Chapter 1729: I

"What has happened to you?"

Upon seeing Shang Xihong, He Pingsheng was startled.

This woman was still as beautiful as ever.

However, her complexion was somewhat pale, as if she had suffered a severe injury.

Because her face was so white, her lips appeared exceptionally red—vividly, glaringly red.

Shang Xihong gave a bitter smile and said, "I remember..."

"I remember... you seem to have Heavenly Dao Merit on you... do you still have any now?"

He Pingsheng nodded: "I still have some!"

"Give it to me... give it to me quickly..." Shang Xihong said with a pained expression, "Hurry... I am going to die!"

He Pingsheng was astonished in his heart: Shang Xihong was the number one Demon Saint of the Demon Realm.

Who could possibly have the ability to kill her?

He Pingsheng did not dare to delay and directly took out a cluster of the Heavenly Dao Merit he carried.

He only had three clusters of this stuff in total.

One cluster could allow a peak Great Luo Golden Immortal like the Wise Immortal to regain their wisdom roots and at least step into the Dao Origin realm.

Originally, he had saved these for Ming Yue, Hao Yun, and the Grand Void Ancestor.

As it turned out, before he could give them to those three, Shang Xihong had come first.

"Just this little bit?" Shang Xihong looked at the cluster of merit He Pingsheng offered and said, "I remember you obtained a lot back then!"

He Pingsheng said: "I used some; if it's not enough, I have more here!"

He took out the last two remaining clusters and said: "There is only this much left!"

"I remember the old monk Ming Yue obtained quite a bit from preaching the Dharma back then; why don't you go look for him?"

Shang Xihong shook her head: "I already looked; the merit on him has also been completely used up!"

He Pingsheng asked: "You are a Saint, what do you need merit for?"

Shang Xihong did not answer He Pingsheng's question, but instead extended a slender finger and slightly pulled aside the clothing on her left shoulder, revealing a round, fair, and smooth shoulder.

For a moment, it was alluring to the extreme.

He Pingsheng couldn't help but shiver: "That... a little merit isn't worth repaying me like this!"

"Get lost..." Shang Xihong rolled her eyes at him and said: "Look carefully!"

He Pingsheng hadn't looked carefully just now; he had only glanced at it roughly.

Now, looking again, he discovered that a large patch of skin beneath her shoulder was gathered with a red, faint light.

"This is... Heavenly Dao Karmic Debt?" He Pingsheng gasped in shock: "Isn't it said that once one reaches the level of a Saint, one will no longer be tainted by causal karmic debt?"

"What kind of heinous thing have you done?"

Shang Xihong took a deep breath, then picked up one of the clusters of merit and swallowed it in one gulp: "What kind of heinous thing could I have done!"

"I... isn't this... my brain got flooded for a moment, and I went to fuse that seventh piece of Chaos Order!"

He Pingsheng's eyelids twitched wildly: "You fused it?"

"No..." Shang Xihong said with a sorrowful expression: "If I had fused it, that would be fine. I have always kept my distance from this seventh piece of order because He Tianzhi was the one who moved the seventh piece back then, which provoked the jealousy of the Heavenly Dao and led him into reincarnation!"

"I have endured it for so many years!"

"But this long, long time... it seems endless... it's so boring!"

"So I tried it!"

"Who would have thought, it was indeed as expected!"

Shang Xihong revealed a self-deprecating smile again: "Let's see if I can save myself with merit first. If I can, that's good; if not, I'm afraid I'll have to enter reincarnation to travel and be reborn!"

He Pingsheng did not speak, but personally reached out to pull aside the red Daoist robe on her left shoulder to take a look: "It seems... it's useless!"

"Yes!" After a while, Shang Xihong looked disappointed: "This cluster of merit cannot remove the karmic debt on my body!"

"That shouldn't be!"

He Pingsheng said: "It shouldn't be!"

Merit is the most miraculous thing; it can dispel all causal karmic debt.

Why couldn't the karmic debt on Shang Xihong be removed!

"Is it because I ate too little... I'll try again!" After speaking, Shang Xihong stood on no ceremony, picked up the remaining two clusters of merit, and swallowed them in one gulp.

After a few breaths, both of them discovered with disappointment: it was of no use at all.

"It seems..." Shang Xihong said: "This time I have truly provoked the jealousy of the Heavenly Dao... it is determined that I must die!"

He Pingsheng said: "So, in that case, the seventh piece of Chaos Order is the red line drawn by the Heavenly Dao?"

Shang Xihong said: "It should be!"

"Forget it, since even merit cannot save me, I might as well enter reincarnation!"

He Pingsheng asked: "Wait... if you just carry this karmic debt, it doesn't seem to have any effect, right?"

Shang Xihong said: "No... the karmic debt on me will keep increasing. If it accumulates to a certain degree, I'm afraid I won't even be able to keep my Primordial Fruit position. By then, it won't be as simple as just traveling through reincarnation!"

"Sigh... it's just... I'm about to leave, yet I owe you karma!"

"How can I repay it?"

Shang Xihong looked at He Pingsheng: "How about... before I die, I sleep with you?"

He Pingsheng's face turned pitch black: "Senior, please don't joke around. How about you give me the Chaos Supreme Treasure or whatever you have on you as compensation!"

Shang Xihong shook her head: "I don't have any Chaos Supreme Treasures!"

"This thing is useless anyway. Look at the Supreme Treasures in the hands of the Sages; how many of them can actually enhance the user?"

He Pingsheng thought about it; for a Sage, Supreme Treasures indeed had little use.

"Hoo..." He Pingsheng took a deep breath and asked another question: "Back then, when Mingyue found you and wanted to scheme using the Great Heaven Soul-Transfer Art, why didn't you agree?"

Shang Xihong gave He Pingsheng a deep look and said: "I didn't like the look of him!"

He Pingsheng:......

However, he had also obtained the information he wanted.

It proved that Mingyue had indeed approached Shang Xihong first.

Then, the possibility that this Great Heaven Soul-Transfer Art was a scheme became even lower.

"How about this..." Shang Xihong said: "Don't you have that thing that can devour divine arts?"

"It would be a pity if my cultivation base just dissipated between heaven and earth like this!"

"I have already reincarnated with the Light of Immortal Spirit; I will leave this body for you to devour!"

"Consider it repaying the karma of those three merits you gave me!"

"Is that okay?"

He Pingsheng's eyes lit up instantly: "This is good..."

This was Shang Xihong at the twelfth layer of Hunyuan Perfection; who knew to what terrifying level his cultivation base would rise after devouring her!

"But it's a deal!" Shang Xihong said: "You can only devour, you cannot desecrate my body..."

"I will be reincarnated as your daughter, He Pingsheng, in my next life. If you desecrate my body, you will be violating moral principles, and you will have a time when you regret it!"

He Pingsheng gave Shang Xihong a deep look: "You're ruthless!"

Shang Xihong added: "By the way, I will reincarnate early. When you have nothing to do recently, take care of your Dao companion Wen Buwan more!"

He Pingsheng asked: "What do you mean?"

Shang Xihong said: "Nothing much... First, she is a good person!"

"Second, she is the most beautiful!"

"I hope to be her daughter!"

"I'm leaving my body to you, and my soul is leaving..."

"Oh, right... practice first... Daddy... goodbye!"