MERRY CHRISTMAS~ 

Translator: Amber.es | Editor: Bubbles | Proofreader: musk

“Once I was nonetheless a dragon egg, my dad and mom misplaced their lives in an unlucky accident. It was Jun Yan who introduced me again to the Dragon Palace and took excellent care of me.”

Moonlight penetrated by means of the swaying leaves of the forest. Jun Ruzhuo leaned in opposition to the trunk of a tree, his expression hidden within the darkness, unable to be seen.

“He was the primary particular person I noticed after I was born. He named me, taught me tips on how to learn, after which martial arts. He stated that he would at all times be my elder brother, and would at all times shield me.”

“Then why did he…” Feng Qi swallowed, his voice barely hoarse. “Why did he… change into like this?”

Jun Ruzhuo didn’t reply. He curled his lips in mockery, with a touch of ridicule in his voice. “Jun Yan is extraordinarily proficient, and a proud youngster of heaven since start, possessing a limiteless area for him to beat. In your complete immortal realm, none dared to not respect him because the crown worth. Talking of which, he was nearly the identical stage as the present standing of Your Second Highness Feng.”

“However by way of look, conduct, or cultivation, you might be far behind the him of these years.”

Feng Qi didn’t care concerning the mockery on this particular person’s phrases. He requested, “What occurred to him?”

Jun Ruzhuo stated, “300 years in the past, he left the Lingyuan Sea to journey to the decrease realm. After three mere months, when he returned, he had misplaced his dragon pearl and lived like a half-dead particular person.”

Feng Qi’s eyes all of the sudden shrank. “Dragon Pearl? How may a Dragon Pearl be misplaced?”

“Nobody is aware of. He refuses to say something about it.” Jun Ruzhuo continued, “A Dragon Pearl is situated inside the religious core; it can’t be taken except it’s torn out. At the moment, Jun Yan’s cultivation base had reached its peak. Who do you assume has the potential to remove his Dragon Pearl?”

A chill ran by means of Feng Qi’s again to the bottom of his head, and he muttered, “You imply… he gave his Dragon Pearl to another person?”

“Apart from that, I can’t consider different prospects.” Jun Ruzhuo sneered. “Have you learnt what it means for a dragon to lose its personal Dragon Pearl? It signifies that he’s fully destroyed, his cultivation fully misplaced, and he can now not domesticate martial arts. He can now not return to his former power. Totally ridiculous. The most effective descendant of the Dragon Clan in lots of of years has change into this ineffective particular person. Actually too ridiculous…”

“Simply due to this, you drove him out of the Lingyuan Sea?”

Jun Ruzhuo fell silent, then continued, “I don’t know what occurred throughout that time period. One thing appeared to have occurred to Lingyuan Sea, however I used to be too younger and was despatched away from the Dragon Palace. I heard that Elder Brother… heard that Jun Yan had an accident. I rushed again, and occurred to run into Jun Yan placing down his bodyguard, making an attempt to flee to the mortal realm.”

“I ended him. I begged him to remain, begged him to get his Dragon Pearl again. Have you learnt what he stated to me?”

“…What?”

“He stated, Lingyuan Sea can now not tolerate him.” Jun Ruzhuo closed his eyes and took a deep breath. “After what occurred to him, Uncle1 grieved. He didn’t expose the placement of his Dragon Pearl, therefore Uncle searched all around the world and tried his finest to avoid wasting him. I don’t perceive why he thought that method. However perhaps he was actually such a foolish particular person, trusting one other particular person so simply.”

“What do you imply?”

“As a result of he instructed me that he was going to fulfill up with somebody.”

That day, a younger Jun Yan had stood on the coast, gazing on the sea and sky within the distance. His pale and sallow face carried a vivid expression that Jun Ruzhuo had by no means seen in his life.

“Ah Zhuo, I’m ready for somebody.” His eyes mirrored the blue Lingyuan Sea, his smile delicate and peaceable. “When he comes again, every part will return to what it ought to have been.”

“Who’re you ready for? Who did you give your Dragon Pearl to?”

“I can’t let you know,” Jun Yan instructed him, “However imagine me, I do know what I’m doing. I’ll positively come again.”

“At the moment, he had no technique of cultivation left. Escaping from the Dragon Palace had exhausted the final of his power. It was I who led away the troopers after him and despatched him to the mortal realm. I assumed he would come again.” Jun Ruzhuo scoffed. “Considering again now, I used to be as silly as him to have truly believed his story. I had truly believed that the one that had solely recognized him for lower than three months, deceiving and ruining his cultivation, would come again for him.”

Jun Ruzhuo’s eyes had been crimson. His hoarse voice was filled with hatred. “His Dragon Pearl was the supreme treasure. The second anybody received it, they might instantly have the religious energy of the heavens and the earth. How may he be so silly? To imagine that particular person would return it to him?”

Feng Qi’s coronary heart was pierced with out warning. The delicate ache nearly made him breathless. However Jun Ruzhuo didn’t discover his strangeness, and sneered, “I forgot to ask simply now. I ponder if he regrets his stupidity after ready for 300 years in useless.”

No, he had no regrets.

Feng Qi closed his eyes. In his thoughts’s eye, the picture of how Ji Chaoyun took again the phoenix plume feather appeared. That form of expression, nurturing such a cherished and relieved emotion, was positively not the looks of remorse.

He waited for 300 years in useless. But, till now, he nonetheless believed that the one that took his Dragon Pearl would return.

What may make him imagine this all through all this time?

Jun Ruzhuo buried his face in his palms, as if wanting to hide a sure emotion by means of this motion. After a protracted whereas, he lastly calmed down and continued slowly, “After Jun Yan defected, the Dragon King ordered for him to be expelled from the Dragon Clan, and he won’t ever be allowed to return to Lingyuan Sea.”

“I used to go to the mortal realm to seek for him these previous years, however I couldn’t discover him. Later, there have been rumors that Jun Yan defected to the mortal realm as a demon, and a few folks stated he was lifeless.” Jun Ruzhuo all of the sudden smiled calmly. His voice was heavy and sorrowful. “…I’d fairly have him lifeless than watch him struggling on demise’s door.”

However he didn’t.

The scarred younger man who had misplaced his cultivation abilities had been on the planet for greater than 300 years. He’d modified his title and surname, shedding his immortal bones, degenerating from an immortal to a demon, earlier than ascending as soon as extra to face on this immortal realm.

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When Feng Qi returned to Wenqu Peak, the curfew had lengthy handed. He walked into the acquainted courtyard and stood by the stone bridge, wanting throughout the water on the closed door of Ji Chaoyun’s bed room, the candlelight dancing on the window.

Earlier than Jun Ruzhuo had instructed him the reality, he truly had a imprecise suspicion in his coronary heart.

Ji Chaoyun’s innate temperament, his rejection and dislike of the immortal realm, and Jun Ruzhuo’s extraordinary perspective in direction of him shouldn’t be the results of a demonic dragon who first climbed into the immortal realm.

However the reality was nonetheless past his creativeness.

Feng Qi didn’t dare think about how this particular person had survived the 300 years after his exile from the Dragon Clan together with his root bones fully destroyed.

What was it that had supported him till now?

Who was he ready for?

An inexplicable and sharp tingling unfold from his coronary heart. Feng Qi frowned, raised his hand and pressed it firmly in opposition to his coronary heart, his respiration laborious.

Since he was acutely aware, he had by no means felt such an out-of-control emotion. It was unfamiliar, however it appeared prefer it was must be.

A faint noise got here from the again of the room, pulling Feng Qi again from his chaotic ideas. He adopted the sound round the home, and a skinny determine stood within the religious area behind it, bending over to water the religious grass.

Ji Chaoyun solely wore a skinny quick outer garment. His cuffs had been rolled up, revealing his slender white wrist. His half-loose lengthy hair was tied behind his head with a strap, and just a few strands fell from the entrance of his brow, which was a bit neater than earlier than.

His plain garments and palms had been stained with mud, as if in a troublesome state of affairs.

Feng Qi checked out him from a distance, solely to really feel that his eyes had been dry and heavy, and never a phrase escaped his lips.

“What are you taking a look at?” Ji Chaoyun straightened up and requested suspiciously.

Feng Qi seemed away to assemble his bearings. In a hushed voice, he questioned, “What are you doing?”

“Watering your treasured spirit grasses, can’t you see?” Ji Chaoyun bent down and resumed his actions. “You haven’t taken care of the spirit area for just a few days. These spirit herbs are so delicate. How do you propose to lift them like this?”

“Why do you are worried a lot? Even when they don’t survive, I wouldn’t ask you to pay.” Feng Qi requested, “Why didn’t you go follow your cultivation tonight?”

“Can’t settle down, would possibly as effectively discover one thing to do,” Ji Chaoyun replied vaguely. “In any case, I’m right here to do laborious work so that you can repay my money owed. As you stated earlier, caring for the religious area is three religious stones. Don’t renege in your phrases.”

Feng Qi whispered softly, “I didn’t really need you to pay it again.”

“What?”

Feng Qi: “It took 5 thousand religious stones to redeem your purse. Jiang Cheng got here out with three thousand. I requested Xu Zixing for the remaining two thousand. He bought your purse for one thousand, and the remaining one thousand is to show him a lesson. Now we have already settled issues. You don’t owe me.”

Ji Chaoyun truly knew about this.

His Second Highness Feng by no means let himself undergo. From the very starting, he by no means deliberate to pay the cash himself. It was simply that, in line with his earlier assertion, blackmailing Jiang Cheng and Xu Zixing for compensation was his personal methodology, whereas the debt Ji Chaoyun owed him was one other matter and couldn’t be counted collectively.

Because of this, Ji Chaoyun even felt that if sooner or later, His Second Highness Feng had spent all his financial savings, he may dwell on as a profiteer within the Sea Market.

Ji Chaoyun was nonetheless questioning why this particular person had modified his perspective in direction of him, when he all of the sudden considered one thing. A way of disaster developed from the underside of his coronary heart. He cautiously requested, “Are you going to drive me away?”

“…No.” Feng Qi frowned. “What are you serious about all day lengthy? Am I this sort of particular person?”

“It’s laborious to say.” Ji Chaoyun’s palms saved shifting, however his tone was clearly lighter. “Do you not know it’s acknowledged in the entire academy that essentially the most troublesome particular person to fathom is you? Who is aware of what you might be serious about.”

Feng Qi smiled barely. “Then do you need to know what I’m considering now?”

“What?”

“You come right here, I’ll let you know.”

Ji Chaoyun glanced at him suspiciously, feeling that there was one thing unsuitable with this particular person tonight. However Feng Qi’s expression didn’t present the slightest clue. He contemplated for a second, put down the issues in his palms, and walked throughout the religious area in direction of Feng Qi with massive and quiet footsteps.

“Say it. What are you—”

Earlier than he completed his phrases, he was all of the sudden embraced.

Feng Qi bent down and tightened his arms, as if to cage Ji Chaoyun into his arms.

He truly didn’t know why he needed to do that, however it appeared like this was the one method to counteract the lingering ache that was nearly as piercing as that of a thousand cuts in his coronary heart.

Ji Chaoyun froze in place. For some motive, he didn’t push the opposite away.

After assembly an outdated good friend, he was removed from being as calm as earlier than.

After so a few years, these issues had been already previously. He may let himself not take into consideration the liberty of wandering amongst the ocean of ​​clouds, to not miss the superior lifetime of dwelling within the deep sea’s Dragon Palace, to not remorse the spectacular expertise that might by no means be retrieved once more.

However… even when through the years, these outdated wounds that had been unable to heal had change into a behavior, to all of the sudden be torn aside by one other, it might nonetheless harm to the brim.

To have a hug throughout the time it harm essentially the most, was one thing that couldn’t be higher.

Ji Chaoyun let himself be buried in Feng Qi’s arms, respiration deeply. The gloom that lasted all night time was lastly worn out. Nonetheless, Feng Qi remained nonetheless, and didn’t let go.

With doubt, Ji Chaoyun frowned. He spoke softly, his voice a bit of uninteresting as his mouth was partially coated. “Feng Qi.”

“Hm?”

Ji Chaoyun thought of it. There was just one chance for this particular person’s temper to be so irregular. He broke free from Feng Qi’s arms and seemed up at him. “Is Immortal Lord Tianshu lastly decided to drive you out of the academy?”

Feng Qi: “…”

He let go of the opposite, his ears barely crimson. “No, what are you serious about?”

“I’d additionally wish to know what you might be serious about.” Ji Chaoyun took a half step again, his expression barely uncomfortable. “Why, out of nowhere, are you doing these sorts of actions.”

“…” Feng Qi coughed and stated vaguely, “Nothing a lot. Seeing you’re employed laborious in the course of the night time, I needed to reward you.”

Speechless, Ji Chaoyun may solely look again at him.

The 2 stood in a stalemate for some time, and Ji Chaoyun stated helplessly, “Overlook it, I’ll by no means perceive your thought course of. I’ll return to my room first.”

“Wait a minute,” Feng Qi stated. “Include me first.”

Feng Qi took Ji Chaoyun to the door of his bed room, entered, and took a skinny ebook from the desk. He walked out, and handed it over.

Ji Chaoyun requested, “What is that this?”

“The answer to the key realm’s trial.”

Ji Chaoyun was about to flip by means of the ebook when he paused.

“The key realm’s trial wants the participation of two Black and Yellow-level disciples. Once you enter the Secret Realm, in line with the preliminary pre-allocated workforce, you’ll enter the primary stage, Breaking Formation. The stone array often requires 5 to 6 folks to interrupt. You solely have three folks, even when all of you’ll be able to cooperate completely, be it time or religious energy loss, it’ll be twice as a lot because the others.” Feng Qi pointed to the ebook in Ji Chaoyun’s hand and continued, “Except you employ my methodology.”　

Ji Chaoyun’s eyes narrowed. “Track shixiong instructed you?”

Feng Qi didn’t reply. He continued, “Beforehand, I alone broke the array, and it even took a shorter time than with a workforce, however it requires a powerful sufficient religious energy. Nonetheless, the three of you…”

His voice stopped abruptly, and he couldn’t say the phrases “lack religious energy”.

Feng Qi seemed away. “The three of you should utilize this methodology to cooperate. If you happen to all don’t make a mistake, it is best to have the ability to shorten the breaking time to the identical as a common workforce.”

“After defeating the Stoneman Array, you’ll be teleported to a distinct place for the second stage — Punishing Evil.”

Feng Qi said, “There are numerous monsters scattered on this secret realm. Each one kill is counted as one level. As well as, there are 5 mysterious areas. Both alone or with cooperation to behead the 5 fierce guarding beasts, the Secret Realm evaluation will finish and the rating shall be primarily based on the ultimate rating.”

“…Along with the tactic of cracking the stone array, there’s additionally a secret boundary map, which exhibits all of the maze formations, traps, evil spirits, and the doable haunts and options of 5 mysterious boundaries.”

Ji Chaoyun was silent for a second and requested, “When did you put together this?”

Feng Qi didn’t count on him to ask this. With out even serious about it, he answered, “I wrote it a very long time in the past. I wrote it for myself. Can’t I?”

Along with his cultivation and expertise, he naturally didn’t want to put in writing it for himself. This clumsy lie was barely ridiculous.

Feng Qi rapidly realized this. He stated vaguely, “Anyway, take it again. Write down just a few key factors. Even when your ultimate rating is just not excessive, it’s unlikely you’ll fall to the third rank.”

Nonetheless, Ji Chaoyun shook his head. He handed the ebook again to Feng Qi. “I can’t settle for it.”

“You—” Feng Qi immediately understood what he was considering, and persuaded, “I do know your considerations, however the secret realm assesses the teamwork and cultivation abilities of the disciples. Many disciples will go to the upper stage disciples earlier than the evaluation to ask concerning the secret realm’s state of affairs. This isn’t a violation of the foundations.”

“Then the answer of the Stoneman Array can be disclosed at will?” Ji Chaoyun requested.

Feng Qi was startled.

Ji Chaoyun stated, “I perceive your kindness, however I can’t hold counting on others to go on.”

From leaving Lingyuan Sea, to the 300 years of wandering about within the mortal realm, to turning right into a demon, and ascending by means of adversities, he had at all times survived by solely counting on himself.

Feng Qi hated iron for not turning into metal. “Don’t neglect that for those who fail in your quarterly check, you might be leaving the academy. Haven’t you at all times needed to remain right here?”

“I simply imagine that I can keep right here by my very own power.”

Ji Chaoyun touched the purse exuding warmth by means of his garments. The corners of his mouth curved barely. He raised his head, his gaze crossing over the roof and onto the sky shining with stars, awashed with the radiant moonlight.

He knew that above this night time sky, separated by a distance of ninety-nine heavens, was the realm of God.

“Feng Qi, what I need to do is not only keep,” Ji Chaoyun stated softly with the starlight mirrored in his eyes. “I used to assume that so long as I stood and waited, I’d positively have the ability to await what I needed and the particular person I needed to see… however then I spotted that moreover ready, I had one other alternative, and that was to search out them personally.”

“I need to go additional. If I can’t deal with it proper now, how can I get what I would like?”

“Even for those who can take a detour, you received’t remorse it?”

Ji Chaoyun shook his head. “On this life, I’ve solely regretted one factor.”

“What’s it?”

Ji Chaoyun: “Not coming right here 300 years in the past.”

Feng Qi fixedly checked out him. He lastly confirmed his first heartfelt smile tonight. “Understood. Then I want you what you need.”

5 days later, the quarterly exams formally began.

The writer has one thing to say:

Issues within the earlier life will slowly unfold, and the conduct of the characters shall be defined. If you happen to can’t stand it, you’ll be able to discard the article, please don’t scold others with out seeing the reality, thank you_(:з」∠)_

Father’s youthful brother 叔父.