38 Chapter 37

I stood by the side and silently watched these two aunt and nephew. Although, I knew that they had gotten Qin Yu's blood but they temporarily were still unable to truly awaken Luo Ming Xuan. The blood-boiling anger in my heart also diminished a little.

[It's fine that it was unsuccessful, but inevitably I will have a way to make it impossible for both of you to accomplish it.]

"Can't capture Qin Zhi Yan or kill Qin Qian Xian." Liu Su Ruo sat beside the bed of ice, looking lonely, "Do you want me to really miss the opportunity to wake up Ming Xuan?"

Liu Wei bowed his head: "The bloodline of the Qin family members is the purest and cleanest, it is the holy medicine to resurrection…"

While I listened to the conversation between both aunt and nephew, I endured the pain and wandered around the stone room twice. When I was alive before, I could not see ghosts, but now that I am dead, I could see ghosts. So I was wondering if the ghost of Luo Ming Xuan would be nearby, but after two laps around, no other ghosts could be found.

Luo Ming Xuan could not die, therefore, his soul could not be reincarnated. During his lifetime, he had the body of a golden immortal and was accustomed to being on a high pedestal. So even if he died, he would certainly rather be disdainful than to keep company with lonely souls and wild ghosts, and gloomy places like the ghost market, he definitely would not go.

The greatest possibility was that he was always in this place, but now he was not here. Then that proves that his soul was most likely in a deep sleep together with his body.

Then that was great.

I thought that if I could not kill him, then I would make him unable to wake up whether he was alive or dead. He would not have the opportunity to see the beauty in this world and no way to create new memories for himself. Therefore, in this way, there was not much of a difference between being dead.

"…Their blood is irreproducible, but now in Jiang Hu, I know of one celestial sect that practices a cultivation method that can perfect the body to reach the purest state."

"Which celestial sect?"

"Guan Yu Tower."

After hearing this conversation, I turned my eyes slightly. As expected, from Liu Wei's mouth, I heard three words: "Shen Qian Jin."

Although I did not know exactly what was called the purest and cleanest blood that they were talking about. However, I did know about Guan Yu Tower's cultivation method. Those who practiced it must be pure-minded, and free of wicked ideas, distracting thoughts, and desires.

Therefore, the practitioners of Guan Yu Cultivation Method could never fall in love. Once fallen, they would be immediately injured and the poison would accumulate in their bodies.

Many years ago, Gu Han Guang carried Shen Qian Jin, who was suffering from the love poison to beseech me. So I was fortunate enough to have witnessed the outcome of this legendary poison.

It could be said to be very tragic. Every strand of her hair were all frozen, her exhalation turned into fog, and every part of her body was frozen blue and purple. She was stiff and unable to budge. Until finally she could only look on helplessly as she turned into an ice sculpture.

I had spent so much effort with Gu Han Guang to save Shen Qian Jin from the edge of life or death. Then Gu Han Guang had transferred the love poison from Shen Qian Jin's body to his body. After which he transformed into a child and suffered from the bone-chilling cold year after year. But even like that, it was still not enough; because if one day, Shen Qian Jin fell in love again, then her body would once again accumulate the love poison. Therefore, Gu Han Guang was forced to use his golden needles and personally wiped away his existence within Shen Qian Jin's memories…

Liu Wei continued: "Although Shen Qian Jin's blood is not as pure as the Qin family's, but now that we have Qin Yu's blood. If we add Shen Qian Jin's, then awakening the Golden Immortal may be possible. Moreover, compared to Qin Qian Xian, who is currently guarding against and is suspicious of us, and Qin Zhi Yan, who is currently staying at Wan Lu Sect, she's better to get a hand on."

Liu Su Ruo stared at Luo Ming Xuan's face attentively and casually said: "Then invite this Shen Qian Jin to come here."

"She's already here." Liu Wei said, "Yesterday, I sent someone to find an excuse to invite her here. She is now waiting in the side room. I came to inform you, aunt, so you can make your move."

Liu Su Ruo smiled and stood up: "When this nephew of mine do things, he is very thorough."

As the two people talked, they walked out of the stone room.

[Are they planning to harm Shen Qian Jin?]

[Not to mention that I definitely won't allow for Luo Ming Xuan to wake up. Also, particularly in regards to Shen Qian JIn, even though that year, Gu Han Guang came to beg me, but I still had spent so much effort to save her. If you both say you want to kill her, then do you think you can?]

[I won't allow that to happen.]

I drifted out of the stone room and leaped upward to the ground, but I saw Zhi Yan blindly rushing about on the ground like a headless fly. While beside her was Qin Yu, who stared at her intently with sorrowful eyes.

"Stop looking." I reprimanded Qin Yu, "I have something for you to do."

Qin Yu turned his head to look at me, but in this moment, Zhi Yan bounded over: "Great Demon King, where have you been?!" She took one look at my body and her lips immediately drooped, as if she was about to cry, "Why does your soul look weak again? When you went down to that room, I tried to approach and already felt pain, how did you get in there? How were you able to stay in there for such a long time? Why didn't you come out earlier?"

"Just because you retreated as soon as you hurt, therefore, you didn't know where I went and didn't know how I was able to stay inside for so long. That's the reason why, regardless of whether it's before or after, you'll never know why I'm the Great Demon King and why you're just a small fry."

As I left her with these words, in her moment of dumbfoundedness, I pushed her aside and stared at Qin Yu: "Do you know Guan Yu Tower's Shen Qian Jin? Liu Wei said that he'll harm Shen Qian Jin tonight. Just like he harmed you, he's going to take her blood. Right now, I have to go find help. You go find Shen Qian Jin and use any means necessary to keep her safe. The bigger your action is, the better it is. I'll be there in a moment."

When Qin Yu listened to the first half of my speech, his eyes were already turning scarlet and he was gnashing his teeth. After he waited for me to finish, without further instructions, he turned into a dark shadow and leapt up into the sky. He immediately disappeared right before my eyes.

I called out to Zhi Yan: "Come on, let's go back first."

While Zhi Yan kept asking me: "What the heck is going on? What happened?"

It was still a long way drifting from Jian Xin Sect to the perimeter of the guest house, so I simply told Zhi Yan everything involved in this matter. After Zhi Yan finished listening, she was quiet for a moment, like she was digesting the information. A while later, she murmured to herself: "I was at Jian Xin Sect for so many years and I never knew that hiding underground was the body of the Golden Immortal… But why is it the Golden Immortal… Doesn't everyone say that he is merciful and generous, and that he is a great man…"

I shot a glance at Zhi Yan, it seems that the work of these celestial sects were still very well done. Luo Ming Xuan has been dead for such a long time, but this junior generation of theirs still knew about him.

"But why now, in order to resurrect him, they can just hurt my father? If the Golden Immortal's life is a life, then my father's is not one? The one that they're wanting to resurrect… What kind of golden immortal is he?"

I laughed coldly: "What golden immortal, aren't they all just celestial cultivators. These domesticated animals who look like humans but are more like dogs…" I paused for a moment and suddenly thought of the ghost market. I thought of those hypocritical righteous cultivators, who did bad things behind other people's back. When they become ghosts, they would receive the same treatment as me. I suddenly felt a moment of scheming enlightenment. I could not help but started to think, I should have turned them into ghosts much sooner.

I should urge Mo Qing to make a drastic move and take them all away.

While I was secretly plotting in my mind, Zhi Yan suddenly asked me another question: "Why did you originally want to kill the Golden Immortal on his wedding day?"

I gazed at the fast-approaching guest house and answered softly: "Because he harmed me and my only close relative."

Zhi Yan was stunned and dumbfoundedly asked: "Your close relative? Who?"

In Jiang Hu, no one knew that Lu Zhao Yao still had a close relative. However, I still remembered it so clearly. When I was young, my homeland was a place of barren hills and wild rivers. My clan members would disappear one by one, and even my parents disappeared before I had any memories of them. In the end, only my maternal grandfather and I stayed in that dense and dark valley. He would drink wine all day long to the point that he was intoxicated, and then for a while, he would remember to teach me cultivation techniques.

I still remembered what he told me. He said that everyone in the outside world could make choices for themselves. They could choose to be celestial or demonic cultivators, or practice any kind of paths. However, only the people of our clan did not have that choice because we were born to be demonic, so we could only cultivate the demonic path.

I was very talented, it just so happens that within the barren hills and wild rivers filled with miasmic energy, it could promote my growth. I had never felt that cultivating the demonic path was a bad thing.

Until one day, a glittering golden man suddenly fell down from the rugged mountain cliff. His whole body was seriously injured and his life was hanging by a thread. At that time, I had never seen an outsider that was so clean and beautiful.

I brought him back from the rocky mountains and healed his wounds. He asked me who I was, why I was here, and why I cultivated the demonic path.

At that time, I did not have a scheming heart. I was just a country girl who grew up in the valley, so I had no defense and told him everything about myself. However, when he heard that I was born to be demonic, he did not say anything. He simply told me that even if I was born to be demonic, I could still harbor good thoughts and become a person with good virtues.

I believed him.

I took care of him from the moment he was seriously injured until his injury was well, he was well enough to where he could use the Instant Travel Technique. During that time, he always treated me with a pleasant countenance. He gently taught me how to recite the Immortal Sect's disciplines. He told me how to be merciful and accumulate merit; how to do my best that would benefit humanity and not to waste this life away.

I memorized his every word. I memorized it so thoroughly that even now it was so clear. I also remembered the words he whispered beside my ear day in and day out; he said to do less killing and to do no evil.

Since then, I had always longed to be a good person.

I strived hard to practice the cultivation method. I wanted to go out and make a name for myself in the world. I wanted to use the status of a demonic cultivator to benefit humanity.

I ignored my maternal grandfather's objections and finally left my homeland. I went to Chen Ji Mountain and unexpectedly came across Mo Qing, who was besieged by the Ten Great Celestial Sects. I saved him because Luo Ming Xuan told me not to rely on my power to mistreat the weak and not to use the majority to bully the minority.

This was the moral that he told me.

Then later, I bid farewell to Mo Qing and left him on Chen Ji Mountain. I wanted to go find Luo Ming Xuan. I wanted to tell him that the matter that he and I agreed on, I would work hard to achieve it. I planned to stay by his side and later be a good person together with him…

When I finally found Luo Ming Xuan, I was greeted by the Eighteen Immortal Dharma Prohibition Technique, it imprisoned me and was going to exterminate me.

At that time, under the golden light, he spoke again, but he used a different attitude and tone than when he was in the valley. He was aloof and indifferent. He said to me – "You were born to be demonic, fated to be the most sinister being in the world. Your heart will be evil, your actions will be cruel, you must certainly be punished."

Only then did I come to realize that at that time, he was in a dangerous situation; he was seriously injured and had fallen into my hands. He feared that I would harm him. So he flattered me in all possible ways, to the point that he even weaved that shit about being good of heart.

Then I was thrown into prison.

In the end, my maternal grandfather had to leave the barren hills and wild rivers that he had guarded for a lifetime. He came to save me at the Immortal Sect. My grandfather used his own strength to break the celestial magic that was imprisoning me. He used his body to protect me, risked his life to send me out of there, and made me escape back into the valley with the barren hills and wild rivers, while he stayed behind and fought against Luo Ming Xuan.

Although I had never seen the battle between my grandfather and Luo Ming Xuan, but later I heard bits and pieces from people in the world that Luo Ming Xuan and an unknown demonic cultivator fought on Luo Ming Xuan's Feng Mountain. The fight almost turned the mountains and rivers upside down, but in the end, Luo Ming Xuan won.

About that "unknown" demonic cultivator, not even his whereabouts was remarked upon or a single dust particle was left behind.

While my grandfather fought, I was sent back to that valley. I laid there for three full months, my body was wrought with wounds that slowly healed and my ruptured muscles and bones also began to regrow.

I gritted my teeth and waited in the valley. I waited hopelessly for a very long time and yet my grandfather never once returned.

I waited until the wounds on my body improved, and then I crawled out of that valley. In due course, half a year has already passed. Half a year ago, the battle between my grandfather and Luo Ming Xuan has already subsided. In Jiang Hu, disturbances kept arising and new powerful demonic cultivators kept appearing constantly, so Luo Ming Xuan was once again busy doing other things.

My grandfather died in his hands, but this matter in regards to a spectator was already no longer of importance.

As well as, the seriously injured me who escaped, no one could have anticipated that I would still be alive after being injured like that.

I reassembled my temperament and once again returned to Chen Ji Mountain. I picked up Mo Qing, who was still in the ruined temple on the top of Chen Ji Mountain. I nursed myself back to health, regained my old self, and then spread the words, the Demoness, Lu Zhao Yao who fought singlehandedly against the Ten Great Celestial Sects during that year, had left the mountain once again.

The Demoness wanted to build a sect and named it Wan Lu; invited the talented and called on the valorous; accepted the most evil disciples and vowed to kill all the celestial dogs in the world!

Translated by Sonrisa t.n.t