Chapter 68: Teach It to Me Hand in Hand

“Then we’ll have to deal with the contract violation.” Mo Shulin was expressionless, but his chest was about to burst with excitement and ecstacy.

“I don’t want to ah.” Bai Yuming was full of rejections, and there were thousands of grass-mud horses running wildly with their heads tilted and their tongues sticking out in his heart.

He was just being a little bit stubborn, betting on Heaven to not really tie them together.

How can he imagine that Heaven is more stubborn than him and really fulfilled them, making such a big joke on them.

Thinking of becoming a husband and wife with Mo Shulin, his mind is filled with all kinds of tossing images of himself being locked up inside the Demon Lord Palace.

Mo Shulin realized that Bai Yuming is resistant, and immediately said: “As long as master becomes an immortal, then master doesn’t have to worry. There will be no impact.”

“Nothing good will happen whenever you called me master.” Bai Yuming said with frustration.

“Not to mention, we didn’t have a choice, did we? Master.” How could Mo Shulin let go of such a good opportunity, so he’ll say anything to coax Bai Yuming to drink the water.

Bai Yuming remembered that he died before Mo Shulin became a demon in the original story. Mo Shulin has a certain role in the second half, so he’s one of the villains that shouldn’t be missing.

Since Heaven tied the two of them together, doesn’t it mean that he doesn’t have to die?

Thinking about this, Bai Yuming burst into ecstasy.

“Yes, you’re right.” Bai Yuming is overjoyed when he thought that he could catch up with Mo Shulin’s plot, “Anyway, there’s no wedding, who can talk about us whether we’re being brothers or Taoist companion.”

“Come and finish this bowl of water. In this life, we’re good brothers who died on the same day and the same year.” After speaking, Bai Yuming stuffed the bowl of water with just one mouthful, that heroic vigor really didn’t have any feelings other than brothers.

Mo Shulin frowned, and a strong sense of loss filled his body.

But in order not to let Bai Yuming notice the clues, Mo Shulin endured the uncomfortable feeling in his heart, and drank the bowl of water.

Mo Shulin secretly vowed.

In the future, he must carry a big sedan chair, with tens of thousand miles of gorgeous flowers, and marry Bai Yuming into the sect with the highest standards of the Three Realms.

It doesn’t matter even if they’re brothers, master and disciple, life and death enemies, as long as this contract is made, Bai Yuming can only live his life with him.

At night.

The moon is high in the sky, and the north wind was raging.

Duanmu Jinyan walked to the Lake of Introspection in Liangji sect based on Yan Yaozi’s induction.

The Lake of Introspection is located near the trial tower. As the name suggests, the founder of Liangji sect named it the Lake of Introspection in order to allow the inner and outer disciples to walk by the lake and use the water as a mirror to reflect on their own shortcomings.

“Are you sure it’s here?” Duanmu Jinyan used his divine consciousness to communicate with Yan Yaozi.

Duanmu Jinyan’s birthday is on the first month, and now he’s just nine years old.

The small body walked on the icy Lake of Introspection, trembling, the biting chill under his feet made him irritated, every step was like walking on the tip of a knife.

“Yes. I sensed it. This soul object can definitely strengthen my spirit and it’s a great benefit to me.” Yan Yaozi sensed it during the day. But Duanmu Jinyan is in a critical moment at the time, and it was inconvenient for Yan Yaozi to disturb, so he could only suppress the joy in his heart.

Later, when he sensed that the soul object was bought, Yan Yaozi has a little bit of worry, but he didn’t expect the soul object soon stopped to move. Yan Yaozi has urged Duanmu Jinyan to come and look for it until now.

It’s just that Yan Yaozi didn’t expect that the soul object actually got into the lake.

“Right, stop.” Yan Yaozi was afraid that Duanmu Jinyan would go astray.

“We’re already here, then where’s the soul object?” Duanmu Jinyan stopped, with a bad premonition in his heart.

“Below.” Yan Yaozi is filled with pure excitement and joy.

“Below?” Duanmu Jinyan said with disbelief. This is the center and the deepest area in the lake.

Duanmu Jinyan cast a spell, trying to use spiritual energy to get the object up from the bottom of the lake. But the weird thing is, that the spiritual energy became useless when it touches the box.

“No way, it offsets my spell.” Duanmu Jinyan frowned.

He didn’t take the next step, obviously he didn’t want to dive into the water in winter to fish for that thing.

Yan Yaozi was a little dissatisfied, he had long seen that Duanmu Jinyan is docile on the surface, but refuses to comply with him on the inside. Then again, he’s just in a soul form, there’s no other way except relying on Duanmu Jinyan.

It’s rare to come across the same soul object that can strengthen his soul form at this moment, so he’ll have to say something to make Duanmu Jinyan get it for him.

Yan Yaozi thought for a while, and said: “Use the earth talisman to hold that object so it’ll come to the top.”

Duanmu Jinyan is now at the foundation building period, no matter how talented he is, he still hasn’t grown up yet, so he can’t use those advanced spells. And for talisman, he can only use those simple types of wind, rain and thunder.

Hearing the talisman, Duanmu Jinyan’s complexion improved, but his brows were still furrowed.

He felt that things wouldn’t go so smoothly.

The mound rose a bit, and the mechanical box was also lifted a little.

But there’s still swimming spirit fish in the water. These fishes grew in Liangji sect and has been nourished by Liangji sect spiritual energy all year round, becoming far smarter than ordinary animals. That piece of iron is a good item that can nourish the soul, how can those fishes be willing to see the good item getting farther and farther away. So the fishes used it’s arched head, with both sides of the mechanical box was grabbed and descended from the mound.

As soon as Yan Yaozi reacted, he realized that the mechanical box had fallen again, and couldn’t help but curse.

Duanmu Jinyan knew that Yan Yaozi was a stubborn person, but he’s very uncomfortable every time he heard Yan Yaozi cursing swear words in his mind.

“What should I do now?” Duanmu Jinyan’s little face has been flushed by the north wind.

Liangji sect disciple’s clothes do have the effect of preventing the cold. It’s quite warm to wear in winter, but it’s only a low-level formation, which can’t help him to face the cold wind at night.

Yan Yaozi didn’t want to give up, but Duanmu Jinyan made it clear that he didn’t want to go into the water.

Even if Duanmu Jinyan was finally grinded by him to be willing to dive into the water, Yan Yaozi had to consider Duanmu Jinyan’s nine-year-old age. Duanmu Jinyan’s body will suffer from serious illness if he got soaked in the ice water, after that Duanmu Jinyan can’t participate in the secret realm twenty-one places selections.

The secret realm is a good thing, Yan Yaozi didn’t want Duanmu Jinyan to lose the selection. Don’t gain a huge loss due to small gains.

But if he leave tonight, what if this soul object got discovered by others?

The Lake of Introspection is so close to the trial tower and the small bazaar, there are often people passing by, and there are always elders who can sense the soul object.

Not to mention that the owner might come to look for it when they found out something was missing.

Cultivators respect the strong in this Continent, whoever grabs the thing that counts. But Duanmu Jinyan can’t grab any right now.

Yan Yaozi is really worried.

After thinking about it carefully, Yan Yaozi said: “Go back and make a mechanical puppet, use the puppet to take object away. Don’t delay it, I’m afraid I’ll think about it everyday and dream of it at night.”

Duanmu Jinyan can only walk back patiently to make a mechanical puppet, at least there’s some warmth when he return to the house, so he doesn’t need to feel painful from the north wind on the lake.

Under Yan Yaozi’s guidance, Duanmu Jinyan made the mechanical puppet, braved himself in the howling wind and went to the Lake of Introspection again. Some accidents did occur in the middle, unexpectedly there are fishes attacking the puppets.

Yan Yaozi is so old and cunning, how can he be bullied by a little fish. The mechanical puppet got the box and bounced the box directly out of the water. Duanmu Jinyan successfully got the mechanical box.

Duanmu Jinyan and Yan Yaozi were confused when they saw the mechanical box that’s full of iron locks.

They thought that this piece of iron accidentally fell into the lake when an elder was flying with the sword. Seeing this full iron locks now, it’s more like being deliberately abandoned here.

Duanmu Jinyan didn’t care whether it was lost or abandoned, so he hurried back after taking the mechanical box. He didn’t want to be shaved clean by the wind anymore.

Back in the house, Duanmu Jinyan immediately applied medicine to his face, he didn’t move no matter how Yan Yaozi urged him.

Duanmu Jinyan’s eyes were unhappy seeing there’s two red blush on his face.

Yan Yaozi didn’t know even if he sees it. Anyway, this Duanmu Jinyan has nothing, and had to rely on him or he can’t stand up at all.

Duanmu Jinyan really couldn’t stand up, after rubbing the medicine, he started to stay up late to open the mechanical box.

He doesn’t know on who would mischievously throws the thing away, and still added talismans to prevent brute force on the mechanical box. Duanmu Jinyan could only use iron wire to pry them one by one. Out of thirty-two small locks, Duanmu Jinyan only pried twenty-three until dawn.

In order not to attract other people’s attention, Duanmu Jinyan placed the mechanical box into the storage bag, drank a bottle of spirit water to eliminate fatigue, and had to go to the training sword terrance to learn swordsmanship in a hurry.

He practiced swords with his brothers and sisters during the day, and came back to unlock the locks at night.

After Duanmu Jinyan finished removing the iron lock, he had to worry on how to open the mechanism on the box again.

Duanmu Jinyan didn’t dare to let others open something as important as the soul object, so he could only try a little bit by himself.

It took four days for Duanmu Jinyan to open the mechanical box. At this time, Liangji sect had already begun the battle for the secret realm.

Duanmu Jinyan could only drag his tired body onto the field.

Although he’s guided by Yan Yaozi, fatigue made his body less flexible than before, and naturally suffered more injuries.

Duanmu Jinyan couldn’t help but to suspect that the mechanical box wasn’t thrown away by someone, but someone deliberately threw it there and led him to take it.

But this logic really doesn’t make sense.

If the person really knew that the iron piece was a soul object, why didn’t they keep it? The soul object is a good item with no market, and it can be sold for hundreds of thousands of high-grade spirit stones.

There are hidden dragons and crouching tigers in Liangji sect, and this soul object can be found by many people besides him. How can that person predicted this soul object will be taken by him?

Duanmu Jinyan thought about it for a long time and still couldn’t think of the answer, so he could only forget about it.

After the life and death contract was completed, Mo Shulin fell asleep for four days.

His cultivation base hasn’t been promoted to the foundation building period as imagined, the only change is he became healthier.

If it was said that his spirit root was a bit eroded by demonic energy before, then now besides the demonic energy next to his spirit root, he’s no different than normal people. His spirit root can even absorb a little spiritual energy, but it’s very weak, not as good as cultivators who have five spirit root.

Mo Shulin couldn’t describe what it felt like.

Heaven seemed to give him hope, yet at the same time it seems to give him nothing.

Because of the battle for places in the secret realm, almost all Liangji sect disciples became active, with a huge crowd outside, there are people everywhere who’s taking part in the battle and watching the battle. Mo Shulin and Bai Yuming didn’t dare to commit any crimes under such high-pressured environment. This kind of time is like an open bug test for the trial tower.

The two of them can only continue to live the calm and peaceful life like retirement at Yuexue Peak.

The most complicated relationship in the world is definitely his emotions with Bai Yuming.

After Mo Shulin drank the bowl of water, he found that nothing has changed between his relationship with Bai Yuming, but at the same time, everything has also changed.

He and Bai Yuming are master and disciple on the surface, friends in private, a contract that’s like a husband and wife living and dying together, but lives together like he’s keeping a pet.

At this time, his big fat pet had already climbed onto his bed like a dove occupying the magpie’s nest, and reading the script with great interest.

“Master, move your body a bit, I want to take something.” Mo Shulin said with courtesy.

“Ah, okay.” After the fat rabbit finished speaking, he performed a fat rabbit twirl on Mo Shulin’s bed.

Mo Shulin took out a whip manual he often revise every night from under the quilt. He didn’t pay attention to the ripped piece of paper last night, so he took the advantage of his time today to patch it up.

Seeing Mo Shulin actually took out a yellow book from inside the quilt, the fat rabbit has a playful expression on his face, “Aiyo, how come you’ve already read a little yellow book at such young age?”

Mo Shulin: “…”

Mo Shulin didn’t even pretend to be ashamed, and placed the book next to the fat rabbit, “Master, shouldn’t you study this subject, so then you can teach it to me hand in hand?”

The fat rabbit: ” ……”