Chapter 57: Tiger-Head Shoes Stepping into the Infant Spirit Hall (Twenty-Three) Almost devoutly…

Ye Qingzhan used the methods of the Exiled Immortal Sect to enter Wen Gu's sea of consciousness.

Before leaving, Li Zhixing explained that he had predicted Wen Gu might lose control, and so he taught her how to enter his sea of consciousness and purify his mind.

The sea of consciousness, located between the eyebrows, is where the spirits of immortals, demons, humans, and monsters reside. It is also where divine consciousness converges, allowing one to glimpse the secrets of their masters and alleviate their anxieties.

The Exiled Immortal taught her three methods of entering another's sea of consciousness. One is to use magical power to build a spiritual bridge, similar to how Wen Gu entered Ayang's dream. The second is to press the tip of a finger between the eyebrows, injecting spiritual energy, which then investigates on behalf of the master. The third is a common method used by immortal and Taoist couples in critical moments: blood fusion followed by a transfer of zhenqi.

The last method is rarely used unless absolutely necessary, but with his hands bound by the Yin Sha, Ye Qingzhan had no other options but this one.

Although he didn't know what Wen Gu had done to cause the Yin Sha to control his mind, he had to awaken him no matter what.

But why was Wen Gu's sea of consciousness so dark?

Ye Qingzhan groped forward in the darkness.

Suddenly, a red flame lit up in the distance, burning in the center of the darkness. The endless darkness was shattered, and the objects in Wen Gu's sea of consciousness were illuminated one by one - the

vast sea with huge waves wrapped in molten lava, repeatedly rushed towards Ye Qingzhan, but only reached her feet, as if bowing to her.

Phantoms mixed with incessant curses, repeatedly stinging her ears. Ye Qingzhan held her head and squatted on the ground in pain.

Slowly, the surroundings became quiet, and Ye Qingzhan raised his eyes.

He saw the ghost fire in the center of the darkness slowly rise upwards, and with it, a giant dragon rose from the ground. The dragon's body was covered with black scales that shone with silver light, and five fiery red vertical stripes were dotted throughout.

A massive dragon with red stripes and black scales suddenly swooped down from the sky, its tail sweeping through vast waves of molten lava. Ye Qingzhan took a step back, closing her eyes and shielding herself from the flying sparks of fire with her arms.

When she opened her eyes, the circling dragons surrounded her, their massive obsidian eyes fixed on her. Ye Qingzhan stiffened.

The black dragon, a ball of fire perched on its head, opened its bloody maw at her.

Ye Qingzhan closed her eyes, thinking it was over, death within Wen Gu's sea of consciousness.

...Huh?

Why didn't the pain she'd imagined? Instead, she felt a gaze fixed on her.

Ye Qingzhan opened one eye, then the other.

The dragon, its head blazing, stared at her intently.

Their eyes met, wide and small.

The dragon's eyes spoke first: "Am I ugly?"

Ye Qingzhan: "?" Dragon demons can speak?

The dragon's eyes continued: "Are you a little mute?"

Ye Qingzhan blinked twice.

The giant dragon said with big eyes: "I know. That kid must have been fooled by your talking eyes, so he wanted to fight with me." The big-eyed dragon nodded his huge head, very satisfied with his own inference.

Who... is that kid?

Ye Qingzhan took a deep breath in his heart and spoke slowly: "Are you talking about Wen Gu?"

"Ah? He changed his name? Don't mortals call him 'Yin Chen Jue'? There is an idiom that says, love crows and crows. Yes, he likes you, and he likes your last name too. He likes you so much that he took your last name?"

"..." What exactly is this dragon brother talking about? Ye Qingzhan forced a smile and said, "My name is Ye Qingzhan. I named Wen Gu, but he doesn't share my last name."

The dragon brother said "Oh" and asked, "Are you two married? Did you consummate your marriage?"

...Are all dragons so straightforward?

Ye Qingzhan was a little unsure how to respond and was silent for a long time.

The black dragon spoke again, "It seems that he doesn't have it? Why is he so incompetent? He beat me so hard, but why is it so difficult for him to marry a human girl like him!"

The big-eyed dragon said, lowering his head three points, and moved closer to Ye Qingzhan, sniffing, and then said: "You have his scent on you, and his blood is stored in your eyebrows. I didn't recognize you wrongly. You are the little goblin in Camellia Village. You seduced her away and never came back. You changed your mind when you came back. It really pissed me off!"

The tone was so sour. Ye Qingzhan couldn't help but think of the love story between humans and demons in the storybook.

"What kind of mess are you thinking about? I am a dragon and I like beautiful girls. I don't like him. I only like to fight with him."

This time it was Ye Qingzhan's turn to say "Oh" and continue to keep silent. She felt that even if she didn't say it, this dragon who looked fierce but might not be very smart would spit out a lot by himself.

Sure enough, the big resentful dragon continued.

"That brat was afraid that I would eat you and ascend to immortality, so he threatened to kill you. Before that, he had a fight with me and knocked me unconscious. Then he went to kill you, but came back covered in a fragrant aura and warned me not to eat you. But you, such a delicious little guy, are right in front of me. Tell me, should I eat you?"

Ye Qingzhan: "..." The thing he feared most was still mentioned.

"Forget it, I won't eat it. I don't really want to become an immortal. I'm still sealed in his sea of consciousness. What if I eat that brat of yours and he goes crazy and chop me with a palm? We all finally got out of the boundless strange domain. It would be too unfair for us to die together. He hasn't married you yet, and we haven't slept together yet. I haven't met my own little beautiful dragon yet. It's unfair to think about it. Forget it, let's find a way out together."

The big resentful dragon said, and arched his body towards Ye Qingzhan, and said, "This kid's sea of consciousness is very messy. You clean it up. I'm going to sleep first. Try to make it more comfortable for me to live in. I can't get out for a while."

As soon as he finished speaking, the big black dragon fell asleep, and his body shrank in an instant. Like a newborn snake, he lay on her feet with his legs spread out, and a green lantern fell at his feet.

Ye Qingzhan paused, put it in his sleeve, picked up the lantern at his feet, and walked while thinking.

If what the big black dragon said was true, then her suspicions were confirmed. She and Wen Gu knew each other before.

And the lonely figure who had left her was most likely him.

Thinking of this, Ye Qingzhan stamped her feet in anger and continued to move forward.

Just now, when the black dragon was approaching her, she saw a red iris between its eyes. It was exactly the same mark on the forehead of the young man in the illusion who looked exactly like Wen Gu but was called Yin Chen Jue.

The black dragon said that it was sealed in Wen Gu's sea of consciousness, which was probably why Wen Gu also had a red iris between his eyebrows. And the place that the exiled immortal had mentioned since the first illusion, the place that made Wen Gu vomit blood for the first time, was called the Boundless Strange Realm.

The young man named Yin Chen Jue said that the Boundless Strange Realm was his home. But the big-eyed dragon said that they had finally gotten out of the Boundless Strange Realm and didn't want to go back.

What kind of strangeness is hidden in this place? Is the Yin Sha related to it? Was it because of them that Wen Gu Ai vomited blood?

Just now, Black Dragon said there was Wen Gu's blood between her eyebrows. Why was that so... Ye Qingzhan touched his forehead. Why did he have so few memories of him?

Ye Qingzhan was troubled.

Where the green lamp shone, there was a bright light.

Ye Qingzhan shook her head and continued to walk alone in the endless darkness, but she was not afraid. After walking for a long time, she saw the magma churning in the huge waves again, and the heat in the sky was burning her lungs.

Ye Qingzhan stood on a huge rock and saw the person with his back to her on the other side of the sea of fire.

That back was too familiar to her.

Ye Qingzhan blurted out: "Wen Gu--"

The young man turned around in response, and his handsome but pale face looked warm and gorgeous against the firelight.

At the moment when Wen Gu looked back, the sea of fire disappeared, and the surroundings fell into darkness again. Before that, he dissipated into a black fog in the sky. In the black fog were thousands of painful, twisted, hideous, and terrifying human faces, crying and howling.

"Wen Gu!"

Ye Qingzhan ran to the gradually collapsing other side, trying desperately to hug the young man who had turned into clouds and was torn apart by thousands of Shura evil spirits.

The omnipresent black fog also rushed towards her, with bloody hands extending from under green faces and fangs, trying to tear her apart. But in the air within reach, it transformed into the appearance in her memory.

The green lamp fell to the ground, illuminating the world.

Ye Qingzhan stood on tiptoe and kissed it.

The young man carved out of the inky clouds and mist came from the sky, and kissed him back gently, almost devoutly.

***

Ye Qingzhan was awakened by the pain, or to be more precise, the pain

in her lips. She opened her eyes in pain.

At some point, the two of them sat facing each other.

Wen Gu closed his eyes, holding her face with both hands, pecking and grinding her lips repeatedly, licking and biting her from time to time, and the tip of his tongue also drilled in restlessly.

It was so painful that Ye Qingzhan pushed him away.

Wen Gu suddenly opened his eyes, seemingly unable to believe he was being pushed away. He eagerly tried to get closer, but what he saw was the bed in disarray, his own naked body, his clothes scattered across the room. Confused, he looked at the girl sitting across from him.

It would have been fine if he hadn't looked, but once he did, his face flushed. His gaze was long, and the lust still lingering in his eyes resurfaced as he stared intently.

"Qingzhan, you, me...we..." Wen Gu was unsure how to describe it. "Did we do something like that in the book?"

Ye Qingzhan followed his gaze and saw his upper body, completely slid down by his waist. His shyness was no longer a concern, and he lifted the covers to cover the young man with a strange look. Before getting out of bed, he angrily said, "Ask that group of black fogs!"

Unbeknownst to him, the evil spirit that had been covering the bed had vanished without a trace, and the room was bright with daylight.

Ye Qingzhan pulled a few clothes from the closet and quickly put them on. He then tossed a few more to Wen Gu, who had

just opened the quilt, and gritted his teeth, saying, "Hurry and put them on!" Wen Gu obediently put on her clothes. Suddenly, she caught sight of the book Yin Sha had left on the floor. She quickly picked it up and hid it in her sleeve before Ye Qingzhan turned around.

After putting on her clothes, Ye Qingzhan poured a cup of tea and looked at him as she drank. After Wen Gu had made the bed, she sat down on the edge of the couch and looked at her, asking, "Do you have anything to say to me?" Putting the teacup heavily on the table, Ye Qingzhan stood up and said, "Shouldn't I be asking you that?" As he spoke, he walked over to the bedside, looking down at the seated man. 

"What did you do behind my back to make Yin Sha lose control?" 

Wen Gu blinked at her, but said nothing and shook his head. 

Wow! He's become quite capable. 

Ye Qingzhan pushed Wen Gu, and the young man collapsed onto the silk quilt as if he had no bones, looking ready to be slaughtered. 

"You...?" 

The words got stuck in his throat. Ye Qingzhan wanted to continue asking, but the tightly closed door was suddenly opened from the outside. 

Wen Gu stood up, his expression returned to his usual indifference, and he looked over with Ye Qingzhan. 

Hu Sanniang swung her embroidered handkerchief, glanced at the torn clothes on the ground on her left, covered her face with the handkerchief and chuckled, then glanced at the black silk satin of unknown use on her right, chuckled a few more times, and stood where she was. 

"Young people, you progress fast, you play..." Hu Sanniang stopped talking, and winked at the two young men who were staying by the bed, her eyes saying: I'm embarrassed to say it! 

Ye Qingzhan followed Sanniang's gaze and glared at the black silk satin on the ground that should have been torn into pieces, and wanted to explain to Sanniang in a blink of an eye. 

But Sanniang did not give her a chance to explain, and continued: "Pack up and come out, we're waiting for you two."