Transmigrated As The Villain's Sword (GL) - Chapter 24
Ling Chenyan gritted her teeth, inwardly cursing Mu Yunze.
That face, no matter how blind he was, he couldn’t possibly have missed the resemblance between her and Guan Luowei. Yet, despite that, he still killed the last remaining soul of this woman.
Ling Chenyan was extremely furious, thinking that once she got out, she would definitely grind Mu Yunze, that dog of a man, to ashes.
But right now, that woman looked at the two of them, the corners of her lips slowly curving into a strange arc, her voice chilling, “Pass the test, and you can obtain the supreme treasure. Otherwise, you’ll have to stay here and keep me company.”
“Ma… Madam,” Tong Di took two steps back and knelt before her, “It’s Didi!”
“Didi?” The woman paused for a moment, a fleeting moment of clarity seeming to return to her eyes, but then her shrill voice rose slightly, her red lips curving into a smile, “Then you must perform well.”
Ling Chenyan’s eyes didn’t miss that fleeting moment of clarity.
Then, just as the woman was about to make a move, a loud cry suddenly came from behind her, “Mother!”
The woman’s body trembled. This address actually made her stop casting her spell. Seeing that it was effective, Ling Chenyan made a decisive move and continued to shout, “Mother! It’s me! Mother, I’m Weiwei, I’m your only daughter, Guan Luowei!”
“Boom!”
Ling Chenyan saw the woman suddenly turn around, the clarity returning to the gaze she directed at her.
It really worked!
Ling Chenyan was about to continue her performance, but after turning around, the woman only said one sentence to her: “Run east!”
Then, her figure flashed, and she ran in the opposite direction.
Ling Chenyan was a bit dumbfounded, but instinctively, she suddenly picked up Tong Di, who was still stunned there, and ran east with all her might.
The further east they went, the thinner the fog became. Ling Chenyan knew she had bet correctly.
Tong Di finally came back to his senses, his eyes filled with excitement, “Madam, that was Madam! But how could she be here!”
Seeing that he was still in the mood to think about other things, Ling Chenyan really wanted to give him a couple of sword strikes. She immediately said angrily, “We’re escaping for our lives! Can you be serious?”
Reminded by her words, Tong Di remembered that they were still trying to escape. Judging by Madam’s appearance just now, she probably wouldn’t be able to hold on for long and would “test” them again soon.
Tong Di immediately stood up, grabbed the silver sword that was flying forward rapidly, and said, “I’ll do it!”
Immediately after, with a “shriek,” Ling Chenyan felt the wind around her like sharp knives, and a piercing tearing sound also came along. This speed was much faster than hers.
Tong Di said triumphantly, “Escaping, I’m a professional.”
Ling Chenyan: “?” It was hard not to suspect what he had experienced before.
Their speed increased, but soon the sound of rushing wind came from behind. Ling Chenyan took advantage of a gap to look back and saw that the woman had already caught up to them.
“Damn it, push harder!” Ling Chenyan said urgently.
Tong Di also heard the sound behind him and became a bit anxious. He increased his speed again, saying, “Then this young master can only use the speed I had when I was a kid and got chased for being a smart aleck!”
Ling Chenyan: “…”
Tong Di’s increased speed was indeed much faster, even leaving the woman far behind. But at this moment, the woman did something, and her chilling voice reached their ears, “You won’t get away!”
Tong Di immediately sealed his ear canals and said, “It’s a sonic attack, quickly seal your ear canals!”
As he spoke, he reached out to try and tap the silver sword’s pressure points, then his fingers froze in mid-air, not knowing which points to tap.
Ling Chenyan, however, was not affected much. But speaking of sonic attacks…
She decisively awakened the Illusion God Lyre, casually plucked two notes, and asked, “Can it hold her for a few seconds?”
“Five seconds, Sister,” Jin Jin said, “Her condition is very strange, and there’s also a treasure protecting her.”
“Good,” Ling Chenyan looked at the exit that was close at hand and said with gritted teeth, “Then five seconds it is, hurry up.”
As soon as she finished speaking, a golden light suddenly enveloped the woman. The woman was forced to stop. Ling Chenyan immediately shouted, “Quick! Tong Di, faster!”
The woman watched coldly from behind as the two ran far away. Five seconds passed, and she used some unknown method to instantly appear behind Tong Di. Just as her fingertips were about to touch Tong Di’s back, an invisible light suddenly struck her fingertips, causing her to scream and retreat back inside.
The boundary had been reached, and they were finally safe.
Tong Di sat down heavily on the ground, panting heavily, “Hoo… ha, really, really exhausted this young master.”
Ling Chenyan also collapsed to the ground, watching the woman being dragged back into the depths of the dense forest. Her entire sword lay limply on the ground, “That was really too dangerous.”
The two rested for a while before Ling Chenyan jumped up and looked at Tong Di, who was still a puddle of mud, and asked, “How did you end up in that place?”
“I overdid my cultivation there,” Tong Di said.
“Isn’t that a forbidden area?”
“It is at night, but not during the day. During the day, it’s our Demon Realm’s holy cultivation ground.”
Ling Chenyan was confused, “What are you talking about?”
Tong Di sat up and explained, “Didn’t Your Highness tell you? That place is very peculiar. Cultivating there during the day can remove the distracting thoughts in our demons’ hearts, and our cultivation improves by leaps and bounds. At night, however, it is definitely a forbidden area. But the situation just now, no one in our clan has ever encountered it.”
Combining Tong Di’s previous reaction, Ling Chenyan said, “Are you saying that Madam had never appeared before, but she appeared today?”
“Yes,” Tong Di said, “Because this place is dangerous, and you can easily forget the time while cultivating, our demon disciples can only come here once during the day each month. As soon as twilight fades, we must leave immediately. And according to the disciples who accidentally stayed inside before, they followed His Majesty’s instructions to seal their hearing and meditated there overnight, returning safely.”
“What about the others?”
“You mean those who were drawn into the inner perimeter?” Tong Di thought for a moment and said, “Previously, the Demon Realm would always inexplicably lose many disciples. Those disciples were later confirmed to have gone inside to cultivate, but they forgot the time and then died.”
“Moreover,” Tong Di said, “His Majesty only said that in the outer perimeter, if you don’t seal your hearing, you will hear voices of temptation. In the inner perimeter, sealing your hearing is useless, and that voice will directly attack your soul. But His Majesty never said that Madam would be inside.”
Ling Chenyan felt like she had learned a not-so-small secret, but this secret had only revealed a corner.
“By the way,” Ling Chenyan said, “Do you know what the treasure Madam mentioned earlier was?”
“It should be our Demon Realm’s treasured artifact—the Demon Orb.” Tong Di finally recovered at this time, stood up, stretched, patted the silver sword, and said, “Luckily you were here this time, otherwise I would have died in Madam’s hands.”
Speaking of Madam, Tong Di couldn’t help but sigh and muttered to himself, “It’s such a pity. Madam was such a kind and gentle person, how did she go mad a hundred years ago?”
Mad?
Ling Chenyan’s eyes darted around, and she asked, “Madam, she…”
Just at this moment, a rush of wind came from the distance. Tong Di saw the person arriving, his eyes lit up, and he said, “Your Highness is here!”
Ling Chenyan turned her head and indeed saw Guan Luowei. Her face was stern and her expression was indifferent, but Ling Chenyan still saw a hint of anxiety in her speed.
Before she could even speak, Ling Chenyan felt three parts guilty, “Master, why are you here?”
Guan Luowei glanced at her faintly, then turned her gaze to Tong Di’s face, “What happened?”
Ling Chenyan coughed lightly, and then heard Tong Di scratch his head and say vaguely, “Nothing, we didn’t get lost in the forbidden area, and we didn’t meet Madam. We just came here for a walk.”
“…”
Ling Chenyan looked at Guan Luowei’s suddenly changing expression, helplessly rubbing her forehead. No wonder Guan Luowei always asked Tong Di first when something happened. This guy couldn’t tell a lie at all.
“Madam is in the forbidden area?” Guan Luowei’s breathing deepened slightly, and she asked.
Without waiting for Tong Di to deny it, she rushed straight into the forbidden area, leaving behind a sentence before leaving: “Stay here and don’t move, wait for me to come back.”
Ling Chenyan was dumbfounded and said angrily, “Tong Di, you, you…”
“Me?” Tong Di said with a bit of frustration, “I said I didn’t see Madam, how did Your Highness see through my lie at a glance?”
“…” Ling Chenyan said sorrowfully to the system in her heart, [System, is there any kind of pill that can treat brains?]
[…No, this kid is hopeless, don’t bother trying to cure him.]
Forget it, Ling Chenyan shook her head, thinking that while Guan Luowei wasn’t here, she should first try to get some information about what happened a hundred years ago out of this guy’s mouth.
“By the way,” Ling Chenyan said, “Earlier you mentioned that Madam suddenly went mad a hundred years ago? What happened?”
Tong Di was still feeling depressed. Hearing this, he said, “I’m not very clear either. I was only a few years old at that time, and my mind was muddled during that period. I wanted to cause trouble and fight everywhere every day. Regarding what happened a hundred years ago, I only know that the cultivation world suddenly launched a siege against the Demon Realm. The Demon Realm almost perished in that war. Madam, who was the Empress at that time, went mad overnight and was imprisoned in the Demon Prison by His Majesty. Not long after, the Empress gave birth to Her Highness and then died. The reason for that great war was not mentioned, and no one knows what happened to Her Majesty the Empress. Oh no, maybe some people know, but most of those who knew died in that siege by the cultivation world, and the few who knew were also ordered by His Majesty not to speak of it.”
Tong Di thought for a moment and added, “However, I think Her Highness should know about the events of that year. If you want to know, you can ask her.”
The clues in Ling Chenyan’s mind connected, and combined with Guan Luowei’s subtle attitude towards her father, she vaguely felt that she had grasped something, but that flash of inspiration disappeared again.
Just at this moment, Guan Luowei came out from inside. Her eyes were slightly dim, and it looked like she hadn’t seen Madam.
Ling Chenyan was extremely quiet along the way. Although she really wanted to know about the events of a hundred years ago, that matter was definitely not pleasant for Guan Luowei, so she didn’t ask.
The two returned to the Demon Palace. Guan Luowei placed the silver sword aside and took out the half of the jade pendant from her storage bag.
Ling Chenyan quietly watched her from the side, not interrupting or daring to make a sound.
After a long while, Guan Luowei looked at the jade pendant and suddenly called her name, “Yin Ye.”
“Eh,” Ling Chenyan quickly said, “Master, I’m here.”
Guan Luowei asked her in a very soft voice, “Did you see her?”
Ling Chenyan nodded hesitantly and gave a soft “hmm.”
“How many years has it been,” Guan Luowei said softly, “she hasn’t appeared, but she appeared today, and yet she didn’t see me.”
Hearing her words, Ling Chenyan knew that Guan Luowei hadn’t seen her mother today. She opened her mouth and said, “Perhaps, it’s because she was out for too long today, so she went back to rest?”
Guan Luowei chuckled softly, then straightened the corners of her lips. Her long eyelashes cast a shadow under her eyes as she asked, “Is she alright?”
“Yes,” Ling Chenyan said cautiously, “She’s very well. When she saw me and Tong Di, she even smiled at us gently and said she wanted to play a game with us. If we won, she would give us treasures. But Tong Di and I thought about it, how could we take an elderly person’s things, so we declined and came out together.”
“Is that so?” A hint of a smile appeared in the corner of Guan Luowei’s eyes. She finally put down the jade pendant in her hand and looked at the silver sword beside her, saying, “Yin Ye, do you know why I hate that man so much?”
This was the first time Guan Luowei had revealed her hatred for that man in front of her. Ling Chenyan’s throat felt a little choked up. She wanted to say she didn’t want to know, but Guan Luowei’s expression was surprisingly calm.
She said, “He was a traitor, and also a thief.”
“The reason for the great war a hundred years ago actually originated from our Demon Realm…” Guan Luowei said with a faint expression, but she spoke word by word, telling her the truth about the siege by the cultivation world a hundred years ago, and the hidden story behind it that was unknown to outsiders.