Chapter 319: Two Souls
“You’re thinking too much into it.”
The man let out a soft laugh before he said: “Since that heart has been given to him, then it belongs to him now. There is no use for me to go take it back from him.”
He lowered his eyes to glance at his hands, and they seemed to look a little more vague and faint than before. His lips could not help stiffening slightly as he went on to say self mockingly: “For someone who does not even have a flesh body shell, it wouldn’t matter that much whether he has a heart or not.”
Those words sounded highly defeatist, like he was giving up on himself.
Qing Yu was just about to open his mouth to say something when he saw the man’s footsteps suddenly come to a halt.
She raised her eyes puzzledly. “Why…..”
Her voice suddenly trailed off.
Not too far ahead in the distance, was a man standing there quietly.
This place they had come to looked as if they were now in a different dimension from the route they had taken so far. It was not known when snow had started to fall from the sky, to land all over their hair and clothes.
But as Qing Yu was wearing all white clothes, the snow that fell on her wasn’t that obvious to see.
And the tall shadowy figure in front was clad in all black, strikingly visible against the white snowy ground. The wide and loose hem of those clothes flapped noisily under the gusty chill wind, his dark black hair and clothes making him look cold and forbidding.
For a brief instant, the figure seemed to feel somewhat familiar.
The man seemed to have spotted them as well and the figure started to move towards them, his feet bringing him closer with every step. As the man came closer, Qing Yu could then see the man’s countenance clearly, and recognized the man to be Lian Shi.
But the man was someone who was always seen to be genteel, clad in elegant green or untainted white, always looking every inch a modest gentleman, clean and refreshing as a spring breeze.
This was the first time seeing him dressed in stoic and stern black clothes like this, looking so mysterious and unfathomable, his presence grim and imposing.
And the closer he came, the more unusual Qing Yu found him to be.
Back then, because he was telling her about the things that had happened to him in the past, he had come to reveal his violet irises before her. But that had been for just a brief moment, before his eyes quickly reverted back to their original black shade.
However, right at that moment, his eyes had remained violet throughout, the colour captivatingly deep and intense, his body exuding a devilishly evil aura. His originally fair complexion had become more pale, almost an unhealthy shade of white, looking like someone from the vampiric race who shunned from sunlight all their lives.
Qing Yu’s eyes widened in surprise. How did he….. become like this?
“It looks like my reappearance has affected him in some way.” The man beside her seemed to realize something, his violet eyes narrowed as his voice sounded sombrely.
Qing Yu turned to look at him. But that one glance caused her to be stunned in place for a moment, like she had just discovered something strange.
The countenance of the two men, actually….. looked exactly alike.
The clothes the two of them wore were complete opposites, one in black and one in white, as if they were two personalities at two opposing extremes, vessels that stood for kindness against evil, the highly differing auras emitting from their bodies striking the clearest and most conspicuous contrast.
In the end, the evil black clothed Lian Shi slowly came to stand right before them.
“It’s been quite a long time.” He said softly, and one could even hear that his voice carried a nefarious tinge.
Those deep and devilishly alluring violet eyes were highly nonchalant as they flitted lightly over Qing Yu, which caused her gaze to constrict sharply as she felt strangely creeped out for an instant.
“It has indeed been a long time.” That gentle sounding voice, had come out from the mouth of the man beside Qing Yu.
It was as if the two men had exchanged their souls into each other’s body.
Qing Yu was a little dumbfounded watching from the side, unable to react at that moment, not fully comprehending the situation before her eyes.
“You do not seem to be surprised to see me.” The gentle white clothed Lian Shi said with an almost indistinguishably faint smile at the corners of his lips, his voice slow and soft as it sounded.
The black clothed Lian Shi scoffed disdainfully and then said: “Your heart is still here, how could you be dead.”
That was not a question, but an affirmative statement.
Back when the guy had revived him with this demonic heart, he had already known it. But he had never thought that a whole million years would pass just like that. It had been so long that he had almost forgotten about the entire matter.
The heart in his body, belonged to this man before him, the person who was the mightiest of the demon race. The demonic heart of the child of the devil was naturally unlike any ordinary heart. It possessed its own consciousness and was able to recognize its owner.
Hence, it was naturally able to sense that its real owner had returned, and was reacting so strongly.
“For you to have come, you must have come to a decision on something. I would think that it is time, that this heart is returned back to you.” The black clothed Lian Shi’s face was cold and expressionless, his voice pausing at every word. “Even though I have lived for so many years using your heart, I am however, not thankful to you for that.”
Who let him decide whether he was to live or die?
If he had not been resurrected back then, the outcome would have been different, and the person who would be remembered forever, would have been him.
Things would not be what it is now, with her being so estranged from him, his heart dead as settled ash.
“Neither do I need any gratitude from you.” White clothed Lian Shi said with a soft laugh, and then looked at him to continue to say: “But I had not thought that my reappearance would affect you so greatly.”
It was clear to see that his looks at that moment, was exactly how the original Lian Shi had looked so many years back then, the mightiest and most powerful entity among the demon race. The demonic heart had not only altered the black clothed Lian Shi’s body constitution, it had also changed the man’s looks and demeanor, to become like its original owner.
“It is enough for me that you were able to accompany Ming Yue by her side all this time. My reappearance here would not change anything at all.” The white clothed Lian Shi said in a soft voice.
“Tsk.” A sliver of scorn came onto a corner of the black clothed Lian Shi’s face. “Accompany Ming Yue by her side?”
His hand slowly rose up to touch his own face. “Even though I have come to look exactly like you, I am not even able to become your substitute in her heart. I have been the one who remained by her side for the past million years, but that vague and blurry shadow of you still cannot be wiped away from her heart. Since you have now returned, then let everything end already. After so many long years, it is time that she wake up from that….. Dream.”
Hearing those words, the white clothed Lian Shi seemed a little surprised. “You were not like this in the past. From what I know, even though you were merely just a human, you were highly tenacious and strong, but you have now lost your self confidence.”
“What am I like in your eyes?” The black clothed Lian Shi laughed out loud, but there was so much bitterness in that laughter. “Someone who only knew how to follow Ming Yue wherever she went, a foolish kid who was thoroughly being used but would still ignorantly jump right into it time and time again.”
In the next instant, the man’s highly negative emotions then shifted quickly, the evil smile curling up on his face once again. “I’ve had enough of this. I do not want to see this face that looks the same as yours. I do not want to see her staring in mesmerization at this damned face of yours all the time anymore, so just let this heart be returned to its original owner!”
He had not done that himself because only the real owner of the demonic heart knew how to extract it out from one’s body, and there was nothing he could do.
Hearing that, the white robed Lian Shi let out a soft sigh. “Do you really need to do that? She merely has not realized what her own heart truly feels. The day will come where she will understand that you are the person who suits her the best.”
“But you have returned haven’t you? Do you really think that I still stand a chance of getting her to even glance at me with you around?”
“I have not returned, but have only come here to fulfil a person’s request. Once I am done with the deed, I would not be here anymore.” The white clothed Lian Shi said slowly, as he looked at the man.
Fulfil a person’s request?
The black clothed Lian Shi subconsciously turned to look at Qing Yu, seemingly a little taken by surprise. This young lady….. was actually able to convince the man to help her?
As to what the request was, he didn’t really need to guess to know what it entailed.
“Let’s not waste anymore time and just bring me to go see Ming Yue will you? The longer we drag this, the bigger the change in you will be, and you might very well just fall into devilry.” The white clothed Lian Shi said as he shook his head helplessly. “It took so much for you to achieve an immortal body in your path of cultivation, do not let all of that end up to be for nothing.”
The black clothed Lian Shi was silent for a while, seemingly considering the truthfulness behind those words. A short moment later, he finally agreed.
But before any of them did anything, they heard a woman’s icy menacing voice reverberate around them.
“I’ve finally found you, my little one. To think that you were able to escape. I have really underestimated you…..”
Qing Yu froze in place, her body tensing up warily as she turned her gaze towards the source of the voice.
Upon the wide expansive snowy grounds, a group of people have suddenly appeared, all of them women.
The woman in the lead, was extremely beautiful with an exquisite countenance, cold and alluring. But the expression on that face, was glacial and chilly, like ice that would never melt over thousands of years, feeling like it could freeze a person solid just by looking at it.
“Yan Po?”
The black clothed Lian Shi’s brows knitted up slightly, like he had not expected that she would find them all the way out here.
“Lotus Supreme Godly King, I am surprised that I would find you here with the little one here. It makes me wonder whether you are here to help her escape, or do we share the same objective, and you are here to bring her back.”
The edges of Yan Po’s lips were stiff and grim, as she said those words in a tone that felt neither warm nor cold.
Those words seemed to be accusing him of having intentionally released Qing Yu from captivity, and was now secretly helping the young lady run away.
Black clothed Lian Shi’s face turned even darker in an instant, a menacing aura flaring up around him, an invisible force that could unknowingly take a person’s life.
Yan Po had naturally sensed the change that came over the man and she could not help but feel startled deep inside. How did this man’s aura grow to become so evil and tyrannical, and with those startlingly intense violet eyes against his demonically pale countenance, he looked just like a terrifying devil.
Has Lian Shi….. fallen into devilry?
However, Yan Po’s gaze had only been looking at him. It was only when the white clothed Lian Shi turned his body around that the woman’s eyes flared wide with pure and utter shock, with everyone behind her showing the same stunned expression on their faces.
To suddenly see two different people’s faces looking exactly alike, anyone would come to be shocked.
What is going on here? How could there be two Lian Shi! ?
Is this some kind of illusory technique! ?
“Who….. is the real Lian Shi here?” Yan Po’s eyes were chilly, her gaze swiveling over the two figures, one clad in black and one in white, her voice quivering hesitantly, filled with surprise and doubt.
“What, can you tell?” White clothed Lian Shi said with a soft laugh.
Clearly, he was giving Yan Po the feeling he was more like the Lian Shi she knew.
And, Lian Shi was always seen to be genteel and even tempered before everyone all the time, and she had never seen Lian Shi when his dark side surfaced before. Moreover, he had always been someone who was unfathomable and impossible to read.
Hence, Yan Po was a little mystified at that moment.
She had come all the way out here to capture the little lass who escaped but was caught in such a tough predicament.