Chapter 89

Chapter 089: Self-Deception

She’s awake!

Bai Qiulan is awake!

With a soft moan, Bai Qiulan opened her eyes, and in that moment, her aura surged, bumping her up two small realms.

The Great Yin Transformation Scripture truly is a fierce cultivation technique; during her sleep, it operated automatically, continuously purging the Chaos Yin Poison.

Purge, absorption by the Nascent Soul, condense.

Then purge again, absorb by the Nascent Soul, and condense again.

Of course, the speed at which the Nascent Soul absorbs can’t compare to the speed of its emergence.

After a moment, Bai Qiulan regained a lot of her body’s temperature.

“You’re awake!”

Yue Hongling and Sun Ruowei exclaimed happily at the same time.

Suddenly, Bai Qiulan frowned, her face changing, “Who touched my clothes?”

“Master, it was me, it was me,” Yue Hongling quickly spoke up.

Bai Qiulan let out a sigh of relief.

“How do you feel now? What’s up with your physique? How can you be at the Unity of Dao Realm and still face such disasters?” Sun Ruowei asked anxiously.

“No worries; I have my own way to deal with my physique. Fainting was just a form of self-protection. It didn’t alarm anyone else, did it?” Bai Qiulan inquired.

Yue Hongling and Sun Ruowei exchanged looks.

“Cough, no!”

Bai Qiulan looked exasperated.

“Come on, spill it. Who did you alarm?”

Just mentioning it ignited Sun Ruowei’s fury.

“Qiulan, what’s going on? Why are there such men around you? There’s Lu Ye, and you begged him to let you go, but he just wouldn’t save you!”

Although Bai Qiulan had already guessed, hearing that Lu Ye was indifferent towards her still chilled her heart.

Fine, perhaps she was a bit too cheap.

Clearly, she didn’t want Lu Ye to save her, yet she felt disappointed when he didn’t.

“It is indeed me not letting him save me; he’s not to blame for this.” Bai Qiulan showed no signs of unusual emotion.

“Forget Lu Ye. You said you didn’t want him to save you, what about Liu Changfeng?”

Bai Qiulan’s face changed drastically.

“Did you let Liu Changfeng try to save me?”

Even though she couldn’t stand her relationship with Lu Ye, traditional thoughts made it hard for her to accept any man other than him.

Her ultimate fate should be to walk alone on the Grand Dao.

“No, no, how could I let Liu Changfeng save you?” Yue Hongling quickly clarified, understanding Bai Qiulan’s reaction.

Bai Qiulan let out a sigh of relief.

“I didn’t ask him to save you; I made him order Lu Ye to save you, yet he didn’t give the order and said I shouldn’t call him by name but should refer to him as Sect Leader. It’s simply too much!” Sun Ruowei said, dissatisfied.

Bai Qiulan understood Liu Changfeng’s reasoning.

Feeling somewhat emotional, she thought, apart from Lu Ye from her previous life, there probably wasn’t anyone who could be so wholeheartedly good to her again.

Yue Hongling hesitated.

Bai Qiulan looked at her, “Do you have something to say?”

“It’s just… Master, do you really not know that your Senior Brother would endure tremendous pain while helping you?” Yue Hongling asked.

Bai Qiulan was taken aback.

“Why do you ask that?”

“When I went to find Senior Brother to save you, I said you didn’t know he would endure immense pain, yet he said you did know.”

Bai Qiulan fell silent.

She didn’t answer the question.

“I’m tired and need to cultivate and rest; you two go do your own thing.”

Not answering was the loudest response.

Yue Hongling couldn’t believe it.

Master, does she really know?

Didn’t she keep insisting she didn’t?

Why?

Why does she obviously know but pretend not to?

What was the reason?

She wanted to ask again but was pulled away by Sun Ruowei.

Bai Qiulan watched the closed door, shut her eyes, and ultimately couldn’t help it, a tear rolling down her cheek.

Of course, she knew Lu Ye was enduring great pain, but she had proactively chosen to forget.

Especially after obtaining the Great Yin Transformation Scripture, Lu Ye wouldn’t have to suffer anymore. Over time, she gradually forgot his past pain.

But she clearly remembered Lu Ye’s identity.

She was the master, and Lu Ye was the disciple!

She was deceiving herself.

Deceiving herself to the point where she believed it; how pathetic.

…

“There’s nothing interesting here!” Lu Ye said, somewhat dissatisfied.

“Ding! Nothing interesting? Yet you’re so engrossed?” the System immediately expressed its displeasure.

“Am I engrossed?”

“Ding! You are!”

“You must be mistaken, but then again, you don’t have eyes, so making a mistake is understandable.”

“Ding! I have eyes, many eyes; I can have as many as I want!”

“All of them are blind!”

“Ding! Your eyes are the blind ones!!!”

Lu Ye and the System exchanged barbs for a while, then tidied up his storage ring, feeling pretty good.

“Speaking of which, it’s been a while since I returned to the sect; why haven’t those factions reacted? If there’s no response soon, I should go find the Deadwood.”

The Deadwood was a crucial treasure for him to condense three lives.

He knew where it was.

The reason he hadn’t left the Grand Dao Sect was to wait for the various sects to strike against it, planning to leave right under their noses, drawing all the fire onto himself.

Since the Grand Dao Sect sealed itself upon returning, Lu Ye had no clue about the current situation outside.

He didn’t know that all forty-six Transcending Tribulation Realm experts had perished, and this news was spreading rapidly in the Great Wilderness.

It was spreading so fast it was almost terrifying.

The entire Great Wilderness was in an uproar.

“Forty-six Transcending Tribulation Realm? Fifty-seven Questioning Dao Realm? All wiped out?”

“Heavens, is the Heavenly Mechanism playing a joke on us? All the forces in the Great Wilderness combined don’t amount to that many Transcending Tribulation Realm powers!”

For example, the Grand Dao Sect sent nineteen Transcending Tribulation Realm experts in an all-out effort to save Lu Ye.

Adding up the five great sects, three great dynasties, and one Eternal Order Sect, the total was at most around two hundred Transcending Tribulation experts.

Because the Grand Dao Sect’s number in this realm was definitely above average.

Moreover, on top of these elite forces, there were also the hidden Infernal and Heavenly Pavilion. This meant that at least one-seventh of the Transcending Tribulation Realm experts in the First Heaven had been taken out.

That’s one-seventh of the Transcending Tribulation Realm dead!

Yin-Yang Sect, Supreme Imperial Court, their strong ones were nearly gone.

The Robber Sect and Mountain River Pagoda Sect were regretting so deeply it was painful.

They used to have a relatively good relationship with the Grand Dao Sect, being amicable whenever they met.

Just look at how Xu Mozhi gifted treasures to Bai Qiulan.

Yet now, it transformed into this mess.

Not only did they become enemies with the Grand Dao Sect, but they also lost so many powerful figures; countless young talents were wounded or killed, leaving significant gaps behind.

With their strongmen gone and potential lost.

These factions felt completely dazed.

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