Chapter 98
The only reason Bu Tianhan wanted to get close to Gu Xiyu with a false identity was to make it easy to kill him. It would not affect him in any way if he lost this identity. According to his temperament, if someone dared to speak to him like Gu Xiyu, he would have already dumped everything and left.
But for some reason, Gu Xiyu’s tone of voice made him subconsciously feel that he should obey him.
He stared at the hook jade in front of him and finally accepted it without saying a word, putting it back on his neck.
He had casually thrown this small object into the forest at the center of the End of the Sea, where there were many swamps and muddy areas in the dark forest, as well as unknown beasts hiding in the shadows. He was about to think that even if Gu Xiyu did make a trip to the End of the Sea, he would not be able to retrieve the jade he had thrown and that this one might be a spare.
But when he held it tightly in his hand, he felt his breath that still lingered on the upper surface, making it instantly clear that it was the one he had lost.
The confusion in his heart grew even greater, and he was so shocked that he almost asked Gu Xiyu what he was trying to do.
After giving him the item, Gu Xiyu turned around and walked into the house, shutting the door with a flourish.
Bu Tianhan looked at the closed wooden door with pursed lips, inexplicably feeling a bit guilty, as if he had really done something wrong to Gu Xiyu.
Of course, he didn’t think he had done anything wrong!
Anyway, whatever the reason for accepting the jade hook, the most unlikely reason was that he still wanted to see Gu Xiyu again. He was just a pawn in his revenge, a toy that had upset him, and he was just using his spare time to have some fun and use him to escape the shackles of the world.
That was his goal.
But when it was time to take the medicine to Gu Xiyu, the person who entered the room was not Lu Cheng, who had been boiling the medicine for most of the day, but Bu Tianhan, who had an awkward look on his face.
He was used to being the king of the mountain, and he had never served anyone before.
When Gu Xiyu saw that he was the one who came in, he didn’t say anything but just glanced at him nonchalantly.
It wasn’t Bu Tianhan’s initiative to come here, it was Lu Cheng, who saw him in a daze in the outer courtyard and, when the medicine soup was ready, asked, “Have you apologized to Master yet?”
Bu Tianhan didn’t know what he was thinking at the time, so he replied honestly, “No.”
Lu Cheng then gave him the task of delivering the medicine and solemnly urged him, “Remember to apologize well, Master usually doesn’t say anything, but I can see that he is very worried about you.”
And so there was the current situation.
If he had been a young and ignorant Bu Tianhan, he would have apologized many times by now. But after leaving the Bu family and falling onto the demonic path, he had not lowered himself to anyone for a long time. For he knew that to retreat and compromise would only lead to bullying, and the only way to be feared was to be the strongest party exerting pressure.
“Leave it, and then you can go.” Gu Xiyu was the first to break the silence.
Bu Tianhan looked at the man, who was not even giving him a glance out of the corner of his eye, and inexplicably felt suffocated. After struggling for a long time, he said, “Master, do you…… want me to explain?”
Gu Xiyu still maintained the same posture, but the eyelashes drooped down, covering the look in his eyes: “What do you need to explain?”
‘…… This kind of ice-cold personality was really the most difficult to deal with,’ Bu Tianhan thought to himself.
But his instincts told him that no matter what attitude Gu Xiyu was giving him, a show of weakness and an apology could break the stalemate between the two of them. So, after putting the soup on the table, he said to Gu Xiyu, “I ……I am here to apologize to Master.”
The tone of voice had a slight discomfort.
When Gu Xiyu did not reply, he explained stiffly: “It was this disciple’s fault, I should not have joked with master for the fun of the moment and caused him to be injured. I promise that I will never run away without permission again, nor will I disobey Master’s words again!”
Finally, Gu Xiyu at the table made some movement, but he only reached out and picked up the bowl of medicine, not caring that the soup was still hot and steaming, and sent it straight to his mouth.
It would be impossible to say that Gu Xiyu was not angry. When he received the distress call, especially when it came from a place that was rumored to be dangerous, he was really worried that the Great Demon had accidentally injured himself while trying to cause trouble. He was not angry when he found out it was just a trick; he was furious that Bu Tianhan had thrown away what he had given him.
His fenshen would not have been injured if it had not ventured in to retrieve the item. Even if he could sense the hook jade, it was only a general location. He had been wandering around for days before he finally found it, and he even clashed with a beast on the island that looked like a dragon or a python of some kind. It was impossible to defeat it with his cultivation, so he had no choice but to ask the main system to give him a ‘golden finger’. His dantian was opened, and he obtained energy from outside the world to defeat the difficult beast.
Unexpectedly, the beast’s death seemed to have triggered a mechanism and accidentally opened a mysterious secret realm.
[[You need to go there because it’s the place where the male and female protagonists can get together, and it contains the key item that will help you complete your mission better.]] Because of the main system’s massage and the triggered side mission, he had no choice but to report the incident to the Immortal Sect. It would be inappropriate for just the two of them to go there, and he had to bring the heroine Lin Qianyu with him, so he could only pull in the Immortal Sect.
The more he thought about it after he returned, the more aggrieved he was. In the past few worlds, he had always cherished everything the Great Demon had given him, and had never been so badly treated. After recovering a little from the injuries, he clicked on the panel and stared at the background information related to Bu Tianhan for a long time, slowly calming down.
According to past experience, every villain in the mission world would have a bloody and pitiful background. A father who didn’t love his mother, a family that was cruel to him, and there would be a combination of hardships and broken trust that would make him grow up crooked. The same applies to Bu Tianhan in this world. He was obviously a good boy with good roots but was forced to become a demon.
Gu Xiyu immediately understood what was going on in the Great Demon’s head. He had experienced so much deceit, betrayal, insults, and indifference that he didn’t believe it when an outsider showed him he cared. So he deliberately went to that place and sent him a false distress message to test his ‘sincerity’.
He was just a pitiful, insecure person.
Gu Xiyu sighed helplessly and said to himself once again, ‘I can’t blame him either.’
The soul fragments have no memory of other mission worlds, no memory of their past, and no memory of the affection he had in his previous life.
“Just know your mistake and don’t do it again.” Gu Xiyu put down the empty bowl. The pain coming from his body intermittently made him feel a bit uncomfortable, so he said to Bu Tianhan again, “You go out first, I want to rest.”
Looking at Gu Xiyu’s pale complexion, he remembered what Lu Cheng had told him, that Gu Xiyu might have been punished because of the trouble he had caused outside. Before leaving, he took out a green jade bottle and said, with a slightly raised chin, “I heard that it is quite effective in treating some internal and external injuries … ahem, I heard that Master suffered some injuries, so I decided to give it to you first.”
Gu Xiyu glanced at the little bottle but didn’t inquire about its origin. He didn’t even ask him where he went, what he did, or how he got to the end of the sea; he just let him go with a slight nod.
Bu Tianhan picked up the tray in silence. He remembered something before leaving the room, turned around, and asked with little confidence: “Can I come and sleep with Master at night?”
“As you wish.” The affirmative answer broke the little stiffness between master and disciple, and it was the beginning of a new chapter.
When Bu Tianhan came out, he couldn’t resist scratching the jade hook around his neck again, thinking that he would never joke with Gu Xiyu again. He didn’t expect him to be so simple. What was the difference between him and Tai Ling, who was easily deceived by the sect master?
He gave his sincerity so easily…… Bu Tianhan remembered the conversation he heard outside Lin Wuhen’s courtyard before he left that day. Although they had given up on the idea of dealing with Tai Ling for the time being, his aptitude was still here, and there was no guarantee that they would not have other ideas later.
He paused, realizing that he was starting to worry and think about Gu Xiyu, and couldn’t help but frown a little.
He simply classified Gu Xiyu as his prey, and since it was something he had his eye on, he would never allow anyone else to interfere and destroy it. Even if Gu Xiyu were torn apart one day, it could only be done by him.
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In his room, Gu Xiyu picked up the jade bottle that little Bu Tianhan had left for him and felt a little amused.
The selfish and arrogant great demon was willing to ‘give’ him something; did this mean that his mission was progressing in a positive direction?
As he thought this, the intelligent system, which suddenly seemed sympathetic, said with the usual cold tone, [Don’t underestimate that small bottle of medicine that your little disciple gave you.]
Gu Xiyu paused slightly as he stroked the bottle: “Oh? What do you mean?”
He heard the intelligent system cough a few times before answering, [The pills inside may look inconspicuous and small, but they are made from rare herbs that are priceless and unavailable, and others may not be able to get them even if they want them. It is the same medicine Bu Tianhan uses every time he is injured, and it can achieve a very rapid recovery effect, as well as boost the consumed cultivation and spiritual power.]
Gu Xiyu stared at the item in his hand for a while, then suddenly smiled and asked in return, “Is that so?”
“How do you know that Bu Tianhan uses this kind of medicine? If only Bu Tianhan is qualified to use it, why does my… beloved disciple have it?”
The intelligent system was silent for a moment before saying, in a cold, mechanical voice, [How can I not know? I have recorded everything about Bu Tianhan, so of course I know this bit as well! As for how your…beloved disciple got it, I don’t know. Anyway, this medicine is very precious and its effect is very significant.]
“I see.” Gu Xiyu removed the stopper. The pills inside were amber in color, with a very shiny and smooth outer casing. The quality was very good at first glance, but they were very small, not even the size of a small fingernail.
He did not pour it out immediately, but asked the system curiously, “Since you know so much about Bu Tianhan, why don’t you tell me more about him?”
[… What else do you want to know?]
“Like what he likes to eat, what his favorite color is, what he likes to do in his spare time, or what his special preferences are?”
“Also, what kind of people does he like?”
These questions caused Bu Tianhan’s eyelids to jump, especially when he heard the last sentence. He couldn’t help but ask, [Why do you want to know all these trivial things?]
After a long time, Gu Xiyu’s cold voice came over: “Nothing. I want to know so I can avoid it in the future.”
Bu Tianhan: ……
With the mentality of wanting to spoof Gu Xiyu, he reported a list of his preferences to the other party as an intelligent system and then paused for a while before answering his last question.
[… As for people, he likes those like you.]
[Fair skin, good looks, a thin waist, a strong body, you know.] If it wasn’t for the system’s mechanical voice, Gu Xiyu would have been able to hear the mockery and gnashing of teeth hidden underneath the words.
Gu Xiyu smiled when he heard the intelligent system’s reply: “Really? Then he does have a good eye.”
Bu Tianhan:?
“There are many people who like me, he is not the only one. If you really want to, you can consider letting him get a number and wait in line. I might consider pampering him one day when I’m happy.”
Bu Tianhan: “……”
He was wrong. Although Gu Xiyu was very much like Tai Ling, he was not entirely like him. Is it possible for an emotionless Daoist to say something like that?
Bu Tianhan’s face was expressionless as he wondered if he was worrying for nothing. Tai Ling might have been pitted by Lin Wuhen and Bu Mingfeng, but this Gu Xiyu probably wouldn’t . If not for this reminder, he would have forgotten that this man had defeated him countless times before.
What honest and simple personality? He was obviously very cunning.