Chapter 1555: Rolling Up a Thousand Piles of Snow
Although Mu Guyue’s gaze was fixed ahead, her devastatingly beautiful face was flushed with a deep red.
“His… his name is Mu Sha. If you encounter this person from the Black Demon Clan in the future, you… you cannot kill him!”
“Who is Mu Sha?”
Li Yan’s face was filled with confusion. He still didn’t understand what the other party was talking about. What was this about killing? He didn’t even know the person.
Mu Guyue whipped her head around, her phoenix eyes now filled with anger, yet her face remained flushed.
She now knew just how formidable Li Yan’s methods were. This man had actually managed to escape from a desperate place like the “Earth-True Domain.” And how had he escaped from Body Integration and Void Refining old monsters?
All of this, although she couldn’t figure it out, could only mean one thing: Li Yan’s methods were extremely powerful.
She hadn’t wanted to say it before because she felt it was unnecessary. The two of them might have been trapped in the “Earth-True Domain” for their entire lives.
But now, even such a miracle could happen. Mu Guyue didn’t know what other impossible things might happen with Li Yan.
She was truly worried now, afraid that he would encounter Mu Sha, just as coincidentally as he had encountered her.
There could be no “what ifs” in this matter. Once they met, Li Yan would probably not have many scruples about other members of the Black Demon Clan, and Mu Sha held no goodwill towards the human race either.
The scene of the two of them killing each other was something she wanted to see the least. So there could be no “what ifs,” not even a sliver of a chance…
She looked at Li Yan with shame and anger. This Li Yan, a man with a mind like a fox, was actually failing to understand now.
“Mu Sha, not Li Sha!”
The wind blew through her three thousand strands of long black hair. Her phoenix eyes carried a killing aura.
Li Yan was instantly struck by lightning. At this moment… he seemed to understand something!
Thus, his face was filled with disbelief.
Under Mu Guyue’s gaze, he was dumbfounded for several breaths before he finally raised his hand, first pointing at Mu Guyue, and then at himself.
“Mu… Mu Sha? My… my… offspring?”
Seeing Li Yan’s disbelieving look, a hint of red actually appeared in Mu Guyue’s phoenix eyes. She just stared at Li Yan, saying no more.
At this, Li Yan was even more at a loss!
This matter had come too suddenly. Of course, he had thought about matters concerning his own offspring, but that was with Zhao Min and Gong Chenying.
However, he had been with the two women for a period of time, and until he left, he had not heard any news of them being pregnant.
He knew that it was not easy for cultivators to have children, and it couldn’t be rushed, especially for stronger cultivators.
When he got married in the Lower Realm, he was already a top-tier cultivator, and the heavenly Dao rules of the Lower Realm were even stricter. But when he met Mu Guyue, he was just a minor Golden Core cultivator.
But no matter what, for Mu Guyue to suddenly bring up such a matter today, Li Yan was completely unprepared.
The whole thing was so sudden that Li Yan’s heart almost stopped beating. Especially when she said, “not Li Sha!”
No matter how stupid he was, he knew what that meant. For a moment, the atmosphere froze. It seemed that even the sea of clouds around them had stopped moving, all blankly watching the two of them.
Time passed bit by bit, and the blush on Mu Guyue’s face slowly faded. She turned her head again, her gaze once more looking into the distance, not wanting to see Li Yan’s expression anymore.
“Oh… oh… he… what’s he… oh no no, I mean, how is he now? Is he still in the Black Demon Clan? Does… does he… know about me…”
Li Yan, who was usually incomparably calm even on the verge of life and death, was now stuttering. He didn’t know what to say.
He was completely unprepared.
“How should I know how he is now? I’ve been ascended for so many years. When I left, he had already formed his Golden Core…”
Although Mu Guyue was unwilling to mention Mu Sha’s affairs in front of this person, since she had decided to let him know of Mu Sha’s existence, she could only recount some of Mu Sha’s past.
But after only a hundred breaths, Mu Guyue had finished.
She spoke very briefly and quickly. She basically skimmed over Mu Sha’s childhood, youth, and adulthood in just a few sentences.
“Physical body self-healing, Undead Demon Vine…”
Li Yan listened, thinking to himself.
When he heard about Mu Sha’s nickname in the army, in an instant, he thought of the Undead Nether Phoenix essence blood he had refined.
At this moment, Li Yan was certain that this should be his bloodline.
Watching Mu Guyue finish so quickly, seemingly unwilling to say more on the matter, Li Yan couldn’t help but feel anxious. So he asked a few more questions in succession.
Like what did Mu Sha cultivate? What was his position in the Black Demon army, and was his combat strength strong or weak in the army? He even asked if Mu Sha had a Dao companion.
But for every question he asked, Mu Guyue would only give a one-sentence answer, not saying much.
Towards the end, Mu Guyue even glared at him. Li Yan’s last question seemed to be about wanting to have a large family with many children and grandchildren.
She had never thought of being surrounded by a noisy crowd of offspring. The thought of it gave her a headache and disturbed her peace.
Li Yan helplessly discovered that he was already a man of few words, but this Mu Guyue was even more aloof and isolated. Even when talking about her own child, he couldn’t hear much of the warmth of the mortal world.
But for Li Yan, family affection was the one thing he found hardest to abandon on his path of cultivation, especially since he now had a descendant.
This could be considered adding another branch to the old Li family. He clearly remembered his parents telling him to get married and have children early. He had gotten married, but he had never had a child…
He didn’t care about the Great Dao being emotionless. As long as it was his close kin, he had to find them.
However, at the same time, looking at Mu Guyue before him, Li Yan thought of Zhao Min and Gong Chenying again, and his emotions began to surge like a tide…
He could have treated the incident with Mu Guyue as a mistake that should never have happened!
He could have felt that everything he had done for Mu Guyue after meeting her this time had already fully repaid her.
Not only had he saved her life, but he had also brought her out of the “Earth-True Domain,” so from now on, they could have nothing to do with each other.
But just a moment later, the situation had turned drastically. Suddenly, there was a descendant named “Mu Sha.”
After calming down, Li Yan actually didn’t know how he would face Zhao Min and Gong Chenying next time.
But soon, all the chaotic thoughts were suppressed by him.
“That… in the Upper Realm, is there also a gathering place for the Black Demon Clan?”
“Yes!”
Mu Guyue didn’t know why Li Yan suddenly stopped asking about Mu Sha. This finally brought a sigh of relief to her heart.
She just needed Li Yan to know of Mu Sha’s existence to avoid a tragic family slaughter. But she didn’t want to say too much, as it might make him recall the scene that happened in the undersea cave…
“After you ascended, why didn’t you go look for your clan?”
Li Yan asked.
“It’s too far. It’s not in the Northern Pastoral Domain!”
Mu Guyue answered.
Hearing this, Li Yan realized it was just as he had guessed. He hadn’t expected that the ascension node Mu Guyue had chosen was similar to his own; it had deviated, and she had arrived in another realm.
“Then in the future, will you go look for your clan?”
“I have such plans. I’ll have to wait until my cultivation is sufficient!”
Mu Guyue didn’t know why Li Yan was asking about this at this time, but she still answered truthfully.
Now, all the grudges between her and Li Yan had been put down. Moreover, she had even told him about Mu Sha, so she had fewer reservations.
“Oh, may I know which realm your clan is located in?”
Li Yan continued to ask.
This time, Mu Guyue finally understood Li Yan’s intention. The emotions that had just calmed down once again stirred strangely.
‘Is… is he planning to go find Mu Sha himself in the future?’
She hesitated for a moment, but still felt that the location of the Black Demon Clan was not really a secret. As long as Li Yan made an effort to inquire, he would definitely be able to find out.
“May I know which realm it is in?”
Seeing Mu Guyue hesitate, Li Yan asked again, a sharp glint flickering in his eyes.
“The Sacrificial Nether Realm!”
This time, Mu Guyue answered quickly.
“Then you don’t need to go anywhere else for now. Come back to the Broken Army Sect with me. I will help you break through to the Spirit Transformation Realm, and then we will travel together, attempt to cross the Heavenly Demon Prairie, and go to the cross-realm grand formation.”
Li Yan paused for a moment, then spoke again.
He didn’t know where the Sacrificial Nether Realm was, but if she wanted to go there, she would have to cross the Heavenly Demon Prairie, just like him.
Now, he could no longer leave Mu Guyue outside. She was just a rogue cultivator, a Late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.
In the Lower Realm, Mu Guyue could roam freely, but here, she was nothing.
“You… you’ll help me break through to Spirit Transformation? You’re going to the Sacrificial Nether Realm too?”
Mu Guyue thought she had misheard. Her phoenix eyes, slanted up to her temples, raised slightly as she stared at Li Yan’s face.
“I was originally planning to leave the Northern Pastoral Realm anyway. As for whether I’ll go to the Sacrificial Nether Realm then, it depends on the direction of the cross-realm grand formation’s teleportation, or whether it can teleport to any major realm at will. Crossing the Heavenly Demon Prairie is extremely dangerous. And in these years, you should have been cultivating the soul cultivation method, so your own cultivation has been stagnating. I want to help you reach Spirit Transformation sooner!”
Li Yan could sense that the resonance between Mu Guyue’s Soul Power and the heavens and earth was already approaching that of a Mid-stage Nascent Soul.
This showed that she had been diligently cultivating the soul cultivation method.
“On what grounds? The comprehension of transcending from mortal to Spirit Transformation is something one must slowly realize on their own. And I can’t borrow your comprehension…”
Mu Guyue could understand Li Yan’s thoughts, but his words puzzled her.
Li Yan himself was still at the Nascent Soul Realm. Was he trying to use words to trick her into staying by his side? She felt that after hearing about Mu Sha, Li Yan might have gotten some other crooked ideas.
Thus, the look she gave Li Yan became vigilant and tinged with a hint of shame and anger.