269: Chapter 268: Test 269: Chapter 268: Test Everyone’s path is trodden by themselves, whether good or bad, whether sad or tragic, so proudly ascend to the Nine Heavens, while others are as lowly as ants.
It was the sudden appearance of Ye Xuan that drastically changed the expressions of the dicine Slave and Li Jiangliu, but when Li Jiangliu beheld Ye Xuan’s visage, he beca utterly stupefied, shaking uncontrollably.
“The kindness of the past shall be repaid today, co with ,” said Ye Xuan with the calm of a light breeze and untainted by worldly dust.
“You…
who are you?” The dicine Slave cried out in terror.
Bang!
All of a sudden, Li Jiangliu prostrated on the ground, continuously kowtowing to Ye Xuan, tears streaming from his eyes, his voice trembling intensely.
“True Monarch, your disciple always knew you would co back.”
Looking at Li Jiangliu’s trembling figure, Ye Xuan’s expression remained calm as he spoke in a deep voice, “One must repay the debt of a life saved; this is the good karma between us.
I have co today to return this favor.”
Hum!
With a swipe of his hand through the air, the void took on a form, and a beam of Immortal Light from Ye Xuan enveloped Li Jiangliu’s body, ready to take him away from this place.
“Please, True Monarch, have rcy and take him with us too,” Li Jiangliu pleaded to Ye Xuan aloud, and the dicine Slave, instantly enlightened, kept kowtowing to Ye Xuan, begging to be rescued.
Regrettably, Ye Xuan’s expression remained undisturbed as he calmly said, “I have co today to take you away because of the kindness you once showed .
What have the lives or deaths of others to do with ?”
Hum!
Ye Xuan’s Immortal Light shone, and in an instant, he disappeared from the Elixir dicine Pavilion with Li Jiangliu, unaware of the resentnt and fury that filled the eyes of the dicine Slave left behind, his fists clenched tight.
“This is not good.
Li Jiangliu has been rescued, and my ancestor master will surely be furious.
Without Li Jiangliu to take the dicine for , I fear I will not survive three days.”
The dicine Slave’s voice trembled as he hurriedly knocked on the grand doors of the Elixir dicine Pavilion, hoping to summon the red-robed Daoist and inform him of Li Jiangliu’s rescue.
Atop Jiuhua Peak.
With Immortal Light shrouding him, Ye Xuan strolled through the void while Li Jiangliu followed closely, tethered by his guidance.
When Li Jiangliu saw the banquet set up below, a shade of sorrow appeared in his eyes.
“True Monarch, Jiangliu begs you to wait a mont; your disciple wishes to glimpse Sister Cai’er for one last ti,” Li Jiangliu implored with a tremble in his voice.
Upon hearing Li Jiangliu’s words, Ye Xuan’s brows slightly furrowed and he said, “Ah, more affairs of the heart, how utterly uninteresting.”
“Since you wish to make a final farewell, I shall indulge you.”
Ye Xuan sat in ditation in the void, silent and still, his eyes opening and closing only to reveal a trace of indifferent color.
Regarding Sister Cai’er in Li Jiangliu’s words, Ye Xuan, who had sifted through the mories of nial disciples, naturally knew of this woman.
Yin Cai’er was the daughter of a Profound Immortal of Jiuhua Immortal Sect; her cultivation talents were average, but indeed, her beauty was exceedingly enchanting, indeed a rare gem.
That Li Jiangliu was infatuated with this woman was nothing strange.
Li Jiangliu bowed in gratitude to Ye Xuan then stood quietly by his side, waiting for the appearance of his beloved.
With Ye Xuan at his side, his Immortal Law shielding the heavens, naturally, no one could detect their presence.
As an hour passed, amidst the sounds of firecrackers, a pair of newlyweds erged from Jiuhua Hall.
Yin Cai’er, draped in a Nine Phoenix Wedding Robe, graced the world with her fair and dewy skin, and whenever she frowned or smiled, she bestowed upon others a sense of stunning awe.
Beside the woman stood a young man of heroic bearing, clad in groom’s attire, who was currently holding Liu Cai’er’s jade hand and expressing gratitude to the visiting guests.
“Yan…
Yan Yunfei…
How…
How could it be him?”
Li Jiangliu’s face turned ashen the mont he laid eyes on the scene; his fists clenched tight, his teeth grinding noisily against each other, and the look in his eyes, as he gazed upon Yan Yunfei, was filled with overwhelming hatred.
Five years ago, in the grand Sect competition, it was Yan Yunfei who had crippled his cultivation, and that event had set off a series of inconceivable happenings, which ultimately led to his punishnt by the Sect, condemning him to the Elixir dicine Pavilion to live a lowly life as a dicine Slave.
Li Jiangliu had never imagined that the woman he loved most would end up marrying his nesis!
“Why, Sister Cai’er, why would you marry him?” Li Jiangliu murmured disconsolately, a great unwillingness filling his eyes.
As Ye Xuan watched Li Jiangliu’s dispirited figure, he let out a disdainful chuckle, yet another romantic fool trapped by love.
And it seed Li Jiangliu still hadn’t grasped that his current predicant was intimately connected to this woman.
“You owe your life, so I’ll grant you one wish, anything you desire,” Ye Xuan voiced calmly.
“What…
what do I desire?” Li Jiangliu murmured, bemused.
“Supre cultivation, the woman you yearn for, and the awe of everyone in the Jiuhua Immortal Sect,” Ye Xuan declared.
“But I must tell you, you only have this one opportunity.
I hope you’ll consider it carefully.
Once you’ve repaid your debt to , you and I will have no further connection; whether you live or die in the future will have nothing to do with .”
Ye Xuan spoke evenly, leaving the choice in Li Jiangliu’s hands.
How he would choose, it was entirely up to him.
Hearing Ye Xuan’s words, Li Jiangliu’s face flushed with emotion, and he almost agreed imdiately.
But upon seeing the inscrutable depths of Ye Xuan’s eyes, the words that reached his lips were swallowed back.
For in Ye Xuan’s gaze, he discerned a flicker of disappointnt and a hint of contempt, which swiftly cooled Li Jiangliu’s agitated spirit.
As if a voice from the depths of the cosmos told him, should he choose so, he would likely live in regret for the rest of his life.
Seeing Li Jiangliu’s silent, wordless state, Ye Xuan smiled knowingly and sent forth a dappling of Immortal Light that enveloped him, infusing Li Jiangliu’s Eight Extraordinary ridians with a terrifying power beyond imagination.
“This Immortal Essence will conceal your form and bestow upon you the power of three Heavenly Immortals.
Even the Profound Immortals of Jiuhua won’t be able to detect your presence.
If you’ve made up your mind, co find at Jue Tian Peak.”
With one last penetrating glance, Ye Xuan disappeared into the void.
…
Atop Jue Tian Peak.
Seated cross-legged, Ye Xuan gazed into the distance at Li Jiangliu and spoke enigmatically: “Truly a base and foolish love affair, don’t disappoint .”
In truth, Ye Xuan could easily bestow a chance upon Li Jiangliu and then drift away, severing all ties between them.
However, Li Jiangliu was a man who had left a singular impression on Ye Xuan, one that felt eerily familiar.
It wasn’t until he made an effort to rember that he visualized a familiar face in his mind.
Ye Xuan was startled to realize that this person was incredibly similar to Huang the Fatty.
Both possessed a simple love, yet while Huang the Fatty had ultimately turned into an archvillain, Li Jiangliu had not yet undergone such a transformation.
Ye Xuan felt a premonition in the mysterious workings of fate that Li Jiangliu might be of great use to him.
It all depended on whether he could undergo a tamorphosis today.
This was the test that Ye Xuan had set for him.
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