Chapter 296

Chapter 296: Bai Mu Mu Plans to Target the People Around Shen Sang Ruo

“What is the mission?” Bai Mu Mu didn’t rush to agree, because the System’s unusual eagerness only made her more cautious.

[It’s the new mission the Host loaded earlier. The other new missions are about the same as that one.]

Hearing that, Bai Mu Mu understood.

At most, they were missions to kill people and damage the Cultivation World. Since none of that hurt her interests, she would accept them.

As an outsider who came here to conquer, she felt no sense of belonging to the Cultivation World.

Even if she used this whole world as a stepping stone, Bai Mu Mu felt it was only right.

[Once the Host agrees to connect, we can start the mission at once, and the System can regain energy.]

“Fine, connect now,” said Bai Mu Mu without any hesitation this time.

She needed great power to crush Shen Sang Ruo beneath her feet and tear those few people from the Flying Cloud Sect to pieces.

She wanted the entire Cultivation World to submit to her!

[Connection in progress: 100%]

[Connection complete! Congratulations, Host!]

At once, Bai Mu Mu felt a surge of power flood into her divine soul. Even her weakened body relaxed a lot.

“Do we have energy now?” asked Bai Mu Mu.

[Yes. All System functions are fully restored, and the Host may use them freely.]

She tilted her chin, lips curving. The first thing she did was order the System to restore her Ice Spiritual Root.

Feeling the impurities inside her spiritual root vanish in an instant, returning to pure form, Bai Mu Mu’s smile grew more defined.

Second, she wanted to know what had happened in the Starfield Plain and why it had dragged her into it for no reason.

The System couldn’t peer into the past or see the future, but it could use the souls of Feng He Yun and Lu Shi Qing as a medium to learn what they had seen and faced in the Starfield Plain.

What they saw was simple. The key was what happened after Devil Qi escaped from the Starfield Plain.

The electronic voice sounded in her mind. After listening, Bai Mu Mu ground her teeth and said: “It’s Shen Sang Ruo again!”

“She stole my Divine Soul Power, then met a Great Devil and shoved the trouble onto me! [So she really means to go against me, huh?!]”

[Host, don’t be angry. Now that we have a new source of power, flattening her is as easy as moving a finger.]

“Heh.” Bai Mu Mu gave a cold laugh. Pride and scorn flashed in her eyes, and the System’s words clearly pleased her.

She changed the topic: “I’m curious, though. What’s that group of heretic cultivators plotting?”

This world was much more interesting than she had imagined.

[Whatever their plot is, it will not affect the Host. Just focus on finishing the missions and wait to ascend out of the Cultivation World.]

The System made sense, and she honestly wished the Cultivation World would fall into chaos.

Dropping the matter, she turned her attention back to Shen Sang Ruo.

“First you trapped me here, then you stole my Divine Soul Power and forced me to clear my name in public,” she said, voice icy.

“Old grudges and new ones together, it’s time I settled the score. I’ll collect some interest first.”

Bai Mu Mu toyed with the Cold Echo Pearl in her hand, her smile sharp and vicious.

“Shen Sang Ruo, you care about quite a few people. If something happens to them, you’ll take a heavy hit, won’t you?”

“Let me choose carefully whose turn it is to become the example.”

[Host, I have a candidate who couldn’t be more perfect,] the System suggested.

Lounging back on the couch, Bai Mu Mu said: “Let’s hear it.”

The System told her everything it knew and even laid out a clear plan of action.

“Oh? I didn’t expect that person to have such a past. Fine, do it your way.”

[Yes, Host.]

[However, the System’s energy is not yet enough to support this action. Please complete part of the missions first.]

“Tsk,” Bai Mu Mu clicked her tongue in annoyance, but she pressed down her mood and said to the System: “Got it. Show me the missions first.”

Several missions appeared in her mind. She finally picked one: “This one.”

Master Ling Xiao was about to break through. This mission would be quick and easy.

“At the very least I’m your disciple of many years. Master, rest easy: your disciple will protect you and make sure you break through, to repay your kindness,” Bai Mu Mu said, her eyes full of layered meaning.

Ninghua Sect

A little more than a month passed quickly, and Shen Sang Ruo’s Soul Extraction Technique made major progress.

She was no longer satisfied with just Zhu Miao and the Snake Maiden as test subjects.

Anyone who came to her cave residence could not escape the “out-of-body” experience.

She had extracted the souls of Ye Huai and the other three, as well as Fang Yu and his two companions, and she grew more and more skilled.

Against people whose cultivation was lower than hers, if they had no guard up, she could perform soul extraction with no warning at all.

One second they were talking with her; the next, they watched from the side as “their” body went limp and fell.

“Impressive, junior sister,” said Song Wei Yan, giving her a thumbs up in his soul state.

“Second senior brother, you flatter me,” she answered, then raised a hand and guided Song Wei Yan’s soul back into his body, and the fallen body stood up again.

She looked at Song Wei Yan and asked: “How do you feel, second senior brother?”

“Nothing special. Everything feels normal,” said Song Wei Yan, rolling his shoulders and flexing his hands.

Shen Sang Ruo nodded, relieved.

“In that case, can junior sister pull out the Malevolent Spirit on Bai Mu Mu?” asked Bai Ruo An, his voice gentle as a breeze.

“I probably can, but I’m not fully sure,” she said after a pause. “I plan to practice for a while on Master and Sect Master Wu Wei.”

News from the Flying Cloud Sect had already come: in one month, they would publicly verify Bai Mu Mu.

For her, the timing was just right.

“If I can do to Master and Sect Master Wu Wei what I did with you, and pull their souls at will, then I’ll be almost certain,” she said, starlight bright in her eyes.

While Zhu Miao was a Mountain God and the Snake Maiden was a Great Demon at the Divine Transformation Stage, the two still had some kind of link to her soul.

Being able to extract their souls smoothly might have been helped by that connection.

It would be steadier to extract the souls of Immortal Lord Chang Li and Daoist Wu Wei.

The senior brothers and senior sister traded looks, their expressions very complicated.

Listen to her. Is that even something a human says?

Shen Sang Ruo was only at Nascent Soul Early Stage, peak. If she could freely extract the souls of cultivators at the Divine Transformation Stage, or even Late Divine Transformation, then anyone who saw her in the future would clutch the top of their head for dear life.

But her focus was all on pulling out the Malevolent Spirit on Bai Mu Mu, so she didn’t realize how terrifying her plan sounded.

Noticing the four staring at her with hard-to-describe faces, Shen Sang Ruo was puzzled.

“Senior brothers and senior sister, why are you looking at me like that?” she asked.

“Nothing. I just remembered I had something to do. I’ll go first, junior sister!” said Song Wei Yan as he slipped away.

“My alchemy furnace broke again,” someone said.

“I forgot to water my bamboo,” said another.

Su Xi Yu and Bai Ruo An hurried after him.

“See you, junior sister,” said Ye Huai, taking to the sky by Sword Flight.

Shen Sang Ruo scratched her head. [Why does this scene feel familiar?]