The Sect Leader’s Daughter Awakened - Chapter 11

Yun Sheng still very much wanted to find the charm demon. After all, that thing was far from peaceful. Who knew when she might pop up again and cause trouble?

Setting aside long-term work like refining corpse puppets for now, just the matter of bewitching people’s hearts alone was enough. As a “victim” who had already experienced it once, Yun Sheng did not want to go through it again. Besides, if the charm demon really possessed one of the disciples and mixed into a sect with them, the trouble that would cause was simply not comparable to the current situation.

However, no matter how anxious she was, she did not understand much about a legendary demon like a charm demon. How easy could it be to find the other party?

Liu Jing did know a little, but the condition she mentioned was rather difficult. “I heard that a person possessed by a charm demon will have a red mole over their heart.”

Yun Sheng gave up as soon as she heard this. “But Senior Sister, who would let us look at their chest?”

Liu Jing was also very helpless, because aside from the Zhengyang Sect disciples, there were also quite a few Tianxing Sect disciples present. As for the disciples of her own sect, she could still ask them to examine one another. But the people of the Tianxing Sect were proud and unruly. How could they possibly listen to her?

After thinking for a moment, Liu Jing suggested, “I’ll have the disciples check one another. Earlier, I saw you and Fellow Daoist Xi Wei return together, and she has protected you more than once. I imagine she has quite a favorable impression of you. Why don’t you go and discuss it with her? Ask her to give the order for them to examine one another. It shouldn’t be difficult then.” She herself had only an ordinary relationship with Xi Wei, but she could tell that the other woman was deeply respected in the hearts of her fellow disciples.

The moment Yun Sheng heard this, her first reaction was to refuse. She had just inexplicably kissed the other woman. How could she dare go near her now? But Liu Jing did not allow any argument and even pushed her, causing her to stumble and draw attention from the opposite side.

Perhaps it was because of that kiss from before, but Xi Wei really was paying attention to her. With one glance, their eyes met.

Yun Sheng’s heart flustered for a moment, and a faint blush stained her fair cheeks again. It was unclear whether it came from shyness or urgency. But since Xi Wei had already looked over, Yun Sheng bit her lip and could no longer continue retreating.

After sorting out her emotions, Yun Sheng walked over and said to Xi Wei, “Xi Wei, may I speak with you privately?”

Xi Wei did not make things difficult for her. After giving a slight nod, she left the crowd and followed Yun Sheng to the side.

Yun Sheng had already organized her words quickly in her heart. After the two of them walked aside, she casually set up a soundproofing barrier, then repeated Liu Jing’s suggestion. Her face was solemn with visible effort. “If the charm demon has possessed a disciple and we don’t discover it in time before she slips into a sect, it will definitely bring endless trouble later. So we should get rid of her as soon as possible. Only then can we be at ease.”

Xi Wei quietly listened to the end. Her face was calm, revealing not the slightest hint of what she was thinking. On the surface, she nodded and agreed, looking anything but perfunctory. “I understand. Leave this matter to me. You don’t need to worry.”

Perhaps because Xi Wei had saved her several times before, Yun Sheng always felt she was trustworthy and reliable, so she did not suspect anything.

Now that the proper matter had been discussed, it was time to let her go deal with the charm demon. But Yun Sheng hesitated for a moment and did not remove the barrier to let her leave. She stammered, and only after a long while did she squeeze out a sentence in a voice as soft as a mosquito’s buzz. “I’m sorry. I was reckless just now.”

Xi Wei was startled when she heard this. She even subconsciously raised her hand and touched her cheek.

To be honest, she had not actually been angry, nor had she felt offended. She had frozen at the time only because the experience had been very novel. In her previous life, she had lived for several hundred years and had never been kissed by anyone. She had not expected that only a few days after being reborn, she would instead experience it once. Although it was an accident, Yun Sheng was not unpleasant, and she was also charming and adorable. Xi Wei had not suffered a loss.

Though that was what she thought, Xi Wei did not respond so directly. “It’s nothing. You were merely bewitched by the charm demon.”

Yun Sheng’s eyes brightened, and she quickly nodded, as though doing so would let her throw the blame entirely onto the charm demon. She returned to her lively self again. After hesitating for a moment, she asked, “Then… are we friends now?”

When Xi Wei heard the word “friends,” her heart stirred slightly, and in an instant, countless feelings rose within her. But looking at the person before her, whose eyes were filled with complete sincerity, she could not place Yun Sheng in the same category as the betrayers from her previous life. After hesitating briefly, she gave a slight nod. “If you don’t mind, then naturally we are.”

The moment Yun Sheng heard this, she became happy. Even her brows and eyes curved into a smile.

Perhaps she was infected by Yun Sheng’s happiness, or perhaps it was because she had made a new friend again in this life, but the coldness that had always lingered on Xi Wei’s face also softened a little. Her expression relaxed slightly, and the corners of her lips seemed to lift by the faintest degree. In that instant, it was like ice and snow melting, beautiful beyond words.

Yun Sheng, who was hit full-on by that stunning face, unconsciously stared blankly again. When she reacted, her face turned red once more.

“Th-then, well, proper business is more important. We should go investigate the charm demon first.” Feeling the scorching heat on her face, Yun Sheng hurriedly dropped those words, then quickly covered her face and ran off.

Xi Wei watched her fleeing back. The slight upward curve of her lips straightened once more, and the earlier thawing of ice and snow seemed like nothing more than an illusion.

Liu Jing was very efficient. The disciples traveling with her trusted her greatly, so after receiving her instructions, no one raised any objections. Two or three disciples gathered into small groups, and senior and junior brothers or senior and junior sisters examined one another. Very quickly, they reached a result.

The result was quite good. There was no problem on the Zhengyang Sect’s side. In that case, the charm demon had most likely hidden herself among the Tianxing Sect group.

After receiving Xi Wei’s agreement, Yun Sheng returned and was not too worried about the matter. In her mind, Xi Wei was powerful and reliable. If the charm demon really was on the Tianxing Sect’s side, Xi Wei would definitely be able to resolve it.

However, what Yun Sheng did not know was that Xi Wei had no intention whatsoever of exposing the charm demon.

After experiencing her sect’s betrayal in her previous life, the Tianxing Sect was no longer home in Xi Wei’s heart. Toward the Tianxing Sect, she held only hatred that could not be dissolved. Since that was the case, why would she protect the Tianxing Sect? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if a charm demon slipped inside, turned the Tianxing Sect upside down, then threw the sect’s reputation onto the ground and trampled it a few times?

Xi Wei felt this could not be better, so she had no intention of meddling and exposing the other party. After returning to the Tianxing Sect disciples, she merely gathered everyone together and spoke a few words for show, without mentioning the matter of the red mole over the heart at all.

As for who the charm demon had possessed? For Xi Wei, this was actually not difficult to determine at all. Setting aside her understanding of charm demons, the string of Bodhi prayer beads at her waist, which kept burning hot, was in truth the best guide.

After muddling through the matter of the charm demon and pretending the demon had not slipped among the disciples, the matter could only be dropped without resolution.

Liu Jing and Yun Sheng were still somewhat worried, but since the charm demon had not possessed any of the disciples on their side, the two of them also had no better way to find her. And so they could only continue wrapping things up in Qili Town while feeling uneasy.

Fortunately, during the cleanup that followed, the charm demon did not appear again to cause trouble.

The disciples turned over the ruins of the mayor’s house and found the fellow disciples who had been buried beneath them. Yun Sheng opened her furnace again and refined pills that could counter corpse poison and aid recovery. After all that busyness, the losses among the sect disciples could still be salvaged. As for the townspeople of Qili Town, no one knew how many had been lost, but everyone had already done everything they could.

At last, the long night came to an end. As Yun Sheng’s final batch of pills emerged from the furnace, morning light spilled into the town.

Whether it was because Yun Sheng had used her unusual flame to burn away the living corpses and corpse puppets, or because the charm demon had thoroughly hidden herself, the gray mist that had been shrouding Qili Town finally lost its foundation. As the purple aura of the rising sun scattered down, it gradually dispersed the haze, and the small town finally saw light again.

The townspeople who were still alive woke one after another, and this training experience came to an imperfect close.