naturally finish the job, ultimately making it look like the Martial Sect had sought revenge and killed him, with no proof to the contrary.
Unfortunately, they hadn’t gotten their wish.
“The third time,” Li Yuan said, “Every time I see you, people die.”
The first time someone poisoned him, the second time someone committed suicide, and this time the Upper Purity Mountain set up an ambush to intercept and kill him. Their deaths were their own fault, so what did it have to do with him?
Ye Zhuo didn’t really want to answer.
“Is this how the Xian Dao of you humans spend every day, with swords and shadows, killing each other? Or is it that you’re a bad person, so you’re always plagued by bad luck?”
“It’s always been like this,” Ye Zhuo said.
He didn’t know if he was answering the former question or the latter.
Li Yuan seemed to fall silent for a moment upon hearing this.
After a while, he said, “So, there’s no Sword Saint in Sichuan at all, right?”
Ye Zhuo: “There never has been.”
Li Yuan: “So that’s how you all are.”
Ye Zhuo closed his eyes to regulate his breathing and didn’t speak.
Seeing that he didn’t care at all, Li Yuan was curious, “Aren’t you going to ask me why I helped you?”
Since he had already helped, there was no difference whether he asked the reason or not.
Besides, this dragon’s thoughts weren’t hard to guess.
Ye Zhuo: “Most likely, it’s because Your Excellency has a clear sense of good and evil and thinks they’re worse than me.”
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have had that sudden feeling of “dark and stormy weather.”
“Not bad. Although you’re definitely not a good person, this matter was their evil intention, and there was even less reason for it,” Li Yuan said, “Besides, this matter is also somewhat related to me. The person they mentioned was killed by me, what was his name… Lou Ke?”
“That person was doomed to die,” Ye Zhuo said, “It was just a scheme, it has nothing to do with you.”
“Then will they come to kill you again in the future?”
Ye Zhuo: “Let them.”
The moment Xiao Zhenzong spoke, he knew there must be an ambush in Sichuan. Since someone had taken so much trouble, he would naturally go to the appointment. If there were more actions in the future, he would be even more willing to accompany them.
But why did this dragon even know what Xiao Zhenzong had said to him?
Ye Zhuo looked at Li Yuan and asked, “When did you come?”
“Me?” Li Yuan said as a matter of course, “I’ve been here all along.”
In the human world, it seemed everyone had their own things to do. He had nothing to do, so studying what his enemy did every day could be considered following local customs.
Ye Zhuo: “.”
It was indeed not unexpected.
“There were two times when I almost thought you couldn’t win, but I didn’t expect you to know so much. That Buddhist divine power was invisible and traceless, and it was used perfectly.”
As he spoke, Li Yuan closed the book and spread something out on the table, then raised his eyebrows to look at him.
“–Say, how are you going to thank me?”
Ye Zhuo walked over and saw several sound transmission talismans, flying letters, and also dots of flowing light, containing divine sense information, illuminated by the luminous pearls on the table.
The talismans and flying letters were the Martial Sect members using secret methods to urgently transmit for help to their sect when they were beaten, and the flowing light of divine sense was the Dao Sect’s two Supreme Elders sending reports to the Upper Purity Mountain.
“They’ve all been intercepted,” Li Yuan said.
Ye Zhuo looked at those things, lost in thought.
In other words, not a single piece of information about this chaotic battle had leaked out.
No matter how many people in the two sects knew about this matter, the final result was that those who came to intercept and kill him—four Fusion Realm and three Tribulation Transcendence Realm experts—had all perished in Sichuan, and not a single word had been sent back.
As for his Sword Dao realm and Buddhist cultivation, only Heaven, Earth, and Li Yuan knew.
Unless several elders had spirits underground and asked the Ten Kings of Hell to give their descendants dreams.
But this human world had been disconnected from the Netherworld for a long time, the underworld had long been out of order, when people died, they were like extinguished lamps, and they couldn’t break out of the ground again.
Ye Zhuo moved his gaze back to Li Yuan.
He had intercepted the news and then sent spiritual energy, so he didn’t have to burn his essence.
According to human morality, he should indeed thank him.
“How do you want me to thank you?” Ye Zhuo said seriously, “The sword is my heart. Apart from the Life-Bound Sword, which I can’t give you, anything else is fine.”
–Sure enough, this person was just as detestable as soon as he opened his mouth!
Li Yuan was annoyed, “Your sword was originally mine, why can’t I have it?”
Ye Zhuo: “If you defeat me, the sword will be at your disposal.”
“Don’t worry, since it’s already become your Life-Bound Sword, it won’t respond even if I call it,” Li Yuan sneered, “My own scale, I will naturally take it back after I defeat you fairly and squarely, and I won’t take advantage of you at this time.”
Ye Zhuo sincerely said, “Your Excellency is upright and frank, truly a good person.”
Li Yuan corrected, “Good dragon.”
Ye Zhuo: “Then what do you want? I will do it.”
“Lie back first and close the shell,” Li Yuan said, “I need to think carefully.”
If he wanted to think, then he could think, why did he have to lie back down?
Ye Zhuo really couldn’t understand this dragon: “Why?”
Li Yuan: “Seeing you is annoying.”
Ye Zhuo slammed himself back into the shell with a bang.
Did he really want to see this dragon?
Immediately, he sat down in meditation and cultivated, circulating his cultivation technique in the spiritual mist.
Looking at the firmly closed shell, Li Yuan immediately felt much quieter.
He thought it was good for Ye Zhuo to stay inside.
It would be best to close it for thousands of years and not release him, then open it again and turn him into a jade-like, ice-clear pearl, which would definitely look good on the wall.
After gaining some peace, Li Yuan began to seriously consider how to make Ye Zhuo repay him.
With such great kindness, it was natural to make it worthwhile.
This consideration took a long time.
So long that Ye Zhuo had already finished a round of cultivation and pried open the shell, looking at him expressionlessly.
“I’ve got it.” Li Yuan said with great interest, “The books say that the people of Sichuan often gather around a stove to warm a tripod, cooking meat to eat, which is extremely delicious. I also saw restaurants doing this business in the city, and it’s very lively.”
“It’s just that they all go in groups of three or five, and I’m all alone there, which feels quite out of place, so I haven’t tried it before.”
Ye Zhuo was a little unable to understand what this dragon was saying.
What did this have to do with him?
Then Li Yuan said, “How about you accompany me once?”
“?”
Ye Zhuo felt rather absurd.