Chapter 89: You Can Only Like Me (15)
“Why are you running? Save me!” Jiang Zhiyan shouted at Song Jin’yue, who was turning to flee. “Aren’t you a righteous cultivator? Are you going to abandon me?”
“You’re running too, so let’s run together,” Song Jin’yue said without looking back.
“I think your cultivation is higher than this demonic beast’s!”
“But I’m tired!” Song Jin’yue was exhausted, she just wanted to rest, why was it so difficult?
The demonic beast suddenly accelerated and lunged at Song Jin’yue, who swiftly cut off half its claw with her sword. She sighed, frowned, and glanced at the demon girl who had dodged to the side, feeling like she had been tricked.
“Not bad reflexes,” Jiang Zhiyan commented.
System: …
“I thought you came here to be lovey-dovey with her, not to put her in danger?” The System was shocked and confused.
After defeating the demonic beast, Song Jin’yue wanted to sit down, but the strong smell of blood might attract other demonic beasts, she glanced at Jiang Zhiyan.
“Aren’t you leaving?” Song Jin’yue asked.
Jiang Zhiyan immediately ran towards Song Jin’yue: “You could clearly defeat it, why run away? It’s more troublesome for you to run.”
“I don’t want to fight.” Song Jin’yue didn’t want to talk to Jiang Zhiyan and looked at her warily. This person appeared out of nowhere, logically, she couldn’t defeat that demonic beast, her cultivation should be lower than hers, but Song Jin’yue didn’t sense it when she approached.
If it weren’t for the fact that the other party’s voice and figure didn’t seem like Jiang Zhiyan’s, she would have suspected it was her, after all, that woman was capable of such things… Song Jin’yue looked at her, observing carefully.
“I don’t think we need to travel together,” Song Jin’yue said tentatively, taking another step back.
“Ha, looking down on me? I’m the daughter of the Western Demon King’s left emissary!” Jiang Zhiyan looked Song Jin’yue up and down. “What are you self-righteous righteous cultivators doing in our Demon Realm?”
“Western Demon King?” Song Jin’yue looked at Jiang Zhiyan.
“Hmph, so, are you scared now?”
Song Jin’yue was certain now; this wasn’t Jiang Zhiyan, Jiang Zhiyan wasn’t this… lively. She felt a bit disappointed, but this person was very likely sent by Jiang Zhiyan, the Demon Realm was too vast, it would be too difficult to encounter her without a specific purpose.
And normally, demon cultivators would try to kill a human cultivator like her on sight, but this demon girl didn’t, so she was very likely one of Jiang Zhiyan’s people.
Song Jin’yue’s heart was filled with renewed hope.
“Do you know Jiang Zhiyan?” Song Jin’yue asked.
“Why?” Jiang Zhiyan looked at her warily.
“How is she doing now?”
“Why are you asking? Are you here to gather information for those people?” Jiang Zhiyan raised an eyebrow and asked.
Song Jin’yue blinked: “If I were here to gather information, I wouldn’t be trapped here, can you take me to the Western Territory? I’m Jiang Zhiyan’s… fiancée.”
Jiang Zhiyan: ???
Jiang Zhiyan looked at Song Jin’yue, whose face was flushed, looking very flustered, and she coughed twice.
“Fiancée? You and Jiang Zhiyan are already at that stage?” Su Huo asked in surprise.
Song Jin’yue felt a headache coming on upon hearing Su Huo’s voice.
She hadn’t felt anything when she told Wei Jingqian and the others, but afterward, she started to feel embarrassed, and now being heard by Su Huo, it was even more…
Song Jin’yue wanted to faint on the spot.
“When did you two get to that stage?” Su Huo leaned closer and looked at Song Jin’yue, who refused to look at her. “When?”
Song Jin’yue glared at Su Huo with dissatisfaction, this person really didn’t know how to read the room.
“She’s also a member of the Wei family, if Wei Jingqian won’t fulfill the engagement, then she will,” Song Jin’yue said.
Su Huo frowned: “But… she’s already been expelled from the Wei family, oh, right, you’ve been confined, so you didn’t know, but Jiang Zhiyan’s surname isn’t even Wei, does that even count?”
“Why wouldn’t it count?” Song Jin’yue glared at Su Huo, did this person not know how to speak? Su Huo just laughed.
Song Jin’yue was speechless.
As expected, Jiang Zhiyan’s friend was just as annoying as Jiang Zhiyan herself.
“So can you take us to the Western Territory?”
“How do I know if you’re telling the truth?” Jiang Zhiyan said, crossing her arms. “Besides, I have a mission.”
“We can help you with your mission, and then you can take us to the Western Territory,” Song Jin’yue immediately said. Traveling in the Demon Realm with a demon as a guide would be much safer, especially a demon with status, at least they wouldn’t have to worry about being killed by demon cultivators along the way.
Jiang Zhiyan narrowed her eyes: “It seems like you’re not in a hurry to get to the Western Territory.”
“I am in a hurry, but I want to get there alive,” Song Jin’yue sighed. “What’s your mission?”
“Going to the Eastern Territory to find the Eastern Demon King,” Jiang Zhiyan said. She hadn’t actually planned on going there, it was a last-minute decision, she felt that if she didn’t keep an eye on them, Song Jin’yue, accompanied by Su Huo, might really focus on escaping.
Song Jin’yue: …
“Huh?” Song Jin’yue felt her vision darken. “Is it far?”
“It’s alright, but it might be in the opposite direction for you,” Jiang Zhiyan lifted her chin slightly. “We’ll fly on swords, since you want me to guide you, you have to offer some compensation.”
“Su Huo, you take her,” Song Jin’yue looked at Su Huo.
“I have a flying artifact,” Su Huo said, taking out a giant bowl from her storage pouch. “I snatched it from the bald donkey.”
She placed it on the ground, chanted an incantation, and the bowl rapidly expanded, more than enough to fit three people.
“Don’t tell me we’re going to sit in a bowl,” Song Jin’yue asked.
“Mm,” Su Huo nodded. “Although it looks a bit trashy, it’s very useful.”
After saying that, Su Huo jumped in first, found a spot to lean against, took out a blanket, covered herself with it, and looked at the two with a smile: “Aren’t you coming up?”
“Although it’s not quite befitting my status, whatever,” Jiang Zhiyan said, jumping in, looking around with some disdain, then taking out a small blanket and placing it underneath her.
Su Huo turned her head and rolled her eyes.
“What’s the relationship between the Western Territory and the Eastern Territory?” Song Jin’yue asked curiously.
“Not good,” Jiang Zhiyan said. It was a spur-of-the-moment decision, she hadn’t planned on going there, although that person from the Northern Territory had been urging her, asking them to have a meeting.
Song Jin’yue’s expression fell: “Is it possible that we’ll be detained there after we arrive?”
“Very possible, we might even die there,” Jiang Zhiyan said.
Su Huo turned her head again: “Actually, the two of us can just fly there directly…”
“If it’s just the two of us, flying in the sky with this thing, are we asking for trouble?” Song Jin’yue asked seriously.
Su Huo sighed softly and looked at Jiang Zhiyan: “I haven’t asked yet, what’s this young lady’s name?”
“Yan Zhizhi,” Jiang Zhiyan made up a random name.
“Okay, okay, so it’s Miss Yan,” Su Huo nodded, then discreetly took out her communication jade, she felt like this person was a liar from the moment she saw her, and hearing this name, she was even more convinced. She knew many demon cultivators and demons, including many from the Western Territory, she had never heard of this person, how could she not have heard of someone who could go see the Demon King alone, and who was so weak?
“It’s me, don’t look for anyone.”
Su Huo: ???
Hearing Jiang Zhiyan’s voice transmission, Su Huo looked around, then glanced at Jiang Zhiyan opposite her, who was looking at her with a chilling gaze.
She silently put away her communication jade, covered her face with the blanket, her expression twisting beneath it.
What were these two doing?
What game were they playing?
Su Huo already regretted coming, why did she always encounter these kinds of things?
Thinking about how she had offended a monk because of this made her feel her vision darken.
[Su Huo: Master, I believe you’ll forgive my recklessness, right? I’m just doing this for a friend.]
[Guanyi: You’ve already gone to the Demon Realm?]
[Su Huo: There’s no other way, I’m helping a friend pursue love, once she succeeds, I’ll return your things, but the spirit stones and pills might be gone, Master, just treat it as accumulating merits, don’t hold it against me.]
[Guanyi: You might not be able to come back.]
[Su Huo: ?]
Su Huo frowned, but Guanyi didn’t reply.
“That’s strange, Guanyi told me we might not be able to come back,” Su Huo looked up.
“I’m not planning on going back, but why?” Song Jin’yue also looked up.
“He didn’t say,” Su Huo frowned. “Forget it, if we can’t go back, then we’ll just stay here, seek refuge with Jiang Zhiyan, she can’t just abandon us.”
As she spoke, Su Huo glanced at Jiang Zhiyan several times, hinting strongly.
Jiang Zhiyan ignored her, leaned against the edge of the bowl, turned to look in the direction of the cultivation world, and took out her communication jade.
[Jiang Zhiyan: Do you have spies in the cultivation world? What’s the situation there recently?]
[Bei: I’m planning to sow discord, I heard Tianyan Pavilion is going to take out something and make us fight over it.]
[Jiang Zhiyan: Oh, whatever it is, I don’t want it.]
[Bei: I haven’t even said what it is yet.]
[Jiang Zhiyan: Half of the Demon Lord’s heart?]
[Bei: How did you know?]
[Jiang Zhiyan: My status is relatively high.]
[Bei: I don’t want it either, who knows if I’ll be possessed after using it.]
[Jiang Zhiyan: Zhao Xiting won’t want it either, so it’s between South and East, I’m currently on my way to the Eastern Territory.]
[Bei: I’ve always wanted to ask, do you not know my name?]
[Jiang Zhiyan: I don’t want to know, it’s too much brainpower, I’m hanging up.]
The Northern Demon King gritted his teeth.
“What’s going on with Jiang Zhiyan now?” Song Jin’yue looked at Jiang Zhiyan. “I’m really not trying to gather information, I’m just…”
“I don’t know, haven’t seen her, she’s been staying in the palace ever since arriving in the Western Territory, hasn’t come out, the Demon King arranged people to take care of her, but she refused them all,” Jiang Zhiyan shook her head. “I heard she was injured in the cultivation world, she seems heartbroken.”
Su Huo bit her lip, having just put down her blanket, she pulled it over her head again, biting her lip, trying hard not to laugh.
Song Jin’yue frowned and sighed, her sadness quickly dispelled by the trembling Su Huo beside her.
“What’s wrong with you?” Song Jin’yue cautiously leaned closer, wanting to lift the blanket and take a look.
Su Huo gripped the blanket tightly: “Nothing, nothing at all, you two talk, you two talk, I’m just chatting with someone.”
Song Jin’yue understood and moved away.
Jiang Zhiyan wanted to throw Su Huo out. Although there was a blanket separating them, Su Huo still felt a very unfriendly gaze and tried hard to hold back her laughter.
Song Jin’yue felt that there was something strange about Su Huo, but she didn’t overthink it and looked at Jiang Zhiyan again: “So she’s been alone this whole time?”
“Mm.”
“Then how do you know she was injured?” Song Jin’yue couldn’t help but ask, she felt like something was off.
“Rumors, powerful people always have many rumors surrounding them, and so many people offered themselves to her, but she refused them all, she must have someone in her heart, and she doesn’t seem like she’s cultivating the Path of Emotionlessness,” Jiang Zhiyan said. “Didn’t you say you were her fiancée? Oh, I remember now, that person just said you weren’t her fiancée before, you regretted it, so you came looking for her.”
System: “Host, I feel like your shamelessness has reached a new level.”
“Shut up,” Jiang Zhiyan said, getting into character.
Song Jin’yue frowned: “Can you contact her?”
“Why don’t you contact her yourself?”
“I tried, but she’s ignoring me,” Song Jin’yue bit her lip. “I don’t understand.”
“Really?” Jiang Zhiyan frowned and checked the rune, there was nothing wrong with it, but she really hadn’t heard Song Jin’yue’s voice for a long time, what went wrong?
Song Jin’yue sighed softly: “It’s indeed my fault, she has every right to be angry, I was a bit heartless, I don’t know if she’ll forgive me.”
“Then I don’t know, she doesn’t seem like someone with a good temper,” Jiang Zhiyan said.
“Her temper is indeed very bad,” Song Jin’yue nodded in agreement.
Jiang Zhiyan: ?
“I think she might be able to hear you,” Jiang Zhiyan kindly reminded her.
“I’m telling the truth, it’s fine even if she hears me,” Song Jin’yue looked around. “If she’s angry, she can just come out and confront me.”
“Hurry up, Jiang Zhiyan, I’ve already come to the Demon Realm, do you really not know? Come and confront me!” Song Jin’yue shouted loudly, leaning against the edge of the bowl. “You said I was too weak, so you didn’t take me with you, now I’ve come on my own!”
“You’ve already reached Nascent Soul, did you not hear me, or are you just ignoring me?!”
Jiang Zhiyan looked at Song Jin’yue: “She still hasn’t awakened, even after all this?”
“Maybe because it’s a fantasy world? This world has concepts like reincarnation, maybe something went wrong, after she fell, she became part of this dimension, she might have been truly affected,” the System speculated. “But I’m not sure either.”
Su Huo peeked out from under the blanket, looking at the two in front of her, these two… were really strange, she wanted to say something, but she felt like Jiang Zhiyan would kill her, she glanced at Jiang Zhiyan, met her gaze for a second, and quickly ducked back under the blanket.
Forget it, she wasn’t getting involved, she valued her life, it was best to stay away from a bickering couple.
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