94: I can save you

"...Liu Yanran is dead."

Hearing this, Lin Chen picked up the white jade teacup and gently blew away the foam. His movements didn't pause for a moment, and even his eyelashes didn't flicker, as if he had heard the name of a stranger.

"Oh?"

He responded flatly, his tone without any fluctuation, signaling Chu Nansheng to continue.

"...Since she was kicked out of the Wending Sect by the Sect Master that day, she had nowhere to go and could only wander around like a headless fly."

"Later, she accidentally went to a Desolate Demon Realm with thin Spiritual Qi and chaotic order. It was a gathering place for Loose Cultivators, Evil Cultivators, and fugitives. There, she met an Evil Cultivator who called himself 'Perfected Lord Hundred Gu'."

"This person only has an Early Stage Nascent Soul cultivation and struggles at the bottom of the demon realm. He is best at deception and refining some sinister Medicinal Pills and Gu insects."

"Perfected Lord Hundred Gu lied to her, saying there was a secret 'Concentric Fate-Transferring Gu'. He said that as long as it was planted, she could share life and death with you, Sect Master, and she would be able to change your mind and return to your side."

"..."

As Chu Nansheng spoke, he watched Lin Chen's reaction out of the corner of his eye.

But Lin Chen's expression was indifferent as he leisurely drank his tea, as if listening to the story of a completely irrelevant person.

Chu Nansheng breathed a sigh of relief and continued:

"Liu Yanran acted as if she had grabbed onto a final life-saving straw and believed it to be true."

"She didn't know that the reason Perfected Lord Hundred Gu deceived her was merely to get her to voluntarily open her mind, undergo Fusion with the Gu insect, and become the best medicinal primer for refining the 'Human Origin Great Pill'!"

"..."

"In the end, although she discovered the truth, her flesh and blood had already been drained by the Gu insect. Her Golden Core was forcibly refined, her soul was extracted, and along with several types of filthy poisons, she was thrown into the Pill Furnace and refined into a sinister-looking Medicinal Pill."

"..."

After Chu Nansheng finished speaking, he stopped talking and stood quietly to the side.

Lin Chen slowly took a sip of the spiritual tea. The warm tea went down his throat, bringing a hint of spiritual charm.

He put down the teacup, his gaze sweeping over the boundless sea of clouds outside the window. He finally spoke, his voice showing no ripples, only an indifference that pierced through the world: "One brings trouble upon oneself."

This was a cultivation world where the strong preyed on the weak.

Previously, Liu Yanran had Lin Chen's protection and had no clear understanding of this world at all.

Only after she went out and came into contact with the cruelty of this world would she understand that the world was not as beautiful as she imagined. Except for her Master, her Master's Wife, and himself who had been kept in the dark before, no one would indulge her.

However... with her brain, she probably wouldn't regret it even at the end.

She would only feel that Lin Chen was heartless and had abandoned her.

It was very likely that even in the final moments of her life, she was still constantly cursing him.

Forget it.

The person is dead; there's no point in thinking so much.

True disregard is not anger or mockery, but complete irrelevance.

Her life and death made no difference to Lin Chen.

Lin Chen waved his hand slightly, as if brushing away a speck of insignificant dust: "Let this matter end here; there's no need to mention it again. As for that Perfected Lord Hundred Gu... make arrangements to send him on his way! Remember, don't let him die too easily."

"Yes."

Chu Nansheng bowed and accepted the order, his figure quietly fading away as if he had never appeared.

And Lin Chen, just as before, sat on the deck, leisurely sipping spiritual tea, his star-like eyes as calm as a deep well. Below the battleship, the bustling scenes of the Imperial Continent were rapidly receding, forming streaks of afterimages.

Half a month later, the battleship arrived at the Misty Rain Tower... "Tower Master Yu has quite the good fortune!"

Seeing two maidservants, one in green and one in red, attending to him, it would be a lie to say Lin Chen wasn't envious.

Qingniao wore a green dress and was tall and slender.

Sweet Potato wore a red dress and had a voluptuous figure.

The two complemented each other, a feast for the eyes and a true visual treat. Unfortunately... Yu Xuanji's body was far too weak to enjoy such blessings.

And looking at his current state, he probably wouldn't last more than a few months.

"Does Sect Master Lin like them?"

Yu Xuanji suddenly asked.

"I do."

Lin Chen admitted it openly.

"Sect Master Lin is truly frank."

"I'd rather be an honest rogue than a hypocrite. If I like something, I like it; if I don't, I don't. What's there to be embarrassed about admitting? To clearly like something but pretend to be disgusted by it—that's what I call disgusting."

"...Haha, *cough cough cough*... Sect Master Lin is right, *cough cough*..."

Yu Xuanji coughed violently, even coughing up quite a bit of blood.

But he wasn't flustered at all; he was even quite happy because his wish had been fulfilled, and in the final moments of his life, he had met Lin Chen, a fellow honest rogue... Some people remain strangers even after their hair turns white.

Others become old friends at first sight.

And Lin Chen was that friend whom he felt he could talk to the moment they met.

It was just a pity that his life had now come to an end.

It was a pity... they hadn't met sooner.

"Sect Master Lin."

Yu Xuanji laughed and laughed, then his face suddenly turned solemn as he said seriously, "Since you like them so much, I will give them both to you, Sect Master Lin. How about it?"

"Can you bear to part with them?"

Lin Chen squinted at him.

"What do you think?"

Yu Xuanji said with a faint smile.

However, before Lin Chen could speak, Qingniao and Sweet Potato both knelt down, tears streaming down their faces: "Sweet Potato (Qingniao) would rather die than leave the Young Master!"

"No one lives forever."

Yu Xuanji appeared very calm: "I don't have many days left. After I die, follow Sect Master Lin well. Treat him as you treated me, and do not have any second thoughts. Sect Master Lin... will not mistreat you..."

"...No, don't."

Qingniao and Sweet Potato both cried even harder.

Both of them came from humble beginnings, and Yu Xuanji had saved their lives. Later, with Yu Xuanji's help, they had Cultivated all the way to the Supreme Realm.

To them, Yu Xuanji was more than just a Master.

His kindness was like giving them a second life.

Under their close protection, combined with his attainments in the Dao of Divination, Yu Xuanji could avoid danger in advance. Thus, even though he had no cultivation, almost no one in the Cangxuan Realm could threaten his life.

It was just that... his own life was slowly slipping away.

"You don't have to be like this; don't let others see you as a joke."

Yu Xuanji helped the two up, gently wiped the tears from their faces, and smiled: "Go and get the account books of the Misty Rain Tower."

"Young Master..."

The two didn't move.

"Go."

Yu Xuanji waved his hand.

Qingniao's eyes were blurred with tears, and she still didn't move. In the end, it was Sweet Potato who suppressed her grief and walked inside.

After a short while, Sweet Potato held an account book, hesitated for a moment, and presented it to Lin Chen.

Yu Xuanji looked at Lin Chen: "This account book records all the assets, personnel, and other detailed information of the Misty Rain Tower. Along with this Tower Master Token, I am giving them all to you now. From now on... the Misty Rain Tower is yours."

Yu Xuanji was indeed as good as his word.

The Misty Rain Tower was one of the five top powers in the Imperial Continent. After the Taiyi Immortal Sect was destroyed, the Misty Rain Tower was one of the remaining four top powers.

Such a massive entity, yet Yu Xuanji gave it away without hesitation.

But Lin Chen didn't move either.

Sweet Potato's jade-like hands, holding the account book, froze in mid-air.

Lin Chen stared straight at Yu Xuanji. After a long while, he said something that made everyone's heart tremble: "Do you want to die that badly? If I said I could save you, you wouldn't have to die...?"