Chapter 49: Second Senior Sister Arrives

"How are you?" Xue Jin keenly noticed Yuan Yao's change in mood.

Yuan Yao came to, muttering: "I just thought of something, I'm really angry!"

"What is it?"

"Third Senior Brother stole my egg earlier."

Xue Jin: "... Then you stole his medicine."

"Third Senior Brother's medicine is especially bitter." Yuan Yao shook her head unconsciously.

Xue Jin didn't speak, but he thought the same.

Although Cang Li had a talent for alchemy, for some reason the medicine he refined always had a bitter, astringent taste.

So, unless necessary, otherwise his fellow disciples would not take his medicine.

Xue Jin carried Yuan Yao as he kept walking forward.

Yuan Yao asked: "Fourth Senior Brother, what realm is your cultivation at now?"

For some time now, Xue Jin had been hiding his strength; outwardly he had suppressed his cultivation to mid‑Golden Core Realm, but when Yuan Yao asked, he directly stated his true cultivation: "Early Nascent Soul Realm."

"That's impressive." Yuan Yao was a little surprised, then she asked glumly: "Fourth Senior Brother, how long do you think I need to reach your current realm?"

"If you train seriously, five years." Xue Jin said.

"Five years?"

A year has over three hundred days, so five years is over eighteen hundred days.

She suddenly realized that after conquering a hundred million target individuals, her lifespan would be a hundred million days? Converted, that's about twenty‑seven‑plus‑ten‑thousand years.

Can she live that long?!

Even immortals might not live that long.

Yuan Yao thought and thought, then felt tired, her head drooped, and she fell into a deep sleep on Xue Jin's back.

Xue Jin tilted his head slightly, glanced at her, then withdrew his gaze.

Time trickled by.

Half an hour later, a huge vortex suddenly appeared above the Wuduan Mijing.

In her half‑awake, half‑asleep state, Yuan Yao heard the wind howling around her and many voices.

Soon she felt her body and consciousness suddenly sink.

Yuan Yao struggled to open her eyes; first she saw her Fourth Senior Brother's soft, silvery‑white long hair, then through his profile she saw a huge black vortex.

There were other people inside the vortex.

At that moment, the 250 System broadcast again in her sea of consciousness.

【Target Person Somebody……】

Yuan Yao instantly became much clearer‑minded; at that moment a call came from behind her.

"Yao Yao!"

Yuan Yao turned her head and instantly saw her Eldest Senior Brother, Third Senior Brother, Youngest Senior Brother… and Lu Xiangxiang.

【Target Person Song Yan, Awakening Value 20. Target Person Cang Li, Awakening Value 16. Target Person Ying Wuji, Awakening Value 8.】

At that moment Lu Xiangxiang was gazing at the boy carrying Yuan Yao on his back.

Lu Xiangxiang pressed her lips, then shifted her gaze to Yuan Yao's pale, bloodless little face, which looked somewhat wan.

And Cang Li and the others naturally saw it too; their expressions changed slightly.

But just then the black vortex surged, sweeping them all into the silvery‑white Wuduan Senlin.

After they steadied themselves, they immediately searched for Yuan Yao and Xue Jin's presence.

Then they hurried over.

Cang Li directly took Yuan Yao's hand and felt her pulse.

That pulse taking made Cang Li's face change: "How did you suffer such severe internal injuries?"

"I can't beat anyone." Yuan Yao said while patting Xue Jin's shoulder, signalling him to set her down.

Xue Jin set her down.

Song Yan's face grew solemn as he raised a hand to support her shoulder.

"Who hit you?" Cang Li said, looking at Yuan Yao's cracked lips, feeling both heartbroken and angry.

And at that moment Dongfangxiu, Manyue, and Fu Qianli were transmitted out; as soon as they steadied, they sensed a dangerous aura.

Before Dongfangxiu could react, a sword qi struck; his expression changed, he couldn't dodge and was cut on the shoulder.

Blood spattered!

He suddenly lifted his head and saw the silver‑white‑haired youth move, drawing his sword and slashing fiercely at him, clearly intending to kill Dongfangxiu.

Without Yuan Yao needing to answer, Song Yan, Cang Li, and Ying Wuji all understood at once.

"Xue Jin!" Dongfangxiu shouted low with a grim face, instantly drawing his heavy sword to meet the youth's move.

And the cultivators who had just emerged, seeing this scene, were all stunned.

They quickly retreated a distance to avoid being caught in the fight.

Cang Li said coldly: "So it's Dongfangxiu of the Tai Sui Sect, bullying the weak with his strength! Eldest Senior Brother, Ying Wuji, go give him a taste of his own medicine!"

Yuan Yao hurriedly said: "Wait, he didn't mean to kill me; he only sliced me once!"

Then, an angry female voice suddenly rang out.

"Who sliced you?!"

The crowd turned toward the sound and saw a person wearing the robes of the Carefree Sect: a tall‑built girl with a black phoenix‑patterned headband on her forehead, her features heroic, unadorned, an oval face, possessing an aggressively beautiful look.

"Second Senior Sister!" Yuan Yao's eyes lit up upon seeing the arrival.

Xiao Lingwei flickered and appeared before Yuan Yao, she reached out and grabbed Yuan Yao's wrist, felt her pulse, her face instantly turned cold, she first gave Song Yan and the others a cold glance.

Cang Li pulled their neck in.

"Second Senior Sister, I'm fine." Yuan Yao reached back and grabbed Xiao Lingwei.

She knew that Second Senior Sister had a fiery temper; once Second Senior Sister made a move, those Dongfangxiu people would probably be done for.

"He cut you with a sword?" Xiao Lingwei looked at her with heartache.

Yuan Yao nodded.

"Then I'll only whip him three times!"

After saying that, Xiao Lingwei gently pushed Yuan Yao's hand away, then moved, drawing a bone-joint whip from her waist.

"Jin, step back."

Seeing Xiao Lingwei appear, Xue Jin put away their long sword.

While Dongfangxiu was fighting Xue Jin, he had already been slashed several times; upon suddenly seeing Xiao Lingwei appear, his face changed instantly, a flash of fear crossing his eyes.

"Who gave you the guts? Dare to hurt my junior sister?"

Xiao Lingwei stepped forward, erupting with the mighty aura of a mid-Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, instantly causing the surrounding trees to explode with crackling sounds as fierce winds rose.

The junior sister had only ever been injured once—when she tripped over her left foot and smashed her head.

Now, however, the junior sister suffers grave injuries.

The anger in Xiao Lingwei's heart ignited at a spark; she gripped the bone-joint whip and lashed fiercely toward Dongfangxiu.

Dongfangxiu's face changed drastically; he quickly raised his heavy sword to block.

But the next moment—

His whole body, along with the heavy sword, was overturned.

Before he could even get up, the second whip lashed.

Crack!

Skin split, flesh mangled!

The third whip struck!

Crack!

Bones shattered, blood gushing incessantly!

Dongfangxiu had no strength to fight back!

Everyone witnessing this was shocked to the core; they looked at Xiao Lingwei with terror and unconsciously stepped back a few paces.

The disciples of the Tai Sui Sect, seeing this, none dared to move.

Finally, Man Yue stepped forward, cupping her hands toward Xiao Lingwei: "Fellow Daoist Xiao, we were in the wrong first; now that you've vented your anger, can we let this matter go?"