Chapter 31: A Drop of Blood, A Killing Blow
A phantom of a woman in a purple dress slowly appeared, graceful and beautiful.
But it wasn’t the one Luo Xue had seen in the depths of Mount Fengyin.
It was… True Person Fengyin.
The deceased True Person Fengyin.
True Person Fengyin silently looked at Daoist Ziyang, who had become a skeleton. She saw his Dao technique and the formation runes inscribed on his body.
“To think that someone like this would inherit my lineage…”
True Person Fengyin shook her head in self-deprecation. When she looked at Luo Xue, however, her eyes filled with astonishment.
“How… could it be?”
Then, her voice trembled.
“You, you inherited the true Xuanyin Phoenix Transformation Scripture?”
Luo Xue, though weak, could still hear True Person Fengyin’s words and nodded slightly.
“…Junior Sister.”
True Person Fengyin respectfully bowed to Luo Xue, a gesture between peers.
“Junior Sister?!”
Daoist Ziyang trembled violently, his gaze shifting to Luo Xue.
“…Perhaps, I don’t even have the right to call her Junior Sister. Phoenix Venerable only took me in to watch over the inheritance. She never formally accepted me as a disciple.”
True Person Fengyin smiled, a hint of bitterness on her lips.
She had guarded it for who knows how many hundreds of years, yet when she finally died, she still hadn’t seen a successor who could inherit the Xuanyin Phoenix Transformation Scripture.
To think that she would have the chance to see one after her death…
“At least I haven’t failed Phoenix Venerable’s instructions.”
True Person Fengyin’s eyes flickered, a hint of nostalgia on her face.
“Master…”
The skeleton knelt down shakily, kowtowing.
But True Person Fengyin just looked at him coldly.
“I never took you as a disciple, and my lineage doesn’t need an inheritor.”
“Because I… am just a gatekeeper.”
Who could have imagined that True Person Fengyin, who had dominated this sacred domain decades ago, was just a gatekeeper for someone else’s inheritance?
The former True Person Fengyin had reached the peak of Core Formation, just a step away from Nascent Soul. Only the Nascent Soul ancestors of the major sects could slightly suppress her, and among rogue cultivators, she was unmatched.
If not for her untimely death, she would have become a powerful figure.
Such a person was just a gatekeeper.
What a shocking piece of news…
Daoist Ziyang was lost, but his gaze quickly turned fierce again.
So what if she was a gatekeeper? He was about to die… He would take everyone down with him!
With his last bit of strength, Daoist Ziyang suddenly attacked, lunging at the severely injured Luo Xue.
His ferocious face showed a final, terrifying smile.
“To have such a talent buried with me, what an honor!”
However, Daoist Ziyang’s smile lasted only for a moment before turning into horror.
“Why… can’t I move?”
Just as he was about to reach Luo Xue, his movements froze, unable to break free.
“With the last of my remaining soul, this is the best I can do.”
True Person Fengyin’s voice rang out again, her phantom growing even fainter.
“Do it.”
Hearing this, the weakened Luo Xue struggled to stand, using her last bit of strength to stab at Daoist Ziyang’s heart.
However…
“Hahaha… a broken dagger, and you think you can kill me!”
Daoist Ziyang burst into laughter. Luo Xue was using the dagger that had been broken earlier.
The broken dagger had pierced his skin and entered his heart, but it couldn’t go any deeper.
Such a wound was nothing to him!
In a little while, even True Person Fengyin’s remnant soul wouldn’t be able to restrain him.
And then… killing two little girls who hadn’t even reached Foundation Establishment would be as easy as breathing.
“Heh,” Luo Xue smiled faintly. “A broken dagger can also kill.”
Drops of purplish-red blood dripped from the broken edge of the dagger.
Indeed… Luo Xue had coated the broken dagger with her own poisonous blood. As the dagger pierced Daoist Ziyang’s heart, the deadly poison also entered his body.
“What!”
Daoist Ziyang’s face was filled with horror. He struggled, trying to kill Luo Xue before the poison extinguished his life force.
“Go on!—Whack!”
Another desperate cry.
The familiar back of the head, the familiar coffin lid.
Su Yiyao had somehow gotten behind him again, and a swing of the coffin lid shattered Daoist Ziyang’s hope of counterattack.
His gaunt body swayed, then he fell backward.
The poisonous blood silently corroded his heart, leaving only his eyes, which could no longer close.
Daoist Ziyang was dead.
“Did… did we win?”
Su Yiyao poked her head out, asking cautiously.
“Yes.”
Luo Xue nodded, then her vision went black, and she collapsed.
“Ah Chou, Ah Chou!”
Su Yiyao’s urgent and anxious voice came from her ears. In her last blurred vision, she saw True Person Fengyin’s complicated gaze.
…
When Luo Xue woke up again, her vision was blurry, filled with the dim, dark sky covered in ominous clouds.
“Ugh…”
Luo Xue tried to sit up, but a soft embrace suddenly held her.
“Ah Chou, don’t move around, your injuries haven’t healed yet!”
“Xiao Yao?”
Luo Xue leaned against the coffin wall, looking up at Su Yiyao.
“Did we escape?”
Luo Xue clutched her head, the intense dizziness making it difficult to focus.
“Yes, True Person Fengyin said that Mount Fengyin was destroyed, and we had to leave quickly.”
Su Yiyao quickly replied.
“True Person Fengyin…”
Luo Xue’s mind conjured up the image of the woman in the purple dress, a hint of emotion in her heart.
In her last moments of consciousness, if not for True Person Fengyin’s help, she wouldn’t have been able to kill Daoist Ziyang.
To kill a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
Although she had relied on many external factors, for someone who hadn’t even reached the Innate Realm, let alone a cultivator, it was an astonishing feat.
It could be considered a stroke of extreme luck.
“Where is she?”
Luo Xue came back to her senses and asked.
“…She’s gone.”
A hint of sadness appeared on Su Yiyao’s face.
Luo Xue was silent for a while, then said,
“Tell me… what did she say to you before she left?”
“Huh? How did you know she said something?”
Su Yiyao blinked, then recounted everything True Person Fengyin had told her.
It turned out that True Person Fengyin was just a girl casually taken in by Phoenix Venerable. Because her aptitude was suitable, she was granted a simplified version of the Xuanyin Phoenix Transformation Scripture, the version without the True Phoenix blood essence.
Before Phoenix Venerable left, she instructed True Person Fengyin to guard the inheritance she left behind.
Actually, it wasn’t really guarding, just giving True Person Fengyin something to do.
With the methods Phoenix Venerable had set up, it was almost impossible to forcibly take the inheritance.
In the end, True Person Fengyin stayed on Mount Fengyin, building the second courtyard.
Although she ventured out during that time, before her death, she returned to the courtyard to pass away.
However, True Person Fengyin didn’t mention why she had died so young, seemingly not wanting Luo Xue and Su Yiyao to get involved.
After her death, Daoist Ziyang stumbled upon Mount Fengyin by chance and saw its layout.
He seized True Person Fengyin’s inheritance, refined her remains into the Xuanyin Gu Seed, and built the third courtyard.
Finally, Mount Fengyin was renamed Mount Ziyang.
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