The Hehuan Sect Enchantress’s Short-Lived Spirit Pet 83

Chapter 83: Extermination

“Hmph, don’t be so proud,” Ji Zhu muttered.

This was the first time this had happened, and she was not used to it. When she got used to it in the future, the bad woman would have nothing to do with it!

Seeing her slightly unconvinced appearance, Jiang Bai rubbed her head, held her in her arms, and chuckled softly. “Then I’ll wait to see what you can do to make me not proud.”

Ji Zhu: “…”

While the two of them were whispering, Yue Zhi on the other side was hanging upside down from a branch of a large tree, her eyes closed and her arms crossed over her chest.

Although she had come out of the graveyard, Yue Zhi still felt very uncomfortable.

Even if she had left the graveyard, she didn’t know what she could do. It didn’t seem to be much different from being in the graveyard.

Zhu Ge floated over and stood under the tree, looking up at her.

“What are you looking at?” Seeing that she had not spoken for a long time, Yue Zhi said with great dissatisfaction.

Was this person deliberately coming to see her make a fool of herself?

Faced with her slightly angry words, Zhu Ge did not continue to argue with her as usual, but was a little silent.

After all, she had known Yue Zhi for so many years. Zhu Ge could sense that Yue Zhi had obviously become much more silent since she had left the graveyard. As for the reason for her silence, she thought that she could probably guess it.

In the past, they had all been supported by people and were the focus of the crowd. But now, they had discovered that the world had already changed greatly and no longer needed them.

They didn’t want to get involved anymore.

But on the one hand, they didn’t want to care about any worldly matters anymore, and on the other hand, they couldn’t stand the current gap because of everything they had once had.

“What are you doing here? Can Ji Zhu graduate?” Zhu Ge said.

No matter what, what they had to do at this moment was to adapt to this era.

Yue Zhi opened her eyes, flipped over, and half-squatted on the tree trunk, her gaze distantly fixed on her.

“Are you trying to trick me? At this time, they must be in the middle of a passionate moment. Am I supposed to disturb them!”

She had at least read so many storybooks and picture albums. She still knew this much!

That Ji Zhu’s temper was so explosive now. She had just confirmed her relationship with Jiang Bai and was in the honeymoon period. If she were to disturb them, who knew how she would be cursed by her!

In the past, she might have been a little afraid of her. Now that she was familiar with her, she would get an inch and take a yard! She even dared to be on equal footing with her!

Zhu Ge: “…” This person’s mind had grown.

“Then you can continue to hang upside down,” Zhu Ge rolled her eyes. She had just kindly reminded her that she also had serious business to do. This person was so good, to actually suspect that she was digging a pit for her!

Yue Zhi snorted lightly. “It’s none of your business.”

Zhu Ge: “…” Alright, it was also her who was being nosy.

For Yue Zhi to be able to watch her and Song Huisheng talk about love for so many thousands of years and not have a life-and-death struggle with them showed how strong her psychological quality was. She might have been temporarily confused, but she would probably have reconciled with herself very quickly.

“I’m leaving,” it was still more comfortable to go back and accompany Huisheng.

Yue Zhi: “…”

Dead couple! So annoying!

**

Originally, the few of them had thought that they could relax here for a few days. However, the next day, when it was almost noon, Zong Yuxin had come over in a hurry with Su Ning, her face very ugly.

At that time, Ji Zhu was refining pills in the courtyard, Jiang Bai was reading a book on the side, and Yue Zhi and the other two were playing Fight the Landlord. Their appearance was quite harmonious, but Zong Yuxin’s arrival had broken their peaceful world.

“What?”

Ji Zhu said in a daze, her eyes staring blankly at Zong Yuxin, her mind almost in a mush, and she was unable to think for a moment.

Something had happened to Qiong Yin?

Zong Yuxin’s face was ugly, and she said in a deep voice, “All the sects have sent disciples down the mountain to look for the traces of the demon clan, and Qiong Yin of the Hehuan Sect is also among them.”

Jiang Bai’s expression stiffened, and she looked at Zong Yuxin’s mouth opening and closing in a daze, her head throbbing with a sharp pain.

Zhu Ge saw their appearance and came forward. “Tell me the situation in detail. What on earth happened?”

Zong Yuxin took a deep breath. It was precisely because she knew that Ji Zhu and the others were extremely concerned about this Senior Sister, Qiong Yin, that she had rushed over at the first moment she had learned that something had happened to Qiong Yin, just to tell them this news as soon as possible.

“After Qiong Yin had gone down the mountain, she had been searching for the traces of the demon clan. Not long ago, the traces of the demon clan had appeared in Dewu City in the east of the province. At the same time, a large-scale plague had broken out in the city. When Qiong Yin heard about this situation, she had rushed over first.”

The plague in the city was spreading very quickly. In order not to let more common people suffer this unjust disaster, Qiong Yin had advocated for the burning and burying of the dead bodies, and for the people who had been infected with the plague but had not died to be isolated in another area. At the same time, she was working hard to research a way to solve this plague.

However, this practice of hers had naturally angered those who had already been infected with the plague. If there was no effective treatment, and they were isolated, who knew how Qiong Yin would treat them in the end? Who knew if she would be ruthless and directly burn them alive? Under this kind of thinking, their resistance to Qiong Yin was naturally very great.

And it just so happened that the city lord of this city had believed the rumors that had spread from the Immortal Sword Sect, and had thought that Xiao Ge had a very good relationship with the Hehuan Sect. And Qiong Yin, as a member of the Hehuan Sect, was determined to vent her resentment for Xiao Ge on Qiong Yin.

Faced with such an evil person, Qiong Yin naturally could not just sit and wait to die. But she had been running around for the common people’s plague all day, and her own consumption was already great. Against those people, she could only suffer a loss. Seeing that she was about to be caught, Qiong Yin understood that there would definitely be no good end if she was caught. So on the way to escape, she had directly entered the Dongzhou Illusionary Realm. Only by entering here would those people not dare to continue to chase after her.

But… entering was also a big gamble.

Ji Zhu’s head was about to be bewildered when she heard her words. She had not expected that after so many years, Qiong Yin’s plot could still happen.

So many years had passed. Logically, this plot should have passed, right!

“You said Senior Sister entered the Dongzhou Illusionary Realm?” Jiang Bai said with a pale face.

Zong Yuxin nodded. “The news I got is like this.”

Jiang Bai’s body swayed slightly, and Ji Zhu’s fur was about to stand on end.

In the original plot of the novel, Qiong Yin would be caught by Xiao Ge’s enemy, tortured to death, and then hung outside the city tower, letting the birds peck at her body. Although the plot had changed a little now, but to have entered the illusionary realm, the situation was not much better!

In all of history, if it was said that there were still a few people who could walk out of the Xiling graveyard alive, then since the moment the Dongzhou Illusionary Realm had appeared, not a single person who had entered had been able to walk out alive!

As the Dongzhou Illusionary Realm, which had existed for a longer time than the Xiling graveyard, Zhu Ge and the others naturally also knew the danger in it, and at this moment, their gazes were worried as they looked at Jiang Bai and the others.

“Let’s go to Dewu City first!” Jiang Bai forced herself to calm down and said in an icy tone.

The others naturally would not object. Their movements were very neat as they got on Ji Zhu’s spirit boat, and they didn’t even have a chance to say a proper goodbye to Zong Yuxin and the others.

Zong Yuxin watched as their spirit boat flew far away, and then she looked up at the blue sky above her head.

She had a premonition that this sky was about to change.

**

On the boat, Song Huisheng was controlling the spirit boat, and the speed was several levels faster. But Xiling was remote, and they still needed some time to get to Dewu City quickly. By the time they arrived at Dewu City, it was probably a long time after something had happened to Qiong Yin.

Jiang Bai held Ji Zhu and walked into the cabin, set up a soundproof shield, and asked Ji Zhu, “In the novel you mentioned, what on earth is Senior Sister’s situation?”

Jiang Bai suddenly remembered that many years ago, when Qiong Yin had wanted to go out to train, Ji Zhu had come out to object, and had even said that if Qiong Yin went out to train, there would be a life-threatening danger.

Faced with Jiang Bai’s extremely serious questioning, Ji Zhu scratched the table under her feet, and with a look of being on the verge of tears, she told her the ending in the novel.

She had said before that when she had read this novel back then, the character she had felt the most sorry for was Qiong Yin. She had thought that she had already helped Qiong Yin avoid that node, but now it seemed that the node had only been postponed a little.

After hearing her words, Jiang Bai’s face was cold and condensed, and her eyes were filled with a chilling killing intent.

For the few in Dewu City who had dared to attack Qiong Yin, and also for Xiao Ge.

At this moment, her killing intent for Xiao Ge had risen to its peak.

If it weren’t for the existence of him, this so-called protagonist, could the so-called plot of this world continue to go on?

Ji Zhu did not say anything more. She had already fallen into a deep self-doubt, wondering how much she had changed. Such a major plot, yet she had not even let Qiong Yin avoid it.

After entering the illusionary realm, could Qiong Yin still survive?

No one had an answer to this question.

**

With Song Huisheng controlling the spirit boat, it had taken a full five days to get from Xiling to the territory of Dongzhou. In these five days, the atmosphere in the spirit boat was extremely oppressive. Even Yue Zhi, who was very easy to dislike everything, did not make a sound, and would even take the initiative to take over Song Huisheng’s position to control the spirit boat from time to time.

Arriving at Dewu City, before they had even entered, everyone could clearly feel that this city was very different from other cities.

Desolate, as if it were about to fall into ruin.

However, for the three who had already become yin souls, the feeling was even more acute. The entire city was shrouded in a layer of death qi, which showed the large number of deaths in the city.

It seemed that Zong Yuxin was right. The plague was now rampant in this city, and the death qi and the disease qi were intertwined. If it was not handled properly, this city would eventually become a dead city.

Ji Zhu was in Jiang Bai’s arms. When she looked at this city, her gaze was rarely cold. What they had to do on this trip was naturally to find the main culprit who had persecuted Qiong Yin first!

And, as a member of the Medicine King Valley, she could naturally see that the plague in this city had already spread to an irreversible extent.

But what they had not expected was that as soon as they had gotten close to the city gate, they had smelled a very strong smell of blood. The moment the city gate was pushed open, everyone immediately realized why there were no city guards.

Logically, in such a plague-ridden city, there should have been people guarding the city gate to prevent the common people from running out and bringing the plague to other places.

But now, blood was flowing like a river inside the city gate, and dozens of corpses were lying on the ground in a mess, all of them having had their throats slit with a neat sword.

Ji Zhu was also bewildered for a moment when she saw this situation. Several people continued to walk forward, and along the way, they could still see some corpses lying on the ground. The smell of blood was always in their noses, but they did not see any living person walking outside.

This city… had something happened?

Jiang Bai’s face was icy when she saw this situation, and there was no emotion in her eyes. She walked straight towards the city lord’s residence of Dewu City.

A small city lord had actually dared to bully their Hehuan Sect. Then he should have been prepared to be found at his door!

The whole city was excessively quiet, and not even the cries of children could be heard. The closer they got to the city lord’s residence, the stronger the smell of blood became.

Zhu Ge looked at the corpses on the ground. They were all wearing a set of special armor, and it was clear that they were the private soldiers of the city lord’s residence.

Since she had entered the city, she had not sensed the existence of demonic qi in this city, so this situation was most likely not the work of the demon clan.

When they arrived at the city lord’s residence and saw the blood splattered on the magnificent and imposing main door, Ji Zhu was completely stunned.

How… it was like the whole family had been exterminated?

What was going on? They hadn’t even started to do the thing of exterminating the family, yet it had already happened?

Jiang Bai released her spiritual sense to feel it, and then her face was a little stiff, and her eyes were full of a complicated look.

Ji Zhu looked at her. She could feel that Jiang Bai had seemed to have relaxed all over in a certain moment, and the body that was holding her was no longer that stiff and tense.

Jiang Bai did not explain, but just stepped into the main door of the city lord’s residence. The situation inside was even more serious than outside. Blood was already flowing everywhere, and she could even hear a faint plea for mercy.

Ji Zhu’s expression tightened, and she quickly urged Jiang Bai to rush to the place where the sound was coming from, wanting to see what on earth was going on.

Jiang Bai pursed her lips, held Ji Zhu, and rushed over. Song Huisheng and the others followed behind in silence, vigilant against any danger around them.

It was not until they had crossed a circular archway that Ji Zhu was stunned when she saw the situation in front of her clearly.

Changsun Qiyu, who should have been untouched by a speck of dust, was now covered in countless bloodstains on her white clothes. Even her beautiful and transcendent face was splattered with a bit of blood. A longsword directly cut off the head of the person who was kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy, like a Rakshasa who had walked out of hell.

Changsun Qiyu looked up and looked over at them.

Her face seemed to be as cold and indifferent as ever, but from her neat and ruthless actions earlier, it seemed that she was not as calm as she appeared.

“Changsun…”

Ji Zhu spoke, but she did not continue.

No matter what, they would not have thought that Changsun Qiyu would be here, let alone that Changsun Qiyu would do the thing of exterminating a whole family.

With a flick of the longsword, a small gray shadow was instantly pierced through, and the small Nascent Soul completely dissipated in this world, without even a chance to be reincarnated.

Jiang Bai looked at Changsun Qiyu with a slightly complicated gaze. Even she had not expected that Changsun Qiyu would go to such an extent for Qiong Yin.

As the Senior Sister of the Immortal Sword Sect, if this matter were to spread, it would definitely be a fatal blow to her.

Changsun Qiyu withdrew her sword, and her whole person stood silently in a pool of blood, letting the flowing blood soak her shoes, pulling her from the high and mighty nine-heavens fairy into the mortal world.

“What are you doing? Do you know?” Jiang Bai said calmly.

Changsun Qiyu looked down at the bloodstains on her body, but her mind was full of Qiong Yin’s smiling face with her brows curved.

Such a good person, how could she disappear?

“It doesn’t matter,” Changsun Qiyu suddenly said, her voice a little hoarse.

She looked at Jiang Bai, and a faint smile suddenly appeared on her face, but there was no smile in her eyes.

“They deserve to die, don’t they?”

She held the sword in her hand tightly. If it weren’t for the little bit of reason that was holding her back, the moment she had learned that something had happened to Qiong Yin, what she had wanted was to slaughter this entire city.

They did not deserve Qiong Yin’s mercy.

They only deserved to go to hell.

Jiang Bai looked at her quietly. After a long time, she curled her lips and said coolly, “That’s right. They deserve to die.”

Even if Changsun Qiyu had not attacked, the moment she had arrived, she would have made the same choice as Changsun Qiyu.

No one, after hurting someone she cared about, could get away unscathed.

When Changsun Qiyu saw Jiang Bai’s reaction, a faint but genuine smile finally appeared on her face.

She knew that Jiang Bai could understand her.

The next second, Jiang Bai quickly went forward to support the suddenly collapsing Changsun Qiyu. Only then did she find that there was a deep cut on her back, and the fabric of her clothes on her back was all soaked.

Ji Zhu jumped down from Jiang Bai’s arms. Without caring if they would laugh at her, she turned into a human and supported Changsun Qiyu’s other side. At the same time, she helped her check her condition, and her face became much more complicated.

This Changsun Qiyu had almost exhausted all the spiritual energy in her body. If she were to forcefully continue to use her spiritual energy, her meridians would probably be at risk of not being able to withstand it.

With Ji Zhu handling the injuries on Changsun Qiyu’s body, Jiang Bai released her spiritual sense to cover the entire city lord’s residence, searching for any that had been missed.

After confirming that there was not a single living person in the entire city lord’s residence, Jiang Bai looked at Changsun Qiyu with a look as if she were seeing her for the first time. She then took the unconscious Changsun Qiyu out of Dewu City and directly released the spirit boat outside the city, so that she could better take care of Changsun Qiyu.

Looking at the unconscious Changsun Qiyu, Yue Zhi, who was hanging upside down from the mast, couldn’t help but ask Zhu Ge on the other mast.

“This person and that person named, what was it, Qiong Yin, what on earth is their relationship? To be able to do the thing of exterminating a whole family for her?”

Even she, in her long tens of thousands of years of life, had only done the thing of exterminating a whole family twice, and the first time was when she was over two thousand years old. The unconscious woman, from the looks of it, was at most three hundred years old. She dared to do such a thing at this age?

Zhu Ge glanced at her. “It’s so obvious. Can’t you see it?”

That pile of things of hers, had this person seen them in a dog’s stomach?

Yue Zhi: “…” Although she had a bit of a guess, she didn’t want to believe her guess.

Otherwise, wouldn’t that mean that another little couple had appeared!

Where did so many little couples come from!

But…

For that person to actually do such a thing for the other party, Yue Zhi decided to look at this little couple a little more favorably in the future. She was very in line with her own code of conduct!

She had high hopes for Changsun Qiyu!

After helping Changsun Qiyu treat her wounds, Ji Zhu and Jiang Bai were on the side, quietly waiting for her to wake up.

Ji Zhu turned back into a cat and climbed onto Jiang Bai, resting her head on her shoulder, the whole cat listless.

Although the people who had persecuted Qiong Yin had all been slaughtered by Changsun Qiyu, all this could not change the fact that Qiong Yin had entered the illusionary realm.

“Let’s go to the illusionary realm first,” Jiang Bai said hoarsely.

No matter what, they couldn’t just watch as Qiong Yin entered that place and have no reaction.

“Mm!” Ji Zhu nodded vigorously, but her mind was trying hard to extract all the descriptions of the Dongzhou Illusionary Realm from the novel.

In the novel, even Xiao Ge had not entered that illusionary realm, so the description of the illusionary realm was mostly the author’s setting. Now that she thought about it, even if Ji Zhu had finished reading the whole novel back then, she could only say that she knew a little about this illusionary realm.

On the way to the illusionary realm, Changsun Qiyu slowly woke up. Before they could talk much, the spirit boat was stopped by several figures.

Looking at the few figures, Changsun Qiyu’s face became even fainter. Her whole person’s shoulders and back were straight, and her gaze was fixed on them, without any attitude of avoiding them.

“Qiyu,” Wei Yongyuan frowned at this most proud disciple of his, his eyes with a bit of a heartbroken look.

Did she not know what she was doing? She had even done the thing of exterminating a whole family. How would outsiders look at her, and look at the entire Immortal Sword Sect?!

“Master,” Changsun Qiyu nodded slightly. Faced with their arrival, it was clear that she had already expected it, but she still had no look of retreating.

“Qiyu, do you know what you’re doing?” Beside Wei Yongyuan, there was also a thin and slender man, his face gloomy, and there were two deep marks on his brow, which showed that he was not easy to get along with on a daily basis.

This person was the current person in power of the Changsun family, Changsun Rongchuan.

On the other side of the two of them, two people who made Ji Zhu stunned appeared.

Ji Wuhui and Ji Ling were here at the same time?!

Ji Wuhui was out of seclusion? Could Ji Ling come out of the back mountain forbidden area?

“I know,” even when facing them, Changsun Qiyu’s tone was always very calm. “They deserve to die.”

“No matter how much they deserve to die, it’s not your turn to get involved in this matter!” Wei Yongyuan said, holding back his anger.

To exterminate a whole family in broad daylight, in just half a day, the matter had spread throughout the entire continent!

Because of the excessive blood loss, Changsun Qiyu’s face was still a little pale. Hearing this, the corners of her lips couldn’t help but curl up slightly, but her eyes were full of coldness.

“If I don’t get involved, can they get the end they deserve?”

Changsun Qiyu was very clear about how rotten this cultivation world was now, especially the city lord whose whole family she had exterminated. The reason why he had been so arrogant was because he was backed by the Changsun family, and had thought that he had only injured a disciple of the Hehuan Sect. Even if the Hehuan Sect came to their door, with the Changsun family and the people of the other sects coming out to smooth things over, he would not be punished much.

If they were to handle this matter, then Qiong Yin would never get justice.

And she didn’t want that justice. She just wanted all the people who had hurt Qiong Yin to go to hell!

“You!” Wei Yongyuan’s face was ugly. Changsun Qiyu’s unrepentant attitude was undoubtedly roasting them on the fire!

In the future, everyone would know that he, Wei Yongyuan, had not taught his disciple well! He had raised a ruthless person!

Changsun Qiyu ignored their anger, but just calmly dropped a bombshell.

“If you want to expel me from the Immortal Sword Sect and from the Changsun family, it doesn’t matter.”

“I’m going into the illusionary realm.”