Lan Yue followed her eldest senior brother's spiritual energy to the luxurious dirt pit they had dug that afternoon. There, she found a group of Spirit Tortoises sleeping inside, with her eldest senior brother perched on one tortoise's back.
At that moment, Li Bai gazed up at the sky, looking as though he had seen through the illusions of the mortal world.
The Spirit Tortoise beside him took pity on him, even shuffling aside and patting the ground with a claw.
Its little gesture seemed to say, I'll make some room for you. You can sleep here tonight, kid.
"No need. I'm fine up here enjoying the breeze." Li Bai thanked it for its kindness, then resolutely refused.
He was afraid that if he actually crawled into the hole, his junior sister wouldn't see him, and he would have to spend the whole night in this dirt pit.
[Lan Yue: Boohoo, my eldest senior brother is so pitiful. Does he really have to sleep out in the cold wind? It's all my fault. I actually forgot about this.]
Before she even arrived, Li Bai heard Lan Yue's thoughts.
He couldn't help curling his lips. Playing the victim had been the right move after all! Wasn't his junior sister feeling guilty now?
[Lan Yue: Don't worry, eldest senior brother. Even though you were just as miserable in the original novel, practically the unluckiest major villain in history, I won't look down on you!]
The smile on Li Bai's face froze.
What? Not only was he a major villain, but he was also the unluckiest major villain in history?
After listening to Lan Yue's thoughts for so long, Li Bai could vaguely guess what some of her terms meant. For example, the original novel was a book Lan Yue had read before, probably a story featuring Yun Xi and certain others as its protagonists.
Then Lan Yue had transmigrated into that book and become Spirit Moon Peak's youngest junior sister.
A villain was someone who opposed the protagonists. Yuan Shuo might have become a villain before, too, but thanks to the warning in his junior sister's thoughts, he had been saved in time.
So what sort of major villain was he supposed to be?
Li Bai truly didn't think he had any ability that could compare with the other senior brothers and sisters. His talent was merely decent, and he possessed a mutated lightning spiritual root, which was relatively rare.
Of all the senior brothers and sisters who had previously been stationed at the Hidden Sword Pavilion, which of them wasn't stronger than him?
[Lan Yue: Sigh, I wonder if eldest senior brother is the reincarnation of a god of misfortune. Otherwise, how could he trip in a completely unremarkable secret realm and end up falling into the Demon Realm?]
The Demon Realm and the Demon Domains were different. There were currently four Demon Domains in the Cultivation World.
They had formed when the Demon Realm's power invaded the Cultivation World, creating Demon Abyss Rifts that gradually expanded.
That was why, whenever a Demon Abyss Rift appeared, the sects of the Cultivation World were extremely vigilant and repaired it as swiftly as possible.
If they didn't repair it or failed to discover it in time, it could very well become another Demon Domain.
The existing four Demon Domains were already enough of a headache. If another appeared, those demonic beasts would riddle the Cultivation World with holes.
Being transported straight into a Demon Domain was fairly normal. After all, some demonic beasts deliberately set traps to capture cultivators.
But being transported straight into the Demon Realm was almost unheard of. They were two separate realms, after all. Without an ancient grand formation, traveling directly between them was simply impossible.
Yet Li Bai's experience was precisely that bizarre. He hadn't passed through any ancient grand formation. Rather, that secret realm had been unstable, and after tripping, he had fallen through a rift into the Demon Realm.
In the dead of night, as Lan Yue's thoughts suddenly rang out, quite a few strands of Divine Sense appeared outside Spirit Moon Peak again.
Viewed from a distance without Divine Sense, it was a dark, silent forest. But a sweep of Divine Sense would reveal that almost every tree had strands of Divine Sense hanging from it.
Some Divine Senses had even started fighting over territory, making the leaves of entire trees rustle noisily.
"Quiet!" The Fifth Elder flew over, took one look, and felt his mouth twitch. He hurriedly laid a concealment formation over the forest, terrified that Lan Yue on Spirit Moon Peak would notice.
The Fifth Elder had come in person. He happened to be returning from outside when he sensed something happening here and hurried over, only to discover that Lan Yue was digging up gossip about his own disciple again.
He was worried about his young disciple's future and wanted to listen carefully, to see whether he could prevent those events when the time came.
Yet after hearing the first misfortune that befell his eldest disciple, he fell silent.
Tripping in an utterly unremarkable secret realm and landing in the Demon Realm-who could have seen that coming? There was simply no way to prevent it, either. Was Li Bai supposed to never enter another secret realm?
[Lan Yue: Still, it wasn't all bad. Eldest senior brother seems to have some miraculous constitution where bad luck and good luck coexist. Although he fell into the Demon Realm, he obtained a legacy there, and a group of demon soldiers even installed him as a Demon General!]
In the forest outside Spirit Moon Peak, the Sixth Elder's Divine Sense was communicating with the Fifth Elder.
"Fifth Brother, your eldest disciple is quite impressive. Becoming a Demon General even after falling into the Demon Realm is no ordinary feat." The Sixth Elder sounded impressed.
In the four great Demon Domains, the most powerful beings were Demon Generals. Above them were Demon Kings, most of whom remained in the Demon Realm and could only descend through special means.
The four great Demon Domains were currently ruled by Demon Generals, and those Demon Generals were formidable indeed.
"Demon Generals have ranks, too. With his cultivation piled up through a legacy, he wouldn't stand up to a fight at all." The Fifth Elder was beside himself with worry.
As though echoing his words, the thoughts from Spirit Moon Peak rang out again.
[Lan Yue: But while trying to escape, eldest senior brother accidentally caught a ball. Then a bride from the Demon Realm, as lovely as a flower and radiant as the moon, took a fancy to him and insisted on leaving with him.]
[But that Demon Realm bride's husband's family had some serious clout. They sent countless Demon Generals after him. Poor eldest senior brother had only just escaped danger when he had to flee for his life all over again.]
Outside, the Fifth Elder said, "..."
With so many Demon Generals hunting him, even the Fifth Elder might not have escaped. He had no idea what sort of luck his eldest disciple possessed.
Perhaps it really was as Lan Yue had described: possessed by a god of misfortune?
The Sixth Elder opposite him was also at a loss, unsure how to describe such a predicament. "All I can say is, it's hard to judge."
"Is there more juicy gossip?" A familiar female voice drifted over, and both elders shuddered.
"Scarlet Moon Sect Master, why have you come over again in the middle of the night?" the Fifth Elder asked helplessly.
"Why can't I come over? Your Sect Master promised I could stay as a guest at the Southern Spirit Sect for a while." The Scarlet Moon Sect Master felt no qualms whatsoever.
If the situation with her daughter hadn't been so urgent a few days ago, she would definitely have planted herself here from start to finish.
She had no idea what her daughter was thinking, insisting on establishing the Dust-Forgetting Sect with those people. Since when was founding a sect a simple matter?
The Scarlet Moon Sect Master felt she had practically worried herself to pieces. She had rushed to the Dust-Forgetting Sect overnight and built a Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation for her daughter's sect grounds.
Meanwhile, Elder Lu of the Scarlet Moon Sect actually refused to leave, insisting on lingering at their sect. He was another oddball.
Did he think hanging around the sect would let him see her daughter? In his dreams!
"What's the gossip this time?" The Scarlet Moon Sect Master was unbearably curious. She had only caught the last few words just now, and the curiosity had her itching all over.
"Nothing." The Fifth Elder and Sixth Elder exchanged a glance, wariness in both their eyes.
"Don't worry. I swear on my Dao heart that I won't say anything out of turn!" The Scarlet Moon Sect Master pointed at the sky and swore!
Only then did the two elders relax a little, though the wariness in their eyes hadn't completely vanished.
*[Lan Yue: Of course eldest senior brother couldn't escape. He was captured and taken straight back. That Demon Realm young lord was so furious that he wanted to publicly behead him as a warning, and even gathered a huge crowd just to watch his head fall!*
*But that very day, the Demon Realm bride stormed in with her Demon King father and snatched her delicate little husband back in front of everyone. Hahaha, I'm dying of laughter! System, your description is spot-on. Isn't that exactly what he was-a delicate little husband?]*
"Cough, cough, cough! Cough, cough, cough, cough!" Seated on the Spirit Tortoise's back, Li Bai suddenly began coughing violently, one cough after another, as though he couldn't catch his breath.
"Senior brother, are you all right?" Lan Yue finally snapped out of her gossip-induced trance. Seeing her senior brother coughing nonstop, she felt even guiltier.
"Eldest senior brother, shall we find you a house to stay in first? It's all my fault for forgetting to arrange one for you."
[Lan Yue: Look how frail eldest senior brother is. Has he actually caught a chill? Speaking of which, does the Cultivation World have cold medicine?]
Li Bai's coughing came to an abrupt halt.
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