Chapter 127 Becoming a Demon: "What are you all standing there for? Quickly help Junior Brother to a seat!" ...
"What are you all standing there for? Hurry up and help Junior Brother to sit down!"
The Rainbow Moon Sect disciple who was holding a bow was injured. After someone mentioned it, the supporters following the young man quickly fed him pills so that he could refine them and heal his injuries.
But it might be difficult for him to get on the field and win tomorrow.
One disciple looked hesitantly at the person protecting the two from Feixian Palace behind him, then suddenly realized: "I remember now, blindfolded, white-haired... she is the young master of Feixian Palace!"
The Rainbow Moon Sect disciples were shocked, not expecting that the cripple would be involved.
And wasn't she said to be mediocre and useless?
This oppressive aura clearly has nothing to do with being crippled.
Xi Congshuang flicked her wrist, pulling her hand away from Su Wenxin's. Ignoring the commotion before her, she turned to leave.
Having just experienced the overwhelming pressure from above, these greenhorns dared not stop anyone.
The fact that the Rainbow Moon Faction, which bullies the weak and fears the strong, dares not do so does not mean that no one dares.
"Young Palace Master Xi," Elder Qu said, having swallowed some pills to regain his strength and stand up, "Regardless of the Rainbow Moon Sect matter, this is not the first time Young Palace Master Xi has shown contempt for the Su family. The Palace Master has always been on good terms with the Su family, but you, as the Young Palace Master, have gone against the grain. Do you want to sow discord between the two sects?"
Elder Qu is one of the elders leading the Su Clan. Just as Xi Congshuang said earlier, if the disciples of the sect are not qualified to talk to her, then the elders of the Su Clan are qualified to say such things.
A scholar can be killed but not humiliated. He could not swallow this insult from Xi Congshuang.
Besides, I've been entrusted with this task, and I haven't even finished the job. How can I let the person leave so easily?
Sure enough, the figure who was about to leave paused and looked in the other direction.
For a fleeting moment, everyone doubted whether Xi Congshuang was actually blind at all, and whether she was better at tracking people than anyone else present who had their eyes open.
But what reason could she possibly have to reveal her blindness to others? It could only be that she had other methods to help her accurately locate the person she wanted to take action against.
It could be divine sense or sound-based location.
The only person Xi Congshuang had looked at earlier was a closed-door disciple of the Rainbow Moon Sect. Now that it was Elder Qu, he understood why the young man had shown such a terrified expression.
Even though the other person can't see you, and you can't make eye contact with them, there's a chilling sense of certainty about it.
Having grown accustomed to having two successive heads of the Su family behind them, the two sides were always worlds apart, whether in terms of strength or spiritual power.
Elder Qu instinctively drew his sword and held it in front of him: "Does Young Palace Master Xi intend to bully others by abusing his power?"
The person who said this was very clear about one thing—Xi Congshuang's spiritual palace was shattered and her spiritual veins were damaged. She could not use too much spiritual power, otherwise she would suffer pain that was even more severe than having her tendons and bones scraped.
Even though she can still stand upright, she has lost her senses. If she continues to use her spiritual power, she may collapse from the pain.
If someone still values their life, they won't make a move, and even if they do, the consequences won't be too severe.
Even though Xi Congshuang is the young master of the number one immortal palace in the world, the Su family also made great contributions in the war between immortals and demons back then, and in recent years they have been on par with the immortal palace.
Firstly, the Palace Master often went into seclusion and had too little time to take action. Secondly, the new head of the family, in order to establish his authority, killed a demon beast that had been sealed for many years, thus making himself famous throughout the world.
It seems that in a while, he will be able to replace the completely fallen Immortal Venerable Su and become the next number one.
Therefore, she really couldn't treat the Su family the same way she treated the Rainbow Moon Sect.
Xi Congshuang's head twitched slightly, as if she heard someone say something to her, but there was no one else speaking at the scene.
She turned from facing Elder Qu to facing him directly, remaining silent and indifferent.
Then she raised her hand and struck out with a palm.
That long, slender, fair hand, which looked like it was often used for painting, attacked Elder Qu with a palm strike without hesitation.
This action caught everyone off guard, and Su Wenxin was powerless to stop it. Someone let out a low cry of surprise.
Elder Qu drew his sword to defend himself, and his defensive robes came into play, withstanding the attack from Xi Congshuang. However, an unbearable pain surged from the depths of his spiritual palace.
He seemed to sense something, lowered his eyes to look at the spirit sword in his hand, and finally understood the source of this backlash-like pain.
The spiritual sword, imbued with spiritual energy, developed cracks and broke into four pieces from head to tail, falling to the ground.
Elder Qu cried out in anguish as his spirit sword shattered.
He tried to speak, but coughed up blood. Without his sword to support himself, he fell face down, looking even more disheveled than before.
Everyone tried to reason with Xi Congshuang, to talk about personal relationships and sect connections, but she only wanted to eliminate anyone who was preventing her from leaving.
Everyone was terrified of Xi Congshuang's strength. Yu Se was so shocked when she saw the young palace master make a move for the first time that she was speechless and couldn't recover for a long time.
"you……"
Whose exclamation caught Xi Congshuang's attention? She seemed to turn her head to look and lock onto her next target.
This is not right; we can't let this continue.
Su Wenxin quickly opened her arms and hugged her, temporarily restricting her movements. She looked up at the group of people who were standing there dumbfounded and looking at her in horror, and said, "What are you all standing there for? Why don't you hurry up and leave?"
If things don't get out of this mess soon, it won't be Xi Congshuang who's having a spiritual energy outburst; even if all these people gang up on each other, they won't be enough for Xi Congshuang to cut them off with one stroke.
Furthermore, if Xi Congshuang's demonic hairpin were discovered, it would inevitably cause a huge uproar.
Given the deep-seated hatred of demons within the cultivation world, they will certainly not let Xi Congshuang go.
Reminded by Su Wenxin, the group finally took action. The closed-door disciple of the Rainbow Moon Sect dared not say anything more, scrambling to his feet and being dragged away by his fellow disciples.
Elder Qu, who was on the ground, was also dragged away by several members of the Rainbow Moon Sect. The broken sword fragments scattered on the ground were ignored. The spiritual light attached to them had long since dissipated, and they had lost all their former sharpness, becoming just a pile of scrap iron.
The disciples of the Rainbow Moon Sect were still shaken by the journey.
"She broke Elder Qu's sword..."
It was even broken into several pieces.
The problem wasn't Elder Qu's Golden Core Perfection cultivation level; it was that his natal sword was broken.
Rather, it was because this was a sword of at least the fifth rank of Earth, incredibly hard, and it would have been very difficult to damage it, yet Xi Congshuang broke it just like that.
A cultivator passing by saw several panicked youths leading Elder Qu, whose clothes were stained with blood, and stopped them to ask what had happened.
The Rainbow Moon Sect disciples, as if grasping at a lifeline, recounted everything that had just happened in detail.
These young people rarely faced such a powerful enemy. In the past, they had the help of elders during their training. But in front of Xi Congshuang, they experienced firsthand the cruelty of being suppressed by cultivation level.
If Su Wenxin hadn't stopped her and forced her to stop, they might not be alive today.
Before long, news of Xi Congshuang's injury spread throughout the entire Qingfeng Sect.
However, she was too preoccupied to care at that time. Su Wenxin coaxed and persuaded her to return to Ziyuan Xiaozhu and take her into the room to recover from her injuries.
The elders hadn't returned yet, and Su Wenxin and the disciples of Feixian Palace were guarding the door. They told anyone who came, "The young palace master is in seclusion and refuses to see guests."
*
Fortunately, it wasn't long before the elder who had gone out to meet with friends returned and took full responsibility for handling the situation.
The elders didn't let the younger generation get involved in what happened afterward, and the tracking arrow became the least noticed thing.
That evening, Su Wenxin was cultivating in her room. She was feeling a bit anxious because she would be going to battle the next day.
It's not because I'm worried about winning or losing.
The girl, who was sitting cross-legged on the futon, opened her eyes and relaxed, placing her hands on her knees.
I wonder how Xi Congshuang next door is doing.
Unable to concentrate on cultivation anyway, he sat up, pushed open the door, and went out.
She stood under the eaves and looked up.
Next door is Xi Congshuang's room. She experienced a surge of spiritual energy today and is still cultivating inside to heal her injuries. She won't be out of seclusion anytime soon.
*
Xi Congshuang's condition inside the room was not very good.
From the moment she left the Immortal Pavilion, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth surged towards her and entered her spiritual veins.
These feelings weren't unbearable; she had always been good at enduring them, and she had gotten used to it over time. The thing that bothered her the most was the inner demons that she didn't know when they would flare up.
Xi Congshuang couldn't really tell whether the injuries to Elder Qu, the broken spirit sword, and the broken longbow were due to her inner demons or her true intentions.
She did indeed despise Elder Qu, and she was indeed the kind of person who would punish those who offended her.
For cultivators who are constantly overflowing with spiritual energy and unable to store and refine it in their spiritual palace, it is perfectly normal to have difficulty controlling the intensity of their attacks.
This is the terrifying aspect of inner demons: they subtly and bewitchingly cloud a cultivator's judgment, leading to all sorts of irreversible consequences.
Xi Congshuang looked into her spiritual palace and found it full of cracks. The nascent soul, which looked similar to Xi Congshuang, hugged its own body with both hands, like a stone sculpture, and was covered with cracks.
The entire spiritual realm resembled a dried-up riverbed exposed to the scorching sun, but beneath the cracked riverbed, a surging undercurrent flowed slowly, its deep red and almost black color.
Those were the demonic bloodlines hidden deep within her spiritual realm, beings inherently incompatible with and antagonistic to spiritual power.
The two forces waxed and waned, vying for dominance within Xi Congshuang's body, with neither able to overpower the other.
Human-demon hybrids are inherently contrary to human ethics, and Xi Congshuang was unable to find any records related to human-demon hybrids in the library, leaving her helpless regarding her situation.
However, Xi Congshuang read only part of the records about the demon race.
Demons are inherently powerful beings, born with incredible speed in cultivation and rapid advancement. Their cultivation methods are also unrestricted, and the number of them killed by lightning tribulations far exceeds that of human cultivators.
If more demons had participated in the great war back then, victory wouldn't have been achieved so quickly.
Xi Congshuang had already planned to find a way to collect more records related to the demon race, and if necessary, she would have to make a trip to the abyss.
Putting all that aside for now, there's something else that she finds a little strange.
Was today's event really just a coincidence?
As she was thinking, she heard a commotion outside the window. Someone had disturbed Xi Congshuang's protective array and was being attacked by it.
*
Su Wenxin traversed the depths of the night, heading towards the mountain where the Su family resided.
There was a question she wanted to ask Elder Qu in person, a question she had wanted to ask for a long time.
She desperately wanted to know whether she was stolen by the Crimson Golden Bird Demon's foster mother or deliberately abandoned when she was still an infant.
Su Wenxin had spent less than a year with Elder Qu, but had spent fifteen years with her adoptive mother, so she knew her adoptive mother's courage.
The foster mother dared not steal anything, much less steal the children of a family of cultivators.
She felt that the other party was unlikely to tell her the truth this time, but she still wanted to come.
This was a chance she was giving Su Shi, but it wouldn't significantly affect the final outcome. She remembered every face of the person who had killed her adoptive mother, and she wouldn't let anyone go.
Thinking this way, she came anyway, openly and honestly.
With such a big deal happening today, the Su family will be happy to see her make a fool of herself.
She had previously gone to great lengths to escape from Feixian Palace, originally intending to kill Elder Qu. She had also considered this idea before setting off for Qingfeng Sect.
Later, she completely gave up on the idea.
Because he was in the Qingfeng Sect, there were many people around and he couldn't act rashly, as that would only bring trouble to Xi Congshuang.
If we were outside, it wouldn't matter. We could fight as much as we wanted, and even if we were killed in retaliation, we wouldn't be afraid, as it would be a way to repay our adoptive mother's kindness in raising us.
This is why Su Wenxin was unwilling to become Xi Congshuang's disciple; the crime of patricide would tarnish Xi Congshuang's reputation.
"Elder Qu isn't here? Wasn't his natal sword broken and he needs to recuperate?" Su Wenxin asked.
The Su family disciple who answered was speechless for a moment, looking at her with an unspeakable gaze.
Knowing that the father and daughter were like oil and water, like enemies, I didn't expect that she would still dare to say such things in front of the Su family's door.
Su Wenxin arrived empty-handed and had no choice but to return home.
Before leaving, she said to the Su disciple who answered her, "Thank you for your help, senior sister. I will come again next time."
Su's disciple: "..."
Maybe we shouldn't come.
Elder Qu coughed up blood twice today, and his natal spirit sword was broken by Young Master Xi, taking away most of his life.
If Su Wenxin were to come again, a few words from her could make Elder Qu cough up even more blood.
The Su family disciple shook his head and turned back, saying, "What a terrible thing..."
Su Wenxin retraced her steps, never expecting that she would soon see Elder Qu.
However, he died in front of Xi Congshuang's window.
The Purple Plains Pavilion had gathered a large number of cultivators, causing quite a commotion inside. Without exception, they were all wary of the woman in green standing in the middle.
That person was Xi Congshuang, who was suspected of murdering Elder Qu.
"Putting everything else aside, the person died in front of her window, and she also has a precedent of almost going mad with her cultivation. Young Master Xi is the most suspicious."
"Yes, Xi Congshuang and Elder Qu still have some disagreements today, and she might kill someone out of spite."
"But the elders of Feixian Palace also said that their young palace master's spiritual mansion is damaged and she has been recuperating for many years. She shouldn't have the ability to kill, right?"
"Elder Qu is only at the Great Perfection of the Golden Core stage and is also seriously injured. How could he possibly be her match?"
"Besides, who caused Elder Qu's injuries?"
The elders of Feixian Palace were also anxious and kept asking Xi Congshuang, "Shuang'er, tell Elder Fuyue again what exactly happened?"
Xi Congshuang wanted to speak, but she repeated what she had said many times before.
"Miss Su, you're back?" Someone called out when they saw the stunned Su Wenxin.
"..." The surroundings fell silent.
Someone looked at the girl at the back of the crowd; her pretty face was pale.
Most people didn't know who the girl was, but after an insider explained, their gaze towards her changed.
The whispers didn't reach Su Wenxin's ears; she simply wasn't listening.
Xi Congshuang remained indifferent to the accusations of a thousand people, but when she heard a familiar name, she reacted differently, silently closing her slightly parted lips.
He remained completely silent.
She turned her head slightly, as if she wanted to look somewhere, but in the end she didn't, and remained quietly standing in place.
Su Wenxin felt that everything in front of her was unreal. She had only gone out for a short while, how could things have turned out like this when she came back?
But what was placed in the hall was indeed Elder Qu's chest, which was sunken in.
He was killed by a single blow; his spiritual palace shattered, and his life force was severed.
In a moment of dizziness, someone helped Su Wenxin up. It seemed that Yu Se was pulling her, and Lan Hui also wanted to take her away.
Su Wenxin broke free from both hands, thinking that it couldn't possibly be Xi Congshuang who did it.
She couldn't say those words aloud because she saw Xi Congshuang's lips move, silently uttering a sentence.
She said, "Don't come any closer."
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