The Cannon Fodder Female Supporting Character Captured the Villainous Demon Venerable - Chapter 66

Chapter 66: Heavenly Secrets Must Not Be Divulged.

Wen Yuchan knew the reason for Yun Wushang’s fall to the demonic path, and naturally, she knew she liked women.

After Yun Qianchong confirmed this point, she no longer had any reservations and told Wen Yuchan the complete sequence of events.

After listening, Wen Yuchan first sighed, then spoke calmly: “Yun Qianchong, for a cultivator at our level, even if you can’t see through the duality of life and understand all matters, you should know the principle that everything has a cause and effect.”

“There is a cause, thus there is an effect. There is an effect, thus there must be a cause.”

“Yun Wushang killed Luo Baozhu to avenge herself.”

“Luo Baozhu imprisoned Yun Wushang in the tower to avenge her senior sister.”

“And the rumors came from your three disciples.”

“But why did your three disciples know about it? It’s because you failed to discover Yun Wushang’s worries in time, and you didn’t set up a protective restriction for her when she confided in you.”

“Yes,” Yun Qianchong admitted. “That’s why I wanted to kill her myself, to completely end this karma.”

“Why must you end this karma? And what gives you the right to end this karma?” Wen Yuchan questioned calmly. “If you want to protect the immortal cultivation world, Yun Wushang has clearly told you she has no intention of being an enemy to it. If you want to avenge your three disciples, you are blaming the effect you planted on Yun Wushang. It’s reversing cause and effect. The essence is making Yun Wushang bear the fault caused by your own dereliction of duty. Why?”

Yun Qianchong remained silent, her eyes seemingly deep in thought.

Wen Yuchan stared at her for a while, realizing the crux of the problem: “You listen to my words, but you don’t believe half a word of Yun Wushang’s. We are mere acquaintances, yet she spent hundreds of years with you on the same mountain. Why? Is it just because she is a demon? Or is it because she likes women?”

“The former,” Yun Qianchong replied. “I don’t want to bring up who she likes, but the fact that she fell to the demonic path is undeniable. She abandoned the Heavenly Dao, discarded her Dao Heart, and her mental state changed drastically. Her nature is completely different from before. I’d like to ask you, why do you trust the current her?”

“Because I also fell to the demonic path,” Wen Yuchan stated lightly.

Yun Qianchong looked at her in astonishment, unable to regain her composure for a long time.

Wen Yuchan glanced at her, confirming the source of the problem: “Like everyone else, you have a deep misunderstanding of demonic cultivators. This is not strange. Everyone in the immortal cultivation world is busy improving their cultivation. When have they ever researched why people fall to the demonic path, and what exactly is the ‘difference’ between immortals and demons?”

Yun Qianchong: “You said you fell to the demonic path… What do you mean?”

It was always heard that immortal cultivators fell and transformed into demons, but never that a demon reverted to an immortal.

Wen Yuchan: “When I said both Yun Wushang and Mo Xun saved my life, this is what I was referring to.”

Wen Yuchan recounted how she had partially fallen due to strong emotional fluctuations and deviating from her Dao Heart, how she struggled for decades with Yun Wushang’s help, and was finally completely saved by Mo Xun.

Then she added: “Based on my own experience, falling to the demonic path does not change a person’s fundamental nature. Even after becoming a demon, I was still myself. I would still eliminate evil and promote good, only perhaps in a different way, with fewer reservations when eliminating evil.”

“Yun Wushang fell to the demonic path, not because she wanted to kill, but because she was disappointed in her three senior sisters, and in you.”

Hearing this, Yun Qianchong fell silent again, her eyes growing very complex.

Her Dao was the “Righteous Path of the World,” the “Punishing Evil and Promoting Good,” the “Great Dao is Ruthless.” She had decided that demonic cultivators were evil. She wanted to abandon the bond of master and disciple, mother and daughter, and eliminate this Demon Venerable who ruled the Demon Realm, the strongest demon, while simultaneously bringing an end to past grievances.

Now, suddenly, she was being told that not all demonic cultivators were evil?

Wen Yuchan: “We still don’t know why cultivators fall to the demonic path. Different people have different reasons, but what is certain is that ‘committing evil’ is not the inducing factor. A more likely factor is intense emotional fluctuation.

When a cultivator commits evil, whether it’s plundering or killing, if they don’t believe they did anything wrong, they won’t fall to the demonic path. You and I have both killed cultivators. We should be very clear that not all cultivators are good. Given that, what right do we have to assert that all demonic cultivators are evil?”

Yun Qianchong was speechless, unable to refute.

Seeing that she had no intention of saying anything, Wen Yuchan continued: “Furthermore, demons cannot be completely eradicated. Cultivators fall to the demonic path every day in the immortal cultivation world.

Killing one Demon Venerable will only give rise to the next, and the attitude of the next Demon Venerable toward the immortal cultivation world is uncertain. Yun Qianchong, if your spiritual eyes aren’t completely blind, you should be able to see that the most turbulent decades in the immortal cultivation world were precisely the decades before Yun Wushang became the Demon Venerable and ruled the Demon Realm.”

Hearing this, Yun Qianchong sighed and closed her eyes.

Luo Baozhu had questioned why she knew nothing. Mo Xun had questioned if her spiritual sense was blind. Yun Wushang said she had been blind for hundreds of years, and now even Wen Yuchan thought she was blind.

Perhaps, she really was blind.

Yun Qianchong: “…Forget it.”

Wen Yuchan looked at her: “Do you still plan to kill Yun Wushang?”

Yun Qianchong: “Does that question still matter? The current me can’t kill her even if I wanted to.”

Wen Yuchan: “Whether you can kill is one thing; whether you want to is another.”

Yun Qianchong: “…”

Yun Qianchong: “…”

Wen Yuchan: “Speaking of which, don’t you think this Immortal-Demon War was suspicious? As if someone intentionally instigated it.”

Yun Qianchong: “What do you mean?”

Wen Yuchan: “So you haven’t lost your voice yet.”

Yun Qianchong: “…”

Mo Xun and Yun Wushang returned to their cave dwelling and entered the Dual-Polarity Nest.

Yun Wushang lay motionless on the bed for a while, then suddenly began talking about her past with Yun Qianchong.

Those memories, which had faded to yellow, were sometimes beautiful, sometimes sad, sometimes angry. Mo Xun sat beside her, listening patiently throughout.

Yun Wushang: “…Without her, I would have died on that mountain, leaving no corpse behind. She taught me to read, taught me to cultivate, taught me everything she could, so… I don’t hate her.”

Mo Xun hummed in acknowledgment.

Yun Wushang had told her the same thing before she reached the Soul Transformation stage. She had always been clear about the feelings Yun Wushang held for Yun Qianchong, only today she learned more details.

“However, there is another reason why I spared her life and the lives of those few Great Ascension stage cultivators,” Yun Wushang finally added. “The demons in the Demon Realm are not easy to deal with. If eight Great Ascension stage cultivators had perished all at once, the immortal cultivation world would have been in chaos tomorrow.”

“Why are you still thinking about the immortal cultivation world?” Mo Xun chuckled. “Although I also don’t want the immortal cultivation world to fall into chaos, I don’t want you to be unhappy even more. If you wanted to kill those eight Great Ascension stage cultivators, you should have killed them. If there are unruly demons in the Demon Realm, you can kill them too. I once said I didn’t like you killing people, but I only meant I didn’t like you wantonly killing the innocent. Now, I know you won’t. So, you can kill. All of them.”

Yun Wushang looked at her, her lips curving upward with her: “After I fell to the demonic path, I truly didn’t care about the immortal cultivation world for a long time, but now, there are people I care about in the immortal cultivation world again.”

Mo Xun knew she was referring to Master Bai Muqing and her senior sisters at the Water Moon Immortal Gate, and gently acknowledged her with an “Mm.”

The Immortal-Demon War was not Mo Xun and Yun Wushang’s desire, but through it, both gained significant insights, boosting their cultivation considerably just through meditation.

A few days later, someone visited the Demon Realm, and the two had to leave the Dual-Polarity Nest to greet the guest.

The visitor was Wen Yuchan.

She gave Mo Xun a brocade pouch containing ten million spirit stones, and gave Yun Wushang ten bottles of Demonic Essence Pills, and hundreds of demonic crystals of varying sizes.

Mo Xun and Yun Wushang were slightly bewildered after receiving the gifts.

Yun Wushang narrowed her eyes and said: “What is the meaning of this? Are you cutting ties with me?”

Wen Yuchan wore a helpless expression: “Can’t you think of something good… I’ve come to atone.”

“Atone?” Yun Wushang looked even more confused. Mo Xun was thoughtful, vaguely guessing something, but was unsure.

Wen Yuchan took half a step back and bowed to the two: “Yuchan has said that both of you have given Yuchan the grace of a new life. I had no means to repay you, only with my life, but due to insufficient strength, I couldn’t break into the Heavenly Mountain Immortal Gate to rescue you, causing both of you to suffer grievances.”

“You truly aren’t a match for Yun Qianchong and Luo Baozhu,” Yun Wushang accepted the brocade pouch. “It’s fine. I never expected you to fight the entire immortal cultivation world for me.”

“No. If I had simply watched Yun Qianchong kill you, I would not be worthy of following the path of eliminating evil and promoting good. Therefore, if there is a next time, even if I have to fall to the demonic path, I will fight for you,” Wen Yuchan replied very firmly.

She was solitary by nature, preferring to travel alone, and never participated in large-scale conflicts. She didn’t participate in the last Immortal-Demon War. The reason she participated this time was her worry that Yun Wushang couldn’t win, and she was ready to switch sides at any moment. She didn’t expect that after a few years, Yun Wushang and Mo Xun had become so powerful that they didn’t give her a chance to intervene. Thus, she could only find an opportunity to come and atone.

“Also, there is one more matter.” Without waiting for Yun Wushang’s response, Wen Yuchan immediately continued: “Before the Immortal-Demon War, although Yun Qianchong wanted to take your life, she had no intention of coming to the Demon Realm to kill you; otherwise, she would have come a year ago. During this entire year, the immortal cultivation world had been quiet, yet recently, someone suddenly incited Great Ascension stage cultivators to provoke the Immortal-Demon War. The matter is suspicious.”

Yun Wushang: “Explain.”

Wen Yuchan: “Could we speak somewhere else? I cannot stay in the Demon Realm for too long.”

Mo Xun: “Then let’s go to our home.”

Wen Yuchan: ?

Mo Xun sought Yun Wushang’s agreement and then led Wen Yuchan into the Dual-Polarity Nest, gave her a chair, and let her sit on the side rich in spiritual energy.

Demonic energy can incite the desires in one’s heart. Not all immortal cultivators have a firm temperament like Mo Xun. Wen Yuchan had a history of partial demonic fall, so the Demon Realm was very dangerous for her. Staying too long risked falling to the demonic path again. Therefore, she wouldn’t have come to the Demon Realm personally unless there was an important matter to discuss.

Indeed, after sitting down, Wen Yuchan adopted a serious expression and tone: “Do you know about the City of Shadows?”

“The City of Shadows?” Mo Xun hadn’t heard of it.

Yun Wushang pondered for a moment and said: “Are you referring to the City of Shadows where Ghost Immortals stay?”

Wen Yuchan: “Yes. Legend says that after high-level cultivators perish and cannot find their body for resurrection for a long time, they cultivate into Ghost Immortals. Ghost Immortals are even more dangerous than demonic cultivators, because they not only possess resentment from the afterlife, making their hostility profound, but they are also immune to many attacks, making them difficult for cultivators to handle.

The Heavenly Dao established the City of Shadows to constrain Ghost Immortals, sending condemned immortals there to atone by capturing Ghost Immortals.”

“What does this have to do with the Immortal-Demon War?” Yun Wushang frowned slightly.

Mo Xun was also utterly confused, listening quietly with her ears perked up.

“I was just about to say,” Wen Yuchan continued at her own pace, unhurriedly. “Ever since I broke through to the Great Ascension stage, I can always see a kind of black energy. It is neither demonic energy nor malevolent energy, but ghost energy. Following the ghost energy, I found the location of the legendary City of Shadows. Recently, the ghost energy there has been surging, indicating some kind of upheaval, and the two spiritual roots that Ghost Immortals fear most are Lightning and Ice.”

Hearing this, the confusion on Yun Wushang’s face turned to realization: “You think the City of Shadows is plotting something and wants to use Great Ascension stage cultivators to eliminate me before they act, to prevent me from ruining their plans?”

“Yes,” Wen Yuchan nodded. “It’s also possible that some high-level cultivator who died by your hand has cultivated into a Ghost Immortal and reached some kind of deal with the City of Shadows. In any case, nothing happened for a whole year, and as soon as the City of Shadows showed signs of unusual activity, a group of Great Ascension stage cultivators stirred up trouble at the Heavenly Mountain Immortal Gate, inciting Yun Qianchong to launch the Immortal-Demon War. I find it hard to believe the two matters are unrelated.”

Yun Wushang touched her chin, deep in thought.

Mo Xun recalled the high-level cultivators who had died by Yun Wushang’s and her own hands in recent years… there truly were quite a few.

The highest-ranked was likely Luo Baozhu, followed by Nightmare Demon. But Nightmare Demon died in Luo Baozhu’s Nine Heavens Demon Suppressing Pagoda and should have been annihilated, body and soul.

Could it be Luo Baozhu? If it really was her, then that was literally a vengeful ghost that could not be dispelled…

Wait.

Black energy? Ice Spiritual Root?

Mo Xun suddenly realized something, recalling the second scene she saw when she first broke through to the Great Ascension stage: “May I ask, do Ghost Immortals lack a fixed body and appear as a mass of humanoid black energy?”

“Why do you ask?” Wen Yuchan looked at her.

Mo Xun pondered for a moment, finally recounting the scene she saw, but without mentioning the layer of ice covering Yun Qianchong’s sword: “When I broke through to the Great Ascension stage, I saw black shadows fighting a cultivator, and I was involved in the fight as well.”

“That confirms it,” Wen Yuchan’s eyes lit up. “Although I haven’t seen a Ghost Immortal, it makes perfect sense that they lack a physical body and are composed entirely of ghost energy. You actually awakened the power of Precognition. That is excellent! Otherwise, going to the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion to ask for information would cost you hundreds of millions of spirit stones.”

Mo Xun: Hundreds of millions of spirit stones… The Heavenly Mystery Pavilion is ruthless!

But thinking about it, the ability to know the affairs of the world is not something everyone can awaken.

The question then was: “I only saw some scenes when I broke through to the Great Ascension stage… Can the power of Precognition be activated actively?”

“Yes, but different people have different limitations,” Wen Yuchan replied. “If you wish to activate the power of precognition, you can try to calm your mind and contemplate the Heavenly Dao, not to improve your cultivation, but only to approach the truth. When you feel close enough to the Heavenly Dao, silently recite what you seek in your heart. However, not everything can be spoken out loud. Some matters, once revealed, will change the course of the future, drawing you into a karma that should not have existed, leading to a severe backlash. This is why heavenly secrets must not be divulged.”

“Thank you for your guidance, Senior. I will try it right away.”

Saying this, Mo Xun immediately flew to her bed and sat cross-legged in meditation.

If she could truly activate precognition, she wanted to know when those black figures would appear, so she could gauge how much time she had to prepare the necessary things in seclusion.

She calmed her mind, reviewed her Dao in her heart, endlessly approaching it, feeling it, and then continuously recited what she sought.

Several hours later, the Heavenly Dao responded to her.

After two years, she finally saw a vision from the future again.

However, she didn’t seem to be able to see exactly what she wanted.

In this vision, she didn’t see those black shadows. Instead, she saw Yun Qianchong again.

She saw Yun Qianchong kneeling in front of Yun Wushang.

Yun Wushang in the vision was wearing a snow-white robe, clean and bright, like a celestial immortal.

Yun Qianchong in the vision had blood stains on her light-gold robe, looking somewhat disheveled.

Yun Wushang looked down at Yun Qianchong, her expression showing alertness, but more so shock and confusion.

Yun Qianchong kept her head lowered, ignoring Yun Wushang’s expression. She spoke independently, her voice trembling slightly: “Mo Xun was right. I was confused about right and wrong, aiding the wicked in their evildoing… I have no face to call myself your Master anymore. I was wrong. I’m sorry.”