Chapter 40 Let's go back to the Demon Realm
"Princess, please check if we have any corpse demons here?"
"Yes, Princess, you've finally arrived! We've been waiting for you!"
"Thank God, I've been praying that nothing bad has happened to you."
Ning Qi was instantly surrounded by an eager crowd, their chatter exploding in her ears.
Qianyu and the others quickly helped her separate the people and quiet them down.
Xie Xiyue also joined in to help.
Ning Qi glanced at the people surrounding her. Some of them were people she had met outside the city before. They had looked at her with distrust back then, but now they seemed to be looking forward to it. She never expected them to have two faces.
She cleared her throat and raised her voice: "I can indeed hear the voice of the Corpse Demon, but some people certainly won't believe me just because I say it..."
"We will definitely listen to what you say!"
"That's right! We all believe you!"
The people around them began to express their determination.
Ning Qi was not swayed by their words. She picked one of them and asked, "If I told you that you, or your parents and children, have become corpse demons, would you believe me?"
"Huh?" The man was immediately speechless.
The voices expressing their determination also faded away.
Ning Qi was not surprised and continued, "I am only responsible for identification. If I suspect that someone is a corpse demon, they must be separated from everyone and wait for Jingyan Zhenren's testing stone to identify them. This way, everyone can feel at ease with double testing."
Everyone nodded.
At this moment, someone timidly asked, "What if you make the wrong judgment? Wouldn't you end up staying with the corpse demon? What if the good people get infected?"
Ning Xi snorted inwardly. She knew these people would have reservations. She curled her lips and said, "If you don't trust me, you don't have to come to me."
She looked around and heard a deep, urgent voice. She raised an eyebrow. "Anyway, there's a Corpse Demon among the people here."
The crowd exchanged bewildered glances, their eyes filled with fear. They quickly said, "Princess, don't listen to his nonsense. We all trust you."
"Then follow my instructions." Ning Qi turned to look at Master Jingyan. "You have no objections, right?"
Master Jingyan smiled and said, "I wouldn't dare."
Ning Qi nodded. "You lead ten cultivators to guard these people outside to prevent any accidents. Xi Yue, you divide them into groups of five and bring them into the small house next door for me to identify. Those I believe to be corpse demons are separated from the others in the small house on the west side."
After making the arrangements, Qianyu quickly cleaned the small house on the side and let Ningxi go in.
Soon, five people walked in, and Ning Qi glanced at them briefly before letting them leave.
"Neither."
After passing four or five groups of people, her gaze settled on a farmer, and she pointed at him, saying, "Take him to quarantine."
The man said in a panic, "Princess, it wasn't me."
He then looked at the people next to him, "Brother, sister-in-law, please help me out, I've never had any contact with the Corpse Demon."
Upon hearing this, the two took a few steps back, putting some distance between themselves and him.
Ning Qi tapped the table and said ruthlessly to the cultivator standing guard, "Take him away."
This corpse demon was very clever; it didn't utter a single word.
But after the Xiao An incident, she discovered that even when the Corpse Demon didn't speak, it would still make that sound, like the Corpse Demon's breathing.
Ning Xi spent an hour reviewing all 156 people, and only two were sent to quarantine.
At this time, the test results for the first farmer also came out, confirming that he was indeed a Corpse Demon.
Now everyone looked at Ning Qi with genuine admiration.
"Thank goodness there's a princess."
"May Heaven bless my Great Yan Dynasty."
Respectful voices rang out continuously, and Ning Qi curled the corners of her mouth with a touch of smugness.
However, her joy was short-lived, because Qianyu could no longer contact Xiao Sui.
She paced anxiously, then went to ask Jingyan Zhenren about the other people's situations.
Xie Jingyan smiled knowingly, "You don't need to worry about Xiao Sui. He has a lot of experience in dealing with corpse demons, so he won't have any problems inside."
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Explosions continued to erupt within the city, scattering stones and pieces of corpses everywhere.
Xiao Sui raised his sword and, expressionless, severed the neck of the charging corpse demon.
With a loud "boom," the high-level explosive talisman exploded next to his ear, and the powerful impact propelled him three zhang away.
He managed to plunge his sword into the soil, stopping himself in mid-air, and experienced a brief period of hearing loss.
Another shadow appeared overhead. He didn't need to look up to know it was a sword-wielding cultivator. He quickly hid in a nearby building, and another explosive talisman fell down.
Before entering the city, the team leader gave each person a hundred explosive talismans, but when it came to him, he said there weren't any left.
He could only kill the corpse demon with his sword.
The roof of the building was ripped off, his veil was lifted, and his cheek was cut by flying pebbles, and he immediately smelled blood.
The man landed cheerfully in front of him and said without any apology, "Oh, isn't this Junior Brother Xiao? Sorry I didn't see you earlier. I didn't expect you to still be alive."
Xiao Sui released his spiritual power and vaguely remembered him. As a fellow disciple of Master Jingyan, he was very dissatisfied with the fact that he had been highly regarded in the past.
He gripped the hilt of his sword, his voice low and menacing, “You shouldn’t have fallen before me.”
Before the man could finish his sarcastic remark, his eyes widened in terror, and he opened his mouth but could not utter a word.
Blood gushed from his throat, and he collapsed in disbelief into a pool of blood.
Xiao Sui coldly stepped past his corpse, wading through his blood.
He shouldn't know who he is. The only possibility is that Xie Jingyan told these people his identity, so that they could surround and kill him while clearing out the corpse demon.
Can't he even wait a few short days?
The strong smell of fresh blood attracted a large number of corpse demons to run towards him.
The explosive tags then exploded with a crackling sound.
He couldn't even fly away on his sword; he could only kill the corpse demons while dodging the explosive talismans.
He soon developed many wounds on his body, and his clothes became tattered.
Amid the chaos, the sound of arguing arose in mid-air.
"Brother Wang! The Master only asked us to teach him a lesson, why did you treat him to the point of death?"
"He killed my brother! I'm going to kill him!"
Xiao Sui's hearing gradually returned. He sneered, then suddenly leaped forward, tumbling several times, and the house behind him collapsed with a crash.
He was panting heavily, and the taste of blood filled his throat. Another corpse demon sprang out from the collapsed house and lunged at his neck. He slashed open its mouth with his sword, and brown blood splattered onto his face.
He had been tainted by demonic energy for too long, and the demonic mark on his back gradually became hot, with its range constantly expanding.
The man relentlessly pursued him, probably using all one hundred explosive talismans on him.
Xiao Sui was exhausted as he fought the corpse demons and dodged them.
He raised his head, ready to find an opportunity to finish this person off.
Suddenly, a strange black mass surged from the horizon, enveloping the man and his companion.
With a few "poof" sounds, blood mist exploded from the black mass, and after it dispersed, the people had vanished without a trace, leaving not even a corpse behind.
"What is this thing?" The cultivators flying in mid-air looked at the black mass in horror and scattered in all directions.
The black mass rushed straight at Xiao Sui, wrapping around his body with incredible speed.
Xiao Sui mobilized all his spiritual power to resist the black mass, but then he heard the mass utter a human voice, "Demonic Seal!"
"It's the Demon God!"
"Great! We've found the Demon God!"
The voices were all talking at once, as if there were countless people inside the black mass.
"Huh, how does the Demon God cultivate spiritual power?"
"Oh dear, this is bad for your health, it has many harmful effects."
"Demon God, please come back to the Demon Realm with us. Those people who cultivate spiritual power all smell terrible."
Seeing that they meant no harm, and feeling a bit of a headache from the noise, Xiao Sui coughed a few times with a dry, hoarse voice and asked, "Who are you?"
“We are sentient demonic energy; you can call us whatever you like.”
"Yes, yes." Countless voices repeated this phrase.
Several more explosive tags detonated at close range, but this time, thanks to the black mass blocking the way, Xiao Sui was unaffected.
Instead, these intelligent little creatures complained, "How annoying! These cultivators are so annoying! Lord Demon God, please come with us!"
"That's right, they're deliberately targeting you!"
"It's alright, you'll be safe once you return to the Demon Realm. We can teleport you back directly!"
Leave here?
My tired body was constantly screaming that I had to leave.
A warmth emanated from my chest; it was the princess's message talisman.
He took it out and released his spiritual power.
"Xiao Sui, Xiao Sui! We've finally made contact! Are you alright?" The princess's anxious voice came through the communication talisman.
He imagined her looking like she was frowning, pouting, and too anxious to sit down.
A smile involuntarily crept onto his lips, and even the noisy chatter of the demons became bearable.
"Demon God, let's go quickly."
"You take the Demon God away, and we'll absorb some more demonic energy."
"good!"
Amid the noise, Xiao Sui felt his body float up.
He carefully put away the communication talisman. "I'm not going to the Demon Realm."
"Huh? Why? Those monks want to kill you."
"That's right. It's convenient for us to come here because the demonic energy is strong. But if you encounter danger next time, we might not be able to come to find you in time."
"It's alright," Xiao Sui said. "I'm not going to the Demon Realm. You can go now."
After arguing for a while, seeing his resolute attitude, the demons ultimately respected his wishes and left his body.
The surrounding area had been reduced to ruins, and those people, terrified of the demonic group's power, had long since fled from this place.
Xiao Sui stood on the desolate ground, releasing his spiritual power to continue searching for the Corpse Demon's trail.
He will not leave; wherever the princess is, he will be there.
Even if he would die if he stayed.
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After Ning Qi contacted Xiao Sui, she breathed a huge sigh of relief. She was unaware that Xiao Sui was being treated differently and thought that, as Master Jingyan had said, he would use his sword to throw explosive talismans in the air to eliminate the corpse demon.
One after another, cultivators led the survivors out. The number was small, but these people urgently needed Ning Qi to perform an appraisal for them.
She continued to follow the same pattern as before.
As the testing stones continued to produce results that were completely consistent with her identification, the doubts vanished entirely. Some even suggested that the testing stones should be discarded and that the princess should simply kill the person identified as a corpse demon.
Ning Xi waved her hand; she didn't want to take on such a big responsibility.
"Why hasn't Xiao Sui come out these past few days?" Ning Qi yawned.
Without him by her side, she could never sleep soundly, and during the day she still had to identify the corpse demons, leaving her listless.
"I heard the corpse demons have been mostly cleared out, and Young Master Xiao will be out soon," Qianyu comforted her.
It wasn't until the third night after the main force entered the city that a large number of cultivators returned and informed Ning Qi and Master Jingyan that all the corpse demons in the city had been cleared away.
Ning Qi began to eagerly await the news, and every time he heard a sound, he would go to the outside of the dilapidated temple to take a look, but it was never Xiao Sui.
As darkness fell, Zhizhi helped her back to her room to rest. Ningqi kept looking out the window, but unfortunately, she didn't see any familiar figures.
She had no choice but to lie down and sleep, but her sleep was very restless.
She dreamt again that she had turned into a kitten, meowing and jumping around, as if she were waiting for someone, just like she was now.
Finally, she saw a familiar figure on the roof. She quickly jumped down and stood guard at the door, waiting for the man to come in so she could get close to him.
The door opened quickly, and she smelled a strong stench of blood.
She looked up and saw Xiao Sui covered in blood.
Ning Qi suddenly woke up.
"Princess?" A deep, sexy voice sounded in my ear, and then candles were lit in the room.
Ning Qi turned her head in a daze and saw Xiao Sui's face, and for a moment thought she was still dreaming.
She suddenly hugged him tightly.
The warm embrace told her that this was not a dream.
Her eyes were a little moist, but she could smell a faint scent of blood, which overlapped with the scene in her dream.
She froze.
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