The dramatic young master and his obedient daughter-in-law of a Demon Venerable.
Even though he had obtained the blood chalcedony and learned the method of administration, Jun Yanye still had his demon generals capture ten medical cultivators. He only felt reassured after each and every one of them examined it and confirmed there were no issues.
Jun Yanye then carefully questioned Miao You, an elder of the Xinglin Sect: “Right now, Shi Li is still in a deep sleep. Should I administer it to him while he is sleeping, or wait until he wakes up?”
“It is best to wait until he wakes up to administer it for the optimum effect.” Miao You looked at Jun Yanye with his benevolent, gentle eyes, and after a long moment, he smiled and said, “I did not expect the Demon Venerable to care so much about this Young Master Shi. This is already the second time this old man has come to offer assistance.”
“He saved my life,” Jun Yanye said.
Jun Yanye told himself the same thing.
Miao You nodded: “So that is how it is. This old man merely feels that the Demon Venerable I see seems different from the one in the rumors. The Demon Venerable in the rumors has always been an ungrateful and treacherous person, yet the Demon Venerable’s affection for Young Master Shi is remarkably deep.”
Miao You added: “Previously during the confrontation with Sect Master Yan, Sect Master Yan had already spoken of the method to treat Young Master Shi, and the Demon Venerable had also obtained the blood chalcedony. Even if the Demon Venerable had immediately captured Sect Master Yan or refused to tell him the method to treat Shi Chen, it would have been entirely within this old man’s expectations. This old man was already prepared for the Demon Venerable to break the agreement at that time, harboring a heart ready for death, yet the Demon Venerable did not do so.”
Jun Yanye felt somewhat perplexed himself.
He had forgotten many things. Everyone said he had slaughtered the Sacred Domain and killed his own master, achieving his current position only by seizing his master’s cultivation.
In reality, he truly did not care about human life, nor did he mind killing. He possessed no heart of pity for the lives of people; he simply cared particularly about Shi Li.
“Does Elder Miao know about the past between Shi Li and Yan Moxiao?”
The Xinglin Sect and the Changming Sect had always maintained close relations, and Jun Yanye hoped to gather more details regarding Shi Li.
Miao You shook his head instead: “What this old man knows is probably about the same as what the Demon Venerable knows.”
“How so?”
“As everyone knows, Sect Master Yan is Shi Li’s foster father. Shi Li’s parents passed away in an accident, and it was Sect Master Yan who adopted Shi Li, taught him the arts of divination and deduction, and always treated Shi Li like his own biological son. However, from a young age, Shi Li was raised by Sect Master Yan on the isolated peak at the very center of the Changming Sect. The isolated peak was cut off from the world, and to protect Shi Li, Sect Master Yan also forbade random people from entering it. Only during specific festivals and ceremonies could Shi Li come out from the isolated peak, so very few people know about their affairs.”
This was indeed identical to what Shi Li had said.
Everyone knew that Yan Moxiao was responsible for raising Shi Li, and that Shi Li had turned his blade against Yan Moxiao, yet no one knew how Yan Moxiao had forced Shi Li to perform deductions and divinations, driving him to develop a heart demon.
After seeing Miao You off, Jun Yanye returned to Shi Li’s bedside, quietly waiting for him to wake up.
Du Yuanzhong and a crowd of the demon race were patrolling and keeping watch outside. When they patrolled near the cave entrance and saw the Demon Venerable guarding Shi Li’s bedside, several of them were greatly shocked and could not help but begin to discuss in low whispers.
“What exactly is the relationship between this young master surnamed Shi and His Supreme? His Supreme is so attentive; I have never seen His Supreme act like this toward anyone before.”
“I asked the small demons inside the cave. Some say they are close friends, others say they are lovers; the accounts vary.”
“Lovers?” A demon person nearly failed to control his voice, then lowered his pitch again, saying, “Even if the Buddhist Son of the Sacred Domain returned to secular life and married, it would be impossible for our Supreme to have a lover! His Supreme is the most detached from mortal desires.”
“But I heard from the small demons that our Supreme and this Young Master Shi… have dual cultivated.”
“What?!”
The pupils of several demon people experienced an earthquake, as if blasted by lightning.
“Dual, dual cultivation?! Stop joking around!”
“It’s true, the kind where they take off clothes, It’s too terrifying, I can’t imagine it.”
“So the fact that His Supreme hasn’t gone near women all these years isn’t because he is entirely dedicated to the Dao and has no interest in people, but because he is a cut-sleeve who likes men?”
“Actually, Young Master Shi looks quite handsome, it’s just that he is a bit mentally erratic. That ruthless streak of not even wanting his own spiritual root anyway, I certainly couldn’t match that.”
“He was probably just driven mad. After all, overnight he went from being the young master to a captive, unable to bear this blow, and even had his status stolen by a person who looks exactly like him. If it were me, I would go mad too.”
Suddenly, Jun Yanye’s icy voice echoed inside their minds: “If you utter another word of gossip, every single one of you can get lost and return to the Demon Realm.”
Jun Yanye waited by the bedside for six hours before Shi Li finally woke up leisurely.
Jun Yanye was prepared to face a raging storm. He knew Shi Li was unwilling to make a trade with Yan Moxiao; Shi Li wanted Yan Moxiao to also taste the despairing mood of waiting in the dark until the final moment only to end up with nothing, but Shi Li’s plan had been disrupted by him.
Shi Li would be very angry, Jun Yanye thought.
Before this, Jun Yanye had even thought of using that teleportation talisman to go directly to the Changming Sect and sever Yan Moxiao’s spiritual root right then and there to see how Yan Moxiao would save himself, and then use that method to save Shi Li.
But since Yan Moxiao delivered the medicine to his doorstep himself, Jun Yanye only wanted to cure Shi Li as quickly as possible, disregarding everything else.
When Shi Li woke up, he saw Jun Yanye sitting by the bedside like an obedient daughter-in-law, lowering his eyebrows submissively and remaining completely silent.
On the table behind him sat stacks of beautiful clothes, boxes filled with ornaments, and a large number of wine jars piled up in the corner of the room.
They were all things he liked, though he did not know where Jun Yanye had managed to scrounge them up.
“You are awake.” Jun Yanye raised his eyes to look at Shi Li, observing his expression.
“You still made a trade with them,” Shi Li said.
“I obtained the medicine to treat your spiritual root. The elder of the Xinglin Sect examined it and said there are no issues.”
“So, when that Sect Master Yan came knocking on the door to fight, the only time you struck was to knock me flat on my back.” Shi Li looked directly into Jun Yanye’s eyes.
“Uh.” Jun Yanye could not deny it.
Shi Li leaned against the bedstead, his face calm: “I am the sole victim of this battle, personally backstabbed by my own Dao companion.”
Jun Yanye turned around to bring out the medicinal broth he had mixed: “Drink some medicine.”
With a wave of his hand, Shi Li knocked the medicine bowl to the ground.
The medicine bowl shattered, and the medicinal broth spilled everywhere.
“It does not matter. It wasn’t the blood chalcedony anyway, so it doesn’t hurt,” Jun Yanye said, and then called the small demons to brew another bowl of primordial-stabilizing broth.
Jun Yanye then brought over a jar of honeyed wine mixed with tonic medicine: “Drink some wine.”
Shi Li had no interest and did not accept the wine cup.
Jun Yanye felt that Shi Li throwing a tantrum like this was much better than him not throwing one at all.
Previously, when their dual cultivation ended on a sour note, Shi Li would not even throw a single tantrum. Jun Yanye had no way of knowing his thoughts, which was far more agonizing.
The two remained silent for a moment, and then Jun Yanye went to kiss Shi Li’s lips again; he recalled that when Shi Li was in a bad mood, he often let him kiss him.
Then, Jun Yanye felt a sharp pain on his lips, he had been bitten fiercely by Shi Li!
“Ugh.” Jun Yanye held his lower lip and raised his hand to wipe it; it was bleeding.
The Demon Venerable’s blood was black, and Shi Li had caused Jun Yanye to bleed ink.
Seeing this, the demons outside the cave shook their heads one after another.
“Tsk tsk, who dares to act so dramatically in front of His Supreme. Just watching it makes my scalp go numb! He really doesn’t care about his life!”
“His Supreme actually took the initiative to kiss him! And even coaxed him in every possible way. His Supreme and him, could they really be.”