Uncanny Immortal 124

Chapter 124

Mo Jiangxue looked at Yan Ling with cold eyes, holding her qin and saying nothing, her robes fluttering.

Xie Qingzheng suppressed the anger and fear in her heart, recalled the ancestral figures of the major sects, and was still at a loss.

She spoke again to probe, “Who are you really? You can’t be the Lord of the Ten Directions Domain, can you?”

Since the western expedition had begun, the Lord of the Ten Directions Domain had never shown his face. She had only heard the name “Yu Wuya” from others.

Even Xie Youke had found it a little strange. They had already penetrated deep into the wildlands, so why had Yu Wuya not yet appeared? After the Dao Discussion Conference last September, Yu Wuya had led his men to launch a sneak attack on the major sects, slaughtering the cultivators of Tianquan Manor, Yuheng Palace, and the Kaiyang sect, but he had not attacked the Tianshu Sect.

Yan Ling shook her head, then nodded, and said with a smile, “The Lord? I wasn’t before, but I am now.”

Xie Qingzheng had only said it casually. Unexpectedly, Yan Ling was really the leader of the Ten Directions Domain. Her scalp tingled.

She moved her fingers, about to take out a firework tube, but she suddenly thought of the common people in the city.

She could not fight in the city no matter what. She had to lure this demoness out of the city first. The cultivators in the city, seeing the firework warning signal, would surely come out to rescue them.

If this demoness was really “Yu Wuya,” then she and her master alone would definitely not be able to defeat her.

Just as she was thinking of a way to escape, she heard her master ask Yan Ling, “Did you kill Yu Wuya?”

Yan Ling lightly fanned her folding fan and nodded. “Back then, he was seriously injured in a battle with Gu Hongying. When he was in seclusion healing, I was with him. I took advantage of his unpreparedness and killed him, swallowing his cultivation, and only then could I take human form.”

So she was not Yu Wuya…

Xie Qingzheng’s heart relaxed a little. She asked Yan Ling, “Last year, when your people from the Ten Directions Domain launched a sneak attack on the major sects of the righteous path and killed people with the Yuan-Transforming Palm, if it wasn’t Yu Wuya, who was it?”

Yan Ling said, “Just a puppet to confuse you. It’s just the Yuan-Transforming Palm. I can do it too. That puppet could fool those fools, but it couldn’t fool Sect Master Xie and Lady Yunshao.”

If they really fought, she was afraid that even Mu Qingdai would not be fooled, which was why the “Yu Wuya” of last year had only met Mu Qingdai and had not attacked her. And in that sneak attack, they had also not attacked the people of the Tianshu Sect, because they could not fool Xie Youke.

Hearing that Yan Ling could also use the Yuan-Transforming Palm, Xie Qingzheng held her breath, and her heart was in her throat again. She took a step forward and stood in front of Mo Jiangxue.

Yan Ling smiled. “If it weren’t for that provocation of the major sects, I’m afraid it wouldn’t have been so easy for you of the righteous path to form an alliance and come to the wildlands as guests. For Xie Youke to have become the leader of the righteous path this time, she should be grateful to me.”

Xie Qingzheng also pulled at the corner of her mouth, smiled, and said a joke as if she were relaxed, “What? From your tone, do you really hope that the Ten Directions Domain will be annihilated by the righteous path? You said you have a deep connection with the seven sects of the Big Dipper. You can’t be a spy sent by the righteous path to the Ten Directions Domain, and you’ve worked your way up from a spy to the position of Lord of the Ten Directions Domain, can you?”

Yan Ling laughed loudly, with great interest. “Perhaps you’re right again.”

Xie Qingzheng’s smile faded, and she said nothing.

Yan Ling said, “I’m just teasing you. I’m not a spy for the righteous path. In truth, what’s the use of annihilating the Ten Directions Domain? I told you when I first met you, without the Ten Directions Domain, what demons would you of the righteous path exorcise? What Dao would you defend? Without the Ten Directions Domain, the cultivation world would not necessarily be at peace.”

Xie Qingzheng said, “Without you, at least there would be no more evil spirits refining poison corpses and harming the common people.”

Yan Ling closed her folding fan, tapped her forehead, and said, “Eh, I can’t agree with you. Let’s not talk about it. You should move a little. Don’t block your master. I want to talk to your master.”

Xie Qingzheng stood where she was, not moving, and not saying a word.

Yan Ling’s gaze passed over her and landed on Mo Jiangxue behind her. She said in a refined manner, “If I do not go, will you not come? I promised Immortal Master Mo that I would not set foot in the Central Plains again in this life. I have kept my word and do not dare to set foot in the Central Plains, so I could only find a way to invite you to the wildlands for a gathering.”

Mo Jiangxue avoided Yan Ling’s gaze, a look of displeasure on her face. “I have come to the wildlands for the Yuheng Cauldron, not to gather with anyone.”

Xie Qingzheng also understood. No wonder this western expedition had been so surprisingly smooth all the way. Many elders had sighed that the fate of the Ten Directions Domain was truly exhausted. It turned out that the Lord of the Ten Directions Domain had no intention of defending at all and was completely focused on her master.

Yan Ling said, “You have come to the wildlands for me. I am very happy.”

A chill arose in Xie Qingzheng’s heart. “Why do you say that? Could it be that the Yuheng Cauldron is in your hands?”

Mo Jiangxue’s eyes were extremely cold, and she did not speak.

“I knew it would be like this…” Yan Ling observed her expression and, catching the subtle change in Mo Jiangxue’s expression, she put away the happy smile on her face and glanced at Xie Qingzheng. “I and your master have been getting along very happily these past three months… the moment you came, everything changed…”

Mo Jiangxue said coldly, “It has nothing to do with whether she came or not. I let you stay by my side before because I suspected your identity and motive, and I was monitoring you.”

Yan Ling looked at Mo Jiangxue and said with a mocking smile, “Is that so? In order to protect her, you can really say anything. What a touching and deep master-disciple relationship.”

Her anger gradually overcame her fear. Xie Qingzheng interrupted, “Are you incapable of hearing the truth? Or are you too full of yourself?”

Yan Ling ignored Xie Qingzheng and still looked at Mo Jiangxue, saying softly, “Lady Yunshao, you had actually guessed a few things. Why did you ask me how it felt to heal the sick and save people? I really do think that that feeling is very good. I have also saved many people before. The people I have saved are far more than you have.”

Mo Jiangxue’s tone softened a little. “On Green Pine Peak, you had already intended to let them go. If Yu Wuya was really killed by you, if you have a deep connection with the seven sects of the Big Dipper, and if you can really turn from evil to good, I would also be pleased.”

Yan Ling said, “You don’t understand. If she had come a few days later, I could have persuaded myself to return to the righteous path…”

Xie Qingzheng said irritably, “What kind of reason is that? I am returning to the territory of the righteous path, and I am coming back to pay my respects to my master. Do I need your permission? Do you have some kind of illness that you can’t see me?”

Yan Ling said nothing, looked at Xie Qingzheng, and smiled sinisterly, the veins on the hand holding the fan bulging.

Xie Qingzheng sensed a trace of killing intent in the air and, unwilling to show weakness, she also stared at Yan Ling.

Mo Jiangxue asked Yan Ling, “What is the relationship between you and that girl? Are you one body with two souls?”

Yan Ling turned to look at Mo Jiangxue again, her tone still refined. “No. She is me, and I am she. We are the same soul.”

Mo Jiangxue asked, “Really?”

Yan Ling said sincerely, “Absolutely.”

Mo Jiangxue then asked, “And those memories?”

Yan Ling raised an eyebrow. “Memories? Those were taken from others. I have no parents, no childhood. The moment I opened my eyes, all I saw were dead people and poison corpses…”

Mo Jiangxue said nothing.

Xie Qingzheng’s face was clouded. “Then you pretended to be a child and a good person by my master’s side for three months? The interaction between us, master and disciple, and you is not even as much as with Tanluan. We can’t even be considered enemies. Why are you pestering my master? Or do you also admire her and love her? If that’s the case, you can just say it openly, like me. One moment you’re following her, the next you’re changing your appearance and hiding by her side, saying some ambiguous things. Yan Ling, what do you really want?”

The more she spoke, the more ashen Yan Ling’s face became. “You talk so much. You are really a superfluous person. You shouldn’t have lived in the first place. I am different. I am more valuable alive than you are. What your master needs most now is me, not you… you came to the wildlands, didn’t you, specifically to find me? Hahahaha! Even if I didn’t take the initiative to find you, you would have to take the initiative to find me!”

She spoke incoherently. Xie Qingzheng had originally not wanted to pay any attention to her, but she was pricked by the words “shouldn’t have lived in the first place,” and her expression changed. She then heard the second half of her sentence and couldn’t help but fall silent, carefully pondering the conversation of tonight.

Yan Ling had no parents, was neither human nor immortal, neither demon nor devil, had a deep connection with the seven sects of the Big Dipper, and could get close to the former Lord when he was in seclusion healing and kill him… what her master needed most now was her…

What her master needed most now, and had taken the initiative to find…

In a flash, Xie Qingzheng guessed an answer, and her face instantly turned pale.

She was unwilling to believe this guess. Her heart pounded wildly. She turned to look at her master and saw that her master was holding the Ninth Heaven Qin, a look of shock and realization in her eyes. It seemed she had also guessed Yan Ling’s identity.

Seeing their reaction, Yan Ling’s expression was quite pleased. “What, you’ve finally guessed it? You’ve finally figured out that you are the ones who need me, and you have taken the initiative to find me?”

A chill arose in her heart. Xie Qingzheng’s hand holding her sword trembled slightly, and she had no room to retort.

Because what Yan Ling had said was all true. She was indeed the one they, master and disciple, had taken the initiative to find, and had a request of.

She was the Yuheng Cauldron! The last spirit artifact they were looking for!

All seven spirit artifacts had a spirit, recognized a master, and protected their master. It was just that they had not cultivated a human form and were just a wisp of a spiritual sense, unable to appear before people.

If a spiritual sense were to take human form, it could be done by refining a soul. For example, Yun Yi of Tianquan Manor had once captured the vengeful ghost Jiang Ran, confined her in the Tianquan Saber, and had refined her into a saber spirit, and had then summoned her to assist in her revenge, to slaughter the members of the Yun clan.

When the Yuheng Cauldron had been lost in the wildlands, it had probably also been refined into an artifact spirit by Yu Wuya. And then the artifact spirit had killed its master, had devoured Yu Wuya’s cultivation, and had taken the name Yan Ling to walk the world.

Yan Ling said, “Since you’ve guessed it, then I won’t beat around the bush with you. When I was born, when I was with the various palace masters of Yuheng Palace to save all living things, you two were still who knows where in the cycle of reincarnation.”

Mo Jiangxue said, “Since you are a spirit artifact of the orthodox Xuanmen and have your own consciousness, why do you still stay in the Ten Directions Domain? And why are you refining poison corpses in Yehuo Cheng?”

Yan Ling smiled. “Do you think you are the only one who wants to live, and I don’t? If I were to return to the righteous path, I would be taken by Xie Youke to be combined into the Soul-Gathering Lamp! When the Soul-Gathering Lamp is returned, I will disappear from this world forever. Why? To sacrifice me to save all of you? Why don’t you sacrifice yourselves to save me? The people I have saved are far more than you have!”

For a spirit artifact like her, which had cultivated and taken human form, and had the joys, anger, sorrows, and happiness of a human, if the Soul-Gathering Lamp were to be returned, she would disappear. That was indeed no different from killing a person…

Xie Qingzheng’s lips moved, and a sense of despair washed over her. Her throat was choked, and she could not say another word.

Xie Fuyun’s residual soul was parasitic in her body. Without the Soul-Gathering Lamp, she could use her own blood qi and spiritual energy to slowly repair it. It would just take a long time…

What about her master? What about the evil curse on her master? Was she going to just watch as her master died?

Yan Ling said with a mocking smile, “You were so talkative just now. Why are you not saying a word now?”

Xie Qingzheng turned to look at Mo Jiangxue, her face filled with bewilderment.

Mo Jiangxue put away her qin, raised her hand to touch Xie Qingzheng’s pale cheek, and murmured, “Forget it. Life and death are up to fate. Let’s go back. Don’t mind her.”

Xie Qingzheng said nothing and turned to look at Yan Ling.

Yan Ling feigned surprise. “Why are you looking at me like that? Do you really want to save her that much? I can return, but I have a condition.”

Knowing that she would not say anything good, Xie Qingzheng still, as if she had grasped a last life-saving straw, quickly asked, “What condition?”

Yan Ling said, “You, die!”

Xie Qingzheng looked at the sword in her hand and actually seriously considered this deal. She did not care about her own life and death, but after she died, what would happen to the residual soul of Xie Fuyun in her body? Should she first use the ten years of spiritual energy that Tanluan had given her to protect it? The Soul-Calming Pearl that Sect Master Xie had refined with her heart’s blood had been given to Yun Yi. Could she find Yun Yi and get back that Soul-Calming Pearl? Or should she go to Vice Sect Master Pei and temporarily borrow the Tianji Jade to nourish Xie Fuyun’s soul?

She asked Yan Ling, “Are you serious?”

Yan Ling’s tone was sincere. “Absolutely serious, and I will keep my word. If you die in front of me, I will willingly return and save your master’s life.”

With a zheng, Mo Jiangxue snatched the sword from Xie Qingzheng’s hand, inserted it into the scabbard at Xie Qingzheng’s waist, and said, “I said, don’t mind her.”

Seeing them about to leave, Yan Ling flashed in front of Mo Jiangxue. “Don’t go. You don’t want your beloved disciple to die, so I’ll make a bet with you. Don’t you like to make bets with me? Let’s use our lives to bet one last time. Let’s see who wins and who loses this time.”

Mo Jiangxue looked at Yan Ling and said coolly, “The last time I bet with you was because of the Xuanji Sect. This time, I don’t want to bet with you. You’re on your own.”

If she were to be captured by Xie Youke, Xie Youke would not care if killing her was the same as killing a person.

Yan Ling sneered, tightened her grip on her fan, and with a wave of her hand, she said, “My identity has already been revealed to you! You have to bet even if you don’t want to!”

Poisonous powder filled the air!

Xie Qingzheng formed a seal and created a barrier, took Mo Jiangxue’s hand, and flew out of the city.

Yan Ling followed closely behind.

After luring Yan Ling out of the city, Xie Qingzheng took out a signal firework, opened it, and a flame shot into the sky. With a bang, a brilliant firework exploded in the night sky.