My Disciple Died Yet Again

by Srtyi

The Revered Master, Yu Yan, known as the number one in the cultivation world, waited for sixteen thousand years, and finally took in a disciple. He taught her carefully, and took care of her diligently. He watched her as she slowly grew stronger as she comprehended the laws, and just as she was about to soar into prominence… she died! Hence, he once again took in another disciple,

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Chapter 33: Talented Acting School

"Yo! And here I was wondering who it was? So it's a pair of passionate little mandarin ducks!" The fox demon looked at the two people who were entangled with each other, the corner of her lips revealed a hint of an odd smile.

The two people on the ground woke up from their excitement, and hurriedly separated from each other. Su Zi shrieked, and began to find her clothes to cover herself in a fluster. While Xiao Yi was actually completely calm, as he summoned a flying sword with his hand, and pointed it at the red-clothed lady in the sky.

The fox demon, however, smiled even more arrogantly. With a wave of her hand, a light blade was immediately sent flying towards Xiao Yi. Xiao Yi completely did not have the strength to retaliate, and was forced back a couple of meters. The fox demon did not seem to have the intention to kill him, as she uttered a binding incantation, and restrained Xiao Yi.

Descending from the sky, her smile became even more enchanting as she walked towards him. Raising her hand, she cupped onto his jaw. "Little brother, is she not satisfying enough for you? Why don't this big sister help you!" The fox demon's eyes were beautiful as silk, the yang energy in practitioners were very beneficial to her, and she did not expect to have such good luck today.

"Let go of big brother Xiao Yi." Su Zi summoned an ice blade, attacking her with it. The fox demon's figure dodged, and the ice blade struck directly onto the tree behind her.

The fox demon snorted coldly. "You're overestimating your abilities." With a wave of her hand, Su Zi was blown away in an instant, fresh blood was spat from her mouth, and she fell onto the ground, with no longer any strength to retaliate.

"Little sister Su!" Xiao Yi struggled forcefully, yet, he was still unable to escape the bind. He could only stare ruthlessly at the fox demon in front of him. However, she looked as though she was not bothered in the slightest, which caused his imposing air to weaken quite a bit.

"Yo, little brother, don't worry. I won't kill you." The fox demon smiled even more bewitchingly. A cultivation level at the elementary Azoth-stage had a definite suppressing ability towards them, and they basically could not retaliate at all. The fox demon once again walked closer, touching his * upper body. "Big sister will treat you very well."

Just when the fox demon was about to leave with Xiao Yi, suddenly, a pressure of the catastrophic level suddenly descended upon her. The fox demon's figure wobbled, and she then directly knelt onto the ground. Her inner heart was in a state of great bewilderment. It was a Nascent Soul-stage practitioner.

"A little female demon actually dares to be this impudent!" An ethereal voice sounded from the skies, and the fox demon saw a woman in white standing straight on her flying sword, her figure was fixed in the sky. Her eyes were like glaciers, as she looked at the fox demon below her.

The fox demon's heart instantly tightened. The white robe she was wearing was the signature of the Ancient Hill Sect, it was not possible for her to not recognize it. She was actually so unfortunate to encounter a Nascent Soul-stage practitioner from the Ancient Hill Sect. "This little demon was unaware that senior was here, and had unintentionally acted offensively, I hope that senior will forgive me."

The fox demon instantly kept her demonic bewitchment and arrogance, and respectfully bowed.

"You still dare to lie!" The woman's expression turned cold. With a wave of her hand, a ray of Heavenly Lightning was sent flying down, striking a place not far from the fox demon, leaving a huge crater. "You harmed a disciple of my Ancient Hill Sect, and you still dare to say it was unintentional?"

The fox demon was momentarily anxious, and her legs began to slightly wobble uncontrollably. A demon practitioner was naturally stronger than a human practitioner of the same rank, but, it was very hard for them to increase their rank, so, of course, she would naturally fear the Heavenly Lightnings. And when the fox demon saw that she was capable of summoning a Heavenly Lightning with just a simple wave of her hand, her face instantly turned pale.

"Senior, you have misunderstood. This little demon was just playing a joke on them." The fox demon carefully replied, and felt she was fortunate to not have harmed that girly too heavily earlier. Also, she silently wished that this Nascent Soul-stage practitioner was just passing through by sheer coincidence, and hoped that she did not know of her actions in the town.

"A joke?" The white-clothed woman was startled, as though she was really considering her words.

The fox demon realized this was her chance. "If senior do not have anything else for me, this little demon shall first take her leave." The moment those words fell, the demon had already used her fastest Mystic Art, and speedily fled the scene.

The white-clothed woman stood in the air, yet, she completely did not have the intention to chase after her. A while later, her flying sword gently descended onto the ground. She heaved a long sigh, that imposing air of an extreme expert she once had instantly disappeared without a trace, and she fell flat on her butt without any considerations to her image. That terrifying pressure of an Nascent Soul-stage practitioner instantly disappeared completely as well, as though it had never appeared.

"What the hell, that scared the hell out of me!" The white-clothed woman heaved a long sigh, and this person was exactly Zhu Yao.

"Big sister Zhu Yao!" Wang Xuzhi walked out of the bushes at the side as well, and supported the person on the ground. "Are you alright?"

"What do you think?" Zhu Yao rolled her eyes at him. The entire situation earlier was just a ploy set up by her and Wang Xuzhi, and its purpose was to frighten the fox demon away. A demon at the Azoth-stage was not something they could go up against even if all of them were to gang up on her. But, with an Nascent Soul-stage practitioner, it would be completely different. Hence, she had Wang Xuzhi cast an illusion art from the shadows to simulate the pressure of an Nascent Soul-stage practitioner, while she herself would stand on the flying sword and use a Heavenly Lightning to scare the fox demon off. However, with her cultivation level, just that single ray of Heavenly Lightning earlier had used up all of her spiritual energy. If she had not desperately persevered, she would have either fell off due to her fear of heights, or fell off due to the depletion of her spiritual energy. Currently, she no longer had the energy to even stand.

"Thank you grand-martial aunt for saving my life." Xiao Yi finally reacted as well. She was the one who saved him, although he was not contented about it, he gritted his teeth and still gave his thanks.

Zhu Yao turned and swept him a glance. "Can you say that after wearing your clothes?"

Conversing with a naked man, her pressure was huge, you know?

"Big brother Xiao Yi?" And it just happened to be at this sort of time, Ling Long felt the disturbance, and ran over from the inn. Seeing Xiao Yi who was stark naked, she let out a scream. "Big brother Xiao Yi, you…" She turned her head away, however, she actually saw the messily dressed Su Zi who had fainted at the side, and suddenly understood something, as her small face instantly turned snow-white.

Unfortunately, Zhu Yao no longer had the strength to witness the big break-up that would happen next. She had initially wanted to watch a live love action movie for free, but, in the end, the one who was dog-tired was actually her, and she was groggy as well.

She had Wang Xuzhi send her back. She had to rest and recover her spiritual energy.

Hence, on the scene, the people who were left were, the stark naked Xiao Yi, the messily dressed Su Zi, and Ling Long, whose tears were flowing out like an unstoppable flooding Yellow River.

In the early morning of the second day, Zhu Yao decided to return immediately to the sect, because she suddenly recalled something. Although the plan yesterday worked out with a hitch, successfully scaring away the fox demon, it did not guarantee that the fox demon would not realize anything suspicious after thinking carefully about it.

Only when she returned to the sect immediately without looking back, then everything would really be settled. The main point was, what she used yesterday to scare off the fox demon, was "Heavenfall". This Mystic Art, a lightning-type Mystic Art with such speed, other than using a Lightning Guiding Talisman, only Lightning Spirit Vein holders could do it. And in Ancient Hill Sect, the only person who had high cultivation level, and possessed the Lightning Spirit Vein, was only her Demigod master. As long as the fox demon could think of this point, she would realize that, they had disguised her cultivation level to fool her.

Fox demons were very unique demonic beasts. They specialize in Bewitchment Arts, and by nature, they did not like to fight and cultivate. Most of them were third-stage demonic beasts, and they could shapeshift the moment they were born, yet, they had always lived deep in the forests, and they would never reveal themselves easily.

However, evidently, the one they encountered was different. Not only had she raised her level to a fifth-ranked demonic beast, she even treat a man's essence as her favourite food. Regarding the incidents about the disappearance of men in the town, they were definitely her doing. Those people did not disappear, rather, they died due to their essences being sucked dry, causing them to disintegrate into dust.

With the strength of the five of them, they were basically unable to deal with her. They had to leave as fast as possible, return to the sect, and report to the Sect Master about the news of the existence of the fifth-ranked fox demon in the town.

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Chapter 34: A Pig-like Party Member

When the five people gathered, while Zhu Yao explained, she urged everyone to return to the sect immediately. Of course, Wang Xuzhi did not have any objections. He pulled out the sect's common spiritual tool, and requested to fly the tool. Although the other three had doubts, they still went along with the Zhu Yao and boarded the leaf.

The strange thing was, Ling Long and Su Zi were holding hands as they climbed up the leaf while following behind Xiao Yi. That deep sisterhood image almost stabbed her eyes blind. What happened? They made up so quickly? What happened to the promised big break-up scene?

The way things are progressing, Xiao Yi is basically creating a harem! As expected, she did not understand Xianxia worlds.

Zhu Yao worriedly raised her head to look at Wang Xuzhi, who was concentrating on flying the tool in front of them. She expressed deep concern for him.

"Big sister Zhu Yao, you don't have to worry. Flying this tool does not use up that much spiritual energy." Wang Xuzhi thought that she was worried he was working too hard, and explained. "Your spiritual energy has yet to recover. You should rest up more."

Who's worried about that? I'm worried that you might do stupid things. Zhu Yao kept her gaze and closed her eyes, as she began to meditate and recover her spiritual energy.

Not long after the start of their flight, the sky slowly brightened up, as the sun gently rose. Only the did Zhu Yao feel a little at ease, they should be able to rush back in time now.

"Yo? What's the rush? Where are you guys planning to go?" A voice which carried a certain degree of ridicule suddenly sounded. The hearts which they had just managed to put at ease, tightened up once again in an instant.

Fox demon!

That familiar red figure blocked the path in front of them. She was still wearing that red chiffon, which could be considered to be negligible, and behind her, her three fox tails were currently swaying leisurely. She turned to look at Zhu Yao who was in the middle, and her voice turned cold in an instant. "So senior was here as well. Your complexion looks terrible, this little demon wonders if there's anything she could do to help."

Zhu Yao tightened the grip in her hands beside her, and replied with a smile. "I really wish that you could help me too, but unfortunately, you're not a male fox!"

Realizing that Zhu Yao was implying about her sexual acts, the fox demon's expression instantly changed. "Hmph! Stinky brat! You actually dared to fool me!"

With a wave of her hand, she took out a white chain, and it attacked towards Zhu Yao.

"Spread!" Zhu Yao shouted loudly, leapt out, and flew towards a certain direction. The other four people found their own directions as well, as they flew and left the large piece of leaf.

And under the fox demon's attack, the leaf-shaped flying mystical tool had shattered into pieces.

The five of them landed on the ground, and summoned their own weapons to fight her. Currently, there was no longer time to flee, and they had no choice but to confront her. But, with three at the Essence-stage, one at the Foundation-stage, and one hiding his Foundation cultivation level, how could they possibly go up against an Azoth-ranked demon?

When the fox demon realized her attack missed, she was not anxious, as she leisurely descended from the skies. Looking at the five juniors in front of her, she smiled sarcastically. They sure are underestimating me. With a wave of her hand, several wind blades, which carried a black demonic aura, were thrown out, and they flew towards the five people.

"Locate the gaps, dodge!" Zhu Yao shouted loudly, and everyone instantly understood. They looked for the gaps between the wind blades, the wind blades barely grazed past them, and none of them was actually hurt.

The fox demon was a little startled. In usual situations, the first reaction one always had after seeing an attack, was either retreating to the back, or dodging to the side. And her wind blades were extremely quick, with their cultivation levels, they definitely could not have been able to dodge all of them, so, they were sure to suffer injuries.

But they actually dodged by locating the gaps between the wind blades. For now, let's put aside the fact that the wind blades were released continuously, and they were in sequence. Wind blades were basically arc-shaped in the first place, and between blades, there were definitely large gaps. They did not have to retreat, nor did they have to dodge to the side, they simply had to slowly move between the blades with small steps, and naturally, it would be impossible for them to get hurt.

After the attack, everyone was a little delighted, and Wang Xuzhi was even looking at Zhu Yao with sparkling eyes. Even Zhu Yao felt it was a little weird, earlier, she simply reacted instinctively. Before she crossed into this world, she had developed net-games for many years, to the usage of skills, and their movement patterns, she was extremely familiar with them. Earlier, she simply recalled one of the patterns in net-games, and blurted it out. She did not think it would actually work.

In that case, the rest of the patterns should be linked as well. At most, she could treat this fox demon as a Boss, and defeat her with that in mind.

"Hmph, you're a little smart! But that's not enough!" The fox demon coldly snorted. This time, her hands turned into claws, and slammed them on the ground. With her position as the center, huge flames began to willfully spread. The huge flames raged, and wherever they went, the grassland would turn into ash.

"Fly up." Zhu Yao commanded everyone to fly with their tools, and she calmed herself as much as possible as she assessed the current battle situation. They had five people in their team, but other than Zhu Yao, Wang Xuzhi and Xiao Yi, the other two girls could be completely ignored, as one of them was at the eighth level of the Essence-stage, while the other was at the seventh level of the Essence-stage. To actually fly up with their swords under the pressure emitted by an Azoth-ranked demon practitioner was already impressive enough, they could not be counted as battle power at all.

Three versus one. Although it looked as though they had the advantage, their strength was being suppressed one-sidedly. Zhu Yao became a little anxious. No, this can't do. Calm down. There's definitely a way.

She was only a Boss, after all. Although Zhu Yao's level was not as high as hers, but in net-games, which Boss would not be of a higher level than the players? Hence, what's important was their coordination and their attacking methods, and also sharp decision-making skills. Even if their team did not have a healer, at the very least, they had three pretty good DPSes.

The experiences in net-games had told her that, in a situation with no tanks or healers, the only way to fight a Boss, was to kite!

"Fly away from this flaming circle!" Zhu Yao commanded, and bringing along the four others, they quickly moved out of the flaming circle.

"Trying to run? It's not that easy." The fox demon flew to the skies, and chased after them.

Zhu Yao summoned a ray of lightning, and threw it towards behind them, blocking the fox demon momentarily. "Xiao Yi, use an Earth-type Mystic Art below us! The bigger the range, the better."

When Xiao Yi heard this, he reacted instantly, an Earthsand Art was sent directly downwards. In an instant, mud and sand flew about, and the flames which were still spreading earlier were instantly extinguished. When they landed on the ground, their vicinity was only left with small and tiny flames.

The fox demon dodged the ray of lightning, and became even more infuriated, summoning countless icicles and shot them towards the five people.

"Spread, the further, the better! Then, find the opportunity to act!" Zhu Yao once again summoned a ray of lightning, signaled to the other four to dodge in different directions. Then, they would occasionally pop out and attack the fox demon.

The fox demon lost a concentrated target, and was instantly furious, attacking wildly in all four directions. The surrounding people just had to occasionally pop out and attack her, with a fireball from the left, a wind blade from the right, a ray of lightning from the front, and another icicle from the back, making it hard for her to defend.

Out of a few, one or two attacks would always make contact, and a fireball had just heavily struck on her right hand. Not only did it burned half of her sleeves, it even burned her arm. The fox demon's eyes turned bloodshot from fury. She no longer bothered looking from left to right, and no longer bothered about the attacks coming from the rest of the directions, rather, she directly pounced towards the source of the fireball.

"You ants!"

And in the direction she was heading, was exactly where Xiao Yi was. Xiao Yi seemed to have not expected that she would pounce towards him without caring about anything else either. For a moment, he was a little stunned, and when he had finally thought of using his sword to block, it was already too late, as the fox demon's palm had heavily struck onto his body. Xiao Yi was instantly sent flying, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Big brother Xiao Yi!" Seeing Xiao Yi was injured, Su Zi and Ling Long ran towards his direction.

"Don't go!" Zhu Yao basically could not stop them in time, and the fox demon's targets which had spread apart, finally gathered together again.

Zhu Yao thought of what she could do to pull the fox demon's hate back to her, and hence, she blurted out. "Hey, granddaughter!"

The fox demon, who was about to deal the killing blow, suddenly turned, and stared ruthlessly at her. "What did you say!?"

"……" Net-games did not fail her, as this sentence completely pulled the fox demon's hate towards her.

Seeing the fox demon, who had thrown aside Xiao Yi and the two other fledglings, flying towards her, Zhu Yao turned tail and ran. The hell, it's easy to increase hate, but it's difficult to decrease it!

"Big sister Zhu Yao!" Wang Xuzhi showed an anxious expression, as he threw dozens of high-grade talismans at the fox demon. As they were all blocked by the fox demon, he had no choice but to use his strongest technique, the "Countless Sword Formation". Gathering all of the spiritual energy in his body, he summoned hundreds and thousands of spiritual swords.

But, spiritual swords such as these, in an Azoth-ranked demon's eyes, were basically nothing. Although the spiritual swords could block the fox demon's attacks for a moment, the large expenditure of spiritual energy was something Wang Xuzhi could not hold out long for, unless they could kill the fox demon with a single decisive blow.

A Mystic Art that could kill an Azoth-ranked demon with a single blow, unless…

Zhu Yao suddenly thought of an idea. "Xuzhi, use a sword formation to restrain her!"

It might… really work. We have no other options anyway, so we might as well take this gamble!

When Wang Xuzhi heard this, he immediately moved the sword formation, forming a wall of swords to restrain her. The fox demon used the white chain in her hand to attack the surrounding spiritual swords. But, the moment she destroyed a set, a new set of spiritual swords would take their place, preventing her from breaking through. Zhu Yao took the opportunity to get to the closest spot to the sword formation, circulated her lightning spiritual energy, enchanting Wang Xuzhi's spiritual swords with lightning.

As expected, spiritual swords which were enchanted with lightning were hundred times stronger and firmer than regular spiritual swords, and lightning was demons' natural enemy.

The fox demon cried out from the constant attacks. "Curses, you bunch of ants, dare to harm me…"

The ferociousness of the fox demon was revealed, and black demonic scars began to surface on her face and body. She looked absolutely terrifying. Her small cherry-like lips earlier tore open from two sides, revealing a mouthful of ferociously sharp teeth. For a moment, her demonic aura rushed towards the sky, and the black demonic aura heavily expanded, causing the formation to soon break.

Wang Xuzhi spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, the sword formation showed signs of collapsing.

"Little wimp!" Zhu Yao was anxious. If the fox demon were to escape from the formation, they would definitely die! Screw this! She rapidly circulated all of the spiritual energy in her body. Even though her spiritual energy was not fully recovered, she had no choice but to risk using another "Heavenfall".

Zhu Yao raised her hands up high. The clouds began to surge, white flashes of lightning could be faintly seen, and it looked as though the Heavenly Lightning was about to come striking down. However, just a single Heavenly Lightning, was incapable of killing the fox demon.

Zhu Yao had no choice but to turn her head, and shout towards the person at the back. "Xiao Yi, release your Sword Intent!" After saying that, she stretched her hands towards the sky, and a ray of Heavenly Lightning descended from the skies.

Xiao Yi was stunned. Looking at her with a face of disbelief, he stood there dumbfoundedly.

"What the hell are you looking at, hurry and release it, I… Puah!" Before she could finish what she wanted to say, she felt a chill at her chest. The fox demon which had been struck by a Heavenly Lightning earlier broke through the formation, and pierced through Zhu Yao with her claw. Only then did Xiao Yi's sword intent with carried absolute sharpness descend from the skies.

The hell you hesitated for!?

What a pig-like party member. This was the only thought Zhu Yao had before she died.

Zhu Yao collapsed! Series end!

My ass!!

'Pig-like Party Member' or 'Pig Member' is a common term used in Chinese MMOs, referring to party members who do not know what to do in dungeons, or are basically burdensome.

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Chapter 35: Human Trafficker

Zhu Yao died. She never had a moment where she was clearly aware of the truth that she had died.

Because…

The hell!? Why were there the four words "Dead to the Extreme" on her corpse!? Why was the fatal injury on her chest covered in mosaic!? Was this a prank made by the Creator? Show yourself, I guarantee I won't beat you to death!

And what was up with the chat window that suddenly popped out in front of her? It really looked exactly like the chat window on a computer. Such a thing suddenly appeared before her eyes, and on it, it clearly stated. "You're already dead to the extreme, do you wish to return to the resurrection point?" And below it, were two buttons. 'Yes' and 'Yes'.

This sort of net-game visual sense, what happened to it being a Xianxia? And the hell was it playing at with the two 'Yes' options? Was there really a point in having these options?

Zhu Yao, who was in the soul state, roared.

But the rest who were present, did not seem to be able to see her current situation, nor were they able to see the words on her corpse. The fox demon was already dead, while Wang Xuzhi was currently hugging her body, rapidly inserting his spiritual energy into her wound, as though he was trying to heal her injuries. Unfortunately, she was already dead, so what use was there in healing her? The spiritual energy that he inserted, was basically unable to stay in her wound, and instantly dispersed into the air.

"It can't be. Big sister Zhu Yao, nothing can happen to you." Wang Xuzhi robotically repeated his actions, as he murmured to himself, he completely did not have the intention to stop at all. It was as though as, other than doing that, he could not think of any other options. However, the body in his hands, became colder by the second.

Only when he could no longer release any spiritual energy, did his mind finally begin to collapse. "Big sister Zhu Yao, you promised that you would protect me forever. You promised me! How could you…"

This was the first time Zhu Yao saw Wang Xuzhi cry. No matter was it the cheeky and mischievous spoiled brat in the past, or the current shy and firm young man now, he had never shed a single tear in front of her. And now, he was crying like a little child.

Zhu Yao walked closer, and thought of stroking his head, however, the chat window which had been ignored by her began to tremble violently. As though the system had entered an endless loop, more and more of the same chat window constantly popped out.

Not even a moment later, her entire vicinity was completely filled with layers and layers of chat windows. Hey, even if you're trying to exert your presence, you can't do it this way. What's with this broken system!?

Zhu Yao reflexively waved her hands about, trying to push away the chat windows in front of her, however, she heard a "Ting" sound next to her ear. One of the "Yes" button on a chat window was pressed down. Zhu Yao simply felt her a tremble in her heart. No, wait. I didn't choose anything, it's an operational error. Is there still time to withdraw my selection?

Evidently, it was too late, because, in an instant, everything in front of her was cleared off. Not only the chat windows, even Wang Xuzhi and the rest had disappeared. Her surroundings were completely dark. Only a single thing was left. Below her vision, was a faintly running…

The hell!? Why is there a loading bar!?

Zhu Yao felt that, ever since she had crossed over into this world, the possibility of the limits which she had to constantly break through, might be endless. Her heart was tired!

The loading bar progressed very quickly, and not even a moment later, she simply felt a white light flashing past. A white wall suddenly appeared in front of her, and above the wall, was a face that took up half the sky. The face was currently looking at her very kindly. She curiously reached out her hand, wanting to touch that face. However, her hand actually made contact with the wall, and then, her hand sank into it, her mouth was suddenly poured with large amount of liquid.

She choked for a moment, and wanted to ask what was going on. However, what she let out was the weak sniffling cry of a little child.

"Alright, alright, don't cry. You little child, there's no one here that will snatch it away from you, why the rush?" The woman gently wiped her lips, and softly coaxed her.

Only then did Zhu Yao finally realize her current situation. She actually turned into an infant! The meat wall she touched earlier, was actually the woman's breasts, and the thing that was contained in her mouth was… Zhu Yao reflexively spit it out, and momentarily felt like she had molested a good and honest woman.

What happened to the resurrection point she was promised with? Shouldn't her resurrection point be that little village? Currently, she was evidently given a new life. From crossing into another world with her body, to crossing with her soul, was it really alright to change her setting like this?

"Eh? Why aren't you drinking anymore?" The woman saw her dodging away, and persistently tried to stuff her "breast weapon" into Zhu Yao's mouth. Why would Zhu Yao be willing? Hence, she constantly dodged. When the woman saw Zhu Yao like this, she thought that Zhu Yao was full, then, she began to wear her clothes properly.

After helping to arrange Zhu Yao's clothes properly, she then placed her into the cradle at the side.

Zhu Yao curiously inspected her surroundings, and realized she was still in ancient times. The room had an ancient color and smell, but it was more superior than the one she had in the little village back then. Because, just by this cradle of hers, it looked extremely exquisite.

"Attendants!" The woman, who seemed to had the role of her mother, shouted to the door, and four to five people who looked like maids walked in and greeted the woman.

It seemed like her household was very rich.

"Take the little miss for a walk around the courtyard, I will come over in a moment." The woman instructed, and then, she brought one of the maids as she walked into one of the rooms. It seemed like she went to change her clothes.

Zhu Yao had always been someone with great adaptability. To her current situation, as an infant, she had no ability to resist, hence, she calmly decided to adapt.

Although she would still occasionally think of her master and Wang Xuzhi, perhaps, they were no longer in the same world. Her current life was rather good as well, as she was a daughter of a rich family. Her parents treated her like she was a treasure, and they would not even leave jobs like feeding her milk to others.

She imagined that, when she grow up, she could completely walk with her head held high. Back then, the Xianxia world was filled with killing motives everywhere, and she could be killed by demons, monsters or whatever if she was not careful. When she thought of this point, she momentarily felt extremely at ease.

She comfortably rolled around on the patch of grass. She was about to live a new life. For a moment, she felt as though the flowers had begun to smell great, the grass had become greener, the clouds had become whiter, and the person flying in the sky was…

The hell!? Why the hell was there someone flying in the sky!? What happened to leaving the Xianxia world she was promised with!?

Wait a minute, that figure, seemed to be charging towards her!

Not a moment later, standing five steps away from her, was someone in a familiar white robe. Although he was world-breakingly handsome, he always had that icy expression on his face, and had never revealed a single emotion.

Master… (For a moment, she had a lot of things to retort about, but she did not know where to begin. )

Yu Yan looked directly at her in the eyes.

She looked directly at her master in the eyes as well.

The two of them looked at each other.

None of them spoke up.

Zhu Yao suddenly felt that there was completely no point in looking at each other like this. Although she did not know why her master would suddenly appear her, looking at his expression, he had yet to recognize her. She was currently an infant who was not even a year old, so, she was basically unable to speak, let alone explaining her situation.

"Were you abandoned?" Yu Yan finally spoke up.

Zhu Yao was startled. Eh? What do you mean?

"Are you an orphan?" Yu Yan continued to ask.

"……" Zhu Yao's expression completely darkened. Have you ever seen an orphan in her own house's courtyard?

"Don't worry, I will be your family."

What? Her mother was currently sitting not far away, you know.

"I shall take you as my disciple." Yu Yan completely did not have the intention to wait for her answer, and walked over to her.

Zhu yao finally understood what he was trying to do, as she began to pedal her small legs, planning to crawl away. Mama, there's a strange uncle here, trying to abduct your daughter.

But, how could the small arms and legs of an infant crawl faster than a practitioner who had cultivated for ten thousands of years? In the next moment, she was already carried up, and the certain master announced with a stern expression.

"From today onwards, I'm your master."

Hey, don't decide for someone else. At least, ask for my mother's opinion first.

"Mn. Since you have agreed as well, then follow me back to the Jade Forest Mountain."

What? Who the hell agreed!? Haa~

Master, is it really alright for you to abduct an immature infant during broad daylight?

Unfortunately, Yu Yan could not hear the roar in her inner heart. Summoning his flying sword, his figure flashed, bringing along Zhu Yao who was in an infant state, they instantly disappeared into the skies.

Zhu Yao, who completely did not have the strength to resist, simply could not hold it in any longer. Raising her small leg, she stepped on her master's icy face which remained unchanged for ten thousand years.

I don't want to cultivate into a deity at all, hey!

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Chapter 36: A Baby Treats Food as Heaven

Zhu Yao once again returned to Jade Forest Mountain. The same place. The same room. The same master. Zhu Yao felt like crying. Recalling the scene earlier, she could not help but step on his face again.

"Mischievous!" Yu Yan calmly pulled down her small leg, placing the small little person who could not even stand steadily, on the bed. He watched as she restlessly crawled about, and when she was about to crawl down the bed, he had no choice but to pick her up and put her back onto the bed. Hence, the process of picking her up repeated for many times.

Yu Yan looked at this mischievous little dumpling, and for a moment, he did not know what to do. He had never taken care of little kids before, let alone this one who did not even know how to talk.

His only experience of taking care of someone, was that stupid disciple who had already passed away. Recalling this, Yu Yan was a little saddened. After waiting for ten thousand years, he was finally able to take in a disciple, whom he had carefully taught, and painstakingly cared for. However, his disciple was killed by a fox demon when she went out for the first time for outfield experience.

The moment his disciple was injured, he had already known about it, and he rushed over with his fastest speed. Although, with his cultivation level, as long as her soul had not left the vicinity and reincarnated, he would have the ability to save her. However, what's strange was, no matter how he cast his Arts, his disciple did not have any signs of waking up. And the divine imprint of a personal succeeding disciple he had left on his disciple's forehead, actually did not disappear. This was something that was extremely irrational. A person's death was like an extinguished candle, other than using Mystic Arts like Soul-Calling, there were no other Mystic Arts that could be effective on a dead person, unless she had yet to die.

Today, he had simply incidentally past by the mortal realm, and, he suddenly felt that divine imprint of his. Rushing over, he saw this female infant, who was wrapped like a white dumpling, and was even crawling about while being chased after by a bunch of maids.

For soul reincarnations, usually, at the very least, it would take a few thousand years, while at the most, it would take more than ten thousand years. Hence, the first thought that came to his mind was a soul takeover, however, taking over one's soul was something that could only be accomplished by someone whose cultivation was at least the Nascent Soul stage. No matter how heaven-bending his stupid disciple was, it was impossible for her to break through into Nascent Soul in just a few days. And, with her pure and simple personality, even if she were to die, she would not lay her hands on an infant.

He hid his figure, and cast an Art to have the mortals automatically ignore the existences of him and the infant. He then carefully inspected her soul sea, the soul and body were linked very closely, and did not look like she had been taken over. Hence, the talk of him taking her as his disciple, was blurted out just like that, and he even brought her back on impulse.

However… What now?

Looking at the little dumpling who had already begun to crawl up his body, and even pulled his hand and stuffed it into her mouth, he momentarily understood something.

"Hungry?"

Zhu Yao raised her head and glared at him in the eyes. She simply wanted to bite him out of anger, but she had forgotten, she did not have any teeth. And her master's hand was hard, her gum began to hurt.

"Sit here obediently, I will get you some food." After saying that, he walked out. Not even a while later, he brought in big and small plates of rice and vegetables.

"…" Zhu Yao looked at him with a poker face. Was it really logical for an infant to eat rice? Momentarily, she felt her gum hurting even more.

"You don't like it?" Seeing that she was turning a blind eye to the rice and vegetables, a certain master was a little troubled. This disciple seemed to be even harder to bring up than his previous one.

Zhu Yao had already speechlessly begun to crawl down the bed, and was once again heartlessly picked up by a certain master. Yu Yan raised her round figure, glanced to the left, and looked to the right, as though he was thinking of what to feed her with. In the end, he let out a long sigh. Hugging her tightly, he used his flying sword and flew to the Main Mountain. It was still best to ask someone who had rich experience in raising disciples.

Hence, Reverend Zi Mo who had rich experience in raising disciples, was once again shocked by the ancestral-martial uncle who suddenly appeared in his own room.

"Ancestral-martial uncle, you have returned?" Ever since his little martial aunt had fallen, ancestral-martial uncle had changed his behaviour of being a ten thousand year hikikomori, and had frequently ventured outside. Why did he suddenly return again now? And the thing he was carrying… "Eh, ancestral-martial uncle, this infant is?" Could it be… A huge drama suddenly appeared in Zi Mo's mind.

"Disciple!" Yu Yan calmly spoke up, shattering Zi Mo's imagination.

Zi Mo was even more shocked. "Ancestral-martial uncle, you took in another disciple?" After thinking deeply for a moment, it was understandable, there was a need for another person to succeed the Jade Forest Mountain. However, he never thought that, he actually found another disciple who possessed the Lightning Spirit Vein so quickly.

Eh, wait a minute. The child did not even look like a year old, logically, it should not be possible to test for her Spirit Veins yet.

Yu Yan completely did not have any intention to explain, and simply stuffed Zhu Yao into Zi Mo's arms. "She's hungry."

Ah? Zi Mo was startled, his feet rooted to the ground. Why did you find me when she's hungry? It's not like I'm able to feed the child milk.

"Ancestral-martial uncle, I…"

Zi Mo was about to explain, however, Yu Yan cast a cold glance at him. Evidently, this was written in his eyes: 'If you don't settle her, I will settle you.' Reverend Zi Mo trembled, silently swallowing down the latter half of what he wanted to say.

He carefully inspected the infant in his hands. She was round, white and tender, her facial features were extremely delicate, and she was particularly obedient. She did not cry nor make a fuss, and was simply looking at him with her round, glistening eyes. Zi Mo was instantly moe-fied. So… So cute, she's completely different from ancestral-martial uncle, I really want to steal her over.

"Kuh kuh… Ancestral-martial uncle, this baby is still young, and should still need to be fed with milk. However, you can feed her food like porridge." Although he had the thought of taking her away, due to his identity as his ancestral-martial uncle, he silently held back. Holding onto the child tightly with a single arm, he took two sacks from the storage pouch by his side. "This disciple has two sacks of spiritual rice, it's softer than regular rice, so it's exactly…"

Yu Yan nodded, and bluntly, he waved his hand and stored the two sacks of spiritual rice into his own storage ring.

Alright, something like forcefully taking things or whatever, he was already used to it.

Just when he was pondering how he could earn them back, a red-clothed woman suddenly walked in from the entrance. "Senior-martial brother, back then, the bunch you speak of…" The person who came was exactly the Mountain Lord of Medicine Mountain, Hong Chou. Seeing Yu Yan in the room, she startled for a moment, and then, she hurriedly bowed. "This disciple greets ancestral-martial uncle."

Yu Yan nodded, he did not have the intention to ignore her.

Hong Chou then saw the infant in Zi Mo's arms, and her eyes momentarily sparkled. "Which household is this baby from? She's so cute."

Probably it was natural for women to love children, before Zi Mo could even react, Hong Chou had already carried Zhu Yao away from his arms. Pinching her small arms and legs, Hong Chou gave an incredibly lovable expression.

Even Zhu Yao was a little startled. In her previous life, this woman either hated her or hated her to death, and this time, she actually revealed such an expression. The contrast was too big, she was completely unable to react to it. An older sister character turning into a loli or whatever, it was too unprincipled.

"Senior-martial brother, could this child be sister-in-law's…?" Although it was hard for two practitioners to have a child, it was not impossible to have one. She did not expect that, in only the short while she did not see them, they actually had a daughter.

"Of course not!" Zi Mo refuted. As expected, it was not only him who would think of it that way.

"No?" When Hong Chou heard that, she became even more happy, and her eyes were filled with an excited glow. "If she's not, then give this baby to me. I will take her as my disciple."

Zi Mo did not answer, but Yu Yan who was at the side instantly gave a cold expression. It felt as though the temperature in the room had suddenly dropped by a few dozen degrees, and now, the room only lacked the floating snowflakes to complete the scene.

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Chapter 37: The Rubbed-Off Principles

"Kuh kuh, junior-martial sister, this is ancestral-martial master's new disciple." Glancing at Yu Yan who had already begun to emit killing intent, Zi Mo could only remind the woman who was carrying the baby and was not letting go of her.

Hong Chou was stunned for a moment. She turned to look at the ancestral-martial uncle whose expression was looking very bad. Unwillingly to give her up, she tightly held onto the little dumpling in her arms. "So it was ancestral-martial uncle's disciple. I wonder what's her name?"

Yu Yan was startled for a moment. After pondering for a while, he then said. "Naturally, her surname will follow mine, Yu, her first name… Two!" She's his second disciple, after all.

Dumpling Zhu Yao instantly felt like scratching his face. You're two! Your entire family are twos!

"Yo. The little girl is acting spoilt in front of me." Looking at the dumpling who was waving her hands about in Hong Chou's arms, Hong Chou began to like her even more, and she could not help but kiss on her small cheek.

Zhu Yao whose face was pasted with saliva: "……"

"But this baby is still too young, and seems to still need milk. Coincidentally, I have recently caught a spiritual beast that could breast-feed, so I can feed her. Why don't I help ancestral-martial uncle raise her for a few years?"

Yu Yan simply waved his hand, the little dumpling automatically flew from Hong Chou's arms back into his, and he coldly replied. "No need."

Hong Chou sighed in frustration, and still did not give up, as her two eyes sparkled, looking towards the little dumpling. "A child so young, she still needs milk to grow up."

Zhu Yao trembled, turned her head and snuggled into her master's arms, using all her strength to rub off the saliva on her face. There's so many weird uncles and weird aunties in this world, it's still safer being with master.

Eh? Wait a minute. Wasn't it master who abducted me in the first place?

Yu Yan was very satisfied with his little disciple's act of reliance, straightening her small clothes, he continued to speak with Hong Chou. "Since that's the case, send that spiritual beast to Jade Forest Mountain tomorrow."

After saying that, before waiting for them to react, he had already flown back to Jade Forest Mountain with his new little disciple.

Zhu Yao felt as though she was about to become a pig. Every day, she would sleep after eating, and eat after waking up. Master single-handedly took care of all her life necessities. What she ate was the porridge he cooked, what she wore were the small clothes personally made by him, and where she slept, was even his bed.

Of course, she was the one sleeping. Master was simply meditating at the side.

The only thing that she could not bear was, why did he have to personally wash her as well? Although she was currently a little wimp, but an infant had her own sense of shame, you know? Every day, she would be stripped off by a man, thrown into water and be rubbed left and right, things like these were… were… she had gotten used to them as well.

With a poker face, Zhu Yao raised her head and looked towards the sky. Scrub, scrub harder. In any case, her principles had already fallen by a large amount, not much of them were left.

Yu Yan carried his dumpling disciple out of the water, and wiped her body dry. As he helped her wear her clothes, he stared at the round face of hers, his mind was filled with doubt. This disciple of his, was really strange. In the first few days he brought her here, she would frequently throw tantrums and cry. Why did she grow quieter the longer he brought her up? Currently, forget about crying, she no longer even had any expressions on her face. She would only raise her small head, and look at the sky with her pair of widened round eyes. He even suspected that her face might have suffered some sort of injury that even he was unable to find out, and hence, the poker face.

Yu Yan released her, and then, Zhu Yao who had been neatly dressed pedaled towards the bottle that was filled with spiritual beast milk. Carrying it up, guruguru, she finished it with only a few mouthfuls. Alright, she's full now, it's time to sleep. Tilting her head, she laid on the grass plains. In any case, her principles were gone, so she decided to peacefully become a pig.

Daddy Yu Yan sighed. Carrying the little dumpling on the ground, he entered the room, gently placed her on the bed, and covered the blanket over her.

Thinking that the little dumpling did not have any signs of waking up in a short while, he then turned and got out of the door. The children of the spiritual beasts Hong Chou sent had already stopped relying on milk, and the mother beast would not produce any more milk after the breastfeeding period. He had to find another one.

The infant's rest period was very strange. Even if Zhu Yao was a middle-aged auntie inside her heart, she still could not control the needs of her body. When Zhu Yao woke up, it was evening. The room was empty, and she could not see master's figure. Zhu Yao waited for a moment, and she still did not see her master. Hence, she decided to crawl out of the house to take a look.

Although, currently, she had small arms and legs, her crawling speed was still pretty fast. Not even a while later, she had already crawled out of the courtyard.

It was very quiet outside, and she could faintly hear the sounds the crickets. Her surroundings were very dark, but what's strange was, she was able to clearly see everything in her surroundings. This sort of feeling was the same as when she broke through into Foundation. Could it be that her cultivation level followed after her when she reincarnated?

Zhu Yao was a little excited, and thought of circulating the spiritual energy inside her, only to realize her cinnabar was currently completely empty. There was not even a single strand of spiritual energy she could circulate.

What? I got all excited for nothing. So, she did not have any spiritual energy in the first place. Zhu Yao felt a little defeated, aimlessly, she crawled forward.

In front of her, she suddenly stepped on empty air, and her body uncontrollably tumbled forward, guruguru, she rolled down the mountain. I'm doomed!

Zhu Yao reflexively hugged herself into a ball, to prevent injuring herself. Hence, she who had a plump figure in the first place, rolled down even more merrily. Following down the path, she stained herself with lots of mud, and only after she bumped into a soft object did she finally stop.

"Eh!" A soft voice suddenly sounded next to her ear, and in the next instant, she was carried up by someone. "I picked up a little bun."

In front of her was a white-clothed man. He was handsome and firm, and was even someone she was familiar with. "Little wimp!" Zhu Yao blurted out, but what she let out was only the "Iya" sounds of a baby. By randomly rolling down, she was actually able to roll down towards him, this sure was fate.

Eh, wait a minute, why did little wimp look different? Although he had the same face, evidently, he was more matured than that unripe young man before. His face was a little more sharpened, and there were even a few short stubbles on his chin. She did not see him for only a few months, wasn't this change a little too big?

Naturally, Wang Xuzhi did not recognize her, and lightly smiled. Carrying her in his arms, he casually cast a Dirt Removal Art, cleaning the dirt stains on her, then, he gently pulled her messy hair. "This sure is a cute little bun."

Zhu Yao rolled her eyes at him. She was simply a little round, how was she a bun? Like he was the one to talk. It's good fortune for little kids to be a little round, when he was ten years old, he looked like a bun as well. Hmph!

"What, you're not satisfied?" Wang Xuzhi evilly pinched her small cheeks. "You're so round, so white, and so tender, if you're not a bun, what else can you be?"

Zhu Yao struggled out of his demonic claws. Hmph. Little wimp, you have better remember this. When this big sister is able to talk, I will expose all of your dark history.

Seeing that she, very evidently, wanted to let out her fury, but still did her best to not show it on her face, Wang Xuzhi felt even happier, as though he had found his conscience, he helped her rub her reddened little cheeks. "Alright, don't be angry, don't be angry. Senior-martial brother is only joking with you. It's already so late, why is a little bun like you still running about?"

Zhu Yao turned her head to the side, ignoring him. She did not run out here, she rolled down here!

"Which Mountain are you a disciple of? I will send you back." Wang Xuzhi asked.

Zhu Yao babbled as she pointed to the mountain peak.

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Chapter 38: Regarding the Bringing Up of a Disciple

"You live in the Jade Forest Mountain?" Wang Xuzhi was startled, but a moment later, he calmed down again. "I heard from master that, ancestral-martial uncle has recently taken in a disciple. So… It's true."

Earlier, Wang Xuzhi was still in a happy mood, but he suddenly became solemn. His furrowed eyebrows were filled with unimaginable amount of melancholy, and his voice seemed to be suppressed by something as well. "So you're his new disciple, heh… Do you know? I know your senior-martial sister. We were very close… so very close!"

And he seemed to be talking sentimental tosh, as his voice became softer with every word. Zhu Yao suddenly felt her heart was becoming heavier as well.

"But…" He took in a deep breath, as though he was trying to suppress something within him. "Everyone had forgotten about her. Even your master has… Haha. Back then, when he was unable to save her, he destroyed the entire Silent Melancholy Forest with a single breath. But, so what? It's only but a hundred years, and he took in another disciple, even he had forgotten his previous disciple."

The hand Wang Xuzhi was using to carry her became tighter, as though he was holding in his anger with all his strength. Only when Zhu Yao felt a little pain from his strangling and she started to struggle worriedly, did he finally regain his senses, and slackened his strength. He then turned to smile at her. "It doesn't matter. Even if the entire world has forgotten about her, I will still remember her, and will forever remember her."

He took in a few deep breaths, before he stood up and began to walk towards the mountain peak. "Little bun, I will send you back."

Zhu Yao did not make any sound, and simply stared at the little wimp who had grown up in front of her. The image of his mournful and saddened smile, which even carried a little amount of despair, surfaced in front of her. She really had never expected that, her death would deal such a big blow to him. Until now, she had thought that her resurrection was just something that happened in a blink of an eye, but hearing his words earlier, she was actually dead for a hundred years.

And even though it's been a hundred years, he still brood about her death?

She really wanted to tell him that she did not die, and had resurrected. But she was basically unable to say anything, and finally, she could only spread out her small hands, using her small, small body, she tightly hugged onto his neck.

Little wimp, I'm back.

"Was someone here?" The moment Yu Yan returned, he felt the presence of a live being. After passing the warm bottle of spiritual beast milk in his hands to the little dumpling who was sitting upright on the bed, he waved his hands to cast a Mystic Art used for inspection. After realizing who it was, his brows furrowed deeply. It's that stinky brat again. It was not enough for him to abduct one of his disciples, now he's even thinking of abducting a second one.

Yu Yan carried up the little dumpling on the bed, and warned with a stern expression. "In the future, do not casually make contact with people that do not concern you." To prevent his disciple from learning bad things again.

Zhu Yao's response was, carrying the milk bottle in her hands, she planted it onto his face. No one can say bad things about my family's little wimp, not even my master.

She was a child. She's that stubborn.

A certain master: "……"

Zhu Yao had spent an entire four months living the lifestyle of a pig, and finally had the small sign of heading towards the development of a regular work-rest cycle. Because of Reverend Hong Chou's one visit, she had expressed that Zhu Yao no longer needed to rely on milk, and she had grown out a pair of teeth as well. Hence, master had begun to feed her with only porridge. She had also begun to speak a few complete words, but she was still unable to say a complete sentence.

Of course, in a situation like this, Zhu Yao was actually very anxious about it. Not being able to talk, not being able to walk, and was only allowed to eat porridge, when compared to her mental age, it was comparable to a first-rate disability. She wanted to cultivate as well, however, her master seemed to have forgotten his intention of taking in a disciple, and had completely immersed himself in the joy of bringing up a daughter.

Zhu Yao felt that her body was a little weird. Although she did not have any spiritual energy in her body, her senses were still the same as when she was at the Foundation-stage. And, when she met Wang Xuzhi the other day, she was actually able to see, at first glance, his Foundation Paragon cultivation level. Even she did not know why.

Wang Xuzhi would occasionally see her as well, but he had never went up to the mountain peak, and simply sat on that piece of rock in the forest.

Every time, he would bring over a few things for her. There were food, and there were even toys, he had the look of completely treating her as a child whom he had to coaxed into. Zhu Yao silently planned in her head how she would ridicule him back at full force when she regained her ability to speak.

Obviously, Yu Yan had objections, but, he found out that his little disciple seemed to especially like that brat. Whenever Yu Yan brought him up, whatever his little disciple had in her hands, she would plant them in his face, her temper was especially bad.

Although it had been a hundred years, to a deity practitioner, a hundred years were only a blink of an eye. With Wang Xuzhi's outstanding talent, logically, he should have formed his Azoth Core much earlier, yet, he was still stuck at the cultivation level of a Foundation Paragon. She then wondered what happened to that Xiao Yi kid?

When she thought of him, Zhu Yao could not help but paste the label 'Pig-Like Party Member' on his face. Back then, if he had not hesitated for that one moment, she would not have the need to resurrect.

Actually, after she pondered deeply about it, she was able to understand why he would be stunned back then. After all, to him, only he knew that he was keeping an exotic treasure, and his Sword Intent was, even more so, something he managed to achieve due to his exotic treasure. It was his secret. But, this secret of his was suddenly shouted out by her. No matter who it was, he would not have been able to react instantly, right?

However, in that situation back then, how could there be any moment of hesitation? And, there was not any time for her to slowly walk over and whisper it into his ear, right?

Hence, her death was really no one's fault.

But, Wang Xuzhi did not think as such. From what he had occasionally revealed to Zhu Yao who was in her dumpling form, from the bits and pieces of his words, she realized he harbored deep hatred towards Xiao Yi, and he even had the belief that the responsibility for Zhu Yao's death was all on Xiao Yi. To the point when, every time he brought up the topic about her, he would subconsciously look towards the southwestern direction, with eyes filled with hatred. And in the southwestern direction was exactly Sovereign Feng Yi's cave residence. And, ever since seventy years ago, Xiao Yi had been in isolation training, forming his Azoth Core.

One of the reasons why Zhu Yao wanted to start cultivating as fast as possible, was because of Wang Xuzhi. When comparing scheming ability, luck and cultivation, he was basically unable to beat Xiao Yi in any of these aspects. She was really afraid that, he would pick a fight with Xiao Yi out of impulse. Hence, it would be best if she could keep watch of him.

But, even if that's the case, as of yet, Zhu Yao did not have the intention to tell anyone of her resurrection. After all, things like resurrecting after a sure death, in this world, it was still considered as a strange event. It would be hard for anyone to not suspect that she had some sort of treasure in her hands. However, the key thing was, even she was not entirely clear why this was happening to her.

And, when she died, she seemed to have the strange incident of suddenly transporting into the internet, which was something that she could not even explain to anyone else, even she was a little muddled about it. For a short while, she suspected that she might have been transported into some sort of game, however, she had, after all, lived in this world for so many years, and the people she encountered were all living beings. If this was a game, at the very least, there should be an NPC, right!?

Zhu Yao let out a long sigh, and she sadly begun to contemplate about life.

And when Yu Yan rushed out with a bowl of porridge in his hands, he saw a scene of a little dumpling, who could not even sit steadily, lying on the grass plains, trying to hold onto her small little head, only to tumble down over and over again.

Yu Yan began to seriously ponder, how he could bring her up, so as to gain a disciple who was not as stupid. After all, it was no longer possible for him to make up for her natural deficiencies.

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Chapter 39: Trust Between Master and Disciple

The two of them were immersed in their own respective thoughts, when suddenly, the entire sky around Ancient Hill Sect darkened, and even the spiritual energy in the surroundings began to uncontrollably gather in the sky. In an instant, a huge storm brew, stones and sands flew about.

Zhu Yao who was currently trying to take up a thinking pose, also rolled backwards due to the wind blowing against her, fully using the advantage of her rounded figure. When she was just about to be sent flying into the sky, a figure flashed in front of her, and she was caught by Yu Yan who was behind her, entering a world filled with warmth.

"Mas… Mas, ter!" Zhu Yao spout out two syllables with great difficulty, smearing saliva on his face while she was at it. It was inevitable, her teeth were not fully grown yet.

Though, Yu Yan seemed to have gotten used to it, as he cast a Dirt Removal Art on her. Raising his head, he looked at the strange sky, then, he lowered his head and looked towards the southwestern direction, to the place where the cause of this activity was, and murmured. "Someone's forming his Azoth Core."

Zhu Yao seemed to have reacted instantly. Azoth, and in that direction, could it be that Xiao Yi? Is breaking through into another realm such a big incident in the cultivation world? It's similar to filling the entire Ancient Hill Sect with formations.

Yu Yan frowned. He was a Lightning Spirit Vein holder, and his sensitivity to Heavenly Lightnings was particularly keen. The lightning pressure hidden within the layers of clouds were incredibly evident, and if he did not guess wrong, they should be the heavy lightnings when one had formed his Azoth Core. However, why would it bring about such a huge disturbance? Could it be that the person forming his Azoth Core was unordinary in some way?

Not giving him time to think, the surrounding disturbance had already stopped. Immediately after, the first ray of lightning struck down from the sky. Sunlight was blocked off by the dark clouds in the sky, and the ray of lightning, as though it was a gigantic dragon that would tear the sky and earth, flew directly towards the mountain peak in the southwest, ruthlessly striking on the person who was tackling the tribulation.

And, the Mountain Barrier Great Formation of Ancient Hill Sect instantly activated the moment the first ray of Heavenly Lightning struck down. Although the Tribulation Lightning would only strike the person tackling the tribulation, the Tribulation Lightning contained heavenly might and the purest of energy, which could very easily cause harm to low-ranked disciples who did not possess strong minds.

Zhu Yao sternly watched the chains of Tribulation Lightnings striking down. Such loud roars, were as though every single one of them was capable of bringing about the loudest of reverberations deep in her heart. They were even causing all the hair on her body to stand on ends. So this is the Lightning Tribulation, as expected, it's very tyrannical. However, why did she feel a sense of intimacy towards it?

The Azoth Tribulation Lightnings struck a total of eighty-one times, and the might of every ray of lightning was stronger than the previous. Once the eighty-first Tribulation Lightning had struck down, it meant that the target had completed his formation of the Azoth Core. Zhu Yao evidently felt that, when the last ray of Tribulation Lightning struck down, the entire Ancient Hill Sect was shaking, and even the Mountain Barrier Great Formation trembled slightly.

Finally, it had finished striking down. Zhu Yao heaved a sigh of relief. This was the first time she had ever seen such a tyrannical scene.

"No, it's not finished!" Yu Yan said coldly.

Zhu Yao was startled. No? She was after all, a science student, and she did pretty well with her mathematical studies. Earlier, it had evidently struck down eighty-one times, though?

The moment she raised her head, as he had said, the Tribulation clouds were still gathered in the sky with no signs of dispersing, as though they were preparing something. Could it be that, the heavens had gotten too thrilled with their lightning strikes, and was thinking of striking down once more? As expected, the treatment to male protagonists was different.

As she thought as such, in the sky, a ray of purple light flashed past. A ray of lightning filled with purple light, which was much thicker than the Heavenly Lightning earlier, directly struck down from the skies.

Zhu Yao, who had already activated her show-watching mode, calmly watched, it was not going to strike her anyway. Eh? Why does it seem like that ray of lightning knows how to bend? Why does it feel like it's heading this way?

The hell, it's really coming this way! It was someone else's tribulation, what the hell did it have to do with her!?

"Master!" Zhu Yao grabbed tightly onto her master's collar. If her hands had not been too small, she would have definitely shook him a few times, shouting at him to save her.

Yu Yan felt it was a little strange as well. This was the first time he had ever encountered a Heavenly Lightning that could strike a wrong target. However, it was good that his reaction was quick, as he had seemingly cast a protective barrier in an instant. It was just a Azoth-stage Heavenly Lightning, he definitely could…

Bang! The lightning instantly pierced through the barrier, landing directly onto the two of them.

Zhu Yao, who was instantly struck charred black, turned her head and looked towards a certain master. What happened to the most basic of trust between a master and disciple?

A certain master who had not yet retracted his hands after forming hand-seals earlier: ……

"Kuh, earlier, it was a Nine Purple Heavenly Lightning!" As though he had felt his disciple's resentful eyes, Yu Yan explained a little embarrassingly.

Neither had he expected that this Tribulation Lightning, would actually be a Tribulation Lightning that only a Demigod-stage could have. And the difference between a Nine Purple Heavenly Lightning and normal Tribulation Lightning was, it was free-for-all, and could bypass all Mystic Arts and defenses. It was commonly known to strike whoever it wanted, and its might was stronger than a regular Tribulation Lightning by a hundred times.

Earlier he had made a wrong estimation, however, if he had not hugged her, and shielded off most of its might, she would not have simply suffered from mere burns.

However, even he was unable to understand why a Nine Purple Heavenly Lightning would be among the Azoth-stage Tribulation Lightnings, and it actually even struck the wrong target.

Casually casting a Dirt Removal Art on his disciple again, his disciple, who had turned into a black bun, whitened.

He then raised his head and looked towards the sky. "Such strange Tribulation Lightning, the person undergoing his tribulation must possess astonishing fate, and will definitely bring about a worldly phenomenon."

Master, are you sure you're not trying to change the topic? Zhu Yao resentfully glared at him again, before raising her head to look at the sky.

The sky was still very dark, it simply no longer possessed that terrifying feeling earlier, and everything had returned to calmness. Rays of light fell from the several spots at the center of the dark clouds, and they slowly converged.

A worldly phenomenon was referring to something brought about by someone who possessed great opportunities, great fate, and great fortune. Usually, people like these were like favourites of the heavens, and when the first ray of Tribulation Lightning fell, the sky would definitely display irregularities. The rarer the phenomenon, it meant the more unordinary the person was to be in the future. But, a phenomenon like this, according to legends, it would only frequently appear in the Ancient Era.

As expected, her master was spot on. The gathering spots of light, slowly formed a figure, and not even a moment later, the figure was fully formed by the gathered spots of light.

Zhu Yao looked at the sky with widened eyes. That was actually a dragon, a gigantic white dragon, a dragon that she had only seen in books. The gigantic dragon flew and rolled around in the sky, as though it was able to fly to the heavens and dive towards the earth in but a mere instant, and even flying towards her was…

The hell, it's really flying over here. Please, aren't you a phenomenon caused by the person forming his Azoth Core? Why are you running in the wrong direction?

And, even though earlier it was still tyrannically and mightily rolling through the clouds and rain, it was currently flying towards their direction while its long body twisted up and down.

And what's the meaning of you roaring ~ouh~~ouh~~ouh o′ while you're flying here?

Zhu Yao instantly recalled the Heavenly Lightning caused by this crow-dragon, and she reflexively shouted out, "Don't come here!"

And that dragon actually really stopped in the air with a screech. It looked towards her with pitiful eyes, and it even cried out "Wuuuuu" aggrievedly.

For an instant, Zhu Yao could not locate her jaw. Are you a dog or a dragon!?

The white dragon seemed to have understood that she did not have the intention to allow it to approach her, and finally turned and tumbled far away. It's figure became faint as time went past, and finally, it disappeared in the air. And the thunderclouds that had gathered for a several hours began to slowly disperse as well, and a moment later, a clear sky was revealed.

Zhu Yao: ……

Yu Yan: ……

After being stunned for a moment, a certain master then slowly lowered his head and looked at the little disciple in his hands.

Zhu Yao covered her face. Don't ask me, I don't know what's going on either!

A moment later.

"Yu Wang?"

"Your sister's Desire!"

Uh…

Hearing this, the corner of his lips gently raised, and for a moment, it felt as though the ice had melted, everything had come to life again, and spring had blossomed.

"It's good as long as you're back."

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Chapter 40: Prehistoric Monster Infant

A conditioned reflex was really a very life-threatening thing. Because, it would occasionally cause you to say the things you should not be saying, do the wrong things, and go out of character.

Zhu Yao's identity, because of the words she said out of reflex, was stripped off unscrupulously by a certain master.

Zhu Yao covered herself with the blanket, she was too ashamed to see anyone.

"Reason?" He pulled out the stupid disciple who was attempting to hide herself in the blanket, and strongly looked at her. The incidental Lightning Tribulation yesterday, caused him to suddenly think of the violent storm of spiritual energy when his stupid disciple broke through into Foundation. Hence, with slight suspicion, he called out her name, however, he did not expect that it would actually be her.

Zhu Yao struggled to squeeze out a pitiful expression, however, because of the aftermath from keeping a poker face for such a long time, she could not squeeze out any expression other than her poker face. Hence, she could only wave her two small hands about. "Mas-ter-ter~"

Yu Yan's expression did not change, as he stared directly at her.

Evidently, acting cutesy was of no use.

"I don't know either." Zhu Yao acknowledged her mistake, as she lowered her head and twiddled her thumbs. "I realized I was like this the moment I woke up, and then, master, you came to get me."

Seeing her aggrieved look, Yu Yan instantly believed her entirely. A short while later, he seemed to have thought of something, as his brows began to furrow again. "Why did you not tell master right from the start?"

Zhu Yao hanged her head down even lower, as though she was attempting to roll herself into a real dumpling.

"You don't trust your master?"

"Of course not!" Zhu Yao instantly raised her head, and then, she shook it strongly.

"It's master's fault." Yu Yan frowned deeply, as he stretched out his hand to stroke her head. "I did not protect you well, it's normal for you to not believe me." On that day, when he saw her corpse, it was the first time he had ever felt anger, and because of the loss of control, he destroyed the entire Silent Melancholy Forest. However, even if he did that, he was still unable to save his disciple's life. He was not a competent master.

"That's not it!" Zhu Yao became a little anxious. The incident back then, her master was not on-site anyway. A faraway water stream could not put out a fire nearby, it completely did not concern him at all.

As to why she did not reveal her identity, it was because…

"I had thought of telling you in the first place, but I don't even know why I became like this. And also, in my current state, I can't talk either… Eh? I can talk?"

On hindsight, Zhu Yao rubbed her face, she really was able to talk now. Earlier, she was still like a regular one year old, unable to say a complete sentence. Now, when she talked, there were completely no hindrance. Had she not grown too fast?

"Your cultivation has recovered." Yu Yan calmly said. As a Foundation Paragon, naturally, talking should be of no problem.

Eh? Zhu Yao was startled. She tried sensing for a moment, and as he had said, there was spiritual energy flowing. She then circulated the spiritual energy, forming a ray of lightning, with a bang. The white ray of lightning, then struck directly… on Yu Yan's head.

"Uh, my hand slipped!"

"Mischievous!" Yu Yan coldly glared at her, yet, his tone did not sound reproachful in the slightest. A ray of lightning cast by a mere Foundation-stage practitioner, obviously could not harm him. Actually, before that ray of lightning made contact with his body, it had already been dispersed by his pressure.

"This disciple acknowledges her mistake!" Although it did not land on him, acknowledging her mistake was still something she had to do. This was a problem regarding one's attitude. "Master, how did I suddenly recover my cultivation? Even though, back then, when I tried it out, it wasn't there."

Yu Yan sat at the side. "In fact, your cultivation has always been there. It's just that because your body did not even possess a single strand of spiritual energy, hence, you were unable to cast Mystic Arts. Earlier, when you received that ray of Heavenly Lightning, it coincidentally filled you up with the lightning spiritual energy you required. Now that you have spiritual energy, naturally, your cultivation will recover."

In that case, she really had to thank that Heavenly Lightning for striking her so suddenly. Zhu Yao felt a little strange. "Master, even though I changed my look, why is my cultivation still here?"

"This… I do not know either." Yu Yan shook his head slowly. In fact, not just her cultivation, even the divine imprint that he had placed on her when he took her in as his disciple, was still on her body. Logically, be it cultivation, or divine imprint, they would both disappear when one died, and it was impossible for it to be transferred along with one's soul. Even if it was a soul take-over, that person would still have to start cultivating from scratch. Just who had such ability to reincarnate her, and keep her cultivation as well? And what was that person's intentions behind this?

"Before this matter is clearly investigated, you shall stay in the Jade Forest Mountain. You're not allowed to leave."

"Ah! I have to be confined again." Don't, master. Just one confinement of yours lasted five years, your dear disciple can't hold out that long.

"The matters regarding your body, are too unusual! And your cultivation raising speed is too quick, to prevent yourself from bringing in unnecessary trouble, staying here will be safest for you."

Zhu Yao went silent. Currently, indeed, it would not be wise for her to appear before people in her current situation. A Foundation-stage one year old, who would believe it? People might think she was in the possession of some heaven-bending mystical treasure. It was still best for her to keep to a low profile.

"Yu… Yao." Yu Yan stretched out his hand to stroke her head, which had grown short strands of hair. "No matter if you still believe in me now, master will do all he can, to protect your well-being." He would no longer allow her to disappear in front of him.

Zhu Yao raised her head. Seeing that there were no impurities in his eyes, which was still as gentle and calm as ever, she could feel the cautiousness in his words. Was it due to the guilt for not protecting her well back then? Even though it was clearly not his fault, he actually placed all the blame on himself, and seeked her trust once more.

Momentarily, her eyes felt hotter, some warm liquid was about to flow out of her eyes.

Zhu Yao took in a big breath through her nose, and roared back loudly. "It's Zhu Yao! My surname's Zhu!"

Remember your own disciple's name well, bastard!

"Let's still call you Yu Wang then!"

"Your sister's Desire!"

Although Yu Yan was determined to thoroughly investigate the matters that happened to his disciple's body, sometimes, plans could never catch up to the changes, as another new situation had occurred on Zhu Yao.

She was woken up by some heat. On the Jade Forest Mountain, it was spring throughout the year, yet, Zhu Yao woke up with her body covered in hot sweat. It was as though a fire was burning in her body, and the flames were unbearable. Ever since the showdown with her master last night, she finally returned to her own cottage to sleep. With her small hands and legs, even if she wanted to open the windows to disperse the heat now, she was unable to do it.

Zhu Yao pushed the blanket away. She thought of crawling down the bed, and feel the breeze outside. But, she felt that burning heat earlier had disappeared, a mass of air had suddenly stagnated in her chest, and the blockage was causing her to feel uncomfortable. Hence, she could only circulate the spiritual energy inside her body, attempting to disperse that mass of air somewhere else.

However, she did not expect that it would actually work, as that mass of air, following the circulation of spiritual energy, was slowly moved to her leg. Before Zhu Yao could feel happy about it, creak, her leg which looked like a small lotus root earlier, suddenly grew by several times.

Zhu Yao strangely looked at her elephant leg. No, it should not be elephant leg, it looked more like the leg of an adult woman. It was slim and slender, and completely did not have the baby fat like earlier.

Just what is going on? Why did it suddenly grow big? And why was it only a single leg!? God, get out here, let us have a talk about life!

Zhu Yao carefully thought about where the problem came from. Could it be that mass of air earlier? She tried to slowly retrieve that mass of air, and then, that adult leg disappeared, restoring to its former little lotus root.

She then tried to guide the mass of air to her arm. As expected, creak, her arm instantly became the size of an adult's, while the rest of her body was still that of a child's.

Zhu Yao was a little excited, as she guided the mass of air to her head. Creak, she gained a huge head.

She then continued to test it out, constantly rotating the mass of air around the various parts of her body. Hence, suddenly, a weird scene appeared in her room. The dumpling-like child on the bed, for a moment, turned into an infant with a huge head, an infant with a huge leg in the next moment, and an infant with a huge arm in the next.

And when a certain master, who came over to investigate after sensing an anomaly, saw his disciple who had already gotten addicted to it, silently turned around and returned. What am I going to do with my disciple's 'chicken' IQ?

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Chapter 41: Not Playing Around with Disciple Leads to Death

It's as though Zhu Yao had found a new source of entertainment, as she kept enlarging and shrinking, enlarging and shrinking every part of her body.

Eh! Wait a minute. Why did she feel like she was like a balloon, becoming bigger wherever she blows?

Finally realizing this truth, Zhu Yao tearfully stopped. Sensing the mass of air in her body, she actually found out that not only did it not disappear, there were signs of it growing. Hence, she tried to disperse that mass of air, spreading them uniformly across every corner of her body.

This took up more effort than moving an entire mass of air, as she took entirely two hours before she finished guiding the air. And, her body had already turned into the figure of a fifteen or sixteen year old girl.

Growing up in a single night, this sure felt a little fantastical!

Carefully inspecting her new body, the size of every part of her body was very normal. The places that were supposed to be sunk, sank, and for the places that were supposed to be raised……

Flat! This was illogical.

Zhu Yao silently inspected the pair of undeveloped small buns in front of her chest, and suddenly had an idea. Since she was able to control the size of her body, then did that not mean that she could… re-adjust some places that she were lacking in?

When she thought of this, Zhu Yao was a little excited, and immediately controlled the mass of air, guiding it to her chest, silently chanting: b, c, d, e, f……

However, no matter how she guided the mass of energy, the small buns in front of her chest were still very principled, and kept to their original sizes.

She did not believe that she couldn't do it, and guided the entire mass of energy towards her chest. In the end, with a poof, she returned to being a dumpling. Great, now she did not even have a pair of small little buns.

The hell! Does it have to be that hard to make my chest bountiful?

Zhu Yao could only give up on her grand plan, and once again, gathered the mass of energy, returning to her earlier teenage girl figure.

She was really was curious about her looks, as she cast an Ice-Gathering Art, and made use of the reflection on the ice to look at her own face. It seemed like her plump little bun face finally had sharpened edges to it, and had developed into the good direction of a pumpkin seed-like face. However, it was still possible to see traces of her former bulging cheeks, and her eyes still rather looked the same as before, with double eyelids. A face that looked a little like a doll's, cuter than average, and lacked the feminine charm of a mature woman, in general, she was not considered ugly. But, unknown as to whether it was because of the aftermath of her bun face, her entire face was tightly stiffened. She wanted to smile, only to find out that she was only able to make a strange arc.

Not good, not only was she flat-chested, she even grew out a poker face!

Zhu Yao realized that, after she completely familiarized herself with this body, the mass of air in her body had already disappeared, and she could no longer find a single wisp of air. Hence, she could only inform her master about the incident of her growing up in a single night.

However, her master seemed to have known about it before she even told him, and was not too shocked about her new look.

Yu Yan's expression turned solemn, as he looked at his disciple in front of him whose height was already at his chest. "Initially, I was worried that there would be effects on your body due to the Heavenly Lightning, but it seems like there's no problem now."

"Ah?" What do you mean?

However, Yu Yan turned around and brought her outside. With a wave of his hand, several spiritual swords instantly flew out, landing at a few different directions. The endless cries of of the crickets and the caws of the birds instantly disappeared completely, as an Isolation Barrier had been formed.

"Use all your strength to release your strongest move."

Zhu Yao was a little dazed. Although she did not know his intentions, she still obediently circulated all of the spiritual energy in her body, and summoned a Heavenfall.

A bolt of Heavenly Lightning fell from the sky, directly striking towards grass patch not far away from her. Yet, the moment before it struck on the ground, it was dissipated by the barrier.

Zhu Yao was just about to ask, but, the moment she took a step, guru, she rolled onto the ground.

The hell! Why did she revert back into a child? And she no longer had that enlarging and shrinking mass of air in her body, a cloud of 'what the fu–' ran over her head.

"As I thought!" Yu Yan calmly carried the little dumpling off the ground, and returned to the cottage.

"Master?" Just what was going on? She could not understand at all!

"Do you know why regular people have to be a full year old before it's possible to test for their Spirit Veins?" Yu Yan pulled up her little fat hand, cupped her wrist, and inspected her body through her pulse.

Zhu Yao shook her head. "Do Spirit Veins only grow after one is a year old?"

"The type of Spirit Veins one has is determined since birth, and is not developed on another day." Only after inspecting that she was indeed fine and sound, did he finally retract his hand. "As to why Spirit Veins can only be tested after one is a year old, is because the body of an infant is too weak, and is basically unable to hold spiritual energy. If one were to forcefully cultivate before then, that infant will die from severed meridians." The reason why he only broke through into Foundation at ten years old, even though he entered the sect at three years old, was because of this reason. Before he was ten, his body was basically unable to endure the pressure of Foundation.

"But I'm fine!" She was a healthy little dumpling.

"Initially, I was worried about this point as well. But today, I realized you're able to freely change the size of your body." Yu Yan stroked her head thoughtfully. "This body of yours, it seems like… it has been specially prepared for your resurrection."

Zhu Yao was a little startled, and suddenly had the feeling as though she had received a big Level Up reward.

"Then why did I revert back now?"

"Because that art you cast earlier, had already used up all of your spiritual energy. Once your spiritual energy recovers, you will revert back to that form."

"……" She felt like she was Conan Edogawa!

"Then when can I change back?"

"Once your spiritual energy recovers for two days, it will be enough."

"Master!"

"Mn?"

"Next time, can you please finish your explanation in one go, instead of giving examples?" Clearly, he could have told her directly, why did he have to bring her out to cast that bolt of Heavenly Lightning? You can't play around with your disciple like this!

Yu Yan's expression instantly stiffened, unfortunately, because of the cold face he had kept up for so long, it basically could not be seen. "Don't imagine things, have an early rest."

Calmly placing his disciple on the bed, calmly covering her with the blanket, and then, he calmly walked to the other side of his room, calmly opening the closet, and calmly taking out a white cotton cloth.

And he calmly asked. "Do you want to change diapers?"

"Change your sister's!"

Ever since she found out that her body could grow bigger, smaller, longer and shorter at uncertain times, Zhu Yao became very well-behaved, patiently waiting to grow up. There were too many mysteries surrounding her body, and even her master did not know about them, not to mention the words on her corpse back then, and that strange loading bar, which even she could not clearly explain. She kind of felt that she had caught a glimpse of some sort of rule, but after thinking deeply about it, she felt it was illogical.

So as to not bring about unnecessary trouble, she decided to wait till she was fully grown. At the very least, until the time when there's not too much of a difference with her figure when her spiritual energy depletes? Speaking of which, she found it hilarious. Back then, she kept feeling that she was too old, and when she came into the sect, she was greatly surrounded by a bunch of little turnips. And now, she was actually hoping that she could grow up faster.

Before she was ten, she decided not to head down the mountain.

However, this morning, she felt Wang Xuzhi's spiritual pressure. That spiritual pressure came from the Main Mountain's direction. It was both rash and quick, carrying a killing rage which could even be felt from the Jade Forest Mountain.

Zhu Yao felt that something must have happened to him. A few days ago, Xiao Yi formed his Azoth Core, so he should have came out by now. With his obsession with Xiao Yi, that little wimp would not do anything stupid, right?

In the end, Zhu Yao still decided to head out to look. Leaving the Jade Forest Mountain, she headed towards the direction where the spiritual pressure was dispersing from.

'心中一百匹草泥马奔过': Literal translation: A hundred mud horses sprinted past in her heart. 'Mud horses or 草泥马' is actually a profanity in Chinese, but because I felt the joke wouldn't work well with a literal translation, I went with something similar in English instead.

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Chapter 42: Activating Make-Up Story Mode

Along the way, she encountered quite a number of people, in twos and threes, as though they had dispersed from somewhere earlier. Their faces were all filled with excitement, as though something that excited them had happened, and they chattered while walking.

"That battle earlier was really fascinating."

"Yeah, as expected of senior-martial uncle Xiao, the personal succeeding disciple of a Sovereign. The moment he attacked, the might he displayed was shocking."

"I think that the opponent was too weak, he was basically unable to block senior-martial uncle's attack."

"But, after all, his opponent's cultivation was a level lower, it's normal that he wasn't able to go up against him."

"But senior-martial uncle Xiao only used a single attack, and won with that one attack. And, I even heard that currently, senior-martial uncle have already comprehended his Sword Intent. He has just formed his Azoth Core, you know! But, I also heard from the rumors, senior-martial uncle was once an Outer Sect disciple."

"So what if he's from the Outer Sect? As time passes, senior-martial uncle might even chase up to that person at the Jade Forest Mountain."

"Haha! You're right! Eh, look! It's senior-martial uncle Xiao, he's coming over here."

Zhu Yao had already confirmed that the person they were discussing about was Xiao Yi, and could not help but turn her head as well and looked over.

But with just this single glance, her heart stopped, her eyes suddenly widened, and it's as though she could hear her jaw falling onto the ground.

That person was Xiao Yi. He had the same face, had a similar figure, and even the mole on the side of his neck was exactly the same.

But why the hell was there a word on his face? And it was even black and bolded, the word was so eye-catching, it only lacked a box. The word was: BUG!

The hell, and it's even in English! And why was there a huge yellow exclamation mark floating above his head? And it was even constantly flashing, trying to make its presence known. It was as though she was even able to hear the warning sounds "Dududu".

No, no, no. It must definitely be because the method she used to open her eyes was incorrect!

After blinking her eyes countless of times with all her might, the word on his face, still did not have any signs of disappearing.

This could not be, it must definitely be an illusion. Zhu Yao grabbed a cloth from the hands of someone beside her, and casually rubbed that face.

"Eh, that's my…" rag. The person beside her silently swallowed down his last word.

I rub, I rub, I rub-ber-dub-dub! However, that black and bolded word still appeared glaringly on the target's face. Is there anyone that can give me an explanation for this?

The vicinity was instantly in a state of silence, however, the several female practitioners standing beside Xiao Yi, was staring angrily at Zhu Yao who suddenly appeared. Where did this vixen come out from?

If Zhu Yao were to look carefully, she would realize that among these female practitioners, were Ling Long and Su Zi that she knew of.

"Thank you very much, junior-martial sister!" Xiao Yi finally could no longer stand her skin-peeling action, and stopped her hands. "I'm not tired at all!"

Although he did not know who she was, she was still someone who came over to wipe off his sweat. After inspecting her for a moment, his eyes instantly shone. Although she did not look fully grown, and her face was cold, she still looked especially cute, and her cheeks which carried a bit of baby fat, was even tempting people to gobble her up. Suddenly, a ripple appeared in Xiao Yi's heart, and he could not help but reveal a gentle smile. "I wonder how I should address this junior-martial sister?"

Zhu Yao was startled, as she stared at that a little exaggerated smile of his, even the word BUG on his face was changing a little. She almost could not stop herself from spitting soda water on his face.

As though she could hear a voice coming from beside her:

Player Xiao Yi used the skill "An Understanding Smile" on you. x 1

Damage received: Miss!

Zhu Yao instantly ignored him, instead, she slowly raised her head and looked towards the yellow exclamation mark which was even bigger than his head above him! If she could not remove the word, she wondered if she could pull down that exclamation mark?

Suddenly, her hands felt a little itchy!

"Junior-martial sister?" Seeing that she did not have any reaction, Xiao Yi patiently waited for once, and the smile on his face became even more gentle. "Don't be afraid, I wonder which Mountain are you a disciple of?"

Only then did Zhu Yao regain her senses. Was he… sending her electrical sparks?

Seeing more and more female practitioners sending her killing intent, she understood how friendly the smile Xiao Yi was giving her was. However, she really found it hard to develop good feelings for a face with the word "BUG" printed on it.

As a qualified technical staff, when she saw this word, her first thought was to "DEL" him, and re-program him, alright?

"Little bun?" Before she could say anything, suddenly, a person interrupted her.

Wang Xuzhi suddenly walked over without her noticing, and he was staring dumbfoundedly at her face. Suddenly, as though he had thought of something, he pulled her to his side, and looked defensively towards Xiao Yi at the side. "What are you planning to do now?"

"Martial-nephew Wang, you have misunderstood. I was simply giving my greetings to this junior-martial sister."

Wang Xuzhi did not say anything, he simply took a step forward, tried harder to shield Zhu Yao behind him, and looked at the other party coldly. Xiao Yi could not think of anything momentarily, and simply turned around and left.

The surrounding people began to disperse in twos and threes as well. Before they left, they did not forget to point at Wang Xuzhi, as though they were very unhappy with her earlier disrespectful action.

And it looked as though Wang Xuzhi had gotten used to it, as completely did not mind them. He simply tightly pulled onto Zhu Yao behind him and moved away quickly, leaving the Main Mountain.

Zhu Yao was still immersed in the shock that he was able to recognize her in a single glance. When she regained her senses, she realized, she had already reached a very familiar-looking house. This was Wang Xuzhi's residence, and she had came here before.

"Why are you out here?" The moment they entered the house, Wang Xuzhi's expression sank, and inspected her a little anxiously. "And, how did you… become like this?"

Zhu Yao was startled for a moment. "Umm, if I were to say you have mistook me for someone else…"

"Impossible!" His expression instantly turned a little stern, as though he was unhappy about her dishonesty, and he reached out his hands to pinch her cheeks. "Even if little bun has grown up, you're still a bun. Hurry and tell me what's going on?"

Your sister's a bun!

She slapped away his evil hands, saving her little cheeks. She hated this doll face.

"I looked like this in the first place!" Zhu Yao thought for a moment, and decided to not tell him the truth for now.

"Then back then, you were?" When he saw her two days ago, she was still an infant that was not even a year old, so just how did she turn into a fifteen to sixteen year old teenage girl today?

"In the past, I was struck with a very treacherous type of Mystic Art." She activated her Make-Up Story Mode. "The people who are struck with this Mystic Art, their age will become younger and younger, until they disappear. Fortunately, I encountered master, and he brought me back because he pitied me. Master told me that this was a Mystic Art that had been lost for a very long time, and he had only heard of it a long time ago. It's only until recently, did Master finally come up with a way to dispel it."

"Really?" However, Wang Xuzhi was still a little skeptical, and stared at her suspiciously.

"Of course it's true. Otherwise, even if I have way to become an adult, my personality would have still been that of a child's. How else am I able to talk to you freely?" The more she made it up, the more logical it sounded. "To tell you the truth, my actual age is actually about the same as yours. It's just that, the Mystic Art has yet to be completely dispelled, so I currently look like this."

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Chapter 43: Undoing the Knot in One's Heart

"You're lying!" Wang Xuzhi's brows raised slightly. "Then, according to what you said, how did you get struck by that strange Mystic Art? And who was the one that did it? And you're currently at the cultivation level of a Foundation Paragon, it could be seen that you were a practitioner in the past. Then, before you were struck with the Mystic Art, where did you train at?"

Uh… Why did little wimp suddenly become so sharp for?

"I can't tell you!"

"Why?"

"Because…" If she was going to act, then she would have to act till the end, telling half of the actual truth was the essence behind a false story. Zhu Yao blinked her eyes, and tried hard to make out a helpless and worried look. "I don't wish for you to be dragged into this. If you were to know too much, I'm afraid you might bring trouble on yourself."

"……" As expected, Wang Xuzhi was startled, and his eyes instantly became gentler by quite a bit. As though he had thought of something again, he reached out his hand and stroked her head. "As I thought, you two are very alike!"

"Alike? With who? That senior-martial sister you brought up before?" Zhu Yao continued to act.

Wang Xuzhi let out a light sigh, as though he was unwilling to bring up that topic again. "Alright, even if the Mystic Art on your body have been dispelled, you shouldn't casually run about. Especially that Xiao Yi, you must not easily make contact with him, understand?"

"Why?"

"No questions." Wang Xuzhi did not explain, and simply pulled her hand and headed outside. "I will return you to the Jade Forest Mountain. Remember not to leave the mountain so easily in the future."

Zhu Yao could not help but roll his eyes at him. The reason why I came out was because you, stinky brat. But seeing that he was alright, she was no longer worried as well. However, even if he was alright now, it did not mean that he would be this lucky in the future.

After returning to Jade Forest Mountain, she could not help but pull onto Wang Xuzhi, who was about to turn and leave.

"Earlier, did you fight with Xiao Yi at the practice field?"

Wang Xuzhi was silent for a moment, before nodding his head.

Zhu Yao could not help but let out a sigh. "Do you think that, with your cultivation level, you're able to beat him?"

Wang Xuzhi tightened his fists next to him, and hatefully gritted his teeth. "No!"

"So, you went to pick a fight with him, was to simply seek your own death?" This kid is actually so serious about courting his death as well?

"What do you know?" His face instantly became ashen, filled with the intolerance from his thoughts being hit right on mark, and his emotions suddenly began to burst out. "Do you how it feels to personally see your most important person die right in front of you? Back then, if Xiao Yi had not hesitated… if he had not hesitated!!"

"Then what about you?" Zhu Yao reminded herself not to be soft-hearted, she had to say something that was even harsher. When she saw Wang Xuzhi for the first time after she returned, she knew, her death was the biggest knot in his heart. Hence, he was stuck at the Foundation Paragon bottleneck, and had not progressed. If he were to continue to brood over this, then this knot, would definitely turn into a demon in his heart, and destroy his deity cultivation prospects in the end. And the best way to undo this knot, was to first shatter it.

"You said it was because of Xiao Yi's hesitation, which led to the death of your most important person. Since she was your most important person, then why did you have to rely on someone else to save her? What were you doing?"

"I… I was maintaining the sword formation back then!" His breathing was a little unsteady, and his eyes began to look blurry.

"So you're saying, you basically did not have any strength to spare to save her?"

"I…"

"You couldn't even save her yourself, so what right did you have to push the role of saving her to others? Or are you saying that you did not want to save her in the first place?"

"No, I wanted to save her. But, I……"

"But you don't have the ability to do so? So, you can't even save her!"

"I…"

"Xuzhi, in the end, do you hate Xiao Yi for not acting in time, or do you hate yourself for not being able to save her?"

"……" Wang Xuzhi stood rooted to the ground, as though he had suddenly understood something, despair surfaced on his face.

However, she had no choice but to be firm and decisive. "Who you hate has always been yourself, hasn't it!?"

Wang Xuzhi became completely dispirited, his lips slightly moved, revealing an expression that could not be made out. "What else can I do? Other than feeling remorse, what else can I do?"

"Are you planning to stay remorse like this for your entire life?"

"If you're willing to fall into depravity, I don't care either! However, the person who died for you, how would she feel about it? Do you think she will wish to see you continue down like this?"

Wang Xuzhi strongly shook his head.

Zhu Yao patted on his shoulder. "Since you think that you couldn't save her because your cultivation was insufficient, then, train to reach a realm that allows you to save people, bastard!"

"……" Wang Xuzhi did not reply, his eyes still looked a little blurry, however, he had finally began to reflect on his own. Dragging his heavy feet, he went back.

Zhu Yao sighed deeply. She had already said what she needed to, after all, there's a need to give him time to think it through on his own. At the very least, while he's thinking it through, she need not worry about him running to Xiao Yi and seeking his own death again.

The strange things happening on Xiao Yi were increasing, and she did not know why they were happening either. The strange BUG on his face, and that fresh and clear exclamation mark above his head, no one else could see either of them. Was this giving her a hint or something?

She was beginning to feel that, her resurrection after crossing into this world, was not as simple as it seemed on the surface, and it was even closely related with Xiao Yi.

Zhu Yao had a dream, yet, it did not feel like her own dream either. Because, in the dream, she personally witnessed the life of another person, and that person was even the one who was giving her a terrible headache – Xiao Yi.

Ever since he was young, Xiao Yi was an orphan. He did not have a shockingly complicated background, and was simply a child that was casually thrown away by his family due to a famine. He was like every single beggar, using all possible means to live, and had done many underhanded things. However, he had also suffered from countless of cold stares and had been cast aside many times. Even for just a single bite of rice, he would fight with a wild dog for it. This lasted until he was ten years old, when he was taken in as a disciple and brought to the Ancient Hill Sect.

He was taken in as the Sect Master's disciple, and was held in high-esteem at first. However, because he offended the Inner Sect disciple, little fatty Zhao, his cultivation was crippled, and was thrown out of the Inner Sect. However, this instead saved him, as when he was in the Outer Sect, he was punished by watching over the Former North Pavilion.

What were placed in the Former North Pavilion were the scraps from weapon refinement in the Sect, and due to a fateful coincidence, he obtained a piece of very strange scrap material. Out of a moment of fun, he wore it on him, however, due to suffering from an injury in a certain incident, his blood dripped onto that piece of scrap, and he realized it was actually the "Metal Spirit". Ever since the sky and earth was formed, between heaven and earth, the "Metal Spirit" was the purest form of metal spiritual energy which converged into a Spirit. The Metal Spirit had only gained sentience, yet, because it made contact with his blood, it immediately took him as its master.

And incidentally, he had the Metal Spirit Vein as well. The "Metal Spirit", the spirit which was converged by spiritual energy, had the power to administrate all of the metal spiritual energy in the world, so, possessing the Metal Spirit was equal to possessing the metal spiritual energy of the entire world. And, the Metal Spirit Vein was the firmest Spirit Vein out of the five Spirit Veins, it had a very important effect on controlling weapons, and using sword techniques.

Hence, because of the "Metal Spirit's" effects, he instantly activated the protagonist's cheat, his cultivation improved by leaps and bounds, and bult his Foundation in four years. He hid his cultivation, participated in the Inter-Sect Tournament, and even obtained first place, leading him to be taken in as Sovereign Feng Yi's personal succeeding disciple.

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Chapter 44: The Protagonist's Cheat is Tricking You

Under the guidance of a famous master, as though he had activated a hack, Xiao Yi's cultivation climbed up quickly. Although in the middle of it, there were a few reckless people who came to look for trouble, they were all oppressed by his strength, and unintentionally, he gained the hearts of many girls. In the later stages of his life, he achieved even more impressive feats, such as fighting against heretic practitioners, killing devils, and conquering secret realms. Every single time, when he looked as though he was at a great disadvantage, he would always turn the tides, either by suddenly awakening some unique ability, and then, with a loud roar, eliminating the opposing party in the name of the moon, or, by having certain girls who could not live on without him, extend their helping hands in the nick of time. And because of these experiences, he gained even more opportunities.

In the end, he even unintentionally gathered all five sentient Spirits of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, and summoned Shenlong! Oh, that's wrong. He successfully ascended! He even defeated those geniuses with mutated Spirit Veins, including the Lightning Spirit Vein, in one fell swoop, becoming the first person in the cultivation world to ever ascend in just two thousand years. Those people who were to cultivate in the future, could only look up to his buttocks.

When Zhu Yao saw the late stages, she could not help but retort at this dream of hers. The Xiao Yi in this dream was still rather inspirational at the early stages, raising his cultivation and walking on the road to the summit of life. However, at the later stages, it completely changed, from working hard in his cultivation, it turned into him working hard in flirting with girls.

As long as the girl had a relationship with him, she would always end up falling under his robes.

Xiao Yi even began to go on harem mode. Princess of the Demon World, Queen of the Human Realm, martial sisters of the same sect, the wild flowers along the road, anyway, as long as the girls were to see him, they would obtain some form of sickness as though "they had not seen a man for thousands of years", and would cling onto him even if they had to die. And, they were even able to get along harmoniously with each other, every single of them would feel extremely uncomfortable if they did not love him. And, his definition towards love was, if you love me, give me n-play. The hell, this was simply a miracle. Among them, even that Demigod Sovereign master of his was included.

When Zhu Yao watched this, she felt like calling this a "brain-dead film".

In the end, obviously, Xiao Yi formed a gigantic harem. And, when this Xiao Yi was a late-stage Demigod, he especially stayed in the cultivation world for a thousand years, all for the sake of waiting for a few dozen of his most favored girlies, to ascend together.

As for the things that happened after his ascension, Zhu Yao were unable to see them. She thought the dreamscape would end here, however, the scenery in front of her changed, from viewing the rays of light due to the countless ascensions, her vision returned to the cultivation world.

After the legendary Xiao Yi ascended, the cultivation world did not welcome an era of calm. During his ascension, the five cheat-like divine Spirits, followed him to the High Realm as well. With the cultivation world's loss of the five spirits' administration, the spiritual energy in the world continued to disappear, and they could not be gathered.

The ones that had the most obvious impact were all the spiritual plants. Without the administration of the Wood Spirit, the spiritual spirits were unable to receive wood spiritual energy, and began to wilt. In less than a hundred years, even the materials for the most common Heart-Raising Pill could no longer be found in the cultivation world. And for the practitioners, because they were no longer able to take in spiritual energy into their bodies, forget about ascension, their cultivation could no longer be raised.

Yet, the human realm was the most unfortunate. Due to the loss of the five Spirits, water could no longer moisturize anything, even regular plants were affected, wilting to death. Fire could no longer counter bacteria, the mortals were infected with strange diseases, and a large number of them died. The earth no longer had life, the soil was no longer able to grow crops. Food were unnecessary to practitioners, however, without food, it was a fatal blow to mortals. Hence, famine was widespread, and the world was littered with corpses.

In just a short span of a few thousand years, not even a single living being could be seen in the entire world, and the world came to an end.

When Zhu Yao saw the figures falling over one after another, and the barren land where one could not even see a single life with a gaze from high above, a heavy sense of sorrow, suddenly pressed onto her, and she could not breathe. That did not come from her own emotions, yet, the heaviness that could stop one from breathing, was as though it was the final scream of this collapsing world.

She felt more and more uncomfortable, and then, when the scenery in front of her suddenly flashed, that feeling instantly disappeared again. She realized she was sitting in her own house.

It was not that natural cottage on Jade Forest Mountain, rather, it was the small seventy-odd square metres apartment she worked hard for a few years to purchase.

She had returned to the modern era!

Zhu Yao looked blankly at all that was familiar in front of her. This was her home. Her room. In front of her was exactly her own computer. And even the cup, which was only printed with a 'y', beside her computer, was exactly the same. She was a little unable to react for a moment.

The QQ-chat on her computer screen suddenly flashed and vibrated, it was a message that came from her colleague Xiao Fang.

Xiao Fang: Boss, the bug you mentioned the other time, have already been settled. You're sure godly! How were you able to identify it? No matter was it during the closed beta or the alpha, not a single person had realized it!

Zhu Yao startled for a moment, and then, she suddenly recalled. Was this not what her colleague had said before she crossed over into the other world? Back then, she seemed to have been discussing about the newly found bug in the new net-game developed by her company. That was a considerably fatal technical bug, and it was very possible that, due to the imbalanced design, it might cause the entire game system to be in a state of imbalance. If such a game were to really be released, it could bring about a huge loss to the company, and the game would obviously be shut down as well.

However, she was not the one who found this problem. It was her old friend, a player, who had found it.

She moved her mouse to find that particular player's qq account – Realmspirit.

Zhu Yao was in a daze for a moment, yet, she realized that her hands were no longer under her control, and began to type something to him. And, it was even the same exact words she said to him before she crossed into the other world.

Technical Department Zhu Yao: Thank you, the bug informed us of have already been fixed. You helped me once again.

Realmspirit: No problem. I only pointed out where the problem was. The actual person who thought of the solution and moved to fix it was you.

Technical Department Zhu Yao: Haha, I still have to thank you. After all, I have spent my sweat and blood on this game. This game was created with my own hands, and if it were to collapse because of this, I will feel very depressed.

Realmspirit: Are you very concerned about this world?

Technical Department Zhu Yao: Of course. It's my blood and sweat after all?

Realmspirit: I have a world as well, and it has encountered some problems.

Technical Department Zhu Yao: Oh? What game is it? Can I help you?

Realmspirit: You're willing to help me?

Technical Department Zhu Yao: Of course, we should help each other in times of need. I'm still a technical staff, after all. Fixing a bug or two is completely not a problem at all!

Realmspirit: Alright!

Technical Department Zhu Yao: Oh right, what kind of game is it? What kind of problem occurred?

Realmspirit: My problem is…

Before Zhu Yao could see clearly what the problem was, a strong ray of white light pierced towards her, and Zhu Yao suddenly woke up.

She looked at her surroundings a little blankly.

This place was, Jade Forest Mountain. She was still in the cultivation world.

Realmspirit was someone she knew ever since she entered the gaming career five years ago. In the beginning, she simply made a few web browser games, and Realmspirit was her first player. He would frequently give a pertinent opinions on her games, and he would always hit right on mark. Hence, she would make changes based on his opinions.

Replace 'n' with any number you can think of.

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Chapter 45: The So-Called Invincibility Mode

After a long time, the two became friends. When she entered a gaming company, and became in-charge of the technical support for a large-scale net game, he followed after her and entered the game she was in-charge of as well, and would always inform her instantly the existences of the bugs in her game, while she was in-charge of undergoing fixes. She had always thought that he was a certain huge figure who was related to game designs, or a professional gamer, and hence the proficiency he demonstrated.

However, the two of them had always contacted each other through the web, and had never seen each other face to face before. Now that she recalled it, she was filled with even more questions. For example, she had once urged him to join the company and work with her in technical support. However, he actually rejected the invitation, and the reason he gave was, he was unable to.

It was not that he did not think of it, nor was he unwilling, he was simply unable to do it.

And the timing she crossed into the other world, seemed to be the moment after she agreed to help him fix bugs, and then, she had already found herself in that small village. She could not help but suspect, if he was a certain supreme individual in this world, who had pulled her into this world to fix a bug.

And the things that were happening on Xiao Yi, they were clearly telling her, that he was that bug! She pondered deeply for a moment. Although that dream was outrageous, the scenarios that happened at the front, was indeed the same exact things that had happened on Xiao Yi. If her guess was correct, currently, he should not be merely at the early stages of Azoth, rather, he should be a late-stage Azoth practitioner, and was soon to be a Paragon.

She was just a Foundation-stage practitioner, how was she going to fight out with him? Zhu Yao felt completely terrible. What could be more depressing than finding out you had turned into the opposing party after transporting into another world?

Eh, wait a minute! In that dream of hers, she seemed to have not seen herself at all? As though she did not exist at all in the first place. Even Master and Wang Xuzhi were not present.

However, she clearly existed, and even made contact with Xiao Yi. Then, could she think that, her appearance was actually just an accident? After pondering for a moment, if she had not existed, Doctor Wang would not have sent Wang Xuzhi to the Deity's Disciple Selection, and naturally, he would not have went to the Ancient Hill Sect. And because her master was unable to take in a disciple with Lightning Spirit Vein no matter what, he had no choice but to ascend, and hence naturally, he would not appear in the cultivation world. Because of the butterfly effect caused by her appearance, these changes occurred.

When she thought of this, she felt she was really…

Incredible, my ass! In the end, Xiao Yi still obtained the "Metal Spirit". Zhu Yao instantly felt her head aching.

If Xiao Yi was a bug, then what was she? A game master? Haah! She was just a game development staff, it's fine if she had to fix regular bugs in a game, but how the hell could she fix the bug in this world!? And, even if she was a game master, at the very least, there be some game privileges right? For example, Invincibility or something similar.

She suddenly recalled that strange resurrection, where she saw the notification of returning to the resurrection point after her death. She couldn't be able to resurrect infinitely, right!? But what's the point of such a privilege? I can't beat him, so I just have to let him watch me die?

The hell, I don't want such an Invincibility Mode at all! Haah!

Zhu Yao who realized the truth, was depressed for three entire days. She silently pondered about her fate of having to go against the protagonist who had activated his cheat, and picked herself up after three days. She had always been a good and optimistic woman, believing that there could never be an uncrossable threshold in life. As the saying goes, 'as long as you swing your pickaxe well, there's never a wall that you cannot dig.'

So what if he was the protagonist? She was, after all, a game master who had activated her Invincibility Mode (though she did not want it).

Summing it up, Xiao Yi's biggest golden spoons, were the five types of "Spirits", and with the disappearance of these five Spirits, it caused the world to collapse. Currently, Xiao Yi already had the "Metal Spirit" in his hands, then, he definitely must not possess the remaining four.

"Master, in ten years, it's the period of time where the 'Tasyoluk' Secret Realm is opened, isn't it?"

Yu Yan looked at her a little strangely. "The Tasyoluk Secret Realm opens once every five hundred years, that time is indeed approaching." This disciple of his had always been unconcerned with foreign matters, how did she know about this?

Of course she would know. Because, Xiao Yi obtained the "Wood Spirit" in this Secret Realm. Although it was unknown if it was due to his Spirit Veins, what Xiao Yi first found, was the "Metal Spirit" and "Wood Spirit" which corresponded with his own Spirit Veins. And it was because of this, he successfully formed his Azoth Core.

"Master, I wish to go to that Secret Realm as well."

Yu Yan frowned. Tasyoluk was a mustard seed dimensional space that was left by a supreme individual from the ancient times. It would open once every five hundred years, and although there were countless spiritual grass, spiritual medicine, and various mysterious treasures, danger was widespread as well, and there were even tenth-rank spiritual beasts.

"No. That place is too dangerous, and, you have yet to form your Azoth Core." Only practitioners who had the cultivation level at the Azoth-stage were able to enter. Practitioners who were below, or above the Azoth-stage would be automatically bounced out by the formation at the entrance.

"I will form my Azoth Core within ten years!" Zhu Yao was very confident in her comprehension ability.

Yu Yan frowned even deeper. "Even if you form your Azoth Coret, you will only have the cultivation of an early-stage Azoth practitioner. Although there are many opportunities in Tasyoluk, this can only be discussed when you have the ability to defend yourself."

He had once entered that Secret Realm as well. Back then, he was an Azoth Paragon, and even with that level of cultivation, he still found it very strenuous inside. Even it was simply the outer sector, many sixth and seventh rank spiritual beasts were gathered there, and the further one proceeded towards the core, the more dangerous it was. There had never been anyone to reach the core. At least, she had to be an Azoth Paragon before trying it out. "When the next time it opens, master will not stop you!"

"Master, I must go." Next time, there will no longer be a next time. Because, she clearly knew that, after Xiao Yi brings out the "Wood Spirit", the entire Secret Realm will collapse, and there will no longer be a "Tasyoluk".

"I have my own reasons, however, it's still too inconvenient to tell this to anyone right now. Master, please grant my request."

Yu Yan went silent for a moment. His stupid disciple rarely requested something from him this seriously. He recalled the last time she begged him, was to give Zi Mo's stinky brat a defensive mystic artifact. He did not allow it, and in the end, she never returned. He suddenly felt a little worried. Would she not return again if he were to deny her request this time?

Zhu Yao silently waited, yet, her heart was determined. No matter if he allowed her or not, she would still go. At most, she could sneak into the place.

After a while, Yu Yan stood up, and seemed to be taking something out from his storage ring. A moment later, his hand was grabbing onto a purple lightning that was still flashing and making thundering noises. Just how the hell did he keep something like this?

Zhu Yao looked at him dumbfoundedly. Master, what are you doing? Even if he was angry, he should not hold onto a lightning and strike her with it, right?

"Follow me!" Yu Yan signalled her to catch up to him, and with a turn of his body, he headed towards the direction of the cold lake at the mountain peak.

Standing next to the cold lake, Yu Yan waved his hand and cast a water separating Mystic Art. The lake which was still emitting out a heavily cold chill, suddenly, as though it had been sliced, opened up into two halves. And, the lake which lacked the body of water, was completely dark, as the bottom of the lake was too deep to be seen.

However, Yu Yan did not stop, and directly walked down the passageway opened up by the separated waters.

Only then did Zhu Yao realized that there were layers of stairs next to the lake, which stretched all the way downwards to the bottom of the lake, and master was currently walking down those stairs. Zhu Yao did not hesitate, and hurriedly followed after him.

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Chapter 46: The Promised Protagonist's Cheat

The deeper they went, the darker it became, and it looked as though there were completely no light in the place. And, it reached to the point where there were not even a bit of light from the surroundings, and only the purple lightning in Yu Yan's hands was flashing with crackling noises. Zhu Yao could not help but grab onto the corner of the the person's clothes in front of her, as she was afraid of stepping onto empty air, and make a huge slip. That would be too embarrassing.

Yu Yan who was grabbed onto, startled for a moment. Thinking that the person behind him was his own stupid disciple, he did not stop her, and continued to bring her down.

Not knowing how long they had walked, Zhu Yao felt a white light flashing right in front of her, and then, as though a black curtain had been suddenly pulled open, her surroundings began to light up.

This was a spacious stone room. Only a "prayer mat" was placed right at the center, and there were no other furnitures in the surroundings. It seemed like a regular training cave residence, however, the surroundings were filled with lightning spiritual energy, letting her feel especially comfortable.

Yu Yan walked to the center of the stone room, he raised his hand, and threw the purple lightning high in the air. Only then did Zhu Yao realize that, above her, was actually a huge floating pool of water. The entire sight of the lake could be seen from here clearly, and she could even faintly see the scenery at the banks of the lake. They were under the lake. This was challenging the principle of gravity, causing her to feel extremely astonished.

"Master, master, why isn't the water pouring down?" She was like a country bumpkin, pointing to the ceiling.

Very naturally, she received her master's rolling eyes. "Formation!" As expected of his stupid disciple. "This place is where your master usually train in. In these few years, you can use this place to form your Azoth Core."

So her master frequently used this place to train. It's little wonder why he would go missing frequently.

Yu Yan looked at that purple lightning which he had already fixated in the air above. "This is the Nine Heavenly Lightning, you can guide out the lightning spiritual energy you need from it."

Nine Heavenly Lightning, was it not the Ascension Tribulation Lightning? Master could even capture bolts of lightning as well?

Zhu Yao sensed it for a moment, and indeed, the surrounding lightning spiritual energy had gotten denser. Obediently sitting at the center of the formation, she sat in the lotus position and began to meditate. Using the method to guide spiritual energy into her body she learnt before, she slowly allowed the lightning spiritual energy into her body. Because she had the prior experience, she no longer felt the pain she had when the spiritual energy went berserk the other time, and her entire body simply felt comfortable.

Yu Yan observed at the side for a moment, and only felt at ease after realizing that nothing abnormal was occurring to his disciple. After pondering for a moment, he took out a few more bolts of lightning that were exactly the same as the previous one, fixated them high in the air, before leaving without any worry. The Nine Heavenly Lightning was indeed the Ascension Tribulation Lightning, so the amount of lightning spiritual energy contained in it was the largest as well. Usually, it could not be easily seen easily, and these bolts of lightning were something he captured by chance from the Abyssal Lands.

His disciple only had to guide spiritual energy into her body to cause the spiritual energy to go berserk. These bolts of lightning, no longer required to take in any other lightning spiritual energy, so they were just right for aiding his disciple in her cultivation.

With this one period of meditation, Zhu Yao had meditated for two years. When she woke up, her body had already accumulated a layer of dust. With just a casual pat, it brought about a small-scaled sandstorm, choking her, and she could not help but cough a few times.

When she was about to raise her hand and cast the Dirt Removal Art, she glanced at the clear water above her, and decided to head out to wash herself. Although Dirt Removal Art was convenient, as someone who was used to bathing, she still felt she was not clean enough after using it, this might be probably a form of psychological disorder of cleanliness in another meaning as well.

The moment she left the bottom of the lake, she saw a piece of lotus leaf being placed next to the lake. On the leaf, was a neatly arranged set of clothes, and looking at the style and size, it should be hers. She instantly realized who placed it here.

As expected, master was her caring little jacket, his life skills were all maxed out, and she gave him a huge thumbs up.

She picked up the clothes and realized, other than the clothes, there was a bottle of pellets as well. Master had always discouraged her from eating medicinal pellets to raise her cultivation, so why would he place a bottle of pellets here? She curiously poured some of the contents out, and realized they were actually candies.

The hell! Only her body would change into a child's, she's not actually a child, alright? What point was he trying to get by placing candies here!?

Zhu Yao poured out a bunch of them, and stuffed them into her mouth out of anger, making 'kuchi kuchi' sounds as she chewed. Mn, the taste is pretty good.

Patting away the crumbs of candies in her hands, she stripped off entirely and dove into the lake. This was a cold lake, so the water was very cold in the first place, however, to practitioners, the temperature was just right. Zhu Yao cleaned the dust off her body, and could not help but start to inspect this cold lake.

Actually, this cold lake was pretty big. It's unknown how much larger it was compared to the modern pools either. The lake was deep as well, and it was basically impossible to see the bottom of the lake from the top. However, mystically, the stone room below could clearly see what was happening at the top. It was good that there was currently no one at the bottom lake.

Wait a minute! She seemed to have frequently came over here to bathe in the past, and she was always stark naked, while below her was the stone room her master usually used to train… Then did that not mean she…

The hell! Suddenly, her entire body felt extremely uncomfortable. Master, let us talk about life!

However, when she recalled that when she was a child, she had already been bathed by him countless of times, and she was always stark naked then as well, suddenly, she no longer felt that uncomfortable. As expected, she no longer had any morals left to speak of! Those morals of hers had already been scrubbed off, and she was already used to it.

Zhu Yao bathed for nearly an hour, before crawling out of the water. After changing into the clothes on the bank of the lake, stuffing another bunch of candies into her mouth, she was just about to return to training, only to suddenly sense a spiritual energy disturbance at the Sword Mountain. And this spiritual power was very familiar, it was Wang Xuzhi's!

Zhu Yao was a little worried, however, she realized bunch of dark clouds suddenly gathered in the sky above the Sword Mountain, and not a moment later, the sky over that had already darkened. Those were Tribulation Clouds, little wimp was about to form his Azoth Core!

She was a little shocked, however, immediately after, she was relieved. So many years had passed, with his talent, he should have formed his Azoth Core long before. However, because of her own death, the knot in his heart was unresolved, thus, causing his cultivation to stagnate. Currently, it seemed like her words earlier, were still of use. He had thought it through.

Wang Xuzhi's Azoth Tribulation Clouds were not as exaggerated as Xiao Yi's, the Tribulation Clouds did not cover the entire sky either. There were no land covered in complete darkness, no flying sands and rocks. It simply followed the regulations and covered only a small piece of the sky above the Sword Mountain, and the Heavenly Lightning that struck down was exactly eighty-one times, not more, not less, nor was there a cheeky Tribulation Lightning running towards her. Of course, there was no special phenomenon in the sky, once the Tribulation Clouds had finished striking, they quickly called it a day, and dispersed completely and cleanly.

Zhu Yao waited for a moment, only after she once again sensed Wang Xuzhi's spiritual power, did she finally feel at ease. It seemed like he broke through, and had successfully raised his cultivation. After all, he was a child that she had personally seen growing up, Zhu Yao felt a little satisfied in her heart. And then, her thoughts instantly made a turn, she was still a Foundation-stage practitioner, and did not even have a trace of forming his Azoth Core. She instantly felt extremely terrible.

A good comparison to this was, when she was young, her teacher had assigned students into small help groups of two, one with good results, and the other with poor results. She had initially been one of those children with good results, and she wholeheartedly helped the child with poor results with his studies. In the end, when the result slip came in, his score was actually higher than hers. She felt extremely terrible, and could barely hold it in at all.

The hell, what happened to the promised cheat for the protagonist who's here to save the world!?

Caring Little Jacket: Usually, it's used to describe the parents' daughter, as the daughter is both kind and knows how it feels like to be a parent.

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Chapter 47: The Round Azoth Core

Returning to the stone room, Zhu Yao worked even harder in her cultivation, and she constantly took in the spiritual energy from the purple bolts of lightning above, while those purple bolts of lightning began to slowly disappear as well. When two bolts of lightning completely dispersed, Zhu Yao finally felt that familiar pain.

However, forming her Azoth Core was different compared to that of building her Foundation. Foundation only required to break through the limitations of the tendons in one's body, and it could be made possible simply by expanding one's amount of spiritual energy absorbed. However, Azoth required the spiritual energy to be compressed and stored. This process required one to be extremely careful, just a slight mistake could cause one's cinnabar to shatter, and the breakthrough would fail.

Zhu Yao looked internally for a moment, she realized that the lightning spiritual energy had already been completely filled, and they began to rush out in all directions. If this was to keep up, it would definitely tear apart her meridians. She had no choice but to endure the terrible pain, and according to the method taught by her master, she slowly guided the spiritual energy into her cinnabar, and then, compressed the lightning spiritual energy together.

It sounded simple, however, in actual fact, controlling it was extremely difficult. She was not a compressor after all, and, spiritual energy never had a physical body in the first place, so how could it decrease in size whenever she wanted it to?

No matter how she guided the spiritual energy with her will, when the spiritual energy at one side was suppressed, the other side would bulge up, it was very hard to control. Unless there was a sort of energy that could prevent the spiritual energy from flowing everywhere, and have them gather at one point.

Zhu Yao pondered deeply for a moment, and she did not know why, but she suddenly thought of centrifugal forces. If a substance were to continuously revolve in the same direction, it would then gather at one point. It's similar to stirring water in a cup in the same direction, it would form a swirl with a point as it's center. If she were to suppress the spiritual energy while it's spiraling with a point at the center, it could roll into a ball, like that of a dustball?

Thinking of this method, she immediately circulated the spiritual energy in her cinnabar, and she constantly moved it in a spiraling method in a specific direction at high speed. As expected, at the center of the spiral, the pressure slowly suppressed the spiritual energy into a dot. That dot was extremely small, yet, as the amount of spiritual energy entering it increased, the dot slowly began to expand, from a dot, it became the size of a bean. However, the spiritual energy in her body had already been depleted.

She could not help but continue to rapidly absorb spiritual energy, a huge amount of spiritual energy entered her body, yet, it was instantly absorbed into the revolving spiral in her cinnabar, and the bean became bigger and bigger. And the remaining five bolts of lightning in the stone room were beginning to disappear at a speed that could be seen with the naked eyes.

When Yu Yan came in, he just happened to see the final bolt of lightning disappear. He quickly took out another three bolts, and threw it upwards, narrowly preventing the violent turbulence of spiritual energy from happening once again. He turned to look at his disciple in the middle of the room. It was as though she was surrounded by a huge amount of lightning spiritual energy particles, and those lightning spiritual energy particles seemed to have received a command, circling around her in a certain direction.

Although he knew that his disciple had extremely high affinity with lightning spiritual energy, this was still the first time he had ever seen such obedient lightning spiritual energy particles. It was as though, they were revolving completely according to her intentions.

Not knowing how long had passed, only when Zhu Yao felt that bean in her body had slowly grew into the size of a pearl, and could no longer circulate anymore spiritual energy, did she finally stop.

The Azoth Core had been formed.

Only then did Zhu Yao finally heave a sigh of relief. Opening her eyes, she just happened to see Yu Yan who had a stern expression, sitting right in front of her.

"Master? Are you here to help me protect the formation?"

"Mn!" Yu Yan made a response. Reaching out his finger, he tapped on the center of her forehead. "Relax, let me see your Dantian."

A cooling air directly rushed into her cinnabar, out of reflex, Zhu Yao had wanted to stop it, however, when she heard his words, she relaxed once again.

Yu Yan inspected her cinnabar, and as expected, he saw a round silver-colored Core floating there. It was filled with spiritual energy, and there were hints of lightning sparks circling its vicinity. When he took a closer look, there were even lines of purple markings.

Yu Yan felt even more strange. In usual Azoth Cores, rarely would there be such a round sphere with completely no edges. It had to be known that suppressing spiritual energy was something that was strenuous on the mind, energy consuming, and time consuming. It was impossible to achieve without even a slight slip up. Hence, the shapes of everyone's Azoth Cores would be different, but generally speaking, there would all be dents and edges in them.

This Azoth Cores his disciple had… there's none on it at all!

Yu Yan retracted his hand, and looked at Zhu Yao for a moment. He was beginning to understand this disciple of his less and less.

"Master, master. How is it, how is it?" Although she had formed her Azoth Core, she herself still did not have any notion of it.

Yu Yan was silent for a moment, before nodding his head. "Not bad! Your Azoth Core is much more condensed than regular people."

Hearing such a praise from him, Zhu Yao completely entered her show-off mode. "Hahahaha, I knew that I'm incredible. Master, you saw that I have formed my Azoth Core, is there any reward for me?"

Zhu Yao stretched out her hand, and revealed a expression that was begging for praise and and rewards.

Yu Yan was startled for a moment. Looking at her eyes which were about to emit out stars, he casually nodded. He should indeed reward her for forming her Azoth Core, and casually took out a bottle and placed it on her hand.

Zhu Yao's eyes instantly shone brighter, and immediately opened the cap of the bottle and looked inside. Her earlier excited expression, instantly completely darkened.

The hell, why are they candies!?

Raising her head, she looked towards a certain master who had a calm expression. What to do? She felt like destroying her master.

"Master…" Zhu Yao planned on chatting with her master about the problem regarding his education methods, yet, when she stood up, she suddenly stepped on something, and putong, she fell onto the ground.

She looked at her body strangely, and then, she suddenly realized the sleeves of her clothes and pants had grown larger.

Hell! Why did I turn back into a child!?

Because forming the Azoth Core had used up all of Zhu Yao's spiritual energy in her body, she returned back into the figure she was supposed to have, the figure of a seven year old. That's right, she spent seven years before she finally formed her Azoth Core.

Master said that she had only just formed her Core, when her realm had stabilized, the situation of her turning into a child like this would no longer happen.

After forming her Core, there would be a huge Lightning Tribulation, she only had to step outside of the stone room to sense it, and the Lightning Tribulation would then fall. But, in her current situation, it would be very dangerous for her to leave, hence, the best plan was to first charge up her batter- no wait, restore her spiritual power before leaving the stone room. There was an isolation formation set up here, so temporarily, she would not be found by the Lightning Tribulation.

Hence, she had no choice but to continue meditating, and take in spiritual energy. She raised her head and glanced at the last bolt of purple lightning which had already thinned by a large amount at the ceiling. A little jokingly, Zhu Yao said this. "Don't be anxious, I will eat you later."

The moment those words fell, that bolt of lightning which had been quietly emitting out light, suddenly trembled coquettishly, releasing out even louder crackling noises. It looked so excited, it was as though it had taken in stimulants.

Zhu Yao was a little speechless. Never did she know that these bolts of lightning actually had masochistic characteristics, and would be so excited after hearing that they would be eaten.

That bolt of lightning trembled even more happily, Zhu Yao decided to increase her pace, and hurriedly ate it.

After spending another half a day worth of effort, Zhu Yao's spiritual power was finally restored, and her body was filled with energy as well… No, she had returned to her teenage girl figure, however, she had yet to completely absorb that bolt of lightning.

"I'm going!" Zhu Yao waved her hand, and left the stone room.

That bolt of lightning, stretched into a bent shape, and shook towards her as well, as though it was waving her goodbye.

Zhu Yao's expression darkened. Could it be that bolts of lightning could turn into spirits as well?

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Chapter 48: Cultivation Requires Entrance Examinations

When she came out, Yu Yan was already waiting for her.

He had set up a couple of formations on the empty space next to the lake, which could help her defend against the Lightning Tribulation. Under Yu Yan's instructions, Zhu Yao sat at the core of the formation. All preparations were ready, now, she only had to wait for the Heavenly Lightning to fall.

Zhu Yao took a deep breath, looked at the wide sky, and then…

The sun went down.

The hell, where's the promised Lightning Tribulation!?

Zhu Yao who had waited for an entire day, turned around, seeking assistance. "Master…" Why were there not any bolts of Tribulation Lightning? She clearly had formed her Azoth Core! When it was time to strike, it did not come, when it was not supposed to strike, it deliberately struck her! There's definitely a problem with this world!

Yu Yan did not know what was going on either. Logically speaking, his disciple was indeed at the Azoth-stage, and with the shape of her Core, the might of her Lightning Tribulation should not be weak either, hence, he made such preparations. However, it had been an entire day, yet, there was not even a single movement in the sky.

"Return for now!" He had no other ideas either. There were too many strange things happening on his disciple, he had already gotten used to it.

Zhu Yao nodded, and crawled up. Though, to practitioners, not being struck by lightning was a good thing, because, they would have one less tribulation to go through. However, why did she feel a strange dissatisfaction for being tricked?

"Wait a minute!" Yu Yan suddenly reached out his hand to stop her, and with a stern expression, he looked towards the sky. "There's the presence of Tribulation Clouds."

Zhu Yao immediately raised her head anxiously and looked towards the sky as well. Currently, it was already evening, and the sky was already half-darkened, yet, there was still a slight glow of light. After staring for a moment, suddenly, she saw a Tribulation Cloud floating over.

But…

Why the momma's egg was it so small?

Zhu Yao stared dumbfoundedly at the Tribulation Cloud that had the size of a basin. It looked as though it had rushed here hastily, as it floated very comically. It was floating towards her while leaking out air…

It was just like a car's exhaust puffing out exhaust gas. Every single puff, the cloud would shrink a little, and when it arrived above her head, it had already shrunk into the size of a bowl.

The key point was, the cloud had little sense of direction as well, as it accidentally floated past her head. And after pausing for a moment, it floated back towards her head.

The Tribulation Cloud finally stopped moving above her head, and then, as though it was brewing something, it stopped for probably a few moments, before the sounds of crackling could be heard. Within the clouds, a thin thread-like bolt of lightning was released, and it came striking down towards her.

And then…

It stopped!

The Tribulation Lightning stopped. It stopped at a place two steps away from her. It shook about frustratedly, and then, it nestled against her face. Bachi!

Zhu Yao: "……"

Yu Yan: "……"

Bachi! Bachi bachi, your sister! Don't you dare tell me you're a bolt of Tribulation Lightning!

Unfortunately, that bolt of lightning had already disappeared, and then… the Tribulation Cloud floated away!

The cloud floated away… floated away… away!

Momma's egg! Just what the hell happened? Are you guys sent by the heavens to act all cutesy?

The master and disciple duo was stunned for a period of a few minutes before they finally reacted.

"Yu Wang?"

"Ah?"

"Nothing."

"Oh."

After a while, Yu Yan silently kept the formations on the ground. Stroking the head of his disciple who had already been completely shocked silly, he suddenly understood a little why his disciple was stupid to this extent, it was actually caused by her environment.

"First, return and have some rest. I will teach you Mystic Arts tomorrow!"

"Ou!"

A moment later…

"Your sister's Desire!"

Zhu Yao was shocked. She was deeply shocked. Recalling Xiao Yi who had activated his protagonist's cheat, during the Lightning Tribulation he experienced, the entire Ancient Hill Sect was covered by the Tribulation Clouds. That atmosphere and that extravagance, especially that gigantic dragon, that emitted out an imposing aura with the first half of its body, and brought about strong winds with the latter half of its body, just by recalling it, she could feel the domineering pressure leaking out!

Even if she did not bring up the protagonist's cheat, even Wang Xuzhi, that little wimp's Lightning Tribulation, at the least, even covered the entire Sword Mountain, and actual bolts of Tribulating Lightning rang throughout the clouds.

Why did hers, turn into a basin…

She felt extremely saddened due to the basin tribulation.

However, time still had to pass. Her master had already agreed to her entering the 'Tasyoluk' Secret Realm. Although she did not know the reason for his compromise, to her, it was still a good thing.

She had to find the "Wood Spirit" before Xiao Yi. Xiao Yi had the Metal and Wood Dual Spirit Veins, and he who had already obtained the "Metal Spirit", his cultivation had already rose so quickly, let alone adding another "Wood Spirit". She believed that, by then, there's no other humans capable of stopping him from raising his cultivation.

So, she must definitely not let him obtain the "Wood Spirit".

However, with her cultivation, she was unable to go into a direct conflict with him. Hence, unprecedentedly, Zhu Yao began to work hard in her cultivation. She seemed to have pulled out the momentum she had during her studies for her entrance examinations in the past, and continued to cultivate throughout the day and night. And, she realized that there were many Mystic Arts in this world which were similar to those in games. As a game development staff, she was able to accept the principles very easily.

However, even if that's the case, she still spent three entire years to completely master them.

Bang!

Zhu Yao was struck down by a certain master, for the three thousand, five hundred and sixty ninth time. Spitting out the weeds that had entered her mouth, Zhu Yao stood up. Swinging the long sword in her hands, she said. "Again!"

Flying, she pounced towards him. She had always believed the best method to improve her techniques, was actual battles. Hence, in these three years, what she had done the most, was to get beaten up.

Uh… No, wait a minute, it's getting master to spar with her.

However, the level differences between her and Yu Yan was not just by a small margin. Even if she were to compete with him in pure sword techniques, basically, she could not escape the fate of sticking to the ground.

Even after three years of hard work, she was still unable to take more than a single blow from her master.

She had already grown accustomed to it…

Another resounding bang!

The three thousand, five hundred and seventieth time!

"Again!"

Zhu Yao continued to pounce towards him. This time, Yu Yan did not retaliate, he simply waved his hand, and his disciple's long sword had automatically flew into his hands.

"There's no need to train any longer today!"

"Ah?" Before, had they not always trained till dusk? Zhu Yao was a little stunned. Master is treating me too well, I simply can't believe it.

Yu Yan approached her, reached out his hand and stroked her head. However, his brows furrowed. "Do you still insist on going to 'Tasyoluk'?"

Zhu Yao nodded. "I have to go!" She did not dare to casually say she was going to save the world or anything. However, since she had already arrived in this world, if it's something she could do, she would give her best to do so.

Yu Yan lightly sighed, and was even more worried. Why couldn't his disciple be a little more stupid? "Tomorrow is the day when the Secret Realm opens. You have to make your preparations early."

"Thank you, master!" So this was why he stopped the training.

"Follow me!" Yu Yan turned and walked towards the cottage.

Zhu Yao hurriedly caught up to him. She saw him place her sword on the table, and even took out the tassel from his own sword. After pondering for a moment, he took out another bell which was as white as jade, and weaved them together. Then, he tied it onto her sword, before passing it to her.

"Try inserting your spiritual power."

Zhu Yao skeptically picked it up, and circulated her spiritual power. She then saw the blade of her sword suddenly being covered by the purple light of lightning, and it was now a sword with lightning imbued in it.

"This sword tassel carries my imprint, and could be used to block an attack of full power by practitioners at the Azoth-stage and below. And I have sealed a bolt of Nine Heavenly Lightning in that bell, and as long as you insert your spiritual power, it will be attached onto the blade. Every swing of your sword, will be equal to using a single Lightning Art."

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Chapter 49: Setting Off to Tasyoluk

Zhu Yao widened her eyes out of excitement. This was the Nine Heavenly Lightning, and with this, even if she were to encounter a demonic beast that's of a higher rank than her, she would not need to be afraid.

"Master, you're the best!" So moving!

Yu Yan did not reply, and simply stretched out his hand towards her hair which was already a pile of mess, messing it up even more. Looking at his stupid disciple who was still smiling sillily, he became more and more worried. His disciple was so stupid, yet, she still liked to head to dangerous places. Back then, she had already lost her life once, this time, he was even more worried. No, I have to give her a few more guarantees.

"The dangers in 'Tasyoluk' are widespread. Master cannot be by your side, you have to pay more attention by yourself. This sword, can only be used to attack. You have to be on your guard at all times!" After pondering for a moment, he took out a defensive mystic robe from his storage ring. "Wear this."

Zhu Yao looked at that gold sparkling mystic robe, which was sparkling so bright, it almost blinded her eyes. She spoke up weakly. "Master, this isn't suitable, right?"

"You don't like it?" Yu Yan frowned, and took out another one. "Then this set of robes. A defensive formation has been placed on it, and it is able to defend against any Mystic Art attacks for fifteen minutes."

"Uh…" This set was not sparkling gold, however, it was bright red and purple in color, and was embroidered with a bunch of flowers, as though it was welcoming the new year. She didn't dare to wear it at all.

"You do not want it either?" Yu Yan frowned even deeper, and continued to pull out another one. "Then, this one."

"……" This set was not sparkling, nor was it bright red and purple in color. However, master, why the hell are there so many gems sewn onto it!? She was not going out to sell merchandises!

Zhu Yao speechlessly looked at her master who had already activated the River God mode, and then, once again looked at the three set of clothes on the table. She could faintly see the words "So silly" being written on the first set of clothes, "yet so rich" on the second set, and "hurry and steal him away!" on the third set.

She was clearly heading out to steal an item, she did not want to change her objective into stealing a rural landlord!

Finally, under her firm refusal, her master could only regretfully keep the items, and he looked at her with a complicated expression. My disciple is so stupid, she will be bullied when she goes out, won't she? She will definitely be bullied, won't she? She will totally be bullied, won't she?

Zhu Yao could only use rest as her excuse, and escaped.

Having a master who loved to worry, the pressure on her was immense.

Finally, it was the day of the opening of the 'Tasyoluk' Secret Realm. Zhu Yao arranged a few life necessities, and prepared to head to the Main Mountain's open field, to gather for the instance dungeon run. Right before she left, her master actually popped out all of a sudden again. Zhu Yao's heart trembled, afraid that he would once again pull out some gold and sparkling item for her to bring along.

Fortunately, this time, master was more reasonable. He simply took out a jade pendant necklace, and wore it for her.

"You must remember to wear this at all times. It must not leave your body, understand?"

Yu Yan said very seriously, and completely did not have the unreasonable look he usually had. Zhu Yao instantly felt that this must definitely be some sort of very incredible Mystic Tool. She stuffed it into her chest, placed it at a position which was in contact with her body, and patted it twice.

"Master, don't worry. Wherever the jade is, I will be there too!"

However, Yu Yan's expression was a little strange, he stared at the collar where she placed the necklace into for a moment, before turning away and leaving without saying anything.

Zhu Yao inexplicably curled her lips, and flew away from the Jade Forest Mountain with a flying sword.

After going through the demonic training in these few years, her fear of heights had been completely cured. She was finally able to safely become a bird-woman.

The moment when she flew away from Jade Forest Mountain, Yu Yan had sensed it. Turning his head, he looked towards the direction his stupid disciple left in, and deeply sighed. As expected, he was still unable to put his heart at ease. Suddenly, he once again recalled the scene when his disciple placed the jade pendant on her chest, his face strangely grew a little hotter. Was it because of the weather today?

There were about a dozen of people in the group, and there were actually four or five female disciples among them as well. In their eyes, without exception, all of them were sparkling with lights of love, and were currently circling around a man, conversing with him. The black bolded "BUG" word on the man's face, even if she did not want to recognize that he was Xiao Yi, it was impossible.

As expected of the protagonist's cheat, the women would instantly feel uncomfortable if they did not stick to him.

"Little Bun!" Her shoulder was patted on, and when Zhu Yao turned her head, she just happened to see Wang Xuzhi. Zhu Yao was startled for a moment, and when she thought about it, it was understandable. He had formed his Azoth Core, so obviously, he would go as well.

"You formed your Azoth Core?" Wang Xuzhi was very astonished, after all, he did not see anyone forming the Azoth Core in the Ancient Hill Sect in the recent years.

"I have just returned from field training. I formed my Azoth Core outside." Zhu Yao casually came up with an excuse. She really did not wish to bring up that washbasin tribulation.

I see. Wang Xuzhi nodded, and then, continued to ask in surprise. "You're going into 'Tasyoluk' as well?"

"Yeah! A Secret Realm that only opens once every five hundred years, obviously, I can't miss out on it."

"But, you have just formed your Azoth Core." Wang Xuzhi showed his disapproval. "'Tasyoluk' is extremely dangerous. It's stated in the legends that, even a Demigod-stage expert would not be completely safe when venturing into its core area. Why don't you…"

"My master has agreed to it!" Zhu Yao interrupted his words.

Wang Xuzhi felt it was not his place to oppose her either. Looking at her a little worriedly, he still could not help but remind her. "Later, after we enter, remember to stick close to me. It's fine to stay at the outer areas, don't head deep into the center of the place, understand?"

Little wimp, are you caring for me? Zhu Yao felt a little pleased, and could not help but stretch out her hand and stroke this man who was even taller than she was. "I understand! Senior, martial, brother, Wang!"

Wang Xuzhi was stunned for a moment, and simply stared at her blankly. After a while, he finally sighed and regained his senses. He pretended to be angry and lectured her. "Mischievous!" At that moment, he actually thought he was looking at big sister Zhu Yao. As expected, was it because his obsession was too deep?

"This little martial sister, we meet again." Out of nowhere, Xiao Yi popped out. His dimples showed when he smiled towards her, and instantly, the protagonist's cheat was fully activated. Sizing Zhu Yao up, he asked in amazement. "Little martial sister, you formed your Azoth Core?"

Ever since he came over, Wang Xuzhi's expression was ugly. Although the knot in his heart had been resolved, he still hated the person whom he hates. Before Zhu Yao could even react, he had already side stepped and forcefully inserted himself between them. Staring at him defensively, he rightly pulled Zhu Yao behind his back.

"Senior-martial uncle Xiao, what you said was incorrect. You're Sovereign Feng Yi's personal succeeding disciple, according to seniority, we should be calling you senior-martial uncle, so how could she be your little martial sister!"

"Seniority is only a form of addressing others, I do not mind at all." Towards Wang Xuzhi's causing a scene, Xiao Yi was a little displeased.

"Senior-martial uncle do not mind, but this junior minds." Don't think of using the martial brother and sister trick to approach her. Little Bun was big sister Zhu Yao's junior-martial sister, he had to protect her. "If other people were to know of this, they would think that we don't know our courtesies."

As expected, Xiao Yi's expression darkened. Although he knew that Wang Xuzhi had always been unhappy with him, he never expected that Wang Xuzhi would challenge him by himself. As expected, these so-called Inner Sect disciples, were all who did not know the meaning of death. Xiao Yi held in the anger in his heart, looking at the cute little martial sister behind him who was blinking her pair of black grape-like eyes, his tone could not help but soothe down. "Little martial… niece, I wonder which Mountain you're a disciple of?"

After saying that, he smiled coldly towards Wang Xuzhi. Didn't you say we can't forget about our courtesies? Could it be that you're also able to stop a senior from asking a question?

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Chapter 50: Outsiders Watching the Commotion

As expected, Wang Xuzhi frowned. He could not chase him away directly, and he would not feel at ease by moving aside either. He could only block in front of Zhu Yao, and was stuck in a difficult position.

Zhu Yao felt it was a little funny as she watched little wimp behaving like a protective mother hen, blocking in front of her. Her heart was filled with warmth, and had a feeling of 'my son has finally grown up, and knows how to protect this elderly woman'.

Seeing such a heart-warming little wimp, how could she not give him face?

"Kuh kuh…" She pretended to cough, and did her best to act out a cute, naive and oblivious look. With widened eyes, she looked straight at Xiao Yi, and said. "Who are you?"

Xiao Yi: "……"

"Tasyoluk" was positioned at a barren land north of the cultivation world. Because of the scattered spiritual energy, and the countless cliffs everywhere, not mentioning mortals, even practitioners would not usually step into this piece of land. However, every five hundred years, the entrance to the Secret Realm would open. Inside, the place was filled with spiritual energy, and spiritual grass were widespread. Although usually, great opportunities would be accompanied by great dangers, every single time, the various clans and sects would still dispatch their elites to search for these opportunities.

However, only practitioners whose cultivation were below the Nascent Soul stage could enter the Secret Realm. So, every single time, those dispatched were all Azoth-stage elites, and this was a very important matter to every sect.

Zhu Yao had already felt that the number of people heading there from her sect was large enough, however, when she arrived at the designated location, she actually saw disciples from the various clans and sects had already gathered at the place, and there were even some wandering practitioners as well. The entire place was filled with practitioners, and she did not even see this much people in the previous Inter-Sect Tournament.

She roughly estimated the number of people to be in the high thousands.

The various sect disciples were all lead by their respective Nascent Soul stage practitioners. Their clothes were uniform, and they were even standing together, so they were very easily recognizable. The wandering practitioners were basically segregated, however, there were a few of them that were in small groups of four or five.

This time, Ancient Hill Sect especially dispatched the two great Mountain Lords of Sword Mountain and Talisman Mountain to send them over. Beside the Weapon Mountain Lord Zi Yuan, he was accompanied by a very familiar person. It was actually little fatty Zhao. She did not expect that he had actually formed his Azoth Core as well.

The current little fatty Zhao had properly kept his initial unique trait, and had turned into big fatty Zhao. It was unknown if it was due to his figure, the arrogant and tyrannical look he had when he was young had disappeared, rather, he seemed to be rather pleasant and charming. He seemed to have something on his mind, and completely did not have the look of excitement and eagerness like the rest of the people in the vicinity.

Zhu Yao had been pulled along by Wang Xuzhi the entire time, as though he was afraid that she would get herself lost. Along the way, he had repeatedly instructed her to stay away from Xiao Yi, and not to easily trust him. His constant nagging made him look exactly like a mother.

"It's here." A commotion suddenly started within the crowd, and instantly, the entire site became especially noisy.

Most of the people had already raised their heads and looked towards the sky. They simply saw the sky which was initially still clear and quiet. Suddenly, like it was being torn apart by something, a gigantic crack appeared, as though it was splitting the entire sky into two halves. The crack grew bigger and bigger, and only when it grew the size whereby a dozen people could enter it at the same time, did it finally stop expanding.

The people below could not wait any longer, as they took out their swords one after another and flew into the crack. However, the ones that moved were just the wandering practitioners. After all, the disciples from the various sects still had to attend to their courtesies, and they still stood unmoving in their original positions.

A Nascent Soul-stage practitioner walked over, and smiled at the two people who came to lead the Ancient Hill Sect group. "Dear Reverends, as there are so many disciples from your Ancient Hill Sect, why don't your group enter first?"

Zi Yuan seemed to have been waiting for these words, and did not decline. He turned and said to the fifty or so Azoth disciples behind him. "This journey will be dangerous, everyone, please remember to not act recklessly at all times. The entrance will close in a month's time, everyone must make haste to return before the entrance closes."

Everyone's voices were in unison as they replied. "Yes!"

Zi Yuan waved his hand, and the disciples summoned their flying swords one after another, flying towards the entrance.

"Be careful, follow me closely!" Wang Xuzhi turned to the back as he spoke, and then, pulled Zhu Yao as they flew towards the entrance. When she entered the entrance, the jade pendant on Zhu Yao's neck flashed for a moment, before instantly reverting to its initial look. However, no one noticed this.

After entering, what came into view was a different scenery. In front was a humongous forest where its boundaries could not be seen with a single glance. The disciples that entered earlier had already scattered, and in their current position, there were only the dozen few Ancient Hill Sect disciples who had just entered.

Zhu Yao, who was used to following a group, naturally flew over as well, however, she realized they were saying their goodbyes. It seemed like these people had already decided on their groups since the beginning, and had already scattered after entering inside. Zhu Yao who was left behind was a little speechless, as she tugged onto Wang Xuzhi beside her. "Who are we going to go with?"

Wang Xuzhi pointed to Xiao Yi in front of him, and his expression was a little unhappy. "Master had instructed me to follow senior-martial uncle Xiao's group."

Zhu Yao looked at Wang Xuzhi who was extremely unwilling, yet, in her heart, she was a little happy. She did not know the exact location of the "Wood Spirit", and in her dream, she simply saw that Xiao Yi would find it in an ancient ruin. However, as for the location of that ruin, she still did not know of it. And she was still worried that she did not have an excuse to follow Xiao Yi just earlier.

Little fatty Zhao was the last to enter the Secret Realm, and the moment he landed, he ran towards a green-clothed lady in the crowd. "Junior-martial sister Lu Cha!" His figure was big-sized in the first place, when he squeezed in, it instantly pushed the few disciples beside him a few steps away.

The female practitioner whose name was called, slightly furrowed her brows for a moment, yet, she still responded him with a polite smile. "Senior-martial brother Zhao."

However, little fatty Zhao was oblivious, and began to chat even more enthusiastically. "Junior-martial sister, are you already in a group? If not…"

"Senior-martial brother Zhao, I have already decided to be in the same group as Senior-martial uncle Xiao." Before he could finish what he wanted to say, Lu Cha interrupted him. She then rightly took a step back to the side, and stood beside Xiao Yi.

"Is that so…" Little fatty Zhao was depressed for a moment, then suddenly, as though he had thought of something, he continued. "It's fine, incidentally, I have yet to find a group, why don't I join your group as well?"

"Junior-martial nephew Zhao!" Xiao Yi laughed coldly. The both of them had a feud with each other in the first place, and currently, his voice became even colder. "It's still best that you follow the rest of the Weapon Mountain disciples. There are many people in our group, I'm afraid it would be too much of an inconvenience for you, and we might not be able to take care of you." Not only did these words contain rejection, it even carried contempt as well.

Little fatty Zhao's face stiffened a little. Looking at Lu Cha in front of him, his eyes revealed a certain amount of obsession, and he held in the anger within him that was about to explode. "Senior-martial… uncle Xiao, it's fine. I can take care of myself."

Since he had already put it this way, Xiao Yi could not reject him anymore either, and could only silently allowed him to follow them.

Zhu Yao who was watching at the side, felt a little helpless. This was really a twist of fate. When the two of them were still little wimps, Xiao Yi had been bullied by little fatty Zhao a couple of times. Now, their roles were actually reversed. However, seeing the way little fatty Zhao was acting, he seemed to really like that girly called Lu Cha.

It's a pity…

Zhu Yao looked at the girly who was following closely behind Xiao Yi, and she only had a single thought: while the dropping flowers pine for love, the heartless brook babbles on unrequited love.

"What are you looking at?" Wang Xuzhi saw her shaking her head, and then sighing, over and over again.

I'm looking at the commotion over there of course. Zhu Yao pointed to the front.

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Chapter 51: What Grass is That?

Following her line of sight, he curiously looked over. He instantly understood, and explained to her. "Currently, little fatty Zhao is Weapon Mountain's chamber disciple. His talent is pretty good, but he's too overly anxious, and frequently uses medicinal pellets to raise his cultivation. Although he barely managed to form his Azoth Core, his realm is still unstable. I really wonder why Reverend Zi Yuan allows him to come to the Secret Realm."

"Then what about that one over there?" Zhu Yao pointed to that girly called Lu Cha a little curiously.

"That's Lu Cha, a chamber disciple of the Medicine Mountain, with the Fire and Earth Dual-Spirit Veins. She had formed her Azoth Core long before little fatty Zhao." Wang Xuzhi's tone contained a certain amount of praise. "I heard that the Medicine Mountain Lord has the intention to betroth her to little fatty Zhao, and have them form a practitioner-pairing companionship. However, it had yet to be officially announced, and from the current looks of it…"

Wang Xuzhi did not say any further, however, Zhu Yao had already understood. So there was actually such a thing going on, it's no wonder little fatty Zhao stuck to her that much. In the sect, the number of people forming practitioner-pairing companionships were not in the minority, and even the Sect Master had a practitioner-pairing companion as well, however, it was rumored that she had been in isolation training to nourish her Nascent Soul, and Zhu Yao simply had not gotten the chance to see her.

Their group consisted of ten people, including her, there were five other female practitioners. The one leading the group was actually a disciple from the Medicine Mountain, and his name was Chen Yi, an Azoth Paragon. He counted the number of people, made sure that there were no mistakes, before leading them into the forest. "Let's go!"

Zhu Yao pulled onto Wang Xuzhi and followed after them, occasionally, she would pay attention to Xiao Yi in front. Because, in the dream, he found the "Wood Spirit" by himself, in other words, the time for the Wood Spirit to appear, was when he was all alone. She had to put him on a close watch.

Xiao Yi seemed to have realized her gaze, as he turned his head over and gave her what he thought was an elegant smile. Zhu Yao instantly choked, and almost puke.

It was certainly not because Xiao Yi was ugly, rather, as long as he made an expression, the BUG word on his face would distort accordingly. And, as a technical staff, when she saw this word, her first reaction was to definitely think of patching up his face!

However, because of that one smile of his, Zhu Yao instantly felt killing intent, and it was even coming from the few female practitioners beside him, as their eyes were as though they could not wait to swallow her up alive. Hey, hey, hey, can you girls please not misunderstand? I'm really not interested in your *.

"There should be many 'Fresh Green Herb' nearby, everyone, split up and gather a few of them. We will gather back here in two hours." Chen Yi took out a piece of map and examined it for a moment, before telling the other nine people. Nobody had any objections, and dispersed in all four directions.

Zhu Yao curiously asked. "There's a map for the Secret Realm as well?"

"That's a map drawn by our seniors who have entered 'Tasyoluk' in the past." Wang Xuzhi explained. "Every sect has them, and every Azoth Paragon disciple, before entering the Secret Realm, could receive one from the Sect Master." This was also why an Azoth Paragon disciple must be the one leading the group.

"However, there's only the map for the outer area of the Secret Realm. The core of the Secret Realm has many demonic beasts, and it's very rare for practitioners to come out of there alive."

I see. In that case, she temporarily did not have to worry that Xiao Yi would find that ancient ruin first. After all, every sect had copies of this map, and if there's a ruin, it would have already been found long ago.

"Let us head there and take a look." Wang Xuzhi pointed to an empty spot in the east. Fresh Green Herb was an ingredient for refining pellets, and could be used for making Stopcolor Pellets. These herbs could be found outside, yet, they were not really usually seen, hence, the price of each was not a small amount. However, it was different in the Secret Realm. The medicinal herbs here seemed to flourish extremely well, and they had already found three stalks after walking for just two hours.

Zhu Yao did not really have knowledge on pellet refinements, her master did not allow her to eat medicinal pellets casually either. Hence, she was completely ignorant when it came to things related to medicinal herbs. If Wang Xuzhi had not said that small stalk of grass were Fresh Green Herb, she would have almost stepped onto it.

Wang Xuzhi carefully dug out that small stalk of fresh and tender grass, and then, placed it into a special container. He explained to her, all spiritual grass possessed spiritual energy, if they were not placed into unique containers, even if they were brought out, they would become useless due to the loss of spiritual energy.

Zhu Yao felt a little bored from his explanations. In the modern era, she was actually someone that could even cause a cactus which was under her care, to die. She really did not have any love towards plants. Looking all around for a moment, she still could not differentiate those green grass. However, she was still a studious child, and would ask things that she did not know.

"What's that stalk of grass?"

"That's Purple Moss, it can be used to refine Blood-Growing Pellets."

"What's that stalk of grass?"

"That's Flowind, a common herb. It can be used to stop the bleeding of meridians."

"What about that stalk of grass?"

"That's Bishe, it possesses a deadly poison."

"Then what about that grass over there?"

"That's… really just grass."

Wang Xuzhi felt his head aching a little from the questions. Were these not basic knowledge learnt when one just entered the sect? Why was she unable to even recognize medicinal grass? Was grand ancestral-martial uncle teaching his disciple seriously? "Little Bun, can you be quiet for a moment, that stalk you're pulling right now is the Fresh Green Herb."

"Ou!" Zhu Yao silently retracted her claws of ignorance, and suddenly, her eyes shone. "Hey, Xuzhi, I have a final question?"

"What is it?" Wang Xuzhi speechlessly turned his head over.

Zhu Yao weakly pointed to the front. "That patch of grass, why is it glowing?"

Wang Xuzhi turned to look, and his eyes instantly widened. He saw, on a spot not far away in front of him, there was a large patch of small grass glowing with silver light. Their leaves were half-translucent, and they looked crystal clear. Looking from afar, it was as though the ground was covered with a layer of glass floor.

The two of them walked towards it, Wang Xuzhi carefully scrutinized it for a moment, before he agitatedly said. "These… These are See-Through Leaf Grass, and there's such a large patch of them…"

See-Through Leaf Grass were necessary ingredients in refining Foundation Pellets. Foundation Pellets were very rare medicinal pellets, and even in Ancient Hill Sect, not all Essence Paragons were able to obtain Foundation Pellets, and only very few unique difficult quests would have them as rewards. Although he was already an Azoth practitioner and no longer needed it, with such a big patch of See-Through Leaf Grass, to the Ancient Hill Sect, it meant that a large number of Essence disciples could break through into Foundation.

"See-through Leaf Grass?" This name sounded familiar, and she seemed to have heard it from somewhere before. "What's the use of this herb?"

"This is an ingredient used to refine Foundation Pellets." Wang Xushi, a little excitedly, took out the container, and was planning to gather them.

"Wait a minute!" Zhu Yao instantly grabbed onto his hand. "What you're talking about is the See-Through Leaf Grass that's accompanied by the Heavenpulse Lotus?"

Wang Xuzhi was startled, and after pondering for a moment, he nodded. "Indeed, I have heard that the See-Through Leaf Grass accompanies the Heavenpulse Lotus, but I have not heard of anyone finding the Heavenpulse Lotus beside the See-Through Leaf Grass."

Zhu Yao finally recalled where she heard the term See-Through Leaf Grass from. It was Medicine Mountain Lord Hong Chou who incidentally said it, and as she was the Medicine Mountain Lord, she was obviously very familiar with medicinal herbs.

Back then, her body was still not of an one-year old infant, so her Spirit Veins could not be determined yet. That lolicon advanced-stage patient, had once joked about it before. Even if she had the trash Penta-Spirit Veins, Hong Chou could still find a Heavenpulse Lotus that could wash off her Veins, and help her clean out a nice Spirit Vein, at the same time, she could receive the See-Through Leaf Grass that accompanied it, allowing her to make contributions to the Sect.

If translated into human words: Gather a stalk of Heavenpulse Lotus, and you would receive a bunch of See-Through Leaf Grass as freebies.

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Chapter 52: Treasure Protecting Demonic Beast

"You're saying there's a possibility for the Heavenpulse Lotus to be here." Wang Xuzhi's expression became a little tense as he swept his gaze through the big patch of See-Through Leaf Grass. The Heavenpulse Lotus which was capable of reconstructing meridians was only recorded in legends, and no one had actually seen it. However, since the air in this place was moist, and there were even so much See-Through Leaf Grass growing here, with every stalk looking spirited and lush, there might really be a pond with an exotic treasure growing right in front of them.

However, a place with an exotic treasure, other than a bunch of spiritual herbs accompanying it, there would be demonic beasts accompanying it as well. In other words, there might be at least a sixth-ranked demonic beast here, or maybe even an entire horde of them.

"Let us return first, and discuss with senior-martial brother Chen Yi whether we should investigate the place." Wang Xuzhi gathered and place the spiritual grass inside the container, his face no long carried the initial excitement, rather, it was a little tense.

Naturally, Zhu Yao would not object, the more people there were, the easier it was to get the job done. After all, sixth-ranked beasts were equal to late-stage Azoth human practitioners. The two of them, an early-stage Azoth practitioner and a mid-stage Azoth practitioner, when encountering a sixth-ranked demonic beast, even if they did not die, they would still suffer serious injuries. And, with their Spirit Veins, their meridians did not need to be reconstructed in the first place, so the Heavenpulse Lotus did not mean much to them.

However, before they even returned to the gathering point, they bumped into someone coming from right in front of them, and she was even Lu Cha, the girl little fatty Zhao was interested in. She was walking pretty hastily, and looked as though she was about to break into a jog. When she saw the two of them, she was startled as well. As though she was trying to hide something, she looked around for a moment, before nodding her head, as a way to greet them.

"Junior-martial sister Lu, what happened to you?" Wang Xuzhi casually asked.

Her expression instantly paled, and her smile looked a little forced. "No… Nothing, we just encountered a demonic beast, that's all. Senior-martial uncle Xiao has already dealt with it, and I'm currently planning to inform senior-martial brother Chen."

Zhu Yao became even more suspicious, and turned to look at the direction she came from. "You guys can't have possibly entered that place filled with a big patch of See-Through Leaf Grass, right!?"

Lu Cha's face turned even more pale, and revealed an expression as though her thoughts had been guessed correctly, yet, from afar, suddenly, an extremely loud roar sounded. The roar rang through the clouds, the three of them could not help but feel shaky for a moment, and even the ground began to tremble with them.

"It's the sound of a demonic beast." Wang Xuzhi stared towards Lu Cha with a reprimanding look, as every one of them had clearly realized what she was planning to do. Earlier, she was moving with Xiao Yi, the two of them had definitely seen that patch of See-Through Leaf Grass from the other side, and they had even entered it. However, they did not expect to startle the demonic beast accompaniment inside. Xiao Yi could not defeat it, hence, he had her come out to look for help.

But, just from hearing that roar earlier, that demonic beast was definitely not ordinary. As expected, not even a moment later, loud running footsteps could be heard, even the bird beasts in the trees dispersed and fled, as something was chasing over towards them.

"Senior-martial uncle Xiao?" Lu Cha anxiously looked at the direction of the sounds, as though she had just realized the severity of the situation.

"Let's inform the rest, hurry!" Zhu Yao summoned her flying sword, pulled along Wang Xuzhi beside her, and with her eyes, she signaled Lu Cha to catch up to them. Only after flying towards the sky, could they finally see, on the ground not far away from them, a gigantic beast that was even taller than a house was currently running towards them.

The three of them speedily flew, and when they finally managed to reach the gathering point, Chen Yi and the other martial brothers and sisters were already standing there.

"What happened?" Chen Yi realized the situation was strange as well, as he hurriedly ran over.

Wang Xuzhi walked forward and explained the situation to the rest of them. Before he could even finish, suddenly, another roar was heard, and Zhu Yao simply felt a gigantic shadow looming over towards her.

"Little Bun!" Wang Xuzhi anxiously shouted, with an ashened look, he looked towards… the direction behind her.

Only then did Zhu Yao slowly turned her head a little stiffly. Behind her, was a gigantic monster. It looked like a bear, yet, it's covered in scales, and there were even three horns that looked like metal blades on its head. It stopped for a moment, and suddenly opened its mouth towards her, revealing teeth that were even longer than her legs.

And then, it stretched out its tongue,

and licked her.

Zhu Yao whose body was filled with saliva: "……"

She was not ice-cream! Haah!

All these happened in a blink of an eye. The rest of the female practitioners were all frightened from the sudden appearance of a demonic beast, shrill screams rang through the air, and it was unknown who did it, but a gigantic fireball was cast and thrown over.

When Zhu Yao was about to get burnt, Wang Xuzhi instantly rushed over, caught her, and they tumbled away.

The demonic beast seemed to have been angered by that fireball, as it roared and charged towards the group of people. Everyone had no choice but to summon their weapons one after another and engage it in battle. Various Mystic Arts were thrown towards the demonic beast.

Wang Xuzhi pulled Zhu Yao up, and summoned his long sword as well, shielding in front of her. Zhu Yao looked at that crazed demonic beast at the center. She was unsure if it was just her imagination, but she felt that earlier demonic beast did not seem to want to kill her.

As she thought of this, the demonic beast shot out a fireball, and it was flying exactly towards her direction. Zhu Yao flew to dodge it, and when she turned to look at the place she was standing at earlier, it had already turned into a crater of fire. Alright, she had confirmed it, it wanted to kill her now.

"Risefire Beast!" Chen Yi looked strangely at that demonic beast in the center. Risefire Beast was a very mystical beast, it had the fire element, yet, it liked to stay near sources of water, hence, it was resistant towards both water and fire. A newborn was a fifth-ranked demonic beast, and when it matured, it would be sixth-ranked. It had to be said, Chen Yi did have some talent in leading, as, when he recognized the identity of the demonic beast, he immediately loudly reminded everyone. "Do not use fire and water Mystic Arts. Risefire Beasts are resistant to both water and fire."

When everyone heard this, they hurriedly stopped using fire and water Mystic Arts, and changed to other Mystic Arts. There were even some who had flown directly towards it, and used sword techniques. Out of everyone present, Wang Xuzhi's sword techniques were the strongest. By himself, he rushed to the very front, the sword skills he threw out completely left no openings, preventing the demonic beast from advancing even another inch.

"This is a fifth-ranked demonic beast." Chen Yi became elated, as he realized that this was just a newborn beast. Although a matured Risefire Beast was comparable to an Azoth Paragon, at the very most, a fifth-ranked would just be comparable to mid-stage Azoth. Even if demonic beasts were innately stronger than human practitioners, with so many people present, taking down this newborn beast would still be a simple feat.

Zhu Yao wanted to help as well, however, other than Wang Xuzhi, no one knew she was a disciple of the Jade Forest Mountain, and it was inconvenient for her to use her skills. Hence, she could only follow the rest of the female practitioners, and stand at a spot a little further away. Occasionally, she would cast out chaining and binding arts, to restrict the demonic beast's movements.

Chen Yi's estimation was right, it was a newborn beast, and basically could not fight against the combined attacks. After a short while, the demonic beast had already fallen onto the ground from the slash of his sword. Fresh red beast blood flowed onto the ground.

Everyone cheered, and heaved sighs of relief. Chen Yi counted the number of people, and realized, other than three disciples suffering from light injuries, the rest were fine.

"Just what is going on?" Chen Yi asked Wang Xuzhi. Just when he heard the term 'demonic beast', this demonic beast appeared.

Wang Xuzhi moved to the back, making way for Lu Cha.

Lu Cha's expression changed, before she said softly. "Senior-martial uncle Xiao, senior-martial brother Zhao and I, found a lot of See-Through Leaf Grass over there, however, for some unknown reasons, this demonic beast suddenly charged out. We did not dare to fight it, hence, I had no choice but to come back and inform everyone."

"Then, where's senior-martial uncle Xiao and junior-martial brother Zhao?" Chen Yi continued asking.

Lu Cha's expression paled, as though she had only realized this problem. Logically speaking, the demonic beast had already been slain by them, so those two should have returned as well. Unless…

Before everyone could even ponder about the problem, that 'unless', fell from the sky just like that.

The first who fell on the ground was little fatty Zhao whose body was covered in blood. His waist seemed to have been pierced by something, and was currently gushing out blood. His white robe had already been stained blood-red.

Before everyone could even investigate what happened, suddenly, a red wall of fire fell from the sky, blowing towards everyone. Two injured disciples, before they could even dodge, had already turned into ashes.

With a loud bang, a gigantic demonic beast that looked exactly the same as the one earlier, yet, was at least three times larger, had already stood right in front of them. The extremely thick smell of fresh blood filled the noses of everyone present, and its mouth still contained small flames that had yet to be extinguished.

Xiao Yi landed on the ground as well, looking entirely fatigued. Although he was not as severely injured as little fatty Zhao, he still had several small wounds on his body.

When that huge Risefire Beast landed, it immediately saw the small Risefire Beast lying on the ground nearby. Throwing aside the bunch of people present, it anxiously sprinted over. Using the horns on its head, it gently touched the corpse. As though it had realized it had already died, it let out sad 'wuuu' moans. It seemed like it was a mother beast.

Zhu Yao's heart could not help but tighten, this could not be the mother of that small Risefire Beast, right!?

As expected, after the huge Risefire Beast moaned for a while, it suddenly let out an ear-piercing roar. It turned its head and looked even more angrily at the human practitioners on the ground. It heavily dug into the ground with its claws, opened its huge mouth, and spit out a ball of flames that was even larger than the one earlier.

"Not good, hurry and dodge!" Chen Yi who was still helping little fatty Zhao to close his wounds, shouted out loudly.

As though they woken up from their dreams, everyone quickly flew up on their swords. The place the fireball landed at, had already turned completely charred. Clearly, it was a hundred times stronger than that small Risefire Beast earlier.

Lu Cha waved her hand and summoned a gigantic icicle, and it flew towards the demonic beast. The moment the icicle made contact with the demonic beast, it instantly created a huge layer of ice, as though she was planning to freeze the demonic beast, and restrict its movements. However, the demonic beast was extremely quick, and a part of the place the icicle covered had already been shaken off by it. When another female practitioner saw this, she summoned countless of spiritual swords, attacking the demonic beast from all directions. Although they could not pierce through the demonic beast's scales, it still increased the speed of the freezing process.

Just when the demonic beast looked as though it was about to completely frozen over, the Risefire Beast suddenly roared loudly, and the scales on its body began to perk up one after another. With a 'huu' sound, huge flames were released from inside the scales, and as though its entire body had been caught in fire, the ice on its body instantly melted completely.

"Mutated Risefire Beast!" Chen Yi exclaimed out.

Before everyone could even react, that Risefire Beast whose entire body was emitting fire, suddenly disappeared, and then, nearby, a scream rang out. Earlier, the female practitioner that was using spiritual swords to attack it, was already being bitten in its mouth. It's mouth closed, and the female practitioner's screams came to an end, only the fresh stains of blood could be seen flowing out of the demonic beast's mouth.

Everyone was shocked from that frightening scene. In just a blink of an eye, three people were dead. And, the demonic beast was completely unharmed. Mutated demonic beasts had always been one ranked higher than ordinary demonic beasts. This was a seventh-ranked demonic beast, and its movements seemed to be especially quick as well. Earlier, they did not even see clearly how it managed to reach behind that female practitioner.

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Chapter 53: Piggish Party Member Strikes Again

"We… We… We can't defeat it!" In the group, there were already people with the intentions to retreat. Two female practitioners had already summoned their flying swords, turned and planned to flee.

"Do not move!" Chen Yi planned on stopping them, however, in the end, he did not make it in time. The demonic beast leapt, and instantly, it disappeared once again. A moment later, it appeared right at the front of the two fleeing female practitioners, and spew out a ball of flames from its mouth.

The two practitioners did not even have the time to scream, and had already turned into ashes.

It seemed like this mother beast was truly enraged, and would not forgive any single person here. Zhu Yao tightened the fists next to her body, and tried her best to suppress the fear in her heart. Using the opening after the demonic beast shot out the flames, she cast out a wood Mystic Art, summoning countless vines, restricting the demonic beast's four limbs. The demonic beast was caught unaware for a moment, and fell onto the ground.

"Now!" Zhu Yao loudly said. "Do not allow it to teleport to somewhere else again." The small group which was initially made out of ten people, was now left with only Zhu Yao, Wang Xuzhi, Lu Cha, Xiao Yi, and the injured little fatty Zhao.

That two times earlier were extremely quick, and just by looking, they would seem as though it had ran to each location. However, Zhu Yao realized, it basically did not have a sprinting posture each time. It was not that its speed was especially quick, rather, this Risefire Beast knew how to teleport.

Wang Xuzhi and Xiao Yi were the first to react, and they summoned their Sword Intent one after another, attacking towards the demonic beast. Only at the Azoth-stage could practitioners comprehend Sword Intent. Compared to spiritual swords, Sword Intent carried the caster's strong will, and seemingly with just a single slash, the Risefire Beast bled.

The Risefire Beast appeared to have become even more enraged, and began to struggle with all its power. Zhu Yao felt her strength slowly fading away, after all, how could a few vines restrict a seventh-rank demonic beast for a long period time?

"Lu Cha!" Zhu Yao shouted to the person beside her who was still in a daze. "Hurry and help!"

Lu Cha was startled for a moment, and then, she hurriedly raised her hand and summoned an icicle.

"The hell! Don't use ice!" Zhu Yao almost could not restrain herself from scolding her mom. This lady must have forgotten to bring along her brain when she left her home, right!?

Unfortunately, it was already too late, that piece of icicle had already struck directly on the demonic beast. The moment it made contact with the demonic beast's body, the flames on the Risefire Beast instantly increased explosively, and the vines she painstakingly summoned were burnt completely. The Risefire Beast's figure flashed, and had already teleported behind Lu Cha while spewing out a fireball.

Lu Cha instantly widened her eyes, her face had already turned ashened as death approached, her eyes were filled with despair.

The Risefire Beast had already opened it mouth towards her, and suddenly, a blood-colored figure charged out, crashing Lu Cha aside, and had taken her place in getting bitten.

It was actually little fatty Zhao!

Even Zhu Yao was shocked, yet, this was evidently not the time to stay dazed, as Zhu Yao flew over with her quickest speed. Pulling up Lu Cha who was already frightened silly on the ground, she quickly distanced themselves far from the Risefire Beast. Before little fatty Zhao could get a single glance of Lu Cha, he was bitten into two pieces.

Lu Cha who was saved still looked terribly frightened. She did not even dare to turn back to look at little fatty Zhao who was already dead with his unwholesome corpse, and was simply frightened to the point where her tears were flowing out. Even her entire body was trembling.

Zhu Yao finally could not help but send a slap to her face. "Are you motherf- stupid? Don't you know Risefire Beasts are resistance to water and fire!?" Did she actually understand why she was unable to freeze the demonic beast earlier!?

"I… What I used was ice!" Lu Cha replied, and sounded as though she was not in the wrong.

"Ice is water as well, idiot!"

She clearly knew that it was her ice which forced out the Risefire Beast's flames, yet, she still dared to throw ice at it. You motherf- must be a joke sent by the monkeys, right!?

Zhu Yao no longer had the mood to lecture the brain-deficient child. Summoning her flying sword, she once again cast a defensive barrier on herself, and warned the rest. "Everyone, put up your defensive barriers, the Risefire Beast can still teleport." Currently, she could no longer bother about hiding her identity. First, live this through, then talk.

This time, Lu Cha was actually not in a daze, and obediently set up her barrier. Zhu Yao silently glanced at the little fatty Zhao on the ground, and suddenly felt a little afflicted.

With the circulation of her spiritual energy, Zhu Yao's sword was instantly filled with purple lightning. Without hesitating, she rose to the skies, and slashed towards that demonic beast.

"That demonic beast's scales are extremely sturdy, you're unable to…" Before Chen Yi could finish his reminder, he saw the demonic beast emitting out a cry. With a bang, Zhu Yao's sword followed through and fell towards the ground, and a palm-sized wound on its body was currently gushing out blood. "Junior-martial sister Bun, you…"

The hell was junior-martial sister Bun? Zhu Yao glared at him, and suddenly recalled that she did not seem to have told them her name. Wang Xuzhi had never asked either, and had always been calling her Little Bun. They could not have thought that her name was actually Bun, right!?

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched, she turned and began to seriously go against the demonic beast. That strike earlier was purely coincidence, probably, that demonic beast did not think that the blade of her sword was imbued with lightning that was especially strong against demonic beasts, hence, she was able to slash it. She could not be this lucky another time.

As expected, the Risefire Beast on the ground once again disappeared. Zhu Yao's heart tightened, unsure of where it would appear from next.

"Little Bun, are you alright?" Wang Xuzhi flew over, and stood with a posture of his back leaning against hers. "You wounded it, so it will definitely attack you first. You have to be careful."

As expected, in the next moment, the demonic beast appeared right above her. A large blood-filled mouth came falling towards them, yet what it bit onto was a defensive barrier. What blocked it, was the sword tassel her master gave her. After blocking this life-threatening attack, she could not be this lucky again next time.

Zhu Yao and Wang Xuzhi speedily retreated, and Chen Yi and Xiao Yi rushed over as well.

Xiao Yi was already extremely skillful with his Sword Intent through training. A golden sword circled around him, as though it possessed life itself, and it emitted out a very cold sword aura.

The demonic beast, however, did not attack them head-on. Rather, its body flashed, and it once again disappeared.

"We must force it out!" Chen Yi tightened his fists. This demonic beast probably wanted to drive them to death. Although they could use their own barriers to defend, they could only use them to defend against a single attack. If a few more attacks were to come, none of them would be able to hold out.

"I have a way to force it out!" Zhu Yao raised her sword and said.

Only then did everyone seem to have realized the lightning glow on her sword, especially Chen Yi. "You… You're a disciple of Jade Forest Mountain?"

Zhu Yao did not deny it either. In any case, they would find out eventually. "I think that, even if that demonic beast teleports, it should not be more than a radius of two and a half kilometers. I shall use my lightning to force it out, however, we only have three seconds. The three of you must kill it within that period of time."

The expressions of the three people were a little heavy. Even if she was able to force the demonic beast out, it was, after all, a seventh-rank, an existence at the early-stage Nascent Soul level. Just the three of them Azoth practitioners, it might…

"We have to try it out!" Unexpectedly, the one who agreed was Xiao Yi. "Let junior-martial sister Bun force the demonic beast out, and I will strike it with all my might."

"……" Your sister's a bun!

After the few of them had discussed the plan, they went into formation on the ground. Lu Cha awkwardly moved over, and stood at the center of the four. Zhu Yao curled her lips, and did not care about her.

Stabbing the longsword in her hands into the ground, she grabbed onto the hilt with a single hand, circulated the lightning spiritual energy in her body, and activated the Lightning Guiding Art towards the ground.

The quiet ground earlier began to be covered with lightning in all directions, and expanded quickly in every direction. Not even a moment later, the lightning had already filled a radius of two and a half kilometers. Zhu Yao attentively prevented it from continuing to expand outwards, rather, she began to directly guide the lightning.

Instantly, countless of lightning soared towards the sky from the ground. Like a growing tree branch, it stretched directly towards the sky, and everyone's vision were filled with white lightning.

A long howl sounded, and a gigantic beast appeared in the skies above them. Its entire body was filled with lightning, and it looked to be in extreme pain as it struggled.

"It's out!"

Chen Yi immediately summoned countless of spiritual swords and attacked towards it. Xiao Yi and Wang Xuzhi did not hesitate either, circulated all of the spiritual energy in their bodies, and attacked.

Zhu Yao reduced the output of her spiritual energy, shrinking the range of the lightning, so that it would only surround the vicinity of the demonic beast, restricting its movements.

The attacks from the few of them finally bore results. The body of the demonic beast was already filled with wounds, however, this was still not sufficient to obtain victory. Xiao Yi's expression turned cold, and the shard of Sword Intent which was still pretty small earlier, suddenly turned into countless sharp blades, and attacked towards the demonic beast, leaving no openings behind.

Zhu Yao was shocked. To actually have Sword Intent of such strength, as expected of a protagonist who had activated his cheat, his level growth was especially quick. Her lightning had already disappeared. This large-scaled Lightning Guiding Art could only last for three seconds, any longer and she would not be able to hold out.

However, from the current looks of it, Xiao Yi's Sword Intent could achieve the same effects as well.

Zhu Yao powerlessly sat on the ground, and she could only occasionally supplement a few lightning strikes during the openings between their attacks. Clearly, that demonic beast could no longer beat them. Unable to control its figure any longer, it began to fall from the skies.

"Now!" Chen Yi shouted out loudly. Xiao Yi and Wang Xuzhi gathered two gigantic Sword Intent at the same time, and directly struck towards the demonic beast.

It looked as though victory was just a step away. The Risefire Beast had already suffered heavy injuries, and was definitely unable to dodge those Sword Intent.

It suddenly emitted out a huge roar, and its two bloodstained eyes, instantly emitted out a red glow, the flames on its body suddenly began to grow explosively. Those flames actually turned from the color of red to black, even Xiao Yi and Wang Xuzhi's Sword Intents were scattered by the flames.

The two of them spit out a mouthful of blood from the rebound of their Sword Intent. Earlier, they had used a large amount of strength, and hence, the rebound was especially serious. Currently, it seemed they no longer had the strength to move any further.

"It's trying to forcefully make a breakthrough!" With a face of utter disbelief, he stared at that demonic beast. The surrounding spiritual energy had already begun to move violently.

If a demonic beast were to forcefully make a breakthrough, it would definitely bring about a violent disturbance of spiritual energy. If the demonic beast were to succeed in its breakthrough, it would bring down Tribulation Lightning. If the demonic beast were to fail, the demonic beast would die from self-destruction. Was this Risefire Beast planning to perish together with them?

"What… What are we going to do?" With an ashened face, Lu Cha looked towards the demonic beast whose entire body was burning with black flames. Her face was filled with tears, and she tightly grabbed onto Xiao Yi beside her. "Senior-martial uncle Xiao, are we no longer able to leave? I don't wish to die here."

Xiao Yi did not reply, even Wang Xuzhi and Chen Yi went silent. They were currently in the middle of the spiritual energy disturbance. Leaving aside the fact that the two of them were heavily injured for now, and were basically unable to circulate their spiritual energy and leave with their flying swords, even if they were completely unharmed, with such a huge spiritual energy disturbance, they did not have the energy to leave either.

Zhu Yao tightly gripped onto the hilt of the sword, stood up, strongly pulled it out, and with a stern expression, she walked towards the direction of the demonic beast. Sitting while waiting for her death, was never her style.

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Chapter 54: The Chrysanthemum After the Demonic Beast Conclusion

"Little Bun, what are you trying to do?" Wang Xuzhi anxiously grabbed onto her hand.

"If we simply wait like this, we will only lose. We have to try something."

"You will die!"

"I won't!" Zhu Yao turned her head, smiled, and habitually stroked Wang Xuzhi's head. "Wait for me, little wimp!"

When he heard this, Wang Xuzhi suddenly widened his eyes, as though he had just heard something shocking, he stared right at her. That name in his heart resounded greatly.

His grip suddenly tightened for a moment. "You're…"

With a turn of Zhu Yao's sword, the sword hilt in her hand easily knocked onto his nape. He was already severely weakened to begin with, hence, he instantly fainted.

"Chen Yi, take care of him!"

Not caring the three's shocked expressions, she shakily walked towards the demonic beast which was making its breakthrough. If there's one thing she learnt from desperately practicing her sword techniques with her master for these three years…

That would only be the perseverance… of seeking to get beaten!

Zhu Yao circulated all of her spiritual energy, and gathered them onto the sword in her hands. With the supplement of spiritual power, the lightning on the sword's blade grew even bigger, and continued to extend, to the point where a gigantic lightning sword was formed.

In situations like this, any deep and profound Mystic Art would be of no use. All she could do was to go head-on.

Zhu Yao rose to the skies, and swung her sword, striking towards the Risefire Beast which was in the center of spiritual disturbance. When the purple lightning made contact with the black flames, sparks instantly flew in all directions, and it actually suppressed an entire half of the black flames. Lightning was the bane of all demonic beasts. Other than natural lightning beasts, no demonic beasts possessed resistance against lightning. Currently, she could only rely on this fact to make a last stand. However, that large-scaled Lightning Guiding Art had already used up too much of her spiritual power, and currently, she could only use the tiny bit of the strength she had left to make a death struggle.

And, the more she approached the demonic beast, the stronger the resistive force. She felt that her body was already left with only a small amount of spiritual energy, and her entire body was in severe pain. However, she no longer had the thought to mind about it. Even if blood were to pour out from her hearts and lungs, and blood were to spew out from her mouth like a water tap, she knew that she could not afford to retreat.

If she were to take a step back, the people behind her would only have death waiting for them.

She was not a heroine. Even more so, not a saint. She did not have the interest to sacrifice herself for the sake of others. The reason why she was struggling so much, was because she really would not die. She did not know why, but she felt that her resurrection that time, was not by coincidence. Even if she were to die again this time, she could return all the same.

Ever since she knew the reason why she was in this world, was to fix the "BUG" Xiao Yi, she was all the more undoubtful of this fact.

Probably, she completely did not have to this. Because, no matter if the demonic beast's breakthrough is successful or not, the people here will all die. The moment Xiao Yi dies, the BUG will naturally disappear, and the five elemental Spirits, will not be brought to the Higher Realm by him. Naturally, her mission will be completed, and she might even be able to return to her former world because of this.

However, Xiao Yi was not the only person here. There was Chen Yi, there's Lu Cha, and especially, there's Wang Xuzhi, the kid she watched growing up since he was young. To have her give up on little wimp's little life for an unclear "BUG", forget about Doctor Wang, who had entrusted little wimp to her, strangling her to death as a ghost, she herself would even cast herself away. She was not that much of an asshole.

This did not have to do with morals, nor did it have to do with the bigger picture. This was simply the most basic conscience of being human, and it was also the last line she would not cross.

She was never anything like a heroic person, the reason why she swung her sword, was simply because she was still human!

No matter if she had seemingly exhausted her spiritual power, limitless fighting spirit was surging from Zhu Yao's heart, as though a string in her heart was suddenly pulled, causing her to find something that she had never been able to find, which had suddenly became open and clear.

The sword in her hands lost its lightning due to the exhaustion of spiritual energy, and Zhu Yao's figure of a woman carrying a sword, was instantly engulfed by the black flames. Even Chen Yi and the two others could not help but lower their heads. As expected, they were still unable to escape.

Suddenly, a bird cry rang throughout the clouds. A white flash of lightning suddenly broke through from within the black flames, soaring towards the high skies. And then, a gigantic phoenix was formed, its body was circled with sparks of lightning. As though it was a divine bird which had been directly formed by lightning, it had an enchanting, imposing aura that could sweep everything away.

"This is…" Chen Yi stared blankly at this phoenix which had suddenly appeared.

"It's Sword Intent!" WIth a subtle look, Xiao Yi raised his head and looked at that phoenix, a divine bird, which had a vast imposing aura. "She comprehended it."

"Sword… Sword Intent?" Chen Yi was even more shocked. Was Sword Intent not supposed to be a sword? Why did it have a shape of a phoenix?

The phoenix in the sky opened up its wings which were flashing with sparks of lightning, and charged down from the sky, flying straight towards the demonic beast on the ground. The black flames which would not bulge even by an inch, was swept by the lightning, and was instantly extinguished, while the demonic beast in the middle had already been pressed unmoving onto the ground by the phoenix's pressure. The phoenix scratched with its claw, and instantly, the Risefire Beast which was forcefully breaking through, was torn into several pieces.

The phoenix once again cried towards the sky, before its white figure slowly disappeared.

The spiritual energy disturbance instantly quietened down as well, and only Zhu Yao's body which was filled with blood could be seen standing beside the stack of that demonic beast's scattered meat.

Zhu Yao, who finally could not hold on any longer, took a deep, deep breath. Her mouth, and her body, were all bleeding out blood which could not be patched up even if she tried. The jade pendant on her neck, which was flashing with a soft white light, slowly reverted to its original color as well.

This was the first time she found out that someone could even bleed like this. Clearly, she felt that her blood was almost drained out, yet, there were still fresh blood pouring out continuously.

Her body swayed for several moments, before collapsing towards the ground.

Chen Yi and the rest finally reacted, and hurried over. Chen Yi reached out his hand to hold her, preventing the fate of her face being planted onto the ground. He carefully investigated, and found out that her meridians had seemingly been torn apart, and even her Azoth Core was at the verge of shattering.

"Can you still hold on!? Junior-martial sister Bun!"

Zhu Yao almost spat out a mouthful of blood on his face. Your sister's a bun!

Seeing that he himself was barely able to hold on, yet, still sent her his spiritual energy, she held it in.

Seeing Zhu Yao who only had a single breath left, and her body was covered entirely in blood, the expressions of the three people present were actually different.

Chen Yi was shocked. This little martial sister was the weakest in their group, with the cultivation of an early-stage Azoth. In the beginning, he was a little worried that she would pull everyone down, but he never expected that the one who saved him in the end was actually her.

Xiao Yi was silent. Recalling that lightning phoenix earlier, he tightened his fists. He had always believed that the so-called Sword Intent, was another sharp sword in a practitioner's heart, yet, he never expected that Sword Intent could actually possess such a shape as well.

As for Lu Cha, she had completely yet to regain her senses from her earlier fright, and her entire body was still trembling.

As for Wang Xuzhi…

Mn… He was still unconscious. He had not woken up.

Zhu Yao silently thought about that earlier strike of hers, if she was actually a little too ruthless with that knock.

"Senior-martial uncle Xiao, just how did you offend this demonic beast?" Seeing Zhu Yao had gotten a little better, only then did Chen Yi recall the reason for this situation. These two demonic beasts were mother and son. The higher the rank of a demonic beast, the harder it was to give birth. Just like a demonic beast such as this Risefire Beast, it would not easily leave their newborn beast by itself. And, if they had not encountered something special, the demonic beasts would not have attacked while putting their lives at stake.

A hint of fluster instantly flashed past Xiao Yi's expression, and he immediately reverted to his serious look. "We have indeed found See-Through Leaf Grass over there, and because of a moment of carelessness, we startled the mother beast. Junior-martial nephew Zhao and I was unable to fight it, and just when we planned on retreating, we did not expect that the rest of you had already killed the newborn beast. Probably because of this reason, the mother beast unleashed her brutal personality."

Chen Yi frowned. "You guys really did not find anything else?"

"Indeed, we did not." Xiao Yi firmly shook his head.

Yet, Zhu Yao felt a slight chill in her heart. She was definitely sure that he had already obtained the Heavenpulse Lotus, otherwise, that demonic beast would not have chased after the three of them so anxiously, and it would not have let her newborn beast to follow Lu Cha either. She had not forgotten, that newborn beast appeared while following after Lu Cha. Looking at how Xiao Yi was behaving, he would not be taking out the Heavenpulse Lotus no matter what.

Realizing that he could not get any answers from his questioning, Chen Yi did not push it any further. He looked a little desolately at the corpses of his sect brothers and sisters not far away. Danger was lurking everywhere in this Secret Realm, there was even a seventh-rank demonic beast at the outer area.

"I did not expect to encounter two high-grade demonic beasts the moment we enter the Secret Realm." He turned his head and looked at the corpse of the two demonic beasts. "Looks like we have to put even more caution as our highest priority."

Zhu Yao nodded in agreement. "Fortunately, it's only a newborn beast, if it was…"

Wait a minute! A scary thought popped out in Zhu Yao's mind, her face instantly paled. She shakily pointed at the corpses of the two demonic beasts. "Earlier, we killed a newborn beast, and a mother beast. Then… where is it's dad?"

Rooooar~~~

As though it was to answer her query, a familiar roar resounded from the forest.

The faces of the other three instantly ashened as well.

The hell! Is there even an end to this!?

"Chen Yi, bring Wang Xuzhi and head for the exit." Zhu Yao said solemnly. "Xiao Yi, Lu Cha, the two of you head to the left, I will head right. We will separate into three directions, run!"

Xiao Yi nodded, and seemingly did not hesitate to pull Lu Cha who was still in a daze, and flew quickly towards the left with his flying sword. They no longer had any battle strength, if another demonic beast were to come, forget about a seventh-rank, even if it was a fourth-rank, they would not have the strength to retaliate either. Splitting up and running was their only chance at survival.

"Junior-martial sister Bun, then, you…" Chen Yi had already summoned his flying sword as well, and looked a little hesitantly at the heavily injured Zhu Yao.

However, Zhu Yao did not even turn her head around. While summoning her own sword, she sharply said. "Head out of the Secret Realm immediately, no matter what happens, do not turn back."

Chen Yi sighed, before holding the unconscious Wang Xuzhi, and flew towards the exit.

Seemingly at the same time, Zhu Yao flew in another direction with her flying sword as well. Earlier, when she forcefully used her Sword Intent, it had seemingly tore and disfigure her meridians to such a state. When she once again forcefully circulated her spiritual energy, her wounds burst apart, and fresh blood endlessly flowed out.

Currently, she could only pray that demonic beast fails in the intelligence department. She purposefully separated everyone apart. One, it was to shift away the demonic beast's attention, and two, Lu Cha was not injured, as long as she did not seek death, it should be more than enough for them to flee. As for Chen Yi and Wang Xuzhi, the direction they were heading to was the Secret Realm's exit, the distance was not far, and the demonic beast was unable to leave the Secret Realm as well. And she's only a single person, a small target, the demonic beast should not simply chase after her…

Rooooar~~~~

The hell, it really came chasing after her!

Zhu Yao turned her head and looked at the demonic beast which had a three-stories height behind her. As he chased, sand and rocks scattered in the air. She instantly thought of lighting up a hundred candles for her own luck.

The hell was it chasing after her for? Your mother! She was only a single person, why did it even chase her? Was it trying to bully a single lady?

Lighting up a candle: Giving a moment of silence.

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Chapter 55: Compact, Practical, Suitable and Portable

Zhu Yao instantly felt like crying, you know? However, she could not stop her feet. The moment she were to stop, it would mean she was giving up on her chance at survival. She managed to kill that demonic beast by struggling to her death, before obtaining the "Wood Spirit", she definitely could not die now.

However, her physical strength had already began to sing the exact opposite tune, and the speed of her flying sword was becoming slower as well. She could no longer squeeze out any spiritual energy, and instantly fell from the sky, slamming hardly onto the ground. Yet, she did not have the strength to even crawl up, and even her consciousness had begun to blur.

That humongous demonic beast had already rushed out of the forest, sprinting toward her with its bloody mouth wide open. Suddenly, the jade pendant on Zhu Yao's chest emitted out a blinding white light, and at the moment when the demonic beast was about to swallow her whole, she could faintly see a white figure blocking in front of her. With just a simple raise of his hand, he grabbed onto that crazed demonic beast. Crackling bolts of lightning resounded in every direction, and then, he swung his hand away. The demonic beast landed heavily on the ground, with completely no signs of life.

Zhu Yao strived to see clearly the person in front of her, yet, her eyelids began to become heavier, and could only hear that person sighing deeply before she sunk into darkness.

Looking at the disciple who had already fainted, Yu Yan's deep frown instantly became a little deeper. Holding up his stupid disciple who had already turned into a bloody woman, he could not help but sigh again. He reached out his hand to check on her pulse, and then, internally visualized her cinnabar, his frown was unable to relax at all. All of her meridians were torn apart, her spiritual energy was depleted, and even her Azoth Core was already at the verge of collapse.

He really could not let this stupid disciple of his off of his sight for a single moment.

Standing back up while carrying onto the person on the ground, he turned and walked towards a nearby cave. When the demonic beast in the cave sensed a foreign presence, it leapt out while wailing~~o′ loudly, exerting a majestic presence. A certain master did not even look at it, and released his pressure from his body. It frightened that demonic beast to the point where it cried 'myaaa' and crawled on the ground. It obediently let the cave to him, turned tail, and hid away.

A certain master who had forcefully taken a territory, placed his stupid disciple on a stack of dried grass in the cave. Then, he sat in a lotus position behind her, as though he was a hardworking little bee, he began to fix his disciple's torn meridians with great effort. By common sense, if the meridians were torn to such extent like Zhu Yao's, even if her life could be saved, she would no longer be able to cultivate to be a deity. However, her master was Yu Yan, after all! As the number one in the cultivation world, if he could not even save his disciple, his so many years of cultivation would have been for naught.

Yu Yan closed his eyes, and summoned his own Sword Intent. Instantly, a white dragon coiled around his body, swam about a couple of rounds, before slowly wrapping Zhu Yao in front of him. The white light emitting it became even brighter, and under the white dragon's coiling, the wounds on Zhu Yao's body were disappearing at a speed that could be seen with the naked eyes.

Hence, ten days passed.

When Zhu Yao woke up, she realized the wounds on her body had already disappeared, and even her spiritual energy had recovered. She was currently sitting in an extremely large cave, and she was the only person in the vicinity. While not far away from the entrance of the cave, a demonic beast which looked like a tiger yet had a pair of wings, was currently making sorrowful cries.

That actually was an eighth-rank demonic beast!

Zhu Yao almost let out her voice out of fright. And, when the demonic beast saw her sitting up, it looked as though it had received an even bigger fright.

With a 'puchi' sound, it dove into the bushes beside it, as though it was trying to hide itself the best it could. It struggled hard to stuff its humongous body into the bushes, revealing only a smooth, round head. It blinked its large eyes, and looked at her with a fearful expression.

What kind of situation was this?

Zhu Yao's expression darkened. Earlier, she felt like she was fleeing from the entire world when she was chased by a seventh-rank demonic beast, yet, why was a mighty eighth-rank demonic beast frightened to such an extent for? Could it be that, the higher the rank of demonic beasts, the lower their intelligence?

She shook her head, recalling the white figure she saw at the moment before she fainted. Why did she feel as though her master had came here?

Sensing attentively for a moment, the cave seemed to carry lightning spiritual energy that had yet to disperse, and it felt very familiar.

"Master?" She probed.

"……" There was not a reply for a long time.

She slapped onto her chest, and smiled naively to herself. "I knew it!" How could it be possible for her master to silently follow her? "As expected, I'm thinking too…"

"What is it?"

"……" Her smile instantly stiffened on her face. Master, you're the devil, right!?

She looked at her surroundings for a moment, yet, she could not see that figure of his. "Master, where are you?" This ends of the cave could be seen with just a single glance, and his figure was basically nowhere to be seen at all.

Seeing that she had already begun to flip over the demonic beast's old lair, his cold voice once again sounded. "Lower your head."

Zhu Yao lowered her head, only to see the white jade that her master had given her before she left, was currently emitting out a blinding light. A white mini-sized master popped out of that pendant, and he floated to about three feet away from her.

He was Yu Yan.

"Master!" Zhu Yao instantly widened her eyes, and looked at the mini-sized master. "How did you turn out like this?"

"What you're currently seeing is just a part of my soul." Yu Yan explained. "Practitioners with cultivation above that of Azoth cannot enter 'Tasyoluk'. So, I could only have my divine sense dwell inside this jade pendant, before I could enter this Secret Realm."

"Then why?" Was there a need to turn into such mini-sized?

"Although it's only a part of my divine sense, I'm, after all, a Demigod. If I were to appear oftenly with my original body, it will definitely be sensed by the formation in place. I will not be discovered only if I'm in this form."

"Master, the reason you're here is?"

Hearing her bringing up this topic, Yu Yan coldly glared at her, and instantly begun to enter his teaching mode. "Your Azoth Core was shattered, and your meridians were torn apart. This master has never taught you to risk your life to fight with a demonic beast."

"….." Zhu Yao obediently lowered her head.

"If not for my appearance, I'm afraid your life would have ended right there."

"Was it master who healed my wounds?"

Yu Yan did not answer, and simply looked at her even more sternly.

Zhu Yao revealed a smile, and instantly, she felt her heart was warm, as though she began to feel that it was not really that bad to have a master who liked to stalk his disciple.

"Thank you, master."

"….." Yu Yan was startled for a moment, yet, he still gave a straight face. "Stupid!"

"Yes, my liege!"

"Next time, think thrice before doing anything."

"Alright, my liege!"

"Live within your means, that's the way of cultivation."

"That's right, my liege!"

"And…"

"Are there any other instructions, my liege?"

"Your Azoth Core has yet to recover completely, do not easily act for the next few days."

"Understood, my liege!"

"Shut your mouth."

"Yes, my liege. No problem, my liege!"

Through the few days of rest, Zhu Yao's injuries were finally all healed. Yu Yan found the determination to train her, and had especially picked out places with demonic beasts for her to go to. In the beginning, when Zhu Yao saw demonic beasts, she would have the thought of running away. Now, she would numbly pull out her sword, charge out, and slash about while getting herself beaten.

Zhu Yao never had much battle experience in the first place, hence, she was basically the one who would always get beaten up. However, with Yu Yan by her side, other than taking a few light injuries, there were no threats to her life. After a long time, her sword techniques had already been sharpened to the point where she was extremely familiar with them, and she could even unleash her Sword Intent at will.

Her Sword Intent was a lightning phoenix. Usually, when she summoned it, it would simply be tiny, and its size was not that much different compared to a pigeon's. It no longer revealed itself as the gigantic figure it had when she first used it.

Master said that her Sword Intent was the manifestation of her cultivation. When one comprehended Sword Intent, the Sword Intent would form into the most similar shape to one's thoughts at that time. Back then, she simply wanted to claw out a single chance at survival from that demonic beast. Hence, her Sword Intent, was a Phoenix which could rise from the ashes.

Master's Sword Intent, which she had seen before as well, was a white dragon. Zhu Yao silently thought to herself. Could it be that back then, her master wanted to become an emperor? Hence, his Sword Intent had a shape of a dragon? She silently imagined him seated on a dragon seat. Forget it. Clearly, the style is completely wrong.

However, the two of them, one was a dragon, while the other was a phoenix. As expected of a master and his disciple, they were rather compatible. When she thought of this, she was still a little excited.

With Sword Intent, Zhu Yao's sword techniques had improved greatly. In the beginning, she could barely defeat fourth-rank and fifth-rank demonic beasts. However, after that, with just her alone, she was able to defeat a sixth-rank demonic beast as well.

Zhu Yao raised her longsword. She had successfully dealt with a sixth-rank demonic beast, yet, her body was already dog-tired, her spiritual energy, was even more so, depleted to the point where not even a single drop was left.

Sitting right down on her butt, she heavily gasped for air, and was completely unable to move.

A certain master popped out half of his body from the pendant in front of her chest, a hint of satisfaction surfaced on his ice-cold face. "This time, you're faster than the previous time by fifteen minutes. However, you could have been much faster with that sword strike earlier."

"Master…" A certain amount of awkwardness flashed out of Zhu Yao's expression, as though she wanted to say something.

However, Yu Yan continued on. "Demonic beasts which are incapable of transforming, usually have much large body figures, hence, their movements will always be much slower. You have to obtain victory speedily and decisively."

"Not that…"

"Your control of spiritual energy is insufficient, and your grasp towards Sword Intent is still not enough."

"Umm…"

"You did well with your offense, but, your defense is insufficient."

"I'm trying to say…"

"You have to train more. You're not allowed to slack off."

"Master!"

"What is it?" A certain master finally realized the tone his stupid disciple used was off.

Zhu Yao's expression darkened, pointed to his position, and her own chest. "Can you talk after releasing my chest?"

It's true that you're hiding in the jade pendant, but what's with the meaning of designing it as a necklace!? And master, if you want to come out, then do so. Why did only half of your body show itself? It felt like he had suddenly squeezed out of her chest. That's too immoral, was it not?

ps, Where do you think your hand is currently being placed on!? Hey!

"Chest?" Yu Yan tilted his head, and subconsciously looked at his surroundings.

Zhu Yao instantly felt terrible. The hell, even though she was flat-chested, it was not to the point where it could not be found at all, right? It really feels terrible if you're looking around like this for it, you know?

Don't think that I don't dare to smack you because you're my master!

Yu Yan looked towards the person in front of him who had suddenly been enveloped by a depressing aura. Just what happened to his disciple this time? Why could he faintly feel killing intent? Yu Yan felt even more odd, and finally, he once again concluded that his disciple was being stupid again.

Fortunately, he was able to hear that his disciple did not seem to be very happy to see him in his current location. Although he did not understand the reason, he still completely floated out, and slowly turned into his regular size.

Waving his hand and forming a few hand-seals, he set up a presence concealment formation beside his disciple, before sitting next to her, and cast his Mystic Arts on her.

Seeing that she had recovered to a certain degree, he was finally at ease. Sizing her up for a moment, his brows deeply creased again.

"Strip your clothes."

"Kuh… Kuh kuh kuh?" Zhu Yao could not stabilize herself for a moment, and choked. She stared at him, unwilling to believe what she just heard. "What did you say?"

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Chapter 56: When Heading Out, Bringing Along Your Master is a Must

"Strip your clothes." Yu Yan reiterated.

Out of reflex, Zhu Yao hugged her chest with her two hands, and looked at the person in front of her with widened eyes. What happened to being just girl friends?

"Mas… Master, this is wrong, isn't it?" This disciple sells her body, not her skills… Ah pui! I'm a pure and innocent lady.

Yu Yan ignored her stupid actions, silently took out a bracelet and passed it to her. "Change into this."

She hesitantly took it, and only then did she realize it was a storage bracelet. The moment she wore it, it automatically shrank to the size fitting for her wrist. When she used her divine sense to inspect it, she realized the space inside was huge, and her own storage bag was completely unable to compare with it.

Taking a good look at the things inside, other than some regular talismans, the rest were several clothes for women, and it seemed like they had been prepared for a long time.

In the recent days, Zhu Yao only bothered about gaining experience by killing monsters with her life at stake, and basically did not have the time to take care of herself well. The white sect school uniform she was wearing, had already been torn with a couple of holes. Although she could use the Dirt Removal Art to wash it clean, the holes could not be patched up.

So she wanted her to change her clothes. Say so earlier! It caused her to think her master had some impure and indecent thoughts about her.

Zhu Yao hid her earlier actions by faking out a few coughs. Only after taking out the clothes did she realize how completely prepared he was. It came with a full set of inner and outer wear, and there were different types of colors and styles. As expected, he was a good master.

"Thank you, master!" After saying her thanks cheerfully, Zhu Yao did not think twice and took off the outerwear that had already been torn with several holes, and began to change.

Zhu Yao had never been an attentive person, and adding that she had never thought of master as an outsider, she took off one of her underwear as well. Although she still had another underwear on her, a woman's underwear had always been rather thin, and would always vaguely reveal some things that should not be revealed.

Yu Yan's expression stiffened, and turned his head somewhere else out of reflex, his face strangely began to rise in temperature. He himself did not understand either? Supposedly, the one in front of him was his stupid disciple, so caring more about her should be his duty. However, why did he feel that, right now, it should be time for him to avoid her?

"Done!" Zhu Yao patted on her new clothes, and severely smugged. As expected, it was great to wear different clothes. A uniform set of clothes or whatever, simply did not have any aesthetic feeling.

"Mn." Yu Yan responded. He silently picked up the school uniform that had been abandoned by her. He rubbed the wrinkles on the uniform, trying to look for the torn places.

And then… He took out a set of needle and string…

Zhu Yao instantly felt that this image was simply too disillusioned.

You actually brought along needles and strings with you when you left! Master, does your master know about how "wifely" you are?

As expected, her master was a genius at life skills. Not even fifteen minutes had passed, and the holes on the clothes had already vanished. Zhu Yao took it, and inspected the places that were sewn. She completely could not see any traces of them. She could not help but silently think to herself. In these ten thousand years, did master spend them all on raising his life skills? Hence, he had not taken in any disciples till now.

Keeping the school uniform, Zhu Yao suddenly realized, other than clothes, there were some irrelevant cloths in the storage bracelet, and they looked rather familiar. She then light took one of them out.

"Master, what is this?" It was long and rectangular, and it was even emitting out a faint silver glow.

Yu Yan raised his head and glanced at her. "It's the remaining pieces of what you used back then. After that, because of the change in materials, I simply put them in."

Zhu Yao touched the smooth cloth, and suddenly had a bad feeling. "Remaining? Remaining pieces of what?"

"Sanitary pads." He said so seriously.

"……" Why is my mouth so cheap? Why do I have to be so curious?

After separating from everyone, Zhu Yao was a little worried that she was unable to catch up to Xiao Yi, and hence, unable to find the "Wood Spirit". After pondering for a moment, that "Wood Spirit" was at the core of the Secret Realm, and currently, her master was by her side. Even if she were to encounter a formidable demonic beast, she would still be able to retreat with her body intact. And, she would be able to find that ancient ruin, where the "Wood Spirit" was placed, much faster.

However, she never expected that Tasyoluk's map would be as large as this. When she entered, she thought that the forest, which she could not see the ends of, would be all, yet, when she exited the forest, an ocean actually appeared in front of her. And, it was the type which looked endless.

In an ocean like this, how was she going to find the ruins?

Zhu Yao felt a little saddened, yet, she could faintly hear a singing voice coming from nearby. The voice was very beautiful, as though the singer was weeping and complaining, it sounded like a lover was whispering his grief beside her, and she could not help but feel her heart aching from hearing it.

"It's the singing voice of a sharkman." White light emitted out from the jade pendant in front of Zhu Yao's chest, and Yu Yan's cold voice sounded. "A sharkman's singing voice has the ability to manipulate one's mind, do not be trapped within it."

The moment Zhu Yao heard that, she immediately regained her senses, and escaped from that singing voice. After looking at her surroundings, as expected, on a rock not far from her, she saw four to five figures. From afar, they looked like human figures, however, unexpectedly, they had fish tails, and their blue long hair flowed down onto the ground.

The first thing she thought were the beautiful mermaids in fantasies, and was filled with curiosity. Carrying a slight excitement, she took a few steps forward.

When she just thought of getting a sneak peek and vanishing right after, those Sharkmen seemed to have sensed something, and they turned their heads over one after another. Zhu Yao, who saw clearly the looks of those Sharkmen, her three views instantly shattered and fell onto the ground.

The body parts below the Sharkmen's head were still considered normal, however, those faces were simply too shocking. Two extremely dark eyes, as though two rocks had been embedded on each of their faces, their pupils were large, yet, there were no white parts of the eyes. Their noses were not upright, and they looked as though two holes were drilled into each of their faces. And their mouths took up an entire half of each of their faces, when the two corners of their mouths tear open, they instantly reach the back of their ears. With just a slight open of their mouths, their sharp metal nail-like teeth were revealed. They were extremely terrifying.

Zhu Yao was rooted to the ground out of shock, as though she could hear the sound of her fantasies shattering. Return me my mermaids!

Sensing an intruder, the Sharkmen on the rocks let out threatening roars one after another, and they revealed their mouthful of sharp teeth. As though they were about to pounce over in the very next moment, only then did Zhu Yao understood how idiotic it was to approach them. Sharkmen were eighth-rank demonic beasts, and any one of them was enough to beat her, let alone a group of them.

As expected, if one did not seek trouble, trouble would not come!

Just when she was about to skillfully retreat, the leading Sharkman suddenly startled for a moment. After carefully smelling her body, it suddenly retracted its killing intent. "Which tribe are you from?"

"Ah?" Zhu Yao was startled. What was it talking about?

When that Sharkman saw that she was unresponsive, it continued to ask. "Just which tribe of Sharkmen are you from?"

"Uh…" Sharkman? Her? "I… passed by here."

"Passedbyhere? I never heard of this tribe before though?" That Sharkman was startled for a moment, and then immediately after, it said with a stern look. "You passed the boundary. Do you know that?"

"Boundary?"

"This place! Is our Harmonic Ocean Tribe's territory, understand? This place!" He strongly pointed to a rock at the side which was fully covered with shells. "This place has already been marked by us. If you wish to hunt, head somewhere else."

After saying that, the group of Sharkmen behind it nodded one after another.

Zhu Yao was a little weirded out. It seemed like these Sharkmen had taken her as one of them. But… Just where the hell did they see that from? Her image was clearly different from them, alright?

"Kuh kuh, sorry, I got lost." Zhu Yao probed. Since she was able to avoid a terrible battle, she would not mind acting as a Sharkman for a short while.

"Lost?" That Sharkman's face was immediately filled with contempt, as though it was looking at her as though she was an idiot. "Just who the hell sent you here? How could you even get lost like this?"

"Uh… I was sent here by a monkey."

"Monkey? Is that the name of your tribe leader?" That Sharkman began to look down on her even more. "Are all of your tribe members as stupid as you?"

"……" You're stupid. Your entire family's stupid.

"Nevermind!" That guy sized her up for a bit, and suddenly, its eyes shone. Slapping its chest, it's expression changed into a righteous one. "Seeing that we're of the same race, I shall send you back. My name is Fishhere, the tribe leader of Harmonic Ocean Tribe."

"Hoho, wouldn't that be too much of a trouble?" She could not wait to flee, so how could she bring along a fish?

"Do not be modest." That sharkman said with its arms crossed. "Since you're so stupid, I'm afraid you might not return home even after three days."

"Really, there's no need."

"Don't worry, I'm very familiar with the vicinity."

"No need."

"I said I'm sending you!"

"It's really unnecessary."

"Are you going to have me send you, or not!?" It bared its teeth!

"…… Alright, send me then!" You can't force people like this. These hot-blooded 'fish'-youth nowadays, are really hard to please.

When the Sharkman saw her yielding, it was finally satisfied. Slapping its tail, it moved towards her. Stretching its hand, it wrapped around Zhu Yao's shoulder, demonstrating a brotherly look. "Tell me then, where do you live?"

"Uh……" Zhu Yao hesitated for a moment, and suddenly, she thought of a plan. Why not have him bring her to that ancient ruins? After all, no human was more familiar of the terrain of this Secret Realm than a demonic beast. "I don't really know that place is called either? It's just that there's a very ancient palace over there. It's really big inside, and the spiritual energy there is abundant as well. Oh right, there's a very strong barrier set up outside, and normally, people are unable to approach it."

Hearing her finish her explanation, the the Sharkman's expression became a little strange. Looking at her from top to bottom, it's long and thin sharp teeth made 'guchiguchi' grinding sounds. "You're sure that you people live over there?"

Zhu Yao was exhilarated in her heart. As expected, he knew about it, however, she could not allow him to raise his suspicion. "We have always lived near it, however, tribe leader has never allowed us to casually head outside. This is my first time out here, hence, I got lost."

Fishhere stared at her for a while, before dispersing its suspicion. It lightly said. "Why would you people live in that sort of crazy place? I heard that, near those ruins are "Severed Lands", if you were to get sucked into it, your soul would be scattered."

Zhu Yao could only smile and nod.

"Alright then, seeing that I'm in a good mood, I will bring you home today. But, I shall put this out first, I will only send you to somewhere nearby. I won't approach the 'severed lands'."

"Thank you, big brother Fishhere." Zhu Yao immediately nodded.

Fishhere explained to the rest of the Sharkmen, before signaling to Zhu Yao that they could leave.

"Wait a minute, where are you going?"

Zhu Yao had only taken a single step, before she was pulled back by him. He pointed to the front, where the endless seas were. "This way."

After saying that, with a 'plop' sound, he leapt into the sea.

They were using the water route!

Zhu Yao: "……"

Zhu Yao instantly let out cold sweat, and felt the sense of danger where she was about to be exposed. Because… She did not know how to swim!

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Chapter 57: Experiencing The First Marriage Proposal

"Hurry up, didn't you want to return?" That Sharkman saw her idling around the shore for quite awhile and not heading down into the waters, and could not help but hasten her.

Zhu Yao was even more flustered. I'm doomed, I'm doomed. This time, I'm really dead. I wonder if it's fine if I tell him that I don't know how to swim?

Pui! Which Sharkman wouldn't be able to swim?

"Water Repelling Incantation!" Suddenly, a cold voice sounded next to her ear. It was her master!

Her flustered heart instantly calmed down. Oh right, she could use the Water Repelling Incantation. That way, she could walk in the water like how she would do it on land. Zhu Yao instantly cast the Water Repelling Incantation on herself, and her body was immediately encased in a transparent air bubble.

After entering the waters, the water flow automatically bypassed her.

The Sharkman stared at her for a long while before it said with disdain. "Why do you like this ugly human look so much? Even after entering the waters, you don't wish to change back at all?"

Although Sharkmen were able to transform since birth, due to living in the waters most of the time, usually, they did not love to transform into the shape of humans.

"Hoho, my hobby is a little unique." Zhu Yao could only follow it up with a laugh.

"Whatever." Fishhere waved its hand without a mind, moved its fish tail and began to swim into the deep waters. Zhu Yao hurriedly followed after.

After a short journey, until they were unable to see the rest of the Sharkmen at the seaside, Fishhere finally took a deep breath. Stretching its waist, it began to complain. "Finally, I'm able to take a break. This big brother here has been protecting the shore for many days, and I almost turned into dried fish from the heat."

So it was just trying to be lazy. It was no wonder it was so enthusiastic about "sending her home". "I wonder what big brother Fishhere is waiting there for?"

When Fishhere saw that she was interested, it began to chatter. "I don't know where those people heard the news from, but they said that human practitioners would be passing by in these few days. Initially, I had planned on catching one or two to taste them. Unfortunately, it's been so many days, yet, not even a ghost figure was seen." As though he had thought of something, it suck in its saliva. "I heard that the flavor of those human practitioners, are absolutely fresh and delicious."

The human practitioner who was absolutely fresh and delicious: "……" Fortunately, it was blind, and had taken her as one of their kind.

Fishhere turned and looked at her, a hint of sympathy surfaced on his face. "Just by looking at how you seem to lack of bones, probably, you would simply flee if you spot human practitioners, right? If not for the rawsilk you're holding onto, I wouldn't have admitted that you're a part of our race."

Rawsilk! Zhu Yao was startled for a moment. She did not have such a thing on her body though? She only had a couple of clothes and…

She suddenly recalled the the few auntie pads she had in her storage bracelet.

The hell! Bro. You're really hardcore!

"You don't have to be so disheartened. " When Fishhere saw that she was a little depressed, it consoled her. "Although you're a little unfortunate, to not have been born well, however, as long as you're hardworking enough, you will still have an opportunity to break through."

It seemed like he had taken her as a sixth-ranked Sharkman which had a few deficiencies. Sharkmen were born as eighth-ranked demonic beasts, and if she were to be seen that way, she was not just your average unfortunate Sharkman then.

"But you still have to amend that strange hobby of yours." Fishhere looked at her from head to toe, his face was filled with scorn. "Which Sharkman doesn't like to have a strong and beautiful fish tail? Yet, you actually like to change into such an ugly form. If this keeps up, you will never be able to find a wife."

"I'm a woman. I don't need to find a wife." It was enough to have mistaken her as one of their race, why the hell did it have to mistake her gender as well?

Fishhere was shocked. As though it had heard something unbelievable, it instantly widened its pair of eyes, staring straight towards her chest.

The hell! Little buns are still buns, alright!? Are they to the extent where they can't be seen?

"You… You… You, you……" As though it had finally admitted it, Fishhere pointed at her out of astonishment. Instantly, it was at a loss of what to do, while that deep brown-colored fish tail was strangely turning red at a quick rate.

Not even a moment later, a perfectly steamed fish turned roasted.

"Why… Why didn't you say so earlier?" Fishhere retreated far away, its face which was still mixed with a few thousands of expressions earlier, instantly turned into one that showed as though he was not at fault. Lowering its head, it carefully peaked at her.

Was it so strange for her to be a woman? Why the hell are you being so embarrassed for? The image of a tyrannical CEO turning into a small and timid wife, was very terrifying, you know?

Rumors had stated, that the number of female Sharkmen in the Sharkman Race were extremely small, and in a single tribe, the number of female Sharkmen would not exceed ten. Hence, ever since they were born, they would be existences that were protected by the entire race, and, female Sharkmen would also have absolute authority among the Sharkmen. A few Sharkmen might not even be able to see a single female Sharkmen in their entire lives. Hence, it could be seen that encountering a lone female Sharkman was such an unbelievable sight. Though, Zhu Yao was only a counterfeit.

Ever since Zhu Yao had stated her gender, Fishhere became extremely awkward, and no longer dared to speak to her loudly. It only dared to steal a few glances of her from the corner of its glowing eyes. Its fish tail had also stayed in the roasted fish state throughout the entire journey, and it would even occasionally cast a shy look at her.

However, when that expression, was placed on a scary face, the effects could not be described using the word 'terrifying'.

"Kuh, how much further is it?" Zhu Yao could not help but change the topic, her hair was already standing on ends. Do not glance at me with that sort of expression anymore, if I had known, I would have quietly be a male fish with no chest.

Fishhere pointed to the front, and replied while suppressing its voice, as though it was afraid of scaring her. "It's… It's just right in front!"

Zhu Yao raised her head and look. In front, not far from where she was, was a shining ray of light. It was especially obvious in this dark seabed. She could even faintly see the shadows of shattered rocks and broken walls inside the light.

"Thank you, then I will be heading there by myself now." Zhu Yao hurriedly bade farewells.

"Would you really be fine alone?" However, the Sharkman Fishhere became a little worried. "There's a very strong barrier over there, and there's not even a drop of water in there. It's very dangerous."

Zhu Yao shook her head. "It's fine, I will know my way once I'm inside, so I can return by myself." She could not always bring along a fish with her, right?

"Oh!" Fishhere nodded a little disappointingly. It worriedly looked at her a few times, and instructed. "Next time, do not run about randomly, otherwise, you will lose your way. If… If you're lost again, you can look for me again."

"Mn." If I'm lost, how am I supposed to find you?

"Be safe on your way back."

"Mn."

Fishhere then finally hesitantly turned and swam away. Suddenly, as though it had thought of something, it quickly ran back, and stared at her with misty, glowing eyes. "Umm… I wish to ask, have you found a partner yet? If you haven't, what do you think of me?"

"Eh?" What kind of godly development was this?

Fishhere waved its roasted fish tail. "I'm very muscular and strong, so I will definitely be able to protect you."

"Uh…" Why was she in such an odd situation of being proposed by a fish?

"I know how to hunt, no one in my tribe is able to compete with me."

"……" However, she no longer needed to eat.

"The rawsilk I weaved is also the most beautiful among all of the Sharkmen."

"……" Could she use it as auntie pads?

"My 'ability' is really strong too. I'm definitely able to have you bear seven or eight little Sharkmen."

"……" Why did it turn into a yellow-zoned topic, hey?

"I'm even able to…"

Before he could finish, a ray of blinding white light was instantly released by the jade pendant on Zhu Yao's neck, which instantly charged towards Fishhere who was still chatting her up without rest. Instantly, it was sent flying away. Before it even had the opportunity to wail, its figure could no longer be seen.

Master… is so violent.

The miniature-sized Yu Yan floated out of the jade pendant, and sat on Zhu Yao's shoulder. His face which was usually cold, currently felt as though it was covered by another layer of ice. His entire body was even emitting out cold air.

A mere eighth-ranked demonic beast, dared to crave for his disciple!

"Go!" He spoke up. Even though it was just a short, single word, it was so cold that it felt as though it was about to drop scraps of ice.

Zhu Yao sensed that her master was angry, and his anger was not light either. But, why was that so? Rubbing her arm which was about to stiffen from the cold, Zhu Yao could only shut her mouth, and walked towards the direction of the ruins. Eyyy, master is so scary.

These ancient ruins were very strange. It was in the deep ocean bed, yet, as though it was being enveloped by a gigantic formation, inside the formation, was as though it was a piece of open land. Inside, there were even flourishing plants and trees, and a structure which looked like a old palace was situated in the center, exactly like the one she saw in her dream.

Regarding the "Wood Spirit", Zhu Yao did not tell her master about it, because there would be too many implications. However, Yu Yan had never asked her why she wanted to head to that ancient ruins, nor had he asked why she knew of such a place. He simply gave her the free will to advance, and helped her deal with some troubles during the appropriate times.

With a master like this, Zhu Yao felt relieved, and was a little guilty as well. However, even she was unable to determine if everything that happened in the dream, was real. Hence, actually, a large reason for her seeking this "Wood Spirit", was to prove her suspicions.

"Master, what are 'severed lands'?" That Sharkman had emphasized on the dangers of the severed lands along the way, hence, Zhu Yao could not help but feel a little worried about it.

Yu Yan pondered for a moment, before answering. "It's probably the very ends of this Secret Realm. Those demonic beasts that live here, unless they were to ascend, they are unable to leave this realm. Hence, they would not casually approach the edges of the realm."

"Then what if we enter it?"

"I have no idea either. I have never heard of human practitioners entering it before. Probably, if we enter, either we return to the cultivation world, or our souls would most likely be scattered."

He was so uncertain about it? It seemed like this place was very dangerous. If she could, she would not be willing to approach that place. However, the surroundings of the ancient ruins were rather safe. She had investigated them, and there was completely no presence of demonic beasts.

Just when she was about to enter that palace, suddenly, she heard a familiar voice.

"Senior-martial uncle Xiao, what in the world in this place?"

This voice was Lu Cha's!

Zhu looked at the two people who were currently walking right over from not afar, and they were exactly Lu Cha and Xiao Yi who she had not seen for a long time. They did not have any traces of bodies being soaked, nor did they look like they had went through a terrible battle, as though they had suddenly appeared in this place. Taking a closer look, she saw the glow of a formation that had yet to disperse underneath their feet.

The hell! So there was a teleportation formation here. Then why the hell did she walk for so many days for?

She hated the protagonist's cheat!

"This should be an ancient ruins." Xiao Yi answered, while pointing to the structures in the vicinity. "Looking at the designs of the buildings here, they are designs that only the Ancient Era would have."

"Then will there be great opportunities here?" Lu Cha's eyes instantly shone. The Ancient Era, was the time where both Gods and Devils existed, and was something the current cultivation world could never attain.

Xiao Yi was a little excited as well, as he nodded his head. "Since this place is so hidden and secretive, if not for those wicked people who trapped us in a cave, we would not have coincidentally encounter this teleportation formation, nor would we have entered this place. It seemed like the person who was designed this place, must definitely be a very powerful existence."

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Chapter 58: Sesame Opened a Door

"Haven't we encountered a blessing in disguise, then?" Lu Cha was happy for a moment, then, as though she had suddenly recalled something, her expression was instantly dyed with resentment. "Those senior-martial brothers from Weapon Mountain were really too much. I already told them senior-martial brother Zhao's death was unrelated to me. Yet, they did not believe it at all, and even acted against us."

Looking at the cute girl who was in tears, Xiao Yi instantly felt his heart aching. "Little sister Lu, do not be disheartened. Justice lies in the human heart. Why is there a need for you to care about those who could not differentiate the right and wrong?"

"But… I'm very sad about senior-martial brother Zhao's death as well." Lu Cha rubbed the corner of her eyes. Although his death is unrelated to me, after all, we were still martial brothers and sisters, why wouldn't they believe me?"

"Don't cry, I'm still here. I will definitely not let anyone harm you."

"Really? Big brother Xiao?"

"Of course, my good little sister."

Looking at the two people cuddling with each other, Zhu Yao really could not help but roll her eyes. After listening to their conversation, clearly, the two of them fell down here due to the Weapon Mountain disciples' attempt to exact vengeance. She had already long since understood Xiao Yi's personality, however, she never thought that Lu Cha would actually be such a disgusting person as well.

Little fatty Zhao was madly in love with her, and even died to save her. It's fine if she simply did not feel any gratitude towards him, however, she actually turned and flew into Xiao Yi's embrace, and even said that his death was unrelated to her. Zhu Yao even began to feel a little suspicious, back then, when she was given a name, Zhu Yao wondered if her parents had forgotten to register another word.

"Bitch"

Green Tea Bitch!

She instantly began to pity little fatty Zhao, and prayed that in his next life, he would not once again get to know such people.

And at that moment, Zhu Yao no longer had the interest to meet up with the two of them either, and walked into the depths of the palace. If she were to go with them, it might be possible that she would be stabbed in the back by that wonderful duo, and in their eyes, they would even convince themselves that she deserved it.

Yu Yan did not have the slightest of objection towards her decision. He was someone with a cold personality in the first place. Other than his own disciple, he was completely uninterested in everyone else.

Using his divine sense to investigate in an instant, the entire layout of the palace immediately appeared in his mind. It seemed that a certain barrier had been set up at the center of the place, and even he was unable to see it clearly.

"In the most inner area of this palace, something seems to be there."

Zhu Yao shockingly turned to look at the miniature-sized master on her shoulder. "Master, are you a human-shaped detector?"

Human-shaped detector? What was that?

"This place isn't big. By using my divine sense to investigate the place for a moment, I was able to know everything."

This was not big? Zhu Yao was a little speechless. Although her divine sense allowed her to see a distance of a few kilometers away, currently, what she could see here were just walls. Just how did her master do it?

"Go right!" Yu Yao reminded.

Zhu Yao turned into the right passage, and pondered deeply about the place her master spoke of, which should be where the "Wood Spirit" was located. Although Xiao Yi had the protagonist's cheat, it could not hold a candle against her own master, who was a human-shaped cheating device. She was even arriving there faster than them as well, so she could definitely be able to take it before them.

When she thought of this point, she could not help but increase her pace by a bit. What was mysterious about this was, throughout the entire way, she actually did not encounter any obstructions, and walked towards the most inner layer smoothly and unhindered.

Yet, she was stopped by a gigantic door.

It was a very unique door. A very strange demonic beast was engraved on it, and looked as though it was alive, swimming continuously above. The entire door was even glowing with a faint silver light. Even though it was a door, it did not have an opening, nor was there anything like a handle, that she could use to push it open with.

"Master?" Zhu Yao could only seek assistance and looked towards her own cheating device.

Yu Yan was also looking at this strange door with a frown. He pointed to the demonic beast on it and said. "An ancient mystic beast is sealed in this door, and it was most probably done by the owner of this palace. So as to protect the things inside this place, the owner purposefully used a formation to trap it within."

"Then how do we go in?" Zhu Yao was already a hundred percent sure that the Wood Spirit was inside this place.

"This formation is too complicated. Within the formation, there's still another three thousand lesser formations." Yu Yan said with a frown. "If one were to casually touch it, that person will activate the mystic beast on the door, which will swallow the trespasser whole. Unless one knows of the password, or if it's the owner of this formation, this door can then be opened."

"Then is there really no other way?"

"Unless we were to forcefully dispel this formation. However, from the complications of this formation, dispelling it isn't something that can be done in a day." He turned back and looked towards Zhu Yao.

Zhu Yao sighed. She understood her master's words. By the time they dispel the formation, Xiao Yi and Lu Cha would have arrived. It seemed like it was impossible to not bump into them anymore. Damn protagonist's cheat.

Since she had to wait for Xiao Yi, Zhu Yao was no longer in a rush. Sitting in front of the door, she inspected the door closely. The mystic beast on the door looked very strange. It had a pale face, sharp teeth, a panther-like figure, yet, it had two pairs of long horns on its head. It's claws were like that of an eagle's, yet, it had a rough and stout tail like that of a snake's. The strangest thing was, it had wings, and even three pairs of them, yet, they were not like that of a bird's, rather, they looked more like a bat's. It's huge figure took up more than half of the door, and it looked extremely clumsy when it swam about.

Zhu Yao stared at the door for six entire hours, and her master, who had been studying the formation, then looked towards the end of the passageway. "They're here."

From afar, she could already hear their footsteps. Her piggish party members were running late.

"Yo, long time no see!" Zhu Yao, who was sitting on the ground, supported her head with one of her hands, and greeted them. The moment Yu Yan had discovered them, he had already returned into the jade pendant.

Xiao Yi and Lu Cha was stunned, and various mixed expressions surfaced on their faces at the same time. There were awkwardness, shocked, and, a hint of suppressed unwillingness.

"Why are you here?" Lu Cha spoke up hesitantly, the smile on her face was a little forced.

"Fate, of course!" Zhu Yao waved her hand about with a smile, and said with utmost sincerity. "Back then, when I was chased by that demonic beast, I just knew you people will definitely find me. Haven't we bumped to each other now?"

Xiao Yi's and Lu Cha's expressions became even more awkward. Zhu Yao was saying all these purposefully. Lu Cha no longer cared about little fatty Zhao dying for her, so why would she even think of saving Zhu Yao? In their hearts, they might even be calling her an idiot.

"It's great that you're fine." As expected of the protagonist, Xiao Yi immediately regained his senses. Looking at Zhu Yao from head to toe, he realized she was clean and tidy, and looked as though she were completely free from wounds. Looking back at themselves, when they entered the palace, they encountered many traps and formations along their way here, and had already been especially fatigued. He could not help but grow suspicious.

"Junior-martial niece Bun, how did you manage to escape?"

Your sister's a bun! Zhu Yao held in her urge to roll her eyes at him, and began to make up a story made out of both truths and lies. "I don't know either. I was chased into a mountain cave by that demonic beast, and then, I seemed to have stepped on a formation-like thing, when I woke up, I was already outside this palace. The layout of this palace is especially complicated. I have already been trapped here for dozens of days, yet, I was still unable to find a way out."

So she was already here for many days, it was no wonder why she completely did not look flustered. Xiao Yi then calmed his suspicions.

"Junior-martial niece Bun, do you know what's behind this door?" Xiao Yi discovered that strange door as well, and asked.

Zhu Yao shook her head. "I don't know either. But, this door is fully covered with formations, and can't be opened easily."

"What a strange door." Lu Cha's attention was brought onto the door as well, and with a swing of her hand, she went to touch on the door.

"Don't touch it!" Zhu Yao shouted out loudly, however, it was already too late. Lu Cha's hand had already touched on the door.

At that moment, the entire palace began to tremble, as though some sort of mechanism had been activated, that door began to shine with a blinding light. The mystic beast began to struggle strongly as well, and from the looks of it, it was about to break out of the door.

Even Zhu Yao instantly had the thought of destroying Lu Cha, as she stared ruthlessly at the culprit. As expected, she's a piggish party member!

Lu Cha knew it was her mistake, and weakly hid behind Xiao Yi's back. She looked at Zhu Yao with an aggrieved face, as though she was the one who was in the wrong.

Accursed Green Tea Bitch!

There was already no point in seeking accountability for this issue. Zhu Yao could only try her best to stabilize her body, while tensely waiting for what was about to happen with bated breath. Hopefully, that mystic beast was not the one being awakened.

Fifteen minutes later, the trembling finally stopped.

And the light emitting out from the door began to slowly dim as well, yet, nothing happened. The three of them heaved sighs of relief.

At this moment, the mystic beast on the door suddenly stretched out its head, as though it had penetrated through from the other end of the door. Opening its huge mouth, it led out a huge roar. It's roar was very sharp, and it could not be described clearly, however, it carried a heavy air of brutality. When the roar entered their ears, they momentarily felt giddy and their visions were blurred. That mystic beast's pair of bell-like eyes swept past the three of them, and then, stared right at Zhu Yao, who was the closest. "Password?"

Zhu Yao was startled. Password? What password!? Only a ghost would know! Earlier, she was not the one who knocked the door anyway, so why was it asking her?

Seeing her not answering for a long time, the beast's head approached closer and closer, with its mouth slowly opening wider and wider. Zhu Yao simply felt a fishy smell was assaulting her from all around, and it looked as though it was about to bite her.

Password, password, obviously, it could never be…

"Open Sesame!" Zhu Yao blurted out.

It would be strange if it worked!

The beast's head stopped. It stared ruthlessly at her, and then, it's mouth instantly closed, and it returned back into the door. With a loud bang, that huge door, slowly opened while moving to the left.

The hell!? It really worked!

This mystic beast couldn't be called Alibaba, right?

Before Zhu Yao could even feel shocked, a huge gust of wind suddenly blew from the other side the door, sucking her straight inside. Zhu Yao had not prepared any defenses, and even Xiao Yi and Lu Cha were swept inside by the wind as well.

Darkness instantly filled her vision. She felt as though she had fallen into a bottomless abyss, and she descended constantly. A humongous pressure engulfed over, and Zhu Yao instantly felt her as though her chest was about to be torn apart and her cinnabar was about to be shattered. The huge strength of that pressure, was simply causing her to be powerless, leaving her with no energy to resist, it really hurt! Even her consciousness was beginning to waver.

"Concentrate, calm your spiritual energy, protect your Dantian." A cold voice sounded. The pressure on her body suddenly slackened, and she was finally able to relax.

Master……

Zhu Yao immediately circulated her spiritual energy to protect her own cinnabar and keep her consciousness clear. Only after a good long time did she finally heave a sigh of relief.

They were currently in a barren land, and her surroundings were only filled with dim light. Xiao Yi and Lu Cha were laid down beside her. They most probably fainted due to that pressure earlier.

Suddenly, an old, hoarse voice sounded.

"This old man has waited for so many years, and finally, the destined ones are here."

Turning her head to look, a white ghostly figure was suddenly floating in front of her. That person was an elderly with white hair and brows, and his face was covered entirely by his beard, causing his expression to be invisible. However, his pair of small eyes narrowed into a line, as though he was extremely happy.

Lu Cha sounds like Lü Cha, which stands for Green Tea. Green Tea Bitch: An internet slang used to describe a young woman that likes to dress and act in a certain fashion in order to portray herself as pure and innocent (ie: like green tea). However, in reality she is a gold-digging slut that won't think twice before she sells her own body or steps on someone's throat to get to a higher place (aka a bitch). First popularized by Chinese netizens when a whole bunch of female models and actresses were revealed to be paid escorts/prostitutes for the rich and powerful during a fashion expo in 2013.

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Chapter 59: The Shameless Deity

"It's been so many years, finally, there's someone who can take on my mantle."

Zhu Yao guessed that this should be the owner of these ruins, and the "Wood Spirit" should be in his hands. However, he did not have a physical body, it seemed like he was just a strand of divine power left by the former owner.

"Master?" What should she do now?

"Wait and see."

Hearing this, Zhu Yao returned to lying on the ground, and continued to act dead.

The white old man stroked his beard, and floated over. After looking on the ground, he was suddenly stunned. "Why are there three?"

The old man frowned, and seemed to be in a difficult position. "Then let's choose the one with the best Spirit Vein!" First, he looked at the most left, where Lu Cha was, and muttered to himself. "Fire and Earth Duo-Spirit Veins. Although she has qualifications of the upper tier, she's not suitable for my Arts."

Hence, he shifted his gaze to Xiao Yi, and his eyes momentarily shone, revealing a hint of delight on his face. He then inspected his Spirit Vein, and the delight in his eyes grew even more. "Metal and Wood Duo-Spirit Veins! Good, good, good!" He said the word 'good' three times in a row, his eyes had already narrowed into a pair of lines, and then, finally, he looked towards Zhu Yao.

Zhu Yao figured that this old man should be thinking of choosing the disciple with the best Spirit Vein, and he will then pass down his Arts and "Wood Spirit" to the selected individual. After all, this was how it always worked on TV.

She was not the least bit worried of her own qualifications, after all, what she had best was her Lightning Spirit Vein.

As expected, the old man reached out his hand to inspect her qualifications, and again, as expected, he revealed a shocked expression on his face, and seemed as though he was about to blurt out. "It's Lightning…"

The old man looked at her, and then, looked at Xiao Yi who was at the center. Then, he decisively turned and walked towards Xiao Yi. "Let's still pick this child instead."

The hell!?

Do you have to be that bias?

Zhu Yao could not help but jump up. "What happened to the promise of picking the best Spirit Vein?"

"You… How are you awake?" The old man was stunned for a moment, and looked disbelievingly at Zhu Yao who suddenly rose. "Impossible. How could an Azoth-stage practitioner defend against my pressure?"

"There's no need for you to care about that!" Zhu Yao could not help but roll her eyes. She had a hot temper in the first place, and hated unfairness the most. Also, he was just a spectre, so he would not be able to do anything to her. "Didn't you want to choose the one with the best qualifications? How can his qualifications compare to mine?"

"Uh… Kuh kuh!" The old man cough out a little awkwardly. "Little girly, don't be agitated. Although your qualifications are good, I'm a little more destined with this boy, so I decided to pass down to him."

"You're already dead, what do you need destiny for?" Zhu Yao did not believe him in the slightest. Earlier, when he inspecting their Spirit Veins, she had already felt it. Clearly, he very despised both her and Lu Cha, yet, he behaved solely different towards Xiao Yi. It was as though, the moment he saw him, an expression of delight appeared on his face. Unless…

She looked at the spectre from head to toe. "You can't be gay, right?"

"Gay? What this 'gay' thing?" The old man was startled for a moment.

The more she thought about it, the more Zhu Yao felt that it was a possibility. "In other words, you're into men."

When those words fell, the old man was instantly flustered. "Y-Y-You… You're… You're wrong!"

"Then why is your face red?" His face had reddened to the point where his white beard could not cover it, alright?

"Th… Th-The… The weather's hot!" The old man used his hand to fan himself in a panic, while he tried to defend himself. "How could this old man… this old man… be interested in this… this little brat."

She did not say he was interested in Xiao Yi. Could this could be considered as a confession he made by himself?

Zhu Yao was already hundred percent sure. So he was really gay, it's no wonder he would not pick her nor Lu Cha.

"Little… Little girly." This old man faked out a few coughs. His face was filled with embarrassment from being seen through. "This old man sees that you possess pretty good comprehension ability. To be able to meet you here, we can be considered as fated as well. Although I'm unable to pass down my Arts to you, I have a few treasures here, why don't I gift you one?"

"Was this a bribe? Incidentally, she did not have an excuse to obtain the "Wood Spirit".

"Is that true?"

"Of course it's true!"

"Then I want the 'Wood Spirit'."

"….." The old man was instantly at a loss, and looked even more shocked as he stared at her. "How did you know I have that!?"

"You don't have to know how I know about it. Just give me an answer. Are you giving it to me or not?"

"This…" The old man looked even more hard-pressed, and turned to look at Xiao Yi who was on the ground. "It's not that I'm unwilling to give it to you, it's just that this spirit of the wood element, does not easily admits someone as its master. Furthermore, this 'Wood Spirit' can assist my disciple in his cultivation."

"If you don't give it to me, I will tell everyone in the cultivation world, that you're gay."

The old man instantly softened. "… We can always talk things out." Gritting his teeth, he then turned and waved his sleeves. The surrounding fog scattered by a bit, and in front of him, six wooden chests appeared. "Little girly, this 'Wood Spirit' has followed me for many years, yet, I'm still unable to make it submit. It could be seen that only someone who is fated can wield such a spiritual item. Over here, there's six chests. Pick one. If you're… Ehhhhhh!!"

Before waiting for him to finish, Zhu Yao had already walked over, and picked up the one on the furthest right.

The old man was filled with unretractable shock, as he looked at Zhu Yao was calmly holding onto the chest. "Y-Y-You… How did you know that the Wood Spirit was in that box?"

Zhu Yao's face darkened as well. It was hard for her to not recognize it, alright? Because the two words "Wood Spirit" were floating above that chest. And, they were in the same font and same boldness as the word "BUG" on Xiao Yi's face. Even if she did not want to recognize it, it was difficult for her not to, alright?

"Could it be that, in this world, there's really such a person of great luck!?" The old man mumbled to himself, and the eyes he was looking at her with began to be filled with envy and hate.

Zhu Yao, however, did not bother to care about him, and opened the chest.

What's hilarious was, the chest only had a small tree sapling inside, and it was even bud with only two leaves. It was currently twisting its white and tender branches, twisting it to the left, and then, twisting it to the right, as though it was dancing.

Probably because it was suddenly interrupted, that small sapling paused for a moment. It slightly raised its head, and then, let out a gentle…

"Chick?" (With changing tones!)

Are you a chicken?

Zhu Yao was speechless. Yet, that little sapling covered itself with its two leaves out of extreme embarrassment, giving a shy look as though it's dark secret had been exposed.

"Are you the Wood Spirit?" Zhu Yao asked.

Only then did that small sapling slowly unfolded its leaves. Tilting its body, as though it's to answer her, it let out another sound. "Chick…"

A little sapling with such good spirituality. Zhu Yao could not help but poke its leaves, and gave it a praise. "You're pretty cute!"

When those words fell, with a 'pupu' sound, between the leaves, a small red flower instantly bloomed.

"……" Zhu Yao had a subtle feeling.

Yet, that little sapling held onto that small red flower in the center with its two leaves, and with a strong pull, it picked the flower out of its body, and then, passed it over to her.

"… Thank… Thank you!"

"Chick~"

Why did she feel that this "Wood Spirit" was a little weird. Was it this friendly to every person it meets for the first time?

Zhu Yao had an inexplicable expression as it turned around the little red flower she was gifted with, yet, the old man suddenly moved in, and said with a stern expression. "Little girly, you have to be careful. This 'Wood Spirit' isn't as simple as it looks on its surface…"

Before he could even finish, the little sapling suddenly grew out the leaf on its left, instantly turning it into a size of a palm, and strongly slapped towards the old man's face.

Before the old man could even cry out, he had already been thrown dozens of meters to the back by its slap.

The little sapling returned to its original size. Twisting its white and tender branches, it acted cutesy towards her. "Chick~"

As though the one who sent him flying was not it.

Zhu Yao: "……"

Seeing that she was not responding to it, the little sapling became agitated. It instantly leapt out of the chest, jumped onto the lid of the chest, and even used its two leaves to hug onto one of her fingers, and rubbed her finger with its body.

"Chick~"

So cute. Alright. She gave in.

"Do you want to leave with me?"

The little sapling tilted its body. "Chick!"

In that instant, Zhu Yao was a little hard-pressed. She had obtained the Wood Spirit, but now the big problem was, where was she going to put it? After all, it was not good to put a spiritual item in her storage bracelet, and the most important was to prevent Xiao Yi from discovering it.

"Little girly, you can't bring this 'Wood Spirit' out." As she was hesitating, the old man suddenly floated over. The affectionate expression on his face had disappeared without a trace, rather, it was now dyed with a bit of haziness.

What did the Wood Spirit signify? The control rights to all of the wood spiritual energy and spiritual plants in the world. No one would easily hand such a treasure to someone else, moreover someone who had cultivated for ten thousands of years like him. Although he had already fallen long ago, he was still unwilling.

With a wave of his hand, the chest in Zhu Yao's hands instantly closed, and flew into his hands.

She knew it would not be this simple. Zhu Yao could not bother to speak to him either, and summoned her flying sword.

"I can't even bother to argue with someone like you who doesn't keep to his words. Show your hand!"

When he was alive, this old man might be a famous individual, at the very least, he was a practitioner at the Nascent Soul stage, and he might even be a practitioner of the Ancient Era. However, no matter how powerful he was, currently, he was just a spectre. She just could not believe that she would not be able to beat him.

"Hoho, you're extremely arrogant for someone of such a young age." The old man looked at her with belittling eyes. His entire face began to distort, and even his voice began to turn ghastly. "You don't know how big the world is."

He suddenly did a hand-seal with a single hand, summoning a fire dragon. Zhu Yao was just about to block it head-on, but the old man actually turned, and attacked towards the strange door in the sky above where they came from.

Zhu Yao was stunned. Why the hell did he not think it through and decide to smash his own door?

Very quickly, Zhu Yao realized what he was trying to do. Under his attack, the door still looked completely unscathed. However, it was not as quiet as before. The mystic beast on that door, began to struggle out from inside the door.

He was trying to release that mystic beast!

Zhu Yao was extremely shocked. First, a head popped out of the door, immediately after, a large half of its body got out of the door. As it struggled, it roared out with extremely huge force, and with every inch of its body escaping, its figure grew twice as big.

Zhu Yao's heart trembled. Even from such a far distance, she was still able to feel the bloody smell coming from that mystic beast body. It's ferocity could be clearly seen.

Finally, that mystic beast broke out of the formation. Facing towards the sky, it emitted out a long roar, and was even more ear-piercing that the previous one it made. Even though she had tried to defend against it will all her might, her blood flow was still scrambled by it.

Zhu Yao spat out a mouthful of blood, and was no longer even able to stand steadily. Once again, she fell onto the ground, and pain filled her entire body. She could feel that even her breathing had gotten difficult. This pressure was the same as when she first entered this place. She had thought that this was released by the old man, but it had always been this mystic beast who did it.

The mystic beast seemed to have discovered her. With a leap of its four legs, it came running towards her.

The hell, why the hell did animals like to chase after her to play? She hated little animals!

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Chapter 60: Master Will Wait For You At Jade Forest Mountain

In the nick of time, the jade pendant on Zhu Yao's neck emitted a white light, and Yu Yan flew out from inside, summoning his spiritual sword and attacked towards the mystic beast.

Zhu Yao's body relaxed, the pressure was completely dispersed, only then did she regain her breathing.

"A Demigod-stage practitioner!" The old man's expression changed, and was filled with utter disbelief. "Impossible. How could a Demigod-stage practitioner appear here? Just who the hell are you?"

"Your grandma!" Zhu Yao once again raised her own sword.

"You…" The old man was extremely furious, his face had turned pale. He took a deep breath, as though he was trying to suppress his own anger. Only after a moment did he laugh coldly. "Little girly, don't be too complacent. Do you really believe that with a Demigod-stage practitioner here, you're able to beat me? All of you shall die here."

"What do you mean?" She suddenly had a bad premonition.

The old man snorted coldly. "Who do you think these ruins belong to?"

Zhu Yao was instantly stunned.

The old man began to laugh even more arrogantly. "It was simply a coincidence for this old man to obtain this 'Wood Spirit', however, because of someone's plot, I died. And then, it just happened that my soul was absorbed into this mustard seed dimensional space that fell from the Higher Realm. And by fate and coincidence, I then dwelled in these ruins. That sealed mystic beast is the owner of this place."

"What did you say?" Zhu Yao's heart tightened.

"That's a mystic beast that came from the Higher Realm. Do you think a mere Demigod-stage practitioner from the cultivation world can go against a divine beast that came from the Higher Realm?"

Master…

Zhu Yao raised her head towards the sky, yet, she was unable to see the figures of her master or the mystic beast, she was only able to see occasional black and white specks of light flashing past. She could not help but feel a little flustered. In the cultivation world, a demonic beast required to reach the eleventh-rank, comparable to a late Demigod-stage practitioner, and experience the Ascension Lightning Tribulation, before being able to ascend to the Divine Realm. If this mystic beast came from the Higher Realm, then it was at least an eleventh-rank mystic beast. However, in usual situations, she would never believe that her master would lose, however, currently, her master only had a part of his divine sense, he was basically unable to use his full strength.

"Hahaha……" The old man laughed very complacently. "Little girly, when up against this mystic beast, you people have completely no chance of victory."

Zhu Yao's heart tightened, and stared at that gloating old man, flames of fury began to rise within her. Haaah, this hot temper of mine!

She did not care what she was holding onto with her hand, and simply threw it towards him with a swing of her hand. With a 'Dong' sound, it landed right on target.

With a 'bu' sound, the old man smashed onto the ground.

"I don't have any chance at victory against that thing, however, I have all I need to deal with you."

When Zhu Yao got angry, she forgot all of the Arts and Techniques she had. Raising her fists, she began to pummel them at the old man's face. "This is what you get for being a big mouth! This is what you get for speaking nonsense!"

The old man seemed to have never expected that she would be so unclassy and directly use her fists either, and he basically had completely no way to retaliate. In just a few moments, his head were all filled with buns from her bashing.

"Aiyo, aiya, I'm dying, I'm dying, I'm dying! Stop!"

"Only your sister would stop, you're already dead. I don't mind if you were to die even more thoroughly." Zhu Yao began to bash with even more force, and neither did she forget to step on his butt with her feet, strongly grinding them a few times. You damn gay old man!

"Little girly, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts… How can you do this to an old man… Aiyo, gentler, gentler!"

"Speak. How can we seal that mystic beast again?"

"I don't know that either."

"So you're not telling?" She continued her bashing, her target, was his face!

"Aiyo, little girly, young lady, gentler! I'm dying, I'm dying!"

"So are you going to speak?"

"I… I really don't know!"

Continue bashing…

"Even if you beat me to death, I wouldn't know either."

"Then why is it that, earlier, when we entered, it did not break out of the seal?"

"This… I don't know either." The old man felt like crying. "After I was trapped in these ruins, I regretted. Because, no one could get past that formation on the door. I had waited for several tens of thousands of years, and there were countless people who had arrived outside the door. Yet, all of them were eaten by that mystic beast. You people were the first to enter here."

Zhu Yao recalled Xiao Yi's protagonist cheat, and determined that what this old man said was not false. Could it really be that only he could enter this place? Zhu Yao picked the chest that the old man dropped at the side.

The "Wood Spirit" was still staying inside obediently.

"Little sapling, I'm bringing you out of here. Are you willing to follow me?"

"Chick~" The Wood Spirit in the chest raised its branches, doing a cheering action.

At that moment, Zhu Yao found some comfort. Picking up the sword on the ground, she raised her head and looked towards the sky. If they were unable to beat it, then she would flee with her master. She had already found the thing she needed anyway.

As to something like reputation… What's that? Can it be eaten?

Zhu Yao took a big step forward, yet, suddenly, a golden light shone at the side. Turning her head to look, Xiao Yi's body was currently emitting out a golden-colored light. A golden-colored layer suddenly floated out of his body, slowly forming into the shape of a sword.

The color of that sword was actually extremely unusual. It was dyed entirely in red, just like fresh, flowing blood.

"Metal Spirit!" The old man who had just crawled up, looked at that sword with a shocked expression. "This… This is the Metal Spirit! But… Why is it red?"

That's the Metal Spirit? Zhu Yao had always known that Xiao Yi managed to comprehend his Sword Intent because of his possession of the Metal Spirit. However, only now did she know that the Metal Spirit was actually sword-shaped as well. But, clearly, Xiao Yi was still unconscious, so why would the Metal Spirit appear by itself? And it did not seem to be very friendly.

The light emitting out from the Metal Spirit became even brighter, and it's color was still that unusual red. It was formed by the spiritualization of spiritual energy in the first place, so it should have been the purest and cleanest existence in the world. However, it's current state, forget about purity, it looked as though it was demonized.

"Chick?" The little sapling seemed to have been infected by that red aura as well, and it's initial white and tender branches were slowly dyed in red, even its green leaves were beginning to change in color. After shaking for a moment, it actually floated up, and flew towards the Metal Spirit.

That Metal Spirit was calling out to it!

"Little sapling!" Zhu Yao called out, however, the Wood Spirit did not have a single reaction. As though it had been mesmerized, it continued to float towards the Metal Spirit.

In a panic, Zhu Yao kept the Wood Spirit within her own divine sense, isolating it from the outside world.

Only then did the redness on the Wood Spirit's body begin to fade, returning to its initial color. Because of this short moment, it seemed to have tired itself out excessively, the entire sapling curled, slowly shrinking into a ball.

Zhu Yao's instincts were telling her, there was something wrong with that Metal Spirit.

The Metal Spirit which had lost its guiding target, became even more violent, and began to take in a large amount of metal spiritual energy from the surroundings. In an instant, stones and sand flew, the surrounding air began to surge, and even the the sky began to sway.

"Not good, the formation here has been broken." The old man's figure began to fade for a bit.

Amidst this, a bang was heard. A mystic beast fell from the sky, and it's gigantic figure was covered entirely in blood. Immediately after, a white figure flew down as well, his clothes were as white as snow, and was not tainted in the least.

"Master." Zhu Yao instantly heaved a sigh of relief, and could not help but step forward and praise him.

Yu Yan coldly said. "Leave this place."

Zhu Yao's sprinting steps paused, and after a careful look did she realize that her master's presence was very unstable, and even his figure had begun to fade.

"Master…" He was injured.

While that demonic beast had stood up once again, it's entire body emitted out an even stronger pressure than before, roaring as it charged towards Yu Yan. As though it had been utterly angered, it's pair of bloody-red eyes stared straight at him.

Just as it was about to pounce over, suddenly, the sky and ground suddenly shook. Earlier, what Zhu Yao saw was a barren land in front of her, and when the scenery changed again, they were actually still standing in the ruins.

The palace was collapsing at the speed visible to the naked eyes, and a ray of golden light surged upwards, breaking through the ceiling and rushed straight towards the sky. The metal spiritual energy from all directions drew towards that pillar of light.

The mystic beast seemed to have caught itself within that pillar of light, and was unable to stand steadily. Hence, it could only jump to and fro, leaving the radius of the pillar of light.

"Metal Spirit?" Raising his head to look at the pillar of light which suddenly appeared, Yu Yan began to frown deeply.

He formed a hand-seal with a single hand, yet, he did not attack, rather, he summoned a flying sword. He still did not turn his head back, and simply said this with a tone that was filled with sternness he had never used till then. "Fly out of this place with this sword. This sword will protect you until you reach the entrance of the Secret Realm."

"Master?"

"The metal spiritual energy particles have gone berserk, I'm afraid this entire Secret Realm might even sink under them." Yu Yan said. "Remember to fly out with all of your strength, do not hesitate!"

"Then what about you, master?" Clearly, he was already injured.

Yu Yan finally turned around, stretching his hand, he stroked her head, carrying that face which was still as cold as ever. "Hurry and leave. I'm just a thread of divine sense. Even if I disappear, there wouldn't be a problem."

"How could you be fine?" Are you taking me as a three-year-old child? One's divine sense originated from the real body, and was a part of one's soul. If one's soul was missing, how could the real body be fine? "If master isn't going, I'm not going either."

"Be obedient." Yu Yan's expression sank. "Master will wait for you at Jade Forest Mountain."

"Lies! I'm not a child, you know!"

It looked as though Yu Yan was about to say something, however, the mystic beast had already charged out of the metal spiritual energy's grasp, persistently pouncing towards Yu Yan.

The hell, this damn hateful little animal.

"Hurry and leave!" Yu Yan waved his hand, and Zhu Yao had already been sent dozens of meters away, as he turned around and took it on.

That spiritual sword that had been summoned by Yu Yan, stopped right before Zhu Yao.

Zhu Yao tightly clenched her fists. She was basically unable to help at all, however, she was unable to leave behind her master and go off alone.

There must be another way.

After looking around the surroundings, she realized, that old man whose head had turned Buddha-like after being bashed by her, was carrying Xiao Yi and sneakily moving towards a pillar on the right.

"Damn gay old man." Zhu Yao picked up a rock, and threw towards him. With a 'pa' sound, she struck on target.

"Aiyo!" The old man cried out. "Little girly, I have already given you the Wood Spirit, what else do you want?"

"Why are you being so sneaky for?"

The old man's expression changed, yet, it instantly returned to normal. "Hoho, little girly, you have misunderstood me. I was simply afraid that this kid would get injured, so I pulled him out."

Zhu Yao did not believe in the slightest, and coldly stared at him. Hugging her fist, she strongly cracked it, emitting out a crackle. Are you telling or not?

The old man swallowed his saliva, and only then did he answer honestly. "Uh… Little girly. Look, that berserk Metal Spirit doesn't seem it will stop anytime soon, and instead, will charge right out of the Secret Realm. When that time comes, the Secret Realm will collapse. If, by then, the Metal Spirit still doesn't stop, there might be a possibility that it will implicate the entire cultivation world. I see that Demigod-stage practitioner has a high cultivation level, if he were to make a gamble with his full strength, he might be able to stop it…"

Zhu Yao ruthlessly stared at him.

The old man's shrunk his neck. "Uhh… I'm saying that under this pillar, incidentally, there's a teleportation formation. Although it's unusable now, if this Secret Realm collapses, or when the disturbance of the metal spiritual energy reaches its peak, the natural laws of this place might slacken for a moment, and when that time comes, we can be automatically transferred out of here."

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Chapter 61: Zhu Yao Version 3.0

Zhu Yao went silent for a moment, clenching the fists next to her. "Then what about him? If the Secret Realm collapses, what will happen to my master?"

"He's just a thread of divine sense, as long as you have a chance to get out, there will always be a way to fix one's divine sense."

"And what if it can't be fixed?"

"Uhh… Uhh… Then probably, during the Ascension Lightning Tribulation, he will have to suffer quite a bit." If one's divine sense was incomplete, forget about suffering, even if he was a Lightning Spirit Vein Holder, probably, he would still be zapped to the point where his ashes would not even remain.

Zhu Yao instantly felt her heart aching. As expected, her master had already resolved himself to death, hence, he was so anxious to have her leave.

Taking a deep breath, she held in the surging heart-plugging feeling. "Old man, what other ways are there to stop the berserk Metal Spirit?"

"Unless there's a spiritual power, equivalent to the strength of the Metal Spirit, suppressing it, we only have that Demigod-stage practitioner to stop that metal spiritual energy disturbance."

"Spiritual energy disturbance…" Zhu Yao muttered these few words, she seemed to have…

Zhu Yao had already made her decision in her heart. Circulating her spiritual energy, she summoned vines and pulled over Lu Cha from not far away. This gay old man, as she thought, he did not care about the lives of women.

Placing Lu Cha beside Xiao Yi, she ignored the old man's look of despise, took down the jade pendant her master gave her from her neck, and placed it in Lu Cha's pocket.

"Tasyoluk" had a formation outside that prevented practitioners whose cultivation level were above Azoth from entering. Hence, her master could only reside in this jade pendant. As long as this jade pendant were to leave the Secret Realm, her master would naturally be sent back.

Zhu Yao sat in a lotus position, and sensed the lightning spiritual energy she was most familiar with from the surroundings.

Now…

Let's have this spiritual energy disturbance kick up a notch!

That's right, she was taking in the spiritual energy into her body.

In her experience as a practitioner, she had only recklessly taken in lightning spiritual energy once, and that one time had brought about a lightning spiritual energy disturbance. After that, when she was forming her Azoth Core, her master had only allowed her to take in energy from those purple bolts of lightning.

It's just spiritual energy disturbance, right? Metal Spirit? So what!

This lady here knows how to do it too!

As Zhu Yao willed it, the surrounding lightning spiritual energy particles, carrying sparkling little tails, began to pour crazily into her body, endlessly. Her meridians once again gave out that familiar pain, and Zhu Yao could only clench her teeth and hold on. She recklessly circulated her Azoth Core, suppressing the spiritual energy.

In an instant, the sky which was initially dim, became as dark as the night. Within the tumbling clouds, lightning flashed and thunder roared.

In an instant, Yu Yan noticed his disciple's abnormality. He turned and looked shockingly at his disciple who was on the ground. This stupid disciple, what is she thinking?

"Stop now!" Yu Yan struck away that pestering mystic beast with his sword, and flew towards his disciple. However, he was blocked by the layers of lightning spiritual energy, his cold face carried anger that he never had before. "Yu Wang, you have only just formed your Azoth Core, and you're unable to endure such amount of lightning spiritual energy."

Zhu Yao looked at him, and could not help but spit out a sentence. "Your sister's Desire…"

Remember your own disciple's name well, hey!

"Be obedient."

Zhu Yao still ignored him. Disciples had their rebellious phases as well, you know.

Releasing her divine sense, the pouring of lightning spiritual energy became even more wild, and in an instant, a white gigantic flash of lightning, as though it was a gigantic dragon, charged towards the sky, as if it was trying to tear apart the entire sky.

"Yu Wang!" Yu Yan's frowned deeply. He had decided to circulate all of the spiritual energy inside him to break apart that ray of lightning, and forcefully pull his disciple out of it.

In an instant, the entire Secret Realm twisted.

"Now!" The old man's expression carried delight, and instantly, he activated the formation. The formation brightly lit up, and the three figures began to disappear. In just a moment, they had already been sent outside.

Yu Yan, who was just about to charge out and save her, in a flash, disappeared without a trace as well.

At that moment, Zhu Yao finally heaved a sigh of relief. Great, I still made it in time.

However, the Metal Spirit did not stop.

She could feel her cultivation level rising explosively. However, with every increase, the pain in her body would increase. Her veins all over her body had already been torn apart, and the severe pain was almost causing her to lose sense of her four limbs. However, the pain seemed to have been coming from her divine sense, and it was basically unable to subside. She could already sense her Azoth Core shattering apart.

Squeezing out her last bit of consciousness, she struggled to control the lightning spiritual energy, wrapping them around the Metal Spirit's pillar of light.

Rooooar~~ o′

A roar sounded, that mystic beast suddenly came out from nowhere, yet, when it was unable to find his earlier opponent, it became even more furious. Hence, it roared and growled at Zhu yao, the only living being on-site.

Why would Zhu Yao even have the mood now to care about it? She instantly turned her head over and scolded.

"Shut up!"

When those words fell, a bolt of Heavenly Lightning zapped towards it, emitting out a heaven-trembling roar. However, it did not land on the mystic beast, but on the sea waters which were severed off at the side. In an instant, a large half of the sea waters dried up, revealing a big piece of empty land.

"Meooww…." The mystic beast seemed to have been frightened that tyrannical strike, and even the sound it made had changed. Its stomach laid on the ground, its tail was shivering, and its two paws held onto its head, as it no longer dared to look at her.

Zhu Yao no longer had the energy to care about this freak. Her consciousness had already begun to blur, and the spiritual energy in her body had already reached its peak. Her cultivation had already rushed towards that of an Azoth Paragon's, and the spiritual energy was still rapidly increasing.

Her Azoth Core could not endure such spiritual might, and had already shattered. She knew that the best way to keep herself alive now was to form her Nascent Soul.

However…

The hell, she did not know how. Her master had yet to teach her that! This was largely equivalent to someone who managed to skip grades and entered the high school that one had dreamed of, only to have the teacher tell her that what was taught here was the university curriculum!

Haah, did her life have to be this unfortunate!?

Hence, she could only have the lightning spiritual energy particles wrap about that berserk metal spiritual energy particles with all her might. She saw the two making contact with each other, and began to disperse. Only when the entire pillar of light was wrapped around by the white lightning, did that pillar of light, as though it had been blown away, along with that wild ray of lightning, disappear without a trace.

The surroundings were instantly utterly silent.

Zhu Yao fell onto the ground. She had completely turned into a bloody person, and no longer had the ability to take in spiritual energy into her body.

She was actually still alive. As she thought, heavens cared about good people. Even though she was unable to move, Zhu Yao had the silent impulse to give heavens a thumbs up. Like a bloody pile of mess, her body spread on the ground. She looked at the Metal Spirit floating in mid-air, as it disappeared from the sky with a flash of light. It seemed like it had returned to Xaio Yi.

Zhu Yao felt that she had to sleep for several days and nights before she could get up. Suddenly, she heard loud bangs. When she turned to look, at a place to her right, it had begun to cave in at a large scale. At the place where the ground was, a large piece of black region. She completely could not see anything clearly at all, yet, it looked as though it was a gigantic black mouth, currently swallowing this Secret Realm.

Zhu Yao suddenly recalled the words of that Sharkman – Severed Lands!

The hell! If she had known she would leave, why the hell did she arrogantly force her master back?

Is it too late to regret my decision? Master… Come back!

Unfortunately, facts had proven that, even a prized treasure could not be used to buy medicine for regrets.

The caving in spread to where to she was lying at, and then, she felt into the deep abyss. She continued to fall, however, she did not feel any pain.

Zhu Yao could not help but rejoice a little. She was fortunate that she was only falling, at the most, she would only lose some arms and legs. According to the no-death rule when one were to fall from a cliff and enter another world, she would still be alive.

As she thought of this, suddenly, in front of her, with a sizzle, a familiar dialogue box appeared. And this was written neatly on it.

Congratulations, you have thoroughly died once again. It's time for you to resurrect. Please choose: Yes or Yes!

Haah~ This is getting on my nerves!

What happened to the promised no-death rule?

This lady here has yet to die, this lady here is still living, and I'm still breathing.

However, that dialogue box completely did not care about her objection, and began to crazily pop up one after another in front of her.

Zhu Yao's angry!

So as to prevent the tragedy last time from happening again, Zhu Yao decided to close her eyes.

However… why did they pop up in her mind as well!?

Not choosing. This lady here isn't going to choose at all.

Even when the dialogue boxes had filled up her entire vision, Zhu Yao did not have the intention to choose.

The dialogue boxes finally stopped their wild pop-ups, and then, another dialogue box appeared, carrying a red exclamation mark, and a warning.

You have went past the time limit. Your choice will now be automatically selected! Countdown in 10 seconds…

9、8、7……

The hell! What happened to your humanity? Do you believe that I will ask for your bank account number?

3……2……1

In the next second, Zhu Yao once again saw that damn loading bar!

The protagonist Zhu Yao is dead!

The story has… Your sister's story has ended! – flips table –

Once again, when she saw light, the first thing Zhu Yao did was inspect her body. Great, long arms, long legs. Very normal, not an infant, and there's nothing suspicious stuffed inside her mouth.

She looked around for something that could reflect light. Incidentally, there's a clean and smooth rock that was even shining light in front of her. Zhu Yao instantly sprinted over, and inspected herself in the reflection.

Great, very complete. Inside the reflection was a very upright young girl, wearing a navy-colored gown. Her hair was not very long, yet, it was nicely bunned up on top of her head. Her eyes were filled with heroism, and the most important aspect was that her height was around hundred and seventy centimeters. Zhu Yao, who had been a person of short stature for several years, expressed her satisfaction.

The only flaw was, she was still flat-chested. Touching in her chest, it was even flatter than the little bun back then. Zhu Yao silently retorted that it might be because all of her nourishment had went to her height, hence, the flatness.

"Little brother, mind if I ask if 'Ancient Hill Sect' is written here?" Just as she was inspecting her new body, suddenly, a youth appeared next to her, and patted on her shoulder.

"Of course not! The Ancient Hill Sect is…" Zhu Yao said as she shook her head, yet, she swallowed back her words after seeing the three big words stated on the stone.

The hell, it really was the Ancient Hill Sect.

"Little brother?" The youth saw that he was stunned, and could not help but pat on his shoulder again. "I'm sorry, I'm a wandering practitioner, so I don't really recognize words. I'm just about to seek admittance in the Ancient Hill Sect. I heard from rumors that there's a teleportation formation here, so I came here to take a look. Little brother, help me look at it, is this the place?"

"Uh, it's here alright." Zhu Yao rubbed off the cold sweat off her head. She did not expect that she resurrected right at the doorstep of her own home.

"Thank you, little brother." The youth returned him a bow, and then, walked towards the right of the stone. The formation lit up, and his figure began to fade, yet, he did not forget to bid her goodbye. "Little brother, see you."

"See you." Zhu Yao returned a reply, and momentarily felt a little strange. Why the hell did he call her little brother? She once again looked at the reflection in the stone. A navy gown with bunned up hair. So she was wearing a menswear, and adding that she was tall, it was no wonder he had mistaken her.

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Chapter 62: Identity Verification

Zhu Yao sighed, and was silently disgusted with that person's eyes. How could he think that she was a man!?

Unconsciously, she used her hands to tidy up her clothes, however, she felt there was something additional in between her legs, and suddenly had a bad premonition.

She turned, and silently pulled out her pants…

No, no, no. There must definitely be something wrong with the way she pulled out her pants. How could she have an additional organ? Let's try again.

She pulled her pants out again…

And closed it! She must definitely be seeing things.

Rubbing her eyes, she once again pulled out her pants…

And closed it.

"Ahhhh!!!!"

Zhu Yao screamed out.

Why!? Why!? Why!? Why!? Why did I change into a man!? This doesn't make sense!

The reason why she resurrected next to a rock, was so as to make it convenient for her to knock herself to death?

Zhu Yao instantly felt terrible, and could deeply sense the evil intentions of this entire world.

Whoever you are, come out! Let us talk about life!

"Chick?"

In front of her, a green light flashed, and a green-colored thing leapt out.

Zhu Yao looked at this bonsai which just appeared right in front of her, and it was even not even rooted in soil. It gave a quite a scare.

"What the heck is this?"

That bonsai leapt forward, curled its little branch, and rubbed it against her leg. "Chick~"

This familiar voice…

"You're Wood Spirit?"

"Chick!" The bonsai nodded.

"Why are you here? And you even grew up so suddenly?" Zhu Yao stared at it a little shockingly. Back then, when it was in that chest, it was still a little beansprout, and it even only had two leaves. How did it suddenly turn into a bonsai?

"Chick, chick chick chick chick chick…" The Wood Spirit strongly waved around its little branches, as though it was explaining to her.

Unfortunately, she did not understand a single thing.

"Forget it! It's fine as long as you're still alive!" Back then, as she was panicking, she placed it into her divine sense. She did not expect that it would follow her along with her after her resurrection. Zhu Yao stroked its little leaf. It couldn't really grow into a tree, right?

"Chick!" The Wood Spirit stretched out two little vines, forming two small arcs. Then, it connected them together, forming a heart shape.

Was this… giving her praise?

Zhu Yao felt it was a little funny, and strongly stroked its leaf, yet, she touched something slippery.

"Meoow~" A little beast head popped out of the leaf, it's a miniature-sized ferocious face. It was actually that mystic beast.

Reflexively, Zhu Yao's stroke turned into a slap, and the slap swung right towards it.

And then, a 'pa' sound was heard. Gurururu. The mystic beast rolled a dozen of rounds, was sent a good few meters out, and only stopped when it struck onto a tree trunk.

"Me…ow…" The miniature-sized mystic beast crawled up with a pitiful look, as though it was hurt from the fall, it limped its way back to her.

Zhu Yao's heart clenched, and activated all of her defensive mechanisms. She had not forgotten how ferocious this mystic beast was in the Secret Realm. She habitually thought of summoning her own flying sword, only to realize that she did not have a single thread of spiritual energy in her body. The hell, damnable resurrection debuff.

She turned around and carried up the rock beside her. Even if she did not have any spiritual energy, she still had physical strength. "Don't come near me! If you come any closer… I will smash you to death!"

The mystic beast was startled. Its pair of black slippery eyes looked directly at her… looked at her…

And then, slowly, a layer of mist rose, as though it was about to cry in the very next moment.

Zhu Yao who was carrying the rock: "……"

Hey, you're the one bullying people. What are you trying to pull here?

"Wuu… wawawa…" As expected, that mystic beast laid on the ground, pedaled its paws, and began to wail out loudly.

"Waaah…"

"Stop crying!"

"Waawaa…."

"I won't smash you anymore."

"Waaaaaa…"

"I really won't smash you, alright?"

"Waaaaaa…"

"Enough!"

"Waaaaaa….."

"Shut up!"

"……" The crying stopped.

It just had to make her angry. Zhu Yao felt a terrible headache. Walking over, she squatted next to the miniature-sized mystic beast, and poked its little head. "Tell me, why are you here?"

"Meow~"

"Why are you following me?"

"Meow~"

"Just what are you planning?"

"Meow~"

"Meow, your ass!" Zhu Yao raised her hand and gave it a slap. "You're still acting? Don't think I'm unaware that you're able to speak." That old man in the Secret Realm had already said it, this thing descended from the Higher Realm. Demonic beasts that did not possess the ability to shapeshift, would be able to change its form after reaching the tenth-rank. At the very least, it was an eleventh-ranked demonic beast, so it was impossible for it to be unable to speak.

The mystic beast used its two front paws to stroke the part of the head she smacked, while it continued to look at her with a pitiful look, and weakly squeezed out a response. "It hurts~"

Zhu Yao's expression darkened. She hugged and cracked her fists, emitting crackling sounds, as she said with a cold smile. "Do you believe that I will hurt you even more?"

The mystic beast's expression paled, and instantly properly knelt down. Fearfully looking at her, its little eyes rolled. "I dropped into the Severed Lands as well, that's why I'm here."

"Lies!" Zhu Yao once again gave it a slap. "The number of things that fell into the Severed Lands were many, why are you the only one here then? Are you thinking I'm dumb!?"

It lowered its head, and looked as though it admitted its mistake. "Before I fell, I… I hid inside your divine sense as well, so…"

Zhu Yao frowned, this might be a possibility. Back then, she was only holding onto her last breath, if someone were to take that opportunity to enter her divine sense, it would be absolutely easy.

"Then why did you become like this?"

The mystic beast's tone was filled with even more sadness. "I don't know either. My cultivation is still present, yet, there's not a single strand of spiritual power in my body."

That's because you did not charge your batteries. Zhu Yao instantly understood that its situation was the same as hers. They just had to get struck by lightning, and the issue would be solved.

"Then why did you hide inside the Wood Spirit?" Zhu Yao continued to ask. "Since you're already out here, shouldn't you take the opportunity when I'm unprepared, and run far, far away?"

"I… I wish to follow you." The mystic beast embarrassingly scraped the floor with its claws.

"Why?"

"You're very strong!" Its pair of eyes suddenly looked towards her, as though it had seen its idol, sparkling stars filled its eyes.

He had never seen anyone capable of reviving from the dead, even if it was in the Higher Realm, he had not seen one either. And at the moment when she resurrected, he could faintly sense the presence of a thread of Heavenly Will. "If I were to follow you, I will definitely be able to return to the Higher Realm sooner. I can help you, and I can even become your contracted beast."

Zhu Yao replied it with a simple "Hoho!"

No matter how friendly he looked, it was still a demonic beast. Earlier, it was still her enemy, and had fought with the intention to kill.

What she could not forgive the most was, it even injured her master. That was simply unforgivable.

"Goodbye!"

"You… Don't go!" The mystic beast became a little anxious, and directly hugged onto her legs, as it was dragged along as she walked. "I'm really useful. I'm an eleventh-rank. There's very few demonic beasts in this world that's capable of going against me."

Continue walking…

"My nose is very sensitive, I can help you find spiritual herbs…"

"I don't need it!"

"I can help you find spiritual weapons…"

"No need!"

"I can even help you rein in demonic beasts."

"I don't care!"

"I… I can even help you warm up your bed."

"Scram!"

Zhu Yao felt she had been marked by that mystic beast. No matter where she went, it would follow. And as it followed, it would let out very pitiful 'wuuwuu' sounds. She could not bother to deal with it, in any case, currently, it did not have any spiritual power, so it was unable to hurt her.

Keeping the Wood Spirit in her divine sense once again, Zhu Yao planned on returning to Jade Forest Mountain first. At the very least, she had to inform her master of her well-being. And, according to her previous experience, another hundred years should have passed again.

Back then, when she was killed by the fox demon, her master had actually destroyed the entire Silent Melancholy Forest out of anger. This time, she forcefully sent her master out of "Tasyoluk", he might even be more furious.

What she was even more worried about was Wang Xuzhi. That little wimp had always acted on impulse, without caring about the consequences. She was afraid that if she was not looking, he would run to find Xiao Yi and seek his own death again.

The more she thought about it, the more worried she became. After inspecting her vicinity, this place should be one of the teleportation formations that were set up by the sect in various locations. The actual distance to Ancient Hill Sect was actually really far. Looking at the three large words "Ancient Hill Sect" that were written on the rock, she walked into the teleportation formation beside it.

With a flash of light, she had arrived on an island in the seas. And in the sky above the island, were several floating mountains. This was exactly the scenery she was familiar with.

She had returned.

Zhu Yao raised her head and looked at the tallest mountain that was floating there, and instantly felt a peaceful sensation. She really wanted to immediately fly over, and hug that stupid and lacking master who had always played a fool out of his own disciple.

Then here came the problem…

How was she going to go back? Her Dantian was absolutely empty, and did not have even a single thread of spiritual energy. She was completely unable to fly at all!

Raising her head, she looked at the disciples flying about in the sky. Zhu Yao felt deeply saddened, as she hoped for a disciple to notice her, and bring her up the mountain, before finding an excuse to return to the Jade Forest Mountain.

However, she had waited for half a day, although there were many people flying about in the sky, not one of them took a look at the island here. Every single of them was rushing in and out.

Especially that one who was flying especially fast, with a flash of his white figure, he disappeared without a trace. Not even his figure could be clearly seen, before he disappeared with a whoosh.

And with another whoosh, he returned.

Ehhhhhh! The hell! He really came back!

The white figure flashed, and a figure dressed in snow-white clothes stopped in front of her. That face, which looked as though a thousand years of ice had covered it, was emitting out a cold aura, as though she would obtain frostbites if she were to go take a single step closer.

Yu Yan stared straight at the unfamiliar youth in front of him, and did not say a single word for a long time.

Disciple?

No wait, why is he male?

However, on his body, there's clearly the presence of a strand of his own divine sense. His disciple had all along been stupid, and was even specialized in courting death in various ways, it might be just a disguise.

Master. Zhu Yao felt so moved, she was about to cry. As she thought, her master was reliable, he was here to pick her back again. Her voice choked out, and she was just about to charge forward and hug his legs.

"Mas…"

Before she could even finish, Yu Yan suddenly took a few fast steps, and stood a step away from Zhu Yao. He gently reached out his hand to hold onto her collar, and then…

With a whoosh, it was pulled open. The action was crisp and without the slightest of hesitation.

Zhu Yao, whose clothes were pulled apart: "……"

Flat!? Yu Yan felt a little conflicted. He inspected her chest twice, and then, his light of sight slowly moved towards her lower body.

Reflexively, Zhu Yao tightly grabbed onto the top of her pants, and screamed. "If you dare to take off my pants, I will dare to destroy you, my master."

Even if she had turned into a man, there was no need for him to strip her naked in their first meeting, right!?

Yu Yan frowned, and only then did he take back his hand. He stared at the unfamiliar man in front of him, and was still uncertain.

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Chapter 63: Making a Fool out of a Beast Without Discussion

"Yu Wang?"

"Your sister's Desire!"

"Seems like I'm right." Yu Yan heaved a sigh of relief.

Zhu Yao expression darkened. Was there a need to use this type of method to identify her?

"Let's return." Yu Yan sighed, picking up his own disciple, he rose in the air. In an instant, they returned to the peak of Jade Forest Mountain.

Looking at his disciple's new look from head to toe once again, he could not accept it no matter what. She actually turned into a man. An unclear knot surfaced deep in his heart for some odd reasons.

"How did you become like this?"

Zhu Yao shook her head. "I don't know either. I fell into the Severed Lands, and after I woke up, I became like this?"

Master, we're no longer able to become good girl friends, I wonder if you're looking for a gay friend?

"Severed Lands?" Yu Yan frowned even deeper. Recalling everything that happened in the Secret Realm, his heart was filled with unrestrained fury, and the cold aura he emitted became even more evident.

Zhu Yao could not help but feel a chill down her spine. Master looks so scary, is he about to burst out? She silently took a step back.

And another step back.

"Not complying to your master's orders, and acting arbitrarily, you need to be punished!"

Zhu Yao's little heart trembled. "Umm… Is it alright if you don't hit my face?"

"Come over here!"

"Master…"

Yu Yan did not say another word, it's just that the cold aura around his body was becoming even more rapid. It seemed like she was unable to escape from this. Zhu Yao could only slowly, and slowly, moved towards him, and heroically stretched out her left hand.

Hit me then, as long as you don't hit my face.

Yu Yan was startled for a moment. Looking at the hand in front of him, his brows furrowed. With a wave of his hand, he moved a piece of rock over and sat down on it. Then, he strongly pulled his disciple's hand, and had her entirely pressed on his thighs. Aiming at a certain part of her body, he began spanking.

The hell, why is he hitting my buttocks? Zhu Yao felt like crying, as he was not being lenient in the slightest, and her lips curled from the pain.

"Aiyo, stop… stop. Master, I admit my mistake." If he were to continue spanking, her buttocks would bloom.

Yu Yan paused for a moment, and was hesitating if he was putting enough strength into his punishment.

Rooar~~ o′

At this decisive moment, that mystic suddenly popped out of nowhere, and, ignoring the difference in strength, charged at Yu Yan as it began to roar.

With a wave of his hand, Yu Yan slapped towards it. The mystic beast was instantly slammed a few dozen meters away, and once again, struck towards a tree.

It crawled up miserably. As expected of a master and his disciple, even the way they attacked was exactly the same.

"This demonic beast…" Yu Yan recognized this demonic beast as well. Holding his disciple up and protecting her behind him, he looked as though he was about to attack.

A certain mystic beast, which was hurt from the fall, cried out. "Waaaah, mistress, he bullied me!"

"He bullied me as well." Zhu Yao rubbed her own buttocks, and gave it a helpless look.

Master: ……

Master sure was ruthless, her buttocks were about to split into four.

"You subdued this mystic beast?" Yu Yan turned and looked towards his disciple.

Zhu Yao shook her head. "I did not. It wanted to follow me on its own accord."

Yu Yan's expression instantly turned cold, and he raised his hand, as though he was about to summon a bolt of lightning. That mystic beast trembled, hugging its head with its two paws, it miserably shouted. "I'm her beast, I'm her beast…"

Zhu Yao looked at it scornfully. At the very least, it was an eleventh-ranked demonic beast, did it have to act so pitiful?

When the mystic beast saw that she did not have any reaction, it became even more saddened, and began to roll around the ground, crying. "Wuuuuu, you even know my true name, yet you still don't admit me as your beast. Bad person, wuu… I don't care. I want to be your beast, I want to be your beast."

"……" Zhu Yao was exasperated, and she almost responded it with this line. I don't want to be on top!

She could forget about becoming a man, but was there a need to go on the Boy's Love route!?

"When did I ever know of your true name?" She was straight.

The mystic beast stopped, leapt up, and replied with a serious look. "When we were at the Secret Realm, didn't you call me? You even had me open the door."

Open the door? Zhu Yao was startled for a moment, and suddenly recalled that joke password. The corner of her lips twitched.

"You… can't be called Sesame, right?"

The mystic beast tilted its head. "That's right!"

The hell! Why were you named so casually? Does your parents know about this?

"Although a demonic beast's true name has a very strong binding characteristic, it's only restricted to demonic beasts below the tenth-rank." Yu Yan's expression turned cold. "Just what is your goal for following my disciple?"

The expression of the mystic beast, Sesame, instantly stiffened, however, it immediately returned to that utterly shameless look it had earlier, and it said even more miserably. "Obviously, it's because mistress if very strong, by following her, I'm able to return to the Higher Realm much sooner."

Yu Yan waved his hand and summoned a bolt of lightning, striking it right next to the mystic beast. Instantly, a large crafter appeared, and his expression became even colder. "Tell the truth."

"What I said… was the truth."

Bang! Another bolt of lightning struck. This time, however, it directly struck onto its tail. That long tail, instantly turned into two sections.

"My tail!" Sesame cried out in pain, and turned to hug its tail which had lost half of its form. However, its feet slipped, and it tumbled into the huge crater that was formed earlier, its entire body was now completely stained with dirt.

When it had finally managed to stop rolling, it turned and looked at its half severed tail which was still oozing with blood. Baring its teeth, it roared out loud, and went to pounce on Yu Yan regardless of its current state. "I'm going to duke it out with you!"

With a wave of her hand, Zhu Yao slapped right towards it, and once again, slapped it away. Hearing her master say as such, she had thought about it as well. The reason why it was following her was definitely not as simple as just ascension.

Yu Yan used an Art, and had Sesame, who was still flopping about, fixed at its position. Zhu Yao walked over, and with her palm, she patted on its beast head. "Speak, what's your goal? An eleventh-ranked demonic beast can activate the Ascension Tribulation Lightning on its own, there's basically no need to rely on others to ascend."

Sesame paused for a moment, and then, refuted angrily. "When we demonic beasts face our tribulation, there's only one out of ten chance to survive. Lightning naturally suppresses us demonic beasts, and it's even more so if it's the Tribulation Lightning of Ascension. I will be zapped to death."

Yu Yan slightly narrowed his eyes, and coldly spoke. "It might be the case for other demonic beasts, but if it's you, that's impossible."

"……" Sesame was startled, and instantly stopped its struggle.

Zhu Yao suddenly recalled what that old man once said. Sesame was a mystic beast that came from the Higher Realm, which meant that it had once faced the Ascension Tribulation, and had reached the Higher Realm alive. Then, even if it had fell back into the Lower Realm, even if it were to face another round of Tribulation Lightning, it would absolutely not pose any danger to its life.

Having realized this, Zhu Yao slowly rose and took a step back. Little animals are too smart, there's a need for humans to make up for their IQ.

Sesame looked at the two people back and forth. As though it felt that it could no longer hide it any longer, it instantly retrieved the cutesy and pitiful expression it had earlier, and its voice carried a hint of provocation. "Hmph, I didn't expect to be seen through. As expected of a Demigod-stage old monster."

Old monster?

Yu Yan frowned, and responded. "Takes one to know one."

If a Demigod-stage practitioner was considered old, then this demonic beast which had ascended long ago, was as old as the horizon. He turned to looked at his own disciple. Mn, he was not old in the slightest.

Sesame's expression stiffened, and once again clenched its teeth. It took a deep breath to hold it in, and leisurely said. "Indeed, I'm capable of ascending, however, I caused some trouble in the Higher Realm back then, and it's inconvenient for me to be exposed. So, when this little lady… uh, this little kid ascends, I wish to use the name of a contracted beast to return to the Higher Realm, so as to prevent being discovered."

What's the meaning of that pause earlier, hey!

"Why me?" If it only had to find someone that could ascend to bring it along, then would it not be faster if it was her master?

"Because you're easily fooled!"

Pa! Zhu Yao once again gave it a slap. The hell, why do I feel that people that who speaks the truth, are always asking for a beating!?

"Stop hitting, stop hitting!" Sesame dodged her hand in a panic, and explained. "The words I told you earlier are not lies! The reason why I'm following you, is because you're really strong. You have a great fate that an average person do not have."

Great fate? Why did she not know about it? Other than dying frequently, was there any other fates?

"Even if my disciple can ascend." Yu Yan took a step forward. "She does not need to risk doing this. She does not need to offend deities of the Higher Realm right after her ascension."

Only then did Zhu Yao realize this. The hell. This Sesame was clearly using her as a shield.

"But before that, I will use all my abilities to help her become a deity." Sesame looked at Yu Yan. "And in any case, even if I wish to stay here, you can't do anything about it."

Yu Yan's expression sank, and instantly, killing intent rose in all directions.

However, Sesame completely did not mind at all, and continued to provoke him. "If I'm not mistaken, the reason why I'm like this, is because I do not have a single thread of spiritual power in my body. As long as I charge up my spiritual energy by taking in spiritual energy into my body, I will naturally restore myself to my previous form. I had just tried it earlier, and restored a bit of my spiritual power. You're unable to kill me."

Taking in spiritual energy? Zhu Yao was startled for a moment. Did she not have to be struck by lightning? Back then, her master said that the lightning had incidentally charged up the spiritual energy inside her body, and hence, restored her cultivation. So, she only had to replenish her spiritual energy, and did not need to be struck by lightning.

Uh…

She wanted to cry for her own IQ's sake.

Yu Yan went silent, and tightened his fists. Although it was impossible for him to lose, currently, they were not in the Tasyoluk Secret Realm. If they were to fight, he was afraid that it would pull the entire Ancient Hill Sect into it. But to have such a threatening individual staying by his disciple's side, he was unable to stay unworried.

"Lay down the Life and Death Contract."

"Fine!" Seeing that he had compromised, Sesame was joyous, and agreed to it very happily.

Closing its eyes, its four limbs were placed on the ground. It circulated the single strand of spiritual power in its body to summon its own core, and a blue pearl could be seen flying out of its mouth, floating right about its head. Sesame raised out its front paws to touch it, and the core instantly flashed a hint of blood red, and a drop of red liquid was taken from it.

"This is my essence blood!" Sesame turned and looked towards Yu Yan, and then, returned its core into its own body.

Yu Yan spread out his palm, and the drop of blood automatically flew towards him, floating right above its palm. He turned and looked towards his disciple beside him. "Take out your hand."

"Ah?" Zhu Yao was a little dazed from the scene, yet, she still obediently reached out her hand. What is this for?

Yu Yan stretched out his hands and rolled up her sleeves, revealing her entire arm. He pressed the drop of blood into the back of her hand, and instantly, there was an additional red dot on her hand, blood red and dripping.

Why did she feel like she was being tested for her virginity?

Sesame was a little unhappy. Clearly, Life and Death Contracts had always been tapped on the forehead, why did he pressed it on her hand? Recalling that he was its mistress' master, it held his comments back in.

"Alright, from now on, I'm yours." Sesame rolled around on the ground, and returned to its former shameless look. "You have to properly pamper me, alright?"

She felt like beating someone.

"Mistress, I'm going to recover my spiritual energy for now. You must think about me!" After saying that, it took the half of its tail that was severed earlier from the lightning strike, and with one leap and another, it had ran far away.

Zhu Yao: "….."

Just what the hell happened? Can someone explain it to me?

"This is a blood contract!" Yu Yan rolled down her sleeves, and explained. "As long as this contract exists, if you're injured, the same injury will be applied on the body of the contracted. This is a contract for mutual death with demonic beasts."

"So, if I'm injured, it will be injured as well. Then if it's injured, will I…"

"No!"

In other words, it's an one-sided suppression?

"Then if I were to die?" She recalled something.

"Naturally, it will die as well." Yu Yan calmly replied.

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched, and bitterly raised out two fingers. "Master, I have already died twice, because of this, you can't have…"

Yu Yan's expression became even calmer, as he reached out his hand to stroke her head. "Return to the cottage, let me help you inspect your injuries."

Master, is it really alright for you to divert the topic like this? Clearly, you're making a fool out of that mystic beast, right!? And, where did you see that I'm injured? There's absolutely no need to inspect, right!?

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Chapter 64: The Stuck Cultivation

After a few minutes, Zhu Yao then realized how necessary it was to inspect her body.

"Your Azoth Core has been shattered." Yu Yan retracted the divine sense he used to inspect his disciple's Dantian, and his expression was heavy.

"Then, I…" If my Core has been shattered, shouldn't it be game over?

"Although your Core has been shattered, your realm is actually at the Azoth Paragon level." Yu Yan deeply frowned. "It's a little similar to the shattered Core right before nourishing one's Nascent Soul, but, because you currently don't possess spiritual energy, there's completely no trace of you forming your Nascent Soul."

"What master means is… I'm stuck?"

Yu Yan nodded.

The hell, when others nourished their Nascent Souls, either they would die from their Cores being destroyed, or they would successfully raise their cultivation. What's the meaning of hers being stuck right in the middle?

"In this period of time, refrain from taking in spiritual energy to recover your cultivation." Yu Yan instructed with a stern look.

"What happens if I recover my cultivation?"

"If your body possesses spiritual power, you will definitely be forced to form your Nascent Soul. When that time comes, your spiritual power will be insufficient. If you were to take in spiritual energy then, it will cause a spiritual energy disturbance, but if you don't take in spiritual energy, your Nascent Soul formation will fail." When that time came, she would definitely die from her Core being destroyed.

"Then, what am I supposed to do?" Zhu Yao felt like crying. She had the cultivation, yet, not the spiritual power. Did she have to quietly become a cripple for the rest of her life?

"No need to worry." Yu Yan stroked her head. "Wait out as I find a place with abundant lightning spiritual energy, you can directly nourish your Nascent Soul then."

Although that was the case, Zhu Yao knew her situation wasn't optimistic. The spiritual energy in this world all followed a certain rule. For example, water spiritual energy was abundant at the waterside, wood spiritual energy was abundant in forests, fire spiritual energy was abundant in volcanoes, metal spiritual energy was abundant near mines, while earth spiritual energy, even more so, was everywhere.

Yet, she just had to be a Lightning Spirit Vein Holder. She had never known of anywhere abundant with lightning spiritual energy, and a place like that was simply only found in legends. Of course, other than this method, it could be possible with having the various Spirits by the person's side as well. An example would be Xiao Yi's Metal spirit. As long as he willed for all of the metal spiritual energy in the world, he would be able to use it. However, in this world, there were all five of the different Spirits of metal, wood, water, fire and earth, yet, the Lightning Spirit simply did not exist. Isn't this a complete bullshit setting!?

"Chick~" As though it had sensed her depressed feelings, the Wood Spirit leapt out of her divine sense. Stretching a soft green vine, as though it was to console her, the vine wrapped around her wrist. "Chick?"

"This is… the Wood Spirit?" Yu Yan looked at the little tree which suddenly leapt out.

Only then did Zhu Yao realize that she had yet to tell her master about the things regarding the Wood Spirit. "I encountered it in Tasyoluk. Back then, it and Sesame hid in my divine sense, and when I resurrected, they came over as well."

"Mn." Yu Yan nodded. Actually, he had already guessed most of it. His disciple had changed her look, yet, that mystic beast could actually appear instantly by her side, so it had definitely came along with her. If it had hid in her divine sense back then, then it could be understood completely.

"Master, I have something that I need to tell you." Zhu Yao pondered for a moment, and decided that it was still best to clearly explain everything to her master. When she hid the truth from him, it had always caused her to feel a deep guilt and remorse. And, it was not like it was something shameful, so why could she not talk about it? "Actually, I'm not a person from this world."

"Oh." Yu Yan calmly replied.

"….." Oh? Just an oh, and that's it? This reaction wasn't right. "Master, I'm saying, I'm not a person of the cultivation world. I came from another world, a place completely different from here."

"I know that."

"Ah! Ah!?" What did you know? "When did you know about that?"

Yu Yan turned his head and pondered for a moment, before answering. "The first day when you climbed the mountain."

"The hell!" Zhu Yao could not help but swear. The hell was this? Then why the ass was she so anxious earlier for?

"Your words and actions are different from ordinary people." Yu Yan calmly analyzed. "Back then, I guessed that you came from a certain unknown place, and adding your affinity towards Lightning Spiritual Energy that exceeds ordinary people, I'm even more sure about it. Not to mention that you have resurrected twice."

"……" Why did she feel like she was the only idiot in this world?

Resentment….

Raising her head, she shot a resentful lightwave at her master.

However, Yu Yan calmly continued to mess up her hair persistently. "Is there anything else?"

"……" Do not speak to me, I'm very sad now. With my IQ, I might as well catch chickens!

"Although I know of this, do not speak of this easily to anyone else. Understand?"

"Of course! I'm not…"

Oh no, why did she suspect that she was really an idiot!?

A certain master continued to stroke her head.

Zhu Yao might as well tell her master about everything. Beginning from her work in the modern era, to the irregularities after she crossed into this world. However, they had a generation gap of an entire world, so, a lot of effort had to be put in to fill in the gaps.

Hence, the main point had completely derailed.

"What's a computer?"

"Uh… A tool used to calculate."

"The people of your world isn't able to count?"

"No, it's just that using a computer is much faster."

"What's koukou?"

"It's QQ, a tool used to chat."

"You people need to use a tool to chat? Are your bodies naturally crippled?"

", no. It's just that it can be used to send messages through long distances."

"Sound Transmission Talisman?"

"Right!"

"Then, what's a net game?"

"An online game that allows people from all around the world to play as a pastime, at the same time?"

"On line? A game that connects lines together?"

"Line is just a metaphor. Generally speaking, it's a game that allows people from all around the world to play together, even without leaving their own homes."

"A large-scale Sound Transmission Talisman?"

""Mn, something like that."

"The people of your world, used so much effort to make such a large Sound Transmission Talisman, just to play a game as a pastime?" Yu Yan calmly looked at her, and gave her a 'are there huge pits in your brains' look.

"……" What to do? Why did she feel that the people of her world was very silly?

"Master, what happened to Wang Xuzhi?" Zhu Yao decided to change the topic. She really worried that without her around, that little wimp had did something stupid again.

The hand on her head stopped, and a certain master's expression sank. "Tasyoluk has already been closed, naturally, he's on his way back here."

"Tasyoluk!" Zhu Yao was a little shocked. Was it not supposed to open once every five hundred years? Could it be that, this time, her resurrection has costed her five hundred years of time? "When did he set out?"

Yu Yan looked at her strangely. "Naturally, he went with you."

"With me?" Zhu Yao was startled, and suddenly had a guess. "Then master, the place you were heading to earlier…"

"Half of the divine sense that I left with you was forcefully ousted from 'Tasyoluk'." Yu Yan looked at her with a slightly furious expression. "Hence, I decided to rush over to take a look. I did not expect that, the moment I left Jade Forest Mountain, I would sense you on that island."

He was thinking of rushing over to save her, right?

"I admit my mistake." Zhu Yao hurriedly admitted her wrongs. The moment she recalled that punishment earlier, her buttocks ached. Deep in her heart, she was a little moved, but happiness filled most of it. She did not expect that her resurrection this time would be so timely, and there was basically not any difference in time. She gave a thumbs up.

Yu Yan rose. Walking away a few steps, he reached out his hand and chanted an incantation. Not a moment later, a white light flashed, and a white jade pendant laid on the palm of his hand. It was exactly the jade pendant in Tasyoluk he hid his divine sense in. Since his disciple had returned, naturally, his divine sense did not need to be left inside any longer.

He gripped his hand, and the pendant instantly shattered. A white light floated out, and slowly returned into his body.

Zhu Yao went forward to look, and did not see any difference. Originally, she had wanted to learn this sort of cloning technique, however, her master did not have any intention to teach her. He then explained the situation of nourishing a Nascent Soul in detail, various methods to react to them, and his experiences. After pondering for a moment, he explained the various states of a Demigod as well, while he was at it.

Although the time spent from the Nascent Soul stage to a Demigod would take at least a thousand years, or even a few thousand years, this disciple of his had always skipped levels. A month ago, she had just stabilized herself at the early Azoth realm, yet, now, she was beginning to form her Nascent Soul. This speed of skipping three levels, it was still best for him to make early preparations.

Zhu Yao became a little dizzy from his words. The so-called Nascent Soul formation her master spoke of, was actually to use her spiritual energy to refine her divine sense, to the point where her divine sense could be firmly congregated, and also to the degree where it could leave her body. Her master's divine sense clone, was actually the result of his divine sense refinement.

Back then, when she stopped the Metal Spirit in Tasyoluk, she brought about a spiritual energy disturbance. The expanding spiritual energy instantly shattered her Azoth Core, causing her to not be able to form her Nascent Soul. So it was because she did not guide the spiritual energy into her divine sense. As expected, there was a mistake in the way she handled it.

Divine sense was a person's most important part, and was an existence equivalent to a soul, so it could be imagined how much pain one had to endure when one had to refine his or her soul. Zhu Yao silently lit a candle for herself, who was about to form her Nascent Soul.

With this single lecture, it lasted until evening, and only then did her master released her. As someone who had no ability to defend herself, naturally, she was confined by her master. This time, she herself was willing.

She did not know where Sesame ran off either, as it had never returned.

Just when she was about to sleep, suddenly, she heard a familiar voice.

"Sword Mountain's Wang Xuzhi, wishes to meet ancestral-grand master."

Little wimp was back!

Before waiting for the person inside the cottage to respond, Wang Xuzhi who was wearing the sect's uniform flew down. His figure was a little fatigued, and his clothes were still stained with blood that he had yet to clean off. His hair was in a mess, and what he now lacked was just the word "exhausted" on his face. However, his pair of eyes was exceptionally spirited as he stared at Yu Yan.

"This disciple greets ancestral-grand master." Wang Xuzhi gave Yu Yan a bow.

Yu yan frowned, and was clearly a little irritated. Only after he sat down on the stone chair, did he finally nod expressionlessly.

Wang Xuzhi glanced at Zhu Yao who was at the side, and suppressed the curiosity in his heart. "This disciple has something to ask ancestral-grand master about. Ancestral-grand master, please solve this disciple's confusion."

Yu Yan did not reply, his line of sight was not even directed over at him. He never had any patience towards other people.

Wang Xuzhi could only grit his teeth and continued asking. "This disciple wish to know about the little infant Little Bun you brought back ten years ago, whom you had taken as a disciple. Was she actually your previous personal succeeding disciple, Zhu Yao?"

Zhu Yao was shocked. It seemed like the last call she gave him back then at Tasyoluk had exposed her. It was good that she had currently changed into another character.

"Ancestral-grand master, please tell this disciple the truth."

"What does that have to do with you?" Yu Yan raised his head, and cast an expressionless look at him, and replied with this sentence, as though he was asking for a beating. As expected, he hated other people's disciples the most.

Wang Xuzhi choked, and a hint of anger surfaced on his face, yet, he was unable to let it out. Gritting his teeth, he took a deep breath. "This disciple simply wish to tell ancestral-grand master, your second disciple is currently trapped in the 'Tasyoluk' Secret Realm. I request ancestral-grand master to land a helping hand, and tell this disciple if there's any other way of entering the Secret Realm?"

Yu Yan did not answer. He simply turned his head and stared at Zhu Yao.

Uh…

The spectator is innocent.

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