CHAPTER 366: CHAPTER 354: UNKNOWN PAST_2

"Senior Zhou?" Liang Yi turned around to look at Zhou Yuqing, whose face was for some reason a bit pale; he stepped forward with concern and asked.

"Sister Zhou, are you injured?" Su Youyi’s expression also changed. She clearly felt that Zhou Yuqing’s breath was now extremely weak, as if she were injured.

"It’s just that a strand of the Vermilion Bird Spirit Fire’s origin has been severed. I’ll recover after some rest, and with the Spirit Pills given by Bai E, it will be fine in a few days." Zhou Yuqing shook her head and leaned to one side.

Liang Yi and Su Youyi exchanged glances: They actually did give her the pills.

"Call me when we get there; I’m going to rest for a while." Zhou Yuqing did not linger too long on the deck and turned to head toward the guest rooms directly.

Watching Zhou Yuqing’s somewhat unsteady footsteps, Liang Yi did not speak out. Senior Zhou looks very tired now, best to let her rest first.

"Eh? What happened to her? Don’t tell me she also fell under the spell of that demoness Bai E?" Liu Rouxin emerged from nowhere, standing beside Su Youyi with a face full of schadenfreude.

"Fell under the spell? Does Senior Bai also use poisons?" Su Youyi looked down at Liu Rouxin in surprise.

Mr. Orange almost burst out laughing. What kind of poison is that...

"It’s much worse than just poison..." Liu Rouxin’s usually spoiled and delicate face flushed, and she did not elaborate.

Liang Yi gave Liu Rouxin a skeptical look. This child couldn’t have been healed into idiocy, right?

"Off I go! I’ll come to play with you next time!" Liu Rouxin shot Liang Yi a glare, who was looking at her with a strange gaze, and then happily hopped over to where Pang Qingshi was standing at the edge of the Star Palace and waved to him from afar.

Pang Qingshi nodded slightly. At his fingertips, a complex and intricate starlight flickered and shot straight towards the sky, resonating invisibly with the Senluo Wanxiang Sect’s Sect Protection Array, creating a guiding starlight path for the Floating Cloud Ship.

"Ah, I really don’t want to go back at all."

As the Mountain Gate of the Senluo Wanxiang Sect kept getting further away, Liu Rouxin lay sprawled out in a spread-eagled fashion on the deck, lazily basking in the hard-to-come-by sunshine.

At this moment, with her eyes closed, Liu Rouxin did not look at all like the Chief of the Blood Control Sect but appeared more like a young lady from a wealthy family going out for leisure.

"Why?"

Only when his junior sister went to visit Senior Zhou did Liang Yi, accompanied by Mr. Orange, gaze from afar at Liu Rouxin lying on the deck.

"None of your business!" Liu Rouxin bluntly retorted, leaving Liang Yi at a loss for words. But perhaps inspired by the good weather or the too comfortable sunshine, Liu Rouxin uncharacteristically softened her usual pride and continued:

"Because those people in the sect are boring!" Liu Rouxin’s face filled with ennui as she mentioned people from the Blood Control Sect, lying there like a salted fish sunning itself, completely losing her former arrogance.

"With you there, it would be boring, meow?" Mr. Orange looked disbelieving. Shouldn’t there be chaos causing the whole sect to be in turmoil?

"Most cultivators prefer quiet cultivation, even within the sect, those with a free spirit like mine are very few." Liu Rouxin said expressionlessly, slowly pulling her legs in to hug them and resting her chin on her knees.

"Ho, you actually have self-awareness, meow?" Mr. Orange jumped in front of Liu Rouxin, looking up and down in amazement at this girl who seemed no older than twelve.

"You think your grandma looks young; my actual age isn’t small!" Liu Rouxin slapped Mr. Orange on the head, annoyed that this foolish creature underestimated her!

"Hiss, what a violent lunatic, meow!" Mr. Orange, although slapped, ran off to Liang Yi while cursing as if nothing had happened, resolving to keep a distance from this violent and flat-chested lolita in the future.

Liang Yi hesitated for a moment but still sat down a meter away from Liu Rouxin.

"So, do you actually feel very lonely in the sect?"

Liu Rouxin, who was about to start mocking Liang Yi, was taken aback by this question.

"Your grandma lonely? What kind of joke is that!?" Liu Rouxin’s voice suddenly rose octaves, standing up and glaring at Liang Yi.

Liang Yi said nothing, nor did he look at Liu Rouxin, just sitting still on the spot, casually watching the birds and clouds passing by the Floating Cloud Ship.

He was now realizing that the Chief of the Blood Control Sect seemed somewhat different from what he had previously understood.

Liu Rouxin suddenly clenched her fists and took a step forward, opening her mouth as if to say something, but she met Liang Yi’s gaze just as he looked her way.

Liang Yi was good-looking, a fact even Bai E, who had an unusual sexual orientation, admitted. Although Liu Rouxin wouldn’t say it out loud, she wouldn’t deny it either.

But now, when she truly locked eyes with Liang Yi’s deep eyes, like the night sky, she subconsciously froze for a moment, because Liang Yi’s gaze was too clean, reflecting her figure at this moment as if it was the sky above.

The penetrating gaze drained all the strength from Liu Rouxin’s body, causing her to slump to the ground, somewhat crestfallen.

"It’s not loneliness, just a lack of friends," Liu Rouxin’s voice was still as proud as ever, but even Old Master Ju could hear the genuine emotion in it.

"You should know about the massacre that my master committed back then, I was the only survivor from that city."

Liang Yi nodded solemnly. It seemed that his junior sister had mentioned this incident.

In the Mystical Mechanism Continent, where conflicts had been rare for centuries, the Sect Leader of the Blood Control Sect suddenly taking action to massacre a city was like a storm sweeping through the entire Cultivation World.

It was an iron rule well known to all cultivators that they should not harm commoners, and the only ones daring to defy this rule were the evil cultivators of the past, specifically referring to the predecessor of the Devouring Spirit Sect: the Demon Spirit Sect.

Taking advantage of the period when the Xuanzhou Immortal Dynasty was newly established, they audaciously massacred civilians to extract Divine Souls to strengthen their own cultivation. Had the Blood Control Sect not been in retreat at that time, it’s possible that these two groups might have joined forces.

One required Divine Souls, the other required blood; their needs didn’t conflict.

However, even the powerful Demon Spirit Sect was eventually taught a lesson and nearly had their forces demolished. They didn’t recover much of their vitality even after ten thousand years—until the appearance of Tian Anyu.

It was also during those ten thousand years that the Mystical Mechanism Continent had its rare peace, until Sect Leader Xu Yi of the Blood Control Sect committed the massacre.

No one knew the real reason, but Su Youyi had said that even her master was paying attention to this incident. If Xu Yi could not provide a satisfactory response, it was possible that the Blood Control Sect would have to change its Sect Leader.

But later, nobody knew how Xu Yi explained himself to the other Super Forces, yet he indeed got away without much issue, he just hadn’t appeared much in the Cultivation World for several hundred years.

"I possess the Blood Demon Constitution; I was born as a Blood Demon descended to this world," Liu Rouxin said in a light tone, telling secrets unknown to most.

Old Master Ju suddenly stood up, his back arched, pupils shrunken, his face full of vigilance as he stared at Liu Rouxin in front of him.

No one understood the dangers of a Blood Demon more than he did!

Liu Rouxin glanced at Old Master Ju; she was long accustomed to this kind of reaction.

Liang Yi casually struck Old Master Ju with another slap, telling it to calm down.

Old Master Ju looked at Liang Yi with a wronged gaze but obediently lay back down.

"Blood Demon..." Liang Yi looked at Liu Rouxin incredulously, hardly able to believe that such a dangerous thing was sealed within this girl.

"So, are you scared?" Liu Rouxin’s eyes brimmed with disdain as she looked towards Liang Yi, hoping to see the familiar loathing she grew up with in his eyes.

But there was none; while Liang Yi’s expression was a bit odd, it was definitely not one of disgust or alienation.

Liang Yi was somewhat excited at this moment; it turns out there really was another Blood Demon in the world!

The [Gumei Yuezhan Secret Realm Key] had been collecting dust in his backpack since he got it from the black market because his strength had not been sufficient before, and another reason was that this darn Secret Realm actually had a Blood Demon blocking the way.

That Blood Demon’s challenge level from the perspective of players in his previous life was always [???]. In Liang Yi’s current opinion, that thing was at least at Level 85 or above. If he went there now, he’d merely be serving himself up on a platter, so he was in no hurry.

However, the guild that had explored this Secret Realm in his previous life didn’t suffer heavy casualties, because they triggered a quest from this Blood Demon: that was to find another of its kind.