Attacked by the Female Demon at the Beginning - Chapter 121

Chapter 121: The Female Demon Takes Me Home

Duanqing Cliff. Spiritual Medicine Garden.

Miao Tinglian stood at the entrance, feeling pleased.

“With Jiang Junior Brother gone, this place has finally become my territory. Although Jiang Junior Brother is not bad, his understanding of spiritual medicine is really too limited. I need to reform the Spiritual Medicine Garden.”

“There are many precious spiritual medicines here, many of which require suitable soil. If you mess up and cause problems, you might be expelled from the sect. Don’t cause trouble for me.” Mu Qi stood by, speaking sternly.

“Just scold me, I’m not afraid. I’m very strong when it comes to spiritual medicine, but I can’t compare to the people from Hundred Bones Forest. I really didn’t expect there to be such terrifying people,” Miao Tinglian said with a shudder.

“Is there really such a technique?” Mu Qi was stunned when he heard Miao Tinglian’s explanation.

At first, he didn’t think so, but Jiang Hao’s sudden descent from the mountain might have been for this reason.

Using the aura of spiritual medicine to seal a person’s cultivation was unheard of.

“I’m not sure either, but is it really okay for Junior Brother Jiang to go down the mountain?” Miao Tinglian asked curiously.

Mu Qi shook his head: “It’s his choice. The master hasn’t said anything, so no one else can say anything either.”

Miao Tinglian didn’t care much either.

Stepping into the world of cultivation and becoming a cultivator meant embarking on a point of no return.

Life and death could be advised by others, who could lead for a while, but they couldn’t help with the choice.

It all depended on oneself in the end.

“You stay busy here; I need to make a trip to the mine. It may start operating again in a few months,” Mu Qi instructed.

He had always been in charge of that place.

He had previously used his injuries as an excuse to hide, but now he didn’t need to worry.

“Why do you need to go to the mine? Can’t you apply to stay in the Spiritual Medicine Garden?” Miao Tinglian asked.

“Guarding the Spiritual Medicine Garden isn’t a necessary task. There’s no need to apply. As long as there’s an inner disciple here, it’s fine. The sect has many other tasks to attend to; it’s not possible for everyone to be here. And even if I could apply, Junior Brother Jiang would have to be willing to go to the mine. Of course, the master wouldn’t agree to me staying in the Spiritual Medicine Garden. Besides, we also need spirit stones,” Mu Qi explained.

Miao Tinglian nodded, showing understanding.

……

In the forested mountains outside the Tianyin Sect, space began to distort.

Then, a figure fell out of the distortion and landed on the ground with a thud.

Jiang Hao sat up from the ground, holding his forehead, trying to recover.

“Is it normal to be this dizzy?”

He had never imagined that using this talisman could make him so dizzy and unstable.

If someone at the Golden Core completion stage like himself felt this way, those below the Golden Core stage could suffer mental trauma.

“It seems there’s a threshold for using this talisman.”

After recovering a bit, he slowly stood up and began to figure out where he was.

“I wonder how far I am from the Tianyin Sect…”

“Five hundred li,” a sudden voice came through.

Jiang Hao felt a chill in his heart but quickly relaxed. The voice was very familiar.

It was Hong Yuye’s.

Turning his head, he saw a woman in a red and white dress sitting on a tree branch.

When Jiang Hao noticed her, Hong Yuye moved and descended from the tree.

She wore a simple bun, a belt cinched at her waist, and her fairy dress reached her ankles, simple and unadorned, seemingly suitable for travel.

“Senior, where are you planning to go?”Jiang Hao asked, now recovered.

He had prepared many things and didn’t expect to anger the other party during the process.

“Youyun Prefecture,” Hong Yuye said.

Youyun Prefecture, the closest prefecture to the Tianyin Sect.

The Tianyin Sect was located to the south of the south, a vast area with sixteen prefectures, each very broad.

The prefectural capitals had many towns and villages.

The Tianyin Sect would capture people near Youyun Prefecture.

A Golden Core completion stage cultivator could see towns after a little more than a day’s journey on a flying sword.

“Senior, are you going to fly on your sword?” Jiang Hao asked.

Hong Yuye glanced at Jiang Hao, and then a strand of red light appeared, covering both of them.

Seeing this, Jiang Hao was surprised. But in the blink of an eye, the surroundings changed.

When he came to his senses, he found himself on a road with a town not far ahead.

People were entering the town in an endless stream. The town gate bore the name “Luo City.”

“This…”

This was indeed one of the prosperous cities on the outskirts of Youyun Prefecture.

For him, at the Golden Core completion stage, it would be more than a day’s journey.

But under Hong Yuye’s divine power, they arrived in the blink of an eye.

He suddenly realized that even if he had many talismans for moving a thousand li at a time, he couldn’t escape from her grasp.

However, he had some impression of Luo City, though it was very vague yet unforgettable.

“Let’s go,” Hong Yuye said, walking ahead.

Jiang Hao stopped pondering and immediately followed, kindly reminding her, “Senior, shouldn’t you disguise yourself?”

“Disguise? Do you think I’m ugly?” Hong Yuye stopped and stared at Jiang Hao.

A powerful force emanated from her, seemingly ready to act at any moment.

“Senior has a beauty that could grace an era, graceful as a startled swan. Not to mention ordinary people, even cultivators who often see fairies from the immortal sects would surely give you more than a second glance.”

“It will bring unnecessary trouble to the senior,” Jiang Hao advised as he began to speak.

Upon hearing this, Hong Yuye stared at Jiang Hao for a long time.

Then she continued to walk forward:

“Are you worried about others causing trouble for me or for you?”

“Of course, I’m worried about the senior,” Jiang Hao said helplessly as he followed behind.

“Lie,” Hong Yuye said coldly.

Jiang Hao quietly followed, no longer speaking.

At this moment, he was surveying the surroundings, fearing that these people with no vision might provoke Hong Yuye.

The higher one’s cultivation, the more they tend to look down on ordinary people.

To these people, the lives of others are like mayflies in a lake; Brief and ordinary.

Hong Yuye is powerful and would not hesitate to kill.

What surprised him, however, was that they had reached the city gates, and yet no one seemed to be paying any attention to them.

This relieved him.

It must have been Hong Yuye’s doing.

Indeed, how could someone like her allow others to point fingers at her?

“I will stay in Luo City for three days. Find a place for us to stay,” Hong Yuye said to Jiang Hao after they entered the city.

“There should be a decent inn up ahead,” Jiang Hao pointed down the road ahead and said.

Hong Yuye walked forward and casually asked.

“Have you been here before?”

“Sort of,” Jiang Hao said softly, looking down the road ahead.

He had indeed been here before, but there was a feeling of familiarity mixed with strangeness.

It was similar to the streets in his memory, yet quite different.

It must be the changes over the past decade or so.

This place is… His childhood home.

He had lived in this city until he was five years old.

At first, he didn’t remember, but after entering the city, it all came back to him.

This was the hometown he wanted to revisit.

He had thought about coming back to take a look once he was free of danger, not for any other reason, just to take a look.

But his cultivation was not enough, and the danger was not yet past.

He thought it would be difficult to return.

Yet, he had come back so soon.

Perhaps… he could visit his old home?

He didn’t remember much about that home, only that he helped fetch water, chop wood, and cook in the yard.

Occasionally, he would also endure scolding from his stepmother.

Besides these, he had no other memories of being mistreated.

What he remembered most clearly was the famine that year when his stepmother gave him two steamed buns and drove him out.

After that, his stepmother sold him to the Tianyin Sect.

At this thought, Jiang Hao was filled with a multitude of emotions.