NFBE Chapter 290 Are you unable to defeat your inner demons?
Chapter 290 Are you unable to defeat your inner demons?
"Ninth Prince, it's been a long time!"
Xue Tong smiled and moved closer to the little figure that Xue Lan was holding tightly in her hand.
The girl had a sweet smile on her face, but her eyes were full of malice.
She looked at Xue Lan to the side and took out a juicy peach from her storage bag.
"What do you plan to do now? Leave it with the one we caught before?" the girl asked Xue Lan.
Xue Lan shook her head: "We didn't get any valuable information from Ji Song's demon soul before, so we've already fed it to her."
The woman held the demonic figure in her hand up to her eyes: "I dare not feed her anything anymore. If I keep feeding her, she might devour me at any moment."
Xue Tong nodded in agreement. Having spent most of the day in the void with Xue Lan and the other remnant souls of Ji Yandi, she was terribly hungry. A peach in her hand was quickly devoured.
"Things that are useless should be completely annihilated here!" Xue Lan said softly, her tone casual.
A wisp of strange fire rose from the woman's fingertips, the bluish-red flame radiating an intense heat that was impossible to ignore.
Xue Tong saw the demon soul in the woman's hand tremble.
Xue Lan slowly approached Ji Yan's remnant soul with her strange fire...
"Ah!" The demonic soul in her hand let out a shrill, hoarse scream, then burrowed into Xue Lan's wrist like a dark ink stain.
"Stubborn and incorrigible!"
The woman chuckled softly, her face displaying a coldness that Xue Tong had never seen before.
The girl paused as she took the peach from her sleeve, and couldn't help but call out to her:
The girl's slightly anxious voice reached my ears: "Xue Lan!"
Xue Lan's hand trembled slightly at the shout.
With a flick of its wrist, the flames of the strange fire licked the demonic soul on Xue Lan's wrist. Like a ferocious monster, it swallowed that wisp of demonic soul whole.
A moment later, Xue Tong saw that the strange fire seemed to have eaten its fill, and emitted a wisp of black smoke.
The girl still heard the demon's shrill screams echoing in her ears when she heard Xue Lan's voice: "What did you call me for just now?"
Xue Tong originally intended to brush it off, but then she thought that if she didn't say something then in the novel, she wouldn't be able to say it later.
Then the girl, with a look of resignation, spoke:
"Are you unable to overcome your inner demons now?"
"I feel like you were just possessed by her."
The inner demon within Xue Lan's sea of consciousness slowly raised its hand to protect its neck.
Xue Lan was stumped by Xue Tong's question and remained silent for a long time.
The two stared at each other for a good quarter of an hour.
"Sigh..." Xue Lan let out a soft, long sigh: "There was indeed a small problem. How did you discover it?"
"Isn't that obvious? That look of hers, as if she's looking at a dead person, it's definitely her!" Xue Tong jumped up when she heard Xue Lan's answer.
"So what are you going to do next?"
What else can we do? Just wait!
"She is the manifestation of my celestial soul, which means that for the next hundred or thousand years, as long as I am alive, she will not disappear. Now, the only thing I can do is suppress her and slowly find a solution."
After saying this, the woman smiled gently at Xue Tong: "Don't worry."
Xue Tong: "Okay."
Despite saying she wasn't worried, the girl couldn't help but keep glancing at Xue Lan on the way back. Her eyes were brimming with worry.
Xue Lan felt a little nostalgic for the less bright Xue Tong from before.
How wonderful it is to have a happy day!
The two returned to Qing Shui Terrace, where the flying boat of the Jiangyun Sect, which had been moored for several days, finally began to move. The huge oars glided through the air, and the flowing cloud patterns on the bow were graceful and ethereal.
"The flying boat is being tested; it seems those women will be taken back to the Jiangyun Sect." Xue Lan looked at the enormous flying boat and smiled.
"Shishi is going to Jiangyun Sect too, finally no one will care about me anymore."
Xue Tong, who had been following behind her, poured cold water on the woman's enthusiasm: "You'd better not be too happy too soon."
Xue Lan turned to look at her, and the girl saw a hint of resentment in her gray eyes.
Xue Tong: "I am guilty!"
The next morning, when they were sending Yin Shishi onto the flying boat, Xue Tong also wanted to go along.
The gaze of the person behind her was like a knife, almost burning through her back. Xue Lan held an embroidered purse in her hand.
Inside was a two-year supply of medicine that Yin Shishi had prepared for her.
The healer was meticulous, adding a line of orchid root to each of his works.
Even more frightening is...
Xue Tong glanced at the gray-clad woman beside Xue Lan.
Min Shang, who had already broken through to the Nascent Soul stage many years ago, stood beside Xue Lan and casually stroked the top of his head.
"Fellow Daoist Yin said that missing even one dose of medicine will have no effect, so Xiaoxiao has to be good."
Xue Lan's lips drooped, and for the first time she felt that having friends was not a good thing.
This kind of attack targeting her weaknesses made it impossible for her to defend against.
When Wu Yijun came up, he saw the gentle and friendly Min Shang and Xue Lan, who was like a spirit artifact after her death.
The woman handed a small box to Xue Lan, her voice devoid of emotion: "Grandmaster asked me to give this to you."
Xue Lan slowly raised her hand to catch the item; her stiff arm looked like that of a living corpse that wasn't quite dead.
"What's wrong with you? Have you lost your mind?" Wu Yijun stretched out a hand and waved it in front of Xue Lan's eyes.
Xue Lan spoke calmly, her voice as still as death: "I am blind, I cannot see."
Wu Yijun couldn't help but laugh: "You still know you're blind?"
"Junjun, I will go to Siyaochuan sooner or later." Xue Lan said firmly.
Wu Yijun asked curiously, "Why? For Senior Sister Yin?"
To everyone's surprise, the woman in black, with a resolute expression, slowly uttered a sentence: "I will exterminate all the Julan roots in Siyaochuan! I will dig them all out..."
"Xiaoxiao, it's time to take your medicine!" Min Shang said gently with a faint smile on her face...
After that, Xue Lan shouted that she had dug it all out, and was dragged away by Min Shang, who had an apologetic smile on her face.
Watching Xue Lan being dragged away like a large sack, Wu Yijun called out from afar, "Master sent me to help you, where am I supposed to find you?"
Xue Lan waved to her: "Wait for me in the weapon-refining cave at the back."
The voice sounded weak and feeble, as if someone was being strangled, and it was clear that they were taking in more air than they were exhaling.
Wu Yijun glanced at Xue Tong, his tone carrying a helplessness I had long since seen through: "I'm used to it..."
When their eyes met, they saw the same vicissitudes of life.
Xue Tong nodded slowly.
The two walked side by side toward the weapon-refining cave, not caring at all about Xue Lan, who had been taken back to drink medicine.
Some people are destined to face this...this number of calamities.
It's her own good fortune; outsiders shouldn't interfere.