life for a life
Li Mei's eyes were swollen like ripe cherries, a moist red. Her eyelashes were clumped together by tears, and her pupils were misty.
At first glance, Yu Heyi didn't recognize him.
Wei Yuanming saw her and yelled at her to get out and stop blaspheming God.
"A true god wouldn't kill innocent people!"
Li Mei stood in front of the altar and refused to move.
Looking at her small figure standing in front of danger, Yu Heyi guessed that these villagers were taking advantage of her.
Taking advantage of her innocence and kindness.
Mi Xiu, who had just woken up, was completely unable to use any strength, let alone cast a spell.
The two of them are now lambs to be slaughtered.
"Wei Yuanming, since we can't escape death, why don't you answer a few questions for me so that we can die with a clear conscience."
"What do you want to know?"
"Who is the deity worshipped by Xiyuan Village, and why did they choose us as sacrifices?"
He glanced at her with disdain and said, "Do you think you can know the gods? As for why they chose you, it's because you're stupid and they easily fooled you. If the village hadn't encountered an evil demon a while ago, we wouldn't have been able to find the person the gods needed."
"The gods want a pair of immortal men and women, and you two are just the right match. Even the heavens are blessing us."
"Could it be that the gods have found the wrong person?"
As if seeing through Yu Heyi's delaying tactics, Wei Yuanming stopped answering her questions. He walked to the altar and pushed Li Mei away.
"Get out of here! The gods will punish you if you continue like this."
Li Mei was pushed to the ground by him, and the tears that had finally stopped flowed down her cheeks again. Her mother had never let her participate in these things since she was a child, and this time was no exception.
She was locked in the house by her mother. She finally mustered up the courage to climb onto the windowsill, but fell down again. However, she ignored the pain in her knees and limped towards the altar.
Her brothers and sisters saved her from the evil demon, and her sister even risked her life to avenge her when she knew that the evil demon was bullying her.
She couldn't bear to watch her sister being thrown onto the altar.
Wei Yuanming's impatient look made Yu Heyi complain in his heart.
Wanqi Si arrived so slowly at the critical moment that by the time he arrived, he and Mi Xiu would probably have turned into a pile of ashes.
Li Mei, who was pushed down, crawled to the front of the altar again and refused to give up an even a step.
"Li Mei, the gods will be angry!"
"But the gods never saved me when I was in danger!" Li Mei cried heartbreakingly.
Fortunately, a silver light pierced the sky in the distance and came through the air. Yu Heyi recognized the owner of the silver sword at a glance.
The villagers also saw this and, fearing that their plans would be disrupted and the gods would be angered, they quickly moved to lift the two men up.
Wei Yuanming yelled, "Li Mei! Get out of the way!"
"I don't!"
She stood in front of the altar, preventing the villagers from approaching.
Wei Yuanming was extremely anxious. Seeing Wanqi Si getting closer and closer, he suddenly pushed Li Mei viciously.
Li Mei was still a child after all, and Wei Yuanming, a hunter, possessed far greater strength than an ordinary person. He pushed hard, and Li Mei lost her footing and fell backwards.
Yu Heyi said in disbelief: "Wei Yuanming!"
The flames on the altar grew stronger and stronger, gradually engulfing the child's tiny body. Her cries grew weaker and weaker until they stopped.
From the outside, her figure could no longer be seen on the altar.
Her body was quickly consumed, and the fire gradually died down.
Yu Heyi stared at the altar in a daze, as if everything that had just happened had never happened, and the child blocking the altar had never existed.
When Wanqi Si arrived, the air waves carried by the silver sword rolled and blew away the surrounding villagers.
He cut the ropes on the two people and prepared to help them up, but found that Yu Heyi didn't notice his outstretched hand at all.
Her eyes were dull, and after finally steadying herself, she staggered to the altar.
Li Mei cried loudly when she fell from the altar. It must have been painful. Just a short while ago, she had been blinking and saying that she wanted to be as powerful as her sister.
If my sister was powerful, how could she watch you fall into the altar and be unable to do anything?
She took out the candy from her sleeve. It was the one Li Mei had given her before, but she had forgotten to eat it because of the incident with Scorpio.
After tearing off the candy wrapper, she put the candy into her mouth tremblingly.
It felt sour, just like her heart at this moment.
She saved so many villagers from the Sky Demon Scorpion, but only Li Mei was grateful to her from the bottom of her heart.
I don't ask the villagers to be grateful to her, but Li Mei is at least a villager of Xiyuan Village and the niece of Wei Yuanming. Have they lost even this little conscience?
Yu Heyi lowered his eyes and slowly walked to the wooden stake in the corner of Xiyuan Village. He pulled out the axe from the stake with force, and a cold look appeared between his eyebrows.
She forcibly extracted the spiritual power from her immortal bones, which gave her the strength to pick up the axe.
Mi Xiu wanted to stop her, but was stopped by Wan Qi Si. He looked up in confusion, but Wan Qi Si just looked at it coldly and shook his head at him.
Wei Yuanming looked at her in horror: "What are you going to do?"
"What am I going to do?" Yu Heyi sneered. "Wei Yuanming, Li Mei is your niece. You used her and then killed her with your own hands. Doesn't your conscience hurt?"
"You didn't even spare a single child."
"That's because she didn't listen to me! If she had known better, how could she have fallen into the altar?"
"Then now, I will send you to see the god you have been longing for."
Yu Heyi walked towards him slowly, with a hint of coldness in his eyes that made him shudder.
She raised the axe with a swift movement and struck Wei Yuanming's forehead hard. Blood gushed out from his white brain, a few drops splashing onto her face, which she wiped away with her hand.
"dirty."
“Murder—”
The villagers were in chaos again and fled in all directions of the village, leaving their luggage behind, fearing that she would target them next.
After all, they are all participants in the worship of the gods.
The fire in the altar had not yet been extinguished. Yu Heyi tapped his fingertips, muttered something, and cast a spell to make the fire spread.
“The entire Xiyuan Village is too dirty.”
The raging flames burned down the houses in Xiyuan Village, leaving only a barren expanse of blackened land.
The last thing she saw was Xiyuan Village engulfed in flames.
Yu Heyi was exhausted and fell into the fire.
Mi Xiu drank the drugged wine, and the effect of the drug had not yet completely worn off, so Wanqi Si had to carry her back to the sect.
The girl's body was limp, her head drooped, her eyes closed, like a sleeping kitten, completely different from the one who had killed Wei Yuanming with her own hands.
Yu Heyi was in a coma for three days.
When she opened her eyes, the two people in the room did not notice that she had woken up and spoke in low voices.
"Are the evil demons in Xiyuan Village not in the same group as those demons?"
"no."
"Ayi can't be blamed for this. When she wakes up, don't blame her. If it were you, none of them would have escaped."
"Um."
"You still have to continue investigating that matter."
It was Wanqi Si and Qi Shouchu who were talking. They lowered their voices not as if they were on guard against her, but as if they were afraid of waking her up.
Noticing her eyelashes trembling slightly, Wanqi Si tilted his head to look at her, and asked with a half-smile, "Awake?"
Yu Heyi was too lazy to pretend to be asleep: "Yeah."
When Qi Shouchu saw that she had woken up, he first used his spiritual power to check her body. He was relieved after finding that she was just a little weak and was not seriously injured.
"I'm sorry to have worried the master."
She lowered her eyes and spoke with a gloomy look.
He asked Wanqi Si to stay and talk to Yu Heyi, while he went to make some elixir for her to nourish her body.
Wanqi Si did not leave, but sat down arrogantly and heated up his tea.
"I don't know what the old man is thinking. Let me talk to you."
Yu Heyi was silent for a moment, and when he looked up, there was a faint smile on the corner of her mouth.
"Why don't you put that sword of yours to my neck this time and ask me what my purpose is?"
"I know your purpose this time. It's not too bad. It's human nature."
After taking a sip of hot tea, he replied calmly.
"I thought my senior brother was going to sacrifice his own family for the sake of justice again."
She was too lazy to waste words with him. She just wanted to get the Wujing back and leave the fairyland as soon as possible, so she threw off her quilt and ran barefoot to Qi Shouchu's courtyard.
A large stove in the yard was boiling, and Qi Shouchu was fanning it with a fan in his hand.
Seeing that she ran out without even wearing shoes, he quickly moved a chair to her: "That bastard Ah Si bullied you again, didn't he? Wait for me to go over and beat him up."
She stopped him from lifting his sleeve.
Yu Heyi sat on the chair and swung his feet: "Master, I have something to ask you."
"What is it?"
"I heard that the Yuquan Sect has a secret realm with many natural treasures, and many disciples are eager to go there. But where exactly is the secret realm, and how can we enter it?"
"If you want to enter the secret realm, you can't be lazy. You have to practice hard." Qi Shouchu thought she wanted to enter the secret realm to search for treasure, and answered without hiding anything. "The secret realm is behind the Yuquan Sect's martial arts arena. You need the sect master's key to enter. There are three keys in total, each in the hands of a different sect master. Every three years, the immortal clan's various sects hold a sect competition. Only the top ten are eligible to enter the secret realm."
"So when is the next sect competition?"
"The next sect competition... will be next winter."
"Why are the keys to the secret realm only kept by three sect leaders? Is it because they are more powerful?"
"That's about right. The key to the secret realm is kept by the clan masters of Taiyan Sect, Yuquan Sect, and Cangmi Sect. The clan masters of Taiyan Sect and Cangmi Sect are in charge because their strength exceeds that of the other clan masters, while the clan master of Yuquan Sect is in charge because the secret realm is in Yuquan Sect."
Yu Heyi nodded thoughtfully and said with a smile, "Thank you, Master. I understand. Next winter, I will definitely give you honor at the sect competition."
Qi Shouchu poured the prepared elixir into a bowl and handed it to Yu Heyi.
Looking at the bowl of black medicine, she frowned.
"Ayi, good medicine tastes bitter."
Hearing this, she had no choice but to pinch her nose and drink it all in one breath.
As soon as the medicine touched the tip of her tongue, a bitter taste instantly filled her mouth, so bitter that her scalp numbed.
She forced an ugly smile and ran away from his yard.
Qi Shouchu's voice rang out from behind: "Call Ah Si over to me!"
Yu Heyi sank headfirst into the soft couch, completely ignoring her senior brother who was still sitting at her table drinking tea. Burying her cheek in the quilt, she said in a muffled tone, "Senior brother, Master is calling you."
After she finished speaking, she became silent and slumped beside the couch as if she had accepted her fate.
The bitter taste in the mouth took a long time to dissipate and lingered on the tip of the tongue for a long time.
She hates bitter things the most.
She had suffered countless hardships since she was a child. When she was hungry, she even had to compete with mice for food. She had long been tired of those bitter and smelly things.
After she became the Demon Lord, there would be no more bitter food in the entire Demon Palace. She hoped that all the demons in the Demon Palace would no longer have to suffer the same hardships she had.
When Qi Shouchu handed her the elixir, she never thought that the medicine would be so bitter. She knew that Qi Shouchu had good intentions.
But this is too bitter!
Wanqi Si left after hearing her words, and came back when she was still buried in the quilt.
"Brother, I said the master is looking for you."
Yu Heyi's voice was still muffled.
"look up."
Not knowing what he was going to do next, she looked up reluctantly. The man in front of her stood in front of her with an expressionless face, holding a candy in his hand.
When she tilted her head back, he stuffed the candy into her mouth without saying a word.
The sweetness overwhelmed the previous bitterness, and her mouth was filled with a sweetness so sweet that her head felt a little dizzy.
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