Chapter 305

Chapter 305: Is Immortal Maiden Azure Luan Linked to Devil Cultivators?

Taking Master Ling Xiao’s soul while he was devilized was far too dangerous; one mistake meant death in his hands. It was better to help him break through and let him offer his soul himself.

Her own soul would be nurtured by the System, and Master Ling Xiao’s soul would go to the System to complete its task. Why it needed his soul, she did not know. It was not her concern. In the meantime, she could also raise their goodwill.

Even if her romance quest was void, her Proving the Dao through Slaughter method remained. Maybe she could use their cultivation to reach the Transition Realm. She did not want to stay in the Cultivation World anymore.

Far to the northwest of the Cultivation World, endless towering peaks seemed to split the land into two parts.

On both sides of the range lay two completely different worlds.

Among the tightly packed mountains, two peaks left a gap about ten meters wide between them.

Layers of Barrier Wards seemed to cover that gap, hiding whatever lay beyond.

In front of the gap stood three people.

Two wore black robes. Wide hats hid their faces, and black mist coiled around them. They were clearly Devil Cultivators, and they were Great Devils.

The third was the Immortal Maiden Azure Luan, who had been missing for several months.

A black-robed man spoke first, barely holding back his impatience as he said: “Have you thought it through? You truly will not stay? This is your last chance. Stay or not?”

Immortal Maiden Azure Luan’s tone was just as cold as she said: “Was I not clear enough? I will never mix with you Devil Cultivators.”

“You!” The hot-tempered black-robed man raised his hand to strike.

Immortal Maiden Azure Luan readied herself to fight back.

But the other black-robed man stopped him. Compared with the first, this one had a much gentler nature.

He sighed and said, stopping his companion: “Enough, enough. Do not always raise your hand against a child.”

“Hmph!” The hot-tempered one pulled back at last. The gentle one sighed again and said to Immortal Maiden Azure Luan with helpless patience: “We changed the things you did not like. Why will you still not stay?”

Immortal Maiden Azure Luan turned her head aside with the same hard attitude as she said: “I already told you.”

She would not go along with Devil Cultivators, especially Devil Cultivators like them.

Her stance lit the hot-tempered man’s fuse again as he snapped: “What more do you want? Do you want to soar to the sky?”

Immortal Maiden Azure Luan tugged at the corner of her lips, thinking that she actually could fly. She had wings; they did not.

The hot-tempered man snarled at the gentle one: “Change this and change that, and what use is it? You should have listened to me. Keep her locked up and, sooner or later, she will give in and choose to stay.”

Immortal Maiden Azure Luan had been held because she argued with the hot-tempered one and was trapped.

Later they could not stand how she smashed things in the palace day after day and ruined countless objects, so they had no choice but to let her out.

The hot-tempered one slapped his thigh in anger as he said: “You had to let her out. Now look, her wings have hardened. How are we supposed to control her?”

Right away he called for people to seize Immortal Maiden Azure Luan again.

Immortal Maiden Azure Luan was not afraid. On the other side of the gap, countless Barrier Wards and Formations limited her movements.

But out here, no one could match her speed.

She was ready to take off at any time.

“Enough already. If the child does not want to stay, then let it be. Forcing her will not work. She will think it through one day.” The gentle black-robed man held the hot-tempered one back yet again.

He looked at Immortal Maiden Azure Luan and said: “Go, then. Come back when you think it through. We are proper Devil Cultivators now. We will always be waiting.”

Immortal Maiden Azure Luan did not answer a single word. She turned into a streak of blue light and vanished from their sight in the blink of an eye.

The hot-tempered one rolled up his sleeves and yelled as he said: “She will not say even one word. I swear, my temper!”

He leaped to chase.

“You forgot. We cannot cross the boundary.” The gentle one said this lightly and froze him where he stood as he added: “Let us go back. If we linger, the Hall of Myriad Spirits and those sects will complain.”

“One day I will kill them all, and then they will have no complaints.” The hot-tempered one cursed under his breath, but his feet still obeyed and walked back.

The gentle one looked toward the direction where Immortal Maiden Azure Luan had disappeared and sighed as he said: “You will come back.”

Then he turned and walked into the gap.

On the other side, Immortal Maiden Azure Luan finally escaped the two men and was heading toward the Ninghua Sect.

The region just now was called Shadowmist Ravine, the area in the Cultivation World set aside for Devil Cultivators.

Devil Qi was born there, so it became their base.

They had an agreement with the rest of the Cultivation World to mind their own business. Neither Devil Qi nor Devil Cultivators were allowed to cross the border.

As for why she had gone there, it was because Devil Qi had appeared during the Sect Grand Tournament.

She suspected it might be tied to Shadowmist Ravine, since those two Devil Cultivators had never been very honest.

Her ties to those two heretic cultivators were complicated. She hated to admit it, but she did have a close connection with them.

Worried that Bai Mu Mu might be colluding with Devil Cultivators, she went to Shadowmist Ravine right after the Sect Grand Tournament ended.

This was also her first time in a thousand years returning to Shadowmist Ravine.

After she asked her questions and learned that the Devil Qi had nothing to do with Shadowmist Ravine, she tried to leave. Then what happened next was as told: they forced her to stay.

Luckily, they did not dare keep her too long.

She decided to stop by the Ninghua Sect first. She had not even given that girl her congratulatory gift.

And there was that jerk who thought Immortal Maiden Azure Luan would get into trouble.

Still, since he worried and reached out to her first, she would spare him a little.

A smile finally touched Immortal Maiden Azure Luan’s lips.

But within a few seconds, her smile froze, and her face twisted with sudden pain.