LZX Chapter 66.2

Mo Qianqiu came to Haofu’s side. As the spiritual light of the Zhongxiao sword grew weaker, Mo Qianqiu bent down, grabbed Haofu’s collar with one hand, pinched his cheeks, and tried to feed something into his mouth.

Lu Xiaochan became anxious. “Wait! Wait! You’re not planning to feed him the spirit pill you refined from Demon Lord Luli…are you? I won’t allow it!”

Mo Qianqiu took out a small porcelain bottle from his belt and put a pill into Haofu’s mouth.

“This is the spirit medicine refined from the white purple-yang flowers you collected before. It can save his life. Let’s take Haofu back and let him speak for himself!”

“That’s good. What about that spirit pill you refined from Luli?” Lu Xiaochan reached out toward him.

Mo Qianqiu carelessly pressed it into Lu Xiaochan’s hand, saying, “You’re always so greedy for food…”

Before he could finish speaking, Lu Xiaochan pressed it into Mo Qianqiu’s mouth and gave him a pat with spiritual energy to prevent him from spitting it out. The spirit pill thus entered Mo Qianqiu’s inner palace.

“You… what are you doing…” Mo Qianqiu looked at Lu Xiaochan in surprise.

“Feeding you!” Lu Xiaochan patted Mo Qianqiu’s chest with the back of his hand, “I thought you would enter the realm of great power earlier! Unexpectedly, although your cultivation increased significantly, your realm didn’t change. Quickly take this spirit pill to replenish yourself!”

Mo Qianqiu lowered his head and sighed. “I was originally…”

“Originally saving it for me, right! I think this spirit pill would be more useful if you take it rather than me. I’m lazy and would rather sleep than cultivate, plus I have Brother Wuxi by my side. But you’re different! When encountering such dangerous situations again, you won’t always be able to borrow my soul essence. And if you borrow someone else’s soul essence, I wouldn’t feel at ease!”

“What are you not at ease about?”

“I worry that the person by your side won’t trust you enough, won’t be strong enough, won’t protect you the way you want to protect them.”

Mo Qianqiu smiled faintly. “How many Lu Xiaochans are there in the world? Such encounters can’t be sought after.”

After speaking, Mo Qianqiu carried Haofu on one shoulder and grabbed his Zhongxiao sword with the other hand, heading upward.

Lu Xiaochan followed behind him on his sword.

“Qianqiu, there’s a question I’ve always wanted to ask you for an answer,” Haofu spoke up.

“Ask,” Mo Qianqiu’s voice was forthright.

“Did you ever hate me?”

The wind fell from above, making Mo Qianqiu’s hair flutter in disarray.

“No. I was just disappointed in you.”

Haofu smiled helplessly. “In your heart, Lord Lice was the most perfect. But where in this world is there anyone perfect? It’s just that he left you before he had the chance to disappoint you…”

Mo Qianqiu gave a light laugh. “In that battle at the Immortal Inquiry Platform years ago, I lost to you. I told you ‘I never did it.’ You told me ‘I’m sorry.’ Do you remember?”

“…Yes… I’ll never forget it for the rest of my life…”

Mo Qianqiu turned around and said to Lu Xiaochan behind him. “Xiaochan, if you were Haofu during that battle at the Immortal Inquiry Platform years ago, would you have won against me?”

“Yes! Winning and losing is just that, no need to hold back!” Lu Xiaochan called out, “But winning is winning! If I won against you, I would tell the world I believe in you! Since the world wants to judge right and wrong by wins and losses, then I would win against everyone in the world, and see who dares not believe in you!”

Haofu was stunned for a moment, and finally understood.

In Mo Qianqiu’s heart, winning or losing was never important, nor was reputation.

What he wanted, Haofu had never understood.

****

The Chongluan Palace, ten thousand li up in the air, shook three times, as if it would fall from the cliff. Some sects were worried and had already requested to leave the Chongluan Palace.

Lord Miaochen Yuan raised her head, frowning as she watched the spirit butterflies in Chongluan Palace scatter in fright.

“Linshuang, something big must be happening in the Hopeless land. Either the demon forces of the Demon Capital are emerging from the ground split, or someone is forcefully breaking through to the realm of great power. Come with me to investigate!”

Lord Miaochen Yuan infused spiritual energy into the Chongluan Palace below, sensing thousands of threads of evil energy, as well as the tremors caused by Lu Xiaochan and Mo Qianqiu’s battle with the Demon Lord.

“Yes,” Ye Linshuang nodded.

Just as they were about to mount their swords, Lord Chenjie and Lord Qingjing rushed over.

“Sword Master, please wait! Our Martial Uncle True Lord Faning and junior brother Lord Zhaolan have disappeared!” Lord Chenjie said.

“Mo Qianqiu and his disciples have also vanished! The tremors in Chongluan Palace and the stirring of the Demon Capital below Xiyuan might be related to their disappearance!” Lord Qingjing added.

Lord Miaochen Yuan thought quietly for a moment before asking, “Who proposed the sword master selection in your Xiyuan?”

“It was Martial Uncle True Lord Faning! We three brothers didn’t get along, and he was at his wit’s end!”

“Then Martial Uncle arranged this Immortal Inquiry Platform battle!”

Lord Miaochen Yuan narrowed her eyes. “Something’s not right. Linshuang, come with me immediately to the Hopeless land!”

“Yes, Master.”

“Sword Master, you have the highest cultivation in Chongluan Palace now, and all sects look to you for guidance. If you leave too, chaos will truly break out here!” Lord Qingjing again pleaded with Lord Miaochen Yuan to stay.

Lord Miaochen Yuan turned her face, her originally calm gaze suddenly becoming sharp.

“The Immortal Inquiry Platform battle was just an excuse for you to lure the sect leaders and elites here, wasn’t it? Now that I’ve discovered abnormalities in the Hopeless land below Chongluan Palace, you’re trying to stop me from investigating. What exactly are you plotting!”

Lord Miaochen Yuan’s spiritual energy surged, pure spiritual wind arose suddenly, sending Lord Chenjie and Lord Qingjing flying backward.

“If you still won’t tell the truth, don’t blame us for being merciless!”

Ye Linshuang turned his sword scabbard upside down, revealing the Linshuang sword’s blade. Cold energy spread across the sky, with frost flowers appearing and disappearing.

Lord Qingjing and Lord Chenjie immediately drew their swords, trying to suppress Ye Linshuang’s Ninglong Sword Formation.

But Ye Linshuang’s cultivation level was higher than theirs. As frost flowers scattered, countless sword formations fell with them, attaching to their bodies and skin, seeping inside. The sword formations were in their blood and bones, inescapable.

They struggled to cope, barely managing to force Ye Linshuang’s sword formation out of their bodies. The two joined forces to draw their swords, blocking Lord Miaochen Yuan’s path.

Lord Miaochen Yuan didn’t take them seriously at all, merely saying lightly, “The disciples of Xiyuan are truly inadequate.”

She raised her sleeve and waved it, turning spiritual energy into arrows that broke through their sword formations.

Ye Linshuang followed closely behind Lord Miaochen Yuan, mounting his sword, only to find that space had been altered and they couldn’t reach the exit of Chongluan Palace.

“They really don’t want us to leave.”

Lord Miaochen Yuan suddenly raised her arm, pushing Ye Linshuang behind her as a streak of spiritual energy came crossing through. Even though Lord Miaochen Yuan dodged, her fluttering clothes were still torn by this spiritual energy.

“Who!” Just as Ye Linshuang was about to activate his sword formation, a figure suddenly appeared, so fast that even Lord Miaochen Yuan hadn’t reacted.

The person’s hand suddenly gripped the handle of the Linshuang sword, pressing down to force it back into its scabbard.

Ye Linshuang suddenly realized that the person’s target wasn’t Lord Miaochen Yuan, but him!

“Senior—”

Lord Miaochen Yuan began to speak, but before she could finish, Shu Wuxi had already grabbed Ye Linshuang’s shoulder with one hand, turned around, and incredibly, used his toes to push off from Miaochen’s shoulder to leap upward.

Lord Miaochen Yuan immediately drew her sword, its red blade seeming to be wrapped in sunset glow. In an instant, the entire void fell into scorching flames. A sword formation pursued Shu Wuxi, and from within it flew a phoenix, heading straight for Shu Wuxi’s back.

Shu Wuxi flicked his fingers backward, and behind his back, another sword formation appeared. Cloud energy materialized and engulfed the phoenix.

Miaochen quickly changed her sword formation, but Shu Wuxi had already passed through this void and disappeared.

As soon as Shu Wuxi burst out of the void, below him was the ten-thousand-zhang ground split of Xiyuan. The Hopeless land seemed to open its mouth, ready to leap up and swallow heaven and earth.

Lushu flew over. Shu Wuxi, carrying Ye Linshuang, sat on Lushu’s back and headed toward the cliff opposite Chongluan Palace.

There was someone there, in long white robes, particularly eye-catching in the darkness.

It was Lord Lianyue Yuan.

When Lushu landed before him, Lord Lianyue Yuan smiled.

“Indeed, only you, Senior, could bring someone out.” Lord Lianyue Yuan bowed low.

Shu Wuxi threw Ye Linshuang, and Lord Lianyue Yuan caught him steadily.

“Martial Uncle! Why is it you! What exactly are you trying to do!”

Ye Linshuang pushed Lord Lianyue Yuan, but he didn’t move an inch.

“Do you know about the disturbance in the Hopeless land? Martial Uncle, what exactly are you planning to do?”

Lord Lianyue Yuan smiled without answering, took out a Nine-Turning Universe treasure box from his sleeve, and threw it to Shu Wuxi.

“This is the treasure that controls the void of Chongluan Palace. Lu Xiaochan is in the void below, in the Hopeless land. I deliberately set up many obstacles to prevent him from falling directly into the Demon Capital. But there must be Demon Lords searching for his whereabouts.”

Ye Linshuang was shocked. “How did Lu Xiaochan end up in the Hopeless land?”

“Open the void for them, let them return from the Hopeless Land. Leave this place, don’t look back.” Lord Lianyue Yuan raised his hand and threw out the Immortal-Locking Ribbon, “Returning this to you!”

Shu Wuxi caught the Immortal-Locking Ribbon and looked at Lord Lianyue Yuan. “You don’t want him to see you sacrifice yourself, but have you considered that he might want to live and die with you?”

“Is this Senior’s experience?” Lord Lianyue Yuan smiled, “Senior has never cared about such matters.”

Shu Wuxi didn’t answer him, but turned and left immediately.

However, when Lord Lianyue Yuan was watching Shu Wuxi’s retreating figure, Ye Linshuang broke free from his embrace, instantly drew his sword, and pointed its tip at Lord Lianyue Yuan’s brow.

“Martial Uncle! I know being possessed is torment for you too! As long as you return to Nanli Jingtian, we will all help you!”

“Linshuang, I have a question I’ve always wanted to ask you,” Lord Lianyue Yuan smiled slightly.

Everything in the world lost its color in Ye Linshuang’s eyes.

“What?”

The night wind howled, but couldn’t stop Ye Linshuang from walking step by step toward Lord Lianyue Yuan.