I Can Devour Spirits

Chapter 704: Chapter 432: Old Flame (Part 2)

How the sect’s ancestor favored Lv Qingzhu, who in the sect didn’t know?

Upon seeing Fan Hongjiao pulling Lv Qingzhu away, Duan Rong immediately jumped aside.

Even after breaking free from the entanglement, Duan Rong’s hand still trembled.

Fan Hongjiao, holding Lv Qingzhu’s long sword with her Python Whip, smiled and said, “Sister Lv, what has my younger apprentice brother done to offend you? Tell me, and I’ll teach him a lesson for you. Watching you two confront each other with swords and sabers, my heart is really racing! If either of you gets hurt, I won’t be able to explain myself!”

Duan Rong exhaled a turbid breath, looking towards Fan Hongjiao.

This senior sister of his usually seemed brash and reckless, but at this moment, speaking to Lv Qingzhu, her words were impeccable, soft yet firm, and very well-measured.

It shows that she is not incapable in general; she just typically doesn’t care.

Lv Qingzhu looked coldly at Duan Rong, asking, “Is he now one of your Yunfu Peak people?”

Fan Hongjiao smiled and said, “Yes, our master is very fond of the younger apprentice brother.”

Lv Qingzhu said, “You go back and tell Zhu He! I am determined to kill this person!”

After speaking, Lv Qingzhu shook the long sword, and Fan Hongjiao sensibly released the end of her whip from it.

Lv Qingzhu sheathed her long sword, without giving anyone in the field another glance, she turned and walked into the dense forest.

Seeing Lv Qingzhu leave, Fan Hongjiao breathed a sigh of relief, turning to Duan Rong, she asked, “What did you do to offend Lv Qingzhu? Why does she insist on killing you?”

Duan Rong watched Lv Qingzhu’s figure disappear into the dense forest, his eyes slightly dazed, only after a moment did he reply, “It’s a long story, senior sister, let’s leave here first.”

Fan Hongjiao gave Duan Rong a deep look, she could tell Duan Rong was unwilling to talk.

“Alright. Let’s clean up the Primordial Beast corpses and leave.”

Lv Qingzhu walked into the forest, coming next to the corpses of the five small elephants, she picked up the cloth bag that had fallen there, slung it over her back, and departed.

Lv Qingzhu walked a while in the forest before suddenly her body halted, she leaned against a tree trunk, breathing heavily, the cloth bag on her back also fell to her feet.

At this moment, in the darkness, Lv Qingzhu’s face was streaked with tears.

She held the tree trunk with one hand, involuntarily sobbing quietly.

Just a moment ago, she really thought she was going to kill Duan Rong.

The Sword Aura in her hand, just about to slice open Duan Rong’s throat, her heart below her chest throbbed fiercely as if something had twisted it apart instantly.

“Why am I like this?”

“I clearly despise him so much!”

“Why?…”

Lv Qingzhu’s emotions slightly calmed, standing alone in the darkness, murmuring, “Why? Can’t I kill him?”

“No! Anyone who blocks my path of Dao, I must kill!” Lv Qingzhu’s hand tightened around her sword sheath.

For these six years, every time she reached a critical juncture in cultivation, Duan Rong’s image inexplicably surfaced in her mind. She always thought it was because she couldn’t let go of that matter, that she detested him too much, which was why.

But now, when she actually reached the point of drawing her sword to stab his throat, she found that it seemed like the sword was not aimed at Duan Rong, but rather, she herself had pierced through her own heart.

“Could it be that I’m not hating him? If not hate, then it’s…”

“No! It can’t be!”

Lv Qingzhu stood alone in the dark forest for a long time…

Duan Rong and his companions, already carrying the corpses of two adult Red Fire Elephants and five small elephants, returned to the Cultivation Chamber behind the first-floor hall of Yunfu Peak.

Under Wang Yue’s skillful Saber Technique, soon five piles of Primordial Beast Flesh were separated.

And Duan Rong’s pile and Wu Shidao’s pile were nearly the same size.

Previously, Lu Geng and Wang Yue might have had some opinions about Duan Rong getting the same amount of cultivation resources as Wu Shidao. But since Duan Rong displayed the Saber Aura, both appeared a bit apprehensive when seeing him.

After splitting the cultivation resources, each took their share of Primordial Beast Flesh, answering and heading to the Cultivation Chambers.

Duan Rong threw the large pile of flesh he received into the Black Jade Pool. Because there was quite a lot, the flesh slightly bulged above the pool, but seeing the visible cold air floating from the pool’s mouth, Duan Rong knew even if it bulged a bit, it would soon be soaked through by the thick Yin Cold Qi inside the Black Jade Pool.

Duan Rong walked out, shut the narrow Stone Gate, and slowly made his way to a table, sitting there in a daze.

Wu Shidao entered his Cultivation Chamber not long before coming back out, after a while, a hawk flew out from the pavilion atop Yunfu Peak, its dark silhouette flashed into the swirling clouds, vanishing from sight…

Meanwhile, Duan Rong was still inside the Cultivation Chamber, gazing at a handkerchief in the candlelight.

This handkerchief was stained with blood, embroidered with a cold plum in one corner. The blood stains on it were from when Lv Qingzhu wiped the blood off Ah Mo’s face six years ago.

Six years have passed, Duan Rong kept this handkerchief all along. But in the past two years, he rarely took it out to look.

He thought he had forgotten Lv Qingzhu!

However, seeing her again, memories suddenly surged forth!

Everything in that ruined temple, and Lv Qingzhu’s resolute departure!

Duan Rong, holding the handkerchief, murmured, “Though I still have feelings for her, it’s a pity, it’s a pity she wants to kill me!”

Suddenly, Duan Rong’s expression focused, Primordial Qi pulsated in his palm, the handkerchief instantly turned to powder…

That evening, Zhu He returned to the peak and called Wu Shidao over.

Zhu He looked at Wu Shidao, asking, “Are you sure it’s Saber Aura?”

Wu Shidao cautiously replied, “Master, younger apprentice brother indeed comprehended Sword Intent! Although it’s not yet pure, the Saber Aura is somewhat elusive. But it’s undoubtedly Saber Aura!”

Zhu He paced back and forth in the open space before the table.

Zhu He always appeared calm and unruffled, but this was the first time Wu Shidao saw him show signs of agitation.

Zhu He, pacing as he muttered to himself, “Primordial Qi Realm?…Third Level?…Saber Aura…comprehending Mental Realm?!”

As he spoke, he suddenly paused, and stared at Wu Shidao, asking, “Duan Rong is at the Third Level of Primordial Qi Realm, right?”

“Ah… Yes, the Third Level.”

Zhu He paced for a long time, suddenly exhaling deeply.

Back then, his junior brother Gu Daoling also comprehended Mental Realm in the Primordial Qi Realm! It caused a sensation in the sect!

Who would have thought, two hundred years later, there would be someone like him!

Moreover, Gu Daoling comprehended the Mental Realm at the achievement of Primordial Qi Realm Great Perfection, gaining sudden insights.

Yet Duan Rong actually comprehended the Mental Realm at the Third Level of Primordial Qi Realm!

A genius!

An unparalleled genius!

Suddenly, Zhu He stood there, laughing wildly.

That laughter made Wu Shidao’s heart feel a bit uneasy.

Zhu He laughed for a while, then suddenly turned to Wu Shidao, asking, “You said Lv Qingzhu wants to kill Duan Rong?”

Wu Shidao, bewildered by Zhu He’s erratic thought process, replied, “Yes. In the Dark Forest, Lv Qingzhu suddenly attacked the younger apprentice brother. If he hadn’t comprehended Mental Realm, he would have fallen victim to her treacherous attack.”

Upon hearing this, Zhu He’s expression suddenly turned a bit grim.

He couldn’t care less about Lv Qingzhu’s father. Zhu He and Lv Zhongtang were originally at odds, competing for the next sect leader, becoming a blazing feud.

His worry was about the sect’s ancestor. The ancestor was already over a thousand years old, and in the past few centuries, seemed indifferent and unconcerned about the Lv family’s bloodline.

For centuries, the ancestor never intervened in sect or mortal world matters for the Lv family’s bloodline.

Indicating, through millennia of cultivation, the ancestor had long disregarded lineage.

However, ever since seventeen years ago, when the ancestor first saw the three-year-old Lv Qingzhu, he doted on her immensely and consistently paid attention to her cultivation.

Although Zhu He did not understand the reason behind this, he knew very well Lv Qingzhu’s position in the sect’s ancestor’s heart.

Given that little girl, no matter who backs her, he would not fear, yet the sect’s ancestor was behind her, causing Zhu He to hesitate.