The Sect Leader’s Daughter Awakened - Chapter 7

Yun Sheng’s blush was obvious, so naturally, it could not escape Xi Wei’s eyes.

Xi Wei blinked lightly. For once, a small part of her attention broke away from the gloom filling her heart, and she felt a trace of puzzlement.

Xi Wei was beautiful. Although her black eyes seemed filled with ink so dense it could never dissolve, putting that aside, those eyes were also beautiful and lively. So when doubt surfaced in them, her lovely eyes seemed almost capable of speech, expressing her emotions fully and vividly.

Yun Sheng naturally understood, and so she grew even more embarrassed. She shifted slightly, moving out of Xi Wei’s arms, then gave a soft cough and said, “All right, I’m fine now. I can ride my own sword.”

Xi Wei nodded and said nothing. She released the hand that had been around Yun Sheng’s waist the whole time.

Yun Sheng secretly let out a breath of relief. The cool night wind brushed against her face, finally cooling some of the heat on her cheeks. Afterward, she did not dare delay in the slightest. She raised her hand and threw out a small sword. The small sword expanded with the wind, turning in the blink of an eye into a broad sword large enough for someone to stand on.

Clearly, this was not a spiritual sword used by ordinary sword cultivators for attack. It was simply a tool for transportation. After enlarging, not only did it have plenty of room to stand, one could even sit or lie down on it.

Just as Yun Sheng was about to step onto her own flying sword, Xi Wei suddenly said, “Actually, you don’t need to ride your sword. The living corpses below have all been dealt with. We can land and check the situation while we’re at it.”

Yun Sheng thought about it and realized that was true. But before she could speak, she felt the spiritual sword beneath her feet begin descending.

Xi Wei controlled the sword very steadily, but perhaps because Yun Sheng was used to her own broad flying sword, the three-foot spiritual sword beneath her feet was still too narrow for her. With the slightest movement, Yun Sheng felt her heart leap in fear, and she instinctively grabbed Xi Wei’s sleeve.

Xi Wei said nothing, of course, and it was even less possible for her to let Yun Sheng fall. Very quickly, they landed steadily on the ground. At this moment, it was not only the two of them. The other disciples who had risen into the air on their swords also landed one after another. Those who had been injured earlier were currently stuffing pills into their own mouths. Those whose injuries were not serious and who were concerned about the present situation had already begun checking the living corpses.

The moment Yun Sheng landed, she was surrounded by her junior brothers and sisters, all of them talking at once as they asked her for pills to detoxify the corpse poison.

Yun Sheng was the only alchemist present, and she had never been stingy. In such situations, she would always generously provide what she could.

After distributing all the pills in her storage ring that could suppress corpse poison, Yun Sheng handed them out while saying, “These are pills I prepared earlier. I didn’t expect we would encounter living corpses, so they might not be perfectly suited for this. Take them first to suppress the corpse poison. Once I have some time later, I’ll refine a batch of pills specifically for you.”

When the junior brothers and sisters heard this, they thanked her in unison, deeply grateful. Their admiring gazes nearly made Yun Sheng float with pride.

At this moment, Liu Jing came over. The moment she arrived, she heard Yun Sheng make that promise, and she immediately frowned in disapproval. “You just refined a batch of pills. The spiritual energy in your body should be almost completely used up. Recover your spiritual energy first.”

Hearing this, Yun Sheng did not argue. She simply stuffed a Spirit Recovery Pill into her mouth at once. The pill melted as soon as it entered her mouth, quickly turning into pure spiritual energy that flowed into her meridians and replenished what she had consumed earlier.

As her spiritual energy recovered, she suddenly thought of what had happened before. Xi Wei had suddenly changed her mind and brought her down to the ground. Perhaps it was also because Xi Wei had seen that her spiritual energy was empty and was afraid something might happen if she forced herself to ride her sword.

Although the possibility of such an accident was very low, Yun Sheng still felt the other woman’s thoughtfulness in her heart, and for a moment, she was moved. She subconsciously raised her head, her gaze searching for that outstanding figure.

Xi Wei had not left. She was standing just outside the Zhengyang Sect group, and several Tianxing Sect disciples were gathered around her as well.

She remained perfectly composed as she listened to a disciple report, “Eldest Senior Sister, all the living corpses have lost their ability to fight now. Seven of us are injured. Among them, Junior Brother Qi is the most seriously wounded. Corpse poison has entered his body. If it cannot be suppressed in time, I’m afraid it will hinder his future cultivation…”

Almost all of those who had come with Xi Wei for this training were elites of the Tianxing Sect’s new generation. Though their cultivation was still shallow now, every one of them was a good seedling with outstanding talent. As long as they gained experience and matured, they would, without any surprise, become pillars of the Tianxing Sect in the future. Because of this, losing any one of them would be a major matter that pained the sect. If it could be avoided, it naturally had to be avoided.

If this had been in her previous life, Xi Wei should have been nervous and anxious. But now, not only was there no anxiety in her heart, there was even a little pleasure.

Of course, these emotions obviously could not be shown. She merely frowned faintly and said truthfully, “I do not have any suitable pills here.”

Hearing this, that disciple was not surprised, but he still looked at her eagerly. At the same time, he secretly glanced toward the Zhengyang Sect with the corner of his eye.

Xi Wei was not a fool. Of course she understood what he meant, and for a moment, she sneered endlessly in her heart.

They wanted to ask the Zhengyang Sect for some pills, so why not go ask themselves? They had opened their mouths and offended people earlier. Now that they were too embarrassed to ask, afraid of being mocked and rejected, they had come to seek help from her instead. What was this? Was her face valuable enough that she would not be refused? Or was her skin thick enough that she was not afraid of being ridiculed?

Just as resentment was churning in her heart, she suddenly sensed a gaze cast toward her from the side. Xi Wei followed that gaze and looked back, meeting Yun Sheng’s bright, sparkling eyes. The latter immediately raised the jade bottle in her hand. “Evil-Dispelling Pills. Do you want them?”

Xi Wei did not particularly want them, but under her fellow disciples’ eager gazes, she still accepted them. “Thank you.”

After the healing pills were distributed, although Yun Sheng had recovered some spiritual energy by taking pills, she still needed to rest a little before opening the furnace to refine pills again.

The corpse poison in everyone’s bodies had already been suppressed by the Evil-Dispelling Pills, so it was not especially urgent, and no one hurried her. After some simple treatment, quite a few people recovered their spirits and began handling the aftermath of the living corpses.

At first, when everyone saw Yun Sheng knock down all the living corpses with one furnace of medicine, they thought she had refined some kind of poison targeting living corpses, and that the living corpses that had fallen were completely dead. But after carefully inspecting them, they discovered that only about half of the fallen living corpses had died. The remaining half had lost their ability to fight, but they were actually still clinging to a breath of life.

Afterward, Liu Jing asked Yun Sheng about it, and only then did she learn that those still left with a breath were all ones who had turned into living corpses not long ago. The corpse poison in their bodies was not as deep and severe as the other half, so they still had a slim chance of survival and could be saved.

Yun Sheng herself did not mind refining a couple more furnaces of pills. After Liu Jing recognized that nearly all the survivors were townspeople of Qili Town, she also felt they should be saved.

As for Xi Wei, she remained as indifferent as ever, looking as though she were merely here to go through the motions. Only occasionally, when her gaze fell on the living corpses that had already become true corpses, did something dark seem to flash in her eyes.

She seemed to have discovered something, but she had no intention of speaking.

The disciples of both sects soon began to move. Dozens of people weaved through the corpses covering the ground, first separating the true corpses from the survivors. The former were piled into a small mountain in an open space, to be burned later with spiritual fire in order to eliminate future trouble. As for the latter, they were neatly arranged into more than ten rows, waiting for Yun Sheng to find time later to refine pills and detoxify them to save their lives.

The matter of refining pills could be mentioned later, but burning the corpses could be carried out immediately.

Among the group, there was naturally no shortage of cultivators with fire spiritual roots. However, if one were to say whose spiritual fire was the most powerful among them, it was actually still Yun Sheng’s. Although she had dual spiritual roots and could not compare to someone with a single fire spiritual root in terms of talent, who told her to have such a good father? He had found an unusual flame for her to refine long ago.

Now, facing the living corpse bodies piled up like a small mountain, a disciple came to ask her to act and use her unusual flame to thoroughly burn these evil beings.

Yun Sheng did not put on airs either and agreed at once. As spiritual energy circulated, a wisp of orange-yellow flame emerged from her fingertip.

Do not be fooled by how small and unremarkable this flame looked. Yun Sheng relied entirely on it to refine pills, and the temperature of the flame could easily melt sturdy refined gold. Aside from the fact that it consumed a great deal of spiritual energy, this unusual flame had almost no flaws. Removing evil beings was naturally not a problem either.

But just as Yun Sheng tapped her fingertip and sent that wisp of unusual flame toward the mountain of living corpses, a sudden change occurred.

Beneath the silent night, a faint flute melody suddenly sounded in Qili Town. It was plaintive and sorrowful, winding and melodious, yet for some reason, it made listeners feel a chill crawl over them. Before the bad premonition could fully rise, everyone heard a burst of roaring. When they looked toward the sound, they discovered that those “living corpses” that had already been “dead through and through” had actually reopened their eyes under the control of the flute!

Of course, not all the “living corpses” opened their eyes. Among the several hundred corpses, only a dozen or so opened their eyes. But these “living corpses” that had stood out from the rest were clearly no longer comparable to before. Before everyone could react, they had already pounced over faster than lightning.

Yun Sheng, who had been preparing to set fire to the corpse mountain, naturally bore the brunt of it. The moment she raised her eyes, she met the “living corpse’s” eyes, which were pure black without any visible whites. A chill immediately surged in her heart. With a flick of her fingertip, the unusual flame covered those “living corpses,” and at the same time, she warned aloud, “Not good. These are no longer living corpses. They are corpse puppets. Everyone, handle them carefully!”

As she spoke, the dozen or so corpse puppets had already avoided the unusual flame and pounced into the crowd again.

Unlike earlier, when they had relied entirely on numbers to overwhelm and force their way through, the corpse puppets now seemed to possess self-awareness and could deftly avoid attacks.

Compared to living corpses, corpse puppets were many times more powerful. Not only were they immensely strong, their bodies of copper skin and iron bones were even harder to deal with.

Yun Sheng relied on the combined attack of her unusual flame and Ling Yun, spending quite a bit of effort before she barely managed to deal with two of them. But in the blink of an eye, new corpse puppets attacked her again. It was unknown whether her earlier act of setting fire had provoked these corpse puppets into holding a grudge, but the number of corpse puppets dealing with her was obviously greater than the number attacking others. Even though Yun Sheng’s cultivation was not low, she soon found herself stretched thin and unable to cope.

At the critical moment, a bolt of lightning struck down.

Once again, it was Xi Wei who had rushed over to save her.