Chapter 594 516: Senior Brother, How Can I Ever Forget You?

Nangong Jin bit her lower lip in embarrassment, bringing a faint blush of blood to her pale lips. Her eyes shimmered with unshed tears, but she stubbornly shook her head.

"Because I have to overcome this Red Dust Tribulation, Brother Pei… Your Pure Yang True Qi is so warm. I'm afraid I'll grow to depend on it…"

Nangong Jin lowered her gaze, and a lock of black hair fell forward, perfectly concealing the slight blush on the tip of her ear.

"Brother, haven't you always said you hoped I could forget my feelings for you?"

"These past few days… I've been trying so hard to forget you, Brother Pei. To forget how you took care of me when I first joined the Sect, to forget how you dispelled the darkness and cold in the dungeon, how you used your own blood to bring me warmth…"

"But the more I try to forget you, Brother, the clearer your image becomes in my mind. Still, I'm really trying!"

Nangong Jin looked up, her pale, pretty face flushed with a feverish, unhealthy blush. She looked like a whimpering little animal.

"Please don't let my efforts be in vain, Brother Pei…"

"…"

Pei Yuhang stared at the stubbornly evasive Nangong Jin before him, his gaze growing distant.

Her pale profile was almost translucent in the morning light, gradually overlapping with the memory of another figure who had also resisted his approach—

Yueqiu, back when she was under Ji Shenyun's curse, had also stubbornly pushed away all his warmth just like this.

He could faintly sense a hint of resentment directed at him.

'Master/Brother, since you're unwilling to accept me, why can't you just watch me waste away in loneliness?'

'So now, should he listen to Nangong Jin and let her grow weaker in her solitude?'

'This struggle with weakness and loneliness is like a caterpillar emerging from its cocoon to become a butterfly.'

'If she endures, she will achieve complete Forgetfulness and transform into a beautiful, unique butterfly.'

'If she can't, she'll be trapped and die in the cocoon.'

'Or, with his "help," she might break free, but she would never be able to become a butterfly.'

Pei Yuhang was silent for a moment before taking out a small porcelain vial in front of Nangong Jin.

Nangong Jin looked up in a daze. She watched as he bit the tip of his tongue without hesitation. A trickle of crimson slid down the corner of his mouth, gleaming with an alluring luster in the sunlight.

"Brother Pei!"

Nangong Jin cried out in alarm, instinctively reaching out to stop him.

But Pei Yuhang had already bitten his tongue and dripped several drops of incomparably pure Pure Yang Essence Blood into it.

These few drops of Pure Yang Essence Blood contained Pei Yuhang's Pure Yang origin source. It was no ordinary Essence Blood, but something unprecedentedly precious.

Pei Yuhang was breathing a little heavily. He said softly,

"Junior Sister Nangong, I can't forcibly interfere with your choice, but I hope… that if you're ever in a desperate situation where you can't hold on, you'll drink this to save your life.

"At the very least, don't let yourself perish. The Great Dao is not as important as your life. As long as you're alive, anything is possible."

Nangong Jin stared at the jarring crimson on the corner of Pei Yuhang's mouth, and her eyes suddenly began to burn.

She clutched the small porcelain vial, lowered her head, and murmured,

"You're so cruel, Brother Pei… How can I possibly forget you when you do things like this?"

"To you… I'm just a stranger you call family."

Nangong Jin's voice was so soft on the last sentence it was almost a silent thought.

In the end… she didn't dare to ask Brother Pei what had happened that night with Qing Yueqiu.

Pei Yuhang and Nangong Jin quickly caught up with Qing Yueqiu and Bei Lingyin.

Bei Lingyin had already used a sleeper agent that Yama Hall had planted in Xuanwang City to arrange special identities for the four of them.

After arriving at Tianya Tower, they didn't need to queue up and could cut the line to enter the Teleportation Array directly.

Pei Yuhang's gaze darkened slightly as he watched the guards along the way see Bei Lingyin, bow, and clear a path without daring to stop them.

"Master, what are you thinking about?"

Qing Yueqiu keenly sensed Pei Yuhang's thoughts and quietly sent him a voice transmission.

The silver-haired girl had her hair tied in a high ponytail today. Her form-fitting martial attire made her posture seem even more upright and slender, and her entire presence was as sharp as a half-drawn sword.

Pei Yuhang glanced at Yueqiu and said softly,

"I just didn't expect that Yama Hall could so easily infiltrate even a place like Liuzhou Xuanwang City, located deep in the heartland of the Righteous Sects. Their reach extends this far."

"I wonder how many Yama Hall spies have been planted in the Major Sects."

Pei Yuhang couldn't help but want to secretly send a message to the Dao Sect to warn the Great Elder and the Taoist Lord.

Hearing this, Qing Yueqiu wanted to remind her Master that his worries were completely unnecessary.

'After all, the Hall Master of Yama Hall is the Grand Master himself. He took over Yama Hall and planted all these spies… He wouldn't harm his own people, would he?'

'But the Grand Master had warned her not to tell her Master about these things, so she could only keep it to herself.'

Qing Yueqiu pursed her lips. She decided that after this mission was over, she would arrange for her Master to meet the Grand Master.

While she was lost in thought, the four of them had already taken a special hidden passage and entered the Teleportation Array within Tianya Tower.

Bei Lingyin gave each of them a Token. This Token could lock onto the coordinates of their destination, ensuring the four of them wouldn't get separated after teleporting simultaneously.

"Sword Immortal Pei, Sword Immortal Nangong."

"Our destination this time is Lan City, the Human Race's front line in the Endless Sea.

"Because of recent tensions with the Demon Race, Lan City is under high alert. Theoretically, we'd need to register to teleport there.

"But Yama Hall has arranged false identities for us so we can get in smoothly. However, you must memorize the information on your false identities to avoid raising any suspicion."

As Bei Lingyin spoke, she used a Disguise Technique and transformed into a somewhat plump, well-rounded, middle-aged merchant.

Nangong Jin, Pei Yuhang, and Qing Yueqiu, meanwhile, disguised themselves as her Divinity Transformation Stage guards.