After Recklessly Courting Death, I Caught the Attention of a Yandere - Chapter 127

Ye Bei was someone who didn’t like getting involved in these matters to begin with.

Whether it was them or Tianqing Manor, he didn’t want to help either side, nor did he want to be caught in the middle between these two sects.

So this time, he didn’t plan to heed the Tang Sect’s so-called plea for help.

In his view, if Xiao Yueqing was able to obtain the treasure map, that was his own capability.

Ye Bei also knew that the Tang Sect’s secret chamber was not an easy place to enter. There were plenty of people who wanted to find the treasure map—most either returned empty-handed or died directly in the Tang Sect’s secret chamber.

Since Xiao Yueqing was able to steal this treasure map, it proved he had some real skill.

Moreover, as someone who knew about the grudges between them, Ye Bei naturally didn’t want to be used as a pawn by the Tang Sect.

“They’re just trying to use me as their weapon, to have me target Xiao Yueqing. But I’m not the martial arts alliance leader—why should I be the one issuing orders to hunt him down?

Whoever wants to hunt down Tianqing Manor can be the one to issue the orders. In any case, the Heavenly Sword Sect won’t participate in this matter. Just pretend you never saw this letter.”

Yun Dan thought to herself: well, this is quite a personality.

However, fortunately Ye Bei was someone who distinguished right from wrong. He wouldn’t think Xiao Yueqing was all kinds of bad just because of a few words from the Tang Sect, or even go so far as to hunt down Xiao Yueqing.

He simply didn’t want to get involved in this matter at all, okay?

While massaging Ye Bei’s shoulders, Yun Dan asked curiously, “Master, I’m a bit curious—when everyone in the jianghu is hunting down Xiao Yueqing, why do you still refuse to get involved? In Master’s eyes, is he perhaps not necessarily a bad person?”

Yun Dan felt that if she hadn’t encountered Xiao Yueqing first, if she had met someone like Dongfang Wuchen or Ye Bei first instead, she might not have had any other impression of Xiao Yueqing and would have naturally assumed he was a bad person.

But after actually interacting with him for so long, Yun Dan actually felt he wasn’t a bad person. Rather, she found him quite pitiful.

He had suffered so much, and he was searching for the treasure map only to survive.

Although Ye Bei didn’t know why Yun Dan would bring up Xiao Yueqing, fortunately he was in a fairly good mood, so he chatted with Yun Dan about it.

“I don’t know much about him, only heard some things about him, know about his background.

He can indeed be counted as a pitiful person. I don’t think he’s done anything wrong, and he has no grievances with our Heavenly Sword Sect. There’s no reason for me to hate him.”

Yun Dan thought to herself: as expected of a male lead from an otome game—their views are each more upright than the last.

Whether it was Dongfang Wuchen or Ye Bei, their moral compasses were incredibly upright.

Although Xiao Yueqing was an outright villain, after interacting with him for so long, she hadn’t seen him do anything truly unconscionable.

If his threat to skin her alive counted, then there wasn’t much else, was there?

“Although I’m the sect master of the Heavenly Sword Sect, I’ve never wanted to get involved in grudges between other sects. The Heavenly Sword Sect was originally just an ordinary sect—there’s no need to meddle in so many matters.

What I want is only to protect every disciple of the Heavenly Sword Sect. Everything else is beyond my jurisdiction.”

Yun Dan thought: if Ye Bei has such views, does that mean he might hand over the treasure map?

“Master, if one day he came to the Heavenly Sword Sect to seize the treasure map, what would you do?”

“If he has the ability to take it, so be it. I have no use for that thing anyway—better to give it to someone who needs it. Besides, this treasure won’t endanger the entire martial arts world. It’s just a pill and two martial arts manuals.

However, mastering these manuals will make someone’s martial arts extraordinarily powerful, which is why the treasure map is so sought after. But if you ask me, even if you find the treasure, you may not necessarily master the ultimate martial arts—that depends on talent.”

This was something Yun Dan had never considered.

So the treasure behind the treasure map was actually a pill and two martial arts manuals?

It seemed that from the beginning, Xiao Yueqing hadn’t deceived her—he truly was trying to save his life.

“Then Master, how do you know what the treasure is?”

Ye Bei chuckled softly and said, “Because one of the manuals was buried by the founding ancestor of the Heavenly Sword Sect. It’s called ultimate martial arts, but it also has drawbacks. After cultivation, one becomes prone to qi deviation, turning into an outright killing maniac.

So after the ancestor realized the danger, he wanted to seal away this manual. The other manual is similar—ordinary people really find it very difficult to master such martial arts.”

“As for that pill, it can also be considered a treasure. Legend has it that it can restore the dead to life and heal mortal wounds. Compared to those two manuals, that pill which can bring people back from death’s door seems somewhat more modest.”

So Xiao Yueqing really hadn’t lied to her—that pill really had a chance of saving his life.

If she could find the treasure map and get those items, wouldn’t Xiao Yueqing no longer need to die?

If it were before, Yun Dan actually didn’t have much feeling about whether Xiao Yueqing could live or not.

At most, she just hoped he would give her the antidote before he died.

But after spending so much time together, their relationship was quite unusual. To actually watch him die, Yun Dan felt she couldn’t do it.

So now that she knew what the treasure specifically was, Yun Dan genuinely wanted to help Xiao Yueqing.

Previously, Yun Dan had only been forced to act as his spy because Xiao Yueqing had poisoned her.

But now the situation was different.

That night, Xiao Yueqing came to Yun Dan’s room again. His health seemed even worse than before.

“What’s wrong with you? You don’t look so good.”

Xiao Yueqing coughed and tried hard to conceal his physical discomfort.

“It’s nothing, probably just too tired from traveling. But what about you—how have you been lately?”

Yun Dan muttered quietly, “What could happen to me? I’m doing just fine. I just haven’t found where the treasure map is. Several times I wanted to ask Master directly, but I couldn’t.

I heard the treasure is a pill and two martial arts manuals. Master said the pill can restore the dead to life and heal mortal wounds. If we can find it quickly, you should be saved, right?”

Xiao Yueqing nodded.

“Yes, from beginning to end, I only wanted that one pill. As for the manuals, I never wanted them. I could even return those two manuals after finding the treasure, because from beginning to end, I only want that one pill to save my life.”

Xiao Yueqing had no interest whatsoever in the manuals.

After all, he only wanted to save himself, not conquer the world.