Spectating the Angsty Romance of the Master and Disciple from the Sect Next Door Chapter 149

After realizing Xie Huaixue knew about the Heavenly Tome, Li Jin’an settled down after a period of excitement and went about her usual business.
Regardless of whether Xie Huaixue knew, it wouldn’t change the established fact that they were enemies with Wu Zhaoxing and the Heavenly Demon Tribe. At most, it would give Li Jin’an the confidence to accuse Xie Huaixue of being black-hearted and order her to do this and that, as well as prompt Li Jin’an to occasionally ask if Xie Huaixue’s words carried any other meaning.
Once bitten, twice shy.
This was far more important than whether someone was a villain or not.
How much they bully sword cultivators!
If they were to defeat sword cultivators in a direct fight, they would certainly be convinced and accept it. But to fight them using methods sword cultivators were least skilled at, what was the difference between that and the referee announcing the results at the start of a match?
Is it fun to bully unintelligent simpletons?
Li Jin’an felt she had to uphold justice for sword cultivators and punish black-hearted individuals like Xie Huaixue!
She wanted Qingxiao Peak’s zither music to lament day and night without cease!
Besides that, Li Jin’an was even more interested in whether Jingting Dao Lord and Yinyue Monarch knew about the Heavenly Tome’s existence.
Every time such a situation arose, Chixin Sword Lord was never brought into it. She was the one in their ‘family’ who was most deeply kept in the dark. Not to mention Yinyue Monarch, even Li Jin’an hadn’t thought about telling her.
Li Jin’an believed this was truly bullying a foolish sword cultivator. In comparison, Xie Huaixue was much more honest with her than Yinyue Monarch was with Chixin Sword Lord.
With comparison, came happiness.
However, for the person who suffered the most in the Heavenly Tome, it was probably better for her to worry less now, even though Chixin Sword Lord’s worrying only ever made things busier.
“The Dao Lord, I don’t know,” Xie Huaixue said. “My master did have some suspicions and once subtly mentioned it to me. My master had a conversation with the Dao Lord before her demise, so the Dao Lord should also know.”
The only thing that could be considered a conversation was Yinyue Monarch’s entrustment before her demise.
Li Jin’an was puzzled. “Didn’t you two communicate?”
She saw that Xie Huaixue and Jingting Dao Lord had quite a tacit understanding regarding the three villains and thought they had long since exchanged information.
Xie Huaixue shook her head. “Cannot be explicitly stated.”
Their destinies were entangled by the Heavenly Tome.
As for Xie Huaixue, who the villain protagonists tried to forcefully seize, there was no need to elaborate; her name appeared throughout the Heavenly Tome, as if the King of Hell was calling her name.
Jingting Dao Lord, like Li Jin’an, only had her Daoist title in the Heavenly Tome, not her given name. However, because she appeared too many times and was always hostile to the villain protagonists, she was also deeply affected by the Heavenly Tome.
Even the Heavenly Dao needed to use Li Jin’an’s hand to weaken the villain protagonists’ karmic luck, let alone Xie Huaixue and Jingting Dao Lord.
Before they could completely break the situation, neither of them would act rashly.
Thus, both were very cautious and had never explicitly talked about it. They merely tacitly pushed things along, fully displaying the unique tacit understanding of the black-bellied disciples of the Dao Sect on this point.
“So the most formidable person was Yinyue Monarch!” After much pondering, Li Jin’an came to this significant conclusion.
Xie Huaixue lowered her gaze and sighed softly. “Yes, Master painstakingly planned everything for us.”
In the Heavenly Tome, Yinyue Monarch’s role was the same as Li Jin’an’s: merely to highlight the beautiful, strong, and tragic nature of the sect master.
One was an early-deceased master, the other an early-deceased old friend; their existence was merely to make Qingxiao Immortal Venerable truly a solitary figure.
Otherwise, the ‘forced possession’ drama wouldn’t have been as compelling.
Yet in the Heavenly Tome, Yinyue Monarch didn’t even have a Daoist title; she was only mentioned once as Qingxiao Immortal Venerable’s master, and she was the true key figure who resisted the Heavenly Tome and fate.
The siege of Three Realms Mountain, the Heavenly Demon Tribe, Xie Huaixue, Jingting Dao Lord, Chixin Sword Lord, Li Jin’an, the Heavenly Dao… All of this was connected to the inconspicuous Yinyue Monarch.
At the time, they didn’t think much of it. It was only much later that they understood Yinyue Monarch’s intentions.
Parents love their children, so they plan far ahead for them.
The Yinyue Monarch who fell in the snowy night had schemed hundreds of years into the future for Li Jin’an and Xie Huaixue.
She couldn’t save her friend who was besieged to death at Three Realms Mountain; she could only risk her own life to save two children and her Dao companion.
As for Jingting Dao Lord, since she wanted to join Yinyue Peak’s big family, once she came, she couldn’t leave. She should properly contribute her people and efforts for them.
Subtle clues, far-reaching implications.
For Yinyue Monarch, calculating everything was not a derogatory term.
Li Jin’an’s eyes reddened. She lightly exhaled a turbid breath and forcibly suppressed the urge to cry.
“These old seniors are truly annoying.”
Each has their own annoying points.
Xie Huaixue looked at her and smiled gently, echoing, “They are very annoying.”
“You’re annoying too.” Li Jin’an didn’t appreciate it and swept everyone with one stroke.
“Alright, I’m annoying.” Xie Huaixue agreed with her words.
“But I don’t dislike you.” Li Jin’an said grudgingly.
After the word “important,” “annoying” also became a word Li Jin’an almost couldn’t recognize, one said directly, the other heard in reverse.
The demon army crossed Three Realms Mountain, but the righteous path of the cultivation world was not panicked. They simply let Fufeng Domain defend itself as usual.
In recent centuries, the demon tribe had indeed been quite peaceful; Wu Hai had not initiated a major war, but small groups of demon soldiers’ incursions had never ceased, and Fufeng Domain had always been in high-frequency combat.
Like Li Jin’an, the righteous immortal sects also had another focus: What exactly was that third eye?!
They had always known that the demon tribe was unconventional, bearing strong desires for destruction and reproduction in their bones, so much so that two situations would arise: frantically giving birth to children and eating newly born children.
But who could have imagined that the demon tribe would actually crossbreed a new species that naturally countered high-level cultivators’ spiritual seas and could even predict the opponent’s attack moves? This was truly terrifying.
This was not just Li Jin’an’s problem, but the problem of all high-level cultivators.
On the battlefield, when the third eye launched an attack, it wouldn’t care which sect or faction the human cultivators on the opposite side belonged to.
They were not Jingting Dao Lord, whose single horsetail whisk could oppress more than just the cultivation world; it practically suppressed all three realms, making them unable to raise their heads. They weren’t even Jijin Sword Sovereign, so naturally, they felt worried.
Fufeng Domain.
Disciples from various sects went to the front lines to defend against enemies; the elders gathered to chat.
“Charm demons can bewitch minds, and shadow demons can penetrate cultivators’ spiritual seas,” the elder of the Divine Mechanism Sect said, greatly puzzled, as she looked at the sword cultivator beside her. “Could it be that these two combined to give birth? But why did they give birth to just an eye?”
What could a sword cultivator know? She chose to throw this question to the elder of Spring Rejuvenation Valley. “You’re a medical cultivator, you know best; you say.”
“…I am a medical cultivator, I can examine your brain right now.” The Spring Rejuvenation Valley elder smiled kindly. “I can also be a veterinarian, what do you think?”
The Divine Mechanism Sect elder and the Sword Sect sword cultivator immediately shut their noisy mouths, becoming incredibly well-behaved.
Such behavior wasn’t out of respect for life-saving medical cultivators, but because sometimes medicine and poison were inseparable. Any seemingly amicable Spring Rejuvenation Valley elder could be proficient in toxicology; perhaps the people she poisoned and killed far outnumbered those she saved.
These medical cultivators could truly effortlessly poison an entire city!
Incredibly ruthless.
Offending sword cultivators was fine; it just meant fighting openly. But if you offended a medical cultivator, when you were about to die, not only would you not receive treatment, there was a high possibility that the medical cultivator had poisoned you.
Poisoning while saving, a blow and a favor, how could that not be considered healing the world?
The two of them were so well-behaved precisely because this Spring Rejuvenation Valley elder was extremely skilled in poison, and was the kind who was vengeful and utterly lacking in medical ethics.
The Divine Mechanism Sect elder immediately glared angrily at the sword cultivator. Who told you to ask her!
The sword cultivator bared her teeth. Who brought up this question first? Trying to shift the blame to a sword cultivator? Trying to outsmart me!
Just wait, she would go find Xiaoxiang and Junhang to ‘bag’ that scoundrel later.
The Dao Sect elder said calmly, “How could the Demon Lord’s awakened Heavenly Eye be like that of ordinary demons? Why panic? Even if that eye were to enter the fray, it wouldn’t bother with us.”
“Sword Sovereign, Immortal Venerable, Dao Lord are all in your Dao Sect. Do you have any inside information?” The Divine Mechanism Sect elder secretly leaned over.
Even the Spring Rejuvenation Valley elder and elders from other sects couldn’t help but lean in to listen, very curious about the great battle that day.
From an outsider’s perspective, the entire incident was very simple: the newly appointed Demon Lord couldn’t resist provoking Qingxiao Immortal Venerable and the Dao Sect. Jijin Sword Sovereign, as her Dao companion, sought revenge for her and relentlessly pounded the Demon Lord. The only unexpected event was the third eye.
Precisely because it was too simple, it left people feeling overwhelmed and confused about the situation.
The Sword Sect sword cultivator widened her eyes and cried out on behalf of Chixin Sword Lord. “Why didn’t they bring Sword Lord along?”
“…Oh, and Sword Lord, alright already!” The Divine Mechanism Sect elder was thoroughly defeated by these sword cultivators who could never grasp the main point.
“Alright.” The sword cultivator looked at the Dao Sect elder and said naturally, “It’s your turn to speak.”
The Dao Sect elder was silently speechless. As if she’d just say whatever she knew!
Not to mention she had no inside information; even if she did, did she look like someone who dared to offend the four people mentioned?
“Currently, I have no thoughts of defecting from the sect.” The Dao Sect elder said tactfully.
“Tch.” The sword cultivator scoffed, a sharp contrast to her attitude towards the Spring Rejuvenation Valley elder just now. This was exactly how she bullied the weak and feared the strong.
Given the long-standing good relationship between the Dao Sect and the Sword Sect, the Dao Sect elder decided not to argue with these tactless, reckless people. She looked in the direction of the demon realm. “It just depends on whether that Demon Lord can sit still.”
Wu Zhaoxing naturally couldn’t sit still.
She scoffed, speaking to the no-longer-disguised third eye. “This Venerable thought you were going to kill Jijin and strike Jingting, but what happened? Nothing impressive!”
Even humans bully the weak and fear the strong, let alone demons.
If the third eye had won, Wu Zhaoxing, no matter how dissatisfied she was, wouldn’t have shown it openly. But the third eye had lost miserably, no better than she had, which made her completely unable to restrain her dissatisfaction.
The third eye slowly blinked like a human, its tone peculiar. “Are you blaming me?”
Just puppets and pawns, both inside and outside the book.
Wu Zhaoxing took a deep breath, forcing herself to calm down. “No matter what, our goals are the same. You want to destroy Qingxiao Immortal Venerable and the Dao Sect; I want Master, and this doesn’t conflict.”
“Also, Jijin Sword Sovereign must die.”
“Before that, I am your most useful blade, aren’t I?”
When she was at an absolute disadvantage, Wu Zhaoxing would always make the most advantageous choice, waiting for an opportunity to turn the tables.
“Yes, you are indeed useful.” The third eye was very satisfied with Wu Zhaoxing’s understanding. Its laughter was pleased. “Otherwise, we wouldn’t have chosen you.”
“Then what should I do?” Wu Zhaoxing hid the sharp glint in her eyes and asked, lowering her head.
“Go to the battlefield personally, kill Jijin Sword Sovereign, and obtain…”