After Faking Her Death and Escaping, the Junior Sister Fell to the Demonic Path - Chapter 133

“Do my ass!”

After hearing Qin Qingyi’s self-righteous words, Immortal Venerable Wuwang roared:

“There is no such thing as a ‘should’ or ‘ought’ rule!”

“You’re just a kid, a kid! Do you understand?!”

“Kids don’t need to get involved in things that adults should do!!”

“Damn it, what feudal dross did the Sword Sect instill in you?! Making you think only of sacrificing yourself to save the Xuan Tian Realm?!”

“This Venerable One tells you, never in history have children been sent to the battlefield?!”

Qin Qingyi felt guilty from the scolding and weakly retorted, “But before, during the battles with the Demon Race, some younger cultivators than me also went to the battlefield.”

“Nonsense!” Immortal Venerable Wuwang’s roar was even louder. Although only inside her Dantian, the sound almost shattered Qin Qingyi’s eardrums.

“Those minor skirmishes were just to let you practice your courage. Do you have any idea what you’re facing?!”

“It’s the Demon God! The Demon God! The being that countless people paid the price of their lives to barely seal a thousand years ago! What are you, a child, going to do if not die?!”

Immortal Venerable Wuwang scolded her non-stop without taking a breath. Qin Qingyi didn’t dare to talk back and just endured it silently.

Until Immortal Venerable Wuwang finally finished scolding, seemingly angry at her for being so cowardly and spineless, and hating her lack of ambition, she angrily said, “You too, you do whatever people tell you to. You’re so obedient, are you going to die if they tell you to?”

Qin Qingyi thought to herself that she wasn’t that stupid.

But she was afraid that if she retorted, she would be subjected to Immortal Venerable Wuwang’s sarcasm again, so she could only remain silent.

But even with her mouth shut, Immortal Venerable Wuwang didn’t let her off.

“Oh, speechless again? Did I hit the nail on the head?”

Qin Qingyi retorted, aggrieved, “You’ve said everything, what else can I say?”

Talking back gets her scolded, and being silent also gets her scolded.

Truly, there was no pleasing her.

Seeing her stubborn look, Immortal Venerable Wuwang grew even angrier.

“What kind of person do you take this Venerable One for?”

“You can’t handle just a couple of scoldings? With this mindset, how are you going to face the Demon God’s remnant body? You’ll probably be possessed before you even get close! How did you have the guts to come in without saying a word? Didn’t this Venerable One tell you to wake me up if you encountered something you couldn’t handle? What did you do? Were you planning to take on the Demon God alone? Do you really think you’re some unparalleled genius? Do you really think that just because you came, you could handle everything perfectly without any mistakes?”

“Who gave you the courage? Who gave you the confidence?!”

“If you die, what happens to this Venerable One? Do I just die with you for no reason?!”

Qin Qingyi pretended to be a quail, not daring to talk back anymore.

Hearing this, if she still couldn’t tell that Immortal Venerable Wuwang was doing it for her own good and was genuinely concerned for her, then she would be an idiot.

“Senior, I was wrong.”

Qin Qingyi’s swift submission came quickly.

She knew the reason why Immortal Venerable Wuwang scolded her: entering the secret realm and planning to search for the Demon God’s remnant body alone was inherently extremely dangerous, yet she hadn’t awakened Immortal Venerable Wuwang, nor thought to inform the other party of the matter.

It was her fault.

Qin Qingyi was not stingy with admitting her mistake.

The moment she recognized her error, she wouldn’t be angry at Immortal Venerable Wuwang’s reprimand.

Seeing that she was indeed sincerely apologizing, Immortal Venerable Wuwang huffed angrily, not wanting to talk to her.

Stupid girl, reflect on yourself more.

After scolding her for so long, Immortal Venerable Wuwang also felt tired, but looking at the child’s oblivious appearance, she sighed slightly in her heart.

It was hard to tell whether the Demon Race should be happy or worried for raising a child with such a pure nature.

After thinking for a moment, Immortal Venerable Wuwang drew a wisp from her own already meager divine soul origin and placed it into Qin Qingyi’s body.

Qin Qingyi naturally sensed it. She was a little surprised and somewhat at a loss, not knowing why Immortal Venerable Wuwang was doing this.

“This is this Venerable One’s origin. Keep it safe in your Dantian. With this, this secret realm will recognize you as its master.”

Qin Qingyi was moved in her heart. Immortal Venerable Wuwang actually gave her this entire secret realm.

After this wisp of origin entered her body, Qin Qingyi clearly sensed that the surrounding affinity towards her was even stronger. If before they were just polite to her out of respect for Immortal Venerable Wuwang, now they treated her with the same respect and closeness as they did Immortal Venerable Wuwang.

Even the vine that had just reached out a leaf to her was now rustling its entire body of leaves without any hesitation, showing its closeness to Qin Qingyi.

“Don’t think this was given for free,” Immortal Venerable Wuwang grumbled.

“If it weren’t for the fear of you suddenly dying and dragging this Venerable One down, this Venerable One wouldn’t bother with you.”

The words were still awkward, but Qin Qingyi’s heart melted completely.

Then, without waiting for Qin Qingyi to say anything, Immortal Venerable Wuwang immediately continued: “Alright, there’s no need for any other flowery words of thanks. Just promise this Venerable One that you’ll still be alive the next time I open my eyes, and I’ll rest a bit more.”

With that, Immortal Venerable Wuwang fell into slumber again.

Qin Qingyi blinked and tried to gently call out to Immortal Venerable Wuwang.

“Senior, Senior? Are you asleep?”

Immortal Venerable Wuwang’s annoyed voice came from the Dantian: “What?!”

Qin Qingyi chuckled: “Nothing, please go to sleep.”

Afterward, she heard Immortal Venerable Wuwang huff twice, and the Dantian returned to silence.

Qin Qingyi felt the authority over the entire secret realm that Immortal Venerable Wuwang had given her. With a thought, she lightly tapped her fingertip towards the center of the swamp.

In the next moment, ripples spread out from the spot she tapped.

The things beneath the swamp sent a friendly signal upon sensing her summons.

Hiss hiss—

The faint sound from the bottom of the swamp quickly attracted Zhou Zhixue, who was investigating the anomaly at the edge of the swamp.

She frowned, stood up, and looked towards the center of the swamp.

It was at this moment that Qin Qingyi suddenly knew how to get away from Zhou Zhixue.

“Senior Sister Zhou, there seems to be something in the middle of the swamp.”

Qin Qingyi said to Zhou Zhixue while walking into the swamp.

Zhou Zhixue quickly stopped her upon seeing her movement: “Don’t go over there, it might be dangerous!”

Qin Qingyi turned to look at her, her expression puzzled: “Dangerous?”

In the next moment, an anomaly occurred.

The surrounding vines, which had been quiet, suddenly became active, attacking the two like swimming snakes.

“Danger—!”

Zhou Zhixue’s pupils suddenly constricted. She swung out her Changle Sword, quickly severing the vines that had already encircled Qin Qingyi. Then she flashed over, pulled Qin Qingyi aside, holding her sword in one hand and protecting Qin Qingyi with the other.

“Take out your sword, don’t get hurt!”

Zhou Zhixue yelled in a low voice, reminding Qin Qingyi.

Qin Qingyi pretended to nod in confusion and only then took out her ordinary-looking Pei Sword.

Zhou Zhixue saw her sword and frowned slightly: “You’re using that?”

Zhou Zhixue’s question wasn’t unwarranted. Qin Qingyi, to better impersonate Yan Li, had always used the most common mortal sword uniformly issued to Sword Sect disciples.

Even after entering the secret realm, she had kept it that way.

However, most disciples entering the secret realm used excellent Pei Swords. Qin Qingyi was the first to use a mortal sword as her weapon.

Seeing Zhou Zhixue look at her sword, Qin Qingyi scratched her head and smiled: “I haven’t taken a master yet, so naturally I don’t have much money to buy a better sword.”

“But this one is still usable. It’s fine.”

The words made her sound like a poor and powerless little unfortunate.

Zhou Zhixue frowned even more. Although she hadn’t liked this junior sister before, she didn’t want to watch the other fight with such a lousy sword now.

She searched through her Qiankun Bracelet and quickly found a decent sword, which she tossed to Qin Qingyi.

“Use this one.”

Qin Qingyi naturally wouldn’t refuse and took the sword with a smile.

“Thank you, Senior Sister Zhou.”

As they spoke, the surrounding vines were already attacking them, brandishing their tips.

Vines with roots thicker than a person’s waist struck at the two one after another. Most hit the ground, and since the surroundings were all swamp, these vines quickly got coated with a layer of silt, looking dirty and disgusting.

Zhou Zhixue, however, didn’t react much, quickly using her sword to chop these vines one by one, completely eliminating their ability to attack.

Qin Qingyi pretended to work, also fighting back and forth with the vines.

She was just more restrained, carefully avoiding getting any mud from the vines on herself.

In contrast, Zhou Zhixue’s hem was already splattered with quite a bit of mud.

Fortunately, there weren’t many vines. Before long, Zhou Zhixue had cut down all of them, leaving only thick vines scattered around the two.

Qin Qingyi clearly felt the vines’ grievance. They were just following orders to pretend to attack, but all the tendrils they had painstakingly grown were chopped off. They felt very wronged.

Qin Qingyi felt a little guilty immediately.

To be honest, she had been deliberate just now.

She wanted to test the extent to which she could manipulate the things within this secret realm.

The result was gratifying—

Anything with spiritual intelligence born within this secret realm, whether plant or other spiritual object, would obediently listen to her command.

Isn’t this like being the local emperor of the secret realm?

Qin Qingyi felt secretly pleased.

The vines just now were only an experiment. The main event was yet to come.

With a thought, Qin Qingyi signaled the creature beneath the swamp that it was time to make its appearance.

“Boom-rumble-rumble—”

A huge shaking sound rang out. The surroundings suddenly experienced an earth tremor.

Having just dealt with the vines, now there was another disturbance. Zhou Zhixue became vigilant again. She grabbed Qin Qingyi’s arm so the other person wouldn’t fall.

“Stay by my side, hold onto me, don’t move randomly.”

Qin Qingyi naturally could only nod.

“Senior Sister Zhou, what is this again?” she asked, pretending to be ignorant.

However, Zhou Zhixue had no idea that all this was Qin Qingyi’s doing. Faced with the sudden anomaly, she was also full of doubts.

The water in the swamp rippled out circle after circle of waves, and the anomaly was happening right in the center of the swamp.

Zhou Zhixue frowned, looking at that spot.

The next moment, a rather large bubble suddenly emerged there.

“Pop—”

The bubble burst.

Then came an eerie calm.

The ominous feeling in Zhou Zhixue’s heart grew heavier and heavier.

She lightened her breathing, but the hand holding her sword tightened.

There seemed to be some kind of creature in this swamp.

Just as her vigilance peaked, the feeling of the earth shaking violently reappeared, almost making it impossible to stand steadily.

Amidst this earth tremor, some unknown creature suddenly burst out of the swamp, practically covering the sky and the sun, blocking the entire swamp behind it and simultaneously blocking the path ahead.

Zhou Zhixue’s breath hitched. She looked up at the behemoth in front of her.

This was—

A giant python!!!

Its dark, slightly moss-green, cold scales shimmered with a metallic luster in the sunlight. Each scale was almost as big as a human head.

Not to mention the gradually lowering massive snake head, and the cruel snake eyes that had already locked onto the two, cold as if looking at dead objects.

Zhou Zhixue’s breathing became ragged.

“Hiss hiss—”

Zhou Zhixue experienced for the first time in her life the feeling of being targeted by a snake, her body stiff and unable to escape.

The giant python in front of her gave her a sense of extremely powerful coercion.

I can’t beat it.

This absurd thought surged in the heart of Zhou Zhixue, whose strength had reached the peak of the Heaven-Man Realm.

What made Zhou Zhixue’s breathing almost stop was seeing two protrusions already growing on the python’s head, a sign of transforming into a dragon.

She had read in the Sword Sect’s Scripture Pavilion that a snake cultivating to the extreme, after nine transformations, could transform into a dragon.

And the gradual growth of dragon horns on the head was the sign of entering the process of becoming a dragon.

The giant python—no! It should be called a Jiao (flood dragon)—in front of her had already begun to transform into a dragon!

Why would there be a flood dragon with strength close to the Ascension Realm in this secret realm?!

Qin Qingyi watched the Jiao head slowly lower and felt like laughing, but she knew she should hold back at this moment, as the real show was about to begin.

What should I do next?

Qin Qingyi heard this question appear in her mind in a very deep, hoarse voice. She blinked, realizing it was the Jiao in front of her speaking.

She mimicked the Jiao and transmitted her words: Later, just coil around me and run. Don’t fight her. Just make sure she doesn’t get hurt. Run far, far away and shake her off.

Okay.

The Jiao agreed.

And then began to act as instructed.

The Jiao head first lowered and stared intensely at Zhou Zhixue, watching her freeze in place. Then, it flicked its snake tail and, with lightning speed, coiled around Qin Qingyi and whisked her away from Zhou Zhixue’s side.

Afterward, the massive snake body twisted, changed direction, and plunged into the depths of the swamp.

“Senior Sister Zhou, save me!!!”

Qin Qingyi pretended to struggle in the snake tail, loudly calling for help from Zhou Zhixue, putting on a pitiful show.

Seeing her being taken away by the Jiao, Zhou Zhixue’s face turned pale, and a sharp pain pierced her heart.

She didn’t have time to worry about herself. She raised her Changle Sword and charged towards the Jiao.

At this moment, all fear and fright were gone, replaced only by towering fury.

She would never allow anyone else to disappear from her side!

“Evil Jiao, give her back to me!”

Zhou Zhixue chased after it, shouting in a low voice.

She was incredibly fast, and in a short while, she had already caught up to the Jiao’s tail.

“Senior Sister Zhou, hurry and save me,” Qin Qingyi’s eyes were teary, putting on a perfect act.

But then—

“Hurry, hurry! She’s catching up!” Seeing Zhou Zhixue getting closer and closer behind her, Qin Qingyi suddenly grew anxious and urged the Jiao repeatedly.

She had to go find the Demon God’s remnant body herself and really didn’t have time to play around with her senior sister.

Don’t worry, she won’t catch up.

The voice was still deep and hoarse.

It seemed that the Jiao wasn’t very good at speaking, so it sounded particularly awkward and unnatural, like a child just learning to talk.

But its speed was extremely fast. Urged by Qin Qingyi, the Jiao became even more serious, moving significantly faster than before. In just a moment, it shook off Zhou Zhixue again.

Watching Zhou Zhixue get farther and farther behind, and after a few more turns, she couldn’t be seen at all, Qin Qingyi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Surely she won’t be able to catch up this time.