World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 547: Twenty-eighty: Love of Liren! Rescue Liren!

Chapter 547: Twenty-eighty: Love of Liren! Rescue Liren!

Ashi Liren looked at the Fake Zuo Qiu and asked again, "Who are you exactly?"

Instead, Fake Zuo Qiu calmed down, took deep breaths, and stopped trembling—both his hands and body.

Then he said word by word, "That’s right, I am Yan Ping."

Upon hearing this, Liren’s delicate body shook again, almost fainting, and Suo Lun quickly supported her.

"Don’t touch her..." Fake Zuo Qiu, or rather Yan Ping, pointed at Suo Lun and yelled.

Once again, Ashi Liren was dealt a fatal blow tonight.

The husband she had devotedly and deeply loved was actually an undercover agent sent by the Dragon Temple, with the purpose of destroying her clan.

And ludicrously, she had been devastated by his death, overwhelmed with grief to the point of wanting to kill Sorcerer Yaomeng, merely because Yaomeng had failed to save him.

To express her grief and faithfulness, she wore a veil for nearly a decade, preventing any man from seeing her face, signifying her absolute chastity for her husband.

Yet, he had not only survived but also altered his appearance and infiltrated her father’s side, like a venomous snake waiting for the right moment to leap out and strike her brother, to strike the Ashi Clan.

How ridiculous, is there anything more absurd than this in the world?

After a moment, Liren scoffed, "At this point, are you still not willing to reveal your true face? Priest Yan Ping? Or perhaps that’s not even your real name."

Fake Zuo Qiu (Yan Ping) said, "My real name is indeed Yan Ping, and I truly am from Qiufeng Town Luoye Village."

Liren said, "Then why did you pretend to be dead ten years ago?"

Yan Ping said, "Because, Ashi Luo hated me to the core, seeing me as the biggest thorn in his side. My job was to monitor him over the long term, waiting for him to transform into a Hell Knight. So, the situation back then was no longer suitable for me to continue hiding; it just so happened that Ashi Luo used a plague to kill my entire family, and I... I seized the opportunity to fake my death and return to the Dragon Temple for a complete makeover, transforming into the guise of Zuo Qiu."

Ashi Liren looked at Yan Ping before her, who was now an aged old man.

"I will look like this for the rest of my life and can’t go back." Yan Ping looked into Ashi Liren’s eyes and revealed a look of deep obsession as he said, "Liren, even though coming to your side was arranged by the Dragon Temple, my love for you has always been true, and it will never change, no matter what form I take."

Ashi Liren sneered inwardly, no wonder this Fake Zuo Qiu always kept his head down and dared not meet her gaze in her father Ashimo’s Relic Castle.

"Liren, my love for you is real," Yan Ping repeated once again, his voice trembling.

Suddenly, Suo Lun laughed and said, "I believe your love for Liren is real, which is why you want to kill her. Because you don’t want her to be tainted by any man, you wish for her to only have you in her heart forever. And once your true face is revealed, her love for you would vanish, so you’re eager to kill her—that way, you’ll forever possess Liren’s love."

"No, that’s not it," Yan Ping shouted loudly, "She has been struck by the Dragon Yin Absolute Vein, and her life will not last much longer; she is bound to suffer endless agony, and I want to let her depart without any pain."

Suo Lun paid him no attention, asking Liren instead, "Do you still love Yan Ping in your heart?"

Liren expressed no emotion, her heart already cold and still.

Just as Suo Lun had said, in the instant Yan Ping’s true identity was revealed, he was utterly extinguished from her heart.

She didn’t even feel hatred, just endless coldness and ridicule.

Moreover, her entire being was now solely focused on her brother, Ashi Luo.

Only Ashi Luo truly loved her, although his love was far too sinister.

But thinking of the sins her brother Ashi Luo suffered for her sake caused waves of suffocating pain in Ashi Liren.

Suo Lun continued, "Yan Ping, if I’m not wrong, although you were married to Liren, you’ve never truly been intimate, have you?"

Instantly, Yan Ping’s face twitched violently.

This was the eternal pain in his heart; Ashi Liren had an absolute aversion, resisting anyone’s touch.

Even a mere touch of her hand would cause her entire body to tense up, with all her hair standing on end.

Moreover, boundless ice-cold energy would erupt uncontrollably after being touched by the opposite sex.

Hence, for those two years, Yan Ping’s relationship with Ashi Liren was entirely one of spiritual love; he dared not have any physical intimacy.

Of course, now that Suo Lun was supporting Ashi Liren, she didn’t have such a strong reaction because she was heartbroken to the point of numbness and no longer responded to the outside world.

Suo Lun said, "In fact, between men and women, desire usually precedes affection. Yet, you went against this by using forceful measures to stir Liren’s spirit and create the illusion of love. But her body has always resisted you: she accepted you in spirit but not in body. Because, she never truly loved you."

At these words, Yan Ping’s face changed drastically, and he howled, "Nonsense, you’re talking nonsense, Liren does love me, I am the only man she has ever loved in this life."

Suo Lun shook his head, "No, she doesn’t love you."

Yan Ping said, "Then why did she marry me?"

Suo Lun said, "Because her notion of purity is not limited to the physical but extends to the spiritual realm. She believes that love is noble and sacred, possessing exclusivity. Therefore when the Dragon Temple used despicable Mental Skills to touch her heartstrings, she felt that her one true love had appeared. Her ethical purity compelled her to accept you and reject the advances of any other man. Because she believed any form of fickleness to be a desecration of the spirit, her moral purity forced her to love only one person, and to remain faithful forever."