Zang Hai didn’t understand why his Junior Brother changed his mind so quickly. “A-alright then.”
Although his Junior Brother was young, he was calm in the face of conflict, and sometimes, he was more reliable than him. Zang Hai felt a little more at ease searching for his Master with him.
Both of them walked towards Taixu Mountain.
Powerful Immortal Seniors held natural domination over weak demons and devils. Similarly, powerful demons and devils naturally deterred weak cultivators.
As soon as Zang Hai entered Taixu Mountain, he felt goosebumps all over his body.
Not far away, Tantai Jin saw several corpses of immortal sect disciples on the ground.
Zang Hai’s expression looked complicated. But just when he was about to say something, Tantai Jin walked forward without a sideways glance1目不斜视 (mùbùxiéshì) – not to glance sideways (idiom); refuse to be distracted; focused; single-minded.
“Hey, hey, Junior Brother, wait for me. You’re still injured, be more careful.”
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Pkhkdl yavkqynv……
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Ubsdtuw jlrv nbyvvlakdt, “Nlv’p iwknjzu ts kdpkel yde vyjl y zssj. Ubsdtuw nyd’v oykv vs pbso sqq xu pjkzzp!”
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In front of her was the gray stone door of Taixu Sect, and Su Su cautiously stepped in.
An injured disciple was lying behind the mountain gate.
She was coughing, and there was a pool of blood in front of her.
Su Su walked over, wanting to help her up, “Are you alright?”
The female disciple’s mouth curved up into a strange smile. She lifted her head to reveal the other half of her face, etched with devilish patterns, as she lunged at Su Su.
The person in front of her was actually a devilish cultivator. Her palm exuded a thick devilish Qi as she shot a few foul-smelling earth needles.
“Su Su, be careful!” Chongyu shouted.
It was about to release a sound wave to hit the devilish cultivator, but Su Su’s true fire collided with the earth needles first, and the needles fell to the ground. Simultaneously, a true fire cage silently formed around the devilish cultivator, trapping her.
Su Su smiled as she looked at the devilish cultivator, “I knew something was off about you from the start. Taixu Mountain is filled with devilish Qi, and even if there were survivors, they wouldn’t be casually lying near the mountain door. Don’t move or you’ll be burnt to ashes by the true fire. Tell me, where do you come from and where are the disciples that came in earlier?”
Chongyu: “?”
It sadly retracted its sound waves. Hey wait. I still haven’t had a chance to show off my abilities yet.
The devilish cultivator accidentally touched the true fire and instantly lost an arm. She screamed in pain and looked at Su Su with resentment.
Su Su stared at her for a moment, and the smile on her face disappeared.
This person in front of me……
She recognized her.
She had even seen her at the Immortal Sect Competition not long ago. She was not a devilish cultivator, but a female disciple of an immortal sect. She was said to be famous for her gentle temperament.
But right now, devilish patterns were wriggling on the female disciple’s face like snakes, looking terribly hideous, and entirely covering her once beautiful visage.
How did this happen?
Chongyu was very confused too, and it vaguely felt like something was off.
Chongyu was different from Curved Jade. Curved Jade had profound knowledge2通天彻地 (tōngtiānchèdì) – to know all under heaven (idiom); exceptionally talented and knew a bit about everything, but lacked combat ability. Meanwhile, Chongyu was purely a powerful divine weapon, and had been confined in the secret realm for ten thousand years, so it had incomplete knowledge3一知半解 (yīzhī-bànjiě) – lit. to know one and understand half (idiom); a smattering of knowledge; have scanty (or half-baked) knowledge about many things.
The female disciple hugged her own head and ran into the true fire, her body instantly turned into flying ash.
Su Su withdrew her hand. The female disciple had indeed become a devilish cultivator.
But her death was too sudden. Su Su’s only relief was that the fire she had released wasn’t karmic fire but true fire. True fire wasn’t as domineering as karmic fire, and wouldn’t harm the soul.
Her thoughts were heavy, but she hadn’t found Gongye Jiwu yet, so she could only continue moving forward.
There was a river in front of the Taixu Sect, but now it reeked of blood. Su Su glanced at it, and couldn’t bear to look any longer.
The entire courtyard was barren, and no trace of greenery could be seen. Occasionally on the ground were spirit swords dropped by the disciples, as well as artifacts and items loosely scattered around.
The further Su Su went in, the thicker the devilish Qi became. She wondered where the other disciples had disappeared to. Other than the few bodies she had initially discovered, she hadn’t seen anyone else.
This isn’t right, Su Su thought to herself. Each sect sent more than ten disciples, so logically, there should be many people here. Why can’t I find anyone? Even their bodies have gone missing.
Just as she thought this, she heard a faint creaking sound.
Su Su’s eyelids twitched, and an inexplicable chill ran down her spine. She was about to summon Chongyu konghou when the ground beneath her disappeared, and she abruptly fell into an underground chamber. Someone covered her mouth and dragged her into a dark corner.
Su Su’s eyes widened when she saw the person who had grabbed her.
Senior Sister Yao Guang?
The Yao Guang in front of her looked very haggard. She had always been bright, but right now, tears filled her eyes. Knowing that Su Su recognized her, she loosened her hand and gestured for Su Su to look out through the crack in the corner.
Following her gaze, Su Su was stunned to see a huge purple devilish silkworm in front of her!
Its eyes were larger than lanterns, and it had strange fleshy antennae on its head.
In front of the devilish silkworm, a man in purple sat cross-legged. The devilish silkworm obeyed him, obediently lying at his side.
He was holding a few shiny objects in his hand, while his gaze remained fixated on a pile of purple stones in front of him.
No…… they weren’t purple stones.
When Su Su looked at them clearly, she realized that they were actually a pile of silkworm cocoons.
Yao Guang held her hand and telepathically transmitted a message to her.
“Those silkworm cocoons are all immortal sect disciples.”
“What?” Su Su exclaimed in shock, “All of them… turned into silkworm cocoons?”
Yao Guang’s tone was sorrowful, without the slightest trace of the high spirits she’d had when she departed, “They killed the low-level disciples who had no aptitudes, and turned the others into silkworm cocoons, trapping them in this secret chamber. The objects in that purple-clad devilish cultivator’s hand are devil cores. He implanted them into the bodies of the immortal sect disciples. Most of them couldn’t withstand the devilish Qi and died, but those who survived…… turned into devils.”
To an outsider, such a concept might sound absurd, as immortals and devils were different. Only the bodies of demons and devils could contain devilish Qi. But now, that man in purple was actually turning immortal cultivators into devils!
Devil cores…… where do these things that can turn immortals into devils actually come from?
“Where’s Senior Brother?”
Yao Guang’s eyes instantly dimmed, and she became somber, “In order to save me, he was taken away by the Demon Emperor, so his life and death are currently unknown.”
Su Su gripped Yao Guang’s hand in return.
No one could be more heartbroken than Yao Guang when something had happened to Senior Brother, and it was useless to blame anyone now.
Seeing the man in purple continuing to insert the devil cores into the cocoons, Su Su couldn’t help but say, “I’ll go and rescue those disciples.”
Yao Guang hurriedly said, “No! We can’t beat him. Senior Brother Gongye said that he’s already reached the late stage of Fusion4Temporarily putting this as fusion, might be changed if I find a more suitable term as replacement after translating the future chapters..”
Late stage of Fusion!
It was equivalent to the late stage of Immortalization in immortal cultivation.
No wonder. Perhaps, only Qu Xuanzi has a chance of winning. No wonder Yao Guang can only hide here, helplessly watching the disciples die or transform into devils under the torment of the devil cores.
Su Su finally understood what had happened to the female disciple she’d seen at the mountain gate. It turned out that she was a failed product of the cruel effects of the devil cores.
They had no consciousness, their faces were disfigured, and all they knew was killing.
Such cruelty turned the faces of the two young girls in the corner of the secret chamber extremely grim. Do we really need to wait for the man in purple to leave after he’s done harming people?
Edited by: Gaze
Man in purple?! That’s got to be Jie Ming. Does this means he is playing the demon emperor