14: Demon Lord - Luo Ximei

"You interrupted me."

"You… interrupted the reunion between my Revered Master and me… a hundred years from now."

The Hook-nosed Elder tried to beg for mercy, but found that under Mu Qingxue's Spiritual Qi lock, he couldn't even open his mouth.

"I finally waited for him… But why did you come?"

The Spiritual Qi at her fingertips erupted violently!

"Ah—!"

A bloodcurdling scream, not human-like, echoed through the sky.

The Hook-nosed Elder's entire right arm was frozen into an ice sculpture by the extreme cold Qi in an instant, and then with a "bang," it shattered into countless ice shards!

But that wasn't all!

Mu Qingxue seemed to think it wasn't enough; her finger pointed out again.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, a dignified Void Refining Stage powerhouse was disintegrated inch by inch, like a puppet at the mercy of others.

"You… you madman! Devil!" Another Sword Shadow Sect Elder finally couldn't bear the extreme fear, his mind collapsed, and he roared incoherently.

"Devil?" Mu Qingxue heard this, turned her head, and her scarlet eyes looked at him, tilting her head.

"When you hunted down my Fifth Senior Sister back then, wasn't it like this too?"

"No… don't come over!"

"Don't be afraid, it will be quick, it won't hurt at all."

Before her words fell, her figure instantly vanished from its original spot.

The next moment, a hand gently pressed on his crown.

"Soul Search."

It was these two words again.

But this time, it was much more brutal than when dealing with Ma Liu in front of the mountain gate earlier.

Vast Divine Sense transformed into countless fine needles, gently piercing into the opponent's Sea of Consciousness, meticulously stripping away every memory and every thought of his, bit by bit.

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

The Elder's body twitched violently, his eyes bulged, black blood flowed from his seven orifices, and the pain of his Soul being torn apart made him let out a scream a hundred times more miserable than that of the Hook-nosed Elder before.

He wanted to self-detonate his Divine Soul, but he despairingly found that his Divine Soul had already been firmly imprisoned by an even more powerful force, making even seeking death a luxury!

Behind them, the people of Qingyao Sect were already dumbfounded and chilled to the bone.

The Elders and disciple, one by one, turned pale, tightly covering their mouths, not daring to make a sound.

Was this their Sect Master, who was as cold as a Fairy?

Was this the Qingyao Fairy who had been as calm as still water for a hundred years and was hailed as a model of the Righteous Path?

This decisive and ruthless demeanor was even more terrifying than the rumored Demonic Path Supreme Being!

They no longer dared to question the man named Su Lin in the slightest.

The existence that could make their Sect Master protect him so fiercely, even transforming into an Incarnation of a Shura for him, his strength and identity were beyond doubt!

Finally, after enduring the agony of a Soul Search for the duration of an incense stick, the Sword Shadow Sect Elder's Divine Soul completely collapsed, dissipating into the purest energy, and his Physical Body also turned into dust.

Mu Qingxue finished all this as if she had merely crushed two insects.

She slowly turned around, the killing intent and brutality on her instantly receding cleanly, and her scarlet eyes also returned to their clear, glazed appearance.

She once again transformed back into that cold and beautiful Qingyao Sect Revered Master, only that in her coolness, there was an added trace of majesty that no one dared to look directly at… Thousands of miles away, a bloody light, in a state of disarray, cut through the sky, finally crashing heavily onto a barren rocky beach.

Dao Yan Sect Leader Ma Dehong appeared, his face as pale as paper, his aura extremely weak, and his black hair had already turned snow-white.

To escape, he had performed the "Blood Demon Escape Art," burning eighty percent of his vital essence, his cultivation directly plummeting from the Peak of Void Refining to the Initial Stage of Void Refinement, and his Foundation suffered irreversible damage, making any further progress impossible in this life.

"Mu Qingxue! Su Lin!"

He coughed up a mouthful of black blood, his eyes filled with endless resentment and lingering fear.

"What a Qingyao Sect! What a Disciple of Su Lin! I, Ma Dehong, will remember this debt!"

He struggled to get up, looking for a place to heal his injuries, but just then, an even more terrifying, purer Demonic Qi descended without warning, completely enveloping an area of a hundred miles!

Ma Dehong's body stiffened, he was as if fixed in place, his eyes showing a look of terror a hundred times greater than when he faced Mu Qingxue.

In front of this Demonic Qi, his meager Demonic Path cultivation was like the difference between a firefly and a bright moon!

A lazy yet infinitely alluring female voice softly echoed in his ear.

"Oh? I seem to hear… someone calling out my Revered Master's name?"

Ma Dehong turned his head with difficulty.

He saw a seductive and stunning figure appear on a nearby boulder at some unknown time.

She wore a black and red gauze skirt, her snow-white long legs faintly visible, her feet bare, with a string of captivating bells tied around her ankles.

However, in the depths of her enchanting peach blossom eyes, there flowed an indifference and cruelty that regarded all things as mere trifles.

The moment Ma Dehong saw her, his mind went "boom" and turned blank, a name that could annihilate his Divine Soul escaped his lips.

"Luo Ximei?!"

The woman heard Ma Dehong's exclamation and lazily stretched.

Her red lips parted, and she giggled, her voice like silver bells, but it made Ma Dehong's heart sink into an bottomless abyss.

"Luo Ximei… Hmm, it's been a long time since anyone called me by my full name."

She tilted her head, her bare feet lightly tapped, and the bells on her ankles made a series of crisp sounds, "They call me… Demon Venerable now."

Demon Venerable! It really was her!

The Fifth Senior Sister, who was as famous as Seventh Junior Sister Mu Qingxue a hundred years ago, fell into the Demonic Path for revenge, unified the fragmented Demonic Path factions by herself, and is now the Demon Path Supreme Being who shakes the entire Cultivation Realm—Luo Ximei!

Ma Dehong's guts turned green with regret.

How many lifetimes of bad luck had he accumulated? He had just narrowly escaped from Mu Qingxue, who was fanatically protective of her Revered Master, only to immediately run into Luo Ximei, who was even more unpredictable and a hundred times more brutal!

"Demon… Demon Venerable Lord, spare my life!"

Ma Dehong no longer cared about the dignity of a Void Refining powerhouse, using his last ounce of strength, he prostrated himself on the ground, kowtowing like pounding garlic.

"This humble one was blind and failed to recognize Mount Tai, not knowing that it was Su… that it was Supreme Being Su's Disciple in front of me. I have offended you greatly, please, Demon Venerable Lord, for the sake of us both being Demonic Path Cultivators, spare this humble one's life!"

"Oh? Fellow Demonic Path?" Luo Ximei seemed to have heard an interesting joke; she moved her lotus steps lightly, slowly floating down from the boulder and coming before Ma Dehong.

She extended a snow-white jade finger and gently hooked Ma Dehong's chin, forcing him to raise his head and meet her gaze.

"A good-for-nothing like you, who relies on burning essence to escape, is worthy of being compared to me?" Her voice was still charming, but there was no trace of a smile, only icy indifference.

"However…" She changed the subject, her fingertips lightly tracing Ma Dehong's face, "I'm in a good mood today, so I can give you a chance to live."

Ma Dehong's eyes instantly erupted with the light of survival: "Demon Venerable Lord, please speak! As long as I can live, this humble one is willing to be a beast of burden!"

"It's very simple," Luo Ximei's smile became sweet again.

"You just mentioned my Revered Master. Tell me, where did you see him? How… how is he now?"