Chapter 798 A Reward for Winning the Bet
The man gritted his teeth, clearly unwilling and reluctant.
This Blood Tracing Stone contained a trace of Nuonuo’s Bloodline Power.
There was one thing Little White had not mentioned: with this stone, he could suppress the backlash from his Cultivation Method.
That was why he had been able to preserve his Cultivation Strength and avoid aging.
But if he lost this stone…
How could he possibly allow Ye Xuanyue to take it away?
In almost an instant, he made his move.
Without a word, he acted, explosively violent.
Ye Xuanyue’s gaze coldly fixed on him. The man’s cultivation was preserved at the Martial Emperor Realm.
When he truly acted, it was naturally overwhelming and unstoppable.
But there was not the slightest hint of fear on Ye Xuanyue’s face.
She looked at the man before her, who seemed completely crazed, and let out a cold snort.
Leng Moran smiled and glanced at Ye Xuanyue.
A banner appeared in her palm, instantly growing larger in the wind.
His Spiritual Power struck the banner but could not penetrate it. Then Ye Xuanyue said softly,
“Did you think Nuonuo would leave without any Restriction Seals in place?”
She was the only one who had understood Nuonuo’s message. She already knew Nuonuo very well...after all, Ye Xuanyue had once glimpsed his memory from before he graduated from the Imperial City Academy.
Her eyes held a trace of coldness.
The next second, Ye Xuanyue reached out her hand. She formed a seal with her fingers in the air, and a scream burst from the man opposite her.
Ye Xuanyue’s expression grew colder.
This family opposite her was insatiably greedy.
They were also full of lies.
Her voice sounded as cold as snow atop a mountain peak that never melted for millennia, carrying a faint edge of severity.
“The reason your family fled the Imperial Dynasty was not because you were suppressed by the powerful. It was because, back then, to practice your Secret Art, you experimented on innocent commoners and created chaos. After being exposed, to escape the Imperial Dynasty’s punishment and avoid having your entire clan executed, you fled all the way to the Dark Abyss Canyon.”
The man’s face turned deathly pale.
The expressions of the two youths also changed sharply, both shrinking back in fear.
“You have been foul from the very beginning.
You call it a curse, but is it not heaven’s retribution upon you?
Nuonuo kept you alive not so you could commit evil. Back then, you promised him you would never commit another evil deed, or else you would be struck by Divine Thunder.
Now is the time for you to face your retribution.”
…
Ye Xuanyue’s fingers fluttered like butterflies. The moment her fingers formed the final seal,
the middle-aged man opposite let out an extremely shrill and horrifying scream. The sound was almost unbearable to hear.
The next second, his face began to age rapidly.
His Martial Emperor aura gradually waned and fell.
Ye Xuanyue did not need to lift a hand.
The seal she had just formed was only to activate a certain Restriction Seal within the middle-aged man opposite.
By defying the heavens to cultivate that Cultivation Method, he should have long ago fallen in realm and aged like the others.
But he had used Nuonuo’s Blood Tracing Stone to forcibly suppress it. That meant he was destined to rely on Nuonuo’s aura to survive.
Ye Xuanyue wanted to control the man before her.
Making him lose more than he gained was all too easy.
Her gaze was cold.
“You should have disappeared long ago, shouldn’t you?”
Only screams came from the man opposite.
The two youths watched Ye Xuanyue, trembling in fear. She gave them a contemptuous glance.
But she could not be bothered to take action.
At their age, they had already broken through to Martial King...they must also have cultivated that Cultivation Method.
The outcome was self-evident.
When Ye Xuanyue and Leng Moran left the village, her expression was not relaxed. The young girl bit her lip lightly, her eyes holding a faint trace of hesitation.
Leng Moran turned to look at her.
She shook her head and said softly,
“I’m fine.”
Outside, the sky was nearing evening, heavy with dusk.
Her footsteps were very light.
Leng Moran heard Ye Xuanyue beside him say quietly,
“Nuonuo came here probably not for himself either.
Besides looking for Earth Flame, he seemed to be searching for something else...for…”
She paused, then spoke,
“For my mother.
I’m thinking, why would Nuonuo do so many things for someone who did not belong to him…
The impression he gave me was that he seemed to have lived his whole life for my mother.
Could it really just be because my mother saved his life when he was a child?”
Leng Moran looked at Ye Xuanyue.
His voice was very gentle.
“That’s because he loved her very much.”
Ye Xuanyue paused, then said softly,
“But he hardly even had contact with her. Just because of a glance back then, could he be so profoundly certain?”
This was something Ye Xuanyue had never been able to figure out.
She had always been a bit confused about what love really was.
With Leng Moran, it had been a gradual flow. Because of the young man’s constant companionship by her side, she realized she could not do without him.
She gradually felt that she could not leave him anymore.
That she liked him so much.
But why was it so for Nuonuo?
He and her mother had even less contact, pitifully little.
How could he be so certain?
Leng Moran smiled. He could actually understand that man quite well.
He said softly,
“Because some people fall for someone at first sight and remain certain and unwavering ever after.
Once they decide, it is decided.
If you truly like someone, you might even feel that as long as they are well, everything is well.
Truly liking someone means that just being able to do something for them brings joy.”
…
He had liked Ye Xuanyue from the very first glance.
He stayed by her side, meticulously and painstakingly, just to win her over.
He also felt fortunate that when he met her, he had already been relatively strong, able to protect her along the way.
Before meeting him, Ye Xuanyue had been naive.
Bit by bit, he wove a trap with his affections, slowly ensnaring her.
He would not silently sacrifice as Nuonuo had.
He liked Xuanyue.
Even if it took all the strength of his life, he would have her in this lifetime.
He held the hand of the young girl beside him. The sky had completely darkened; the moon was bright, and the breeze was clear. His voice was as gentle as the wind on a moonlit night.
The eyes of the young girl beside him shone as if all the stars in the sky had fallen into them.
Leng Moran glanced at her, then said softly,
“Earlier, you won the bet.”
Ye Xuanyue suddenly widened her eyes.
Leng Moran smiled, then said,
“As your reward…”
Ye Xuanyue finally remembered the earlier joke. She blinked, looking at the young man before her. The moonlight was soft, his features clear and bright, surpassing the moonlight itself.