After rebirth, the eldest sister voluntarily abdicated and gave way to the wise.

Chapter 517 I thought you would be afraid

Before she could figure out what was going on, she received a message to stay put.

However, this also gave her a convenient opportunity. She could travel through the space arranged by the system to get the Golden Scale Key, and she could also use it to exchange for the Cloud Water Sharp Stone. It was truly a stroke of luck for her.

When Chen Huasheng heard her mention this, his expression turned serious. He pulled Shen Qingqing to a less crowded area and cautiously used telepathy to say, "We've discovered traces of the demons. The sect has ordered us to track them down immediately, find their hiding place, and kill them if anything goes wrong."

Demons!

Shen Qingqing was startled.

Could it be the demon she met?

Chen Huasheng noticed her unease and asked in confusion, "What's wrong? You haven't looked well since earlier. Are you feeling unwell?"

Shen Qingqing's face stiffened, and she quickly waved her hands, her bright eyes showing a look of panic: "No, no, I just didn't expect the mission to start as a battle between humans and demons, how did it turn into tracking demons? They... weren't they all supposed to be wiped out? I read in a book that they are particularly bloodthirsty and tyrannical, I... I'm a little scared..."

"So that's it." Chen Huasheng thought for a moment, then tore off the tassel from his sword, stepped forward, and stuffed it into Shen Qingqing's hand. "The tassel is at your command. This time we are only tracking, not killing. But if you encounter danger, you can infuse spiritual power into this tassel, and my sword will immediately come to protect you."

Shen Qingqing was stunned, completely unexpected that Chen Huasheng would give her a sword tassel, which has special significance for sword cultivators.

She was just making up an excuse to appease him. If she really wanted to kill the demons, she would hide in the safest place. Whether others live or die is none of her business. As for the greater good of the common people, that has to take a backseat.

She's not strong enough yet. She won't be like that idiot senior sister, always rushing in first as if her life is worthless, willing to risk everything for someone insignificant.

Does she really think that others will be grateful to her?

"Senior Brother Chen, I..."

Chen Huasheng assumed she was just embarrassed to accept the sword tassel and said with a smile, "I'm your senior brother, it's my responsibility to protect you. Don't feel burdened. Let's hurry back now, your senior brothers are waiting for us."

Shen Qingqing pursed her lips, somewhat dazzled by the smile.

Unable to resist, I took a step back.

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Once again thrown out of her meditation, Jiang Liqian leaned against the stone wall, feeling dizzy and lightheaded. Her heart was pounding wildly, and she felt numb and weak all over, with the spiritual energy in her dantian surging erratically.

She felt very strange.

As soon as she closes her eyes, she seems to hear someone calling her name, and the blood mist locked in her dantian by ice chains becomes particularly restless, making it impossible for her to force herself into a meditative state several times.

Frustrated and hurt by her master's words, Jiang Liqian truly felt that she was not far from going into a state of demonic possession. Otherwise, why could she hear that strange voice when she closed her eyes, but when she opened them, all she saw were stones?

Besides, there's no way there could be any sound from Three Words Cliff!

What exactly is going on?

As she frowned in thought, Xin Xin, who had been by her side, suddenly seemed to be drawn by something, her eyes glazed over, and she flew straight in one direction.

Jiang Liqian felt anxious and quickly chased after him.

"Xin Xin, where are you going?"

She had barely uttered the words when she saw Xin Xin walk straight through the wall and disappear from her sight.

Jiang Liqian immediately conjured a sword shadow and, without thinking, slashed at the stone wall.

To her surprise, the wall was very thin, and behind it was a long, dark natural cave. It was very dark inside, and she couldn't see how deep it was. Xin Xin's small figure was almost swallowed up by it.

Jiang Liqian focused her mind and held her breath, then quickly stepped over the stone wall and chased after him.

"Xinxin, wait a minute!"

"Xinxin!"

For some reason, whenever Jiang Liqian was about to touch Xinxin, her body would be controlled by an inexplicable force, freezing her in place. And when she recovered and looked at Xinxin, she was far away from her.

They chased and stopped, and then they saw a glimmer of light in the distance, which was clearly another exit of the passage.

"Xin Xin!" She chased after her, only to see Xin Xin, dressed in a pink dress, hovering above the head of an unconscious person.

She approached and walked around to see the man's face.

“Jiang…Master Zhai?!” Jiang Liqian was shocked.

The person before me was deathly pale, with bloodless lips and narrow, phoenix-shaped eyes tightly closed. He lay unconscious on the ground, his tattered robes stained with blood.

He was clearly seriously injured and unconscious.

Although Jiang Liqian knew that Jiang Zhai Lao had been punished at the Three Words Cliff just like her, she had no idea that the places where the two were imprisoned were actually connected by a secret passage. She also did not know that the Qingzhi Sect Leader had taken such a ruthless approach, and that even with Jiang Zhai Lao's cultivation level, he had to be so weak that he had to rely on sealing his five senses to recover.

In her memory, Immortal Venerable Qingzhi would never be like this—get angry?

Even if a piece of ice gets colder, it is still a piece of ice without joy or sorrow, isn't it?

Suppress the slight confusion in my heart.

After thinking it over, although Jiang Yueming wasn't exactly kind to her, he had still been kind enough to teach her, so Jiang Liqian took out a healing pill and put it in his mouth.

The pill melted instantly upon entering her mouth, and Jiang Liqian ignored him, reaching out to hold Xinxin in her hands.

However, when she was finally able to touch her, a bright light suddenly burst out from Jiang Yueming and Xinxin. She subconsciously closed her eyes and was sucked in by a powerful force.

With the dizziness finally subsiding, Jiang Liqian gripped her sword tightly, looking around with a mixture of confusion and wariness.

Sensing the unusual fluctuations in the air, she frowned and exclaimed in surprise, "Eh?"

If this were a cave or secret realm, the surrounding air and spiritual energy would surely be flowing. If it were an illusionary formation, there would be regular fluctuations in spiritual energy. But here... it seems that even every grain of dust is still.

No, they are stationary.

Spiritual energy, air, time, space, even the sunlight that falls down, are all frozen at a certain moment.

There is no past here, and there is no future.

There was neither death nor life.

It is real, and it is also an illusion.

"I thought you'd be scared, at least when you first came in." The thick white fog dissipated layer by layer, slowly revealing a farmhouse estate filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers. Gardenias were in full bloom, and white butterflies danced around it.

It was like a snowstorm that kept falling.

The delicate fragrance of flowers wafted into her nose, and Jiang Liqian gripped her sword even tighter as she stepped onto the stone path and entered the manor.