ninety thousand miles

Chapter 498 Rejection
"The demon spirit must have realized that the catastrophe has begun, but the development of the situation is very different from what Chi Lin had predicted. Whether the opportunity he mentioned will appear again is a question. But... since the opportunity has not appeared yet and the time has not come, she needs some other means to wake Chi Lin up."

Wen Guying looked at Li Chuan and said, "The demon spirit needs you to wake up Chi Lin. So she set a trap in Yashan County and led us to the spire under the nunnery."

"How do I wake him up?" Li Chuan asked.

Wen Guying said: "It is probably related to the Wen Jing."

Li Chuan looked out of the cave entrance. It was lush and green outside, without any sense of winter desolation. He said, "Perhaps, the Pattern Scripture has some similarities with the methods of the gods. That may be the case."

"After the demon spirit was born, everything she did failed." Wen Guying said.

"We have to kill her completely before we can feel at ease, and the same goes for Chi Lin." Li Chuan said.

"Don't be so murderous all the time." Wen Guying said.

"No, I just..." Li Chuan explained, "I know that this catastrophe will last for many years, hundreds or even thousands of years. Once the gods and demons are suppressed, the catastrophe will give birth to other demons. But the life of a mortal is only a few decades, so I want to eliminate all the dangers I can see. As for what happens next, there will always be the next generation to fight it, the next successor of the Tattoo Sutra, or something else."

"That makes sense." Wen Guying did not refute Li Chuan. He said, "Everything I said above is what the demon wants to do. Her plan is not very brilliant, but it is not too bad. But... as a White Walker, what does the demon want to do?"

"What is it?" Li Chuan asked.

Wen Guying said: "Is there a possibility that the opportunity has already appeared?"

Li Chuan didn't know why Wen Guying suddenly changed the subject, but he still asked: "Opportunity, what is it?"

"White Walkers." Wen Guying said.

"Are you talking about the White Walkers appearing? Lower Forest Village, Soul Eater? Or Frostleaf Gate?"

Wen Gu should say: "Demon spirit."

Jiang Mei understood what Wen Guying said, and he explained to Li Chuan: "After the great catastrophe of gods and demons ended 30,000 years ago, the fortunes of both the gods and demons had declined, and it was impossible for them to provoke a catastrophe again. There will not be another catastrophe of gods and demons."

Li Chuan nodded to show that he understood.

Jiang Mei said: "The catastrophe has already begun. Chi Lin, the high priest of the God Clan, whom you mentioned, could not have accurately predicted everything that is happening now 30,000 years ago. What he can see clearly is only the general trend, that is, in 30,000 years, the catastrophe will happen again, and the God and Demon Clan can get a glimmer of hope to survive this catastrophe."

Wen Guying said: "Chi Lin judged that the White Walkers would be the source of the next catastrophe. So, he let the demon spirit sink into the abyss of the heart and then become a White Walker. And now, the demon spirit is born, and she is the opportunity."

"Then, if we kill her, will... the catastrophe not begin?" Li Chuan asked.

Jiang Mei said, "Let's discuss the matter at hand first."

"Okay, okay." Li Chuan didn't want to think about such a complicated matter. He said to Wen Guying, "Master Wen, please continue." Wen Guying said, "It's your turn now. I can only speculate on the motives of the demon, but as a demon of the White Walkers, I have no way of guessing what her purpose is."

"White Walker..." Li Chuan thought about this question from time to time. He said, "It wants to leave the Heart Abyss and then parasitize. It will only parasitize on humans and demons with spiritual intelligence..." He paused, and a thought flashed through his mind, "Maybe ordinary people can't do it. What it wants is to parasitize on monks and then ascend. It wants to go to the upper realm..."

"Qiufeng Village," Li Chuan's thoughts jumped, causing his words to be intermittent. He said: "When a certain number of people arrive, they will hold a certain ceremony. Through this ceremony, they can hear that voice. But ordinary people are too weak to meet the requirements. They must be immortals..."

"But now the fairyland is isolated from the human world," he thought of Immortal Yun Yi, and said, "How about we call Immortal Yun Yi to ask him? If he shows up, we can know what happened in the upper world. Oh, he wants to kill the White Walkers, and he may also need the information we have collected."

The more Li Chuan thought about it, the more he felt it was feasible. He took out the jade talisman and said, "Let's give it a try. If he doesn't come, it means the situation in the upper realm is very bad. Anyway, no matter what, we can learn more..."

"It's not time yet." Wen Guying interrupted him.

Li Chuan heard the displeasure in his tone, so he asked, "Don't you get along well with Immortal Yun Yi?"

"Not bad." Wen Guying said.

Jiang Mei also said: "Yun Yixian follows the path of killing, and his style of action is to only focus on the results, regardless of the consequences. Because of him, the conspiracy of Shuangye Sect did not succeed, but at the same time, Xuanmen also suffered heavy losses because of this."

"If he descends to the lower world, with the experience of the Frost Leaf Sect as a warning, he will most likely get involved. With the Immortal around, more things can indeed be done, but it also means that the Xuan Sect must listen to his orders."

"If the immortal from the lower world is a senior from the Xuanmen sect, he would be more or less restrained because of the incense relationship. But Immortal Yun Yi... maybe he is right, but... the people who die because of him may die in vain."

"I see." Li Chuan nodded, and understood. He said, "I didn't think it through."

Jiang Mei said: "If you are in danger, or feel that you must ask him to come down, don't hesitate. But now, it is indeed not the time yet."

"So what should we do next?" Li Chuan asked.

Wen Guying said: "The next step is to deal with that thing."

"What exactly is that thing?" Wukong asked, "You guys just kept talking about demon spirits, but you said that thing is not a demon spirit, so what is it?"

So Wen Guying continued, "Currently, we know of four subordinates of Prince Su. They are Yan Yunke, Elder Xiao, Jiang Lei, and Master Tingdeng. Master Tingdeng is dead, but Elder Xiao and Jiang Lei are not opposed to entering the secret realm, which means that thing does not regard them as enemies."

"But Yanyunke was not in the secret realm. He hid somewhere else. He even dismissed the little demons in the secret realm and said that Shadow was looking for him."

Li Chuan was confused again. He said, "Hasn't Shadow been subdued by him?"

Wen Guying said: "I thought so before, but when you mentioned Qiufeng Village just now, I suddenly thought of the ferry and floating bridge that Brother Jiang mentioned, and I had some other guesses."

(End of this chapter)