IS Chapter 34
by VolareYe Zhuo felt that Li Yuan’s appearance in this world was Heaven’s way of telling him that there were still things he couldn’t understand in this world.
The fingers on his waist seemed to tighten a little more.
Li Yuan lowered his eyes, looking at the blood-stained embroidery on his waist, his expression inscrutable.
He had just said that this dragon was quite human-like, and now this again.
Ye Zhuo was now seriously considering whether to force some spiritual power, or draw his sword, in any case, to get out of this dragon’s embrace first.
The movement to reach for his sword was noticed as soon as it was made. Li Yuan brushed aside his fingers and pressed him against the tree.
Ye Zhuo leaned against the rough tree trunk, watching him coldly.
The opportunity was fleeting. He had failed to break free earlier, and now the chance was slim. Because Ye Zhuo had already sensed the faint scent of Dragon Scent Guide in the wind, clear and ethereal.
It was much more real than what this dragon had described as his own scent.
Li Yuan also sensed the emergence of the Dragon Scent Guide.
He frowned, looking at the person who had first brought it up, and said, “If you hadn’t mentioned it, perhaps it wouldn’t have appeared.”
Ye Zhuo: “?”
Such sophistry was truly a great improvement in the human world.
Ye Zhuo: “If you can’t control yourself, don’t blame others.”
“I can’t control it anyway, you know that. Besides, I didn’t bite you.” As Li Yuan spoke, he tentatively bit the snow-white side of his neck that he had been eyeing for a long time.
Then he said with satisfaction, “This is biting.”
Ye Zhuo really wanted to tell Li Yuan that humans don’t do that.
He also wanted to tell this dragon that his human language skills were not very good.
But now, forced by the situation and controlled by others, he had a feeling that if he said anything else, it wouldn’t be as simple as being pinned against a tree and bitten on the neck.
He had no choice but to suppress it.
When he didn’t speak, Li Yuan looked at him.
Actually, this person was particularly good-looking at times like this.
Especially when he wanted to lash out but had to suppress himself against his will, it inexplicably made him seem much more vivid.
Seeing Ye Zhuo like this, he always wanted to bite him a few more times.
But he didn’t. He wouldn’t do something that forced someone to do something they didn’t want to do.
So he just gave Ye Zhuo a comforting kiss on the cheek, and then let him go.
“Are you unhappy?” Li Yuan asked, “Why?”
Ye Zhuo paused before speaking, “…What?”
“You seem unhappy.” Li Yuan looked into his eyes.
Actually, since they hadn’t decided on life and death, there would still be dual cultivation in the future.
Moreover, with the effect of improving his roots, it might not really be about life and death.
“Things have already come to this, I think there will still be dual cultivation.” Li Yuan said, “So why are you unhappy?”
Was he? Ye Zhuo didn’t understand what this dragon was trying to express.
Neither of them had died yet, so it was true that there would still be dual cultivation.
As for when and where, and what this dragon would do to him—the laws of nature would take their course, and under the influence of the Dragon Scent Guide, he couldn’t do anything about it.
So he hadn’t done anything just now.
Then where did Li Yuan’s question come from?
Ye Zhuo lowered his eyes, recalling his earlier self with unfamiliarity.
“Nothing.” he said, “It’s just that I’m the fish on the chopping board, and I don’t like it.”
Li Yuan suddenly understood.
So it wasn’t that he had gone too far last time, causing this person to resent him.
The slight guilt that had just arisen instantly vanished.
“You’re really strange.” he said.
Ye Zhuo raised his eyes: “?”
“Only someone who’s at another’s mercy is the fish, with you the way you are, who in all the heavens and myriad realms can do anything to you?” There was a faint smile in the dragon’s eyes, “I was worried before that if you were in the Great Realm or the Upper Realm, you would provoke those unfathomable God-Kings and Holy Ancestors, and it would be difficult to deal with. But now it seems that dealing with it wouldn’t be difficult either.”
“Why?”
“The Buddhist teachings you cultivate are profound and unfathomable. Your master must be one of the three great masters of the Sumeru Upper Realm. Even if he isn’t, he would be someone of equal standing.” Li Yuan said, “Even my Dragon Realm would show respect to the Sumeru Masters. With a master backing you, who would dare to touch you?”
Ye Zhuo seemed to be recalling something.
“My master is afraid…” he said with a smile in his eyes, “He’s too lazy to care about me.”
“If he could pass on his true teachings to you, how could he be too lazy to care about you?” Li Yuan said, “He even used sacred Sala wood to make your sword sheath. How could your master not care about you?”
“Unfortunately, I went to Spirit Mountain only to return to the human world.” Ye Zhuo’s voice was very soft, as if it would dissipate in the wind.
Li Yuan didn’t think it was anything.
“When you cultivate an indestructible body and can traverse realms, you can naturally go again.”
Ye Zhuo suddenly found it funny.
He usually only exchanged a few words with this dragon.
But when the Dragon Scent Guide permeated the air, they stood here, saying things that were more intimate than their relationship warranted.
Although that clear, cold fragrance was faint, he had inhaled quite a bit of it over time.
—Wasn’t this being the fish on the chopping board?
“If it’s really true that no one can do anything to me,” Ye Zhuo said lightly, “then what is this now?”
“…Consider it self-inflicted?”
“.”
Although that was the truth, it didn’t stop Ye Zhuo from wanting to kill this dragon.
Seeing his expression, Li Yuan laughed.
“Although it’s because you don’t cultivate good karma, I’m not really going to do anything to you in this kind of situation. In the previous few times, did I ever hurt a single hair on your head?”
Looking at the dragon’s expression, how innocent he looked. As if he had been very polite and cared about the life and death of others for those ten-odd days.
But if he was talking about actual harm, it seemed that it was really as this dragon said.
However, in the end, it was still a matter of one’s life being at the mercy of another.
Ye Zhuo’s expression was unreadable.
Li Yuan knew that he couldn’t reason with him.
Ye Zhuo wasn’t a dragon, so he probably couldn’t understand the impulse to pick up a beautiful pearl when he saw one.
He took Ye Zhuo’s hand and separated those smooth, slender fingers.
Perhaps it was because the Dragon Scent Guide was taking effect, but this person’s hand actually had a trace of warmth. There was no strength to resist.
“If a flower blooms beautifully, I will go closer to look at it and smell its fragrance, but I won’t break it off. It’s the same when I’m with you during dual cultivation.” Li Yuan said.
Ye Zhuo thought about it.
“But I would think about what use it would be to me.” Ye Zhuo said, “If there was any, I would pick it.”
He knew that this person was like this!
Wasn’t it the same with his reverse scale back then?
“You harm others yourself, so you always think that others want to harm you.” Li Yuan raised his chin, wanting this person to look directly into his eyes, “If you act like this, how can the cycle of vengeance ever end, and how can you ever succeed?”
After saying that, he saw those eyes droop slightly.
Just as misty and shining, just as unrepentant.
There was no use in saying more to this person.
Li Yuan was annoyed and bit his neck.
With such force, it would definitely hurt, but this person didn’t flinch, but instead tilted his head slightly, as if to make it easier for him to bite.
There even seemed to be a faint, sigh-like sound of laughter.
“Dragon Li Yuan, only snakes bite people. Are you one?”
…Li Yuan knew it.
If he had bitten him earlier, that would have been fine, but he definitely wouldn’t have been happy. Now it was fine.
Dual cultivation was fine too.
—How could there be such a person in the world?
Pressing this person against the tree trunk, Li Yuan’s expression was inscrutable.
Why couldn’t dragons bite people?
If he transformed into his original form, he could swallow this person whole.
Ye Zhuo cautiously looked at the eyes that were vaguely about to turn back into dragon eyes.
Then he pushed Li Yuan, “Return to Misty Green Peak.”
What, was this place not good enough, was he really afraid that he would transform into his original form because the place was too big? Li Yuan looked around, but saw that beside him, a divine thought stream was hovering. It must have floated over while he was concentrating on reasoning with this person.
He took it over and found that it was a divine thought that both he and Ye Zhuo could read.
Ye Zhuo used a wisp of flickering, subtle spiritual power to touch it.
“Are you done fighting?” Inside was a half-dead wisp of Wei Sheng Xian’s thought, “Please, plant the trees back, push the mountain back, okay?”
“…”
There seemed to be a smile in Ye Zhuo’s eyes.
“How about you go plant trees now?” he said.
“No, I’m not going.” Li Yuan scooped him up, “I’ll get him a few bottles of immortal dew that promote spiritual grass growth later, and that’ll be that.”
So Ye Zhuo reiterated, “Then go back.”
“…Alright.”