Vol 1 Chapter 24 (2/2)
When nus, he was sure that he couldn’t obtain any more useful information He only then cautiously stood up and slipped away
In the hot June which seemed like a heated stove, his palms were all cold and sweaty
Yan Zheng Qian’s place It was already late in the night and Cheng Qian had already gone to bed But noas forcibly pulled out of his quilt by Yan Zheng
Being woken up fro, thinking of picking a fight with him
Yan Zheng, however, didn’t look at him at all He picked up the clothes at the side of the bed and threw the him, “Put on your clothes and come with me”
His forehead knotting with a frown, Yan Zheng Qian’s room anxiously He was so distracted that he neither noticed that the clothes at Cheng Qian’s bedside had already been worn by him today, nor found fault with the pickle-like wrinkles on Cheng Qian’s belt He just kept urging Cheng Qian with a heavy heart
Fro had so’s eyes at least, was serious He hastily put on an outer robe but before he could coed him away towards Li Yun’s and Han Yuan’s places with his hair still in disarray
However, they didn’t find Han Yuan Ever since they gone down thearound like a wild horse At thissomewhere around town
Li Yun was still awake and working hard under the light of an oil laether, he was quite surprised But when his eyes fell upon the cicada’s wing on Yan Zheng’s neck, he asked with a little doubt, “First Senior Brother… have you just eavesdropped?”
Yan Zheng for Han Yuan He sat down in Li Yun’s room and absentmindedly told his junior brothers what he had just heard fro a porcelain teacup from the inside to the outside
Cheng Qian exchanged a glance with Li Yun, took the porcelain teacup whose glaze was al, and poured a cup of cold tea which see unconsciously picked it up and drank from it
Frowning, Li Yun asked, “First Senior Brother, is it that… you know the ‘old friend’?”
Li Yun actually had a subtle mind; he was just too fond of heretical tricks, and lacked concentration After conte nodded “Yes”
“As I thought, itQian confirmed
Yan Zheng: “How do you know that?”
In fact, Cheng Qian had already thought it was strange—after listening to Master severalscriptures, he noticed that even though Master often talked nonsense, and even though contradictions existed in the different schools’ scriptures, one concept that ran through every theory was that “the great Tao is shapeless and conforms to the course of nature”
Since it is shapeless, there is no right or wrong to it All creatures reach the sa Qian had never heard any bad words about demonic or monster cultivators from his master
Instead, it was the good-for-nothing first senior brother who bitterly abhorred them
Cheng Qian: “When second senior brother talked about demonic cultivators last year in the Demon Valley, you shouted him down That’s when I started to I feel that… first senior brother seemed to particularly ostracize Diabolism”
Yan Zhenguide you”
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Yan Zheng: “…”
This bastard did have a sharp tongue!
Yan Zheng Qian After a period of silence, he said slowly, “I probably didn’t tell you how I met master When I was 7 or 8 years old, I had thrown a tantrum because of sory back then so I ran away, and after leaving ht, I was abducted”
As the saying goes, as the boy is, so is thefirst senior brother would have done
“It was a man that abducted me, a pretty handsome man But he looked like he was desperately sick with a dead at as he recalled “He took us to a deserted Taoist temple”
Cheng Qian blinked his eyes “Us?”
“Us,” Yan Zheng said “There were 4 or 5 kids that were nearly the sairl, the rest were all boys That irl by her neck and pull out her three spiritual souls and seven corporal souls fro her directly What was surprising was, after all that, the girl was still breathing and her heart was juh her body was just an eht days before she finally died That was…someone die”
That Yan Zheng could still look back on every detail of that memory after nearly ten years proved how deeply it had been imprinted in his mind
Li Yun was flabbergasted “Why would that demonic cultivator kill kids?”
“He tossed the girl’s souls into a lamp with stinky kerosene The flame flared up and never died out Next it came to our turn But he didn’t kill us directly either He took blood from us every day and poured it into the kerosene Except for the feeling of wanting to throw up, we didn’t feel anything terrible at first But young children don’t have a lot of blood Just a few days later, some kids couldn’t hold out and died”
As Yan Zheng Qian found it more and more fa Lamp…”
Li Yun: “What?”
Yan Zhenged into a serious look “How do you know that?”
Cheng Qian: “I’ve read about it in the Library Soul-Consuirl’s souls as a wick and uses refined corpse oil with boy’s blood as kerosene After being burnt for 49 days, the girl’s souls would be refined into a ghost shadow This is a certain type of diabolishostism”
Yan Zheng Qian’s wrist Stern in both voice and countenance, he said, “Cheng Qian, I opened the gate just for you to see how to bleed others and refine their souls!?”
That didn’t terrify Cheng Qian He said with perfect assurance, “It’s not forbidden by master anyway There are numerous different kinds of diabolism, I just browsed over a few”
“Enough” Li Yun was very clever Seeing that they had strayed off topic, he immediately pulled the conversation back to its path “First Senior Brother, please continue What happened to the homicidal demonic cultivator later? Did master save you, and so you became his apprentice?”
Yan Zheng Qian “Master did save me, but that’s not the point…”
On that point, Yan Zheng involuntarily paused “Master is acquainted with that demonic cultivator I heard Master address him as ‘Senior Brother’”