Bai Lixin had no choice but to take out his scythe from the backpack.
As the scythe gleamed, a cold light shimmered, accompanied by a faint dragon’s roar.
Upon hearing this sound, the woman abruptly stopped.
The next moment, she knelt down on the ground obediently.
Bai Lixin: “???” ‘Sister, your kneeling action is so skilled, it makes me feel a bit sorry for you. What’s going on?
Fight if you can beat me, kneel if you can’t? Who taught you that!’
—————————————
In the live broadcast room
[Smart people adapt to the situation.]
[The kneeling posture of this sister is so cute, hahaha.]
[God Xin is bewildered.]
———————————-
The woman in red remained expressionless, her arms went up, and she kowtowed to Bai Lixin respectfully, “If you can’t win, don’t fight.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
After begging for mercy, the woman in red stretched out her hand and continued expressionless, “Please return the scale.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘You think saying ‘please’ means you’re making a request? There’s no sincerity in your request at all!’
The woman finished speaking, but seeing Bai Lixin’s lack of response, she looked at him disdainfully, “Hey, what’s wrong with you? I’ve apologized and even said ‘please,’ but you don’t react at all. Do you not understand courtesy? How rude.”
Bai Lixin: “???”
‘I may not understand, but I’m deeply moved by your eloquence!’
————————————
In the live broadcast room
[Hahaha, the scholar meets the soldier, logic can’t be reasoned.]
[The unreasonable dragon teaches you manners online.]
[Dragon: Are you polite?]
[“Really Not Polite.”]
————————————-
In the camera’s frame, the two continued to face off.
“Are you a dragon?” Bai Lixin didn’t take out the scale but asked back.
“Nonsense,” the woman in red snorted, “Look at this sister’s figure, do you still doubt it? How ignorant, you don’t even recognize a dragon. I wonder what you’ve learned growing up. Could you be illiterate?”
Bai Lixin nearly choked on his breath, “I’m not illiterate, don’t talk nonsense.”
——————————–
[Hahaha, I’m dying of laughter.]
[“Truly Ignorant” and “Truly an Illiterate]
[God Xin refutes the rumors online.]
[Hahaha, spreading rumors is easy, but refuting them is a real challenge. To prevent God Xin from being misunderstood, spread the truth. God Xin is not an illiterate.]
[Hahahaha]
——————————
“What’s your name?” Bai Lixin coughed lightly. “Stop kneeling and get up.”
“No, my master said, when you encounter an enemy, fight to the death if you can win, run if you can’t, and chase if you can’t escape. If you can’t run, kneel. As long as I kneel fast enough, no one can kill me.”
Bai Lixin: “But I’m not your enemy. I don’t intend to kill you.”
The woman glanced at the scythe Bai Lixin held in his hand. “You’re talking nonsense. You’ve even brandished your kitchen knife! Do you think I’m stupid? Let me tell you, my head isn’t made of dough!”
Bai Lixin: “May I ask who your master is?”
Woman: “Hmph, I’m afraid it’ll scare you. I’ll tell you, my master will never change her surname or name, she’s called Hongyue. Have you heard of her? Are you scared now?”
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘Hehe, Hongyue, Hongyue, so it’s you. You’ve taught your disciple well!’
————————————
The high tower, Sand Sea Guild
Song Yuantian rubbed his forehead. “What’s going on? Did you take on a disciple in a copy? Sister, just tell me honestly, how many brothers and sisters did you seduce in the copies? I thought you only seduced younger brothers, but turns out you don’t spare the sisters either?”
Hongyue was also staring at the big screen in shock, clearly not remembering that she had taken on such a disciple. “Why don’t I remember when I accepted this disciple?”
She stared at the beautiful lady on the screen for a while before suddenly slapping the table in realization. “Oh, I remember now! It was that little carp!”
“A long time ago, when I was in a single player copy, I saw a bright red koi carp in the hands of a fishmonger NPC. I was thinking, koi fish isn’t that tasty, but isn’t it considered lucky? So I bought it thinking that it might bring me good luck and help me clear the copy.”
“I originally intended to release it, but I forgot about it after awhile. When I remembered and looked again, there was a little girl about six or seven years old smiling at me inside the fish tank.”
Song Yuantian blushed angrily, and glanced Hongyue with jealousy. “Were you happy at that time? You had a little sister to accompany you until the end.”
“You can stop it. I was almost scared to death,” Hongyue replied. “She is indeed a little sister, but her entire face was submerged in the water, and her hair was spread out, making it barely distinguishable from the water. I almost had a heart attack when I saw her.”
Song Yuantian: “Hahaha.”
“You still have the nerve to laugh?” Hongyue glared at Song Yuantian. “Later, I found out that I had saved a koi fish spirit. To repay me, it turned into a human and smiled at me. I was truly grateful. I thought the koi fish was silly, so I released it. But it ended up getting caught again. So, I trained her for a few days, and by the time the training was done, my task was over, so I parted ways with her. I didn’t expect her to grow up like this and turn into a dragon. Amazing, right? How many years have passed in this copy since the time I entered it?”
Song Yuantian: “You didn’t recognize this copy before?”
Hongyue shook her head. “I didn’t recognize it at all. When I entered this copy, there was no Qingcheng Town, and there was a mountain, but it wasn’t significant. There were no sects on the mountain either. There were monsters in this copy, but my task was simple. I just had to survive for seven days and seven nights.”
“You know how single player copies were before, they were welfare copies, but now they have become so difficult and challenging.”
Hearing this, Song Yuantian looked at the big screen somewhat helplessly. “Indeed, copies nowadays are quite challenging, ever since…”
“Ah, let’s not talk about it. It’s all in the past.”
Hongyue: “…Alright, if you don’t want to talk about it, we won’t.”
——————————-
In the live broadcast room
[Hongyue? Is that the same Hongyue we know?]
[My god, it’s a crossover! Hongyue, the big boss, has been in this copy too? When did this happen?]
[Wasn’t Hongyue a player from a long time ago? This must be from a really, really long time ago, right?]
[Isn’t this the big flood drowning the Dragon King Temple? I feel so sorry for God Xin.]
[God Xin is truly a living Bodhisattva. Not only did he save Hongyue, but now he has to save Hongyue’s disciple too. Did Hongyue save God Xin’s life in her previous life?]
[Hahahaha, the grace of saving a life.]
——————————-
Bai Lixin gestured. “The Hongyue you’re talking about, is she tall with wavy hair, very beautiful and heroic?”
Woman in red: “Oh, you really know her?”
Bai Lixin: “Not only do I know her, I saved her life.”
The woman sneered disdainfully. “You’re bragging.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘Forget it, believe me, don’t believe, it’s up to you.’
He took out the scale from his backpack and handed it to the woman. “Hongyue is my friend. Since you’re Hongyue’s disciple, I’ll return this to its rightful owner.”
The woman in red was momentarily stunned, quickly snatching the scale and holding it in her hands, her face filled with excitement. “My master was right after all. The beauty trap really works. Thank you, master!”
Bai Lixin: “???”
‘What beauty trap? Nonsense, only one person’s beauty trap works on me, and no one else’s. What on earth did Hongyue give to this dragon?’
After receiving the scale, the woman quickly plunged into the lake. The calm lake suddenly stirred violently, and a burst of red light appeared. The next moment, a golden-red figure shot out from the water.
The golden-red light gradually dissipated and Bai Lixin squinted his eyes to see. Within the waterfall, a dragon with wide-open eyes was hovering above his head.
The dragon was golden-red in color. When the sunlight shone on its translucent and firm scales, it immediately shimmered with a dreamy and beautiful color.
It was no longer an illusion but a real dragon.
The dragon hovered above his head for quite some time before diving towards him. Bai Lixin retreated a step warily, wielding his scythe.
With a flash of red light, the golden-red dragon disappeared. The red-clad woman once again knelt respectfully in front of him and earnestly said, “I can’t defeat you, so I won’t fight anymore.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘So why did you probe and test the edge of the fight just now?’
“Thank you for returning the scale to me. My master said we should distinguish between favors and grudges clearly. When you held the scale and didn’t return it, wanting to keep it for yourself, that was a grudge. But I couldn’t beat you. As for the favor, you found my scale and returned it to me. That’s a favor to me. I might not be able to beat you, but I can repay the favor.”
“How do you want me to repay you?”
The woman in red thought seriously for a moment, then said with a hint of reluctance, “My master said that the favor of saving a life should be repaid with oneself. Although I find you a bit repugnant…I’ll endure it for my master’s sake.”
Bai Lixin was shocked. “No need!”
‘Hongyue, take your good disciple away from me, quickly!’
—————————–
In the live broadcast room:
[Frequent visits to the riverside will get your shoes wet. When God Xin used the life saving grace to seduce someone, little did he expect that he would face retribution someday.]
[The main point is that the Little Dragon Girl still looks at him with disdain. This might be the only time God Xin has been disliked.]
[After all, the Little Dragon Girl’s master is Sister Hongyue.]
[Do you think there’s a possibility that the Little Dragon Girl actually likes girls? So she must be disdainful of God Xin.]
[Hahaha, God Xin is so pitiful. He saved someone, got ambushed, and when that failed, he was rejected. And even if he was rejected, he’s expected to offer himself. Why do they have to be like this to each other?]
[This incident teaches us a lesson.]
[What lesson?]
[Even if it’s your master’s words, you shouldn’t follow them blindly. You think your master is a deity, but she might be the boss instead.]
[Sister Hongyue: I take the blame!]
———————————–
“Here’s the deal, answer a few questions for me, and consider the debt repaid. Is that acceptable?” Bai Lixin tried to align his thoughts with the Little Dragon Girl.
The Little Dragon Girl knelt on the ground, furrowing her brows in thought for a long time before nodding. “Fine, go ahead and ask.”
Bai Lixin: “Are you a carp transformed into a dragon?”
The Little Dragon Girl nodded. “Yes, I was a carp that leaped over the Dragon Gate and successfully became a dragon.”
“Then how did you end up trapped here and turned into a mere ant?”
“Someone took away my scale. That scale is my core, without it, I can only be trapped here, unable to fly to the sky.”
“I’ve always wanted a Heart-protecting Scale. I thought about it every day, and because I desired it so much, my obsession led me to find it. I jumped into the water over and over again, imitating the action of the carp’s leap over the Dragon Gate.”
Bai Lixin: “What do you mean imitating the action of the carp’s leap over the Dragon Gate?”
“The waterfall above your head is the Dragon Gate.” The Little Dragon Girl’s words drew Bai Lixin’s attention to the waterfall in front of them.
“But the Dragon Gate doesn’t appear every day, it only appears once every hundred years. When I transformed from a carp into a dragon, I kept practicing against the upstream current, trying to jump over the waterfall again and again until I finally became a dragon. My obsession carried my habits of repeatedly swimming upstream.”
Bai Lixin was puzzled, “But what’s the point of your obsession swimming upstream? Does it bring something to this lake?”
“Of course!” Little Dragon Girl nodded vigorously, “I am a golden Koi fish and can bring good luck to people or take away their fortune. This ‘fortune’ should actually be replaced with another term, that is, ‘qi luck’. Every time I leave, I take away the aura of this town, and it gets transferred here, becoming nutrients for the lake, nurturing the thing in the lake.”
Bai Lixin was puzzled. “What thing in the lake?”
“I can’t say, it would bring misfortune,” the Little Dragon Girl shivered.
Bai Lixin: “…”
He originally thought the skeletons of these monsters in the lake were from suppression by Qingcheng sect, but now it seems they might be playing another grand scheme.
Could these monster skeletons be just nourishment?
No wonder the mother and son became so powerful after their deaths; they probably absorbed the luck brought by those creatures, transforming themselves in the process.
Realizing this, Bai Lixin gestured towards the skeletons beside him. “Were these thrown in by the Qingcheng Sect?”
The Little Dragon Girl nodded. “They are a bunch of lunatics. They’ve almost killed all the monsters on this mountain.”
Bai Lixin: “Are they killing so many monsters to nourish the “thing” in the lake that cannot be mentioned?”
The Little Dragon Girl rolled her eyes. “What are you talking about? The unmentionable thing was born naturally. The people from the Qingcheng Sect just want to kill the monsters and take their inner cores, refining them into elixirs. They want to become immortals.”
“They want to take a shortcut but are afraid of retaliation from the creatures they brutally killed. So they divided the flesh of those unjustly dead monsters among humans. The longing and resentment of those wrongly dead monsters reside within the flesh. When humans consume the flesh, some might be fine, but some might be mistaken by the monsters for the ones who caused their deaths and be retaliated against.”
“Those people are thanking the Qingcheng Sect, but they don’t know that the Qingcheng Sect is just using them as scapegoats.”
“Recently, many people in the town have died tragically, isn’t it because of this? They died undeserved deaths; they were sacrificed for others and met their tragic ends.”
“The people from the Qingcheng Sect have repeatedly avoided the backlash of the monsters’ revenge. They think they are foolproof. They buried all the corpses here, trapped these restless skeletons, and used my scale to attract luck, neutralizing the resentment.”
“In essence, everything they’ve done is for one thing.”
‘They want a shortcut to immortality but are unwilling to pay the corresponding price, so they share the cost with others.”
“Their path to immortality is a selfish act built upon countless lives!”
“They see the resentment gradually dissolving and feel self-satisfied, but the foolish cultivators don’t know that karma and retribution are inevitable.”
“This lake has buried too many grievances; they keep accumulating. In the end, it has bred an unimaginable existence that cannot be mentioned. One day, it will awaken from the darkness. By then, everyone in this land will perish. It will devour everything that can be devoured.”
Bai Lixin had no choice but to take out his scythe from the backpack.
As the scythe gleamed, a cold light shimmered, accompanied by a faint dragon’s roar.
Upon hearing this sound, the woman abruptly stopped.
The next moment, she knelt down on the ground obediently.
Bai Lixin: “???” ‘Sister, your kneeling action is so skilled, it makes me feel a bit sorry for you. What’s going on?
Fight if you can beat me, kneel if you can’t? Who taught you that!’
—————————————
In the live broadcast room
[Smart people adapt to the situation.]
[The kneeling posture of this sister is so cute, hahaha.]
[God Xin is bewildered.]
———————————-
The woman in red remained expressionless, her arms went up, and she kowtowed to Bai Lixin respectfully, “If you can’t win, don’t fight.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
After begging for mercy, the woman in red stretched out her hand and continued expressionless, “Please return the scale.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘You think saying ‘please’ means you’re making a request? There’s no sincerity in your request at all!’
The woman finished speaking, but seeing Bai Lixin’s lack of response, she looked at him disdainfully, “Hey, what’s wrong with you? I’ve apologized and even said ‘please,’ but you don’t react at all. Do you not understand courtesy? How rude.”
Bai Lixin: “???”
‘I may not understand, but I’m deeply moved by your eloquence!’
————————————
In the live broadcast room
[Hahaha, the scholar meets the soldier, logic can’t be reasoned.]
[The unreasonable dragon teaches you manners online.]
[Dragon: Are you polite?]
[“Really Not Polite.”]
————————————-
In the camera’s frame, the two continued to face off.
“Are you a dragon?” Bai Lixin didn’t take out the scale but asked back.
“Nonsense,” the woman in red snorted, “Look at this sister’s figure, do you still doubt it? How ignorant, you don’t even recognize a dragon. I wonder what you’ve learned growing up. Could you be illiterate?”
Bai Lixin nearly choked on his breath, “I’m not illiterate, don’t talk nonsense.”
——————————–
[Hahaha, I’m dying of laughter.]
[“Truly Ignorant” and “Truly an Illiterate]
[God Xin refutes the rumors online.]
[Hahaha, spreading rumors is easy, but refuting them is a real challenge. To prevent God Xin from being misunderstood, spread the truth. God Xin is not an illiterate.]
[Hahahaha]
——————————
“What’s your name?” Bai Lixin coughed lightly. “Stop kneeling and get up.”
“No, my master said, when you encounter an enemy, fight to the death if you can win, run if you can’t, and chase if you can’t escape. If you can’t run, kneel. As long as I kneel fast enough, no one can kill me.”
Bai Lixin: “But I’m not your enemy. I don’t intend to kill you.”
The woman glanced at the scythe Bai Lixin held in his hand. “You’re talking nonsense. You’ve even brandished your kitchen knife! Do you think I’m stupid? Let me tell you, my head isn’t made of dough!”
Bai Lixin: “May I ask who your master is?”
Woman: “Hmph, I’m afraid it’ll scare you. I’ll tell you, my master will never change her surname or name, she’s called Hongyue. Have you heard of her? Are you scared now?”
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘Hehe, Hongyue, Hongyue, so it’s you. You’ve taught your disciple well!’
————————————
The high tower, Sand Sea Guild
Song Yuantian rubbed his forehead. “What’s going on? Did you take on a disciple in a copy? Sister, just tell me honestly, how many brothers and sisters did you seduce in the copies? I thought you only seduced younger brothers, but turns out you don’t spare the sisters either?”
Hongyue was also staring at the big screen in shock, clearly not remembering that she had taken on such a disciple. “Why don’t I remember when I accepted this disciple?”
She stared at the beautiful lady on the screen for a while before suddenly slapping the table in realization. “Oh, I remember now! It was that little carp!”
“A long time ago, when I was in a single player copy, I saw a bright red koi carp in the hands of a fishmonger NPC. I was thinking, koi fish isn’t that tasty, but isn’t it considered lucky? So I bought it thinking that it might bring me good luck and help me clear the copy.”
“I originally intended to release it, but I forgot about it after awhile. When I remembered and looked again, there was a little girl about six or seven years old smiling at me inside the fish tank.”
Song Yuantian blushed angrily, and glanced Hongyue with jealousy. “Were you happy at that time? You had a little sister to accompany you until the end.”
“You can stop it. I was almost scared to death,” Hongyue replied. “She is indeed a little sister, but her entire face was submerged in the water, and her hair was spread out, making it barely distinguishable from the water. I almost had a heart attack when I saw her.”
Song Yuantian: “Hahaha.”
“You still have the nerve to laugh?” Hongyue glared at Song Yuantian. “Later, I found out that I had saved a koi fish spirit. To repay me, it turned into a human and smiled at me. I was truly grateful. I thought the koi fish was silly, so I released it. But it ended up getting caught again. So, I trained her for a few days, and by the time the training was done, my task was over, so I parted ways with her. I didn’t expect her to grow up like this and turn into a dragon. Amazing, right? How many years have passed in this copy since the time I entered it?”
Song Yuantian: “You didn’t recognize this copy before?”
Hongyue shook her head. “I didn’t recognize it at all. When I entered this copy, there was no Qingcheng Town, and there was a mountain, but it wasn’t significant. There were no sects on the mountain either. There were monsters in this copy, but my task was simple. I just had to survive for seven days and seven nights.”
“You know how single player copies were before, they were welfare copies, but now they have become so difficult and challenging.”
Hearing this, Song Yuantian looked at the big screen somewhat helplessly. “Indeed, copies nowadays are quite challenging, ever since…”
“Ah, let’s not talk about it. It’s all in the past.”
Hongyue: “…Alright, if you don’t want to talk about it, we won’t.”
——————————-
In the live broadcast room
[Hongyue? Is that the same Hongyue we know?]
[My god, it’s a crossover! Hongyue, the big boss, has been in this copy too? When did this happen?]
[Wasn’t Hongyue a player from a long time ago? This must be from a really, really long time ago, right?]
[Isn’t this the big flood drowning the Dragon King Temple? I feel so sorry for God Xin.]
[God Xin is truly a living Bodhisattva. Not only did he save Hongyue, but now he has to save Hongyue’s disciple too. Did Hongyue save God Xin’s life in her previous life?]
[Hahahaha, the grace of saving a life.]
——————————-
Bai Lixin gestured. “The Hongyue you’re talking about, is she tall with wavy hair, very beautiful and heroic?”
Woman in red: “Oh, you really know her?”
Bai Lixin: “Not only do I know her, I saved her life.”
The woman sneered disdainfully. “You’re bragging.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘Forget it, believe me, don’t believe, it’s up to you.’
He took out the scale from his backpack and handed it to the woman. “Hongyue is my friend. Since you’re Hongyue’s disciple, I’ll return this to its rightful owner.”
The woman in red was momentarily stunned, quickly snatching the scale and holding it in her hands, her face filled with excitement. “My master was right after all. The beauty trap really works. Thank you, master!”
Bai Lixin: “???”
‘What beauty trap? Nonsense, only one person’s beauty trap works on me, and no one else’s. What on earth did Hongyue give to this dragon?’
After receiving the scale, the woman quickly plunged into the lake. The calm lake suddenly stirred violently, and a burst of red light appeared. The next moment, a golden-red figure shot out from the water.
The golden-red light gradually dissipated and Bai Lixin squinted his eyes to see. Within the waterfall, a dragon with wide-open eyes was hovering above his head.
The dragon was golden-red in color. When the sunlight shone on its translucent and firm scales, it immediately shimmered with a dreamy and beautiful color.
It was no longer an illusion but a real dragon.
The dragon hovered above his head for quite some time before diving towards him. Bai Lixin retreated a step warily, wielding his scythe.
With a flash of red light, the golden-red dragon disappeared. The red-clad woman once again knelt respectfully in front of him and earnestly said, “I can’t defeat you, so I won’t fight anymore.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘So why did you probe and test the edge of the fight just now?’
“Thank you for returning the scale to me. My master said we should distinguish between favors and grudges clearly. When you held the scale and didn’t return it, wanting to keep it for yourself, that was a grudge. But I couldn’t beat you. As for the favor, you found my scale and returned it to me. That’s a favor to me. I might not be able to beat you, but I can repay the favor.”
“How do you want me to repay you?”
The woman in red thought seriously for a moment, then said with a hint of reluctance, “My master said that the favor of saving a life should be repaid with oneself. Although I find you a bit repugnant…I’ll endure it for my master’s sake.”
Bai Lixin was shocked. “No need!”
‘Hongyue, take your good disciple away from me, quickly!’
—————————–
In the live broadcast room:
[Frequent visits to the riverside will get your shoes wet. When God Xin used the life saving grace to seduce someone, little did he expect that he would face retribution someday.]
[The main point is that the Little Dragon Girl still looks at him with disdain. This might be the only time God Xin has been disliked.]
[After all, the Little Dragon Girl’s master is Sister Hongyue.]
[Do you think there’s a possibility that the Little Dragon Girl actually likes girls? So she must be disdainful of God Xin.]
[Hahaha, God Xin is so pitiful. He saved someone, got ambushed, and when that failed, he was rejected. And even if he was rejected, he’s expected to offer himself. Why do they have to be like this to each other?]
[This incident teaches us a lesson.]
[What lesson?]
[Even if it’s your master’s words, you shouldn’t follow them blindly. You think your master is a deity, but she might be the boss instead.]
[Sister Hongyue: I take the blame!]
———————————–
“Here’s the deal, answer a few questions for me, and consider the debt repaid. Is that acceptable?” Bai Lixin tried to align his thoughts with the Little Dragon Girl.
The Little Dragon Girl knelt on the ground, furrowing her brows in thought for a long time before nodding. “Fine, go ahead and ask.”
Bai Lixin: “Are you a carp transformed into a dragon?”
The Little Dragon Girl nodded. “Yes, I was a carp that leaped over the Dragon Gate and successfully became a dragon.”
“Then how did you end up trapped here and turned into a mere ant?”
“Someone took away my scale. That scale is my core, without it, I can only be trapped here, unable to fly to the sky.”
“I’ve always wanted a Heart-protecting Scale. I thought about it every day, and because I desired it so much, my obsession led me to find it. I jumped into the water over and over again, imitating the action of the carp’s leap over the Dragon Gate.”
Bai Lixin: “What do you mean imitating the action of the carp’s leap over the Dragon Gate?”
“The waterfall above your head is the Dragon Gate.” The Little Dragon Girl’s words drew Bai Lixin’s attention to the waterfall in front of them.
“But the Dragon Gate doesn’t appear every day, it only appears once every hundred years. When I transformed from a carp into a dragon, I kept practicing against the upstream current, trying to jump over the waterfall again and again until I finally became a dragon. My obsession carried my habits of repeatedly swimming upstream.”
Bai Lixin was puzzled, “But what’s the point of your obsession swimming upstream? Does it bring something to this lake?”
“Of course!” Little Dragon Girl nodded vigorously, “I am a golden Koi fish and can bring good luck to people or take away their fortune. This ‘fortune’ should actually be replaced with another term, that is, ‘qi luck’. Every time I leave, I take away the aura of this town, and it gets transferred here, becoming nutrients for the lake, nurturing the thing in the lake.”
Bai Lixin was puzzled. “What thing in the lake?”
“I can’t say, it would bring misfortune,” the Little Dragon Girl shivered.
Bai Lixin: “…”
He originally thought the skeletons of these monsters in the lake were from suppression by Qingcheng sect, but now it seems they might be playing another grand scheme.
Could these monster skeletons be just nourishment?
No wonder the mother and son became so powerful after their deaths; they probably absorbed the luck brought by those creatures, transforming themselves in the process.
Realizing this, Bai Lixin gestured towards the skeletons beside him. “Were these thrown in by the Qingcheng Sect?”
The Little Dragon Girl nodded. “They are a bunch of lunatics. They’ve almost killed all the monsters on this mountain.”
Bai Lixin: “Are they killing so many monsters to nourish the “thing” in the lake that cannot be mentioned?”
The Little Dragon Girl rolled her eyes. “What are you talking about? The unmentionable thing was born naturally. The people from the Qingcheng Sect just want to kill the monsters and take their inner cores, refining them into elixirs. They want to become immortals.”
“They want to take a shortcut but are afraid of retaliation from the creatures they brutally killed. So they divided the flesh of those unjustly dead monsters among humans. The longing and resentment of those wrongly dead monsters reside within the flesh. When humans consume the flesh, some might be fine, but some might be mistaken by the monsters for the ones who caused their deaths and be retaliated against.”
“Those people are thanking the Qingcheng Sect, but they don’t know that the Qingcheng Sect is just using them as scapegoats.”
“Recently, many people in the town have died tragically, isn’t it because of this? They died undeserved deaths; they were sacrificed for others and met their tragic ends.”
“The people from the Qingcheng Sect have repeatedly avoided the backlash of the monsters’ revenge. They think they are foolproof. They buried all the corpses here, trapped these restless skeletons, and used my scale to attract luck, neutralizing the resentment.”
“In essence, everything they’ve done is for one thing.”
‘They want a shortcut to immortality but are unwilling to pay the corresponding price, so they share the cost with others.”
“Their path to immortality is a selfish act built upon countless lives!”
“They see the resentment gradually dissolving and feel self-satisfied, but the foolish cultivators don’t know that karma and retribution are inevitable.”
“This lake has buried too many grievances; they keep accumulating. In the end, it has bred an unimaginable existence that cannot be mentioned. One day, it will awaken from the darkness. By then, everyone in this land will perish. It will devour everything that can be devoured.”
