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 236: Friendship that Transcends the Barrier of Species

Zhu Yao returned to ask the ghost officer Ning Yun, and as expected, little wimp had returned to Spiritual Realm. Naturally, he brought away that sealed Ghost King as well. She could not help but feel a little worried. If the bugs she saw were truly the manifestations of resentment, then she was really uncertain how long that soul-beckoning seal could last. She had to meet up with little wimp as soon as possible. But…

"Just where is that damn Spiritual Realm?" She only knew that one could enter Spiritual Realm after attaining a material body, but just how was a ghost supposed to get there? She was presently a human, so it was uncertain if she could even enter it too.

Though Ning Yun standing at the side was stunned for a moment, before pointing upwards. "Spiritual Realm is naturally in the sky."

"Ah?" The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched, as she raised her head to look at the auroras in the sky. "The sky you speak of, can't be referring to what's above us, right?"

"That's right!" Ning Yun nodded in affirmation.

Wasn't this a little too easy? After all, they were two different worlds, was there even a meaning behind them being this close? It's no wonder little wimp returned to Spiritual Realm without leaving behind a message for her. Spiritual Realm was just next door.

Yu Yan frowned. What that ghost said was not false, as he had just released his divine sense and had indeed sensed that there was a frail barrier up above the sky. Thus, he immediately held onto his disciple, rose into the air and flew towards the horizon.

They stopped in mid-air. Zhu Yao raised her head to look at the broad and boundless sky in front of them, and was a little puzzled why they had stopped.

"This is the place." Yu Yan hinted that the border between the two worlds was just right above their heads.

Zhu Yao curiously reached out her hand, and simply saw that what seemed to be a boundless sky earlier, began to produce ripples similar to a water surface, spreading to its surroundings. Her fingertips even felt a tinge of icy chill.

This is water?

Why is there water in the sky? And it's even upside down.

"I believe after crossing it, we will arrive in that so-called Spiritual Realm." Yu Yan said with a stern look.

Zhu Yao: "…" At the very least, it was still a World Crossing Door, so how could it be randomly hanged in the sky? She felt that it was kind of unreliable.

"Let's go." Yu Yan said.

"But…"

"Don't be afraid." Yu Yan reached out his hand to stroke her head. "Your master is here."

"…" Fine then!

For precaution sake, Yu Yan imbued the two of them with a layer of defensive barrier, before flying directly upwards.

Zhu Yao felt that something had flashed past in their surroundings, and her body seemed to be dragged by something, unconsciously pulling her forward. Things similar to streaks of flowing lights were in her surroundings, and she was flying backwards at high speeds. In a blink of an eye, the scenery in front of her changed, and the spiritual energy in the air suddenly turned richer, giving her entire body a comfortable feeling. A large, lush green field appeared above their heads, and there were even various celestial mountains floating upside down.

Before Zhu Yao could even comprehend why the mountains were upside down, she suddenly felt her head feeling heavy while her legs had turned light, as she charged towards the green field.

No wait, she was falling onto the green field!

The mountains were not upside down, she was!

"Master!" Zhu Yao flustered as she shouted out, however, it could not stop her from continuing her fall. She habitually wanted to fly up with her flying sword, only to recall that she basically did not have a transportation artifact on her at all. After that, she wanted to cast a wind type mystic art, but it was already too late…

Boom. Her head was planted into the dirt, and her face was even facing the ground.

A certain master who descended a step later: "…"

Haah. No matter what he did, he couldn't stop his disciple's death courting footsteps. What to do?

Yu Yan sighed. Casting an art with his hands, he materialized a strand of divine energy and pulled out his disciple who was covered in dirt. Fortunately, he had placed a defensive barrier on her, allowing her to be unscathed. Mn, other than… being a little dirty.

Zhu Yao spat out a mouthful of mud and dirt. "Puuf, master…" Can you stop trolling your disciple? What happened to the promised 'Your master is here'? You liar!

Yu Yan cast a Dirt Removal Art on her with a calm look, instantly reverting her into a clean stupid disciple. Then, he said with a serious and stern look. "Don't stray too far from me."

Clearly you were the one who had his teleportation delayed alright?

He looked at her messy hair.

Yu Yan frowned. He could not help but pull down her hairband. "Sit down here." Taking a few steps back, a wooden comb suddenly appeared in his hands. He waved her over, and looked as though he wanted to take care of her hair.

"…" Why does master carry a comb with him at all times? Your living skill toolbox is a little too complete, isn't it?

As an expert at life, his technique was truly refined. Her hair which was like a bird's nest earlier, under his master's nimble hands, reverted to a bun in just a few moments. Zhu Yao shook about for a moment, it seemed to be rather firm too.

Yu Yan sized her up for a moment, and as though he was finally satisfied, he slowly said. "Done!"

Zhu Yao stood up. Raising her head, she saw a familiar blue sky above her head, and though there wasn't a single irregularity, she knew that on the other side of the sky was the Underworld. "Master, what do you think about this Spiritual Realm?"

Theoretically speaking, the separation between the Three Thousand Worlds were very distinct, and breaking through these barriers were very difficult. For example, when ascending to Divine Realm from the mortal realm, one had to experience countless tribulations before they could reach Divine Realm through the Light of Guidance passageway. Not to mention, as a Black Tortoise of the God Race back then, she even had to expend an entire world's worth of godly energy, along with the cost of her life, to forcefully open the World Crossing Door.

However, the way to cross into Spiritual Realm from the Underworld was too easy. Other than experiencing a slight delay, it was basically similar to going on a vacation, where one just had to take a car ride to reach his destination.

"Your master does not know either." Yu Yan sighed. "I speculate that the connection between this world and the Underworld is extremely intimate, where the two worlds rely on each other. Most probably, they are a single entity in the first place."

A single entity? But clearly the two worlds are completely different though?

"But." Yu Yan's tone changed. "The spiritual energy in this realm is extremely rich, and though scattered in all directions, there is hardly any difference in density to speak of." Compared to the Underworld, which did not have a single strand of spiritual energy at all.

Rich spiritual energy, did that not mean that one could progress through their cultivation quickly as well? She wondered just what was little wimp's cultivation level. She seemed to have forgotten to ask him about it back then as well.

Though they had already arrived in Spiritual Realm, finding a person in this vast world was truly not easy. After discussing for a moment, the two decided to first head to the nearest practitioner's town to make inquiries.

The grass plains they were in were extremely vast, but fortunately, there was a practitioner's town just a few dozen kilometers away. Yu Yan simply released and swept his divine sense around, and instantly found its relative position. Then, he brought his disciple and flew directly over.

That town was not huge, and was different compared to the practitioner's towns which Zhu Yao had encountered before. There wasn't a single concealment formation established in this place, as though they were not worried that mortals would mistakenly enter at all. Though, the sky above the practitioner's town was really lively, with practitioners flying here and there all around, and they even brought along various spiritual beasts next to them.

Zhu Yao felt a little curious. Practitioners raising spiritual beasts was very common, but it was rare to see practitioners bringing them outside so openly. After all, most demonic beasts did not carry spiritual consciousnesses, and practitioners were generally afraid of inciting unnecessary conflicts. But it seemed that the people here had already gotten used to such a sight. Towards these spiritual beasts next to the practitioners, most of them would not even bat a glance. Furthermore, most of the demonic beasts were obediently staying next to their owners, and there did not seem to be any conflicts arising at all. Most of the practitioners on the streets seemed to be selling non-imprinted demonic beast eggs too. It seemed like demonic beasts were trending in Spiritual Realm, huh.

Zhu Yao went around to inquire information about little wimp. Strangely, the moment she spoke of the two words 'Wang Xuzhi', the eyes those practitioners looked at her with were really weird.

She faintly sensed that something was amiss, but after asking several more people, she still did not obtain any results.

"Are you certain that the person is surnamed Wang, and his name is Xuzhi?" A practitioner selling talisman papers repeated to confirm her question.

"Yes, have you seen him?" Zhu Yao's eyes brightened.

He sized her up with a glance, and then, with probing intentions, questioned. "You can't be talking about that person from Ancient Azure Sect, right?"

"Ancient Azure Sect?" The Spiritual Realm sect which little wimp was in? "I'm not exactly certain."

"I wonder… what are you to him?" That practitioner asked.

"My s…" She was just about to say 'son', but after pondering for a moment, she corrected herself. "He's my little brother."

The moment that practitioner heard this, he was suddenly enraged. He scornfully waved her away and said. "Shoo shoo shoo, a mere Foundation dolly actually dares to make fun of this old man. Leave, don't interrupt my business."

"…" Why did he suddenly have a mood swing?

Zhu Yao pouted, and had no choice but to turn around and leave. Though, she did receive some useful information. No matter the case, let's first head over to that Ancient Azure Sect and take a look there.

Information about Ancient Azure Sect was rather easy to inquire about. Just by asking a random person, she was able to find out its relative location.

She no longer dilly-dallied and immediately located her master. Then, she told him the strange things that happened earlier, and was faintly a little worried. Could that little wimp Wang Xuzhi have offended someone in Spiritual Realm?

"Furthermore, I can't see through the cultivation levels of those practitioners. They are most likely above the Foundation stage." She was beginning to worry about little wimp even more.

"No." Yu Yan suddenly refuted.

"Ah?" What's no?

He shook his head, and sternly said. "Yu Yao, the crowd of practitioners in that town, all possess cultivation levels above the Nascent Soul stage."

"Ah? Ah!?"

Zhu Yao instantly widened her eyes. She couldn't have misheard, right? Nascent Soul? The hell, just which Nascent Soul practitioner would set up stalls, and sell talisman papers and spiritual beasts? Her outlook of the world had received an unprecedented blow.

"With how rich the spiritual energy is in this realm, it's normal for cultivation to progress quickly."

But that's a little too quick, isn't it!?

"Furthermore…" Yu Yan continued. "I sensed a practitioner with a cultivation level above the Demigod stage residing in the town."

"Above a Demigod?" Zhu Yao was startled. "An Earth Deity?"

"It shouldn't be!" Yu Yan frowned. "Without a divine body, his abilities are most likely incomparable to an Earth Deity. However, he is indeed above a Demigod."

"Then why hasn't he ascended yet?" Wasn't it said that after the Demigod stage, one had to ascend?

"This is also a problem which your master is unclear of." Theoretically speaking, that was indeed the case. However, after inspecting with his divine sense, that person indeed did not carry traces of having faced any tribulation, in other words, he couldn't have his body remodelled into a divine physique by the Light of Guidance. "It seems like the Heavenly Dao has allowed existences with cultivation levels above the Demigod stage to reside in this world."

"…" This Heavenly Dao is a little too easy-going, isn't it? Putting aside the heaven-bending bug, did mortals have to be this heaven-bending as well? In this world, where Demigods could be found anywhere and Nascent Soul practitioners numbered more than dogs, how the hell was she, a mere Foundation practitioner, going to survive here!?

Was it too late to regret now?

After finding out the laws of this world towards a practitioner's cultivation level was especially lenient, her master said that he would release the suppression of his own cultivation level. Naturally, Zhu Yao raised both of her hands in approval. He was a High Deity in the first place, and in order to prevent bringing down the Light of Guidance, he had been suppressing his cultivation level to the Demigod stage. In the world they were in now, it was evident that the upper limit of a practitioner's cultivation level was extremely lenient. Thus, he no longer had the slightest of worry.

With a higher level teammate, Zhu Yao's chances at victory in battles would be higher. After finding a quiet place and setting down a few formations, Zhu Yao sat at the side and watched her master slowly release the suppression.

In order to prevent himself from releasing over the limit and end up ascending instead, Yu Yan raised his cultivation level a step at a time. First, he raised up to the Profound Deity level. Then, the Gold Deity level. And then, he raised it to the Ink Deity level before stopping. He explained. "I faintly sense the loosening of the Heavenly Dao. I'm afraid that if I raise it any more than this, I will bring down the Ascension Lightning Tribulation."

It seemed like the limit of this world was the cultivation level of an Ink Deity.

"Let's go to Ancient Azure Sect." Yu Yan stood up.

"Alright." Zhu Yao nodded. Walking over, she sized up her master whose body was emitting out an even purer aura than before. With a wave of his hand, he summoned his divine sword, and when he turned around, his ink-black hair swept passed Zhu Yao's face. A strange feeling instantly rose in the depths of her heart. "Master, why I do feel that… you have gotten a little shorter?"

Yu Yan turned to glance at her, and then reached out his hand to stroke her head. "Don't be nonsensical."

"…" Was it just her imagination? But her master was a head taller than her, so his hair clearly shouldn't be able to touch her.

Yu Yan instantly rose into the air on his sword, and then flew in Ancient Azure Sect's direction.

Zhu Yao however kept feeling that something was amiss. The sky was already beginning to darken, as the sun was slowly setting in the west.

Yu Yan's sword flying speed however suddenly slowed, while the huge figure in front of her was shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eyes.

"Master!" Zhu Yao exclaimed, as she pulled onto the person in front of her.

His figure shook. Like a punctured balloon, the sword shook about. Sometimes it would go up high, while sometimes it would go down low.

"Master, what happened?" Don't scare me, hey.

The sword shook for a few moments, and then it lost control and fell downwards. She had no choice but to take over in mid-air, and was able to barely land safely on the ground. She tensely hugged onto the person in front, and what she was holding onto with her hands was… a child of about five years old in age. This was… her master?

This was not logical!

Why did he suddenly turn into a child, hey!?

"Master, master!!!" Zhu Yao's heart clenched in an instant, as she worriedly called out a few times.

Responding to her was a set of light and gentle breathing sounds.

Zhu Yao: "…"

She cupped his wrist, found out that his pulse was normal and his breathing was stable. Other than turning small, there wasn't anything irregular about his body.

He was just purely… sleeping!

Zhu Yao's face darkened. Was this the after-effects of releasing his cultivation suppression? It seemed like he couldn't be woken up for quite a while.

Presently, she had no choice but to head towards Ancient Azure Sect for now. Heaving a deep sigh of relief, she resigned to her fate and carried her miniature master.

Just as she was about to continue forward.

Suddenly, O′Ouu~~, a black figure leapt out of the forest. A gigantic demonic beast suddenly blocked her path.

Zhu Yao's heart clenched, and at that moment, she suddenly felt like cussing at its mom. Did it had to be so coincidental? She was just a Foundation trash, hey!

Wait a minute! Calm down! Thinking about it, ever since she became a dragon, a large half of the demonic beasts carried feelings of friendship towards her that transcended the barrier of species. It might be the same for this one too?

Zhu Yao felt slightly relieved from the depths of her heart, as she sternly stared at this demonic beast. We're friends, right? Right, right?

That demonic beast walked forward a step at a time, and then…

Ahmu. It swallowed both master and disciple in an instant!

What happened to the promised friendship that transcended the barrier of species!? -Faints!-

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Chapter 237: Beast With Pitifully Low Intelligence

Zhu Yao encountered a beast. Then… she was eaten.

Though she was merely a Foundation trash, she had after all cultivated for so many years, so her basic reflexes were still present. That was why she buffed herself with a defensive barrier at that very instant, and with a wave of her hand, she was planning to cast an ice type mystical art to retaliate.

That demonic beast however suddenly loosened its mouth, and stared at her with widened curious eyes. It even blinked several times. It then approached her, and sniffed.

In an instant, as though it was frightened, it leapt a huge step back. It gave her another glance, and then opened its mouth wide…

Puaah~~

Huaaaa~ It puked.

Just how terrible did she taste that it had to puke in such a manner?

"Hey hey hey!" Zhu Yao shouted with a darkened expression.

That demonic beast was given a fright, and all its fur were standing straight on ends like a hedgehog. It looked as though it wanted to retreat, but because of a misstep, its feet slipped and had almost fallen on the ground. In a fluster, it leapt a few meters back.

Yo, it sure was cowardly. It seemed like it was a beast whelp.

The tension in the depths of her heart was instantly swept away completely.

Recalling before, it seemed like she was able to understand the demonic beast language in the past, and she wondered if this skill was still present. She then took a step forward. "Umm, little beastie, can you tell me where's Ancient Azure Sect?"

That demonic beast did not reply. It simply stared at her nervously. Then, it shifted its paws, and decisively took a step back.

Was she that scary?

"Is Ancient Azure Sect close by?" She took another step forward.

The demonic beast moved two steps back.

"How big is this forest?" She continued to take another step.

It took another three steps back.

"Do you have to be that frightened of me?"

Another four steps back.

"Stop retreating!"

Five steps…

"Behind you, there's…"

Boom~

A scream pierced through the skies!

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched, as she finished what she was about to say before. "A hole."

Where's your intelligence as a demonic beast?

Sighing, Zhu Yao directly walked over.

That hole was very deep, and there were even formation ripples in the surroundings. It was most likely a trap which practitioners especially set down to capture demonic beasts.

That demonic beast with pitifully low intelligence was currently desperately struggling within. From the fear he had in the beginning, it slowly turned into anger and rage. At one moment, it was desperately digging into the walls, while on other moments, it would crash into the surrounding formations with all its might. However, it was simply unable to leave that hole, and its claws were mainly deflected by the formation, leaving several scars on its body.

If this continued, it would torture itself to death.

"Hey!" Zhu Yao could not help but call out.

The demonic beast was startled. It suddenly raised its head, and when it saw that it was her, it instantly quietened down as though it's 'pause' button was pressed. Its body trembled, and it no longer dared to dig the walls and collide with the formation. It began to weakly shrink in the corner of the walls, as though it wanted to conceal itself. Yet, all its rubbing merely caused dirt and soil to slide down the walls.

Finally, when it realized there was nowhere it could hide in, it curled itself into a ball and began to let out soft, sniffling sounds. Its gigantic body continued to tremble.

"Uh…" Was it crying?

Owuu… owuu…

Its voice grew louder. That pair of large, pitch-black eyes released a huge amount of water, drenching its beautiful looking white fur.

"Stop crying!"

"Oooowuu…"

"The hell you're crying for? I'm the one who was almost eaten by you, right?"

"Ooooowuu…"

"Furthermore, you fell down on your own, right."

"Oooooooowuu…"

It began to cry even sadder than before, and in the end, it was actually rolling about in the depths of the hole.

Yo, it's even gasping for air now. Zhu Yao's face darkened. Haah, forget it, it's only a beast.

Zhu Yao glanced at the surroundings. Then, she cast a wind type mystic art, swirling up the fallen log at the side and dragging it into the hole, perfectly pressing onto the formation core in the depths of the hole. With a flash of white light, that formation instantly lost its effects.

"Stop ou-ing, come up!"

That furball blanked for a moment, and then a moment later, tilting its head, it looked at the log which had turned into a bridge. It then glanced at the formation which had lost its effects. Its pair of eyes brightened as it happily leapt up. Its front paws stepped on the log, and it climbed out with just two trots. It then happily bustled about on the ground.

Raising its head, it glanced at her, before it turned about and ran deep into the forest. In an instant, it disappeared from sight.

Great. This ungrateful little beastie bitch.

It seemed like she shouldn't hope for it to lead the way. She raised her head and looked at the night sky. Zhu Yao had no choice but to carry her miniature master and head into the depths of the forest. From the information she received from the town, Ancient Azure Sect should not be too far away now.

Walking in the forest on foot was different from flying on a sword. The things she had to look out for in the surroundings were many, and it was very easy for her to lose her sense of direction. She really wanted to fly, but unfortunately, she did not have a transportation artifact! But, as long as it's a deity sect, it should be located above a spiritual pulse. There should be nothing wrong with walking towards the place with rich amount of spiritual energy.

After walking for about two hours, she finally saw what looked like a mountain gate.

On a gigantic stone wall, the two words 'Ancient Azure' was written. Next to the stone wall however, was a vast ocean.

Zhu Yao heaved a sigh of relief, as she immediately walked towards the ocean. The moment she went past the stone wall, the scenery in front of her twisted. The ocean suddenly disappeared, and what materialized was a range celestial mountains and blessed lands. Gigantic mountains floated in the sky, the place was filled with vibrant lights, and auspicious clouds filled the sky.

"May I ask what matters this Daoist has come to Ancient Azure Sect for?" A male voice rang from the left. A man dressed in a light robe walked out from the teleportation formation, and his face carried a courteous smile.

Zhu Yao guessed that he should be a disciple of the sect who was in charge of guarding the mountain gate, though she was still unable to see through his level of cultivation. It seemed like his cultivation level was above hers as well.

"Fellow Daoist." Because she was carrying a person on her back, she could only give a courteous nod. "This one is named Zhu Yao, and I'm here in your esteemed sect to look for an old acquaintance."

That man said with the same courteous tone. "May I ask who fellow Daoist is looking for?"

"He's surnamed Wang, and his name is Xuzhi. I wonder if he's presently in the sect?"

The man was startled for a moment, and an estranged look flashed past his face. He sized her up for a moment, and his brows sank into a frown. His expression no longer carried the courtesy it had before, and he said with a hint of anger. "I have seen many women like you, it's no use. Leave! If you wish to enter our Ancient Azure Sect, you must first have the aptitude to do so?"

"Eh?" What did he mean?

However, as he waved his hands irritatingly, he continued. "Leave, hurry and leave."

"Fellow Daoist, I don't wish to enter Ancient Azure…"

"Scram, scram!" He waved his hands with an irritated look. "If you don't leave now, then don't blame me for being discourteous." As he said that, he really reached out his hands and pushed her outside.

Just as Zhu Yao was about to explain, a furious roar suddenly resounded from behind them.

With a swoosh, a white figure cut between them, and in an instant, the gate guardian disciple was pushed onto the ground by a paw. It furiously bared its teeth at him.

It was that cowardly little demonic beast earlier. Why was it here?

"Heavenly Honourable Bai Yuan." That disciple suddenly exclaimed. He looked at the ferocious beast, and then turned to glance at Zhu Yao. In an instant, he had a look of sudden realization, as he hurriedly crawled up and bowed towards that demonic beast. "This disciple was blind, and did not recognize that this lady was Heavenly Honourable's esteemed guest. I seek Heavenly Honourable's forgiveness!"

That demonic beast blew a blast of hot air at him, as though he was extremely furious. It turned around, not batting him another eye. However, the disciple was still throwing out apologies one after another.

What was this situation? Could it be that this stupid beast was raised by Ancient Azure Sect? Furthermore, it seemed like it had a rather high status, to the point where even human practitioner disciples did not dare to offend it?

Zhu Yao curiously sized the beast up, and that beast trembled from her stares. Earlier, it was filled with a tyrannical aura when it was bullying other people, but when given stares by her, it instantly shrank back. It timidly glanced at her, as though it was somehow frightened by her. With a thud, it once again ran off, disappearing from sight.

Zhu Yao: "…" Just how afraid of her was it?

"This esteemed guest, I was unaware of your identity earlier and had ended up offending you. I hope you will forgive this lowly one." The disciple instantly changed out of his furious temper earlier, and was now passionately welcoming her. "Esteemed guest, please follow me to Main Peak."

Zhu Yao nodded, as she followed him into the teleportation formation. The formation light flashed, and she had already arrived at the front of the towering main hall.

"Where's Wang Xuzhi?" She had thought that he would immediately bring her to where little wimp was, but she never expected that the gate guardian disciple would courteously guide her to a seat in the hall.

That disciple explained. "Unfortunately, our Sect Master is presently in closed-door training, and it's inconvenient for him to receive you. The sect affairs are presently being temporarily managed by our Grand Elder. Esteemed guest, please wait for a short moment, this lowly one shall inform Elder of your arrival."

After saying that, he left the hall, most probably heading off to inform that Elder. Zhu Yao pondered for a moment. If Wang Xuzhi was really a disciple of Ancient Azure Sect, and she wanted to look for him, greeting the manager was indeed very necessary.

Then she should just wait patiently!

Her master had yet to awaken, and it wasn't a good idea to carry him on her back the entire time. Thus, she pulled two chairs together and placed him on the chairs, allowing him to lie down comfortably.

Only then did she begin to inspect this great hall. The longer she looked at it, the more familiar it felt.

No matter was it the shapes of the chairs, the looks of the tables, the curtains hanging within the hall and even that person coming in through the door was…

"Junior-martial nephew Zi Mo!" Zhu Yao exclaimed.

When her words fell, the person, who had just stepped into the hall, slipped, and had almost planted his head onto the ground.

"Little… Little martial aunt!" Zi Mo looked at her with widened eyes. "You're still alive… No, you're already dead?"

"…" Why did these words sound so strange?

"Why are you here?" He had a face of utter disbelief.

"Not just me, my master is here as well." She pointed to the person sleeping on the chairs.

"What? Ancestral-martial uncle is dead as well?"

"Uh…" Was there a need to curse people to death straight after seeing each other?

Zhu Yao really did not expect that she would encounter someone familiar again. Furthermore, it was even the former Ancient Hill Sect Master Zi Mo.

Similarly, after he fell, he went to the Underworld, awakened his spiritual consciousness, achieved a spiritual body and made his way to Spiritual Realm. Then, he joined this Ancient Azure Sect and cultivated a step at a time. Finally, he managed to take up his old job as a Sect Master. Until a hundred years ago, when he passed on this responsibility to his disciple and took the back seat.

Furthermore, his disciple was none other than little wimp Wang. Wang Xuzhi was presently the Sect Master of Ancient Azure Sect, and it was thus no wonder everyone would look at her with such eyes when she brought up his name. He was actually a Sect Master. Most probably, they had all treated her as someone wanting to hug his thighs, right?

"Where's little wimp?" Zhu Yao asked.

Zi Mo's expression sank, and only a moment later did he speak up. "When he returned from the Underworld back then, he unknowingly carried severe injuries. Presently, he's in isolation, tending to his injuries."

"He's injured?" Zhu Yao's heart clenched, and after recalling for a moment. "That's not right. Back then, his injuries were not serious. So why did he need to go into isolation?"

"Little martial aunt, you're aware of why he's injured?"

Zhu Yao recounted to him the incident in the Underworld, and then brought up the matters about resentment.

"But back then, when he returned, his injuries were indeed of great severity." Zi Mo said with a heavy expression. "Most of his meridians were damaged, and I had many times wanted to treat his injuries in his stead, but none of my treatments were effective. They were basically irreparable."

"How is that possible?" Her meridians had shattered into smithereens several times, but she would always still be able to fix them up. Could it be that her meridians could be recycled, while little wimp's had a one-time characteristic?

Wait a minute, the thing that injured little wimp back then seemed to be that Ghost King.

Could it be…

"Where did little wimp place the talisman that had the Ghost King sealed in it?"

"Talisman?" Zi Mo was startled, his face was filled with confusion. "What talisman?"

The hell! As she had thought, he had yet to deal with it.

She instantly grabbed onto his collar. "Bring me to him, now, immediately!"

Zi Mo understood that this matter was not as simple as it seemed. Without the slightest of hesitation, he turned around, and just as he was about to lead her out of the hall.

The earth suddenly shook. Sharp ghostly cries reverberated one after another. At the front-right of the mountain peak, a pillar of black miasma rose into the sky, piercing straight through the skyline. The black miasma slowly gathered together, and a gigantic savage human figure was formed in an instant.

"Xuzhi!" Zi Mo exclaimed. Summoning his flying sword, he flew in the direction of the miasma.

"The hell, wait for me!" She did not have a transportation artifact, hey!

Just as she was chase after him, something tugged her waistline, and when she turned around, she collided into a chest that carried a chilling aura. "Master! You're awake!" Even his height had returned to normal.

"Mn." Yu Yan responded. Hugging onto his disciple, he flew towards Zi Mo's direction.

In a flash, they had already arrived at the entrance of a cave residence. That place was exactly below that Ghost King. Strands of miasma were floating about within the residence. Compared to those in the sky, the miasma was a little thin here. However, the 'bug' words could still be seen very clearly. These were the resentment left behind by that Ghost King.

Zhu Yao walked in, and sitting within the building was little wimp. He seemed to have suffered grave injuries as he was puking out a mouthful of blood. Some black wisps of air were even encircling his body. His face was pale to the extent where not a single strand of red could be seen, and Zi Mo was presently behind him treating his injuries. However, it seemed to be ineffective.

"Little wimp!" Zhu Yao's heart clenched. Why did it turn out like this?

Wang Xuzhi weakly raised his head. Seeing that it was her, his eyes shone, and he pulled the corners of his lips. "Big sis Zhu Yao, it's great that you're alright."

"The one who's injured is you. Just what happened?"

He did not reply. It seemed like he did not have much strength remaining.

Yu Yan however stepped forward and pulled up his hand to check his pulse. With a cold tone, he said. "Resentment has entered his body."

"What?" Zhu Yao was stunned.

The horrifying cries outside were growing even louder. Yu Yan frowned, and instructed. "Yu Yao, seal it."

Zhu Yao's eyes shone, and at that moment, Yu Yan's body had already flashed, as he flew straight towards that Resentment Ghost King in the sky.

"Little martial aunt?" Zi Mo's face was puzzled. "What did ancestral-grand uncle mean?"

"Leave it to me!" Zhu Yao did not reply him directly, and instead sat in a lotus position behind Wang Xuzhi. The injuries on little wimp's body was never healed the entire time, most probably due to the influence of resentment. There was basically no way to exterminate resentment, and if left as it is, little wimp's injuries would only worsen, and small injuries would turn into heavy injuries as well.

Since resentment was the embodiment of all negative emotions, then it's rather similar to devilish energy. That was why her master reminded her that she should try the sealing arts.

Zhu Yao took a deep breath, and immediately sensed the presence of resentment within little wimp's body. Circulating her spiritual energy, she gathered the resentment at a single spot, and then activated the sealing arts. In an instant, golden runic symbols flashed, which then seeped into Wang Xuzhi's body and firmly sealed the bundle of miasma.

Success!

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Chapter 238: Warrior, You're Pregnant!

Zhu Yao heaved a sigh of relief. She immediately proceeded to circulate her spiritual energy and mend little wimp's meridians. They were not severe injuries in the first place, and without the influence of resentment, he was recovering very quickly. The miasma that had been encircling around him had also gathered in the seal above his abdomen as well. It slowly condensed, and finally turned into a three-lettered word – bug.

Zhu Yao's hands trembled, and she had almost choked.

This was illogical! Why did little wimp turn into a bug? -Faints!-

"What kind of imprint is this?" Standing on the side, Zi Mo stared at the seal that floating in front of Wang Xuzhi as he asked in a perplexed manner.

Zhu Yao was startled. "You can see it?"

Zi Mo nodded. "The mystic arts little martial aunt demonstrated is indeed extraordinary. I have never seen a formation imprint like this. I wonder what kind of runic symbol is this?"

"This isn't a runic symbol." Zhu Yao's heart was in a mess. She had a faint feeling that this bug was different from the rest that she had encountered in the past. She carefully inspected little wimp. She might as well take the opportunity while he was unconscious, and immediately strip off his clothes.

"Little martial aunt, what are you doing?" Zi Mo had a fearful look.

"I'm checking if he has another similar imprint on his body."

Zi Mo's expression darkened even further. "Then… Then there's no need to take off his pants, right?"

Zhu Yao's hands paused, and then released her hands from his underpants. "…"

The hell! She had gotten used to it!

After carefully inspecting little wimp's naked body, as expected, there was another three-lettered word 'bug' below his abdomen. "Hey, old man. Then are you able to see this?"

"Naturally!" Zi Mo nodded. Earlier, little martial aunt had sealed something, so Xuzhi having runic symbols on his body was very normal as well.

As expected, Zhu Yao heaved a sigh of relief. Since Zi Mo was able to see this as well, it proved that this bug was not like the ones before where only she was capable of seeing them. The reason why little wimp had these words on his body, was because of the resentment in his body! The true bug was resentment itself, and not little wimp.

Wang Xuzhi was already beginning to slowly open his eyes, and his face now carried a hint of blood redness. Big sis Zhu Yao?"

"Little wimp, how do you feel?" Zhu Yao went forward to hold him.

He smiled. "I'm much better now, I…" His words paused halfway through. He lowered his head and looked at his body which merely had a single pair of underpants remaining. He instantly stiffened. His entire being was dyed in red like a prawn, and his voice began to tremble. "Zhu… Zhu, zhu, zhu… Big sis Zhu…"

"I'm telling you, I didn't do anything!" Zhu Yao leapt back, and raised her hand up to swear.

Zi Mo threw a scornful glance at her. He silently looked at her right hand, and in its grasp, was a robe designed for men.

"I can explain this." Zhu Yao hurriedly threw it back to him. This truly was just a mistake! Listen to my explanation!

Puuah…

Wang Xuzhi, however, suddenly opened his mouth and puked out a mouthful of old blood.

It can't be. He puked out blood from anger.

Believe me, I'm not a pervert, hey.

"Xuzhi!" Zi Mo frowned. Taking a step forward, he cupped Wang Xuzhi's wrist and checked his pulse, while not forgetting to turn his head around to glare at her. Wang Xuzhi however still had a flushed red face, not caring that he was still puking out blood. He threw the robe onto himself in a fluster.

Zhu Yao: "…" Why did she feel that she was a trash of a man? There's something wrong with this scene!

Zi Mo carefully inspected for a short while, and his expression grew even weirder. His face was green in one moment, and purple in the next. Finally, it turned completely pale, as though he had just realized some terrifying matter. His entire body stiffened.

Zhu Yao's heart clenched. "Old man, what happened to him?" Theoretically speaking, she was very focused in her treatment, so there shouldn't be any problems with little wimp.

The corner of Zi Mo's cheeks twitched, and he replied stiffly. "His… The flow of his pulse is smooth and refined, like a pearl rolling on a plate…"

"What does that mean?" Speak human, can you?

"This is…" His face had already twisted into a blob, and he said with emphasis on every single word. "A sign of pregnancy."

Hss…

The robe in Wang Xuzhi's hands instantly tore into two pieces.

The place was instantly filled with silence.

Zi Mo raised his head and his face was filled with a pleading look. "Little martial aunt, this…"

"I didn't do it!" Zhu Yao said on reflex.

Zi Mo: "…"

Wang Xuzhi: "…"

"I'm saying, I didn't get the opportunity to do anything."

"Ah pui… The child really isn't mine!"

Zi Mo: -_-#

Wang Xuzhi: -_-

"No, that's not it. I'm not going to take responsibility!"

"囧"

"囧"

The hell, her words were becoming messier the more she spoke, hey.

"What responsibility do you need to take?" An ice-cold male voice sounded. A certain someone who had just defeated a mob, suddenly appeared at the door.

Master, kajima…

Listen to my explanation!

Wang Xuzhi was pregnant, and the child was not hers! The child was not hers! The child was not hers! Important matters must be said thrice. A setting like this that obliterated the three views, she rejected it right from the beginning! However, from the discussion she, Zi Mo, and her master had, the three specialists confirmed the reality that Wang Xuzhi was becoming a (mother).

Now then, here's the question. Where's the father?

Ah pui… How did the child come about?

After the three specialists consulted among each other and carefully investigated this matter, they came up with a conclusion. The signs of pregnancy found on little wimp's body was due to resentment. Back then when it was being sealed, the resentment accumulated in the position of abdomen, and was then sealed nearby his Dantian. The signs of pregnancy on little wimp's body were actually ripples emitted from the sealed resentment.

If they wanted to scatter away the resentment in his body, they had to first release the seal. If they could not instantly expel the resentment, the resentment would spread throughout his entire body again. Though little wimp's injuries had more or less recovered, he did not have the lightning spirit vein, and was basically unable to expel resentment. If her master landed a hand, his body would not be able to endure the lightning might either.

All they could do was wait till his injuries had completely recovered.

To summarize, the conclusion was: Let it be for now.

But two days later, though Wang Xuzhi's condition was a lot better, his belly had suddenly grown big. He already had the look of a usual four to five months pregnant woman. A good young man with talents in both literature and arts, suddenly had an additional beer belly.

His distressed master Zi Mo immediately invited Yu Yan and Zhu Yao over for a meeting.

Yu Yan seriously checked his pulse.

Zhu Yao stood at the side and stared straight at little wimp…'s belly. She really could not restrain her sinister hand from touching it, and strangely, there were really movements coming from inside. "Warrior, you're about to give birth!"

"Big sis Zhu Yao!" Wang Xuzhi's expression darkened, as he glared at her resentfully.

Yu Yan's eyes swept towards his disciple's disobedient claw, and his brows furrowed. Releasing the hand he was using to check Wang Xuzhi's pulse, he pulled back his disciple's claw in passing.

"How is it?" Zhu Yao immediately shifted her attention, and asked. "Is it a boy? Or a girl?"

Everyone else: "…"

"The resentment is simply trying to break out of the seal." Yu Yan coldly said. "There's no need to worry. The more it wants to break out, when we're going to expel it in the future, it will become easier to do so."

Looking at this, this 'pregnant' condition was actually a good phenomenon. Zhu Yao and Zi Mo heaved sighs of relief.

"Thank you, ancestral-grand uncle." Zi Mo's face was filled with smiles.

Yu Yan did not respond, and simply tightly held onto his disciple's claw. He immediately pulled her out of the door, as though he did not want to stay for even a moment longer.

Zhu Yao had no choice but to turn her head around as they walked, and waved her hands at little wimp. "Little wimp, nurse your injuries well. I will come again tomorrow to see you… and your child!"

Eh, there seemed to be something strange with her words?

Yu Yan directly sealed that Ghost King above a floating mountain in Ancient Azure Sect, and then placed down countless formations suppressing it. Unless the entire mountain was obliterated, it was basically impossible for the Ghost King to escape. Naturally, Zhu Yao did not have any opinion on this. The main reason why she was here in Spiritual Realm was because of this Ghost King in the first place. The techniques behind her master's formations far surpassed hers, and since he made a move, everything was naturally well and proper.

For precautions sake, she and her master was living on that mountain peak itself. One, to observe it, and two, in order to scatter the resentment after Wang Xuzhi had fully recovered. Three was…

"Within a month, you must form your Azoth Core." Yu Yan said with a stern look.

"Ah?" Zhu Yao felt like crying. "Great King, please let me go." After every reincarnation, she had to always start cultivating again from the beginning, it was really wounding her heart, you know? Though she was a good student with good academic performance, she had only gone through the college entrance examinations once, alright?

"Begin closed-door training right now!"

"Master…" Kajima.

"Yu Yao." Yu Yan stroked her head. After pondering for a moment, he grabbed onto her hands interlocked his fingers with hers. "You're currently merely at the Foundation stage, if you don't hurry and raise your cultivation, how are you going to follow me back to Divine Realm?"

But she was truly frustrated with cultivation. Just how many times had she gone back and forth with her cultivation already?

Yu Yan bent down and hugged her in his embrace. With a sunken voice, he said. "Zhu… Yao, you always your own intentions, so your master has never stopped you from doing anything. But you can't let your master wait forever."

His voice was calm, just like any other day, and it carried a hint of chilling intent as always. However, Zhu Yao faintly sensed a piercing pain in the depths of her heart. After a long while, she replied. "Alright."

"Master!"

"Mn?"

"In the future, can you always call me Zhu Yao?"

"Yu Wang is pretty good." He said with a serious expression.

"Your sister!"

Zhu Yao felt that the 'Ghost King Peak' was a little strange recently. Every time she woke up from her trance state, she would always see some foreign objects above her windowsill. In the beginning, they were just a few stalks of fresh flowers, and they were placed on her windowsill with dirt and soil still on them.

She had thought that it was her master who sent them, and was even excited for the first half of the day. Her master had actually begun to understand romance. However, when she brought the potted plant-like flowers to a certain master for confirmation, he sternly denied it.

"Flowers? One, they cannot be added into medicine, and two, they cannot be used to refine pellets. Even the most regular of insects have some practical use. Where's the need for such weeds?"

Zhu Yao who liked weeds: "…"

She, who believed that her master had understood romance, was truly stupid.

But if it wasn't her master, who could it be? She did not know that many people in Ancient Azure Sect either. It was impossible for Zi Mo to send it, and Wang Xuzhi was… taking care of his pregnancy. It couldn't be that she had sleepwalked and picked them up on her own, right?

Unable to think of anyone, Zhu Yao decided to throw away these thoughts and continue with her cultivation. However, the number of objects on her windowsill in the following days grew. Not to mention, they were no longer restricted to flowers. Slowly, various spiritual herbs and spiritual medicine appeared. Furthermore, there were even spiritual beast… meats!

Waking up in the morning, she saw a huge pile of fresh, bloody spiritual beast meat hanging outside the window. As the wind blew, blood even dripped down from them, making pitter patter sounds.

Were these gifts, or new year celebratory goods, hey?

Zhu Yao began to grow suspicious and curious of this item gifting weirdo. After cussing out loud a few times, she silently threw away all of these spiritual beast meats. Later on, she left a strand of divine sense behind to take notice of the activities outside the window while she was in a trance state. However, she was never able to see even the shadow of the person who sent those items.

Though, outside the window, that bloody scene from last time no longer appeared again. The items became even more creative, and was even developing in the direction of practical usage. For example, hairpins, bracelets, jade ornaments and other little accessories for women. Furthermore, every single one of them was an artifact, either for defense or storage purposes.

Zhu Yao, who presently had zero assets, unceremoniously accepted them. Then, she calmly continued to cultivate. If only a transportation artifact could be sent next.

Though, there was one person who could no longer keep his calm.

Yu Yan stared at his disciple's windowsill. A newly appeared handkerchief. He was a little speechless. His expression grew colder, colder, and colder…

For some strange reasons, he was feeling really unhappy.

It seemed like, someone was trying to take away his disciple.

This was basically intolerable!

His finger moved, and that handkerchief was instantly ignited, turning into ash. A formation instantly appeared on the windowsill. Turning his head back to glance at his disciple who was still in a trance state, he turned around and left.

In the end, Zhu Yao encountered some slight difficulty in her cultivation. She did not know of the reason. Though she was still a lightning spirit vein holder, her cultivation speed was evidently not as fast as before. Forget about igniting a spiritual energy turbulence, even with the most common way of taking in spiritual energy into her body, she was unable to absorb that much spiritual energy at all. Her cultivation progress had also stalled as well. She felt as though she was a fallen academic genius who had turned into an academic trash.

Half a month had passed, and still there was hardly any progress.

There was something wrong with this setting.

Zhu Yao opened her eyes. Just as she was about to find her master to discuss about this, she suddenly heard a scream outside the window.

"Oww…"

"Who is it?" Zhu Yao immediately opened the door and got out, only to see a snow-white demonic beast outside the window desperately slapping its own paws. Above the gigantic meaty paws, there were still few sparks of flames that had yet to be extinguished.

"It's you!" Wasn't this that cowardly little beast she encountered in the forest back then?

That demonic beast stiffened for a moment. Raising its head, it looked at her weakly. Then, as though it was frightened, it turned about and wanted to flee. However, because of a misstep, it slipped, and then it rolled itself away to safety.

"…" Was she really that scary?

She turned to look at the position of the windowsill. A small sword with the length of an index finger was hanging next to it. It was actually a transportation artifact.

Could it be that, all those items placed on the windowsill in the past few days, was all it's doing?

Clearly, it was afraid of her to death, so why send her these items? Were the brain circuits of all demonic beasts strange like this?

Pondering for a moment, this demonic beast seemed like a beast that was raised by Ancient Azure Sect as well. Zhu Yao felt that there was a need to ask about that beast's situation the next time she were to see little wimp.

Before Zhu Yao could even ask, that strange beast suddenly sent itself to her doorsteps.

Zhu Yao did not make any progress with her cultivation, so she decided to practice her own sword techniques, while Yu Yan was giving pointers at the side. She was initially practicing fine and well, but in an instant, her master's expression turned cold. Casting an art, a heavenly lightning bolt was sent flying in the direction of the forest.

"Oww…" A scream sounded, and a pitch-black beast fell down.

Half of its white fur was charred black from the lightning bolt, though it sure had a fast reaction speed. Roaring out loud, it immediately leapt up and pounced towards Yu Yan.

"It's you again!" Zhu Yao exclaimed.

That beast seemed to have only just noticed her, as it instantly fell from the sky with a plop.

In an instant, it turned weak-willed, as it looked at her with frail eyes. Its entire body trembled as it scanned its surroundings in a fluster. Then, while making 'pata pata' sounds, it hid… behind Yu Yan.

A certain someone was not the least bit courteous, striking another lightning bolt at it, which ended up frying its white fur on the other side as well.

Zhu Yao: "…"

This beast's intelligence was truly a little pitiful.

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Chapter 239: Sleeping Beauty Who Cannot Be Awakened with a Kiss

Unexpectedly, that beast seemed to be completely fine. After growling for a moment, it stood up, and then furiously roared at Yu Yan.

The two parties faced each other. One was desperately roaring out, while the other was desperately emitting out his cold aura.

Onlooker Zhu Yao: "…"

Thus, these two glared at each other for an hour, neither of them dared to move a single step. Even Zhu Yao was beginning to worry that some sparks were going to start flying between this man and beast.

Finally, that demonic beast turned its head and weakly glanced at Zhu Yao, its claws then shrank back. Turning about, it once again ran off, disappearing without a trace.

Just why in the world was it here for?

From then on, the demonic beast seemed to have started pestering them. No matter what formations were set down, it could always mysteriously appear, but it would always be unfortunately caught by Yu Yan, and then be sent out with a lightning bolt. Yet, it was unclear why this demonic beast was actually so fearful of her. As long as she appeared, it would then run off at a speed even faster than a hare.

Even Zhu Yao was beginning to suspect if she had actually done some immoral things to it, which thus led to an unremovable darkness being left in that beast's heart.

A month later.

Little wimp's injuries were finally completely healed, and his entire being had recovered its former aura. Dressed in a handsome azure robe, his face even carried a healthy red. If not… for the large belly he had. Zi Mo stood next to him worriedly, with one hand holding onto his back, while the other holding onto his belly.

Zhu Yao was barely able to suppress herself from shouting congratulations.

"Little wimp, don't need to worry." Zhu Yao patted on his shoulders and consoled him. "There will always be a moment like this in a person's lifetime…"

"It won't hurt at all, alright."

Wang Xuzhi's face darkened. "Big sis Zhu Yao."

"Ah?"

"I'm not pregnant." It wasn't like he was giving birth to a child!

"Don't mind such details!"

Yu Yan immediately placed down countless formations, and had Wang Xuzhi sit at the very center of the formations. With a sunken voice, he said. "In a moment, I will guide down the heavenly lightning bolt. You must use all your strength to resist a single strike."

Wang Xuzhi nodded, and began to circulate the spiritual energy in his Dantian.

Yu yan performed a set of hand-seals, and his robe began to flutter on its own. Suddenly, the sky darkened, and countless enormous lightning clouds filled the horizon. In just a moment, they encompassed the entire sky. Raising one of his hands, lightning streaks flashed past the sky, as though something was being condensed and taking form. He lightly waved his hand, and at the same time, he looked towards Zhu Yao. "Yu Yao, release the seal!"

Zhu Yao took a deep breath. The spiritual energy that she had long prepared connected to the seal in Wang Xuzhi's body, and at the instant the heavenly lightning bolt descended, she released the seal.

At that moment, a mystic formation as tall as a human appeared in front of little wimp. The sealing runic symbols danced, and after a flash of light, they shattered resoundingly.

The miasma within Wang Xuzhi, as though it had finally escaped from its bindings, instantly exploded forth. His initially bloated belly was also reverting back to its former look at a speed visible to the naked eyes. A bolt of purplish red heavenly lightning bolt sliced through the air and struck down, instantly scattering off the creeping miasma.

Though Wang Xuzhi had already used all of his power to resist against the heavenly lightning bolt, he was still feeling that forceful lightning might, as though sharp blades were piercing right into his organs. He was left with no choice but to protect his heart pulses with all his might. Though it looked as though everything happened in a blink of an eye, it felt as though ten thousand years had passed.

Finally, the tribulation lightning bolt disappeared. Zi Mo, who had been waiting at the side the entire time, flew straight into the formation in a flash, dragging the person whose body was covered in lightning sparks out.

"Little wimp, are you alright?" Zhu Yao ran over.

Yu Yan tapped on his body with his finger. Those lightning spark remnants turned into lightning spiritual energy, and directly seeped into his fingertips.

Wang Xuzhi's expression instantly looked much better as well.

"Thank you, ancestral martial grand uncle." Wang Xuzhi opened his eyes.

"Mn." Yu Yan nodded, and just as he was about to seal the resentment that was within the formation.

The entire earth suddenly began to shake. With a loud bang, countless cracks appeared on the surface of the ground, and they were spreading in all directions.

"Scatter!" Yu Yan reached out his hand to grab onto his disciple next to him, and instantly flew up. Zi Mo and Wang Xuzhi left the surface one after another as well.

From the center of the formation where little wimp was sitting on earlier, the entire floating mountain was splitting apart.

"Not good, that Ghost King is breaking out of the seal." Zi Mo's expression changed.

As he had thought, in the next second, the entire floating mountain shattered into million pieces and fell apart. A large amount of miasma was breaking out from within, gathering into the shape of a gigantic human figure.

Yu Yan frowned. No longer holding anything back, sounds of thunder brought by the heavenly lightning in the sky roared, and countless purplish red lightning bolts descended at the same time. They were sent striking towards the Ghost King. Between the sky and earth, the place was filled with lightning sparks, and the Ghost King was scattered apart by the heavenly lightning bolts before it could even completely materialize.

In an instant, the entire surroundings were filled with scattered resentment.

"What's that?" Zhu Yao pointed at the center of the resentment. That was a bundle of white light, and it was especially obvious within a mass of pitch-black darkness. A large amount of miasma was present in the surroundings, but under the lightning sparks, the miasma continued to scatter. On the other hand, that bundle of white light seemed to be slowly rising up.

"Those are the souls absorbed by the Ghost King." Yu Yan frowned.

That bundle of white light continued to rise, and had already escaped from the scattered miasma completely. Suddenly, it exploded apart like fireworks, scattering into countless spots of light, before disappearing into the horizon.

The surroundings had instantly quietened down.

Zhu Yao blanked. "Did we win?"

"Not yet." Yu Yan replied with a sunken voice.

Following after the disappearance of those spots of light, the miasma that was still scattered in all directions earlier, had suddenly charged right up into the sky, and it was impossible for anyone to react to its speed. It felt as a black curtain had instantly been hanged right in front of them, as the miasma charged right up into the skies. Even one of the lightning clouds in the sky was engulfed by the miasma. Large amount of darkness began to spread in all directions.

Rays of light grew dimmer. When Zhu Yao took a closer look, what she saw were the words 'bug' filling up the entire sky in an encompassing manner.

Zhu Yao was instantly dumbfounded. What kind of godly development was this?

The entire world was filled with bugs!

"Master." Zhu Yao habitually turned her head around to look at Yu Yan. Suddenly, her back sank, as Yu Yan had collapsed onto her. "Master!"

Zhu Yao was shocked, as she held onto him reflexively. However, she saw his entire body shrinking into that of a child's in a blink of an eye.

He turned small again. Wasn't it cured back then? Why would he turn small again!?

Taking the opportunity where she could still see, Zhu Yao found a place to land on.

"Little martial aunt." Zi Mo flew over as well. Looking at her miniature master, he instantly dumbfounded. "Ancestral-martial uncle… What happened to him?"

"I don't know either!" Zhu Yao raised her head and looked at that strange sky. Earlier, when the resentment blasted towards the sky, her master turned small the next instant. When they came to Spiritual Realm back then, her master crossed the skies as well, and not longer after that he turned small. Could this be related to either the World Crossing Door or resentment?

The miasma in the sky grew in size. As though it was being infected, the entire sky had already been enveloped by it. If this continued, the entire Spiritual Realm would probably be enveloped by the resentment.

What should she do? What should she do? If this kept up, Spiritual Realm would truly be doomed. Damn Realmspirit, at least give me a hint.

Ting!

A familiar conversation window popped up.

Zhu Yao instantly felt joyous from the bottom of her heart. She excitedly looked at the description written in the window, only to be faced with an eye-catching string of bold, red words.

Congratulations, you have received 1x All-Purpose Dispersal Incantation.

Zhu Yao's eyes shone. All-purpose dispersal! It looked really mighty. Hurry, hurry. Tell me what's the incantation?

The string of red words flashed, and instantly changed into another line.

Description of usage method: Please circulate all of the energy in your body and shout out —

What is it?

Save me!

Zhu Yao: "…"

Save your sister! -Faints!- Her all-purpose summonable beast, her master, had already gone to sleep. What's the use of shouting for help!?

You're making a fool out of me, right? You're definitely making a fool out of me, right!?

Zhu Yao's inner heart was collapsing.

All the disciples of Ancient Azure Sect had already made their way outside. The surroundings were filled with practitioners casting out illumination mystic arts. Everyone looked at the sky with confused expressions, as the entire world looked as though it was enveloped by complete darkness. As the sky grew even darker, even fire type mystic arts were no longer of much use, as there were faint traces of them extinguishing.

"Little martial aunt." Zi Mo's face was filled with anxiety. "The resentment is soon spreading throughout the entire Spiritual Realm. What are we going to do?"

If Spiritual Realm was filled with resentment, the practitioners of this world would be tainted by resentment, and everyone would become puppets like the Ghost King.

Zhu Yao gnashed her teeth. She couldn't be bothered about it any longer.

A fool it is, then.

Taking a deep breath, she circulated all of her spiritual energy. With the loudest voice in her life, she raised her head towards the sky and shouted out. "Save me———!"

The scream reverberated in the surroundings, and it did not die down even after a long while. The entire Ancient Azure Sect was filled with the echos of "eeeeee….".

The entire place which was still in a ruckus earlier, instantly quietened down.

Crowd: "…"

Countless disciples shuffled their heads and looked at Zhu Yao collectively.

Ps: With eyes that seemed as though they were looking at an idiot!

However, nothing happened.

Realmspirit, this old lady has a bone to pick with you.

Roar—-

Suddenly, a loud roar reverberated. It sounded like the roar of a beast, yet it carried a slight clarity and spirituality. It felt as though it was coming from afar, yet, it also sounded as though it was ringing next to her ears. Though it clearly sounded extremely loud and was reverberating throughout the clouds, it was not the least bit ear-piercing. Instead, just by hearing it, the stuffiness in the depths of one's heart would clear up and disperse completely.

When this roar fell, as though it had issued an order, responses from countless demonic beasts in the surroundings reverberated. One roar after another rang out continuously. For a moment, various sounds could be heard without end.

Within the sky which was still pitch-black earlier, rays of heavenly light scattered down, as though the miasma was like a curtain with countless of punctured holes. The sky grew brighter, and it looked as though the 'bug' words that filled the sky were being wiped away, as they slowly disappeared.

In just about seven minutes, the bright sky had been restored, without the slightest bit of darkness. The miasma that filled the sky earlier, as though it had never appeared in the first place, had disappeared without a trace. The change came too quickly, and everyone could hardly regain their senses. They simply watched as that world decimating crisis mysteriously disappear just like that.

Zhu Yao's face cramped.

Calling for help… Was actually really useful.

Hoho~

Why didn't she feel any sense of accomplishment at all?

The disappearance of the bug this time was a little mysterious. In a situation where she completely did not understand what was going on, it disappeared just like that. Zhu Yao felt that the entire incident was a little unrealistic, and was certain that things were not that simple. However, she just could not figure out just what she had missed.

What frustrated her even more was the resentment on little wimp's body. Though the heavenly lightning bolt back then had scattered a huge half of it, there were still a small half of its remnants in his body. She had tried many ways, even using the lightning spiritual energy to cleanse his meridians, yet she was unable to expel the last strands of resentment out of his body.

"Big sis Zhu Yao, don't worry. This little bit of resentment is of no concern, I can suppress it." Wang Xuzhi said unmindfully.

Zhu Yao rolled her eyes at him, as she slapped on his head. "What are you acting tough for? Is resentment something fun? Of no concern my ass. You may be fine now, but who knows what will happen in the future!"

Wang Xuzhi lowered his head.

More importantly…

Zhu Yao turned to look at her sleeping master. Ever since that day, he had not woken up. When he turned into a child back then, he had merely slept for a single night. But this time, three days had already passed, yet there weren't any traces of him waking up. Yet, no matter how she checked his pulse, she could not figure out the reason behind it, as though he truly was just sleeping.

Holding onto his chilling hands, she could not help but feel anxious. She had a faint feeling that the reason why her master would occasionally turn into a child, was related to resentment. She had to quickly find a way.

"Old man, is there really no way to completely eliminate resentment in this world?" She turned to look at Zi Mo at the side.

He shook his head. "There's indeed none. Resentment is born from the heart in the first place. It's shapeless and formless, and thus its naturally uncontrollable by the countless beings in this world."

"But the resentment that filled the sky back then had clearly disappeared. It proved that there's something that can restrain resentment."

Zi Mo frowned, and only after a while did he speak up. "That voice which dispersed resentment came from a mysterious origin. Even I do not know where it came from." The roar that suddenly rang out back then, was as though it had come out of thin air. It was basically impossible to determine the direction it came from.

"Since it was able to get the responses of demonic beasts, then even if that roar did not come from a demonic beast, it would still be highly related to one." Zhu Yao analysed. "Old man, you should be aware of someone who can do something like this."

"If we're talking about practitioners of this world, there's no one with such capabilities." Zi Mo sank into deep thoughts. As though he had thought of something, his expression suddenly changed. "But rumours say that at the very end of the horizon, it's the origin of all beasts, and it's a sacred land which demonic beasts had submitted to. Probably over there…"

Zhu Yao's eyes shone. "You're saying the roar that eliminated resentment, came from there?"

"There's a possibility!" Zi Mo nodded, though his expression sank a little heavier. "It's just that, this so-called sacred land, is merely a legend. No one has actually seen it. Furthermore, the land at the end of the horizon, is also the borders of Spiritual Realm. Located there is an absolute abyss, and falling into it will cause one's soul to scatter."

"We can talk after seeing it." Zhu Yao stood up. Waiting any longer was not an option after all. The longer her master were to sleep, the more worried she would become.

"I'm going too." Wang Xuzhi held onto her hand. "Big sis Zhu Yao, I don't feel at ease if you go alone."

"Like hell you're going. You still have resentment in your body." Zhu Yao forcefully stroke his head. "Little wimp, you will just be a bother."

"I have long stopped being a little wimp!" Wang Xuzhi instantly exploded. Standing up, he was instantly a head taller than her. "With big sis Zhu Yao's present cultivation, I don't feel at ease."

Yo, this little wimp is rebelling. He's actually belittling my cultivation level. Do you believe I will whack your buttocks?

"Let him go." Zi Mo stood up and smoothed things over. "If there really is such a place, if he goes there, it will be convenient to disperse the resentment in his body as well."

"…" That's actually very logical.

She reluctantly nodded. Alright then, for the sake of him being so tall.

Zhu Yao thoroughly instructed Zi Mo various matters that he should take note of, and also left behind a voice transmission talisman so that he would be able to inform her directly if anything happened. Then, she brought little wimp out. Just as she was about to step through the door, she pondered for a moment, and then turned to head back into her house. Looking at her master who was lying on the bed, she wondered if…

She lowered her head. Pachi. And kissed him.

There still wasn't any response from the person on the bed.

Alright, she gave up!

He was not sleeping beauty, so as expected, he would not wake up from a kiss.

Leaving behind the petrified Zi Mo, she got on her flying sword and flew off.

Zi Mo: I seemed to have witnessed something incredible? His gossiping heart suddenly burned wildly.

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Chapter 240: Land at the End of the Horizon is This Way

Zhu Yao flew northwards with her quickest speed, the sceneries in her surroundings whistled behind her, forming streaks of flowing light. They had been flying for several hours, but they had yet to see the land of at end of the horizon which Zi Mo spoke of.

"Big sis Zhu Yao."

"Mn?"

Wang Xuzhi suggested. "Let's take a short break, we have already flown for an entire day."

"No matter." Zhu Yao waved her hand. "This big sister can hold on."

Wang Xuzhi's expression sank, as he pulled onto her. "Big sis Zhu Yao, we're already not that far from our destination. The land at the end of the horizon is filled with dangers, it's best that we take a short break before heading there."

Zhu Yao suppressed the anxiety in the depths of her heart, and nodded. "Fine then!"

Below them was a lush forest, and Zhu Yao immediately descended into it. Sitting under a huge tree, she sat in a lotus position and adjusted her breathing, recovering her HP and MP or something.

Wang Xuzhi sat next to her, and considerately passed her a flask of spiritual water.

"Thank you." Zhu Yao gulped it down in an instant, and at that moment, her entire body felt comfortable.

Wang Xuzhi glanced at her with his mouth open, looking as though there were words stuck in his throat.

"What is it?" Zhu Yao reached out to stroke his head. "If you have something to say, then say it quickly. Don't hold in the fart."

He clenched his fists, and after a while, he squeezed out a smile. "Big sis Zhu Yao, you treat Sovereign Yu Yan so well."

"But of course!" After all, she's her man, you know?

Wang Xuzhi looked down. After a moment of silence, he carefully said. "Big sis Zhu Yao, I want to ask… you and ancestral martial grand uncle, you two…"

Zhu Yao turned her head around, and said with a smile. "You want to ask, if there's an affair between the two of us?"

He was stunned for a moment, raising his head in an instant, as though he never expected that she would be so direct.

Zhu Yao held onto her chin, and pondered for a short while before replying. "To be exact, we already had a lot of affairs." Even the attempts were considered!

"…" His face instantly paled, as though he had suffered a blow of some sort. The redness on his face drained. After a while, he said in a fluster. "But… But you two are master and disciple."

"Did the Heavenly Dao make a rule that a master and his disciple can't be practitioner-pair companions?" There were many master-disciple OTPs in the cultivation world, right?

"…" He sank into silence, as though he had fallen into a swirl of emotions he could not escape from. His clenched fists tightened even further, as though he was about to pinch out traces of blood. "But… Big sis Zhu Yao, you clearly… Why… Why?"

Zhu Yao sighed, as she pulled onto his hands. Not accepting any refusals, she carefully broke apart his clenched fists finger by finger. "You want to ask why I did not promise you, but have chosen my master instead?"

He blanked for a moment. He looked at her eyes, and mist slowly began to form on his own, making a look that seemed like he was about to cry. "You… knew?"

"You already said it so clearly yourself, and I'm not stupid either!" Zhu Yao shook her head, as she looked straight into his eyes. With emphasis on every word, she said. "But… Little wimp, are you certain that the love you have for me, is truly the love between a man and a woman?"

"Of course." He nodded heavily, as he grabbed onto her hands. "Ever since young… Ever since I was ten years old, I wanted to marry you."

Zhu Yao laughed. "Ten years old? Take me as your concubine?"

He gulped, and then hurriedly explained. "That was just a joke I made when I was young. If it's possible… I will naturally be satisfied taking you as my only wife."

"When you were young?" Zhu Yao said with a sunken voice. "Then why did you want to marry me when you were young?"

"That's naturally because…"

"Because I took down your pants, and smacked your buttocks?" Zhu Yao interrupted. "You believed that you should take responsibility for that, otherwise I wouldn't be able to marry?"

After a moment of silence, he nodded.

"See, the reason why you wanted to marry me since you were young, was not because you loved me. You already said it yourself that it was a joke, so naturally, it cannot be taken as real."

"In the beginning, that was certainly true. But later on, I truly wished to be together with big sis Zhu Yao."

"Later on? What later on?" Zhu Yao asked.

Wang Xuzhi was startled for a moment. After pondering for a moment when exactly his feelings towards her had undergone a change, he spoke. "Later on, when I grew up and you came out of Jade Forest Peak. I don't really know the specifics either…"

"You don't know, but I know." Zhu Yao stroked onto his head which was already a head taller than hers. "It's that time, when I was killed by that demon fox. It began ever since I died in front of your eyes, right?"

He blanked. After pondering for a moment, he realized it had truly begun from then.

"Haah… Little wimp, do you actually understand what are true feelings between a man and woman like? When you entered the sect at ten years old, the person closest to you was me, but those weren't feelings between a man and a woman, but just a form of reliance. We couldn't meet, and when we finally able to meet each other, I died in order to save you." Zhu Yao analysed it little by little. "Just how old were you back then? Fifteen? You have never witnessed death, let alone one that you were involved in. Guilt of being powerless, along with the self-rebuke of not being able to save me, was the knot in your heart that you couldn't dispel at that time. Until I was reincarnated, your knot was finally dispelled. But, your inner heart had firmly remembered the will to protect the things that you managed to get back. You believed that will is the feelings you have for me, but in actual fact, it's just your guilt towards me." She deeply sighed. "Little wimp, you never had any feelings of love for me."

"Big sis Zhu Yao…" Wang Xuzhi was a little flustered, as he shook his head and said. "No… That's not true! I…"

"Xuzhi!" Zhu Yao held onto his shoulders, and seriously looked into his eyes. With emphasis on every word, she said. "If you really do have feelings for me, then ever since we have reunited, you clearly had many opportunities, but you had never brought up the talk of wanting to be together with me. Yet, only after knowing that I'm together with my master, did you finally speak up. Why is that?"

"…" He was suddenly stunned still, a hint of fluster flashed past his face. "I… Because…"

"Because this thought did not cross your mind at all, right?"

"Little wimp, till the very end, you have only treated me as your big sister, and liking someone has never required a reason to do so. It's not a responsibility, nor is it guilt."

He appeared to be in a trance, looking as though he understood it, yet did not understand it at the same time. He looked straight into her eyes, and after a while, he said with a sullen voice. "Then big sis Zhu Yao, are you certain that the feelings ancestral martial grand uncle and you are feelings between a man and a woman?"

"Of course!" Zhu Yao nodded and said. She was after all a certain someone's first love.

"Why?" He anxiously said. "How are you so certain that he's treating you as just his disciple?"

"There's no need to ascertain it." Zhu Yao pointed to her heart. "As long I know for certain over here, he's the man I wish to be bound with for my entire lifetime. From his body to his heart, all of the authority must belong to this lady surnamed Zhu. And that's enough."

After this heart-to-heart talk, Wang Xuzhi was much quieter than before, and throughout the entire journey, he looked as though he was in deep thoughts. His face would occasionally frown, and then look distracted a moment later. Zhu Yao understood that he wouldn't be able to think things through in such a short amount of time, so she did not bring up the topic again either.

Actually, she had long seen through little wimp's intentions. In the past, she did not mind it, as she had thought that he would be able think things through on his own. However, she never expected that he would continue to fall even deeper. He looked soft on the outside, but he had always been a stubborn child ever since he was young.

He entered a deity sect when he was ten years old, and children relying on adults was a regular occurrence. Furthermore, his only relative back then was just her. Adding the joke of taking her as his concubine, he had naturally treated her as his only person to rely on. Yet, right from the start, she was isolated in Jade Forest Peak, and they could only contact each other through letters. Not being able to meet, naturally he could only rely on his imagination. He drew a perfect image of her in the depths of his heart.

After that, she was let out of the mountain. Initially, such imagination would return to normal, but she just had to die for his sake right after. The pain of losing a loved one, and his own powerlessness, had led to him forming a knot in his heart. After that, though she managed to help him dispel it, the former pain was still there. Like someone who had once been injured, even if he had fully recovered, he would still habitually take note of the spot of his previous injury. The more he looked at her, the more he would remember it. He treated this guilt as his feelings for her, and was unable to discern the difference between the two.

He died because of her, and came to Spiritual Realm. As the two of them were apart, he buried this guilt he had.

If he said that the feelings he had for her was love, she wouldn't believe it even if she was beaten to death. She and her master had been in Spiritual Realm for so many days. Not only were they together all the time, they had also several times displayed affection for each other while together as well. Things like hugging each other's waists and holding hands were done several times too, not to mention they lived together at night.

If it was true love, just how blind must he be to not see all this happening? Even if he did not want to be honest with himself, there should have been some changes to his emotions to some degree. Yet, he did not behave even the slightest bit different, and had only asked her for the truth now. In the end, he was just a little brother showing some attitude when his only big sister was stolen away by a man.

Zhu Yao sighed. Little wimp was not a dumb child. He merely needed some time to think things through.

Along the way, out of tacit understanding, they did not bring up this topic again.

The forest they were in was huge, yet strangely, the spiritual energy here was very scarce. In order to save time, they had been walking into the forest depths, recovering their spiritual energy as they walked. For precautions sake, the two of them had erected defensive barriers, as they passed through it cautiously.

However, unexpectedly, the entire journey was smooth without any obstacles. Forget about encountering some sort of danger, there wasn't even a single rock that was slightly bigger than the rest on the ground.

"Little wimp, are you certain that this place is very dangerous?"

"I have indeed heard from rumours that this place is filled with many ferocious beasts, and they are extremely hard to deal with." Wang Xuzhi was confused as well. "Most probably, it's because of our good luck."

Zhu Yao pouted, and did not mind it too much either. Though, the further they walked, the smoother their journey became. Forget about ferocious beasts, even a single rabbit did not land in their lines of sight. The place which was initially flourishing with thick weed, looked as though they had all been swept away cleanly. What came into sight were just the flowers that bloomed in the presence of the wind, and the new sprouts within the fragrant soil.

A short while later, a small road evidently appeared within the forest.

And then the small road became a huge road.

The huge road then became a broad road.

Then the broad road became a road with dual lanes. The ground was so flat, there wasn't even a single footprint on it.

If things continued to develop like this, an expressway couldn't be next, right?

"We can't have taken a wrong turn, right?" Zhu Yao pointed to the front.

Wang Xuzhi became a little uncertain as well. "The direction is indeed this way…"

Before he could even finish, suddenly, something seemed to have flashed for a moment in front of them. After going closer to take a look, a directional signboard had actually appeared out of nowhere, and written on it was a row of black quaint words. Land at the End of the Horizon – Walk Straight

The two people: "…"

Why did she feel as though they were going for a picnic, and there was even someone directing them the way there?

"Big sis Zhu Yao?" What should they do?

"Let's take a look for now."

They continued to walk along the road. However, the further they walked, the number of strange occurrences increased. Various directional signboards would often appear next to the road. Distance from the Land at the End of the Horizon – 10 Kilometers… 5 Kilometers… 4 Kilometers.

Slowly, various fresh flowers, spiritual springs, and even resting tree stumps, which evidently did not belong anywhere near there, would appear by the roadside.

This service was a little great, wasn't it? There couldn't actually be a '5-Star Land at the End of the Horizon Scenic View' signboard next, right?

"With such great service, I wonder if they include meals too?" Zhu Yao joked.

However at the next moment, not even fifty meters from where they were, a big pile of spiritual fruits appeared at the side of the road. Some were even still rolling about.

The two people: "…"

"Big sis Zhu Yao!" Wang Xuzhi's expression changed, as though he wanted to say something.

Zhu Yao gave him a glare, and then picked up two fruits. Pushing one to him, she then pulled him over to sit on the tree stump at the side. Rubbing on the fruit, she shouted out. "I wonder if this fruit has been washed? Little wimp, do you still have that spiritual water from earlier?"

Wang Xuzhi instantly understood her intentions, and shook his head. "We finished it earlier."

"Then what do we do? How can we possibly eat fruits that haven't been washed yet?"

Wang Xuzhi revealed a complicated expression.

Then, a 'dong' sound was heard. A bamboo basket used to store water came rolling out of the forest. As though it was being blown by the wind, guruguru, it rolled straight towards where they were.

"Over there!" Zhu Yao stood up, and sent a heavenly lightning bolt in the direction of the bamboo basket.

Wang Xuzhi materialized a set of chains between his fingers, instantly forming a net as it landed on the location where the heavenly lightning bolt struck.

Under the lightning glow, a huge tree tore from its trunk, and a white figure made an appearance.

"Bind!" Wang Xuzhi's net instantly moved to trap that figure.

Unfortunately, that white figure was even faster, as it flew out as a flowing light. Landing on the ground, it materialized into a snow-white demonic beast, and it roared out furiously.

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. Wasn't this that stupid beast which came to harass her on the mountain peak every single day? Just how much hatred did it have to chase her all the way here?

"Highlord Bai Yuan!" Wang Xuzhi strangely called out all of a sudden. "Why are you here?"

"Rooar—" That demonic beast bared its teeth in dissatisfaction.

This attitude was a little off!? Why was little wimp so courteous to this beastie? "Little wimp, is it raised by your sect?"

"N… No. He is…" Wang Xuzhi shook his head, however, he did not know where to begin explaining from either.

"So is it or not?" What was going on?

"Highlord, he… He's not a normal demonic beast."

Not normal? Exceptionally stupid then?

Wang Xuzhi gave her a 'I will explain later' expression, and then flew into the forest on his flying sword. He respectfully bowed towards that white demonic beast. "This disciple did not know Highlord has made his grand arrival, and hence made such an offence. Highlord, please forgive me."

"Roooar…" That demonic beast was evidently not having it, as even the fur on his tail looked like they had exploded from its fury.

"Highlord, we entered the sacred land out of helplessness as well, and we hold no intentions to offend you." Wang Xuzhi had an anxious look. "This matter is solely my mistake. If Highlord wishes to seek responsibility, then please punish me alone. This disciple will definitely not express a single word of resentment."

"Rooooar…" That demonic beast really raised his paw, and it then slammed it towards Wang Xuzhi.

The hell. Zhu Yao's fury instantly erupted, as she roared out loud. "You dare!?"

That beast stiffened, and its paw instantly stopped right above Wang Xuzhi's head.

Zhu Yao roared as she ran over. "If you dare slam it down, this old lady shall rip your skin off!" You dare bully my family's little wimp?

That beast seemed to have only just seen her, as its eyes widened even larger than before. Before even waiting for her to walk over, that white figure flashed, anxiously fleeing away. It crawled up the nearest huge tree and hugged onto the tree bark, shaking like a lighted candle being blown by the wind. It even tried to hide itself by desperately pulling the branches to conceal its extraordinarily snow-white beast body.

The entire beast looked as though it was saying: You can't see me, you can't see me, you can't see me!

The corners of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. Recalling that paw which was about to slam onto little wimp earlier, her fury instantly erupted once again.

"Get down!"

The tree bark shook…

"Are you going to come down?"

The tree bark desperately shook…

"I will count to three."

It shook as though it was being blown by heavy winds…

"One!"

Shook like a torrential rain had struck…

"Two!"

Shook as though it was about to be torn apart…

"Three…"

Before her voice could completely fall, swoosh, a snow-white beastie had appeared right in front of her. Like a large dog which had undergone training, it obediently crouched, and it did not even dare blink its eyes. Imagine how obedient you want it to be, and it would display that level of obedience to you.

If not for its body which was trembling like it had been electrocuted.

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Chapter 241: You Shameless Human

"Do you know your wrongs?" Zhu Yao glared at it.

"Ou…" That demonic beast let out a cry, as though it was saying it was being wronged.

"Big sis Zhu Yao…" Wang Xuzhi glanced at that demonic beast, and then looked at Zhu Yao. His face was filled with utter disbelief. "You… He. How can you…"

"How what?" And here she wanted to ask about it too? After all, he was still a Sect Master, right? Why did he have to be this courteous to a beast raised in his own home?

Wang Xuzhi tugged onto her sleeves with a tensed look. "Big sis Zhu Yao, he is…"

"Roar…" The demonic beast reverted back to its former demeanour and roared at Wang Xuzhi.

Zhu Yao turned back to glare at it. "Shut up!"

"Ou…" It instantly became submissive.

Zhu Yao sent a slap towards the beast's head. "As a domestic beast, you must promote unity and love, and be close to humans, understand? If I see you bullying my family's little wimp again, I will thoroughly skin you."

"Owuu…" Its eyes turned misty. (?_?)

"Also, stop following me. Otherwise, I will really beat you."

The beastie stiffened for a moment, and then, as though he could finally bear it no longer, like an opened tap, tears began to flow onto the ground. "Wuuuuuu…" （﹏）

The corners of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. "You're crying again!?"

The demonic beast trembled, though its tears did stop, it suddenly choked. "Kuh!" It hiccupped.

"You're still not leaving!?"

As it hiccupped, it looked at her with sparkling teary eyes. The mist in its eyes accumulated, and accumulated…

"Wuaaah…" Finally, it broke. Sprinkling the entire road with tears, it cried as it sprinted into the forest, without even turning back.

Ting!

A familiar chat window instantly popped out in front of her. Congratulations, you have unlocked the Achievement: 'Harmed a Pure and Innocent Realm Guardian Beast in an Inhumane Manner, Shattered the Pure Heart of a Beast'.

Achievement Title Unlocked: Pui! You Shameless Human!

Zhu Yao: "…"

He was cussing at her right? He's definitely cussing at her, right?

"Big sis Zhu Yao…" Wang Xuzhi looked at her with a face that looked as though he was about to cry.

"Just what in the world is that?" She was really just an innocent bystander who was unclear of the truth, hey.

"Big sis Zhu Yao, when you came into Spiritual Realm, did you not encounter Highlord Bai Yuan?" Wang Xuzhi curiously asked.

"I only met that ridiculous beast in the forest near Ancient Azure Sect." And I was this close to being swallowed by it too!

"How is that possible?" Wang Xuzhi was stunned. "High Bai Yuan is the Guardian Beast of the entire Spiritual Realm. Without his permission, no one can enter Spiritual Realm from the Underworld. Big sis Zhu Yao, just how did you make your way here to Spiritual Realm?"

It sounded rather incredible, but…

"I came over by flying straight up in the sky!" Only a ghost would know passing through it would require the permission of a beast?

Wang Xuzhi became even more stunned. "But when crossing into Spiritual Realm, there's the Abyss of Eternity one must pass through. Did big sis Zhu Yao not see it?"

Was there such a thing? "Nope!"

According to Wang Xuzhi's words, between Underworld and Spiritual Realm, there's a place separating the two called the Abyss of Eternity. That was a dead land, and anything entering it would be swallowed into it, including souls. The only way to safely pass through it, was to be led by Bai Yuan, titled the Realm Guardian Beast.

As to what kind of beast it was, where it came from, and the strength it possessed, no one knew exactly for sure. However, every single person who entered Spiritual Realm was led in by it. Nor did anyone know just what rank of a demonic beast it was. The only thing they understood was its name, Bai Yuan! It held a position which no one could replace in Spiritual Realm. No matter how dazzling of a human practitioner one could be, he had to respectfully refer to him as Highlord Bai Yuan. This was also because why the relationship between human practitioners and demonic beasts were especially harmonious in Spiritual Realm.

Zhu Yao was a little dumbfounded from what she heard. She was simply unable to connect that demonic beast which had a few screws loose earlier, with such an incredible status. Rather than calling it a Guardian Beast, Zhu Yao felt it was more like a mascot character of Spiritual Realm. One that would keep the place safe and secure.

"Highlord Bai Yuan had always been rather easy-going, and would often travel between various clans and sects, or stay for a short period of time." Wang Xuzhi explained. "When the Ghost King appeared back then, the reason why I went to the Underworld was also due to Highlord Bai Yuan coincidentally residing in Ancient Azure Sect at that time."

"…" She seemed to have offended a beastie that was sort of incredible.

"Spiritual Realm is different from other cultivation worlds. No matter if it was ascending to the Higher Realm or entering the Underworld, he or she must receive approval by Bai Yuan. Otherwise, one would fall into the Abyss of Eternity. At best, your soul scatters, at worst, you will forever be unable to reincarnate."

"Uu…" Zhu Yao felt even guiltier the longer she heard his explanation.

"Though Highlord Bai Yuan is in the form of a beast, rumours state that ever since the birth of Spiritual Realm, he had existed in this land. His strength is deep and profound."

"Little wimp…"

"Mn?"

"If… I apologize to it now, would it be too late?"

Evidently, it was too late. Because that beast had long disappeared without a trace. Whatever. In any case, it wasn't the first time she had offended that beast. Furthermore, was it really suitable for the setting of a demonic beast to be this incredible? The God Races express their dissatisfaction!

After walking for another half an hour, the horizon suddenly grew dim, and the spiritual energy in the air was now scarce to an incomprehensible degree. It felt as though that the further they walked, the amount of spiritual energy would decrease as well.

"Big sis Zhu Yao…" Wang Xuzhi suddenly called out.

"Mn?" When she turned around to look, she saw that his forehead was covered in heavy sweat, and his face was pale, giving a pained look. "Little wimp, what happened to you?"

Zhu Yao was frightened, as she hurriedly held him and sat him down. Wasn't he still alright earlier?

Wang Xuzhi shook his head, his face had a frail look, yet he still pointed to the front and said. "Big sis Zhu Yao, the place in front should be the land at the end of the horizon."

Zhu Yao focused her eyes, and she saw a place that looked like a huge chasm appearing in the sky.

The green forest looked as though it had been firmly cut off. On one side, it was lush green, while on the other, there was an empty void. Nothing could be clearly seen, and the surroundings were strangely quiet, as though the noises in the entire world had completely disappeared.

Zhu Yao split a strand of her spiritual energy into his meridians, and after a while, she suddenly widened her eyes. "Why is the resentment in your body in such a disarray all of a sudden?"

"I'm uncertain as well." Wang Xuzhi shook his head. "It's just that the more we approach the land at the end of the horizon, the resentment in my body would stir even more."

Zhu Yao's heart sank. Could it be that really was something that could influence resentment in the land at the end of the horizon? Calming her heart down, she cast an art to first aid Wang Xuzhi in suppressing the resentment.

For a moment, she was hesitating if she should actually continue going forward.

"Big sis Zhu Yao, since we're already here, we must investigate the cause." Wang Xuzhi said. "Don't worry, I'm fine."

"You're already like this, and you're still trying to act tough?"

"I…"

"Shut up!" Zhu Yao knocked on his head. "In your present state, even if you enter the place, you will just be holding me back."

"…" He lowered his head.

"Alright, I shall first head over there to take a look. If the resentment in your body goes berserk again, you can make your way back first. There's no need to wait for me."

"But…"

"No buts!" Zhu Yao glared at him. I'm this authoritative alright!

That void was not even a hundred meters away from them. She had not felt it earlier, but as she approached the place, even Zhu Yao was beginning to feel an oppressive feeling. Even the spiritual energy in her body was scurrying uncontrollably, as though they wanted to break out of her body.

Her chest was feeling incredibly oppressed, and she was having difficulties breathing. Clearly, she was in a dense forest, but huge winds were blowing from all around her. She was beginning to feel chills from the winds. The feeling that something was a little amiss grew as the winds blew even stronger, and even her face was starting to ache. With every blow of the wind, she could feel her body turning colder by a certain degree, as though she was not being protected by her spiritual energy in the slightest…

Wait a minute, spiritual energy!

Zhu Yao was startled, as she circulated the spiritual energy in her body. However, she realized that not much spiritual energy was left in her Dantian.

The winds were actually able to scatter away the spiritual energy in her body!

Zhu Yao immediately upped her pace and hid into the forest. However, the winds seemed to have eyes grown on them, as they immediately changed their directions and blew straight towards her.

Big sis Zhu Yao!" Wang Xuzhi realized her anomaly as well, as he chased after her.

"Don't be blown by the winds in the surroundings!" Zhu Yao reminded out loud. "The winds will scatter away the spiritual energy in your body."

Little wimp's feet paused, and he immediately reacted after. He instantly made a turn and avoided the winds that were blowing at him.

For a moment, the two people had no choice but to crawl and jump about within the forest.

However, winds were shapeless and formless. They were basically unable to be seized hold of, and the two of them had no choice but to rely on their senses to dodge them. It was still manageable in the beginning, but after a long while, they would still end up being blown. Zhu Yao could barely feel the meagre amount of spiritual energy in her body now.

As she hid in the east and concealed themselves in the west, unknowingly, she had gotten closer to that void. At that moment, she was unable to circulate even a single strand of spiritual energy in her body, she dodged, and beneath her foot was empty air. She suddenly realized that she had already reached the edge. Next to her feet was an unfathomably deep chasm, and behind her was the void.

Zhu Yao breathed in cold air. Mamamiya, fortunately, she managed to step on the breaks in time. Otherwise, she would have fallen down.

So fortunate, so fortunate…

Suddenly, a white figure leapt out of the forest, and came pouncing right towards her.

A familiar beast roar sounded next to her, along with little wimp's terrified voice.

Zhu Yao's entire body fell backwards from the pounce, and she felt straight into the void.

The hell!

A phrase could not help but surface in her mind: A beastie's revenge, even ten years wouldn't be too late… my ass!

Just what kind of grudge did she have with this demonic beast!?

Zhu Yao fell into the void at the land at the end of the horizon, and it even came with the demonic beast which played the scapegoat. That void was very deep, and she felt her entire body was soon about to fall apart. Every single one of her bones were painfully creaking, while nothing was happening at all to the culprit beast.

Probably because it had to settle its great grudge, it had circled around her several times, happily leaping about. Voices of excitement were also emitted out from its mouth.

"Ou ou ou… She's down here. She's down here. She's finally down here." That voice was soft and tender like a child's. After circling a few rounds, it actually began to roll on the ground.

"Shut up!" Zhu Yao ruthlessly glared at it, and had managed to sit up straight only after putting in a lot of effort into it. She did not even bother thinking about how it suddenly knew how to talk, and simply felt that she would hurt even more if it made even more noises.

As expected, Bai Yuan stopped, and obediently sat next to her. Its gigantic white beast head stretched out, and its two large bell-like eyes were staring straight at her.

"Yao Yao…"

"What is it?" Zhu Yao was given a shock, and had a bad premonition.

That pair of eyes grew even brighter, and the tender and soft voice once again resounded. "I want to kiss you!"

"Ah?"

Bai Yuan opened its mouth wide, ahmu, Zhu Yao entered its mouth. It grinded her up and down several times, and then, puuf, it puked out Zhu Yao whose entire body was covered in saliva.

As she rubbed off a portion of the sticky saliva, Zhu Yao's hands trembled. She felt that the chord that was named 'reason', was being snapped apart, and was presently making creaking noises.

Yet, Bai Yuan which had plastered her entire face with saliva earlier, was licking its lips. Then, its beast face twisted into a lump, as it turned around and retched out.

"Ouu… Hair, stuck, the hair got stuck…" It puked out for a short while, and then with a wronged look, it turned back. "Hair… Hair isn't washed!"

Pata!

The chord named 'reason' shattered apart.

"Wash your sister!" She instantly pulled that flowery white beast head over, grabbed onto the whiskers next to its mouth, and then ruthlessly pulled them outwards. "What rights do you have to be disgusted at me! This old lady has yet to settle the debt of you pushing me down here. And here you are, disgusted with me!? This is what you get for being disgusted with me, this is what you get! You're the one who hasn't washed its hair, your entire family has unwashed hair."

"Ouuuu…" Bai Yuan let out a miserable cry, as it began to roll on the ground. Its paws waved about in the air, yet it did not dare to wave them in her direction.

Only when Zhu Yao had completely pulled out all of the whiskers without leaving a single one, she then kicked away the huge beast body, and stopped to gasp for air.

"Wuuuu…" Bai Yuan used its front paws to hold onto its swollen beast mouth, and then laid on the ground like a quail. Its eyes were filled with complaints towards her vile actions.

"What are you looking at!?" Zhu Yao returned with a glare. Just by looking at it, anger would swell within her.

"Ee…"

"You're not allowed to cry!"

"…" The 'ee' crying noises instantly stopped, and they turned into muffled sobs instead.

Zhu Yao could not be bothered with it as she inspected her surroundings. It was completely dark, as though the sky and earth had connected into a single entity. She did not see any reincarnation chat windows, which proved that she was still alive. But just what was this place? The land at the end of the horizon? Why wasn't there anything here?

Staying here was not an option either. Taking in a deep breath, she dragged her painful body and slowly walked a step at a time. She had tried it earlier, and realized there wasn't a single strand of spiritual energy in her body. Not just that, she was unable to sense the presence of spiritual energy at all.

This proved that her cultivation had regressed, and it had even regressed back to her pre-awakened state, becoming a regular mortal. The strange winds earlier had not only scattered away the spiritual energy in her body, but her cultivation as well.

In her present condition, if she did not find an exit, she would starve to death here.

She aimlessly walked for half a day, yet she was unable to find a single thing. Her surroundings were abnormally quiet, and the only sounds she could hear were breathing noises, two sets of them.

"Why are you following me?" Zhu Yao turned to glare behind her.

A certain beastie, which had been maintaining a distance of five steps, trembled. There were still undried tears within its large eyes. It weakly glanced at her, and then hurriedly sprinted over to her.

A white paw stretched out towards her, and its face looked as though it wasn't afraid of death itself. "Give… pull!"

"Paw, lots… of fur!" It waved its paw, and large amount of tears filled its eyes. "Pull fur, don't go…"

What was it trying to say? Let her continue pulling its fur? You're a masochist, aren't you?

Seeing that she was not moving even after a long while, it turned anxious. It instantly stuffed its paw into her arms. "Pull… Pull. Bai Yuan not hurt. After pulling… friends! Don't ignore me."

"…" Why did she feel a sense of guilt from bullying a child?

"Can we, be friends?" It sniffled, as though it was desperately trying not to cry. It then used that paw to nudge her hand. "I will let you pull. If one isn't enough, I still have three paws."

Zhu Yao instantly felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

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Chapter 242: River of Forgetfulness is Too Deep, Throw Some Sand

Looking at the snow-white paw in front of her, the fury that initially filled Zhu Yao's heart, instantly disappeared without a trace.

She took a deep breath, and managed to suppress the irritable emotions in the depths of her heart.

She understood that her emotions were in a disarray. She being furious at Bai Yuan, most of it was also because she was angry at herself. Her master was unconscious, the resentment in little wimp's body had yet to be expelled, and she had even fallen into this ghastly place with her cultivation destroyed. In this sort of situation, forget about having a good temper, her irritation had gotten to the point where she even wanted to kill people, you know?

So, even though she clearly knew that Bai Yuan did not harbour evil intentions, she still lost control and became furious. Furthermore, it was even the one which pushed her down here.

"Sorry!" Zhu Yao sighed, as she reached out to pat on its beast head. "Bai Yuan, let's talk about life."

"Ou?" It opened its large misty eyes. It glanced at her, and then looked at its own paw.

"Paw?"

"I'm not going to pull anymore." It was already acting like this; how could she possibly still have the heart to pull its fur?

Its misty eyes then brightened up a little. Putting down its paw, it carefully squatted next to her.

Where should she start? Oh right. "Why have you been following me?"

Bai Yuan seemed to be stomping its front paws in a helpless manner as it stammered. "Like… Like Yao Yao. Said before… Friends… Want be." Its head sank even lower, and it became a little bashful. Zhu Yao was actually able to see a hint of shyness and timidness on that furry face. She must have gone blind!

"Then why did you push me down here?" Are there anyone like you who make friends this way?

This time, it replied really quickly. "Because there is a place you must see, and I have to bring you there."

"See?" Zhu Yao was startled. "See what?"

Bai Yuan nudged a little before standing up. It ran a few steps to the direction on the left, and then happily ran back. "Go. Take a look, take a look…"

"Wait a minute." Zhu Yao followed after it. "What are you going to let me see?"

"Yao Yao, faster… faster. It's just up front." It evidently had such intentions from the beginning, as it excitedly leapt and bounced while leading the way in front of her. "Look. Look…"

"Just what am I supposed to see?" Wait a minute! A light bulb flashed in Zhu Yao's mind. "You came here before?"

"Ou~~~"It nodded its beast head.

"Then do you know the way to leave?"

"Bai Yuan knows!" It lifted its chest with a proud look.

"…" Would it have killed you to say that earlier!? She even thought that she was going to die here. What she was using now was her original avatar, dying would feel really hurtful, you know? "Are you very familiar with this place?"

"Bai Yuan knows everything about this place." It bounced and leapt as it led the way in front of her.

"Then is there any person or object that can exterminate resentment here?"

"Person?" Bai Yuan paused for a moment, and looked at her while tilting its head. It then said a little embarrassingly. "There's only one person here."

"Who is it?" There actually was one. It seemed like this was not a wasted trip.

"I will bring you there." Bai Yuan happily ran to the front.

Zhu Yao did not waste time either, as she immediately followed after it. After walking for fifteen minutes, a streak of light suddenly appeared within this dark horizon, a silvery white thin line appeared at the front. It was a single long line with unlimited length, as though it had split this world into two.

After taking a closer look, she realized that was actually a river, and its entirety was silvery white. The river was so broad, it was impossible to see the other side with a single glance. She had only seen such a mystical river once. "River of Forgetfulness?"

Why did the River of Forgetfulness appear here? Had she returned to the Underworld? But the scenery was evidently wrong though?

Bai Yuan turned, and ran up a few steps. "Move upwards, to the source… We're reaching really soon."

Source! With how broad the river was, she really could not imagine just how far the source could be. It would still be fine in the past, but now, she did not have the slightest bit of cultivation. She was going to die walking, right? Zhu Yao despaired as she followed after it. For a moment, she felt that her steps had gotten a lot heavier than before.

"We're here!"

Eh? So quick? She had only walked for about ten minutes or so, right?

Zhu Yao raised her head to take a look. Above the river surface in front of her, a gigantic white palace appeared, and it occupied across the entire width of the River of Forgetfulness. That palace was extremely refined, with every single spot built by piles of stone materials of the purest white colour. From afar, it looked like a snow-white curtain draped on the sky, and it was a little eye-piercingly bright.

It's so white, I will definitely contract snow blindness, right? Zhu Yao silently retorted.

"Bai Yuan, you're saying that person lives here?"

"Ou!"

"Then how are we going to get there?" That palace was floating above the river, and she did not know how to swim.

"Fly, ouu~~" Bai Yuan roared out and suddenly rose into the air, flying straight towards that palace.

"Wait!" Bring me along, I can't fly, hey.

Bai Yuan had already turned into a streak of white light, instantly disappearing without a trace.

"…" What happened to the promise of becoming friends?

Looking at the grand and vast river surface, Zhu Yao felt like crying. Just as she was hesitating if she should swim over doggy-styled, a green round spot suddenly appeared in the river, and it was especially obvious on the snow-white river surface. That green spot grew larger, and after a closer look, it was actually a flower bud.

Zhu Yao walked closer to it, and that flower bud suddenly bloomed. Its petals opened wide, and it finally turned into a lotus flower that was as large as a wash basin. A golden arrow that was pointing upwards was floating above the very center of the lotus.

This… Was it hinting her to step on the lotus?

She tried tapping on it with her foot, and after hesitating for a moment, she stepped on it. She did not expect that the lotus would actually be this stable. Forget about falling over, it was not shaking even in the slightest, and was stable like solid ground. Zhu Yao did not know what kind of breed it was either, and had the sudden impulse to bring it back to plant it.

Just after she firmly stood on it, at a distance a step away from her, another lotus flower bloomed. Could these lotus flowers actually belong to a chain store?

Zhu Yao stepped on it with a heart filled with doubts. Hence, with every step she took, in front of her, a similar lotus flower would bloom, as though the lotus flowers were paving the way for her, all the way to that palace above the river. She arrived at the front of the palace smoothly and without any obstructions.

The moment she stepped on the stone steps, the row of lotus flowers behind her instantly wilted and sank beneath the river. This must be a wood type formation of some sort.

Zhu Yao walked up the stone steps, and the entire white palace was now right in front of her. It stood towering tall, exuding a majestic atmosphere. Strangely, it was a little suspiciously quiet. Forget about any people in the surroundings, not even a single fly could be seen. She did not know where Bai Yuan who arrived before her had ran off too either?

Arriving in someone else's territory like this, she wondered if it would give the owner a bad impression too.

Passing through the plaza in front of the hall, Zhu Yao hesitated for a moment. She decided that it was still best to give her greetings. "Umm… Is there anyone here?"

"…" Complete silence.

She could not help but raise her hand and knock on that huge door. Initially, she thought there wouldn't be any response, but that huge white door suddenly rumbled, and slowly opened inwards.

The insides of the palace were completely snow-white as well. Zhu Yao walked into it, and at the deepest area of the palace, there was a huge stage. The only seat on the huge stage was presently being seated by a man. He was dressed in a white robe, white outer garment, and white shoes. Even his hair was silvery white in colour.

Seeing that she had entered, he smiled, revealing a complete set of white teeth…

Zhu Yao subconsciously shifted her head away. Just how much does this person like the colour white? Even my eyes are about to go blind from the sparkles.

"Hoho. Hi~" Zhu Yao habitually gave her greeting.

"You're here." A voice as calm as water resounded. His voice was clearly not loud, yet it felt as though it had come from right next to her ears, as it distinctly passed into the depths of her heart. Zhu Yao had a faintly sensed that this voice was a little familiar, but she could not recall where she had heard it from.

"You know me?"

His smile grew deeper. "Zhu Yao. I have been waiting for you the entire time."

"Ah? Waited for me?" What was he going on about?

He stood up and walked down the tall stage. Only then was Zhu Yao able to clearly see his appearance. With straight sword-like brows and starry eyes, though he was not stunning, he constantly exuded a feeling of warmth and gentleness.

"Realmspirit mentioned that you're the only person able to help me."

"You know Realmspirit!" Zhu Yao was stunned. She had fixed so many bugs, but this was the first time she heard of an NPC who knew Realmspirit's name.

He paused for a moment, and then slowly nodded his head. "You can consider it that way."

What did he mean by 'consider', hey!?

"Do you know what kind of person is he? Where is he? Why does he want me to fix these bugs or whatever?"

He smiled even gentler than before. "You will know in the future."

The hell. He might as well not have said anything.

"What do you mean by I am able to help you?"

His expression sank for a moment. Suddenly, he stretched out a hand, and she saw a mass of miasma formed by the words 'bug' appearing in the palm of his hand.

"Resentment!" Zhu Yao was able to recognize it at first glance. "Why is there resentment here? Could it be… You were the person who exterminated the Ghost King that day? You're able to exterminate resentment!"

"No." He shook his head. Clenching his hand, that mass of resentment instantly disappeared. "I'm only able to seal it temporarily."

"Seal?"

"Resentment is shapeless and formless, undying and indestructible. Even if it's me, I am only able to seal it temporarily." He frowned. "However, there's quite an amount of resentment in this world. In the beginning, everything was still fine. However, trillion years have passed. Even if it's me, there will come a day where my power will become insufficient."

"Trillion years!" Zhu Yao grabbed onto this keyword. Did he mean that he had already existed for a trillion years? That was the time when the universe had only just begun, the time where even the Ancient Gods had not yet come into existence. He was alive ever since then? "Just who in the world are you?"

He still carried that same warm smile, and softly said. "My name is, River of Forgetfulness."

"River of Forgetfulness!" Zhu Yao widened her eyes. "Hoho, it can't be… that River of Forgetfulness, right?" Don't joke with me!

He waved his hand, and instantly, that large white palace disappeared just like that. Beneath their feet was that silvery white River of Forgetfulness that was flowing ever so calmly. They were presently floating in the sky above the river surface.

The main softly said. "Just as you surmised, I'm this River of Forgetfulness."

"…" Zhu Yao felt that her brain had crashed. River of Forgetfulness, he was the River of Forgetfulness. This river was seeking help from her, what could she do? Throw sand into it?

"Ever since the beginning of the universe, I have resided in the Underworld, removing the marks of all living beings in this world and reverting the souls back to their original forms." River of Forgetfulness continued. "But among these marks, some can be removed, while some can't."

"You can't remove resentment?"

He nodded. "Resentment influences souls, and souls which carry resentment into their reincarnations will recall their past lives. With resentment unscattered, it will cause several unforeseen events, bringing about the collapse of the worlds of the living. That is why I can't allow resentment to stay in spiritual bodies. However, even if resentment has left the souls, it will still not dissipate. The only choice I have is to seal it."

He once again waved his hand. This time, the silver river suddenly split into two sides, revealing the bottom of the river. However, the bottom was covered in deep black, dense to the point where its depth could not be clearly seen. That deep blackness was constantly tumbling, and occasionally, a strand of it would leap out. Zhu Yao took a closer look, that mass of darkness, was actually densely packed with the words 'bug'.

The river bottom was actually filled with resentment. Just how many years did it take to accumulate such a terrifying amount!?

Underneath such a clean and pure river, was actually the location used to seal resentment.

River of Forgetfulness placed down his hand, and the two sides of river surfaces once again joined together, reverting back to the former silvery white colour. Turning his head around, he looked at her with a warm look, his eyes were filled with sparkles.

"Uh…" Why are you looking at me with such hopeful eyes? "I really don't know how to exterminate resentment. Otherwise, I wouldn't be here looking for you."

"Since Realmspirit said that you're able to, then naturally, you're truly able to do it." River of Forgetfulness had a confident look.

"But I don't even have the slightest of idea with regards to resentment." Otherwise, little wimp would have been fine long ago.

He shook his head. "You don't know now, simply because the opportunity has not yet arrived."

"Then how would I know if the opportunity has arrived?"

He smiled and did not give a reply. Instead, he looked at her with an even more focused gaze than before. "You can do it."

"…" Don't put so much confidence into me, hey. What if I screw up?

"Before that day comes, I will continue waiting." He raised his hand, and Zhu Yao saw a formation instantly appearing beneath her feet. She felt her body turning light as the formation shone greatly.

"Wait a minute." She was still not done with her questions. "I still have something to ask!"

In the next moment, she was enveloped by white light, and next to her ears, a phantasmal voice resounded.

"Don't worry, regarding the matter concerning the person you're worried about, it's unrelated to resentment."

"Big sis Zhu Yao!" Little wimp's voice sounded in her ears. Her waist tightened, and in the moment, she had already risen into the sky.

Wang Xuzhi flew several meters away while carrying her, and he said with a worried look. "Big sis Zhu Yao, are you alright?"

"I'm fine." Zhu Yao turned back her head to take a look. She had once again returned to the land at the end of the horizon, where the chasm was.

"Why were you standing there? That was so dangerous. What if you fall into it?" Little wimp said with a worried look.

"Fall into it?" Zhu Yao widened her eyes. Didn't she already fall into it earlier?

"This place is too dangerous. The winds are actually able to scatter spiritual energy. It's inappropriate to stay for long." He suggested with a stern expression.

Zhu Yao felt that it was a little strange. She had clearly fallen into it for such a long time, why did little wimp look as though he was completely unaware of it? Could time have flowed differently between the land at the end of the horizon and Spiritual Realm? Suddenly, she felt that there was something in her hand? When she looked down, she realized it was a silvery white pearl, and its colour was extremely similar to that palace. What was this? Was it given by River of Forgetfulness? She clenched her hand, and then realized her own cultivation had actually recovered.

"Big sis Zhu Yao, this place doesn't seem to have a way to remove resentment. Why don't we return?"

She nodded, and followed Wang Xuzhi as they returned to Ancient Azure Sect.

Regarding the matter of the bug this time, she finally had some sort of hint. Back then, she had thought that the bug was that Ghost King, or the resentment carried by the Ghost King. Only now did she find out that Realmspirit wanted her to deal with all the resentment. Beneath the River of Forgetfulness, if the inventory that had accumulated for trillion years were to break out, let alone the Underworld, even the Three Realms would be affected. This was simply an ultra-grade bug.

However, she just did not have any hints on the way to basically deal with it. This was not comparable to making a game, where problems can be directly removed with the 'DEL' button. Most probably, even Realmspirit himself did not know how to deal with it, otherwise, he wouldn't have let this go on for such a long time.

She felt that she had encountered the biggest problem she had to face ever since she transmigrated.

Her master was still not awake, and little wimp's condition was worsening as well. The resentment in his body was beginning to go out of control, acting wantonly in his meridians, which prevented his spiritual energy from condensing. It had even endangered his Dantian, which made him fall into a coma once again.

Time was growing tight. Zhu Yao gritted her teeth as she decided on something risky.

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Chapter 243: Scenario Mode, On

Zi Mo had been a Sect Master his entire lifetime. No, that's not right. He had been a Sect Master for two of his lifetimes. It had always been smooth-sailing. Though he did not manage to make a grand step into deityhood, he was still satisfied. The disciples in his sect had absolute confidence in him, and the sect he resided in continued to thrive. No matter if it was in the cultivation world he formerly lived in, or in the present Spiritual Realm, as long as the name Zi Mo was brought up, anyone would raise up his thumb and shower him with praises.

However, in such a perfect human (ghost) life, two anomalies surfaced, and these were anomalies that he could not escape from even in his death. That's right, they were the two master and disciple of Jade Forest Peak.

"Little martial aunt, the plan you spoke of is really improper." Zi Mo said with a heavy heart. "Putting aside the possibility of you guiding out resentment out of Xuzhi's body, even if you succeeded, with your present level of cultivation, the injuries you will suffer will just be worse than his. If the resentment goes berserk at that moment, the situation will go out of hand."

"You must have some faith in me!" Zhu Yao patted on Zi Mo's shoulders.

This is not a problem of faith, but a problem of you sending yourself to death, hey. "Little martial aunt, it's not that this disciple is making things difficult for you. Xuzhi is my disciple, so I'm naturally extremely anxious as well. But if I end up dragging you into it because a moment of impatience as well, then it isn't worth a candle."

"Don't worry, I will be careful."

"Resentment is very ferocious and dangerous, it's not something that can be dealt with just by being careful. Little martial aunt, I absolutely disapprove of your plan to guide the resentment in Xuzhi's body into your own."

"Oh." Zhu Yao replied especially seriously. "I didn't ask for your opinion though."

"…" An arrow was shot into his knee.

Disciples of Jade Forest Peak or whatever, he hated them the most.

Zi Mo felt like crying. If he really allowed her to guide resentment into her own body, once his ancestral-grand uncle wakes up, he will definitely kill him, right? He will, right!? Recalling a certain person's frosty look, he could not help but shiver. In an instant, the room turned quite cold, as he decisively pulled onto Zhu Yao. "Little martial aunt… no matter what, you must not carry out such a self-sacrificial act. If you remain stubborn like this, I… I will die in front of your eyes."

"Die then." Zhu Yao was becoming a little annoyed from his pestering. "Let me see how you plan on dying!"

Zi Mo was stunned. For a moment, he did not know how he should proceed.

Zhu Yao carried Wang Xuzhi up from the bed, and sat in a lotus position behind him. Looking at the man who seemed to have been dealt with a deep and severe blow, she sighed. "Old man, don't worry. I know what I'm doing." She took out a white pearl from within her, and passed it over. "If I end up falling into a coma like little wimp, pass this to my master in my stead." This was given to her by River of Forgetfulness, and she was unable to discern what it was either. Though, she faintly sensed that it might be useful to her master.

Zi Mo took it from her, and seemed to still have something to say. However, Zhu Yao had already closed her eyes, and began circulating her spiritual energy into Wang Xuzhi's meridians.

She had done many game plans in the modern era, and the number of bugs she fixed was larger than the number of times she died. She just wouldn't believe that there was really no way to exterminate this so-called resentment. As long as it's a bug, then there's definitely a patch that can deal with it. As the saying goes, as long as the pickaxe is swung well, there are no walls that cannot be dug. Uh… Something sounds strange here?

However, to patch it, one must first figure out where the loophole was. That was why she thought of guiding the resentment in little wimp's body into her own, so that she could deeply understand the composition of resentment. Only then would she be able to find a method to counter it. Even a divine doctor would have to try hundreds of herbs to figure out their medicinal effects after all.

Taking a deep breath, Zhu Yao continued to circulate her spiritual energy and inspect little wimp's meridians. From his Shenting to his Danzhong, his body was filled with pure fire spiritual energy. Only when she approached the location of his Dantian did she faintly sense strands of black gaseous bodies.

The black miasma and fire spiritual energy were entangled together. The miasma was just a step away from gathering in his Dantian, the source of his spiritual energy. At the entrance to his Dantian, there were several rows of talismans floating around, and they were preventing the miasma from entering with all their might.

It was no wonder little wimp was unconscious. If resentment ended up entering his Dantian, if he wanted to forcefully expel it, he would have to shatter his Dantian and had no choice but to destroy his own cultivation. The remnants of little wimp's consciousness were most likely used to stop this resentment.

Zhu Yao did not hesitate any further, and immediately guided the miasma towards her. Contrary to her expectations, the miasma seemed to have fixated on little wimp's body, not even bothering to move towards her in the least.

The hell, you resentment, you actually have preferences for men over women! Willing her thoughts, she materialized a few thin lightning streaks, which struck and crackled all over. Along with the fire spiritual energy, the lightning streaks directly scattered the miasma.

Though she could not exterminate it, hitting it till it was unable to retaliate was still possible. The moment the resentment scattered, Zhu Yao immediately used her spiritual energy to trap it, and then retracted it back towards her.

At first, she had wanted to control the resentment and then deal with it slowly. However, the moment the resentment she scattered entered her meridians, as though it was injected with hormones, the resentment excitedly skipped and jumped about, and began to scurry wantonly within her body.

It was clearly so quiet back in little wimp's body, why did it suddenly go crazy when it came into hers?

Zhu Yao lost control for a moment, and her meridians ended up flowing in the reverse direction. Opening her mouth, she puked out a mouthful of blood.

Puah!

"Little martial aunt!" Zi Mo was frightened, as he hurriedly sprinted over.

Zhu Yao gritted her teeth. Taking the opportunity the resentment had yet to swim all the way to her Dantian, she circulated the spiritual energy in her entire body to seal the surroundings of her Dantian. As expected, when the resentment had reached near her Dantian, they could not take any step further.

Just as Zhu Yao was about to heave a sigh of relief, the miasma that finally stopped, suddenly turned around and drilled into her divine sense.

The hell, this plot development was evidently not going according to the script!

Because the spiritual energy in her entire body was safeguarding her Dantian, that miasma seemed to have directly seeped into her divine sense without facing any obstructions. Zhu Yao instantly felt her vision darken.

Momma's egg, she had gone and done it now!

For a moment, Zhu Yao could not feel her own existence, but only thick darkness. She was feeling suppressed all around her to the point where she was finding it hard to breathe. There seemed to be something in the depths of her heart, rumbling and tumbling, wanting to break out.

Following after, the scene in front of her eyes changed. She suddenly saw a place filled with lush green mountains and clear rivers. Fresh flowers in full bloom filled the land, while the sky was even more so brightly lit, with auspicious clouds floating about.

A white-robed woman was standing within the hundreds of flowers, and she slowly turned her head towards her.

Zhu Yao inhaled some air. That was an astonishingly beautiful face. In the cultivation world, the beauties Zhu Yao saw were as many as the number of hair on a cow, and the human forms of the God Races were even more so heaven-defying beautiful. However, none of them could compare to this woman. Four beauties of ancient China? When comparing them to her, they were simply too crude. If she had to be described with a single phrase, then it could only be – She's too motherf*king beautiful, she's inhuman!

That beauty was looking straight at her, and then suddenly gave her a light smile. In an instant, the ground that was filled with flowers, along with the brightly lit sky, suddenly lost all their colours.

"Why?" She suddenly spoke. She sounded as though she was asking out of curiosity, yet at the same time, she sounded like she was interrogating her as well. "Why… why…"

As she constantly questioned, her voice grew solemn, and the expression on her face slowly turned into despair. It was like colours had suddenly faded away from a wonderful scenery. On her beautiful face, a eye-catching astonishing scar suddenly appeared. It spread across her entire face, and blood was still seeping out of it. Her white robes were slowly dyed in red.

In a blink of an eye, a beautiful fairy had turned into a vile ghost of hell. Even the hundreds of flowers on the ground had slowly wilted away, and the sky were filled with thunders and flashes of lighting.

Zhu Yao trembled from fright, however, in an instant, the scene in front of her changed.

Next, she witnessed the life of a miserable girl through the method of direct transfer. It was exactly similar to the scenario mode in the past.

The girl's name was Ying Luo, and she was said to be the descendant of the ancient God Race. However, this girl was rather unfortunate, as she was abandoned when young. She was then picked up by a pair of human traffickers, and was often bought and sold by people. Never able to eat to her fill, and never able to wear any warm clothes, she managed to reach the age of ten through great difficulty. At that time, she encountered a deity sect which was taking in disciples, but because she possessed the weakest penta spirit veins, after arriving in the deity sect, she was arranged to the outer sect to do miscellaneous chores.

Though her luck was on the poorer side, it could not stop someone who possessed the bloodline of a God Race. Cultivation was completely a breeze to her, and she would basically learn anything on her first try. And it was exactly because of this she had brought about the envy of others in the same sect. It was uncertain just how many times she was plotted against in the dark.

Through great difficulty, she managed to build her Foundation, and her life became a little better than before. She was taken in as a disciple by an Azoth Core practitioner in the inner sect, and officially entered the core authoritative circle of the cultivation world. Because of her spirit veins, people did not set their eyes on her in the beginning. However, she was a good learner, and adding that she was a hard worker as well, she managed to reach Foundation Paragon in just ten short years.

A mere penta spirit veins holder actually possessed a cultivation speed comparable to a heavenly spirit vein holder. Naturally, this would arouse the suspicions of others, and there were even people who felt that she carried an exotic treasure.

Even if she had done nothing, she still ended up pulling in lots of hatred. As long as she stepped outside, people would frequently leap out and stab her with a sword or slice her with a sabre. And among these hatred, there was also her master who had been stuck as an Azoth Core practitioner for a hundred years.

In the first place, this Azoth Core practitioner did not willingly take her as a disciple either. The rules of the sect stated that as long as one was a Foundation disciple, he or she had to be admitted into the inner sect. Ying Luo was among the people who was pushed to a practitioner, who did not meet the minimum requirement on the number of disciples to be taken under his tutelage.

That was why this Azoth Core practitioner did not really plan on teaching her wholeheartedly, and simply threw her a few books on techniques and arts. In the end, this disciple attained enlightenment, and ended up cultivating faster than himself. In just a blink of an eye, she was about to surpass him and form her own Azoth Core. This master quitted. He applied pressure on this disciple of his both openly and secretly, and when he heard the rumours that she possessed an exotic treasure, he even grouped up with others, wanting to kill his own disciple to steal her treasure.

However, the girl's luck suddenly exploded forth. Not only did she manage to escape a tribulation, while surrounded by the crowd of people, she suddenly had a sudden comprehension, instantly forming her Azoth Core. Instead, the people who surrounded her and attacked her, ate their own bitter fruits. They were wiped out.

Cultivating from the Foundation realm to the Azoth Core realm in just ten short years, an aptitude like this had finally garnered the attention of the sect. The girl was then raised by the sect with heavier care and attention, learning alongside with those heavenly spirit vein geniuses.

Though she now had high level resources and cultivation techniques, because she did not have any background and backing behind her, she was still that little cabbage who was constantly being bullied. It was as though the girl's body was stuck with slips of paper labelled 'Come, beat me then', everyone wanted to go up and bully her.

However, towards these scorns and disdains, the girl did not mind them at all. Probably because there hadn't been a single person who was nice to her since young, she never had any thoughts in that aspect. Instead, she gotten used to all the bullying. Not to mention, in such an environment, the girl actually did not have any steered views in life. She was still that little cabbage who constantly aimed higher in an upright manner. As she dealt with the evil intentions of the people in the same sect, she continued to put in effort in her cultivation.

Until the day when the sect encountered the assault of heretic practitioners. Their Mountain Barrier Formation was broken through, and large waves of demonic beasts attacked. Yet, coincidentally, the few Nascent Soul practitioners and the only Demigod Sovereign of the sect had all rushed to a newly surfaced secret realm, and were not present in the sect at all.

The only ones who could be termed as battle forces in the sect, were the few Azoth Core practitioners. Though the girl was young, her sense of justice was off the charts, as she fought with the crowd of heretic practitioners in a desperate manner while waiting for the management level leaders to return and rescue them.

However, these heretic practitioners were not just talk either, and their methods were extremely heinous and ruthless. There were even some who practiced heretic arts that cultivated the souls of the dead. Many disciples turned timid, and only the upright little girl remained to safeguard the sect to the death. She desperately activated the sect's mountain barrier mystic artifact, and managed to stop the heretic practitioners.

When the management level leaders returned, she only had a single breath remaining.

Probably because her actions were too moving, the Sect Master personally healed her injuries, took her as his chamber disciple, and began to teach her wholeheartedly. With resources and background, the girl spent two hundred years to cultivate into a late stage Azoth Core practitioner.

After that, an ancient secret realm surfaced. All practitioners above the Azoth Core realm had gone over to investigate it, and the girl was also one of them. They found out that it was a mustard seed dimensional space left behind by an ancient God, and it was in this space that the girl suddenly awakened her bloodline of the ancient God Race. She immediately nourished her Nascent Soul, and charged all the way to the cultivation level of a Nascent Soul Paragon.

Her identity had also surfaced as well. The true descendant of an ancient God Race, biological sister of the Palace Master of Forgotten God Palace. Her godly power had even more so surpassed the Palace Master's. As the descendant of a God Race, the girl naturally could not stay in her former sect, and was welcomed to Forgotten God Palace, becoming the master of one of the halls.

However, she did not live a blissful and happy life.

Because, the Devil Race surfaced.

Zhu Yao deeply felt that the God Race and Devil Race was like an OTP that could not be torn apart no matter what. And it was even the kind where they would love to kill each other.

The ancient God's mustard seed dimensional space which the girl had inspected back then, had a Devil sealed in it. When the crowd of people entered the dimensional space, he took the opportunity to escape. Furthermore, the conventional scenario of a Devil began. With nothing else better to do, he ran around causing havoc, and his ultimate goal was obviously, to destroy the world.

The girl Ying Luo, the true descendant of the ancient God Race, who was newly appointed as a Hall Master, carrying an overflowing sense of justice, and was bound by her duty, was naturally dispatched by the Forgotten God Palace Master to save the world. Because she was the reason behind the release of the Devil, the girl fought with immense effort. However, a descendant of the God Race was not equal to an actual God, no matter how much effort she put in, how could she possibly defeat an undying Devil?

The cultivation world lost! Fifty or so Nascent Soul practitioners, dozens of Demigod practitioners, all collectively laid on the ground.

In the end, the girl gritted her teeth and directly used her body as a sacrifice. With her soul as a guide, she turned into five mystic artifacts and resealed the Devil.

The world was saved, but the girl died. Furthermore, her soul was split into several pieces, bound to seal the Devil forever, never to be able to reincarnate once more.

Zhu Yao sighed. This could totally be considered as a weeping heroic tale. This girl was someone who could truly be referred to as a world saviour, though her ending was a little too miserable. Zhu Yao could not help but sigh once more.

Suddenly the scene in front of her changed. The scenario was not complete, there was actually a continuation. Zhu Yao seriously watched on, and the further she watched, the more desolate she felt. That suppressing feeling that made it hard for her to breathe returned, causing unquellable rage to unconsciously surge within her.

What the scene showed was, the thousand years after the girl had saved the world.

She woke up!

Probably because the Heavenly Dao felt that it had mistreated her, a thousand years after the Devil was sealed, the pieces of the girl's soul slowly left the mystic artifacts and began to gather.

Then, she was revived.

Though, her cultivation was lost, she was once again standing on this piece of land with a new life. It was the first time she felt the priceless value of life, and had so much love for everything in the world. This had also made her feel that everything she had done, was all worth it.

But, good people would not necessarily be rewarded. She died!

She died in the hands of the people of the world, whom she had used her soul to protect.

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Chapter 244: Starting the Extended Instance Dungeon

The reason why heroes were heroes, were exactly because they only lived in legends. The girl sacrificed her life to seal the Devil, so everyone admired her, respected her, and revered her as their saviour. Because she was already dead, the dead would not be able to argue or fight with the living. No matter how high her prestige was, she could not be considered as a threat.

However, if she was alive, this situation would no longer exist. Her high prestige would definitely influence the other deity sects and threaten those people with high statuses. On the surface, the various sects celebrated her revival, but in their hearts, a faint suspicion grew. If she was revived, then wasn't there a possibility that the Devil would revive as well?

The various sects feared the Devil Race. After all, in that battle, a large portion of the deity sects and clans suffered huge blows to their foundations, and even given ten thousand years, it was impossible to make a full recovery.

They worried, and they feared. These emotions ran deeper and deeper, and their fear surged every single day. They then pushed the reason for their fear, onto the girl who was revived – Ying Luo. Why did she have to come back to life? Wouldn't it have been better if she had sealed the Devil for all eternity? Since she had already chosen to die, why did she have to go back on her word and come back to life? As time passed, none remembered that she had once saved this world of theirs. All they wanted was for her to return to those seals, so that they could stop the Devil's revival.

Thus, in order to save the world, and in order to prevent the Devil's revival, the various sects collaborated together. Before the girl could even enjoy her new life, they killed her in the name of justice. They, they had even split her soul into five, and resealed them onto the five mystic artifacts. While they were still completely uncertain if the Devil would be resurrected, they killed their former world saviour.

The girl died. She died at the hands of the people she once used her life to protect.

Zhu Yao sensed that surging fury, and she felt an oppressing pain the depths of her heart, for that girl, and for those ignorant practitioners. She had even wanted to rush straight in to stop them. However, there was nothing she could do, as she watched that girl die. She watched as the girl's soul was torn apart from the formation, and she watched as they were imprisoned into the five mystic artifacts.

The scene in front of her eyes changed, and she had once again returned to that field of flowers.

The young maiden that looked like a vile ghost of hell was still standing amidst the flowers, her entire body was covered in blood. However, Zhu Yao suddenly lost all her fear of her, because this was how the girl looked like right before her death. That bloody scar that cut across her face, was exactly the wound where her soul was sliced apart.

"Why?" She asked, tears in the form of fresh, red blood flowed down from her eyes. "I have never mistreated this world in the slightest, so why did the people of this world have to treat me in such a way?"

Zhu Yao could not answer.

The blood on the girl's clothes grew even redder, as her entire being sunk into boundless despair. Suddenly, the blood turned into streams of black gaseous bodies, enveloping her entire body like a fog.

Resentment!

So this was the cause behind resentment. Because of such treatment by the people of her world, how could she not hate? How could she not resent?

Zhu Yao felt that she was soon about to sink under that immense sadness and desolateness, and thoughts of despair came up in her mind. As though the entirety of the world had already disappeared far away, her entire being felt like it was falling into an ice cellar, and even her heart was about to freeze, with no ability to escape. Even death itself had turned into a form of desire, as the thought of giving up on everything constantly poured into her mind.

Ting! The clear sound of a bell suddenly rang in her ears.

The scene in front of her changed. Instantly, her surroundings were filled with a familiar darkness, and a QQ chat window immediately popped out. On it, several rows of words appeared in an instant.

Realmspirit: Young maiden, are you alright?

Realmspirit: Wake up, young maiden!

Realmspirit: Don't scare me, hurry and regain your senses!

Realmspirit: Young maiden!

Realmspirit: Zhu Yao!

Realmspirit: Princess Taiping!1

Realmspirit: Airport!2

"…" The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched, and her face instantly darkened. "You're an airport, your entire family is an airport."

Realmspirit: (_)

Realmspirit: Yo, brave young maiden, let's create a miracle together!

"Create your sister!" Zhu Yao habitually refuted. She then took a deep breath. The despair and desire for death she felt earlier had already receded like the ocean tide, none of their traces could be found. The emotions earlier were most likely the influence of resentment. She turned around and looked at her surroundings. "Did I die again?"

Realmspirit: Nope, young maiden! At the very most, your soul is just experiencing an out-of-body experience.

"Out-of-body experience?" Zhu Yao was stunned. "Then, what about my body?"

Realmspirit: Your body has already been taken over by resentment, and it's currently in a state of deep slumber.

"You're saying I can still return?" That was her original avatar, she had feelings for it!

Realmspirit sank into silence. After a while, he typed out a row of words.

Realmspirit: … Unless the resentment in your body is removed, you will be devoured by the resentment if you return now.

"Oh…" Zhu Yao really did not expect that the situation was this serious.

Realmspirit: Hoho, young maiden, your mission this time seems to be too difficult. This work arrangement is my mistake. Why don't we switch to an easy and comfortable bug for you to fix?

Were there bugs ever that were easy and comfortable to deal with? Zhu Yao gave a scornful look.

"Whatever, since I have already started fixing it, then I shall fix it till the end!"

Realmspirit: Eh?

He seemed to have been startled for a moment.

Realmspirit: Young maiden, are you still planning to return and deal with resentment? Dear friend, do you need a top-up on your intelligence? One top-up with every five bugs fixed, and you will be charged the moment the top-up is processed. Do you need one?

"Scram!" Zhu Yao rolled her eyes at him. "I simply have a feeling that, I might have found a way to eliminate resentment."

Realmspirit: (o) (Earlier, she was still utterly abused by resentment, why did she say that she has a way to deal with it now all of a sudden? The resentment couldn't have burnt away the young maiden's brain, right?)

"Hey, can you not type out your retorts!?" Do you really think I won't be able to see them because of those brackets? -Faints!-

Realmspirit: Don't mind such details! Young maiden, are you certain that you wish to continue fixing this bug?

"That's right. Regarding the concrete details of eliminating resentment, I'm still not exactly certain. I have to personally verify it myself." Zhu Yao said with a low voice. "And I need your help."

Realmspirit: Oh… Come then, young maiden. Don't take pity on me just because I'm frail, use me however you like!

"…" Would it kill you not to act stupid? Zhu Yao sighed as she ignored his immoral words. She then gave her analysis. "Usually, when fixing a bug in a game, we would point at the original infrastructure and add a patch there. However, if we encounter mistakes that can never be repaired, in other words, a life-threatening mistake, if we want to save it, there is only a single method – delete and recode. Back then, when the resentment entered my divine sense, I saw the cause behind the birth of resentment. I must say, she does indeed have the right to resent. Also, there's basically no way to remove her resentment. To remove the bell, the one who attached the bell is needed. If we want to solve this problem, we must first begin from the source. So, I wish to go to that world, and find that girl."

Realmspirit did not reply, as though he was considering her suggestion. After a while, a row of words was displayed.

Realmspirit: You're planning to remove her resentful heart, and have her put down her hatred towards the people of her world.

"You can put it that way."

Realmspirit: However, though her soul still resides in the world, the resentment has long left her spiritual body. Now that it has arrived in the Underworld, it might not be influenced by her soul.

"At the very least, we should give it a try."

Realmspirit: … Fine then, I believe in you. I choose you, Pikachu!

"…" Pika your sister! The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. She suddenly recalled something. "Oh right, what happened to my master? Why is he frequently turning into a child? Is his comatose state also influenced by resentment?"

Realmspirit, That's not it, young maiden. One must always pay a certain price for defying against the Heavenly Dao.

"What do you mean?" Speak human.

Realmspirit: He forcefully descended upon the Lower Realm with his power as a High Deity, and then forcefully stayed in the Lower Realm, so naturally he would not be tolerated by the Heavenly Dao.

"You're saying the reason for his comatose state is because of his decision to stay in the Lower Realm." The depths of Zhu Yao's heart tightened, and she was instantly filled with guilt. If not because of her, how could her master possibly…

Realmspirit: Haah, young maiden! All this is because of… love. As expected, men and women in love are all blind!

"Scram!" Zhu Yao glared at him, and her heart was instantly filled with anxiety. "Is there a way to deal with this problem? … No! This old lady wants to return!"

Realmspirit: Don't be anxious, young maiden.

"How can I not be anxious?" That was her man.

Realmspirit: Kuh… I'm saying, the problem has already been settled.

Zhu Yao was stunned. "What do you mean?"

The window flashed, and suddenly a video interface appeared. On the window, the scene right after she fainted was shown. Her master dressed in a white robe was currently sitting next to her, his expression was suffused with a cold aura. Wang Xuzhi was standing at the side, as though he had just woken up, his complexion did not look that good. As for Zi Mo…

Zi Mo was currently stuck in a wall. Looking at the angle and depth he was embedded into it, it was definitely her master who slammed him into it.

Zhu Yao: "…"

"How did my master wake up?"

Realmspirit: Did you forget the pearl River of Forgetfulness gave you? It contains the purest of water from the source of River of Forgetfulness, that had yet to make contact with any souls. It's capable of cleansing away all objects and beings. That's why, as long as he carries it on his body, the Heavenly Dao will acknowledge his existence, so he will naturally wake up.

As expected, that pearl was for her master's use. Zhu Yao turned to glance at her own master, and suddenly felt a little discomfort. Every single time, she had to depart like this without saying goodbye, her heart was tired as well. However, if she did not go, she wouldn't know which world Realmspirit would reincarnate her into. It would be best if she directly eliminated resentment and then return to her own original avatar.

"Can I send him a message?"

Realmspirit: Young maiden, I'm not a postman!

What a friend you are!

"Whatever, dispatch me for the mission then."

Realmspirit: Alright, young maiden!

"Can you give me a more reliable avatar this time? Don't make it as weak as trash, alright?"

Realmspirit: No problem, young maiden! I hear your call, young maiden.

"Then I'm off."

Realmspirit: Alright, young maiden! In order to raise your chances of success, I have decided to tune some fine adjustments to the scenario. Good luck, young maiden.

Wait a minute, what did you adjust, hey?

The view in front of her flashed, and a familiar loading bar appeared. The bar moved at lightspeed, and in the next second, Zhu Yao had already sunk into unconsciousness.

She suddenly had a bad feeling, that she was about to get trolled.

When Zhu Yao woke up again, she was on a stone bed. Her entire body was so stiff, it felt like she had been petrified into stone. She spent great effort into sitting up. As she got used to her body, she inspected her surroundings. This was a stone chamber, and it was even sealed tight. Several formations used to concentrate spiritual energy were placed inside, which made the spiritual energy in the air abundant.

She sat for exactly an hour before she managed to smoothen the flow of her meridians, and her stiffened body slowly began to relax as well.

Zhu Yao inhaled some air, wanting to circulate the spiritual energy in her body. However, she realized that her Dantian was completely empty.

The hell, what happened to the promised overpowered avatar? She couldn't possibly have to start cultivating again from scratch, right?

Wait a minute!

It wasn't that simple. She calmed her heart down, and immediately went into her inner view. She realized that although her body did not carry spiritual energy, her divine sense was as broad as the ocean. The hell, this divine sense was evidently comparable to a Demigod's.

Zhu Yao instantly grew a little excited. So it was simply because she did not have sufficient battery charged up. She finally did not have to start cultivating from scratch again.

Thus, she directly guided spiritual energy into her body. In an instant, the spiritual energy guiding formations in the stone chamber began to circulate wildly. Large amount of spiritual energy began to pour into her body, and her surroundings were filled with sparkling streaks of lightning. The chamber looked as though it was attacked by a tornado, and occasionally, flashes of lightning would occasionally appear and make crackling sounds, as they struck the stone walls. It was unclear what materials the stone wall was made of either, as not a single scratch was left on it.

The amount of spiritual energy the formations could gather was extremely limited, and in just a few moments, they had already been completely absorbed. It was simply not enough to restore her cultivation. However, after the formations had stopped, even more spiritual energy came transferring endlessly into her body from underneath the ground.

It seemed like there was even a spiritual pulse hidden under this stone chamber. Zhu Yao instantly felt at ease, as she began to absorb the spiritual energy with a peace of mind.

Exactly ten days passed before her empty Dantian was completely filled with spiritual energy. Her cultivation had also successfully restored to the Demigod Realm.

Zhu Yao casually cast a Dirt Removal Art on herself, and then immediately materialized a water mirror to look at the appearance of her current avatar.

She had no choice. After all, she did not have that much faith in Realmspirit's character.

The face of a woman surfaced in the water mirror. She looked really stern, and not much beauty could be seen from her entire figure. She could only be considered as average and proper. Her height was so-so, her clothes were so-so, her looks were so-so, and her chest… was so-so as well. She seemed like a female practitioner without any unique traits, and had a face that would be unrecognizable when thrown into a human crowd.

Zhu Yao pouted. Normal it is then. She did not hold much hopes towards her own avatar now, as long as she did not turn into something strange, she was fine with it.

She silently planted a suggestion in her own heart and accepted her new avatar. Keeping the mirror with a wave of her hand, she recalled the mission this time. Firstly, she had to first retrieve the five mystic artifacts and release the soul remnants of the miserable girl. Then, she had to have a good chat with her about life.

Even if she could not eliminate her resentment, at the very least, she could send her into reincarnation.

With her ability as a Demigod, Zhu Yao felt really confident.

After carefully inspecting this stone chamber, she spotted a formation on the right wall. It seemed like that was the exit. Zhu Yao did not hesitate and inserted a strand of spiritual energy into it. With a rumbling sound, the entire right wall slowly split into two and slid open in opposite directions.

Before she could even take a step out, she saw an old man standing outside. With a cultivation level at the early Nascent Soul Realm, he was dressed in a long blue robe and had grown a long white beard down his chin. He held on a whisk in his hands, exuding a very sage-like demeanour.

There was a large bunch of disciples behind him. There were men and women, old and young, and they densely occupied the entire mountain slope where the cave entrance was.

Zhu Yao's heart trembled. What were these people doing? Fighting a group battle?

Seeing that she had come out, the eyes of the old man with a sage-like demeanour brightened. Taking a step forward, his sage-like demeanour resoundingly snapped as he bowed in front of her. With an imposing aura, he loudly said. "This disciple greets Old Ancestor!"

When his words fell, the disciples behind him all knelt down one after another. Voices that could pierce through the clouds resounded. "Greetings to Old Ancestor!"

I dare you to stand up and say it again while stroking your beard!

Princess Taiping (太平公主) : literally translated as the Princess of Peace, she was the youngest daughter of Empress Wu Zetian.

The airport here is used to express her flat chest, like the plane runways in airports.

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Chapter 245: Adjusted Timeline

Wen Yu had always believed that he was a qualified Palace Master, and even one that was extremely motivated. Though the Forgotten God Palace he inherited was in a terrible state, he still did not give up and abandon his duties, and instead wanted to bring the sect up to a healthy condition, no, he wanted to bring it onto the path towards great prosperity.

He had an overflowing amount of helpless dreams, but reality was cruel to the bone. Though Forgotten God Palace had the mighty descendants of the ancient God Races, even the most trendy and hottest brands, could not stand the test of time. In the beginning, by relying on the additional godly energy they were blessed with, this attribute that could be nearly considered as a cheat, Forgotten God Palace was the unshakable leading goat of the cultivation world. In the recent years however, due to the thinning of their bloodlines, this attribute grew weaker and weaker. Presently, other than the Palace Master who still carried that little hint of bloodline which he himself was unable to sense, and did not have that much godly energy that could be used at all, the other disciples of direct descent basically only had a single descendant of the God Races under each of their names.

In order to retain the blessings of godly energy, it was unavoidable for the previous Palace Masters to take some xenophobic measures, which brought about extremely dire consequences. The most direct exemplification of this was – foreign talents could not enter, and the management turned corrupted, the overall aptitude of the sect took a dive, to their present state where there was basically no disciple that could possibly be called decent.

When he realized the severity of this problem and began to consider accepting talented disciples from outside, it was already too late. Putting aside the fact that disciples with good aptitudes were hard to find, even if there were, they would have long been snatched away by the other clans and sects. How could their turn possibly come?

Especially during the previous great war that implicated the entire cultivation world, Forgotten God Palace had suffered heavy losses. Almost all of the practitioners who could hold their ground had already fallen in that battle. Out of the dozens of Nascent Soul practitioners, merely five remained. The strength of Forgotten Gods Temple plummeted once again, to the point where it was hard for them to raise their heads in front of the other sects.

Wen Yu was worried about this matter every single day, hardly being able to sleep at night. Yet, at this critical juncture, the various sects stabbed another dagger into his heart, by inviting their Azoth Core disciples to participate in the Great Inter-Sect Tournament. However, Wen Yu was aware that this glorified spar between clans and sects, was actually a meeting to measure the strengths of the various sects.

A problem occurred in this competition. The ten Azoth Core disciples dispatched by Forgotten God Palace, were all beaten to a pulp. Putting aside the fact that they did not get into the rankings, not a single disciple entered the top ten. Furthermore, their results were not even comparable to an average first-rate deity sect.

Wen Yu had almost puked out a mouthful of blood. After this competition, forget about being the leading goat, their position as a first-rate deity sect might be at stake, and from then on completely lose their right to speak. Wen Yu even had the desire to die now. At this unsalvageable, irrecoverable and helpless moment, a miracle appeared!

The spiritual light of a Demigod suddenly descended upon the Heaven Returning Forest behind the mountains, and the entire Forgotten Gods Temple was enveloped by tribulation clouds. The thundering tribulation lightning bolts actually struck for a total of ten days, and following after, in a certain stone chamber within the forest, the pressure of a Demigod was emitted out.

A Demigod practitioner was in Heaven Returning Forest behind the mountains. There was actually a Demigod Sovereign! After that battle, there wasn't a single Demigod left in the entire cultivation world, however, they had gained another one here, alive!

Wen Yu was instantly excited to the point where even his beard was shining, as he gathered everyone outside the stone chamber to personally welcome this Sovereign out of her closed-door training. With a Demigod practitioner stationed, just which sect would still dare bully them?

Wen Yu's fantasies grew even wilder, and he grew even more excited as he thought about them. And, the more he thought about them, his impression of that Sovereign in the chamber grew even better. You sure have come at the perfect moment. You are that most beautiful rainbow in the sky, and I will have you stay with fragrant wine… Eh, something sounded strange here?

However, when that Sovereign walked out of the stone chamber, he was dumbfounded. Who… is she? Her face looks very foreign.

The Heaven Returning Forest, situated behind the mountains, was the place where the sect disciples go into life-death isolations. Every single practitioner who entered would be near the end of his or her, with the intention of making a desperate attempt to break through. However, a large number of disciples never returned. Those who did return had slim chances of living on as well, and they were all existences who were easily forgotten by others.

However, this was a Demigod Sovereign. In other words, before she entered, she was at least a Nascent Soul practitioner. But, how could he not have seen her before either?

Wen Yu gritted his teeth. He couldn't be bothered about it anymore. The sect could not lose this Sovereign. Let's just take it as though the heavens have gifted her to us.

Thus, without hesitation, pata, he knelt on the ground and loudly shouted. "This disciple greets Old Ancestor."

Hence, the young maiden Zhu Yao, who had a youthful appearance and had only gotten a boyfriend just recently, became their ancestor just like that.

"Old Ancestor, may I ask which blessed land does dear elderly wish to have as your cave residence?" Wen Yu welcomed her with a chuckle, and he was grinning to the point where his eyes could barely be seen.

Elderly Zhu Yao: "…"

Can you please not address me as your ancestor? She still wanted to marry, you know! "Just call me directly by my name."

"That definitely can't do." Wen Yu's expression sharpened, and he said with a stern look. "There are orders when it comes to seniority and ranks. As the Palace Master of Forgotten God Palace, this disciple naturally has to lead by example. May I ask Old Ancestor not to decline." His face was filled with the 'you're stepping on my pride as your junior' look.

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched, silently enduring it. If not because of how aged you look!

"Just choose a place at random then. As long as I can take residence in it." She did not have any demands to make when it came to a place to stay. In any case, her goal was just those mystic artifacts.

When Wen Yu heard this, he did not take her for another blind stroll either, as he directly headed to a lush green mountain peak.

She wondered if it was a coincidence, but that was the highest mountain among all of the floating mountains here. Next to it was the Main Peak, and a forest was situated on the right. Though, several kilometers away, there was actually a mountain dyed completely in pitch-black. Not a single grass or tree was present on that mountain, and spiritual energy was not emitting out from it either. Yet, it was still stably floating in the sky.

Zhu Yao was a little curious. "What's that?"

"That's the Sword Seeking Peak." Wen Yu explained. Suddenly, as though he had recalled something, he said. "Soon, the Day of Sword Seeking for the various sects will arrive. When that time comes, may I look forward to Old Ancestor protecting our sect."

"Sword Seeking? What's that?" Zhu Yao casually asked.

Wen Yu was startled for a moment, as he looked at her a little strangely. "Sword Seeking is naturally an event for practitioners to find weapons or forging materials that they are compatible with." Just how long had the Old Ancestor gone into isolation for? She was not even aware of something like this. "This Sword Seeking Peak rose into the air on its own several thousand years ago, and residing within are countless materials used to forge mystic artifacts. However, because this mountain resides above our sect's spiritual pulse, the weapons forged by the materials here are naturally birthed with spirituality, and they will choose their owners on their own. Before finding a suitable owner, even if the weapon has been successfully forged, it will make its way back here to wait for the destined individual. This is why our sect organizes the Sword Seeking Convention every ten years."

It was that incredible? Then wouldn't the other clans and sects be envious to death? After all, the other clans and sects could only visit once every ten years, while they were just at its doorsteps.

However, after listening to his explanation, Zhu Yao began to look forward to it a little. She might be able to use this Sword Seeking Convention to find out the locations of the five mystic artifacts and borrow them for a while. Even if they were unwilling to lend them to her, she could still snatch them!

Zhu Yao stayed on the mountain peak for five days, and she inquired about the current state of the world from the few disciples who came to serve her. She wouldn't have known if she did hear about them, but after hearing them, her entire body felt uncomfortable.

Initially, she had believed that Realmspirit had given her another avatar which had its own backstory, however, that was not the case. In this sect, there was not a single person who knew her. Though, because the location she appeared in was coincidentally in a stone chamber at the back of their own mountains, by logical deduction, that Palace Master took her as one of their own.

It was no wonder that old man wouldn't call her by her name no matter what. It was not because he did not want to, he basically did not know who she was. Because he was afraid of offending a Demigod practitioner, he had no choice but to exalt her with 'Old Ancestor' and even more 'Old Ancestor'. As expected, people who could become Sect Masters were all thousand-year-old foxes. He was evidently trolling her.

After realizing the truth, Zhu Yao immediately headed over to Wen Yu to express that she did not wish to stay in this sect.

Wen Yu however stopped her with tears in his eyes and snot coming out from his nose. As he cried, he spoke of the sect's heart-aching history. From the establishment of the sect, he cried his way to the sect's glorious era, and then cried all the way to their current embarrassing predicament. All this while, he was hugging onto her thigh without letting go.

A white-haired old man who looked like he was above his fifties, cried, shouted, and pleaded for her to stay. He begged her to overthrow their current situation, and become a good young maiden with five disciplines and four graces. She really could not bear to kick him away, and in the end, gave her consent.

Wen Yu instantly became energetic. His waist was no longer sore, his legs were no longer aching, he stopped hugging onto her thigh as well, and the tears and snot had all been retracted. "May I ask for Sovereign's Daoist title?"

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. "Yu Yao." Face changing was definitely an essential skill which all Sect Masters had.

"So it's Sovereign Yu Yao." The old man respectfully gave her a bow. "For Sovereign to face her Demigod tribulation in our sect, and have even chosen to stay in our sect, it can be said to be the work of fate. Forgotten God Palace definitely will not forget Sovereign's grace and kindness."

Zhu Yao replied him with two words. Ho ho.

Forgotten God Palace. If she was not mistaken, it should be the home of that Yi Luo girl, the main base for all descendants of the God Races! Were they not really incredible in the given scenario? Why were they in such a miserable state now? They did not even have a single Demigod Sovereign in the sect either.

As though he discerned that she had doubts, old man Wen Yu proactively explained. "Sovereign may not be aware of this, but in that battle a few hundred years ago, dozens of Nascent Soul practitioners from our sect fell. That incident destroyed our foundation, which thus led to us falling into such a predicament."

"A few hundred years ago?" Zhu Yao was stunned, what kind of battle would cause the deaths of so many Nascent Soul practitioners? "Even the combined forces of dozens of Nascent Soul practitioners were not enough to achieve victory?"

Wen Yu sighed. "How can the Devil possibly be so easily defeated?"

"Devil?" Zhu Yao widened her eyes, a thought flashed through her mind. She had a faint feeling that her reincarnation this time was amiss.

"Sovereign must never have thought that the Devil Race would resurface, right?" Wen Yu shook his head with a sunken and heavy expression. "If the former Palace Master's sister, Ying Luo, did not risk her life to seal the Devil, how could a peaceful world like this still exist? In just a short few hundred years, the various sects have already begun to plot against our Forgotten God Palace."

"Wait a minute!" Zhu Yao was a little confused, as she looked at the old man sternly. "You said that Ying Luo sealed the Devil a few hundred years ago?"

"That's right!" Wen Yu nodded. Looking down, he pondered for a moment. "Let me recall just how many years it has been… About nine hundred years or so?"

"The hell!" She finally realized what was wrong. The resentment birthed by Ying Luo appeared a thousand years after the Devil was sealed, while Realmspirit had actually sent her to the time period before Ying Luo was revived. Not only had she arrived at the girl's world, she had even crossed through time, arriving in the past.

"Old man, then are you aware, where is the girl's… no, that Palace Master Ying Luo's body?"

"Obviously, it's on the God Sacrificial Altar." He said in a matter-of-fact manner. "Only by using one's own body as sacrifice, can the ancient sealing arts be activated."

"Where is that place?"

Wen Yu pointed to a spot in the south. "It's located at the sacred pond just behind our Forgotten God Palace… Eh?" When he turned back, Zhu Yao's figure was no longer in front of him. There was merely a white figure flying in the southern direction.

It seems like Sovereign is very curious about that world saviour. It seems like she won't be leaving anytime soon. He instantly felt at ease.

Zhu Yao immediately arrived at the location Wen Yu pointed at. In front of her was a pond so clear its bottom could be seen, and formations were revolving all around it. Above the pond water, laid a young maiden dressed in a blue robe, and chains formed by spiritual energy were wrapping all around her body.

As expected, she was that girl from the scenario. She had not resurrected yet.

She finally understood what was the fine adjustment Realmspirit spoke of. He adjusted the timeline!

Back then, she said she wanted to deal with the source of the problem, and she did not expect that Realmspirit would really send her back to the source. The source where the girl had yet to be betrayed by the people of her world.

The hell, it seemed like all of her plans had to be adjusted.

Initially, she had thought that her main mission was to gather the mystic artifacts and release the girl's soul. Then, she would engage in psychological counselling with her that might not have a high rate of success, have her put down her resentment and reincarnate properly.

From the looks of things, her main mission had changed to how she should prevent people from betraying her, and how she would reverse her miserable life.

In an instant, she felt a large wave of troubles that was about to assault her.

Presently, Zhu Yao had no choice but to stay in Forgotten God Palace. She did not know when Ying Luo would awaken, and she had to save her before the various sects find out about her awakening. Otherwise, a frail girl who had lost all her cultivation could only suffer at the hands of others. Also, she had to hurry and collect those five mystic artifacts.

Those five objects were also part of her misery.

Her journey to another world to give a psychological counselling, had instantly turned into saving that miserable, frail girl. This sour and refreshing taste was simply unbelievable!1

As for the Sword Seeking Convention Wen Yu spoke of, was about to open in full swing in five days' time as well. The practitioners from various sects and clans had all gathered at Forgotten God Palace. Though in his heart, Wen Yu resented the methods used by these clans and sects, he still welcomed them with a courteous expression.

However, the number of people who came this time was especially huge. Inside, the numerous Nascent Soul Reverends who led their groups here, explained that they were bringing disciples over to seek swords. Though, they might as well say that they were demonstrating their might. Evidently, the drinker's intentions were not on the wine.2

Though Wen Yu was able to endure his anger and did not immediately run up the mountain to seek help from Zhu Yao, as he kept welcoming the disciples from the various sects in a passionate manner. When all of the famed deity sects of the cultivation world had arrived and all of the leading figures had settled down, he walked back to the hall.

The various sects were evidently getting impatient, as a practitioner immediately stopped Wen Yu and made clear of his intent in an instant. "Palace Master Wen, it has truly been laborious for Forgotten God Palace to safeguard Sword Seeking Peak for so many years, and it has also been extremely troublesome for our disciples to seek their swords once every ten years. So, the various sects had come to a conclusion, why not have this Sword Seeking Peak be managed by other deity sects from today onwards? It will also relieve Palace Master's worries."

Wen Yu turned to glance at him. Sword Seeking Peak was something which belonged to Forgotten God Palace in the first place. Opening it once every ten years was also because of the ability to choose their own owners which the artifacts in the mountain possessed. The artifacts were unwilling to stay buried, which was why the various sects were invited to enter. They were clearly here to snatch something away, yet they even wanted to use the excuse of relieving Forgotten God Palace's worries.

Wen Yu coldly laughed, and walked to the main seat of the hall. Suddenly, his eyes shifted. He did not sit on the main seat, but had instead waved his hand to have one of the disciples add another seat in the position below it. He sat down and scanned the people present. When he thought of the certain someone at the top of the mountain, his back instantly straightened upright.

The time to blow off steam had arrived!

'This sour and refreshing taste is simply unbelievable!' was actually a tagline in a Chinese commercial selling beef-flavoured instant noodles. It is now often used to express feelings of ecstasy due to an unexpected turn of events.

'Drinker's intentions are not on the wine' is a Chinese proverb. In the original source of the proverb, the intentions of the drinker in the pavilion was actually enjoying the mountain scenery, instead of drinking the wine. Nowadays, it's used to express that someone has ulterior motives behind his actions.

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Chapter 246: Sword Seeking Convention

"Sect Master Li, I wonder which sect you believe Sword Seeking Peak should be managed by?" Wen Yu intentionally said.

When that person heard this, he thought that Wen Yu had already agreed to hand over Sword Seeking Peak, and his smile instantly grew even more complacent. "Sect Master Wen, in the present cultivation world, Clearflower Sect has the strongest capabilities. Furthermore, Sect Master Zhao of Clearflower Sect even possesses late stage Nascent Soul cultivation. It is more appropriate for Clearflower Sect to manage it."

Wen Yu looked towards Zhao Yiyang, Clearflower Sect Master, who was keeping silent at the side. "Sect Master Zhao, you too believe that Sword Seeking Peek should be handed over to Clearflower Sect?"

Zhao Yiyang smiled, and said with a gentle voice. "If the various sects have faith in this lowly one, and believes that Clearflower Sect is able to take up this responsibility, then this Zhao naturally take up this duty."

With his modest appearance, the rest of the sects felt even firmer in their decision, as they gave him their confident looks one after another.

Wen Yu however grew even more furious. Clearly, Clearflower Sect had already discussed with the other sects, and was merely using the Sword Seeking Conference as an excuse to bring it up, pushing him to the point where he had no choice but to agree. If it was before, he really would not have any ideas on how he should refute this, and would have no choice but to agree under pressure. But now…

He let out a cold laugh. The more furious he was, the calmer his expression became. "Sect Master Zhao made a great point. Such an important place like Sword Seeking Peak, indeed requires sufficient strength to safeguard it. Otherwise, it will be extremely easy to fall for the schemes of heretic practitioners and 'lowly people'." He especially emphasized on the two words 'lowly people'. Sweeping a glance at the people present, all he could see were unfazed looks. The scorn in the depths of his heart grew.

"Sect Master Wen, please feel at ease!" Though Zhao Yiyang carried a serious expression, as he spoke. "Our sect will safeguard this Sword Seeking Peak with all of our might."

"I naturally have faith in Sect Master Zhao's strength, but…" Wen Yu's tone changed, and he now carried a complicated look.

"If Sect Master Wen has any concerns, please feel free to say it outright."

"To tell you the truth, a few days ago, a senior from our sect has suddenly come out of closed-door training after many years of isolation. Furthermore, she's extremely proficient in the arts of refining artifacts, and she wishes to refine a weapon that suits her." Wen Yu sighed. "I saw that she has extraordinary aptitude, and I did not wish to miss out on her talent, so I handed over the key to open the formation core of Sword Seeking Peak to her. Presently, Sword Seeking Peak is still under her management, if Sect Master Zhao truly wishes to take over the worries of our sect, then you would have to first seek her permission."

Zhao Yiyang frowned. This was clearly Wen Yu trying to evade the matter. Anger unconsciously swelled within him.

The supportive Sect Masters from the various sects could not endure it any longer either, as they stood up one after another and censured him.

"Who is she? Call her out here now. We will speak with her then."

"That's right! This Sword Seeking Peak opens only once every ten years, why does she have to be first to enter?"

"Even if she's a disciple of Forgotten God Palace, you can't be this easy-going, right?"

"Simply get her out here and hand over the key face-to-face. How can Sword Seeking Peak be handed over to some random person?"

"Could her strength possibly surpass Reverend Zhao? I really do wish to see who has such huge guts."

"That's right, get her out here."

Everyone began to discuss by throwing their statements out one after another, yet, Wen Yu still had the same calm and firm look. He instead looked towards Clearflower Sect Master at the side. "Fellow daoist Zhao, what's your take on this?"

Zhao Yiyang smiled. "Naturally, I wish to see this manager of Sword Seeking Peek as well."

Wen Yu sighed. This performance had gone long enough, it was time to serve the main dish. Not delaying any longer, he waved a disciple over and said. "Head over to Heavenridge Peak and invite Old Ancestor down the mountain. Tell her that Clearflower Sect Master wishes to see her."

"No need." A clear and cold voice resounded, and the moment it fell, the pressure of a Demigod instantly enveloped the entire great hall. The crowd who were still clamouring earlier, instantly quietened down. The Nascent Soul practitioners were still fine, but the rest of the disciples had already knelt on the ground as they were unable to withstand such pressure. Every single one of them widened their eyes in utter disbelief. A Demigod Sovereign!

A white light flashed, and a figure suddenly appeared at the center of the great hall just like that. "I'm already here."

"Greetings to Old Ancestor." Wen Yu took a step forward in an especially flaunting manner, and then bowed towards Zhu Yao. The smiling intent revealed from the corners of his eyes looked as though it could fly out at any moment.

Zhu Yao's divine sense had actually been paying attention to the situation here the entire time, so when she heard Wen Yu asking a disciple to invite her over, she knew that the time to put on airs was here.

Thus, the pressure emitted from her body did not carry any intentions of holding back. Her tyrannical aura was released at full force, and she was even giving special care to the Clearflower Sect Master on the right.

She had even especially walked two steps in his direction, and said in a face-slapping manner. "I heard you wish to see me?"

Zhao Yiyang was pouring out cold sweat which kept dripping down. He was using all his might to prevent himself from kneeling down to the pressure, and at that moment, his intestines had all turned green from regret. When did another Demigod Sovereign appear in Forgotten God Palace? Why was he not aware of this?

"Sovereign, please pardon my mistake. This lowly one was unaware that Sovereign is the manager of Sword Seeking Peak, that was why… This lowly one should be the one to visit Sovereign."

Zhu Yao sat down at the highest seat in the hall. She swept her eyes through the hall, and when her eyes fell on them, every single one of them looked as though they had swallowed some feces.

With a twist of her palm, a small sword with the width of a fingertip floated above her palm. "It seems everyone has a lot of opinions about me becoming the manager of Sword Seeking Palace? Fine then. If you lot feel that you're more qualified, then look for me to take the key to the formation core."

How could the crowd possibly dare to take it? Wouldn't that clearly mean they would offend a Demigod practitioner? They would be smashed into smithereens, right?

Every one of them expressed that this was just a misunderstanding one after another, and they could not help but silently resent Clearflower Sect for instigating their sects.

"Since that's the case, I will be keeping this key." And here she was thinking why old man Wen Yu stuffed the key to her yesterday, so it was actually used for this face-slapping moment.

"Seeing that she was not pursuing the matter, the crowd finally heaved sighs of relief. "However…" Zhu Yao's tone changed. "It's too troublesome to have this Sword Seeking Peak open every ten years, not to mention I don't always have the time to wait and open the door for you people. So, the timing for the Sword Seeking Convention will have to change. In the future, it will be once every fifty years then."

The faces of the crowd instantly darkened. What was called 'going out for the wool and coming home shorn'? This was. However, they were wrong in the first place, so they did not have the right to retort. They could only glare at Clearflower Sect, the main culprit, with resentful eyes one after another.

Sect Master Zhao felt even more stifled. The Demigod pressure was still pressing down on his body, being able to stand properly was already an amazing feat, how could he possibly still have the mind to care about the feelings of the other sects?

Thus, a wide open resource snatching convention, ended with Zhu Yao's half-hearted threats. Putting aside the fact that the various sects did not gain any benefits from this incident, the Sword Seeking Convention that was supposed to happen once every ten years, had even been altered to once every fifty years. They basically could not feel even more stifled than now.

"If everyone do not have any objections, then let's begin today's Sword Seeking Convention." Wen Yu walked out. Not giving the rest of the people basically any time to react, he looked at Zhu Yao gratefully, and said. "May I request Old Ancestor to activate the formation on Sword Seeking Peak."

Zhu Yao nodded. She did not have the patience to play mind games with the crowd of people here either, as she directly brought the crowd over to that pitch-black mountain. Only after looking up close did she realize that this Sword Seeking Peak was more like a spiritual mine. However, instead of spirit stones, various materials used to refine artifacts were produced here.

The entire mountain was filled with various formations. At first glance, it was a mountain that looked a little ugly, but after taking a closer look, she realized that the surroundings of the mountain were covered in floating talismans. Zhu Yao lightly sighed in astonishment at the formations in this world. They looked really deep and profound.

The crowd stopped at the foot of the mountain. A strand of spiritual energy was inserted into the key in Zhu Yao's hand, and the key instantly released a dazzling golden glow as it flew straight towards that mountain. Not even a moment later, the entire mountain shook like a 3D image, and then, the virtual image flashed, revealing its true appearance.

Different from the former pitch-black charred mountain, the mountain before her eyes was filled with various types of spiritual swords stabbed into it. In the surroundings, there were even several spiritual swords flying and dancing in the air.

"The spiritual artifacts of Sword Seeking Peak will be awarded to the destined ones. Everyone, please." Wen Yu loudly said, and only then did the disciples of the various sects walked into the mountain with excited faces. In this Sword Seeking Convention, the only ones who were truly happy, were probably these low rank disciples that could only enter the mountain every ten years.

Only the Nascent Soul practitioners who were leading the parties for their sects, were left standing on the same spot. Though there were many spiritual artifacts in Sword Seeking Peek, every single person could only choose a single spiritual artifact in his lifetime. People who had already chosen one, would not be able to receive the acknowledgement of new artifacts even after entering again.

"Old Ancestor, are you not going in to take a look?" Wen Yu squeezed over. Speaking of which, he was a little curious as well. This Sovereign Yu Yao seemed to be especially poor. Even the flying mystic artifact she was stepping on was actually taken from his hands as well. He really wondered just how she managed to live till she became a Demigod.

"Mn." Zhu Yao nodded. After pondering for a moment, she did indeed require a weapon of her own. She looked at her surroundings, and coincidentally, there was a piece of Dark Ore at the side. "I'm fine with refining one on my own. I will take this then."

The corner of Wen Yu's lips twitched. "Old Ancestor, are you not going in to choose one? The materials in the mountain all possess spirituality, and they are more compatible with their owners." Why did she choose the most normal Black Ore? This completely did not fit her almighty status at all. "Furthermore, the materials in the mountain, no matter their quality or quantity, are all in the high numbers."

"I guess you're right!" Zhu Yao nodded. "This Black Ore is a little small, and isn't enough to refine a sword, then let's head in to choose a bigger Black Ore."

"…" Can you please let Black Ores go?

Zhu Yao however had already entered the mountain in a flash. She did not have much interest in high grade materials. With her trend of courting flowery deaths, even the best of materials would just be wasted. When it came to a weapon, it just had to be comfortable to wield.

Black Ores were very common materials, and after walking a short distance, she found one of suitable size. Just as she was about to reach her hand out to pick that Black Ore, a white round stone suddenly rolled over from the side and knocked away that Black Ore, appearing next to her hand.

Zhu Yao frowned. Not even thinking deeper about this, she thought it was just the wind and a mere coincidence. Thus, she walked forward another two steps, still with the intention to pick up that Black Ore. Just as she was about to reach out her hand, that white rock once again rolled over. With a smack, it knocked away that Black Ore again.

Why did she feel that this stone was being intentional? Zhu Yao frowned. Not believing in the supernatural, she continued to head over to pick up that Black Ore. As expected, that white rock once again rolled over. This time, it crashed into the ore even more ferociously, instantly smashing the Black Ore one to two meters away.

The white rock quietly stopped beneath her hand, looking as though it was saying, 'hurry and pick me up!'

Zhu Yao's face darkened. She really did not feel like picking it up now. Casting a wind type art, she blew the white rock several meters away, and then turned around to pick up that Black Ore. This time, without even waiting for her to bend her waist, that white rock was already rolling back in a fiery manner. It rolled extremely quickly, but its route was blocked by a withered tree.

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Chapter 247: Story of Chicks

Bang bang. It collided with the withered tree several times, however, after seeing that it was basically unable to move the withered tree, it felt uncomfortable all around its rock body. It anxiously rolled back and forth next to the withered tree, leaving several marks on the ground. As though it had suddenly thought of a plan, it rolled several meters back, and then, fiercely accelerated down, smashing ruthlessly onto the tree. Then, with a 'pa' sound, it leapt up. It had used the reaction force to leap over the tree.

However, at this moment, Zhu Yao had long successfully picked up that Black Ore.

White rock: …

It stopped beneath her feet, as though it was in a daze. In an instant, its entire rock body turned ash-grey. The rock that was initially as white as a jade, instantly changed into a heavy grey colour, as though it had just suffered the most unbearable blow in its entire rock life.

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. She could not be bothered with that rock, as she kept the Black Ore properly and planned on heading back. That white… no, that ash coloured rock stiffened for a moment, and then rolled closely behind her. Like a little tail, as it rolled, it bumped away the rocks, twigs, weeds and whatever next to it, loyally following behind her.

"Stop following already." Zhu Yao sighed. This rock did not just possess spirituality, but evidently, it had awakened its spiritual consciousness as well. "Even if you follow me, I won't choose you. Hurry and return into the mountain." The city is very dangerous, you know.

The ash coloured rock turned into a deeper grey colour in an instant, looking so depressed to the point where it might shatter apart. However, it still did not give up and continued to roll after her. When she took a step, it would roll for an instant, and then when two steps were taken, it would roll an even longer stretch. Even if it encountered an obstacle, it would think of all ways possible to keep up with her pace.

Just why in the world was it being so persistent?

Zhu Yao was left with no choice, as she looked at that stupid rock trying to evade a large tree. Just as it was about to roll into the small river at the side, she could not help but reach out her hand to grab it.

That rock was dumbfounded for a moment. Then, as though it was exhilarated, it instantly reverted back to its snow-white colour, and it even grew even brighter and brighter than before. Furthermore, it was rubbing against her palm, wanting to be spoilt. Zhu Yao felt that there was a need to chat with it about life.

About how it could become a rock with principles.

"Kuh… Little rock, I know you have already awakened your spiritual consciousness, and is able to understand my words." Zhu Yao said with a stern tone. "I have come into the mountain to find materials to refine an artifact. Artifact refining, do you know about it? Rocks have to be melted down, and their bodies will shatter apart, you know? You have already awakened your spiritual consciousness, so if you continue with your cultivation, you might become a spirit. Why the need to be refined into an artifact then?" Even if you're able to become a sword spirit after being refined into an artifact, don't give up your pride as a rock spirit, hey.

"…" That rock instantly stopped its palm-rubbing fawning action, as though it was frightened by her words.

Zhu Yao continued to implant some suggestions into it. "Do you want to be shattered apart, or become a happy rock spirit? Properly return into the mountain and continue with your cultivation. In the future, don't come out for a blind stroll any longer, and don't be found by other practitioners."

There was completely no reaction coming from the rock. It seemed like it had digested the information it was given. Just as she was about to place it down and allow it to happily roll its way back, that rock suddenly make a creaking sound. The sound of something cracking apart. On that jade-white rock body, a crackline suddenly appeared, and there were traces of it spreading throughout the entire rock body.

"What are you doing?" Zhu Yao was shocked. "Don't take it too hard, hey."

Creeak…

That rock continued to crack apart.

Zhu Yao was dumbfounded. It couldn't be wanting to shatter itself in front of her after she said that rocks had to be melted to refine artifacts earlier, right? She was just chatting with it, did it have to take it that seriously?

Creeak…

The rock continued to crack apart.

"Don't… Stop shattering, the hell!" This thing was actually committing suicide. "Fine, fine. You win. I will bring you back, I will bring you back, alright?"

That rock stiffened for a moment. Then it finally stopped its cracks from spreading, and continued to rub against her palm, acting spoilt.

Zhu Yao: "…"

This Sword Seeking Convention lasted for an entire day, and as the sect mascot, she had no choice but to safeguard the mountain for the entire day.

After the various sects took their leaves, she finally greeted Wen Yu before returning to her residence on the mountain peak. The facilities in her cave residence here was rather complete, and it had its own specialized area for refining artifacts.

Taking out the Black Ore and that strange rock, she placed them on the table. She then cast an art to heat up the furnace. Controlling the fire spiritual energy, she first let the flames in the furnace burn vigorously. When the preparations were about done, she then turned her head around and planned to pick up the Black Ore.

However, she saw that the Black Ore which was initially placed at the center of the table, had actually rolled on the way to the right side of the table without her noticing, and half of its body was already suspended in the air. Next to it, the white rock which was a size smaller than it, was currently desperately pushing it down the table.

"…" The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. She reached out her hand to pick up that mischievous white rock, and glared straight at it. "What are you doing?"

The white rock stiffened, and its entire rock body suddenly began to turn pinkish, looking as though it was caught doing bad things.

Zhu Yao sighed. She placed the white rock back onto the center of the table. Then, she picked up the Black Ore that was about to fall off, and threw it into the furnace with a twist of her hand. She then circulated spiritual energy to envelop that piece of ore.

Suddenly, a crashing sound came from behind her. That white rock had rolled down the table without her noticing, and was currently rolling to the entrance of the furnace, looking like it was about to sacrifice its life.

"What are you doing!?" Zhu Yao was shocked, as she hurriedly picked it back up. "You're crazy! You will die if you roll into it!"

The white rock struggled, wanting to pounce into the furnace.

"Stop fooling around, I didn't bring you back to refine you into an artifact."

The white rock was startled for a moment, and it instantly turned ash coloured, looking very depressed.

"You awakened your spiritual consciousness, and you will die if I refine you into an artifact, understand?"

The rock grew even more depressed.

"Haah…" Zhu Yao sighed. "Don't worry, I won't throw you away."

Its appearance finally looked a little better. On her hand, it turned about to the furnace, and then it turned back to face her, as though it was wanted her guarantee.

"Enough, I will bring you around in the future. Even if you're not refined into an artifact, I will still bring you along."

Only then was the rock satisfied, and it finally stopped making a ruckus.

Zhu Yao's face darkened. Why did she feel like she had picked up an ancestor? Haah, whatever. For the fact that she had once been a rock spirit, she would put up with it.

She began to concentrate on refining the weapon. The white rock was also leaning next to her foot, following her around like a little tail.

A day later, Zhu Yao finally completed the final step of engraving formations onto it, and a seventh rank artifact of penultimate grade was successfully refined.

With the material restrictions of the Black Ore, refining it up to this level was all that could be done.

The white rock was still leaning next to her foot, not leaving an inch away from her. Even Zhu Yao felt that her foot was growing numb from it pressing down on her.

Keeping the mystic sword, she picked up the white rock.

Looking at the cracks on the rock, she instantly recalled the days where she was treated as a leg-supporting rock by a certain immoral Floor Master back then. She could not help but materialize a strand of spiritual energy and insert it into the white rock's body, wanting to aid its recovery.

The moment spiritual energy had entered, it was suddenly deflected by an immense power which even shook her hand to numbness.

"This is?" Zhu Yao was stunned. How could a rock which had just awakened its spiritual consciousness, possess such powerful and pure spiritual energy? It could even deflect her own spiritual power. This was completely illogical.

Unless… It was not a rock in the first place.

Zhu Yao's heart sank for a moment, as she looked straight at the white rock in her hands. "Little rock, what in the world are you?"

The rock did not speak, and was simply happily rolling about on her palm.

Zhu Yao pondered for a moment, before she decided to sit in a lotus position and close her eyes. She immediately split a strand of her divine sense and transferred it into the little rock's body, only to witness a gold and sparkling domain, the entire place was surrounded with warm, golden light. Inside the rock, it was actually filled with metal spiritual energy, and the spiritual energy grew purer as she approached the core, it was so dense it could solidify at any moment. Something with the shape of a rhombus seemed to be floating at the center. Before she could even see it clearly, she suddenly heard a crisp and youthful voice ringing in the depths of her heart.

"Chick~"

Zhu Yao shook, and she fiercely retracted her divine sense. With widened eyes, she looked at the snow-white rock in front of her in utter disbelief. Such familiar formula, and such familiar scent.

"You're the Metal Spirit!"

"Chick~~" The same voice once again rang in the depths of her heart, and the white rock happily circled around her.

"The hell!" Zhu Yao could not help but cuss out. She actually encountered the Metal Spirit again. Wasn't this Xiao Yi's cheat? Why in the world did it appear here?

No wait, Xiao Yi basically did not belong to this world. Since the spiritual energy in that world could materialize into spirits, then it was naturally possible in this world as well.

However, it seemed like this Metal Spirit had only just given birth to its spiritual consciousness not too long ago. "Metal Spirit, have you always been staying in Sword Seeking Peak?" Could the reason behind the swords and materials in Sword Seeking Peak possessing spirituality, and their ability to choose their own owners, were all because of the Metal Spirit's influence?

"Chick… Chick chick, Chick chick… Chick."

What's the meaning behind all those chicks, hey?

Forget it. In any case, she could not hope for this little thing which only knew how to act cutesy to help her out. The Metal Spirit could be said to be a cheat to practitioners who held the metal spirit vein, but to someone with the lightning spirit vein like her, it really did not have a single use.

She kept the Metal Spirit into the storage pouch she was carrying. With a weapon in hand, she could finally set off for her mission. After doing some preparations, she had to inquire about some important clues.

The five mystic artifacts used to seal the Devil was respectively placed at the five most dangerous, but also the safest places. One of them was not far off from here, in a deep sea abyss. Zhu Yao calculated the time. There was still a few dozen years before the girl's resurrection. She had to do her best to find all the mystic artifacts before her awakening.

"Old Ancestor, Old Ancestor, a grave matter occurred!" Several anxious voices suddenly sounded from outside the door.

"What is it?"

"Old Ancestor, the Sword Seeking Peak…" That disciple's voice grew even more anxious. "Palace Master has assigned me to invite you over. Something grave happened to Sword Seeking Peak."

Zhu Yao immediately released the seal on the artifact refining chamber and walked out. Just as she reached the door, she suddenly sensed a disturbance to the spiritual energy coming from the southern direction.

The spiritual swords in the entire Sword Seeking Peak seemed to have suddenly received some sort of stimulation. All of them had flown up, and were beginning to gather in a certain direction in the sky. They flew in a revolving manner, and the sword energy emitted out by the countless swords instantly cracked the barrier surrounding Sword Seeking Peak, and there were traces of the crack spreading out.

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Chapter 248: First Mystic Artifact

Zhu Yao immediately flew to Main Peak. Wen Yu was already walking in circles from anxiety, and the moment he saw her, he immediately welcomed her over. "Old Ancestor, this Sword Seeking Peak suddenly ran amok due to unclear reasons. If this continues, I'm afraid it might implicate our sect."

"Activate the Great Mountain Barrier Formation, I'm going to take a look." Zhu Yao instructed, and then flew towards Sword Seeking Peak while riding on her sword. She had a faint guess that the rampage of these spiritual swords was most likely related to the Metal Spirit in her hands."

The closer she went, the more she could sense the sword energy emitted by the spiritual swords. She placed down a defensive barrier before stopping about five steps away from the spiritual swords. Then, she took out the Metal Spirit.

As expected, the spiritual swords which were still making a commotion earlier, suddenly stopped. The chilling sword energy had also calmed down by a certain extent.

"Metal Spirit, it seems you can't accompany me anymore."

"Chick?" The rock tilted to the right, as though it looked a little doubtful.

"These are swords with spirituality." Zhu Yao pointed to the front. These swords had definitely gone a rampage earlier because they realized that the Metal Spirit had disappeared. "It's you which allowed them to possess spirituality, and if you leave, they will revert back to normal mystic artifacts. Unless you have a way to settle them down, I can't bring you out."

"Chick!" The Metal Spirit bounced for a moment, and then instantly grew agitated. It faced the swords that were flying in the sky, and let out a wild stream of chicks. "Chick chick chick chick chick… Chick chick chick… Chick…"

Zhu Yao's face darkened. No matter how many chicks you sound out, it's no use right? These spiritual swords evidently did not want the Metal Spirit to leave.

"Chick…" The Metal Spirit then let out another long sound.

Suddenly, the swords that were floating around, looked as though they had lost their momentum, as they came flying down like a rain of spiritual swords. Not even a moment later, all of them had completely fallen onto the ground, and even the chilling sword energy earlier had disappeared without a trace.

The hell.

It was actually effective!

So the conversational language in the realm of weapons was the language of chicks?

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. To tell the truth, she truly did not wish to bring the Metal Spirit along. This thing was evidently a cheat of the ultimate grade, and no matter who were to pick it up, that person would become a bug. Leaving it in the Sword Seeking Peek was still fine, after all, there were so many spiritual swords here. Unless the Metal Spirit itself was willing, even if someone were to discover it, no one could bring it out.

However, it just had to stick to her. I'm not a metal spirit vein holder, hey.

Zhu Yao let out a deep sigh, and she had no choice but to keep the Metal Spirit.

Because she had easily dealt with the spiritual swords' rampage, the eyes Wen Yu were looking at her with even sparkled. Zhu Yao grasped the opportunity to bring up the matter of her making a trip outside. Her reason? The world was so big, she wanted to do some sight-seeing.

Wen Yu's expression instantly sank, as he once again wailed with tears and snot all over his face. "Old Ancestor, don't leave. If you leave and throw Forgotten God Palace aside, what are we orphaned disciples going to do?"

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. He sounded as though she was being ungrateful.

"Enough, I will come back as soon as possible."

"Old Ancestor…"

He still wanted to say something, but Zhu Yao's figure had already flashed and deftly left. If she were to continue talking with him, she wouldn't be able to leave any longer.

Before Wen Yu could even pour out the grievances that filled his heart, his target had already disappeared. Instantly, a sense of danger surged in the depths of his heart.

It seemed like this Sovereign Yu Yao did not carry a sense of belonging towards Forgotten God Palace, which was why she could leave so decisively. Not good, he had to come up with a plan in order to make her stay here forever.

Mn, all for the sake of the sect!

Zhu Yao flew several hundreds of kilometers in her mad sprint, and when she finally saw a large body of water, she slowed down her speed. Wen Yu had once inadvertently revealed that the girl Ying Luo had sacrificed herself to activate the ancient sealing arts. As the containers that carried the Devil, the five mystic artifacts were scattered to five different places by the spare energy of the sealing formation. One of those places was nearby these ocean waters.

Zhu Yao pondered for a moment, before deciding to cast an art to change herself into her modern era appearance. Furthermore, she concealed her own level of cultivation and instead displayed Azoth Core cultivation, before heading towards an island at the center of the ocean.

The island was very quiet, as though there were not many traces of humans here.

But this was not right. Didn't Wen Yu say that this island was a large-scaled market for deity practitioners? There should be many practitioners here, so why was it so quiet?

She headed in the direction of the island center, before the surrounding people gradually increased. Though, every single one of them was hurrying in a certain direction, and their faces even looked strangely excited.

"This fellow daoist."Zhu yao stopped a Foundation practitioner, and asked courteously. "I wonder why you people are in such a hurry? Are you people heading somewhere?"

That Foundation practitioner was a little furious due to someone stopping him, however, seeing that the target's cultivation level was higher than his, he could only reply with a stifled tone. "The auction hosted by the Treasure Gathering Pavilion is about to begin, so I'm naturally rushing there to participate. If I'm any later, I won't be able to see it."

Treasure Gathering Pavilion? Zhu Yao was stunned for a moment. Just as she was about to question further, that Foundation disciple however had already walked far away, as though he would not be able to make it if he was a single moment later. Was that auction really that great? Compared to whatever auction it was, she was more worried about finding that mystic artifact.

Turning around, just as she was about to head somewhere else to take a look, a man dressed in an azure robe walked towards her, and said with a warm smile. "Fellow daoist, are you not going to take a look? This is an event that will only happen in the cultivation world once every hundred years. It is usually filled with exotic and mythical treasures."

Zhu Yao sized up the youth. He looked around twenty years old, and possessed early stage Foundation cultivation. Dressed in an azure robe, a copper coin emblem was embroidered on the cuffs. She then understood, and immediately said. "You're a stripe?"

"Strip1?" That person was confused.

"What I'm meaning to say is, you're someone from that whatever Treasure Gathering Pavilion, and you're here to rein people in."

His expression stiffened for a moment, but then, he recovered in the next instant. "Hoho, fellow daoist, don't misunderstand. This lowly one simply sees that you're unfamiliar with the event, and wishes to give you a simple introduction about it."

"Thank you!" Zhu Yao turned around and left. "I'm not interested."

"Fellow daoist." That youth instantly turned anxious, as he once again blocked her path. "This auction is only hosted once every hundred years, you know."

Zhu Yao shrugged. "I have no money!" She was poor to the point of only having coppers dangling on her, alright?

"Fellow daoist, that sure is a funny joke." His face was filled with the 'you're just joking' look. "Our Treasure Gathering Pavilion always carries wide opportunities, and we are always well-informed. Not to mention, we have been on this island for several thousand years, so the treasures we have collected are countless. Fellow daoist, even if you don't go to the auction, it will be an extremely good idea for you to take a look at other products."

Well-informed? Zhu Yao was startled for a moment. Then would she be able to inquire about the location of that mystic artifact? She instantly grew interested. "Let's take a look then."

"Fellow daoist, please!"

Zhu Yao followed behind that youth, and finally realized that there were indeed a large-scale city in the center of the island, but it was just hidden by a formation in the surroundings which could not be easily sensed from the sky. She stepped into the formation enveloping the city, and the view in front of her completely changed. The place was filled with practitioners walking about, and bustling streets appeared on her two sides. The sides of the streets were filled with stores that were selling various talismans, medicinal pellets and etcetera. However, every single one of these stores had a copper coin emblem on its entrance. It seemed like this Treasure Gathering Pavilion was even a chain store.

That person brought her into a store selling mystic artifacts. There were not many customers in the store. Two people dressed in the same uniform as that youth welcomed them over, and then bowed towards that youth. However, he simply waved his hands, and personally brought her around.

It seemed like this person was even a leader figure.

"I wonder how I should address fellow daoist?"

"My surname is Pass2, with a single character 'By' as my name." Zhu Yao casually came up with something random.

Pazz By? Why did it sound kind of strange?

"So it's Daoist Pazz." He still courteously bowed towards her. "This lowly one is Zhen Yuan, and this is the store with the most complete collection in Treasure Gathering Pavilion. Daoist Pazz, feel free to take a look around."

Zhu Yao walked over while being led by him. She was uninterested with these mystic artifacts, after all, they were all below fifth rank. In her mind, she was wondering how she should inquire the situation about the sealing mystic artifact without leaving any traces of suspicion.

"Daoist Pazz, feel free to roam around. It's not that this lowly one is exaggerating, but when it comes to penultimate grade mystic artifacts, our Treasure Gathering Pavilion is the only one which is capable of finding them in this world. Furthermore, they come in various types, and we have everything that one wishes to have."

Zhu Yao swept her eyes over. This person sure knew how to advertise. They had everything one wished to have? Then let her see the one used to seal the Devil…

The hell!

That pitch-black fan. And what's with the sealing runic symbols floating above it? She couldn't be seeing things, right?

"Fellow daoist, you have good eyes!" Zhen Yuan hurriedly squeezed over, and picked up that fan. "This is one of the artifacts used to seal the Devil back then."

"…" It really was, hey!? Wasn't this too easy-going!? "This… It's really that mystic artifact used to seal the Devil?"

"Naturally, it's real." His face was filled with sincerity. "And it is even a fifth rank mystic artifact. Though because of the sealing arts, it is unable to unleash the power of a fifth rank mystic artifact, it's the one and only… out of five Devil sealing mystic artifacts in the world. It really carries a commemorative significance. How is it, fellow daoist? Do you want to have one? It's only costs one hundred intermediate grade spirit stones.You will make a loss if you don't buy it with a hundred, and you will be a fool for not buying it with a hundred!"

Was it really alright for a mystic artifact used to seal the devil be so casually sold? Did they really have to be so casual about it, hey? Where are your principles, hey?

Seeing that she did not reply for quite a while, Zhen Yuan gnashed his teeth and said. "Why don't we do this, fellow daoist? If you really like it, I can give you a discount. Fifty intermediate grade spirit stones. How about it?"

"…" Zhu Yao felt that there was a need to adjust her worldview.

"Fellow daoist, this is already the lowest price. I can't give you a lower price."

"Why don't you say it straight out, how much do you want for it?"

"Fellow daoist, we're after all running a business, if it's any lower, we won't be able to make a living."

Zhu Yao carefully inspected that fan. A godly might was faintly emitting out from the sealing runic symbols, and black devilish energy was also revolving within the base of the fan. This was indeed one of the five mystic artifacts.

She never expected that she would be able to find her target so quickly. She really had the intentions to buy it, but the main problem was, she really had no money on her. Because she was rushing earlier, she had completely forgotten to get her wages from Wen Yu.

After pondering for a moment, she immediately summoned out the flying sword Wen Yu gave her before. "How about this? Because I rushed out of my home, I did not bring any spirit stones. Though this flying sword of mine is only a fourth rank mystic artifact, it's actually of a high grade. How about I use this to exchange for that fan?"

Zhen Yuan was startled. A faint sparkling light flashed past his eyes, but it disappeared without a trace in the next moment. Smiling towards her, he said. "Fellow daoist, exchanging my fifth rank artifact for your fourth rank artifact, it's not really that good of a deal, isn't it?"

"Then forget it." Zhu Yao turned around and left. Was he really treating her as someone blind? This artifact had clearly been here for a very long time, and the reason why it had yet to be sold, was most probably because it could not be used due to the Devil's seal, right? How could it possibly still be considered as a fifth rank mystic artifact?

1. Stripe/Strip: The original word was 托(tuo) which means 'on behalf', while Zhen Yuan interpreted it as 脱(tuo), which means 'strip', which has the same pronunciation and intonation. I was just trying to find a way to make it work in English, and conveniently, I googled stripe and there's an internet business by that name, so… Yeah.

2. Pass By/Pazz By: Just like how Zhu Yao randomly came up with the name Soi Sauz back then. 路过(lu guo) means 'passing by', while Zhen Yuan interpreted it as 陆过(lu guo), thinking it is an actual name.

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Chapter 249: There's a Fraud Shop

"Wait a minute!" As expected, Zhen Yuan called out to her, and continued with a difficult expression. "Fellow daoist, my shop truly does not have rules on trading items. Why don't we do this? You can first head to the back chamber for a short rest. Once I have asked my boss, I will then give you a response?"

"Fine." Zhu Yao agreed straightforwardly. After following Zhen Yuan through twists and turns, she arrived at a courtyard and then sat next to a stone table.

After Zhen Yuan informed her of some things, he retreated away. Zhu Yao sat for exactly an hour, yet only a servant-like girl had served her with some tea and snacks in the middle, and the rest of the time was whiled away in silence. Zhu Yao faintly sensed that there was something amiss, and just as she was about to head out to ask some people.

Suddenly, a formation shone underneath her feet. A large number of vines shot out, instantly trapping her firmly.

What was this situation?

"You human practitioners sure are stupid." Zhen Yuan suddenly appeared in the courtyard, and looked at her with a complacent smile, on his shoulder stood little demonic beast with looks similar to a rat and a bird. He then waved his hand. "Take it."

That demonic beast instantly materialized into a flash of light, and then an instant later, returned onto Zhen Yuan's shoulder. In its mouth, it was biting on her storage pouch.

The hell, so this was actually a fraud shop.

Zhen Yuan took the storage pouch, and weighed it in his hand. "If you're tactful, then eliminate the imprint on this storage pouch on your own. I will then allow you to die a more straightforward death."

"Who in the world are you?" Zhu Yao said with a sullen voice. "That artifact used to seal the Devil, why is it in your hands?"

"Me?" The man laughed. "You dared to break into this Illusory Realm Island, but am actually unaware of my identity?"

"Illusory Realm Island?" Zhu Yao was startled.

"There's actually people who do not know about Illusory Realm Island." Zhen Yuan smiled even deeper. With a wave of his hand, the new and exquisite looking courtyard earlier, as though its colours were fading away, began to change. The stone table turned into a stone rock filled with moss, while the trees turned into a man-eating flower with its bloody mouth opened wide.

While those houses had all disappeared, turning into a dense forest.

"How is this possible?" Zhu Yao widened her eyes. Although she had suppressed her cultivation, her divine sense had been paying attention to her surroundings. She actually did not realize that everything was an illusion.

Zhen Yuan coldly laughed. "When you appeared in the sky, I spotted you right away. As long as you land on the ground, you will definitely be struck with my illusion technique."

"What's with all those human practitioners?" She had clearly saw the huge number of people in the streets, and every single one of their cultivation levels and appearances were all different. She had even spoken to one of them. If this was all just an illusion, it was impossible for something like spiritual energy to be imitated as well.

"They are all actual human practitioners, and not illusions." Zhen Yuan patted his sleeves without a mind.

"…" Actual human practitioners!

"That is why I said you human practitioners are all too stupid. Even though you all clearly know that this ocean region is dangerous, you still have to send yourselves here." Zhen Yuan gave her a scornful look. "The moment they hear treasures are being auctioned here, they would rush over like a nest of bees. So I casually crafted this illusion, and have them experience the day of the auction over and over again, trapping them within this illusion forever. After their deaths, their souls won't even be able to escape. This way, their everything will be mine."

So those people were all souls of human practitioners who were tricked here, and their material bodies were formed through the illusion. It was no wonder her divine sense did not sense any anomaly.

"Initially, I had wanted to use this method to deal with you, but unfortunately, your luck is pretty bad. You're just so unwilling to participate in the auction and step foot into the core of the formation, so my illusory realm is unable to deal with you. This is why I have no choice but to personally deal with you myself."

"You trapped so many practitioners just to steal their mystic artifacts and treasures?"

He looked down at the storage pouch in his hands, and then kept it. "It's your fault for carrying so many treasures, isn't it? When you were flying on your sword earlier, you used a seventh rank penultimate grade mystic artifact. Though there are many seventh rank mystic artifacts, penultimate grade mystic artifacts are rarely seen. Since you have already sent yourself here, how can I just let this opportunity go?"

"I don't think that's the case!" Zhu Yao looked straight at him, no, at it! "The reason you have trapped these practitioners here, are most likely to feed on their lifeforce, right?"

Zhen Yuan was startled, a hint of fluster flashed past his eyes. He then angrily said. "A bunch of nonsense. How can I possibly be interested in the lifeforce of humans?"

"Is that so?" Zhu Yao coldly laughed. "Earlier, you mentioned 'you human practitioners' twice, which proved that you're basically not a human. No matter if it's a demon, spirit, or a demonic beast, mystic artifacts are completely of no use to them. By trapping so many human practitioners, if it's not to feed on their lifeforce to raise your cultivation, could it be that you're raising them just for fun?"

His expression sank, and killing intent flashed in his eyes. In an instant, he summoned several icicles and swung them towards her. "Since you found out, then I can't let you live."

With a twist of her hand, Zhu Yao summoned a mass of flames, turning the vines entangling her into ashes in a blink of an eye. Even those approaching icicles had turned into steam under the high temperatures.

"You didn't eat the snacks?" His face was filled with shock.

"Snacks?" Zhu Yao dug through her memories for a moment, and only then recalled that a servant-like girl had served her those snacks earlier. "So those carried poison? I'm sorry, but it's been a long time since I ate anything other than the food my master makes. Because they're just too unbearable to eat." Her appetite had long been tamed.

"…" The corner of Zhen Yuan's lips twitched, as he was showed a face filled with affectionate love.

"Hmph, so what if you're able to use mystic arts? You're still going to die here today."

He coldly snorted, as his sleeves fluttered without any winds. His hair began to wildly fly, and his cultivation which was just at the Foundation stage earlier, suddenly began to skyrocket. From Azoth Core, to Nascent Soul, and then it actually broke through into the Demigod stage, finally stopping at the early stages of Demigod. Evidently, he was concealing his cultivation earlier. In an instant, the pressure of a Demigod filled the entire island.

"As an Azoth Core human practitioner, I wonder what you're going to use to fight me?"

"Wait a minute!" Zhu Yao sighed, as she too released the restrictions on her own cultivation. The pressure of a Demigod human practitioner instantly pushed back.

"Y-Y-Y-Y-You…" His face was covered in shock. "How is this possible? You're actually one too."

"Hoho. Concealing cultivation or whatever, I know how to do it too." Moving her hand, Zhu Yao reached out her arm and summoned her own spiritual sword. She then flew up and slashed towards the enemy. "Stop with all the nonsense, if you want to fight, come!"

Only then did Zhen Yuan regain his senses. His body flashed as he evaded her attack, and in the next instant, countless tree vines drilled out from underneath the ground, entangling towards Zhu Yao. Zhu Yao dodged in a flash, but those vines looked as if they had eyes grown on them, as they followed her wherever she went.

Zhu Yao had no choice but to fly even higher, while casting arts to burn away those vines with flames. However, just as she had burnt a portion of them, another bunch of even more vines pounced towards her. Because she was unvigilant for a moment, her right leg was entangled by a thin vine. Turning around, she hacked it apart with a wave of her sword.

However, the half that was sliced off suddenly had buds opening from it, and in a blink of an eye, they exploded. Zhu Yao felt pain from her leg, as large amount of venom was shot out from the buds, and half of her lower robe was completely corroded away. She hurriedly summoned spiritual flames to burn away that half-sliced vine, but still ended up receiving damage with her leg turning bright red. It motherf*king hurt.

"It's no use. You're definitely not a fire spirit vein holder. Your flames are basically unable to catch up to the speed of growth of these vines." Zhen Yuan smiled arrogantly, looking as though his victory was ascertained.

Zhu Yao was instantly enraged. "Momma's egg, you could have chosen to burn anywhere else, but you actually had to burn my clothes! My master isn't by my side, and this old lady here only has this single set of clothes used to keep up appearances, yet you still burnt it!" Flames of fury instantly surged all the way up, and for a moment, she was furious to the point of wanting to slice someone into pieces.

Forget about loving nature and its trees and flowers, she immediately performed hand seals and cast Heavenfall. In an instant, countless bolts of lightning came descending down, blasting the exterior of the entire island into charred crisp, while its interior was left tender and soft.

Zhen Yuan was instantly dumbfounded. He simply could not believe his own eyes. "You… Y-You. You're a lightning…"

"Even if you find out now, it's too late!" Zhu Yao raised her hands, and an especially thick and large lightning bolt charged straight towards it. With a loud blast, it struck straight on its target.

The vines next to Zhen Yuan instantly turned into ashes, and it directly fell down the sky. With a "puaah" sound, he puked out a large mouthful of blood, and his eyes dimmed. He suddenly cast a wind type mystic art, blowing up the sand and ashes on the ground, and blew them towards Zhu Yao.

Then, its figure flashed, turning into a ray of green light. It was flying into the horizon.

It was trying to flee!

Zhu Yao erected a defensive barrier to block the approaching sand and ashes, waving the spiritual sword in her hand at the same time. It materialized into a long whip formed by lightning, and instantly wrapped onto that ray of green light. With a swing of her arm, it was yanked back with sheer force, and it fell onto the ground with a "pata" sound.

Several bolts of lightning descended, he had completely lost the strength to retaliate.

"St… Stop!" Zhen Yuan no longer had the arrogance it once held, as it shouted out with a flustered look. Holding up something in his hands, he loudly said. "Let me go, otherwise… Otherwise, I will destroy this mystic artifact."

In his hands was exactly the fan that sealed a part of the Devil.

"Don't come over, otherwise I will destroy it!"

Zhu Yao stopped, frowning.

Zhen Yuan was joyous, as he thought that his threat was effective. "Didn't you come here looking for this? Don't force me! It's either the fish dies, or the net splits!"

When his voice fell, a white light however flashed next to it. An object flew out from the storage pouch Zhu Yao snatched back.

"Chick~~~~" A voice resoundingly rang out.

He simply felt his hand heating up, and he then instinctively relaxed his grip. In the next instant, that fan had already flown into Zhu Yao's hands.

"Good job!" Zhu Yao held onto the fan and Metal Spirit that flew over.

"Chick chick, chick chick…" The Metal Spirit happily rolled around on her palm. I was praised, I'm so happy, I'm so happy.

When Zhen Yuan saw that both his escape and threat had failed, his face instantly paled. It then gritted its teeth. Not knowing what it had done, its entire body began to emit out an azure light, and even the entire island began to rumble. The ground surface which was still charred black earlier, began to protrude out a large number of vines. Long green thorns could be seen on top of them, emitting out cold glints, and they were even dripping with purplish juice. Large ferocious and terrifying man-eating flowers drilled out from the ground with their mouths wide open, looking as though they could pull people in as food at any moment.

Zhu Yao had no choice but to fly into the air, while Zhen Yuan was already enveloped entirely by an azure light. Its figure began to grow, and in an instant, it had already occupied a sixth of the size of the island. It seemed like not that it had already been exposed, it planned to risk its life fighting her, and was now wanting to reveal its true form.

As expected, in fifteen minutes, that azure light dimmed, and a gigantic demonic beast that was a storey high appeared on the ground. It looked really similar to a gigantic toad, and its four limbs were lying on the ground. On its back however was a gigantic purple bud, and poison gas was faintly emitting out from inside. This shape however looked a similar to a creature she had once seen in an anime – Bulbasaur.

Though, this one was even more ugly.

It spat out a breath of poison gas, and the entire island was then covered in purplish poison gas.

Zhu Yao cast an art, once again summoning countless of heavenly lightning bolts that struck and scattered the poison gas. The bud at the back of the demonic beast suddenly opened, materializing vines that swung in her direction. These vines were completely different from before, as they were evidently much faster, and even she was having trouble dodging them.

Just as she evaded one, she was faced with another one swinging straight towards her, and it struck straight on her defensive barrier. She felt a pain surfacing on her chest, and there were faint traces of the barrier collapsing. Gripping onto the sword in her hand, the blade was instantly filled with a purplish lightning glow.

Swinging it out, she slashed one apart, and then, turned around attempting to dodge the remaining ones. However, a beastly roar suddenly sounded behind her.

"Gu…"

As expected, it was still just a toad!

A black figure instantly came pressing down from above her head. Zhu Yao's heart clenched, but she realized that there was nowhere to retreat to. That gigantic toad came pressing straight down, and she had already done the preparations needed to summon her sword intent. Just as that demonic beast was about to approach her and squish her into a meat pie.

That gigantic figure suddenly tilted to one side, and then, landed next to her feet with a "thud" sound. As though it was possessed by the Devil, it rubbed against her leg with an infatuated look, calling out.

"Meow…"

Zhu Yao: …

Just what the hell was this situation?

Zhen Yuan, who materialized into a gigantic frog, was startled for a moment. With a swoosh, it fiercely leapt a few steps back, as it looked at her with a terrified look, as though it could not understand its abnormal behaviour earlier either. "You… What kind of mystic art did you cast on me?"

"…" How would she know? Evidently, you're the one who went mad, right?

In the following situations, things began to develop in a strange direction. Zhen Yuan, who had materialized into a demonic beast, seemed to have activated some sort of hidden attribute. As long as its beastly figure approached her, it would mysteriously turn into an infatuated beast for a second, meowing out in various voices, pleading for hugs, and begging to bear her monkeys.

However, in the next instant, it would then regain its senses and leap away filled with regrets.

This situation happened over and over again, and it never seemed to get tired, as if it had split personalities.

Zhu Yao: …

She turned her head to look at the beast which constantly sprinted back and forth without end.

First it approached her and meowed out…

Then it ran a few steps back: You vile beast, what did you do to me…

Even she was beginning to feel worried for it.

She felt that this sort of situation seemed to be a little similar to the World Favourable Impression Achievement she once had, but its effective range seemed to have shrunk. However, when it was in its human form, this situation did not occur though?

Could it be that it was only effective on demonic beasts in their beast forms?

Wait a minute, when she was squished to death by that stupid dragon back then, it looked like… seemingly… most probably… she did not turn off the World Favourable Impression Achievement.

In that case…

Her entire body suddenly felt uncomfortable.

"Meow~~~~ I want to be touched, I want my fur to be stroked, please?" Bulbasaur looked as though it was about to rub against her leg.

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. You don't have fur in the first place, alright? What fur am I supposed to stroke! She did not like scaly toads in the least, alright? Especially ones like this which released poison gas!

Zhu Yao gritted her teeth.

She instantly summoned her sword intent, and at the moment it regained its senses, a phoenix charged into the skies and directly penetrated it. Lightning flashes filled the sky, and even the entire island was filled with various lightning lights.

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Chapter 250: The Girl's Revival

All the man-eating flowers on the island had turned into ashes in an instant. The poison gas scattered completely, and the main culprit beast was emitting out the aroma of roasted meat.

Zhen Yuan was zapped to the point where his four limbs were facing the sky, revealing its white belly skin. Its gigantic figure shrank at a speed that could be seen with the naked eye, and in just a few moments, it was already the size of an average little puppy. Zhu Yao basically did not hold back in that strike of hers, instantly shattering its inner core. It was definite that its cultivation would suffer a regression.

Zhu Yao walked over. Its four limbs twitched a little before it flipped about. It then trembled as it laid on the ground, pleading for its life. "Great deity, please spare my life, great deity. This little beastie knows its wrongs, I won't dare to do it ever again."

Zhu Yao frowned, and said with a cold voice. "What wrongs have you done?"

"Wrongs… My wrongs are…" His body trembled. "This little beast did not have eyes to see Mount Tai, and ended up offending great deity. Great deity, you have a magnanimous heart, please do not fuss with this little beast, and let this little beast go."

He cried while making pitter patter sounds, and its little figure was trembling like a leaf fluttering in the wind, looking extremely pitiful. Zhu Yao sighed. "I'm not going to kill you."

Zhen Yuan instantly turned joyous, as it raised its two grape-like black eyes and carried an excited expression.

"But I can't forgive you either!" Zhu Yao's tone changed, and Zhen Yuan's face turned miserably pale.

"Zhen Yuan, you don't even know what you have done wrong, so what right do you think you have to be forgiven for everything you have done?"

"No, I… I really know my wrongs now. I regretted doing them now." He explained with all his might.

Zhu Yao coldly laughed. "The only thing you regret, is the person you met was actually me. You regret being caught by me, and regret offending me. However, you don't think imprisoning the souls of those practitioners is wrong at all."

"…" Zhen Yuan was startled.

"If you regret doing so from the bottom of your heart, then you wouldn't be pleading me to forgive you today." Zhu Yao said with emphasis on every word. "So, I can't forgive you. I'm not killing you, because I don't have the right to decide the life and death of someone. You're a ninth rank demonic beast, and has already cultivated a human form. You entered the realm of humans and learnt the ways of a human being, but you have forgotten the purity found in one's heart. In order to cultivate, you feed on the lifeforce of mortals. The ones you should be pleading for forgiveness isn't me, but the ones who have died on this island because their lifeforce was eaten by you. If I forgive you today, then a part of the sin of killing those people will be pushed onto me as well. I will be murderer who have connived with you."

Zhu Yao's expression turned cold, and in an instant, she performed a set of hand-seals. A gigantic formation instantly enveloped the entire island, and she gently said. "Zhen Yuan, I don't want to kill you, but I will imprison you forever on this island. You will no longer be able to see anyone else, and make contact with anyone else, just like how you have imprisoned those souls. Only once you have truly regretted from the bottom of your heart, will you finally be freed."

"No…" He instantly became agitated, wanting to struggle and crawl towards her. Not being able to see anyone, and not being able to make contact with anyone else, how was it any different from being a ghost? "You can't do such a thing to me. I really know my wrongs, you… You clearly carry an aura that all beasts adore, shouldn't you be protecting me? Why…"

"Since you have the guts to commit wrongdoings, then you should have the resolve to accept your punishment?"

"Punishment, why am I the only one getting punished?" He began to hiss out in an exhaustive manner. "How is it even possible for those human practitioners of the cultivation world to not sense my presence after being here for several thousand years? They let me loose, so they asked for it themselves. It's not a mistake made by me alone…"

Zhu Yao did not speak any further, and the formation directly activated. Zhen Yuan disappeared instantly from the ground, and various runic symbols were just floating in the air, before disappearing without a trace in a few minutes.

Zhu Yao sighed, as an indiscernible emotion surged from the depths of her heart, feeling a little uncomfortable from the stuffiness. All of the demonic beasts she had seen before were probably too simplistic. Either they were kind to her to the very end, or they would show endless ferocity towards her.

Either they would want to eat her at first glance, or they would want to lean next to her on their first encounter. Thus, in her heart, demonic beasts had always been simplistic and direct, without much twists and turns in their personalities.

However, Zhen Yuan was different. When comparing demonic beasts, his thoughts and actions were more like a human's. The entire time, she had felt that it was strange for a demonic beast like it to be interested in the mystic artifacts and treasures of human practitioners. In the beginning, it too simply just wanted to snatch her mystic artifact away, and it would even use such gimmicks to lure people into his trap.

After pondering for a moment.

Behind the demonic beast, there definitely did not lack the shadows of human practitioners, and most likely various sects and clans were involved in this matter. Everyone knew that this ocean region was dangerous, but Treasure Gathering Pavilion had evidently existed in the cultivation world for a long while. Not just that, they must had other branch shops in other places. Zhen Yuan was simply snatching treasures, and it would then be transferred to other practitioners. While it fed on their lifeforce, the cultivation world could bear witness to various mystical and strange treasures.

Zhen Yuan was right. The human practitioners of the cultivation world were not exactly unaware of everything that was transpiring, they simply let him loose. Everything all came down to a single word – benefit. Zhen Yuan was wrong, while the other practitioners who made use of this and let it loose, were similarly in the wrong.

Zhu Yao suddenly felt a little depressed. Clearly, these so-called practitioners were not any different from regular human beings, and they would compete to their deaths for glory, benefits, and their cultivation. However, because of the almighty status of a 'deity practitioner', they rationalized all their actions, and would commit wrongdoings with a peace of mind. Yet, they were still able to continue onwards and upwards, ascending to the Higher Realm and obtaining eternal life.

Just what kind of world was this? And this so-called Dao, what kind of 'Dao' were they treading on? Just why was she unable to spot even a single bit of positivity in it, and merely ugliness and annihilation? With such a deformed Dao, she thought that something like resentment being birthed was actually very normal now.

Zhu Yao took a deep breath, suppressing the irritation towards this world that was faintly surging in the depths of her heart. Circulating her spiritual energy and performing hand-seals, she chanted the Afterlife Incantation.

In a few moments, a large formation appeared in the skies above the island, releasing out a golden radiance stretching out to dozens of kilometers. In but an instant, streams of white light slowly rose from the ground and began to fly towards the horizon. These were all souls which Zhen Yuan had trapped for over thousands of years. Though Zhen Yuan was sealed and could no longer imprison them, a large number of souls had been trapped for too long, and had long been unable to enter the Netherworld. This was why she had no choice but to send them off herself.

The streams of white light grew in number, and like a meteor shower under bright daylight, they slowly flew towards the sky, and finally disappeared without a trace. The entire island was enveloped by white light for exactly half an hour, before the final stream of light rose and disappeared. It could be seen that the number of souls trapped here was phenomenal.

Zhu Yao took a deep breath, and then retracted the formation. The Afterlife Incantation was a very simple mystic art, and the amount of spiritual energy consumed by it was small as well. However, it did not mean she could last for an entire half an hour maintaining it, not to mention she had expended a large half of her spiritual energy when dealing with Zhen Yuan.

Zhen Yuan was a ninth rank demonic beast, just half a step away from being a tenth rank. If not because she wielded the lightning spirit vein which had a naturally affinity in suppressing demonic beasts, she really had not many ways to obtain victory. After sending off all those souls, she was already exhausted to the point her limbs were turning a little weak. Just as she was about to sit down and adjust her breathing.

In her hands, the mystic artifact that sealed the Devil suddenly shone. Something while floated out from it, and then, after a flash, it disappeared without a trace. Zhu Yao simply felt a chill at the back of her palm, and in a blink of an eye, she saw the figure of a girl.

Why did the image of a girl appear from the fan?

The hell!

It's that tragic girly.

Zhu Yao was stunned. She could not be bothered to rest any longer, as she stepped on her sword and flew in the direction of Forgotten God Palace.

According to the original scenario, the girl's soul would only return several dozen years later, and then reawaken. However, now that this butterfly Zhu Yao was here, she was not certain if changes would occur. No, changes had definitely occurred.

She suddenly recalled the soul imprisonment formation Zhen Yuan placed on that island. At the same time it imprisoned the other souls, she wondered if this one-fifth of the girl's soul was imprisoned as well, leading to the girl staying dormant even after a long time. As for later on, either that mystic artifact had ended up outside the island, or Zhen Yuan had ascended and no more energy remained to imprison the souls, which allowed this part of her soul to return.

That's right. That white figure earlier was one-fifth of the girl's soul. The direction it disappeared towards was exactly where Forgotten God Palace was. Right now, it should have already returned to the girl's body.

Zhu Yao grew anxious, as she flew back while wildly circulating her spiritual energy.

Just as she arrived at Forgotten God Palace, she sensed a very obvious spiritual energy turbulence in the direction of the rear mountain. Even though she was far away, she could still sense it. Zhu Yao's heart clenched. There was no time left. If the people of Forgotten God Palace realized that the girl was about to wake up, then the entire cultivation world would find out. If that happened, it would then lead to an irreversible tragedy again.

What should she do?

Zhu Yao tried to think of a countermeasure. Her line of sight then turned to the Sword Seeking Peak at the side. She got one!

"Metal Spirit!" She took out that piece of rock from her pouch.

"Chick~" The Metal Spirit rubbed against her palm.

"Can you have those swords on Sword Seeking Peak go berserk once more?"

"Chick?"

"It's fine to just make the commotion bigger, and a little more exaggerated."

"Chick chick chick." It rolled forward, making a nodding expression.

"Alright, then go over to Sword Seeking Peak." Zhu Yao nodded to the rock. "Once the matter is settled, I will come over to fetch you. Remember, don't hurt anyone."

"Chick!"

Raising her hands, Zhu Yao performed a hand-seal, turning the Metal Spirit into a ray of light and sending it to Sword Seeking Peak. In just a few moments, the entire Sword Seeking Peek was like an exploding wok. Countless spiritual swords flew out and began to dance about in the sky in a wild manner. As though they had gone crazy, they sliced rocks and hacked trees, making such a ruckus that calling it a "commotion" was an understatement.

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched as she silently wiped off her sweat. This was a little too exaggerated. It was like an active construction site.

Though she had to admit, she heaved a sigh of relief. The sacred pond and the Sword Seeking Peak were situated in the same grounds, and there were only about two kilometers between them. With this ruckus, Forgotten God Palace would simply believe that the mountain was in a frenzy again, and their attention would not be on the sacred pond when the girl reawakens.

Turning around, she flew over, only to witness the formations on the sacred pond beginning to collapse. The chains that were initially binding her body had already begun to shatter, and the pond water was beginning to rumble. The girl was currently slowly rising. The formation shone brightly, as lines of cracks appeared on the formation. An illusory image that looked exactly the same as the girl, was presently merging with her physical body. Most probably, this was that one-fifth of her soul which escaped from that mystic artifact. According to the situation of the pond, at the moment her soul returns to her body, the girl would then soon awaken.

Zhu Yao immediately placed down countless concealment formations in the surroundings, preventing anyone else from discovering the anomaly here. Then, while making sure she would not destroy the formation, she cast an art to aid the girl's body in escaping out of the pond.

An hour passed, that illusory image finally merged completely with her physical body, and the cracks on the pond's formation disappeared as well. The girl slowly rose up, her hair fluttered without the presence of wind, and the sleeves of her robe flapped about. Presence of life began to appear on that absolutely beautiful face, with slight hints of red on her complexion, making her beauty stir the hearts and souls of people even more so than before. After a while, she gradually opened her eyes, and the corners of her lips lightly raised. That one simple and light smile, was enough to strip the entire world of its colours.

Even though they were of the same gender, Zhu Yao was stunned. Even using 'fairy-like' would not be able to describe her heavenly throbbing beauty. For a moment, she had forgotten about the time and her surroundings, and was simply watching with a throbbing chest as that dream-like lady slowly walked over to her. From her delicate lips, a voice, that sounded like an oriole flying out of its valley, flowed out.

"Your esteemed mom, which bastard turtle's grandson threw this old lady into the pool here."

Crackle…

She could hear the sound of her dream shattering.

The girl even picked up the corners of her dress with her hands, while looking at the pool of water with a scornful look. "My grandpa, this old lady hates having my dress wet the most. If this old lady finds out who placed me here, I will curse him to have terrible luck for all his life, curse his entire family to have terrible luck for all their lives!"

"…" The contrast here was to the extent where people would find it hard to retort to.

"Eh, so there's a living person here!" The girl finally saw Zhu Yao by the side of the pond, and sized her up. "Though he is a little ugly."

Zhu Yao: "…"

The tragedies this girl experienced in the first half of her lifetime, was caused by her cheap mouth, right? It's definitely so, right?

"Yo, broski." The girl waved her hands at her and greeted, as she ran over to her side. Just as she took a step forward, as though she had suddenly tripped, with a splash, she fell down from the center of the formation, she fell into the water head-first. In the water, she began to flap her hands about in a fluster. "Save… Save me… I don't know how… Water…"

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. With a wave of her hand, a clear breeze blew, instantly pulling out the drenched girl.

With her frightened look, that esteemed and cold-looking fairy image had already disappeared. The drenched body of this funny youth was emitting out a thick aura of a country bumpkin living in the city.

"Thank ya." She spat out a mouthful of water, as she laid on the ground like a corpse and gasped for air, looking as though she would not be able to recover for a short while. She panted for exactly five minutes before finally turning to look at Zhu Yao with a joyful look. "It's all thanks to you, big bro. Otherwise, this old lady would have drowned here. I never expected that the freaking pond would be so deep given its small size."

What's with this 'big bro'? "I'm a woman."

"Ah?" She sat up and sized her up for a moment. Then, her line of sight stopped at her chest, with an expression that looked as if she was saying 'stop with the jokes'.

The hell, small breasts were still breasts!

"I. Am. A. Woman!" Her teeth were gnashing.

She suddenly stood right up and stretched out her two hands. Plop, she pressed on the soft meats on Zhu Yao's chest, and rubbed them for a moment.

"…" It was her first time being molested by someone, and the other party was even a motherf*king girl!

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched, and no matter how she thought about it, she was definitely suffering a bit of humiliation here. She definitely could not endure this. Thus, her brain flared up, and she reached out to grab onto the girl's chest as well. However, she ended up feeling huge surging waves.

She lost. ORZ

No wait, why the hell were they molesting each other here?

The girl finally released her hands, and as she stroked her own aching chest, she voiced out in a doubtful manner. "You're so flat! Are you sure you're a woman?"

"You have any opinions on that!" Zhu Yao glared at her. "Why don't I pull down my pants and show you?"

"Sure!"

"Sure, your sister." As a girl, is it really alright for you to be this coarse?

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Chapter 251: Old Man, Don't Be Too Depressed

"Hey girly." She bumped into her arms and raised her eyebrows. "I have to really thank you for earlier. What's your name? Let's become friends, yo. I'm Ying Luo."

Why did Zhu Yao feel like she was an honest and naive lady being teased? "Auntie, it won't work out!" She was straight.

"Ah?" The girl Ying Luo blanked.

Zhu Yao took a few steps forward, and cast an art to restore the formation on the pond back to its original look. Then, she took out an advanced grade substitute talisman, and pulled the girl's hand over. "Let me borrow your hand." A white light flashed at the tip of her finger, instantly slicing a thin line of blood on her hand, and then had it drip a drop of her blood onto the talisman.

"Huu…" The girl breathed in. She did not resist, and was instead looking at her actions with a curious expression.

Zhu Yao threw the talisman towards the pond, and it instantly activated. A red light flashed, and that talisman paper instantly materialized into the girl's appearance as it laid above the pond with closed eyes like she was before. The severed chains earlier, as though they had been revived, heavily wrapped around that girl once again.

This substitute talisman was something she had long prepared, and she had planned to use it to deceive everyone once the girl were to awaken.

"Oh~~" (o)

The girl exclaimed out, as she looked at Zhu Yao's actions with sparkling eyes. "Not bad, you're actually this incredible? Oh right, what's your level of cultivation?"

Zhu Yao turned around to glance at her, and just as she was about to answer.

The girl patted on Zhu Yao's shoulders, and supplemented with a prideful look. "Oh, right. I was a Nascent Soul practitioner before, but because my soul has left my body for too long, my cultivation is just at the Foundation stage right now."

"Demigod."

"Ah?"

"My cultivation is at the Demigod stage."

The girl slipped, kneeling onto the ground with a "pachi" sound.

"Girly, come here. Let's talk about life." Zhu Yao waved her over.

The girl instantly turned submissive, as she looked at Zhu Yao with an embarrassed look.

"So… Sovereign. Thank you very much for saving me, Sovereign." She respectfully bowed in front of her.

"Enough, your character has already been exposed." The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. Acting all respectful now was a little too late, wasn't it? She pulled the girly to the side and squatted down, activating her 'intimate big sister' mode. "I know you're Ying Luo who sealed the Devil. I just wish to ask what plans do you have from now on?"

"I'm a disciple of Forgotten God Palace, so naturally, I will return to the sect." The girl said with a matter-of-fact look, and she continued with a smile. "After all, that place is my home."

"I don't have any qualms about you returning to Forgotten God Palace, but you can't use your identity as Ying Luo."

"Why?" She looked confused.

"Girl." Zhu Yao patted on her shoulders, and said with a heavy heart. "It has already been nine hundred over years. The impression people of the world have on you, is someone who has long perished together with the sealed Devil. If you reappear now, what do you think others will think?"

The girl was startled, and then her eyes fiercely widened. "But the Devil's seal isn't…"

"I know the seal isn't broken." Zhu Yao looked straight at her. "But will others believe that?"

"…" The girl went silent. She was not stupid, so she naturally understood what Zhu Yao was trying to say.

"You must know that fear is a very terrifying emotion."

The girl sank into silence for a moment, before letting out a deep sigh. "You're very right. I indeed cannot return to my past identity." Raising her head, she looked at the incarnation above the pond that looked exactly the same as her. "Then, Sovereign, what do you think I should do?" Naturally, she was able to guess that everything this Sovereign had done, was in order to help her conceal her identity. However, she just could not figure out why she wanted to help her.

"There's no need for you to suspect me, I naturally have my own reasons for doing this." Zhu Yao pulled out the fan she obtained from Illusory Realm Island, and opened the leaf of the fan, revealing the faintly drifting devilish energy within it. "You should be able to recognize this, right?"

"This is!" Ying Luo was stunned. Wasn't this a mystic artifact she used to seal the Devil? Why was it in her hands?

Zhu Yao turned her head, and looked at her with a stern expression. "If I say I'm a God, would you believe me?" She had long figured out a good excuse.

She was startled for a moment, and then she fiercely widened her eyes. She sized Zhu Yao up with a look of disbelief, and could not help but reach out her hand to touch Zhu Yao's forehead. "Sovereign, you're not sick, right!?"

The hell!

"I'm being serious here!" She instantly slapped away her hand.

"Sovereign, I don't cultivate much, don't lie to me. A true God wields the sealing arts. If you can wield them, back then, there wouldn't be a need for me to…"

Before she could even finish, Zhu Yao flipped her hand. A golden imprint surfaced on the leaf of the fan, and the devilish energy which was still flowing about the fan earlier, was instantly dispelled completely. Even the black leaf had instantly reverted back to white, returning to the look of a regular mystic artifact.

"Your esteemed mom, you really can wield them!" Ying Luo was completely stunned.

Can you please remove the profanities when praising people?

"I have merely restored the seal on this fan to perfection." Zhu Yao continued to dupe her. "To tell you the truth, the reason why I'm helping you is to simply locate all of the five mystic artifacts. I have a way to deal with this Devil once and for all. As long as the Devil is dealt with, you will be able to openly appear in front of everyone."

She looked at the leaf of the fan, and then glanced at Zhu Yao. After pondering for a long while, she gritted her teeth and slammed her hands onto Zhu Yao's shoulders. "Alright, big sis. This old lady shall work under you!"

Why did she feel as if she had established a mafia? This was definitely her imagination.

"I will find the mystic artifacts myself, you just have to be careful not to be discovered by people."

The girl smiled. "This matter concerns me after all, so how can I possibly let you go alone? Don't persuade me. No matter what, I will have to put in some work."

"…" Why did she feel as though a troll had stuck onto her?

Zhu Yao stuck a concealment talisman onto the girl, and since she was passing by Sword Seeking Peak to retrieve the Metal Spirit, she gathered some materials there, and stopped the chaos of the spiritual swords. She then openly returned to Forgotten God Palace, and then cooped herself in the artifact refining chamber, spending three whole days to refine a bracelet to conceal the girl's former appearance.

After she wore it, she immediately sprinted next to a pond. Reflected in the water was a girl around twenty years old, and the face was not as soul enchanting beautiful as it was before, but it could still be considered pleasant-looking. Her height was a little shorter than before, and her line of sight shifted downwards, stopping at the chest which did not experience the slightest of change. Then, she forcefully raised her head and looked at Zhu Yao's, before satisfyingly retracted her gaze.

Momma's egg, why the hell am I feeling so irritated?

Just as she got out of the artifact refining chamber, she bumped into Wen Yu who had an excited look on his face. "Old Ancestor, you're back."

"I'm about to leave now."

His face immediately sank right after. "Old Ancestor, the new batch of disciples is about to step foot onto the mountain. Why don't you take in a disciple for fun, before leaving?"

The hell was 'for fun'? Zhu Yao pulled over Ying Luo by her side as shield. "I have already taken in a disciple."

"Aaahh!?" Wen Yu was dumbfounded. He sized Ying Luo up from head to toe. "She… She is…"

"I'm Ying…" The girl who was casual with anyone stepped forward, and just as she was about to speak up, Zhu Yao immediately covered her lips, and the words she uttered out instantly changed. "Yingyingying…"

"Old Ancestor?" Wen Yu looked at the two people back and forth, unable to understand the situation for a moment.

"That's right, she's called Ying Yingying."

"…" The corner of Wen Yu's lips twitched. Yin Yinying? Such a strange name.

"I say, Wen Yu!" Zhu Yao patted on his shoulders, and said with a heavy tone. "This disciple of mine, you see, is someone I picked out after many difficulties. Putting aside her having great aptitude, achieving the level of a Demigod in the future is not even a problem for her." Wen Yu's eyes instantly shone. "I have decided to raise her up with meticulous guidance."

"All shall go according to Old Ancestor's words." He hurriedly nodded, carrying an excited look. So the reason why the Old Ancestor left the previous time, was in order to select a disciple for the sect. He's so moved right now, what should he do?

"You too are aware that I'm a wandering practitioner in the past, so the cultivation techniques I learnt are different. That's why, in order to raise a good disciple, I need to bring her out to gain some experience." Zhu Yao continued to dupe.

Wen Yu immediately took a step back, no longer stopping the two of them. He even wished that she could immediately head out, and then return with two Demigods. "Old Ancestor, may your journey be smooth-sailing."

This time, Zhu Yao was no longer in a hurry to leave, as she said with a complicated expression. "The matters of cultivation have always been difficult. Opportunities, aptitude, and luck, not a single one of these must be lacking, I believe we will encounter several difficulties in this journey. Furthermore, I was a wandering practitioner in the past, so I'm afraid the amount of properties I have… would prove to be a great inconvenience." So give me some wages, hey?

Not even following up a single word, Wen Yu took out the storage pouch next to him and shoved it towards her. "Old Ancestor, feel free to leave with this, I shall handle everything in the sect."

"Then I will leave it to you, Palace Master Wen." Her face was filled with seriousness.

"Mn!" Wen Yu heavily nodded.

Zhu Yao pulled onto the girl Ying Luo, rode on her sword, and fled.

They were heading straight towards the west. As Zhu Yao controlled the sword, she pulled out a spiritual sword and passed it to her. "Hold onto this. This is something I refined at the side while refining that bracelet of yours."

Ying Luo was stunned for a moment. Then, after finally regaining her senses, she received it.

Zhu Yao turned to glance at her, and nudged. "What's wrong?" Why did she suddenly become so quiet? She was really not used to this.

"Wen Yu, is the Palace Master of Forgotten God Palace?" She suddenly asked.

"Of course."

"Then… What about the former Palace Master?"

"Isn't that just unnecessary talk?" Zhu Yao rolled her eyes at her. "Naturally, either that person has ascended, or is already dead."

"Dead…" Ying Luo frowned, and only after a long while did she let out a deep sigh. "So she is already dead."

Zhu Yao was startled. Looking at the girl's relieved expression, she suddenly recalled that in the scenario, the girl seemed to be the biological younger sister of the Forgotten God Palace Master. Though it was said that familial love between people were cultivating into deities was shallow, this girl was a good, proper young lady after all. She finally managed to awaken, yet her only relative had already passed away. Her letting out a sigh was something Zhu Yao could understand.

"Do you know where's the next mystic artifact is located?" Zhu Yao diverted the subject. She had only heard that it was in the west, but she was uncertain of the concrete location.

The girl did not stay depressed for a long while, and had instead instantly recovered. "If I did not guess wrong, it should be with the Heavenly Feather Race."

"Heavenly Feather Race?" What's that?

"The Heavenly Feather Race lives within a barrier located at the west of the continent. Rumours say that they are descendants of the Phoenix God-beasts, bearing feathers the moment of their births, and had the power to soar towards the Nine Heavens."

Descendants of phoenixes? Why were descendants everywhere in this world? Was it really alright to be this chaotic?

"The Heavenly Feather Race always have terrible temper, and they are not at comfortable terms with human practitioners. If we break into their place like this, we will definitely be attacked by their crowd."

"Why didn't you say that earlier!?" It would have been good if she had done some preparations.

"You didn't ask either!"

"…" Could she return this stupid person back to the sacred pond?

"We're here!" She suddenly called out.

A gigantic continental land suddenly appeared in the air, and it was impossible to see the other end with a single glance. It was floating as if it was a city in the sky. They immediately stepped onto that piece of land. Before they could even walk a few steps out, they were blocked by a transparent barrier and could not push forward.

Zhu Yao walked back and forth next to it several times, yet, she was still unable to discern just what kind of formation it was. For a moment, the two of them did not have any ideas.

"What should we do?"

"If we forcefully break through it, it will definitely be sensed by other people." The girl pondered for a moment, before suggesting. "Why don't we directly used a defense related mystic artifact, converge it with one of the defensive formations placed on the barrier, and then make use of the idle time while the formation attempts to link with the artifact, to charge right through it?"

"You're saying, we should make use of the opportunity from converging in the mystic artifact, to forcefully add another formation core into the barrier?"

The girl nodded. "If it's just a defense related mystic artifact and not an offensive one, it would not be sensed by anyone else."

"A good plan." Zhu Yao stretched out her thumb and praised her. "But… I don't have any defensive mystic artifacts."

"Didn't you receive a storage pouch from Wen Yu earlier?"

Oh right, she had forgotten she received her wages. She hurriedly took out that pouch, and pulled out every single object.

Spirit stones – Mn, I don't have a use for them right now.

Medicinal pellets – Mn, these can be given to the girly for life-saving purposes.

Talismans – Intermediate grade talismans, not much use. Let's give them to the girly as well.

Fourth rank flying mystic artifact – Spiritual sword, low grade.

Fifth rank defensive mystic artifact – A dudou1!!!

Zhu Yao: "…"

Ying Luo: "…"

Wen Yu's taste, was a little intense, hey!

"Kuh…" The girl Ying Luo took that bright red cloth, and said with a stern look. "This shouldn't belong to him. Look, the mark embroidered on the dudou doesn't belong to Forgotten God Palace, it definitely belongs to some other female practitioner…" When she was halfway through her explanation, she stopped, and her expression carried even wider cringe than earlier.

If it did not belong to him, it's even worse, alright? If it did not belong to him, then who could it belong to? Did a female practitioner give it to him? Or did he snatch it from someone else? A piece of clothing like this that sticks close to one's body, just how did he snatch it? And just what were the basic principles behind the method to do so?

What should she do? The hole in her brain was too huge, no matter how she tried to fill it in, it was not enough.

She never expected that even given Wen Yu's age, he was still following the trends!

"Why don't we, take a look at what else is there inside?" Zhu Yao said.

"Sure!" The girl's eyes instantly shone, activating her gossip mode.

The two of them overturned the storage pouch with excited looks. Unfortunately, other than a few low rank spiritual swords, and a few sets of male mystic robes, there were no other unknown objects.

Haah…

The two sighed at the same time. Such a pity. (Wen Yu: …)

"Let's use this then." Zhu Yao picked up the dudou, and placed it at the side. Circulating her spiritual energy, she activated the defensive formation within, and then guided the formation towards the barrier. With a flash of bright light, A round, light image with the height of a man suddenly appeared on the transparent barrier.

"Now!" Zhu Yao shouted, and along with Ying Luo, charged into it.

A moment later, the barrier had already been restored to normal. Though, above the transparent barrier, there was now an additional dudou fluttering in the air.

Zhu Yao: …

Ying Luo: …

Mn, hopefully, Wen Yu won't feel that depressed.

Dudou: An ancient Chinese undergarment. Usually bright red in colour. For more info, click here: https/en./wiki/Dudou

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Chapter 252: We Can Always Run if We Can't Win

Several hundred kilometers away, in Forgotten God Palace.

Achoo!

Wen Yu fiercely sneezed! Could it be that his wife who had long since passed away, was thinking of him again? Their fate together was too short, and in a blink of an eye, it had already been a few hundred years. He seemed to have kept a keepsake with him still. Reaching out to the side of his waist, he however grabbed onto empty air instead.

Eh? His storage pouch seemed to be…

Old Ancestor, get back here now!!!!

The sky above this continental land was extremely huge. The two of them walked straight for four hours, before they could get a faint glimpse of human figures. No wait, they were bird figures. The people here all had a gigantic pair of wings attached behind them. There were white and black wings, and also wings with bright colours like yellow and red. Every single one of them was different. When they flew in the sky, they looked like a bunch of huge… birdmen. However, when they landed on the ground, those wings would disappear without a trace.

To prevent themselves from being exposed, they had no choice but to walk on foot throughout their entire journey.

As they walked further in, the number of birdmen grew, and the faint silhouette of a city could finally be seen. The city was humongous, with an endless stream of birdmen walking back and forth, exuding a bustling atmosphere. The moment the two entered the city, they split up to gather information. However, after asking around for exactly an entire afternoon, they could not find a single birdman who knew of it.

"Yu Yao, I think this place is simply too huge. It seems we won't be able to find it in a short span of time." Ying Luo panted a few breaths. Back then, when she activated the seal, she simply sensed that a mystic artifact had fallen somewhere near here. However, with how many years it had been since then, she could not concretely tell where it was. "This is too hard to find."

Zhu Yao stopped at the city gates. "Girly, do you still remember the appearances of the five mystic artifacts?"

"Of course I do!" After all, she personally sealed them herself.

"Then was one of them a piece of jade tablet?"

She nodded. "That's right! How did you know?"

"On that jade tablet, were the two words 'Azure City' engraved on it?"

Ying Luo was startled. "You have seen it before."

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched, as she reached out her hand and pointed at the city gates. "I haven't seen it before, but I have seen it now."

At the top of the city gates, a pitch-black plaque was hanging up high, and there were traces of black miasma circulating in it. The two red words 'Azure City' that were engraved on it, were extremely striking to the eye, and around the jade tablet, there were even faint traces of golden sealing runic symbols flashing about.

The second mystic artifact!

Momma's egg, why did every single mystic artifact had to be openly placed in such eye-catching locations? Were they really not looking down upon the intelligence of the people looking for them?

"What should we do?" Ying Luo said with a suppressed voice. This mystic artifact had evidently been treated as the city gates' plaque by the birdmen of the city. It seemed like this city was exactly given the name 'Azure City'. "Why don't we, directly dig it out?"

"…" If we dig it out right in front of everyone's faces, we will be beaten to death, right!?

Just as she was frustrating what she should do, a loud ringing sound suddenly reverberated within the city, and it seemed to the sound of a horn. A sunken and heavy sound instantly spread throughout the entire city.

In an instant, all the birdmen in the city scattered in all directions. Every single one of them entered their own homes with anxious looks, and they even closed their doors and windows. In just a few moments, not many bird figures were left on the streets.

Was that a curfew alarm? Zhu Yao raised her head to look at the sky, and indeed, it had already begun to darken.

"I have a plan!" Ying Luo winked at her. "Isn't there still some concealment talismans in Wen Yu's storage pouch? Let's first conceal ourselves and head up the city wall. Then, once everyone has left, we will make our move."

"Is this plan reliable?" Zhu Yao expressed her doubts.

She patted on her surging buns. "When it comes to tasks I'm in-charge of, you don't have to worry."

Zhu Yao nodded, and then first pulled her over to an empty alleyway. Sticking the concealment talismans on themselves, they then returned to the city gates. Currently, there was not even a single figure left on the streets, while all of the homes were shining with candle lights. The two of them went up the city wall together, and to their surprise, they discovered that there was actually no one keeping watch.

Just as Zhu Yao was about to fly her sword over and retrieve the mystic artifact, she was pulled by Ying Luo.

"Wait a minute! There's a formation on the wall." A row of faint yellow runic symbols floated above the city wall, and if one did not pay attention, they were impossible to spot. "You can't pull out the jade tablet. You can only push it inwards."

"Inwards?" On the other side of the tablet was the wall, how was she going to push through it?

Zhu Yao carefully scanned the city wall. "There's a door here."

At the right corner of the city wall was a wooden door, and after pushing the door open, she discovered that this city wall was a little different from the rest. The city wall was very tall, yet there was still space within the wall itself. Like a mezzanine, there was still a small flight of stairs that lead all the way to the roof, and at the very top, there was actually a huge platform for unknown uses.

At the front of the platform was that mystic artifact.

"We finally found it, let's hurry and take it down." Ying Luo anxiously urged.

"Are you certain we can take it down?" She felt that things were a little too smooth-sailing.

"Don't worry, there's no problemo."

Zhu Yao took a step forward, performed a light set of hand-seals, and that gigantic jade tablet slowly grew smaller. When the jade tablet was the size of a pendant, it flew towards her palm. On the wall which was covered with the jade tablet earlier, it now had a hole half the size of an average adult. Through the hole, it was also possible to see the light of the moon and stars shining upon the city streets, filled with a dense crowd of… birdmen. Furthermore, every single one of them was even carrying objects that looked similar to sacrificial offerings.

Zhu Yao: …

Ying Luo: …

The birdmen stared straight at the two people.

The two people stared straight at the crowd.

A moment of silence.

"They stole the city plaque, capture them!"

It was unclear who shouted out first, but instantly after, rows of birdmen swooshed into the sky, pouncing straight towards them.

"Run!" Picking Ying Luo up, she stepped onto her sword and madly flew in the direction they came from.

The hell, what happened to the promised 'no problemo'?

Ying Luo winced, as she tried to justify herself. "I heard from rumours that the Heavenly Feathered Race had a custom of offering sacrifices during a certain night, but I never expected that it's today. And here I was wondering why not a single person could be seen right after the sky had gotten dark. It's an oversight, it's definitely an oversight."

"Oversight, your sister. Can't you be a little more reliable?" She got them in such big trouble.

"Uh…" Her face was filled with embarrassment.

Why the hell did she encounter piggish teammates everywhere she went!?

"They are human practitioners, kill them!" The birdmen that were chasing after them saw they were flying on a sword, and they grew even more furious. They forcefully flapped their wings, instantly shooting out streams of feathers. In a blink of an eye, some of those feathers turned into flames, some turned into icicles, and there were even some that turned into sharp blades, as they all attacked the two people in an overwhelming manner.

"Yu Yao, behind you, behind you!" Ying Luo's face paled from fright.

Zhu Yao circulated her spiritual energy, and with a wave of her hand, a stream of cold wind swept towards the back. In an instant, ice began to form in the air, freezing all of the attacks behind them.

Zhu Yao did not stop there. She circulated even more energy into the spiritual sword beneath her feet, and just as they were about to reach the barrier they entered from.

The sound of a horn once again reverberated behind them. From the initially quiet forest in front of them, five birdmen popped out, blocking their path.

"Catch those two human practitioners!" One of the people shouted out, and then came pouncing towards the two of them.

"The hell!" Zhu Yao shifted her body to evade them, and had almost flung out the girl Ying Luo who was behind her.

"Big sis… Big sis Yu Yao. Calm down, calm down."

Zhu Yao turned to glare at her. Just as the other four people were about to charge towards them, she gnashed her teeth and instantly summoned a bolt of heavenly lightning. With an explosive roar, the bolt zapped straight down and grazed the four people. For a moment, the five birdmen had pale expressions, as though they were frightened by the heavenly lightning bolt that suddenly descended.

"Hurry and go!" Zhu Yao took the opportunity to fly to the barrier in a crazed manner. The small red dudou was already passionately waving at them.

Zhu Yao immediately descended, circulated her spiritual energy, and inserted it into the dudou-shaped defensive mystic artifact.

The five birdmen behind them had already come chasing after them. With a flap of their wings, several icicles were shot straight towards them.

"Aiyo! My buttocks!" Ying Luo, who was standing behind, was struck dead-on, as her buttocks were now stabbed with an icicle the width of two fingers.

"Forget about your buttocks, let's hurry!" That dudou had already activated, and the exit appeared. Zhu Yao pulled onto Ying Luo, and hurriedly scrammed. While leaving, she slammed her palm onto the ground, and in an instant, countless lightning lights pierced out from beneath the ground, forming a wall made of lightning.

Zhu Yao took the opportunity to step on her sword, and then, carrying the piggish teammate who was injured backstage, she madly flew for several hundred kilometers.

"Aiyo, it hurts so much." The girl cast a fire type art to melt the icicle, and rubbed her buttocks, wailing.

"Does it really hurt that much?" She was not even bleeding, wasn't she? Zhu Yao reached out to check her pulse.

"Haah…" Ying Luo glanced at her dejectedly. "Do you know how important buttocks are to women? There's a saying like this – Women with big buttocks are great at childbirth. If this important body part of mine is injured, there's a possibility that I might not get to marry in the future… You don't understand!"

"…" What kind of twisted logic was this? And why wouldn't she be able to understand? This old lady here is a woman too, hey. And since you wish to marry someone, why the hell are you still cultivating!? "Don't worry, a small injury like this won't affect your female functions. Auntie will still make her regular visit next month!"

"Auntie? What's that?" She said with a curious look.

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. "Menstruation."

"Oh~~~" She was suddenly enlightened, but a moment later, her expression paled once more, as she said with a complicated look. "Sovereign, but… it's a few hundred years since my auntie visited me, this… would it have an influence on me?"

She really wanted to kick her off the sword, what should she do?

In the end, the two people still returned to Forgotten God Palace. They were not worried that the Heavenly Feathered Race would come chasing after them. After all, this was the territory of human practitioners, and the loss of a plaque was not enough to start a fight.

Wen Yu looked a little dumbfoundedly at the two worn-out people.

"Old Ancestor, you two… came back from your training journey so quickly?" It had only been a day and a night, right?

Zhu Yao patted on his shoulders. "Life is just this unpredictable."

Just as Wen Yu wanted to ask about something else, Zhu Yao silently pulled out that dudou, and stuffed it back to him. "I say, Wen Yu. Next time, when it comes to this sort of private hobbies, it's best not to show it off to the world. If people from other sects were to find out, it would be bad on your image."

"…" Wen Yu was instantly petrified. When he regained his senses, the master and disciple had already disappeared.

What private hobbies? Wait! Old Ancestor, listen to my explanation!

"I'm tired to death!"

The moment she stepped through the door, Ying Luo spread herself out on the bed, looking half-dead.

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. You're tired my ass. All the fighting and flying were all done by me, hey.

"Oh right, hurry and store that mystic artifact away." She twitched a little before sitting up, picking up the storage pouch which Zhu Yao threw onto the table. "Where's the jade tablet?"

"Here!" Zhu Yao passed it over.

Ying Luo immediately stored it in. However, just as she was about tighten the strings, the jade tablet came falling out.

"Eh?" She was startled for a moment, before she once again threw the jade tablet in. In the next moment, that jade tablet fell out again. She threw it in once more, and it continued to fall off. "What's going on?"

Ying Luo reached her hand into the pouch, and suddenly cried out. "Aiya, so hot! Yu Yao, what did you place inside?"

Yu Yao received the pouch and took a look inside it. "You took the wrong one, it's not this pouch." She then immediately pulled out the Metal Spirit.

"Chick… Chick…" The Metal Spirit cried out pitifully, as it rolled around her palm. Zhu Yao sighed as she grabbed onto the other storage pouch and threw it over to Ying Luo. "Place the jade tablet in there then. This little one doesn't like to stay with other mystic artifacts."

"What's that? It looks really pretty." Ying Luo curiously looked at her palm. "Is it an egg? What kind of egg is it?"

"Chick!" The Metal Spirit let out a protesting sound.

"Chicken egg?"

"Chick chick chick chick chick…" The Metal Spirit was instantly enraged, as it leapt and smashed towards her face. Ying Luo was unable to evade in time, and was smacked dead-on.

"Yo, it sure is arrogant! I'm going to cook you today." Ying Luo motioned to grab it.

The body of the Metal Spirit flashed, emitting out a golden glow from all around its body. "Chick—"

In an instant, all the mystic artifacts on their bodies flew out and floated in the air. Every single one of them was pointing at Ying Luo with surging killing intent.

Ying Luo was instantly dumbfounded.

"Enough, enough." Zhu Yao hurriedly extinguished the fire, and placed Metal Spirit back into the pouch. The mystic artifacts then fell onto the ground. "Don't anger it, it doesn't have a good temper."

"Wa!" Ying Luo patted on her chest, and was basically unable to believe her own eyes. "Just what in the world is that?"

"Metal Spirit."

"Metal Spirit?" She had a puzzled look. "This chicken of yours is amazing, it's actually able to control mystic artifacts!"

I already said it's not a chicken!

But, control? Zhu Yao was stunned. The Metal Spirit was the materialization of metal spiritual energy, and a large portion of mystic artifacts were indeed made of metals, so it was very normal for Metal Spirit to be capable of controlling them. In that case, then those five mystic artifacts were…

"I know how to find the remaining ones now." Zhu Yao suddenly stood right up. "Ying Luo, where are the remaining three mystic artifacts located?"

"One is located in Point Formation Clan, one is located in the ancient ruin where the Devil first appeared, and there's one in Sword Seeking Peak."

"Sword Seeking Peak?" Zhu Yao was startled. "That Sword Seeking Peak over there?"

Ying Luo nodded.

Zhu Yao was filled with joy. She took out the Metal Spirit, and seriously said. "Metal Spirit, is there a mystic artifact that has a Devil sealed in it, within Sword Seeking Peak?"

"Chick?" The rock on her palm tilted.

Zhu Yao had no choice but to pull out that jade tablet and fan. "It's a mystic artifact which carry a similar aura as these two."

"Chick…" It let out a long sound, as though it was pondering about this matter. A while later, it rolled about. "Chick chick chick!"

"There's one?"

"Chick!"

"Where is it? Can you bring me there to retrieve it?"

The Metal Spirit rubbed her hand, and then its entire body began to emit out a golden light. Suddenly, it let out a long chick sound. "Chick…"

That sound travelled far into the distance, as though it was summoning something.

Before the two could even react, three door knocks could be heard from the door.

"Kong, kong, kong!" They were neither light, nor heavy.

Zhu Yao waved her hand, and the door opened. A completely pitch-black sword flew in, and then obediently landed on the table.

"Chick!" The Metal Spirit instantly let out an unsatisfied sound.

That sword once again flew back to the door, used its hilt to close the opened door, before returning back to the table.

This sword sure has manners!

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Chapter 253: You Fancy Him?

"This sword turned into a spirit, right?" Ying Luo said.

"…" The one who had turned into a spirit should be the Metal Spirit!

Zhu Yao picked up the sword from the table, and carefully inspected it. Like the other two, it was flowing with devilish energy, along with sealing runic symbols.

"Three!" Quest completion rate was at sixty percent!

The girl sighed, a hint of worry flashed past her face. "Yu Yao, just what in the world is the method you spoke of that can eliminate the Devil once and for all?"

"Devil Smiting Inscription." Zhu Yao said with a sullen voice. "This is the one and only inscription technique in the world that can annihilate a Devil."

"Annihilate?" Ying Luo was stunned. "Aren't Devils supposed to be undying and indestructible, and could only be sealed?"

"Believe me!" Zhu Yao patted on her shoulders. "There's never any absolutes in the world. This method is definitely workable." She had after all personally used it before.

"…" Ying Luo sank into silence for a moment, and finally let out a sigh. With a smile, she said. "Alright, since I have already boarded this pirate ship of yours, then I have no choice but to believe you till the very end."

Pirate ship…

Was it too late to swap teammates now?

"Where are we going next? Why don't we go to Point Formation Clan?" She suddenly said with an excited expression. "That place is closer to Forgotten God Palace, and I have long heard that Point Formation Clan has an Elder who is a rarely-seen handsome gentleman. No matter if it's his personality, cultivation, or appearance, they are top tier in the cultivation world."

Zhu Yao looked at the girl with narrowed eyes. "You fancy him?"

"Ah?" Ying Luo was startled for a moment. A moment later, she then scratched her head, and chuckled. "Hoho, I have seen him a few times in the past, we're not really that… familiar with each other!"

"You fancy him?"

Her face reddened. "Uh… Do you know? He's a tetra spirit veins holder, yet he was still able to form his own Azoth Core with his own strength. It's really incredible."

"You fancy him!"

Her face was bright red like blood itself. "I'm a penta spirit veins holder myself. Though my cultivation speed is pretty good too, it's also because I possess the bloodline of the ancient races."

"You fancy him."

Ying Luo: "…"

A few seconds later.

"That's right, I fancy him." She revealed a determined look. "This old lady thinks of him every minute and every second! What about it?"

"Tch! Say so earlier." Zhu Yao rolled her eyes. "I have experience in matters like this!"

"Aaaahh!?" Ying Luo's eyes shone. "W… Wh… What experience?"

"Is there a need to say it?" Zhu Yao rolled her eyes even more cheerfully. What else could it be? The experience of attacking, of course. She had so many experiences of pushing down her master. She did not push him down for nothing.

Ying Luo's expression instantly turned stern, and she respectfully said. "Sovereign Yu Yao, please do not hesitate to bestow me your teachings."

"It's not a difficult matter." Zhu Yao courteously waved her hands. She poured herself a cup of tea, and casually asked. "First, tell me. What is the name of that Elder?"

Her face began to turn bright red again. As though she had instantly retracted that natural coarse and rough character of hers, she revealed the look of a delicate and shy young maiden. With sparkling eyes, she said. "He's called Ding Chunqiu1."

Puuu~~~~~~

Zhu Yao spat a mouthful of tea all over her face!

You NPCs, please give yourselves better names, hey!

Zhu Yao went to inquire Wen Yu about it, and found out there really was someone called Ding Chunqiu in Point Formation Clan. However, he was no longer an Elder of Point Formation Clan, but their Clan Master. In these few hundred years Ying Luo was sealed, he lived a pretty good life. Not only did he nourish his Nascent Soul, his fame in the cultivation world was really widespread as well.

Even Wen Yu, this old man who had been harbouring hatred for other sects, only had praises for him. Indeed, if a tetra spirit veins holder wished to nourish his Nascent Soul, it was simply as hard as ascending into the heavens. This Sect Master Ding was the symbol of hard work. Furthermore, under his leadership, Point Formation Clan had firmly taken root within the ranks of first-rate sects.

Point Formation Clan specialized in formations, and belonged to the neutral faction. They would not participate in any conflicts between sects and clans, and it was exactly because of this fact, many sects and clans would invite people from Point Formation Clan to set up formations or provide pointers for their important facilities.

This was also how the name 'Point Formation Clan' came about.

From rumours, the next Great Inter-Sect Tournament would be hosted in Point Formation Clan as well.

Zhu Yao had wanted to locate the fourth mystic artifact quickly, but after hearing Wen Yu's words, she changed her mind again. The formations in Point Formation Clan were refined and profound, if she were to charge through them with brute force, she would risk the danger of having her identity exposed. Of course, she did not mind it, but Ying Luo would be put in a miserable situation.

She decided to wait till the Great Inter-Sect Tournament happens, and take the opportunity to infiltrate the place while there were many people from various clans and sects. At that time, it would be more convenient for her to look for the artifact as well.

Fortunately, the next Great Inter-Sect Tournament was in about five years, and she could take this time to allow the girl Ying Luo to restore her cultivation.

"In five years, you must nourish your Azoth Core!"

"Aaaahh!" Ying Luo was stunned. "Five years, is a little too short, isn't it!?"

"You have already formed your core once, what's there to fear?" Zhu Yao rolled her eyes. It's not like she was cultivating from the start all over again. Her meridians had long been at the level of Nascent Soul. Forget about five years, three years should be enough. "Work hard! Don't you fancy that guy with the surname Ding? The higher your cultivation level, the larger your chances at success will be."

"True!" She was instantly motivated, as she sat down in a lotus position and began to meditate.

Zhu Yao notified Wen Yu that she would be in closed-door training, and then sealed the entire mountain peak. She then placed down the respective spiritual energy guidance formations for all five different types of spiritual energy. Whenever she entered a trance state, the spiritual energy on the mountain peak would become several dozen times richer than normal. Zhu Yao was unsure if it was because of the presence the Metal Spirit either, but the amount of metal spiritual energy was richer than the rest.

Actually, it was really easy for the girl to raise her cultivation. Because she had practiced it once before, she basically did not experience any bottlenecks while raising from the early stages of Foundation to Paragon. What she lacked was merely spiritual energy. With her spiritual energy replenished, naturally, her cultivation would rise really quickly. In less than three years, she had already reached the Paragon level.

Next was to form her core, which would have to depend on the girl's comprehension. On the fourth year of her closed-door training, Zhu Yao faintly sensed the abnormal movements with the spiritual energy. She was about to form her core.

She reinforced the surrounding spiritual energy guidance formations and released the Metal Spirit, in order to maintain the abundance of spiritual energy. Ying Luo's complexion however grew worse, large beads of sweat dripped from her head, as though she was suffering from extreme pain. Even the surrounding spiritual energy was growing a little chaotic.

Zhu Yao stood guard by her side. Initially, she had thought that everything would go without a hitch. However, she saw that her complexion was worsening, and spiritual energy was actually scattering away at an immense rate, as though they were being dispersed the moment they entered her body. Her deeply furrowed brows tangled together, and there were even hints of the aura of death surfacing from her.

What was going on? This was different from the script.

"Ying Luo, girl!" She anxiously shouted out. This situation was evidently the consequence of her lack of focus. "Extinguish all unnecessary thoughts, focus your mind and calm your heart. Concentrate on forming your core, don't think of ridiculous things!"

Just what was she thinking about during this key moment?

Her condition however continued to worsen, and blood was already trickling down from the corner of her lips. The spiritual energy in her body had already turned into a mess.

"The hell!" She was here to save her, not to prematurely end her. Taking a deep breath, Zhu Yao put aside the backlash that she would face, as she immediately materialized a strand of divine sense and forcefully entered her meridians. She guided those chaotic spiritual energy into circulation, and then took the opportunity to enter the location she was forming her core. However, she discovered that the spiritual energy there were in an even more chaotic state.

The moment she entered, those chaotic spiritual energy looked as though they had found a common target to attack, as they began to wildly attack Zhu Yao's divine sense. Zhu Yao was about to puke out blood from the pain, but she had no choice but to grit her teeth and continue on. If this girl died, then she would have come here for nothing.

Gritting her teeth, she controlled those berserk spiritual energy with all her might. Then, following the method she used to form her own core, she guided the spiritual energy to revolve in a single direction, forming a swirl. In the beginning, it was really difficult. After all, it was not her own body, and whenever she lost control of the spiritual energy, the backlash would increase in intensity. After she finally managed to complete several revolutions, order slowly began to appear. There was no longer a need for her to forcefully guide them.

At the center of the swirl of spiritual energy, there was already a faint little dot of five colours, and it was slowly growing bigger, taking up a solid form.

Zhu Yao then retracted her own divine sense, only to puke out a mouthful of blood right after. Earlier, she did not feel that much pain, but now that she had retracted it, the sensation of pain instantly spread throughout her entire body. It felt as though several bits of her soul were bitten off.

Taking a deep breath, she had no choice but to close her eyes and meditate. Circulating her spiritual energy, she slowly nourished her divine sense. It hurt too motherf*king much, it felt as though she had died again. It hurt even more than that time she was a Demigod.

After meditating for exactly a day, Zhu Yao finally managed to soothe herself. As for Ying Luo at the side, she had coincidentally completed the formation of her Azoth Core, opening her eyes.

She turned to look at Zhu Yao, and seemed to have blanked for a moment. Her expression sank, and there seemed to be tears flickering in her eyes. "Yu Yao… I… Thank you."

Zhu Yao waved her hands. "As long as you're fine. Geez, you're only forming your Azoth Core, but you can't let someone feel at ease. Why did you suddenly lose focus?"

Her expression changed. Only after a while later, did she give a serious reply. "There won't be a next time."

"Next time!?" Zhu Yao rolled her eyes at her. "Do you think there are others like you who would form their Azoth Core twice?" Of course, she herself was an exception.

"True." She smiled, and then, like a crude man, she gave Zhu Yao a smack. "I can't be that unfortunate."

With a "puuah" sound, Zhu Yao once again spat out a mouthful of blood from her smack. "Pay attention to the disabled, hey!"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" She hurriedly apologized, her face was filled with guilt.

"Nevermind." She had wanted to puke out that blood anyway. "Are you certain your Azoth Core is already formed?"

"Of course!" She nodded. "I'm perfectly fine now."

"Then that's good. I have to stay further away from you." Zhu Yao crawled away.

"Wait a minute!" Ying Luo instantly dragged her back. "You're already injured, where are you heading? You should be going into meditation to nurse yourself."

"I can't sit here."

"Why not?"

"Because…"

Boom—

An Azoth Core tribulation lightning bolt descended from right above Ying Luo's head, but at the instant it was about to land, it twisted, and landed on the person next to her instead.

Zhu Yao, who was zapped charred black: …

Puuah~

Puking out a mouthful of smoke, she looked towards Ying Luo with dead fish eyes. "This is the reason!"

Ying Luo: "…"

Immediately after, the second bolt of tribulation lightning came zapping down with a thunderous roar. Just as it was about to zap Zhu Yao again, she raised her head and glared at it. "Are you done?"

Creak!

The tribulation lightning bolt stopped in mid-air, as though it did not know whether it should retreat or advance.

It really had gotten addicted to zapping her, right? "Who's the one forming her core, huh?"

That tribulation lightning bolt seemed to be in a huge dilemma. At one moment, it would crackle and twist above Ying Luo, and in the next moment, it would crackle and turn back to where Zhu Yao was. As though it was dancing, it went back and forth several times.

A moment later, as though it finally found a compromise, it suddenly turned into a thin streak of lightning that was hardly visible.

And then, it poked her cheeks.

It then disappeared, feeling satisfied.

The tribulation lightning bolts that came after it followed by its example, and after a total of eighty-one bolts had descended, everything finally calmed down.

Zhu Yao: "…" This lightning tribulation definitely has some form of vendetta against me. Even like this, it doesn't let me off.

Ying Luo: "…" So this is the lightning spirit vein. So mysterious.

Ying Luo finally formed her Azoth Core, yet the one who took the zaps was still Zhu Yao!

There were still three hundred and sixty-five days till the next Great Inter-Sect Tournament.

Zhu Yao made use of this time to improve a few of Ying Luo's arts, and also strengthened her sword techniques. Unfortunately, the girl did not comprehend sword intent. Thinking about it, something like sword intent depended on luck too. Recalling her past experience, she had only managed to comprehend it at the borders of life and death.

Of course, just in case, Zhu Yao taught her a few sealing arts as well.

"Using spiritual energy to forcefully activate the seals will cause great harm to your body. Unless absolutely necessary, do not use it."

"I understand, girl." Ying Luo patted on her chest. "Oh right, does the same go for the Devil Smiting Inscription?"

"The Devil Smiting Inscription is different from the rest." Zhu Yao explained with a sunken voice. "Even a God can only use this seal once in his or her entire life. Once we use it once, we won't be able to use it anymore."

"It's that incredible?" Ying Luo was startled, nodding right after. "When I'm in-charge, you can feel at ease."

Why was she feeling even more uneasy then?

A year later, the Great Inter-Sect Tournament.

"Ying Luo, this is Point Formation Clan."

"That's right, the mountain rear of Point Formation Clan."

"Do you know where's the mystic artifact?"

"I don't, but usually, mystic artifacts are all held in the artifact treasury."

"Then where's the artifact treasury?"

"I say, my girl Yu Yao. A mighty first-rate deity sect naturally has countless artifact treasuries. How could finding it be so easy? You must have some patience."

"I do have patience, but can you explain to me, is there any relation between finding the mystic artifact, and us lying over here, peeking at someone else's bath?"

The corner of Ying Luo's lips twitched, a hint of embarrassment flashed past her face as she chuckled. "My girl Yu Yao, this just happened to be in the direction we're heading. Giving our eyes a ready-made treat is also an extremely good thing."

Zhu Yao looked at her, and then pointed to the opposite direction. "But from the information we acquired, the artifact treasury is that way."

"Uh…" Her face stiffened, and then she waved her hands. "Don't mind such details."

It's really hard to not mind them, alright!? Mother freaking hell. This old lady here has already squatted next to the bath for an hour, yet you did not have the intentions to find the artifact right from the start. You're here solely to peek at others bathing, right?

"I'm leaving!" If you're going to be fanatic over a hunk, do it yourself. Please do not step on the pride of this pure and honest girl.

"Eh, don't, don't, don't… If you leave, I will definitely be found out. Just treat it as if I owe you a favour. My girl Yu Yao, big sis Yu Yao, Sovereign Yu Yao, Aunt Yu Yao…"

Your sister's your aunt! She definitely could not endure this! Zhu Yao walked even faster than before.

"Yu Yao…" While the girl was still desperately struggling, she suddenly got distracted. "Eh, someone's here."

Hmph, like hell she was going to look.

"Ah, he stripped his top!"

Hmph hmph, she did not have any interest in a man's body, alright?

"Ah, he even stripped his pants!"

Hmph hmph hmph…

"Where? How's his figure? Does he have an eight-pack?" Like a gust of wind, Zhu Yao zoomed back and squatted next to Ying Luo.

Ding Chunqiu: It's the name of a character in the wuxia novel Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils (天龙八部) , a villain who founded Xingxiu Sect and specialized in poison-based martial arts.

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Chapter 254: Don't Fancy Him!

Ying Luo chuckled as she pointed at the pool in front. As she had said, a man appeared. With his back facing the two of them, his clothes had already been taken off, 'exposing' his copper coloured skin. His figure was considerably tall, and his upper body revealed a perfect inverted triangle. Presently, he seemed to be taking off his pants, and only a moment later did he pull out his waistband.

Zhu Yao could clearly hear Ying Luo breathing in cold air, and the corner of her lips twitched. She silently passed her a handkerchief. "Wipe off your nosebleed!"

"Ou." Ying Luo mechanically received it, but ended up wiping her blood all over her face.

Is there a need to be this exaggerated? Isn't he still wearing his underwear?

Zhu Yao shook her head, as she looked at that figure with slight scorn.

Mn, his figure was not as tall as her master's.

His skin was not as white as her master's.

His muscles were not as firm as her master's.

Low grade. Appraisal complete!

Half of the curiosity she had earlier had already dispersed, though Ying Luo's breathing was becoming even more hurried, wearing the look of a nympho. The hell, do you have to start drooling too? At the very least, you're a girl with goddess-tier looks yourself, hey. Don't walk on the strange path of a nympho!

"So he's the hunk you like?" A light of inspiration flashed in Zhu Yao's mind, and she asked.

Ying Luo was stunned for a moment. Only when the hunk they were looking at had already submerged himself in the water with only his head sticking out, she then turned her head around, and gave her an embarrassed tee-hee.

The hell, this really was that NPC called Ding Chunqiu?

"Isn't he the Clan Master of Point Formation Clan? Why is he not entertaining the various clans and sects, but over here?"

"It's afternoon break right now." Ying Luo said with a serious look. "This pool is filled with spiritual energy, and every afternoon, he would submerge himself in this mountain spring for two hours."

"How do you know that?" Zhu Yao sized her up. "You best fess up. Just how long has it been since you first snuck up here to peek at this guy?"

"Uh…" Ying Luo's face stiffened, and she only replied a while later. "Hoho, something like this isn't important."

"…" What did you say was not important?

"It actually hasn't been that long…" Her face reddened as she stuttered. "It's only been since he first admitted into Point Formation Clan."

The hell, it began since then? Then it had already been a few hundred years, right? And you still dare to claim that it hasn't been that long? Evidently, she could no longer be considered a nympho, but a criminal!

"Then why haven't you tried pursuing him directly?" Zhu Yao rolled her eyes. She was a former Forgotten God Palace Hall Mistress, a status merely second to the Palace Master. Not to mention she had such a gorgeous appearance, any reasonable man would find it hard to refuse her, right?

Ying Luo scratched her head. "In the past, his cultivation was weak, so I… I was afraid that it would affect his reputation. And now…"

She just did not want to him to be known as someone who relied on a woman to attain higher heights, right?

Zhu Yao's lips twitched, unable to understand the thought process of these people. In her eyes, matters regarding feelings were very simple. If you like someone, then you like someone. Are the opinions of others really that important? It's not like they haven't been with someone else before either. If your other half is really concerned with such intangible things, and treat them more importantly than feelings, then that would only prove that you're blind, and make sure you look more carefully next time. Why the need to shrink back and torture yourself?

"My girl Yu Yao, I only wish to look at him from afar, just treat it as though you're helping me with a favour." Ying Luo patted on her shoulders, and said with a prideful look. "At the very most, if you like any hunk in the future, I can help you peek at him too!"

"Scram!" Zhu Yao could not endure it any longer as she threw her a kick. Like hell this old lady will want your company when looking at my hunk. She had long eaten her fill!

"Iya!" Ying Luo lost her footing, and her figure tilted. Adding that she had squatted for too long, her legs were a little numb. Unable to react in time, her feet slipped, and with a splash, she fell into the pool, splattering water all over.

With such a loud noise, no matter how strong their concealment talismans were, they would definitely be exposed.

As expected, a clear male voice sounded from the side.

"Who is it?"

Zhu Yao reached out her hand, wanting to pull the girl out and flee. However, the girl who was still struggling in the water earlier, instantly stood right up from fright after hearing his question, and loudly said. "We did not peek at you while you're bathing."

Zhu Yao: "…"

Ding Chunqiu: "…"

Ying Luo: "…"

Zhu Yao wondered if it was too late to pretend that she did not know her?

A fierce gust of wind blew, and instantly, several wind blades attacked the two of them. Zhu Yao immediately waved her hand, materializing a defensive barrier. She then quickly raised the girl Ying Luo from the water." The wind blades struck the water surface, splashing out water up to several meters high. They were blocked by the barrier in time.

"Who are you people?" The voice earlier once again rang out. On the other side of the splash of water, a man, who evidently had already dressed himself properly, was walking over.

Ying Luo stiffened for a moment, and with a swoosh, she instantly hid behind Zhu Yao like a little mouse.

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. You coward!

As the splashed water fell, the true appearance of the man, who had his back against them the entire time, was revealed. Zhu Yao however was stunned, as she looked straight at him with fiercely widened eyes. The hell!

"Which sect are you disciples of?" The man looked at them. She was unsure if it was her imagination, but a hint of shock was actually emitting out from the depths of his eyes, and after a while, he continued. "I wonder why you two ladies have come to the mountain rear of our Point Formation Clan?"

Zhu Yao did not speak, and was simply staring at his face unblinkingly.

Ding Chunqiu could not help but frown a little unhappily.

"I…" Probably because Ying Luo herself had sensed that Zhu Yao was behaving abnormally, she nudged her from the back. Seeing that she still did not have any reaction, she intended to confess out of anxiety. "We… We didn't intentionally… pe…"

"We're disciples of Forgotten God Palace, and we have gotten lost." Zhu Yao suddenly regained her senses, and began to lie with a straight face. Before she arrived, she had long changed her appearance and concealed her cultivation level. In others' eyes, they were just two Azoth Core disciples. "We made several turns and we found ourselves here, and ended up disturbing Clan Master Ding. We seek senior for your forgiveness."

Ding Chunqiu once again looked at the two of them, and only a while later did he reveal a slightly courteous smile, as though he had accepted the two's explanation. "So you're actually disciples of Forgotten God Palace. Speaking of which, Forgotten God Palace and I can be said to be quite close, as the former Hall Mistress of your esteemed sect and I were… Such a pity!" His eyes suddenly blanked, as though he had just recalled something. He then let out a sigh.

The girl behind Zhu Yao was grabbing onto her sleeves, and Zhu Yao could clearly feel her grip tighten for a moment.

"Since you two ladies do not know the terrain of this mountain, follow me then." As he spoke, he turned about and motioned them to follow him, and then led the way in front of them. His dark black clothes still carried a slight warmth, and there were even water pearls still dripping down. Yet, an unexplainable amicable warmth could be felt.

Ying Luo however could no longer hold it in and sent her voice transmissions, wildly filling up her entire mind. "My girl Yu Yao, he remembers me, he actually remembers me!"

"Shut up!" Zhu Yao turned around to glare at her, casting an art on her at the same time. After drying up this drenched chicken, she then pulled her along and caught up with the person in front.

The depths of her heart however felt incredibly and uncomfortably stifled. She looked at Ying Luo's infatuated expression, and anger began to surge all of a sudden.

That Ding Chunqiu brought them to the front hall, pointed to the place where the disciples of Forgotten God Palace were staying during the course of the tournament, before bidding farewell. He did bring up their disgraceful act of peeking in the slightest, exuding the look of an upright gentleman.

Ying Luo's eyes were fixated on him till he disappeared, and the blush on her face did not recede still.

Zhu Yao finally could no longer hold it in and took a step forward. Pressing on her shoulders, she pulled her back. "Ying Luo, if… if I were to tell you to give up on him, forget about him, and stay away from him, will you listen?"

"Ah?" Ying Luo was startled, as she sized Zhu Yao up for a moment. Seeing that she did carry any intentions to joke around, her heart sank as she anxiously said. "My girl Yu Yao, you… you can't have started to like him too, right?"

"Momma's egg!" Zhu Yao glared at her. "How can this old lady possibly fancy him!? Only an idiot like you will treat him as treasure." She gave her a smack. She wouldn't want him, alright?

"Then why…"

"No matter the case, you two definitely can't be together."

"My girl Yu Yao…" She looked straight at her. Suddenly, as though she had thought of something, her eyes widened even more, and she said with a stunned look. "The… The person you like can't possibly be me, right?"

Zhu Yao raised her leg and threw her a kick. "Scram!"

"Then just why?" Ying Luo rubbed her buttocks which were aching from Zhu Yao's kick, her face was filled with doubt. "At the very least, you must give me a reason, right?"

"…" Zhu Yao sank into silence, the irritation in the depths of her heart grew even more. After a long while, she slowly said. "There will come a day when you will be killed by him."

And she would literally be killed. Because in the scenario, she had once clearly seen that man they saw earlier, leading the various sects to surround and attack the girl. Furthermore, he had even pierced through the girl's chest in a single strike. Zhu Yao could even feel that desolateness and despair back then.

If the betrayal of the people was the reason the girl gave birth to resentment, then that Ding Chunqiu was the fuse that triggered everything.

Before this, she could not understand why even though the girl in the scenario had showed her everything that happened, the faces of everyone present, other than that Ding Chunqiu's, were blurred. Only his face could be clearly seen in the scenario. Looking at things now, it was not because that person had dealt her the fatal blow, but because this person held a very important place in her life.

The girl Ying Luo not promising her was within her expectations. No matter who it was, if a big speech, similar to calling the idol they had been having a crush on trash, was made, anyone would want to tie up and bash that person. She should celebrate the fact that Ying Luo did not break ties with her, but had instead begun to chat with her about her past with a heavy tone.

"Yu Yao, you don't understand. We are different from the rest of the practitioners."

"Yu Yao, you don't understand. I did not live a good life in the past. He's actually the same as me. We belong to the same group of people."

"Yu Yao, you don't understand. On the very first day he admitted into a deity sect, I had decided to help him with all I can."

"Yu Yao, you don't understand just how difficult it is for someone to live without anything to look forward to…"

Zhu Yao indeed did not understand them. However, she understood just how big of a price this silly child would have to pay for her trust.

"Ying Luo, then let me ask you. If there comes a day where he objects to you searching for the mystic artifacts, and stops you from dealing with that Devil with all his might, how would you choose?" Zhu Yao simply asked this question.

"That's different. This is a huge matter concerning this world. No matter what, the Devil has to be dealt with." Her face was determined, as she said with emphasis on every word.

Zhu Yao heaved a sigh of relief. She was still that good girl with proper and upright three views.

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Chapter 255: Onwards to Fall Spirit Peak

Ever since then, the two of them had sealed away the matters concerning Ding Chunqiu, coming into a tacit agreement not to bring up that person again. They began to focus on locating that mystic artifact in Point Formation Clan.

There were a huge number of people attending the Great Inter-Sect Tournament this time. In order to conveniently search for the mystic artifact, Zhu Yao and Ying Luo had followed them here in secret by concealing their identities, and Wen Yu was not aware of all this.

However, for some strange reason, they were unable to locate even the silhouette of that mystic artifact.

She even had the Metal Spirit search for it, but to no avail. The girl said that the mystic artifact this time was a bamboo flute, a wood type mystic artifact crafted with a Thousand Year Emerald Bamboo, so it was natural for the Metal Spirit being unable to sense it. Just as they were worrying about this, they once again bumped into that trash.

"Fellow daoists, we meet again." Ding Chunqiu nodded to the two of them, his face was filled with a courteous smile.

Ying Luo's face naturally reddened, as she habitually hid behind Zhu Yao.

"Why aren't you two ladies watching the tournament at the front hall?"

"We were just about to head there." Zhu Yao replied, as she sized him up. "Clan Master Ding, why are you not managing the tournament, but instead having a stroll here?"

He laughed, as though he was not the least bit mindful of her discourtesy, and slowly said. "I'm just about to head to the front hall as well, and I coincidentally encountered you two ladies. So I passed by here to give a greeting."

"…" Zhu Yao rolled her eyes. She couldn't believe that he had such good intentions.

"This one simply feels a sense of intimacy when looking at disciples of Forgotten God Palace." He sighed, as though he had recalled something from his past. "Back then, I was just a mere Foundation disciple, and due to a fateful coincidence, I received pointers from an expert of your esteemed sect. I have not forgotten it till this day. Unfortunately, that benefactor of mine was harmed by the Devil."

When Ying Luo heard this, her eyes instantly shone. "Clan Master Ding, the person you're referring to, could it be… Hall Mistress Ying Luo?"

"That's right." Ding Chunqiu took a step forward, and said with a sincere expression. "Not only is Hall Mistress Ying Luo my benefactor, she is even more so the benefactor of this entire cultivation world."

The girl instantly smiled to the point where even her eyes were slanting. "Clan Master Ding, you gave her too much praise."

"No, she deserves it." He said firmly. "This one has always hoped to see her again, if only she could… Haah!" He sighed with a heart-aching expression.

Just as the girl was about to say something, Zhu Yao stretched out her hand to stop her. Don't be rash, girl. Don't put your trust in trash so casually. The reason why he wishes to see you again, is simply to kill you.

"Clan Master Ding, you sure are a good person who knows how to repay gratitude!" Zhu Yao smiled, intentionally putting emphasis on the words 'repay gratitude'.

Ding Chunqiu smiled, evidently, he did not catch her sarcasm. "Unfortunately, my benefactor has already passed on, and only sadness is left behind. Even if I wish to repay her, it's no longer possible to do so. Presently, the only thing I can do is to protect the mystic artifact that my benefactor had used her life to seal the Devil with."

Zhu Yao was stunned, as she turned back and exchanged glances with Ying Luo.

"Sect Master Ding, could you be referring to one of the five mystic artifacts?" Ying Luo stepped forward and asked.

"That's right!" He nodded. "The emerald bamboo flute which our clan is safeguarding."

"It must have been hard on Clan Master Ding. The Devil is an extremely dangerous creature." Ying Luo acted as though she was simply following the flow. "Even our Forgotten God Palace was left with no choice but to place our piece within Sword Seeking Peak, and have it suppressed by the sword energy emitted by the countless spiritual swords."

"The Devil has already been sealed, what's there to fear?" Ding Chunqiu frowned, as though he was extremely unhappy of her immense worry. "With how extraordinary senior Ying Luo is, how could the Devil possibly escape after being sealed by her? Furthermore, with our Point Formation Clan's Heavenly Handle Descent Formation, wanting to escape Fall Spirit Peak is easier said than done."

Fall Spirit Peak! Done!

Zhu Yao silently gave the girl a thumbs-up. After continuing to speak courteously with Ding Chunqiu for a while more, the two of them departed. They finally managed to find out its concrete location.

"Yu Yao, I think that we can probably tell Clan Master Ding the truth about this whole matter." Ying Luo said a little hesitantly. "I believe that with his character, he will be able to understand."

Zhu Yao's heart clenched. She pulled onto the girl, and sternly said. "No, you must never let him know your identity." Girl, don't act stupid now.

Ying Luo sighed, and similarly, said with a stern look. "Yu Yao, he really isn't a bad person. You were even able to believe me when we first met, so why can't you believe him too?"

Because this old lady here is here to save you in the first place!

Zhu Yao let out a deep sigh, and felt that it was time to chat with the girl about life. Otherwise, she would really be afraid that the girl would suddenly act on impulse, and charge courageously onward in the name of love.

"Girl, it's been almost a thousand years. I believe that, in your mind, he's a good person. However, how are you so certain that he still is now?" Zhu Yao said with emphasis on every word. "People change."

She frowned. After a long while, she said. "I know what you mean, but earlier… you saw it yourself. When he spoke of me, he was truly grateful of me, and wanted to repay me. This can't be fake. Though there might possibly be some hidden agenda, his intentions were honest and true."

"Fine, I admit, his words earlier were indeed his true feelings." Zhu Yao nodded, and Ying Luo's eyes brightened a little. However, her tone changed right after. "But, how are you so sure that after knowing everything, he will trust your words?"

Ying Luo was startled. Isn't this really obvious? Since he will believe me, then naturally, he will…

"Girl!" Zhu Yao said with a heavy heart. "Gratitude, doesn't mean it will be repaid with another gratitude. There's still a saying in this world, and that's 'gratitude will be repaid with vengeance'."

Ying Luo's eyes widened, as she looked at Zhu Yao with slight fury. The corners of her lips twitched, and just as she was about to refute her.

"I know you're trying to say he wouldn't do that." Zhu Yao interrupted her. She did not mind speculating the people of this world as people who carried heavy evil intentions, because she had long seen the future. However, Ying Luo was not aware of it. "No one can tell for sure what will happen in the future, so I will not argue with you about things that haven't happened yet. Let's talk about the past. He personally said that you're his benefactor, and he had always wanted to repay you, but unfortunately, he didn't get the opportunity to do so? But, is that really true?"

"…" I was dead before, so of course he didn't?

Zhu Yao continued. "He then said that felt a sense of intimacy with disciples of Forgotten God Palace, because you came from Forgotten God Palace. Don't you feel there's some complications here?"

"…" Ying Luo looked confused.

"Ying Luo, if it's you, if someone is a benefactor to you, but that person is already dead, if you wish to repay his gratitude, what will you do?" Zhu Yao smiled.

Only then did Ying Luo understand, and her eyes instantly dimmed.

"You will take good care of his family, and will do everything you can to help the people your benefactor cares about. But…" Zhu Yao continued. "Forgotten God Palace was suppressed by the various sects for so many years, and had fallen from the leading position of the cultivation world, to the point where even their position as a first-rate deity sect could not be kept. Has there been any sect that stood up to speak up for Forgotten God Palace?"

"As a master of a first-rate clan, on one end, he feels a sense of intimacy with Forgotten God Palace, but on the other, he acts blind and deaf, leaving them to die. Is this truly what he meant by paying back his debt of gratitude?"

"If he simply wishes to repay you alone, then why would he bring up the talk about especially favouring Forgotten God Palace?"

"In the end, he simply knows of gratitude, but never thought about repaying it."

"Ying Luo, calm down and think carefully. If he finds out that you have already resurrected, will he truly stand at your side without any hesitation?"

"Or should I ask, if he finds out about everything, will this sense of gratitude of his still exist?"

Ying Luo sank into silence, and for a long while, she did not utter a single word, her brows deeply furrowed. Zhu Yao understood that it was impossible for her to think it through in such a short span of time. Wanting to completely overturn the faith of someone you had known for such a long time, let alone Ying Luo, even she herself would find it difficult as well.

If she heard from someone that her master or little wimp would treat her unfavourably, she would probably charge towards that person who started the rumours and give that person a sound beating.

Ying Luo simply keeping her silence was already a show of very good temper.

Ying Luo thus took an entire day to think it through. Only when the curtains of the night descended, did she finally come to look for Zhu Yao.

"I have pondered about it." She regained her playful young lady look, and sent a slap right towards her back. "I know you have your reasonings, but I'm still unable to believe that is so. After all, I have yet to personally witness it, so I will still hold onto my trust. I won't tell him the truth. I will first find the mystic artifacts before thinking about all these messy things."

Zhu Yao nodded. She understood that everyone had their own beliefs and principles.

"Furthermore!" She said with a tee-hee. "I haven't had any developments with him, so it's still too early to talk about all these. Haah, why is it so hard to find a hunk that is pleasing to the eye in this world?"

Zhu Yao patted on her shoulders, and said with a stern look. "You must believe that there's still true love in this world. As long as you swing your hammer properly, there's no wall that you can't br… Ah pui! No, that's not right. It's, as long as you put in the effort, even an iron pestle can be sharpened into a needle." Eh, why does it sound a little weird? "There's still a large bunch of good hunks waiting for you."

"You're right." She rubbed her own cheeks. "There's no reason for someone like me with flowery beautiful looks, to be incapable of finding a hunk!" She suddenly turned her head and sized Zhu Yao up. "You on the other hand, might be in danger."

"Scram!" Zhu Yao threw her a kick. "Let's hurry and head over to that whatever Fall Spirit Peak."

"Understood!"

In the day, they had already inquired about it. Fall Spirit Peak was a forbidden ground within Point Formation Clan, a place where even the clan disciples could not casually approach. Thus they could only wait till it was night before moving out. Zhu Yao had concealed herself to investigate the terrain earlier. The mountain was filled with formations, and on the mountain peak, there was only a single tall building. Inside the building, it was concentrated with even more formations. The mystic artifact should be inside there.

Bringing Ying Luo along, they entered directly from the mountain rear, and they carefully evaded the countless formations along the way. Finally, after many difficulties, they arrived in front of the building.

The formations placed on the mountain were still at an acceptable level, but the formation placed on the building's gate, was the Heavenly Handle Descent Formation which Ding Chunqiu mentioned. It was constructed by the combination of several hundreds of formations of different sizes, and it was basically impossible to enter without spending a few days to dispel it. Zhu Yao studied it for a short while, and was uncertain what she should do.

"Maybe, we can try that method we used before? Merging in a formation core on our own?" Ying Luo suggested.

"We can't!" Zhu Yao shook her head. "This formation is different from the barrier back then. Though barriers are powerful, they only carry a single obstruction property. However, this formation is constructed with the combinations of several hundreds of formations in the first place. Just by pulling a single one of them would trigger the entire thing. With just the slightest change, it will immediately activate." Though she, who possessed the cultivation of a Demigod, was not afraid of this formation, the alarm later would definitely attract the people from the various sects.

"Then what should we do?"

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Chapter 256: Got Tricked

"Let's first look for a considerably weaker spot in the formation!" Since this formation was covering the entire building, then there would definitely be a backdoor, in other words, the weakest spot in the formation.

Zhu Yao thoroughly looked around the entire building, and then she heard Ying Luo sending a voice transmission from above her. "Over here!"

Riding on her sword, she flew up, and as expected, she saw a place at the rooftop which evidently had scarcer amount of spiritual energy compared to the rest. Though, that place had a Wind Chime Formation in place.

"Your granddaddy!" Ying Luo could not help but cuss out.

The Wind Chime Formation was different from the rest of the formations, as it seemingly did not carry any offensive properties. However, if the formation was triggered, it would release a loud chime-like sound.

If they were to enter from this place, it would be akin to the two of them telling the rest of the people that they were breaking in to steal the mystic artifact, and to have the guards come over.

"My girl Yu Yao, what do you think…" What do you think we should do?

"I recall that this building is made out of wood." She suddenly spoke of something completely unrelated.

Ying Luo was stunned for a moment, and then she nodded. "That's right."

"Are you good with wood type mystic arts?"

"Not… I'm not bad with it."

"Great then." Zhu Yao said. "You just have to directly impart life into this wooden building and awaken all the wooden materials. Then, speed up their growth rate."

"You're saying…" Ying Luo's eyes shone.

Zhu Yao nodded. The defenses outside the building were very solid, making it difficult to enter from the outside. However, opening it from the inside was a different matter altogether. Since this building was constructed with wood in the first place, and the formation would not have any defenses prepared against the building itself, if the wooden materials within began to grow, then the formation would not be triggered. As long as the wooden building opened up an entrance on its own, then the formation would be akin to a dud.

However, this method could only be used by someone with the wood spirit vein. Even if her lightning spirit vein could convert spiritual energy, it would still carry a slight presence of lightning spiritual energy, which would be easily sensed by the formation. Ying Luo on the other hand had all five spirit veins, so it would be just right if she made the move instead.

Ying Luo cast a wood type mystic art, and circulated her spiritual energy. In but a few moments, saplings began to grow on the wooden materials on the entire rooftop, and they grew longer and more abundant as time went by, as they slowly gathered in their direction. They then began to intertwine with each other, forming a circular shape, which ended up turning into a passageway made by trees and wood. They directly stretched out from the rooftop, as though they had stretched open a hole right in the center of the formation.

"It's enough now, let's go!" Ying Luo turned joyous, as she took the lead in flying inside.

Zhu Yao paused for a moment. She looked at the passage, and then at the terrifying formation that were still present below the entrance. She suddenly felt that everything had gone a little too easy. Was it just her imagination?

"My girl Yu Yao, hurry!" Ying Luo urged her from inside.

Suppressing the suspicion in the depths of her heart, Zhu Yao followed after her.

Because they entered from the rooftop, they arrived at the top floor the moment they arrived. Several spiritual swords were placed there, but none of them was their target mystic artifact. The two of them searched all the way down, and only when they reached the first floor did they see the dark green bamboo flute placed at the top of a pedestal. There were miasma constantly flowing around the flute, and golden coloured symbols could be faintly seen.

"Found it."

When Zhu Yao looked at that flute, the bad premonition in the depths of her heart grew even more intense. "I kind of feel that this has been a little too smooth-sailing."

"Didn't things go pretty smoothly with the previous mystic artifacts too?" Ying Luo said.

That's true!

Ying Luo stepped forward. Just as she was about to take the flute, a formation suddenly flashed in her surroundings.

"Watch out!" Zhu Yao quickly reached out, instantly pulling her away. Four chains immediately appeared from the spot she was standing on earlier, rising into the air and wrapping around the center. If not because she had pulled her away quickly, Ying Luo would have already been chained up.

"This…" She was similarly stunned as well. While they were in the building, not a single formation ripple was felt the entire time. Just how did the formation here appear then?

"Hurry and dodge." The four chains from earlier did not stop, and had instead come chasing in their direction.

Zhu Yao gave her a push, pushing her several meters away, before taking a step back on her own. Coincidentally, she backed up to the exit, and just as she was about to cast an art to restrict the four chains, Ying Luo suddenly shouted with a pale look.

"Yu Yao!"

Unable to react in time, Zhu Yao simply felt something rushing towards her in the next instant, striking heavily on her back. The gate to the building had opened all of a sudden, and a large ray of red light shone, instantly brightening up the entire building. Zhu Yao puked out a large mouthful of blood, and simply felt a tingling noise resounding in her ears. The noise was especially piercing to the ears, constantly stirring one's mind and soul.

Ying Luo could no longer endure it any longer, puking out blood.

"Girl!" Zhu Yao endured the pain, and just as was about to head over.

A copper bell suddenly flew in, ear-piercing sounds endlessly rang out. Furthermore, that copper bell grew even larger, and in the next moment, it took up the entire floor. Zhu Yao had no choice but to fly out of the building, only to see the Nascent Soul practitioners of the various sects had long gathered outside, and leading them was Ding Chunqiu.

The hell, she just knew that this one called Ding Chunqiu was up to no good.

She finally figured out what felt amiss. The formations of the building were all used to prevent people from going in, but not preventing people from coming out. If the formations were truly used to guard a mystic artifact, the defenses should not have been one-way only.

Ding Chunqiu had long designed it properly, and waited for them to send themselves to his doorsteps.

At the moment Zhu Yao flew out, the building had already collapsed. That copper bell flew out, and its height had already grown to that of an average human's. The bell ringing reverberated, and that copper bell actually began to slowly turn transparent, revealing an absolute beauty dressed in an azure top and green skirt.

"Girl!" Zhu Yao was stunned. When was she enclosed in the bell? And she had even reverted back to her original appearance.

"Ying Luo, it's as he had said, she's really that Ying Luo who once died!" Someone in the crowd exclaimed out.

"Then how could she possibly come back to life? Wasn't her soul long scattered away?"

"What about that Devil? Did he come back to life as well?"

"Heavens, that woman over there can't be a Devil, right?"

"It's no wonder she wants to steal away the mystic artifact."

"Everyone!" Ding Chunqiu suddenly shouted. "Ying Luo has already been bewitched by the Devil, and has turned into a Demoness! For the countless lives under the heavens, we definitely mustn't let off these two servants of the Devil!"

When the crowd heard this, they fearfully pulled out their weapons one after another, and had expressions that looked as though they were preparing to go out with a bang.

Zhu Yao puked up blood from anger. She just knew that the moment the girl's identity was exposed, these people would crowd together and attack her. If things were as usual, she really wouldn't place these people in her eyes. However, her Dantian was instantly shattered by that strange copper bell earlier, it was already considerably good that she was still holding on.

"Yu Yao." Ying Luo's voice transmission suddenly rang in the depths of her heart. "Take the emerald bamboo flute and go! Remember what you promised me, and completely eliminate the Devil."

The hell, girl, do you have to be such a saint!? Right now, the Devil is actually all you can think of? Those people are out to kill you, you know?

"I'm… someone who should have died long ago in the first place." As though she knew what Zhu Yao was thinking, she said with a sunken voice. "Hurry and go, if your identity is exposed, it will influence Forgotten God Palace."

Zhu Yao turned to look at the flute in the ruin, and then turned to look at Ying Luo, who was trapped in the bell and was already being surrounded by the various sects. Gritting her teeth, she swung her sword and attacked one of the Nascent Soul practitioners that was approaching her.

She instantly summoned her sword intent.

A lightning phoenix instantly charged through the skies, and its sharp cries resounded through the clouds, completely suppressing the sounds of the copper bell. With a twist of her hand, the lightning phoenix charged towards the copper bell. With a crackling noise, a crack appeared on the copper bell.

She immediately flew over and reached her hand into the crack. Instantly, it felt as though her right arm was being pierced by millions of metal needles, causing her to be filled with unbearable pain. However, she had no choice but to hold on, as she desperately yanked out the girl Ying Luo. When she looked at her arm again, it had already been meshed with flesh and blood.

It really is motherf*king painful.

Zhu Yao recalled her sword intent. With its wings wide open, the lightning phoenix suddenly turned and pounced straight towards the other practitioners. The lightning pressure that filled the sky, forced the crowd to kneel onto the ground one after another. Taking this opportunity, Zhu Yao pulled the girl, and flew wildly towards the east.

"Yu Yao, you shouldn't have… saved me?" Ying Luo suddenly spoke.

"My ass!" Zhu Yao really wanted to turn around and spit all over her face. She no longer cared if she believed her not, and immediately said. "This old lady here shall tell you the truth now. I'm basically not here for whatever merit or whatever Devil, this old lady's goal is to save your ass."

"…" The girl was stunned.

After a long while…

"Yu Yao."

"Mn?"

"As I thought… You like me, right?"

"…" Don't make me kick you off."

In the first place, the spiritual energy in her body had pretty much scattered away due to her shattered Dantian, and then she forcefully summoned her sword intent earlier as well. As Zhu Yao wildly flew, she felt an unprecedented fatigue, and the spiritual energy in her body was seemingly about to deplete. After flying for a short while, she handed over the task of flying the sword to Ying Luo, but their speed had evidently slowed down.

But fortunately, there were no longer pursuers behind them. With the speed they were travelling at earlier, it was hard for the various sects to catch up.

"What's that place in front?" Zhu Yao could faintly see a floating mountain in front of them, however, she could not understand why they wasn't any spiritual energy drifting around its surroundings. On the mountain peak, a palace-like structure could be faintly seen.

"It's that ancient ruin." Ying Luo's eyes brightened, as she explained. "It's the one where the Devil resided in back then."

"Let's go in!" Zhu Yao was decisive. Not only was the final mystic artifact inside, due to it being related to the Devil, not many practitioners dared to approach it.

Ying Luo naturally understood her intentions, and instantly flew the sword into the palace.

That palace was extremely huge, and the surroundings were filled gigantic stone pillars that were at least three stories high. Ying Luo found a flat land and then placed her down. She pulled out a few Energy Restoring Pellets, and passed them to her.

"No need." Zhu Yao shook her head. "My Dantian has shattered, medicinal pellets are basically useless now."

Her hands trembled, and her expression was instantly a little pale. "Yu Yao…"

"I'm fine, it's not the first time my Dantian has shattered anyway." After having it shattered so many times, she was already used to it. Zhu Yao looked at her teary face, and glared at her. "Don't look as though I'm going to die."

"But…" Wouldn't a practitioner die if his or her Dantian was shattered?

"Don't worry, I can restore it." Zhu Yao took a deep breath, and then sat in a lotus position. She then casually added. "I never expected that copper bell to be that incredible either."

"Yu Yao, I'm sorry." Her expression grew even paler. A while later, she said. "That's the Sealing Bell of Truth. It's a…"

"God's Artifact?"

"You knew?" She had a stunned look.

"I guessed." Actually, she saw it back then. When that copper bell grew large, three black, bolded words were clearly written on it – 'God's Artifact 3'. However, the quality of this God's Artifact was not as good as the previous ones, as it was instantly shattered by her sword intent. It was no wonder it did not have the word 'bug' on it.

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Chapter 257: Familiar Ancient Ruin

"The Sealing Bell of Truth is a God's Artifact capable of seeing through all disguises, and it can even conceal its own presence." Ying Luo turned to look at Zhu Yao, her face was filled with guilt. "That was my weapon in the past."

"Then you gave it to Ding Chunqiu?" Zhu Yao asked.

Ying Luo looked down. "Because the God's Artifact is in a life-bound contract with me, it should have been rendered unusable the moment I died. I should have long figured that following my revival, that God's Artifact would naturally be brought back to life as well. He must have already seen through my identity the moment we first met back then." She said with a slight ridiculing tone. "Back then, I bestowed him the God's Artifact in order to protect him from being harmed by crooks. I never expected that he would use it against me in turn."

"I already told you." That ass was not a good person. Zhu Yao coldly snorted.

Ying Luo revealed a bitter smile. "You were right. Ever since we first met, everything you said came true. Be it the reaction of the masses, or…" Her voice suddenly sank incredibly low, as though she had lost all her vigour. Her pair of eyes were blank, and it sounded as though she was muttering to herself. "But, I did not believe them… nor did I want to believe them. I was bullied when I was young, and was shunned away while I was cultivating into a deity. When I finally managed to find a home of my own, I was disliked by my elder sister. Back then, I was still able to tell myself, that it's fine as long as I have a clear conscience. When living in this world, everyone would start off being alone, and everyone would also leave alone in the end. So, even if I had to sacrifice my life to seal the Devil, I did not have any regrets. But… I don't understand. I had clearly saved this world. I don't wish for others to feel gratuitous in the depths of their hearts, but why did it end up attracting hatred instead? They didn't even give me the opportunity to explain myself, and immediately ascertained my sin. Then, was everything I did… right, or wrong? I only seek a clear conscience, so why are others, who clearly do things that go against their own conscience, able to stay safe and sound? And just for what reason have I returned to this world?"

She suddenly went silent, and her eyes were slowly exuding emotions of despair.

"Ying Luo." Zhu Yao grabbed onto her hands. "You still have me, I believe you."

She was startled for a moment. After blanking for a short while, she finally smiled and nodded her head heavily. "That's right, I still have you!"

A long while later…

"Yu Yao."

"Ah?"

"As I thought, you have been coveting my beauty, right?"

"Scram!"

"Aiya, just honestly admit it already! Though this goes against the order of the world, we have both turned into two rats that had crossed the street. Why don't we make do with it? I won't despise you!"

"But this old lady despises you, alright? Back when you first reincarnated, your mouse pointer trembled too much and you ended up clicking on the wrong gender, didn't you?"

"Mouse pointer? What's that? I'm serious. If you don't choose me, you will be alone for the rest of your life."

"This old lady already has a man, so scram!"

"Aaaaah! That's impossible, you don't even have any breasts."

You're the one without breasts, your entire family do not have breasts.

"Ying Luo!"

"Mn?"

"The reason why your elder sister, the former Palace Master, did not like you, could it be because you had some indecent thoughts of her?"

Zhu Yao adjusted herself for a while, before calmly going into meditation and restoring her Dantian. Taking a deep breath, she slowly released her own sword intent. A white phoenix slowly flew out of her body, and with its gigantic wings spread open, it tightly wrapped about her body.

The spiritual energy in her body instantly quietened down. She then proceeded to guid them bit by bit towards the location of her Dantian, and slowly began to restore it, filling and polishing the shattered spots with spiritual energy over and over again. After she was finally able to form its basic structure, she then guided spiritual energy into it.

However, the moment spiritual energy entered it, the Dantian which was fixed earlier, like an easily breakable chicken egg, once again shattered apart. The spiritual energy she accumulated through sheer difficulty instantly went out of control, and chaos appeared within various parts of her body.

Puaaah…

Zhu Yao puked out a mouthful of blood.

"Yu Yao!" Ying Luo was startled, as she woke up from her trance state. Her injuries were not light either, however, she could no longer bother about healing her own injuries as she looked at Zhu Yao with a worried look. "How are you?"

"Impossible!" Zhu Yao was frightened by her own condition. Nothing was wrong with her method though? Everything was conducted according to her master's instructions, and this was not the first she fixed it either, so fixing it was not impossible. However, why was the spiritual energy in her body flowing out even faster than before, to the point where spiritual energy would scatter the moment they entered her body?

She once again went into meditation and tried two more times. However, she realized that her situation remained the same. Her Dantian could not be fixed at all.

Zhu Yao was a little confused.

"My Dantian can't be restored anymore…"

This was illogical. Could that God's Artifact be part of the reason? However, she clearly could not sense any anomaly within her body.

Ying Luo frowned, as she was unable to think of anything in such a short time either. "Don't worry, slow and steady. This place is very safe, you can have some rest for now."

Zhu Yao nodded, and then she tried several more times, only to land in the exact same situation. If this persisted, her spiritual energy would only continue to deplete. Right now, she had no choice but to end everything quickly. She cast an art to seal a few of her meridians, preventing spiritual energy from flowing out too quickly.

"Girl, are your injuries better now?"

"About half of them have healed." She said with a low voice.

"Good, then let's first search for the final mystic artifact."

"But, your injuries…"

"We can talk after finding it." Zhu Yao stood up and walked into the depths of the ruin. After pondering for a moment, she pulled out the Metal Spirit, and had it sense the concrete location of the mystic artifact.

This time, the Metal Spirit leapt onto the ground, and then rolled towards a certain direction.

"Chick…"

"It found the place." Zhu Yao glanced at Ying Luo, and then hurriedly followed after it.

The braziers in the surroundings began to light up, brightening up the entire palace. A stone door appeared not too far away, and the top of door was further than the eyes could see.

"Yu Yao, this ruin is dangerous." Ying Luo said with a stern look. "The place behind this door is filled with even more dangers, with formations that could send people to various terrifying boundaries. Back then, I was transferred to a dark forest filled with countless ferocious beasts."

It's that terrifying? Even Zhu Yao's heart could not help but skip a beat.

"Chick chick chick…" The Metal Spirit seemed to have gotten tired of waiting, as it bounced a few times on the ground.

"No matter the case, let's first take a look inside." Zhu Yao took a step forward and reached out her hand to touch the door. As expected, in the next moment, a teleportation formation next to the door shone.

Ying Luo was still endlessly admonishing her actions when Zhu Yao directly pulled her into the formation. The scenery before her eyes then changed.

"This ruin is intricate and complicated. Though the Metal Spirit is guiding us, finding that mystic artifact definitely won't be that ea… Ehhhh!?"

She suddenly widened her eyes and stared at the pitch-black dagger on the table in front of her. She was utterly speechless for a moment.

How was this possible? Previously, she had to risk her life entering here. Yet this time, putting aside how they did not encounter any danger, they even found the mystic artifact the moment they entered?

"Yu Yao, I'm not seeing things, right?"

Neither did Zhu Yao expect that they would find the mystic artifact so easily. The moment they teleported, they were sent right in front of the dagger, it was simply too much of a pleasant surprise. "It's probably because we were guided by the Metal Spirit."

She pointed at a certain rock which had already leapt onto the table and was planning to push the dagger off it.

Ying Luo reluctantly accepted this answer.

"Chick…" The Metal Spirit suddenly sounded out, and that black dagger instantly flew over. Zhu Yao casually pulled open her storage pouch, yet, that dagger paused for a moment, before turning and flying towards Ying Luo instead.

Uh… It couldn't be, right? The Metal Spirit had actually changed its target of affection this quickly.

"Chick…" It suddenly called out again. Three mystic artifacts instantly flew out of the storage pouch, and they then headed towards Ying Luo as well.

"Chick chick chick chick…" Only then did it roll back to her. As though it had encountered something that was worth being happy about, it joyfully circled around her and made endless "chick" noises.

Chick chick, the mistress is now mine. Chick chick. All of you mystic artifacts, scram. Chick chick…

Zhu Yao: "…"

Ying Luo who was buried under the mystic artifacts: "…"

"Girl… You should hold onto those four mystic artifacts for now." She felt that if she carried them with her, they would one day be smashed apart by the Metal Spirit.

Ying Luo nodded before keeping them.

She scanned her surroundings for a moment, and realized that this was a stone chamber. Placed at the center were only a table and a chair, making it look like a study room. Diagrams of phoenixes were faintly engraved on the table. However, strangely, there actually wasn't a single book lying around.

Zhu Yao touched the diagrams on the table, and felt that she had seen them before somewhere.

"Yu Yao, that teleportation formation had already disappeared. How are we going to get back?" Ying Luo said.

"Since there's a formation that teleports us here, then naturally there will be one that teleports us out." This stone chamber was actually not locked, so they directly walked out and began looking for an exit. Outside the chamber was a passageway, and on the sides of the passage were a few similar stone chambers. "Let's look around for now. Be careful."

This was after all an ancient ruin, so they could not let their guard down. Zhu Yao directly had the girl Ying Luo place down defensive barriers, before opening the door to a stone chamber.

"Wa, there's so many clothes." Ying Luo exclaimed out. Walking in, what entered their eyes were clothes of various colours, which filled up the entire room. Some were neatly stacked in the cabinet, while some were scattered all around. "It seems like the owner of this ruin was a woman."

Zhu Yao nodded. She casually swiped up a piece, and looked at it carefully. The piece of clothing was pink, its size was about hers, and similarly, the familiar phoenix diagram was embroidered on the sleeves. Compared to other clothes, the sleeves of these clothes were especially short, as their openings had only stopped at her wrist. Though, she was a little used to such designs. She had always felt that the sleeves of ancient robes were bothersome, and were not as convenient as the straight sleeves of modern clothes. Thus, whenever her master gave her clothes, she would pull back the sleeves.

A strange sensation flashed in the depths of her heart. She never expected that someone else other than her would have such habits as well.

"My girl Yu Yao! Quick, over here!" Ying Luo stretched out her head from another stone chamber, and waved her hand at Zhu Yao with an excited look.

"What is it?" She walked over.

The girl pushed her inside. "Hurry and look, there are many things of various colours here."

When Zhu Yao took a glance, she saw the room was placed with a few dozen large crates, and each single one of them was filled with various types of dried fruits. There were also what looked like formations used for preservation cast atop the crates, which prevented these fruits from receiving any sort of influence after so many years, and still emitted a tempting aroma.

"They smell so good." Ying Luo wiped away her saliva. "I wonder what they are?"

"Dried fruits." Zhu Yao replied.

"Dried fruits!" Ying Luo's eyes shone. "Doesn't that mean they can be eaten?" As she said that, she picked up a purple dried fruit and bit on it, only to let out a scream the next instant. "Aiya."

That dried fruit suddenly burned with purple flames, and she flung it onto the ground with trembling hands. Half of sleeves were even burnt away.

The girl looked as though she was about to cry. "What happened to the promise that it can be eaten?"

"Your method was wrong." Zhu Yao sighed. She stepped forward and similarly picked one up. Forcefully pinching it, the purple shell instantly shattered, revealing a deep purple kernel, and passed it to her. "The shell of this dried fruit will ignite if it touches water. The kernel inside can be eaten."

Ying Luo took it curiously. "There's actually such a mysterious dried fruit. What is it called?"

"Purple Flame Fruit." Zhu Yao said.

"Then what about this?" She pointed at the crate of snow-white dried fruits at the side.

"Snow Will."

Then she picked up another red one. "This?"

"Soft Red."

"Woah…" She had a stunned look. "My girl Yu Yao, you're so incredible. How do you know all these? I have never seen these dried fruits before."

"How is that possible? Don't joke around, aren't these often stored by the Phoenix Clan…" Her words once again paused halfway through, and her eyes fiercely widened. A daring conjecture suddenly emitted from the depths of her heart, causing her to fluster instantly.

"Eh? There's an especially big crate at the center." Ying Luo held onto one crate with one hand, and then leapt closer to the big crate. "This crate is so big, I wonder what's placed in it?"

Zhu Yao raised her head to take a look. As expected, a phoenix with spread wings was also engraved on the crate, but that beautiful phoenix body lacked a feathered tail. In an instant, the answer was revealed in the depths of her heart.

Ying Luo had already torn open the crate lid, and instantly, a golden light emitted from within. Plump golden seeds of various sizes filled the entire crate.

"Melon seeds, and they're golden!" Ying Luo exclaimed.

Zhu Yao simply felt hard to breathe, as her pair of legs powerlessly took two steps back. Diagrams of phoenixes, clothes with unique sleeves, and various types of dried fruits. All the clues lined up together.

This ruin…

"My girl Yu Yao, what happened to you?" Seeing that she had suddenly turned pale, Ying Luo hurriedly crawled out with a shocked look. "Has your injuries worsened?"

"I know who's the owner of this ruin."

"Ahhh?" Ying Luo was a little dumbfounded. "Who is it?"

Zhu Yao did not reply, as she turned around and left through the door, heading towards the end of the passageway.

"Ehhh… Yu Yao, wait, wait for me." Ying Luo chased after her.

However, her jog turned into a sprint, as the sour feeling in the depths of her heart burst out, carrying an anxiety that she found hard to suppress. Those things, the things in the rooms, were things she was too familiar with. Too familiar to the extent where, with a single glance, she was able to guess that those things were prepared for her. And, there was only one person who would go this far.

She ran for about seven minutes, before she managed to reach the very depths of the palace. In front of her was a stone door of several dozen meters in height, and above the stone door engraved a gigantic tree. Its roots touched the ground, and its leaves shrouded the sky, as though it was connected between the entire sky and earth.

Parasol Tree, the habitat of phoenixes.

"Yu Yao." Ying Luo caught up to her. "A dead end?" She looked carefully at the door. "There seems to be a word activation seal on the door, and only a specific incantation can open it."

Zhu Yao raised her head to look at the tree. It was both familiar, and foreign to her. Heaving a deep sigh, she lightly called out. "Shao Bai."

When her voice fell, the door suddenly rumbled, before slowly opening itself. A fragrant scent instantly poured towards them, as a world of flowers was revealed before their eyes.

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