Chapter 5 Five Cuts
“Demon Realm…” Lu Yaoyao instantly realized the seriousness of the situation.
"The Demon Realm has rules: aside from trade, each sect is only allowed to send a team of no more than three people to the Demon Realm. If the number exceeds this, the Demon Realm will take action against the trespassers," Luo Mingshu explained matter-of-factly. "How many people did the Spirit Control Sect send to find Wei Qing?"
“More than twenty people…” Lu Yaoyao frowned. Once Luo Mingshu’s results were out, she would be the one to deliver the news to her fellow cultivators. But no one expected that Wei Qing would actually go to the Demon Realm, whether voluntarily or under duress.
"More than twenty people. The little darlings of the Demon Realm might think you're coming to punish them, just like you did 30,000 years ago..." Luo Mingshu threatened Lu Yaoyao.
“I…I…” Lu Yaoyao immediately burst into tears again, her eyes brimming with tears. “I told the sect leader that I would go to the Demon Realm to find my senior brother myself.”
After seeing that Wei Qing's consciousness was located in the Demon Realm, Luo Mingshu had an idea. Her cultivation had been stagnant at the Nascent Soul stage for a long time, and she didn't even know what kind of demon she was.
She is a demon and cannot use human cultivation techniques. To improve herself, she must find her own race and her lost memories. In addition, Liu Hongying's primordial spirit has not yet been found. Now that there is someone else in the stream who can protect Liu Hongying's body, it is time for her to set off.
Then, she rolled her eyes and said to Lu Yaoyao, "I want to go too. It's up to you whether you go or not, but I have to go."
Lu Yaoyao couldn't believe it. She had long heard about Luo Mingshu's lazy nature. Why was she now proposing to go to the Demon Realm to find Wei Qing? Could it be that she really fell in love with Wei Qing because of his hair and wanted to steal her senior brother?
Luo Mingshu had no intention of caring about Wei Qing's life or death; she was just looking for an excuse to go to the Demon Realm.
"Senior Sister Luo, the Demon Realm is dangerous... let me take on this danger," Lu Yaoyao said, tugging at Luo Mingshu's sleeve.
"The Demon Realm is dangerous, so a lowly Golden Core cultivator like you shouldn't drag me down." Luo Mingshu acted swiftly and decisively, and she immediately walked out of the stream and flew towards the Gathering Spirit Peak where the sect leader resided.
Lu Yaoyao lagged behind. No matter how much she tried to fly, she couldn't catch up with Luo Mingshu. Luo Mingshu was a genuine Nascent Soul cultivator with formidable strength. When she flew, she was like a gust of wind that "whooshed" past.
She raised her hand to wipe away the tears on her face, and the green bracelet on her wrist lit up. The system's cold voice whispered like a demon: "Host, you're finished. She's going to stir up trouble too."
"Waaaaah, I knew she was shameless! She just likes my senior brother!" Lu Yaoyao continued wiping away her tears. "System, do you have any ideas?"
"What can I do? Are you the host or am I the host? If I could handle it myself, would I need to ask you?" The system indicated that it was powerless to help.
While Lu Yaoyao was still arguing with the system, Luo Mingshu had already arrived at the main hall of Juling Peak, where the sect leader of Yuling Sect resided.
Feng Du, the sect leader of the Yu Ling Sect, had already passed the Tribulation Transcending stage. Whether he could ascend to immortality was just a matter of a thought. However, because he had to manage the Yu Ling Sect, and there was no elder in the sect who could take over the position of sect leader, he temporarily stayed in the human realm.
Feng Du looked young, but his eyes showed the maturity of age. At this moment, he was sitting in the main hall of Juling Peak, looking at the birds singing and flowers blooming outside the hall, sipping the tea in his hand, and marveling at why life was so wonderful and why the sect was so prosperous.
It wasn't until Luo Mingshu burst into the main hall that Feng Du was so startled by her powerful aura that he almost spilled the tea in his hand.
"Sect Leader." Luo Mingshu concealed her aura and walked over, the Soul-Summoning Bell on her wrist jingling crisply.
When Liu Hongying took her in, she was worried that Feng Du, who was in the Tribulation Transcending stage, would discover her demonic identity. But miraculously, even though Luo Mingshu was standing in front of one of the strongest cultivators in the human realm, Feng Du was unable to sense any demonic aura on her.
"Ming Shu, what's up? Have you discovered some new business opportunities?" Feng Du asked Luo Ming Shu with a smile.
"They are two disciples from Fuyun Peak." Luo Mingshu got straight to the point.
"It's a good thing that you're willing to help your fellow disciples. That's why we sent you this banner." Feng Du felt Luo Mingshu's growth and was very pleased.
Luo Mingshu sat down directly opposite Feng Du. After thinking for a moment, she said indirectly, "I'm concerned that Junior Sister Lu Yaoyao of Fuyun Peak is only at the Golden Core stage, and Junior Brother Wei Qing has ended up in the Demon Realm. The Demon Realm is dangerous and has an agreement with the human world, so it's not appropriate for us to send out so many cultivators. I think I'll just have to make do and go to the Demon Realm to find Wei Qing myself."
Feng Du rarely heard such normal words from Luo Mingshu. His hand trembled, and he said in a trembling voice, "Mingshu, you can speak nonsensically in front of me."
"Oh." Luo Mingshu dropped the pretense. "Lu Yaoyao is a useless person who only knows how to feed kills, and Wei Qing is a useless person who has already fed kills. We can't feed too many kills. I just happen to be thinking of going to the Demon Realm for fun, so I can go and rescue him while I'm at it."
Feng Du smiled: "..." There was no need to be so blunt.
"That's how I was when I went to the Demon Realm." Luo Mingshu made her decision to herself.
“Since you say so, Mingshu—” Feng Du was about to respond when a figure rushed in from outside the main hall of Juling Peak.
Lu Yaoyao bowed to the sect leader: "Sect leader, I am willing to go to the Demon Realm to save my senior brother."
"Didn't you refuse to even offer a jade bracelet three days ago to save your senior brother's life?" Luo Mingshu chuckled softly, tucking a curl of hair behind her ear with her pinky. (Small. Piano. Organizing.)
“This…this jade bracelet is a family heirloom…” Lu Yaoyao was about to fill in the gaps.
"The pattern engraved on the jade bracelet is an ancient lotus. The only family capable of carving this pattern was the Dongfang family of Yangjiang County. The Dongfang family was wiped out by the demon race due to the conflict between the demon and human races. This family has been guilty for generations, and all members of the Dongfang family are hunted down by the demon race. Are you trying to say that this is a treasure passed down in your family?" Luo Mingshu laughed. "I'm interested in this because all the cultivators who could carve the ancient lotus are dead, and this jade bracelet is a rare item. If you go to the demon realm with this thing, how do you think the demons will kill you?"
Lu Yaoyao's hand trembled. How could she have imagined such an ancient secret? This ancient lotus pattern should have been lost to history long ago. She didn't know where Luo Mingshu had learned about it.
"Who cares if you go or not, I'm going anyway." Luo Mingshu raised her eyes and glanced at Lu Yaoyao out of the corner of her eye.
"Sect Leader, I am willing to go and save Senior Brother. Senior Sister Luo's cultivation is high, which may be seen as a provocation by the demon race. My cultivation is lower, so the demon race will not be too hostile towards me." Lu Yaoyao bowed again and said firmly.
Luo Mingshu, who could conjure a fish tail at any moment, gently tapped her cheek with her fingertips. She didn't say anything more; she wouldn't stop others from going to their deaths.
"Alright, alright, go if you want to go," Feng Du replied. They couldn't send too many high-level cultivators over there. If more than two Nascent Soul cultivators went to the Demon Realm, the demons might still see it as a provocation, thus breaking the "harmonious" relationship that had been slightly warming up between them and the human world in recent years.
Luo Mingshu tapped her temple with her fingertips. The events that had just occurred stirred her memories. She recalled the description of this part in the original book. In the original book, she did not go to the Demon Realm on her own initiative, but the sect leader assigned her this task.
She felt that the book was getting more and more outrageous, and Feng Du would never give her any extra tasks unless he didn't want the Yu Ling Sect's income for next year.
The original book was identified as fake, and Luo Mingshu made a judgment, but she still had to do what a villainous supporting character should do.
She bid farewell to the sect leader Feng Du and returned to Shuixijian. As soon as she entered the gate, she sensed that her spiritual network interface began to flicker.
Luo Mingshu opened the Spirit Network and, as expected, received countless replies from the anonymous cultivator. He replied with many meaningless periods, using this method to demonstrate the power of his divine sense. Among these countless "...", Luo Mingshu noticed that the other party had also included two sentences.
"Peach blossom dew...where did you buy it?"
"And... Vermilion... Fruit."
These words were hidden in multiple messages, which means that the anonymous cultivator clearly wanted to eat it, but was too embarrassed to admit it, so he could only ask in this indirect way.
Could Luo Mingshu tell him? Absolutely not.
She felt she had won a mental victory, so she happily typed a reply to the other person using her mental powers.
[A 300-year-old beauty with a water-spirit root is incredibly gullible: This young lady eats whatever she wants, a different dish every day, 365 days a year, not the same thing twice, are you envious?]
[A 300-year-old beautiful woman with a water-elemental root is extremely gullible: Send me five million spirit stones, and I'll tell you right away where I bought it.]
Luo Mingshu was just joking; after all, not every cultivator is as rich as her.
As soon as she entered the entrance to the stream, another message popped up on the spiritual network, stating that cultivators could have one-on-one conversations within the Four Directions Water Mirror, provided that their divine senses were connected through the spiritual network first.
Simply put, you need to add them as friends first.
[An anonymous cultivator requests to communicate with you through divine sense.] This message appeared on Luo Mingshu's spiritual network interface.
Luo Mingshu had roamed the Four Directions Water Mirror for over a decade, yet no one had ever been willing to communicate with her through divine sense. Suddenly, she saw the anonymous cultivator's application, and in addition to her surprise, she was also secretly delighted.
She wasn't afraid of any underhanded tactics from the other side and passed through without hesitation.
Soon, a message popped up from the other party.
An anonymous cultivator has deposited five million spirit stones into the account of a 300-year-old woman with a highly gullible water-elemental root on a fraudulent online platform.
Luo Mingshu: "..." How about I give you the name "Super Easy to Foole"?
[Anonymous monk: Speak.]
Luo Mingshu believes that although she is a shameless and vicious female supporting character, she will not turn down money. When she trades with others, even if she buys precious treasures at the cheapest price, there is always a process of exchanging money for goods.
She sent the anonymous cultivator her recipe for making peach blossom dew and the cultivation method for vermilion fruit. Of course, the raw materials were expensive and the production process was extremely complicated, so ordinary people couldn't afford to make it.
Sure enough, after looking at it for a while, the other party only threw out one sentence.
[Anonymous Monk: Is the person who eats this tofu a spirit?]
His words implied that Luo Mingshu, who was eating these things, was extremely fragile and could only afford such delicate food.
Luo Mingshu was furious when she heard what the other party said, and quickly sent several more messages.
[A 300-year-old beauty with a water-spirit root is incredibly gullible: Who are you calling a tofu spirit? Open your eyes wide and take a good look! Your sister is a super, invincible, beautiful, dreamy crystal purple fish spirit!]
Anonymous cultivator: ...
[Anonymous monk: Perfect timing to cook them together.]
[Anonymous Monk: Fish Head Tofu Stew.]
Thus began a new round of verbal sparring. On one side, Luo Mingshu used all her strength, exhausting all her magical power to increase her mental output in order to enhance her recovery speed. On the other side, Xie Changming diverted some of his mental energy to deal with Luo Mingshu and had already started talking to his protector.
"Go buy it according to this recipe." Xie Changming tossed the recipe sent by Luo Mingshu to the protector.
"Peach blossoms from Dongyang Mountain? And they must be the first branches that face the east wind after spring? How much do you have to buy them?" The protector was greatly shocked, and his hands, covered with sharp black thorns, began to tremble. "Your Majesty, our Demon Realm is very poor. You just spent five million."
"Poor?" Xie Changming asked. Unlike Luo Mingshu, who meticulously calculated every single spirit stone, he had no concept of money.
"Yes." The protector wiped away a tear. "Your Majesty, the situation in the Demon Realm has only improved since you returned."
Among the Demon Realm, the Human Realm, and the Demon Realm, the Demon Realm is the most barren. The Human Realm is protected by four Immortal Lords, and the Demon Realm is backed by the ancient Demon God. Only the Demon Realm has welcomed its only master and protector two hundred years ago.
Of course, even in the Demon Realm, no one would look down on it because Xie Changming was in charge. When Xie Changming returned, he brought back the head of a Celestial Lord from the Heavenly Realm, along with the deaths of over a hundred minor gods. Not to mention the deaths of so many minor gods in the Heavenly Realm, the Celestial Lord he killed was the most powerful being among the human race.
"I'll figure something out." Seeing that Luo Mingshu didn't reply, Xie Changming closed the Four Directions Water Mirror interface with her.
"Does Your Majesty also have friends on the Spirit Network?" The protector was greatly shocked. He did not expect Xie Changming to be so trendy. He was worried that Xie Changming would find out about his sweet online romance with a certain human girl.
"No." Xie Changming denied it. Luo Mingshu was just a channel for him to understand the human world, but he now found that Luo Mingshu seemed to be not a normal person.
Having only recently returned to the Demon Realm, he was still unfamiliar with the situation in the Human Realm and the Demon Realm. Now it was time for him to go and see the Demon Realm, which he knew nothing about.
"I will make a trip to the Demon Realm." Xie Changming's voice was almost emotionless. He lowered his eyes and looked into the distance. Black crows flew over outside the palace, their feathers falling and painting a blood moon outline on the gray sky.
The Dharma Protector knew that Xie Changming was trying to learn about his rival, so he temporarily kept his little secret and bowed to see Xie Changming off.
Luo Mingshu had no idea what terrifying figure was on the other side of the Spirit Network. After she finished cursing, her divine sense was exhausted, the Spirit Network interface darkened, and it turned into golden light spots and dissipated.
As if she had lost all her strength, Luo Mingshu collapsed onto the bed in defeat once again. She could only dejectedly check her Spirit Network account balance, where she found an additional five million spirit stones following a long string of numbers.
This amount of spirit stones might be a huge sum for other cultivators, but for Luo Mingshu, it's less than one percent of her entire fortune.
"You're the one who's like fish head tofu stew," Luo Mingshu cursed. "People from the Demon Realm are all like rotten soy sauce; they wouldn't even taste good in fish head tofu stew."
"Senior sister, there are no people in the Demon Realm. They are all creatures born from darkness." Afa's voice rang out behind Luo Mingshu.
Having regained some strength, Luo Mingshu turned her head and looked over. She discovered that Afa's cultivation had improved considerably, and he seemed to have undergone a complete transformation.
"Senior sister, I recently found an opportunity to break through to the Golden Core stage, so you can go to the Demon Realm without worry." Although Afa's talent was not high, she had accumulated so many years of experience in the Spirit Control Sect, and with Luo Mingshu occasionally providing her with some rare pills, it was not difficult for her to break through to the Golden Core stage.
"Okay." Luo Mingshu was completely relieved and began preparing for her upcoming trip to the Demon Realm.
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