Villain Master, my disciples all want to backstab me

Five or six other cultivators, wielding longswords, stood, squatted, or lay down, panting as they confronted Ji Tingxue and the others. Each one was covered in wounds, some so deep they could see the bone. Their faces were a rich purple-black, as if they had been poisoned. They were breathing more than they were breathing.

"Hahaha……"

An elder from the Fire Qi Sword Sect laughed hysterically, his voice frantic. "It's already come to this, and you still won't move aside? I never thought the illustrious Ji family would actually fall into the devil's way. And that little girl next to you... The poison she used is so powerful, she's not from the Qingxin Sect, she's clearly a disciple of the devilish Wu Yue Sect!"

Regarding the elder's roar.

Ji Tingxue ignored him and simply repeated, "Those who cross the line will die."

"Hmph, even if I die, I will drag you down with me..."

Before he finished speaking, the elder flew up and fought with Ji Tingxue with his swords.

The other few people fought with Ye Shuang'er.

Just when Ji Tingxue mustered up his strength and was about to risk his waist and abdomen injury to replace the Huoqi Sword Sect elder, a soft sigh suddenly came from a distance. When it fell on the people present, it turned into a heavy yet just right pressure, slowing down everyone's movements.

"This is……"

Ji Tingxue paused in swinging his sword, took a few steps back to create some distance, and glanced in the direction of the original maze.

Several familiar figures appeared in my sight, walking up the mountain road.

It’s actually the Tianyuan Sword Sect!!

this moment.

Ji Tingxue suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart: Perhaps, this time, my protection can only end here.

……

Stone interior.

Bai Yuan's eyelashes trembled slightly, as if she was about to wake up from sleep.

Chapter 44 [Skin of ice and bones of jade, autumn water is divine]!

At this moment.

Bai Yuan's appearance is now very different from before.

As early as when she was practicing the "Blood Essence Heart Meteorite Art", her [Thousand Faces of the Demonic Spider] peeled off from her face, revealing her original appearance.

The long process of destruction and remodeling had transformed this porcelain doll-like face into a completely new one. Although the general outline remained unchanged, it had clearly grown a bit larger, revealing a fair and beautiful girlish face, with eyebrows as dark as distant mountains and a face as bright as a spring mountain.

Looking down, there was a slender neck and delicate collarbone. The newly born skin was as white and transparent as ice and snow.

A waterfall of black hair fell down, landing on her shoulders, collarbone, bare back and chest. The interweaving of black and white presented a breathtaking beauty.

Bang, bang, bang—

Accompanied by a strong heartbeat.

Bai Yuan's eyelashes trembled and she slowly opened her eyes.

Those were a pair of eyes as clear as autumn water, radiating a bright light that seemed to reflect the stars in the sky.

——[Skin as white as ice and bones as jade, and as beautiful as autumn water]!

"..."

Bai Yuan raised his head slightly.

As she moved, more vitality radiated within this new body. Fresh blood flowed endlessly through her veins, and every meridian and cell hummed with joy. The feeling of weakness that had plagued Bai Yuan since she crossed over was gone, replaced by a feeling of fullness and transformation.

She lowered her eyes again and put her consciousness into her body.

In the dantian that was destroyed by the "empty sword intent".

A new blood-red spiritual root sprout had just poked out a pointed tip.

Although it was only a new sprout, the power contained within it was clearly more pure and intense than before. Strands of bright red Qi emanated from the spiritual root, like tiny branches, spreading out in all directions.

"The quality of this spiritual root...Is it probably close to the highest quality in 'Asking the Immortal'?"

"If I use this spiritual root to cultivate to the Spiritual Transformation Realm again, let alone the Qingxuan Sect, even if the masters of the four major sects come together, what can they do to me?"

Bai Yuan took a few deep breaths, suppressing her suddenly restless thoughts. After all, she had only repaired, or perhaps reshaped, her spiritual roots. But she still had some distance to go before her strength could return to peak form. She couldn't be overconfident.

"Anyway, let's go find Shuang'er and Ji Tingxue first, see what's going on outside, and then consider other things."

"Well...I need to find something to wear first."

Bai Yuan reached his hands under his body, intending to take out his storage bag to see if there was any clothes to wear, but suddenly he felt a protruding, hard bone between his legs.

"……what?"

Why is there an extra bone?

Bai Yuan's pupils shrank, and he thought that he had reshaped another "spiritual root". He quickly looked down and found that what he touched in his hand was not the bone that could be soft or hard as he had imagined, but a slender bone that was light golden and almost transparent, and shaped a bit like a small sword.

——【Pure Heart Sword Bone】!!

Yes.

After being reshaped by the "Blood Essence Heart Meteorite Art", all the original bones in Bai Yuan's body were broken, refined, and reorganized, but the only one that did not originally belong to her was the "Purifying Heart Sword Bone". It was squeezed out during the operation of the technique and fell at her feet, becoming an ownerless object again.

However, that tiny wisp of [Clear Sword Intent] still remained in her body, and seemed to be a little stronger than before.

Bai Yuan picked up the "Chengxin Sword Bone" and gestured at his chest. Figuring it wouldn't be practical to rip it open and stuff it back in, he carefully placed it in his storage bag. He then pulled out a set of crimson clothing and prepared to change into it.

Well... I still need to wear some underwear.

Just as Bai Yuan was looking at the system backpack, intending to take out two bras and panties to deal with the emergency, she suddenly noticed a detail:

Current Fluctuation Value: 2300

"...Hey, what's going on? Is this the holiday money you gave to that little loser?"

[This was contributed by your little apprentice]

The system responded immediately:

During your training, she was constantly worried about you, causing her to experience significant psychological fluctuations. Originally, this number should have been higher, but she and the Ji family Saintess left together four days ago, so she is unable to continue contributing fluctuations.

"Is this so..."

As Bai Yuan put on her clothes, she silently asked herself, "How many of those recovery pills I drew earlier are left?"

[Most of it has been used up, but the [Three Corpses Reversing Fate Gu] is still there and has not been triggered yet.]

"understood."

While talking.

Bai Yuan had already put on her clothes, and hung the [Red Rope Anklet] and [Bewitching Bell] on her two smooth and white ankles respectively. She then rubbed her newly grown toes, which were as crystal clear as ten pearls, and felt a little distracted.

"Let's go out and take a look first..."

……

Outside the waterfall.

Baili Qingfeng from the Tianyuan Sword Sect, as well as Chu He, Wan Ruoxue and others came to the front of the cave and stopped about a hundred meters away from Ji Tingxue. They looked around at the scattered corpses and pieces of meat, with different expressions on their faces.

Their arrival was naturally related to Jiang Rao's secret promotion.

However, along the way, Baili Qingfeng and the others did see quite a few cultivators coming down from the mountain, and from them, they learned about the massacre that Ji Tingxue and the "Qingxin Sect" had committed on the mountain. When they had heard the rumors before, they had thought they were just rumors, but now that they had witnessed it for themselves, Baili Qingfeng realized that things seemed to be more complicated than he had expected.

"...What on earth is going on?"

the other side.

The people from the Fire Qi Sword Sect and several other sects, however, all showed excitement, and came closer, chattering:

"Great! They're from the Tianyuan Sword Sect. We're saved!"

"Master Baili, you don't know that these two demonic cultivators, pretending to be from the Ji family, are slaughtering us righteous people here. They are extremely arrogant. Your sect is the leader of the righteous path in the world, so you must uphold justice for us!"

"That's it!"

Facing the chatter of this group of cultivators, Baili Qingfeng's expression changed several times. Finally, he looked at Ji Tingxue across from him and sighed, "Fellow Daoist Ji, is there any misunderstanding here?"

“Although life and death are determined by fate within the secret realm, fighting and killing are inevitable in order to seek an opportunity, but… why must it come to this?

"If we fight here and both of us suffer losses, I'm afraid it will only give those demons an opportunity to reap the benefits."

Chapter 45: Blood Kite Reappears

"……Ah."

Ji Tingxue glanced at the group of cultivators who claimed to be of the "righteous path" and sneered.

As a leaf demon, her views on good and evil are not as clear-cut as those of ordinary people. She just thinks it is ridiculous that these guys avoid the important issues and only talk about things that are beneficial to themselves.

Baili Qingfeng waited for a moment before continuing, "As the saying goes, it's better to resolve a feud than to create one. Taking a step back opens up a new world... Regarding today's events, I hope Fellow Daoist Ji can offer a reasonable explanation and provide due compensation to those who died or were injured. If so, I, Baili Qingfeng, will be able to step in as a peacemaker and help you resolve this conflict."

At this moment.

Ye Shuang'er couldn't help herself, "Is the Tianyuan Sword Sect, the leader of the righteous sect, only capable of taking sides like this? There are so many opportunities in this secret realm, why do they have to set their sights on ours and insist on forcibly seizing it?

"If I could take a step back, I'd have a much brighter future. Why would I retreat? If I could endure for a while, the situation would be peaceful. Why would I endure? If they weren't so greedy and vented their anger after starting, unwilling to stop, how could things have developed to this point?"

"……absurd!"

Chu He, standing behind Baili Qingfeng, shouted, "How can an ignorant youngster like you have the right to speak before Elder Baili? The Huoqi Sword Sect is a reputable sect of the righteous path, so they naturally know how to act with propriety. If you hadn't killed Pang Zhiya first and done something beyond your rights, why would they have stayed here and fought to the death?"

"Junior Brother Chu, be careful with your words!"

Baili Qingfeng scolded, and at the same time, he set his sights on Ye Shuang'er. Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly paused, as if he sensed something, and looked up.

Behind the waterfall that falls straight down.

A beautiful figure slowly emerged.

"This breath..."

Baili Qingfeng frowned slightly, with a strange feeling vaguely emerging in his heart, but he was a little unsure.

next to.

Several other cultivators also noticed the shifting light and shadows behind the waterfall and looked up at the water curtain. Ji Tingxue and Ye Shuang'er, standing in front of the waterfall, though vaguely aware of something, didn't dare turn around, fearing that exposing their backs to the group of righteous cultivators would lead to their capture.

then.

Under the gazes of more than a dozen people, a slender figure was seen slowly crossing the water curtain and gracefully coming into everyone's sight.

She was a very pretty girl.

An oval face, peach blossom eyes, and a vermilion diamond-shaped mark on the center of her forehead. Her hair was as black as clouds, her clothes as red as blood, and her fair, slender bare feet stepped on the long, green stone slab. With each gentle lotus step, a few drops of crystal water slowly rolled down from her feet, making her toes look as shimmering as jade.

Even those righteous people, whose hearts were as calm as water, were drawn to her at this moment, feeling as if they had seen a goddess fallen to earth. Several young disciples stared at the bare feet intently, swallowing unconsciously.

Of all people.

Only a few people were not affected by lust.

One is Baili Qingfeng——

"……you?"

Baili Qingfeng frowned even more tightly.

As one of the nine peak masters of the Tianyuan Sword Sect and a veteran cultivator with over a hundred years of practice, he naturally had experience with the Yinyue Sect. So, at this moment, he almost immediately sensed the aura of the infamous "Demon Lord" from the girl across from him, but he was a little hesitant to believe it.

after all……

How could that devil who has killed countless people have such a pure and elegant temperament?

Could this be a new disciple she accepted in recent years, or... a daughter she secretly gave birth to with some demon?

The second person who was not affected was Jiang Rao.

As a disciple of the Tianyuan Sword Sect, she naturally came here with Baili Qingfeng and others.

However, because the effect of [Purifying Divine Smoke] was about to wear off, and she was worried that "Blood Kite" would reveal her undercover identity as a disciple at the last minute, causing unnecessary changes, Jiang Rao deliberately reduced her presence and chose to protect the people of Tianyuan Sword Sect in front of her.

And now.

Jiang Rao stood at the back of the crowd, her pupils narrowing slightly as she watched Bai Yuan's figure emerge with a look of extreme surprise. It was as if she had returned to a day twenty years ago—back then, she and her sister and brother were being hunted by the very enemies who had destroyed the Jiang family. At that time, the Blood Kite, not yet a member of the Hidden Moon Sect, descended from the sky and executed the assassins in an instant. She was also wearing this blood-stained robe. And, she was also in the form of a girl!

Now, the two figures, separated by twenty years, seemed to overlap for a moment.

At this moment, just as at that moment.