Chapter 141

Chapter 141: Fallen into the Mortal World

Yun Xi did not want to argue with a mortal. She flicked her sleeve and sent the person into an empty room. Then she and Xia You picked an empty room at random and sat down to meditate.

Earlier, Yun Xi had relied on her array and the advantage of her lightning spirit root to kill that Golden Core wicked cultivator, but she had also exhausted herself badly. Worse, the wicked cultivator had injured her arm and let wicked energy seep into her meridians.

She had been fleeing for her life and had not had the chance to clear it out. Now that she finally had time, she did not want to leave any hidden trouble for her future cultivation. After opening an isolation array, the first thing she did was drive out the wicked energy.

Lightning spiritual power was the natural enemy of wicked energy. She held a mid-grade spirit stone, circulated the Foundation Establishment Stage technique of the Peerless Sword Thunder Art, and let lightning spiritual power travel through every meridian in her body, sparing no branch.

During the process, Yun Xi forced out quite a few gray threads of wicked energy from her meridians. The sight made her even more wary. Wicked energy was hard to deal with. If she had not had a lightning spirit root, she would likely have fallen into the wicked cultivator’s hands. Once a cultivator’s meridians were contaminated by wicked energy, their cultivation would surely stagnate afterward unless they switched to wicked arts.

After she finished and withdrew her power, Yun Xi propped her chin on her hand and thought. Maybe that late-stage Golden Core wicked cultivator had planned it this way. The gap in their strength was too great, so he probably believed that as long as he planted this “thunder” inside her, he could ruin her as a promising righteous cultivator.

That Golden Core wicked cultivator did not know that although Yun Xi’s cultivation was low, her spiritual sense was stronger than his. With powerful spiritual sense and lightning spiritual power reinforcing her, she cleared the wicked energy quickly.

Still, Yun Xi had already decided on a plan. When she advanced to Golden Core, she would use the force of Thunder Tribulation to temper her body again. Even if there was any hidden wicked energy left, it would have nowhere to hide.

Because Yun Xi was so cautious, when she later advanced to Golden Core, she endured the danger of being torn apart by lightning and used tribulation lightning to circulate through her whole body. She really did shatter a wisp of wicked energy that was about to cling to her bones, eliminating a hidden danger for herself. Of course, that was a story for later.

When the sun rose, Yun Xi used spirit stones to recover to her peak state. The wound on her arm had faded into a red mark. Only then did she open the isolation array and meet up with Xia You.

“Xia Daoist, how have you recovered?”

“Thank you for your concern, Fellow Cultivator Wei. I’m doing fine. It’s just that the spiritual energy here is too thin, so I can only cultivate with spirit stones. Luckily, I got my storage pouch back from the wicked cultivators’ lair, and we split their collection. Otherwise, I’d be afraid I would drag you down, Fellow Cultivator Wei.”

As she spoke, she seemed to think of something. She immediately took out two high-grade spirit stones and handed them to Yun Xi.

“Fellow Cultivator Wei, these are high-grade spirit stones I found in the wicked cultivator’s storage pouch. These two are my share for riding the teleportation array. Take them first. I still owe one more. Once I return to my clan, I will definitely repay you.”

Yun Xi did not stand on ceremony. She accepted the two spirit stones, then left the abandoned courtyard with Xia You.

The two of them silently headed toward a town where people lived. They planned to buy a map, confirm their location, and then plan the next step.

One wore a green robe, the other a blue robe. Both were strikingly beautiful. When they reached the foot of a mountain, five burly men blocked their way.

The five stared at them, eyes wide. One of them even wiped drool from the corner of his mouth as he said, “Two little ladies, where are you going? Do you need your big brothers to escort you?”

Xia You’s face turned cold, and she was about to cut them down.

Yun Xi immediately sent her a voice transmission to stop her. “Xia Daoist, mortals compared to us are like a Spirit Transformation Venerable facing a small Qi Refining cultivator. There’s no need to create unnecessary killing karma and ruin our path of cultivation. Since they want to escort us, why not use free servants? It saves us effort.”

Xia You thought it over and felt Yun Xi was right. If they used spiritual power here, replenishing it through meditation would be slow, and in the end they would still have to spend spirit stones. So she smiled slightly at the five men.

“How will you escort us sisters?”

“Two little sisters really know what’s good for them. Come up the mountain with us. Our boss will definitely give you the status of bandit brides.”

The man in front spoke shamelessly.

“Sure. Please lead the way.”

Yun Xi smiled, dimples showing.

It was the first time the five had met a girl so “sensible.” One went ahead to lead. Two walked on either side of Yun Xi and Xia You. The last two guarded the rear, afraid the girls would regret it.

But two hours later, the five regretted it so much their faces turned green. They had not kidnapped beauties to offer up. They had invited two living ancestors instead.

With a single exchange, the bandit chief’s martial arts were crippled, both his legs were broken, and he was tossed into a wolf pack. The bandits were so terrified by the two beauties’ thunderous methods that they did not dare make a sound, afraid they would be the next ones thrown to the wolves.

“Aunties, we were blind and didn’t recognize Mount Tai. Please spare us. We won’t dare again.”

The bandit stronghold’s strategist and second-in-command was very “sensible.” He knelt and begged.

Yun Xi enjoyed herself as a heroine for once. She sat on a tiger-skin throne, grinning from ear to ear.

Xia You’s mouth twitched. She felt Fellow Cultivator Wei was still childish. Yun Xi had just advised her not to create needless killing karma, yet as soon as they arrived she crippled the bandit chief. It was true she did not kill him directly, but everyone knew that falling into a wolf pack meant certain death.

Yun Xi did it for a reason. Dian Dian had caught the scent of wicked cultivators on the bandit chief, even though it was faint. It still did not escape Dian Dian’s nose.

After Yun Xi fought the bandit chief, she became even more certain he had been cultivating wicked arts. When she searched with her spiritual sense, she found a corpse pit in an extremely hidden spot in the stronghold.

The reason he held the top position was clearly his wicked art. Unfortunately, he had only cultivated to mid-stage Qi Refining. He was not worth mentioning in front of her.

But if Yun Xi and Xia You had not come, the bandit chief could have stayed in the mortal world and cultivated using human lives. Not only would cultivators fail to notice him, he might actually grow into something dangerous. Too bad he ran into Yun Xi, who had been teleported here by accident.

Once Yun Xi had enjoyed herself enough, she gave orders. “You, go release the civilians you captured. Give each person ten taels of silver for travel. We sisters are going to the nearest town. You will act as servants and escort us.”

After hearing that, the bandits’ mouths turned bitter, and their hearts turned bitter too. Still, the second-in-command answered respectfully. Their lives were in someone else’s hands.

Xia You added, “If any of you bandits dare pretend to be ordinary civilians and run, I’ll kill two for every one I catch. Think carefully about whether you have a life to leave this mountain.”

“We wouldn’t dare.”

The second-in-command immediately swore it.

Someone really had been thinking that, planning to seek help from the boss of another nearby mountain.

They had survived as bandits without being wiped out because the nearby bandit groups were connected. They covered for each other, so the authorities could not eliminate them.

But now their escape route was blocked. The bandits could only accept their fate and withdraw.

By half a day later, all the innocent civilians in the stronghold were sent down the mountain. Ten taels each made them grateful to Yun Xi and Xia You. From far away, they knelt and thanked them, then hurried off.

The second-in-command stared at the treasury, now more than half empty. His heart bled. In the blink of an eye, two-thirds was gone. He did not even want to look at it again.

Yun Xi and Xia You secretly enjoyed the pained look on his face. Smiling with obvious malice, Yun Xi continued, “You have one night to prepare the most luxurious carriage. Tomorrow morning, we leave.”

“Yes!”

The next day, Yun Xi and Xia You climbed into a lavishly decorated carriage. As they left the stronghold, Xia You said softly, “This place doesn’t need to exist anymore.”