novelraw Chapter 232
Chapter 232
"So you’re saying the Demon Clan never fully retreated?" Lin Qing seemed skeptical.
As a cultivator with a traditional background, he held great trust in the Immortal Cultivation World. Especially since he grew up in an environment shaped by orthodox cultivators, all textbooks told him how the Immortal Cultivation World once fiercely defeated the Demon Realm, and how the Demon Clan fled in disarray.
He was taught from a young age that there was absolutely no Demon Clan left in the mortal world. Any trace of the Demon Clan would be pursued to the end, as they could not survive under the surveillance of the cultivators.
The recent occurrence of black qi was an exception.
Yet Huo Lian was now trying to tell him that the Demon Realm never completely left, but had been lurking in the mortal world all along. Lin Qing found this hard to accept.
Huo Lian looked at him as if he were an inexperienced child: "If the Demon Clan had already disappeared from the mortal world, then why would the Immortal Sects and the royal family unite with major powers to establish the independent Immortal Supervision Bureau? Is it really just to control cultivators? You must know that all major powers involved in establishing the Immortal Supervision Bureau are cultivators themselves. Would they go to great lengths to create something special just to control their kind?"
"For the sake of more fairness in the mortal world, isn’t it?" Lin Qing disagreed. "A world without ordinary people isn’t truly a mortal world. A world with only cultivators is still just another world."
Huo Lian sneered: "Have you seen more instances of the Immortal Supervision Bureau controlling cultivators, or more instances of them hunting the Demon Clan? Before Miss Chen’s incident, I had never seen the people from the Immortal Supervision Bureau actually managing the affairs of cultivators."
"That’s because most cultivators have reached a consensus, and not many egregious incidents have occurred!" Lin Qing was clearly very uncomfortable with Huo Lian’s remarks.
Chen Muxue pursed her lips. Although she hadn’t been here long, she didn’t believe that cultivators, who possessed powers ordinary people couldn’t resist, would truly be so obedient and self-disciplined. It’s well-known that there are many cultivators with a heart demon, and that most embark on the path of cultivation to become stronger than others.
Cen Lizhui didn’t want the two to continue arguing. He said, "In summary, the Demon Clan originally retained a presence in the mortal world, and the Chu Family is likely one part of it."
"That black qi perhaps is the same, interlinked, allowing the Demon Clan to rise again in the mortal world. Breaking the barrier from the outside becomes much easier." Chu Wuyi furrowed his brows. "So, the Chu Family is just one link. What is the next link?"
An idea flashed in Huo Lian’s eyes.
"What do you know?" Lin Qing had been watching him closely and naturally did not miss his brief hesitation.
Huo Lian gently closed his eyes and shook his head: "I cannot say."
"At this point, what is there that cannot be said?" Cen Lizhui was primarily here for the black qi. Since it was linked to the Demon Clan, the matter could not be overlooked.
"I, this Prince, might know a thing or two."
Chen Muxue rolled her eyes again, unable to help it as the Second Prince barged in with an air of superiority.
Did anyone care that this was a bedroom? She, a woman, was living in this bedroom, and here she was still sitting on the bed. They weren’t embarrassed, but she was!
It made her, a modern woman, feel utterly awkward!
"Ah, avert your eyes!"
The Second Prince struggled to enter in a somewhat graceful manner, only to be pulled out by Yan Luan: "You, a grown man, what are you doing barging into a lady’s boudoir?"
The Second Prince glanced at the men gathered around Chen Muxue’s bedside and fell into contemplation.
For a moment, he really didn’t realize this was a boudoir.
Can anyone tell him why there’s an iron pot on this girl’s bed?