Volume 7: The Great War Chapter 03 Don't Let Your Footsteps Pass By
Their explanation for this is that most people in the Xuming Continent are hypocritical and cunning, and they believe that marriage is the best and most trustworthy way to form an alliance.
Penglai Fairyland and Wuji Fairy Palace, then the marriage between Yinglili and Huai Lian is naturally what everyone wants.
Going to Nima was what everyone expected, and it took a lot of effort for Ying Lili to restrain the urge to use the Biluo Sword to chop people.
Before this, it was said that Penglai Fairyland and Wuji Fairy Palace had also reached a consensus. Due to the serious injury of the Lishan Holy Mother of Penglai Fairyland, Qingluan was still inexperienced and difficult to convince the public, so the important task of commanding the two forces fell on Huai Lian, the new leader of Wuji Fairy Palace. Including Qingluan, they also had to listen to Huai Lian's instructions. In other words, Huai Lian now represented not only Wuji Fairy Palace, but also Penglai Fairyland.
Those thousands of monks and immortal cultivators with unfathomable strength are a powerful weapon against the demons no matter what.
Ying Lili knew that this was the force she had to win over. The demon clan was not the Kongming clan or the Nayu clan of the past. They had been the common enemy of all parties in the Xuming Realm for thousands of years. They were an existence that was incomparably powerful.
However, if she had to pay the price for this, it was something that Yinglili could never accept.
She can go through life and death for Mo Yi, and even sacrifice her life, but she is absolutely unwilling to marry someone else to save Mo Yi. Such compromise is not in line with Ying Lili's style. She would rather die at the hands of the demons than lose face to face Mo Yi again.
What made Gong Lili even more angry was not this extremely stupid proposal, but the attitudes of Zhuo Ao and Huai Lian, and even Qingluan's attitude. No wonder Qingluan had used the excuse that she had something to say to Wei Xingying to lead Wei Xingying out. Qingluan must have known about this for a long time, and knew that if Wei Xingying heard it, he would definitely turn against her on the spot, so she took the initiative, right?
Could it be that Wuji Immortal Palace and Penglai Fairyland had already reached some kind of agreement on this matter?!
Zhuo Ao is fine, but Huai Lian is Mo Yi's elder brother, how could he do this?
Although Gong Lili was so angry that her lungs were about to explode, the shrewdness and composure she had gained over the past few days still managed to support her in maintaining basic etiquette. After all, she was representing not only herself at this moment, but most of the Xuming Realm continent. She couldn't let her impulsive behavior ruin the situation.
However, the anger in her heart was still unbearable! She needed an explanation, an explanation that would keep her from bursting into a swearing fit . Her eyes swept coldly over Zhuo Ao and Huai Lian, who had remained silent to the side.
Whether out of guilt or something else, Zhuo Ao and Huai Lian simultaneously averted their gazes, refusing to meet the murderous gaze radiating from Gong Lili. Gong Lili understood from their attitudes that they must have known about this matter long beforehand, perhaps even conspiring to do so. However, neither of them dared to bring it up, so the Yunshui Pavilion Master, who had nothing to do with her, had to serve as cannon fodder.
Damn the silence, Yinglili was extremely angry!
One of them knew that he loved Mo Yi deeply, but he sold himself out; the other was Mo Yi's nominal elder brother, but he had the nerve to come and take in his brother's wife in the name of saving his brother after he disappeared (in Pinglili's heart, she had already defined herself as Mo Yi's wife). This is not a primitive tribe, why should brothers share a wife!
Besides, isn't Huai Lian a Taoist priest? Why would a Taoist priest marry a wife? Damn it, this is too deceptive!
Ping Lili looked at the two men coldly, ignoring the urging of the Yunshui Pavilion Master. Instead, she narrowed her eyes slightly and said to them in a sinister tone, "Two of you, can someone explain this to me?"
That tone seemed as if she had completely forgotten that one of those two people was a master of the Xu Ming Realm, and the other was the new leader of the Wuji Immortal Palace. In her mind at this moment, these two people were just foxes who joined forces to plot against her, nothing more.
As a grandmaster, Zhuo Ao naturally has his pride. Although he was in the wrong, he could not let go of his arrogance easily. He glanced at Huai Lian coldly, naturally intending to push Huai Lian to the edge of the knife.
After receiving his adoptive father's meaningful look, Huai Lian sighed helplessly and had to meet the angry eyes of Ying Lili head-on: "Ahem, this, Miss Ying, you know, Mo Yi has fallen into the devil's way and become the Demon Lord. Only the Heavenly Stone can reseal him. Even if you practice your Azure Sword to the extreme, it can only temporarily injure him. It's just a stopgap measure, but it can't completely solve the problem. If you want to completely seal the Demon Lord and call back Mo Yi, I'm afraid you'll need the Heavenly Stone again..."
At this point, Huai Lian wisely shut up. He believed that Gong Lili was a smart man and would be able to figure out the cause and effect relationship.
That's right, in fact, he himself couldn't accept it. For Huai Lian, who always restrained his behavior with the style of a gentleman, asking him to do something so against common sense was a huge subversion of his principles of life. However, Zhuo Ao had told him the interests involved before. If not, his younger brother would really be hopeless and could only watch him destroy this virtual world as the Demon Lord.
After weighing the pros and cons, Huai Lian finally compromised. For the sake of his only brother and his only relative in the world, he could be a villain and carry this shameless tombstone on his back.
However, he also knew that this would be a painful decision for Yinglili.
A smart person like Yinglili naturally understood the purpose behind this marriage immediately.
Tianshi, it’s all for that damn Tianshi again.
The so-called marriage was just to put a hypocritical cloak on the refining of that stone, or were they self-righteously thinking for her? After all, in this world, having a child out of wedlock was not a glorious thing, especially for someone like Gong Lili. A nominal marriage was the best way to shut up the people of Youyoutianxia.
However, they did not think about it, or perhaps they could not even think about it. This was something even more difficult for Ying Lili to accept. She could not convince herself to marry anyone other than Mo Yi, for any reason.
Although Ping Lili had desperately wanted to refine the Heavenly Stone back then, and although she had passionately hoped to have a child, all of that was based on the fact that the other party was Mo Yi. Yet, today, she had to face such an embarrassing situation. The hint she had given back then had come to nothing.
Ping Lili asked the heaven in silence.
"But, even if I marry you now, it's too late." Ying Lili suddenly thought of another more critical issue. Tianshi and the child are one. Even if she really agrees to marry Huai Lian, it will take at least ten months for the child to be born. However, the battle between Long Yu and the Demon Lord Yan Yue is tomorrow. How can she be in time?
"You think tomorrow's battle will determine the outcome? Haha, how naive." Zhuo Ao finally couldn't help but speak, revealing the core of the problem. "The battle between gods and demons has been going on for over a year. Even if we use all the strength of the Void Underworld, we may not be a match for the demons. What we need now is to stall, to buy time, until you can practice the Azure Sword Technique to the ninth level and refine the Heavenly Stone. Although the demons have obtained all three Demon Realm Keys, it will take some time to completely break the seal and allow all the demon armies to return to the Void Underworld."
It turned out that this would be a long-lasting tug-of-war. With a thought, Ping Lili suddenly understood why Wuji Immortal Palace wanted her to marry Huai Lian.
In such a tug-of-war, there must be an absolute leader. The two major forces of the Xuming Continent are now in her hands. If she marries Huai Lian, then according to the rules of the Xuming Continent, these forces will naturally be taken over by Huai Lian.
So that was the trap? Their purpose in wanting her to marry Huai Lian was to have her hand over all the forces she held to Huai Lian. Wasn't this clearly a pretext for her becoming someone else's bride? Suddenly, Ying Lili began to wonder if Zhuo Ao had already planned everything when he proposed pooling their forces.
To put it bluntly, she was using him as a gun. After she had conquered all the forces in the Xuming Continent, Huai Lian would only need to marry her to take over everything in her hands.
This is a really good plan.
Yinglili sneered in her heart.
Whose idea was this? Yinglili's cold gaze swept over Huai Lian and Zhuo Ao, and she immediately understood who was behind this.
But why did Zhuo Ao favor Huai Lian so much?
At this point, the suspicion in Ping Lili's heart towards Zhuo Ao had reached its peak. Although Zhuo Ao seemed to be guiding her to comprehend the 'Bi Luo Sword Technique' without reservation, some things had already left a shadow in Ping Lili's heart.
In the days that followed, she had carefully recalled the situation of that day. She didn't dare to say anything else, but she was sure that Zhuo Ao had not used his full strength at that time. If he had relied on Zhuo Ao's strength, not to mention that those people would have easily abducted Mo Yi, even if they had abducted Mo Yi, they might not have been able to escape unscathed. At least a few of them would have been seriously injured. However, those demons at that time escaped so easily, as if Zhuo Ao had deliberately let them go.
Did Zhuo Ao deliberately let them take Mo Yi away?! But what good would that do to him? Wasn't Mo Yi his personal disciple? How could he just hand over his carefully nurtured disciple to a demon?!
What exactly is Zhuo Ao up to?
Huai Lian was indeed Mo Yi's eldest brother, and indeed a descendant of the Sky Speaker, but he was not Han Yan's biological son. Huai Lian's mother was Han Yan's twin sister, also a Sky Speaker, who followed him like a shadow, but died earlier than Han Yan. So, strictly speaking, Huai Lian was Mo Yi's cousin.
However, there is one crucial point: Han Yan did not say who Huai Lian's father is.
Seeing Zhuo Ao's partiality towards Huai Lian, Ying Lili couldn't help but have such groundless speculations in her mind. After all, Zhuo Ao's attitude towards Mo Yi and Huai Lian was obviously worlds apart.
