Chapter 80
Translator: Raven
Editor: Aeonsiac
In times of peril, humans will show intelligence that they never could have imagined. Bai Yang raised his eyebrow deliberately and said, “I hate this person! Last time Black Cloud Sect was wiped out, I wanted to wipe him out along with it.”
The Demon King was a bit shocked, because Bai Yang rarely showed malice against others. “Why?”
“He broke faith and abandoned the plan, killed every last one, and then he wanted to use us for his own gain,” Bai Yang said in anger. “That time, I had planned to leave after destroying the Boundary Pillar. I didn’t want to wipe out the entire Black Cloud Sect, because we didn’t have strong foundations then, so if we caused too much ruckus and caused them to each send out their own people, our plans would’ve been greatly hindered.”
As he spoke, he pointed at the corpse on the ground in fury. “But this guy didn’t listen to orders and killed all the elders and a few disciples of the Black Cloud Sect, attracting the attention of the whole martial arts world.”
The Demon King nodded. “I also know of this.”
Bai Yang continued, “When he rushed in just now, he was screaming about how he was being chased by someone out to kill him, but I checked 500 meters in every direction, and there wasn’t a single trace of another person. It was obvious he was here to create a disturbance and expose our whereabouts, so I killed him in a moment of anger.”
The Demon King was silent for a moment before saying, “Zetian…”
Bai Yang’s heart twisted, he knew his reasoning was extremely implausible, but it was the best excuse he could come up with in this moment of desperation. He didn’t know whether or not the Demon King would believe him.
The Demon King stared at him for a moment and sighed: “Zetian, you must not act impulsively, you used your position for personal revenge, he would’ve still had some use, but you killed him just like that, it’s quite an inconvenience.”
“I’m sorry, Your Highness can punish me as you see fit.” Bai Yang hurriedly bowed his head and apologized.
The Demon King stared at his head for a moment, who knows what he was thinking about.
“Forget it, if he’s dead then he’s dead, someone like him who dares to betray his own people can’t be trusted in the first place,” the Demon King finally said.
Bai Yang inwardly relaxed after hearing the Demon King’s words, like he had forgiven him for his actions.
Before he could celebrate, what the Demon King said next chilled him to the bone.
“What he said was probably the truth, someone could have broken in.” The Demon King looked towards the dark forest not far away. “He had no reason to lie about something like this, your actions were too hasty, you were in the wrong.”
“Then, Your Highness, what should we do now?” Bai Yang panicked, displaying an anxious expression on his face, but on the inside he was yelling: Zhou Ying run! Run as far as you can!
“Your Highness, please give me a chance to make up for my mistakes, I’ll go find the intruder right now,” he said, immediately cupping one fist in his other hand. If the Demon King allowed him to go investigate, then he could make sure the male lead left safely.
“It’s useless, that person’s long gone, I don’t feel anyone around us.” The Demon King shook his head. “With that, we can’t use this base anymore, call everyone to leave tomorrow.”
“……Alright.” Bai Yang lowered his head, hiding the complex expression on his face. “Your Highness, do we need to send someone after them?”
“There’s no need,” the Demon King said. “We’ve been at this base for a while, it’s about time to move anyways.”
“But our pa.s.sageway is not far from here.” Bai Yang furrowed his brows.
“Don’t worry,” The Demon King said. “I’ll have someone set up a spell array and guard it constantly.”
Bai Yang relaxed his brows.
“We’ve been out for quite a while, we should be returning soon.” The Demon King lay a hand on his shoulder, speaking with a bit of guilt. “I also didn’t think that my work would take this long to deal with, I was supposed to take you sightseeing.”
Bai Yang still hadn’t recovered from the nervousness just now, forcing out a smile after hearing his words. “Your Highness’ work takes priority.”
“Don’t worry, when I’m done with my business, I’ll take you out,” the Demon King said deeply. “I won’t break my promise.”
Bai Yang stared.
The Demon King trusts him this much? He doesn’t suspect anything, even after what I said? He’s also going to take me sightseeing?
And yet I lied to him for someone else?
Does he know my secret or not? How long had he been staying in the dark? He never said anything, is he waiting for me to admit it first?
Gazing at the Demon King’s retreating figure, Bai Yang felt restless.
Suddenly he had a brazen thought.
“Xiao Ling, I have an idea,” Bai Yang said in his mind. “Can I tell the Demon King about myself, and ask him to not kill Zhou Ying?”
Xiao Ling was shocked. “Sir, have you gone crazy? If you really end up doing that, will the system let you off?”
“Actually I have a question,” Bai Yang said. “The system will punish me if I do anything out of character, but after this much time, the amount of out of character things I’ve done can’t be low, so why has the system not punished me?”
“Before, you said that disturbing this world’s motions or the plot may result in my death, but I feel like I’ve already done some things that disturbed the plot, and not only has the system not killed me, but it didn’t punish me at all.”
Xiao Ling was puzzled.
Indeed. According to the main system’s rules, Bai Yang had done quite a few things that deviated from the plot. He should have been heavily injured if not killed as punishment, but up until now, the main system only showed up when they first arrived in this world.
“Xiao Ling, do you know the reason?” Bai Yang continued asking.
Xiao Ling was silent for a good while, before speaking. “Sir, I don’t know the reason, I understand the situation you’re talking about, I’m also very puzzled.”
Bai Yang became excited. “So I want to tell Li Zixuan everything, and then ask him to not kill Zhou Ying.”
“Sir.” Xiao Ling dampened his spirits. “Telling the Demon King everything means telling him that you’re not the real Xie Zetian, as well as saying that he’s only a character in a book. Do you think he’ll believe you? He’ll most likely think that you’d gone crazy, and still kill Zhou Ying…. Okay, even if he believes you, how do you expect him to accept an outsider, a deceiver?”
Bai Yang went silent for a moment, gritting his teeth. “With how much he likes me, there’s no way he’d kill me. Xiao Ling, I don’t want to keep lying to him……”
Xiao Ling said, “Are you sure? Are you sure that he loves you enough to accept a fake, a disguise, a deceiver?”
“There’s no sign of movement from the system, so if the male lead dies, maybe then I’d be able to go home!” Bai Yang was excited, having half a mind to just give up.
“Sir, you said the system never punished you, I agree, and I don’t know what that’s all about. But there’s one thing that I can guarantee, the male lead is the backbone of this whole world, and he’s also the key to you going home. If he dies for real, the entire world will collapse, so you have to protect him no matter what.”
Bai Yang: “….”
Xiao Ling’s straightforwardness made Bai Yang calm down, looking at it now, Bai Yang thought that his idea just now really was crazy.
That’s right, if I tell the Demon King that I’m not the real Xie Zetian, if I tell him that everything I’ve done was for another man……
I must have been crazy to even think about telling him!
Bai Yang shuddered.
“What’s wrong?” Seeing him not move, the Demon King turned and asked.
Bai Yang forced out a smile and said, “It’s nothing.”
The Demon King frowned slightly. “Why do I feel like you’re not alright?”
Bai Yang felt his heart jump into his throat. “What do you mean? I’m fine.”
The Demon King stared at him in silence, staring to the point that Bai Yang’s hands started trembling. Don’t tell me that he heard my conversation with Elder Qiu?
“Xiao Ling, did he find out? What should I do?” Bai Yang felt really nervous.
Xiao Ling hurriedly comforted him. “Sir, don’t worry, listen to what he has to say first.”
“If he hadn’t heard Elder Qiu and I’s discussion, why would he suddenly appear? When did he come over?” Bai Yang panicked.
Xiao Ling didn’t know how to comfort him either, saying, “Sir, how about this, let’s plan out the worst case scenario, if he found out the truth, what should we do?”
Bai Yang said, “What are we supposed to do? We can only run away as fast as we can!”
“Running away isn’t that bad of a decision!” Xiao Ling said.
Bai Yang suddenly felt calmer, that’s right, if worst comes to worst, they can just run away. Unless the Demon King wouldn’t give him a chance to explain and just slaps him dead right then and there.
“Your Highness?” With that decision made, he didn’t feel panicked anymore, and asked with feigned puzzlement.
The Demon King was silent for a moment, saying, “Are you mad at me?”
Eh?
Ehhhhhh?
“Mad? I’m not mad.” Bai Yang denied. I can thank the heavens as long as you’re not mad.
The Demon King let out a long sigh. “There’s nothing I can do about it either, I can’t just ignore everything as I’m already here in the human realm. Don’t worry, I’ll take you outside tomorrow.”
Bai Yang suddenly understood why he asked that, so it turns out that he thought he was sulking. Therefore, he never found out his secret in the first place.
What a great misunderstanding!
Seeing as he gave him a way out of this situation, Bai Yang took it with no hesitation, sighing dramatically. “Your Highness’ work takes priority, it’s fine to postpone my plans.”
The Demon King hurriedly said, “Don’t worry, I won’t go back on my word, we’re going out tomorrow.”
Bai Yang put an expression of happiness and excitedness on his face. “Thank you, Your Highness!”
Seeing his lover happy, the Demon King also smiled and touched his face, turning back to the house.
Bai Yang let out a deep breath and turned back to look at the dark forest behind him. Seeing nothing out of the ordinary, he followed the Demon King back inside.
The Demon King stayed true to his word. That night he gathered many people for discussions, looked over a large part of the human realm’s affairs, and issued a couple orders, aiming to finish everything in one night.
Bai Yang yawned continuously while waiting, the Demon King saw his tiredness and felt a bit bad so he urged him to go to bed first.
Bai Yang wasn’t interested in this official business at all, so he yawned and climbed into bed. He didn’t even know when he fell asleep, but when he woke up, it was already the next morning.
Sure enough, the Demon King set out with Bai Yang very early to go sightseeing.
“You said you wanted to see the ravine waterfall in Anning Village right?” the Demon King asked.
“Waterfall?” Bai Yang already forgot all about sightseeing after that scare from last night. “Oh right, waterfall, we’re going to see the waterfall.”
He stiffly squeezed out a smile. “I’m really excited!”
The so-called Anning Village waterfall was only an excuse he made up to be able to come out, the most important thing was that Anning Village at the foot of the Soaring Clouds Sect mountain. It would be really convenient to go see the male lead, so that day in the demon realm, he told the Demon King he wanted to see Anning Village’s waterfall.
If there wasn’t any waterfall, then he’ll just say he heard wrong, the Demon King wouldn’t mind much.
“Let’s go.” The Demon King was in high spirits.
To avoid trouble, the two put on casual clothing before heading out, changing their appearances. They also brought a couple spirit stones in a Qiankun bag, preparing to travel like two ordinary mortals.
In the short span of a day, the two arrived at Anning Village.
The Demon King asked a pa.s.serby, “You guys have a waterfall here, right?”
That person was probably a cultivator, and was a bit confused after being stopped. “Waterfall? What waterfall?”
The Demon King furrowed his brow. “I heard you guys have a ravine here. Inside the ravine is a waterfall?”
With the hint, that person immediately remembered, saying, “You’re talking about the ravine that’s 5 kilometers away!”
Bai Yang said at once, “Yes, that’s the ravine.”
The man smiled and said, “Then you must have remembered wrong, there’s no waterfall in the ravine, only a sea of flowers. I heard that it’s a popular spot for young couples to go.”
“No waterfall?” The Demon King was very shocked, then raised an eyebrow in dissatisfaction. “Are you lying to me?”
The Demon King was too used to being above everyone, sounding quite arrogant and bossy when talking, very powerful.
“Why would I lie to you? Is there a point?” The man was a bit angry. “Why are you so unreasonable?”
Bai Yang rushed to smooth things over, “I probably remembered wrong, I thought there was a waterfall there.”
“There’s no waterfall, only a sea of flowers,” the ordinary young man said. As a cultivator who got stopped and inquired then accused of lying, if they were anyone else, he would’ve gotten mad, but these two stood out. Especially the one that just spoke, he looked very ordinary, but he had an indescribable air around him that made you feel lower, so he didn’t dare be rash.
“If you want to see the flowers, you can visit, but I’m afraid now isn’t the best time,” the young man said.
“Isn’t the best time?” Bai Yang asked.
The young man said, “It’s early spring right now, the flowers in the ravine haven’t bloomed yet, if you were to go all you’d see is a field of flower buds.”
The Demon King’s face clouded. “So you’re saying we won’t be able to see anything?”
“That’s right,” the young man said immediately. “The flowers haven’t bloomed, what is there to see? Besides, it’s a place for couples to go, why would two big men like you want to go there? Just forget it.”
“A place for couples to go?” The Demon King grabbed on to his wording.
“Yes, you guys probably don’t know, that ravine is a well known romantic spot, young men and women love going there to pour out their feelings to each other, and then they tie the knot….” The young man started smiling to himself as he spoke.
Bai Yang was afraid this man would provoke the Demon King if he said something wrong, so he hurriedly said, “Thank you sir, we won’t bother you any longer.”
The young man laughed as he walked away.
“A place for couples to go……” The Demon King looked like he was thinking about something.