NCCnovel Chapter 319 Bearing the responsibility for the world, but also having a way to protect oneself.
Chapter 319 Bearing the responsibility for the world, but also having a way to protect oneself.
Despite Xue Lan's relentless pursuit, Xue Tong ultimately failed to secure a place to live in the Demon Market.
Instead, she was forced to stay in Chonggu Village with Xue Lan, anxiously waiting for Kong Mingzi's imminent arrival.
"I've never really known how to face the seniors in the sect." Xue Lan sat in front of her room, looking at the children not far away.
The children, with bright smiles on their faces, were battling with the Gu worms in the cages at their waists.
Xue Tong, munching on the spirit fruit she had bought from the demon market, asked, following Xue Lan's words, "Why?"
"I'm just afraid they won't be able to accept it." Under the warm sunshine, Xue Lan looked like a corpse just brought up from an ancient tomb, comfortably squinting her eyes.
"Imagine if the child you've raised for decades suddenly tells you one day: 'Actually, I'm not a child. I've lived for thousands of years and I'm actually older than your great-great-grandfather.'"
Xue Lan asked seriously, "Who could stand it?"
Xue Tong thought about it carefully: "It's really unbearable. You'd better keep pretending."
Xue Lan smiled gently, and just as she was about to speak, she sensed two familiar presences.
The woman stood up from the chair, her gray-white eyes gazing at the sky not far away.
“My senior brother has come, and he’s not the only one.”
Xue Tong immediately became interested: "Who else?"
Xue Lan's face turned deathly pale: "My master."
"Oh my..." Xue Tong laughed gleefully, "I told you not to be so ruthless with your master back then, now the tables have turned, haven't you?"
Xue Tong's words were indeed harsh, but every word was true.
A moment later, two familiar beams of light flew overhead and headed straight for Yin Yue's residence without stopping.
Xue Lan breathed a slight sigh of relief: "After all, it's someone else's territory, so we should still pay a visit to the host family when we come here."
The woman patted Xue Tong on the shoulder: "Hurry up and think of a way. After we put the two little ones down, we still need to kill that Lin family prodigy."
Xue Lan's tone showed no worry whatsoever. Although he was still plotting, he spoke as casually as if he had already killed someone.
Xue Tong rolled her eyes at her: "If you're so smart, you go and tell the truth!"
Xue Lan naturally couldn't tell the two elders the truth, and the two stood in front of the house in silence.
Ling Yuanzi followed Kong Mingzi to Chonggu Village. Although he was extremely anxious about Xue Lan's condition, he couldn't show it on his face. He needed to go with Kong Mingzi to see Yin Yue, the leader of Chonggu Village.
In the dimly lit hall, Yin Shishi stood behind Kong Mingzi, who was talking to Yin Yue.
Ling Yuanzi looked at the charming woman sitting in the main seat, chatting and laughing, and found everything about her displeasing.
It wasn't that he judged people by their appearance, but rather because of Xue Lan.
Along the way, Kong Mingzi had already told Tong Lingyuanzi about Xue Lan and the Gu Master of Zhong Gu Village. The most important part was that Xue Lan had been poisoned with Gu by this person when she participated in the Zhong Gu Village trial last time.
Yin Yue originally wanted to chat with Kong Mingzi for a few more minutes, after all, he was Yin Shishi's master from the Xuanhuang Sect.
However, the gaze of the fellow Daoist beside Kongmingzi was so intense it felt like it was burning through the back of her head.
Seeing that the casual conversation was going nowhere, Yin Yue didn't want to keep being annoying.
The woman gently waved her hand, and a small golden snake appeared at her fingertips: "This is the Soul-Devouring Snake of Chonggu Village. Before meeting that young Daoist surnamed Xue, it hadn't absorbed any soul energy for two hundred years..."
"Snap!" Before Yin Yue could finish her sentence, she saw the old man who had been giving her a cold look earlier looking at her with bright, piercing eyes.
The old man gently placed the teacup in his hand on the table, and two cracks appeared on the poor wooden table.
"Fellow Daoist, you must have misunderstood. The Soul-Devouring Serpent is a Gu King in my Chong Gu Village that is no less powerful than Yin He."
The woman's voice was neither humble nor arrogant: "Although she lives on souls, she has only ever fed on souls that cannot be saved."
The statement contained a great deal of information, causing even the usually composed Kong Mingzi to change his expression.
The middle-aged man stood up and bowed to Yin Yue first: "Fellow Daoist Yin, I am concerned about my nephew, so I will not apologize further."
Yin Yue couldn't very well keep them any longer, so she nodded to Yin Shishi:
"You take them there."
Yin Shishi obediently replied, "Yes, Mother."
The moment Yin Shishi led Kong Mingzi and the other person out, the restrictions in the hall were lifted.
A hoarse voice came from behind: "The immortal masters of the Xuanhuang Sect are quite attentive to their disciples."
Behind Yin Yue stood an old woman dressed in black Miao clothing. She did not wear the silver crown that was the hallmark of women from Chonggu Village; instead, she had a silver hairpin on her head.
At the end of the silver hairpin, a silver butterfly with fluttering wings kept shaking.
Yin Yue spoke softly: "The reason I dared to leave Shao'er in the Xuanhuang Sect for so many years is precisely because of this."
A hint of tenderness seemed to flash in the woman's voice, but it vanished in an instant, like a fleeting cloud.
"Mother-in-law!" the woman said slowly, "I insist on bringing her back. Can you understand?"
“Amidst the chaos in the lower realm, my Chonggu Village needs at least two Gu Masters to guard it,” the old woman said slowly.
"In times of chaos, we must shoulder the responsibility for the world."
Yin Yue continued, following her words:
"One must also have a way to protect oneself!"
Xue Lan racked her brains in the courtyard, but still couldn't come up with a plausible reason, so she simply gave up and went all out.
Xue Tong and I were sunbathing and eating fruit in the yard.
Xue Lan had only eaten half a fruit when she heard the girl's trembling voice:
"Your senior uncle has arrived, and he looks very unwell."
Originally, Yin Shishi was leading the way for the two of them. However, after Kong Mingzi spotted Xue Lan in the distance, his pace quickened.
The ethereal and otherworldly Master Kongming, radiating a murderous aura, charged towards Xue Lan.
Xue Lan reacted quickly, standing up from her chair first and bowing deeply in the direction from which the footsteps were coming:
"Disciple greets Uncle Master."
The peak masters of the Xuanhuang Sect all became more and more like Dao Xuanzi as Xue Lan constantly caused trouble.
"Who is your senior master!" Kong Mingzi waved his sleeve, and the woman who had just stood up sat back down in her chair.
Immediately afterwards, two extremely thin threads emerged from the middle-aged man's wide sleeves, one piercing his wrist and the other directly into Xue Lan's brow.
This time, Kong Mingzi was truly determined to teach Xue Lan a lesson. When the silk thread entered her body, Xue Lan, who had only been pretending to be alive for a few days, cried out in pain:
"Uncle!"
Ling Yuanzi rushed over, his voice filled with concern, "Senior brother, senior brother..."
"Shut up!" Kongmingzi glared at Lingyuanzi.
The old man quickly pulled his outstretched hand back.