novelraw Chapter 130 : Come! Show Them Your Ferocity
Chapter 130 : Come! Show Them Your Ferocity
The Weeping Blood Sword spirit's temple twitched, unable to bear it any longer, "If I change just because you tell me to, wouldn't that make me lose face?"
Before the person and sword could continue arguing, the dozen or so demon guards broke free from Changsheng's restraints and launched another attack on the two.
"Be careful!"
Tantai Ming rushed forward, grasping the Weeping Blood Sword back in his palm. His sword intent materialized, two golden qilins roaring forth, crashing through several demon cultivators along the way.
He turned his head and said urgently, "Little Junior Sister, you go in first. Fifth Senior Sister and I will buy you time outside!"
Little Junior Sister was usually the most clever, and her luck was good too. The two could at most buy her a quarter of an hour, provided that the demon reinforcements hadn't arrived yet.
Without a word, Chu Sang flashed into the prison.
Outside the prison, there were several layers of overlapping formations, but demons and monsters valued brute force over techniques. These formations were child's play to Chu Sang, not difficult for her at all. She solved them in no time and successfully entered the prison.
This abyss prison was known as the largest and most secure prison in the demon realm, specially designed to hold death row prisoners with the heaviest crimes. Ordinary level criminals didn't qualify to be imprisoned here, so the vast prison was empty, with no one in sight.
With Xiao Bai's help, she finally saw a familiar striking red figure in an inconspicuous cell deep in the prison.
The man was bound to a wooden frame with iron chains, various cruel torture instruments scattered around. He wore a red long robe, his head hanging low, blood seeping from the corner of his lips. His curly, waterfall-like black hair covered half of his ghostly beautiful face, falling messily over his body. His robe was tattered, his body covered in wounds, and one could even vaguely see the blackened bloodstains splattered on the ground.
The whole person was barely breathing, seemingly having long since fainted.
Tsk tsk, it's really...
"Pitiful?"
A soft, bewitching whisper came from beside her ear, like a ghost, nearly startling her.
Chu Sang turned her head to see the same stunningly beautiful face magnified before her eyes. She silently took two steps back, then looked uncertainly at the beauty still bound to the wooden frame in the cell, blinking, "Third Senior Brother?"
She wasn't stupid.
The one tied to the wooden board, barely breathing, was just a decoy puppet to fool people. The red-robed beautiful ghost smiling at her was the real one.
She looked up at Mu Changqing, "What's going on here?"
"Well, it's a long story. A few days ago, I went for a turn around that Demon Emperor's palace and found he was preparing to advance to the next stage. This is when his strength is at its weakest."
As they say, strike while the iron is hot.
Mu Changqing narrowed his eyes somewhat regretfully, leaning against the torture instrument, arms folded lazily across his chest, "But that old thing was quite cautious, so I deliberately threw out a bait, letting him capture the puppet so he would feel at ease to prepare for seclusion to advance. Then I could deliver a fatal blow."
Chu Sang suddenly understood. So Third Senior Brother did have a brain.
She had really thought this fool would be stupid enough to go and throw his life away directly.
"But, why did you come?" Mu Changqing glanced at her incomprehensibly, and the chaotic commotion outside, one could imagine how fierce the melee was.
It was better not to mention it, mentioning it just made her angry.
"What do you think? It's because Master was worried you'd act recklessly, so she sent us to check things out." Chu Sang looked at him with dead fish eyes, strongly expressing her dissatisfaction at being deprived of her holiday.
She waved her hand, exasperated, "No matter how weak the Demon Emperor's strength is, he's still a full-fledged Unity stage cultivator, a whole realm higher than Divine Transformation... How did you think it would be you killing him rather than him killing you?"
"Take a gamble, and we'll know."
Just then, a message came through the jade slip, Seventh Senior Brother's voice mixed with the noisy background of fierce battle, "It's not good, Little Junior Sister! The demon cultivators' reinforcements have arrived, several hundred of them, with dozens of Nascent Soul stage and even some Divine Transformation stage!"
"Wuwuwu we can't fight them so we're running first, don't worry about Third Senior Brother now, hurry and run too!"
"Hmm, you're really stupid to believe that? How could I possibly be caught by those fools?" He leaned in, unable to help but mock.
Chu Sang smiled, "Mind your tone. We came to rescue you, you know."
"Rescue me?"
A beautiful smile spread across Mu Changqing's face, but there was no emotion in his narrow eyes as he leaned back, "You came to persuade me to go back, right?"
"No, I came to invite you to wreak havoc in the demon realm together." She reached out her hand to him, "So, want to come with me?"
"?"
Mu Changqing, whose rebellious heart had just been stirred up, couldn't help but be stunned for a moment when he heard her unexpected words. Invite him... to wreak havoc in the demon realm?
Did he hear that wrong?
Wasn't she supposed to follow that old woman's orders and tie him up to take him back??
How... this wasn't the same as what he had imagined?
Chu Sang reasoned with him, "But if you want to wreak havoc in the demon realm, we need to escape first, right?"
"That makes sense."
Mu Changqing nodded.
Chu Sang struck while the iron was hot, "But you set up true and false avatars to lure the current Demon Emperor's attention, so you definitely can't use demon power randomly now. Otherwise, if the Demon Emperor discovers your plan, it will all be for nothing, right?"
"Mm-hmm." He continued nodding, feeling she was right.
The girl grabbed one of his hands, her smile becoming increasingly sincere, "Since that's the case, then listen to me."
"Follow me first, I guarantee I'll get you out."
"Believe in me and gain eternal life!"
"......"
Mu Changqing had been confined to the East Peak and hadn't seen Little Junior Sister's ferocity, so he very naturally believed the girl's earnest words. He curved his brows and said, "Alright, how do you want to get out?"
"Those people saw me come in, so they'll definitely come looking for me first. The best way is to use a puppet to attract their attention, then we can take the opportunity to escape."
Chu Sang had originally wanted to take out a puppet, but belatedly realized the puppet had been damaged earlier and couldn't be used.
Mu Changqing glanced at the broken thing in her hand that could no longer be recognized, thinking to himself what great grudge and hatred her enemy must have had against her to smash it so thoroughly. It was clear they hated her to the bone. He shook his head and said, "There's no point in repairing this puppet."
"When we get back and have time, I'll refine another one for you."
Chu Sang blinked. Who said she had no interest in refining an identical puppet in this life? Wasn't it said to lack challenge?
Indeed, Third Senior Brother's temperament was unpredictable, doing whatever came to mind.
Chu Sang thought for a moment, then took out two Thousand Faces Thousand People talismans, "Then let's use these. They can change appearance and identity for a short time. When we start fighting with them later, we'll take advantage of the chaos to escape!"
"No, I look so good, why should I change into other mortals' ugly faces?"
Mu Changqing strongly rejected her proposal upon hearing this. His face was his mountains and rivers. Even if he died, he wouldn't change his face.
"......?" Chu Sang looked like an old man on the subway looking at his phone. She finally understood why Master had locked this guy up. This person's brain seemed a bit sick, so bizarre that she was at a loss for words.
Seeing that the reinforcements outside had already arrived and were about to break in the next second, Chu Sang had no time to argue with him. She directly stuck a concealment talisman on both of them, broke through with one sword strike, sending several demon cultivators flying, forcibly carving out an escape route.
"Not good, don't let them escape, quick, chase them!"
Most demon cultivators were transformed beasts, with sense of smell and tracking abilities far superior to ordinary human cultivators. Even though Chu Sang had used concealment talismans, invisibility talismans, and various other talismans, it was still difficult to shake off the group of demon cultivators trailing behind them.
Seeing that the persistent creatures behind were becoming more and more numerous, it was very troublesome.
Demon cultivators had more robust physical bodies than human cultivators. Even sword intent could hardly leave deep marks on them. Their sneak attacks were overwhelming.
Chu Sang threw out the black sword in her hand,
"Aren't you the first of the Ten Great Evil Swords? Go! Show them your ferocity!"
The black sword, unceremoniously thrown out by the girl, almost couldn't keep its composure.
Damn, is this how you use a sword??
Ordinary sword intent could only scratch these powerful demon cultivators, but the Primordial Soul-Chaser was the first of the Ten Great Evil Swords. Even though its power hadn't fully recovered, the inherent ferocious qi of an evil sword was comparable to millions of the world's sharpest blades. With one spin, it pierced through a Nascent Soul stage demon cultivator, then flew back into Chu Sang's hand.
Chu Sang's eyes lit up. It could fly back on its own after being thrown. How useful!
So the scene that followed was—
She ran while throwing the sword.
Every time the Primordial Soul-Chaser was thrown out, it could reap a large number of enemies.
She didn't need to act herself at all. The large group of demon cultivators behind had already been reduced to very few.
She suddenly got the true use of an evil sword.
Whether she was happy or not, the Primordial Soul-Chaser was about to become depressed. It even felt dizzy and wanted to vomit.
To think that it, the first of the Ten Great Evil Swords, would be toyed with back and forth by a mere human girl. It was truly furious, but thinking that this was the sword master it had chosen itself... it would endure, let her be arrogant for a while longer. She would suffer later.
After successfully shaking off the pursuing forces, Chu Sang and Mu Changqing arrived at a nearby city.
The city was prosperous, located at the border, with many human cultivators coming and going. The styles of various shops and restaurants also tended more towards the human realm.
The previous Demon Emperor had always maintained a friendly attitude towards the cultivation world and paid great attention to trade between the two realms. Unfortunately, after the current Demon Emperor took power, he greatly resented the cultivation world. So only these few border cities still maintained trade with humans and kept relatively friendly relations with human cultivators.
But unfortunately.
After being on the demon race's wanted list.
Chu Sang was honored to top the demon realm's wanted list once again.
She expertly disguised herself, but Mu Changqing, whose brain was sick, refused to bury his face no matter what. So as a compromise, Chu Sang threw him a set of women's clothes.
Demons don't understand etiquette, shame, or separation between men and women. Mu Changqing didn't resist women's clothing at all, and was even strangely excited. Without a word, he changed into them, and even imitated the female demons on the road by applying some rouge and powder. The originally normal clothes, he insisted on pulling the neckline down, exposing his shoulders.
With a red flower in his hair and a red veil over his face, from behind his figure was graceful and slender. His three thousand strands of curly black hair fell to his waist, exuding charm and allure.
No matter how hard they looked, no pursuer would recognize that this was the former young master of the demon realm.
"Third Senior Brother, I think you could completely use the beauty strategy to assassinate that Demon Emperor," Chu Sang looked at the national beauty before her and gave an objective thumbs up.
"Heh, is that old thing worthy?" Mu Changqing sneered, giving her an amorous glance, "Senior Brother only shows this appearance to you, Little Junior Sister."
"......" Chu Sang's skin crawled.
This guy could look at anyone with a hint of affection.
Seeing more pursuers coming, she hurriedly pulled his sleeve, wanting to retreat to a safe place, but found she couldn't move him at all. Looking back, she saw Mu Changqing staring at a string of tanghulu at a nearby street stall.
"I want to eat this. Go buy it for me," he said, reaching out.
"If you want to eat it, go buy it yourself. Why should I buy it for you?"
"You're my Little Junior Sister, and I don't have any spirit stones." He was poor.
Both the demon realm and the cultivation world cultivated spiritual energy, and the common currency was spirit stones. Mu Changqing couldn't even produce half a spirit stone from head to toe, truly penniless.
"If you don't buy it for me, I'll expose my identity right now." Mu Changqing glanced at the large group of pursuers passing by them, definitely not threatening.
"...Damn, are you sick?" Chu Sang cursed in a low voice. She silently recited three times not to argue with a demon beast whose brain hadn't fully evolved. She was also truly afraid of being dragged down with him, so she painfully spent three spirit stones to buy a string of red tanghulu.
"That cake, I want to eat it too."
Mu Changqing drifted to another stall.
Chu Sang wiped her face and followed.
He had been locked up for over ten years since childhood. Now that he was finally out, everything looked new and interesting to him, and he wanted to try it all.
After Chu Sang painfully lost several hundred spirit stones, she couldn't bear it anymore, "What about your revenge?"
How did they end up browsing the night market??
This wasn't quite the development she had imagined!
Originally, she had envisioned coming to the demon realm to rescue Third Senior Brother, then using her silver tongue to persuade Third Senior Brother to let go of his hatred. Now Chu Sang couldn't wait for Mu Changqing to hurry up and take revenge, instead of ravaging her wallet.
"Revenge? Heh, those scum aren't worthy of being my enemies." He bit into the tanghulu, his red lips stained with sugar, and sneered, "They're just a bunch of dead men who've lived a few years too long. I'll send them to the afterlife sooner or later. There's no rush."
After he finished eating all the little cakes in his arms, Chu Sang asked, "Are you full?"
Now that you're full, isn't it time to do what we came for?
He shook his head and dragged her, this poor ATM, directly to the largest restaurant in the city.
Chu Sang took a deep breath, trying hard to lower her blood pressure. She bought ten braised pork knuckles in one go and threw them to Mu Changqing, letting him go silently eat to his heart's content. She finally had some peace.
She took out the jade slip to contact Seventh Senior Brother and the others, sending them the location in the city and telling the three to meet her here.
Just then, her ears perked up as she heard the conversation of several demon cultivators nearby.