Chapter 93: Right! I Am the Army of Justice!

She rolled her eyes, "I saved them because I wanted to, is there a problem?"

"No problem." Xie Huai watched quietly as Ruan Xing busied herself like a little bee collecting the belongings of her fellow disciples, her happy expression suggesting she didn't seem to care about their lives at all... That was right, she was an Evil Cultivator of the Ghost Path, after all.

However, he was quite surprised that she was willing to take the initiative to save him; based on his understanding of Ruan Xing, finishing him off and looting his valuables would have been her typical style.

This was also exactly what Ruan Xing was doing right now.

Xie Huai coughed again, interrupting Ruan Xing's diligent labor, "Could I trouble you to feed me a few more Healing Pills?"

"Sure." Ruan Xing put down her work, took out a bottle of Healing Pills, and shook it in front of Xie Huai, "Fu Yu died here, so what you did is already obvious. I don't expect you to repay me for saving your life, but you should at least thank me for not causing you trouble, right? Can you promise to let me return to the Sect Secret Realm safely?"

"I certainly should thank you." Xie Huai gave a bitter smile, "I didn't expect you to be in Fu Qinghong's Jade Communication Token. If you had been determined to cause me trouble and pestered them to keep them from reaching the Xian Tai Tree immediately, I truly would have had no way to deal with it. Rest assured, once I recover from my injuries and get out, I will let you return to the Xuanbing Sect safely."

Several Sect Jade Tokens were scattered around Xie Huai; she had seen them before, but she hadn't expected Fu Qinghong's token to be among them, having already been checked by Xie Huai.

Ruan Xing had a moment of realization; so the way to save them was to contact them immediately upon entering the Secret Realm and keep them from going to the Xian Tai Tree.

It was so simple, but she had never paid attention to it, so she hadn't thought of it.

But they weren't actually close... and they might not have listened to her even if she had said something. She sighed inwardly; this was reality, not a simulation, and even if she wanted to go against her own nature and waste points to save people, she no longer had the chance.

She fed Xie Huai the Healing Pill and went back to looting the corpses. She had already finished looting Xu Sixi and the others, leaving only the cultivator lying outside with Fu Qinghong.

She turned the body over to search for a Storage Bag and Dharma Artifacts. Fu Qinghong's hand was clenched into a fist, gripping something tightly. She pried it open with great difficulty, but inside was not some valuable treasure.

It was just a pear with one bite taken out of it.

"You guy..." Ruan Xing whispered, stunned.

Was his last thought before dying to take a bite of a pear? This was too absurd, but Fu Qinghong had actually done such a thing.

"Fine, for the sake of you making me laugh for no reason." Ruan Xing resigned herself to taking out the Soul Nourishing Wood, breaking off a thumb-sized piece of wood to prepare as the essence for Fu Qinghong's Puppet Body.

It was just that Fu Qinghong was only at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, and his Divine Soul was not powerful. Two days had already passed, so it was hard to say how much consciousness the soul she summoned would still have.

She looked back; Xie Huai was still closing his eyes to heal. Having seen the example of the Demon Lord, she was truly afraid that these Demon Cultivators would steal her techniques.

She casually used the Five Directions Water Row to set up a water curtain to separate the inside from the outside, preventing Xie Huai from seeing what she was doing, and then began to clean Fu Qinghong's corpse, drawing a Talisman on the surface of his skin.

Xie Huai was severely injured, so his focus was certainly on himself, and he wouldn't use his Divine Sense to look around at her. He was extremely fragile these days; if anyone broke in, he would have to rely on Ruan Xing for protection, so he didn't dare offend her at all. This water curtain merely expressed Ruan Xing's desire not to be seen by Xie Huai.

After processing the corpse, Ruan Xing began to refine the Puppet Body. Mixing it with Fu Qinghong's blood, she recited a Soul Summoning Incantation, and a blurry Residual Soul drifted over in a daze.

After a person dies, their soul slowly dissipates over time, unless they are like the Demon Lord or the Fairy, whose cultivation is profound and whose Divine Soul is powerful, allowing them to remain for a longer period; or like the original heroine, whose resentment is so overwhelming that she can condense her soul to practice the Ghost Path; or like the thousands of Yin Ghosts suppressed in the Hanshan Secret Realm, which are manifestations of un-dissipated resentment that cannot become Ghost Cultivators because they are suppressed by Ink Marrow.

Ordinary souls disappear without a trace.

She stuffed Fu Qinghong's soul into that thumb-sized piece of Soul Nourishing Wood. After dripping blood to establish a contract, she found a string, tied it around the small piece of wood, and hung it around Fu Qinghong's neck, hiding it under his clothes.

"Fu Qinghong, can you understand me? If you can understand, nod your head." Ruan Xing waved her hand repeatedly in front of Fu Qinghong.

But Fu Qinghong just stared blankly, shaking his head left and right following the movement of her hand.

Ruan Xing scratched her chin in distress, "He seems a bit dim-witted."

Never mind, with the Soul Nourishing Wood, even if his soul is incomplete, he will naturally develop consciousness over time.

Hopefully, by then, he will still be that sunny, cheerful boy who loves to eat.

After finishing this task, she put Fu Qinghong into her Storage Bag, then took out the other two corpses, one male and one female, and began to process them.

From their Storage Bags, she found two Mysterious Grade materials to use as the essence for the Puppet Bodies.

She did not intend to use high-level materials like Soul Nourishing Wood; even if she did, it could only raise the two big shots to the Golden Core Mid-stage at most. With the foundation of a Foundation Establishment body, they couldn't be raised very high, and this actually held no benefit for her.

First of all, it was a very simple principle: the Soul Nourishing Wood was her private property, but the two big shots were not. They had their own thoughts, and even if they became Puppet Bodies, they wouldn't obediently listen to her. At most, they might take care of her out of concern that her death would affect them. Trying to use them as puppets to order around was impossible, absolutely impossible.

Based on the above, how could Ruan Xing use her private property to upgrade others? She wasn't some white lotus.

After processing the Puppet Bodies for the two big shots, the time reached the third day of entering the Secret Realm. Ruan Xing withdrew the water curtain, and Xie Huai, sensing the movement, opened his eyes.

"How are you? You can move now, right?" Although it was a question, Ruan Xing used a tone of certainty. He had already been recuperating for a day, so he must be able to move. He could do it last time, and he even took out his own Storage Bag to reimburse her for the pills... Wait, did she forget to say the pills had to be repaid tenfold just now? Oh no, she forgot about that.

Ruan Xing felt a bit annoyed; it was all because she was too focused on looting that she forgot to scam Xie Huai.

Xie Huai nodded silently. He felt that Ruan Xing was a bit strange today... He didn't dare to speak, lest he give Ruan Xing any new ideas.

"Hmm, then you stay here for a while, I have something to do and need to go out."

She had already prepared the materials and had to hurry to the Cave Abode to find the two big shots.

She flicked her fingertips, and the second Earth Escape Talisman turned to ash. Her whole body sank into the ground and moved rapidly. A few minutes later, she appeared a few hundred miles away.

She looked up and surveyed her surroundings. Oh no, she overshot it; she still had to fly back sixty miles.

There was no help for it; the Earth Escape Talisman could only control the direction, not the precise location.

Arriving at the Cave Abode, after the cliché choice of two, she proposed this plan for the Puppet Bodies.

A trace of disgust appeared in the Fairy's eyes, "I thought you were a Righteous Cultivator, I didn't expect..."

"I am indeed a Righteous Cultivator!"

Ruan Xing interrupted her righteously, looking somewhat heartbroken, "It's just that the situation is urgent and requires expediency; I have no other choice. Yes, I want the inheritance, I admit it openly and honestly, but I proposed this method not just for the inheritance, but for my fellow disciples who are currently in dire straits!"

The Fairy was stunned for a moment, seemingly bewildered by her impassioned speech.

She had cultivated bitterly for nearly a thousand years, relying on her talent to reach the Spirit Severing realm. Not long after her promotion, she encountered the Immortal-Demon War. Afterward, the battlefield turned into a Secret Realm, and she had been trapped here, facing a Demon head-on every day. She hadn't seen such a righteous cultivator in a long time.

Ruan Xing took a deep breath and continued, "Nowadays, there are Demon Cultivators outside the Secret Realm eyeing us like tigers, while my fellow disciples are completely unaware. I need the two seniors to help me catch... save them. I cannot watch them walk into a desperate situation. If I see them in danger and do not save them, wouldn't that ruin my Dao heart!?"

The Fairy was swayed; she even felt a bit angry, "Those detestable Demon Cultivators, wanting to harm my Righteous Cultivators again! I will help you this once!"

"Good! The Fairy is truly righteous! Helping those in danger and eliminating evil to bring peace, you are truly a model for the righteous path! We, the younger generation of Righteous Cultivators, should take you as our example!"

Ruan Xing showered her with flattery, making the Fairy's face turn red, as if she had returned to the time before the Immortal-Demon War when the Sect Leader entrusted her with a critical mission.

Having handled the Fairy, there was still the Demon Lord to deal with.

He looked at Ruan Xing with a half-smile, "You help me forge a Puppet Body and take me out, and I give you my inheritance. This is a very fair trade, but why should I help you save your fellow disciples?"

Ruan Xing said sorrowfully, "This junior knows I have nothing to repay the senior with, but I just heard that the senior practices the Devouring Method. I can make the decision for my fellow disciples: as long as their lives are saved, everything else they have shall be offered to the senior!"

The Fairy looked at the Demon Lord with disdain, "To be so calculating and utilitarian even when saving people, you are truly a Demon Cultivator!"

"You wouldn't understand even if I told you." The Demon Lord lazily rolled his eyes at her.

"Demon Lord, come this way, let's not sully the Fairy's ears." Ruan Xing signaled for the Demon Lord to follow her to the entrance to talk. The Demon Lord followed her with a good temper, while the Fairy snorted and turned her head away.

Although the fairy would not engage in the impolite behavior of eavesdropping with Divine Sense, Ruan Xing still whispered: "Senior, do you two have any Magic Arts or the like in your Storage Bags?"

"None, we ate them all, why?"

You really can eat... Ruan Xing was speechless for a long while, gave up the idea of learning Magic Arts from them, and continued: "Senior, here is a small gift for you, I would like to make a deal with you; after you capture my fellow Sect members, you can eat all their Storage Bags and Dharma Artifacts, it's just the Spirit Stones... could you leave a little for me?"

The Demon Lord crossed his arms and probed: "I don't think you look like you want to save your fellow Sect members."

"You truly have eyes of fire and pupils of gold, nothing can be hidden from you." Ruan Xing laughed sheepishly.

The Demon Lord hurriedly shook his shoulders, "Don't, it's fine if you say that to her, but saying it to me gives me goosebumps all over."

"Yes, Senior, I am mainly doing this for self-preservation; if they all die and I am the only one who escapes, I won't be able to survive in the Sect. If you could just save ten or twenty of them, and you two conceal yourselves, capture them and make them hand over the contents of their Storage Bags and their Dharma Artifacts, that would just be a little extra gain for this junior's selfish heart, after all, one can't save people for nothing, right?"

Ruan Xing wore a knowing smile on her face, and after considering for a few seconds, the Demon Lord readily agreed: "Fine, I'll do it. It's been thousands of years, and I've finally run into something interesting."

Seeing the Demon Lord agree, Ruan Xing was overjoyed and hurriedly described the appearance of the Cultivator who had taken the Breaking Boundary Pill.

She rubbed her hands excitedly and said: "This person, you must catch them if you run into them."

The Demon Lord sneered, "Look at how spineless you are, I got it."

Challenge successful~(End of chapter)