The Entire Sect is Full of Villains, Yet the Junior Sister Conquers All

Chapter 292 : Taking Down the Despicable Chang Yu

Facing this sharp, snow-cold sword strike, Chu Sang didn't actively retreat. She met the edge of his sword head-on. As metal clashed against metal, the sword light slashed downward. "Swish—" This strike accurately pierced his chest, showing no mercy.

"Ugh......" Mo Qingchen staggered back several steps from the force and pain, blood seeping from the corner of his mouth. Consciousness slowly returned to his eyes. At the same time, he felt as if something had been uprooted from the depths of his sea of consciousness, his mind suddenly becoming blank. The sword in his hand fell to the ground with a clang.

Chu Sang didn't immediately withdraw her sword. Instead, she used the sword intent to send her divine sense deep into Mo Qingchen's sea of consciousness. After a quick search, she finally found that strand of emotion hidden deep within his consciousness and severed it.

This strand of emotion was strange in every aspect, something that shouldn't have appeared in Mo Qingchen... A ridiculous thought flashed through her mind, and she couldn't help but curse inwardly at how despicable that bastard Chang Yu was.

She roughly guessed why the Mo Qingchen in the original story would go to such lengths to serve Qin Xixue. As the saying goes, the Heartless Sword Dao exists to be broken by the female lead. Mo Qingchen wasn't someone with such an unstable dao heart. What filled his heart should have been more hatred towards the demon race, driving himself to become stronger so he could personally exact revenge, rather than being entangled in trivial emotions. It was fundamentally illogical for him to be so devoted to Qin Xixue.

Now it seemed the only explanation was that this strand of emotion was causing trouble.

The only one capable of quietly accomplishing this behind the scenes was that old bastard Chang Yu.

Even if Qin Xixue had ill intentions, she didn't have the ability to do this. Compared to her, Mo Qingchen would be more off guard against Chang Yu, his life-saving benefactor and master. Since things had come to this point, Chu Sang decided to go all the way and help Mo Qingchen cut off this last strand of emotion in his Heartless Sword Dao.

It was fortunate that she was now at the peak of Divine Transformation stage, otherwise it wouldn't have been so easy to cut.

"How do you feel? Do you feel like you've had a great enlightenment, full of motivation in life, ready to enter monkhood, kill your master, and attain the Dao in the next moment?"

After a while, Mo Qingchen's complexion returned to normal. He clutched his chest and leaned weakly against the wall corner, his expression much colder. With the emotional strand gone, it was hard to say how different he was from before. If she had to say, Chu Sang rubbed her chin and examined him carefully. The young man's aura of Heartless Sword Dao was more prominent now, his entire being like an extremely cold ice mountain of the nine provinces, exuding a chilling aura.

"...I'm fine."

He shook his head, picked up his sword, and walked outside the cave. With one swing of his sword, what was originally sword intent that could only form a flood dragon now manifested as true dragon sword intent. Where the sword intent passed, a hundreds-meter-long ravine opened up in the flat ground, covered in frost and snow. The surrounding temperature dropped several degrees. Even heaven and earth changed. This was the true power of the Heartless Sword Dao.

Previously, Mo Qingchen had always felt his power was limited by some bottleneck, difficult to break through.

Unexpectedly... the problem lay here...

After resolving that strand of emotion, his heart was as calm as water, hardly able to be stirred by anything in the world. In over twenty years, he had never felt as relaxed as he did now. However, that bit of emotion buried in his heart seemed to have vanished in an instant. He didn't know... whether this was regret or relief for him...

Mo Qingchen's gaze fell on Chu Sang. He opened his mouth as if wanting to say something, but ultimately couldn't speak. He turned his head to look at the row of stone tablets at the cave entrance, his voice deepening slightly, "Were all these done by Master?"

"Mm, from what we can see, they're definitely related to your master."

"I have something to tell you," Mo Qingchen turned his head to look at her again. "Actually, I should have told you this much earlier, but I didn't remember at the time... I've always had a sense of familiarity with the runes on the stone tablets. Just now, I finally remembered where this familiarity came from."

Chu Sang raised an eyebrow in surprise, gesturing for him to continue.

Years ago, when they fell off the cliff and saw the runes on the stone tablet, Mo Qingchen had mentioned feeling familiar with the tablet, but he couldn't explain why. Chu Sang had kept this in mind, thinking there might be some connection between him and these tablets.

"I remember now. I saw these runes at Mas... Chang Yu's place."

Cultivators have extremely strong memories. Mo Qingchen had been puzzled at the time and certainly couldn't have forgotten so thoroughly. There was only one explanation—this memory of his had been erased by someone along the way, and who that person was, was self-evident.

A terrifying thought suddenly flashed through Chu Sang's mind, and everything became clear. When Divine Decrees appeared successively in the demon realm, monster realm, and ghost realm earlier, only the cultivation world didn't have a Divine Decree appear. As the upper realm's main target, the cultivation world was the one place they couldn't possibly overlook. In fact, they had searched for many days during that period but never found the Divine Decree that should have fallen in the cultivation world.

Unless the Divine Decree had been obtained by someone before they could discover it!

This also connected with the fact that the cultivation world experienced a crisis faster than the other three realms.

Now, Chu Sang strongly suspected that the Divine Decree had fallen into the hands of that old bastard Chang Yu!

So this was where the fish that slipped through the net was!

After obtaining the power of the Divine Decree, Chang Yu opened rifts, causing the cultivation world to fall faster than other places. It was all his doing!

"Oh no!" Chu Sang's face suddenly changed as she thought of this. "We need to go back quickly! Something bad is going to happen!"

Mo Qingchen didn't have time to ask what had happened before the two hurriedly rushed back. They had only been gone for half a day, but the scene was vastly different from when they left.

The previously triumphant Xuanyuan family disciples were all lying on the ground, and even that Unity stage elder had vanished without a trace. It seemed he had been dealt with. An early Unity stage cultivator was indeed considered a big shot in the entire cultivation world, but the senior brothers and sisters and other sects' top disciples weren't pushovers either. Under the pressure of numbers, Chu Sang didn't really think they would lose.

However, the current scene wasn't one of joyous victory. Instead, the atmosphere was even heavier than before the Xuanyuan family disciples' betrayal.

There was an additional person in the venue.

Someone who shouldn't have been here—

Chang Yu.

Somehow Chang Yu had mixed in. There should have been sect elders watching outside the trial ground. How could an unrelated person have gotten in? Unless... could it be!

Chu Sang's heart jolted, and she had an ominous guess. A disciple in front of her made a move before she could.

Chang Yu's face wore a faint smile as he stood tall and straight, his white robes like moonlight, completely out of place with the surroundings. He was like an immortal who had stepped down from the moon from another world. That disciple was at the peak of Nascent Soul realm, considered extremely talented. Yet Chang Yu merely raised his hand slightly, and the disciple's sword intent instantly dispersed. The entire person was suddenly lifted up, as if gripped by an invisible hand tightly around the neck, then violently thrown away. "Boom!" He crashed heavily into the stone wall, large pieces of rubble falling. He spat out a mouthful of blood, unable even to crawl up.

This wasn't the first.

In just half an hour, Chang Yu had killed many disciples.

The remaining disciples were all terrified, not daring to move a step. No one could have imagined why he would appear here, or why he would attack them.

It was truly too bizarre. Just after everyone had worked together to defeat the Xuanyuan family disciples, Chang Yu appeared. Without a word, he slaughtered many disciples. The others were all frightened. Someone boldly stepped forward to question what this immortal sect elder was trying to do. The only response was a cold laugh, followed by various unimaginably brutal deaths.

Seeing that poor tortured disciple about to breathe his last, Mo Qingchen raised his sword and went forth, unhesitatingly choosing to stand against his own master.

When Chang Yu saw him coming, his brows suddenly sank. He raised his hand, and the pressure of a Great Perfection stage cultivator bore down.

Mo Qingchen couldn't even withstand a single strike before being sent flying to the ground.

Just as Chu Sang was about to go help, something pulled her back, hiding her behind a stone wall. She looked back to find it was the sneaky Tantai Ming. No wonder she hadn't seen her senior brothers and sisters earlier. So they had all hidden away.

"Little Junior Sister, don't go over there! You're no match for that guy. Don't go throwing your life away. Let's run away together!"

"Seventh Senior Brother, you're such a coward."

"Big Senior Brother and Big Senior Sister ran too, it's not just me!" He retorted, pouting. "Who knew Chang Yu would show up halfway? Hmph, I always said there's not a single good person in Tianyan Sect. This Chang Yu is the worst! He drove you out of the sect back then, and now he's slaughtering the disciples of the cultivation world. He's definitely a big traitor to the cultivation world!"

"We're no match for him. We can only notify the sect leader and elders to quickly open the exit of the trial ground and escape with the remaining people. Going head-to-head with him here won't end well."

"Then why haven't you run away yet?"

Uh, that question hit the nail on the head.

Tantai Ming deflated immediately. "I notified the elders half an hour ago, but I haven't received any response. The exit of the trial ground hasn't opened either. I don't know what's happening... Little Junior Sister, do you think something might have happened to the sect? During the time we've been away, could something have happened in the outside world?"

"......" Chu Sang didn't speak. Her silence was the best answer.

Logically, with Master and the elders of various major sects watching outside the trial ground, it should have been impossible for Chang Yu to enter for no reason. Yet he appeared in the trial ground, which was enough to show that the situation outside was already very bad.

"What should we do? Since we can't get out anyway, why don't we—fight him to the death!"

"Don't be rash. A Great Perfection stage isn't like a Unity stage. We can't win just because we have numbers. He could wipe us out with a wave of his hand," Chu Sang said leisurely.

The young man closed his mouth in frustration, not knowing what to say.

"However... I do have an idea." She changed the subject, standing up and pushing Tantai Ming back, calm and composed. "Seventh Senior Brother, you hide first. Leave the rest to me. I'll definitely get you out of here alive!"

"??!"

Little Junior Sister, where are you going?!

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Chang Yu discovered that the strand of emotion in Mo Qingchen had been cut off, and his expression grew even colder. It seemed this chess piece was no longer under control. A useless chess piece naturally had no reason to be kept around.

He sent a palm strike towards Mo Qingchen's heart, but halfway there, Chu Sang suddenly appeared, her palm fan open wide, actually managing to withstand this strike.

"Hehe, little girl, we meet again." Chang Yu's facial expression changed several times before settling into a malicious smile completely at odds with his usual demeanor.

"......" Chu Sang's expression suddenly sank. Sure enough, her guess was correct. She had thought today's Chang Yu looked different from usual.

That haughty, mocking expression was exactly the same as that human god she had forced to self-destruct last time!

This guy actually left more than one divine sense avatar?

What a skillful move!

Chang Yu was probably just a puppet placed in the lower realm by the human god.

The several Divine Decrees were merely a small welcome gift sent to the lower realm. The real main event was just beginning.

During these days in the trial ground, the outside world must have been thrown into complete chaos.

"You really don't give up, do you."

She met his gaze and also curved her lips in a fake smile. "Oh right, I left too quickly last time and forgot to ask you—"

"How did it feel to self-destruct?" She enunciated each word, smiling more kindly. "Want me to let you experience it again?"

The smile on "Chang Yu's" face suddenly darkened, his fists clenching at his sides. She could even faintly hear the cracking sound of bones.

Divine sense self-destruction is extremely painful and causes significant damage to the main body. It seems last time's self-destruction definitely gave this high and mighty human god quite an experience, still fresh in memory, unforgettable for a lifetime.

"This time, you won't have that chance."

He would kill everyone in the trial ground, including this most troublesome woman!

"What a coincidence, I return those words to you verbatim."

The moment "Chang Yu" made his move, Chu Sang also moved. She stomped her right foot heavily on the ground. "Pagoda Spirit!" Both sides were of one mind. Almost the instant she called out, heaven and earth churned, and the winds and clouds changed color.

The other disciples in the venue only felt a gust of wind blow past, blinding their eyes. When they could see again, Chu Sang and Chang Yu had both vanished without a trace, unable to be found no matter how they searched.

When Chu Sang opened her eyes again, she saw endless darkness, with faint flames rising around her. This familiar scene reminded her that she had returned to the eighth floor of the Demon-Locking Pagoda. She had thought she would never come back here in this lifetime, but unexpectedly, she had returned.

After clearing all the floors of the pagoda, she could freely move between the various floors. As the master of the Demon-Locking Pagoda, she had another privilege—to bring others to move freely with her. No matter how strong the other party was, as long as they were in the area controlled by the pagoda, they had no right to refuse. It could be said to be a compulsory privilege.

Chu Sang knew her current strength was no match for Chang Yu possessed by a human god, so she didn't intend to confront him head-on. Instead, she brought him to the eighth floor of the Demon-Locking Pagoda. On this eighth floor, she had a "big surprise" to give this human god.

"Boom!"

Dodging a divine power attack to the side, Chu Sang looked at the grim-faced "Chang Yu" opposite her and kindly advised, "I suggest you behave yourself. Otherwise, you'll definitely die a miserable death."

He sneered, "Those words should be directed at you."

Fine then. He had wanted to be a good person, but since the other party wouldn't listen to advice, there was nothing he could do.

The sound of repeated divine power bombardments seemed to awaken some monster in the pagoda. The ground suddenly shook violently, as if something was breaking out from underground. A terrifying pressure swept over like a tidal wave!

This sudden change startled even "Chang Yu". It was precisely in this moment of his distraction that a tentacle heavily smashed towards his chest.

"Boom!"