Chapter 14

Chapter 14

Fear in the Face of Love

Jiujiu no longer knew what kind of person she had saved.

The person who should have died three hundred years ago, after being saved by her, seemed to have set in motion a cause and effect that she couldn’t understand.

She didn’t even know what the attitude of this person, who was her husband in the past, was towards her now that they hadn’t seen each other for many years.

Jiujiu was worried that he might have already buried these memories deep down and forgotten them.

After hesitating for a moment, Jiujiu wanted to control her character to leave again, returning to the valley where she had lived for a long time, to her home.

However, she was also a little curious about how Gu Jiangming had been doing all these years and wanted to see him.

Should she go and see?

It wouldn’t hurt to take a look.

After thinking it over, Jiujiu decided to secretly take a peek, just to look at him from afar.

【You follow the trail.】

【You only intend to look from afar.】

At this moment, Gu Jiangming was staring intently at the screen.

“I can continue to develop Cave Heaven Eye, its effect is just too overpowered.”

Mu Qing, who was supposed to be responsible for sensing danger among the group, was almost completely overwhelmed by Gu Jiangming’s Cave Heaven Eye in terms of perception ability.

Not only that, but Cave Heaven Eye could also counter any existence that tried to peek at it.

Just now, Mu Qing wanted to probe Gu Jiangming with her family’s secret technique, but it was directly countered by Cave Heaven Eye.

“And the most terrifying thing about Cave Heaven Eye is its ability to grasp weaknesses. This greatly enhances my ability to kill with one strike.”

【You face the pale paper figurines in front of you and wield the long sword in your hand. You throw the sword in your hand.】

【The blade, half-suspended in the air, seems to lock onto the enemy in front of you as if it has a mind of its own.】

【You cast a technique with both hands, and the Heaven and Earth Concealing sword technique unfolds. The endless sword moves spread out continuously, falling on the paper figurines one after another.】

【”Sword Control Technique!” You reach out and slightly move your hand in the air, and the hilt lands in your hand. You sheathe the sword gracefully and glance at it, “This is not its main body.”】

【”This cunning fellow has already transferred to another paper figurine and left.”】

【The barrier dissipates, and cold sweat slightly oozes from Zhang Tianze’s forehead, “Your techniques and divine abilities have become even more refined.”】

【”In ten years, you have already reached such a level?”】

【As soon as he says this, the expressions of Ma Yang and Mu Qing change slightly again. Seeing such a scene, they both think that Gu Jiangming is a senior with profound Dao cultivation.】

【”Your arcane art, Cave Heaven Eye, after this tribulation, I’m afraid it will become famous throughout the world.” Zhang Tianze says.】

【Just at this time, you smell an extremely familiar scent, and you immediately turn your gaze in one direction.】

【Almost without even saying hello, you rise into the air with one foot and rush towards that direction at an astonishing speed, leaving behind the three people who look at each other in confusion, not knowing what’s going on.】

【And after just a few moments of teleportation, you feel that you are getting closer and closer to the location of that aura.】

【At this point, you feel that some of the mysteries that you couldn’t understand or figure out in the past are about to be grasped by you.】

【”Jiu’er, why don’t you show yourself and see me—”】

【”Your scent, I’m too familiar with it. You don’t have to hide from me. Is there anything that we can’t face together?”】

【”Do you really want to see me?” Her voice is ethereal, “Wouldn’t it be better for you and me to forget each other and give each other some dignity?”】

【”Back then… it was you who saved me.” At this point, Gu Jiangming had actually figured it out, and he couldn’t pretend to be confused anymore.】

【”Yes, it was me.” Jiujiu doesn’t deny it.】

【”So, do you still want to see me now?” Jiujiu’s voice seems to carry a hint of playfulness, “Being able to save you from the hands of a demon, what I am, you should know very well in your heart.”】

【”You are a demon.” You take a deep breath and say.】

【”Yes, I am a demon.” Jiujiu admits it frankly in front of you, “And you? You are a human, and now not only a human, but also a cultivator who subdues demons and vanquishes evil. I have heard many rumors along the way, and now you are even the head of a sect.”】

【”You already have your life, and I am a demon.”】

【”So, it’s best for us to have closure and forget each other.”】

Jiujiu had long thought that this scene would happen, but when truly facing it, she couldn’t help but feel a little sad.

People all said that demons were heartless, but were demons really heartless?

All things had feelings, even the plants and trees in the world would cry.

Gu Jiangming was human, and she, Yin Jiujiu, was a demon.

There should be closure between them, and there shouldn’t even have been a beginning in the first place.

【You don’t want to tell him that you already have a child, and you don’t want to involve him in it anymore.】

【You don’t want to ruin his life, because you know he is living a good life now, admired by his disciples.】

【”I can’t forget.” Gu Jiangming says to you, “I can’t forget.”】

【”If a person has a lifespan of a hundred years, he may have twenty years of incomplete memories, but in the eighty years of his life, his memories will be preserved forever. I have spent countless pasts with you.”】

【”How can you ask me to let go of you?”】

【”In order to leave no regrets, I tried my best to find the most important existence in my life.”】

【”But, you want me to leave this place with regrets, I will never accept that.”】

【”Forgetting you is forgetting my past self.”】

【Gu Jiangming actually spends a lot of time every year going down the mountain to search for people. His desire to find her has never disappeared.】

【”I am a demon—” Jiujiu says softly, and then she repeats, “I am a demon, the demon that you humans fear. You don’t want to see me in my demon form.”】

【”So what? Isn’t it you who spent more than ten years with me, who married me?”】

【”But I am a demon, I eat people.” You say in a deliberately ferocious tone.】

【”Then you wouldn’t have been able to go up Longhu Mountain.” Gu Jiangming says resolutely, “And the Celestial Master’s Mansion wouldn’t let a demon who has eaten people go down the mountain.”】

【”You—” You are suddenly speechless, then you say, “Don’t you want to slay demons and eliminate evil?”】

【”I’m afraid of you.”】

【She says.】

【”The sword of Mount Shu slays guilty demons, extinguishes evil thoughts, and eliminates wicked Qi.”】

【”You…” Jiujiu’s voice hesitates, “You really won’t be afraid of my appearance when you see it?”】

【”You were just afraid that I would slay demons and eliminate evil.” Gu Jiangming says with a smile.】

【”I’m just… afraid in the face of love.” She immediately retorts, silently taking a breath.】

【And as her voice falls, Jiujiu’s figure finally appears before Gu Jiangming’s eyes.】

Gu Jiangming takes a deep breath.

Wait, what?

How could she become even more beautiful after not seeing her for so many years?

How could your demon form be even more beautiful than your human form?

She even looks ethereal and fairy-like.

And she seems to be too good with words.

Gu Jiangming suddenly felt that he could understand Xu Xian now.

It felt like his heart was being pierced.

【Congratulations on unlocking the new portrait skin—Fear in the Face of Love · Jiujiu.】

A card is unlocked.

An incredibly beautiful skin appears in Gu Jiangming’s vision, saved in the gallery of 【Path of Ascension】.

On the entire background board, Jiujiu is looking into the distance, her eyes filled with longing but not daring to meet his. The hesitant expression on her delicate face makes people feel pity for her.

And compared to before, Jiujiu now has a more voluptuous figure, far surpassing her previous one.

My wife!

My wife!!!

Gu Jiangming suddenly felt that the meaning of his cultivation was here!!!

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