Chapter 525 - 166: [Door] (6400)_3
You Su Yi grew more and more perplexed, but still replied, "As for the price, three Refining God Pills can be exchanged for one Demon Spirit Pill."
Hmm, a season’s worth of wages.
Chen Yan understood.
"Fellow Daoist, to survive in this realm and seek cultivation, the primordial energy here is sparse. Even with a Demon Spirit Pill, it can offer some benefit, but not too much.
If you give me one Demon Spirit Pill, it would take me a year to slowly refine it using primordial qi.
Calculating it, one Demon Spirit Pill a year would suffice for me.
With this pill, I should be able to return to the Ascension Realm within ten years!"
"Alright! Serve me for ten years, and I’ll provide you with one Demon Spirit Pill each year, helping you return to the Ascension Realm. How about it?" Chen Yan smiled, "I don’t need you to be by my side every day. Once you’re healed, you can return to Lin’an Prefecture to reunite with your family. I’ll contact you whenever I need your help, asking you to take action."
You Su Yi was delighted!
She immediately raised her right palm, "Then it’s agreed!"
Chen Yan struck her palm three times, sealing their agreement.
In this realm, the Heavenly Dao suppresses cultivation. The practice of swearing oaths to the Heavenly Dao works in the Domain Realm but is useless in this world—the Heavenly Dao in this world is too displeased with cultivators to help them make contracts.
However, You Su Yi is quite trustworthy, and Chen Yan believes in her—moreover, You Su Yi once served under Chen Jue, so emotionally, Chen Yan is more inclined to trust this old fox.
After speaking, Chen Yan took out a piece of paper and quickly scribbled two names on it.
These were copied from the list Ouyang had previously given to Chen Yan.
The two names and addresses were demon cultivators disguised in this world.
Unlike Lin Xianyu, who only knew how to eat greedily, these two had committed some murders. Chen Yan, too lazy to deal with them himself, simply handed them to You Su Yi.
"Find these two guys, kill them, and dig out their inner cores to bring to me, and it’s done."
You Su Yi looked at it and saw the areas where the two demon cultivators were hiding, seeing their cultivation was only at the transformation stage, nodded, and put it away.
"Two little demons, with shallow cultivation, yet dare to act unruly in this realm. I shall kill them for you. I will go when my injury heals in a month."
Chen Yan nodded with satisfaction.
You Su Yi then smiled, "You mentioned there are two things to discuss with me during this visit. The first one seems to be this. What about the second one?"
Chen Yan nodded, "I came today with some things to ask you. What I want to ask isn’t something secretive or confidential, just some ordinary matters I don’t quite understand. Please help me to clarify."
"Oh?" You Su Yi blinked, "I wonder what you wish to ask about?"
"Just some customs in the Domain Realm."
You Su Yi paused.
"What is the Fierce Race about?" Chen Yan asked, "Is the Fierce Beast Race a part of the Fierce Race? Or is the Fierce Beast Race the Fierce Race itself? Why is the Fierce Beast Race’s habitat devoid of primordial qi? Hmm...and also..."
Chen Yan asked a lot in one go, unleashing all the big pile of questions and confusion he had accumulated during his previous trips to the Domain Realm and Evil Land Mountain.
You Su Yi listened, her eyes widening, her expression growing increasingly peculiar as she looked at Chen Yan.
After a while, Chen Yan finished speaking, and You Su Yi asked in a dry tone, "These...didn’t you know before?"
Chen Yan chuckled, standing up and cupping his hands toward You Su Yi before speaking seriously, "Let me first apologize to you, fellow Daoist.
When we first met, I didn’t tell you the truth about many things.
I am actually not from the Domain Realm but a native-born person from this world."
You Su Yi looked even more shocked, "No, that’s not right. That Lord Huang, the Venerable, she..."
"The Venerable is indeed my grandmother," Chen Yan said calmly, "but I have actually never been to the Domain Realm, and I’m completely ignorant of its customs and traditions."
You Su Yi’s expression changed again, her eyes darting around as she carefully observed Chen Yan, her mind filled with countless questions!
After all, she had fled to this world decades ago and had lived in this world for decades.
She had listened to and read countless mythological stories in this world.
At that moment, thinking of the backdrop behind Chen Yan, there stood the Venerable Huang.
And this Chen Yan, not a person from the Domain Realm, but a human from this world.
So...just like in this world’s mythological stories...
The seven fairy sisters descending to wed Dong Yong, giving birth to a child?
Or perhaps, God Erlang’s sister Yang Chan descending to marry a mortal and giving birth to a child, then splitting the mountain to rescue the mother?
Therefore...
The Venerable Huang, she, she, she...
Ah, no, no! No!
Chen Yan clearly said, the Venerable is his grandmother, grandmother, not mother!
If one wanted to hide something, other things could be fabricated, but ethical kinship could never mistake a mother for a grandmother.
So...
Still, the Venerable Huang came to this world, married, and had children, and then... the child had another child?
Thinking about it made her expression increasingly strange.
Seeing the old fox’s expression, Chen Yan knew she had certainly misunderstood.
Taking a deep breath, Chen Yan suddenly lightly slapped the table, startling You Su Yi, who immediately came to her senses, restrained her expression, and looked at Chen Yan seriously.
"The matters of my family aren’t convenient to discuss with you. You only need to know that the Venerable is indeed my grandmother; there’s no deception in this. As for other things, where I come from, my background, you don’t need to ask more."