Chapter 268: Chapter 268: I Know What You Want_1
Princess Huahua brought Qin Feng and Xue Xiaochan into the Taixu Guan.
As for Zhen Haoren and Pei Chunlan, they voluntarily stayed outside.
Seeing Qin Feng and Xiaochan’s figures disappear, Zhen Haoren leaned in close to Pei Chunlan, asking, "What are you thinking?"
"I have no thoughts," Pei Chunlan shook her head, then counter-asked, "What about you?"
"Regarding this Taixu Guan, do you really know nothing?" Zhen Haoren asked.
"I have never heard of it," Pei Chunlan answered.
Zhen Haoren stroked his white beard, revealing an I-have-seen-through-you expression, and said, "Your agreement to stay outside, is it really because you’re afraid of dying?"
"Yes."
"Now that it’s just the two of us, you don’t need to keep up the pretense. I know what you want. So let’s work together! Apart from collaborating, we don’t have any other options."
Pei Chunlan smiled wryly and asked, "Then tell me, what is it that I want?"
Zhen Haoren didn’t beat around the bush and straightforwardly gave the answer, saying, "Old Lord Gourd."
Upon hearing these four words, Pei Chunlan immediately shook her head and denied, "Old Lord Gourd? What is that? I’ve never heard of it."
"Bringing that young man to break the barrier and enter the Spirit Realm was arranged by you, or maybe it was arranged by the Black Dragon?
Right, the Black Dragon is the Black Dragon God Monarch’s pet. Thus, the Black Dragon’s arrangements are equivalent to the Black Dragon God Monarch’s arrangements.
So, you must be one of Black Dragon God Monarch’s people, right?"
"Whether I am one of Black Dragon God Monarch’s people, what does it have to do with you?
Fine! I won’t play the fool with you.
Since you know about Old Lord Gourd, you must be well aware of how dangerous Taixu Guan is?
Could it be that you wish to enter and court death?"
"If I’m not mistaken, your Pei Family has been under the control of the Black Dragon God Monarch for the past eight hundred years, right?
With your personality, Pei Chunlan, you certainly wouldn’t want to be a puppet on strings, manipulated at will. So, don’t tell me, you’re not interested in Old Lord Gourd."
"You just mentioned working together with me?"
"Yes."
"There’s only one Old Lord Gourd. If we collaborate and eventually obtain Old Lord Gourd, to whom will the treasure belong, to you or to me?"
"That’s easy, at that time you marry me, and we become a family. What’s yours is mine, and what’s mine is yours."
"Heh!" Pei Chunlan sneered, and said, "You, worthy of marrying me?"
"Qin Feng and Xiaochan have already gone in, as long as we join forces, we can definitely kill Qin Feng and Xiaochan.
Then, I will take Qin Feng’s Heaven Yang Physique, and you will take Xiaochan’s Heaven Yin Physique.
After that, we can be happily married.
In doing so, not only will your power greatly increase, but mine will too, and we can become a divine couple!"
"I will not marry you because you’re not worthy!" Pei Chunlan refused.
"Whether you marry me or not doesn’t actually matter much. I’m just asking you, do you want Xiaochan’s Heaven Yin Physique?
If you do, you must kill her!
Once she is dead, Qin Feng will certainly kill you.
Therefore, the best choice is to kill Qin Feng as well!"
Zhen Haoren’s suggestion plunged Pei Chunlan into deep thought.
Finally, she asked, "What do you suggest we do?"
"You must have seen Princess Huahua before, right? It left you outside and didn’t let you into Taixu Guan for what reason?" Zhen Haoren asked.
"I’ve never seen her, nor do I know why it didn’t let me in."
"If I’m not mistaken, Princess Huahua took Qin Feng inside because she wants to use him to fight against Taoist Wuxin, with the Black Dragon God Monarch reaping the benefits in the end."
"So, you mean to say, the Black Dragon God Monarch is also eyeing the Old Lord Gourd?"
"The Old Lord Gourd is a supreme treasure, even in the Immortal Realm it is one of the top ten magical artifacts. Whoever it is, they would want to possess it."
"Do you think we, by joining forces, could snatch the Old Lord Gourd?"
"With our current abilities, even if we got our hands on the Old Lord Gourd, we wouldn’t be able to hold onto it, we’d be killed for it! So, our targets should be Qin Feng and Xue Xiaochan.
Only by possessing the Heaven Yang Physique will I be able to cultivate the way of the immortals. Only by possessing the Heaven Yin Physique will you be able to cultivate the way of the immortals.
Once we have cultivated the way of the immortals, then we can consider taking the Old Lord Gourd without hurry!"
"It seems you’re not as foolish as I thought, you actually know your limitations."
"So, you’re agreeing to cooperate with me?"
"For me, the best outcome would be to kill Xue Xiaochan and take her Heaven Yin Physique. Then, I could be with Qin Feng, to remain by each other’s side for a thousand years."
"Don’t dream here, if you kill his wife, will he still stay with you for a thousand years? He would turn around and kill you on the spot!"
"That’s why I won’t kill Xue Xiaochan. If anyone has to do it, it should be you. After you kill Xue Xiaochan, then I will avenge her death by killing you.
With that, Qin Feng might be so moved that he could commit himself to me."
"An old hag past her prime shouldn’t sit there dreaming about seducing a young lad."
"So you’re saying that you’re unwilling to help me kill Xue Xiaochan?"
"I’ll decide based on the situation."
Zhen Haoren did not give a definitive answer.
"What do you mean by ’based on the situation’?"
"If Qin Feng is nearly killed by Taoist Wuxin, I might consider helping you kill Xue Xiaochan.
If Qin Feng ends up defeating Taoist Wuxin without much injury, I wouldn’t think of touching Xue Xiaochan; that would be a death wish.
So, whether we really cooperate or not will depend on the outcome of Qin Feng’s struggle against Taoist Wuxin."
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Elsewhere.
Qin Feng and Xue Xiaochan, led by Princess Huahua, had already entered the main hall of Taixu Guan.
Taixu Guan may well be a Daoist temple, but the deities enshrined in this main hall aren’t the ancestors of Daoism, but a mix of monstrous creatures and deities.
All these divine figures were oddly shaped, looking like various monsters.
There were all kinds of animals, just no humans.
Qin Feng, pointing at these bizarre divine figures, asked: "Hua, are you sure this is a Daoist temple?"
"Taixu Guan is certainly a Daoist temple! The Daoist temples of the Spirit Realm are different from those of the Mortal Realm. Your Daoist ancestors down there are human, but here in the Spirit Realm, the Daoist ancestors are animals.
That’s why you see these statues; they include every kind of animal except humans.
In our Spirit Realm, humans are the lowest beings.
You’ve seen the sights of Reincarnation Village, too; it’s not donkeys that pull the mill, but humans. Those who do the hard labor aren’t animals, but humans.
In the Mortal Realm, humans command animals to do the heavy lifting and hard work.
In the Spirit Realm, animals command humans to do the grueling tasks and heavy labor."
At first, Qin Feng found Princess Huahua’s words somewhat unpleasant to the ear, but after thinking it over carefully, he also felt there was nothing wrong with them.
In the Mortal Realm, humans are the rulers, so the animals are the ones being bullied.
Here in the Spirit Realm, where the animals have all cultivated into demons, ordinary humans are no match for them; thus, it makes sense that they would be enslaved.
The sins humans commit in the Mortal Realm must be repaid by other humans in the Spirit Realm.
This, perhaps, is also a kind of fairness!
