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 316: Heart Demon Immunity Skill

The scenes shown on the screen continued to change. Every single time, the two of them would experience different lives, yet they were all different from their lives in reality. Various incredible developments would surface halfway through, and they would routinely have their hearts questioned, with every question deepening their despair. It was basically a documentary on "just how many possibilities are there in my life". There was even a faint feeling that whenever it was time to choose the path of their lives, they would powerlessly be guided into despair.

Ye Qingcang at the side was the same as well. Though the contents were different, the methods were completely the same.

So this is a heart demon. It was simply an all-rounded psychological harassment, and the type which used negative examples. Should she celebrate the fact that the two of them had sufficient immunization, preventing the heart demons from breaking through their final line of defense?

However, if they were going to be tested like this over and over again, their minds would crumble eventually. They would be influenced by the scenarios within, and then, they would submerged within their own minds, unable to escape ever again.

"Master… What should we do?" This was simply an endless cycle of nightmares. Though they should be aware that they were all fake, they would still be influenced by them after staying inside for a long time. She could see that as the number of times they experienced the heart demons increase, the more they were unable to discern an illusion from reality.

Yu Yan sighed. "These are their own knots in their hearts. If they are able to see through them, their state of mind and resolve will naturally improve, and their cultivation will rise. If they are unable to see through them…"

Then they will die! The little radish that she raised through great difficulties had yet to ripen, how could she possibly watch on as he continued to drown? She could do nothing but watch…

Eh, wait a minute!

Why didn't she get caught up by her heart demon? If her master was not affected because he was just a strand of divine sense, then why was she standing here alive and well? This was illogical!

Ting!

A conversation window suddenly popped up.

Congratulations on discovering a hidden skill – Heart Demon Immunity, a passive skill. You receive the title: Pui! You shameless bystander!

The hell is this Heart Demon Immunity? Clearly, it was added later on, right? Also, the point of this message was the retort at the back, right? Also, what are you trying to say by bolding that?

Before she could even retort, the screens hanging above little tyrant and Ye Qingcang suddenly vibrated, and then, they actually began to close in on each other. The two fifty-one inches high definition screens turned into a single screen of a hundred and two inches!

Was this to cut costs?

The scenes being shown synchronized as well. Little tyrant and Ye Qingcang appeared inside at the same time, and the contents were uniform too. However, probably because they had passed the trials before this, the scenario this time was different from the miserable lives from before. It was a scenario where they had paved their way through the Great Dao, and the time was set several hundred years later. The two of them had both nourished their Nascent Souls, though Ye Qingcang had become the Sect Master of Ness Cesary Sect, while little tyrant had become the leader of wandering practitioners. The both of them had immense fame behind their names, and were both high-leveled individuals.

While Zhu Yao was wondering what the trial was this time, Ness Cesary Sect and Wandering City were suddenly attacked. When she saw the leader behind the assault on both locations, Zhu Yao simply felt like cussing out – motherf*king b*tch!

Wasn't that extremely familiar face… hers? How did she become the boss of the villains!?

Behind the screen, little tyrant and Ye Qingcang both had shocked expressions as well. Fortunately, she had merely flashed her face before leaving the scene right after. Otherwise, she would have truly wanted to look for the person who came up with the scenario for this heart demon, and give him some counselling.

However, the moment she flashed her face, the scenario within the screen instantly changed. She was cussed by the people inside as a b*tch, and the Great Dao paved by little tyrant and Ye Qingcang was in complete turmoil. Filled with killing intent, the various clans and sects, along with wandering practitioners, all surrounded and attacked Tranquil Valley. On one end was the crowd who wanted to take revenge and seek justice, while the other were two people who had been nurtured to how they were now because of the guidance of that person.

The two youths fell into a dilemma.

That strange voice suddenly resounded once more. DIfferent from the temptive nature that clearly wanted to pull them into the abyssal depths like before, this voice was dull and merely asked a single question: Which side should I stand on?

The hell! She could not help but cuss out at the person who came up with this question. This was too hard to choose, wasn't it?

This was basically a dead question! If they choose to stand on her side, they, who stood at such a high position but decided to cover for their enemy, would betray the trust of the masses. If they were to choose the greater good and exterminate her, then they would turn ungrateful, people that repay good deeds with blood. No matter which side they choose, they would be wrong. It was basically asking them: Are you going to forgive her and become an unjust bastard? Or are you going to kill her, and become an ungrateful bastard?

Either choices would lead them down the path of depravation!

Zhu Yao could not help but hold her breath. This should be their final heart demon. This question is even harder than the ones in university entrance exams, hey.

She could do nothing else other than watching their two faces and their final decisions. Little tyrant was already covered in sweat, and his face looked like it was in pain. Ye Qingcang was the same as well, and even the word 'bug' on his face was fading and darkening over and over again, making its presence known.

For some reason, Zhu Yao had a feeling that the answer to this question could possibly remove this bug once and for all. Ye Qingcang became a bug because his sins were too heavy, as he killed to stop killing. However, because she forcefully intervened, he had still yet to walk on the path of slaughter, and neither was his hands stained in blood yet. However, no matter which answer he were to choose, he would most likely be destined to walk on the same old path.

She could not help but keep her eyes on the screen and hold her breath, as she awaited his choice.

He suddenly raised his sword and closed his eyes. As if he had made some sort of decision, he loudly said. "Granny is my benefactor, and thus this Ye cannot lay his hands on her. My fellow daoists trust in me, and I cannot betray their trust either. This Ye doesn't have a way to appease both sides, nor will I make a decision to stand on either side. I hope that with my life alone, it will be sufficient to pay for all her past sins." After he said that, with a twist of his sword, he instantly stabbed into his own body.

Zhu Yao was completely dumbfounded. He actually gave up on choosing and did not stand on either side. Instead, he firmly held onto his own heart. In a certain sense, he had indeed managed to find a win-win solution. After that stab, the erratic spiritual energy around his body instantly calmed down, and even the word 'bug' on his face had faded quite a bit. Only a faint and shallow mark remained.

Zhu Yao grew excited. Could this be considered as a blessing in disguise?

Little tyrant was left!

She hurriedly turned her head back to the screen. Behind the screen, Ye Qingcang had already committed suicide, and his body began to turn transparent. He was leaving the heart demon, and little tyrant was standing right next to him. Strangely, the crowd did not pay much attention towards Ye Qingcang who was lying on the ground, and was instead looking intensely at the standing little tyrant. In the first place, they were illusions born from their hearts, so naturally they would not possess much emotions.

That voice once again sounded: What is your choice?

The crowd behind the screen shouted out in unison as well: What is your choice?

Little tyrant's expression was clouded. He could not help but glance at the "dead" Ye QIngcang on the ground, and was stunned for a moment. Then, he raised his head and swept his eyes across the approaching crowd. His eyes, however, began to clear up little by little, and he suddenly laughed out loud.

As though he had thought of something funny, his laughter ripple across the air, spreading towards every corner.

"What's my choice? I don't choose anything." He suddenly spoke, giving an answer that was out of everyone's expectations. "Why do I have to answer such a nonsensical question? I have known grandma since I was ten. Though he has a sharp and bad tongue, she is the first person to ever truly care about me, even when that child was not even the slightest bit related to her. In this world, she is the only person left who kept a piece of pure and unadulterated kindness, kindness that not a single other person in the cultivation world ever possesses. In her eyes, it felt as if the world looked completely different from ours. Not only did she teach me how to cultivate, she is more importantly someone who has taught me how to be a person. During the time when everyone gave up on me, she was the only one who said it didn't matter. With someone like that, you're saying she's the one who attacked Ness Cesary Sect and Wandering City? Don't make me laugh. You people are asking me what my choice is? I choose, to believe her! I believe that she wouldn't do something like that. I believe that these choices do not exist in the first place. I believe that everything, everything here, is but a mere illusion."

Zhu Yao was instantly moved. As expected, she did not pamper him for nothing. He actually saw through the heart demon's nature.

With every "believe" he said, his body would shine with a white light, and it was growing brighter and brighter. Then, the screen cracked, shattering resoundingly!

Ye Qingcang who was lying at the side sat up at this moment as well, panting out loud. He finally woke up from his heart demon.

"You woke up!"

"Granny…"

Zhu Yao was joyous, and she hurriedly turned to look at little tyrant at the side.

The hell, what was going on? Clearly, little tyrant was the one who broke through the heart demon, so why was his present state even worse than before? Sweat was not the only thing coming out of his body, as even blood was leaking out now, hey!

"Little tyrant!" Don't scare me, hey!

"Grand… Grandma…" He tried his best to open his eyes. Though he was awake, his expression showed that he was in worsening pain, and the spiritual energy surrounding his body was incredibly chaotic!

"He's about to form his Azoth Core." Yu Yan said in sullen voice. He had received an enlightenment from the heart demon.

Eh? So soon?

Yu Yan sliced his hand in the air, breaking open a passage of flowing light. "There is no spiritual energy here, bring him out to form his Azoth Core."

Only then did Zhu Yao regain her senses. She hurriedly carried little tyrant up and walked into the passage. "Little Cang, follow after me!"

"Ou!" Ye Qingcang was stunned for a second, before hurrying after the three people into the void space that was suddenly sliced open. The moment he entered it, flowing light flashed across his eyes. In the next moment, they had already returned to Tranquil Valley.

"Take the opportunity while the barrier has yet to restore completely, and head out!" Zhu Yao pointed to the remaining small hole in the barrier in the sky, and then flew out on her flying sword while carrying little tyrant.

The moment they got out of the barrier, the surrounding spiritual energy began to rapidly pour into little tyrant's body.

Zhu Yao brought him to stable ground and sat him down. "Little tyrant, focus and calm yourself down. Don't think of anything else and concentrate on forming your Azoth Core. Understand?"

"Mn." Little tyrant nodded, a streak of blood leaked out from the corner of his lips again. Sitting in a lotus position, he then began to guide spiritual energy into his body and break into the Azoth Core Realm. The chaotic five types of spiritual energy slowly calmed down, and they began to orderly gather in little tyrant's body.

Zhu Yao placed down a few formations in his surroundings. Then, with Ye Qingcang, they took a few steps back and kept watch over him.

Probably because his state of mind and resolve had risen by a huge amount this time, little tyrant was very successful in forming his Azoth Core. Other than the rampage of spiritual energy in the beginning that caused his meridians to receive some injuries, the process had been really smooth and steady.

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Chapter 317: Removing the Bug of Righteousness

Just like that, little tyrant spent three whole days meditating.

Three days later, the spiritual energy that was endlessly pouring into his body finally began to calm down. His wounds were also beginning to close on their own, and faintly, the pressure of an Azoth Core could be felt.

The core was formed!

A certain master who had been silently watching this entire process while standing by his disciple's side all this while, suddenly took a step forward. With a wave of his hand, he placed down a barrier surrounding his stupid disciple.

"Eh?" Zhu Yao curiously turned her head around. What was this about?

Yu Yan silently glanced at him. "His core has been formed."

"I know." I can see that myself though?

"Yu… Yao!" He sighed, as he gave her a 'Why is my disciple so stupid?' expression. "After the formation of an Azoth Core, lightning tribulation will definitely descend."

"Uh…" Zhu Yao instantly understood. Hell, she had actually forgotten about this. Most likely, the one being zapped would still be her!

The corner of her lips twitched a few moments, and then she silently placed down countless formations for herself, including another defensive barrier. "Hoho… Master. Let me handle something like this on my own!" It felt like whenever her master's about to be zapped by lightning, he's exceptionally unreliable, and something like that had already happened several times as well.

Yu Yan frowned. As though he had recalled some very bad memories, he silently acknowledged her actions.

After pondering for a moment, he still felt a little dissatisfied. He reached out his hand pulled his stupid disciple into his embrace. Mn, he felt better now.

"Gran… Granny, this is?" Ye Qingcang however was confused. Was something big about to happen? Or was an enemy about to attack? To the extent that such powerful defenses were necessary?

"Hoho… You will understand in a moment." Zhu Yao bitterly smiled. She raised her head and glanced at the sky, her face turned stern. "It's here."

Ye Qingcang raised his head to take a look, only to see the sky which was still clear for thousands of kilometers a second earlier, had begun to darken. Large amount of lightning clouds gathered. This was the lightning tribulation directed at the formation of Azoth Core! So she was actually worried that Brother Bai wasn't able to beat the lightning tribulation?

"Granny, don't worry. Brother Bai has a firm heart, he will definitely beat this lightning tribulation safe and sound."

Zhu Yao replied with two words: "Ho ho!" Raising her head, she glanced at the sky. "I say, student Ye, are you sure you're not going to stand a little further away from me?"

"Eh!?"

Boom!

A snow-white flash of light tore through the skies as a tribulation lightning bolt descended. It struck towards… Zhu Yao.

Student Ye who was zapped charred black: "…"

Countless unidentifiable animals galloped through the depths of his heart.

Wasn't it Brother Zhiyuan who formed his Azoth Core? Why were the tribulation lightning bolts striking at granny instead? Furthermore, it seemed like granny was very certain that this situation would occur too, as she had placed down barriers beforehand, which lead to the lightning bolt striking straight at him, leaving her completely unscathed!

"Gran… Granny…" This did not make sense!

"Haah! I already told you to stand further away from me!" Zhu Yao reached out her hand and pulled him into the formation.

The lightning bolts in the sky grew even more excited, as they crackled and struck down relentlessly. Furthermore, all of them were striking in their direction, with not a single one landing on Bai Zhiyuan.

Student Ye Qingcang felt incredibly confused. Just who was forming his or her Azoth Core here, hey?

His heart was filled with doubts, yet a chilling intent suddenly shot out from the side. His heart trembled from the chill. When he turned to look, he saw a man was currently glaring at him coldly next to granny. In an instant, he felt like two ice daggers were stabbing right at his chest.

Ehh?

Earlier, granny seemed to have called him her master. Why was he looking at him this way? What did he do wrong?

So cold, so scary. He suddenly felt like heading out to get struck by lightning instead, what to do?

Yu Yan: Someone familiar with my disciple, is hateful as I have expected!

"Seven, eight, nine, ten…" Zhu Yao very patiently counted the lightning bolts. Don't you dare troll me. A total of eighty-one lightning bolts, and not a single one more. Otherwise, it's a loss for me.

"Granny…" Ye Qingcang meekly wiped off the dust off his arms, which were soon to be frozen stiff due to a certain someone's gaze. Trying to divert his own attention, he spoke up. "You… knew that the lightning would fall on you right from the beginning, right?"

"Ah? Fifteen… Sixteen… Seventeen…" Zhu Yao was focused on counting, so she did not hear him well.

He had no choice but to repeat his words. "I said, granny, you're intentionally blocking Brother Zhiyuan's tribulation lightning bolts, right?"

"Intentionally?" Zhu Yao rolled her eyes at him. "Who the hell would intentionally do such a thing? How about you try to intentionally do it in front of my eyes!?"

"Then the formations that you placed down earlier were…"

Zhu Yao glanced at him. With a heart filled with sour emotions, she sighed. "Habits become second nature, dear youth!"

"…" What did that mean? Were the lightning bolts actually striking her on their own accord? He was stunned for a moment. After pondering for a little, he felt that it was impossible. Lightning tribulation was the manifestation of the laws of the Heavenly Dao itself, how could it possibly strike the wrong person? In order to bend the laws of the Heavenly Dao, incredible power was required. Granny must be worried about Zhiyuan, and thus was willing to endure the pain of the lightning tribulation on her own accord. The more he thought about it, the more it made sense to him. He turned to glance at the figure at the back, whose Azoth Core was growing firmer by the minute. In his eyes, a hint of envy could be seen floating about.

Within the heart demon earlier, he had actually heard Bai Zhiyuan's answer as well. Speaking of which, both of them were pitiful people, as they both had the poorest aptitude. Though he had the fortune of being taken into the Inner Sect, the number of rolling and scornful eyes he received were still no less than being an Outer Sect disciple, while Bai Zhiyuan was once a genius with duo spirit veins, who had fallen to the very bottom of the valley. Their fates were similar, and they had both encountered a grandmother who treated them both with sincerity. Before this, he had thought that Bai Zhiyuan was even more pitiful than he was. After all, he climbed up from the very bottom, so he had nothing to lose. However, Bai Zhiyuan once had everything he wanted, but in the end had everything snatched away. A reality even crueler than his. However, right now, he was a little jealous of Bai Zhiyuan. Because, no matter what were to happen to him, granny would always stand by his side.

"Twenty… three, or was it four? The hell, I think I might have missed one. Just how many have I counted?"

Ye Qingcang smiled, the envy in his eyes grew brighter. "Granny sure treats Brother Zhiyuan really well." It's a pity that no one has ever treated me with wholehearted sincerity.

Zhu Yao was startled. She turned to look at him. "What's wrong with you?"

"What is it?" He had a confused look.

Zhu Yao frowned. For a moment, the word 'bug' on his face grew a little darker. Earlier, it was so light to the point only a mark was present, but now, a greyish colour could be faintly seen. Oh young one, just what kind of thoughts did you have just now? Don't go back to your former path!

"What did you just say?"

"I said, granny sure treats Brother Zhiyuan really well."

"Don't I treat you well too?" Zhu Yao asked back.

"…" Ye Qingcang blanked for a moment, only to shake his head slowly right after. "That is indeed true."

Zhu Yao sighed, and then said as she patted on his shoulder. "Little Cang, do you have something you want to tell me?"

He stiffened. The expression on his face changed a couple of times, yet he did not speak up for a long while.

"If you have something to say, then say it! Don't be wishy-washy like a girl!"

Ye Qingcang clenched his fists, and then took a deep breath. He turned to look towards her and said. "Granny… Actually, I have always wanted to ask you this. Back then, when you brought Brother Zhiyuan out of Ness Cesary Sect, you did it because you were afraid that he would be bullied for possessing the penta spirit veins, and hence you were willing to hand over Skybond Peak. Furthermore, you even took him in as your disciple and brought him away. I'm… a penta spirit veins holder as well! Why didn't you inform me…" He did not continue after that. Zhu Yao however, understood his intentions.

"You wish to ask why I chose to take in little tyrant as my disciple, and not you, right?"

He nodded, and then immediately explained in anxious manner. "I… It's not like I want to have a dispute with Brother Zhiyuan, it's just… I just want to know the reason." He wanted to know just why she had always thought Bai Zhiyuan was more talented than he was.

"I know!" If he truly was jealous of Little Bai, he wouldn't have risked his life along with them. Zhu Yao sighed. Then, he looked at him sternly and said. "Little Cang, tell me this. If back then, if we have truly gone to look for you, and told you about us being ousted from the sect, what would you have done? Would you have left with us?"

Ye Qing was dumbfounded, and then his expression paled.

"You wouldn't! Zhu Yao replied on his behalf. "Because if you had gone with us, it would be akin to betraying the sect. Most likely, you would even be chased after by the sect."

"I…"

"I'm not trying to lecture you!" Zhu Yao continued. "It's understandable that you would choose not to leave. After all, even if you had come along with us, it would just be an additional baggage for me. Then, let me ask you this as well. If you were little tyrant, and I wasn't a Demigod practitioner trying to conceal my own cultivation level, but a mere Azoth Core practitioner, would you have left the sect?"

No! Ye Qingcang lowered his head. Because, with his personality, even if he were to find out that he possessed the penta spirit veins, he wouldn't accept being ousted out of Ness Cesary Sect so easily. Even if he were to be thrown into the Outer Sect, he would still think of ways on his own, and seek opportunities for himself to make a stand.

"See, this is your difference from little tyrant." Zhu Yao patted on his shoulder and sternly said. "The reason why little tyrant followed me out of Ness Cesary Sect, was because he trusted me enough. He believed that his grandma wouldn't hurt him. Even if he were ousted from the sect, even if were labeled as a wandering practitioner, even if he had to cultivation from the start once more, he believed in me. Not to mention, when he left, he once resented the sect, resented his past master, and had even resented everyone, except me, whom he felt indebted to. The first thing he thought of, was not what he should do for his own future, but how he could repay his grandma for enduring all these grievances. With all his heart, he believed in a senior, a friend, or even an elder sister like me. How can I possibly not pamper him a little bit more?"

Ye Qingcang was stunned. His face was filled with astonishment and confusion, as though he understood her words, but felt that things had turned even more blurry as well.

"Little Cang, you asked why I didn't choose you? Both of you possess penta spirit veins, and both your cultivation levels were similar as well. However, have you ever thought that you yourself are different from little tyrant in the first place? The two of you have never stood at the same spot. Have you ever place your trust on someone from the depths of your heart, like little tyrant has?"

"Little Cang, we are cultivating to become deities. However, the premise is that we have not become deities. We are all humans, and all humans have feelings. No one in this world will treat you well for no reason. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Little tyrant ventured. He believed in his grandma with all his heart. Even when he understood that he would become a wandering practitioner living a harsh life from then on, he did not turn his back, and followed me without any hesitation. But Little Cang, what have you ventured on? Have you ever believed in someone with all your heart? If not, why should I have chosen you?"

Ye Qingcang was dumbfounded, and he did not regain his senses for a long while. The echoes in the depths of his heart grew louder, and a single word filled his heart – trust!

He was alone ever since he was young. Because of his stubborn personality, he had always relied on his own to grow stronger a single step at a time. He felt that as long as he worked hard, even if he did not have a good aptitude or talent, he would still be able walk on this path. He had never requested help from others, so naturally he would not have comprehended the meaning of trust. Even way back then, when he had a miraculous encounter, the first thing he thought of was to conceal that fact. He only told granny when he had no other choice.

However, the stronger he became, the larger the hole in his heart was. Especially when he saw granny and Bai Zhiyuan together, the feeling that he was missing something grew even more intense than ever, and a sense of inferiority faintly grew. All this while, he could not understand why this was happening. However, he now understood that the thing that he was lacking in the depths of his heart, was trust. The true goal behind that heart demon, was to have him clearly see this fact.

At that moment, he felt that the things he chased after and tried to conceal with all his might, were a little laughable. Joy suddenly filled the depths of his heart, as if the sun had appeared behind the drifting clouds.

Zhu Yao however widened her eyes in utter disbelief.

"Young man, let me look at your face!"

The bug… disappeared!

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Chapter 318 Come One Come All, Let's Conduct a Meeting

Zhu Yao could not help but want to raise Ye Qingcang's face for a clearer look. Before she could even reach out her hand however, she suddenly felt an icy intent next to her, and something cracked resoundingly next to her ears. The formation she placed down to resist the heavenly lightning bolts had instantly shattered apart.

The bright heavenly lightning bolts roared out, zapping all three of them.

Zhu Yao who reached out her hand: "…"

Before she could even react, she felt her waist tightening, and then, she was pulled into the embrace of someone who similarly had a charred smell. With a stern look, Yu Yan cast a Dirt Removal Art on him and his stupid disciple, then he calmly placed down a new formation. His face was calm and collected, as though the person who broke the formation earlier was not him.

Looking at a certain disciple who was still half-stretching out her hand and glancing at Ye Qingcang, he frowned. He reached out to hold her chin, and then forcefully turned her face towards him, and was only satisfied when he was the only figure in her eyes.

Then he turned his head and looked at that unknown substance at the side with narrowed eyes. His cold aura flowed in all directions.

Unknown substance Little Cang simply trembled, and cold sweat constantly dripped from his forehead. Though he did not know what he had done wrong, he faintly sensed that he should take a few steps back.

However, in the next second, he was no longer able to continue pondering for the reason, as the next heavenly lightning bolt was already striking down. Not to mention, he was not in the range of the newly placed formation!

In a single day, two of the righteous deity sects were lost. Practically all of Office Shell Sect's disciples were massacred, and when the reinforcements of the various sects had arrived, the entire Office Shell Sect had already turned into a sea of blood. Most of the survivors were in a daze, as though they had suffered from some immense shock. Even after questioning them back and forth, the reinforcements still could not piece everything together, let alone finding clues about that so-called Demigod heretic practitioner. Furthermore, this was not the end. When the crowd had rushed back to Ness Cesary Sect, the sight in front of them had dumbfounded every single one of them. Ness Cesary Sect, who had been passed down for over thousands of hundreds of years, was destroyed in a single day, levelled to flat ground. Fortunately, there were no grave casualties among the disciples. However, the laughable thing was that the people who saved them from this crisis, were the two people that Ness Cesary Sect had ousted a few years ago. For a moment, the crowd from Ness Cesary Sect felt exceptionally conflicted in their hearts.

When Zhu Yao rushed back to meet up with the sects, she was shocked to see that other than Qu Jiang, Qu Ying had come forward to welcome her back as well. Though, his face was an exceptional sight to watch, as it continued to switch between being green and pale, as though he did not know how he should face this former little martial aunt. The colour of his face continued to change again and again. Even Zhu Yao could not stand giving him a few more glances.

"Thank you, little martial aunt, for your saving grace." Qu Jiang bowed in front of Zhu Yao.

"It's best that you call me Zhu Yao." She said without a mind. "I'm no longer your little martial aunt. You're making it sound so strange right now."

Qu Jiang was startled, and even Qu Jiang at the side had stiffened. A moment later, he changed his way of addressing her. "Sovereign… Thank you, Sovereign, for your help. If not for Sovereign's protection, not just Ness Cesary Sect, I'm afraid the entire world of deity sects would have encountered an inescapable huge tribulation."

"It's just a small matter, there's no need to be polite." Zhu Yao replied with a smile.

Qu Jiang did not keep up with the courteous talk either, as he lead Zhu Yao into the inner hall. His intention of burying the hatchet was part of the reason he came out to welcome her as well, as he wanted her and Bai Zhiyuan to return to Ness Cesary Sect. In this present state where their nest had been destroyed, Ness Cesary Sect was indeed in a dire need of a protector like her. However, her earlier words evidently meant that she no longer had the intentions to return, so naturally he had no choice but to lay these thoughts to rest.

When Zhu Yao entered the inner hall, the various clans and sects were already in a great uproar, arguing with each other. When they saw that she had appeared, they quietened down for a moment as they bowed towards her. Zhu Yao nodded in return, before she walked towards the highest row of seats while following Qu Jiang's lead. This time however, she no longer had to stand.

Hua Lin enthusiastically waved his hands at her. "Old… friend. Over here, over here." He called out as he looked at his own surroundings. Realizing that there were no longer any empty seats, he unceremoniously nudged an early-stage Demigod Sovereign on his right. "Hey, move over."

That Demigod Sovereign was startled, as if he had never thought that a Demigod practitioner like him would be given such a disgusted look in the open. His face had turned green from fury. He turned to look at the other Demigod practitioners, and they had all turned their heads away, acting as if they hadn't seen anything. He could not help but let out a cold snort, and then unwillingly moved to an empty seat near the edge.

"There's an empty seat here, quick, come over." Hua Lin shamelessly pointed at the seat that was given up just earlier, as he called out to Zhu Yao. The practitioner who just left earlier tripped and almost fell. Even if you're a wandering practitioner, you shouldn't be this shameless, hey!

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. Ignoring that practitioner's resentful glare, she sat next to Hua Lin. Why did she feel as if she had inadvertently garnered a bundle of hatred?

"The heretic practitioners sure have gone mad. On this day alone, they dared to openly launch attacks on Office Shell Sect and Ness Cesary Sect. They will most certainly attack the other deity sects in the coming days. If this danger is not eliminated, I'm afraid the deity sects would be uneasy day and night." A Nascent Soul practitioner said indignantly.

"Though that is the case…" Someone however had an opposing opinion. "The heretic practitioners have always been scattered, blending among the wandering practitioners. It is extremely difficult to locate them. Furthermore, the various sects have sustained damage from this incident. We should instead focus on recovering our forces and build up our strength."

When one of the practitioners heard this, he immediately flared up. "Wait a minute! How long are we supposed to wait? The disciples of our Office Shell Sect had all died in the hands of those heretic practitioners, when should be the right time to avenge them? Not to mention the heretic practitioners must have sustained some degree of damage from this incident, we should be taking this opportunity to push for victory."

"Right not, the situation surrounding the enemies are unclear, it would be extremely unwise to make a move on them now!" Another person stood up to object. "It should be clear from seeing Office Shell Sect's situation. Our enemies were actually capable of retreating all their forces even before our prompt arrival. This indicates that the capabilities of the heretic practitioners shouldn't be underestimated."

"That is sound." Another person spoke. "Earlier, the disciple that came to report this incident mentioned that there was a Demigod practitioner among them. Furthermore, when we arrived, we were unable to catch a glimpse of even a single heretic practitioner. Who knows just how many Demigod heretic practitioners are there?"

"However, if we don't make a move on them now, I'm afraid that they would pose a greater threat in the future."

The hall was once again filled with intense debate, and Zhu Yao frowned at the sight of this. She finally understood why these people had been here for several days. Clearly, they were split into two factions – one which wanted to let go of this incident, and one which wanted to fight. The faction which wanted to fight believed that they should take this opportunity to deal with the heretic practitioners in order for them to cultivate peacefully in the future. The other faction however felt that the damage they had received this time was too huge, no good outcome would result from further fighting, and that it wouldn't be too late to fight after recouping their losses.

In general, the faction which was keen of fighting was comprised of sects which had more losses, like Office Shell and Ness Cesary. The faction that wanted to let things go was made up of the rest which did not have any losses to speak of.

The more Zhu Yao listened in, the more frustrated she became. If this argument was to carry on, there wouldn't be an end.

"Umm…" She could not help but voice out. The hall was instantly silent, as the crowd turned their eyes towards her. As the new Sovereign who had saved the disciples of the various clans and sects, the crowd trusted her to some degree. "Uh, I just wish to ask… Just who are the heretic practitioners who had assaulted Office Shell Sect?"

The crowd was stunned for a moment, and they began to exchange glances.

"So no one know?" Then the fart are you guys fighting about!?

The faces of the crowd paled, as though they had truly never thought of this problem till now.

The hall was silent for a short while, before a Nascent Soul practitioner finally stepped out and spoke. "Putting aside who did it, all heretic practitioners in this world simply do not have any good in them. They should be exterminated as soon as possible."

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. This logic was simply too incredible. "Then how are you planning to find these heretic practitioners?"

He instantly went mute.

In a broad sense, the term 'heretic practitioner' was just a label. It referred to opportunistic practitioners who did not cultivate in ways acknowledged by the public. They were practitioners who were even more lawless and disorganized than wandering practitioners. Without a clear goal, how were they going to find them just by this single label? Heretic practitioners wouldn't write the word 'heretic' on their faces after all.

"Junior-martial sister Zhu's words are logical…" Sovereign Wu Fu who had been sitting at the top suddenly spoke as he looked at her with a smile. "We should indeed clearly locate our enemies before taking action. However… presently, our Ness Cesary Sect's Skybond Peak is already in the enemies' hands. Countless treasures can be found within, and I'm afraid heretic practitioners will make use of the items inside to strengthen themselves. Presently, they already possess the guts to openly launch assaults on deity sects, once they strengthen themselves…"

Before he even finished, the faces of the people below paled one after another. Oh, right! Our enemies already possess such huge amount of resources. If they were to strengthen themselves even further, it will spell trouble. At that moment, the practitioners belonging in the faction of letting go, were clearly shaken.

"Oh, you're talking about Skybond Peak?" Zhu Yao said without a mind. "Don't worry, it's not in the hands of those heretic practitioners."

"It's not?" The crowd was stunned. Clearly, they did not believe her words.

Zhu Yao chuckled at Qu Jiang. "I'm sorry, Sect Master Qu. I accidently burnt that mountain away. Completely."

"What?" Wu Fu immediately stood up. Even the crowd below was giving her faces that looked as if they were looking at an idiot. "You… Y-You… You burnt away Skybond Peak?"

"Uh… It was an operational mistake!" When speaking of this, she really felt a sense of guilt from burning down someone's house. "Umm… I saw those heretic practitioners move Skybond Peak away, so I chased after them at the heat of the moment. But I can't possibly move it back on my own, right? You guys should understand that I'm a frail woman… So I… Hoho, I think you guys understand by now!"

Crowd: …

They didn't want to understand her words in the least, alright? That was Skybond Peak, left behind by an ascended ancestor. There were countless treasures within! How could she possibly burn it away just like that!?

Everyone could not regain their senses for a while from this shock. Every single one of them felt like scratching the walls right now!

"Haah, so be it!" Unexpectedly, Qu Jiang was the first to collect his calm, as he let out a long sigh. Though his heart was bleeding, he still spoke in a consoling manner. "At the very least, it's much better than being left in the hands of the heretic practitioners."

The crowd all looked as if they wanted to cry as well. In the first place, they participated in the tournament for the sole reason of attempting to take a slice of the pie. Who would have known that the pie would be stolen in an instant, and that it would be burnt into a crisp the next moment? Not a single one of them managed to get even a bite into it. These fluctuating emotions were simply too much to handle.

"Junior-martial sister, have you truly burnt Skybond Peak away? Or did it disappear because of other reasons?" Wu Fu suddenly asked in a meaningful manner.

Zhu Yao frowned. "Other reasons?" What did he mean?

Wu Fu chuckled. "This lowly one is simply curious at the fact that such a huge mountain could actually be burnt into ashes."

"What are you trying to get?" Little tyrant instantly flared up. "Are you saying that grandma has taken Skybond Peak as her own?"

"I didn't say that." Wu Fu continued to speak with a smile. "I just pointed out a suspicion, that's all. Back then, the ones who chased after the heretic practitioners consisted of junior-martial sister and two disciples, and these two disciples…" He glanced at little tyrant and Ye Qingcang. "Their relationships with junior-martial sister are more than just superficial. When it comes to what actually happened back then, no one else knows for sure."

When he put it that way, the crowd began to reveal doubtful expressions as well. Indeed. Skybond Peak possessed countless treasures, how could any sane person be willing to burn them all away?

"Sovereign, your words are too degrading." Ye Qingcang could not help but speak up as well, his tone was filled with anger. "If granny had coveted the treasures within Skybond Peak, when she was the only person who could enter Skybond Peak back then, she could have taken all she had wanted. Why would she wait till now? Furthermore, granny has long attained the cultivation level of a Demigod, what use to her could the items in Skybond Peak possibly have?"

"They are of no use to her, but that might not be true to others." Wu Fu intentionally swept his eyes across little tyrant and Ye Qingcang, and then continued. "Furthermore, other than medicinal pellets and talismans, Skybond Peak contains countless mystic artifacts, and some at the tenth rank as well. How could anyone not be moved?"

"Like we would even want the items inside!" Ye Qingcang immediately refuted.

Wu Fu however simply let out a cold snort, and did not reply. The crowd could not help but look at Zhu Yao with suspicious gazes after listening to his words.

Just as little tyrant and Ye Qingcang was about to speak up, Zhu Yao immediately pulled them back.

She turned to look at Wu Fu, and with seemingly good mood, she said. "Sovereign Wu Fu, what you're meaning to say is, I have hidden Skybond Peak, and then intentionally told you all that I have burnt it, so that I can keep it all to myself?"

"Junior-martial sister, naturally, I believe you. I simply wish that you can explain to us in more depth about this matter, so that everyone here can better understand the situation." Wu Fu gave an even more harmonious smile, and his expression looked as though it was saying he was doing this for her own good.

"I don't have anything else to explain!" Zhu Yao swept her eyes across the crowd, instantly feeling a little fatigued. It seemed like seeking justice and thwarting the heretic practitioners were all but empty talk. In the end, everything fell behind the word 'benefits'. "Skybond Peak has been burnt away. End of story."

The suspicion in the eyes of the crowd grew heavier.

Zhu Yao continued. "However, I indeed did not take a single item from within, nor did I hide the mountain itself. If you guys truly want an explanation…" She sized up the crowd. "Then let me analyze the situation for you!"

"The items within Skybond Peak are categorized to nothing more than a few – medicinal pellets, talismans, cultivation arts and mystic artifacts. Now that I have already become a Demigod, unless it's a medicinal pellet that can allow me to ascend instantly… am I supposed to keep the rest of the pellets and eat them like they're candies?"

"As for talismans, you guys should be aware that I have the penta-spirit veins, right? Activating the talismans can't possibly be faster than casting the arts myself. Unless I'm bored with my longevity and sacrifice speed during battles, I will simply be seeking death if I use talismans to engage my enemies."

"Of course, there's cultivation arts inside as well! Just how retarded must I be to cripple my present cultivation level and choose to pick up a new cultivation art? What, I got bored to the point of cultivating it for fun?"

"Then what about mystic artifacts?" Wu Fu asked in a sullen voice, his smile grew deeper. "I believe junior-martial sister is extremely aware that there's even tenth rank mystic artifacts among the mystic artifacts in Skybond Peak. Presently, there's not many tenth rank mystic artifacts in the cultivation world."

"As a matter of a fact, I really don't covet them." Zhu Yao rolled her eyes at him, as she continued to drop disdainful remarks on Skybond Peak. "I am a tenth rank artificer myself. The products refined by Wang Shang are neither stylish nor equipped with good functionalities. Do you think this old lady would even want them?"

"…" The hall was instantly enveloped in silence.

"You… You're a tenth rank artificer…?" Wu Fu was stunned as well. "That's… That's impossible." The flying sword she was using was even at the second rank. Just what kind of artificer would be so frugal like her?"

"Daoist Yu is right." Hua Lin stood up and pulled out the spiritual ship. "This spiritual ship I have in my hands is something she refined and bestowed to me. It is a tenth rank mystic artifact at the extreme grade."

When his words fell, everyone in the hall collectively held their breaths.

Zhu Yao: "…" Uh… That wasn't something she refined!

Student Hua Lin, it is not good to lie. The original creator himself is listening over here!

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Chapter 319: Truth Behind the Sect Massacre

With Hua Lin as a witness, the suspicions of the crowd instantly disappeared.

Wu Fu's expression however sank. Gathering his earlier smile, he stepped forward and looked at the mystic artifact in Hua Lin's hand. Then, he said. "What can one mystic artifact prove? Is there a mark on it that can possibly prove her words?"

This time, even Hua Lin could not help but frown. "When I say this mystic artifact is something she refined, naturally, it is refined by her."

Wu Fu still did believe it. "I simply feel that it doesn't look too realistic for a tenth rank extreme grade mystic artifact to appear. Furthermore, since she's a tenth rank artificer, she can't possibly have only made a single mystic artifact, right?"

"You wish to look at my other products?" Zhu Yao glanced at him.

"I hope that junior-martial sister can give me some pointers."

"Are you certain?" Zhu Yao asked once more.

Wu Fu frowned, and still nodded his head.

"Fine then!" Zhu Yao sighed. "Actually, back then when I was still in Skybond Peak, I had refined several mystic artifacts, but I did not bring them along with me."

Wu Fu's expression turned joyous, evidently not believing her words as he said in a mocking manner. "Now that sure is unfortunate."

"But…" Zhu Yao's tone changed. "That doesn't mean they're not being held onto by someone else!"

"What do you mean?" Wu Fu's expression changed. At that moment, he had a bad feeling.

"I'm saying, I did not bring out even a single one of the items that I have refined, and left them all in Skybond Peak." Zhu Yao looked at the crowd. "After so many years, I believe there should be one or two disciples in the sect who have fancied my mystic artifacts, and have tried to keep and use them."

"Hmph, you're saying that some of the mystic artifacts in Skybond Peak are refined by you?"

"You don't believe me?" Zhu Yao chuckled. "It's fine if you don't believe me, but back then, I learnt of an interesting formation, and had thus inscribed it into the mystic artifacts. If one wish to use one of these artifacts, he or she needs to first chant an incantation. We will be certain one I chant out this incantation."

After saying that, Zhu Yao did not care about his changing expression, and immediately shouted out loud within the hall. "Cheng Qingdiao, you sick-ass pervert!"

When her words fell, flashes of light appeared one after another. Dozens of mystic artifacts instantly flew up and floated in the air, emitting a white radiance that looked as if they were responding to her call. Even a bell-like eighth rank defensive mystic artifact had flown out of Wu Fu's storage pouch.

Zhu Yao turned to glance at him, and chuckled. "It seems senior-martial brother Wu Fu likes the mystic artifacts I refined as well. Oh right, do you want me to repeat the basic functionalities of these mystic artifacts, and their respective construction methods? After all, you even carried one with you for so long, but this is the first time you have heard of it's activation incantation, so it being inconvenient at times is inevitable."

Wu Fu's expression was instantly dyed in green, looking especially fascinating. He no longer let out a single croak.

The various clans and sects were now looking at the people of Ness Cesary Sect differently. They were clearly using the artifacts that she had refined, yet they were instead biting her back and accusing her of theft. This course of action by Ness Cesary Sect was truly shameless.

Zhu Yao did not intend to shame Ness Cesary Sect at first either, after all, this sect was once her former home. However, Wu Fu continued to bite on her without letting go, which infuriated her a little. Furthermore, that Skybond Peak had almost killed the demons in Tranquil Valley. Little Eighth had even expended all of the godly energy he managed to gathered so far because of this matter, and had yet to wake up even now.

As for those mystic artifacts, they were indeed refined by her. Back then, when she came out of the dimensional space, though Little Eighth had resurrected, at the bottom of her heart, she still hated that pervert Cheng Qingdiao. Thus, out of boredom, she secretly learnt from Wang Shang and refined a bunch of mystic artifacts, while inscribing this incantation, which taught by her master, within them. However, who would have expected that the mystic artifacts she refined would actually be more popular that the original products in Skybond Peak. These Nascent Soul and Demigod practitioners of Ness Cesary Sect actually hauled them in.

As someone who was so cooperative in digging his own grave, Wu Fu could be considered the best in this aspect in the cultivation world.

"Sovereign, how do you think we should deal with this matter concerning the heretic practitioners?" The crowd finally circled back to the matter at hand. Probably because they found out that she was tenth rank artificer, there were now faint hints of them seeing her as a leader figure, as they began to ask for her opinion.

Zhu Yao had thought about this. "I feel that no matter the decision to fight or rest, there is a need to first find out who are the culprits behind the destruction of Office Shell Sect."

The crowd nodded. Indeed, finding the true culprits were indeed the most important task.

"However… Countless Office Shell Sect disciples have already lost their lives, and those who were fortunate to survive had all turned insane… With our chain of clues broken, I'm afraid that no one else had seen the looks of the culprits…"

"That might not be the case!" Office Shell Sect Master Gu suddenly stood up, as though he had just thought of something. With an excited look, he said. "I recall that there's a piece of Visual Recording Stone at the core of the Great Mountain Barrier Formation. It's usually above the formation core, and because it's required to supply the formation with spiritual energy, it has never been activated. However, the assault of the heretic practitioners had coincidentally destroyed the Great Mountain Barrier Formation. With the destruction of the formation, the spiritual energy from the Visual Recording Stone which could no longer supply the formation…"

"You're meaning to say that this Visual Recording Stone might have recorded everything that happened back then?" The crowd instantly revealed excited faces.

"If the Visual Recording Stone isn't destroyed!" Sect Master Gu nodded.

"Bring us to the formation core!" Zhu Yao immediately pulled onto Sect Master Gu and left. The crowd exchanged glances and then immediately followed after them. Even the Demigod practitioners at the back were keeping up as well. Wu Fu's eyes sank, and had no choice but to go along with the crowd.

As Zhu Yao flew over, she could already see the so-called Visual Recording Stone mentioned by Sect Master Gu, from afar. How could that possibly be a stone? It was clearly a stone wall! It was no wonder Office Shell Sect would use such a common material as a formation core. It was a shattered mountaintop, and the rock on the broken wall of the mountain was a piece of Visual Recording Stone. Furthermore, it was pointing right at Office Shell Sect.

Sect Master Gu inspected it carefully for a moment. Other than a few traces of blood on it, it did not sustain much damage. Thus, he quickly cast an art and inserted it into the stone wall. A bright light flashed, and there was a blurry image appearing faintly behind it. The image grew clearer with each second. It was the exact recording on the day of the sect massacre.

The crowd could not help but watch carefully with widened eyes, afraid that they would miss some sort of detail.

When they managed to clearly see the situation behind the screen, the crowd was dumbfounded. They were simply unable to believe their own eyes. Some were even beginning to rub their own eyes, wondering if they had been mistaken.

Behind the screen, corpses filled the land and blood flowed like rivers, just like what they had seen when they arrived before. The only strange thing about this was… there wasn't a single heretic practitioner!

Forget about heretic practitioners, not a single villain-like figure could be seen. The place was filled with just Office Shell Sect disciples. They were actually… killing one another!

Furthermore, there were even occasional glows of self-destruction, and every single one of them had crazed looks on their faces, shouting something at the top of their lungs. Unfortunately, the Visual Recording Stone was unable to record sounds.

The person who was the most shocked was no doubt Sect Master Gu. He had turned numb from astonishment!

"What is this? An internal conflict?" Someone expressed his doubts.

"Absolutely impossible!" Sect Master Gu quickly shook his head. "My sect has always been harmonious, how could an internal conflict possibly occur? Furthermore, look at these two over there. One of them is Elder Yu, and his opponent is his son who had just formed his Azoth Core…" It was indeed strange that an old man and his son was locked in a battle to the death.

Zhu Yao watched carefully. These people looked a little like…

She could not help but look at the sky within the displayed image, and her eyes sank. "What is that?"

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Chapter 320: Villains Should Not Talk So Much Crap

When Zhu Yao voiced out, everyone raised their heads and looked at top of the screen. In an instant, all of their faces changed.

Hidden amidst the clouds, the corner of a green cloth could be faintly seen, swaying with the wind. With a closer look it could be seen that it was the corner of a flag. What's strange about it was that there wasn't any trace of a person around it, though a green gas would occasionally emit out of the flag and seep into the surroundings.

"Sect Master Gu, hurry and rewind the Visual Recording Stone, so that we can find out when and how the flag is placed?" Everyone could see that the flag wasn't normal, and someone reminded Sect Master Gu to replay the incident.

Sect Master Gu immediately circulated his spiritual energy. The Visual Recording Stone could only store three days of records at best, and presently, it had been three days since the incident. Even if he could rewind, it could only return to the point where the chaos and the slaughter among the disciples had just begun. It looked as if the flag had appeared there out of thin air.

"Hurry and look at the surroundings!" Someone shouted. Everyone focused, and they could see tiny flashes of white light seeping into the flag. The sparks of white light were actually flown out of the bodies of the Office Shell Sect disciples.

"Could that possibly be… a Soul Beckoning Banner!?"

Everyone present held their breaths, their faces were filled with utter disbelief.

"That's impossible!" A Nascent Soul elderly practitioner was the first to step out and refute. "Soul Beckoning Banners can only be used to beckon ghosts. These disciples of Office Shell Sect were still all alive and well. How can a Soul Beckoning Banner possibly beckon the souls of living humans?"

"But those sparks of white light are indeed parts of those disciples' souls." That person stood in front of the Visual Recording Stone. He pointed at the disciples who were fighting wildly and said. "Look at these disciples, everyone single one of them is in such a crazed state, completely devoid of logic and reason. If they had been struck with Heart Assimilating Arts, who could possibly control so many hearts at once? Clearly, their main souls were beckoned away, which resulted to such a situation. This flag isn't a Soul Beckoning Banner at all, but a Soul Assimilating Banner used to assimilate the main souls of living humans."

"Nonsense!" There were still people who were unwilling to believe such a thing. "Never have I heard of a Soul Assimilating Banner. How can a mystic arts or mystic artifact that can freely control a person's soul possibly exist in this world? If such a mystic arts truly exist, wouldn't that mean that everyone in the world can have their souls assimilated by the culprit?"

"Umm…" Zhu Yao raised her hand. "I don't know if there's a mystic artifact that can control souls, but if it's mystic arts that can achieve soul control, I've seen it before!"

The crowd was startled for a moment, and then they immediately swept their eyes towards Zhu Yao.

She had no choice but to tell them about the Nascent Soul puppets that had attacked Ness Cesary Sect. Qu Ying and a few of the sect disciples present on that day had all seen it happened before their eyes as well, so when Zhu Yao brought it up, they suddenly came to realization and understood that arts to control those puppets' souls had been used.

For a moment, everyone was silent. The faces of the various Sect Masters especially were incredibly ugly. Such a terrifying heretic practitioner actually appeared in the world, and he was capable of controlling the souls of living beings easily. Then how could the deity sects possibly have any chance at victory?

"We must find this person with haste, otherwise the consequences will be immense." The sects that were formerly in support of first building up their strength had instantly changed their minds.

"However… If that person were to return again, and use that mystic arts…" Some were still worried.

"This person developed the Soul Assimilating Banner, yet he does not dare to reveal himself. There must be some form of weakness in it. If we don't locate him now, I'm afraid he will grow even more powerful while we become even more powerless as time goes by."

"Right, we must find him immediately."

In an instant, the situation where they were incessantly arguing over their own safety had disappeared, and they had finally become united. A few of the Sect Masters in-charge of large sects had already begun discussing about their course of action in finding the culprit. Even the Sovereigns were taking this matter seriously.

Zhu Yao instead took a step back and chuckled at Sovereign Wu Fu, who was standing at the side. "I wonder what brilliant idea does fellow Sovereign have to take this matter?"

Wu Fu who had just been thoroughly beaten earlier, was now looking at her with incredible irritation. He no longer acted courteous either as he coldly snorted. "I can't accept such flattery, with how smart junior-martial sister Zhu is, it seemed like we have to rely on junior-martial sister to capture this heretic practitioner."

"Of course! That should be how it is!" Zhu Yao shamelessly acknowledged his words, giving him a "you are absolutely right, I am very incredible" look.

Wu Fu's face instantly turned green from irritation.

"Junior-martial sister Zhu, it was just a fit of anger on senior-martial brother Wu Fu's part. Please don't fuss with him." Sovereign Wu Hua, who was behind her, took a step forward and came in as a mediator.

"Hoho… How can that be? As an adult, I have never fussed with a tiny person!" Zhu Yao especially emphasized on the phrase "tiny person". As expected, Wu Fu's expression turned darker. "Look, I even informed fellow Sovereign on the incantation to activate the bell. As someone with such a benevolent heart, how could I possibly be angry at him? Isn't that right, Hua Lin?"

She intentionally brought in Old Man Hua from the side.

As a professional follower, Hua Lin immediately nodded like a shaking scallion, and then said with a stern look. "That's right, that's right. Fellow Daoist Yu is very kind."

"…" Wu Hua's face stiffened, before he let out a dry laugh. "That's… That's good… Hoho."

While Wu Fu's face had already begun to turn dark.

"Haah, I like to help others. If I don't help one person a day, my body will itch all over." Zhu Yao continued to fan the flames. "You guys should be aware of this. As someone who has incredible cultivation like me, I don't have much going on usually, and since I don't have much hobbies, I like to refine some tenth rank or ninth rank little toys, and then throw them all around the place. Didn't I refine a large golden banner for you guys in the past?" She paused for a moment, as though she had just thought of something. She looked towards Wu Hua and said. "Oh right, Sovereign Wu Hua, I forgot to ask you. Do you still have that golden banner I gave you? Haah, back then, I was concealing my cultivation, so I didn't tell you that it was a seventh rank mystic artifact. Sorry about that~"

Wu Hua was startled for a moment. Then, something seemed to have flashed past his mind as he spoke with a smile. "Sovereign, you're too courteous! I'm already elated to have been bestowed with your mystic artifact."

"Actually, I'm to blame for my lack of education during my youth. The word on that banner was written with such crookedness that it has affected the circulation of spiritual energy of the mystic artifact. Otherwise, it could have possibly become an eighth rank mystic artifact. Eh… What was the word I wrote back then? Sovereign Wu Hua, take it out for a moment. Why don't I help you alter it a little right now?"

"There's no need for the hassle." Wu Hua courteously said. "To tell you the truth, this lowly one has accidentally lost it."

"Ah!?" Zhu Yao frowned. "How could it be lost? Where did you lose it?"

"This…"

"Is it in Peaceful Spiritual Forest?"

Wu Hua was startled, the smile on his face instantly stiffened.

Zhu Yao's voice turned cold as she continued. "I suddenly remembered. The word 'soul' was written on it. The 'soul' of a Soul Beckoning Banner!"

When her words fell, his expression changed, while Hua Lin had already reacted in an instant. With all of his spiritual energy at once, he struck out his palm.

Wu Hua dodged to the side and then flew up into the air. Hua Lin's palm missed, and right after, an enormous crater appeared on the ground. Wu Hua who still had a harmonious smile earlier, instantly made a ruthless and cruel face as he summoned a spiritual sword.

"What are you two trying to do?" Wu Fu at the side instantly flared up as he furiously glared at Zhu Yao and Hua Lin who attacked earlier. Just as he was about to stop them, Zhu Yao stopped him with her glare.

"Idiot, do you still not get it? He's the culprit behind refining the Soul Assimilating Banner, exterminating Office Shell Sect, and flattening Ness Cesary Sect!"

"What?" This time, it wasn't just Wu Fu. Everyone present was looking at Wu Hua in the air with looks of utter disbelief.

Zhu Yao coldly snorted. "I have never given him a banner-shaped mystic artifact, but I had seen that golden Soul Beckoning Banner in Peaceful Spiritual Forest five years ago. If my guess is correct, a Soul Beckoning Banner is one of the materials needed to refine a Soul Assimilating Banner."

Everyone present collectively held their breaths.

"Impossible!" Wu Fu was still denying it with all his might. All of the Ness Cesary Soul disciples also had looks of disbelief on their faces. "He's a Demigod Sovereign of Ness Cesary Sect in the first place, why is there a need for him to deal with his own sect?"

"Then what if he's not Wu Hua?" Zhu Yao said, with emphasis on every word.

Everyone present became even more shocked.

"You… What are you trying to say?" Wu Fu had a look of disbelief.

Zhu Yao solemnly said. "Soul takeover."

Everyone was dumbfounded. Soul takeover… Taking over a Demigod Sovereign's soul… How was that even possible?

"A bunch of lies. He's a Demigod!" Wu Fu furiously reproved.

"He's also someone who can refine the Soul Assimilating Banner." Zhu Yao reminded.

Everyone's faces instantly turned pale. That's right. Since he was capable of pulling out the souls of living people, taking over the soul of a Demigod Sovereign did not sound too far-fetched any longer. Then who was the person in the air?

"Hohohoho…" Wu Hua instantly laughed out loud sinisterly. However, strangely, it was actually a female voice. "I never thought that even after many years of planning, I still ended up getting discovered. That's right, I'm not Wu Hua. That old snitch agreed to cooperate, but he quickly went back on his word right after and attempted to plot against me. I had no choice but to remove this snake in the grass. After thwarting his schemes, I used him to infiltrate Ness Cesary Sect…" She suddenly looked down and landed her eyes on Zhu Yao. "I believed that I have concealed myself really well for these five years. How did you see through my disguise?"

"Why should I tell you that?" Zhu Yao rolled her eyes at her. "We're going to fight, right? Why do you villains always have so much crap to say?"

Zhu Yao immediately summoned a heavenly lightning bolt and struck it in his direction.

Right from the very start, she had suspected that the culprit behind this chain of events was most likely within the various clans and sects present. Because from the beginning till the end, other than those few puppets, she did not see the shadow of even a single heretic practitioner. Furthermore, heretic practitioners had always moved on their own and did not have a single gathering site. Wanting to gather them together to strike down a deity sect was even harder than ascending to the heavens.

That was why she had thought that there might be a mole. In the beginning, she had suspected Wu Fu who had been harbouring ill will against her the entire time, until Wu Hua spoke up to rescue Wu Fu. Though the two of them had always belonged to Ness Cesary Sect, and were martial brothers of the same sect, they had always been on opposing sides. They were like kings who refused to acknowledge each other. If not for the occasions themselves, the two would rather stay away and die from old age than see each other. Even back then when she was at Skybond Peak, when the two of them were supervising her cultivation, they had never appeared together. Yet, Wu Hua spoke up for Wu Fu earlier, which was an incredibly strange event.

What made her certain was when her master suddenly spoke up. This person's soul is unstable.

What kind of person would have an unstable soul? Either when that person had parts of its soul missing, or when his or her soul had been taken over.

Furthermore, with the appearance of the Soul Assimilating Banner, she could not help but recall the time when she was in Peaceful Spiritual Forest. When the toad talked about the Soul Beckoning Banner it saw, it mentioned about seeing a soul takeover occuring. The toad said that a male practitioner had killed a female practitioner, and then that female practitioner took over the male practitioner's soul. In the beginning, she had thought that the two of them had Nascent Soul cultivation. When she thought about it now, with a beastie's personality, why would it have waited till the female practitioner had finished taking over the male practitioner's soul if he had complete confidence in taking it, especially when it was something it liked?

The reason why it quietly watched the entire scene before taking action, was most likely because one of the pair was most likely a Demigod Sovereign. The toad did not have the confidence for absolute victory, and so decided to wait till he was taken over, before snatching its beloved golden banner away.

That male practitioner was most likely Sovereign Wu Hua, while the female practitioner was that heretic practitioner. Wu Hua probably wanted to work with the heretic practitioner in the beginning, and that Soul Beckoning Banner was most likely his creation as well. However, after a while, he must have regretted his actions and thus wanted to kill the female practitioner. Having his soul taken over was most likely something he never expected would happen.

Earlier, Zhu Yao had just casually mentioned the Soul Beckoning Banner to test her, but Zhu Yao never expected that she would really take the bait and thought that Zhu Yao was the one who refined the Soul Beckoning Banner which Wu Hua brought!

Presently, within Wu Hua's body was the female practitioner who took over his soul. In the heart demon site which she along with little tyrant and Ye Qingcang were in, the strand of divine sense she saw back then belonged to a female practitioner as well!

She was the mastermind behind everything.

With Zhu Yao's opening strike, everyone regained their senses and summoned their own mystic artifacts as they moved to surround 'Wu Hua'.

'Wu Hua' dodged that heavenly lightning bolt. Glancing at the surrounding people, she coldly laughed. "With the likes of you people, trying to capture me is but a pipe dr-"

Before she could even finish, with a splat sound, she fell from the skies and slammed onto the ground.

Zhu Yao once again strengthened the pressure she was releasing and sighed. "I already told you that villains shouldn't talk so much crap, right?" She was already surrounded, yet she still did not forget to throw down some trash talk. Are you here to act for a show?

Everyone present: "…" Such a ruthless Sovereign.

Zhu Yao instantly called upon a stream of lightning bolts and struck them down at her. The ground was instantly covered in clouds of dust.

"Damn it!" 'Wu Hua' flew out from the minefield. Her hair was dishevelled and even her clothes were ripped. She glared at Zhu Yao with gritted teeth. This time, she no longer started off with her trash talk. She immediately pulled out an item and threw it into the air.

In an instant, a green banner shrouded over Zhu Yao's head.

"Soul Assimilating Banner!" Someone recognized this was the banner within the Visual Recording Stone with a glance. "Sovereign, watch out!"

"It's useless!" 'Wu Hua' smiled sinisterly. "No one is able to escape my Soul Assimilating Art. So what if you have a higher cultivation level than me? Become my puppet!" She hurriedly cast an art with her hands, and the green banner instantly released a pale green aura akin to ghostly flames, enveloping Zhu Yao.

"Daoist Yu!" Hua Lin's face paled.

"Hahahaha…" 'Wu Hua' laughed even more maniacally, sparkles of excitement filled her eyes as she stared intently at Zhu Yao who was within the green light. She's about to become my Demigod Sovereign. Very soon! Very soon…

A moment later.

Nothing happened…

Zhu Yao stably stood within the green light. Forget about her soul leaving her body, not even a strand of hair was lost.

"That's impossible!" 'Wu Hua' immediately cast the art again. However, no matter how she cast it, Zhu Yao was affected in the slightest.

Hua Lin and the rest of his little companions were dumbfounded, as they looked suspiciously at 'Wu Hua'. You're just here to play a prank, right? Where's the promised puppet?

"Daoist Yu? How… are you feeling?"

"Mn, it's a little chilly!" I'm sorry, I just found out I'm immune to soul manipulating abilities too.

Everyone: …

Zhu Yao waved her hand and summoned two lightning bolts. One landed right on the Soul Assimilating Banner, while the other struck fellow student 'Wu Hua' who was already beginning to seriously suspect her own character setting.

With a loud thunderous boom, she was immediately slammed onto the ground.

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Chapter 321: Don't Want to be a Good Girl (Actual)

Zhu Yao did not hold back with this lightning bolt of hers. It was a Nine Heavenly Profound Lightning bolt, and adding the suppression in levels between a late-stage Demigod and an early-stage Demigod, 'Wu Hua' was basically helpless as her meridians were completely severed from the lightning strike. Even the surrounding practitioners could sense the pressure and intensity, as they unconsciously took a few steps back.

'Wu Hua' raised her head with all her strength, glaring ruthlessly at Zhu Yao. Her eyes were filled with hatred and intent to rip her into shreds. Her face which was already charred crisp and indiscernible was constantly distorting, looking especially frightening. However, she still managed to utter out. "Mistress will definitely not forgive you!"

Zhu Yao stopped her feet, and she asked with a solemn voice. "Who is your mistress?" This was already the second time she heard this term. Could it be that there was still another secret final boss behind her?

She however simply laughed in an ominous manner. It was clearly a male body, yet it was letting out a female voice, and it grew even off-putting as time went by.

"Do you want to know who my mistress is?" She coldly snorted. Suddenly, a red light began to seep out of her entire body, and it continued to grow even brighter. Even the surrounding spiritual energy was beginning to rumble. "Find out yourself in hell!"

The hell, self-destruction again! Can you use another method for once? Zhu Yao's hands moved quickly, instantly casting an art to shatter her Dantian, wanting to scatter all of the spiritual energy in her body to prevent her self-destruction. Just as she was about to activate the art, 'Wu Hua' suddenly reached out her hand.

"Yu Yao!" Her master's anxious call suddenly sounded in her ears.

A green formation instantly appeared beneath their feet. With a bright flash of green light, before she could even react, she simply felt empty air beneath her feet. It was as if the space beneath her had suddenly been sliced open as she fell right down.

Zhu Yao felt her body lightening. The surrounding scenery changed, and in an instant, she landed on the ground. Her vision was instantly covered in darkness. Lustrous green light could be faintly seen all around, fluttering in the air, as though they were like fireflies in the night sky.

Zhu Yao was stunned for a moment. 'Wu Hua' next to her however, had begun limping towards the direction behind her. As she ran, she continued to shout out. "Mistress… Mistress, save me! Save, save me…"

Zhu Yao turned to look.

Tree. An enormous tree.

Though it could not be compared to the Parasol Tree that inhabited the Phoenix race back then, it was still outrageously tall and very ancient. It was impossible to see its peak with a head held high, and even the tree bark was at least as thick as a football field. The entire tree was even emitting out green glimmering lights which were slowly flying up into the air, lighting up this entire pitch-black world.

"A parasol tree…" Little Eighth who had been sleeping on Zhu Yao's shoulder the entire time, suddenly woke up. He used his little wings to rub his eyes. "I got a whiff of a parasol tree's scent. Am I home?"

Zhu Yao was stunned. This was a parasol tree?

Little Eighth however immediately gave a definitive no. "Eh, it's not a parasol tree? It has such a similar scent! Seventh elder sister, what is this?"

Zhu Yao shook her head. She did not know either, but she strangely felt that it looked familiar. Had she seen it somewhere before?

On the other side, 'Wu Hua' had already reached her destination, and she shouted out loud at the tree. "Mistress, hurry and wake up. She wants to kill me! Save me…"

Her mistress was this tree?

Suddenly, that tree moved, shaking the earth for a moment. One enormous root after another shot out from the ground. The glimmering lights that were still calmly floating up into the air earlier suddenly began to rampage, gathering at the center of the tree.

The hell. Could this possibly a tree demon!?

Zhu Yao's heart clenched as she hurriedly placed down a defensive barrier.

More green glimmering lights began to gather, and they slowly condensed into a bright human figure. The surrounding spiritual energy began to grow chaotic as well, making the spiritual energy rampage she caused back then look like nothing. It could be seen just how strong this person was. 'Wu Hua' grew even more excited, looking as though she had suddenly found her pillar of support. She was already beginning to laugh softly to herself.

She did it on purpose. She clearly knew that she incapable of defeating Zhu Yao, and had thus sent her here, wanting to make use of that 'mistress' to kill her.

Zhu Yao began to grow a little anxious. She tightened her grip on the sword in her hand. Looking at the surrounding spiritual energy that was so concentrated it could liquefy at any moment, her heart began to tremble. She did not want to face the final boss so quickly! Was it too late for her to flee?

The figure formed by the glimmering lights began to grow clearer. In a few moments, a young lady dressed in a light green robe appeared beneath the tree. She looked extremely beautiful. Compared to Zhu Yao, her skin was even whiter, her hair was even darker, and her lips were even redder. The hell! Even her breasts were bigger!

Zhu Yao felt as if her life had been struck with a blow. Why don't I just slip away now?

"Mistress! You're finally awake, mistress!" 'Wu Hua' hurriedly knelt down, paying her respects with incredible excitement. An instant later, her eyes sank as she pointed at Zhu Yao. "She is the person who obstructed our plans."

That young lady had her eyes closed this entire time. Looking as if she had just heard 'Wu Hua', she took in a deep breath and then slowly opened her eyes. Her deep green eyes locked onto Zhu Yao.

"Mistress, it's her!" 'Wu Hua' stood up and pointed straight at Zhu Yao, unremittingly telling on her.

The young lady with overbearing aura looked straight at Zhu Yao. A strange smile broke from her lips as she slowly opened her arms wide.

Zhu Yao felt her heart skip a bit. Turning her feet, she was just about to run when suddenly…

A light, tender voice sounded in her ears. "Yaoyao!"

In an instant, a light breeze blew as a green figure came charging over. Along the way, she had even kicked away an unidentified object. Before Zhu Yao could even react, her body was already tightly wrapped by the green-robed young lady's pair of steel-like arms. Like a doll, she was carried up and twirled around in various manners.

"Yaoyao! Yaoyao! Yaoyao… I finally got to see you. I'm so happy, I'm so happy!"

As she said that, she even rubbed her face strongly against Zhu Yao's. Zhu Yao felt as if a layer of her skin was about to peel off.

Eh!?

What kind of situation was this?

What happened to the promised final boss of the villains? The atmosphere changed so quickly!? Give me an explanation first, hey!

"Yaoyao, Yaoyao… You finally came to see me. I miss you, I miss you so much! I want to hug, I want to kiss, I want to hug you even tighter!" The young lady seemed to be uncontrollably excited as her two slender yet strangely strong arms wrapped around Zhu Yao intensely.

Kacha…

Something similar to bones breaking in her body could be heard.

"Bre… Breathe…" If she were to continue hugging her, she would die. As expected of the final boss, her killing power was top-notch.

I'm going to die, I'm going to die, I'm going to die!

Suddenly, a white light flashed from her chest. Her master, Guanyin who saves people from misery, finally appeared. Putting one hand on each side, he broke the two people apart as though he was breaking an apple.

Zhu Yao only managed to calm herself down after taking several deep breaths. The hell, is this young lady Nezha? I was about to suffocate to death here.

"Yaoyao…" The young lady was unwilling to separate from her, as she raised her hands and tried to pounce on Zhu Yao once more.

"Don't come over!" Zhu Yao immediately leapt two steps back from fear, retreating behind her master. The girls of this world are so scary.

The young lady was stunned. After being dumbfounded for two seconds, her face which was still glowing with the light of spring earlier, instantly collapsed. "Yao… Yaoyao…" Tears began to well up in her eyes, and then she cried her lungs out. "Wuaah… Yaoyao doesn't like me anymore… Yaoyao hates me now! Wuaaaah… I knew it… I don't want to be a good girl anymore, I want to rebel against society… Wuaaaaaahhh…"

Zhu Yao: "…"

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Chapter 322: Packing Up and Heading Home

Looking at the young lady on the ground crying as if her world was growing dimmer and dimmer, Zhu Yao's face darkened. Who are you?

"Don't cry already?"

"Wuaahh…" She began to cry even louder.

"…" She's the one who wanted to cry, alright? Comrade, you took the wrong set of scripts, right? "Who in the world are you?"

The young lady was startled for a moment, and then tears began to flow out even more violently than before. This was the first time Zhu Yao understood what "cry me a river" really meant. "Wuaah… Yaoyao has forgotten about me. So sad… So heart-aching…"

"D-don't… Don't cry!" The hell, there's no way to persuade her, is there?

Her cries were filled with incredible sadness, and she had even begun to hiccup. The anxiety in Zhu Yao's heart melted. Taking a few steps forward, she reached out her hand and stroke her head. "Don't cry, alright? Tell me, who are you?"

Only then did the young girl sniffle and stop her heartbreaking cries. Her pouting lips could even be used to hang a piece of bacon right now. After a few hiccups, she finally managed to control her emotions. Raising her reddened eyes, she pitifully glanced at her and then let out a sound.

"Chick…"

"Eh?" Zhu Yao was startled. What does this mean?

The young lady instantly grew a little anxious again. Tugging onto Zhu Yao's hand, she pointed at her own nose. "Chick… Chick chick!"

"The hell is Chick Chick?" Why did she suddenly start to use foreign language, when they were conversing fine just earlier? You're bullying me for my poor education, aren't you!?

"She's the Wood Spirit!" Standing by her side, her master suddenly spoke up.

"What?" Zhu Yao quickly turned her head back, her face was filled with disbelief. "Master, she… she…"

Yu Yan nodded. "She is the Wood Spirit that you planted in the Desolate Ground back then."

"This is the Desolated Ground?" Zhu Yao looked around. As expected, other than the tree right in front of them, the place was a desolate wasteland. She lowered her head and glanced at the young lady in front of her. She indeed possessed a body of wood spiritual energy, and her aura was extremely familiar as well. "You're really Wood Spirit?"

"Chick…" The young lady pitifully called out again.

" You cultivated a human form?" Zhu Yao was pleased. She never expected that she would still be able to meet the Wood Spirit here.

"Yaoyao…" She buried her head into Zhu Yao's chest, her two arms hugging tightly onto her waist. "I really miss you… I really miss you. You said that you would come and see me. I waited for so, so long…"

"Uhh…" She couldn't be blamed for this. Her work itinerary was always full. Furthermore, she wasn't able to buy a travel ticket back either.

"I finally got to see you. As I thought, Realmspirit did not lie to me. You're really here!"

"Realmspirit!" Zhu Yao was stunned. "You know him? Was he the one who said that I will be coming over?"

"Mn." Wood Spirit nodded heavily. "He said that you're in the vicinity, and that I will definitely get to see you this time around. Just as he had said, I got to see you."

Zhu Yao's heart sank, a strange feeling rose in her chest. "When did Realmspirit tell you this?"

Wood Spirit was startled for a moment, her beautiful brows furrowing. "He told me right after I woke up."

"When did you get to know him?"

"I knew him right from the start!" She said with a matter-of-factly expression.

"When?"

"Mn…" She tilted her head as she pondered, yet she did not seem to be able to find a term or phrase to describe it. "In any case… I know him. I knew him when I began to understand things."

Then when did she begin to understand things? Zhu Yao's face darkened. Other than the River of Forgetfulness, this was the second time she heard of Realmspirit from someone else. However, his identity continued to grow even more mysterious, and she could not find a single lead about him at all.

She once again rubbed the Wood Spirit's head. Zhu Yao used a lot of effort before she was able to bring down the arms that wrapped around her waist.

"Wood Spirit, I have something I wish to ask you!" Zhu Yao's expression sank as she sternly said. "Tell me honestly. That Soul Assimilating Banner in the cultivation world, and the matters concerning the construction of puppets with people's souls sealed inside them, were they all your doings?"

She tilted her head and pondered about this question, and then said with a curious look. "Yaoyao… What's a Soul Assimilating Banner?"

"You don't know?" Zhu Yao was shocked.

"Wood Spirit only wants Yaoyao!" Wood Spirit waved her arms at her. "Hug."

"Then why did that 'Wu Hua' call you mistress?" Zhu Yao turned to look at 'Wu Hua', wanting to seek confirmation. "Where did he go?"

She looked around for a long while, and then raised her head, only to see a body hanging on a certain tree branch. The spiritual energy in her body had already completely scattered, whites showing from her eyes. Her face was facing the sky, and her mouth was like a small fountain spitting out blood.

When Wood Spirit sprinted towards her, she seemed… to have… indeed pushed a little something away?

Uhh… It seemed like she used quite a bit of force.

A sense of helplessness instantly overwhelmed Zhu Yao. It was as if she had prepared a bunch of equipment to defeat a boss, only to see him commit suicide before she could even raise her sword.

"Yaoyao, are you talking about Sesame?" Wood Spirit pointed at 'Wu Hua' on the tree branch and said.

"Sesame?" How was that thing like Sesame?

"He called me mistress, so he is Sesame." Wood Spirit explained with a serious look.

"Uh…" So there was actually a relationship called 'Mistress and Sesame' in this world? Just what did you learn in the few years when you were in my divine sense? "How did you get to know… this Sesame?" Zhu Yao asked in another manner.

"She came in on her own and I knew her then." Wood Spirit explained. "Realmspirit said Yaoyao will be coming, so I waited here. While I was waiting, she came in."

Wood Spirit told her about their entire encounter, and Zhu Yao's face darkened after hearing the entire story. In summary, this was a story of a naive young lady being tricked. Realmspirit said that Zhu Yao would appear in a world near the Desolate Ground. In order to meet her, Wood Spirit opened an entrance in the cultivation world – that stone wall in Tranquil Valley. She waited for Zhu Yao to come into the Desolate Ground to see her. In the end, before she got to meet her, she met this heretic practitioner who took over Wu Hua.

Wood Spirit was the manifestation of wood spiritual energy itself, and possessed the purest of heart. After a short chat, the heretic practitioner found out about her desire to look for someone. In order to leave this Desolate Ground, the heretic practitioner pretended to revere her as her mistress, and promised to head to the cultivation world to search for that person.

It would have been fine if that was all, but Wood Spirit had even split a part of her own source energy and gave it to the heretic practitioner. The consequences were thus imaginable. This heretic practitioner however sure possessed incredible technical talent, as she was capable of unleashing the source energy to its fullest potential and had actually discovered the arts of soul control. The puppets of human practitioners, Soul Assimilating Banner and even the heart demon grounds were all things she came up with.

However, her luck was just terrible. In the end, Zhu Yao saw through her, and coincidentally, she transferred her here.

"This Sesame sure is a good Sesame! As expected, she brought Yaoyao over to me!" Wood Spirit did not seemed to have realized that she was tricked, as she waved her hands at 'Wu Hua' with an incredibly brilliant smile. "Sesame, thank you so much."

Wu Hua's reply was: Puaah… She spat out even more blood than before.

Right at this moment, Zhu Yao did not know if Wood Spirit was the one she should be pitying, or 'Wu Hua'.

Zhu Yao did not stay in the Desolate Ground for too long and returned to Office Shell Sect. If she had stayed any longer, most likely, 'Wu Hua' would have surely died. Though she had done many evil deeds, Zhu Yao was still not the one who should decide her fate. No matter what, she should be handled by the members of Office Shell Sect, whose sect was destroyed by her hands.

She had Wood Spirit retrieve the source energy from her body, and then instructed Wood Spirit not to hand over such power to anyone else ever again. Not even Zhu Yao herself. Wood Spirit agreed with teary eyes. Then, she hugged onto Zhu Yao's thigh and cried for a long time, not wanting her to leave.

Zhu Yao's lips were even beginning to dry up from all the persuading she did, yet Wood Spirit was still unwilling to let go. She continued to cry her lungs out.

"Wood Spirit doesn't want to be alone, wuaahh…"

"I will stay behind then!" Little Eighth suddenly spoke up. Then, he flapped his wings and flew towards Wood Spirit's shoulder.

"Little EIghth!" Zhu Yao was stunned, immediately rejecting his proposal. "You can't." When did he become so kind-hearted?

"Seventh elder sister…"

"I'm telling you no, and it means no!" Zhu Yao frowned. "You're presently still a fledgeling. I don't feel at ease leaving you here."

"Tch. You sound as if it's really safe staying by your side."

"Uh…" His reasoning made so much sense, she actually had no words to refute him with.

"Seventh elder sister, I'm no longer young. I even possess the memories of two lives, so nothing will happen." Little Eighth said. "Furthermore, Wood Spirit here carries the scent of a parasol tree, and it's really beneficial to us of the Phoenix race. Other than this place, I really have no idea where else I should go. There's even a chance… that one day, other Phoenixes will sense this place and come over as well. When that time comes, I will no longer be alone."

"…" Zhu Yao's heart clenched, she had nothing to follow up with. In her heart, she faintly understood just how low the chances of two Godbeasts appearing in a single world were.

"Seventh elder sister, don't worry. Nothing will happen to me."

Even after Zhu Yao tried to persuade him for a long while, Little Eighth seemed to have made a resolution to stay here. He was right. Staying by her side was the most dangerous thing he could do. Who would know just how many bugs were there left for her to fix? In this Desolate Ground where only demonic beasts would roam, it was the safest place he could be in. Wood Spirit was the life force of this domain, and no creature could harm her. If a human practitioner were to barge in, as Little Eighth had already gotten tricked once, he would not get tricked so easily again.

In the end, she had no choice but to let him stay behind.

A tree and a bird stood there as they waved their hands (wings) goodbye. Only when Zhu Yao's figure slowly disappear into the spatial tear, did they finally put them down.

They stood still for a long while.

"She's gone…"

"Mn."

"Will Yaoyao still come back?"

"… She will."

"I really want to cry, what should I do?"

"Shut up!"

"That's my Yaoyao…"

"That's my seventh elder sister!"

"… Wuuwuu."

"Stop crying, don't you know tears are contagious!?"

"Wuaaah…"

A long while later…

"Little Eighth Eighth, are you going to make a nest on my body?"

"Not going to!"

"Then how are you going to sleep?"

"You're annoying!"

After returning to the cultivation world, Zhu Yao immediately handed 'Wu Hua' over to Sect Master Gu. As to how she was going to be dealt with, Zhu Yao was unaware of it.

However, the various clans and sects of the cultivation world conducted a meeting that lasted several days, their agenda being the investigation and study of this huge incident, and the drafting of a series of emergency deployment programmes. They had even summarised several of the experiences and lessons learnt.

Ness Cesary Sect received an immense blow from this incident, and even their base was crushed. Coincidentally, Office Shell Sect's base was still present, yet they no longer had anyone occupying it. Zhu Yao did not know how the discussion between Qu Jiang and Sect Master Gu went, but the two sects actually merged in the end, taking up the name Officesary Sect! One provided the human resources, while the other provided the base! It was a rather harmonious move. Furthermore, the one to take up the title of Sect Master, was not Qu Jiang, but Sect Master Gu.

Because of Ye Qingcang's exemplary performance in this campaign, he became the sect's foremost target for nurturing, and his fame began to spread even more. Little tyrant had even more so became an idol. Not just Ness Cesary Sect, even the other sects and wandering practitioners were praising him to no end.

Initially, Sect Master Gu wanted little tyrant to stay in Officesary Sect, but he did not agree to it. Instead, he followed Hua Lin back to Wandering City. A choice like this was beloved by all. Ye Qingcang was already in Officesary Sect. A cave could not hold two tigers, unless one was gong (on top) and the other shou (bottom)… Ah pui, she meant male and female.

Zhu Yao recalled about the incident. The disappearance of the 'bug' on Ye Qingcang's face was most likely related to the transformation of his self and thoughts. Even till today, she still could not figure out just which words of hers had stabbed right into his sore point, making him give up on the opportunity to become a brutal role model.

"Granny, are you going to return to Wandering City?" Ye Qingcang asked.

"Mn, maybe?" The bug was gone, and she suddenly felt she had nothing to do. "What about you? What are your plans?"

His smile was incredibly dazzling, as he showed a magnanimous look. "I created a new set of cultivation arts for penta spirit vein holders. I plan to teach this to all of the disciples in the sect who hold the penta spirit veins."

Zhu Yao was stunned. She was aware that Ye Qingcang had a net set of cultivation arts, as the scenario had brought it up once. It was also the reason for his incredible growth as well. She never expected that he would take it out so easily and teach it to others.

"Just as granny had said, I must learn to trust someone with all my heart."

"…" Zhu Yao blanked for a moment. After a long while, she patted on his shoulders. "Good luck!"

She suddenly felt a sense of achievement, as though her own son had all grown up!

"When are you planning to take in disciples?"

"When the mountain gate opens once more."

"Not bad, fellow student Little Cang! You're about to become a teacher. Then, in the future, should I call you…"

Aoi-sensei!

"Little Cang, are you really going to take in disciples? There's still time to go back on your word! Aoi-sensei isn't someone that anyone can become. You must be cautious, young man!"

Zhu Yao suddenly felt a clear aura coming from the sky above, and she could even faintly hear a crackling sound. The sky had even gotten a little brighter.

"The Heavenly Door has opened." Yu Yan suddenly said.

Zhu Yao was startled. "Heavenly Door?" What did he mean?

White light flashed from her chest, and her master suddenly appeared above her sword. He raised his head and glanced at the sky. "The Heavenly Door of this world has just been opened."

"Ah!? Has the Heavenly Door even been closed before?"

Yu Yan reached out his hand and stroked his stupid disciple's head, sighing. "Do you know why not a single person has ascended from this world for so many years?"

"I don't know." Could it be because they all looked ugly?

"Presently, in the Higher Realm, the Heavenly Doors leading to the Lower Realm had all collapsed."

"What!?" Zhu Yao was stunned. She was somewhat aware of the Heavenly Door collapse incident, as she saw it once in the Higher Realm herself. However, that was just one example. Just how long had it been since then, that all the Heavenly Doors of the Three Thousand Worlds were now closed?

"However, the Heavenly Door of this world has just been opened again." Yu Yan frowned. He found it incomprehensible as well.

Before the two of them could even figure it out, the Light of Guidance broke through the skies and landed right on the two of them.

"Master!" Zhu Yao grew anxious, as she hurriedly grabbed onto his hand.

The lot which was just about to return to Wandering City was also shocked by the sudden appearance of the Light of Guidance.

"Grandma…" Little tyrant looked dumbfoundedly at the two people enveloped within the heavenly light.

Yu Yan sighed. He wrapped his arm around Zhu Yao's waist, and held her in his embrace. Lowering his head, he pressed down on her forehead. "Yu… Yao. The matters concerning this world have been settled, you shall accompany me back to the Higher Realm." It was best to bind his disciple to his side.

Zhu Yao nodded. The bug was already dealt with, and her master's divine sense could not be away from its main body for a long period of time either. Furthermore, it's been a long time since she broke into the late-stage Demigod level. She turned to face little tyrant and waved her hand. "Little tyrant, hurry and come up here to look for me, alright?"

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Chapter 323: Forced Disconnection

Zhu Yao felt her body loosening as she flew towards the depths of the light.

This was the first time she was ascending into the Higher Realm through the standard passageway, and she could not help but feel a little anxious. She really wanted to give an acceptance speech of some sort. It continued to grow brighter in front of her eyes, and white was the only thing that she could see above her.

Her master's figure next to her was growing fainter. Suddenly, he turned around and pressed on her lips. Then, he said with a sunken voice. "Return to Lightning Divine Palace with haste. Your master shall be waiting for your return."

Zhu Yao nodded, and only then did his figure completely disappear. Most likely, he had returned to his main body.

The light continued to grow brighter, and Zhu Yao's little heart was beating rapidly. As long as she were to cross this white light, she would arrive in the Higher Realm, and she would then be able to reunite with her master. Finally, she could spend time loving for real. She suddenly felt the world had become even more beautiful than before!

Zhu Yao's entire being was enveloped by the white light, brighter… brighter… and even brighter…

Crack.

Everything went dark!

What happened? Was the electricity cut off? Where's the promised beautiful new world?

Ting! A conversation window popped out right at this moment.

You have disconnected. Please choose one of the following options:

[Login with a new avatar] or [Give up on login] or [Retort]

Zhu Yao: "…"

-flips table- Realmspirit, wait right there with your neck cleaned!

The conversation window flashed, and a new row of words instantly appeared. User has chosen [Retort, switching to conversation mode.

The screen shook, and a familiar QQ chat window immediately popped up.

Realmspirti: Welcome back! Young maiden, the bug was fixed perfectly! You shall receive a five-star rating, yo!

Realmspirit: Eh? Young maiden, what's wrong? Why is your face so dark?

Realmspirit: Young maiden, why are you taking off your shoes… Ah! Don't throw… Don't throw it at my face!

Realmspirit: Why are you still throwing… That's Bai Yuan's inner core! Hey… Young maiden…

Realmspirit: Stop throwing already! If you can, then throw your chest pads at me too!

Realmspirit: The hell! You're actually throwing them!

A moment later…

Realmspirit: Young maiden, I was wrong!

"Speak, what the hell's wrong with you? Why did I end up in this stupid place when I was ascending so perfectly?"

Realmspirit: I'm just worried that young maiden might be a little tired. You must watch out for your health and log off on time. It's work-life balance, you know?

Zhu Yao cracked her knuckles, emitting out resounding crackling noises. "Speak human!"

Realmspirit: An urgent bug has appeared, that's why I forcefully disconnected you.

"The hell! So I was murdered by you this time!?"

Realmspirit: Haah, young maiden, I don't have a choice this time around. You know this, right? Spirits have three urgent needs!

"Piss off!" There's something wrong with me if I believe your words! What's this urgent situation you had to disconnect me for? Do you know how exhausting maintaining this avatar was? Yet, you disconnected me like it's nothing!" Back then, Cheng Qingdiao had broken her avatar to an incredibly sorry state, yet she was still able to live past that. One will grow attached to an avatar after using it for a long time, you know?

Realmspirit: Young maiden, the bug this time is really special. That world is already at the verge of collapse.

"Then what can I possibly do if I were to head…"

Before she could even finish, a video player suddenly appeared on the screen. Within the screen, the place was in complete chaos. The earth was shaking and spiritual energy was running amok. It was like an apocalyptic film. Even the practitioners that were flying in the sky were unable to escape. The entire world was enveloped in fear of death.

Zhu Yao suddenly recalled the moment when the world of the God races was at the verge of collapse. This was a very similar scene. However, back then she was able to open the World Crossing Door in time, while this world no longer had any presence of life.

"This is the world where the next bug is in?"

Realmspirit: That's right! This is a scene from not too far away in the future. Young maiden, if it wasn't because of an especially urgent matter like this, I wouldn't have needed to forcefully disconnect you. Please work overtime!

Zhu Yao rolled her eyes at him. "Among the scenarios you have given me, which world wouldn't have ended up like that?"

Realmspirit: Young maiden… It's really different this time. This is extremely urgent. Please consider, kajima…

"Do I even have a choice to make here?" Zhu Yao smiled coldly.

Realmspirit: …

The screen was silent for a moment. After a long while, the next row of words finally showed.

Realmspirit: Yaoyao… I'm sorry!

"You don't have to apologize!" Zhu Yao smiled. "Because I won't accept your apology." This time, she was truly angry. In my past reincarnations, at the very least, she got disconnected because of her own fault most of the time. She had always told herself that in a certain sense, Realmspirit was actually saving her each time.

But what about now? Was he dissatisfied that she was taking too long to die, and thus made the move himself? Then what was he treating her as? A puppet that could be disposed of at anytime? People shouldn't behave this shamelessly!

"Realmspirit! You have always told me that we are friends, but does real friends actually act like this?" Zhu Yao took a deep breath, the flames in her heart could not be quelled no matter what she did. "If things go on like this, I don't know how far this so-called friendship can truly last."

The screen was quiet for a very long time. The next row of words did not appear even after a long while.

After a long while, the screen flashed and suddenly disappeared. A human figure took its place, and this time it was actually the figure of a woman. The woman's face was very familiar, because she looked exactly the same as Zhu Yao herself.

"Yaoyao…" She called out.

Zhu Yao did not have any reaction. She simply turned her head away, and no longer gave her another glance.

Realmspirit lowered her head, and walked over with a guilty look. "I'm sorry…"

"I already told you, I won't accept your apology!"

She was silent for a moment, and then gently said. "I know you have a lot of questions, and that you're very angry as well… But there are some matters that I still can't reveal to you yet, it's still too soon for you. I was… too impulsive this time. I shouldn't have done this to you, I apologize. I guarantee that this won't happen again."

She looked sincere, and the anger within Zhu Yao finally quelled a little.

Realmspirit smiled, and then, with her eyes looking straight at Zhu Yao's, she said. "But, Zhu Yao… Please believe me. I have never thought of harming you. If there comes a day when you truly do not wish to continue, even if I have to use all of my power, I will send you back."

"…" Zhu Yao clenched her fists, and finally after taking in a deep breath, she could not help but push her face away. "Don't say something so disgusting with my face, hey!"

"Hoho… Young maiden, you're clearly enjoying it!" Seeing that her anger was quelled, Realmspirit instantly returned to her rough attitude.

"Scram!"

"Don't be like that~ Help me fix this bug of mine again~ Because of the increase in difficulty, I will be providing you with all-round technical support, along with great rewards~"

"What kind of support specifically? And what are the rewards?" Everything you gave her had always been shocks, alright!?

She suddenly snapped her fingers, and a screen once again appeared in the air. A certificate could be seen in it. "Do you still remember that Plane Movement Permit?"

"Are you going to help my master make one?" After all, she returned to this place because of this exact reason.

"Uhh…" Her face stiffened. "I can help you submit an application to the Plane Transmigration Inspection Bureau!"

"Tch!" One glance and Zhu Yao knew she wasn't that reliable.

"Really, young maiden, you must trust me! I have a pretty great reputation, and there's a very huge possibility that the application will be successful. The success rate is as high as 3.8%!"

"Scram!" She actually dared to bring up a measly 3.8%.

"Young maiden… Don't be so heartless!"

"Are we going to fix that bug or not?" This person sure had lots of nonsense to talk about.

"Fix, fix, fix, of course! Immediately!" Realmspirit hurriedly nodded. That reincarnation loading bar instantly appeared before her eyes.

Realmspirit had an unwilling look. Out of nowhere, she pulled out a small handkerchief, and waved it frantically at Zhu Yao. "Hurry and come back, dear!"

"…" She suddenly had a bad feeling.

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Chapter 324: All-round Technical Support

When Zhu Yao woke up, she found herself in a spacious room. There weren't any other furniture in her surroundings other than a single bed. The bed was carved with spiritual jade, looking especially exquisite as spiritual energy flowed out of it in abundance. The floor was paved with an unknown stone material that was seamlessly snow white. With one glance, it could be seen just how rich the owner of this room was.

However, not a single other person was in the room, and Zhu Yao… was lying on the ceiling supporting frame.

Setting her resurrection point on a ceiling supporting frame was truly a little too 'high'-end. The moment she opened her eyes, she had almost fallen onto the ground, you know? Fortunately, she managed to grab onto the frame with her quick reflexes, otherwise with the height of this ceiling, at the very least, her lower body would have been paralyzed. After looking at the room for a short while more, she then slid down the pillar and onto the ground.

With Realmspirit's, sense of morality, the first thing she did when she landed on the ground, was investigate her avatar. At the very least, she had to ascertain its gender! She grabbed onto her waistband, and just as she was about to pull it out and verify her lower body, she saw two bundles of erect, snow-white peaks.

What were these?

Zhu Yao pinched them with slight disbelief.

They hurt! They're mine!

Breasts! I actually have breasts! And I can even see them when I look down!

Having flat plains for several lifetimes, Zhu Yao felt weight from the breasts in front of her for the very first time and was beyond ecstatic.

Looking at these wavy curves and towering elevations, they were at least E!

This isn't a dream, right? If it's a dream, let me gently pinch them a little.

She suddenly felt like she could forgive Realmspirit for anything now!

Eh, wait a minute!

Looking at her past experiences, since her points on her body figure were off the charts, her face couldn't have been hit with demerit points, right?

Zhu Yao's heart sank. She calmly circulated spiritual energy in her body, and realized that her body had already built on its Foundation. She immediately summoned a water mirror, and then looked at her face as she closed in on it.

After looking at it, Zhu Yao took in a deep breath.

This incredible face was completely illogical! Even Zhu Yao felt like she was incapable of describing what kind of face it was. Even the four beauties of ancient China couldn't possibly compare to her present look! Even when she reincarnated as one of the God races back then, she wasn't this beautiful either. If she really had to describe it, then 'dreamy' was the only word she could think of.

Did Realmspirit finally found his conscience? He was treating her so well all of a sudden! She couldn't adapt to this at all, hey.

Let me enjoy my beauty to my heart's content for a little while more…

She glanced at the face in the water mirror, and then pinched on her breasts again. She could play like this all day.

Recalling that she had a mission on hand, Zhu Yao had no choice but to unwillingly retract the water mirror. Presently, she had yet to receive the scenario, so she decided to first head out for a look.

The room was huge. Zhu Yao had to walk a few dozen steps before arriving at the door. Just as she was about to pull it open, she suddenly heard a chime as a conversation window popped up in front of her.

"Congratulations on activating the 'Five Minutes Timed Trial' mode."

(This is a passive skill with no cooldown.)

Zhu Yao: …

The hell was this Five Minutes Timed Trial? Math Olympiad?

Before Zhu Yao could even figure out the situation, the conversation window flashed and disappeared. She did not really pay it any mind either and instantly pulled open the door. A white flash of light appeared in front of her eyes as it shot straight towards her. It landed heavily on her chest. She felt a piercing pain as her entire body flew backwards.

"Puaaah!" She puked out a mouthful of blood.

Her vision blackened!

Ting! A conversation window appeared again.

"Congratulations on unlocking the 'Disconnecting in the Shortest Time Possible' achievement. The time you spent online was five minutes. You disconnected the moment you came online! Title Unlocked: Black Face!'

Zhu Yao: "…"

-Flips table- What's with this 'Disconnecting in the Shortest Time Possible' achievement? Why was there an explosion talisman outside her door? Why did she reincarnate in such a dangerous place? She finally managed to attain a beautiful lady avatar. She had the breasts, and even the gorgeous face. She just wanted to quietly spend a little time enjoying her beauty… And the hell, she really spent a very little time enjoying it alright!

Realmspirit, come out! I shall bash you to death right here and now!

Ting!

"Five Minutes Timed Trial" mode passive activated. Countdown begins. 5… 4… 3… 2…

In the next instant, the scene before her eyes flashed. Just as she was about to take a step forward, her feet touched on empty air. When she looked like she was about to fall, she immediately reached out her hand to the side and managed to hug onto something which saved her from the fall.

When she looked around. The hell! She returned to the ceiling supporting frame!

Wait a minute. Five minutes timed trial. Time couldn't have been rewound by five minutes, right?

She immediately crawled down with support of the pillar and summoned a water mirror. As expected, it was that beautiful face from before. She clasped down below. Phew! The breasts are still here.

So there isn't a need to change avatars! Say so earlier! You frightened me!

Zhu Yao immediately heaved a sigh of relief and once again arrived at the doorstep. Recalling her experience of being bombed to death, she did not open the door instantly this time. Instead, she circulated her spiritual energy to sense the location of the explosion talisman, poked a hole straight through the paper panel door, and tore it down.

Only then did she open the door!

Rich spiritual energy instantly poured towards her. Zhu Yao took a deep breath, and what entered her eyes were sheets of white misty clouds. Occasionally, spiritual cranes would fly past. With just one glance, it could be seen that this place was a celestial mountain with blessed lands. Other than the clouds in front of her, there seemed to be a human figure as well.

Just on time. She could ask about the situation regarding this avatar of hers. Her heart was filled with excitement as she stepped out. "May I ask…"

Flop…

Zhu Yao stepped on empty air, falling straight down.

Her vision once again blackened.

Ting!

Congratulations, you fell to your death!

Ting!

"Five Minutes Timed Trial" mode passive activated. Countdown begins, in 5… 4… 3… 2…

The scene in front of her flashed, and she returned to that ceiling supporting frame.

Zhu Yao: "…"

The hell. Her door was right at the edge of the cliff. Just which idiotic architect would come up with a design like that!? If you have guts, then don't you dare leave after school!

Her third resurrection…

She first tore down the talisman. Then, she quietly stood in front of the door and stared outside for five minutes. Just as she was planning to look for a usable mystic artifact…

A disciple dressed in a green robe suddenly came flying from afar. He looked at her with a shocked look, and his expression seemed to have changed a couple of times, before he hurriedly bowed in front of her.

"This disciple greets Sect Master. Sect Master, you… have ended your closed-door training?"

Zhu Yao was startled. Sect Master? A Foundation disciple like her? The summit of life of this world was a little too short, don't you think?

Though she had long guessed that this avatar most likely had a scenario attached to it, she never expected that her identity would be this incredible.

"Uh… About that. What sect am I Sect Master of?" Zhu Yao asked.

That disciple was stunned for a moment. Then, he straightened himself up and replied. "Naturally, you are the Sect Master of Spirit Heaven Palace."

"Ou." With the power backed by the scenario, it would be useless even if she tried to deny it. She might as well admit it. "Oh right, what's your name?"

The disciple frowned, as a thought seemed to have quickly flashed past his face. With a smile, he replied. "Sect Master sure is forgetful. I am your junior-martial nephew, Luo Shi!"

Junior-martial nephew? In other words, she had a senior-martial brother as well?

"I wonder what instructions Sect Master have for me, since you have ended your closed-door training ahead of time?" This disciple named Luo Shi asked, his attitude indeed looked respectful, but for some reasons, she felt that something was off.

"No need!" She had enough of staying in the room. It was time to start her job of locating the bug. "Do you have a flying artifact on you? How about lending me one?"

"Yes! Sect Master!" Luo Shi turned to pull open the storage pouch by his side, and said. "I wonder where Sect Master is heading to?"

"I'm not sure. I will just be looking around." Zhu Yao turned to look at the snow-white clouds outside. With how high her house was at, she wondered what it would look like below.

"In that case, why don't junior-martial nephew send you off?"

"Ah?" Before Zhu Yao could even react, she heard an air-tearing sound next to her. LUo stood in front of her with a sunken face.

A dagger stabbed straight into her chest.

The hell!

What was this situation? Why did he make a move against her without giving a single explanation!?

Ting!

"Victories and defeats are natural occurrences in the art of war. Great deity, please try again!"

"Five Minutes Timed Trial" mode passive activated!

She once again returned to that ceiling support frame.

The hell, just what kind of ridiculous scenario did Realmspirit arrange for her this time!? -faints-

Why did she die three times consecutively before she could even step away from this room? Was this the price of having a gorgeous face? Could she get a refund?

An unprecedented sense of danger rose in Zhu Yao's heart. This time, she did not dare to step out of the door so easily again. The world outside was too dangerous. She looked around the room carefully, hoping to see if she could locate a usable mystic artifact. In the end, the room was so clean, not even a speck of dust could be found.

Seeking help from others was not an option. She did not know if she would encounter someone like Luo Shi who would stab her, after all.

What should she do?

Suddenly, she focused her line of sight on the silk blanket on the jade bed. When she picked it up, she realized that it was made of Hibre Thread, a second rank refining material. She immediately pulled the entire blanket out and cast the Fire Control Art, slowly refining the silk.

After a while, a silk handkerchief the size of her palm was refined to completion. Probably because of the strength of her flames, the product was just a first rank mystic artifact. However, she was already satisfied that she could fly with it.

She immediately tore down the talisman, opened the door, and flew out. This was a dangerous place, and she did not wish to stay there for even a single moment longer.

Just when she had merely flown for several meters, she suddenly crashed into something.

A formation!

Before she could even react, the formation instantly shone. Several hundred icicles immediately tore through the skies and shot in her direction.

Ting!

'Congratulations, you have died stupidly!'

The hell! This old lady won't believe it! I will leave this house no matter what!

Zhu Yao once again refined the Hibre Thread. This time, when she left the door, she did not charge out in a hurry. Instead, she took a deep breath and circulated out spiritual energy to investigate the formation. After taking a closer look, she realized that there was a circular defensive formation several dozen meters away in the sky. The formation surrounded the house she was in.

The formation was ice-type, and would only activate when one attempted to leave, and not enter. In other words, this formation was used to defend against her.

Just who was this avatar of hers? Why were there so many traps and mechanisms outside?

After scanning the entire formation, Zhu Yao then began perform calculations on it. A short while later, she found the formation core, and it happened to be right on the roof of the house. Zhu Yao flew closer to take a look, only to realize that it was actually a mirror.

After pondering for a moment, she decided against breaking the formation core. Instead, she directly held onto the corner of the mirror and temporarily disabled the formation. As she had expected, the surrounding formation shook for a moment and then disappeared. She took this opportunity to release the mirror and fly out with all her strength.

The moment she flew out, the formation was once again restored.

After escaping, she flew all the way down, and she flew through the cloud layer in a few moments. What she saw was a forest, and not far away from it was a range of overbearing floating mountains. A towering palace could be seen up above as well.

Most likely, that was the Spirit Heaven Palace Luo Shi mentioned.

Zhu Yao, who was completely unaware of the scenario, decided that it was best to stay further away and immediately rushed into the forest. Just as she was about to head in the opposite direction, a loud furious roar could be heard from within the forest.

A large demonic beast fiercely leapt out.

It was actually a beastie. Zhu Yao heaved a sigh of relief. Demonic beasts were of her own kind, after all! So touching!

She stepped forward, wanting to give it a hug filled with love. She watched as that beast leapt towards her.

"Hi, beas-"

The demonic beast opened its huge mouth, ahhmuu…

Ting!

'Congratulations, you were bitten to death!'

Zhu Yao who returned to the ceiling support frame: "…"

What happened to the promise of being each other's angel?

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Chapter 325: High-Level Scenario

Realmspirit mentioned that this world was at the verge of collapse, forcing her to disconnect in order to fix the bug here. She did not know for sure if this world would actually collapse, but she herself was about to collapse very soon. As someone who had rich reincarnating experience, she realized at this very moment that her past experiences were nothing at all.

There were actually this many methods of death in this world. Death by exploding. Death by falling. Death by stabbing. Death by formation's activation. Death by biting from a demonic beast. Death by walking into a pit and ended up being pierced. Death by activating a trap and being smashed. Death by choking on water. Even when she was just walking, she would even be suddenly slammed by a falling tree.

Zhu Yao who had countlessly rewound time by five minutes, was deeply suspecting whether if this avatar was carrying a innate talent for suffering, and a talent that surpassed all records at that. If this were to keep up, she could even write a book when she finally get to head back. The title of the book would be:《My Hundred and One Ways to Die》

Zhu Yao heavily panted as she observed the terrain in the surroundings. Phew, safe! Only then did she sit on the grass. Let me make a save file first! She silently counted five minutes in her heart. File saving has been completed. If she were to die again later on, at the very least, she did not have to return to that ceiling support frame.

She raised her head and looked at the place she came down from. For some reasons, this Spirit Heaven Palace was constantly giving her a dangerous feeling. She faintly sensed that she shouldn't continue staying there. This feeling was really strange, and she did not know what reason was causing it either.

The various mechanisms and formations outside the room earlier had especially shaken her heart. She wondered just who was trying to deal with her. However, from the looks of the present situation, if she were to continue on like this, she would definitely be embroiled in the entire matter. She decided it was best that she leave as quickly as possible.

Zhu Yao stood up. Just as she was about to continue forward and leave this forest, she suddenly heard wails from the side…

Who the hell is crying in broad daylight?

She cautiously scanned her surroundings, yet she couldn't see a single human figure. She could not sense any presence of life around her at all.

However, the wails grew louder.

"Who is it?" She could not help but ask, yet she did not receive a reply. She couldn't have encountered a ghost, right? She instantly recalled various midnight horror movies, where ghosts had severed heads, were dressed in red gowns, or had long tongues. Immediately after, memories of her time in the actual Netherworld flashed in her mind. Instantly, her fear was dispelled. Uh… With the intellect of those ghosts, they are most likely nothing to be afraid of.

Just as she was in doubt, she suddenly felt a chilling sensation crawling on her arm. Several drops of water appeared on her skin. She wiped her face out of reflex, and realized her hand was now wet.

The hell, she was actually the one crying? When did she start crying? Why wasn't she aware of it at all?

Zhu Yao strongly rubbed her eyes, only to realize tears were dropping faster than before. She might not even stop at this rate. Just what was going on?

Could it be…

Her heart clenched. After calming down and sensing her own body, she realized that the wails were coming from within her body. She instantly felt a chill rising from the bottom of her heart.

She immediately sat down in a meditative posture, and then looked into her Dantian.

At the very corner of her Dantian, a ghost dressed in white robes was squatting there. Her two arms were wrapped around her knees, and her head was buried within her thighs. With her arms trembling, she constantly let out her cries.

"Who are you?" Zhu Yao was shocked. "Why are you in my body?"

That female ghost was stunned for a moment. She slowly raised her head, unexpectedly revealing a face with flowery features. Eh? Why does she look a little familiar?

The hell! Doesn't she have the appearance of my current avatar?

"No… I'm not… inside your body." The maiden sniffled and said. "You're the one… in my body."

"Eh!?" Zhu Yao instantly felt like she had been struck by lightning. "Y-y-y… You're saying the body I'm in right now, is yours?"

"Mn." The maiden nodded her head strongly.

"The hell!?"

And here she was wondering why Realmspirit was treating her so well all of a sudden, giving her such a high quality avatar and all. So this avatar was actually owned by someone else! Then what was Zhu Yao? Did she take over this girl's body? And she was about to strip herself naked too!

"I'm sorry, I shall return this avatar to you immediately." Realmspirit, come out here right now!

"No!" The maiden suddenly turned anxious, as she stepped forward to hug Zhu Yao's thigh. "I… I, I'm not going back! I beg you, don't leave!"

"…" There's actually a weirdo in this world that begs others to take over her body. Girl, your resolve is a little too strong, don't you think?

"I don't want to be a pillar anymore! Realmspirit told me… that you can help me. I beg you, help me!"

"Realmspirit?" Zhu Yao was stunned. Could this girl be the scenario herself? Pulling apart the arms that were clinging onto her thigh, Zhu Yao then sat down next to her. "Tell me, just what is going on? What did that bastard Realmspirit tell you?"

Only then did the girl rub her eyes and stop her tears. She pulled out a crystal-like transparent small ball and passed it to Zhu Yao. "Realmspirit gave me this. He mentioned that you will understand once you see it."

"What is this?" Zhu Yao received it, and with a bright flash of light from the ball, a lightscreen instantly appeared in front of her. Yo, it's actually a projector. This screen… Is the scenario about to be played?

Zhu Yao straightened herself and immediately turned serious.

Three minutes later…

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. She glanced at the lady next to her. "I say, girl… Did you take out the wrong disc?"

"I didn't?" The girl had a serious look on her face. "This is the only one I received from Realmspirit."

"Are you certain?"

"I'm certain!"

Zhu Yao's face darkened!

Certain, my ass! These action scenes involving a woman and a man, or a woman and two men, or a woman and n number of men, in various indescribable postures, were obviously part of an AV film! Where's the scenario in here?

"Girl…" Zhu Yao took in a deep breath. "Do you have a boyfriend?"

"Ah?"

"It's fine if you don't have one, I do!" She said earnestly." Haaah! I can understand you single little kitties possessing one or two special collections like this, but if you want to learn these moves from observation, at the very least, find another man to watch these with you! What are you trying to pull by making me watch this with you?" Even fellow lesbians won't watch something like this together, my friend!

The girl had a dumbfounded look, as though she was unable to comprehend the situation at all. She kindly glanced her in direction. "Eh? Realmspirit clearly mentioned that you would understand after watching it… Ah, you held it wrongly."

"Ah?"

The girl immediately reached out her hand to turn the direction of the ball, and then she said with a naive and pure look. "It's correct now."

Zhu Yao wasa stunned. This disc had different recordings on different sides?

After a closer look, the scenes were clearly purer than before. Like the past scenarios, a young girl appeared on it. Most likely, the young girl was the bug in question this time. Zhu Yao watched the scenario unfold seriously, all the way to the end.

Immediately, a disgusting feeling welled up inside her, as though she had sneakily watched an extremely controversial movie while being drenched in dog's blood.

The first part of the scenario was till rather normal. The female lead with the bug this time was called Fan Zhishan, who was part of a well-known aristocratic family. Aristocratic families were always good at producing babies, and Fan Zhishan was a daughter birthed by a concubine. Because she was mentally ill, she was not highly regarded by the family. Then, when she was six years old and was tested to possess quad spirit veins, she was cast away even more so than before. She was basically left to fend on her own. Adding that was she mentally deficient, she was naturally bullied by other children. However, on the year she turned ten, everything changed.

Her mental illness was suddenly cured, and she turned smart and sharp. She was actually able to recite poems with ease and converse with a linguistic tongue. Often, the arguments she gave would even stun the adults. Her talent was instantly spotted by a manager of the main family, and he made the decision to bring her into the school of the main family, marking her start in cultivation basics. The female lead was very hardworking. Though she had aptitude of quad spirit veins, her cultivation level rose to the fifth level of Essence in just three years.

Thus, along with a pair of sisters of the main family, she was fortunately chosen by the main family to head over to the number one deity sect – Sleipoup Sect, to look for a master. During the entrance examination, because she broke through a profound mechanism of one of the checkpoints with her Dao of Language, she was actually fancied by a Demigod Sovereign of Sleipoup Sect and was taken in as his disciple.

After that, Fan Zhishan journeyed towards the summit of life. She tamed beasts, obtain treasures, cleansed her meridians, her cultivation rose, and she finally dominated the world, before ascending into the Divine Realm…

Uh… Fine then, that's how the regular path should look like. However, Fan Zhishan was a female lead, and female leads had never taken the regular path to the summit. That's why, on her fifteenth birthday, with a "smack", her entire style changed along with a incredible turning point. She activated the 'heavy taste' mode. As though some sort of seal had been broken, her charm level rose explosively, attracting a large number of fans. Furthermore, she did not go for the 'uncertain' play, but instead went for physical relationships.

Thus, on the screen, the scenes from earlier appeared.

Fan Zhishan was taken in by a master, and then… papapa~

Fan Zhishan had a new junior-martial brother, and then… papapa~

Fan Zhishan encountered a genius of the cultivation world in a tournament, and then… papapa~

Fan Zhishan picked up a tenth rank human transformed beastie, and then… papapa~

Fan Zhishan encountered a heretic practitioner, and then… papapa~

Fan Zhishan got to know a Hall Master of Spirit Heaven Palace, and then… papapa~

Fan Zhishan's spiritual artifact birthed a spiritual consciousness, and then… papapa~

Fan Zhishan encountered…

"Girl… Can we fast-forward this part?" Zhu Yao nudged the girl next to her.

She had confused look. "What's 'fast-forward'?"

"Uh… Nevermind, forget I said anything." Zhu Yao hardened herself and watched through it.

The screen was already beginning to show the scenes of forbidden realms, and those n number of male leads who had an… no, a lot of affairs with her, still loved her to death in the very end. Even though they were fully aware that she was a public bus, they were still willing to find their own place in her heart.

If that was all there was to it… Zhu Yao would just treat it as though she had just watched a movie with an especially heavy taste. PS: Along with another girl.

However, this female lead actually inserted an advertisement in such a movie!

The female lead said:

Master, senior-martial sister doesn't seem to like me very much, and she often prevents me from bothering master… I'm helpless… Uuuu… I can't have master kick her out of your tutelage, right? No, of course not! She's my senior-martial sister, everything is my fault… Master, don't blame senior-martial sister. I will work hard… and become a good junior-martial sister.

And then, that senior-martial sister suddenly died from going overboard in her cultivation.

The female lead said:

Junior-martial brother, I met your cousin. She mentioned that she's engaged to you since young… Uuuu… How can you cheat my feelings? It's best… that you return to her side. Let us never meet ever again…

And then, that cousin encountered an assault and was eaten by a beast.

The female lead said:

Senior-martial brother Lang Chen, you're the disciple of Everday Clan, and your Sect Master strongly rejects us being together. He says that I'm not worthy of you… It's best that we break up!

And then, Everday Clan was annihilated.

The female lead said:

Hua Hao, you move my heart so incredibly so, but… the other beasties of Seero Forest all looking so terrifying… I don't dare to look at them.

And then, the other beasties of Seero Forest were chased away.

The female lead said: Hall Master Cao…

Balabala…

In any case, no matter who was advertised by the female lead, murder would definitely occur in their surroundings. Countless cannon fodders were sacrificed. She was simply a mass murdering machine. With just her single word, a river of blood would flow.

Zhu Yao was simply dumbfounded. Isn't this a little too unreal? She suddenly recalled the girly Yi Ling who had walked on a similar path, where both their harems were made of countless men. However, Fan Zhishan's was clearly of a much higher level. At the very least, the men by her side were not of the shallow 'love at first sight' type, but unconsciously grew attracted to her after getting to know one another.

Though Zhu Yao still found it a little ridiculous.

Just like that, Fan Zhishan grew her harem while raising her cultivation and inserting advertisements. And then… the world collapsed.

At the very final scene, the female lead finally stood at the summit of the cultivation world. Suddenly, the earth shook, and the entire world began to collapse, turning into nothingness at the very end.

What was this situation?

Zhu Yao was shocked. She did not understand at all? Though Fan Zhishan was a bug and had shot at a few cannon fodders, she did not bring about a world war, nor had she done anything remotely close to cause something as serious as the collapse of the world. Why did this suddenly happen?

"What's going on here?" Zhu Yao pointed at the screen and asked the former owner girl by her side. "Why did the world collapse just like that?"

The girl's lips curled up, and she suddenly cried again. With a saddened look, she said. "I died!"

"Ah?" What did she mean?

"Over there… I'm already dead." The girl once again said.

"I know!" Zhu Yao had a puzzled look. Within the scenario, the girl was also one of the crowd of cannon fodders. In the action film, Fan Zhishan advertised her to Hall Master Cao of Spirit Heaven Palace: Little sister Ling Tian became a Sect Master at such a young age, she's truly amazing… I can't even be compared to at all. She definitely doesn't like me…

Thus, that Hall Master Cao instantly overthrew the girl and had the female lead become the Sect Master. From this event, it proved that the female lead was the only shining moon in his heart, and other women could not even be compared to the toenails on her feet. Only the heavens knew that Sect Master Ling Tian had never even met the female lead.

That's right, Ling Tian was this girl's name, and she was the final cannon fodder that was sacrificed in the scenario.

"But what does that have to do with the collapse of the world?"

The girl rubbed her eyes, and said while sobbing. "Because I'm a pillar of the world, it's final pillar."

"What?" Zhu Yao was dumbfounded. She sized her up for a moment. Does a new term have to pop up here and now?

"You don't look like a pole at all."

"Not a 'pole'." The girl grew anxious. "I'm a form of existence that maintains the world's balance, preventing it from collapsing. If I'm gone, this world will no longer be balanced."

So she's not a pole, but a balancing scale?

"In other words, you're not human?"

She shook her head. "I'm human!"

"…" Zhu Yao grew even more confused. Then what's with this pillar deal?

"Realmspirit told me that because a piece of this world was missing, as it was destroyed once before." The girl said seriously. "Then, this missing piece was patched up before the world finally gained a new life. However, the patched piece after all did not belong to this world, yet it was something that could not be lacked. Thus, after this piece gained a spiritual consciousness, it went into a reincarnation cycle. The purpose was to make use of this method of reincarnation to slowly integrate the piece into this world. Coincidentally, I am that piece in this stage of reincarnation cycle, and it's also the final stage of integration. As long as this stage passes, this world will be complete."

"Then, the integration this time is interrupted?" Zhu Yao asked. "Your death will cause the world to lose a piece, and thus cause the collapse of the world?"

"Mn." The girl nodded, her face looked a little saddened. Suddenly, as though she had recalled something. "Not just that…"

"…" Don't tell me there's something even worse than this…

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Chapter 326: The Magical Brush

Zhu Yao finally understood what the more dire situation was. It was not her prone-to-death physique, nor was her avatar which was actually another person's body, and nor was it turning into cannon fodder. It was actually… the fact that more than half of the scenario had already been gone through, and the cannon fodder was about to lose her life!

She looked at the scenario again, and then only found this out after carefully piecing the timeline together. Momma's egg! The scenario has already begun playing, and the female lead Fan Zhishan's harem had already been officially established since ages ago. That Hall Master Cao of Spirit Heaven Palace was beginning to get rid of this cannon fodder called Ling Tian.

Those formations and traps outside her house back then were all placed by them.

She finally understood why she would wake up on the ceiling supporting frame. The girl hid up there because she was afraid!

Then what's the point of passing this scenario to her!? She had lost the initiative completely, alright? When she thought about how the girl Ling Yian was just a fodder with Foundation cultivation level, she suddenly felt her organs were aching with pain.

Since Realmspirit was able to reverse five minutes of her time, why didn't he return her back to fifty years ago at one go!?

Wait a minute! If she were discovered by others when she left her closed-door training site earlier, wouldn't that mean…

The hell!

Zhu Yao immediately woke up from her inner view, and then released her divine sense with all her might to investigate the area. As expected, there were presences of practitioners nearby, and she were unable to discern their cultivation levels. Most likely, their power towered over hers, and from the direction they were heading, they were clearly coming straight towards her.

It was already too late for her to run now. What should she do? Was dying once more the only option left? The hell, what happened to the promised all-round technical support?

"Ling Tian girly, other than this projector, did Realmspirit give you anything else?" Zhu Yao calmed down, and then she sent a voice transmission to the former owner girl within her body.

"Realmspirit said that this was everything you need." The girl replied, and she had even kindly brought the ball out of the body, making it appear in Zhu Yao's hands.

"What's the use of a ball!?" -faints-

Wait a minute!

It wasn't that simple.

Realmspirit said that he would provide all-round technical support. She didn't believe that a five minutes time reversal skill and a projector were all he had prepared. With that trolling mind of his, he definitely still had something up his sleeves.

Zhu Yao carefully inspected the ball in her hands. Could this projector possess several features as well? For example, turning into a mass murdering machine or something similar. After willing it, that ball actually began to light up. Unlike the projection earlier, it actually emitted a green light like a fluorescent ball this time, and it's shape began to change right after.

This is actually electrocardiographic!

Zhu Yao grew a little agitated, and she began to be more cautious while holding onto the ball. She silently hoped for the weapon that was about to appear to be easy to wield, and it would be even better if it was a peerless godly artifact. Oh right, it must not have any level restrictions either. A safe-to-use, ultimate universe-class slaughtering weapon fit for all ages and gender. Only a weapon like that could enable her to retreat safe and sound.

The light grew brighter, and the ball began to stretch out as its shape constantly changed. With a final sizzling sound, it seemed to have completed its transformation, revealing a snow-white cube. On it, there was a neatly written word – Vinegar!

Zhu Yao: "…"

Why vinegar!? Do you think we're in an anime!? This old lady here is encountering a pursuer, not SARS! What's the use of vinegar here!? No wait, vinegar is useless against SARS too, alright!?

Realmspirit, your sister! Why don't you just give me a brush, so I can just write us off as dead!?

The vinegar cube that that had been splattered all over the ground flashed with a green light… and turned into a brush!

Give me a moment to think of where I should begin retorting in order to make it sound classier.

Realmspirit definitely wasn't sincere about wanting to save this world, definitely!

"Eh? Saintess, there's wordings on the brush." Ling Tian girly's voice suddenly resounded.

Zhu Yao picked up the brush. With one glance, it could seen how cheaply made it was. It was covered in dark spots, and the tip of this brown brush was not even sharp to begin with. On its shaft, two words were printed on it in Times New Roman font – Magical Brush!

Hoho, and I'm Ma Liang!

"Saintess, they're here." The girl once again called out.

Zhu Yao gritted her teeth. Whatever, let's do this! Using the dew on the leaves from the tree next to her, she wrote two words on her body – Passerby A!

In the next moment, five Azoth disciples suddenly appeared in the sky above her. Dressed in blue and white uniforms, they looked at her with arrogant faces.

"Who are you?"

"Hi!" Zhu Yao tremblingly raised her hand. "Hello, I'm Ma Liang!"

"Why did you trespass into our Spirit Heaven Palace's Misty Forest?" The disciple asked again.

"Uh… I'm lost." Do you believe me?

"Lost?" The disciple frowned. "To actually be lost in a place like this. As expected, wandering practitioners sure are stupid."

The hell, he actually believed it! Is your surname Stupid?

That disciple seemed to be extremely impatient. Just as he was about to repulse her, he was stopped by the other disciple next to him. "Senior-martial brother, why the need to waste so much of your breath on a wandering practitioner? Looking at him, he most likely wishes to come under our Spirit Heaven Palace. No need to care about him any further, we have to find Sect… that demonic woman, that is our main priority."

Only then did that disciple calm down a little. He glanced at Zhu Yao below and said. "Hey, the one surnamed Ma!"

"Yes!" Surnamed Stupid, is there something you want from me?

"Did you see a Foundation female practitioner pass by here? She dresses… in a white robe with a green top." He asked.

Zhu Yao tugged her own white robe with green top a little uneasily, and wildly shook her head. "Nope! Definitely not!"

The disciple frowned, whispering. "Strange, she shouldn't have run far, why haven't we found her yet?" He once again looked at Zhu Yao with a scornful glance, and coldly said. "Spirit Heaven Palace does not welcome outsiders, you can leave by heading east. Hurry and leave, otherwise, I won't be courteous again the next time we meet."

After that, he spoke with the other martial brothers, before leaving in a mighty manner.

"Thank you!" Zhu Yao waved her hands at the crowd. "Have a safe trip…"

Only when she no longer saw their figures did she pull out the first rank mystic artifact she just refined. With trembling hands and legs, she crawled on top of it and flew wildly to the east. In a few moments, she had already exited the forest.

Phew~ That was close!

Zhu Yao pulled out that cheap and dirty brush. She never expected that it was actually an actual godly artifact! She wrote 'Passerby A' on her own body, and those people actually treated her as a passerby! It was as if the possibility of her being Ling Tian had been automatically removed from their brains. Realmspirit was finally reliable for once!

"Saintess, we managed to flee. That's wonderful! You're so incredible!" Ling Tian girly excitedly said. "With this item, we no longer have to be worried about being discovered."

"That might not be the case!" Zhu Yao glanced at the three words that were about to dry on her body. She added a little more water to the brush and then patched it up again. If her guess was right, the effects of this brush should be similar to Word Enchantment which Qu Qu had mentioned before. However, the scope of the Word Enchantment brought about by this brush was a little broader. "Those few people earlier are just at the Azoth cultivation level, I can't guarantee that people with higher cultivation levels will be fooled by this."

Ling Tian girly was silent for a moment, before gently speaking up. "At the very least, Saintess and I are safe right now."

"Why are you calling me Saintess?" Zhu Yao had wanted to ask her this for a long while, though she did not manage to find the opportunity earlier.

"You came here especially to save me, so naturally you're a Saintess." The girl happily said.

"Just call me by my name. I'm Zhu Yao." When called a Saintess, Zhu Yao automatically thought of its nearest synonym – virgin!

"Alright, Saintess! Then where are we going now, Saintess? Do you have any other plans, Saintess?"

Zhu Yao felt that the final goal of this mission was to protect Ling Tian girly and prevent her from dying. As long as the girly's alive, this world would not collapse, and there would not be many similar incidents happening after that. However, looking at the present situation, this goal was difficult to accomplish.

Firstly, that Hall Master Cao of Spirit Heaven Palace would not let her go, otherwise, he wouldn't have sent such a large number of disciples to capture her. Clearly, he had already torn down his entire face for this.

Speaking of which, Zhu Yao could not help but look down at the girly a little for her management skills. She was being abused by her subordinates, yet she did not have the strength to fight back. It sure was saddening to see how bad she was at her job as a Sect Master. Zhu Yao wished that she could get Zi Mo, who had abundant experience as a Sect Master, to give her some lessons on how to become an incredible leader.

Furthermore, looking at the scenario, the female lead Fan Zhishan became the new Sect Master of Spirit Heaven Palace, so how could she possibly let former owner girly off? With the vast number of men on her side, and every single one of them was an elite with huge forces backing them, a Foundation fodder who had just came online was basically the chopping block. She basically had no strength to retaliate at all.

So, the most important thing to do right now was to power up. Only the strongest fist could beat sense into others.

Zhu Yao was filled with confidence. To her, cultivation was just a matter of time. However, when she tried drawing in spiritual energy into her body, she realized she was simply too naive.

She could not draw in spiritual energy!

Earlier, she clearly could control the spiritual energy inside her at will and use arts, but when she tried guiding spiritual energy into her body, there was not a single reaction coming from the spiritual energy in the surroundings!

"What's going on?" This was illogical.

"Saintess, that's because… this is my body." The girl's voice weakly resounded. "Though you can control it at will, but… my soul is still present. You are unable to help me raise my cultivation."

Zhu Yao's face darkened. "In other words, it will only work if you cultivation on your own."

"Mn."

"Then, how long have you cultivated for?"

"Fi…"

"Five years?"

"Fi…fty years!"

The hell, she wanted to cuss out at her mom. This speed was simply too slow.

"Saintess…" Ling Tian suggested a little guiltily. "Why don't… we seek help from Grandhall Sect? Grandhall Sect and Spirit Heaven Palace has always been on good terms, furthermore, Reverend Fa Yu and I are old acquaintances. If I inform him of the matter concerning Hall Master Cao's betrayal, he will definitely exact justice for me."

"Are you certain?" Why did Zhu Yao feel that this was a little unreliable? "You must think this through. That one surnamed Cao and the female lead from Sleipoup Sect… that Fan Zhishan, they are already hooked up together. Will Grandhall Sect really go against Sleipoup Sect for your sake?"

Ling Tian grew a little hesitant after hearing that. "If this doesn't work either… We will have no choice but to go to Itshavenwill Secret Realm. I heard from rumours that there's an ancient technique there that can instantly raise someone's cultivation to that of a Demigod, though it is surrounded by danger. Even its borders are being guarded by tenth rank mutated beasts, I'm afraid…"

"Let us talk about seeking help from Grandhall Sect then."

In the end, Zhu Yao decided to head over to Grandhall Sect. From what she heard from the girl, the relationship between Grandhall Sect and Spirit Heaven Palace is indeed far from shallow.

The Spirit Heaven Palace in the early ages was the strongest deity sect in this world. Because of the reincarnation of the Heaven's Pillar, every generation of Sect Masters was someone with extraordinary aptitudes, and all of them were called Ling Tian. However, the Heaven's Pillar was a patch for this world in the first place. Following the subsequent reincarnations, the patch upload was beginning to near its completion. Thus, the aptitude of the reincarnated Sect Masters began to worsen, with every subsequent generation growing weaker than before. The Ling Tian girly now was the final one, which was akin to the patch upload from the previous Sect Masters totaling to ninety-nine percent, while Ling Tian girly was that final one percent.

Thus, Spirit Heaven Palace no longer enjoyed its former glory. Furthermore, compared to other sects where power was revered, Spirit Heaven Palace neither chose their Sect Masters through popular vote nor through judging of one's strength. Instead, at the moment of each Sect Master's lifespan was about to be depleted, they would first prophecise where and when the next Sect Master would appear, and have the sect disciples look for him or her. Thus, Ling Tian girly was already a Sect Master at the moment of her birth.

Of course, in the cultivation world, no matter how great someone's status was, it was all but a false image without absolute strength. The past Spirit Heaven Sect Masters were revered in altars by the masses, and this could be understood due to their incredible aptitude and future impressive cultivation levels. This was why the masses accepted Spirit Heaven Palace's method of passing down leadership back then. Not to mention, it faintly added some flavour akin to legends. However, as the quality of the Sect Masters continued to dip in a straight line, this method naturally began to garner suspicion from the rest. This was especially so for people with actual strength, and division was something that was bound to happen.

Grandhall Sect was once one of Spirit Heaven Palace's branches. Later on, it slowly grew larger and stronger, gaining independence. However, it still had a subtle relationship with Spirit Heaven Palace. The Reverend Fa Yu that the girl spoke of was presently the Sect Master of Grandhall Sect. From what Zhu Yao heard from the girl, he was also her childhood friend, though it had been a long time since she they last met. However, they seemed to be the type with a tight relationship.

When the girl spoke of this, even her tone had become rather spirited, carrying a flavour of pride that even she didn't realize herself.

Zhu Yao frowned. That unreliable feeling grew heavier. Speaking from her experience, childhood friends would all die and all that would be left were memories of them.

Thus, when they finally managed to infiltrate into Grandhall Sect and saw that man conversing happily with the female lead Fan Zhishan in the hall, Zhu Yao did not feel shocked in the least at all.

"Then I will entrust this task to Sect Master Fa Yu."

"Little sister Fan is too courteous, this one naturally believes little sister. To tell you the truth, I had long seen through that demonic woman Ling Tian. She's dangerous and sly, possessing a deep scheming heart. She has been acting for these few years. This one has never understood how such a person is worthy of becoming the Sect Master of Spirit Heaven Palace. I have to thank little sister Fan for the reminder, as thanks to you, I was able to receive an enlightenment."

"Big brother Fan Yu, you're too courteous! I just find it unbearable to see the masses being lied to, so I came here especially to inform you. I was born at the same time as her, so it is understandable that the entrusted Elder that came to pick me up took someone else by mistake. Big sister Ling Tian can't be blamed for this… I had been wandering outside for many years, and I finally… I have never resented big sister Ling Tian."

"Haah! You're just too kind-hearted. You're actually still speaking on her behalf. If not because she deliberately concealed this fact, why would I only find this out now? You're the true Sect Master of Spirit Heaven Palace. If not because you incidentally awakened the Spirit Guiding Beast, no one would have been able to expose that fake. Don't worry. Everyone knows about that poisonous woman now. My Grandhall Sect will also use all available resources to aid you in capturing her."

"Big brother Fa Yu…"

"Little sister Fan…"

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. It was as if she could hear an in-game announcement:

Congratulations, Female Lead has received Number Nth Male Lead x1

Harem Members 1. Current Total: *

The life of a R-18 female lead sure was blinding to the eyes!

It seemed like this help-seeking route was a dead end. Just as Zhu Yao was about to retreat, she felt a chill on her cheeks, as water began to flow out of her eyes. The water droplets dripped straight onto the 'transparent' word written on her chest, instantly smudging the stains. "The hell, Ling Tian girly, don't cry!"

"Who is it!?" A loud roar sounded from the hall.

We're doomed!

1. The name Ling Tian is actually the same as the sect (Spirit Heaven Palace) itself.

2. Ma Liang is actually the main character in an old stop-motion film named 'Ma Liang and his Magic Brush'. Basically, whatever he draws with the magic brush, it would come to life.

3. During the SARS outbreak in 2003, many people in China believed that vinegar fumes were able to disinfect the virus. The price of vinegar surged due to panic buying, going up to about 200 to 300 yuan per 200g bottle, when it's usually about 6 yuan (USD$1) for one.

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Chapter 327: A Clown That Could Topple Countries

Zhu Yao had completed all preparations before arriving here. Furthermore, in order to become a well-fledged Ma Liang, she even tested the effects of the magical brush at a practitioners' town nearby. After ascertaining that Nascent Soul practitioners were unable to find her out either, she then headed towards Grandhall Sect. She never expected that even the most perfect of plans could be rendered useless in the face of a single piggish party member.

She was captured, firmly tied up like a large dumpling. The female lead Fan Zhishan and Sect Master Fa Yu were presently looking at her coldly.

"I never expected you would actually be so stupid to send yourself here." Fa Yu coldly snorted.

"I never expected that either!" Zhu Yao felt like crying. "Why don't you let me go now, so that you can capture me again in the future? You might feel a sense of achievement that way."

"Let you go?" Fa Yu's face stiffened, and he instantly raged. "I have yet to make you pay the price for harming little sister Fan, and you want me to release you? Are you taking me as stupid?"

"…" Fine then, I now know you're not the slightest bit stupid.

"If I let you off now, when your cultivation improves in the future, wouldn't you seek me out for revenge?"

His words had so much sense in them, she actually had nothing to refute with.

"Big brother Fa Yu…" Fan Zhishan gently spoke up, carrying a tone filled with endless sadness. "Don't be angry! Little sister Ling Tian actually came back on her own, as long as she apologises to me, I can let bygones be bygones."

"Little sister Fan." Fa Yu's face softened, and then he said in a pampering manner. "You can't be this kind. You have already suffered for so many years, and everything was because of her. If you forgive her here, aren't you just fueling her arrogance? We finally managed to capture the culprit, so we can't let things slide just like that."

Fan Zhishan had a complicated look. "I know big brother Fa Yu is doing this for my sake, but she is after all my biological sister… How can I possibly be this heartless?"

"Haah, how can you think that way? You treasure your sibling love, but have she ever thought about you in the slightest? No matter what, I will have her held accountable today!"

"Big brother Fa Yu… I believe she didn't do this on purpose." Fan Zhishan suddenly began to cry like rain droplets falling off pear blossoms. Turning around, she walked a few towards Zhu Yao and said with a regretless look. "Big sister… This little sister has no other request. As long as you apologise, I will forgive you."

"Uh…" Zhu Yao was startled. She looked at the female lead in front of her who was crying her lungs out. "Auntie, who are you?"

The female lead's face stiffened a little, but she quickly regained her composure. Turning around, she pounced into the Reverend Fa Yu's embrace, and cried as if she had suffered a heartbreak.

Nth flower guardian instantly exploded. He pointed at Zhu Yao's nose and reprimanded. "As expected, you have a poisonous heart. Little sister Fan is willing to let go of the past, yet you actually do not know what's good for you."

Please. I just asked her who she was, how is that poisonous at all? Why don't I know what's good for me?

"If you guys want to pour dirty water on my name, at the very least, let me know what's going on, right?" Please stop with the wilful double act, alright? "I have never met your little sister Fan, alright?"

The two were stunned for a moment, and they only regained their senses a short while later. Fa Yu's fury grew fiercer. "You still dare to lie even now!" Fa Yu glared at her and said. "Little sister Fan and you were born under the same mother. Little sister Fan was supposed to be the Sect Master selected by Spirit Heaven Palace, yet you posed as her and become the one who entered Spirit Heaven Palace instead. Not only are you but a dog in the manger, but you have also suppressed her with your evil doings! You made her youth miserable, and when before she was six years old, she was even treated as a mentally ill child! With a poisonous heart such as yours, you're simply not worthy of being a Sect Master."

Zhu Yao was dumbfounded for a moment. She faced the female lead Fan Zhishan and carefully inspected her.

"Big brother Fa Yu, there's no need to go any further…" Fan Zhishan however turned her head away, the tears on her face flowed even more than before. She looked as though she could no longer bear to bring the subject up again, and was willing to keep all her sadness in her own heart.

Zhu Yao could not help but praise her acting skills! She had finally encountered a bug of the highest level. In order to become the Sect Master of Spirit Heaven Palace, she sure had gone all out. She was actually able to come up with such an absurd story. Not to mention she did not hesitate to forsake her own identity and become the twin sister of Ling Tian girly. She came up with a drama of a child being mistakenly carried away, and wanted to take up the position of Sect Master of Spirit Heaven Palace right and proper. It was truly a shame that this lady was not in showbiz.

However…

"Umm… Sect Master Fa." Zhu Yao sighed. "You're saying, I intentionally posed as her back then, so that I can become the Sect Master of Spirit Heaven Palace and harm her at every possible moment?"

Fa Yu frowned. He did not reply and simply let out a disdainful snort.

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. "Then, may I ask, how old was I when I arrived at Spirit Heaven Palace?"

Fa Yu said impatiently. "The Sect Master succession of Spirit Heaven Palace has always been done swiftly. Naturally, it's on the day you were born."

"So, in other words, I was in Spirit Heaven Palace right after I was born?" Zhu Yao said in a sunken voice. "You're saying, when I was still a baby, I intentionally swapped with her? You sure think highly of my intelligence!"

Fa Yu's face stiffened, as though he had just thought of this point as well. "Then what about the pain she had suffered?"

"How would I know?" Zhu Yao rolled her eyes. "She was unable to retaliate when she was being harmed before she was six years old, are you saying that I knew how to dispatch people to harm her when I was six years old? Even if my IQ is off the charts and am truly smarter than all of you, if I truly wanted to pose as her from the very beginning, since we are born on the same day, I would have to concoct this scheme in my mother's womb!"

Where are your logic and reason? Have they all disappeared from the 'papapa'?

The two of them were stunned from this line of questioning! Fan Zhishan's face had especially turned miserably pale for an instant, a hint of fluster flashed across her eyes. Immediately after, she regained that gentle and frail flower look, looking as though she was suffering from grievances, yet tried her best to squeeze out some words of goodwill. "Big sister… It's alright. It doesn't matter if you don't admit it. It's my fault… It's all because of me. I shouldn't have gone to Spirit Heaven Palace, I shouldn't have awakened the Spirit Guiding Beast, I…"

The suspicion on Fa Yu's face was instantly swept away. He held onto Fan Zhishan and said with an even angrier tone. "Ling Tian, you can stop lying now. Little sister Fan treats you so well, yet you actually still wish to frame her! Putting aside the past incidents, from the fact that little sister Fan was able to awaken the guardian beast of Spirit Heaven Palace, the Spirit Guiding Beast, it's sufficient to prove that she's the true Sect Master of Spirit Heaven Palace!"

The hell. Zhu Yao could not be bothered with these illogical people. Looking at them, they were definitely not going to let her go today. Zhu Yao began to calculate as she wondered if that 'Five Minutes Timed Trial' passive skill was still in effect.

"Big brother Fa Yu…" Fan Zhishan glanced at Zhu Yao, her eyes were completely red. "It's fine… No matter how big sister treats me, I won't ever blame her. Let the Hall of Law of Spirit Heaven Palace… judge her sins! I shall bring her over now."

As she said that, she walked towards Zhu Yao who was bound tight.

Fa Yu however suddenly stopped her tracks and sighed. "Little sister Fan, I know you are soft-hearted, and that you're still trying to protect her even now. However, your kind deeds might not be rewarded. Since you are unwilling to do it yourself, I shall be the one to judge this vile person. Let me handle her!"

"No!" Fan Zhishan blurted out, a hint of fluster flashed across the depths of her eyes. She immediately regained her composure, and then, she spoke with the same gentleness and frailness. "She's a member of my Spirit Heaven Palace, and according to the rules, she has to be handled by Spirit Heaven Palace. I have already owed big brother Fa Yu so much, how can I trouble you even further than this?'

"Little sister Fan!" Fa Yu however suddenly became angry, and he looked at her as though she was being stubborn. "You're thinking of letting her go secretly, aren't you?"

"Ah?" Fan Zhishan was dumbfounded.

Fa Yu frowned deeply. "Little sister Fan, you can't be too kind, you must make your decision decisively!"

"I'm not…"

"You don't have to speak further. I will definitely not let you bring this person back. You will definitely release her."

"I…"

"That settles it then. Since you cannot bear to judge her, I shall do it myself. I will definitely exact justice for you."

Filled with indignation, Fa Yu did not wait for Fan Zhishan's reaction and had already called over two disciples. He pointed at the "Dumpling Yao" on the ground and said. "Throw this person down to the lowest pits of prison, and put her on a strict watch. understand?"

"Yes!" The two disciple nodded in unison. Before Fan Zhishan could even regain her senses, they had already dragged Zhu Yao out.

Zhu Yao silently turned to look at the speechless Fan Zhishan's miserably pale face. See, this is what you get for acting too far! He truly sees you as a gentle and frail flower who can't bear to make a move on your enemies now!

Zhu Yao was imprisoned in Grandhall Sect's prison. She spent more than two hours to release herself from the mystic arts that sealed her movements. She wondered if it was because of their confidence in the prison's formation, as there was only a single restriction placed in the cell. She tried to condense the gather energy within her body, attempting to break out of the formation, only to realize that she was simply unable to circulate them at all. It seemed like this formation comprised of something that could restrain spiritual energy, preventing one from breaking it.

Recalling Fan Zhishan's earlier attitude, most likely, she was not going to have Zhu Yao killed here, and Zhu Yao felt that she had a goal in doing so. She seemed to have other plans other than snatching Ling Tian girly's Sect Master position. Otherwise, why would she still anxiously wish to capture her after she had already obtained Spirit Heaven Palace, and even bring her back?

No matter what, Zhu Yao had to make her escape first.

Zhu Yao pulled out the brush which she had been hiding all this while. Just as she was about to play the character of Ma Liang again, tears began to fall uncontrollably.

"Don't cry already…" Zhu Yao simply felt a deep sense of helplessness. Isn't it just falling out of love? And the girl is even going out of hand with her tears because of it. Her eyes are all swollen now, you know?

"He… Little Yu wasn't like that in the past." Ling Tian weeped as she spoke. "He was so obedient in the past… and so cute. No matter what… he would always listen to me."

Obedient? Cute? Recalling the female lead fanatic Fa Yu's look earlier, the corner of Zhu Yao's lips could not help but twitch. She only had a single thought in mind… Ling Tian girly, you sure was blind in the past.

"He even said that he won't ever allow anyone to bully me. But now… Just from listening to her side of the story, and not listening to my explanation, he… Why?"

"There's no 'why' for such things!" Zhu Yao said in a sunken voice. "He just doesn't like you anymore!"

"…" Ling Tian girly turned silent, though the tears on her face were flowing even fiercer than before.

Feeling helpless, Zhu Yao had no choice but to let her cry it out. Dipping the brush gently on her own tears, she planned on activating Ma Liang mode.

Suddenly, the restriction on the cell's exit shook for a moment, as the sound of footsteps grew closer.

The hell! People were already coming for her. Zhu Yao immediately hid the brush.

A moment later, someone walked in. As if it was not unfortunate enough, it was actually Fa Yu himself. With a dark look, he walked straight towards the pillar of light in front of the cell, and stood there! He glared at her with a ruthless expression. He did not move, and simply stood there. Yet, his expression continued to grow colder by the minute, and even his eyes were beginning to glow bloody red.

Zhu Yao's heart skipped a beat as a chilling intent rose. This grandson's expression isn't right at all. Compared to that brain-dead fanatic she saw in the hall earlier, he basically looked like a different person now. He couldn't really be thinking of killing her for Fan Zhishan's sake, right?

Her heart was instantly sent into a fluster as she thought of ways to escape this place. Suddenly, he reached out his hand and opened the prison cell's door. Before she could even react, the black figure in front of her flashed, and a hand was already grasping on her neck in the next moment.

Zhu Yao wanted to retreat on reflex, but he simply dragged her all the way to the wall. Furious and crazed light could be seen flashing in his eyes, as though he truly desired to tear her into pieces.

The hell, this crazy brain-dead fanatic! He's actually truly thinking of killing her!

Her breathing was stopped at that moment. Just as she thought it was about time for the passive resurrection skill to activate, his hand suddenly loosened a little, allowing her to catch her breath. His eyes however grew even colder and fiercer than before, and even his voice was filled with chilling intent.

"Speak! Who the hell are you?"

Eh!?

Before Zhu Yao could even gasp for air, she was stunned by his question.

"You're not Ling Tian, who are you?" The redness in his eyes grew denser, as though he was sinking into madness. "Where's Tiantian? What did you do to her? Why are you possessing her body!?"

The hell! How did he see through her? Could it be that he knew she wasn't Ling Tian right from the start?

"Where's Ling Tian?" He placed emphasis on every word, as a few strands of black wisps faintly appeared around his body. "You best speak the truth, otherwise… I will scatter your soul."

As he said that, his grip once again tightened.

Zhu Yao slapped on his arm heavily. The hell, are you going to let me speak or not? I'm about to suffocate here!

Fa Yu's face was quickly turner darker by the second. After taking a deep breath, as though he was trying to suppress the madness in his heart with all his might, he flung her onto the ground.

She coughed out coarsely a few times before she was able to catch her breath. As she glanced at Fa Yu who seemed to have suddenly turned into a different person, she pondered about the situation. From his looks, it seemed like he was extremely concerned about Ling Tian's whereabouts. Then who was that brain-dead fanatic in the hall earlier?

"Saintess…" Ling Tian suddenly spoke up. "Let me speak with him, is that alright?"

"Are you certain?" Ling Tian was a frail girl. Facing this Fa Yu who seemed to have activated his tyranny mode, Zhu Yao could not help but worry.

Ling Tian girly's voice sank a little. "There's something I wish to ask him personally."

In the end, Zhu Yao still agreed to her request. Relaxing her mind, she suddenly felt her entire being was sucked out. In a flash, she arrived in that snow-white space where the girly was staying before. Releasing her will, a large screen appeared in front of her eyes, and the situation outside was being shown.

Seemingly in an instant, the atmosphere surrounding Ling Tian on the ground changed. Zhu Yao had to admit that, Ling Tian girly was more elegant and refined, a true beauty that could topple countries, while Zhu Yao herself was at most a clown that could topple countries.

o()o

"Little Yu…"

The girl lightly called out. When her voice fell, it was as if Reverend Fa Yu, who seemed to have activated his tyranny mode with his pair of scarlet red eyes and a body covered in killing intent, had a bucket of water poured over him.

Zhu Yao could faintly hear a sizzling sound in the air, as if something was extinguished.

"Tiantian…"

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Chapter 328: Female Lead's Night Assault

In a blink of an eye, the fury, darkness and tyrannical aura exuding from Fa Yu's body retracted completely. Even his pair of reddened eyes had begun to clear up and sparkle. He anxiously sprinted over to hold Ling Tian girly, his eyes were filled with unease.

"Tiantian, is it you? You're still here?" He carefully held up Ling Tian girly. He seemed to be overly anxious, as even his hands were trembling. "Your soul wasn't taken over!"

"Little Yu…" Ling Tian looked at him dazedly, and then grabbed onto him in return. "I didn't harm that lady with the surname Fan, she's not…"

"I know." Unexpectedly, Fa Yu actually did not refute her, and was nodding his head strongly instead. Frowning, as though he had just recalled something, his face began to contort darkly. "With that face of hers alone, she dares to say that it's on par to yours. I simply wish to puke from her ugliness! She even dares to spout that you're twins given birth by the same mother! Does she really think everyone is blind? To think an indecent woman with loose morals actually dares to covet the position of Sect Master of Spirit Heaven Palace!"

Eh?

What happened to the promised brain-dead fanatic of the female lead? There's something wrong with this opening sequence!

"Tiantian, don't worry. Nothing will happen to you. I will aid you in recovering the position of Sect Master." Fa Yu immediately turned back his head towards her, reverting back to that youth with clear eyes as he guaranteed with a serious look.

"Then, earlier…" Ling Tian girly was stunned as well.

"Though Fan Zhishan alone isn't to be feared, the forces she has behind her are complicated, it would be unwise to fight them head-on. Those words of mine earlier… I simply wished to gain her trust, please… don't be angry." Fa Yu explained. Recalling everything that happened in the hall earlier, his face once again revealed a disgusted expression, as though he had eaten a housefly.

This development was happening too quickly, as if a tornado had descended. To think this Fa Yu was actually a double agent!

"Oh right, how are you? You're not injured from earlier, right?" Fa Yu anxiously held onto Ling Tian girly and began to inspect her. He pulled here, and then glanced over there. After realizing that she was clean without a scratch, he then heaved a sigh of relief. Immediately after, as though he had just recalled his improper actions, he hurriedly took a step back. "Tiantian… I'm… I'm sorry. I didn't mean to…" His ears were beginning to dye in red, acting as though he was at a loss.

Ling Tian girly laughed, the suspicions she carried in the depths of her heart were put down right after. She looked at the person in front of her with blurry and teary eyes. While sobbing, she said. "Little Yu… You're still my Little Yu alright."

Fa Yu raised his head, and looked straight into the depths of her eyes. Their eyes met, as though the interaction. "I've always been."

Zhu Yao, who was still squatting within the Dantian, was shown a face of true love… Master, where are you?

Presently, a certain master who had been keeping watch near the Heavenly Door for a very long time: Why isn't my disciple here yet?

Ling Tian girly explained to Fa Yu everything that happened. She heavily emphasized that Zhu Yao was not here to harm her, nor to take over her soul and body, and that she was one of their party members. Fa Yu frowned, but he still accepted the girl's explanation in the end.

Zhu Yao actually suspected Fa Yu in the beginning. This person changed too quickly, after all. Earlier, he was still a brain-dead fanatic of Fan Zhishan, and an instant later, he became Ling Tian girly's loyal follower.

However, as they conversed, these suspicions slowly disappeared. The eyes he were looking at the girl now with, were completely different from earlier where he was looking at Fan Zhishan. Though they both carried colours of infatuation, his gaze on Ling Tian girly was much purer. It was as if the girl was the only one in his eyes, and the rest of the world was filtered off.

Let's not forget about his careful attitude. He was afraid of bumping into and touching her, and though he wanted to lean closer, he was afraid that it would make her displeased. He was so uneasy and fidgety like a young fellow who on his first love. Even those small unconscious movements were hidden with incredible worry and unease. If he was actually acting all this out, then his acting skills were simply superb. Most likely, he would have even fooled himself.

Because she saw through these, she did not stop Ling Tian girly from explaining everything.

The girl explained to Fa Yu a little more, before returning to the Dantian, returning the body to Zhu Yao.

Zhu Yao's vision flashed, and Fa Yu who was still behind the screen earlier, was now right before her eyes. He was presently carefully holding onto her hand, his handsome face carried a shy smile, and his eyes were so focused it looked as if he was looking at the most beautiful scenery in the world.

Zhu Yao instantly felt chills climbing down her spine. She wondered if it was possible to become allergic to display of true love?

"Hi, Little Yu!" Zhu Yao smiled awkwardly. "Hello, I'm Ma Liang."

The gentleness and sweetness that filled his face instantly disappeared with a swoosh. He once again carried that cold and numb look, and almost at the same instant, he raised his hand and flung her away.

As Zhu Yao did not balance herself well, she instantly fell off the chair, and her face was covered in soot.

The hell! The difference in treatment is simply too great, don't you think!?

"I don't know where you came from, you wandering ghost." Fa Yu coldly glared at her, as he pulled out a handkerchief and desperately wiped the hand he touched her with earlier. It was as if he had made contact with something dirty. "But I'm warning you. If you dare to mistreat her, or dare to think of devouring her soul, I will never forgive you!"

Zhu Yao rubbed her aching hand as she sat up. This person seriously changed his attitude very quickly. "Don't worry, I'm not interested in your childhood friend's body!" As she said that, she could not help but lower her head and look at the 36E chest… Alright, she was a little interested.

"It best be that way!" Fa Yu coldly snorted, his eyes were as cold as ice itself. Not a trace of the cautiousness and anxiety he had earlier when facing Ling Tian girly could be seen, and expression he now had was filled with the looks of a cool tyrant. "For these few days, be good and stay here. Once I shoo away that trash with the surname Fan, I will naturally let you out."

"…" Trash? Wasn't he calling her little sister Fan in an intimate manner earlier?

Fa Yu seemed to have recalled that incident as well, as he looked as though he had just ate cow dung and was rubbing his hand with the handkerchief even more forcefully than before. With a cold tone, he continued. "That woman with the surname Fan is very strange. In just fifty years, she was able to nourish her Nascent Soul. She definitely made use of some abnormal methods. Her desire to bring Tiantian back to Spirit Heaven Palace definitely isn't simply because of the Sect Master's position."

His words were sound. Earlier, Zhu Yao had thought of this point as well.

"Her body is enhanced by a unique mystical energy." He frowned as his expression sank. "That mystical energy is actually capable of influencing the circulation of the surrounding spiritual energy. The higher one's cultivation level is, the easier one would be affected."

"You're saying that all the men by her side are being controlled because of that reason?" Zhu Yao was stunned. She felt as if she had just unlocked a hidden scenario.

Fa Yu gave her a "it seems you're not that stupid, and is a little better than trash' look. "This mystic power is similar to the charming arts of heretic practitioners. It is capable of confusing one's mind and heart, yet it doesn't carry any evil aura which made it hard for others to sense it. Furthermore, it seems like she is born with this passive mystic power… as there are no traces of spiritual energy being manipulated due to that power itself."

Zhu Yao suddenly recalled her past encounter with Yi Ling. It seemed as though all of the men she encountered with, all developed fond feelings of her. Even with Sesame took up a human form, he was unable to resist it. In the beginning, Zhu Yao had thought that it was just the cheat of a main lead. Now that she thought about it, what if the cheats of these main leads could be trained?

Did Fan Zhishan possess such powers as well? However, in the scenario Zhu Yao saw, the men in her harem did not love her at first sight, and instead only developed fond feelings of her after several interactions over a long period of time. Only after that, did those feelings become extreme to the point of taking their own lives if doing so was the only way to save her. However, from Fa Yu's words, these people were influenced by that unique mystical power from her body. It certainly sounded plausible if their feelings were to have grown deeper only after being influenced by it over a long time.

After all, as long as one was a practitioner, he would carry pride that was somewhat larger than a mere mortal, how could he possibly be willing to share a wife with other men? Furthermore, they were actually able to coexist peacefully. This was simply too irrational. Not to mention there was a tenth rank demonic beast among them. Putting aside the stubbornness demonic beasts had in monopolizing their own partners, the reason why Yi Ling became a bug back then, was because she incurred the wrath of a demonic beast, didn't she?

Fa Yu coldly laughed. His hands clenched tightly as he said with a dark and cold voice. "With that measly status of his, Cao Qi actually dares to touch my woman. It's about time for them to suffer some of the consequences, otherwise they will truly think that I, Qiong Yu, am afraid of them!"

Why did Zhu Yao feel as though some people were about to go bankrupt.

"I will deal with disgusting woman sooner or later." Fa Yu said in a tyrannical manner, and his voice instantly turned cold. He turned to look at Zhu Yao. "Within this period of time, you best know your place and do not harbour any evil thoughts. Otherwise, I will not forgive you either."

"Uh…" What happened to Ling Tian's promise of being friends with me?

"Understand?"

"Understood, chairman! No problem, chairman!"

Fa Yu coldly snorted as he gave her a 'at least you know you're sensible' look. With a swing of his sleeves, he walked out in big steps. Tyrannical, cool, overbearing, it was as if these words were written all over his body.

Zhu Yao: "…"

"Saintess…" Ling Tian's voice once again resounded. "See, didn't I tell you? Isn't Little Yu really cute?"

Cute, my ass! -flips table- He's clearly really scary, alright?

Ling Tian girly, why call me over when you already have such a tyrannical and loyal childhood friend? So that I can watch you two go at it?

On that night, Zhu Yao finally understood the reason she was here. It was all in order to defend against the female lead's night assault!

While she was meditating, she suddenly felt a light breeze. The prison gate that was formed by a light pillar above a formation, suddenly disappeared. She looked the empty prison entrance in front of her for several minutes, as she silently sat on the ground, unmoving.

After an hour, as though she could not bear it any longer, a human figure appeared at the door.

"So it's you." Zhu Yao waved her hand.

Fan Zhishan looked at her with a cold expression, not a trace of the frailness from before could be seen. "Why didn't you leave?"

Zhu Yao rolled her eyes. "Clearly, someone is trying to lure me out by opening the prison gate so suddenly. Do you think I'm stupid? Like I would send myself out even after knowing this." This was clearly saying, 'Hurry and come out, I have a wolf's den over here.' A brain-dead scenario like this had already been played out several times in movies, alright? There definitely wasn't going to be any good outcome from leaving.

"You're rather smart, at the least" Fan Zhishan coldly laughed. "It's no wonder you bear such incredible luck."

"Luck? What do you mean?"

"Hmph…" Fan Zhishan did not have the intentions to explain. She stared straight at Zhu Yao, with eyes that looked as though someone had found an oasis after desiring it for a very long time. Her eyes were glowing fiery red, filled with immense greed, as she broke out into wild laughter. "Unfortunately, everything is about to be mine soon." As long as I have this, no one will be my match. "Well, since you aren't willing to come out, it doesn't matter what I do it."

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Chapter 329: Spewing All Over Your Face

As she said that, she summoned a few chains of light and came charging over. From what she was doing, she did not seem like she was trying to kill Zhu Yao, but snatch something from her?

Zhu Yao did not move and simply watch her flying towards her. However, when she was left with just an inch away from Zhu Yao, she crashed into something with a "dong", and could not move a step further.

"What is this?" Fan Zhishan pushed the air in front of her, realizing that something transparent was blocking her. A formation? No, there wasn't any flow of spiritual energy in the surroundings, and there were only faint traces of spiritual energy in the air here in the first place. A formation being erected here was impossible.

Zhu Yao glanced at the few wobbly words on the ground – Invincible Wall. She silently gave a thumbs up to the Magical Brush. She just loved cheat equipment the best!

"You are actually capable of summoning such a mystical barrier." Fan Zhishan could not enter, yet not only did she not get angry, the flames in her eyes burned even brighter. "Wonderful! Incredibly wonderful!" It was as if she was on steroids, as she looked at Zhu Yao even more fervently than before. Her eyes were sparkling with incredible light.

Zhu Yao frowned. She felt that there was something strange with her expression.

Fan Zhishan however began to cast an art, summoning a large fireball in an attempt to burn away the layer of obstruction. However, it was useless. She then summoned icicles, earth spikes, vines… She used all five types of mystic arts, yet she was unable to break through at all either.

Her expression turned from shock, to greed, and finally, to unsuppressable excitement. Suddenly, she stopped all her actions, and with an incredibly deep smile, she said. "Do you think by hiding inside here, I will be all out of options?"

She raised her hand and red light instantly flashed. A red glow emitted out from all around Fan Zhishan, as if something was slowly seeping out of her body. A moment later, a 'B' popped out. Then, a 'U', and then, a 'G'. Slowly, they gathered in the palm of her hand, forming an enormous sickle-shaped… BUG!

Why a bug!? -faints- Was the female lead's body made up of codes? They were in complete English too!

With a complacent smile, she strongly swung down the 'BUG' in her hand. Ma Liang brand's barrier instantly made a crackling sound as a large hole broken open. Zhu Yao was almost smashed in the face by the 'B' of the 'BUG' sickle.

The hell? What happened to the promised 'invincible'?

Zhu Yao hurriedly retreated at full speed in order to dodge her attack. She faintly felt something had been chipped off by her side, as a cracking sound resounded. She did not have time to ponder as she slammed her palm onto the ground, and earth thorns began to charge straight towards the female lead.

The entire prison emitted out a large boom. Fan Zhishan simply shifted her body to the side to dodge them. After all, she was a Nascent Soul practitioner, while Zhu Yao was merely a Foundation trash. She was not her match at all! With just a wave of her hand, the earth thorns had all turned into ashes.

This was the moment she was waiting for!

Zhu Yao cast an art with her two hands, circulating the spiritual energy in her body. In an instant, a metal-type mystic art was activated. The crumbled earth that had just turned into ashes earlier instantly formed metal-like thorns, and they flew towards Fan Zhishan in a overwhelming manner. Because she had just shattered all of the earth thorns earlier, her surroundings was filled with ashes. Now that they had suddenly turned into metal thorns, Fan Zhishan simply did not have anywhere to dodge, and even a scratch was made on her body when one of the thorns flew across her.

However, in the end, she was a Nascent Soul practitioner. With just her will, a defensive barrier was summoned, blocking the attacks that were coming from all directions without a single exception. She coldly laughed. "Hmph. With just this much, you still think of…"

Eh, where did she go?

When she reacted, Zhu Yao had already flown out of the prison. The hell, who wants to fight with her? Clearly, we are standing on different levels, so naturally we have to run off as fast as possible.

Zhu Yao flew very quickly, reaching the exit of the prison in an instant. However, Fan Zhishan was even faster. Before Zhu Yao could even leave Grandhall Sect, a figure flashed before her eyes, and Fan Zhishan was already blocking her way. She had a sarcastic smile on her face, as if she was mocking Zhu Yao for her overestimating herself.

"Little Sister Fan!?" Fa Yu's voice of utter disbelief suddenly resounded, and Fan Zhishan instantly stiffened. On the other hand, Zhu Yao heaved a sigh of relief. He's finally here.

"You… What are you?" Fa Yu looked at Zhu Yao, and then looked at Fan Zhishan. A heart-aching expression instantly surfaced. "Little Sister Fan… As expected, you still wish to save her, to the extent of breaking into the prison itself!"

Fan Zhishan's expression changed several times, before immediately restoring that frail and stubborn look she had before. With a bitter-looking face, she looked towards Fa Yu. "She's… after all my elder sister!"

When Fa Yu heard this, he grew even sadder, looking as though he did not manage to live up to her expectations. Even his body began to tremble a little. "I merely wanted to help stand up for you. If you do not wish to take her life, then tell me so and I will make the promise. Why go through the trouble of stowing her away? Am I someone that's not worth your trust?"

"Big brother Fa Yu…" Fan Zhishan stiffened for a moment. She was truly beginning to grow a little anxious. "You misunderstood, I'm not…"

"No need for further words!" Fa Yu raised his hand to stop her. He powerlessly hanged his shoulders, as if he was submerged in intense pain. If not because she had seen how Fa Yu looked when he was facing Ling Tian, Zhu Yao would have truly believed that he was depressed from being misunderstood by the person he loved. "I have known for a long time that I have never held a place in your heart… I… I just wish to help you do something, no matter how small it may be, so that I can treat you even a little bit better. Are you telling me, I can't even do that?"

"…" Fan Zhishan was dumbfounded. This time, she was truly troubled. Her night assault was definitely something she had planned on her own. However, she never expected that after a short exchange of blows, she would actually lure Fa Yu. Furthermore, he even believed that she had snuck in to save the prisoner.

On one hand, Fan Zhishan was worried that her plan would be exposed, so she had no choice but to admit that she was here to save her elder sister because of the deep sisterly love she supposedly harboured.

On the other hand, Fa Yu was actually here to save the Ling Tian for real, and was intentionally acting as an infatuated follower whose good intentions were trampled.

Zhu Yao glanced at the two Oscar winners in front of her. Uh… Should I chime in too?

"Big brother Fa Yu, I don't mean it that way." In the end, the female lead could not let go of the image she had built for so many years, as she attempted to calm the flames within Fa Yu.

"Enough!" Fa Yu let out a long sigh. "This Fa Yu simply do not have the fate to be with you…" He looked at the female lead with a pained expression. "Return to Spirit Heaven Palace. I will stop being so thick-skinned to keep you here."

"Big brother Fa Yu…"

"Go!" He roared out, looking as though he had just made a difficult decision. "Don't come here anymore."

Fa Zhishan stiffened, her eyes swam towards Zhu Yao at the side. Just as she was about to speak up, Fa Yu suddenly said.

"As for Ling Tian…" His expression turned cold and he said with a heavy tone. "Just treat it as the final thing that I will do for you. I will never give her the opportunity to harm you."

As he said that, he suddenly waved his arm. A chain instantly struck onto Zhu Yao.

The hell! Before Zhu Yao could even dodge, she was wrapped. She deliberately struggled a little and even cussed out a few times, coordinating with the two Oscar winners. She had no choice. Life is an act, and everything is dependent on one's acting skills!

"Shut up!" Fa Yu simply gave her a slap. With a resounding smack, Zhu Yao was slammed onto the ground, crashing into the prison below.

With a loud boom, a large crater was blasted open.

Zhu Yao could still hear his words that carried deep affection along with despair. "Little sister Fan, leave. Stop making it so painful for me…"

I really want to award him with the Best Actor award, what to do!?

A moment later, she could no longer hear any movements above. Only then did Zhu Yao finally crawl up from the crater.

Raising her head, she looked at Fa Yu, who was looking into the distance with a painful expression. The rays from the sunset shone onto his body with indescribable loneliness, coincidentally striking at the perfect angle for an infatuated supporting male lead. 'Acting' was all that could be felt from his entire body!

In the next moment, he flew down. All of his previous emotions had receded, and he was now giving Zhu Yao a pair of dead fish eyes. "Hey, are you dead yet?"

The hell! So my treatment was not an act!?

Zhu Yao shook off the dust from her body and stood up. She slapped off the shattered defensive artifact in front of her chest, and rolled her eyes back at him.

He had indeed used all of his strength in that slap earlier. Forget about a Foundation disciple, even an Azoth Core practitioner would not have been able to take that slap. However, at the moment he was about to hit her, he placed a defensive artifact on her which directly blocked against all damage. It looked as if she had died of certain, but other than having a mouth full of dirt, there wasn't a single injury on her.

Zhu Yao seemed to have understood his intentions right away, and thus had immediately retracted all of her aura, along with her consciousness, deep into her Dantian where Ling Tian was. Thus, she successfully played dead!

"Your acting is pretty good, young man!" Zhu Yao habitually reached out to pat his shoulder.

She did not expect that he would suddenly shift his body to the side to evade her, causing her hand to pat on air, and she was this close to stumbling onto the ground.

"Don't touch me. Disgusting."

"…" The hell. Your despise for me is too obvious, don't you think!? We're already teammates right now, you know? "Hmph. Earlier, you were still clinging onto little sister Fan and not letting go of her. I didn't see you feel disgusted by that though?"

His face instantly distorted, looking as though he had just ate shit. Cusses came thundering down the moment he opened his mouth. "If not because Tiantian was in danger, do you think this daddy would approach a woman like her who is as dirty as a toilet stool? This daddy can smell the disgusting stench of a trash like her from three hundred kilometers away! If I were to throw someone like her into the toilet, I would be afraid of staining someone else's shit! She's cancer when alive, and I'm even afraid that she would spread that disease of hers to the other ghosts when she's dead! She dirties the earth spiritual energy when she's walking, she dirties the water spiritual energy when she's drinking water, she dirties the metal spiritual energy when she's practicing her sword arts, she dirties the fire spiritual energy when she's lighting up a fire, and if she were to sleep on a wooden bed, even the wood spiritual energy would despise her, alright? Just by living in the same realm as her, this daddy feels that bad odour is all this daddy is breathing in…"

He was full of hot air with endless cusses to throw.

"…" Zhu Yao was dumbfounded the longer she listened to him. Thank you for simply despising me for being disgusting! What's with this feeling of striking the top prize in the lottery?

Ling Tian girly, are you sure you're not blind?

Fa Yu cussed at Fan Zhishan for two whole hours, and there was never once did he repeat the same cuss. His cusses were brilliant, enough to awe the masses of both in the past and present eras. If Fan Zhishan was present to hear all his cusses, either she would directly die from anger, or she would feel that she was mistreating her own ears.

Only when the sun was disappearing in the horizon, did Fa Yu finally wave his arm and say. "I'm going to drink some water!" He finally stopped that slow, unceasing chain of cusses.

Zhu Yao had a darkened expression. She had no choice but to follow after him, but she was quietly maintaining a three meters distance from him, afraid that his spit would land on her.

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Chapter 330: I Can Read

Fa Yu gulped down three cups of water, before he was finally able to calm down and heave a long sigh. When Zhu Yao thought that he was about to continue cussing, he suddenly turned his around and looked at her with a 'you trash' expression. With a cold tone, he said. "That trash will succeed the Sect Master position three days later."

"Eh?" What trash? This change in topic came too abruptly, give her some buffer time to calm down.

"I don't know what method that trash used either. She was actually able to awaken the Spirit Guiding Beast." Fa Yu said with a cold look.

By 'trash', he was referring to the female lead. The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched, and she then modestly inquired. "What's the Spirit Guiding Beast?"

Was it a demonic beast? She had never heard of the existence of a demonic beast like that.

"The Spirit Guiding Beast is the guardian beast of Spirit Heaven Palace." Fa Yu threw a "are you an idiot?" glance. "It's born as a ninth rank, and after maturing, it can advance into the tenth rank. As long as it goes through the lightning tribulation after that, it can ascend to the Higher Realm. The Spirit Guiding Beast can only be awakened by every generation of the Spirit Heaven Palace Sect Masters, and they will only form contracts with the Sect Masters."

"Ling Tian isn't able to awaken the Spirit Guiding Beast?" Zhu Yao asked.

"How is that possible!?" Fa Yu glared at her. "Tiantian is the true Sect Master of Spirit Heaven Palace. However, the Spirit Guiding Beast lives in the Heaven Profound Cave, and it will only break out of its shell in a hundred years. When Tiantian was in Spirit Heaven Palace, that beast was still in its egg! It's not even close to day of hatching yet, so naturally it shouldn't be awakened by force. Who knows just what method that trash used to make the Spirit Guiding Beast break out of its shell prematurely."

Just what was going on here? Zhu Yao naturally did not suspect Ling Tian's identity, otherwise the world wouldn't collapse after her death in the scenario she was showed. She was worried about what the female lead was after.

"My Tiantian is the true Sect Master of Spirit Heaven Palace, the true daughter of fate! The hell is that trash!?" Fa Yu said matter-of-factly. As though he had a recalled some beautiful memories, he muttered in a fragmented manner. "Back then, when my Tiantian arrived at Spirit Heaven Palace for the first time, I knew she was the best in the world. How could any other trash be compared to her? If the other trash wants to act as a cushion for my feet, I would feel my feet would be stained, you hear me? The position of the Spirit Heaven Palace Sect Master? She deserves the best in this world, of course. Otherwise, there wouldn't be a need for me to be considerate by damaging my own cultivation to grow up with her. If not because I had to shut the mouths of those old geezers and prove that I'm worthy of her, would I have left her and come to a stupid place like this Grandhall Sect to become a Sect Master or whatever? This man here only wants to protect, safeguard, and watch her every single day…"

Zhu Yao silently turned her head away. She seemed to have just listened to something incredible.

His complaints came to an abrupt halt, and he suddenly turned to look at Zhu Yao, as though he had just recalled that she was just by his side. 'Oh. Shit.' was all over Zhu Yao's face.

"You…" He gave her a death glare, killing intent surged out of him like a hurricane as he warned. "… are not allowed to tell Tiantian, otherwise, you will get what's coming to you!"

"Yes, President! No problem, President! Even if you beat me to death, I won't let it slip!" Zhu Yao immediately swore an oath. I won't tell the girly about how you're secretly in love with her and how you planned an entire loli-raising plan since you were young. "But…"

"What?" His killing intent grew heavier.

"Umm… Ling Tian girly seemed to have been listening to our conversation the entire time!"

The cool and tyrannical President Fa instantly turned into an exploded tomato, with his face turning completely red. In the next instant, as though he was a fleeing soldier, he charged out of the door. As though there was a ghost chasing after him from behind, he even accidentally tripped over the door sill and smacked onto the ground. However, he then immediately crawled up and ran far away, till his figure could no longer be seen.

"…" What happened to the promise of letting me get what's coming to me?

A long while later…

Ling Tian: "Little Yu is so cute…"

Zhu Yao: "…"

Hey, which part of that was cute? I only see a huge pervert, alright? For his loli-raising plan, he damaged his own cultivation to become a child so that he could play the role of a childhood friend. That's simply too heavy a taste, alright?

It was no wonder Ling Tian was just at the Foundation stage, while Fa Yu was already at the Nascent Soul stage. Him being a childhood friend was just a roleplay.

Ever since Fa Yu found out that Ling Tian girly was an audience to every single one of his conversations with Zhu Yao, he grew uncomfortable. Probably due to awkwardness or whatever, he did not appear for two consecutive days. Because of her status as the former Sect Master of Spirit Heaven Palace, she could not casually wander about either, and had no choice but to stay in the house from before in order to prevent getting exposed.

On the third day, Fa Yu appeared with a perturbed look. However, rather than the expression he had as if he was looking at dirt when facing Zhu Yao, it was much normal than before… No, it was incredibly more so than before.

"Tiantian…" He looked at her sheepishly with a tensed expression. "Are you angry at me?"

"I'm sorry, I'm Ma Liang!" Zhu Yao raised her hand.

His expression stiffened, but he immediately grew his gentle smile back. It was as if flowers had bloomed within his eyes. "Lady Ma, I'm sorry. My attitude towards you in the past few days was bad. I apologize."

Yo, is the Sun rising from the west now? This pervert with a poisonous tongue has such a drastic change in attitude! Also, the hell is Lady Ma?

"You are here to help Tiantian, so you're considered as a benefactor of ours. I should be thanking you." He said with a sincere look. Suddenly, he took out a bottle from his side, and passed it ot her. "Back then, I didn't hold back myself well, so I don't know if I have injured milady. I hope this healing sacred medicine is enough to express my goodwill."

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. She stared at the bottle he was passing to her, but did not reach out to grab it.

"Are you certain it's a healing sacred medicine?"

His smile was filled with pure sincerity. "Of course. This is the best healing sacred medicine in Grandhall Sect."

"Then why is the three words 'Soul Extracting Soup' labelled on it?" Are you treating me as blind!?

Fa Yu's smile retracted. "Tch." He had forgotten to tear it off!

In an instant, he returned to the numbed expression from before. The changes in his expressions were like flipping through a book.

"…" The hell, this bastard is definitely doing this on purpose, right? He's trying to make me leave Ling Tian girly's body, isn't he?

Realizing that he had been exposed, Fa Yu was no longer interested in continuing his act. "Hey, wear this!" With a wave of his hand, he threw over an item.

Zhu Yao grabbed it on reflex, and realized it was a bracelet. The bracelet was covered with large number of formations, and the spiritual energy it was exuding was incredible. It was a seventh rank mystic artifact. When she wore it, a circle of light instantly swept across her entire body.

"This mystic artifact can conceal your looks." Fa Yu explained impatiently. "Demigod Sovereigns might not be able to see through it either."

Zhu Yao summoned a water mirror with a wave of her hand. As he had said, her looks had changed. Her facial features now leaned closer to average, belonging to the type which, if she was thrown into a crowd of people, she would not be easily recognized by others.

"What's the catch behind this?" Fa Yu would not give her something like this for no reason.

"Tomorrow, that trash will summon the various clans and sects to bear witness to her officially becoming the Sect Master of Spirit Heaven Palace." Fa Yu rolled his eyes, his face was filled with scorn. However, compared to before, his attitude was much better. Back then, the eyes he looked at her with had always been: You disgusting slug. Now, when looking at her, he first asked if Ling Tian was watching through his eyes, and then he changed his eyes into: You slug.

Though both slugs, she was now no longer disgusting. Mn, Zhu Yao was a person that was content with just what she had.

"Though Cao Qi came up with the excuse of twins, those old geezers of Spirit Heaven Palace aren't stupid either. They are definitely aware that though the trash is able to awaken the Spirit Guiding Beast, it might not definitely take her as its owner. If we want to take back the position of Sect Master, we have to make use of this opportunity."

"You're thinking of having Ling Tian return to take in that Spirit Guiding Beast, in order to prove her identity?"

"Mn."

This was indeed a good opportunity. Now that Fan Zhishan believed that Ling Tian was already dead, she definitely would not set up much defenses. Furthermore, she definitely would not have guessed that Ling Tian would be so daring to charge back in. However…

"If you do such a thing, it's akin to breaking off from Fan Zhishan. You must be aware that she was born in the first-rate deity sect – Sleipoup Sect. She has still many people backing her up. Spirit Heaven Palace is just a small part of her forces. If she were to turn back and attack Grandhall Sect…"

"We can talk about future matters in the future. Tiantian must not be sullied by her for nothing!" Fa Yu frowned, and he said with a furious look. "If she were to truly become the Sect Master of Spirit Heaven Palace, Tiantian will have nowhere to stay in the future either."

Zhu Yao did not persuade any further. Sure, hiding was good and all, but why not declare a fallout with her in the open? At the very least, by doing so, Fan Zhishan would not be able to make her move openly for a short period of time.

In the early morning of the second day, Fa Yu brought a large number of disciples to Spirit Heaven Palace. He intentionally picked out a portion of the disciples from various levels, including those with Essence and Foundation cultivation levels, and Zhu Yao was mixed among the Foundation disciples. With a total of thirty or so people, it seemed sufficient enough to sustain the face of Spirit Heaven Palace.

When they arrived at Spirit Heaven Palace, they were welcomed by Cao Qi. This was the first time Zhu Yao met nth member Cao Qi, and she had to admit that he had good looks. With mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivation level, he looked like a true gentleman. With utmost courtesy, he led Fa Yu into the inner hall.

Because Zhu Yao's status was insufficient, she could only follow the rest of the disciples and stand by outside the hall. She then sized up Spirit Heaven Palace. Similar to the other deity sects, Spirit Heaven Palace was built upon several floating mountains. The place Ling Tian lived was the main mountain the very center, but it was not the largest one. Not far in front of her, there was a floating mountain that was even larger than the main mountain. However, compared to the cave residences here that were abundant in spiritual energy, the spiritual energy there was so dense, the mountain was surrounded in condensed wisps of spiritual energy, yet not a single human presence could be felt there. Zhu Yao felt this was a little strange. Generally speaking, that place had much thicker spiritual energy, so why wasn't the main mountain built there, but build it in the present location it was in?

This doubt flashed past her mind, however, she did not dwell in it much further. She could not help but raised her head and look at a cloudy place in the sky. She could faintly see the shadow of a pagoda. That was the cave residence of the Spirit Heaven Palace Sect Master. It possessed the densest spiritual energy, and it was also the place she first woke up in.

"Sovereign Pi Shi of Sleipoup Sect has arrived!" Following after the passing of the message, someone flew over from afar. His body was exuding incredible radiance. Dressed in blue robes and bearing a straight back, he was filled with endless magmanity.

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. This person carried his own lighting special effects during his own entrance. It seemed like this was Fan Zhishan's first member – the female lead's master. It would have been incredibly shocking, if not for half of the lighting going missing. As if it was blocked by something.

Eh, wait a minute!? Just what in the world was that radiance?

Zhu Yao took a closer look, and the light exuding from Sovereign Pi Shi disappeared again. Was this an illusion caused by the Sun?

When she finally regained her senses, that person had already landed on the ground. The various clans and sects, that had come to participate in this succession, moved over to welcome him, and gave Sovereign Pi Shi their respects and greetings.

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Chapter 331: Contracting the Spirit Guiding Beast

Pi Shi nodded. A joyous cry suddenly sounded from the sky. "Master!"

Fan Zhishan came flying down from above, and then she walked towards Pi Shi with hurried steps. With slight astonishment and shyness, she said. "Why are you here?"

"How can your master not be present for your succession ceremony?" Pi Shi however had a serious look.

"Thank you, master." Fan Zhishan looked at him lovingly, and then turned to look at the masses from the various sects. She courteously welcomed them, and then led everyone into the hall.

Pi Shi was walking at the very front while Fan Zhishan was following closely behind. Just as she was about to step into the hall, for some reason, her eyes swept towards Zhu Yao's direction. With widened eyes, she suddenly stopped her feet.

Zhu Yao's heart skipped a beat. She had a bad premonition about this.

"What's wrong?" Pi Shi was the first to realize his disciple's weird behaviour. He followed her gaze and spotted Zhu Yao not far away. While carrying a slight unpleasant look, he released a short probing divine sense.

The hell, she couldn't have been exposed, right!? Zhu Yao instinctively held onto the mystic artifact in her hands, suppressing the anxiety in the depths of her heart as she stood still with her usual expression.

"It's nothing. I simply spotted a disciple that I seemed to be really fated with." Fan Zhishan lightly replied, a gentle smile surfaced from the corners of her lips as she walked straight towards Zhu Yao. "This little sister, I like you really much the moment I saw you. I wonder which sect are you from? Are you willing to take me as your master?"

"Ah!?"

Not just Zhu Yao, everyone present felt that things had taken a strange turn. Wasn't this a succession ceremony? Why did she suddenly want to take in a disciple? Furthermore, the other party was a disciple from another sect!

However, she simply chuckled and said with a harmonious smile. "Don't be afraid. We practitioners have always relied on fate. We can be said to be fated to encounter each other today. I really like you and want to take you under my wing as my personal succeeding disciple."

When she spoke these words, everyone present finally understood. Practitioners could only have a single personal succeeding disciple, and thus had always treated taking personal succeeding disciple really seriously, unless one were to encounter someone whom she or he felt destined with. As such, choosing personal succeeding disciples did not depend on aptitudes alone, but fate as well. With how hard it was to encounter someone of fate, it was no wonder she had to snatch the girl as quickly as possible.

Zhu Yao's heart loosened, right after being tensed just earlier. Just what is this female lead doing? Did she recognize her or not?

"Oh right, I have yet to ask of your name yet."

"Hoho, I'm Ma Liang." As she was uncertain of the truth, she had no choice but to rely on her acting skills.

"Ma Liang…" Fan Zhishan sized her up for a moment, and the more she looked, the more heated her eyes became. Cold sweat dripped down Zhu Yao's back, as for some reason, she felt her eyes were a little off. She can't possibly be into both men and women, right? Yamete, this old lady sells her body, but not her skills!

"Which sect are you from? Are you willing to become my personal succeeding disciple?"

"Uh…" If I were to reject your offer, can you not slap my face?

"She's a disciple of my Grandhall Sect." Before she could even speak up, Fa Yu's voice resounded. Zhu Yao instantly heaved a sigh of relief. As expected, when it came to acting skills, it just had to be the acting emperor to go against the acting empress!

Fan Zhishan was a little startled at first, but she immediately let out a tender cry. "Big brother Fa Yu…"

Fa Yu turned to glance at her, his eyes carried a complicated glow, as if they were mixed with love, pain, and disappointment, and other emotions. The quality of his acting skills was so great, Zhu Yao expressed that she was unable to measure it at all.

Taking a deep breath, Fa Yu retracted the emotions in his eyes, restoring his former cold look. He profoundly took up the role of a man whose heart had been hurt and had no choice but to draw a clear boundary.

Zhu Yao was the only one who could see that the cold face of his now was his usual expression. Most likely, he was already beginning to form insults of her in his mind.

"Present here today are all of the elite disciples of my Grandhall Sect. I apologize, but my sect do not have any plans of exchanging disciples with Sect Master Fan."

Fan Zhishan immediately looked at him with a pitiful look as she gently called out. "Big brother Fa Yu…"

Fa Yu however had already turned around and entered the hall, completely ignoring her expression.

Her face stiffened. She had no choice but to suppress her thoughts in the depths of her heart as she led the crowd into the hall, continuing with the procedures of her succession ceremony. However, she did not forget to turn her head back a couple of times, throwing a few reluctant glances at Zhu Yao.

At this moment, Zhu Yao felt even her hair were standing straight and still. The female lead was unaware that Zhu Yao was brought here by Fa Yu, which meant that she did not recognize her at all. Otherwise, she wouldn't have chosen to take such a roundabout way and use the excuse of personal succeeding disciple to take her in.

However, why was the female lead able to spot her at first glance? Not to mention she developed an extremely great interest in her. With how scheming the female lead was, there was definitely a reason behind her actions. Either for fame, or for her own benefits! However, what did a mere Foundation disciple like her have that could be worth her attention? Why did she look at no one else but her? Unless… There was something on her, and it was something only the female lead was able to see?

Just what was it? Zhu Yao felt that she had managed to grasp onto something, but she just could not grab onto the key behind all this.

The succession ceremony had already begun in the hall. Three out of four of the Hall Master were already sitting next to the throne, while Cao Qi was loudly reciting the official speech as he held onto the Sect Master Token. Just as he was about to solemnly pass it over to Fan Zhishan…

"Wait!" Fa Yu suddenly stood up and interrupted.

Cao Qi turned to look towards Fa Yu with a displeased expression. "Fa Yu, what's the meaning of this?"

"Nothing, I'm just a little curious." Fa Yu still carried that cold look. "I've heard that Reverend Fan is the twin sister of the former Sect Master. Because of a mistake the wrong child was brought back, and she had only returned to Spirit Heaven Palace today?"

"Of course. This is something everyone is aware of." Cao Qi said with a nod. This matter had already been announced to the entire world, and the entire cultivation world was already aware of this.

"Then, that's strange." Fa Yu coldly snorted. "Since they are twins, on what basis does Spirit Heaven Palace believe that the former Sect Master is fake, while the Sect Master standing before us now is the real one?"

Cao Qi instantly flared up, as though someone was intentionally trying to find fault in them. "Is there even a need to say this? Zhishan is able to awaken our sect's guardian sacred beast, the Spirit Guiding Beast. Is there a better proof than that?"

"Oh… Is that so?" Fa Yu scanned his surroundings. "Ever since I stepped in here, why haven't I seen that awakened guardian scared beast then?"

When he said this, the crowd from the various sects began to discuss this as well. The position of the Sect Master was suddenly handed over when the former Sect Master's lifespan had yet to be depleted. This was already a rare occurrence within the various sects in the first place, let alone something as preposterous as picking up the wrong twin or whatever. This was something that the masses found hard to believe.

"You…" Just as Cao Qi was about to burst into rage, he was held back by Fan Zhishan who shook her head at him.

Instead, she turned around and looked at Fa Yu with a saddened look. "Big brother Fa Yu… Are you still blaming me?"

The corner of Fa Yu's lips twitched for a moment. Just as it looked as if he was about to break character, he immediately turned his head around in a cold manner. He was this close to cussing out at that trash.

Fan Zhishan on the other hand thought that he had affirmed it with his silence. With a long sigh, she turned to look at the crowd in the hall. "Haah, I am aware that everyone has their suspicions. Initially, this lowly one has planned on initiating the life-death contract with the Spirit Guiding Beast after I succeed the role of Sect Master. If everyone holds doubts about me, then let us first contract with the Spirit Guiding Beast."

As she said that, she turned around and led the crowd out of the hall. Flying on her sword, she headed towards the largest mountain out of the range of mountains.

When Zhu Yao saw that the crowd had exited the hall, she knew that Fa Yu had already played his part as she immediately flew after them.

Fan Zhishan stopped a little distance away from that floating mountain and pulled out a tablet. She flung the table into the air, and that lush green mountain began to recede its greenery a layer at a time, like an egg having its shell peeled. Revealed behind it was a white mountain that looked as if it was formed by crystals.

"Spirit Stone Mountain!" Someone cried out in astonishment.

Sighs of praise resounded in the air. The entire floating mountain was actually formed out of spirit stones. It was no wonder the spiritual energy of Spirit Heaven Palace was this rich.

Fan Zhishan was very satisfied with the sighs of the crowd. Smiling, she flew towards the very center of the entire mountain. The crowd followed after her, and only after getting close did they realize that there was an enormous cave residence at the very center of the mountain. It was the area with the richest spiritual energy in the entire Spirit Stone Mountain. The surrounding spiritual energy felt as if it was about to gain substance even.

A man stood in front of the cave residence. Donned in a long azure blue robe, he had extraordinary facial features. Just that, the corners of his eyes were slightly arched. Even though he was clearly a man, he carried an inexplicable bewitching charm. Seeing the approaching crowd, he frowned at first, his eyes carried unconcealed scorn. When he turned to look at Fan Zhishan, he smiled again.

"Bai Li?" Fan Zhishan called out, her eyes were filled with questioning intentions.

That man reached out his hand and pulled her into his embrace as he carried a wanton smile on his face. He slight nodded, seemingly to respond to her. His eyes traced towards Sovereign Pi Shi behind her.

Naturally, Pi Shi began to frown.

Zhu Yao silently watched everyone's little actions. It seemed like this Bai Li was that tenth rank demonic beast in question. The female lead sure had heavy tastes.

However, it seemed like this beast did not actually have an especially harmonious relationship with the rest. No matter how incredible a protagonist's cheat was, it seemed like it wasn't able to beat the instincts of beasts.

She could faintly guess the method the female lead used to awaken the Spirit Guiding Beast. Most likely, the tenth rank demonic beast played a role in it.

"Everyone." Fan Zhishan stepped out of Bai Li's embrace. With her hands cupped together, she turned to the crowd and said. "Today, I request that my fellow like-minded practitioners bear witness to what I'm about to do. I shall now summon the guardian sacred beast of my sect, the Spirit Guiding Beast."

She cast an art with a single hand, and then swung her palm out into the air. White formation lights began to shimmer in front of that enormous spiritual cave. Within it, there seemed to be a gigantic figure raising up high. When it landed, the entire Spirit Stone Mountain even trembled a little. That was actually a single footstep of that demonic beast. Before the crowd could see the true body of that demonic beast, immense pressure came assaulting them, causing their hearts to stir.

"Ling Tian girly!" Zhu Yao sent a message into her body. Zhu Yao planned to pass the authority to control the body to her the moment the demonic beast were to appear. If the Spirit Guiding Beast could only form contracts with the Sect Masters of Spirit Heaven Palace, then Zhu Yao wouldn't be able to do it. Ling Tian had to do it herself.

"Mn, Saintess, I understand." Ling Tian replied. The next moment, Zhu Yao began the procedures to release the control of the body, and planned to dwell in her Dantian.

At the same time, the Spirit Guiding Beast that attracted the astonished sighs of the crowd slowly walked out of the cave as well. Its figure began to look clearer.

Fan Zhishan was filled with smiles. When the demonic beast completely walked out of the cave, it revealed its sharp green teeth. It was an enormous demonic beast with six wings on its back. Facing the heavens, it let out a long roar, stirring up the crowd and causing their blood to tumble. "O′Roooar~~"

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Chapter 332: Five Words Floated in the Air

The female lead raised her two hands up into the air, and loudly said. "Spirit Guiding Beast, my most loyal companion. Are you willing to form a contract with me?"

Zhu Yao's action to release control paused. She turned around and then squeezed Ling Tian girly, who was just about to log on, back down.

"Saintess?"

Just as that beastie was lowering its head and was about to speak out human words… "I…"

Zhu Yao's face was filled with astonishment!

"Sesame!" She could not help but call out.

That demonic beast stopped halfway. Its entire body suddenly shook, and even its three pairs of wings trembled a little. It hurriedly turned its head around, and with its widened bell-like eyes, it looked straight towards the direction of the crowd. Its entire beast head began to distort, as if it was stretching out a smile. However, it revealed a mouth of sharp beastly teeth, making it look terrifying instead.

"Ouu~~" That beastie leapt up, suddenly pouncing towards the human crowd. With a boom, several practitioners were injured from its rush. It finally stopped when it arrived in front of Zhu Yao, staring straight at her. "Mis… Mistress…"

Zhu Yao's face darkened. It really was Sesame!

"Mistress…" Sesame looked as if it was glowing, as it pounced onto her. It did not care if it was crushing her, as it constantly nudged (pressed) against her body with its beast head that was even larger than her entire body. It's roars were filled with grievances. "Mistress, mistress… It really is you! This beastie isn't dreaming, right? When you weren't around, I missed you so much… Auoo… How can you cast beastie aside? I'm born as your beastie, and I will die as your beastie. I don't want to leave your side~" It complained as it cried, completely ignoring the crowd of people at the side whose chins had already crashed onto the ground from shock.

Crowd: … Is this really a high rank demonic beast? I have never seen such a shameless one though?

Sesame sized up Zhu Yao with its sad, teary eyes. "Mistress, with these looks of yours, I can't recognize you at all… Eh? Mistress, you have a chest this time! So mysterious."

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. Raising her leg, she kicked at him. "Scram!"

Mysterious, your brother-in-law! Would it kill you not to bring up this old lady's sad situation? I finally managed to have a pair of boobs this time! And they are even borrowed, you know?

Imbued with spiritual energy, her kick struck Sesame and instantly sent it rolling. However, Sesame was not the slightest bit furious, and instead crawled back with a joyous face. "Ouu… Mistress, your kick is still as vigorous as ever, it sends me into ecstasy! This feels so nostalgic. Come… Don't be courteous, kick me again~" After saying that, it instantly shrank back to the size of a large dog, rolled on the ground and revealed its white belly. "I'm prepared. Mistress, come… Don't pity me for the frail flower that I am, kick me with all your might."

Zhu Yao: "…"

Fan Zhishan: "…"

Crowd: "…"

Five words floated in the air: The hell is going on?

Zhu Yao felt like the veins on her forehead were about to explode. Taking a deep breath, she chuckled in front of the crowd. "I'm sorry, please give me five minutes." She had to adjust her family beastie's power mode.

She picked up Sesame by its neck, and then cast an art that erected four earth walls around them, blocking everyone's line of sight. A moment later, ear-piercing miserable screams could be heard from within.

"Mistress… Ah! You're actually hitting me for real! Yamete… It hurts, it hurts, it hurts!"

"Aiya, I'm going to die, I'm going to die…"

"Don't… Don't hit the face~~!"

"Wait, you can't hit me there! Ouuu~~~ I was wrong, mistress!"

His screams lasted for exactly five minutes, with each scream sounding even more miserable than the one before. Those who heard the screams would be beyond saddened, and those who listened would shed tears. Yet, among the practitioners present, no matter what cultivation levels they possessed, not a single one of them released their divine senses to investigate the situation inside the walls. Instead, they turned their heads away with tacit understanding.

Five minutes later, the walls finally disappeared, revealing two human figures. One was a refreshed young woman, while the other was a young man with a swollen face.

"Spirit Guiding Beast…" Fan Zhishan finally regained her senses, and she looked at Sesame with utter disbelief.

Sesame which had taken up a human form behaved more normally than before, and simply did not bother to glance at her. All he did was hold his pig-like swollen face and let out a chilling breath.

The demonic beast Bai Li next to her however took a step forward. With a slightly perturbed expression, he looked at Sesame. "Your honor… How can you…"

Sesame glared at him. "Shut your mouth. Can't you see this one's harem is in flames?" Do you think it's easy to locate my mistress? I even had to be endure this domestic violence.

"Harem?" Zhu Yao looked at him with narrowed eyes.

Sesame's face stiffened. "No, no, no. How can mistress possibly be in my harem? You're at the top, at the very top. I'm the one in the harem. I'm the little beastie in your harem~"

"Your honor…" Bai Li was still unwilling to let this go. "Didn't you promise to form a contract with Zhishan?"

"Contract?" Zhu Yao turned to look at Sesame with an inexplicable smile. Her thoughts were clearly written on her face: Your wings sure have grown, along with your own views. You actually dare to form a contract with someone else?

Sesame's body shivered. It immediately glared at Bai Li. This thing here is wrecking his reputation on purpose, right!?

"Who promised you that? Back then, I simply said that I will pretend to see her as my owner, to give you guys some help. Like hell I will want to form a contract with you! I only have a single owner!" After saying that, it immediately turned to look at Zhu Yao with flattering eyes. It then said with a soft vibrato. "Right? … Mistress~"

Can you motherf*king speak while standing up? Stop hugging onto my legs!

Zhu Yao reached out her hand to turn that distorted pig face away. Looking at his face anymore than that could cause nightmares.

With how the scene had played out, even an idiot could guest that this Spirit Guiding Beast had taken this unknown young lady as its owner.

"You… Who in the world are you?" Cao Qi stood out with a furious look. This proper succession ceremony was just about to be completed, yet it was actually cut off by someone.

Zhu Yao did not bother to continue her act either, as she instantly removed the mystic artifact that was concealing her looks, revealing her former beauty. In an instant, different mixes of emotions could be seen on the faces of Fan Zhishan and the few people of Spirit Heaven Palace. The female lead especially had turned deathly pale.

Zhu Yao chuckled at Fan Zhishan. "Long time no see, my good sister. Oh! Right, I forgot to introduce myself to everyone. My name is Ling Tian, the former Sect Master of Spirit Guiding Hall!"

She intentionally emphasized the word "former". In an instant, it was as the place was an exploded boiler, as everyone began to discuss among themselves. Fan Zhishan and her group of men however, all had darkened expressions.

"I heard that I suddenly gained a younger sister." Zhu Yao swept her gaze around, and then looked at Fan Zhishan smilingly. Letting out a long sigh, she said. "Haah, seeing that I have cultivated for several decades, I will naturally feel joyous to have a new relative. Though you look…" She intentionally sized her up for a moment, and all she was lacking now was calling her ugly. "Though you look so very… different from me, I will still believe you. But as for your claim that Spirit Heaven Palace had taken the wrong child back then, I don't agree to it at all. It's not like they were blind… Uh, of course, I'm not saying that you're ugly!"

Crowd: "…" You're obviously saying that.

"If you want to enter Spirit Heaven Palace, then say so directly! Why the need to come to my Spirit Stone Mountain and offend my contracted spirit beast? You need to know that though Sesame is already a tenth rank demonic beast, he has very small guts. He can't bear to lay eyes on faces, uh… with poor features. What if you scare him? Oh, isn't it, Sesame?"

Sesame immediately nodded heavily in concert. "Mistress is the most beautiful, mistress is the best, mistress is marvelous!"

The discussions from the various sects and clans grew louder. Clearly, this was a good drama piece where the fake was trying to impersonate the original, and take over her authority. The condemning eyes of the crowd shifted towards Fan Zhishan's direction.

The few Hall Masters of Spirit Heaven Palace had the biggest reaction out of everyone present. Other than Cao Qi, everyone single of them was glaring furiously at Fan Zhishan.

"Just what is going on here?"

"Sect Master Fan, you best give us an explanation. Back then, we believed you because you said you awakened the Spirit Guiding Beast."

"What Sect Master Fan? The Spirit Guiding Beast basically don't acknowledge her. She's just an imposter."

"She had almost destroyed the inheritances that had been passed down in our Spirit Heaven Palace for so many years."

As expected of the female lead. In a situation like this, she was still able to reveal a frail look with tears welling up in her eyes. She looked at the crowd with an innocent face. "I… I didn't… You have all misunderstood."

Unfortunately, the people of Spirit Heaven Palace were all fuming and ignoring her frailness. There were even some who summoned their weapons and wanted to step forward to capture her.

Suddenly, a demigod-stage pressure instantly enveloped the crowd. A few of the agitated Spirit Heaven Palace disciples especially had been slammed directly onto the ground.

The area instantly quietened down, as everyone raised their heads and turned to look at the only Demigod practitioner present – Sovereign Pi Shi.

"Sovereign, what's the meaning of this?" A Hall Master of Spirit Heaven Palace asked in a displeased manner.

Sovereign Pi Shi stepped forward and instantly shielded Fan Zhishan. His cold eyes swept across the crowd and finally stopped on Zhu Yao's figure. Frowning, he unconsciously leaked out a hint of killing intent.

Sesame who was still hugging onto her leg earlier, instantly flared up and similarly released its pressure in full power, pushing his pressure back.

Pi Shi was stunned. Clenching his fists, he retracted his pressure and solemnly said. "Fellow practitioners! The matter today is merely a misunderstanding. My disciple simply got too excited in meeting her relative, which led to these chains of events. It was this one's fault for not teaching her properly. However, Zhishan is after all still my disciple, and I will punish her myself. There's no need for fellow practitioners to do it on my behalf."

"You…" The crowd from Spirit Heaven Palace turned furious. He was clearly trying to protect her.

Pi Shi simply let out a cold snort. Other than that demonic beast which was a little hard to deal with, he did not actually take anyone else here seriously. It was not that he could not battle it out either, but they were after all the ones at fault today. If he were to make a move, he was afraid that the reputation of Sleipoup Sect would take a blow. "If fellow practitioners think that there's anything inappropriate, please feel free to look for me."

Before waiting for anyone's response, he arrogantly left with Fan Zhishan.

The tenth rank demonic beast called Bai Li followed closely behind the two of them and left as well.

Leaving behind the various sects and clans with mixed looks.

Zhu Yao shook her head. It was truly impulsive for Pi Shi to protect her in such a manner. He was a little too arrogant. If his strength could suppress the entire cultivation world, it would have gone well. Zhu Yao's master was strong to the point where no one would dare to make a single noise, and if he had similar strength, the crowd might indeed endure it. However, he was merely a Demigod. Though there were very few Demigod practitioners, he was still not the only one in this cultivation world. Other first-rate deity sects could still push out three or four of them.

This blatant act of shielding his disciple had undoubtedly ignited the anger of the masses. Though it was true that no one had spoken up back then, this debt was still clearly taken note of.

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Chapter 333: Cheat has Disconnected

When it came to something as serious as Fan Zhishan impersonating as the Sect Master of a sect and had almost caused the destruction of its foundation, even if Spirit Heaven Palace wanted to kill her, it would have been completely justified. Yet, Pi Shi still protected her regardless of the consequences, so naturally it would bring out the dissatisfaction of the masses. Most of the people that were sent here as spectators by the various sects, were all people with authority. Every single one of these people were naturally shrewd and would be willing to ponder about matters even a little bit more.

Though this incident happened at Spirit Heaven Palace, the other sects had to ponder deeply about the meaning behind the incident and the consequences. They had to suspect if this was all a scheme crafted by Sleipoup Sect. A single Nascent Soul practitioner was dispatched, and with just a mere lie, she had almost sat on the Sect Master's seat. Then, would they also dispatch others to take up the seats of other Sect Masts as well? If that was truly the case, then the appetite of Sleipoup Sect was not just large, but rather, they were thinking of uniting all of the sects!

In an instant, the various clans and sects began to distance themselves from Sleipoup Sect, both in the surface and in the dark. Out in the open, the various sects still looked harmonious. In the dark however, little movements were constantly being made. There were even second-rate and third-rate deity sects that began to approach other first-rate sects, looking as if they were collaborating to resist Sleipoup Sect.

Though Sleipoup Sect was the number one deity sect with abundant resources, when faced with the collaborative suppression of the other sects, they were barely coping as well. It was not that obvious in the beginning, but given time, the effects would grow. If they were to push this matter for later, falling off from the number one position would definitely not be far from sight.

Spirit Heaven Palace – Jadeflower Pavillion

"Mistress…" Sesame stretched out its head, desperately blinking its eyes at her with a pitiful expression.

Zhu Yao slapped down, instantly slamming its head onto the table.

She looked towards the person in front of her. "You know this would happen right from the start?"

He looked at her with cold, scornful narrow eyes. "I simply calculated that Pi Shi would definitely stand up for that trash. I never expected that he would be so stupid to bring her away in the face of the various clans and sects as well."

"It's no wonder you feel at ease in bring Ling Tian back." Most likely, Sleipoup Sect was definitely very busy around this time, and the female lead would no longer have the time to care about Spirit Heaven Palace either.

"However, that trash will not forgive Tiantian so easily." Fa Yu frowned. "Back then, you concealed your identity. Though she was unable to discern you, she was still able to see you at first glance. Furthermore, she had several probes in her words. Most likely, Tiantian has something which is she definitely in need of."

Zhu Yao recalled about this as well. The scene where Fan Zhishan insisted on taking her as a disciple in the hall, was indeed really strange.

"In any case, it's best that you don't make any rash movements in these few days." Fa Yu solemnly said. "As for the people in Spirit Heaven Palace… I will naturally think of a way as well."

After saying that, he did not care about Zhu Yao's reply either, and left out of the door.

"Mistress…" Sesame weakly called out again, refreshing his sense of existence with a pitiful face.

Zhu Yao lowered her head and looked at it, retracting the hand she was using to suppress him. "Speak. How were you injured?"

Sesame was stunned. "Mistress… found out?"

She immediately replied with circling eyes. "With that showy attitude of yours, when have you ever learnt how to walk seriously? You have always made your entrance by leaping out. This time, you actually obediently walked out of the cave a step at a time. That's not normal coming from you, alright?" Not to mention it did various stunts like rolling and acting flighty after seeing her. Even after turning into human form, it had to hug onto her leg. That wouldn't have happened just from her beating it into a pulp. Most likely, its injuries were too severe, and its was simply unable to stand properly!

"Mistress…" Sesame's eyes reddened. Looking touched, it crawled over with the support the table and wanted to enter her embrace. "Wuu, beastie is so pitiful. My rank dropped again."

Zhu Yao once again pressed against its face, pushing it back to where it was before. "Then, why are you still wasting the spiritual energy to maintain your human form?" Was it thinking that it's lifespan was too long?

Sesame's figure flashed, instantly returning to the size of a pup and laid on the table.

"Speak, what happened?"

"I was initially cultivating rather desperately in the Spirit Realm, so that I can meet you in the High Realm. But Yue…"

"Enough!" Zhu Yao interrupted its words, and immediately stood up. "Let's get to the main point. Why were you with Fan Zhishan?"

"My inner core was damaged when I attempted to cross realms, and my rank dropped consequentially. I managed to make my way to that spiritual cave from earlier, wanting to use the rich spiritual energy within to recover from my injuries. In the end, I encountered that tenth rank demonic beast, which is that Bai Li from earlier." Sesame said in a complaining tone. "I've always known that it isn't a good beast, but she said she was willing to listen to my biddings, and had come to look for me several times. After that, she said she wanted me to help her partner a little. Back then, my injuries had yet to be completely healed yet, and I did not want them to see through my condition either, so I ended up agreeing to it. I never expected that mistress is actually here!"

"If you simply do not want them to see through your condition, why didn't you change locations?" It just wanted to tend to its injuries, so anywhere else could have been fine too.

Sesame chuckled, and then scratched its head a little embarrassingly. "I naturally have a reason not to leave."

As it said that, it suddenly forced itself to stand up. With an 'aaah' sound, it opened its mouth. A beam of light flashed out, and a human-sized egg suddenly appeared on the table.

Sesame stroked the egg shell as if it was touching a piece of treasure, and Sesame's face was sparkling. "Mistress, isn't it really beautiful?"

Zhu Yao was shocked. After blanking for a short while, she said. "You're actually able to lay eggs!" Wasn't it male?

"…" Sesame immediately leapt up. "It's not my egg! No, it is my egg, but it's not laid by me. It's an egg that I found."

"You stole someone else's egg?" (_) You beast trafficker.

"I didn't steal it! I picked it up! Picked it up!" Sesame immediately raised its claws to express its innocence. "I saw it all alone in that cave. I sensed the presence of my race within the egg, and so I picked it up."

"Your race?" Could it be that unborn Spirit Guiding Beast which Fa Yu spoke of? She did not know about the details of Sesame's race either. Initially, she had thought that it had such features because it came from the Higher Realm, but it seemed Sesame was a Spirit Guiding Beast as well. Not to mention, it was coincidentally in the cave, and thus Fan Zhishan had thought that she had awakened it herself, believing that Sesame was the guardian beast of Spirit Heaven Palace.

Sesame carefully stroked the egg shell. "There should be a beastie with the same looks as mine inside it, and…" Its eyes dazzlingly shone, a strange red flush suddenly appeared on its faint-black body. "I can sense that it's a female beastie~"

"…" The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. That was the reason why it wanted to protect the cave so desperately. Is Sesame on heat right now?

"Mistress, can I…" You know.

"Why are you blinking at me? Your father-in-law just left!"

"Ah!?"

If you want to marry Ling Tian's spiritual beast, then bring up the engagement to Fa Yu.

Zhu Yao inspected Sesame's body for a moment, and realized that it wasn't as simple as having its rank dropped. Even its inner core had pretty much shattered. Though on the surface it did not look any different, the spiritual energy within its body was extremely chaotic. Furthermore, it was still continuing to leak out. If it could not be mended in time, its rank would continue to fall. Most likely, it would fall back to ninth rank before long.

On that day, she bashed Sesame as a cover to seal several of its disarrayed meridians. However, she had merely temporarily slowed down the leakage of its spiritual energy. After all, she merely possessed the cultivation level of Foundation, how could she possibly heal a tenth rank demonic beast whose strength was comparable to a late-stage Demigod? Those suppressions would immediately be broken through.

Zhu Yao was a little anxious, and was truly a little dispirited about her present state. Her body was Ling Tian's. No matter how much she were to cultivate, it would be of no use. If only she had her own body. At the very least, she could form her Azoth Core and summon her sword intent to help mend its meridians. Right now, she basically had no other options.

"Mistress, you can keep me in your divine sense. We are under a contract, so my injuries will immediately mend themselves inside."

Zhu Yao shook her head. "This body belongs to Ling Tian. When we exchange the authority to use her body, I could merely hide in her Dantian, how can I possibly send you into my divine sense?" She didn't even possess a body, let alone divine sense.

Sesame sunk into silence for a moment, and then it laughed without a mind. "Don't worry. It's just a drop in rank. Sesame can still cultivate it back."

"Stop acting!" It clearly minded it a lot. "Don't worry, I'm your owner. I will definitely think of something." It was extremely difficult for demonic beasts to raise their ranks. It was not an understatement to say that they only had one out of ten chances of surviving from it. Saying that it would cultivate it back was just easy to say.

She did not understand why Realmspirit would actually resurrect her into Ling Tian's body, and not provide her with a new avatar. Even if she was given the avatar of a tree or dandelion like before, it was still much better than the present condition.

Wait a minute!

Didn't she have the magical brush? WIth how mystical the brush was, she could make herself one!

Zhu Yao excitedly reached out for her pouch, only to pick up two short sticks. She was dumbfounded!

"The hell!" She could not help but cuss about. When did it break? How was she unaware of it?

"What is that?" Sesame latched its two paws onto her hand and glanced at it.

Why did the brush break just like that? Its quality was a little questionable, wasn't it?

Zhu Yao recalled for a moment. She did do any intense exercises though? Unless it was yesterday…

She was stunned for a moment, as she suddenly recalled the moment when Fan Zhishan wielded that bugged weapon and slashed down on her. She seemed to have heard the sound of something breaking. Could that have been the brush? However, she had clearly dodged that attack, while then brush was still being held onto. Then what did that sword break?

Could it be…

Zhu Yao felt something tingling in her heart, as an absurd thought popped out in her mind.

She suddenly stood up, picked up the curious Sesame and charged out. She instantly kicked open Fa Yu's door to his room.

Fa Yu was startled. He raised his head up and looked at her scornfully. "Why are you here?"

Zhu Yao immediately reached out and held onto his collar. "Fa Yu!"

"What are you trying to do?" He moved backwards on reflex, his hands held onto his chest.

"The hell, I'm not your little sister Tiantian, what will I do to you?" Zhu Yao rolled her eyes. "Get up, I have something urgent to talk to you about!"

Only then did Fa Yu get up. He glared at her and said. "What kind of matters do you have deep in the middle of the night? Even if you don't sleep, my Tiantian has to rest too, you know?"

Zhu Yao could not be bothered with his poisonous tongue. "Let me ask you this. You mentioned that Fa Zhishan has an unique mystic power inside her, right?"

"Mn." Though he did not understand why she brought this up, Fa Yu still nodded.

"Then how did you come to realize that mystic power of hers?"

Fa Yu glanced at her, baffled. "Why are you bringing this up?"

"Don't ask for the reason for now." Zhu Yao said with a stern look. "I just want to confirm my guess."

He frowned, and then said with an impatient look. "When I first met that trash, she was arguing with that idiot Cao Qi. During that heated argument, that trash even emitted out her killing intent." As though he had recalled something, his brows furrowed. "Back then, I clearly saw her pierce something into that idiot Cao. However, after that, not only was I unable to discern what kind of mystic artifact she used, even Cao Qi remain unharmed. It was as if nothing had happened, and they immediately reconciled."

He turned to look at Zhu Yao and said. "That was why I guessed that she possessed a mystic power within her that could bewitch others."

Zhu Yao's face paled. She instantly felt uncomfortable all over.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Fa Yu asked.

She chuckled with a helpless look. "The attack she used on Cao Qi… She had used it on me as well."

"Ah!?" Fa Yu was shocked. "You… You can't have grown to like as well, right?" He seemed to have suddenly recalled something, and then, swooping over like the wind, he held tightly onto her hand. "Then what about Tiantian? Has Tiantian been bewitched? Her heart is mine!"

"The hell!" If not because your cultivation is higher than mine, I would have kicked you, you get that? "This old lady here is a woman!"

"Who knows whether that trash go both ways? My Tiantian is so wonderful after all." He still had a suspicious look.

"That attack of hers didn't land on me." Zhu Yao pushed his hand away. "But… She had indeed sliced onto something."

He frowned. "What do you mean?"

"Fa Yu." Zhu Yao said slowly. "Before she sliced me back then, she mentioned that I was someone who bore great luck."

"Luck…"

"If my guess is correct, Fan Zhishan is able to see everyone's luck." Zhu Yao said seriously. "The unique mystic power you sensed, was her spell which could snatch away another person's luck!"

Luck was formless and ethereal. It was something similar to fortune or a form of fate. Everyone possessed different amount of luck. Just like how there were people who were born into rich families, there were some who would be on the verge of collapse. Practitioners had to possess a degree of luck, otherwise, even with incredible talent and extraordinary aptitude, he or she would be nothing if there was no one to guide them onto the path of cultivation.

Furthermore, the cultivation world was incredibly dangerous. Though spiritual treasures filled the lands, other than the ability to obtain them, one had to possess the luck to actually discover them.

That was why people with incredible luck would always be able to obtain results with minimal effort, and most ascended deities were people who carried great luck. Naturally, the more luck one had, the better.

Zhu Yao had not thought about luck right from the start. When she thought about Fan Zhishan's luck, she had always believed that it was due to her being the protagonist. However, a protagonist's cheat could be a form of luck after all. If luck could be materialized, then it was evident that the luck meters of protagonists would be much higher than average. There were definitely some that had even gone off the charts.

Though it was really hard to believe that Fan Zhishan could see luck. When thinking about it carefully, Zhu Yao herself had even encountered something as ethereal as the Heavenly Dao. Furthermore, Realmspirit had even mentioned that Heavenly Dao could be altered as well, so why couldn't something like luck be snatched away?

When she saw the female lead in the prison back then, she had the face that looked as if she was there to snatch something away in the first place. After that, she had even summoned that weapon which was made out of bugs. With just a slight swing, her magic brush broke. Now that she had recalled about it, a part of her luck must had been sliced away, and thus her cheat had disconnected.

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Chapter 334: Let Me Conduct Some Research

Something such as luck, like spirit veins, should be a part of one's body, and they should be able to mutually sense each other. This was also probably why there were so many men surrounding the female lead. Most likely because the lucks from their bodies had been taken away, and thus they grew to feel something for her, right?

"The scene you saw back then was most likely Fan Zhishan's process of taking his luck away."

"That shameless trash." Fa Yu looked as if he could charge out and give her a few bites at any moment. "From what you're saying, the reason why she's doing this to Tiantian, is because she wants to snatch away the luck from her body?"

Zhu Yao nodded. "Also, the luck on Ling Tian girly's body is something she yearns greatly for. Otherwise, she wouldn't have come for me even after I have switched looks. Most likely, she didn't see through my identity, but was drawn in by the luck within my body." As this world's patch, it was a given that Ling Tian girly's body possessed immense luck.

"…" Fa Yu sank into silence. He had initially thought that Fan Zhishan wasn't someone to be feared, and believed that the ones they should be on guard against were the men beside her. However, the situation now had changed. The one who was the most difficult to deal with was actually Fan Zhishan herself. If this were to go on, even if all the men next to her were dealt with, she could still create another batch of them at any given moment.

"Is there possibly no way to deal with that unique ability of hers? Do we have no choice but to let her steal luck away?" Fa Yu clenched his fists.

"I don't know. There might be one?"

"That evil ability of hers is unstoppable. Who knows what kind of tricks that trash can pull? Not to mention we aren't able to see luck ourselves."

Zhu Yao sighed. "That's right, we can't see… Wait a minute!" She suddenly recalled the moment when Sovereign Pi Shi first appeared outside the hall. She saw that strange light, which looked as if it was missing a half of itself. Could that light be…

She suddenly stood up. "I think I have a way to see luck!"

"What?" Fa Yu was stunned. "How?"

Zhu Yao did not immediately explain. She turned to glance at him and said. "I have not ascertain the method yet. Before that, I need your help with something."

Fa Yu frowned. "What help?"

Zhu Yao picked up the beast that had been lying on the table like a piece of decoration. "No matter what method you use, no matter what price I have to pay, please help me cure it!"

"It's injured?" Fa Yu looked at Sesame with narrowed eyes, his expression was cold. He had always thought that Sesame was the guardian sacred beast of Spirit Heaven Palace, and was a little displeased with how it recognized Zhu Yao as its owner, even though she and Ling Tian was using the same avatar. "Isn't it a tenth rank demonic beast? I'm just a Nascent Soul practitioner, how can I possibly heal its injuries? The moment I try to send spiritual energy over, I will receive a backlash."

"Aren't you a sword practitioner? Haven't you comprehended sword intent yet?" Zhu Yao threw a set of scornful eyes at him.

"How's that possible!?" Fa Yu coldly snorted. "This great one has already comprehended sword intent the moment I formed my Azoth Core, alright?"

"Then why don't you directly use sword intent to heal its injuries?"

"Sword intent can be used to heal injuries!?" Why hadn't he heard of it before? Wasn't it used for offense?

"You don't know?" Zhu Yao sized him up for a moment. "Don't worry, I can teach you!"

Fa Yu: "…" Why was he feeling irritated?

Zhu Yao roughly explained the concept of the method, and after confirming that he had understood everything, she then pushed the beastie onto him. She then left him with some words, that whether she could see luck would depend on Sesame's recovery. After that, she turned and left to research on the method to seeing luck.

Fa Yu lowered his head, and looked at the beast which was said to be the key figure to this operation. Their eyes met.

Large eyes against small eyes.

After a while, similar noises were heard from both ends.

"Tch!"

"Tch!"

The two of them turned away in disdain.

Fa Yu: Why do I have to save this stinking beastie regardless of the costs? PS: Someone else's even!

Sesame: Why do I have to healed by dead-fish-eyes no matter what? PS: Someone weak even!

Zhu Yao returned to the entrance of the hall, to the position where Pi Shi first appeared. However, even after she stood still for a long while, she did not feel any anomaly in her body. Thinking that it might be because of angles, she grabbed a few passerby disciples, and had them stood at the same position as experiment. She then retreated the place she was standing at before as well. However, no matter where she looked from, that strange light did not appear once more.

Theoretically speaking, that shouldn't be the case. Could it be that the light wasn't luck, and was just her imagination?

She repeatedly called a few disciples over to experiment, and had even called over a Nascent Soul Elder. After that absurd succession ceremony that day, she was now the officially recognized Spirit Heaven Palace Sect Master who was not doubted by anyone. Fa Yu seemed to have used some sort of method to expel the main culprit Cao Qi from Spirit Heaven Palace as well. The other Hall Masters understood that they had wrongly mistreated Ling Tian as well, and were now treating her especially better. Though it was unclear how sincere they were, naturally, no one would openly reject her order.

That Elder was unsure of the situation either, but still cooperated with her and stood at her designated spot. However, it was still of no use. She was no longer able to see the light from that day.

Zhu Yao was a little frustrated now. If that light was truly luck, usually, experts who could nourish their Nascent Souls, though not an incredible amount, would still definitely possess considerable luck compared to regular disciples. If she could not see it from a Nascent Soul Elder, it only proved that there was something off with her method.

She recalled the situation from back then. It was noon, and the sun was right on top of them. Could this be related to time or weather? She had no choice but to wait till the exact time, where the sun was similarly shining from right above, before pulling another disciple towards that spot.

As expected, there were no results.

Were there still anything that she could have missed? She pondered deeply. That day was the succession ceremony, and the various clans and sects were all present. Though a large number of them had already entered the grand hall, there were still a considerable number of people before the entrance. Could this be related to the number of people and angles?

She hurriedly grabbed a few more strong men, and arranged the crowd of disciples to stand in roughly similar positions from on her blurry memories. Then, she had an Azoth Core disciple, whose cultivation level was the highest among the crowd then, to stand at Pi Shi's position. She then retreated to her original position.

Still nothing?

She persistently directed the disciples and altered their positions several times. This went on for more than half a month, yet to no avail. The light she saw back then no longer appeared. Even the disciples that were caught by her began to grow displeased, and now, the disciples of the sects avoided her when spotted.

Even the Elder from back then could not stand it any longer. "Sect Master…" He greeted as he flew over on his sword from afar, as if he was trying to stop what seemed to the disciples' punishment in disguise that lasted over half a month.

"Don't move!" Zhu Yao suddenly roared out.

Shocked, the Elder creaked to a halt in mid-air.

Zhu Yao's eyes widened as she stared intently at that Elder in mid-air. Two words continuously swept across her heart. The hell. So thi was what the light at the end of the tunnel meant? So this was what 'when the tides go down, the rocks emerge' meant? So this was what 'adding insult to injury' meant? Ah pui!

Light! She saw that unique light once more. At the position where the Elder was a few centimeters off the ground, she saw that unique halo. Compared to what she saw from Pi Shi's body back then, the aura was much softer. However, the Elder's was much more complete, as if a figure of light was being reinforced on his entire body, as an oval-shaped aura surrounded his body.

She finally found it. Zhu Yao instantly felt like crying, as she held onto the Elder's hand in excitement. "Elder, what's your esteemed name?"

'Ah!?" The Elder was stunned. "I'm Qi Wu, Elder of the Disciplinary Pavillion. Sect Master, you…"

"Thank you! Thank you! As the representative of the entire world, I give you their thanks, fellow comrade!" Zhu Yao firmly shook his hand a few times. "The citizens will never forget your great contributions. You will forever be the greatest person in our hearts. I will remember you for all eternity."

"…" The Elder was confused. Why did he feel as if his lifespan was about to be depleted and was about to return to the heavens?

"Alright, everyone, you can all leave now. It has been hard on you all today!" Zhu Yao carefully remembered every disciple's position and then waved them goodbye. After they had all left, she once again looked at the Elder and sincerely said. "Really, thank you, Elder Wu Qi. Don't worry, I won't call them over again."

"…" I'm called Qi Wu.

"I still have matters at hand, so I will be leaving now, Elder Wu Qi!"

"…" I already said I'm Qi Wu.

"Goodbye, Elder Wu Qi!"

"…" Qi Wu…

Zhu Yao finally understood the key when the Elder came charging in. Back then, Pi Shi was flying over from away as well, and that light disappeared after an instant. The actual position where the light could be seen was in the air, and not where he stood on the ground later on.

Thank you, fellow Elder. He's simply the hero that saves this world! Eh, what is his name again?

Haah, whatever. The main point was that she had discovered the reason she could see luck, and now she had to find a way to make this method of seeing the light of luck, which only happened at that place, practical. Also, there was a need to make a portable version out of it. Actually, in this half a month of research, the reason why she could see the light was closely related to the angles, environment and etcetera. This could go into questions related to math and physics.

She had calculated all of the angles, distances, time and other factors. However, as long as she switched to another location, the light would not appear, as though it could only be seen right at the entrance of the hall.

Zhu Yao could not believe this. There was definitely something she had yet to consider. Thus, she once again returned to the hall entrance and looked at the surroundings carefully. She circled around a few times, and looked for the differences between the new location and this place.

If there is something different, then it can only be… the floor?

She squatted down and touched the stone plates. They were smooth and shiny, and a little blinding to the eyes.

Wait a minute! Blinding?

Zhu Yao raised her look and looked at the sun in the sky. Then, she stared back at the stone plates on the ground. This is… reflection?

Could it be due to the light rays? Zhu Yao immediately stood up and inspected the surroundings. She realized the entire plaza outside the grand hall was made up of these white, reflective stone plates.

She then pondered deeply about the positions of the crowd, and realized they had coincidentally formed a circle. Adding the angles of the sun rays and the distance from where she stood…

Zhu Yao immediately circulated her spiritual energy and drew a formation in the air. She then calculated everyone's positions in, and then added in the sun rays. A formation which she had never seen before appeared in front of her eyes.

Could this possibly be a formation that allowed one to see luck?

She felt excited from the bottom of her heart. Immediately, she circulated her spiritual energy and condensed the exact same formation on the palm of her hand. She then looked at the passer-bys through the formation. Nothing! She was still unable to see it. Right, it definitely wasn't a formation that was made naturally. The angles of the floor were all factors as well. It was just like how one could see the rainbow through a prism. Most likely, the many reflected sun rays could form an unique formation. Zhu Yao was enlightened. She roughly understood how she should go about making that mystic artifact.

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Chapter 335: Open (the Path) Sesame

As a tenth rank artificer, Zhu Yao was very confident in refining a mystic artifact that could see luck. Almost in the instant she was clear of the principle, she had already pictured the prototype mystic artifact in her mind. What's left now was the materials needed to refine it.

"None!" Fa Yu rolled his eyes, and then went back to take up a meditative stance to recover his spiritual energy.

"Eh?" Zhu Yao was stunned for a moment, and then she continued. "Just one palm-sized Rising Symbol Rock is enough. Why are you so stingy?"

Fa Yu still replied in the same way. "None!"

"The hell!" Zhu Yao grew anxious. "This is a very good opportunity to get a clear view of Fan Zhishan's actual capabilities. How about you cooperate for the sake of your Tiantian?"

He raised his head and glared at her. "Do you think the Rising Symbol Rock is a rock that can be found in your home's squats? Something you can get as many as you want?"

"Uh…" Her house only had a toilet seat, and no squats. "Are Rising Symbol Rocks rare?" From her memories, the storage ring her master gave her contained a mountain of it though? While she was learning to refine artifacts, she had often burn them up for amusement.

"Rising Symbol Rocks are found in the Regretless Crossing Edge at the depths of Horizon Forest. According to rumours, only a single piece is birthed every several ten of thousands of years." He sized her up for a moment. "How rare do you think that is?"

"Then let's head over to Regretless Crossing Edge to find one."

Fa Yu then glanced at her as if she was an idiot. "Do you know what kind of place Regretless Crossing Edge is?"

"Nope!"

The corner of his lips twitched. After taking a deep breath, he said with a sunken voice. "High rank demonic beasts roam Horizon Forest, and from rumours, there are often many strange phenomenons occurring there. It's a place which even Demigod Sovereigns do not dare to enter carelessly, let alone Regretless Crossing Edge which is found in its very depths. No one knows what could be waiting over there. There hasn't been anyone who has escaped from that place alive. When one crosses into that place, then there's no space for regrets! That's why it's given the name "Regretless Crossing"!"

It sounded like a very incredible place.

"Without complete preparations, heading into Horizon Forest is undoubtedly nothing but death-seeking!"

"Wait a minute!" Zhu Yao turned around and left. Patapata. After a while, she came running back, with her hands grabbing onto a six-winged demonic beast which was still hugging onto an egg. "There, preparations are complete."

Fa Yu's face darkened. "You… You're really planning to go?"

"Young man, you must have an adventurous spirit!" Zhu Yao patted on his shoulders. "Didn't you say that the Rising Symbol Rocks are found at Regretless Crossing Edge? Then we just have to head there and leave after grabbing the materials. Sesame is an eleventh rank demonic beast initially. Though it has currently dropped a rank, with its might as a tenth rank demonic beast, I believe demonic beasts won't easily approach us even in Horizon Forest."

"…" She made a lot of sense for some reason.

"Let's go, young man!" Zhu Yao said with a stern look. "For the peace of the world!"

"I'm doing this for Tiantian." Fa Yu rolled his eyes. The hell world peace had to do with him!

"Uh… Alright then. For Tiantian!"

Thus, a certain someone unwillingly followed them on their journey. They made a beeline towards the skies of Horizon Forest.

Eh, wait a minute!

If she could already be safe and secure with a tenth rank demonic beast around, why the hell did she have to call him over too?

"…" Why did she feel as if she had been played?

Fa Yu was right. Horizon Forest was simply the playground for demonic beasts. It had only been a short while since they entered, yet they had already spotted three eighth rank demonic beasts, five seventh rank demonic beasts, and over dozens of fifth and sixth rank demonic beasts. Just how good were the nourishments in this forest, to the point where so many demonic beasts liked it here?

Fortunately, they had brought Sesame over. Though Sesame was unreliable at times, bringing it over to act tough and shake up the other lower rank beasties was still something it was good for. If only it wasn't hugging onto that egg which was even larger than it was with a stupid look on its face, that is.

"Mistress!" Sesame suddenly leapt right in front of her eyes, its face was filled with excitement. "The egg moved… It moved a little just now. Did you see it? It was moving."

"…" Why did she feel as if a husband was witnessing the movement in a mother's womb for the first time? It's not like the egg was birthed by her, so the hell did she have to look at it!?

"Sesame…" Zhu Yao took in a deep breath. "If you don't keep that egg now, do you believe I will find some green onions and fry it right this instant!?"

Sesame immediately leapt back a few steps with the egg, bearing a complaining look on its face. "Mistress… You're so ruthless. This beastie has always been infatuated with you, so much so that even if I have to be on the same rocky boat as you for several lifetimes, I will have no regrets. I will accompany you even if you venture into heaven or hell. You actually… actually… would do such things to us lonely beasts. Wuuuuu…"

"Three…"

"What happened to the promise of living and dying together, and never abandoning each other?"

"Two…"

"I will keep it now, immediately! I will keep it right this instant." Sesame's paws nudged, and in an instant, that huge white demonic egg disappeared. "I shall go investigate the path ahead." It then leapt up and hastily went forward to bully the beasties that were of lower rank that it's. Haah, the days where I don't get to openly see my future wife are so lonely.

Only then did Zhu Yao release her hands that were preparing an art. She turned her head around, only to be met with Fa Yu's strange eyes. "What?" Those eyes of his looked rather horrifying.

He frowned. After a moment, he said. "Your true form can't possibly be a demonic beast as well, right?"

"Ah?" How did you come up with that conclusion?

"No wonder you're so similar."

"Similar to what…" Speak clearly, hey. How am I similar to that second-handed good Sesame?

Fa Yu did not seem to have the intentions to continue explaining. With a cold snort, he passed her and walked at the front, with an expression that looked as if other than his Tiantian, everyone in this world was nothing but trash.

She suddenly had the urge to take revenge on society!

The forest was Sesame's main stage. With it paving open the path, they basically did not encounter any danger along the way. Occasionally, one or two demonic beasts with strange eyes would leap out, but they would all be sent flying away with a smack of its paw.

Adding that it had already recovered from its injuries, those cracks on its Dantian had disappeared as well. However, in order to restore its former eleventh rank, it had to rely on its own to slowly cultivate it back. Though Fa Yu had a poisonous tongue, he was still rather reliable in his work. Regarding the matter of familiarizing with the use of sword intent to heal injuries, she had merely explained the concept once and he was already able to use it fluently. Though he would use a longer time than her to do so, having to spend about a month, the results were still incredible.

After entering Horizon Forest, they had flown on their swords in the beginning. When they dove deeper in, they changed to moving on foot. With the Sunken Ground Art active, they walked like this for eight hours when Sesame suddenly stopped.

As though it had discovered something, it no longer looked like a playful husky. It's body stiffened as it stared intently at the dense forest ahead.

"What's wrong?" Zhu Yao and Fa Yu stopped as well.

"Ahead of us…" Sesame raised one of its paw and pointed at the front. "I can sense the might of a tenth rank demonic beast, and… not just one."

"Two?"

Sesame shook its head, and even the wings on its back had straightened. "Many… Incredibly many."

Zhu Yao was stunned. Tenth rank demonic beasts, and even a group of them. This forest sure was abundant with properties! Demonic beasts were conscious of their territories. In the demonic beast forests which she ventured in back then, at the very most, there would only be a single tenth rank demonic beast in a forest. The occasional two she saw were definitely couples. Sesame actually sensed a lot of them. This was not logical.

What to do? Zhu Yao turned to look at Fa Yu.

He frowned. Turning coldly towards her, he gave her a "I knew you pieces of trash were unreliable" expression. With a swing of his hand, he threw her a talisman. He then took one piece for himself and patted it on his chest. He instantly disappeared before their eyes.

Concealment talismans! Zhu Yao lowered her head to take a look. It was actually a high rank conceal talisman! She immediately patted it on herself as well, and the disappeared Fa Yu once again appeared before her eyes.

"Tenth rank concealment talismans which only Grandhall Sect possesses. If we don't get too close, Demigod Sovereigns won't be able to sense us either." He coldly explained.

Tenth rank! Zhu Yao was a little excited. It looked rather incredible!

Fa Yu thought for a moment and then added. "When we get back, I have to remember to calculate the spirit stones that you have to pay."

"…" The hell, so it wasn't free. Can't you just put it on Ling Tian girly's tab?

"Tiantian is Tiantian, you're you!" As if he had thought of what she wanted to say, Fa Yu immediately refuted.

Zhu Yao really wanted to meet with his parents!

After sticking the talismans properly, two humans and one beast then entered the forest ahead. They had merely traversed a short distance, when Zhu Yao and her little companions reached out to push away the branches in front of them and were instantly stunned.

A small town actually appeared in front of them, a town that was a little similar to practitioners'. However, demonic beasts were the ones moving to and fro. Some had taken up human forms while others kept to their beast forms. Though, without a single exception, all of them were tenth rank demonic beasts.

The town was incredibly simple. They were all sheds simply formed by stacks of branches and tree barks. There was either a person or a beast squatting inside the shed. Furthermore, the trading of goods here was simple and straightforward, to the point where… they were only trading in fruits and spiritual herbs. Furthermore, there wasn't any common currency being used between them. They were basically trading goods with goods, like fruits for spiritual herbs, and spiritual herbs for fruits. However, without any exceptions, those spiritual fruits and spiritual herbs were all things that practitioners dreamed of obtaining.

This was basically the demonic beast forest's native product exhibition, where things were of high quality but sold for dirt cheap. Not to mention these demonic beasts were not like practitioners, things like bargaining simply did not exist! They were usually magnanimous exchanges, where the traders would leave once after the exchange was completed. The slightest sight of being a cheapskate and wanting to get a bit more from their money could not be seen at all! It was no wonder they did not hear any hustle bustle before they got this close.

Zhu Yao suddenly remembered Chen Ning, the tenth rank demonic beast that was incredibly successful with his merchant business. It seemed like beasties indeed had talent for business.

"What do we do?" Zhu Yao transmitted her thoughts to Fa Yu next to her. There were too many tenth rank demonic beasts here. Even if they possessed conceal talismans, there was no guarantee that they wouldn't be discovered. "Shall we make a detour?"

Just as Fa Yu was about to reply, he was suddenly startled for a moment. He then looked behind with a stern expression.

"What's wrong?" Just as she was about to turn around, Fa Yu suddenly pressed her down. She was instantly pushed onto the ground and ended up eating dirt.

"Why are they here?" He muttered solemnly. "Could they have followed us?"

Zhu Yao whose face was being buried in dirt: "…"

Your mom! Can you talk after releasing me? The hell. This old lady isn't a potato that needs to be planted in the soil, okay? She kicked Fa Yua couple of times before he released her head without the slightest of guilt.

Zhu Yao wiped away the dirt on her face. I shall endure!

She turned to follow his line of sight. When she saw the three men and one woman afar, Zhu Yao only wanted to say…

The hell!

The ghost still lingers around me, is that it!?

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Chapter 336: All Roads Lead to the Female Lead

She actually spotted Fan Zhishan. Though she was the female lead, there's too many scenes with her appearances, weren't there? She was appearing everywhere they went. Couldn't she give this side character some leeway? Among the three men next to her, one of them was very familiar. He was exactly the tenth rank demonic beast Bai Li that they met at Spirit Heaven Palace back then.

The other two were Cao Qi and a unknown man.

"That's Cheng Yufeng." Fa Yu coldly explained. "He possesses the cultivation of the Azoth Core Paragon and the mutated wind spirit vein. He's been referred to as the number one genius of the cultivation world."

Zhu Yao curiously glanced at him. Even though they were praises, why did they sound so… irritating when it came from his mouth!?

"What are you looking at?" Fa Yu glared at her. "Those trash sects had always liked to praise and sell themselves. What number one genius? It's been two hundred years and he hasn't been able to nourish his Nascent Soul yet. Even the trash next to him had nourished her Nascent Soul. He's even worse than trash."

"Ou… Then what about you?" She casually asked. "When did you nourish your Nascent Soul?"

Fa Yu choked, and his eyes flashed a little. Then, he turned away and said. "Let us discuss how we are going to go about finding the Rising Symbol Rock!"

"…" This change of topic is too obvious, don't you think!?

"There are too many demonic beasts here. Earlier, I discovered that there's only a single entrance and exit to the town." Fa Yu pointed to the right. "As long as we make a detour to the left without flying on our sword and circulating our spiritual energy, we shouldn't be discovered."

Zhu Yao nodded. They waited for the female lead and gang to walk a little further away, before proceeding to detour around the back and heading into the denser area of the forest. She could not help but turn to look at the four people. Though she did not know why the female lead was here, she obviously knew that she was up to no good. It was best that they did not bump into each other head-on.

They made a huge detour around, and finally managed to avoid that town with large number of high rank demonic beasts. They spent over two hours and arrived at their destination. However, when Zhu Yao saw the situation of the actual place, she was completely dumbfounded.

"What's that?" Zhu Yao pointed to that enormous spatial passage. In the azure blue sky above, it was as if someone had dug a hole, and it was completely pitch-black within. There were some what seemed to be torn spatial voids, yet but they were not maintained by any spiritual energy in the surroundings. Instead, the place was shrouded in the aura of death.

"That's Regretless Crossing." Fa Yu said. "The moment one steps into it, he or she will not make it out alive."

Zhu Yao looked at it a couple of times. Strangely, she felt a little uncomfortable.

"Saintess…" Ling Tian who had not spoken for a long time, suddenly said. "That place… is really strange."

"I can see that." Zhu Yao replied. "It's fine as long as we stay away from it."

Right below the black hole was a stone mountain. Fa Yu said that the Rising Symbol Rocks could only be found nearby. Just when Zhu Yao had folded up her sleeves and was about to flip the entire mountain to search for them…

"Found it!" Fa Yu suddenly bent his body and picked up something. Then, he threw it over.

Zhu Yao caught it with her hand. A snow-white rock laid atop her palm, and it was the Rising Symbol Rock alright. The hell, how did he find it so quickly? What happened to the promise that it's only born every several tens of thousands of years?

"What are you looking at? We found the thing, so let's go." Fa Yu said impatiently. "I'm a metal spirit vein holder. Do you think I'm like the other trashes that need to run around the mountain to look for something they need? I just had to directly spread out my spiritual energy and the mountain would already been thoroughly explored." He suddenly thought of something, and then turned his head around to size Zhu Yao up. "You can't possibly have thought to look for it in the mountain, right?"

"…" Trash Zhu Yao was struck head-on!

Zhu Yao carefully kept the Rising Symbol Rock. Just as she was silently turning her body around and was planning to leave, she suddenly heard incoming footsteps from in front of them.

"There's someone!" Fa Yu reached out his hand in an attempt to pull her.

Zhu Yao immediately leapt a step back, hiding behind a piece of rock with a swoop. If I let you slam my face into dirt again, then I'm your granddaughter!

They placed down a few concealment formations, and a short while after they had hidden themselves well, four people appeared in their view.

Zhu Yao wanted to cuss out. Enemies always cross each other's paths! Just how much disastrous fate did she have with the female lead? They were actually bumping with each other everywhere.

Big brother Bai Li, what do we do?" Fan Zhishan and the gang stopped not far away, her face was filled with panic. As though they had found out that Regretless Crossing was just in front of them as well, they stopped progressing.

The tenth rank demonic beast Bai Li frowned. He looked at his surroundings, and then consoled her. "Don't be afraid, I'm here after all. At the very most, we can just return the item."

"We can't!" Fan Zhishan immediately refuted. Seeing the gazes of her three companions, her expression changed as she immediately explained. "I mean… Big brother Bai Li used so much effort to help me obtain this item. If we were to return it back like this, wouldn't that be letting down your goodwill? Furthermore…" She turned to look at the two others, and tears began to well in her eyes. "Big brother Yufeng was injured because of this… How can I… I'm to blame! I harmed all of you."

"Zhishan!" That Azoth practitioner said with a gentle look. "My injuries weren't your fault, I can only blame my lack of skills. How can you put the blame on yourself?"

"That's right!" Cao Qi persuaded. "You're just too kind. This wasn't your problem in the first place, and furthermore, we were the ones who were willing to accompany you on this dangerous adventure. How can this be your fault?"

Bai Li nodded as well. He reached out to grab her waist and gently consoled her. "Zhishan, you don't have to worry. This place is a dead land. Even a tenth rank demonic beast would not dare to approach it so easily. We just have to hide here for a day, and after searching for us to no avail, they will naturally give up."

"Really?" The female lead naively asked.

Bai Li nodded heavily.

"Now you can be ease, right?" Cao Qi tapped on her nose. "I already told you there isn't a need to worry."

Fan Zhishan's face instantly flushed, embarrassed. "Big brother Bai Li, big brother Cao, Big brother Yufeng…"

"Silly little sister…"

Zhu Yao's face darkened from hearing their conversation as she pieced together the situation. This four people took something from someone, and fled here after being chased. Also, this item seemed to be extremely special and the female lead did not want to return it at all. To actually act so righteous for stealing something, Zhu Yao really had to hand it to her.

Zhu Yao could not help but feel like wanting to pick up their three worldviews for them. She then turned her head, only to see Fa Yu's constipated look next to her.

"What's wrong?" Zhu Yao transmitted her voice over, but he did not reply. Zhu Yao had no choice but to follow his line of sight.

And then, she was stunned!

The hell, these four people… how the hell did they end up broadcasting an age-restricted video after a conversation like that? It had only been a few minutes, and their clothes were already half-stripped, hey.

"Immoral!" Fa Yu coldly snorted, as he turned around and meditated to calm himself.

She's a an R18 female lead after all, so R18 scenes were naturally in the main route. Such things could be understood. "Mn… Though her taste is a little heavy."

This was after all a foursome. Even among Japanese films, there were only a few that cater to tastes as heavy as this, and this is live-action even. Mn… Just from thinking about this, she was beginning to grow a little excited?

"Aren't you afraid of turning blind?" Fa Yu glared at her.

"Once foreign, twice familiar after all." I have even watched the original movie with your wife, you know? "In any case, these aren't my eyes." It's Ling Tian girly's~

"…" His face was filled with crap.

"It's the live-action version, are you certain you're not going to look?" Don't all men have such tastes?

"…" His face instantly darkened.

"Why don't I… swap with Ling Tian girly?" So that you two can watch it together.

Fa Yu suddenly glared at her. If you dare to raise my Tiantian improperly, I'm going to exterminate you.

"Uh…" She seemed to have already made her watch something improper once.

Whatever, I will watch it myself.

"Yo, they're stark naked now."

"…" Fa Yu instantly closed his eyes.

"Wow, to begin with two people on top. Such heavy tastes."

"…" Fa Yu cupped his ears.

"Yaaaa, it's a foursome now."

"…" He puked.

"Ehhhh, why did he turn back to his beast form?"

"Ehh, there's even bestiality. What the hell!"

Sesame puked as well.

At first, Zhu Yao was watching it with the attitude of a scenario reviewer, until the broadcast continued on for three hours and the sky was even beginning to set. The four people… no, while three people and one beast were still cultivating with great efforts, even Zhu Yao began to feel that it was becoming aesthetically difficult to watch.

Yet the squealing noises of the female lead continued to sound out. If her voice were to be brought to the modern era, she would definitely be popular. If that time were to come, even Cang-sensei would have to give in, alright? Every male shut-in would have one copy of her film, and they would carefully treasure it…

Eh, wait a minute!

Zhu Yao glanced at the Rising Symbol Rock in her hand, and suddenly had an evil thought.

"Hey, hey, hey. Tiantian's childhood friend." Zhu Yao nudged Fa Yu, and said with a mysterious look. "Let me borrow something from you."

The action film on that side broadcasted for an entire night, and Zhu Yao felt it was in a serious state of aesthetical depreciation. During the latter half, she had already lost all interest in viewing it. Bored, she took the opportunity when the few of them were still concentrated in their broadcast to place down a few spiritual energy concealment formations. Circulating the fire spiritual energy in her body, she began to refine the artifact.

Rising Symbol Rock was a rare material, but its rank was not entirely great. Its only benefit was its flexibility. Mystic artifacts from the third rank to the eighth rank could be made from this material, but the grade of the artifact made by it was based on the artificer's skills alone. The mystic artifact that Zhu Yao planned to make was not dependent on its rank. In the first place, it was not going to be used for battle. The reason why Rising Symbol Rock was needed, was simply because it had the best light reflective property out of all the materials she knew.

Zhu Yao crafted the exact same composition, based on the positions of the stone plates in the plaza, into the melted Rising Symbol Rock. In the end, she made a cylindrical… telescope!

Even Zhu Yao herself did not think that the mystic artifact would turn out like this after refinement. Furthermore, it was the monocular collapsible type.

Fine, classical wins. The only difference was that the average telescope only had two lens, while hers had dozens of them, where they were pieces of the Rising Symbol Rock placed in different angles.

However, during the formation engraving, she hesitated. If she directly engraved the formation onto it, then anyone could use it to see luck. That, in essence, wouldn't be any different from the female lead.

After pondering for a moment, she decided not to directly engrave the formation she had calculated beforehand. Instead, she directly inserted a strand of spiritual energy into it. Through the Rising Symbol Rock pieces, she slowly corrected the circulation flow of the spiritual energy to outline the formation.

Then, she looked at the four people that were entangled together through the telescope.

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Chapter 337: The Young Man Still Has Two Other Faces

What she saw was a myriad of colours. Each of the four people had his or her own unique aura, though the colours were a little strange. The demonic beast Bai Li's was faint green, Cao Qi's was a shallow yellow, while Cheng Yufeng's was light blue.

The most dazzling one belonged to the female lead, whose aura comprised of several colours. It was as if she was wearing a flower-patterned jacket filled with patches here and there. Compared to the complete oval-shaped aura she saw on the Elder's body, hers were filled with lights of irregular shapes and sizes. Zhu Yao meticulously counted, but realized that the lights were overly complicated and she could not count them all at all.

Even with the three others combined, theirs were not even larger than her light. Furthermore, the lights of the other three people seemed to be a little fragmented. They looked as if they were being blocked by something, missing bits and pieces. Cheng Yufeng's aura especially only had a single tip remaining, as if it could extinguish at any moment.

Zhu Yao frowned. If she had suspected her own guess earlier, then the present situation of the female lead had completely proved her conjecture.

"What's that?" Fa Yu woke up from his meditation and stared at the telescope in her hand. "This can't be the mystic artifact that you have refined, right?"

"It is!" Zhu Yao waved the telescope in her hand.

Fa Yu's face instantly darkened. "You pulled me this far off to look for materials, all in order to refine a broken toy that could not be considered a first rank mystic artifact?"

Seeing that he was about to explode, Zhu Yao sighed. "Young man, don't be so anxious. 'Artifacts' cannot be determined by their looks. Who cares if they're seventh, eighth or ninth rank if they're useful?"

"This isn't even a first rank." Fa Yu had a scornful look.

Zhu Yao immediately pushed the mystic artifact to his eyes. He glanced into it suspiciously, and was shocked the next moment. "This… is luck?"

She nodded.

Fa Yu's expression sank even further. "So she can truly steal people's luck."

So this boy did not believe her all along till now? What happened to the promise of being people standing on the same boat? Zhu Yao was a little disappointed. Fa Yu however did not speak any further, though his expression had turned even colder than before, as if he was coming up with countermeasures.

Zhu Yao continued to inspect Fan Zhishan through the telescope. Now that they could see luck, she believed that there would definitely be a way to stop luck from being stolen.

Eh, what's that?

Three thin strands of different colours circled around the female lead, and they wouldn't have been easily discovered unless one looked carefully. The source of the three strands were actually the three male leads, as if several transmission tubes were linking the four of them.

Was the female lead stealing luck right now? She looked carefully, and though it wasn't obvious, the auras of the three people had indeed turned smaller, while those thin strands were becoming larger as well. They could hardly be seen from how thin they were earlier, yet they were now as thick as a finger. Correspondingly, the auras of the three men were flowing away at immense speed, and in just less than a moment, a fifth of their auras had disappeared. Cheng Yufeng's light blue aura had even extinguished in a blink of an eye.

The female lead suddenly let out a unique moan. Her voice carried a slight sharp tone, and it was especially obvious amidst their gasps for air. However, the others who were immersed in lust did not notice it at all. Instead, they moaned a few times in concert before ending this day-and-night long heavy taste exercise.

Almost at the same time, those three transmission tube-like strands disappeared into the air, and the faint green, blue and yellow lights on the female lead's body strengthened a little. The faint blue aura of hers especially seemed to have taken up half of the rest of the other auras combined.

Zhu Yao simply felt as if a lightbulb had lit up in her mind. She suddenly understood why this was an R18 scenario. The female lead was actually seizing the luck of others through the exchange of yin and yang. It was no wonder she had so many male leads around her.

Wait a minute!

That shouldn't be all to it. Didn't she also pull out that bugged weapon to attack her? Could there be different methods to seize luck for different sexes? Or could it be that the female lead still had other considerations?

Zhu Yao could not figure it out, while the passionate men and woman over there had already begun to wear their clothes and leave the place. Zhu Yao could not help but look towards Cheng Yufeng. She did not know if it was because he had lost all of his luck, but she actually saw a strand of the aura of death between his brows.

Just as she was about to look even more carefully, Fa Yu suddenly reached out his hand and pressed her into the dirt once more.

The hell! What happened to the promised love between teammates?

"They're leaving." Fa Yu transmitted his solemn voice. Only after the sound of their footsteps grew further away, did he release his hand.

Zhu Yao whose face was once again covered in dirt: "…"

This asshole definitely did it on purpose!

Fa Yu dispelled the surrounding formations and walked out. Zhu Yao stood up and caught up to him. The high grade concealment talisman instantly lost its effects at this moment, turning into ashes. The time was just right!

"Let's return." Zhu Yao bit down two mouthfuls of dirt during this trip, and her heart ached.

"Wait a minute." Fa Yu coldly narrowed his eyes at her. "Are you sure you're not going to bring back a few more Rising Symbol Rocks, just in case?"

"Didn't you say that only a single piece is born every several tens of thousands of years?" Zhu Yao glanced at him. Could there actually be a second piece?

"A single piece is born every several tens of thousands of years, but I didn't say there's only one right now! This place has already existed for hundreds of thousands of years." Fa Yu looked at her as if she was an idiot.

"…" She wanted to exterminate this teammate of hers, what to do?

He pointed at the highlands behind her. "There's one right above you?"

Zhu Yao raised her head to look. As expected, not far away from her, there was a Rising Symbol Rock that was four to five times bigger than the previous one. There was no harm in being prepared, and furthermore, she could not guarantee that Fa Yu would be this nice to accompany her again.

Thus, she did not hesitate and turned to walk towards the stone mountain. Just as she took two steps, her feet suddenly turned heavy as a powerful pulling force came from below. Because she did not have a stable footing, she was slammed onto the ground and was unable to move. The radiance of a formation around her shone brightly. Her heart clenched as she suddenly thought of Fan Zhishan who just left. Could they have been discovered? She turned back her head hoping to warn the others.

"There's a formation, hurry…" Before she could even say run, she saw Fa Yu's cold expression. The 'everything in this world was trash' look was missing from his face, and instead, his entire being had turned even colder than before. Zhu Yao was stunned. "You were the one who placed down this formation?"

Fa Yu did not reply, and simply walked over towards her with a solemn expression.

"Roar…" Sesame sensed the danger as well as it roared out loud. Just as it was about to turn back to its original size, Fa Yu simply snorted and cast an art. Something flashed from Sesame's core and it instantly slammed onto the ground. No matter how it struggled, it could not take a single step. A large fire instantly lit up around it, covering its entire body.

"Sesame!" Zhu Yao was frightened, as she turned to look at Fa Yu who had suddenly changed in personality. "What did you do to it?"

"It's too difficult to handle, so I simply added a few small formations in its Inner Core." He replied without a mind, yet his voice was chilling to the bones.

Inner Core? Could it be when he was healing it? Zhu Yao's heart sank. "Just what are you planning?"

Fa Yu however did not reply. He walked straight towards her and then cast an art with both his hands. Seals flew out of them and circled around her surroundings.

These mystic seals are…

Soul Expelling Art!

"You're planning to expel me out of Ling Tian's body!?" Zhu Yao widened her eyes.

"It's been so many days, you have stayed for long enough." Fa Yu said solemnly. "How can I allow you to stay in her body any longer?"

"Fa Yu, I'm not…"

"Shut your mouth!" Fa Yu glared at her with cold eyes, as if he could not wait to devour her alive. "You understand the concept of luck and is even able to create a heaven-defying mystic artifact that can view luck itself. You must have been an incredible expert in your past life. With the capabilities you possess, is your reason for possessing her body truly to simply save her? In this world, are there any vile ghosts that don't think of taking over the living bodies? Those words of yours can only fool Tiantian. When the time comes, will you really give up on the opportunity to take over her soul?"

His expression grew colder the longer he spoke, his eyes were filled with hatred, as if he had turned into another person.

No, this was his true self. The person he had been in these recent days was just an act.

"You never believed me right from the start?" As expected of the emperor of acting, she actually did not spot anything off, and had been wholeheartedly helping Ling Tian girly deal with the female lead. She never expected that he would pretend to cooperate with her while planning to expel her.

Ling TIan girly's explanatory work was clearly not enough, hey!

"In this world, I only believe in myself!" Fa Yu flipped his hand, and the surrounding mystic seals began to circulate even faster. She could feel a force desperately pulling her out of the body.

"Fa Yu." She suddenly felt a little panicked in her heart. Just who in the world did she offend, hey? "Have you ever thought about what would happen to Ling Tian after I leave?"

His expression turned colder. "Naturally, I will protect her!"

"Are you sure you can protect her?" Zhu Yao coldly laughed. If he truly could stop the female lead, then there wouldn't be a need for her to be in this world. When she first arrived, Ling Tian girly was trapped to death within Spirit Heaven Palace.

"…" A hint of hesitation flashed across Fa Yu's face.

Just as Zhu Yao was about to explain further, beastial roars suddenly came from afar one after another. Following after, the earth began to tremble as large explosive noises moved towards their direction. Even Fa Yu could not get a stable footing.

Fan Zhishan, Cao Qi and the demonic beast Bai Li came flying back from the forest. Seeing Zhu Yao and Fa Yu in front of them, they were clearly stunned.

"It's you people!" Her expression changed, and a hint of killing intent flashed across her eyes.

In the next moment, one figure after another appeared in a flash. A huge concentrated crowd of demonic beasts suddenly came into the scene, surrounding Fan Zhishan, Zhu Yao and the rest. Within the beast crowd, there were human-shaped ones dressed in various clothes, and there were even beasts of various sizes. They were all ninth or tenth rank demonic beasts, without a single exception.

Furthermore, all of them looked furious, their pair of bloodshot eyes glared intensely at the few people in front of them. Their immensely fuming growls were deafening to the ears.

A black-robed man walked out of the beast crowd, and he flung out his hand.

With a 'pa' sound, a bloody object fell right in front of them. After having a clearer look, Zhu Yao took in a deep breath.

That was actually a person. A person who had been bitten into shreds. He was one of the male leads who was still playing restricted-level games with the female lead – Cheng Yufeng.

He's dead!

Zhu Yao instantly felt her stomach churning.

Fan Zhishan's face instantly turned as pale as snow, as she took a step back in panic. She hurriedly turned her eyes away, as though she wasn't willing to see the corpse on the ground. Even Cao Qi's and Bai Li's expression carried a hint of panic.

That black-robed man first glared at Bai Li with vicious eyes, and then turned to spit onto the ground. "Pui, traitor! Hurry and hand over the Sacred Dragon Scale."

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Chapter 338: Avatar Download Complete

When the voice of that black-robed man fell, the demonic beasts roared out loud like an orchestra of a hundred beasts. As a Foundation trash, Zhu Yao could feel her Dantian trembling, and the sound of it shattering could be faintly heard. Yet, Fa Yu still wasn't stopping the formation. He paused for a mere moment, before continuing to cast the art.

Bai Li clenched his fists, feeling at a loss. The demonic beasts in the surroundings began to close in. Some had even lost restraints of themselves and came pouncing at them, looking so ruthless as if they wanted to tear the people into shreds.

Fan Zhishan's face had already turned pale. Bai Li hugged onto her and dodged the attacks from the few demonic beasts. Suddenly, her expression changed. Gritting her teeth, she threw something towards Zhu Yao's direction. "If you want the Sacred Dragon Scale… Then find her!"

In an instant, all of the attacking demonic beasts stopped in their tracks. They turned around and changed targets, running straight towards Zhu Yao's and Fa Yu's direction. Fan Zhishan however escaped in the opposite direction on her flying sword. The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. This female lead wanted to kill her with a borrowed knife.

"Fa Yu!" Zhu Yao wanted him to stop this restraining formation. This was not the time to fight each other.

He however pulled out a talisman, a positioning talisman of the highest grade!

Zhu Yao widened her eyes. So he had long made the preparations. Placing down the positioning talisman, he planned on directly send them back to Spirit Heaven Palace.

He activated the talisman. With a flash of white light, the positioning talisman immediately activated. Just when they were about to be teleported away…

However, he suddenly accelerated his hand seals, and then slammed his hand onto Zhu Yao's chest. Zhu Yao simply felt her consciousness instantly being pulled out of the body. Her body was as light as mist, and her five senses instantly disappeared. The formation beneath her feet disappeared at the same moment as well, along with Fa Yu and Ling Tian's body.

Zhu Yao in her soul state was what remained, along with Sesame which had just released itself from his control, and a large crowd of furious high rank demonic beasts that were pouncing towards them.

For the very first time in her life, Zhu Yao understood what 'removing the bridge after crossing the river' meant. She came running to this world from far away, did he think it was easy for her? Putting aside losing her avatar, the key thing was that she had wholeheartedly worked to save a person. In the end, someone still suspected her for harbouring ulterior motives, and had even dug an extremely large hole waiting for her to jump into it. Her entire mind was in flames, as she was fuming to the point of wanting to bash a certain someone. She suddenly have the impulse of not caring about anything anymore,

She raised her head and looked at the vicious demonic beast crowd that were roaring out wildly. Zhu Yao simply felt like there wasn't anywhere she could vent off her immense anger right now, as waves after waves of burning anger made her want to bite someone. At that moment, she no longer cared about bugs, demonic beasts, and everything else. Turning her head around, she roared out at the demonic beasts as if she was venting. "Shut up!"

A wave of energy seemed to have spread throughout the air. Almost at the same time, it was as if the furious demonic beast crowd had pressed on the pause button, stiffening in their place. There were even some which could not step on the breaks in time in the sky, as they crashed into the ground like a dumpling.

It was as if the crowd of demonic beasts which still had bloodshot eyes just earlier was splashed with cold water. They stood rooted in their spots, looking blankly at Zhu Yao who was floating in the air.

A moment later, various beasties uncontrollably let out the same sound.

"Meow~"

"Meow your sister, meow! Can't you see this old lady is angry right now?" Zhu Yao gasped for air several times, but the more she thought about it, the angrier she got. "Let this old lady have some peace and quiet for a moment."

In an instant, the entire beast crowd felt terrible.

Beast one: Who is that? She looks pretty likable.

Beast two: I suddenly feel like rubbing against her, what to do?

Beast three: But she seems to dislike us a lot.

Beast four: Wuuu, so sad. I feel like crying.

Beast five: The hell is a Sacred Dragon Scale?

For a moment, all the beasties did not dare to make a single noise. The entire place was awkwardly silent, as dozens of pitiful eyes glanced at Zhu Yao who was floating about in rage. All of them had infatuated looks on their faces. Mn. She might like us again after her anger quells.

In the end, it was Sesame, which had abundant experience in hugging her thigh, that reacted first. Amidst the hateful and envious eyes of the crowd of beasties, it sprinted over. "Mistress… It's been a long time since I witness your tyrannical aura leaking out!"

Tyrannical your ass. In a certain sense, I'm currently stuck in the avatar selection screen, alright? Zhu Yao looked at it with narrowed eyes, and then floated back and forth a few dozen more times before she was able to calm down. When she turned her head, she was shocked by the beasts that were obediently squatting on the ground. This is…

Her power of friendship with the beasties had returned?

She pondered for a moment. Presently, she was merely a soul that had yet to latch onto anyone. Could it be that the World Favourable Impression ability only took effect when she was completely herself?

This sure is good news… my ass!

She was only able to float about here because the sky had yet to turn bright. Once the sun were to rise, she had to return to the Netherworld. How was she going to fix the bug after that?

Her thoughts flowed, and she once again thought of Fa Yu, making her lose all motivation in an instant. Why should I care about him!? Return to the netherworld, I shall! This old lady is not going to accommodate any further.

She turned to glance at the demonic beasts that were looking at her cautiously. In the end, she could not help but ask. "Just what happened? Why were you all chasing after Fan Zhishan? I'm talking about that female practitioner earlier."

When her words fell, several paws and hands were instantly raised, as each one of them competed to answer her question.

Zhu Yao's face darkened, as she pointed at the black-robed man at the very front. "You, speak."

"Lord, it's like this." The black-robed man cleared his throat, ignored Sesame's warning gaze, and took a step forward. "We do not know where they came from, but those human practitioners from earlier stole our beast race's treasure, the 'Sacred Dragon Scale'. Then, they were discovered by us, and in order to retrieve it, we chased after them without end. Furthermore, they had a traitor of the beast race among them, and he is familiar with the terrain. That was why we had to spend two days to find them."

"Sacred Dragon Scale?" Zhu Yao turned to look for the item that Fan Zhishan threw to her earlier. A dragon scale sparkling with golden light was stuck between a stone crevice on the ground, and it even possessed a rather unique aura. It was actually godly energy. The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. "This… can't possibly be a dragon scale of the Dragon Race, right?"

"It is."

"…" Just for a single scale of the Dragon Race, you beasties will actually spare no efforts in retrieving it? Demonic beasts were truly die-hard fans of the God Races.

The man looked at with a pair of sparkling eyes as he said with an excited look. "The Sacred Dragon Scale is made of a scale from a Dragon's body. According to legends, it's even the most important scale that protected its heart, and thus contains immeasurable godly energy. It's the most important sacred relic in the hearts of the entire beast race!"

If it's important, they hurry and pick it up, the hell are you staring at me all this time for? The scale has been left sitting there for such a long time, yet I haven't seen any of you beasties coming to pick it up. It's colour is even beginning to fade.

Zhu Yao sighed. She turned around and floated towards the dragon scale that were stuck in the stone crevice. Out of habit, she said as she reached out to pick it up. "Since it's so important, then you guys best keep it safely next time. Do not…"

Before she could even finish, the moment she touched that dragon scale, a blinding radiance shone before her eyes as an immense pulling force assaulted her. Her entire being was sucked into it. In an instant, her vision turned dark, and below her line of sight, a familiar loading bar hanged right there.

However, that loading bar did not start from the beginning, but instead, it was already at the very end.

The '99%' on the loading bar flashed, and it turned '100%' the next moment.

Ting!

A familiar notification bell resounded next to her ears, and a row of words suddenly appeared as well.

Downloading of missing soul has been completed, the avatar has been completely activated. Brave young lady, hurry and create a miracle!

Then…

She turned into a scale.

Zhu Yao blanked for a whole thirty seconds before regaining her senses.

This is an avatar?

Why the hell is it a scale, hey!?

And what's with that 99% to 100% loading bar? That's clearly the loading bar that appeared just before I reincarnated into Ling Tian girly's body, right? Why wasn't the loading from back then completed? Why did the loading bar stall, hey? Then, does that mean she has been using the wrong avatar all this time?

So, she should have reincarnated here at the very start. This scale was the one that was truly prepared for her?

Zhu Yao who found out the truth simply wanted to raise her middle finger.

Has Realmspirit's intelligence disconnected? Even if she had her own avatar, how was she going to fix a bug by being a scale? Blind the female lead to death with light? Right now, she couldn't even move because she was stuck in a crevice, alright?

Just as she was thinking about this, a powerful energy suddenly surged inside her body, and the energy was endlessly gathering at the very center of the scale. It was as if energy that had been concealed for a very long time, had suddenly been activated. This is… godly energy!

Zhu Yao calmed her heart down and directly circulated the godly energy. Two small hand-like lightstreams were formed on the scale's two sides, and they held onto the two sides of the stone crevice. Then, with a strong push…

Pop, she pulled herself out from the stone crevice.

Fortunately, there weren't any cracks on her!

The crowd of beasties that watched the entire process: (o)

They seemed to have witnessed something incredible.

"Mistress…" Sesame was dumbfounded as well. It did not understand what just happened at all. In a blink of an eye, Zhu Yao turned into a scale, and she had even pulled herself out of the stone crevice.

Zhu Yao however did not have the time to reply it, because the godly energy within her body was continuing to grow. It was as if incredible energy was sealed in every inch of the scale, and the moment Zhu Yao entered the scale, the energy began to pour out endlessly. In the beginning, she was still able to gather the godly energy in the center through her guidance. However, slowly, she realized she was unable to catch up with the godly energy's speed of emergence.

She decided to directly take up a human form, after all, she had so much godly energy to spare. The light from the scale grew brighter, and in an instant, the area within a radius of several dozen meters was covered with golden light. At the very center of this golden light, a human form was slowly being formed. First, it was the body, and the four limbs came after.

Fifteen minutes later, a youthful lady with delicate features appeared beneath the stone mountain, and the surrounding golden light slowly dimmed as well. Human form materialization complete!

Zhu Yao unconsciously lowered her head to take a look… Flat as the plain flatlands.

(_) As expected, this was her avatar!

"Mistress." Sesame pounced over with an excited look, its two paws hugged tightly onto her thigh. "Your new image is simply too beautiful. Sesame wants to bear monkeys for you."

Zhu Yao rolled her eyes. "What about your egg?"

"Uh…" It stiffened for a moment, and then helplessly said. "Mistress, if you like eggs, then I can bear them for you too!"

"…" Who the hell wants your eggs!? The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. She could no longer be bothered with this beastie which had lost all sense of its morals, as she raised her head to take a look at the rest of the demonic beasts. "Everyone… Uh, fellow beasties, I wish to find a place to rest. I wonder if any of you is able to lend me a cave residence to stay in?" Though she had already taken up a human form, the godly energy in her body was still in a chaotic state. There were even traces of the energy running rampant. She had to immediately head into meditation to regulate the energy.

"Lord, lord. Mine… You can take mine!" A beastie immediately replied.

"Tch, how can a small place like yours accommodate her? Lord, lord, head over to my place. It's spacious enough." Another one refuted.

"How can that cold and torn-down place be compared to mine? Lord, lord, my house is the most comfortable. Come over to mine."

"Your cave is filled with grass, it's beyond dirty! Lord, lord. I have the most beautiful house, come over to mine."

"Stop fighting. None of your houses is better than mine. Lord, lord. Come and take a look at mine."

Uh… She just wanted to find a place to meditate, was there a need to fight over it? Furthermore, when did she become the lord of these beasties?

The beasties that banded together to fight a common enemy earlier, were beginning to argue for the sake of one person's accommodation. There was even a possibility that they might start fighting for real if the discussion were to break down. With a darkened expression, Zhu Yao had no choice but to pick a cave residence of a tenth rank demonic beast. The reason was simply. His was the closest.

After bading the other beasties goodbye, Zhu Yao and Sesame followed after that tenth rank demonic beast back to its cave residence, and officially took residence in the place.

The tenth rank demonic beast that was most fortunate to be picked, was beyond exhilarated. It looked as if it was floating as it walked, passing through the crowd of demonic beasts with its head held boastfully high. That behaviour of his looked as if it had struck the lottery, and it garnered several jealous eyes along the way.

At the entrance of the cave, it suddenly pointed at its own bashful face and said. "Lord, actually… I can lay eggs too."

Zhu Yao: "…"

Sesame: "…"

Zhu Yao was only able to control the godly energy within her body after meditating for half a month. Compared to true Dragons, the amount of godly energy within her body was considerably small. However, she was just a piece of scale after all. It was still fine when the energy was sealed, but now that it had been ignited, she was basically unable to contain them. Yet, she could not cultivate using the methods of the God Races. After pondering for a moment, she directly used godly energy as a replacement for spiritual energy and tried cultivating with the methods of a human practitioner, where she guided godly energy into her Dantian. However, she never expected that her cultivation would begin to rise at extreme speeds. Furthermore, there wasn't any obstruction by the changes of her physical body like a completely human avatar would. She simply crossed each cultivation level step and rose in strength without any setbacks.

When she had her godly energy completely in control, she realized that her cultivation had directly made a breakthrough above the Demigod stage, reaching the range of a Gold Deity.

Her first reaction was to look at the sky, yet she realized nothing happened.

This was illogical. What happened to the promise that all beings above the Demigod stage had to ascend? She had already reached the level of a Gold Deity, and she did not especially concealed her own cultivation either. Let alone the Light of Guidance, not even a single trace of lightning clouds could be seen in the sky.

For some reason, she had an inexplicably strange sensation, faintly feeling that this was not a good sign.

She unconsciously let out her divine sense, and instantly, the entirety of Horizon Forest was within her sight. Even that huge hole at Regretless Crossing could be seen clearly. However, when she tried to dive deeper into that hole, she could not sense anything at all. She strangely began to become a little mindful of that hole.

"Mistress, what's wrong?" Seeing that she had raised her head, Sesame looked up at the sky as well.

Zhu Yao frowned. Throwing aside those strange feelings, she turned to look at Sesame. "Sit, I shall help you mend your Inner Core." Fa Yu dared to place formations inside its Dantian, so he might have made other tamperings as well. She could only feel at ease after taking a closer look herself.

"Ou." Sesame immediately returned to its human form and sat in front of her. Suddenly, as if it had recalled something, it said. "Mistress, actually, back then when I left the Spirit Realm, it was Yue…"

"If you don't want to end up injured, then focus!"

"… Ou."

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Chapter 339: A Godly Development Suddenly Unfolds

Only after Zhu Yao summon her sword intent did she find out that Sesame's Inner Core was not mended at all. Fa Yu had simply placed down a few concealment formations on Sesame's Inner Core, and other than that, there were barely any other effects. Adding that the concealment formations could shield themselves from Sesame's five senses, it created the signs of recovery. When her divine sense dove in, those concealment formations shattered on their own.

When she saw its shattered Inner Core, Zhu Yao instantly felt angered to the point of wanting to kill someone. This move of Fa Yu's was simply too huge, yet she did not realize it in the slightest. If not because her current avatar had logged on, and that her cultivation had broken through the Demigod stage once more, there was most likely no one in this world who could heal Sesame well.

Zhu Yao spent an entire three months to patch up Sesame's Inner Core to full recovery, barely stabilizing its cultivation at the tenth rank. She then walked out of the rented cave residence. Fortunately, it did not drop another rank.

She initially wanted to thank the landlord beastie, only to see it running over with a flustered look.

"Lord, lord…" Because it ran so quickly, it had even forgotten to turn back to its beast form. With its hands and feet on the ground, it sprinted over. "Lord, something bad has happened."

"What is it?" Zhu Yao asked.

Landlord beastie pointed towards the far distance. "The hole in the east has suddenly grown really huge. It has already swallowed up the entire town."

"In the east?" She was stunned for a moment. "Regretless Crossing?"

The beastie nodded.

Zhu Yao suddenly had a bad premonition. Flying on her sword, she headed in that direction. After only flying for a short while, she felt a powerful pulling force assaulting her, pulling her entire being directly forward. When she raised her head up to look, she saw an enormous black hole appearing in the sky. Compared to the Regretless Crossing she had seen before, it was at least ten times larger.

The hole was situated between the sky and earth, and it was even enlarging constantly. The surrounding trees and plants were being pulled off the ground one after another, entering the darkness within. Even the earth on the ground was beginning to disappear inch by inch.

"This is?" Sesame was stunned as well as it looked at the endless darkness. "Isn't this…"

"The Severed Lands." Zhu Yao continued in its stead. Back then, the secret realm "Tasyoluk" which Sesame was in, had such a place as well. It was located at the very edge of the secret realm. Only pitch-black nothingness was within, and even she knew that she had no choice but to reincarnate after entering it.

However, Horizon Forest was not the edge of this world. Logically, the Severed Lands should not appear in such a place. It could be best compared to a complete piece of paper. It could have its own edges, but these edges should not appear at the center of the paper. Presently, the Severed Lands had appeared right here, and it was even beginning to spread all around, devouring and growing larger. This could only mean that cracks had appeared in this world, and it was beginning to collapse.

Zhu Yao's first reaction was that something had happened to Ling Tian. She instructed the beasties a few things, prevented them from approaching that place, and then turned to head towards Spirit Heaven Palace.

Back then, she had to spend an entire day to get there. Now, she had merely taken fifteen minutes to reach Spirit Heaven Palace. She initially pondered how she should bash that two-faced Fa Yu up, so that she could relieve the foulness in her heart.

However, when she saw the same large black hole in the skies above Spirit Heaven Palace, she was dumbfounded. Why was it here as well?

Most of Spirit Heaven Palace had already been devoured by the black hole. Only a small half of the floating mountains were still floating in the air, and they were still constantly being drawn into the black hole. Not a single disciple remained in Spirit Heaven Palace.

She concealed her cultivation and made her way to a nearby practitioner's town to get some information, and found out that the black hole appeared four months ago. No one know what it was. It suddenly appeared in the sky, and it was initially just the size of a wellhead. However, it continued to grow, and seven days later it became even larger than a floating mountain.

Spirit Heaven Palace lost quite a number of disciples, and because there was simply no options left, the sect was moved to Grandhall Sect.

"I'm certain that Spirit Heaven Palace must have angered the Higher Realm, which led to the sudden appearance of such a strange phenomenon. It might be an act conducted by the Deities of the Higher Realm." That practitioner said mysteriously. "That black hole produces not a single ripple of spiritual energy, but merely the aura of death. How can a practitioner of this world possibly summon such a thing? Furthermore, there are numerous other places it could appear in, yet it appeared right above Spirit Heaven Palace. It must be related to the Spirit Heaven Palace."

Zhu Yao frowned. Wasn't four months ago the time when Fa Yu ousted her out of Ling Tian's body? It seemed like she had to make a visit to Grandhall Sect.

She rushed over to Grandhall Sect, only to realize that she was not the only who was making a visit. Disciples from various sects and clans were actually gathered around Grandhall Sect with furious faces. They were armed with weapons, and looked as though they were here for a fight.

Grandhall Sect's Great Mountain Barrier Formation was activated in full force, keeping the various sects outside the mountain.

Zhu Yao took a closer look. Leading the pack was the number one deity sect – Sleipoup Sect. The female lead Fan Zhishan and Sovereign Pi Shi were standing at the very front, and there were eight extraordinary-looking men standing around them as well. Was this the female lead's harem exhibition? It seemed like the death of that Cheng Yufeng did not affect the female lead in the slightest!

"Sect Master Fa, please hand over that menace." A Nascent Soul practitioner loudly shouted at the Great Mountain Barrier Formation. "As long as you hand over that menace, we will let go of your Grandhall Sect. Otherwise… We have no choice but to go to war for the sake of this world."

What was going on? The various clans and sects were actually here to launch a crusade against Grandhall Sect? Furthermore, Sleipoup Sect was actually taking the lead! The various sects would not even wait to avoid them before, how did the situation change in just a few months?

"As long as you hand over that Devil Ling Tian and quell the anger of the Deities of the Higher Realm, I can guarantee that the various sects will not look into what happened today." That Nascent Soul practitioner continued to transmit his voice out loud. "It's exactly because she has impersonated as the Sect Master of Spirit Heaven Palace that brought about this misfortune that is this crisis. As humans who cultivate on the path of deities, we must do justice in place of the heavens!"

When did Ling Tian become a Devil? Zhu Yao grew even more confused the longer she listened. Don't come up with such a godly development after I'm offline for just a day!

It seemed like she could only understand the situation after meeting Ling Tian and Fa Yu. After pondering for a moment, she intentionally circled around to the back of Grandhall Sect. Though she had concealed her figure and that let alone a Demigod, even an Earth Deity could not sense her, she could not fend against the female lead's ability to see luck after all. It was best to take a safer route.

Though the Great Mountain Barrier Formation of Grandhall Sect could not stop her, she did not break it apart directly either. Instead, she found the formation core, did some slight alterations, and calmly crossed through it.

Sweeping her divine sense throughout the place, the entirety of Grandhall Sect instantly appeared in her mind. Ling Tian was in a room at the back of the Main Mountain.

In a flash, she appeared within the room. However, Ling Tian was lying on the bed with her eyes closed. Zhu Yao did not intentionally hide herself, and Fa Yu, who was sitting by the bed, was stunned for a moment. He immediately summoned his sword and looked at her vigilantly. "Who are you?"

Zhu Yao swept a glance at him. He had long lost the wilful temperament and the scornful look he had for the entire world that he had when they first met. As though it had been a long time since he took care of himself, his hair was dishevelled and he had a fatigued look. Even this spiritual energy in his body had traces of scattering apart. He was in an incredibly weak state, to the point where his cultivation had even fallen to the Azoth Core stage.

Knowing that he hadn't been well, Zhu Yao felt better.

She felt that the anger she had held onto for several months had eased a little, as she turned to look at Ling Tian on the bed. "What happened to her?"

Fa Yu was stunned. With widened eyes, he recognized her the next moment. "It's you!"

She simply rolled her eyes. "Who else can I be?"

"You… How can you possibly?" He had a look of utter disbelief. "Then the body that you have right now is?"

"It's mine, of course!"

"Then why…" He had a confused look, but suddenly, as though he had recalled something, he raised his sword and furiously said. "Just what did you do to Ling Tian? Why isn't she awake even till now?"

"What did I do?" Zhu Yao coldly laughed. "What can I possibly do? Weren't you the one who forced my soul out that day? Now that a problem has occurred, you're blaming me for it?"

Anxiety flashed across his face. "I simply do not wish for her to be controlled by you. She can only be Ling Tian when you're out of her body. How can she possibly be in a coma because of it? It's you! You must have done something."

Zhu Yao did not wish to spare someone who was crippled in the mind at all, as she released her pressure directly at him. Fa Yu was instantly pressed against the ground, puking out a large mouthful of blood.

"You best wake up!" Zhu Yao took a step forward and picked him up by the collar. "I told you right from the start that I'm here to help her. Ling Tian herself had even told you that I'm here to help her as well. It was your own self-assertion to expel me out. Now that she has turned out this way, it's all your fault."

"No… No." He desperately shook his head. "I just wanted to save her. I just wanted her to be out of harm's way. I didn't…"

Zhu Yao coldly laughed. "Save? At best, you're just a murderer disguised as a good person."

She swung him away and walked towards the bed where Ling Tian was. After taking a closer look, she could not help but take in a deep breath. Though Ling Tian girly was still breathing inaudibly, a thick aura of death was floating about her entire body, as though she could stop breathing at any moment.

Zhu Yao clenched her fists, and then picked up Fa Yu again. "What happened?" Logically, this shouldn't have happened. Though she possessed Ling Tian's body, her body was still extremely healthy. It was simply impossible for something like the signs of death to appear out of nowhere.

Fa Yu's entire body shook a little, as though he had lost himself in something terrible. His entire face was miserably pale, with no traces of the slightest tint of blood. Hearing her question, he simply shook his head. "I don't know… Ever since we returned from Horizon Forest, she hasn't woken up at all… No matter what method I used, she never woke up." His entire body trembled as deep despair filled his face.

Zhu Yao frowned. She reached out her hand to check Ling Tian girly's pulse, and had even intentionally sent a strand of divine sense into her. The conclusion she received was however rather unexpected. Ling Tian girly's body… was actually completely healthy! No matter if it was her Dantian or her meridians which were not damaged in the least, even her circulation of spiritual energy was normal. It was as if the aura of death on her body had appeared out of thin air.

"You can save her, can't you?" Fa Yu suddenly raised his head, as if he had finally managed to grab hold onto a floating wooden plank in the middle of a large ocean. He stared at her intensely and said. "Your cultivation is this incredible now, so you can save her now, right? Save her, please? In the past… It's all my fault. Ling Tian is not involved in this. I don't care how you treat me, I'm even willing to have my soul dispersed as long as you save her… Please… Save her… please?"

"…" Zhu Yao frowned. If you had known of this, would you have done what you had done before?

"You don't believe me?" Fa Yu was startled, the anxiety on his face worsened. "Then place a life-death curse on me, or even a truth curse is fine! That way, I won't be able to escape. As long as you save her, I will do everything you ask of me. I can cast the art now." After saying that, his flipped his palm and the seal of the life-death curse appeared above his hand. Without even looking at it, he pushed it towards his own forehead.

Not able to stand watching it any longer, Zhu Yao waved her head and interrupted his art, pushing him onto the ground at the same time. "No need." She turned to look at him and said with a sunken voice. "Because I've never thought of forgiving you."

"…" His entire being turned ash-grey.

"Fa Yu, you're only aware that Ling Tian is important to you. But when you used me and schemed against me, have you ever thought that other people have their own important people in their lives as well?" Zhu Yao said solemnly. "I can understand you expelling me out of Ling Tian's body, after all, that doesn't belong to me in the first place. I would have left sooner or later. Even if I was expelled earlier than scheduled, I can only blame myself for being stupid enough to not be able to see through you."

She laughed in self-mockery. Then, her tone changed, as she coldly said. "However… I'm unable to forgive you for the acts you did on Sesame. If you didn't want to fix its Inner Core, then you should've told me straight. Yet, you just had to worsen his situation, and had even place down several formations on its Dantian to fool us in believing that it had already recovered. If not because I was cautious and investigated its injuries, its Dantian might have lost all hope of recovery because of those formations, and even its life might have been at stake. You're aware that Ling Tian is important to you, but have you ever thought that Sesame is important to me as well?"

His face was filled with despair.

Zhu Yao took a deep breath. She suppressed the anger in the depths of her heart and continued. "As for Ling Tian… I will do my best." He suddenly raised his head when Zhu Yao continued. "However, it's not because of your pleas. Ling Tian is Ling Tian. You are you. I'm saving her because she is different from you. She did not betray me, and I won't place your mistakes on her head. Similarly, I won't forgive you because of her."

After saying that, not caring about the expression he had, she raised Ling Tian girly on the bed, and then sat in a meditative stance behind her. After instructing Sesame to keep watch at the side, she took a deep breath and released all of her divine sense into Ling Tian's body.

Ling Tian was in a coma the entire time, and the aura of death was spread across her body. Since her body itself was fine, then the problem could only be her soul. Actually, after Zhu Yao helped her retrieve her position as a Sect Master, Ling Tian girly seldom spoke to her anymore. She did not think of it as a concern before, but after pondering about this, the problem must have already started then. That was why after being ousted from her body, Ling Tian girly did not have any reaction at all.

When Zhu Yao's divine sense entered her body, she did not encounter any resistance, not even the slightest bit of her body's instincts acted as an obstruction. Zhu Yao felt that the situation was much worse than she thought, and thus directly made her way into her Dantian.

The moment she entered it, the scene in front of her felt like it had changed, as a blessed celestial mountain appeared before her. It was a floating mountain that floated high in the skies with a mighty pavillion sitting on it. It was actually the Spirit Heaven Palace!

Suddenly, two small figures came flying over from her left and right. They were a boy and a girl, whose age seemed to be between twelve and thirteen. The girl had a happy face as she flew at the front, her bell-like laughter resounded along the way. The boy worriedly followed behind, chasing after her while worriedly shouting his concerns.

"Tiantian, you have just learnt how to fly on your sword, don't fly so quickly."

Zhu Yao was stunned for a moment. Was this a scene of Ling Tian's and Fa Yu's childhood?

"You're here?" Suddenly, a light call sounded behind her. When she turned to look, she saw Ling Tian girly with a gentle smile on her face.

Zhu Yao could not help but look at the playful and noisy little girl on the other end, and the Ling Tian before her.

Was this… a dreamscape?

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Chapter 340: It's Time to Disconnect

"That's me…" Ling Tian pointed at the girl in front and smiled from the nostalgia.

"You and Fa Yu?" Zhu Yao asked in response.

She nodded. Looking at the scene in front of her, a hint of yearning surfaced in her eyes. "We grew up together since young, and those days were the happiest in my life." She pondered for a moment, and then shook her head immediately after. "No… I should say they were the happiest days in all of my lifetimes."

"All of your lifetimes!?" Zhu Yao was stunned, her eyes widened. The memories from all of her lifetimes? However, before entering the wheel of reincarnation, one had to cross the River of Forgetfulness. How could she possibly still remember them?

She smiled, yet her eyes were filled with indifference. "I can't even recall clearly just how many reincarnations I have gone through, it's just that, the moment I'm aware of my surroundings, I understood that I exists for the sake of the stability of this world. This is my mission and fate, and it's forever impossible for me to leave this world and ascend. That was why I had always intentionally distanced myself from others. But… In the end, I'm still human. How can I possibly be completely unfeeling?"

Her expression sank. She looked as if she wanted to raise the corners of her lips, yet there was not a single smiling intent appearing on her face. She turned to look back at Zhu Yao and softly said. "Fa Yu is that accident. When I came to know him, he was still a child…"

When her words fell, the chasing scene before them flashed, turning into view enveloped by loud thunderstorms. A frail child was presently holding onto a dagger, facing off against a group of wolves. His entire body was covered in blood, and bone-deep injuries could be seen all around him. His stance was crumbling and unstable, yet he still held tightly onto the dagger, glaring at the bunch of wolves furiously. However, how could a child possibly go against a bunch of hungry wolves? Very quickly, the number of injuries on the child grew, and the falling rainwater dyed the ground with his incessantly flowing blood. Finally, he was pounced on by a wolf and knocked onto the ground, his small arms no longer had the energy to raise the dagger in his hands. Just when he was about to be eaten by the wolf…

A spiritual sword suddenly descended from the skies, directly ending the life of the hungry wolf that pounced on him. The immense sword aura exuded from the spiritual sword chased off the rest of the whimpering wolves. Almost at the same time, the storm ended, and the dark clouds quickly dispersed. A white-robed woman appeared in the skies above. Her facial features were extraordinary, yet she held a cold look on her face, as though anything that tried to approach her would feel hurt. Though she looked really foreign, Zhu Yao felt that she was Ling Tian.

As expected, Ling Tian next to her said. "Though I understood that there would be no meaning behind this action, in the end, I couldn't become that heartless…"

What happened next was easy to guess. Ling Tian girly brought the child back to Spirit Heaven Palace and took him in as her disciple, giving him the name Fa Yu and taught him personally. Probably because of the events he encountered when he was young, the child had the tendency to be alone, and he only depended completely on his master who saved him. However, this dependency ignited a subtle change the older he became, developing into feelings between a man and woman.

However, the lifespan of that Ling Tian's lifetime was close to its end, while Fa Yu's aptitude was extraordinary and would definitely achieve great heights in the future. Realizing this, Ling Tian naturally was unwilling to delay his progress, rejecting his confessions in all ways possible. She had even intentionally suppressed him, yet, all her efforts could not extinguish the small flame in Fa Yu's heart. Furthermore, in order to help Ling Tian make a breakthrough into a Demigod, he did not hesitate to venture into dangerous depths several times to seek opportunities for her, completely ignoring the harms to his own life.

"But, how could he have known that my lifespan is not something that can be extended with cultivation alone?" A bitter smile surfaced on Ling Tian's face. "My existence is linked to this world, and no matter how many opportunities I receive, it's of no use to me. Cultivation… I can never become a deity in the first place, yet he…"

She took a deep breath, as if trying to suppress the flood of emotions in her heart. After awhile, she said. "I was afraid that something would happen if he went on like that, so I had no choice but to inform him of my reincarnation situation. I thought that after my looks have changed, and as long as I deny it, he will naturally understand I'm no longer me. I thought that as time passes, his feelings will naturally fade."

Zhu Yao frowned. "Did he not believe you?"

"That child is too smart." Ling Tian laughed bitterly, not knowing if it was out of joy or self-mockery. "He saw through me at first glance. Ever since I reincarnated, I had never brought up a single thing from the past, yet he was certain of who I was. Not to mention, in order to accompany me, he used some sort of method to damage his Nascent Soul cultivation and re-cultivate with me. Furthermore, because of something I said on the fly, he raised Grandhall Sect with his own hands. How could I possibly stay unmoved from such dedication and affection?"

Zhu Yao was silent for a moment. "In that case, why are you unwilling to wake up?" Zhu Yao was no longer in her body, so if the two of them liked each other, shouldn't it be a happy end?

She suddenly showed an especially brilliant smile, yet Zhu Yao felt a sharp tingling in her heart. "Saintess… Because my time is up."

"What?" What did she mean?

"I have been born for this world, and I will also disappear for this world."

"…" Zhu Yao was dumbfounded. "But… I came to save you, I…"

"You've already saved me." Ling Tian girly still smiled. "Of course, if not because you possessed my body, it would have been impossible for my final strand of life to last till now."

"Saintess… When you came, I was already dead."

Zhu Yao was stunned. Then why had she been going around for so many days?

"Before you came, for the sake of this world, I froze my final strand of life. However… I kept having regrets – my desire to see him." Ling Tian took a step forward, hugged her, and then immediately released her. "Thank you. If not for you, I wouldn't have been able to see him one last time. I hope that you won't blame me for taking action with my own hands, and forcing you to possess my body. But… In the end, what's stolen is stolen. It's fine… this way…"

"You're saying, the reason why you're in this state right now is because I left your body?" Zhu Yao was a little flustered. After taking a closer look at the girly's figure, she was sure that it was much fainter than she first saw her before. "Then… if I come back, you will be fine, right?"

"It's no use." She shook her head. Looking at the sky of this dreamscape, she solemnly said. "This world is already beginning to collapse. My time is already up…"

Zhu Yao suddenly recalled of Regretless Crossing, and that black hole above Spirit Heaven Palace. "I don't understand. Shouldn't the world stay uncollapsed as long as you're here?"

"Saintess… I'm supposed to mend this entire world in the first place." The girly said solemnly. "In your words, I'm just a patch, and it's time for the installation."

When Zhu Yao retracted her divine sense and regained her senses, Ling Tian girly was already awake. Fa Yu was hugging her, crying like a little child. His two arms wrapped around her tightly as he called out her name over and over again, as though he was afraid she could disappear in the very next second.

"Tiantian… You're awake. You're finally awake. Tiantian… Tiantian…"

Ling Tian still carried the same gentle smile, consoling him with her soft voice and conversing mushily as though there wasn't anyone next to hem.

"Little Yu, don't worry. Aren't I fine?"

"Mn. You're fine, I will never let anything happen to you again!"

Zhu Yao quietly turned around and left the house. Only then did she let out the waves of sour feelings in the depths of her heart. It was stuffy and a little unbearable, as tears faintly began to well in her eyes. It hadn't been long since she knew Ling Tian girly, at most, it had only been a month. The number of times they conversed were not even in the three digits.

However, when she saw her wake up and the three letters 'bug' that appeared on her face, she could not help but feel a little unbearable. Only now did she understand why Realmspirit said that the world was already at the verge of collapse.

When she first woke up in Ling Tian's body, she was already dead. The world had long begun to collapse. When Ling Tian said that she had frozen her final strand of life, she was merely waiting for the right time to wake up, in order to awaken this life of hers to fulfill her destiny.

Realmspirit's initial plan was to have her reincarnate into the Sacred Dragon Scale. With her powers as a Gold Deity, protecting Ling Tian's body till the right time would be an easy feat. Unfortunately, she could not let go of Fa Yu, and thus when Zhu Yao came into this world, she had Zhu Yao reincarnate in her body.

Who would've known that in the end, Zhu Yao would be expelled out of her body by Fa Yu, and return into the Sacred Dragon Scale?

She wondered what would happen if Fa Yu knew of the truth? However, the past could no longer be changed.

Zhu Yao sighed. Suddenly, she heard a loud bang. The entire Grandhall Sect shook and rumbled, as a gigantic magnetic field suddenly appeared in the sky. Everything began to float in the air and fly towards the sky. Mountain rocks, tiles, and various miscellaneous objects flew up one after another.

It was as if the once clear sky had been punctured with a hole, as a circular cave entrance appeared. The objects that flew into the air earlier were all sucked into the darkness. From the immensity of the pulling force, even entire mountains were beginning to approach the hole.

"It's the same phenomenon as Spirit Heaven Palace!" Someone suddenly exclaimed in the air, and the various clans and sects had already gathered around. Because of the black hole, the Great Mountain Barrier Formation of Grandhall Sect had already disappeared. Fa Yu had sensed it as well as he flew his sword over. He looked at the crowd from the various sects with a solemn and dark look.

The sudden appearance of the black hole stirred the various sects a little, yet they became even more determined to capture Ling Tian.

"As expected, Ling Tian is a Devil. We must capture her."

"That's right. No matter where she goes, that strange phenomenon will appear. It must be her doing."

"Kill her! Appease the fury of the Deities of the Higher Realm."

"Kill her… Kill her!"

"Shut up!" Fa Yu glared at the crowd, his eyes bloodshot. "None of you shall think of touching her."

The crowd simply did not put Fa Yu in their eyes, as they summoned their weapons one after another.

"Sect Master Fa!" Leading the pack, Fan Zhishan took a step forward and said with a look of justice. "It's not that the various sects wish to trouble your Grandhall Sect, rather, you have seen it for yourself the mysterious appearances of these black holes. Spirit Heaven Palace was the first occurrence, while Grandhall Sect is next. This is sufficient proof that someone has angered the heavens. The inheritance of Spirit Heaven Palace has started since the ancient times, and the Sect Masters have always been people who bear the fate of the world. The term 'Spirit Heaven' is closely linked to the heavens, and thus upholds the will of the heavens. This is why the selection of the Sect Master must not be changed. I have already said this before, we have initially wanted to restore the order after the wrong person had take up the position, but Sect Master Fa stopped us. Now that the heavens have been angered, if we do not fix this now, I'm afraid the consequences aren't something which Sect Master Fa can bear alone."

"Nonsense." Fa Yu coldly glared at the crowd, and then finally glared intensely at Fan Zhishan. "What anger of the heavens? Who can prove that? Clearly you're just fishing in troubled waters, yet you people dare to use such a ridiculous excuse. If Ling Tian isn't the Sect Master, could it be that a shameless and loose prostitute like you is worthy? Stop joking. For a schemer like you who absorbs others' luck to cultivate, you dare call yourself someone who bears the fate of the heavens? Pui! Stop staining my eyes!"

Fan Zhishan's expression changed. She was clearly stunned when she heard him talking about how she was absorbing the luck of others. Her face instantly paled and covered in fluster. The thought of refuting never crossed her mind.

Sovereign Pi Shi behind her however, frowned. He took a step forward and summoned his own weapon. "Enough bullcrap. We must eliminate the plague today, and all who blocks our path shall die!"

Fa Yu did not plan on continuing this nonsense either, as he charged out at the crowd with the disciples of Grandhall Sect. Flashes of mystic arts instantly filled the sky.

Zhu Yao however did not have the mood to care about these battles, instead, she looked at the ever-enlarging black hole. The rate of its expansion was clearly much faster than the one she saw at Spirit Heaven Palace. She intentionally released her divine sense, and realized that other than this place, there was another similar black hole a few hundred kilometers away. It was as if another black hole would appear every short while.

The world was truly beginning to collapse.

"Ling Tian…" Zhu Yao could not help but look towards Ling Tian who just walked out of the house. For a moment, she did not know what to say.

Ling Tian however had an eased smile on her face as she looked at the black hole in the sky. After awhile, she turned around and said. "I no longer have any regrets."

Zhu Yao clenched her fists. "There might be… another way?"

She shook her head. "It's already enough. What happens next… I'm leaving it to you."

Zhu Yao felt as though something was blocking her heart, yet, she nodded her head under Ling Tian's expecting gaze.

She slowly walked towards the courtyard of the main hall. As her entire being began to emit out a brilliant golden light with ever-increasing intensity, she closed her eyes. Suddenly, an enormous illusory figure appeared between the sky and earth, and it was none other than Ling Tian herself. The light surrounding her body grew brighter as she began to float in the air. A calm spiritual pressure instantly enveloped the entire world. The objects that were still constantly being absorbed into the black hole suddenly stopped. As if the scene had been paused for a moment, the objects floated still in the air.

Even the crowd that were locked in furious battles stopped as well, as they turned to look at this strange phenomenon.

Fa Yu's face was the only one that paled, as though he had guessed something. He frantically flew towards the center of the golden light. "Tiantian, what are doing? Hurry and stop."

However, Ling Tian did not respond, and continued to rise towards the black hole.

"Tiantian!" Fa Yu frantically tried to stop her, throwing various mystic arts to no end, yet they were all completely ineffective. No matter what he did, his powers were all deflected by the golden light. From using his sword, to mystic arts, to finally using his bare hands to knock against the light. Fresh blood began to flow from his hands, yet no matter what he did he could not break through the light. His face was first dyed with anxiety, then with anger, and finally with utter despair. "Tiantian… Tiantian, hurry and stop. Didn't you just promise me that we won't ever be apart again? Didn't you promise me?"

Ling Tian however did not respond still.

"How can you be so ruthless!? Didn't you say that you definitely won't throw me aside in this lifetime? You said it yourself… So why… why!? Master!!" His eyes turned bloodshot, filled with despair and craze.

Ling TIan however did not pause for one moment, as she slowly sank into the darkness. Fa Yu unhesitantly flew towards it as well.

Zhu Yao gritted her teeth as she materialized a chain of lightning and pulled him back the moment he was about to enter the black hole.

"What are you doing? Release me!" Fa Yu began to struggle desperately, wanting to follow after her. "Tiantian! Master!"

In an instant, a golden light suddenly flashed from within the black hole. Even the rest of the black holes began to release out the same eye-piercing light. The moment the light appeared from within each hole, they began to shrink, little by little, and finally disappearing into thin air. It was as if they had never appeared.

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