Chapter 33: Catching Fish. Bad News: The Black Lotus is Completely Clinging to Him…
In this world, besides Ning Zhou and his aunt, the person Su Chao liked most was his cute little cousin who would sweetly call him “Brother”. Even his parents, who had passed away many years ago, had to rank behind him.
Thus, after seeing the intertwined auras of the two, blood rushed to Su Chao’s head. His vision went dark, and he wished he could kill that dog thief right then and there.
But his brother had grown up and had his own ideas. He actually blocked the way firmly, not letting him beat the guy. Su Chao’s heart ached like it was being twisted.
Back then, he shouldn’t have left Huan-er alone on the mountain to avoid Ji Heng’s search. How could he forget that Senior Sister Feng was the worst at raising children!
When the Su family fell, his aunt sent him to Lichen Mountain. Senior Sister Feng clamored to raise him personally. If he hadn’t reached Foundation Establishment quickly, he would have nearly starved to death on the mountain.
And now, after raising him for only four years, she had raised him into such an easily deceived character!
Su Chao regretted it deeply.
Watching Su Chao gnashing his teeth one moment and beating his chest the next, Su Huan gulped. He felt that his cheap brother’s mental state didn’t seem very beautiful.
Better not provoke him.
Ning Zhou gloated on the side: “Ah Chao, since your brother has made his choice, why care how the two of them mix? Maybe they even think you’re meddling.”
Receiving a punch from his own Dao Companion, he clutched his stomach with a pained expression but remained unrepentant: “I didn’t say anything wrong. You care so much about him, but what about him? He used your identity with peace of mind for so many years, never asking about your life or death, not even a single sentence…”
veins bulged on Su Chao’s temples, and he explained patiently: “That’s because Huan-er and I swapped memories. Huan-er doesn’t remember anything.”
Ning Zhou was stunned.
Speaking of this point, Su Chao couldn’t help but be entranced.
His thoughts drifted back to four years ago. The first thing the youth, who had just lost his mother, did upon waking up in the shell was to go back and kill his father. His aura surged and plummeted violently, so chaotic he almost fell into the demonic path.
The sixteen-year-old half-grown youth cried until his voice was hoarse, desperately trying to go down the mountain. Bound firmly by his master with the Immortal-Binding Rope, he curled up on the ground looking at him silently, eyes full of pleading.
Pitiful, but also noisy enough to cause a headache.
As a last resort, he begged his master to seal the youth’s memories and give him his own memories instead, letting him be just the carefree little junior brother on Lichen Mountain… Oh no, he heard Master took another disciple later. Huan-er is the Fourth Junior Brother now.
Pity.
Thinking of this, Su Chao couldn’t help glaring at a certain person surnamed Ning. The person, realizing he was terribly wrong, touched his nose sheepishly, not daring to utter a sound.
Su Chao withdrew his gaze and sighed helplessly.
He pulled Su Huan’s hand and instructed earnestly: “Since Huan-er fancies this guy, I, as your brother, won’t say much. But listen to Brother, don’t go back to find that heartless old monster, okay?”
Su Huan felt it was absurd: “I don’t like him!”
However, Su Chao didn’t believe it at all. With a movement of his fingers, he hooked out the spiritual power merging between the two and said expressionlessly: “Then why are you traveling with him for experience, and why are you intimate to this degree?”
Su Huan instinctively wanted to refute, but suddenly recalled the events in his consciousness and choked.
In the cultivation world, branding a Forbidden Plaything Spirit Contract required both parties to have engaged in spiritual cultivation. That meant… he seemed to have really reached “third base” in the cultivation sense with the Black Lotus!
Help, I’m not clean anymore!
Sensing the faint sorrow coming from the other side of the contract seal, Xiao Jianming behind him pursed his lips, his expression becoming downcast as well.
Seeing him speechless, Su Chao sighed lightly. As he did back then, he earnestly advised again: “Huan-er, since you’ve recovered your memories and these years have passed, you should understand. The Su family had three hundred and seventy-two people back then, but in just ten years, it declined to only a dozen. With the current strength of you and me, going against a colossus like the Ji Family is simply a mantis trying to stop a chariot, striking a stone with an egg.”
“However, even if the Ji Family truly becomes the Number One Noble Clan, they can’t truly search every corner of the Seven Continents and Four Seas. As long as you don’t actively expose your secret, that old monster won’t find you even if he searches for a lifetime.”
“After leaving the secret realm, go back to the Xuanji Sect peacefully. It won’t be too late to seek revenge when your cultivation is fully achieved, okay?”
Su Huan blinked: “Okay.”
Although he had an extra segment of memory in his mind, he wasn’t Ji Buhuan. He didn’t feel deeply about the original host’s tragic experience, so naturally, he wouldn’t run off to send himself to death.
But he noted this grudge. When he became powerful in the future, he would personally go to the Ji Family and chop off Ji Heng’s head.
It wasn’t heroism, um… just consider it repaying the grace of rebirth.
However, Su Chao didn’t know his thoughts. He forced him to swear a poison oath before letting him go.
Here, just after finishing the oath, seeing Su Chao coldly forcing Xiao Jianming to swear to keep the secret, Su Huan couldn’t help sucking in a breath of cold air.
He thought the two would fight again over this, but unexpectedly, Xiao Jianming swore an oath identical to Su Huan’s without thinking.
After the binding force of the Heavenly Dao took effect, he immediately turned to look at Su Huan, his eyes looking as if asking for credit.
Behind him, one could almost see a tail wagging happily.
It was simply too hard to look at.
Having sworn the oath, Su Chao was still worried. He insisted on seeing Su Huan return to the sect safely before leaving.
Learning that Su Huan and the other came to the Moon Ash Secret Realm for the Spirit Nourishing Grass, he was delighted: “We came here for this spiritual herb too. Let’s go together!”
Ning Zhou was still somewhat resentful toward Su Huan. He huffed lightly and said pointedly: “Thanks to someone, Ah Chao now has to constantly nourish his soul with spirit-nourishing items just to get a good sleep at night.”
Su Huan smiled awkwardly, not knowing what to say.
Xiao Jianming spoke up at this moment, saying coldly: “That was his own choice. He bears his own karma. What does it have to do with Brother Buhuan?”
B-Brother Buhuan?!
This form of address made Su Huan awkward enough to curl his toes.
He tried to explain: “Um, I’m not…”
“Alright, stop arguing.”
Seeing they were about to quarrel again, Su Chao hurriedly stopped them, but also interrupted Su Huan’s unfinished words. Su Huan looked at his subconscious action to protect him and silently swallowed the rest of his words back into his stomach.
Su Chao smiled at him, seemingly noticing his low spirits, and said softly: “Huan-er need not mind this matter too much. You are Auntie’s only child. Even if my body dies and my Dao vanishes, I would save you.”
“You might not know, but I was born with congenital deficiencies. If not for Auntie’s excellent medical skills, I would have died in the cradle long ago.”
He looked at the vibrant youth before him, a sourness rising in his eyes.
Auntie’s kindness to him was heavy as a mountain. He couldn’t save Auntie, but he could exchange his life for her child’s, protecting this child from the sea of suffering in the Ji Family so he wouldn’t sink into the mire.
…This was the only thing he could do for Auntie.
Meeting his eyes full of tenderness, Su Huan couldn’t help pursing his lips. The suppression in his heart turned into a big rock, and he didn’t know how to express it.
He wanted to say he wasn’t the youth Ji Buhuan they spoke of; he was just a visitor who accidentally transmigrated into a book.
The true half of Ji Buhuan’s soul, for some unknown reason, had disappeared.
However, after hesitating for a long time, he ultimately failed to tell the truth.
Thus, Su Huan received a set of good and bad news—
Good news: He gained a brother who treated him exceptionally well.
Bad news: The Black Lotus was completely clinging to him.
They had to ride the sword together, fight monsters together, and even when eating and sleeping at night, those pitch-black eyes were fixed on him without missing a beat.
In the Moon Ash Secret Realm, the place where Spirit Nourishing Grass grew was a snow mountain. Since the Immortal-Mortal Bone was absorbed by Su Chao, the illusion on the grassland broke by itself, so they immediately headed toward that towering snow-white peak.
Along the way, whenever Su Huan turned his head, he would definitely meet those pitch-black, bright eyes, leaning in eagerly, trying to say a few more words to him.
In the evening, as the sunset faded and stars twinkled, Su Huan sat by the bonfire. The gaze beside him, hotter than the sparks, made him feel like he had a fishbone in his throat and thorns on his back, sitting on pins and needles.
At the same time, a trace of absurdity rose in his heart.
Is the relationship between the Black Lotus and Ji Buhuan in the original novel this… gay?
Why, when it comes to me, did “repaying a life-saving grace with a gushing spring” turn into “repaying a life-saving grace with one’s body”?
“You two, what are you sitting there dazed for? Go catch two fish for dinner. The fish in here are naturally raised spirit fish, much more nourishing than those outside. Miss this village and you won’t find this shop,” Ning Zhou shouted grumpily at them, standing beside Su Chao while poking the fire to make it brighter.
One of the traditional customs of the cultivation world: cook spiritual food whenever in a secret realm. It not only benefits cultivation but also quickly replenishes consumed spiritual power to reserve enough strength for treasure snatching.
Su Chao glared at him, about to tell him to go himself. But Su Huan, worrying about not finding an excuse to hide from people, agreed hurriedly before Su Chao could speak, saying such a simple task could be done by him alone.
After speaking, he ran impatiently to the mountain stream not far away, rolled up his sleeves and pant legs, and happily went into the water to catch fish.
He forgot that his cultivation was weak now and danger lurked everywhere in the secret realm, but Xiao Jianming didn’t forget. So he followed.
The stream was clear to the bottom. The spirit fish in the water were quite intelligent; with a slight movement from Su Huan, their tails would flick and they’d swim away fast, disappearing in the blink of an eye, leaving only a pool of clear water rippling with broken light, slowly flowing away.
Xiao Jianming watched this scene, which happened to overlap with the memory of the youth catching fish by the deep pool back then. The corners of his mouth involuntarily showed a smile.
On this side, Su Huan struggled for a long time. Finally catching a fish, he was so excited he couldn’t wait to get ashore. Just as one foot stepped up, he unexpectedly stepped on a sharp stone. He cried out in pain, his body swaying and falling backward!
In the flash of sparks and lightning, Xiao Jianming hugged him in time. But he couldn’t resist the inertia of the body falling forward, and accidentally, both fell into the water.
The stream wasn’t deep, the coldness seeping into the bones. Xiao Jianming lay in it, rejoicing that his reaction was fast enough not to let Su Huan cushion him.
Su Huan took a fall out of nowhere and saw stars for a moment. After recovering, he felt his palm touching a sturdy, soft wall and immediately felt something was wrong—
He saw nearly half of the Black Lotus’s body buried in the water. One hand half-propped his body out of the water, the other firmly clamped around his waist. And his own hands were pressed against the Black Lotus’s chest with nowhere to go, forced to accept the scorching body heat from the other’s skin.
Even more outrageous was that he was actually straddling the Black Lotus!
Su Huan’s vision went black.
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