Forcing the Aloof Master to Madness - Chapter 58

Shen Lezhi mingled within the crowd. Upon hearing the Sect Leader’s call of “Exquisite Heart”, her eyes immediately turned cold, and she looked with disgust at the Sect Leader, who was being suppressed by Wang Xi’s aura on the high platform.

Wang Xi’s public statements against the Sect Leader, coupled with the words of the Xuan Yu Sect Elder just now, caused the inner balance of those who originally did not believe that Immortal Venerable Jiyue was colluding with a demonic cultivator to tilt slightly.

But Wang Xi simply did not care about the crowd’s opinion of her. In her past life, she was framed by the original female protagonist, and those righteous path cultivators did not question the cause and effect, pursuing her relentlessly merely because she possessed demonic energy.

This was despite the fact that, in her initial descent into demonhood, she had harmed no one except the Shen Lezhi of that past life.

Now, she was already steeped in demonic energy, and these people were certainly not going to side with her, so why should she care?

Wang Xi’s terrifying coercion spread out. Besides the Xuan Yu Sect Leader, the other three Sect Masters exchanged glances, all seeing shock in each other’s eyes.

Immortal Venerable Jiyue’s powerful spiritual energy directly oppressed all of them. The three attempted to mobilize their spiritual energy to counterattack, but the suppression felt like a giant boulder crushing their chests, making it hard to breathe.

Alarm surged in their hearts.

Could Immortal Venerable Jiyue’s cultivation have reached the peak of the Void Returning Realm?

People naturally seek profit and avoid harm; the higher their cultivation, the more cunning they became.

If Immortal Venerable Jiyue’s cultivation was insufficient to take on all of them single-handedly, then uniting to crusade against her and showing off their righteous sect demeanor would have been justifiable.

However, if the enemy could take their lives with a flick of a finger, and they could not win even by surrounding her, why should they meddle in affairs that did not concern them?

It was clear that Immortal Venerable Jiyue was targeting the Xuan Yu Sect Leader, so why should they join the fray?

While the Sect Masters of the Three Great Sects could figure this out, some minor sect cultivators were filled with righteous indignation. Unable to tolerate Immortal Venerable Jiyue’s blatant demon-like behavior, they braced themselves, enduring Wang Xi’s coercion to uphold the so-called righteous path in their hearts.

“That Elder just said that you colluded with demonic cultivators and murdered fellow disciples, and you should be executed!”

Previously, Wang Xi had only dispersed her coercion without targeting anyone as fiercely as she had the Sect Leader. Although the other cultivators were oppressed by this aura, their lives were not at risk.

But at this moment, Wang Xi shifted her gaze to the presumptuous minor cultivator. The icy coldness in her eyes immediately pressed the minor cultivator to instantly kneel, unable to straighten her bent waist no matter what she tried.

In just one breath, she was drenched in sweat, on the verge of sinking into the dirt. Her internal bones were snapping, and the intense pain caused her to shiver and cry out involuntarily.

Just when everyone thought Immortal Venerable Jiyue would kill the daring minor cultivator, Wang Xi opened her mouth coldly and said, “This Venerable One does not kill unrelated people.”

Her immortal demeanor gave her words great weight.

This was the result of the discussion between Wang Xi and Shen Lezhi.

Wang Xi first displayed her absolute strength to make people fear her, and then stated that she would only kill people related to the Sect Leader, giving the rest a sense of false hope.

They all thought that Wang Xi only wanted to kill the Sect Leader for some reason and that they were not within the scope of her attack.

Wang Xi was indeed powerful, strong enough to have one foot in the realm of Immortality—perhaps no one in this world could match her.

Yet, the Sect Leader had used others to plot against her, leading to the sieges she should not have had to face.

Shen Lezhi stirred up trouble within the crowd, saying that the Sect Leader had repeatedly hunted down Immortal Venerable Jiyue, and the Immortal Venerable was merely returning the favor.

This narrative lacked concrete evidence, but as the crowd’s voices grew louder, no one cared about the truth; they simply followed the herd mentality, believing that what they heard was fact.

Wang Xi glanced at Shen Lezhi within the crowd, then pointed the Azure Dragon Sword (Canglong Jian) directly at the Sect Leader, her expression growing colder: “You should have foreseen today’s situation when your attempt to assassinate This Venerable One failed.”

Wang Xi’s words gave the rumors among the crowd more credibility, and the Sect Leader did not refute her now. What Wang Xi said was the truth.

Furthermore, she had already done what she needed to do, and at this moment, life or death was no longer important.

Yet her expression was indifferent, but her eyes were full of fear. She watched the Azure Dragon Sword speeding towards her, every cell in her body seemingly screaming in despair.

The protective artifacts around her glowed, and the Sect Leader immediately fled.

Wang Xi’s sword strike was unstoppable, moving too fast for the naked eye to capture. Only the fierce turbulence of the surrounding spiritual energy and the air around them, which seemed about to be ripped apart by Wang Xi’s dominant spiritual energy, remained.

Everything in the surroundings, wherever Wang Xi passed, was covered in a layer of thin frost.

Wang Xi’s sword was now near the Sect Leader. One strike was enough to take her life. She deployed a spell, shockingly using another person’s body to block Wang Xi’s blow.

Wang Xi looked at the Xuan Yu Sect Elder whose heart was pierced by the Azure Dragon Sword. She could not recall the person’s name but vaguely remembered having seen them once or twice.

Her cold eyes were clear like frost, and she showed no change in emotion for having killed this person. Killed is killed; she had already killed countless people in her past life.

Just as she was about to pull the Azure Dragon Sword out of the person’s body, the person suddenly reached out and firmly grasped the Azure Dragon Sword, while simultaneously sealing the major acupoints around her body and reversing her meridians—she intended to self-detonate while holding onto Wang Xi!

Wang Xi’s eyes were calm, and her expression was exceedingly indifferent.

Spiritual energy poured out from her, and she reached out a finger to touch the Elder’s brow.

With a muffled “bang,” the person instantly exploded right before Wang Xi!

Wang Xi did not stop her; instead, she instantly invaded and accelerated her self-detonation.

A self-detonation of this level of cultivation posed no threat to her whatsoever.

Splashing flesh and blood sprayed out, staining Wang Xi’s clothing. Her pure white, flawless robe was tainted with fresh blood, but she remained unconcerned. Her cold eyes never left the fleeing figure of the Sect Leader.

The crowd watched her terrifying display, their fear intensifying. Subsequently, others still came forward to block her, whether of their own accord or dragged in by the Sect Leader to serve as shields. Without exception, they all died beneath the Azure Dragon Sword.

Dismembered, their deaths were gruesome.

Wang Xi’s robes were dyed crimson. At this moment, she was no longer the brilliant Immortal Venerable Jiyue, but truly a Ghost-Sha (Guisha) who had ascended from hell.

However, having demonstrated such terrifying strength, no one dared to step forward again. They all held onto the illusion that the opponent merely wanted to settle scores with the Xuan Yu Sect Leader.

The Sect Leader knew she could not escape. The only reason she had not been killed by Wang Xi yet was the protective artifact on her person. However, the artifact had endured two strikes from Wang Xi and was already showing signs of cracking.

When Wang Xi finally pressed close to her, another sword strike descended, causing the world to change color.

At such close range, the immense spiritual energy of the Exquisite Heart had suppressed her, making it impossible to move. She knelt on the ground, gasping, desperately mobilizing her spiritual energy, trying in vain to stop Wang Xi.

But with the roar of the dragon, the protective artifact shattered.

The fear of death spread throughout the Sect Leader’s heart.

She stared in terror at the approaching Wang Xi, whose body was already drenched in the blood of others.

Blood drops still trickled down from the Azure Dragon Sword.

With the heavenly light behind her, her appearance was still peerless, and white snow drifted onto her. Her downcast, condescending eyes were filled with chilling intent.

At such close proximity, the Sect Leader finally saw her eyes clearly. The fine, densely spread demonic runes at the corners of her eyes, contrasted with her current aloof and cold expression, made her appear even more sinister.

The Sect Leader’s teeth were chattering. She knew she could not escape death today and had already prepared for it. But when true death approached, when the Ghost-Sha before her was about to take her life, the instinct for survival ultimately took control.

“I, I don’t want to die.” The Sect Leader murmured in despair. Once the words were spoken, she felt a slight relief. “I don’t want to die, Ancestor! I don’t want to die!”

She cried out loudly and mournfully, hoping someone would save her.

Wang Xi heard her words, and the Azure Dragon Sword was already pressed against her heart.

The Sect Leader looked in terror at Wang Xi’s movement. The people whose hearts had been dug out in her memories seemed to become her, and the desperate, hateful cries of those people before their deaths seemed to be inflicted upon her.

She opened her eyes wide and screamed hysterically, “Ancestor! Save me!”

“Didn’t you want to know the truth? Spare me, and I’ll tell you everything!”

Wang Xi looked down, offering no response.

The Sect Leader at this moment was extremely distorted and bizarre. One moment she screamed in fear, and the next she cursed with hatred.

“Why me? Why did I have to do those things! Qi Xuanyu, get out!”

The moment this name was uttered, everyone present was shocked. Some had suspected it when the Sect Leader cried out “Ancestor”—the founding Ancestor of the Xuan Yu Sect was naturally Qi Xuanyu.

But that person had died too long ago, nearly becoming a mythical figure, so no one dared to think further.

Wang Xi ignored the Sect Leader’s struggle, directly pointed a finger at her glabella, and forcibly extracted the Sect Leader’s soul consciousness from her mind.

If she wanted the truth, she did not need to hear the Sect Leader say it herself.

Forcibly extracting a person’s soul consciousness required powerful cultivation. The person whose soul consciousness was extracted would be completely crippled, becoming simple-minded.

Such a heinous act would naturally be met with backlash from the heavenly law, but Wang Xi did not care.

The Sect Leader’s soul consciousness was extracted by her, condensing at her fingertip. She probed it and finally saw the whole truth.

Tens of millions of years ago, Qi Xuanyu was the first person to possess the Exquisite Heart. She established the sect, created the famous Xuan Yu Sword Technique, made many virtuous friends, and was loved by countless people.

The Exquisite Heart made her cultivation smooth throughout her life. She entered the Void Returning Realm early, underwent trials in repeated thunder tribulations, and survived them all.

Everyone thought she would successfully ascend to immortality. When she broke through, the world changed color, the thunder tribulation was world-shattering, and all living things suffered because of it.

But the last three thunder tribulations broke her physical body with one strike and caused her mind to become disordered with the next.

She ultimately failed to withstand the final strike.

No one knew whether Qi Xuanyu had ascended to immortality; no one had ascended before her.

All they knew was that the trace of Qi Xuanyu had vanished from the world forever after that.

The Xuan Yu Sect revered her as the founding Ancestor, but Qi Xuanyu had not completely perished.

She knew she would not survive the thunder tribulation and forcibly stripped away the Exquisite Heart, preserving her final remnant soul.

She wanted to try again. As long as she possessed the Exquisite Heart, the path of cultivation would forever be smooth.

But with only a remnant soul, she feared the Exquisite Heart would be stolen. So she returned to the Xuan Yu Sect and placed a curse on the next Sect Leader.

Everyone who inherited the Sect Leader position had to accept this curse, destined to work eternally for Qi Xuanyu’s resurrection.

She attached herself to the soul consciousness of every Sect Leader, and all of them gained her past memories upon receiving the curse.

The Sect Leaders cultivated the Exquisite Heart to spontaneously grow flesh and a body, but Qi Xuanyu’s remnant soul could not fully integrate with it.

She wanted to pursue the path of Ascension to Immortality and needed a perfect body for the Exquisite Heart to belong entirely to her.

Qi Xuanyu’s remnant soul did not have much time. It eventually merged with the curse, attaching itself to the soul consciousness of every Sect Leader for eternity.

They used the core blood (Heart-Tip Blood) of the Exquisite Heart to reshape Qi Xuanyu’s body, which would allow for complete integration with the Exquisite Heart.

But the core blood of one Exquisite Heart was far from enough, so they had to let the Exquisite Heart grow, then extract the core blood, and re-cultivate it for several thousand years until the Exquisite Heart recovered, repeating the cycle.

Initially, the Exquisite Heart allowed them to manipulate it, but the Exquisite Heart was indeed a treasure of the world, and it unexpectedly developed self-awareness during this process.

However, it was natural for all things in the world to potentially develop sentience, so it was understandable that the Exquisite Heart, constantly growing its own flesh and blood, developed self-awareness.

But its growth accelerated suddenly after developing self-awareness, becoming more difficult to control each time. The Sect Leaders controlled by the curse had no choice but to find every way possible, using more extreme methods to kill the physical body of the Exquisite Heart and extract its core blood.

Fortunately, Qi Xuanyu’s body was also nearing completion.

As if there were a connection between the two, the faster the Exquisite Heart grew, the faster Qi Xuanyu’s body responded.

In the Sect Leader’s memory, Wang Xi saw the pulsating flesh in the underground secret tunnel and the grotesque, terrifying statue of Qi Xuanyu.

“Ancestor, you should awaken now.”

These were the last words the Sect Leader spoke to the lump of flesh and the statue.

Wang Xi opened her eyes, gazing icily at the Sect Leader, who was now completely simple-minded.

The Sect Leader faced Wang Xi with blank eyes and a bizarre expression, loudly crying out, “Ancestor, please set me free.”

Wang Xi lowered her gaze, withdrawing the Azure Dragon Sword from where it rested against her heart. Her desolate eyes looked on with indifference.

No one knew what she had seen. All they could see was Wang Xi covered in blood, like a Ghost-Sha, as the Azure Dragon Sword ruthlessly cut off the Xuan Yu Sect Leader’s head.

The Sect Leader was completely simple-minded after her soul consciousness was forcibly extracted. Facing Wang Xi, she was only instinctively begging for mercy.

But Wang Xi did not hesitate for a moment. Like a terrifying God of Slaughter, she mercilessly took the Sect Leader’s life.

It was only then that people fearfully realized that her snow-white skin was already covered with visible demonic runes, and a surge of cold and violent demonic energy rose from her body.

In contrast to this was her bone-chilling spiritual energy.

Heavy snow had already drifted across the entire Xuan Yu Sect; the dragon roar pressing down from above had never ceased.

Those who had been holding onto hope were now trembling in panic upon seeing her body covered in demonic runes.

They watched as she picked up the Sect Leader’s corpse and heavily tossed it onto the central competition arena, as if announcing to everyone the fate of those who opposed her.

People looked up at her, and they also saw the sky full of white snow, like a cage, imprisoning everyone there.

No one knew if they could escape because no one dared to try.

But many people were already preparing for battle. The person before them was no longer the venerable Immortal Venerable Jiyue but merely a demon.

They could not judge whether the demon would move against them.

But just then, a female cultivator suddenly stepped forward. In full view of the crowd, she flew on her sword to Wang Xi’s side, who was surrounded by demonic energy.

The female cultivator looked beautiful and delicate, appearing very gentle and clad in a goose-yellow robe, a smile held in her eyes and brows.

The crowd gasped, not understanding why she would approach the demon head at this time, and feeling pity for the female cultivator, who they believed would likely die there.

They even saw the female cultivator reach out her hand, daring to touch the ice-cold, rune-covered Wang Xi.

But what surprised everyone was that the female cultivator was not brutally killed by Immortal Venerable Jiyue. Instead, her fingers landed on the Immortal Venerable’s face, gently stroking the demonic runes at the corner of her eye.

And Immortal Venerable Jiyue, surrounded by demonic energy, did not resist at all. Although her face remained cold, she stood her ground, allowing the female cultivator to move as she pleased.

“Weren’t you not going to show yourself?” Wang Xi met Shen Lezhi’s eyes.

They had previously discussed that Shen Lezhi should not appear. The latter’s cultivation was still only at the Nascent Soul stage, and Wang Xi feared that the righteous path cultivators might use some means to target Shen Lezhi if they could not defeat Wang Xi.

Moreover, Shen Lezhi was confusing the judgment of most cultivators by blending into the crowd, making it inconvenient for her to show herself.

But…

Shen Lezhi smiled helplessly. They had agreed that it was best for Wang Xi not to reveal her demonic energy. After all, killing out of personal enmity with the Sect Leader was entirely different from killing with a body full of demonic energy in the eyes of others.

Wang Xi certainly did not need to fear those overestimating themselves, but too many flies were annoying. Why reveal everything for others to see, giving them more reasons to target you?

Shen Lezhi also did not know what Wang Xi had seen in the Sect Leader’s soul consciousness, but the demonic energy was now clearly visible, and Wang Xi was already opposed to everyone present.

Seeing the spiritual energy faintly gathering and the actions of people taking out their magical artifacts, how could Shen Lezhi let Wang Xi face them alone?

She drew her Little White Sword. Water-spirit energy attached itself to the sword’s body. Standing alongside Wang Xi, her clear voice, resonating with spiritual energy, drifted into everyone’s ears.

“Those who wish to leave the mountain, we will not stop; those who wish to fight us, then leave your lives behind.” Her Little White Sword had never killed anyone, but since Shen Lezhi saw the memory about the Exquisite Heart, she understood that she must stand by Wang Xi’s side; her original path was ultimately unsustainable.

She had persisted in her path because she understood that not killing did not mean she could not defend herself.

She merely wanted to live peacefully, tending her fields, researching the many interesting spiritual plants in this world, and she even thought that if she did not pursue the immortal path, she would not live much longer anyway.

To stay on Xuan Yu Sect Mountain for a lifetime and not participate in the outside world’s conflicts for a lifetime.

But when she followed Wang Xi, Shen Lezhi had already been drawn into the conflict.

She had prepared herself because the person by her side was her true path.

However, Shen Lezhi would absolutely not like indiscriminate killing. Her choice for Wang Xi was to let those who did not wish to be her enemies leave.

She took on Wang Xi’s karma and thus hoped to minimize unnecessary sins. Moreover, letting these people leave would reduce conflict.

Besides, even if Wang Xi had become a demon, she was not one deeply entangled in killing.

As soon as Shen Lezhi spoke, her words were both a threat and an opportunity. Many people hesitated. Of the three major sects outside the Xuan Yu Sect, Director Zhuxin of You Fang Academy glanced at Feng Nianzhen, who had arrived unnoticed, and sent a spiritual message to her disciples not to fight Immortal Venerable Jiyue, ordering them to immediately descend the mountain.

This was not solely because of Feng Nianzhen. The Xuan Yu Sect Leader, Fan Tianyin, had a similar cultivation level to theirs but was utterly helpless against Wang Xi. What right did they have to contend with Wang Xi?

As the Four Great Sects had developed to this day, they were all constrained by various forces. If they suffered heavy losses here, their status in the cultivation world would inevitably be shaken.

With You Fang Academy taking the lead, the others followed suit somewhat courteously, quickly taking their disciples down the mountain.

But before the crowd could leave the arena, the entire Xuan Yu Sect suddenly shook violently.

The crowd instinctively looked back at Wang Xi and Shen Lezhi, assuming they were the cause.

Yet, they saw confusion in the expressions of the two women.

Wang Xi then recalled the last words the Sect Leader spoke to the statue in her memory, and a sudden ominous feeling rose in her heart.

She raised her hand, hugged Shen Lezhi, and flew higher on her sword, encompassing the entire Xuan Yu Sect in her view.

This also allowed Wang Xi to see the cause of the upheaval.

From within the main peak of the Xuan Yu Sect, lumps of flesh were surging out of the mountain. The crimson, seemingly dripping-blood lumps of flesh wrapped around the entire main peak at an alarming speed.

Standing high above the sky, Shen Lezhi saw it clearly. A wave of nausea surged through her, and she could not help but ask, “What exactly is that?”

Wang Xi lowered her eyes, her voice chillingly sharp: “Qi Xuanyu.”

Qi Xuanyu?

Shen Lezhi was utterly shocked.

This ugly, nauseating, massive lump of flesh was actually Qi Xuanyu?

“These were cultivated with the core blood of the Exquisite Heart. It was Qi Xuanyu’s method for reshaping her body, but it ended up growing into this monstrous form,” Wang Xi explained coldly.

As her words fell, the lump of flesh let out a deafening human cry: “Exquisite Heart! My Exquisite Heart!”

Qi Xuanyu had died long ago, and her remnant soul had, in fact, already dispersed. What was imprinted in the soul consciousness of every Sect Leader was merely a twisted curse.

The lump of flesh before them was nothing more than a monster twisted by its obsession with the Exquisite Heart.

But the lump of flesh continued to expand, relentlessly growing toward Shen Lezhi and Wang Xi, as if it perfectly knew Wang Xi’s location.

Seeing this, Shen Lezhi suppressed her nausea and glanced at Wang Xi.

Her soul consciousness dove into Wang Xi’s spiritual platform—a movement both were already familiar with.

During their thirty years of dual cultivation, Shen Lezhi discovered that they could briefly borrow each other’s spiritual energy during the practice.

This method was not part of the Dual Cultivation technique, but perhaps because of the Exquisite Heart, Shen Lezhi could smoothly borrow Wang Xi’s spiritual energy.

This was discovered after Wang Xi repeatedly circulated spiritual energy through Shen Lezhi’s meridians when the latter was exhausted, helping her recover her strength before they continued their lovemaking.

However, Shen Lezhi’s meridians could not endure it for too long.

After borrowing the spiritual energy, Shen Lezhi mobilized her Divine Wood Spiritual Root. All the wood spirits and spiritual plants on the main peak responded to her. She turned large trees into sturdy cages and intertwined vines into binding ropes. All the wood spirits rapidly swelled in an instant, tightly trapping the lump of flesh within the main peak.

But she could not fully control the lump of flesh on her own. While Shen Lezhi persisted, Feng Nianzhen was already on the main peak, lighting up her artifact, and a large formation immediately descended.

“What, have you all become so used to watching the show that you don’t want to deal with this evil thing?” Feng Nianzhen looked at the Sect Masters of the Three Great Sects, who were preparing to leave, and said loudly, “If this thing can destroy the Xuan Yu Sect today, it might spread to your territories tomorrow.”

Although this lump of flesh appeared in the Xuan Yu Sect, its astonishing demonic energy and bloody stench shook people’s hearts.

If left unchecked, no one knew what extent it might grow to.

The Four Great Sects inherently had the responsibility to guard the common people, and they had to put on a show of it. Seeing that someone had spoken up, they ignored Feng Nianzhen’s harsh words and moved forward to block the lump of flesh.

But the damp, bloody stench of the lump of flesh was not just unpleasant; the invading odor surprisingly carried immense spiritual energy.

This feeling was somewhat similar to the spiritual energy of the Exquisite Heart.

However, the lump of flesh before them was far more sinister, causing a wave of unstoppable nausea in people’s hearts.

The group jointly attacked the lump of flesh trapped by Shen Lezhi and Feng Nianzhen, only to find that as soon as they attacked, the lump of flesh would turn to strike them back. Their spells were completely ineffective against it; even the pure fire spells of Ru Feng Manor could not incinerate it.

The people were secretly alarmed. The lump of flesh was visibly expanding. A thin layer of sweat seeped from Shen Lezhi’s forehead. The thing seemed to be constantly devouring the surrounding spiritual energy, and its growth speed was terrifying.

Wang Xi then raised the Azure Dragon Sword. The snow in the sky grew heavier and heavier. Everything on the main peak began to freeze, and the sky suddenly turned dark.

Black clouds gathered at the tip of the Azure Dragon Sword. Behind the clouds were bursts of dragon roars and fiercely descending streaks of pale blue lightning, smashing onto the lump of flesh.

Wang Xi’s entire body was completely encased in ice. Even the air she exhaled instantly condensed into ice shards.

Since dual cultivating with her, Shen Lezhi rarely felt such cold—a cold that made her brain unable to think and every part of her body numb.

Wang Xi’s spiritual energy had enveloped the entire Xuan Yu Sect. Even the cultivators who were not within the main peak area and were about to leave felt their consciousness blurring from the cold.

The Sect Masters of the Three Great Sects mobilized all their spiritual energy to resist this cold, but the chill, which seemed to penetrate the soul, did not diminish in the slightest.

Until the entire main peak was frozen by Wang Xi, the terrifying lump of flesh was similarly frozen within it, as if all sound had ceased.

All things seemed to be frozen at this moment. The ice layer enveloped the entire main peak, and then the sound of ice shattering began to echo, a dense, continuous sound entering everyone’s ears.

This sound lasted for a full half-incense stick of time. The ice on the main peak suddenly shattered.

Along with all living things on the main peak, and the twisted, terrifying lump of flesh, everything instantly fragmented into a sky full of ice shards.

The coldness finally subsided. Wang Xi reached out and embraced the weak Shen Lezhi. The frost between her eyebrows had stained her eyes, and Shen Lezhi could not see a trace of emotion in them.

She truly resembled the cold ice, indifferent to all feelings.

Shen Lezhi grabbed her sleeve and suddenly said, “I want to go see the spiritual plants I planted in the Xuan Yu Sect. I wonder if they are still okay?”

She had been gone for more than thirty years. If no one had taken care of them, those spiritual plants would have long withered.

But the ruthless ice before her heard her words. The frost in her eyes rapidly melted, and Shen Lezhi finally saw the warmth in Wang Xi’s eyes.

“Alright,” Wang Xi answered softly.

After she finished speaking, she no longer cared about the people and affairs here, directly embracing Shen Lezhi and flying on her sword to the back mountain where the latter had planted the spiritual plants at that time.

Her speed was extremely fast. In just a few breaths, the two had reached their destination.

Shen Lezhi saw a patch of growing spiritual fields from afar and was pleasantly surprised to find that her spiritual plants were all thriving. Even the uncultivated barren land was now covered with plants.

Shen Lezhi immediately thought of Senior Sister Qi. It must have been Senior Sister Qi who had been taking care of this place.

Shen Lezhi was so happy that she did not wait for Wang Xi to put her down, immediately channeling her spiritual energy and running into the spiritual fields.

Her Divine Wood Spiritual Root manifested, and the surrounding spiritual plants all expressed their joy towards her.

Shen Lezhi reassured her little crybaby (her wood spirit) not to be jealous while communicating with the spiritual plants.

Wang Xi watched her happy, smiling figure from behind and involuntarily showed a slight smile.

The heavy snow on the Xuan Yu Sect finally stopped.

Sunlight pierced through the clouds, allowing people to finally feel a trace of warmth.

[End of Main Story]