The Sect Leader’s Daughter Awakened - Chapter 10

Yun Sheng only felt as if she had been dazed for an instant. When she came back to herself, her lips were already pressed against Xi Wei’s cheek. Never mind that Xi Wei was stunned by this sudden kiss—even Yun Sheng herself froze, nearly forgetting to pull away.

The atmosphere seemed to turn a little delicate. Even time appeared to come to a halt, the quiet so complete that all she could hear was her heartbeat, each beat faster than the last.

Yun Sheng suddenly snapped back to her senses and hurriedly stepped back, her face burning as though it might catch fire. “I…”

She opened her mouth, but did not know how to explain. Yun Sheng herself did not know why she had acted so recklessly. Just as she was panicking and at a loss, she abruptly felt her mind clear, as if something that had been clouding her thoughts had finally faded away.

Had this been any other time, she definitely would have noticed something was wrong right away. But now, with her heart in turmoil, she actually overlooked such an obvious abnormality.

Fortunately, what Yun Sheng failed to notice, Xi Wei did.

Xi Wei’s attention was fixed on Yun Sheng, so at a certain moment, she sensed a force separate from the other woman and flee rapidly into the distance.

Xi Wei was very calm. Although the sensation on her cheek had yet to fade, she had already made her judgment. “It was the charm demon. She ran.”

The existence of a charm demon was troublesome in itself. She had no body and was extremely good at hiding. Presumably, when Yun Sheng fell victim to her earlier, the charm demon had already taken the opportunity to hide inside Yun Sheng’s body.

However, Yun Sheng at least had a sect leader for a father. As a second-generation immortal, she definitely did not lack protective magical treasures. For the charm demon to control Yun Sheng without triggering those treasures was basically impossible. Perhaps influencing Yun Sheng enough to kiss Xi Wei had already been the limit of what the charm demon could do.

But clearly, the effect was not bad. Not only had Yun Sheng’s thoughts been thrown into chaos, even Xi Wei had been affected by that kiss, causing her to miss the best chance to catch the charm demon. Even after realizing this, she did not immediately give chase.

Hearing this, Yun Sheng blinked. Only belatedly did she understand Xi Wei’s words, but the turmoil in her heart had yet to fully calm. She glanced at Xi Wei, then avoided her gaze as if she had been shocked by electricity. “Flustered,” she looked left and right. “Is that so? Where did she run? We still have to catch her. Otherwise, if that thing hides herself away, she’ll definitely stir up trouble again.”

Her words were righteous and dignified. It would have been better if her heart had not been beating so quickly. That rapid heartbeat was so loud that even Xi Wei heard it.

This made Xi Wei feel somewhat subtle, as if that earlier kiss had not only been caused by the charm demon’s influence—or perhaps the charm demon’s influence had yet to fade?

Xi Wei looked deeply at Yun Sheng, but she did not expose her. “Let’s go. We’ll keep chasing.”

Hearing this, Yun Sheng secretly glanced at Xi Wei again. Seeing that her expression was as cool and detached as usual, she finally let out a quiet breath of relief. The matter from before seemed to have been brushed aside just like that. Yet for some unknown reason, she actually felt a tiny bit disappointed in her heart.

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Charm demons had no bodies. Once they separated from the physical body they had possessed, they became even better at hiding. The chances of catching one out of thin air were almost negligible. However, a charm demon without a physical body also had limitations. For example, the living-corpse puppets she had worked so hard to refine earlier became difficult to control once she lost her physical body.

Previously, she had used the sound of a flute to drive and control the living-corpse puppets. Without a physical body, she clearly could no longer play the flute.

If it had been someone else, they would definitely have retreated in the face of difficulty by now. But the charm demon race was both obsessive and fond of stirring up trouble. Now that she had already come near a righteous sect’s territory to cause havoc, it was naturally impossible for her to give up and leave so easily.

After leaving Yun Sheng, the charm demon headed toward the northern side of town again. This time, she decided to possess someone easy to handle.

At that moment, the fighting in the north had not yet stopped. However, because the charm demon had completely lost control, the living-corpse puppets without anyone controlling them had suffered a great drop in strength. By the time the charm demon arrived, the dozen or so living-corpse puppets she had painstakingly refined at the cost of countless lives were already almost gone. In fact, just as she approached the disciples of the two sects, the final living-corpse puppet also fell beneath Liu Jing’s sword.

The charm demon was a little angry. But looking at the fresh, living people before her, she felt it was not that much of a loss.

The people before her were all disciples of righteous sects. If she could possess one of them, perhaps she could sneak into a righteous sect and cause trouble from within!

Moreover, these people had just been injured, and because they had dealt with the living-corpse puppets, their minds had relaxed. This was the best time to possess someone.

There was no time to lose. The charm demon swiftly observed them, then selected her target.

Her standards were actually rather high. Those young disciples at the Qi Refining stage did not need to be considered. The Foundation Establishment disciples also disappeared into the crowd. And so, very quickly, her gaze landed on the only two Golden Core cultivators present. As a sect leader’s disciple, Liu Jing had many magical treasures on her, so the charm demon quickly gave up on her and finally chose the soft persimmon, Shu Yi.

The charm demon without a physical body was like a ghost. She hid in the air, difficult to distinguish with the naked eye. After silently approaching Shu Yi, she pounced into the other woman’s spiritual platform like a hungry tiger lunging at prey.

When Yun Sheng and Xi Wei rushed back to the northern side of town, Liu Jing was directing everyone through the cleanup.

The moment she saw Yun Sheng return, Liu Jing’s eyes lit up. She quickly called to her, “Little Junior Sister, come quickly. These living-corpse puppets are terribly hard to deal with. Even burning them with fire barely turns them to ash. Hurry and release your unusual flame to try. If we don’t completely destroy these things, they’ll always be a hidden danger.”

Yun Sheng had still been somewhat dazed. One moment, her mind was on the charm demon, and the next, it was on that kiss from before. Being suddenly dragged into work by Liu Jing made her clear-headed all at once.

Her gaze swept rapidly across the field, and she saw eighteen living-corpse puppets lying on the ground. Most of them had been chopped into pieces. Even as puppets, they definitely had no value worth recycling.

After confirming that the living-corpse puppets had been dealt with, Yun Sheng’s gaze quickly swept over everyone present again.

She trusted Xi Wei’s judgment. That charm demon had definitely come to the northern side of town. But whether she had possessed someone again was very difficult to determine.

Yun Sheng did not see anything abnormal, but she was not familiar with many of the people here to begin with. Suddenly, she turned her head and asked Liu Jing, “Senior Sister Liu Jing, do you still remember what my father gave me when he came out of seclusion when I was eight?”

Liu Jing was baffled by the question, but after a pause, she still replied, “Master went down the mountain and bought you a skewer of candied hawthorn.”

Only after hearing this did Yun Sheng let out a breath of relief. The person before her was indeed Liu Jing.

Yun Sheng’s father, Dao Lord Qing Yan, was the leader of a sect. In everyone’s imagination, when he came out of seclusion and gave his daughter a gift to coax her, it would surely be some rare treasure. But in truth, Yun Sheng had never lacked those things since birth. So at the time, she had acted spoiled and specially asked her father to go down the mountain to buy her candied hawthorn. And Dao Lord Qing Yan truly had not been willing to disappoint his daughter.

Not many people knew about this matter. Only Dao Lord Qing Yan’s few disciples knew, and they would never spread it outside. Now that Liu Jing could answer this question, it was obvious she could not be someone else in disguise. And with Liu Jing’s experience, it was even more impossible for her to be possessed without knowing it.

Of course, with Liu Jing’s sharpness, after a brief moment of confusion, she also guessed something. Her gaze swiftly swept over the disciples with scrutiny, but she also knew that if there really was a problem, they could not rush it. So she remained composed and requested, “Little Junior Sister, help us.”

Since Yun Sheng had confirmed her identity, she naturally was not stingy about listening to her. Very quickly, she released her unusual flame to burn those living-corpse puppets.

Dao Lord Qing Yan truly doted on his daughter. The unusual flame he had specially found for her was naturally no ordinary object. Even with Yun Sheng’s current cultivation, she could only bring out one or two tenths of the unusual flame’s power, but that was enough to burn the remains of those corpse puppets completely clean. She also burned the other corpses along with them while she was at it. After she finished burning them, even the gray mist shrouding the surroundings seemed to thin quite a bit.

Once the proper business was done, the charm demon naturally still had to be found. Yun Sheng sent Liu Jing a voice transmission explaining what she had seen and heard earlier, but her gaze could not help drifting toward Xi Wei.

She wanted to go find her and discuss the matter of the charm demon. But after returning to her fellow disciples’ side, Xi Wei had once again been surrounded by everyone.

As expected of a proud daughter of heaven admired by all. Before being toyed with by fate, she would forever be the focus of everyone’s attention.

Suddenly, that focal point turned her head back and met Yun Sheng’s eyes.

This was the perfect moment to speak, but Yun Sheng suddenly forgot what she had intended to do earlier and quickly turned her head aside, avoiding Xi Wei’s gaze. She escaped the eye contact, but Xi Wei did not withdraw her gaze. And so, with one glance, Xi Wei saw that the roots of Yun Sheng’s ears were still red.