“Don’t cry.” Cry? How could she cry? She wished for nothing more than his miserable death!
Hearing that voice, Su Zhuyi suddenly blinked. She saw tears sliding from her eyes, was slightly stunned, then forced a smile, “Nothing’s wrong.”
Old dog Qin, dead as you are, you still insist on leaving a mark in my heart. Having slept with such an excellent man in my previous life, my standards are high now. Don’t tell me I should become a nun in this lifetime?
Adding to my troubles.
“Why are you crying? Does something hurt?” Little Skull looked at her with concern, then brought its head close and blew gently twice.
“No, the wind blew sand into my eyes.” Su Zhuyi held back her tears. She snorted coldly and stood up, looking around. She found herself standing on a small hillock, with Sufang City’s gates not far ahead. Walking would take at most a quarter hour.
“Did daddy blow it?” Little Skull put its claws behind its back like a little adult and said, “The wind is naughty.”
Su Zhuyi smiled, “It is quite naughty. We’re about to enter the city. Go hide in the gourd first.”
“Mm!” Big sister had said he was too thin and might scare people. Little Skull dove into the gourd, pressing its head to the gourd’s mouth to secretly peek outside.
Su Zhuyi quickly adjusted her mood and strode toward the city gate. Since this opportunity was exchanged for me by you, I’ll live well, freely, and at ease, which will make your death worthwhile.
But a moment later, she came back dejectedly.
“No spirit stones, get lost! What city are you trying to enter?”
“Little girl, see that? There’s Yuxu Mountain over there. There are spirit beasts on the mountain. If you’re lucky enough to hunt a spirit beast, you might even dig up spirit pearls and be able to pay this entrance fee.”
When under someone’s roof, one must bow one’s head.
Su Zhuyi didn’t have a single spirit stone left and couldn’t pay the entrance fee, so the city guards wouldn’t let her through the gates. In her previous life, she later became a demoness – where would she have paid entrance fees? She had completely forgotten about entrance fees. If she had remembered, she could have saved one stone just now. But now, she didn’t have a single spirit stone.
Unable even to enter the city gates, naturally, she couldn’t register to join the Suyue Sect.
But fortunately, she had Little Skull, so getting some spirit stones shouldn’t be difficult. Therefore, Su Zhuyi didn’t hesitate and headed directly toward Yuxu Mountain. After she left, the two cultivators who had advised her on how to earn spirit stones exchanged glances, chuckled twice, and followed Su Zhuyi toward Yuxu Mountain.
The city guards turned a blind eye, pretending not to see.
“Hehuan Sect is also recruiting disciples now. Though that little girl has short hair, her features are quite good. Catching her and selling her to Hehuan Sect would fetch a good price.”
“Mm, she’s good merchandise.” The Suyue Sect had many resources, and this recruitment had attracted many female cultivators to register. When they encountered lone cultivators with low cultivation, they would secretly abduct them. They had done this many times – it was routine by now.
“Really a good seedling. Among the ones we’ve caught recently, this girl is the most beautiful. When she grows up, who knows how enchanting she’ll be…” The two talked while following from a distance. This was Suyue Sect’s territory after all, and acting at Suyue Sect’s city gates would be inappropriate. Therefore, they stayed quite far away to avoid unnecessary trouble. But once they reached Yuxu Mountain, the Suyue Sect couldn’t control them, and they could act immediately.
The two weren’t worried about what abilities such a young girl could have. After all, in the cultivation world, people only began practicing at age six. This little girl looked about five or six years old – what level could she have cultivated to? Someone who came alone like this, probably from some small village, definitely had no background. Even if they took her, no one would come looking. They also weren’t worried she might be a runaway from some cultivation family, because such children wouldn’t think much of a sect like Suyue Sect and wouldn’t eagerly run here.
Su Zhuyi had just been disturbed by the news about Qin Jianglan and was somewhat agitated, so she didn’t notice the people following at a distance. She walked with her head down, never stopping.
Yuxu Mountain looked close, but walking there was quite a distance. Su Zhuyi walked most of the day before reaching the foot of Yuxu Mountain. She looked up to see that Yuxu Mountain was high and steep, with the entire peak hidden in clouds and mist. Such a mountain could indeed be considered a spirit mountain.
For the Suyue Sect to build a city relying on Yuxu Mountain, that great master of Dong Fushang Sect was quite generous to his little lover.
She had been smiling, but thinking of this, her smile suddenly froze.
Qin Jianglan was even more generous than him.
For a demoness, he had sacrificed his life.
They say time reversal goes against heavenly dao, but now such a large living person was gone – wasn’t this the greatest variable in heavenly dao? Since this was the case, why should she care about changing or not changing fate?
In any case, the current world was no longer the world of before.