Chapter 135
Inside the WanXiang Palace, Xie QianLan stayed all night in the room filled with Chu MuYun’s portraits.
Chu MuYun returned to LingYun Sect.
They successfully obtained the spirit guide grass and the entire trip was very smooth.
Ling Xuan had been silent the entire time. Chu MuYun could sense something was weighing on his mind and after thinking about it, said, “It’s just the home of an old acquaintance. I haven’t contacted him for a long time.”
He naturally could guess what Ling Xuan was mulling over. He had come and left the WanXiang Palace too effortlessly, and he was too familiar with the layout inside. It would be strange if Ling Xuan didn’t get suspicious.
He explained it in a perfunctory manner but Ling Xuan replied, “I am an old acquaintance too.”
Chu MuYun paused, then raised his eyebrows, “Yes, we really are old friends.”
Right now his appearance was particularly good-looking. His facial features were originally already beautiful but now that he was smiling, there was an extra type of passion in his eyes. The raised arcs of his eyes were as intoxicating as wine. Even without tasting it, just a whiff of the fragrance would be enough to capture people’s hearts.
Ling Xuan loved his appearance just as much as he hated his ruthlessness.
Clearly, Ling Xuan had never done anything – he had never hurt him, deceived him or insulted him. However why was it what awaited him was only….
Suddenly, Ling Xuan felt himself fall into a daze.
Why did he have this kind of thought? Why would he think like this?
Who had hurt him? Who had deceived him? Who had insulted him? And who was it who had been abandoned by him?
Ling Xuan was stunned by these thoughts and felt as though he was struck by lightning. He could not return to his senses for a long time.
Although Chu MuYun could guess his thoughts to a good extent, he was however not omniscient or omnipotent. At this moment, Chu MuYun didn’t know about the thoughts flashing through Ling Xuan’s mind at all.
Seeing Ling Xuan was silent, Chu MuYun didn’t want to stay any longer. He turned around and said, “I have something to do, I’ll be going first.”
Before he could step away, Ling Xuan grabbed his wrist.
Chu MuYun turned to look at him: “What is it?”
Ling Xuan stared at him and a large amount of black energy suddenly appeared in his eyes. His expression was so dark to extreme, as if pain that had been long suppressed was finally gushing out. He said in a hoarse voice that hardly carried any temperature: “Why…”
Chu MuYun was startled.
In fact, even Ling Xuan didn’t know what he was asking, he himself didn’t know what was behind that ‘why?’. However a deep sense of unwillingness and despair struck his heart, making him want to ask this question. He wanted to question Chu MuYun, wanted him to….
Ling Xuan suddenly woke up.
The hazy aura abruptly converged. Ling Xuan frowned slightly and said slowly: “No, it’s nothing.”
{Er, if this part is confusing it’s not my translation. The author really wrote it very ambiguously like this and it’s not even clear exactly who ‘he’ refers to sometimes. But this is just a vague reference to something you will find out more about later so not to worry, you haven’t missed anything important.}
After saying this, he turned around and left.
It was already evening. After the setting sun fell, and the sky of the Yao Realm turned into a thick dark purple due to the loss of light. The slowly rising bright moon looked pitiful because it was too weak and looked rather ephemeral as it rose to the middle of the sky.
When Chu MuYun returned to his senses, he realized that he had been standing here for so long, so long that he had forgotten the time.
But for such a long time, he actually didn’t think about anything. He had really emptied his brain completely.
This state of not even having the slightest thoughts was incredible to Chu MuYun.
He was a man who is accustomed to using his brain and calculating everything accurately. It should be impossible for him to fall into a daze like this.
But he did.
Chu MuYun focused his thoughts and returned to the LingYun Sect.
After another half year, Chu MuYun had completely implanted the puppet into Ling SuYun’s body. It seemed that everything was ready…
The only thing left was to wait for his current body to die since the moment he met Gluttony, he was resurrected from a pile of bones. Thus, it can be inferred that something earlier had happened to cause him to become this pile of bones. However, what was it?
At that time, Ling Xuan said that he killed him. So when did he kill him and why?
There were no answers for the time being but Chu MuYun was not in a hurry. His preparations were complete and right now he just needed to go with the flow and see what panned out.
After the last hundreds of years, the shadow of Ling Xuan could no longer be seen on Ling SuYun. The wandering spirit was probably completely covered up and Ling SuYun’s behavior became more and more impetuous and random after his real nature was exposed.
He was irritated by Chu MuYun and was annoyed at him from the bottom of his heart. This kind of emotion grew stronger and stronger, and was developing towards resentment.
In fact it was easy to understand why. Ling Mu was too good and too competent, so much so that there was no one in the entire LingYun Sect who did not admire him and respect him.
Such a powerful man was obedient to Ling SuYun from the beginning to the end.
If Ling SuYun had a corresponding ability, this might develop into a great tale of a pair of brothers and good friends.
However, the tragedy was that unfortunately Ling SuYun and Ling Mu’s abilities were too far apart. As far as between a fool and a genius.
Being constantly compared to a genius was something that few people could stand.
But Ling Mu was willing to yield to him when it came to everything. He would do anything for him. No matter if it were power, status, or anything else. Nothing seemed to be more important to him than Ling SuYun’s words.
But this did not make Ling SuYun happy. If anything, it highlighted his incompetence even more. Even if he ascended to the position of Sect Master, everyone thought that it was only because Ling Mu paved the way for him.
Regardless of whether he worked hard or not, no one would care. He lived in Ling Mu’s shadow but everyone only felt sorry for Ling Mu. They felt he was the one who had bullied Ling Mu and was disloyal to Ling Mu’s feelings!
But he didn’t care about Ling Mu’s dirty and disgusting feelings. He didn’t like men. He felt that Ling Mu’s eyes when he looked at him were disgusting!
Such emotions continued to ferment and he became more and more intolerant towards Ling Mu. Under the misguidance of his group of friends, he actually developed murderous feelings towards him.
Of course Chu MuYun was acutely aware of this but it didn’t matter. Ling SuYun wanted to kill him? Sorry, it will not be possible for thousands of years.
But unexpectedly, this idiot started to actually zuo himself to death.
{Zuo as in “no zuo no die”, basically the concept when people seek their own death/undoing by being an idiot or acting out. As in a situation where actually you’d have been totally fine if you did nothing, but by overreacting or overthinking things, you actually hastened your death/undoing.}
If you wanted to kill Ling Mu, there was definitely no better candidate than Ling Xuan.
Especially in the eyes of outsiders, this pair of disciple brothers Ling Mu and Ling Xuan have turned against each other since a long time ago.
So, attempting to be “clever”, Ling SuYun actually went to look for Ling Xuan…
Ling SuYun ‘expended all his efforts’ to bring Ling Xuan ‘secretly’ in front of Ling Mu. {Dumbass has no idea LX and LM see each other regularly hahaha and thinks he’s a genius for orchestrating the two of them to meet up as he hopes LX will kill LM for him.}
Chu MuYun looked at the red-haired man, only feeling the disease called “awkwardness” was flaring up again.
This was really…
Ling Xuan stared at him expressionlessly: “He wants to kill you.”
Chu MuYun: “…”
Ling Xuan raised the corner of his mouth and said mockingly, “You did so much for him but it turns out he wishes you were dead.”
To be honest, Chu MuYun didn’t want to act in this awkward drama any longer. In any case, the technique of substitution was already done and it wasn’t necessary to play this stupid cat and mouse game with Ling SuYun any longer.
But as soon as this thought flashed through his mind, a sudden rush of air flow caused Chu MuYun’s heart to twitch. But by the time he realized what was wrong, it was too late.
Ling Xuan watched him from beginning to end. There was no change of expression in his handsome face, except that the red hair was blown by the airflow, rising and falling, strangely echoing the surging blood behind him.
He killed Ling SuYun, taking the life of the person behind him without even turning around.
Tremendous pain distorted Ling SuYun’s facial features. He opened his eyes wide as if he could not imagine why something like this could happen.
Why would the person Ling Xuan killed… be him?
***
Chapter 135
Inside the WanXiang Palace, Xie QianLan stayed all night in the room filled with Chu MuYun’s portraits.
Chu MuYun returned to LingYun Sect.
They successfully obtained the spirit guide grass and the entire trip was very smooth.
Ling Xuan had been silent the entire time. Chu MuYun could sense something was weighing on his mind and after thinking about it, said, “It’s just the home of an old acquaintance. I haven’t contacted him for a long time.”
He naturally could guess what Ling Xuan was mulling over. He had come and left the WanXiang Palace too effortlessly, and he was too familiar with the layout inside. It would be strange if Ling Xuan didn’t get suspicious.
He explained it in a perfunctory manner but Ling Xuan replied, “I am an old acquaintance too.”
Chu MuYun paused, then raised his eyebrows, “Yes, we really are old friends.”
Right now his appearance was particularly good-looking. His facial features were originally already beautiful but now that he was smiling, there was an extra type of passion in his eyes. The raised arcs of his eyes were as intoxicating as wine. Even without tasting it, just a whiff of the fragrance would be enough to capture people’s hearts.
Ling Xuan loved his appearance just as much as he hated his ruthlessness.
Clearly, Ling Xuan had never done anything – he had never hurt him, deceived him or insulted him. However why was it what awaited him was only….
Suddenly, Ling Xuan felt himself fall into a daze.
Why did he have this kind of thought? Why would he think like this?
Who had hurt him? Who had deceived him? Who had insulted him? And who was it who had been abandoned by him?
Ling Xuan was stunned by these thoughts and felt as though he was struck by lightning. He could not return to his senses for a long time.
Although Chu MuYun could guess his thoughts to a good extent, he was however not omniscient or omnipotent. At this moment, Chu MuYun didn’t know about the thoughts flashing through Ling Xuan’s mind at all.
Seeing Ling Xuan was silent, Chu MuYun didn’t want to stay any longer. He turned around and said, “I have something to do, I’ll be going first.”
Before he could step away, Ling Xuan grabbed his wrist.
Chu MuYun turned to look at him: “What is it?”
Ling Xuan stared at him and a large amount of black energy suddenly appeared in his eyes. His expression was so dark to extreme, as if pain that had been long suppressed was finally gushing out. He said in a hoarse voice that hardly carried any temperature: “Why…”
Chu MuYun was startled.
In fact, even Ling Xuan didn’t know what he was asking, he himself didn’t know what was behind that ‘why?’. However a deep sense of unwillingness and despair struck his heart, making him want to ask this question. He wanted to question Chu MuYun, wanted him to….
Ling Xuan suddenly woke up.
The hazy aura abruptly converged. Ling Xuan frowned slightly and said slowly: “No, it’s nothing.”
{Er, if this part is confusing it’s not my translation. The author really wrote it very ambiguously like this and it’s not even clear exactly who ‘he’ refers to sometimes. But this is just a vague reference to something you will find out more about later so not to worry, you haven’t missed anything important.}
After saying this, he turned around and left.
It was already evening. After the setting sun fell, and the sky of the Yao Realm turned into a thick dark purple due to the loss of light. The slowly rising bright moon looked pitiful because it was too weak and looked rather ephemeral as it rose to the middle of the sky.
When Chu MuYun returned to his senses, he realized that he had been standing here for so long, so long that he had forgotten the time.
But for such a long time, he actually didn’t think about anything. He had really emptied his brain completely.
This state of not even having the slightest thoughts was incredible to Chu MuYun.
He was a man who is accustomed to using his brain and calculating everything accurately. It should be impossible for him to fall into a daze like this.
But he did.
Chu MuYun focused his thoughts and returned to the LingYun Sect.
After another half year, Chu MuYun had completely implanted the puppet into Ling SuYun’s body. It seemed that everything was ready…
The only thing left was to wait for his current body to die since the moment he met Gluttony, he was resurrected from a pile of bones. Thus, it can be inferred that something earlier had happened to cause him to become this pile of bones. However, what was it?
At that time, Ling Xuan said that he killed him. So when did he kill him and why?
There were no answers for the time being but Chu MuYun was not in a hurry. His preparations were complete and right now he just needed to go with the flow and see what panned out.
After the last hundreds of years, the shadow of Ling Xuan could no longer be seen on Ling SuYun. The wandering spirit was probably completely covered up and Ling SuYun’s behavior became more and more impetuous and random after his real nature was exposed.
He was irritated by Chu MuYun and was annoyed at him from the bottom of his heart. This kind of emotion grew stronger and stronger, and was developing towards resentment.
In fact it was easy to understand why. Ling Mu was too good and too competent, so much so that there was no one in the entire LingYun Sect who did not admire him and respect him.
Such a powerful man was obedient to Ling SuYun from the beginning to the end.
If Ling SuYun had a corresponding ability, this might develop into a great tale of a pair of brothers and good friends.
However, the tragedy was that unfortunately Ling SuYun and Ling Mu’s abilities were too far apart. As far as between a fool and a genius.
Being constantly compared to a genius was something that few people could stand.
But Ling Mu was willing to yield to him when it came to everything. He would do anything for him. No matter if it were power, status, or anything else. Nothing seemed to be more important to him than Ling SuYun’s words.
But this did not make Ling SuYun happy. If anything, it highlighted his incompetence even more. Even if he ascended to the position of Sect Master, everyone thought that it was only because Ling Mu paved the way for him.
Regardless of whether he worked hard or not, no one would care. He lived in Ling Mu’s shadow but everyone only felt sorry for Ling Mu. They felt he was the one who had bullied Ling Mu and was disloyal to Ling Mu’s feelings!
But he didn’t care about Ling Mu’s dirty and disgusting feelings. He didn’t like men. He felt that Ling Mu’s eyes when he looked at him were disgusting!
Such emotions continued to ferment and he became more and more intolerant towards Ling Mu. Under the misguidance of his group of friends, he actually developed murderous feelings towards him.
Of course Chu MuYun was acutely aware of this but it didn’t matter. Ling SuYun wanted to kill him? Sorry, it will not be possible for thousands of years.
But unexpectedly, this idiot started to actually zuo himself to death.
{Zuo as in “no zuo no die”, basically the concept when people seek their own death/undoing by being an idiot or acting out. As in a situation where actually you’d have been totally fine if you did nothing, but by overreacting or overthinking things, you actually hastened your death/undoing.}
If you wanted to kill Ling Mu, there was definitely no better candidate than Ling Xuan.
Especially in the eyes of outsiders, this pair of disciple brothers Ling Mu and Ling Xuan have turned against each other since a long time ago.
So, attempting to be “clever”, Ling SuYun actually went to look for Ling Xuan…
Ling SuYun ‘expended all his efforts’ to bring Ling Xuan ‘secretly’ in front of Ling Mu. {Dumbass has no idea LX and LM see each other regularly hahaha and thinks he’s a genius for orchestrating the two of them to meet up as he hopes LX will kill LM for him.}
Chu MuYun looked at the red-haired man, only feeling the disease called “awkwardness” was flaring up again.
This was really…
Ling Xuan stared at him expressionlessly: “He wants to kill you.”
Chu MuYun: “…”
Ling Xuan raised the corner of his mouth and said mockingly, “You did so much for him but it turns out he wishes you were dead.”
To be honest, Chu MuYun didn’t want to act in this awkward drama any longer. In any case, the technique of substitution was already done and it wasn’t necessary to play this stupid cat and mouse game with Ling SuYun any longer.
But as soon as this thought flashed through his mind, a sudden rush of air flow caused Chu MuYun’s heart to twitch. But by the time he realized what was wrong, it was too late.
Ling Xuan watched him from beginning to end. There was no change of expression in his handsome face, except that the red hair was blown by the airflow, rising and falling, strangely echoing the surging blood behind him.
He killed Ling SuYun, taking the life of the person behind him without even turning around.
Tremendous pain distorted Ling SuYun’s facial features. He opened his eyes wide as if he could not imagine why something like this could happen.
Why would the person Ling Xuan killed… be him?
***
