"Did you hear the sound of something shattering?"
"Maybe their situation was too intense." Lin yuhao smiled plausibly and knocked the door of the lounge.
"Nie-ge,are you in there?"
"En"Nie chenyuan slowly bent down and approached Qing yun's tender immature face.
Qing yun's face remained unchanged as he stayed calm and composed. seeing this,Nie chenyuan couldn't help but sighed as he admired and appreciated the youth underneath him.
"Nie-ge?"
It was silent behind the door,but there was a faint sound of door opening.Nie chenyuan rose slightly and facing in the direction of the door,he used a hoarse voice to say,"yuhao, you'll spoil my moment if you come in at this time."
Lin yuhao couldn't help but show a derisive smile after seeing the two overlapping figures on the sofa through the small gap when he opened the door.Easily blinded by beauty. Leaving Nie family in Nie chenyuan's hand would be no good,it is better for him to use it.
He closed the door and took hold of his partner and turned away,"I'm afraid Nie-ge is busy at the moment, I'll greet him later."
The Tao of heaven's presence drifted away until it slowly dissipated.
However, Qing yun didn't dare to relax and remained focus on Lin Yuhao's movements.
"Still haven't touched enough?"
Nie chenyuan whispered softly into Qing yun's ear.
Qing yun returned to his senses in an instant and kicked Nie chenyuan down onto the sofa while heading to the bathroom.
Nie chenyuan sat on the floor not knowing whether to laugh or cry,"Are you the type to play and go? Crossing the bridge and then burning it down?"
The presence of Tao of heaven had completely withdrawn from this world.
Qing yun breathed a sigh of relief as he carelessly washed off his blood stains under the flowing water along with the place Nie chenyuan just touched.
Being a cautious person by nature, Qing yun acted as if he let down his guard at the moment, but secretly scrutinized the man on the sofa.
"You are....Nie chenyuan?" Qing yun asked tentatively,enouncing the three words "Nie chenyuan" distinctly.
Nie chenyuan looked at him in suprise.he gave him a light smile and said,"you know me?"
Sure enough.
Before, when the Tao of heaven tried to annihilate Qing yun's soul, he forced himself to devour some of the heaven's energy to fake his death. After all there was a difference between the energy that the Tao of heaven used to kill him and wound him. All this energy lead to Qing yun's body being destroyed.
However Qing yun's soul still contained the remaining power left by the Tao of heaven which impelled him to continuously reincarnate.
In addition, when the two energies collided and merged during a critical moment,it reconstructed Qing yun's soul,granting him special abilities.
It was only because of that he was able to escape into this small world without any obstacles. Moreover Qing yun's soul can also disregard the rules laid by the Tao of heaven, allowing him to extract information about the world's plot and some of the characters.
Since Nie chenyuan is the "protagonist's "stepping stone in order for him to improve, Qing yun was able to identify him.
But can he still leave this world?
Qing yun stared at himself in the mirror and splashed a handful of icy cold water on his face. He can leave, but it will need something. And he had a strong feeling that it has something to do with the protagonist.
Nie chenyuan seems to be very interested in Qing yun. Although Qing yun didn't pay attention to him,he guessed Qing yun's identity.
"Knowing me indicates that you must be from the guwu association.you're already a high school student,yet you are still afraid of Lin yuhao."
Wenyan Qing yun frowned and shook off the water droplets on his hand. The protagonist? He was never afraid.
"You're from the Qing family" Nie chenyuan finally realised who Qing yun was,but he felt that there was something strange,"the Qing family had only one descendent.Qing haolin is dead and left behind a good-for-nothing son. So based on this information,you shouldn't belong to the Qing family."
Qing yun laughed lightly," well, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I'm that good-for-nothing son."
Nie chenyuan's eyes widened in astonishment.
Due to his relationship with Lin yuhao,he naturally knew about Qing yun. Because the two were step brothers, they were always compared.
Lin yuhao was naturally gifted. He is a kind and tenacious man who is considered the favoured son in the guwu community. On the other hand, Qing yun is like a harmless and cowardly sheep, without any useful abilities.
In Nie chenyuan's perspective,Lin yuhao was already a strong and promising person. While Qing yun was still living under the patronage of his family. Without protection of Qing haolin,he was powerless.
The reason why Qing yun has attracted people's attention this time was due to Lin yuhao choosing the Qing family.
Nie chenyuan's eyes were glued to Qing yun's thin but upright figure and slowly lit a cigarette for himself. He had always been interested in the strong, never the weak. But he had never expected to judge a person wrongly.
"Click."
The fire sprang up,and the scent of tobacco pervaded the room.Qing yun subconsciously frowned.
Nie chenyuan looked at Qing yun's injuries and advised him,"You should not avoid yuhao,in the end he is still your brother. It's better off following him than living on your own. Moreover, your mother is in his hands."
He said this believing that Qing yun's injuries were caused by the fights he fought in to make a living.
Qing yun sneered and with a look of sadness present in his eyes,"what's wrong huh? You want me to live in peace with my father's enemy? Oh,but I'm afraid that if I follow him,it won't be long before I die as well."
He looked down at his palm. The wound there was healing very quickly, now barely visible.Qing yun's soul is too strong,and although more than half of it was damaged,it was enough for him to reform this body. These injuries are nothing now.
"There will be no accidents."Lin yuhao smiled with some malice as he was speaking on the phone."He was badly injured with a destroyed Dantian and was even rolled down a mountain. How could he still be alive?"
"Heart cultivation method?"( It was a method to strengthen the mentality)
Hearing the enquiry of the voice on the other side of the phone,Lin yuhao frowned. After defeating Qing haolin, he took his mother away. His mother had brought over the martial art methods and the Qing family's assets. But only Qing haolin and his son knew about heart cultivation method. Now that they are both dead,he obviously couldn't find where the manual for that technique was located.
"There's no chance that a second generation spoiled kid like him has a good mindset." He sneered.
"If your mother knew that Qing yun's death was caused by you...."
"That's impossible." Lin Yuhao's smile remained unchanged, but his eyes slowly turned cold. "I'm afraid that woman already knows. So what?who would care about Qing yun's life and death except for his dead father."
Lin yuhao smiled faintly at the desolate forest outside the villa. He's afraid there would be no bones left.(T/N: he's sarcastic).He hung up the phone and walked into the hall.
The hall was full of voices,and all the famous people of the guwu community gave a warm welcoming to this martial arts genius.
Nie chenyuan smiled helplessly at Qing yun and said," I know you can't accept the misfortune the befell on your family, but Qing haolin was indeed guilty for what had happened in the past. Furthermore his death has nothing to do with yuhao.Just arriving on the scene only to be kicked out.
"And yuhao wouldn't embarrass his own brother.."
"Bang!"
Qing yun kicked the tea table infront of Nie chenyuan. The perfume bottles on top shook and fell due to the sudden movement and they made a "cling" sound when hitting the wooden floor.
"You don't understand human speech,do you?"
Qing yun's eyes were red. He bowed his head and approached Nie chenyuan. His breathing was chaotic as a result of being aggravated with anger. " He said it was my father's mistake,so it becomes my father's mistake?my mother was forced yet the 18 year-old me didn't know. Everyone of you outsiders could clearly see it. My father died in the hospital in less than a week before their duel. And you're telling me that he had nothing to do with it??? He such a magnanimous human being that there would be no way in hell he would trouble me. So these injuries on my body were made by myself?"
How come the protagonist is right,no matter what he says and does,and how come he the thousand year old villain who had been minding his own business, couldn't escape the everlasting amount of pots that fell onto him from the sky?(T/N: This means he's always being blamed for no reason).
Qing yun doesn't belong to heaven (T/N:not a protagonist) but a normal person. He has never done anything unacceptable or immoral,so why is he continuously subjected to the protagonist's attack,one after the other?
Those protagonists have everyone at their beck and call while having numerous backers,yet he worked so hard only to end up bedridden, like a rat in the street that everyone wishes to kill, only to be used as their stepping stone.
Is it because that the Tao of heaven defined him as a villain that he should suffer in hell?
Qing yun's eyes flashed with a trace of anger, it's too bad it doesn't matter if the protagonist was appointed by the Tao of heaven,if he wants to kill then he will kill. On the contrary,he is a villain that has not been suppressed by the Tao of heaven and had even lived for thousands of years under the curse of the whole world!
He won't stop even in this world(T/N:the killings, I believe). And whatever he has to gain in order to leave this world won't be in the protagonist's hands now,nor will it be in the future. But since it is right now, he'll snatch it back.
Qing yun straightened up, releasing his hold on Nie chenyuan's collar and wiped his hands with a paper towel on the table.
He laughed softly and spoke with a rude tone. It seemed like that outbreak of grief and indignation was all an illusion.
"Nie chenyuan, You have a blocked meridian and cannot live longer than five years".
"But I can fix it in response to paying off the debt I owe to you, what do you think?" He raised his face and looked deeply into Nie chenyuan's eyes.
Nie chenyuan also contributed to Qing yun's previous outbreak,and a particular feeling aroused from his heart. But Qing yun's following sentence gradually made his face grow colder.
It was an open secret that his meridians are blocked. Over the past years, many people have been plotting against the Nie family under this pretext. He didn't expect that this Qing yun who interested him a lot, decided to do the same.
Nie chenyuan released a breath of smoke to hide the disappointment in his eyes. He thought that this child would have more interesting reasons to approach him.
"Who sent you here?"
His voice was dull and he looked down at the cigarette in his hand.
"Just compensation, I don't like owing people things. It's your choice."
Qing yun seems to be unconcerned but in reality,he has no choice but to care.
He doesn't know exactly what it is that he has to get in order to leave this world, but it's always right to oppose the protagonist.
What to steal first? he'll rob the protagonist off his younger brother.(T/N:underling)
The Nie family became Lin Yuhao's greatest help later on. Although Nie chenyuan was considered a disabled person in the world of martial arts, the Nie family held the economic life line of the whole guwu circle. In other words,if the Nie family cease to exist,then the families in the guwu community would only be left with their martial arts manuals and suffer in misery. So Lin Yuhao was obligated to acknowledge the Nie family.
Moreover the most important part is the congenital Qi deposited in Nie chenyuan's meridians.Lin yuhao had absorbed Nie chenyuan's congenital Qi when he was cleansing his meridians to reach the highest level of this world: First heaven.
Qing yun was curious to know how Lin yuhao would go about if the Nie family doesn't exist.
"You can go." Nie chenyuan's voice was deep as he put out his cigarette. "I'm in a good mood today so I won't bother you."
Qing yun's eyes narrowed.
"Wait!" an old voice sounded from the lounge door.