Chapter 195 Two promising talents
Suppressing her doubts, she knew little about the demon race. She would investigate further later, and if all else failed, she would consult the Heavenly Dao.
Song Yin stood up and looked around, extending her divine sense to its limit. Before leaving, she needed to check if any demonic beasts were still lurking nearby. The villages here had suffered, and she couldn't let other villages suffer as well, since these demonic beasts could roam freely.
It would have been better if she hadn't investigated. When Song Yin did, she was shocked to find a group of living demon beasts lying in one place. They were of different races, and some were even natural enemies, but these demon beasts were not afraid of each other and just lay together quietly.
She focused all her spiritual sense on this point, flew over there, and left a message before departing.
"Clean up the scene and go back first. Xia Xining and Ling Zixian, remember to protect them. Also, be aware of non-Xianxiao Sect cultivators who might self-destruct their divine senses to escape."
Those who were not cultivators of the Immortal Cloud Sect all opened their eyes wide.
No, Elder Song is overestimating them. Who would want to die if they could live? They're not suicide squads!
Despite receiving Song Yin's instructions, the two focused their attention on the group of non-Xianxiao Sect cultivators.
Their bodies trembled again.
"We won't self-destruct, really!"
"Yes, yes, self-destruction is too tragic, we all want to live."
"If we go to the Immortal Cloud Sect, will we even have a chance to survive?"
Xia Xining hadn't expected these people to be so afraid of death. If they were so afraid of death, why would they dare to do something like this? She really didn't know what they were thinking.
Xia Xining's thoughts inexplicably aligned with Song Yin's; neither of them could understand what these people were thinking.
After taking the pills, the severely injured cultivators of the Immortal Firmament Sect recovered considerably. Seeing that they had almost fully recovered, Ling Zixian asked them, "Can you walk now?"
"able."
"Yes," the group replied in unison.
The children huddled together; the three who had been crying incessantly were still sobbing, while the brother and sister held hands, their eyes filled with wariness.
Xia Xining walked up to the children and squatted down in front of them. "Do you know about the Immortal Cloud Sect?"
Some of the five children shook their heads, while others nodded.
The older brother of the siblings replied, "Yes, Mother always tells us the story of Yuan Lijun."
Xia Xining: That's great. Would you like to go to the Immortal Cloud Sect? Or if any of you want to go and stay with relatives, we can send you there.
The brother and sister were the most clever of the five. The other three were still sobbing and wouldn't listen to what she was saying, but the two of them were already thinking after hearing what Xia Xining had to say.
The younger sister tugged at her brother, her large, dark, bright eyes fixed on him. "Brother, let's go to the Immortal Cloud Sect."
The older brother patted his younger sister's back with his free hand, then said to Xia Xining, "Senior, we are willing to go to the Immortal Cloud Sect."
If it weren't for this unexpected event, their parents would have personally sent them to join the Immortal Cloud Sect a few years later, so going to the Immortal Cloud Sect now is just a matter of bringing it forward.
Xia Xining then asked the remaining three, "Are you going to the Immortal Firmament Sect?"
"Waaaaah..."
For some reason, the three children started crying again. Xia Xining closed her eyes, her head aching from listening to the children cry. She knew the three children wouldn't answer, so she stood up.
"Never mind, bring them all to the Immortal Cloud Sect. Once they can understand what we're saying, we'll ask them whether they should stay or leave."
Before the people from the Immortal Cloud Sect returned, Song Yin had already flown far away. She concealed her aura and landed not far from her target, while simultaneously applying an invisibility talisman to herself.
She glanced around and found there were about forty or fifty monsters here. Some of the naturally ferocious monsters even had red eyes, some open and some closed, just like the gentle ones.
It's confirmed; these demonic beasts all possess the aura of the demon race. This is the first time she's encountered anything related to the demon race in the current Xuan Tian Realm. No one has mentioned demons before, so they must have only recently appeared—and she hopes so. If they haven't just appeared, then it's troublesome. Having a demon lurking in the Xuan Tian Realm undetected by cultivators is a very dangerous thing.
Song Yin continued to control her divine sense, searching for any hidden demons while avoiding detection by the monsters.
With her limited understanding of the demon race, she only knew that the demon race was not morally upright, that it was normal for them to kill each other within their own race, and that they were different from cultivators, as they placed great importance on bloodlines.
Among this group of demonic beasts were also avian demonic beasts, which lay on the ground at a height of three or four meters. Under the wing of a avian demonic beast with entirely red feathers, Song Yin found what appeared to be a demon. A person, or rather a demon, who appeared to be androgynous with red hair, was looking in the direction of the Immortal Firmament Sect cultivators.
Song Yin secretly regretted that if she had known she would encounter the demons in this time and space, she should have learned more about them in the ancient time and space.
She focused her divine sense on the red-haired demon, ready to deliver a fatal blow at any moment. However, the red-haired demon under the wings seemed to keenly sense the danger and immediately flew out from under the wings. At the same time, these demonic beasts also stood up, exhaling heavily and restlessly raising their feet in place.
As a long sword thrust at him, the red-haired demon raised his hand and spread his five fingers to block the flying sword, his slender fingers bearing black nails.
"who?"
This red-haired demon spoke broken human language. After arriving in the Xuan Tian Realm, he selectively absorbed the memories of several people so that he wouldn't be unable to understand the language and communicate with the humans of the Xuan Tian Realm.
"Who is it? Show yourself!"
Pfft! Song Yin, hiding in the shadows, suppressed a laugh. This was a demon with an accent, far inferior to the demons of the ancient time.
"If you try to sneak around in the shadows and steal things, you'll regret it!"
Pfft! Song Yin laughed wildly in her heart.
But jokes aside, this red-haired demon must be killed, or at least brought under control.
The flying sword that had been blocked by the red-haired demon began to tremble and pierced his palm in a few breaths. After piercing his palm, the sword turned around and stabbed again, this time aiming at his heart.
"Come out! Come out!"
The red-haired demon controlled these monsters to shield him. He was ambushed by other demons and fell into this world. Here, humans cultivate using spiritual energy, while demons cultivate using demonic energy, which makes it difficult for him to recover in this world.
Before he recovered, he faced numerous dangers. He could only rely on the methods of controlling demonic beasts inherited from the Demon Clan royal bloodline to control these beasts to protect himself. He also wanted these beasts to kill more people so that he could use the various negative emotions generated when people died to cultivate. After absorbing these negative emotions, they would be transformed into demonic energy in his body to help him recover his strength.
The red-haired demon kept yelling at the air, but Song Yin wouldn't go out. She simply controlled the Qingyang Sword, causing many demonic beasts to fall before the red-haired demon's eyes.
Strong and difficult to kill demonic beasts? No problem, she's currently in the Tribulation Transcending stage, easily killing demonic beasts of the same realm, and even those of higher levels. Inaccurate swordsmanship? That's impossible; these demonic beasts are like slow motion in her eyes, how could they possibly dodge her Azure Sun Sword? And even if they do dodge, she's not afraid; she can make the demonic beast return to its previous state a few seconds ago, and then strike again.
The red-haired demon also realized that the cultivator hiding in the shadows was no ordinary person. He couldn't expect the other party to come out just by shouting and yelling. However, his strength had greatly decreased and he was no longer at his peak, so he couldn't find the person even if he wanted to.
Enraged and facing the imminent risk of death, the red-haired demon viciously pulled out a dagger, then slashed his palm, drawing blood.
Song Yin instantly realized she was being targeted, and a few seconds before the monster charged at her, she immediately flew into the sky.
The bird-like monster flapped its wings and flew over. Song Yin recalled the Qingyang Sword and directly confronted the monster head-on. With a miserable cry, the monster's corpse crashed heavily to the ground, raising dust in the air!
Song Yin's divine sense had been locked onto the red-haired demon. "Trying to escape?" She swooped down and attacked the fleeing red-haired demon.
The red-haired demon burned his bloodline power to speed up his escape. In this life-or-death situation, he didn't care that burning his bloodline power would weaken him further; only by surviving could he have any hope.
"Damn it, her cultivation level is amazing! What realm is she at?"
The red-haired demon, fleeing in panic, doubted Song Yin's cultivation level while speeding up their escape.
Suddenly, he stopped abruptly, lunged forward, and fell face-first to the ground. When he looked up, blood streamed down his nose, and his front teeth seemed to be loose.
"Ew~" Song Yin couldn't bear to look at it.
The red-haired demon was stunned by the fall. Hadn't he fled at top speed? Why was that female cultivator still in front of him? He looked left and right, and what was even stranger was that he had returned to the place where he had fled.
"Mud! Mud, stand still!" The red-haired demon with wobbly front teeth spoke in an even more pronounced colloquial way.
Song Yin was not one to listen to her opponent's rambling. She walked up to the red-haired demon amidst his terrified gaze and made a hand seal.
The red-haired demon didn't know what she was chanting, only that after she stopped chanting, his soul seemed to be imprisoned.
Song Yin: "I've left a mark on your consciousness, don't try to erase it yourself, or your soul will be instantly shattered." The red-haired demon's accent was so bewitching that she was almost affected by it. "In short, you're now in my hands. I'll ask you questions, you answer them. If you lie, I'll chant a spell to activate the mark."
The red-haired demon, who possessed royal blood, lowered his proud expression. He understood what the female cultivator opposite him was saying, but the more he understood, the more he hated his brothers. If it weren't for his brothers, how could he have been injured and fallen into the human world!
What's your name?
"No way."
"Could it be?"
"Is it...?"
"Isn't this still nothing?"
The red-haired demon remained silent. Since he was still lying face down on the ground, he reached out and wrote two words on the ground.
Song Yin tilted her head, looked at him, and then read aloud, "Mo You?"
Mo You nodded.
How did you get to the Xuan Tian Realm?
"The brothers in bed betrayed us."
"Why?"
"Because they are the most talented among the brothers in my lineage, they managed to seize the position of Demon Emperor."
Song Yin: "Oh, so you're still a member of the royal family among the demons?"
"I admit you are very powerful. You have helped me in the Demon Realm, and I hereby appoint you as a Great Demon General!"
Song Yin's expression was subtle: "It would be best if I gave you some more spirit stones and helped you ascend to the throne of the Demon Emperor, and you would give me even more benefits, right?"
Mo You was surprised by how powerful the cultivator in front of him was. He nodded vigorously, "You're really smart."
Song Yin abandoned her plan to kill him, because this demon seemed to be an idiot. Since the soul imprint had already been placed on him, he couldn't escape her grasp. So she replied, "No!"
Mo You was stunned. He had already offered her benefits, so why was she still refusing?
Song Yin: "When did you arrive in the Xuan Tian Realm? How many demons came with you?"
Mo You turned her head away, her face pressed against the ground, clearly not wanting to answer.
Song Yin: "...Answer my question, and I'll send you back to the Demon Realm."
Mo You immediately straightened his head, "I've been here for almost a month, and I'm the only demon here."
Song Yin took out the communication stone and contacted Sect Leader Yan, explaining the current situation. After listening to Sect Leader Yan's words, she put away the communication stone.
Using her spiritual energy to lift Mo You up, Song Yin said coldly, "You should go to the Immortal Cloud Sect first. We'll decide whether to send you back to the Demon Realm after we confirm that you pose no threat to the Xuan Tian Realm."
If what he said is true, then he is currently the only demon in the Xuan Tian Realm, and the only way to send him back is through the spacetime turbulence.
Upon returning to the Immortal Cloud Sect, the first person they saw was Shi Heming, who had been waiting at the entrance, knowing they were coming back.
Shi Heming turned his gaze to Mo You. "Who is he?"
Song Yin: "Demon, take them to the Discipline Hall and lock them up first."
Mo You lowered his eyes. He had been well-behaved the whole way because he remembered a saying from some of the memories he had absorbed: "Those who know when to yield are the heroes."
Having left the troublesome Mo You in the Discipline Hall, Song Yin finally had the mood to ask about other things.
“I asked Xia Xining to take the five children back to the sect. What about those five children? One of them has a single spiritual root and the other has two spiritual roots. They seem to be a brother and sister. They both seem to have good character and are promising talents.”
Shi Heming: "They're all in the outer sect, and the sect has provided them with temporary accommodations. It's probably because Chu Tang has been protecting them all along that the five children seem to be very attached to Chu Tang, and Chu Tang is with them right now."
"Let's go take a look."
The two changed direction and headed towards their temporary accommodation. The temporary accommodation wasn't a bamboo hut; they weren't yet disciples of the Immortal Cloud Sect, so they couldn't stay in a bamboo hut.
When Song Yin and Shi Heming arrived at their temporary lodging, they hadn't even entered when they heard a young child's voice pestering Chu Tang, "Sister, sister, can you tell us the story of Yuan Lijun again?"
Shi Heming had visited once before, "I forgot to mention, the brother and sister you admire really admire you."
Song Yin raised an eyebrow, lifted her foot, and pushed open the door to enter the room.
The children immediately fell silent and stood behind Chu Tang.
They recognized Song Yin, whom they had met once before, but neither of them spoke.
Chu Tang immediately bowed and said, "Master, Senior Master."
Song Yin sat down, and Chu Tang immediately poured her tea, then stood beside her.
Chu Tang transmitted her voice to her master: "Two of them grew up listening to your stories, but they don't know you, and I didn't reveal your identity immediately."
Song Yin transmitted her voice: "Well done."
Upon receiving the praise again, Chu Tang stood behind Song Yin and curled the corners of her mouth.
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Author's Note: Mo You: Human, you howl, I am a demon [waving hand] v50, listen to my revenge plan!
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[Empty bowl]
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