Wanxi Rebirth - Chapter 16

“I want to read here for the night.”

Meeting the Qin family’s complicated gaze, Yue Tingxi pointed to the thick book in her hand and explained seriously, “I’ve been to so few places since I came down the mountain to buy things. The more I read this book, the more I feel that my understanding of the human race is just the tip of the iceberg and needs to be supplemented.”

In front of her ally, she spoke very tactfully. In reality, her current mood was like that of an immortal sect disciple in a storybook who was cramming before a big exam—the more she read, the more her heart sank.

The fun stories about the various immortal sects of the human race, which she had only heard about before, had now all become intelligence that she needed to remember. Just trying to sort out this mess was making her feel like her brain wasn’t big enough.

But she also wanted to memorize them as quickly as possible. The faster and more she remembered, the wider the scope of what she could do would be, and the sooner she could bring down that dog Lin.

“Then I’m afraid I’ll have to disturb Miss Tingxi’s enjoyment,” Qin Suiliu said. “The Spirit Medium Master has captured a lot of important intelligence, which is about Lin Chaoyao, and also involves the demon race, and is even closely related to the demon realm.”

“…How is it related to the demon realm?!” Hearing “demon realm,” Yue Tingxi was immediately startled and quickly put away her book. “It’s no trouble at all. Please tell me more!”

“This isn’t the place to talk,” Qin Suiliu said, then walked toward the sleeping quarters.

Yue Tingxi immediately dispelled the ball of spiritual light and quickly followed her, her mind still echoing with “demon race” and “demon realm.”

The demon race and demons were not the same.

In ancient times, all living things first gained sentience, nourished by the essence of the sun and moon, and evolved into demons. Later, the human race, imitating the demons, comprehended martial arts and cultivation methods suitable for them and gradually found their own cultivation advantages.

The two races cultivated on their own, seeking the Great Dao. At first, they coexisted peacefully. However, a thousand years later, a great demon whose lifespan was nearing its end went astray during cultivation and fell into a demonic path. He began to kill and eat human cultivators, whose cultivation speed was faster, as nourishment.

Because his cultivation progressed quite effectively, other demons who had been at a bottleneck for a long time, were nearing the end of their lifespan, and were already ill-intentioned but lacked the courage, also followed suit.

Not daring to attack immortal sect cultivators, they went to the spiritual-rich demon mountains to prey on young demons born from condensed spiritual energy.

Thus, the great demon plague began, implicating the innocent of both races, and for a time, lives were lost.

This kind of demon was called a “demon” by both races.

Later, great demons who revered the way of nature allied with human immortal sect masters, sacrificing their divine souls and dispersing their cultivation as shackles. With the most spiritually rich demon mountains as the seal, they were able to suppress the eight most powerful demons of the time.

The rest of the demons who had turned into devils were all banished to the northern desolate lands, and a barrier jointly created by both races completely sealed off the desolate lands, commonly known as the “demon realm.”

When they arrived at the sleeping quarters, Yue Tingxi sat in the same spot as last night. This time, Miss Qin sat across from her, her gaze level with hers.

“First, the Spirit Medium Master’s background,” Qin Suiliu said seriously. “Ten years ago, Lin Chaoyao, who had not yet become the sect leader of the Azure Sun Sect, accidentally saved him in a secret realm. At that time, he had already lost his left arm and both legs, and his cultivation was completely destroyed. According to common sense, he would never have a chance to cultivate again in this life.”

“But that secret realm was very special; it was a ghost domain. To survive, he forcibly absorbed the surrounding ghostly energy to stop the bleeding, heal his wounds, and maintain his vitality.”

“In his own words, it could be considered a ‘blessing in disguise.’ His physique was very compatible with ghostly energy. If he could use this, not only could he return to the path of cultivation, but he might also reach a level of cultivation that was originally unreachable.”

“…So, that dog Lin started secretly supporting him at that time?” Yue Tingxi frowned.

“On the contrary,” Qin Suiliu shook her head. “As early as ten years ago, Lin Chaoyao warned him, ‘It’s better to be mediocre for a lifetime than to step into a demonic path, or I will come to reclaim this life.'”

Yue Tingxi’s eyes widened in astonishment. After a few moments of silence, she couldn’t help but ask, “Are we talking about the same Lin Chaoyao right now?”

“I don’t think they’re the same person, but we don’t have concrete evidence right now. After all, Lin Fengqing and I are only willing to believe he was possessed because we’ve known him since childhood,” Qin Suiliu said in a calm tone, as if she were talking about a stranger. “But no matter what, what he’s doing now has crossed the line for both Lin Fengqing and me, and he deserves the punishment. If there’s a next time, I won’t hold back—even if it means killing him. You can rest assured about that.”

She didn’t continue speaking, instead giving Yue Tingxi enough time to digest what she had said.

Regardless of whether this version of Yue Tingxi truly trusted her, she intended to slowly share the information she knew, in a way that wouldn’t reveal that she was a reborn person.

She hoped Yue Tingxi would know the situation of the enemy and what her own plans were.

This way, Yue Tingxi wouldn’t easily leave her, an ally who held reliable intelligence. Alternatively, it would be best if Yue Tingxi could be scared off by the potential danger and return to her home on Xi Mountain as soon as possible—as long as she could contain “Lin Chaoyao,” nothing would happen to Xi Mountain.

Suddenly hearing all this, Yue Tingxi was at a loss for words.

In her previous life, although she was trapped by Lin Chaoyao for five years, she barely spoke to him.

Without any verbal or intellectual contact, she couldn’t get to know him deeply, and naturally, she couldn’t know what he used to be like or if his personality had changed drastically. In her eyes, Lin Chaoyao, from her previous life to now, was a heinous scoundrel.

As for the “child he saved twenty years ago,” to be honest, after everything she had been through, she couldn’t remember it clearly. The Book of All Things also didn’t record that period.

Instead, she kept remembering scattered fragments related to the other child who was saved at that time… She didn’t know why.

Keeping Qin Suiliu’s words in mind, Yue Tingxi deliberated and then simply changed the subject. “Since you’re still willing to help me kill him, I have nothing more to say. Why don’t you talk about the other intelligence? How did a mere Spirit Medium Master get involved with demons?”

This was what she cared about the most.

In her previous life, anything related to the demon realm, whether in her memory or in the records of the Book of All Things, only involved Qin Suiliu.

But she knew very well that Qin Suiliu was forced into the demon realm—which meant that someone had deliberately opened the seal of the demon realm at that time, and might have even set up a special teleportation formation to the demon realm.

Perhaps because Miss Qin’s role was defined as an “evil villainess,” the Book of All Things did not describe this in detail. However, judging from the methods used to destroy the Qin family, the culprit was indeed most likely a Spirit Medium Master.

…Could it be that the Spirit Medium Master was the current Heshen? It just so happened that Lin Chaoyao had personally said to her, who was disguised as Heshen today, “Your long-cherished wish is to unseal the demon realm.”

“It seems you also remembered Lin Chaoyao’s words,” Qin Suiliu said. “About this, I interrogated Heshen for a long time, but he refused to say anything. Either he doesn’t have any definite news yet, or he made a blood or verbal contract with the demons, and speaking of it would mean certain death.”

“However, I have obtained the storage artifact he carried with him, and the clan elders also rushed to his residence in the ghost market. I’ll ask for an update tomorrow.”

“What about tonight?” Yue Tingxi asked subconsciously.

“Tonight, of course, is for a good rest.” Qin Suiliu stood up and pointed to the floor near the bed.

The white fox fur cushion that Yue Tingxi had slept on last night was now laid out.

“I heard that snake demons love to coil their bodies to sleep. If you stay in this room, no matter how you coil your snake body all over the floor, no one will find out.” She looked at Yue Tingxi. Although she spoke calmly, her heart was pounding like a drum.

Would she stay?

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