Chapter 32 The Right Guardian of the Evil God
The system shouted in Fu Ning's mind: "Boss, I have this woman in my database!"
Fu Ning ignored the system and walked into the main house like a lost soul.
Xiao Dan called her several times but got no response. She muttered to herself, "What's wrong with her?"
Song Jinghe had just rushed back to the yard. After exchanging glances with Bai Yuchen, he followed Fu Ning into the house.
Fu Ning's thoughts have gone back to six hundred years ago.
At that time, she was holding a sword and guarding the teleportation array from the world of cultivation to the human world. When the sky was getting light, two familiar figures appeared in her sight.
One is her fellow senior sister Bai Yuchen, and the other is a young man who has not yet become an evil god.
Bai Yuchen was surprised to see her, "Junior sister? Why are you here..."
Fu Ning looked at the two of them coldly, "Where are you going?"
Bai Yuchen stammered, "We are going to the human world."
Fu Ning sneered, flashed in front of the young man, poked his bag with the hilt of his sword, took out a piece of black stone from it, and spread it in front of the two of them, "Human world? Then why do you want to take the teleportation stone to the demon world?"
The boy watched her snatch the stone away without taking any action.
Bai Yuchen bit his lip and tried to snatch the stone from her hand, but Fu Ning quickly closed his palm and retracted his arm.
Bai Yuchen was furious, "Chen Fu Ning, what do you mean, are you going to stop us like those old-fashioned people?"
"Of course I'm here to stop you." Fu Ning held the stone in his hand, "Senior Sister Bai, you are a righteous cultivator, how can you associate with evil?"
The young man stared at Fu Ning intently the whole time, until he heard these words, then he pursed his lips tightly, and his clenched fists trembled slightly.
Bai Yuchen laughed loudly, "Righteousness? Chen Funing, you guys claim to be right, but the things you do are even more filthy than the evil ways."
She stopped laughing and said with a firm look in her eyes, "So what if you fall into evil ways? I, Bai Yuchen, only practice my own way."
Fu Ning frowned, "Senior Sister, you have been bewitched by him."
She dared to say that no one in the world understood this warm-hearted but cold-hearted boy better than her.
Bai Yuchen said: "I am willing."
Fu Ning didn't expect her to be so resolute. "Senior Sister, are you really going to abandon your family and friends and go to the demon world? From now on, we will become enemies."
Bai Yuchen's eyes turned towards the young man and suddenly became gentle and affectionate, an expression that Fu Ning could not understand.
She nodded, "I've already decided."
"Okay." Fu Ning knew that he couldn't persuade him, so he handed the teleportation stone to the boy and said, "I'll give it back to you."
The boy's cool fingers brushed across her skin and retrieved the teleportation stone.
His voice was low and calm, as if he was chatting casually, "Why don't you stop me?"
"You have evil bones and belong to the demon world."
The young man stared at Fu Ning for a long time, with a black vortex in his eyes, as if to suck her in.
Fu Ning saw the burning ambition in his eyes.
Wu Xiu once said that a young man with an evil bone would destroy the world of cultivation. Wu Xiu also predicted when Fu Ning was born that she would become the master of the world of cultivation.
It seemed like they had been enemies since birth, each walking on the most glorious and darkest paths, and even the people around them thought so.
But people shouldn't be doomed to death just because of a prophecy made by a witch.
Fu Ning did not believe in fate, she believed that man could conquer nature. She said to the boy confidently: "You don't have to look at me like that. I am doing this for your own good. You can only practice in the demon world if you go there."
The boy still looked at her carefully, but his eyes softened. He finally sighed, "I understand."
"Boss! Boss!" the system shouted several times in a row.
Fu Ning came to his senses and responded.
The voices of Xiaodan, Zheng Caiye and Bai Yuchen were heard in the yard. Song Jinghe had followed her into the house at some point and was watching her from a distance.
Song Jinghe asked her, "Xiaoshuang, what's wrong with you?"
Fu Ning was in no mood to argue with him, so he just responded casually, "I'm fine, I just felt a little dizzy all of a sudden."
Her thoughts were still on her senior sister. Since she was from the demon world, Zheng Caiye must also be from the demon world.
She really didn't expect that Senior Sister Bai could live so long. In total, she must be more than 700 years old. Anyone who can live to this age should be at the Mahayana stage or above.
Seeing the host was stunned, the system repeated, "Boss, I have this woman's information in my database."
Fu Ning said: "Well, tell me."
The system pretended to clear its throat, "Boss, this woman is Bai Yuchen, the right guardian of the evil god of the demon world. She appeared when she was trying to snatch the treasures from the secret realm."
As expected, he came for her secret realm, but Fu Ning couldn't imagine what treasures there were in her secret realm that were worthy of the Right Protector to come and snatch in person.
“What does she want?” she asked.
The system has opened up all permissions for this part of the story, and it can speak freely, "She wants the Soul Gathering Lamp."
Fu Ning stroked his chin, "What does she want the Soul Gathering Lamp for? To revive the evil god?"
The system sighed, "Boss, how do you know everything? It is indeed for the evil god. The evil god's soul is gradually dissipating, and similarly the seal of the Immortal Lord is getting weaker and weaker. The demon world wants to gather souls for the evil god and help him break Shen Funing's seal."
The system deliberately observed Fu Ning's expression and saw that her expression was normal and she was not at all moved when she heard these words.
That's not right. Logically, Shen Funing and the evil god should be enemies. If its host is really Shen Funing, why doesn't he react at all to the evil god's impending resurrection?
Fu Ning asked: "Did they get the soul-gathering lamp?"
System: "No, they failed."
Fu Ning raised his eyebrows, "Where is the soul-gathering lamp?"
"It was taken by the villain."
Fu Ning's gaze fell on Song Jinghe. He should already have her soul-gathering lamp in his hand.
She frowned, "That's not right. Didn't this plot happen after the village was destroyed? Why are they here now?"
System: "Maybe he scouted the place in advance. The book doesn't mention it."
Fu Ning nodded. No matter what the reason was, it didn't match the plot, she would make sure they returned empty-handed.
She asked again: "What does Song Jinghe do with the soul-gathering lamp?"
The system was silent for a few seconds, and then a mechanical voice sounded again, "The host has not yet unlocked the permissions."
Fu Ning was annoyed and said, "Forget it, he can use it on whoever he wants."
Anyway, she had already used her soul-gathering lamp once, and using it again would require human life as lamp oil.
In other words, it is equivalent to exchanging one life for another.
Thinking of this, Fu Ning suddenly recalled a sentence revealed by the system a long time ago - the villain died for Shen Qingning.
She asked, “Could it be that Song Jinghe used the soul-gathering lamp to save Shen Qingning?
The system remains silent.
The more Fu Ning thought about it, the more possible it seemed. She began to feel unhappy. She had never imagined that the treasures she had collected were more important in the novel than she was.
At this time, Song Jinghe had quietly moved in front of Fu Ning.
When Fu Ning thought that his treasure might be used for something else, she became even more upset at Song Jinghe. She stood up suddenly and walked past Song Jinghe to leave the house.
Just after she took two steps, the corner of her sleeve was grabbed by Song Jinghe. Fu Ning gritted her teeth and pulled back her sleeve, but Song Jinghe held it tightly.
System: "Hey, when did the villain's favorability increase by five points? It's now sixty-five."
Fu Ning pulled back his sleeves and asked the system, "Eh? Haven't you been doing real-time monitoring recently? Please help me convert it into points."
System: "You two haven't seen each other recently, I thought your favorability rating wouldn't change."
Fu Ning: "You don't understand, right? The fact that we haven't met doesn't stop him from missing me."
System: What the host said recently seems to make sense.
Fu Ning said to Song Jinghe, "Why, are you addicted to competing with me in hand strength?"
Song Jinghe slowly let go of her hand and looked at her seriously, "Xiao Shuang, I want to make a birthday wish."
Fu Ning put down his arms, recalled for a moment, frowned and said, "Isn't your birthday in summer? This is too early."
Song Jinghe said calmly, "Promise in advance."
"Then tell me."
Song Jinghe lowered his eyes, "My birthday wish is to cancel my New Year's wish."
Fu Ning was happy. How could someone waste his birthday wish like this?
The system interrupted and said, "Boss, the villain has also given in. Isn't it time for us to return home and live here?"
Fu Ning said to the system: "No, I can't go back now. I have to choose a good time."
The system doesn’t understand, what is a good time? Do I have to choose the right time to go home?
Then I heard the host say to Song Jinghe: "Okay."
Song Jinghe raised his eyes in surprise.
"But." Fu Ning changed the subject, with a wicked smile on his face, "Birthday wishes must naturally be fulfilled on your birthday."
After she said that, she turned and left the yard without greeting the new guests.
System: "Boss, did you see that the villain's face turned pale? Are we being too disrespectful to him?"
Fu Ning: "The favorability has dropped?"
System: “That’s not the case.”
"That's fine."
There was no one in the yard. From the sound, Xiaodan and the other two entered Zheng Caiye's room.
Fu Ning walked in and saw Bai Yuchen's face, which was much more beautiful than before. "I'm sorry, I suddenly felt a little unwell just now and didn't say hello yet."
"It's okay. My name is Zheng Yuchen, and I'm Caiye's sister." Bai Yuchen raised the corners of her mouth slightly, "I've heard from Xiaodan that it was you who saved Caiye. We will repay you, Miss Xiaoshuang."
When Fu Ning heard this name, he smiled and said, "Sister Yuchen, you can just call me Fu Ning."
Bai Yuchen's face froze for a moment, "Why are you..."
Xiao Dan asked curiously, "What's wrong?"
Bai Yuchen then looked at Fu Ning seriously, and after a long while he breathed a sigh of relief, "It's nothing, it's just that your name is the same as the former Immortal Lord of the cultivation world, I was a little surprised."
Not only the name is the same, the core is the same too. Fu Ning said with a smile: "I also heard someone say this when I signed up for the Cultivation Association before. That person also praised me for my promising future."
Bai Yuchen sighed, "It's a pity that the Immortal Lord died young."
Fu Ning: My fist is hard.
She put on a fake smile and said, "Since Sister Yuchen has found her brother, are you ready to leave?"
Bai Yuchen frowned slightly, a worried look on his face, "That being said, one of us mysteriously disappeared after we entered the mountain, and we sent people to look for him several times but couldn't find him. Do you know if there are any strange places nearby?"
Xiao Dan thought for a while and said, "No, no one from our village has ever gone missing in the mountains."
Bai Yuchen looked towards Fu Ning.
Fu Ning scratched his head and pretended to think for a while, then shook his head.
After all, her secret realm can only be sensed by cultivators above the Jindan stage, and there are almost no cultivators in this area, so her secret realm has remained safe and sound for a hundred years without being discovered.
Therefore, Bai Yuchen and Zheng Caiye would not find any results even if they spent a hundred years investigating in the mountain village.
"What about you, sir? Do you know anything unusual around here?"
Fu Ning turned around and saw Song Jinghe had arrived at Zheng Caiye's door at some point.
How could I forget this person? He not only knew my secret realm, but it is also very likely that he had entered it. He even knew that his alchemy furnace was not simple.
Exposing the secret realm doesn’t really matter, Fu Ning is familiar with all the mechanisms, but Bai Yuchen is very likely to know her alchemy furnace. If this is exposed, it will be very disadvantageous to her. Bai Yuchen is very likely to suspect her, but she is not yet strong enough to compete with her senior sister.
She could never forget the last time they saw each other, when Bai Yuchen had bloodshot eyes and wanted to kill her.
The system had the same concerns, "Boss, will the villain reveal the secret realm? We just confronted him, and he has a vengeful personality."
Song Jinghe's eyes fell on Fu Ning.
Fu Ning was unsure. Song Jinghe should be able to see that these two people were not ordinary people. He might really hand over the Soul Gathering Lamp and use them to return to the world of cultivation.
Song Jinghe turned his gaze to Bai Yuchen.
"No, there's nothing strange around here."
【Author has something to say】
She is the senior sister who was abducted by the evil god mentioned in Chapter 7!
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