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“Little Yi!” Tian Ji took the chance to fly up toward catch Shu Yi. Yet, he did not stop there. Instead, he carried her onto his sword and flew out together.
“Eh! Uncle-Master Tian Ji, you-” Yu Luan wanted to stop them, but Tian Ji suddenly turned back. He threw a dharmic weapon over. It was not to attack Yu Luan. Instead, Tian Ji was throwing it to Zuo Shuming.
Tian Ji moved too quickly. The dharmic weapon was just about to hit Zuo Shuming, but Chef thrust his sword and broke its trajectory. Tian Ji, who was still in the air, conjured a seal and disappeared into thin air.
“This…” Everyone in the yard was stunned. It was a long time before anyone regained their composure.
Moments later, Yu Luan asked, “Uncle-Master Yi Qing, Shu Yi was…”
“She became a demon!” Yi Qing answered.
Everyone: “…”
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Yu Luan and the other elders could not come to terms with the fact that Shu Yi had become a demon. But the facts were right in front of their eyes. There was no faking the demonic Qi that they saw in the yard earlier. The only thing they did not quite understand was why a perfectly good person would become a demon just like this. What’s more, she injured Elder Shu Yuan. No matter what, Shu Yuan was Shu Yi’s father. Now, not only were his meridians broken, his cultivation level had fallen all the way back to the initial stages of Nascent Soul cultivation. To this day, he was still unconscious.
There was Supremacy Tian Ji as well. He was a Soul Formation Supremacy in the sect. It was normal for him to protect his own disciples, but he did not even offer an explanation before he escaped together with Shu Yi. This confused them as well. No matter how much he wanted to pamper his disciple, there was no need for them to escape the sect together.
It was then that Lonemon told them about the fiendish cultivator Zhong Yi, and how he had not come looking for them on purpose, but had actually been trying to escape the sect. At the same time, the group found a secret storage space on Dan Xia Mountain. There were indeed signs that a fiendish cultivator had sayed inside there. Everybody seemed to realise something.
“It seems that Tian Ji had become a demon a long time ago,” Yu Luan sighed. “It’s no wonder that Junior Brother Yin would…” He trailed off mid-sentence, but everybody seemed to know what he was going to say.
Tian Ji was a cold man, and he did not have very good relations with the other people in the sect. But Perfected One Yin was one of the few people who were actually close to him From time to time, Perfected One Yin would make trips to Dan Xia Mountain. Lonemoon guessed that he probably knew things that he wasn’t supposed to know of – that was probably why he was killed by Tian Ji. It was no wonder that they did not find the murderer even after so long. It was no wonder that Perfected One Yin did not even have the chance to seek help. All he could do was explode his own Nascent Soul.
The more everyone thought about these things, the more shocked they felt. Was it also Tian Ji’s doing, that Shu Yi suddenly turned into a demon? Then did he have an ulterior motive in bringing the entire group of them to look for Shu Yi? Their thoughts shifted to Shu Yuan, who was still unconscious and who nearly lost his Nascent Soul. If Shu Yi could do this to even her own father, what more could she do to them?
If they had entered the house that day…
Upon thinking of this, the entire group fell silent. It was a good thing that Uncle-Master Yi Qing realised something was wrong. Otherwise, they would have lost everything.
Lonemoon remained silent beside them as well. He couldn’t help but think – it was true that the entire group was not wrong but they were thinking a bit too much. Tian Ji had not turned into a demon yet. The only one who did was Shu Yi. Tian Ji only ran away because he was afraid that everyone would find out about the fact that he harboured a fiendish cultivator and killed an elder in the sect. He just did not want to face the consequences of his actions.
Shen Ying had connected the seal that was containing the demonic Qi in Zuo Shuming’s body with the one in Shu Yi’s body, which was containing the demonic seed. In order to harm Zuo Shuming, Shu Yi had no qualms about breaking her seal. Therefore, the demonic seed was awakened. It began attacking her, until she became a demon. She was probably in a coma for a couple of days because the demonic Qi in her body was consuming her soul bit by bit. In other words, she was unconscious because she was undergoing to demonising process.
Lonemoon became slightly confused upon thinking about this. When Shen Ying said that she connected the two seals earlier, they did not think it was a big deal. After all, Shu Yi had the system in her body. The demonic seed was sealed up by the system. If it could seal it once, it would be able to seal it again.
They did not expect that the system would be this lousy.It did not even realise that the demonic seed had escaped. Now, Shu Yi had even become a demon.
The so-called demonic seed was different from demonic Qi. The demonic seed contained the pure evil that was used to create demons. What’s more, the demonic seed contained a portion of the soul of the demon who created it. Once the seed entered one’s body, it would merge with one’s soul until the latter became a demon through and through. When Celestial Emperor Chen Ge wanted to get rid of the demonic seed in his own body, he had no choice but to cut off one entire portion of his own soul. He even had to use the force of Samsara to cleanse that portion of his soul. If a celestial emperor had to go to that extent, just imagine what a Golden Core cultivator like Shu Yi would have to do.
Thus, the consequences of the system’s negligence was that Shu Yi had turned into a demon. It was no wonder that the parenting system despised 001, and said that the latter was going to be out of date soon.
“Sect Master, what do you think about-” The elders were beginning to get scared, so they turned to question Yu Luan.
“This is a huge matter. That demonic Qi is too… dangerous,” Yu Luan replied. His face was looking quite green. In a low voice, he continued, “Although Gui Yi Sect’s matters hardly spread, we have to be on the defense. We have to inform the various immortal sects and tell them of the real reason this happened.”
There had been a fiendish cultivator with demonic Qi, and a Soul Formation cultivator who turned into a demon. To other immortal sects, Gui Yi Sect would look like a huge threat.
Everybody nodded in agreement. Immediately, they spread out toward the various immortal sects and spread the news of Shu Yi and Tian Ji – the Soul Formation cultivator and his talented disciple – had turned into demons. They had betrayed the immortal sect and joined the path of darkness.
Shu Yi’s original intention was to harm Zuo Shuming. She wanted to make him a fiendish cultivator that everybody would want to kill. Who knew that the tables would turn? Zuo Shuming remained the talented and famous disciple in Gui Yi Sect, and she instead became the one whom everybody wanted to kill. Who knew how she would react once she regained consciousness? Her grievous energy would probably rise by multiple times.
Lonemoon used his fingers to aid his counting. If the enemy continued to give herself up time and time again, this battle might come to an end sooner than they thought.
Mm, he has never seen an invader who went down as easily as Shu Yi. Apart from having to teach a particularly stupid sword cultivator, Lonemoon practically sat back and watched this battle win itself!
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After Shu Yi and Tian Ji left Gui Yi Sect, nobody heard of them again. Now that they were missing announcements from the system each day, the three of them were beginning to feel a bit bored. In fact, Lonemoon was so bored that he began to play Tenant Tycoon together with Shen Ying and the parenting system.
Zuo Shuming, on the other hand, sighed for several days. It was almost as if he was having difficulty accepting that his Senior Sister Shu Yi, who had given him so much guidance earlier, had turned into a demon for real. With regard to this, all Lonemoon had to say was, “Two Bucks! In order to live as humans, you have to have a bit of… IQ, do you understand?”
Zuo Shuming thought about this for a long time, but still did not understand what Lonemoon was getting at. “Brother Lonemoon, you are so profound!” What should he do if he had no idea what Lonemoon was talking about?
Lonemoon sighed. He was too lazy to explain anything more to Zuo Shuming. He turned around and kicked him into the sword array, then increased the intensity of his training. If he had been a devil to Zuo Shuming before, he was practically throwing him into hell this time.
Shu Yi’s goal from the very beginning had been Zuo Shuming. She was bound to come looking for him one day. Now, she was already becoming a demon. Though she still had her mortal body, she would definitely be much better in battle than he was. And yet, Zuo Shuming was still a puny Golden Core cultivator. If she came looking for him, he would lose for sure.
If he didn’t take the chance to train now, when would he?
