novelaction Chapter 199 Water Chestnut, Emptiness
Chapter 199 Water Chestnut, Emptiness
Having received a promise from Lü Su, the spirit of the divine weapon, Xue Lan had no intention of leaving Lü Su's sword spirit domain for the time being.
The girl clutched her chest and sat down in the chair to deal with the unpeeled water chestnut in her hand.
Seeing Xue Lan focused on dealing with the water chestnuts, Lü Su placed the basket in front of the girl and softly spoke:
"What have you been doing all this time? Your soul has become like this?"
After finishing a water chestnut, Xue Lan sighed, "I used some tricks to get a portion of the Golden Crow's essence from the underground of the War Puppet Mansion in the lower realm and fused it into my own demon soul."
Before the girl could finish speaking, she saw the woman opposite her looking at her with utter horror.
Xue Lan said somewhat helplessly, "Beautiful lady, I told you before that I'm a ruthless monster who kills without blinking an eye. You don't think I was lying to you, do you?"
Lu Su withdrew her gaze: "If your soul is truly powerful enough to devour the Golden Crow's essence, why didn't you devour me as well?"
Xue Lan understood her thoughts, but did not answer her question.
Lu Su watched as the girl peeled open the black water chestnuts one by one, stuffing the soft, pink fruit inside into her mouth, her eyes crinkling with happiness.
As Xue Lan was waiting to take a water chestnut from the basket, her wrist was grabbed.
Xue Lan: "What are you doing? Are you reluctant to part with it?"
The next second, Xue Lan saw Lü Su swiftly take away the basket from the table.
"Everything here is nothingness, and you're still so greedy?" Lu Su said angrily.
Xue Lan muttered to herself, "You're so stingy."
"I would have devoured you before, but I still want to take you back to the Wan Gong Fang."
Xue Lan looked at Lü Su, her thin eyelids lifting to reveal her exceptionally dark eyes.
Xue Lan looked at him and said, "If I were to devour you at this time, and one of the masters in the Wan Gong Fang asked me for their beloved, I wouldn't be able to help you."
Lu Su looked at the girl in front of her, her fingers trembling. For a moment, she thought that the person in front of her was not a young woman in the prime of her life who was cultivating immortality, but a wolf in human skin.
That calculating and cold-blooded scheming that seeped into one's very bones was like a...
Like a cold, damp tide, it engulfed her in an instant.
Lu Suqiang tried to remain calm and threw the basket in his hand at the girl.
The blatant scheming and coldness emanating from Xue Lan were shattered by this sudden attack, like a mirage, like Lü Su's illusion.
Xue Lan caught the basket that was thrown at her; not a single water chestnut was missing.
The girl stood up from the chair and bowed to Lü Su in farewell.
"Regardless of the outcome, Xue Lan has already received your kindness, Miss. From now on, no matter what happens to Xue Lan, I will keep my promise to you, Miss."
The girl's body was like a drop of black ink falling into a vast lake, disappearing in an instant.
Lü Su picked up the basket on the table and chased after him outside the door.
"Since you have nothing to do outside anyway, why don't you stay a little longer..."
You still want to eat... water chestnuts.
But no one responded to her. In the vast space, she was left alone once again, surrounded by water and a mirror reflecting the moon.
In the pitch-black cave, the girl who had been feigning sleep slowly opened her eyes.
It was already the hour of Yin (3-5 AM), and the children around them, shrouded in fear and helplessness, were all fast asleep, but even in their sleep, their expressions were not good.
It's like being trapped in a nightmare.
After settling the little boy beside her, Xue Lan walked to the center of the cave.
There was a table there with candles burning on it.
The middle-aged woman who had lured Xue Lan in had been dozing at the table, but the moment the young girl stood up, she couldn't resist the sudden drowsiness and collapsed back onto the table.
Xue Lan stood by the table and cast a calming spell on the children who were having nightmares around her.
Many gentle specks of light flew out from the girl's body and slowly disappeared into the children's foreheads.
Suddenly, a gaze came from behind, like that of a timid little deer.
That was the child who had been with her before.
The little boy, whether he had just been startled awake by Xue Lan's actions or woken up by hunger, was now staring at Xue Lan with his mouth wide open.
Xue Lan returned to her original spot and touched the little boy's forehead. The boy opened his right hand, which had been clenched tightly, and saw something dark.
That was a water chestnut.
It is a physical object that Xue Lan brought out from the void of Su Jun Sword Domain.
The girl wasn't afraid of disturbing those around her; her voice was like a mountain stream flowing gently, cool yet soft.
She placed the water chestnut in the little boy's palm: "There is reality within illusion, and illusion within reality. The alternation of illusion and reality is yin and yang. Here, take it, but don't eat it."
After speaking, the girl leaned against the little boy again and fell asleep in no time, leaving the little boy touching the water chestnut in his hand, his eyes full of doubt.
Xue Lan was not asleep, but was thinking about her own affairs.
She had long hoped that the renowned weapon-forging master from a thousand years ago had crafted a divine artifact exclusively for Lü Su. The price was never to see him again.
Lu Su said that everything in Su Jun's Sword Domain was fake, but Lu Su was a real human soul. This Lingjiao was also brought to the Yuanming Realm by Xue Lan through cause and effect.
If the Yuanming realm were to descend into chaos and its land were to crumble...
"If this idea can be realized, you will be a true demon king for all time, on par with that Demon God."
The voice of the inner demon echoed in Xue Lan's mind, and she said somewhat irritably, "You really have nothing better to do!"
"Why did you have to provoke the sword spirit while inside the sword domain?"
The inner demon spoke casually, without a trace of guilt: "It's fun. I just want to see you, a shameless 3,000-year-old, call this little girl 'sister'."
"I have something to tell you!" Xue Lan said with a smile.
"What is it?" The inner demon became interested.
Xue Lan drew out her words: "No matter how much you mock and ridicule me now, as long as I'm alive, you'll never be able to hold your head up high!"
The inner demon wanted to curse, but Xue Lan interrupted him: "Shh, Xue Tong!"
Xue Tong, like a third party who had intruded between the two, exclaimed excitedly, "Xue Lan, we're coming down!"
Xue Lan replied lazily, "Mmm!"
"I've detected a main character here! The emperor's illegitimate son, who suffered a tragic childhood and grew up to be ruthless!"
Xue Lan was stunned for a moment, a bad feeling creeping into her heart.
"Your main character isn't a mute, is he?" Xue Lan asked.
Xue Tong was somewhat surprised: "Hey, how did you know?"
The little boy was still touching the water chestnut in his hand when the girl next to him suddenly stood up, snatched the water chestnut from his hand, broke it open in a few quick movements, and stuffed it into her mouth.
She then lay down smoothly without any explanation.
A moment later, the little boy heard the girl's resentful voice:
"Damn it, there are protagonists everywhere!"