CH 46

There was dim light rays from above, but shouldn’t it be no light at all?

Underneath the forbidden horizon, Why is there light?

Cold winds blow, the surrounding trees swinging left and right making noises like hua hua, Occasionally an unknown wild beast will let out a roar, causing people’s hearts to palpitate, and bodies to shudder in cold sweat.

Su TingYun attempted to get up, but soon realised that her soul seemed to be separated from her body. Her body refused to move. Just like sleep paralysis, she could use her divine senses. She still could sense her surrounding scenery.

She saw that her body rested on top of a tree branch, the tree branch was at its limits to snapping. However, thanks to this tree, it saved her from the fate of smashing into pieces. Judging from the tree branch, it was still about ten meters above the ground, Su TingYun anxiously tried to enter her body, but just like always, it was beyond her control.

On top of that, before she fell into the Forbidden horizon, her soul was at its weakest. She just had to enter this mysterious state of all times. Su TingYun could also feel pain. It felt like numerous needles had poked her head and also poked her soul.

After a few failed attempts, her surroundings blurred, and she felt her world spinning. The outline of the trees began to look like dormant beasts, silently opening their bloody mouths like they want to swallow everything.

Su TingYun could restrain herself and rest. Approximately one hour later, the sky seemed to have dropped something. Su TingYun shifted her divine senses to take a look, but felt her whole body turn uncomfortable.

What fell down was a WuLiang sect disciple. He was already dead. His actual strength was not weak, falling from such a high place, his body did not go splat upon impact, but his whole body is a bloody mess, and he had a savage expression. It matches the surrounding environment well, like the Avīci hell*.

*In Buddhism, Avīci or Avici is the lowest level of the Naraka or “hell” realm, with the most suffering, into which the dead who have committed grave misdeeds may be reborn. It is said to be a cube 20,000 yojanas to a side, buried deep underneath the divine earth.

Su TingYun continued to look in that direction. She found out that there were many fresh corpses. They seemed to be freshly descended from the sky.

The Forbidden horizon is WuLiang sect’s forbidden grounds, on top of Heaven Firmament peak. Usually it was those who had committed serious felonies that were sent here. Why were so many corpses appearing here at once?

Did the current happenings cause WuLiang sect to descend into chaos?

Su TingYun looked over. Her divine senses swept over a familiar figure, but she appeared to have paid no attention to it and continued looking around. Suddenly her mind quivered.

She seemed to have found a familiar robe.

Li XinMei is peacefully living with her on heaven firmament peak, did not really worn the disciple robes. Su TingYun had a middle-aged masculine woman appearance, but in her heart she is a still a young woman, she still had a preference to beautiful clothes. Even before she came to this world, she liked Chinese dresses, now she could not wear them, could only actively try to dress up Li XinMei.

Li XinMei is pretty, and also has a youthful aura, so she would look good when wearing anything, with appearances rivaling fairy maidens. Before they parted, she was wearing a garnet coloured hundred pleated immortal skirt. On the skirt, was a material known in the cultivation world as bright glowing sand, in the night it would emit faint blue hues similar to the surface of the deep sea, when spread on the floor, it would look like flowers had blossomed in the middle of the sea.

But now, that flower, which had been ravaged by the wind and waves, suddenly appeared amidst Su TingYun’s sea of conscious. How is that possible, Li XinMei had obviously been sent away by Lui FeiZhou!

She definitely tasked Liu FeiZhou to send her away, so why are you here Li XinMei?

I must be seeing things.

Su TingYun’s state of mind was crumbling, her sea of conscious churned briefly, her surroundings flashed and twisted. She calmed her heart and attempted to take another look. She saw Li XinMei lying over there, half of her body hung at the exit, on top of her body was a corpse that was crushing her.

Su TingYun could not sense any life force on her body. There was no heartbeat, no breath. She could not believe… facing Li XinMei’s direction, she wanted to move the corpse that was crushing her; she wanted to hug Xiao Mei so badly.

she abruptly recalled what happened on Heaven Firmament peak, where she had combusted into a raging fire, she heard a familiar shout.

‘Grannyyyyyy…’

That was Li XinMei’s voice. She definitely followed Li FeiZhou back.

The pain that her body felt wasn’t scary, she felt that her trip here was worth it. At least that kind hearted little girl gave her a reason to continue living.

Even if she died, just thinking of Xiao Mei living well in the mortal world, Su TingYun felt that it was not a wasted trip coming to the cultivation world.

she always felt that the cultivation world was too ruthless, if she could turn back time, she would rather remain in the mortal world, and live a content and honest life and be a shut in, not as a bottom level cannon fodder.

She didn’t really care much about the cultivation world.

However, as of now, she hated, she blamed, she did not want such a down-to-earth life anymore; she wanted revenge.

she wanted to burn the entire WuLiang sect in an inferno.

Big and small sparks of flames appeared in her primordial spirit. Although they were weak, there was a qualitative jump in standards. Su TingYun used all her willpower to move the corpse that was crushing Xiao Mei’s body. The body finally moved bit by bit from her mental manipulation. But when it came the moment to hug Li XinMei, Su TingYun felt her mental energy go up in a puff of smoke. She had utilised her sea of conscious of its limits, completely drying up.

Su TingYun’s vision darkened. She fainted once again.

…

In the WuLiang sect, the dividing of resources had also caused a round of ruckus.

Su LiJiang had left. When he left, he took all the resources they allowed him from Heaven Firmament peak. He also abandoned his eleven disciples like it was nothing.

The elders from the other halls also plundered many items; what they left is one-tenth of the original.

Although the orthodox sects did not join the plundering of that sort, they managed to recruit many elders and outstanding disciples, so it could be considered that they have gotten a share of the meat too.

After they left, some smaller sects and even unorthodox sect members came one after another. WuLiang sect was like loose sand. The remaining disciples were left with no choice but to retreat into the formation for protection. Everyone had a dark face. They looked dead inside.

Jiang FeiYun did not leave. She is the leader. If she left, where could she go?

A sect with several thousands of disciples, now what remained was just several thousand. What remained were three nascent soul stage cultivators, including her with no significant injuries, there was no way to suppress those with evil intentions. They could only hide in the formation. Judging from their appearances, they might even consider digging out the spiritual veins under WuLiang mountain.

‘Sect leader, we?’

Jiang Feiyun had a tranquil expression. She did not say a word.

Because of QianJi pavilion getting involved, and the grand elder being unable to show himself, WuLiang Sect is doomed to be unable to rise again. This was why the grand elder chose to give up Su LiJiang and converted into a member of HaoYue sect.

Jiang FeiYun’s sea of consciousness was not as calm as her appearance. Thousands of years of building WuLiang sect’s foundation was destroyed with her as sect leader.

However, the grand elder left her a jade slip before he left. It contained WuLiang sect’s best secret cultivation techniques. He even told her that he would keep in touch in the future.

With these treasures, her chances of clearing the heaven tribulation have increased. Comparing the two choices, the destruction of WuLiang sect did not seem that important anymore.

So, even if someone came to the sect’s main hall and destroyed it, she could still keep her calm.

In the formation hall were a few cultivators with pale faces. ‘there are not enough spirit stones to sustain the formation for long.’

‘they think that valuable items are being kept here since we are protecting this place,’ a disciple said.

‘We keep here the inheritance of the formation hall, how could there not be valuable things here.’ An elder of the formation hall retorted. ‘They destroyed so many things. We must never let them in, even if it costs us our lives!’

There were many unorthodox cultivators outside; their attacks are becoming more fierce. Just before everyone failed to maintain the formation, they suddenly stopped.

‘Who are you?’

The one who spoke was one of the Mo JiuYing, an unorthodox cultivator at the nascent soul stage. He is an affiliated cultivator, and his methods are very vicious. He was very well known within the unorthodox cultivators, so he naturally had the qualifications to speak first.

At first, everyone was breaking the formation to fight for treasures, but they did not think that someone would suddenly appear in front of the formation hall. He held a fan – an immortal treasure, in front of him and dispersed the attacks like it was nothing.

‘QianJi pavilion, RenYi!’

Just hearing the name of QianJi pavilion scared many of the people present there.

‘I thought QianJi pavilion was a neutral party?’ someone asked.

‘That is correct. We came here today to buy things from WuLiang sect.’ RenYi replied while smiling.

Meanwhile, on WuLiang mountain, Du XiZhi sat by the pond and wept silently, ’why did master abandon us and leave?’

The eleven disciples’ feelings were hurt very badly; the other disciples already went to the formation hall to hide; only he was left, refusing to leave. Luckily the place he was at did not contain treasures as everyone was fighting for them at the inner chambers, so they ignored him.

However, there were already people exiting the main hall, just a glance, and he walked towards Du XiZhi’s direction. Liu FeiZhou, hiding undercover, could not bear it anymore. He held his breath and kept quiet.

In those days where Lui FeiZhou crawled out from a mountain of corpses, escaping from a high-level cultivator who massacred his city, it was because he had a high-level treasure that could mask his body odor, LingLong lamp.

After ChuYu spared his life and went to chase old madam Wei, he escaped immediately. Entering in the LingLong lamp and fainting instantly, only till now, where he was awakened by the sound of crying by Du XiZhi.

The LingLong lamp could not fit a second person.

In those days, he would abandon the people around him, but right now, he unexpectedly disregarded his life by exiting the LingLong lamp to remind Du XiZhi. Although he had some reservations after leaving, it was too late for regrets.

‘Hey, over here……’

Before the unorthodox cultivator could finish speaking, Du XiZhi turned her head around and saw the unorthodox cultivator lying on the floor. Behind him were two men whose strength was deep and unfathomable.

The one at the lead was wearing a square-shaped wooden mask and wore a black robe, but it was not all black. Its surface was embroidered with gold thread in the shape of a cloud; the shirt is made of an unknown treasure, concealing its aura of being a treasure. There was a visual effect of a cloud flowing on the robe. You can definitely tell it is a peerless treasure at a glance.

The man beside him had mediocre looks. One would forget how he looked like after looking away. Du XiZhi looked at him repeatedly but still failed to remember his face.

Although she was scared and stood up abruptly, Liu FeiZhou, who recently got hurt and face was deathly pale, protected her from behind, and simultaneously raised the sword in his hand.

RenJia waved his hands repeatedly, ‘We are not here to fight.’

‘We are here to buy something.’

‘What do you intend to buy?’ Du XiZhi asked vigilantly.

At that moment, the masked man spoke: ‘So you are Du XiZhi? It turns out that you look like this.’

The orchard tongue grass could only hear sounds, so it naturally only heard that it did not know how these people looked like. Of course, if it wanted to come over to see, no one could stop it, but it felt that there is no reason to.

However, it merely was just somewhat interesting.

What he was interested in was that plant, the mutated orchard tongue grass. Orchard tongue grasses were his ears. However, this orchard tongue grass seemed to possess consciousness. He could only listen, unable to meddle with its growth.

He thought he could control all the orchard tongue grass under the heavens with the orchard tongue grass he had in his plant pot. He did not believe there would exist such a mutation. It looked so weird and could even order around other orchard tongue grass, causing him to lose so many ears.

Looking at the masked man standing at the pond observing the orchard tongue grass, Du XiZhi nervously asked, ‘You intend to buy orchard tongue grass? The orchard tongue grass belongs to granny.’

It belonged to granny. Although she had disappeared, she still had to take care of it, and wait for granny’s return!

The masked man paid her no heed. He extended his hand to touch the leaf of the orchard tongue grass. He occasionally separated a wisp of his consciousness, he could feel the tactile sensation of touching the leaf, but if he used his body to touch it, the feeling felt different.

One was to caress gently, and stroke, and the other was to be touched.

Thinking to this point, the masked man stopped.

At this moment, he heard the orchard tongue grass give a weak shout, ‘You look unsightly, you look unsightly.’

RenJia, who was following behind him, started to sweat. At that moment in time, he heard the pavilion master laugh;

‘Hehe……’

‘Hehe’ your sister, that was nerve-wracking! The pavilion master actually laughed!

How frightening!

After the masked man finished laughing, he pressed one of his hands on Du XiZhi’s palm, ‘Do you wish to join QianJi pavilion?’

‘I don’t want to!’ Du XiZhi refused without thinking; her teacher is Spiritual master LingWu!

Even if their master had left, he did not bring them with him.

The masked man did not insist, he flicked his finger, and something flew towards Liu FeiZhou. It even landed on the ground near his feet. This scene felt familiar. It was the same as when Liu FeiZhou threw the pill towards Su TingYun’s feet.

Liu FeiZhou did not want to pick it up initially, but the bottle cap loosened a little. When he smelled the contents of the bottle, it was a thick medicinal fragrance.

AH AH AH, a seventh-grade pill!

It was not just a single pill; it was an entire bottle. Liu FeiZhou immediately picked up the bottle and directly poured out one pill to take a look. Within a moment’s notice, he threw it into his mouth. He was only at the foundation establishment stage; who would use a seventh-grade pill to harm him?

‘Bring me to the forbidden horizon.’ the masked man said coldly.

A voice came from behind him, ‘Pavilion master, wait for me. Pavilion master, didn’t you say that we were just buying orchard tongue grass, why would you be going to the forbidden horizon now?’

‘Would he have personally came just to buy some orchard tongue grass?’ RenYi, who just finished dealing with the unorthodox cultivators, cried out hoarsely.

The masked man: ‘Hehe.’

RenJia: ‘…..’

He really felt like kneeling just for his fellow brother, who was not afraid of death. He liked to talk about somebody’s insecurities!