Chapter 24: Nan Shiheng

Ouyang Tuo was instantly enraged. He used a Grand Grasping technique, seizing Chen Qianliu out of thin air and slamming him viciously onto the ground. The impact left him completely dazed, and he fainted.

When Chen Qianliu woke up, he didn’t know what time it was. He only heard the rolling of thunder and the scorching of fierce flames around him, as if a battle of arts was underway.

He raised his eyes and looked around, then heard an exceptionally familiar, gentle, and elegant voice say, “Tell me, how did you trade with those two demonesses?”

Although the voice was gentle, the overwhelming pressure that accompanied it made him feel like the monkey trapped under the Five Elements Mountain, unable to move a single muscle.

Chen Qianliu was merely a low-level Qi Refining cultivator. How could he withstand the pressure of a Golden Core realm great cultivator?
But what struck his chest like a heavy hammer, agitating him even more than the Golden Core pressure, was the beautiful female cultivator before him.

His “senior sister,” his Dao companion from his past life—Nan Shiheng.

Chen Qianliu forced himself to look up and met Nan Shiheng’s cold and imposing phoenix eyes. Countless past events instantly surfaced in his mind, a hundred flavors mixed together, making it difficult to control himself.

Nan Shiheng’s flawless, otherworldly beautiful face was devoid of any emotion. She sat cross-legged on a golden lotus about ten feet wide, like a lofty divine monarch, simply waiting for his answer.

At this moment, Nan Shiheng, of course, would not recognize him.

Chen Qianliu took a deep breath and recounted the events from beginning to end. By now, he also knew that the two young women were the demon lord’s disciples, and he cursed his luck inwardly.

In his previous life, Chen Qianliu was ultimately just a menial disciple, so it was indeed difficult for him to know many secrets. Therefore, he didn’t know that the man who had caused a great disturbance in the Yu Xian Sect, been expelled, and turned to cultivating demonic arts had actually taken female disciples.

“I was just selling a few chairs, how did I get involved in something like this?”

“Although I truly have nothing to do with that demon lord, the Yu Xian Sect…”

“The Yu Xian Sect has never been a place that listens to reason!”

“This is bad.”

“How can I get out of this?”

Chen Qianliu suddenly remembered something, and his heart shook violently. He cried out inwardly, “Aiya, my entire cultivation is the Green Emperor Jia-Yi Art.”

“If Nan Shiheng discovers that I secretly learned the Yu Xian Sect’s direct lineage cultivation art, I truly won’t be able to defend myself. The evidence will be irrefutable.”

“I can’t say that she was the one who taught me, either.”

“After all, we were husband and wife in a past life. Even if I could make people believe it, I can’t sell her out.”

“Besides, even if I did say it, who would believe me?”

As Chen Qianliu was struggling, several more streaks of black qi shot across the sky. Nan Shiheng stopped talking to him, raised her hand, and released a hundred-zhang golden glow, engaging in a fierce battle with the enemy.

At this time, the seven or eight disciples of the Yu Xian Sect had combined their magical treasures and spells into a multi-acre expanse of colorful, strange light, hanging high in the sky, steadfast and unmoving, resisting the thunderbolts, fierce flames, and black qi from the outside.

Chen Qianliu didn’t have the ability of divine eyes like lightning and couldn’t see through the layers upon layers of magical treasures and spells of the two sides. He didn’t know who the enemies of the Yu Xian Sect disciples were, but he guessed it could only be those two “demonesses.”

He prayed silently in his heart, “I hope these two are only fighting the Yu Xian Sect out of enmity, please don’t drag me into this!”

The thought had barely faded when he heard a rather familiar voice, using magical power to vibrate the air, like a clap of thunder in the sky, shouting, “You few little thieves and wretched maids of the Yu Xian Sect, release Daoist friend Chen at once, and we might spare your dog lives.”

“He was just selling us a few chairs, and you arrest him. You’re too tyrannical and overbearing.”

Despair instantly rose in Chen Qianliu’s heart. He cried out inwardly, “I thank you so much!”

“This time, it’s really impossible to explain. Who would believe that you’re fighting Yu Xian Sect disciples for the sake of a random, unrelated minor cultivator?”

“I wonder if there will be a next life.”

Ouyang Tuo was furious and shouted, “That man surnamed Yao betrayed the sect and should have been executed long ago! If not for Elder Sun’s moment of benevolence, nurturing a tiger to become a future disaster, how would you all be running rampant today?”

“Senior Sister Nan, let me go out and break the demonic formation. You take the opportunity to vanquish the demons!”

After making his harsh declaration, Ouyang Tuo drove a flower basket-like magical treasure and charged out of the colorful, strange light formed by the layers of magical treasures and spells. Countless colorful flowers bloomed and withered around his body, resisting the thunder, fire, and black qi, as he continuously attacked a certain key formation eye.

As a Golden Core disciple of the Yu Xian Sect, his insight was sharp. He had long since seen the flaw in the demonic formation laid out by the two demonesses.

He wanted to risk a single strike to break the formation and create an opportunity for his fellow disciples to kill the enemy.

Ouyang Tuo’s protective magical treasure was powerful. Seeing that the thunder, fire, and black qi couldn’t harm him for the time being, his fellow disciples all breathed a sigh of relief and launched fierce magical attacks to share his pressure.

Just then, next to a female disciple at the eighth or ninth level of Qi Refining, a beast-skin pouch suddenly exploded. A golden light shot out, and with just a single circle, it killed the female disciple and then charged towards another Yu Xian Sect disciple.

When Chen Qianliu was captured by the people of the Yu Xian Sect, his beast-skin pouch was naturally taken from him and ended up in the hands of that female disciple. It was just her bad luck that when the Wang Chan saber broke out of the beast-skin pouch, it cut her down.

Nan Shiheng cried out in shock, “Senior Uncle Yao’s Wang Chan saber!”

Hearing this sentence, countless threads in Chen Qianliu’s mind suddenly straightened out. He instantly understood what was going on!
Why did the Wang Chan saber’s form resemble the Green Luan?
Because it was also a treasure of the Yu Xian Sect.

This item must have been the personal weapon bestowed by the sect upon that demonic cultivator surnamed Yao back when he was still in the Yu Xian Sect. When he defected, he took it with him.

How could the mere Suiyang Immortal Market have so many opportunities? Why did the Wang Chan saber fall into his hands? It was all arranged by someone. The shifty-eyed man sold it for seventy talisman coins? Of course it wasn’t because he misjudged; it was because someone wanted to use the hands of a rogue cultivator to secretly plot against the disciples of the Yu Xian Sect!
It was just that Chen Qianliu was unlucky enough to be chosen as the scapegoat.

Nan Shiheng’s plain sleeve fluttered slightly. A green rainbow flew out, coiling around her and wrapping her delicate body as it met the Wang Chan saber. The two sword lights engaged in a fierce battle. The other Yu Xian Sect disciples also released their magical treasures one after another.

However, under the combined assault from within and without, the formation formed by the Yu Xian Sect disciples shattered with a boom in less than an hour.

The Yu Xian Sect disciples each drove their light trails and shot up into the clouds. The seven or eight light trails were about to converge again to reform the formation when a streak of black qi shot out from the side. With just a twist in the air, several light trails were completely shattered. A few Yu Xian Sect disciples lost their protective light trails. The moment they came into contact with the demonic qi, their essence blood and souls were instantly drained, and their bodies turned into withered corpses, which were then blasted into dust by the vast demonic qi.

All the Qi Refining realm disciples of the Yu Xian Sect were killed. Only the Golden Core realm Ouyang Tuo and Nan Shiheng were left. The two of them each used their magical powers to fight endlessly with the enemy, their hearts filled with extreme grief and indignation.

Chen Qianliu, who had been held up by the Yu Xian Sect’s light trail, fell from the sky like a stone the moment the formation was broken. Even though he frantically slapped Lightness character talismans on himself, it was of no use.

(End of this chapter)