My Demon Lord Junior Sister Is Pretending to Be Good to Seduce Me - Chapter 48

The third round of the Deer-Chasing Battle finally came down to a real fight.

Entering the Raksha Forest on the border of the Abyssal Pit of Ninefold Malevolence, half of survival is fate, and the other half is held in one’s own hands.

Before entering the Raksha Forest, the participating disciples were each given a jade token. With this token, the elders could observe the situation inside the Raksha Forest through the Floating Life Mirror.

Furthermore, if a disciple encountered danger, crushing the jade token would allow them to leave the Raksha Forest and return to White Emperor City.

The Raksha Forest was shrouded in a dense fog. The dark purple sky hung heavily over the withered trees. Crows perched on branches, looked around, and took flight.

Lin Yumo narrowed her eyes and looked up at the sky. After a long while, she finally saw the overlapping figures of the crows.

She lowered her head, gripping the Drunken Immortal Sword tightly. Her gaze fell on a withered tree close by, but the single tree blurred into two in her vision, indistinct and unreal.

She suddenly paused.

Ban Xiao and Jiang Lanshan?

Weren’t those who lost the competition forbidden from entering the Raksha Forest?

Entering the Raksha territory privately not only represented poor governance by the sect but also risked death in the Raksha Forest.

She squinted her eyes again, pressing her fingertip against the corner of her eye to pull it up, but the two figures she thought she saw were already gone.

She rubbed her temples and let it go, assuming she must have been mistaken.

“Fellow Daoist Lin! Save me!” Li Shuangjiang flew towards Lin Yumo and crashed into her arms, bringing both of them down to the ground.

“Get up!” Lin Yumo said irritably. She was completely bewildered by Li Shuangjiang’s pounce.

After she stood up, she realized that what was chasing Li Shuangjiang was a Green-Tailed Golden Scorpion, though much smaller than the one she had seen in Qingzhou.

It seemed the scorpions in the Raksha Forest were indeed inferior to those raised by the Qiu family in the Abyssal Pit of Ninefold Malevolence.

Lin Yumo stood up, used the Drunken Immortal Sword to shield Mu Xuewei, and pulled her back slightly.

The Green-Tailed Golden Scorpion was half the height of a person. Blood was dripping from the barbs on its tail, landing on its purple shell.

“Let’s go,” she said.

“Hey, hey, hey! Aren’t we going to fight, Fellow Daoist Lin?” Li Shuangjiang followed behind.

“It’s guarding a medicinal herb in its territory. As long as we don’t get close, it won’t choose to attack us,” Lin Yumo said. “After all, in its eyes, we aren’t as valuable as that herb.”

“Oh—so there’s that! Does Fellow Daoist Lin know what herb it’s guarding?”

“Silk Pearl Grass.” Lin Yumo stopped abruptly after speaking. She turned sideways to look at the Green-Tailed Golden Scorpion, a hint of alarm in her eyes.

Silk Pearl Grass was the last ingredient needed for the Soul-Banishing Pill, which was used to feed the Butterfly Demon in Shili Langdang.

However, the alchemist at the time had not yet successfully tested the formula.

This meant the Demon Clan already knew the original formula for the Soul-Banishing Pill.

Was it Mu Li?

The formula for the Soul-Banishing Pill was what she had given Qiu Ruixi as part of their transaction that day.

She held her sword, which was still in its sheath, when a blurred afterimage suddenly rushed toward the Green-Tailed Golden Scorpion.

The Green-Tailed Golden Scorpion didn’t even have time to react before it was sliced in half down the middle. Along with it, the Silk Pearl Grass also vanished.

In the blink of an eye, the afterimage disappeared.

“What’s wrong?” Li Shuangjiang waved a hand in front of Lin Yumo’s eyes.

“Nothing. Let’s leave this place.” She turned around and led Mu Xuewei away.

A trembling hand was covered by a warm one, held tightly in hers.

They had come to the Raksha Forest not only to survive for three days and two nights but also to scout out the Demon Clan’s true strength.

But clearly, that demon just now was not someone they could handle; not killing them was an act of mercy.

The fog in the Raksha Forest slightly dissipated, and the view ahead became clearer. However, this clarity didn’t last long, as the sky quickly darkened, making the purple of the Raksha Forest seem even more oppressive.

A purple ice crystal suddenly fell from the sky. It felt wet and somewhat sticky on the skin, but when she looked up, it was indeed a thin, ice-like fragment.

“Fellow Daoist Lin, I’m going to check the north side of the Demon Clan’s Raksha Forest. Farewell.” Li Shuangjiang said.

Lin Yumo nodded, “Farewell.”

She led Mu Xuewei into a cave in the Raksha Forest and used a talisman to illuminate the whole cave.

Mu Xuewei looked at Lin Yumo, her grey eyes somewhat tender, “Senior Sister,”

She averted her gaze, looking at the ice crystals falling outside the cave, and remained silent for a moment.

Lin Yumo played with the pouch at her waist, mostly guessing what she meant, and spoke, “This place… is quite close to the Demon Clan, huh…”

“Are all demons supposed to die?” Mu Xuewei’s silver eyelashes fluttered, unsure of what to say to that.

Lin Yumo was silent.

After a long pause, she said, “They used to be.”

“Later, I met someone, and I felt that the Demon Clan and the Immortal Families were the same—they have good people and bad people.”

“Who was that person?” Mu Xuewei asked softly, unsure who had changed her Senior Sister’s mind.

Lin Yumo turned her head to look at her, gazing at her back, her expression moved, and she let out a soft laugh without saying who it was.

She wasn’t being honest.

Mu Xuewei lowered her head and changed the subject, “Senior Sister, can we get out of here alive?”

“Rumble—” A purple bolt of lightning struck, and at the same time, a red and purple disc suddenly rose, suspended in mid-air, spinning continuously.

Lin Yumo stood up, looking at the red and purple intermingling in the distance, and smiled, “Of course. If we run into a powerful demon, crushing the jade token is also a way out…”

She subconsciously touched her waist, but it was empty.

Her jade token was gone!

When did that happen?

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