The Cool and Aloof Immortal Master Has Fallen to the Demonic Path (Transmigration) - Chapter 33

Chapter 33

Yi Hu felt like she was about to die. Her heart briefly stopped.

She could feel her skinny body being devoured little by little by the Death Energy, but she couldn’t stop the ongoing erosion.

The Death Energy was more like living spirit worms, devouring the spiritual energy that was sucked in along with her, as well as her original flesh and blood. Perhaps she would have to trouble Shen Yin to wait for her outside the sacred land again. She had never tried dying this way and didn’t know if being sucked dry of life would allow her to revive.

Yi Hu was wrapped between spiritual energy and Death Energy. Her consciousness could perceive the outside world, even clearly seeing Zi Ying confronting the woman in purple, and Shen Yin protecting her.

Shen Yin was injured.

She was bleeding so much that Yi Hu felt like she was seeing the scene when she first met A’Ruan. She had realized that the woman in purple was A’Ruan’s mother. She wanted to explain to her that she didn’t kill A’Ruan. On the contrary, they were here to save A’Ruan.

But she couldn’t speak. She could only watch helplessly as the weak Shen Yin shielded her.

Shen Yin seemed to be struggling even to breathe. Yi Hu watched, feeling the pain in her heart. This hurt more than her own injuries.

Zi Ying clearly knew the whole process of A’Ruan’s death, but she didn’t explain to the woman in purple.

Upon learning that Shen Yin had used a forbidden technique to save her, Yi Hu felt that even dedicating her entire life to Shen Yin wouldn’t be enough to repay her kindness.

Although others might see a thousand flaws in Shen Yin, to Yi Hu, Shen Yin had always played the role of a benevolent goddess. From the first encounter, Shen Yin had been constantly saving her, and the troubles she caused were always remedied by Shen Yin. She owed Shen Yin too much.

“Immortal Master…” She wanted to call Shen Yin, but she couldn’t open her lips.

Her body was still being eroded by the Death Energy. She was about to die…

No, she couldn’t die.

At least not at this moment.

Yi Hu suddenly remembered that she still had the spiritual essence Shen Yin had given her in her body. If she died now, the spiritual power Shen Yin left in her body would also be extinguished. Then Shen Yin would inevitably suffer a backlash, and her serious injuries would be hard to heal.

Shen Yin was already severely injured, and Yi Hu couldn’t guarantee that her death wouldn’t crush Shen Yin’s already battered body.

She struggled, forcibly circulating her cultivation method. She wanted to drive the Death Energy out of her body, but it was no use.

Finally, with Zi Ying’s help, the spiritual essences that were constantly absorbing spiritual energy and Death Energy stopped.

Yi Hu memorized the hand seals the woman in purple formed to control her. She attempted to repeat them herself. She finally understood what A’Ruan meant by “blessing.”

A demon or a cultivator can only possess one spiritual essence. Devouring another’s spiritual essence only extracts the energy within and fuses it into a new spiritual essence. No one can possess multiple spiritual essences.

But demons are different. If a demon has spiritual essences willingly given to them, they can take out all the spiritual essences during cultivation, and by circulating them together, they can make multiple spiritual essences absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth simultaneously. The more spiritual essences, the faster the cultivation speed.

However, a demon as weak as her couldn’t control multiple spiritual essences. She had released all the spiritual essences without understanding the situation, which led to the situation where she was overwhelmed by the spiritual essences, only able to watch helplessly as spiritual energy constantly drilled into her body without being able to stop.

Moreover, Yi Hu chose the wrong location. It was at the entrance of the Blood Sea.

The Blood Sea is a desolate land with no spiritual energy, only Death Energy. If they hadn’t fully entered the Blood Sea and could still absorb spiritual energy from the outside to counteract the portion of Death Energy that was sucked in, her body would probably have been completely devoured by the Death Energy long ago. The consequences would have been disastrous.

Fortunately, she survived.

But she still couldn’t move. Yi Hu struggled to breathe until a spiritual power was sent into her body by Feng Lingyuan. Her body felt like an opening had been created, and the Death Energy that was eroding her body actually began to slowly retreat.

Yi Hu was stunned and immediately circulated her spiritual energy to accelerate the expulsion of the Death Energy from her body.

The Death Energy in her body decreased more and more, leaving only the spiritual energy that was sucked in.

The greenish-blue energy flowed through her meridians, gradually reaching the Dantian (elixir field), gathering and spiraling into a tiny whirlpool. It rotated in the Dantian, drawing in almost all the spiritual energy in her body, emitting a dazzling light.

As the light dimmed, Yi Hu’s spiritual energy was completely gone. Only a round pearl remained in her Dantian. The pearl was pale green, crystal clear, and inside the pearl, there were wisps of pale blue liquid flowing.

This is her spiritual essence!

After a demon first gains sentience, it will absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to gather in the Dantian and form a spiritual essence. Upon the birth of the spiritual essence, a set of cultivation methods belonging to the demon itself will appear. However, Yi Hu was a result of cheating due to the book transmigration, transforming into human form.

She was equivalent to a demon who had attained human form without cultivation. Although she had skipped a grade, she didn’t have a spiritual essence, so she didn’t have her own cultivation method.

Now that her spiritual essence was born, a cultivation technique suitable for her also appeared in her mind.

She felt it was not as exquisite as the Immortal Spirit Sect’s cultivation method, but it was extremely suitable for Yi Hu’s cultivation.

Yi Hu abruptly opened her eyes. She was in no mood to study cultivation methods now. She was more concerned about Shen Yin’s situation.

She hadn’t even fully expelled the Death Energy from her body.

When her life was secured, she urgently wanted to know Shen Yin’s condition.

But the moment she opened her eyes, she saw the blood-red-eyed Zi Ying lunging at Shen Yin. Yi Hu’s originally very weak body suddenly burst out with infinite strength. She circulated her spiritual essence and rushed towards Zi Ying.

She was not Zi Ying’s match, but if Zi Ying wanted to kill Shen Yin, she would have to step over her corpse.

If Shen Yin could risk her life to protect her, how could she not!

“Don’t touch the Immortal Master!” She hadn’t yet mastered the power in her body and didn’t even realize she had revealed her demonic nature.

Yi Hu’s hand was like a red-hot iron, gripping Zi Ying’s wrist with searing pain.

Zi Ying was a symbiotic entity of spiritual consciousness and Evil Spirit. Her true form was originally ethereal. If she didn’t want it, ordinary people couldn’t touch her.

Yet now, Yi Hu could firmly grasp her wrist.

The fierce look in her eyes actually made Zi Ying momentarily dazed.

She has improved!

But so what? She was just a foolish demon who had just started cultivating. Could she, who had wandered the world for thousands of years, be afraid of her?

“As if you can stop me.” Zi Ying sneered.

The wrist Yi Hu held turned into a puff of black smoke out of thin air, slipping out of her grasp.

But because of Yi Hu’s disruption, Zi Ying missed the best opportunity to sneak attack.

“Ah!” Zi Ying was only concerned with Yi Hu in front of her and didn’t notice the golden doll rushing towards her. The golden doll bit her arm, this time showing no mercy. Flames burned between its lips, and its scorching body was covered in fire, causing white smoke to rise from Zi Ying’s body.

Damn it! This Passing Years Lamp was truly the natural counter to Evil Spirits.

Why was she so unlucky that Feng Lingyuan came to the Blood Sea with them?

If it had been another person, another Half-Divine Artifact, she wouldn’t have been so severely suppressed.

She let out screams of agony from the pain. The golden doll clapped its small hands, shouting gleefully: “That’s what you get for sneak attacking! That’s what you get for sneak attacking!”

Seeing its triumphant appearance, Zi Ying was irritated: “If you have the guts, burn me to death!”

The golden doll ignored her. It conjured a wall of flames around Zi Ying and lifted its chin: “You are Elder Shen’s possession. I won’t burn you. I’ll wait for Elder Shen to deal with you.”

It was very respectful of Shen Yin.

It respected Shen Yin more than she, the spiritual consciousness of Shen Yin’s treasure, did. The golden doll was different from her. It was born as an artifact spirit, a wisp of spiritual consciousness belonging to the Passing Years Lamp. Every time it slept, it waited for the arrival of the next master.

It didn’t need freedom, because for it, the world inside the Passing Years Lamp was all its happiness, and leaving the Passing Years Lamp would cause this wisp of spiritual consciousness to dissipate.

But… she was different. She was originally free.

Zi Ying was burned on her spiritual body by the flames and was very angry: “Stupid doll! All you do is listen to others’ commands all day long.”

“I am a spiritual consciousness. Of course, I should listen to my master.”

The golden doll would not be provoked. It hopped and skipped back to the woman in purple’s side. It blinked its beautiful golden eyes, staring unblinkingly at Zi Ying.

Trapping the woman in purple was the task Feng Lingyuan had given it.

It didn’t understand Zi Ying’s anger towards her master. It liked its master very much.

During its slumber, it woke up because it liked the aura on its master and her pure heart.

Yi Hu bowed to it: “Thank you.”

“Protecting my master is what I should do.” The golden doll craned its neck to look at Yi Hu, then retracted its head, staring at the woman in purple again. It reminded Yi Hu: “Don’t disturb Master while she is healing Elder Shen. Elder Shen used a forbidden technique, and her body suffered a severe backlash. If you interrupt Master while she is healing her, they will both lose their lives.”

The woman in purple felt uncomfortable under its gaze. Although she wasn’t an Evil Spirit, she was a demon.

A Yang-element Half-Divine Artifact like the Passing Years Lamp not only suppressed Evil Spirits but also demons.

Fear was innate.

She awkwardly turned her head: “Can you please stop staring at me?”

“No, Master told me to watch you.”

The golden doll said not to disturb Feng Lingyuan while she was healing Shen Yin. Yi Hu sat there, watching Shen Yin, looking at the bloodstains on her robes, the blood still dripping from her hair, and the traces of blood on her clean face.

Yi Hu sniffed. She had been tormented by the Death Energy for too long and had wailed for too long. Her throat was full of tearing pain, low and unpleasant: “Immortal Master.”

There was pain in her heart and tears in her eyes, but they remained unshed.

Yi Hu gradually understood a truth: Tears are useless here.

She looked at the woman in purple, opened her mouth, and then slowly closed it. Even though the woman in purple was also acting based on a misunderstanding, if Shen Yin didn’t wake up, she wouldn’t forgive her.

The words “I didn’t kill your daughter” were swallowed back.

Now, she couldn’t help Feng Lingyuan. She could only circulate her spiritual energy to accelerate her cultivation, hoping that one day she would also have the ability to fight for Shen Yin.

Suddenly, gusts of Yin wind arose behind her, accompanied by piercing laughter.

“Blood, such fragrant blood.”

“Hehehe, a human delicacy!”

“Is it a Vessel Body? Or a spiritual herb? So fragrant, so fragrant!”

“…”

Zi Ying let out two bursts of gleeful laughter: “Shen Yin’s blood has attracted the Evil Spirits of the Blood Sea! You are all doomed.”

She had almost forgotten the sensitivity of spiritual consciousness and Evil Spirits to fresh blood.

“Evil Spirits?” The woman in purple suddenly froze. She looked back at Shen Yin: “She is the Vessel Body!”

No one answered her. Yi Hu and the golden doll had solemn expressions due to the pressing black and red clouds. The two strongest people on their side now were one severely injured and one healing the injured.

The only ones left with combat power were the golden doll and Yi Hu. But the golden doll was a spiritual consciousness and needed its master’s mobilization to unleash its full power. Yi Hu had just broken through and was still suffering from injuries caused by the Death Energy. She could fight, but she was somewhat crippled.

In addition, there was an Evil Spirit trying to devour its master, and a demon trying to kill Yi Hu. How could they break through this predicament?

The black clouds drew closer and closer. The woman in purple quickly shouted: “Quickly release me! I can help you!”