Running Off With The Sect Senior Sister Chapter 52

“You—!” Luo Tangtang’s eyes were red, and she gritted her teeth. A deep sense of powerlessness filled her chest.
“‘Host, please work hard.’” The system spoke in a formal, official tone.
Luo Tangtang stiffened. Every time the system called her “Host,” it meant the matter was beyond negotiation. She lowered her head and said nothing.
The system paused, then also fell silent, leaving Luo Tangtang alone, sitting on the edge of the bed in a daze.
In a daze, she seemed to hear the echo of a heavy bell, and then shouts. Luo Tangtang walked out of her cave residence with a puzzled expression.
It was just that the shouts were too overwhelming. At first, they were faint and unreal, as if drifting from the clouds. Gradually, they grew stronger, like drumbeats pounding in her heart, shaking her to the core.
She looked down and saw thousands upon thousands of figures running around the central mountain peak of the Supreme Immortal Sect.
Luo Tangtang remembered that the central peak was the Main Peak from her memories… It didn’t seem this big, did it?
The mountain peak stood tall, reaching into the clouds, its breadth unknown, perhaps thousands of miles. Those people were all wearing the disciple uniforms of the Supreme Immortal Sect. They weren’t using spiritual energy, just running around the mountain like this. The scene was truly spectacular.
A few phrases like “Don’t stop!” were also floating in the air above.
Luo Tangtang stood there dumbfounded, craning her neck, not knowing what to do, just staring blankly.
“Yun! Sha! Yi!” Suddenly, an angry roar came. A chill spread from the soles of her feet throughout her whole body before she could even react.
It wasn’t until the crowd that had been running suddenly stopped in unison and turned to look at her that her legs gave out all at once.
“You’re still slacking off?” A person in gray clothes ran over.
“Deacon?” Looking at the familiar face in front of her, Luo Tangtang was a bit dazed and asked cautiously.
“Deacon? What Deacon? Has your brain gone soft? Did you forget the Chen hour morning run? If you hadn’t shown yourself, I wouldn’t have known our entire sect still had a slacker like you who slipped through the cracks.” The man who looked like a deacon said resentfully, his face a picture of disappointment.
“What are you looking at? Did I tell you all to listen? Keep running! Whoever dares to slack off won’t get any Fasting Pills this month! Run!” the man roared.
The crowd, which had paused, instantly started moving again.
The man used a spell to amplify his voice, which could carry for a thousand miles. Luo Tangtang, standing beside him, was momentarily deafened.
“Why are you covering your ears? You couldn’t even hear such a loud bell? And my little voice is bothering you?” the man pressed relentlessly.
“I was wrong.” Luo Tangtang obediently admitted her mistake. Otherwise, this matter probably wouldn’t end.
“Now, go run! Don’t you know a new secret realm is about to open soon? Hurry up and cultivate!”
“If you don’t push yourselves today, how will you defy heaven and change your fate? All of you, run for me!”
As she grumbled under her breath, “Can running really…?” a small stone fell from mid-air and hit Luo Tangtang squarely on the head.
“You thought I couldn’t hear you?” The man turned around with a sinister look, facing Luo Tangtang.
“Heh, haha.” Luo Tangtang’s mouth twitched. The next moment, she spun around and bolted.
She used a lot of effort to catch up with the group, reaching the very end of the line.
“Senior Sister, did something happen?” A youth with an almost demonic, exceptionally handsome appearance suddenly slowed down and ran up to her.
“?” Luo Tangtang pointed to herself. Under the youth’s slightly worried gaze, it seemed he knew her.
“Ahem, an accident.”
The youth seemed a little worried. “Elder Qi Wei has always been short-tempered. Senior Sister, were you punished by him?”
So that person was named Qi Wei.
“No.” Luo Tangtang waved her hand awkwardly, unsure how to proceed.
“‘His name is Yun Mu. Yun Shayi picked him up.’” Suddenly, the system spoke.
Luo Tangtang raised an eyebrow.
At first, she could still manage, but after a while, she started to falter. Her breathing grew heavier, and her throat felt uncomfortable.
She discreetly glanced around. A few others weren’t doing any better than her, some even looked more wretched and sweaty. Yet, everyone’s eyes were surprisingly firm, filled with an unstoppable momentum and do-or-die determination. Luo Tangtang didn’t know why everyone had such an expression.
Why?
She looked at Yun Mu. That seemingly frail youth had a pale face without a trace of color, but he was still persevering.
Not a single person slacked off or tried to be lazy and cunning.
No wonder it’s like this, she thought, but a part of her still felt uncomfortable.
The morning run lasted a full two shichen. The sky was already bright. The group of people then returned.
As soon as it ended, Luo Tangtang was about to run off but was stopped by the frail youth in front of her.
“What’s wrong?” Luo Tangtang asked. She was still planning to go to Misty Peak.
“No, it’s nothing.” The youth opened his mouth, his eyes dimmed slightly, then said, “It’s nothing.”
Luo Tangtang found him a bit baffling. She lifted her foot and took a few steps, then stopped, suddenly turned back, and ran to the youth.
She grabbed the youth’s shoulders. “Yun Mu? Yun as in ‘white clouds’? Mu as in ‘admire’?”
The youth was startled by her sudden action. His cheeks flushed red, and he stammered a nod.
This is the Demon Lord?
Luo Tangtang’s eye twitched. Just which great god created this world? Amazing.
But he’s still just a kid, yet he can become the Demon Lord.
“Cultivate well. You can do it.” Luo Tangtang patted his head. “Keep it up.”
Then, very decisively, she turned and ran off.
She needed to hurry to Misty Peak now.
She hurried all the way, but when she actually arrived, Luo Tangtang hesitated. Her feet shifted again and again, yet she never dared to take that step.
“Junior Sister.” Luo Yi arrived, her white clothes fluttering.
Luo Tangtang’s lips moved. “Senior Sister.” Her heart ached.
She hadn’t expected to hear “Junior Sister” from her again.
A cloak carrying a cool fragrance draped over her. “It’s gotten a bit cold.”
Luo Tangtang’s heart stirred. She looked up and met Luo Yi’s eyes, which held no emotion. Instantly, her heart sank again.
“Mm.” Perhaps it was just care shown to an ordinary junior sister.
“The Extreme North Land is about to open.” Luo Yi started walking, then glanced back at Luo Tangtang, gesturing for her to follow.
“When the time comes, all cultivators will go,” Luo Yi said.
“All of them?” Luo Tangtang paused. “Is that possible?”
“Of course.” Luo Yi gave Luo Tangtang a deep look, her eyes holding an emotion Luo Tangtang couldn’t understand.
The two seemed frozen, looking at each other, neither of them speaking.
Luo Tangtang pursed her lips. Just as she was about to speak, Luo Yi’s figure strangely appeared before her. Luo Tangtang felt a cold gust of wind from behind, and a strand of hair by her cheek drifted down.
Luo Yi lightly raised her hand, at that moment catching the falling blade.
“I said, you stop here for now,” Luo Yi said lightly.
She pulled Luo Tangtang behind her, looked at the person in front holding the blade, and narrowed her eyes slightly. With a light wave of her hand, the blade was flicked aside.
“I am not resigned!”
Hoarse and muffled.
Luo Tangtang looked at the newcomer: eyes bloodshot, face haggard, filled with the despair and madness of a caged beast.
“All my life, I never believed in fate, never accepted it. But then it came, and everything changed.”
“Everything changed.”
“In the Extreme North Realm, there will be one chance to change fate.” Luo Yi looked at that person, her face unchanging, as calm as a pool of stagnant water.
“‘Whether you follow it’ or defy heaven and change your fate, that’s up to you all.”
“You all will pay the price sooner or later.” That person clenched their fists, veins bulging on them, then turned and left resentfully.
When he attacked just now, others had already sensed it. He also knew he couldn’t linger.
Luo Yi watched the other person’s departing figure, then after a long pause, lowered her head and said slowly, “Is that so? Perhaps.”
“Senior Sister?” Luo Tangtang called out.
She tugged at the corner of Luo Yi’s sleeve. Finding it very cold, she quietly pressed her own warmer hand to it. Luo Yi didn’t refuse. Anxiety, worry, sweetness, and jealousy all mixed together in Luo Tangtang’s heart, a myriad of emotions.
“You will also go to the Extreme North Realm.” Luo Yi turned back and looked steadily at Luo Tangtang, her eyes seeming to see right through her.
Luo Tangtang felt a prickling numbness in her heart. She nodded, but secretly asked the system in her mind.
“‘What kind of expression is that?’”
“‘I feel like you wouldn’t want to know.’” The system replied very quickly this time.
“‘Oh, come on! If you don’t tell me, how do you know I don’t want to know?’”
“‘In this world created by someone, everyone’s fate is predetermined. Everyone knows this, so they are unwilling to accept it.’”
“‘Unwilling to have their lives bound, they are unreconciled and want to resist. Thus, this one chance: the Extreme North Realm has a secret treasure. Obtain it, and one can change fate and become an immortal.’”
“What?” Luo Tangtang’s pupils trembled violently and constricted.
Luo Yi’s eyes still glinted with a complex, unreadable light as she quietly watched Luo Tangtang.
Luo Tangtang felt her hair stand on end from that gaze. “Senior Sister.”
“You should know my identity.” Luo Yi spoke first, a hint of retaliatory cruelty in her tone.
“Divine Maiden,” Luo Tangtang nodded.
She didn’t know how she truly saw the other person. As Senior Sister? She is different from Senior Sister. Even though I know she is my Senior Sister, there’s always a strange feeling in my heart. Do I simply see her as a higher consciousness of this world? I also feel fear, but besides fear, there is also the desire to get closer.
“That’s right. You, or all of you, are puppets, marionettes whose strings are pulled, unable to act on your own. Don’t you hate me?”