Chapter 7 Seven Cuts
It took Luo Mingshu a whole incense stick's time to realize that she had been blocked by the anonymous cultivator.
She was actually... blocked by someone... who was also her first friend with whom she could communicate telepathically in the Four Directions Water Mirror.
Well, this feud is now officially set in stone. Not long ago, Luo Mingshu's impression of him had improved somewhat because he transferred five million spirit stones to her without saying a word. Now, she's cursing him three hundred times in her heart.
Unwilling to admit defeat, Luo Mingshu sent another request for telepathic communication, but the other party did not reply for a long time, which made Luo Mingshu feel like she had punched cotton.
But since the other party did not approve the application, she could not retaliate, so she could only quietly wait for the cloud boat to arrive in the demon realm.
After a while, the cloud boat slowed down. Luo Mingshu looked out the window at the scenery. In the distance, there was a lush forest. From this angle, the layered tree canopies looked rather cute, with their fluffy textures. Above the forest, various kinds of cloud boats came and went, some carrying goods, and others large cloud boats specifically for cultivators.
Among these cloud boats, the purple-gold glittering boat that Luo Mingshu was riding in was particularly eye-catching, and its beautiful color quickly attracted the attention of the demon guards.
They were at the entrance to "Yunsha Ferry," a border city of the demon realm. Yunsha Ferry was surrounded by a yellow sand barrier constructed with earth-attribute magic. Only those with the corresponding password could enter Yunsha Ferry. Human cultivators, demons, and even monsters could all temporarily reside here, making it a very lively place.
The demons of the Demon Realm had never heard of Luo Mingshu's name. They only thought that Luo Mingshu's cloud boat was luxurious and beautiful, and that she must be a rich person. They thought that once they entered Yunsha Ferry, they could rip off the humans on the cloud boat.
Luo Mingshu sat inside the cloud boat, unfolding the map in her hand. A soul-summoning bell was wrapped around her little finger, occasionally emitting a faint ringing sound, guiding Luo Mingshu's finger toward their destination.
“Wei Qing is inside Yunsha Ferry. It’s not far from Yongwu Forest. He may have wandered here, or he may have been forcibly brought here by other demons or humans.” Luo Mingshu closed the map and glanced at Lu Yaoyao. “The location accuracy of the Soul-Summoning Bell is not that high. Yunsha Ferry is very large. We’ll have to wait until we enter the city and wait for the Soul-Summoning Bell to sense the location.”
"Okay, thank you, Senior Sister Luo. If I find Senior Brother's location, I'll go there by myself." Lu Yaoyao was still thinking about the system's task, afraid that Luo Mingshu would steal her credit.
Luo Mingshu raised an eyebrow at her: "Are you sure?"
Lu Yaoyao nodded; she wished Luo Mingshu wouldn't appear here.
Wei Qing's location was set at Yunsha Ferry, which was already strange. The Yuling Sect had a rule that as a human cultivator, he would not leave the human realm voluntarily unless he had no other choice.
It would be dangerous for one person to go alone, and Luo Mingshu couldn't care less about Lu Yaoyao going to her death.
Luo Mingshu had her own things to do. She planned to first search for information on all the fish demons in the demon realm to see if she could find any clues about her background.
Her background is not important; what matters is finding a suitable cultivation method so she can become stronger quickly.
Luo Mingshu and Lu Yaoyao, each with their own thoughts, stepped off the cloud boat. The purple-gold shimmering boat behind them shrank automatically after they left, and Luo Mingshu took it into her palm and put it into her spatial pouch.
Surrounded by cultivators and demons, Luo Mingshu stood in the center of the crowd, seemingly radiating light. She was already extremely beautiful, and her captivating beauty was enough to make every human and demon who noticed her stop and look back.
In her early years at the Yuling Sect, Luo Mingshu almost never left the Shuixijian area. Most of the stories about her came from the Yuling Sect. Many cultivators only knew that "Luo Mingshu was beautiful," but which female cultivator was not beautiful? They were nourished by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and had their beauty enhanced by anti-aging spells. Almost every female cultivator had her own unique beauty, so others only thought that Luo Mingshu was just an ordinary one among many beauties.
What they didn't know was that Luo Mingshu truly possessed a beauty that could stand out among many beauties. Even when Lu Yaoyao, who was the dream lover of many male cultivators outside the Yuling Sect, stood next to her, she could still steal people's attention with her face.
Luo Mingshu never felt ashamed because of other people's gazes. She walked straight to the entrance of Fengsha Ferry and handed over the jade token that proved her identity. The name and information engraved on the jade token were "Yuling Sect, Luo Mingshu".
Lu Yaoyao followed. She sensed the presence of many powerful cultivators around her. This was the chaotic Fengsha Ferry, not the peaceful Yuling Sect. It was safer for her to stay with Luo Mingshu for now.
After verifying their identities, the two women entered the sandy ferry, where rolling yellow sand swallowed their figures and blocked all curious gazes.
Shortly after Luo Mingshu entered Fengsha Ferry, a dark golden light appeared in an inconspicuous spot near the entrance. The flowing golden light formed a spatial barrier, and a person walked out. He wore a black hood, and only his beautifully sculpted jawline could be seen from the shadows.
Fortunately, Luo Mingshu's appearance had drawn everyone's attention, otherwise his ability to traverse space at any time would have caused panic in Fengsha Ferry. It should be understood that the arrays enabling long-distance teleportation between the Demon Realm and the Human Realm were jointly established by the Demon Emperor and the Four Immortal Lords. Even cultivators who have just ascended to the Heavenly Realm cannot master such spatial-crossing techniques.
Judging from this person's skill, his strength should be no less than that of a celestial lord.
The man in black robes also entered the Sandstorm Crossing. However, unlike normal cultivators who entered through jade tokens proving their identity, he walked directly through the yellow sand barrier on the side, casually crossing the millennia-old restriction of the Sandstorm Crossing.
No one knew that such a terrifying figure had arrived in Fengsha Ferry. Luo Mingshu booked a guesthouse in Fengsha Ferry, located on the west side of the city. She originally planned to go there by herself, but Lu Yaoyao followed her closely.
"Why are you following me?" Luo Mingshu walked towards the inn, glancing back at Lu Yaoyao.
"Senior Sister Luo... Fengsha Ferry is a mixed bag, you can find all sorts of people. I'm afraid there might be danger, so I can only follow you," Lu Yaoyao said, biting her lip.
"You knew it was dangerous, yet you still insisted on coming?" Luo Mingshu mocked. "You made all those promises before you set off, but now you're scared? Don't worry, I won't steal the credit for rescuing your senior brother. He's in Fengsha Ferry. How you find him is up to you."
Luo Mingshu stepped into the luxurious inn she had reserved and pointed to a small inn next door: "Junior Sister Lu, don't go to the wrong one. This is the one the sect has reserved for you."
Lu Yaoyao glanced at the large, detached house that Luo Mingshu had booked. She thought it wouldn't be a problem for her to stay there alone, so after paying Luo Mingshu, she successfully squeezed into Luo Mingshu's place.
Luo Mingshu had her own things to do and didn't care what methods Lu Yaoyao was trying to use to find her senior brother. She went to her room and took out a booklet introducing the demon races on the table to read.
In the demon realm, one must abide by the rules of the demon race. Some powerful and eccentric demon clans have their own taboos that must not be violated.
For example, it is forbidden to touch the tails of cat-like demons, and it is forbidden to use water-attribute magic in front of canine demons to avoid splashing water on them. Even more bizarrely, it is forbidden to repeat the same sentence in front of certain parrot-like demons, otherwise they will trigger their racial instincts and repeat it as well.
These are rules that humans must abide by; if one inadvertently violates a taboo, they will be retaliated against by the demon race. There is a reason why the demon race is so volatile and explosive, and so wary and disgusted with humans.
More than 30,000 years ago, before the existence of the Demon Realm, humans and demons lived together. Unlike spirit beasts, demons did not easily develop their own intelligence; they had their own dignity and culture. However, some humans at that time treated demons as spirit beasts and invented spells to suppress their strength and self-esteem, leaving a mark of enslavement on many demons.
The Dongfang family of Yangjiang County, which Luo Mingshu had mentioned to Lu Yaoyao before, was one of the human families that had once enslaved the demon race. The demon race had risen up in rebellion, but because the demons scattered to all corners of the world could not unite, their rebellions were suppressed by humans every time, until the matter alarmed the Heavenly Realm.
More than 30,000 years ago, the Four Great Demon Gods still existed. They were neither human nor demon, and did not belong to any faction, but their oppression of another race angered them. So the four ancient demon gods, Phoenix, Yinglong, Xuan Turtle, and Qilin, joined hands and entered the Misty Star Sea. They pioneered this boundless unknown land, creating a demon realm no smaller than the human realm at that time. They sent the demons living in the human realm to live in the demon realm, giving them a home.
Later, under the protection of the demon god, the demon race gradually rose to power. They returned to the human realm to take revenge on the human forces that had once enslaved them, exterminating all their people. However, this time, even the four celestial lords who protected the human race were helpless; this was punishment for their past mistakes.
This is how the Demon Realm came to be. Even though so much time has passed and the old grudges have faded, every demon and human remembers this history.
Luo Mingshu briefly recalled the origins of the demon race. At three hundred years old, she didn't have much of a connection to the history of thirty thousand years ago. She browsed through a booklet about the different types of demons but found no connection to any of them. In the end, she even started searching for anemones, jellyfish, and starfish, but still found nothing.
She flipped through the entire booklet but found no information about her origins. However, the demon race was conservative and wouldn't reveal all their secrets openly. It seemed she still needed to explore the Sandstorm Crossing again to find some more information.
Luo Mingshu felt she should go out for a stroll now, but she slumped onto the couch instead. She was tired and should lie down and browse the Spirit Network.
She put the cut fruit on the table into her mouth, opened her spiritual network, and entered the Four Directions Water Mirror.
Luo Mingshu's spiritual network interface began to flash. She clicked on the new message and found that the anonymous cultivator had actually approved her request for spiritual communication.
"Well, he's smart enough to know his place," Luo Mingshu thought to herself.
While Luo Mingshu was still organizing her thoughts and figuring out how to retort, Xie Changming had already entered the inn's room and taken off his hood.
Beside him, the golden light of the spirit network flickered, and the interface remained in a dialogue.
[Anonymous monk: Yes, she suddenly disappeared from my spiritual network contacts.]
【Sealed Heart and Locked Love (Height 183cm): Your Majesty, did you accidentally delete her?】
[Anonymous monk: . ]
[Anonymous monk: She's too noisy, I closed the interface.]
[Sealed Heart and Locked Love (Height 183cm): I understand, Your Excellency. It must be because your divine sense was too powerful. Although you only performed the small action of closing the Spirit Network interface, the output of your divine sense was too strong, causing a more significant effect, which also deleted her.]
[Anonymous Monk: Oh, she applied to get it back.]
【Feng Xin Suo Ai (Height 183): Your Majesty, if you want to learn more about the human world, you can continue to chat with her and extract some information about the human race. If you find it annoying, I can actually ask you for some information...】—After all, he also has a human girl he is currently having a passionate online romance with.
[Sealed Heart and Locked Love (Height 183cm): Your Majesty, are you still there?]
【Sealed Heart and Locked Love (Height 183cm): Your Excellency, your divine sense is powerful; aren't you supposed to reply to messages very quickly?】
【Sealed Heart and Locked Love (Height 183cm): Your Majesty? ???】
The Demon Realm Protectors, having been left hanging for a long time, finally came to the conclusion that their Lord was probably too busy dealing with that notorious troll from the Spirit Network.
Xie Changming had just accepted Luo Mingshu's request for telepathic communication when, moments later, Luo Mingshu bombarded him with messages.
[A 300-year-old beautiful woman with a water-elemental root is incredibly gullible: Blocked me?! Anonymous cultivator! How dare you?!]
[A 300-year-old beauty with a water-elemental root is incredibly gullible: Do you think you can do whatever you want just because you have powerful divine sense now?]
[A 300-year-old beauty with a water-elemental root is incredibly gullible: You wait, you think I won't get stronger, you brat?]
Xie Changming edited his reply, stuffing the sarcastic phrase "fish head tofu stew" into a period with an ambiguous meaning.
He sent out more than ten messages, intending to catch Luo Mingshu off guard.
result--
Sorry, your message could not be delivered.
[A 300-year-old beautiful woman with a water-elemental root is extremely gullible and has proactively severed her spiritual connection with the anonymous cultivator.]
[Clicking on the profile picture of the 300-year-old beautiful woman with a water-elemental root who is extremely easy to fool will re-initiate a telepathic communication with her.]
After hurling insults, Luo Mingshu deleted the other person's friend, feeling overjoyed. She thought she had finally gotten her revenge.
Meanwhile, the Demon Realm Guardian, who had been neglected by Xie Changming for a long time, finally received a message from Xie Changming.
[Anonymous monk: She deleted me again.]
[Sealed Heart and Locked Love (183cm tall): Hahahaha, serves him right!]
[Fengxin Suoai (height 183cm) retracted the message.]
[Feng Xin Suo Ai (Height 183cm): QAQ! Perhaps Your Majesty could find another human cultivator to learn about the situation in the human realm? I know this notorious troll on the Spirit Network; he's incredibly difficult to deal with.]
[Anonymous Monk: No need, she's fine. I'll add her back and continue cursing.]
[Sealed Heart and Locked Love (Height 183cm): Your Majesty, why?]
Anonymous cultivator: ...
He quickly learned how to use popular online slang from Luo Mingshu.
[Anonymous Cultivator: She dared to block me?]
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