Xie Changzhou and Sui Ning quietly waited on the side, not wanting to disturb the reunion of these lovers who had been separated for thousands of years.
After a while, Ling Lang slowly stood up and looked towards Sui Ning and Xie Changzhou, who were meditating quietly beside him.
“Thank you, my young friends,” he said.
Sui Ning shook her head. “The Emperor doesn’t need to thank us. Clearing the demonic energy is something we should do as juniors.”
Xie Changzhou’s black eyelashes trembled lightly, and he opened his eyes to look at Ling Lang, his glassy pupils gentle and compassionate.
“Emperor, do you remember what happened during these days, such as why you fell into the demonic path?” he asked.
Chan Yu stood quietly by Ling Lang’s side. Ling Lang’s face became serious, and he pondered for a while before speaking: “I was a lone cultivator, and I scattered all my divine senses into this wilderness land, already falling into a deep sleep.”
“A few months ago, a rather strange force awakened me, and then a voice repeatedly reminded me of the scene where Ah Yu died in the Four Directions Killing Array.”
Ling Lang looked at Chan Yu beside him, his expression filled with guilt, and Chan Yu responded with a gentle smile.
Ling Lang then turned to Xie Changzhou and spoke with a heavy voice, “It’s also my fault. I couldn’t even distinguish this bit of bewitching and let myself fall into someone else’s control and onto the demonic path.”
Xie Changzhou’s warm eyebrows and eyes carried a hint of coldness, connecting all the events together. He had some suspicions.
Why did Ling Lang fall into the demonic path a few months ago, but the elders had no idea before the trial began? And why did the demonic beasts only attack the disciples after they had all entered and closed the secret realm but not before?
Moreover, Ling Lang was an ancient immortal emperor. Even if it was just his remaining divine sense, if he fell into the demonic path, it would have been a disaster for all the disciples in this secret realm.
These disciples were all young elites from various sects, role models for the younger generation of cultivators, and even the hope for the future of the cultivation world. But now, most of them had been killed by the demonic beasts.
So the person who bewitched Ling Lang onto the path of the demonic had a real goal of destroying the foundation of the major sects future. Sui Ning also realized this and looked at Xie Changzhou in shock. Xie Changzhou’s long, black eyelashes drooped, hiding his thoughts; his fair and cold face exuded a low pressure. Ling Lang’s voice was cold and contained some guilt: “This is my fault. If it weren’t for the two of you arriving with Ah Yu just now, I’m afraid I would have completely fallen into a demonic path and committed heinous crimes.”
Sui Ning shook her head and said, “This matter has nothing to do with the Emperor. Me, Jianzun, and the elders outside the Secret Realm will investigate it thoroughly. Our top priority now is to save people.”
As soon as Sui Ning finished speaking, there were screams for help outside again. A disciple was in danger!
Xie Changzhou summoned his flying sword and went out. Sui Ning quickly picked up the Soul Seal Plate and followed. Several disciples with swords were running ahead of them, dressed in the attire of the Tai Xu Sect. Several demonized spirit beasts were closely chasing them from behind. Read the latest chapters at g.com.
One disciple fell to the ground in panic and tried to get up, but it was already too late. A demonized beast had already rushed to him and opened its bloody mouth to bite his neck. He had no strength to stand up and could only wait fearfully for death to arrive.
Just as the beast’s fangs were about to touch his skin, a sharp sword cut through the air and split the demonized beast in half. The spouting blood splashed onto the saved disciple’s face as he looked dazedly towards the figure standing alone in the void. It was a disciple of the Limitless Sword Sect.
As he was still surprised, a pair of soft hands helped him up. “Quickly, run!”
She left a sentence behind, pulled out her sword, and flew into the air, standing shoulder to shoulder with the person who had just saved him.
In a sky filled with black mist, one person dressed in white and the other in blue stood calmly overlooking the ferocious beasts below.
Their determined sword intent broke through the air, carrying a murderous aura as they rushed towards the demonized beasts.
He couldn’t help but be stunned. As fellow cultivators of the Golden Core stage, the two sword cultivators from the Limitless Sword Sect were unexpectedly powerful.
When he saw the demonized beasts rushing towards them from afar, he snapped out of his daze and picked up his sword, running away.
These demonized spirit beasts were not something he, at his Golden Core cultivation level, could withstand. In recent days, he had been careful to avoid being detected.
Now, he could only pray that these two fellow cultivators could hold on a bit longer. Today was the seventh day, and after today, this Secret Realm would open up.
There was less than half an hour left, and they could all be saved.
The demonized spirit beasts howled at the two people in the air. Xie Changzhou drew his sword and faced them, while Du Wang’s body shone white like snow, the moonlight casting a silver glow over it.
His gentle voice sounded as usual: “Miss Ningning, I’ll try to trap these demonized beasts. You come and slay them; don’t let them harm our fellow disciples.”
Sui Ning responded, “Okay!”
As soon as she spoke, Xie Changzhou’s sword blossomed like a flower, and his sword intent broke through the air towards the demonized beasts below.
His gentle and bright sword intent seemed like an invisible barrier that immediately trapped the beasts in place.
“Miss Ningning!”
“Batian, go!”
Sui Ning focused her spiritual energy into the Baitian, which was wrapped in a sharp sword’s intent as it rushed towards several demonized beasts. It sliced through their massive bodies and spurted out hot black blood.
For some reason, the surrounding demonized beasts were restless tonight. The disciples participating in the trial were screaming for help from all directions in the forest.
After dealing with the beasts, Xie Changzhou was about to fly on his sword to the next troubled area when Ling Lang, who was holding the Langyu hairpin, stopped him.
“Young friend, I can sense the same energy that once bewitched me. He’s nearby! You need to find him first and stop him from catalyzing these demonized uprisings!”
Xie Changzhou’s face turned cold, his eyebrows furrowed, and Ling Lang led the way. He immediately followed on his sword, with Sui Ning carrying the Soul Seal Plate and Chan Yu close behind.
Before they could catch up, a slender black figure appeared and quickly disappeared, leaving only a shadow behind.
Feeling a familiar presence, Xie Changzhou’s eyes glinted with killing intent as he chased after the person.
The system, which had been playing dead, came online.
[That’s Shen Jie, the male lead!]
Shen Jie was the child of a human and a demon in the original novel and was born as an outcast. His father abandoned his mother before he was born, and his mother worked hard to raise him until she passed away due to illness when he was five years old. From then on, Shen Jie grew up alone, ostracized by both humans and demons.
Although he was born a demon, he never turned evil. Instead, he worked as a spy within the demon race and was determined to completely destroy it.
But why was he here?
Without much thought, Sui Ning quickly caught up with Xie Changzhou and Shen Jie’s figures.
By the time she arrived, Xie Changzhou and Shen Jie were already in the midst of a fierce battle.
Both men were tall and slender, with Shen Jie dressed in black and looking sinister and arrogant as he attacked Xie Changzhou with his powerful demonic energy.
Xie Changzhou was dressed in white, his face cold and handsome. The warmth and compassion that once filled his eyes were now replaced by killing intent and coldness. Sword intent surged out and cut through Shen Jie’s demonic energy, carrying an indisputable intention to kill as it approached him.
T/N: i’m really sorry if my translation is wrong because i’m not fluent in Chinese, but i still hope that you can enjoy my work.