Chapter 110 : Protecting Oneself for the Sake of Everybody

Chapter 110.1 : Protecting Oneself for the Sake of Everybody

But the figure of the old man was already gradually disappearing away. Qing Yu went speedily forward in pursuit but the ground suddenly shook and collapsed, splitting into two halves that cut off her way forward.

Qing Yu barely managed to steady herself at the edge, her face terrifyingly dark and the aura around her body was highly oppressive. She just remained in her half crouched position at the edge of the split, staring down into the thousand foot deep chasm without saying a word.

Mu Lai was a little worried. This was the first time that she was seeing Qing Yu looking like that, the exquisite features on her countenance without a single hint of a smile, but only an impending brutal storm approaching from the hills, sending a chill right through her.

When a person who is always smiling suddenly turns his face grim and stern, it is really more frightening.

“Qing Yu, are you alright?” Mu Lai asked in a soft voice, carefully holding her hand.

From behind, Lou Jun Yao strode over slowly, his long slender arm stretching out to pull the young lady back up and a little further back from the edge. “What did that person just say that made you react so strongly?”

Qing Yu’s dark eyes then slowly regained their focus bit by bit. She blinked her eyes and then massaged her temples as she replied: “It’s nothing. Maybe I was mistaken with what I heard.”

Lou Jun Yao was not letting her muddle through it like that and he said slowly in response. “He clearly knew something and that was what you have always wanted to know about.”

“That’s enough.” Qing Yu’s gaze turned a little chilly. “I will handle my own affairs myself.”

Actually, she had initially not been that curious about the secrets of this body she occupied but too many suspicious points had turned up that was bothering her and hence she could help but need to seek a clearer picture.

But, this was afterall a personal affair and it concerned the mystery of her birth, so she did not want too many people to know about it.

“I can help you.” Lou Jun Yao saw her demeanor suddenly turning stiff and his brows pinched up slightly in displeasure.

[This little fox changes faces faster than you can flip a book. When smiling gently she’s just a puddle of water. When she turns cold that water freezes into a sharp blade that can pierce right into your heart.]

Hearing what he said, Qing Yu lowered her eyes. “Thank you, but there’s no need.”

She then turned her head towards Bai Zhi Yan and the grey robed man. “I am grateful for what the two of you have done today. I will send a hundred superior grade elixirs over one of these days as a token of my appreciation.”

Once she finished, she then took her leave with Mu Lai.

Although she did not know why Qing Yu had suddenly turned to become so cold, but Mu Lai was still worried for her. She nodded her thanks to the men and then followed Qing Yu to leave.

“Does that little lass have to be so calculative with everything? It didn’t take us that much effort at all and she has to be like this.” Bai Zhi Yan said as he shook his head helplessly, thinking it was going to be really hard for them to coax her into going to Cloud Heaven with them.

“But, why did her demeanor change all of a sudden? What did that old man say just before he left? Qing Er?” Bai Zhi Yan rubbed his chin thoughtfully. “Could it have something to do with the lass’ birth?”

“Isn’t she a daughter born from a concubine in the Duke’s Manor? What kind of a secret could there be behind her birth? ?” The grey robed man asked, his face baffled.

“Are you stupid?” Bai Zhi Yan rolled his eyes mournfully at him. “How do you think she compares with any other young lass back in Cloud Heaven? Let’s not mention anything else first. Did you even see that elixir fire of her’s? It a lot stronger than my own elixir fire. Just how great do you think the Feng Shui is here in the lower realms that it is able to produce such a maniacal specimen?”

Chapter 110.2 : Protecting Oneself for the Sake of Everybody

“There are only two possibilities. Either she is an old and haggard demoness with heaven defying cultivation reborn into another body or she came from an extraordinary family background where her parents were peerless experts and she inherited their talents from them.”

Hearing that, the grey robed man nodded his head like it had just dawned upon him. “Could it then mean, that the lass’ parents might even be people from Cloud Heaven?”

Bai Zhi Yan snorted disdainfully. “I suspected that from the first time I saw her alright?”

If that’s not the case and it was known that just a little lass from the lower realms was actually higher skilled than him in Medicine, then how would he as the Young Lord of the Divine Healers Sect then still have the cheek to show himself?

“Yawn~” The grey robed man let out a sleepy yawn . “It has been a long night and I’m tired to the bone. Let’s go back and get some good sleep!”

“Let’s go Jun Yao.” Bai Zhi Yan said to the one beside him and then suddenly felt that something was not right. [Why has that fella suddenly gone quiet the moment the lass left?]

[Is he angry?]

Bai Zhi Yan cast his glance over warily but saw that the man’s fine and intricate features on his handsome countenance were tinged a scarlet red, which caused that always cold and distant face to somehow look even more dazzling.

“Are you alright?” Bai Zhi Yan went a few steps closer. Just as he was going to check what was wrong with the man, he came to feel a wave of heat exuding out from the man. Bai Zhi Yan peach blossom like eyes immediately flared wide. “Why is your body so hot! ?”

Lou Jun Yao’s violet eyes narrowed slightly and he stretched out his right hand. On his palm, there was a thin and long wound. It wasn’t deep, but blood could be seen.

The grey robed man’s eyes widened in shock as well, the dozing bug driven right out of him in an instant. “You’re wounded! Heavens! Where did the wound come from! ?”

He must not be blamed for being so surprised as having served that man for several hundred years, nothing has ever lived the moment the man lashed out. Not to mention injuring him, no one had been able to harm a single hair on him at all!

So although it was just a thin sliver of blood to be seen, it was shocking enough already.

“Shut up.” Seeing the grey robed man kicking up such a big fuss over it, Bai Zhi Yan could not help but to whip out a leg to kick the guy. “Are you such a stupid pig? Do you still need to ask! ? His body is so hot and anyone would be able to tell that he got the wound from that Flaming Red Ghost earlier at one glance.”

Having suddenly gotten kicked and admonished, the grey robed man then asked in a weak voice looking all aggrieved. “Wasn’t the Lord completely fine all this time?”

[And that lass had even checked him earlier.]

“Are you brainless? If that lass finds out, she’ll feel that she owes us something and become even more distant from us! How could Jun Yao possibly let her know! ?” Bai Zhi Yan continued to berate him.

The grey robed man almost felt like there was no point living anymore. Why must he be branded as stupid and brainless? Just what did he do wrong?

Bai Zhi Yan turned his head around after admonishing him and his good looking face creased up with concern. “How could you allow yourself to be hurt? Don’t you know that your body is special and you cannot get wounded? What will you do if you get infected? How worrying!”

Bai Zhi Yan and Lou Jun Yao grew up together from a very young age and they had been together for the longest time. Although he always suffered the stinging lash of Lou Jun Yao’s venomous tongue, he was always the one who was most concerned for Lou Jun Yao. Because no one else knew Lou Jun Yao better than he did, and knew that this man had suffered more than enough pain already.

Chapter 110.3 : Protecting Oneself for the Sake of Everybody

Lou Jun Yao looked at Bai Zhi Yan staring so mournfully at the wound on his palm and he laughed softly to say. “It’s just such a small wound. Do you need to make such a face? What? The Divine Healers Sect’s Young Lord’s medical skills seems to be slackening.”

“Tsk! Who is in the mood to joke with you?” Bai Zhi Yan could not cheer himself up at all. “This small wound might be enough to cause you a whole barrel of agony. Scratched by the Flaming Red Ghost and you still think its nothing. You would have gotten off lightly if your fever just for an entire day and night.”

Bai Zhi Yan was furious as he spoke and he suddenly stopped abruptly. His beautiful eyes peach blossom like eyes narrowed and he then said in a soft voice: “Jun Yao, I’m serious. Do not do this again next time.”

“What?” Lou Jun Yao arched up an eyebrow in surprise, not knowing what he meant by those words.

“At that time, you could have dodged completely and kept yourself safe couldn’t you? But to ensure that the lass does not come to any harm, your actions came to be delayed and your opened yourself up to the risk of being bitten by the Flaming Red Ghost right?”

Bai Zhi Yan’s enchantingly handsome countenance did not show his usual playful and frivolous expression but was stern and serious. “That lass is indeed rather highly skilled and holds quite more than a few mysterious trump cards hidden in her hands. I agree that it will be great for us if she’s on our side when she matures and grows in power in future, but you do not have to do so much for her, to the extent that you risk your venerable self to do it. You are the King of the Dark Regions and it is only when you’re safe and well that the Dark Regions can grow in might, where the disciples of the Dark Legion are firm in their faith and resolve, that would make the Dark Legion the most powerful might in Cloud Heaven one day. So, for the sake of everyone in the Dark Regions, you have to protect yourself.”

It can be said that Lou Jun Yao had really been so completely indulged by everyone in the Dark Regions that he paid absolutely no regard to law and order and was wilfully impudent.

No matter what he said or did, all those people recklessly followed behind him, acknowledging him without question. Even when the man had erratic mood swings and vented his frustrations on his subordinates when he was in a bad mood, not a single one among them uttered a single word of complaint, To the extent where as long as it made him happy, it did not matter even if they were flogged a hundred times.

He could be said to be a man who truly possessed a mystical kind of attraction, that made people willingly lay down their lives for him from deep down inside their hearts, as when he was truly happy from the bottom of his heart, just the slightest rise in the arc of his lips was enough for all of them to give up everything they had.

Even when Bai Zhi Yan had just been very young, he had been enthralled by just one statement from the young Lou Jun Yao. “When you’re around, I do not feel like I’m alone.”

And it was just that one single statement that made Bai Zhi Yan choose to single mindedly remain by his side. Lou Jun Yao was just too lonely, so lonely that he did not know how to to sad or sorrowful, and did not know how to cry.

That pair of violet eyes were always smiling seemingly sparkling with stars inside. He smiled when he was angry, he smiled when he was sad, and he smiled when he was filled with sorrow. Even when he went personally to exterminate the entire clan of the enemy who murdered his parents, and he killed the enemy’s wailing little baby who was just a few months old with his own two hands, he had still been smiling.

He held the baby’s fragile neck, where from a loud clear wailing till the tiny face gradually turned greenish purple before the baby finally stopped breathing, Lou Jun Yao had seemingly been talking to himself, his words so saddening and devoid of hope.

Chapter 110.4 : Protecting Oneself for the Sake of Everybody

He said: “Why are you able to cry so freely but I can’t.”

He said: “Why are you able to wail in sorrow when you see your parents die a violent death but I can’t.”

He said: “Why do I have to live an existence like I’m the devil smiling that gazes upon all that happens in the world, unable to laugh without restraint, unable to cry with unbridled sorrow?”

He said: “Why do I have to be such a heartless, cold blooded and tearless person, destined from the moment I was born to be a lone orphan star, where no one could come close to.”

Countless questions came out from his mouth, but among all the scattered corpses that filled the floor, none could give him an answer.

Finally, he suddenly lowered his head and laughed softly to himself, saying like he had completely lost his mind. “If that is what fate has destined it to be, then I can only….. defy what blind Heaven has ordained!”

Ever since then, the King of the Dark Regions became an entity that no one did not know about, his personality haughty where people who did his bidding would thrive and anyone who defied him would not live. Everyone had kept their distance away from him back then, their faces changing the moment they heard his name.

That was the reigning demon lord in Cloud Heaven who possessed highly powerful cultivation, his exact whereabouts mysterious and unfathomable. He also had a bunch of fiercely loyal and incredibly powerful henchmen doing his bidding, a truly awe inspiring existence.

He terrorized Cloud Heaven with impudence for close to five hundred years and it might have been because some people were no longer able to put up with him any longer that drove them to join hands against the demonic lord. It was also because he had been too arrogant at that time which led him to fall for their ploy.

And from then onwards, Lou Jun Yao began to withdraw into himself in restraint, no longer as spirited and wilful, turning to become exceptionally steady. His heart also grew a lot stronger in the process, where no one, nor was there anything that could move his heart anymore, which made Bai Zhi Yan who had always been beside him a lot less worried.

But right before him now, he had discovered that things had taken a bad turn.

A variable had suddenly appeared, and it was a variable that was able to affect his emotional state.

To the extent that this very variable had made him breach his own principle, to do so many things that his current self should not be doing.

Lou Jun Yao looked at Bai Zhi Yan’s worried expression and he opened his mouth to say, feeling rather amused: “I know that you are concerned about me and I am touched. But you should not think too much into it as this is merely an accident and it’s just a tiny scratch.It’s nothing.”

“Jun Yao, do not try to do anything for that lass anymore. Although she saved your life, but you have saved her as well. It is just as she said before, you’re even.”

Lou Jun Yao was a little surprised. “Didn’t you have quite a good impression of her?”

“That is an entirely separate matter.” Bai Zhi Yan said stern faced. “If my admiration of her will cause you to risk getting hurt, then I will willingly abandon that kind of an admiration.”

Lou Jun Yao’s gaze darkened, and he did not say anything more.

And the inconspicuous grey robed man who had remained at the side to listen for so long then suddenly spoke up. “I’ll say something but the two of you must not be angry…..”

The two men turned to look at him, like they were curious what kind of infuriating thing could he possibly bring up.

“I had always felt….. Bai Zhi Yan, have you actually adored the Lord for many years?” The grey robed man had contemplated on it for quite a long while, before he came to give voice to that audacious statement that could very well get him silenced.