Chapter 52

"Who are you, and why are you here?" You Xin, the leader of the group holding the Yin Wind Banner, glared and asked.

Although Lu Xiaodeng had no cultivation, her appearance alone here was suspicious. Moreover, these people also wanted to know what had happened here—whether the people had been killed or taken away.

Lu Xiaodeng stared at him, slowly stretching her hand out of the tripod and reaching into her pocket, grabbing a handful of crystal fruits and stuffing them back into the tripod. She then slowly said, "I'm just a passerby, staying here for the night, and I'm leaving tomorrow. In the middle of the night, a group of people suddenly came here, claiming to be evil cultivators who wanted to kill people and steal souls for cultivation. They killed everyone in Green Lake Village."

She forcefully stuffed the crystal fruits in, grabbed another handful, and tried to put them into the tripod, saying, "I was so scared. I originally wanted to escape from the village, but the villagers pushed me to a place I didn't even see clearly. They then destroyed that place. Oh, and they were shouting that no one must discover it."

"They must have wanted to kill me. I was hit by a rock and collapsed with that place. When I woke up, I was here. I haven't done anything, and you all appeared. If you can, could you please help me and take me out of here?"

At this point, the tripod was already full of crystal fruits. Lu Xiaodeng spoke while stuffing the fruits into her chest, almost like a madwoman.

You Xin suspiciously questioned, "You say those people are evil cultivators? Do you have any evidence?" The only group of evil cultivators active now was theirs; how could another group appear?

"Evidence? I saw it with my own eyes. Don't you believe me?" Lu Xiaodeng stood on the tripod, looking at him in disbelief. Then, she angrily pointed at him and shouted, "You actually want me to provide evidence. This is doubting my character. If you don't believe me, why ask me? Go check it out yourself, you sick man!"

Everyone stared at her in shock. This girl must have a problem. She didn't even consider the current situation and dared to scold them. They had roamed the world for decades and had never seen such a strange person, making it hard to continue the conversation.

"Really annoying, wasting my time." Lu Xiaodeng huffed, jumped off the tripod, and gave them a dissatisfied glance, then picked up the tripod and planned to leave.

You Xin was furious. This was a joke. He immediately roared, "Stop right there. I'm going to extract your soul and see if you're lying."

He couldn't be sure if there were others here. Now, he needed to catch this person and force out the whereabouts of the others. He could also use her as a hostage to make those hiding people cautious. Based on You Xin's experience, in a place where ordinary people shouldn't appear, such a bold ordinary person must have been brought by a cultivator.

Such a person was either a cultivator's beloved or the child of an important figure in a sect, which is why they were so unreasonable and dared to go to dangerous places. They called such people "immortal pigs," and capturing one could control others.

"I didn't take anything from you, why are you shouting?" Lu Xiaodeng stopped, took out the crystal fruits from her chest, and angrily threw them at them. Dozens of crystal fruits flew towards them, but they had no force and couldn't be considered an attack, easily caught by the group.

You Xin smirked and threw the crystal fruits on the ground. This place was full of them, and he could take them later. Now, he needed to catch her. He reached out into the air, trying to suck her over.

Unexpectedly, Lu Xiaodeng's hair flew up, but her body didn't move, standing still.

"What's going on?" He was shocked. He then noticed that Lu Xiaodeng had already put down the tripod, and she was held by the shoulder strap of the tripod, which was why she didn't fly over. You Xin felt humiliated. With his mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivation, he couldn't even pull a tripod?

Lu Xiaodeng patted her chest and took a deep breath, "Scared me to death. Good thing I had a lot of stuff in the tripod, or you would have sucked me over." Then, she took a fan from her waist, as if she had broken out in a sweat, and started to fan herself.

Seeing the fan, You Xin and the others were stunned. He asked in shock, "How did you get the Soul Devouring Fan? Who are you?"

This was a high-grade spirit artifact he was very familiar with. When they left, the sect leader had handed it to the original Demon Lord in front of them. Although it wasn't important, it was his personal item. Why was it in this ordinary girl's hands?

When they left yesterday, the original Demon Lord was fine. What happened?

So, this fan is called the Soul Devouring Fan. Unfortunately, it has no souls left, and I don't know how to devour souls. But this person seems to know the Golden Core cultivator. My senior sister said they were evil cultivators, so they must be a group. Right, that man was called Yuan Zhi. The woman in red called him that.

So, Lu Xiaodeng fanned herself and casually said, "This fan is a token of love from a man named Yuan Zhi. He said he would marry me after he finished his business. But I'm still young and don't want to get married, so he said he would wait a few more years."

"Impossible! How could the original Demon Lord want to marry an ordinary person? He has so many women in the sect willing to dedicate themselves to him." You Xin was really confused, feeling a bit breathless, possibly from the shock.

At this moment, the gray-clothed man they had restrained suddenly clutched his neck and fell to the ground, struggling to breathe. He looked like a fish out of water, desperately trying to inhale air but failing, his eyes wide and his hands bleeding from scratching his neck.

All the evil cultivators scattered, looking at him in shock. Someone quickly used their divine sense to check and immediately found something wrong. "His throat is swollen, blocking the airway. He can't breathe."

As soon as this person spoke, everyone felt something was off. They also had difficulty breathing, but it was much better than the ordinary person. They hurriedly checked themselves with their divine sense and found their throats were also swollen. If they weren't cultivators with stronger bodies, they would be in the same state as the ordinary person.

"Did you do this?" You Xin wrapped his throat with spiritual energy, staring at Lu Xiaodeng. There was no one else suspicious here, and they didn't even know if it was poison. No matter who she was, even if she was someone the original Demon Lord liked, killing her and destroying the evidence would prevent the original Demon Lord from knowing.

"Die!" Thinking this, he roared, and the Yin Wind Banner in his hand glowed gray, releasing gray smoke that sprayed towards Lu Xiaodeng.

Seeing the gray smoke coming towards her, if she stood still, her ordinary body would be gone. Lu Xiaodeng moved her mouth, and a pill appeared. It was a pure white pill that shattered in her teeth, instantly turning into a liquid that flowed down her throat.

A powerful white wave erupted from her body, dispersing the gray smoke that was about to reach her. In a blink, Lu Xiaodeng rushed out of the white wave, quickly reaching You Xin and kicking him in the head.

"Trivial skills." An ordinary person, no matter what method they used, dared to challenge a Foundation Establishment cultivator with brute force. That was courting death. You Xin swung the banner, ready to catch the kick with his hand.

Unexpectedly, as soon as his hand touched the kick, he felt the force was wrong. Despite his spiritual energy covering his body, the flying kick hit his head, and he flew out like an arrow, crashing into the stone wall.

Lu Yaoyang and Bai Zhen, who had dismantled three restrictions to reach the depths of the passage, felt a slight tremor while carefully extracting crystal cores. The tremor quickly disappeared, making them look up in confusion but finding nothing unusual.

Lu Yaoyang frowned and said, "Senior Bai, that tremor was strange. Is Xiaodeng in danger outside?"

"It shouldn't be. If someone came in, would they make such a big noise to deal with her? Don't move around. If the crystal cores are damaged, we won't be able to explain." Bai Zhen calmly replied. They found that the crystal cores were protected by restrictions set by the Xiao family. One had to open a small hole in the restriction while the other used spiritual energy to extract the crystal cores. Even if they heard something outside, they had to take all the crystal cores before leaving.

"Okay." Lu Yaoyang also lowered his head and continued using his spiritual energy to extract the crystal cores from the small hole in the restriction, putting them into a jade bottle.

Lu Xiaodeng's kick sent You Xin into the stone wall. Everyone looked at her in disbelief, noticing that her feet were no longer human. They were white rabbit legs. The group, who never paid attention to the parts of beasts, couldn't recognize what kind of rabbit it was. Moreover, this human-rabbit hybrid was something they had never heard of.

"A Spirit Transformation beast?" someone muttered, drawing shocked looks from the others. They were only at the Qi Condensation stage, with the strongest being Foundation Establishment. A Spirit Transformation beast was equivalent to a Core Formation cultivator, leaving them powerless.

You Xin struggled out of the stone wall, gritting his teeth, a trace of blood on his lips. The kick had dazed him, almost killing him. Hearing that she was a Spirit Transformation beast, he was alarmed. No wonder she looked like she had no cultivation; she must be a highly cultivated Spirit Transformation beast.

What to do? They couldn't fight. Right, the Soul Devouring Fan was in her hands. Whether it was real or not, the only way was to use the original Demon Lord to plead.

Before he could speak, Lu Xiaodeng said, "No, I'm not a Spirit Transformation beast. I just took a Beast Transformation Pill. I made it myself, pretty cool, right? But my senior sister didn't like it. She said not to give it to her before I even finished making it, so now I can only take it myself."

"Damn it!" You Xin, unsure if he was angry or wanted to laugh, stood up and roared, "I will kill you, extract all your souls, and eat your flesh bit by bit!"

Lu Xiaodeng looked at him in confusion, saying, "Strange, why is he so angry?"

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