"You dead witch, let go of my Senior Sister! She can't take a beating, stop hitting her!" Zheng Linger watched her Senior Sister being taken away on the spot. Her small foot, adorned with a bell, kicked the wooden door hard, making a 'clang' sound.
Looking at the tightly closed wooden door, her heart burned with anxiety and her small face wrinkled. Turning to see Xu Yu Zhu sitting in a grand armchair drinking tea, she said anxiously, "Senior Sister Xu, my Senior Sister is being beaten every day, it must really hurt, right?"
"Uh... you can't really put it that way. This 'beating' is fundamentally different from the beating you're imagining. Not only does this beating not hurt much, it's actually quite comfortable. In fact, after being beaten, one's strength improves rapidly."
Xu Yu Zhu took a light sip of tea. As the Tianshui Witch, she was actually quite happy in her heart. Only after arriving here did she realize that the abundant spiritual energy was very suitable for cultivating the Extreme Yin and Joyful Union Scripture. Since she currently had no partner to Cultivate with, she could only Cultivate alone.
"Senior Sister Xu, are you sure you haven't gone mad? What you're saying doesn't sound like human speech at all."
In Zheng Linger's mind, cultivation was for the sake of beating others. If being beaten was so comfortable, they might as well stop cultivating and just get beaten every day.
She was extremely anxious. At this moment, the only person she could think of was her Master, who doted on her. Although her Master was a cultivation fanatic, she was truly good to her and her Senior Sister.
She took out her waist token and sent an urgent voice transmission: "Master, have you finished your secluded meditation..."
After saying it, she felt a bit of regret. Even if Master had finished her meditation, the Sect was currently sealed. Master wouldn't be able to break through the Sect's Great Array. To risk the Sect being breached just to save her and her Senior Sister... I'm truly acting out of desperation.
At this time, a city was situated by the distant seashore. With the hundreds of thousands of Disciples of the Tianchi Holy Land, it had now become a small city.
A figure in fluttering white robes stood atop the city wall, solitary and ethereal like an immortal. With hands behind her back, her cold and indifferent eyes looked at the mountain-like piles of Vicious Beast corpses and the surging river of blood outside the city.
A Vicious Beast tide of such intensity had not been encountered for a thousand years. Aside from the Executive Elders, even the Grand Elders had come out of seclusion. The legacy and Inner Sect Disciples didn't even have the qualifications to step onto the battlefield.
Ye Ruguo's eyes were weary, and her exquisitely beautiful face was somewhat pale; she had clearly suffered significant injuries. She took out a waist token that read: "Master, have you finished your meditation? Have you resolved your mental knot yet? Ancestral Grandmother said if you don't resolve it soon, it might turn into a Heart Demon."
She let out a soft sigh. Only upon seeing this voice transmission did she shift from her divine state back to her human side. Having regained her humanity, her eyes held doting and kindness: "I don't know how those two girls are doing or where they've gone to play. They only now thought to reply to their Master."
A large reason for her injury was her mental knot, and the root of that knot was the Ancient Reincarnation Mirror in her other hand. This was a family heirloom of the Ye family that could predict the future even more accurately than the Ancestral Grandmother of the Holy Land.
It was a mirror, but unlike the bronze mirrors she usually saw, this one was exceptionally clear and made of unique Materials. The mirror repeatedly played the future fates of the three Master and Disciples of Baihe Peak.
In the mirror, she faced enemies shrouded in black mist who had lost their sanity. She retreated step by step, defending the last piece of pure land on Baihe Peak. Looking at her two Disciples behind her, filled with reluctance and indignation, two tears fell as she self-detonated, turning into a beam of golden light that shot into the sky.
But her self-detonation only bought them a moment of peace. To avenge her and protect her Junior Sister, her eldest Disciple Ji Shengyao forced a Breakthrough, only to be burned by spiritual energy. Not only did she lose all her cultivation, but her appearance was also ruined, and she eventually lost her life to a Heart Demon.
After burying her and her Senior Sister, the youngest Disciple Zheng Linger set up tombstones. Ultimately, unable to catch her breath, she died of severed Meridians amidst her wailing.
"No!"
No matter how many times she saw this scene, her heart still ached. She recalled the words of the Ye family's Old Ancestor: the scenes in the mirror were a path already arranged by the Heavenly Dao, and only the true owner of the mirror in this world had the power to change the ending.
She flipped to the other side of the mirror, where two words were written with a strange pen... Wang Li.
But the price she had to pay was to pack up the three from Baihe Peak and deliver them to the mirror's owner to become her maidservants!
She gripped the mirror tightly. I don't believe in fate; I only believe in myself. As long as I am strong enough, I have the ability to change my destiny!
She took out her waist token and replied with a few words: "Your Master has finished meditation, and the mental knot is almost resolved. However, due to the Vicious Beast attack, I've suffered some light injuries. Are you and your Senior Sister alright?"
Zheng Linger hesitated. Ultimately, thinking that the Vicious Beasts had not yet retreated and Master was injured with an unresolved mental knot, it would likely be difficult for her to come even if she wanted to. She could only wait a few more days.
In the end, she replied: "Master, I'm with Senior Sister and we're doing very well. We caught a witch and are currently interrogating her under torture. Senior Sister beats her every day, and now she's howling from the beating!"
She thought to herself that since the witch didn't seem to intend to kill them, at worst they would just take a few more beatings. If Senior Sister couldn't take it, she could take the beatings in her place. Anyway, they were cultivators; a little injury or blood was no big deal.
Just after she finished speaking, she heard her Senior Sister's soft cry from the bedroom: "Ah~!"
It sounded a bit like a painful wail, but more like comfortable enjoyment. She was a bit puzzled—Senior Sister, are you actually being beaten or not...
In the bedroom across the door, Ji Shengyao felt something was very wrong and wanted to turn and flee.
Ignoring everything else, she ran straight for the redwood door, wanting to quickly slide the bolt. Just as she was about to pull it open, she was suddenly hugged from behind.
The witch hooked one hand around her waist and the other under her knees, picking her up in a princess carry. Then, she felt the world spin.
She was thrown directly into the bath. Water splashed as she suddenly snapped to her senses, splashing around as she tried to climb ashore: "You beast, you monster, you're not human! Would you die if you didn't bully me for one day?"
Though she was lightly dressed, she still wore handcuffs. With her spiritual energy suppressed, she had no room for resistance. Steam rose from the bathwater, and her small face was flushed red, even her sensitive earlobes were no exception.
"I'm really helping you; it's you who thinks about those things all day."
Wang Li stood at the edge of the bath, reaching for her belt and unhurriedly unwinding the sash of her red outer dress layer by layer.
Ji Shengyao looked up, both ashamed and angry. She hurriedly squeezed her eyes shut and blocked her view with her hands: "Witch, what are you doing in front of me? Are you planning to put on an exhibition for me!"
Her heart was thumping wildly. An evil voice in her mind was tempting her: 'What's the harm in looking? Do you really not want to see?'
Thinking of the witch's movingly beautiful face and her curvaceous figure, she somehow followed the evil guidance in her heart and slowly moved her hands to leave a small gap, but she only saw white mist.
The witch had entered the bath at some unknown point and swam toward her: "Do you want to see that badly?"
A hint of charm appeared on Wang Li's face. Right in front of Ji Shengyao, with a'splash', water flew everywhere as she suddenly stood up. In the white mist, Ji Shengyao only saw her fragrant shoulders covered in water droplets before she rapidly closed her eyes: "What are you doing~!"
"What are you afraid of? I'm wearing clothes underneath."
Ji Shengyao, however, didn't believe it at all: "I don't believe you. You're so scandalous, you'd like nothing more than to... walk around every day. How could you possibly be wearing clothes?"
Wang Li reached out and grabbed the hands blocking her eyes, trying to gently pry them open: "Look, I really am wearing clothes. This is slander!"