Chapter 63
Yu Tai: “…?”
The System: […?]
Seeing that Yu Tai remained guarded, He Tianba assumed she did not believe him. He immediately threw away his weapon and kicked it farther aside.
“Don’t worry. I harbor no ill intentions. I’m simply here to die.”
A demonic cultivator whose cultivation far surpassed hers had no need to play tricks if he wanted to kill her.
Demonic cultivators above Spirit Transformation were one in ten thousand, and all of them treasured their lives. This was the first time she had encountered someone who actively asked to be killed.
“Why me?” Yu Tai’s expression changed, but she did not lower her guard.
He Tianba scratched his face and said a little sheepishly, “Because I like the look of you.”
“For reasons I couldn’t resist, I infiltrated the Upper Realm for far too long. That feeling… Ah, explaining it is simply too troublesome-”
The man standing in the distance abruptly closed in and attacked. Yu Tai’s gaze sharpened, and she slashed without the slightest panic.
Blood gushed and sprayed outward. Yu Tai immediately retreated a step and stared at the demonic cultivator before her in disbelief.
The instant she attacked, the man had completely dispersed all his strength and openly exposed his chest to her blade.
Yu Tai had not held back in the slightest. Her vicious strike tore into his right shoulder, opening a massive wound that nearly split half his body apart.
He Tianba spat out blood and collapsed. Throwing back his head, he laughed. “Hahahahaha! Wonderful! I haven’t felt pain like this in ages!”
He closed his eyes and quietly awaited death.
Wonderful. At last, he could die. At last, he could go home.
Once he returned, he would find several beautiful demon women and enjoy himself thoroughly. This had exhausted him to death.
He Tianba’s lips curved as he imagined himself surrounded by countless women. But in the next moment, he could no longer smile…
The demonic qi steadily draining from his body abruptly froze, and his eyes snapped open.
A face beautiful enough to leave him dazed appeared above. Bright eyes shimmering like autumn water curved slightly, and red lips formed a radiant smile. “Senior… I’m in a very bad mood.”
Demonic qi streamed continuously from her hand into He Tianba’s body, and the hideous wound extending across half his torso gradually healed.
He Tianba was dumbfounded. “Don’t… don’t do this! We can talk things through!”
When Yu Tai saw that the wound had almost healed, she withdrew her demonic qi.
“I don’t care who ordered you to approach me.” She planted a foot on He Tianba’s wound and slowly ground her toe against it, her voice gentle. “But I’m sorry. I, Yu Tai-”
“Have never allowed anyone to manipulate me.”
She looked down at the demonic cultivator beneath her foot. Her eyes were entirely black, and paired with her creamy skin and crimson lips, Yu Tai had lost every trace of her former immortal purity. She looked more like a demonic cultivator than any He Tianba had ever met.
At that moment, he suddenly understood why My Lord was interested in her.
After seeing countless delicate, fragile women, how could anyone resist unexpectedly encountering someone with this much spirit?
…Who could withstand that?
In an unnoticed corner, an ordinary-faced man watched the girl through layer after layer of demonic qi, his eyes stained an excited scarlet.
Yu Tai took rope from her spatial pouch and bound He Tianba tightly. Looking down at the immobilized man, she withdrew her slightly unhinged smile and said coldly, “Let’s go, Elder He.”
“Go and become my stepping-stone into the Upper Realm.”
Humming a tuneless melody, Yu Tai dragged the helpless He Tianba toward the outside.
*My Lord, why didn’t you tell me your little lover was this difficult to deal with?*
*What happened to the freedom you promised me?!*
The word *freedom* shattered beyond recovery the instant Yu Tai dragged him out.
“Look! Someone’s coming out!”
“Is it that demonic cultivator? Run!”
“Wait, something’s wrong. That figure… it’s Yu Tai!”
That shout instantly silenced the previously boiling crowd.
They had imagined Yu Tai dying horribly at the demonic cultivator’s hands.
They had imagined the demonic cultivator severely injuring Yu Tai, controlling her mind, and turning her into a puppet.
Even the Qingshan Sword Sect disciples who trusted and believed in Yu Tai most could only comfort the nearly sobbing Li Shijie by saying, “Perhaps Junior Sister Yu Tai held on long enough to await rescue from the Upper Realm.”
But in truth, everyone knew-
That was merely a guess. Whether Yu Tai could survive until help arrived was itself uncertain.
Those were all the outcomes everyone had tacitly accepted. The one thing none of them had imagined was-
Yu Tai emerging from the demonic qi while dragging the unconscious demonic cultivator behind her.
“Could she already have become the demonic cultivator’s puppet…?”
Someone voiced the doubt, and the entire crowd retreated another step.
Yu Tai tossed He Tianba aside. Covered in wounds she had inflicted upon herself, she shouted toward them, “I killed the demonic cultivator controlling Elder He.”
He Tianba, who was pretending to be unconscious, nearly spat blood.
What did she mean by “the demonic cultivator controlling Elder He”?!
Did that not imply that He Tianba was never a demonic cultivator at all and had merely fallen under one’s control?
Those were completely different situations!
*My Lord, save me! Boohoo…*
This was nothing like what they had agreed!
Several elders from the Upper Realm flew down first, followed closely by the red-eyed Xiao Xin.
After sweeping Yu Tai with their spiritual sense, they confirmed that she was indeed the original Yu Tai and not a demonic cultivator’s puppet.
The cultivator who had first proposed killing Yu Tai looked at her with an exceedingly complicated expression. “How did you do it?”
Yu Tai answered briefly and earnestly, “Luck.”
After all, how many demonic cultivators in this world would voluntarily deliver themselves to someone and beg for death?
She spoke the truth, but not a single person who heard the word believed her.
Luck? What kind of joke was that?
If someone could defeat such a powerful demonic cultivator through sheer luck-
Then she was practically a child of the Heavenly Dao!
“Who said she took first place by selling her body?”
“Even if Jiang Li had come today, could he truly have won?”
“She may look battered, but she genuinely defeated a demonic cultivator through her own strength! A demonic cultivator powerful enough to control an elder!”
“Can something this absurd really happen…?”
“Don’t forget-she’s only at peak Foundation Establishment!”
Something that overturned their entire understanding had occurred before their eyes. Everyone who had insulted Yu Tai earlier now seemed to have been struck mute and could not utter a word.
They were all considering the same question.
If Jiang Li had fought that terrifying demonic cultivator-
Could he have won?