I am a fairy in Journey to the West

Over the next four months, Xue Baochai followed the Tu Lingbai team to clean up eight minor worlds.

She spent nearly 70% of those four months in killing, so much so that she tried to hold back in every battle she participated in afterward, avoiding killing whenever possible and only killing when absolutely necessary.

But even today, whenever Xue Baochai meditates, as soon as she closes her eyes, the face and gaze of the girl from Liuyun Realm appear, as well as the angry shout of the boy before his death.

Starting from the Flowing Cloud Realm and continuing to this Upper Rock Realm, there are a total of nine minor worlds. They will slaughter all the immortal cultivators in each minor world and annihilate their divine souls.

In the end, no matter how many living beings remain in this small world, they will be completely destroyed by the Yilu Tiangong.

In just four months, Xue Baochai felt extremely exhausted, a hundred times more exhausted than she had been in the world of mortals for sixteen years.

She didn't know why Tu Lingbai and the others didn't feel tired, but she wasn't foolish enough to ask directly.

Xue Baochai took a deep breath. Before her stood the mansion of a celestial clan from the Upper Rock Realm.

All the immortal cultivators in this family had died in the previous battle. There were only a little over a hundred beings in the family who had not yet become immortals. They did not resist and surrendered directly to Xue Baochai's squad.

Tu Lingbai looked at the more than one hundred people in front of her and gave a wink to Tu Qianqian, Tu Mo, Xue Baochai and others beside her.

Xue Baochai was instantly jolted awake by the color and hurriedly cried out, "No!"

But the massacre had already begun. Accompanied by screams, cries, and sobs, the ground was littered with corpses in just a dozen breaths.

Then the ground churned up, quickly burying the more than one hundred corpses and blood, and the ground instantly became clean.

Everyone sheathed their weapons and looked at Xue Baochai. Tu Lingbai also glanced at Xue Baochai, then said to the others, "We'll camp here tonight."

"Yes," the group replied, and then entered the immortal palace before them openly and honestly.

Xue Baochai silently went inside, and soon after she chose a quiet room for herself to stay in, wanting to be alone.

But things didn't go as planned. Tu Lingbai found her at this time, and when Tu Lingbai sat down in front of her, Xue Baochai saw the doubt and confusion in her eyes.

"Baochai, what's wrong with you lately? Ever since you left Liuyun Realm, you seem to have something on your mind. What is it? Can you tell me?" Tu Lingbai asked Xue Baochai.

Xue Baochai was taken aback and said, "No, I have nothing on my mind."

"Hehe." Tu Lingbai smiled faintly and said, "You can't hide what's on your mind. Tell me, what is it?"

Xue Baochai fell silent. Seeing her like this, Tu Lingbai didn't press her further, but waited quietly for her to speak first.

After an unknown amount of time, Xue Baochai finally raised her head and said, "Aren't we being too cruel?"

“Cruel?” This time, it was Tu Lingbai who was stunned. “I can’t believe you could say that. Would you feel cruel if you stepped on an ant?”

Xue Baochai said, "But they are not ants. They are living beings just like us."

“No,” Tu Lingbai said, “They are different from us.”

Tu Lingbai looked at Xue Baochai and said, "Fellow Daoist Baochai, to be honest, if it weren't for the metal element power within you, I would really doubt whether you are a member of my Five Elements Heavenly Dao."

Xue Baochai's heart skipped a beat, and she asked, "What do you mean?"

Tu Lingbai said, “'Humans' are just a kind of beings that appear in other Heavenly Daos. Apart from their weak physical bodies, they are the most suitable forms for cultivation. That’s why the beings of our Five Elements Heavenly Dao take human form to cultivate. Otherwise, you are just a ball of golden qi, while I am just a ball of earth qi.”

"As for the beings in this world of wind and thunder, they are just like us. They all take human form from 'wind qi' or 'thunder qi'. They only look the same as us on the surface, but in reality, we are completely different from them."

“Our Five Elements Heavenly Dao has destroyed two major Heavenly Daos in the world, from the ‘Illusory and Real Heavenly Dao’ to the ‘Mysterious Law Heavenly Dao’. We have fought our way here in this way.”

"In the chaos, in this struggle for the Heavenly Dao, mercy is reserved for our own people. Do not show mercy to the enemy, for they are different from you and me."

Xue Baochai was extremely shocked. It turned out that the "people" of the Five Elements Heavenly Dao were not actually people, but rather the manifestations of the Five Elements Qi. They simply used human form to cultivate, live, and reproduce.

As Tu Lingbai spoke, a hint of curiosity and indifference appeared in her eyes: "Soon we will encounter the Heavenly Dao that has 'humans' appearing in the world, but they will definitely be our great enemy. Since we are all using their forms to cultivate, they must have already created a more prosperous immortal world."

"We will completely annihilate them then, even more thoroughly than we have annihilated all the beings that the Heavenly Dao has manifested in the world before," Tu Lingbai said calmly.

However, Xue Baochai felt a chill in her heart, because she was a human being, a member of the human race.

Tu Lingbai looked at Xue Baochai one last time, then smiled and said, "You have to get used to it. This will be the norm from now on. As beings of the Five Elements Heavenly Dao, this is our duty. No one can avoid it. You should feel honored."

Xue Baochai felt a chill run through her body. At that moment, she suddenly murmured as if in a dream, "I want to go to the Five Elements Heavenly Dao to manifest in the mortal world."

After saying this, Xue Baochai suddenly shivered, but Tu Lingbai across from her laughed. After laughing, Tu Lingbai looked at Xue Baochai and said, "Do you think you can escape by returning to the mortal world? Even if you go back, you will be sent to another battlefield immediately. Only three kinds of people will remain in the mortal world: officials, children, and mortal spirits."

At this point, Tu Lingbai personally shattered Xue Baochai's illusions, saying, "There is no place for you in this world."

After saying that, Tu Lingbai stood up and said to Xue Baochai, "Think about it carefully yourself. Tonight, supplies will be distributed in the front yard. Remember to come and collect them. Tomorrow, we will continue to clear out the cultivators of this realm."

Tu Lingbai left, but Xue Baochai fell completely silent. She sat alone in the room, motionless, from dusk until night.

It wasn't until Tu Qianqian came to call her to distribute supplies that Xue Baochai got up and followed Tu Qianqian to the front yard.

In the front yard, everyone sat around the campfire, distributing supplies and talking about the future.

After Xue Baochai received her supplies, Tu Lingbai called her over. She then sat cross-legged by the campfire and asked, "Fellow Daoist Baochai, what do you want to do in the future?"

Xue Baochai was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and then she saw that all the eyes around her were on her.

So Xue Baochai said, "I want to find a fairy mountain cave where I can cultivate freely and without worry, without any constraints."

Upon hearing this, Tu Lingbai gave Xue Baochai a deep look, then smiled and said, "After I, the Five Elements Heavenly Dao, unite all worlds and open up the chaos, such a day will come."

Tu Qianqian said, "Sister Baochai's idea is too far-fetched. Let's talk about what's in front of us. Sister Lingbai, what do you want to do most?"

Tu Lingbai thought for a moment, then smiled and said, "I want to advance to the mid-grade immortal realm, then take a vacation to return to the mortal world and see my fiancé."

"Oh! How romantic!" Tu Qianqian said with a smile. "But Sister Lingbai, your wish will soon come true. Once you clear out another world, your merits will be enough for a promotion."

Hearing this, Tu Lingbai's face showed a rare gentle smile, "Yes."

At this moment, Tu Mo asked, "Qianqian, what about you?"

Tu Qianqian's smile froze, and after a moment of silence, she said, "I most want to see my parents. I've been separated from them since I became an immortal, and it's been over a hundred years since I last saw them. However, they're on another celestial vessel, so I guess I'll only be able to see them during the final assault on the Wind and Thunder Heavenly Dao Great Thousand World."

After saying that, Tu Qianqian asked Tu Mo, "Tu Mo, what about you?"

Tu Mo scratched his head and said, "I don't really have anything I want to do. My family all died in battle, and I'm the only one left. I feel that it's good enough to be with Sister Ling Bai and all of you."

Tu Mo's words brought smiles to everyone's faces. Tu Hui, who was standing next to Tu Mo, put his arm around Tu Mo's shoulder and said, "We are all your family."

Tu Mo nodded heavily, then asked Tu Hui, "And what about you, Brother Hui?"

Tu Hui stroked his chin and then said, "I just want to keep improving myself. If I can become a Dao Lord one day, then I will have lived a worthwhile life."

"Daojun." Everyone gasped. In the Five Elements Heavenly Dao, the Great Luo Golden Immortal is the Dao Ancestor, and the Great Awakening Golden Immortal is the Daojun. Tu Hui's wish was clearly a bit too much.

However, Tu Lingbai still smiled and said, "A good ambition, it will eventually be realized."

So everyone looked at the last one, Tu Yuzhi, who was leaning lazily against the stone steps. Looking at everyone's gaze, he said, "My wish is very simple: to see with my own eyes the day when my Five Elements Heavenly Dao opens up the chaos."

Everyone laughed when they heard this, saying, "That is indeed simple."

No one doubted that the Five Elements Heavenly Dao could accomplish this; their only doubt was whether they could live to see that day. After all, the success of conquering two major Heavenly Daos in succession had convinced the beings of the Five Elements Heavenly Dao that they were favored by the Great Dao.

Xue Baochai silently watched the crowd, listening to their discussions and chatter, but a sense of regret kept rising in her heart.

Even if she forcibly banished all distracting thoughts, even if she stopped all mental activity, she could not suppress the lingering regret that arose in her heart.

That was her regret for her foolish and childish behavior four months ago, and her regret for discarding the Xuan Yu statue.

Once this regret arose, it could no longer be contained or stopped. At that moment, Xue Baochai knew that she was wrong.

Nothing was said that night. The group chatted for half the night, and then sat cross-legged around the campfire and entered a meditative state.

The next morning, everyone was awakened by a series of urgent shouts. A beam of earth-yellow light flew over and said to Tu Lingbai, "Captain Tu Lingbai, quickly lead your team to Qifeng Mountain, which is 70,000 miles to the north, to provide support. This is an order, and there must be no mistake."

Tu Lingbai looked up and saw that it was the messenger of their Dingwei Sky Boat. After delivering the message, he did not linger and immediately rode the clouds to deliver the message to the next team's location.

Tu Lingbai's expression turned solemn. She understood what the appearance of the messenger meant; it meant that a tough battle was about to begin.

So Tu Lingbai immediately said to the team, "Quickly, everyone check your equipment. We'll set off to support Qifeng Mountain in a quarter of an hour."

Everyone busied themselves with preparations. Xue Baochai temporarily suppressed her impulsive thoughts and joined the others in making arrangements. A quarter of an hour later, they set off for Qifeng Mountain to provide support. (End of Chapter)