The Cool and Aloof Immortal Master Has Fallen to the Demonic Path (Transmigration) - Chapter 29

Chapter 29

Shen Yuehua finally noticed this little demon. She originally thought it was just an irrelevant little demon following Shen Yin, but now it seemed otherwise. This demon was very protective of Shen Yin, and she was very familiar with Shen Yin’s Half-Divine Artifact.

The spiritual consciousness of the Purple Jade Whip was different from the artifacts in their hands. Any spiritual object, even if it possessed a spiritual consciousness, could only transform into human form when close to a Divine Artifact. Even then, it needed to rely on its original body for a long time. But the Purple Jade Whip was different. Its spiritual consciousness had long been devoured by an Evil Spirit, and it preferred to transform into human form.

“Senior Sister, who is this?” She asked about Yi Hu’s origin.

Shen Yin reached out and pulled Yi Hu behind her. Shen Yuehua was somewhat surprised. This was the first time she had seen Shen Yin protect a demon.

Yi Hu’s demonic energy was faint, but she was indeed a demon.

Shen Yuehua would not mistake this.

She was the Sect Master of the Immortal Spirit Sect. It would be ridiculous to mistake a small demon.

Yet, she clearly looked very weak, with not much spiritual energy in her body, but she actually couldn’t figure out what kind of demon Yi Hu was.

Shen Yin was still respectful to her. She glanced at Yi Hu and replied: “Sect Master, I need a disciple.”

“Impossible.” Before Shen Yuehua could speak, Feng Lingyuan had already jumped in to refuse Shen Yin’s request. It wasn’t that she was targeting Shen Yin, but cultivators and demons were, after all, two completely different ways of cultivation. The Immortal Spirit Sect had never had a precedent for accepting a demon as a disciple. The Immortal Spirit Sect did have demons, but they were mostly mounts under the various Elders’ names, mostly demons that had just gained sentience and were far from transforming into human form.

The Immortal Spirit Sect did have an unconventional disciple, which others did not know about, and that was Feng Lingyuan of the Ancient Spirit race.

However, although the Ancient Spirit race transformed from spiritual herbs, their constitution was no different from humans after absorbing the essence of heaven and earth. They could take the path of cultivators, and no one would discover it.

But demons were different. The Immortal Spirit Sect might not even have cultivation methods for demons. Shen Yin was an Elder of the Immortal Spirit Sect and the Master of the Southeast Region. Although the Southeast was in decline, it was still a legacy. If Shen Yin insisted on taking a demon as a disciple, Feng Lingyuan, as the Chief Elder of the Immortal Spirit Sect, had the right to stop her.

Shen Yin understood the difficulty of the matter. If she had brought Yi Hu back to the Immortal Spirit Sect before, it would have been a great favor to her. After this trip to the Walled City, she wanted to give Yi Hu more, such as the identity of a proper Immortal Spirit Sect disciple.

She knew that many places in the Immortal Spirit Sect were only accessible to inner disciples. She wanted to plan some conveniences for Yi Hu.

Shen Yuehua was not as adamantly against her as Feng Lingyuan. She first scrutinized Yi Hu up and down, beckoned to Feng Lingyuan, and handed her the bottle of elixir Liu Changxi had given her: “Yuan’er, take this little demon to find Si Rou. I ran into her earlier in the southwest. Her meridians were sealed by Senior Sister, so the poison hasn’t spread. Now that the Spider Demon is injured, the poison should be easy to expel. Plus, the elixir given by the Young Sect Master of the Medicine Sect will nourish her body. Although there’s no spider blood, it shouldn’t matter.”

She didn’t just “run into” her. Shen Yuehua could easily sense the aura of the Immortal Spirit Sect. She had asked Si Rou about her situation.

Logically, when poisoned by the spider, one should first seal the meridians to prevent the poison from spreading, and then obtain the Spider Demon’s blood to draw the spider poison out of the body. Since there was no spider blood now, they could only trouble Feng Lingyuan to do it. Although it would slightly damage Si Rou’s foundation, the good things given by Liu Changxi should make up for it.

“I have some.” Shen Yin originally came to find a method to cure Si Rou, so she naturally didn’t forget about it. She had even used the Spider Demon’s blood for the guiding method, so she naturally had some.

She condensed the Spider Demon’s blood into a blood-stone and handed it to Feng Lingyuan. Feng Lingyuan accepted the stone, her expression somewhat unnatural: “And Senior Sister?”

“I have some things I want to discuss with Senior Sister alone.”

Feng Lingyuan was stunned. She looked at Shen Yuehua: “Can’t I listen?”

She was a little out of line.

Shen Yuehua was the Sect Master. Her actions and decisions were not for Feng Lingyuan to question. Even though she was the Chief Elder of the Immortal Spirit Sect, she shouldn’t question Shen Yuehua like this.

But the loneliness in her eyes was exceptionally clear. Shen Yin couldn’t quite understand. She wasn’t close to Feng Lingyuan, and she had grown somewhat distant from Shen Yuehua over the years. Although she still called her “Senior Sister” and allowed her to call her “Yuehua” as before, there was a gap between them.

She was still thinking about whether to remind the Chief Elder about her impropriety when Shen Yuehua preempted her: “Yuan’er, you are overstepping your bounds.”

Shen Yuehua’s tone remained faint. Feng Lingyuan looked up at her and stopped talking.

She grabbed Yi Hu and headed southwest to find Si Rou. Yi Hu was startled and panicked when grabbed. Shen Yin tapped her toes, about to follow, but was pulled back by Shen Yuehua before she could move.

She pursed her lips and said to Zi Ying: “You go follow them.”

Zi Ying was unwilling, but her body had already flown out uncontrollably.

Shen Yuehua’s flat tone held some confusion: “Senior Sister is willing to trust that Evil Spirit, but doesn’t trust Yuan’er? Why?”

Zi Ying’s curses came from a distance. Shen Yin slightly clenched her knuckles: “I am her master, after all.”

Even though Zi Ying was constantly thinking about devouring her master, she could still control her somewhat.

As for Feng Lingyuan, she didn’t like her.

Shen Yuehua would not blame her for this, nor would she blame Feng Lingyuan for her hostility toward Shen Yin.

She was the Sect Master and understood how to maintain balance. Her heart held a scale, and she dared not show favoritism.

Furthermore, she knew where the problem lay.

Shen Yin didn’t trust Feng Lingyuan because Feng Lingyuan was usually very cold to her. Feng Lingyuan was cold to Shen Yin because she mistakenly thought she had feelings for Shen Yin.

There was no other way but to respond to the affection, but… she didn’t understand Feng Lingyuan’s affection for her. Was it because she was Shen Yuehua, or because of the Spirit Cultivating Flower bloodline in her body?

The Ancient Spirit race, the twin flowers, always came and went together and would naturally be drawn to each other. That’s why the sisterly bond had always been excellent. However, this bloodline, even in another person, would still create a connection.

Perhaps, that was a false form of emotion.

These things could not be told to Shen Yin.

She collected her emotions and said sternly: “Has Senior Sister considered the Immortal Spirit Sect has never had a precedent of a demon entering the sect as a disciple? Excluding the Demon Sect, looking at all forty-two major and thirty-six minor sects, none of them have demons as disciples. Demons and humans have different methods of cultivation.”

As for the Demon Sect, it was mostly formed by fallen immortals and fallen demons. Who would care about identity there?

She used the Immortal Spirit Sect to pressure Shen Yin. Shen Yin then used Jing Shu to counter her: “The Old Sect Master once said that all living beings should be treated equally.”

Jing Shu often spoke great principles. She herself didn’t fully remember them after speaking them so often, but Shen Yin remembered every word.

“A sect cannot stand without rules.”

Seeing that Jing Shu’s golden words couldn’t open the door of Shen Yuehua’s mind, Shen Yin could only sigh lightly: “I want to keep her.”

She no longer spoke great principles to Shen Yuehua, her tone was direct.

Shen Yuehua still tried to negotiate with her: “Then how about having her as a mount?”

Setting aside whether Yi Hu was suitable to be a mount, from her heart, she didn’t want her to be a mount.

“I want her to be no different from any other disciple.”

“Yuehua has never seen Senior Sister care so much about a demon.”

“Didn’t the Old Sect Master say that all living beings are the same?”

Shen Yin was using Jing Shu’s words to evade her again. Did Shen Yin always silently recite every word Jing Shu had said in her mind during her free time so that she could remember every sentence and use it at any time?

“But Senior Sister has compassion for living beings, and also indifference to living beings, that coldness of a deity.”

Shen Yin paused: “Yuehua is blaming me.”

She had mentioned it to Shen Yin many times, but everything remained the same. After she became the Young Sect Master, she never called her “Yuehua” again, always using “unconventional” to block her.

Now, in order to keep that little demon, she called her “Yuehua.”

Shen Yuehua knew that she cared about Yi Hu, but she deliberately teased her: “How could I? In this world, looking at the entire Immortal Spirit Sect, Senior Sister is the only person Yuehua can rely on.”

She had known Shen Yin since childhood. She and Shen Yin grew up together. She was an orphan and was only close to Jing Shu and Shen Yin before. Even Bai Ruxue was not as close to them because of Mo Tianji’s obstruction.

When Mo Tianji wanted to use Zi Ying to harm Shen Yin, she almost lived in the Sutra Repository with Shen Yin. It was a daily struggle of life and death, sharing a common fate.

She was an orphan, and Shen Yin was also an orphan. She sincerely treated Shen Yin as her older sister.

But after Mo Tianji defected, she came out after ten years of closed-door cultivation, and Shen Yin was surprisingly much colder to her.

She hadn’t been estranged from her like the others, yet Shen Yin was now estranging herself from her.

Shen Yuehua was deliberately pointing out Shen Yin’s fault. Shen Yin bit her lip, then suddenly asked her: “Then how should Feng Lingyuan be accounted for?”

This… was different again.

Shen Yuehua felt like laughing.

Here was a difficult older sister, and there was a younger sister who needed constant coaxing.

Many things were better left unsaid, so there was no possibility of explanation.

Shen Yuehua didn’t answer. She proactively steered the conversation back to Yi Hu.

“Since Senior Sister desires it, Yuehua should grant it. However, if this rule is to be broken, it should be broken by me, the Sect Master. How about I accept this demon as my disciple after Yuan’er returns from the Blood Sea?”

Shen Yin had never fought so directly for anything. It was probably related to her experiences in childhood. Shen Yin’s emotions were always faint. Her care was not obvious enough, and her concern was not warm enough.

This demon was indeed unusual.

Shen Yuehua was happy to grant her request.

Shen Yin’s gaze froze. She originally only wanted to secure the identity of an ordinary disciple for Yi Hu, but Shen Yuehua wanted to accept her as her disciple, essentially pushing her onto the list for the next Sect Master’s succession.

This was a good thing.

Shen Yin bowed and thanked her: “Thank you, Sect Master, for granting my request. However, I want to go to the Blood Sea with Elder Feng.”

She disliked Feng Lingyuan so much, yet she wanted to go with Feng Lingyuan.

Shen Yuehua didn’t understand: “Why?”

“I owe her a life.” Shen Yin then revealed everything about A’Ruan. This was not something that couldn’t be told.

“A Vessel Body.” Shen Yuehua fell silent. She looked at Shen Yin again: “Then go together.”

She turned to leave, but Shen Yin had bottled up her question for thousands of years. Now that she had finally asked it, how could she easily let her go? Her Heart Demon was deeply rooted, and Shen Yuehua was an important part of it.

“You haven’t answered me. When Master defected, you knew my situation was difficult, yet you went into closed-door cultivation at that time and abandoned me. After coming out of closed-door cultivation, why did you stay inseparable from Feng Lingyuan every day? Since you said that I am the only person you can rely on in the vast Immortal Spirit Sect, did you care about me even a little?”

The former Shen Yin so desperately wanted some solace.

She treated Shen Yuehua as her biological sister, but Shen Yuehua’s various actions had hurt her. Although she apologized later, she still owed her an explanation.

Closed-door cultivation was not her choice.

Jing Shu begged her to exchange bones to save Feng Lingyuan’s life. After the bone exchange, it took her a full ten years to barely adapt to the Spirit Cultivating Flower bloodline. She wanted to explain to Shen Yin, but the matter of Feng Lingyuan being the Sacred Spirit Flower could not be told to anyone. It wasn’t that she didn’t trust Shen Yin, but one less person knowing meant one less risk. Moreover, it wasn’t a good thing to ask Shen Yin to keep a secret for thousands of years.

“Not even a little, but ten or a hundred times is still something!” Shen Yin seemed to have overlooked every word of concern she showed her when Feng Lingyuan was present.

She had wanted to stay away from Feng Lingyuan, but at that time, she had just integrated the Spirit Cultivating Flower bloodline. If she didn’t stay inseparable from Feng Lingyuan, her whole body would feel cold, as if she were falling into ice and snow, her eyelashes would frost over, and she would freeze to death.

Even now, if she were away for too long, she would lose her life.

The fake Spirit Cultivating Flower also had to rely on the real Sacred Spirit Flower to survive.

“Both Yuan’er and Senior Sister are people I care about very much. Why can’t you coexist peacefully?”

“She dislikes me, so why should I like her?”

Shen Yuehua sighed repeatedly. Shen Yin’s words were insincere. She disliked Feng Lingyuan from the beginning. Feng Lingyuan only disliked her later, mistakenly believing she loved Shen Yin.

She had explained it to Feng Lingyuan, but she didn’t believe her.

She wanted to go and connect with her future little disciple right now, just asking her to help soothe Shen Yin.

She regretted it a little. How about asking Feng Lingyuan to bring Yi Hu back now?

“Yuehua.”

This was no different from a death warrant.. Shen Yuehua was cornered by her and reluctantly revealed: “She dislikes you because of me. Just blame me, Senior Sister.”

“Why?”

Shen Yuehua sighed again: “Senior Sister does not understand love, and that is very good. Cultivators should sever emotional ties and be free of desires. Senior Sister has a greater chance of attaining immortality than Yuehua.”

She was fooling her again.

Before Shen Yin could ask again, Shen Yuehua had already moved on: “Senior Sister, I’m going to get acquainted with my future disciple.”

She ran away.

She actually ran away.

In this regard, she had learned Jing Shu’s actions perfectly. Bai Ruxue used to always ask Jing Shu which one of their children she liked the most. Every time, Jing Shu would pat her, pat Shen Yuehua, pat Bai Ruxue, and then quickly make a run for it.

The disciple resembles the master.

… Now, Yi Hu will become Shen Yuehua’s disciple in the future.