Free Web NovelChapter 575: Chapter 524: Heartless and Emotionless
At this moment, Chu Xin no longer had the scruffy appearance from before, with a face full of stubble and disheveled hair. He wore a raven-blue outfit, his face clean and sharply defined, and his ice-blue eyes radiated an elusive glow.
Yun Muyuan, unprepared to see him, was startled and stood up from the bedside, retreating several steps until he collided with a pillar.
"Why are you alive? Where is Qiongfang?" Yun Muyuan urgently asked.
Chu Xin sneered, turned around, half-kneeled by the bedside, reached out, touched the face of the young man lying there, and fed him an elixir.
"Little Songhe, I’m sorry. I came late and let you suffer all these years."
No one knew if Yun Songhe heard Chu Xin’s voice, but tears rolled down his eyes, forming frost.
Jiang Yuebai stood by, scratching her face, appearing as if no one could see her. She found a plate of pastries on the table by the bed, picked it up, and ate while watching.
"Endure a little longer, brother will soon take you away from here."
"You can’t take him away!" Yun Muyuan exclaimed in panic. "If Qiongfang returns and can’t see Songhe, it will... it will..."
"What will it do? Do you still believe a demon will develop affection for a human?" Chu Xin interrupted Yun Muyuan.
Yun Muyuan shook his head, "Qiongfang is different; she’s not like other demons!"
Chu Xin sneered, waved his hand to create a cold wind, freezing Yun Muyuan’s lower body so he couldn’t escape.
Chu Xin turned to Jiang Yuebai, "Friend, do you mind if I tell you a story?"
Jiang Yuebai shook her head with pastry crumbs on the corners of her mouth, "I don’t mind as long as you settle the bill when you’re finished. However, there are Nascent Soul Cultivators watching us, too long and there could be changes, you weigh it yourself."
Chu Xin sat by the bed, watching Yun Songhe gradually improve, holding his hand as he slowly spoke to Yun Muyuan,
"Those stories about humans and demons loving each other are entirely fabricated by people. I thought cultivators could see through this more than mortals, but you’re still trapped in it. Believe it or not, the Snow Demon never had intentions for you—only the benefits set in your contract!"
Yun Muyuan wanted to speak but was silenced by Chu Xin. His eyes filled with bloodshot veins, able only to shake his head continuously.
"Ever since that Refining Void Ancestor fell, each generation of the Yun Family has declined. Although you are the current prodigy, you’re far below the talent of the Refining Void Ancestor. Even with the Ten Thousand Years Cold Stalactite, it’s not enough to reach the summit of ’Mystic Jade Skill’.
"The Heavenly Dao favored you when you encountered a Snow Demon needing the Ten Thousand Years Cold Stalactite for her breakthrough. That Snow Demon was born from the Undetermined Cold Ice, her interventions can slowly refine your body with the Undetermined Cold Ice, enhancing your ice attribute abilities.
"Why can’t you conduct your transactions properly? Why cultivate harmfully towards others?" Chu Xin shouted angrily.
A trace of guilty conscience flashed in Yun Muyuan’s eyes.
"Yes, I know, you were coerced by the clan into making the contract with the Snow Demon, selecting suitable individuals using Secret Technique to integrate demonic power into the human body, giving humans the same bloodline as the Snow Demon, thus doubling the effectiveness of cultivating ’Mystic Jade Skill’.
"Moreover, this person doesn’t need to be a member of the Yun Family. As long as it’s successful, the man will marry a Yun Family woman, the woman will marry a Yun Family man, bearing children of Yun Family bloodline, completely changing Yun Family’s declining fate."
"You’ve promised the Snow Demon and the Yun Family that upon success, you would give her the Ten Thousand Years Stalactite. She was only willing to expend her Origin Power to help you try because of this. demons are inherently cold and heartless, indifferent to the life and death of human babies, but you, watching as my brother and I were tortured by demonic power, felt no compassion at all?"
"At first, I was grateful to you and the Snow Demon for avenging my parents, voluntarily recognizing you as foster father and mother. Even when the Snow Demon began injecting demonic power into my body, I kept telling myself I must repay you, so no matter the pain, I gritted my teeth and endured, but never expected you had long-targeted my brother and me!"
"Though demons are cold-blooded, they keep their promises, yet humans are deceitful, denying their debts without hesitation. Fortunately, the Snow Demon isn’t foolish; she knew once you successfully transformed, she’d be unable to suppress you and the Yun Family, so she stole the Ten Thousand Years Stalactite while you prepared to go into closed-door cultivation to achieve Divinity Transformation, and the whole clan protected you."
"But what the Snow Demon didn’t anticipate is that I informed the Yun Family Clan Leader of her whereabouts, then seized the moment to swallow the Ten Thousand Years Stalactite during the chaos. Do you wonder why she insisted on taking my brother and me when she fled?"
Yun Muyuan stared wide-eyed, tears in his eyes.
