Chapter 83: Encounter (Revised)

  The journey is still ongoing.

  Shi Yan lost his carriage and could only sit on horseback every day, contemplating, but still relentlessly pursuing the method of combining life and death seals.

  Every night, as long as he had some free time, he would find an excuse to leave for a while and put into action the insights he had gained from his daytime thinking.

  However, every time he tried to merge the life seal and death seal, it ended in failure.

  The fusion of Seimei's seals is apparently extremely difficult, as he cannot release both the life seal and death seal at the same time.

  It's either a living seal shoots out first or a dead seal takes a step forward and bursts out with a violent impact.

  To merge the Life and Death Seal, the first step is that both seals must be released from the palm at the same time!

  Only when this step is achieved can the Seal of Life and Death be merged.

  This requires extremely delicate control, and the rhythm of the essence and negative forces must be perfectly consistent, without a single flaw!

  Shi Yan understood this principle, but when he actually went to do it, he found it incredibly difficult, so much so that he couldn't succeed every time.

  As the entrance to the Deathly Silent Swamp drew near, Shi Yan no longer continued to practice his daytime epiphany at night. After all, to exert the Seal of Life and Death, he needed to consume both spiritual energy and negative forces simultaneously.

  Every time he practices, his body becomes weak for a period of time.

  Especially the cultivation of dead seals.

  It requires a prior rampage, and the backlash of the rampage always exists. In order to ensure that his body is in its best state during the silent marsh, he can only reluctantly cancel the next practice.

  He decided not to bury his head and work hard anymore, Shi Yan's tense nerves also relaxed, in the following journey, he no longer thought about it all day, had ample time to communicate with Wu Yunlian and Zuo Shi two women.

  Through this period of time together, Shi Yan gained some understanding of Wu Yunlian and Zuo Shi. Although their relationship was not particularly harmonious, there were no major conflicts either.

  ……

  This day.

  Shi Yan rode his horse alongside Zuo's carriage, his expression indifferent as he continued to think about how to merge the life and death seals.

  "Young master, we've arrived." At this moment, Han Feng pointed ahead and said in a low voice: "The people from the Xuanhuan Pavilion are already waiting for us."

  Shi Yan was taken aback and stared into the distance, and indeed he saw three black dots in the far distance.

  Wu Yunlian also stuck her head out of the carriage, took a look from afar and said softly: "Everyone be careful. For us, the Xuan Mi Pavilion is an outsider, that woman can reach the Tian Wei boundary, so let's be cautious."

  As soon as this was said, everyone nodded in unison.

  Shi Yan furrowed his brow, unsure of how Xia Xinyan would react when she saw him.

  That day, Xia Xinyan had clearly seen him before she fainted, and Xia Xinyan must have already known why she appeared at the Smoke Rain Building.

  This time they meet again, but it's unknown whether Xia Xinyan will interrogate her or not.

  However, Shi Yan wasn't particularly worried. At the time in the Smoke and Rain Building, he had only violated Xia Xinyan once, and that was when she was unconscious.

  Xia Xinyan should have no idea what he had done before.

  ……

  Xia Xinyan had never been too far away from Shi Yan and his group, although she had decisively thrown out that half of the treasure map, but in her heart, she was still secretly on guard against the Zuo and Shi families, preventing them from avoiding her and taking action quietly.

  That day, Shi Yan's comment on her sentence was loud and clear, and she naturally felt a bit uncomfortable in her heart.

  When Shi Yan's figure truly appeared in her line of sight, she recognized at a glance that Shi Yan was actually the person who had brought her into the brothel, which made her even more indignant.

  That day's events left an indelible mark on her memory.

  There were several nights when Xia Xinyan woke up and felt as if she was in the Smoke Rain Building...

  As soon as she thought of being in that room, she fainted on the ground, but there was a guy who actually did it in front of her! He was thrusting away on top of two courtesan women!

  She felt angry for no reason.

  At last, Shi Yan appeared before her.

  Xia Xinyan merely glanced at Shi Yan and pointed at him, saying calmly: "Follow me for a moment, I have some questions to ask you."

  Wu Yunlian, Zuo Shi, Han Feng and others, one by one, looked at Xia Xinyan with a dull expression, strangely, not understanding why she wanted to find Shi Yan alone instead of asking where Chi Xiao was.

  Shi Yan had expected her to do so and nodded calmly: "Alright."

  Shi Yan's attitude made Wu Yunlian and her group even more puzzled.

  Han Feng hesitated for a moment, looking slightly worried: "Young Master..."

  "It's nothing." Shi Yan waved his hand and followed Xia Xinyan away with a carefree attitude.

  Before long, they arrived under an ancient tree.

  "Was it you that day?" Xia Xinyan looked at him with clear eyes and said calmly.

  "Uh-huh."

  "That day at the brothel, you were with those two prostitutes while I was unconscious... weren't you?" Xia Xinyan gritted her teeth in anger.

  "Uh-huh."

  "You're really a devil in disguise!"

  Shi Yan was taken aback and lost his smile, nodding calmly: "Men are like that, it's their nature, nothing to be ashamed of. But I don't think I've wronged you, have I? On the contrary, I even saved you! That night, if you weren't in the brothel, who knows, the Beiming family might have found you. From this perspective, you should thank me."

  Xia Xinyan's eyes were slightly stunned, she seemed to have not expected that Shi Yan would actually admit his lust in front of her so calmly.

  She stood there, her eyes shifting uncertainly, as if she wanted to scold someone, but didn't know where to start.

  Scold him for being lustful? He has already admitted it and is so shameless, what's the use of scolding him anymore?

  Xia Xinyan felt inexplicably annoyed, and after a moment's hesitation, she shook her head reluctantly and said, "You did save me, but I'm not grateful to you! As for what happened that night, I don't want anyone to know about it. Do you understand?"

  Xia Xinyan's beautiful eyes turned cold, revealing a threatening meaning without any reserve.

  "Don't worry, I'm not that bored." Shi Yan's expression was indifferent.

  "That night... did you... did you do anything else to me?" Xia Xinyan's eyes suddenly became a bit flustered.

  "Anything else?" Shi Yan was taken aback, his face full of confusion: "What other thing?"

  A surge of anger suddenly emerged from the bottom of her heart, Xia Xinyan secretly gritted her teeth and repeatedly whispered "calm down" in her mind. After taking several deep breaths, she coldly asked: "I'm asking, have you been inappropriate with me?"

  Of course!

  Shi Yan let out a soft sigh in his heart, but on the surface, he was serious and shook his head, saying: "No, I'm not that kind of person."

  "Aren't you an irresponsible person?!"

  Xia Xinyan's eyes widened, and she suddenly found herself easily enraged when facing this person. Gnashing her teeth, she coldly sneered again: "At the critical moment of fighting between family and enemy, you still have the heart to go to a brothel to indulge in carnal pleasures, and yet you say you're not a casual person? What a huge joke!"

  "It's just normal physiological needs." Shi Yan said calmly.

  Xia Xinyan stared blankly at him, her beautiful eyes flashing with contempt, disgust and anger.

  She weakly waved her hand, and Xia Xinyan seemed to not want to say anything else. Finally, she said: "That night's everything, I hope you forget it all! You saved my life, I will remember that. This trip to the Heavenly Gate, I will do my best to keep you safe, and afterwards we won't owe each other anything!"

  Having said that, Xia Xinyan could no longer stay and turned back to return by the original road. She still had a belly full of anger in her heart, but there was nowhere to vent it.

  "Then I'll thank you first." Shi Yan shouted loudly at her back, with a faint smile still lingering on the corner of his mouth, seemingly completely unaware that Xia Xinyan was extremely displeased.

  ……

  In the sky, in a thick and dense dark cloud.

  A ten-meter-long fifth-grade demon beast, Fengji Eagle, was suspended in the clouds. Beiming Shang, Beiming Ce, Yinquan, Jiushan, and Muyuzi, Diyalan, six people sat on its body together.

  Bei Ming was wounded on the wind extreme eagle head position, sticking out his head looking at the body down ant general stone rock and others, said in a low voice: "They should go to the Dead Silence Swamp."

  "Grandpa, when will we show up?"

  "When they arrive at their destination." Bei Ming furrowed his brow and said, "Chi Xiao should appear soon, Chi Xiao is the true Tian Wei border, maybe he'll discover us. Let's go, we'll leave first."

  The butterfly's wings fluttered rapidly, and her bright eyes were full of expectation.

  A fifth-grade demon beast, the Wind Extreme Eagle, suddenly flew out and turned into a black dot, quickly flying towards the Dead Silence Swamp, soon disappearing without a trace.

  ……;