Senior Sister Went Mad After My Fake Death Chapter 43

Even though it was just an illusion created by the Pearl of Retrospection, when the Twilight Kite sword mercilessly stabbed into “Jiang Chunai’s” chest, the heart of the real Jiang Chunai still twitched violently.
It really hurt, and Han Xiao was truly ruthless.
She couldn’t imagine what state of mind Han Xiao must have been in to kill her own junior sister, with whom she spent her days and nights, with a single strike—
even if she didn’t like her.
She could hate her, she could reject her, but she had chosen the cruelest way, plunging a long sword through her chest, ending Jiang Chunai’s life with one blow.
Chang Xin, seeing this for the first time, was horrified and murmured, “How could it be like this?”
She had accompanied Han Xiao for a long time. Han Xiao was worthy of being the Immortal Lord’s head disciple, slaying demons without blinking an eye.
Chang Xin had always thought Han Xiao was just a perfect cultivator from Mount Shu, showing no mercy to demons. But when she saw this bloody scene, she finally understood.
Even to her little junior sister, with whom she spent her days and nights, she would show no mercy.
A demon was a demon, after all, just an unfeeling, bastard thing.
But Jiang Chunai said at the right moment, “A snake that cannot be tamed.”
Chang Xin looked up in surprise, her eyes meeting Jiang Chunai’s, as if surprised that she knew what was in her heart.
Yes, Immortal Lord Yang Nian had invested so much in Han Xiao, and Jiang Chunai had given so much to her, yet this was her repayment.
Profound kindness repaid with utter betrayal, profound love repaid with utter betrayal.
However, Yu Lingzi was not as angry as the two of them. Instead, she looked at Jiang Chunai with a playful expression. “Jiang Chunai, what you just said… a snake that cannot be tamed?”
Jiang Chunai’s expression was calm. “Yes. The few days I spent on Mount Shu, the whole sect was filled with legends of this Immortal Lord’s head disciple. How she was favored and promoted by Immortal Lord Yang Nian, how she suddenly participated in sect affairs after dedicating herself to cultivation, and how the sect immediately allowed her to join the council of elders.”
Such a person, oh no, a demon, if not a snake that cannot be tamed, what else could it be?
Her composed demeanor greatly interested Yu Lingzi. “Good. Since you’ve said so, I have more to tell you.”
“Is there anything else, Master?”
“Since you have seen through this demon’s true face, you can now focus more on your cultivation,” Yu Lingzi said. “Originally, it is a pity for a cultivator to be mired in the mortal world, wasting their time.”
“Besides, you have survived a great disaster. This is the protection of Lady Nuwa in the unseen. Jiang Chunai, you were not meant to die.”
Jiang Chunai was silent.
She knew her Master was right.
Because… she didn’t know when it started, but there had been a clear and beautiful female voice in her sea of consciousness, guiding her actions.
But Jiang Chunai didn’t know where this voice came from. She even thought that this voice, along with the wildly coiling lines on her wrist, had been transferred from her corpse.
That voice had said the same thing as Yu Lingzi, that she still had an important mission.
So, Jiang Chunai raised her eyes and said earnestly, “Master, Chunai understands.”
Yu Lingzi looked at her with approval, a rare smile appearing on her usually cold and stern face. “Good. As long as you remain firm in your heart, do not fall into the mortal world, and are not disturbed by love, it is only a matter of time before you reach Lady Nuwa’s expectations.”
“From now on, you can cultivate in peace.”
When she said to cultivate in peace, she was actually reminding Jiang Chunai not to have any more association with Han Xiao.
Because Yu Lingzi had also said “do not be disturbed by love,” and Jiang Chunai had once been deeply in love with Han Xiao.
And that demon, sealed in the chaos of the Nether Realm for thousands of years, had, upon breaking the seal, committed such a heinous act—and when it reached the ears of the public, it had somehow become a strange and beautiful story.
They said the unfeeling, desireless demon had feelings, that life was full of love and obsession.
Yu Lingzi, of course, sneered at this. She couldn’t control what Han Xiao did, but she had to control the Jiang Chunai under her tutelage.
She could not fall into the net of love again, much less delay her cultivation.
Jiang Chunai’s subsequent answer further reassured Yu Lingzi.
“Yes, Master. Chunai understands. Chunai will definitely cultivate in peace from now on and will not have any entanglement with Han Xiao. As for the memories of my former self, Chunai can’t remember them anyway,” she said with a firm tone. “And I will not seek them out in the future.”
To be involved with such a demon, to have ties with it, was that something to be proud of?
Jiang Chunai couldn’t help but laugh at herself inwardly.
“Oh? Is that so?” The curve of Yu Lingzi’s lips did not diminish.
Jiang Chunai nodded, her eyes burning. “She is a demon, I am human. Righteousness and evil cannot coexist. Besides, to put it more simply, she once took my life with a single strike. If not for Master’s help, Chunai would have long been dead…”
“To be alive now, and to have no entanglement with her, is already the greatest tolerance.”
If it were anyone with a bit more of a temper, they would surely have to cultivate diligently for many years to seek revenge on Han Xiao for that one strike.
But Jiang Chunai was not that kind of person. Since she had a more important mission, she should do that more important mission, not be bogged down by personal love and hate.
“If I must say, the only entanglement Chunai will have with Han Xiao in the future… there is only one path,” Jiang Chunai took a deep breath, her tone exceptionally firm. “When we meet on the battlefield in the future, I will not be soft-hearted.”
Expressions of praise and surprise appeared on the faces of Yu Lingzi and Chang Xin.
Even Lan Xu, who was eavesdropping from behind the throne, felt her heart pound.
—Is that so? Chunai has actually changed her mind.
In fact, she had been curious ever since Chang Xin had brought back Jiang Chunai’s body.
After Jiang Chunai’s physical body was reshaped, she had deliberately approached her. Such a good-tempered person seemed to like everyone.
She liked everyone.
But it was precisely because she liked everyone that Lan Xu was quite worried.
In other words, to like everyone, wasn’t that… to be indifferent to everyone?
In the past, she found it hard to imagine Jiang Chunai loving or hating someone. Now she finally saw it clearly, saw through it.
So Jiang Chunai was not a clay bodhisattva without a temper.
She could also hate, and she could also love.
After confirming this, Lan Xu’s mood improved greatly, until a sharp voice came, “Lan Xu, what are you doing, hiding here and eavesdropping?”
“Ah! Mother!” she cried out, begging Yu Lingzi to let go of her collar. “I won’t do it again!”
“You said that last time too!” Yu Lingzi said sternly. “And, you are not allowed to call me mother!”
After Han Xiao fled from the Bright Snow Sect, she disappeared for a while.
For one, her vitality was greatly damaged. If she were to be besieged by a group again, it would be extremely dangerous. Secondly, there were many people hunting her on various wanted lists. Every place was a dangerous place.
Han Xiao carried Jiang Chunai’s coffin alone, traveling through thousands of mountains and rivers.
She disguised herself as a widow. If anyone asked, she would say vaguely that she was mourning her lover.
A lonely widow, carrying her deceased wife, painstakingly crossing thousands of mountains and rivers just to find a good burial place for her spouse. Just hearing it was enough to move people.
Her shoes were worn out, her clothes torn, the wind and snow like knives cutting her. Along the way, Han Xiao heard people say she was deeply in love, and a strange sense of comfort grew in her heart.
Look, at least there are people in this world who acknowledge her and Jiang Chunai’s deep love.
The former Han Xiao—when she still didn’t understand human emotions—had only seen Jiang Chunai as a burden of the mortal world. She had been brought out by Yin Zhuyun and made her disciple, so be it.
As for Jiang Chunai, the so-called “junior sister,” she was just a burden. It was fine to acknowledge her, and fine to ignore her.
When Han Xiao was happy, she would write a few words on her back with her bare hands; when she was unhappy, she would just ignore her.
Towards Jiang Chunai, at that time, she couldn’t say whether she liked her or not. It was just that Immortal Lord Yang Nian had been too wishful, insisting on tying them together with two jade rings and a red string.
A forced melon is not sweet, as people say. But when she had pierced Jiang Chunai’s chest with her sword, thinking she had cut off the meaningless entanglement, those hidden threads of love had suddenly burst forth, like a great net, surrounding her completely, making it impossible to escape.
A net can catch a snake.
Han Xiao’s vitality was greatly damaged. Although she couldn’t create a huge storm like she had on the day of the pact, she was still able to protect herself. After she recovered her vitality, she had other ideas.
She would start her plan, step by step.
If Jiang Chunai were still alive, she would surely find her. So, what she should do was now clear.
She just needed to let Jiang Chunai find her.
The first step was revenge.
So, on a night when the moon was as bright as day, Han Xiao fulfilled her promise.
She took the Twilight Kite sword and appeared in the Wunian Sect like a ghost.
The Wunian Sect’s sect leader was dead, and the sect was in disarray. They had never expected this demon to dare to appear again—
That night, Han Xiao revealed her true form again, broke into the Wunian Sect’s forbidden ground, and stole the God-Binding Rope.
Breaking into the forbidden ground was not an easy matter. Besides, the Wunian Sect had been gaining momentum recently. Although their sect leader was dead, their defensive formations were still in place.
But that night, the defensive formation of the forbidden ground was not activated. Instead, it allowed the giant snake to enter unhindered. In the end, the cultivators sacrificed their lives in vain.
Not even dozens of cultivators could stop Han Xiao.
This demon had been in chaos for thousands of years. Once it broke its seal and was born into the world, no one could stop it.
The news of Han Xiao reappearing and stealing the Wunian Sect’s divine artifact, the God-Binding Rope, quickly spread throughout the cultivation world and even the mortal world.
Even the Nether Realm heard the news.
The demons of the Covering Moon Sect resided in the easternmost part of the Nether Realm—the Crimson Smelting City.
This was an ancient city that had been fought over several times before it fell into the hands of their Covering Moon Sect.
The Crimson Smelting City was easy to defend and hard to attack, and it also possessed vast resources. In the tens of thousands of years of struggle in the Nether Realm, there was a saying: He who gets the Crimson Smelting City gets the Nether Realm.
This was not false.
The Nether Realm had been unified several times, and the demon lords had all started from the Crimson Smelting City.
The Covering Moon Sect, which had been gradually gaining momentum in recent years, was also stationed in the Crimson Smelting City. Its leader, Pugu Yanxi, was ambitious and coveted the four directions, even casting his eyes on the human realm.
…That time of the great change in the Bright Snow Sect, he had also sent his subordinates, wanting a piece of the pie.
But he didn’t get any good results. Fortunately, no one had noticed his strange movements, so Pugu Yanxi continued to bide his time and wait for another opportunity.
However, some people were always curious about the origin of the Covering Moon Sect’s new leader, Pugu Yanxi.
Today, the Crimson Smelting City was darker than usual. The weather was too good. The soldiers in the outer city simply kicked up their eight legs and started gossiping about their leader and that newly reborn demon.
A mandrill said, “By the way, how many years has our new leader been here?”
Another bird-like demon beast said, “Just a few years, and he really thinks he’s someone.”
The mandrill looked at the Yingmin curiously, “Big brother, why do you say that?”
The Yingmin coughed, then began to explain.
As it turned out, this Pugu Yanxi was not some famous demon in the Crimson Smelting City.
Because the Crimson Smelting City had the reputation of “producing demon lords,” the natives of this city all held themselves in high regard. It was not that someone else became their master, but that they had created a new demon lord.
So, every City Lord of the Crimson Smelting City would be very respectful to them, the natives. Unfortunately, this Pugu Yanxi was not.
He and his sister, Pugu Yanjin, showed them no respect at all.
Natives like the Yingmin, if it were the original city lord, would surely have been revered. But as soon as this Pugu family came, they had him sent to the outer city to guard the gates.
The Yingmin was already dissatisfied with the Pugu family. This made him even more resentful.
“Speaking of which, I don’t know what this demon has behind him. With his origin, is he even worthy of being the City Lord of the Crimson Smelting City?”
The Yingmin had lived for a long time. He had never known of a “Pugu” surname in the Crimson Smelting City. This demon had come from somewhere else.
The mandrill asked sheepishly, “Then, big brother, what-what’s going on? The leader is not a native of the Crimson Smelting City?”
“No, this Pugu Yanxi directly fought his way through the Central Sky Palace… and thus became the master of the Crimson Smelting City,” the Yingmin sneered. “See, these low-life things, they just relied on their fists being a little harder to become the master of the Crimson Smelting City.”
Just look at the former city lords who had unified the Crimson Smelting City. What kind of brilliant figures were they?
“Of the five generations of city lords of the Crimson Smelting City, none have not ruled the Nether Realm,” the Yingmin said, rolling his eyes and continuing, “But look at Pugu Yanxi now, he and his sister, do they have the aura of someone who will become the lord of the Nether Realm?”
The mandrill felt that the Yingmin was right.
He lowered his head, looked at the Yingmin’s bird claws, and said, “Then, when will Leader Pugu unify the Nether Realm?”
“…” The Yingmin was speechless, wanting to kick this idiot mandrill. But then he thought, if he kicked this mandrill, there would be no two demons in the huge outer city to entertain him.
Forget it.
So the Yingmin said patiently, “I don’t mean that he’s going to unify the Nether Realm. I mean that he probably won’t be able to do it for long.”
The mandrill scratched its head. “If Leader Pugu can’t be the city lord for long, then who will be the next city lord?”
The Yingmin said, “Hmph, this kind of person who rises to power through improper means, thinking their fists are hard, will be defeated by someone similar later on…”
“Then who do you think it will be, big brother?”
“Do you remember that incident in the human realm’s Bright Snow Sect? Han Xiao, that woman named Han Xiao, she’s a demon from our Nether Realm!”
“Those cultivators went through so much trouble, sealing her three times. Look, she’s out again!”
As the Yingmin spoke, his tone became excited, and the air trembled.
The wind howled, whipping around wildly.
The mandrill was curious about “Han Xiao” and wanted to ask more, but after calling “big brother” a few times, the Yingmin no longer replied.
“Big brother, who is this Han Xiao? What does she look like?”
But when he looked up again, he was met with a pair of cold, dark, gold-flecked pupils.
A thin, sharp blade was pressed tightly against his neck. The mandrill was stunned and died in an instant.
“Just like this.”
Han Xiao lightly slit the throats of these demons, then wiped the blood from the Twilight Kite sword with her slender, rounded fingertips.
At some point, the clouds had parted to reveal the moon, its light bright and clear, illuminating everything. The soft halo shone on Han Xiao’s face, which was like jade.
Her long, thick, crow-black lashes filtered the moonlight. Looking up, one could glimpse the wildly growing, vigorous crimson-black lines under her thick lashes.
But looking at Han Xiao’s expression again, there was a momentary sadness.
Yes, now when she killed, she would no longer kill by piercing through the chest.
Otherwise, Han Xiao would always suspect that the crimson-black lines under her eyes would, when she wasn’t paying attention, swallow her whole.
All the guards in the outer city of the Crimson Smelting City had been defeated in one night.
The two she had just killed were the last remnants.
Han Xiao faintly lifted her eyes, which shone with a dark light, like the cold moon and a lone star.
The news of the snake demon Han Xiao, who had appeared out of nowhere, sweeping through the Wunian Sect and the Covering Moon Sect, quickly spread throughout the land.
The three realms trembled. Besides the immortal sects that Han Xiao had previously had contact with, the ones who were most afraid were the demons of the Nether Realm.
Because Han Xiao had become the master of the Crimson Smelting City, of the Covering Moon Sect.
It was rumored that she had broken through the Crimson Smelting City in one night, infiltrated the Central Sky Palace, captured Pugu Yanxi, who was still drinking and making merry, and forced him to make her the City Lord of the Crimson Smelting City.
Pugu Yanxi could not defeat Han Xiao, so he could only follow her wishes and revere her as the City Lord of the Crimson Smelting City.
It should be known that in the Crimson Smelting City, the city lord and the sect leader were one and the same. Pugu Yanxi giving up his position as city lord was actually a signal: he was giving the Crimson Smelting City to Han Xiao.
This also indicated that Han Xiao was very likely to become the lord of the Nether Realm in the future.
The rumors outside were like this, and the various demons in the Crimson Smelting City each had their own thoughts and schemes.
They were residents of the Crimson Smelting City, after all, and knew more.
A black mist hung over the Crimson Smelting City all day long. Occasionally, some unemployed demons would gather in the streets and alleys, gossiping about this new city lord.
They all said that the new city lord, Han Xiao, was much more powerful than Pugu Yanxi. In just over two months as city lord, she had subdued all the roaming bandits and demons around the Crimson Smelting City, and many wandering demons had come to surrender.
Back then, this was a problem that Pugu Yanxi had spent a lot of money and demonic power on and had never solved.
A soft-skinned snake “hissed,” licking the wine on the table, and then said, “Yes, this new city lord is very powerful. As expected of a fellow of my kind.”
The other monkey demons, spider demons, and fox demons: …
It seemed that all the demons were quite satisfied with this new demon king. In short, she was better than Pugu Yanxi.
As the few demons were talking, a city guard in black armor suddenly appeared, shouting, “Idle demons, do not gather here!”
His voice was loud and clear, and it immediately dispersed many of the demons. The demons who had been in groups of two and three just a moment ago scattered and fled.
—If there was one drawback to this new city lord, it was obvious.
The city lord was probably very strict in her rule because she had once been a demon-slaying cultivator. Although it was generally very beneficial to the Crimson Smelting City, there were always small things that people were dissatisfied with.
Like this soldier in black armor, he was the city lord’s handiwork.
The city lord demanded a curfew, but the Crimson Smelting City was not quiet. After nightfall, beacons would be lit, so loud that the demons couldn’t sleep.
The Crimson Smelting City was in the Nether Realm, and the order of time was chaotic, with day and night reversed from the human realm.
The demons speculated about this, “Is the city lord’s action to intimidate the human realm, to intimidate the neighboring cities?”
After all, when these loud beacons were lit, it was truly noisy. The demons could only think of this and assumed it was a new method thought up by the tyrannical and ruthless city lord.
“Quick, quick, the city lord is arriving! Idle demons, quickly make way!” The demon who had been shouting just a moment ago fell silent, and another demon beat a golden gong, announcing the city lord’s arrival.
There was no choice. These idle demons could only make way, but they didn’t go too far. Instead, they slipped into a nearby tavern, wanting to see the city lord’s procession.
The ghost carriage, pulled by four Guhuo birds, moved with great pomp. The places where its wheels passed turned the gray dust into a faint green; and on the top of the ghost carriage, gray mist and green clouds rolled and churned, with what seemed to be flickering will-o’-the-wisps, as if pouring down from the sky.
Even in the sunless Nether Realm, it was so dazzlingly bright!
—This new city lord had really learned the bad habits of those emperors and kings in the human realm to a T.
A pig demon snorted and said, “Ah, I get it. This is what you call being of noble birth.”
The monkey spirit and the snake demon both pursed their lips and corrected it, “The humans say you’re right—”
“That’s called being of heavenly descent!”
The demon attendant who served the new city lord was filled with reverence. When he heard the city lord gently tap the wall of the carriage, he had the four Guhuo birds stop and said to Han Xiao, “City Lord, we haven’t reached the beacon tower yet.”
“There’s no need to go to the beacon tower today.” A hand with well-defined knuckles and slender, lustrous fingertips extended from the carriage curtain. After lifting the curtain, a very beautiful face was revealed.
The new City Lord of the Crimson Smelting City, the snake demon who had been sealed in the Nether Realm for thousands of years, Han Xiao.
If anyone else had seen it, they would never have imagined that such a face would be in the Crimson Smelting City—this place was full of savage demons and monsters. It would be impossible to produce a person as beautiful as a snow lotus on a high mountain.
This was also natural.
Their city lord had spent so much time in the Bright Snow Sect in the past, she was imbued with immortal air.
The demon attendant bowed respectfully and asked cautiously, “Yes.”
He didn’t understand what the city lord wanted to do. As a demon attendant, he had witnessed the city lord’s actions these past few days.
For example, lighting the beacons day and night, the divine birds circling and crying out endlessly—
It was said to be to intimidate the universe, but it was more like…
“Today, I am going on a long journey.”
“Eh, eh! Yes, this little one will go prepare for you.”
The demon attendant touched his face, patted it, and pushed the last half of the sentence in his mind to the back.
—More like to attract someone’s attention.
“Chunai, Chunai!”
Jiang Chunai looked up at the sound and saw Lan Xu running over, impatiently calling her name.
“Eh, what’s happened?” Jiang Chunai put down the long sword in her hand, placed it on the table, and turned around.
Lan Xu arrived in front of her at that moment, stopped quickly, and grinned happily.
The light of the sky and the shadows of the clouds were reflected in her eyes, a flowing light, clear and bright.
In her eyes, Jiang Chunai suddenly saw herself.
The clear sunlight shone down. Only then did Jiang Chunai realize that Lan Xu was actually about her age.
It was just that most of the time she was too gloomy. The few times she had spoken, she had used them to bicker with Zhi Zhi, which had made Jiang Chunai ignore her as a person.
Lan Xu had high eyebrows and thin lips. Although she was said to be Master Yu Lingzi’s adopted daughter, upon closer inspection, they both had a certain charm.
…Perhaps they had the same blood flowing in their veins.
Jiang Chunai looked away and asked in a light tone, “What’s happened, that you’re in such a hurry?”
“Well, it’s a matter of the Nether Realm,” Lan Xu said.
Jiang Chunai listlessly lifted her eyelids, sat down casually on a chair, and said, “The Nether Realm? Did something happen in the Crimson Smelting City again?”
To say “Crimson Smelting City” was actually to refer to Han Xiao. But Jiang Chunai was too lazy to mention this “person’s” name.
Han Xiao had, of course, become famous in one battle—although her previous reputation was also very loud, the fame was different.
The previous fame was of course a good reputation. And now?
It was just that this giant snake had gone somewhere to wreak havoc again.
After she was injured, she had first returned to the water, absorbing the spiritual energy of the creatures in the sea; then she had suddenly attacked the Wunian Sect’s forbidden ground and stolen the ancient divine artifact, the God-Binding Rope; then she had torn open the rift between the human realm and the Nether Realm, broken into the Crimson Smelting City, and was said to have imprisoned the original city lord, Pugu Yanxi, and taken his place…
After becoming the city lord, she began to show off her power: the neighboring Dongmu Town in the Nether Realm was constantly disturbed by the thunderous beacons of the Nether Realm.
Dongmu Town was not far from Yanqiu, but not close either.
Occasionally, the people of Yanqiu could also see the raging beacons from the Nether Realm.
These were the things Jiang Chunai knew as a human cultivator. Who knew how many shady and dark things this cruel and fierce snake had done in the Nether Realm?
The only thing she had to do now was to focus on her cultivation.
Although the demon king was born, the hundred immortal sects were not too vigilant.
After Han Xiao stole the Wunian Sect’s divine artifact, she had fled into the Nether Realm and had not appeared again. The immortals would not go looking for trouble, organizing to go to the Nether Realm to capture Han Xiao.
This was no longer the past. Every sect, every immortal manor, every family had its own things to consider.
Yanqiu was no exception.
The most common instruction the people of Yanqiu received was to improve their cultivation, so that when disaster struck, they could protect their own peace.
There were simply too few people in Yanqiu.
A smile hung on Lan Xu’s face—she would smile whenever she saw Jiang Chunai—she quickly turned around, picked up a stool, sat down, and continued, “It’s not a matter of the Crimson Smelting City.”
She was unwilling to tell Jiang Chunai about the matters of the Crimson Smelting City. The City Lord of the Crimson Smelting City was Han Xiao, and Han Xiao had once been a fellow disciple with Jiang Chunai.
And they were very close fellow disciples.
Only then was Jiang Chunai willing to ask more, “Oh, that’s good. Something happened in other parts of the Nether Realm?”
The Nether Realm was vast, and there were all sorts of demons. It wasn’t just the Crimson Smelting City that caused trouble.
Lan Xu said, “Exactly.”
Then she recounted the matter.
“It’s like this. A ghost gate has appeared out of thin air on Mount Xialian… a small sect sent a team of cultivators. Fifteen went, and three came back. They said the ghost gate leads to the Nether Realm, and they had a hard time coming back.”
Jiang Chunai frowned slightly.
Mount Xialian was not far from Yanqiu. If the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold.
“Master’s meaning is that we should go to Mount Xialian to see what’s going on, but not to enter the ghost gate.”