After Changing Her Fate, the Vicious Female Villain and the Protagonist Got an HE! - Chapter 4

Chapter 4: Transaction

Wen Shurong agreed to the suggestion.

A smile appeared on Qin Niyun’s face. She waved her sleeve and took out a small flying boat.

“The journey from here is far. Flying in the air is too taxing on spiritual power. Using a flying boat is most suitable for travel.”

“Judging by the style, did Senior Sister purchase this at the Xingyun Pavilion in the Shenxuan Market?”

“That’s right. The flying boats constructed by Xingyun Pavilion, while ordinary in appearance, prioritize defense and speed and are the most practical.”

Wen Shurong recalled a major event that occurred in the dream realm. She hesitated for a moment and continued: “I heard a rumor that Xingyun Pavilion experienced an incident a while ago.”

Qin Niyun was somewhat surprised.

“Does Junior Sister know the specifics of the rumor?”

“About half a month ago, a late-stage Golden Core cultivator purchased a flying boat from Xingyun Pavilion. It is said that that person had a grudge with an Elder in the Pavilion. The purchased flying boat was tampered with and self-destructed midway. That person, being unprepared, was killed directly.”

This matter was absolutely true, but Xingyun Pavilion immediately sealed off the news, so few people knew about it.

In the dream realm that Wen Shurong experienced, Xingyun Pavilion would disintegrate due to internal strife half a year later, and the incident from earlier would also be exposed.

Not only that, but two Elders within the Pavilion had also defected to the Demonic Sect.

As soon as they entertained the thought of betrayal, they placed a special restriction on the flying boats they handled. Although that restriction wouldn’t cause the flying boats to self-destruct, it would subtly release traces of Demonic Qi, unknowingly affecting the users’ minds.

Wen Shurong didn’t know if the flying boat in front of her was one of them. In the dream realm, this Senior Sister used the flying boat only a handful of times. Later, when she was imprisoned and saw no light, even if the flying boat had problems, the other party definitely wouldn’t have told her.

Her action now was merely to give a subtle warning.

Beside her, Qin Niyun was astonished by the news, but at the same time, she also became wary of Xingyun Pavilion.

In the next instant, she decisively put the flying boat back into her storage pouch and waved her sleeve, taking out a pale yellow gourd-shaped spiritual artifact.

“This item can also be used for travel. Its speed is slightly slower than the flying boat, but it has been refined by me, making it safer.”

After speaking, she formed a hand seal.

The gourd instantly flew into the air, growing larger against the wind.

Wen Shurong felt a large shadow fall over her head. Before she could think too much, Qin Niyun stepped forward, embraced her waist, lightly tapped her toes on the ground, and instantly stood on top of the gourd.

A moment later, the sound of the wind reached their ears.

Under Qin Niyun’s control, the gourd spiritual artifact rapidly sped towards the southeast.

Approximately an hour later, they gradually reached their destination.

As they approached the volcano, the surrounding temperature noticeably increased.

This volcano was very active and not in a dormant state. Magma was constantly flowing inside.

On the gourd spiritual artifact, Qin Niyun spoke at the right moment: “Tianyan Lingguo prefers high temperatures, but it cannot grow where magma exists. We don’t need to enter the volcano. The search should focus on the periphery.”

Wen Shurong nodded: “The coverage here is quite extensive. How about we temporarily split up?”

Qin Niyun frowned slightly: “Not suitable. Wherever there is a volcano, there is a high probability of encountering Huoyan Shou (Fire Flame Beasts). These beasts often move in packs. If encountered, it is very dangerous to be alone.”

“Then… where does Senior Sister plan to start the search?”

Qin Niyun looked around, then pointed to a large crimson flaming tree on her right, and continued: “In my opinion, let’s start from there and proceed forward until we circle back to the starting point. What does Junior Sister think?”

“Alright, I’ll follow Senior Sister’s decision.”

The two then flew off the gourd spiritual artifact and landed on the ground.

Midway through their journey, a burst of intense fighting sounds suddenly reached their ears. The sound moved from far to near, rapidly approaching their location.

Noticing this movement, Wen Shurong immediately stopped and secretly prepared for a fight.

Just at this moment, Qin Niyun embraced her waist, formed an Invisibility Incantation, and quickly retreated to the side.

The aura next to her was extremely familiar. She instinctively did not resist.

Before long, three figures appeared in her line of sight.

Wen Shurong looked at them and transmitted a message: “They are all Taiyi Sect cultivators. They look like they are fighting internally.”

A reply quickly came to her ear: “I think there might be more to the story.”

“How can you tell?”

“Junior Sister Wen, observe the female cultivator holding the feather fan carefully.”

Wen Shurong was puzzled. Hearing this, she subconsciously focused her gaze as Senior Sister suggested.

After a long time, she hesitated and spoke: “This person’s actions seem… contradictory?”

In the dream realm, she never encountered this situation, so she naturally didn’t know exactly what was happening.

Judging from the surface, the three either had personal grudges or disagreements over a treasure. However, upon closer inspection, the person being attacked, the Golden Core female cultivator holding the feather fan, behaved very unusually.

She clearly had more than one opportunity to escape or counter-kill but gave up all of them.

It didn’t seem like she was reluctant to harm her fellow sect members. Wen Shurong clearly saw that the woman had made killing moves more than once, but they were all blocked.

Just as she was pondering the crucial point, Qin Niyun’s voice sounded again beside her.

“If I’m not mistaken, this woman should have been possessed, and something went wrong midway. She is now a body with two souls.”

Hearing this, Wen Shurong was first surprised, then remembered something.

In the dream realm, after she cultivated in seclusion for three years and broke through to the Nascent Soul realm, she once heard a piece of news from the Taiyi Sect.

A traitor had emerged from that sect, infiltrated the forbidden area, and stolen the Xingmo Jian (Waking Demon Sword) suppressed at the bottom of the Black Water Pool.

That traitor was the person with a body and two souls, named Su Tianyue.

She heard that this woman later defected to the Demonic Sect and attained a high position. As for her ultimate fate, Wen Shurong did not know.

While she was deep in thought, the battle situation ahead changed instantly. The originally contradictory woman’s demeanor abruptly shifted. She frequently launched killing moves, instantly eliminating two opponents.

Looking at the situation, it seemed that the soul primarily focused on killing had taken the dominant position.

The spar ceased. Su Tianyue’s beautiful eyes looked straight at the hiding place of Wen Shurong and Qin Niyun, letting out a light laugh.

“Fellow Daoists, having watched the battle for so long, why don’t you come out and meet?”

Hearing this, Wen Shurong was greatly astonished.

Could Su Tianyue see them?

The Invisibility Incantation Qin Niyun cast was a unique secret technique of the Lingxiao Sect. Unless one’s cultivation level was higher than hers, they should be unable to detect them.

Judging from the spar just now, although Su Tianyue was strong, she should not be superior to Senior Sister Qin.

Why…

Before Wen Shurong could think much, the female cultivator in the distance spoke again: “The two of you witnessed me killing my fellow sect members, which is equivalent to seizing my weakness. How about we make a transaction and let this matter pass?”

In the next instant, Qin Niyun’s sound transmission reached Wen Shurong’s ear: “What is Junior Sister’s plan?”

“I will abide by Senior Sister’s decision.”

In terms of strength, Wen Shurong was the weakest of the three. In this situation, she had no good way to handle it.

After receiving her answer, Qin Niyun waved her sleeve, removing the Invisibility Incantation.

Su Tianyue saw the two reveal their figures, and a smile bloomed on her face.

In terms of sparring, her current self was not necessarily a match for the two. The reason she spoke those words earlier was partly because she recognized the origins of the two through a secret technique and had heard of their deeds, and partly because of the intuition that spontaneously arose in her heart.

These two were not the kind of rigid people she had encountered in the past. There was still room for negotiation in this matter.

The Taiyi Sect ostensibly had strict sect rules. If her act of killing a fellow sect member was known to the sect, there would only be one outcome: death, and a very miserable one at that.

Even if she explained the truth, that her fellow sect members struck first, she could not avoid this outcome.

In the words of the Taiyi Sect Sect Master and Elders, if a fellow sect member attacks, you can fight back, but you cannot go too far. As long as you gather evidence, you can report the truth to the Enforcement Hall upon returning to the sect. At that time, the person who struck first would inevitably receive the punishment they deserved.

Such sect rules seemed reasonable on the surface, but in reality, they were not.

Since Su Tianyue joined the sect, she had encountered several similar incidents. However, after collecting all the evidence and submitting it to the Enforcement Hall, the punishment ultimately given to those people was negligible.

As for the reason, it was naturally because those people had relatively powerful backing in the sect. The Enforcement Hall turned a blind eye and would not do anything to them.

The so-called strict sect rules only restrained the ordinary sect cultivators who had no one to rely on.

In this Ancient Origin Secret Realm, the sect higher-ups were far away. It was best to simply kill those with old grudges.

Thinking this, she heard the woman in white on the opposite side, with her cold demeanor, slowly speak: “What transaction does Fellow Daoist intend to make?”

Su Tianyue put away her complicated thoughts and said seriously: “I have a piece of information regarding the Huoling Zhu (Fire Spiritual Pearl). As long as the two Fellow Daoists effectively promise not to disclose the events that just transpired, I can inform the two of you in detail of the information I possess.”

Every major world, since the beginning of creation, would give birth to eight spiritual pearls, corresponding to the eight attributes of metal, wood, water, fire, earth, ice, wind, and lightning.

If a cultivator could obtain one of them and refine it for their own use, they could seize the creation of Heaven and Earth, their cultivation would advance by leaps and bounds, and their ascension to the Immortal Realm would be just around the corner.

In the dream realm, Wen Shurong had also tried to gather information about the spiritual pearls, but unfortunately, she found nothing in the end.

She never expected to hear such words now.

She was somewhat surprised and turned to look at Qin Niyun. She really wanted to know what Senior Sister would choose.

In the next instant, the voice as clear as jade sounded again.

“May I know how to address this Fellow Daoist?”

“I am Su Tianyue. I have long heard of the great names of Fellow Daoist Qin and Fellow Daoist Wen.”

As the chief disciple of the Lingxiao Sect, Qin Niyun’s name was known by all four sects. Even if one had not seen her in person before, observing her cultivation and her seventeen years of age was enough to make an accurate judgment.

As for Wen Shurong, Su Tianyue had also heard of her.

She knew about the matter of this woman’s Master, Elder Yuelan, sacrificing herself to form a formation, resisting the beast horde, and protecting the people of a city. She sincerely respected that Senior.

At the same time, she had also heard that after Senior Yuelan’s demise, some Elders of the Lingxiao Sect, for the sake of status and cultivation resources, jointly ostracized Wen Shurong, forcing her to leave Qingzhu Peak.

From a certain perspective, Wen Shurong’s unjust experience had similarities to her own past.

Perhaps it was also because of this that, subconsciously, she was unwilling to fight these two and harbored no hostility towards them.

Thinking this, she heard Qin Niyun speak in a calm voice: “The matter we just witnessed will not be mentioned by Junior Sister Wen and me to outsiders. However, if these two individuals carry secret artifacts of the sect that transmit their experience before death, leading to the leakage of information, it has nothing to do with us.”

Su Tianyue replied with a smile: “That is natural. If such a thing truly happens, then it is my destiny, and I cannot blame anyone. However, verbal promises are not trustworthy. I require the two of you to swear an oath to the Heavenly Dao. Of course, I will also swear a Heavenly Dao oath at the same time. After the two of you make your guarantee, I will disclose all the information about the Huoling Zhu.”

This request was not excessive. The cultivation world was based on the law of the jungle and the supremacy of strength. The level of credibility was not important to many cultivators.

Under this premise, the Heavenly Dao oath was a powerful restraint.

Once sworn, if violated, one would be plagued by inner demons, and their path of cultivation would be severed.

Qin Niyun transmitted a message to Wen Shurong. After gaining her consent, she nodded and agreed to the matter.

The three individuals each swore an oath to the Heavenly Dao. Upon completion, Su Tianyue waved her sleeve and set up a soundproofing restriction around them, detailing the matter concerning the Huoling Zhu.

About two years ago, this woman was out on a sect training. Passing through Ghost Howl Ridge, she accidentally got sucked into an independent space while fighting a ghost cultivator.

That space could be described as a fiery hell. She survived through a near-death experience there. After eliminating the ghost cultivator, she slowly figured out a pattern for the space’s opening and barely managed to escape.

During this time, she personally witnessed the existence of that Huoling Zhu.

It was indeed as rumored, seizing the creation of Heaven and Earth. However, she was not a fire spiritual root cultivator and could not collect the treasure. Coupled with her limited strength, she did not make any futile attempts.

After hearing her account, Wen Shurong did not hold much hope for finding the Huoling Zhu.

Independent spaces had too many variables. It was debatable whether it was still in the Xuan Yuan Realm now.

If it had already drifted into the void, finding it would be like searching for a needle in a haystack.

Considering this, the bits and pieces of her experience in the dream realm and the words spoken by the entity that called itself the Heavenly Mandate Jade Slip once again surfaced in her mind.

Qin Niyun was the daughter of Heavenly Dao’s fortune. Perhaps… this Senior Sister could find it?

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