Chapter 574 – This Way Is No Good (1/2)

Chapter 574 - This Way Is No Good

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

After losing to Zhou Dufu, the Demon Lord was severely injured and tended to his wounds in Xuelao City for one thousand years. What had he wanted to do with his sudden appearance in Mount Han? What task would cause such an important figure like the Demon Lord to take such an enormous risk? What was on Chen Changsheng's body? Or what did his existence signify?

This was something that the Elder of Heavenly Secrets could not calculate no matter how he tried. Xu Yourong's Fated Star Plate also could not calculate this, but she could just ask.

She dared to ask and Chen Changsheng dared to give the answer, even though this was his greatest secret. To her, he had no secrets, let alone the fact that he had already confessed this secret to her in the Mausoleum of Zhou. To be more precise, a part of this secret of his was already in her body.

Chen Changsheng pointed at his own body. He didn't speak, only mouthing a single word: ”Blood.”

Xu Yourong understood. Coupled with the records preserved in South Stream Temple on the injuries inflicted on the Demon Lord back then, she completely understood the origin of all this.

”Nanke?” she similarly mouthed.

Chen Changsheng nodded.

Xu Yourong looked at him, her eyes filled with concern.

The Demon Lord knew Chen Changsheng's secret, which also meant that he could attack Chen Changsheng at any time. He was the continent's most frightening expert, and to be coldly watched by this sort of expert at every moment, how dark was such a shadow? To live under this sort of shadow, what sort of pressure would one have to bear?

Xu Yourong asked herself, but even though her Dao heart was brightly lit, she found it impossible to imagine how she would respond to this sort of problem. She was very concerned with Chen Changsheng. Even if he never emerged from the capital again and remained under the protection of the Orthodoxy, his mind being under such restrictions would have adverse effects on his cultivation.

On the other hand, Chen Changsheng was not concerned over these problems at all. He had already lived under a similar shadow for quite a few years. What he was even more concerned over was that the secret of his body might be known by even more people. Those words of his senior brother Yu Ren on that night had remained with him always: no one can resist this sort of temptation.

Xu Yourong assured him, ”That won't happen.”

Chen Changsheng thought it over and agreed with her view. The Demon Lord would probably keep this secret hidden.

It was just like a treasure submerged in the bottom of a lake. A person that knew of such information would definitely not talk about it wherever they went, but instead slowly and silently refloat it for themselves.

”Did it occur to you that the Demon Lord appearing in Mount Han might have been a plot?”

Xu Yourong seemed to have thought of something as she stared into his eyes and very seriously asked this.

Chen Changsheng, Tang Thirty-Six and Zhexiu had speculated in this direction, but they had failed to find any reasons for it, so he shook his head.

Xu Yourong stared into his eyes and asked, ”Where is Principal Shang? Just what does he want to do? And what does His Holiness want to do?”

Chen Changsheng didn't want to continue this line of questioning, so he fell silent.

Xu Yourong also fell silent.

After an unknown amount of time had passed, she suddenly said, ”Let's tell this matter to the Empress.”

Chen Changsheng looked into her eyes, still silent.

Xu Yourong calmly stared back with no intention of yielding. ”If this is a plan of His Holiness and Principal Shang, then only the Empress can break it.”

Without hesitation, Chen Changsheng replied, ”I trust His Holiness.”

Xu Yourong replied, ”Then Principal Shang?”

Chen Changsheng did not reply. He got up and went to the table to pour himself a cup of tea.

Xu Yourong gazed at his back, a hint of pity flashing through her eyes. ”Everyone believes that you are the successor of the Orthodoxy, naturally meant to stand opposed to the Empress, but did you ever think that if you were to change your point of view, the scenery might be completely different?”