The Young Lady Only Wants to Cultivate Immortality Chapter 6

The birds on Kaiyao Mountain seemed to sense the danger, fleeing from the branches one after another with a rustling sound.

A’Ling paused her steps, taking advantage of the commotion to swiftly flash and hide behind a Jujube tree, the closest spot to observe the fight.

How rare! Shi Qingqian actually has a day where she gets beaten!

A’Ling’s eyes sparkled with excitement as she pulled a handful of pine nuts, grabbed from the mess hall, out of her pocket. She cracked one open and tossed it into her mouth.

She still felt a bit of regret. If only she’d known, she would have brought that plate of white jade melon from lunch. Just eating pine nuts was a bit dry.

A’Ling had seen at a glance that the golden-haired, red-eyed demonic cultivator hadn’t reached the Heavenly Demon Realm yet. His cultivation was mediocre; his palm strike could only kill mortals, it couldn’t kill Shi Qingqian.

Any single one of them likely wouldn’t be Shi Qingqian’s match. Among the people Xing Yanchu brought, there were no true masters; they could only beat Shi Qingqian through sheer numbers.

If these people were to face Shi Qingqian from her previous life, they probably couldn’t even withstand one of her fingers combined. How could she get to watch such a good show, then?

A’Ling watched as Shi Qingqian on the ground stumbled to her feet, looking coldly at the people surrounding her. If it weren’t for the trace of fresh red blood trickling from the corner of her mouth, her aura of looking down on everyone would have made one think she was the one with the upper hand.

Sure enough, the other party clearly couldn’t stand her arrogant demeanor, so they unleashed a magic artifact towards Shi Qingqian, sending her flying out again.

Tsk, tsk, tsk, A’Ling felt a pang of regret. Looking at Shi Qingqian’s miserable appearance, covered in dust mixed with bloodstains on the ground, it’s such a pity I don’t have a Cosmos Pearl. Otherwise, I’d record this scene and take it out to watch whenever I’m bored in the future. How satisfying it would be!

As she regretted this in her heart, she suddenly realized that the fallen Shi Qingqian was looking in her direction, specifically at her tree.

Oh no, I’ve been discovered.

A’Ling’s gaze, which she couldn’t hide in time, collided directly with Shi Qingqian’s deep, dark eyes. She saw the understanding in them, as if they were saying: It really is you.

You grave-robbing demon! If your eyes are useless, why don’t you just dig them out? Are you just staring with those two big eyeballs, treating them like worthless glass? She was clearly just passing by to watch the show.

A’Ling felt a surge of anger. Having been discovered, she couldn’t be bothered to hide anymore. She tossed the nut shells in her hand and walked out, clapping her hands.

Xing Yanchu was first startled when he noticed someone approaching, but then his surprise turned into delight when he saw it was A’Ling.

“A’Ling, why are you here?” Xing Yanchu left the people around him and strode quickly to A’Ling’s side, with an air of seeking praise, smiling smugly. “A’Ling, look who I taught a lesson for you!”

Under the gaze of everyone in the beast arena, A’Ling walked to Shi Qingqian’s side, who was propping herself up, just starting to stand from the ground.

A’Ling turned to look at Xing Yanchu behind her, suppressing the happiness in her heart as she asked, with no emotional fluctuation: “Did I tell you to hit her?”

It sounded just like asking ‘How’s the weather today?’

Xing Yanchu was stung by her indifference. “No, she bullied you, so I’m getting even for you.”

A’Ling frowned, a look of annoyance on her face. “Did I tell you she bullied me?”

She, the infamous Divine Demoness A’Ling from the Demon Realm, when did she ever become someone who sought others’ help to get revenge after being bullied?! She would personally exact her revenge!

Xing Yanchu shook his head. “Zhao Diqing told me.”

“She said it, so why are you saying I said it?” A’Ling was fed up with such brainless idiots, believing anything others said, just as foolish as her past self.

“Isn’t she your good friend?” Xing Yanchu often saw them together.

A’Ling let out a cold laugh. “I have no friends.”

In her previous life, she thought she did, but it turned out she was just naive.

After A’Ling finished speaking, she turned to look at Shi Qingqian, who had already stood up, and let out a cold laugh. “You’re not deaf, are you? You heard all that, right? It was Zhao Diqing and Xing Yanchu. I have nothing to do with these two. Whatever they do has absolutely nothing to do with me.”

Xing Yanchu asked, surprised, “A’Ling, what are you saying? Aren’t we friends?”

A’Ling lowered her gaze. “I said, I have no friends.”

Xing Yanchu choked on her words, feeling displeased. “So my good intentions were fed to a dog, huh?”

A’Ling had no reaction. She certainly wouldn’t associate herself with a dog. Speaking of which, her mount in her previous life was a Heavenly Dwelling Hyena, and in the end, it abandoned her too, clinging desperately to Shi Qingqian. Raising people and raising dogs, it’s all the same; you can’t stop their hearts from leaning towards others. Might as well not have any!

A’Ling’s indifferent demeanor infuriated Xing Yanchu, twisting his mouth in anger. “Fine, since we’re not related, today I’m going to beat her to death, and you better not stop me!”

A’Ling chuckled inwardly. She looked at Shi Qingqian, wondering what Shi Qingqian was feeling at this moment. She probably had never experienced being cannon fodder in someone else’s argument, had she? She truly didn’t want to get involved in this. But she still had to study at Hongjian Academy. If Xing Yanchu killed someone, the matter would escalate greatly, and it wouldn’t matter even if she said she had nothing to do with it. The Dean would definitely deal with her.

“Why would I stop you? It’s just that I happened to run into Zhao Diqing on her way to find the Dean. I came to remind you that the Dean already knows about this and should be on his way now.”

A’Ling paused slightly as she spoke, her gaze sweeping over the helpers Xing Yanchu had brought. She smiled. “Your people, facing the Dean, will probably be ground to dust.”

She emphasized the last four words towards the golden-haired, red-eyed demonic cultivator from earlier.

The demonic cultivator’s face immediately turned unsightly. He cursed. He was a demonic cultivator, naturally an archenemy of righteous cultivators. The Dean of Hongjian Academy was renowned in the outer sects, respected by cultivators as Elder Zeng, and was one of the few Nascent Soul stage masters.

Facing him, his life would surely be forfeit.

He quickly urged Xing Yanchu, “Young Master, this won’t do. If the Dean comes, he could make us all suffer terribly with just a flick of his finger. The lesson has been taught enough. We should leave quickly.”

Xing Yanchu also knew that against Elder Zeng, the group of people from his gambling house were utterly insignificant.

He looked at A’Ling with some doubt. So she came to warn him? But didn’t she just say they weren’t friends?

Xing Yanchu was a bit confused. His gaze shifted from A’Ling to Shi Qingqian’s face. Seeing that cold, frosty face colored in various shades, he felt somewhat placated.

“Hmph, consider yourself lucky today. Let’s go.”

Before leaving, Xing Yanchu took a good look at A’Ling. His doubts grew even stronger. How did A’Ling seem to have changed into a different person?

A’Ling also noticed Xing Yanchu’s suspicious gaze, but she didn’t care. She was reborn, not possessed. No matter who looked, she was still herself.

After Xing Yanchu and his group grandly descended the mountain, A’Ling also turned to leave. She had just gathered some spiritual energy that morning, and she had to strike while the iron was hot and quickly establish her Foundation, otherwise she wouldn’t make it for the opening of the Crane Gate half a year later.

After taking two steps, she turned back and emphasized, “You saw it all, right? Everything that happened today was Xing Yanchu’s own initiative. I didn’t tell him to do it. Your grievances have a source, and your debts have an owner; don’t blame the wrong person.”

She finished speaking and turned to leave, but then she heard a ‘Stop!’ from behind her.

“What do you want?” A’Ling turned impatiently. “I’m in a hurry. Can’t we talk while walking?”

Although she didn’t have anything to say to Shi Qingqian anyway.

“My leg is broken.”

A’Ling felt that Shi Qingqian’s flat tone was like she was saying ‘I have two legs’.

She stopped and looked at Shi Qingqian’s leg, only then realizing that one leg was barely touching the ground, and all her weight was on the other.

Credit to her, standing so steadily on one leg, and even managing to maintain a unique, special grace. It was the same when she was surrounded earlier, like throwing an immortal crane into a mole colony. Even with a body full of injuries and a face smeared with blood, she looked far better than those ugly monsters. No wonder everyone likes her, A’Ling let out a cold laugh. “Then you stay here. I’m leaving.”

A’Ling didn’t delay for a moment, lifting her leg to walk away. The pit from yesterday didn’t trap Shi Qingqian, but who would have thought her leg would break today? Having come back this time, could she be the darling of the Heavenly Dao? A’Ling felt delighted in her heart. She hadn’t even trampled Shi Qingqian underfoot yet, and her leg was already broken. Who would believe it? Venerable Beiming, who in her previous life shone with golden radiance wherever she went and was praised everywhere, now had her leg broken by a lowly Heavenly Demon Realm demonic cultivator. When she got back, she definitely had to carve this incident onto the Eternal Stone at the foot of Mystic Crane Mountain, to remind future generations for tens of thousands of years that Shi Qingqian had such a desolate period in her youth.

“This is Kaiyao Mountain,” Shi Qingqian suddenly spoke.

A’Ling didn’t even turn her head. “So what?”

“The scent of blood here will soon attract demonic beasts.” Shi Qingqian’s tone was still bland, as if speaking of something unrelated to her.

A’Ling, however, understood the danger involved. Surprisingly, this time Xing Yanchu actually showed some brains. The reason Kaiyao Mountain had an abandoned beast arena was because of the abundance of demonic beasts here. In the past, there were cultivators with ill intentions who enjoyed hunting them. The Xing family even came up with the idea of making demonic beasts hunted by cultivators fight each other, setting up gambling rings to profit from the wins and losses. Later, the excessive slaughter alarmed Inner Sect Qiongdian Peak. It was said that the Ancestor of Qiongdian Peak gave an order; that was a powerful being who could open up heavens and split the earth with a stomp of his foot. Who would dare disobey his words? But no one knew why such a minor matter could alarm Qiongdian Peak. Xing Yanchu choosing this place truly showed some thought. After injuring Shi Qingqian, he threw her here to attract demonic beasts and destroy all traces of her. His only mistake was not knowing that Zhao Diqing was a traitor. She would definitely spread this matter, and by then, Xing Yanchu wouldn’t escape punishment, and she would be implicated too.

A’Ling stopped, turning back to look at Shi Qingqian, her gaze heavy.

“You can’t walk with just one leg?” A’Ling was a little disbelieving.

Shi Qingqian’s gaze was very calm. “The other one is injured.”

A’Ling: ……

Does she have to say it so indifferently? Whose leg is it, anyway?!

“You can crawl, right? Your hands aren’t broken, are they?!” A’Ling didn’t believe that Shi Qingqian had no way to get down the mountain. She was probably just unwilling because of her pride.

“No.”

A’Ling was truly furious. “Then you can die here.”

She finished speaking and turned to leave.

After walking for about a hundred meters, she looked back. The person was indeed standing there unmoving, like a post.

A’Ling furiously kicked the Jujube tree beside her, cursed something even fouler than what the demonic cultivator had said earlier, then spun around and walked back.

She grabbed Shi Qingqian’s arm and slung it over her shoulder.

“Useless thing.”

“And remember, this has nothing to do with me!”

“If Elder Zeng asks, you have to say I saved you!”

Shi Qingqian didn’t utter a sound, and A’Ling took it as her agreement. After walking a short distance, she again disliked how slow and tiring it was to walk like this, so she simply carried the other person on her back.

“I really don’t know if I dug up your father’s ancestral grave in my previous life. Oh, wait, you don’t even know who your father is. Not only did you steal my parents, but you stubbornly cling and refuse to leave. Seriously, how thick-skinned are you? And so many people like you. If you ask me, you’re just an ungrateful wretch. Those people are blind to call someone like you an immortal fairy. If you’re an immortal fairy, then I’m the Jade Terrace Holy Mother. Honestly, I’m just not ruthless enough. I should have just left you and let those demonic beasts tear you into dried meat, to save me the trouble of you constantly annoying me in the future.”

A’Ling relied on cursing Shi Qingqian the entire way, and only then, with that last bit of breath, managed to carry her back to Hongjian Academy.

She didn’t expect Shi Qingqian, that ungrateful wretch, to be very grateful.

But what she never expected was that after all her effort carrying the person back from Kaiyao Mountain, the first thing Shi Qingqian said upon seeing Elder Zeng was that she was the mastermind behind it.