HLnovel Chapter 295 A Child with Kindness and Righteousness
Chapter 295 A Child with Kindness and Righteousness
"I have some good news and some bad news. Which would you like to hear first?"
Xue Lan squatted down in front of Xiao Sheng and immediately posed a difficult question.
"Good...good news." Xiao Sheng was quite startled by Xue Lan's sudden remark and stammered as he spoke.
Xue Lan smiled slightly: "I can turn you into a normal child, just like us."
After saying that, Xue Lan pointed to her face.
Xiao Sheng was suddenly wide awake, his eyes filled with joy: "Then... can I go with Mommy...?"
"I won't let you go back!"
"Once you've taken on human form, you must stay by my side forever."
Xue Lan uttered two sentences in quick succession, giving the child no room to react.
In short, by the time Wu Yijun realized what Xue Lan had said, Xiao Sheng had already fallen backward with a deathly pale face.
A slender wisp of demonic energy emerged from his heart, like a tiny earthworm.
"Xue Lan!" Wu Yijun couldn't help but exclaim.
"You should... take it one step at a time!"
Xue Lan gave a soft "oh".
The little boy lying on the ground clutched his chest in pain. A soft human eye, when looking at Xue Lan, was filled with frost.
It even carried a hint of resentment and malice.
"Step by step?" Xue Lan said with a smile. The woman pointed to the little boy in front of her: "At this level, I'm afraid we can't proceed step by step."
The instant Xue Lan finished speaking, Xiao Sheng leaped up from the ground, his sharp demonic claws aimed straight for Xue Lan's throat.
Wu Yijun reacted quickly and grabbed Xiao Sheng.
However, Xue Lan hadn't even considered dodging that attack, and a thin line of blood appeared on the woman's slender neck.
It felt like being bound by a thread of cause and effect.
Xue Lan pointed a finger at Xiao Sheng's forehead, and the extremely irritable boy instantly fainted, like a snake whose bones had been loosened.
"You thought he was well-behaved before because you hadn't touched his sore spot."
“Every gentle person in this world has a sore spot.” Xue Lan patted Xiao Sheng’s head.
"He loves his mother and wants to live a simple and peaceful life with her. When he heard that everything he wanted would be shattered by a high and mighty immortal like me, he was influenced by the demonic seed."
Looking at the smile on Xue Lan's face, Wu Yijun tentatively asked, "Don't you like him?"
Xue Lan looked very surprised: "Who said that? I like children who are loyal and righteous the most."
She likes children who are loyal and compassionate, but in today's world, such children seem to have a difficult life.
It reminded her of Shuang'er, who never left the mountains, and Mingcheng, who was sold by his family and waited for several years...
“I won’t let him die, I’ve already…” Xue Lan’s voice was a little hoarse: “I’ve already failed twice.”
She was just a demon child; she refused to believe that even with all her power from two lifetimes, she couldn't save him.
Everything is just a matter of time.
All Xue Lan could do was try her best to shorten the time it took to take Xiao Sheng away from his mother, so that he wouldn't waste half his life in the immortal sect and return home to find only a green tomb.
Thinking of this, Xue Lan slowly raised her hand, and a portion of the demonic core in the smelting furnace was separated and flew to Xue Lan's front.
Wu Yijun couldn't help but ask, "Xue Lan, is it really that difficult for you to speak properly?"
"He's just a child..."
“Jun Jun, sometimes being a bad person is a rare experience.”
After saying this, Xue Lan bit her fingertip and placed a red mark on Xiao Sheng's forehead.
"Junjun, if one day the Yuanming Realm truly drives out the demons, what do you want to do?" Xue Lan suddenly asked.
"I told Yan Chengxue that if that day ever comes, I'll take the puppet I made out to see the world. I'm getting a little tired of seeing the peach blossoms in Xie Cuicheng."
Xue Lan continued with her work: "There's a large grove of osmanthus trees behind Yunhui Peak. Zhu He's cooking skills are quite good. When you two come over, I'll have him make you osmanthus cakes."
"By then, these loyal and affectionate children will no longer die young."
Wu Yijun felt as if he had been bewitched.
Even though the situation was still unclear, she believed what Xue Lan said.
The woman nodded gently: "It's a deal."
Xue Lan nodded, the red bead by her ear swaying slightly.
"A word is settled!"
After saying these words, the pale purple mass in front of Xue Lan slowly changed, as if being driven and kneaded by something. Finally, it transformed into a rhomboid crystal. The previously flowing crystals within it had frozen solid, unable to move even an inch.
Xue Lan grabbed it from mid-air and pressed it onto Xiao Sheng's forehead.
The woman's voice was clear and cold, yet her tone was familiar: "Junjun, help me."
The moment she spoke, the puppet threads at Wu Yijun's fingertips flew out, disappearing like serpents and piercing into the various acupoints on the Little Saint's head.
The purpose was to prevent the child's mind from being corrupted when Xue Lan severed the connection between the demonic body and the demonic energy.
This is a real separation.
Xue Lan and Wu Yijun were confident yet also apprehensive as they separated.
Xue Lan had two options. One was to use a different kind of fire. Her masterful control over the power of that fire would allow her to sever the meridians and demonic energy nourishing the demonic seed within the Little Saint's body. However, she was somewhat afraid.
So when the woman's hand slowly pressed against the little boy's hideous half of his face, the blue-red flames were actually carrying extremely pure ice power.
A heavy snow began to fall in Xue Lan's sea of consciousness; the inner demon had not seen such a heavy snowfall for many years.
Her voice was no longer as aggressive as before; it even sounded somewhat gentle: "Xue Lan!"
"If you keep being so soft-hearted, what will you do if you can't save everyone?"
Xue Lan did not reply.
The only kind word the inner demon had uttered in years seemed unable to change Xue Lan's mind.
The white-haired woman in black looked at the heavy snow overhead and murmured:
"Does it really have to come to that? Give me your body, I can do it better than you."
Xue Lan then replied with one sentence: "So after all that talk, you still want my body. You revealed your true intentions a little too quickly!"
The icy power beneath his hand gradually severed the transmission of demonic energy within the little saint's body. At the same time, the small demonic core between the boy's eyebrows slowly merged into his body.
The dark and terrifying half of his face began to slowly change, eventually transforming into the appearance of an ordinary little boy, soft and fair.
Xiao Sheng frowned and slowly opened his eyes.
A slight smile appeared on Xue Lan's lips as she spoke to her inner demon:
"Don't be angry, we're like family!"
"Everything's fine this time, isn't it? Just wait until I mess things up and can't handle the situation anymore, then I'll definitely let you out!"