Chapter 73 Qu Ruoxuan Destroys the Eye Demon?
Song Yin and Shi Heming were thrown into the air by the burst of spiritual energy and landed inside the gate of the ruins.
The two quickly got up and ran straight inside.
The tremor just now sent them into the ruins. What a kind person from the Qingxuan Sect!
The two quickly moved forward between various doors. As for Qu Ruoxuan outside the ruins, Song Yin didn't care whether the stranger lived or died, especially since she had a terrible impression of Qu Ruoxuan and nothing good ever came of meeting her.
Song Yin carefully put away the recording stone and smiled slyly: "With the evidence, we'll have Master and the others go to Qingxuan Sect to demand an explanation. We'll make sure Qingxuan Sect pays us a hundred thousand to eight hundred thousand top-grade spirit stones. Otherwise, we'll expose what the people of Qingxuan Sect have done to the public. They can just wait to be infamous for ten thousand years."
Shi Heming: "Do you still remember the identity tags of the deceased disciples? I saw that the footprints on the ground of the Qingxuan Sect members were exactly the same as the footprints on the identity tags. Those Xianxiao Sect disciples must have been killed by him."
Song Yin: "The five major sects seem to have a harmonious relationship, but there are quite a few frictions behind the scenes. It's understandable that he would take action against the disciples of the Immortal Cloud Sect. No one outside knows what happens inside the secret realm. Even if he kills someone, no one will know. However, it is very detrimental to the stability of the secret realm for a dignified Nascent Soul stage cultivator to suppress his cultivation to the Golden Core stage. I will leave the secret realm ahead of schedule once I get what I'm looking for."
Shi Heming: "Okay."
Outside the ruins, the golden-robed talisman cultivator was furious. He had actually been stabbed in the back by a Foundation Establishment cultivator! If he were alone, it wouldn't be so bad, but there were too many people there. If word got out, he would lose all face!
He was skilled in using talismans and knew many spells, but he had never studied formations. The wound on his chest was healing after swallowing a life-saving pill, but the formation was still in operation. He tried to break through the formation by force, but failed every time he tried.
The golden-robed talisman cultivator said to the black-robed array cultivator, "What are you laughing at? Quickly help me dispel the array-breaking technique!"
"Hahaha!" After confirming that Qu Ruoxuan had no power to resist and only dared to threaten them with her eyes, the black-robed man felt relieved and went to break the formation for the golden-robed talisman cultivator.
After someone entered the ruins, many small flowers on the roof began to wither, and the fragrance that had affected the monks also dissipated.
The four people watching from afar realized that the fragrance of the flowers had dissipated, so they flew towards Qu Ruoxuan; they couldn't delay any longer.
Seeing the four people flying towards her, Qu Ruoxuan hurriedly ran into the ruins.
Just one step away from stepping in, several beams of golden light suddenly appeared before my eyes.
The black-robed cultivator withdrew his left hand, transforming it into a companion to break the formation, and said, "Do you really think we're pushovers?"
Qu Ruoxuan was trapped in a golden cage-like magical artifact with no way to escape. Strands of hair clung to her face, and her beautiful hairstyle was completely disheveled. Her eyes were bloodshot as she questioned the golden-robed talisman cultivator: "You say you are a member of the Qingxuan Sect. As one of the five major sects, why are you colluding with them?"
The golden-robed cultivator finally emerged from the formation, straightening his robes. "If you had joined a sect earlier, we might not have attacked you. Unfortunately, your Qu family considers itself a powerful clan, but its foundation is not even as good as some second-rate sects. Since the Qu family couldn't protect your treasure, we naturally had to take action. And you said I'm colluding with them?" He pointed around, "Those two are your sworn enemies, the Zhang family, and the other two are from the Immortal Alliance."
Qu Ruoxuan: "The Immortal Alliance?" She swayed, leaning against the cage, utterly dejected. "There are actually people from the Immortal Alliance involved! Our Qu family pays a lot of money to the Immortal Alliance every year..."
The black-robed cultivator flicked his fingers. "Take her away, and while you're at it, remove the spell that sealed the secret realm." Just now, Qu Ruoxuan was threatening them with her eyes, but now she's obediently staying in the cage.
"stop!"
"What are you doing!"
"Stop!"
Several voices rang out at the same time.
The black-robed cultivator was astonished. He instinctively raised his hand to try and snatch the object from Qu Ruoxuan's hand, but his hand was blocked by the cage, and he could only watch helplessly as Qu Ruoxuan made her second attempt.
Everything happened too fast; they didn't even have time to react. Despite their cultivation, they couldn't stop Qu Ruoxuan's self-destructive actions.
The black-robed cultivator slammed his fist heavily onto the magical artifact, exclaiming, "It's all gone!"
Qu Ruoxuan knew all too well that she would not have a good end if she fell into their hands. All the people who could protect her were dead, and even her younger brother was missing. No one would ever come to save her again.
She couldn't save her eyes from these people, and she probably couldn't save her life either. Since she was going to lose her eyes or die anyway, why not take matters into her own hands and watch them end up with nothing?
As they lowered their guard, believing they had won, Qu Ruoxuan plunged a dagger into her own eye. They reacted quickly, pulling the dagger out and then plunging it into her other eye.
It hurts, it really hurts, but...
"Your wishes have been dashed." Qu Ruoxuan let two streams of blood slide down her cheeks, her smile radiant, filled with a sense of cathartic satisfaction.
"They all want the Heavenly Treasure Spirit Body, they all want these eyes, come and take them, come and take them!"
None of the six spoke, silently watching Qu Ruoxuan.
"How does it feel to have your efforts come to nothing? Do you want to kill me right now? Go ahead and grind me to dust, scatter my soul to ashes!"
Qu Ruoxuan waited for a long time, but she didn't even use her spiritual energy to alleviate the pain in her wounds. Since she was going to die anyway, what was the point of easing the pain? She might as well just endure it.
Death did not come, nor did the six men who were hunting her leave.
Qu Ruoxuan could no longer see their expressions, but she knew from memory that they must have looked terrible. She turned towards the golden-robed talisman cultivator, remembering the questions she needed him to answer before she died.
"My Qu family is a first-class family in the Eastern Continent. What makes you think that my Qu family's foundation is inferior to that of a second-rate sect?"
The golden-robed talisman cultivator's expression finally changed. How could one not be angry when all one's efforts had been in vain? Qu Ruoxuan had destroyed her eyes so thoroughly that there was no way to repair them. After the dagger was inserted, she even twisted it a few times with force.
The Heavenly Treasure Spirit Body, which has no eyes, is not even as good as the most useless and ordinary Pure Spirit Body. The six of them, who kept it a secret from their sect and the other two from the Immortal Alliance, went to great lengths to chase after the Floating Dream Secret Realm, only to end up like this.
To kill someone is to destroy their spirit. Isn't the Qu family what Qu Ruoxuan is so proud of? The golden-robed talisman cultivator sneered with resentment: "Heh, how many experts above the Integration Stage does your Qu family have?"
Qu Ruoxuan knew all this. "Four people." There were even some at the Mahayana stage, although the ancestor had failed to ascend.
"I am from Zhongzhou. Take the Flying Cloud Sect of Zhongzhou for example. This sect can only be called a third-rate sect, but as far as I know, there are nearly ten powerful figures above the Integration Stage who are in charge of the sect. This is the foundation that your aristocratic families can never catch up with, no matter how hard they try. So I say that the Qu family cannot protect you, but the five major sects can."
"Qu Ruoxuan, you can deal with this. I'm going to go deep into the ruins to capture that sword cultivator and vent my anger!" More than Qu Ruoxuan making him come up empty-handed, he hated the Foundation Establishment brat who stabbed him earlier. It was an utter disgrace!
"Kill them," the black-robed formation cultivator asked the other four.
The other four nodded in agreement.
The cage-like magical artifact began to shrink, and Qu Ruoxuan could not escape. She slumped to the ground and quietly waited for the artifact to finally strangle her to death.
As he lay dying, he heard the roars of wild beasts.
"roar--"
"Aww—"
"Looks like someone else has come here, just to attract the attention of the monsters. I don't have time to fight monsters, I'm leaving."
The black-robed cultivator called out to his companion, "Wait, we've finally made it to this secret realm, why don't we go in and take a look? We can't leave empty-handed now that we've lost the Heavenly Treasure Spirit Body."
The four thought about it and agreed with the black-robed formation cultivator's suggestion.
The group entered the ruins, leaving Qu Ruoxuan alone at the entrance.
The weapon that trapped Qu Ruoxuan was a high-level magic artifact, and the black-robed array cultivator retrieved it. Qu Ruoxuan was severely injured and on the verge of death; if the group of people and demonic beasts attacked from behind, she would undoubtedly perish.
Her consciousness began to fade, but the binding magical artifact suddenly disappeared. Qu Ruoxuan was barely clinging to life, lying on the ground and mocking, "How arrogant you are! You think I'm doomed? I'll get out of here alive and tear you all to pieces!"
The six were arrogant, believing that Qu Ruoxuan was doomed; Qu Ruoxuan was arrogant, believing that the Qu family had a deep foundation in Dongzhou and no one could rival them.
Everyone pays the price for their arrogance.
Qu Ruoxuan couldn't see it, so she silently recited the incantation for the secret realm, but it had no effect.
"It seems they haven't withdrawn their spells yet; the secret realm is still sealed off, and we can't leave."
She used her divine sense and, enduring the pain, crawled into the gate of the ruins, trying to find a place to hide and avoid being caught in the crossfire of the battle between other people and monsters.
Having finally crawled inside, she felt she was truly going to die. Leaning against the corner, she poured out some pills and swallowed them. After the incident with the evil cultivator, she began carrying many pills, magical artifacts, and talismans with her. During her escape, she ran out of magical artifacts and talismans, but fortunately, she hadn't used up all her pills.
She gently touched her eyes, unable to understand why she, with her innate Dao physique, wasn't as powerful as someone in the Foundation Establishment stage. Could possessing an innate Dao physique truly make one far superior to ordinary people?
On the other side, Song Yin and Shi Heming had been traversing the ruins for a long time.
From the outside, the ruins look unremarkable and somewhat dilapidated, but once inside, they are like a maze, with corners and forks appearing every short distance.
Although the maze-like ruins were difficult, she had a walkthrough! She took out her notebook, followed the route map, and navigated the twists and turns safely once again.
Shi Heming didn't ask her where the things came from or why the contents were so accurate. He just followed silently, ready to lend a hand whenever needed.
"It's right here in front of us." Having not dared to stop during her escape, Song Yin couldn't help but smile brightly when she saw what she was looking for behind the door.
“However…” Song Yin pondered how to get in.
On the way here, I encountered many doors, but this one was uniquely entangled in thorny brambles. The brambles were predominantly purplish and covered in sharp thorns. If I were dead, that would be one thing, but the brambles were still moving, and more and more of them were climbing over the entire door.
As expected, the thorns on the door are a monster, a plant-type monster.
One end of the thorns hung down from the door to the ground, growing so fast it made a sickening sound, and soon spread into a purple network on the ground. But its growth did not stop; it continued to crawl towards the corridor, as if it wanted to cover the entire ruins.
“For plant-type monsters, find their weaknesses first.” After saying that, Shi Heming took out a stack of talismans with various attributes.
Some plant-type monsters are afraid of fire, some are afraid of thunder, some are afraid of ice, etc. In short, it is impossible to use conventional thinking to conclude that plants must be afraid of fire.
"How sad! How could anyone compare them to demonic beasts?"
A languid yet charming female voice suddenly appeared.
Song Yin and Shi Heming instantly became alert; there were others present.
The thorns on the door gathered into a ball, and then that thorn transformed into a woman's face, with thorns covering her from the neck down.
“They are demons, not those mindless monsters with only strength.”
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Author's Note: Song Yin: Wow, below the neck are all thorns (crossed out)!
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