Chapter 36: The Destined-to-be-Abandoned Good-for-Nothing (16)p1
Black Tortoise disappeared from Mount Lingyu.
But Su Mingxiu didn’t pay much attention to this. She was more preoccupied with… when would Gui Mian return?
The person she revived from the black ice only had breathing and a heartbeat, but showed no sign of waking up. If it were the original owner, she would have gone mad by now.
But Su Mingxiu had no feelings for this person. After realizing that she couldn’t awaken her, she didn’t care much and simply moved her to the Untainted Abode to be cared for.
Su Mingxiu specifically expanded the Untainted Abode, setting aside a room and setting up formations to house the body. The rest of her time was spent cultivating.
After all, her mindset was different from the original owner’s. Moreover, she had a genuine foundation in cultivation. In just a few decades, she refined the Golden Core belonging to Gui Mian within her body into a Nascent Soul, then reached Spirit Severing, Great Ascension…
But she couldn’t progress any further.
That night.
Su Mingxiu sat by the spiritual spring, her clothes soaked in the water. This spring could no longer aid her cultivation. Sitting in the cold water only brought her a sense of peace and tranquility.
White lotuses bloomed one after another around her, swaying and leaning towards her. Their pistils were also icy white, emitting a sweet fragrance that clung to her clothes and drifted towards her nose. From afar, she looked like an ethereal celestial being, untouched by the world. And these swaying lotuses seemed like demons tempting her to fall.
“Su Su.”
A familiar voice suddenly called out to her.
Su Mingxiu’s eyelashes trembled. She abruptly opened her eyes and saw a figure amidst the sea of lotuses beside her. The person had a pure and delicate face, even more pristine than the lotuses, yet also more alluring.
There was no more beautiful white lotus on Mount Lingyu than her.
The person’s breath was as fragrant as orchids. She leaned against Su Mingxiu’s shoulder, her red lips almost touching her jaw. Her voice was aggrieved and innocent. “Why did you lie to me again?”
Su Mingxiu’s throat moved, as if wanting to explain, but she suddenly noticed a red mark on her neck. She followed the long red thread to the other side and saw a figure in pale green clothes, her hair loosened, her eyes exceptionally innocent. When their gazes met, her voice was filled with confusion: “I’m the one Master loves, you’ve never loved anyone else, right?”
She saw the red string still tied around the little girl’s wrist.
As if, in the past, it had been casually wrapped around her.
Su Mingxiu’s eyelashes fluttered rapidly. Before she could speak, the two figures approached each other, slowly merging. Their shadows overlapped, their appearances becoming blurry. Then, they both spoke to her, their voices, one melodious, the other hoarse, overlapping: “Do you love me?”
Love.
Su Mingxiu’s lips moved. Before she could speak, she reached out to touch the shadow in front of her. But as she extended her hand, she touched a lotus flower. The cold temperature of the petals reached her fingertips, jolting her awake.
She blinked again.
Where were Yu Yinglan and Gui Mian?
She was only holding a single lotus petal.
The system couldn’t see the heart demon illusions she was experiencing, but it noticed something was wrong and spoke up in time: “You saw them again?”
Su Mingxiu didn’t answer. Instead, she suddenly asked another question: “Do you know why only Yu Yinglan could cure my insomnia in the last world?”
System: “No.”
“You do,” Su Mingxiu said, not caring about revealing her thoughts to the system. She looked at the sea of lotuses, her expression exceptionally gentle. “My shattered soul… is connected to them.”
After a pause, she added: “It’s also connected to the person I loved in the past, but I clearly remember that our encounter was just a fleeting one. It’s strange—”
“What’s the connection between us? Were my memories tampered with and forgotten, or…?”
The more she speculated, the more the system’s code trembled. It now felt that the mission completion mechanism should be changed. Instead of letting the host wait until the protagonist returned for revenge before issuing the mission completion notification, it should settle the score and transfer her to the next world immediately after the host completed the mission!
Now, Su Mingxiu had too much free time. Unable to see Gui Mian, she spent every day mentally torturing the system.
If it responded, she could extract the information she wanted. If it didn’t, she would speculate on her own, occasionally coming up with things that terrified the system.
In the end, the system could only give up and answer her randomly: “So what if there’s a connection? So what if there isn’t? You’ve already completed the mission in this world. With what you did to Gui Mian, she will never forgive you.”
Su Mingxiu plucked the lotus petal.
As she crushed it, the lotus juice landed on her palm and dripped onto the surface of the spiritual spring, creating an image. The image showed Su Mingxiu carrying Gui Mian back to the Untainted Abode through the wind and snow, but it quickly disappeared.
She wasn’t angry at the system’s blunt words. She even chuckled softly. “You’re right.”
Thousands of miles away, the eastern border.
The territory of the yao race was also in the eastern border, diagonally opposite the Demon Realm. Because this land was barren, cultivators from the major sects rarely came here.
Now, within a vast mountain range, terrifying cries could be faintly heard, and even the sky was stained an ominous red.
Black smoke billowed from somewhere within the mountains, reaching towards the clouds.
“No need to extinguish it.”
A figure with swaying fox tails saw the actions of the demon soldiers and stopped them. It said with a smile: “The sects in the eastern border are too weak. Let them spread the news and attract the four major sects here. Otherwise, the nine continents are too vast, it would take too long to reach their territories.”
Then, its gaze shifted towards a nearby mountain peak, its eyes curving into crescents. “Our young Lord… will be impatient.”
The demon general also secretly glanced in that direction. At first, it thought the figure was just standing on the clouds. But upon closer inspection, it realized that it was the young Lord’s demon pet. Its four limbs were covered in thick scales, heavy and seemingly impenetrable. And that tall mountain peak… was just the pet’s shell.
Just as it was looking over, a weary voice shouted towards the figure on the peak:
“Demon! Take this!”
The person on the peak remained with their head lowered, their left hand holding something unknown, their right hand extended towards the attacker—
A long, ice-blue blade instantly materialized in their palm. As the opponent’s sword energy struck, they blocked it with the blade. This seemingly ordinary sword effortlessly neutralized the condensed sword energy.
Not only that…
As they counterattacked with a gentle swipe, the ice-blue blade sliced through the air, seemingly slow but cutting the attacker in half. As the two halves fell to the ground, the demon generals realized that this was the sect master they had been searching for.
And as the sect master landed, the demon generals realized that the young Lord’s casual attack had obliterated both their body and their Nascent Soul.
…Such terrifying power.
At this moment, a book was thrown down from the peak, accompanied by a bored comment: “Fox Nine*, this story is too boring.”
General Fox Nine, who had been ordering the demon soldiers around, making them somewhat fearful, bowed respectfully beside the young Lord’s demon pet, a smile still in his voice: “Of course, the young Lord is intelligent. Now that you understand human emotions and desires, and can even turn these emotions into the sharpest sword in the world, those love stories of humans are nothing but meaningless whining to you.”
A red sleeve fell from the peak, the hand beneath it holding the ice-blue blade, which dissolved and merged into the dead sect master’s body on the ground.
A hoarse voice asked softly: “When can we attack the Sword Sect?”
“If the young Lord is impatient,” Fox Nine chuckled, “I am willing to be your vanguard and take down the Sword Sect first.”
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狐九( Hú Jiǔ) = Fox Nine
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