The Young Lady Only Wants to Cultivate Immortality Chapter 93

Dark clouds pressed down, the sky dimming, a storm about to break.
A’Ling straightened her spine, her eyes half-closed, looking up at the empty twelfth seat among the twelve Peerless Floating Thrones.
Aside from Shi Qingqian, the remaining eleven Cave Abode Masters were gathered at the Immortal Rainbow Platform.
A’Ling hadn’t expected that in this lifetime, she would once again face such a grand occasion, and the theme remained the same: her trial.
There were, however, many differences. She tilted her head back, gazing at the gilded tops of the twelve Peerless Floating Thrones. The three Peak Masters, seated on their Floating Cloud Lotus Thrones, were all present without exception.
This time it was truly the highest echelon of Mystic Crane Mountain.
A’Ling didn’t know if she should feel honored.
She let out a wry smile, withdrawing her gaze, and looked at the [Sun Spirit Demon Subduing Chains] on her hands. Not just her hands, but her feet were also shackled.
During her last trial, these things hadn’t been used on her. They were really giving her special treatment now.
After a self-mocking laugh, A’Ling sighed softly. She remembered that last time, after carrying the severely injured Shi Qingqian back to her Cave Abode, she was immediately escorted to the Immortal Rainbow Platform for judgment.
This time, history seemed to be repeating itself. After finally carrying the unconscious Shi Qingqian up from the Pi Lingyun Valley, she was only happy for a brief moment before being apprehended, taken directly back to her Cave Abode, and sent straight to this judgment platform.
She even suspected that she and Shi Qingqian were under some kind of curse; why was it that every time she saved Shi Qingqian, trouble followed?
And each time, it was worse than the last.
After the Lords at the head exchanged glances, Gong Shuangyu began the questioning.
“Since you didn’t flee out of fear after your demonic identity was discovered, why did you jump into the Pi Lingyun Valley?”
They had already tested A’Ling for demonic energy earlier and found none within her. However, Gong Shuangyu was still unconvinced, feeling that something was amiss.
If A’Ling wasn’t fleeing due to her demonic identity being revealed, then why had she frantically leaped into the Heaven’s Gate Suppressing Evil Barrier in the Pi Lingyun Valley?
The danger of the Pi Lingyun Valley was evident from the still unconscious Shi Qingqian.
When they apprehended A’Ling, Shi Qingqian was by her side, severely injured, her spirit damaged. She still hadn’t woken up after two days.
A’Ling, however, was lively and well. A’Ling didn’t know what had happened to her in Pi Lingyun Valley.
After not being detected for demonic energy, A’Ling felt a bit relieved. She knew that if Shi Qingqian couldn’t be detected, then the people in the abode likely wouldn’t be able to either.
Putting aside this worry for the moment, she glanced at Elder Qi Yu, who was listening to the proceedings among the crowd.
If she were to point out now that Elder Qi Yu had used a puppet spell to make her jump into the Pi Lingyun Valley, not only would she be suspected of being a spy for the demon realm, but who would even believe her words?
Even if they did, the puppet spell itself was one of the ten forbidden arts within Mystic Crane Mountain. This was because the person under the puppet spell was unconscious and unaware of their actions. How could she explain how she regained consciousness?
She couldn’t possibly say that after recalling events from her previous life, and then seeing the monstrous appearance of Shi Qingqian’s damaged Nascent Soul, she had a massive shock that allowed her to break free from the puppet spell.
As A’Ling pondered, she immediately dismissed the naive idea of exposing Elder Qi Yu as soon as she got out.
“Hmm? Why aren’t you answering?”
Seeing A’Ling with her head bowed, lost in thought, Gong Shuangyu’s question went unanswered. This further convinced her that something was wrong, and A’Ling was likely feeling guilty.
Hearing the stern question, A’Ling appeared startled, her body trembling. She cautiously looked up, as if hesitant to speak further.
Elder Qi Yu, standing among the crowd, had been watching A’Ling intently and naturally caught her glance.
Her brow furrowed slightly. Did this person know something?
What made her even more annoyed was that she was present at the Pi Lingyun Valley when A’Ling was apprehended and was the first to participate in the search.
Their group had exhausted much of their spiritual energy searching A’Ling’s storage bag with a password, but they found nothing.
Elder Qi Yu didn’t find anything on A’Ling that could be the Ten Fiend Ghost Soul.
She didn’t know what the Ten Fiend Ghost Soul looked like specifically, but she guessed that after being subdued, like other Ghostly Fiends, they would condense into beads of various colors.
She quietly hid anything she found on A’Ling that could be such an item when no one was looking, but the Saint Venerable examined them and declared they were not.
She had also speculated that perhaps A’Ling hadn’t found the item either, but the Saint Venerable insisted it must be with her.
Elder Qi Yu was furious. Where on earth had A’Ling hidden the item?
She also considered whether the Ten Fiend Ghost Soul might have possessed something. She had investigated A’Ling and Shi Qingqian but found no signs of possession.
Finally, unable to do anything else, she took the only four living things found on A’Ling – two fat, chicken-like Sound-Eating Birds and two muscular Sound-Translating Birds from her storage bag – back to the Saint Venerable for inspection, but they were not it either.
Recalling the Saint Venerable’s disappointed gaze, Elder Qi Yu felt as if her heart had been pierced with a thousand holes. How could she disappoint the Saint Venerable? She had to find the item.
As she was contemplating how to find the item, A’Ling, who was bound in the center of the Immortal Rainbow Platform, suddenly stood up and walked a few steps quickly towards her, pointing a finger at her and shouting loudly, “It’s her, it must be her!”
A’Ling looked at Elder Qi Yu with a look of sudden realization mixed with disbelief, her hands trembling with emotion, pointing and repeatedly shouting, “It’s her, I know, it’s her!”
Those beside Elder Qi Yu initially thought A’Ling was pointing at them and dodged her finger, only to realize she was pointing at Elder Qi Yu.
The Lords at the head were also surprised. Gong Shuangyu frowned deeply and asked in a low voice, “What is ‘her’? Speak clearly.”
A’Ling, who had been about to step forward excitedly, was pulled back by the [Sun Spirit Demon Subduing Chains] on her feet. She retreated with a pained expression, but her eyes remained vigilant, fixed on Elder Qi Yu.
“I remember now. At that time, I sent the injured Lan Fushang to Elder Qi Yu. Suddenly, I felt a strange sensation, and after that, I was possessed and lost my memory of what happened next.”
“It must be her. Only she had the opportunity to tamper with things. I even smelled something different at the time.”
“If you don’t believe me, you can call Lan Fushang here to ask her. She should have also noticed something unusual.”
A’Ling said with certainty to the people at the head, feeling a bit apprehensive in her heart, hoping that Fushang would cooperate with her words and direct the matter towards Elder Qi Yu.
What she didn’t know was that Lan Fushang had already reported to the mansion about detecting the scent of the Quiexie Flower, which was unusual on A’Ling at the time.
The Lords at the head hesitated and looked towards Qi Yu.
Gong Shuangyu, who had been involved in the whole affair, naturally knew that A’Ling and Lan Fushang didn’t have the time or opportunity to collude on such a statement. Could someone have framed them?
But between A’Ling and Elder Qi Yu, Gong Shuangyu was more inclined to believe Elder Qi Yu. How many years had she been in Mystic Crane Mountain without any incidents? Unlike A’Ling, how many incidents had there been since she joined Mystic Crane Mountain!
Someone in the crowd, who was friendly with Elder Qi Yu, directly retorted, “Lan Fushang is your friend, so she might lie for you.”
A’Ling immediately retorted, “Are you saying that because Elder Qi Yu is your friend, you would lie and testify for her without regard for right or wrong?”
“Nonsense, how could I!” The person was momentarily angered, their face flushed red, and they couldn’t come up with any other rebuttal.
They couldn’t say Elder Qi Yu wasn’t their friend. If they said they wouldn’t disregard facts because of friendship, then they had just made malicious assumptions about Lan Fushang.
Those who had gone to repair the barrier in the Pi Lingyun Valley together recalled that Lan Fushang had indeed mentioned smelling the scent of the Quiexie Flower back then. They all knew that this item attracted Ghostly Fiends, and they also knew that ordinary people couldn’t make it. It was indeed only medical cultivators who had this ability.
The gazes of the crowd towards Elder Qi Yu became uncertain.
If A’Ling had been detected for demonic energy at this moment, no one would have listened to her sophistry. But now that A’Ling was not a demon, people were more receptive to her defense.
Seeing the crowd’s gaze, Elder Qi Yu walked to the center of the Immortal Rainbow Platform, next to A’Ling, and bowed to the Peak Masters and Abode Masters at the head.
“This is all baseless talk. If the Peak Masters and Abode Masters do not believe me, they can summon Lan Fushang to confront me.”
“Granted.”
Gong Shuangyu saw that the Peak Masters at the head remained silent, implying they did not object, and ordered someone to release the detained Lan Fushang.
While waiting, the crowd buzzed with discussion, speculating on how Elder Qi Yu became involved.
Elder Qi Yu looked at A’Ling beside her. Since standing up, A’Ling had not knelt down again.
She asked A’Ling in a voice only they could hear, “Why do you suspect me?”
She was very curious. This person had shown such trust and respect towards her before, so why was she now implicating her? Did she know she had been placed under a puppet spell?
This was impossible. The puppet spell improved by Saint Venerable Dao Rong made the caster unconscious. Even if they regained consciousness later, they would have no memory of what happened during the process.
Furthermore, this spell was already a forbidden art within Mystic Crane Mountain. Where did A’Ling learn about it?
A’Ling looked at Elder Qi Yu with an apologetic expression and clasped her hands together, “I’m sorry, Elder. I had to bring you into this to protect myself. Anyway, they won’t be able to find anything, so they won’t trouble you afterwards.”
Given this, Elder Qi Yu’s confusion was resolved. She had thought this fool had suddenly become smart, but she didn’t expect that while her mind was not working well, her schemes had become more numerous.
She was actually using this baseless accusation to absolve herself.
She let out a cold snort, thinking of the item she was looking for, and said softly, “I can forgive you, and I can even help you, depending on whether you are willing.”
A’Ling’s eyes lit up upon hearing this, “Willing, willing! What do you want me to do?”
She spoke with some impatience, making Elder Qi Yu feel that this person knew even less than she did.
Elder Qi Yu pretended to rub her nose, covering her mouth as she spoke, “Did you find anything good in the Pi Lingyun Valley? As long as you’re willing to hand it over, I’ll make up some miraculous effects for it. Then, you can redeem yourself with the treasure.”
A’Ling looked pained upon hearing this and sighed, “All my things are gone.”
As she spoke, her gaze drifted to the disciples beside the presiding cultivators in the distance. The magic artifacts they held were those confiscated from her and locked in the [Huchi Restraining Cage]. One was a Little Wandering, and the other was the Nine Heavens Immortal Binding Net. She couldn’t summon either of them now.
Elder Qi Yu didn’t know if she was feigning ignorance. She directly asked, “What about the white bone bracelet you were wearing?”
A’Ling appeared surprised, as if confused why Elder Qi Yu would ask about this, but she didn’t hesitate for too long. With a look of annoyance, she said, “I lost it. I haven’t seen it since I regained consciousness.”
Upon hearing this, Saint Venerable Dao Rong, looking at the foolish face in the Jiaoying Mirror, suddenly clenched his hand. The Thousand-Year Demon Pill sacrificed by the Paohuo Beast in his palm let out a ‘crack’ and shattered into luminous powder.
This idiot!
Dao Rong looked at A’Ling’s eyes through the mirror, trying to determine if she was lying. But seeing her seemingly clueless demeanor, he cursed himself for being foolish.
This brainless person, happily walking into a trap, what could she possibly know? Moreover, she had always trusted Qi Yu before. This time, in order to protect herself, implicating Qi Yu was probably because she thought Qi Yu had a good temper and wouldn’t blame her afterwards.
The anger in Dao Rong’s heart surged like magma under a volcano, just waiting for an outlet. He was furious that he had believed this fool.
He thought that since she had found it once before, she would definitely be able to find it again this time.
To be safe, he even sent the white bone bracelet to her.
To his surprise, not only did she not bring out the Ten Fiend Ghost Soul, but she even lost the white bone he had painstakingly refined!
Elder Qi Yu knew that regarding what they were saying now, Saint Venerable Dao Rong would likely have already found out. She was also alarmed that the item was missing and was waiting for Saint Venerable Dao Rong’s next instructions.
Soon, a low male voice appeared in her mind. She lowered her head slightly so no one could see her expression and listened silently to Saint Venerable Dao Rong’s instructions.
As soon as the voice in her mind ended, Qi Yu glanced at A’Ling beside her, her eyes filled with an unspeakable coldness. She took a step forward, widening the distance between herself and A’Ling, and said to the Peak Masters at the head, “Reporting to the three Peak Masters, I have made an important discovery.”
Ye Bingfeng had also been somewhat impatient. Since A’Ling was not a demon, she had no further interest in listening.
She was just telling Shan Xinci and Jiang Qiuchun that she had something else to do and would leave first, when she suddenly heard Elder Qi Yu’s words.
The three of them looked at Elder Qi Yu in unison.
Elder Qi Yu extended her hand forward, palm up, opening her palm.
The three of them looked closely and saw a blue crystal ball emitting black smoke.
“What is this?” Since Qi Yu was a medical cultivator, Shan Xinci asked first.
“Reporting to the Peak Master, this is a small device I spent a hundred years developing to detect demonic energy. If it emits black smoke, it means there is a demon nearby.”
Upon hearing this, everyone was in an uproar. How could this be? A demon was mixed among them?
Elder Qi Yu continued, “I deliberately approached A’Ling earlier to see if this thing would change. I didn’t expect it to actually change.”
“How can this be?” Gong Shuangyu was the first to exclaim in surprise. “I personally tested A’Ling for demonic energy just now.”
She believed her spell was flawless, and Shi Qingqian had also not been detected last time.
Elder Qi Yu naturally knew what she was surprised about. She continued, “Precisely because some demons are more cunning, and the spell used to test demonic energy in Mystic Crane Mountain has remained the same for thousands of years, it’s possible that some demons have devised a way to conceal themselves from this spell.”
Gong Shuangyu found this explanation acceptable. This meant it wasn’t her problem, but the spell’s problem.
“If that’s the case, what do you intend to do?” Gong Shuangyu thought that since Elder Qi Yu could create this demonic energy-sensing device, she might have other methods to test for demonic energy.
As expected, Elder Qi Yu bowed and said she had a way.
A’Ling was surprised, but she knew she couldn’t hide or avoid it now, nor could she show any guilt. She took a deep breath and generously extended her right hand, “If Elder Qi Yu doesn’t believe me, then test it yourself.”
She could only gamble!
Elder Qi Yu, however, directly pushed aside her right hand and grabbed her left hand. With her spiritual light as a blade, she quickly sliced open the pad of her left index finger and, following the pattern given by the Saint Venerable, drew a talisman on A’Ling’s palm with her blood.
In an instant, a golden light erupted from the center of the Immortal Rainbow Platform where they stood and shot up into the sky.
Lan Fushang, just as she was being brought above the Immortal Rainbow Platform, heard exclamations.
“Demon, it’s demonic energy!”
“A’Ling is truly a demon!”
“Kill her, kill this spy from the demon realm!”
Lan Fushang gazed at the scene on the Immortal Rainbow Platform, her heart filled with terror, her eyes trembling violently.
As she was led from the sword to the Immortal Rainbow Platform, a lightning strike flashed before her eyes. The deafening thunder made everyone cover their ears.
Lan Fushang also broke free from the people restraining her and rushed towards A’Ling with all her might, wanting to block the attacks for her.
The lightning that accompanied the thunder just now had split a thousand-year-old ancient tree. Flames instantly engulfed the cracked wood, emitting thick black smoke.
However, even such dense black smoke was not as terrifying as the black mist surging from A’Ling.
Shi Qingqian clutched her chest and suddenly awoke from a soul-shattering tremor. The moment her eyes opened, the bizarre, dazzling, light-spot-like time fragments exploded in her mind, causing her to gasp in pain.
After hunching over and gasping for breath for a long time, the overlapping, shattered, and rejoining images in her mind finally found their proper places, freeing Shi Qingqian’s consciousness.
She pressed her temples and looked around. The surroundings were empty. There were no more fleeting lights and shadows.
After several heavy breaths, Shi Qingqian managed to suppress the terror she felt from seeing ‘her’ death at that moment. She looked around. Where was this?
“Ah, you’re awake?”
A beam of light shone in, followed by a medical disciple holding a bowl of medicine. Seeing Shi Qingqian awake, she looked delighted and quickly walked closer.
When Shi Qingqian saw the person’s appearance, she confirmed she didn’t recognize her. She asked, “Where is this?”
The person put down the medicine bowl and tried to step forward to examine Shi Qingqian, but Shi Qingqian avoided her.
She retracted her hand somewhat dejectedly and explained, “This is the medicine pavilion on Summer Shadow Peak. You were unconscious and were sent here. Venerable Min Ci personally healed your injured spirit.”
As she finished speaking, she seemed to remember something, saying, “I’ll go and inform the Elder that you’re awake,” and ran out.
Upon hearing Shan Xinci’s name, Shi Qingqian clutched her slightly aching temples. The memories in her mind were too chaotic. Upon hearing Shan Xinci’s name, she finally remembered what happened before she fell unconscious.
She and A’Ling had entered the Pi Lingyun Valley together. She wanted to break through the Heaven’s Gate Suppressing Evil Barrier, but her spirit was injured.
So, had they come out now?
Shi Qingqian frantically looked around. She didn’t see A’Ling.
Where was A’Ling?
A’Ling… Shi Qingqian thought of A’Ling, thought of everything she had just seen. Some previous confusions were now completely clear.
She finally understood A’Ling’s strangeness: why she knew demonic arts; why she had called out the name of the artifact on the first glance and firmly believed she had refined it; and why, no matter what she did, A’Ling worried she harbored malicious intentions.
Even the disappearance of the ‘ugly thing’ was attributed to her by A’Ling.
So that’s how it was, it was like this!
Shi Qingqian’s heart was filled with bitterness, and she finally understood why A’Ling said it was impossible between them.
She thought their relationship was only flawed by that one incident at the Demon Mountain, but she never expected that in A’Ling’s heart, they were separated by a lifetime!
She had already been killed by ‘her’ once, so how could she possibly be with her again!
But that wasn’t her. Shi Qingqian’s heart was riddled with holes, bleeding everywhere. Thinking of the scenes she had seen, she couldn’t help but ask herself, was that her? Did she kill A’Ling?
Shi Qingqian was very confused. She recalled the misunderstandings between the two in the scenes, and A’Ling’s unspoken feelings until her death.
Was that really her? How could she have treated A’Ling like that?
Would she bear to see A’Ling fall into demonic ways, enduring the pain of living?
Would she leave A’Ling alone in a dark and rotten place like the demon realm for so many years?
Could she endure her feelings and let A’Ling die without knowing that someone deeply loved her?
No, that wasn’t her!
The confusion in Shi Qingqian’s eyes gradually lit up. That wasn’t her. The determination flickered in her eyes. Even if that was the her in A’Ling’s past life memories, it wasn’t the her now.
“You really are awake. Venerable Min Ci’s healing technique is indeed remarkable.”
Shi Qingqian heard the voice and withdrew her thoughts from her turbulent emotions. Seeing the person who had arrived, she immediately asked, “Where is A’Ling?”
“A’Ling? You mean that spy from the demon realm? Her, ah, she’s currently being tried at the Immortal Rainbow Platform. She—”
She had just received news that A’Ling had been detected for demonic energy and was about to mention it, but before she could finish, she saw a flash of spell light before her eyes, and in the next instant, Shi Qingqian disappeared.
Upon hearing “spy from the demon realm,” Shi Qingqian’s heart jolted. Then, the energy within her body began to churn like the sea before a storm. In that moment, she sensed that A’Ling was in danger.
By the time she teleported to the Immortal Rainbow Platform, she saw A’Ling kneeling in a pool of crimson blood, unable to move due to the seven soul-locking demon-subduing nails. In the raging demonic wind, the black mist shrouding her body was like a dragon trapped on a shoal, struggling everywhere but unable to break free from the Immortal Rainbow Platform’s lightning barrier.
Shi Qingqian gazed at this scene, which had repeatedly appeared in her dreams, a scene that always made her panic. She looked at the dying, disheveled A’Ling kneeling before everyone.
Her shoulders, and indeed her entire body, trembled violently as A’Ling spat out another mouthful of blood!
With each step she took forward, the angry trembling intensified. Within a few breaths, everyone noticed her arrival.
They saw the black mist gradually seeping from her body.
Shi Qingqian walked step by step towards A’Ling, who was trapped in the center of the demon-subduing formation. Wind blades raged, black flames flickered in her palms, veins bulged on the back of her hand, and her five fingernails turned from pale green to a terrifying blood red due to excessive force.
With that blood-red finger, she tore at the lightning barrier personally set up by Venerable Cai Yun, and with a forceful pull, violently ripped open the winding lightning that resembled a cage.
Shi Qingqian stepped forward, walking on the spiritual light of the formation’s core. Under the raging blades, the black mist seeping from her body was like countless vengeful spirits emerging from the abyss, shrieking and attacking everywhere, shattering the already cracked lightning barrier into pieces.
The surging demonic energy violently enveloped the entire Immortal Rainbow Platform. Before the people around could react, clusters of flames ignited from the black abyss, instantly igniting everything, leading to cries of agony and wailing.
When Qi Yu saw Shi Qingqian, her heart sank. However, she had already used the seven soul-locking demon-subduing nails, and still, the item the Saint Venerable wanted could not be forced out of A’Ling’s body.
Looking at the increasingly close Shi Qingqian, she hardened her heart and was about to drive all the soul-locking demon-subduing nails into A’Ling’s body.
But the moment she made a move, she froze.
She looked down at her chest, where a fist-sized hole had appeared. Before she could be shocked, another wisp of black mist pierced her chest.
Then she saw her body being pierced by these bizarre black mists, and internal fires ignited from within the pierced parts, burning her spirit to ashes.
Qi Yu cried out in agony, curled up, and collapsed on the ground. The pain, as if her internal organs were being roasted, made her unable to straighten up, and she writhed in pain.
Gong Shuangyu, beside her, wanted to save her, but the moment she touched her, her palm was also pierced.
The magic artifact in her hand, stained with blood, fell to the ground. The blood of A’Ling on it, the moment it hit the ground, was like throwing sparks onto hot oil, and instantly the Immortal Rainbow Platform was engulfed in flames.
Ye Bingfeng and the others wanted to stop Shi Qingqian, but they were surrounded by these strange black flames, unable to fly out or dodge, and had to summon their respective magic artifacts to confront these black flames.
Shi Qingqian walked step by step to A’Ling’s side, tore open all her restraints with her bare hands, pulled out the soul-suppressing nails from her body, and murmured to the person in her arms.
The voice that was always unclear in her dreams was now clear in her ears.
She said, “Run quickly…”
A’Ling blinked away the blood from her eyes, seeing Shi Qingqian’s demonic state. She endured the taste of blood in her throat and laboriously urged Shi Qingqian to run quickly.
After being detected for demonic energy, these people were determined to torture her to death. If Shi Qingqian was seen in this state, who knew what would happen to her.
If A’Ling had the strength to look around at this moment, she would probably be surprised.
Shi Qingqian was not the one who needed to run.
Shi Qingqian looked down at the person cradled in her arms. A’Ling’s eyes were a startling web of crimson, completely streaked with blood. Yet it wasn’t fear or pain that filled them—it was concern. A raw, impossible concern aimed entirely at her.
This was a look she had never seen in A’Ling’s eyes in the illusion. Did this mean A’Ling felt differently towards her than towards ‘that person’?
Shi Qingqian took a deep breath, her brows and the corners of her eyes contorted with suppressed anger and jealousy. She didn’t just want something different; she wanted to be unique.
She tightly closed her eyes, hiding the sadness and despair in her eyes, knowing that this was impossible.
When she opened her eyes again, they were completely filled with black mist. She looked down at the person in her arms, flicked her sleeve, revealing her slender arm, and embraced the person who could no longer stand straight.
Her crimson nails gradually lengthened, as if growing thorns.
Shi Qingqian, with a look of determination, slowly leaned down and pressed her lips against the pale, dry, but what she had yearned for day and night.
Her sharp fingernails broke through her palm. She clenched it tightly, and her palm was covered in crimson.
Under the shroud of black mist, Shi Qingqian deepened the kiss, hooking A’Ling’s head with one hand, and with the other, drew the last page of the Demon Lord’s Eternal Covenant on A’Ling’s back with her blood.
If A’Ling could see, she would realize that the talisman pattern was a feather, the same pattern that had appeared when she concealed her demonic energy before.
A’Ling didn’t know why Shi Qingqian suddenly kissed her at this moment, with such a heart-pounding sadness. She felt the hand pressed against the back of her head trembling slightly.
She opened her eyes to look. Shi Qingqian’s eyes were closed, and she couldn’t see the emotions in them, but her furrowed brow, which seemed to be suppressing a deep sadness, inexplicably made her feel a pang of heartache.
A’Ling actually felt like crying. She tightly clasped Shi Qingqian’s arm.
The moment she wanted to pull away from the kiss, she suddenly felt a stream of heat rising in her chest, gradually wanting to escape from her throat with her breath.
She struggled forcefully. She didn’t know what it was, but she worried it might be her uncontrollable blood.
She had a strong taste of blood in her mouth and lips since a moment ago, which was also why she wanted to avoid Shi Qingqian’s kiss.
She also didn’t know why, at this moment, she was worried that her first kiss with Shi Qingqian would be ruined by a mouthful of her blood.
Before she could break free from Shi Qingqian’s embrace, in an instant, something was transferred through their joined lips.
A’Ling’s eyes widened. What was this?
Before she could think carefully, Shi Qingqian kissed her again, her lips hurting slightly. She had even been bitten.
Although it didn’t hurt much, it made A’Ling’s heart skip a beat.
What was happening to her? Why was she so fierce and lingering, like a vent, like an accusation, and also filled with resentment?
A’Ling felt even more like crying. She pushed Shi Qingqian forcefully, wanting to ask her what was wrong.
Shi Qingqian felt the struggle in her arms, and her heart ached. The scene from the illusion in her mind kept appearing uncontrollably.
She stubbornly wanted to erase the imprint left by that person on this spot.
But upon feeling A’Ling’s rejection, her heart ached, and she let go of A’Ling, feeling disheartened.
The moment A’Ling gained freedom, she saw the despair in Shi Qingqian’s eyes.
The accumulated sourness that had just begun to build up instantly washed over the strings in her heart like a tidal wave.
A tear slid down the corner of her eye.
Shi Qingqian looked at the tear, which was no different from the ones in her dreams, and pursed her lips, which were filled with bitterness. She thought, as expected, she didn’t like her.
A’Ling hadn’t realized she could cry. At this moment, another physical change was shocking her.
She was surprised to find that her wounds were healing at a visible speed, and the energy within her felt as clean as if it had been washed.
What was happening? A’Ling forcefully suppressed the sadness that had just arisen in her heart due to Shi Qingqian, and her entire heart was captured as she saw the red patterns at the corner of Shi Qingqian’s eyes seem to come alive and wriggle.
“What’s wrong with you?”
She nervously reached out and touched Shi Qingqian’s cheek, looking at her black mist-shrouded eyes, her heart trembling greatly. A terrifying thought emerged in A’Ling’s mind.
Shi Qingqian did not answer her question. In the gloomy gale, Shi Qingqian gradually disappeared into the black mist.
A’Ling watched the face in her hands gradually emitting black mist, “No! No! Come back!”
A’Ling was in a panic. This time, Shi Qingqian’s change in form was completely different from before. Why hadn’t she returned to her normal appearance?
And what was that thing that had left her body just now?
A’Ling only then realized that her eyes were wet. She reached out and wiped them. It was tears.
She cried?
It was the Demon Lord’s Tears! Shi Qingqian had taken the Demon Lord’s Tears!
Everything that had suddenly happened caught A’Ling off guard. She desperately tried to reach for Shi Qingqian in the black mist, but she couldn’t reach her at all.
Watching Shi Qingqian merge with the black mist, she heard Shi Qingqian’s voice from within the black mist.
That loud yet sinister voice echoed throughout the Immortal Rainbow Platform.
“Idiot, you’ve only been tainted with a bit of my demonic energy, and they’ve treated you like this, injured to this extent, yet you’re still unwilling to come with me.”
“Since you look down on demons so much, I won’t force you. Just wait for the day you regret it.”