(The end? Not at all~)
"Intelligent, no wonder this sissy so highly praises him as a genius swordsman."
Jiang Ying laughed so hard she nearly fell over, but halfway through her laughter she realized she was being affected by her body. Slightly embarrassed, she cleared her throat, composed herself, and then, in a deeper voice, continued...
"Ahem! The ritual I passed on to them before seems complete, but it's actually still a half-finished product. The passage isn't very safe. Only when combined with this treasure in my hand can it be considered a true opening of the fake ascension passage."
"Hey, Senior Brother Mo, promise me something, okay? If you agree, I'll take you flying with me, alright?"
Well, he couldn't stop himself from saying the last sentence, which turned into Jiang Ying's own high-pitched tone, showing how terrifying her muscle memory was.
Yu Ling: What a load of rubbish!
You're the one with the magic weapon to open the true passage? What was that Chu Fan just flew into? A protagonist crusher? That's a complete disaster! Will my mission even be possible now?!
[Don't worry, host, we haven't been kicked out yet. The protagonist should be safe!]
Seemingly sensing that its host's silence stemmed from concern for the protagonist's safety, the system reassured it. It believed that all seemingly useless protagonists were invincible, especially since this one wasn't even finished with his story—even if he died, he could be resurrected!
"That's good."
Yu Ling also felt that Chu Fan wouldn't die so easily. After replying to the system in her mind, she also asked the fake Jiang Ying aloud at the same time.
"You possessed my junior brother and now you want me to do things for you? How laughable... Huh? This spatial magic weapon isn't something an ordinary evil cultivator could produce. Just who are you? What are your goals?!"
How could Yu Ling not recognize the spatial attribute passage token? It can not only mark a location and allow one to cross space without taking a large formation, but it can also resist weak spacetime storms when passing through certain small secret realms.
But that's something that only exists in the immortal realm. The original owner had never heard of such a thing in his memories. This person... could he have come down from up there?
"You can recognize this? Senior Brother Mo's knowledge is truly astonishing. Well then, I won't hide it from you. He is... ptooey! I am the Demon Lord of the Upper Realm!"
"I was just caught off guard and got surrounded by a bunch of shameless old schemers, my physical body was shattered, and coincidentally someone ascended to heaven that day, so I followed the lightning down..."
Jiang Ying started talking, and went on and on, saying...
"Sigh, everything was fine when we came here, but who would have thought we couldn't go back!!! Are the people in your world all able to ascend so quickly? It's been so many years, and there hasn't been a single person left!"
Yu Ling felt that the complaints of the person possessing Jiang Ying's body sounded vaguely familiar. He pieced together the key points: the Demon Lord, exiled, his physical body destroyed but his soul not extinguished, and he still had enemies. Could the next step be...?
He blurted out, "So, that's why you're trying so hard to smuggle yourself back?"
Jiang Ying said, "Yes, I have hidden a lot of treasures in the Upper Realm, just waiting for the day when something happens so I can possess someone else's body. How could I possibly want to settle down here?"
"So, you suddenly appearing now, it's not that you want me to ascend with you, help you rebuild your physical body, and take revenge, and you'll use the treasures you used to hide to thank me as a reward... right?" Yu Ling asked again.
"Huh? How do you know all of this?"
Yu Ling: ...No way, really?!
Of course I knew! Isn't this the perfect old man that every protagonist needs by his side? He'd read the novel in the modern world too, so he was all too familiar with the plot!
"So, Senior Brother, you've made it so clear that you're ready to agree to my request?" 'Jiang Ying' was very confident in herself, as if she had some trump card that would make Yu Ling agree 100%.
"Alright, I agree." Yu Ling didn't give him the chance, even taking back the sword. But he wasn't without conditions, adding, "After returning my junior brother's body, you should have another place to stay, right?"
Chu Fan, I wonder if you're alright in that fake passage? It's alright, I'll come find you right away with your new map's companion, the old man!
"You're quite loyal, don't worry." The fake Jiang Ying didn't really intend to use this effeminate body. If possession were that easy, he wouldn't have waited so long to choose to sneak away. He could have easily broken through to the Nascent Soul stage and ascended back with any mortal body.
Seeing that Yu Ling and 'Jiang Ying' were chatting happily and were about to make their escape, the city guard looked bewildered, but he couldn't wait any longer and interjected, asking:
"The evil cultivator has been killed, and the ritual has been completed. You may leave if you wish. But could that young friend who wielded the sword give me the elixir first?"
Yu Ling asked in confusion, "What kind of pill?"
"The pills you promised me!"
“But now we can guarantee a safe ascension, right? What do you need the pills for?” Yu Ling said matter-of-factly.
The city guardian hardened his fist. Damn it, is this a matter of flying or not? He still has many attachments to this realm, and his aptitude is what it is. If he goes up there, he'll be nothing but a nobody. If there are other ways to prolong his life, he definitely doesn't want to go!
"Stop trying to sweet-talk me. If you dare to go back on your word..."
"I didn't say I wouldn't give it to you!" Yu Ling shut up the city guard's unspoken threat with another sentence, and casually tossed over a small medicine bottle, inside which lay a round pill.
"Uh, ah? Cough cough! Then this old man will activate the illusion array for you, hurry up and go!" The city guard, holding the medicine bottle, hadn't recovered yet. The medicine was obtained so easily?
Jiang Ying was too lazy to bother with the trivial matters of a few people from the lower realm. She hung the spatial passage token on Yu Ling's waist, then possessed Yu Ling's unremarkable ordinary sword with her soul, leaving the unconscious Jiang Ying behind.
The token's energy circulated, opening a new passage that was about to close. This ascension looked much more elegant than Chu Fan's toilet-like posture. Before leaving, Yu Ling added to the city guardian, "If possible, please unseal the magic power of those two you sealed earlier."
Inside the passage, the system asked timidly, "Host, you didn't actually give him the spirit liquid, did you?"
Seeing the system's reluctance to part with the spiritual liquid, Yu Ling casually put the side quest reward from the previous world back into the system's inventory and laughed, "How could that be? I just used one drop to dilute a whole pot of water, and then dripped a drop of the diluted spiritual liquid onto the Bigu Pill to fool him."
Life Elixir accounts for 0.01%, while Bigu Pill accounts for 99.99% of the pills. How can Bigu Pill, which can prolong life, not be considered a life-prolonging pill? He did not break his promise!
—To be continued—
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