frightfiction Chapter 569 This is Xue Lan's godfather
Chapter 569 This is Xue Lan's godfather
He Zhui is not good at all!
A person can secretly investigate others without anyone noticing, but once they discover that the person they're investigating has taken a liking to them...
That would be a bit awkward.
The image in the bronze mirror vanished in an instant. Xue Lan patted it twice with practiced ease, his tone dripping with smugness:
"It is indeed quite unlucky for someone who has been dead for a thousand years to suddenly come back to life."
But people always have to learn to face things!
He Zhui didn't want to face it. The young man sat at his desk and spoke coldly:
"Don't talk to me until you go back to how you were before. I'm not used to it."
Xue Lan held the bronze mirror up to her face, looking at the dim, yellowish surface where only her own face was visible, and teased, "..."
"I didn't expect you to miss me so much from how I used to be? But I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you."
"I no longer intend to be the aloof and superior Lord of the Northern Region River."
Upon hearing this, He Zhui became restless. The young man waved his hand again to activate the video feed, and looked at the woman with gray eyes opposite him, speaking sharply:
"If you don't become the eternal light of Changjun... what's behind you?"
Halfway through his sentence, He Zhui noticed the inner demon behind Xue Lan. Looking at the face that was exactly the same as Xue Lan's, his tone was full of vigilance.
"This one!" Xue Lan raised her hand and turned the inner demon's face towards her, smiling as she spoke:
"Didn't you see it? Right when I was stripping away your earth soul."
He Zhui frowned slightly, recalling everything that happened on that day a thousand years ago, and finally shook his head firmly:
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
"I'm not talking nonsense!"
The inner demon's head was restless in Xue Lan's hands. The Wolf King draped a sleeping pillow over his shoulder, grabbed her chin with both hands, and spoke with a tone full of pride:
"This is my inner demon!"
He Zhui froze on the spot.
"Click!"
The young man's neck cracked with a crisp sound, and he spoke with a trembling voice, just as Xue Lan had expected:
"What did you say...she is?"
Xue Lan was very satisfied with He Zhui's expression; the woman's eyes curved into crescents, and her voice was clear and bright:
"He Zhui, this is my celestial soul, and also my inner demon."
He Zhui had known for a long time that the Changjun, whom everyone in the Northern Region revered as a god, was a madman.
But he didn't expect Xue Lan to be so crazy.
The young man, looking at the seemingly obedient woman behind Xue Lan, no longer cared about maintaining his dignity as the Lord of the Thousand Realms Ghost Realm.
"This is a demon in my heart!" the young man said through gritted teeth.
"What on earth do you want to do?"
After a few heated questions, He Zhui stared intently at the inner demon whose face was being twisted by Xue Lan, making the inner demon somewhat uncomfortable.
The woman in white moved her head slightly, but still couldn't escape Xue Lan's control. She turned her head slightly to look at the Wolf King to her left:
"He doesn't seem like he'll like me."
"It's nothing, it's nothing." Xue Lan raised her hand and ruffled the inner demon's hair twice: "No one I'm connected with likes you, let alone this is the first time we've met."
"You are already a mature inner demon. You must learn to endure loneliness and do what you want to do amidst the scornful gazes of others."
The inner demon felt that it had something it wanted to do right now: to transform into its original form and bite Xue Lan's neck off.
Acting on impulse is a wonderful quality of inner demons, but she forgot that Xue Tong was behind her.
Before the woman in white could unleash her demonic aura, Xue Tong reached out from behind her.
The inner demon was dragged away before it could cry for help, leaving He Zhui with only a fleeting white afterimage.
The young man frowned slightly, his tone full of mockery:
"Did she just try to kill you?"
Xue Lan withdrew her suddenly empty hands, raised one sleeve and extended it out of the frame, letting Xue Tong rummage through it to find something to restrain her inner demons.
"No!" Lord Wolf said cheerfully to He Zhui, "It's just a little squabble between fellow travelers."
"A petty squabble between fellow travelers?" He Zhui sneered, "Have you been in the mortal realm for too long and your brain has become rusty?"
"So what if that's your celestial soul? She's a demon within your heart!"
Having ruled the Thousand Realms of Ghosts for many years, He Zhui understands the hypocrisy and cunning of demons better than anyone else in the Yuanming Realm.
Within the Demon-Suppressing Pool, there were many who pleaded for mercy, deceiving the young Asuras with human skin, and then cruelly biting off the children's necks at the crucial moment.
Others may not know the origin of Xue Lan's inner demons, but He Zhui knows them perfectly well.
What good could a demon born from a wisp of the Demon God's original demonic energy be?
The young man spoke coldly to Xue Lan:
"What you should really do is to bind her in her sea of consciousness as you did a thousand years ago, and wait for an opportunity to expel the demonic energy from her."
After saying this, the young man seemed to have calmed down considerably.
"If you have no other choice right now, come to the Thousand Realms Ghost Realm with A-Wu. I, He Zhui, will help you seal it once more, to the very end."
"Thank you, He Zhui."
He Zhui saw the woman, whose appearance was completely different from that of a thousand years ago, and smiled as she spoke, her tone extremely firm:
"I'll keep it because I need it."
He Zhui was familiar with the expression on this person's face. A thousand years ago, when Xue Lan insisted on leaving her demon body in the Thousand Realms of Ghosts despite Jin Guang's and his objections, she had the same expression.
This expression, which at first glance appears calm and easygoing, actually indicates an absolute impossibility of turning back.
The young man chuckled softly, his voice tinged with a hint of weariness:
"Xue Lan, you are such a demon."
"Arrogant and lawless."
"Just like when we forcibly broke into the Thousand Realms of Ghosts back then."
Upon hearing He Zhui's words, Xue Lan, unusually embarrassed, hesitated and began to speak:
"I was young and impetuous back then."
Back then, Xue Cheng died at the hands of Cang Diao. Before that old guy made his move, he had already colluded with the demons and become a demon. After his death, his soul was naturally imprisoned by the Thousand Realms Ghost Realm.
Xue Lan wanted to grind him to dust, but He Zhui adhered to the rules of the Thousand Realms Ghost Realm and did not allow outsiders to enter. In the end, the two fought fiercely.
The battle was fierce and the sky darkened. After all, the Thousand Realms of Ghosts was He Zhui's home ground. Xue Lan injured half of her ear and, in a fit of anger, tried to break the restrictions of the Thousand Mile Wasteland with her sword, forcing He Zhui to compromise and pull out the soul of the Azure Eagle for her.
It could be said that they became friends after a fight.
Although He Zhui later learned that Xue Lan was not the kind of unreasonable person after they got to know each other better, the image of the woman as a killing god remained in He Zhui's mind.
Seeing Xue Lan cowering in fear, He Zhui couldn't help but laugh out loud:
"Alright, stop pretending. Back when you were chasing me and hacking at me, you weren't holding back at all..."
Xue Lan smiled obediently.
"Jinguang didn't hold back when he attacked me a few years ago."
Xue Lan bent down slightly.
"She and Ao Zhu even questioned me about why I committed suicide, saying that I hadn't given them a kind look in a thousand years!"
Xue Lan wanted to kneel down before He Zhui.
This is not the ruler of the Thousand Realms of Ghosts, this is Xue Lan's adoptive father!