Chapter 16: Killing Ling Song p2
There were many types of demons, and different demons had different preferences. The Blood Demon was the most powerful and didn’t like to open its domain, preferring to fight directly. The Eye Demon was stupid and weak, so it liked to stay in one place, open its domain, and wait for cultivators to walk into its trap.
And the Absolute Demon, it liked to actively capture its prey and bring them into its domain. In the Absolute Demon Domain, all cultivators would become like ordinary people, unable to use spiritual energy.
She had even asked with a wicked sense of humor if a powerful cultivator who had long since reached the stage of Bigu would have to eat, drink, and excrete again if they were caught in it. But Xiao Xing couldn’t answer that question. Probably the powerful cultivators who had the opportunity to enter the Absolute Demon Domain wouldn’t go around announcing that they had finally taken a dump after so many years…
Today, Xie Bailu had personally entered this Absolute Demon Domain. Feeling her physical condition, it seemed to be similar to being in a spirit-sealing prison. That is, her metabolism was very slow, but if she stayed long enough, she would still have the problem of eating, drinking, and excreting.
She couldn’t open her storage bag, and she couldn’t call out Xiao Xing. Xie Bailu could only search the room for a handy weapon. Unfortunately, it was just an ordinary room with nothing sharp.
She thought for a moment, then took off the hairpin from her head and retied her hair into a high ponytail with the white ribbon.
Although the hairpin was blunt, it could be used as a weapon against ordinary people.
She tucked the hairpin into her belt and her gaze fell on the chair next to her.
She thought, If I’m in this Absolute Demon Domain, what about Ling Song, who was so close to me? He probably couldn’t have escaped either, right?
Xie Bailu’s heart suddenly began to pound.
Outside the Absolute Demon Domain, there was a huge gap in their realms, and she could never harm him. But here, they were both ordinary people, and the gap in their realms had been leveled!
That is to say, here, she could kill Ling Song and end her troubles once and for all!
Xie Bailu took a deep breath. She felt that she might not have such a good opportunity in the future. Before entering the Absolute Demon Domain, Ling Song had been about to kill her. Of course, she would not have any hesitation or mercy for him.
She had already shed blood. One more Ling Song wouldn’t make a difference. Besides, maybe if she killed him, she could settle down in a prosperous town and no longer have to live this life of displacement and fighting.
So, where was Ling Song?
Xie Bailu suddenly heard a noise outside. She immediately grabbed a chair and hid behind the door, holding her breath.
The noise stopped at Xie Bailu’s door. The person outside didn’t knock but pushed the door open and walked in with a smile.
It was Ling Song!
The open door hid Xie Bailu’s figure. She didn’t make a sound. As the other person looked around with some confusion, she took a step forward, raised the chair in her hand, and smashed it on the back of Ling Song’s head.
At this moment, Xie Bailu felt as if time was passing very slowly. Even Ling Song’s fall to the ground seemed to be in slow motion. She dropped the chair, pounced on him, pulled out the hairpin from her waist, and stabbed it viciously into his neck, not even caring about the blood splattering on her face.
After an unknown amount of time, she touched Ling Song’s neck and could no longer feel a pulse.
His eyes were open, and they seemed to still hold the shock of his death.
Xie Bailu felt as if she were dreaming.
Had she really killed Ling Song? This man who had been chasing her since she transmigrated, had he really died at her hands?
She looked again and again in disbelief. The person in front of her was indeed Ling Song, and he was indeed no longer breathing.
A sound of clapping suddenly came from behind her. Xie Bailu turned around in shock, but her pupils constricted when she saw the other person’s appearance.
The person standing at the door, who else could it be but Ling Song?
He walked in, his gaze pausing on Xie Bailu’s face for a few moments, then at the tragic death of the man with his face on the floor. He smiled with great pleasure. “You really hate me to the bone.”
Xie Bailu almost blurted out, You’re chasing me to kill me. If I don’t hate you, should I love you?
She quickly got up and distanced herself from Ling Song, surprisingly accepting the situation well.
How should she put it? Ling Song was a great demon lord in her eyes. If he had died just like that, she would have felt that this world was too biased towards her and it wasn’t real.
This was how it should be. How could Ling Song be killed so easily by her?
She finally felt a belated sense of regret. The feeling of killing Ling Song was indeed very good.
The real Ling Song was standing right in front of her. Then what had she killed?
Ling Song, as if unguarded, squatted down in front of the dead man, grabbed his hair, and lifted his head to look at it. He nodded. “Indeed, exactly the same as me.”
Xie Bailu just stared at Ling Song without a word, her mind racing.
She was in the Absolute Demon Domain. Was the one on the floor the Absolute Demon? No, if the Absolute Demon was dead, she should have left the Absolute Demon Domain.
The Eye Demon obtained nutrients by wearing down cultivators to death. Then what about the Absolute Demon? Xiao Xing didn’t know much either. From her personal experience so far, the Absolute Demon transformed into someone the cultivator knew to get close to them, and then what?
Xie Bailu saw Ling Song take a sharp dagger, still stained with blood, from the man’s body.
She understood. It was to lower the cultivator’s guard by pretending to be an acquaintance, and then launch a surprise attack.
Then the question was, why go to such trouble? Could it be that the Absolute Demon couldn’t use spiritual energy in its own domain?
If that was the case, it would make sense, but… if the dead “Ling Song” was really transformed by the Absolute Demon, then it was troublesome.
To leave a demonic domain, one had to kill the demon. But she had already killed this Absolute Demon, and she was still in the domain.
That is to say, this was not the Absolute Demon’s true body, or perhaps, the Absolute Demon could not be killed, at least not with simple methods.
The blood-stained dagger twirled nimbly in Ling Song’s fingers. He looked at Xie Bailu and saw her wary expression, her toes pointed outwards, as if ready to flee at any moment. He chuckled and suggested, “Do you want to find the Absolute Demon and kill it together?”
Startled by Ling Song’s words, Xie Bailu’s body, which had been about to flee, paused. She sized up Ling Song. He was smiling, as if he hadn’t wanted to kill her before, and she hadn’t killed “him.”
She took a deep breath, her mind racing, but it didn’t stop her from immediately agreeing. “Alright!”
With Xiao Xing offline, Ling Song indeed knew more about the cultivation world. It wouldn’t be a loss for her to follow him to find a way out of the Absolute Demon Domain.
Besides, he was the one who had asked her to follow him. If she found an opportunity to kill him later, she couldn’t be blamed, right? She had already killed “him” in front of him. If he wasn’t vigilant, who could he blame?
Ling Song didn’t seem surprised that Xie Bailu would agree. He casually put away the dagger he had taken from the man and stood up. “Let’s go. Let’s go out and take a look.”
Xie Bailu glanced at the dagger Ling Song had taken, then at the pitiful hairpin in her hand, feeling a little unfair.
She was the one who had killed the person, but the “treasure” had been taken by Ling Song, and she didn’t even dare to protest.
She needed to maintain a superficial “friendliness” between them. Otherwise, if they were to clash head-on, she would most likely not be his match.
Xie Bailu looked away and silently followed Ling Song.
Somewhere far away, a pair of green eyes suddenly opened.
The Absolute Demon almost jumped up, pacing back and forth in shock and confusion, unable to understand.
He had first found the little couple he had already killed, because he had just happened to see them and had pulled them into the domain. He hadn’t remembered wrong. When he had brought them into the domain, they had been clinging to each other, the atmosphere amorous.
Even if they weren’t a couple, they shouldn’t have started killing each other on sight, right?! What was wrong with that female cultivator?!
He thought back. Indeed, he had seen the male cultivator choking the female cultivator. But there were many ways for human cultivators to love each other. This was nothing. He had even seen one person tie up another completely. It was just a little choking!
He was angry and confused. The female cultivator’s actions had been too decisive. First, she had stunned him with a blow, then stabbed him until he was bleeding profusely. What kind of hatred was that!
Although he wouldn’t die, he would still feel pain. He touched the back of his head and neck, and he could still seem to feel the phantom pain there.
Since the old method didn’t work, he would try a new one. He didn’t believe he couldn’t kill those two, especially that female cultivator!
The hated Xie Bailu was currently following closely behind Ling Song. When he suddenly stopped, she also stopped in surprise.
Ling Song turned to look at her. “Why aren’t you walking with me? Are you that afraid of me?”
Xie Bailu was speechless. “…” Listen to the nonsense you’re saying. You want to kill me, and you’re blaming me for being afraid of you?
After thinking for a moment, she slowly got a little closer and gave a faint smile. “Young Master Ling, since we are fated to be temporary allies in the same domain, do you think we can bury the hatchet? We can work together to leave the domain, and then go our separate ways, with no debts between us.”
Ling Song looked at her until she finished speaking, then said slowly, “Is Xie Bailu your real name?”
Xie Bailu was speechless. “…” Did he even hear what I was saying!
To show her friendliness, Xie Bailu nodded. “Yes.”
Ling Song, for some reason, suddenly laughed. “Is it the ‘pure and innocent’ deer?”
Xie Bailu said, “No, it’s the ‘protected’… it’s the ‘a line of egrets rises to the blue sky’ egret.”
Hearing this, Ling Song’s face actually showed a hint of regret.
Xie Bailu was confused. “…?”
He turned and continued to walk forward. “Can you hand over the Five-Star Cauldron?”
Xie Bailu hesitated for a moment. To save her life, a divine artifact was of course nothing. But she and Xiao Xing had a good rapport. She had survived because of it. She really couldn’t bring herself to abandon it.
Besides, even if she could abandon the Five-Star Cauldron, would Ling Song really not kill her? She often felt that Ling Song was as interested in killing her as he was in snatching the Five-Star Cauldron.
Forget it. As if she hadn’t said anything.
So Xie Bailu fell silent.
The two of them still walked one after the other out of the inn-like building. Outside was a quiet street. All the shops were open, but there was no one anywhere. The whole world was eerily quiet.
The two of them stood on the wide and clean street. Xie Bailu looked around for a moment and asked, “What now?”
When Xiao Xing was around, she asked Xiao Xing. When Xiao Xing wasn’t around, she asked Ling Song. Anyway, she was a newbie, so it was only right to be thick-skinned and ask more questions.
Ling Song, like Xie Bailu, observed for a moment, but he clearly saw more than her. He pointed in a direction. “There.”
Xie Bailu said, “Why? What’s there?”
The essence of a top student is to know not only the ‘what’ but also the ‘why’. Understand everything, integrate it, and you’ll be able to solve similar problems smoothly next time.
Ling Song seemed to find it novel and glanced at Xie Bailu. In the past, he had occasionally taken Ling family disciples out. They had always done whatever he said, and no one had ever dared to ask why, let alone question him.
She seemed to be afraid that something would pop out from the surroundings and unconsciously moved a little closer to him.
Ling Song smiled. “You’ll know when we get there. Afraid?”
Xie Bailu said honestly, “I was a mortal before. I’m afraid of everything.”
Ling Song’s eyebrow twitched slightly. “I don’t think you’re that afraid of me.”
Xie Bailu thought to herself, I’m most afraid of you, you madman! Where did you get the idea that I’m not afraid?
She smiled like a naive girl. “Really? Maybe it’s because Young Master Ling is handsome and particularly kind today.”
Ling Song smiled ambiguously and pointed to his side. “Since you’re not afraid, walk with me.”
Xie Bailu politely declined. “I don’t think that’s necessary. I don’t think it’s very respectful to Young Master Ling.”
Ling Song smiled lightly. “I’m also afraid you’ll sneak attack me from behind.”
Xie Bailu was speechless. “…” If I find a chance, I might really do that.