Chapter 700: Stay Out of the Fairy’s Business (59)
"Temporarily stay in the Demon Abyss. An array will be set up here, and there’s the Immortal Grass Garden inside, making it relatively stable."
"You can choose to become a loose cultivator or go to the Heavenly Realm in the future."
Xuan Shuang knew she couldn’t always stay by her elder sister’s side. She nodded with some sadness. She needed to grow independently and couldn’t depend on her elder sister for everything.
Her elder sister hoped she would be able to stand on her own one day, didn’t she?
The array in the Demon Abyss was completed after Qiann Yan and Mo Yuhuai spent three months working together. During this period, Mo Yuhuai tried several times to say something but ultimately didn’t ask, immersing himself fully in perfecting the array.
Once everything settled down, he grabbed Qiann Yan and ran outside.
At this moment, the two of them stood at the highest peak of the Demon Abyss, facing the chilly wind, which made their robes flap loudly.
Mo Yuhuai showed a very peculiar expression, as though she owed him a pile of Innate Treasures.
"Little Grass, you said you wanted to go to the Void?"
"Yes."
"You never mentioned it before. Has your cultivation hit a bottleneck? I have plenty of treasures, what do you want?" Mo Yuhuai opened the Jiezhi Space for Qiann Yan to see, generously saying, "Take whatever you want, or take it all. I don’t use these things."
Qiann Yan: "When did you learn to lie?"
Mo Yuhuai: "..."
"Though you’ve fallen into demon, it’s not that you can’t use these treasures."
Mo Yuhuai stubbornly said, "They don’t contain demonic qi, using them feels uncomfortable."
Qiann Yan: Good excuse.
"Do you truly want to go to the Void?"
Qiann Yan: "Hmm."
"Why do I feel like you’ll never return?" Mo Yuhuai tentatively asked. Her meticulous setup of this array, even sharing some techniques with Xuan Shuang, felt like she was preparing for the end, causing him much unease.
"Indeed, I won’t be coming back."
Mo Yuhuai’s face changed dramatically: "Little Grass, is this what you call building a house just to run away? I’ve poured so much effort, and you won’t return!!"
"Why won’t you return?" Mo Yuhuai tugged at his robe, his gaze pitiful, as if abandoned, "You should at least give a reason."
Otherwise, he’d be furious and would never forgive her!
Qiann Yan casually performed a sealing, creating a sound insulation array.
Mo Yuhuai: Is this going to be a secret?
"I don’t belong to this world."
"I came here to accomplish certain things, and now that those tasks are completed. If I weren’t interested in researching something, I might have already left."
These few words overwhelmed Mo Yuhuai’s mind with buzzing thoughts, the information was too much, he needed time to digest.
Qiann Yan wasn’t in a hurry and stood aside waiting.
Mo Yuhuai’s expression became peculiar, for when Qiann Yan stated she wasn’t of this world, certain memories in his mind began to adjust.
Memories that belonged solely to this Little Grass, her name was Qiann Yan, yet in his mind, that grass wasn’t called Qiann Yan, but Nan Zhen, known in the Heavenly Realm as Nan Zhen Honorable Sovereign.
He had never met her before, only heard many people mention her.
"Little Grass, is Qiann Yan your name?"
"It’s mine."
"Is Nan Zhen the original one?"
Qiann Yan gently nodded: "To be precise, this body belongs to Nan Zhen. I’m here to accomplish certain tasks on her behalf."
"Where is Nan Zhen Daoist Friend?" Mo Yuhuai asked, feeling his question was a bit off, so he added, "I’m just asking casually because this truth shocked me greatly. I haven’t met Nan Zhen Daoist Friend, totally unfamiliar. Just curious why someone so powerful needs your help to do things? Can’t she do them herself?"
At last, Mo Yuhuai was satisfied with the question, thinking the tone was finally right.
Indeed, Nan Zhen was so powerful, why doesn’t she do these things herself? It’s odd to trouble someone else. Ah, now it feels right.
Qiann Yan didn’t notice Mo Yuhuai’s awkwardness and said, "She can’t return."
"Even if she could, she wouldn’t be able to accomplish these tasks."
Then Qiann Yan spoke of past lives and present lives, and Mo Yuhuai finally understood. Learning that Zhang Jinghao had smelted him in Artifact Refining to kill Nan Zhen originally, his expression wasn’t great.
As expected, Zhang Jinghao was very wicked, and indeed smelted him.
"Little Grass, does this mean you’re my savior?"
"Something like that."
"From now on, I’ll be your stone."