Chapter 138
Chapter 138
Ye Piaoling flew through the sky for an entire night.
She tried every thrilling attraction over and over again, including but not limited to rapid ascents, cliffside plunges, aerial flips, endless soaring…
Only at daybreak did she finally touch down.
Ye Piaoling lay limp on the bed, her breath as faint as a thread. She felt as if she had been broken into pieces and would drift forevermore.
Last night, she had repeatedly emphasized that the drug’s effects had already worn off, but Lord Divine Venerable insisted they had not. Again and again, out of sheer kindness, he helped her cure them…
Ye Piaoling was speechless for a long while before weakly squeezing out one sentence:
“I’m not paying you for what happened this time. Not a single copper.”
Di Xiulan: “…”
After something like this happened, why was the first thing she thought of money?!
The man was silent for a moment, then curved his lips into a smile. “Did I ever say I wanted you to pay?”
When Ye Piaoling heard that, she was instantly much comforted. She grabbed his hand. “You really don’t want money anymore?”
Di Xiulan chuckled softly. “Not money. But I do want you to take responsibility.”
“Responsibility?”
Ye Piaoling was slightly surprised. “How do you want me to take responsibility? You’re the mighty Divine Venerable, aren’t you? Don’t tell me you’re planning to live off me.”
Di Xiulan lowered his eyes and sighed lightly. “I’m afraid I really may have to eat that soft rice of yours.”
Ye Piaoling was full of question marks: ???
Di Xiulan said, “I can defeat the Evil Lord, but I cannot destroy him. If we want to eradicate him completely, we will have to rely on you.”
Ye Piaoling laughed when she heard this. “Since things have come to this, you’re already my man, so I won’t hide it from you. Actually, I came from another world, and I was bound to a Sand Sculpture System…”
Ye Piaoling told Di Xiulan everything from beginning to end.
At last, she said, “The Silly Prophet screwed me over, but I’m the Love of the Divine Tree, aren’t I? Destroying the Evil Lord was my mission to begin with!”
Di Xiulan shook his head with a faint smile. “No. You are not.”
Ye Piaoling: “???”
Di Xiulan stroked her head and slowly sighed. “That silly thing found the wrong person. Xiao Changye is the Love of the Divine Tree…”
“And you are the Divine Tree’s final leaf, the Evil Spirit who inherited the destiny of destruction.”
Ye Piaoling was stunned.
Once again, her face went utterly blank. “You’re saying… I’m the Hatred of the Divine Tree?”
Di Xiulan smiled.
He leaned down and placed a kiss between her brows. “Didn’t see that coming, did you?”
Ye Piaoling truly had not!
From her previous life to this one, although she did not possess some saintly, all-loving heart, she was still someone with a sense of justice. She had never once thought about destroying the world…
If someone said she was the Love of the Divine Tree, she could barely accept it. But to say she was the Hatred of the Divine Tree? Where did she have any hatred?
It was simply absurd!
After a long while, Ye Piaoling said in disbelief, “This is too ridiculous. Even the Silly Prophet got it wrong. How did you discover such a ridiculous truth?”
Di Xiulan said calmly, “Humans and animals both believe what they see, but that is often only the surface. The Divine Clan was born with heaven and earth. The origins of righteousness and evil can be seen at a glance.”
Ye Piaoling said in shock, “So from the very beginning, you knew I was the Evil Spirit of the Divine Tree?”
Di Xiulan smiled. “At first, I sensed that your soul aura could entice demonic beasts. To verify my guess, I brought you to the underground palace and had you awaken that dragon.”
At the mention of that dragon, Ye Piaoling still felt lingering fear.
She could not help asking, “Where exactly did that dragon come from?”
Di Xiulan said, “That dragon was once the highest-level life-form in the Eternal Life Origin Realm, and also the only Divine Dragon in the Life Origin Realm that had not mutated. I encountered it several decades ago. At the time, its soul was damaged and its life was hanging by a thread, so I brought it to the Glazed Continent…”
“At that time, Tianxie were causing chaos on the Glazed Continent, so I sealed all those evil things inside its dragon soul, thereby completing its soul.”
Ye Piaoling: “Amazing! You can do that? Talk about recycling waste!”
Di Xiulan said, “That Divine Dragon was saved by me in that manner. Unfortunately, what I used to repair its soul were evil things after all. As a result, something went wrong with its mind. It lost its memories and became an Evil Dragon.”
Ye Piaoling remembered. When she first saw that Evil Dragon, it had been drooling nonstop. It really had looked like something was wrong with its head…
Di Xiulan continued, “Your aura awakened the Evil Dragon, so I determined that you came from the Life Origin Realm and that you were certainly connected to the Divine Tree… After that, thanks to you coming to sleep in my bed every night, I had more opportunities to examine your sea of consciousness and meridians, and only then did I gradually confirm your identity.”
Ye Piaoling: “…”
So on those nights, after she fell asleep, just how many little tricks had he pulled?
Di Xiulan said mildly, “I once thought you had come to the Glazed Continent with ulterior motives. Later, however, I discovered that you seemed to have no memory at all of who you were… After thousands upon thousands of reincarnations, both love and hatred can be erased by time. And you already have your own value in life, as well as the thing you care about most. That thing is money.”
Ye Piaoling: “…”
Damn it! She actually could not refute that!
Di Xiulan smiled faintly. “Although you were born of evil power, you can still decide your own fate. Now that you know the whole truth, are you still willing to deal with the Evil Lord?”
After Ye Piaoling heard this, she was silent for a very long time.
Logically speaking, she and the Evil Lord should have been on the same side, because they were both villains.
But from the very beginning, the Evil Lord had never done a single proper thing!
First, in the Soul-Departing Dream, he had disguised himself as the Big Demon King and beaten her so badly she had been gravely injured and unable to take care of herself. She still brooded over that grudge to this day…
Later, he possessed Feng Jin, butted into Feng Jin and Nalan Muxue’s love, and added a tragic romance arc to a perfectly good couple…
After a long while, Ye Piaoling nodded and said, “I just don’t like the Evil Lord. Even if I’m the Hatred of the Divine Tree, I’m still going to take him down!”
Di Xiulan’s lips curved into a smile. “There is only one person in this world who can take down the Evil Lord, and that is you.”
Ye Piaoling was pleasantly surprised. “Really? What should I do?”
Di Xiulan leaned close to her ear and whispered a few words.
As Ye Piaoling listened, her face broke into a smile. “So that’s it! Brilliant! Then let’s do it that way!”