After Faking Her Death and Escaping, the Junior Sister Fell to the Demonic Path - Chapter 71

The person everyone was worried about, and whose spiritual focus was on, was indeed like a flickering candle in the wind, with her life hanging by a thread.

Qin Qingyi’s face was deathly pale. She walked on a stretch of scorched earth, but after only two steps, she coughed up a mouthful of blood.

She was already stumbling, relying entirely on willpower to move forward, but with this fit of coughing and vomiting blood, that last breath of energy dissipated. The next moment, she fell to the ground without warning, kicking up several feet of black dust.

This posture was too undignified, so she struggled to prop up one arm, laboriously flipping herself over like a pancake to lie face up.

Although her appearance was unsightly, at least she could finally breathe.

Looking at the charred blackness on her hand, Qin Qingyi knew without needing to imagine that her current state must be extremely pathetic. She chuckled twice and spat out another mouthful of bloody foam.

Wiping her face fiercely with her left hand, brushing away the dust and blood from her mouth, Qin Qingyi grinned:

“This is not the Profound Heaven Realm.”

The tearing pain in her chest made her exceptionally clear-headed. The spiritual energy and demonic power that she couldn’t summon at all also made her realize that the place she was currently in had probably no connection with the Profound Heaven Realm.

Qin Qingyi recalled the tragic battle that day.

Immortal Venerable Wuwang, using her body, first delivered a fatal blow to the Demon God who had transmigrated into Yefu’s body. Qin Qingyi watched as the body, whose spirit and flesh had not yet fully merged, began to decay the moment it came into contact with the vast spiritual power.

The Demon God let out a roar in its final moments. Qin Qingyi felt a piercing pain in her ears. The demonic sound penetrated her ears and directly attacked her head, making her dizzy and nearly faint.

Later, Qin Qingyi only remembered the chaotic scene, with dense numbers of demons, and her Junior Sister who rushed in from outside after hearing the commotion and started fighting with Tiweina.

She was dragged into the blood pool by tentacles that launched a sneak attack during the chaos and sank all the way down.

Her Junior Sister seemed to have jumped in after her…

“Silly child.”

Qin Qingyi sighed.

Why risk danger for her again?

She couldn’t quite remember what exactly she saw inside the blood pool, only vaguely recalling that she seemed to have seen something extraordinary at the very bottom.

Something so extraordinary that it even woke up the sleeping Immortal Venerable Wuwang.

The next thing she consciously knew, she was already here.

There was no spiritual energy here, no vegetation, no sun or moon, and even no wind.

Since waking up, she had walked for five whole days in this desolate place with no direction and no known location, until the moment she collapsed just now.

Immortal Venerable Wuwang, who was extremely weak in her dantian, seemed to have woken up for an instant: “This is indeed not the Profound Heaven Realm.”

But she only said this much before falling into slumber again.

Qin Qingyi sighed helplessly.

It seemed that having consumed too much previously, Immortal Venerable Wuwang woke up even slower than her, barely waking up about two days ago.

However, she was not truly conscious; she was intermittent, always sinking back into silence before even finishing a sentence.

With no one to talk to, Qin Qingyi also felt lazy to stand up and keep walking. Since this unknown haunted place had nothing, there wasn’t much difference whether she walked or not.

Simply lying flat on the ground, Qin Qingyi inhaled and exhaled again. With each breath, her chest sounded like a broken bellows, and every inhale carried the metallic smell of blood.

The tearing pain almost made her think there was a large hole in her chest, but when she carefully touched it, there was nothing.

The pain in her chest made her involuntarily turn her head. Her gaze fell on her right hand. Qin Qingyi exerted strength in her arm, trying to clench her fist, but she simply could not do it.

Her right hand seemed to have completely failed to receive the command, lying limp on the ground, completely unresponsive.

That arm, like a withered branch, was charred black from the fingers to the shoulder. Only skin, like dry tree bark, clung tightly to the bone, as if the tendons had been removed and the marrow sucked out, completely losing its former appearance.

Qin Qingyi scoffed, no longer wasting her energy.

Her right hand seemed to be crippled.

But it wasn’t a major issue; it was just a right hand. If she could survive, she could naturally find a way to reshape it.

Cultivators were nourished by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, so there were naturally many ways to reshape their physical bodies.

She slowly closed her eyes. The surrounding fatigue then swept over her whole body. It was then that Qin Qingyi noticed that her meridians seemed to have shattered a bit more.

Estimating roughly, it was probably shattered again when Immortal Venerable Wuwang used her body to fight the thing at the bottom of the blood pool.

“Forget it, forget it. Being alive is already a great fortune; why think too much?”

Qin Qingyi gave a bitter smile.

She never thought her heart had become so broad-minded.

But the bone-deep pain, coupled with the confusion of not knowing where she was, eventually made her gradually curl into a ball.

Just before she was about to fall into unconsciousness, tears welled up in the corners of Qin Qingyi’s eyes. She transformed into her fox prototype, wrapped herself with her tail, and her soft murmur scattered in the wind.

In the midst of her drifting sleep, Qin Qingyi frowned deeply.

A voice, as if calling to her, came from far and near, constantly disturbing her.

Wake up…

Wake up…

WAKE UP!!!

“Don’t sleep, wake up now!!!”

The final voice exploded right next to Qin Qingyi’s ear, startling her instantly out of her sleep, opening her eyes.

Her pupils rapidly dilated and quickly contracted. Qin Qingyi panted heavily, opening her mouth like a fish out of water.

After taking a while to recover, she finally regained her senses.

Realizing who was calling her, Qin Qingyi helplessly stretched out the only arm she could move to shield her eyes, her voice hoarse:

“Senior, could you let me sleep for a little while?”

Her body was so broken, and now even getting a little more sleep had become a luxury.

“If you sleep any longer, you’ll die!”

The other party kindly reminded her.

“Your spiritual energy and demonic power are rapidly draining away, can’t you feel it?”

Qin Qingyi paused slightly.

“But, Junior me cannot sense any spiritual energy, nor any demonic power.”

She said softly.

As if afraid the other party wouldn’t believe her, Qin Qingyi even spread her palm, making the gesture to summon spiritual energy and demonic power, but there was no response.

Immortal Venerable Wuwang immediately sensed that something was wrong.

“That shouldn’t be, I can sense it, so how can you not?”

She immediately inspected Qin Qingyi’s body internally, traversing the dantian and the major surrounding meridians, and then stopped at Qin Qingyi’s right hand, which she was completely unaware of.

“Damn it!”

She cursed out loud.

Qin Qingyi’s head was foggy, and she almost fell asleep again. Hearing the curse, she lifted her eyelids: “What’s wrong?”

“How did your hand turn into this?!”

Qin Qingyi sensed the other party’s anger, but she also didn’t know why her right hand was completely out of control.

So she could only answer truthfully: “When I woke up, this hand was already like this.”

This was indeed the truth. It seemed many things had happened earlier, but ever since she jumped into the blood pool, she couldn’t remember what happened next.

Before Immortal Venerable Wuwang asked her, she had thought this hand was crippled by the other party.

After all, in the blood pool, Immortal Venerable Wuwang had forcefully taken over her body again. What she did with her body afterwards, no one knew.

She voiced this speculation as well.

Unexpectedly, Immortal Veneruable Wuwang immediately refuted her: “Nonsense!”

“This Venerable brought you here after dealing with the incidents I saw. Your hand was still fine then. Don’t pin unfounded accusations on this Venerable.”

Since she said so, her guess must be wrong.

As a cultivator who ascended and led an era in the Profound Heaven Realm, she wouldn’t deceive her here.

Then her hand could only have become like this when both she and Immortal Venerable Wuwang were unconscious.

Immortal Venerable Wuwang seemed to be extremely angry. She simply left Qin Qingyi’s body and transformed into her former white illusionary figure, although the white shadow was much fainter now, only vaguely showing a human shape.

She lifted Qin Qingyi’s arm and pinched it hard, then asked Qin Qingyi again: “Do you feel anything?”

Qin Qingyi shook her head.

The atmospheric pressure around Immortal Venerable Wuwang instantly dropped even lower.

Qin Qingyi didn’t dare to speak, or rather, at this point, she was almost unable to speak.

If there was someone standing by, they would be surprised to find that the color on Qin Qingyi’s face was rapidly disappearing, and even white hair appeared on her head. The entire person looked as if her vitality had been taken away, nearly withered and decayed.

Immortal Venerable Wuwang carefully inspected Qin Qingyi’s right hand, quickly tearing off the entire sleeve, exposing most of her shoulder.

And that originally moist and smooth shoulder, half of it was now covered by the same black substance as her right arm, looking extremely terrifying.

“Damn it! It really is He!!”

Qin Qingyi’s brain was reacting very slowly. She slowly asked in confusion:

“He?”

Immortal Venerable Wuwang replied: “A fractional soul of the Demon God!”

“He has parasitized a demon seed onto your body!”

Immortal Venerable Wuwang stared intently at Qin Qingyi’s shoulder. Right now, ominous black demonic threads were drilling into Qin Qingyi’s meridians, feeding on the already scarce spiritual and demonic energy within the meridians, and were constantly crawling towards her heart.

And that arm was not completely charred black.

It was because the demon seed had parasitized her palm and then crawled along the meridians from the fingers, little by little consuming and extracting all the spiritual and demonic energy, draining the nourishment from the entire arm.

That was why the arm presented such a charred and withered appearance.

The reason Qin Qingyi couldn’t control her right hand was also because the demon seed was gradually growing stronger, taking over Qin Qingyi’s control of her own body.

Immortal Venerable Wuwang looked steadily at Qin Qingyi:

“If He manages to crawl to your heart, you will become the Demon God’s new vessel for transmigration.”

“But why did He appear on your body? It shouldn’t have!”

Her brows were tightly furrowed, her voice annoyed and confused, which also made Qin Qingyi recall some things.

“Back then… my wrist seemed to have been grabbed by the hand of the previous Demon God vessel. Later, when I fell into the blood pool, that skeletal hand was still hanging on my wrist.”

It was probably at that moment that the demon seed, which should have withered and died in Yefu’s body, transferred to Qin Qingyi’s body.

Immortal Venerable Wuwang thought back and also recalled the strong discomfort at the wrist of the hand holding the sword at the bottom of the blood pool. Her expression immediately turned ugly.

The battle at the bottom of the blood pool was so intense that she had no time to deal with other things, and she didn’t expect to be taken advantage of like this.

“Senior, am I about to die?”

Qin Qingyi asked sincerely.

Immortal Venerable Wuwang slapped her head: “Nonsense, with this Venerable here, how could I let you die?”

So, she wouldn’t die.

Qin Qingyi closed her eyes peacefully.

As long as she wouldn’t die, nothing else was a big problem.

Seeing her like this, Immortal Venerable Wuwang was angered into laughter: “You wretched child, are you so trusting of this Venerable?”

Qin Qingyi nodded with her eyes closed, perfunctorily saying: “Senior’s magic power is profound, surely you won’t let Junior me die here just like that. Junior me naturally has a hundred percent faith in Senior.”

Immortal Venerable Wuwang was silent for a while, then finally sighed: “It’s just that this Venerable is soft-hearted, otherwise I’d leave you here to fend for yourself.”

Although the words were unpleasant, Qin Qingyi immediately felt Immortal Venerable Wuwang return to her body and take control.

“You rest first, this Venerable will take you away.”

Immortal Venerable Wuwang reopened her eyes, a pair of transparent, glazed eyes replacing Qin Qingyi’s black pupils.

She stood up, and after observing left and right for a few glances, she chose a direction and started walking.

However, the body was still frail, and she walked slowly.

“Senior, you still haven’t said where this place is.”

Finally able to rest, Qin Qingyi’s consciousness relaxed, and she asked lazily.

Immortal Venerable Wuwang hesitated for a moment, but eventually replied: “This place is one of the secret realms that this Venerable once opened up. Back then, you sank into the blood pool and your life hung by a thread. In a moment of desperation, this Venerable brought you here.”

“Then this place is too desolate. Junior me has walked for several days, yet I haven’t seen any change in the scenery.”

After she finished speaking, Immortal Venerable Wuwang looked at the surrounding scenery and slowly frowned as well: “This Venerable remembers that when I opened this secret realm, I put many spiritual beasts from the Profound Heaven Realm into it, and also planted many spiritual plants, so that this world could be self-contained and continue to operate even if this Venerable was no longer present. Why is there not even a trace of spiritual energy here now?”

She squatted down, coughed a few times, and then picked up the sand and soil on the ground to examine it carefully. The fine sand and soil flowed out from between her fingers like water.

Immortal Venerable Wuwang’s expression was grim: “Something is wrong with this place, but this Venerable can’t figure it out for now.”

Qin Qingyi remained silent.

If Immortal Venerable Wuwang didn’t know, she certainly wouldn’t know even more.

Fortunately, Immortal Venerable Wuwang could distinguish between what was important and what wasn’t at the moment. After a while, she stood up and continued walking forward: “The abnormality here will be investigated later. Your body is about to give out; finding your Junior Sister is the proper priority.”

“Why find my Junior Sister?”

Qin Qingyi was startled out of her near-death state.

She was dying and needed healing. How could this be related to her Junior Sister?

Shouldn’t she go out, find a hidden cave, and heal herself, then return when she recovered?

This was different from what she had imagined.

Immortal Venerable Wuwang’s words shattered her fantasy: “Your current injury can only be saved through Dual Cultivation.”

“What kind of injury absolutely requires Dual Cultivation?!”