The Entire Sect is Full of Villains, Yet the Junior Sister Conquers All

A group of sect disciples had no chance of defeating a Nascent Soul stage cultivator. It could even be said to be like eggs hitting a stone. However, if it was just a matter of delaying time, there wasn’t much of a problem.

—Tonight, the ceremony will be completed.

The conditions for mission failure were two.

In other words, as long as either condition was broken, the mission wouldn’t be considered a failure.

The moment dawn broke, everything around them vanished into illusion. Every blade of grass, every tree, stone, and flower, the hundreds of guests below the platform, and Lord Wang, who was heavily striking at Chu Sang, all dissipated like smoke.

Everyone lowered their swords and knives. An ancient, simple gate appeared floating in mid-air before their eyes, involuntarily making them hold their breath.

They pushed open the door and entered.

It was another world entirely.

This time, Chu Sang was luckier. Mu Chihuai was nearby.

She had just propped herself up to stand when she let out a soft “hiss.” An indescribable sharp pain came from her shoulder. She had unfortunately been injured while fighting Lord Wang in the previous illusion.

“Are you hurt?” Mu Chihuai frowned slightly. He walked over and crouched beside her, taking out bandages and healing medicine he carried with him to simply dress her wound. He then gave her a large bottle of Healing Spirit Pills.

He inwardly sighed. Since Little Junior Sister had arrived, half of the poison pills in his jade ring had been replaced with healing medicine.

His pill refining skills for the Healing Spirit Pills he previously disdained had improved by leaps and bounds.

“Thanks, Sixth Senior Brother.”

Chu Sang waved her hand, giving him a playful smile. “It doesn’t hurt at all now!” How awesome. It was so convenient to have a healing father figure around.

The second layer of the illusion was quite ordinary. Chu Sang looked at the darkened forest, spreading her divine sense to scout several miles around. She didn’t discover many traces of spirit beasts. The ones present were only first or second-grade spirit beasts without much attacking power.

She wondered how Seventh Senior Brother and Fourth Senior Sister were doing?

They needed to regroup quickly.

The two traveled side by side under the moonlight. Halfway through, they seemed to hear someone calling for help.

With the mindset of salted fish unwilling to invite trouble, the two continued on their way, heads down.

After a while, that faint, mournful cry for help appeared again.

No matter how far they walked, that cry for help followed like a shadow.

The two simply covered their ears and walked on. After a few more steps, a figure lay sprawled not far ahead,

This time, they couldn’t avoid it even if they wanted to.

Chu Sang, Mu Chihuai: “……”

What kind of Red Boy scam plot was this?

“Senior Brother, let’s go!” Chu Sang closed her eyes and directly pulled Mu Chihuai, about to step over this “corpse.”

The “corpse” couldn’t hold back anymore. He coughed violently twice, then directly hugged her leg, his pale, emaciated arm tightly gripping her belt. “Cough… Miss, Young Master, please save me, cough cough……”

Chu Sang: “Let go.”

The person held on tighter, looking up at her. His messy long hair covered his face, only vaguely revealing features mixed with blood and mud, looking extremely miserable and pitiful, exuding an aura of fragility that aroused sympathy. “Miss, Young Master, please save me. You look like kind-hearted people, you’re good people……”

Mu Chihuai sneered, “Are you blind?”

“He says we’re good people!”

Chu Sang looked moved, grabbing his hand. “You have such good eyesight. Sixth Senior Brother, let’s save him!”

Mu Chihuai hesitated, looking back at her, suspecting that Little Junior Sister might be having an episode.

A blood-covered man appearing inexplicably in a forest at night, stubbornly clinging to them—no matter how one looked at it, it was strange and ill-intentioned. It was clearly a trap!

Wasn’t Little Junior Sister usually quite sharp? Why was she insisting on jumping into this pit?

She turned her head and winked at him, looking charming and cute. “Sixth Senior Brother, he’s called us good people. When we meet someone pitiful, we should definitely lend a hand, right?”

“Quickly use your [medicine] to treat him!”

“……” Mu Chihuai’s gaze lingered on her face for a moment, then suddenly, he smiled,

“Alright.”

Mu Chihuai’s skill naturally needed no further explanation. The man fell unconscious soon after speaking. The two dragged him into a nearby cave.

Chu Sang even cast a Cleaning Spell on him, revealing the man’s original appearance.

The man had black hair and white clothes, with a fair and bewitchingly beautiful face that didn’t seem to belong to the mortal world. Even in his unconscious state, he was lightly whimpering while clutching Chu Sang’s sleeve. This appearance, no matter how one looked at it, was—

“So coquettish.”

Mu Chihuai found this person extremely unpleasant to look at. Not only had he appeared mysteriously, but he also had the air of a seductive fox spirit, as if he had come to seduce people.

He was worried that Little Junior Sister might be attracted by this appearance. She shouldn’t be fooled by this fox spirit.

“Sixth Senior Brother, he’s not as handsome as you,” Chu Sang whispered in his ear.

Let alone the fact that this man looked too effeminate, even just in terms of appearance, he really wasn’t as handsome as her Sixth Senior Brother.

This deliberately affected charm couldn’t compare to even a tenth of the natural allure in Sixth Senior Brother’s phoenix eyes.

Mu Chihuai raised his chin slightly. “Of course. This young master is naturally good-looking.” How could he be compared to some random fox spirit picked up by the roadside!

It must be said that Mu Chihuai’s words were prophetic. This man really was a fox spirit,

In the literal sense.

Little White was extremely sensitive to auras, naturally including those of beast spirits.

This person was actually a fox beast that had cultivated for several hundred years and reached the Nascent Soul stage. The injuries on his body were real, but he was most skilled at seducing people’s hearts and consuming their essence and blood.

“Thank you both for your help. My humble abode is nearby. Why don’t you come and sit for a while? I’ll prepare some food to entertain my two benefactors… cough cough……” After a while, the man woke up. His pale face had gained some color compared to earlier. He looked at the two gratefully and struggled to get up.

“You’re too kind. With such severe injuries, how could we trouble you further? We’ll just escort you back on our way!” Chu Sang stepped forward to support him, showing the utmost gentleness and concern.

The man was instantly even more moved. “Thank you, Miss!”

But in his heart, he was secretly thinking how stupid these humans were. He had been pursued by enemies and severely injured, his beast power greatly diminished. He had coincidentally fallen into this forest and unexpectedly encountered two cultivators with decent strength.

If he could just lure these two to his lair and devour them, he could recover about eight or nine-tenths of his injuries!

As they walked deeper into the forest, they got farther and farther from the city. The three of them had nearly reached the innermost part of the woods.

“Brother, have we taken a wrong turn? This doesn’t look like the path to the city,” Chu Sang said.

The slender man in white at the front stopped. “No, we haven’t gone wrong. It’s right here.”

His voice was no longer clear and pleasant as before, but had become somewhat shrill and eerie. An ominous wind rose around them, making his long black hair flutter wildly in the air.

The man suddenly turned his head. That bewitchingly cold face had already transformed into a beastly visage. His body suddenly expanded, tearing his clothes to shreds, turning into a huge white fox with a broken tail.

Sharp teeth dripped with saliva as it opened its mouth. Its ferocious, twisted face no longer bore any resemblance to the feigned gentle beauty from before. “If I can devour you two, my beast power will surely increase greatly!”

“Truly an ungrateful beast. Since that’s the case, there’s no need to keep you alive,” Mu Chihuai smiled coldly.

The next second, the previously fierce fox spirit suddenly convulsed. Then, black blood began flowing from its ears, eyes, and mouth. It didn’t even have time to let out a scream before collapsing to the ground. After a few muscle spasms, it lay still.

Before long, the white fox’s corpse rapidly deflated like a punctured balloon, and a large swarm of dense black insects crawled out.

As soon as the black insects emerged, they began devouring each other.

In the end, only one black insect remained, as large as a thumb.

This was the entire process of cultivating Gu worms—parasitism, nurturing, transformation, devouring, and selecting a king.

Chu Sang saw the young man’s eyes filled with smile as he crouched down and extended his hand. The black insect crawled up his slender, translucent fingers onto his forearm, then was collected into a small clay pot he carried. He murmured, “Another obedient one, how nice~”

She felt a chill down her spine and rubbed her arms, thinking that indeed, one should never provoke Sixth Senior Brother. He could even take down a Nascent Soul stage beast spirit by taking advantage of the situation.

Earlier, when treating the beast spirit’s wounds, Mu Chihuai had made some preparations. As long as the other party dared to betray them, he could instantly activate the Gu worm that had infiltrated its heart meridians.

“Do you like it? I’ll give you one.” Seeing her constantly looking down at the clay pot, Mu Chihuai selected a green, slimy Gu worm that looked like a caterpillar and held it out to her. The worm even shyly wiggled its round body at her.

“……” Chu Sang almost performed a laser dance for him on the spot.

“Stay away from me!”

Mu Chihuai had to put the worm back in the pot, looking disappointed. “This one is very gentle. It never bites people indiscriminately.”

“What does it eat when it’s hungry?”

“People, of course.”

“……Sixth Senior Brother, I think we need to maintain a certain safe distance for the rest of our journey.”

After the beast spirit died, its body vanished like smoke, and a golden token flew out.

Chu Sang took the golden token, guessing it must be related to the exit of the second layer of the secret realm.

She flew up high and discovered a not-so-large round tower in the deepest part of the forest that seemed out of place.

Flying over, she found that there were exactly ten indented slots around the pointed tower. The shape of each indented slot matched the golden token in her hand perfectly.

She experimentally placed the token into one of the slots. Immediately, the surrounding aura changed. Chu Sang reacted quickly, hurriedly retrieving the token. She went down and told Mu Chihuai, “I understand now. These golden tokens are the keys to the second layer of the illusion. As long as we have the keys, we can enter the next layer of the illusion.”

“But there are only ten keys, which means only ten people can pass through to the next layer of the illusion.”

“The keys are distributed throughout this forest. They might be hidden in some unknown corner, or they might be in the belly of a spirit beast…… We need to search for them ourselves to know the specific situation.”

“We must find as many keys as possible before the other sects, otherwise we’ll be beaten to it by other sects and lose the chance to enter the next layer of the illusion.”

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In other parts of the forest, the battles were equally intense.

Many disciples gradually realized the trick to it. Tantai Ming was particularly unlucky, happening to fall in the same place as Qin Xixue.

He had just killed a Scarlet Flame Lion King with one sword strike when Qin Xixue arrived with her sword, wanting to fight for the flying token.

Tantai Ming was at the Golden Core stage and had an Innate Spirit Body. He was also a sword cultivator, yet he didn’t have the upper hand. Several onlooking disciples from other sects discussed among themselves.

“Qin Xixue is indeed worthy of being called a genius disciple produced by the Tianyan Sect in recent years. Although she can’t compare to Mo Qingchen from before, her strength is still impressive. Being able to fight one-on-one with an early Golden Core stage cultivator at late Foundation Establishment stage without falling behind is truly remarkable!”

However, a sword cultivator who could see through the situation didn’t agree and refuted, “The two sides are evenly matched, but if we consider sword techniques alone, the male cultivator beside her is several times stronger. His sword moves are fluid yet domineering, not at all inferior to those few inner disciples of our Ten Thousand Swords Sect.”

“This Qin Xixue’s reputation as a genius may be widespread, but as fellow sword cultivators, her sword techniques are indeed quite poor. She can’t even compare to those slightly more diligent outer disciples in our sect.”

“The reason she can maintain an even battle with an early Golden Core stage cultivator isn’t because of her amateur sword skills.” The person continued, “Haven’t you noticed? In just this short time, she’s already used no less than three different spirit tools.”

“Even the inner disciples of the Eight Great Immortal Sects shouldn’t have so many spirit tools, right?”

“Haha, I thought it was a duel between geniuses, but it turns out to be a one-sided wealth crush.”

Hearing these discussions around her, Qin Xixue’s face grew even more unsightly. Of all the humiliations she had encountered so far, most were brought about by Chu Sang and these people from her new sect!

Perhaps out of resentment, she found an opportunity and thrust her sword towards Tantai Ming’s chest.

Her merciless technique made it clear she wanted to kill him.

Tantai Ming’s pupils constricted. He hurriedly dodged, cursing under his breath, “You’re really going for it!”

He was also annoyed. Originally, he didn’t want to be too harsh with girls, so he hadn’t used his full strength earlier.

But this female cultivator before him had repeatedly refreshed his understanding, completely unlike Little Junior Sister and the others! Since the other party was trying to kill him, there was no need for him to show mercy.

Overwhelming and fierce sword qi spread out as Tantai Ming sent her flying with one sword strike.

He also took possession of the token.

“Hey kid, are you alright?” Mu Chihuai and Chu Sang had also arrived. Seeing Tantai Ming was slightly injured, he tossed him a healing pill.

Mo Qingchen also arrived with several Tianyan Sect disciples. Some saw Qin Xixue lying on the ground in a sorry state and hurriedly went to help her up, glaring angrily at Tantai Ming and the others.

Mo Qingchen didn’t have much of a reaction. He also held a golden token in his hand.

Other disciples from various sects gradually arrived. Some had also obtained tokens.

After nearly three days of competition, Chu Sang’s group had obtained three tokens, while Mo Qingchen had two tokens in hand. Other sects either had none or only one.

Five people and three tokens weren’t enough to go around.

After discussion, they decided to maximize resource utilization. They chose Chu Sang, Tantai Ming, and Chengying, the three strongest sword cultivators, to take the tokens and enter the next layer.

Mu Chihuai and Sikong Qiu, being weaker, would stay in the second layer.

The further they went, the more dangerous the illusions would become. Letting these two stay in the second layer was actually another form of protection.