The Demon Sect’s group set out for the secret realm, following Tang Guo in an imposing procession. Their faces were all filled with excitement.
Every time they went out, their Holy Maiden Aunt would lead them to great gains. Either their territory expanded, or they obtained valuable cultivation resources.
Now, every outing required them to compete for a spot.
Those who lost had no right to follow the Holy Maiden Aunt.
Mo Yuntian looked at the energy and spirit of the Demon Sect disciples and couldn’t help but sigh. “Sister, your presence here is truly a blessing for our Demon Sect.”
He knew Tang Guo would not stay in this world forever. On the surface, it seemed like she was merely helping the sect expand its influence, but in reality, every move she made was calculated.
Take Wen Yi and Gu Qin, for example. The disciples she accepted all had extraordinary talent. Especially Gu Qin, he never would have imagined that a five-element spiritual root was actually a rare genius constitution.
Everyone here believed the five-element spiritual root was a useless one, and people born with it were one in a hundred thousand.
A day later, Tang Guo arrived at the secret realm.
Before them lay a rushing river. When the secret realm opened, a golden vortex would appear in the water, which was the entrance.
This secret realm also belonged to someone with great fortune. That person, having been betrayed by a close friend, narrowly escaped death and jumped into a river. By chance, they were carried here by the current and happened to fall into the vortex.
Afterward, they obtained rare spiritual treasures and formed a contract with a divine beast. Their strength increased significantly, and after recovering, they went back to take revenge, becoming a well-known figure admired by many.
That person’s divine beast was a phoenix. Feng Feiling had seen this phoenix before and wanted to touch it, but as a proud and noble creature, how could a phoenix possibly allow a stranger to do so? It directly struck her with a claw and sent her flying.
From then on, Feng Feiling held a grudge against it.
Knowing that the phoenix had been obtained here, she took advantage of Luo Chen’s severe injuries, stabbed him to death with a sword, and then contracted the phoenix herself.
Still resentful over what had happened, she tampered with the contract, changing it from an equal bond to a master-servant pact. From then on, the phoenix lived under her torment every day.
[Host, this protagonist is seriously twisted. Good thing she wasn’t born in the modern era. She’d be the type to bomb a bus one day, attack a train station the next, and plant explosives in a shopping mall the day after.]
“This is called a warped mind. Taking revenge is one thing, but venting anger on innocent people is just wrong.”
The system quickly agreed. Though its host was a bit ruthless, at least her moral compass wasn’t completely broken. No matter how extreme her actions were, she would never harm the innocent.
The group stood by the riverbank. The Demon Sect disciples were puzzled, but since their Holy Maiden Aunt had told them to wait, they obeyed without question.
“No matter what floats down the river later, pull it out.”
The Demon Sect disciples immediately responded, “Yes.”
After about half an hour, one of the disciples, with sharp eyes, spotted something floating downstream from afar.
Immediately, they all sprang into action, eager to grab whatever it was.
Luo Chen had been betrayed by a close friend. In desperation, he had jumped into the river to escape, letting the current carry him downstream. Given his condition, he should have long lost consciousness, but sheer unwillingness and the will to survive kept him hanging on.
Suddenly, he sensed countless powerful auras rushing toward him, menacing and terrifying. A wave of despair surged in his heart.
“Could it be that the heavens would not grant him, Luo Chen, a path to survival? Would he not even have a chance for revenge?”
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