Chapter 04
Great Love Warms the Lost Girl! 2023-07-31 Author: Zhi Shi Xue Bao Ao
As the words fell.
“Thump.”
Cen Xing’er slumped to the ground, her beautiful eyes wide, her cherry lips parting and closing, unable to say a single word!
“Follow your Master.”
“It is time to let you understand your Master’s heart.”
After saying this, without even glancing at the girl, Bai Feng flicked his sleeves and rose.
“Master! Are… are you not trusting Xing’er?”
Cen Xing’er’s cat-like eyes were wide open, swimming with tears.
“What do you think?”
Bai Feng raised an eyebrow slightly.
The girl shook her head hurriedly, looking toward the endless darkness at the end of the tunnel, her entire body trembling even more violently.
“But… where does Master want to take Xing’er?”
“Just follow this Venerable one; no need to ask so much!”
Bai Feng maintained his cold, aloof expression that kept people at a distance.
“Yes!”
The master and disciple, one in front and one behind, traversed a long, downward-sloping tunnel and arrived at the first level of the “Blood Kitchen” basement.
The air here was filled with a sinister demonic aura, and the smell of blood was growing stronger.
Cen Xing’er looked at the enormous bone gate ahead, constructed from tens of thousands of skeletons, and felt a chill go through her heart, instinctively taking a step back.
It was then that she was startled to discover that these skulls each had only one eye socket, looking extremely sinister!
“Master, these are…”
The girl timidly cast her gaze toward the man beside her.
At this moment, Bai Feng was also secretly swallowing hard.
As it turned out, in the game, when this scene was unlocked, it was already after Bai Qingling had taken the poison and was on the verge of death, with the player-controlled protagonist, Xiao Chen, arriving to deliver the killing blow to the boss.
In the game, to pass censorship, many of the details of the scene weren’t shown, so the sense of horror was only moderate.
Now that the game had become reality, seeing this “Jingguan” (monument of heads) gate with his own eyes, Bai Feng truly grasped the perverted terror of Bai Qingling!
It was horrifying. His sanity meter had hit rock bottom!
Noticing the girl’s gaze, Bai Feng recalled the plot and said indifferently:
“Indeed.”
“These are all from the one-eyed Witch tribe who lived in the hundred thousand mountains of the Southern Frontier. When this Venerable one was young, destitute, and fleeing, I was lured into the mountains by their leader, Tuoba Changyu, and subjected to the most extreme torture in this world, wishing for death.”
“Tuoba Changyuās purpose was to cause my soul to collapse, so he could use the witch tribeās evil arts to extract my ‘Innate Wuxiang Demon Seed’, pure and undefiled, for his own use.”
“It is a pity that on the final day, when Tuoba Changyu used the ‘Spirit-Shattering’ torture on me, the demonic blood in my body erupted. I broke free from my shackles and, with the help of a golden cicada shedding its shell, escaped and survived.”
“When my demonic arts achieved success, the first thing I did was return to the hundred thousand mountains to repay the ‘kindness’ the witch tribe showed me back then.”
He spoke of it lightly, as if it were someone else’s story.
The girl beside him, however, was terrified to the bone listening to it.
The “Spirit-Shattering” torture was the number one recognized torture in the cultivation world!
Even those on the demonic path, who killed as they pleased, disdained such methods!
Its principle was to use a tempered spirit hammer to precisely strike the area in the pineal gland of the foreheadāwhere the spirit root residesāuntil the spirit root exploded, the spiritual sense was lost, and the soul was permanently torn apart, falling into the primordial chasm, unable to reincarnate.
No wonder he became so ruthless, cold-blooded, and brutal later on.
It is said… that his master, who taught him in his youth, only took him in to seize the demon seed within him.
Who wouldn’t have a mental breakdown after experiencing such cold and cruel circumstances?
The world kissed him with pain; why should he repay it with a song?
At this moment, Cen Xing’er looked at the tall, formidable demonic shadow before her, completely forgetting that she had come to end his lifeāin fact…
She even felt a twinge of heartbreak!
Her eyes reddened instantly.
If it were before.
She would have wanted to be bold enough to pillow her head on his broad chest and give a tight hug to the man who had raised her!
But now.
Her two senior sisters had already revealed everything, making her realize the true face of this man…
If she didn’t kill him now.
Her two senior sisters, the peers in the Youluo Palace, and perhaps the entire Cangming Sect and Yun Continent, might end up dying at his hands!
“Xing’er, let’s go inside.”
“Inside is what this Venerable one really wants you to see.”
Noticing the change in the girl’s emotions, Bai Feng did not want to complicate things and pushed open the bone gate.
“Yes! Master.”
Cen Xing’er clutched the pill bottle and followed closely behind.
She had already made up her mind.
If this man truly found out everything…
Then she would have to use force!
After all, Senior Brother Xiao Chen next door had sworn to her repeatedly that the Qingling Demon Venerable at this moment was stripped of his magical power and was nothing but a paper tiger!
Entering the bone gate, they arrived at a suddenly spacious arched hall built from jade.
Compared to the entrance of the basement, this place actually had an air of immortality, not at all like a demonic lair.
“Do you know what this is?”
Bai Feng looked up at the dome of the hall, where a row of blood-red demonic orbs, floating in the void like eyeballs, hovered.
“This is… the Shadow-Stealing Demonic Orbs!?”
The girl cried out in shock.
She hadn’t recognized the object originally.
Until the age of thirteen, when she found an inconspicuous, eerie bead in the corner of her bedroom.
And the moment she paid attention to it, the blood-red bead, like a living creature, flew away from her sight at high speed.
Then, her second senior sister, Tantai Lingyin, came over and told her a terrifying secret.
As it turned out.
This thing was called the “Shadow-Stealing Treasure Orb,” a magical artifact refined by her master, Bai Qingling, using the demonic cores of blood-pool flies. It could monitor a person’s every move and, driven by the master’s intent, feed back the images!
And since they had entered the sect, every single move of theirs had been monitored by that man!
In her second senior sister’s words…
In that man’s eyes, they were not disciples, but tools kept in captivity!
They were his to touch at will!
Under the instructions of my second senior sister, for these years, I endured humiliation and pretended not to know of these beads, allowing him to spy on us in his madness…
But why… would he take the initiative to show me this?
The girl’s thoughts fluctuated, her small hands rubbing together in a sweat behind her back.
She dared not look directly at the man beside her, whose schemes were as deep as an abyss.
“Xing’er, look up and watch carefully.”
In the dead silence, the Qingling Demon Venerable spoke again, his voice still as indifferent as ever.
“Yes, Master.”
Cen Xing’er bit her lip and looked up. She saw over a dozen Shadow-Stealing Demonic Orbs on the ceiling simultaneously refracting pillars of crimson light, which intersected and crisscrossed.
In the blink of an eye, a gigantic light curtain condensed in the void.
At the same time.
Lifelike images appeared on the light curtain.
The first scene emerged.
In the picture, a girl of about five or six years old, with pigtails, was kneeling before the corpses of her parents, wailing bitterly. Behind her were fierce-looking bandits holding cold steel blades.
It seemed the little girl’s crying had made the bandits impatient.
Swish.
The steel blade reached out toward her.
The little girl closed her eyes in despair.
Just then, the savage laughter of the bandits stopped abruptly.
Immediately after, the sound of the wind, the rustling of leavesāeverything disappeared.
Space and time seemed frozen.
In the scene, a young, handsome man in black robes appeared.
He stepped over the corpses of the bandits and came to the girl step by step.
Until his tall figure swallowed her small, frail one.
Only then did the little girl come to her senses, looking at the face of her savior, and asking in a choked voice:
“W-who are you?”
“My name is Bai Qingling.”
“Are you an immortal from the heavens sent to save the suffering? Please, save my parents!”
“Gods and Buddhas ignore the world, but the demonic path does not abandon all living beings.”
The man looked at her, word by word, his voice carrying an irresistible temptation: “Child, come with me.”
“Go… go where?”
“Home.”
In the sunset glow, the man reached out his pale hands and gently cradled the girl’s rosy cheeks.
The image froze on this scene.
“Master…”
Past memories surfaced again, and Cen Xing’er could no longer suppress it; tears streamed down!
It was Master!
At that time, he was still her most trusted, strong, and gentle Master!
She could even recall the warmth of the large hands reaching out to her!
With all sorts of emotions interweaving, she stole a glance at the man beside her.
But he remained expressionless, only saying indifferently: “Time flies like a white horse passing a crack, ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.”
Cen Xing’er held back her sobs and looked back.
The next moment.
The light curtain in the void changed again, presenting another image.
It was the scene of her Master personally combing her hair and changing her into the sect’s robes!
Her eyes reddened once again.
Swish, swish, swish.
In the following time, the images on the light curtain kept jumping and changing.
The protagonist of the images also turned from a chubby little girl into a slender, graceful young woman.
It was just that in the images, the silent man appeared less and less… less and less…
At this moment, Cen Xing’er seemed to have completely forgotten the purpose of this trip, covering her face and weeping uncontrollably.
Bai Feng secretly glanced at her reaction with his peripheral vision and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Only after settling this girl could he proceed with his plan to defy the heavens and change his fate!
He sighed and said:
“Xing’er, as you have seen, every move you have made all these years has been under Master’s watch.”
“You lost your parents when you were young, and your childhood was miserable. At that time, Master only hoped that in the days to come, I could protect you and not let you suffer the slightest harm.”
“However, Master asks myself, and I find it difficult to do so…”
“Your Master has been rampant all my life and has made countless enemies. You are my disciples, so naturally, you will be targeted and hunted by countless people.”
“And because Master was busy with cultivation, I couldn’t be by your side at all times, so I refined these Shadow-Stealing Heavenly Beads to protect you in time when you were in danger…”
“However, in my opinion, this was far from enough.”
“Therefore, all these years, Master intentionally enslaved you, scolded you, and trampled on your dignity in front of others so that the world would know I treated you harshly. In this way, if one day the world attacked together and I accidentally fell, the three of you would still have a pretext to stand on the opposite side of me and keep yourselves safe…”
“Master originally planned to bury this secret for a lifetime, but now…”
“Seeing you hate me so much, even having the heart to kill your Master, Master… sigh!”
Speaking of this, Bai Feng pretended to sigh heavily with grief:
“Fine, fine.”
“Master… just hopes that my Xing’er can live in peace and joy for the rest of her life. As for other things, they are not that important…”
Just as he finished saying this.
With a “wooing” sound, the girl beside him broke out into loud sobs!
“Master! It is Xing’er who was wrong!”
“Xing’er shouldn’t have listened to others’ instigation! Xing’er is a big fool! Xing’er should have known that Master is the best person in the world to me!”
“Xing’er was really wrong! Please forgive me, Master! Xing’er actually…”
“Loves you so, so much, Master… wuwuwuwuwu…”
The girl smashed the pill bottle in her hand to pieces and knelt down before the man.
At this moment, her hair brushed against her face, her eyes filled with tears, and her delicate, beautiful face looked even more moving and gorgeous.
“No need.”
Bai Feng shook his head as if in deep sorrow, then leaned down and gently pinched the girl’s warm cheeks.
“A broken mirror is hard to mend.”
“Since you have already had the heart to kill your Master, the bond between you and me as master and disciple ends here.”
As he spoke, his hands slid down from the girl’s cheeks to her fair, slender neck, and then placed them on the beast-taming collar…
He lifted his hands gently.
The collar was taken off.
“You are free.”
“From this point on, the world is vast, and you are free to go or stay.”
“Go now, don’t force me to change my mind.”
Bai Feng had just finished speaking in an icy tone.
In the next second, a scene he never expected happened!
He saw Cen Xing’er gently take the collar back from his hands and put it back on her own neck!
Then, she sat in a proper “duck-sit” position before his knees, raising her adorable little face, laughing through her tears:
“Not at all!”
“Xing’er… is willing to be Master’s little puppy for the rest of my life!”
Bai Feng: ā(āoā)ā®
(End of chapter)
