Chapter 45: It Turns Out to Be the Young Master of the Mysterious Envoy

Shen Qingli lifted her gaze and saw the Mysterious Envoys descending like heavenly soldiers and generals.

"Go."

Shen Qingli remained unmoved, her divine sword threading through the four dantians like a needle pulling thread.

The four people suppressed by Ji Wanxing, Feng Yimo, Zhao Qingshan, and Zhuge Yun could not move, only forced to endure this sword.

"Boom!"

Shen Qingli's thoughts moved, her sword qi like myriad sharp blades shattering the dantians it pierced.

"Pfft!"

"Pfft……"

The four spat blood in succession, their cultivation instantly collapsing.

They crashed to the ground one after another, faces deathly pale.

"Shen! Qing! Li!"

Peak Master Xu's face was maddened, his eyes nearly bursting as he stared at Shen Qingli.

Her sword came too fast, too sudden!

By the time they reacted, their cultivation was already scattering rapidly.

"A Li! What are you doing?"

Bai Ren Shan's tone turned panicked—he was really panicking!

After laying plans for so long, the whole sect mobilized, yet he could not accept this result.

He quickly sealed his own acupoints to slow the loss of his mysterious power.

The other three also reacted, hurriedly trying to save themselves!

"Mysterious Envoy,"

Zhao Yue, on her last breath, struggled to her feet, her eyes reddening.

"Shen Qingli, this beast, she wants to kill me!"

Zhao Yue's voice was hoarse and shrill, a full-blown old woman's tone, so grating she could hardly bear it herself.

She demanded Shen Qingli die! She must die!

"Mysterious Envoy, Mysterious Envoy,"

Zhao Yue wept blood in accusation, yet—

"What's going on?"

The Mysterious Envoy looked at the chaotic scene, completely unlike what he had expected.

Wasn't it said the Emerald Jade Sect would send out its full force, ambush Shen Qingli, and seize her inheritance?

Looking at the scene, it seemed more like Shen Qingli was killing and looting, seizing others' inheritances.

"Cough." Ji Wanxing explained, "It's nothing, just a personal grudge. Didn't you say not to dance before you, to settle it yourself?"

Mysterious Envoy: "……"

He shouldn't have come, right!

"Mysterious Envoy."

Shen Qingli, who had bowed before a procession of Mysterious Envoys, was on high alert.

The Mysterious Envoys glanced at her, then at Bai Ren Shan and the others' dantians, finally understanding what was happening.

It seemed this little girl wanted to deal with these old fogies, and the Heaven Star Sect's old scoundrels helped her set them up.

What is this?

She killed someone.

Did the Heaven Star Sect pass her a knife?

"Cough."

The lead Mysterious Envoy cleared his throat, "You're making such a huge commotion here—do you think we're dead?"

"It's the place they chose." Shen Qingli explained earnestly, this really isn't her fault.

She had thought the Emerald Jade Sect dared to kill and loot here only after scouting thoroughly, so they wouldn't be discovered by the Mysterious Envoys.

"Cough!" the Mysterious Envoy coughed again, "That's enough—don't cause any deaths."

Zhao Yue froze, tone bewildered, "Mysterious Envoy?"

Bai Ren Shan and the others' hearts also turned cold— the Mysterious Envoy wasn't coming to help them!

Shen Qingli also caught the implied meaning, her tone instantly becoming much more respectful, "You can rest assured, junior has it in hand."

"Are you alright?" the Mysterious Envoy asked again, this being a promising seedling reported upward, cannot have any mishap.

"Junior is fine, thank you for your concern, senior."

"We're not fine!" Zhao Yue shouted in panic.

They've all been crippled! Don't the Mysterious Envoys have eyes?

"Hmph." the Mysterious Envoy snorted coldly, "Isn't this your own doing?"

"Mysterious Envoy." Bai Ren Shan said sorrowfully, "We may be at fault, but we only sought some compensation. Yet the Heaven Star Sect's fellow cultivators struck us down harshly, their mysterious techniques exceedingly strange, suggesting collusion with the demonic path—please, Mysterious Envoy, discern clearly!"

"Enough." the Mysterious Envoy, tired of Bai Ren Shan constantly bringing up the demonic path, said, "Don't think that just because you cleared the demon-testing pillar, you're truly clean."

Peak Master Xu's heart gave a sudden thump!

The Mysterious Envoy coldly surveyed them, "Take care of yourselves."

As the words fell, this group of hastily arriving Mysterious Envoys vanished in an instant.

Bai Ren Shan, Zhao Yue, and the others visibly panicked; Peak Master Xu was the most straightforward, immediately begging for mercy, "Spare us, you promised the Mysterious Envoy no deaths—please."

"A Li, for old times' sake, leave us a way out. We're already like this—we can't trouble you any further, how about it?" Peak Master Li also spoke.

Shen Qingli said nothing, she came before Su Zhengzong.

Su Zhengzong's old face twitched, "What are you trying to do?"

Shen Qingli looked at him, but what flashed before her eyes was the final scene of her previous life.

The person who annihilated her body and soul was Su Zhengzong.

He had said then, "Demonic path heretics, even a remnant soul can make a comeback; we must absolutely not let her spiritual power scatter!"

Now……

"Fire."

Shen Qingli's palm burst into five-colored flames.

Su Zhengzong's expression turned horrified, "You, you,"

"Die."

Shen Qingli pronounced judgment, and the five-colored phoenix fire fell.

Su Zhengzong's entire body instantly burst into flames, frightening Zhao Yue into incessant trembling.

By this moment, she finally understood that Shen Qingli was truly no longer the little girl who would always obey her no matter what; she would even kill her! It wasn't a threat or a ploy to attract her attention—it was real.

Bai Ren Shan and the three others were utterly silent, not even a sparrow's chirp.

They were all afraid!

They had thought that having their cultivation abolished was already the worst possible fate.

Unexpectedly, Shen Qingli turned out to be this ruthless; she actually wanted their lives!

No!

We absolutely cannot just wait for death!

Bai Ren Shan's fingertip twitched slightly……

"Don't move recklessly; kill him, I have my own reasons. You all, I haven't planned to take your lives yet, but if you act rashly, I might lose control of myself." Shen Qingli stated.

The chick that had jumped out of her bosom, flapping its tiny wings, came before Bai Ren Shan, staring at him with a fierce, unblinking gaze!

Bai Ren Shan wore a grim expression, "A Li,"

"I've said before, don't call me that; you're not worthy."

"Yes, yes, yes." Bai Ren Shan no longer dared to act presumptuously, "I'm not worthy, Immortal Master Shen, let's speak properly. You, you want Su Chacha, right?"

"Sect Master?" Zhao Yue exclaimed in disbelief, "Chacha has suffered enough! What does the Sect Master mean—offering Chacha to this wretched villain?"

Bai Ren Shan inwardly cried out, "Not good!" He thought Zhao Yue was crazy! At a time like this, does the life of an insignificant disciple matter more than one's own?

Shen Qingli was also curious, "Do you truly love Su Chacha?"

She had always thought Zhao Yue loved herself the most.

Zhao Yue looked at her, unable to hide her astonishment and fear, "Of course!"

"Even if it means being burned like this, would you still protect her?" Shen Qingli asked with a smile.

Zhao Yue gazed at the agonized, writhing Su Zhengzong, whose screams grew more shrill, and cold sweat poured down her.

"No! Spare me! Spare me! No——"

At this very moment, Su Zhengzong's anguished cries could still be heard by the distant Xuan Envoys.

Such horror left them staring at each other in dismay.

Didn't we say not to cause any deaths?

"Or should we go back and take a look?"

"No need."

A clear, cold voice came from afar.

The Xuan Envoys' gazes instantly sharpened!

"Pei Jianshu?"

"This brat……"

Pei Jianshu, who had arrived on his sword, produced a token.

Jade white gold inscriptions, like immortality itself, like illusion.

The Xuan Envoys' pupils trembled, "Young Master!"

"Whatever she wishes to do, let her do it."

Pei Jianshu gazed into the distance, where the source of the cries lay.