The Tangled Fate of Qingming and the Heavenly Demon
After finishing their scattered remarks, Jueyunzi and Bai Qiuran led their disciples on their journey.
To accommodate the disciples' speed, Bai Qiuran did not walk herself, but instead sat on Jueyunzi's sword, letting her grand -Disciple's Grand-disciple carry her through the air.
These disciples of the Azure Nether Sword Sect had varying levels of cultivation, so they couldn't possibly cross a state in an instant like Bai Qiuran. Many of them were Golden Core cultivators, and there were even Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivators like Tang Ruowei and Jueyunzi disciple. Therefore, the group traveled at a leisurely pace, taking nearly a month to reach their destination.
Upon arriving at their destination, they happened to run into the disciples of the Heavenly Demon Sect brought by Huangfu Feng and Ji Lingyun.
The distance between the headquarters of the Heavenly Demon Sect and the Imperial Capital of the Upper Ling Kingdom was slightly farther than that of the Azure Nether Sword Sect, which was adjacent to Qingzhou. However, Huangfu Feng, the Grand Elder of the Heavenly Demon Sect, was a Mahayana stage Demonic Cultivator who had already passed the Heavenly Tribulation Mahayana Stage. More importantly, he was able to use his Divine Ability to defeat all the disciples of the Heavenly Demon Sect with his God-Severing Saber and use the Divine Saber to travel. Bai Qiuran could only sit awkwardly on her Disciple's Grand-disciple's Flying Sword and watch the disciples of the Azure Nether Sword Sect fly by themselves.
As a result, the Heavenly Demon Sect, which was originally farther away, ended up bumping into the Azure Nether Sword Sect's team.
Upon meeting, Ji Lingyun, the Sect Master the Heavenly Demon Sect, immediately turned pale when she saw Jueyunzi in the group.
Why do I smell feces as soon as I arrive here?
She frowned in disgust, touching the exposed part of her arm, and muttered to herself, "What bad luck."
"Oh dear, I can't smell anything. Could it be that Miss Lingyun has cultivated Divine Ability to enhance her sense of smell?"
Jueyunzi unconsciously touched his nose, then said to Ji Lingyun with a grin, "Long time no see, Miss Lingyun. Seeing that you're still as tough as ever, I'm relieved."
"This smell is getting worse and worse."
Ji Lingyun smiled radiantly, but veins bulged noticeably on her forehead. She slightly drew her long sword from its sheath and said, "It seems we need to plug this cesspool... Don't you all agree?"
She turned to look at the disciples she had brought, but it was clear that none of the Heavenly Demon Sect disciples paid her any attention.
Li Jinyao smiled gently at the disciples of the Azure Nether Sword Sect, her eyes shining as she looked at each of the Azure Nether Sword Sect male disciples. But after a moment, she looked away with slight disappointment, then focused on Bai Qiuran standing behind Jueyunzi, and nodded in satisfaction.
The second disciple, Ta Yin, was standing there grinning foolishly. Ji Lingyun had no idea what she was grinning about. The eighth disciple, on the other hand, had brought a whole bunch of miscellaneous novels from somewhere and was reading them silently with several other disciples around him.
Meanwhile, her third disciple Yin Chajie, with an aggressive smile, leaned towards his eldest disciple, who was studying the Heavenly Cultivation Technique.
"What is Senior Disciple Brother looking at? Let me see too."
"Brother Jie, no!"
A large group of disciples of the Heavenly Demon Sect, whom she had carefully trained, had inherited the tradition of the demonic sect of betraying their masters and ancestors. At this critical moment when the demons and the righteous were locked in a fierce confrontation, not one of them responded to her.
Ji Lingyun felt a pang of sorrow, and even the anger that Jueyunzi had stirred up subsided. She sighed softly and sheathed her sword.
Then, the next moment, she heard Jueyunzi introduce Bai Qiuran to her.
"Back when I was traveling, I stumbled upon a young woman named Ji bathing in a lake in Yongzhou. She chased me for three days and three nights, wielding a knife and shirtless. She was quite the man!"
Boom!
A surge of powerful True Essence erupted from Ji Lingyun's body, forming a towering Heavenly Demon Phantom. With a single slash, countless phantom images of Demon God burst forth from the blade, howling as they charged toward Jueyunzi's direction.
"Holy crap! Are you serious?"
Jueyunzi cried out in surprise, but calmly raised his Sword Finger and guided them. Under his control, the cyan Flying Sword beneath his feet danced in the air, creating countless mysterious trajectories. Streaks of Sword Light shot out, neutralizing Ji Lingyun's angry attack.
"Haha, Miss Lingyun, you're not up to the task of ambushing me!"
Jueyunzi laughed triumphantly.
"Don't forget how the Azure Nether Sword Sect earned its title of number one in one-on-one combat among its peers."
However, he forgot one thing: with this Flying Sword, Bai Qiuran, who was originally standing on the Flying Sword with him, lost his footing. He had True Essence and as a powerful cultivator in the Body Integration Stage, he could naturally hover in the air at will, but Bai Qiuran could not.
In a direction unseen by Jueyunzi, the Personal Disciple of the Azure Nether Sword Sect and the Heavenly Demon Sect watched helplessly Bai Qiuran fell to the ground in a freefall motion, then they all looked at the Qingming Sect Master with the eyes of someone looking at a dead man.
In the afternoon, Su Xiangxue, dressed in White Garments Like Snow, arrived with the disciples of the Hehuan Sect.
The disciples of the Hehuan Sect were all women, and because they practiced the Hehuan Sect Cultivation Technique, they all possessed a bewitching and alluring aura. They followed their Sect Master to the ground and then saw a young man hanging upside down from a tree, his face bruised and swollen, making it impossible to discern his features.
The disciples of the Hehuan Sect were greatly surprised. After discussing it amongst themselves for a while, they stepped forward and asked Su Xiangxue, "Master, who is that person?"
Su Xiangxue glanced at the question and saw that it was You Meiqiao, a disciple she had personally taught. Like her, You Meiqiao was a half-human, Half-Demon bloodline left behind by the Monster Race in the Ten Lands of Jiuzhou, and she also cultivated the Enchanting Phantom Shadow Fragrant Trace Art, which was inherited from her.
However, unlike Su Xiangxue, who is quiet and gentle and whose self-cultivation skills have been taught by Bai Qiuran, You Meiqiao inherited the blood of the Demon Sparrow. She is clever, quirky, lively, and always chattering.
Su Xiangxue patted her head, then looked at the person hanging upside down in the tree. She recognized him at a glance and replied calmly, "This person is Jueyunzi current Sect Master of the Azure Nether Sword Sect."
"What?"
Upon hearing this, the disciples immediately began to discuss in panic again. You Meiqiao also asked, "We've heard that Jueyunzi, the Sect Master of the Azure Nether Sword Sect, is the number one expert among the current Sect Master of the Righteous Path Alliance. His Sharp Gold Sword is indestructible, and even you, Master, have admitted that you are no match for him. Now that even he is hanging here, could it be...?"
"Don't panic."
Su Xiangxue replied, "I know who did it. Don't worry, this isn't the first or second time that Sect Master Jueyunzi has been beaten like this."
"Could it be a hidden master from our Demonic Sect Alliance?"
The disciples of the Hehuan Sect are still beginners. Although they have joined Demonic Sect powerful Hehuan Sect, they still retain a sliver of conscience. In their minds, the Righteous Path and the Demonic Path are unlikely to fight amongst themselves or harm their own people.
You Meiqiao, however, seemed to have thought of something, and looked at her master with a flickering gaze.
Su Xiangxue seemed to know what her disciple was thinking, and lightly tapped her on the head with her finger before saying, "Let's go, let's go inside first."