At Haishi1, the night class ended.
Among the many bustling crowd strolling out of the classroom was Qi Xuan, who turned his head and whispered one thing to the disciple beside him. All of a sudden, a brilliant glare crossed earlier than the gang, heading straight in the direction of his path.
Qi Xuan perceived a plain white gown beaming in entrance of him earlier than being strongly slammed by one thing— his again collided in opposition to an historical pine tree. He barely raised his head when a skinny and slender hand strangled his throat straight away. “The place is my merchandise?”
It was Ji Chaoyun.
Ji Chaoyun all the time regarded chilly and detached when coping with others, however he had by no means made issues troublesome for anybody. However now, his pitch black, glittering eyes flashed with a luminous demonic radiance. Hints of blood gathered inside their depths, trying terrifying.
The hand that strangled Qi Xuan’s throat tightened. Ji Chaoyun stared at him, and repeated in a chilly voice, “The place is my merchandise?”
“I… I…” Qi Xuan had problem respiratory, and couldn’t say a phrase as a result of suffocating drive.
They had been presently simply exterior the classroom, and the folks strolling alongside the forest path had been all startled by the incident.
Ji Chaoyun didn’t notice it. His voice that clung to Qi Xuan’s ear was piercingly chilly. “It’s solely you who touched me immediately. Did you steal my purse?”
“No, I…”
Qi Xuan’s face flushed. He vigorously shook his head. Ji Chaoyun’s eyes flashed with a chilly mild, his fingers slowly tightening.
Everybody awakened as if in a dream.
“Ji, Ji Chaoyun! What are you doing?”
“What’s the matter, why are you immediately combating?”
“When you’ve got one thing to say, simply say it. Let him go!”
An increasing number of folks gathered round, attempting to separate the 2.
Ji Chaoyun’s eyes swept round rapidly, releasing the hand that clamped Qi Xuan’s neck. He grabbed the opposite by the shoulders as a substitute, and the 2 our bodies rose into the air, turning right into a white glow and disappearing into the night time sky.
In the midst of the night time, Hongmeng Mountain was surrounded by clouds and mist; snow had begun to fall within the mountains. A dragon-like mild fell from the sky, and from that radiance, Ji Chaoyun appeared. With a push, the younger man in his hand fell onto the floating stone bridge.
He leaned down and grabbed Qi Xuan’s collar.
All of the whereas, the frost on the floor of the stone bridge swirled and fluttered into the bottomless gorge one after one other.
Ji Chaoyun whispered, “Right here is the abyss under us. Even whether it is an immortal physique, the bones and muscle tissue will nonetheless fracture into items, thus turning into a torn physique with its bones crushed. Guess if I dare to push you down?”
Qi Xuan’s face was as pale as paper. He weakly grasped Ji Chaoyun’s wrist, shivering as he mentioned, “I, I don’t know what you’re speaking about, I actually don’t know…”
A sneer filled with mockery appeared in Ji Chaoyun’s eyes. With out hesitation, he raised his hand and pushed Qi Xuan immediately off the stone bridge!
Qi Xuan’s physique fell quickly. In excessive worry, he couldn’t even make any sound.
However at this second, a rope rapidly leaped out of Ji Chaoyun’s sleeve and, like a snake, wrapped round Qi Xuan’s ankle. The opposite finish of the rope was tied to the department of the traditional pine tree at one finish of the floating stone bridge. Qi Xuan’s fast-falling physique lastly halted, and his entire individual hung the wrong way up between the cliffs
He tried his greatest to search for, and noticed Ji Chaoyun standing on the highest of the cliff, lined within the heavy snow behind him. With the night time sky melting collectively like dense ink, his face regarded like frost solidified, his head lowered with an detached gaze.
After which, he raised his hand, and the silver-white mild reworked into his sword. The blade, bearing the sharp chilly, mirrored the picture of the rope.
Transferring even a bit bit would trigger the rope to be severed.
Ji Chaoyun: “Do you continue to not know?”
“No, no… don’t!” Qi Xuan cried out in panic. “I‘ll communicate. I’ll let you know all the pieces! …It was Xu shixiong. It was Xu shixiong who requested me to steal your purse, it was he who bought me to do it!”
Ji Chaoyun moved. “The place is my purse now?”
“…I don’t know.”
Ji Chaoyun narrowed his eyes dangerously. Qi Xuan pleaded, “Xu shixiong actually didn’t inform me the place it went. I simply stole it for him. However! However Immortal Lord Kaiyang despatched him out immediately and he left with that purse. He mentioned, he mentioned…”
“What did he say?”
Qi Xuan: “He mentioned that he would throw that factor into the decrease realm with the intention to by no means discover it once more to show you a lesson…”
The decrease realm…
Ji Chaoyun’s lips moved nearly imperceptibly, as if in disbelief, and a surge of anger changed his disappointment.
That was the one factor he’d left for him.
Ji Chaoyun’s grip on his sword tightened. If one regarded intently, one may see the uncontrollable shivering. Blood surged inside his coronary heart with out warning; he staggered again a step, barely stabilizing himself.
When he regarded up once more, the inky black inside his eyes had fully pale away.
There was a robust wind on the cliff, and Ji Chaoyun stood on high of it. His entire physique temperament fully modified.
Cultivating into an immortal physique, there would all the time be a faint celestial aura lingering in his physique. However right now, his immortal aura rapidly pale, changed by one other extra sinister aura.
At a pace seen to the bare eye, his blue silk garments became a silvery white shade. A pair of dragon horns grew on his brow, and a pair of crystalline vertical pupils emerged, shining with a chilly demonic glow amongst the wind and snow.
Qi Xuan watched this variation in astonishment. He was so frightened he choked as he requested for mercy.
“Qi Xuan.”
Ji Chaoyun condescendingly stared on the individual hanging the wrong way up the cliff, his eyes chilly. “I’ve by no means performed something to incorrect you.”
Qi Xuan: “Chao, Chaoyun! Forgive me this as soon as, Xu shixiong threatened me with the evaluation, and I used to be determined! Forgive me, please…”
“If you’re determined, then you have to block one other individual’s method? Based mostly on what?”
“I—”
Qi Xuan’s voice stopped abruptly. At that second, he clearly sensed the chilly killing intent radiating from the opposite’s half-demonic vertical pupils, as if a basin of chilly water poured down his head, freezing him until the depths of his core.
The subsequent second, Ji Chaoyun raised his sword and slashed straight on the rope!
It was then {that a} golden mild pierced by the night time from throughout the sky, tightly strangling the blade of Ji Chaoyun’s sword.
Ji Chaoyun raised his head and met a pair of acquainted eyes.
Feng Qi held his whip as he stood in entrance of Ji Chaoyun. Seeing his present look, he was startled. “Why are you…”
“Get misplaced!” Ji Chaoyun shouted hoarsely. He drew out his sword with a backhand transfer, condensed his energy into his palm and slammed it in the direction of him.
Ji Chaoyun’s demonic cultivation was a lot stronger than earlier than. Feng Qi didn’t count on that he can be so ruthless. He was compelled to maneuver a number of steps again and shouted, “Ji Chaoyun! Relax, you actually need to commit homicide inside Hongmeng Academy? Who do you assume you’re proper now? How is that this any completely different from these demons within the mortal realm?!”
“Demons…” Ji Chaoyun raised his head, and inside these eyes shining with a demonic glow, a sorrowful self-deprecating expression appeared. “Am I not initially a demon?”
“You… ”
Feng Qi stuttered. Earlier than he may communicate, Ji Chaoyun had already swung his sword once more and tried to stab him.
Feng Qi set free an imperceptible sigh.
He leaned sideways to keep away from Ji Chaoyun’s assault. Together with his physique inches from the sword’s edge, his fingertips tapped the again of Ji Chaoyun’s neck. The latter’s actions immediately stopped, and the demonic glow which had condensed on his sword dissipated immediately.
Ji Chaoyun tilted his head to take a look at Feng Qi, regaining his readability, albeit his eyes nonetheless appeared a bit dazed. “Why are you…”
Earlier than he completed talking, his toes immediately wavered. He was clearly about to fall.
Feng Qi’s intuition reacted sooner than his mind. He tightly hugged the individual in entrance of him. In that second of contact, a ridiculous sense of familiarity expanded from the underside of his coronary heart.
It was like… He had held somebody like this earlier than.
However this sense was fleeting. Feng Qi leaned over and embraced the skinny and funky physique in his arms, holding the again of that individual’s head with one hand and urgent it into his shoulder.
They maintained this stance amidst the huge snow. After some time, feeling the latter’s fast respiratory lastly calming down, Feng Qi raised his hand and stroked Ji Chaoyun’s lengthy silvery hair.
“It’s okay. Sleep a bit.”
His voice fell. The lengthy sword rolled to the bottom with a gentle sound as Ji Chaoyun’s tense physique lastly relaxed, his consciousness sinking into the darkness.
Seeing that the individual in his arms lastly felt comforted, Feng Qi raised his eyes and swept his gaze in the direction of the rope on the sting of the cliff. A burst of bluish smoke lifted the individual hanging the wrong way up, settling him firmly in entrance of them.
Qi Xuan’s toes felt like jelly, and he plopped down with a thud.
Feng Qi maintained his one-arm holding posture of Ji Chaoyun and coldly stared at him. “Do you need to clarify it your self, or ought to I take you to the immortal elder himself?”
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When Ji Chaoyun awakened, he had no thought how lengthy had handed.
A pointy tingling sensation in his mind made him groan out loud. When he opened his eyes, earlier than him was a well-recognized face that had been magnified many occasions over.
“!” Ji Chaoyun immediately regained consciousness. He broke free from the opposite’s arms2 and stood up, subconsciously reaching out for his sword however he may solely really feel empty area. “What are you doing?!”
His collection of actions had been too quick to take care of. Feng Qi raised his palms and mentioned helplessly, “Relax, I’m not making the most of you.”
Ji Chaoyun didn’t belief him. “The place is that this?”
He was not in anywhere he was aware of.
The sound of dripping water echoing in his ears was steady. Within the faint mild, all he noticed was the rugged stone wall, extending all the way in which to the highest. The 2 of them had been surrounded by swimming pools of water on all sides, seemingly surrounding the clearing they had been at.
—This was a stone cave.
“This cave known as Jingxin Cave3. This pond known as Siguo Tan4. As for this place…” His Second Highness Feng sat cross-legged on the ground, smiling nonchalantly. “The disciples all name it ‘Jinlao’5.”
“Forbidden Jail? How am I—”
Feng Qi ignored him and continued on, “You and I’ve disliked one another for a very long time. You lastly couldn’t assist however begin a battle in Hongmeng Mountain; you grabbed Qi Xuan, inflicting us to be the witnesses. If I didn’t have further strikes in my palms, I might have been overwhelmed till I fainted. Immortal Lord Tianshu was livid, so he had us come right here to settle down.”
Ji Chaoyun silently glared at him.
The demonic physique he had beforehand proven was but to fade away. His lengthy silvery hair was scattered behind him, and his crystalline eyes regarded colder than earlier than. “Why assist me?”
Feng Qi was confused. “I helped you? Everybody noticed you catching Qi Xuan when the category was over. Isn’t that the case?”
Ji Chaoyun retracted his gaze. “These are actions performed on my own. I don’t must implicate others. I’ll go to Immortal Lord Tianshu…”
“Ji Chaoyun,” Feng Qi stopped him, his voice nonetheless considerably lazy. “Are you aware how the Academy offers with one speeding to homicide a fellow classmate?”
“…Cripple the immortal bones and expel them from the academy.”
Ji Chaoyun’s eyes wavered barely, and the environment within the cave immediately grew to become sluggish.
After some time, Feng Qi smiled frivolously and broke the silence. “Nicely, since I’ve defined clearly to Tianshu, you and I’ll keep right here obediently till tomorrow morning once we can go away by ourselves.”
Ji Chaoyun: “…I can’t look ahead to tomorrow.”
He lowered his head and clenched his palms hanging by his sides. “Qi Xuan stole one thing from me, one thing… essential to me. I have to discover it. Thanks on your assist. After I’ve discovered my merchandise, I’ll inform the Immortal Lord all the pieces and clear your innocence.”
After he completed talking, his legs started to stroll. Feng Qi immediately mentioned, “Are you aware the place to seek for it?”
Ji Chaoyun’s footsteps stopped.
Feng Qi checked out his again and slowly mentioned, “Qi Xuan solely mentioned that the factor was thrown into the decrease realm by Xu Zixing, however he doesn’t know the place it’s. You’re extra aware of the decrease realm than I’m. Each path has rivers and mountains winding throughout 1000’s of miles. Like discovering a needle in a haystack, the place do you propose to search out it?”
Ji Chaoyun lowered his head with out answering.
The opposite celebration didn’t transfer for a very long time. Feng Qi lifted his eyes and regarded over. Ji Chaoyun stood not distant together with his again to him, his shoulders silently shaking uncontrollably.
“Hey, you’re not crying, are you?” His Second Highness Feng had by no means been afraid of something, however he actually couldn’t deal with this type of factor. He hurriedly walked to Ji Chaoyun, desirous to carry his head up.
Ji Chaoyun tilted his head away and averted his hand. “You keep away from me.”
His voice was low and hoarse, his crystalline eyes pink and misty, however bearing it in, tears didn’t fall.
Feng Qi quietly swallowed. He didn’t know why however he felt that this image was extra horrible than Ji Chaoyun crying in entrance of him.
Feng Qi coughed frivolously and slowly acknowledged, “I received’t tease you. I’ve requested somebody to search out out whether or not Xu Zixing did go away the academy along with your pouch immediately. Nonetheless, in line with dependable sources, somebody noticed him go to the Anonymous Sea6.”
“…Anonymous Sea?” Ji Chaoyun questioned. “The place is that place?”
Feng Qi: “The Anonymous Sea runs by the 4 realms of immortals, demons, gods, and devils. It’s a spot exterior the boundaries. As time goes on, it attracts many unlawful merchants residing collectively in teams, counting on the 4 realms to resell every kind of uncommon treasures for his or her livelihoods. Subsequently, many individuals there name it the Sea Marketplace7.”
“He offered my purse?”
“Sure.” Feng Qi nodded. “Anyway, it’s good to know the whereabouts of your merchandise now. You could be comfortable whilst you wait. When the restraint is lifted tomorrow, I’ll discover a motive to take you out of the academy and take it again.”
Ji Chaoyun lowered his head with out answering.
Feng Qi thought he was nonetheless nervous, and continued to steer him, “Don’t fear, there’s nothing within the sky and the earth that I can’t discover. As for these two idiots, wait till we discover the merchandise, then we’ll take care of them individually. Hey, are you listening to me? Ji Chaoyun? Little crying bag?8”
“Shut up,” Ji Chaoyun hoarsely chided. He fell silent for a second, earlier than whispering, “You… Why are you serving to me?”
Feng Qi regarded down on the younger man who was very close to to him. All of a sudden, there was an inexplicably bitter but gentle feeling in his coronary heart.
Ji Chaoyun’s persona was cussed and obstinate— like a hedgehog who by no means let go of his vigilance, hiding behind the gang and scrutinizing everybody, refusing to let anybody get shut. However this time, he who put away all of the thorns, regarded so fragile and helpless that individuals couldn’t assist however need to take him again into the nest so as to hold him hidden and guarded.
And Feng Qi felt that what was presently being revealed in entrance of him was what this individual actually was like.
Feng Qi stared at him for a protracted whereas, then abruptly turned his gaze away. “You at the moment are my Dengyun Tower’s individual and my attendant. Ought I not provide help to?”
“When did I…”
“Alright. This lord is prepared to do it. What else do you need to say?” Feng Qi interrupted him impatiently. “I’m going to relaxation now. You aren’t to make any extra noise. For those who make any motion, I’ll throw you into the water…”
Ji Chaoyun initially wished to say one thing, however Feng Qi had already circled and laid down, as if he didn’t need to speak to him any longer. He may solely say “oh”, resentfully strolling to the aspect of the reef and sat down together with his again to Feng Qi.
Silence was restored within the cave. Solely the sound of shallowly dripping water echoed within the silence.
After some time, Ji Chaoyun whispered out loud, “Thanks.”
He didn’t count on to get a solution, however after some time, Feng Qi’s voice immediately got here from behind him. “You dragon clansmen can solely say thanks?”
Ji Chaoyun turned his head. Feng Qi walked in the direction of him and sat down beside him very naturally.
“…Weren’t you sleeping?”
Feng Qi rubbed his shoulders and neck uncomfortably and spat out, “This shabby place is musty and damp. Who may probably go to sleep?”
“…”
Feng Qi squinted at him. “Did you simply snort at me?”
”No.”
“You probably did snort at me.”
Feng Qi continued, “Rewarding assist with evil. Are you dragons so immoral?”
Ji Chaoyun held again a smile. “Your Highness doesn’t have to fret whether or not the Dragon Clan has a conscience or not. Nonetheless, the Dragon Clan has by no means been so… coquettish like Your Highness.”
“…” Be it heavens or earth, nobody dared to say that His Second Highness Feng was coquettish. Feng Qi was speechless for a very long time. He couldn’t discover phrases to refute, so as a substitute, he angrily acknowledged, “You might be actually annoying to speak to.”
“Likewise, likewise.”
The 2 sat aspect by aspect and didn’t communicate any extra. After some time, Ji Chaoyun immediately mentioned aloud, “When this ends, I’ll correctly thanks. What sort of thanks present would you want?”
Feng Qi tilted his head to take a look at him.
Ji Chaoyun hadn’t recovered from his half-demon kind. His silvery hair was draped behind him, so lovely that one couldn’t look away.
A pair of dragon horns curved quietly on his brow, and the water waves glowed with a gentle luster.
Feng Qi subconsciously wished to answer that he didn’t need any thanks present. However then, his eyes fell on that pair of dragon horns. His coronary heart was itchy; so had been his palms. Fairly insupportable.
”Let me contact your dragon horns,” he blurted out.
The creator has one thing to say:
Yunyun: …Not giving. Scram.
The progress till the Highness touches the dragon’s horns: 20% [A qualitative leap, my friends!]
9-11pm
Bubbles: So all this time FQ was consuming tofu??? Ahhh he couldn’t let go of JCY lmao
静心洞 aka Meditation cave.
思过潭 Reflection (on previous deed’s) Pond.
禁牢 Forbidden Jail.
无名海 Wuming Hai.
海市 Hai Shi.
Actually little crying bag: 小哭包.