novelraw Chapter 12 : Chapter 12
Chapter 12 : Chapter 12
Chapter 12: Tai Xuan Disciple
“This is the place?”
“This is the place…… Then, this lowly one will take his leave first. If you two have any business, please speak with the lord inside.”
“Tsk, if it were in the past, for at least a week, people in this building would have to be careful about firecrackers being set off in the toilet……”
Xun Qiu’s gaze sharpened, a single sentence scaring Su Wantian and the Gui Gong who brought them up into silence, but she herself didn’t think it was anything shocking, and directly pushed the door open with a backhand.
With a creak, light pierced in, and the room went from pitch black to dim.
Although the brightness was still close to being unable to see one's hand in front of their face, one could at least see some blurry shadows.
Su Wantian and Xun Qiu subconsciously frowned, but not because of the dim light, but because of the thick, impossible-to-ignore bloody smell in the room, which made one suspect that blood was floating in the air.
Then, they saw the man leaning against the inner wall of the room.
Some thoughts surfaced in Su Wantian's mind.
A disciple of the Tai Xuan Sect, seriously injured, hiding in a dark room out of sight, and the two of them had just been invited up right after mentioning "Tai Xuan Sect."
All of this forced him to think more.
He suddenly felt that he had been dragged into some troublesome matter.
He was about to cup his hands in a salute to see if he could find a way to extricate the two of them, but perhaps his brain moved a bit too slowly, or perhaps the movement of his hands was a bit too slow, in short, Xun Qiu beat him to it.
“You’re the guy who calls himself a disciple of the Tai Xuan Sect? Who beat you into this state, did you call us here to collect your corpse?”
Xun Qiu's speech was not the least bit polite.
Back then, she had not changed her way of speaking even when facing Bo Qiuyun.
So far, the only person who could make her be a bit more polite was Yun Qingping, but that was only by adding the word "Fairy" after her name, Su Wantian's parents barely counted as half a person, but that was because the situation was special, and she was asking for a favor.
Su Wantian was instantly suffocated, not knowing what to say for a moment.
It was fine for her to talk to him like this, he didn't care, and bickering was quite interesting.
He wasn't sure if it was a problem for her to talk to Fairy Yun like this, but he thought it probably wasn't, after all, it was plain to see that she was raising Xun Qiu like her own daughter.
But this was an unfamiliar outsider!
A true person of the Dao of cultivation, the kind who could slap a hundred ordinary people to death with one palm!
By talking to him like this, did you take out a loan on your life and are in a hurry to spend it?
As for why he was so sure of this person's identity, this person had a hole in his chest through which one could see the other side, and he wasn't dead!
Why do you think so?
He felt his heart thumping, and a strange sense of absurdity washed over him, making his brain go blank, just like someone who had never known what crime was, was suddenly notified one day that you were going to prison for life, no negotiation, and along with the notice came a group of strong men with thick shackles……
Su Wantian suddenly realized that no matter what he chose, whether to leave this place or to talk with the person in front of him and get deeper into this matter, he could no longer completely stay out of it.
He thought he was prepared to step into the world of cultivation, to step into the unknown, but when that world truly came looking for him, he immediately realized…… he was not prepared at all.
Lord Ye's love of dragons was nothing more than a joke, and he was the same.
Xun Qiu naturally didn't know the change in Su Wantian's mood.
She didn't hear a response and thought the person inside was completely dead, but she wasn't sure, so she planned to take off her shoe and throw it over to see…… but this action was stopped.
The person inside spoke with a hoarse voice:
“Wait, just now I…… cough, was in a daze for a moment.”
As he spoke, he even spat out a mouthful of blood.
“There’s no need to collect the corpse, I’m not about to die just yet.”
“So you’re close.”
Xun Qiu sat down cross-legged with great ease.
“What unfulfilled wishes and desires do you have that you want us to help complete?”
“……Not exactly, but if you two wish to understand it that way, it is more or less the same.”
The man said, “But before that, I have one more question…… What connection do you two have with this sect? Especially this young lady, your whole body is surrounded by spiritual energy, you may have already cultivated true qi, yet it is not the aura of our sect’s Tai Xuan Heart Sutra……”
Su Wantian finally came back to his senses.
He glanced at Xun Qiu and said:
“We both wish to enter the Tai Xuan Sect. You should have already heard this just now.”
Xun Qiu noticed something was off with his tone, but couldn't pinpoint the exact reason, only thinking that he was a little tired.
He was an ordinary person who had run around for a day with her, someone who had soaked in heavenly materials and earthly treasures for seven days and remolded a body with peerless root bones.
It was normal for him to be tired.
“Entering the Tai Xuan Sect, I naturally heard that…… But ordinary people wouldn't have this thought, right? Or rather, there shouldn't be many people in the mortal world who know of the Tai Xuan Sect. How did you two come to know of it?”
“I learned of it by chance.”
Su Wantian’s expression did not change.
“The people of the escort agency travel far and wide, they know the most about strange tales and unusual events.”
The man frowned slightly at this brief explanation, but he quickly convinced himself.
Su Wantian was clearly a scholar, with a righteous air still about him, looking trustworthy just by sight.
He then looked at Xun Qiu, and over here, although she was not meeting the "she" Yun Qingping spoke of, the Sect Master of the Tai Xuan Sect, the words she had to say were the same.
She told the story of finding the jade pendant on a corpse and dreaming of Yun Qingping at night.
The man was stunned for a long time, seeming a bit disbelieving, but after Xun Qiu took out the jade pendant to show him, he no longer doubted it.
“This is a relic of the previous Sect Master. Martial Aunt Yun always cherished it very much. For it to have come into your hands, it seems that, alas……”
He did not elaborate on this aspect.
This was a private matter within the Tai Xuan Sect, and it was also irrelevant to the current situation.
“Regarding my injuries and my origin, since you two are trustworthy people, there is no need for me to hide it…… The matter has to start from a month ago. Since you two have heard of the Tai Xuan Sect, you are probably not unfamiliar with the Demonic Cult.”
Su Wantian and Xun Qiu had heard of this Demonic Cult, but they were indeed quite unfamiliar.
Yun Qingping had once told Xun Qiu that there were eighteen major powers in the cultivation world, the Six Surnames and Twelve Sects, but that actually referred to the "Righteous Path," or rather, the powers whose reputation allowed them to operate in the open, and a special "Immortal Alliance" was excluded.
And outside the Six Surnames and Twelve Sects, there were also mysterious organizations like the one Yun Qingping belonged to, overseas immortal islands, scattered and unorganized evil cultivators, and the Demonic Cult entrenched in the Southern Continent, and other demonic and unorthodox existences.
The Demonic Cult, full name is the Lihen Tian Demonic Cult.
Although it used the name of the Daoist sacred ground of the Grand Pure Immortal Venerable from mythology, they were a genuine Demonic Cult.
There was no one in the entire cult whose hands were not stained with blood, every one of them was guilty of monstrous crimes.
To execute each one by slow slicing, there would surely be some whose crimes didn't warrant it, but to chop off their small heads then their big heads would be letting them off a bit too easily.
There were hundreds of figures in the Middle Four Realms in the cult, and one in the Third Heaven.
The number of other minor figures was even more unknown.
They were able to rely on sheer strength to manage the Southern Continent into their own territory right under the noses of the Righteous Path, but this was also their limit.
The four continents of East, West, North, and Central were not places the Demonic Cult could touch, but……
“That Demonic Cult Master, I don't know what madness possessed him, he suddenly led a group of cultists to attack the Central Continent. We of the Righteous Path naturally responded in a hurry, unprepared.”
The man's eyes were dim, and as his chest rose and fell, black blood flowed from his wound.
“The Third Heaven demon was naturally intercepted by the experts of the Righteous Path, and there was also a mysterious expert of the Perfected Person Realm who helped out, blocking the Deputy Helmsman of that Demonic Cult…… I had just barely entered the Middle Four Realms, my skills were unrefined, and I fought to a draw with a Demonic Cult member of a similar realm, where both sides were injured, but he was a cut above.”
The man's words were earnest:
“He will come after me in a few days, I'm afraid I won't be able to escape and save my life. Now, I can only hope that you two will bring the news back to the Tai Xuan Sect…… I do not ask for revenge, only wish for my fallen leaves to return to their roots.”