Chapter 29

“Immortal Lord, have I met you before? Some vague memories that never existed before have appeared in my mind.”

Xie Yu frowned and asked Immortal Lord Nandou.

The voice in her mind had been dignified and solemn, but it was indeed Immortal Lord Nandou’s voice.

“You finally remembered? The moment I first saw you, I recognized you.” Immortal Lord Nandou gazed at Xie Yu’s brows and eyes.

Among Xie Yu’s features, only those ink-dark, handsome, delicate brows and eyes resembled his disciple very much.

He paused for a long while before continuing, “You are my disciple’s only biological child. After he died, someone sent you to me. That was the first time I saw you.”

“You were only this small back then, still in swaddling clothes. Yet unlike ordinary infants who cry and fuss, you were quiet and silent. In the blink of an eye, you have grown this much.”

Hearing this, Xie Yu’s expression did not change much. She shook her head lightly. “I am only a mortal. My grandmother told me before that my mother died while giving birth to me, and not long after, my father was drafted into military service and died on the battlefield. Only Grandmother was left to raise me.”

“Besides, with my talent, how could I possibly be the child of an immortal’s gifted disciple?”

Rather than saying she did not believe what the Immortal Lord said, it was more that her origins [bailiantales.com]would not change anything. She had been a mortal for so long. Even the reason she had been able to touch the path of immortality was because of something like this. What meaning was there in telling her about her background now?

Immortal Lord Nandou saw through Xie Yu’s true thoughts at once. “Perhaps you resent me. You wonder why I did not keep you by my side, but instead sent you to the mortal realm to undergo tribulation.”

Hearing this, Xie Yu said nothing. She merely looked at the Immortal Lord darkly. She knew that what he was about to say next might be the origin of everything.

“We both know about this matter, so I will not play riddles with you. There is an inexplicable power inside your body. It is the evil soul power brought by the evil bone.

“Evil soul power is the source the Demon Clan relies on to survive, just as spiritual energy is to our spiritual power. If the evil soul power can be destroyed at its source, perhaps the Demon Clan—this bloodline that brings calamity to the world and should never have appeared between heaven and earth—will disappear completely.”

Xie Yu had not expected Immortal Lord Nandou to know even the deepest secret hidden in her body. Before him, she had no cover at all. It would be effortless for him to control her, yet she could not even tell whether he was an enemy or a friend.

A crack finally appeared on her calm face. Stormy waves rose in her eyes as well. From the bottom of her heart, she sensed danger.

The Immortal Lord had guessed her reaction. He did not keep her in suspense and slowly revealed his cards.

“When I saw you as an infant controlled by that power, I almost destroyed you then and there to return peace to the Three Realms. After all, you were You Chi’s only flesh and blood, and your brows and eyes resembled his so much. But just as I hardened my heart and was about to act, this jade pendant fell from your swaddling clothes.

“Your father knew I would not be able to resist killing you, so he used this method to beg me to spare your life. This was his final wish. And so, I shattered that jade pendant to offset your calamity.

“I sealed the evil bone inside you and sent you to the mortal realm. I hoped you would never return in this life and simply remain a mortal forever.”

Xie Yu thought of the two sentences that had appeared in her mind. They were exactly the same as the scene Immortal Lord Nandou described.

So this was the truth behind the evil soul power inside her body. Xie Yu had treated it as a gift from heaven. Now, looking at it, it was nothing more than a curse.

After listening to this story, the fear she had felt over her secret being discovered gradually faded somewhat. She lifted her head and stared into the Immortal Lord’s eyes, asking calmly, “Now that I have returned, is the Immortal Lord going to do as you said before and kill me with your own hands?”

“You must remember, this jade blocked calamity for you!”

“Do not come back again. I will kill you with my own hands…”

Xie Yu recalled those two lines. That solemn, dignified voice made even her breathing stall. She could feel the Immortal Lord’s killing intent at the time.

This time, not only had she returned, she had also broken through the evil bone’s seal, aided the tiger in doing evil, and wantonly used that power. There was simply no reason for Immortal Lord Nandou to spare her.

Immortal Lord Nandou also met her cold eyes and silently observed this child he had not seen in over ten years. She had clearly already walked down the wrong path. She could not even be called a good person in the true sense. Compared with his disciple, who had been a beacon of righteousness, her character fell far short.

He wondered whether You Chi’s spirit in heaven would feel even the slightest chill. Their choices had all been wrong. They should not have cared only about their own selfish desires. Back then, they should have destroyed the evil bone.

But the Immortal Lord was no longer the great man who cared only for the grand Dao of heaven and earth. He had his own selfish read the original at bailiantales.com motives now. He also wanted to prove that his choice back then had not been wrong.

“I said before, if I wanted to kill you, you would already have died countless times by now.” Immortal Lord Nandou sighed and looked quietly at the broken jade, yet an improper plan remained in his heart.

“Then… does Immortal Lord want me to do something?”

Immortal Lord Nandou would not tell her this matter clearly for no reason, unless he wanted something from her. Perhaps it was even something only she, who possessed the evil bone, could accomplish.

“I want you to personally avenge your father. You Chi died under the inhuman torture of the Demon Realm. You are the biological child he desperately saved, so you must repay him. Use your evil soul power to dismantle the entire Demon Realm, kill the Demon Lord, and offer his demon core before your father’s tomb, to comfort your father’s spirit in heaven.”

He spoke word by word. Every word seemed to have been chewed over in his heart thousands upon thousands of times, tempered with the endless hatred in his chest.

Immortal Lord Nandou rarely revealed his true emotions like this, because his emotions would move the natural world around him. At this moment, dark clouds pressed over the entire Wuwang Sea, and waves rose across the lake despite the absence of wind, making it look like a boiling pot of water.

Xie Yu was not stirred by his emotions. After all, in her memories, there was no person called You Chi at all. How much affection could she possibly have for him? Let alone avenge her father.

But she knew she had no room to refuse. The reason Immortal Lord Nandou spared her life was for this purpose. If she refused, the situation would only become even worse. Thinking this, she finally spoke.

“If this is the condition for sparing our lives, then I agree. The Immortal Lord kept me on Wuwang Island also to stimulate my power and allow me to grow quickly until I can contend against the Demon Lord, correct?”

Xie Yu truly had no respect or goodwill toward someone bailiantales.comwho had wanted her life more than once and was now forcing her to avenge her father. A faint, self-mocking smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

Everything was within Immortal Lord Nandou’s grasp. Both of them were intelligent people, so they naturally knew this was not a negotiation, but an order. Xie Yu was destined to accept his demand.

“Correct. I will give you some pressure to stimulate your potential. Only when the day comes that you can fight me to a draw will you be allowed to leave Wuwang Island and battle the Demon Realm.”

Hearing this, a trace of confusion appeared on Xie Yu’s face. “Immortal Lord hates those who harmed your disciple to the bone. Why not take revenge yourself? Why wait until now?”

If she had to fight Immortal Lord Nandou to a draw before possessing the strength to defeat the Demon Lord, that meant the Immortal Lord himself could kill the Demon Lord. Why, then, had he remained on Wuwang Island and swallowed his anger until now?

“If someone killed my dearest kin, I would make them pay with their life even if it cost me my own.” Xie Yu’s voice was cold. She remembered killing Prince Beiye in the past and found this even harder to understand.

A meaningful smile appeared at the corner of Immortal Lord Nandou’s mouth. “That is precisely where your talent lies. That is why I will entrust my final wish to you.”

“Then does Immortal Lord know where the evil bone inside my body came from?” Xie Yu suddenly asked. Perhaps the Immortal Lord was the closest person to this secret. He seemed to know everything.

This time, however, he did not speak. After a long silence, he said, “You already carried this strange evil bone when you came. I do not know who placed it inside you.”

Almost instantly, Xie Yu reacted. Immortal Lord Nandou definitely knew about this matter. He merely did not wish to tell her. Most likely, he wanted her to search for the answer herself again.

Knowing she would not get an answer, she changed the subject. “Regarding this matter, please do not tell my senior sister. She ​stolen content​still does not know there is an evil bone inside me.”

“You are rather attentive toward this senior sister of yours. But if one day she learns of what you have done, will she leave you?” A trace of interest appeared in Immortal Lord Nandou’s eyes. He had not expected that, under the evil bone’s influence, she would develop such wicked desire…

Hearing this, Xie Yu grew somewhat displeased and said stiffly, “If Immortal Lord does not say anything, then she will not find out.”

“Next time, do not display your weakness before others so openly. Fortunately, the person you met was me. After all, what I want from you is only revenge. If someone else knew, would that not give them another handle to control you?”

The relationship between these senior and junior sisters was rather intriguing.

When Xie Yu returned to the room, Gong Dongling was already lying on the bed in a deep sleep.

Whenever Gong Dongling was with Xu Ruozhen, she always felt as if she were food that someone had set their eyes on. Xu Ruozhen’s gaze was sticky and carried a hint of struggle, as if he were making some kind of decision.

She could only cultivate night after night and even had the system stand guard for her, all to stay on alert against Xu Ruozhen.

Now that she had left him, she could finally sleep peacefully.

Looking at Senior Sister’s relaxed and soft sleeping face, childlike in its ease, Xie Yu’s heart stirred again. She could not help bending down and drawing closer to Senior Sister’s face. The long, trembling lashes in sleep instantly grew larger in Xie Yu’s eyes, as if they could brush against the tip of her nose.

In that instant, Xie Yu felt as if Read on BaiLianTalesan electric current had surged from her curled toes all the way to her suddenly restless heart.

Senior Sister was asleep right now, sleeping especially deeply… So no matter what she did, would Senior Sister not notice?

This thought occupied Xie Yu’s blank mind. The two of them were also so close.

Even the slightest breath of the surrounding air was filled with Senior Sister’s reassuring scent.

Xie Yu moved down by a fraction. Their noses stopped on the same level, and all that remained was just a little more closeness…