Chapter 65 : Another Type of Cultivation 14 (1/2)

Ye Qingqiu disposed of the body before leaving the cave. She left with a dark expression on her face, not noticing the two people standing outside.

She had entered a contract bond with this Demon five years prior. Back then, she had offended some people and had been chased all the way to a cliff. Having no other choice, she jumped off. While she was still completely unaware, the Demon had already established the bond between them. If she wanted to get rid of him, she would have to help him recover a fleshly body.

But the process of doing so required female cultivators with Water Spirit Veins so naturally, the first one to suffer was her. It was only because of the bond between them that she hadn’t been turned into a dried-up corpse. But she definitely didn’t want to experience that a second time so she had no choice but to find other female Water Spirit Vein cultivators for him.

In the original plotline, Ye Qingqiu had the Sect Head to protect her so she naturally wouldn’t have had to experience falling off a cliff, meeting the Demon and everything else.

Of course, Shi Sheng didn’t know about any of this. Even if she did, all she would do was sigh about how biased destiny was. Back then, what Shang Shu had experienced in the Demon World was truly terrible. What Ye Qingqiu experienced couldn’t even be called an appetiser in comparison.

……

The next day when Shi Sheng reached the arena, she found that everyone seemed to have eaten Stride[1]; they weren’t as afraid of her as before. In fact, they looked like they were reveling in schadenfreude, and awaiting her downfall.

‘What the hell happened last night? The one doing bad stuff last night was Ye Qingqiu, not me. Why are you looking at me(bbb) with those expressions!!’

“She-devil, our Sect Head is looking for you!” A few Mt. Tong Sect disciples blocked Shi Sheng’s road all of a sudden. They had only just finished speaking when they were sent flying and smashed into a small copse of trees in the distance, causing quite a few birds to fly up in shock.

It became silent.

Shi Sheng turned to look at Feng Ci. ‘What did you hit them for?’

Feng Ci blinked endearingly before speaking with an earnest face, “I didn’t kill them.”

Shi Sheng was speechless. ‘You didn’t kill them but they probably won’t be able to get off their beds within half a year! Forget it, there’s no reasoning with villains! Though, why is their Sect Head looking for me? Was last night’s incident exposed and I got pushed out by Ye Qingqiu to take the blame?’

Reality proved Shi Sheng was just imagining too much. The reason the Sect Head called her had nothing to do with Ye Qingqiu but with the male lead!

Emissaries from the Celestial World had arrived!

Unlike how dishevelled he was at their first ‘meeting’, right now Long Jue looked like a model male idol. His clothes and hair were neat and orderly and his features were handsome and upright; he looked like those idols who looked handsome no matter how you looked at them.

Long Jue swept a penetrating gaze over Shi Sheng before it landed on Feng Ci. Feng Ci lowered his head, not even looking at Long Jue.

‘Well isn’t that just awkward?’

“So, what did you want with me?” Shi Sheng carelessly asked the Mt. Tong Sect Head who was standing behind Long Jue. ‘Did you call me here to admire how ‘amazing’ the male lead looks? Tsk tsk, I thought the first person male lead-sama would look for was supposed to be female lead-sama? I wonder if the two fought it out when Long Jue spirited himself and Ye Qingqiu away…’

“*cough*, It’s like this… Er, it’s about the Reaper’s Sword…” The Mt. Tong Sect Head hardened his scalp to tell her. After hearing his words, Shi Sheng understood.

It turned out that the Immortals had discovered that the Reaper’s Sword had broken free of its restraints and was once again loose on the world. They had sent Long Jue down to bring it back and reseal it. The Mt. Tong Sect Head had felt they could be reasoned with so they were brought here to negotiate.

‘If I just hand it over, wouldn’t being chased after for so long be a waste? I don’t do business at a loss. Besides, just based on Long Jue’s cruel method of killing Shang Shu…’

“I’m afraid that’s not possible; I’ve already given it to Feng Ci.”

Feng Ci lifted his head in confusion. ‘When did you give me the Reaper’s Sword?’

Shi Sheng took out the sword and roughly shoved it into Feng Ci’s hand. “Here you go.”

‘If I can’t take care of it, last boss Feng Ci should be able to, right?’