Faceted Jade a.k.a Carven Jade [ENG Translation]

CHAPTER 43

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I know the person you are...
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"Then you... then why did you come only now?" Something didn't feel right to Fu Changling. The person in front of him didn't look at all like he'd come to his rescue after eight years. He cautiously asked, "Did something happen to you?"

"The night after you had a mishap, Shīfu asked me to reinforce the Xuanji Secret Realm." Qin Yan's voice sounded very calm. "I set off from the Hongmeng Heavenly Palace right away, and it took me nearly seven days to reach the Cliff of Ten Thousand Bones."

Qin Yan gave a precise description of the span of time. He set out on the second day and arrived at the Cliff of Ten Thousand Bones in seven days. To summarise, it took a total of eight days.

While only eight days had passed for Qin Yan, for Fu Changling, it had already been eight years.

In an instant, Fu Changling understood everything. For a moment, he was torn between feeling happy and sad. He found it somewhat ridiculous, yet he also felt slightly glad.

He briefly went into a trance. Without prodding him, Qin Yan waited silently for him to say something. After gradually calming down, Fu Changling suddenly realised something odd. He couldn't stop himself from repeating, "Is this the Cliff of Ten Thousand Bones?"

"Correct."

"It took you a total of eight days from the time of that incident to get here?"

"Right."

"It takes at least fourteen days to set out from the Hongmeng Heavenly Palace to the Cliff of Ten Thousand Bones, but you made it in seven days?"

Qin Yan remained silent and said nothing. Fu Changling stared at him quietly, trembling slightly inside. He couldn't help but recall that when he picked him up last night, Qin Yan's previous injuries hadn't fully recovered, and he had overexerted himself. He originally thought that Qin Yan had gone through something else in these eight years, and that was why he had ended up in such a predicament. However, it wasn't until now that he realised this person had actually rushed here without a wink of sleep or a break.

"You knew I was here?"

Qin Yan was silent and speechless, and only after a long time did he answer, "I guessed it."

With that, he explicitly explained, "I saw some images from the teleportation array. It was a land of extreme Yīn. In Yunze, there aren't many places like this. A temporary teleportation array, albeit teleporting randomly, always has some kind of intrinsic correlation. The teleportation array you activated in the Xuanji Secret Realm, which is one of the seals of the Karma Prison's energy channels, is linked to the other energy channels' three seals. It's quite possible that you were randomly teleported around the other energy channels' three seals, and the Cliff of Ten Thousand Bones is the only land of extreme Yīn among these energy channels' three seals."

After Qin Yan's explanation, Fu Changling understood. "So, without stopping to sleep or rest, you rushed all the way here just to save me."

Qin Yan's expression stiffened. In the face of such a stark exposure of his efforts, he seemed to be feeling a little awkwardly uncomfortable.

Staring at the person before him, Fu Changling smiled. Suddenly, he felt the urge to reach out and hug him.

Qin Yan was someone who was used to not saying anything when he carried out something. What he did for you was what he wanted to do, without expecting anything in return or even wanting you to know about it.

It was precisely this unwillingness to beseech gratitude that made it so pure and praiseworthy.

Fortunately, reason intervened before he did anything. Fu Changling crossed his arms over his chest, leaned against the table's edge, coughing softly, and said, "I see. Please don't take anything I said earlier too seriously because it was impulsive. I only realise now that one year here equals one day outside..."