After Faking Her Death and Escaping, the Junior Sister Fell to the Demonic Path - Chapter 48

Cangxue Peak.

Zhou Zhixue, who hadn’t seen Qin Qingyi return for a long time, finally couldn’t hold back and decided to go look for her after the sun had set.

If she had only been seeing the Master, she should have been back by now.

Could something else have delayed her?

Zhou Zhixue frowned.

With that thought, she walked all the way to Qin Qingyi’s residence.

Fortunately, the two lived close to each other, and she arrived just as the last trace of evening glow faded from the sky.

But Qin Qingyi was nowhere to be seen in the courtyard.

Instead, there was someone she didn’t want to see.

The young girl her Senior Sister had brought back yesterday was sitting on the steps by the doorway, holding a dry twig and drawing something on the ground.

“Yan Li, why are you here?”

Yan Li, who was waiting in the courtyard, looked up and saw the person who had shown inexplicable hostility towards her yesterday, and immediately became wary.

She dropped the twig and was about to bare her teeth, but then remembered that this was Jianmen (Sword Sect), not the Demon Race, so she reluctantly withdrew her aggressive stance, though her eyes remained cautious.

“Senior Sister Zhou.”

She first gave an unwilling bow to Zhou Zhixue, and then said, “Senior Sister Qin asked me to come to her this afternoon to learn the disciple entry lessons.”

For some reason, after she said this, she suddenly felt the surrounding air grow colder, and the hostility from Zhou Zhixue opposite her seemed to become even more pronounced.

Yan Li didn’t understand which sentence had provoked the other person.

Could it be that her look of displeasure was discovered?

“Then why are you still here so late at night?”

Zhou Zhixue narrowed her eyes, her emotionless voice sounding like shattering ice.

Zhou Zhixue naturally noticed the little girl’s dislike for her, but it didn’t matter; she equally disliked the other party.

A child rescued and brought back by her Senior Sister… Zhou Zhixue clenched and unclenched the fingers of the hand hidden in her sleeve, reminding herself to stay calm.

Right now, the other party was merely an outer disciple with a slight connection to her Senior Sister; there was no need to pay too much attention.

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhixue’s expression eased slightly. She was much taller than Yan Li, so she looked down at the other party, waiting for her answer.

Yan Li felt uncomfortable with her attitude, but constrained by the fact that the other person was the Young Master’s Junior Sister, she had to suppress the urge to fight her and replied, “Senior Sister hasn’t returned all day. I don’t know where she went, so I could only keep waiting here.”

Senior Sister hasn’t returned?

Zhou Zhixue’s brow furrowed tighter.

She glanced up at the indeed dark and unlit house.

Her Senior Sister was indeed absent.

Since the person was not here, Zhou Zhixue had no reason to stay.

She turned to leave, planning to go ask Venerable Wen Qing, or… go directly to Zhijian Peak to find her.

As she reached the doorway, Zhou Zhixue paused and slightly turned her body: “No need to wait any longer. Senior Sister likely won’t be on Cangxue Peak today. You should go back and rest.”

After speaking, she didn’t wait for a response and left on her sword.

“What a strange person.”

Yan Li muttered quietly, watching her retreating figure.

But afterward, she ignored Zhou Zhixue’s suggestion to go back, sat down on the steps under the eaves again, propped her head on her hands, looking as if she would wait until the end of time.

“When will the Young Master return…”

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“Ah ah ah ah ah ah my @#%&##%@!!”

“Help me!!!”

In the Black Water Cliff Demon Cave, a heartbreaking cry for help pierced the sky, even penetrating the dense demonic energy.

A low-level demon beast raised its head blankly, trying to locate the source of the sound.

The next second, a cold light tore through the demonic energy, and a sword shot through the air, piercing straight through its head. The momentum carried it away until it was pinned to the trunk of a hundred-year-old tree, where it finally stopped.

Following closely was a gust of demonic wind, instantly retrieving the sword, leaving behind only the lifeless corpse of the demon beast as it fell.

After killing the demon beast that happened to block her way, Qin Qingyi retrieved her sword and continued to run wildly.

Grandma Immortal Fox Ancestor! Give her another chance; she will never be so curious again!!!

Didn’t they say curiosity killed the cat? She was clearly a fox; why did being curious also mean she had to die?!!

To talk about why things had escalated to her current state of desperate flight, it had to start about an hour ago.

At that time, she had pretended to beg for mercy, making the great demon manipulating the demonic energy behind her believe her.

But just when the demonic energy relaxed its vigilance towards her, and even actively cleared a path, Qin Qingyi suddenly erupted, turning back again and slashing her sword at the bloody-red cocoon.

“You actually believed it!”

“Well, I’m really sorry!!!”

Qin Qingyi sneered, channeling countless streams of demon power from her dantian onto her sword. The powerful demon energy completely split open the blood-stained cocoon.

In an instant, demonic energy erupted from the cocoon, covering the sky and instantly polluting everything around it. Trees withered instantly, the ground cracked, and a sharp roar sounded behind her—it was the demon.

Indeed, she had guessed correctly; this cocoon was the great demon’s weakness.

Qin Qingyi stood in the demonic energy, wrapping herself in demon power to avoid contamination. Just as she was feeling smug, thinking she had severely wounded the great demon and was completely safe—

Something fell out of the demon cocoon that she had just split open with her sword.

It landed on the ground with a thump, catching Qin Qingyi’s attention.

Qin Qingyi looked over sharply, then frowned.

She cautiously walked closer, wanting to see what this thing was. To prevent any unexpected situations, she used the sword sheath to poke the dark mass very carefully.

It was soft.

But it was pitch black, a round blob, making it hard to distinguish what it was.

Qin Qingyi’s heart grew even more cautious. After all, this thing had fallen from a demonic cocoon surrounded by demonic energy and was quite sinister; it was unlikely to be anything good.

This dark mass seemed to be facing away from her. It was slimy, and…

She frowned slightly.

This thing seemed to have four limbs and also the pointed horns characteristic of the demon race on its head.

But it also had some human features.

Qin Qingyi had a vague, uneasy suspicion.

Her heart pounded like a drum. She held her breath and carefully used her sword sheath to flip over this thing that was neither human nor demon.

However, as soon as she saw the facial features of the mass, Qin Qingyi’s pupils constricted. First, a sense of terror washed over her, followed by a surge of nausea that rose to her throat.

It made her want to vomit.

Qin Qingyi felt as if her heart was being tightly squeezed, making it impossible to breathe. She gasped for air, and her eyes couldn’t help but redden.

It was… it was a child!

A child of the Demon Race that had been deeply contaminated by demonic energy!!!

She still had wolf characteristics. That tail, tipped with silver fur, was the characteristic of the Wolf Clan, one of the eighteen tribes of their Demon Race.

It was a Demon Race child!

Qin Qingyi suddenly remembered that decades ago, shortly after she encountered a demon attack outside, she heard that the Wolf Clan had lost a newborn child.

But despite searching for a long time, they couldn’t find her.

Yet, the soul lamp remained lit. Her parents couldn’t bear to give up on the little wolf cub and had been searching ever since. That soul lamp was the light that sustained their persistence.

But now…

But now!!!

Qin Qingyi was not foolish; she could feel that this little wolf cub was no longer breathing.

She was dead.

Perhaps she died when she split open the demonic cocoon, or perhaps… she had died a long time ago.

Qin Qingyi breathed rapidly. She looked at the unconscious little wolf cub, regardless of the filth covering her body and the fact that her body had been mutated by demonic energy. She took off her outer robe, wrapped the child in it, and, fighting back tears, carefully placed her into her Cosmos Bracelet.

She had to take this little wolf cub back.

Otherwise, her conscience would not be at peace.

However, Qin Qingyi was so preoccupied with dealing with this that she failed to notice the subtle change that had quietly occurred behind her.

It wasn’t until the demonic energy had silently surged several times and the overwhelming black cloud was visibly pressing down on her that Qin Qingyi realized something was wrong.

The keen senses of a fox tensed abruptly. Qin Qingyi’s hair stood on end. She had originally intended to investigate further, but the current situation was beyond her ability to handle.

With this thought, Qin Qingyi dared not linger, immediately turned and fled outwards.

But the demonic energy clearly regarded her as a mortal enemy. Seeing her run, it immediately pursued her like a sharp sword.

Qin Qingyi secretly lamented her misfortune, but her speed didn’t drop. She ran forward with all her might, having to both evade the pursuit of the demonic energy behind her and quickly clear all sorts of obstacles in front of her path to escape—

Including, but not limited to, ancient thousand-year-old trees and large and small low-level demons.

A fox’s reaction in the face of danger is extremely fast. Qin Qingyi thought that her current escape speed must be much faster than it was ten years ago. If she had this speed back then, perhaps she wouldn’t have lost two tails.

The thought made Qin Qingyi grit her teeth in anger.

A fox can ascend with nine tails. She was a clever fox born with six tails, yet she had to sacrifice two to save her life back then.

Despite years of arduous cultivation, she had only managed to grow one back. If not for this, her cultivation would not have been so slow.

Her foundation was still damaged.

But now was not the time to think about such things.

Qin Qingyi felt the demonic energy behind her getting closer and closer.

She pulled out a thick stack of talismans from her Cosmos Bracelet and scattered them behind her as if they were worthless—various grades of explosive talismans, wind blade talismans, and other miscellaneous attack talismans.

Listening to the crackling and exploding sounds from behind, Qin Qingyi was immensely grateful that she hadn’t been lazy and had diligently drawn talismans.

Feeling the demonic energy slightly slow down, Qin Qingyi quickly stuck more speed talismans onto herself, hoping to accelerate and shake off the pursuit.

Heavens, if she were given another chance, she would absolutely not cause any extra trouble.

Wouldn’t it have been fine to just leave?

Wouldn’t everything have been fine if she had just reported the demonic energy anomaly?

Why did she have to be so careless as to slash at it?!

But—

Thinking of the little wolf cub sleeping soundly in her Cosmos Bracelet, Qin Qingyi hardened her heart.

If she slashed, she slashed; did she need to pick a day?!

Damn the Demon Race!

One day, she would cleanse the world of the Demon Race, bring justice to the Demon Race, and bring peace to the Xuantians Realm!

Looking back, and noticing that the demonic energy was gradually being blocked by the talismans and was falling further behind, Qin Qingyi’s tightly strung heart finally relaxed a little.

After running a few more steps, leaving the area of the Black Water Cliff, Qin Qingyi finally had a moment to breathe.

In the midst of her escape, she gently touched her Cosmos Bracelet.

Feeling the little wolf cub inside, Qin Qingyi’s heart stirred.

Could this be the opportunity her Master spoke of, the one related to her?

She gave a bitter laugh.

If she could choose, she would rather the little wolf cub be alive.

Her mind was elsewhere, and she was completely unaware of the person who had appeared not far in front of her.

When she drew close and sensed an unusual aura nearby, Qin Qingyi’s nerves immediately tensed up again. She swung her sword and slashed towards the person.

“Senior Sister?!”

The newcomer raised his sword to block, seemingly not expecting her to draw her sword against him. Amidst the defense, he called out in slight astonishment, “It’s me, Zhixue.”

Qin Qingyi suddenly snapped back to attention, her eyes looking somewhat blankly at the person in front of her.

Seeing that she had stopped attacking, the other person sheathed her sword, her voice sincere and concerned: “Senior Sister, what’s wrong?”

Seeing her covered in blood and grime, Zhou Zhixue’s expression grew more worried: “Senior Sister, are you injured?”

Saying this, she pulled Qin Qingyi aside and scanned her repeatedly, only relaxing after confirming she had no visible wounds.

Qin Qingyi’s expression remained dazed, as if she couldn’t fully process the current situation.

She looked at Zhou Zhixue, who had suddenly appeared near the Black Water Cliff for an unknown reason, and had only one thought in her mind:

Oh no (Mala)!!!!!!

Her Demon Race identity is exposed!!!