Chapter 30 You're in luck, Qingqing

Although Li Xun is the new leader of the Tianjian Sect, he is not from the Tianjian Sect and has never even been a disciple of the Tianjian Sect.

He was able to become the suzerain because—

Long ago, the old leader of the Tianjian Sect secretly colluded with the demons, causing his family to be destroyed.

When he was seeking revenge, he broke into the Tianjian Sect, killed the old sect leader, and then took the position of sect leader.

Li Xun was born into a family of immortal cultivators. When he was young, his family suffered a disaster. He escaped but was hunted by the demons.

In order to avoid being hunted down, he hid in a small county town. At that time, he was seriously injured and fell to the ground. He used his last strength to grab the hem of a girl's skirt, begging her to take him in for a while, and promised to repay her after he recovered from his injuries.

The girl didn't want to pay attention to him at first, but when she heard that he came from a family of immortal cultivators, she changed her mind and bargained with him.

She said that she could save him, but in return, he had to marry her and make her the young lady of a wealthy family, living a life of luxury.

If he disagreed, she would throw him on the side of the road and let him die.

Li Xun agreed.

He gave the girl an engagement token and a lot of money, just asking for a place to hide.

But then one day,

The demons who were chasing him came to the door and forced the girl to tell him his whereabouts.

She learned from the demons that his entire family was wiped out and his family was destroyed, so she sold him out directly and took away his life-saving magic weapon when she left.

Li Xun was found by the demons and tortured in every possible way. His cultivation was destroyed, his spiritual veins were cut off, and even a finger was chopped off.

Later, he narrowly escaped death and killed those demons. After spending many years, he restored his spiritual veins and attacked the Tianjian Sect to seek revenge.

After taking the position of the sect leader, he launched a siege against the demons in the name of the Tianjian Sect, killing all the demons who had harmed him, leaving no descendants. As a result, the demons are now frightened when they hear the name of the Tianjian Sect, and they even dare not appear in the jurisdiction of the Tianjian Sect.

But Li Xun still felt that his revenge was not yet complete.

He often thought of that girl.

After so many years, she should have grown up. In his memory, she had a pair of willow-shaped eyes with a little white in the lower part of her eyes. Li Xun didn't know what she looked like now, but he knew that when he saw her again, he would definitely recognize her at a glance -

Then take revenge on her severely.

*

Although Li Xun became the new leader of the Tianjian Sect, he actually didn't care much about the affairs of the Tianjian Sect, and he had no intention of helping the Tianjian Sect to search for the lost jade token.

However, when he led people to encircle and suppress the demons,

He accidentally learned that this jade token had some connection with him.

This jade token is a treasure in the world. It was originally an old item of the Li family's ancestors. When used with the secret method of the Li family, it can revive the dead.

Several generations ago, the ancestor of the Li family donated this jade token to the Tianjian Sect. Although only members of the Li family can use it to revive the dead, even if it is not used for this purpose, it can still help the Tianjian Sect to spy on the secrets of heaven and ensure the safety and prosperity of the Tianjian Sect. Therefore, it is also worshipped as a treasure by the Tianjian Sect.

Li Xun was hunted by the demons, had a finger cut off, and his spiritual veins were cut off.

Although he later embedded artificial fingers into his flesh and blood and reconnected his spiritual veins, one of the spiritual veins was still broken, so that his cultivation could not break through the bottleneck of the Spirit Transformation Stage.

That jade token can revive the dead,

Naturally, it can also help the severed fingers to regenerate and connect to the spiritual vein.

So he was also looking for this jade token.

at the moment,

Hearing the news from the jade token, he really didn't care about the disciple's sudden intrusion anymore. He raised his hand and pinched the magic finger: "Where is it?"

The disciple stammered, "This... I don't know exactly where it is. I only know it's no longer in the demon world."

He said, "There's a secret room in the sect's treasure house that's used to enshrine this jade tablet. Just now, an elder was patrolling the treasure house and noticed spiritual energy surging in that room. He went forward to sense it and sensed that it was already in the human world, but couldn't sense its specific location."

This jade token was lost by the former leader of the Tianjian Sect in a cave in the demon world.

The cave was strange. The jade token disappeared after entering it. Countless people were sent to look for it but could not find it.

But now it has been captured by someone and taken out of the demon world. I don’t know how it was done.

Li Xun pondered for a moment, then said lightly, "Send someone to look for him."

The disciple hesitated a little: "But Sect Master, the human world is so vast, and the jade token has no specific location..."

Li Xun twitched his lips, a little impatient: "Then send more people, send all the people from the Heavenly Sword Sect out, and search the entire world to find him."

The disciple hesitated and said, "Many people in the sect have been sent out to look for that girl with willow-leaf eyes."

As soon as these words fell,

Li Xun paused.

He had indeed been looking for her.

But before, although they searched, they didn't make much noise. They just sent a few men to look for it.

After all, she is an orphan with no one to rely on. The world is in chaos. So many years have passed, and she is unable to cultivate immortality. She is powerless and it is hard to say whether she is still alive now.

Li Xun always feels sorry every time he thinks about this.

He hasn't taken revenge yet, so if he just died like this, it would be a bargain for her.

He hoped that she would live until the day he found her, and then die in his hands in despair.

With this hope in mind, he had been sending people to look for her. But even if she were still alive, with such a vast world, who knew where she had wandered to? Looking for her would be like searching for a needle in a haystack, a waste of manpower and not worth it.

But a few days ago,

His skills backfired, and he was in a coma for several days. It seemed like he had a dream during those days, but when he woke up, he couldn't remember what he dreamed about. He felt like he had lost his soul and was in a daze for several days. After that, he kept having inexplicable thoughts in his mind, thinking that she should be in Tiandu at this time.

He didn't know why these thoughts suddenly appeared.

He asked a medical practitioner to see him, but the doctor said all kinds of nonsense, saying that his skills were too insidious and could connect past and present lives. He said that he was not dreaming when he was unconscious, but that the memories of his past life were gradually returning, and these thoughts were all fragmentary memories of his past life.

He scoffed at the doctor's words, what bullshit about past and present lives.

He cut the doctor into pieces on the spot.

But for some reason, he was very convinced of these thoughts that suddenly popped up in his mind, and felt that the person was in Tiandu, so he sent more people to Tiandu to find her, including many disciples of the Tianjian Sect.

Now that the disciple has mentioned this matter,

He pinched his finger and asked, "We sent so many people to Tiandu to look for her, but did they find her?"

The disciple replied, "Not yet, but I seem to have found some clues. I guess we'll have news soon."

Li Xun asked lazily, "How long is 'soon'?"

The disciple said, "Three to five days."

Li Xun didn't say anything after hearing this.

He pinched the artificial finger, feeling the cold, hard touch of the gold. It had no feeling, a dead object after all. In a sense, this was thanks to her. If she hadn't taken his life-saving magic weapon, even if he were found by the demons, he wouldn't have had his spiritual veins severed and a finger chopped off.

He wanted to take revenge on her.

Whenever he thought of her, he would come to the dungeon of the Tianjian Sect and create a new punishment in the punishment book. Now the punishment book is almost full. Skinning and boning, water torture and fire torture, he created these cruel punishments and used them on these monsters to see which punishment was the most painful, and then ranked them according to the degree of pain. He was ready to wait until he found her, keep her alive, and try these punishments on her one by one from lightest to heaviest.

He wanted to see her in pain.

Now comes the final step.

We'll find her in three to five days.

Li Xun was actually a little excited. He wanted to see how she lived her life. He had an idea in his mind. Not only did he think that she was now in Tiandu, but he also thought that she might have already gotten rid of her orphan status and changed her name.

When she was still an orphan, her name was also poorly chosen. It was said that an old beggar had given her the name Qingqing, which means "green grass" and didn't even have a surname. So when Li Xun was with her, he felt a little disgusted with the name: "What a crappy name! Any maid's name is more meaningful than yours. I'll give you a new one?"

Finally she said, "Qingqing is fine."

Because she was abandoned by her parents when she was born, an old beggar passed by and could not bear to see her die like this, so he picked her up. However, the two of them had no food to eat.

When they were really hungry, she and the old beggar would eat the moss from the bricks.

Moss is free and grows in dark and humid places. It does not need sunlight but has strong vitality. After every rain, it will spread into a dense green area. When she was a child, she didn't know what the name of moss was, but she had no food to eat, so she always talked about this plant. So she called moss "that green thing" according to its color.

Later, the old beggar called her Qingqing.

She felt that the name Qingqing had a good meaning. People like her, who were born in humble circumstances and grew up in the mud, should be like moss, with stronger vitality. As long as they survived, they would one day find a chance to live a good life, climb up, and become a superior person.

Li Xun knew that she wanted to live a good life.

He also wanted to see whether she was living a so-called good life now, but he was more looking forward to catching her back and using these punishments on her.

But it's a pity,

Li Xun felt that compared to these, the jade token seemed to be more important.

He needed to find the jade token quickly, so he had to postpone his search for her. Without much hesitation, he instructed his disciples, "Withdraw everyone and have them go look for the jade token now."

Li Xun paused, then added, "I'll go look for it myself."

The disciple responded repeatedly.

After the disciples left,

Li Xun threw down the whip, walked to the desk beside him and opened the punishment book.

When I whipped the demon just now, its blood splattered everywhere, and a pool of blood accumulated on the table.

Li Xun picked up his pen and dipped the tip of it in the blood on the table. Using the blood as ink, he wrote down the degree of pain of flogging, and then ranked them. Ranked 27th, compared to the other punishments, this one wasn't too painful.

Looking at the dozens of punishments recorded from top to bottom,

He forced out a sinister laugh and sighed softly into the air—

"You're lucky, Qingqing.

"I'll let you go for now and let you enjoy a few more days of good life."

*

The other side.

Xie Yanyu held the jade token in his hand.

However, in the palm of his hand, the light in the jade token only lit up for a moment and soon dimmed again.

Seeing this, she opened the wound on her fingertip a little more and pressed her bleeding finger directly onto the jade token.

However, the jade token no longer absorbed her blood and did not light up again.

She asked the system: "What's going on? Can the people of the Heavenly Sword Sect still sense this jade token?"

Not really.

[According to the original plot, to fully awaken the spiritual power within this jade token, in addition to your blood, you also need the inner elixir of a highly skilled evil spirit.]

[However, in the original plot, before you obtained the jade token, an evil spirit had already entered the cave and died there. Its essence was absorbed by the jade token, awakening half of its spiritual power. Later, your blood dripped onto it, awakening the other half.]

[The spiritual power within it was fully awakened and remained lit, enough for the people of the Heavenly Sword Sect to sense its exact location.]

Xie Yanyu said: But I got the jade token in advance this time. At this time, the evil spirit had not entered the cave yet, so the jade token had not absorbed the evil spirit's inner elixir.

She asked: Does this mean that I need to find the inner elixir of a highly skilled evil spirit and have this jade token absorb it before I can fully activate it?

System: [Yes. If you drip blood into it now, you will only awaken half of the spiritual power in the jade token, which is only enough for it to light up for a moment.]

It said: [So the people of the Heavenly Sword Sect can only sense that the jade token is in the human world, but cannot sense its specific location.]

Xie Yanyu: ...But the human world is so big.

The system said playfully: [So even if the Tianjian Sect were to leave their entire sect, it would still take forever to find you~]