Tantai Jin never expected things to turn out this way.
Despite his complicated yet cold resentment, he couldn’t bring himself to unleash it upon a little girl. Surprisingly, she could discern his true feelings at just a glance — those hidden and despicable feelings that he was unwilling to admit.
Yes, he liked her.
Even when he didn’t have a String of Affection, he had really liked her. Five hundred years had passed, and he thought all he had for her was hatred, yet, he wanted to use every possible means to find her and be together even in death. However, he managed to deceive everyone but himself.
He still liked her, and everything he yearned for in life could be found in this single individual.
But he also knew that this love would not be tolerated.
There were too many things standing between them, Xiao Lin’s death, Ye Xi Wu’s Eldest Brother’s death, and in the end, she even ended her life with him by jumping off the tower.
She wouldn’t love him. She only wanted to kill him.
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Tantai Jin walked inside while carrying little Su Su.
Currently, everything was dark except for this place. He could only come here to find out why.
In the bamboo house there was a beautiful and exquisite bed. He paused for a while, then placed the girl, who was sleeping soundly, on it.
His surroundings quieted down. He coughed twice, and spat out a trace of blood.
Sharply raising his eyes, Tantai Jin saw a wandering shadow wriggled out from the area that was dimly lit by candlelight.
Tantai Jin’s eyes narrowed, and he released a thunderbolt from his palm.
The shadow trembled and returned into the darkness, but it still didn’t disappear.
Tantai Jin frowned. Naturally, he couldn’t sleep, so he guarded Su Su, waiting for dawn in this thoroughly strange place.
However, when the first rays of dawn came, the girl he had been watching without blinking suddenly disappeared.
“Li Su Su!”
Even the entire bamboo house turned into nothingness too.
Tantai Jin ran out to give chase. The sky outside was gray and gloomy, and the sweet and delicate girl had disappeared into the shadows. In the area where the bamboo house once stood, now overgrown with thorns, a tall shadow slowly stood up.
Behind it, the girl who was sleeping on a blooming lotus seat1莲台 (liántái)
Might look something like this (you can think of it as Guanyin’s lotus seat): 
was taken away.
Countless wangs rushed over and fused with it, forming a black shadow with devil horns that attacked Tantai Jin.
Tantai Jin also looked at it gloomily.
“You’re seeking death!”
His spirit sword had shattered into pieces, and the things his Xiaoyao Sect Master had given him were too weak to be used in this place.
However, something that he could use…… carried a heavy devilish Qi that would taint his pure spiritual root.
Summoned with his blood, a purple, dragon-patterned devilish crossbow appeared in Tantai Jin’s hand.
The devilish crossbow fed on resentments, and the moment it appeared in his hand, his black pupils instantly turned a demonic red.
Tantai Jin also knew that since he had chosen the immortal Dao, he couldn’t use demonic and devilish weapons.
However, he couldn’t care less, as those who snatched her away from him should all die!
If any of the great powers of the Immortal Realm were here, they’d have been shocked by the weapon in his hand. It was actually the ancient God Slaying Crossbow, that could bewitch one’s mind to create massacres.
The moment the God Slaying Crossbow appeared, purple thunderbolts fell from the sky, as if tearing the sky apart, and struck towards the wang demon.
A crack split open the ground, stretching across a hundred zhangs2丈 (zhàng) – a measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m). The wang demon let out a miserable cry and fell on the ground.
The young man stepped on it with his embroidered fish-patterned boots.
With his pupils abnormally red, he licked his lips, “Good child, tell me, where did she go?”
“Pfft, you can’t speak?” The young man smiled bitterly, “Fine, go die then.”
The God Slaying Crossbow in his hand was laced with purple thunder, which devoured the densely packed wang demons on the ground that couldn’t escape in time.
All he could hear was his own unrestrained laughter. Tantai Jin opened his arms, and unleashed his killing intent all at once. In an instant, he also disappeared.
*****
“Where is this place?”
Su Su, who was on the lotus seat, opened her eyes. The girl pushed back the petals to look down and saw a beautiful valley.
It was spring in the valley, blooming with delicate flowers.
The lotus seat frantically carried her to escape, and a voice exclaimed in horror, “Hurry, quickly follow me in, that scary person is going to catch up with us. Oh my, he killed all of Master’s demonic wangs, who is he really?”
Su Su raised her hand and grabbed the beautiful and exquisite ice-blue konghou.
The konghou instantly shrank and lay in her palm. “You can see me?” It exclaimed in an elated child-like voice.
Little Su Su nodded.
“We’re in the Thousand Miles Picture Scroll. I can only bring you here to hide. The Past Mirror retains scenes from ancient times. In the Cangyuan Secret Realm, it’s enough to pass the fake off for genuine. Just now, you were at the moment of the great demons’ birth. If you didn’t leave, the wangs would have devoured you.”
“Thousand Miles Picture Scroll?”
Looking at the girl’s half-confused eyes, the konghou cleared its throat and said in an innocent child’s voice, “Allow me to introduce myself, I3吾 (wú) – pronoun for I used in older times am am artifact spirit of the most powerful last remaining intact divine artifact of the Six Realms and Ten Directions4十方 (shífāng) – Buddhism term; ten positions (i.e. the four cardinal points 东, 西, 南, 北, the intermediate points 东南, 西南, 东北, 西北, and above and below 上, 下)—— Chong5重 (chóng) – A Chinese character with double pinyin: (chóng or zhòng), but in my opinion, it’s more of the former. Chóng means repeat/overlap, while zhòng means weight/heavyyu6羽 (yǔ) – 5th note of the ancient Chinese five-tone scale; The five notes of this scale are called gōng 宫, shāng 商, jué 角, zhǐ 徵 and yǔ 羽 (Source: Wikipedia, Chinese musicology); 羽 yǔ also means feather, but in this case, it’s the former. konghou!”
“You’re really amazing, artifact spirit.”
“Don’t call me artifact spirit, call me ‘Chongyu’!” the konghou corrected her.
The girl nodded and said, “Chongyu.”
The konghou spun around in her palm and said, “You have to call me Spirit Lord Chongyu.”
“Spirit Lord Chongyu,” Little Su Su asked, “Where are you taking me?”
Speaking about this, Chongyu happily said, “I’ve been waiting for you for many years. Someone has been wanting to meet you.”
“Who is it?”
Chongyu paused and said, “He’s the owner of the Cangyuan Secret Realm, who is also my master. He loves you very much and won’t hurt you. Just now, your soul almost got absorbed into the Past Mirror, so it’s unstable now. The Thousand Miles Picture Scroll is something he left behind to protect you. It’s helping to nourish your soul. In the picture scroll, you’ll grow one year older a day, and very soon, you’ll grow up and regain your immortal skills and memories.”
Su Su could see that it didn’t have any evil intentions, so she agreed.
The lotus seat carried Su Su, and both human and harp flying in the picture scroll. Seeing the valley ahead, Chongyu excitedly said, “We’re here, we’re here. He’s waiting for you inside.”
However, once the lotus seat touched the barrier, a young man in black appeared out of thin air.
The young man turned his head and smiled at Chongyu and Su Su, who looked dumbfounded on the lotus seat, “Found you.”
Edited by: Gaze
I like that Tantai Jin became more protective of her. He admitted to himself that he really did love her despite not having the String of Affection.
The God Slaying crossbow in this has his personality being Tantai Jin’s temptation to the dark side.
Chongyu in this sounded really cute meeting Susu at long last
TTJ: WHERE IS MY SUSU?!
Susu: *just chilling, bro*
Poor TTJ. 🥲 But, he deserves it. 😂😂😂 Fight on, boy! Now, learn well, work hard, and change for the better!