A Smile From the Villain [BL]

ASV Chapter 62

Translator: Chrysanthemum Bud

Seven years passed in the blink of an eye. These seven years may be very long for ordinary people, but for cultivators, it was too short. When Qin Kaiyi came out of seclusion, he couldn't believe that so much time had passed.

The people around Qin Kaiyi didn't seem to change at all, whether it was Yan Gu or Ziyang Pei. Yes, for these monsters that had lived for tens of thousands of years, seven years couldn't leave any traces on them.

"Are you out?" Ziyang Pei didn't have much of a reaction to Qin Kaiyi's exit. Seclusion was commonplace for him (T/N: lit.: a simple home-style meal for him). Not to mention seven years, he had even gone into seclusion for seventy years before.

"En." Qin Kaiyi didn't say much when he came out of the secret room. He now had a very bad impression of Ziyang Pei. Although he didn't find a way to suppress the poisonous insect in his seclusion, his state of mind had greatly changed. He seemed to care less about many things.

Qin Kaiyi didn't know that this was the effect of the natural demonic body restraining heart demons, and he thought that people in the Core Formation stage would all be the same. In these seven years, Qin Kaiyi went from the middle stage of the Core Formation period to the late stage. Ordinary people would take at least several hundred years to do this, but Qin Kaiyi had a natural demonic body and resided in a place that gathered spiritual energy. Furthermore, he cultivated demonically, so his speed was naturally beyond the reach of the ordinary.

But Qin Kaiyi couldn't compare with Shen Feixiao no matter how much of a genius he was–six months before he exited seclusion, Shen Feixiao reached the Nascent Soul stage.

Once his Nascent Soul formed, Shen Feixiao's status shot straight up. Not only did he break away from the ranks of the disciples, he even became the youngest elder of the Lingshan Sect. The fact that he formed his Nascent Soul before thirty shook the cultivation world. No one had ever formed a Nascent Soul so young, not even Xue Xian, the founder of the Lingshan Sect.

When he heard this news, Qin Kaiyi wanted to sigh. He could only helplessly attribute Shen Feixiao's anomaly to the protagonist's halo being against the natural order.

"You will go to the Kaiyang Gathering this time." Ziyang Pei looked at Qin Kaiyi, who had come out of seclusion, with a complicated expression. He knew that the moment Shen Feixiao formed his Nascent Soul, Qin Kaiyi would not be able to escape from the palms of his hands. (T/N: 手心, the heart of one's hands, can also mean one's control)

"Kaiyang Gathering?" Qin Kaiyi felt Ziyang Pei's decision was strange. "I'm going?"

"You will go representing Hua Lian Sect." Ziyang Pei's voice was very cold; he suppressed all the tumultuous emotions in his heart. "There's no problem is there?"

"..." Qin Kaiyi was silent for a while, trying to recall the contents of the original work regarding Qin Shi and the Kaiyang Gathering. He ended up empty handed. How come he only remembered that that guy Shen Feixiao met his fourth wife at the Kaiyang Gathering and found another golden finger? He couldn't remember Qin Shi playing a role.

"What? Anything you want to say?" Looking at Qin Kaiyi's hesitating expression, Ziyang Pei couldn't tell how he himself was feeling. When thinking that he was personally sending Qin Kaiyi into Shen Feixiao's hands, he still felt some hesitation... But as soon as he saw Ziyang Shi's appearance when being tortured by the godly poisonous insect, he severed that bit of softness within him. After all, in this matter he owed Ziyang Shi.

"No." Qin Kaiyi knew that he did not have the right to refuse. The poisonous insect in his golden core was Ziyang Pei's greatest tool to control him. He didn't want to experience that kind of heartrending, lung-splitting pain again.