Transmigrated As The Villain's Sword (GL) - Chapter 20
The Old Demon Emperor’s words were like the last fuse igniting the emotions of both sides. Zhenxu’s face instantly darkened, and he said “good” three times in a row: “Good, good, good! The Demon Clan’s young lady concealed her identity to infiltrate my Lingxiao Immortal Sect, stole my sect’s treasures, killed my sect’s disciples, and even caused such a disturbance on the day of the sect competition. It seems she doesn’t put the people of my cultivation world in her eyes! In that case…”
“Then don’t blame my Lingxiao Immortal Sect for being merciless!”
Ling Chenyan: “…”
If she didn’t know the cause and effect of everything, she would have believed this old man’s words.
“Hold on!” Ling Chenyan interrupted Zhenxu’s twisting of black and white in time, jumped to the Old Demon Emperor’s side, and said, “Old man, why do you only say half of the story? Can you make it clear?”
A vein throbbed on Zhenxu’s forehead. He instinctively felt that nothing good would come out of this sword’s mouth, but under the gazes of the people from various sects, he had to suppress his temper and maintain the demeanor of the leader of the number one sect in the world.
After all, not all sects hated the Demon Clan, and some who did were watching the show, hoping that the two would fight and they would ultimately benefit.
However, the Lingxiao Immortal Sect was not entirely right in this matter either. Zhenxu wanted to interrupt the sword, but Ling Chenyan didn’t give him a chance.
“You said the Demon Clan’s young lady concealed her identity to infiltrate your Lingxiao Immortal Sect. Wasn’t that because you secretly captured Demon Clan disciples behind their backs? You said she killed your sect’s disciples. Wasn’t it that you first killed Demon Clan disciples, then attacked me, and finally joined forces with other sects to try and kill my master, forcing my master to retaliate?”
“Ignorant child, stop spouting nonsense!” Zhenxu’s actions were exposed, and his face looked somewhat ugly.
The various races had long-standing grievances. As the number one sect in the world, the Lingxiao Immortal Sect had even more friction with the Demon and Monster Clans. In the past, such back-and-forth actions were tacitly understood by everyone, but once she brought it out into the open, it became different.
What was even more hateful was that he couldn’t refute it, because even if he did, no one would believe him, because such things had happened in all cultivation sects throughout history.
“You know very well whether I’m talking nonsense or not!” Ling Chenyan changed her tone and continued, “Moreover, now my master suspects that your Lingxiao Immortal Sect, as the number one sect in the world, is harboring evil and allowing it to harm ordinary people.”
“Nonsense!”
This time, not only Zhenxu, but also Daoist Lingxu and Daoist Chenxu refuted angrily.
“My Lingxiao Immortal Sect detests those filthy things the most, so how could we harbor such unclean things!”
“Is that so?” Ling Chenyan said unhurriedly, “Then does that mean you are very certain that there is no evil in your sect?”
“That’s natural!” Daoist Lingxu flicked his sleeve, his face full of contempt and anger.
Zhenxu was originally very certain that there was no evil in their sect. After all, they couldn’t even tolerate the Demon Clan, so how could they tolerate something called “evil”? But seeing the silver sword’s confident appearance, he became somewhat uncertain.
Just at this moment, Guan Luowei walked to Ling Chenyan’s side, took out pill from her storage bag, and slowly floated it into the air, allowing everyone to see the true appearance of the pill.
“This is?!” Someone exclaimed, “A Spirit Awakening Pill?”
As soon as these words came out, all the cultivators present, whether sincerely or not, showed a look of disgust. Only Daoist Guizei, his hands hidden under his robes, trembled slightly.
Guan Luowei spoke at the right time, “This pill was found on the Peak of Daoist Guizei, an elder of the Lingxiao Immortal Sect.”
The pill hung quietly in the air, emitting an alluring luster, showing the profound skill of the alchemist. Guan Luowei slowly retrieved the pill, looked towards Daoist Guizei in the corner, and said, “Furthermore, the demonic cores needed to refine this pill were obtained from the batch of disciples who went missing from my Demon Clan.”
Everyone followed her words and looked at Daoist Guizei in the corner. Seeing his black robes, they couldn’t help but secretly use their spiritual sense to probe him, but without exception, no one could detect the aura on his body.
Some people realized that something was wrong, but most didn’t believe it.
A blue-robed old man stepped forward and said gently, “Does Your Highness have any evidence for saying this?”
Ling Chenyan glanced at the old man and repeated, “Evidence?”
Hearing him say this, Zhenxu and the others also quickly spoke up, “Guizei is an elder of my Lingxiao Immortal Sect. Due to a great battle many years ago, most of his face was destroyed, and since then he has covered himself in black robes and began to learn concealment techniques. These are not secrets in my Lingxiao Immortal Sect. Although he is a bit mysterious, it is really far-fetched to say that he killed Demon Clan disciples because of this.”
Guan Luowei looked at Zhenxu and sneered, “Whether he is evil or not, we’ll know with a test.”
Zhenxu suddenly raised his head, only to see Guan Luowei’s merciless killing move already cleaving towards Daoist Guizei in the corner.
This move used 90% of her power, and even the aftershock shocked everyone present. Zhenxu’s pupils shrank sharply. While countless thoughts flashed through his mind, Daoist Guizei still stood in place.
The robes on his body rustled in the wind, but his whole person was like a tree rooted to the ground, neither dodging nor avoiding. Just as the killing move was about to fall on him, Daoist Guizei raised his head.
The world was silent, a sound of hissing filled the air.
“Evil!” someone exclaimed, “It really is evil!”
Beneath the robes, Daoist Guizei’s eyes were bl00d-red, and his face, like withered tree bark, gradually twisted, turning into a void of black. His whole body exuded a repulsive, evil coldness, exactly the same as the monster seen in Fengxiang Town that day.
If the crowd couldn’t see it now, then they had lived in vain.
In fact, the moment Daoist Guizei revealed his true form, many cultivators present had already surrounded him.
Strangely, Daoist Guizei didn’t dodge under such circumstances, but stared intently at Guan Luowei, letting out a hoarse and unpleasant laugh from his throat, saying, “You can’t stop my Lord’s descent…”
“My Lord…” Daoist Guizei didn’t avoid or dodge, and even laughed wildly at the last moment, using all his power to transmit his final words to everyone present, his voice filled with fanaticism and reverence.
“My Lord, for eternity!”
“Boom!”
The black-robed figure gradually dissipated. Everyone heard his last words. Those with high cultivation felt dizzy and had tinnitus, while those with low cultivation were even delirious and began to mutter to themselves.
After a brief moment of absentmindedness, the master of the various sects shouted to their own disciples, “Close your ears and focus your minds, meditate on the spot!”
Zhenxu was also shocked by the sudden situation. He never expected that his junior brother, who had followed him since childhood, would actually be evil.
Regaining his senses, Zhenxu immediately roared to wake up the Lingxiao Immortal Sect disciples, then looked at Guan Luowei and the others with a complicated gaze, his eyes flickering.
Guan Luowei also didn’t expect that the evil being wouldn’t resist, but would use this last moment, with all its power, as if announcing something.
She returned to Ling Chenyan’s side and brought Ling Chenyan, who had turned back into a silver sword, closer to her. “Yin Ye, stay close to me.”
Ling Chenyan obediently leaned closer to her.
The world was silent for a moment. The elders of the various sects who had regained their senses had very ugly expressions.
The evil being just now had never been seen in the cultivation world. If its last words were true, then there was probably more than one evil being in the cultivation world now.
Immediately, someone spoke sarcastically, “Sect Leader Zhenxu, we respect your Lingxiao Immortal Sect as the number one sect in the world because we hoped that when evil appeared, you could eliminate the demons and restore peace to the world. But today’s events really shame the title of your number one sect.”
“That’s right, whether you knew about it or not, this evil being came from your Lingxiao Immortal Sect. You must give us an explanation for this.”
“Yes, yes.”
Once an unexpected event occurred, the various sects began to use this as an excuse to try and pull them down from their position.
With these things happening, no one was concerned about the conflict between the Demon Clan and the Lingxiao Immortal Sect anymore. Ling Chenyan, not minding the chaos, hovered beside Guan Luowei, but her gaze looked towards Jin Jin in Zhenxu’s arms.
She could feel that Jin Jin was now like he was in a coma, only leaving a bit of consciousness to probe the outside world.
Taking advantage of Zhenxu arguing with others, Ling Chenyan used the secret language between spirit artifacts to call out, “Jin Jin, Jin Jin, wake up quickly…”
The sleeping Jin Jin could vaguely sense the movements outside, but he couldn’t speak or move his body. It wasn’t until a loud noise that he felt his five senses slowly recovering.
Not long after, a familiar voice began to call his name anxiously. Jin Jin tried hard to open his eyes and responded to her with a small voice, “Sister….Yin Ye.”
“That’s great, Jin Jin!” Ling Chenyan said, “You’re awake?”
Jin Jin’s five senses recovered. Hearing Ling Chenyan’s voice, his eyes widened instantly. “Sister Yin Ye! You, you’re okay?”
“I’m fine,” Ling Chenyan’s eyes rolled. “But I almost died just now. Jin Jin, do you know? Their Lingxiao Immortal Sect is actually harboring evil! Do you really still want to stay here?”
When Jin Jin was in a coma, he couldn’t respond to those people’s actions, but he knew clearly what they had done.
Immediately, he shook his head and said, “No, Sister Yin Ye, take me away. I don’t want to stay here anymore.”
Ling Chenyan was overjoyed and said, “Okay, then next, you do as I say…”
After Zhenxu appeased those people one by one, his gaze shifted and looked towards the Demon Clan on the side, who seemed to be watching calmly.
“Not noticing the evil was a mistake on my Lingxiao Immortal Sect’s part. I originally just entrusted those Demon Clan disciples to him for safekeeping and didn’t know he killed them. It’s understandable that the Demon Clan wants revenge, but just now the young lady has already killed many disciples of my sect. We can consider this matter settled. However…”
Zhenxu changed his tone, sized up Guan Luowei, his gaze circling before finally landing on the silver sword. “It is also true that the sword spirit beside the young lady stole the treasures of my sect’s elder. Let’s not talk about the past for now. How do you explain this matter?”
The silver sword turned its head as if it hadn’t heard.
Zhenxu narrowed his eyes and looked at the Demon Clan’s young lady again, only to see Guan Luowei looking at the sword beside her with a tender gaze. Then, as if she had thought of something, she looked at Zhenxu with an uncertain expression, her eyes full of coldness. “Has the Sect Leader of the Lingxiao Immortal Sect forgotten what he did to my sword spirit earlier?”
The moment Guan Luowei saw the silver sword, her mind was only filled with the news that the silver sword had not died. But now that she had regained her senses, she noticed the difference in the silver sword.
The wisp of origin power from the spirit lyre in her body was gone.
Thinking of the treatment the silver sword had received earlier, Guan Luowei said coldly, “All things have spirits. Since the Sect Leader treated my sword spirit like this, those things can be considered as compensation.”
“You!” Daoist Lingxu’s eyes widened, wanting to say that it was just a sword spirit, how could it compare to their retirement fund? But when his gaze met Guan Luowei’s eyes, he felt a bit scared.
Guan Luowei’s strength was truly terrifying.
Zhenxu gritted his teeth until they almost broke, and finally gave in, “Fine.”
They only wanted to return that wisp of origin power to the spirit lyre, but as a result, they lost their retirement fund.
With the Demon Clan’s soldiers present and the matter of them and the evil being still unresolved, fighting now would do more harm than good for his Lingxiao Immortal Sect.
Zhenxu flicked his sleeves and turned to leave.
Behind him, Ling Chenyan handed the pile of stolen things to the Old Demon Emperor. The Old Demon Emperor understood the silver sword’s meaning almost immediately. He looked at Zhenxu’s retreating figure with some schadenfreude and secretly gave the silver sword a thumbs-up.
Zhenxu had just turned around when he heard the Old Demon Emperor’s voice from behind, “It was wrong of my Demon Clan to disturb the sect competition. Here are some small gifts to give to everyone as an apology from my Demon Clan.”
After saying that, he divided the pills and treasures that Ling Chenyan had given him into several portions and floated them in front of the elders of the various sects.
Zhenxu only glanced curiously with the corner of his eye. After seeing those things, his face darkened.
Daoist Chenxu trembled as he touched his scorched chin and said in a trembling voice, “Too much! This is simply too much!”
Ling Chenyan kindly reminded the Old Demon Emperor, “Your Majesty, you forgot to give some apologies to the host of the sect competition, the Lingxiao Immortal Sect.”
Only then did the Old Demon Emperor slap his forehead, realizing, “You’re right, you’re right!”
After saying that, he divided another portion from the pile of treasures and sent it in front of Zhenxu, saying with a smile, “My apologies for the abruptness. I hope the Sect Leader will accept this apology and not let it affect our relationship.”
Zhenxu’s forehead throbbed. This was not an apology, it was simply humiliation. But he still stopped Daoist Lingxu, who was about to jump up and down, waved his hand, accepted the pile of treasures, and said with a forced smile, “In that case, then thank you very much, Demon Emperor.”
“You’re welcome, you’re welcome,” the Old Demon Emperor said modestly.
Zhenxu endured the urge to kill, flicked his sleeves, and turned to leave, but unexpectedly, another change occurred at this moment.
Everyone saw the long lyre that Zhenxu had been holding in his arms suddenly emit a bright golden light. Then, under Zhenxu’s excited gaze, it flew straight towards the silver sword beside the Demon Clan’s young lady.
Everyone: “…”
After a deathly silence, Zhenxu could no longer bear it. Spiritual power surged in his hand, and he looked at Ling Chenyan with murderous intent. “Little thief, prepare to die!”
Having learned from the previous incident, everyone felt that this matter was again the sword spirit causing trouble, wanting to steal the Lingxiao Immortal Sect’s treasured artifact. After all, she could find the treasures hidden by the Sect Leader and the two elders, so it wouldn’t be strange for her to manipulate things and make this divine artifact obey her.
Facing everyone’s gazes, Ling Chenyan felt a little guilty, but then she straightened her back and looked at the long lyre in front of her with a surprised expression. “What are you doing?”
She didn’t pay attention to Zhenxu’s attack. With Guan Luowei and the Old Demon Emperor present, they couldn’t do anything to her.
The long lyre vibrated with a buzzing sound.
Ling Chenyan looked shocked. “You said you want to go with me? Why?”
The long lyre vibrated again.
Ling Chenyan looked regretful and said, “You said the Lingxiao Immortal Sect harbors evil and their crimes are unforgivable?”
The long lyre stopped vibrating and directly pressed tightly against the silver sword, showing its attitude.
The people from the various sects whispered to each other, looking at the scene before them. Some had greedy eyes, some had disapproving faces, and others asked curiously why the Sect Leader of the Lingxiao Immortal Sect looked so excited when the lyre emitted a bright golden light just now.
“That’s naturally because the spiritual object revealed its intention to recognize a master, so it emitted a bright golden light. When a divine artifact truly recognizes a master, the scene will be much grander than it is now.”
Ling Chenyan didn’t understand the meaning behind this and thought it was something she and Jin Jin had discussed.
How could Zhenxu accept his sect’s treasured artifact being snatched away by others? But he knew the Illusion God Lyre. If it wasn’t of its own will, it would never reveal even a bit of golden light.
After exchanging a few blows with Guan Luowei, he flipped back to the Lingxiao Immortal Sect and said angrily, “Stop talking nonsense! The divine artifact hasn’t shown any intention of recognizing a master for many years. Besides you, no other spiritual object can understand it. How do we know you’re not just talking nonsense!”
However, as soon as these words came out, many people from the various sects said, “What this spirit sword said is indeed true.”
When Ling Chenyan and Jin Jin were discussing just now, they secretly used voice transmission, but now, in front of everyone, not only did they not use voice transmission, but they even deliberately amplified the volume.
Zhenxu’s face was so gloomy that it seemed like water would drip from it. Even though everyone around him said that what Ling Chenyan said was true, he still had no intention of letting the divine artifact have a master.
While they were confronting each other, the sky suddenly changed color. Auspicious multicolored clouds slowly rose from the east. A giant golden dragon and a phoenix with fiery red feathers intertwined and appeared. Low dragon roars and high-pitched phoenix cries slowly rippled through the air.
Many disciples were shocked by this miraculous scene from the heavens, and exclamations of surprise arose one after another. Only a few with high cultivation, some with envy and others with jealousy, said, “It’s going to recognize a master.”
Only Zhenxu of the Lingxiao Immortal Sect and the other two elders had their eyes wide with fury as they shouted, “No!!”
A beam of golden light descended from the sky, enveloping the Illusion God Lyre and the silver sword beside it.
Warmth seemed to emanate from her soul, from the top of her head to the tips of her toes. Ling Chenyan only felt warm and comfortable all over, like a puddle of melted spring water. After that, she felt that there seemed to be an indescribable connection between her and Jin Jin.
The golden light scattered. As soon as Ling Chenyan opened her eyes, she saw Zhenxu in front of her vomiting bl00d and fainting to the ground.
Looking around at the cultivators of the various sects again, their eyeballs were about to pop out.
They had only ever heard of divine artifacts recognizing humans as their masters. The matter of a divine artifact recognizing a spirit artifact as its master was simply unheard of!
Author’s Note:
Ling Chenyan: Ehe, you’ve seen it today.