THNWO 112

Chapter 112

Author’s note: The previous chapter and this chapter have undergone major revisions. It is recommended to reread.

In that instant, the surrounding air seemed to solidify.

Zhongli Yueshui’s eyes underwent a change, emotions beyond anger lurked, suppressed beneath the fury, not easily discernible.

Xue Danrong couldn’t wait for an answer, spoke again, “Master decides all matters, disciples must not resist. But in matters of personal feelings, sincerity rather than blind obedience to elders, disciple Xue Danrong requests Master to let Senior Brother choose for himself. Whether to stay on Huali Mountain or leave.”

Fang Chaozhou, upon seeing Xue Danrong, realized something was amiss. He currently used his true appearance, yet the other showed no surprise in their gaze. If the other didn’t know his identity, encountering his resurrected senior brother would elicit some reaction, but not for Xue Danrong.

Now, Xue Danrong directly mentioned “Senior Brother,” indicating his identity had long been exposed to Xue Danrong. However, Fang Chaozhou remained ignorant, thinking he had sedated Xue Danrong. How foolish.

Shameful, truly shameful.

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But the intelligent and extraordinary Xue Danrong fell into demonic cultivation.

Although there were many demonic cultivators in the cultivation world, there was a fact: in thousands of years, no demonic cultivator had ever passed the final tribulation and ascended to immortality.

Because the ascension tribulation would settle the person’s karmic debts.

Demonic cultivators cultivated quickly because their methods were unorthodox. Unlike disciples from prestigious sects who needed a solid foundation, spending decades or even centuries to comprehend a bit of truth in cultivation.

Disciples of demonic sects, the ones who cultivated quickly, often entered the Golden Core stage in less than ten years. The reason was that their cultivation techniques were extremely sinister, either seizing others’ cultivation or using other sinister methods.

The longer the cultivation, the more their minds would be affected. Their hands would become increasingly wicked.

So, no matter what, demonic cultivators couldn’t pass the final tribulation; they would only end up destroyed.

Moreover, practitioners who fell into demonic cultivation midway would attract the attention of the heavenly dao, facing a heavier tribulation. The heavenly dao would deem such a person’s Dao heart unsettled, a person of injustice.

So Fang Chaozhou didn’t want to fall into demonic cultivation, but he never expected Xue Danrong to fall.

He watched as the black aura around Xue Danrong’s brows grew heavier. Unable to hold back, he walked forward. But at this moment, Zhongli Yueshui suddenly spoke, “Tu Bai, take him back.”

With those words, Fang Chaozhou found himself shrinking. Then, a huge tiger head approached, biting his neck. Swinging in mid-air while being bitten, Fang Chaozhou finally saw his fluffy paws and a short tail.

Zhongli Yueshui actually turned him into a small tiger just to make it convenient for Tu Bai to carry him back!

Not only was he turned into a small tiger, but his cultivation was also sealed.

Fang Chaozhou had no resistance left and could only be carried away.

Once Fang Chaozhou, who was carried all the way back, was set down, he wanted to run outside, but he was not accustomed to walking on four legs, and Tu Bai didn’t give him any face. He stumbled a few steps and was flipped over by the other, ending up on his back with his belly exposed.

Trying to flip over, Tu Bai’s tiger head pressed down first, making Fang Chaozhou almost unable to catch his breath.

Now, he realized what it felt like for Tu Bai when he usually rested his head on him.

Unable to flip over, Fang Chaozhou could only try to crawl out from under Tu Bai’s head. After managing to crawl out halfway, Tu Bai used a paw to pull him back.

It seemed that Tu Bai thought he was disobedient, and a long-tongued tiger tongue licked him. Just one lick, and Fang Chaozhou’s head fur became soaked.

Fang Chaozhou: “…”

Really wanted to wash his head.

As this thought crossed his mind, he suddenly felt the ground shaking violently. Tu Bai was also alarmed by the anomaly, lifted his head to look outside, squinted his phoenix eyes, then turned around and flipped Fang Chaozhou over, grabbing the back of his neck with his teeth, and headed deeper into the room.

With Fang Chaozhou in its mouth, Tu Bai jumped onto the bed. After releasing him, Tu Bai used its long tail to encircle Fang Chaozhou.

As long as Fang Chaozhou tried to crawl out, the tail around his waist would pull him back.

After several attempts, Tu Bai licked him again every time Fang Chaozhou crawled out. In the end, when Fang Chaozhou stopped moving, as if giving up, Tu Bai lay on the bed with Fang Chaozhou circled by its tail.

Because Fang Chaozhou became docile and stopped running outside, Tu Bai’s attention gradually shifted to the outside movements, only using its tail to encircle Fang Chaozhou’s waist.

Meanwhile…

The surroundings of Xue Danrong and Zhongli Yueshui had already become ruins. Wherever the sword light went, nothing was spared. Above their heads, dark clouds rolled like a stealthy dragon surging endlessly. Fierce winds roared, seeming like a thousand horses galloping, with an imminent torrential rain.

And all of this, along with a group of hidden observers.

Li Yiyue concealed himself, watching the distant commotion. The corner of his lips curled up involuntarily, it seemed this trip had yielded quite a bit.

Over a month ago, he once again saw Li Zhu reading a manuscript. In a good mood that day, he let it pass. But that day, due to the poor training results of the puppet army, he got angry and directly snatched the manuscript from Li Zhu.

About to tear it apart, he first glanced at the words on it.

This brief glance made Li Yiyue stop his hand.

He then held back Li Zhu, who was restless and wanted to snatch back the manuscript. Carefully studying the words on it.

The more he looked, the stranger Li Yiyue’s expression became. After a while, he took the manuscript back to his study, took out a piece of paper from a hidden compartment, and compared the handwriting on it with the manuscript.

Although it started a bit differently, the later words were almost identical.

Especially the words “Fang Chaozhou.”

The letter had these words, and so did the manuscript.

Li Yiyue immediately had Li Zhu brought over, asking about the manuscript that was sent from the town below Tian Shui Sect. When he confirmed the suspicion in his heart, he further expanded his doubts.

If he wasn’t mistaken, the one who wrote this manuscript might be the supposedly dead Fang Chaozhou.

Fang Chaozhou might not be dead.

When this thought crossed Li Yiyue’s mind, his heart skipped a beat. He acted like a confused young man, immediately ordering someone to bring the Fei Yun Beast over, preparing to go directly to Tian Shui Sect.

However, as soon as Li Zhu heard he was going to Tian Shui Sect, he insisted on going too. At the same time, Li Zhu also noticed the paper and manuscript on the table.

The moment his seemingly incompetent son suddenly became intelligent, he also discovered the trickiness of the situation, questioning whether Fang Chaozhou had not died.

Li Yiyue didn’t respond, but Li Zhu, seeing his reaction, immediately blocked Li Yiyue’s way. “Dad, you must take me with you. You can’t go alone.”

Li Zhu wasn’t going empty-handed to Tian shui Sect. He remembered that the last time his dad, Li Yiyue, went to Tian shui Sect for a marriage proposal, many things were rejected. So, this time, he brought even more, along with a lot of people to support him, turning the trip into a journey by flying ship.

However, after only a few days on the ship, Li Yiyue rode a flying cloud beast ahead, and when he arrived at Tianshui Sect, he found that something seemed to be wrong.

Tianshui Sect had closed its doors.

In so many years, he had never heard of Tianshui Sect completely closing its doors, not allowing disciples to enter or leave. So, Li Yiyue sneaked into Tianshui Sect. His current cultivation level had reached the limit, and within the Tianshui Sect, only Zhongli Yueshui had a higher cultivation level.

This infiltration led him to encounter several old fellows from Tianshui Sect.

Those old fellows, whose origins were unknown, all had serious expressions. One of them suddenly spoke, “Why did our master take so many demonic beast inner cores? And using his own blood to nourish those cores.”

As soon as the words fell, another one murmured, “I once read in a book about a method, using blood as a medicine catalyst, combined with demonic beast inner cores, can cure the ailments caused by demonic beasts inhabiting the body.”

“What? Demonic beast inhabiting? This is a serious illness. Wait, who is the master trying to cure?” the first one said. “Are you overthinking it? Perhaps the master just… wants to feed the demonic beast inner cores to Tu Bai.”

When he said the last sentence, he didn’t sound confident.

The latter couldn’t help but sneer, “If it’s for Tu Bai, why use blood to nourish the cores? And why didn’t he take them earlier, but specifically took them now? Didn’t you see the master’s abnormal behavior yesterday? Or are you the one who said it yourself, the master crumpled the sound transmission talismans. I find you quite foolish. Yesterday, two thunderclouds suddenly flew towards Huali Mountain, so obvious, can’t you see it?”

“What did you see?” the first one exclaimed in surprise.

“The master took someone to Huali Mountain, and that person, like Senior Nephew Xue, is undergoing the Thunder Tribulation. If I’m not mistaken, that person is also inhabited by a demonic beast. The master wants to completely draw out the demonic beast, that’s why he came up with this method.”

Upon hearing this, the faces of the crowd changed.

The old fellow at the forefront, after pondering for a moment, spoke, “Alright, let’s not speculate about the master’s affairs. Today’s matter, no one is allowed to talk about it outside. What we need to do is to manage the Tianshui Sect well, preventing any villains, especially those demonic cultivators, from infiltrating.”

The leader of the demonic cultivators, Li Yiyue, revealed a strange smile.

He thought he had a single joy, but now it turned out to be a double joy.

He knew the method mentioned by that old fellow for curing the illness, and what he knew even better was that nourishing the cores with blood required a large amount of spiritual power. It could be said that this period would be the weakest time for Zhongli Yueshui.

At this point, who would go to such lengths to cure Zhongli Yueshui?

After thinking about it, it could only be Fang Chaozhou.

Five years ago, the shame of the opponent’s sword was still vivid.

After pretending for so many years, he was tired.

Although these orthodox sects on the surface gave them demonic cultivators a bit of face, in reality, they all looked down on them. However, these orthodox sects didn’t think that if there were no other options, who would be willing to take a dead-end path.

He had also thought about joining the orthodox sects, but those sects saw the “slave” character on his neck and thought he must be a despicable person. They didn’t even allow him to test his aptitude, just kicked him out.

At that time, he swore that one day he would make those sects regret it, let them know that Li Yiyue was not someone to be trifled with.

But five years ago, he personally proposed to Tianshui Sect for marriage, and Zhongli Yueshui, in front of everyone, didn’t give him any face. The humiliation from hundreds of years ago seemed to reappear right in front of him.

Not killing Zhongli Yueshui was really hard to vent his pent-up hatred.

Li Zhu had a saying, how did it go? In this way, he really resembled the brave and valiant groom risking danger to rescue his little bride deep in the demonic beast’s den.

Since this demonic beast was sick, he could take its life conveniently.

The only problem was that the demonic beast lived on Huali Mountain. Although Li Yiyue could move freely within Tianshui Sect, he couldn’t go up Hua Li Mountain. However, Li Yiyue didn’t forget one person—

Xue Danrong.

Xue Danrong was also eyeing his little bride.

In these five years, Xue Danrong’s insane appearance was unknown to outsiders, but he knew it very well.

Due to Kuí Yī’s incompetence, he was destroyed by him and died in the underground demon realm. However, Kuí Yī’s puppet core still remains in the underground demon realm, recording the countless times Xue Danrong  passed by it.

Among them, it recorded numerous encounters with Xue Danrong .