Chapter 54: Sect Master Sang Ying
In that instant, Xie Lingyu saw the mountain steps under the moon again.
The young girl struggled to carry him up the mountain, her pale face covered in sweat, panting. When she realized he was awake, she tensed up and stammered, "Um, well, you're awake."
Then her little face hardened into a serious expression.
"Don't worry, I'm not a human trafficker. I just... I mean, I just stepped in to help someone in need. That's how we江湖人 (jianghu people) are. After all, I'm the boss of Minghua Mountain. Anyway, you..."
"Don't be afraid."
"..."
The air in the room quieted down, so quiet that only the two of them could hear their breathing. After a while, the warm touch that had been on their eyelids slowly faded away.
Sang Ying cupped his face in her hands and felt the heat radiating from her fingertips. She knew this was a symptom of poisoning, and he must be feeling terrible.
As she watched him slowly open his eyes, his beautiful black eyes beneath his long lashes appearing dull and lifeless, Sang Ying felt a pang of pain in her heart and bit her lip.
"Xie Lingyu..."
Before she could finish speaking, the young man's cold, bony fingers grabbed her wrist, pulled her into a hug, and buried his head in her chest.
He held me tightly; his body was burning hot, a sickly kind of burning. His uneven, scorching breaths fell on my waist, seeping through my clothes and carrying my heat.
Sang Ying was taken aback, then raised her hand and gently patted his back.
People become very vulnerable when they are sick. She was often sick when she was a child, and she always wanted someone to be by her side during those times, so she completely understands how he feels now.
In addition, it is perfectly understandable that one would feel helpless and insecure if they suddenly went blind and could not see anything.
Sang Ying patted him and said softly, "It's okay, it'll be alright. It's getting late, sweetie, let's go to sleep, okay?"
"..."
Xie Lingyu released her and looked up. "Junior Sister, are you comforting a child?"
Sang Ying pulled him up by the hand, dragged him to the edge of the bed and pressed him down to sit. She reached out and took off his outer robe. "A patient should act like a patient. You're burning up with fever, yet you're still pretending to be fine."
Sang Ying couldn't help but sigh. He used to love to show off and never said anything when he got hurt. Now that he's blind, he still won't say anything and just pretends nothing's wrong.
Having learned from the previous experience, he quickly tore off his clothes this time. Sang Ying pushed him to lie down and was about to cover him with a blanket when her fingers were gently grasped.
The young man stared blankly in her direction with his dark eyes. "Junior sister, can you sleep with me?"
Looking into his eyes, Sang Ying couldn't help but feel a pang of heartache.
She knew that he left Yunling Realm to find spiritual veins in the cultivation world to help her; otherwise, how could something have happened to him while he was peacefully staying in Yunling Realm?
Sang Ying forgot all about her anger and cold war, threw back the covers and lay down. The young man took the opportunity to hug her from behind, holding her in his arms and resting his chin on her neck.
I was busy with the Chamber of Commerce for a while, then we had a fight and a cold war, and then we separated because of the spiritual energy poisoning. It's been more than half a month since we last slept together.
I felt a little uncomfortable being held in his arms, but considering he wasn't feeling well, I let him be.
However, he was sick and his body was burning with fever. Sang Ying felt as if she were in a furnace. She reached out and touched his forehead. "Xie Lingyu, are you feeling very unwell?"
The young man hugged her tighter, his voice low, his hot breath warm against her neck, "I can't bear not being able to hold my junior sister."
Sang Ying's ears burned, and she muttered softly, "If you hadn't been so jealous and insisted on kissing me in the banquet room... I wouldn't have been angry and ignoring you."
The person behind him paused slightly.
"...Is this why my junior sister is angry?"
Sang Ying pulled the quilt up, covering half of her face, leaving only her wet amber eyes showing, and her voice became muffled: "What else?"
She tugged at her fingers, her ears turning red, and complained softly, "I told you it's no, but you still insisted on kissing me. How can you do that kind of thing in a banquet hall?"
Last time at Tianzai Shuizhu Garden, he knew that she shouldn't listen to his opinions in the study, so he went back to the bedroom.
But this time, nothing happened. She said no, but he still did it. That's why Sang Ying felt a strong sense of disappointment. Coupled with extreme shame and nervous tension, she couldn't help but cry.
Xie Lingyu finally understood the reason for her anger. One of them was a dragon and the other was a human, so they had a big difference in their thinking in this respect.
Dragons are naturally enthusiastic about such things, and this attitude is widespread among dragons. They are not limited to the bedroom; they can do it anywhere as long as they feel like it, and the open air is a common occurrence.
Sang Ying is a human cultivator, and she is naturally shy. For her, the most she can accept is cultivating in a private place like her bedroom.
Xie Lingyu nuzzled her neck with her chin, her voice soft, "I know I was wrong. From now on, junior sister will choose the location for our joint cultivation."
The location didn't matter to him, as long as the person he was practicing with was her, and only her.
Sang Ying's ears turned even redder after hearing this.
However, since he knows he was wrong and is willing to change, there's no need to dwell on it.
She paused, then gave a soft hum, "...Then I'll reluctantly forgive you."
The air grew quiet again.
In this quiet moment, Sang Ying couldn't help but worry about him again. He couldn't see, and she knew he must be feeling very conflicted and upset, thinking about all sorts of things.
Just as I was pondering how to soothe his emotions, a low voice sounded in my ear.
"It's said that changes in temperature can cause different sensations..."
The young man's hot breath fell on her earlobe, "Would you like to give it a try, junior sister?"
"……don't want!"
Sang Ying pulled the quilt up to bury herself, her face flushed, her watery eyes shimmering in the darkness.
What a waste of worry about that lecherous dragon!
...
This incident involving the poisonous gas from the spiritual veins has almost wiped out the entire cultivation world and the demon world. The only remaining safe zone of the Cloud Spirit Realm is also being eroded by the poisonous gas every day, constantly shrinking, and it will eventually fall completely.
The cultivation world and the demon world have a very poor relationship, but this matter concerns both worlds and is of great importance. Therefore, the two sides have no choice but to temporarily put aside their past grievances and unite to solve the current predicament.
The Demon Emperor and the Four Demon Kings invited the sect leaders and patriarchs of the Immortal Alliance and various sects and families to come to the Cloud Spirit Realm to participate in discussions.
The demon realm and the cultivation realm were divided into two sides. The demon realm side consisted of Xie Yucang and his wife, along with the four demon kings, totaling six people. On the other hand, the cultivation realm side had many more people, numbering in the dozens.
Before the meeting even started, everyone had a solemn expression on their face. After all, this poison gas incident was extremely serious and difficult to handle. Even with the most skilled medical practitioners from both worlds gathered together, they still couldn't figure out what kind of poison was in the spiritual energy, let alone develop an antidote.
Sang Ying led Xie Lingyu into the council hall. The people from the cultivation world all turned their heads. These family heads and sect leaders all had high cultivation levels, and even if they lost their sight, they could still sense the aura and movement.
"May I ask who these two are?" There should only be six people in charge of the demon realm.
Xie Yucang's face was solemn, and his tone was steady: "My son and daughter-in-law, the part of the spiritual veins used for this research was retrieved by my son himself."
Everyone understood and showered him with compliments, saying, "Like father, like son; he has the same style as the Demon Emperor when he unified the demon realm."
Xie Yucang: ?
Xie Yucang: "My true form is the Azure Dragon, are you all... hiss."
Rong Xueman subtly pinched his arm under the table, her face calm and her tone gentle: "Everyone, now that everyone is here, let's begin."
Sang Ying led Xie Lingyu to sit down behind a table on the demon realm's side. She looked around and saw that the heads of the four major families, the leader and elders of the Immortal Alliance, and... the Grand Elder of the Wuwen Sect.
Cultivators have long lifespans and their appearances don't age much. Elder Xu Bin is said to be over a thousand years old, but he doesn't look old at all. He looks to be about thirty or forty years old, in his prime.
His son, Xu Baishen, stood behind him, clearly also poisoned, his eyes dull and lifeless.
During the heated discussion between the two sides, the boy who had been lying listlessly next to Sang Ying suddenly raised his head, his lifeless eyes looking over. Just as his face was about to approach Sang Ying, a cold sword was placed against his neck.
Yin Tu laughed, "It really is you. How was it? Did the love potion work?"
Sang Ying patted the Luo Qing sword, pulled it back, and asked with some confusion, "How did you recognize it?" Even though she couldn't see it, she didn't say anything.
The Southern Demon King, Yin Tu, had only met her once, when he forced the love potion on her.
Yin Tu said softly, "His scent on you is so strong, even my stuffy nose can smell it."
Sang Ying's ears turned red. These past few days, he had been holding her while sleeping, and they were always so affectionate.
I secretly lifted my sleeve and took a sniff; it was a faint scent of sandalwood. It seems the demon's keen sense of smell is indeed true.
Suddenly, a weight pressed down on her shoulder as the young man's head leaned over her. Sang Ying's attention was immediately diverted. "Are you feeling unwell again?"
The young man leaned on her shoulder and softly hummed in agreement.
A powerful voice rang out from the side, accompanied by the sound of punches, "The more you feel uncomfortable, the more you need to exercise. Sweating it out will make you feel better. Come on, brother, let's box together!"
This person was none other than Fu Ye, the Demon King of the Northern Territory, the muscular rabbit demon who faked a pregnancy to extort Sang Ying.
Looking at his rosy complexion and then at Xie Lingyu's pale face, Sang Ying thought it made sense and pushed him over: "Xie Lingyu, you go and try it."
Fu Ye, full of energy, said, "Come and do it with me, one, two, one, two, one..."
Xie Lingyu: "..."
The other two demon kings were veteran demon kings, quite old. Seeing that one of them was lying there like he was about to die, while the other was jokingly punching in the council hall, he silently sat a little further away, drawing a line between them.
The main objective of this parliamentary session is to prevent the situation from escalating further.
After discussion, it was decided to refine medicine to seal the energy channels and distribute it to humans and demons in both realms who were poisoned.
This is a huge quantity. The demon realm is rich in resources and provides medicinal materials, while the cultivation world provides manpower. Medical cultivators refine them into medicine.
However, they ran into difficulties when discussing how to distribute the medication.
Two key factors caused the problem.
1. Location for dispensing medication.
Second, manpower.
Currently, almost everyone in both realms has been poisoned, and there are not many people left to distribute the medicine to every household. Therefore, the only option is to place the medicine in a fixed location, issue a notice, and let the poisoned people come and collect it themselves.
But the poisoned people and demons are already seriously ill and unable to see, so how can they get the medicine? Many may not even receive the notification.
The group discussed the matter at the table, but they couldn't come up with the best solution.
Sang Ying lowered her eyes, pursed her lips, and clenched her hands tightly. Suddenly, she felt a warmth on the back of her hand as the young man grasped hers.
His voice was very soft, only she could hear it: "Junior sister, whatever you want to do..."
"I will always be the sharpest sword in your hand."
Sang Ying's heart skipped a beat, but then her mind calmed down in a strange way.
She slowly raised her eyes, opened her mouth, and said in a calm tone, "Why don't you all consider the Chamber of Commerce?"
Everyone was taken aback, the discussion quieted down, and they all looked at her.
Xu Baishen, who was behind the Grand Elder, was startled when he heard the voice and suddenly raised his eyes.
Seeing that her attention had been drawn, Sang Ying continued:
"In recent years, the Chamber of Commerce has developed rapidly, and the influence of the four major Chambers of Commerce has spread throughout the territory. In order to deliver goods to the door faster, each branch covers all remote places in the cultivation world, so that the medicine can be delivered to everyone. Therefore, it is appropriate to choose the branch of the Chamber of Commerce as the location for distributing the medicine."
The clan leaders and family heads disagreed: "The location is feasible, but it still needs to be delivered to their doorsteps. Moreover, just delivering the medicine to each branch requires manpower, which would require even more people, making it even more impossible."
Sang Ying said calmly, "Since this plan has been proposed, I have naturally figured out how to solve the manpower issue."
Everyone was stunned and became curious about the girl. The dilemma that these old guys couldn't figure out even after racking their brains was solved by a little girl.
"Then tell me."
Sang Ying: "Both human cultivators and demon cultivators rely on the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to cultivate, so they inevitably get poisoned. However, there is a type of person who does not rely on spiritual energy to cultivate, and that is the demon cultivator who cultivates with demonic energy on the land of the demon realm."
Upon hearing this, the expressions of everyone present instantly turned cold.
"You want to seek help from the demonic cultivators?"
"How ridiculous! Everyone knows that demonic cultivators are inherently cruel and vicious, and have killed countless people. You are such a naive little girl, actually thinking of asking a demon for help."
"We should be thankful they didn't kick us when we were down, okay?"
"Heh, I think the mastermind behind this might be the Demon Lord."
A "tsk" sound came from the doorway. "How come I didn't know I did this? You bunch of old geezers, you just open your mouths and start slandering me out of thin air?"
When the Demon Lord Wei Yao arrived, the people in the cultivation world were immediately thrown into turmoil, and everyone was restless and uneasy.
You must know that the Demon Lord Wei Yao's signature move is the Water Moon Mirror Flower. Even when they were at their strongest, they didn't dare to provoke him, let alone now that their strength has been greatly reduced. If they fell into the Water Moon Mirror Flower, they would definitely die.
When Sang Ying saw that the Demon Lord Wei Yao had arrived, she got up and pulled out a chair that had been prepared. Wei Yao smoothed his sleeves and was about to sit down when the young man behind him stepped over him and sat down first, crossing his legs and raising his head high.
"Why did you all stop talking? Weren't you just chatting away happily?"
Sang Ying: "..."
Did they really have to portray the phrase "the fox borrows the tiger's power" so vividly?
"Father, you heard it all, didn't you? They said you have a wicked heart..."
Wei Yao's forehead twitched, and he gave his son a sharp rap on the head, grabbing him by the back of his collar and pulling him up. "Stand aside," he said, before sitting down himself.
Wei Li stood behind him, covering her head.
He straightened his expression and said, "Gentlemen, there is no need to be alarmed. I have been invited to attend this meeting."
Everyone in the cultivation world immediately looked at the Demon Emperor Xie Yucang.
Xie Yucang glanced at his old fishing friend and coughed lightly: "I invited him. My Xiaoying is right. The only way to break this deadlock is to seek help from the Demon Realm."
Now that's good, all the leaders of the Three Realms have arrived.
Logically, it should have been a three-way standoff, but the demon kings of the demon realm didn't react much. Some slept, some practiced their boxing, while only the cultivators kept a close watch on the Demon Lord.
Wei Yao remained calm, arms crossed, and said, "Young friend, please continue."
Sang Ying held several talismans between her fingertips, which burned and scattered, forming a huge map in the center, clearly marking the location of the Chamber of Commerce branch.
"Please take a look, everyone. These are the various branches of my Yunshui Chamber of Commerce."
Everyone was stunned, surprised by Sang Ying's identity.
As the Demon Emperor introduced her at the beginning, she was the Crown Princess of the Demon Realm, but unexpectedly, she is also the head of the current top four merchant guilds.
It's hard for people in the cultivation world not to know about the Yunshui Chamber of Commerce, because they rely on the Chamber for all their daily purchases and consumption. The Yunshui Chamber of Commerce is a chamber of commerce that has suddenly risen in recent years, single-handedly changing the traditional chamber of commerce model, with branches all over the cultivation world.
Many people are very curious about this person in charge behind the scenes, and are also envious of the benefits involved and want to befriend her. However, this person is extremely mysterious, and several family heads and sect leaders present have tried to meet her but have been politely refused.
I never expected... it was a little girl.
"The Demon Realm will provide the transportation personnel to deliver medicine to the coverage area from the branch center. With the Chamber of Commerce's transportation experience and road knowledge, and... it can be delivered to everyone in a maximum of three days."
After Sang Ying calmly finished explaining the detailed plan, someone immediately voiced their objection: "Let demonic cultivators deliver the medicine? I don't trust them at all. Who knows what tricks they might pull?"
Wei Yao lifted his eyelids: "I agreed to help this time to repay a favor to you, young friend. I have no interest in playing any scheming games with you."
Instead of wasting time on that, you might as well catch a couple more fish.
Sang Ying took out a contract between heaven and earth: "The Demon Lord has signed the contract, guaranteeing that he will not take any action other than delivering medicine, and will not attack cultivators from either realm. You can take a look. If you trust him, you can sign the contract. Of course, if you still don't trust him, I won't force you."
This contract contains the power of heaven and earth and is bound by the laws of heaven. If it is violated, heavenly punishment will descend.
The terms of this contract, besides requiring the Demon Lord to agree, also stipulate that others must guarantee not to attack demon cultivators or monster cultivators; in short, it is a peace treaty.
The leader of the Immortal Alliance was the first to take over the contract. After sensing it with his spiritual sense, he signed it without hesitation.
Those around were taken aback. "Leader Bai, why did you sign it? What if there's a trap?"
The White Alliance Leader's listless gaze seemed to drift towards the quiet youth in the Demon Realm, and he smiled, "It's just a peace treaty where we won't fight each other. There's no need for you all to panic. Shouldn't this be a good thing for us right now?"
Despite this, a stalemate still occurred. The Grand Elder of Wuwen Sect, currently the number one sect in the world, had a solemn expression. Without even looking at the contract, he took it away and handed it to the next person.
Xu Baishen, standing behind him, was taken aback. "Father..."
Since Wuwen Sect refused to sign, the other sect leaders also began to hesitate, looking around without taking action.
Alliance Leader Bai shook his fan and said, "Take a good look. Wuwen Sect has already signed. Aren't you going to make a move?"
The sect leaders were taken aback. They carefully sensed the contract with their spiritual senses and saw an unfamiliar name.
The leader of the Wuwen Sect.
—Sang Ying.
The young girl smiled and said slowly, "When my father passed away a few years ago, I was still young. I am very grateful to the Grand Elder for taking care of all the affairs of the sect on my behalf. Now that I am old enough, it is time for me to take over the sect and share the burden with the elder."
"You agree, Elder?"
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