Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 118 - 115 Awakening (Requesting Subscriptions and Monthly Tickets!)_1

Chapter 118: Chapter 115 Awakening (Requesting Subscriptions and Monthly Tickets!)_1

When Li Xuan woke up, he again saw his familiar mosquito net, rafters, and of course, the carvings on his bed rails.

His mother’s maid, Leng Yurou, was by his side. The moment Li Xuan opened his eyes, she noticed immediately. A sense of relief washed over Yurou’s petite, icy face.

"Master, you’re awake?" She glanced at Li Xuan. Not only were her eyes different from before, but she also spoke with a bit of reverence, "Master, you should rest. I will go and inform the master and madam."

After she left, Li Xuan couldn’t lie still. He sat up and began to explore his body with his hands. He didn’t find anything unusual about his body, nor any wounds, and there was no pain. There was just an itch in his bones that made him restless, making him yearn to get up, walk around, run, and practice boxing.

"You should endure it and lie in bed for another day or two."

Liu’s voice suddenly entered Li Xuan’s mind, "The ’Longhu Dahuan Elixir’ the old man gave you is miraculous. It can revive lives and mend broken bones. However, your previous state of severe damage to your Meridians and nearly broken bones still require some time for recuperation. At the very least, you must not perform martial arts within the next three days."

Li Xuan blinked, "Mr. Ao, is this your Spiritual Communication?"

"What else? I can’t enter your house. Your mother hates me to death. She chased me around with a feather duster."

Tingtian Ao ’tutted’ and seemed a bit fearful, "Let’s talk about business and put an end to everything that happened before. The master asked me to thank you on his behalf, as well as on behalf of all the people in the city."

"To thank me? Does that mean that the ’Taishan Prefecture Lord Sacrifice’ was destroyed in the end? But I didn’t do anything. I was so useless in the dungeon and passed out directly."

As Li Xuan spoke, his expression shifted slightly, as if he had thought of something.

A wave of unfamiliar memories began to flood into Li Xuan’s consciousness.

"Did you remember? Although you were unconscious at the time, you weren’t entirely without consciousness."

Tingtian Ao smiled faintly, "What do you think? Weren’t you shocked? I told you, your Guardian Spirit presides imperially. She is truly the stance of an emperor. Her intelligence matches that of an adult as soon as she is born, but to avoid harming you, she has been suppressing her thoughts. Otherwise, how could you, Li Xuan, have survived till now?"

Li Xuan found that the red-clothed female ghost, which should have been suspended behind him, was no longer there. He couldn’t see her anywhere.

He should have been ecstatic about this, but for some unknown reason, he felt a bit of panic.

"She chose to seal herself with the original ’Song of Righteousness’. She hid in your sea of consciousness with the help of my master’s power. So there are a few pieces of good news and some bad news. Do you want to hear them?"

"Cut the crap! Get on with it." Li Xuan frowned, unsure of his emotions.

He was thinking about the female ghost, and how the problem couldn’t possibly be resolved so easily; meanwhile, he felt a sense of tranquility.

What the hell was this? Did he have a potential for masochism? Or had he developed Stockholm syndrome towards the female ghost?

"First, the bad news. After the Nether Realm battle, you, Li Xuan, have less than twenty days left to live."

Tingtian Ao’s words startled Li Xuan. He undid his robe and found that the green stain had indeed spread over most of his chest.

However, what was strange was that the chilliness he felt in his chest wasn’t as serious as before.

"The good news is, with the ’Song of Righteousness’ seal and my master’s ’Jiulei talisman’ inside your body, the speed of the Yinsha attack will significantly slow down. As long as your cultivation speed with the Thunder Style is fast enough, you can eliminate the evil force that has entered your body."

Upon hearing this, Li Xuan grimaced, "Can’t you say everything at once?"

Tingtian Ao chuckled, "Then the second piece of good news. Although the ’Song of Righteousness’ is used to seal the great one and cannot be used normally, limited power distribution is still possible. So, you can even pretend to be a Confucian disciple who possesses the Great Rectitude and has opened The Second Gate Realm."

Li Xuan raised his eyebrows, wondering what kind of good news this was supposed to be.

He didn’t think a cultivator of the Second Gate was very powerful. Previously, several martial and spell cultivators of the fourth house level and evil spirits of the sixth house level had fallen into his hands.

"The key is ’Wuyi’! Li Xuan, your Wuyi is beginning to take form. As long as your temperament remains unchanged, once your cultivation reaches a certain level and you have sufficient Zhenyuan, everything will fall into place. Additionally, it has a high potential."

Tingtian Ao patiently explained, "Anyone well-versed in Confucianism knows that the so-called ’Great Rectitude’ is a type of ’Wuyi’ in Martial Law. So, your ’Great Rectitude’ is not faked. It’s just that your cultivation methods, and the nature of your Zhenyuan, are very different from those of Confucian Disciples, hence, it appears differently."

The brightness in Li Xuan’s eyes suddenly intensified. It seemed that if it were so, then this good news was indeed worthy of the name.

The stages of martial law, ’Yun’, ’Shi’, ’Yi’, ’Po’, ’Hun’, ’Shen’, are six in total, yet many cultivators training to reach ’The Third Door’ haven’t even grasped the meaning of martial law.

But could it be that my ’Wuyi’, has already begun to form due to the battle I had against Chenghuang Yuanzhou in the underground prison at Dasheng Pass?

"This Great Rectitude Martial Intention can also suppress Yinsha. There will be plenty of benefits in the future," continues Tingtian Ao. "The third piece of good news is ’Longhu Dahuan Elixir’. Besides healing, this pill can also enhance your physique, increasing the power of a python and a tiger. Moreover, when the Lord was healing you, he used the Supreme Law of Thunder to refine your whole skeleton. In the future, you will find that when you cultivate the Law of Thunder, you can achieve twice the results with half the effort."

Li Xuan lingered in astonishment. "I feel like I’ve gained a bit too much from this journey!"

—— It was indeed too much! Previously, what Tingtian Ao had promised him was simply to slightly reduce the speed at which the red-clothed female ghost attacked with Yinsha.

"You earned everything yourself."

Tingtian Ao gave a deep sigh, full of admiration in his voice, "Do you know, the Lord had prepared a peachwood puppet to carry your guardian spirit? His original arrangement was to send the two of you away with the Yin-Yang Breaker Charm, leaving your guardian spirit and ’The Song of Integrity’ to resist everything, then returning you to the Lord’s presence. But we never expected that you would choose to stay or that you could stimulate ’The Song of Integrity’ to such an extent. To the point where you could even take over Duke Wen Zhonglie’s great sense of righteousness."

Having heard half of it, Li Xuan arched his eyebrows and his doubts were addressed immediately.

He was wondering, if he and the red-clothed female ghost had escaped safely, then how would Master Duchenghuang deal with Yuan Zhou and the ’Taishan Prefecture Lord Sacrifice’? And how would they suppress the tombs of the Han Dynasty’s soldiers?

"So ’The Song of Integrity’ really is something you earned yourself, causing the Golden Tomb to lose a precious treasure. Now, aside from you and those great masters of the Confucian Sect, who truly cherish the world, no one else can touch it."

Tingtian Ao was regretful and emotional. "Then, the fourth piece of good news is, thanks to this General, you, Li Xuan, have won the heart of a beautiful woman. In the future, if you achieve great things, you must remember this contributor. Well, your family is here, I won’t say more. Remember to bring me some good wine and food when you have time."

Li Xuan was curious, wondering what he meant by winning the heart of a beautiful woman. Sure enough, Li Chengji and the others arrived, and people began to file in.

Perhaps they’d already heard about what he had done. Li Chengji looked at him with an exceptionally soft gaze, not hiding the admiration and pampering in his eyes. But also the satisfaction of ’Having such a son, what more does a man want?’

However, next to him, Mrs. Liu’s face was as black as the bottom of a pot. The deathly stare she shot at him, sending a chill down Li Xuan’s spine.

Alarm bells rang in Li Xuan’s mind, and his survival instinct made him extremely tense.

With a quick trick in his mind, he rose and bowed to Li Chengji with a face full of righteousness. "Father, I hope I have proved myself to be worthy of your teachings over the years and have not shamed our Earl Chengyi’s Li family."

Li Chengji immediately stroked his beard, already extremely satisfied with his youngest son. "Xuan, you have done more than just fulfill your duties. Thanks to you, our ancestors of the Li family have been honored. The male descendants of our family, like you, should follow their principles..."

But the next moment, he stiffened, feeling a pair of icy, knife-like eyes drilling into his back.

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That night, of course, Mrs. Liu grabbed Li Chengji’s ear and lectured him for a full hour, then kicked this Earl Chengyi into the study to sleep.

But Li Xuan didn’t escape either. After Mrs. Liu had handled Li Chengji, she began to shift her fire.

"And you! Li Xuan, you’ve really grown, haven’t you? Playing hero now, huh? You don’t care about your life, do you? You father and son are both so heartless..."

Li Xuan had already prepared his countermeasures. Seeing Mrs. Liu start to curse, he pressed his hand to his forehead, his brows furrowed and he appeared weak. "Ah, I feel so dizzy, everything is spinning."

Then he fell backwards, his eyes half-closed and his face pale, making it seem as though he might pass out at any moment.

——This was his cunning plan to feign injury, weakness, and fainting to avoid this bout of danger. Even if she was raging, Mrs. Liu couldn’t vent it on him.

Mrs. Liu was indeed flustered. She quickly got up. "What’s the matter? What are we going to do? Go get the doctor, hurry up!"

Just as Li Xuan was happily marveling at his acting skill and feeling wasted for not being an actor, he felt his brother, Li Yan, walking towards him.

"Mother, don’t panic, let me have a look."

Li Yan calmly took Li Xuan’s pulse and then examined his eyes. He chuckled, "Mother, younger brother is fine, trust me."

He directly removed Li Xuan’s sock and then took out a feather from somewhere, gently trailing it across the soles of Li Xuan’s feet. His movements were very soft, but unplanned.

Li Xuan secretly cursed his elder brother for his wicked heart. He tried his best to endure it, but in the end, he let out a snigger and burst into laughter.