White Blade (VI)

Something she had been trying to find the answer to all these years.

Is Ying Heng really dead?

The two faced each other, and there was no smile on Ji Cang's face.

"Two months ago, the demon world suddenly attacked the fairy world. You received assistance from the demon world and your military strength increased greatly. But this time your attack seems a little different."

Ji Cang asked indifferently: "Why do you say that?"

"Yumen was attacked, the Immortal Realm was defeated, and given your style, you would have pursued the victory. Why did you retreat to Yumen and only take the Kongsang Realm? A thousand miles behind Yumen is the Xianyou Secret Realm, where the spiritual veins are more abundant than the Kongsang Realm. Why didn't you continue to attack?"

"Oh, I just don't want to continue playing. What's so strange about that?"

"Yes, this is very strange." Sandy said: "Jicang, you are greedy and murderous, you can't give up more spiritual veins, so the purpose of your march this time is not for the spiritual veins, but for another purpose, right?"

"For example, killing me. Or, there is something you want in Kongsang Realm."

As the main fighting force, Sandy was always at the front line of the fairy world in every battle, so most of the demon world's forces were held back by her.

A hundred miles further west from Kongsang Territory is the border of the demon realm. Ying Heng was killed nearby that year.

"I don't know why you want to kill me. What is there in me that you are afraid of? You went to such great lengths to kill me, and even followed me to Bai Renli, using fairy wool grass and heavenly spiritual roots to lure me into a trap."

"But, two months ago you conquered the Kongsang Realm, and two months ago someone offered Fairy Velvet Grass and Heaven-level Spiritual Roots to Bai Ren. The timing wouldn't be such a coincidence. Have you... met my master?"

Sandy tightened her grip on the sword, her lips slightly pursed, her eyes slightly reddened, "Even if it's a corpse?"

"Jicang, give me an answer, is my master dead?"

The room was very quiet, with only the flickering of candlelight.

Ji Cang looked at her coldly. Under the light, the swordsman's eyes were stubborn yet a little sad.

"What if I have seen it before?"

"Tell me, is he dead?"

"Dead."

Ji Cang answered so quickly that Sandi was unable to react to his words for a moment. Her mind went blank and she could only hear a buzzing sound in her ears.

She seemed unable to hold the sword.

Ji Cang said coldly: "Sang Dai, he is dead. I can tell you."

He stood up straight, the evil spirit around him was retracted, his dark red clothes seemed to be stained with blood, and he lowered his head to look at Sandy who was holding a sword not far away.

"Sang Dai, the answer you have been looking for all these years, I will tell you now, Ying Heng is dead."

"Oh, his body is still here with me. The Heaven-level spiritual root was extracted by Fu You, and the fairy wool grass was found by me from his body. Without the Heaven-level spiritual root, his body quickly decayed, and now all you can find is a pile of bones."

Ji Cang approached her and asked cruelly, "Sandai, do you want his bones?"

Sandy still had an expressionless face. If it weren't for her red eyes revealing her emotions, Ji Cang would have thought she didn't care at all.

Her voice was even able to remain calm: "How do you know that my master's body is near Kongsang Realm? We searched for it in all four realms, but couldn't find it."

"I will only answer that one question of yours, Miss Sang, please don't be greedy."

Sandy raised her eyes and nodded: "Okay."

Before coming, Su Xuan told her that she needed to learn one thing first.

Let go of those false moral rules in the fairy world. There is no need to be too conventional in doing things.

She swung her sword and chopped him down, forcing Ji Cang to jump out of the window. She put the handle of the sword against his neck and teleported to the vast woods.

Ji Cang's face turned completely cold, and before he could come to his senses, Sandy attacked him at the vital point with a sword in her hand.

He cursed in his heart, thinking that after spending so much time with Su Xuan, even his behavior and style became like Su Xuan's, and they would start fighting at the slightest disagreement.

Ji Cang moved in his black robe and quickly approached Sandi, with demonic energy surging and ready to swallow Sandi.

"Long Mang!"

The silk curtain appeared in response and turned into a wide curtain that swallowed up all the evil spirit.

Sandy pressed on step by step, and Ji Cang put away the impure thoughts in his heart.

However, he had just restored his golden elixir, his natal sword was broken, and his state of mind was shattered. How could he still fight him to a draw?

Sandy also has a heavenly-level magic weapon called Changmang. No one knows what this thing is made of, but it can actually absorb his evil energy.

Ji Cang drew her sword and asked through gritted teeth: "Sandei, you want to kill me?"

"I'm not going to kill you," Sandy said. "I'm just asking you something."

Her words were confusing and Ji Cang was stunned, not understanding what she meant.

But the next moment, Sandy gave him the answer.

The silk that was originally happily absorbing the evil spirit suddenly appeared from somewhere and quickly wrapped around Ji Cang's body.

Escape was not a problem, but just when Ji Cang was about to tear Changmang to pieces, the long sword in Sandy's hand pierced his shoulder blade and nailed him to the tree trunk.

Ji Cang vomited a large mouthful of black blood. Su Xuan's natal sword was too murderous. The evil spirit on the sword flowed into his wound. At the same time, there was something else...

Even though his body was pierced, Ji Cang was still able to remain calm. However, when he realized what was flowing from the sword into his meridians, his face suddenly turned gloomy.

"Sandei, how dare you take my soul?!"

The Soul Capture Technique is a secret technique of the demon world that can only be used by the royal family of the demon world.

Silence finally leads to understanding.

Sandy's original intention of coming here today was not to trick him. She talked so much nonsense to him just to make him let down his guard. In fact, she had the intention of seducing him from the beginning.

The sword contains the soul-capturing spell left by Su Xuan!

"Sande!"

Sandy put away the long awn, slowly wrapped it around her wrist, and asked calmly, "Jicang, is my master really dead?"

Ji Cang gritted his teeth and mobilized the demonic energy in his body to fight against the soul-capturing spell.

The soul-stealing method of the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan is not an ordinary method, especially...

Su Xuan is a demon cultivator in the Mahayana realm.

And Ji Cang is just a demon cultivator in the Spirit Transformation Realm.

His pupils gradually dilated, and the spiritual energy in his body gradually dissipated.

"Jicang, answer my question."

***

The huge mansion was almost completely demolished by Su Xuan.

The karmic fire ignited, burning all the low-level ghost cultivators into ashes.

Fu You's clothes were tattered, and it was difficult for him to lift up his sleeves. He looked at his torn clothes with a look of heartache: "I spent three thousand high-grade spirit stones on this set of clothes... Su Xuan, you are really - cough cough, damn it!"

Blood blocked his throat and Fu You coughed violently.

Ghost cultivators are afraid of karma fire, but Su Xuan's karma fire is pure spiritual fire. The scars on Fu You's body caused by karma fire cannot be repaired by spiritual power. The fire burned his meridians, and he felt pain all over his body.

Su Xuan looked down at him with a cold gaze, took out a silk handkerchief and wiped his hands.

He had beaten Fu You enough, and he was beaten half to death. He would not recover unless he lay down for a few months.

Although he was still angry, Sandy had specifically warned him not to kill before coming.

The jade pendant on her waist was emitting a flickering blue light, which could communicate with the silver feathers on her body over a distance of thousands of miles.

He knew Sandy was okay.

She was already very powerful.

A hint of tenderness appeared on his previously cold expression, and a smile appeared at the corners of his lips.

She should be almost done.

Su Xuan stopped smiling, a lotus mark appeared in his glassy eyes, and his silver hair was blown up by the boiling fire of karma.

He glared at Fu You, who was coughing like a wolf on the ground, and said, "Fu You."

Fu You raised his eyes subconsciously.

Facing a pair of golden eyes, the lotus print in the eyes was vivid and had a strange magic that captivated people.

He suddenly felt something was wrong, but it was too late.

The soul-capturing spell cast by Su Xuan himself is more powerful than the spell he left on the artifact.

Fu You's eyes dimmed.

***

Tonight is completely over.

When Sang Dai returned to the inn, Su Xuan was already waiting inside.

He stood by the window with his hands behind his back. The window was wide open, framing the brightly lit white sword within the small window.

Hearing the sound, Su Xuan turned around to look.

The two looked at each other from a distance.

Su Xuan asked, "Are you back?"

Sandy nodded: "Yeah."

She closed the door, walked forward, and handed the sword to him: "I return the Qingwu Sword to you."

"Yeah." Su Xuan took it and placed it on the windowsill beside him.

The night wind was a little cold, blowing on Sandy's face, and her mind became clearer.

She came to the window and stood side by side with Su Xuan. The thousands of bright lights outside also fell into her eyes.

"Sandy, you know it, right?"

"Um."

Sandy leaned against the windowsill and took a deep breath. The cold wind filled her lungs, but she didn't feel cold.

"Su Xuan, before Ji Cang fell into a coma, I asked Ji Cang five questions."

Su Xuan didn't say anything.

Sandy said: "The first question, I asked him, who made the deal with them? He told me that he didn't know, the identity of that person was unknown."

"The second question I asked him was, why did they want to kill me? He told me, it was because destiny wanted me to die."

No matter how much she asked, Ji Cang looked like he had lost his soul, and kept muttering:

"It is destiny that you die."

"The third question, I asked him, to whom did the fairy wool grass and the heavenly spiritual root belong? He said, they belonged to my master."

Sandy paused for a long time.

"The fourth question, I asked him, have you ever met my master? He said, no."

Su Xuan remained silent.

Sandy took a deep breath and continued, "The fifth question, I asked him, is my master dead? He answered me..."

Her hair was messed up by the wind, and the bright lamp hanging above the white blade emitted a warm yellow light, which shone on her face, softening the swordsman's facial features.

The corners of her lips curled up into a smile, her shoulders were shaking with laughter, and a deep smile appeared between her eyebrows.

She raised her eyes and looked at Su Xuan, saying: "No."

——"Jicang, is my master, Immortal Lord Yingheng, really dead?"

--"……no."

After asking five questions, Ji Cang fell into a coma because he could not withstand Su Xuan's soul-stealing. The soul-stealing by the Mahayana demon cultivator was too damaging to his soul.

But it's enough.

She turned around and looked at Su Xuan.

Tears welled up in my eyes.

"My master is not dead."

A teardrop fell at this moment.

Sandy's lips trembled, but no sound came out. After a long effort, she finally found her voice.

"Su Xuan, did you hear that? My master is not dead."

Ying Heng is still alive. Even though his heavenly spiritual roots have been taken away, he is still alive.

When she heard that Ying Heng was not dead, she didn't even care who wanted to kill her or why. Her mind was filled with Ji Cang's words.

Ying Heng is not dead.

Her master is not dead.

"Su Xuan." Sang Dai choked up and said, "He is not dead..."

Su Xuan leaned over, wiped away her tears, and a smile appeared on the corner of his lips.

He said calmly and gently: "Well, Fu You also told me that your master is not dead."

Fu Youdao said that he and Ji Cang were instructed by someone and had never seen Ying Heng, nor did they know where Ying Heng was. Their purpose was to kill Sang Dai.

Fu You returned and said that the man said Ying Heng was not dead.

"Sandei, perhaps only the people behind the scenes know where Ying Heng is now, but as long as he is still alive, we can find him."

Ying Heng is very important to Sang Dai, and Su Xuan knows it.

Better than family.

But Ying Heng, he is still alive.

Sandy still has relatives.