Chapter 307

Chapter 307: Learning It Was Bai Mu Mu Who Struck at Azure Luan

Immortal Lord Chang Li knew exactly what Azure Luan looked like when she lost control, and it never ended with her suddenly collapsing like this.

Her sudden rampage was already strange. Now this collapse meant something else was wrong.

Catching her before she hit the ground, he and Shen Sang Ruo sent their Divine Sense into her at once.

Countless streams of Devil Qi rampaged through her body, slamming into her meridians over and over.

She had fallen because her body had been damaged to a point where it could no longer support movement.

At this rate, she would not last even half a day before Devil Qi killed her.

Both of their faces turned grim.

Shen Sang Ruo asked, voice low: “Master, compared to the last time she lost control, is this normal?”

She did not know what Azure Luan looked like when she lost control before, and she could not judge.

If this was normal, there would be a known way to save her.

Immortal Lord Chang Li shook his head, brows knotted, his tone heavy: “This time is completely different.”

“In the past, when Azure Luan lost control, the Devil Qi could be used by her, as if she had suddenly become a Devil Cultivator. I have never seen Devil Qi acting like this, attacking her at will.”

Because of certain experiences, Immortal Maiden Azure Luan’s physique was unusual.

Once the Spiritual Qi in her body was consumed and eroded by Devil Qi, her body would accept the Devil Qi and shift into a Devil Cultivator.

By the same logic, if Spiritual Qi was used to cancel the Devil Qi and refill her body with Spiritual Qi, she would return to normal.

His voice turned cold: “This Devil Qi is coming at her like a storm. Someone wants Azure Luan dead.”

“Was it the Devil Cultivators of Shadowmist Ravine?” Shen Sang Ruo tested the thought aloud.

By now she was almost sure Immortal Maiden Azure Luan had a true connection to Shadowmist Ravine.

“Unlikely,” he said after a beat, then added, “If Shadowmist Ravine wanted her, they would want her to become a Devil Cultivator, not die.”

Then who wanted to kill Immortal Maiden Azure Luan?

She had stayed inside the Windmoon Spirit Void. Other than Shadowmist Ravine, she had no enemies and no real grudges.

Thinking hard, Shen Sang Ruo sensed something off and said sharply: “There’s something inside this Devil Qi…”

When they first found Azure Luan, all her attention had been on the person, and she had ignored the Devil Qi’s oddity.

Now, with focus back, she formed seals and cast at that “something” hidden inside the Devil Qi.

“It’s Divine Soul Power.”

At her words, Immortal Lord Chang Li carefully felt for himself and also sensed a faint thread of Divine Soul Power.

After constant practice these past days, Shen Sang Ruo was more sensitive than most to Divine Soul Power.

“Devil Qi doesn’t appear from nowhere. That Divine Soul Power is the hand behind this.”

She began to track it with a spell recorded in an ancient book from Daoist Wu Wei.

“I’m locking onto the source of that Divine Soul Power. We’ll soon know who struck at Immortal Maiden Azure Luan.”

Her tone stayed even, but murder filled her eyes.

Immortal Lord Chang Li narrowed his gaze, his presence sharp as a blade.

They would see clearly who dared to touch Immortal Maiden Azure Luan.

She was already skilled with soul arts. In less than a quarter hour, she traced the Divine Soul Power to its source.

“Flying Cloud Sect,” Shen Sang Ruo said, eyes flat. “It’s someone from Flying Cloud Sect.”

She did not name a person, but when she met Immortal Lord Chang Li’s eyes, both of them understood.

Other than Bai Mu Mu, who carried a Malevolent Spirit, who else in Flying Cloud Sect could do evil across a thousand miles?

The System existed in the form of a soul, so the power it used was Divine Soul Power.

In the past, every time it acted, it left traces unique to the System’s Divine Soul Power.

And Bai Mu Mu had used Devil Qi to do harm at the Sect Grand Tournament.

They simply had not linked today’s disaster to Bai Mu Mu at first.

Shen Sang Ruo stopped her tracking at Flying Cloud Sect and did not push it onto a person. Bai Mu Mu’s Malevolent Spirit was strong. She did not want to alert the snake in the grass.

She also understood Bai Mu Mu’s aim. It was the same as the strike on Linglong Pavilion: make Shen Sang Ruo suffer.

Immortal Maiden Azure Luan was closer to her than others. If Azure Luan was hurt, Shen Sang Ruo would be in agony.

[In a few days it will be the day to verify the Malevolent Spirit on Bai Mu Mu.] Shen Sang Ruo’s fingers clenched. Anger surged up from her chest. [I doubt I can wait that long.]

[She dared to touch someone beside me. I will not only rip out that Malevolent Spirit. I will kill her with my own hands.]

She forced the killing intent down for now. Saving Immortal Maiden Azure Luan mattered more.

Immortal Lord Chang Li had already tried every method used in the past to clear Devil Qi when Azure Luan lost control. None worked.

This Devil Qi seemed locked inside Immortal Maiden Azure Luan.

Even if they drew some out, it slid back into her body moments later.

Every second they delayed, her body took another blow.

Her condition worsened and worsened. Their hatred for Bai Mu Mu rose to its peak.

“Right now, the only way may be to find another ‘container’ and draw the Devil Qi into that container,” Immortal Lord Chang Li said in a tight voice, “only then can we save Azure Luan.”

Shen Sang Ruo had thought of that too, but Immortal Maiden Azure Luan, with her special body, could tolerate Devil Qi better than others and was still being torn apart. “If we use someone else, it will be even worse.”

“Should we go to Shadowmist Ravine and have their Devil Cultivators absorb this Devil Qi? Master, would that work?”

“This Devil Qi attacks fiercely. They would likely refuse.”

Shadowmist Ravine was never a place for Cultivators who trained in Spiritual Qi. Going there would only make things messier.

Not to mention they could be detained.

Azure Luan had just escaped them. If those people used this crisis to force her to stay, she would never accept it.

Pulled back and forth like that, time would only drag on, and that would hurt Azure Luan the most.

Shadowmist Ravine was not a good choice.

Immortal Lord Chang Li made his decision: “Then I will draw the Devil Qi into my body first. My cultivation can suppress it for a time. After that, we will find another solution.”

Shen Sang Ruo knew this was the best plan for the moment.

She stepped back to give him room.

Just then, the black mist around her Nascent Soul grew lively again, as if trying hard to earn credit.

Her eyes brightened and she asked the mist: “Do you have a way to handle Devil Qi?”

The black mist nodded firmly. It was the remnant soul of the Great Devil Ancestor. No mist knew Devil Qi better than it did.

Just draw the Devil Qi into her body, and it would handle the rest.

With a clear answer, Shen Sang Ruo quickly stopped Immortal Lord Chang Li as he was about to guide the Devil Qi into himself: “Master, let me.”

She held his gaze and added without backing down: “The black mist in me says it has a way. Let me try first.”

He disagreed, breath drawn to argue, but she cut in fast: “If it doesn’t work, then we switch to you.”