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Chapter 33

“Damn it!”

Bai Shuo suddenly pushed away the person on top of her and jumped three feet high. The quietly burning medicinal fire was choked by her scream, flickering unsteadily.

Oh my god! How could this demon be here? Didn’t he take the Bodhi tree’s heart back to the demon realm?

On the ground, Fan Yue, with his upper body bare, was thrown down by Bai Shuo. However, his face was no longer the cold and indifferent one from a few hours ago, but rather the young boy’s face that Bai Shuo had met in the mountains three years ago. His jade-like face was now devoid of any blood, his thin lips tightly pressed together, and his brows furrowed. His whole body was curled up, cold sweat pouring from his forehead, trembling as if enduring immense pain. A flickering Bodhi heart fire burned on his chest, seemingly unwilling to be consumed, making a final struggle.

Oh no! Did I accidentally summon him?

Bai Shuo recalled accidentally pricking her finger earlier and wiping it on her forehead, precisely where she had signed a soul contract with Fan Yue.

Bai Shuo swallowed her saliva and clapped her hands vigorously.

Oh my god, you are greedy! You are courting death!

Three hours earlier, on the shore of Fire Ice Island, Bai Shuo had revealed her suspicions with a mischievous look that screamed, “Aren’t I smart? Praise me! Praise me!”

If she were a fox, her tail would have been wagging in spirals by now.

“Even if you guess his identity and know his weaknesses, it’s useless,” Fan Yue said flatly, stepping on her foxtail.

“Why not? As long as I infiltrate and trick him into swallowing blood imbued with your demonic energy, won’t you, the Palace Lord, then descend like a divine weapon and subdue the evil Bodhi?”

“You may be smart, but he’s not foolish. He’s now a semigod. If you approach his true form, he’ll protect his heart with a barrier, isolating my divine consciousness. You can get in, but I can’t. What’s the use? With his spiritual energy, even if his divine energy were damaged, he could still crush you to dust with a single slap.”

Imagining herself being slapped into dust, Bai Shuo shivered, and her face fell.

She paced anxiously before suddenly stopping and turning around.

“I have a way to get you into his barrier.”

Fan Yue raised an eyebrow.

“Oh? What method?”

“Soul contract!”

Fan Yue’s eyes narrowed, a chill flashing within.

The soul contract is a secret method known across the three realms. It’s called a secret not because few know about it but because few sign it.

According to legend, in the ancient God Realm, the demons rebelled, and the ancestor god Qingtian ordered the demons to be trapped in the Nine Purgatory. The Earth Goddess, whose beloved had fallen to the demon side, used her divine life to plant her soul in her lover’s, crossing the Nine Purgatory barrier to reunite with him.

However, the Demon God discovered the Earth Goddess’s presence in Nine Purgatory.

Full of rage, the Demon God, constrained by the god realm, showed no mercy and shattered the Earth Goddess’s soul with one slap. The Earth Goddess controlled all life, and her sudden death caused all living things in the lower three realms to wither.

Furious, Qingtian banned this method.

The method was believed to have been lost, but it later surfaced in the lower three realms, with its details altered by an unknown deity to create a new version of the soul contract.

Nowadays, there are two types of soul contracts. One is an equal agreement allowing both parties to summon each other anytime, ignoring barriers and spatial rules. The other is a master-servant agreement, where only the master can summon the servant.

Despite its spread across the three realms, few sign it.

It’s of little use in cultivation, and it risks being controlled.

If someone meditating or undergoing a tribulation is summoned, it could result in demonic possession.(Qi deviation)

Thus, when Fan Yue’s eyes narrowed with deeper meaning, Bai Shuo quickly grabbed his clothes, anxiously saying, “Palace Lord, don’t get me wrong, I dare not have bad intentions, master and servant! Let’s sign the master-servant kind!”

Though the servant cannot summon the master, the master can still appear instantly upon the servant’s call if the master agrees. But this secret method requires the heart’s blood as a sacrifice, with the higher spiritual energy party initiating the contract.

Bai Shuo shouted loudly but felt uncertain inside. Offering the heart’s blood harms the soul; would this big demon be willing…

Seeing the mocking look in Fan Yue’s eyes, Bai Shuo’s heart skipped a beat. She timidly retracted her hand, dejectedly lowering her head, forcing a dry smile.

What was she thinking? The dignified Lord of Haoyue Palace, a demigod of the demon realm, why would he waste his heart’s blood for a few demigods…

Finally realizing her lowly status in this world of gods, demons, and monsters, Bai Shuo’s face showed self-mockery.

She released Fan Yue’s sleeve, stopped fooling around, and turned to leave.

She couldn’t abandon Ah Zhao. Even if it meant dying, she would try. At worst, she would gamble her life against that evil Bodhi’s identity…

“I agree to the master-servant contract.”

Behind Bai Shuo, Fan Yue’s indifferent voice suddenly sounded.

Bai Shuo turned around in surprise, meeting his pitch-black eyes.

In the medicine hut, the demon fire crackled and burned. Bai Shuo stared at Fan Yue on the ground with a bitter face, on the verge of tears.

Oh my god, she shouldn’t have such bad intentions. If this big demon knew that she had secretly signed an equal soul contract and summoned him by mistake when he was refining the Bodhi tree heart, he would probably slap her to death when he woke up!

What to do, what to do… Bai Shuo paced around the bed like a headless fly when suddenly a spiritual light from the main hall approached the medicine hut.

Ah Zhao?

Normally, Bai Shuo’s half-baked spiritual energy couldn’t sense immortal energy fluctuations. Maybe because she signed the soul contract with Fan Yue, her spiritual consciousness became particularly sharp after leaving Fire Ice Island. She sensed the spiritual light coming from Chong Zhao instantly.

Bai Shuo quickly picked up Fan Yue from the ground and threw him onto the small wooden bed, pulling out an invisibility talisman from her Qiankun bag and slapping it on Fan Yue. Before she could catch her breath, Chong Zhao’s voice already sounded at the door.

“Ah Shuo.”

Tonight’s elusive fate took many turns. Chong Zhao, with Er Yun, had immediately returned to the main hall to report everything that happened to Songfeng. After settling everything on the island, he came to see Bai Shuo without delay.

Afraid that Chong Zhao would detect Fan Yue’s presence, Bai Shuo met him halfway and pulled him outside the medicine hut.

“You’re injured; why not rest more? Quick, quick, go back and meditate to heal…”

Chong Zhao, unaware of the person hiding on the wooden bed, was pulled outside by Bai Shuo. His peripheral vision caught sight of the Bodhi branch burning in the medicine cauldron, anger and self-blame surfacing within him.

“Ah Shuo, from now on, just be a proper half-immortal. Don’t meddle in other matters…”

If Bai Shuo hadn’t been focused on making a high-grade elixir for him, she wouldn’t have been lured to Fire Ice Island by the evil Bodhi. If not for that demigod of the demon realm, Bai Shuo, with her little immortal energy, would have perished long ago.

Seeing the anger in Chong Zhao’s eyes, Bai Shuo felt guilty. Her usual eloquence turned to stone, and she couldn’t speak a word.

Seeing Bai Shuo bow her head silently, Chong Zhao held back his words with a sigh.

“Ah Shuo, you see, being immortal isn’t easy. The three realms aren’t as peaceful as the human world. Now that I’ve become an Immortal Lord, you don’t have to worry about me anymore… Go back to the mortal realm.”

The path to immortality was perilous. Bai Shuo had no immortal fate and couldn’t cultivate the great Dao, yet she had spiritual blood. If one day this secret became known in the three realms… he wouldn’t be able to protect her. When he gets his revenge, he will kill the emperor in the mortal realm and then go to find Ah Shuo.

“No.”

Bai Shuo blurted out, “I haven’t found him yet. I won’t go back.”

As soon as Bai Shuo spoke, she realized something was wrong and quickly looked up.

Sure enough, Chong Zhao’s face changed.

Years ago, Bai Shuo sought immortality to repay a debt, breaking her engagement and leaving home.

Chong Zhao, for her sake, led the Chong family’s private soldiers to storm Muxiao Mountain, causing a huge commotion that led to the massacre of the entire Chong family.

Later, Bai Shuo rescued Chong Zhao, and they sought immortality together, relying on each other and never mentioning that matter again.

All these years, Chong Zhao thought Bai Shuo had let go of it, but she still harbored a desire to find the person whose name and appearance she didn’t even know.

Even though Bai Shuo didn’t know if he was a god, immortal, demon, or monster, he was her obsession.

“You don’t even know if he’s a god, immortal, demon, or monster. How will you find him? Even if you do, what then?”

Chong Zhao’s heart suddenly filled with anger. He said no more and turned into a streak of light, heading to the back mountain.

“Ah Zhao!”

Bai Shuo called out but couldn’t stop him. Seeing him leave in anger, she stomped her foot and slapped her forehead hard.

“Why can’t you keep your mouth shut? Damn it! The big demon!”

Bai Shuo suddenly remembered Fan Yue hidden in the hut. She hurried back inside and found him in the corner, his face deathly pale and his body hunched over, looking like he was on the verge of demonic possession. Panicked and at a loss, her eyes fell on the Bodhi elixir that had just finished refining in the medicine cauldron.

Under the moonlight, Bai Shuo tore off half of the Bodhi elixir and filled a bowl with her own blood. Just as she was about to throw the elixir into the blood, she hesitated, pulling back her hand.

“Wait, wait, wait. What if I save this demon and he wakes up and slaps me to death…?” Bai Shuo cherished her life like gold, and at this time she didn’t forget to think about her own life.

At that moment, the unconscious Fan Yue groaned, his face growing even paler.

“Forget it; let him slap me then.”

Bai Shuo pried open Fan Yue’s mouth, trying to force the elixir down his throat. However, no matter how she tried, the dignified Lord of Haoyue Palace kept his mouth tightly shut, like a gourd with its top sawn off.

Sweat broke out all over Bai Shuo in her anxiety. Seeing the Bodhi heart in Fan Yue’s chest about to break free from his body, she drank a mouthful of the elixir and fed it to him mouth-to-mouth.

The girl’s lips were warm and resolute. She finally pried open the demigod’s mouth and fed the medicine, allowing the elixir to enter. As soon as the Bodhi-infused blood entered Fan Yue’s body, the struggling Bodhi heart flame dissipated into starlight, spreading across his chest. The painful expression on Fan Yue’s face faded. Bai Shuo’s eyes lit up with joy. Just as she was about to stand up, she suddenly felt dizzy and was heavily thrown onto the bed.

The creaking sound of the wooden boards was particularly jarring. Bai Shuo, dazed, looked up and met a pair of cold eyes.

She awkwardly coughed and, with a heartless grin, chuckled, “Hey, Palace Lord, we meet again. We sure have a lot of fate between us, huh?”

 

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