After Transmigrating into an Evil God - Chapter 9

The mountain forest was tranquil and secluded, but beneath this peaceful facade lay the most savage laws of survival.

Deep in the mountains, a powerful and terrifying savage aura was enjoying its hunt.

Run faster! Even faster!

Ding Qin paid no heed to the wounds scratched by branches on her body as she fled in panic through the dense forest.

Faint howling sounds came from behind her, and the bloody, fierce aura of the predator spread openly without concealment.

Weeds concealed tree roots, and Ding Qin accidentally tripped and fell. Her palms scraped against the ground and bled, but she seemed oblivious to it, getting up and continuing to run forward.

Ding Qin knew that as a mere mortal, she could not escape the demon behind her. She had to find a village—only under the protection of a deity would she have a chance of survival!

But she had long since lost sight of any path. The pursuing demon had deliberately led her down the wrong routes. Now deep in the mountain forest, unable to distinguish direction, where could she flee to?

The forest was dense, and the bright sunlight, blocked by branches and leaves, left only dim light filtering down to the forest floor.

Ding Qin failed to see clearly and stepped on a loose stone, tumbling down the hillside with a clatter.

Grass and branches left bloody scratches on her body. Ding Qin instinctively protected her head with her arms, rolling for who knows how many turns before crashing hard into a boulder. First came sharp pain in her arm, then the tremendous force left her head dizzy and confused.

She paused for a few seconds to reconnect with her current situation, then barely managed to turn over and prop herself up on the dirt with her uninjured hand, preparing to get up.

A massive wolf paw crushed dead branches and fallen leaves, approaching with a bloody stench.

The wolf demon’s ghostly green eyes were fierce and cold as it slowly opened its mouth full of sharp teeth at her.

Ding Qin grasped a white feather hanging at her chest. A familiar divine aura emanated from it, bringing her comfort. This was a feather from the deity that protected Ding Family Village, and the power within it made the giant wolf retreat a small step in fear.

Ding Qin breathed a slight sigh of relief. Without the protection of this crane feather, she would have been devoured by the wolf demon long ago.

But now she was lost, and she didn’t know how much longer the power in the crane feather could last. She had to escape the mountain forest and find a road.

Gritting her teeth and enduring the pain in her arm, Ding Qin forced herself up from the ground. She had barely taken a step forward when sharp pain in her left ankle caused her to fall forward again.

A few teardrops fell to the ground as Ding Qin propped herself up once more.

The giant wolf did not stop her struggling. Ding Qin knew it was waiting for the crane feather’s power to be exhausted.

Despair?

Ding Qin leaned against a tree, her trembling fingers digging into the bark’s grooves. Tears washed away the mud and bloodstains on her face as she dragged her feet forward step by step.

She wanted to live.

The giant wolf followed leisurely behind her. This mortal had long since strayed from the correct path and had ventured too deep into the mountain forest. No matter what, she could not escape before the crane feather’s power was exhausted.

It greedily watched the girl struggling forward. The spiritual aura on her body was too enticing—it had never tasted such delicacy before. If not for the annoying power on that crane feather, it would have already torn her apart, sucked her marrow, and devoured her whole.

But soon, very soon…

The crane feather’s luster grew increasingly dim. After flickering a few final times, it completely lost its power.

The wolf demon’s eyes flashed with fierce light as it pounced!

Ding Qin’s eyes widened as she watched that maw full of sharp teeth getting closer and closer to her, her eyes filled with fear and unwillingness.

She didn’t want to die…

Who could save her?

In the dim dense forest, a sword light arrived leisurely.

It seemed very slow, slow enough for one to see every fraction of its movement, like the long river of time cascading down from the Nine Heavens, vast and lonely.

Yet the wolf demon with its gaping maw suddenly became even slower than this sword light, as if it had frozen in mid-air, its pouncing motion toward Ding Qin slowed to barely perceptible.

When that sword light drifted leisurely to its neck, the wolf demon still showed no reaction.

The wolf demon’s massive head rolled to the ground, its ghostly green eyes still showing the cruelty and greed that had not yet registered what happened.

A gush of crimson demon blood sprayed out, but could not stain even a fraction of that snow-bright sword light.

It was white and bright, like a light that illuminated heaven and earth.

When the sword light finally settled, this long instant finally passed.

Ding Qin turned her head toward the direction from which the sword light had come.

A figure emerged from the mountain forest—hair black as a waterfall, robes whiter than snow, like the brilliant sunlight reflected from snow-capped peaks, pure and noble. Eyes as clear as black and white looked over, like a celestial deity from above the clouds gazing down at the mortal world.

She murmured. “God…” Her head tilted to one side, and she fainted with her eyes closed.

“Hey, hey, hey! Don’t die!” Jin Yan cried out in alarm as he flew over.

He checked Ding Qin’s breathing and sighed in relief. “She just fainted.” He then turned to look at Li Chi.

Just moments ago, he hadn’t even realized what was happening when Li Chi brought him rushing through the forest.

A deity whose wind-riding technique was even better than his, a bird demon—what kind of situation was this?

However, Jin Yan’s complaints didn’t last long. After being brought by Li Chi through half the journey, he too sensed that terrifying savage aura.

He recognized that aura—it belonged to a famous great demon in the area.

Jin Yan’s feathers nearly stood on end. That wolf demon had devoured countless amounts of essence and blood over the years. It was cunning by nature, and in earlier years had even devoured mortals under Great King Yishan’s protection, leading to several fights with Great King Yishan.

Although the wolf demon was defeated and subsequently stopped approaching areas under Great King Yishan’s protection, the fact that Great King Yishan had not killed it but instead reached an agreement with it showed just how troublesome this wolf demon was.

When they arrived in the area, they witnessed the wolf demon about to attack a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl. Then came that sword that poured down like celestial light and a long river.

The wolf demon’s bronze skin and iron bones, cultivated through practice, proved no more resilient than withered leaves before the deity’s sword that transformed an instant into a long river of time.

Jin Yan looked at Li Chi standing in place. The deity’s calm features seemed to pay no mind to this matter. That cunning and ferocious wolf demon was not even worth a glance from him.

This was the deity he was preparing to follow! Jin Yan bowed his head in reverence. Such a deity would surely have a renowned reputation even in the Divine Court of the Nine Heavens above.

Li Chi’s gaze fell upon empty space.

He looked neither at the wolf demon that had been separated from its head, nor at Ding Qin who had just been rescued. He was looking at karmic threads in the void that only he could see.

After Li Chi saved the person, a karmic thread extended from Ding Qin’s body and connected to his own.

Li Chi looked at this karmic thread and, for some unknown reason, had a vague special feeling about it.

It seemed… like it could be plucked off?

Li Chi reached out his hand, his slender fingers sweeping through the void. When he withdrew them, there was an additional thread fine as silk at his fingertips.

It had actually been plucked off!

Li Chi was startled for a moment. Looking again, the karmic thread between him and the girl had not disappeared, only becoming somewhat thinner.

Jin Yan was examining the girl’s injuries. Li Chi discreetly put away the karmic thread, pausing slightly.

The moment the karmic thread was collected by him, the injuries on his divine body, which had shown no movement, actually showed some tendency to heal.

However, now was not the time for research. He walked toward the girl lying on the ground.

Jin Yan had finished his examination and reported, “One broken arm, sprained left ankle, everything else is minor injuries.” He glanced at the wolf demon’s corpse on the ground and sighed. “Really lucky to encounter this guy and still survive.”

This was quite a famous turbid demon in the area—fierce and brutal. Not to mention mortals, even ordinary lesser demons might not survive an encounter with it.

Li Chi, however, didn’t think much of it, only assuming he had taken advantage of a sneak attack.

That wolf demon had only focused on the prey before its eyes and hadn’t noticed someone else hiding nearby, which was why he had been able to lop off its head with one sword strike.

However, this girl didn’t seem to be an ordinary person either. A layer of spiritual energy swirled around her body, mostly contained within her eyes, as if it had been sealed, though the seal was incomplete. Some spiritual energy had leaked out, which was why the wolf demon had targeted her.

Li Chi placed his finger over her wrist, and divine power transformed into life force flowed into the girl’s body. Before long, the broken arm had healed, the swollen ankle returned to normal, and the scratches on her skin also healed.

The unconscious girl seemed to sense something, and her furrowed brow relaxed. However, due to exhaustion from fleeing for so long, she did not wake up but instead fell into an even deeper sleep.

Today’s exploration of the mountain forest could not continue. Li Chi looked at the sleeping girl and prepared to take her back first. The rest could wait until she woke up.

…..

When Ding Qin woke up, a night had already passed.

She opened her eyes in confusion, unable to remember what had happened for a moment.

“You’re awake?”

Ding Qin was startled by this voice and immediately sat up from the bed, looking in the direction from which the voice came.

A dove was standing on the window frame, and it had just been speaking.

“A demon!” Ding Qin’s face turned pale. She immediately recalled her previous experience of being hunted by a demon and instinctively wanted to flee.

“Don’t be afraid, I don’t eat people,” the dove demon said, remaining motionless on the window frame. “Think again—we were the ones who rescued you and brought you back!”

Ding Qin was confused for a moment, then slowly recalled the situation.

She had been hunted by a wolf demon. The power of the feather talisman given to her by the Crane God Bai Hong was exhausted, and she was about to die at the wolf’s maw. Later… later… she saw a sword light and a deity emerging from the forest.

The forest floor was dim, shadows eerie and mysterious, but that sword light split through the shadows, and the deity who emerged illuminated heaven and earth.

The moment the deity looked down at her, she seemed to see snow on distant mountains, reflecting the most pure and clear sunlight.

She had never seen such a beautiful person, yet she couldn’t recall the deity’s appearance, because she had first seen the light, as if seeing that sword.

With one sword stroke, all under heaven became bright.

Ding Qin was lost in thought for a moment.

Jin Yan flew into the room. “You remember now, right? I was the one who carried you back!”

Ding Qin was somewhat wary again. She remembered that it was that deity who had saved her. Had there been such a dove demon beside the deity?

Fortunately, this dove demon didn’t come too close, stopping on a chair back not far away. “I’m called Jin Yan. What’s your name?”

“Ding Qin,” she answered. “Where is this place?”

“You wouldn’t recognize it even if I told you. Just know that this is a deserted dwelling in the mountain forest. How did you run into the mountains by yourself? Don’t you know it’s dangerous?”

Ding Qin didn’t answer, but asked in return. “I remember that the one who saved me was also a deity.”

“You want to see High God Li Chi?” Jin Yan tilted his head to look at her. “First clean up your little smudged face. There’s water on the stand.”

Ding Qin instinctively turned to look. On a wooden stand nearby was a copper basin filled with clear water.

She walked over and lowered her head. The water reflected her appearance—blood and dirt stuck to her face, streaked by tears, ugly and bedraggled like a beggar.

Ding Qin’s ears immediately reddened. She lowered her head to wash her face and hands, but when she raised her head to dry off, she couldn’t find a cloth. Her clothes were also terribly dirty and couldn’t be used.

“Do you have a handkerchief?” she asked quietly.

“This is a deserted dwelling—where would such things come from?” Jin Yan said this, but flapped his wings, stirring up a breeze that carried away the moisture from her face and hands.

“Thank you.” Ding Qin thanked him, and her heart was no longer so wary.

“Come on, I’ll take you to see the High God.” Jin Yan flapped his wings.