Chapter 106: Revelation and Recognition

Hiding from He Xueluo in the nearby withered woods, squeezed behind a tree, Meng Yingxing also saw the spiritual injury on Xiu Qingcheng’s neck.

‘So, sword spirits can also be injured?’

Meng Yingxing stared, lost in thought.

He unconsciously reached out and pressed Xiu Qingcheng’s wound.

Xiu Qingcheng immediately jumped up and slapped Meng Yingxing’s head.

She didn’t jump up because of the pain; she jumped because she was startled by Meng Yingxing’s sudden touch on her neck.

“Don’t touch me randomly!”

Meng Yingxing winced, crying out, “Master, does the wound on your neck hurt?”

Only then did Xiu Qingcheng remember that Hua Bukai had scratched her neck, leaving a wound.

She touched her neck. With Hua Bukai’s claws no longer there, the wound felt no pain.

She just wondered if she would get rabies.

‘A spirit body shouldn’t be able to, right?’

“It’s nothing,” Xiu Qingcheng said casually. Then, with a surge of spiritual energy, the wound on her neck healed perfectly.

‘Spiritual energy, isn’t it amazing?’

Barely half an hour after Lin Yunchuan and Mo Kaiming departed from Fengyu City on their swords, they arrived near Zhongyang Town, where Meng Yingxing was located.

They had expected finding Meng Yingxing to be quite a task, but the continuously collapsing ground between Zhongyang Town and Fenggui Ferry immediately drew Lin Yunchuan and Mo Kaiming’s attention.

They unanimously believed that Meng Yingxing was likely there.

When they arrived at the collapsed area, they only saw fresh earth exposed where a corner of the ground had collapsed into the river, and He Xueluo on the opposite bank, looking as if she had just crawled out of the water.

Lin Yunchuan immediately helped He Xueluo up and asked if she was alright.

“N-no, nothing,” He Xueluo coughed continuously. Lin Yunchuan noticed the panic on her pale face and thought something must have happened.

“Miss, has something happened here?”

Lin Yunchuan gazed at He Xueluo with serious righteousness, and it was precisely this gaze that made He Xueluo feel flustered.

“N-no, nothing. I almost fell into the water. Nothing happened here at all!”

He Xueluo stumbled to her feet, shaking off Lin Yunchuan’s hand.

After a shifty glance at Lin Yunchuan and Mo Kaiming, He Xueluo immediately walked away with quick steps.

Clearly, the Tree God had been defeated. As someone who colluded with the Tree God, her only option was to flee.

But… she knew she truly had nowhere to escape.

‘How much time did she have left?’

“Senior Brother, she…”

Mo Kaiming felt that He Xueluo was in such a hurry, something must be…

Lin Yunchuan waved his hand and shook his head, telling Mo Kaiming to drop it for now.

The most important thing now was to find Junior Brother Meng.

He looked around, a desolate snowy landscape, with traces of battle remaining on the ground.

Lin Yunchuan once again took out his disciple token and tried to send a message to Meng Yingxing.

He had tried to communicate with Meng Yingxing continuously on his way, but all attempts had failed.

Fortunately, this time, the message connected without hindrance.

–Junior Brother Meng! Where are you now? Mo Kaiming and I have already arrived in Zhongyang Town!–

Lin Yunchuan said, his gaze continuously sweeping the surroundings.

Before Meng Yingxing could even reply, he saw Meng Yingxing, bandaged like a mummy and limping, walking over from the nearby withered woods.

Lin Yunchuan was startled and quickly waved for Mo Kaiming to meet up with Meng Yingxing.

–Junior Brother Meng! What happened? Who injured you like this?–

Lin Yunchuan asked, hastily pulling out several good ointments from his Qiankun Bag and stuffing them into Meng Yingxing’s hand. He then forcefully pulled Meng Yingxing’s hand to check his spiritual energy.

–Your spiritual energy is very chaotic, but thankfully, it’s gradually calming down. If you let your spiritual energy remain chaotic, you might explode and die.–

Lin Yunchuan’s brows furrowed.

‘Indeed! It was I!’

Xiu Qingcheng, from behind Meng Yingxing, conscientiously took credit for her actions.

‘If I hadn’t taken the time to comb and smooth out Meng Yingxing’s spiritual energy, he would have become a human bomb!’

‘Master is brilliant!’

Meng Yingxing praised Xiu Qingcheng at every opportunity, no matter when or where.

But at the mention of Meng Yingxing’s chaotic spiritual energy, Xiu Qingcheng suddenly calmed down.

Meng Yingxing’s spiritual energy was so chaotic. She thought about it, and there was no doubt it was related to the demonic power in his body.

This demonic power had been sealed deep within Meng Yingxing’s body by something, so much so that its presence had never been detected since he was a child.

But now, she didn’t know the exact circumstances. Meng Yingxing’s demonic power had erupted due to his will, and his spiritual energy could not properly integrate with his demonic power, which had caused his spiritual energy to be chaotic just now.

Xiu Qingcheng had no doubt that her disciple was probably a half-demon, only he himself didn’t know it.

Learning this result, Xiu Qingcheng felt even more strongly that Meng Yingxing’s origins were not simple.

‘Could it be that the Tianfeng Sect was willing to raise Meng Yingxing from childhood because of his rare half-human, half-demon nature?’

Xiu Qingcheng had thought the Tianfeng Sect was merely raising Meng Yingxing out of a minimum of humanitarianism, but in reality, this move, this move of theirs, was on a grander scale.

Suddenly, her thoughts turned to Meng Yingxing’s past again. Xiu Qingcheng only hoped that Liu Chenxin would give her some more useful information.

Xiu Qingcheng looked at Meng Yingxing, who was roughly recounting the events in Zhongyang Town to the loyal dog Senior Brother, and felt a hint of internal conflict.

Meng Yingxing still didn’t know he had a half-demon bloodline. Should she tell him this fact now?

Would letting Meng Yingxing know this truth be a good thing or a bad thing for him?

Xiu Qingcheng had no choice but to… and she couldn’t imagine what kind of butterfly effect this revelation would bring.

Xiu Qingcheng thought a bit more deeply and decided to keep this matter hidden for now.

Since Meng Yingxing’s demonic power was sealed within his body, it meant that some people did not want Meng Yingxing’s half-demon bloodline to be known.

She wasn’t clear whether that person’s intentions were good or bad, but Xiu Qingcheng decided to respect it for now.

And now, Xiu Qingcheng’s curiosity ran wild. She suddenly wanted to know what kind of demonic bloodline her disciple possessed.

‘Perhaps it’s a Huang Cang Demon King bloodline, like Chi Zhanyue? A dazzling, flame-like invincible Demon King!’

‘Or maybe a Jiaoren bloodline? If Meng Yingxing shed tears of true emotion then, wouldn’t that be striking it rich?’

Xiu Qingcheng was already considering when to make Meng Yingxing, the tough guy, shed tears.

For example, by sacrificing herself and enacting a “Disciple, this is… the final lesson” kind of scenario?

But of course, she wouldn’t truly die; she really wanted to get Jiaoren tears.

But despite all her thoughts, these were all just her wishful thinking.

Meng Yingxing, on his side, had pretty much finished reporting the events to Lin Yunchuan.

Lin Yunchuan listened, his brows furrowed so deeply they could almost trap a fly.

“So that’s what happened… such dangerous things occurred in this town, and the Soul-Siphoning Array, due to the battle, collapsed into the river along with the ground, too…”

Lin Yunchuan and Mo Kaiming both looked sharply at the turbulent river beside them.

After they shifted their gaze back, Meng Yingxing felt their eyes looked at him differently.

Lin Yunchuan smiled, “Junior Brother Meng, although your cultivation is only at the Middle Star-Grade, your demonstrated real strength has truly impressed us all.”

Meng Yingxing: “?”

‘What’s going on? Are they overpraising me?’

“You fought against a World-Devouring Heavenly General, and even the very earth collapsed because of it. Truly, the younger generation is formidable.”

Lin Yunchuan pointed to the fresh mud on the opposite bank. Changing terrain to such an extent was something even he, at twenty-three years old with a Fourth Stage Upper Heavenly Star cultivation, could not achieve.

“The younger generation is formidable, it’s not just a saying.” Lin Yunchuan truly felt Meng Yingxing was very capable.

“No, that was the World-Devouring Heavenly General who broke the ground here. This area must have been formed by years of accumulated silt, very fragile…”

Meng Yingxing sought reasons for the destruction of the ground. After all, this matter truly had nothing to do with him, and he had no intention of taking credit for something so difficult.

Moreover, Mo Kaiming, standing beside Lin Yunchuan, looked at him with an increasingly intense gaze.

Meng Yingxing wouldn’t be surprised if Mo Kaiming challenged him to a decisive battle right now.

But fortunately, Mo Kaiming still knew how to assess the situation and did not impulsively challenge the heavily injured Meng Yingxing to a fight.

Indeed, Xiu Qingcheng could confirm that flipping the ground had nothing to do with Meng Yingxing. If Lin Yunchuan wanted to find the professional floor-flipper, he should ask Mo Chengxiu.

“As for the World-Devouring Heavenly General Hua Bukai, I have never heard of such a name. After reporting the situation here to the elders, they should know something.”

Meng Yingxing nodded after Lin Yunchuan finished speaking.

Then Lin Yunchuan suddenly began a lengthy lecture to Meng Yingxing.

“Junior Brother, do you know what I told you before you arrived in Zhongyang Town?”

“If there’s any danger, you must notify me immediately, and Mo Kaiming and I will rush over at once.”

“Yet not only did you not notify me immediately, but you also faced a powerful enemy alone. This time you were lucky, but have you ever considered if your luck wasn’t so good…”

Meng Yingxing just stood there, listening dumbfounded to Lin Yunchuan’s earnest admonitions.

Because he already had his good Master Xiu Qingcheng to back him up, Meng Yingxing truly hadn’t thought to notify Lin Yunchuan at the first instant.

‘No choice, his good Master was simply unreliable.’

By the end, all Meng Yingxing could hear from Xiu Qingcheng behind him was Lin Yunchuan’s endless blabbering.

‘Hmm, loyal dog Senior Brother is as talkative as ever.’

Afterward, Lin Yunchuan took Meng Yingxing and Mo Kaiming back to Zhongyang Town on his sword.

Moreover, with such a massive commotion near the gigantic withered tree, the residents of Zhongyang Town and the surrounding areas definitely needed an explanation.

After having Meng Yingxing examined by Zhongyang Town’s best physician to ensure his life was not in danger, Lin Yunchuan, alone and proactively, found the mayor of Zhongyang Town and had him simultaneously gather all the spokespeople from the surrounding towns to provide an explanation for today’s events.

“The case of the disappearing women has been resolved. The culprits were a soul-bewitching demonic tree and the bewitched Xu family.”

“All credit goes to the Tianfeng Sect disciple, Young Hero Meng Yingxing. He is the great hero who once again brought peace to our surrounding area.”

Above, was the news received by the people of Zhongyang Town, including all surrounding towns.

For a time, Meng Yingxing’s name spread throughout the streets and alleys here, becoming known to every household.