The Sect Leader’s Daughter Awakened - Chapter 13

Yun Sheng waited on Shoujing Peak for several days, but she did not manage to wait until her father came out of seclusion. Instead, the date when the secret realm in the Polar Icefield would open drew closer and closer. Although she still could not be certain whether the “dream” was real, even if there was only a ten or twenty percent chance, such a great opportunity was not something she could let slip by. And so she went to Liu Jing again and raised her request to go out for training.

In truth, Yun Sheng had already reached Golden Core. It was common for disciples at the Golden Core stage to go out and train. In fact, one should go out right after breaking through. But Yun Sheng was different. She had an overly protective father who was always afraid his daughter would suffer outside, so every time she went out for training, he always had her senior brothers and sisters accompany her.

Yun Sheng found it a little annoying, but she also understood her father’s good intentions, so after throwing a little tantrum, she would always compromise. This time, that went without saying even more. If the new secret realm in the Polar Icefield was real, then if they wanted to obtain the greatest benefits from it, naturally the more people they brought, the better. Yun Sheng still had some self-awareness. She was only an alchemist. When it came to combat strength, she truly could not compare to her senior brothers and sisters.

Liu Jing, however, did not really want to go. Hearing this, she frowned. “There’s less than a year until the sect competition. Little Junior Sister, as Master’s only daughter, plenty of people will definitely pay attention to you. You might as well take this chance to cultivate more, so you won’t diminish Master’s prestige.”

Yun Sheng did not care. She waved a hand. “The sect competition? I don’t plan to go. I’m an alchemist. Is it really suitable for me to fight and kill people?”

Liu Jing choked at that, then thought carefully and found that there was actually nothing wrong with it, though Little Junior Sister’s unusual flame was not weak at all in terms of destructive power. Soon after, a little helplessness appeared on her face. “But we only just returned from training. Are you really in such a hurry to go out again? Can’t you stay properly in the sect for a while? Besides, you used up quite a few pills earlier. You should replenish them too.”

When Yun Sheng heard this, she thought: If we delay any longer, the opportunity in the Polar Icefield will be missed. This kind of once-in-a-thousand-years chance can both verify my dream and add support to my cultivation. How can I miss it?

Since persuading Liu Jing through reason was difficult, Yun Sheng simply stopped trying to reason with her. She immediately hugged her senior sister’s arm and began acting spoiled. “Senior Sister, good Senior Sister, just go with me. Or else letting Little Senior Brother go with me is fine too. Once Father enters seclusion, he loses all sense of time. It’s so boring for me to stay on Shoujing Peak all day. Besides, you and the other senior brothers and sisters often go out training. Why is it not allowed when it comes to me?!”

Yun Sheng was first-rate at acting spoiled and making a fuss. Most importantly, if acting spoiled and making a fuss did not work, she really would secretly run away from home. Seeing that she had already made up her mind, Liu Jing finally had no choice but to reluctantly agree in order to keep Master from worrying.

With the tension in her heart easing, Liu Jing asked somewhat tiredly, “Fine. Training it is, then. Where are you planning to go?”

The moment Yun Sheng heard her agree, her eyes lit up. Immediately afterward, her eyes turned, and she said, “I want to pick Snowfield Dragon Saliva Grass. Senior Sister, accompany me to the Polar Icefield.” After saying that, she thought for a moment and added, “Little Senior Brother has nothing to do staying in the sect anyway. Why don’t we call him along too?”

Hearing this, Liu Jing frowned. “Snowfield Dragon Saliva Grass? I remember the sect already has some…”

Yun Sheng hurriedly interrupted her. “That’s different. I have to personally gather the spiritual herb and personally refine it into pills. Only then will it have meaning.”

After hearing this, Liu Jing’s expression turned strange, because Yun Sheng had never liked running outside much in the past, nor had she ever had a habit of picking herbs with her own hands. Never mind faraway places. Even the small medicinal field in the sect itself had hardly seen Yun Sheng visit it more than a few times.

Yun Sheng was making up an excuse. She knew it herself, and Liu Jing knew it too. But as the little junior sister beloved by everyone, if she insisted on finding an excuse to run outside, no one could do anything about her. And not only did she wear down her senior brothers and sisters until they agreed to accompany her, she even generously went to the sect’s Mission Hall to issue a mission, summoning twenty or so fellow disciples with decent cultivation to travel with her to the Polar Icefield.

While Yun Sheng gathered fellow disciples and bustled about preparing for the upcoming opportunity, Xi Wei was also heading toward the Polar Icefield.

As a reborn person who had personally experienced many things, the opportunities Yun Sheng knew about were naturally things Xi Wei had no reason not to know. Moreover, her own demonic nature had yet to be eliminated. Staying inside the Tianxing Sect would more easily stir up the hostility in her heart, and with one careless mistake, someone might see something wrong. Then she would walk the same old road as in her previous life again. That old road had indeed allowed her to climb to the peak, but the pain and suffering she had endured along the way were things she did not want to experience a second time.

Xi Wei had made up her mind early on. After going out this time, she would not return. Even though the experience in Qili Town had added a charm demon to the team, and there would definitely be a lively show to watch once they returned to the Tianxing Sect, she still left the returning group without hesitation.

A graceful spiritual boat cut through the sky, carrying Xi Wei straight toward the Polar Icefield.

On the spiritual boat, Xi Wei was sitting cross-legged. Inside the empty cultivation room, spiritual energy and demonic energy appeared intertwined. One moment, lightning flashed and thunder roared; the next, demonic energy curled through the air. If someone knowledgeable were present, they would definitely be able to tell that she was hovering on the edge of falling into demonhood.

Normally speaking, when someone had been disturbed by demonic nature to this extent, it was very difficult for there to be any room for recovery. Most of the people involved would also have already lost the desire to turn back. But Xi Wei was different. In her previous life, she had been forced to fall into demonhood. For some inexplicable reason, there was an obsession in her heart: she did not want to repeat the same mistake.

Perhaps influenced by her overly tenacious will, the spiritual and demonic energies that had originally been evenly matched gradually began to change. The spiritual energy jumping with blue-purple lightning gradually gained the upper hand. In addition, lightning naturally restrained evil beings, and in the end, it slowly pressed down the dense black demonic energy.

At first, the entire cultivation room was split clearly between light and darkness, with spiritual energy and demonic energy each occupying half. Later, the lightning pressed down the heavy blackness, forcing it to constantly shrink, from occupying half the room to taking up only one small corner. But this was still not enough. Xi Wei’s eyes were tightly closed, yet her spiritual awareness was fixed on that dark corner, urging her spiritual power to keep compressing it.

The thick black demonic energy grew darker and darker, churning as it tried to counterattack. But its master refused to let it do as it pleased, so it churned, struggled, and in the end could only be compressed smaller and smaller. From a corner, to a round ball, then to something the size of a palm.

Compared to the blue-purple lightning that occupied the entire room, this palm-sized black spot seemed almost negligible.

But Xi Wei did not give up. With her eyes tightly closed, she instead furrowed her brows slightly and increased the force of the compression once more. The demonic energy churned even more violently, and the force of its counterattack also grew stronger. In Xi Wei’s mind, scenes from her previous life had even begun to appear uncontrollably.

How she had fallen from the heights and had been branded with the crime of colluding with the demonic path. How she had been abandoned by her sect, and even had her cultivation and foundation destroyed. How she had been bullied and humiliated by others, becoming a pitiful worm that everyone in the cultivation world shouted at and beat, yet anyone could trample on.

The most frightening thing in this world had never been never having something. It was having it, and then having it ruthlessly taken away.

Just like how she had been born dazzling, yet was trampled into the mud. Just like how she had possessed unparalleled roots and bones, yet was reduced to rotten sludge.

The gap between the two was enough to make one’s heart difficult to calm, not only back then, but even now when she remembered it!

The palm-sized pure black demonic energy suddenly churned and expanded, seeming to draw power from the hostility that had abruptly risen in Xi Wei’s heart, and began counterattacking with unstoppable momentum. The blue-purple lightning crackled and exploded, eager to suppress it. But in the very next second, the demonic energy that had expanded by a small circle suddenly froze. Immediately afterward, it rapidly shrank.

Although it was still unwilling and struggling, in the end, it had no choice but to be compressed and condensed into a black bead. Like something sealed away, one could faintly see the demonic energy inside flowing with unwillingness.

Xi Wei opened her eyes, and a spiritual radiance briefly surfaced around her. All the phenomena inside the cultivation room disappeared at the same time, whether it was the lightning that had filled the entire room or the sealed demonic bead. Yet the phenomena from before had not been false. They had been a projection of the situation inside Xi Wei’s body.

She raised her hand and gently pressed it to her heart. The demonic bead formed by compression was lying quietly within it.

But fortunately, she had compressed and sealed all of her demonic nature away. Now, no matter who looked at her, she would appear to be an utterly normal righteous-path cultivator. Even the string of Bodhi prayer beads that had been burning hot all this time had finally returned to its original cool temperature.

With this, she could finally move through the cultivation world at ease.