Chapter 95

Chapter 95: Rift

Li Shuang only smiled a little. Interesting. Very interesting.

Her cultivation method cleared the heart and showed the nature, so her senses to everything around her were especially sharp.

Ye Zhao Zhao had first killed the Nine-Headed Lion, then the Black Python, and finally wounded the Goldenwing Eagle. Li Shuang had watched all three fights from close by.

After seeing it many times, she was sure Ye Zhao Zhao had used no talismans at all. Ye Zhao Zhao had simply broken the secret realm’s limit for a moment and held the power of the Nascent Soul Stage.

The Langya Secret Realm had existed for so many years. Even the top experts of the Human Race could not break its limits. How had Ye Zhao Zhao done it?

If Li Shuang told others, no one would believe her. And Ye Zhao Zhao herself would not dare to spread it either.

So when Li Shuang said Ye Zhao Zhao just had a rich background, Ye Zhao Zhao had no choice but to accept it.

Li Shuang recalled what Yan Xiao had said. Now the whole Ling Xu Peak was saving and scraping to support Ye Zhao Zhao. Ordinary Disciples even lacked training resources. Yet Ye Zhao Zhao had hidden more than one priceless talisman.

What would the other disciples think? What would Sheng Yuan think?

Li Shuang was quite curious to find out.

She also felt at ease that, after killing the Goldenwing Eagle, Ye Zhao Zhao should truly be unable to use that kind of “talisman” again. Earlier, the sense from the Supreme Emotionless Art told her that Ye Zhao Zhao had a fierce killing intent toward her. Now that killing intent had faded a lot. It was not that Ye Zhao Zhao no longer wanted to kill her, but that Ye Zhao Zhao knew she could not.

Li Shuang waved her hand. A jade slip flew out from Ye Zhao Zhao’s robe and into the air.

Ye Zhao Zhao’s face turned ugly. She reached out on reflex to grab it back, but the jade slip landed of its own will into Li Shuang’s palm.

Li Shuang smiled and said: “Thank you, Junior Sister, for keeping the jade slip safe for me. I will take it back now.”

By now, exactly three hours had passed. The effect of the Demon-Luring Grass had ended, and the Goldenwing Eagle had been destroyed. There was no reason to keep the jade slip with Ye Zhao Zhao anymore.

Unwilling, Ye Zhao Zhao said: “Senior Sister Li, you must have remembered wrong. This jade slip is mine.”

Li Shuang raised an eyebrow. Energy from the Supreme Emotionless Art flowed across her palm, and the jade slip turned smooth and lustrous. She looked at Ye Zhao Zhao with a half smile and said: “Junior Sister Ye, only a Cultivator who has trained the Supreme Emotionless Art can open this. Master personally placed it in my hands. Are you sure this is yours?”

Ye Zhao Zhao’s expression froze. Even her System could not see the jade slip’s secrets. Treasures like this were something most people could only win after great struggle. But Li Shuang had simply been given it by Lin Qing Ling.

Ye Zhao Zhao said at last: “Then I must have remembered wrong.”

“Good,” Li Shuang said as she calmly put the jade slip away. She glanced at the others and said: “Supreme Demonkin are very rare. In this Langya Secret Realm, there is most likely no second Supreme Demonkin. Next, I have other plans. Everyone, let us part ways here.”

Yan Fan said evenly: “Your Way of the Sword is above mine. But from this fight, I also learned a little. After I return, I will surely improve. Li Shuang, I will wait for you at the Divine Transformation Stage. Do not let me down.”

Li Shuang gave him a look and waved her hand casually. Her figure flashed and vanished into the wind and sand.

“Senior Brother Yan, Senior Sister Li is just cold by nature,” Ye Zhao Zhao said with a flattering look as she stepped up to him, then offered: “Why don’t we travel together for the next stretch?”

She could no longer unseal her strength. Going with Yan Fan would be safer.

Yan Fan glanced at her and said lightly: “Sorry, I am used to acting alone.” With that, he left at once.

Ye Zhao Zhao’s face grew darker. [What kind of first genius is that? He cannot tell good from bad. I showed him a good face for nothing.]

With Li Shuang and Yan Fan gone, only Ye Zhao Zhao and Chang Le An were left.

Normally, Chang Le An would rush to swear loyalty and say he would never leave her.

But this time, his look at Ye Zhao Zhao was cold as he asked: “Zhao Zhao, tell the truth. Do you still have any Fourth Tier or Fifth Tier talismans?”

Annoyed under his stare, Ye Zhao Zhao said: “No. I really have none left.”

“Then with only the two of us, we are not strong enough to roam the Inner Zone,” Chang Le An said calmly. “We should go back the way we came and return to the Outer Zone.”

Ye Zhao Zhao pressed her lips together. She looked in the direction Li Shuang had left, full of unwillingness.

Li Shuang’s cultivation was not even as high as hers, yet she could come and go freely in the Langya Secret Realm, while Ye Zhao Zhao had to shrink back to the Outer Zone?

She could not accept it.

She called out again to the System: “System, System, can you advance me a few more benefits?”

This time, the System clearly did not want to respond. After she called for a long time, its cold voice finally sounded: “Do you think the Langya Secret Realm’s limits are so easy to break? Ye Zhao Zhao, I cannot give you more. You must pay the price for what you already took. When you return to the Sword Sect, I will come to collect the debt.”

Then the voice vanished.

Ye Zhao Zhao turned pale with fear. She called to the System again and again, but there was no answer.

Her body shook. She had failed to kill Li Shuang. When she went back, she did not know what price the System would demand. That was one problem. Another problem was that she and Chang Le An had gained nothing at all. How could they report to Immortal Ling Xu? How could they explain themselves to Sheng Yuan and the others?

She looked at Chang Le An and said: “Third Senior Brother, I followed you to the Inner Zone because I believe you have great luck. Now we have no gains. When we go back, how do we explain? It would be better if you keep exploring the Inner Zone. Maybe you will find something.”

Chang Le An’s tone was odd as he asked: “And you?”

“I will wait for you in the Outer Zone,” Ye Zhao Zhao said. Her life was priceless. She did not want to risk it anymore.

Hearing her matter of fact tone, Chang Le An almost laughed, but he could not. He gritted his teeth and said: “Junior Sister, since your background is so rich, then we will not take risks this time.”

Did she value her life, and he did not?

Without caring what Ye Zhao Zhao said next, he checked the direction and started back the way they had come.

A look of disbelief flashed in Ye Zhao Zhao’s eyes. The bootlicker actually dared to push back?

Anger rose in her heart. [This man dares show me attitude? If I had known his so called great luck was man made, I would never have treated him well.]

Even so, she hurried after him. Following Chang Le An would still share some of the danger.

When Ye Zhao Zhao and Chang Le An slunk back to the Outer Zone in a sorry state, Li Shuang was already moving across the desert, drawing closer and closer to the ice lake.