At this moment, Chu Xin was no longer the sloppy man with stubble on his face and messy hair. He was wearing a dark blue suit, his face was clean and angular, and his ice-blue eyes were filled with an unpredictable light.
Yun Muyuan was caught off guard when he saw him. He was so shocked that he stood up from the bed and took several steps back until he bumped into the pillar.
"Why are you alive? Where is Qiongfang?" Yun Muyuan asked anxiously.
Chu Xin sneered, turned around and half-knelt beside the bed, reached out and touched the face of the young man on the bed, and fed a pill into the young man's mouth.
"Xiao He, I'm sorry, brother came late and made you suffer for so many years."
I don’t know if Yun Songhe heard Chu Xin’s voice, but tears rolled down the corners of his eyes and turned into frost.
Jiang Yuebai stood beside her and scratched his face. It seemed that he could not see her at this moment. He found a plate of pastries on the bedside table. Jiang Yuebai picked it up and ate while looking at it.
"Be patient for a moment, I will take you away from here soon."
"You can't take him away!" Yun Muyuan said in panic, "If Qiongfang comes back and doesn't see Songhe, she will...will..."
"What will happen? Do you still think that a demon can have feelings for a human?" Chu Xin shouted at Duan Yunmuyuan.
Yun Muyuan shook his head, "Qiong Fang is different. She is different from other monsters!"
Chu Xin sneered and waved his hand to send out a gust of cold wind, freezing Yun Muyuan's lower body and making it impossible for him to escape.
Chu Xin turned to Jiang Yuebai and said, "Daoyou, do you mind listening to my story?"
Jiang Yuebai shook his head with a bit of snack residue on the corner of his mouth, "It doesn't matter, just pay the bill for me after you're done. But when I came in, there were Nascent Soul cultivators watching me. If I don't leave for too long, something bad might happen. You should think about it."
Chu Xin sat by the bed, watching Yun Songhe's condition gradually improve, and took his hand and slowly said to Yun Muyuan,
"Those stories about humans and monsters loving each other were all made up by humans. I thought cultivators could see through this better than mortals, but you are still deeply involved in it. Believe it or not, the Snow Monster has never had any feelings for you. All it has are the benefits stipulated in your contract!"
Yun Muyuan wanted to speak, but was silenced by Chu Xin. His eyes were bloodshot and he could only shake his head.
"Ever since the death of the ancestor Lianxu, each generation of your Yun family has been weaker than the previous one. Although you are a contemporary genius, your aptitude is still far inferior to that of the ancestor Lianxu. If you want to cultivate the ancestral Xuanyu Gong to its peak, the Ten Thousand Years Cold Stalactite is not enough."
"It is also God's will that you meet the Snow Demon who just needs the Ten Thousand Years of Cold Stalactite to break through. The Snow Demon was bred in the Unfixed Ice. With her help, she can use the Unfixed Ice to slowly refine your body and improve your aptitude in ice attributes."
"Why can't you just trade properly and practice well, but have to harm others?" Chu Xin said angrily.
A hint of guilt flashed across Yun Muyuan's eyes.
"Yes, I know. You were forced by your clan to sign a contract with the Snow Demon. You selected a suitable person and used a secret method to integrate the demonic power into the human body, so that the person can have the same bloodline as the Snow Demon. In this way, practicing the Xuanyu Gong will be twice as effective with half the effort."
"And this person doesn't need to be a member of the Yun clan. As long as he succeeds, the man can marry a Yun clan woman, and the woman can marry a Yun clan man, and give birth to a child of the Yun clan's bloodline. This will completely change the fate of the Yun clan, which is heading for decline."
"You and the Yun family promised the Snow Demon that you would give her the ten thousand year old stalactite after you succeeded, so she was willing to spend her original power to help you try. Demons are cold-blooded and ruthless by nature, and they don't care about the life and death of human babies. But what about you? Seeing my brother and I being tortured by the demon power, don't you have any sympathy at all?"
"At the beginning, I was very grateful to you and the Snow Demon for helping me avenge my parents, and I voluntarily acknowledged you as my adoptive parents. Even when the Snow Demon injected demonic power into my body, I told myself that I had to repay you. So no matter how painful it was, I gritted my teeth and endured it. But I didn't expect that you had already targeted my brother and me!"
"Demons are cold-blooded, but they can keep their promises. However, humans are cunning and will not admit their promises. Fortunately, the Snow Demon is not stupid. She knows that if you succeed in becoming a spirit, she will not be able to suppress you and the Yun family. So, while you are preparing to go into seclusion to become a spirit and the whole family is protecting you, she went to steal the ten thousand year old stalactite."
"But what the Snow Demon didn't expect was that I informed the head of the Yun clan of her whereabouts and swallowed the ten-thousand-year-old stalactite during the chaos. Why do you think she had to take my brother and me with her when she escaped?"
Yun Muyuan opened his eyes wide with tears in them.
Chu Xin mocked, "When you took my brother away, he was still in his infancy, and you used the secret method of soul fusion to change his physique. So you think that the snow demon has fallen in love with you over time, and like a human woman, she is reluctant to part with the child she has raised with her own hands?"
"No, you are wrong. She wants to take me away because the ten thousand year old stalactite is on me. She wants to take my brother away only because he has integrated the demonic power very well and is the one with the greatest hope of success. Therefore, my brother is very important to the Yun family. If she has my brother in her hands, she will have the capital to negotiate with the Yun family and avoid you all using your entire clan's strength to hunt him down. That's all!"
Chu Xin stood up and walked in front of Yun Muyuan.
"I know that you have been willing to sacrifice your own cultivation for so many years to protect your brother's life, just to wait for the Snow Demon to come back. You thought that the Snow Demon would come back because he couldn't bear to leave his brother, but that secret method only made you and your brother feel connected by blood, and it didn't affect the Snow Demon."
"In the chaos of the battle that day, she was attacked by the backlash of the contract. I fought hard to injure her, and she almost killed me. But in the end, she brought me to the Devil's Eye Gorge for the sake of the ten thousand year old stalactite, but she still died from the backlash of the contract. In the end, I sucked away all her demonic power. The Snow Demon is very smart, but she doesn't know enough about the cunning of human nature, including me."
"She thought the contract was fair, but the words in it have multiple meanings. If she betrays, she will die, but you can live in peace. Be thankful that Immortal Lord Fatian's Dao Fruit is not perfect yet, which is why you have so many loopholes to exploit!"
Chu Xin lifted the ban on Yun Muyuan and turned around.
"I am grateful that you have taken care of my brother for so many years, so I will not kill you. Do you have anything else to say?"
Yun Muyuan's lips trembled, "Is she really... gone?"
Chu Xin nodded.
Yun Muyuan held his chest and asked, "When she was dying, did she..."
Yun Muyuan was heartbroken and didn't even care about Yun Songhe who was about to be taken away.
Jiang Yuebai had been watching and listening nearby, when he suddenly remembered a sentence he had seen somewhere.
That statement was biased, but there was some truth to it.
Some men are born without love for children. They are kind to their children only because they love their mothers and cannot bear to see them suffer.
Yun Muyuan seemed to be like this. At this moment, his mind was full of the dead snow demon.
He tried his best to keep Yun Songhe, perhaps just to preserve the only remaining connection between him and the Snow Demon.
Jiang Yuebai suppressed the urge to eat even the plate, and waved her hand to place the snow monster's body next to Yun Muyuan. It was just an ice shell and was of no use to her.
"I found it by accident. I think it's better to give it back to you."
Yun Muyuan saw the face that haunted him again and finally broke down. He broke free from the ice shell on his body and knelt on the ground. He held the body of the snow demon in his arms, his shoulders shaking, and he tried his best to suppress his tears.
Jiang Yuebai didn't know how they got along over the years that made Yun Muyuan develop such deep feelings for him. Perhaps it was just the influence of the secret method of soul fusion mentioned by Chu Xin.
Chu Xin ignored Yun Muyuan and turned to Jiang Yuebai and said, "Daoyou, thank you very much today. You didn't lie to me, and I treated you with sincerity. Take it!"
Chu Xin took out an ice-blue glass bottle and threw it to Jiang Yuebai.
Jiang Yuebai took it and opened it. Inside was ten kilograms of thousand-year-old cold stalactite, which was more than enough for her use. At this point, Jiang Yuebai's heart was finally at ease. She could leave Doumu Realm and go to Tianling Realm to find her master and others.
Chu Xin picked up Yun Songhe from the bed and was about to leave when the ground suddenly shook. A surge of fire energy rushed in from all directions like a mountain river bursting its dam.
Chu Xin's expression was stern, "The Three Fire Tribulations Immortal Formation has been activated. It's the Yun family's people!"
Chu Xin hugged Yun Songhe tightly, a look of determination appeared on his face. Even if he died today, he would help his brother out of trouble.
At this time, Yun Muyuan, who had been holding the body of the snow demon, suddenly took out a black token from his arms and threw it in front of Chu Xin.
"There is a road behind the house, go ahead!"
Chu Xin clenched his fists and looked at the token that Yun Muyuan had prepared long ago. He couldn't help but recall the years when Yun Muyuan taught and cared for him. He was like a perfect elder, even more perfect than Chu Xin's own father.
His younger brother Yun Songhe knew nothing and always treated him like his own father. He still remembered the time when Yun Muyuan carried his younger brother on his shoulders and they laughed and played in the yard. The warm sun of that day was the only warmth he could recall.
Now, he could feel nothing but cold.
Chu Xin took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "I will not remember your kindness, I only hate you!"
Yun Muyuan seemed unaware and just looked at the snow demon in his arms.
Chu Xin took the token, carried Yun Songhe away, and Jiang Yuebai followed closely behind.
"Wait, I can't give you the spiritual stones I promised you. These are all the useless things I have left. Thank you for sending her back."
Yun Muyuan threw a storage bag to Jiang Yuebai. Jiang Yuebai raised his hand to catch it, looked at Yun Muyuan deeply, and fled from behind the house.
The sky outside was ablaze red, and the entire valley was enveloped in flames like a raging sea, and the heat wave was oppressive.
Chu Xin held Yun Songhe in his arms, and the halo on the token pushed aside the flames. He signaled Jiang Yuebai to follow.
Jiang Yuebai raised the glass bottle in his hand and said, "I have the things, we will never see each other again!"
After she finished speaking, a space ripple appeared behind Jiang Yuebai. With a smile on her face, she retreated into it and disappeared.
Chu Xin was stunned for a moment, and suddenly he was glad that he did not fight Jiang Yuebai head-on. He thought that this female cultivator was really unfathomable and could even control the power of space. If she set up an array in this way, even if he could turn his body into wind and snow, he would not be able to escape.
In the wooden house engulfed by flames, Yun Songhe in Chu Xin's arms moved his lips and tears rolled down from the corners of his eyes.
"Dad..."
"We have lost our father for a long time. You will only have me from now on!"
Chu Xin hugged Yun Songhe tightly and left the valley without hesitation, turning into a gust of cold wind, blowing towards the unrestrained mountain forest valley.
I have something to do tomorrow, so I will add one chapter today. I will update twice a day tomorrow, the time is uncertain. See you tomorrow~
(End of this chapter)