The sound of the last three words was definitely not loud, but it was too quiet at this time and place, not to mention that all those present were monks, so they naturally heard it clearly.
Xue Yin's expression suddenly became extremely ugly.
The coughing sound nearby stopped at some point. Qu Zhengfeng's eyes showed a hint of interest as he glanced at Xie Buchen who was tied to the stone pillar.
Xie Buchen was always very perceptive, and he had already had his suspicions early on. He had already noticed it when Jianchou brought "Xiao Mou" in, and now he could easily detect it with "Xiao Mou"'s obscure eyes.
There was no special expression on his face, he just looked at the other person.
The two gazes met, but both contained a profound calmness.
After a moment, Qu Zhengfeng withdrew his gaze. After all, he was still playing the role of Xiao Mou, and it would be bad to show it too obviously, so he coughed a few more times pretendingly.
The atmosphere in the torture room was awkward at the moment, with Jianchou and Xueyin confronting each other, neither giving in.
He stepped forward and acted as a peacemaker, saying in a naturally weak voice, "Well, Senior Sister Lianzhao and Senior Sister Xueyin, why do you have to quarrel over such a small matter? We have captured two cultivators from the Nineteenth Continent. Since Senior Sister Lianzhao wants to interrogate this cultivator, let Senior Sister Lianzhao do it. How about we go and interrogate the female cultivator next door?"
One night was neither long nor short. Qu Zhengfeng knew that he still had to check the situation at the observation tower and did not want to delay on the matter. In fact, he did not care about the life or death of Xie Buchen and Lu Xiangleng, so he made this suggestion.
After hearing this, Xueyin felt that there was at least a way out.
Unexpectedly, Jianchou turned around and glanced at him with a half-smile after hearing this. It was hard to tell whether the gesture was teasing or irony. Before Xueyin could speak, he said, "When did I say that if you are not allowed to judge this, you are allowed to judge that?"
"… "
"… "
Xue Yin, who had not had time to speak yet, and "Xiao Mou", who had just finished speaking, were choked to death almost at the same time!
Xue Yin's eyes widened even more, she simply couldn't believe what she heard!
She simply thought Lian Zhao was crazy!
"You mean, you have the final say here, and Junior Brother Xiao Mou and I don't even have the qualifications to interfere?!"
"Of course not." Jianchou was not polite at all. "I am the one who is in charge of this matter. Even Junior Brother Xiaomou can only assist from the side. Where did Senior Sister Xueyin get the confidence to think that she is qualified to stand up against me?"
Arrogant!
Arrogant!
It completely exudes the flavor of using status to oppress and bully others!
Xueyin had always felt that Lianzhao was really hateful in these matters, but it seemed that he had never been so hateful as he is now. Today he has even become worse than ever before!
It was merciless humiliation from beginning to end!
This is intolerable!
Xue Yin's cultivation is higher than hers after all, and her temper has always been bad. If she was not a person like Xiao Mou who could endure shame and humiliation, how could she continue to stand here and compete with Lian Zhao
I was so worried that there would be no results from the trial that I would have been angry to death!
So she looked at Jianchou, Xiao Mou, and Xie Buchen, and then said, "Since Junior Sister Lianzhao thinks so highly of herself and wants to devote herself to our Wuchang Clan and interrogate these two cultivators on her own, I naturally can't interfere. But I wish Junior Sister good luck, and hope that she can really find out something before the audience with His Royal Highness Prince Chujiang in the morning. Otherwise..."
The rest is self-explanatory.
Xue Yin sneered, and without arguing with them any more, she simply walked away.
Finally, there were only three people left in the torture chamber:
Qu Zhengfeng disguised as Xiao Mou, Jianchou disguised as Lianzhao, and Xie Buchen who was tied to a stone pillar.
Anyone who knows the truth would probably find it weird.
Jianchou's words just now meant that Xueyin wanted to leave and not get in the way here. And with Lianzhao's personality, saying those words would not arouse suspicion, so she did it boldly.
But after Xue Yin left, he had to explain to Qu Zhengfeng.
She said, "I have a good relationship with Fellow Daoist Lu from Baiyue Valley, and her cultivation is not very good now. If Xue Yin were to go and interrogate her, I'm afraid something unpredictable would happen."
As soon as Xue Yin left, the aloof and taciturn attitude that Qu Zhengfeng had just pretended to have disappeared completely. Although he was still wearing Xiao Mou's robe and had a pale and listless face, a hint of majesty and solemnity had reappeared between his eyebrows.
Seeing that Jianchou was concerned about Lu Xiangleng, he guessed it, but he didn't think it was a big deal.
But his eyes fell on Xie Buchen, and thinking of Jianchou's various actions on the way to Laiwangtai, he narrowed his eyes slightly and said: "I thought that you and fellow Taoist Xie Kunwu were enemies who would never stop until one of you dies."
But when he was trapped in the enemy's formation just now, Jianchou did not take advantage of the good opportunity to kill Xie Buchen.
Jianchou naturally understood what he was saying.
But she didn't react yet. Xie Buchen, who was listening nearby, suddenly raised his head at this moment. His insightful and penetrating eyes, which contained some wisdom and hostility, looked towards Qu Zhengfeng.
At this point, what else is there to not understand
Since the moment he was captured, Xie Buchen had never revealed his name to anyone in the Extreme Domain, let alone said that he was a Kunwu cultivator. However, this unfamiliar Extreme Domain ghost cultivator in front of him easily revealed his identity when he should have known nothing about it!
Think about the sadness of being here now...
The other party's identity is about to be revealed!
Should have thought of it earlier.
When Xie Buchen first saw the male cultivator beside Jianchou, he became suspicious.
After all, the news from the Nineteenth Continent was that the two groups led by Jianchou and Qu Zhengfeng had failed to reach the Extreme Region, and they found various seemingly reasonable excuses to delay. Since Jianchou had already appeared, it was normal for the other Tomorrow Star Sea Sword Emperor to be with her.
“It turns out they are all acquaintances.”
His eyes met Qu Zhengfeng's, and there was a hint of jealousy between them. After all, in the hidden world of Qingfeng Temple, Qu Zhengfeng's palm almost destroyed his cultivation, forcing him to risk his life to form a golden elixir, and only then did he escape death. Although the golden elixir was formed, it was not perfect, which indirectly led to his lack of strength when he explored the hidden world again, and he almost died in the battle with Jianchou.
In fact, that was almost the same as death.
Jianchou was quite aware of the grudge between the two, and she knew it very early. Before Qu Zhengfeng set out to go to the hidden world with Xie Buchen, she knew that Qu Zhengfeng would secretly plot a murderous move.
But on the surface, this matter has nothing to do with her.
Seeing the undercurrent between the two at this moment, she remained calm and said nothing, only saying to Qu Zhengfeng: "Your Majesty the Sword Emperor would like to take a look at Fellow Daoist Xiang Leng. I will catch up with Fellow Daoist Kunwu Xie first."
Reminiscing about the past
Qu Zhengfeng glanced at her. After Xueyin left the torture room, all the enchanting gestures that had previously belonged to Lianzhao naturally faded away from her, returning to a deep calmness and composure, and she was naturally unhurried.
He did not refute, but just said "OK" lightly, and did not ask Jianchou what she wanted to reminisce about with her mortal enemy. He walked out of this torture room and went to another torture room across the corridor.
Now, only Jianchou and Xie Buchen were left.
No one spoke.
Xie Buchen stared at her and clearly saw the gorgeous facial features of "Lian Zhao" in front of him disappear like melting ice and snow, and the outline changed, and the familiar face of Jianchou appeared before him.
But the Jianchou at this moment looked a little different from the past.
She changed out of the moon-white robe she wore in the past under Yashan Sect, and wrapped her tall and straight body in a loose black robe. There was a thin red mark between her two slanted eyebrows. She no longer had the frivolity of Lian Zhao, but in this dark and silent underground, she had a cold charm that was not approachable.
Her cultivation seemed to have improved a little.
Xie Buchen clearly sensed that the blood-red characters on the stone pillars still exuded a torturous power, wreaking havoc in his meridians, making him look a little more forbearingly weak, but after a long silence he laughed: "Yashan really has a good plan..."
He is a smart man.
Jianchou also knew that he was a smart man.
It was self-evident what this sentence meant. She knew it in her heart, but she did not admit it, nor did she intend to go into depth on this topic. She only said, "It was just a coincidence that I accidentally entered this world. But I didn't expect to meet and bump into Fellow Daoist Xie. I didn't expect Fellow Daoist Xie to cooperate with us and act together. Now I have to suffer this physical pain."
Physical pain
This is more than just physical pain.
Xie Buchen only heard the tone of treating fellow Taoists impartially in Chou's words, but when he said the words "physical pain", it was clear that he had no intention of stopping the punishment formation on the stone pillar.
He should have guessed it when he fell into her hands—
This cooperation will not be easy.
So now, although he was enduring all kinds of inhuman pain coming from his limbs and meridians, he was still able to remain calm and not angry. He replied, "The overall situation is more important. Daoist Jianchou knows it, and so does Xie. That's all."
It is undeniable that the two men have a mortal feud.
Jianchou had thought about taking advantage of the previous opportunity to kill Xie Buchen directly and settle the feud between them.
But the cost is too high.
If she wanted to kill Xie Buchen, she would show her strength far superior to Lian Zhao's, thus exposing her identity and making it impossible for her to take advantage of this unique opportunity to sneak into the watchtower. Moreover, there is no such thing as a wall that is impenetrable. In this sensitive situation, once the news that she killed Xie Buchen spreads, the already large rift between Yashan and Kunwu will instantly widen, and the last thin layer of window paper will probably be broken, and then there will be no need to fight this battle between the Yin and Yang worlds.
For her personally, the outcome of the world war is not that important.
But now she is not only Jianchou, but also Jianchou of Yashan Sect.
Eleven generations ago, the blood feud of the thousand cultivators had not been avenged, the hell palaces in the eight directions of the extreme domain had not been eliminated, and now Yashan had painstakingly set up a plan deep behind enemy lines that had not yet paid off...
All kinds of planning and a hundred years of painstaking efforts!
She was deeply indebted to Yashan and cultivated by her master. How could she bear to see all her painstaking planning over the past eleven years go to waste
In a person's life, there are always some things and some emotions that are more important than hatred.
Take when you should take, and give up when you should give up.
In the face of justice, it is not in her nature to see Jianchou being so cruel and disregarding the overall situation and killing Xie Buchen to vent her anger.
As for Xie Buchen, he probably doesn't have so many concerns.
He has a cold heart and cold emotions.
If it does not concern him, if it does not concern his interests, even if all the cultivators in the 19 continents died in this battle, he would not frown at all.
A poor person can only take care of himself, while a talented person can help the world.
He only does what he can do and what he should do.
When Jianchou knocked on the glazed fan to send a secret signal, he put aside all his concerns and finally agreed to the cooperation that had put him in this predicament. One reason was that he was forced by the overall situation, and the other was that he was simply not as strong as others.
It is a choice for Jianchou to send secret codes and cooperate with him.
He agreed to cooperate with Jianchou not because he had a choice, but because he had no other choice.
Because he knew in his heart that if he did not agree with Jianchou's choice and insisted on going against her, then she would change her mind the next moment, abandon the option of cooperating with him, and instead choose to kill him with her strength that was far superior to his own!
"You are quite sober."
Jianchou felt a little regretful that Xie Buchen chose to cooperate with her, but at this moment she smiled calmly.
"I guess the purpose of your trip is the same as ours, for the Lookout?"
This was obviously about the situation in the Nineteenth Continent, but for Xie Buchen, there was nothing to hide.
He answered whatever Jianchou asked.
"Master Hengxu sent me to lead people to spy on the situation of the lookout tower behind Ghost Gate, hoping to achieve a surprise victory. So I led people to sneak into Ghost Gate. Halfway through, I heard the news of the ghost soldiers' recruitment, so I set up an ambush halfway, hoping to capture a few important ghost cultivators to interrogate them."
"What about the others you brought with you?"
After the formation was broken just now, the mediocre elder Kong Yin of the Wuchang clan did not notice anything unusual, but Jianchou knew very well that all the people who had been besieging them around the formation were gone.
Xie Buchen's lips were already blue, but hearing this question opened a gap, and he replied calmly, "Now it's because of the overall situation. You are afraid of revealing your identity by killing me, so you cooperate with me. But once the crisis is over, it's unknown. Since I already know that I have fallen into the hands of Daoist Jianchou, I should leave myself a chance of survival. They are still behind the gates of hell. As long as I am alive, Daoist Jianchou doesn't have to worry about what will happen."
"Amazing!" Jianchou was stunned after hearing his words, and couldn't help but clap his hands and praised sincerely, "After all, it is the Third Master Xie who has strategies and plans. He has made no mistakes in calculating people's hearts!"
Thank you, Mr. San...
This once familiar name had been in deep sleep for so long that when I heard it from an old friend again, it actually had a kind of strangeness that made me feel trance-like.
But, in the end, “people are the same, but the feelings are no longer there.”
Xie Buchen lowered his eyes and said nothing.
Jianchou fell into silence for a long time because of what he had just said.
After they both rationally realized the fact that "even if there is a deep hatred, they cannot attack each other now", their emotions and mentalities naturally calmed down. At this moment, a strange pulse rarely appeared in the dark underground space.
The past time, like the gurgling water, flows between the two people.
Jianchou took slow steps, passed in front of Xie Buchen, walked around the stone pillar, and said slowly: "Actually, I have always wanted to ask, why do you have to kill me?"
Xie Buchen smiled, "Everyone has his own way. You have your way, and I have mine. Give up when you should, kill when you should. After my family was confiscated and my clan was exterminated, I have no ties in the world. Only you, I have no regrets, and my love is too deep. I cannot die without killing, and I cannot die without dying. Killing you once will relieve me of all the pain of love, desire, love and hatred. Isn't that free and easy?"
From the third son of the noble Xie Marquis Mansion in the capital, to Xie Wuming, who had to hide his identity and go through all the ups and downs in life, when people experience so many ups and downs, and see so much good and evil, sorrow and joy, they can't help but want to pursue the world.
Why can people only submit to fate
He should have had nothing, but he was deeply trapped in the word "love", and thus suffered from the cold and the warm, the bitter and the sweet, and finally when the opportunity came, he made the choice to kill to prove his truth. It is no surprise.
Jianchou really understood him.
Rational, almost cruel.
Now, after hearing his words, I understood most of it: because emotions are uncontrollable, the more we want to control them; he has always been calm and sober, and he thinks that the more he loves her, the more he hates her.
So she also laughed: "It seems that you don't regret it."
Xie Buchen couldn't see her figure, nor her expression. He just lowered his eyes and said, "There's nothing to regret. You and I have always been the same kind of people. Even if I ask you now, if you knew I was going to kill you, would you regret marrying me? You would give the same answer. Right and wrong are meaningless. What matters is the person who determines right and wrong."
He saw it too clearly.
In a sense, the two of them do have similarities. Even though he doesn't like what he said, Chou can't deny it.
At this moment, her footsteps landed right on the other side of the stone pillar.
Separated by the three-foot stone pillar engraved with blood-red characters, the two men stood back to back, each looking ahead, one calm, the other cool.
Jianchou was very indifferent: "The sad thing is, I'm not dead yet, and you still love me."
Xie Buchen said frankly: "My love has lasted from the past to the present; but you only liked me once."
Her love for him had never been as deep as his.
That is why he can quickly regain his sanity from the betrayal of love. This almost innate indifference towards love is what he cannot achieve through love or hate, nor can he envy.