Seeing Han Yujiu looking like this, Yun Qingzhou was stunned at first. After snapping back to his senses, he asked with considerable displeasure:
“What kind of madness are you up to again?”
“Didn’t I already agree to you?”
Yun Qingzhou found that the man before him always managed to make him expose his original bad temper. Just like now, he was furious inside, unable to maintain even a shred of his gentle and aloof Buddhist cultivator persona.
Han Yujiu seemed to have thought of something. The arms propped on either side of the young man’s body slowly wrapped around his waist, pressing his entire body forward until he firmly pinned the young man down onto the bed, leaving not the slightest gap between them.
Han Yujiu’s voice was muffled, carrying no discernible emotion: “Xiao Zhou. How much of what you say can I believe?”
[Zhou, hang in there. Don’t let all our previous efforts go to waste!]
Watching the corruption value constantly fluctuating up and down, the system picked up a small handkerchief and wiped away its nonexistent cold sweat.
Hearing the system’s reminder, Yun Qingzhou finally set aside his thoughts of rebelling against the male lead.
However, he was now firmly held in the male lead’s embrace, unable to move a muscle, and even breathing was difficult. Fighting back would probably be a futile effort anyway.
The young man’s tear-filled eyes seemed to take on a layer of desperate resolve. Amidst the man’s gaze of despair and hopeful longing, he slowly offered his lips.
Han Yujiu looked as though he had been shocked by Yun Qingzhou’s action. His eyes widened, and he froze in place for a long time, even forgetting to respond to Yun Qingzhou’s tentative kiss.
The young man’s kissing technique was truly clumsy. After lingering on his lips for just a moment, he shyly turned his slightly red face away and stopped altogether.
Yun Qingzhou’s tone was exceptionally gentle: “Xiao Zhou, I am being sincere.”
Only then did Han Yujiu seem to jump-start his sluggish thoughts. His slender, white fingers trembled as they caressed the young man’s neck, his emerald-green eyes reflecting the young man’s figure, filled with utter infatuation.
I’ll trust you one last time.
He thought.
Han Yujiu ultimately restrained the desire in his heart and did not touch Yun Qingzhou. After all, he had consumed way too much meat over the past few days. If he went for a few more rounds, the young man’s already frail body might not be able to handle it.
After Han Yujiu left, Yun Qingzhou finally breathed a sigh of relief, cursing the hypocritical man in his heart.
He claimed he wouldn’t touch him, but aside from the final step, he had done everything else. (Death smile.jpg)
(Little System, don’t use my original appearance for the next world. If the male lead recognizes me at first glance again, I am afraid he will turn into this state once more.)
Yun Qingzhou stated that he really did not want to be in a same-sex relationship with the male lead!
[Zhou, you don’t need to worry. In the next world, as long as you don’t deliberately expose your identity, the male lead will definitely not recognize you!]
(Really?) Yun Qingzhou felt a surge of joy.
[Really!]
Reassured by the system’s guarantee, Yun Qingzhou’s mood lightened considerably as he settled down to wash away the Buddhist seal.
The chains Han Yujiu had bound him with were easily removed with the system’s help, and the pain-blocking feature had already been set up well in advance. Everything was ready, lacking only an escape from the demon palace to find a place unknown to anyone.
He had intentionally kept all of this hidden from Han Yujiu. Although it might drive Han Yujiu mad once more, if Han Yujiu knew that he did all this just to be with him, he should be able to max out the happiness value quickly and leave this world.
The system, which was aware of all Yun Qingzhou’s inner thoughts, felt a chill running down its spine at this moment. It felt that Yun Qingzhou was great in every aspect, being peerlessly gorgeous in appearance, deeply lovable in personality, and possessing a brilliance bordering on the demonic.
Yet, when it came to matters of the heart, he was exceptionally detached. As long as it achieved his goal, regardless of who the person before him was, Yun Qingzhou would use every means at his disposal without the slightest hesitation, even if it meant leaving the person who loved him covered in bruises or hurting himself.
In just the blink of an eye, the young man who had been sitting cross-legged on the bed vanished, leaving the hall desolate once more.
Thousands of miles away, a gentle breeze rustled with the cicadas, and gorgeous clouds floated aimlessly. In a magnificent valley, a young man in white was walking forward in an awkward posture.
Yun Qingzhou’s waist was sore and aching. With a twisted, handsome face, he cursed as he walked:
“Has this male lead not eaten meat in eight hundred years? I’m miserable to death!”
“Why on earth did I rush to get out of there?”
[Zhou, just bear with it a little longer. We are almost there.]
At this moment, the system was cheering him on inside the system space, which made Yun Qingzhou chuckle despite himself as he nodded listlessly.
A moment later, Yun Qingzhou finally arrived at the natural spirit spring mentioned by the system.
Mist swirled above the spirit spring, surrounded by towering mountain ranges and shielded by dense bamboo groves, meaning he didn’t have to worry about being seen even if he stripped bare to enter.
Yun Qingzhou took a deep breath, shed his white kasaya, and stepped slowly into the spirit spring.
Only, the moment he stepped in, Yun Qingzhou felt an overwhelming urge to run away.
Unexpectedly, the water in this spirit spring was even colder than the snow water atop the high mountains. Merely submerging up to his calves made his entire body’s bones grow stiff.
Still, the more miserable he looked this time, the better; the happiness value feedback should be quite high.
The happiness value was essentially the value of being loved or having one’s wish fulfilled as perceived by the male lead. Only one of these two criteria needed to be met.
He refused to believe that after going through this ordeal, the male lead still wouldn’t believe he was madly in love with him.
(System, activate pain-blocking.)
As the words fell, a flash of white light swept across Yun Qingzhou’s body. He exhaled a breath of turbid air, sat cross-legged at the center of the spirit spring, and began the long and agonizing process of washing away the Buddhist seal.
The agony of washing away the Buddhist seal was no less than crushing the meridians in one’s body inch by inch, followed by pulling out one’s bones one by one.
To make matters worse, such torment had to be endured for a full two days.
To avoid arousing suspicion, Yun Qingzhou’s pain-blocking setting was never turned up to one hundred percent, but rather ninety percent. Yet, even that remaining ten percent of pain made Yun Qingzhou wish he could just bang his head against a wall and die right then and there.
By now, the young man had persevered for a full day. Sweat had long since soaked his temples, his brow was tightly furrowed, and his lips were terrifyingly pale. Looking closely, his fair body was still trembling continuously.
While wholeheartedly washing away the Buddhist seal, Yun Qingzhou remained completely oblivious to what was happening in the outside world.
The Demon Sovereign was on the verge of entering a deviation, and multiple parts of the demon palace had been blasted into ruins by a wave of his spiritual energy. Not only was the demon realm thrown into turmoil, but countless Buddhist disciples far away in the immortal realm were also captured by the demon realm.
In just this single day, the name Yun Qingzhou resonated throughout the entire cultivation world because of the Demon Sovereign.
The system, knowing everything, spun around anxiously inside the system space. Seeing the young man on the verge of fainting from pain, it couldn’t bear to disturb him, and could only silently pray for the male lead to find this place quickly.
The male lead absolutely could not completely turn dark and destroy the world, otherwise all their efforts would go down the drain.
As the system continued waiting in silence, the magical array surrounding the spirit spring suddenly experienced violent fluctuations. The system gave a cheer of joy as it spotted Han Yujiu stepping through the air toward them from not far away.