Fairy, help me practice

　"What a coincidence, so am I."

　Chen Yao smiled.

　Yun Jiang glanced at him and was very dissatisfied with him interrupting her.

　"But this is just a misunderstanding. I will never join the Demon Sect! Right?"

　She suddenly asked Chen Yao, as if she wanted to confirm this with Chen Yao.

　Uh... Does becoming a demon king count as joining the demon sect?

　Chen Yao knew that Yun Jiang didn't want to hear this, and he also wanted to spend as much time as possible with the innocent Yun Jiang.

　"As long as you don't want to, no one can force you."

　Yun Jiang nodded, very satisfied with Chen Yao's answer.

　"I came here to find a successor who can inherit my master's legacy."

　Chen Yao was stunned. No wonder there was Ling Ning here.

　Or, no wonder Yun Jiang appeared in Ling Ning's illusion?

Chapter 371 We Depend on Each Other

　"I am now in a difficult situation, with grievances that are difficult to redress. I am determined to draw out the demons of the Demon Sect for a fight to the death, and to die in defiance of the sect to prove my loyalty."

　Yun Jiang looked at Chen Yao: "So, this place is very dangerous. You really don't deserve to die here with me."

　"How do you know you're going to die?"

　Yun Jiang froze for a moment.

　Yes, if Chen Yao is really a person from the future, and can use Qiankunwudipan, doesn’t it mean that he is not dead?

　"But I really can't think of a way to survive."

　Chen Yao smiled and said, "That's why I showed up."

　"I don't believe that under normal circumstances, there would be a helper like you."

　"Then you have even less to worry about. You'll be fine."

　Chen Yao smiled kindly at Yun Jiang.

　Yun Jiang looked into Chen Yao's eyes for a while, and felt a kind of warmth in them. Her cheeks felt hot, and she turned away.

　"Then, it's up to you."

　For some reason, she also felt a sense of familiarity and intimacy towards this young man.

　"You said you were looking for a successor? Were you calculating her location just now by counting on your fingers?"

　This time, Chen Yao and Yun Jiang walked side by side and entered the downtown again.

　Yun Jiang nodded: "I'm calculating the chance. It was very clear at first, but since leaving the teahouse, it feels more and more vague."

　As she spoke, she glanced at Chen Yao and met his somewhat guilty gaze. Their hearts skipped a beat and they both looked away at the same time.

　Chen Yao was wondering if his arrival had disrupted the chance of Ling Ning and Yun Jiang.

　Yun Jiang was wondering whether the opportunity she was looking for was the young man in front of her.

　"I……"

　"you……"

　Chen Yao gestured: "You speak first."

　"How did you meet me? What is our relationship?"

　Yun Jiang asked, a hint of curiosity indeed flashing in his eyes.

　Chen Yao raised the corner of his mouth, and his tone was inevitably filled with a hint of melancholy: "Speaking of which, we can be said to have a relationship of dependence on each other."

　Hearing his ambiguous words, Yun Jiang's ears turned red: "I don't believe I would just rely on a man for my life."

　"I didn't say you can do whatever you want."

　"But you sound so casual."

　"..." Chen Yao looked at Yun Jiang, who had become a little coquettish beside him, and said sullenly, "You told me to say that."

　"Speak seriously."

　"I don't think I'm dishonest!"

　"That's because you're thick-skinned."

　"Why are you cursing all of a sudden?"

　"I'll scold you!"

　"..."

　"..."

　The two looked away as soon as their eyes met, but in the bustling city under the scorching sun, their hearts were filled with the warmth of spring.

　Yun Jiang shook her head, and the jade hairpins in her hair jingled pleasantly.

　"Then let me ask you another way: do you know my successor?"

　Chen Yao nodded.

　"Did I find him here?"

　Chen Yao nodded.

　Yun Jiang glared at him angrily: "Then why don't you accompany me to find him!"

　Chen Yao smiled awkwardly: "Why didn't you say so earlier?"

　"It's not me who needs your help. I have reason to doubt whether you can help me."

　Yun Jiang followed Chen Yao with his arms crossed, his tone full of concern for his intelligence.

　Chen Yao sighed and began to look for the alley where he met Ling Ning last time.

　In fact, he just unconsciously wanted to walk with Yun Jiang for a while longer.

　It would be nice to have one more way to go.

　The alley was filled with the smell of blood.

　A body with its head and body separated lay on the ground, and a pool of blood had already solidified.

　"It seems that we are a step too late."

　Chen Yao looked around but found no trace of the man in the bamboo hat selling knives.

　Yun Jiang gave him a dissatisfied look and said, "If you were smarter, I would have found a successor by now."

　"Without me, you wouldn't have found this place so quickly."

　Chen Yao remembered the last time Ling Ning’s friend died because of the fight between Yun Jiang and the people from the Demon Sect.

　He is not sure now. If he had not had any intersection with Ling Ning, would Ling Ning's friends have survived?

　"I know another place, come with me."

　When everything was turned upside down, Chen Yao guessed that this might be Ling Ning's obsession, so if he could save those children, perhaps he could break the cycle.

　Came to the shabby alley where the kids were.

　“Will anyone live here?”

　Yun Jiang's words were full of surprise and doubt.

　Chen Yao glanced at her and said, "You haven't made any arrangements here, have you?"

　Yun Jiang looked at him for a while before admitting in a low voice: "This is the place I chose for the decisive battle, so we have to be prepared."

　Chen Yao pushed open the door of the shabby little courtyard.

　There was no one inside.

　Could it be that none of them came back?

　"No one, what did you bring me here for?"

　Yun Jiang looked at the sky. It was already late. While she was looking for her successor, she also deliberately left traces for the people from the Demon Sect. It was obviously inappropriate to waste time here, and it would be easy for the people from the Demon Sect to notice the surrounding arrangements.

　"Wait someone."

　"I don't have time to wait!"

　Yun Jiang walked out: "How about this, you wait here, I'll go do what I need to do."

　She turned around and smiled: "You can be considered as an ambush I left here."

　Chen Yao thought about it and said, "Okay."

　Yun Jiang's figure disappeared lightly outside the broken door.

　Chen Yao looked at the broken door for a long time, feeling a sense of melancholy that she wished she had met him before she got married.

　This is just an illusion after all, right?

　He sat quietly on the broken stone in the yard, the wind bringing the evening mood.

　The setting sun dyed the sky blood red for half a day.

　Still no one came back.

　These children are really hard-working and pitiful in order to make a living.

　Chen Yao stood up and stretched her body, and heard the door being broken open.

　A child staggered in.

　He was covered in blood, holding his stomach, and looking at Chen Yao with wide eyes, he stretched out his bloody hand.

　"help me……"

　He fell to the ground and died.

　Chen Yao couldn't save him.

　He walked out the door and walked along the blood trailing all over the floor.

　I met the swordsman in the conical hat.

　There was also Ling Ning, whose face was covered in blood and whose eyes were staring blankly.

　The swordsman in the bamboo hat held the sword, and the blood on the blade dripped onto the ground, being sucked hungrily by the dry yellow earth.

　"To be my successor, you must have a heart as hard as stone and cut off all attachments. If you can't do it, I will help you."

　The swordsman saw Chen Yao and asked Ling Ning, "Is that your friend too?"

　Ling Ning did not answer.

　"It doesn't matter. Kill one more, and that's all."

　The swordsman's sword turned into a streak of light and slashed towards Chen Yao.

　Chen Yao's sword condensed into a fierce force, and he arrived first after being attacked later.

　The evening breeze was disturbed and forced back by the sword wind, and split into pieces in the silk.

　The bloody color of the sky was dimmed by the spurting blood.

　Half of the swordsman's body was minced into pieces.

　Chen Yao came to Ling Ning and hugged the silly Ling Ning.

　"Why... didn't you show up earlier?"

　Ling Ning opened her eyes wide, with a lot of white around her irises showing.

　Chen Yao's heart tightened: "I'm sorry..."

　Big tears dripped from Ling Ning's eyes, wetting Chen Yao's shoulders.

　She howled and screamed.

　Amidst the broken cries, the world began to crumble and reassemble.